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Lloyd Snell's
While going from UK to Algiers while in the 43:
Early in our voyage W.O. Prior came to us in the bottom of the troopship and said that some of us would have to work in the galley.We could decide amongst ourselves who would go; he would be back. I knew that there was rivalry between the airforce and the navy, but I was surprised at the reaction there was. There was no way we would work in the galley, we were passengers, it was the navy's job to feed us. We would have a sit-down strike.
When W.O Prior returned and was told that, he said, "You'd better think about that, I'll be back." When he returned he said, "If you persist with a sit down strike, this is what will happen: They will come down here and say,"This is not a sit down strike, this is mutiny on the high seas, in his majesty's ship, in a state of war." They will not ask who the ring leaders, they will pick you, you and you and they will be taken topside and hung. If that was a bluff, no one wanted to call it. The volunteers who worked in the galley were better fed than the rest of us. In those days, something as petty as that could have gone too far. A little later in the voyage there was a funeral on the promenade deck and a canvas body was tipped over the rail.
WIRELESS MEMORIES
I was thinking about when I used to help the wireless section with their D.I.s when I was doing mine on the I.F.F. Every trade did a daily inspection on every aircraft and signed them off before they were flown. With the wireless it was just a matter of talking between two spits. If all was well, the reply was "receiving you loud and clear". With the vacuum tubes, [the Brits called them valves] needing several hundred volts, low current DC on their plates, or anodes, there was a motor, generator, in the bottom of the set. That added a lot of weight and the brushes had to be replaced, sometimes often. At one time there was a bad lot that didn't last very long, possibly having been sabotaged.
When we were close to the front we were warned to keep it short, thinking the enemy might home in on us. When we were at Salerno,where we could watch their airfield being bombed by our B25s and P38s, we simply blew into the mike and used hand signals.
I had a phone call today from Allan Stewart in Scotland, ex 43. He says he left 43 in Tunisia for pilot training in Canada. He had just got the letter I had sent him so we went over some old times -- going past Gibralter at night in darkness but the rock showing against the sky, the lights of Tangiers, a body in the water as we pulled into Algiers, the roman baths at Jemmapes, sleeping in a row on top of the wine vats at the winery after we were drowned out of our tents at Maison Blanche.
THE FIGHTING COCKS
'The Fighting Cocks' by Jimmy Beedle
Jimmy Beedle was on B flight 43, I was on A flight so when we became mobile I never saw much of him. I have been keeping in touch with 43 Sqdn. Association via e-mail and they send me their newsletters. I have also been in touch, for a few years now,with a Brit.who is writing about his grandfather, a Spitfire pilot. I have sent him quite a bit of text and pictures. When Malta needed much help he, his grandfather, flew a spit to Malta off an aircraft carrier. He now says that he and his wife are coming to a wedding in Edmonton sometime in the future and will look us up.
ADDITIONS TO BEEDLE'S 43 SQUADRON BOOK
Top of page 218 nearest miss - -
That night it was thought that we might be hit by paratroops. Jim Hillis and I were posted with our sten guns at the end of the runway near the admin. buildings. It was a calm night.By the ack ack over the harbor at Algiers we could see that it was being bombed. We heard a lone aircraft approaching from that direction. When it was close we heard a flapping sound, Jim said "that's a land mine". [ I have never found out whether a land mine was a sea mine or a bomb dropped by parachute, but they did more damage]. A new pad was being made in that spot so by moving a few rocks, we were at least below the surface before it hit.In the morning when our shift was over we went to see the damage.We picked up pieces of silk from the shute and some cords. I used some of it for wearing my ID discs around my neck, I have them in front of me now. The hospital was badly damaged, there had been casualties. Then the truck arrived to take us off the airfield for 24 hours to the winery where we slept. A and B flights took turns on and off the airfield.
Bottom of page 226 Lawrenson - -
When we moved into the winery after being flooded out in our tents, some of us slept on the concrete tops of the wine vats, in one long row, side by side, with our heads against the wall. We each had two blankets and a ground sheet. Lawrenson slept on one side of me.
Top of page 240 Thompson and Massie- -
When that happened, Jim Hillis and I were in our tent workshop nearby. Suddenly it was very noisy with bombs and ack ack. We were looking for Jim's helmet, one felt more comfortable wearing it when all that spent ack ack came back down, landing with a thud close by. I heard a strange noise and dropped to the only clear place on the ground, sticking my arm out and taking Jim down too. The raid was soon over and people were checking for damage. Someone said "there's a hole in your tent". I looked and saw a hole in the side wall, about 6 inches off the ground. I said "that must be an old one because Jim and I were lying just inside there". We looked and sure enough, a piece of shrapnel had gone through an empty packing case by the sidewall, crossed the cleared spot a second or two before Jim and I were lying there, through some more cases. We found it still in the tent, a rivet holding two pieces of bomb casing together.
B25 Bomber
Actually, it was a B17 Flying Fort and it landed earlier when we in A flight were sitting on an empty airstrip. Jim Hillis, Eric Boutell and Maybe Bottomlee Mason and I went To talk to some of the crew who were out of the aircraft. There was smoke and dust and noise coming from a spot farther down the shore from where we had landed.The air crew asked what that was and we replied that the Germans were shelling that spot. Boy, they said "we wouldn't want your Job". To which we all quickly replied, "We wouldn't want your job either"
After we arrived at Ravenna I was posted to 13 Sqdn.RAF, a bomber sqdn.south of Rimini. We then moved up to Forli. In March I received a message " you have 3 days to get to Naples to catch a ship, you are going home . A truck will be leaving in the morning to take you.
~ Lloyd Snell May 11 2007
MANITOBA MEMORIES
ELK SLIDES
Some of the things I have seen while hunting, or just watching wildlife
Al Procter and I hunted Elk or moose, the season was open for both, in Duck Mts. in 1957. One day we came across what looked like a drag mark in the snow, coming down a low hill. After looking at it for a short time, Al said "that's an Elk slide, my dad used to talk about them, where they would slide down low hills on their rumps". We checked and found the tracks where they had run back up.
Years later I told a fellow hunter about it, he couldn't believe it so I started checking, someone must have written about them. From the local Wildlife branch I was forwarded to The Rocky Mtn.Elk Foundation in Alberta, then to the RMEF in Missoula Montana (this was before I had a computer). No one had ever heard about an Elk slide, most didn't even believe they would do that. Years later my son Russ and I hunted Elk in the archery season in Spruce woods. In two different places in the sand hills, I saw what looked like an Elk slide. If I hadn't seen the one in the snow I would not have noticed it but I checked and saw elk tracks in the sand, running back up. At the bottom was a small pile of sand that had been dragged down.
I asked Ron Minion at Heights Archery if he had ever seen one. He said yes, he had hunted beside one in Spruce Woods. He was the only other one that had ever seen one.
Account of a meteor sighting:
On Nov. 20/95 Todd and I were in position to hunt deer when it got lighter. At 7:10 A.M. we observed a meteor like I had never seen before. We estimated the light to be between one and two fingers wide at arm's length. We first saw it at 210 degrees and it disappeared into a cloud bank on the horizon at 245 degrees. It was quite low in the sky and descending. We saw it for over five seconds.
I phoned to several numbers at the U of M that day and left a message, but did not hear from them. We listened on radio and T.V. for any mention of it but heard nothing.
The next day I had a call from a 'Chuck Wood' from the U of North Dakota, Space Studies. Many people had seen it down there. Ours was the only sighting north of the border that was reported. Our information was useful for them to get a fix on it's flight path. By Nov. 24 they had received over 100 calls of sightings from all over N. Dakota, some from Montana, some from S. Dakota. Some saw it high in the sky, while one woman saw it through her husband's window as they were driving to work. They decided that if any of it had landed it would be in the vicinity of Estevan Sask. I called radio stations at Portage, Brandon, CKY Winnipeg, Altona and Winkler but none had received any calls concerning a sighting.
Nov. 24/95: Chuck may have wondered at me using degrees - -
In 1960 I was working at Canadian Aviation Electronics in Wpg. They were working with USAF, supplying Techs and doing overhauls for the early warning lines of that time. I was sent to work on a Pinetree line site called Puntzi Mtn., west of Wms. Lake. At that time it was run by USAF, in 1963 it was taken over by the RCAF and my job there ended.
On my daily rounds I would check the operators scopes, which were in degrees. I remember we were getting an echo off Mount Waddington, the highest one in the coast range. I have forgotten the degrees but it would have been about 240. One day when I was checking the scopes I heard a private pilot calling in, claiming he was lost. He said that he could see where two rivers joined, one of them was milky colored. I knew the spot where the Taseko joined the Chilko and went side by side for some distance before they mixed, Ken Moore had taken me fishing there. I told the operator to tell him to follow the river and he would come to the only road from Williams Lake to Bella Coola.
A video of a lecture by Paul McReady, the man who built the man-powered Gossamer Condor. The talk lasts 23 minutes, but it really is a really worthwhile listen.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/176
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AWP Offsite Los Angeles
Wendy's Subway at the Los Angeles Contemporary Archive
Thursday, March 31 - Saturday, April 2, 2016
AWP Offsite Program
Los Angeles Contemporary Archive
Wendy’s Subway is pleased to partner with Los Angeles Contemporary Archive for three days of writing workshops and readings. The program will coincide with the Association for Writers and Writing Programs Conference (AWP). Full schedule below.
All workshops are FREE and limited to 15 participants.
It is possible to register on site or in advance by emailing info@wendyssubway.com with the title of the workshop in your subject line.
Make a Salad: Workshop in Post-Studio Writing
Led by Janet Sarbanes
When art exits the studio, how can it enter the writing process? This workshop invites participants to explore new ways of writing and thinking about writing by engaging with a series of prompts fashioned by contemporary artists, including John Baldessari, Alison Knowles, Paul Thek and Jackie Brookner. The session will begin with a brief discussion of Baldessari’s legendary Post-Studio Art class and Alison Knowles's Fluxus crit class at CalArts in the early seventies, and the radically interdisciplinary arts context from which they emerged.
Janet Sarbanes is a writer and scholar living in Los Angeles. She is the author of the short story collection Army of One, and has published additional fiction and criticism in anthologies, artist monographs and numerous journals, including Black Clock, P-Queue, Entropy, Afterall, Popular Music and Society, Utopian Studies, Los Angeles Review of Books and East of Borneo. Her most recent essay, "Lessons From Older Artists," appears in the forthcoming Made in LA 2016 catalogue. Her most recent short story, "Rosie the Ruminant," appears in the spring issue of North Dakota Quarterly. She teaches in the MFA Creative Writing and the MA Aesthetics and Politics programs at CalArts.
We’re Calling It Speedback
Led by Wendy’s Subway
For this hour, we’ll do some thinking about our interests and obsessions as writers, and about how we talk to others about those identifications. Then we’ll invite participants to share some of this thinking, along with their own work, in a series of structured, one-on-one conferences. Participants should bring around two pages of work-in-progress to share (a printer will be available if you arrive without a hard copy). Our goal will be to get everyone in the group a variety of feedback, then culminate with some notes towards future revision.
Concessions / Light Dinner
READING: New Herring Press, DoubleCross Press, Litmus Press, Projective Industries, Elis Press
AWP Offsite Reading
With readings by:
Lisa Ciccarello
Aja Couchois Duncan
Leora Fridman
Katie Fuller
E. Tracy Grinnell
Angela Hume
Matt Longabucco
Jamie Townsend
Maya Weeks
and readings by Friends of New Herring: Amanda Davison, Amy Scholder, Lanka Tatersall, Dylan Mira, and more!
More here: http://wendyssubway.com/events/
Embodied Writing Workshop
Led by Noura Wedell
In this workshop, we will consider systems of notation and writing in regards to physical movements and the sensation of those movements. Questions we will investigate are: Can writing function as a way to bring to perception something that was not perceptible? How does writing move between bodies? Can writing describe a state of dynamic equilibrium, or how can we create cartographies of inner experience?
Please wear comfortable clothes that you can move in, and bring writing material (computer, notebook, etc.)
Noura Wedell does teaching, scholarship, and translation and editorial work for Semiotext(e).
Odes to the Missing: Missives, Errants, Emissaries
Led by Litia Perta
This workshop aims to orient a writing practice around loss, the missing, what is not there. What language best describes absence, voids, lacunae? How are sentences best constructed when what is at their center is something missing? How does the page play a role in this construction, or not? More than a technical inquiry, this hour will be devoted to getting near the "missing" inside each writer's emotional body, the heartmind. What are the ways that language itself is always doing this dance with the missing? What are the ways that missives organize around this empty center, a thing which is not there?
Litia Perta is a writer and thinker exploring alternative forms of kinship and the communications, creations, forms made possible within them. She lives in Los Angeles and is the Professor of Art Writing in the Department of Art at the University of California, Irvine.
The Disembodied and the Planetary: A Ghost Workshop
Led by Dorothea Lasky
In this workshop, we will explore the idea of the unseen, the imperceptible, and the ghostly in poetry. We will look at poems by Bhanu Kapil and Wallace Stevens that investigate the scope of spiritual entities that can exist in the space of a poem. Using the archives at LACA as material, we will also work together on exercises that help us consider how the world of occult can emerge in our poetry.
Dorothea Lasky is the author of four books of poetry, most recently ROME (W.W. Norton/Liveright, 2014), as well as Thunderbird, Black Life, AWE, all out from Wave Books. She is the co-editor of Open the Door: How to Excite Young People About Poetry (McSweeney’s, 2013) and several chapbooks, including Poetry is Not a Project (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010). Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of Poetry at Columbia University’s School of the Arts, co-directs Columbia Artist/Teachers, and lives in New York City.
Friends" Series 2
With Erin Christovale and Henoch Moore
Organized by Kelman Duran
Erin Christovale is a curator and film programmer based in Los Angeles. She has lectured at Princeton University, California Institute of the Arts, University of California, Los Angeles, and University of Syracuse, New York. Her curatorial projects have been mentioned in ARTFORUM, Hyperallergic, Artsy and Artnet. Her ongoing film program, Black Radical Imagination, is currently in its third iteration and has been featured in over 25 institutions including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Yerba Buena Center of the Arts, The Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival, ART BASEL, and MOCA.
Henoch Moore is the owner of Gene's Liquor a South Central Label, that has releases from LA Club Resource as well as other obscure but amazing titles.
Scott Benzel Book Launch
and Art Writers Open Mic
1-1:30PM (Book Signing); 1:30-3PM (Open Mic)
The Los Angeles Contemporary Archive is pleased to announce the release of Scott Benzel’s untitled collection of poems. This event will include a book signing by Benzel from 1-1:30pm.
From 1:30-3pm, the even will open up an ‘open mic’ reading of art writers’ work, featuring Benzel, Andrew Berardini, Suzy Halajian, Carol Cheh, Martha Kirzsenbaum, Steve Kado, Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal, Travis Diehl, Catherine Wagley, and many more! Art writers and critics are invited to sign up ahead of time or on the day of to read up for up to 7 minutes.
To sign up, email: info@wendyssubway.com
Art dealer Seth Siegelaub's campaign throughout the late '60's to have the new conceptual work of his stable of artists understood and accepted, through the creation of catalogs, exhibitions, and entreaties to leading art writers and magazines to review the work, resulted in the still-operatal thesis that the content of much contemporary work is interpretable only through written material created by critics and other writers. This untitled collection of poems was composed by rearranging reviews and publicity materials into mostly metrical, unrhymed lines of blank verse and by removing any form of attribution, systematically 'blanking' the subject as well as the author(s) of the works and poems. The poems are credited as being 'after' a number of well-known critics and art writers, presumably the writers of the originary texts
Disentangling Poetics
Led by Allison Conner (in collaboration with the Women's Center for Creative Work)
How do you deal with creative blocks, anxieties or funks? How do you sustain a habitual creative practice while also remaining open to serendipities, detours, and bottomless depths? In this workshop, we will attempt to venture away from our usual ways of making and doing. Together we will move through a series of writing exercises and experiments with an intention of channeling hidden imaginative reserves.
Our prompts are inspired by and/or will reference: How to Write (more) by Libros Antena, Grapefruit by Yoko Ono, Tarot imagery, Bhanu Kapil, CA Conrad, Oulipo, Bernadette Meyer, and others.
Allison Conner is a writer, editor, and zine maker. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in ATTN, Jacket2, The Volta Blog, Art Book Review, and elsewhere. She enjoys exploring ways in which publishing can realign our notions of community, activation, resistance, and healing. She is an assistant fiction editor for The Offing and the print lab manager at the Women's Center for Creative Work.
LACA Reader/Speaker Series
Led by Declan Bond Schweitzer
Thematically orbiting contemporary approaches to institutional critique, the LACA speaker series couples each essay with a speaker from among the curious who exist outside the academic setting. Here, we ask individuals to take up the task of interpretation and re-presentation of these essays in short and speculative talks that illuminate the essential aspects of these theories all the while leaving room for conversation, discussion, disagreement and unity within the broader arts community.
To launch the LACA Reader/Speaker Series, Declan Bond Schweitzer presents and expands upon his essay "On the mood of the collector in the Digital Age." This essay attempts to gauge the meaning of some of the structural developments of the modern world by analyzing the concept of collection as it applies to the pre- and post-digital era.
The Making of the American Essay
An Evening with John D'Agata and Michael Silverblatt
Presented by Graywolf Press
An evening with John D'Agata and Michael Silverblatt in celebration of THE MAKING OF THE AMERICAN ESSAY, the concluding volume in D'Agata's A NEW HISTORY OF THE ESSAY series. With readings by three special guests. Reception and book signing to follow.
Semiotext(e) and Friends
A reading of Dicey LifeWriting, New Essaying, and Prose on the Edge by authors whose disinhibited independence is the kind that has characterized Semiotext(e) since the 1970s.
Featuring Dodie Bellamy, Garth Greenwell, Ed Pavlić, Kevin Killian, Jarett Kobek, Brian Blanchfield, and Feliz Lucia Molina.
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A Review of Albert Kahn: Under Construction
Albert Kahn: Under Construction
A Review of the Albert Kahn Building Projects, 1903 – 1943,
University of Michigan Museum of Art
February 27 to July 3
The north wall on level three at the University of Michigan Museum of Art has become Bentley Historical Library turf in the ongoing collaboration between these two kindred institutions. Albert Kahn: Under Construction, a gathering of documentary photographs generated by Detroit architect Albert Kahn’s building projects around the world is the latest installment in an ongoing series of joint exhibitions. Curated by Claire Zimmerman, Professor of Architecture, Albert Kahn: Under Construction surveys the years 1903 to 1943, during which Kahn actively managed an architectural firm that by the early twenties had grown to be the largest in the country. The exhibit dutifully documents stages in the actual construction of selected buildings, but revealed through the accumulation of these 130+ images is a a portrait assembled photo by photo of a man of exceedingly large vision who actively constructed a creative, nimble and versatile organization that helped shape significantly our modern American identity.
Here are some highlights: The photographs have been arranged in nine of eleven panels. Five categories identify the purposes of the selected buildings: Photograph (shows the range of projects), Manufacture (looks at factories and warehouses), Buy and Sell (focuses on city office buildings), Explore and Enlighten (deals with educational and religious structures) and Fight (highlights factories designed for the mass production of large-scale war machines like tanks and heavy bombers).
The projects cover a wide range of building kinds, but the 16 selected for display are significant and soundly represent what was typical of the more than 1,900 buildings produced by the Kahn office within these years.
1903 Packard Motor Company, Detroit
1912 Bates Manufacturing Company, Maine
1915 Natural Sciences Building, Ann Arbor, Michigan
1916 Ford Factory, Omaha, Nebraska
1917 The Vinton Building, Detroit
1917 Krolik and Company, Detroit
1921 Durant Building (General Motors Headquarters), Detroit
1924 Ford Motor Company Power House, Iron Mountain, Michigan
1929 Stalingrad Tractor Plant, Stalingrad, Russia
1930 Autostroy Forge Corporation, Moscow, Russia
1930 Shaarey Zedek Synagogue, Detroit
1938 Chrysler Half-Ton Truck Plant, Warren, Michigan
1939 General Motors Building, New York World’s Fair, New York City
1941 Glenn Martin Assembly Plant, Omaha, Nebraska
1941 Chrysler Tank Arsenal, Warren, Michigan
1943 Willow Run Bomber Plant, Ypsilanti, Michigan
The five categories of building types allow for a chronological arrangement, while the accompanying texts identify key issues and clarify sometimes hard-to-see details. However, on the panels themselves narrative sequencing often proceeds counter intuitively, from right to left rather than from to left to right. Under Explore and Enlighten, panels seven and eight (counting from the left side of the display), for example, the stark image of a steel frame forming the sides and roof of the Shaarey Zedek synagogue (center photograph on the bottom row on panel seven), demonstrates how skeleton and cut stone cladding go together to make a traditional structure. But the story of Shaarey Zedek actually begins on panel eight, so that the evolution of this building tracks from right to left. This trope of reading backward is repeated on other panels. The intention is to counter expectations and by doing so draw closer attention to the content of each photograph.
Another fine surprise is the cluster of photographs on the lower half of panel eight showing massive metal roof trusses being fabricated at Lehigh, Pennsylvania, and by the McClintic Marshall Production Company in New York City. Until the Russians had facilities of their own, design and construction of trusses for their factory buildings took place in the US. These pictures capture close up not just the scale but also the craftsmanship and the elegance of these purely functional elements in factory construction.
In the middle of panel five (under Buy and Sell) a photo of the Durant Building/ General Motors Building presents all four of the magnificently towering blocks of this immense and nearly completed project. To track the evolution of the Durant Building going up, however, begin at the bottom of panel six and work backward. To add to our understanding of the complexity attendant on urban building projects, the modest Vinton Building has been juxtaposed to the Durant Building. Pairing these two projects that were built so close together in time helps with understanding the rapid expansion of Kahn’s architectural office as Detroit escaped the constraints of war rationing and the labor shortage.
The last two panels (Fight) reflect changes both in design and in use of materials as dictated by new requirements for mass production. Even more vast interior spaces for building large, heavy machines for war were needed, and the scale was set for these colossal buildings well before Roosevelt’s declaration of war. The buildings rose rapidly out of empty fields, their proportions shockingly beautiful. Photos showing the fabrication of metal skeletons and then the application of concrete strips convey sleek, aerodynamic qualities in the designs, which become even sleeker when enhanced by ribbons of glass. The special knowledge and skill involved in selecting the photographs for all the projects presented in this exhibit show through everywhere, but these last spectacular choices confirm the fact that Kahn’s firm, right up to his death in 1942, was constantly advancing in its capability of building practically, efficiently and beautifully whatever the need.
More needs to be done both to illuminate the practices of the photographers who took the pictures and to comprehend the methods and interests of the various contractors brought in to do the work of construction. On panel ten, for example, photos of the Glenn Martin Assembly Plant show in one instance black men digging a foundation while next to it is a shot of what appears to be a low-cost workers’ housing development. How were black workers housed? How were they treated? How were vast sites taken in hand so that the work was sequenced, the materials brought in on time, and the daily schedules adjusted to occupy the workforce of men? Such questions cannot be addressed by a concise and intense show like Albert Kahn: Under Construction, but this show, the first of many it is hoped, opens the way for the investigation of new questions. The photographs on display are accompanied by an account book, an issue of Architectural Forum featuring Kahn’s buildings as of August 1938, and a typical scrapbook for holding and organizing a project’s pictures. These items enrich the encounter with Kahn’s routine photographic documentation of his projects and it is a pleasure to have them available in the two vitrines on each side of the display. One last note: along with photos of two projects conducted for the Soviet government, there is a map with data and diagrams showing the Soviet Union’s 5-Year Plan, 1928 – 1933, for modernizing Russia. It is a treat to be able to study this map in its large-scale format.
By Jeffrey Welch, April 6, 2016
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During the last lesson by a professor before his students graduated, he showed them an experiment.
He took a glass container and added water into it. He said, " This is water under room temperature. If you pour it into a stream, it can flow towards the big river and then together with a lot of water, it can flow into the big sea."
Then, he put the container with water into the refrigerator and after a while, part of the water in the container became ice. The professor said, " Below 0 degree Celsius, the water becomes ice. Ice is another state of water but when it becomes ice, it can no longer flow."
Next, he heated the container using an alcohol stove. the container becomes ice and melted. There was steam above the container.
Soon after, all the water in the container has evaporated. The professor turned off the alcohol stove and asked the students,"Where did the water go?" The students were puzzled and they did not know why the professor asked such a simple question.
The professor looked at the students who were reluctant to answer, and replied,"Where did the water go? They evaporated into the air and flowed into the wide sky." "Perhaps you may think that it's an easy experiment, but it's not as simple as you think!"
The professor explained," Water has 3 states. Our life also has 3 states. The states of water are determined by the temperature and the states of our lives are also determined by the temperature in our hearts. If a person treats life with a temperature of 0 degree Celsius, the state of his life will be like ice and his life is about the same as the space he is standing. If a person treats life normally, it's like the state of water and he can flow into the big river and sea but he will never leave the land. If a person treats life as 100 degree Celsius, he can fly up high and he will not only have the land but also the sky and his world will be as big as the universe."
The students answered in unison, "This is not a simple experiment!"
"If you treat your life with a temperature of 100 degree Celsius, your life will be very big, this is the purpose of my experiment." The professor answered.
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Yay or Nay for EPA? RFS Volumes out for 2020, Biodiesel for 2021 – What’s the reaction from industry? by Jim Lane What’s the reaction from industry? Coal for Christmas? Should Santa bring coal for EPA’s stocking this year? Do the biofuels and agriculture industries think the EPA just put coal in their stocking? Is it thumbs up or thumbs down from biofuel industry advocates on last week’s U.S. Environmental Protection Agency renewable fuel volumes? What about the exempted volumes? The Ruling – Rotten or Respectable? First, a bit on the EPA ruling that establishes the required renewable volumes under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program for...
Policy guest - October 16, 2019
by Jim Lane “EPA Reneges on Trump’s Biofuels Deal”, said the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association in reacting to the US Environmental Protection Agency’s new plans for fulfilling federal renewable fuel requirements. EPA released a proposed supplemental rule for the Renewable Fuel Standard today, and the bioeconomy is up in arms, and the outrage is centered in farm country, once a Trump bastion of support. “IRFA members continue to stand by President Trump’s strong biofuels deal announced on Oct. 4, which was worked out with our elected champions and provided the necessary certainty that 15 billion gallons would mean 15 billion gallons, even after...
by Tom Konrad, Ph.D., CFA, Editor Past Endorsements AltEnergyStocks.com has endorsed a candidate in all the US Presidential races since 2008 (Obama, followed by Obama in 2012, Clinton in 2016, and a generic endorsement of congressional Democrats in 2018. Despite the long string of Democratic endorsements, AltEnergyStocks this site does not automatically endorse Democratic or liberal candidates. We are issue driven, and all our endorsements to date have been purely based on the policy positions of the candidates. It is simply a sad fact about the Republican party that they have not fielded a conservative who actually cares about conservation of the environment...
Policy guest - October 9, 2019
Research firm Corporate Knights revealed that the pension fund would be $22 billion richer had it divested from fossil fuel stocks in 2008. That's almost $20,000 for of each of the pension fund’s 1.1 million members & retirees. A new in-depth analysis by the research firm Corporate Knights, shows that New York State pension fund would be $22 billion richer had it divested from fossil fuel stocks 10 years ago. That works out to almost $20,000 for of each of the pension fund’s 1.1 million members and retirees. To perform their analysis, Corporate Knights looked at the stock holdings of the pension fund in...
Policy Garvin Jabusch - July 31, 2019
The prepared remarks of Garvin Jabusch, Chief Investment Officer of Green Alpha Advisors before the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis in Washington, DC, July 25th, 2019. Chairwoman Castor, Ranking Member Graves, committee members, thank you for the opportunity to testify and contribute to this important conversation. Climate disruption and resource degradation present significant threats to and opportunities for American business. Every sector and industry are affected, and my industry of asset management, in its role deploying capital across the economy, is directly exposed to it all, risks and opportunities inclusive. First, risks. The purpose of investing is to preserve and...
Another Biodiesel Plant Gets The Axe. Here’s Why.
Policy guest - July 28, 2019
by Jim Lane In another small but sharp blow to the Trump Administration’s strategy for American manufacturing revival, news arrives from Texas of a second smaller biodiesel shuttering owing to “ challenging business conditions and continued federal policy uncertainty,” as Renewable Energy Group (REGI) phrased it in announcing the closure of its15 million gallons per year New Boston, Texas biorefinery. The company is currently working with plant employees on relocation opportunities within the production network. The tax credit issue The forces impacting the US biodiesel industry at present are complex, but REG in this case is pointing the blame at the biodiesel tax...
Nature Conservancy Endorses Fossil Fuel Funded Trojan Horse
Policy Daryl Roberts - May 27, 2019
An article posted by ClimateLiabilityNews.org Hearing Glosses Over Carbon Tax Proposal’s Liability Waiver explains the ‘grand bargain’ being set forth in a proposal from the Climate Leadership Council. A Carbon Tax & Dividend plan is now being supported by big corporations, polluters and fossil fuel companies, which would seem to be a miraculous change in sentiment. But the fine print discloses that the deal includes a liability waiver exempting fossil fuels companies from federal & state climate tort lawsuits. The carbon tax is on the low end for “social cost of carbon” calculations, at $40/ton, so as a value...
Policy Tom Konrad Ph.D., CFA - May 5, 2019
Community Solar in New York has a messaging problem. It is confusing, and even some industry professionals have given up in disgust because of aggressive marketing and a lack of clarity. Fortunately, aggressive marketing is not universal among community solar developers. Unfortunately, the lack of clarity is almost universal. How Community Solar Works in New York The system the New York utility regulator set up for community distributed generation (CDG, a term which includes community hydropower and community wind as well as community solar) is counter intuitive for most potential customers. As shown in the diagram above, the electric utility pays for a project's...
A Small New York Town Plans a Profitable, 100% Renewable Energy Future
Policy Tom Konrad Ph.D., CFA - February 21, 2019
A community choice program and a lack of natural gas are enabling Marbletown to achieve 100 percent renewable energy and tackle 100 percent renewable energy —while saving money. by Tom Konrad, Ph.D., CFA With advances in technology, the pathways to 100 percent renewable energy are becoming clear. As a result, the central challenge has become less about how to get there, and more about how to pay for it. The town of Marbletown, in New York's Hudson River Valley, is finding that problem is solving itself. Marbletown is a town of 5,500 people covering 55 square miles on the edges of the Catskills...
US Ethanol Industry Upset With 2019 Renewable Fuel Standard Proposal
Policy guest - August 27, 2018
The 2019 proposed US Renewable Fuel Standard proposed volumes attracted a major raspberry from the ethanol industry. As the American Coalition for Ethanol noted: “Unfortunately, EPA continues to take actions which undermine the letter and spirit of the statute and harm the rural economy. While refiners are reporting double-digit profits, the heart of America is being left behind. Farmers are losing money while refiners have the best of both worlds: fat profit margins and minimal RFS compliance costs. EPA needs to discard its refiner-win-at-all-costs mentality and get the RFS back on track.” “While the proposed rule purports to maintain the 15-billion-gallon conventional...
Did Trump’s EPA Cost Corn Growers $3.65 Billion In 2017?
by Jim LaneIn Washington, new evidence has appeared that a Trump Administration shift on US low carbon fuel policy may have cost US corn growers an estimated $3.65 billion. The mechanism? A secretive effort by Administration officials installed at the US Environmental Protection Agency that destroyed an estimated 1.37 billion gallons of annual demand for low-carbon renewable fuels, in favor of fossil fuels. Officials at the agency exploited a loophole in US low carbon fuel legislation that allows small oil refineries to gain hardship waivers in cases of severe distress from complying in full with US low carbon fuel laws. Now, evidence...
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt Resigns
Policy guest - July 6, 2018
by Jim Lane In Washington, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has resigned. US President Donald Trump announced the exit on Twitter, commenting, “President Donald Trump announced Pruitt’s exit, saying on Twitter “I have accepted the resignation of Scott Pruitt as the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Within the Agency Scott has done an outstanding job, and I will always be thankful to him for this.” Deputy Administrator Andrew Wheeler becomes acting administrator. The Digest’s Take Elsewhere in the media, it is widely reported that Pruitt was undone by a growing number of controversies and investigations relating to his conduct as EPA Administrator, particularly relating...
Low Carbon Fuel Rules: From CAFE to LCFS and Everything In Between
The Whole Darn Low Carbon Landscape. How they Work, How they Work Together, and How they Might Work Better by Joanne Ivancic, executive director, Advanced Biofuels USA The Trump Administration is taking a new look at Obama Administration era Co2 regulations. On the transportation side, these include reviewing Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards; threatening to take away California’s authority to set their own mileage and pollution controls, including CO2 (carbon dioxide) emission reduction standards; and quarreling with the petroleum and biofuels industries over implementation and enforcement of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). Thus, the Clean Air Act (CAA), California’s unique authority...
Fortunately, Unfortunately: The Spring Saga of American Ethanol
by Jim Lane The ethanol signals from Washington DC are more inexplicably mixed than cocktails with names like Sex on the Beach. Let’s parse through the wigwagging over the future of American biofuels supply and demand — ethanol and otherwise. Fortunately: Trump backs year-round E15 ethanol blends In Washington, President Trump endorsed year-round E15 ethanol availability as an emerging compromise between oil refiners and US farm sector. The Renewable Fuel Standard is a federal program that requires transportation fuel sold in the United States to contain a minimum volume of renewable fuels. The RFS originated in a bi-partisan Congress with the Energy Policy Act...
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Maricunga Project
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Bearing Announces Appointment of Interim CEO and Option Grant
Vancouver, British Columbia – Bearing Lithium Corp. (the “Company” or “Bearing”) (TSX Venture: BRZ) (OTCQB: BLILF) (FSE: B6K2) announced today, further to its news release dated October 16, 2019, the appointment of Gil Playford, as Interim Chief Executive Officer to replace Jeremy Poirier.
In addition, the Company announced that it is issuing an aggregate of 200,000 stock options to a director and an officer. Each of the stock options has an exercise price of 0.16 and will expire on November 20, 2023.
About Bearing Lithium Corp.
Bearing Lithium Corp. is a lithium-focused mineral exploration and development company. Its primary asset is an 18% interest in the Maricunga Lithium Brine Project in Chile. The Maricunga Project represents one of the highest-grade lithium brine salars globally and the only pre-production project in Chile. Over US$30 million has been invested in the Maricunga Project to date and all expenditures through to the delivery of a Definitive Feasibility Study have been fully-funded by the earn-in joint-venture partner.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
Signed "Gil Playford"
Gil Playford, Interim CEO and Board Chair
Gil Playford—Interim CEO and Board Chair Bearing Lithium - Telephone: 1-604-262-8835
Cautionary Statements Regarding Forward Looking Information
This press release includes certain "forward-looking information" and "forward-looking statements" (collectively "forward-looking statements") within the meaning of applicable Canadian and United States securities legislation including the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, included herein, without limitation, statements relating the future operating or financial performance of the Company, are forward-looking statements.
The words "expect", "target", "estimate", "may", "will" and other similar expressions identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements relate to, among other things, the future prospects of the Maricunga Project. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which are beyond Bearing's ability to predict or control and may cause Bearing's actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any of its future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. These risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to; strategic, legal, planning and other risks, the impact of changes in, or to the enforcement of, laws, regulations and government practices, potential defects in title to the Maricunga Project that are not known as of the date hereof, the occurrence of unexpected financial obligations, fluctuations in the price of lithium and other commodities, fluctuations in the currency markets, changes in national and local government, legislation, taxation, controls, regulations and political or economic developments, risks and hazards associated with the business of mineral exploration, development and mining (including environmental hazards, industrial accidents, unusual or unexpected formations, pressures, cave-ins and flooding), risks related to operational matters and geotechnical issues, the success of future exploration and development activities, the occurrence of any labour unrest, the ability to accurately predict decommissioning and reclamation costs, the risk of budget and timing overruns, potential opposition to the Maricunga Project by local communities and the ability to secure construction financing. Such forward-looking statements are also based on a number of assumptions which may prove to be incorrect including changes in Maricunga Project parameters as plans continue to be evaluated as well as those factors disclosed in the Company's documents filed from time to time with the securities regulators in the Provinces of British Columbia and Alberta. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. Bearing undertakes no obligation to update publicly or otherwise revise any forward-looking statements contained herein whether as a result of new information or future events or otherwise, except as may be required by law.
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#503 – 905 West Pender Street,
Vancouver BC,
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Gil Playford Chairman, CEO and Director
Phone: + 1 604 262 8835 ex101
Email: gplayford@bearinglithium.com
Benjamin Asuncion VP Business Development
Email: basuncion@bearinglithium.com
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Email: afehr@bearinglithium.com
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Vancouver, BC and Toronto, ON
Bearing Lithium Corp. is a lithium-focused mineral exploration and development company. Its primary asset is an 18% interest in the Maricunga lithium brine project in Chile. The Maricunga project represents one of the highest-grade lithium brine salars globally and the only pre-production project in Chile. The 2019 Definitive Feasibility Study (DFS) demonstrates the project as one of the most efficient producers globally with a long-life, high-margin production profile. Over US$40 million has been invested in the Maricunga project to date.
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A SHORT BREAKDOWN OF THE BEARS OFF-SEASON ACQUISITIONS
Every year, between the months of February and August, NFL teams are hustling and bustling to make their roster that much better so they can showcase the Lombardi Trophy in their trophy room at team headquarters.
Such moves can either be considered “blockbuster” (as in the Washington Redskins signing DT Albert Haynesworth on the first day of free agency) or simply “insignificant” (the Green Bay Packers signing OL Duke Preston). No matter the publicity, the front office of such teams consider every off-season move as a necessary step their team must make to get them that much more closer to the “Promised Land”.
The Chicago Bears are no exception. Though the franchise has developed the personality tag as, “non-aggressive” during the off-season, signing only a couple of insignificant free agents and usually trading their top draft picks away for a slew of late ones, coming off a second straight season lacking a playoff berth changed all that. GM Jerry Angelo and HC Lovie Smith are feeling the heat and the '09 off-season has become one that Bears fans will remember forever.
Here's a look at the acquisitions:
QB - Jay Cutler (If he comes anywhere near the production he had in Denver last year, he'd be the most successful Bears QB of the decade. He is already the most talented and most proven.)
QB - Brett Basanez (Who? Career third string/practice squad QB will back up Caleb Hanie who must be the Bears best kept secret for earning the #2 role after only an impressive pre-season last year).
TE - Michael Gaines (Basically signed as en extra lineman posing as a TE to help pave extra cut-back lanes for HB Matt Forte. With quality personnel at the position thus, making it perhaps the Bears deepest, this was a bit of a head-scratcher. However, Gaines, brings solid blocking ability that is not as up to bar with incumbents Greg Olsen, Desmond Clark, and Kellen Davis).
OT - Orlando Pace (All-Pro and future Hall of Famer, brings a legendary anchor on the offensive line...if healthy.)
OT - Kevin Schaffer (A talented bookend who loves to run-block will provide the Bears great depth at either side of the O-line, especially if injuries continue to nag Pace and if Chris Williams struggles).
OG - Frank Omiyale (Who? A young, unknown lineman who the Bears must've scouted and got high on while he was in college and missed him in the draft. As soon as he hit the free agent market, the Bears gobbled him up like he was the best available guard. He is expected to replace an already solid Josh Beekman at the LG position).
LB - Pisa Tinoisamoa (An ideal cover-2 LB [athletic and fast] and a guy that Lovie Smith can vouch for [however we do remember the Adam Archuleta mistake]. Pisa was a tackling machine in St. Louis last year [104], and that kind of consistency would be a welcomed commodity to a Bears defense that didn't meet expectations at all last year. Pisa has the potential to be a great defensive pick-up and seems to be the fan favorite in the competitive position battle for the OLB opposite of Lance Briggs between Nick Roach, Hunter Hillenmeyer, and Jamar Williams).
S - Josh Bullocks (The former starting FS of the New Orleans Saints a year ago, is brought in to help shore up another worrisome position for the Bears. Bullocks has the physical tools to excel but has never put up the stats).
S - Glenn Earl (2 years absent from the league, Earl was signed to further deepen the safety position. Earl is mainly a strong safety who is not afraid to hit, think Kevin Payne).
Of course none of these acquisitions were more publicized than the "Jay Cutler deal" which is leading many football analysts and fans salivating for another Bears acquisition; a big-time receiver.
The Bears stand firm on their belief that they are confident with the receivers already on their roster, but apparently, no one else in the world is. The Bears were rumored to have aggressively pushed for Arizona Cardinals wideout, Anquan Boldin during the draft but to no avail. The Bears are also believed to be pursuing information on the Plaxico Burress fiasco as well. So the Bears are at least entertaining possibilities. One wonders if they're perhaps in the hunt for Cleveland Browns WR, Braylon Edwards.
With so little talent in the free-agent pool at the position with the best consisting of Marvin Harrison and Amani Toomer, the Bears only choice of adequately addressing the position, would be adding someone who is wearing a different team's jersey right now, or is in court.
-Joshua D. Aldis
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Avishai Cohen and the voices of Sinne Eeg, Tony Desare & Bette Smith take over
The second batch of concerts at this 28th Festival Internacional Canarias Jazz & Más Heineken stages sessions where, on the one hand, the more classic aspects of jazz will feature, with performances by the acclaimed contrabassist Avishai Cohen and his Trio, vocalists Sinne Eeg (with Peter Sprague on guitar) Tony Desare and trumpet player Marquis Hill; while on the other, the energetic & foot-stomping sound of soul, more festive, by the American Bette Smith and her band. Concerts for this weekend, which will be held on the islands of Gran Canaria, Tenerife & Fuerteventura, with venues at public squares, theatres & auditoriums in the municipalities of La Laguna, Adeje, Santa Brígida, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Puerto del Rosario. + INFO
Friday July 5th, 2019
The festival Canarias Jazz & Más Heineken kicks off by staging eleven concerts on three islands
The moment has arrived. The festival Canarias Jazz & Más Heineken kicks off this weekend with its 28th edition staging eleven concerts on three different islands, Tenerife, Gran Canaria & La Palma; the limelight being on Kennedy Administration and the trio consisting of Ferenc Nemeth, Lionel Loueke & Chris Cheek. A beginning charged with force & energy, where female vocalists, African rhythms, funk and classic jazz play a prominent role. + INFO
Tuesday June 25th, 2019
Maceo Parker tops the billing in which female vocalists stand out
Excellent male & female vocalists, the best instrumentalists of the genre, up-and-coming groups, renowned & established artists, local bands, musical ensembles that link styles by means of fusion, renditions of rhythms closely related to jazz, the African touch… all these elements make up the billing for the 28th edition of the Festival Internacional Canarias Jazz & Más Heineken featuring Maceo Parker as the star attraction, a true icon of modern music, synonymous with terms as instantly recognisable as funk or Groove. + INFO
Thursday June 20th, 2019
Tickets are now on sale for paid-entrance concerts
Entrance tickets for the 28th edition of the Festival Internacional Canarias Jazz & Más Heineken, which will take place from 5 to 21 July, are now on sale for the concerts to be held at the Alfredo Kraus Auditorium, Theatre Pérez Galdós, Theatre Guiniguada, Tenerife Auditorium, Theatre Leal and the ‘Palacio de Formación y Congresos de Fuerteventura’. + INFO
Wednesday May 15th, 2019
Maceo Parker leads the 28th edition of the Festival Internacional Canarias Jazz & Más Heineken
The 28th edition of the Festival Internacional Canarias Jazz & Más Heineken features the participation of Maceo Parker, a key player in the evolution of contemporary music, a musician without whom it would be difficult to define terms like Funk or Groove: a genuine explorer of black music who has taken the limitations of the saxophone to the extreme. Parker will be one of around 30 artists that form part of the programme at this new edition, which will be held from 5 to 21 July and once more will cover the islands of La Palma, Fuerteventura, Lanzarote, Gran Canaria & Tenerife. + INFO
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Low Humidity Levels Help Flu Germs Spread
...Finding explains why infection more common in winter months ...TUESDAY Feb. 10 (HealthDay News) -- Flu viruses survive longer and ar...A link between humidity and flu prevalence and transmission has long b...In this new study the Oregon team re-analyzed data from a 2007 Mount ...
Finding explains why infection more common in winter months
TUESDAY, Feb. 10 (HealthDay News) -- Flu viruses survive longer and are more easily transmitted when humidity levels are low, such as in the peak flu months of January and February, Oregon researchers say.
A link between humidity and flu prevalence and transmission has long been suspected, but the focus has been on relative humidity, not absolute humidity, according to background information in an Oregon State University (OSU) news release. Relative humidity is the ratio of air water vapor content to the saturating level, which varies with temperature. Absolute humidity refers to the actual amount of water in the air, irrespective of temperature.
In this new study, the Oregon team re-analyzed data from a 2007 Mount Sinai School of Medicine study that identified a weak relationship between flu transmission and relative humidity. The re-analysis revealed a strong link between absolute humidity and flu virus survival and transmission.
"The correlations were surprisingly strong. When absolute humidity is low, influenza virus survival is prolonged, and transmission rates go up," study author Jeffrey Shaman, an atmospheric scientist at OSU who specializes in ties between climate and disease transmission, said in the news release.
Shaman and colleague Melvin Kohn, an epidemiologist with the Oregon Department of Health Services, concluded that relative humidity explains only about 36 percent of flu virus survival and 12 percent of transmission, while absolute humidity explains 90 percent of flu virus survival and 50 percent of transmission.
Their findings were published in this week's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"In some areas of the country, a typical summer day can have four times as much water vapor as a typical winter day -- a difference that exists both indoors and outdoors," Shaman said. "Consequently, outbreaks of influenza typically occur in winter when low absolute humidity conditions strongly favor influenza survival and transmission."
The American Academy of Family Physicians offers flu prevention tips.
-- Robert Preidt
SOURCE: Oregon State University, news release, Feb. 9, 2009
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2. Pathologically elevated blood fat levels in obesity: Researchers discover molecular causes
3. HPV18 DNA levels are not prognostic for precancerous cervical lesions
4. New Study: Higher DHA Levels Improve Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Premature Girls
5. Children with inflammatory bowel disease have surprisingly high folate levels, study finds
7. Women in Coastal Areas Have Higher Mercury Levels
8. Cholesterol Levels May Not Measure Cardiac Risk
9. Most heart attack patients cholesterol levels did not indicate cardiac risk
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11. Government at all Levels Will Continue to Spend on Essential Services and Invest in the Future, According to Onvia Study
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* Analysis: US plunges reluctantly, but definitively, into Syria After years of fear and hesitating, Obama's National Security Council determines the US has no other choice than to fight Islamic State on its home turf.
* After Obama declares war on Islamic State, Iran slams make-up of emerging coalition Iran said on Thursday the emerging international coalition to battle Islamic State militants was "shrouded in serious ambiguities," Iranian state television reported.
* Israel Dismantles Access Ramp for Non-Muslims to Temple Mount Israel on Wednesday dismantled a newly erected wooden access ramp to Jerusalem's Temple Mount compound that would have increased access for non-Muslims but which angered Jordan, according to AFP.
* Putin promises new weapons to fend Western threats Russia will counter military moves by the U.S. and NATO with an array of new nuclear and conventional weapons, President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday.
* It's time to back away from the Russian wolf The West has blundered into the Ukrainian forest and enraged the Russian wolf, only to discover that we cannot face him.
* America Is On The Verge Of Losing Its Place In The World As No. 1 The U.S. economy is the largest economy in the world. But it wasn't always the largest. And it's unlikely to remain the largest economy for much longer.
* Satanists to Hold Controversial Black Mass in Oklahoma A devil-worshiping group hell-bent on hosting a satanic black mass is planning to go ahead with its controversial ceremony this month.
* Solar Storm Warning: Sun Shoots X-Flare Outburst at Earth A cantankerous sunspot region erupted with a powerful X1.6-class solar flare at just the wrong time Wednesday.
* Dept. Defense Minister: Hamas Likely to Restart Hostilities Israel's deputy foreign minister warned Thursday that Hamas was likely to resume "violence" if it feels it has made no political gains from upcoming talks in Cairo.
* Most Europeans want Ukraine to join the EU Most Europeans say Ukraine should be invited to join the EU and want tougher sanctions on Russia.
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I was in Lawrence, Kansas, last night to talk about the history of LEGO bricks and the world of adult fans. Local kids -- of all ages -- had been invited to bring their creations to be entered into a contest to win a $100 gift certificate to LEGO.com. Sadly, the miniland version of Kate and I didn't secure me an entry.
I had a brief slideshow and question and answer session -- note, if you ever need to impress a group of children, show them this Iron Man minifig. At the end of my talk, I called up the kids (age four to fifty-two) who wanted to talk about their creations. I got the chance to do mini-interviews finding out just what they had built and discovering that although everybody knows their name, one's age can be difficult to summon in front of an audience.
I was continually struck by how the stories of what kids built were as interesting (if not more so) than the structures they held in their hands. And I was surprised by the ingenuity of some really young kids -- like the boxy tank that was pulled apart to reveal an Imperial speeder bike inside.
My favorite might just have been a 11-year-old that held up a robot made primarily from 1x2 tan plates and grille pieces.
"What did you build?" I asked.
"A robot," said Bryant.
"And what does he do?" I asked.
"He's a robot," he reiterated.
"I see...well, be careful, robots are always taking over the world."
"I know," he replied.
"Well, you were smart to build him so small, that way you can prevent him from taking over the world."
"Nope, he can just build a bigger robot, who would then build an even bigger robot."
"Well, you better take him apart to keep that from happening, right?"
At which point, Bryant snapped off one of the robot's antennas to show it who was boss.
Image via Wallpedia.
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89f Mallots View Newton Mearns Glasgow - Central Letting Services
89f Mallots View Newton Mearns Glasgow
89f Mallots View Newton Mearns Glasgow G77 6FD
Central Letting Services are pleased to introduce a modern two-bedroom apartment in the Newton Mearns area of Glasgow. 89f Mallots View Newton Mearns Glasgow.
This modern build two bedroom apartment comprises of a spacious living room with dining area, kitchen and family bathroom. The apartment further benefits from gas central heating, double glazing, secure door entry with private parking. Mallots View is located in a popular and sought after location within Newton Mearns, extremely well positioned for amenities within the surrounding district.
Newton Mearns has access to some of Scotland’s highest attaining primary and secondary schools and is within easy reach of the private Belmont House School and a number of school-run pick-up points for private schools in Glasgow. Newton Mearns is located approximately 9 miles from the City Centre of Glasgow. Commuter routes are served by the M77, M8 and Glasgow Orbital motorways which also provide 30 minute journey times to both Glasgow and Prestwick international airports. There are regular train and bus services to Glasgow, East Kilbride and the beautiful Ayrshire coast.
Recognised as providing amongst the highest standards of local amenities, Newton Mearns offers an array of healthcare centres, banks and libraries and a broad range of supermarkets, boutique shops and restaurants, including The Avenue Shopping Centre and The Greenlaw Retail Park includes Waitrose and Tesco Metro.
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There's a new technology that's (literally) putting a smile on plenty of young faces: A system of clear, removable aligners made especially for teens called Invisalign Teen®! If you (or a teenager you know) are a candidate for this treatment, you might find it's the best fit for your lifestyle: It lets you eat what you want, makes it easier to clean your teeth — and best of all, it's virtually invisible.
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Guy is a lonely bank teller in "Free City", an open-world video game that`s a mix of "Grand Theft Auto" and "Fortnite". He comes to know of his existence as a video game`s non-player character (NPC) after publisher Antoine inserted a code developed by programmers Milly and Keys into "Free City". When he learns that the game is being shut down by its developers, Guy decides to be a hero and try to save the game before it`s too late.
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Structure and morphology control of organic semiconductors for functional optoelectronic applications
Enevold, Jenny
The functionality and application of organic semiconductors are largely dependent on their constituent structure and morphology. This thesis presents a number of functional and novel approaches for the control and tuning of structural and morphological features of a variety of organic semiconductor materials, and also demonstrates that these approaches can be utilized for improved device operation of field-effect transistors, organic solar cells and light-emitting electrochemical cells.
The fullerene family is a particular group of closed-cage organic semiconductors, which can be photochemically coupled into larger dimeric or polymeric structures through the excitation of the fullerene molecules by light emission. In Paper I, we perform a detailed experimental and analytical investigation, which demonstrates that this photochemical monomer-to-dimer transformation requires that both constituent fullerene molecules are photoexcited. The direct consequence is that the initial probability for the photochemical transformation is dependent on the square of the light-emission intensity.
The photochemical coupling of fullerene molecules commonly results in a distinctly lowered solubility in common hydrophobic solvents, which can be utilized for the direct patterning of fullerene films by resist-free lithography. In Paper II, we utilize this patterning opportunity for the fabrication of one-dimensional fullerene nano-stripes using two-beam laser interference lithography. A desired high contrast between the patterned and non-patterned fullerene regions is facilitated by the non-linear response of the photochemical transformation process, as predicted by the findings in Paper I. The patterned fullerene nano-stripes were utilized as the active material in field-effect transistors, which featured high electron mobility and large on-off ratio.
This patterning was in Paper III extended into easy tunable two-dimensional fullerene structures by the design and development of an exposure setup, essentially comprising a laser and a spatial light modulator featuring >8 millions of independently controlled mirrors. With this approach, we could fabricate well-defined fullerene microdots over a several square-millimeter sized area, which was utilized as an internal out-coupling layer in a light-emitting electrochemical cell with significantly enhanced light output.
Paper IV reports on the development of a new “spray-sintering” method for the cost-efficient solution-based deposition of the active material in light-emitting electrochemical cells. This carefully designed approach effectively resolves the issue with phase separation between the hydrophobic organic semiconductor and the hydrophilic electrolyte that results in a sub-par LEC performance, and also allows for the direct fabrication of LEC devices onto complex surfaces, including a stainless-steel fork.
Paper V finally reports on the design and synthesis of a soluble small molecule, featuring a donor-acceptor-donor configuration. It acts as the donor when combined with a soluble fullerene acceptor in the active material of organic solar cells, and such devices with optimized donor/acceptor nanomorphology feature a high open-circuit voltage of ~1.0 V during solar illumination.
Umeå: Umeå University , 2019. , p. 65
Organic electronics, organic photonics, patterning, fullerene, polymerization, dimerization, spray-deposition, morphology, small molecule donor, high open-circuit voltage
Polymer Technologies Nano Technology Other Physics Topics Condensed Matter Physics
2020-01-09, Bio.A.206, Biologihuset, Umeå, 09:00 (English)
Müller, Christian, Professor
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sverige.
Edman, Ludvig, Professor
Wågberg, Thomas, Professor
1. Photochemical Transformation of Fullerenes
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Photochemical Transformation of Fullerenes
Wang, Jia
Edman, Ludvig
2013 (English)In: Advanced Functional Materials, ISSN 1616-301X, E-ISSN 1616-3028, Vol. 23, no 25, p. 3220-3225Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Experimental findings and associated theoretical insights regarding the photochemical transformation of fullerenes are reported, which challenge the conventional wisdom in the field and point out a viable path towards improved fullerene-based electronic devices. It is shown that the efficiency of the photochemical monomer-to-dimer transformation of the fullerene [6,6]-phenyl-C-61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) is strongly dependent on the light intensity, and this is utilized to demonstrate that direct patterning of an electroactive PCBM film can be effectuated by sub-second UV-light exposure followed by development in a tuned developer solution. By straightforward analytical reasoning, it is demonstrated that the observed intensity-dependent monomer-to-dimer transformation dictates that a significant back-reaction to the ground state must be in effect, which presumably originates from the excited-triplet state. By a combination of numerical modeling and analytical argumentation, it is further shown that the final dimer formation must constitute a bi-excited reaction between two neighboring monomers photo-excited to the triplet state.
PCBM, fullerenes, patterning, photochemical transformation, dimerization, bi-excited reaction, organic electronics
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-79609 (URN)10.1002/adfm.201203386 (DOI)000322362500010 ()
Wallenberg 2011.0055
2. Realizing large-area arrays of semiconducting fullerene nanostructures with direct laser interference patterning
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Realizing large-area arrays of semiconducting fullerene nanostructures with direct laser interference patterning
Larsen, Christian
Zakrisson, Johan
2018 (English)In: Nano letters (Print), ISSN 1530-6984, E-ISSN 1530-6992, Vol. 18, no 1, p. 540-545Article in journal (Refereed) Published
semiconducting nanostructure, mask- and resist-free patterning, laser interference lithography, fullerenes, phenyl-C 61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM), high contrast
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-143439 (URN)10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b04568 (DOI)000420000000073 ()29232948 (PubMedID)
3. Tunable two-dimensional patterning of a semiconducting C60 fullerene film using a spatial light modulator
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Tunable two-dimensional patterning of a semiconducting C60 fullerene film using a spatial light modulator
Dahlberg, Tobias
Stangner, Tim
Tang, Shi
Lindh, E. Mattias
Gracia-Espino, Eduardo
Umeå University, Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Physics. Umeå University, Faculty of Medicine, Umeå Centre for Microbial Research (UCMR).
4. Spraying Light: Ambient-Air Fabrication of Large-Area Emissive Devices on Complex-Shaped Surfaces
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Spraying Light: Ambient-Air Fabrication of Large-Area Emissive Devices on Complex-Shaped Surfaces
Sandström, Andreas
Asadpoordarvish, Amir
2014 (English)In: Advanced Materials, ISSN 0935-9648, E-ISSN 1521-4095, Vol. 26, no 29, p. 4975-4980Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Light-emitting electrochemical cells, featuring uniform and efficient light emission over areas of 200 cm(2), are fabricated under ambient air with a for-the-purpose developed "spray-sintering" process. This fault-tolerant fabrication technique can also produce multicolored emission patterns via sequential deposition of different inks based on identical solvents. Significantly, additive spray-sintering using a mobile airbrush allows a straightforward addition of emissive function onto a wide variety of complex-shaped surfaces, as exemplified by the realization of a light-emitting kitchenware fork.
large-area light emission, complex surfaces, solution-based processing, ambient fabrication, light-emitting electrochemical cell
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-93224 (URN)10.1002/adma.201401286 (DOI)000340500700011 ()
5. An arylene-vinylene based donor-acceptor-donor small molecule for the donor compound in high-voltage organic solar cells
Open this publication in new window or tab >>An arylene-vinylene based donor-acceptor-donor small molecule for the donor compound in high-voltage organic solar cells
Iqbal, Javed
Umeå University, Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Chemistry. Department of Chemistry, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad 38040, Pakistan.
Revoju, Srikanth
Barzegar, Hamid Reza
Wågberg, Thomas
Eliasson, Bertil
2016 (English)In: Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, ISSN 0927-0248, E-ISSN 1879-3398, Vol. 155, p. 348-355Article in journal (Refereed) Published
A donor-acceptor-donor (D-A-D) molecule has been designed and synthesized for use as the electron donating material in solution-processed small-molecule organic solar cells (OSCs). The D-A-D molecule comprises a central electron-accepting (2Z,2'Z)-2,2'-(2,5-bis(octyloxy)-1,4-phenylene)bis(3-(thiophen-2-yl)acry lonitrile) (ZOPTAN) core, which is chemically connected to two peripheral and electron-donating triphenylamine (TPA) units. The ZOPTAN-TPA molecule features a low HOMO level of -5.2 eV and an optical energy gap of 2.1 eV. Champion OSCs based on a solution-processed and non-annealed active material blend of [6,6]-phenyl-C-61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) and ZOPTAN-TPA in a mass ratio of 2:1 exhibits a power conversion efficiency of 1.9% and a high open-circuit voltage of 1.0 V.
Organic solar cell, Small-molecule donor, Fullerene acceptor, Solution processing, High open-circuit ltage, Thermal stability
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-126290 (URN)10.1016/j.solmat.2016.06.018 (DOI)000381529100040 ()
Originally included in Christian Larsens thesis with title [An Arylene-Vinylene Based Donor-Acceptor-Donor Small Molecule for the DonorCompound in High-Voltage Organic Solar Cells].
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Polymer TechnologiesNano TechnologyOther Physics TopicsCondensed Matter Physics
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At a press conference in New York, Walmart announced a slate of new commissions for its streaming contender, Vudu. Added to the 100,000-plus TV shows and movies already available on the service, viewers can expect the likes of Friends in Strange Places, a travel/comedy series overseen by Queen Latifah; interview documentary strand Turning Point with Randy Jackson; and a series-length reboot of 1983 Michael Keaton comedy Mr Mom.
The new offering is aimed primarily at Middle America, which Walmart feels has been undersold by streaming incumbents like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video. Vudu’s shows will be a vehicle for new interactive advertising going live over the summer which will allow consumers to buy what they see without leaving their sofa. Thanks to its monster customer database, a senior Vudu manager recently described Walmart as the “sleeping giant of the digital entertainment space”.
If so, it’s about to wake up to a very crowded marketplace. It’s only weeks since Apple announced streaming service Apple TV+, which is to combine licensed shows with original programming when it launches worldwide this autumn.
Disney, meanwhile, is following suit with Disney+ in November – initially in the US, then rolling out to other countries next year.
Other existing streamers include Hulu and HBO Now, while Discovery and NBCUniversal are both launching rivals next year as well (click on the table below to make the full details bigger). Between them, these companies are spending many billions of dollars on content. It doesn’t take a seer to predict that a good few will likely fail.
Sizing them up
Among these newer announcements, Apple and Disney look the stronger contenders. Apple has the ready-made platform of a billion devices to promote and deliver its service, while Disney has the richest content portfolio across multiple categories – from video games to live sports to superheroes.
Vudu may have the heft of Walmart behind it, but the content investment is likely to be a fraction of the other two: Apple has said it will spend US$2 billion (£1.5 billion) a year at first, while Disney is spending only $500m on originals, including the likes of three Avengers spin-offs, but the group’s total annual content spend is nearly 50 times bigger. Walmart has not said what Vudu is spending. On the other hand, Vudu’s offering will be mostly free while Disney+ and Apple TV+ will both charge monthly subscriptions.
At any rate, all three are likely to struggle – and the same goes for the other new arrivals. We are heading for a serious case of “subscription fatigue”. When consumers watch free-to-air television, broadcasters take care of the messy process of making deals with content owners, aggregating it and serving it up. As pay-TV operators like Sky or the cable networks started to emerge, consumers had to sometimes choose a package to get a particular channel or programme.
They have been warned.
But with streaming in future, this experience is going to become more and more frustrating – Where can I find Westworld? Where is Blue Planet these days? – not to mention expensive for anyone tempted by multiple offerings. By building competing services, all these media giants are playing their own Game of Thrones.
The way forward is clear, but controversial. Apple, Disney, AT&T, NBCUniversal and the other large players should collaborate to create a dominant content platform. Partnering among subscription services would take some of the burden off consumers and make the combined offering more appealing than existing options. Imagine subscribing to a single service to receive access to everything from classic TV and movies to the latest shows. The market can probably handle two or three mega platforms, but not more.
Ironically, Disney already has a ready-made option in its arsenal. Hulu was set up as a joint venture between Disney, NBCUniversal, Fox and WarnerMedia (now owned by AT&T). Yet Hulu’s claim to be a cross-industry platform is getting weaker, not stronger: Fox’s 30% share defaulted to Disney when it was taken over, and AT&T has announced it wants to sell its 10% holding. Hulu may have recently diversified with its recent partnership announcement with music streamer Spotify, but Disney’s new dominance of the service will probably make it a less attractive option for other media companies to buy into than previously.
If media companies collaborated with their streaming services, it would certainly come with antitrust concerns. But unless they evolve into an industry platform soon, the door will open for other players to take the lead – I’m thinking digital giants like Google or Facebook, internet service providers or telecommunications companies.
Many of these players already have a subscription relationship with consumers, so it would be relatively easy for them to bundle video streaming into existing services. Amazon’s shift into the media world is a textbook example of how this could play out.
One service to rule them all.
Metamorworks
It is reminiscent of the early 2000s, in which the record majors built walled gardens around their content only to watch in horror as Apple’s iTunes stole the market from under them with a convenient, cheap and comprehensive option. Spotify then stole it again a few years later. Media companies should also beware the prospect of consumers being driven in larger numbers to illegal or quasi-legal video consolidation services.
There are recent precedents that they could follow of competitive partnering in other industries: BMW and Daimler recently announced they would join forces to build common platforms for ride sharing and electric vehicle charging, among other things, having realised they are stronger together than apart.
The media giants would be well advised to start exploring similar possibilities.
Consumers are already baulking at both the cost of multiple subscription services and the inconvenience of having to keep track of which shows are on which services. The ultimate winner will be the first option that can provide scale and convenience at a reasonable cost. If today’s streaming companies aren’t careful, they will end up on the outside looking in.
Michael Wade does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
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Judgment Categories Parental Responsibility
1: Farnell & Anor and Chanbua [2016] FCWA 17 – (The Baby Gammy Surrogacy Saga) | April 14, 2016
Court or Tribunal: Family Court of Western Australia
Catchwords: Assisted Reproduction, Biological Father, Biological Mother, Birth Mother, Child of a marriage, Evidence, Parentage, Parental, Parental Responsibility, Parental Rights, Perjury, Surrogacy
Judges: Thackray CJ
Background: A baby with Down syndrome at the centre of an international surrogacy dispute was held by the Family Court of Western Australia not to have been abandoned in Thailand by his Australian parents. This case involved twin children, Gammy, and his sister, Pipah, born in Thailand to a surrogate mother (“the surrogate”) using a Western Australian man’s sperm (“the father”) and an anonymous donor’s eggs. The father returned to Australia with Pipah, but not Gammy. It was claimed by the surrogate that the father had abandoned Gammy in Thailand because Gammy had Down Syndrome. The surrogate issued proceedings in Western Australia seeking the return to her of Pipah to live with her. The father opposed the Application and wanted Pipah to stay living with him. The father had previous conv
[Legal Issue]With whom a child lives – The applicants entered into surrogacy arrangement with the respondent birth mother – Twins born in Thailand as a result – The girl was brought to Western Australia to live with the applicants, while the boy remained in Thailand with the birth mother – The applicants seek an order for the girl to continue living with them – The birth mother seeks an order for the girl to live with her in Thailand – The male applicant is a convicted sex offender but expert evidence indicates that there is a low risk of him abusing the girl – This risk must be weighed against the high risk of harm to the girl if she is removed from her current home [Court Orders]Orders for the girl to live with the applicants and for them to have parental responsibility – No orders requiring the applicants to allow the birth mother to spend time with or communicate with the girl – Applicants required to send some of the girl's schoolwork to the birth mother – Formal findings made that the applicants did not abandon the boy and did not try to access his trust fund.
2: Ellison and Anor & Karnchanit [2012] FamCA 602 | August 1, 2012
Court or Tribunal: Family Court of Australia
Catchwords: Assisted Reproduction, Biological Father, Biological Mother, Birth Mother, Children, In Vitro Fertilisation, Jurisdiction, Parental Responsibility, Parental Rights, Parenting Orders, Paternity, Surrogacy
Judges: Ryan J
[Legal Issue] [Court Orders]
3: Green & Hann [2010] FamCA 747 | August 25, 2010
Catchwords: Communication, Emotional Abuse, Enmeshment, False Allegations of Child Abuse, Obstruction of Contact with Child, Parental Alienation, Parental Responsibility, Parenting Orders, Psychological Disorders, Risk of Psychological Harm, Sole Parental Responsibility, Supervised contact with Child, Unsubstantiated Allegations, With whom a child lives with
Judges: Cleary J
Background: The parties began a relationship when Ms Green was 12 and Mr Hann was 16 years old. They married in 1993. Two children were born of the marriage. The parties separated in 2004 when the children were aged about 3 ½ years and 18 months old respectively. The children then lived with their mother and spent regular time with their father, including overnight time. Contact between the children and their father proceeded without incident until 2009. However in 2009, the children began to exhibit challenging and concerning behaviour both at school and towards the father.
[Legal Issue]In 2009, the children began to exhibit challenging and concerning behaviour both at school and towards the father. The Court has found that this behaviour was encouraged by the mother, who had formed an unhealthy dependence on the children. As a result, the Court found that there should be a change of residence, from the mother to the father. [Court Orders]there should be a change of residence; there should be a period of time when there is limited supervised time with the mother to enable them to settle down in the father’s household and to begin to understand all the changes in their lives; the children’s behaviour, especially C’s, needs ongoing therapeutic intervention. I find that the mother would not facilitate this but the father and his extended family will; communication between the parties may improve after the mother takes
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[[File:Ballarat gfs 1854 H3668 SLV low res.jpg|500px|thumb|centre|''Ballarat Goldfields,'' 1854. State Library of Victoria (H3668)]]
[[File:Rushworth c1923. SLV H28738.jpg|500px|thumb|centre|''A Gold Mine Shaft, Rushworth,'' c1923. State Library of Victoria (H28738)]]
Ballarat Goldfields, 1854. State Library of Victoria (H3668)
A Gold Mine Shaft, Rushworth, c1923. State Library of Victoria (H28738)
George Henry Backhaus. Victorian Patents Office Copyright Collection, State Library of Victoria, (H96.160/278)
Peter Lalor's Pistol, c1840. State Library of Victoria (H36528)
Duncan Gillies, State Library of Victoria (H93.359/9)
Albert Charles Cooke,Theodore and Christopher Ballerstest, 1869. State Library of Victoria (H82.291)
Captain George Harrison, State Library of Victoria (H5056/605)
The Late John Downes Owens. State Library of Victoria (IAN27/12/66/4)
Bendigo Goldfields Petition Cover, August 1853. State Library of Victoria (MS 12440) and Condemned them to hard labor on the Public Roads of the Colony - A proceeding Your Petitioners maintain to be contrary to the spirit of the British Law which does not recognise the principle of the Subject being a Criminal because he is indebted to the State
That the impost of Thirty Shillings a Month is unjust because the successful and unsuccessful Digger are assessed in the same ratio
For these reasons and others which could be enumerated Your Petitioners pray Your Excellency to Grant the following Petition
* First. To direct that the Licence Fee be reduced to Ten Shillings a Month
* Secondly To direct that Monthly or Quarterly Licenses be issued at the option of the Applicants
* Thirdly To direct that new arrivals or invalids be allowed on registering their names at the Commissioners Office fifteen clear days residence on the Gold Fields before the License be enforced
* Fourthly To afford greater facility to Diggers and others resident on the Gold Fields who wish to engage in Agricultural Pursuits for investing their earnings in small allotments of land
* Fifthly To direct that the Penalty of Five Pounds for non-possession of License be reduced to One Pound
* Sixthly To direct that (as the Diggers and other residents on the Gold Fields of the Colony have uniformly developed a love of law and order) the sending of an Armed Force to enforce the License Tax be discontinued.
Your Petitioners would respectfully submit to Your Excellency's consideration in favour of the reduction of the License Fee that many Diggers and other residents on the Gold-fields who are debarred from taking a License under the present System would if the Tax were reduced to Ten Shillings a Month cheerfully comply with the Law so that the License Fund instead of being diminished would be increased
Your Petitioners would also remind your Excellency that a Petition is the only mode by which they can submit their wants to your Excellency's consideration as although they contribute more to the Exchequer that half the Revenue of the Colony they are the largest class of Her Majesty's Subjects in the Colony unrepresented
And your Petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray etc.
Mark Twain, 1901-c.1911. State Library of Victoria (H37081/15)
Interior, Adelphi Theatre, Ballarat, 1855 unknown, 1855. State Library of Victoria
John Pascoe Fawkner (Batchelder & Co.), c1867. State Library of Victoria (H13540)
Lightning Burnt Photograph: State Library of Victoria Allan C. Green. (H91.108/1538
Marco Polo by Thomas Robertson. State Library of Victoria (H306 )
"Burning of the White Star Line Blue Jacket", by Samuel Colvert, 1869. State Library of Victoria (IAN19/06/69/124 )
The "Aberfoyle", 1895. State Library of Victoria (IAN01/07/95/17 )
Montrose Cottage, Eureka Street, Ballarat." Photograph: John T. Collins. State Library of Victoria (H90.100/918)
Eureka Stockade by Beryl Ireland, c1995. State Library of Victoria (H141890)
This work is an over-painted photographic print, photographed by an unknown photographer from the painted canvas by Izett Watson and Thaddeus Welch, which was exhibited as a painted cyclorama in the 'Battle of Waterloo' Cyclorama building, Fitzroy, ca. 1891. This is based on the evidence that the pulleys and brick wall are discernible at the top edge of the image which B. Ireland has not over-painted.
Presentation of colours to the 40th Regiment, 16 January 1868. State Library of Victoria (IMN16-01-58-29)
Travelling to the Diggings, the Keilor Plains. Victoria by John A. Gilfillan. State Library of Victoria Collection (H25126)
Redmond Barry, c1875. State Library of Victoria (H4706)
John Foster, 1866 by John Botterill. State Library of Victoria Collection (H3)
John Foster was Acting Governor of Victoria from 8 May to 22 June 1854. This work was commissioned by Sir Redmond Barry and the Trustees of the Melbourne Public Library in 1866.
Mr Charles Joseph LaTrobe, c1854. State Library of Victoria Collection (H81.20/1)
Charles Joseph La Trobe - study by Sir Francis Grant. This portrait of La Trobe was subscribed for by the colonists of Victoria in 1855. It hangs in the Melbourne Town Hall Melbourne. Two less finished versions were also made by the artist for the family. This version was done for La Trobe himself and remained in the family until it was donated to the State Library of Victoria in 1954. State Library of Victoria Collection (H92.360/162)
Gold Workings Ballarat, c1854 State Library of Victoria Collection (H25191)
License no. 144. Issued to George Bencraft, 05 February 1853. Issued by Commissioner R. Crespigny. State Library of Victoria Collection (H41033/19)
License no. 116. Issued to [?], December 1853 and valid for January and February 1854. Issued by Commissioner Plu[..] . State Library of Victoria Collection (H5005/5)
License no. 241. Issued to Ivy White, October 1853 and valid for the month of November. Issued by Commissioner Fenwick. State Library of Victoria Collection (H13302)
Sir Redmond Barry from Supreme Court Bench Victoria 1852-1894. Chuck Photographer. State Library of Victoria (H34675)
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William A'Beckett from Supreme Court Bench Victoria 1852-1894. Chuck Photographer. State Library of Victoria (H34675)
New Houses of Parliament, 1854. State Library of Victoria Collection, Designed under the general instructions of Captn Charles Pasley, R.E. Commissioner of Public Works. Architects Messrs Lynght & Kerr (H18179)
Katholisch Kapelle aus den Gravel Pit Lunis 3u Ballarat Januav 1854 by William Strutt. State Library of Victoria Collection (H12532)
High Street Maldon, Tarrengower, c1866. Photography: Jonathon Moon. State Library of Victoria Collection (H1943)
William Nicholson, Chief Secretary, c1865. State Library of Victoria Collection (H141396).
Richard Davies Ireland
State Library of Victoria (IAN24/01/77/12)
40th Regiment Military Band, c1852-60. Group portrait of the Military Band of the 40th Regiment with Joseph Hartigan as Band Sergeant. State Library of Victoria (H7686)
Captain Dana
State Library of Victoria (H2013.315-1)
Butler Cole Aspinall - Barrister by Davies & Co. State Library of Victoria Collection (H29505).
William Henry Archer by John Botterill. State Library of Victoria (H29504)
Sir William A'Beckett, State Library of Victoria Collection (H2003.1)
Sir John O'Shannessy, Premier of Victoria] by William Strutt. This portrait was commissioned by the St. Patrick's Society in 1859, of which Sir John O'Shanassy was the founder. It hung in the Society's Hall in Bourke Street, Melbourne. State Library of Victoria Collection (H2003.1).
"Pistol used by Peter Lalor at the Eureka Stockade, 3 December 1854. State Library of Victoria Collection (H36528).
"Major W. C. Smith. Ballarat West from 76 pen & ink portraits of the Members of the Victorian Parliament for 1874 by Edward Gilks. State Library of Victoria Collection (H31555/23).
To the Right Worshipful the Mayor of Melbourne... [from] the undersigned Inhabitants of Melbourne considering the Unsettled State of a portion of the Diggings, and the necessity measures for the Better PROTECTION OF THE CITY, and upholding the cause of Law and Order, hereby request your Worship to convene A PUBLIC MEETING... John Ferress, Government Printer, 05 December 1854. State Library of Victoria Collection (H141396).
The site of the Eureka Stockade, published in The Australasian Sketcher, 14 June 1873. State Library of Victoria Collection (AS14067349).
The famous 'Eureka Stockade', Ballarat, December 1854. Photography: Charles Rudd 1849-1901. Collection: State Library of Victoria (H39358/16.
Hanson Photo, John Brewer [detail] from Pioneers of the Ovens & Townsmen of Beechworth, 1899. State Library of Victoria Collection.
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1681: Archbishop Oliver Plunkett, the last Catholic martyr in Great Britain
Add comment July 1st, 2018 Headsman
Archbishop Oliver Plunkett earned the last Catholic martyr’s crown in Britain on this date in 1681.*
Product of County Meath blood and Italian seminary, Plunkett had been back floating around Ireland as its chief prelate since 1670. In this decade, the English-imposed laws burdening Catholics had been relaxed; Plunkett was able to minister his flock, openly at first and after 1673 as a fugitive whom Irish authorities did not much wish to pursue.
Plunkett’s safety speedily expired with the emergence in England of the Popish Plot, a security panic catalyzed like its modern-day analogues by equal parts bad faith and malice.
The concoctions of an opportunistic fabulist caused the English populace to become convinced in 1678 that a vast and treasonable Catholic conspiracy menaced the land; in its day, it was a delusion held so widely and deeply as to cow into silence and compliance all skeptics, even King Charles himself. Charles’s Lord Lieutenant in Ireland, the Earl of Essex, cynically leaned into the hysteria by whipping fears of a Plunkett-hatched invasion of Ireland by the French, although he well knew that Plunkett was “of a … peaceable temper & … comforable to ye Government.”
Plunkett spent months in hiding, refusing to flee Ireland, until he was finally arrested in December 1679. After proceedings in Ireland collapsed, the prelate was moved to London for a more manageable show trial, the entire transcript of which can be perused here.
In it, the Lord Chief Justice Sir Francis Pemberton chastises Plunkett for soliciting time to collect his witnesses, and concludes with a denunciation of the enemy religion that would not look far out fo place in many a present-day comments section.
truly yours is Treason of the highest Nature, ’tis a Treason in truth against God and your King, and the Country where you lived. You have done as much as you could to dishonour God in this Case; for the Bottom of your Treason was, your setting up your false Religion, than which there is not any Thing more displeasing to God, or more pernicious to Mankind in the World. A Religion that is ten Times worse than all the Heathenish Superstitions; the most dishonourable and derogatory to God and his Glory, of all Religions or pretended Religions whatsoever, for it undertakes to dispense with God’s Laws, and to pardon the Breach of them. So that certainly a greater Crime there cannot be committed against God, than for a Man to endeavour the Propagation of that Religion; but you to effect this, have designed the Death of our lawful Prince and King: And then your design of Blood in the Kingdom where you lived, to set all together by the Ears, to destroy poor innocent People, to prostitute their Lives and Liberties, and all that is dear to them, to the Tyranny of Rome and France.
Now tormented that his opportunistic fear-mongering was actually going to lay the archbishop in his grave, Essex implored the Catholic-sympathetic King Charles to spare Plunkett. “Then, my lord, be his blood on your own conscience,” snapped Charles, politically constrained from a beneficence he would have dearly loved to grant. “You could have saved him but would not, I would save him and dare not.”
On the first of July, he was drawn to Tyburn (a stained glass depiction of it can be found in this post), where he was hanged and quartered. (The strange Anglo-Irish plotter Edward Fitzharris preceded Plunkett on the scaffold, as an undercard attraction.) “He won more credit and repute, as well for himself as for his country, by one hour of suffering, than he could have acquired perhaps by hundreds of years of life,” one observer wrote.
This might very well be so. Aside from being the last Catholic martyr in the Isles, Plunkett is among the most warmly remembered, as evidenced by his recent remit as the patron saint of peace and reconciliation in post-Troubles Ireland — not to mention the loving preservation of his relics at St. Peter’s cathedral in Drogheda.
Readers might enjoy this 68-minute lecture on Plunkett’s life and times.
St. Oliver Plunkett’s head preserved in a shrine at Drogheda, Ireland. Photo by DAVID ILIFF. License: CC-BY-SA 3.0
* July 1 by the Julian calendar still then employed in England; by the Gregorian calendar adopted in most Catholic countries at this point, the date was July 11 — and some Catholic primary sources use the latter date.
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Entry Filed under: 17th Century,Capital Punishment,Death Penalty,Disfavored Minorities,Drawn and Quartered,England,Execution,Gruesome Methods,History,Ireland,Martyrs,Occupation and Colonialism,Public Executions,Religious Figures,Treason,Wrongful Executions
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Aesop's Fables > Books of Fables >...> Thai Bilingual Pamphlets > Thai Pamphlets Red 1-12
#0660001: The Old Man and His Donkey
MSA. This sometimes pink, sometimes purple, sometimes orange donkey with the multi-colored and differently-colored mane seems to me to be from the flower-child generation. Otherwise the story runs along the usual paths. [x]
#0660002: The Boy and the Wolf
The shepherd is Jimmy. Perhaps the best illustration is the lively one for "They went back with angry." He fools the men twice and cannot attract them for the genuine, third wolf attack. [x]
#0660003: The Crow and the Swan
The grammar here is particularly poor. The swan is a comely but silent female with a dapper hat. The best illustration may be that of the crow shivering after his all-night vigil in the water. "We should think carefully before we copy others." [x]
#0660004: The Lion and the Mouse
As with The Fox and the Monkey, this title-page has no background stripes. On the moral page of almost all booklets, an owl accompanies the saying. Here it is a little critter of unknown genus wearing a baseball cap. [x]
#0660005: The Ant and the Grasshopper.
Different: G and A are friends singing together every day. There is a bad sentence early in the story: "Rainy is coming, let us taking food and preparing our resident." The bad time for the grasshopper is not winter but the rainy season. There is a poignant two-page picture of the grasshopper leaving. [x]
#0660006: The Bundle of Sticks
The best illustrations here are of the five sons' exasperation in trying to break the bundle. [x]
#0660007: The Fox and the Crow
The additional extra copy is a gift of my favorite private collector, January, '95, one of the two gifts he sent that made me aware of the existence of these books. This crow has a red beak! The fox, though artistically not excellent, has personality as he flatters, pleads, pounces, and laughs. [x]
#0660008: The Farmer and His Magic Goose
The desire to buy a big house moves this farmer and his wife to look for many golden eggs at once. The story is well broken down into many one-line components. [x]
#0660009: The Treasure in the Field
The biggest surpises in this presentation come on its last page. This moral page is accompanied not by the usual owl but by one of the boys and some wheat-plants taken from the story. The moral seems to me less strong than the good presentation of the fable: "We must not forget that work is important in life." [x]
#06600010: The Crow and the Pitcher
This thirsty crow has already visited fen and canal in the search for water. The crow wisely first tries to push the pitcher over, but it does not move. "Sometimes we can find the answers by using our heads." [x]
#06600011: The Lion and the Hare
Not only does this lion have blue cheeks, but the bunny he chases is blue too! A snail desperately moves out of the lion's way near the middle of the story. This booklet contains one of the wildest language goofs: "The deer afraided the lion very much...." This is one story told exclusively in the past tense. The moral in English is thirteen words long, in Thai three. [x]
#06600012: The Fox and the Grapes
One of the few fables in this series narrated consistently in the past. This fox has just come from some bad times: he has just missed catching a rabbit and has been chased by a farmer from some chickens. This may be the first fox I have met who barks at the grapes as he announces them sour! [x]
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Are there different areas of personal injury in California?
August 9, 2016 /in Blog, Legal /by reports
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California law states that anyone wishing to pursue a personal injury lawsuit must do so within two years of the dated accident. While it’s still possible to file a claim after the two year deadline, a court will almost always refuse to review your case. The statue of limitations is also significantly reduced to an urgent six months if a person is filing a claim against a government entity in California.
Personal Injury Classifications
Personal injury cases in California are classified into three categories called torts. The first being intentional, which is when a personal injury was caused by an intent to inflict harm. The next is a negligent tort which is assigned to any case that evidently reveals a party’s injuries were caused by another’s carelessness. The final is strict liability which labels any case where a person is found liable for the injuries even though his or her actions were deemed reasonable. Personal injuries are evident in a variety of situations. It is on the claimant and his or her attorney to prove the other party or entity was at fault during the accident, so it’s critical to seek the professional legal representation that you deserve from Guldjian Law. Personal injury accidents don’t only happen with automobiles, other areas of personal injury include:
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vlada.cz: Czech Republic is heading the elite while introducing the AI strategy
The Czech Republic has joined the club of countries that have a clear plan on how to succeed and advance in the technology of the future – the artificial intelligence (AI). On Monday 6 May, 2019, the government approved the National Strategy of Artificial Intelligence in the Czech Republic, which is the basis for supporting the development of AI in the Czech Republic and also a prerequisite for the emergence of the European super hub. Europe's most advanced countries such as France, the United Kingdom and Germany, as well as the most technologically advanced countries in the world, have a similar strategy.
>> More details in an official press release.
Impressed by Czech Republic’s leadership in #AI, #cybersecurity & #5G.
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Talking Heads by Robert Longo, part of a show culled from Gerald Mead's collection of work by alumni of SUNY Buffalo State.
Buffalo State Alumni Artists
Jack Foran
/ Feb. 7, 2018 6am EST
It figures that avid art collector and educator at Buffalo State for the last 30 years or so Gerald Mead would have a strong collection of works of Buffalo State artists. Works of three score alumni/alumnae from his collection are currently on show at the Upton Hall gallery on campus.
Including many current or former art instructors at the school who are also alumni/alumnae. So particularly interesting for the chance to try to detect teacher-to-student influences. Direct or oblique.
Such as from artist and teacher Joseph Piccillo to one of his more notably accomplished students from the 1970s and Hallwalls original Robert Longo. Both artists best known for intense technique representational but nonetheless enigmatic artworks. Wherein it is clear enough what is represented, what is depicted, not clear at all what is happening, what is going on. The Piccillo work in the show is a close-up view of the face of a woman, possibly in a state of momentary sequester from some deep emotional pain, or possibly asleep, and for added enigmatic effect, the face crossed by cross-form double thin lines of shadow. The Longo work on show, called Talking Heads, depicts that 1970s-era musical group’s lead singer and writer David Byrne—I presume—in a spotlight in a study of extremes of light and shade. And levels of enigma. Longo’s ambivalence visual artistry strain layered onto Byrne’s and the Talking Heads’ anxiety funk rock performance brand. “Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground.”
Two works on show are by furious miscellany fiberworks artist Lauren Belfer, one free-standing sculptural piece and one wall-hanging work. Who taught Hillary Fayle, represented in the show by a finesse needlework and nature item consisting of stitch-joined gingko leaves. And Lily Booth, represented by a found item pre-patterned needlework sampler, about a birthday party surprise—image of a sprung jack-in-the-box clown—with surprise needlework superaddition.
Belfer also taught Stephen Saracino, who ultimately went in a metalworking direction—his work on show is a small silver and gold sculpture vignette of a boxing match, called It’s Friday Night and Roberto is Hot. Saracino in turn taught Deborah Stewart, who went in a ceramics direction—her work on show is a connected trio of idiosyncratic form earthenware pots, entitled Conversation Pod #3.
Printmaker A. P. Gorney, represented in the show by a lithograph on Shikitsu paper of somber ambiguous subject matter—a barely legible cluster bouquet of roses, above a patch of brilliant white light, above the word “pest” in old style Germanic lettering—not as some benign minor annoyance in the context, but the German word “plague,” as in bubonic—taught Drew Matott, represented by a pulp printwork on “combat paper,” depicting a small group of soldiers amid nondescript environs with a sense of fraught with unseen dangers, entitled What We Left Behind. (The Matott work clearly also influenced as to both subject matter and style by another of his Buffalo State teachers—not represented in this exhibit because not an alumnus—Peter Sowiski.)
While Chuck Tingley’s work on show, entitled Boom, seems influenced by Piccillo not so much directly as indirectly, filtered through Longo’s work.
Also in the show are works of three other Hallwalls originals. Diane Bertolo’s Marking Time, October 2012, a kind of abstraction art calendar, with for whatever reason an extra day to that month. One of Cindy Sherman’s alter ego self-portraits, in this case a 1950s-era faded glamour figure, pregnant and persevering. And Michael Zwack’s mystery abstraction—earthscape perhaps, or more like moonscape—entitled History of the World.
The show on the whole attests to Buffalo State’s strong instructional tradition in art fundamentals of drawing and painting and design. Several fine portrait paintings or drawings, including Anders Fernbach’s superb self-portrait with an intensity and directness reminiscent of ancient Coptic art, Julia Douglas’s painterly realist Christian, Bruce Adams’s idealist realist Untitled #3 from the Divine Beauty Series, and Edrys Wajed’s unfinished-look sketch portrait of a young African-American subject struggling to survive psychically, called Bottom of Mankind. (Wajed one of three artists in the Buffalo State show with works in the portraits of African-American notables Albright-Knox Public Art installation on a wall at Michigan and Ferry streets. The two others, Julia Douglas and Chuck Tingley.)
And fine design throughout. From Richard Gubernick’s red end of the color spectrum geometrics and metamorphics silkscreen work, to Sylvia Rosen’s exquisite celadon small ceramic vessel with low-relief patterning suggesting ranks of mountain ridges, to Richard Kegler’s letterpress elements art deco version of Niagara Falls, to Salvatore Nasca and Mark Bizub’s collaboration diptych view of First Presbyterian Church in photo negative, and facing opposite view of Kleinhans Music Hall in photo positive.
The exhibit continues through February 15. An artists reception is scheduled for February 13, from 5 to 7pm.
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Maria Muldaur, Chris O’Connell, Barbara Dane to Play Benefit For Bluesmen Paul Geremia and Johnny Harper
January 12, 2015 benefit, blues, concert, folk, live, Music, newsBarbara Dane, benefit, Chris O'Connell, concert, Days of the Crazy-Wild, Johnny Harper, Maria Muldaur, music, Paul GeremiaMichael Goldberg
A benefit concert for Bay Area bluesman Johnny Harper and Paul Geremia will be help on January 28, 2015 at the Freight & Salvage in Berkeley, California.
Among the artists playing the benefit are fold-blues legend Maria Muldaur, former Asleep At The Wheel singer Chris O’Connell, and singer Barbara Dane,
Johnny Harper is a superb guitarist, bandleader, singer and songwriter. Paul Geremia is a highly respected acoustic blues performer, finger-style guitarist, and songwriter, with ten solo albums to his credit. Both men have recently suffered serious health issues.
Here’s Johnny Harper on the concert:
Why a benefit? Many of you do not know that I’ve been dealing with a very tough health situation this past fall. I was hospitalized from early September to mid-November. The reason was a blood-clotting problem called a pulmonary embolism. This is very, very serious; the doctors were very doubtful that I would survive it. But survive it I did. Then there was a long period of recovery from the trauma; a lot of physical therapy was needed to help me get my strength back. I’m home now, and feel pretty good in most respects. I am getting around well, am doing physical therapy exercises daily and taking care of myself. I am playing guitar well again, and am starting to teach some of my guitar students. But there are other respects in which I’m still in the recovery phase. Also, of course, I lost months of work, months of income, and have unpaid medical bills which are not entirely covered by my health insurance.
