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<div align="center"><p style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic; font-size: 0.9em; width: 700px;"><span class="black-bold">Figure 3</span>. NETLOGO Simulation of the field: sexyplants, female moths, pheromone diffusion and male moths.</p></div>
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Sexual communication among moths is accomplished chemically by the release of an "odor" into the air. This "odor" consists of sexual pheromones.
Figure 1. Female moth releasing sex pheromones and male moth.
Pheromones are molecules that easily diffuse in the air. During the diffusion process, the random movement of gas molecules transport the chemical away from its source [1]. Diffusion processes are complex ones, and modeling them analytically and with accuracy is difficult. Even more when the geometry is not simple. For this reason, we decided to consider a simplified model in which pheromone chemicals obey to the heat diffusion equation. Then, the equation is solved using the Euler numeric approximation in order to obtain the spatial and temporal distribution of pheromone concentration.
Moths seem to respond to gradients of pheromone concentration to be attracted towards the source. Yet, there are other factors that lead moths to sexual pheromone sources, such as optomotor anemotaxis [2]. Moreover, increasing the pheromone concentration to unnaturally high levels may disrupt male orientation [3].
Using a modeling environment called Netlogo, we simulated the approximate moths behavior during the pheromone dispersion process. So, this will help us to predict moth response when they are also in presence of Sexy Plant.
Sol I. Rubinow, Mathematical Problems in the Biological Sciences, chap. 9, SIAM, 1973
J. N. Perry and C. Wall , A Mathematical Model for the Flight of Pea Moth to Pheromone Traps Through a Crop, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 10 May 1984 vol. 306 no. 1125 19-48
W. L. Roelofs and R. T. Carde, Responses of Lepidoptera to synthetic sex pheromone chemicals and their analogues, Annual Review of Entomology Vol. 22: 377-405, 1977
Since pheromones are chemicals released into the air, we have to consider both the motion of the fluid and the one of the particles suspended in the fluid.
The motion of fluids can be described by the Navier–Stokes equations. But the typical nonlinearity of these equations when there may exist turbulences in the air flow, makes most problems difficult or impossible to solve. Thus, attending to the particles suspended in the fluid, a simpler effective option for pheromone dispersion modeling consists in the assumption of pheromones diffusive-like behavior. That is, pheromones are molecules that can undergo a diffusion process in which the random movement of gas molecules transport the chemical away from its source [1].
There are two ways to introduce the notion of diffusion: either using a phenomenological approach starting with Fick's laws of diffusion and their mathematical consequences, or a physical and atomistic one, by considering the random walk of the diffusing particles [2].
In our case, we decided to model our diffusion process using the Fick's laws. Thus, it is postulated that the flux goes from regions of high concentration to regions of low concentration, with a magnitude that is proportional to the concentration gradient. However, diffusion processes are complex, and modelling them analytically and with accuracy is difficult. Even more when the geometry is not simple (e.g. consider the potential final distribution of our plants in the crop field). For this reason, we decided to consider a simplified model in which pheromone chemicals obey the heat diffusion equation.
The diffusion equation is a partial differential equation that describes density dynamics in a material undergoing diffusion. It is also used to describe processes exhibiting diffusive-like behavior, like in our case. The equation is usually written as:
$$\frac{\partial \phi (r,t) }{\partial t} = \nabla • [D(\phi,r) \nabla \phi(r,t)]$$
where $\phi(r, t)$ is the density of the diffusing material at location r and time t, and $D(\phi, r)$ is the collective diffusion coefficient for density $\phi$ at location $r$; and $\nabla$ represents the vector differential operator.
If the diffusion coefficient does not depend on the density then the equation is linear and $D$ is constant. Thus, the equation reduces to the linear differential equation: $$\frac{\partial \phi (r,t) }{\partial t} = D \nabla^2 \phi(r,t)$$
also called the heat equation. Making use of this equation we can write the pheromones chemicals diffusion equation with no wind effect consideration as:
$$\frac{\partial c }{\partial t} = D \nabla^2 C = D \Delta c$$
where c is the pheromone concentration, $\Delta$ is the Laplacian operator, and $D$ is the pheromone diffusion constant in the air.
If we consider the wind, we face a diffusion system with drift, and an advection term is added to the equation above.
$$\frac{\partial c }{\partial t} = D \nabla^2 c - \nabla \cdot (\vec{v} c )$$
where $\vec{v}$ is the average velocity. Thus, $\vec{v}$ would be the velocity of the air flow in or case.
For simplicity, we are not going to consider the third dimension. In $2D$ the equation would be:
$$\frac{\partial c }{\partial t} = D \left(\frac{\partial^2 c }{\partial^2 x} + \frac{\partial^2 c }{\partial^2 y}\right) – \left(v_{x} \cdot \frac{\partial c }{\partial x} + v_{y} \cdot \frac{\partial c }{\partial y} \right) = D \left( c_{xx} + c_{yy}\right) - \left(v_{x} \cdot c_{x} + v_{y} \cdot c_{y}\right) $$
In order to determine a numeric solution for this partial differential equation, the so-called finite difference methods are used. With finite difference methods, partial differential equations are replaced by its approximations as finite differences, resulting in a system of algebraic equations. This is solved at each node $(x_i,y_j,t_k)$. These discrete values describe the temporal and spatial distribution of the particles diffusing.
Although implicit methods are unconditionally stable, so time steps could be larger and make the calculus process faster, the tool we have used to solve our heat equation is the Euler explicit method, for it is the simplest option to approximate spatial derivatives.
The equation gives the new value of the pheromone level in a given node in terms of initial values at that node and its immediate neighbors. Since all these values are known, the process is called explicit.
$$c(t_{k+1}) = c(t_k) + dt \cdot c'(t_k),$$
Now, applying this method for the first case (with no wind consideration) we followed the next steps:
1. Split time $t$ into $n$ slices of equal length dt: $$ \left\{ \begin{array}{c} t_0 &=& 0 \\ t_k &=& k \cdot dt \\ t_n &=& t \end{array} \right. $$
2. Considering the backward difference for the Euler explicit method, the expression that gives the current pheromone level each time step is:
$$c (x, y, t) \approx c (x, y, t - dt ) + dt \cdot c'(x, y, t)$$
3. And now considering the spatial dimension, central differences is applied to the Laplace operator $\Delta$, and backward differences are applied to the vector differential operator $\nabla$ (in 2D and assuming equal steps in x and y directions):
$$c (x, y, t) \approx c (x, y, t - dt ) + dt \left( D \cdot \nabla^2 c (x, y, t) - \nabla \vec{v} c (x, y, t) \right)$$ $$ D \cdot \nabla^2 c (x, y, t) = D \left( c_{xx} + c_{yy}\right) = D \frac{c_{i,j-1} + c_{i,j+1} + c_{i-1,j } + c_{i+1,j} – 4 c_{I,j}}{s} $$ $$ \nabla \vec{v} c (x, y, t) = v_{x} \cdot c_{x} + v_{y} \cdot c_{y} = v_{x} \frac{c_{i,j} – c_{i-1,j}}{h} + v_{y} \frac{c_{i,j} – c_{i,j-1}}{h} $$
With respect to the boundary conditions, they are null since we are considering an open space. Attending to the implementation and simulation of this method, dt must be small enough to avoid instability.
J. Philibert. One and a half century of diffusion: Fick, Einstein, before and beyond. Diffusion Fundamentals, 2,1.1-1.10, 2005.
When one observes moths behavior, they apparently move with erratic flight paths. This is possibly to avoid predators. This random flight is modified by the presence of sex pheromones. Since these are pheromones released by females in order to attract an individual of the opposite sex, it makes sense that males respond to gradients of sex pheromone concentration, being attracted towards the source. As soon as a flying male randomly enters into a conical pheromone-effective sphere of sex pheromone released by a virgin female, the male begins to seek the female following a zigzag way. The male approaches the female, and finally copulates with her [1].
In Sexy Plant we approximate the resulting moth movement as a vectorial combination of a gradient vector and a random vector. The magnitude of the gradient vector depends on the change in the pheromone concentration level between points separated by a differential stretch in space. More precisely, the gradient points in the direction of the greatest rate of increase of the function, and its magnitude is the slope of the graph in that direction. The random vector is constrained in this ‘moth response’ model by a fixed angle upper bound, assuming that the turning movement is relatively continuous. For example, one can asume that the moth cannot turn 180 degrees from one time instant to the next.
Our synthetic plants are supposed to release enough sexual pheromone so as to be able to saturate moth perception. In this sense the resulting moth vector movement will depend ultimately on the pheromone concentration levels in the field and the moth ability to follow better or worse the gradient of sex pheromone concentration.
The three clases of male moth behavior we consider for the characterization of males moth behavior are described in Table 1.
Table 1. Male moths behaviour characterization.
This ensemble of behaviors can be translated into a sum of vectors in which the random vector has constant module and changing direction within a range, whereas the module of the gradient vector is a function of the gradient in the field. The question now is how do we include the saturation effect in the resulting moth shift vector. With this in mind, and focusing on the implementation process, our approach consists on the following:
To model chemoattraction, the gradient vector will be always have fixed unit magnitude, and its direction is that of the greatest rate of increase of the pheromone concentration.
To model the random flight, instead of using a random direction vector with constant module, we consider a random turning angle starting from the gradient vector direction.
Thus, how do we include the saturation effect in the resulting moth shift vector? This is key to achieve sexual confusion. Our answer: the behaviour dependence on the moth saturation level --in turn related to the pheromone concentration in the field-- will be included in the random turning angle.
Table 1. Approximation of the male moths behaviour.
This random turning angle will not follow a uniform distribution, but a Poisson distribution in which the mean is zero (no angle detour from the gradient vector direction) and the standard-deviation will be inversely proportional to the intensity of the gradient of sex pheromone concentration in the field. This approach leads to ‘sexual confusion’ of the insect as the field homogeneity increases. This is because the direction of displacement of the moth will equal the gradient direction with certain probability which depends on how saturated it is.
Yoshitoshi Hirooka and Masana Suwanai. Role of Insect Sex Pheromone in Mating Behavior I. Theoretical Consideration on Release and Diffusion of Sex Pheromone in the Air. J. Ethol, 4, 1986
Using a modeling environment called Netlogo, we simulate the approximate moth population behavior when the pheromone diffusion process take place.
The Netlogo simulator can be found in its website at Northwestern University. To download the source file of our Sexy plant simulation in Netlogo click here: sexyplants.nlogo
We consider three agents: male and female moths, and sexy plants.
We have two kinds of sexual pheromone emission sources: female moths and sexyplants.
Our scenario is an open crop field where sexy plants are intercropped, and moths fly following different patterns depending on its sex.
Females, apart from emitting sexual pheromones, move following erratic random flight paths. After mating, females do not emit pheromones for a period of 2 hours.
Males also move randomly while they are under its detection threshold. But when they detect a certain pheromone concentration, they start to follow the pheromone concentration gradients until its saturation threshold is reached.
Sexy plants act as continuously- emitting sources, and their activity is regulated by a Switch.
The pheromone diffusion process, it is simulated in Netlogo by implementing the Euler explicit method.
Figure 1. NETLOGO Simulation environment.
When sexy plants are switched-off, males move randomly until they detect pheromone traces from females. In that case they follow them.
When sexy plants are switched-on, the pheromone starts to diffuse from them, rising up the concentration levels in the field. At first, sexy plants have the effect of acting as pheromone traps on the male moths.
Figure 2.On the left: sexy plants are switched-off and a male moth follows the pheromone trace from a female. On the right: sexy plants are switched on and a male moth go towards the static source as it happens with synthetic pheromone traps.