So some friends in the musical community – spearheaded by the tireless organizer and great fiddler/ singer Suzy Thompson – have put together this wonderful Acoustic Blues Festival night at Freight and Salvage, as a benefit for me and also for Paul Geremia, a distinguished acoustic blues artist of many years’ standing, who has also suffered difficult and costly health setbacks recently.
The Freight is of course the West Coast’s premier folk music venue, and now holds 400 in its very comfortable downtown Berkeley location.
I’ll say more about the stellar lineup of performers in a moment. But the main message is, this will be a wonderful night of music with lots of terrific artists playing. And also – well, both Paul and I have played many benefit shows over the years, for friends in need and for causes we believe in. This time around, we will sure be grateful for whatever support you can give us.
AMONG THE PERFORMERS YOU’LL BE HEARING:
Maria Muldaur, a true star of Americana music, has been knocking listeners out since her early days with the Jim Kweskin Jug Band back in the 1960s. She has recorded 30 albums under her own name, starting off with her self-titled first record which made her famous for the hit “Midnight at the Oasis.” Her albums and performances cover a vast range of American roots music styles – uptown urban blues, down home country blues, jazz and swing, gospel, New Orleans R&B, and more. She remains a sultry, vivacious singer and a powerful performer. In 2004 I played a brief tour as her lead guitarist, filling in for her regular guy. See much more on her albums and upcoming performances at www.mariamuldaur.com.
Barbara Dane is an American music legend, still a very powerful, moving, and creative singer at age 87! She’s a great performer of blues, folk music, and traditional jazz, and sings in various international idioms as well. She’s recorded in all these styles since the 1950s. She has worked with jazz giants Louis Armstrong, Earl Hines, and Jack Teagarden; blues masters Muddy Waters, Lightning Hopkins, and Memphis Slim; folk music legends Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger; and countless other important artists. Her lifelong commitment to peace and social justice still informs her song choices and the causes for which she performs. I have been lucky enough to work many shows with her, as accompanist and occasional band director, for the last 15 years. Details on her many recordings at www.barbaradane.net.
Chris O’Connell, famous for her 15-year stint as the original lead singer in Asleep at the Wheel, recently relocated to the Bay Area and released a fine new album. Steve James, veteran blues singer and fine finger-picking guitarist, has worked with John Sebastian, Cindy Cashdollar, Alvin Youngblood Hart, James McMurtry, Bo Diddley, Maria Muldaur, and many more. Catfish Keith specializes in the traditional “bottleneck”slide style played on the metal-bodied resonator guitar.
Several long-time Bay Area musical friends of mine are also featured. I’ve played informally with all these artists for many years. Eric and Suzy Thompson are well-known for playing old-time music, bluegrass, Cajun music, Greek music, and lots of traditional blues. Suzy’s powerful vocals and fine fiddling, and Eric’s fleet-fingered guitar and mandolin work, add life to every style they turn their hands to. Suzy has also written some fine songs. I produced an early CD of theirs, Adam and Eve Had the Blues on Arhoolie. Marc Silber’s long life story in music includes a stint in the early ’60s Greenwich Village folk scene. He is well known as a guitar dealer, but should be better known as the superb musician he is. His finger-style guitar playing and his deep, authentic feel for traditional blues are wonderful; his singing is captivating and soulful. Will Scarlett is a true virtuoso of the harmonica, seemingly able to jump in any song, in any style, in any key, at the drop of a chord change! He’s performed and recorded with many fine artists – Brownie McGhee, Jerry Garcia, Hot Tuna, Old and In the Way, David Bromberg, and Clifton Chenier, to name a few.
Paul Geremia, not expected to perform on this occasion, is the other beneficiary of this special concert; he’s been struggling with difficult health problems for the last year.
Those of us who really love the blues know that it’s music to celebrate life joyfully by – and also, music that can really help us, can be there for us to lean on, when we’re having hard times.
Come celebrate with us, come hear the blues in many styles and variations, on January 28th! Tell your friends! I hope to see you there.
– A Days of The Crazy-Wild blog post –
Audio: Bjork, Patti Smith, Lykke Li Perform at ‘Let’s Protect the Park’ Benefit Concert in Iceland
March 28, 2014 audio, concert, environment, live, Music, news, Patti Smith, streaming music, Videobenefit, Bjork, concert, Darren Aronofsky, Days of the Crazy-Wild, Iceland, Let’s Protect the Park, Lykke Li, music, news, Noah, Patti Smith, Reykjavík, streaming music, videoMichael Goldberg
Patti Smith and Darren Aronofsky at screening of “Noah.”
On March 18, 2014 at at Harpa in Reykjavík, Iceland, a benefit concert, Let’s Protect the Park, was held featuring Bjork, Patti Smith, Lykke Li and others.
Over $300,000 was raised for Icelandic environmental organizations.
Darren Aronofsky’s “Noah,” which was filmed in Iceland, was screened that night.
Listen to over an hour of the concert, including a beautiful set by Patti Smith.
Plus a fan-shot video of all the artists performing the Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage.”
Video: Watch U2 at Haiti Benefit Do ‘Hallelujah’
January 13, 2014 audio, covers, Music, news, streaming music, Videobenefit, Days of the Crazy-Wild, Haiti, Hallelujah, music, news, streaming music, U2, videoMichael Goldberg
On Saturday night U2 made a surprise appearance at a benefit for Haiti in Beverly Hills.
The band played their own songs plus Bono and The Edge joined Haitian singer Anaelle Jean-Pierre for a version Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah”
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Watch: Patti Smith Reads From Book-in-Progress at Poetry Project Benefit
January 3, 2014 live, Music, news, poetry, Video, Writing"The List", benefit, books, Days of the Crazy-Wild, Edwin Torres, Elliot Sharp, John Giorno, Lenny Kaye, news, Patti Smith, Phillip Glass, poetry, Poetry Project, St. Mark's Church, Tracy Morris, videoMichael Goldberg
Patti Smith was one of many who read at the 40th Annual New Year’s Day Marathon Reading Benefit at St. Mark’s Church.
Jim Fouratt shot great video which he posted to YouTube.
Below Patti Smith reads a piece called “The List” from a book she’s currently writing — three minute excerpt:
And here are a bunch of other performances from the benefit. The last clip — Tracy Morris and Elliot Sharp — is really terrific:
Phillip Glass:
Justin Sayre:
Joseph Keckler:
Jonas Mekas:
Jennifer Bartlett:
Edwin Torres:
John Giorno:
Lenny Kaye:
Tracy Morris and Elliot Sharp:
Watch: Eddie Vedder and Jeanne Tripplehorn Sing Rolling Stones’ ‘Shattered’
December 21, 2013 live, Music, news, streaming music, Video"Criminal Minds", benefit, Days of the Crazy-Wild, Eddie Vedder, Heal EB, Jeanne Tripplehorn, music, Shattered, streaming music, videoMichael Goldberg
“Criminal Minds” star Jeanne Tripplehorn takes the lead while Eddie Vedder accompanies her on guitar for a crazy but appealing cover of the Rolling Stones “Shattered.”
They performed at a fundraiser in L.A. for Heal EB. Heal EB is a nonprofit organization dedicated to funding a cure while raising awareness for Epidermolysis Bullosa.
Watch & Listen: Kim Gordon’s Body/Head, J. Mascis Live at ISSUE Project Room Benefit 2013
November 29, 2013 Art, live, Music, news, streaming music, Videobenefit, Bill Nace, Body/Head, Days of the Crazy-Wild, I.U.D., Ikue Mori, ISSUE Project Room, J Mascis, Kim Gordon, live, streaming music, videoMichael Goldberg
On November 13 2013 a benefit for ISSUE Project Room (IPR) staring Kim Gordon’s duo with Bill Nace, Body/Head, was held at the ISSUE Project Room in New York.
At ISSUE’s website is this info about ISSUE: “ISSUE Project Room is a pioneering performance center, presenting time-based work by emerging and established experimental artists that expand the boundaries of creative practice and stimulate critical dialogue about art and culture in the broader community.”
There’s more info about the benefit, which in addition to Body/Head, featured Ikue Mori, I.U.D. and J. Mascis, here.
Body/Head @ Benefit for ISSUE
www.WindowsHaveEyes.com
Body/Head w/Ikue Mori @ Benefit for ISSUE I
Body/Head w/Ikue Mori @ Benefit for ISSUE Pt II
Kim Gordon & I.U.D. @ Benefit for ISSUE Pt I
J Mascis – Ammaring
J Mascis – Little Furry Things
Watch: U2 Cover Daft Punk, Lou Reed & Bowie at RED AIDS Benefit
November 25, 2013 live, Music, news, politics, streaming music, VideoAIDs, benefit, Bono, Coldplay, David Bowie, Days of the Crazy-Wild, Lou Reed, music, news, Nile Rogers, NYC, RED, streaming music, U2, videoMichael Goldberg
Check out these videos of U2 at the RED Auction in NYC last night, where they were raising money to fight against AIDS.
The Hold Steady Will Play Your Party For $15,000 — Cool, Right?
November 23, 2013 Music, news"Jersey Mike", benefit, Covers EP, Days of the Crazy-Wild, EP, Mike Van Jura, music, news, pledge music, The Hold Steady, The Unified SceneMichael Goldberg
The Hold Steady are putting out a fans-only covers EP, and they’re raising money for the family of the late Mike Van Jura, aka “Jersey Mike,” who died unexpectedly late last year. “Jersey Mike” was the organizer of the group’s fan club, The Unified Scene.
The Hold Steady have set up a Pledge Music page and they are offering a range of packages depending on the amount of your pledge.
$15 gets you membership in the fan club (you get access to cool stuff) and a download of the EP.
$15,000 brings the band to your house to play a party for you and your 100 closest friends. You can get a tour of Minneapolis locations mentioned in The Hold Steady’s songs, a haircut from Kubler, a private two-song acoustic performance and much more.
Check the scene out, including a video featuring Finn and guitarist Tad Kubler here.
Watch: Bruce Springsteen, Roger Waters Headline Stand Up For Heroes Benefit Concert Tonight
November 7, 2013 Music, news, Videobenefit, Bill Cosby, Bruce Springsteen, concert, Days of the Crazy-Wild, Jerry Seinfeld, Jon Stewart, news, Roger Waters, Stand Up For Heroes, videoMichael Goldberg
Bruce Springsteen and Roger Waters, along with comedians Jon Stewart, Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Cosby and others, will appear at tonight’s Stand Up For Heroes concert in NYC.
You can watch it right here beginning at 5:30 PST; 8:30 EST.
Songs For Slim Benefit LP Due Nov. 11 Features Jeff Tweedy, Lucinda Williams
November 2, 2013 Music, news, Videobenefit, Craig Finn, Dave Pirner, Days of the Crazy-Wild, Jeff Tweedy, Lucinda Williams, music, news, Slim Dunlap, Songs For Slim, videoMichael Goldberg
A two-CD benefit album for former Replacements guitarist Slim Dunlap will be released on Nov. 11.
The album is titled Rockin’ Here Tonight: A Benefit Compilation For Slim Dunlap.
Disc one includes all of the songs from the Songs For Slim benefit EPs and singles that were released and auctioned over the past year. Artists include Jeff Tweedy, Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle, Frank Black, Craig Finn and John Doe.
A second CD features heretofore unreleased tracks by The Jayhawks’ pseudonymous LP.ORG, Soul Asylum, The Young Fresh Fellows, Peter Holsapple (The dB’s) and more.
The recordings that were auctioned off have raised about $200,000 according to Pitchfork. The money goes to help Slim, who suffered a debilitating stroke.
Here’s an update from Slim’s wife Chrissie Dunlap that appeared on Pitchfork:
“His comfort has been interrupted by many trips to the hospital, but his will to live is strong. His mantra is ‘Fight, fight, fight.’ All of us who love him are fighting with, and for, him. His strength, along with the love and support of so many wonderful friends and fans, has kept him going. Slim is so grateful for the Songs For Slim project and takes great joy in listening to his songs performed by some of his favorite musicians and friends. The revenue from the project has saved us from financial ruin, enabled us to hire nursing help and therapists, and helped to make him as comfortable as possible. Slim and the family send our love and gratitude to New West and everyone involved in the project, and everyone who bought a song for Slim. Special thanks to our long time friend, Peter Jesperson, who worked tirelessly to produce Songs for Slim, and to whom we are eternally grateful.”
Disc 1 (The 45s)
1. Busted Up (The Replacements)
2. Radio Hook Word Hit (Chris Mars)
3. Times Like This (Steve Earle)
4. Isn’t It? (Craig Finn & Friends)
5. Partners In Crime (Lucinda Williams)
6. Nowheres Near (Tommy Keene )
7. Rockin Here Tonight (The Minus 5 feat. Curtiss A)
8. Cozy (Tim O’Reagan & Jim Boquist)
9. Ain’t No Fair (In A Rock ‘N’ Roll Love Affair) (Jakob Dylan)
10. Taken On The Chin (Joe Henry)
11. Just For The Hell Of It (John Doe)
12. From The Git Go (Deer Tick + Scott Lucas + Vanessa Carlton)
13. The King & Queen (Frank Black & The Suicide Commandos)
14. Ain’t Exactly Good (You Am I)
15. Hate This Town (Patterson Hood)
16. Loud Loud Loud Loud Guitars (The Young Fresh Fellows)
17. The Ballad Of The Opening Band (Jeff Tweedy)
18. From The Git Go (Lucero)
Disc 2 (unreleased bonus tracks)
1. Laugh It Up (it’s all a big joke anyway) (Peter Holsapple)
2. Girlfiend (John Eller)
3. Little Shiva’s Song (Soul Asylum)
4. Slim’s Place (The Young Fresh Fellows)
5. Two By Two (Bee, Louie & Brien)
6. When I Fall Down (Chris Mars)
7. Chrome Lipstick (Chan Poling)
8. Times Like This (Frankie Lee)
9. The Ballad Of The Opening Band (LP.ORG)
10. Love Lost (The West Saugerties Ale & Quail Club feat. John Sebastian)
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U.K. Manufacturing and Services Lose Momentum
by Robert Brusca November 5, 2018
U.K. manufacturing has been losing momentum from late 2017. The services sector has fluctuated in a relatively narrow range since late 2016 with a minor eroding trend.
In October, the composite index backtracked to 52.1 from 54.1, a two-point drop in one month's time. The composite index most recently peaked at 55.2 in June, it was slightly higher in October 2017 and higher still in April 2017 at 56.2. The services sector has been oscillating or cycling lower for some time. The manufacturing index has had a longer clearer set of cycles. It reached its recent peak in November 2017 at 58.2. Since about February this year, the actual manufacturing index has been tracking closely with its 12-month low or setting new 12-month lows as it has done this month.
The queue standings are very telling. These standings place each sector in its queue of ordered values since January 2014. On this basis, construction is the sector closest to ‘normal' as it has a 44.8 percentile standing which is only modestly below its median value which occurs at a queue value of 50 (by construction) for queue standings. Manufacturing has fallen sharply and it reaches its lower 8.6 percentile of its historic queue of data. Services that have eroded slowly in an oscillating fashion have been lower on this timeline only 3.4% of the time. Note that the services' raw diffusion reading is higher than manufacturing's diffusion reading but that the service sector queue standing is lower. Diffusion indexes have different tendencies in different sectors. The queue standings provide a relative assessment; an assessment of each sector using its own history of information. On this timeline back to 2014, manufacturing averages a PMI reading of 53.9, compared to a higher average of 55.2 for services.
The composite index is a weighted average of the manufacturing and services indexes and - interestingly- despite its status as an ‘average' its queue standing is weaker than either of its components taken in isolation. This lower composite standing is another feature of the U.K. slowdown that both major sectors are unusually weak at the same time. In the past, when one sector was ‘this weak' the other was relatively stronger. Now with Brexit in play, both sectors are responding to the same environment, stimulus and risk factors and that has led the economy to weaken with greater synchronization and depth. This makes the BOE's job easier in that both sectors emit the same signal so there is less policy confusion about what to do. But it makes the BOE's job harder since it has to work against two sectors' momentum when the real economy goes off track.
The relatively stronger construction index still is hampered since investment has been held back as firms have continued to ponder what the Post-Brexit situation will look like.
The recent reports on Brexit negotiations suggest that that there is much more of a meeting on the minds on issues and a plan to deal with the Irish border. But Brexit watchers are too savvy to be taken in by this since nothing is really done until both sides declare it and until a deal is actually signed. On the U.K. side, it is not just Theresa May who must cut a deal with the EU negotiator, but she then must sell it for approval back home as well.
The Bank of England has said that it stands ready to react and make the policy that the U.K. needs depending on its Brexit circumstances. For now the economic background shows weakening growth. And while inflation is over the BOE target, it also broke sharply lower in September making the overshoot look like it is less in need of attention. But the main point about the BOE is that it is all–in without dogma and actively handicapping the economy's needs. Those needs remain unclear. Growth and inflation trends at the moment seem to nudge monetary policy in slightly different directions, but the Brexit path and circumstances still have not been made clear.
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Year : 2006 | Volume : 16 | Issue : 4 | Page : 669--672
S Turakhia, K Patel
Assistamt Professor, B.J. Medical College, India
S Turakhia
4, Nanduprasad Mahadeviya Society, Near Sanghavi High School, Vijaynagar Road, Naranpura, Ahmedabad - 380013
Turakhia S, Patel K. Esthesioneuroblastoma.Indian J Radiol Imaging 2006;16:669-672
Turakhia S, Patel K. Esthesioneuroblastoma. Indian J Radiol Imaging [serial online] 2006 [cited 2020 Jan 19 ];16:669-672
Available from: http://www.ijri.org/text.asp?2006/16/4/669/32295
Esthesioneuroblastoma or olfactory neuroblastoma is an uncommon tumour that originates from neural creast cells and arises from the olfactory mucosa. The incidence curve for this disease has a bimodal shape with the first peak in the 2nd decade and 2nd peak in 6th decade. [1]. The clinical course is characterized by local aggressiveness and less commonly distant metastasis.
We would like to report a patient-diagnosed to have esthesioneuroblastoma in nasal cavity-operated for the same and with recurrence with cervical lymph nodes metastasis.
A 20 years old female patient presented with difficulty in breathing and right proptosis. Patient was operated for nasal mass before 3 months.
X-ray PNS shows destruction of right lateral wall of nose with soft tissue opacity in nasal region and right orbital region.[Figure 1]
CT axial and coronal scan were performed and sagittal reconstruction was done. Large well-defined soft tissue density mass lesion was seen in both nasal cavities with central necrosis. Loss of medial wall of right maxillary sinus, right lateral nasal wall and extension into right maxillary sinus. There was also destruction of medial wall of right orbit with extension of soft tissue within right orbit displacing the eyeball anteriorly and inferiorly. Ballooning of left lateral nasal wall.[Figure 2] There was also intracranial extension.[Figure 3] Post contrast study showed marked enhancement of lesion[Figure 4]. Intracranial part showed cyst formation.[Figure 5] Multiple enlarged lymph nodes were seen in right cervical region and in post auricular region.[Figure 6]
Histopathologic study shows respiratory epithelium, nasal bony tissue, fibrous tissue, necrotic and inflammatory material and increased vascularity. Deeper tissue shows malignant tumour with uniform small round cells with scanty cytoplasm and salt pepper nuclei. No definate rosette seen. The cells arranged in nesting neurofibrillary material seen. Biopsy from cervical lymph node shows small round cells. Findings were suggestive of olfactory neuroblastoma with metastasis.
Esthesioneuroblastoma is an uncommon malignant tumour that arises from bipolar sensory receptor cells in the olfactory mucosa. These cells originate in the neural crest and differentiate into the olfactory sensory elements. Esthesioneuroblastomas are histologically similar to adrenal or sympathetic ganglionic neuroblastomas and retinoblastomas. [2]
It was originally descried by Bergen et al. in 1924 as 'esthesioneuroepithelioma olfactif'. It was introduced into North American literature by Schall and Lineback in 1951. [3]
Incidence peaks once in 11-20 years of age group (16.8% of all tumors) and again in 50-60 years age group (22.8% of all tumors); however, age of these patients ranges from 3-88 years.[4] It occurs equally in men and women. Synonyms include olfactory esthesioneuroma, neuroesthesioma and olfactory neurocystoma [5].
The main symptoms are nasal occlusion, proptosis, epistaxis, headache, excessive lacrimation, anosmia and visual disturbances. [5],[6]. Because sensory nerves of smell originates in olfactory bulb and pass through cribriform plate to olfactory area of nasal mucosa which is located in the most superior part of both nasal fosse, usual primary sites of occurrence include superior nasal cavity or nasal septum, the turbinates, the ethmoid, or the cribriform plate, although an extra nasal site of origin has been suggested.[3] Even if the lesion can not be demonstrated radiographically above the cribriform plate, involvement of both sided of the plate is presumed and surgical approaches include removal of this area. [7]. This polypoid tumour may be of variable consistency and may bleed profusely on biopsy. [4] It is almost always unilateral and only in highly neglected cases, they appear as a bilateral nasal fosse mass. [4] The mass may be relatively slow growing for malignant tumour and cause some expansion and remodeling of bony structures.[1] 'Hyperostosis' may be an inflammatory reaction related o obstructed neighboring air cells.[7] This neoplasm is locally aggressive and cause metastasis by lymphatic and hematogenous routes. [5] Local recurrence has been reported in upto 57% of patients. A metastatic rate of 20% to 60% is reported with the most common site being the cervical lymph node. Other sites include the parotid glands, skin, lungs, bone, liver, orbit, spinal cord and spinal canal. [5]
Metastasis to the central nervous system is infrequent and usually identified only on post-mortem examination. In the spinal cord 80% of metastasis is in the cauda equine. [8] There are isolated reports of metastasis to the scalp, aorta, spleen, adrenal glands and ovary. [9]
Histologically, esthesioneuroblastoma has a characteristic appearance, containing discrete nests, trabeculae and nodules of tumour cells, fibrillary (or neurofibrillary) material, and prominent collections of stromal blood vessels. The uniform tumour cells have small, dark round or oval nuclei, lack nucleoli and show little cytoplasm. Mitotic activity is variable. The collections of tumour cells are well-defined and more an 'organoid' arrangement, usually lying around a knot of blood vessels. Some examples contain pseudorossets, tumour cells arranged in circular fashion around central areas of eosinophilic fibrillary material. The vascularity of tumour may be as prominent as to suggest as blood vessel neoplasm. The eosinophilic fibrillary material consists of fine, pale-pink fibrils resembling neural tissues may show immunohistochemical staining with antibody to S 100 protein. The only histological feature of prognostic importance is the presence or absence of tumour necrosis with cytological atypia and mitotic rate showing little relationship to long term outcome. [10] It can be histologically classified as esthesioneuroblastoma with pseudorossets (20% Cases), esthesioneuroblastoma with true rosettes (40% of cases) and esthesioneuroblastoma with sheets of cells without rosettes (40% of cases). The last variety is most often confused with anaplastic carcinoma, large cell lymphoma, melanoma, extramedullary plasmacytoma and embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma. However, electron microscopy and immunohistochemical tests can differentiate these lesions. [4]
The diagnosis and evaluation of staging of esthesioneuroblastoma can be done by CT which provides the best information about the tumour invasion into bony structures. The protocols for CT scanning include axial and coronal scans of 1 to 5 mm thick slices with IV contrast. The tumour is presented as homogenous density mass, equal to or greater than surrounding soft tissues. Contrast enhancement is usually moderate and homogenous.[8] They commonly extends to ipsilateral ethmoid and maxillary sinuses and only rarely involve sphenoid sinuses. When large, they can extend to involve both sides of nasal cavity and the paranasal sinuses.[4] Intralesional calcification and presence of cysts along the intracranial margins in case of intracranial extension yield a definite diagnosis. [11],[12]
Obstruction of sinus draining ostia results in an accumulation of nasal secretions which tend to difficult to differentiate from tumour tissue when viewed by a CT scan. Bone erosion is frequent and usually accompanied by modeling of bone. Staging, determined by extension and critical for treatment decisions, is well evaluated by CT. (13)
On T1W MR Images, esthesioneuroblastoma presents as homogenously enhancing tumour with intermediate signal intensity, where as T2W images, the original intensity is increased. MRI can delineate intraorbital and intracerebral extension. The tumour appears hypo to gray matter onT1WI and iso or hyper to gray matter on T2WI. (14) Gadolinium enhanced MR images help to differentiate tumour from obstructed secretions in paranasal sinuses, determining meningeal and extradural spread and to detect perineural spread. [5] Angiography demonstrates tumour blush in majority of cases. [12]
The staging system of Kadish, Goodman and Win-
Stage Disease
A Disease confined to nasal cavity
B Disease in nasal cavity and one or more paranasal sinuses
C Disease extending beyond the nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses.
Using this system 30% of patients are of stage A, 42% patients of stage B and 28% patients are of stage C and respective 5 years survival rates are 75%, 68% and 41.2%. [4]
The main drawback of Kadish classification is the language of defining stage C is too broad. In 1992, Dulgerov and Calcaterra proposed modified TNM staging based on CT and/or MR findings.
Modified TNM staging: [5]
Classification Definition
Tumour
T1 Tumour involving the nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses ( excluding sphenoid )
T2 Tumour involving the nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses ( including the sphenoid) with extension to or erosion of cribriform plate
T3 Tumour extending into the orbit or protruding into the anterior cranial fossa without dural invasion
T4 Tumour involving the brain
N0 No cervical lymph node metastasis
N1 Any form of cervical lymph node metastasis
M0 No metastasis
M1 Distant metastasis
Craniofacial resection performed on all patients may cure more than 90% of cases. This approach takes into account the microscopic presence of intracranial tumour that can occur with an intact and normal appearing cribriform plate. This is in contrast to performing an extended lateral rhinotomy for stage A and stage B patients, who has a recurrence rate of nearly 50%. The 5 year survival rate for all patients is 69%.
Adjuvant chemotherapy is recommended for patients with high grade tumors or positive surgical resection margins.
Others recommend adjuvant radiotherapy for all patients because combined surgery and irradiation resulted in 92% of disease free status.
Loco regional and distant metastasis occurs in upto 38% of patients. Late recurrences or metastatic disease can occur upto two decades after initial presentation.
Negative prognostic factors include female sex, age over 50 years at presentation, tumour recurrence, metastasis, high tumour grade and Kadish stage C at presentation.
The role of imaging in these patients is to map the tumour so as to precisely anticipate surgical boundaries. [4]
1 Charles F. Lanzieri, The Sinonasal Cavity, Cap-15, Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Whole body, John R. Hagga, Charles F. Lanzieri, David J. Sartoris, Elias A. Zerhouni- 3rd Edition, Mosby
2 Wolfgang Rauschning- Brain tumours and tumour like masses-Classification and differential diagnosis-Diagnostic Neuroradiology,chap- 12, p-493, Anne G. Osborn, Mosby.
3 Jackson IT., Somers P, Marsh WR, Plastic Reconstruction Surgery-1985; 76: 195-201
4 Peter M. Som, Margaret Brandwein, Sinonasal cavities: Inflammatory Disease, Tumours, Fractures and Post-operative findings, Head and Neck Imaging, 3rd Edition-Vol-1, chap-4, p-210, Mosby.
5 S. Shekhar, Rajesh, S. Madhavan-Esthesioneuroblastoma with hepatic and splenic metastasis, Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging 2003 13: 2: 219-222
6 Wang J, Wang R, Han D, Yang W. Esthesioneuroblastoma in children- Lin Chuang Er Bi. Yan Hou Ke Za Zhi 2006; 20: 491-3
7 Hugh D. Curtin and Joseph J. Wehner, The skull Base, chap-20, p-955, MRI of Brain and Spine, 2nd Edition, Scott W. Atlas, Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins
8 Jackson Goudim, FranciscoRamos Jr., Jorque azevedo et al.. Esthesioneuroblastoma- case report- Arquivos Neuro-psiquatria. Vol. 60, No 2 A, Sao Paulo June 2002
9 Gursan N, Sutbeyaz Y., Karakok M, Atlas s, Karsasen M: Olfactory neuroblastoma with facial metastass. Eastern Journal of medicine 2002, 7 (2): 41-42
10 A. D. Ramsay, Nose, chap-15.2, p-1112, Oxford Textbook of pathology, vol-2 A, Pathology of systems, James O D. McGee, Peter G. Saacson and Nicholas A. Wright, Oxford Newyork Tokyo, Oxford University Press, 1992.
11 Som P., Lidov M., Bradweim M. et al; Sinonasalesthesioneuroblastoma with intracranial extension- American Journal of Neuroradiology 1994; 15: 1259-62
12 Krishna C. V. G. Rao, Hector Roblers, The Base of the skull-Sella and temporal bone, Sec-C, 4th Edition, Mc Graw Hill, Cranial MRI and CT, p-726
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Pulwama for example ‘Rice Bowl of Kashmir’ is a prosperous area of the territory of Jammu and Kashmir in India. Pulwama was in the past known as ‘Panavangam’ or ‘Pulgam’, the Pulwama was administered by the Mughals in the sixteenth century, while in the nineteenth century the Afghans expected power. Some beautiful and grand places in Pulwama are encompassed by mountains, antiquated cascades and one of a kind valleys. You will be believed to see the beguiling scenes in Pulwama.
Step by step instructions to Reach Pulwama
Nearest airplane terminal of Pulwama is situated in Srinagar, which is around 37 km from this city. Ordinary taxi administrations are accessible from the air terminal. By rail: Nearest railroad head is Jammu Tavi Railway Station situated in Jammu city at a separation of 281 km from the city.
Pulwama is very much associated with other significant urban areas of India through streets. Transport administration is accessible from the transport terminal situated in the downtown area. On the off chance that you need to go by street, you can achieve the vehicle via vehicle or lease yourself. The specific time of entry of the Pulwama keeps the climate charming throughout the entire year, with the goal that sightseers can visit Pulwama whenever in the year. The temperature here midpoints 15 degrees Celsius to 20 degree Celsius.
Avantishwar Temple
The Avantishwar sanctuary of Pulwama locale is one of the memorable and venerated journey destinations. This sanctuary is devoted to Lord Vishnu and Lord Shiva, and this sanctuary was worked by King Avanti Verma in ninth Century AD. The upkeep of the Avantishwar sanctuary arranged on the banks of Jhelum waterway is under archeological overview. The dividers of this sanctuary are enhanced with the mind boggling legends of antiquated fantasies, society stories and gods. Guests and aficionados from everywhere throughout the world come to visit this sanctuary. Pulwama is a prominent vacationer goal.
Arabal Waterfall
In Pulwama region there are a few waved Waterfall, one of which is the Ahlabal Waterfall. It is essential to see this Waterfall with regards to Pulwama on the grounds that its regular magnificence will be settled in your heart. In the Pir Panjal mountain extends, the speed of water at a tallness of 25 meters from a restricted canyon in the valley encompassed by thick pine and cedar trees is exceptionally well known. The surges of thick woodland give off an impression of being silver.
Pierre Temple
It is privately known as the Pyek Temple. It is accepted that this sanctuary was worked in the tenth century. This sanctuary is made of single stone. Determination in its engineering still mirrors its past greatness. Encompassed by a thick timberland, this sanctuary makes the aficionados astounded.
Chasing Ground
At one time the nobles of the nation used to come chasing on this spot. The chasing territory was extended by the last leader of Jammu and Kashmir State and this spot is loaded with natural life and vegetation. This zone is encompassed by thick woods and it is arranged at a height of 2130 meters above ocean level. Arranged on the summit of Vasturvan and Khervon mountains, Shikargarh is renowned as a cookout spot for local people.
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Eat at Your Own Risk: Flawed FDA Risk Assessments Strengthen Arguments for Labeling GMOs
Wednesday, 25 February 2015 09:19
By Alex James, Truthout | Op-Ed
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For the past two decades, developers of genetically engineered (GE) crops and their corporate allies have maintained that because their products are so obviously safe, there is no need to label them. Thanks to marketing campaigns, squelched state initiatives and a flood of GE products on the market, the public has largely adopted this belief as well.
Would it shock the public to know that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has never formally approved any GE crop as safe for human consumption? Instead, these companies have been trusted to self-regulate with little scientific oversight and even less transparency in their methods.
This was quietly mentioned in December 2014, during a testimony given by Michael Landa, former director of the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition with the FDA, before the House Subcommittee on Health.
His testimony drew attention to a fact often overlooked in the ongoing debate around GE food safety: The FDA has exempted developers of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) from premarket reviews of their products, which would normally result in a formal assessment and either a rejection or approval of their safety for human consumption. Landa's testimony described the risk assessment process for GE crops, which continues to use a policy crafted in 1992, establishing that the FDA sees no essential difference between GE crops and their conventionally grown counterparts.
As a result, the FDA merely invites GE developers to voluntarily consult with the FDA on their products' safety.
According to an article written by William Freese and David Schubert on the FDA's risk assessment process:
Under voluntary consultation, the GE crop developer is encouraged, but not required, to consult with the FDA. The company submits data summaries of research it has conducted but not the full studies. That is, the FDA never sees the methodological details, but rather only limited data and the conclusions the company has drawn from its own research. As one might expect with a voluntary process, the FDA does not require the submission of data.
During his testimony, Landa offered assurance that:
The fact that participation in the process is voluntary should not mislead individuals to believe that the process does not provide for a rigorous food safety evaluation. It is not uncommon for FDA to request additional data and information or clarification about the data and information submitted by the developer.
Landa failed to mention that these requests are often refused or ignored, and when that happens the FDA continues its assessment without the additional data.
A study conducted by David Gurian-Sherman found that when the FDA requested additional information to conduct a complete and thorough safety assessment 50 percent of the time GE food developers "did not comply with that request."
The study goes on to show that of the developer data summaries they reviewed and that were submitted to the FDA, there were "obvious errors that were not identified by FDA during its review process," and the summaries "often lacked sufficient detail, such as necessary statistical analyses needed for an adequate safety evaluation."
Even more concerning, Gurian-Sherman revealed that these submissions to the FDA often did not evaluate dangerous compounds such as toxicants in tomatoes or anti-nutrients in corn and, "allergenicity testing was not always performed using the best tests available."
Alarmingly, Gurian-Sherman's study also reports that upon the FDA's completion of a review of corporate-generated data summaries, the FDA does not generate its own safety assessment, but merely summarizes for the public the developers' food-safety analyses.
None of the GE crops currently in the market place have ever been FDA approved as safe. As Freese and Schubert point out:
Instead, at the end of the consultation, the FDA merely issues a short note summarizing the review process and a letter that conveys the crop developer's assurances that the GE crop is substantially equivalent to its conventional counterpart.
The implication is made that there exists a rigorously tested, well-regulated marketplace of GE food. However, these risk assessments, when they occur at all, are highly questionable, and the ubiquity with which the FDA has issued these summaries of corporate-driven analyses of their own products only casts further doubt on their credibility and significance.
A problem arises when independent researchers appeal to these risk assessments of GE crops, and their subsequent FDA "approval" as testaments to their inherent safety. Further problems occur when independent studies are conducted on various aspects of GMO and GE crop safety, but often after the products are already on the market.
Too often, the independent nature of these studies is dubious to begin with. Alison Van Eenennaam's recent literature review, for example, received a great deal of media attention, and though touted as independent, was sponsored by the Kellogg Company which spent $1 million fighting GMO labeling initiatives in California andWashington State in 2013.
The literature reviewed by Van Eenennaam was a collection of animal feeding studies, conducted by six researchers all of whom work with AgroParisTech, which considers Monsanto a business partner and sponsor of its research.
Such conflicts of interest call into question the "independent" nature of a lot of research done in the field. The lack of regulatory oversight indicates that the marketplace is not a well-regulated one, nor is it transparent in its risk assessment methods. Neither of these issues necessarily evidence that GE crops themselves are dangerous for consumption.
There is, however, an important distinction to be made between the safety of consuming GE crops and the safety of consuming the pesticides used in their cultivation. The FDA is only concerned with the GE crops themselves, while pesticide use is under the purview of the Environmental Protection Agency. Research on glyphosate-based pesticides is highly contested, with recent studies indicating glyphosate as potentially carcinogenic, potentially active in human cell-toxicity, and indicating its potential to damage DNA in humans and fish. A recent article in The Guardian indicates that there may be still further harmful side effects to these pesticides that remain unexamined. All of which only strengthen arguments in favor of thorough, independent safety assessments and labeling of GMO products in the marketplace.
Recommendations put forward in Gurian-Sherman's study are common sense: Congress should provide the FDA with legal authority for mandatory review and safety approval of GE crops. Additionally, the FDA should develop detailed safety standards and testing guidelines, and require developers to submit not summaries of data, but complete details about their testing methods, the actual data from safety tests and statistical analyses of those data. The FDA should then be prepared to reassess the safety of GE products if new safety concerns are recognized or new tests become available.
Landa made a point in his testimony to highlight that there is no need to label GE crops because they do not differ significantly from their conventional counterparts, and he sides with courts that have held that "consumer desire to know such information is not, by itself, sufficient to require such labeling." Perhaps if consumer desire to know is not sufficient in itself, these flawed, weak and blatantly toothless risk assessments provide a stronger basis to demand that GE food products be labeled until we have more thorough testing and review standards in place.
Besides, you can take it from Monsanto's director of corporate communications, Phil Angell, in his oft-quoted interview in The New York Times: "Monsanto should not have to vouchsafe the safety of biotech food," he said. "Our interest is in selling as much of it as possible. Assuring its safety is the FDA's job."
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Biotech Hiding Dangers of GMOs with Slick PR Campaigns
New report details GMO PR campaign to Deceive the American Public
by Ken Roseboro
Biotechnology companies using same PR firms as tobacco industry
U.S. Right to Know—a new nonprofit organization — recently released a new report on Big Food’s PR campaign to defend GMOs: how it manipulated the media, public opinion and politics with sleazy tactics, bought science, and PR spin.
Since 2012, the agrichemical and food industries have mounted a complex, multifaceted public relations, advertising, lobbying and political campaign in the United States, costing more than $100 million, to defend genetically engineered food and crops and the pesticides that accompany them. The purpose of this campaign is to deceive the public, to deflect efforts to enact GMO labeling that is already required in 64 countries, and ultimately, to extend their profit stream for as long as possible.
This campaign has greatly influenced how US media covers GMOs. The industry’s PR firm, Ketchum, even boasted that “positive media coverage has doubled” on GMOs.
The report, titled Seedy Business: What Big Food is Hiding with Its Slick PR Campaign on GMOs, outlines fifteen things that Big Food is hiding with its artful PR campaign on GMOs.
The FDA does not test whether GMOs are safe. It merely reviews information submitted by the agrichemical companies.
The agrichemical companies have a history of concealing health risks from the public. Companies that produce GMOs have hidden the truth about the dangers of their products from consumers and workers. So how can we trust them to tell us the truth about their GMOs?
What the agrichemical and tobacco industries have in common: PR firms, operatives, tactics. The agrichemical industry’s recent PR campaign is similar in some ways to the most infamous industry PR campaign ever—the tobacco industry’s effort to evade responsibility for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans each year.
The agrichemical companies have employed repugnant PR tactics. These tactics include attacks on scientists and journalists, and brainwashing children.
Monsanto supported GMO labeling in the UK but opposes it in the USA. Although Monsanto is based in St. Louis, Missouri, Monsanto believes that British citizens deserve stronger consumer rights than Americans do.
The pesticide treadmill breeds profits, so it will likely intensify. It is in the financial interest of the agrichemical companies to promote the evolution and spread of superweeds and superpests, because these will spur the sale of pesticides.
GMO science is for sale. Science can be swayed, bought, or biased by the agrichemical industry in many ways, such as suppressing adverse findings, harming the careers of scientists who produce such findings, controlling the funding that shapes what research is conducted, the lack of independent US-based testing of health and environmental risks of GMOs, and tainting scientific reviews of GMOs by conflicts of interest.
The full report is available at www.usrtk.org/gmo/seedy-business/.
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Devastating Impacts of Glyphosate Use with GMO Seeds in Argentina
Thank you to the Institute of Science in Society for this article-
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Devastating_Impacts_of_Glyphosate_Argentina.php
Widespread GM soybean cultivation and accompanying pesticide spraying is wreaking havoc on the health of millions Dr Medardo Ávila-Vázquez
Dr Medardo Ávila-Vázquez, a paediatrician and neonatologist at the Faculty of Medical Sciences, National University of Córdoba, Argentina is the coordinator of the Physicians of Crop-Sprayed Towns, a University Network for Environment and Health that campaigns against agrochemical spraying and provides medical treatment to villages suffering from illnesses as a result of agrochemical exposure. Since noticing the health of his patients deteriorate and patterns of illness change, he has campaigned tirelessly for the protection of local people, particularly children who are some of the worst affected.
Toxic Agriculture and Crop-Sprayed Towns
Over the last 20 years, industrial agriculture in Argentina has expanded by almost 50 %, taking over regions intended for other productions, for family farming, and most of all, forests.
A ton of soy was priced at US$16o in 2001; in July 2012, it reached US$600. At an average yield of 3 to 4 tons (T) per hectare (ha) and production costs 200-250 US$/ha, the profit is enormous.
Of the 300 000 farmers nationwide, 80 000 are engaged in transgenic and chemical agriculture; of those, 20 000 account for 70 % of the production, and are basically corporations and agricultural conglomerates renting fields or trespassing on lands belonging to peasants and native peoples [1].
The prevailing monoculture agribusiness model comes in a technology package that includes direct sowing, transgenic seeds, and the application of pesticides. In order to sustain production, increasing amounts of agrochemicals are applied in an area where transgenic crops coexist with more than 12 million people.
We must recognize that the agrochemicals used are all poisonous: herbicides like glyphosate, 2,4-D ((2,4-Dichlorophenoxy)acetic acid) or Atrazine, are designed to kill plants, and endosulfan, chlorpyrifos, dimethoate, cypermethrin, imidacloprid, etc. are designed to kill insects and are the most widely used; they all have deleterious effects on human health and the environment. The use of these pesticides has been increasing exponentially since 1990: back then, 30 million litres* of poisons were used; during the 2012/2013 crop season more than 318 million litres were applied. On the same hectare where 2 or 3 litres of glyphosate were used per year, today 8 or 12 litres are used with 1.5 litres of 2,4-D in addition. In Santiago del Estero, Salta, and Chaco (north-western Argentina) up to 20 litres/ha/year of Round Up are used [2].
To grow 100 ha of GM soy today requires 14 working days for a single worker: one day for sowing, another for harvesting at the end, and the remaining 12 days in between for applying poisons over the same field.
Birth defects and increasing cancer
After 18 years of systematic sprayings, health teams in fumigated towns detect a change in the pattern of diseases in their populations: respiratory problems are much more common and are linked to the application of agricultural poisons, as is chronic dermatitis. Similarly, during fumigation, epileptic patients convulse much more frequently, and depression, immune and endocrine disorders are more frequent.
High rates of miscarriages are recorded (up to 23 % of women of reproductive age had at least one abortion in the past 5 years) and consultations for infertility in men and women have significantly increased. Herds of goats belonging to farmers and indigenous people in some areas record up to 100 % of abortions or premature deaths due to malformations linked to pesticide exposure. Increased thyroid disorders and diabetes are also detected in local people.
More and more children are born with defects in these areas, especially if the first months of pregnancy coincide with the time of spraying. Down’s syndrome, spina bifida, myelomeningocele (neural tube defect), congenital heart disease, etc. are diagnosed more frequently in those areas; in some towns and during some years, at triple the normal rates, and directly linked to increased pesticide applications around the towns [3, 4] (see Figure 1). Neural tube defects are among the most common developmental birth defects observed, which is consistent with lab studies and farm observations see [5] A Roundup of Roundup® Reveals Converging Pattern of Toxicity from Farm to Clinic to Laboratory Studies, SiS 65].
Crop-sprayed towns also show a change in the causes of death. According to data from the civil records offices to which we had access, over 30 % of deaths are from cancer, while nationwide, the percentage is less than 20 %. Cancer death rates have clearly increased in those areas, and this is a new phenomenon detected by our colleagues since 2000 [3, 4, 6]. Significantly, the date coincides with the expansion in the use of glyphosate and other agrochemicals massively applied in those areas. In May 2014, the Ministry of Health of the Province of Córdoba published data from its cancer registry, confirming that in the most intensive agricultural areas, deaths due to cancer exceed by 100 % those in the city, and by 70 % the provincial average [7].
The toxic agrochemicals affect everyone, but it is the poor people, the labourers, their wives and children, who are the least likely to be protected and to recover their health. Also, in the North of Córdoba and Santa Fe, most of the new ventures into toxic agriculture are owned by corporations and agricultural conglomerates that use air fumigation, delivering much higher doses of poison due to the climatic and biological conditions in the region; and mainly indigenous peoples and peasants suffer the consequences.
Figure 1 The rise in birth defects correlates with the rise in cultivation of GM glyphosate-tolerant soybeans in Chaco, Argentina. Birth defects per 10 000 live births from 1997-2008 have risen drastically (top), as has the hectares of land dedicated to GM soybean cultivation (bottom)
The clinical manifestations that physicians working in the crop-sprayed towns find in patients are consistent with the results of scientific research on the effects of various pesticides including glyphosate on experimental animals. Laboratory research by our scientists show how glyphosate acts on embryonic development to produce birth defects [8], and how this poison damages DNA molecules in the cell nucleus, promoting mutant cell lines that will cause cancer if they cannot be eliminated by the individual [9-11].
Also, a number of scientific papers worldwide show how exposure to toxic agrochemicals significantly increases the rate of birth defects, miscarriages, cancer, and hormonal disorders in people subjected to repeated sprayings [12-15].
The Systematic Reviews of Evidence-Based Medicine – representing the highest standard of critical analysis of scientific and medical information - supports the need to reduce exposure on the strength and consistency of the available evidence indicating that exposure to pesticides increases the risks to human health [16-18].
Despite all the complaints presented to the authorities, the use of toxic agrochemicals in our country is still continuously increasing. In 1990, according to data from the business chambers of toxic agrochemicals, 39 million litres of agrochemicals (herbicides, insecticides and fungicides) were used; in 2013, the same chamber reports that its business nearly reached u$s3000 million with the sale of 318 million litres. Glyphosate is the most commonly used toxic agrochemical in Argentina, comprising 64 % of total sales, and 200 million litres of glyphosate were applied during the last crop season [2].
In usage studies conducted by agronomists from the Sociedad Rural Argentina (Rural Society, the main soy-business institution in the country) [19], in 2010 in the core area (main agricultural area), almost 10 litres of pesticides were applied per hectare per year, which in the study area is equivalent to 31 litres of agricultural poisons for each of the residents of the Department concerned (Gral. Lopez in Santa Fé). In Argentina, we estimate that 7 litres of pesticides are applied for each of the 40 million inhabitants per year, but in the productive areas of agribusiness, the toxic dose rises to between 30 to 45 litres per person per year, generating a cumulative load of chemical toxicity inevitably reflected in the hardest health indicators such as death rates.
Rethinking scientific postulations for bio-technology and safety
The model of agricultural production foisted on Argentina by international biotechnology companies has led to 858 % increase in the amount of pesticides used per year, resulting in a massive environmental and health impact in the region.
This 858 % increase in the use of toxic agrochemicals far exceeds the increase in cultivated areas. Between 1990 and 2010, the area growing cereals and oilseeds increased by 50 % from 20 million hectares to 30 million hectares, while the use on fruit and vegetable crops and regional crops such as vine, tobacco and sugar account for less than 15 % of total applied [2].
The premise that transgenic seeds use fewer toxic agrochemicals cannot be verified in Argentina. In 1996/7, the time when transgenic soybean began to be sown, 3 litres per ha per year of glyphosate were applied; currently the applied amount of glyphosate adds up to 12 litres per ha per year. This shows the failure of the toxic agricultural model to overcome the adaptation responses of nature, such as the emergence of resistance in plants and insects. The only recourse is to increase the poison applied, thereby selling more pesticides to farmers, and adding even more dangerous and toxic agrochemicals to the fumigating mixtures, or adding transgenic “events” so that plants secrete several Bt insecticidal toxins.
Another myth perpetrated by the biotech industry is that it increases crop yields. However, the number of independent scientific studies proving this a lie is accumulating. An increase in grain production (cereal and oilseed) is admitted, but these researches show that the increase in yields per hectare (ha) is related to the application of traditional agricultural techniques incorporated during the last 20 years, such as the increase in density of plants (less separation between plants in the furrow and between furrows), etc. [20, 21]. In Argentina the average yield in 1994 was 2.2 T per ha, and 3 T in 2010, an average increase of 30 % in crop yields [2], yet during this period we used 858 % more agricultural poisons.
Thus, the 858 % increase in the toxic agrochemicals is far in excess of the 50 % increase in cultivated areas, and the 30 % increase in crop yields per hectare.
The inefficiency of the biotechnology model is evident also in the environmental damage created by the massive clearing of the country; the increasing pollution that is observed along all surface watercourses in the region, such as the Suquia [22] and Paraná rivers in its entirety ; in the levels of glyphosate collected in rainwater from soy-growing areas [23] exceeds by 10 times those detected in USA [24]; in the increasing rate of cancer, birth defects, miscarriages, mental disabilities, endocrine and immune disorders suffered by rural populations systematically exposed to increasing doses of toxic agrochemicals every year (see earlier); and in the growing load of pesticide residues in grains exported from Argentina, as has already been verified in Denmark and the Netherlands, where, as of 2015 the purchase of organic soybeans and corn to feed their livestock will be prioritized [25, 26].
Increasing pesticide residues in foods made with grains are a growing concern in Europe, and its danger has become evident especially after investigations by the French researcher Gilles-Eric Séralini [27]. Recently, glyphosate was detected in urine of students from the University of Berlin and other Europeans from 18 different countries, and was less high in those on organic diets; in cattle and rabbits similar results were obtained: higher levels of glyphosate in urine and tissues from those fed GM fodder [28]. The export market to Europe is poised to shrink as consumers reject GMOs and glyphosate tainted food.
To overcome the problems caused by the resistance of weeds and insects, the biotech industry (Monsanto, Bayer, Dow, Dupont, etc.) is providing more of the same. New transgenic seeds are promoted, which are tolerant to glyphosate, glufosinate and 2,4-D [29]. Do we want yet higher levels of more and more dangerous herbicides in our food, when the existing burden on health is already intolerable?
Seeds are also promoted, which, in addition to tolerating several herbicides also produce several Bt toxins, such as Cry1A.105, Cry2Ab, Cry3Bb [30], offering, for now, protection against Lepidoptera and Coleoptera but damage many insects that are beneficial and useful for preserving ecological balance. The safety of these toxins to humans is open to question.
For 100 000 years our species was in contact with minimum amounts of these toxins, but now, thanks to biotechnology, we are exposed to massive amounts of these proteins. They have been found in human breast milk, in human blood and in the blood of the human umbilical cord, and we also know that they produce immune and allergic risks to people [31]. They may well turn out to be much more toxic when we start seeing the consequences of this new exposure within a few years.
Today we know that 40 % of the genes of the human genome are shared with plants and regulate our cellular activities as in the plants, we also know that 60 % of the genes of insects such as the fruit fly are in our genetic code [32]. In other words, we share with insects and plants many mechanisms of cellular metabolism. When we attack these mechanisms with a heavy arson of chemicals, to block or distort them, to kill plants or insects, we cannot ignore the fact that these toxic products can reach people, either through occupational exposure, residential exposure or by ingesting food or water contaminated with residues, and may well have adverse effects on them; we cannot presuppose that they are harmless.
*Note added by the editor: The amount of glyphosate used is commonly measured as kg/L in Argentina, as quoted by The Chamber of Agricultural Health and Fertilizers (CASAFE). We understand that this might mean either kilograms or litres, and refer to all formulations of herbicides and insecticides. The specific gravity of Roundup® Original Max is 1.36, so in the case of Roundup, 1 litre = 1.36 kg.
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Do We Save the Monarch Butterfly or Monsanto's Profits?
Ninety percent of our beautiful monarch butterflies have been wiped out, yet it is still has not been listed as an endangered species. Monsanto says doing so "makes for a great news headline" but will fail to "help solve the problem".
Wrong! Listing them as endangered would make it illegal to destroy the monarch's habitat which Monsanto is now doing with its Roundup Ready soy and corn crops that cover over 150 million acres in the US. Such crops are genetically engineered to withstand massive doses of Roundup (glyphosate) which kill the milkweed plants the monarch depends on for survival.
Since the introduction of GM crops, pesticide use is up over 400 million pounds in our country. Glyphosate has proven to be much more toxic than originally thought and is now found in our air, rainwater, waterways, and in us- it has even been found in mother's breast milk.
Genetically modified seeds are also coated with neonicotinoids which are killing bees. If we kill the pollinators we are killing ourselves. GMOs have to rely more and more on higher levels and more toxic types of pesticide because of the emergence of super weeds and super bugs. GMOs are not sustainable; they are poisoning us all.
RT: Monsanto monarch massacre: 970 million butterflies killed since 1990
http://rt.com/usa/230823-monarch-butterflies-monsanto-massacre/
Posted on February 10, 2015by Jean
Published time: February 10, 2015 10:52
Monarch butterfly (Reuters/Daniel Aguilar)
The beautiful monarch butterfly, which is also a major pollinator, is being threatened by herbicides that eradicate milkweed, its primary food source. Now, a desperate rejuvenation program is under way to save the species from possible extinction.
A shocking statistic released by the US Fish and Wildlife Service on Monday summed up the plight of the monarch butterfly: Since 1990, about 970 million of the butterflies – 90 percent of the total population – have vanished across the United States.
READ MORE: Rising suicide rate for Indian farmers blamed on GMO seeds
The massacre provides a grim testimony to the delicate balance that exists between man and nature, and how the introduction of a single consumer product – in this case, Monsanto’s Roundup Ready herbicide – can wreak so much havoc. Sold to farmers and homeowners as an effective method for eliminating milkweed plants, Roundup Ready, introduced in the 1970s, is widely blamed for decimating the monarch butterflies’ only source of food in the Midwest.
“This report is a wake-up call. This iconic species is on the verge of extinction because of Monsanto's Roundup Ready crop system,” said Andrew Kimbrell, executive director for the Center for Food Safety, which last week released a report describing the effects of herbicide-resistant crops on monarch butterflies in North America.
“To let the monarch butterfly die out in order to allow Monsanto to sell its signature herbicide for a few more years is simply shameful.”
The widespread death of the monarch butterfly has prompted some groups, like the Center for Biological Diversity, to demand the butterfly be placed on the endangered species list.
Dan Ashe, director of Fish and Wildlife Service, preferred to take a diplomatic approach to Monsanto’s hefty contribution to the problem, saying everyone is responsible for the plight of the monarch butterfly.
“We’ve all been responsible. We are the consumers of agricultural products. I eat corn. American farmers are not the enemy. Can they be part of the solution? Yes,” Ashe said.
“It’s not about this wonderful, mystical creature. It’s about us.”
Photo from wikipedia.org
Monsanto responded to the issue in a blog on its website by saying that listing monarch butterflies as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act “makes for a great news headline,” but ultimately fails to “help solve the problem.”
Rejuvenation efforts
The monarch migrates annually thousands of miles - and over the lifespan of many generations - from Mexico, across the United States, to Canada. To complete this migration, the butterfly is dependent upon the milkweed plant, which provides not only a major food source, but a larval host. However, as US farmland continues to eat up the remaining wild places, there appears to be little left to sustain the monarch.
In an effort to restore monarch numbers, the US Fish and Wildlife Service has teamed up with the National Wildlife Federation and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to start a milkweed replanting program.
The Fish and Wildlife Service said it will contribute $2 million this year to restoring more than 200,000 acres of monarch habitat, while also “supporting over 750 schoolyard habitats and pollinator gardens.”The service will also concentrate rejuvenation efforts on Interstate 35, a 1,568-mile (2,523 km) highway that extends from Texas to Minnesota, which closely follows the monarch’s migration path.
“We can save the monarch butterfly in North America, but only if we act quickly and together,” said Ashe.
The monarch butterfly is not the only pollinator species suffering from the agricultural use of pesticides. Wasps, beetles and especially honeybees have all experienced significant drops in their numbers over the years, which will have adverse effects on America’s crop supply if not soon addressed.
Monsanto controversy
Monsanto has run into controversy before over its glysophate-based Roundup Ready product. It is even being blamed by some for a sharp spike in suicide rates among Indian farmers, many of whom could not afford to continue buying the Ready Roundup seeds and herbicides.
READ MORE: World protests Monsanto grip on food supply chain
The Indian farmers would not receive a loan “if they don’t go with the GMOs,” the head of the Council for Responsible Genetics, Sheldon Krimsky, told RT. “And many of them felt coerced to take the GM seeds. The GM crops have not done as well in all regions of India... [That has led to] much greater indebtedness with the GM crops that did not perform as well.”
Monsanto denies that its seeds have contributed to the plight of Indian farmers.
“Despite claims by those who oppose GMO crops, research also demonstrates there is no link between Indian farmer suicides and the planting of GMO cotton,” the company said on its website.
However, since Monsanto controls about 95 percent of the cotton seed market in India, many small farmers are falling behind on their debt, leading them, critics claim, to desperate measures.
“Two hundred and eighty-four thousand farmers have committed suicide in India because of debt linked to seed and chemicals,” Vandana Shiva, an Indian environmental activist and anti-globalization author, said last year ahead of the March Against Monsanto global protests.
“Monsanto have claimed more than 1,500 climate resilient patents, and are hoping to use the climate crisis to make even bigger profits,” Shiva says claiming that “Monsanto wants super profits through total control over nature and humanity.”
Last year, hundreds of thousands of people united around the world to raise awareness over the biotech giant Monsanto’s growing grip on the global food supply chain.
Activists on five continents around the globe, comprising 52 nations, joined the fight under the March against Monsanto umbrella.
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Published on 6th September 2018
WhatsApp business solution provider Clickatell has announced that United Bank for Africa (UBA) will be going live with their Chat Banking solution (Leo) on WhatsApp in Nigeria.
According to a statement issued by Clickatell, customers will be able to conduct banking via a verified WhatsApp chat as a result of the integration of Clickatell's .Control platform with WhatsApp Business API.
According to Clickatell, the .Control platform for Chat Banking allows banks to roll out commonly used banking activities like checking balances, money transfer and purchasing digital products and services across popular communication channels like USSD and now WhatsApp.
"The platform offers flexibility, reliability, fraud and risk management for banks and a convenient on demand banking capability for consumers wherever they are," reads the company's statement.
Clickatell said Nigeria is recognised as ground zero for global financial inclusion with a rapid accelerating move from the informal economy to the formal sector.
A Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) survey EFInA Access to Financial Services 2016 Survey assessed that 48.6%, or 46.9 million Nigerians, of the adult population are now formally served by banks or similar.
Consumers will be able to conduct their banking activities on WhatsApp and USSD with additional channels slated for 2019.
Group Head of UBA's Online Banking, Austine Abolusoro, stated: "United Bank for Africa is a technology-driven institution with vast knowledge in the business that we do and Leo, being a tested dependable and intelligent personality, will replicate on WhatsApp, the success it has experienced on the Facebook Messenger platform. It is a solution that is from the customer's standpoint, easy to use by anyone regardless of your demography."
Jeppe Dorff, Managing Director & Executive Vice President of Clickatell's Transact division, said, "We are building on the exceptional momentum we have seen in Africa and have an exciting roster of banks going live with the Transact platform across Africa in the coming quarters"
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The IUF's Private Equity Buyout Watch
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The more things change: Heinz and the varieties of private equity buyout
Subject to shareholder approval later this year, Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway and Brazilian 3G Capital will acquire food giant Heinz for USD 28 billion. It is a private equity buyout with a twist - appropriate for a company which marketed the phrase "57 varieties" - but the impact on Heinz workers will be similar to what workers have long experienced in leveraged buyouts: intense pressure on employment and working conditions as investors seek to wring out the last drop of cash.
The 28 billion price tag includes USD 12 billion in new and assumed debt, a "mere" 42.8 percent of the purchase price (high enough to strain cash flow, but low by the historic standards of private equity megadeals which saw companies leveraged up to 80% and more). But the price includes USD 8 billion in Berkshire Hathaway preferred stock paying 9%, plus options to buy shares at an agreed price in the future. Treat this as hidden leverage and the debt ratio leaps skywards. In a twist on the dividend recapitalization ("recap") used by private equity funds to take on new debt after taking companies private, the recap is built in from the start - and of course Berkshire can exercise its options to claim even more dividends.
Heinz has been steadily raising its dividends yearly and even quarterly since the 2008 financial meltdown, while regularly celebrating increased profits with new layoffs and more outsourcing (see Heinz keeps workers in the dark and docks their pay). The additional debt, the 20% premium paid for the company, and Berkshire's guaranteed dividends increase the pressure.
Because Berkshire and 3G each put in USD 2 billion in equity, but only Berkshire gets the 8 billion in preferred stock, Buffet bought his piece of the company on very different terms than 3G. This prompted one Financial Times commentator to quip that Buffet had leveraged everyone but himself in this leveraged buyout. The truth is that Buffet and 3G together have leveraged the workers who make the products and the profits. It's the familiar formula in which all the risks are transferred to the workforce.
It is no comfort to workers that Buffet has said he will let 3G get on with the practical work of managing the company. 3G built a Brazilian brewer into global giant AB InBev through ruthless cost-cutting, and managed to squeeze even more cash out of Burger King when they took over from an earlier private equity consortium. "These guys get their hands really dirty in their businesses," commented an admiring banker interviewed on the Heinz deal by Forbes.
The more things change, the more things stay the same. Huge quantities of debt are the vehicle for acquiring companies and wringing out cash for investors at the expense of workers. This will not change until regulation is imposed which confronts the fundamental mechanism. In the meantime, Heinz workers need to organize their defense.
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new wheaton apartments target millennials
The largest generation in American history, Millennials are having a big impact on both national and local housing trends. But does it make sense to build housing specifically for them, as one developer wants to do in Wheaton?
AVA H Street. All photos by the author.
There's been no shortage of writing about Millennials, or the generation of young adults between 20 and 34. On the one hand, they're flocking to places like the DC area for its strong job market and opportunities for urban living. On the other hand, they're often burdened with student loans and strapped for cash.
Nonetheless, developers are responding by building housing designed especially for them. Last month, AvalonBay presented early designs for a new apartment building at Georgia and Blueridge avenues in downtown Wheaton under its "AVA" brand, geared towards young, hip renters who want to live in urban areas.
Developers chase Millennial renters
The 325-unit, four-story building would replace a mostly-vacant 1960's-era office building; if approved, it could open by 2016. AvalonBay originally planned to build a conventional luxury high-rise on the property before the Great Recession.
Ad for AVA Belltown in Seattle.
Like H&M but for apartments, AVA is designed to cut costs while remaining trendy. It's the result of a 2008 renter survey that identified a group of younger renters who want to live in urban areas, even if it means living in a converted sunroom.
Other developers are chasing Millennial renters as well. In White Flint, Foulger-Pratt is working on a mixed-use complex called East Village that will have "smaller, cheaper" living spaces and "authentic" retailers.
Developers can be conservative, but their decision to build apartments for the young and hip in traditionally suburban places like Wheaton or White Flint says they're confident about those area's future. These are already two areas in Montgomery County where where Millennials cluster, and hundreds of apartments are being built in both communities right now. But can Millennials actually afford these units?
More attitude, less rent
AVA buildings are usually in gentrifying neighborhoods next to more established ones, keeping land costs down, and use wood-frame construction instead of more expensive concrete. Inside, the apartments are about 20% smaller than traditional units and swap out pricey fixtures like granite countertops and hardwood floors for laminate and vinyl. There are only basic amenities, like a exercise room and a courtyard.
AVA buildings have few amenities, but they're designed for socializing, like this fire pit.
Instead, AVA makes up for it with low-cost but high-impact design choices: bright colors and corrugated metal accents, a wall in the lobby that displays tweets from the neighborhood, and aggressive, cheeky marketing and signage. I visited AVA H Street out of curiosity in May, and for weeks afterward I got automated emails saying "Don't forget about me . . . Seriously, don't."
Some of these design features are really smart, like a customizable "gear wall" in the closet. But most of them are pretty superficial and will seem really dated in a few years when tenants "age out" of the buildings. But at least it'll be cheap to redecorate.
Besides, the rents are lower: As of this writing, the lowest monthly rent for a two bedroom apartment at AVA H Street is $2380, compared to $3165 at 360 H Street, another new building a block away.
That's a relative steal. But even if two roommates split the apartment, paying $1190 each, they'd both need an annual income of $47,600 to meet affordability guidelines. That's out of reach for many Millennials, and even those who could afford it may not want to spend nearly $1200 a month on half an apartment.
Of course, AVA and other buildings aren't meant to provide housing for all Millennials, but only those who can personally justify the expense. But building new apartments will increase the supply of housing, gradually lowering prices via filtering for older housing in the area.
And that's a good thing for Wheaton or any other neighborhood where AVA arrives. Whether or not they attract and retain Millennial tenants, they'll make the area more affordable for everyone regardless of age.
labels: housekeeping and random, outside moco, planning and development, wheaton-kensington
Gay Dad said...
Can the developer of the apartments/condos/townhomes in Hyattsville provide numbers on how well they've done with that community? I think that would be telling for any development like this for Wheaton.
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Gluren bij de Buren 2019
Programme available to download and print here and here
Or save your ink and pick up a copy in various outlets around the Black Isle.
Otherwise, memorise the following...
a The Chalet at Clunes House, Miller Lane 12.30 & 13.30
Abbot & Dooner Elder statesmen of the Inverness music scene and half of the legendary country trash band, Stetsonhead. Robin & Ali perform an acoustic set drawn from another of Ali's side projects, “The High Lonesome” - the clue is in the name, songs of lost love and hard drinking are sure to feature in what will be an unmissable performance.
b Bellevue House, Church St. 13.15 & 14.15
Tom Cruikshank and Willie Doig Popular Inverness guitar and accordion “Jock Rock” duo featuring Cigar Box Don. Expect anything from the Dark Island to Irish punk and everything in between!
c The Courthouse, Church St. 12.30, 13.15, 14.00
Angry Old Man Tour 2019 A welcome return to the stage of a local bloke who thinks he’s funny. A fun-packed set of ranting, humour and humorous ranting.
“Boiled my piss” The Guardian
Last year we described this as ‘Price-less’. Regrettably this is not true. (When will he get the hint?)
d The Library, Church Street 13.00, 13.45, 14.30
Rua-Nicole & Craig Local singer/songwriter and winner of ‘Fox Factor’ – Highlands’ answer to ‘The Voice’ - Rua is accompanied by classical pianist and composer Craig. Expect some original material mixed with unique covers of classical, jazz, rock and pop favourites.
e The Annexe, Church Street 15.30 & 16.30
Local favourite Phil Graham performs cover versions in his own inimitable style, possibly mixed in with some salty tales from his sea-faring ventures. A great entertainer. This is a change from the published programme due to unforeseen circumstances.
f 1 Links Cottages 14.45 & 15.45
Robin Abbot Robin has been a mainstay of the Inverness music scene for over 20 years – The Lush Rollers, Stetsonhead & The Mystic Shoes et al – and an inspiration to young local artists. Here he plays an intimate solo set from his debut EP ‘If Not Now...’
g Old Police House, Bank St. 14.30 & 15.30
Ben & Ashley Ashley Mackay (vocals) and Ben Hesling (acoustic guitar) are the founding members of Inverness based act Ashley and the Cosmonauts. Having entertained audiences all round the Highlands and beyond, from the main stages of festivals like Belladrum to hotel function rooms for events such as the Avon Lady's annual work night out (and pretty much everything in-between) Ashley and Ben deliver a set of soulful original songs peppered with some choice cover versions, from classic hits to modern pop.
h Reay House, George Street 14.00 & 15.00
On The Black Flamenco guitar, gypsy fiddle and ethnic percussion take you on a journey where French chansons meet Scottish trad and jazz. Based on the Black Isle of Scotland, from where they take their name, this Franco-Scottish collective have a knack for captivating audiences with their unique blend of world music.
i 1 Hospital Road 14.15, 15.00, 15.45
Abigail Millar Todd Currently resident in Cromarty Abigail is a 19-year-old, classically trained harpist from Avoch. She has returned to the Black Isle after studying in Oslo at the Norwegian Academy of Music. She will play a variety of music from the baroque era through the classical and romantic periods to the modern day.
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The Disclaimers Often considered the Black Isle’s answer to Spinal Tap, but without their clarity of musical direction. Despite several decades playing together their playlist revolves around a handful of songs that listeners from the early '70s (or in their early 70s) will be familiar with. Using fewer chords than Status Quo they deploy them both with commitment, often (but not always) at the same time as vocals. With live performances rarer than Blue Nile gigs this is an opportunity that music aficionados will treasure.
k The Manse, off The Denny 15.30 & 16.30
Phil & Piggery Spur Mike and Greg are once again joined by the fabulous Phil Graham - they’ll be playing a set of new songs inspired by life in the Highlands. Expect guitars, bouzouki, fiddle and three-part harmonies.
Jam Session - Cromarty Arms 17.30
Finish off the afternoon in a relaxed style; some of the musicians will be in the pub having a good old-fashioned jam. Join in if you wish and you’ll definitely be made to feel welcome.
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Ferguson!!! You are losing this battle because you are fighting for wrong
I am writing this now because I already know as soon as Officer Darren Wilson is not charged there will be a riot. Like I said in my Blog titled, “Ferguson!!! What you are doing is not working” if they were going to arrest him he would be arrested by now. At this point they are just stalling because they already know also there is going to be a riot. Predictable just means there has been no growth. By the article titled, “Ferguson anxiety grows ahead of grand jury decision” the stalling is more like preparing. (Article posted @ Facebook and Twitter)
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. boycotts were successful because number one they were about wrong. What was happening to Negros was wrong. I refuse to apologize for using or to remove Negro. When we were Negros we knew the difference between right and wrong. I considered myself Negro before I got the revelation of American.
The only thing black power did was put Negros into another bondage. Negros still have that black power mentality today. Black power mentality is what keeps making everything about race. Race is not an issue anymore. All of these interracial couples and interracial people show that.
Michael Brown was not killed because of the color of his skin. He was killed because he was doing something wrong. People do not hate President Obama because of the color of his skin. People hate him because he and the Supreme Court are destroying America. What the Issue is now is what is inside of people:
“And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable. And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him; Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats? And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.” (Mark 7:17-23)
The article titled, “Did Michael Brown have his hands up when he was shot?” states: (Article posted @ Facebook and Twitter)
In protests held in Ferguson, Mo., for more than two months, some said 18-year-old Michael Brown had his hands up when he was killed by police officer Darren Wilson. Hence the clarion call: “Hands up, don’t shoot.”
But a forensics expert says Brown’s official county autopsy suggests the teenager may not have had his hands raised after all when he was slain on Aug. 9, according to a story in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Judy Melinek, a forensic pathologist in San Francisco who reviewed the autopsy for the Post-Dispatch, told the paper that one of the officer’s shots hit Brown’s forearm and traveled from the back of the arm to the inner arm, which means Brown’s palms could not have been facing Wilson, as some witnesses have said. That trajectory shows Brown probably was not taking a standard surrender position with arms above the shoulders and palms out when he was shot outside the officer’s car, she said.
Neither the St. Louis County medical examiner or her assistant, who conducted the autopsy, was reached for comment by the paper.
Melinek also told the newspaper another bullet struck Brown at close range — and may at that point have been reaching for Wilson’s weapon. The autopsy found material “consistent with products that are discharged from the barrel of a firearm” in a wound on Brown’s thumb. Melinek said this “supports the fact that this guy is reaching for the gun, if he has gunpowder particulate material in the wound.”
Besides his parents no one hates more than I do that Michael Brown or any young persons are dead, but we must look at and be honest about those kind of situations. If he had not been doing what he was doing none of this would have happened. That does not mean the police officers in Ferguson are guiltless. What it does mean is people need to get the beam out of their own eyes before they get the mote out of someone else’s eyes:
“And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?” (Matthew 7:3)
The article titled, “Activist Cornel West among 49 people arrested at Ferguson protests” stated:
In the Shaw neighborhood of St. Louis, protesters have also rallied against the death of Vonderrit Deondre Myers, 18.
Protests erupted there after a white police officer fatally shot the black teenager Wednesday. Authorities said the teenager was armed and fired at the officer, but Myers’ relatives said they don’t believe the police account.
Do people really think policemen are making all of this up? If they are making all of this up it is one thing they cannot make up, which is both Michael and Vonderrit were doing something they had no business doing. People cannot possibly believe policemen are enjoying what is taking place. What is taking place is putting their lives in even more danger. It looks like the only people that are enjoying this are the people participating in the riots.
Ferguson you already know what the verdict is going to be. The so-called leaked article titled, “Federal civil rights charges unlikely against police officer in Ferguson shooting.” was trying to let you know beforehand. (Article posted @ Facebook and Twitter) It states:
“The evidence at this point does not support civil rights charges against Officer Wilson,” said one person briefed on the investigation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the case.
Justice Department officials are loath to acknowledge publicly that their case cannot now meet the high legal threshold for a successful civil rights prosecution. The timing is sensitive: Tensions are high in greater St. Louis as people await the results of a grand jury’s review of the case.
Ferguson rioting will only be destroying your own neighborhoods. Ferguson if you riot in the neighborhoods of Americans of lighter pigment they will protect their own. That means there will only be more deaths, which takes you back to where you started. Success is a change and growth has taken place. Ferguson if you riot all you will be doing is making Americans of lighter pigment right about Americans of darker pigment!
FERGUSON GO HOME BECAUSE THIS IS ALREADY OVER!!!
Brenda "BJ" Pearl Walton
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‘We should be prepared’: After the crisis of migrant children at the Texas border, what’s next? – El Paso Times
Published on : September 6, 2019 Published by : GrandmaAdmin
We eat sleep and live in Room 198. There are about 50 kids in there and 8 or 10 beds. There are no workers inside to take care of us so the kids try to take care of one another. When the workers come to clean our room, we get to go out in the hallway. We have only been outside twice.
— K.S.P.P., 11-year-old from Ecuador, at Clint Border Patrol station
As hundreds of migrant children languished in Border Patrol facilities at the Texas border this summer, the mammoth bureaucracy charged with taking them in found itself unprepared and slow to find space in increasingly full shelters.
The Department of Health and Human Services now says it needs up to 20,000 beds in permanent, state-licensed shelters nationwide to ensure that migrant children are never again left sleeping on concrete floors in border holding cells or shipped to unlicensed “influx” shelters that child advocates say function more like jails for kids.
“We should not wait and then respond to surges in a crisis management system,” Lynn Johnson, assistant secretary of the HHS Administration for Children and Families (ACF), told Congress in July.
“We should be prepared because this continues to happen over administration to administration,” she said. “We should always have these beds available so we don’t have to put kids in influx shelters.”
MORE: The Stuff of Nightmares: Inside the migrant detention center in Clint, Texas
The U.S. system of humanely receiving and sheltering unaccompanied immigrant children at the border broke down spectacularly this summer.
Toddlers in diapers, children barely old enough to tie their shoelaces and teens made to care for tiny strangers were crammed by the hundreds into cement block cells — the border equivalent of police booking units designed to detain men.
“We were desperately trying to tell them, ‘We don’t have the cell space, the holding space, food contracts.’”
Matt Harris, Border Patrol agent in charge of the Clint station
Attorneys sent to monitor the Clint Border Patrol station in June as part of the landmark Flores settlement found the children hungry, sick, dirty and held for days. In sworn statements, the children described the conditions in their own words.
By the government’s own standards, they shouldn’t have been there — not in such numbers, not for so long. HHS’ Office of Refugee Resettlement is required to take the children into the care of its shelter network.
“We were desperately trying to tell them, ‘We don’t have the cell space, the holding space, food contracts,'” said Matt Harris, patrol agent in charge of the Clint station, said of Border Patrol’s conversations with ORR at the time. “‘If one of us is going to be over capacity, at least you have the basics.’ There is only one legal avenue for me to transfer those children. They absolutely have to go to ORR, by law. So that was my only option.”
HHS data reviewed by the El Paso Times show the agency’s Office of Refugee Resettlement always had beds available for some children — including in May and June, during the height of the crisis.
Texas alone has 35 state-licensed ORR shelters with permission to host about 6,000 children. The state has also been home to several unlicensed, temporary shelters over the years including at Tornillo and in Carrizo Springs.
“The way the system was supposed to work was that when those numbers were going up, the agencies would talk and meet and minimize the risk of backup at the border,” said Mark Greenberg, who headed ACF under the Obama administration and is a senior fellow at the Migration Policy Institute in Washington, D.C.
MORE: Democratic Congressional delegation visits El Paso, denounces ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy
Greenberg had been through a similar crisis in fiscal 2014, when the number of unaccompanied minors arriving at the Southwest border more than doubled in May and June, overwhelming the shelter system. Based on that experience, DHS and HHS began coordinating more closely, constantly looking at shelter capacity, the discharge rate to sponsors and the number of children in CBP custody for more than 24 hours.
“A mystery here is whether that tracking was going on, whether they were talking to each other,” Greenberg said. “When did they become concerned and what did they do?”
It was all over in a few weeks. Within days of a public outcry over conditions at the Texas border stations — beginning even before Congress approved an extra $2.9 billion in funding for HHS — the agency had shifted hundreds of children out of Border Patrol custody into shelters.
The immigration agents separated me from my father right away. I was very frightened and scared. I cried. I have not seen my father again. I have had a cold and cough for several days. I have not seen a doctor and I have not been given any medicine. It is cold at night when we sleep. I have shoes but no socks. Initially, I had to sleep on the floor, but now I have a bed.
– J.I.I.Z., 5-year-old from Honduras, Clint Border Patrol station
A CBP truck enters the Clint, Texas, facility on July 4, 2019.
(Photo: Ilana Panich-Linsman for The New York Times)
There was never ‘no vacancy’
HHS started out the year managing a maximum of about 15,000 beds, with about 11,000 kids custody in January. The system was at 82% capacity — manageable — when the number of child migrants arriving at the Southwest border began to climb.
“The numbers were definitely going to keep going up,” said Harris. “We were well aware of that. Our intel was telling us the flows even at the southern Mexican border, so we understood what the dynamics were. We had every expectation of that volume increasing.”
Five thousand children arrived at the border without parents or a legal guardian in January. The number rose to nearly 7,000 in February. Then came 9,000 children in March. Another 9,000 in April. By the peak in May — at 11,476 — the bottleneck at the border had tightened like a noose.
“HHS and ORR were not holding up their end of the deal,” said Pete Hermansen, a former Border Patrol director of special operations. “Border Patrol was moving thousands, and they were moving hundreds.”
“HHS and ORR were not holding up their end of the deal. Border Patrol was moving thousands, and they were moving hundreds.”
Pete Hermansen, a former Border Patrol special ops director
At the time, HHS shelters were only just recovering from two crises in 2018, provoked by the Trump administration’s family separation policy and a directive that required fingerprinting every adult member of a potential sponsor’s household.
Family separation rendered more than 2,600 children “unaccompanied,” putting pressure on the HHS shelter system, while the fingerprinting directive left undocumented parents and other potential sponsors terrified of coming forward, fearing deportation. The average number of days migrant kids spent in ORR shelters stretched from 52 days in 2017 to a peak of 93 days last fall.
The government reversed the fingerprinting directive in December, and managed to move 8,000 children out of ORR custody to their sponsors in the span of 30 days, ORR Director Jonathan Hayes told the House appropriations committee in July — a sign that ORR was capable of acting quickly.
But it still took months to bring a child’s average length of stay in ORR custody down to 45 days in May, which meant shelters were backed up even as the number of arriving migrant children was on the rise.
That’s another reason why, despite its network of 120 state-licensed facilities in 23 states plus 48 additional shelters, “capacity at ORR has oftentimes been inadequate to receive detainees within 72 hours of their apprehensions, even if the processing has been completed,” Special Master Andrea Sheridan Ordin said in an August filing in the Flores agreement.
ORR’s ability to increase capacity, she wrote, “cannot necessarily be generalized when, for example, a sharp influx of (unaccompanied children) arrives when the population may already be near capacity.”
Documents provided to the El Paso Times through a FOIA request by the nonprofit American Oversight reveal what a list of unavailable beds looked like in 2017, offering a window into the complexity of shelter management.
The HHS shelter network could have anywhere from 10 to nearly 500 beds offline on any given day due to reasons including “repairs,” “staff shortage,” “facility issues,” “pending birth,” “medical isolation,” “inclement weather” and, sometimes, for “no reason provided,” according to the documents.
“Once you exceed that 90 percent capacity of your permanent shelters, it does get very difficult to place children in permanent capacity because beds come online and go offline for various reasons,” Hayes told the House Appropriations Committee, adding that “not all (unaccompanied children) are created equal” and some may need special accommodations.
Elora Mukherjee, director of the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic at Columbia University and one of the monitors who interviewed children at Clint, said “that excuse doesn’t make sense.”
The average time children were being held at Clint had stretched from 39 hours in January to nearly 144 hours — six days — in June, according to Border Patrol.
“Even if ORR didn’t have the perfect bed available for a 2-year-old child,” she said, “most ORR beds would suit that 2-year-old better than leaving him alone at Clint. What were they thinking?”
While I still had a fever, I was transported here to Clint station. I have been at the Clint station for about 17 days. In the place I am, there have been about 70 boys in my cell, but now there are fewer boys, perhaps about 40 boys. They are mostly around 11 to 17 years old but there are younger kids, too. The 3-year-old had a brother with him. The 4-year-old came to the United States with an uncle but they separated him so he has no one here. It is very sad here. We all want to leave.
– L.G.L.L., 12-year-old, from Guatemala, Clint Border Patrol station
A group of boys are dropped off July 4, 2019, at the Clint, Texas, facility.
(Photo: Ilana Panich-Linsman/The New York Times)
Money was ‘running out’
The average shelter occupancy rate hit 92% in May, and by early June, Border Patrol had as many as 2,700 children detained in its border stations — the peak of the crisis.
According to the Department of Homeland Security and HHS, money was the issue. The agencies sent members of Congress a desperate letter on June 12. Without an emergency appropriation, the letter said, “HHS anticipates running out of funding as soon as this month.”
The letter said that, on June 10, Border Patrol had 1,900 unaccompanied minors in custody and “HHS had fewer than 700 open beds in which to place them.”
“It’s still a big question how the agency can be averaging 1 or 2 or 3,000 empty beds while children are staying in CBP custody for far longer than 72 hours.”
Mark Greenberg, headed ACF under the Obama administration
Border Patrol said agents at Clint were consistently making requests for placement to ORR within 24 hours, or 48 hours if the child was apprehended at a far-flung station and transported. Harris said about two years ago, Border Patrol modified its national system to automatically notify ORR when an unaccompanied child was entered into custody.
The bottleneck was at the shelters, according to the HHS letter to Congress.
YetHHS monthly statistics over the past two years show a consistent margin of 1,000 to 2,000 available beds, on average, for unaccompanied migrant children even at the system’s most crowded.
Specifically, on June 17 — the day independent monitors found more than 250 children in overcrowded conditions at the Clint Border Patrol station designed to hold 105 adults — HHS had 512 beds available at shelters, according to records provided to the Associated Press.
At the same time, the number of children arriving at the border and ORR’s ability to move kids out of shelters to their sponsors can vary significantly on a daily or weekly basis.
The El Paso Times requested specific daily bed capacity numbers from the Administration for Children and Families, but none were provided. ACF also declined the Times’ request to interview Hayes. The agency has not responded to a Freedom of Information Act request for similar data.
Greenberg, the former head of ACF, said the challenge for HHS shouldn’t be underestimated.
“It’s genuinely hugely hard for HHS because it never has a way to know how many children to expect next week, next month, two months from now,” Greenberg said. “But it’s still a big question how the agency can be averaging 1 or 2 or 3,000 empty beds while children are staying in CBP custody for far longer than 72 hours.”
Congress on June 30 passed an emergency supplemental funding bill to address the border crisis. The package includes $2.9 billion for HHS and $1 billion for DHS.
Border Patrol Chief Carla Provost thanked Congress for the funds in a hearing before the House appropriations committee July 25. The number of unaccompanied minors in Border Patrol custody had dropped, she said, from the peak of 2,700 in early June to 300 by the third week of July.
“And they spend significantly less time in our custody awaiting placement,” she said.
Several advocates said an alleged lack of funding doesn’t fully explain why HHS didn’t kick into high gear sooner.
Kevin Dinnin, director of San Antonio-based nonprofit BCFS , which opened the Carrizo Springs “influx” shelter on June 30, told reporters during a July tour that the effort was “too much, too late” and said the beds were clearly needed in May.
Twenty-five days later it was closed. The last 41 children housed in the 1,300-bed facility were moved to a state-licensed, permanent shelter or sent to their parents or a sponsor.
My little sister and I came from Honduras. She is 6 years old and I am 8 years old. They took us away from our grandmother and now we are all alone. They have not given us to our mother. We have been here a long time. We sleep on a cement bench. There are two mats in the room, but the big kids sleep on the mats so we have to sleep on the cement bench.
– M.Z.L., 8-year-old at Clint Border Patrol station
Children can be seen playing basketball July 3, 2019, from the southwest side of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility in Clint, Texas.
Open beds vs. family placements
Things have slowed down at the border.
The number of unaccompanied migrant children arriving at the southern border dropped off a cliff in July, falling 51 percent from the May peak to 5,561. Just as it did during the last crisis in 2014.
Border Patrol reassigned Aaron Hull, the sector chief responsible for the Clint border station this summer, to a temporary assignment in Detroit and brought in California’s El Centro Sector Chief Gloria Chavez as his interim replacement.
Chavez told the El Paso Times that the supplemental funding “was crucial to increasing resourcing as it relates to the humanitarian mission” and said she has been “impressed with the caliber of work invested in Clint.”
HHS leadership says it’s trying to be proactive to prevent another crisis — although the proposed solution isn’t without controversy.
“We want that many beds for one critical reason: We need to have some flexibility and empty beds to care for these children.”
Lynn Johnson, HHS Administration for Children and Families assistant secretary
Johnson, the ACF assistant secretary, told the appropriations committee in July that HHS already has grants awarded for 3,000 new permanent, state-licensed beds. And she explained the agency’s new target.
“The reason we are looking at 20,000 beds is not because we are saying that is how many we want to fill up,” Johnson said during the hearing. “We want that many beds for one critical reason: We need to have some flexibility and empty beds to care for these children.”
“Even if there are open beds,” she said, “that is better than opening up a new Tornillo or a new Carrizo.”
Mukherjee, the attorney and child advocate, says the expansion plan comes in the context of the Trump administration’s numerous attempts to restrict humanitarian-based asylum claims and should be viewed with skepticism.
“It will contribute to creating a permanent penal system for children, many of whom are seeking asylum or special immigrant juvenile status,” she said. “There is no reason to expand bed space. If we have a fair immigration system where these children actually have a fair shot of getting immigration relief, they should be with their families.”
Every unaccompanied migrant child apprehended in Border Patrol’s El Paso sector, which includes west Texas and New Mexico, is still transferred first to Clint. Agents picked up far fewer children last month: 763 compared with more than 3,200 in May.
Clint is nearly empty.
There haven’t been more than 20 or 30 children there at a time in the past three weeks, Harris said. He has packed up the cots, generators, blankets and heaters for now.
“If need be, I can rapidly redeploy,” he said. “I pray every day that doesn’t occur again.”
But there are still toddler-size car seats in the back of agents’ white-and-green SUVs.
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Phobophobia - Fear Of Being called Phobic?
by Ian R Thorpe
Homophobia is not fear of homosexuals but fear of thec same thing which does not make sense. Just as politically correct thinking uses the word bigot nonsensically so it's accusations of phobia are irrational - as irrational as the groundless fear familiar to those who suffer the recognized medical conditions called phobias.
by Ian R. Thorpe
Phobophobia is not a real phobia of course, it's a lead in to an article about the suppression of free speech. In recent years as the reactionary bullies who call themselves 'progressive liberals' have gradually bullied and browbeaten us into diluting every opinion, disinfecting every joke and putting a condom on our minds lest we should look to admiringly at a member of the opposite sex (it's OK among the right on luvvies to look appreciatively at someone of the same gender of course) the worst social crime one might be accused of is being phobic. It is amusing therefore to see one of the leading luvvies, a paragon of politically correct thinking, a gay man who has ever been quick on the draw when branding others, even entire nations, homophobic should himself be accused of being phobic.
Note here, he does not have a phobia which is a recognised medical condition such as arachnophobia (fear of spiders), dendrophobia (fear of trees) or my favourite, coulrophobia (fear of clowns); being phobic or a phobe simply means having incurred the displeasure of a self appointed Thought Police Force, a band of moralising, patronising, pseudo intellectual wannabe elitists who presume the right to impose their prejudices on the rest of us.
A fan of Apple's overpriced gadgets (devotion to which make him an expert on digital technology, he thinks,) actor, comedian, author and gay rights campaigner Stephen Fry was one of the first celebrity twits to embrace twitter. An unashamed exponent of the art of emotional manipulation, he knows that the charge of phobia – whether homophobia, Islamophobia, Judaeophobia, xenophobia and even Europhobia (hatred of the EU) – rings all the right bells among the Twitterati.
It is ironic then to see Mr. Fry on the receiving end of the phobia slur and to observe that he is yet another celebrity who is outspoken in voicing his own opinions of others but hypersensitive when it comes to others expressing their opinions of him. Fry, who is so in love with oppressed minorities that since discovering on the television genealogy program Who Do You Think You Are he had Jewish ancestors has been proclaiming himself a bipolar, gay Jew (though his 'Jewish' ancestor never actually practised the faith) has been accused of being nothing less than an ‘Islamophobe’, after he defended stupid comments made on Twitter by the evangelical atheist Richard Dawkins regarding Islam’s undistinguished historical role. ‘Am I an Islamophobe?’, Fry grovelled in defence of his right to criticise what he called ‘Islamofascism’. Depicting himself as a lonely liberal valiantly fighting for unpopular causes (like the murder of Palestinians by Israeli Jews?), he lamented that the ‘squeezed liberal finds himself in the position that cannot criticise Islamofascism because it’s somehow “racist”’.
Racist has of course become the standard knee jerk response of the pseudo intellectual left whenever any white person makes a valid criticism of any person of colour, even though their comments and what the criticism is about have no connection with the person's ethnicity, religion or skin tone.
Mr Fry, like so many of the politically correct thinkers in the media, entertainment and politics, has no qualms about being hypocritical in his defence of free speech. He is articulate and passionate in defending the right of people who share his views to criticise beliefs and opinions they dislike but equally passionate in denouncing critics of same sex marriage as homophobes as if the fact that they do not agree with his pompous, self righteous pronouncements on the subject is justification for depriving them of the right to free speech.. Just as some dogmatic commentators insist on equating the questioning of certain extremist Islamic sects with Islamophobia, so many defenders of the gay-marriage consensus cannot imagine that their opponents might just have some genuine intellectual or moral criticisms of gay marriage while being very relaxed and tolerant of homosexuals and homosexual sex acts.
This use of “isms” and “phobias” to suppress the open exchange of opinions on certain topics is a very negative development in the public life of Western societies, as much so as the “Hate Crime” laws passed in the E.U. and U.S.A. which decree that if a person who identifies him or herself as a member of a recognised minority feels that they have been insulted or discriminated against because of their minority status then the responsible party is guilty of “hate crime”. Not since the medieval witch hunts has an accusation been considered enough evidence of guilt on which to convict. And yet the people who support these laws call themselves progressives.
If language is to have any meaning then accusing someone of being phobic is really making a statement about that person’s mental state. So to pronounce someone homophobic or Islamophobic would suggest that person is reduced to a state of panic and paralysed with fear on meeting a Muslim or homosexual. Which is ridiculous of course, because in many cases we would not know that somebody we have dealings with is one of those things.
This Orwellian Newspeak style use of phobia reflects the increasing influence of the authoritarian politically correct culture which tends to interpret individualistic and controversial behaviour through the medium of psychology. Politically correct thinking tends to dismiss non conformist behaviour as being rooted in emotional dysfunctions. Unprocessed or unmanaged emotions are said to be the source of many of the ills that afflict society. Even wars between nations are now attributed to some emotional or psychological defect on the part of a group or leader. The term xenophobia is no longer simply a descriptive term; rather, it is a therapeutic diagnosis, a way of saying “Well no sane person would be in favour of immigration controls, people who complain about the numbers of immigrants are just xenophobic bigots.
The irrational fears associated with all these so-called phobias are really nothing of the kind, they are personal opinions and yet are categorised with the many synthetic emotional disorders that are so prevalent in medical and sociological thinking today. The diagnosis of phobia is a central part of a world-view which looks upon stress, rage, trauma, low self-esteem and addiction as the main components of the human experience.
The therapeutic world-view embraced by those we ought to think of as 'paternalistic liberals', that is elitists who would infantilise the masses and make them dependent on Nanny State is not just about radicalising individuals or controlling our behaviour. It also tries to provide a system of meaning through which human experience might be interpreted and understood and the synthetic phobias are part of that.
At the start of the twenty-first century, meaning is increasingly sought in the realm and of feelings and emotions. The social group I refer to with tongue in cheek as The Politically Correct Thought Police (after the brutally repressive Thought Police in George Orwell's novel “1984”) aim to carry out the policing of emotions through control of vocabulary and prohibition of some ideas. Certain attitudes are condemned as negative and antisocial and others held up as positive. So hate is a negative and happiness a positive emotion. But the meanings of hate and happiness are being defined. To express a preference for associating with people of the same ethnicity is to commit the hate crime of racism (although it is a perfectly natural human preference) while to be merely tolerant of the sexual preferences of certain groups is not enough, we are required to celebrate it. The range of emotions which fuel a ‘phobia’ are all diagnosed as negative, which is why this sentiment can be so readily dismissed as mental illness in the way that those expressing dissenting view in Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia and Communist China were diagnosed as insane.
Today’s meshing together of moral and medical categories makes it very difficult to have a mature and tolerant exchange of opinions. The labelling of someone’s speech, attitudes or behaviour as an ism or a phobia inhibits discussion and often results in genuine hate attacks being directed at those expressing the unorthodox view. For Supporters of Politically Correct thinking it is not possible to have a genuine, open discussion with someone who is diagnosed as racist, sexist, Homophobic or homophobic, there is no point in taking the arguments of irrational and psychologically disturbed individuals seriously. Apparently, such people don’t have rational political views; they are simply possessed of an irrational mental condition.
So the narrative of phobia absolves people of the tough task of defending their views through, and invites the use of condescension, ridicule and dismissive insults to close down discussion.
The authoritarian implications of this approach to the exchange of ideas and opinions is clear if we think back to Stalin’s Russia or China under Mao Tse Tung. Dissidents were assigned to menial work with loss of income and status or sent to gulags or re-education institutions in remote and inhospitable areas. Today in the West, phobic individuals are not incarcerated (yet). But they do face cultural and institutional stigmatisation. How long before ‘phobics’ are encouraged to participate in anger-management classes or pressurised to have their awareness raised?. I'll tell you, it is happening right now. A course of cognitive behavioural therapy instead of a month in jail for speeding in your car, arguing with your neighbours or playing music loudly. Such sentences have been handed out in Britain.
Stephen Fry and Richard Dawkins do not suffer from Islamophobia. They are, to use an old-fashioned political expression, a couple of old fashioned egotistical arseholes. But we should respect their right to express their opinions.
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The lying leftie paskudnyaks clean, green, save the planet machine and the worshippers of Greta Thunberg are always eager to tell us that China is the world's biggest investor in sustainable energy and has more wind turnbines installed than any other nation on earth. It is the worst kind of lie because it is true, but only tells half the story. And sometimes being told half the story creates completely the wrong impression in the mind of the audience.
How Can People Take Climate Change Scaremongering Seriously When It has So Obvoisly Become A Political Football
Questioning Climate Change has become one of the heresies The Science Inquisition are trying to eradicate. The Inquisitors accuse conservatives, liberatarians and free thinkers of spreading righ wing propaganda in support of the global capitalist agenda. The quasi - religious aspect of The Science Inquisition does not toterate questioning of its dogma or creed, and unfortunately these people have the ear of governments ...
Left-Wing Journalist on Sweden’s Migrant Suburbs: “Everyone Knew it Would End in Disaster" ...A well known left-wing journalist in Sweden who has been one of the biggest advocates of uncontrolled mas immigration appears to have performed a U turn on the issue, or is at least endeacouring to achieve the impossible feat of riding two horses with one arse. Aftonbladet’s Lena Mellin is now admitting that when it came to Sweden’s crime-ridden no-go areas, “everyone knew it [the open doors immigrstion policy] would end in disaster.”
Research Shows Google’s Search Manipulations Tried To Rig Election For Hillary
American Stupid: Hillary Clinton Says Male Leaders Scared of Greta Thunberg
It's coming up to election time again in the USA and sure enought some idiot over the pond has allowed a drop of blood to fall on the desiccated lips of Hillary Clinton and the leader of the Democratic Party undead faction has reanimated to ensure the debate, on the Democrat side at least, never risis above the level of stupid set in 2016 when Hillary famously lost to Donad Trump.
Undercover With The Clerics - Iran's Secret Sex Trade
I caught a few minutes of a BBC2 documentary last night while looking for the news headlines before going to bed. It was about Iraq's secret sex trade and what I was watching was Iraqi clerics talking about how Sharia Law justifies sex with children. One guy told how for the equivalent of £200 he arranged a "pleasure marriage" (a temporary marriage,) between a thirtyish man and a 9 year old girl.
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Migrant who made 11-year-old pregnant twice sentenced to only three years
>An adult migrant has been sentenced by a Swedish court to a mere three years prison time for repeatedly raping an 11-year-old girl and twice making her pregnant. In addition to the three-year prison sentence, the Swedish court also ruled that the migrant would be deported but would be able to return to Sweden after 10 years.
Hate is 80% of Left Wing Politics
Since my days as a candidate for the old Liberal Party in local and county council elections I have been struck by the hatred and loathing shown by candidates of left wing parties for anyone who opposes them. This ‘politics of hate’ trend started in the USA, now considered a county so politically polarised civil war is inevitable, but has become an integrat part of UK and European politics
Sane Democrats See Little To Gain From Impeaching Trump, Fear It Will Backfire
In an opinion poll commissioned by Reuters a majority of US Democrat voters say they fear that the latest m,ove to impeach President Trump over the Biden-Ukraine scandal will backfire, giving him a boost into the 2020 US election. One has to wonder about an epidemic of dementia among leading Democrats who have forgotten that only a few weeks ago
Parliament’s Problem With Brexit
The verdict of the Supreme Court, that Boris Johnson’s suspension of parliament, NOT for the purpose of stopping pro EU factions from preventing the UK having a no strings break from the EU as a (long overdue) result of the 2016 referendum, and it’s result which surprised the elites and the citizens of our recently renamed capital city Wankeristan, has divided the country even more deeply than the brexit vote itself.
Breaking News From Planet Snowflake – Kitchen Knives To Be Banned
Church of England bishops (who else could be so far out of touch with reality?) are leading a campaign calling on the government to take a toughen up its position on on knife crime, in the wake of a massive upsurge in knife attacks and violent crime since the police were ordered to prioritise the investigation of ‘hate crime’ over pursuing real criminals. One of their suggestions is banning pointed kitchen knives. The suggestion has been met on social media with some confusion, and a lot of jokes.
Russia Warns Attack On Saudi Oil Plant Will Hit Fuel Prices
Following the drone attack by Yemeni rebels on a major Saudi Arabian oil processing plant, The Kremlin’s warned that the loss of production from the stricken plant will destabilise oil prices worldwide. This follows statements by the European Union and the UK condemning the Houthi drone attacks on Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities carried out on Saturday (14 September, 2019).
The Scottish Silliness (Brexit)
The Scottish court judgement is nothing but a cheap political stunt by a bunch of biased, SNP supporting bent lawyers aimed at giving The Mad Wee Hag Sturgeon ammunition for her next bid to make Scotland independent from the UK and thus the biggest economic basket case in Europe (if Scotland was an independent nation now they would be further up shit creek and even more bereft of paddles than Greece. .
Negative Interest Rates - Final Nail In The Coffin Of Neoliberalism? Negative interest rates, in plain terms a situation in which we pay bankers for holding our money, are the latest ruse of politicians and economists to make uis start spending our investments and savings, thus kickstarting the global economy thy have screwed up.
Pupils Shut Out Of School Because They Refuse To Wear Gender Neutral Uniforms
Overshadowed somewhat by the idiocies in Parliament this week as Remain supporting, democratically elected MPs try to overturn the democratically expressed wish of the people and keep the UK in The Fourth Reich politely known as the European Union, the idiocy of politically correct, far left authoritarianism in education goes on...
Pepper Spray Sales In Sweden Have "Exploded" After Spate Of Rape Attacks
Following the summer's attention-grabbing spate of rapes and sexual assaults, the sales of pepper spray for self defence have increased dramatically. The Kjell & Company retail chain believes that it will sell 90 percent more sprays in August than in June. One of the manufacturers, Plegium, has announced that sales this summer have "exploded". Sweden has been shaken this summer by a series of violent rapes. The most notable of these have taken place in the University city of Uppsala ...
Transgender bullying is scaring respectable old organisations into silence
For years Katie Alcock had helped The Guide movemeny run Brownie and Girl Guide groups in her hometown, Lancaster. Then suddenly she was fired. The reason given in a statement by Girlguiding was that Dr. Alcock, had violated its policies on equality and diversity. Her offence was to suggest that science is correct and fashionable virtue signalling wrong, that people born male must be welcomed by a female-only organisation and, for instance, share tents or bathrooms with adolescent girls.
Far Left Fascist Students Force US College To Ban Free Speech
Many people might think so, but fascism is not a political philosphy in the way that communism, socialism, liberalism or conservatism are, it is about centralised power, in fact the word derives from a latin word, Fasces, which is a symbol of unbreakable authority. Fascism is authoritarianism, and politics of right or left can be authoritarian. In this article, from National Interest blog an example of the fascism of left wind students is presented:
Court Overturns Fine Imposed By Biased Electoral Commission On Brexit Supporter.
A large fine imposed by a kangaroo court under the auspices of the UK’s democracy watchdog (allegedly,) The Electoral Commission, on a young, working-class Brexit campaign organiser, Darren Grimes, has been overturned in the law courts. The case, which many Remain campaigners have used in their efforts to discredit and overturn the result of the 2016 referendum on EU membership.
To Boldly Go – The Infinte Insanity Of The ‘Progressive Left’
As the world celebrates fifty years since the moon landings, and the conspiracy theorists celebrate the biggest hoax ever (before climate change,) the progressive left in the USA have found cause to take offence at one of humanity’s greatest achievements / one of the deep state’s biggest psyops (delete as appropriate) …Left attacks sexist, racist moon landings.
Brexit Party MEP blasts ‘Pointless’ European Parliament As A Charade
U.K. businessman and newly elected Member of the European Parliament (MEP) blasted the whole setup as an undemocratic charade only days after being sworn in. The Brexit Party MEP attacked the European Parliament and asked whether it was fair to say the EU is a democratic institution. Speaking to The Daily Express, the First Property Group CEO claimed the EU Parliament served no purpose
French police drag Yellow Vest “protesters” away from Bastille Day parade as they jeer Macron
As Mr Macron was riding by at the start of the parade, he was greeted by people in the crowds who turned their backs, booed and whistled. Before the parade, he delivered a message to the French people and said he wanted to highlight France’s “irrevocable commitment to consolidate French and European security”.
Volvo To Move HQ From Sweden? It’s Not Because Of Brexit
Volvo CEO Hakan Samuelsson shocked his country and the EU today when he said the Swedish car company company may consider moving its headquarters elsewhere. Volvo, he said, struggles to attract foreign specialists due to the lack of public security caused by the country’s soaring crime rate which is linked to mass immigration and the government’s refusal to deal with so called ‘no – go areas’ in Swedish towns and cities.
British MEP Reveals Undemocratic EU Stitch Up Of Top Jobs
Brexit Party MEP Alexandra Phillips angrily blew the whistle on the undemocratic election process for choosing the European Parliament’s highly influential Committee chairs. The Newly elected MEP claimed the Federalist bloc had organised a “stitch-up behind closed doors”. Phillips said she was “astonished” by the method the European Parliament uses to elect chairs of its committees.
Zuckerberg Admits Facebook Interfered In Irish Abortion Vote
After three years of Facebook being among the most vociferous campaigners for the impeachment and removal from office of President Trump because of his camaigns alleged cooperation with the government of Russia in rigging the 2016 US election, the Social Media giant’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg has at last admitted what many of us ‘conspiracy theorists’ suspected all along ...
List Of Alternatives To Google Products
This blog is no fan of Google as our readers know.Not only do we believe Google’s origins as the brainchild of a couple of dysfunctional nerds is a myth and that the company was spawned by the US government’ s DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) for military and civil surveillance projects, we are also sure it has fallen under the control of a bunch of Silicon Valley weirdos, who want to covertly control the world
London’s Muslim Mayor Sadiq Khan Attacks Trump for LGBTQ Policies
The hypocritical little shit has obviously conveniently forgotten what his Muslim Brotherhood buddies to to homosexuals in Islamic countries, where there are no leabians of course because a woman is legally her husbands property and can only have sex when he wants it ...
Italy Arrests Captain Of Migrant NGO Ship After Illegal Docking
Italian leader Matteo Salvini continued to se the standard for leadersd of Eurosceptic EU member states when he ordered the arrest of the captain, crew members and passengers of a ship that crashed the Italian border control agency blockade to land its cargo of illegal immigrants on the Iitalian island of Lampeduesa. The captain of the migrant transport ship Sea Watch 3 had docked at Europe's most southern port on the Italian island was arrested on Saturday following a protracted standoff ...
Macron Threatens G20 On Climate Then Backs Off
France's boy president and current climate scaremonger in chief and leading European federalist Emmanuel Macron arrived in Japan for the G-20 summit full of sound and fury, which like the stuff of Macbeth's soliloquy in Shakespeare's play turned out to signify nothing.France's boy president and current climate scaremonger in chief and leading European federalist Emmanuel Macron arrived in Japan for the G-20 summit full of sound and fury, which like the stuff of Macbeth's soliloquy in Shakespeare's play turned out to signify nothing.
Europe Prepares To Join The Currency War
Things seemed to be going to plan for the European Unon's single currecncy, The Euro, which was the biggest single step in the plan to merge member states into a single political entity. Tied to the German economic powerhouse the poorer nations could not manage their finances efficiently and soon became dependent on bailouts from the European Central Bank which were made with attached conditions suggested by Germany.
United Nations set to impose global ban on criticism of Islam
We have reported before on The United Nations (UN), a supra - national organisation made up of elitists appointed by other elitists, overreaching its mandate and trying to act as a global government, imposing policies that nobody voted for, formulated by bureaucrats that nobody voted for, for on the sovereign nations of the world.
Here's the latest example of this globalist authoritaianism and it is probably the most worrying yet for citizens of the democratic nations. The UN is planning to impose a global ban on telling the truth about Islam, because hearing the brutality of Islamic dogma described in detail upsets Muslims apparently:
The Inconvenient Truth About Driving Electric
Like most things linked to the globalist agenda, the campaign to persuade us to switch to electric cars is based on a false narrative. Electric cars are not really environment friendly (the processes involved in mining the lithium, cobalt and other rare elements required, the filthy and energy intensive processes for extracting these substances from the bedrock, and the amount of really nasty toxic shite dumped into the environment in the refining process... And in the end of all that, what you have is a car that costs twice the price, and goes half as far on a full charge as the conventional car goes on a tankful of fuel.
Another Rotherham? Forty-Four Arrests As Law Catches Up With Alleged Bradford Grooming Gang
Bradford Grooming Gang - Picture via Politicalite
The Rotherham grooming scandal story broke in 2012 when aknown problem in the ton, that of the grooming and sexual exploitation of under - age and vulnerable girls often living in local authority care homes were targeted by organised gangs of predominantly Muslim men. These men, whose ahes ranged from early twenties to over sixty, would ply the girls with giflts and alcohol and eventually corece them into sexual activity.
Soon after being 'initiated' the girls would find themselves having to service numerous men, often having several sex partners in a single day. For many years local authority social services departments, police and local politicians turned a blind eye having been told by central government to take a soft approach to immigrant crime in order to avoid inflaming racial tensions.
Seven years later the Rotherham story is ongoing with new suspects being indentifed and charged, and similar cases though not usually on such a grand scale have emerged in most large British cities.
The latest of these is Bradford, Yorkshire, where detectives investigating the alleged grooming activity of a predominantly Muslim gang operating in West Yorkshire have arrested 44 people as part of a probe. 36 men and three women have been arrested from homes in Bradford, Leeds and across the satellite towns surrounding those two cities (collectively known as Kirklees, and other parts of West Yorkshire this month.
Minority Report on Douma attack exposes ‘compromised reporting & analysis’ by OPCW – MIT professor
The OPCW failed to include evidence on the Douma in its final report, so the resulting document is inherently compromised, an MIT professor said. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) claimed that gas was dropped from the sky on the Damascus suburb. It did not directly blame on the Syrian government, however.
And They Call Brexit A Farce? EU Chaos As Leaders Fail To Agree Choices For Top Jobs …
The Council Of Europe, the political leaders of all EU member states gathered on Thursday to decide which candidates should fill several top jobs when European Commission president Jean – Claude Juncker and other senior figures step down later this yeae. They were locked in debate for the whole day but were unable to reach agreement on who will fill even one of the top positions within the EU.
Will Italy's Mini - BOT Break The Euro
... In spite of the news media’s selective reporting however, another crisis is developing that could destroy the single currency and break up the ‘Eurozone’, the member states that adopted the Euro. Unsurprisingly it has not been reported in mainstream media, and so is not on the radar for most people. At the centre of this budding crisis is not the UK and Brexit, but Italy and its plan for a parallel currency.
Will Italy’s Mini – Bot Break The Eurozone?
In spite of the news media’s selective reporting however, another crisis is developing that could destroy the single currency and break up the ‘Eurozone’, the member states that adopted the Euro. Unsurprisingly it has not been reported in mainstream media, and so is not on the radar for most people. At the centre of this budding crisis is not the UK and Brexit, but Italy and its plan for a parallel currency.
Oxford Academics Turn On Gay BLT Propagandists For Pushing Unscientific Claims
'More than 30 Oxford academics have blasted Stonewall for pushing 'tendentious and antiscientific claims' in the trans awareness training it gives to universities according to a report in The Sunday Times (a more sensationalized version of the same story appears in The Daily Mail if you are blocked by The Times paywall).
Oberlin University Fined $33 Million For Supporting Students Accusations Of Racism Against Bakery
On Thursday, Oberlin College was hit with $33 million in damages when to Ohio jurors found the school participated in protests defaming a local bakery as racist. Oberlin’s vice president, Donica Thomas Varner claimed the jurors ignored “clear evidence” that Oberlin was not at fault and insisting the school was being “held liable for the independent actions of their students.”
Electoral Fraud Scandal In Peterborough By – election Being Covered Up?
Thanks to Politicalite’s groundbreaking exclusive coverage of the crooked Peterborough By-Election so far, the Daily Mail have picked up on our story and have revealed a fresh incident of alleged electoral fraud being investigated by the Police ...
Why Would Iran Attack Tankers In The Gulf - They Have Nothing To Gain?
I asked myself "who benefits?" on hearing that two oil tankers had been attacked and damaged, and by the time Washington, with is usual incredible alacrity had accused Iran of being responsible for the attacks I was aware of certain significant factors not mentioned in mainstream media reports. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was quick to pin the blame for the incident on Iran, claiming that the Islamic Republic was “lashing out” in frustration over Washington’s draconian sanctions regime.
Google Spends Just $20 Million A Year To Control The U.S. Government
It's unlikely that regular readers of this blog or The Daily Stirrer will have failed to notice one of our favourite games is revealing the true nature of the fascistic corporate entities that have been handed control of the internet by inept, virtue signalling, rent seeking politicians whose corruptibility is on a par with their technological illiteracy.
Why would Iran Attack Tankers In The Gulf?—?They Have nothing To Gain
... by the time Washington had accused Iran of being responsible for the attacks I was aware of certain significant factors not mentioned in mainstream media reports.Despite the lurid accusations from Washington accusing Iran of attacking the two ships and linking the latest incident to two other recent tanker attacks, drones hitting Saudi oil pumps, and a missile hitting a Saudi airport earlier this week.
those who hoped things might change under Donald Trump will be disappointed to learn that while the US president is making noises about curbing the power wielded in Washington DC by representatives of Silicon Valley high tech corporations, those companies are so deeply embedded in government departments that little has changed in terms of the influence the tech corporations have on government policy ...
Germany Heading For Political Instability After EU Elections? it may be premature to write off the AfD because it is entirely possible their supporters suffered a bout of apathy with regard to the European Parliament, being aware the European Commission will not allow any nationalist grouping to gain influence in the parliament, the Left made some astonishing gains at the expense of Merkel’s CDU and its coalition partners the CSU and SDP. The always fragile coalition is now in even more trouble ...
Speaking Truth To Power (When power does not want to listen)
In almost every democratic nation our right of free speech is under attack. In Britain, Australia, Canada and all the main European Union member states we see harsh punishments imposed on those found guilty of 'hate speech,' laws, which protect certain minorities from any criticism, no matter how reasonable, made by people from the mainstream of society ...
Parents Banned from Protesting LGBT Lessons Outside School
It was inevitable given the lefts love of Muslims and the LGBT community that the interests of these two conflicting cultures would cause problems in left wing politics. The problem began a few months ago when a gay teacher at a mildlands junior school persuaded the mostly white, socialist governors of the school in which Muslim pupils are the majority, to let him introduce into the curriculum gay and lesbian lessons for children as young as six and seven.
EU's Top Eurofederalist admits EU wants an empire
The leader of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats in Europe (ALDE) told CNN that plans to reform the EU and devolve power from Brussels back to the nation-state proposed by the populist paries that have spring up in member states, and led by Matteo Salvin's Lega (League) in Italy, Marine le Pen and her Rassemblement National in France and Hungary's Victor Orban, leader of the Fidesz party would mean that the bloc “will die inside.”
Little Donny Tusk The Polish Has-Been Tells Britain How To Vote.
Donald Tusk, who is the President of the European Council and was the centre-right Europhile Prime Minister of Poland from 2007 to 2014 made the remarks in support of his former Deputy Prime Minister, Anglo-Pole Jan-Vincent Rostowski who is standing as a Change UK candidate in London for Thursday’s election.
The top Eurocrat released a statement Tuesday in which he told pro-remain Brits to vote for the recently founded Change UK party, which supports a second referendum as a means to keep the United Kingdom inside the European Union. POLITICO
'Black Vests' African Protestors Take Over Paris Airport
Hundreds of illegal migrants, mostly from sub - Saharan Africa occupied the Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, the main air terminal in France yesterday, preventing people from boarding their flights and demanding that President Emmanuel Macron’s prime minister, Edouard Philippe met them to hear their demands. Predicably the cheese - earting - surrender - monkey government gave in to the demands of these criminal scumbags and granted them all immediate citizenship.
Billionaire Investor Erik Prince Launches Fund For Electric Car Metals
While the author of the piece I had commented on recommended his readers to get their savings invested in electric car makers (and Tesla in particular,) at a time most wise traders were short?—?selling Tesla stock. Now I’m not against electric cars in principle but I thought that was bad advice so I told readers to get into funds specialising in lithium, cobalt and rare earth metals. Then once a few fundamental problems (like the tendency of Tesla cars to spontaneously combust more frequently than Spinal Tap drummers)
Farage Shredded By Welsh Ministry Of Truth Newsman?
An obscure far – left website https://inktank.fi reported that while campaigning for the European Parliament elections in Wales, Nigel Farage was confronted by a BBC Wales reporter, Arwyn Jones, who asked him a question about Brexit, which you’d expect would be easy to answer: Farage didn’t answer, how could anyone answer such a stupid question posed by an idiotic reporter working for an ogranisation tasked by The Fourth Reich’s ruling bureaucracy in Brussels and their puppets in Westminster with presenting pro – EU propaganda as news ...
Election fraud allowed to take place in Muslim communities because of ‘political correctness’, report warns
lection fraud has been allowed to take place in Muslim communities because of “political correctness”, a major report finds as it calls for unprecedented reforms to the British voting system. In a report commissioned by the Government, Sir Eric Pickles, the former Conservative Cabinet minister, today warns that the authorities are in a “state of denial” and are “turning a blind eye” to election fraud.
The Elite’s Scheme to Eliminate Cash And Impose Negative Interest Rates
Politicians love inflation, it provides an easy way out of the financial mess they create, Bankers too love inflation because while they lend fiat money, the loans they issue are secured against real assets such as people’s homes and valuables. However both need “the punters they fleece to have faith in the value of the currency they hold or the numbers stored in computers that increasingly represent our wealth ...
Smoke, Drink And Eat Whatever You Want: Norway's Public Health Minister
For years we have been lectured and by bansturbators, fingers wagging furiously in our faces as they tell us smoking will kill us, even looking at an alcoholic drink will destroy our livrers, a pinch of salt will cause heart attacks, strokes etc. a cream cake will make us obese, a steak or a burger will give us cancer, and driving our cars will destroy the planet. So it was a pleasure to come across a politician who believes adults can be trusted to behave sensibly and left make their own choices in life.
Fascism Spreads From Tech Corporations To Finance Sector As Mastercard Blocks Conservative Clients
Blocking payments to individuals or groups by financial service firms because of their political views impedes freedom of speech in a free society, journalist Ben Swann has told RT, following reports that MasterCard is allegedly on course to censor the far-right by blocking payments from supporters. READ MORE >>>
Facebook Steps Up Censorship in Britain, Bans Populist News Site
Facebook continues on its course to become the UK's Ministry of Truth, (the government department tasked with ensuring government propaganda can never be questioned in George Orwell's novel '1984'.) by expanding its censorship of websites US Liberals like the social media site's Mark Zuckerberg do not approve, or that question the globalist policies of Theresa May's authoritarian regime, by removing from its platform content posted by anti - EU populists and critics of Islam in Britain ...
bYellow Vest Violence Erupts Again, 23rd Straight week Of Protests
Clashes between Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vest) protesters and French riot police on Sturday (20 April,)during the 23rd straight week of protests across France. Police arrested 137 protesters Euro News reports.
bLiberal Democrats suspend candidate for failing to support homophobia, rape, wife beating and FGM
The Liberal Democrats, if they were honest, ought to rebrand themselves The Liberal Hypocrites. After 30 years screeching in sheer horror about the way civilised societies treat women, homosexuals, criminals, and the absolute refusal of some immigrant groups to even tolerate let alone integrate with the laws and customs of liberal democracies. In short The Liberal Hypocrites have joied those political factions that, in an orgy of virtue signalling, have placed Islam beyond honest criticism.
Extinction Rebellion - their demands are the stuuf of fairy tales
Forced off the front pages and out of broadcast news schedules by the Notre Dame fire, the Extintion Rebellion protests which brought parts of London to a standstill are nonetheless newsworthy. For one thing they show the left wing bias in British policing and the legal system. Does anyone think UKIP or For Britain could block major routes into the centre of London and only have a few of their members arrested?
PM cancels Easter break for team negotiating with Labour in a bid to STOP Farage
Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage, who s>uccessfully lobbied for a referendum on Britain's future in the EU and then led the Leave campaign to a surprising (but only to the political establishment and mainstream media,) victory launched his new Brexit Party this week to get MEPs elected in May now it appears certain that Mrs May's desperate efforts to overturn the result of the democratic vote have partially succeeded by gaining a delay in the date we actually leave.
Spain's Election Problem: Muslim population in Catalonia grew by 20% in 4 years As Spanish Nationals Are Marginalised
Catalonia has the fastest growing Muslim population in Spain – and more Islamic centres than any other region in the country. In spite of a strong separatist movement, the left has total hegemony in regional politics and the patriotic forces are being marginalised by the socialists, their elected politicians are excluded from key positions and known supporters are being fired from jobs and having trouble getting hired elsewhere, Defend Europa reports.
Farage Says New Brexit Party Will Spark "A Political Revolution" And Terrify The Tories
Nigel Farage, who led the successful Brexit campaign, warned backsliding elitist politicians on Tuesday that his brexit Party would spark a political "revolution" - a cliched line but appropriate given the mood of the country - and strike fear into the hearts of ineffectual Tories who have so far failed to deliver on the promise of the Brexit referendum if the UK is forced to contest EU Parliament elections as part of Prime Minister Theresa May's, the Sun newspaper reports ... MORE>>> .
Fury as May set to accept a one - year Brexit delay and give Corbyn more influence in exchange for his support
Prime Minister Theresa May is planning to face down Conservative Party members by staying in Downing Street as long as it takes to deliver Brexit via her dodgy deal that has been rejected three times by parliament.
Amid angry clashes at an emergency summit of EU summit in Brussels tonight, the Prime Minister looks set to agree a delay of up to a year in the UK’s departure from the bloc.
Slash taxes now, French tells Macron after three-month 'great debate'
France must slash taxes now, or face ongoing civil unrest. According to the French prime minister, this is the main message from an unprecedented three-month “great debate” in the wake of anti-government “yellow vest” protests. Announcing publication of the findings from two million online contributions and 10,000 hours of town hall debates around the country, Edouard Philippe said on Monday there was “huge discontent” in the country. Astronomical levels of taxation was one of the prime concerns, alongside unemployment, immigration, and surrender of national sovereignty to the European Union.
Europe’s Nationalists Unite Behind Salvini Ahead Of EU Elections
With the EU elections due in May this year expected to deliver another body blow to the dream of a Federal European superstate, Europe's more conservative nationalist parties have today announced an alliance that is aiming to become the strongest group in the European Parliament, with a view to forcing to radical reform on the EU bureaucracy in Brussels, which dictates policy on security, migration, family and the environment, according to Euro News.
Currency Wars: Former UN Under-Secretary-General Calls For One World Currency
In this page, we have covered US attempts to expolit its position as issurer of the global reserve currency, and the moves by China and Russia to resist that. Moves to establish the US$ as a true global currency began a long time ago with the creation of the International Monetary Fund at the Bretton Woods conference in the final months of World War 2, with Germany defeated and the world ready to split into capitalist and communist factions...
Harold MacMillan’s EU warning revealed
Harold MacMillan, British Prime Minister from 1957 to 1963 gave us a chilling warning about the EEC – (European Economic Community) – before Britain joined the bloc, claiming that Germany had planned on using the trading bloc, as an instrument to assert its supremacy across the continent once more. On Wednesday, 3 April, 2019 The House of Commons voted in favour of legislation which forces the Government to request another extension for 'Brexit', giving our current Prime Minister Theresa May more time to show us the comtempt the ruling elite have for the principles of democracy.
Hijab wearing, Jihad supporting U.S. Congresswoman refuses to condemn stoning of gays.
Ilhan Omar (with Bernie Sanders behind thinking "I wouldn't mind giving her a taste of my pork sausage) - picture credit www.thenation.com
It had to happen, and it was always going to be great comedy value when it did. U.S Liberals were always going to face the moment when their love of Gays, Lesbians and Trannies clashed head to head with their love of terrorists and the Islamic Jihad.
When hijab wearing, Jihad supporting Muslim woman Ilhan Omar was elected to the US Congress in spite of her strongly anti - American opinions, Liberals were creaming their pants and hailing a great victory in the struggle for equality, diversity and multicultruralism. Poor fools are terminally hypocritical in their virtue signalling,
Leaked Document Reveals Unacceptable Demands Made By EU Ahead Of Final Talks Before Brexit Deadline
A Secret document has revealed concession the EU is demanding before beginning fresh talks on Brexit ahead of the 12 april dealine. According to a memo seen by the Sunday Times, Brussels is demanding the UK must continue to pay its share of the EU budget, must implement new measures on citizens’ rights, and sign a legally binding agreement to arrangements to avoid a hard border between Northern Ireland and The Republic.
Macron Isolated After More High Profile Resignations. Pressure Mounts On French President
On top of the Yellow Vests debacle, which is now destabilising France as the anti - government protests continue, a string of resignations from the tottering government of President Emmanuel Macron has prompted Gérard Larcher, leader of the French Senate to warn Macron that his authoritarian tendencies were partly to blame for the civil unrest crisis and political instability that have weakened his presidency.
EU Fines Google $1.7 Billion Over 'Abusive' Online Ad Strategies
The European Commission has imposed another huge fine of €1.49 billion, ($1.7 billion) for "abusive practices" in online advertising, accusing the search and advertising giant of breaking the EU's antitrust rules and that Google abused dominance position in Internet xsearch by preventing users from seeing search results for Google rivals ...
Bradford Abuser Gang Victim Claims Bradford, Rotherham, Rochdale Gangs ‘Linked’
One of the victims of a Bradford grooming gang has told the media that most of the girls at the children’s home where she was placed by local authority social workers were being sexually exploited by gangs of immigrant males. She called for a nationwide inquiry, alleging that numerous grooming and abuse gangs across the country — including the most notorious cases in Rochdale and Rotherham — are linked...
They Challenge The Narrative, Shoot To Kill Men
Macron Throws Fully Armede Troops Into Action Against Yellow Vfest Protestors French soldiers will be sent into action against Yellow Vest protestors for the first time this weekend as the protests against the Macron government reach their ninetenth week. Some reports out of France suggest the military are being told to avoid protesters, while others indicate they have been given permission to open fire if the protestors threaten the lives of soldiers or police.
Thousands March to Save the Internet from EU Censorship Regulations
Tens of thousands of people have marched in cities across Germany to protest planned European Union copyright reforms that they fear will lead to online censorship. In Munich, it's claimed 40,000 people marched under the motto “save your internet.” Thousands of others took part in smaller demonstrations in the German cities of Cologne, Hamburg, Hannover, Berlin and other cities against the bill that is being voted on this week.
German Alarm Grows Over EU Determination To Punish Britain For Leaving
The business community and conservative politicians in Germany are becoming more annd more hostile towards the way Brussels is trying to force the UK Parliament to accept the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement as a fundamental failure of European statecraft that can lead only to a diplomatic catastrophe and long term animosity between the EU and one of Germany’s largest expot customers.
If Genetically-edited Cooking Oil Is A Scientific Breakthrough Why The Secrecy About Selling It To Us?
Manufacturers of the latest generation of genetically-altered foods, which are gene - edited rather than genetically modifies, are determined their latest attempt to sell us Frankenstein foods will not be sacrificed on the altar of public opinion as were their predecessors with introduced cuillinary delights like glysophate and neonicotinoids into our daily diet if we weren't careful abourt reading labels.
The EU Moves Closer To Creation Of Orwellian Ministry Of Truth
The European Parliament this week rubber stamped a recommendation naming Russia “the main source of disinformation in Europe” and appealed for increased funding for the EU’s East StratCom Task Force, which already received 1.1 million euros in 2018. The East StratCom Task Force is an EU body focused on so-called proactive communication of EU policies and activities in the Eastern neighborhood ...
Search Engine CEO Testifies Before Senate: ‘Privacy Legislation’ Good for Market and Consumers
Gabriel Weinberg, founder and CEO of newish-kid-on-the-block search engine DuckDuckGo, testified in support of privacy legislation in the United States before a Senate hearing on Masrch 12 to explain how curtailing the surveilance and data mining activities of Gogle and Facebook, Amazon, Apple and Twitter would create more competition and innovation in the creation of online content.
There are sheeple who want to remain in the EU at any price, and then there are people who understand the EU
I am not sure people really are up for reading EU related documents or a whole load more people would be less excited about the EU. If people read the chequers plan and the political declaration they would know the only people who leave the EU are the financial sector. Everyone else stays in without a vote or veto for two years whilst we negotiate the long term deal...
EU Very Good for Germany, Not So Much for Everybody Else
Former Ambassador to Germany Sir Paul Lever said in an interview today that Brexit will have little real impact on the European Union (EU), which is overwhelmingly controlled by Germany. Short term he may be right, but with the German economy stalling what will prop up the Brussels cash burning machine one britain is gone?
Sheffield: 11 Men Charged in Historic Child Sexual Abuse Inquiry
Ten men from Sheffield, the UK's fourth largest city, have been charged with historic child sex offences including but not limired to rape and trafficking girls for the purpose of sexual exploitation. Another has been charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
Germany: Economy crisis a growth stalls - car production crashes
Germany’s federal Government today reduced its growth forecast for the second time in two months as plunging car production figures sent shockwaves through the Eurozone. The German economy, has been propping up the economically stagnant EU for years...
‘Aggressive promotion of homosexuality’: School stops LGBT lessons after backlash from angry parents
It had to happen of course, the left's love of minorities inevitably led to a clash of interests when politically correct, cultural Marxist education policy led teachers in a birmingham school with a large proportion of Muslim pupils, responded 'in the interests of diversity and inclusiveness' to guidelines suggesting compulsory lessons in homosexuality and lesbianism should be taught to all pupils.
Dutch professor: “Western countries have never managed to integrate Muslims”
Dutch professor of sociology Ruud Koopmans has carried out a 20-year research project embracing several large scale studies on integration and assimilation, and at the end of it all he concludes that Muslims are more difficult to integrate than other migrant groups.
Koopmans notes that no Western country having received a significant number of Muslim immigrants has successfully managed to persuade them to integrate with local laws and culture.
Finnish "Soldiers Of Odin" Announce Hunt For Rapists & Pedos In Controversial Video
The video, subtitled in English and Arabic, has since been deleted from both Facebook and Vimeo, shows a group of masked men dressed in dark, armed with bats and chains march towards to the camera amid winter darkness, accompanied by heavy metal music. The man at their head acts as a spokesperson and announces that “The pedophile hunting season has been opened!”
Emmanuel Macron’s desperate push for further integration reminds Brexit supporters why we voted to Leave
Anyone who though in 2016 that staying in the European Union wass the status quo option will have been disabused by the intervention of Emmanuel Macron and his blueprint for the future of the \europe. The French president is increasingly derided in his homeland for his folie de grandeur; but even his compatriots must be taken aback by his Napoleonic pretensions to create a pan-European state.
Macron admits Yellow Vest chaos COULD be his fault - ‘I made MISTAKES’
President Emmanuel Macron of France is trying to appear as if, after sixteen weeks of protests, he is finally acknowledging his initial handling of the yellow vest protest movement was flawed and high handed, admitting it exacerbated the unrest. The europhile president also warned against giving in to the wave of nationalism sweeping across the bloc, as he called for a “strong, united and sovereign” Europe.
Gang of Migrants Allegedly Raped Underage Italian Girls
Over the past few years we have focused on reporting the numerous incidences of immigrant sex crimes against white British girls and women, most of which, due to the warped morality of politically correct thinking that permeates all levels of government and the public sector, went largely unpunished for many years until public pressure forced the authorities to act. Migrant sex crimes, and government cover - ups of them are not exclusive to Britain of course, we have occasionally looked at similar problems in Sweden, Germany and France. And now it seems, Italian women are to be sacrificed to the gods of multiculturalism.
UPS Halts Deliveries To Swedish No Go Zone:- "Our Drivers Have Been Attacked": Though European leaders and the more sychphantic mainstream media journalists throughout Europe ans in the USA and Canada have always denied the existence, of no - go zones for Europeans, police and emergency services in migrant-dominated areas of European cities, "no go" zones remain a persistent public safety threat to white, Christian and Jewish residents and to the public in general. It has been widely reported in alternative media (but harly mentioned in mainstream print and broadcast news, that liberal Sweden has been the country worst hit by immigrant violence and lawlessness.
Merkel: EU Members Must Cede control Of Their Border |To Brussels
German Chanellor Angela Merkel sparked outrage today and pushed the EU cloers to its final disintegration when she stated that EU Member states would be forced to surrender on of their most important sovereign powers, control of their borders, to Brussels in order that the unelected bureaucrats of the European commission could 'manage' immigration (i.e. open the border crossings and let any criminally inclined bunch of fanatics enter Europe.
Bradford Gang Of Nine Who Abused Care Home Girls Jailed For 132 Years
A gang of nine Asian men who, in a case that follows the pattern set by similar cases in Rotherham, Rochdale, Birmingham, Newcastle, Oxford, Sheffield, Blackburn, Telford and many other towns which has large Muslim populations in Britain,groomed, raped and abused two teenage girls from a care home were jailed for a total of 132 years at Bradford Crown Court yesterday.
Facebook Insider Leaks Docs; Explains "Deboosting" "Troll Report" & Political Targeting in Interview
Project Veritas is one of the last defenders of free speech and publishers of the work of unbiased undercover investigative journalism on the internet. Judicial watch working through the courts and people like myself working to bring it all to the forefront. Veritas investigators have obtained Veritas and published documents and presentation materials from a former Facebook insider.
Hungary claims, “Brussels makes confession about aim of mass migration policy”
Brussels has effective confessed that its policy of encouraging mass migration which the Hungarian government claims will increase the inflow of illegal immigratnts to the European Union do exist, Zoltan Kovacs, Hungary's state secretary for international communications and relations, said ...
UK Far Left Labour Party Splits Over Anti-Semitism and Brexit
As has been predicted for a while now, by both mainstream media and alt_news commentators, the UK's far left Labour Party which has been torn by internecine conflict since current leader Jeremy Corbyn, the long serving Trotskyite Member of Parliament. Labour, which once styled itself The People's Party now finds its core support among immigrant communities and university brainwashed media professionals, it has little need to concern itself with the white working class ...
Student Suspended from University for Calling Halal Slaughter ‘Inhumane’
In an assault on our right to free speech a British student has been suspended from university for voicing the opinion that halal slaughter, prescribed by Shariah Law, is “inhumane” and also saying illegal immigrants should not be allowed to use the National Health Service (NHS) for free. The student says he cannot return unless he signs a conduct agreement and undertakes diversity training.
UK Taxman is 'ruthlessly' pursuing its own contract staff for potential six-figure bills in unpaid tax
The tax service had decided we were using the self employed status to avoid National Insurance Employers Contributions (a sanitized name for a British payroll tax,) as the self employed were not liable for this levy. By reinterpreting a law in such an extreme way it stretched words beyond any literal meaning, the taxman decided we should all set up limited companies, with ourselves as the only employee, thus making our employers, the quasi - companies, liable as our employers for the payroll tax.
In an outrageous assasult on our right to free speech a British student has claimed he has been suspended from university for voicing the opinion that halal slaughter, prescribed by Shariah Law, is “inhumane” and also saying illegal immigrants should not be allowed to use the National Health Service (NHS) for free. The student says he has been told he cannot return unless he signs a conduct agreement and undertakes diversity training.
Right wing in Spain is booming – Expect A Shock Result In Elections
The election, which will be spain's third in under four years, is a further sign of an increasingly fragmented political scene in one of the EU's larger states, with the strength of Catalonia‘s independence movement, and the revival of the Basque separatist movement having been given impetus by Calalonia's progress having dominated recent debate.
Top CBS Reporter Admits "Mostly Liberal" Journalists Are Now "Political Activists"
This news story is not going to come as a surprise to our readers, but although its a US newsman blowing the whistle on mainstream media bias, things are just the same over the British side of the pond.
CBS News chief foreign affairs correspondent Lara Logan has broken ranks and admitted that journalists have lost their objectivity and become "political activists."
As has been predicted for a while now, the UK's far left Labour Party which has been tprn by internicine conflict since current leader Jeremy Corbyn, the long serving Trotskyite Member of Parliament for one of London's most fashionable inner city communities, became its leader. Labour, which once styled itself The People's Party is now the rich, trendy, virtue signalling party.
Facebook Negotiating Multibillion-Dollar US Fine As UK Labels "Digital Gangsters"
Facebook and its executives were labeled "digital gangsters" by a UKParliamentary inquiry into the social media giant's abuse of users privacy. The company should immediately be subject to statutory regulation the report published at the conclusion of the 18-month investigation by the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport parliamentary committee recommended ...
Navratilova reignites criticism over transgender women in sports
Tennis legend Martina Navratilova has again come under fire for comments about transgender women in sport, reiterating her belief that some of the rules currently in place are “insane and cheating,” and unfair to other women.
Navratilova predictably attracted a lot of hate attacks from left wing idiots and transgender fascists back in December 2018 when she tweeted: “You can't just proclaim yourself a female and be able to compete against women.
Doctors admit vaccines are harmful and turn our immune systems against us
The World Health Organization (WHO) recently included vaccine skeptics – people who are hesitant to vaccinate themselves or their children because they are concerned about the potential health risks – on their annual along with serious dangers like superbugs, climate change, the Ebola virus, HIV and air pollution. The WHO claims that “vaccine hesitancy” increases the risk of a resurgence in diseases they claim are fully preventable through vaccination.
Spanish Socialist Budget Fails As Budget Rejected; New Elections Expected
We predicted lasat year when the socialist leader Pedto Sancjez usurped the Spanish government after the collapse of the minority government led by Mariano Rajoy collapsed, could not last. In a widely expected but destabilizing development, Spanish conservatives and pro-independence Catalonians voted to back a slate of amendments to a government budget on Wednesday by a wide margin of 191 votes out of 350,
Project Fear: NHS Stockpiling Body Bags As No Deal Brexit Looms
Those who hold democracy in contempt and will do anything they possible can, legal or otherwise, to overturn the Referendim result and keep us in the EU have just come over all Spinal Tap and turned the Project Fear fake news generator up to eleven. Ever since the reult of the 2016 Brexit referendum was anounced, the scare stories about the dire consequences of leaving the EU have broken in mainsytream news seemingly at a rathe onf one a minute.
Big Data is here, How do we protect our privacy?"
If you haven't heard of Big Data you either haven't been living on this planet or you're an ostrich and bury your head in the sand. Bid data when coupled with Artificial Intelligence can, we are told, tell us how busy the shops are long before the accountants had added up the months takings, how much metal the big warehouses are hoarding or whether office space is in high demand in a particular area.
BBC Journalist Allegedly Likens Working Class Men to ‘Amazonian Cannibals’
It's always entertaining when lefties forget they are supposed to believe in equality, tolerance and diversity and show what nasty little snobs they really are. BBC political magazine show Panorama’s John Sweeney is reported to have been caught referring to working-class men as being like “cannibals from Amazonia” in an undercover video released by leftie hate figure, former EDL leader Tommy Robinson.
Mother Arrested in Front of Children for Calling Trans Activist a Man
In the UK's latest and probably looniest example of politically correct fascism, police arrested a mother in the presence of her children. Her Crime? She called a male to female transexual a man on Twitter. 38-year-old Kate Scottow, told reporters she was “arrested in my home by three officers, with my ten-year-old daughter and 20-month-old son present” in comments posted to the Mumsnet online forum,
European Union Goes The Full Nine Orwells
Some years ago a bloogger we know created an award for government and corporate schemes involving misinformation, censorship or fake narratives. The Golden Orwells were given to any story revealing suppression or distortion of truth that registered on our Orwell-Huxley-Dick dystopianometer (OHD) scale, named in honour of the three twentieth century prophets of social decay ...
Germany Rejects Yazidi Asylum Seekers Fleeing Persecution By Islamic Extremists
The EU’s largest nation and most powerful economy, which righteously lecturs other EU member states on the need to take refugees and asylum seekers, is taking in fewer Yazidi refugees, according to a German newspaper report. The religious minority was terrorized by the “Islamic State” during the militant group’s campaign in Iraq and Syria and hundreds, possibly thousands of Yazidi women were raped and used as sex slaves by IsIS terrorists.
Germany Rejects Yazidi Asylum Seekers Fleeing Presecution By Islamic Extremists Germany, with its ruling elite of hand wringing, breast beating, teeth - gnashing, politically correct virtue signallers is showing its true colours as, in common with neighbour Sweden, a hypocritical regime that will give Muslims a free pass to rapoe and kill (because they've been persectued,) but will not act to protect minorities persecuted by extremist governments in counties run by Islamic fundamentalists. The EU's largest nation and most powerful economy, which righteously lecturing other EU member states on the need to take refugees and asylum seekers, is taking in fewer and fewer Yazidi refugees, according to a German newspaper report.
Fiat News Threat To Truth
Exposing The False Virtue Of Fact-Check Journalism
Hot on the tail of Fake News, we now have fiat news, which is nothing to do with an Italian car maker whose name is an acronym for Fix It Again Tony. This new type of unrelibable news is news which broadly cheapens the credibility of media by presenting opinion as fact. It debases information in the same way that a capricious tyrant might debase a currency. It tells you how to think.
'Special place in hell' for Brexiteers, says Donald Tusk
Though he is despised in his own country for the way he sold out to the EU, former Polish leader Donald Tusk released an astounding attack on Theresa May as she toured Northern Ireland. Tusk held nothing back on Wednesday when commenting on Brexit. Tusk tweeted: "I've been wondering what that special place in hell looks like, for those who promoted #Brexit, without even a plan how to carry it out safely."
Google Paid More In EU Fines Than Taxes Last Year; Whines About New Privacy Laws One of today's more amusing news items revealed Google paid more in European fines than in taxes on their corporate profits, according to the firm's fourth-quarter earnings report. Google parent Alphabet reported Q4 revenues for the search engine operator of $39.28 billion, up 22%, while revenues for the year were up 23% to $136.8 billion. Taxes in Q4 were $4.2 billion.
The Full Nine Orwells
How The EU Abandoned The Concept Of Truth
Though we were forwarned of what was to come, the EU has now launched its Action Plan against Disinformation. Based on the ideas of French boy president Emmanuel Macron, the plan's purpose, is apparently to "protect its democratic systems and public debates from disinformation ahead of the 2019 European elections. And M. Macron, with the backing of the EU, intends to spread the authoritarian EU's propaganda the incontrovertible truths that there is no dissatisfaction with EU policy except in Britain and Italy ... and Hungary ...... and Poland and ...,
Exposing The False Virtue Of Fact-Check Journalism Hot on the tail of Fake News, we now have fiat news, which is nothing to do with an Italian car maker whose name is an acronym for Fix It Again Tony. This new type of unrelibable news broadly cheapens the credibility of media by presenting opinion as fact. There is a certain type of fiat news, however, which should be denounced where it rears its head ...
Google Paid More In EU Fines Than Taxes Last Year; Whines About New Privacy Laws
One of today's more amusing news items revealed Google paid more in European fines than in taxes on their corporate profits, according to the firm's fourth-quarter earnings report. Holding company Alphabet of which Google is a subsidiary, reported Q4 revenues for the search engine operator of 39.28 billion, up 22%, while revenues for the year were up 23% to $136.8 billion. Taxes in Q4 were $4.2 billion.
Though he is despised in his own country for the way he sold out to the EU, former Polish leader Donald Tusk, now EU Council President, released an astounding attack on Theresa May as she toured Northern Ireland. His comments were condemned by the unionist DUP party, which wants to nix the only thing the EU and UK agree on.
US Democrats Supernut Proposes Green - Politically Correct New Deal
Alexandria Ocasdio - Cortez is a truly wonderous human being. The newly inaugurated congress woman for a New York district manages to simultaneously sit on every green or politically correct bandwagon currently rolling even though, like the rest of us, she only has one arse. In her latest delusional outburst this darling of brain - fried millennials claims to have formulated a way to fix environmental problems and abolish racism. And it only involves spending $$$ a few trillion.
Latests EU Attack On Italy's Salvini Shows The Elite Are Scared
A court in Sicily has allowed proceedings against Italian Eurosceptic leader of The League and all-around pain-in-the-arse for The Davos Crowd, Matteo Salvini. In what must be one of the most ludicrous EU efforts to silence nationalist leaders ahead of elections to the European Parliament, judges ruled Salvini should stand trial for the charge of kidnapping migrants held on boats off Italy’s shores.
The Finns fight back – after multiple cases of child rape Soldiers of Odin patrol the streets of Oulu
In response to government failure to deal with rising numbers of rapes and assaults on Finnish children by immigrant men, a vigilante group Soldiers of Odin has started patrolling streets the streets and public places in Oulu, the most northerly city in the world outside Russia, in response to multiple cases of rape and sexual assault committed against Finnish children by immigrant men
Week 11 Of Yellow Vests unrest keeps pressure on Macron
France’s yellow vest protesters hit the streets again last weekend. It's reported that numbers were up, not only in Paris but also in many provcincial centres where protests took place. This keeps pressure on President Macron, who can only rant about divisions in the movement as if they are an organised political force rather than a spontaneous expression of outrage by random groups of citizens.
a href="http://www.greenteethmm.com/climate-lies-composite.shtml#190828-davos">Davos Doomsday Despair
Speaking at the World Economic Forum last week, UN chief Antonio Guterres warned that the world is “losing the race” on climate change as he demanded that governments make bolder commitments beyond the Paris accord. “Climate change is the defining issue of our time”, he told an audience at the annual WEF jolly for the super rich in Davos, Switzerland ...
Most Absurd Brexit Claim Ever: "30-Year Recession, Worse Than 1930s
Writing in that repository of all left wing and globalist idiocies The Guardian, writer Amelia Hill makes the nonsensical assertion UK cannot simply trade on WTO terms after no-deal Brexit, offering only the opinions of left wing and globalist ‘experts’ in support of her case. Here’s a sample ...
Friendly fraud: Facebook Encouraged Kids To Spend Fortunes On Online Games
May Nearing A Brexit Deal Breakthrough? The UK Parliament is rumoured in some quarters to be nearing a breakthrough in negotiations that will enable an altered version of Prime Minister Theresa May's sellout deal with the European Union to be accepted by elected representatives. It is thought a proposal by Graham Brady, leader of the Conservative rank and file (back benchers) which would throw out the hated 'Irish backstop'
Mad Mac Macron attacks Brexit, Threatens Yellow Vests
The UK’s Leave vote in the Brexit refererndum was caused by misplaced “anger” and foreign disinformation, a raving mad Emmanuel Macron told French audiences, warning critics of his globalist, authoritarian regime in France to beware “people who manipulate you with miracle ideas”. Hang on! Wasn't Mad Mac elected on the strength of 'miralcle ideas' less than two years ago?
Sweden Appoints Anti-Semitic Hippie Lunatic as Cultural Minister in New Government
After months of negotiations, the Socialist Democrats have formed a coalition government together with the Green party. And the catastropic result of that for the people of Sweden is the appointment of Amanda Lind as Culture Secretary. Only hours after being appointed she plunged into controversy, praising amongst others Mehmet Kaplan, calling him a “pioneer” and “hero”. Kaplan is an Islamic extremist with known links to The Muslim Brotherhood ...
College Teaches Ed. Students How To "Combat Toxic Masculinity"
Students at Lewis and Clark College’s Graduate School of Education (a teacher training college,) will be able from spring 2019 to enrol on a course that will teach them to recognise and deal with toxic masculinity in the classroom. Participants who complete the course will have “a lesson plan based on an idea or strategy presented during sessions, and will return to their classrooms with strategies to combat toxic masculinity.”
Facebook Slides After Report Claims 50% Of Its Users Are Fake
As it is Burns day we think the words of Scotland's national poet serve pereftly as a warning to Silicon Valley nerds with world domination ambitions: "The best lain schemes o' mice and men gang aft agley."
One such world domination wannabe for whom things have gang agely in the past year is Facebook supremo Mark Zuckerberg. But as badly as things have gone for Facebook since the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal broke one year ago, in conformation of Murphy's law ("No matter how bad things are thery can always get worse," a new report froma team of researchers, led by a former coleague of Mark Zuckerberg at Harvard who helped Zuck create one of the original Facebook prototypes, suggests the reality of the company's circumstances is even more dire than investors realize.
No Deal, No Problem: World Runs On WTO Rules These Days - OECD Chief
As the deadlock in the UK Paliament over Brexit continues and the political establishment mainstream media panic over the prospect of the UK leaving the EU with no trade deal, José Ángel Gurría Treviño, Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), has confirmed that the world’s advanced economies are “absolutely” able to cope with a No Deal Brexit, and that the OECD would help the United Kingdom to make it happen in “the most seamless possible way”.
Davos 2019: As 1500 Private Jests Descend On The Small Swiss Resort, Climate Change Is High On The World Economic Forum Agenda
Every year leading figures from business, politics and entertainment gather at the World Economic Forum to discuss the world's most pressing problems. This year's theme is "Globalization 4.0: Shaping a Global Architecture in the the Fourth Industrial Revolution". The summit is a meeting of the global influencers from politics to business, culture and the media. During the week these elite will meet and discuss a range of topics, including the economy, climate change and international relations.
Teenage Girl Felt Like 'Just A Toy To Mess About With', Court Told
A teenager who was groomed to have sex with a group of Muslim men told a jury in Bradgord Crown Court the abuse made her feel was “just a toy to mess with.” Now in her mid-twenties, the woman told the Court she turned to alcohol and cocaine and started self - harming as coping mechanisms. She was coerced into having sex with the men in turn after they began arriving at her house when she was 16, she alleged.
Yellow Vests Protest Merkel-Macron Plan To Integrate Defence, Foreign Policy
The left wing wankerati will not doubt be screaming about racism and xenophobia when they learn of the latest exploits of the German Yellow Vest movement who were out protesting against the latest step Hausfrau - Volksfuhrer Merkel and The Boy Macron have taken towards politically integrating Germany and France, on which Original Boggart Blog and The Daily Stirrer have been following developments ...
French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel exchange the French-German friendship treaty during the signing ceremony, on January 22, 2019 in the town hall of Aachen, western Germany. (Photo by LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP/Getty Images)
The left wing wankerati will not doubt be screaming about racism and xenophobia when they learn of the latest exploits of the Yellow vest movement. This time it is the German branch of the movement who were out in the streets protesting against the latest step Hausfrau - Volksfuhrer Merkel and The Boy Macron have taken towards politically integrating Germany and France, a plot not mentioned by mainstream media but on which Original Boggart Blog and The Daily Stirrer have been following developments
The Yellow Vests, Deplorables and Gammons Are Here To Stay
The Gilets Jaunes (yellow vest)movement, which began as a Facebook group for dissatisfied French drivers almost a year ago and since the Macron government proposed a hike in fuel taxes for petrol and diesel cars spakred the first street protests, has mushroomed into a people's rebellion against globalism and corporatism. It has worried the French establishment and succeeded in forcing the usually arrogant and imperious President Macron into offering what globalist fellow travellers in mainstream media call major concessions from the government,
The Davosocracy Gang Gather As Globalism Goes Into Retreat Worldwide
As is usual at this point in January the world’s financial and political elite are assembling in the Davos - Kloisters ski resort in the Swiss Alps for the World Economic Forum. These people, who have travelled by private jet, often half way round the wold to get to the jolly, their vision of ever-closer commercial and political ties, i.e. a totalitarian world government made up of appointees from the political, business and academic elite...
'Yellow Vests' Protests Becoming A Revolution - 10th Weekend of Civil Unrest in France
Yellow vest demonstrators gathered in the French capital on Saturday for the 10th consecutive weekend of anti-government protests titled "Act 10". Protesters filled the streets of Paris and other cities in France, with thousands of police standing guard. Earlier, President Emmanuel Macron launched his “national debates” on the crisis.
Liberal News SiteBuzzFeed Pillorioed On Social Media After Fake News 'bombshell' on Mueller & Trump
Since Trump's vicory in the 2016 election wild accusations that he collaborated with the Russian government have been flung about none of which have been supported by a shred of credible evidence. This week the strongly liberal buzzfeed online news site ran a story that Trump ordered his lawyer to lie to Congress, left leaning media went into meltdown ...
Google Staff Outrage When Boss Uses The Word Family - It's sexist, HomophobiC and Offensive
A Google executive has 'trigggered' many of the fragile snowflakes employed by the wannabe World Domination Corp. by using the word “family” in a weekly, corporate presentation, according to internal documents leaked to The Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF).Many employees became angry when the word was used while discussing a product marketed to children, because it implied that families have children, the documents reveal.
Furious Yellow Vest protestors Clash with police ahead of Macron's summit with Mayors
France's crisis surrounding the presidency of Emmanuel Macron’s and his elitist style of governing continued to escalate today as poll showed Marcon's approval ratings plummeting to new lows and protestors staging angry demonstrations across the country. The so called Gilets Jaunes (yellow vests) protests which started in November have previously been confined to weekends but are now starting to take place throughout the week.
Brexit Is Now About More Than Leaving The EU
Until now we have not posted anything in the past few days on Brexit. Our position is well know to our readers, let's face it, the saturation coverage left nothing new to be said. The whole thing is a craptangle, but it was obvious from when the Conservative Party engineered a situation in which Theresa May was left as the only candidate for the leadership that there could be no other outcome.
Asia Bibi Case Shows UK Government Loves Extremists, Bans Those Persecuted By Extremism
In November 2018 it was reported by mainstream media that the Pakistani Christian mother of five, Asia Bibi (aslo called Ayissa Noreen), imprisoned and sentenced to death by a Muslim court in Pakistan for drinking from a cup used by Muslim women, after having her sentence commuted, was released to live in a fundamentalist Muslim community. Though fearing for her own life and the lives of her children Asia was not offered political asylum by the British government
Sweden to end months without a government
Since the inconclusive election in September 2018, in an example of the pro EU, globalist political establishment showing contempt for the democratically expressed wishes of the people, Sweden has been without an effective government as establishment parties, supported by mainstream media and the EU conspired to deny the Eurosceptic Sweden Democrats the share of power they had earned at the election...
55 Men Arrested over Alleged Child Sex Abuse in Bradford Area, England
West Yorkshire Police have arrested 55 men in connection with alleged historic child sexual abuse. Detectives investigating allegations grooming and sexual abuse of under age girls and vulnerable young women in the Kirklees region of Yorkshire have arrested 55 men as part of an ongoing investigation. Arrests in the case began back in November 2018, but details have only just ben released. The individuals were arrested from addresses in West Yorkshire Police revealed today.
First Swedish Yellow Vest Protest -Female speaker: “Put feminism on hold for 10-20 years”
A Demonstration held in central Stockholm last weekrnd was the first major event in Sweden to feature Yellow Vests. There have been previous small protests by groups of people wearing the symbolic yellow vests but the weekend's even represents an escalation in support of the movement. This time, people gathered at Norrmalmstorg to show their dissatisfaction with how Sweden is governed.
LITTLE ISTANBUL: Turkish Muslims have made Germans feel like foreigners in their own country When Turks buy a building, they don’t allow any German people to move in. The next thing you know, there is a mosque and soon the whole neighborhood has become a ‘NO GO Zone’ for non-Muslims.
Globalisation, The Davosocracy and the Pushback
French writer and political philosopher Renaud Camus, who found fame (or notoriety perhaps,) as the first academic to propose the theory of the “Great Replacement (link goes to French language video),” aired his thoughts to news reporters about the wave of riots and civil unrest that has rocked France over the past two months, giving his opinion that the recent “Yellow Vest” protests are a grassroots reaction against the Davos elite who view working people as worthless “human Nutella.”
Globalisation, The Davocracy and the Pushback
French writer and political philosopher Renaud Camus, who was the first academic to propose the theory of the “>Great Replacement ” aired his thoughts about the wave of riots and civil unrest that has rocked France over the past two months, saying the recent “Yellow Vest” protests are a grassroots reaction against the Davos elite who view working people as worthless “human Nutella.”
UK academic says Integrity Initiative fatally hurt by leaks
The Integrity Initiative, a UK based NGO set up to combat fake news by spreading the fake news governments want us to see is in trouble, in fact some of its critics say it is so damaged by leaks revealing the organisation dismissed true reports as misinformation and promoted goverment favourable narratives which were fabricated to divert and distract attention from those organisations trying to report events with integrity ...
Macron May Trigger EU Wide Crisis With Yellow Vest Crackdown
With no sign of an end to their protests, the Yellow Vest movement looks to have created the perfect storm of economic, political and social problems for political novice turned national leader, President Emmanuel Macron [ ... ] Ignoring the problem made him look weak. All he can do to get himself out of the situation is forget his globalist handlers, put France first, resign and step aside for new elections,
'Hate Speech' Convictions In Sweden Soar Tenfold As Government Cracks Down On Critics Of It's Loonytoons Migration Policy
Swede Tomas Åberg, who leads online hate speech monitoring vigilante monitoring “Näthatsgranskaren” w tax funds hich is funded by taxpayers money to carry out the task it's self - righteous supporters appointed themselves for, that of mass reporting European Swedes who write critical coments about mass immigration and its damaging effects on society on Facebook and other social media sites.
Google is the enemy and must be destroyed, or freedom dies forever
"Don't be evil," the corporate motto read in the early days, although that has now been dropped because it became something of an embarrassment when people worked out it was incomplete, the full version read, "Don't be evil, that's our job."The Google empire is anything but a force for good ...
Organizer Of Macron’s ‘Grand Debate’ With Yellow Vests Is One Of His Elitist cronies
Macron's plan for a nationwide public debate, seeking on the Gilets Jaunes protests, got off to a start typical of the Marcon administration's bumbling incompetence. As arrangements were made for launching the campaign, which promised to give the people a voice, the spotlight immediately fell on to the extravagant salary being paid to the government official responsible for organizing it.
Prominent Hedge Fund Manager Sees Dollar Losing Reserve Currency Status
While the liberal democracies, having allowed Cultural Marxists to infiltrate government at every level and implement socially and economically disruptive policies Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater, the world's biggest Hedge Fund believes now is a good time to reflect on China’s progress towards its goal of replacing the USA as the world's most powerful nation.
UK Government Loves Extremists, bans Opponents Of Extremism
If it sometimes seems possible to the causual obsrver that the UK government has greater committment to Islam than to serving the interests of Christian and secular people who make up the vast majority of the population, it will seem blatantly obvious after you have read this article.
After Triggering Mass Migration Crisis, Germany Bribing Foreigners To Leave
Though Angela Merkel clings to power the effects of her 'open doors' immigration policy damage Germany. It may amuse nationalists to observe as, with one face the pledges support for a United Nations initiative to open all national borders, while with the other she tries to persuade German voters she has listened to public opinion and understands her mass immigration policy is abhorred by a majority of voters ...
De — Dollarisation: More Nations backing Away From The US$
In a year which saw the global geopolitical spiralling back towards cold war polarisation, with the weaponisation of currencies, the global community is dividing into two camps, those nations that still support using the US$, and those that favour the new methods of settling accounts through technological payment systems that need no reserve curencies, only a few trusted currencies.
Japanese researchers develop a prototype humandroid to replace human labourers
There's no doubt about it, scientidts are a creepy - weird, dangerously obsessive bunch of wankers. They would rather be machines than people. But to stop them feeling like emotionally crippled losers because of their machine - like behaviour, they want to replace all the rest of us with machines. Now I can understand why scientists want to develop sex robots ...
Is The UK Foolish To Leave The EU
This question, worded slightly differently, comes up innumerable times in comment or Q & A threads on websites. Here's a near pefect answer from a fellow warrior for liberty and opponent of Euronaziism, Barney Lane: Is Brexit a foolish idea? Brexit means Britain is in the EU but is now leaving it. Which part is foolish, the being in part or the leaving part?
Leaked Documents Reveal Facebook's Biased, Convoluted Censorship Policies
Since the phrase 'fake news' entered the vernacular, Facebook has employed thousands of human moderators to identify what is and is not acceptable content to be posted on the censorious social media website, not to replace the 'Artificial Intelligence' automated moderation system but to make the judgements 'Artificial Intelligence' cannot
The Importance Of Freedom Of Speech and Information
Politically Correct attitudes try to dictate to us how we should behave towards each other with the emphasis on not saying anything likely to cause offence (sic),which seriously inhibits our right to express opinions. Well let’s be straight, what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger and hurt feelings never killed anybody.
Yellow Vests Don’t Take Christmas Vacations
For the seventh weekend in succession protestors in Yellow Vests (the Gilets Jaunes) have been out in the streets of Paris, making a public spectacle of their disillusionment with the elists government of President Emmanuel Macron. In spite of Chrstmas celebreations the yellow vests continued their bid to forece the resignation of Macron.
Security Expert: Sweden is “On the Way to Civil War”
International security consultant Olle Fjordgren has issued a stark warning that his native Sweden is “on the way to civil war” as a result of the problems caused by mass immigration, a soft justice system that often seems to blame victims of crime as much as the prepetrators, and inability to tackle lawlessness among immigrants in the country’s expanding “no go zones” where crime is rampant.
Sweden: Authorities cancel traditional Christmas concerts, promote Islamic events
Sweden’s, and perhaps the world’s largest outdoor Christmas concert “Oh Holy Night”, which traditionally airs on Christmas Eve each year, has been cancelled, SVT news reports. This is most likely part the Swedish governmenmt's policy of suppressing European traditions in order not to offend migrants, Muslim extremists, who steal, rape and murder in the knowledge that courts will be lenient because "asking immigrant to obey Swedish law is racist ...
Extremist Muslim Group Influence Government Report On IslamophobiaControversial Muslim activist group MEND, which has ben involved in promoting extremism as well as lobbying the government in support of further Islamification of british institutions, has “exerted decisive intellectual influence” in the government's first report from a think tank looking at Islamophobia in Britain, according to a research note.
Media’s hyping of Russia threat a ‘grotesque absurdity’ says veteran investigative reporter John Pilger
Investigative journalist John Pilger has called out the “grotesque absurdity” of those in the Western media who hype the so-called threats from Russia and China to Cold War levels, in an interview with RT’s Going Underground.
Rape Gang Found Guilty of Sexually Abusing Oxford School Girl
Following on from a previous report on this page, about an Oxford grooming gang that lured young girls to their "shag wagon", three men have been now been found guilty of historic sexual offences against an Oxford school girl who was groomed and raped from the age of 14.
UN Migration Pact: Which Governments Are Prepared To Sell Out Their People?
The United Nation’s Global Compact for migration since being discussed and adopted by leaders and opinion makers from around the world at the Marrakech conference in Morocco this month, it has had a very divisive effect around the world from both the public and their respective governments as wannabe global government The United Nations Organisation seeks to make migration a human right
“Britain’s political class could see a revolution like they’ve never seen before,” yellow vests UK warn
Yellow Vest movement hits UKThe Yellow Vest movement, which started in france and has spread to The Netherlands, Belgium, Austria and Spain is not on course to end anytime soon, with British activists taking to the streets of London last Friday. They donned the appropriate hi vis waistcoats and blocked traffic on Westminster Bridge, one of the main rover crossings in London, chanting pro-Brexit slogans.
Yellow Vests Week 5 And Bare Breasted Mariannes
After France’s Yellow Vests rebellion turned violent last week during the fourth week of protest against the government of Emmanuel Macron, this weekend’s protests (week 5) saw a further escalation in the protesters anger against the government, which they claim is for the rich and foreign nations rather than the people of France. Well as this news site has always said, that is what globalism is all about.
Bare-Breasted ‘Mariannes’ Confront Macron’s Riot Police Thugs As Yellow Vests Second French Revolution Gathers Momentum
After France’s rebellion of the Yellow Vests protest against the globalist, elitist government of Emmanuel Macronturned violent last week this weekend’s protests (week 5) saw a further escalation in the anger against the government, which they claim is for the rich and foreign nations rather than the people of France. Again vast number of police, around 70,000 according to unofficial reports, have been mobilized across France in an effort to suppress the protesters,
Bare-Breasted 'Mariannes' Confront Macron's Riot Police Thugs As Yellow Vests Second French Revolution Gathers Momentum
After France's rebellion of the Yellow Vests turned violent last week during the fourth wek of protest against the globalist, elitist govertnment of Emmanuel Macron, this weekend's protests (week 5) saw a futher escalation in the protesters anger against the government, which they claim is a government for the rich and for foreign nations rather than the people of France. Well as this news site has always said, that is what globalism is all about.
The Truth About Climate Change Is Not On The Cover Of The Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone was once a decent music magazine, in fact my title references a Dr. Hook song lyric which made the claim that you have ‘arrived’ when you get your picture on the cover of the Rolling Stone. Alas, like so much connected with music, entertainment and Hollywood, The Rolling Stone has disappeared up its own arse. Now, instead of sticking with what it is good at, Rolling Stone fancies itself as a left wing opinion maker ...
EU To Reduce Dependence On US Dollar As Sanctions Hit Trade With Iran
Plans to reduce European Union dependence on the US dollar have been rumoured for a while now, as China’s alternative to the Petrodollar continues to gain strength. The EU is not signing up to the move by Russia, China and the other BRICS bloc nations to replace the dollar but are thinking involvement with the emerging economies bid to break US economic hegemony will improve the 27 member Union’s ability to run an independent foreign policy ...
G20 Elitists Club Teetering On The Edge Of The Abyss
Ten years after The G20 first convened to bring together the leaders of world’s main powers and controllers of natural resources. The Group of 20 was doomed from the start. Russia and China were never going to agree to US economic hegemony, the European Union nations were never going to accept Saudi Arabian human rights abuses and some of the third world nations were never going to be happy with the liberal west's LGBT rights.
Mass Arrests In Paris As “Gilets Jaunes” Protests Go Into Third Week, Spread To Belgium
As the violent protests of the so?—?called Gilets Jaunes (Yellow vests,) which have spread to most major cities in France, with protestors angry at the policies of elitist president Emmanuel Macron, which they claim ignore the interests of the working and middle classes and favour the elites and the globalist corporations who support the move towards a federasl European superstate.
UK Parliament Seizes Internal Facebook Documents
After Mark Zuckerberg has twice failed to respond to a summons to answer questions in front of a UK Parliamentary investigation into Facebook’s failure to protect users privacy, and hold accountable for the Cambridge Analytica data breach outrage, the U.K. Parliament has seized a cache of Facebook’s confidential documents
SJWs Infiltrate Google?—?Organise Rebellion Of The Humandroids
Thousands of Google employees staged walkouts in offices around the world earlier this month in protest at the company’s bias toward white males in its hiring policy and the alleged protection of senior employees accused of sexual harassment and assault.
Have Mainstream Media Seen Through Facebook And Google At Last Mainstream media has seen through Google and Facebook at last, it seems. For years print and broadcast news have heaped praise on digital media while tech corporations like Google and Facebook censored content and filtered their rivals pages out of search results.
The Full Orwell - UK Government Comes Over All Big Brother
In a stealthy, or to be more accurate, creepy move that bypasses the democratic process the British government, without debate in our elected assembly, without media coverage and without the authority of law, the UK Government has usurped to itself the power to take biometric data from all of us and store it in ...
The Dark Motives Behind The FUKUS axis Regime Change In Libya
At around that time, a coalition of western powers, France, The UK and The USA (the FUKUS axis,) had deposed the Libyan dictator Muammar Gadaffi and turned Libya from the most prosperous and socially advanced nation on the African continent to a chaotic failed state with three rival factions, the Islamists, tribal warlords and gangsters all claiming to be the legitimate government.
Nations Rebel Against The UN Migration Pact The UN's Global Compact for Migration sets out nonbinding guidelines for an integrated approach to international migration. DW looks at the agreement and at why some nations are vehemently against it. The compact is based on belief that the world needs to cooperate if massive migration flows are to be managed in a humane manner, while still taking account of the values of state sovereignty ...
Russian Gold Reserves Hit Putin-Era High, Buying Frenzy Accelerates
The move to dump the US dollar as the main reserve currency for international trade seems to be gatherinmg momenum in spite of US sanctions mania when smaller countries will not obey wasdhington's diktat.
Bloomberg's Yuliya Fedorinova and Olga Tanas report today that the Bank of Russia has more than doubled its monthly gold purchases, bringing the share of bullion in its international reserves to the highest of Putin’s 17 years in power, according to World Gold Council data.
Genetically Engineering The Apocalypse
Scientists tend to get carried away with enthusiasm fort theor latest idea, which they invariably claim will bring great benefits to humankind. The problem with such enthusiasm is, with their minds focused on prestigious awards, research grants and lucrative publishing deals, these rather immature people do not often think of the undesirable consequences of their creations.
Top Cop Slams Politicised ‘Hate Crime’ Obsession, Demands Focus on Real Crime
One of the UK’s highest ranking police officers has attacked the government's policy of prioritising “hate crimes,” over serious crimes such as theft, vandalism, violence and fraud, calling for officers to be reassigned to investigate more burglaries and violent attacks by focusing on “core policing.”
Most British people agree police have lost control of the streets because of politically correct government policies
National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) Chair Sara Thornton CBE also said she did not want to see “misogyny” and offensive comments about women specified in law as hate crimes. One can only hope she feels the same about truthful criticisms of Islam, which glorifies misogyny, violence and rape.
Grooming Gangs: Police Ignored Mother's Pleas to Find Charlene Because She Was Working Class
Elites Losing The War On Cash? Sweden U-Turns On 'Cashless Society' Agenda
Sweden was leading the the War On Cash, the ruling elite had pushed the idea that a cashless society would protect citizens from crime and be more convenient. There was no mention that in a cashless society we would completely surrender control of our money to banks, and our privacy in financial matters to government security agencies...
Presentiment?—?Can Your Body Sense Future Events Without Any External Clue?
Recent work at the limits of scientific enquiry is looking at the phenomenon of presentiment (knowing stuff is going to happen before it happens) Research in this area is discovering our bodies may anticipate events below our level of normal consciousness. This is entirely consistent with the work already done in the physics associated field, Quantum Entanglements.
Lancashire Bans ‘Cruel' Halal Meat From Schools, But Some Councils ‘Kow-tow to Islam’ and Serve Halal
In a rare example of politicians putting British values first, Lancashire council voted to cease serving meat from animals that are not stunned before slaughter in schools. Although it signals a step in the right direction after a decade of leftists pushing officials towards favouring Islamic communities over Secular and Christian citizens, around one in 10 UK councils are still supplying sharia compliant halal meat to schools .
Scaremongering IPCC Pushes Climate Hysteria With Latest Doomsday Report
Those discredited jokers, gropers and fake scientists of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have surpassed themselves in the idiocy stakes in their latest report (Summary for Policy Makers linked below). It is just a rephrased version of the farrago of adjusted data, dubious science, wailing and gnashing of teeth and eco-fascistic edicts on how we shall all live our lives in the future.
Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam…The plan is no gift to the masses, but a tool for our further enslavement
A daft idea from socialist intellectual idiots that has quickly acquired sacred cow status among the mindless mobs that make up 'the left' is Universal Basic Income. Among the most prominent champions of UBI are a clutch of Silicon Valley billionaires, whose complete lack of ethical awareness and track record for exploiting low paid workers should make us wonder why we continue to support their shoddy products.
Censorship Comes To The Internet - Goodbye Free Speech
Censorship has always been a sore point in democratic societies, without the right to free speech democracy does not exist. So why have we for years now been willing to tolerate the efforts of Silicon Valley high tech corporations and their left - leaning (that's left as in Chairman Mao or Pol Pot,) been willing to tolerate this.
How Many Times Can Dr. Merkel-Who Regenerate Her Government
>This week the new series of Doctor Who launched amid much ballyhoo about The Doctor being played for the first time by a woman. While many pedantic Whooverans are appalled and complain that the lead role belongs to a man, in my opinion Jodie Whittaker (best known to date for Broadchurch,) the thirteenth Doctor Who, looks as if she may be the best Doctor since David Tennant.
Algorithms Are No Better At Telling The Future Than Tarot Cards Or A Crystal BallAccording to a new report “An increasing number of businesses are investing in advanced technologies that can help them forecast the future”. It’s true , almost every day we see supposedly intelligent people who believe that with things called ‘Data Science’, ‘Artificial Intelligence,’ and ‘Big Data’, machines can already be relied on to make better decisions than humans, and that soon computers will surpass us in actual intelligence.
E.U. Parliament Members Call for Facebook Audit, Competition Law Overhaul
Though not widely reported (well the proceedings were boring,) a number of parliamentary hearings in the European Parliament and the elected assemblies of member nations, have investigated Facebook’s user data breach scandal involving the data thieves Cambridge Analytica. European Union MEPs, including those from Britain have called for a full audit of the social media company and an overhaul of E.U. competition law.
Vaccine Damaged Child Compensated By US Special Vaccine Court. As they started their family, Mooresville residents Theresa and Lucas Black dutifully got their children immunized, never doubting their doctor’s word that vaccines are safe and necessary. But their faith in those promises was shaken in 2001, when their 3-month-old daughter, Angelica, developed life-threatening seizures and brain damage just three days after getting several vaccinations.
How Many More Lives Does Angela Merkel Have Left?
Germany was the most prosperous and stable democracy in Europe under Hausfrau - Volksfuhrer Merkel until she won her third term as Chanellor. That victory had the same effect as being declared divine once had on Roman Emperors. Merkel began to believe she could change the world by supporting schemes to unite Europe under a single government and flood the continent with third world migrants. And she believed she could succeed because Germans, the ignorant masses, would march in lockstep behind her.
Supreme Court Fiasco Shows The US Democratic Party Is No Friend Of Democracy
A look at the way efforts by the US Democratic Party to shaft Trump have backfired on them. Trump is no politician for sure, he's undiplomatic, confrontational, crude, economical with the truth when it suits him, and very direct in expressing his views (a change from the mealy mouthed equivocation favoured by most politicians, but whatever his failings, he's a smart operator and he's outwitting the Democrats every time.
How Can The 'Left' Talk Of Equality When They Don't Tolerate Diversity Of Opinion
One of the first things I learned at my Grandfather's knee was the importance of free speech and of exposure to different ides and shades of opinion. Grandad had been a member of the Labour party before World War One and had lived through the class wars early in the twentieth century. My Dad was a Labour man too, until as a newspaper reporter, he learned things about socialism that shocked him.
Brexit has terrified 'Brussels bubble' - German insider The EU elite "lost faith in their own appeal and abilities" following the Brexit referendum vote and the surge in support for nationalist parties. The knee jerk response of the Brussels bubble was to try (and fail) to punish Britain for defing Brussels in the same way as they had punished small nations like Greece, Portugal and Ireland, which in their perception was the only way to prevent the EU breaking apart.
How Russia plans to disentangle its economy from US dollar
The Russian Finance Ministry this week officially revealed a plan to end the country's dependence on the US dollar for foreign trade. Economic analysts are warning it will be a long process, but Russia and China, with support from Iran and a number of other oil rich countriies whose oil trade is restricted by US use of the petrodollar to manipulate makets, are several years along the road to economic independence alredy ... MORE in Currency Wars
Perpetual War: US Considers Keeping Troops In Afghanistan After 2016
As The Daily Stirrer has predicted since we started in 2009 that Washington's goal was perpetual war, of the kind George Orwell described in his novel 1984. Not only does war make fear - mongering acceptable as a way of controlling the population and restricting personal liberties and civil rights, it is great for business too. It should be no surprise then to learn ...
Stephen Nolan’s Pro-Migrant Stance - Boggart Blog Pays Tribute With Fat Bastard by The Macc Lads
The BBC will not accept any criticism when it comes to anything of a political nature. They would never back down.There is, it seems, no one in the entire institution who is not radically left wing and they are waging ideological war against the general population and against British culture and values.
Retired Swedish Police Chief Says Malmo Crime Skyrocketing Due To Immigration
Chief Superintendent Torsten Elofsson retired from police work in 2014 after 42 years on the Malmo police force, but he retains a key interest in the security of the city. Recalling his early days on the force, Elofsson said the nature and volume of crime in Malmo had changed significantly, going from the organised crime perpetrated by biker gangs decades ago to the migrant crime boom of modern Sweden.
Jeremy Corbyn, the Fabian Society left wing elitist posing as man of the people
Labour activists are hailing the Corbyn era as a return to traditional labour politics. But not only is Corbyn a posh boy from a wealthy family, he is a member of the elitist Fabian Society, the left wing intellectual think tank founded in the 19th century, which in the 1930s supported Hitler and fascism.
Merkel's Beloved Muslim Migrants Trigger Rape Epidemic In Munich
A story picked up by Pam Geller (always a reliable fact checker although some dislike her sensationist style of reporting) of Muslim migrats raping German women while migrant women are being forced into prostitution is not playing well with the femiists and left wing extremists who want us to believe the lie that these barbarians actually enrich our culture.
Muslim Only No Go Areas For Police And Emergency Services In Our Cities? - It Already Happened In Sweden.
Sweden continues to lead the way in surrendering its nation, culture and self respect to exremist Muslim dickheads, reasoning that the violent rapists and murderers of the relion of peace will thank them rather than kill them all. but the people all over Europe are waking to the betrayal of their elites.
Assad Says Europe Is Responsible For Refugee Crisis: "If You're Worried About Them, Stop Supporting Terrorists"
As the tide of refugees fleeing Syria’s bloody civil war, swelled by African economic migrants masquerading as Syrians continues to tear the European Union (EU) apart, and as Brussels struggles to formulate a coherent policy for handling the crisis as member states go their own way with measures to close border crossing points, divert migrants to other member nations, or ...
Swedish Immigrant Street Wars Spread: Stockholm Grenade Attack Follows Kurd-Turk Migrant Clashes
Violence between migrant gangs of different ethnicities vying for territorial rights to run organised crime has become the norm in Malmo, southern Sweden. Now it appears that as a consequence of the Swedish loony left government’s insane policy of flooding the country with third world migrants without
"West's War In Syria Is Part Of A Global war Waged By The USA And Its Dupes Allies Against Russia"
Arthur Foxake brings us a brilliant analysis of the geopolitical picture from the black Sea and Middle East, but ahead of the embed window we get a few of Arthur's own thoughts on the situation
German Authorities Claim Economic Migrants Are Saying They Are Syrian Refugees To Get Into The Country
The shock renewal by Germany of border controls was, it turns out, a consequence of Hausfrau Merkel's ill - advised decision to announce that all Syrians arriving in Germany would be welcomed, a stupid move, probably aimed at sucking up to the terrorist - loving Obama administration in the USA, that was doomed to end in disaster from the outset.
Why It Really All Comes Down To The Death Of The Petrodollar
Last week, in the global currency war’s latest escalation, Kazakhstan instituted a free float for local currency the Tenge. The currency immediately plunged by some 25%. The thinking behind the move was straighhtforward enough. Collapsing crude oil prices along with the relative weakness of the Russian rouble ...
Migrants Defiant as Hungary Blocks Train Links for 2nd Day
Hundreds of migrants gathered at the main railway station in Budapest chanted defiant slogans as the Hungarian authorities blocked entrances to boarding stages for a second day, preventing people who had entered hungary and the EU illegally from seeking asylum in Germany and other ...
Putin Targets US Monetary System: "Aims To Eliminate US Dollar From Trade"
De-dollarization is escalating all around the world. With Yuan/Rouble trading volumes up a stunning 400% year-over-year to record highs, and hot on the heels of China's and much of Asia in dumping dollar assets, Russian President Vladimir Putin has just unleashed a new bill aiming to completely eliminate the US dollar from the trade of goods
Independent Newspaper Attacks Daily Express Over Migrants
As The Independent attacks The Daily Express over insensitive handling of the immigration crisis, we wonder what gave the Indy the bizarrre idea that is't cherry picking of causes worthy of support is any less hypocritical than that traditionally employed by the Express, i.e. how many papers will it sell.
The Real Refugee Crisis Is In The Future
Perhaps Angela Merkel thought we didn’t yet know how full of it she is. Perhaps that’s why she said yesterday with regards to Europe’s refugee crisis that “Everything must move quickly,” only to call an EU meeting a full two weeks later. That announcement show one thing: Merkel doesn’t see this as a crisis. If she did, she would have called for such a meeting a long time ago, and not some point far into the future.
Last week, in the global currency war’s latest escalation, Kazakhstan instituted a free float for the tenge. The currency immediately plunged by some 25%.The rationale behind the move was clear enough. The plunge in crude prices along with the relative weakness of the Russian ruble had severely strained Kazakhstan, which is central Asia’s largest crude exporter.
Lenny Henry says diversity isn't 'another black person in Coronation Street'. We Say One Lenny Henry On Television Is One Too Many
The 53-year-old black supremacist, race hustler and comedian (allegely) is a leading figure in the BAME (Boring Ancient Mediocre Eejit) campaign calling for more Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic people to be involved in the media sector. In a recent interview the actor said diversity was not as simple as "another black or Asian person in Coronation Street or EastEnders, it’s about hearing different perspectives on life"
One in four Jeremy Corbyn supporters believe world is run by 'secretive elite'
YouGov analysis of Labour supporters also finds most Mr Corbyn's backers see America as the 'greatest single threat to world peace' in revealing research. And they call us conspiracy theorists ...
New EU Tax Laws Force Thousands of Businesses to Close in Just Six Months
Our editorial policy has for years been to expose the EU for the anti - business, anti - democracy European wing of the Global Government cartel. And let's be honest, a quick browse through our Europe index will provide plenty of evidence to suppport our view. Given the and their collectivist dupes' talent for ignoring evidence however, every hammer blow we can strike that exposes their global, totalitarian, bureauceatic dictatorship will help get the message across.
The Financial Times Calls for Ending Cash, Calls it a “Barbarous Relic”
Earlier this week, as the financial world was in turmoil following a rapid crash and recovery in financial markets. While we the punters shook our heads and wondered how the banksters get away with this kind of shit, The Financial Times published a dastardly little piece of fascist New World Order propaganda.
3,000 Migrants Rescued off Italy in Single Day, Tensions Rise
Italy’s coastguard on Saturday led an operation to rescue around 3000 migrants from the waters of the Mediterranean after distress calls were picked up from more than 20 overcrowded vessels drifting in waters off Libya. In the biggest single-day rescue operation to date there were no reports of casualties. Reports have been coming in however of hundreds of life jackets and other items being washed up along a stretch of coastline, which suggests the naval rescue flotilla may not have reached al the stricken boats in time.
Trump catches attention of CFR, Bilderberg, Trilateral
Donald Trump is portrayed as a clown by mainstream media and his combover is the silliest I have ever seen. Still, he's a billionaie so I don't suppose he gives a flying fuck what The Daily Stirrer thinks of him. Not that we think he is all bad, anyone who attacks Obama's global naziism trade deals, TTIP and TPP mush have some good points.
It Looks As If Carbon Credits Scam Has INCREASED CO2 Emissions
As the climate change scare becomes more and more exposed for the money making fraud it always was, they green weirdie beardie, rope sandal wearing tree huggers get more hysterical and stupid in their arguments that we must all return to medieval lifestyles, the billionaires like Al Gore who hope to profit from it keep flogging the dead horse and the angrier and more vicious the left wing hate mobs become in their witch hunts.
German Government Admits it Got Refugee Figures Wrong… Revises Upwards to 750,000 Migrants Expected This Year
The number of migrants crossing the Mediterranean and making their way (illegally) through the Balkans to Germany has passed the government’s worst casse estimates. The unprecedented influx has now forced Berlin to hastily revise the figure upwards. Although the German government had already acknowledged the need to revise estimates, the latest number is beyond all expectations ...