As the concentration rises in the field, it becomes more homogeneous. Remember that the random turning angle of the insect follows a Poisson distribution, in which the standard-deviation is inversely proportional to the intensity of the gradient. Thus, the probability of the insect to take a bigger detour from the faced gradient vector direction is higher. This means that it is less able to follow pheromone concentration gradients, so sexual confusion is induced.
Figure 3. NETLOGO Simulation of the field: sexyplants, female moths, pheromone diffusion and male moths.
The parameters of this model are not as well-characterized as we expected at first. Finding the accurate values of these parameters is not a trivial task. In the literature it is difficult to find a number experimentally obtained. So we decided to take an inverse engineering approach. The parameters ranges we found in the literature are:
Range of physical search: 0.01-0.2 cm^2/s
References: [1], [2], [3], [5]
Release rate (female)
Range of physical search: 0.02-1 µg/h
References: [4], [5], [8]
Release rate (Sexy Plant)
The range of search that we have considered is a little wider than the one for the release rate of females.
References: Primary sexpheromone components are approximately defined as those emitted by the calling insect that are obligatory for trap catch in the field at component emission rates similar to that used by the insect [4].
Detection threshold
Range of physical search: 1000 molecules/ cm3
Saturation threshold
References: It generally has been found that pheromone dispensers releasing the chemicals above a certain emission rate will catch fewer males. The optimum release rate or dispenser load for trap catch varies greatly among species [4].
Range of physical search: 1-5[Mass]/[ Distance]^2
Moth sensitivity
This is a parameter referred to the capability of the insect to detect changes in pheromone concentration in the patch it is located and the neighbor patch. When the field becomes more homogeneous, an insect with higher sensitivity will be more able to follow the gradients.
Range: 0 - 10 m/s
References: [7]
The number of males and females can be selected by the observer.
One can modify the number of patches that conform the field so as to analyze its own case. In our case we used a field of 50x50 patches.
Wilson et al.1969, Hirooka and Suwanai, 1976.
Monchich abd Mauson, 1961, Lugs, 1968.
G. A. Lugg. Diffusion Coefficients of Some Organic and Other Vapors in Air.
W. L. Roelofs and R. T. Carde. Responses of Lepidoptera to Synthetic Sex Pheromone Chemicals and their Analogues, Page 386.
R.W. Mankiny, K.W. Vick, M.S. Mayer, J.A. Coeffelt and P.S. Callahan (1980) Models For Dispersal Of Vapors in Open and Confined Spaces: Applications to Sex Pheromone Trapping in a Warehouse, Page 932, 940.
Tal Hadad, Ally Harari, Alex Liberzon, Roi Gurka (2013) On the correlation of moth flight to characteristics of a turbulent plume.
Average Weather For Valencia, Manises, Costa del Azahar, Spain.
The aim consists of reducing the possibility of meeting among moths of opposite sex. Thus, we will analyze the number of meetings in the three following cases:
When sexy plants are switched-off and males only interact with females.
When sexy plants are switched-on and have the effect of trapping males.
When sexy plants are switched-on and males get confused as the level of pheromone concentration is higher than their saturation threshold.
It is also interesting to analyze a fourth case, what does it happen if females wouldn’t emit pheromones and males just move randomly through the field? This gives an idea of the minimum number of male-female encounters that we should expect in a fully random scenario, with no pheromones at play.
Males and females move randomly. How much would our results differ from the rest of cases?
If Sexy Plant works, the first scenario should give higher number of encounters than the second and third ones.
With all values fixed excepting the number of males and females, we started the simulations. Each test was simulated more than once, in order to consider the stochastic nature of the process. Again, we considered different sub-scenarios for each one of the cases mentioned above. In particular, we considered the cases of having male and female subpopulations of equal size, or one larger than the other one.
What does it happen when the number of females is equal to the number of males? (F=M)
T_{0} : Start
T_{1000}: Switch-ON
T_{2000}: End
The results show that the number of encounters during the time sexy plants are switched-on is almost the same, but in most cases lower than when sexy plants are switched-off.
The time at which the insects start to get confused and move randomly is shorter as the population increases. Even for high numbers, males get confused before sexy plants are switched-on. That is because there is such amount of females that they saturate the field. This rarely happens in nature, so when this occurs in our simulation we should think that we are out of real scenarios, and then we should modify the rest of parameter values. In these experiments we see that at a population equal to 12 we start be on this limit (insects gets confused when the sexy plants are going to be switched-on).
An aspect that should also be considered is the time of the insects getting confused among experiments, (when the number of females is the same). One could think that this “saturation” time would depend on the number of encounters before it happens. Since females wouldn’t be emitting pheromones after mating, males should get confused later if the previous number of meetings is larger. However, results are not decisive in this matter.
Based on the results of experiment 1, we fixed 10 as the top number of females for the next tests. The number of females is conserved in each test.
It is observed that the number of encounters is higher if the number of males increases (this makes sense).
In all cases it can be deduced that while the number of males increase against the number of females, the time required for them to get confused is larger. This possibly has its origin in the number of encounters, which is higher according to the first point. When males mate females, they give up emitting pheromones during a certain period of time, so the contribution to the field saturation decreases.
In contrast with the Experiment 1, it is observed that while the number of males increases, the number of encounters is considerably higher when sexy plants are switched-off than when they are switched-on. This is seen with more clarity when the number of males is larger. We believe that with more experiments, this fact can be easily tested.
Comparing Experiments 1 and 2
Experiment 1: F=10 M=10
In this experiment we did not see the result we are looking for. We are interested in obtaining a high proportion in the third column when sexy plants are working. We see that the graphs counting the number of encounters (purple for the Switch-OFF, green for the Switch-ON) are very similar, so the effect is not achieved satisfactorily.
In this experiment we do see the result we are looking for. We are interested in obtaining a high proportion in the third column when sexy plants are working. We see that the graphs counting the number of encounters (purple for the Switch-OFF, green for the Switch-ON) differ visibly, so the effect is achieved.
Females don’t emit pheromones. Thus, males and females move randomly. How much would our results differ from the ones with females emitting?
In almost every cases, the number of encounters is higher when females emit pheromones. It means that in our model, males can follow females being guided by pheromone concentration gradients. Moreover, it is seen in the interface during simulations. Results for “pheromone emission”. Showed below are an average of an amount of experiments.
Also see the contribution of the pheromone supply to the environment depending on the number of females (directly related) and the number of meetings (inversely related) For population 1 to 1 and this time ending given, no more than 2 encounters have been observed. In contrast with the random movement, in which not encounters have been showed in the range of experiments we have checked.
We have used a methodology for the results comparison in which experiments have been repeated several times. The interpretation of the performances has based on the values obtained. Nevertheless an exhaustive replay of the same realizations would give us more accurate values.
The experiments with the same number of males than females give results we haven’t expected. Maybe changing the model parameter values one would obtain a different kind of performance.
Other aspect that we have taken into account is that some of the encounters during the time males are following pheromone traces from females may be also due to random coincidence.
We have used a procedure useful to discard scenarios and contrast different realizations. With this, logic conclusions can be derived. Thus, they are a way of leading a potential user of this application to widen the search of parameters and improve our model. And that could be useful to know the limitations of our system and helpful to decide the final distribution of our synthetic plants in the field.
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Page 1, 30 May 1863 — NEWS OF THE WEEK.
30 MAY 1863, Page 1
THE election of M. niers for the second division of Paris, which is believed to be certain, has put M. de Persigny beside himself. He has actually placarded an address to the electors in favour of M. Devinck, the chocolate-maker, in which he asserts that the "illustrious historian" desires "the re-estab- lishment of a regim which has been fatal to France and to himself----of a re'gime flattering to the vanity of a few, and disastrous for the welfare of all—which removes authority from its natural basis to throw it as food for the passions of the tribune—which replaces the fruitful movement of action by the sterile agitation of harangues—which for eighteen years produced only impotence at home and weakness -abroad, and which, having commenced in street disturbance, continued amid the noise of such disturbance, and ended in in- surrection." A. very clever sentence, but Governments should never write too well. The electors, most of them Orleanist bourgeoisie, are irritated, and. the seat is safe, while the wits of Paris declare that M. Thiers has stamped his name upon history, M. Devinck only on chocolate.
Parliament re-assembled on Thursday, and the House of Commons discussed the Churchward case. Mr. Walpole made a motion which, stripped of technicalities, meant that the decision of the Committee which had reported that "Mr. Churchward's contract was, on his part, a corrupt one," should be annulled. This view was supported chiefly on the matter of form, it being unusual for the House to dictate the specific use to be made of any vote in supply; but Mr. Glad- stone proved that the vote, though unusual, was not without precedent, and the House, by a vote of 205 to 191, affirmed the view taken by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. Churehward, therefore, has lost his contract; but a better system is still wanted to prevent individual members from interesting themselves in screwing the Treasury.
Mr. Goschen has been accepted as the Liberal candidate for the City of London, and will, it appears, be elected. The choice does the City credit, the metropolitan borough being the first to break up the bad system so prevalent in the great towns of sending to the House only middle-aged medio- crities. If that system lasts much longer, Government must be handed. over theoretically, as it now is practically, to the Peers, and the Lower House need not retain even the talking automa- tons who now represent the Executive within its walls. We trust, however, that other boroughs, with the City example before them, will pluck up courage to defy the sort of church- warden dictatorship under which they are apt to groan. Mr. Goschen's address is that of a staunch Liberal, who is not afraid of reform, who will support a free foreign policy, and, while adhering to the Church of England, aid to reform her. We only regret that he.should have accepted the absurd idea that the privileges of the City—which are privileges and not rights —are bound up with the great question of self-government. As well might Convocation assert it was essential to the Church of England.
Lord Palmerston has not come up to the meeting of Parlia- ment, and it is rumoured has been ill—seriously—these three days.
We have ascertained that the retention of Lieutenant- General Cameron, in the command at New Zealand, was not determined upon by the Secretary of State for War in oppo- sition to the wishes of the Commander-in-Chief, as intimated by a usually accurate military contemporary. The decision to which Lord de Grey has come in the matter, with the cordial concurrence of the Colonial Secretary, might better be described as a return to the arrangement originally advo- cated by the Duke of Cambridge, instead of as a step taken ia opposition to his views. The Commander-in-Chief has always been favourable to the retention of the Lieutenant-General in the New Zealand command.
Early on the 11th of November last the cart of a man named Fuller was seen standing in the road against a planta- tion belonging to a Mr. Birch. At three o'clock in the after- noon a policeman met Fuller in the Thetford road, and asked him if he had any game. Ile replied, "Two or three rabbits." In his cart were found four rabbits, a hare, and a partridge. The magistrates convicted him of having "obtained such game by unlawfully going on thel and of Mr. Birch in search of game." The Court of Queen's Bench held on appeal that they could not say there were no facts from which to draw this conclu- sion, and that the new Poaching Act had given magistrates the power to draw such an inference; and that, therefore, though they thought the facts insufficient to justify the con- clusion, the conviction must stand. Game-preserving magis- trates are authorized by law to draw untenable conclusions, and fine Englishmen by virtue of them. This is lawlessness legalized.