One drink a day increases the risk of breast cancer by 15 per cent, scientists claim
Another example of pseudo scientific scaremongering from Harvard University's Department Of Cutural Marxist Propaganda, using spurious statistics (when they cite risk they do not mean 15% but 15% of 13%) in supprt of liberal / left wing politicians anti alcohol campaign, which is not about health but an excuse to raise taxes. The whole house of cards is demolished here by a writer who really understands statistics and is not ingornant of human nature.
Climate Change: Have We Reached the Point of No Return?
Dahr Jamail and Guy McPherson: Many new studies and modeling say reversing climate change is a pipe dream - brace yourself for human extinction. This interview with two Warmageddonists os not of itself inteesting, typical alamist stuff that proves people who believe computer models over real world evidence are idiots. but the comment threat is really worth reading as commin sense tramples the whiners.
Boko Haram attack kills seven in NE Nigeria village: locals
African Free Press (AFP) reports from Kano (Nigeria) that Boko Haram extremists (had you forgotten about that nasty little civil war?) raided a village in restive northeast Nigeria's Borno state near the border with Niger on Monday (17 August), killing seven people, community leaders told reporters.
Labour Leadeship Contest, Corbyn Comedy Caper
When Labour elected Ed Miliband as their leader in 2010 it was clear the party had a death wish. The 'broad church' Prime Minister Harold Wilson spoke of in the 1960s, the alliance of intellectuals and socially conservative industrial workers who made up the party's core vote managed to coexist. Then came feminism, politically correct thinking, New Labour factions as the party started to tear itself apart. It looks as if we are in the endgame.
Food health fascism: Salt, Sugar, Saturated Fat, Alcohol, Cheese, Fizzy Drinks, Chocloate, ... if you enjoy it, it will kill you - maybe.
We are all familiar with those health scare stories that seem to pop up in mainstream media at least once a week claiming this that or the other will kill us. Few people spot the irony in that a few days earlier the same sensationalist rag will have carried a story under a similar screaming headline, claiming that scientists have found the stuff being demonised is in fact good for us ...
Massive Explosion in China: Do We Know the Full Story?
The massive explosion at a chemical plant in the city of Tianjin in northern China was a shocking eveny by any standard. But as usual in recent years, once the initial horror recedes the unfortunate accident narrative starts to unravel. The first thing we notice is that the disaster is very convenient for certain parties, the second is that official news reports just don't make sense, and the third is that eye witness reports contradict the edited news stories. Now read on ...
Ugly Marxist Lesbians Demand Right To Menstruate In Public
The story of the militant femists munter who ran a marathon on the first day of her 'monthlies' without using a tampon or sanitary towel (they're a sexist symbol or the oppressive patriarchy donchakow) is not new. The London Marathon was run back in April and the story of Kiran Gandhi's brave stance against male oppression (along with pitures of the dark stain speading across the croth of her leggings) was ignored by mainsteam and alternative media alike.
While we watch Unkraine and Turkey The War Goes On In Syria
With mainstream media focused on ISIS and Ukraine amid, fears of an excalation of local problems into a war between East, West and Islam, we are in danger of forgetting nasty little civil conflicts like the one between forces loyal to the secular dictator Assad and the Al Nusra rebels who want to replace a secular dictatorship with an even more ruthless theocracy.
Latest Posts - July 2015
"Big Brother State": FBI Says Citizens Should Have No Secrets That The Government Can't Access
The surveillance state predicted in George Orwell's novel "1984" has gradually crept up on us. With no sense of irony, the government of the nation that calls itself "The land of the free" has led the way in trying to persuade citizents that the only way they can be sasfe from vague and largely fictitious "existential threats to democracy" is to surrender civil rights and freedom to determine our own destiny ...
A young couple who climbed up a suspension bridge near Frankfurt to watch the sun rise prompted a major rescue operation when passers by reported
The Name Is Pronounced Nivea
The latest fashion in America is girls called Nevaeh. Virtually unheard of five years ago, the name – “heaven” spelt backwards – has become the 70th most popular name for baby girls in the country last year.
Financial Fraud: Market Rigging By Any Other Name
Over the past twenty years we have hasd many financial scandals, the dotcom bubble, misselling of investments, toxic debt, derivatives trading, maket rigging and interest rate rigging. A lot of the software used by these trading systems was developed with the intent of facilitating fraud.
Warring Migrant Tribes, Street Shootouts, Grenade Attacks, Government Says Its Multiculturalism? WTF Is Going On In Sweden?
"Sweden, that's where they commit suicide and the king rides a bicycle," a character in an Alan Bennet play famously said back in the 1980s, a reference to Sweden's reputation as the most boring country in the world. That reputation has long gone, the elegant streets of Sweden's gothic styled cities are now more like Chicago in the Al Capone era. Scandinavia's biggest nation state is in the grip of a terrifying crime wave instead ...
Banks want us all to have 'tap and pay' cards... even though they're a criminals wet dream
Unfortunately while the banks and tachology giants have been ironing out problems with contactless payment technology (like its habit of doing your good deed for the day by paying for other people's stuff), the crooks have been forging ahead with non-accidental ways to rip off your card. Thieves can easily steal key data from contactless credit and debit cards using equipment bought "easily and cheaply" online, consumers magazine Which? has warned UK consumers.
Gay Rights Lobby Calls for Ban on LGBT Therapy After Finding Hundreds of Health Workers Believe in a Cure The Daily Stirrer has noted many times that sheeple on the left of the political spectrum get very confused on finding not everybody agrees with their world view. but rather than accept they are bigots they turn on those who dissent. No surprise then that gay activist working in the NHS are turning on African, middle eastern and east Europan colleagues who believe homosexuality is a sin.
Has Nasa found another 'Earth' in corner of Milky Way?
The science clowns are going off their heads again, getting over-excited about the 'discovery' by the Kepler project of Earth 2, an earth like planet that it would only take twenty million ryears to reach in our fastest spacecraft id. What planet do these do these idiots live on?
So Who Are The real Racist Bigots - Those Who Have Opinions or those who would abolish free speech?
Since we began publishing in 2009 we have warned that the real enemies of freedom, the ones who would turn certain sectors of the community are not the conservatives and libertarians, but those who try to mask their fascistic politics by calling themselves left, liberal or socialist. If you want to know what socialism is really all about read up on Stalinist Russia or Maoist China and if you want a comparison for the 'liberal values of Labour and Social democrat voters in Europe or American democrats, look no further than the medieval Inquistion and their brutal purges of 'heresy'.
Pissed Off Locals In Europe Torch Refugee Centres To Resist Enforced Placement Of Immigrants
Citizens in Germany and Italy have taken to burning the resettlement centres in their communities designated to provide accommodation for people who have crossed the Mediterranean to enter Europe illegally.
Riots In Athens As Betrayed Greeks Take Back
A converted country inn, forced to close due to punitive EU taxes and restrictive laws, then renovated at taxpayers expense for use by illegal migrants has been burned down in Reichertshofen, Germany after locals discovered it was being prepared to become refugee accommodation.
The Day The EU Died - Destruction Of Greece Shows True Fascist Nature Of The European Project Some inside information on the political stitch up that has turned GreeThe Day The EU Died - Destruction Of Greece Shows True Fascist Nature Of The European Projectce into a vassal state and humiliated the Greek people for the purpose of furthering the neo-Fascist 'ever closer union' agenda of the bureaucratic dictators in Brussels.
The Bansturbator Diaries - Ban Everything And Tax It Too
Red Meat, fast food,, Pies, Pizzas, Cigarettes, Alcohol, and now sugar. The fun fascists are on the rampage everywere. Is there anything we can do to stop them? Yes. all we have to do is ignore them, especially the ones who try to claim some kind of authority by using the word 'science' far more than is necessary.
Spain Goes Full Police State; Government Enacts Law Forbidding Dissent, 'Unauthorized' Photography Of Law Enforcement
Spain is now a police state again. On July 1st, its much-protested "gag" law went into effect, instantly making criminals of those protesting the new law. Not since the death of General Franco has free speech been a crime in the country.
TTIP in the EU: Rejecting Democracy
Trade deals have traditionally been about lowering particular tariffs for imports and exports of goods from one country to another. Trade is not as simple as that any more and for TTIP tariffs are a tiny part of the negotiations because tariffs between the EU and US are virtually non-existent these days. Trade in TTIP is about issues that are relevant and important to us all: from which services are publicly provided, to the safety of the food on our plates
Greece, Monetary Union and Europe - Omnibus
The Greek financial meltdown and inevitable exit from the European Monetary System (Euro) and possibly the EU may be staved off a little longer but will happen. If the burden of Euro membership can wreck strong economies like France, Austria and The Netherlands, how can a basket case like Greece ever cope.
Hackers Hacked - Government Ties Exposed
An Italian company develops hacking tools for government security agencies itself became the target of a hacker attack, resulting in its internal documents being leaked online and its deals with numerous governments being exposed.
Four Converging Crises Could Destroy Europe
Four great crises around Europe’s fringes threaten to engulf the European Union, potentially setting the ambitious post-war unification project back by decades. The EU’s unity, solidarity and international standing are at risk from Greece’s debt, Russia’s role in Ukraine, Britain’s attempt to change its relationship with the bloc, and Mediterranean migration.
Oregon bakery that refused same-sex couple owes $135,000 in damages
This page started by looking as a case of personal liberty versus gay fascism in Belfast, Northern Ireland but looks set to spread in all directions. While the Belfast Gay Cake case was, to the best of our knowledge, the first of its kind in Britain, there have already been a number of high profile cases in which the authorities have deemed that gay bitchiness trumps the civil rights of straight people,
Troika Is Manoeuvering To Rig The Greek Referendum
According to Greece's finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, the troika, the IMF, European Central Bank and EU Commission is planning to rig the outcome of the Greek referendum on whether to accept further austerity measures in return for bail out cash
Ending the Ownership of Money
It must be common knowledge by now that some of the world’s most economically powerful nations are insolvent due to the burden of sovereign debt. These economies are held together through by the faith of citizens and businesses in the currency. If that faith evaporates, the leading economies will crash as voters realise the only thing underwriting the economy is debt.
Climate Change: Physicist Asks Is a Deadly Ice Age on the Horizon?
The last ice age ended approximately 12,000 years ago, and since then we’ve been enjoying a pleasantly warm “interglacial period.” But given that an interglacial may last only 12,000 years, we’re confronted with a scary prospect: Another ice age may be nigh.
Government Paid Trolls Are Using 'Psychology-Based Influence Techniques' in Social Media
Have you ever come across someone on the Internet that you suspected was a paid government troll? Well, there is a very good chance that you were not imagining things. Thanks to Edward Snowden, we now have solid proof that paid government trolls are using “psychology-based influence techniques” on social media websites such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.
Zuckerberg reveals Facebook Working On Apps 'Smarter Than Humans'
In an online Question and Answer session this week Facebook supremo and founding megalomaniacal sociopath Mark Zuckerberg announced that his company is engaged in building AI systems "that are better than humans at our primary senses."
Boko Haram attack on Nigerian village leaves nearly 100 people dead
According to eye witnesses nearly 100 people have been killed in an attack on mosques and houses in a village in north-eastern Nigerian by suspected Boko Haram militants, news feeds reported today (2 July 2015).
Sleepwalking Into Another Middle East War To Make Obama Look Good
Watching the news feeeds, we see The United States has blocked attempts by its alleged Middle East allies to fly heavy weapons directly to the Kurds fighting the Islamic State jihad in Iraq.
War, Famine, Plague and all that
It is no secret that “news” media in the developed world is owned by a few corporate empires whose ultimate owners' are financial operators whose reach extends into manufacturing, extraction industries, big agriculture and food,
The Day the Earth Died - And Why The Green Lobby Did Not Raise A Whimper In Protest
By selling their votes in return for pledges of government spending in their states the current crop of US Senators have effectively transformed their nation from a representative democracy to a dictatorship in which the President can make law on a whim.
Artificial Intelligence: Will It Kill Human Society?
The media, the so called 'experts' and politicians hail every technological advance as if it will btransport us from reality to a utopian paradise. but does Artificial Intelligence and related internet and computer technology pose theats to human society that far outweigh any possible advantages? Whateve, Google plan to put machines in our place on top of the food chain.
City of Berkeley to require cellphone sellers to warn of possible radiation risks
One of the fist themes of this blog was that mobile phones (and wi-fi etc.) do pose a risk to health. Here's the latest admission that the sceptics voices were right, from The Guardian
Have US tactics only helped to make ISIS more powerful?/b>
We have questioned the US led efforts to defeat ISIS in the middle east many times, pointing out that every time the western alliance steps up opposition to the establishment of a news Islamic Caliphate, Islamic State seem to get stronger. 'Conspiracy Theorists', our critics yell. So let's look at opinion from around the world that concurs with ours.
Refugee host school in Germany bans revealing clothes
We have asked before and no doubt will again, when the citizens of a nation are constantly asked to give up their freedoms and change their behaviour in order to avoid offending new arrivals from medievalist cultures, whose effing country is it anyway.
More Violence In Malmo As Community Centre Burned
27 'youths' arrested after shootout in Rosengård
More trouble in Sweden as the ruling elite's determination to had the country over to lawless gangsters and tribalists from barbaric third world cess pits sees violence and inter - tribal conflict continue to increase in the once peaceful suburbs of Swedish cities.
Refugeee Host School In Germany Bans Short Skirts As They Wind Up Muslim Boys
How Ironic That Humourless Warmageddonists Will Not See The Irony
I've lost count of how many times this blog has highlighted the extraordinary consistency with which politicians and scientists working in concert manage to achieve the exact opposite of what they are aiming for. One might be tempted to think that the first step in proposing a scientific solution to any problem is to first understand what harm the unintended consequences of your solution might cause.
Saying The Unsayable
Watching BBC Question Time last Thursday, I was struck once again by the way it was left to one of the stock hate figures of the left, Melanie Phillips, to actually pronounce the great, clunking truth that the online activities of left wing hate mobs have rendered unsayable.
Mediterranean Boat People Crisis Threatens European Identity
As European leaders gathere for a summit meeting on the Mediterranean Immigrant crisis, Italy's Matteo Renzi has warned that Europe must find a solution to the ever increasing flow of migrants from third world locations or risk losing its identity.
Saying The Unsayable: Today, Melanie Phillips
Watching BBC Question Time last Thursday, I was struck once again by the way it was left to one of the stock hate figures of the left, Melanie Phillips, to actually pronounce the great, clunking truth that left wing hate mobs have made unsayable.
Russia Outmanoeuvres the west again
While mainstream media (and even some of the more rabidly fascistic left wing bloggers) have been trying to demonize Russia as a way of drumming up public sympathy for Barack Obama's efforts to start a shooting war with Moscow, we Boggart Bloggers and ...
America and UK Lead the World in Climate Scepticism Several times now it has looked as if the climate chance scare was over as the enthusiasm of climate scitentists for changing real world data to fit in with the predictions of their mathematical models has been exposed. But as the scare was never about the environment, but was a scam to redistribute wealth from rich to poor countries, the politicians are throwing their propaganda budgets behind it again.
Sham Marriages To Beat Immigration Laws Are Out Of Control
With main immigration news on being dominated by the Mediterranean boat people crisis and the masses at Calais hoping to stow away in a freight container, we forget that another way of getting somebody into the country is the sham marriage. Numbers involved may be small, but it is another indication of our governments' failure to address the immigration problem.
Mediterranean Immigrant Composite
The flow of undocumented migrants from Africa trying to cross the Mediterranean from the coast of Libya to Italian, Greek and Maltese territory seems unstoppable. Two factors in the problem however have been western (particlarly American meddling in the internal affairs of African states, and wester aid leading to a population explosion national infrastructures are unable to cope with. And of course European leaders haven't a clue how to deal with the problem.
De-Dollarization Du Jour: Russia's Largest Bank Issues Yuan-Denominated Guarantees
Leading the charge to multipolarity and de-dollarization are Russia, resugent despite economic sanctions and the rising superpower in waiting, China. The downgrading of the dollar is clearly demonstrated in the launch of the BRICS bank and the establishment of the AIIB.
Human Rights: UK Not subject To EHRC says Judge
The oath that every British judge takes requires that they try every case according to the laws and usage of the realm, which means we have to comply with the law as set out by the british parliament and interpreted by higher courts. Parliament requires judges to take account of European decisions.
Secret Meeting in London to "End Cash"
Economist Martin Armstrong claims there is a "secret meeting to end cash" set to take place in London before the end of the month involving representatives from the ECB and the Federal Reserve. Armstrong, who is known for successfully predicting the 1987 Black Monday crash as well as the 1998 Russian financial collapse, expressed his shock that no news outlet has reported on this upcoming conference.
Home Secretary says Britain Will Outlaw Hate And Extremism
In yet another example of how out of touch with reality our leaders are, Theresa May announced on BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the "British" government's determination to make "hate," "extremism" and "Neo-Nazism" illegal.
Brexit - The End Of The European Superstate Dream?
David Cameron, having won the election with a wafer thin majority is now under the cosh from eurosceptics in his own party as well as party managers panicked by the rise of UKIP. He has promised an early in-out referendum on Britain's future membership of the EU but can he win the concessions he needs to secure a yes vote from the punters
Racist Student Union Officer says 'I Can't be Racist'
We have often made points about the hypocroisy of the left, but a Student Union diversity officer from London beats all comers. Having tweeted 'kill all white men' she justifies herself by saying that as an ethnic minority woman she cannot be racist or bigoted.
p>Global Warming Is Not Causing Any Polar Ice Cap Meltdown Says NASA
How Congressional Republicans Lie to Approve Obama Trade Deals
With opposition to Obama's 'anything-but-free' trade treaties Trans Pacific Partnership and Trans-Atlantic Trade And Investment Partnership strengthening both in the USA and Europe, it is interesting to observe how support for Obama's neo - con inititiative which would grant corporate lawyers the power to overturn national law, is not falling according to the usual political party lines. Billionaires and those on the payroll of global corporations are broadly in support, others are recognising the threat to democracy and personal liberty.
Political, academic and business elite push for introduction of Cashless Society
The ' cashless society' has been a pipedream of technology nerds, control freak politicians and academics who favour global fascism for some years. The technology now exists, the political consensus appears to exist (because the elites have underestimated the strength of feeling against globalism around the world, and the voices raised in support of this latest attack by the technology tyrants on individual liberty and privacy are geting louder.
IMF Attempts to Hide True Cost of Renewables
A new report ffrom the International Monetary Fund (IMF) claims Fossil fuel companies are benefiting from a global subsidy of £3.4 trillion a year. The figure dwarfs that of government handouts aimed at encouraging investors to put money into unprofitable renewable energy sources such as wind turbines. Total subsidies for renewables are stated to amount to £77 billion a year.
Adolescent Girl Raped By 60 Men In Asian Grooming Gang
A trial jury atThe Old Bailey, London, heard yesterday the harrowing ddetails of how two schoolgirls were groomed and raped by an paedophile gang based in Aylesbury, Bucks, while aged just 12 and 13. Eleven gang members, accused of carrying out the crimes between 2006 and 2012 face 49 criminal charges between them including statutory rape, child prostitution and creating child pornography, The Daily Mirror reports.
John Kerry Calls For The Internet To Be Placed Under The Authority Of The United Nations
US Secretary of State John Kerry, speaking earlier this week in South Korea, said that the Internet “needs rules to be able to flourish and work properly.†This, according to Kerry, is necessary even for “a technology founded on freedom.†Kerry made his remarks in the context of talking about how international law is applicable to the Internet.
The New World Order?
It is hard to think of another phrase that gets authority worshippers quite so wound up as New World Order. The worlds always prompt a sneerfest among those who are quick to shout 'Conspiracy Theory' and slow to think. The phrase was not coined by a conspiracy theorist, nor was is some secret masonic code used on United States dollar bills to signify the intention to create a global empire (Novus Ordo Seclorum does not even mean 'New World Order' - more below).
The Free Trade Deception Almost No One Understands
More on those evil twins of global trade, the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Trans Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) which are not about freeing business from bureaucracy but freeing corporations from the tiresome obligation to obey national laws covering trading standards, food quality, workers' rights, consumer protection and the environment. We've written about both treaties many times before.
The Immigration Problem (part 1)
As Britain, its voters divided between pragmatism and politically correct thinking, heads for political chaos in an election likely to produce and inconclusive result, the big issue that none of the established parties want to talk about looks set to dominate the political debate through the next government's term in office.
The Baltimore Riots: The Verdict Of Baseball Team The Orioles Owner's Son
In the wake of violent protests that left eastern USA port city Baltimore in flames and were triggered by the funeral of Freddie Gray who died after sustaining a spinal injury while being taken into policy custody, American politicians and media commentators are struggling to explain to the public how the events of Monday evening could happen in twenty - first century America.
PayPal Asserts Copyright Ownership Over All Intellectual Property of its Users
The update comes in the aftermath of the announcement that eBay and PayPalwill split apartinto two separate companies. Under the heading “Intellectual Property,” PayPal announcesthat it is introducing a new paragraph to its agreement, effective July 1, 2015, that will allow the company to “use content that you post for publication using the Services”.
How To Help The Poor - A look at how mainstream politics talks of fairness but penalises poverty
All three mainstream parties in the May 2015 General Election are focusing, as they did last time, on fairness, equality and helping 'the poor'. As their senior spokesmen piously pontificate there will be no trace of irony from either Conservative, Labour or Liberal Democrat while the spout such bollocks, even though they know their economic policies will penalise the poor.
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The digital pathology association's annual conference october 1-3,manchester grand hyatt,San Diego, CA
. The digital pathology association's annual conference october 1-3,manchester grand hyatt,San Diego, CA. J Pathol Inform 2017;8:46
. The digital pathology association's annual conference october 1-3,manchester grand hyatt,San Diego, CA. J Pathol Inform [serial online] 2017 [cited 2020 Jan 19];8:46. Available from: http://www.jpathinformatics.org/text.asp?2017/8/1/46/219410
Oral Abstracts: Interoperability and Component Testing in Whole-Slide Imaging Systems
Esther Abels1, Aldo Badano2
1Emerging Businesses, Philips Digital Pathology Solutions, Hengelo, The Netherlands, 2Division of Imaging, Diagnostics, and Software Reliability, Office of Science and Engineering Laboratories, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD, USA. E-mail: esther.abels@philips.com
A WSI system consists of many components including slide feeders and handlers, image acquisition devices, image processing and transmission devices, display systems and image viewers. After the granting of the de novo for the Philips WSI system, industry and users are now asking about replacing/swapping WSI components, raising issues related to interoperability and regulatory compliance. In this presentation, we will discuss possible regulatory pathways for swapping WSI components, mainly discussing interoperability. We will also review the regulatory history of component and accessory swapping in radiological devices and highlight similarities and differences with respect to digital pathology and WSI devices.
Workflow Improvements and Challenges in a Pathology Laboratory after Digitalization
Alexi Baidoshvili1
1Digital Pathology Team, Laboratorium Pathologie Oost-Nederland, Hengelo, Overijssel, the Netherlands. E-mail: a.baidoshvili@labpon.nl
LabPON made the transition to digital diagnosis in July 2015. We believe we are one of the first laboratories to do this, whereby all histological slides are scanned and most of the diagnoses are made digitally. After the transition to digital diagnostics we faced some challenges, but we also found that the quality of our diagnostics and, especially, the logistics in LabPON had improved in many aspects. In 2013, we used a flow analysis to investigate the logistics of digital diagnostics. However, after the transition of our diagnostic facility to fully digital we began setting up a new, more accurate flow analysis. I expect to finish this analysis before May 2017. I have used the results of the current flow analysis, together with all the gained experience, to get a good overview of the challenges and have noted real quality and logistics improvements in digital diagnostics in our laboratory. We found that the digital diagnostic process is faster, more efficient and qualitatively better than the microscope.
Cloud-Based GPU Computing in Support of Real-time Differential Diagnosis Generation from WSI Data Using Deep Learning
Ulysses G. J. Balis1
1Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. E-mail: ulysses@med.umich.edu
Cloud-based computing and specifically, GPU-enhanced computation, represents a significant incremental opportunity for realization of real-time computation for machine vision tasks that what were previously considered as being non-trivial, including histopathological classification and automated annotation. This presentation will review this rapidly developing field, with an emphasis on approaches that are already computationally feasible. Live demonstrations will be included.
Towards a Digital Pathology Commons
Michael J. Becich1
1Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. E-mail: becich@pitt.edu
National Institute of Health is focused on creating data commons including funding the NCI's Genome Data Commons to enable and promote data sharing for discovery science and health. The Pathology Imaging community needs to develop infrastructure for a Digital Pathology Data Commons that can contribute to the important clinical and translational opportunities that imaging data sharing provides both clinical care and industry. To take advantage of these major opportunities we need to develop a plan for a Data Commons based on FAIR (F=findable, A=accessible, I=interoperable, R=reusable) which will require deep annotation of images and linkage to other aspects of the health care record. To accomplish this we need to consider the highest value research and teaching data including patient data which could be developed into a large scale sharable repository and “best of breed” information systems which serve the needs of students, researchers and industry partners. The coupling of genomic data and other laboratory data (anatomic, clinical and molecular pathology records) in an innovative fashion should help to establish other best of breed information practices for precision medicine.
College of American Pathologists Guideline of Quantitative Image Analysis for HER2 Immunohistochemistry for Breast Cancer
Marilyn Bui1
1Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida, USA. E-mail: marilyn.bui@moffitt.org
Advancements in genomics, computing and imaging technology have spurred new opportunities to use quantitative image analysis for diagnostic testing. Quantitative image analysis (QIA) has been shown to improve accuracy, precision and reproducibility of interpretation than manual scoring by pathologists. Such accuracy is essential to patient diagnosis, prognosis and treatment planning. However, QIA has not gained widespread acceptance. One practical gap is the lack of guidelines in how to perform QIA. The College of American Pathologists (CAP) convened a panel of pathologists and histotechnologists with expertise in digital pathology, immunohistochemistry (IHC), and quality management to develop an evidence-based guideline that provides recommendations in the interpretation of HER2 IHC where QIA is employed. This presentation will provide an update of the guideline including the 11 draft recommendations and the feedback received during the open comment period. The CAP Pathology and Laboratory Quality Center (The Center) develops evidence-based guidelines and consensus statements related to the practice of pathology and laboratory medicine. Through this work, the CAP and its members continually improve the quality of diagnostic medicine and patient outcomes.
Quantitative Image Analysis of Immununohistochemical Biomarker of Breast Cancer-Practical Issues and a Case-Based Approach following CAP Guidelines
Marilyn M. Bui1, Liron Pantanowitz2, Yan Peng3
1Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida, 2Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, 3Department of Pathology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA. E-mail: marilyn.bui@moffitt.org
Quantitative image analysis (QIA) has been shown to improve accuracy, precision and reproducibility of interpretation of immunohistochemical (IHC) biomarkers of breast cancer than manual scoring by pathologists, but has not gained widespread acceptance. Recently CAP developed a guideline including 11 recommendations aims to ensure that diagnoses of HER2 IHC for breast cancer are accurate and consistent. This workshop (1.5 hours) is intended to provide the participants a practical and interactive experience to perform QIA of breast cancer biomarkers (estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor, HER2, Ki67, and p53). Before the workshop, the participants will have web access to the whole slide image of cases of invasive breast cancer with biomarker IHC staining and practice on QIA. In the first hour (CME-earning), faculty will discuss commonly encountered issues and offer solutions or recommendations. In the last 30 mins (non-CME-earning), 2 vendors (one with FDA-approved platform and one with non-FDA approved platform) will share with the participants their approach to generate an accurate interpretation. At the end, the answers to the cases will be revealed.
Hot Topic Discussion: Joint NSH/DPA On-line Digital Pathology Certificate of Completion and Current Certification Environment
Elizabeth A. Chlipala1, Liron Pantanowitz2
1Partner, Premier Laboratory, LLC, Boulder, CO, 2Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. E-mail: pantanowitzl@upmc.edu
As digital pathology matures it is apparent that we need well trained individuals to manage our digital imaging systems. This panel discussion will introduce the joint NSH/DPA online Digital Pathology Certificate of Completion available in the fall of 2017. An overview of how this program was developed, the content of the educational modules, and the manner in which this program is being provided will be discussed. This session will also include an open dialogue on the certificate of completion program and the current formal certification environment for digital pathology.
Computational Pathology 101
Francesco Ciompi1, Geert Litjens1
1Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Gelderland, The Netherlands. E-mail: geert.litjens@radboudumc.nl
Computational pathology is a promising field of research that is capable of producing powerful algorithms to aid pathology diagnostics. Expectedly, such algorithms will enter routine diagnostics within the next few years. Especially so-called 'deep learning' techniques have become the standard technique for digital pattern recognition in histopathological images. However close to being of added value, pathologists largely lack knowledge of these techniques and their development process. Targeted audience: pathologists that want to find out what the real benefits are for introducing digital pathology, and researchers in computational pathology.
DICOM Impact on WSI in Pathology
David Clunie1
1DICOM Editor, PixelMed, Bangor, PA, USA. E-mail: dclunie@dclunie.com
As WSI moves from the research realm towards widespread clinical application, and regulatory hurdles are surmounted, the need to assure that digital images are interchangeable and interoperable between sites and vendors becomes paramount. The DICOM Standard was extended in 2010 to support storage of tiled whole slide images, using a pattern of encoding similar to that used by many commercial vendors in their proprietary formats. The use of DICOM allows for the re-use of existing infrastructure (PACS and VNAs) for storage and regurgitation of WSI data, as well as providing standardized protocols for frame (tile) and metadata access for virtual microscopy applications. This presentation will address the advantages and challenges of using the DICOM format, and discuss both technical barriers, such as the absence of support in commonly used open source WSI tool, as well as non-technical obstacles, including intellectual property related issues that have had a dampening effect until recently being resolved. Lessons learned from other specialties that routinely use DICOM, including radiology and cardiology, will be discussed, as well as the similarities and differences between WSI workflow and other specialties. The advantages of leveraging the vast amount of open source and commercial software that already exists for DICOM, as well as the general IT-related advantages of centralizing on a common storage infrastructure throughout the enterprise, particularly for reliability, scalability and security, will be emphasized.
Implementation of Whole Slide Imaging for Primary Diagnosis
Andrew J. Evans1, Paul J. Van Diest2,3
1Staff Pathologist and Associate Professor, University Health Network, Laboratory Medicine Program, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2Department of Pathology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 3Johns Hopkins Oncology Center, Baltimore, MD, USA. E-mail: andrew.evans@uhn.ca
With the approval of primary diagnosis by the FDA in April 2017, there is renewed excitement and energy centered on the use of whole slide imaging (WSI) for primary diagnosis. As these devices are adopted in the routine laboratory practice, more and more labs are looking for effective solutions for implementing and validating WSI. In addition to selecting a system as well as validation, labs need to be aware of the necessary quality control parameters that will need to be developed and standardized. This session will discuss practical issues that arise when selecting a WSI system, implementing and validating them for primary diagnosis. Three key aspects will be reviewed in this workshop: selection, implementation and validation of the WSI systems. Two experienced adopters from Canada and Netherlands will present their experience with WSI implementation. The work shop moderator and presenters will also share experiences, challenges and lessons with the attendees about implementing WSI for primary diagnosis at their various institutes.
Introduction of NAGASAKI-NET: Diagnostic and Communication Network to Develop Pathologists among 3 Large Institutes
Junya Fukuoka1,2, Wataru Uegami2, Han-Seung Yoon1, Yukio Kashima3, Kishio Kuroda1, Daiki Isuge2, Oi Harada2, Takashi Hori2, Atsushi Chugo2
1Department of Pathology, Nagasaki University Hospital, Nagasaki, 2Department of Pathology, Kameda Medical Center, Kamogawa, Chiba Prefecture, 3Awaji Medical Center, Sumoto, Japan. E-mail: fukuokaj@nagasaki-u.ac.jp
Objection: Shortage of pathologists especially inside Japan has been considered as a major problem for years. Development of new pathologists, however, takes long time and thus immediate solution is difficult. To solve this issue, we believe, establishing the digital pathology networking and the creation of innovative system of education are important. Recently, we have developed diagnostic and communication network named, NAGASAKI-NET, connecting 3 institutes: Nagasaki University Hospital, Kameda Medical Center, and Awaji Medical Center. We also set a branch office in Tokyo for the expert consultation. Results: The pathologists' cockpits with multiple monitors have completed in all institutes on April 2017. VPN networking to observe WSI from each institute were also completed until then. Pathological LIS data of Kameda Medical Center and Awaji Medical Center became visible through same VPN. EMR and full LIS data of Kameda Medical Center were accessible from Nagasaki University Hospital. WSIs of biopsy and small surgery specimen were shared and signed out using both collaboration tools of WSI viewer and full-time web-based conference system, WebEX. Desktop-sharing was also used when the viewer does not work for collaboration. Sign-out sessions for those cases have been implemented everyday successfully. Conclusion: Educational and diagnostic network, NAGASAKI-NET, has been established among 3 institutes. Here, we propose the importance of education using full time web-communication tool and WSI collaboration through VPN.
Are we there yet? Quantitative Multiplexed Tissue Assay Development for Clinical Trial Support
Jennifer Giltnane1
1Research Pathologist, Genentech, Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA. E-mail: giltnane.jennifer@gene.com
Immunohistochemistry (IHC) is still a mainstay in the industry-sponsored clinical trials, however results have been limited to qualitative or semi-quantitative results at best - usually answering only the question “is the target present”? In order for high-order multiplexing technologies to advance out of academic laboratories and into prospective clinical trials, we must offer more utility than other quantitative assays. Supporting immuno-oncology programs has created opportunities for digital pathology and multiplex immunoassays to move into clinical trials in two ways: (1) we can use less tissue by combining analytes on one slide, and (2) we can enumerate and localize cellular populations of the tumor microenvironment in a way that other quantitative assays cannot. In the first case, programs of targeted combination therapies aim to drive the immune system into the tumor while simultaneously turning off the regulatory brakes. In order to confirm the mechanism of action, on-treatment needle core biopsies are necessary but provide very limited tissue for pharmacodynamic assays. In addition, multiplexed IHC can subset immune cells and measure their spatial relationship with each other and tumor cells, potentially providing answers to improve patient selection. As these assays move into the prospective clinical space, it will be important to overcome current technical challenges and establish a standardized approach to assay development and digital pathology algorithm validation.
In Vivo Microscopy and its Role in the Future of Pathology
Lida Hariri1
1Pathologist and Researcher, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. E-mail: lhariri@mgh.harvard.edu
In vivo microscopy (IVM) provides microscopic optical images in patients, in real time, without tissue removal. This has tremendous potential to impact patient care, including in vivo disease detection, biopsy guidance, diagnosis, and resection margin assessment, in a variety of organ systems and disease types. Due to its microscopic resolution, IVM has close parallels with traditional histology, and requires knowledge of the histomorphologic features of many disease entities, which is a skill set inherent to pathologists. Therefore, IVM is likely to have major impacts on the way we practice as pathologists. In this talk, we will: 1) Explore current efforts in IVM in a variety of clinical applications, including the GI tract, lung, skin, and breast. 2) Discuss the impacts IVM could have on the practice of pathology in the short-term and long-term future. 3) Discuss the role of pathologists in validating, implementing and interpreting IVM as a complement to traditional tissue pathology.
A Web-based, Open-source Data Management Platform Supporting Visualization and Analysis Plugins for Deep Learning in Diagnostic Pathology
Charles Law1, Beverly Faulkner-Jones2
1Co-founder, Kitware, Inc., Clifton Park, NY, 2Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA. E-mail: charles.law@kitware.com
Background: Digital pathology enables computer analysis for pathology diagnosis. Deep learning is one promising approach, but a major challenge is annotating and managing the thousands of high-resolution images needed for training. Methods: We train with an archive of teaching images (>10,000), and developed an open-source web-application called Girder to annotate and manage the training data. Girder uses python to directly interface with deep learning packages. Our Theano neural network has 8 convolutional and 2 pooling layers with effective input receptive fields of 92x92 pixels. A bootstrap approach to annotation simplifies generation of ground-truth data. New slides are initially processed with the neural network, and the results are proofread by experts using a girder plugin to verify detection results. The network is retrained with this additional data to improve its performance. Generating ground truth becomes easier as the accuracy of the detector improves. Results: Our system has been demonstrated by detecting melanoma cells in lymph nodes, with over 30,000 melanoma cells annotated. Detection accuracy is high, but our results are suspect because test images are partially selected by the network being evaluated. We are in the process of manually annotating an independent set of cells to get results that can be reported without reservations. Conclusions: Deep learning provides a powerful new tool for digital pathology analysis. The deep-learning resources we have developed as plugins to Girder will simplify the process of training networks and open this technology to a wider user base.
Applications of Digital Pathology in Pathology Education at the Undergraduate and Graduate Level
Zev Leifer1
1Professor of Microbiology and Pathology, New York College of Podiatric Medicine, New York, NY, USA. E-mail: zleifer@nycpm.edu
Background: As more and more medical schools move away from the use of the microscope as a means of teaching and studying pathology in favor of virtual microscopy (digital pathology), much has been done to capitalize on the advantages and opportunities of the digital world. This presentation will summarize some of the work done at NYCPM and elsewhere to advance pathology education. Methods: 1) Accessing images from multiple locations to enhance the local slide collection; 2) using available software to annotate slides; 3) archiving strategies for preserving and sharing such “value-added” images. 4) applying data mining strategies to access slides for Tumor Board use and resident training; 5) using a Virtual Diagnostic Lab, accessing digital images in a scenario-driven format, to train residents in slide analysis and staining techniques. Results: A number of websites have been created to make these ideas available to educators world-wide. Feedback will be discussed, where available. Conclusions: The addition of digital capabilities to the pathology classroom has greatly enhanced the study of this discipline. It will aid in the training of professional diagnostic pathologists and of those will use their services in patient care.
Bringing Digital Pathology to the CLIA laboratory: the Moffitt Cancer Center Experience
Anthony M. Magliocco1
1Department of Anatomic Pathology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, USA. E-mail: anthony.magliocco@moffitt.org
Digital pathology is an exciting suite of technologies and applications with potential to transform the practice of anatomic pathology. We will review the Moffitt Cancer Center experience with Digital pathology including CLIA applications with a focus on opportunities and challenges. There will be discussions of utilization in gross room, education, Quality control, telepathology and advanced image analysis with specific examples and applications for biomarker analysis. There will be discussion of different technologies including single plex, multiplex and high dimensional mass cytometry imaging.
Poised for Disruption? The Door Opens for Digital Pathology and Whole Slide Imaging
Robert Michel1
1Editor-In-Chief, The Dark Report, Spicewood, TX, USA. E-mail: rmichel@darkreport.com
It's been almost 20 years since the first telemicroscopy and digital pathology solutions began to appear in the marketplace. There has been plenty of progress during the past two decades, but the regulatory barrier is widely-believed to have retarded wider adoption of digital pathology systems by most anatomic pathology laboratories. The big development was the FDA's clearance of the first digital pathology system for use in primary diagnosis in the United States last April. Proponents of digital pathology are enthusiastic that this important regulatory step will encourage faster and wider adoption of digital pathology systems and whole slide imaging.
From Diagnostics to Quality Control: The Amazing Possibilities of Artificial Intelligence in the Digital Pathology Setting
Keith Miller1,2
1Director, United Kingdom National External Quality Assessment Service, London, 2Pathology, University College London, Academic Pathology, London, Middlesex, UK. E-mail: k.miller@ucl.ac.uk
The UK National External Quality Assessment Scheme for Immunohistochemistry and In-situ Hybridisation was established some 30 years ago with the sole aim of ensuring that as IHC, as it was gradually being embraced in the slide based clinical pathology setting as an aid to diagnosis, it was performed correctly. Essentially UKNEQAS had to assist with the education of those who were carrying out the IHC staining in the early years as there was no real automation or indeed training available to help with developing the IHC service.
Several decades later much in the area of IHC has changed. We now have robust automation, some wonderful reagents and numerous experienced practitioners around the world. There are many thousands of publications on the subject and almost every histopathologist is very experienced in using IHC within their clinical practice. Nonetheless, amongst all this amazing development, significant challenges have arisen. Companion diagnostics such as IHC for Estrogen Receptors, Her-2, Alk and PD-L1 are now with us. These tests can often be very challenging to perform and to interpret. It goes without saying that if these assays are not performed and interpreted correctly then it is the patient who suffers and a premature death may follow.
Her-2 IHC testing in breast cancer was performed very poorly across the world for a number of years, thus denying patients appropriate treatment for their tumours. It was an unsatisfactory state of affairs and it fell to the EQA schemes to try to sort out the mess. UKNEQAS-IHC&ISH did just that, but the achievement required many years of effort and huge numbers the circulation and assessment of great numbers of FFPE sections. The capacity of the experts who performed the central review was stretched to the limit and as a consequence the occasional error was made. Although these were corrected through an “appeals process” it has become clear that it would be so much better if novel analytical technology could be developed to provide a more consistent and reproducible assessment of the UKNEQAS slides that were stained by participants.
After collaboration with others, prototype software for analysis of digitised HER-2 slides has been developed. From the EQA perspective it is showing great promise with regard to assessing the quality of HER2 IHC staining. This same software is being developed to assist with the interpretation of PD-L1 from the EQA aspect too.
Digital Pathology and Image Analysis in Translational Medicine and Immuno-oncology
Michael C. Montalto1
1Executive Director and Head of Translational Pathology and Clinical Biomarker Laboratories in Translational Medicine, Bristol Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ, USA. E-mail: michael.montalto@bms.com
Digital pathology and image analysis plays an important role in drug development including tumor profiling, mechanisms of action, and exploratory patient selection. In immuno-oncology, understanding cell phenotypes in the context of the tumor micro-environment is critical and image analysis-based multiplexing can further shed light on the immune-biology of cancer. Beyond the exploratory role of image analysis, clinical platforms for digital pathology are being established. This creates a practical path to transition image analysis-based biomarkers to companion diagnostics. This talk will examine the state of the art of pathology based image analysis in translational immune-oncology and explore the potential of this technology as a companion diagnostic platform.
Stimulated Raman Scattering Microscopy and Histology of Neurosurgical Specimens
Daniel A. Orringer1, Balaji Pandian1, Yashar S. Niknafs1, Todd C. Hollon1, Julianne Boyle1, Spencer Lewis1, Mia Garrard1, Shawn L. Hervey-Jumper1, Hugh J. L. Garton1, Cormac O. Maher1, Jason A. Heth1, Oren Sagher1, D. Andrew Wilkinson1, Matija Snuderl2,3, Sriram Venneti4, Shakti H. Ramkissoon5,6, Kathryn A. McFadden4, Amanda Fisher-Hubbard4, Andrew P. Lieberman4, Timothy D. Johnson7, X. Sunney Xie8, Jay K. Trautman9, Christian W. Freudiger9, Sandra Camelo-Piragua4
Stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) is a fiber-laser-based microscopy technique that images fresh, unprocessed and unlabeled tissue. We use Raman spectra that detects lipids and proteins/DNA to develop cytological contrast. We have imaged more than 400 intraoperative neurosurgical specimens at the University of Michigan using SRS. We have developed an image processing technique that produces virtual images with a color scheme similar to standard hematoxylin and eosin (HE) staining, in a process we term stimulated Raman histology (SRH). In order to determine the reliability of tissue diagnosis using SRH, an online survey was given to different neuropathologist using both SRH and standard intraoperative HE scanned images in a subset of 30 cases. Diagnostic accuracy was greater than 92% regardless of the imaging technique. Although the coloring in SRH does not correspond to the acid and basic moieties of HE, there is a strong overlap in the cytological and architectural features of the tissue that unable pathologist to render an intraoperative diagnosis of neurosurgical specimens. SRH provides images comparable to standard HE, it is a faster process than standard intraoperative consultation, images can be read and access via any web-based computer, tissue used for SRH is suitable for further histopathological or molecular testing. In the future SRH could be a helpful intraoperative imaging tool, particularly in centers that lack the onsite expertise of a neuropathologist.
Light-sheet Microscopy for Slide-Free 3D Digital Pathology
Nicholas Reder1
1Department of Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. E-mail: nreder@uw.edu
Background: Light-sheet microscopy (LSM) is a fluorescence microscopy technique that produces high-resolution 3D images. However, commercially available LSM systems are ill-suited for clinical applications. Our group fabricated an open-top LSM specifically designed for imaging clinical specimens, i.e. biopsies and surgical resections. We will give an overview of the technology and describe the results for imaging the surface of large fresh specimens and 3D imaging of biopsies. Methods: Tissue was either imaged fresh or chemically clarified by immersion in 2, 2' thiodethanol for 15 minutes, stained with nuclear and cytoplasmic fluorescent stains for 2 minutes, and imaged using our custom-built LSM. The images were digitally reconstructed and false-colored to simulate H and E-staining. Results: Fresh tissues were imaged at high speed (15-30 sec/cm^2) over a wide-area with high resolution (~2 microns). After clarification, core-needle biopsies could be imaged throughout the entire 1 mm thickness. Clinical validation studies show high accuracy (>90%) and added diagnostic value from the 3D information. H and E slides were not affected by fluorescent dye staining, clarification, or LSM imaging. Conclusion: LSM is a slide-free, non-destructive method for acquiring digital pathology images, with the added benefit of providing superior depth of imaging for 3D visualizations. A substantial challenge is the processing and visualization of terabytes of raw imaging data, an area of active investigation in our group. LSM is an attractive technology for slide-free digital pathology, providing strong economic incentives by minimizing laboratory workload while generating rich data for machine learning and 3D visualization.
Twenty Years of Whole Slide Imaging: The Coming Phase Change
Joel Saltz1
1Department of Biomedical Informatics, SUNY Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA. E-mail: joel.saltz@stonybrookmedicine.edu
I will survey the development of Digital Pathology methodology beginning with the 1997 virtual microscope prototype at Hopkins (PMC2233368) to current tools, methods and algorithms designed to display, analyze and classify whole slide imaging data. I will describe the capabilities of current methods, describe how these methods are likely to evolve and how they will be likely to impact Pathology research and practice.
Image Analysis Vendor Challenge Workshop
Liron Pantanowitz1, Jeroen van der Laak2
1Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 2Department of Pathology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. E-mail: jeroen.vanderlaak@radboudumc.nl
Objective and accurate biomarker assessment is a critical part of many clinical trials. Also, there is an increasing use of such biomarkers for personalized medicine in clinical settings. An example is PD-L1 immunohistochemical staining of tissue sections. The combination of whole slide imaging and image analysis software has been shown to be a powerful means to quantify expression of these markers. Currently there are a number of commercial software solutions available for this, each with its own benefits. This workshop will challenge three vendors who offer state-of-the-art solutions (Indica Labs, Visiopharm and Leica) to showcase their software in a collegial and non-competitive way. Their assignment in the workshop is to demonstrate to the audience how their product would help a client (e.g. a researcher) make an algorithm with their software (or toolkit) to analyze PD-L1 immunohistochemical staining of tissue sections. The aim of this workshop is to highlight possibilities and address potential limitations of image analysis, especially with regard to PD-L1. After the vendor presentations there will be ample time for Q and A.
Whole Slide Imaging: Quantitative Interpretation in the Clinical Setting
Zoya Volynskaya1, Ozgur Mete1, Sylvia L. Asa1
1Department of Pathology Laboratory Medicine Program, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. E-mail: zoya.volynskaya@uhn.ca
Background: Proliferation markers, especially Ki-67, are increasingly important in diagnosis and prognosis. The best method for calculating Ki-67 is still the subject of debate. Methods: We evaluated image analysis tools to provide quantitative robust interpretation of Ki-67 in neuroendocrine tumors. Results: We expanded our primary digital pathology diagnosis to include quantitative interpretation of Ki67 utilizing the Aperio/Leica nuclear algorithm. Slides are digitized during routine scanning for primary diagnosis and accessible through the Cerner CoPath LIS interfaced with Aperio eSlideManager. The algorithm provides robust results that are obtained within seconds, compared to 10-40 min of manual counting that is subjective. As not all cases are scanned routinely, this application increased scanning requests and the number of scanned cases. The initial response from pathologists is extremely positive and has led other subspecialty groups to consider adoption of similar workflow. Adoption was dependent on three major factors: (1) availability of reliable and user-friendly technology and workflow integration for pathologists and histologists, (2) a clear need for the solution and (3) a perceived benefit to the users. The improved technology and ease of workflow increased the number of users and use cases; technologic failures resulted in reduced participation. The benefits identified by users included time savings, ease of viewing, accuracy of annotation and academic benefit. Conclusions: Full adoption of digital pathology provided the infrastructure for implementation of quantitative analysis that is faster and provides accurate, reproducible data. Future improvement will involve automated incorporation of image analysis results into diagnostic reports generated by the LIS.
Digital Breast Pathology in the NHS: Experience from an Innovative Validation and Training Pilot in the United Kingdom
Bethany Williams1, Darren Treanor1
1Digital Pathology, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, University of Leeds, Leeds, Yorkshire, UK. E-mail: bethany.williams2@nhs.net
Background: Diagnostic pathology laboratories are increasingly interested in using digital pathology to improve service quality. Safe and successful use of digital microscopy in routine primary diagnosis is reliant on individual pathologists receiving adequate training and gaining sufficient experience of digital cases. We designed an innovative training and validation protocol to allow our pathologists to gain competence and confidence in live digital diagnosis, in a real world, risk mitigated environment. Methods: Four breast pathologists were recruited. They received basic digital microscope training, and completed a set of training cases, compiled to reflect the breadth and depth of breast histopathology, and provide exposure to challenging digital diagnostic scenarios. Following discussion of the training set, pathologists commenced live digital reporting. All breast diagnoses were made on digital slides, with immediate reconciliation with the glass slides before sign-out. Data on the diagnosis, digital:glass discrepancies, diagnostic confidence, and diagnostic modality preference were made for each case. Regular meetings were held to review cases where discrepancies were recorded. After accumulating approximately 2 months experience of primary digital diagnosis with glass review, a validation document was produced for each pathologist, summarizing the cases viewed, overall concordance rates, overall preference for digital or glass diagnosis, and any potential pitfalls for that individual pathologist on the digital microscope. Results: In the initial training phase, digital:glass concordance ranged between 80 and 100% for the four pathologists. Areas of diagnosis implicated in digital:glass discordance were the mitotic count component of invasive tumour grading, and the identification of lymph node micrometastases. In the clinical reporting phase, over 600 live cases were reported digitally, with glass verification prior to sign out. Absolute concordance between digital and glass diagnoses was greater than 95%. On analysis, none of the discordant diagnoses on the digital microscope would have resulted in significant patient harm, and all concerned areas of difficult diagnosis prone to intraobserver variation using any diagnostic medium. Conclusions: Our pilot validation study demonstrates the importance of individualised training and validation for histopathologists in specialty specific primary digital diagnosis. Our pathologists all reported high rates of satisfaction with digital microscopy, and all now report breast cases digitally as standard. Informed by the data from this pilot, full deployment of digital pathology for primary diagnosis in all histopathology subspecialties is under way at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
Digital Pathology Using Deep Learning
Lin Yang1
1Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA. Email: Lin.Yang@bme.ufl.edu
Background: Digital pathology image analysis can provide crucial quantitative support for improving characterizations of various diseases such as lung cancer, breast cancer, brain tumor, etc. However, due to the ever-increasing amount of image data, it is inefficient or even impossible to manually process the image data. Recently deep learning has attracted a large amount of attention in biomedical image analysis area. In this presentation, we will provide a snapshot of multiple applications in digital pathology based on deep learning, specifically for the general cell detection task on various types of pathology images. Methods: Deep learning methods typically take in raw input data and gradually learn hierarchical feature representations via a stack of non-linear transformations. Both theory and practice have proven that deep architecture is capable of learning highly complex functions and uncovering the intrinsic structure in the data. Convolutional neural network (CNN) is one of the most successful and widely used architectures. In this presentation, we propose several CNN based learning frameworks including fully residual convolutional neural network (FCN), deep voting, and structured regression for efficient and robust cell detection. All the three architectures utilize convolutional layers and sub-sampling layers to extract hierarchical feature representations, de-convolutional layers are used in FCN for up sampling the feature maps, which is crucial for end-to-end training. Specifically, FCN does not invoke sliding window testing and is highly suitable for large scale image analysis. Result: We have extensively evaluated our method using phase contrast microscopy images of HeLa cervical cancer, Ki-67 stained Neuroendocrine Tumor (NET), and H and E stained breast cancer, lung cancer, brain tumor, bone marrow, and skeleton muscle microscopy images. In total seven completely different datasets covering different staining methods and image acquisition techniques are used to demonstrate the effectiveness and generalization capability of our proposed deep learning based high throughput image analysis methods. Conclusion: We propose several efficient and general frameworks to rapidly process large scale digitized pathology specimens. They are designed to handle the pathology images that are challenging due to different image modalities, touching cells, background noises, and large variations in cell morphologies. Experimental results demonstrate the robustness and efficiency of the deep learning based methods in analyzing digital pathology specimens.
Poster Abstracts: Use of Digital Pathology to Drive Revenue to Labs
Dan Angress1,2, Theresa A. Feeser1,3, Michael N. Kent1,4
1DLCS-Clearpath, LLC, Dayton, 4Dermatology Department, Boonshoft School of Medicine, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, 2President, Angress Consulting, Manhattan Beach, CA, 3Paragon Consulting Services, LLC, Saint Petersburg, FL, USA. E-mail: angress@verizon.net
This presentation is geared to the practical use of DP as tool to drive lab revenue, It is intended to show how a regional dermpath lab, DLCS used a DP product, Clearpath to bring on over $1M in additional revenue in less than a year by implementing a remote tool to allow derms to read their slides. THe presentation is not intended to promote Clearpath but simply as a representative application not seen in the industry yet.
Digital Pathology Workflows for Large-Scale Biomarker Studies
Timothy Baradet1, Vipul Baxi1, George Lee1, Cyrus Hedvat2
1Translational Bioinformatics, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Lawrenceville, 2Translational Medicine, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Lawrenceville, NJ, USA E-mail: timothy.baradet@bms.com
Background: This poster will present strategies and tactics for applying image analysis to a large-scale biomarkers studies in involving hundreds or even thousands of whole-slide images. Topics covered: Planning your study Image prep and Scanning Image Analysis and Database Integration Optimizing Workflow QC and Pathology Support Data Analysis. Methods: Serial sections of 25 cases in 8 tumor types were analyzed for 6 biomarkers; a total of 1200 whole-slide images. Following IHC staining and scanning, images were organized in a database and scored using HALO software (Indica Labs). Tumor/stroma classification was achieved on slides with appropriate tumor markers and transferred to serial sections. Successive rounds of pathology QC ensured accuracy for classification and IHC scoring. Data was analyzed and graphed using MATLAB software. Results: High quality biomarker data from large scale whole-slide studies can be collected and analyzed efficiently with organized system of data collection, pathology support and image analysis. Conclusions: Careful planning of workflow, pathology support and data analysis greatly enhance success of large-scale biomarker studies using whole-slide images
An Automated Approach to Calculate Ki-67 Index in Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors
Bernadette M. Boac1, Daryoush Saeed-Vafa1, Anthony M. Magliocco1, Barbara A. Centeno1
1Department of Pathology, Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA. E-mail: bernadette.boac@moffitt.org
Background: Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PanNET) account for 3-5% of all pancreatic malignancies and have 5-year survival rates of 42%. The World Health Organization recently adopted a three-tier grading system for PanNETs based on the Ki-67 index. However, these counts are time consuming with poor interobserver reproducibility. Here we test the feasibility of an automated approach to calculate the Ki-67 index via digital image analysis (DIA). Methods: Twenty-Eight PanNET cases (21 G1, 5 G2, 2 G3) were identified at Moffitt Cancer Center. Ki-67 expression was studied via a dual-immunofluorescence assay using synaptophysin. An automated Ki-67 index was calculated via HALO® on the whole slide image (WSI) and 20x-hotspots (averaging three hotspots) and then compared to those in the pathology report. Results: The Ki-67 index calculated via WSI DIA correlated 26/28 times with the manual count, and 27/28 times via 20x-hotspot analysis. Average time for WSI DIA was 9.16 minutes, and was negligible for 20x-hotspot analysis. There was no statistical significance comparing the Ki-67 index calculated via WSI versus 20x-hotspot analysis (p= 0.67), means of 3.49% and 4.86% respectively. The Ki-67 index calculated by DIA was strongly correlated with the pathology report (r2= 0.86, p<0.00001, irrespective of method). Conclusions: This pilot study suggests that DIA could be useful to aid in the grading of PanNETs in that it might improve the reproducibility, reliability, and time of the diagnostic process. It is possible that WSI counting may better predict prognosis in PanNETs. Our results are promising and should encourage further, larger, validation studies.
Three-Dimensional Imaging, Scanners, and Additive Manufacturing: Applications for Pathology
Navid Farahani1, Hameed Tasal1, Dylan Jutt1, Alex Braun1, Todd Huffman1, Liron Pantanowitz2
1Computational Pathology, 3Scan, Inc., San Francisco, CA, 2Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. E-mail: navid@3scan.com
Imaging is vital for the assessment of physiologic and phenotypic details. In the past, biomedical imaging was heavily reliant on analog, low-throughput methods, which would produce two-dimensional (2D) images; however, newer digital and high-throughput 3D imaging methods, which rely on computer vision and computer graphics, are transforming the way biomedical professionals practice. 3D imaging has demonstrated value as a resource for both biomedical and medical professionals, aiding in diagnostic, prognostic, and therapeutic decision-making. Herein we summarize current imaging methods that enable optimal 3D histopathologic reconstruction: whole-slide imaging (WSI) scanning and 3D scanning. Emerging automated 3D microscopy platforms, which combine robotics, sectioning, and imaging, aim to digitize entire microscopy workflows and are briefly mentioned. Lastly, both current and emerging 3D imaging methods are discussed in relation to current and future applications within the context of pathology.
Evaluating Image Analysis Approaches towards “Harmonization” of PD-L1 Assays
Allison S. Harney1, Staci J. Kearney1, Carsten Schnatwinkel1, Famke Aeffner1, Luke Pratte1, Zach Pollack1, Jenifer Caldara1, Karen Ryall1, Joseph Krueger1, Daniel Rudmann1, Roberto Gianani1
1Flagship Biosciences, Inc., Westminster, CO, USA. E-mail: rgianani@flagshipbio.com
Background: Five different companion or complementary diagnostic tests exist for therapeutics targeting the PD1/PD-L1 pathway. The FDA-AACR-ASCO “PD-L1 Blueprint” working group identified similarities, and differences, between four of the commercialized assays. Each test uses a different interpretation, creating a highly complex diagnostic landscape. We used the Computational Tissue Analysis cTA™ platform to develop a strategy towards normalizing data produced from four PD-L1 diagnostic tests. Methods: Non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC) patient samples were stained with the FDA approved Dako 28-8 and Dako 22C3 tests, and in-house SP142 and E1L3N assays. The cTA™ platform was used to identify tissue and cell-specific Biofeatures™ and then generated scores for PD-L1 test comparison. Results: Comparison of manual and digital scores using cTA™ demonstrated that cTA™ significantly reduces inter-pathologist variability in PD-L1 scoring, as observed by the median percent coefficient of variance decreased from 125% for manual pathology scoring of 3 pathologists to 8% with cTA™. Digital quantification of membrane staining intensity in the tumor compartment using cTA™ show that the average intensity of the 22C3 and 28-8 assays were similar, while SP142 was lower, and E1L3N the highest. The percentage of PD-L1 positive cells identified in each assay was highly correlated across the reference range of PD-L1 expression for each assay. Conclusions: When a single cTA™-based scoring system is applied, the PD-L1 assays are mathematically normalized, harmonizing the scoring. Based on the proof-of-concept demonstrated in this study, a cTA™ approach could enable harmonization of the PD-L1 tests through use of a digital pathology platform.
Application of Microscope-Based Scanning Software (Panoptiq) for the Interpretation of Cervicovaginal Cytology Specimens
Ruben Groen1,2, Kuniko Abe1, Han-Seung Yoon1, Zaibo Li4, Rulong Shen4, Akira Yoshikawa1, Takao Nitanda1, Yukiko Shimizu3, Isao Otsuka2, Junya Fukuoka1,2
1Nagasaki Educational and Diagnostic Center of Pathology, Nagasaki University Hospital, Nagasaki, Departments of 2Pathology and 3Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Kameda Medical Center, Kamogawa, Chiba, Japan, 4The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA. E-mail: ruben.midori@gmail.com
Background: Digital pathology has been increasingly gaining the attention of pathologists worldwide. However, the application of digital cytology is relatively unexplored. The microscope-based scanning software, Panoptiq™, enables the operator to combine low-power panoramic digital images with high-power Z-stacks at regions of interest with a significantly smaller image size than that obtained by whole slide scanning. This study aimed to evaluate the feasibility of the use of Panoptiq™ in the digital interpretation of cervicovaginal cytology specimens in comparison with the conventional light microscope. Methods: One hundred liquid-based cytology slides were selected sequentially. The dotted slides were reviewed and scanned where all dotted areas were further scanned by a high-power objective with Z-stacks. The cases were reviewed by two pathologists and a cytotechnologist using conventional light microscopy and digital cytology images acquired by Panoptiq™, based on the Bethesda classification system. The washout time was set as more than 2 weeks. The Cohen's kappa coefficient was calculated to measure the agreement between the two modalities. Results: Digital cytology showed an inter-modality agreement of two observers who had sufficient training in digital pathology at concordance rates between 88 and 89% with Kappa values between 0.84 and 0.85 while the other observer who did not have sufficient training in digital pathology had lower agreement at a concordance rate of 56% with a Kappa value of 0.40. Conclusion: The microscope-based scanning software, Panoptiq™, is feasible for interpretation of cytology specimens but requires adequate training in digital pathology.
Preparing for High Throughput Image Analysis
Douglas J. Hartman1
1Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. E-mail: hartmandj@upmc.edu
There are many more opportunities to use image analysis in clinical practice. However, the effective integration of image analysis will require transformation within the pathology laboratory. There are many practical issues that must be considered when building image analysis for routine clinical practice - such as barcoding of immunohistochemical slides, separation of control tissue from specimen tissue, and individual tissue concerns. In this talk, I will discuss the challenges and opportunities as well as preparations necessary in order to implement high throughput image analysis.
Buying a Digital Pathology System: What Labs and Vendors Need to Know
1Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center; Pittsburgh, PA, USA. E-mail: hartmandj@upmc.edu
With the anticipated approval of digital imaging for primary diagnosis by the Food and Drug Administration, more pathology departments will be requesting demonstrations of digital pathology systems. In order to determine the best solution for a lab, it is important for pathology labs to have a clear understanding of their lab workflow and it is important that vendors are aware of the common pathology workflows. In this talk, I will discuss the workflow within our lab and other common pathology departmental structures within the United States. This talk will be directed to both the pathology lab and vendor community.
Automated assessment of Ki-67 Expression in Breast Cancers: The Utility of Virtual Triple Staining
Akira I. Hida1,4, Lars Pedersen2, Dzenita Omanovic6, Takashi Ogura3, Yumi Oshiro1, Akihide Tanimoto4, Naoki Kanomata5, Takuya Moriya5
1Department of Pathology, Matsuyama Red Cross Hospital, Ehime, 3Life Science Business, Business Promotion 1st Department, System Division, Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. Hamamatsu, 4Department of Pathology, Field of Oncology, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, 5Department of Pathology 2, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Japan, 2Sales, 6Research and Regulatory Development, Visiopharm, Hørsholm, Denmark. E-mail: gbears@mac.com
Background: Breast cancer (BC) is the most common cancer in women. Highly proliferative tumors with high Ki-67 expression are associated with a poor prognosis, and chemotherapy is recommended. However, there remains confusion regarding the best way to evaluate Ki-67. Counting 1000 cells represents a huge task for pathologists and raises concerns over reproducibility. Methods: We performed digital image analysis (DIA) using Virtual Triple Staining (VTS), which comprises part of the Visiopharm Oncotopix software. Resected 152 BC samples were stained for Ki-67, pan-cytokeratin, and p63 (Autostainer-Link48, Dako). Scanned images (NanoZoomer-XT, Hamamatsu Photonics) were aligned for invasive cancer detection and Ki-67 counting. The algorithm was trained in 29 cases, and validated in the remaining 123 cases. One pathologist manually counted many cancer cells at the Ki-67 slides for labeling index (LI). Results: DIA values were outliers for two cases in the training set, including one with p63-positive staining on cancer cells, and one that was too dense to be counted correctly. The remaining 27 cases showed a strong correlation between the DIA value and LI (Spearman's rank correlation: R=0.88). The median LI and DIA values in the validation set were 23.5 and 24.1, respectively. The DIA process discarded 9 cases as the software under-detected negative nuclei. The rest 114 showed a positive correlation (R=0.75, p<0.0001). Conclusions: Automated DIA using VTS generates reliable results, and is also expected to show high reproducibility. Although some cases still require manual handling by pathologists, DIA is a candidate standard method for assessing Ki-67 expression in pathology.
First person shooter video game principles enable rapid generation of ground truth for deep learning
Richard Huang1, Jack Zeineh1,2, Marcel Prastawa1,2, Giovanni Koll1,2, Gerardo Fernandez1,2
1Department of Pathology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 2Center for Computational and Systems Pathology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA. E-mail: richard.huang@mountsinai.org
Background: Deep learning has the potential to change pathology through the creation of algorithms that can enhance our daily clinical practice. In order to create effective algorithms using deep learning, massive ground truth data sets are required to train the algorithms. The production of such data sets can be time-consuming due to limitations of the image annotation interface (IAI). In order to rapidly produce large amounts of pathologist annotated data sets, first person shooter (FPS) video game principles, a type of game where speed and accuracy are keys to success, could be integrated into a pre-existing IAI. This modification has the potential to significantly improve the speed at which ground truth can be generated. Methods: Four pathology residents familiar with an unmodified version of a proprietary IAI were asked to report how many images they could annotate in one hour. The images were randomly chosen from a database of images of regions of interest (ROI). The IAI was then modified to integrate FPS principles of rounds-on-target (ROT), control ergonomics (CE), and alternate fire (AF). After the modifications, the same four pathology residents were tasked with annotating different sets of images and asked to report how many they could annotate in on hour. Results and Conclusion: Each of the participants showed great improvement with their annotation efficiency. Their improvements ranged from 140% to 200% by using the modified IAI. Integrating FPS principles of ROT, CE, and AF into an IAI is effective in improving the speed of ground truth generation.
Predicting pN-Stage of Breast Cancer Patients with a Fully Automated Image Analysis System
Hunter Jackson1, Richard Chen1, Yating Jing1, John Corbett1,2
1Research, Proscia Inc., Baltimore, MD, 2Department of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. E-mail: hunter@proscia.com
Background: In order to prescribe accurate therapeutic plans for patients with breast cancer, patients must be evaluated by the TNM system. The TNM system provides a classification of cancer by anatomic disease extent; namely, the T category describes the primary tumor site, N describes the metastases in the regional lymph nodes, and M describes distant metastases. Our participation in the Camelyon17 challenge of the International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) tasked us with the challenge of investigating whether cancer has spread to the regional lymph nodes. Methods: Powered by deep convolutional neural networks and transfer learning approaches, we developed a fully automated system to detect regional lymph node metastases for breast cancer patients, thus providing a pN-stage for 100 unique patients. Using a novel stain normalization technique, we are able to eliminate inter-hospital variability in H and E staining and imaging of the slides, opening the door for global deployment of our algorithm using a cloud-based deployment mechanism. In this paper, we outline our data pre-processing techniques, the construction of our convolutional neural network, a novel approach to transfer learning, and the resulting automated system informed by this data. Results: Our fully automated system classifies a given patient's pN-stage with a kappa score of 0.766 indicating substantial agreement with expert pathologists. Conclusions: With a globally-scaled deployment of the algorithm via our cloud-based software, we are able to continue refining and validating our model as we approach clinical utility.
Research Methodologies and Applications in WSI Analysis: A Perspective from an Analytic Microscopy Core Laboratory
Joseph Johnson1, Agnieszka Kasprzak1, Tingan Chen1, Jonathan Nguyen1, Marilyn Bui1
1Analytic Microscopy Core Facility, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida, USA. E-mail: Joseph.Johnson@moffitt.org
The significance of digital pathology and image analysis in clinical oncology centers has become more evident in recent years. A centralized image analysis core plays an important role in bridging the expertise of clinicians, cancer biologists, and imaging scientists to address significant investigational questions. Here we will offer our experience with methodologies for digital WSI acquisition and image analysis; and demonstrate some challenges and limitations with these approaches. We will also present some examples of applying these methodologies which include: (1) dual stain immunohistochemical (IHC) analysis of human breast cancer xenographs, (2) serial section analysis of 9 biomarkers of metastatic melanoma tumors in lung sections, (3) Identification of Fox P3 positive lymphocytes in fluorescently labeled tissue microarray (TMA) slides, and (4) Second Harmonic Generation (SHG) imaging of collagen in mouse tumors. Finally, we will discuss some future directions in digital pathology.
Trial of Consultation Portal to Support the Remote Diagnosis of Local Hospital
Yukio Kashima1,4, Tomoo Ito2, Kenichi Yuma3, Hideki Okamura3, Masayuki Hayashi3, Han-seung Yoon4, Bungo Furusato4, Daisuke Niino4, Kazuhiro Tabata4, Takashi Koyama5, Junya Fukuoka4
1Department of Pathology, Awaji Medical Center, Sumoto, 2Department of Diagnostic Pathology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, 3Division of Healthcare, Philips Electronics Japan, Ltd., Tokyo, 4Department of Pathology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, 5Administrative Office, Awaji Medical Center, Sumoto, Japan. E-mail: yksmn0504@yahoo.co.jp
Background: Critical shortage of pathologists make it harder to render high-end diagnoses for specific clinical fields. Methods: Consultation portal named 'iReport-path' has been established in collaboration with Philips Japan to assist remote diagnosis of local hospital where one general pathologist who covers over 4000 cases annually. iReport-path is a remote pathology-report-management system to connect between supporting hospitals and local hospitals. Pathologists in supporting hospitals can manage all requests including ordering of additional staining in an integrated fashion and can finalize a case by uploading diagnostic reports to EMR of local hospital. If needed, additional consultation can be done by forwarding the case to other pathologists included in the list of the system. On the other side, Pathologists of the local hospital can send the case to the supporting hospital through LIS (Laboratory Information System). The final report of the case is transferred to LIS from iReport-path automatically. All connections were done through complete closed VPN. Results: Awaji Medical Center has requested 625 cases to NUH from Sep.,2016 to Mar., 2017 and 208 cases to KUH from Nov., 2016 to Mar., 2017 thorough iReport-path, respectively. All 833 cases were doublechecked and finalized by supporting hospitals. Additional expert advice was also mentioned in separate emails to the local pathologist when final diagnosis was changed from the original. All cases were processed within a reasonable turnaround time. Conclusion: Pathology consultation portal, iReport-path, is useful to support and improve the diagnosis of remote hospital and may overcome the shortage of pathologists.
Digital Pathology: The Singularity Is Near
Jong T. Kim1
1Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Florida Health, Gainesville, FL, USA. E-mail: jtkim1@ufl.edu
Background: The technological singularity refers to a point in time when the artificial intelligence (AI) will surpass the human intelligence. Most technologists predict this will happen in our lifetime. It is also probable that continued advances in deep learning and AI will disrupt the digital pathology industry and ultimately how pathologists will practice. Therefore, understanding the landscape of how deep learning algorithms are being researched and applied to the digital pathology is imperative to the future practice of pathology. Methods: To systematically review 1) the current state of deep learning research in pathology, 2) the patent landscape in digital pathology, and 3) the AI-focused digital pathology startups Data Source: Deep learning research in pathology was searched using the PubMed search engine (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed). Patents related to digital pathology were searched using the Google Patents search engine (www.google.com/patents). Google search (www.google.com), an online analytics service (www.cbinsights.com), and the startup incubators in the United States were searched for the AI-focused digital pathology startups. Conclusions: The PubMed literature search revealed that the deep learning research in pathology has increased significantly in the last decade with well over 200 publications so far. In addition, the number of patents granted, and patent applications filed in the field of digital pathology have also increased dramatically in the same time period. This surge in digital pathology research and development with deep learning has created a vast potential for artificial intelligence algorithms application in healthcare industry. The number of AI-focused startups in healthcare has increased from less than 10 in 2011 to more than 90 in 2016, many of which are in the digital pathology arena. The arrival of singularity in the digital pathology may by closer than we realize, and it is critical to the future of pathology that we start preparing our pathology trainees and department now for this eventual paradigm change.
Alignment of Sequential Whole-Slide Images: A Deep Learning Approach
Preston Law1, Beverly Faulkner-Jones2, Charles Law3
1Unaffiliated, 2Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, 3Co-founder, Kitware, Inc, Clifton Park, NY, USA. E-mail: preston.law@gmail.com
Background: Surgical pathology workflows involve sequential analysis of multiple slides and multiple stains. Traditional exam of sequential glass slides is skill-dependent and time-intensive. Digitization of slides and alignment of resulting whole slide images (WSIs) into a 3D stack has potential to improve diagnostic efficiency and accuracy. Fully automated alignment is hindered by tissue processing artifacts. Deep learning is an approach that can detect features across multiple sections. These features can then be used for automated alignment. Methods: Our deep network had a fully convolutional architecture, with 92x92 pixel receptive fields. A training set was generated by manual selection of 2978 glomeruli on 39 WSIs of sections stained with a variety of standard histochemical stains. The negative training images consisted of 8681 prior false-positive detections. After training, glomeruli were matched across sections and a homography was generated to align the stacks. We used gradient-descent to obtain the optimal transformation between glomerular sets. After regression, outlying false or missed detections were removed and the process was repeated. Results: Our final network achieved an 80% glomerular detection rate with minimal false positive errors. With additional annotated training images, this performance could be improved. Glomerular detection was accurate enough to align renal whole-slide image series. Conclusions: Deep learning is a powerful feature detection approach that is more flexible than traditional computer vision algorithms. With the addition of networks that detect other features, e.g. blood vessels, this technique may be generally applied to aligning sequential WSIs from clinical samples.
Validation of Quantitative Digital Pathology Analyses
Auranuch Lorsakul1, Joerg Bredno2, Jim Martin1, Shawn Wang2, Kien Nguyen1, Faith Ough3, June Clements3, Solange Romagnoli4
Background: Digital Pathology algorithms quantify the content of a whole slide or selected field of view (FOV) with respect to number of cells for one or more phenotypes. Especially when assessing the immune response to cancer, a count of immune cells like T-lymphocytes is primary read-out. Automated analyses require stringent verification to establish and assure the accuracy of cell counts. Methods: We propose to compare automatically generated cell counts to ground truth from expert pathologists in a framework that collects the following data: - Inter-observer agreement - Section-to-section agreement using aligned and registered FOVs - Algorithm-to-observer agreement Example studies are presented for the assessment of tumor cells and T-lymphocytes in a patient cohort with Stage II colorectal cancer. 4μm tissue sections were stained for CD3 (anti-CD3 2GV6) and CD8 (anti-CD8 SP238/57) on consecutive tissue sections. Two pathologists chose FOVs from a set of 119 slides stained with CD3 and 119 slides stained with CD8. On each slide, a pathologist chose three FOVs that represent tumor with high immune infiltrate, tumor with low immune infiltrate, and the invasive margin, respectively. The pathologists marked every T-cell in these FOVs. On 10 consecutive slide pairs, both pathologists provided the cell count in three FOVs to determine inter-observer variability. Results: 60 FOVs were available for the inter-observer study. The pathologists agreed with R2=0.957 for CD3 and R2=0.925 for the CD8 cell count, respectively. Total manual cell counts were 6,947 and 6,328 (ratio 0.911) for CD3 and 3,115 and 2,795 (ratio 0.897) for CD8, respectively. 714 manually counted FOVs were available for verification of the image analysis algorithm. Image analysis matched ground truth counts with R2=0.901 for CD3 and R2=0.943 for CD8, respectively. Total cell counts were 72,076 manual versus 66,179 automated (ratio 0.918) for CD3 and 34,133 manual versus 30,438 (ratio 0.891) for CD8, respectively. Conclusion: Digital pathology methods can provide reliable fully automated image analysis to assess density and location of cells IHC-stained tissue sections. A rigorous verification of these quantitative results is required to assess algorithm-to-observer agreement in relation to inter-observer agreement and section-to-section variability of cell counts.
Label-Free Quantitative Breast Histopathology Using Spatial Light Interference Microscopy
Hassaan Majeed1, Masanori Takabayashi2, Tan Nguyen3, Mikhail Kandel3, Zhen George Liu4, Andre Balla5, Gabriel Popescu3
Departments of 1Bioengineering and 3Electrical and Computer Engineering Beckman Institute of Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 4Department of Pathology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 5Department of Pathology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Urbana, IL, USA, 2Department of Systems Design and Informatics, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan. E-mail: majeed2@illinois.edu
Background: While Breast Cancer is a significant global health problem, the standard tissue evaluation method – manual investigation of a stained tissue biopsy by a pathologist – has shortcomings in its low throughput and inter-observer variability. Quantitative microscopy and digital pathology have the ability to address these shortcomings through quantitative and automated analysis. In this work we show that SLIM, a label-free quantitative imaging modality, is able to separate benign and malignant regions in breast tissue using quantitative metrics. Methods: Imaging contrast in SLIM is generated by measuring the optical path-length difference (OPD) across the tissue biopsy. We used the SLIM tissue scanner to image a tissue microarray comprising 68 cores (34 benign and 34 malignant). After extraction of OPD maps and assembling of the mosaic, the epithelial regions in each core were extracted using ImageJ. For each epithelial region, the mean scattering length l_s, the median curvature of the region C, the tissue disorder strength α and a texture metric G, extracted by using the Leung-Malik gradient filter bank, were used to separate benign and malignant epithelial regions. Results: Receiver Operating Characteristics (ROC) were used to measure the separation between the two classes. Results of three-fold validation showed an average AUC of 0.90. Conclusion: Our method can potentially provide pathologists with an objective and high-throughput tool for breast cancer screening and automated histopathology. This achievement can decrease the work-load for pathologists and provide an accurate method for early diagnosis leading to timely treatment.
Histological Detection of High-Risk Benign Breast Lesions from Whole Slide Images
Akif Burak Tosun1, Maurice Marx1, Luong Nguyen1, Nathan Ong1, D. Lansing Taylor1, S. Chakra Chennubhotla1, Olga Navolotskaia2, Gloria Carter2, Jeffrey L. Fine2
1Department of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh, 2Department of Pathology, Magee Womens Hospital of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. E-mail: mauricemarx@pitt.edu
Accurate diagnosis of high-risk benign breast lesions is crucial in patient management since they are associated with an increased risk of invasive breast cancer development. Since it is not yet possible to identify the occult cancer patients without surgery, this limitation leads to retrospectively unnecessary surgeries. In this paper, we present a computational pathology pipeline for histological diagnosis of high-risk benign breast lesions from whole slide images (WSIs). Our pipeline includes WSI stain color normalization, ductal regions of interest (ROIs) segmentation, and cytological and architectural feature extraction to classify ductal ROIs into triaged high-risk benign lesions. We curated 93 WSIs of breast tissues containing high-risk benign lesions based on pathology reports and collected ground truth annotations from three different pathologists for the ductal ROIs segmented by our pipeline. Our method has comparable performance to a pool of expert pathologists.
Transformative Role of Digital Pathology in Viral Neuropathogenesis Research and Development of Live Virus Vaccines against Neurotropic Viruses
Olga A. Maximova1, Alexander G. Pletnev1
1Core Staff Scientist, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD, USA. E-mail: maximovao@niaid.nih.gov
Background: There are many viruses capable of infecting the Central Nervous System (CNS) of humans. The viruses of our interest are tick-borne or mosquito-borne flaviviruses. Vaccines are available for some flaviviruses, with many vaccines being inactivated which makes them expensive and require extensive primary and boost vaccinations to maintain protection. Live virus vaccines are less expensive and can be more immunogenic, but the safety of such vaccines is always a concern. Only two successful live flavivirus vaccines are available – against yellow fever and Japanese encephalitis. Vaccines are still needed for most neuropathogenic flaviviruses. However, prior to clinical trials in humans, all newly developed vaccine candidates must show the evidence of low/acceptable neurovirulence potential in animal models (e.g., mice and nonhuman primates). Neurovirulence is evaluated in intracerebrally inoculated animals by routine microscopic analysis and semi-quantitative scoring of virus-mediated neuropathology. Methods: The number of animals and tissue slides representing major CNS regions of each animal are quite large. A routine microscopic analysis and semi-quantitative scoring is very labor-intensive and time-consuming process. To improve neurovirulence assessment of our vaccines, we adopted the digital pathology (DP). We created a large database of digital slides and improved CNS mapping and analysis using a DP workflow. We also developed the automated image analysis (AIA) of the cellular markers of neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration and validated its performance against semi-quantitative scoring. Results: DP workflow significantly improved time efficiency and reproducibility. Whole slide viewing and analysis at multi-magnification dramatically facilitated multi-brain analysis from mice models and neuroanatomical mapping throughout the entire CNS of NHPs. The correlation analysis revealed strong and significant positive correlations between the AIA and semi-quantitative scores. However, AIA is more objective and accurate. This enables quantitative assessment and differentiation of vaccine virus neurovirulence. Conclusions: The adaptation of DP to viral neuropathogenesis research and vaccine development programs will facilitate decision-making regarding vaccine safety and its advancement to clinical trials. Implementation of DP will depend on accessibility of hardware/software, as well as on experience and collaboration between pathologists in the scientific and regulatory settings. It is our hope that DP will markedly advance many fields of research including virology, immunology, neuroscience, and vaccinology. This research was supported by the Intramural Research Program of the NIAID, NIH.
Implementation of Whole Slide Imaging as a Pathology Teaching Tool and for Institutional Tumor Boards: A resident's experience
Ashish Mishra1, J Mark Tuthill1
1Pathology Informatics, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, USA. E-mail: amishra2@hfhs.org
Background: This presentation will describe our experience implementing and utilization of whole slide imaging (WSI) as a teaching tool for the pathology residents in Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit as well as our initial efforts to use WSI at institutional tumor boards. Methods: Glass slides were scanned for practice over several weeks to determine basic operation, system performance and workflow processes. Experience quickly showed that the iScan HT could be used to improvement quality and efficiency of weekly unknown slide conference. A proposal was made and accepted to pilot this process. Initially there was a lot of reluctance and resistance from the group to use WSI. To increase interest and enthusiasm concordance studies were presented in the monthly journal club which compared WSI and glass slides. Results: In Oct 2016, unknown slide conference was presented using WSI. The reaction to the quality of the histopathology system usage was excellent: nuclear contours and nucleoli were clear; navigation easy; response time was excellent with no screen lag. The conference was well received. The residents and attending loved the new format. In November 2016, we started presenting cases on WSI in GYN tumor board. WSI, eliminated many problems went away in an instant rapid navigation to area(s) of interest, ease of switching between slides and ease of switching cases. Attendings were ecstatic after the tumor board. The resident was super confident and was able to explain everything in detail using WSI without fumbling. The Attending, clinicians and residents were enthused at the new format; some had no idea that this was even technically possible. Conclusion: Whole slide imaging is a useful tool for teaching and presentation purposes. It can be easily implemented and integrated into our day to day pathology practice and resident training. The reluctance to use WSI is initially high among pathologists, but enthusiasm increases once implemented into regular practice.
Digital Microscopy Files of Archived Tumor and Derivative Bio-Specimens as Quality Control and Reference for Precision Medicine Standards. Essential Resources in Biorepository Operations and Future Biomedical Research
Hector Monforte1, William Schleif1, Paris Volk1, Peter Steele1
1Anatomic Pathology and Pediatric Biorepository, Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital, Saint Petersburg, FL, USA. E-mail: hmonfor1@jhmi.edu
Background: Precision medicine grade and “Fit for Purpose” research tissue specimens and their derivatives destined for Biorepository archival necessitate an anonymized, practical and efficient manner of documenting their morphologic characteristics. High-resolution scanning of cyto/morphologic case material destined for RNA and DNA isolation and -80°C tissue archive is an essential requirement for meaningful and reproducible studies. Tumor heterogeneity, mandates a directed and thorough review of the features of the archived material or the source of genomic derivatives. Methods: Preparation of cell suspension slides and FFPE reference histologic sections of tumor specimens stabilized optimally (short ischemia time) in RNA stabilizing solutions, RPMI for DNA isolated from dissociated cells and representative tumor sections archived frozen in our biorepository can be routinely scanned with a Leica AT2 “Aperio” instrument. The resulting files exported de-identified within Leica eSlide Manager and displayed with Leica ImageScope©, available for reference to Biorepository operators and future investigators, documenting cyto/morphologic characteristics of tumor specimens from which RNA and DNA was extracted. Results: Virtual microscopy slides are more practical than actual slides (often unavailable) or captured images of case slide files, as they allow a thorough and full representation of case material, for review by potential interested researchers, to evaluate the characteristics of tissue, cells and material from which genomic material has been extracted. Conclusion: Representative tumor tissue should be submitted for cytologic and histologic preservation, and eventually for virtual microscope slide preparation as a reference of tumor-derived RNA, DNA and for all tissue fragments destined for archive in biorepository freezers.
Japanese Guidance of Digital Pathology Diagnosis: Preparation for Guideline
Ichiro Mori1
1Department of Pathology, Mita Hospital, International University of Health and Welfare, Minato-Ku, Tokyo, Japan. E-mail: ichiro-m@iuhw.ac.jp
Although digital pathology is spreading in Japan, most experienced pathologists feel nervous to make primary diagnosis by monitor images, not microscope. Japanese digital pathology developed on the base of static image telepathology which has been performed due to relative shortage of pathologists in rural area. Many big hospitals do not have full-time pathologist, and even the hospitals do have full-time pathologist, most of them are working alone. To backup these isolated pathologists, we are now working on government to cover the fee to remote double-check of pathology diagnosis using digital images. At least, this requires monitor diagnosis. So, we delivered “Guidance to make pathology diagnosis using digital pathology images” last year based on the know-how obtained by telepathology. Now we are trying to expand this relatively simple guidance to evidence-based-guideline.
Deep Learning Nuclear Segmentation and Classification for Analysis of Lung Cytology Cell Blocks
Paul G. O'Reilly1, Peter Bankhead1, Jim Diamond1, Peter W. Hamilton1
1Computational Pathology, Discovery and Education, Digital Pathology Solutions, Philips, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Email: paul.oreilly@philips.com
Background: Cell-block preparation of lung cytology samples obtained by needle aspiration is beneficial in providing diagnostic information in lung cancer and is used to provide material for molecular testing of mutations. One of the challenges in carrying out molecular testing is ensuring sufficient tumor nuclear material in the sample macrodissected for downstream analysis. This is typically carried out by a trained pathologist, but there is evidence for large variability in the estimation of tumor cell percentage by pathologists. Automated methods of identifying tumor-rich regions for macrodissection offer benefits in reduced variability in lung histology specimens. The objective of this work is to investigate a novel Deep Learning method of identifying tumor cell nuclei in whole slide images of lung cytology cell block specimens. Deep Learning is a data-driven machine learning approach to image classification and segmentation which has shown considerable utility in image processing, including increasingly in Computational Pathology applications. Methods: We propose a detailed annotation process for obtaining ground truth data from cell block images, which are used to train a Convolutional Neural Network and validated against an unseen set of annotations obtained from the same set of slide images. Results: Pixel-level accuracy metric allows performance quantification, ranging from 63.8%-99.7% (mean = 90.0%) for the validation set. Conclusions: The algorithm, applied to whole slide images, provides a slide-level segmentation of tumor and non-tumor nuclei. Using simple peak detection, it can provide an estimate of tumor nuclei/non-tumor nuclei ratio across the slide.
Use of Digital Pathology to Improve Diagnostic Accuracy in Breast Cancer Reporting to a Qualified Clinical Data Registry Measure Collection by CMS
Sandra Martins1, Patricia Goede1, Zaibo Li2, Anil Parwani2
1Research and Development–Informatics, XIFIN, Inc., San Diego, CA, 2Department of Pathology, Wexner Medical Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA. E-mail: anil.parwani@osumc.edu
Background: Qualified Clinical Data Registries (QCDR) capture quality measures as part of PQRS. A QCDR is a CMS-approved entity that collects medical and/or clinical data for patient and disease tracking to foster improvement in the quality of care provided to patients. Accurate reporting to a QCDR is dependent on review of digital pathology as a critical component to pathology diagnosis and the ability to report accurate CPT and ICD codes that can drive reporting to a QCDR. Methods: IRB approval was obtained for a retrospective review of 60 randomly selected breast pathology reports that were diagnosed at Ohio State University. All cases, including review of slides by digital pathology was included with the pathology report for an accurate and appropriately coded diagnosis. Breast histologic type pT, pN was included to meet the CMS requirement for quality reporting. Results: The OSU study consisted of 60 Breast randomly selected pathology reports and mix of race and positive and negative results. Lack of CPT codes for ER/PR negative results along with proper stage reporting presents challenges in the QCDR. 36 cases were ER/PR positive while the remaining cases were mixed. Conclusions: Pathologists remuneration will be calculated on the quality of information submitted to CMS. Operations may be hindered to accurately submit data to a QCDR. As the quality scores will be made public, reputations may be negatively impacted. The use of digital pathology improves quality as part of the overall clinical information system and is a key component to accurate reporting to CMS.
Pattern Recognition and Quantification of Hepatic Fibrosis in NASH Preclinical Models Using Deep-Learning Based Image Analysis
Elton Rexhepaj1,2, Nathalie Degallaix1,2, Benoit Noel1,2, Carole Belanger1,2, Robert Walczak1,2, Sophie Megnien1,2, Bart Staels1,2, Dean Hum1,2, John Brozek1,2
1Data Scientist, GENFIT, Loos, 2Institute Pasteur de Lille, University Lille 2, Lille, France. E-mail: elton.rexhepaj@genfit.com
Background: Digital pathology has been transformed in recent years by the development of whole-slide imaging systems. Although the assessment of advanced liver fibrosis is generally made with good accuracy, the quantification of early stages of fibrosis (e.g. perisinusoidal fibrosis) is challenging with moderated inter-observer agreement (κ=0.5) (2). Deep-learning pattern recognition algorithms have recently shown to be able to capture accurately both micro and macro tissue patterns, mimicking the diagnostic workflow of the human pathologist (3). The aim of this work was to establish a fully integrated and automated pipeline for the assessment of NASH fibrosis staging using liver picro-sirius sections. Methods: Digital glass slides were processed to extract high magnification representations (4x, 2μm). A deep-learning model was constructed based on 683 fields of view (FOV, 512x512 pixels) representing the main histological patterns of NASH fibrosis (1: Negative-collagen, 2: Perisinusoidal-collagen, 3: Periportal-collagen, 4:Vascular-collagen, 5:Bridge-collagen) divided into a training set (N=511) and a validation set (N=172). Results: We show how a deep-learning framework can be used to automatically recognize: (a) collagen-negative regions (88% accuracy across 155 FOVs), (b) vascular regions (86% accuracy across 155 FOVs), (c) collagen-positive portal-triad (88% accuracy across 99 FOVs), (d) collagen-positive sinusoids (79% accuracy across 119 FOVs), (e) bridging fibrosis (99% accuracy across 155 FOVs). Conclusion: We made use of a deep-learning algorithm to detect fibrosis; more complex algorithms to evaluate ballooning and lobular inflammation stages are still under development and should help in assessment of NASH disease activity and the overall liver histology in the near future.
The Artificial Pathologist: Deep Learning Automatically Identifies Pathologically Significant Features
Drew Linsley1, Thomas Serre1, Anthony Magliocco2, Daryoush Saeed-Vafa2
1Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences, Brown University, Brown Institute for Brain Science, Providence, RI, 2Department of Anatomic Pathology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA. E-mail: daryoush.saeed-vafa@moffitt.org
Background: Computer vision-assisted histopathological analysis has great potential for automating pathological diagnoses and improving prognoses. These tools often draw upon domain expertise to target biologically significant morphology. In contrast, state-of-the-art artificial vision typically leverages deep convolutional networks (DCN), which automatically learn to detect optimal features for the task at hand. Here we measure DCN performance and identify the morphological features they use for diagnosing metastatic breast cancer in lymph nodes (LN) on whole slide images (WSI). Methods: A DCN was trained to distinguish benign from malignant image patches extracted from 260 annotated, hematoxylin and eosin stained, LN WSIs. Performance was evaluated as malignancy detection accuracy on WSI image patches held-out from training. Morphological features used by the DCN were identified with layerwise-relevance propagation (LRP). Results: The DCN was 98% accurate in detecting malignancy after approximately 50 epochs of full-dataset training. LRP identified the features it used, which highlighted nuclear size and cherry-red nucleoli. Conclusions: Joining others, we find strong evidence that DCNs are well-suited for screening LNs for malignancy. However, it has been unclear if DCNs use similar morphology as pathologists for this task. We demonstrate that DCNs automatically learn pathologically significant features during training to screen LNs for malignancy. To our knowledge, this is the first study systematically examining how DCNs achieve their performance in WSI analysis. By opening up the DCN black-box we find that DCNs use qualitatively similar features to pathologists for diagnosis, validating their tissue screening performance and demonstrating their transformative potential for computational pathology.
Qualitopix: Automated Quality Assessment of the HER2 Receptor
Stine Harder1, Astrid Ottosen1, Andreas Schønau1, Keith Miller2
1A/S, Visiopharm, Hørsholm, Denmark, 2Director, United Kingdom National External Quality Assessment Service, London, United Kingdom. E-mail: asc@visiopharm.com
Background: Immunohistochemistry is an important tool in patient diagnostics, and external quality assessment (EQA) of immunoassays is essential to obtain optimal and comparable results. EQA is usually carried out by 4 independent expert assessors using a multiheaded microscope. Occasionally there are discrepancies, and this can be due to the volume of slides that are being assessed. Digital image analysis (DIA) may support EQA by extracting useful information to provide objective and standardized results. Our method is one step in the direction of using DIA for automatic quality assessment. Methods: The data consisted of four HER2 cell lines with various HER2 expression used in the UKNeqas RUN 111. The slides were immunostained by 54 laboratories for HER2 and assessed by pathologists at UKNeqas as poor (7), borderline (6), good (16), and optimal (25), with poor being insufficient and the remaining categories sufficient. DIA was furthermore used to analyze the cell lines with respect to five different characteristics; amount of membrane staining, intensity of membrane staining, intensity of cytoplasm, intensity of nucleus, and number of small fragments/artefacts. The DIA results assessed the laboratories as insufficient or sufficient using an individual threshold value for each core and characteristic. Results: Agreement between DIA and pathologist assessment was found for 97% of the laboratories assessed as poor or optimal by the pathologist and for 77% of the laboratories including the intermediate categories, borderline and good. The intermediate categories also showed the largest inter-pathologist variance, why it is not surprising that the DIA algorithm has the lowest agreement for those assessments. Furthermore, a dataset including more insufficient cases would be needed for a better training of the algorithm. Conclusion: Our image analysis method for quantifying staining sufficiency using HER2 cell lines shows a promising step in the direction of using DIA for quality assessment.
A 3-year Report on Whole Slide Imaging Program for Clinical Slide Archiving
Matthew Suriawinata1, Heather Warren1, Gerald Jackman1, Laura Gordon1
1Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA. Email: matthewsuriawinata@gmail.com
Background: Although whole slide imaging has been widely adopted, its implementation in a clinical pathology practice remains challenging. The Department of Pathology at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) has successfully implemented a routine whole slide scanning (WSS) for archiving in the past 3 years. Methods: The Department of Pathology at DHMC has been performing WSS program for archiving since 2014, initially using two Leica SCN400 scanners, which were replaced by two Leica AT2's and one CS2, employing the same workflow. One to four pertinent cytopathology, dermatopathology, surgical pathology and consultation slides, are selected and documented in pathology report. These slides are submitted for scanning, immediately after the case was signed out. Whole slide images (WSI) are reviewed for quality and uploaded to hospital data center. Scanned slides are marked and filed in the slide storage room. Reasons for retrieval of scanned slides are recorded. Results: The total numbers of slides scanned were 29,066 (2014), 43,214 (2015), 48,090 (2016), representing 19%, 42%, and 46% of clinical cases respectively. The average turnaround time for routine and priority scanning were 24 and 0.5 hours. The service requires 0.75 FTE support and is managed by histotechnologists due to familiarity on histology quality control. All pathologists now rely on WSI for review and secondary diagnosis. Storage of WSI files at hospital data center ensures security and reliability. Conclusion: WSS can be integrated to a busy pathology service, with a well-designed workflow and reliable histotechnologist support. The program familiarizes pathologists with WSI in preparation for primary diagnosis in the future.
Computational Discovery of Tissue Morphology Biomarker for Very Long-Term Survivors with Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma
Jacob S. Sarnecki1,2, Laura D. Wood3,4, Ralph H. Hruban3,4, Anirban Maitra5,6, Denis Wirtz1,2,4, Pei-Hsun Wu1,2
1Johns Hopkins Physical Sciences-Oncology Center, The Johns Hopkins University, 2Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, 3Department of Pathology, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 4Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, 5Department of Translational Molecular Pathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 6Sheikh Ahmed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Center for Pancreatic Cancer Research, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA. E-mail: pwu27@jhu.edu
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is one of the deadliest forms of cancer, with an average 5-year survival rate of only 8%. Within PDAC patients, however, there is a small subset of patients that are able to survive for more than 10 years. Deciphering underlying reasons behinds prolonged survival potentially provide new opportunity to treat PDAC and yet, no genomic, transcriptomic, proteomic, or clinical signatures have been found to robustly separate this subset of patients. Digital pathology in combination with machine learning provides the opportunities to computational search the tissue morphology patterns in associating with disease outcome. In this work, we developed the computational framework to analyze whole-slide images (WSI) of PDAC patient tissues and identified the tissue morphology signatures for very long term surviving patients. Our result indicates that low tissue morphology heterogeneity is significantly linked to better survival. Furthermore, regionally extra-tumoral tissue encodes prognostic information for patient survival. Based on information from both tissue morphology as well as tissue heterogeneity in tumor and its adjacent area we established a machine learning model with an AUC of 0.94. In sum, our study demonstrates a pathway to accelerate the discovery of undetermined tissue morphology in association with pathogenesis states and patient outcome for prognosis and diagnosis by utilizing computational approach with digital pathology.
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Action feature: Equipped with a firing missile, spring action ejection seat, and electronic sounds. Comes with exclusive Alan Grant and Velociraptor figures.
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Description: this motorcycle is quite detailed and looks pretty realistic. It’s mostly greenish brown with black highlights and a silver engine. Its tires are painted dark grey. A JP III logo can be found on the left side of the bike, along with some scratches on either side of the bike (appearing some vicious dinosaur attacked it). It comes with a yellow sticker with the InGen logo on it, which is supposed to be put on the right side of the bike, showing this vehicle is in InGen’s service.
Since I’m not a bike expert I’ll have to skip getting all technical on this toy. Suffice to say, it produces three funky sounds. The first can be made by moving the front part of the bike: by doing so, it will make bike noises. A second sound, which is basically a longer version of the first sound with some new details, can be produced by moving the same part of the bike several times, though I’m not entirely sure how many times because it doesn’t always work with me. A third sound can be made by activating the dino damage option: pushing the end part of the bike causes the seat to leap up, launching any figure which happens to sit on it, and produces some recognizable Raptor shrieks and crashing sounds, like a Raptor attacked the bike (which is of course what the designers undoubtedly had in mind).
A small gun can be attached to the front part of the bike, but it can also be used as a loose gun. This gun is painted black with a green button, and a green missile. Unlike most of Hasbro’s guns for this toy line, the rocket can be fired by simply pushing the button, instead of the dismal mechanism we encountered with the guns that came with the human figures.
The Alan Grant figure is quite similar to the loose Grant figure of this toy line. The head sculpt is the same, but the clothes are different. This figure sports a blue shirt and dark green pants, along with brown gloves, a light green belt, black shoes and a red bandana. A slight tear adorns his right leg, like Grant has had an unfortunate encounter with a dinosaur yet got away with it. The figure stands in a neutral position, and unlike the other figures it has extra joints in his legs, so these can move in multiple positions.
The Velociraptor figure has a simple paint job compared to most of the JP III Raptor figures. It’s mostly beige, with black spots and stripes all over its body. Especially noticeable are the cross shaped spots on its upper legs. It has bright yellow eyes with a red spot around them. Strangely enough, its lower jaw is slightly longer than his upper jaw. A black JP III logo can be found on its left leg. Its claws are not coloured differently than the rest of its body. It also has a dino damage wound on its tail, exposing bones and muscles. The Raptor stands in a stalking position and its tail is bent. Pressing the back of its head causes the head to move forward and open its mouth, as if making a biting move.
Analysis: this is quite a cool play set and certainly one of Hasbro’s best JP products. It has a lot of options and is pretty detailed. The bike is a real beauty with very cool options. It’s always cool to put the Grant figure in the seat and launch it in the air by pressing the rear end of the bike, even though the Raptor sounds are a bit odd if you’re not using the Raptor. The bike sounds add some believability to this vehicle. Also nice is the addition of a small retractable piece on the underside of the bike, so the bike can stand straight up. Such a neat little feature was certainly missed with Kenner’s Dino Snare Dirt Bike. The paint job of this bike is not too detailed, but that way it doesn’t get too busy. The detachable gun is quite good as well: it would be unfortunate if it couldn’t be used loose. The figure can also hold the gun, so he isn’t dependant on the bike for any much needed weaponry to fight off his prehistoric pursuers. It’s a good thing Hasbro decided to use the classic firing mechan ism for this gun and not the one they used for the weapons that came with the human figures. This mechanism actually works right and launches a rocket in a straight line with a good hard impact on any dinosaur figure in its path.
The Alan Grant figure is a fine sculpt too. The neutral pose doesn’t make it look as ridiculous as the other human figures, which all take on the most annoying stances. The extra joints in the legs allow for greater playability. It also makes it look more convincing when this figure is riding the bike. Though it still doesn’t resemble Sam Neill all that much, it’s a nice figure by Hasbro’s standards.
The Velociraptor is less impressive, unfortunately. This figure does stand in a awkward stalking position, making it appear a bit fat. It’s also a real shame the claws aren’t coloured differently from the rest of its body. The head is pretty ugly, especially because of the weird lower jaw which is way too long. The overall paint job of this creature is not very good either: though it’s good its colouring is not as extreme as most of Hasbro’s other Raptor sculpts, in this case its too dull. The dino strike action also doesn’t do much, and looks a bit silly. And almost all of Hasbro’s dinosaur figures it has a dino damage wound that can’t be covered up: as always, it’s a real nuisance, and this case is no exception.
Playability: the bike sure has a few good playability options, no doubt there. The Grant figure is also a lot better than most of the other human figures, mostly because of the joints in his legs and the neutral position. Unfortunately the Raptor is disappointing by comparison, and reminds us of some of the electronic deluxe dinosaurs of this toy line which were also a letdown. It has moveable body parts, not only its limbs, but also the head and even the tail (though putting the tail in a different pose makes the figure look completely silly): but it’s still not a great Raptor. Keep in mind this vehicle is electronic: if you want to keep it in working condition, don’t go playing to wildly with it.
Likeness: there were no bikes in JP III. There were however bikes used by the InGen hunters (hence the InGen logo sticker) in TLW, though none of these had guns. But those bikes were pretty similar to this bicycle in design and colour. Anyway, this vehicle looks like any good bike should. Like stated above the Grant figure doesn’t resemble Sam Neill much, nor does the clothing look like the outfit Grant sported in JP III (at least as far as the colours are concerned). Once again Grant’s distinctive cowboy hat is sorely missed. The dinosaur figure is recognizable as a Velociraptor, but isn’t very reminiscent in shape of the JP III Raptors: however, the paint job looks a lot like the colours we saw on the female Raptor in JP III, which had the same black spots (even the cross shaped ones) on a similar beige skin.
Repaint: no. However, both the Raptor and the Grant figure would be repainted and used in this same JP III toy line for the Raptor Attack Play Set. Fortunately this is the only case of repainting toys within this toy line.
Overall rating: 8/10. Even though the Raptor is far from the best dinosaur sculpt I’ve ever seen, fact remains the motorcycle is a great toy and the gun and Grant figure are also quite good. It has many playability options compared to most of Hasbro’s toys and is a great play set in itself. It’s worth getting (at least if you’re a bit open to Hasbro’s JP works), but it isn’t always findable. You may have to search for it a bit, and it might not be the cheapest toy around, but I would say it’s worth any JP fan’s while.
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For the overall benefit the academic fraternity of Nepal, LBEF Group of Institutions (1st IT College of Nepal) organized the “1st International Conference on Advances in Engineering, Technology and Contemporary Management Trends (ICAETCMT-19)” on 20th September at Hotel Annapurna Kathmandu which attracted researchers, academicians and industry experts of Nepal and worldwide to join a collaborative forum for discussions and exchanges of ideas and recent innovations.
The Inauguration Session started with the welcome speech by Conference Patron and Executive Director, LBEF Group of Institutions, Er. Prakash Kumar. He welcomed all dignified guests, speakers and participants from India, Sri Lanka and different parts of Nepal.
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The Chief Guest of Conference, Hon’ble Sri Ganesh Shah, ex-Minister for Environment, Science and Technology briefed about the history of computers and its changing roles in modern society. He advocated the need of more research in the areas of engineering, Sciences and technology for the betterment of human life while considering environmental concerns.
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The post lunch session i.e. the technical session was one of the major highlight of conference in which more than 15 research papers were presented by different presenters from different parts of world i.e. Sri Lanka, India and Nepal. Two of students of LBEF Group of Institutions i.e. Manoj Kumar Giri, M.Sc. ITM student presented his project thesis work in form of research papers which was focused on emerging role of social media in crisis management. Also, Ms. Astha Shrestha, student of B.Sc. (CS&SE) Patan College For Professional Studies presented her paper on Agriculture analytics.
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Although Yang Chen knew a thing or two regarding Panther Mercenary Group, due to him being based mainly in China, he hadn’t had many interactions with them before. He wasn’t bothered by the seemingly severely injured man who was beaten unconscious. He bypassed the strong man and walked into the entertainment lounge.
Upon setting foot in the hall filled with colorful lights, Yang Chen instantly identified the perpetrator of the incident earlier.
Four strong men similarly from Panther were blocking four Caucasians dressed in blue leather jackets.
Judging from their appearance, Yang Chen guessed that they were from Blue Storm of USA. We really are fated to meet, aren’t we? Yang Chen sighed helplessly. They really have everything to do with anything. They were involved in the matter at Tibet and Japan’s Nijo Castle. It seems as though they are here yet again to disrupt this secret meeting.
However, Yang Chen wasn’t interested in jumping on the bandwagon. Pretending to be a passerby, he walked past them and sat down at a nearby bar.
“Get me a glass of Jack Daniel's,” ordered Yang Chen. He had asked for the most common whiskey in America from the bartender to match the situation as he quietly sat and waited for the whole situation to unfold.
The bartender was specially picked from the military, so he wasn’t frightened by the fighting scene outside. Professionally, he got Yang Chen’s drink done in no time.
Yang Chen looked at the eight people in an argument and felt bored. They’ve already started to fight, why are they wasting time talking now? They should continue instead, he thought.
“You sure look like you’re gloating over their conflict.” A female voice familiar to Yang Chen could be heard.
Yang Chen turned his head to have a look before getting surprised. “Abbess?”
Two seats away, the middle-aged beautiful woman dressed in a black-red dress could be seen holding a glass of champagne, seated silently. She was Abbess Yun Miao whom Yang Chen had met right before leaving China!
The reason Yang Chen failed to realize that Abbess Yun Miao was so close to him was due to her appearance. He merely swept his gaze across the place and didn’t manage to recognize her.
Abbess Yun Miao currently looked nothing like the daoist nun that he pegged her with. Her hair was tied up in a bun behind her head, causing her to look rather young relative to her age. The crow’s feet on her face were covered, and she wore a delicate pearl necklace on her neck. Dressed in a black-red chiffon dress, she exuded a noble and elegant aura.
Although Abbess Yun Miao was in her sixties, due to her profound internal energy which would improve her appearance, it wouldn’t be an overstatement at all to say she appeared to be a mature woman in her forties.
Having taken a closer look, Yang Chen couldn’t help but feel sad for the old folk Lin Zhiguo. You had such a beautiful wife, why didn’t you cherish her back then? he thought.
Abbess Yun Miao flushed in anger when she was gazed upon by Yang Chen. “Brat, behave yourself. I’m in the same generation as your grandmother. Why are you staring at me like this?!”
Yang Chen hurriedly waved his head. Smiling bitterly, he said, “Abbess please don’t misread my intentions. Although you look rather fetching as of now, and even stunning among the ones of your age, I hold no intentions toward you. You mustn’t worry, otherwise the misunderstanding would be huge. I’m just taken aback seeing as though this is my first time seeing you dress like this.”
“Humph.” Abbess Yun Miao felt a little more at ease. She was aware of just how horny Yang Chen was, and had felt that sending her granddaughter Hui Lin to him was a huge mistake. However, what was done couldn’t be undone. She had held regret for his senior brother Song Tianxing, which was the regret she had borne with till this day. However, if Yang Chen was so absurd that he even held intentions for herself, an old bone, she would definitely retrieve Hui Lin back even if it meant that she had to worsen her relations with Yang Chen.
“I’m basically the only representative sent from Yellow Flame Iron Brigade to attend the secret meeting. I would attract lots of attention had I worn a martial arts robe here, so it’s better for me to put on a relatively normal clothing,” explained Abbess Yun Miao.
Yang Chen nodded as he felt that it made sense. Walking on the streets openly as a daoist nun would be a lot more eye-catching than an ordinary woman. Furthermore, Abbess Yun Miao even had the Lin clan to take care of nowadays. Being the clan master, she couldn’t just wear the robe all day.
Yun Miao squinted her eyes again to look at Yang Chen. “I initially thought you wouldn't come. You’ve been notified for the Sword of Thanatos, haven’t you? I believe you’re here for the sword, am I right?”
Yang Chen shook his head. “I’m not interested in that. I’m just here to join in the fun, and there’s something I’m worried about. I am here incase my suspicions are true.”
Abbess Yun Miao could tell that Yang Chen was indeed unbothered about the sword, so she didn’t ask more questions. Yang Chen didn’t look like he wanted to explain anyway.
“Abbess, have you been here watching the incident? How did that happen?” Yang Chen asked casually.
Abbess Yun Miao raised her head to point at the Panther Mercenary Group, saying, “The big guy who was kicked out earlier wanted to hit on the woman from Blue Storm, but not only did she reject him, she joked about him with her three other teammates which provoked the big guy. As a result, he started a fight, but wasn’t able to defeat the four people from Blue Storm. When you arrived earlier, he had been kicked by the tallest American.”
“Oh…” Yang Chen looked at the sparsely seated guests and smiled. “Everyone is seated calmly. I guess they’re all watching the performance.”
“These unwise men from Panther will not win Blue Storm whose all four members are genetically mutated powerusers. I cannot understand their desire to continue arguing. Sigh…”
Listening to Yun Miao’s sigh, Yang Chen swallowed a mouthful of whiskey and murmured, “That isn’t necessarily the case…”
Abbess Yun Miao could more or less hear Yang Chen, but didn’t take him seriously. Looking at the four men, she shook her head once again.
At this moment, the four from Panther were enraged. Facing Blue Storm’s unapologetic attitude, even if they didn’t want to make a scene on the cruise, they couldn’t just sit there and absorb all the insults.
“Damn Americans, do you think you’re better than us?! I’ll give you one last chance. Kneel down and admit your mistake to Sloth!” a bald man yelled and pointed at the big guy who had woken up from unconsciousness.
The codename of the dark-skinned man who was kicked earlier was Sloth. He sat on a chair near the entrance and panted slightly while staring furiously at Blue Storm.
“Are you an idiot? Or have you guys all become orangutans now that the forests have increased?” mocked a brown-haired lady from Blue Storm. “You shouldn’t hit on me if you can’t even withstand a normal kick, let alone ask for an apology.”
“Millie, stop wasting your time by talking to them,” said the tall man who had struck the kick earlier disdainfully. “Piss off. Otherwise I’ll send the rest of you flying as well.”
The eyes of the four men were filled with fury. “This is ridiculous! You guys started a fight just because Sloth decided to open his mouth. Don’t think that we’d be afraid of you! We’ll fight you with our lives for justice!”
Upon the baldy finished speaking, a silhouette suddenly flashed and appeared before him. Soon, his shoulder was suddenly grasped by an arm which had exerted a little strength before letting go instantly.
“Ahh!” shouted the baldy in agony. He then kneeled on the ground before gripping his shoulder which was attacked.
“Allen, don’t you think he has spoken enough? Just do something already,” said a skinny man to the tall American. He was the one who had appeared in front of the baldy. He wore a pair of sunglasses and had a little moustache on his face.
“Bastard! What did you do to Rhinoceros?!” shouted the baldy’s teammates.
The man in sunglasses snorted with contempt. “Nothing much. I just crushed a few pieces of the bones in his shoulder.”
His words had instantly infuriated the three mercenaries. All of them posed a fighting stance and pounced at the members of Blue Storm.
Unfortunately, despite being elites among mercenaries, they were evidently much more inferior to the powerusers of Blue Storm.
Before one of them could reach the tall American, he raised his foot and struck at the direction of the oncoming mercenary’s chest, standing one meter away.
The mercenary felt an unknown, shapeless force and was flung outside, just like what had happened to Sloth earlier, hitting on the steel wall around ten meters away!
The lady called Millie seemed relaxed. She merely opened her lips and murmured something when she was faced with the mercenary who leaped toward her.
Almost making contact with Millie, the body of the big guy suddenly froze before he quickly covered his ears and fell on the ground, rolling on it painfully.
Crack! The bone-cracking sound could be heard coming from the arm of the final mercenary who had targeted the man in sunglasses…
All the bones throughout his palm had been crushed in the blink of an eye!
Abbess Yun Miao fronwed as she witnessed the utter defeat of the Panther. “They’re no match for Blue Storm. The powerusers have utilized sound waves which could trigger the brain, vibration strong enough to crush bones, and use a force capable of travelling through the air. Not a single one of them moved a muscle. No matter how good the mercenaries are in wild combats involving firearms, they would never defeat Blue Storm at close range.”
Most of the surrounding guests weren’t surprised by the show. Blue Storm from USA, while not as strong as the ‘authentic’ Sword in the Stone, relied on their extremely advanced gene-mutating technology. Although their members weren’t the strongest, they had always held the strongest group in the world. On the other hand, most of the members from the Sword in the Stone had inherited bloodlines and talents. While they were much stronger than the powerusers from Blue Storm, they were simply outnumbered by the latter, as it was much easier to genetically mutate people than procreate.
Yang Chen had remained quiet. He poured the alcohol from the glass into his mouth before saying, “Don’t look down on the people from Panther. It’s impossible that just the five of them have come. The key person will arrive really soon.”
Abbess Yun Miao was confused as she didn't understand Yang Chen.
“Oh? They’re here.” Yang Chen pointed at the entrance.
Abbess Yun Miao turned her head to have a look before her eyes were filled with doubt.
It was a weirdly dressed woman with relatively dark skin. Colorful feathers were inserted in her black hair on both sides of her head. She wore a gorgeous dress, similar to those usually worn by Chinese women from rural areas. There were even lines of various colors on the woman’s face which had piqued the curiosity of the occupants in the room. It was what football fans would do, but they usually drew country flags on their faces, while this girl had a mess on her face like a kid’s drawing.
Some people even noticed that the lady walked barefoot into the hall.
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If a member participated in the LABF or in an Illinois reciprocal retirement system1 before January 1, 2011, and participates in LABF after January 1, 2011, then the member is in Tier 1.
The following details are highlights of the “Tier 1” pension benefits:
Eligibility for Employee Annuity
Member is eligible for unreduced minimum formula annuity as follows:
at age 50 with 30 years of service; or
Member is eligible for reduced minimum formula annuity as follows:
at age 55 with 20 years of service; reduction for early retirement equal to ¼ of 1% per month for each full month (equivalent to 3% for each full year) below age 60; or
Member is eligible for a money purchase annuity as follows:
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Minimum formula annuity benefit is 2.4% for each year of service multiplied by highest final average salary
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https://nypost.com/2018/09/06/show-doesnt-go-on-for-dancer-accused-of-sharing-explicit-pics/
Show doesn’t go on for dancer accused of sharing explicit pics
By Cedar Attanasio, Olivia Bensimon and Ruth Brown
September 6, 2018 | 8:23pm
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Amar Ramasar
The show must not go on.
A dancer suspended from the prestigious New York City Ballet over accusations that he shared explicit photos of female ballerinas was replaced in a Broadway show a day after the allegations were aired in an explosive lawsuit.
Amar Ramasar, 36, had been appearing in the revival of “Carousel” at the Imperial Theatre — but the role was given to his understudy David Prottas on Thursday, according to a cast list posted at the playhouse.
Ramasar is a principal dancer in the ballet company, but was suspended without pay last month alongside two other ballet bros over what the company called “inappropriate” texts and emails.
The alleged details of those missives were laid bare Wednesday when a former student at the company’s ballet school sued one of the trio, former principal Chase Finlay, accusing him of trading lewd photos and videos of her with other male dancers for similar snaps of ballerinas.
In her suit, Alexandra Waterbury, 20, claims Ramasar texted Finlay in May requesting “those photos/videos” and her then-boyfriend responded with two of her “engaged in a sexual act.”
He asked for an explicit photo in return, and Ramasar allegedly complied with an image of a female member of the company “bare-chested.”
The two continued to trade “sexual and naked photographs” of female dancers over the rest of the day, according to the suit.
During their exchange, Finlay allegedly acknowledged the photos were taken without the women’s knowledge and the ladies “might be a little pissed,” the suit charges.
Ramasar has been appearing as ne’er-do-well Jigger :p Craigin in the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic, whose big song, ironically, is titled, “There’s Nothin’ So Bad for a Woman.”
He performed in the show Wednesday after the lawsuit hit the headlines — but didn’t emerge afterwards to sign autographs as he had the night before, fans told The Post.
Audience members waiting in line for the Thursday performance said it was disappointing to hear the allegations against a cast member.
“It’s upsetting,” Pace student Jameson May, 20, told The Post.
Neither Ramasar nor PR reps for the show returned requests for comment.
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https://nypost.com/2018/09/07/ballet-dancer-returns-to-stage-after-sexual-misconduct-allegations/
Ballet dancer returns to stage after sexual misconduct allegations
By Kenneth Garger, Kevin Fasick and Ruth Brown
September 7, 2018 | 11:44pm
A dancer suspended from the New York City Ballet over accusations that he traded lewd images of female ballerinas returned to his Broadway show on Friday — just days after the scandal came to light.
Amar Ramasar, 36, was replaced by an understudy in Thursday’s performance of “Carousel” at the *Imperial Theatre — a day after the shocking allegations, detailed in a lawsuit, became public.
But on Friday, Ramasar told The Post he would be treading the boards as Jigger Craigin in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical once again. :mad:
The news got the thumbs-down from some theater-goers.
“Honestly, I don’t think he should be performing. I’m just thinking about the other women in the cast. Do they feel comfortable?” Joy Birdsong, 56, of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, said before Friday’s show. “It’s unfortunate because he’s a phenomenal dancer.”
Others said the show must go on.
“Innocent until proven guilty, right?” said a man who identified himself only as Charlie. “Let’s get the facts. Let the man dance.”
Ramasar, a principal dancer in the ballet company, was suspended without pay for the rest of the season, alongside two other dancers, over “inappropriate” texts and e-mails.
The company said it investigated and found “that each man had violated the norms of conduct that New York City Ballet expects from its employees.”
The details of those missives were revealed Wednesday when a former student at the company’s ballet school sued one of the three, her ex-boyfriend Chase Finlay, alleging he traded explicit photos and videos of her with other dancers, staffers and donors.
In her suit, Alexandra Waterbury claims Ramasar texted Finlay in May asking for “those photos/videos” and her then-boyfriend responded with two of her “engaged in a sexual act.”
Ramasar allegedly responded with an image of a female member of the company “bare-chested,” and the two traded “sexual and naked photographs” of dancers over the rest of the day.
During their conversation, Finlay allegedly acknowledged the photos were taken without the women’s consent and the ballerinas “might be a little pissed,” *according to the suit.
Ramasar declined to comment on the allegations Friday, and reps for “Carousel” did not return *requests for comment.
https://nypost.com/2018/09/15/new-york-city-ballet-dancers-fired-over-sex-misconduct-accusations/
New York City Ballet dancers fired over explicit photo scandal
By Melkorka Licea and Melissa Klein
September 15, 2018 | 4:14pm | Updated
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Zachary Catazaro and Amar Ramasar
Two male principal dancers were fired by the New York City Ballet Saturday morning after they were cited in a lawsuit for allegedly trading explicit photos of female ballerinas.
Zachary Catazaro, 29, and Amar Ramasar, 36, were both booted from the company for good after being suspended Aug. 27 for “inappropriate communications,” officials confirmed. :D
The move is in response to an explosive suit filed on Sept. 5 by student-dancer Alexandra Waterbury, 20, against the company — which she called a “breeding ground for sexual exploitation” — and her ex-boyfriend, dancer Chase Finlay, 28.
She alleges her former flame kick-started the X-rated photo exchanges between Catazaro and Ramasar when he wrote, “You have any pictures of girls you’ve f–ked? I’ll send you some [hot] ballerina girls I’ve made scream,” to a group of men in the company.
Finlay — who resigned from NYCB last month — then sent some men in the group, including Ramasar, photos and video clips of their sexual encounters that he’d secretly recorded, the Manhattan Supreme Court suit states.
In response, Ramasar reportedly sent back a picture of a ballet dancer’s breasts.
Waterbury also accused Catazaro of exchanging lewd photos with Finlay, but did not detail the contents in the suit.
The company determined the ballet stars — though not named as defendants in the suit — should be fired after conducting an investigation and weighing community concerns.
“We will not allow the private actions of a few to undermine the hard work and strength of character that is consistently demonstrated by the other members of our community or the excellence for which the Company stands,” NYCB Executive Director Katherine Brown and Interim Artistic Team leader Jonathan Stafford said in a joint statement. “A workplace where our dancers and staff feel respected and valued is our highest obligation.”
Catazaro, in a statement to Broadway World, said he is “deeply saddened” by his termination and argued that he never saw any photos of Waterbury,
“Firstly, I want to clarify that I did not initiate, was not involved in, or associated with any of Alexandra Waterbury’s personal material that was allegedly shared with others,” his statement says.
“Although I was initially suspended for other private and personal communications, the NYCB dancers’ union — AGMA (American Guild of Musical Artists) — maintains that these communications were during off-work hours, and do not justify termination.”
He argued that this “could happen to anyone, in any profession, when personal and private communications are involved” and insisted he wasn’t trying to “harm or embarrass anyone.”
He hopes the union will help get his contract reinstated.
Ramasar told the New York Times, “In the days ahead, I will be telling my story.” :rolleyes:
https://nypost.com/2019/04/19/male-ballet-dancers-fired-over-explicit-photo-scandal-should-get-jobs-back-arbitrator/
Male ballet dancers fired over explicit photo scandal should get jobs back: arbitrator
By Melissa Klein and Priscilla DeGregory
April 19, 2019 | 6:51pm | Updated April 19, 2019 | 7:40pm
Two male New York City Ballet dancers who were fired for allegedly trading explicit photos of ballerinas should be given their jobs back, an arbitrator ruled Friday.
Zachary Catazaro and Amar Ramasar were booted from the company in September after student-dancer Alexandra Waterbury filed a lawsuit against the company and her ex-boyfriend dancer Chase Finlay.
She claims that Finlay started an explicit photo exchange of ballerinas — at one point even telling the other male dancers, “I bet we could tie some of them up and abuse them … like farm animals,” the suit says.
Catazaro, 29, and Ramasar, 37, were not named as defendants in the lawsuit.
Their union protested their firing, prompting the arbitration.
Catazaro — who worked with the ballet company for more than 10 years — said Friday that although he feels “vindicated,” he wouldn’t be taking his job back.
He is currently working with a dance company in Munich, Germany.
“I am grateful and relieved that the arbitrator has found the New York City Ballet’s abrupt termination of my contract to be wrongful and unjust,” Catazaro said in a statement. “After considering the situation I have decided to respectfully decline my reinstatement, and I will not be returning to NYCB.” :D
Ramasar said in a statement that he would be returning to work at the New York City Ballet. :mad:
“I am beyond gratified to have been awarded through the arbitration process, immediate reinstatement as Principal Dancer with the New York City Ballet,” he said.
“As I move forward, learning, and evolving, I am eager to once again dance amongst the colleagues I respect, doing the ballets I have held close to my heart for the past 18 years.
“My deepest apologies and thanks to Alexa Maxwell for her understanding and support.”
The American Guild of Musical Artists — which fronted the legal bill for the pair — said in a statement, “This was a complicated situation. We pursued this case because it’s important to us that your employer is prevented from taking extreme and potentially career-ending action based on non-criminal activity in your private life.”
Waterbury’s lawsuit claimed that Finlay, 28, sent to someone a naked photo of her captioned, “You have any pictures of girls you’ve f—ked? I’ll send you some [hot] ballerina girls I’ve made scream.”
Finlay — who resigned from NYCB — allegedly then sent secretly recorded video clips and photos of his sexual encounters with the women to a group of men including Ramasar, who reportedly sent back a photo of a dancer’s breast, the suit charged.
Catazaro also allegedly exchanged lewd pictures with Finlay, the suit claimed.
NYCB did not return a request for comment Friday.
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Non-profit housing receives tax relief
November 9, 2011 Editor News
South Dundas council showed that it can be flexible and open to making amendments when necessary.
At the November 1st council meeting, Treasurer Shannon Geraghty, requested that council make an amendment to a previous resolution passed in October of 2007.
The original resolution approved a “grant-in-lieu amount of $153,192 over 20 years to the Affordable Housing Program project on Hess Street in Williamsburg,” which meant that from 2008 to 2027 “the difference between multi-residential and residential to a maximum of $7,659.60 per year” would be granted.
As Geraghty pointed out, “those (actual tax) amounts fluctuate from year to year.”
“This year,” he continued, “the amount we allotted to them doesn’t cover the difference between multi-residential and residential.”
He acknowledge that it’s a “hard number to come up with (and they’ll need to) deal with it year by year in the budget.”
Adding the increase to the rent rates would put “the agreement with the Province for the Affordable Housing Program in contravention.”
South Dundas Mayor Steven Byvelds admitted that the requested action would “probably cost a few dollars, but (would) keep us in compliance with the province.”
He agreed that the requested amendment would “make the whole idea behind (the resolution) flow better.”
Council unanimously passed the amendment and the resolution now reads: “THAT the Council of the Township of South Dundas provide a payment-in-lieu for the difference in the amount paid between the Multi-Residential versus Residential for the municipal portion only to the Williamsburg Non-Profit Housing Corporation for a period of 19 years including the 2011 taxation year.”
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The “Berceau” Room
The “Berceau” Room takes its name from the decorative motif on the vault that simulates a pergola.
At the centre there used to be a panel, painted by Domenico Del Frate, of putti fluttering around the Torlonia coat of arms. The walls were once decorated with views by Giovan Battista Caretti, but they have all been lost.
Low reliefs by Antonio Canova
The three stucco reliefs by Antonio Canova (originally there were ten) were inserted in the walls of the Salle à manger in the Palace of Villa Torlonia.
They were still in place in 1829 when the Villa was inherited from Giovanni by Alessandro Torlonia, but were lost during the redecoration of the room and its transformation into a “Ballroom”. This took place during the renovation of the building by Giovan Battista Caretti, works that began in 1832.
Fortunately, three of the ten reliefs were found in 1997 in the rooms under the Theatre. They have been identified as copies (with some variations) of the series known through other examples that are today in the Museo Correr in Venice and the collections of the insurance company Assicurazioni Generali.
The reliefs are of Socrates drinking hemlock (from Plato’s Phaedo), the Death of Priam (from Virgil’s Aeneid) and the Dance of the Phaeacians (from Homer’s Odyssey).
Danza dei Feaci
Morte di Priamo
Socrate che beve la cicuta
La costruzione dell'#AraPacis, su decisione dello stesso Augusto, avvenne nel Campo Marzio settentrionale, in quella zona, prossima al confine sacro della città (pomerium), dove quindici anni prima Ottaviano aveva voluto edificare il suo Mausoleo, la tomb
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Downtown’s Transit Stations: from wastelands to place-lands (Downtown and Southwest Journals of Minneapolis)
Madison Square Park, NYC next to a busy subway and bus transfer point – a model for what a transit station could look be
The warm weather has accelerated our annual rediscovery of the outdoors in downtown and the glory of patios, food trucks, and sunshine. That is unless you were a member of the 40% of downtown workers that walk, bike, or ride transit to work throughout the winter – in which case you’ve been spending time outside all year. Despite making up almost half of downtown’s daytime population, the daily arrival and departure points for these tens of thousands of people are remarkably unwelcoming.
It’s not that all of these transit stops are ugly, dirty or barren – though many are – it’s that so many of them just don’t provide much value to users or surrounding properties. In Christopher Alexander’s Pattern Language (a step by step guide to city-building and placemaking for laymen and professionals alike) he notes that bus stops are an essential part of a city’s fabric, but are often dreary when they are modular units, placed without thought to how they interact with their surroundings and the experience of those waiting there.
This certainly rings true for most of our bus stops in the Downtown core. The worst being those facilities along 7th Street that serve the buses carrying passengers to North Minneapolis and Philips/Powderhorn neighborhoods. Here, the stops with some of the highest ridership offer (essentially) no seating, protection from the sun/wind/cold, maps, or adjacent shops to purchase news, snacks, etc. It’s no wonder that there are so many reports of negative behavior at these stops; the experience is so bad it drives away everyone except for those that have to be there for the buses.
But the poor experiences at bus stops extend to the spiffy and newly installed stations, like along 2nd Avenue, as well. Sure they offer real time arrival information and new, semi-heated, glass enclosed shelters – but they certainly aren’t interesting places to be. The shelters are small, the shade features often misplaced, and they are boring. Waiting for something, whether for an appointment, food, the bus, or otherwise, is one of the most stressful experiences of our day. Studies have shown that humans perceive time to move 2-10x slower than reality when waiting for something to occur.
Certainly a clean facility that protects riders from the elements, with useful and timely information should be the bare minimum for any transit facility. But great cities turn their transit stops into great places, full of life, broad usefulness, and joy.
Turning Transit Stops into Places Where People Want to Be
What can be done to transform our bus and light rail stops into places where people want to be, brining joy and value to riders, visitors, businesses, and property owners alike?
While Metro Transit should be lauded for their recent commitment to expand the number of shelters throughout the system, this wont fix the fundamental problem that almost all of the facilities are ill-adapted to their surroundings and provide no other forms of utility for non-transit riders.
We shouldn’t expect the folks at Metro Transit to know and understand the idiosyncratic needs of every microenvironment around each transit stop. Nor would it be simple for them to apply a uniform maintenance procedure to facilities that were adapted uniquely to each intersection. These factors point to an ultimate solution that re-thinks the way we design, fund, and maintain our public realm: putting the design and care of small transit facilities in the hands of the communities and riders themselves.
An ideal set up could have Metro Transit establish a handful of pilot project sites chosen based on the ability of capacities of local groups that came forward. For each site, Metro Transit would ensure quality control over the process: that riders, businesses and property owners drive the process, that each station meets minimum requirements (shelter, seating, structural integrity, etc.), and that there is an accredited entity with proper insurance and capacity (non-profit, adjacent small business, etc.) that commits to build and maintain the station up to an agreed upon standard.
Metro Transit could in-turn use whatever funds they otherwise would have spent on a standard off-the-shelf shelter and its annual maintenance cost and transfer those funds to the local group that has been pre-approved by the agency.
This process would unlock a tremendous amount of creative energy throughout our downtown, city, and region. Eventually, every corner with a bus stop would have its own “branded” station, perfectly attuned to local custom, utility, and whimsy.
Applied more broadly, this sort of place-based approach would make our downtown and city more vibrant, safe, and attractive. Empowering countless smaller actors to make an infinite number of small positive changes is a far more effective, affordable, and humane approach than embarking on a bland and expensive mega-project.
This article was originally published in the Downtown and Southwest Journals of Minneapolis.
To read the full article, go here.
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From shipwreck in Italy, a treasure now beckons
In Maritime News
By Vanessa Gera - MSNBC
In the chaotic evacuation of the Costa Concordia, passengers and crew abandoned almost everything on board the cruise ship: jewels, cash, champagne, antiques, 19th century Bohemian crystal glassware, thousands of art objects including 300-year-old woodblock prints by a Japanese master.
In other words, a veritable treasure now lies beneath the pristine Italian waters where the luxury liner ran aground last month.
Though some objects are bound to disintegrate, there is still hoard enough to tempt treasure seekers — just as the Titanic and countless shipwrecks before have lured seekers of gold, armaments and other riches for as far back as mankind can remember.
It may be just a matter of time before treasure hunters set their sights on the sunken spoils of the Costa Concordia, which had more than 4,200 people on board.
"As long as there are bodies in there, it's considered off base to everybody because it's a grave," said Robert Marx, a veteran diver and the author of numerous books on maritime history and underwater archaeology and treasure hunting. "But when all the bodies are out, there will be a mad dash for the valuables."
The Mafia, he said, even has underwater teams that specialize in going after sunken booty.
The Costa Concordia was essentially a floating luxury hotel and many of the passengers embarked on the ill-fated cruise with their finest clothes and jewels so they could parade them in casinos and at gala dinners beneath towering chandeliered ceilings.
Italy Costa Concordia Ferry Giglio island maritime disaster treasures
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Historic Sites of Manitoba: Jefferson Junior High School / Garden City Collegiate (711 Jefferson Avenue, Winnipeg)
Principals | Vice-Principals | Teachers | Photos & Coordinates | Sources
The Jefferson Junior High School (JJHS) was built in 1959-1960 at the northwest corner of Sinclair Street and Jefferson Avenue in West Kildonan. Completed in June 1960 by the firm of John Miller and Sons Limited at a cost of $426,665, the school opened to students which previously had attended staggered classes at Victory School. Between 1961 and 1962, the Garden City Collegiate Institute (GCCI) was erected west of the JJHS at the northeast corner of Jefferson Avenue and Airlies Street. The GCCI opened to students who had previously attended staggered classed at JJHS on 5 February 1962, with an official opening and public tours on 4 April 1962. Capacity at the GCCI was increased in 1964 with a 17-room expansion based designs of the Winnipeg architectural firm of Ward and Macdonald. The buildings, now part of the Seven Oaks School Division, were later joined and unified as GCCI, although Institute was later dropped from the name.
The students have created a Circle Garden / outdoor classroom with benches made out of recycled materials, with renovations and additions to the school building being completed in 2019.
Principals (Garden City Collegiate)
Robert William “Bobby” Bend (1914-1999)
Glenn H. Nicholls
Jacob Michael “Jake” Yakmission (1925-1984)
1978-?
?-1991
Arnold George Minish (1930-2014)
Alfred Wiebe
Steve Medwick
Tony Kreml
Principals (Jefferson Junior High School)
Raymond Ronald Bailey (1922-2015)
Allen Herbert “Al” Valentine
Brenda St. Hilaire
Vice-Principals (Garden City Collegiate)
Vice-Principal
Norris Pawlychka
Jake Walter Dyck
Ann-Marie Donner
Missy Penner
Jean-Francois Godbout
Vice-Principals (Jefferson Junior High School)
Russell William D’Arcy Gourluck
Rorie Paul
Teachers (Garden City Collegiate)
Louis Oscar Bourbonnais (grade 10), James Austin Cliffe (grade 11), Edward Allen Holdaway (grade 11), Ruby Valera Joyce (grade 10), Edward Kowalchuk (grade 10), Gwendolyn Marion “Gwen” Krindle (grade 11), Loretta Constance “Laura” Masluck (grade 10), Elsie Solar (grade 11), Melvin Solar (grade 10)
James Austin Cliffe (grade 12), Stanley A. Didkowski (grade 10), Edward Allen Holdaway (grade 11), Claude Annesley Joyce (grade 11), Ruby Valera Joyce (grade 11), Henry Klassen (grade 11), Edward Kowalchuk (grade 11), Gwendolyn Marion “Gwen” Krindle (grade 12), Alda Jeanette McIntyre (grade 10), Daniel George Mitchler (ungraded), Alfred Robert Pelissier (grade 10), James Patrick Ryan (grade 10), Elsie Solar (grade 12), Melvin Solar (grade 11), Kathleen Shirley Taylor (grade 10), Pearl Yurkiw (grade ?)
?, Ronald C. Kirbyson, ?
Teachers (Jefferson Junior High School)
Graham Abbott, Robert Addie, Miss Patricia Byle, Miss Lillian Campbell, Harold De Jersey, Mrs. Gwen Krindle, Eldon Isherwood, Victor Jaquet, Mrs. Lily Karlowsky, Mrs. Anne Keith, Henry Klassen, Miss Gloria Marie Kuleba, Morris Leschuk, Wendelin Mann, Florence Ellen McIvor, Jean Campbell Michael, Gilbert Lennox Munroe, Mrs. Brigitte Reimer, Miss Lynn Shirtliffe, Mrs. Alma Simm, Murray Steen, Mrs. Jean Stewart, Miss Judy Ward, Isaac Wiens, Jacob Winters
Graham John Abbott (grade 8), Esther Arbor (grade 7), Joan Alice Butler (grade 8), Lillian Euphemia Campbell (grade 8), Jack Daniels (grade 7), Harold Rivers DeJersey (grade 8, 1962), Kenneth Humeny (grade 9), Henry Klassen (grade 9), Gloria Marie Kuleba (grade 8), Morris Leschuk (grade 9), Stewart Jean McIntosh (grade 7, 1962), Florence Ellen McIvor (grade 9), Wendelin Mann (grade 7), Jean Campbell Michael (grade 9), William Burton Morris (grade 7), Gilbert Lennox Munroe (grade 7), Harriet Madge Robinson (grade 7), Jacob Corny Winters (grade 9)
Esther Arbor (grade 7), Robert A. Baird (grade 9), Ole Bejzyk (grade 7), Linda Bogdonov (grade 8?), Joan Alice Butler (grade 9), Clifford Charlesworth (grade 7), Jack Daniels (grade 8), Harold Rivers DeJersey (grade 8), Jake Walter Dyck (grade 7), Fred William Headon (grade 8), Kenneth Humeny (grade 8), Gloria Marie Kuleba (grade 9), Morris Leschuk (grade 9), Leonard Matiation (grade 7), Jean Campbell Michael (grade 9), William Burton Morris (grade 7), Gilbert Lennox Munroe (grade 8), Harriet Madge Robinson (grade 8), Louise Myrtle Schoenherr (grade 7), John Senkiw (grade 9), Lorenzo Leo-Paul Tougas (grade 7)
Among the other teachers were Brenda Dineen (1972-1975), John Walter Atamanchuk, Edward Kowalchuk, and Oliver Victor Jewitt.
Garden City Collegiate (July 2019)
Source: Rose Kuzina
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
“Staggered classes in many schools,” Winnipeg Free Press, 26 August 1959, page 3.
“The Seven Oaks School Division No. 10 public notice,” Winnipeg Free Press, 15 October 1960, page 61.
“Business briefs,” Winnipeg Free Press, 24 May 1961, page 53. ”Teen tidings,” Winnipeg Free Press, 17 February 1962, page 45.
“Garden City tea,” Winnipeg Free Press, 31 March 1962, page 32.
“MTS post declined by former Minister,” Winnipeg Free Press, 24 April 1962, page 3.
“Tenders addition to Garden City Collegiate,” Winnipeg Free Press, 10 February 1964, page 10.
“Principal shifting Jan. 1,” Winnipeg Free Press, 10 December 1964, page 9.
“Teen tidings,” Winnipeg Free Press Leisure, 2 January 1965, page 11.
“Claim says contractor put in leaking windows,” Winnipeg Free Press, 23 May 1966, page 25.
“Community college planned,” Winnipeg Free Press, 10 June 1967, page 32.
“Third sister edits in limine,” Winnipeg Free Press, 17 October 1967, page 13.
[Photo caption], Winnipeg Free Press, 27 May 1969, page 3.
“Education basics major concern of candidates,” Winnipeg Free Press, 18 October 1977, page 10.
“Principal called decisive in usage of curriculum,” Winnipeg Free Press, 17 February 1978, page 14.
“Major shifts mark school overhaul,” Winnipeg Free Press, 10 February 1994, page B6.
“Seven Oaks School Division,” Winnipeg Free Press, 17 May 1994, page 21.
“School division bows to parents,” Winnipeg Free Press, 3 February 1995, page B2.
“School is more than books,” Winnipeg Free Press, 19 July 1995, Community Review Northeast page 4.
Henderson’s Winnipeg and Brandon Directories, Peel’s Prairie Provinces, University of Alberta Libraries.
We thank Patricia Janzen-Chuba, Rose Kuzina, Brenda Dineen, and Jillian Kirbyson for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer.
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Celebrating 50 years of Ministry!
Order of Worship for Second Sunday in Easter
April 15, 2012 at 8:30 and 11:00 a.m.
Pastor: David Range
*Praise & Worship
*Hymn 304 Easter People Raise Your Voices
Birthday and Anniversary Recognition, Registration of Attendance, Announcements, *Sharing the Spirit (Please be seated when the music starts.)
Scripture John 20:19-31
*Hymn 316 He Rose
Reception of Tithes and Offerings & Connect Cards
Doxology (Hymn 95) “Praise God, from Whom all Blessings Flow”
(Sunday School begins for those aged 3 to 12. The Nursery is available in Room 11, where the service can be viewed and heard by parents with children needing to be settled.)
Sharing Joys & Concerns
Prayer Hymn 165 Hallelujah! What a Savior
(You are invited to come forward for prayer, dedication or rededication. If you have made a commitment to the Lord or if you would like to become a member of the church please speak with Pastor David for prayer and the next step.)
Anthem Once upon a tree Choir
Sermon “Victorious, but not unscarred ... and touched” Pastor David Range
Hymn of Commitment 157 Jesus Shall Reign
Today’s Mission offering is for BOLD Justice
Attendance for last Sunday was 310
Today: Bible Study with Pastor Garnes 10:00 a.m., United Methodist Men after the
11:00 a.m. service, Team Check In for Bold Justice, Book Fair open to the church, Confirmation class 4-5:30 p.m., Cokesbury UMC's Free Spring Concert 7:00 p.m.
Wednesday: Bible Study 7:00 p.m. Please read Genesis chapters 12, 15, 22:1 to 22:19, 7, 28, 32, and 33.
Thursday: UMW 7:00 p.m., Choir 7:30 p.m.
Saturday: Memorial Service for Don Lopez at 4:00 p.m.
Next Sunday: New Members Session 7:00 p.m.
Monday April 23 Admin Council 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday April 24 Next Creative Worship Team 6:30 p.m.
Thursday April 26 Bold Justice Nehemiah Action 7:30 p.m.
Sunday April 29 Joint 10:00 a.m. service
Sunday May 6 Confirmation services at 8:30 and 11:00 a.m.
Sunday May 20 Recognition of Graduates, please let Donna Simms know if you or anyone in your family are graduating from any institution (high school and above)
Monday May 28 Memorial Day picnic 12 noon to 6:00 p.m.
Sunday June 3 Conference Offering for East Angola and Alfait,
Youth Concert 6:00 p.m.
Building Fund/Trustees $ 100.00
Roof Repair $ 94.50
Please note that there is a wheelchair entrance from the back parking lot through the double doors. The church has a wheelchair in the back of the sanctuary for anyone wishing to assist a person coming to a meeting. Rest rooms for the disabled are available in the Preschool wing.
"Ways to Work" Car loans, is a new program launched recently in Broward county sponsored by our District United Methodist South Florida Urban Ministries and the Urban League (www.sflum.org). Please see the bulletin boards or talk to Pastor David (who attended) if you would like to know more about how to get one of these loans to improve your transportation situation!
Saturday April 21 Memorial Hospital West hosts its 20th Anniversary Community Celebration & Health Fair. Please see notice boards for further information.
The Youth Concert scheduled for April 29 will now take place June 3 at 6:00 p.m.
Everyone is invited to Cokesbury UMC's Free Spring Concert Sunday, April 15th, at 7:00 p.m. in their Sanctuary. Choir Members of Cokesbury & St Vincent’s Catholic Church will be presenting "Lift Up The Cross". This will be a mix of original songs and classic hymns combined into a worshipful, moving, and powerful musical that celebrates the Easter story. The visuals accompanying the music are stunning! Free nursery will be provided. Reception follows the concert. Cokesbury UMC is located at 1801 NW 65th Ave., Margate (one block South of Royal Palm Blvd).
Sympathies to the family of Don Lopez who died April 11. His memorial service will be Saturday April 21 at 4:00 p.m. in our church, with a repast afterwards in the Fellowship Hall. Please remember his wife Alicia Jourdan-Lopez and all the family in your prayers.
The father of Dennis Bent also died April 11. His funeral will be at 11:00 a.m. Saturday April 21 at New Horizon UMC with burial afterwards at Forest Lawn, Davie Rd. extension. Our sympathies and prayers to Dennis and his family.
On April 26, the night of the Nehemiah Action, there will be a bus leaving at 6:15 p.m. from the church parking lot to transport those not wishing to drive to the War Memorial Auditorium. We will return no later than 10:30. The church is providing the transportation.
Joys and Concerns: For Phyllis Hewitt who has suffered a stroke, for Cheryl's friend Lenny for the eyes to improve, Dalia happy to see so many here and happy she has her GED, Alan home from hospital, Martha's father Mr. Falcon, for Flori's care, for relief from pain after surgery for Bettyanne, for Ana Lillian's granddaughter, for Adam to safely return from Afghanistan and congratulations on his marriage to Alicia, Doreen thanks for being 75% better and for complete healing, for Roy as he gets eye surgery, for Lawrence Minott recovering from accident, for Paul's aunt Marjorie recovering from stroke, for Kim's family traveling back from Arizona, for grandma Joanne's knee surgery, for Nathan as he goes for another cancer checkup, for Enid's mother Gladys, for all students and teachers preparing for the FCAT, for University of Miami employees and a time of uncertainty, for Avis' family in need of healing, for Esther as more is done to help her eyes, for Joyce to get a diagnosis so that she may overcome leg pain.
Samantha & Sophia, Sylvea Moreno, Kevin Henry, Natalie Wright, Alvin and Phyllis Hewitt, Rev. Denzil Southwood-Smith, Royland & Greta Jarrett, Loretta Parris, Ruby Miller, Pat Mark, Don and Alicia Lopez, the Gooden Family, Tracey Smith, Ouida Menzies, Jack & Donna Hurley, Esther Dillon, Hervin & Dorothy Lawrence, Winnifred Samuels, Rudolph Stewart, Gale Walter, Edie Range, Lisa Andre, Potter family, Victor Ayayee, Michael Grant, BOLD Justice, Grace McCorkle, Doris McDowell, Lars Clunie, Ralston & Millicent Gardner, Niven Stewart, Catherine Wheedleton. If you need prayer during the week please call Grandma Hyacinth Robinson at 954-435-4036 and your concern will be put on the Prayer Chain. After you call her, for emergencies or to report someone in the hospital please be sure you call Pastor at the office 954-989-4711 or on his cell 954-495-6104, or email the office at mirumeth@bellsouth.net. We will keep the name on for two weeks, unless you notify us otherwise.
US Armed Forces: HM3Adam Ramsey, Navy-Afghanistan; Sgt. Jonathan Orejuela, Marines; LaShawn Knight, Army-Afghanistan.
Pastor: David Range, Miramar UMC, 2507 Utopia Dr., Miramar, FL 33020.
Tel: 954 989 4711, Fax: 954 989 4315
Email: mirumeth@bellsouth.net, Website: www.miramarumc.org
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Ultimate Pedal Effects Special: Acoustic and Bass Pedals
Find Your Pedal Soul Mate
Authored 17 Jun by Mixdown Staff
Why is it that electric guitarists have all the fun when it comes to pedals? We see thousands of pedals in the market that are designed for them, with bassists and acoustic guitarists left scratching their head wondering why they are left in the dark. Well we have been digging to find pedals that are designed specifically for the bass or acoustic guitarists! Here are our top picks.
Radial Bassbone OD
EFFECT: BASS PREAMP + OVERDRIVE | RRP: $749 | DISTRIBUTOR: AMBER TECHNOLOGY
The serious bass player. While optimal for regular gigging and studio recording, it could also be an efficient and, ultimately, beneficial way to reduce the size of your pedalboard.
SOUND AND VERSATILITY:
Here is a pedal that can define the
entire backbone of a bassists sound. The Bassbone has two EQ channels and an overdrive channel. With two inputs also, there’s the option of alternating between two different basses – each with their own EQ setting – or optimising the use of a single bass guitar with two different tones. Each EQ channel additionally has a mid switch, the choice between three different central frequencies yet another way to personalise your tone.
For a pedal that covers so many basses it’s effortless to operate. The functionally and flexibility it provides when combined with other pedals is tremendous – it even boasts its own effects loop, which can be used by both inputs, and can be activated with the overdrive footswitch. The impedance of each input can also be optimised with the use of a screwdriver.
Considerably small and neatly designed. The OD and two EQ channels are all colour coded, while the entire unit has been carefully distributed for ease of use. It’s tank-like in structure.
A well-oiled machine and high performer. This can slot right into your pedal chain and immediately ne tune your sound, or comfortably replace an OD, EQ and preamp.
Eden CaliforniWAH
EFFECT: BASS FILTER | RRP: $199 | DISTRIBUTOR: ELECTRIC FACTORY
Bass and guitar players alike who want to add another freaky dimension to their sound.
Envelope filters are, to say the least, not everyone’s cup of tea. There are as many players out there that are trying to emulate Bootsy as there are those who are not but if you fall into the former category then the Eden CaliforniWah is probably the first and last place you should look. Not only is it great for saturating in that psyched out, classic envelope sound, with the ability to dial it back to sit behind your clean tone as much as is desired, but it also works great as a top boost if you wind the low point all the way to the top of the dial.
If ‘bao-baoow’ is what you’re looking for then that’s exactly what you’ll find, along with every variation on that theme imaginable. The ‘voice’ toggle is great for adding width to the filter and the controls are simple. With the flick of a switch you are in control of one of the deepest Q’s imaginable.
It’s a tidy little unit; about as wide as a standard Boss pedal. Custom built to be stomped on in the most fevered moments of the set, it’s all finished off nicely with the calm, dreamy, California palm tree decal.
A sneaky little box containing enough wild and freaky tones to make you consider buying that sequined jumpsuit you’ve had your eye on.
BY LUKE SHIELDS
Eden Glow Plug
EFFECT: BASS TUBE WARMER | RRP: $289 | DISTRIBUTOR: ELECTRIC FACTORY
Players looking for that mythic halfway point between full dirt and clean tonality.
There’s a lot going on in this unassuming little black box. Housing a single 12AX7 tube, one of the most relied upon in the tube world, you have at your feet the most effective way to have the best of both worlds. Far from the typical set of controls the Glow Plug gives you the ability to regulate how much is pushed into the front of the tube, whereabouts you sit in the low-mid frequency range, the over all volume output and, most importantly, the balance between dry and wet signal. This means that you can mix all the grit and power of the tube in with a good amount of definition from the direct signal for the perfect amount of rumbling, reside, warmth.
It’s less a question of usability and more about how essential the Glow Plug will be to your pedalboard once it’s locked in. Simple controls give you as much flexibility as you could possibly ask for and, once dialed in you can be assured that sitting in front of even the nastiest solid-state head you’re going to sound warm as a mother’s love.
Low profile, solid steel chassis and the unflinching build quality David Eden is famous for.
The best way to warm up your tune without unnecessary heavy lifting.
Two Notes Le Bass
EFFECT: TUBE BASS AMP TONE | RRP: $499 | DISTRIBUTOR: INNOVATIVE MUSIC
Many bass players take advantage of DI signals to the PA system for added volume and punch, but often miss out on tone and grit in that signal. This is the pedal that changes all of that, allowing you to leave the big rig at home and let the PA handle the volume. The Le Bass has you covered for the tone.
Both modern and classic sounds are readily available in this pedal. As a preamp designed specifically for bass, the Le Bass
is ready to emulate those big amps you wish you were playing. A modern, hi-fidelity punch can be achieved in one instance, or a more classic, almost distorted and thick overdrive that enters into the realms of a synth tone can be found at the other end of the spectrum.
USEABILITY:
This is probably the most readily usable pedal in the entire range as bass player so often run a signal direct to the PA to begin with. What this offers over any other DI those is amp tone, loads of amp tone. It
is like harnessing several great amp rigs and having them all fed into the PA from your bass. The only thing you need to do is choose the tone you’re after.
As bass players don’t always have pedalboards in their setup, there is every chance this unit might just end up on the floor by itself, and not on a pedalboard. That said, it is ready to be left on the floor, trampled on, kicked about and generally abused without fear of anything.
This is a breath of fresh air for bass players who are so often left out of the pedal design process. Modern and classic tones, MIDI implementation and some serious growl to bring your instrument forward in the mix are all on offer here.
BY ROB GEE
Hotone Bass Press
EFFECT: BASS VOLUME / WAH / EXPRESSION | RRP: CONTACT FOR PRICING | DISTRIBUTOR: NOISE TOYS IMPORTS
Bass players, when you have overloaded your pedalboard with too many effects and still need some extra control, or
if you are looking for a compact pedal solution for ease or portability, the Bass Press is going to come to the rescue offering wah, volume and expression options.
The volume part of this pedal is excellent in that it does not ‘suck’ your tone
as your pull the level back like many passive volume pedals can do. The wah function is quite the opposite and really goes to town on your tone with
a fairly aggressive sweep tailored for bass, keeping the bottom end tight and unaffected.
You can forget the concern about the size of the pedal being an issue in use. It certainly takes up less space on your pedalboard, but when you place your foot over it in the right position, it behaves and feels just like a full sized wah or volume pedal would. Keeping the heel forward to ensure you rock on the pivot point naturally.
It’s built into a compact yet tough little housing. The rocking motion is smooth and can be easily tighten to suit your needs if you want more tension. The on/off switch is easy to engage without needing to apply overly ridiculous amounts of pressure with your toes too.
This is a clever way to solve a number of solutions for bass players who have limited space. Although you can only set it to one of the three functions, there
is no reason why you couldn’t have a couple of these on your board for both volume and wah without taking up too much room.
TC Electronic Bodyrez
EFFECT: ACOUSTIC PICKUP ENHANCER | RRP: $229 | DISTRIBUTOR: AMBER TECHNOLOGY
For anyone playing an acoustic guitar through a PA system or amplifier that is looking for a more natural sound to their amplified signal, the Bodyrez is here to give you what you are after.
This is an odd pedal that doesn’t necessarily jump out at you when you engage it. It has a subtle affect to your acoustic guitar’s amplified tone that doesn’t in any way detract from the beauty of your instrument, but at the same time it doesn’t sound like you are running an effect in the chain. However, when you turn it off, you will certainly notice the difference, as you’ll find there is a certain something missing all of a sudden.
It couldn’t be simple, set it up in line between your acoustic guitar and amp, kick it on and wind up the amount to the desired level. Then, it is just a matter of letting your guitar sing and be heard in a more natural clarity.
Like all TC pedals, this little unit is built like a tank. A compact design with offset inputs and outputs to keep the pedal as narrow as possible and just one simple, smooth potentiometer. The silent switch is a delight to engage time and time again, although, most users will simply leave it on at all items.
Once heard, it is pretty hard to go back to any guitar sound without the Bodyrez included in the signal chain. If you want to get a more realistic and natural acoustic sound from your under-saddle pickup, this is the link in the chain that you cannot live without.
RMI Acouswitch Junior By Lehle
EFFECT: ACOUSTIC PREAMP + DI | RRP: $649 | DISTRIBUTOR: EGM DISTRIBUTION
The discerning acoustic player, for whom only the best will do.
With its droll olive façade, the Acouswitch Junior looks like a simple piece of machinery. It appears however, that Lehle have taken every gripe you’ve ever had with a DI as a directive. It has an XLR out, ground lift, tuner and direct TRS outs and recessed dials so you won’t slip from the sweet spot. The 4-band EQ has deep enough Q’s that notching out annoying frequencies is a breeze. A and B inputs have individual boost controls for different signal strengths and the master boost allows for that bit of extra push. You can even run it at up to 15v if you feel the need to really push your folk band to new levels!
The chassis is super low profile so it’ll always be exactly where you left it and wide enough that tripping over one switch to get to the other is no concern.
As with all Lehle products, there’s no stone unturned as far as build quality is concerned. The switches are so quiet you barely know you’ve touched them, and are bound together by all gold circuitry meaning absolutely no degradation along the signal path.
Simply put, the best DI for any situation. Guitar, keys, bass, strings, it’s got them all covered.
Mooer Baby Water Acoustic Delay And Chorus Pedal
EFFECT: ACOUSTIC DELAY/CHORUS | RRP: $129.95 | DISTRIBUTOR: JADE AUSTRALIA
The regular acoustic player and performer. For folk, pop, alt-country or any other acoustic guitar-driven genre.
When working across the five modes
– chorus, triple chorus, echo, chorus-delay, and delay-chorus – you can find everything from the slight roundness of a classic chorus, to a dry digital delay, and a more multi-layered sequencing of the two effects. What’s most pleasing across the board is that the sonic richness and earthiness of an acoustic tone remains largely intact.
By squeezing so many functions into
a single miniature pedal this pedal, to
an extent, forgoes simplicity. One knob doubles up as rate/time, while another controls depth/feedback. As far as getting the most out of each mode, erring on the side of caution is the best method to finding a balanced tone.
Another addition to Mooer’s Micro Series, this is one considerably small pedal. The knobs are smaller again, but get the job done. The light blue finish is fresh, and reflective of its unique function.
This isn’t going to be for everyone. But for acoustic guitarists who want to add more dynamics – tone and effect – to their sound, this will more than suffice. It offers a myriad of uses, and can create lush acoustic soundscapes that enrich and embellish the right acoustic frequencies – an impressive feat in its own right.
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Home > What's New / Press Room > Behold! PriveCo’s New Secret Lair - August 18, 2009
Behold! PriveCo’s New Secret Lair - August 18, 2009
Looking for the secret lair of world-renowned privacy superheroes? You'll find it deep in the industrial corridors of Troy, Michigan, past winding roads lined with run-of-the-mill office buildings and scant pine trees, through the ever-present road construction and into an average looking cul-de-sac.
Behold! the ultimate den of privacy, the headquarters of the world's most private company. No longer confined to a tiny warehouse, PriveCo now occupies a large compound of top-secret research laboratories, communication centers, and of course, the world's most private shipping operation. PriveCo will now commence acquiring every possible privacy doodad and thingamajig to protect their customers' privacy.
PriveCo's move to larger headquarters was necessary to keep up with the demand on their websites. Sites such as ShopInPrivate.com, Vibrators.com, Bachelorette.com and RomanticGifts.com sell private items and business is booming. An impressive team of 10 employees work to make your online visit fast, fun and ultra-secure. They don't give customers' information to anyone, ever. These privacy heroes thwart information thieves with an advanced infrared security system, encryption methods, firewalls, and even barbed wire. No wonder PriveCo is the world's most private company.
PriveCo's new location will allow its employees to continue winning the battle against their nemesis, Disclosure, who seeks to leak customer information into the online and real world spheres. PriveCo is proud to keep your information safe and private, protecting its customers with everything they've got and now they've got a great new location.
Photo: PriveCo's new offices
Video: Time-lapse video of PriveCo moving into their new warehouse.
About PriveCo
PriveCo Inc. sells anything that would be embarrassing to buy in the store or pharmacy. If you have an embarrassing condition that needs attention, or a desire to own something you don't want other people to know about, PriveCo has a website for you. In business since 1998, PriveCo operates 12 retail sites including ShopInPrivate.com, the world's most private drugstore, Bachelorette.com, Vibrators.com, and RomanticGifts.com. PriveCo has privately delivered over half a million packages to over 75 countries. PriveCo offers easy shopping, fast delivery and they hold your personal information in the strictest of confidence.
Tom Nardone, the President of PriveCo, The World's Most Private Company, is available for questions, comments or conversations at 1-800-809-0610 extension 11#.
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Cambodian Temple Trail - Tour
9 Nights 10 Days
Our 10-day Cambodian Temple Trail takes you on a journey to explore some of the best known as well as remote temples of the country. Our tour begins in the ancient city of Siem Reap and we trace the trajectory of the Angkor kingdom and its architectural marvels in the old capital of Angkor Thom. The 12th century site is home to several Hindu and Buddhist temples some of which have stood the test of time, while others are now dilapidated relics of their former structures. Discover the fascinating legends behind these ancient edifices once used by kings. Visit the most iconic temple of Cambodia, Angkor Wat and be awed by the magnificence of Khmer architecture and craftsmanship. Our journey takes us through a jungle canopy to the hidden temple of Banteay Chhmar that remained abandoned for 800 years. History and legend lurk around every corner of Cambodia and we seek out some of these enigmas on our temple trail across the country. For those who have an affinity for Southeast Asian history, this tour is particularly interesting as it traces different periods of Khmer history and shows the fusion of Hinduism and Buddhism in local culture of the time.
9 Nights 10 Days 21 Jan, 22 Jan, 23 Jan, and more
Hotel accommodation (as specified in itinerary)
All meals (as specified in itinerary)
Airport transfers and all local transport in luxury sedan/SUV
All local permits
Any meal not specified in itinerary
Any additional services (eg. hotel services like massage/spa)
Any personal purchases including alcohol, medicines etc.
What makes this tour special
Visit 12th century temple relics of Angkor Thom city
Visit the iconic Angkor Wat Temple
Visit the jungle temple of Ta Prohm
Take a special master class in Khmer grilling techniques
Ride the famous Bamboo Train of Battambang
Enjoy dinner at Banteay Chhmar temple lit by wooden torches
Day 1 (Arrival in Siem Reap) (-, -, D)
Arrive at Siem Reap International Airport where a luxury sedan/SUV will pick you up and drive you to the Damrei Angkor Hotel. Please be advised that while we try our best to accommodate early check-ins, this is subject to room availability and cannot be guaranteed beforehand. Enjoy a complimentary drink on arrival.
The first day can be spent at leisure. Enjoy the amenities at the hotel or take a stroll around town. Return to the hotel for dinner and then retire to your rooms for the night.
Day 2 (Siem Reap city sightseeing) (B, L, D)
Have breakfast at the hotel and then set out for a full day’s tour of the city visiting some of its best known landmarks.
Our first stop is the South Gate of the walled city of Angkor Thom. The ancient capital city of Angkor Thom was built in the 12th century and is a treasure trove of religious architecture. The South Gate houses rows of massive statues of Gods and demons churning the sacred Ocean of Milk. This is a famous episode from Hindu mythology and a curious addition to a Buddhist city. The statues wear different expressions ranging from calm, joyous, angry and sinister. The South gate tower which can be entered on elephant-back (for an additional fee) is carved with four giant faces turned towards the four cardinal directions.
Next, we visit the iconic Bayon Temple, the official state temple built by King Jayavarman VII in the heart of Angkor Thom. Bayon Temple also known as the Face Tower is distinguished by 54 towers that are adorned with 200 smiling faces of Avelokiteswara, the God of compassion.
Our tour now takes us to the three-tiered Shiva temple of Baphuon, opened to public after years of restoration work. This mid-11th century temple has seen multiple modifications to its architecture over the ages. In the 15th century Baphuon was converted to a Buddhist temple.
Visit the Hindu temple of Phimeanakas made from laterite situated at the centre of the Royal Palace. This is a three-tiered pyramid and one of the smallest temples in Angkor Thom. According to legend Phimeanakas Temple was home to a nine-headed serpent-spirit called Naga. Every night the serpent would turn into a woman and the king would come to the temple to lie with her. Inside the temples premises there are two pools, built for bathing of men and female visitors. The Terrace of Elephants and Terrace of the Leper King are next on the itinerary. The former gets its name from the high relief sculptures of elephants and their mahouts along the stretch of the terrace. The Elephant terrace was said to be an audience hall for the King to hear the complaints of his subjects. The Terrace of the Leper King was another prominent structure of the Royal Palace so called for a statue of a leper king found here.
Our final stop for the day is the Royal Enclosure where jungle vines cover its outer walls. We return to your hotel in the evening.
Day 3 (Khmer Grilling Class- Les Artisans d’Angkor- Chantiers Ecoles- Angkor Wat) (B, L, D)
The kitchen truly is the heart of the home and today we will visit the heart and soul of Cambodia by exploring its unique culinary traditions.
Our first stop today is a treat for epicureans. We visit the home of a local chef and pick up the special techniques and recipes of the popular Khmer grill. The business of food and cooking is taken very seriously in Cambodia and locals take great pride in their unique grilled foods that make up a large number of mouth-watering treats. This is a 3-hour master class where we take you to the home of a local grill master where you cook, learn and then eat the fruits of your labour. This is a fun activity that can be enjoyed as a family or on your own.
After a hearty lunch we make our way to Les Artisans d’Angkor- Chantiers Ecoles, a special centre for showcasing the works of local artisans. The company produces and curates an eclectic mix of oriental sculpture, silk weaves and paintings and lacquer work.
For our final stop of the day we head to the most iconic landmark of Cambodia, the Angkor Wat temple. This 12th century temple is considered one of the finest examples of Khmer architecture and craftsmanship. Spread over a massive 81 hectares, the temple premises match the proportions of the Imperial Palace in Beijing. The distinctive five towers of Angkor Wat represent the five peaks of Meru, the sacred mount of Hindu and Buddhist cosmology. The temple’s walls represent the mountains that stand at the edge of the world and the surrounding moat symbolises the ocean. Watch the captivating sunset from Angkor Wat before returning to your hotel in the evening.
Day 4 (Srah Srang reservoir- Ta Prohm- Preah Khan) (B, L, D)
Wake up early to watch a beautiful sunrise at the Srah Sang Reservoir. This 12th century lake was built during the reign of King Jayavarman II and was used for ritual baths. A lush canopy of green surrounds the lake that overlooks the Angkor Archaeological Park. Two lion sculptures stand at the entrance to the lake built of sandstone and laterite. This is a popular tourist spot in Siem Reap and after sunrise we return to the hotel for breakfast. Today our temple trail brings us to Prasat Kravan. Located close to Angkor Wat, this 10th century Hindu temple is dedicated to Lord Vishnu. Interestingly, this is the only temple that was commissioned by a high-ranking priest and not a king. The interiors feature a number of sculptures carved into the existing brickwork that resemble the architecture of the Cham temples in Vietnam.
Next, we visit the near-dilapidated Buddhist temple of Banteay Kdai. Built between the 12th and 13th centuries, much of this structure has crumbled due to the poor quality of sandstone used in its construction. Banteay Kdai is also known as the Citadel of Chambers and was occupied by monks until 1965. From here we make our way to one of the most striking temples of Angkor. Ta Prohm remains almost entirely cloistered by a veil of dense jungle and reminds you of the first images of Angkor temples when they were discovered by European explorers. Ta Prohm was built from 1186 and dedicated to the mother of King Jayavarman II. This is one of the most atmospheric ruins of Angkor with crumbling walls, impassable corridors and decrepit bas-reliefs.
The Eastern Mebon is another Hindu temple of Angkor that we will visit. The temple was built by King Rajendravarman II but was never quite completed, evident from earthen ramps that flank the temple.
Located just 1 km from Eastern Mebon is the temple mountain of Pre Rup. The structure consists of a three-tiered pyramid with five lotus towers on the uppermost tier. Pre Rup is believed to have been used as a cremation spot for the royal family.
After the morning excursion, we stop at a local café for lunch. In the afternoon, it’s back on the trail; this time to Preah Khan. The temple was built by King Jayavarman VII and was likely used as his temporary residence during the construction of Angkor Thom. It consists of a labyrinth of corridors, stone carvings and towered enclosures and is one of the earliest examples of religious fusion with Hindu and Buddhist carvings.
Visit some of the most prominent structures of Preah Khan including Neak Pean, a fountain built inside a pool, Ta Som and Banteay Samre consisting of libraries and a central temple. We return to the hotel in the evening where after an early dinner you can retire to your rooms for a well-deserved rest.
Day 5 (Siem Reap- Beng Mealea Temple- Koh Ker- Sro Em) (B, L, D)
Have breakfast at the hotel and depart for the secluded Beng Mealea Temple. The hour-long drive takes us across the Khmer countryside to one of the most enigmatic temple ruins of Angkor. This massive 12th century temple designed to the same plans as the Angkor Wat was built by King Suryavarman II. The temple, almost in its entirety has been swallowed by jungle and manoeuvring your way through the dense foliage to the sandstone structure of the temple is an experience straight out of an Indiana Jones adventure! We drive for a further hour to Koh Ker, one of the remotest temple complexes and former capital of the Angkorian Empire between 928 and 944 AD.
Our first stop here is the Prasat Bram. This is one of the smaller temples in the complex and features an assembly of brick towers that have been entirely covered by strangler figs.
Next, trek of drive 2.5 kilometres to Prasat Thom where we stop for lunch. Prasat Thom is the piece de resistance of Koh Ker and offers stunning views from the top. A steep staircase leads to up and is accessible to a limited number of visitors. Over 40 inscriptions dating back to 932 and 1010 AD have been found here.
Visit a few more temples including Prasat Linga and Prasat Kachap before driving to Sro Em. The drive takes about 1-and-a-half hours and we reach your hotel by late afternoon. You can visit the local museum or enjoy the amenities at your hotel.
Day 6 (Sro Em- Preah Vihear- Banteay Chhmar) (B, L, D)
Today we travel further north to the small provincial town of Preah Vihear, located about 25 kilometres from Sro Em. At Preah Vihear, we transfer to a pickup truck which takes us to the mountain top temple of Prasat Preah Vihear. A UNESCO-conferred World Heritage Site, Prasat Preah Vihear is one of the most iconic temples of Cambodia built over the reigns of 7 different Khmer kings during the Angkorian period. The temple is dedicated to the Hindu God Shiva and sits on top of an escarpment with breathtaking views of the Cambodian landscape, 550 metres below.
Next, we make our way to the old Banteay Chhmar temple, situated about 240 kilometres away. The drive takes 4 hours and we stop at the small town of Anglong Veng for lunch. Reach Banteay Chhmar in the afternoon and check into your home stay. Enjoy a traditional dinner at the temple site lit by old wooden torches.
Day 7 (Banteay Chhmar- Battambang) (B, L, D)
Have breakfast at your home stay and then head out to Banteay Chhmar temple. This 12th century temple also known as the ‘Citadel of Cats’ was built by Jayavarman VII and was left abandoned for 800 years. The temple lies hidden behind a thick canopy of trees and is in a considerable state of ruin. Still, this is an awe-inspiring site with some spectacular bas-reliefs portraying scenes from the Angkorian era.
From here, we take an ox-cart to the village silk centre to learn about the traditional methods of silk weaving. Ride a traditional tractor known as Koyun, to Banteay Top Temple and take a tour of the countryside across emerald rice fields and see villagers at their daily chores.
Enjoy a picnic lunch at Banteay Top temple before continuing to Battambang. This is the second largest city in Cambodia and home to crumbling colonial-era architecture, quaint cafés and the famous Bamboo Train.
Check into your hotel and then head out for a train ride across the Cambodian countryside passing bucolic villages and small hilltop temples in the distance. Return to your hotel in the evening.
Day 8 (Battambang sightseeing) (B, L, D)
Have breakfast at the hotel and then set off for a drive along the scenic Sangker River to Wat Saket pagoda. This is the official residence of the Buddhist head of the province.
Next we visit an old Khmer house to see how rice paper for use in making spring rolls. We continue to Wat Ek Phnom, an 11th century temple concealed behind a modern pagoda and a gigantic Buddha statue. The temple features several bas-reliefs and a lintel over its eastern entrance portraying the Churning of the Ocean of Milk.
Our final stop before lunch is a local market where Cambodia’s signature fish paste Prahoc is made. Have lunch at a local restaurant and then visit Phare Ponleu Selpak, a centre that provides support for orphaned children and victims of trafficking by giving them shelter and education opportunities. There are 1200 pupils enrolled at the centre’s school of whom 400 are pursuing performing arts.
Next, we drive to Phnom Benon. A steep climb of 358 steps brings you to the hilltop temple with spectacular views of the countryside. Five sandstone towers dominate the temple façade and we spend some time here watching the sunset. Have dinner at a local restaurant before returning to your hotel for the night.
Day 9 (Battambang- Siem Reap) (B, L, D)
Today we make our way back to Siem Reap. Have breakfast at the hotel and then set off for Siem Reap via Sisophon. En route we will make a stop at a village in Preah Net Preah known for stone carving.
Next, we make our way to Puok to visit a silk farm. This is also where we stop for lunch. In the afternoon, explore the countryside by ox-cart and visit a floating village on the way.
Finally, enjoy a boat ride on the Great Tonle Sap Lake in a traditional wooden boat before returning to Siem Reap. Check into your hotel where you are free to spend the last evening of your tour at leisure.
Day 10 (Siem Reap departure) (B, -, -)
Have a leisurely breakfast at the hotel before being driven to Siem Reap Airport. Take a last look at the city and its ancient architecture that tell a thousand stories, hiding still more. The tour ends at the airport where you can continue your onward journey.
Soft adventure tour of Vietnam and Laos
8-Day Classic Singapore Tour
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Fake News About Retreating Glaciers and Snowcover
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Observations Show No Warming Trend, Mostly Stable Glaciers In The Himalayas…Contradicting IPCC’s ‘Fake News’ By Kenneth Richard on 23. February 2017 “The most striking feature of the present reconstruction is the absence of any warming trend in the 20th century” — Yadav et al., 1997 Bhattacharyya and Chaudhary, 2003 In 2007, IPCC Claimed The Himalayan Region Has Been Warming So Rapidly Its Glaciers Would ‘Disappear’ By 2035 “Glaciers in the Himalaya are receding faster than in any other part of the world and, if the present rate continues, the likelihood of them disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high if the Earth keeps warming at the current rate.
Its total area will likely shrink from the present 500,000 to 100,000 km2 by the year 2035 (WWF, 2005).” IPCC’s Fake Glacier Melt Claim Came From Activists, Intentionally Put In To Spur Policymakers To Action David Rose, UK Daily Mail 88% Of Himalayan Glaciers Are Stable Or Advancing — With Overall Negligible Change (0.2%) Since 2000 Bahuguna et al., 2014 (Himalayan Glaciers) Jacob et al., 2012 (‘High Mountains of Asia’) Look What Your SUV Did Before 1940. A standard trick for climate alarmists is to post before and after pictures showing what your SUV did to glaciers over the past century. They don’t mention that the ice loss occurred before 1940. The National Geographic Archive And never mind that the glaciers were much smaller during the Medieval Warm Period, or when Hannibal took elephants across the Alps. from perhaps the tenth to the sixteenth centuries, the glaciers of the Alps were much less extensive than at present.At present they are in general retreating … almost as rapid as at Glacier Bay (Alaska)National Geographic 1892 National Geographic Weren’t Always MWP Deniers | The Deplorable Climate Science Blog.
German Geology Expert: Glaciers Are Not Melting “Faster Than Ever” …Requests Statement From Deutsche Welle. Geologist and climate science site “Die kalte Sonne” operator Dr. Sebastian Lüning has written an e-mail to Deutsche Welle (DW) German public radio in response to their claims of “glaciers melting faster than ever before” made in a recent broadcast. Mont Blanc Massif, Photo by Gnomefililiere, CC BY-SA 3.0 Just days ago Kenneth Richard posted on the subject here and showed using published scientific literature that this is likely far from being true. In recent years, the documented rise in sea levels contributed from glacier and ice sheet melt has not come close to reaching the high levels attained during the 1920s and 1930s period as documented by Gregory et al., 2013.” Unfortunately Deutsche Welle was sloppy in that they didn’t bother to fact-check, and so as a result they put out overly alarmist information to the public. I translated Dr. To: Deutsche Welle [German Public Television]From: Dr.
Readers can also (politely) send the same or similar message to DW, should they wish. Exit Glacier, Alaska – An Icon Of Climate Fraud. Retreating Exit Glacier has become an icon of climate change – Anchorage Daily News The Exit Glacier in Alaska has been retreating since the Little Ice Age. Barack Obama took a selfie in front of the glacier to highlight climate change. In a sense, Obama was correct – the Exit Glacier was retreating much faster one hundred years ago than it is now.
The Retreat of Exit Glacier.pdf I took the National Park Service table above, added 600 meters of retreat since 1974 based on the map in the Anchorage Daily News, and graphed the retreat rates since 1815. The glacier was retreating much faster before 1918 than it has been since 1918. Spreadsheet As is normally the case in climate science, the data shows the exact opposite of the claim being made. Map below h/t garyh845 National Park Service.
Snowcover Increasing Since 1950s, But Newsweek’s Reality Is That Christmas Snow May Soon Be History. Image Source: 22 December 2017 Newsweek Christmas Day has arrived. With the advent of this cheery holiday comes a somber warning from Newsweek, purveyor of climate doom. “[A]s global temperatures rise due to climate change, snow on Christmas Day could increasingly become a rarity—even a distant memory.” Contrary to Newsweek‘s claims, however, snow cover across the Northern Hemisphere (NH) has been increasing in recent decades. Image Source: NOAA In the Southern Hemisphere, snow and ice have been expanding in the Antarctic region for centuries (Thomas et al., 2017), and Antarctica is projected to continue gaining ice mass in the decades to come (Lenaerts et al., 2016). Apparently the journalists penning climate alarm scenarios that warn readers white Christmases are on the way out in the NH haven’t been keeping up with the latest scientific publications.
Changnon, 2017 Andrews et al., 2016 Coleman and Schwartz, 2017 Wang et al. 2017 Ice Stable, Thickening, Growing In Recent Years Goel et al., 2017.
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SYNLawnⓇ Chooses French/West/Vaughan as Agency of Record
RALEIGH, N.C. (October 14, 2019) — SYNLawnⓇ, the largest manufacturer and unrivaled innovator of artificial grass in North America, has selected French/West/Vaughan (FWV) as its Agency of Record. FWV will provide strategic oversight via public relations and social media execution to amplify the company’s extensive product offerings across multiple categories including: Pet, Golf, Playground, Agility, Lawn & Landscape, Rooftop and Deck & Patio.
“We couldn’t be more excited to bring SYNLawn into the FWV family,” said David Gwyn, president and principal at FWV. “We are harnessing our extensive expertise within the synthetic turf and the sports, travel and pet industries to maximize exposure for their innovative brand.”
There are natural synergies between the two companies; FWV currently has several complementary businesses in its portfolio and previously advised SYNLawn sister company, AstroTurf, in a multi-year marketing and reputation management partnership. In addition, 50 percent of SYNLawn’s residential business stems from the sale of pet-related products, which is an ideal fit for FWV Fetching – FWV’s division dedicated to pet marketing.
FWV will work alongside the SYNLawn marketing team and 85 national distributors to deepen media and influencer relationships and grow overall brand and product awareness nationwide.
“Our distributors are producing incredible work, including recent projects with NASA and the National Building Museum, and we’re thrilled to partner with FWV to further highlight these accomplishments and share with the public,” said Tabitha Cromer, director of marketing at SYNLawn. “Now is the perfect opportunity to grow our brand presence in both the residential and commercial spaces.”
About SYNLawnⓇ
SYNLawnⓇ is the largest manufacturer and unrivaled innovator of artificial grass in North America. As part of the SportGroup Holding® family of companies, SYNLawn, along with sister surfacing brands – Astroturf, Rekortan, APT and Leykold – delivers the best products available on the market. SYNLawn’s turnkey network of 85 distributors seamlessly combines environmental stewardship with industry-leading innovations. Manufactured in Dalton, Georgia, SYNLawn uses bio-based backings, such as soy and sugarcane, and consumer-conscious additives such as Heatblock™ and antimicrobials to meet customers’ wide range of needs. With more than 100,000 residential and commercial installations, the company is raising the bar for global synthetic turf standards and transforming the idea of grass. For more information visit www.synlawn.com.
About French/West/Vaughan
French/West/Vaughan (FWV) is one of the nation’s leading public relations, public affairs, advertising and digital media agencies, with offices in Raleigh, New York City, Los Angeles and Tampa. National, international and local clients represented by the agency include Wrangler, ABB, Proximo, Melitta, Bassett Furniture, Volvo Trucks North America, the V Foundation for Cancer Research, Moe’s Southwest Grill and the N.C. Department of Transportation. Owned or affiliated companies include fashion and lifestyle PR firm AMP3 (New York City), pet and veterinary PR practice FWV Fetching and feature film development imprint Prix Productions. FWV is a partner in IPREX, a $380 million network of communication agencies with 1,600 staff and 110 offices worldwide. For more information, please visit www.fwv-us.com or follow us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Vimeo or Instagram.