The dogs at Islington are in greater force and finer con- dition than ever. The Duke of Beaufort's foxhounds are there, this time in admirable order and beauty, being assembled in. a large laced-wire pavilion of their own, where they are pre- served from all undue excitement and the assiduities of visitors. The larger hounds stand up with great dignity on a kind of dais within the pavilion, which they evidently regard as their own rightful station, whence now and then one of them condescends to come down and mix with the common pack for a few minutes, but soon returns to the raised platform with his peers. There they stand, contemplatively wagging their tails at the deers below. The Prince of Wales's harriers are also very graceeul creatures, and there is a magnificent show of the Scotch deerhounds—the true nobles of the canine species. There is one very fine and formidable American slavehound,—dark, menacing, fatal,—and Cuban bloodhounds used for the same purpose, but appearine.e' comparatively inoffensive. The only intellectual idea which appears to be anxiously impressed on the minds of the dogs, is the same so intimately associated with the splashboareof the Hansom cabs, namely, Mappin's razors, the announcement of which has evidently more novelty for the dogs than for their masters. We saw a saga- cious pointer much impressed by the importance of the placard, and engaged in mastering the direction with an evident inten- tion to shave.
Mr. Roebuck made on Tuesday an open-air harangue, to prove to the inhabitants of Sheffield that we ought at once to acknowledge the South. Mr. Roebuck thought it would not lead to a war with America, and would lead to a peace in America; but if it did lead to war with America, it would lead to cotton too, and would therefore be good. The speech, which wehave elsewhere examined, was spasmodic, exceedingly poor, and much interrupted, and after he had done the clergy Mr. Bernal Osborne has been amusing his constituents at Liskeard with a sort of comic Parliamentary chronicle of the last two years. He praised the Revised Code, eulo- gized Mr. Gladstone, and found fault with the general absence of political work in Parliament, but the serious work of his speech was devoted to jokes. The House of Commons had become an Agapemone—an abode of love ; the Government was like Mrs. jellaby in Dickens's story, benevolently pre- paring flannel waistcoats for Italian constitutions, and neg- lecting the wants of constitutional sufferers at home. The Tories were extinct, or, if not, still extant in the red sandstone of Devon ; perhaps the Abbeville jaw-bone might have been the jaw-bone of an aboriginal Tory. The Whigs, "pure, but not simple," were also extinct. A few, possibly, still existed in the House of Lords—political Dodos, without either wings or tail. Mr. Osborne is great on the subject of non-intervention. He does not approve at all of putting a finger into the Polish and Italian "pies," as he facetiously expresses it, "to the neglect of our English roast beef,"—by which he means, apparently, refusing to ex- tend the suffrage. The simile is, no doubt, a delicate com- pliment to our British Constitution, which Mr. Osborne likens to the joint, while the new Continental ones are mere entrées; but Mr. Osborne's imagination runs wild with him when he touches the subject of food, or he must really wish to depre- cate reform when he likens it to fingering roast beef ;—which suggests unpleasant ideas of unduly rich gravy.
Miss Rye has arrived in Otago, New Zealand, with her first batch of female emigrants, has provided for almost all, and has written a long account of her experiences. She says the arrangements in emigrant ships are such that she believes the tales of fearful immoralities on board them to be too true, so true that she would almost ask for Government supervision. At Dunedin the immigration barracks are infamous. They were, when she wrote (16th March), full of women, and the Government had placed a body of mounted police in the building, with what consequences may be imagined. Every girl does as she likes as to ingress and egress, there is no con- trol, and "a more discreditable place does not exist under the sun," illegitimate children being already come, and coming, while the attics are occupied by women of the town. This evil can be, and ought to be, remedied at once, though Miss Rye will find that, as she cannot imprison grown women, nothing but their own principles will protect them ; but the immorali- ties on board ship are more difficult of prevention ; official inspection is no use, for quis custodiet ipsos custodes, and there must be sailors, and officers, and doctors on board. The only perfect remedy, we fear, is either to send the women out in such small batches that supervision is possible ; or to man ships expressly for the business, choosing only married officers, and paying their wives to accompany them ; or to select only emigrants who can be relied on when away from the control of home opinion. The fault is not so exclusively with the officers as Miss Rye seems to imagine. The writer could name a surgeon to a female emigrant ship who was persecuted nearly out of his commission, because an engagement at home kept him decently correct.
There never was a great cause committed to men so incom- petent as those who bear rule in the Northern States. Mr. Vallandigham, Senator for Ohio, is, it is well known, an ultra-Democrat, and probably a secret sympathizer with the South. He recently made a speech at Dayton denouncing the war, deprecating its continuance, and denying its success. He called it a war for releasing blacks and enslaving whites, but urged his audience not to resist the laws. For this General Burnside has had him arrested by soldiers, tried by court-martial, and sentenced to two years' transportation to the Dry Tortugas. The President has confirmed the con- viction, but diminished the punishment to banishment to the South. A more illegal act of violence was never perpetrated. A court-martial has about as much right to try civilians in Ohio as in London, and banishment is not a sentence known to any kind of American law. Mr. Vallan.digham had as much right to oppose the war as Mr. Seward to promote it, and as a member of Congress his officially recognized duty was to tell• his constituents his honest opinion. In England such an act would have been instantly met by the dismissal of the South, and a Wesleyan, the Rev. J. Guttridge, moving an amendment in favour of neutrality. The Unitarian and Mr. ' Roebuck carried the day, a large majority of the ten thou- sand preferring to interfere on behalf of the slave-power. took up the battle ; a Unitarian Minister, the Rev. J. Minister at War who advised the confirmation of the verdi Page Hopps, moving the resolution to acknowledge the but the American Constitution is so devised that the Executia have all power, no permanency, and no responsibility.
The news of the week from America is of slight import- ance. The retreat over the Rappahannock has been received without depression, and General Hooker has issued a general order which almost claims the victory. "By fighting at a. disadvantage, we would," he says, "have been recreant to our trust, to ourselves, to our cause, and to our country," and he therefore retreated, but not till he had "taken from the enemy 5,000 prisoners and fifteen colours, captured seven pieces of artillery, and placed hors de combat 18,000 of the foe's chosen troops, destroyed his depots, filled with vast amounts of stores, damaged his communications, captured prisoners within the fortifications of his capital, and filled his country with fear and consternation." Generals in command should not employ Irishmen to write their bulletins. They can be modest for themselves, but not for other people. This. bulletin is nearly as full of inverted facts as if it had been written by a Napoleon.
The facts recently detailed in the Spectator as to the organi- zation of the secret Government of Poland have been confirmed by the special correspondent of the Times. He says it has- officers all over Poland, and a national police, transmits- itx orders by telegraph, though that is in Russian hands, and levies the taxes, which the regular Government is quite unable to collect. Three Jews offered to buy some plundered property, and paid up part of the purchase-money, but the Committee forbade the transaction, and they were compelled. to yield. The Russian Government has nominated M. Laski Director of the Bank of Warsaw, but the National Government have ordered him not to sit. They have, more- over, annulled the contract between the Government and Sir- Morton Peto for supplying Warsaw with water-works, and the writer believes the contractors will consequently find it impossible to execute it. The Archduke cannot cope with a power which every Pole is bound to obey, which issues six. newspapers in Warsaw, and has recently ordered all absentee landholders to return at once to their estates. They are, moreover, carefully protecting the peasantry, and it is said_ that this class are at last turning towards the Revolution.
The Prussian struggle has ended in a truly Prussian way. Finding that the Chamber would not give way, the King sent down a message stating that their claim to exercise discipline over the Ministers was illegal, and compromised the dignity of his Crown. The members, nothing daunted, responded by an address, in which they re-assert their right, declare the conduct of the Ministry unconstitutional, and once more fulfil their conscientious duty by "declaring to your Majesty, with the profoundest respect, that the House or Deputies has no means left of coming to an understanding with this Ministry, and that it refuses its co-operation with the present policy of the Government. Every fresh trans- action does but confirm it in the persuasion that, between the counsellors of the Crown and the country there exists a chasm which cannot be filled up otherwise than by a change of persons, and still more by a change of system." The in g received the address, and replied on the .27th May by a decree in which he threatens that, if in case of war, the Chamber re- fuses supplies, "he will seriously oppose such unjustifiable efforts to extend the constitutional rights of the members," and prorogues the Chamber. He, however, strikes no coup d' etat, but hopes for a better understanding; and so the quarrel goes on without ever coming to a head.
A telegram from Copenhagen informs us that the difficulties which impeded the settlement of the Greek question are settled. Prince William accepts the throne for himself and his descendants. So the Greeks have at last a king, till the next hitch.
The annual meeting of the British and Foreign Anti- Slavery Society was held on Saturday, but without Lord Brougham. His lordship, it appears, considers that to act as chairman to a meeting held to condemn slavery would be "to depart from that strict neutrality which, in England, ought to be maintained in regard to events taking place in America." Murders are taking place there—are we not to condemn murder for fear of breaking our neutrality ? The cause, however, regained an old adherent. Mr. C. Buxton has convinced him- self, we are happy to see, that the decree of emancipation has not produced a servile war, and is, therefore, once again the friend of the slave. He even ventured to say that, with the ,aperation of the American Government, they might hope in few years to see the abolition of slavery throughout the world. We welcome the member for Maidstone back to the only position worthy of his name, but we would ask him one question. If Poles have a right to rebel because they were kidnapped for soldiers—a proposition he has supported in the House—why have not Degrees who are kidnapped in order to do much harder work ?
It is to be hoped that the Royal Commission on the subject of army prize, for which Colonel North is to move on the 23rd of June, will be granted without opposition. We are, at the present day, not merely a maritime but a military nation, and the protection which Parliament has given, through the medium of the Court of Admiralty, to those who make captures at sea, ought undoubtedly to be extended to army prize. The prize-money of our soldiers should be quite as sacred as the spoil taken by our frigates, and it is impossible to understand why law and precedent should determine the latter class of claims and not the former. But if military booty is to be distributed simply by the exercise of the royal prerogative, it must still be borne in mind that the Crown is, in this case, merely dispensing a public trust, and it is much to be desired that some fixed rules and principles of distribu- tion similar to those which are recognized in the Court of Admiralty, should be laid down by competent authority. Rules are even more wanted in the army than the fleet. Prize stops plunder, and plunder ruins discipline.
Victor Emanuel opened the second Italian Parliament on the 25th May, in a manly and able speech. After a touching reference to Cavour, the "illustrious man who was so power- ful an aid in the work of regeneration," the marriage of his daughter, and sundry commercial treaties, including one about to be arranged with Great Britain, he referred to the organization of the new army, "remarkable for an equal valour, an equal discipline" with that of the Subalpine king- dom, and a navy "which would not fail to keep pace with the progress of the army." His "most fervent wish was that the nation should securely rely on the strength of its own armaments, and that the whole of Europe should acknow- ledge this reliance." "Freedom," he continued, "every- where exhibits its wonted results—order and well-being," the "locomotive has crossed the Trento," and the great duty now is the finances. For if "the capital of Europe flowed freely in obedience to our call, trusting the new order of things which has been established among us, it is a debt of honour on our part to meet such confidence with ready sacri- fices." For himself, "secure and unterrified (impavido), he hastened with firm faith the fulfilment of the destinies of Italy." The speech was received with deep feeling, and a sentence in which the King observed that "France acknow- ledged the opportunity of military arrangements for the sup- pression of brigandage, and was ready to act with Italy," has created some excitement in Paris.
It is reported that the Papacy has felt the emotion of shame.
s. Orders, it is confidently affirmed, will be issued to dissever the Roman Government from any farther connection with brigandage, and it is said that Padre Curci, whose sermon, when quoted by Lord Palmerston, so smashed poor Sir G. Bowyer, had received 'orders from the Vatican. The report needs confirmation, but Jesuit priests do not often preach unpleasant things without orders.
The Times calls attention to the case of the family of the late Sir R. Inglis, He defended Lucknow, but, surviving the siege, was rewarded with a regiment and the command at Corfu. Unfortunately he died too soon to make any provi- sion for his family, and his widow, daughter of Lord Chelms- ford, only receives a widow's pension of 140/. a year. It is contended that as the widow and son of Sir H. Havelock received each 1,000/. a year, and Sir W. Williams the same sum for the defence of Kars, Lady Inglis should be placed in the same position.
Mr. T. Hughes repudiates our statement that he is the soul of the Working Men's Club and Institute Union. Very good, we will alter it. He is only its Vice-President and most ardent supporter, whose name excites the confidence of the workmen to such a degree, that by the last report of the society, the mere announcement that he was to speak in favour of a club for Faningdon of itself overcame apparently invincible local obstacles. If anybody else thinks he is the soul, we recommend him to content himself with being the brain. ! The case of Captain Melville White, of the Madras En- gineers, whose treatment by the Peruvian Government was too diseusting and horrible for us to detail, will be brought before the House of Commons next week. This gentleman, who is well known to high Indian officials, and has strong testimonials from many of them, amongst others from Sir F. Halliday, the late Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, for his services during the mutiny, was seized on the 23rd March, 1861, on the pier at Callao, and imprisoned for nine months and seventeen days without a trial of any kind, under a charge which the Peruvian Government have admitted to be wholly groundless. He was not only causelessly confined during this time, but wounded and pricked with bayonets, imprisoned in the foulest and most loathsome places, obliged to lie down among human excrement, kept without food for days together, and all without any exertion on. the part of the English Consul, Mr. John Barton, who cer- tainly seems to have done absolutely less than the French Charge d'Affaires to vindicate the honour of the English flag. None of the circumstances of the case appear to be either disputable or disputed, and the only question that can arise will concern the amount of compensation to be demanded. The law officers of the Crown suggested four thousand five hundred pounds as a suitable compensation,—which, considering that Captain White lost a most valuable contract offered to him by the Ecuadorian Government, the value of which he estimated at twenty thousand pounds, by this infamous treatment, besides losing his health and seriously impairing his eyesight, certainly seems very small. Captain White's statement of his own case is naturally enough couched in a very excited tone—such injuries are exciting—but the French Government have demanded as much as 2001. per diem compensation for the unjust imprisonment of a French subject, Zuderel, during only twenty days ; and another, a cooper, Ross, was hand- somely compensated by 1,600/. for two blows with the fist. At this rate, Captain White's compensation should certainly be enormous ; and though our Government will scarcely be willing to take unreasonable French exactions as its model, it would be a premium on crime to let the Peruvian Govern- ment off for its intentional wickedness for such a sum as that.
Lord Nelson's anagram, "Honor est a Nib," may now be taken by the African travellers Speke and Grant. We men- tioned last week that they had discovered the sources of the White Nile in the Lake Victoria Nyanza, whose northern boundary is on the equator. Their journals have been received, and they themselves will probably be in England before the Geographical Society's last meeting for the session on the 8th June. In any case, Sir Roderick Murchison is empowered to call a special meeting to hear their narrative from their own mouths. They have lived for a year in three neg,ro kingdoms, of which the first and most southerly (on the S.W. coast of the Nyanza Lake) was intelligent and corn paratively civilized, but the third, bounded on the east by the Nile, just after it has issued from the lake, a kingdom of naked savages, supposed to be the man-eaters of Herodotus. Instead of fattening to eat, however, the King appears now to fatten only from a kind of scientific curiosity in the problems of gravitation. His object is to fatten his wives and children till the line from their centre of gravity comes to fall inevit- ably without the base, when, of course, an erect posture be- comes impossible, and their locomotion resembles, we suppose, that of a rolling cylinder. Messrs. Speke and Grant, how- ever, escaped the experiment, and are on their way to con- vince us that the most unapproachable spot in the world, except the tworoles, is also one which no one would, from any merits of its own, be anxious to approach.
Mr. Henry Fawcett is a candidate for the Political Eco- nomy Chair at Cambridge, and we should think no better candidate is at all likely to offer himself. The manual which he has recently published, and which we noticed in these columns, places him among the most comprehensive and lucid of English economists.
Consols are 921931 for transfer, and at 921 921 ex div. for account. The New Threes and Reduced are 911 911. India Five per Cent. Loan is 1101 ; and the Enfaced Paper, 1061. Turkish Six per Cents., 1862, are 721 72t; ditto, Consolides, 52* 52k; Greek 33* 33k; Spanish Passive, 33i 34*; ditto, Certificates, 121 12*;' Dutch, 651. Mexican, 351 35k; and the Conf. Loan 2 to 1 dis. The European Assurance Society have presented their report for 1862, from which it appears that the revenue from new policies has been 14,4761., the premium revenu (133,163/., the balance of receipts over expenses 31,1171., and the increase in the society's assets 67,4611.
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The 2 Bears – ‘Money Man’ ft. Stylo G
posted inDancehall, Electronic, Music, Reggae on August 14, 2014 by BarryGruff
Comprised of Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard and fellow UK DJ/producer Raf Daddy, The 2 Bears have released a series of EPs and remixes since meeting on the club circuit in 2009, a collaboration which culminated with their superb debut album, 2012’s Be Strong. Now, the duo has announced plans for not one, but two new releases: The Lambs Bread and Weepers EP out August 25th, followed by their new LP, The Night Is Young, on October 13th.
Appearing on both releases, their new track ‘Money Man’, sees The 2 Bears shift in a slightly different musical direction. Featuring the vocals of UK reggae artist Stylo G, it begins as an upbeat, bright and happy-go-lucky sounding reggae cut with some playful pop harmonies, before morphing into a big bass dancehall beast, and back again. It is not just the aesthetics they have embraced, discussing their intentions for the release Goddard said: “I love tunes that disguise things. A really sweet melody with a really dark sentiment. ‘Money Man’ is meant to be like that, you can have those glossy reggae records that still say something. We didn’t want to just be in that culture of not saying anything, where it’s all a fantasy world and everyone just goes and gets fucked up but no one says anything.” With ‘Money Man’ The 2 Bears play these dynamics off each other with perfection. Utilizing the steady rhythms, cheery vibes and sunny disposition as a means of allowing the politically-charged lyrical attack on capitalist society and it’s ‘money men’ go down much easier. ‘Money Man’ is all kinds of marvellous from The 2 Bears, and it comes with a pretty snazzy new video to boot, driving home a similar sentiment as the song itself, with added satire and smirking.
The Lambs Bread and Weepers EP out August 25th, followed by their new LP, The Night Is Young, on October 13th via Southern Fried Records.
Dancehall, Electronic, Music, Reggae, Stylo G, The 2 Bears
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Linux-distributor is going to use label Amiga (update)
Under os4online.com, for several years a commercial Xubuntu-based Linux distribution called "OS4 OpenLinux" has been offered. English-language users noticed that the distribution has the same name as the colloquial name for AmigaOS 4 (1, 2) - finally Roberto J. Dohnert who is maintainer of the OS4 OpenLinux-distributor "PC OpenSystems LLC" has delivered a detailed statement.
Dohnert explained that in the past he was engaged with the Amiga and that he had contact to Barry Altman from Commodore USA. Yesterday Dohnert claimed in an article having got in touch with Amiga Inc. due to getting a licence for the name - but without getting an answer. After that Dohnert announced that he does think about to use the copyrighted trademark on his website and then see who will contact him.
This plan now has been put into pratice: In a statement on the website of his Linux-distribution, PC OpenSystems has announced to rename both software products in "Amiga OpenLinux" and "Amiga Enterprise Linux". Additionally (x86-/x64-based) servers, desktop computers and laptops are supposed to be offered with Amiga-logo.
Dohnert carries on participating in the discussion on aw.net and emphasized again that this all was done to get in touch with the owners of the trademark.
Meanwhile the announcement was removed from os4online.com - about 30 minutes after Ben Hermans was logged in on Amigaworld.net for a short time. A screenshot of the anouncement we have saved on our server.
Update: (23.06.13, 18:50, cg)
Meanwhile Dohnert explained that Amiga Inc. did contact him and refused a licence for Linux. But he got some figures for a licence yet: 600 US-Dollar as well as a "annual fee of 5 percent".
After that the logo of OS4 OpenLinux was changed to a design which is highly inspired by the BoingBall. Meanwhile and despite of Dohnert's comments, the original announcement is online again: The intention to sell the software as "Amiga OpenLinux". (cg) (Translation: dr)
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Zahid Sardar
Christie Hemm
Originally published in Small World
San Francisco philanthropist Ann Hatch has long dedicated herself to the making of artful objects.
This past spring, Hatch invited California College of the Arts graphic design professor Jennifer Morla to create textiles.
During his residency last August, Belgian fashion designer Dirk van Saene made Flintstones-esque Wilma cups and saucers, priced from $60.
In fall 2011, Paris fashion designer and artist Aurore Thibout developed a series of silk crepe dresses, which retail for $950 to $1,450.
While a resident, Van Saene created animistic bisque pottery inspired by African masks, including a one-off hand-built vessel titled I Feel Perfectly Terrible. Upcoming artists include Johanna Grawunder, a former partner at architect Ettore Sottsass’s studio in Milan, who will, starting in February, create lamps from found objects.
Artist Jennifer Morla
Jennifer Morla's cutwork wall hangings are made from industrial wool felt.
In the 1980s she founded the Capp Street Project, an arts residency in a Mission district home; in 1997 she cofounded the Oxbow School, an arts program for high school students, in Napa, California. But her most recent project may be her most inclusive. For the Workshop Residence, launched in August 2011, Hatch invites a single designer, artisan, or maker to reside for one to two months in an apartment in an 1860s Victorian building in the industrial Dogpatch neighborhood. During that time, the resident is expected to create and produce limited editions of useful, affordable design objects, which Hatch sells downstairs in the Workshop’s studio-store. Each resident is provided with a production budget and honorarium to make what they like, and program director Braden Weeks Earp corrals Bay Area fabricators to manufacture their work. “Designers and artisans get the chance to try something new,” Hatch says, while local manufacturers get the opportunity to make unusual, artful objects.
What inspired you to start the Workshop Residence?
I thought I’d bring the making spirit back to manufacturers in San Francisco. My focus has always been to bring artists to a home base—a residency from which they can operate and engage with a community. At the Workshop, residents will perhaps find ways to revive industries that are lying fallow in this area and discover new ways of using their tools.
How do you work with designers and artisans?
I choose residents, but they decide what to do. They make loose proposals so we know generally what they will create but not how they will do it. With designer Jennifer Morla, we knew it would be carpets. With J. D. Beltran and Scott Minneman, we knew they would do something with snow globes, and we knew Ann Hamilton would make felt coats. That’s all. There is absolutely no limit to the subject matter. I want there to be an “I-didn’t-expect-that-from-this-artist” element.
What’s your motivation in making affordable things?
The sales need to support the program. I intend to make a viable retail experience that is sustainable for makers and buyers alike, one where artists share in the profits 50-50. Right now I support the residency and the cost of production, but down the road artists will have an equal responsibility in being profitable. It brings us back to community. We are in this together. During their residencies, we ask all our artists to host one or two $25 to $100 daylong workshops for the public.
How do you define “good design”?
I’d say good design is anything that is surprising, whether it is simple or outrageous. It needs no backstory. You don’t need to decode it. Good design is also viscerally interesting. It makes you want to meet the maker and ask, “What else do you do?”
What are some of your successes?
Our first resident, Dirk van Saene, is now showing the editioned cups he made in San Francisco back in Antwerp, where he lives and works, because it is different from the clothing he is known for. Paris-based Aurore Thibout cast antique dresses in plaster, and I did not think they would sell, but they did. They are expensive, at about $10,000 each. We also sell small cups by Aurore ($50) and embroidered bags by Bay Area artist Lauren DiCioccio that look like Chinese take-out bags ($35).