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Recalls 1610 articles
March 24, 2018 Jennifer Walker-Journey Pharmaceutical, Recalls
Defective brain probes recalled
Monteris Medical is recalling NeuroBlate System and Laser Delivery Probes – small, carbon dioxide (CO2)-cooled catheters that allow for minimally invasive entry into a patient’s brain – because in some cases the probes can interact with the MRI system used to visualize the position of the catheter and cause unexpected heating. This issue could cause unanticipated heating of surrounding brain tissue, or damage the tip of the probe, and allow the CO2 cooling gas inside the probe to leak into the brain. The brain probes are part of the NeuroBlate system, which is used during surgical procedures to remove (ablate), ... Read More
PDX Aromatics expands recall of tainted kratom supplements
PDX Aromatics is expanding the scope of its recall of certain kratom white vein powder and capsules and red vein powder products because the herbal supplements may be contaminated with Salmonella, an organism that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. The products are part of an investigation by federal and local authorities into a multistate outbreak of Salmonella linked to various brands of kratom from multiple distributors. To date, at least 87 people in 35 states were sickened after ingesting kratom. Twenty-seven of those who fell ... Read More
March 20, 2018 Kurt Niland Consumer Products, General Recalls, Recalls
Amazon Recalls Portable Power Banks For Fire, Burn Risk
Anyone who owns an AmazonBasics portable power bank should check their model to see if it is included in a safety recall of chargers powered by lithium-ion batteries. Amazon and federal regulators say the Chinese-made devices pose a risk of overheating, fire, and burn injuries. Amazon sold the potentially defective portable power banks through its website and in Amazon pop-up stores from Dec. 14 through July 2017. The recall includes six different AmazonBasics power banks made by Guoguang Electric Company Limited of China and sold by Amazon for between $9 and $40. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) said ... Read More
Bayer recalls mislabeled packages of Alka-Seltzer Plus
Bayer is recalling some of its Alka-Seltzer Plus medicines because the ingredients on the front sticker of the boxes may not match the actual product in the carton, which poses an allergy or anaphylactic reaction risk, a medication contraindication risk, and the potential for serious health consequences. To date, however, no injuries related to this issue have been reported. Affected Alka-Seltzer Plus products were sold in the U.S. at Walmart, CVS, Walgreens and Kroger (including Dillons Food Stores), Fred Meyer, Fry’s Food Stores, Ralphs, King Soopers and Smith’s Food and drug after Feb. 9, 2018. They can be identified by ... Read More
March 14, 2018 Kurt Niland Motor Vehicles, Recalls
Ford Recalls 1.4 Million Cars For Potential Steering Wheel Detachment
Ford Motor Co. announced a major safety recall involving about 1.4 million cars in North America over concerns that the steering wheel could come off the steering column, causing drivers to lose control. The Ford recall affects certain model-year 2014 through 2018 Ford Fusion and Lincoln MKZ cars. Most of the recalled cars – about 1.3 million – are in the U.S. Another 62,000 vehicles in Canada and 14,000 in Mexico are included in the recall. Ford announced the recall after company officials found that the cars have “potentially loose steering wheel bolts that could result in a steering wheel ... Read More
March 12, 2018 Kurt Niland Motor Vehicles, Product Liability, Recalls
Hyundai Sonatas Recalled For Potential Airbag, Seatbelt Failure
Hyundai will recall about 155,000 midsize Sonata sedans in the U.S. over concerns that airbags in the vehicles may not deploy and seat belts may not function properly in a crash. The Hyundai recall covers 154,753 model-year Sonata cars manufactured between Dec. 11, 2009, and Sept. 29, 2010, at the South Korean automaker’s plant in Montgomery, Alabama. The airbag problem stems from a short circuit in the airbag control unit, an electronic component that assists with airbag deployment. A short circuit in the control unit could leave motorists without front and side airbag protection in a crash, the National Highway ... Read More
Evamist HRT recalled due to packaging defect
Perrigo is notifying pharmacists that it is recalling one batch of the hormone replacement therapy (HRT) Evamist Transdermal Spray because there may be cracks in the neck of the vial near the crimp that may cause the product to evaporate or leak out, and thus not properly dispense. This defect may cause consumers to miss the therapeutic benefit of the product in relieving of their menopausal symptoms. Perrigo notified the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the recall, and asked pharmacists and distributors with affected products to return them to the company. In accordance with FDA guidelines, Perrigo must verify notifications ... Read More
Sagent recalls injectable anti-inflammatory drug
Sagent Pharmaceuticals Inc., announced a nationwide recall of 10 lots of the injectable anti-inflammatory drug methylprednisolone sodium succinate manufactured by Gland Pharma Ltd., and distributed by Sagent Pharmaceuticals because testing has revealed a high amount of specification impurity. This could decrease the effectiveness of the drug in patients. The impurity has not yet been identified and, to date, no reports of adverse events have been reported. Methylprednisolone sodium succinate for injection is an anti-inflammatory glucocorticoid that is used for several conditions including allergic states, dermatologic diseases, endocrine disorders, gastrointestinal diseases, hematologic disorders, neoplastic diseases, nervous system, ophthalmic diseases, renal diseases, ... Read More
Hospira recalls opioid injection
Hospira Inc., is recalling three lots of injectable opioid hydromorphone at the hospital/institution level because glass vials from these lots may be empty or cracked, in which case the sterility of the drug compromised. Use or exposure to hydromorphone from cracked glass vials may cause adverse events including cuts to health care professionals, and bloodstream infections, which may potentially lead to bacteremia or sepsis, to patients. Patients with compromised immune systems are at greater for infections. The recall affects three lots of hydromorphone HCl injection, USP CII 10 mg/mL, 1 mL in 2 mL single dose vials with the lot ... Read More
March 5, 2018 Jennifer Walker-Journey Pharmaceutical, Recalls
Diet pill recalled, contains dangerous hidden drug
Bella All Natural is recalling its Bella diet pills after the drug sibutramine was found hidden in the dietary supplement. Sibutramine is an appetite suppressant that was withdrawn from the market in October 2010 because of serious health risks. The drug substantially increases blood pressure and/or pulse rate in some individuals and may put users at risk for cardiovascular events including heart attack, arrhythmia, and stroke. To date, Bella All Natural has not received any adverse event reports related to this issue. The recall affects Bella diet capsules with the lot number MFD:10.15.2017 and expiration date “10.12.2019.” The product is ... Read More
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Santa Mierda!
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The Weekly Dump
The Weekly Dump 8.30.19
August 30, 2019 Ben 32
I’ve got a lot to say this week and I’m making no appoligees. And having someone who can spell check your signs before you print them is always a good idea unless you want to promote how dumb you are. In other news, we had a murder in Aptos, a couple of stabbings in Santa Cruz, a home invasion attempt, a high speed chase in traffic on Mission, three incidents involving schools being locked down or having suspects arrested on campus for making threats, life in prison for pair convicted of murder on the levee, detoxifying city hall, where to get your signature on this week, nothing good happens at 3AM, when life doesn’t really mean life, it’s his downtown too, the gifts that keep on giving (in 3 parts), jeepers creepers, battery on Pacific, robbery on Beach Street, hold his beer while you’re at it, busted on Seabright Beach, messing with the wrong house, Espectáculo de Mierda, the city wants to buy Gateway Plaza, weekly shoutouts and thanks, and more!
Aptos Woman Arrested For Stabbing Her Husband to Death
Saturday afternoon around 1PM, Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a home on Victoria Lane in Aptos for a report of a man who was stabbed. When they arrived at the home, they found a 63 year old man suffering from stab wounds. Apparently there was some sort of altercation between the man and his wife prior to the stabbing. Deputies attempted CPR on the victim but he died at the scene.An autopsy will be performed on the victim to determine the cause and manner of death. His 51 year old wife was arrested on suspicion of murder after detectives investigated. Bail was set at more than a million dollars. Media reports have indicated that the couple might have been arguing over money prior to the altercation. It’s a pretty sad story. The couple had 2 children, and now the kids lost their father and their mother is in jail for killing him. By all indications, the couple was well liked in the community and neighbors were shocked.
Man Stabbed in San Lorenzo Park on Monday Night
Monday night around 9PM, SCPD responded to a report of a stabbing victim near Riverside and Soquel. SCPD responded and found a victim who was stabbed multiple times. He was uncooperative but stated it happened in San Lorenzo Park and claimed he didn’t know the person who stabbed him. SCPD found a blood trail under the Soquel bridge, and while they searched the nearby park for a suspect, a 64 year old man called SCPD and said he was the person who stabbed the guy and he had the knife and could be picked up at Seabright and Murray. SCPD sent multiple units to that scene and the man was arrested at gunpoint without incident. Good thing he called and turned himself in! The victim was taken to a trauma center for treatment. He was expected to live despite multiple stab wounds.
Triage and Priority
Around the same time SCPD was busy investigating that stabbing and looking for a suspect, SCPD got a report about a transient male yelling he was “going to kill your whole family” at someone on the 1100 block of Pacific. SCPD was too tied up to deal with it. I haven’t heard of any families killed downtown.
Woman Stabbed in Beach Flats
Tuesday night around 6:30PM. SCPD responded to a home near 2nd and Leibrandt for a report of someone that had been stabbed in the leg. One person was detained at the scene, and the victim required medical attention and taken to Dominican for their injuries.
Home Invasion Attempt Leads to Arrest Near UCSC
Wednesday morning around 11AM, reports came in about some sort of domestic disturbance near Sheldon and Highland. A woman inside a residence with an infant and a man (possibly armed) was attempting to kick in a back door and break in through a window. SCPD surrounded the home and the suspect was hit with a non lethal projectile before being handcuffed and arrested.
High Speed Chase on Mission Ends in Neary Lagoon
Sunday around 4PM, SCPD was involved in a high speed chase reaching speeds up to 60MPH on Mission Street. SCPD quickly called off the chase, but the suspect stopped the car and bailed on foot into Neary Lagoon Park on Bay near the water plant. SCPD stationed multiple units around Depot Park and the 27 year old male suspect was quickly arrested at the park entrance on Chestnut Street. He was charged with vehicle theft, evading police, burglary, drug possession, possession of tear gas by a felon, vandalism, theft, possession of burglary tools, hit and run, and few other charges. Last check he was still in jail. Arrested 10 times since 2013. We’ve coddled him this far. Why stop now?
Aptos High School Threat Treated as a “Joke”
Sunday afternoon, the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office received several calls about an apparent threat made on Snapchat by a 14 year old boy which they said did not include a threat of violence. Deputies interviewed the teen in person, who told them the post was made as a joke. They also searched his home and confirmed that he did not have access to weapons. The Sheriff’s Office says there are no criminal charges pending and the school will further investigate the issue.
San Lorenzo High School Briefly Locked Down
This past week, San Lorenzo Valley High School was briefly locked down, after a report of a man with a knife. According to the Santa Cruz Sheriff’s office, a male brandished an unopened knife at the victim in front of the San Lorenzo Valley Elementary School cafeteria during lunch time. The suspect was later located and arrested.
Man Arrested For Threat at Cabrillo College
A suspect has been arrested after a report of a possible threat at Cabrillo College. The college became aware of a possible threat someone said they overheard early on Wednesday morning. The Sheriff’s Office found the threat credible and the suspect was arrested without incident.
Pair Convicted of Murder on the Levee Sentenced to Life in Prison
A man and woman convicted of killing a 24 year old homeless man on the San Lorenzo River levee in August of 2016 were sentenced by Santa Cruz Superior Court Judge Ariadne Symons Monday afternoon to life in prison. This was one of the first stories I ever covered in the Weekly Dump. The shooting on the San Lorenzo west levee shocked the city and triggered restrictions on levee and park access.
How to Detoxify City Hall
This week’s Good Times ponders the question “Can Santa Cruz Detoxify City Hall“? And the short answer is yes, of course it can. It can recall the 2 people that are creating the most toxicity there.
And speaking of the recall petition, here’s where you can sign it this week. You can also get more information about people willing to come to you to get your signature if you prefer a less public approach. But your signature is needed if you haven’t signed.
Saturday-Sunday-Monday 8/31-9/2
West Cliff Drive (at the surfer statue above Cowells)
Saturday 8/31, 9-12
Westside Farmers Market
Sunday, 9/1, 1-4 pm
Meder Street Park (near dog park area)
Sunday 9/1, Monday 9/2
Whole Foods (off Soquel Ave)
911 Soquel Ave
Nothing Good Happens at 3AM
Wednesday morning around 3AM, California Highway Patrol officers tried to stop a GMC Yukon for having an obstructed license plate on 41st Avenue near Gross Road in Capitola. After a short pursuit, the driver lost control of the car on Portola Drive, where it overturned and hit a tree. CHP said the driver was a 14 year old male without a license. Five other teens ranging in age from 14 to 18 years old were in the vehicle and all suffered major injuries in the crash and were taken to various hospitals including Valley Medical Center, Natividad Medical Center, Watsonville Medical Center and Dominican Hospital.
When Life Doesn’t Really Mean Life
A man convicted of a 1984 murder recently had his parole revoked by the Santa Cruz County District Attorney’s Office after he was arrested on new charges. At the hearing last week, his parole was revoked and he was returned to prison to continue serving his life sentence. In the original murder conviction, the suspect robbed a man of his groceries and threw him off a bridge, even though the victim cooperated and begged for his life. He received a life sentence but was granted parole in February of 2018. He was released from prison by the Board of Parole and was put in a drug treatment program, but he left after a few months. His location was not known until he was arrested for a new offense recently in Oregon, who tossed him back to us. He will be eligible for reconsideration for parole in a year. Yes, you read that last sentence right.
Hey It’s His Downtown Too!
Sunday morning around 1AM, a 32 year old man was arrested by SCPD on the 800 block of Pacific Avenue for a variety of stuff, including brandishing a knife, disturbing the peace, and being drunk in public. He was arrested and taken to jail.
Saturday morning around 8:30AM, a 40 year old woman was arrested on the 100 block of Manor Avenue on a variety of charges, including resisting arrest, having false identification and trying to use it, possession of burglary tools, and having two outstanding warrants and another bench warrant felony. She was arrested and taken to jail.
The Gift That Keeps On Giving Part II
Wednesday night, a convicted felon on probation in possession of counterfeit money and ammunition was arrested after a vehicle stop. Deputies found several counterfeit $100 bills and about 25 rounds of rifle ammunition in his trunk. Since it is illegal for felons to have ammunition, the man was arrested and taken to the Santa Cruz County Jail.
The Gift That Keeps On Giving Part III
Tuesday morning around 9:30AM, SCPD made a felony car stop at River and Madrone and arrested two people at gunpoint after a 12 gauge shotgun was found in their vehicle. One person is wanted for warrants in Texas but they won’t pick him up. The other has 2 misdemeanors and a negative OR. Both are on probation.
Jeepers Creepers!
Sunday around 6:00PM, SCPD responded to the 400 Block of Beach Street and arrested a 24 year old male for apparently video recording others in a restroom. He was booked into the Main Jail early the next morning and released 21 minutes later.
Battery Suspect Arrested on Pacific Avenue
Friday around midnight, a 44 year old man was arrested for battery on the 1200 block of Pacific Avenue in downtown Santa Cruz. No word on a victim or their condition.
Robbery Suspect Arrested on Beach Street
Friday night around 6PM, a 58 year old man was arrested for robbery on the 100 block of Beach Street. I think he’s new in town. He’s been arrested twice this week, nothing before that, and by the looks of his mugshots he’s a transient bum. Howdy neighbor!
Hold His Beer While You’re At It!
Saturday around midnight, SCPD arrested a 28 year old man for possession of brass knuckles and heroin, as well as a parole hold. Arrested 16 times locally since 2013. Think we coddle this guy too much?
Busted on Seabright State Beach
Wednesday night around 9:30PM, a State Parks Ranger requested backup from SCPD to Seabright State Beach after dealing with some kind of disturbance on the beach. SCPD sent multiple units and when they arrived they found two men detained in handcuffs by the bathrooms.
Messing With the Wrong House
Sunday morning around 4AM, I heard a report about some kind of altercation on the 1100 block of East Cliff. The witness calling it in reported her husband was physically fighting with either a possible intruder or someone trying to steal from his home or vehicle. Apparently the husband woke up and confronted the man in the front yard and started fighting with him. It sounded like the suspect ran off before SCPD arrived.
Espectáculo de Mierda at City Hall
The city council was back under the big top this week, and they had a lot of mierda on their mind. The evening session was spent discussing the perils of using a public restroom at the Louden Nelson Center. And boy, did we get some eye opening tales from the staff there.
“Feces, clogged toilets and syringes are among the problems public bathrooms in Santa Cruz face on a daily basis, according to the city staff at a Tuesday night council meeting.” And people actually question why we would want more of this by keeping them open longer? Santa Cruz needs to address the cause of the problem, not keep reacting to the problem. The cause of the problem is bad behavior, and housing status is irrelevant as it pertains to bad behavior here. The solution is to better punish bad behavior, which we seemingly refuse to do.
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Who Knew the City Wants to Buy Gateway Plaza?
I pulled this from the recent city council meeting agenda. All of these negotiations take place behind closed doors and out of the public eye. I thought the city was broke?
B. Real Property Negotiations (Government Code §54956.8)
1) Property: 700 River Street
APN: 008-174-09
Owner: Summer Solstice, L.P.
City Negotiator: Christophe Schneiter
Negotiating Parties: City, Owners, and consultant Universal Field Services
Under Negotiation: Price, terms of payment, or both for potential purchase of property
2) Property: 550-580 River Street
Owner: Gateway Plaza Associates, LLC
Negotiating Parties: City and Property Owners
Owner: SGP Associates, LLC
These properties are the Gateway merchants that back up to River street, as well as the professional building on the corner of 1 and 9.
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The Weekly Dump 9.6.19
JFC. This city is one large playground for criminals. Getting rid of Glover and Krohn won’t solve all our problems but it is such a good step in the right direction.
Damon Bruder says:
Jeepers, Ben! You must have writters’ cramp this week! Good thing crime is down or you would need to start doing daily installments just to keep up! Thanks for all your hard work!
Thanks Damon. I had to still prune it down from this. Never boring!
Spooky says:
Couldn’t help but chuckle at the Louden Nelson bathroom report. After years of local businesses dealing with feces, syringes and clogged toilets, (oh and they forgot clogged sinks, sink showering, grafitti, human waste grafitti, general damage -and in some cases- arson), this finally made the docket… not that it matters much in this town considering it takes copious reports of this happening to even get the attention of the council to begin with… and once on the docket does it ever REALLY get addressed, or can we even expect a plan to eradicate it?
I have an idea, how about if the council wants to have public restrooms available, they open up city halls as well as city staffs private restrooms to everyone downtown?
Good idea! It will never happen but I approve!
Just another great example of why Glover and Krohn are unfit to serve our city. Even after being presented with evidence that restrooms are being trashed on a daily basis they dismiss it as “anecdotal” and “one time”. Really? The belief that city staff have some sort of deep state agenda against the less fortunate is worthy of Alex Jones and Info Wars. How about they just want to keep the place clean and safe for the actual patrons of the facility? Let’s have Drew and Chris clean those bathrooms and see those piles of “anecdotal evidence” themselves.
Thanks JTF. If they don’t like it, it’s “anecdotal” and “one time”. If it’s something they like, it’s “experts have said” and “shown repeatedly”. Whatever floats their preferred narrative, no matter how stupid or opposed it might be.
Huh, anecdotal huh? Let’s send them photographic evidence.
Pat Kittle says:
Cameron,
Better yet, let’s send them the actual evidence.
Johnnybitchin says:
Welcome to the jungle folks…Seems we are in some super scary times and i blame it solely on the free needles, Bums everywhere and the city council kissing the asses of every weirdo in town. RECALL !!!!! To hell save the city..
Thanks for bitchin in the right direction Johnny!
Dale Clark says:
Thank you so much for keeping me informed as to what my ounce beautiful hometown has turned into! My Mom and sisters still live there and are trying to affect change as well as multiple friends! My only hope is one day they get a city councils with some balls and clean it up!! Get rid of the stupid idiots that are running now!! I don’t even go there anymore!! To depressing!! Keep up the good fight! Thanks again!!
Thanks Dale! Tell your mom and sisters and tell them to tell their friends to sign the recall petition! That’s how we can change this. It’s not the end all, it’s the beginning.
Most buildings and property’s I know of get cleaned at least once a day and just by a few people or just one. So most of the nights mess is cleaned up and street sweepers run often on my shifts. Day and night regular folk have to relieve themselves and during the weekends especially I’ve lost count of how many people Ive seen peeing wherever they can in downtown SC. The addicts, criminals ect ect have no self control for one reason or another and just destroy any and everything that they come into contact with, when your life revolves around getting high and or generally criminal activity nothing is sacred. Then there are those who want to bathe in the restrooms and or take them over to live out of.
These people in charge of our town need to simply walk around to see that this town is in bad shape. How can you enjoy a place where just parking your vehicle means it may or may not be broken into, you have to watch out for needles everywhere you go/sit, constantly being begged for money and or being hassled by very scary “people “ that have records of being violent repeat offenders. And that’s only half the stories and problems. And it’s happening all over that’s why SC needs to do something ASAP it’s only going to get worse.
Watch out for each other is all I can really say, drive around at night/early morning get familiar with who’s creeping around/camping in cars around your neighborhoods I bet you’ll find that you’ll start seeing the same “ people”. This has gone on long enough but it looks like no charge if any will happen anytime soon.
Thanks again Dave for all you do and sharing your insight!
Hi Ben – I believe the original murder victim in your “When Life Doesn’t Really Mean Life” piece was a well-known and well-like homeless veteran named Raul Lopez. Back in the mid-70’s the town was not overrun with homeless like it is today so Raul was easily recognizable and I actually had dealings with him at my old job. He was definitely mentally ill but completely harmless. He was thrown off a bridge over the San Lorenzo river by two other homeless guys, one of them being the guy you reference in the article. The community was outraged and saddened when they learned that Raul had been killed for a bag of groceries, and if I remember correctly local veterans paid for his funeral and carried his casket.
Fast forward to today and the creep who killed him is eligible for parole in one year and our town is overrun by dangerous homeless drug addicts. RIP Raul Lopez.
Thanks Pablo. As someone who has been following local crime for longer than the 3 years I’ve been doing this weekly column about it, there’s an enormous amount of homeless on homeless crime locally. Yet that angle consistently fails to get reported, and it fails to get recognized by the kooks complaining ad nauseum about the homeless being picked on. Yes the homeless are vulnerable. And a large part of that threat comes from other homeless people. Own it. It’s just another elephant in the room.
The town is a mess, the city council is a mess, and losers Krohn and Glover—major contributors to the mess—have got to go. But that’s only part of the problem. The cops do their job, Dave does his job, bums and criminals are arrested only to have the courts release them “on probation.” What the hell does probation even mean around here other than the Get Out of Jail Free card. Ben’s mentioned it time and again, and Pablo, above, also brings it up. The question is, Why are these repeat offenders released over and over? This is a judicial issue, and I have no idea how to stop it. If anyone here has some ideas, please post them. Yes, I know props 47 and 57 need to be overturned, but there must be some way we can address this on the local level.
Gracchus says:
Julie I do believe it’s judicial problem thank you for noting that. For those who know drug addiction, the only way to stop an addict from using is to force withdrawal upon them in jail. And then follow up with drug testing and if they re-offend put them back in jail until they get the idea. Since a large portion of our homeless are addicts and there’s lots of space in jail, I have been saying for ages to put the addicts in jail and stop the revolving door that Ben talks about all the time.
Second we should bring back the lockdown residential facilities for the second homeless subgroup — the mentally ill that Ronald Reagan did away with decades ago — and which was a big mistake. We need to bring those back which will solve the second big part of the problem — which is psychotic episodes in public. This also is a traditional problem and the DA and the chief judge Paul Burdick can play important roles here by stopping the revolving door.
The third big group is the genuine down-and-out hard-luck cases that compassionately need to be housed in hotels and helped with the money Santa Cruz gets from the state. Instead the City spends the money on hiring more staff or funding the raft of progressive nonprofit leeches on the system who in the long run do nothing.
I know a lot of us would pay for itself . Police overtime budget can be greatly reduced and this money can go directly to the people who are down and out by putting them up in motels. This is judicial to the extent that the police department — the front end of the judicial system — is codependent with the homeless. Just think if some of the millions of dollars of police overtime–‘ spent dealing with homeless crimes which account for 50% of all or more of all police time, we’re freed up to spend on the truly indigent? But police have no motivation to cut their overtime budget which would happen naturally if the above actions were taken.
You asked for Solutions and these are three solutions– all Politically Incorrect — but none the less Solutions.
There’s a lot of truth in those comments! Thanks Gracchus.
Thank you Gracchus. Excellent solutions; all of which are do-able. Anyone reading this, if you’re thinking about running for the two council seats the clowns will vacate, please take those solutions to heart and figure out a way to implement them.
Gracchus wrote “there’s lots of space in jail” – that isn’t true for the Santa Cruz jail. The jail is typically over capacity
Regarding “police have no motivation to cut their overtime budget” – the overtime is primarily a consequence of being short staffed. There would be much less overtime if the SCPD were able to fill all vacant positions.
The root cause always has been, since I’ve been alive (born and raised here), UCSC. The student voting block gives rise to the Krohns, Browns, and Glover’s. Even your Leopolds.
Cutting the head off the snake requires getting UCSC shut down. A small step would be to stop the students from double voting (I dunno, prosecute them for voter fraud perhaps?). But even then I don’t think that will help, given the associated progressive agenda perpetrated into the community from the University.
Sorry for being a downer, just calling it as I see it.
its like the richest 1% and the poorest 1% got together and decided to kill whats left of this country lol… ?
Pendejo D. Beachflatz says:
“at either end of the social spectrum lies a leisure class” – Friedrich Nietzsche
Garrett Philipp says:
One wonders if Kieth McHenry, founder Food Not Bombs non-profit, is the one funding the expensive looking, if not so logo graphically correct, signs he and others are always seen holding and improperly used non-profit funds intended for bums to produce them. The sign holders are a little like a secret political club that doesn’t really have a name, but it would be a really long one if they did like “Militant homeless advocates for eco-sustaining , 5G fearing, wealth re-distributing, Mayor-manager bashing, everyone else oppression blame grievance mongering, rules optional, Globalist-Marxist aligning for a New World Order Comrade Collective”. OK , I wonder anyway.
My friends and I have always wondered about who funds the signs. When McMuffin and Crabby were domestic partners, I always figured she was the one making them and stealing resources from UCSC. After they split, the signs went away for awhile. Then she re-surfaces recently and the signs are back. Correlation or coincidence? Who knows? The signs are just part of the regular laugh track for Santa Cruz city council meetings. Just like Bob Noise, the Elise woman who gnaws on the microphone, and the Manson doppleganger who loves to turn around and preach to the peanut gallery during his 2 minutes of TV time.
Bring_Back_Felton says:
Live in a community just outside Santa Cruz and we are experiencing a steady influx of idiots from Santa Cruz’s homeless. We are fighting this battle at a smaller scale, but hoping to prevent this from becoming a larger scale.
Nowhere is safe now! Capitola and Scott’s vallet were that last frontier of safety and cleanliness, and now SC’s crazy/druggie/bum cup overfloweth. And now are main beach is the new “camp bernal”. Is anywhere here sacred? Or should we just throw in the towel and name this town home of the homeless…?
greenie says:
This is merely hearsay, but an acquaintance just told me that Glover may be renting and residing in an illegal granny unit on the westside. Does anyone have additional info on this?
Scruz says:
Ben, Ashley’s conversation with ex Chief Vogel on KSCO today was nothing short of eye opening, illuminating, shocking and informative. I urge you and all to listen to it. Common Sense Ashley. Gotta hand it to her for snagging him as interviewee. And the comments made about one of the recallees shows that he (councilman) has had a history of untoward behavior.
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Douglas Alderson’s A New Guide to Old Florida Attractions: From Mermaids to Singing Towers Delivers Equal Parts Weird Florida History and Tourist Trap Nostalgia
by Alexander Cendrowski
A man named “Alligator Joe” holds an alligator’s jaw shut with his chin. Snorkelers are encouraged to partake in underwater archery. A reflective, glaring, aluminum-plated castle is erected in the swamplands. Strange how Floridian reality so often sounds like non-Floridian fantasy.
Douglas Alderson’s A New Guide is a love letter in the form of a tourism pamphlet, amplified to book length and filled with 20th century attraction history. Alderson addresses the letter to Florida itself; to a pre-Disney, naturalist approach to “edutainment”; to a trip he took in 1966, packing into an old Rambler station wagon and heading down to the Sunshine State from Illinois. In this framework Alderson situates himself perfectly to examine and detail the peculiar tourist machinations of the country’s oddest state, tracing the lineage of early European tourists (plus or minus a fair shake of Native American abuse) to Ross Allen’s 153 mile “Survival Safari” to Weeki Wachee Springs’ live mermaid shows. His path is often winding, and at times the history is interrupted by patches of self-reflection—or was it the other way around?
The key to A New Guide’s perspective on America’s southernmost appendage is Alderson’s quest to recapture his childhood, to look upon Florida and its attractions with all the wonderment and innocence of youth. He finds it, in part, but he also finds an industry that has expanded on Florida’s natural beauties through a sequence of what he calls “extras”: “Instead of just gazing into the blue portal of a clear spring, how about beautiful mermaids … throw in concrete dinosaurs, African animals, leaping dolphins.” The pictures Alderson includes—century-spanning postcards, brochures, and photographs—only amplify the nostalgic effect, drawing a direct line between the naturalism and wonder of Florida’s tourism past and his hope for a return to form in Florida’s tourism future.
A New Guide to Old Florida Attractions: From Mermaids to Singing Towers is Alderson’s first book in full color, but by no means his first book. Others include Wild Florida Adventures, The Great Florida Seminole Trail, Wild Florida Waters, and Encounters with Florida’s Endangered Wildlife. His articles and photographs, focusing on Floridian wildlife, adventure, and culture, have been featured in Native Peoples, Wildlife Conservation, Florida Naturalist, Mother Earth News, and a number of other magazines. He is the former associate editor of Florida Wildlife magazine, and he edited A Florida Wildlife Anthology: 1947-2003. He lives south of Tallahassee with his wife, Cyndi, and daughter, Cheyenne.
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SANDRA LARONDE
ADIZOKAN
MISTATIM
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RED SKY PRESENTS
RED SKY NORTH
GETTING ON OUR FEET
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REDTalks
Canada’s 150th Anniversary
Artistic Director Sandra Laronde was invited by Minister Shelly Glover of Canadian Heritage to participate in the first consultation roundtable with community representatives to discuss regional, historical, and cultural considerations in terms of how to celebrate Canada's 150th anniversary of Confederation which takes place in 2017.
Mattamy Athletic Centre, Toronto, Canada
5-Day Dance Seminar
December 2 – 5, 2013
Artistic Associate Carlos Rivera returned to Montreal with a 5-Day Seminar at Studio 303. This seminar workshop introduced contemporary dancers and dance movement artists to the traditional dance forms of North American Indigenous peoples.
Studio 303, Montreal, Canada
Equity Sounding
October 24- 25, 2013
Artistic Director Director Sandra Laronde was invited by the Canada Council for the Arts to participate in a two-day Equity Sounding session. The Equity Office advances equity and promotes equitable access to Council's programs and services by developing policies, programs and strategies with Council divisions and arts communities. It was a part of a larger process that the Canada Council for the Arts is currently undertaking to generate ideas and establish priorities for future policy and program directions.
Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa, Canada
Roundtable with Russia
Red Sky was invited to participate on a Roundtable with Russia, along with prominent arts leaders in Toronto. Both Sandra Laronde and Laure Fournier attended the roundtable at the Toronto Arts Council. The purpose of the visit was that the Agency of Cultural Initiatives in Russia was researching Toronto arts and cultural development models and policy models.
Toronto Arts Council, Toronto, Canada
We performed to over 900 delegates as we opened TED Talks at Toronto's Koerner Hall. Over a dozen speakers and performers joined together onstage to deliver powerful and inspiring talks on the theme The Choices We Make. As well, the satellite event at CSI was packed and thousands viewed the livestream online, with more than 35 million social media impressions.
Koerner Hall, Toronto, Canada
Red Sky Performance at the Couchiching Institute
August 8 - 11, 2013
The 82nd Annual Summer Conference focuses on Coming Together as One: Navigating the Relationship Between Indigenous Peoples and Canada.
This landmark event is held at Geneva Park near Orillia Ontario, on the shores of Lake Couchiching. Along with our artistic director, Sandra Laronde, other stellar speakers include: Roberta Jamieson, Shawn A-in-chut Atleo, The Right Honourable Paul Martin, Hon. James Bartleman, Sheelah McLean, Sheila Fraser, Chuck Strahl, Andy Mitchell, Kathleen Mahoney, Glenn Nolan, Aaron Paquette, Caleb Behn, Michael Redhead Champagne, and Wes Fine Day.
The Couchiching Institute, Geneva Park, Canada
Indigenous Music Creators Project
August 5, 6, 7, 2013
Red Sky's Indigenous Music Creators Project is an innovative, music-driven initiative for Indigenous Music Creators and Composers that seek to create and/or score music for dance and theatre. This project provides a stimulus to Indigenous music creators and composers in a highly interactive and intimate learning environment.
ArrayMusic
Workshop: August 5, 6, 7, 2013 (10 am - 4 pm)
Concert: August 7, 2013 at 8 pm
Aboriginal Economic Business Development Project
Artistic Director Sandra Laronde participates in an Aboriginal Economic Business Development Project (AEBDP) that seeks to create an environment where a diverse cross-section of Aboriginal groups and individuals can engage with academic, government, business and industry supporters to support a visioning process, allowing for multiple "points of integration".
Through this initiative, AEBDP targets both Aboriginal youth and adults and focuses on meaningful skills development, mentorship, internships and "experience with real life work situations". The recommendations also call for program development between the private sector, trade unions, and educational institutions to "create employment incentives, upgrading, apprentice, special education and training programs focusing specifically on the education and training needs of Aboriginal peoples.
Native Women's Resource Centre
191 Gerrard Street East
The Central American and Caribbean Meeting on Contemporary Dance
Associate Raul Talamantes participates in the Encuentro Centroamericano del Caribe para el Estudio de la Danza Contemporanea | The Central American and Caribbean Meeting to Study Contemporary Dance at National University of Costa Rica.
Escuela de Danza | School of Dance
UNA National University
Presenter’s Program
Artistic Director Sandra Laronde has been invited by the National Arts Centre as part of the Presenters Program to attend the Northern Scene Festival which highlights performing arts talents from the Yukon, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Nunavik and Nunatsiavut.
National Arts Centre, Ottawa
401 RICHMOND STREET WEST, SUITE 420
TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA M5V 3A8
info@redskyperformance.com
Charitable registration: 89313 2100 RR 0001
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Sole Bay Team Ministry > News > News > Team News 30 June
Team News 30 June
Posted on June 27, 2019 by Tania Birtwistle
FOODBANK SOS; Lowestoft Foodbank URGENTLY require tinned tomatoes, tinned veg, tinned fruit, tinned meat, long life milk, fruit juice, rice pudding, custard, biscuits and chocolate. The warehouse is empty of these items!
Please at present no soup, no baked beans, no pasta, no rice and no cereal. Thank you for your continued support it is much needed and very appreciated Thank you.
OPEN GARDEN AND AFTERNOON TEA – NEXT SATURDAY 6TH AND SUNDAY 7TH JULY
Susan Evan Jones has kindly offered to host an Open Garden and Tea next Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th July at her home, Bridge Foot Farm between 2-5pm. Donations will be for St Margaret’s two charities – Amasango Career School in Grahamstown, South Africa and Mission to Seafarers. Anyone willing to help, please speak to Susan after the service.
REYDON CINEMA AT ST MARGARET’S CHURCH – Thursday 11th July, 2pm
After our successful launch of the Reydon Community Cinema last month, our next film will be “Hidden Figures”. A film about three African-American women at NASA who served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history: the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. Charge £2 for refreshments. All Welcome!
Sole Bay Team Ladies Fellowship meets every Wednesday at 2pm in the church room at St Margaret’s Church, Reydon, for informal bible study, praise and prayer, friendship and fellowship, and tea and biscuits. All ladies are welcome! We are hosting tea and cake on Wednesday 10 July at 2pm and we would love it if you could come along. For more information please contact Suzzie Godfrey (07539 5137530)
South Cove Flower Festival and Exhibition
Opens with a ticketed Preview Evening on Friday 26th July and closes on the afternoon of Tuesday 30th July. There will be a tapestry of floral displays and an exhibition in church of ‘all things South Cove. In place of the Meadow Sale, there will be a large Book Sale, a Plant Stall and a Preserve Stall in the marquee. The renowned homemade refreshments, including a range of full cream dairy ice-creams, will be available daily.
On Sunday evening 28th July at 7pm Yalda Davis has very kindly agreed to give a ‘cello recital in church. Refreshments will be served from 6.30p.m. onwards with a Retiring Collection at the end of the evening.
We are a small community and any offers of help. WANTED: books, plants and preserves, please. These can be left in Church or the marquee. NO Bric a Brac this year.
Further information and tickets for the Preview Evening are obtainable from Revd. Alan Perry 453624, Alison 675610 ALL ARE WELCOME and we look forward to seeing you.
A JAZZ EVENING IN MEMORY OF SIDI SCOTT – SATURDAY 14 SEPTEMBER. ST PETER & ST PAUL, WANGFORD AT 7.30PM
In memory of Sidi, Martin Smith (Sidi’s son in law) and his Jazz Band, the Jazz Goats will be performing in St Peter & St Paul, Wangford on Saturday 14 September. Tickets including a licensed bar are £10. All funds raised will go towards the Church Restoration Fund. Tickets are available now through Southwold Arts Centre (tel: 01502 722572) www.ticketsource.co.uk or Rev Alan.
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Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust
Health chiefs spend £24m on stand-ins
By Annette Belcher
HOSPITAL managers have been ordered to ‘get a grip’ after it was revealed the Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust spent more than £24million on temporary staff last year.
HOSPITAL managers have been ordered to get a grip after it was revealed the Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust spent more than s24million on temporary staff last year.
Councillor Jim Ryan (Con, Bickenhill) has slammed the gross and excessive spending of the trust, which manages Solihull Hospital, Heartlands and Good Hope.
Responding to a Freedom of Information request from the Sunday Telegraph on the amount of money hospital trusts spend on agency and temporary workers, Heart of England had the highest bill (out of the 83 trusts who responded) for temporary staff in 2010 - 2011.
Coun Ryan, who is also a member of Birmingham Heartlands and Solihull NHS Trust Council of Governors, said: This is an excessive amount of money to be spending on temporary workers - a gross amount in fact.
I have been aware of the excessive amount of money they are spending on this area for some time and it is something I have raised time and again.
This is down to absenteeism. Staff are brought in to cover and they end up staying for longer periods.
The trust is cutting back millions from its services. We need to be putting this money smartly into providing better facilities for patients. Management has got to get a grip.
Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust provided no comment on the issue as the Solihull News went to press.
New name unveiled for Solihull maternity unit
SOLIHULL Hospital’s chief has claimed the newly-named Netherbrook Birth Unit is a “symbol of progress” in the borough.
Solihull planners give casino the go-ahead
'They are the ugliest set of buildings I have ever seen.'
Walk and toddle set to raise health trust cash
A CHARITY walk and toddle from Heartlands to Solihull Hospital takes place next month to raise funds for the local NHS Trust.
Hospital bosses defend meal cost.
Jobs hope sways decision as Solihull planners back casino - with conditions
Solihull Hospital
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abu dhabi grand prix which is won by world champion lewis hamilton. and ireland's jonny sexton is named player of the year at the world rugby awards. hello and welcome to the programme where we start with the footballing news that the copa libertadores final has been postponed again. the second leg between argentine rivals river plate and boca juniors had already been suspended on saturday after violence before the game at estadio monumental — but the south american governing body say that after the boca team bus was attacked by river fans on the way to the venue in buenos aires and the injuries suffered by some of their players that the game could not be played under ‘equal conditions‘. this match was in doubt ever since the first rock was thrown. the one consistence was dockerjuniors‘ consistence was dockerjuniors‘ consistence not to play the match —— boca juniors. the captain is still recovering after sustaining flying glass to his eye. in the end, the head of south american football agreed with the decision and the new date for the match is expected to be announc
abu dhabi grand prix which is won by world champion lewis hamilton. and ireland's jonny sexton is named player of the year at the world rugby awards. hello and welcome to the programme where we start with the footballing news that the copa libertadores final has been postponed again. the second leg between argentine rivals river plate and boca juniors had already been suspended on saturday after violence before the game at estadio monumental — but the south american governing body say that...
Bloomberg Markets: Asia : BLOOMBERG : November 11, 2018 9:00pm-12:00am EST
market if it falls further. yvonne: we have halted it for now after what happened in abu dhabi. one airline that is factoring into all of this and rising fuel prices is qantas. is the ceol us more of qantas. great to have you in hong kong. let's talk about fuel for a second. your record revenue that you got last quarter was able to offset the rising fuel costs. will you be able to continue this trend for the last three months of the year? bill -- our fuel bill is able to be covered. last year it went up by 200 million. by 860ar it will go up million. that is a billion dollars in two years. it shows you how robust the business is that we are still digesting that. david: i think that program and the progress is reflected in your cash flow. there are two diverging views here. think you are producing enough to cover everything. and also maintaining the number of money you are giving back to investors. say your free cash flow could move lower. which do you think? last year we have the strongest free cash flow is that we have ever had. our revenue is offsetting oil. we should have continu
market if it falls further. yvonne: we have halted it for now after what happened in abu dhabi. one airline that is factoring into all of this and rising fuel prices is qantas. is the ceol us more of qantas. great to have you in hong kong. let's talk about fuel for a second. your record revenue that you got last quarter was able to offset the rising fuel costs. will you be able to continue this trend for the last three months of the year? bill -- our fuel bill is able to be covered. last year...
Bloomberg Daybreak: Europe : BLOOMBERG : November 13, 2018 1:00am-2:30am EST
. >> and i'm alex lye in abu dhabi. this is "daybreak" europe and these are the tom stories." the i and s.c. microas european opened. president trump criticizes saudi cuts in production and we'll hear from a c.e.o. and brexit talks enter the final stage and italy faces a budget deadline. which assets will blink manage first in the days ahead? break. crude can't cut a all the talk about production cuts has done nothing. look at w.t.i. the longest losing streak on record so all the talk about the possibility of reducing production by a impact barrels is doing very little to give succor to this market. shale is a risk. that's the message from the nigh jeernl c.e.o. and the sauna trek c.e.o. oil just simply cannot catch a break and donald trump is tweeting. he's not happy about the prospect of a cut. coming up, we're going to talk the oil minister from the conference right here ined a dab. that's in about 20 minutes' time. anya, good morning. anya: good morning. plenty to talk about regarding the oil price. asian equity markets are weaker but s&p features, interestingly, do trade higher so
. >> and i'm alex lye in abu dhabi. this is "daybreak" europe and these are the tom stories." the i and s.c. microas european opened. president trump criticizes saudi cuts in production and we'll hear from a c.e.o. and brexit talks enter the final stage and italy faces a budget deadline. which assets will blink manage first in the days ahead? break. crude can't cut a all the talk about production cuts has done nothing. look at w.t.i. the longest losing streak on record so...
Bloomberg's Studio 1.0 : BLOOMBERG : November 10, 2018 11:00pm-11:31pm EST
caravan as well around abu dhabi . that is manus cranny. joining us now is the head of investment strategy at abu dhabi commercial bank. we put together a chart to give some additional context with iranian crude supplies. fallen, buton has not as much as exports have. what do you make of this particular gathering in abu dhabi? are we going to see some cuts? >> i think the oil markets will remain shrouded in uncertainty because of the iran factor. we don't know when the waivers will be taken away. we know the presidency, the volatile nature of the decision-making by president trump, this is a factor that will remain there, so if i look at the oil price, it does come down a lot. it is now basically lost all of its gains of 2018, but still well above where it was on average in 2017, so i would not overdo it. i would also suspect that immediate measures are unlikely. it is true that the kingdom of saudi arabia could be taking a lead in this, being the swing producer, but i doubt they will. i think the russians will be reluctant to take immediate action, because the russians hate oil p
caravan as well around abu dhabi . that is manus cranny. joining us now is the head of investment strategy at abu dhabi commercial bank. we put together a chart to give some additional context with iranian crude supplies. fallen, buton has not as much as exports have. what do you make of this particular gathering in abu dhabi? are we going to see some cuts? >> i think the oil markets will remain shrouded in uncertainty because of the iran factor. we don't know when the waivers will be...
Sportsday : BBCNEWS : November 24, 2018 7:30pm-8:01pm GMT
. we'll take you to the season ending abu dhabi grand prix, and guess who is on the front of the grid again. and farewell to robbo, after almost 50 years with the bbc, he's commentated on his final game. he drops for world cup glory! it is over! he has that! jonny wilkinson is england's hero! let's get some winter sun. they've already won the series and it was another good day for england's cricketers on the second day of the final test in colombo. they have a 99 run lead, adil rashid taking five wickets as sri lanka collapsed to 240 all out. ben croucher was watching. pitches in sri lanka have a tendency to turn and crumble, and the same can apply to sri lankans batting orders. a high five for adil rashid before he spun the game england's way. he watched on as their tale took their way to 336 all out. if you thought that catch was good, jennings started a competition with himself. it doesn't matter how you take them, just that you do. whatever he had at lunch wasn't catching joe root, he had to take this one on the chin. he was dismissed within a split second. if you missed it, here
. we'll take you to the season ending abu dhabi grand prix, and guess who is on the front of the grid again. and farewell to robbo, after almost 50 years with the bbc, he's commentated on his final game. he drops for world cup glory! it is over! he has that! jonny wilkinson is england's hero! let's get some winter sun. they've already won the series and it was another good day for england's cricketers on the second day of the final test in colombo. they have a 99 run lead, adil rashid taking...
News : RT : November 25, 2018 2:00am-2:31am EST
with the united arab emirates after abu dhabi sentenced a british academic to life in jail on charges of spying london has not promised to intervene a month you heard his wife had been appealing to the government to do so for five months and she. says that london's an auction was caused by a fear of upsetting a crucial trading partner i was under the impression that they were putting their interests with the u.a.e. a ball of a british citizens. right feel free to m. and a hearing without a lawyer matthew hedges was sentenced to life in prison on wednesday accused of spying for the u.k. he's already spent five months in solitary confinement he has a ph d. student who went to the u.a.e. to research the twenty year life an arab spring uprising now abu dhabi says it is reviewing a request for clemency from hedgers family for the case has prompted a wave of criticism with calls for a reevaluation of britain's relationship with the oil rich gulf ally when i was first incarcerated in abu dhabi the u.k. government was at the time trying to encourage new lucrative trade deals with the u.a.e. a
with the united arab emirates after abu dhabi sentenced a british academic to life in jail on charges of spying london has not promised to intervene a month you heard his wife had been appealing to the government to do so for five months and she. says that london's an auction was caused by a fear of upsetting a crucial trading partner i was under the impression that they were putting their interests with the u.a.e. a ball of a british citizens. right feel free to m. and a hearing without a...
Nightly Business Report : KQED : November 13, 2018 5:00pm-5:31pm PST
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abu dhabi. and no doubt prices are top of mind. steve sedgwick is there for us tonight. >> reporter: the markets continue to fall on tuesday. despit a respite the markets saw monday. you have wti and brent trading in bear market territory. ie, down more than 20% from the recent october highs. they rose in part on monday on hopes that there would be iss supp the market. that came on the back of an oil meing of opec minorities here in abu dhabi. but i'm afraid by tuesday the market was falling yet again. following president trump tweeting that he didn't want saudi arabia and opec to be production. very tough for saudi as well ased se they see inc supply and concerns on a dplut and bigger inventories in early 2019. they were hoping to get ahead of the curve and cut production to alleviate concernst ine same time as the u.s. showing record production. soul then they be creeding market position to the united states shale producer. a very tgh conundrum for opec and saudi arabia. tinue we speak prices c to fall. this is steve sedgwick, night business report in abu dhabi. >> and trade is th
abu dhabi. and no doubt prices are top of mind. steve sedgwick is there for us tonight. >> reporter: the markets continue to fall on tuesday. despit a respite the markets saw monday. you have wti and brent trading in bear market territory. ie, down more than 20% from the recent october highs. they rose in part on monday on hopes that there would be iss supp the market. that came on the back of an oil meing of opec minorities here in abu dhabi. but i'm afraid by tuesday the market was...
DW News - News : DW : November 26, 2018 12:00pm-12:16pm CET
seized to the serious title and prevailed in an action packed race in abu dhabi which featured a big crash and fernando alonso saying goodbye to a fundraising forever. back to will smith wave the flag to start off the abu dhabi grand prix and the f one season finale would offer some polly would style drama albeit not with regards to world champion lewis hamilton who led from poland yet another recession. the big catch came when nico holcomb berg landed upside down after a crash. concerned faces in the renault carriage. but the german emerged largely unscathed how milton already secured a fifth world title last month push showed his neverending hunger by stealing his eleven victory of a stunning season the most cities drive even treated the crowd to some donuts along with fernando alonso who is quitting f one after three hundred twelve starts and two world titles there has been a personal wrestling rift with his champions from now you know i feel very privileged we do this here yeah thanks for everything thanks for one i will i will be always a fan of. the put the day and the season b
seized to the serious title and prevailed in an action packed race in abu dhabi which featured a big crash and fernando alonso saying goodbye to a fundraising forever. back to will smith wave the flag to start off the abu dhabi grand prix and the f one season finale would offer some polly would style drama albeit not with regards to world champion lewis hamilton who led from poland yet another recession. the big catch came when nico holcomb berg landed upside down after a crash. concerned...
Sport Today : BBCNEWS : November 1, 2018 1:45am-2:00am GMT
thriller in abu dhabi — pakistan beat new zealand in the first t20 by two runs. hello and welcome to the programme, thanks forjoining us. just as he was about to make his comeback after nearly two months out with a knee injury, rafael nadal has pulled out of the atp paris masters. the 17—time grand slam winner said it was due to an abdominal injury — and it means that novak djokovic will take over as world number one, when the new rankings are announced on monday. since that moment in terms of injuries, so i want to avoid drastic things and if maybe i can't play to date, but the doctor says if i want to play the tournament, if i want to try to win the tournament, the abdominal will break for sure. —— ca ntlay. abdominal will break for sure. —— cantlay. so abdominal will break for sure. —— ca ntlay. so it abdominal will break for sure. —— cantlay. so it will be not there and not good for me, for nobody to go inside the court knowing that probably be full tournament will not be possible to play. roger federer‘s another player who didn't make it on court on wednesd
thriller in abu dhabi — pakistan beat new zealand in the first t20 by two runs. hello and welcome to the programme, thanks forjoining us. just as he was about to make his comeback after nearly two months out with a knee injury, rafael nadal has pulled out of the atp paris masters. the 17—time grand slam winner said it was due to an abdominal injury — and it means that novak djokovic will take over as world number one, when the new rankings are announced on monday. since that moment in...
DW News - News : DW : November 25, 2018 8:00pm-8:15pm CET
race in abu dhabi which featured a big crash and fernando alonso saying goodbye to formula one. so will smith wave the flag to start off the abu dhabi grown grave and the f one season finale would offer some poli wood style drama albeit not with regards to world champion luis hamilton who led from poland yet to know the recession. the big action came when nico holcomb the landed upside down after a crash. concerned faces in the renault carriage. but the german emerged last the unscathed how milton of already secured a fifth will title last month showed his neverending hunger by stealing his eleven victory of a stunning season to miss a tease drive even treated the crowd to some donuts along with fernando alonso who is quitting at one of the three hundred twelve starts and two will titles there has been no pressure resting we were just champions and now you're not through very privileged. things but have a few things for me i want i will i will be always a fan of. but the day and the season belonged to hamilton the briton even showing off his tattoo to the adoring fans. and we turn
race in abu dhabi which featured a big crash and fernando alonso saying goodbye to formula one. so will smith wave the flag to start off the abu dhabi grown grave and the f one season finale would offer some poli wood style drama albeit not with regards to world champion luis hamilton who led from poland yet to know the recession. the big action came when nico holcomb the landed upside down after a crash. concerned faces in the renault carriage. but the german emerged last the unscathed how...
DW News - News : DW : November 26, 2018 12:00am-12:16am CET
packed race in abu dhabi which featured a big crash and fernando alonso saying goodbye to formula one driving. back so will smith wave the flag to start off the abu dhabi chrome prix and the f one season finale would offer some polie would style drama albeit not with regards to world champion lewis hamilton who led from poland get to know the procession. the thinking came when nico holcomb the oversight down after a crash. concerned faces in the renault carriage. but the german emerged last the unscathed hamilton already secured a fifth world title last month push show he's never ending hunger by sealing his eleven victory in a stunning season the most cities driver even treated the crowd to some donuts along with a nod to a long so who is quitting at one of the three hundred twelve starts and two world titles there has been no pressure wrestling with this champions from now you know i feel very privileged we do this here and thanks for everything thanks for my want i will i will be always a part of this show but the day and the season belong to hamilton the briton even showing off hi
packed race in abu dhabi which featured a big crash and fernando alonso saying goodbye to formula one driving. back so will smith wave the flag to start off the abu dhabi chrome prix and the f one season finale would offer some polie would style drama albeit not with regards to world champion lewis hamilton who led from poland get to know the procession. the thinking came when nico holcomb the oversight down after a crash. concerned faces in the renault carriage. but the german emerged last...
weekend's abu dhabi grand prix being his last. hello and welcome to the programme, where we start with cricket, and the news that australia beat india byjust four runs on wednesday in the first of their twenty20 international matches in brisbane. australia were sent in to bat after india won the toss, and glenn maxwell top—scored with a8, as the home side made 158—4 in 17 overs. the match started on time, but their innings was interrupted by rain, so india were set a target that was revised upwards to 173. despite the efforts of shikhar dhawan, who made 76, india were restricted to 169—7, meaning the aussies go 1—0 up in the three—match series, with the second match to be played in melbourne on friday. we've got good memories of the team. we've got good memories of the team. we've got good memories of the team. we dominated the t20 games last year. really good form. we were i'm pretty sure number one or number two ranked in the world not long ago. so we are ranked in the world not long ago. so we a re really ranked in the world not long ago. so we are really confident. obviou
weekend's abu dhabi grand prix being his last. hello and welcome to the programme, where we start with cricket, and the news that australia beat india byjust four runs on wednesday in the first of their twenty20 international matches in brisbane. australia were sent in to bat after india won the toss, and glenn maxwell top—scored with a8, as the home side made 158—4 in 17 overs. the match started on time, but their innings was interrupted by rain, so india were set a target that was...
. test cricket is alive and well, if events in abu dhabi are anything to go by. let me set the scene, it's day four of the first test between pakistan and new zealand. pakistan have two days to score just 139 runs to win and they've got ten wickets in hand. can the kiwis pull off mission impossible? here's sanjeev shetty with the answer. don't get too comfortable, lads. in cricket, they say there is an ball waiting for everyone. imam found that out the hard way. spin can ruin you in abu dhabi. pakistan losing another two wickets and falling to 48- another two wickets and falling to a8— three. sometimes attack is a better form of defence. a8— three. sometimes attack is a betterform of defence. shafiq a8— three. sometimes attack is a better form of defence. shafiq and ali on the march and suddenly the victory target was less than 50. and even when neil wagner ran rings around shafiq, the game still felt like the game was headed in the host's direction, but this comical run out seemed to suggest new zealand would have the last laugh. bilal asif‘s decision saw him return to the s
. test cricket is alive and well, if events in abu dhabi are anything to go by. let me set the scene, it's day four of the first test between pakistan and new zealand. pakistan have two days to score just 139 runs to win and they've got ten wickets in hand. can the kiwis pull off mission impossible? here's sanjeev shetty with the answer. don't get too comfortable, lads. in cricket, they say there is an ball waiting for everyone. imam found that out the hard way. spin can ruin you in abu dhabi....
Counting the Cost (2018) Ep 47 : ALJAZ : November 26, 2018 7:32pm-8:01pm +03
the abu dhabi drawn prix not our the finale runner driver nico holcomb burke would have been hoping for. but you if you look. at this. picture of the cover a couple. of holcomb back did eventually emerge from that crash on the first lap and wilson when so and so when his eleventh race of the season his fifth world title i think secured last month in mexico. i know next year is going to come back strong so i want to make sure i try and come back with it but i'm really grateful for the times. congrats and as he said i will try we will try and i think our whole team will try to come back stronger to make sure we give him a how to run into next year mcrae should be defending champions and hosts friends to win tennis's davis cup just the second time they've won the sport's biggest seen cycle it more than a decade after the first triumph all change in the davis cup next year the former being replaced by an eight seam country world cup starts want. this is we can from the dreams and it's just incredible incredible feeling to play like this in a final without dropping even one serving in th
the abu dhabi drawn prix not our the finale runner driver nico holcomb burke would have been hoping for. but you if you look. at this. picture of the cover a couple. of holcomb back did eventually emerge from that crash on the first lap and wilson when so and so when his eleventh race of the season his fifth world title i think secured last month in mexico. i know next year is going to come back strong so i want to make sure i try and come back with it but i'm really grateful for the times....
BBC Business Live : BBCNEWS : November 12, 2018 8:30am-9:01am GMT
12th of november. the promise of an output cut by opec following their meeting in abu dhabi — is aimed at halting the slump, which has seen crude slide by a fifth since early october. so by how much — when and what will be the impact. we'll tell you all you need to know. also in the programme... singles day sets a new sales record for the internet giant alibaba, as customers splashed out almost $31 billion injust21i—hours. and global financial markets are in a holding pattern — this the start of the trading day in europe as investors wait for key economic news from the us and china mid week. and we'll be getting the inside track on flexible workspace. demand in the uk has exploded, outstripping new york by some margin. but is the growth sustainable? we'll talk to the founder of the uk shared workspace provider, huckletree. and as we've been hearing single‘s day, invented by chinese giant alibaba, has smashed sales records again and is the world's biggest online shopping day after black friday and cyber monday. so today we want to know — do you go on shopping sprees duri
12th of november. the promise of an output cut by opec following their meeting in abu dhabi — is aimed at halting the slump, which has seen crude slide by a fifth since early october. so by how much — when and what will be the impact. we'll tell you all you need to know. also in the programme... singles day sets a new sales record for the internet giant alibaba, as customers splashed out almost $31 billion injust21i—hours. and global financial markets are in a holding pattern — this...
BBC News at Six : BBCNEWS : November 6, 2018 6:00pm-6:31pm GMT
millions of pounds into the club via their abu dhabi sponsors. city say the accusations were an attempt to damage their reputation. 0ur sport's editor dan roan is outside the etihad stadium. what more can you tell us? city are busy preparing for a big champions league match tomorrow but they do so amid a second consecutive day of damaging regulations and leaked e—mails by the german newspaper der spiegel. ffp is controversial. the summit isa spiegel. ffp is controversial. the summit is a sensible attempt by uefa to limit overspending by clubs and encourage them to live within their means, but the others it's a crude attempt to protect the status quo of european club football. 0ne attempt to protect the status quo of european club football. one thing is certain. city have been found guilty of breaching the rules some years ago and been punished in 2014. der spiegel claim that what it does the first time is truly reveal the extent of what they allege is deceit when it comes to what they told uefa. city have been caught. they have said this is merely organised attempt to smear th
millions of pounds into the club via their abu dhabi sponsors. city say the accusations were an attempt to damage their reputation. 0ur sport's editor dan roan is outside the etihad stadium. what more can you tell us? city are busy preparing for a big champions league match tomorrow but they do so amid a second consecutive day of damaging regulations and leaked e—mails by the german newspaper der spiegel. ffp is controversial. the summit isa spiegel. ffp is controversial. the summit is a...
CNN Newsroom Live : CNNW : November 26, 2018 12:00am-1:00am PST
do want to go to sam kiley now. he joins us on the line from abu dhabi. of course, as we have been reporting, matthew hedges pardoned by u.a.e., but not before he confessed to spying. sam, just bring us up to date on all the information you are learning on this. >> reporter: well, rosemary, i've just come from the event, the press conference and the demonstration of a video that was played to us twice of mr. hedges' allegedly confessing to spying for mi 6. in one of the sections it is a video of him in one of the court hearings in which he's asked by the courts whether he was an m.i. 6 agent and what rank he was, to which he replies, captain. now, this is very significant because there are no ranks in m.i. 6. there is no such thing as a captain in m.i. 6. so, it's a clear indication he was trying to signal, at least denial, that he was an m.i. 6 agent. whether he was or wasn't. and then on top of that, they showed a further video interrogation with him in a comfortable-looking office, in which he sat across a table, across a desk from two individuals who were typing and translating
do want to go to sam kiley now. he joins us on the line from abu dhabi. of course, as we have been reporting, matthew hedges pardoned by u.a.e., but not before he confessed to spying. sam, just bring us up to date on all the information you are learning on this. >> reporter: well, rosemary, i've just come from the event, the press conference and the demonstration of a video that was played to us twice of mr. hedges' allegedly confessing to spying for mi 6. in one of the sections it is a...
Bloomberg Markets: European Open : BLOOMBERG : November 9, 2018 2:30am-4:00am EST
meets in abu dhabi sunday. joining us, stuart wallace, bloomberg's executive editor. and still with us is vincent juvyns from j.p. morgan asset management. your reflections on oil and bear market territory. does this happen fairly quickly? stuart: very quickly. it depends on what perspective. anna: that's what matters. stuart: yes, this is good news for half of the world, deflationary pressure. it's going to bear market in a short space of time. but it does pose a headache for the opec ministers weekend in abu dhabi. what do they do? we are anticipating early signs of a u-turn in policy, second u-turn in a year. they got furious tweeting from trump. they couldn't find customers. the reversed course and reverse course again and probably now will reverse course again. they are supposed to be the swinging supply, so they are fulfilling that role. what they want is stability and they are not getting that. anna: they are not getting it at the moment. is it still as positive for the global economy when we see weaker oil prices? i ask this because of the role the u.s. plays in the global oil
meets in abu dhabi sunday. joining us, stuart wallace, bloomberg's executive editor. and still with us is vincent juvyns from j.p. morgan asset management. your reflections on oil and bear market territory. does this happen fairly quickly? stuart: very quickly. it depends on what perspective. anna: that's what matters. stuart: yes, this is good news for half of the world, deflationary pressure. it's going to bear market in a short space of time. but it does pose a headache for the opec...
. ♪ manus: great to see you this morning. i'm in abu dhabi. we've had the j mmc and the relief is palpable in the oil market. it's veterans day in the united states, so a little bit of the u.s. heaviness in terms of volume might not be there as the day goes on. but the table is being set, i would say, for potential production cuts. look at wti. first ride in 11 sessions. we've broken the trends. they are temporarily caused. saudi arabia says the demand for dominations. is dropping they are planning to meet that drop in terms of the deliveries. oil is having a nice bounce. check out the dollar and the turkish lira. we have a note on the dollar. they say there's room for material for them. by the way, charles schwab says u.s. rates could go higher. and turkish lira a little bit lower. four weeks of gains. inflation numbers disappointing. anna, good morning. anna: good morning to you. already, butt this this is just crossing the t's and dotting the eyes this morning, giving us the detail on that one. let's talk more about the markets. you've been through some of the big headlines, particularl
. ♪ manus: great to see you this morning. i'm in abu dhabi. we've had the j mmc and the relief is palpable in the oil market. it's veterans day in the united states, so a little bit of the u.s. heaviness in terms of volume might not be there as the day goes on. but the table is being set, i would say, for potential production cuts. look at wti. first ride in 11 sessions. we've broken the trends. they are temporarily caused. saudi arabia says the demand for dominations. is dropping they are...
Bloomberg Markets: European Open : BLOOMBERG : November 13, 2018 2:30am-4:00am EST
in apple dobby -- abu dhabi. we bring you the exclusive interview with the company's ceo. this is bloomberg. ♪ matt: welcome back to the european open. we are about 21 minutes into the trading day this morning and we are seeing gains across european stocks, regardless of the tech slump in the u.s. and then asia dropping ex-china overnight. europe italian producer has won the right to create major gas fields in abu dhabi. a deal could be worth over $20 billion over 40 years. the ceo discussed the deal exclusively with bloomberg daybreak anchor manus cranny. good one.l is a very gas is the first gas, big field that we are going to put into production and develop with adnac. it is a huge deal that is supposed to produce at the million per day. day.00 per manus: just give me a timescale. >> a timescale, we could talk about 2022, 2023, something like that. we try to do our best to be fast and effective and efficient. this project is very important, abu dhabi also. for eni, it's gas. we signed a contract for oil. resumeoil and gas, and a -- very soon, acceleration, science. we are goi
in apple dobby -- abu dhabi. we bring you the exclusive interview with the company's ceo. this is bloomberg. ♪ matt: welcome back to the european open. we are about 21 minutes into the trading day this morning and we are seeing gains across european stocks, regardless of the tech slump in the u.s. and then asia dropping ex-china overnight. europe italian producer has won the right to create major gas fields in abu dhabi. a deal could be worth over $20 billion over 40 years. the ceo discussed...
Bloomberg Surveillance : BLOOMBERG : November 13, 2018 4:00am-7:00am EST
record losing streak. president trump takes aim at saudi arabia's plan. where live in abu dhabi. theresa may said talks are in their final stages as negotiators work through the nape. -- the night. could we see a deal this week? ♪ francine: hello. this is bloomberg surveillance. i'm francine lacqua. markets. your the stoxx 600, gaining .06% hope that u.s. china trade gets better. i am looking at the 10 year yield, 3.17. coming up, we speak with the code chief executive of standard life aberdeen. or two tove a thing say about his industry. i'm interested in hearing his thoughts about brexit. here is sebastian say lex. >> brexit negotiators are working through the night to work a deal. theresa may said the final stages proving difficult. in a speech at the city of theon, ms. -- may said negotiations are in an and game but problems remain. both sides said they have until tomorrow to achieve a deal. it may offer -- italy's government may offer a concession when it submits it final budget. 2019overnment will cut its growth target to as low as 1.3% point 5% previously. italy has until today
record losing streak. president trump takes aim at saudi arabia's plan. where live in abu dhabi. theresa may said talks are in their final stages as negotiators work through the nape. -- the night. could we see a deal this week? ♪ francine: hello. this is bloomberg surveillance. i'm francine lacqua. markets. your the stoxx 600, gaining .06% hope that u.s. china trade gets better. i am looking at the 10 year yield, 3.17. coming up, we speak with the code chief executive of standard life...
Bloomberg Markets: Asia : BLOOMBERG : November 4, 2018 9:00pm-12:00am EST
you for stopping by, mohammed sergie. going big, abu dhabi. the details, next. this is bloomberg. ♪ tokyo you are looking at where it is just 1:43 p.m. in the afternoon. kuroda, the bank of japan governor, speaking this morning, about how japan is no longer in a situation where it is best to be "decisively implementing a large-scale policy to overcome deflation," interest in comments -- interesting comments. let's check in on our india markets. who is on standby for us in mumbai? guys.d morning, greetings to all of you. markets are doing ok. very flat moves, marginally in the red. the currency has taken a bit of us take -- of a stick. the rupee has weekend marginally -- weakened marginally versus the dollar. it is better than what it was a couple weeks ago. rength -- let's see if the strength we exhibited last week lasts. tracy: thanks so much for that. fascinating moves in india at the moment. abu dhabi has approved a new five-year budget to boost oil and gas production. it will spend more than $130 billion to raise crude output to 4 million euros per day -- 4 million barrels
you for stopping by, mohammed sergie. going big, abu dhabi. the details, next. this is bloomberg. ♪ tokyo you are looking at where it is just 1:43 p.m. in the afternoon. kuroda, the bank of japan governor, speaking this morning, about how japan is no longer in a situation where it is best to be "decisively implementing a large-scale policy to overcome deflation," interest in comments -- interesting comments. let's check in on our india markets. who is on standby for us in mumbai?...
NEWS LIVE - 30 : ALJAZ : November 22, 2018 10:00am-10:34am +03
country's security policies last month a court in abu dhabi granted him conditional bail raising hopes he might soon be cleared of all charges but the sentence of life imprisonment is a massive blow to those expectations this only think that you know it is a very dangerous place in the already known the u.a.e. is dangerous for journalists for for activists for any critics of any sort and so now we also know it is absolutely dangerous for academics want to conduct research in the country as well mathews wife daniella to heart as said in a statement i am in complete shock and i don't know what to do matthew is innocent the british government must take a stand now from matthew they say that the u.a.e. is an ally but the overwhelmingly arbitrary handling of math case indicates a scarily different reality matthew she said was shaking when he heard the verdict the u.a.e. authorities should feel ashamed for such an obvious injustice. it's only ten days since the british foreign secretary met the crown prince in abu dhabi and personally discussed matthew had his case it seems to have had no impac
country's security policies last month a court in abu dhabi granted him conditional bail raising hopes he might soon be cleared of all charges but the sentence of life imprisonment is a massive blow to those expectations this only think that you know it is a very dangerous place in the already known the u.a.e. is dangerous for journalists for for activists for any critics of any sort and so now we also know it is absolutely dangerous for academics want to conduct research in the country as...
relationship with the oil rich gulf ally and what had you as was first incarcerated in abu dhabi the u.k. government was at the time trying to encourage new trade deals with the u.a.e. and i see a truck going up picks up the story. accused of spying and jailed for life that's now the fate of a british academic researcher in the united arab emirates an ally and friend of the u.k. but how much trouble is this case likely to stir up between the two given what's at stake we are incredibly disappointed that the us should do this we see no foundation in the charges that have been laid against him there will be serious diplomatic consequences for a country that says that it is a friend and ally of the united kingdom for months had just wife says her repeated requests for help have fallen on deaf ears at the foreign office and they just disregarded my request they said that it wasn't part of their job the british prime minister says the u.k. is on top of things and doing everything it can we already see it with the i'm wrong tool for which is the highest level my marginal friend the foreign secr
relationship with the oil rich gulf ally and what had you as was first incarcerated in abu dhabi the u.k. government was at the time trying to encourage new trade deals with the u.a.e. and i see a truck going up picks up the story. accused of spying and jailed for life that's now the fate of a british academic researcher in the united arab emirates an ally and friend of the u.k. but how much trouble is this case likely to stir up between the two given what's at stake we are incredibly...
, and we pretty much did it. one—day international in abu dhabi. for 9 from their 50 overs. with trent boult picking up a hat—trick. in one—day internationals. were bowled out for 219. the second one—dayer is at the same venue on friday. in a single over. in a ford trophy match against central districts in hamilton. and a single off the bowling of medium—pacer willem ludick. taking place in about one hour's time. time. james‘s team has had one went and several losses for the season. and several losses for the season. can they turn that around? goodbye for now. hello there. into wednesday morning. on some of the roads there. but there will also be further rainfall. which is continuing to slide up from the south—west. to affect mainly central portions of the uk. now, the winds are falling light ahead of that. a chilly start. be a touch of frost. these are towns and city values to begin this morning. through the morning. clearing the way into the north sea. ireland. plenty of sunshine to start the day across the south—east. into wales, and then into northern england into the
, and we pretty much did it. one—day international in abu dhabi. for 9 from their 50 overs. with trent boult picking up a hat—trick. in one—day internationals. were bowled out for 219. the second one—dayer is at the same venue on friday. in a single over. in a ford trophy match against central districts in hamilton. and a single off the bowling of medium—pacer willem ludick. taking place in about one hour's time. time. james‘s team has had one went and several losses for the season....
Street Signs : CNBC : November 12, 2018 4:00am-5:00am EST
ministers here in abu dhabi. today i've been speaking to the big ceos in the industry, including bob dudley is the current market too volatile ever to see the aramco ipo? the big question many have has been put on the back burner for the next couple of years that's been endorsed that rather than looking at an ipo aramco recently took major stake in sabbic to basically increase their scope downstream as well i caught a few words with ar min nasir. i asked him about the sabic deal, his ramifications on the ipo and i pushed hard on the date a dented investment for saudi and saudi aramco let's listen in to amin nasser >> we are a global leader when it comes to energy oil and gas we have global footprints in both and we have the leadership positions not only in terms of costs, in terms of market share, safety, technology and carbon footprint. when you look at the petro chemicals we are looking at footprint and we are as strong upstream but no, sir as strong downstream we are doing fine, almost $5 million. we everlike hg more at integration. we talked about our strategy to shift 2 million
ministers here in abu dhabi. today i've been speaking to the big ceos in the industry, including bob dudley is the current market too volatile ever to see the aramco ipo? the big question many have has been put on the back burner for the next couple of years that's been endorsed that rather than looking at an ipo aramco recently took major stake in sabbic to basically increase their scope downstream as well i caught a few words with ar min nasir. i asked him about the sabic deal, his...
BBC News at Five : BBCNEWS : November 23, 2018 5:00pm-5:46pm GMT
by eight wickets in the t20. formula 1 is an abu dhabi and mercedes have talked practice. iwill is an abu dhabi and mercedes have talked practice. i will be back with more and all those stories that have passed five stop —— jonny bairstow. let's get more now on brexit —and ahead of a crucial summit of eu leaders on sunday — the spanish prime minister has demanded a written promise from the british government on the future of gibraltar. pedro sanchez wants last minute changes to the draft brexit agreement — and has even threatened to reject the deal — although no one country can veto let's discuss this further with marcus killick, non—executive chairman of the gibraltar stock exchange. hejoins me now via webcam. the spanish are making a few last—minute demands. the spanish are making a few last-minute demands. it is not the first and the spanish have made changes from a very productive and positive regime previously. it is not surprising down here that they have made this request. from my understanding all the really asking for is that there are changes to the withdrawa
by eight wickets in the t20. formula 1 is an abu dhabi and mercedes have talked practice. iwill is an abu dhabi and mercedes have talked practice. i will be back with more and all those stories that have passed five stop —— jonny bairstow. let's get more now on brexit —and ahead of a crucial summit of eu leaders on sunday — the spanish prime minister has demanded a written promise from the british government on the future of gibraltar. pedro sanchez wants last minute changes to the...
NEWS LIVE - 30 : ALJAZ : November 23, 2018 8:00pm-8:34pm +03
. foreign minister that's in abu dhabi is working hard to resolve this situation a s a p and that's holly's with a statement from the foreign ministry in abu dhabi saying that they hoped an amicable solution could be found in sri lanka m.p.'s supporting the disputed prime minister mahinda rajapaksa have walked out of parliament for the second time this week they cuse the speaker of favoritism punches were thrown last week when m.p.'s passed a no confidence motion against rajapaksa both he and rana worker missing or who were sacked by the president last month say they are the lawful prime minister. president donald trump has threatened to close the border with mexico if his administration decides its neighbor has lost control of its side thousands of asylum seekers from central america are gathering in the mexican border. hoping to cross into the u.s. john holeman reports from there. the day starts with the battle to keep clean but it's hard when you're sleeping rough with five thousand three hundred other people got to try and get washed because it feels weird being dirty all the ti
. foreign minister that's in abu dhabi is working hard to resolve this situation a s a p and that's holly's with a statement from the foreign ministry in abu dhabi saying that they hoped an amicable solution could be found in sri lanka m.p.'s supporting the disputed prime minister mahinda rajapaksa have walked out of parliament for the second time this week they cuse the speaker of favoritism punches were thrown last week when m.p.'s passed a no confidence motion against rajapaksa both he and...
BBC News at Six : BBCNEWS : November 21, 2018 6:00pm-6:31pm GMT
has warned of repercussions for the relationship between the two countries. from abu dhabi, paul blake reports. matthew hedges in happier times with his wife daniela. the durham university academic was in the united arab emirates to research the country's foreign policy, but as he was about to return to the uk, he was detained, with his family saying he was held in solitary confinement, forced to sign a confession in arabic and fed a cocktail of drugs. today, despite hopes for his release, the academic was sentenced to life in prison. his wife, daniela, who was in court, issued a statement. "i'm in complete shock. i don't know what to do. matthew is innocent. this has been the worst six months of my life, let alone for matt, who was shaking when he heard the verdict." friends of the couple suggested that matthew hedges had been on the verge of being released. we are all shocked. there were expectations that the pressure, and added to the actions of the uk government, would have led to a different verdict. the uk and uae have historically enjoyed warm diplomatic ties, but it appea
has warned of repercussions for the relationship between the two countries. from abu dhabi, paul blake reports. matthew hedges in happier times with his wife daniela. the durham university academic was in the united arab emirates to research the country's foreign policy, but as he was about to return to the uk, he was detained, with his family saying he was held in solitary confinement, forced to sign a confession in arabic and fed a cocktail of drugs. today, despite hopes for his release, the...
NEWS LIVE - 30 : ALJAZ : November 24, 2018 3:00am-3:33am +03
minister that's in abu dhabi is working hard to resolve this situation a s a p and that's holly's with a statement from the foreign ministry in abu dhabi saying that they hoped an amicable solution could be found. i said ahead on this al-jazeera news hour not a setback for sure because newly appointed prime minister. keeping a close eye from the sky donald trump's threatening diplomacy u.s. border with mexico to keep migrants out. and support the west indies and knocked out of the wild twenty twenty on home soil here i'll have details later in the program. the new norm for the middle east says sunshine and showers longer spells of right looking rather disturbed once again across much of the middle east that the cloud of rain pushing into the levant syria lebanon jordan all the way down into israel seeing some bits and pieces of rather wet weather possibility of further flooding eastern areas of iraq still seeing some heavy downpours pushing into the west of iraq and you can follow that line of right right there way up into the western himalayas where it turns white readily to snow cleari
minister that's in abu dhabi is working hard to resolve this situation a s a p and that's holly's with a statement from the foreign ministry in abu dhabi saying that they hoped an amicable solution could be found. i said ahead on this al-jazeera news hour not a setback for sure because newly appointed prime minister. keeping a close eye from the sky donald trump's threatening diplomacy u.s. border with mexico to keep migrants out. and support the west indies and knocked out of the wild twenty...
BBC Newsroom Live : BBCNEWS : November 23, 2018 11:00am-12:31pm GMT
london has said the life sentence for spying, given to a british phd student in abu—dhabi, came about after a full and proper legal process. the family of matthew hedges say he is innocent and have appealed to the emirati government for clemency. the ambassador said, like the uk, the uae‘sjudiciary is independent from the government. matthew hedges was not convicted after a five—minute show trial as some have reported. over the course of one month, three judges evaluated compelling evidence in three hearings. they reached the conclusion after a full and proper process. this was an extremely serious case. we live in a dangerous neighbourhood and national security must be a top priority. this was also an unusual case. many researchers visit the uae freely every year without breaking our laws. under uae law everyone has the right to appeal after conviction and everyone can request a pardon from our president. mr hedges' family have made a request for clemency and the government is studying that request. the british foreign secretary, jeremy hunt, had a good conversation with our fore
london has said the life sentence for spying, given to a british phd student in abu—dhabi, came about after a full and proper legal process. the family of matthew hedges say he is innocent and have appealed to the emirati government for clemency. the ambassador said, like the uk, the uae‘sjudiciary is independent from the government. matthew hedges was not convicted after a five—minute show trial as some have reported. over the course of one month, three judges evaluated compelling...
Breakfast : BBCNEWS : November 26, 2018 6:00am-8:31am GMT
with a pole—to—flag victory in the abu dhabi grand prix. a chilly start to the week, showers in the east, some sunshine in the west, but it is turning mild, wet and windy. i'll have more details on breakfast. good morning. it's monday, the 26th of november. theresa may will today begin a campaign to rally support for her brexit withdrawal plan. mps are likely to vote on it on december 12th. later this morning the prime minister will hold a cabinet meeting before making a statement to mps in the commons. but the opposition parties, the dup and many of her own backbenchers have already said they will oppose the plan. our political correspondent alex forsyth has more. theresa may arrived home yesterday with the ink fresh on the deal that will take us out of the eu. in brussels, she got the backing of eu leaders. now, she must sell it to sceptical mps and the public. there were those who said that reaching a brexit agreement that worked for both sides was an impossible task. from the start, i rejected that counsel of despair, and set about negotiating a deal that worked for the uk and t
with a pole—to—flag victory in the abu dhabi grand prix. a chilly start to the week, showers in the east, some sunshine in the west, but it is turning mild, wet and windy. i'll have more details on breakfast. good morning. it's monday, the 26th of november. theresa may will today begin a campaign to rally support for her brexit withdrawal plan. mps are likely to vote on it on december 12th. later this morning the prime minister will hold a cabinet meeting before making a statement to mps...
What'd You Miss? : BLOOMBERG : November 9, 2018 3:30pm-5:00pm EST
the opec meeting taking place in abu dhabi. the organization is under pressure to cut supply once again. we'll be watching to see what happens. abigail: solid declines for the major averages. the apple complex. take a look at this. 7.8%, theker down worst day since 2016. a disappointing guide for the fiscal first quarter. smartphone weakness weighing on the apple suppliers and apple down 1.9%. the biggest drag on the nasdaq 100. apple on pace for its worst monthly performance when they put up a disappointing quarter that had to do with the first decline in revenue in a long time. fiscalde, apple's fourth-quarter was disappointing. some bearishness here for the apple complex. it points to the possibility we can see more declines for apple. april 2016. this is the latest boom cycle. the buyers are in control in relation to the moving average. we were near the top of the channel. it has ae crosses that history of going right below. concerning the area of congestion, being generous quite frankly. thejust the waiting on averages but this pattern is going straight down. really tells you
the opec meeting taking place in abu dhabi. the organization is under pressure to cut supply once again. we'll be watching to see what happens. abigail: solid declines for the major averages. the apple complex. take a look at this. 7.8%, theker down worst day since 2016. a disappointing guide for the fiscal first quarter. smartphone weakness weighing on the apple suppliers and apple down 1.9%. the biggest drag on the nasdaq 100. apple on pace for its worst monthly performance when they put up...
BBC News at 9 : BBCNEWS : November 22, 2018 9:00am-10:01am GMT
? for example the life sentence? the life sentence is highly disturbing. abu dhabi tends to bea highly disturbing. abu dhabi tends to be a little bit stricter in these matters than do by —— dubai. but we have seen other british nationals arrested for espionage such as the plane spotters four years ago, and they released after diplomatic pressure. we can see in matthew hedges's case that relations between the uk and the uae are really strained because otherwise he would have been released already. in terms of the thought processes in the uae, do you think there is for domestic consumption process of going through sentencing, in this case a life sentence for matthew hedges, and then further down the track, that person, that individual is released? do you think that could be how things unfold here? it is very interesting because over the last ten yea rs interesting because over the last ten years we have seen the uae apologising and releasing british nationals who have been unfairly detained and wrongfully accused. but what we have seen over the last six to 12 months is a growing patt
? for example the life sentence? the life sentence is highly disturbing. abu dhabi tends to bea highly disturbing. abu dhabi tends to be a little bit stricter in these matters than do by —— dubai. but we have seen other british nationals arrested for espionage such as the plane spotters four years ago, and they released after diplomatic pressure. we can see in matthew hedges's case that relations between the uk and the uae are really strained because otherwise he would have been released...
supply. anna: plenty more from manus cranny over at that conference in abu dhabi coming up. interesting to look at the asian fiction -- picture. the asian session has been treading water. we have saudi arabia and and russian equity markets trading higher as we see the oil price bounce significant, that bounce. on the foreign exchange markets, interesting to see the pound down by 0.8%. theresa may under pressure. can she get some kind of deal with brussels? is it any kind of deal brussels would take? iseresting to see the euro weaker, down by 0.6% against the u.s. dollar. you wonder to what extent those are linked. quite a bright green on natural gas. brent crude also up by 1.9%. oil has climbed after record losses. where oneo abu dhabi of the world's biggest oil and gas industry events is underway. manus cranny is at the conference. a very good day to you. --have the ceo of hammocks pemex. great to have you with us. quick thank you for having me here. manus: it is a big event. let's dig into the business. let's get housekeeping out of the way. how is the oil production looking? give me
supply. anna: plenty more from manus cranny over at that conference in abu dhabi coming up. interesting to look at the asian fiction -- picture. the asian session has been treading water. we have saudi arabia and and russian equity markets trading higher as we see the oil price bounce significant, that bounce. on the foreign exchange markets, interesting to see the pound down by 0.8%. theresa may under pressure. can she get some kind of deal with brussels? is it any kind of deal brussels would...
the highlights of formula one's action field abu dhabi gold tree. the longest race of the season and the most ever for two time while champion from now on the along so. kind of a very well must continue i'm on the. the united nation security council has called an emergency meeting after russia five on and seized three ukrainian ships off the crimean peninsula ukrainian president petro poroshenko has demanded that the crew and the vessels be released immediately and he wants bottom line to approve matia no the clash took place in a narrow strip of being russia and crimea a point of international tension since russia annexed the region four years ago. that this video has been circulating online since it was a released on sunday. taken from on board a russian military ship swearing and shouting could be heard as well as the command to stay the course directly towards ukrainian tugboat. in the russian ship rams the ukrainian boat head on. the incident escalated further a russian tanker blocked the tight underpass between the black sea and the sea of us off of vital trade route for ukrain
the highlights of formula one's action field abu dhabi gold tree. the longest race of the season and the most ever for two time while champion from now on the along so. kind of a very well must continue i'm on the. the united nation security council has called an emergency meeting after russia five on and seized three ukrainian ships off the crimean peninsula ukrainian president petro poroshenko has demanded that the crew and the vessels be released immediately and he wants bottom line to...
Inside Story (2018) Ep 321 : ALJAZ : November 18, 2018 10:32am-11:01am +03
and help you zero in the four back in the first test against pakistan in abu dhabi after bowing out the black caps four hundred fifty three pakistan collapse to two hundred twenty seven all out having been one hundred seventy four for pakistan half however already struck in the second innings leaving new zealand on fifty six for one and trailing by eighteen at stumps india have scored a major victory at the women's world t twenty in the caribbean they beat three time champions australia scoring one hundred sixty seven for the loss of eight wickets in their twenty overs the indians then dismissed australia for just one hundred nineteen the forty eight run when these the top eight. maverick when yalit has waited all season for his first moto g.p. pole position and the spaniard finally grabbed the chance in the last race of the year he was helped by world champion mark marquez here who came off the track in valencia and would finish fifth in this qualifying session now harvin jaros took full advantage for his first top spot on the grid since the arrogant groom prix in september twenty
and help you zero in the four back in the first test against pakistan in abu dhabi after bowing out the black caps four hundred fifty three pakistan collapse to two hundred twenty seven all out having been one hundred seventy four for pakistan half however already struck in the second innings leaving new zealand on fifty six for one and trailing by eighteen at stumps india have scored a major victory at the women's world t twenty in the caribbean they beat three time champions australia...
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Small Group Directory
Spiritual Gift Test
Roger Hendricks/ Senior Minister
Roger is our Senior Minister and was part of the original team that planted Southwest Church in 1997. He has served in ministries in Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio.
Roger and his wife, Jayne, have been married for 35+ years and they have three adult children, four precious grandchildren, and one very active puppy. Roger's passions include connecting with others, a love of learning, and sports--especially Purdue basketball!
Email Roger at roger@southwestchurch.org
andrew beal/ executive minister
Andrew is our Executive Minister. Ordained in 2010, he has 8+ years of ministry experience and holds a Master of Divinity from Lincoln Christian University.
He views the world through the eyes of a poet, a stand-up comedian, and Jesus.
Email Andrew at andrew@southwestchurch.org
larry adams/ creative arts Minister
Larry is our Creative Arts Minister. He has been on staff at Southwest since 2009 and holds degrees from Northern Kentucky University and Liberty University.
Larry and his wife, Amy, have five children--Sarah, Brayden, Noah, Sam, and Tyler--who can often be seen running the halls of Southwest! Larry has passions for all things music, Star Wars, and the works of J.R.R. Tolkien.
Email Larry at larry@southwestchurch.org
Nathan mitchell/ student minister
Nathan is our Student Minister. He is a graduate of Cedarville University and joined the staff in 2018. Nathan provides leadership for our middle school and high school students (grades 6-12).
Email Nathan at nathan@southwestchurch.org
Tammy Stall/ Children's Minister
Tammy is our Children's Minister. In 2014, she was called to ministry after being a first grade teacher for six years. She loves Jesus and being a witness to the amazing things that children can teach us about faith and grace.
Email Tammy at tammy@southwestchurch.org
Elders, Leadership Team, and Ministry Leaders
The ministry staff works with and is accountable to elders and a leadership team. Our elders provide pastoral care and vision over Southwest while our Leadership Team is a group that works with the staff in matters of strategy and major ministry initiatives. All of these individuals meet the Biblical qualifications of the positions they serve. (1 Timothy 3:1-7; Titus 1:5-9)
Elders: Jordan Barnhart, Paul Breyer, Joe Garland, Mike Myers, Cal Towne, Lee Wagoner
Leadership Team: Anna Bowman, Scott LeBlanc, Theda Sampson, Cal Towne, Roger Hendricks
Ministry Leaders: Allison Dunaway (Women's Ministry), Kelly Madsen (Women's Ministry), Tambra Breyer (Prayer and Care Ministry), Doug Pence (Men's Ministry), Derek Tincher (Men's Ministry), Gary Schrader (Building and Grounds), Jiniffer Harbour (Guest Services), Anastasia Zimmerman (Guest Services) JoAnn Sproat (Hospitality), Mary Lou Pence (Communion)
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The Glitz and Glamour Of Dog Shows
WESTMINSTER KC 2005
The Westminster Kennel Club dog show is the largest and most glamorous dog event in New York and many would say, the entire USA. Take an arm-chair photo trip!
February 2005 | TheDogPress
The trip was quick and pleasant. No taxi problems as this time we took a limo with a driver who spoke English and drove sensibly. Even check-in at the Penta (that’s New York Pennsylvania Hotel for the newbies) went smoothly. Our large corner room afforded a grand view of Macys and the Empire State Building which wore pink for Valentine’s Day and the Westminster Kennel Club (WKC) colors of gold and purple on Tuesday.
My long time friend Meg Carpenter was over from England and we had a lot of catching up to do. Meg brought Qualifications for Crufts pamphlets which she distributed at the show. As a committee member (director) of the Kennel Club, and also operator of Overhill Kennels and Export, she is quite an authority judging and dog shows. She has judged Crufts Dog Show (info below), Westminster Kennel Club's much larger counterpart in England/Great Britain/United Kingdom (who knows what to call it nowadays?). She said the best thing about WKC is “the incredible enthusiasm. Absolutely wonderful, as is the quality of the dogs. I do wonder though if the judge is in any way influenced by the audience?" What does she like least? Meg turned from glowing to glowering! “I hate the facilities for the animals! And more so if there were to be a fire or some emergency. How would they get the poor animals out of here? It really concerns me.” Meg was pleased to learn that there a pre-entry allowed for the top dogs in each breed and she reckons that accounts for the outstanding quality throughout the breed rings.
Sitting on the The Kennel Club (TKC) of England's Breed Standards Committee and being a long-time top Akita breeder has also enabled Meg Carpenter to accomplish the long-awaited separation of the Japanese and American Akita in the U.K.
Another dear friend shared our table at the Judges’ Party after his required appearance at the Dog Writers Assoc. dinner. That is a large part of what the Westminster Dog Show is all about? It isn't just seeing America's greatest dogs - it is about getting to see friends you don’t see often enough? Andrew DePrisco (pictured here with Meg Carpenter) is gifted with an encyclopedic memory and having edited some of the publishing world’s most exhaustive breed books and authored the Canine Lexicon, he probably knows as much about dogs as any all-breed judge today.
The Senior Conformation Judges party Sunday night was wonderful. The food was scrumptiously Italian. I’d guess Lt. Col. Wallace H. Pede had something to do with the menu although he’s as trim as he was twenty years ago and he can still heat up the dance floor with the tango!
A low point was learning that Joanne "Jodi" Engel, scheduled to do Pointers, Vizslas, German Wirehairs, Shorthairs, and Weimaraners could not be present due to cancer. The popular Brittany breeder-judge had hoped to fulfill her lifelong dream to judge at the Garden but was replaced by James Reynolds.
David Frei, Westminster Kennel Club Director Of Communications, was hard to catch but his expertise was everywhere. He, like so many who make this all happen, must surely work 20 hours a day before and after the event. The best we managed was a wave and a smile.