How will the Workshop grow?
We want to see if any of the things we make will have an afterlife, a larger life. People might do a book with Jennifer Morla, or I hope Design Within Reach might carry her rugs and wall dividers. I would love to do a fragrance with former Esprit art director–turned–perfumer DelRae Roth. And I would love to have the Hells Angels, who have a clubhouse near us, make a proposal to do something together!
Artisan Spotlight: Jennifer Morla
After six weeks of experimentation at the Workshop Residence this past spring, award-winning graphic designer Jennifer Morla, former creative director of Design Within Reach, developed a collection of rugs, cutwork wall hangings, and table coverings, all made of gray industrial wool felt.
How did you discover your interest in type and graphic art?
My aunt was an editor at Condé Nast during the 1960s, and my sister and I got to visit the art department: white Formica everywhere, stylish professional women, Breuer chairs, Irving Penn photos on a lightbox, and hundreds of Magic Markers. Heaven!
What personal experiences did you draw on at the Workshop?
When I designed Levi’s flagship shop at Macy’s Herald Square in New York, I created a carpet with white handwriting on a black background, made by Bentley Prince Street Carpets. At DWR, I saw beautiful floor coverings by Spanish designer Nani Marquina and loved her Little Field of Flowers rug.
What was the inspiration for your project?
I first thought that my rugs would be woven using Zapotec looms. I had been to Oaxaca, and I was thinking about stepped pyramid forms. When I decided to use natural gray felt, I thought of using font shapes to form raised patterns. I wanted to work in a low-relief layer, as if the felt were a raised letterpress plate used in printing.
What elements of typography are most evident here?
The Japanese have an expression for the space in between. It is called ma, and it is as important as the space occupied by letterforms. In my wall panels, the blank spaces and cutouts help to define their purpose—to divide a large space without making it seem smaller.
What was the advantage of being a Workshop artist?
The Workshop allowed me to play with materials I would not normally work with, like hemp and various types of Irish Moygashel linen by Ulster Weavers. Until then I had never worked in wool felt. The bas-relief took me to another level—literally—of appreciation for the fonts I use as a graphic designer.
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Tchaiko Omawale: Director, Writer, Producer
In a world is full of injustice, it can be hard to choose just one thing to protest. Do you take a stand against the exploitation of child soldiers? Or human trafficking? Or global warming? Or do you, as the grieving protagonist in Tchaiko Omawale’s “Solace” comes to realize, that you have no choice but to confront the most personal wounds first?
We meet Sole, 17, played by Hope Olaidé Wilson, just as her comatose father is dying, leaving her orphaned and vulnerable. She is sent across the country from her home in New York to Los Angeles to live with her estranged grandmother Irene, played with smothering cheer by Lynn Whitfield.
Instead of being given space to grieve, Sole finds herself held captive by her grandmother’s uptight sunniness, leaving her with no outlets for her sadness and anger. She attempts to comfort herself, binging on hidden stashes of junk food, to no avail. Even in her dreams, she is trapped and writhing with discomfort.
Then she meets the crazy young neighbors.
With Jasmine (Chelsea Tavares) and Guedado (Luke Rampersad), she creates a “trio of motherless souls,” urging them to help her create a piece of protest art that will win her a trip back to her beloved New York City. They too are in spirals of sadness and self-destruction, but, unlike Sole, can’t put their finger on just one thing to protest. They don’t understand her concept, but, with nothing better to do, they embrace protest art as a form of escape.
Wilson’s poignant portrayal of Sole’s desperation makes it easy to see why she is more at ease explaining to her friends the intellectual underpinnings of praxis than it is for her to tell them that she is sad, lonely and confused about the push and pull of intimacy that is driving her to binge and further isolate herself.
The coming-of-age story brings a new twist in that it is not just the teens who find a way to help each other out of their own despair. In the end, Irene finds a way to remove the mask of false cheer that has helped her deal with her own grief by connecting with her granddaughter. In doing so, they find their way to a tenderness, and “Solace,” both had kept under lock and key.
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Interaction data and regional data - Accessibility indices and peripherality indicators
Accessibility indices
Accessibility is the main product of a transport system. It determines the locational advantage of a region relative to all regions. Accessibility indicators can be defined to reflect both within-region infrastructure and infrastructure outside the region of interest which affect this region. Accessibility indicators range from simple infrastructure measure towards complex indicators taking account of connectivity and opportunities.
"Accessibility indicators describe the location of an area with respect to opportunitiesm activities or assets existing in other areas and in the area itself, where ‘area’ may be a region, a city or a corridor [or any other spatial entity of interest]" (Wegener et al., 2002).
The basic mathematical form to describe accessibility is as follows:
where g(Wj) is the activity function and f(cij) is the impedance (or distance) function. Different types of accessibility indicators can then be constructed by specifying different forms of the functions g(Wj) and f(cij), as the following table shows (Schürmann et al., 1997):
Type of accessibility Activity function Impedance function
1 Travel cost Wj | 1 if Wj > Wmin Cij
Accumulated travel cost to a set of activities 0 if Wj < Wmin
2 Daily accessibility Wj 1 if cij < cmax
Accumulated activities in a given travel time 0 if cij > cmax
3 Potential
Exp(-ßcij)
Accumulated activities weighed by a function of travel cost
It is possible to calculate all three types of accessibility, depending on the data needs and purpose of the analysis. The parameter α and ß will also be defined in accordance with the analysis requirements.
In general, accessibility indicators can be calculated for all NUTS levels, i.e. from NUTS-0 level (country level) to NUTS-5 level (municipality level), with applications on NUTS-2 level and NUTS-3 level being the most common ones. Most applications use accessibility to population or accessibility to GDP indicators (i.e. population and GDP being the activity function), but it is also possible to calculate accessibilities to other sets of activities than these (e.g. accessibility to airports, accessibility to universities, accessibility to hospitals), if desired.
Peripherality indicators
Fundamentally, peripherality indicators can be interpreted as an inverse function of accessibility, i.e. the higher the accessibility is, the less peripheral a region is located and vice versa. This, moreover, means that in any case the regional accessibility will be calculated using one of the three types as outlined above, and will afterwards be standardised in a way to construct peripherality indicators.
Two ways of standardising accessibilities to p construct peripherality indicators are commonly used:
1. Standardisation to the interval between 0 and 100, with 0 representing the most central region and 100 the most peripheral region
2. Standardisation at the average of all regions, where high values indicate central and small values peripheral regions.
So as for the accessibility indices, the peripherality indicators can also be constructed for all NUTS levels, with NUTS-2 level and NUTS-3 level being the widely used ones. Usual, peripherality with respect to population or GDP is calculated, but also any other activity function can be applied.
For further information on the calculation of accessibility indices and the application of peripherality indicators please refer to this online paper, or contact us to receive further information on the generation of accessibility indices and peripherality indicators. The following overview provides more insight into the dimension of these indicators and so into the specific settings that can be set for their calculation.
Related documents: Dimensions of accessibility indicators and peripherality indices
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British Reportage of Israel
Wow. You don’t read about this stuff in American papers:
Across the street, behind a cordon, the Rabbi Avraham Greenberg took his Israeli passport from its plastic wallet and slowly set it on fire with a gas lighter until its ashes floated around him. He explained to the small crowd on the pavement that he had been born in the state of Israel but he was ashamed to hold a passport from that country. He stood with more than a dozen Orthodox rabbis who joined in chants of “Judaism here to stay, Zionism no way”.
But many more thousands of Jews attended in support of the rally rather than opposing it, waving Israeli flags and placards saying End Hamas Terror and wearing Stars of David on their faces.
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I’m only three episodes in to this six-episode BBC miniseries and I’m already sad in anticipation that it’s going to be over in three episodes. It’s that good. Put it at the top of your Netflix queue.
I did some rooting around, though, and found that it’s being adapted into a film starring Ben Affleck and Russell Crowe. Barf. It’s a conspiracy thriller so it’s not like it’s some sacred text that’s being defiled but it just has such perfect chemistry that there’s no way a dumb U.S. version condensed to two hours and starrring those bozos will be as good.
It’s to be released in 2009, so we’ll see.
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Resolution: Take the Bitch out of Criticism
One of my New Year’s Resolutions is to try to be nicer to people who like movies I hate. For some reason I’m not bothered if someone hates movies I love, but when someone loves movies I think are bullshit I fly into attack mode. I guess I consider being critical of someone for not liking a movie you like to be pushing an ideology on someone, while being critical of someone for liking a movie is … puncturing an illusion? Or maybe I’m just a jerk. I don’t know. At any rate, I apologize to those who have felt attacked by me and vow to (try to) disagree more elegantly. Though a recent trail of comments on my Facebook status indicates my struggle:
Cynthia hated slumdog millionaire, what is wrong with you people. 12:23am – 10 Comments
Aaron Dobbs at 1:12am January 3
You hate a lot of good movies. Your hating this one isn’t particularly surprising. 🙂
Cynthia Rockwell at 9:20am January 3
and you like a lot of crap, so likewise. 😉
Cynthia Rockwell at 1:06pm January 3
i will add:
-great music
-possibly cutest kids i have ever seen
-the outhouse scene is worth the price of admission alone
but that’s about it.
RT at 1:10pm January 3
is there a short answer to why you hated it? was gonna go see it today? Too Sappy? Manipulative? Etc?
it may not be hollywood but it’s the height of hollywood melodrama, manipulative and obvious and big and bombastic. i scoffed through the entire thing. except the outhouse scene.
seen this? I don’t know much about this org, but their picks & categories seem very lame..what are they thinking? http://awfj.org/eda-awards/2008-eda-award-winners/
TE at 7:55pm January 3
oh, lighten up. it was entertaining and visually grand. i pay good money to be manipulated!
and yes the kids were adorable, makes me want to bring home a little slumdog.
“what will we live on?” “LOVE.” vomit! he is a shellshocked zombie and she’s a gorgeous party girl, they will break up a week later.
MP at 4:29am January 4
i’m with you, cynthia — it was cliched, poorly acted, full of holes, and shamelessly unimaginative. if we pay for manipulation let it at least be good manipulation.
but at least it was fast with lots of music and shiny colors.
Facebook status updates get most of my film criticism these days. I also posted a link to this article, with which I fully agree, but which also does the kind of criticism I tend to do but want to move away from: criticizing the critics rather than the film:
A quick scan through the critical reactions on a review aggregator like Metacritic or Rotten Tomatoes reveals a fountain of excessive praise, as if, with the year’s end approaching and the award-movie field looking paltry and weak, many critics found themselves in possession of use-it-or-lose-it superlatives and decided that Slumdog was their only chance to get rid of them.
But on the fundamentals of the film itself, I fully agree with him:
Slumdog isn’t a terrible movie, but it’s sappy, suspense-free, and packed with one-note characters, including a female lead who’s more object than person. In terms of violence, it’s grittier than most similar pictures, but mostly in a desperately “edgy” way that seems designed to gloss over its blatant sentimentality. The best you can say about it is that it’s stylish schmaltz.
Filed by cynthia rockwell at 12:17 pm under Just Movies
Israel Bombs Anti-Semitism Out of Lebanon
From the Onion, 2006:
“Israel really turned us around on the whole Jew-hating thing,” said Hezbollah leader Sheikh Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, shortly after a U.N.–brokered ceasefire was declared on Aug. 14. “After destroying much of our infrastructure and displacing nearly 1 million civilians, we’ve come to respect Israel as a legitimate power and a beacon of democracy…”
“It’s remarkable to think that, had Hezbollah been capable of making surgical pre-emptive strikes against Israeli military installations and densely populated urban centers, Israel would most likely be renouncing Zionism and abandoning the region at this very moment,” Talbott said in August.