Karolynn McAteer, who seemed to be everywhere at once, presented a clear field for the camera for just a second. Karolynn is project supervisor for the innovative streaming video, a joint venture for Westminster whereby people at home can watch the breed judging! A superb accomplishment that went off without a hitch. She and her dauntless crew are called "The Magnificent Seven" and with good reason. They demonstrated a professionalism equaled only by some of the top handlers! Karolynn is an Irish Setter breeder and sporting dog judge.
WKC hired the videographers, all of them dog people, including a former Best In Show winner (breeder-owner-handler Chris Terrell) and a number of other people who have exhibited at Westminster.
Russell Quy and his people the internet production and and Dream Works sponsored the tremendous concept. There's nothing like "being there" but with the televised production home viewers probably had the best seat in the house! (see comments re seating)
Even with a Press Pass displaying this year’s commissioned artwork, getting around was difficult. We were fortunate to have box seats where most of the working dogs were judged the first day but getting a peek at the Toy Fox Terrier or Mini-Bull rings was impossible.
The problem was that of the twenty or so ringside seats, more than half were occupied by children (probably told to "sit there and don't move") by parents who had no interest in that breed's judging.
Noting the same situation on Tuesday, I inquired in the press office as to why exhibitors were not given one seat ticket for each dog entered? The gentleman who answered me was most pleasant but I think he worked for the Madison Square Garden and had little to do with the show itself. No one else seemed to know and David Frei was busy elsewhere. I understand about paid gate but surely there's an equitable solution to the problem of shelling out $hundreds if not $thousands to have a dog shown at the world-famous "Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show" but having no way to see it shown!
Eleanor Biancanello and Spinone Ch. Teddy Roosevelt, CD, JH were waiting to go into the ring but she graciously responded to “What do you like best about the Garden today?” EB: “Meeting all the people!” When asked what she likes least, her answer was predictable! Eleanor looked around and said “Too crowded!”
Rumors of the show, other than who would win Best In Show, were “Is the Poodle Lady here?” (No she was not) “Is the Poodle Judge here?” (If so, wasn’t visible at the breed rings.) “Is it okay to show a dog under the breeder? (Yes, provided the proper amount of time has passed.)
A frightening rumor circulated about a thwarted terrorist attack in Penn Station just before Groups on Tuesday. Madison Square Garden was surrounded by fire and police, as were the side entrances to the Garden. Note I said "thwarted" attack. The New York City police department is respected world-wide with good reason. It was "on with the show" as they neutralized the threat.
Heard repeatedly that Jimmy Moses wasn’t going to win with the Shepherd. True, she was third in the Herding Group because his Border Collie won the Group. Speculation was high on the glorious Poodle handled by Timothy Brazier but alas, they didn’t make the number one spot in Group. There were some other upsets and many exciting successes but unlike three years ago when we had reporters on the floor emailing photos and wins as they occurred, this year we wanted to just bring you the people you might have missed, even if you were there.
“The intersection” was the place to be, especially that first day as everyone went about finding each other. Had to laugh at Peter and Helga Baines simply because one always laughs when Peter tells stories. Same is true for Ed Finnegan but I didn’t have the camera both times I got bear hugs from him. Probably just as well, he has never really known his strength other than in the boxing ring! Oh! the “Ed Stories” we could tell.
One of my favorite judges (and people) has always been Virginia Hampton. She and a handful of judges had a deep understanding of the Akita when most people gave them a wide berth. Perhaps rightly so, in retrospect. They were a bit “rough” back then and not too well groomed either. She did our National one year and her placements were totally predictable (and popular) to those who knew her preferences as well as she knew our breed. Ginny was radiant in this photo having just returned from Hawaii so we both laughed when she exhaled and lamented "Oh BJ, I think it was cooler there!"
Jim and Wanda White had seats just a couple rows down from us but the most we managed was a wave. Watched Kim Pastella do a brilliant job in the Sporting ring and thought about her father and what a legend he was in the Boxer ring. Not to worry, he passed on his skills as do most of the really great couples. Must be genetic… Just think for a moment about the Bivens, the Forsyths, etc.
Back to the intersection where we spotted another legend. Rick Beauchamp, judge, author, publisher, father of the Bichon, backer of the Mini-Bull and so many other breeds working for acceptance, his touch is everywhere and a good thing for dogs it is. The best he could manage during what appeared to be a really serious conversation was a wave and "Hello BJ, we need to talk..." As anyone who has been to Westminster can vouch, catching up with a friend twice, especially someone as popular as Rick, isn't likely to happen...
It finally began to feel like I should be someplace else and dreading the climb back up those stairs, I pushed out of the intersection. Those stairs. I suppose it is not a problem if all one does is go and sit one night for a sporting event. But we dog people are plagued with knee problems.
On the way to the benching area, I snapped this shot of a face familiar to everyone in the Maryland area that loves to eat! That’s right, Sue Whaley and her group put on one heck of a crab feast. If you haven’t been in a while, you now remember what you are missing! Sue’s foxhounds are always a delight to see and the more so because they are actually part of working packs or whatever you call them.
I wonder how much longer fox hunting will be a gentleman’s sport in this country now that the ban is official in the U.K. They are continuing the hunt in defiance of the law but it may be too little too late. When in England, I was honored to visit one of their famous packs.
Time marches on, all too often stomping right on top of the past.
It is shows like the Westminster Kennel Club that will keep the public interested in dogs. WKC catches their fancy, and hopefully, will make taking away our right to own a dog very unpopular. Those were my thoughts as I pushed and squeezed my way to the benching. Oh, the benching... You will read nothing but criticism about the WKC benching, no matter where it is mentioned. I could swear that many years ago, before it became “champions only” the benching area was actually roomier. Maybe that is just a strange perspective of youth-or the lack of patience that comes with age.
I managed a shot of the Owner Handlers Assoc. booth which was a nice display, as was the MBF table but they were not well positioned to provide the information and education they are both so capable of doing. The decibel level was such that conversation was difficult and it must be very uncomfortable to the more sensitive ears of the dogs. And the heat! Most breeds were panting!
Joan McCuller - to my question - what do you like best about this year’s Garden, the proud owner of Ch Sun Sense Victory Dance "Lance" replied “Making it nice for the Handlers. It’s a little bit better than last year and not as crowded. What do you like Least? “Un-personable people that are here, the ones hired as help. The people directing you, they are really not too nice - or kind.” About moving Westminster to the stadium Joan said “Just let it be here, it's a tradition. We've been here since the beginning of Madison Square Garden and before, so let it be. It’s nice here.”
Laurie Jordan responding to What Do You Like Best? said “It's cooler, not as hot, more air circulation, a lot cooler.” Least? She sighed, replied “The crowds, every year.” What would you think about moving Westminster Dog Show to the Jet’s Stadium? “I think it's a great idea!” Not worried about tradition? Laurie sighed “No, maybe breaking things is sometimes good. Y’know?”
Patricia Craige Trotter made it seem like old times as she flew around the ring with a Vin Melca Elkhound. Pat set the style for neck, shoulders, and movement in her breed and she showed it to perfection against her traditional blue outfit. If memory serves me, Pat has won the WKC Hound Group four times but never had a Best at Westminster. Alas, it was only a placement this year but what the heck, not much has ever held that woman back and there’s always next year!
Ran into Erin Roberts on the way to her ring. We didn’t have time to get her feedback on the Best and Least questions, but I managed to snap a great photo. Carol Stone, trying to squeeze through with her Finnish Spitz replied that the Best thing about WKC is “Cooler, seems to be little less crowded than usual.” And Least. “How you have to move through to crowd to try to get the dogs to the ring and the people don't let you do that.” Asked moving the WKC dog show to someplace like the Jet's Stadium Carol replied “I think it'd be a lot nicer and probably also the hotels, more hotels you can choose from because now you can only stay at the Penta.”
I don't need a recorder to interview Andy Linton. What does he like Best? “Has anything changed?” I tried to pry more from the man of few words. What do you like least? “Slippery carpet.” Grasping for something to get him talking, I said alright, you've got to be a sports fan. How would you feel about moving the Garden to the new Jets Stadium? Pay dirt! Andy paused, shrugged “That would be great. This is terrible because it's, well, we all claim to love dogs, but putting dogs in this situation shows we don't love dogs as much as we claim to.”
Kathy Mines thinks the best thing this year is “The way MBF handled getting the handlers in and out and the dogs in and out. It was so non-stressful, the dogs are more relaxed, the people more relaxed, everybody is in a better mood.” And Least? “Probably trying to groom with all the exhibitors passing by, hard trying to trim on dogs.” How does Kathy feel about moving the Westminster to a bigger, better facility? “I think that would be great, even though I know it's a lot of historic significance in keeping it at the garden, but I think it would be better for the dogs and the people. And the exhibitors and spectators, if it was in a larger facility where there's more room and people are a little bit more relaxed.”
Jim Moses has had a great year with his German Shepherd bitch Ginny and the crowd, as always, cheered for one of the most popular of AKC breeds. She performed beautifully but so did every dog in that ring. In fact, it was heart warming to watch those dogs shut out the glaring lights, the screaming crowd, and concentrate on their human.
The BIS Shorthair fairly took one’s breath away. Everyone's heard about about Ch. Rancho Dobe’s Storm who it is said stood like a statue for 13 minutes. Probably exaggerated with the telling but the German Shorthair bitch was no statue. “Carley” was animated perfection and had she been a terrier, she would have been vibrating as she struck and held pose after pose. A true Professional, handler Michelle Ostermiller did not spoil a single moment. The talent was in seeming to let Carley do her thing. Best In Show offered the best and the crowd agreed, Westminster 2005 was won by the Best!
Christina Halliday was surrounded by a cluster of people in the benching as she answered questions about her German Shepherd Dog. What does she like best about the Westminster Dog Show? CH: “I love its tradition, I've been doing this since I was ten. Nothing else gives me the same feeling as this show.” Least? She replied “I'm just so lucky to be here with a breed like a German Shepherd and know that there are 50,000 registered every year and I’ve got one of the top five and this is where they can come and be seen and where it means the most. I don't have any complaints.”
Vince Hogann Managing Director of "Our Dogs" weekly newspaper, Manchester, England is a friend of a friend. I asked him "What do you like Best about WKC this year?" He said “I think I would have to say it’s the presentation and the pulse around the Groups at night, that's the best thing. I have some criticism however.”
BJA: That's my second question, What do you like least this year? He replied “Well, it's the same every year, it's very crowded, it's not “exhibitor friendly.” If you were trying to groom a dog in there, I mean, that is a zoo! It's difficult, and there are safety issues, for example, there are wires everywhere. It's just very difficult for anyone to move around and I don't think they give enough space to the exhibitor.
BJA: How do you feel about moving Westminster to Jet Stadium? Vince replied “Well with us in England, it’s what we would call a conundrum. Some parts good and some parts bad. The same question arose when we moved Crufts from Earl's Court in London, or Olympia originally, and it went to Birmingham. Everybody said it would never be the same and it would loose its atmosphere etc., etc. But I think Crufts has proven it can be a stage regardless of venue. Now the Garden here clearly has its own unique atmosphere! When it's packed at night, it's just a ball of noise, excitement, and it's terrific! So it would be a shame to lose that. But then that's the sixty-four thousand dollar question - What do you do?”
Mr. Hogann is absolutely right. I well remember Earl’s Court and the two-story, straight-up escalators worked. The new National Exhibition Center is immense and a lot of walking. Both were and are “tradition,” made so by the quality of the dogs and the thrill of the event. Crufts could be played on a hockey field and it would still be Crufts. Westminster's dog show will always be “The Garden” and no matter the venue, the crowds will fill the stands to overflowing.
The excitement is electrifying during the day but the voltage increases at 8 PM when the spotlights lights come on and the best dogs of the day enter the ring. Not a tired handler to be seen. The press core comes to attention (they have the best seats in the house). Everyone, including it seems, the dogs, are running on adrenalin for what dog-loving Americans call “the greatest show on earth.”
I Sandy D'Andrea collapsing on an empty bench after a stunning performance with her awesome Malamute. But that’s the Garden. It demands everything we have to give and for those who go home with that treasured win, it’s worth it!
As wonderful as it is, the Westminster dog show is not a place for anyone with the slightest touch of claustrophobia. One has to feel sorry for the poor dogs shut up in those tiny breathless cubicles they call “benching” nowadays. We usually enter a dog to be absent just so we could have a space on which to sit by our benched dog. No such thing as “space dogs” anymore so exhibitors must stand, hour after hour, in front of their dog, protecting it and answering questions. Of course they can hire a security guard and some do but most exhibitors just tough it out along with the dogs. As this reporter was moved along by the thrusting crowd, I heard numerous unflattering comments about “the poor dogs” from spectators.
Fair comment but actually, dogs endure whatever we ask of them because they love us. They look up at their handlers with adoration and trust.
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Rell ft. Smoove Money: “For Real” – a well-focused triumph
The single “For Real” taken from the “The Beginning” Artist Compilation EP, is a track to send your demons packing and put your worst fears about the hip-hop genre’s artistic...
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The single “For Real” taken from the “The Beginning” Artist Compilation EP, is a track to send your demons packing and put your worst fears about the hip-hop genre’s artistic decline to bed. A sonic bag of treats for those who vibe to the celestial exploration of experimental rap and melodic stylings, as demonstrated here by Terrell “Rell” Buchanan and Smoove Money. The sign of a great collaboration is one where each component knows how to get the best out of the other. Together they craft a dreamy sonic soundboard made up of glistening keys, falsetto melodies and rustling hi-hats. Artist, composer, instrumentalist and engineer, Terrell Buchanan, studied music in multiple fields (theory, engineering, performance, etc.) for over 14 years. Originally he found his love for music playing and mastering string instruments (guitar, viola, etc.), but with gained experience, picked up writing compositions in music notation in all clefs and also taught himself how to play the drums and piano. Currently he is developing his craft as an engineer, producing his own music in his home studio and for multiple local artist/bands in Atlanta, GA.
“For Real” clocks 4 minutes and 10 seconds, giving Rell and Smoove Money little room to misstep and plenty to fuel the tracks immaculate feel. Rell’s production throughout the record is nothing short of mind-bending. It’s a truly new wave production that’s consumed with an ethereal world music atmosphere.
Rell’s crowning achievement, and his real genius on “For Real” is the way the project facilitates and creates a space for Smoove Money and himself to lay down lines like: “Y’all niggas don’t want this bread for real. Mine stack up while yours sit still. All this money niggas trying to get, Ima run it up and not break a sweat. Y’all don’t know the hustle, but the hustle spent. Whatever you got Ima triple it.”
They land their punches with absolute conviction, in an almost joyous manner. The track is pitched to the vocals’ emotional range, the delivery always blurring the line between singing and rapping, and there’s an intuitive grace to the way the high pitched voices trip across the confrontational verses.
The vocal flows have an effortless lightness, and it’s there even when they’re dealing with the heaviest of subjects – money. As its title suggests, “For Real” serves as a clear-eyed mission statement, and lays it on the line openly: “I’m different, so content. Watching you niggas posting pictures of that high school shit. I wish the best for you my nigga but I can’t resist. To tell you there’s more to life than that hustling and that scamming shit.”
It feels like Rell has poured so much more love and attention into “For Real” on every level. The result is a track instilled with defiant hope: an alternative light in the commercial rap darkness; like the moon in the night sky. The track is a well-focused triumph, channeling Rell’s fondness for experimental and alternative into something trendy and accessible.
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A Second Chance for Serialized Fiction
By Evan Doran Ι Category: Book Culture
In an age where the dynamics of producing (and monetizing) art are in constant upheaval, serialized fiction might hold more than just a reader's attention. ♦
The Old Curiosity Shop, The Hound of the Baskervilles, and Jane the Virgin may be vastly different pieces of media, but they all share one trait: serialization. These works were first published in periodic installments, with gaps ranging from weeks to months in between each release. Yet while television serialization continues to thrive (The Walking Dead) and video game serialization is picking up steam (Life is Strange), novel and novella serialization has been pushed to the fringes of the publishing industry. Over the past century, standard publication practice has been for books to be released and read all at once. Serialization grew financially unviable and fell out of the mainstream publishing eye—although recent changes suggest serialized fiction could be experiencing a resurgence.
While both a good book and an interesting Netflix binge are satisfying in their own way, fan interaction is typically stronger in serialized works than “whole” works. The waiting periods between installments of Charles Dickens’ stories and episodes of Lost created fandoms and communities that bonded over anticipation of these works. As the story goes, American readers of The Old Curiosity Shop would cluster by the New York Harbor, waiting for ships with the latest chapters of Dickens’ story to arrive. When the protagonist of the story, Little Nell, died, a sailor allegedly shouted the spoiler from the deck of the ship—causing bystanders anxiously waiting for the next chapter to faint in shock. A century later, websites devoted to solving the mysteries of Lost sprang up across the internet, brimming with new questions and theories with every episode aired. This set the trend for the online fan communities of many weekly shows today, with particular similarities to the fandoms of Westworld and Game of Thrones.
Meanwhile, works published in full lack this constant pull on the audience’s attention and imagination. A show like Stranger Things briefly captures the public consciousness, but the lack of regular new content sends it to the bottom of the revolving news cycle. Many television producers have experimented with release schedules, trying to find a balance between the “binge” and pure serialization, and game developers have similarly experimented with staggered content releases to maintain audience engagement. These changes have not affected novels and novellas to the same extent yet, but the advent of the internet has resulted in several growing outlets for textual serialized fiction.
In the past ten years especially, fanfiction and webfiction have revitalized textual serialized fiction in the public eye with digestible installments and a storm of free content. Stories like Worm, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, and the infamous My Immortal captured audiences with each new post, leading to internet fame and (in some cases of original webfiction) financial success. John McCree, the author of Worm, supports himself through Patreon, whereas of March 15th, 2018, he earns $4,425 every month. The author of the less-known webserial The Wandering Inn, who goes only by the username “Pirateaba,” earns $2,878 as of the same date. This may not be as much money as authors like Stephen King and J.K. Rowling make from their wild successes, but this income is enough to support both webfiction authors as they continue to write for their audiences.
Even more recently than the advent of webfiction and fanfiction, mainstream publishers have toyed with the idea of using serialization as a way to better market their books. In particular, Tor Books has made strides toward more serialization through its website/web imprint Tor.com. In one of the publisher’s most experimental moves, it announced the “Tor Labs” initiative last summer, debuting the audio drama Steal the Stars as a serialized podcast before collecting and publishing it as a novel. The publisher also provided a more traditional textual serialization of the first three hundred pages of Brandon Sanderson’s epic Oathbringer last fall before the full book’s release. In particular, the serialization of Oathbringer spurred fan interaction and anticipation to a fever pitch on both Reddit and Sanderson’s fansite, 17thshard.com. Although both of these projects were test-runs, they show a growing openness toward serialization, and represent possible future opportunities for mainstream serialization projects.
A few publishers have hit this new ground running, such as indie publisher Serial Box, a company excelling with both e-book and physical serializations. Founded in 2014 by Julian Yap and Molly Barton, Serial Box has taken direct inspiration from the television model of serialization, creating teams of writers to facilitate faster content delivery and publishing schedules. These teams include some celebrated authors—Philip K. Dick Award Nominee Cassandra Rose Clarke and John W. Campbell Finalist Max Gladstone were part of the writing team on The Witch Who Came in From the Cold, one of Serial Box’s first productions. Serial Box’s approach has led to moderate success, with Boat Rocker Media (a television and film production company) leading a $1.65 million seed-funding round in February.
While this revival of serialized fiction remains small for now, it proves an audience for serialized, ongoing content exists and is hungry as ever. The future is bright in this relatively untapped field, and up-and-coming writers may find it to their advantage to take part in serialized fiction’s rebirth.
Evan Doran is a senior creative writing student at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He has lived in the Cincinnati area all his life but loves his excursions to far-off times and places. His short fiction has been published in Miami University’s Inklings and the Sigma Tau Delta Rectangle, with forthcoming publications in Bards, Sage Quarterly, and MU’s Happy Captive Magazine. Visit him at evanfdoran.wordpress.com.
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The energy fields of the human body (sometimes referred to as the aura) are just as real as the material, tangible body we see. These energy fields are what help us interact with other people, animals, plants and anything else in Nature. In this informative lecture, former Freemason Manly Hall describes how these fields are magnetic (just as the Earth has a magnetic field), and how we can bring these energy fields under our mental control. By harnessing and directing magnetism around the body, you can achieve special powers and other esoteric abilities formerly believed to be impossible. 113-min. Audio DVD
Super Powers - The Astonishing Capabilities of Your Mind - DVD
We all have super powers residing within. This compilation shows humans performing seemingly impossible feats, such as moving objects without touching them, setting paper on fire and healing with electricity by hands alone. See it for yourself!
Cleanse Your Pineal Gland and Open Yourself Up to Psychic Powers and Higher Dimensions - Report
New research (see also #1888) coming to light is showing how essential it is to have a healthy and activated pineal gland if you want to develop your higher powers and access deeper dimensions. The powers-that-be know this, which is why sodium flouride was put into the water (see #3320 to detox it from your body) - it not only dulls you and makes you more docile, but it also accumulates in your pineal gland and shuts down your true psychic and creative potential. However, you have the power to use your pineal gland to create whatever life your heart desires. Report, including reference to natural health products which cleanse the pineal gland and boost its function.
How to Have an Out of Body Experience - Report
An Out of Body Experience (OBE), also known as Astral Projection, is something you can train yourself to have. Many people who have never tried it are afraid that they might die or be harmed in some way from it. Nothing could be further from the truth. Humans have been safely doing it for thousands of years, and modern institutes have conducted mass experiments in projection with no one experiencing any negative side effect. It is, in fact, an amazing way to gain deeper wisdom and inner peace, and will give you a profound perspective on life: you are not your body. You are a consciousness. Learn how to have an OBE.
Communicating with Animals - DVD
A new group of interspecies or animal communicators has emerged Ð people who can actually talk and listen to animals, and understand their feelings and thoughts. Watch the footage of them talking & interacting with lions and leopards. See for yourself!
Psychic Self Defense - DVD
A psychic attack is any type of unwanted mental influence. Your thoughts & feelings broadcast a certain frequency which can be picked up on by predators. Learn how to increase self-awareness and excellent techniques for psychic self-defense.
Secrets of Higher Consciousness: Cymatics, Water, Sexual Energy and More - DVD
Dr. Patrick Flanagan reveals some of the secrets of higher consciousness. Activate your innate psychic abilities and further your spiritual evolution!
Super Human Sensitivities and the Future - DVD
Premier remote viewer Ingo Swann was a psychic and consciousness researcher, who along with Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff created the discipline of remote viewing (specifically the Stargate Project): the ability to see distant or unseen objects by sensing them with the mind, using extra-sensory perception (ESP). As our current mainstream science of materialism does not acknowledge or deal with consciousness, it cannot fathom or explain remote viewing, telepathy or any other paranormal phenomena. Swann exposes the limitations of such the materialistic theory, given that physical matter only accounts for 4-7% of the universe. 73-min. DVD
Former Director of The Stargate Project and Remote Viewing Speaks Out - Audio DVD
The Stargate Project was the umbrella name for several sub-projects overseen by the CIA and DIA, to test the viability of psychic phenomena for military applications. Former director Dale Graff (interviewed by Russell Scott, WestCoastTruth.com) talks about his experience remote viewing, or being able to psychically "see" events, places or information from a great distance. He asserts that remote viewing is connected to precognition, deja-vu, synchronicity, lucid dreaming and astral projection, and that every human has these inherent psychic abilities. 102-min. Audio DVD
Remote Viewer Shares Secrets of Psychic Powers - DVD
Remote viewer extraordinaire Joe McMoneagle shares mindblowing stories of how he worked for the US Military. He and his remote viewing colleagues were given impossible tasks, such as locating certain individuals they had never seen before, and only being given a social security number or photo with which to do it. Incredibly, McMoneagle proved a very high success rate in the face of skeptical committees, year after year. His stories not only defy what mainstream science says about perception and distance, but also time as well, since he was able to remote view the future. Not to be missed! 106-min. DVD
Activating PSI Dreaming - DVD
Learn about the awakening of Kundalini energy & psychic abilities such as precognition—knowing the future before it happens. Discover how to experience psi dreaming and what can you do with it. Can psi dreaming improve your remote viewing & intuition?
The Power of Our Intention Alters Matter - DVD
Dr. William Tiller is a leading expert in the fascinating field of psychoenergetics – the use of thought and will to change reality. His experiments prove that you can enhance your consciousness. Mind over matter is real. Our intention alters matter.
How to Manifest Solid Objects Out of Thin Air - Report
Yes, it is completely possible and has been done. This material comes from a former agent of the MI6, the British Secret Service, who apparently got the technology from aliens. We humans have undreamed-of talents which we are just beginning to utilize. Here's the components you need: vector-intention (will-power), cortico-enteric brain complex (brain), biomind (full body aura including 5 senses), imagination and knowledge of the object to be manifested. You manifest the object by creating a thought template, inducing the photons to come and occupy the arrangement. It is essential to remember that we have no limits, only beliefs. Learn how to methodically develop your greatest capabilities as a creator. 45-pages. $17.00
How To Remote View - See Provably Real Things Beyond Rational Explanation - DVD
Remote viewing allows access to information (people, places, events) in a quantum, intuitive, non-rational way. Find out what this expert learnt about the future of Bitcoin, Ether and the Nazca Mummy. Begin using remote viewing techniques in your life.
Opening the 3rd Eye - DVD
Esoteric traditions like yoga have long taught that we humans have a 3rd eye in the middle of our forehead which is responsible for clairvoyance, telepathy and extraordinary insight. It is the 2nd highest main chakra or energy center in the body. However, in most people it lays dormant. This compilation teaches you how to awaken your 3rd eye and pineal gland (#1888, #3468) which is directly behind it in the brain. Once activated, it can give you amazing psychic power and the ability to manifest anything you want. This compilation includes a bonus Radio Truth Frequency interview. 140-min. DVD
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Last Chance saloon for Compton but time for Ball and Vince to shine on the International stage
Jake Ball (centre) was the surprise call-up to the England Squad,
England's recent squad announcement was not as far fetched as it could have been – the rumoured call-up for Nick Browne didn't materialise but the inclusion of Jake Ball and James Vince did raise eyebrows. Along with that pair, Nick Compton has retained his position from the tour to South Africa despite not setting the world alight either then, or this season in the County Championship. Let's have a look at these three, and what they can bring to the England team.
Nick Compton has had a poor start to the season, the Middlesex man averages only 20 and is yet to make a fifty. It is no question he offers solidarity at number three and at times during the South Africa tour he steadied ship and rode out the innings' against a difficult attack to face – attritional to say the least. But it would be fair to say that with the poor form Compton has shown this season that he did not deserve this call-up – one only has to look at the top of Middlesex order to see another England candidate showing the selectors what they want. Sam Robson has scored a double century and two other centuries and has really put his teammate to shame. Nonetheless, Compton can be a handy number three – with the stroke playing of Alex Hales often not bearing fruit Compton's battling style can really impress. He has faced serious criticism for his style, however, scoring slowly and perhaps letting the team fall behind the game at times – and who wouldn't prefer to see Kevin Pietersen walk out, all guns blazing and send countless drives to the boundary. Hopefully, we see the best of Compton against Sri Lanka, and it would be safe to say that some decent performances may not even be enough to cement his place.
James Vince's long-awaited call-up did not come as a shock to many; at times for Hampshire, it has seemed a one man team, he has had to dig his side out of a hole created by the early loss of wickets. But the grit he has seemed to show this season will be in fine place when he strides his way out to the crease at Headingley. Vince has all the attributes, a swanky array of shot play matched with the determination and guile that a number five needs to be a success at Test level. Vince's inclusion is definitely the least surprising out of the three eyebrow raising call-ups. While the Hampshire skipper has been lamented before for his tendency to get in and get out, he looks to have settled for a calmer approach to batting – which can see him accumulate scores rather than blasting his way to a quick 30. This season so far his strike rate is at only 46 is down from 60 last season and perhaps shows what steps Vince has taken to ensure he gets his England berth, and while that will be at his less favoured number five – his prospects surely are in good check for the summer ahead.
Jake Ball is the most shocking of the three “surprise” call-ups – his hard work at Nottinghamshire often falls under the radar, although clearly not with Trevor Bayliss. 2015 was an important year for Ball, he sealed his place in the Nottinghamshire first-class team and became a regular in the limited overs squads for the Outlaws, too. His potential had always been monitored, after several selections for England Lions squads, and his performances for the Lions must also have contributed to this selection. Ball is tall, but not Steven Finn – has a good action which leads to a repeatable line and length and enough pace to put to use at international level. His real breakthrough into the minds of England selectors must surely have come this season, he has been in fine form for Nottinghamshire. His 19 wickets have come at 21 and have included one five-for. His recent performance versus Yorkshire where he took the wickets of England capped Gary Ballance and then the man of the moment Joe Root in consecutive balls as well as forgotten man Adam Lyth with the first ball of the innings. Ball almost single-handedly turned that match in Nottinghamshire's favour – falling one wicket short of what would have been an impressive victory. And if there was a question over who should take that last remaining spot in the England squad at that point, Ball had made it his own. Hopefully, we get to see what Ball can bring to this team at Headingley – and we don't see the same fate that has befallen others before him; Chris Woakes, the unfortunate Mark Wood and Finn but to name a few. A hopefully injury-free Jake Ball can add something to this England team.
It will be an interesting series for the Three Lions' with fresh new faces set to tackle a Sri Lankan side that lacks the star players of yester-year this really acts as an opportunity for a Ball, a Vince or a Compton to really cement their place as an England regular.
Written by Charlie Jennings (@AVCJX)
A Case For The Underdogs - Who can topple Yorkshire?
Can Keith Barker (Pictured) lead Warwickshire to success?
There are indeed plenty of cases to make for Yorkshire to be the favourites for this year's County Championship title, however not much has been spoken about the outsiders; those who are less favoured to go all the way and topple the reigning champions. There are plenty of strong squads spread out across this year's Division One – Middlesex, Warwickshire, Nottinghamshire all look set to contend and the recently promoted teams in Surrey and Lancashire will be sure to provide healthy challenge.
Let's first have a look at these contenders to the throne.
Middlesex certainly look set to be there or thereabouts this season – the addition of James Fuller from Division Two Gloucestershire looks shrewd, a man who has offered up genuine pace for Gloucestershire for the last five seasons, taking 89 wickets at 35, a very handy average to say the least. His pace offers Middlesex some decent options – although bowling has never really been a problem, the addition of Fuller adds yet more beef to their often injury affected pace attack. One problem Middlesex may face, especially during the early season – is the new toss (or not) rule put in place to give away teams the option of bowling first. During April and possibly May this advantage may do them some harm – everybody knows that conditions tend to favour swing bowling during the early season matches at Lord's. This offers up some interesting contests, with matches at home to Warwickshire and Nottinghamshire at HQ in early Spring, who both possess very strong bowling attacks.
Warwickshire have somewhat dwindled over the past couple of seasons, injuries and international call-ups have to an extent prevented the Bears from really putting in a full season's effort which has led to the club petering out come September. Hopefully, this season that will be put right, with Ian Bell and Chris Woakes currently not in the England team, but sure to be challenging for places – Warwickshire might just be the beneficiary of some early season performances to put their names in the hat. This could, however, lead to problems later on in the season – the management of their seam attack is crucial. It has some serious depth but sometimes seeing off the tail end of the opposition has caused a problem, not least in the first match of this campaign, versus Hampshire. Rikki Clarke, Keith Barker, Chris Wright, Boyd Rankin and Woakes himself look like an attack that many will envy. The batting also looks strong – Bell, Jonathan Trott, Sam Hain and Varun Chopra are all batsmen with a good reputation in the county game, Hain himself gains English citizenship after this County Championship season and could, with some good runs behind him, throw his name into the hat for an England call up.
Nottinghamshire always seem to put in a performance in the Championship, strength in their batting department is usually followed up with some decent bowling performances at the often swing-friendly Trent Bridge. One looks at their bowling attack and thinks perhaps they are lacking a little experience, Harry Gurney, Jake Ball and Brett Hutton do lack some experience – but raw talent is definitely on show and should hopefully come to the fore this season. Results can often be expected at Trent Bridge, and Nottinghamshire boast some real match winners in their team – Samit Patel's batting and useful left-arm spin often turns the screw; and while James Taylor's recent shock retirement will weaken their batting – the experience in their batting line-up provides the backbone to what should be a good campaign. The addition of Australian test-capped paceman Jackson Bird should prove a real capture too, at county level he should provide a real threat. Expect another decent season from Nottinghamshire.
Durham are my outside bet for this year's Championship; a very decent bowling attack supported by some very experienced and level-headed county professionals with the right mix of young talent could just provide Durham with the perfect balance to mount a challenge this season. Young Keaton Jennings has had a barnstorming start to the season with centuries in both innings versus Somerset, and this definitely could be the season he makes that opening position his own. Chris Rushworth and Graham Onions are a quality new ball pair – Rushworth will look to push on from his 83 wickets last term. While the Northerner's batting can be unreliable players like Jennings, Scott Borthwick – once capped by England, and the young up and coming Jack Burnham on their day can produce the goods that can propel Durham to what could be an unlikely success story. Again home comforts may be harder to come by for Durham this term due to the amended toss but one must surely back their bowling attack as one that should be looking to take 20 wickets regularly at home. After two seasons of consolidation since their glory year of 2013, Durham should be looking to push on and despite suffering financial constriction since that success, their young talent should be looking up rather than down this season.
This year's County Championship, to me, looks more unpredictable than some are touting. Yorkshire will certainly face a tough task to make it a hat-trick of titles, and with the competition certainly looking stronger than ever this we should have an exciting campaign in store. Here's to some fantastic cricket this season.
By Charlie Jennings - (@AVCJX)
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VideoSpin Vol. 2
B side Projects
The Suspended Glance – Short Film Festival Ca’ Foscari, Venice
Ca ‘Foscari Short Film Festival – The Suspended Look
Video selection by Visualcontainer
Santa Margherita Auditorium
Ca ‘Foscari University Venice
Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage
Malcanton Marcorà, Dorsoduro 3484 / D – 30123
Also for this year’s edition of the Short Film Festival The Suspended Glance video art program may count on the collaboration of Alessandra Arnò, co-founder of Visualcontainer Italian Videoart Plaftorm and director of VisualcontainerTV, and will present a selection of videos with a narrative approach closer to the filmic and “imaginary” concept.
It is almost like re-visiting the most important moments of the history of cinema. There is an outstanding continuity between past and present, it is incredible to observe how the narrative elements are combined in a way that makes them the same but at the same time different.
From the split screen to the reinvention of the “coming soon” or trailers, to the nightly sequence, a fragment of life that becomes exemplary, to the great care for the technique, but above all the unavoidable connection with the audio, shows how the video artist can also draw inspiration from the past with the intention of interpreting the present. Although in a very short time the elements that question, disturb and anguish the contemporary man are made manifest with immediacy, a peculiar characteristic of video art.
Elisabetta Di Sopra
Selected video:
Davies Zambotti Alla salute! 5:58, 2015
Sonia Armaniaco – no more UPGRADE – 7:57, 2016
Eleonora Roaro – 00:00:01:00, 2:00, 2016
Barbara&ale – Barbara Ceriani Basilico e Alessandro Mancassola – The sky is fallin, loop 7:54, 2017
Micol Roubini + Lorenzo Casali – Green Gold – 13:40, 2012
Antonello Matarazzo – Your Body is Your Buddha, 3:40, HDV 2014
Valentina Miorandi – Cross Broadway, 5:27, 2009
Debora Hirsch – Limite, 7:17, 2012
Davies Zambotti, Alla salute! (5:58, 2015)
Polyphonic tale. The liquid that flows free on secondary words. Levels overlap and chase each other, events are justified, canceled, until next time. Until next consumption. Playful seems the time of the memory from which the deafening seed of the present stems. The images speak in the silence of the never pronounced words. The matter of reality. What happens every day, in front of our closed eyes. Deafening the ears, reducing the level of consciousness to a single violent and incomprehensible piece. If this is the offer a la carte, let’s raise the glasses and toast! Alla Salute!
Sonia Armaniaco, no more UPGRADE, (7:57, 2016)
Any nuclear disaster, or test, or use of a weapon, has irreparably damaged countless human lives and the environment, it seems that the main motivation of all this is to blow up the highest and most powerful device. The earliest evidence of the use of poisonous gas in the war dates back to the fifth century BC, during the Peloponnesian War between Athenians and Spartans. We fight only to be like primordial aggressors…
Eleonora Roaro, 00:00:01:00 (2:00, 2016)
Project 00:00:01:00 is an installation of seven video-performances lasting one second each. The title refers to the timecode used in video production and film making, which technically corresponds to hours, minutes, seconds and frames. In each video the artist bursts a balloon with a needle in different prehistoric Cornish sites, thus suggesting the idea of evanescence and fragility. This is a metaphor for geological ages: it has taken humanity many years for our planet to transform itself and grow, and in only one second we are about to destroy everything. This concept is linked to discussions concerning the Anthropocene, the period of time during which human activities have had an environmental impact on the Earth.
Barbara&ale – Barbara Ceriani Basilico & Alessandro Mancassola, The Sky is Fallin, Loop (7:54, 2017)
The Swiss Alps: 2328 metres in altitude -10°C. Wind, snow, clouds and sun. A laid down vibraphone on a frozen lake. Title and setting: we did not say anything else to Elio Marchesini to invite him to be the protagonist of the film. An imaginary motorway through the mountains where the wind runs, which breaks the ice, which draws the snow-clad landscape and where the metal’s vibration converses, disappears and resists the continuous gusts. The whiteout is a visual dysfunction due to the whiteness of the snow and clouds, it is a sensation capable of confusing in a violent way: the sky is falling. All that remains is a lonely person, lost amidst the landscape, who plays a vibraphone and insists on not losing control.
Micol Roubini & Lorenzo Casali, Green Gold, (13:40, 2012)
“Much of what we call natural is not really so, but is actually artificial: since cultivated fields, trees and plants grown and arranged in a certain order, rivers confined within precise boundaries and directed toward a definite course, and other such features, have neither the condition nor the appearance they would have naturally”. (Giacomo Leopardi, In praise of birds) Green Gold is a Finnish expression that refers to forestry, to that treasure considered fundamental for the economic system of the country, constituted by lumber of firs, pines and birches. This video, part of a wider project including also a book and two photographic series, focuses on the complicated bond between the original wilderness of a landscape and human intervention, which deeply manipulates and alters the natural element. This work was conceived in 2011 during the artist’s in-residence period at Svenska Konstskolans i Nykarleby Vänner, Nykarleby, Finland, and later edited in Rotterdam.
Antonello Matarazzo, Your Body is Your Buddha (3:40, 2014)
The understanding of the world is also expressed through the body which preserves the information of the karmic process. The choreography aims at sublimating the gestures of the several animals coming from an ancestral territory in which the self identifies with the identity of other forms of life. A biological metamorphosis that fulfills in an uninterrupted flow marked by the first chronophotographic experiments which E. Muybridge and È. J. Marey had realized using several wildlife species.
Valentina Miorandi, Cross Broadway (5:27, 2009)
The artist acts as an accidental tourist struggling with an unprecedented exploration around the soul of Manhattan. The heart of the metropolis is taken in a single frame, without interruptions, the structure of the film resembles the opening credits of a movie that is about to begin. 42nd street assumes an iconic landscaping status with saturated dazzles, neon is crossed by anonymous human figures. Passers-by, transiting the crossroads, overlap and become “famous” only during the short time of their passage, then vanish and are replaced by other ephemeral “stars”. It is the genius loci of this artificial and abstract no-place, that chooses and determines, during the fleeting transit, the real stars of the show as part of Cross Broadway.
In collaboration with Galleria Boccanera, Trento
Debora Hirsch, Limite (7:17, 2012)
Everyone is familiar with movie trailers, the short marketing video that groups together snippets from a new film’s various scenes to arouse the curiosity of the public before its release. Ignoring the traditional definition and functionality of the format, the artist Debora Hirsch decided to create some ‘posthumous’ trailers of the 1931 film Limite. Limite, from director Mário Peixoto, is often considered the high-water mark in the history of Brazilian cinema, and yet it was never commercially released. Hirsch created not one, but three trailers, each using only the original images and sounds of the film, heralding the fictitious upcoming release of the film. One of the trailers incorporates Hollywood style, another introduces the characters and the basic plot of the film and the third focuses on the director and his thematic intentions.
Visualcontainer Italian videoart distributor promotes and distributes the videoart works listed in its archive for exhibitions, institutional and educational projects and private screening. Visualcontainer also develops curatorial projects and promotes cultural exchanges, publications and art events of the international art/culture circuit. It also provides informational and educational support relevant to the videoart environment through seminars, talks and workshops.
The promotion and popularization of videoart is accomplished also through international exchanges, curatorial and educational events, even in collaboration with festivals, universities, institutions and non-profit organizations operating in Italy and abroad.
The suspended glance
Visualcontainer @ Over The Real Biennale X Soncino (Italy)
FRESH!!! @ Over The Real Festival – Lucca – Italy
Visualcontainer@VIDEOFORMES 2019
The Nightlight Screenings 2018 – Basel (CH)
Visualcontainer at Interface Art event, Oradea – Romania
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72nd EE British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs 2019) printable ballot
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Download nominations for the 72nd British Academy Film Awards in our handy printable BAFTAs ballot.
Our latest download for you is for the 72nd British Academy Film Awards. Find all of the nominations here in our handy BAFTAs Ballot. Download the ballot, print it out and pass out during your party (go here to download the PDF). It's in glorious colour.
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When nominations were announced Jan. 9, “The Favourite” was quite literally the favorite, nominated in 12 categories. The film is nominated for Best Film and Outstanding British Film. Olivia Colman is nominated for Leading Actress for her role as Queen Anne, and Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone are both nominated for Supporting Actress.
“Bohemian Rhapsody,” “First Man,” “Roma” and “A Star Is Born” each have seven nominations
With 12 nominations, it could easily a great night ahead for “The Favourite.” We'll see what happens on Feb. 10.
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Find the full list of nominations on the official BAFTA website.
The 72nd EE British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) are Sunday, Feb. 10, at the Royal Albert Hall in London. BBC America is scheduled to broadcast the ceremony in the United States. Joanna Lumley will host the ceremony.
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== Biography ==
[[Image:President McNeal 2.jpg|thumb|left|McNeal negotiates with [[Lrrr]] and [[Ndnd]].]]
Little is known of the life of President McNeal. However, it is known that his death was rather unfair. In their threats against [[Earth]], the [[Omicronians]] revealed they wanted ''McNeal'', which was assumed to mean the President. Realising this, President McNeal would prefer fighting on than giving up his own life. Unfortunately, most of the [[Earthicans|Earthican]] politicians, lead by [[Zapp Brannigan]], had another plan: to simply hand over the President to the invaders, which would hopefully lead to the ending of the invasion. However, the Omicronians were not after the President at all, but rather Jenny McNeal, the main character on ''[[Single Female Lawyer]]'', and as such, during the handover, President McNeal was shot.
== Image Gallery ==
Image:President McNeal 2.jpg|McNeal negotiates with [[Lrrr]] and [[Ndnd]].
== Additional Info ==
This article is about the former President of Earth. For the character on Single Female Lawyer, see Jenny McNeal.
Little is known of the life of President McNeal. However, it is known that his death was rather unfair. In their threats against Earth, the Omicronians revealed they wanted McNeal, which was assumed to mean the President. Realising this, President McNeal would prefer fighting on than giving up his own life. Unfortunately, most of the Earthican politicians, lead by Zapp Brannigan, had another plan: to simply hand over the President to the invaders, which would hopefully lead to the ending of the invasion. However, the Omicronians were not after the President at all, but rather Jenny McNeal, the main character on Single Female Lawyer, and as such, during the handover, President McNeal was shot.
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This Is Why I Get So Angry When You Insult Hillary Clinton
By Jillian Stacia
The personal is political. This is one of the most commonly recognized feminist arguments. It highlights the connection between what goes on in a woman’s personal life and the current political infrastructure. Essentially, it means that you are not alone- that what you go through on a day to day, moment by moment basis is not something to ignore or discredit, because it’s not just “your problem”. It’s not individual, it’s collective. It’s a call for the government to defend and reflect the values and needs of women in the same way it defends and reflects the values and needs of men.
But with this election, I’m learning that the reverse is also true. Not only is the personal political, but the political is also incredibly personal.
I love Hillary Clinton for a myriad of reasons, 90% of which are related to her political actions and viewpoints. But I’d be lying if I said I didn’t also love her because she’s a woman. And for a while, I felt shame about that, like being a woman is something that really shouldn’t matter to me so much. But it does. And that’s okay. I’ve never had a president who looks like me. Hell, I’m an educated, politically active woman and I struggle to name five women politicians who I admire. For me to have a presidential candidate who I can relate to on a personal level? That’s huge. I’m allowed to love the fact that our candidate is a strong, badass woman without feeling bad about it or having others assume it’s the only reason I’m voting for her.
But when people speak badly about Hillary, I get viscerally and gut-wrenchingly angry. To be fair, I’m always a passionate person. I’m not afraid to mince words. But I pride myself on being open to hearing opposite viewpoints. I firmly believe that there is both value and truth in views that I myself do not hold. I spend way too much time trying to understand where other people are coming from. And I try not to hold people’s beliefs- especially their political beliefs- against them.
But with Hillary, I can’t. The sexist rhetoric that I hear? The bullshit media coverage? It makes me downright red-faced- toddler-throwing-a-temper-tantrum kind of enraged. Because the political is personal.
When people tell me Hillary doesn’t smile enough, I’m reminded of all the times I’ve been told to “cheer up” when I’m not grinning like a buffoon. I’m reminded of when my first internship told me to control my facial expressions, because apparently PR girls can’t do much beside smile and nod. I’m reminded of the “resting bitch face” phenomenon and how annoying it is that the default for women is happy and chipper, even when life is not especially happy or chipper in that particular moment.
When people make fun of Hillary’s clothes, I’m reminded of all the times I’ve been embarrassed of my own outfits. I think about shopping for my first big girl job and searching desperately for clothes that made me look professional, yet stylish. My attire needed to be young, but mature. It needed to be flattering, but not revealing. Of course it shouldn’t be too bold or bright, but boring and beige wasn’t acceptable either. And certainly, for the love of God, not a pantsuit.
When people make fun of Hillary’s voice, I’m reminded of my male friends poking fun at me and asking why I always yell when I get “fired up” about certain issues and topics. “This isn’t yelling,” I’d retort. “This is the tone women take when they have shit to say. You don’t recognize it because we’re constantly underselling our opinions, but this is what an authoritative, passionate woman sounds like.”
When people worry about Hillary’s health and criticize her for campaigning with pneumonia, I think about how I’ve gone to work sick as a dog, afraid to be seen as weak or fragile or not able to cut it. I think about my stupid office air conditioning that always gives me a summer cold. I think about my mother taking care of two toddlers when she herself is sick with the flu. I think about woman after woman, decade after decade, tirelessly doing what needed to be done regardless of their physical, mental, and spiritual health. I think about how strong that is. How that’s truly what it means to be a woman – getting up and doing the work regardless. And then I think about how Hillary was criticized for that very fact. How, through the right lens, even raw strength can be twisted into a woman’s failure.
When people tell me Hillary needs a facelift, I’m reminded about how, at the end of the day, the only thing that matters is how I look. I’m reminded of all the hours I’ve spent dieting and exercising and plucking and primping, all in the service of being liked, of being respected, of being valued. I think about how I will need to get plastic surgery when I’m older if I want to be liked and respected. Hell, I should probably start the Botox now. I am reminded, for the bazillionth time, that what I look like matters more than what I have to say.
When people talk about how cold Hillary is, when they explain that they don’t like her because she’s awkward and aloof and seemingly untrustworthy, I think about all the times I’ve been judged for my emotions. I think about how many times people have told me I’m being too loud, too sensitive, too passionate. I think about the struggle I face every day between wanting my contributions to be heard and wanting my true self to be seen. When your “youness” is seen as weakness, you put up a shield. That’s why Hillary looks cold. She’s spent years with her guard all the way up. I think about my own guard. I’ve spent years hiding who I am to be taken seriously, to be liked and approved. Is there any wonder Hillary’s done the same? Can I fault a fellow woman for doing what it takes to survive, as a woman and a politician, in the public eye?
The political is personal.
And I’m watching. I’m watching a woman who is arguably the most qualified candidate to run for President, be criticized for her appearance, her voice, her demeanor. I’m watching. Women everywhere are watching. Little girls are watching. What are we seeing? What are we hearing? What are we learning about how to succeed as a woman?
Smile. Dress nicely. Talk softly. Keep up with your looks. Be accommodating.
The political is personal. When you demand Hillary to act a certain way, to look a certain way, to smile a certain way, you’re telling your daughters, your wives, your sisters, your friends that that’s what they need to do, too. It’s all connected. The rules don’t change because she’s a politician. How she is being treated is a direct parallel to the way we’re all being treated on a personal level.
The political is personal. The personal is political.
Either way you spin it, we need to do better.
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66 thoughts on “This Is Why I Get So Angry When You Insult Hillary Clinton”
Juniper J Jehoshephat says:
Thank you. Thank you for this from the bottom of my heart. I am with you and I am with her. You have so eloquently articulated my feelings…feelings that I have had since 2008. This nagging feeling like there is something more going on with this campaign than a true dislike of HRC’s politics and a feeling of disbelief that the quiet sexism I have felt my whole life is finally being exposed and yet we all still have to just sit and continually swallow that bitter pill over and over again. There have been times in this last year that I have looked around in despair and felt like I am in some kind of bizarro world where no one knows or cares about what is going on. Posts like this make me feel less alone. I hear you. I am here and I get you. We have a shared experience as women. You are not alone.
Thank you so much for your kind comment! I’m so glad the piece resonated with you. You’re right- we are not alone, and we need to keep standing up against this discreet sexism in any way we can.
Carolyn Peters-Eckel says:
You are not alone. Thank you for putting my thoughts also into clear words. 43 years ago I started officiating soccer games. I was one of only TWO women officials in the whole country. I got comments like “Why are not at home baking cookies” and other things meant to intimidate. I have learned to ignore, but it still grates on me when I hear any disparaging words about any woman. I screamed and wrote letters and emails when I learned that the USA Women’s World Cup Champions got paid HALF that the men’s team. Reason? less fans?: they did a count: MORE spectators. We need to continue speaking up. Thank you.
Laurence Hazlewood (@laurencehazlew1) says:
I am a man, a white man, and I mean a MAN. Not a whiny, momma-cosseted little boy who thinks his needs and feelings deserve priority. Not a misogynistic and controlling little boy who can only assert his manhood by demeaning others, usually women and who derives HIS power by denying the power of others. As a Man I too am angered when I see a woman – in this case – Hillary Clinton – being vilified , judged on metrics that have no validity whatsoever, excoriated for things that the vast majority of “Little Boys” would never in a month of Sundays consider applicable to them.
There are far too many flabby, mealy-mouthed, incompetent and frankly obscene “Little Boys” in this world and in particular in Politics and the Media. This is where they can get off on the illusion that they have power and importance. As soon as they begin to acquire an understanding that – by and large – women are far more capable, efficient and creative than they will ever be, they see their power at risk and as with all little boys use the only tactic they have – to bully and demean.
Donald Trump is just such a “Little Boy” who, in his case is also saddled with the knowledge that he can never obtain his Father’s approval and in all likelihood was not loved by his mother. either. HIS power comes from his bombast and a pathological incapacity for empathy, integrity and morality. He has managed to combine these into a steamroller effect that brooks no opposition nor well-meant advice. He is a real danger to humanity and the continued existence of life on this planet.
There is a corollary to this however. It is in the willingness of way too many women to bitch (I use the term advisedly) against other women they perceive as being “too uppity”. To apply standards to them that they flatly refuse to accept for themselves. The “sisterhood” is far too fragile and I’m afraid that ignorance and bigotry are not purely Male defects. It may be that a large number of insecure women still seek approval from their “menfolk” by bowing down to them and adopting the accepted “wisdom”. Or perhaps they just won’t accept that a woman can be tough, honest, loyal and sincere and have a social conscience that prompts public service.
I have researched extensively the lies, the blatant hostility, the outright myths and fantasies that surround Hillary Clinton. Time after time they prove to be will’o’the wisps, lacking all substance. Her record of service on the other hand is so well documented that a blind man with a learning disorder could find it. I know why the “Deplorables” refuse to look at it. It would challenge them in their cosy delusions that all their troubles are someone else’s fault and remove from them a target that is easy to hit.
I am honestly scared – not as an American – thankfully I don’t have THAT problem, but as a World Citizen, of the power of ignorance and bigotry that pervades our society. It is malign and self-defeating and has the energy to bring down us all.
LINARDS BĒRZIŅŠ (@LINARDS_BERZINS) is the Exemplar Parfait of what I was saying in my comment.
As a psychologist I am very Familiar with Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and how it explains the process of intellectual, emotional and societal development of human beings. I also know that very few men successfully achieve full mastery of Level 3 and even fewer of Level 4. Those who attain Level 7 can be counted on 2 hands.
LINARDS BĒRZIŅŠ (@LINARDS_BERZINS) has yet to complete Level 2. I doubr that he ever will, at least not in THIS lifetime.
I rate Donald Trump as still being stuck in Level 1.
Janice D says:
Thank you for this thoughtful and most accurate assessment of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Pray that America has the wisdom to elect Hillary!
chaplynn03 says:
What you write makes sense, very much so. I wonder if any of the prejudice against Hillary Clinton has anything to do (in a convoluted way perhaps) with what is known as the Queen Bee Syndrome, where women bosses do not support, even subterfuge their underling’s goals. There are also sometimes what I call the QB’s “henchwomen” who consistently subterfuge the other underling. To use a more childlike term, Hillary Clinton has been “picked on” for all of her political life. Lawrence, I appreciate your wisdom. Peace.
Carol Wood says:
You just expressed my own feelings in written word. Thank you, I will be sharing this article to everyone. Also I will be following you!
Great commentary! Thank you for taking the time to write this. Hillary deserves to be treated with reepect. She isn’t given that level of respect due her- just one more reason that her gender as candidate for President is such a historic event. It is very hard for many men to accept.
Kathleen Bolton says:
Are you kidding me? I vote for results, and this woman as of today has none. This is probably one of the most trumped up endless waste of sentiments I have read in quite a while. I am a graduate of a University who stressed excellence. To vote for anyone who has no achievements, simply because she’s female is a waste of intellengence and ideals, when she earns respect she will receive it. When she deserves my vote she will receive it no until then madam.
I am not voting for her because she is a woman. I believe she is being persecuted much because she is a woman. I don’t understand how you can say she has no achievements. I wonder where you get your information.
Anna Carter says:
Kathleen Bolton, if you are not a sad, sad troll (and I suspect you are trying to be, but whatever) here is a list of Hillary Clinton’s achievements, to date: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/9/17/1422403/-Hillary-Clinton-s-Record-of-Accomplishments. Which of these do you find insufficient to meet the superior standards of your “University who [sic] stressed excellence”? What, exactly, does she need to do to “deserve” your vote and “earn respect”? I mean, she could have gotten a Ph.D. along with that J.D. from Yale Law School….what a slacker!
Dcntim says:
I you consider building skyscrapers and hotels and casinos achievement then Trump could be considered a success…..except that his business ethics leave much to be desired. He has re-negotiated contracts after the work has been completed and always at the expense of the common man. Politically he has NO experience. What he does have is a bombastic, anti women, anti ethnic attitude which manifests itself in crude and derogatory statements against women and minorities. Having said that I admit that Clinton is a less than perfect candidate but to claim she has no achievement is a flat out lie. She has served well in the US Senate and served as US Secretary of State. If she wasn’t who she was anyone would recognize that as real achievement. So, be a hater. Vote your conscience. And God help us, if Trump wins don’t come whining to anyone except him. He is the man of no moral fiber and little political achievement. No wait, let me amend that, he has no political achievement.
I think a woman could do a great job as president and the comments on the hair/makeup and clothes really bugs me. But I cannot vote for Hillary because of her lies, deleting emails, destroying phones, the way she attempted to destroy the women that came forward with allegations against Bill re sexual harassment and the way they stole votes from Bernie.
Absolutely agree. I don’t care what she wears, how much she smiles, what she sounds like, none of that. Her supporters insult me when they think that’s why I don’t like her. I dislike her because she is a sleazy liar. Period. How can she say that she supports women after the way she treated the women who bravely came out with accusations against her husband, and her Foundation takes lots of money from countries that abuse women? She will sell out America in a second if it enriches her, The fact that Trump is awful does not make her any better.
I’m sorry you believe those things. Just to take one of them, she didn’t try to “destroy” any women. You don’t have a shred of evidence for that, it’s just what Fox has repeated over and over until people decide it must be true.
Think for a moment about the misogyny contained in that accusation. Her husband cheated on her and of course she was hurt. How could she not be. But she stayed with him because they had a child and a life together and you know what, I believe she loves him. But we have to dehumanize her, so it’s all about how if she stayed it’s only because she’s cold and calculating or she went after the women or God knows what else. All without evidence. Just venom.
Saleh awdaly says:
I love you Mrs. Hillary Clinton, and it was my own suggestion to be the first woman in the history of America become the president of the USAt
Geraldine Fanelli says:
the truth of the matter is simply – neither of the candidates is qualified to be our Commander in Chief – this entire election is a sham, and in the end, whomever we end up with, will not be there long – it will only be a matter of time when the one who makes it gets canned through impeachment. The Voters today have been duped by the media who are pushing their ideology down our throats. Americans need to rise up and stand up for our rights. There is too much political correctness and not enough genuine compassion and sensitivity.
FD says:
Notice the 3rd party candidates who have been systematically shut out of the debates. Jill Stein and Gary Johnson and many others deserve the kind of money and the forums the two “sanctioned” candidates have. Further, pick up a copy of Ratf**ked: The True Story Behind the Secret Plan to Steal America’s Democracy. You’ll see how rigged our “elections” really are.
Hydra says:
And I think Hillary supporters are forgetting what she really stands for: more wars for oil, fracking and corporate involvement in government. Why the blind eyes to all that? She’s no longer a liberal Democrat, she’s a Repuvlican.
dkc5 says:
Thank you, Jill, for articulating my feelings so well. If I had a dime for every time I’ve yelled at the TV or radio for the sexist crap that passes for journalistic criticism of Hillary, I’d be a rich woman.
Like Juniper, I feel like I’m in a parallel universe, listening to the same biased comments over and over – including from some women ‘journalists’ who should know better. With the ‘untrustworthy/unlikeable’ meme that’s pounded home over and over, it’s no damn wonder voters think that way.
Thank YOU for reading and commenting. I appreciate your support!
Don Krieger says:
Thank you for your honesty and clarity on this.
You lay out so many ways in which attacks on Secretary Clinton evoke larger than life reactions from you.
To evoke those reactions is the goal of those whose arguments are aimed at your vulnerabilities rather than at the issues.
Interestingly, that is the only aim of Mr. Trump’s arguments.
Thank you again. Best – Don
sharonseamanfitness says:
Thank you Jill for putting into words all of my feelings about Hillary and watching the first woman standing on the precipice of becoming President. I found myself nodding in agreement while reading and recognizing all the feelings you raised. I find myself yelling at the TV every damn day about the disparity in the way Hillary is covered (including the primary race) vs. all of her MALE challengers. I’ve watched in disbelief at how the lame stream media has reported every single item they could portray negatively about Hillary while propping up Sanders and Trump…Hell all the free media coverage Trump enjoyed during his Primary race made me scream even louder. I have waited 8 long years to cast my vote for Hillary and I am counting minutes until November 8 arrives. I will stay up all night to watch the results come in and, if this country does the right and sane thing and actually elects her, then I plan to watch that announcement with pride and tears streaming down my face.
Karen in Ohio says:
Thank you, Jill, for articulating so well my own thoughts.
My own three brilliant grown daughters have their futures at stake here. My time is pretty much done, but I want them to have the choice to follow whatever additional dreams they may have, including to the White House if they’re crazy enough to wish for such a thing.
But my own essential concern about sexism like that you so eloquently portray is how it has led to wasting more than 50% of the brainpower of the world. Women have at least as much to share as men, and very possibly way more. Our lack of testosterone is a bonus, in my opinion, not a defect. Who knows what potential the human race holds, if we could fully tap into all available intelligence.
Linards Bērziņš (@Linards_Berzins) says:
Ok, All valid points, but do people even pay attention to her disastrous foreign policy track record? The DNC leaks, voting for Iraq war (no WoMD were never found, and were lied about), Clinton Foundation frauds (Haiti the most prominent), deleting clasifiedd emails, FBI coverup (“patriots” envoking the 5th Amendment, refusing to answer any questions), Covering Bills dirty deeds (we all know the sleazy F&*@$%R), trying to take $190,000 in gifts and furnishings from the presidential mansion, Filegate: FBI files on GOP “enemies”, Chinagate: Sale of high-tech secrets, ‘Landing under sniper fire’ in Bosnia, Hillary’s ‘missing’ law firm billing records, Pardongate: Hillary Senate contributions, Benghazi: 4 American lives lost, the list is much longer. I really do not care who is in the WH, a woman or a man. I care about their list of a acheivments the person has done. and choosing lesser between two evils is never a calming situation.
Even if ANY of your rants are true (which they are not), leave that aside for a minute, and lets focus on your last sentence, shall we? Who, of the four declared and nominated candidates running for President this year, has a “list of achievments (sic)” more impressive than Secretary Clinton’s? Hmm?
They are, and its proven, do the research, dont be lazy…
BERNIE SANDERS>>>>>and you better find some better information on the “rants” How about this one for starters??? https://youtu.be/wbkS26PX4rc We are ALL in trouble if she gets into office.
The laziness is all on you, dude.
howiesview says:
Blindly following any politician is poisonous to us all. Don’t be a sheep
Those are valid points to criticize Secretary Clinton on. Her record and her actions. But that is not really insulting her, it is assessing her abilities. And that is what we are supposed to be doing when we elect a President. Not discuss how much she smiles.
PS, you left out that she aided overthrowing a democratically elected government in Honduras while Secretary of State. She does not have a good foreign policy record. (her opponents have none at all)
Most if not all of the “charges” you levelled against Hillary have been either clearly proven wrong after millions were spent trying ( AND FAILING) to find something legitimate to pin on her, OR were events that would have occurred regardless of who was in the position she held at the time OR are things that go on in politics on a regular basis but have only been constantly hashed and rehashed because it’s Hillary (and she’s a woman, and a woman who “let” her husband stray which is even worse). As for the Clinton Foundation, I really wish people would do their homework. The Clinton Foundation has NO fraud whatsoever attached to it. In fact its got the highest rating possible as an ethical and transparent organisation from the peak independent body for charities. Nothing that has been levelled against them & their charity holds up under the smallest scrutiny. If you want to see what an actual fraudulent charity looks like may I suggest you look in the other direction – at Donald Trump’s Foundation – for a text book example. I also suggest you stop listening to the spin masters who can’t handle a woman being so powerful and do some actual research of your own. You’ll discover why Hillary is one of the worlds most admired & respected women of all time but one who has been, for a number of reasons, deliberately portrayed as evil, unlikable, dishonest, etc blah blah ad nauseum DESPITE the reality being the opposite. Has she made mistakes along the way? Probably, she’s not an android. Has she deliberately, wantonly, arrogantly done the wrong thing out of greed, pride, anger, selfishness or pure disregard for the welfare of others? I doubt it. There is no “lesser of two evils” here. There is only a decent, well qualified, great candidate vs a lying, cheating, hate-mongering, abusive, racist, misogynist, bigoted, ignorant, self-obsessed, stupid, narcissistic & dangerous con man. The fact that you think they’re anywhere near comparable is disturbing.
Van Montfalcon says:
Of course, it wouldn’t be the internetz without a white male chauvinist pig jumping in to spin lies and screech “it’s not cuz she’s a woman!” Yeah. It is. Screw you, Lincads. You are the problem. 77 Senators voted yes for the Iraq war. Only Hillary is blamed, but not Bush or Cheney who were the ones who did the lying those votes were based upon?? 60 embassy deaths under the previous Secretary of State, but 4 under Hillary means she’s evil? (Spoiler alert, people who take jobs in dangerous nations overseas know that can happen. They know as they train. They know before they leave. Libya was dangerous, and it’s no ones fault but the murderers.) Still harping on emails means you’re accusing the FBI of lying. And the DoD and DoJ. It’s all been debunked, not that misogynists will ever care. But my god, can you assholes even HEAR yourselves? All these insane projections, myths, or decades of GOP smears is frankly just one more sexist problem about how the first woman candidate is being treated differently. Nothing Bill did is her crime. Nothing was sold to China. There are no Clinton Foundation frauds. Good grief, take off the tinfoil hats and quit embarrassing yourselves. It’s just a convenient narrative you’ve swallowed whole because you WANT TO. Because deep down, a woman holding power jut pisses you off. Tough. Get over it. It’s happening.
Jillian Stacia, you’re awesome.
Ignore the idiots. As usual.
Typical, when there is no rgument from you, you get to tinfoil hats… and nothin gis debunked about Shillary. Keep living a lie…. 😀
Your’re funny, there is no sane argument to vote for that criminal to be POTUS… Clinton’s Foundation took in more than $140 million in grants and pledges in 2013 but spent just $9 million on direct aid. And there is more Wikileaks to come, which will destroy her… I did not say that other senators did not vote against the war in Iraq, they all are criminals who did, knowing of NO WoMD and voting to invade the country where 500.000 innocent lives were lost, is CRIMINAL. Sort your priorities out “exceptional” American…. 😀
ronifae says:
Linards, I’d be interested in your source for those Clinton Foundation figures. It gets an A rating from Charity Watch (http://j.mp/24p9umR) and a 4-star rating from Charity Navigator (http://j.mp/2c1rEY1). Carly Fiorina spread a bunch of falsehoods about the Foundation and got FactCheck’s attention (http://j.mp/25GfTQs) and failed.
Bush lied when he said he wanted the resolution passed so he could use it to threaten Hussein. Part of Hillary’s speech when she voted: ““Even though the resolution before the Senate is not as strong as I would like in requiring the diplomatic route first … I take the president at his word that he will try hard to pass a United Nations resolution and seek to avoid war, if possible. Because bipartisan support for this resolution makes success in the United Nations more likely and war less likely—and because a good faith effort by the United States, even if it fails, will bring more allies and legitimacy to our cause—I have concluded, after careful and serious consideration, that a vote for the resolution best serves the security of our nation. If we were to defeat this resolution or pass it with only a few Democrats, I am concerned that those who want to pretend this problem will go away with delay will oppose any United Nations resolution calling for unrestricted inspections.” http://j.mp/2cpkf9g
Linards, I write about nonprofits and philanthropy and wanted to let you know the figures about how much the Clinton Foundation spends on direct aid have been widely misinterpreted. The $9 million you refer to covers grants to other organizations. But that’s only a small part of the foundation’s spending on charitable programs. It provides most of the services directly — similar to an organization like the Red Cross. Charity watchdogs say the Clinton Foundation devotes more than 80 percent, perhaps up to 88 percent, of its spending on programs (as opposed to administration and fundraising). Here’s a PolitiFact article that lays this out in more detail: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/aug/25/reince-priebus/reince-priebus-false-claim-80-clinton-foundation-c/
Harsh words from a typical left wing liberal who refuses to see the truth about that despicable Hillary. She hasn’t accomplished any track record if anything accept making money from foreign governments who support a religion that murder and beat women who hate and kill gays. Look up all the dirty deeds thus women has done get your head out of the hole it’s in. She is so corrupt she protected her cheating husband and made his victims look like liars. Her email scandal never ends she lied about that. Unfit to run for any office. Vote for a real change vote Donald J Trump
Trump who has not paid his bills to the businesses he contracted with? The man who makes fun of people with disabilities? The man who talks down to anyone who disagrees with him? The man who uses his dislike of political correctness to be rude and mean? Can you give us evidence of what you speak? Can you separate Mrs. Clinton the wife from Mrs. Clinton the politician?
You are right. Donald Trump would be a real change. We could all kiss life as we know it, good or bad goodbye. Nuclear codes in the hands of a man with no empathy? Hurt his feelings because they are all that counts to him, and boom! There goes a missile.
I invite you to discover what she has done, what she has done that is good. There is plenty.
Margaret Conlon-M says:
Of course “people” pay attention to her to-date foreign policy track record. She has made mistakes, she admits to many.
The listing shown in your comments? Don’t get me started on your “Benghazi: 4 American lives lost” because it is easy fewer than the Marines’ who lost their livrs in Beirut under then-President Ronald Reagan, but that is rarely referenced during the anti-Hillary campaign alive and active for years now. Being in the public eye for all of her adult life, being fallible, and–yes– being a woman….the burden placed on her has no equivalency in this 2016 campaign. None.
Great Site…..Wonderful Read about Hillary.Hillary is a Rock. I Love Hillary SO DAMN MUCH. The Hate really does Tick me Off all the Time.
silvertonbobbie says:
Great read Jillian. I must say, I don’t agree, though. This is the first time in the history of elections, I am seriously afraid to vote. I do not like or trust either candidate. I do not think either is right for the job and am left wondering, how we got here? I feel I’m forced to choose between the lesser of two evils. I don’t trust Hilary Clinton, she has lied and cheated on so many levels. Donald Trump is angry, spews hate and a loose cannon. So, this election leaves me feeling the nagging sense that we’’ll be betrayed – no matter who we select.
right, however with HC in the WH it will be more wars globally…
“MATTHEWS: Where would we drop — where would we drop a nuclear weapon in the Middle East?
TRUMP: Let me explain. Let me explain.
Somebody hits us within ISIS — you wouldn`t fight back with a nuke?
MATTHEWS: OK. The trouble is, when you said that, the whole world heard it. David Cameron in Britain heard it. The Japanese, where we bombed them in 45, heard it. They`re hearing a guy running for president of the United States talking of maybe using nuclear weapons. Nobody wants to hear that about an American president.
TRUMP: Then why are we making them? Why do we make them?”
http://j.mp/2d2oyFu
ruralladyChar Hardt says:
As I read through what is said and written about Secretary Clinton, it has become obvious to me that she has been BULLIED for years! Classic bullying behavior that just doesn’t quit.
Lana Sing says:
Thank you with all my heart for speaking this truth so eloquently on behalf of so many of us. I know Hillary has her faults and her flaws but I could not be more proud of her. I hope and pray we get to see her elected as the first woman president.
You seem to be addressing the silly arguments people make for not supporting Hillary Clinton rather than the stronger ones. Political candidates whether male or female are criticized for just about everything. But ignoring the bigger issues of widespread corruption and inconsistencies in positions is the main reason people have trouble supporting her.
Anna Maria Dorfmeister says:
What a terrible attemp to justify something so pitty. People do not attack Hill because of her face-lifts. People refuse to vote for her poor record and the constant lies! I’m choosing Jill Stein in these elections!
https://30ontap.com/2016/07/26/this-is-the-one-question-you-need-to-ask-yourself-before-voting-third-party-in-november/
Thank you Jill for saying what I would say, but not half as well. Reblogged.
Thank you for a well written thought provoking article. May the best woman win!!
streetcatadmin says:
Although I don’t have to live with the expectations our society puts on women within myself, I see it and it pisses me off, too. Not bad enough to throw a tantrum usually (per the author), but enough to ruin my afternoon. I am a born, dyed-in-the-wool feminist, and always will be. There is far too much talk in this campaign from men and women (far more from the men, usually) on the left and right about myths and issues that are meaningless to governing. Hillary is reliable, capable and willing. She has the agenda we need, per the party platform and per her own personal views (which have developed very nicely through the 1990s and 2000s, thank you, just like most of the world. I was way ahead of my time in a lot of human rights and social issues, thanks to my parents, but I don’t expect everyone else to have been correct from the beginning.) She has a vision for America that I would like her to state more forcefully, because it’s a great one. She has proven that she cares about people. People who have worked with her all respect her. Of all four players still on the field, she alone can lead this country well. She is a winner. I’m with her.
clutzclemens says:
Reblogged this on Reflections on Gender and Postcolonial Issues and commented:
If I had written something about Hillary, it would have been this. Grateful Jillian did it! A must-read before the debates and all of the spin that will follow.
ideasamericanblog says:
I understand that Hillary Clinton might be maligned for the wrong reasons and undoubtedly there is a certain amount of sexism when it comes to criticism. However, Hillary Clinton is one of the least qualified candidates to run for President in a long time. She only looks good because she is running against THE least qualified candidate to run for President in history. And even then, she is having a hard time. That type of criticism isn’t sexism. It’s not personal. She is simply the wrong person for the job. She has a record of bad judgment, both in actual policy decisions and political strategies.
The left is forever blind when it comes to their idols. There are plenty of Trump voters who worship the guy, but most people that I know are voting for him don’t really love him. They just know how messed up she’s been as a leader in the past. They’re sick of it.
The Middle East is a disaster. Directly because of her foreign policy decisions. Thousands dead. Thousands homeless. All because she is really bad at this. Not to mention she lies her way out of everything…the Bernie supporters knew this. Then she robbed those people of who they wanted.
People always say, “do you want Trump’s finger on the nuclear button…”
My answer is no.
Hillary is putting that button in the hands of people in Iran who kill gays, persecute women, and preach death to America. She is infinitely more dangerous than Donald Trump.
Ali Leach says:
Love this. I would add a few more:
When people attack her for lying, I am reminded of the many ways women – especially ambitious women – are viewed as devious in our culture. From songs to books to shows to movies to gossip to our treatment of rape victims, women are seen as untrustworthy, cunning, dangerous, manipulative shrews who use others to advance their own selfish ends. I am reminded that many people are viewing the attacks on Hillary through this lens. Lying, selfish women is a trope in our culture that goes deep. I am reminded that we’re all primed and ready to believe it.
When people attack her for being elitist, in bed with corporations; when they shame her for accepting money for speeches, I am reminded of how hard it is for a woman to make it to the top of any industry and how uncomfortable we are with successful women. I am reminded of how often when a girl or woman does succeed, how gleefully we love to take her down, watch her fall, and send her back to obscurity. I am reminded of how far this tendency of the tribe to eat its own goes back, back to my own elementary and middle school days when girl after girl gained confidence and was clawed back down by the cruel and insecure masses. I am reminded of the double standards women are held to in almost every aspect of our lives. Be successful, but don’t be greedy. Be ambitious, but don’t step on any toes. Be smart, but don’t be wonky or annoying. Be like the men, but hold yourself to a higher standard than the men. Change the world, but you have to play the rules of the world in order for anybody to listen to you as you try to change it. Play the game, but don’t make any mistakes.
politicallycorrectmontevistastudents says:
Jillian Stacia –
After reading your article, “This is Why I Get So Angry When You Insult Hillary Clinton” it is eyeopening to see all the negative attention that comes with presidency. I have recently started researching the ideas and concepts of politics. I became very interested when I saw your article and your firm conviction when it comes to Hillary Clinton. People often hold women to high expectations and have the perception that everyone needs to be “perfect,” which is very unrealistic. However, this idea of “perfect” behavior goes for men too, and our other candidate, Mr. Trump. It is often said he needs to smile more, he needs to watch what he says, he needs to be more respectful, and he is made fun of for his looks. I believe this concept of shaming someone goes for both candidates, the gender of the victim does not matter. I am still researching and may not know much about the arguments that go back and forth between the debate, but it is clear to see how both candidates have faced some hatred over this past year. We need to stop shaming for foolish things, and take action as a nation to focus on the things that matter. Such as the beliefs and benefits each candidate can offer.
politicssquare says:
No matter what her past is but she is a 100% better option than “Crooked” Donald Trump. Donald Trump is destroying his own campaign in which he only had a minimum contribution. He is destroying the funds of those who eagerly funded him. Don’t he know that his Republican supporters are women as well.
Hillary has a proper planning from each category. She and both Bernie have a vision even though Bernie didn’t went up.
Trump only has few plans which include building wall, anti immigrants and refugees and guns.
– politicssquare.com
diplomaticyouth says:
Donald Trump does had an adequate plan, which has more than building walls. I while I am completely opposed to his views, it is unfair to say that he doesn’t have a plan. However, if his plan is carried out, it is likely to destroy the American middle class, which comprises roughly 80% of America.
Also, Trump does not have any outside funds, particularly because his own business well funds his campaign. This is why he able to bash so many other businesses and the government without seeing the consequences.
But we shouldn’t forget that he is saying all because of the 3rd party funds. He will go bankrupt if he invest his all money on campaigns. His stakeholders and investors have a great stake in his campaign and Trump would say anything that would please them and if not they will back off from funding him. Same applies to the scenario in Democrats.
Travellerkc says:
Donald Trump spent $2 million of his own funds. The remainder came from such campaigns as Facebook and social media requests for funds (trust me even I a devout BLUE person for life was contacted via Facebook begging for money), as well as large donors (of which I am sure Russia had something to do with his funding * in a roundabout way). T) say different is to stretch the truth.
I feel like there are some more serious issues pertaining as to why voters do not like Hillary as a candidate; however, I completely agree with you that the media’s attitude towards women, especially in politics, is much more condescending and superficial than what women deserve.
I love Hillary Clinton for a myriad of reasons, 90% of which are related to her political actions and viewpoints. could you please expand on this? I’m still trying to find out what her viewpoints are, as well as her positive political actions.
Sorry, there is no defending those North Korean dictator suits she has been wearing. No matter how many pretty or mind altering words applied.
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Blake Shelton Falls Onstage While Performing: ‘Yes, I Had Been Drinking’
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Blake Shelton joined a long list of slightly clumsy stars when he fell during his show at the Pendleton Whisky Music Fest in Oregon on Saturday (July 14).
The spill was caught on camera by at least one fan in attendance, then shared on social media. Shelton himself drew attention to the spill when he tweeted about it, looking for video of the mishap in the early morning hours of Sunday (July 15).
"I know somebody is bound to have video of me falling on stage last night!! Please!! I have to see it!!! Post that sh--!" he writes on Twitter, joking: "And yes, I had been drinking. A lot ... "
Shelton also tweeted directly to rapper Pitbull, who performed just before the country star's set:
Of course, the tweets were all in good fun, as the two happily posed for a picture together before their individual performances:
Country's own Kenny Chesney also took a spill onstage over the weekend, and his fall resulted in an injury. He's expected to recover.
Here's to hoping that Shelton is a bit more careful during the weekend coming up, as the always entertaining showman will continue on in his festival run with sets at Faster Horses in Michigan on Friday (July 20) and Country Jam USA on Saturday (July 21).
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This April 13, 2019, photo shows Lion Air's Boeing 737 Max 8 on the tarmac at Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali, Indonesia. Asian airlines are cutting routes, revamping their schedules and leasing extra aircraft to fill the gaps left by groundings of Boeing 737 Max 8s after deadly crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia killed 346 people. (AP Photo/Nicole Evatt)
Boeing 737 Max 8 woes crimp Asian airlines' growth plans
SINGAPORE (AP) — Asian airlines are cutting routes, revamping their schedules and leasing extra aircraft to fill gaps left by the grounding of Boeing 737 Max 8s after deadly crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia killed 346 people.
So far, regional carriers have managed to avoid major disruptions, but analysts expect that idling the Max 8s, a fuel-efficient update of Boeing's popular 737, will crimp growth plans in the near future.
As investigations into the crashes continue, Boeing anticipates a $1 billion increase in costs related to the 737 Max, including fixing software implicated in the disasters, adding pilot training and compensating airlines and families of crash victims. Investigators are examining the role of flight-control software that pushed the planes' noses down based on faulty sensor readings.
Nearly 400 Max jets were grounded at airlines worldwide in mid-March after the Ethiopia crash.
In Asia, where air passenger traffic is growing the fastest, the groundings are pushing airlines' costs higher at a time of rising fuel prices, squeezing carriers' profits.
Chinese airlines had 96 Max 8 jets but have managed to avoid massive cancellations by swapping in other models of aircraft, said Kelvin Lau of Daiwa Capital Markets in Hong Kong.
"However, this may limit their capacity growth for the coming peak season," he added.
China Southern Airlines, which has 25 Max 8 jets, will likely revise its targeted growth for passenger capacity, he said.
Indonesian carrier Lion Air, whose Flight 610 disappeared into the sea shortly after takeoff from Jakarta, killing 189 people, said Friday in a statement that it was "operating normally by minimizing the impact" from the grounding of its 10 Max 8 jets.
"Lion Air continues to serve routes that have been operated by Boeing 737 MAX 8 by replacing them using other Lion Air fleets," spokesman Danang Mandala Prihantoro said in a statement.
India's SpiceJet has said it would lease 22 Boeing 737-800NG aircraft, nine of which are already in service. The carrier said it also will deploy five Bombardier Q400 aircraft.
"The new inductions will not just bring down flight cancellations to nil but also help in SpiceJet's aggressive international and domestic expansion plans," chairman and managing director Ajay Singh said in a statement.
Not all carriers, even those without Max 8s, have managed as well.
Budget carrier Scoot, which is owned by Singapore Airlines, announced that it would suspend services between Singapore and four cities, with the first suspension starting from June. The routes were served by the Airbus A320.
Scoot, which does not have any Max 8 jets, said in a statement that the cuts were "due to a combination of weak demand and a shortage of aircraft resources."
"The aircraft shortage is arising as SilkAir, due to the grounding of its Boeing 737 MAX 8 fleet, will no longer transfer its Boeing 737-800NG aircraft to Scoot in the financial year 2019/2020," it said.
SilkAir, the regional arm of Singapore Airlines, withdrew its six Max 8 jets from service on March 12, and its parent carrier has reassessed its capacity and fleet, opting to have Scoot grow more slowly, said Brendan Sobie of aviation consultancy CAPA.
Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg recently said the company was nearly finished an update to the Max that "will make the airplane even safer."
But given the concerns that deepened with the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines Max 8 on March 10, it's unclear when the update will be deployed and how long it will take for aviation regulators and airlines to decide it's safe for the aircraft to resume operations.
That's a hardship for carriers, especially during the peak summer travel season.
"Airlines don't know exactly when the Max will be back in service. This makes it a little difficult to plan, even though there is some flexibility within their fleets," Sobie said.
Emily Schmall in New Delhi and Niniek Karmini in Jakarta contributed to this report.
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The ‘Luminaphone’, Harry Grindell Matthews & Bernard.J.Lynes. UK, 1925
The Luminaphone (image: Illustrierte Technik für Jedermann: Heft 18 1926)
The Luminaphone of 1926 was one of a long line of inventions by the British inventor Harry Grindell Matthews, well known at the time for his much publicised invention of a ‘Death Ray’ in 1923 – an unsubstantiated or proven method of destroying objects and stopping electric engines through an invisible ray-gun. Matthew’s roster of inventions included a light controlled submarine (from which he received a £25,000 prize from the British admiralty), a mobile projector for projecting images onto clouds, an early method of recording sound on to film (1921), an underwater submarine detector, ground-to-plane radio-telephone, and a self-righting flying machine, amongst many others.
Diagram showing the operation of the light beams through the perforated dome to a selenium cell, an arrangement that optimised the use of the photo-cells.(image: Illustrierte Technik für Jedermann: Heft 18 1926)
The Luminaphone, patented in 1925 (Patent GB254437A ), was an early example of a photo-electric technique for creating pitched tones (originally derived from optical sound film technology); in this case a series of light beams – each light beam representing one frequency or note – were projected through a rotating perforated metal dome onto a selenium photo-cell that generated a pitched voltage pulse. The frequency of the pitch was determined by the frequency of the perforation in the metal dome. The luminaphone’s three octave keyboard had one lamp per key (a total of 36 keys and lamps) – when a key was pressed the assigned lamp would illuminate and project through the rotating perforated dome onto the photo-cell, generating the relevant pitch.
Functional diagram of the Luminaphone. (image: ‘Science and Invention’ February 1926)
The size and shape of the perforations determined the pitch, intensity and tone quality of the instruments tone – although, presumably, this would require stopping the machine and manually changing the rotating dome to change the sound or intensity.
Matthews planned to produce a commercial version of the instrument but the Luminaphone never evolved beyond the one prototype model.
(image:Technik für Jedermann: Heft 18 1926 )
Harry Grindell Matthews. Biographical Details:
Harry Grindell Matthews. born on 17 March 1880, at Winterbourne, South Gloucestershire.UK. Died:11 September 1941, Swansea, Wales UK.
Harry Grindell Matthews, a prolific British inventor, became an electronic engineer while serving in the Second Boer War (1900). Matthews many and often fantastical inventions provoked controversy due to his penchant for publicity and unwillingness to reveal his methods – most famously with his military ‘Death Ray’ gun of 1923.
After being rejected by the British military, Matthews travelled to France with the apparent aim of selling his Death Ray invention to the French army and after he was again rejected he travelled to the USA with his new invention, the Luminaphone, to raise funds and generate publicity for his new projects. In 1938 Matthews married the (extremely wealthy) Polish opera singer Ganna Walska and constructed a well protected laboratory and airstrip in Tor Clawdd north of Swansea in the South Wales hills. Matthews later projects included liquid fuelled rockets and a high flying ‘Stratoplane’. Matthews died of a heart attack on 11 September 1941 before any of his inventions were put into practical production.
A 1925 image that purports to show Matthews ‘Death Ray’ in action on the Welsh island of Flat Holm.
Brooklyn Daily Eagle. July 20, 1924
UK Patent GB254437A.
‘Popular Science’ Magazine March 1926 p55
‘The Light Beam Piano’; Science and Invention. USA. magazine February 1926. P896
‘Lichtstrahlen Musik’ Illustrierte Technik für Jedermann: Heft 18 1926 p199
Yamaha GS1& GS2 Yamaha Corp, Japan, 1981
Yamaha GS1 FM Synthesiser
In 1960 the composer, musician, percussionist and mathematician, John Chowning taught computer-sound synthesis and composition at Stanford University’s Department of Music and developed a version of Max Mathews MUSIC audio programming language, MUSIC II for the PDP8 computer. During this period he began experimenting with high frequency modulation of a sine tone and discovered that by using audio-rate modulation (rather than a lower frequency control-rate LFO type modulation) he could create new tones rich in harmonics. In 1973 Chowning published his research in a paper ‘The Synthesis of Complex Audio Spectra by Means of Frequency Modulation’ which eventually lead to the creation of a new approach to audio synthesis known as ‘Frequency Modulation Synthesis’ or FM Synthesis and to the development of the world’s best selling synthesiser; yamaha’s DX range ( Stanford university is rumoured to have collected more than $20 million in license fees and enabling it rebuild the Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) department).
Yamaha GS1 external programmer
In 1971 Max Mathews suggested to Chowning that he create a library of recognisable sounds exploiting FM Synthesis’ ability to emulate harmonic rich timbres – brass, percussion, strings and so-on – and to use Stanford University to approach companies for him. After being turned down by several US based companies such as Wurlitzer and Hammond, Chowning and Stanford approached, somewhat desperately, Yamaha in Japan. Yamaha were looking for a new type of electronic instrument having failed to capitalise on the success of the CS80 and GX1 Synthesisers. Yamaha’s Organ Division bought a license for one year; enough to investigate the commercial potential of FM synthesis. The first application of Chownings FM algorithm was in 1975; a monophonic prototype digital synthesiser called MAD. This was soon followed by a polyphonic FM synthesiser prototype released as a production model in 1981 as the Yamaha GS1.
Advert for the GS1 in 1982
The GS1 was an expensive (around £12,000 in 1981) FM synthesiser (but not the first FM synthesiser, this was the even more expensive New England Digital Synclavier released in 1978). The arrival of FM synthesis was greeted with confusion and horror by electronic musicians who had just become used to subtractive modular analogue systems. FM synthesis is a radically different approach to sound synthesis; subtractive starts with a complex waveform and subtracts harmonics and tone with filters and modulation to produce the desired timbre whereas Additive Synthesis has no filters but creates varying timbres through the application of combinations of modulators or ‘operators’.
The GS1 had eight operators arranged as four modulators per voice (two on the GS2 model) – which was a very basic implementation of FM. Despite this, the sound quality of the instrument was very impressive, and, despite the perceived complexity of programming FM (alleviated by yamaha supplying a bank of 500 preset sounds on a data stick) the GS1 found favour amongst the large recording studios who could afford them (only around 100 units were sold).
Yamaha ce20 preset FM synthesiser
The GS1&2 were superseded in 1982 by the more affordable (£850) mass-market, preset CE20 and CE25 FM keyboards and then a year later in 1983 by the legendary DX7 FM synthesiser.
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John M Chowning Biographical notes
Chowning was born in Salem, New Jersey in 1934. Following military service and four years at Wittenberg University, he studied composition in Paris with Nadia Boulanger. He received the doctorate in composition (DMA) from Stanford University in 1966, where he studied with Leland Smith. In 1964, with the help of Max Mathews of Bell Telephone Laboratories and David Poole of Stanford University, he set up a computer music program using the computer system of Stanford’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Beginning the same year he began the research that led to the first generalized surround sound localization algorithm. Chowning discovered the frequency modulation synthesis (FM) algorithm in 1967. This breakthrough in the synthesis of timbres allowed a very simple yet elegant way of creating and controlling time-varying spectra. Inspired by the perceptual research of Jean-Claude Risset, he worked toward turning this discovery into a system of musical importance, using it extensively in his compositions.
In 1973 Stanford University licensed the FM synthesis patent to Yamaha in Japan, leading to the most successful synthesis engine in the history of electronic musical instruments. Chowning was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1988. He was awarded the Honorary Doctor of Music by Wittenberg University in 1990. The French Ministre de la Culture awarded him the Diplôme d’Officier dans l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres in 1995 and he was awarded the Doctorat Honoris Causa in 2002 by the Université de la Méditerranée and in 2010 by Queen’s University, Belfast. He taught computer-sound synthesis and composition at Stanford University’s Department of Music. In 1974, with John Grey, James (Andy) Moorer, Loren Rush and Leland Smith, he founded the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), which remains one of the leading centers for computer music and related research.
‘The Synthesis of Complex Audio Spectra by Means of Frequency Modulation’ Chowning J. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society.J. Audio Eng. Soc. 21 (7), 526-534. 1973
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The ‘Coupigny Synthesiser’ François Coupigny, France, 1966
Coupigny Synthesisier
During the late 1960’s an intense intellectual animosity developed between the GRM and WDR studios ; The French GRM, lead by Pierre Schaeffer championed a Gallic free ‘Musique Concrete’ approach based on manipulated recordings of everyday sounds contrasting with the Teutonic German WDR’s ‘Electronische Musik’ approach of strict mathematical formalism and tonality (probably a simplistic analysis; read Howard Slater’s much ore insightful essay on the schism). This divergence in theory meant that the studios developed in diverging ways; the Parisian GRM based on manipulation of tape recording and ‘real sound’ and the WDR studio on purely electronically synthesised sound.
Part of the Coupigny Synthesiser and EMI mixing desk
After this rivalry had subsided in the early 1970’s Groupe de Recherches decided to finally integrate electronic synthesis into the studio equipment. The result of this was the ‘Coupigny synthesiser’ designed and built by engineer François Coupigny around 1966 and was integrated into the 24 track mixing console of Studio 54 at the GRM. Despite this, the synthesiser was designed with ‘Musique Concrete’ principles in mind:
“…a synthesiser with parametrical control was something Pierre Schaeffer was against, since it favoured the preconception of music and therefore deviated from Schaeffer’s principal of ‘making through listening’ . Because of Schaeffer’s concerns, the Coupigny synthesiser was conceived as a sound-event generator with parameters controlled globally, without a means to define values as precisely as some other synthesisers of the day”
(Daniel Teruggi 2007, 219–20).
Pierre Schaeffer by the console of Studio 54 adjusting Moog, the Coupigny Synthesiser is built into the panel directly below.
The Coupigny Synthesiser was a modular system allowing patching of it’s five oscillators using a pin matrix system (probably the first instrument to use this patching technique, seen later in the EMS designs) to various filters, LFOs (three of them) and a ring modulator. Later versions were expanded using a collection of VCA controlled Moog oscillators and filter modules. The instrument was completely integrated into the studio system allowing it to control remote tape recorders and interface with external equipment. Unlike many other electronic instruments and perhaps due to Schaeffer’s concerns over ‘parametrical control’, the Coupigny Synthesiser had no keyboard – instead it was controlled by a complex envelope generator to modulate the sound. This made the synthesiser less effective at creating precisely defined notes and sequences but better suited to generating continuous tones to be later edited manually on tape. The Coupigny Synthesiser continues to be used at the GRM studio to this day.
The console of Studio 45 at the GRM
http://manoafreeuniversity.org/projects/soundings/kompendium/pdfs/slater_heterozygotic.pdf
Gareth Loy ‘Musimathics: The Mathematical Foundations of Music, Volume 2’
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the ‘Clavier à Lampes’ or ‘Piano Radio Èlectrique’ Joseph Armand Marie Givelet, France. 1927
Armand Givelet playing the ‘Clavier à Lampes
Armand Givelet , the engineer and physicist at the radio laboratory at the Eiffel Tower in Paris produced his first instrument the ‘Clavier à Lampes’ in 1927 as a way of solving audio technical problems at the radio station. Because microphones of the time were of poor quality, it was impossible to record or broadcast decent quality sound. Givelet’s response was to build an electronic organ that could be directly injected into the transmitter without using microphones. The resulting instrument, the ‘Clavier à Lampes’ was a monophonic vacuum tube keyboard instrument.
The ‘Clavier à Lampes’ was premiered in Paris in 1927 and taken on tour to the United States starting with the Trocadero Theatre in Philadelphia on June 9th 1927.
Loudspeakers and valves of the ‘Piano Radio Èlectrique’
Images of the ‘Clavier à Lampes
Armand Givelet Biographical notes
Armand Givelet (born:21 07 1889 Reims France – died:09 11 1963 La Varenne St-Hilaire, St-Maur-des-Fossés) was originally an engineer in the French military during the First World War but soon recognised the potential of Lee De Forest’s triode technology. He founded the first Radio Club in France and the T.S.F. engineering school. Givelet became a recognised authority on radio technology and inventor who held many patents for radio and broadcast equipment as well as his work with electromechanical (tone-wheel) and valve based electronic musical instruments; His particular contribution w as a stabilised audio oscillator that used much less power than traditional triode circuitry.
Givelet’s first complete instrument was the The monophonic “Piano Radio-électrique” unveiled in 1927. A meeting with the organ Builder Eloi Coupleux in early 1929 began a life-long collaboration that produced some of the earliest electronic organs – designed primarily for church and religious music. The largest of the Coupleux-Givelet instruments was built for “Le Poste-Parisien” – withs 200 oscillator tubes producing 70 different timbres or stops. Despite their unique features, The Coupleux-Givelet organs were rapidly made obsolete by much smaller and cheaper organs such as the Hammond Organ. Only four organs were sold by Coupleux-frères to churches in France.
Givelet also wrote theatrical works under the pseudonym Ch. de Puymordant.
Olivier Carpentier ‘L’Aventure industrielle des frères Coupleux, 1900-1935’ Préface de Douglas Heffer, éditions de l’Inoui, 2004.
La Vie et les ondes : l’oeuvre de Georges Lakhovsky / Michel Adam et Armand Givelet, [1936]
Le Genie Civil February 7, 1928
Le Monde, 1989-07-21, p. 23
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‘Clavecin Électrique’ . Jean-Baptiste Delaborde, France. 1759.
Clavecin Électrique, Jean-Baptiste Delaborde, Paris, France, 1759
This instrument was constructed by the Jesuit priest Jean-Baptiste Delaborde in Paris, France, 1759. The Clavecine Électrique or ‘Electric Harpsichord’ is one of the earliest documented instruments that used electricity to create musical sound. Despite it’s name The Clavecin Électrique was not a stringed instrument but a carillon type keyboard instrument using a static electrical charge (supplied by a Leyden Jar, an early form of capacitor invented by the Dutch scientist Pieter van Musschenbroek of Leiden around 1745) to vibrate metal bells – The mechanism based on a contemporary warning-bell device 1. This method allowed the player to create a series sustained notes from the bells, similar to an organ:
Two metal bells tuned in unison are hung, one with a silk thread, one with a wire onto a metal rod itself both hanging free by means of a silk thread at each end. Based on the principles of static electricity a beater, also hung on a silk thread is alternately attracted and rejected by each bell as soon at is released through holding down a key, n positive and negative fields being created in the bells.2
Jean-Baptiste de Laborde’s book describing the Clavesin “Le Clavessin électrique; avec une nouvelle théorie du mécanisme et des phénomènes de l’électricité”
Delaborde’s misleading name of the instrument was an intentional attempt to elevate his invention above that of a Carillon – a mere musical-box:
“The electrical matter has something of the soul, as air is to the body, the guardian of the bellows globe, and ‘the conductor of the wind-door. The key is in the organ as a brake, with which moderates the effect of the air, I posed the same brake on the electric matter, despite his sensitivity, his agility. The air trapped in the organ there groaning, so long as the organist, as another Aeolus, opened the doors of his prison. If at the same time he took away all the barriers that stop, another would not produce a great confusion and disorder, but he does it Sorting […] with discernment. The electrical matter abode even as it locked up, and you feel unnecessarily around the bells of the new harpsichord, to the extent that is given the freedom, coll’abbassare the keys: it then becomes with great rapidity, but ceases d ‘ operate, as soon as the keys reassemble. This kind of cymbal hath also an advantage that others do not have, that is that where it ‘cymbals ordinary the non-continuous sound weakening; electric organ and harpsichord retains all the strength that the fingers remain on the keys.”3
Delaborde added that during a performance in a dark room the listener’s “eyes are agreeably surprised by the brilliant sparks” that were produced by the instrument and that “the clavessin became at the same time audible and visible” . This phenomena may have lead to the creation of the Clavecin Oculaire by the fellow Jesuit Louis Bertrand Castel, an early exploration of the relationship between pitch and colour. The Clavecin Électrique was well received by the press and the public but wasn’t developed further. The model Delaborde himself built survives and is kept at the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris.
The Clavecin électrique at the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris
Description of the Clavecin by Marc Michel Rey, 1759 in his “Le journal des sçavans, combiné avec les mémoires de Trévoux”
De Hen, Ferdinand J. ‘The Harpsichord and Clavichord: An Encyclopedia’ Routledge 2007. p71
Durosoir, G., & Guillot, P. (1993). Les jésuites et la musique. le collège de la trinité à lyon (1565-1762). Revue De Musicologie, 79(1), 160. doi:10.2307/947458
Collins, N., Schedel, M., & Wilson, S. (2013). Electronic music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511820540
Laborde, Jean-Baptiste de, “Le Clavessin électrique; avec une nouvelle théorie du mécanisme et des phénomènes de l’électricité”. Réimpression de l’édition de Paris, Guérin, Delatour, 1761. Genève, 1997. 1 volume in-16 de 192 pages, broché.
Rey, Marc Michel”Le journal des sçavans, combiné avec les mémoires de Trévoux”, 1759. Volumes 45-46
Sabatier de Castres, Antoine et Prefort (l’abbe Bassin de Prefort)”Dictionnaire des origines, decouvertes, inventions et …” Volume 1.
Schiffer, M. B., Hollenback, K. L., & Bell, C. L. (2003). Draw the lightning down: Benjamin franklin and electrical technology in the age of enlightenment. Berkeley: University of California Press.
“Mémoires pour l’histoire des sciences et des beaux-arts”, Volume 236; Volume 1759
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The ‘Sonothèque’. L. Lavallée, France.1936
L. Lavalée’s ‘Sonothèque’ or “sound library” was a “coded performance electronic instrument using photo-electric translation of engraved grooves”. The instrument was capable of reading music and sounds encoded graphically with conductive ink sensed by a set of electrically charged brushes
Thomas LaMar Rhea. ‘The Evolution of Electronic Musical Instruments in the United States’ 1972
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The ‘Clavioline’ M. Constant Martin, France, 1947
The Selmer Concert Clavioline
The Clavioline was designed to be a light portable electronic keyboard aimed at pop musicians of the time and became one of the most popular electronic instruments during the fifties. The Clavioline was a monophonic, portable, battery powered keyboard instrument. The first version of the instrument appeared in 1947 and was originally designed by M. Constant. Martin in 1947 at his factory in Versailles, France. The Clavioline consisted of two units: the keyboard with the controllable sound unit and a carrying case box fitted with an with amplifier and speaker. By using an octave transposer switch the single oscillator could be set within a range of five octaves (six in the Bode version). The keyboard unit had 18 switches (22 in the Selmer version) for controlling timbre ( via a high pass filter and a low pass filter ), octave range and attack plus two controls for vibrato speed and intensity. The overall volume was controlled by a knee lever. Martin produced a duophonic model of the Clavioline in 1949 shaped like a small grand piano and featuring a 2 note polyphonic system, the duophonic model never went into production.
The Selmer Clavioline with stand, amplifier and loudspeaker cabinet
The Clavioline made brass and string sounds which were considered very natural at the time and was widely used throughout 1950’s and 60’s by pop musicians such as the Beatles, Joe Meek’s ‘the Tornadoes’ (on’Telstar’)and by experimental the jazz musician Sun Ra.
The Clavioline was licensed to various to various global manufacturers such as Selmer (UK) and Gibson (USA). An expanded concert version was produced in 1953 by René Seybold and Harald Bode, marketed by the Jörgensen Electronic Company of Düsseldorf, Germany. In the 1940’s Claviolines were also built into large dance-hall organs by the Belgian company Decap and Mortimer/Van Der Bosch.
The selmer Clavioline
M.C.Martin: ‘L’apport de l’électronique à l’expression musicale’, Science et vie, ixxviii(1950),161
‘The Electronic Musical Instrument Manual’ A.Douglas. (London/5/1968)152
http://www.chestnutbankproductions.co.uk/claviolines.html
http://antiqueradio.org/GibsonClaviolineKeyboardInstrument.htm
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acgcapital January 10, 2020 Corporate Growth
Two weeks into the new year and already there is a vibrant flow of acquisitions and business deals happening around the National Capital region, showing the vitality of sectors that we at Corporate Growth, Capital Style think will be exciting industries to watch this year.
In this edition of the National Capital Dealbook, we take a moment to highlight some of the acquisitions and headlines that illustrate the varied opportunities that are going to be available to corporate growth professionals this year.
BDO Expands National Capital Region Expertise
Chapter sponsor BDO continues to integrate itself into the National Capital region with the acquisition of Biegel Waller, which specializes in wealth management for high-net worth individuals and tax consulting. The deal expands its existing presence here and shows that our region remains an area of focus in its growth strategy.
Nor is BDO the only accounting firm that is making their expanding into our metropolitan region like this. Sikich, a Chicago-based accounting and consulting firm, bought Halt, Buzas & Powell (HBP), one of Washingtonian’s Top 25 CPA firms, in late December. With HBP’s specialty in the nonprofit and government contracting spheres, the acquisition gives Sikich access to a key niche in the National Capital market.
KLDiscovery Adds to its Portfolio of Electronic Discovery Solutions
As a reminder of how vibrant the Washington technology sector is, McLean-based firm KLDiscovery (KLD), which has already completed at least three other acquisitions in the past year, just announced Wednesday that it had acquired a fourth firm, Superior Document Services, Inc. (SDS).
KLD’s and SDS’s service offerings, both of which involve applying data processing solutions to electronic discovery applications, expands on what last month’s Washington Technology Showcase showed us about the depth and variety of technology applications that are being developed in the National Capital area.
Perspecta Helps Revamp VA Program
Continuing to show its technical ability in the government contracting sphere, and again showcasing the work that DC-area technologists are doing, Perspecta and its partner PRA Health Sciences launched a modernized tool set that will support the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Million Veteran Program, a national, voluntary research program that aims to study how genes affect the individual’s health by building a record of blood samples and other health information from over a million veterans, which would make it one of the world’s largest medical databases.
Parsons Corporation Wins Position on Air Force Contract
Parsons Corporation announced that it had won a role on a $427 million indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory. A recompete contract, the award continues a 20 year relationship between the Air Force and Parsons on the project.
Just as importantly, the announcement adds concrete affirmation of the company’s growth and acquisition plan, which is geared towards providing the military with what it needs to fight next-generation, multi-domain warfare, and that CEO Charles Harrington discussed at last October’s monthly chapter meeting.
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A study of the small galaxies swallowed by our nearest large galactic neighbor has revealed something of how galaxies grow. In the process, it has hinted at something that, if true, would change the way we see the universe in profound ways.
All galaxies, including our own Milky Way, grow by consuming smaller ones. Inevitably, the nearest large galaxy to our own, M31, also known as Andromeda, has eaten many small neighbors. Our first insight into the nature of these events is useful because Andromeda and the Milky Way are on course to meet. That’s 4 billion years away, but it’s good to be prepared.
Dr Dougal Mackey of the Australian National University and Professor Geraint Lewis from the University of Sydney analyzed streams of stars within Andromeda’s halo and identified some as the remnants of galaxies, even gaining approximations of when this occurred. Rather than a steady process, they identified two bursts separated by billions of years. The galaxies in the two rounds arrived at right angles to each other and maintained that motion even after being pulled apart.
“We are cosmic archaeologists, except we are digging through the fossils of long-dead galaxies rather than human history,” Lewis said in a statement.
Mackey told IFLScience the consumed galaxies contained globular clusters, groups of stars bound so closely together that only the most powerful gravitational disruptions pull them apart.
Individual stars in Andromeda’s halo are usually too distant and faint for us to track their movements, but the clusters are a different matter, allowing the pair to identify in Nature the streams whose shared movements pin them as past galaxies.
“Once you get below a certain mass, galaxies don’t contain globular clusters,” Mackey said, so the smallest are currently untraceable. However, he added that the contribution of these to Andromeda’s growth was minor.
One day, Andromeda will swallow the Milky Way as well. However, Mackey acknowledged to IFLScience this will be a very different process. The galaxies Andromeda has eaten up until now have masses a tenth of its total at most, usually much smaller. The Milky Way, on the other hand, is at least half Andromeda’s size.
The merger of the two will destroy the spiral structure of each, creating an egg-like elliptical galaxy. By then, the Sun will have burned the Earth beyond recognition, but if humanity somehow survives elsewhere, consequences will be limited. Our view of the night sky will change utterly, but the space between the stars is so great that even when stars from Andromeda become mixed among our nearest neighbors, it is unlikely any will pass close enough to disrupt orbits within the inner solar system.
One feature of the pair’s work is still tentative but could turn out to be awe-inspiring. Around a decade ago astronomers noticed a curious pattern in the dwarf galaxies that surround Andromeda. Around half these galaxies orbit in a specific plane, something astronomers had not expected and struggled to explain. We now know this pattern is unstable, and can neither have been in place for a long time (astronomically speaking) or have lasted that far into the future.
This study found that some of the swallowed galaxy remnants conform to the same pattern, but surprisingly, it is the much older set that do this, rather than the more recent arrival. This suggests these long-lost galaxies also once lay in a similar plane, indicating an abiding underlying structure to the local area of the universe. The most likely explanation is the universe is made up of a web of dark matter filaments and Andromeda lies on one of these, with gravity so powerful it aligns the movement of clusters of small galaxies.
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Profits jumped at Walt Disney as its cable networks turned in a strong performance.
Second-quarter net income rose 32 per cent to $1.5 billion, from $1.1 billion a year ago. Revenues rose 10 per cent to $1.06 billion.
Disney’s stock was already at record levels and the earnings report exceeded analysts’ expectations.
“Our results reflect our successful strategy, the strength of our brands and the value of our high-quality creative content, all of which continue to drive long-term growth and shareholder value,” CEO Bob Iger said.
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Florida woman accused of pulling knife on man who confronted her about her loud fart
BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. -- A Florida woman was arrested after she allegedly pulled a knife on a man who was offended by her loud farting.
Shanetta Wilson, 37, was arrested for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
Authorities said she pulled a knife on a man who was offended when she allegedly passed gas while waiting in line.
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The Broward County Sheriff's Office said Wilson and the man got into a verbal dispute over her "farting loudly" while in line at a store.
That is when she reportedly pulled out a knife and threatened the man before leaving the location.
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Tag Archives: Blumes
She gives love a bad name.
Correction, make that the worst name.
Much like Carmen Sandiego, I’ve snuck around the world, from Kiev to Carolina, and during that traveled time, I’ve taken down a tally of near billions, and the collected results are as followed:
As a general human population, we all can’t stand Courtney Love.
“Do it Rockapella!”
And honestly, why should we? She’s astonishingly crass, inordinately offensive, and is the proud owner of an un-angelic singing voice that one can only be likened to that of Jonestown cats committing mass suicide.
Simply put, Courtney Love is 10,000 spoons, and all we need is a knife.
“There’s two things I hate: Incorrect silverware… and Dave Coulier.”– Alanis Morissette
But by George, you gotta give that hay-haired nutjob credit where credit is due.
Back when current flavor-of-the-month downward-spiralers, Lindsay Lohan, Amanda Bynes, and Justin Bieber were dooking their silk diapers, Love was already America’s celebrity Titanic. She’s literally the closest thing to the human equivalent of Will Smith’s After Earth we’ve seen with our own two eyes.
But take a second to look at her lengthy track record of awful consistency— we’re talking over twenty years of being a flat-out mess of a person… that’s a train-wreck spanning some part of three decades folks.
Alright, alright, I know what you’re thinking- that’s not really impressive per say, it’s more flat-out jerky. Of course, I can’t blame you for thinking like that.
Feast your eyes on her infamous rap sheet… in Night Court.
“GUILTY on all counts of bad jokes!”
So, Why All the Courtney Love Hate?
She spent the majority of the 90’s with more drugs in her system than Tom Hanks in the last half hour of Philadelphia, her estranged daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, won’t give her the time of day, she’s started wars with former members of Nirvana, mounted a failed comeback of her band, Hole (without her band, Hole), and for the cherry on top of this crap sundae, she may or may not have sent a shotgun shell through her late husband’s blonde noggin…
…or so Pat Smear would have you believe.
Quit looking so coy, Smear.
She’s kicked-up juvenile feuds with Madonna, Marilyn Manson, Billy Corgan, Gwen Stefani, and Kelly Osbourne, abruptly cancelled tours with the breakneck consistency in which Michael Moore cancels diets, and rubbed most likely half the earth’s population the wrong way with her historically sour attitude. Seriously, Gwen Stefani? The poor girl spends half of her free time walking into spiderwebs, let her be.
But if the miserable green Grinch with his curly elf toes in the fluffy Whoville mountain snow, and his (likely unhealthy) sudden heart growth has taught us anything, it’s this: time heals all wounds. Maturation is only natural– Father Time helps us tenderize, and maybe once notoriously-nasty Courtney has sewed up her ripped stockings, 86’ed those rusty heroin syringes in the dumpster, hung up her vomit-covered babydoll dresses, and isn’t that same rageful alterna she-beast anymore.
Courtney puts new meaning to the term, “Live Through This”.
It’s easy to just assume abrasive Courtney kicks cute puppies, steals loose string beans at the supermarket, and voted for Taylor Hicks to win American Idol… She’s just like that, right?
You wish. Time to open your heart and bust out your Kleenex, because perhaps a 21st Century Courtney Love doesn’t hate, this Love, well, loves.
…and what does Courtney Love, love?
Courtney Love love love…
Courtney Love love Luvs…
Courtney Love love brotherly love…
Courtney Love love Love is…
Courtney Love love Lovie Smith
Courtney Love love “Love Will Keep Us Together”…
Courtney Love love “Love Will Tear Us Apart”…
Courtney Love love Love Boat…
Courtney Love love love bugs…
Courtney Love love crack…
Courtney Love love Love and Basketball…
Courtney Love love Love Guru…
Courtney Love love “Love Shack”…
…so is this really a new and improved Courtney?
We’re with you Dave.
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Top o’ the morning afternoon to ya!
When your last name could pass for an extra on The Sopranos, this day really tears you up.
Surely, I’ll be the first to admit- green bagels can’t be beat, my Flogging Molly vinyl is spinning like Rob Ford after a weekend blowout, and I’ve already tripled my daily salt intake with corned beef, but let’s call a spade a spade- with a last name that rhymes with spaghetti, “Irish” I could say I’m authentic, but I’m just an ‘o-poster today.
So, instead of hearing jolly tidings of St. Patrick’s joy from me, I’m gonna pass the baton to a man who really knows his way around a pint of Guinness. Let’s get goofy green with Mr. Ireland himself… Shaquille O’ Neal.
If you wear a Shaq “Big Shamrock” t-shirt in a bar on March 17, they actually charge you MORE for your beer.
To be sure Nick Nolte doesn’t fall off the wagon into a frosty barrel of green beer, O’ Neal will be spending the weekend with him. Hours will be spent smacking Nolte with Shaq’s elephant-paw when he gets out of line.
In 1996, Shaq took his movie career even further, playing a magic Irish genie in a bottle. He’ll grant ye three wishes, but unfortunately, “wishing I hadn’t sat down to watch Kazaam” isn’t one of them.
Before his time playing American basketball, Mr. O’ Neal spent many a year creating beloved tunes of Beautiful Days and Bloody Sundays with his Irish rock brethren, U2.
Here’s Shaq’s time spent with his leprechaun girlfriend.
Fun Fact: If you were to fill Shaq’s massive size-23 shoe with Lucky Charms, it’d require a whole cow and a half to provide the milk.
Say it with me… Shamrock Shaq.
Q: What happens when Shaq scores a lot of baskets?
A: The score will be DUBLIN!!!
You hear that new Cranberries album? PFFFFTTTTT
With no basketball to dribble around, no dunks to dunk and no free throws to miss, it’s time to hit the silver screen again. Pop your corn and get in line now, Leprechaun 7- coming soon.
Pretty soon…
So Danny Boy Shaquille- a most happy and merry St. Patty’s to you my Celtic friend. And to all the readers out there in internet land- Irish and non-Irish alike, may your bagpipes be filled with hot air, may all your Murphys be dropkicked, and may your meats be boiled to a fine bland gray.
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Seriously. Well, not the whole “like-like” school of brilliance dolled out by the Winnie Cooper-ed mind of Kevin Arnold, but you all who read, follow, and support my blog really are the bee’s knees. I sincerely appreciate and thank anyone who’s taken time to read, enjoy, or roll their eyes at the cornball absurdity that fills this page on a relatively frequent basis.
Ok, enough of this gooey shhhh….ow of emotion.* Let’s get down to brass tacks here.
Before we continue, a favor first— If you reside in the Northeast or Mid-Atlantic portion of the United States, please do me a solid- take a second and go to your window and look outside. I’ll wait.
Back yet?
Ok, I’ll wait more.
How about now?
See the Everest-high mountains of white stuff? There’s more snow out there than in a used CD bin.
Screw you, Blumes.
Yeah, this brutal winter is crawling by with all the lightning-quick speed of Artie Lange’s metabolism, but believe you me fellow snowed-in’s, as hard as it seems to believe, our ‘ol pal spring will be here soon, and before you know it, you’ll be itchy, watery-eyed, and sneezing your head off like the Queen of Hearts was demanding it.
But hey, even in two feet of snow, life would be nothing without small victories- my birthday is only 10 days away, pitchers and catchers are about to embark to Florida and Arizona for Spring Training, The Walking Dead has returned in all of its brain-munching glory, the Winter Olympics are running full steam, and the new Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition should show up on my doorstep anyday to make me feel pretty awkward in front of my mailman. February is truly the month that keeps on giving.
“This cover needs more Kate Upton”- Kate Upton, Blumes
Of course mid-February ain’t all AMC-zombies and Abe Lincoln’s birthday cake. Even if you’re still frostbitten from endless shoveling, you’ll still be sleeping on the couch if you forget the holiday that’s redder than Russia, circa 1960…
Conversation hearts? Fat baby Cupid? All-day Julia Roberts movie marathons? A remarkably thinner wallet? Make no mistake, make-no-mistakers, Saint Valentine is here with a bright red vengeance and he’s ready to kick yo keister up and down the snowy block.
For some of you, it’s a chance to take out a much-needed second mortgage for a dozen stupid red roses, boxes of mystery heart chocolates, and giant teddy bears the size of Delaware. For others, it’s an opportunity to throw Adele on repeat, curse the Hallmark holiday for shoving your blatant singledom in your face, and chow down on your emergency stash of Ring Dings while you feverishly refresh your OkCupid profile for new messages till the clock eventually hits midnight and February 15th comes to save the day.
“This guy’s coming with me in the carpool lane! I’ll just tell them it’s Robin Williams!”
That’s where I come in. Whether you’re single, taken, married, or a cyborg, I’m here to boomerang back all that amazing support and positivity to you on this Valentine’s Day, Twenty-fourteen. If it’s Friday and you’re in love, or maybe not so much, I want this day of hearts and crap to be your happiest and heartiest yet.
So, for a few short minutes, put that adorably plump Adele on hold, slam the flap on that box of uneaten Ring Dings, and pause those insufferable “Every Kiss Begins with Kay” commercials… Here’s my personal valentines to you rad readers- feel free to print and snip.
Happy V-Day.
Love, Blumes
(* If anyone recognizes this quote, I’ll come to your house, hug you, and make you a B+ dinner.)
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The Seven Deadly Sins of Bill Cosby
(2018 edit: This was a piece written years ago, at a time predating the terrible accusations against Bill Cosby. At that point, he was still strictly known as the ugly-sweater-wearing TV patriarch we all loved in the 80’s, and not a man found guilty of the monstrous claims against him.
I guess the most important question here is… can I tell the future?? I think it’s apparent the answer is: Yes.)
By Andrew Blumetti Bill Cosby
This blog has gone off a cliff.
“Well, here, I had the taaaaasty ham sammich, and the mustard was just bippity baaa gooood.
Ya see… the chippppps, they’re the ruffled, kinda like Theo’s hair, DAAAA, and the shirt with the leiiiii… well it’s like Hawaii! with the belly dancers and the volcanoes and it’s too warm for ma’ sweaters! DAAAAA”
“Ahh, look at sleeeepy Billllll.
Well, what happened here, I had a long night the day before this. Little Rudy, ya remember HER? Well, her little mustache keep collecting the FLOP SWEAT! Baaaaa! The bright lights, ya seeeee, they kept glistening off her little whiskerrrrs, and zippity zop bop, we had to keep filming My Bill Show late into the nighttttt! Daaa…”
“My showwww. Bippity zip, man ya know I was the firrrst black guy on the TV! I did the Picture PAAAAAAges, with the Mortimer Ichabod Marker. He was squeakier than my old shoes! Bip bobbity…
Ya know what time ma’ watch says? It says it’s the bibbity booop blorp! BAAAAAA.”
“That stupid Urkel kid! – that showwww was the stupid!
He just sat there with the snortin’ and bortin’ and the hip bob bibbity boo zopp, with the pants up to his stupid kid nipples. I can’t believe they stayed on the air, and ‘ol Bill got thrown in the garbage like a used Kodak Film box. DAAAAA.”
“I went to TEMPLEEEEE. The UNIVERSITTTY! And nobody beats the Owls. Except for the Penn, who’s sweatshirt I got on. …and these fine young trackleetes from The University of the Tennessee.
Boppidy bop! I wore my best sweatpants to impress ‘em and hopefully get them the pregnant! They had the orange shorts and I thought I was at the Hooooooters! I said, ‘I’ll have some Buffalo wings with the hot sauceee!’ DAAAAA…”
(Blumes note: Bill later settled undisclosed lawsuits with both of these unfortunate girls who claimed Mr. Cosby encroached upon them, asking “You want Dr. Huxtable to help you deliver the baby?!?”)
“GHOST DADDDD!!! DAAAAA!!! Biggest hit of the summer of 1990!! And the second most successful film from that calendar year with the word ‘Ghost’ in the title!
I got lots of the dead prezzies to play a dead guy. Ghost Bill was zoobity zip zip! I came back with my TOP HAT and the zipppty and the zorp and the kids wanted to play with ‘ma briefcase! Frizzle frazzle!”
“Well, the chubby kid, ya see, he ate all my puddin’ POPPPPPS.
The little porker, well he got what was comin’ to him. He’s eatin’ ma’ foooood instead listening to the jazz music! I dropped him on the floor, and he fell on Lisa Bonet! DAAAA Zippity zip zorp bop! Ya know what? That little meatball never touched ma’ food again! He knew Bill had the boppity bip zaaa!!!”
Editor’s Note: Bill Cosby said every single word on here. Truth.
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My Favorite Super Bowls (That May or May Not Have Happened)
Well, this certainly didn’t happen.
Talk about getting the most bang for your buck. They really do pack a lot into a little month, don’t they?
In a mere twenty eight days, we’re graced with a bountiful bevy of winter celebration– Valentine’s Day, Groundhog Day, President’s Day, Mardi Gras, Black History Month, Spring Training, and the most important of ‘em all (after Spring Training of course), there’s the great American holiday of Super Bowl Sunday, the biggest party since New Year’s Eve, only one month ago.
While granted, February’s short run is not as eventful as the unseen four weeks during 28 Days Later, but it makes me happy to celebrate my birthday during what would normally end up being a freezing, snowy, boring month with a girly-colored wuss birthstone.
Living in the greater New York area, especially within earshot of Giants Stadium (or MetLife Snoopy Stadium, or whatever it’s called now), the excitement, traffic, and overall buzz has been ramped up to a Spinal Tap-worthy 11 as the Denver Broncos go mono-a-mono with the Seattle Seahawks for all the gusto and glamor of gridiron glory. It’s truly rocky vs. rainy in the Legal Marijuana Bowl.
Blumes note: This offer still stands! Now half price!
But frankly, it’s Friday, January 31st, this is all old hat by now.
At this point, you’ve been endlessly bombarded with Super Bowl ads, magazine covers, news reports, cocky fans, and nonstop party planning for weeks now. When Monday morning comes, and you’re more chili than man, you’ll undoubtedly know the Super Bowl had come and left its mark.
But that’s not who this article is for.
Maybe you’re not a fan of hawks or horses, perhaps Richard Sherman’s post-game interview rubbed you the wrong way, or heck, or maybe you’re one of those people seriously considering a 7th Heaven marathon instead of football this weekend.
Ladies and Gentlemen: Your special teams for the Oakland Raiders!
Of course that doesn’t mean you won’t find yourself enjoying the festivities of Super Bowl Sunday. Dr. Oz-unfriendly food, offensively expensive commercials (that always feature a baby doing something un-babyish), the sickeningly adorable Puppy Bowl, and trying to get your greased-up fingers to press the remote buttons to change the channel as Bruno Mars performs at halftime- this Sunday is a bombastic event that will please folks of all tastes. …as evident by this walk down memory lane of some truly classic and heavily unorthodox Super Bowl games of yore.
1. SUPER BOWL XXXII: BATMAN VS. STORMTROOPERS
Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na SAFETY!
As John Madden once called it in a most clever anagram, “Capes vs. Space”, this battle royale pitted The Dark Knight vs. the Imperial Army for 60 minutes of a nerdtastic pigskin extravaganza. After a first quarter that was heavy on the Big D, Commissioner Gordon’s 45 yard rush into the endzone to close out the first half put Team Gotham up on top.
No guts, no glory, as the ‘Troopers marched their way back in the 4th quarter.
The second half was a superhero explosion of history-making offense as holy touchdowns Batman!— the Caped Crusader aired it out to the Boy Wonder (who took a time out from cheerleading) in the Gotham endzone.
But, when the going gets tough, the tough get going, as the Stormtroopers, with their armored backs against the wall, bounced back to tie the game as the 2-minute warning approached. Coach Vader flipped a crap when an ill-timed interception by Alfred the Butler spelled death for the Star Wars crew with the Bats taking home the trophy to Gotham City with a score of 28-21.
Go Team! Arwwwwwaaaaaaaarrrrrrahahahahahhaahhhhaa!!!!
2. SUPER BOWL XI: KISS BOWL (AKA THE TOILET BOWL)
“I wanna hike the ball all night!”
And you thought the Jaguars were bad…
Nothing screams out “gridiron glory” like mime makeup and gaudy platform shoes on men, but that’s why the KISS bowl was so unique.
Walking embarrassment Gene Simmons bit his long cow tongue as he slipped on his own fake blood on no less than three occasions, turning the usually triumphant game into a fumble-filled lowlight reel. Pain in the ace, Mr. Frehley, shanked four field goal attempts, and starchild, Paul Stanley? Well, he might as well have been the MVP… for the other team.
Chest hair and touchdowns! Not just for Joe Namath anymore!
As far as scoring went, it was Detroit Block City. The spandexed makeuped-ones never did touch the endzone, as KISS went down in defeat to good taste 49-0.
The best worst part was that they weren’t even asked to play the halftime show. That honor went to The Doobie Brothers.
The great part about being KISS, is you can sell any crap you want at the souvenir stands…
The epilogue to this heavy metal tale of the 100 yards: KISS never did get back to the Super Bowl, but on the plus side, KISS never did get back to the Super Bowl.
That jersey has the actual number of KISS fans left on Earth.
3. SUPER BOWL XLV: ZOMBIE BOWL
Let’s have a hand for the hometeam!
It may have been only three years ago, but who could forget when the undead took down scalpers stadium-wide and invaded the turf during the timeless showdown of the Green Bay Packers and Pittsburgh Steelers?
Turning Aaron Rodgers into an Aaron Rodgers kabob? Transforming Clay Matthews into an undead Thor? Sending “Big Ben” Roethlisberger to the sideline to finally get some brains?
It all happened. I guess.
Indigestion from overindulging in extra hot Buffalo wings rendered Daryl and Michonne practically useless that Sunday.
While the gameplay may have been painfully lumbering and a bit lethargic at times, it was no worse than any given Cleveland Browns game on a random Sunday.
The “Running Dead” tried to bite Tim Tebow on the sidelines, but he was immune to it.
But if Broadway has taught us anything, (and I guess it has…) — the show must go on, flesh eaters or not.
Time will tell us that the zombies vs. zombies Super Bowl was a tad gory, maybe too confusing at times, and it may have taken five days to finish, but in the end, it was much less traumatizing than the Black Eyed Peas halftime show.
4th Down of the Dead!
One would be safe to assume the zombie apocalypse and certain doomsday would put a damper on the game’s festivities, with all the undead cannibalism and spilled guts, but the TV ratings reached an all-time high. The NFC z-team ended up hoisting the Vince Lombardi Trophy, rotting limbs and all, bringing it back to frigid Green Bay where decaying slows down like Kirstie Alley’s metabolism.
THE ZOMBIES HAVE BECOME HIDEOUS!
The trophy had to be immediately sent out to be cleaned and shined due to the high volume of blood on it …on a weekly basis.
(On a positive note, in the zombie onslaught, Steelers safety Troy Polamalu was attacked, but escaped by a “hair”.)
Parking was tighter than George Costanza’s wallet…
…but the tailgating was awesome!
4. SUPER BOWL XLII: THE RETURN OF BUD BOWL
Eli vs. Tom- buds for life!
For those too young to remember, the Bud Bowl was an early 90’s stop-motion beer bottle football tour de force that found its home during commercial breaks, squeezed in between multi-million dollar ads for Crystal Pepsi and The Bodyguard soundtrack. It was a kick-glass all-out brawl between Budweiser and Bud Light. Even as a long retired campaign, for me, that fateful Sunday in 2008 always be the year that the suds saved football.
Hut, hut… HOPS!!!
Phoenix, AZ– When a thunderous monsoon that would’ve knocked over human brick wall, Howie Long, hit, it kept planes grounded and prevented both the Pats and G-Men from making their way into warm, sunny Arizona, the NFL pooped their britches, panicked and pooped them some more.
“But I wanna go on the PLAAAANNEE!!”
Sadly, cancelling the big game seemed like the only choice left, seeing as how there was no way to get the unfortunate stranded teams into the balmy city in time. Luckily, the answer was only a bar away…
Long dead since 1997, a time when candy-lovin’ alternarock trio Marcy Playground was brimming with untapped potential, the beer bottles were called off the bench as Bud Bowl sat in as the substitute teacher for the real teams. It was truly like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, but for drunks.
“My nose is red cause I’m half in the bag!”
The bottles tossed on the teams’ uniforms, and no one in the massive Arizona crowd was the wiser. Nearly sixty minutes of play time and we all know what happened next- Ale-I Manning to Beer David Tyree (what a good pick in the draft), the miraculous helmet catch, and a near-perfect season for New England ended in an 18-1 conclusion, as the bottled Big Blue were swimming in confetti in the Big Apple soon after.
No feelings were bottled-up in this game…
Understandably, in Massachusetts, spirits were wicked low, and where did they go? To a bar of course. NORM!
“Sammy, I’ve told you for years that beer saves all.”
5. SUPER BOWL XLIV: GAME MVP- ABE LINCOLN
Four Scores! … and seven years ago.
For a few brief hours, the “L” in NFL stood for Lincoln.
We all know Abraham Lincoln was a president, emancipator, and a vampire hunter, but do you remember Abe’s big-time appearance in the Super Bowl?
The bearded one was called in to play when Peyton Manning had to leave the game early to film an impromptu Kraft Macaroni and Cheese commercial. He ran out, flying past the cheerleaders, zooming by the mascots, with the glisten of anger in his eyes, sweat on his brow, and a chin beard so mighty, the heavens above stopped to gaze in majestic awe.
The stovetop hat was thrown down, the shoulder pads were thrust on, and that pigskin flew like you wouldn’t believe. It was going perfect, until… clumsy ox Drew Brees went down with a pulled hamstring on the slippery turf. And being the helpful chap he is, ‘ol Honest Abe took the reigns and stood in for him as well, changing uniforms as the Colts defensive squad ran out.
He abolished the slaves, and demolished the Colts…
As the clock struck zero, the Big Easy soon was celebrating with the sounds of jazz and firey-cajun food up the wazoo as Abe Lincoln received an early birthday gift- a declaration as Super Bowl MVP.
It was rumored plentiful posterior-ed socialite Kim Kardashian emancipated her relationship with then-Saints running back, Reggie Bush, that night to lock lips with the sixteenth prez.
And how did A-Linc become so good at football?
Just how you get to Carnegie Hall… Practice.
Note: Sadly, Lincoln’s pro-career was cut short the following pre-season when Ravens linebacker John Wilkes Booth broke Lincoln’s legs.
Enjoy your Super Bowl weekend! As usual, please Fed-Ex any uneaten chicken wings to me.
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Want to Spend Super Bowl Week in New Jersey with Me?? Wish Granted.
“Wait, what? I’m performing at the Super Bowl!?”
With less than seven days until the biggest of big games approaches, are you still scraping for last-minute plans like Urkel on prom night? Or maybe you’re a diehard who bleeds Bronco blue and orange? Or you drink so much Starbucks, your jittery veins just scream out to support Seattle? Perhaps the marquee clash of Peyton Manning vs. Russell Wilson means 100% diddly squat to you, and you’re just are looking to punish your belt by eating your weight in Buffalo wings? OR… just maybe you’re looking to spend Super Bowl week 2014 at the epicenter of the pigskinned party action?
Well, no matter what your interest, wonder no longer friends. Pack your wooliest mittens and your 90’s Starter jackets, you’re coming to Jersey!
cushion-y!
Unless you’re living under a rock (which granted, may be a very nice rock), for the first time in the nearly fifty years of the big game, we are about to experience Super Bowl XLVIII, the first such game played in a cold weather location, in an open stadium.
That stadium is called MetLife Stadium.
That stadium, MetLife Stadium, is located in East Rutherford, NJ.
That stadium, MetLife Stadium, located in East Rutherford, NJ, just so happens to be less than ten minutes from my house.
Don’t let the gigantic Pepsi tent fool you, that’s the greatest 1.5 billion dollar spaceship-y looking stadium money can buy!
A. The entire surrounding area has been plastered with these banners for the past month. Literally, everywhere. I think there’s one on my back.
B. Traffic is more trafficy, even by this area’s high traffic standards. Also, traffic.
C. Everyone and their grandmother is making a sweet, sweet buck off this game. From parties, endless merchandise, themed events, and even renting out spare rooms to out-of-state visitors.
So, of course, when in Rome…
Attention football lovers, haters, and the indifferent! I happily present to you, an offer, make that the offer of a lifetime! (Well, technically, I guess that’s kinda true) It’s time for…
BLUMES’S SUPER BOWL WEEK EXTRA-EXTRAVAGANZA!
Yes, you’ve Q-Tipped your ears thoroughly and heard that last statement correctly. Leave your most-likely warmer climate, trek on over to the East Coast, kick back and stay for a spell in the Garden State, and you can spend this upcoming week with me in high style!
Included in this relatively glorious package is:
A one-of-a-kind tour of the local area, including, but not limited to: the icy parking lot of MetLife Stadium, the numerous ceiling-high supermarket towers of Pepsi cases, and insider hotspots, guided by yours truly. Included will be such insightful and highly riveting commentary as:
– “Hey, that’s the cemetery where Joey Ramone is buried!”
– “Oh look, that’s the supermarket parking lot where my car battery died last month!”
– “See that place? Their pizza is sooooooo good! Well, only if you go on Wednesday nights.”
– “Can you wait in the car for a second? I gotta go to the ATM.”
– “That Chinese place used to be a Sam Goody! That’s where I bought Significant Other by Limp Bizkit!”
Hey! Leave me out of this!
Use of my brand new super-soft The Walking Dead throw blanket:
Practice your best “CARL!!!!” impression while snuggled under this bad boy.
The remainder of however many of these Reese’s Pieces are left that I bought the other night: (Note: it will probably be none)
They’re not just for E.T. anymore!
I will cook you any meal of your choosing from this book:
Advice: I’m in the mood for burgers, pick them!
Did someone say LOST marathon?!?
“We have to go back!”
Don’t ask me how, but I managed to get my hands on the best songs of R.E.M.! And I don’t even know anyone! Talk about a score! Prepare to be Michael Stipe-d out…
Together, we will find out what the frequency is.
Massive! Snowball! Fight!
If you aim correctly, you can hit Snooki in the head!
So, let’s get down to business…
How much would you pay for this truly unique, and only mildly crappy experience in the chilly Tri-State tundra for this history-making Super Bowl? $2,000?? $3,000?? Did you say $4,000?!?
Well, if you’re willing to pay that much, how’s $5,000 sound? I could really use the cash.
I gladly accept cash, check, money orders, or bags of loose change if need be. Don’t let this opportunity pass you by. Together, we can put the super in Super Bowl! Or the owl… either way.
“What a deal! …a bad deal!”
(…and act fast! I just ate four more of those Reese’s Pieces.)
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This blog aims to promote a revival of classical and traditional architecture in Providence, R.I., and around the world by suggesting that lovable buildings needn’t be old but can be made new today, if only modern architecture can be somehow convinced, or shamed, or forced, into permitting an even playing field for major commissions in architecture.
David has written a book, Lost Providence, published in 2017 by History Press. He is writing another book. He also operates a writing and editing consultancy. For details on how to hire his services, please email him at dbrussat@gmail.com or phone him at 401.351.0457.
“Your work is so wonderful — you now enter my mind and write what I would have written.”
— Nikos Salingaros, mathematician at the University of Texas, architectural theorist, and author of many books
David was born in Chicago and grew up in Washington, D.C. After earning a degree in journalism from American University, he entered the world of newspapers. Two short stints writing editorials for two small papers in the South led to the editorial board of The Providence Journal, where he wrote edits, laid out pages and put out a weekly column about architecture from 1990 to 2014. In 2002, he won an Arthur Ross award for his writing from the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art, where he has served on the board of its New England chapter since 2007.
David started this blog in 2009 as a feature of the Providence Journal. It has since gone independent under the WordPress imprint.
David lives in Providence with his wife, Victoria, their son Billy and cat Gato. If you would like to read his blog posts, please click “Follow” button in right margin of blog, or email him at dbrussat@gmail.com.
27 Responses to David Brussat and his blog
Dear David –
Couldn’t help but think of you when in Nassau, Bahamas, last week. Adjacent to stately old British Colonial Hotel located on the waterfront catty corner to Prince George’s Wharf, rises The Pointe, a gruesome concatenation of glass and steel cages being built by the chicom government. Ostensibly a hotel, at which would one rather stay?
Always enjoyed your columns when in Rhode Island prior to moving ‘down there, Flahda’. Delighted to find your blog. Sickening, what was done to Nicholson Mansion gate house. Seen this too many times over the decades. Concur totally with you on modern architecture.
Uncle Phil, Philip Franklin Eddy, was born in Providence in 1904 and left us too soon, late 60s. Too many Benson & Hedges. He enjoyed two periods. As the young architect about Providence, 1920s and ’30s and then his post-war heyday. Designed many homes in Freeman Parkway historic district.
He’d have plenty to say about modern so-called architecture, as he did back when I so fondly enjoyed visiting with him.
Count me in as a regular, found your blog googling around after reading Will Morgan’s epistle in today’s GoLocal. ProJo foolishly left you? Wear it as a badge of honor. A pleasure to read your thoughts. All the best.
Estimado David,
In today’s Projo Cathy Z. applies the proverbial lipstick to the Klutz Haus, ‘scuse me, Klotz House by Charles Moore. My take: “What a fiasco. There’s no architecture here, just carpenters run amuck.”
I’ve actually lived at The Sea Ranch and it all fits…there…but Moore’s out of his element here.
Wrapping a Brutalist abomination in a skin of shake’n’shingle does not a modernist wonder make.
Color me a Phyllis Stein, but It’s just really, truly painful on the eyes…all that shingle and glass…wasted.
This from someone who’s actually made the hadj to Wright’s Zimmerman house in N.H.
westley says:
In some books, it says, modern architecture or modernist architecture is a term applied to a group of styles of architecture which emerged in the first half of the 20th century and became dominant after World War II. It was based upon new technologies of construction, particularly the use of glass, steel and reinforced concrete; and upon a rejection of the traditional neoclassical architecture and Beaux-Arts styles that were popular in the 19th century. Modern architecture continued to be the dominant architectural style for institutional and corporate buildings into 1980s, when it was challenged by Postmodernism, and then by “Neo-modernism” and other schools which gradually supplanted it. Congrats to your blog sir! 🙂
Thank you, Westley. You are certainly correct in your analysis. In my own discourse arising from these facts, and to the dismay of many modernists, I think it is useful, and valid, to conflate into one phenomenon the original modernism (the International Style) and the later modernisms that arose after the postmodernist challenge to the International Style. The main characteristic of this discourse is not their various differences but the one primary thing they all had in common – the rejection of classicism and its derivatives. All of the factors that went into that rejection may have been valid concerns of society, but neither individually nor collectively are they valid reasons for rejecting an architecture that had evolved for hundreds and thousands of years as a successful art and technique of city building. All of that aside, I very much appreciate your kind words.
Hi David ,
I would like to personally congratulate you as your blog Architecture Here and There | Style Wars: classicsm vs. modernism has been selected by our panelist as one of the Top 100 Architecture Blogs on the web.
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I personally give you a high-five and want to thank you for your contribution to this world. This is the most comprehensive list of Top 100 Architecture Blogs on the internet and I’m honored to have you as part of this!
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Michael Wise says:
I’d like to send you a copy of a forthcoming book from New Vessel Press, IF VENICE DIES, by the art historian Salvatore Settis that I’m sure will interest with you.
http://newvesselpress.com/books/if-venice-dies/ It has plenty to say about culture in general and contemporary architecture in particular.
Here’s a brief description:
What is Venice worth? To whom does this urban treasure belong? This eloquent book by internationally renowned art historian Salvatore Settis urgently poses these questions, igniting a new debate about the Pearl of the Adriatic and cultural patrimony at large. Venetians are increasingly abandoning their hometown—there’s now only one resident for every 140 visitors—and Venice’s fragile fate has become emblematic of the future of historic cities everywhere as it capitulates to tourists and those who profit from them. In If Venice Dies, a fiery blend of history and cultural analysis, Settis argues that “hit-and-run” visitors are turning landmark urban settings into shopping malls and theme parks. He warns that Western civilization’s prime achievements face impending ruin from mass tourism and global cultural homogenization. This is a passionate plea to secure the soul of Venice, written with consummate authority, wide-ranging erudition and élan.
“A chilling account of the slow agony of Venice as illustrative of a global consumerist epidemic. Richly documented and imbued with deep angst about this supreme urban creation.”
— Philippe de Montebello, former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Could you please send me your email and postal addresses? Thank you.
Michael Wise
wise@newvesselpress.com
Denis Sneguirev says:
Dear David, I am a french documentary film director. We are currently preparing a project about Mont Saint-Michel’s history, its architecture and different stades of the site construction. We are looking for some international specialists to interview. Can I contact you by email in order to explain better our project? My email address is snegff@gmail.com. Thank you in advance. Denis
lux et veritas says:
https://www.dday.org/
Perhaps you might direct your considerable talent onto the D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Va. If you haven’t visited it you should. It’s one of the most moving memorial’s I’ve traveled to. Because of it’s remote location in historic Bedford Virginia it has suffered financially. On D-day, June 6, 1944, Bedford received the greatest number of dreaded war dept telegrams per capita. there wasn’t a home or family that was spared an invasion loss.
May I invite you to write something about the D-Day memorial in Bedford and I will publish it? Not a home or family that was spared an invasion loss? If so, I imagine that’s why the memorial is there. I find the design somewhat dodgy, but I offer you a forum for its defense, and for advocating a donation to relieve its peril as we relieved that of France.
lux-et-veritas says:
Suggest you read about the “BEDFORD BOYS”. A beautiful little town just down the road from VMI.
Dodgy?? How so??
I guess the word suggests a feeling that the D-Day memorial, while it has some admirable features such as the temple, also has other features, such as its large arch, that are more dubious. As a whole, it seems a hodgepodge of elements, and its plan looks like Mickey Mouse (though people do not see it from above). I suppose that’s what I mean by dodgy. I appreciate the opportunity to think it through more usefully, Lux.
The temple you admire houses a life size sculpture of Ike. The Arch provides a triumphant entry to the heroic sculptural depiction of thousands of troops charging onto Omaha beach through a deadly hale of artillery. It’s dimensions are significant. It is 44′ 6″ tall representing the D-Day date in June (6) 1944. Perhaps you noticed its black and white cap stones, which represent the Black and White stripes painted on the wings of Allied aircraft so that they would not be fired upon by allied invasion forces.
As for it being a “hodgepodge”, perhaps photography does not covey the physical impact on visitors. Vets who visit are profoundly affected by the story the memorial retells. As importantly, children come away with a better education then they receive in school about WW2, heroism, valor, courage and sacrifice. Would you not agree that one function of a war memorial is to infuse a sense of patriotism in this and future generations of children?
Perhaps I will consider writing something here which you might consider publishing as an article. My interest is solely to bring the D Day National Memorial to the attention of your readership as a possible destination if they visit Virginia. Your willingness to let your readership draw its own conclusions sans our critical judgement would allay my concerns.
Thanks. Pleased to have found your well informed and thoughtful blog. Return visits to follow. Regards from Thom at the immortal jukebox.
Paul McGoran says:
I found myself wondering today why your column is no longer in the Providence Urinal, and was disappointed to find, by Googling, that you were laid off. Count me chagrined, angry and culturally deprived. Here’s hoping a better news organization will find you. I think you would be a perfect fit for the Wall St. Journal’s weekly Mansion section on Fridays. And if I may suggest a topic … how about a column on Newport’s Audrain building restoration and repurposing?
Ken Firestone says:
I tried signing up for your emails. No luck. All of the addresses I tried were rejected as invalid. Something is wrong.
Ken Firestone
judith Tolnick Champa says:
David, The Blackstone Neighborhood Association has just formed. Time is tight. We are confronting the “major subdivision” of the large historic proper at 460 Rochambeau, the prominent corner of Roch-and Blackstone. This is new high density zoning that will make the whole area suffer. Please contact me for details on this disastrous proposal before the Hearing in a few weeks. We need you.
deborah berke says:
Dear David Brussat- I write to let you know how deeply disappointed I am in the Providence Journal for letting you go. A significant newspaper should have an architecture critic! Although I often disagreed with your comments, I enjoyed your column very much. I look forward to reading your blog. warm regards, Deborah Berke
Deborah, how very kind of you to write, and bless you for your pleasing sentiments. May I hope that if you continue to read you might someday agree? Either way, I am much more uplifted by those who say they like my writing than by those who say they agree with it, wonderful as those latter may be. My opinion is held by many, but it is mine only by dint of how it is stated. Many thanks!
Philip Gregg Watts, Jr. says:
Dearest David,
Despite the unshocking news of you being laid off by the new ownership and its ‘producing captives’ at the Providence Journal, I still must evoke the pain that overcomes me as the last breath of printed newspapers yells out “au revoir, Mon. Brussat” to perhaps one of the last vestiges of the world gone by. But, alas, we may take refuge by realigning our eyes and readjusting our thoughts to the new world a-comin: Seek out “David Brussat and his blog” while at the same time you may reach out to grab a respirator!
P.G. Watts, Jr.
Yes, dear Gregg (my old school chum from D.C.), in the future the blind man may not be king, but he will be enviable if current architectural trends continue!
charlespinning says:
I see noses in header image.
Noses? Perhaps. More like bellies, seems to me.
On second thought, I think the bulges in the balusters do look more like noses than bellies. On third thought, maybe a good compromise might be breasts. They look like breasts.
Charles Pinning says:
I see noses in the header image.
abelsailor72 says:
Aum! David…Glad I’ve found you at WordPress.com! You’ve inspired me to start blogging again. ” I Hope You can imagine,…”
So glad to hear from you, Ibrahim. I will be visiting your blog.
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Imprinting of the MEDEA polycomb gene in the Arabidopsis endosperm
Tetsu Kinoshita, Ramin Yadegari, John J. Harada, Robert B. Goldberg, Robert L. Fischer
In flowering plants, two cells are fertilized in the haploid female gametophyte. Egg and sperm nuclei fuse to form the embryo. A second sperm nucleus fuses with the central cell nucleus that replicates to generate the endosperm, which is a tissue that supports embryo development. MEDEA (MEA) encodes an Arabidopsis SET domain Polycomb protein. Inheritance of a maternal loss-of-function mea allele results in embryo abortion and prolonged endosperm production, irrespective of the genotype of the paternal allele. Thus, only the maternal wild-type MEA allele is required for proper embryo and endosperm development. To understand the molecular mechanism responsible for the parent-of-origin effects of mea mutations on seed development, we compared the expression of maternal and paternal MEA alleles in the progeny of crosses between two Arabidopsis ecotypes. Only the maternal MEA mRNA was detected in the endosperm from seeds at the torpedo stage and later. By contrast, expression of both maternal and paternal MEA alleles was observed in the embryo from seeds at the torpedo stage and later, in seedling, leaf, stem, and root. Thus, MEA is an imprinted gene that displays parent-of-origin-dependent monoallelic expression specifically in the endosperm. These results suggest that the embryo abortion observed in mutant mea seeds is due, at least in part, to a defect in endosperm function. Silencing of the paternal MEA allele in the endosperm and the phenotype of mutant mea seeds supports the parental conflict theory for the evolution of imprinting in plants and mammals.
https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.11.10.1945
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Kinoshita, T., Yadegari, R., Harada, J. J., Goldberg, R. B., & Fischer, R. L. (1999). Imprinting of the MEDEA polycomb gene in the Arabidopsis endosperm. Plant Cell, 11(10), 1945-1952. https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.11.10.1945
Imprinting of the MEDEA polycomb gene in the Arabidopsis endosperm. / Kinoshita, Tetsu; Yadegari, Ramin; Harada, John J.; Goldberg, Robert B.; Fischer, Robert L.
In: Plant Cell, Vol. 11, No. 10, 10.1999, p. 1945-1952.
Kinoshita, T, Yadegari, R, Harada, JJ, Goldberg, RB & Fischer, RL 1999, 'Imprinting of the MEDEA polycomb gene in the Arabidopsis endosperm', Plant Cell, vol. 11, no. 10, pp. 1945-1952. https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.11.10.1945
Kinoshita T, Yadegari R, Harada JJ, Goldberg RB, Fischer RL. Imprinting of the MEDEA polycomb gene in the Arabidopsis endosperm. Plant Cell. 1999 Oct;11(10):1945-1952. https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.11.10.1945
Kinoshita, Tetsu ; Yadegari, Ramin ; Harada, John J. ; Goldberg, Robert B. ; Fischer, Robert L. / Imprinting of the MEDEA polycomb gene in the Arabidopsis endosperm. In: Plant Cell. 1999 ; Vol. 11, No. 10. pp. 1945-1952.
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Airbnb to ban 'party houses' in wake of Halloween shooting that left 5 dead
TechCrunch 2 November 2019
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky said Saturday the company will ban "party houses" and take other steps to safeguard hosts and guests after five people died at a Halloween party hosted at California home that was rented on the service.
Chesky made the announcement via a series of tweets Saturday. "What happened on Thursday night in Orinda, CA was horrible," Chesky wrote. "I feel for the families and neighbors impacted by this tragedy — we are working to support them."
Chesky then announced that party houses would be banned and that the company is "redoubling" efforts to combat unauthorized parties.
Chesky announced several other measures to increase safety, including the expansion of manual screenings of high-risk reservations flagged by Airbnb's risk detection technology and creating a dedicated "party house" rapid response team
Margaret Richardson, from Airbnb's executive team, has been tasked to accelerate the review process to enact these new policies as soon as possible, he added.
I have directed Margaret Richardson from our Executive Team to oversee this new team and initiate a 10 day sprint to review and accelerate the development and implementation of these new safety initiatives.
Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office said the party had been advertised on social media as a mansion party, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Police were headed to the home Oct. 31 over noise complaints when the gunfire began around 10:50 p.m. Several people died at the scene. The fifth victim died Friday night.
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How iD44 Met Mary J. Blige – and other stories
Posted on 18th February 2019 18th February 2019 Anne LiversidgePosted in Blog
If you haven’t yet heard of Ali Stone, it’s only a matter of time. A native of Colombia based in LA, she’s a talented producer, multi-instrumentalist, DJ, musician and singer/songwriter with excellent taste in audio interfaces.
She’s won a CDA award, made a remix for Disney’s Monsters University, became the youngest film composer with her original soundtrack for Demental horror movie and was one of the opening acts for Justin Bieber’s Purpose world tour. Her debut album Sexto Sentido reached #1 on the US Electronic Chart and she was named by Billboard as one of the new acts to watch. They were right!
Writing and producing with Mary J. Blige and Jason Derulo are now on her resume, and her latest single, ‘The Sweetest Death Is Loving You’ was released last month; written, mixed, produced and mastered by – you guessed it – Ali herself, all with her Audient iD44. Stylish, smart, artistic, savvy, driven and still only 26, Audient was keen to chat to this rising star, starting with a brief overview…
I’ve been super passionate about music since I was little and began to play classical piano when I was 4. Since then, I studied different instruments and music theory and these elements built who I am now.
Ali Stone
Some fun facts about me: I graduated from Business in university, love cats, and I speak English, Spanish, French & Portuguese (I love learning languages).
You took your iD44 to the recent ‘She Is The Music’ Song Camp, a three-day songwriting event for female-identifying songwriters, artists, engineers and producers including Mary J Blige. Does it go everywhere with you? What was your take away from the event?
Yes! I do take my iD44 everywhere. I also have the iD4, but I really love everything that the iD44 brings to the table. And even though it’s bigger than the iD4, it’s still very portable.
“I take my iD44 everywhere […] even though it’s bigger than the iD4, it’s still very portable”
The ‘She is The Music’ songcamp was one of the opportunities where I brought my iD44. I’d say this is one of the most special experiences I had in 2018. It was such an honor to make music for Mary J. Blige and to create with so many talented women that week in Nashville. People like Priscilla Renea, Jillian Jacqueline, Ingrid Burley, Stacy Barthe, Alyssa Bonagura & Ruby Stewart from The Sisterhood. I also loved that I got to make R&B and Country music! It was a super fun experience and I’m very grateful to have been part of it.
Ali Stone’s LA studio – featuring Audient iD44
Tell us about your studio setup.
My current studio setup consists of my Audient iD44, a pair of Avantone Abbey Pro monitors & a pair of Kali Audio LP 6 monitors, V-Moda & Audio Technica headphones to record, Sennheiser HD 280 Pro headphones to mix, Audio Technica & Slate Digital mics, the Roland JD-Xi synth, Roland FP-50 piano, my Gibson Les Paul guitar, SG guitar and HP acoustic guitar, Fender bass, and Roland V-Drums. As for DAWs & plugins, I use Ableton Live & Pro Tools, and my main plugins/sounds are from Native Instruments Komplete Ultimate 12, EWQL Complete Composers Collection, Waves, T-Racks, Omnisphere, Sylenth, Spire, Thorn, AmpleSound.
“I looove the preamps! Everything that I track with the iD44 sounds so clear and pristine”
How does your iD44 fit into that? Describe your workflow.
My iD44 is my main interface, so there’s not a single time I don’t use it. My 4 monitors are all connected directly to the output sources of the iD44, and since it has a monitor management function, I can easily change between each pair or mix in mono, all from my interface. I also have my mics connected directly into the iD44 preamps, and I usually use the Direct Inputs that are in the front of the interface.
Priscilla Renea & Ali Stone at She Is The Music ‘Song Camp’
Tell us what you love about your Audient audio interface.
I looove the preamps! Everything that I track with the iD44 sounds so clear and pristine. That’s one of my favorite things, especially because I like things to sound as they are and not to come out with some preamp makeup that can change a lot the perception of any instrument or vocal you’re recording.
I also love the monitor management buttons where I can easily change my monitoring outputs with just a button, change to mono with another button. The talkback function is also a plus when I’m tracking with other people, it makes communication so much easier. The double headphone output is great for this as well!
And I also love the iD function button, which turns the knob of the iD44 into a controller of whatever I’m doing in the session. This comes super handy when I’m automating lanes or changing parameters in Ableton, it really makes the workflow feel like a breeze.
“The talkback function is also a plus when I’m tracking with other people, it makes communication so much easier.”
You are an inspiration to women as you confidently include yourself in what is still a very male-dominated industry. Was there someone that inspired you to do the same in your formative years?
Thank you! Yes, since I was little I always looked up (and still do) to Shakira, who’s also from Colombia. I really admire her because she doesn’t limit herself into molds, and she’s constantly reinventing herself with discipline and perseverance.
She Is The Music. Audient iD44 USB audio interface
Another one of my big inspirations since I was little is Imogen Heap…she’s a genius! I was and am also very inspired by Dido, The Corrs, Dolores O’Riordan from The Cranberries, Orianthi Paganaris, to name a few.
How would you like the landscape to have changed for women in the next 5 years?
I’m glad to see a cultural shift has been happening this year, where people are really taking into account what inclusion and equality mean. I do hope that in 5 years all the negative stigmas and stereotypes that have been imposed by society regarding what women can/should do are broken.
Yet another of Ali Stone’s talents – Rock Drums
I’ve been as a spokeswoman for the “Women Working for Women” campaign & “Women in Business” congress specially to work on that. In the end, I seek that the capabilities and performance of not only music, but also any labor, are based on talent. Genders, races, and nationalities shouldn’t be used as factors to determine if somebody can work on something or not.
What message would you like people to take away from your music?
I’d say I want people to take the passion & soul I put into music. I feel passion is the force that really moves everything, and whenever I’m making music I put all of me into it…in the end, I want to give people a little piece of me with each song, something they can hold onto timelessly. This also explains the origin of my artist name; the “Stone” comes from the phrase “carved in stone”, which is the purpose I imprint with every song I make.
Right now I’m working on new songs I’ll release later this year, which will have a more electronic atmosphere, and that will be in English & Spanish. I’m also working on songwriting and production projects for other artists, like MKTO, Prince Royce, and some others I can’t still mention publicly, but that will come out later this year as well! So, stay tuned because I’ll be releasing more info regarding all of this very, very soon!
I also post some snippets from those sessions, so if you peep into my socials @itsalistone or my website alistonemusic.com, you’ll be up to date.
Are there any other tracks that you recommend we listen to, to give us a better overview to your style?
I just released my single The Sweetest Death is Loving You, where you’ll hear my very characteristic reverb-y vocal harmonies and the guitars that always play an important part in my music-making.
I’d also tell you to go listen to my debut album Sexto Sentido (Sixth Sense), which shows all the color palette of sounds I have in my head. I also made this album thought out like a book, so each song is intended to be heard in that order, to fully understand the whole album. There’s a classical piano song, some very pop ones, others that have a soundtrack-like sound, some more dark and electronic. They all show the different faces I have with music.
I’m always proud of everything I make, no matter how big or small it is. As I said, I want my music & art to remain carved in stone, so I always strive to making the best I can with everything I work on. But I would say some of the most exciting things I’ve been able to do have been opening for Justin Bieber during the Purpose Tour, making the complete film score of a horror movie (I love horror movies), and getting to work for Mary J. Blige!
Mary J. Blige at She Is The Music Song Camp
What gets you up and motivated in the morning?
Colombian coffee, haha. Joking aside, the happiness music makes me feel is certainly my main motivation always. I’m also very motivated by my fans, by the amazingly talented people I’ve worked with, who teach me so much too, by everyone that supports me…all of these elements have always been reason to get to make what I do.
What piece of advice would you give a younger you just starting out in the business?
I would say my younger me to never doubt her dreams, no matter how crazy they seem; to stay strong and learn to build an iron skin against people, the bad energies sometimes “friends” and people may throw in the way, and to keep on persevering through discipline and focus, because the most unexpected yet exciting things will happen when these elements meet one’s dreams.
Thank you Ali for chatting with us – and for your excellent nuggets of wisdom. Audient wishes you huge success into 2019 and beyond!
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The Scoop: December 4, 2019 Edition
TOPICS:consumer protectionshealth reformMedicaid expansionopen enrollmentstudent health insuranceuniversal coverage
Posted By: boss December 4, 2019
End of open enrollment days away in most states
Florida board recommends state codify ACA consumer protections
Missouri governor won’t block Medicaid expansion if voters approve it
Carrier will pay $1.8 million settlement for non-compliant student health plans in Vermont
New Mexico funds study on universal coverage
Welcome to this week’s round-up of state-level health reform news, including:
Open enrollment for individual-market health insurance, which began November 1, will conclude in less than two weeks (December 15) in states that use HealthCare.gov. The other 12 states and DC have varying enrollment deadlines that range from December 15 to as late as January 31.
In the 38 states that use HealthCare.gov, more than 2.3 million people selected on-exchange health plans for 2020 in the first four weeks of open enrollment. That included nearly 622,000 new enrollees and about 1.75 million who renewed their existing coverage. Twelve states and the District of Columbia run their own exchanges, and their enrollment updates are more sporadic. Five of them have thus far reported a combined enrollment total of about 568,000 people, but most of them have not yet issued any official enrollment numbers, including highly populated states like California and New York.
The Florida Health Insurance Advisory Board approved nearly all of their legislative recommendations during a meeting December 3, and will send the recommendations to legislative leadership for consideration during the 2020 session. Among the recommendations is a proposal to include emergency transportation in the state’s already robust surprise balance billing protections, and a proposal to codify various Affordable Care Act (ACA) consumer protections into state law. The Board is also recommending a legislative change that would specifically allow small groups to offer coverage to employees and their dependents, but not spouses, in order to help spouses avoid the ACA’s family glitch. But as we’ve explained, that doesn’t always help under the current subsidy calculation rules.
Missouri has not yet expanded Medicaid, and the state’s Medicaid eligibility rules for adults are among the strictest in the nation. But advocates are gathering signatures in an effort to get a Medicaid expansion initiative on the 2020 ballot in Missouri. And although GOP Gov. Mike Parson is opposed to Medicaid expansion and to the ballot initiative, he clarified last week that he will “uphold the will of the people” if the measure ends up on the ballot and voters approve it. Lawmakers in Missouri could still approve a modified version of Medicaid expansion, but Parson has indicated that he will not seek to block Medicaid expansion if it’s ultimately approved by the state’s voters.
Nearly all student health plans are required to be compliant with the ACA’s individual market regulations. (The exception is student health insurance issued by schools that self-insure their coverage.) But between 2014 and 2016, students at ten colleges in Vermont were enrolled in student health plans that didn’t meet state and federal regulations; Companion Life had marketed the plans to the schools without obtaining proper approval from the state. The Vermont Department of Financial Regulation has announced a $1.8 million settlement with Companion Life, including a penalty of $950,000 (the largest the state has ever imposed on an insurer) and nearly half a million dollars in restitution for at least 212 students whose claims were improperly denied. According to the settlement, Companion Life is not currently offering student health plans to schools in Vermont.
For nearly three decades, New Mexico lawmakers and healthcare advocates have been considering a Health Security Plan, which would provide nearly universal coverage in New Mexico. Legislation to create the health security plan (HB295 and SB279) did not pass in 2019. But lawmakers did pass HM92, which directs the legislative finance committee to conduct a fiscal analysis of a health security plan, with findings to be reported to the legislature by July 2021. A consulting contract has been awarded to three entities (KNG Health Consulting, IHS Markit, and Lee Reynis, a researcher based in Albuquerque) who are tasked with conducting the fiscal analysis. A public meeting about the fiscal analysis is taking place in Albuquerque on December 4.
Louise Norris is an individual health insurance broker who has been writing about health insurance and health reform since 2006. She has written dozens of opinions and educational pieces about the Affordable Care Act for healthinsurance.org. Her state health exchange updates are regularly cited by media who cover health reform and by other health insurance experts.
Verity proposes closing Los Angeles hospital after deal falls through
Trump pulled into feud between top health officials
$16B veterans' health project hits major snag
Large pre-ACA Medicaid expansion did not level health disparities in cancer surgery
Some providers fear 'brave new world' of freed patient health data
Trump bets on Washington outsider to lead FDA amid political battles
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Posted on August 9, 2017 by Constance
My much older sister Marianne is 84 and you’d need a cannon to get her out of her Honda. But I’m a “younger” generation than Marianne, so this past weekend I was zipping around town in the Honda Civic Hatchback and was pleasantly surprised when a 10-year old with a buzzed haircut dyed red, begged me for a ride in the new Civic.
2017 Honda Civic Hatchback Sport Touring
This tells me Honda has quite a broad demographic reach. Honda spends about $1 billion on advertising, far less than GM, Ford, FCA and Toyota, according to the statistics portal, statista.com. Yet, it is ranked among the most valuable brands according to Forbes both in dollar value and in consumer perception. How does Honda keep its popularity?
A clue resides in the Honda Civic Hatchback Sport Touring. It’s a $28,000-plus vehicle with plenty of desired features, including heated seats that are comfortable on a long ride, LED lights, sports pedals, navigation and connectivity, loads of room for tall relatives and hauling your stuff, and wild styling that drew so much attention I was a little cowed. Will we be ready for the Civic Type R, a track-ready beast? A six-speed manual and 2.0-liter direct-injected and turbocharged i-VTEC engine with 306 horsepower — yep, I’ll drive that.
Civic Hatchback Sport Touring
We’ve all heard rumors about the impending decline and death of sedans, but Honda seems to be doing just fine. Its Civic and Accord were the two best-selling retail cars in the industry in 2016, and continues as such this year. Much of the sales leadership is with younger buyers; I don’t need to tell you how important the next generation is.
In that context — the future — the Honda Clarity is a cutting-edge line of vehicles that includes a fuel cell, a coming BEV or battery electric vehicle, and a plug-in hybrid. The Clarity Fuel Cell has an EPA-rated 366-mile driving range and can be refueled in three to five minutes (provided you can find a hydrogen filling station). Fuel cell vehicles have been in development for years, confounded by the cost of producing hydrogen, but some are now being driven in California, including the Clarity and the Toyota Mirai. Currently there are only 35 hydrogen fueling stations in the U.S., 32 of which are in California.
A company spokesperson told me in an email, “Honda has a strong vision for reducing CO2 emissions and reducing the use of fossil fuels and other energy resources. Honda is targeting a 50-percent reduction in its total company CO2 emissions by 2050 (compared to 2000 levels), as well as striving to make two-thirds of global vehicle sales to be of electrified vehicles by 2030. Honda remains committed to developing products that advance fuel efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.”
2017 Honda Clarity Electric
In the last 18 months, Honda has renewed or completely revised its entire product line. One of the improvements is the available turbo in the current Civic and Honda CR-V — a pretty good reason to consider Honda. My test car was equipped with a 180-horsepower 1.5-liter, direct-injected and turbocharged four-cylinder engine. Its responsiveness put me in a most positive frame of mind, as did the fuel economy of 30 mpg city/36 highway/32 combined. The next-generation vehicles will also start offering a 10-speed automatic transmission, which is available first on the all-new 2018 Honda Odyssey.
Honda Sensing, a suite of safety features, is considered among the best. It includes most of today’s advanced safety features, such as lane keep assist, adaptive cruise control, forward collision warning and collision mitigating braking system, lane departure warning, lane keep assist, and road departure mitigation. Honda LaneWatch, a camera shot of the passenger-side road on the center navigation screen when the right-turn signal is engaged or the LaneWatch button is pressed was something new to me. The display can show cars from one or two lanes to the right and cars up to 50 yards behind the vehicle. It can seem minimally distracting at first as you do have to glance down, but I got used to it very quickly.
So Honda, it seems, is doing what it has always done. Staying the course. Honda has always been an engineering company. It isn’t as showy as other marques. It makes durable engines, has a design statement all its own, packs its vehicles with standard features, and caters to customers’ real needs.
— Kate McLeod, Motor Matters
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Obligatory New Yorker Post
Written by Ashley Kelmore, Posted in Feminism
So, I’m assuming you’ve seen and/or heard about this week’s New Yorker cover. I used to subscribe to that magazine, but I found that while some issues were amazing reads, others were just unreadable.
Anyway, I was initially annoyed with it – not because I don’t understand or respect satire, but because I fear the things that the magazine was satirizing are things some people think are so true that they won’t recognize the satire. It’s just so freaky – both that Senator Obama is constantly being called Muslim, AND (and this is even more important to me) that this would be considered a detriment were it true. I realize it’s a stretch to even imagine a woman as president, or a black man, and that’s so freaking depressing. And you can’t even try to factor in other variables, like non-traditional religions (our first pagan president – in 2440!).
But I do have to say that Jon Stewart really said it best – ‘We really shouldn’t get all worked up over a cartoon depicting Barack Obama as a fundamentalist Muslim. Because you know who gets worked up over cartoons? Fundamentalist Muslims.’
Heh. Good point.
Sort-of-live musing: George Carlin on SNL
Written by Ashley Kelmore, Posted in Reviews
Two weeks ago, SNL re-ran their first-ever episode as a tribute to the recently deceased George Carlin, who was the host. I’m finally getting around to watching it.
It opens with a kind of silly Belushi sketch, which vaguely reminds me of the scene in When Harry Met Sally . . . where they are at the Met and Harry is trying to get her to repeat what he’s saying (‘…and I’d like to partake of your pecan pie.).
Chevy Chase delivers the first ever “Live, from New York, it’s Saturday Night!” Ah Chevy. Remember he was funny? Good times.
The monologue is George Carlin (wow, he’s so young) delivering his now-famous “Football vs. Baseball” routine, trying to point out why football is so much more testosterone-y than baseball. A sampling (and so much is in the delivery):
“In Football, you get a penalty.
In Baseball, you make an error.”
“Football is played in a stadium.
Baseball is played in a park.”
I’ve read it, but seeing him deliver it is outstanding.
Now we have Dan Ackroyd in a cheesy home . . . it appears to be an ad for “New Dad” – family insurance coverage. As soon as old Dad dies, New Dad is there to help meet “physical and emotional” needs. Nice. And creepy.
Chevy Chase used to be cute, too . . .
Whoa, it’s jarring to go from the grainy 1970s film to 2008 commercials.
Billy Preston is playing! I like this song. It’s catchy. But not catchy enough to keep me from fast-forwarding.
New sketch. Oooh, Jane Curtain is on the witness stand. Chevy is the attorney. Her voice is so high. Huh. She can’t bring herself to give her evidence, so they’re letting her write the remarks on a piece of paper. Oh, the judge is not happy. Neither is the prosecutor. Nor the defense attorney. They’re showing it to the jury now. We still don’t know what it says. Ha! Gilda was asleep in the jury box, and thinks Belushi is saying whatever ‘it’ is to her. And she likes it. Ah, Gilda.
Oh sweet, it’s the classic Andy Kaufman / Mighty Mouse sketch! It is really funny, because he does absolutely nothing while the theme plays, except to lip sync to “Here I Come to Save the Day.” That’s it. And yet it’s so freaking funny. He reminds me of Gene Wilder’s Willy Wonka a bit.
More George stand-up. Let’s see. Ah, tee shirt under a blazer. Classic. “Do you ever look at the crowds in old movies and wonder if they’re dead yet?” HA! Man, he’s so good at the unexpected, mundane hilarious one-liner.
Another musical guest – Janice Ian. Oh man – I didn’t know who sang this. You know the song – it starts with “I learned the truth and 17, that love was meant for beauty queens.” She’s in a white suit with a green satin blouse. More awesome. But now I must fast-forward.
“Victims of Shark Bite.” Jane Curtain hosts. Belushi is missing an arm and half of a leg. Except his ‘missing’ arm just appeared. Awkward. And his other leg is fine, too. And that’s the sketch. No offense, but that seems like something that would be on modern SNL and get panned.
Chevy Chase and other guy. Other guy is supposed to be his wife. Wait, huh? Hmm.
Weekend update! Chevy Chase! Hoffa joke starts it off. Dumb president jokes. Some things never go out of style. “The US Postal Service announced today a new stamp commemorating prostitution. It’s a 10 cent stamp, but if you want to lick it, it’s a quarter.” HA!.
Arthritis ad for medicine that you can’t open. Kind of funny.
I didn’t realize that Chevy first used the “Goodnight, and have a pleasant tomorrow” sign-off that Tina Fey used.
Jim Henson Muppet sketch. Interesting…but not so funny. It’s like every second Robert Schmigel cartoon on modern SNL.
More George Carlin. He just addressed the audience – people are laughing before the punch line. No blue food! Military intelligence.
An Al Brooks film? Huh. Headlines – mocking shows about impossible but true things. “The entire state of Georgia and the entire country of Israel are switching places.” “The age of consent in Oregon is lowered to seven.” Ew. So perverse. And yet kind of funny . . .
New sketch. Bee hospital. All are in bee costumes. “Congratulations, it’s a drone.” Yay! Then “Congratulations, it’s a worker.” Oh. Bummer.
Mocking technical college commercials.
Valerie Brownfield – Comedianne. A dress shields joke actually got a chuckle. Huh.
“Show us your guns.” Ah, suburbia. High-wasted pants. Always a good choice.
I gotta admit, this seems just as hit-and-miss as modern SNL.
George Carlin. Talking about God. “I think God may not be perfect. I think his work shows that. Look at the mountain ranges. Everything he has ever made died.”
More Billy Preston.
Dan Ackroyd – Trojan Horse home security.
Razor ad. Oh crap! They’re making fun of razors by suggesting a razor with THREE blades. Considering we now have razors with five blades ha.
Written by Ashley Kelmore, Posted in Adventures
The humidity has left the City (for awhile, at least). After work, a couple of friends and I ventured over to the new pop-up park at Pier 1 in Brooklyn. It’s great – they took a pier and paved it, added hills with grass, a big sandbox for the kiddies, threw up probably a dozen tables and added a little bar with some beer, wine and food. From there you can see three of the four waterfalls (allegedly you can see the fourth, but a big chunk of plywood was in the way tonight). There was a nice breeze, bright sun and good friends. If you are in the City, I really suggest you try to visit.
Wait, that’s a bar chord? Aw crap. No, I’ll try it.
I’m trying to take advantage of opportunities that come my way to do something different. Today, after work, I stumbled upon such an opportunity.
As I was leaving work and heading to the train (I chose the A instead of the F because it is 900 degrees out) I ran into four people from the office. One had a guitar, one had a suitcase, and one had a folder full of papers. They claimed they were starting a band, and told me to come along. I kind of – no, really, actually – didn’t believe them. I mean, clearly Chris, with the guitar, was going to play somewhere. But Dave had a suitcase with him, and Nate just generally doesn’t strike me as one to hang out with Chris, Lisa and Dave. Then I looked at the papers and saw they were five packets of a bunch of songs with chords. I figured that if this was some joke they were all simultaneously in on, well, good on them. So I got on the A train going the opposite direction of home.
They reserved a space at a practice / recording studio near Midtown on the west side. This place is great – each room has loads of equipment, including full drum sets and keyboard, mics and amps. I was even able to rent a guitar to play for the session. Of course, I had no clue how to tune it using the tuner they had, so both Chris and Dave had to step in.
At first I was a little apprehensive. I’ve *just* started playing guitar again after about 10 years, and I’ve struggled in the past with picking up on songs quickly. But they were so patient with me. Most of the songs we tried had pretty easy chords, and after Chris correctly called me out on being too worried about looking stupid, I relaxed and just went with it. And it was so worth it. I certainly am nowhere near as good and Chris and Dave – they really know their stuff, and can play complicated melodies and solos – but I kept up for the most part, and had an absolute BLAST the entire time. And Nate was amazing on the keyboard. Seriously, it was this silly two-hour jam session that reminded me of how much fun I have when music is involved.
Hopefully we’ll do it again in a month or so. In the meantime, I can’t wait to get started with my guitar lessons.
National Lampoon’ Tahoe Vacation
A whirlwind week of fun with the family.
My trip had a bit of an inauspicious start. I got to the airport on time (after getting up at 4:30 AM), and the plane pushed back early. But we sat. And sat. And sat some more. After about 30 minutes, the captain came on to say that we couldn’t take off because our flight plan wasn’t cleared. He even shut down the engines, which is never a good sign. Then he came back on, sounding really frustrated, and said that the tower couldn’t access flight plans for anyone heading to the Bay Area. Whoops.
It was eventually corrected, and I landed in Oakland about 90 minutes late. We headed to Tahoe, with a couple of quick stops – one at the Jelly Belly Factory (yum!) and one at In-and-Out (yum!).
It was so great to get up to the Lake. I’ve not been there in the summer since before I started my current job, and the four of us haven’t been there in the summer in a decade.
Sunday was a full day of walking around and eating. Seriously. We walked down to the Lake, then went over to Kings Beach for some miniature gold – a family tradition. After checking out the art fair, we played (or, in my case, lost) some money at the slot machines. Then we had a super yummy dinner at The Soule Domain. They even had vegan offerings.
Monday was pool day, followed by dinner at our favorite Mexican restaurant with the godparents.
Tuesday was a crazy day. We were supposed to go out on a boat, but it was cancelled. We went down to south shore instead, and took the Heavenly gondolas up about 2,000 feet. Seriously, freaky. It was fine hanging over a nearly vertical mountain face when the gondola was moving, but when we just stopped and hung there? Oh HELL NO. I was not amused. But once we got to the top, it was all worth it. The view was breathtaking.
After traveling up a little further, we came across the zip line – the longest in North America. After sister and I took another ski lift to the very top of the mountain (9,500 feet above sea level, about 3,000 feet above the lake), we were each strapped into a harness dangling from a cable. Then the let us go, and we flew 540 feet over tree tops. It was a once-in-a-lifetime feeling of flying, and it was amazing.
The rest of the week was all about the small town USA fourth of July celebrations. There was a pancake breakfast thrown by the local fire house, a parade (featuring square dancers and boats), a tribute to veterans, and a 1940s USO show. It was so fun, with everyone so into the activities. On the actual 4th of July we walked to the Lake and had dinner at the local hotel, where they were setting aside space on the beach for us to sit. The fireworks were spectacular – and a bit scary when a few went off directly on the barge, lighting it on fire. Whoops.
There were some low points – mostly when we would slip into family bickering mode – but overall it was a really relaxing, wonderful time with the family.
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The Heat: Post-Saddam Iraq, post-Gaddafi Libya
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Published December 2, 2015 at 8:40 PM
Updated December 4, 2015 at 3:53 PM
Iraq’s Saddam Hussein and Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi ruled for decades before being violently overthrown, but a solution ended up turning into chaos for both countries.
Today, Iraq and Libya are two of the most unstable nations in the world. It has led some to ask: Would Iraq and Libya be better or worse off now if Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi were still in power?
It has been more than four years since a NATO bombing campaign helped rebels topple Gaddafi.
And although many celebrated his demise, there was no peace. International observers refer to Libya today as a failed state, and ISIL also has a foothold in the country.
The Heat was joined by the following guests to discuss a Libya that could have been:
Omar Turbi is a Libyan activist.
Sukant Chandan is a political analyst who focuses on challenges to the global South, the nations of Africa, Central and Latin America and most of Asia.
The Heat: Post-Saddam Iraq, post-Gaddafi Libya pt1
Iraq's Saddam Hussein and Libya's Muammar Gaddafi ruled for decades before being violently overthrown, but a solution ended up turning into chaos for both countries. Today, Iraq and Libya are two of the most unstable nations in the world. It has led some to ask: Would Iraq and Libya be better or worse off now if Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi were still in power? It has been more than four years since a NATO bombing campaign helped rebels topple Gaddafi. And although many celebrated his demise, there was no peace. International observers refer to Libya today as a failed state, and ISIL also has a foothold in the country. The Heat was joined by these guests to talk about a Libya that could have been:Omar Turbi is a Libyan activist.Sukant Chandan is a political analyst who focuses on challenges to the global South, the nations of Africa, Central and Latin America and most of Asia.
The U.S.-led war, which started in March 2003, toppled Iraq’s leader Saddam Hussein. Years of sectarian conflict and armed resistance to U.S. troops followed as Iraq was gripped in chaos.
An estimated 500,000 people died in the war.
Now, more than 12 years later, there are some signs of normal living. Violence is still a major problem in Iraq. According to the United Nations, almost 900 people were killed in terrorism and armed conflict incidents across Iraq last month.
ISIL now controls large parts of Libya.
The Heat also spoke with:
Taif Jany works with Iraqis who have moved away from their homeland.
Richard Becker is with the group called Act Now to Stop War and End Racism.
The U.S.-led war, which started in March 2003, toppled Iraq's leader Saddam Hussein. Years of sectarian conflict and armed resistance to U.S. troops followed as Iraq was gripped in chaos. An estimated 500,000 people died in the war. Now, more than 12 years later, there are some signs of normal living. Violence is still a major problem in Iraq. According to the United Nations, almost 900 people were killed in terrorism and armed conflict incidents across Iraq last month. ISIL now controls large parts of Libya. The Heat continued its discussion by focusing on Iraq this time with these guests: Taif Jany works with Iraqis who have moved away from their homeland. Richard Becker is with the group called Act Now to Stop War and End Racism.
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Dribbles: Cavaliers give fans a win they really wanted
Tristan Thompson and the Cavaliers went to Los Angeles and snatched a win over LeBron James' Lakers.
Random dribbles following the Cavaliers’ 101-95 skid-snapping road victory over the Los Angles Lakers on Sunday night.
1. The Cavs without LeBron James are better than the Lakers without LeBron James. I don’t know if that’s entirely true, but it sure is fun for a lot of people to say.
2. Most Cavs fans have their eyes on the draft lottery and really only care about winning two games. They lost the first one against LeBron and the Lakers in Cleveland. But the Cavs delivered Sunday. Most Cavs fans don’t care that LeBron (groin) didn’t play. Some may even like it better this way. Maybe LeBron will think he left something not-so-bad for something worse.
3. As you probably know, this snapped a 12-game losing streak for the Cavs (9-35). As far as a lot of fans are concerned, they can go ahead and lose another 12 straight now. This really was the Cavs’ championship. And hey, when you’re a team fighting for the No. 1 overall pick, the occasional small victory can mean a lot.
4. All five starters reached double figures in scoring as the Cavs played their guts out in building an early 28-13 lead. The Cavs also surrendered just 95 points — after giving up 140 and 141, respectively, in the first two games of this six-game road swing.
5. Some of that had to do with the Lakers (23-21), who dropped into an eighth-place tie with the Utah Jazz in the Western Conference playoff race. The Lakers tend to stand around, dribble too much and then take bad shots at the end of the shot clock. Like LeBron’s Cavs teams, they tend to play their best against top-notch opponents, then baffle you by struggling with inferior opponents at home.
6. Of course, they’re less that way with a healthy James, but not a lot less. In terms of issues (playing to the level of the competition, missing too many throws, wondering who is supposed to bring the ball up the floor), these Lakers are very much like LeBron’s Cavs from 2014-18. Only difference is, the Lakers are in the West. That’s a pretty big difference.
7. The balanced Cavs were led by Cedi Osman, who scored 20. Rodney Hood added 18, including the free throws to ice it. Collin Sexton and Alec Burks scored 17 apiece, and Tristan Thompson went for 15 points and 14 rebounds.
8. Osman and Sexton both played their best game in a month, likely longer. Burks buried a couple of big free throws himself, and Thompson could be seen leading in the huddle, directing his teammates and swatting a couple of shots. “Full-team effort,” Thompson told FOX Sports Ohio.
9. Amazingly, usual scoring ace Jordan Clarkson only had nine and the Cavs’ bench tallied just 14 points overall. Yet they won on the road, anyway. For instance, Matthew Dellavedova only had three points, but played a very nice floor game and offered his typical dose of pesky defense.
10. Lakers forward Kyle Kuzma was again fantastic, scoring 29 points and hitting a huge 3-pointer in the final minute. Brandon Ingram also had a nice game with 22. But unlike Kuzma, I’m not so sure Ingram actually helps you win games. He’s a dynamic young player with great length, but is he a fit? I wouldn’t be surprised if the Lakers move him before the trade deadline, or at least before next season.
11. The Lakers finished 7-of-31 on threes (21 percent) and worse, went just 16-of-27 on free throws (59 percent). If this team hopes to get to the playoffs and do something once there, it had better start knocking down those foul shots.
12. Anyway, back to the Cavs. No pressure on them to get to the playoffs this year. All the front office and coach Larry Drew really want is for them to give the type of effort they gave Sunday. Not all the time, but most nights.
13. The Cavs aren’t concerned with wins (and that’s a good thing, I suppose) but they do want to see who scraps, fights and claws. We all know Tristan and Delly will do it. Sexton sure did it vs. the Lakers. Even Burks got poked in the eye before making the game’s final free throw.
14. Bottom line: This game doesn’t matter in the big scheme of things for this year’s Cavs. But it might for this year’s Lakers. I mean, imagine if they end up missing the playoffs by a game. Would Cavs fans end up holding another parade?
15. Final word from Sexton, who described his rookie season as fun: “Just the camaraderie. Just the togetherness that we have. Even though we’re losing, we’re still making sure we stay together and making sure we’re still uplifting each other. When it’s like that it’s like a brotherhood.”
1 Comment on "Dribbles: Cavaliers give fans a win they really wanted"
Brian O | January 14, 2019 at 4:26 am |
It just seems natural to think that TT could end up in LA.
Thompson’s strong play resulting in opposing interest, calls to Cavs – Amico Hoops
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