The bombings have had the most significant impact on Lebanon’s youth. Many who saw parents and friends killed in the attacks said they will now spend the rest of their lives supporting Israel.
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traveller stories, culture, beach, landscape, vietnam, asia
This is the continuation of Taste of Vietnam - Part 2: Da Nang and Hoi An.
Finally, we were on our way to Ha Long Bay, a wonderland of over 1600 islands and limestone karsts; this had always been the highlight of the cruise (for me) and I was really looking forward to spending two days in the bay. It takes the ship several hours to negotiate its way deep into the Bay; how a ship this size manages to find a pathway though the islands is incredible, and nearly everyone was up on the various decks to photograph the amazing and unique seascape as we inched towards our stopping point, which we reached around 11.30 am.
Day 1 - Ha Long Bay (Cloudy Day)
Even the poor visibility did not distract from the spectacle – Ha Long Bay is beautiful.
Unfortunately, Mother Nature did not feel like playing along that morning and we sailed through deep mist and motley rain. What the guide books do not tell you, is that these conditions are the norm, rather than the exception. It was disappointing not to see the brilliant turquoise waters of the photos, and we were all pleased that we would be in the bay for two days – surely the sun would shine tomorrow? However, even the poor visibility did not distract from the spectacle – Ha Long Bay is beautiful. The legend goes that a dragon, sent by the Jade Emperor, descended from heaven into this corner of the sea and sprayed a thousand (1600 to be exact) pearls from its mouth, which formed the shaggy limestone stacks you see today. Many of these contain incredible caves which you can explore on foot. The area is vast, and many people choose to explore it by cruising around the Bay on a Junk, for 1, 2 or 3 nights. If you are travelling through the mainland of Vietnam you can do this excursion from Hanoi.
The port of Ha Long is too shallow to accommodate a ship the size of Millennium, so we anchored a little way offshore; the lifeboats are deployed and used to ferry passengers back and forth to the port all day long. The trip takes about 5 minutes and the crew is so organised that there was never more than a few minutes wait to go ashore.
Our boat tour past entire floating villages and dozens of the islands and rock formations.
Our afternoon boat tour was great and we spent several hours gliding along, past entire floating villages and dozens of the islands and rock formations. We visited the Dong Thien Cung cave which was pretty spectacular; amazingly it was only discovered quite recently and completely by chance when a local fisherman drifted into it.
What was rather worrying is that all these floating villages just discharge their waste directly into the sea, which means that there is a significant degree of pollution; surely that must have a detrimental effect on this beautiful environment. Anyone fancy a swim?
Some of the passengers went into Ha Long town for dinner, but we decided to stay on board and explore the next day.
Day 2 - Ha Long Town
Many people grabbed the opportunity to visit Hanoi on this last day in Ha Long Bay, but since this would entail a very early start and nearly 8 hours on a coach (4hours each way with just 4 hours to see the city). There were also a couple of short excursions into the countryside, which could have been quite interesting, but we decided to explore Ha Long Town, which was a bit disappointing. There was not much to see aside from the craft market, but it was interesting roaming the streets and observing life.
All along the main street people had live fish and other seafood in tanks.
All along the main street people had live fish and other seafood in tanks – choose yours and enjoy it super fresh in minutes. There was also a shop selling the most intricately decorated cakes which looked marvellous, as well as some other food stands that were not quite so appetizing, such as a whole roasted baby piglet – it did smell absolutely wonderful though – full of superb Asian spicy fragrances.
I have just read that you can now also do an aerial tour of Ha Long Baythat was introduced in October 2014, so was not available when I was there. I think it would be a wonderful way to see this incredible part of the world.
Someone missed the ship
Our last bit of excitement happened when we were slowly leaving Ha Long Bay at around 10pm; from our balcony we saw a small boat chasing after the ship and frantically trying to gain the attention of the crew. Two passengers had been delayed and were trying to catch up with the ship. Unfortunately, it was too late for them and we later saw them re-boarding the ship a day later in Hong Kong. This type of thing is one of the pitfalls of trying to do your own excursions in a strange country with erratic public transport.
My suggestions
In conclusion, I have to say that my small taste of Vietnam was excellent and exceeded my expectations; it has certainly whetted my appetite for another visit. Touring by cruise ship was not the ideal way to see this diverse country, as we wasted a great deal of time travelling the long distances from the ports to the cities and other attractions. My advice would be to find the perfect land-based tour to give you an in-depth look at lovely Vietnam. Don’t miss the Mekong Delta – those who went said it was the highlight for them, and if possible you could also try to include fabulous Siem Riep in Cambodia – it is really spectacular and is close enough to Vietnam to be included in your itinerary. Happy Travels!
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Nanban, Brixton
It seems like a lifetime ago now, but in 2011 I spent two mad, fun-filled weeks in Japan. I loved every minute of the time I spent in this most beautiful and endlessly hospitable of countries, which I'm sure will surprise nobody who's ever been there themselves. And it will also come as no surprise that I ate many wonderful things there too, from delicate tempura to okonomiyaki, from rich ramen to takoyaki, multi-course Zen Buddhist menus and seafood banquets hung above mountain streams, it was the trip of a lifetime.
Of course, there was the odd challenge as well. The Japanese seem very fond of savoury jellies, which tended to spring up unnanounced in certain more high-end kaiseki menus, often hidden under innocuous-looking vegetables for extra shock factor. I don't dislike savoury jellies per se, it's just I know where I stand with a bit of aspic in a pork pie. The strange, murky lumps of snot wrapped in cabbage given to me in a restaurant in Kyoto, not so much. And if I never again have to eat cod's sperm, or raw squid guts, or bitter deep-fried river fish tasting of soil and bones, it will still be too soon. I skipped into Japan as a fearless food adventurer. I left, chastened and discombobulated, craving anything so familiar as a burger and chips. It's no wonder Noma did so well over there.
Tim Anderson is a man who understands all the things that makes Japanese food so dynamic and rewarding, but crucially also how to harness the best features of the cuisine and repackage it for a London audience. That's not to say the food in Nanban is a tame or watered-down version of Japanese food, such as you might find in a ready-meal or some high-street friendly chain; it's far more complex than that. It's regional Japanese cuisine (in this case from the south of the country, where Anderson has spent most of his time) melded intelligently with modern London, producing a result at once completely unique and - more importantly - great to eat.
Take for example this dish, "Electric Eel", smoked eel with sansho pepper, something called "prickly oil", apple, cucumber and daikon. Smoked eel is one of those ingredients that will be familiar to the Japanese but also many diners of London restaurants - I've had it a the Dairy as well as the Ledbury in the last year at least. With it is sansho pepper, a punchy spice from Japan's Kochi Prefecture, providing the 'electricity' of tongue-tingling heat but also a cute nod to Brixton's Electric Avenue, just round the corner. And on top of all this clever Japanese-Brixton fusion is the fact that it tastes fantastic, from the soft smoky eel to the sharp/sweet cucumber and the texture of fried noodles on top. It's way more than a nifty idea.
Also this, "Curry Goat Tsukumen", a deep bowl of richly meaty ramen (including half a salty, gooey onsen egg), and a separate plate of dipping noodles. There's nothing not to love here, from the complex curry notes of the broth to the bouncy yellow egg noodles to dip in it. Also of note were two sticks of Scotch Bonnet-infused bamboo shoots, eye-wateringly hot and addictively moreish. Just as with the eel dish, the fusion of Japan and Carribbean South London produced a genuinely exciting and unique result. Oh and that plate of spaghetti towards the back? "Mentaiko" pasta, similar to bottarga (fish roe), salty and satisfying with a poached egg on top ready to dispatch a dose of runny yolk once broken with chopsticks. Another work of breathless invention.
There's even a burger, a big heaving juicy thing with gochujang sauce, pork belly and tea egg mayo - so far so Asian - but quite rightly served with plasticky American cheese, who as anyone who knows burgers will tell you is still the best way of doing things. If it ain't broke.
I'll talk about one more thing - "horumon yaki", briefly described as pig tripe in miso but involving a good half dozen other bits that I'd only get wrong if I tried to explain in full. All you need to know is that this startling side dish was another impressive display of Anderson's skill, matching nose-to-tail butchery with a fearless miscellany of pickle, colour and crunch.
Just as much thought has gone into the drinks list, which also cleverly continues the fusion theme. Anderson has collaborated with various local breweries to produce delights such as the 'Brew By Numbers 01/14', a Saison with matcha, honey and lemon, and the lovely 'Pressure Drop' wheat IPA flavoured with yuzu and grapefruit. The care and thought that has gone into everything at Nanban is obvious.
As a restaurant blogger I'm perhaps more inclined towards the new and innovative than the tried and tested, and to that end I shouldn't be too surprised that reviews of Nanban from other corners haven't been wholly positive. Depending on your state of mind I suppose the relentless invention can easily be interpreted as wacky-for-the-sake-of-it gimmickry, and with the chilli levels, seasoning and flavours so often dialled up to 11, you're going to lose some people along the way.
But I am convinced that there is something legitimately new and exciting happening at Nanban. This is food the like of which London has not seen before, Japanese fused with Brixton 2016 in a way few others would have the fearlessness and creativity to successfully pull off. And more than that, and more to the point, it's just a great place to go and have your dinner, and for not very much money (our bill was about £30 a head). For fans of Anderson (myself included) who have followed his popups and collaborations across town for many years, Nanban has been a long time coming. But boy, was it worth the wait.
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POLL- sound clips
Would you want sound clips of the new Radio X show?
Yes, I would download and listen to them from this site
Yes, but I would prefer them to be on youtube
I don't mind, I might listen to them if they were there
No, I don't think they are necessary
POLL- sound clips#505273
By Nicola_Red - Tue Sep 08, 2015 10:29 am
- Tue Sep 08, 2015 10:29 am #505273
We've had some discussion about whether to resume sound clipping of the new show - note I'm specifically talking about clips, NOT full show downloads. It has been suggested that in this day and age where we have easy and fast access to full shows, they're not as useful as they once were. So I'm opening it up to opinion. We have mooted the idea of using a youtube channel rather than the existing archive - what do you guys think? Please vote and add any thoughts you have. Ta
Re: POLL- sound clips#505278
By Topher - Tue Sep 08, 2015 10:33 am
I think Youtube is useful, but I'm a completist and I think they should be added to the collection here too...
By Chris - Tue Sep 08, 2015 10:34 am
To be clear, we're talking about these things.
Rank: It's all mine
By James H - Tue Sep 08, 2015 10:34 am
Topher wrote: I think Youtube is useful, but I'm a completist and I think they should be added to the collection here too...
+1, plus the vault is searchable, and works quite well, I was using it yesterday!
By bmstinton93 - Tue Sep 08, 2015 10:37 am
I quite like the Vault and it's really good to listen back to memorable moments as they're really easy to find than flicking through full shows
If it stays, can we swap from a flash player to HTML5? It'll be mobile friendly then too!
To be clear, I would like a "Youtube and sound vault" option...
James H wrote: If it stays, can we swap from a flash player to HTML5? It'll be mobile friendly then too!
By Chris - Tue Sep 08, 2015 3:46 pm
- Tue Sep 08, 2015 3:46 pm #505327
Topher wrote: To be clear, I would like a "Youtube and sound vault" option...
We'll shoot for that one.
Console is working his magic.
By Topher - Tue Sep 08, 2015 3:51 pm
Well done all involved! Good choice.
By James H - Tue Sep 08, 2015 3:52 pm
Console, haven't heard that name in ages. Loving all this!
By northernsteve - Tue Sep 08, 2015 5:11 pm
Wouldn't Soundcloud or Audioboom be a better choice for audio clips rather than YouTube?
northernsteve
Soundcloud has an upload limit unless you pay. YouTube is free, people can subscribe to be notified of uploads, can comment and can easily share/embed.
It's not ideal using a video hosting platform for audio, but there's many who do.
By yummytummy - Tue Sep 08, 2015 8:14 pm
What about this one
https://archive.org/details/audio
Chris Moyles final words on the breakfast show (14th September 2012)
Saviour is Back Long live Chris Moyles Show
yummytummy
There's not a problem hosting the clips (thanks to James, and others) - it's more about making it convenient for people consume them, engage with them, and be notified about them.
I can't see many better options than YouTube - with a duplicate copy in the SoundVault for those who prefer that. YT also has the benefit that it's technically feasible to automate the upload, meaning less work for the people submitting the clips.
By wireman2004 - Tue Sep 08, 2015 11:28 pm
- Tue Sep 08, 2015 11:28 pm #505373
if the shows were uploaded on the site.
would you be able too make a new rss feed for downloading.
I have my phone downloading the shows from podkicker. and they are brilliant so I can listen too the shows when I am able too.
By Topher - Wed Sep 09, 2015 2:53 pm
- Wed Sep 09, 2015 2:53 pm #505411
Now we just need Google to update the Youtube mobile apps so you can still hear the audio in the background when you close them.
By DevilsDuck - Wed Sep 09, 2015 3:10 pm
mine works!
are you sure you havent turned it off in the app
chrysostom wrote: Is that Matt Lucas?!
boboff wrote: No its me!
DevilsDuck
To be fair, I actually didn't know they'd added that feature, just that it was a long-standing request.
By Chris - Fri Sep 11, 2015 10:40 pm
- Fri Sep 11, 2015 10:40 pm #505509
I swapped the one on the SoundVault - let me know how it works for you all (it's ugly, I know)
http://chrismoyles.net/soundvault/sound ... ileid=2822
By bmstinton93 - Sat Sep 12, 2015 6:55 am
- Sat Sep 12, 2015 6:55 am #505518
Works well for me on my phone!
By foot-loose - Sat Sep 12, 2015 7:57 am
Works for me on an iPhone.
By Chris - Mon Sep 14, 2015 11:14 am
1. I'll shift the main page to use the same HTML5 player at some point (edit: done it)
2. The player is (slightly) less ugly now
3. If you'd like to clip small clips for addition to the SoundVault (not full shows), then let me know and I can give you instructions and access
4. When a clip is added to the SoundVault it'll now be automatically added to our new YouTube channel, details of which I'll share once it's prettified a bit
By Tunster - Tue Sep 15, 2015 9:22 am
- Tue Sep 15, 2015 9:22 am #505614
Love the idea of YT but careful of retention of clips. Especially if people put in copyright takedown requests and YT aren't kind as they'll suspend the whole account immediately.
At least if you have the Soundvault to fall back on, you have a controlled archive. Will the old show stuff be placed into another folder to split pre-2012 and new clips?
Tunster
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Leaving Back on My Feet as Media Director: what I’ve done in a year
An emblematic photo of a portion of my work with Back on My Feet, as taken early in the morning of the second day of the third annual Stroehmann Back on My Feet 20in24 race event, having coordinated an intervivew of Philadelphia chapter Executive Director Sera Snyder and Fox 29. For the 20in24, every major outlet in the region covered the event.
I am leaving my role as Media Director for Back on My Feet, the running-based program to combat homelessness.
I tendered my resignation last Thursday, Nov. 11 and our staff was alerted Monday. My last day will be Friday, Dec. 3, so I’ve offered a full three weeks to help the transition process at an organization with a mission that has come to mean a great deal to me since joining in January.
I’ll be sharing in greater detail here what exactly I will be doing, but, in short, I am taking a full-time opportunity with the media company I helped launch by way of starting in February 2009 technology news site Technically Philly.
Yes, things have been going well there since.
While there are lot of reasons why this is the right move for me, most simply:
I have completed a great deal of what I wanted to do at Back on My Feet, and this is a good time for a relatively smooth transition
My heart is with journalism, publishing, covering communities and all the conversations therein.
I will also be sharing here more reflections and takeaways from my year working for Back on My Feet, but, for now, I would like to quickly highlight how proud I am of the work I have accomplished in my short time there.
I want to thank the organization, its staff and founder Anne Mahlum for giving me the opportunity to come on to a startup and create from scratch a direction, mission and purpose for its media outreach.
I served five basic roles that were meant to circle my mission of growing awareness of the organization, all of which were mine, as I was a one-man department:
Traditional Media — relationship building, outreach, followup and organization of coverage by legacy media.
Social Media — Our conversation, push and interaction with social networks and their related communities.
Content and publishing — Our newsletters, email correspondence and managing our blog, which I launched, as noted below.
Website project management and IT — Managing our website, our relationship with our partner development company O3 World and other basic, related IT questions from staff.
Branding — Overseeing, approving and, at times, designing branding, marketing and event materials.
Time: Mon., 11/15/10 10 a.m.
Subject: Chris Wink
From: Kim Sauer, Chief Operating Officer, Back on My Feet
To: BOMF Staff
Hello BOMF Staff,
Effective December 3rd, Chris Wink will be leaving BOMF to return to his journalism roots starting full-time with Technically Philly, a technology news site he helped found in 2009, to lead various investigative research projects.
Chris was hired by BOMF a year ago to help the organization grow its social media presence, enhance our website and assist with other traditional media and marketing responsibilities.
Chris’s role has now evolved and his contributions have prepared us to re-define the role and prepare for further growth as we expand to 10 chapters next year.
Chris will be communicating how his departure will affect staff members and where to direct questions and we have asked Chris to schedule a call with all ED’s and Special Events folks to go over all website and social media questions.
Please join me in wishing Chris the best in his new endeavors with Technically Philly.
At the highest level, I feel as though I have established best practices and direction for my department and will offer easy-to-transition roles that still have direction and growth possibilities, all of which fits neatly into what I first pledged to do during my initial interview for this position.
I am so proud of these accomplishments for less than a year’s worth of work considering they span disciplines, which include, among many others, the following:
Finalized an initial draft of a Media Department manual, detailing the responsibilities and goals of the work I’ve done in nearly 5,000 words and on 12 pages. This is the strongest asset I’ve offered to create institutional memory in my work. One of my favorite words: sustainability.
Finalized an initial draft of an organization style guide — With the help of a colleague, that serves as the basis for our language, colors, logos and other branding basics. This started a conversation around using specific fonts, precise colors, branding and language.
Launched and created staff work flow for a blog platform that, in fewer than six months of public operation, receives more than 10,000 page views and is on pace to surpass in 2011 our established website in daily traffic.
Shared at least one member story a week for the near entirety of the blog’s existence and came to know the names and abbreviated stories of dozens of our members. In addition to sharing news around the issue of homelessness, I have set expectations that our blog will be a place for thought-provoking discourse and to find news about our mission, supplemented by organizational updates.
Grew and matured our national monthly newsletter presence, in addition to training staff and creating systems for regularity, blasts and chapter independence.
Prepared for, launched and created staff work flow for chapter-specific email lists and monthly blasts to grow independence of each individual city. When I first came on, we had one big pot of contacts, but I recognized the need and value of beginning to break out lists by geography.
Designed draft national marketing materials that can be expanded upon and serve as the basis of such documents in the future. It’s nearly a dozen pages and, even if it’s a knock off of some pro bono work a designer did for one of our chapters, I am proud of the look. Download a copy here [PDF].
Created spreadsheet of media contacts across all of our chapters and other national outlets that can further be developed in a concerted, targeted effort. Again, another step to maturing our media department.
Developed a true conversation in our primary social media channels of Twitter and Facebook, the latter of which has also been delegated to newly-trained staff and represents an area that still warrants growth and attention. We started from nearly zero, so we went a long way, but there’s plenty more to do.
Conceived of a direction for the utility of our existing website, developed the relationship with web development partner O3 World and helped move forward the possibilities.We’re planning to more than double in size next year, so some real forward-thinking was required.
Wrote an organization profile that was anthologized by a major publisher in ‘the Ultimate Runner.’
Created an initial version of a press kit to offer to media contacts to create base level knowledge about our organization. Find it here.
Worked to manage expectations around traditional media coverage, which was no small feat for an organization that was on CNN, ABC World News and NBC Nightly News within its first two years. I pushed for us to focus on big, interesting stories and succeeded when we pushed, like, as depicted above, all major TV, newspaper and radio outlets in Philadelphia covered the third annual Stroehmann Back on My Feet 20in24 race event in July.
Pushed for Stroehmann Back on My Feet 20in24 Race Event branding — While we still call our major fundraising event “the 4th Annual Stroehmann Back on My Feet 20in24 Relay Challenge, Lone Ranger Ultra Marathon, Midnight Madness Run & Pajama Loop,” I helped pushed into our lexicon the remarkably apparent necessity of a shorthand.
Created organization shorthand — We were sensitive to being just a ‘homeless running club,’ which is what some newspaper writers had taken to calling us. I noted that we needed to offer a more descriptive nut to offer journalists. It required lots of approval and remains less universally accepted than I liked but, with the great help of a colleague: Back on My Feet is a “running-based program to combat homelessness.”
Interfaced regularly with nearly each of our 30 staff members — I tried my best to fight bureaucracy and increase my dialogue with staff so I knew what interested them and what hurt or helped the work they did.
Posted on November 17, 2010 December 19, 2010 Author Christopher WinkCategories Personal UpdatesTags Anne Mahlum, Back on My Feet, Employment, Experiences, Greatest Hits
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Finding Mr. Destiny
by sajan4444 on Wed Oct 12, 2011 4:42 pm
'Hello, this is the 'First Love Office' where people can request to find their first love.'
Han Ki-joon, the man with 2:8 ratio parted hair, slim body and inflexible character who always look before he leap, got fired from his company, mainly due to his 0% flexibility. He accidently finds a clever founding item, which is a job which finds people's first loves. He opens 'First Love Office' only with passion toward people's move.
'My first love is Kim. Jong. Wook....'
Suh Ji-woo, was proposed by her present boyfriend. But even her father, her only parent who leaves everyday with hope of his daughter's marriage, she refuges her boyfriend's proposal. Inside of her they is a person named 'Kim Jong-wook' who she can never forget.
She eventually forced to visit Ki-joon's office by his father, and decide to find her first love, who she has barely has a memory left.
'Do I have to follow your every step? Even quitting my current job?'
'When the information is poor, at least your passion shouldn't be poor.'
Suh Ji-woo become the first client of 'First Love Office' but all she know about her first love is the name, Kim Jong-wook.
To complete his company's first request successfully, Ki-joon does his best to find 'Kim Jong-wook but Ji-woo is getting tired of his precisionism and too much paasion. He eventually planning a trip to find Kim Jong-wook, who lives in many parts of Korea (since there are so many people named as Kim Jong-wook), and he want Ji-woo to accompany him for this trip...
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Kea Farm Green Cow Area News
Green Cow residents demand A-G drop charges against three who obstructed developer
By Joseph Sipalan
Tuesday March 6, 2012 MYT 11:50:00 AM
PUTRAJAYA: Residents of Green Cow in Cameron Highlands are demanding that the Attorney-General drop charges against three people who obstructed earth works in their hillside village.
Some 30 residents of Green Cow and PSM members claimed the earth works were illegal and endangered the lives of seven families.
They also claimed victimisation by the police in arresting the trio as there were allegedly no permits issued to the developers.
The residents handed over a memorandum to the Attorney-General's office here Tuesday.
PSM Cameron Highlands secretary Suresh Kumar Balasubramaniam said nine police officers turned up to guard the developers when they started work on Oct 13 last year.
Suresh said he and several residents managed to stop the work from proceeding by standing in the way, but were subsequently arrested and charged with wrongful restraint.
One of the three detained was also slapped with a second charge of criminal intimidation. -- The Star News
Dissatisfied smallholders picket outside PM’s office
PUTRAJAYA: Smallholders from Kea Farm in Cameron Highlands, whose stalls are to be demolished next month, picketed in front of the Prime Minister's office.
About 20 of them stood for two hours here yesterday, asking for a proper alternative site before the stalls are torn down.
They claimed that the new site, some 100m from the current location just after Brinchang, Pahang, did not have basic infrastructure like parking space, water and electricity.
PSM Cameron Highlands secretary Suresh Kumar, who helped organise the protest, said the smallholders were not against the move but were worried that their income would be affected.
He said the smallholders were also seeking temporary occupation licences and low-cost houses on the land they have tilled for at least two generations.
The protesters handed over a letter to an officer from the Prime Minister's office before moving on to Parliament in an attempt to meet Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.
There was minimal police presence at the protest which ended peacefully. -- The Star News
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‘What I’m watching’ — Gm78 Vs. Phi: Playoff sprint to the finish starts versus the Flyers
by Matt Karash | Mar 30, 2019 | Morning Skate
If you missed it, Friday’s Daily Cup of Joe had a ‘state of the Canes’ after 77 games that includes more detailed context relevant for Saturday’s game.
After consecutive losses to the Washington Capitals, the Hurricanes surrendered most of their cushion but still enter the final five games of the season in playoff position. With a step down in competition, the time is now for the team to seize the opportunity in front of it and end the long playoff drought.
That journey starts with a matinee match up against the Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday at PNC Arena.
The Flyers are two points away from being eliminated from playoff contention and are not really in the chase at this point. But by no means are the Flyers a bad hockey team. The team still has a good amount of high-end talent and has beaten the Maple Leafs, Penguins and the Islanders twice in the month of March.
But more than anything, this game is about the Hurricanes digging down deep inside, putting a quick end to their losing streak and seizing the opportunity to control their own destiny down the stretch. If the Hurricanes play an aggressive and solid game, the team will be fine. If instead, they are hesitant and cautious because of the magnitude of Saturday’s game, it could very well bite them.
My watch points follow.
‘What I’m watching’ for the Carolina Hurricanes versus the Philadelphia Flyers
1a) Attacking mentality
Critical for the Hurricanes right now is not to freeze up and try to play a super cautious game. That is not the team’s style nor is it the team’s strength. The Hurricanes are at their best when they are attacking on the forecheck and hounding the puck in all three zones. More than anything, I will be watching to see how the Hurricanes approach this game early on. Do they play aggressive and attack? Or do they look cautious to the point of possibly being tentative?
1b) The forecheck
Part of the Hurricanes challenge against the Capitals was that the Caps largely handled the Hurricanes forecheck. The Hurricanes did have bursts of success (best was probably the second half of the second period on Thursday), but overall the Hurricanes were unable to generate significant offense from its forecheck. Without that catalyst, the Hurricanes offense sometimes struggles to generate enough good scoring chances. So related the the intensity and attacking mentality, I will be watching to see if the Hurricanes can get back to dictating play with its forecheck against a slightly lesser opponent.
2) Goaltending
The Hurricanes netminding has been a strength since the start of the new year. In a game with an extra dose of pressure, the Hurricanes will need the same steady and solid play to help weather the storm if and when a few mistakes are made. I will be watching and hoping for just more of the same in net.
3) Leaders leading
This time of year, a team’s best players need to lead the way in big games. Largely due to Nino Niederreiter being staked out between the face-off circles all game, the first line came really close to having a huge game but had to settle for a goal and a number of near misses. If players like Aho, Teravainen, Staal, Williams and others have one more scoring burst in reserve, now is the time to spend it. The time is also right for the blue line which has been a strength to put forward a couple of its best efforts. On Saturday, I will be watching to see which players rise to the occasion.
As I said on Twitter after the loss to Washington on Thursday, I really think Saturday’s game has the potential to define the 2018-19 season and a crucial first step toward putting a results-based (read playoffs) stake in the ground saying that this team is in fact different from recent years.
I think Saturday's @NHLCanes game is the game that ultimately decides if this team truly is different from recent years.
Win and the playoff push resumes after brief interruption.
Lose and it's more of the same.
I think #Canes take care of business with 4-2 win.#TakeWarning
— Canes and Coffee (@CanesandCoffee) March 29, 2019
The puck drops at 1:30pm at PNC Arena. If you do not have a ticket, find one.
Go Canes!
surgalt on March 30, 2019 at 9:07 am
Off topic: Adam Fox. Harvard lost last night and decision time for Fox is here. This article sheds a new light (at least something I had not heard before) on the consequences of his signing with the Canes now. https://www.prohockeyrumors.com/2019/03/snapshots-svechnikov-maatta-fox.html Were Fox to sign and play even one game he would burn one year off his ELC (an incentive to sign) and he would be eligible for the Seattle expansion draft (a disincentive to signing him). This would seem to complicate matters for Waddell and “the committee”. An amateur try out contract for the AHL signed now, with a NHL contract signed in the summer could avoid the exposure to the Seattle expansion draft. Good for the Canes. How that would sound to Fox might be something else. We should know soon.
raleightj on March 30, 2019 at 11:17 am
One correction, surgalt. If Fox signs he burns the first year of the ELC – he doesn’t need to play – ELCs for NCAA playersburn the first year for a partial season. If he plays an NHL game he is subject to the expansion draft.
The former, however, is really important – his ELC expires after the 2020-21 season and he can sign, probably for much bigger money than coming out as a UFA next season. He just has to agree to play in the AHL this season (not that we have room for him in Raleigh now). And playing with the Checkers puts him right in the middle of the Calder Cup playoffs – great for his experience and development. He would be so much better prepared for the NHL next season that I can’t see any reason why he wouldn’t jump on it.
jaffmaster on March 30, 2019 at 1:14 pm
Its the year of the ELC that has the most value for Fox, plus he has nothing to prove in college hockey. He will sign with canes or be traded (to the rangers).
surgalt on March 30, 2019 at 5:17 pm
Adam Fox is from Long Island. He graduated from Pioneer HS in Ann Arbor before attending Harvard and then attended USA Hockey development. He followed another Long Islander who went to Pioneer HS and the USA hockey development program. Is he is following the footsteps of Charlie McAvoy of the Bruins? If so, he will sign an amateur tryout contract with the Checkers this weekend and an ELC with the Canes this summer.
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The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld a Gala Interactive advert in the UK but dismissed complaints aimed at Betfair and PlayOjo.
Operator Betfair’s TV adverts, along with Skill on Net’s YouTube advert for online casino PlayOjo and Gala Interactive’s Galaspins.com TV advert, received complaints that have now been resolved.
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BKWSU Board index For Ex-BKs & Common Room
Janki Foundation is not a front organisation
Mainly DEDICATED to Ex-BKs.
A neutral forum for congenial discussions and reservations related to the Godly Knowledge between ALL parties.
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Post by mr green » 21 Oct 2007
Also some core members often get asked up on the stage to get special drishti and all that ... and praised for good service too !!! ...
Just because you're BKs doesn't mean your intentions aren't pure and I am not saying what the BKs are about is a bad thing.... I don't know.
I just think the way things are run in the BKWSU should change but the Seniors want to keep the traditions ... which the Westerners often just get tired of ... a lot of it could change for the better. It also seems the family hierarchy type system holds onto an almost religious lifestyle which can be powerful spiritually, but can also be disastrous on a day to day personal level ...
If you allow yourself to get into it (you are Baba's child apparently, you don't have a choice!) on that sort of level, you can end up doing what you're told by senior sisters! and taking direction over even very personal issues ... I am just not sure that is safe ...
They should at least admit to you that in certain situations they don't know the best action for you to take and that they do not always know the right thing for you to do.
Anyway ... that doesn't mean I think what you're doing is a bad thing. I think that "values" thing is great. You also might think it was Baba that did it ... ? Some of you might? ... I just don't think you're thinking clearly about this ... when there is such a strong connection 8) :oops: :mrgreen: :wink: :arrow: :).
Post by maybek » 22 Oct 2007
I can see due to a high level BK membership, why you think Janki Foundation and BK are so close that SOME people may not understand the difference in the message to be given.
However, the nature of Janki Foundation, its purpose and aims and objectives are clearly laid out in the charities official statements. This is the basis of my certainty. But no, I am not comfortable unilaterally locating and posting stuff like that up here.
Appreciate all the discussions and categorical statements - perhaps you are closer to BK think, however that come about.
I find that my path takes me elsewhere at present ... so goodbye and thanks for all the fish ... ( tofu wrapped in nori) or is it that we all meet at the (vegetarian) restaurant at the end of the universe??? (better reference this ... HH guide to the galaxy, as past joke taken as insulting when meant to be something else ... ).
Oh yes ...
Maybe K
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Post by fluffy bunny » 23 Oct 2007
maybek wrote: I can see due to a high level BK membership, why you think Janki Foundation and BK are so close that SOME people may not understand the difference in the message to be given.
Well, if you have gone, you have gone ... I hope you were successful in your service sortie for the BKWSU.
This yukti of trying to twist objectivity into subjectivity and placing the weakness on the other for NOT understanding, or planting the seed of doubt again ... tut tut. Beside which, the document are in the public domain. Here is the brief version. Of course, it is not clear to me if the GLOBAL HOSPITAL is or is not BKWSU either. Any opinion on that before you go?
Main Charity 1063908 - THE JANKI FOUNDATION FOR GLOBAL HEALTH CARE
Working Name JANKI FOUNDATION
Old Names JANKI FOUNDATION FOR GLOBAL HEALTH CARE
Charity Correspondent
BHAVNA PATANI
THE JANKI FOUNDATION FOR GLOBAL
MORAN HOUSE
NW10 2JJ
Governing Document CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 15TH DECEMBER 1996, AND AMENDED 3RD AUGUST 1997 AND 20TH JUNE 2000.
(A) TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND PROTECT AND PRESERVE PUBLIC HEALTH IN RAJASTHAN, India, PARTICULARLY BY ASSISTING THE WORK OF THE GLOBAL HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTRE AT MOUNT ABU;
(B) ADVANCE EDUCATION BY THE PROVISION OF HEALTH EDUCATION PROGRAMMES AND BY UNDERTAKING MEDICAL RESEARCH AND DISSEMINATING THE USEFUL RESULTS THEREOF.
Area of Benefit INTERNATIONAL
Area of Operation Throughout England and Wales, India, SCOTLAND
Registration History 12 Aug 1997 Registered
Medical/Health/Sickness
Other charities/Voluntary bodies
Other defined groups
General public/Mankind
Provides services
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Other charitable activities
MISS JAYANTI KIRPALANI - BK secretary BKWSU (UK)
DR DAVID GOODMAN B D S - BK trustee BKWSU (UK)
MRS MAUREEN GOODMAN -BK programme coordinator BKWSU (UK)
DR PRASHANT KAKODE - BK Cambridge coordinator BKWSU
MR RATAN THADANI - BK trustee BKWSU (UK)
MR NEVILLE HODGKINSON -BK ex-trustee BKWSU (UK)
MISS JOY RENDELL - BK ex-trustee BKWSU (UK)
MISS CHANDRABALA Patel
MISS JOAN MCCARTHY
JONATHAN WRIGHT - BK
MR NAYAN Patel
Prashant is usually pitched as the "Director of the Cambridge Centre for Integral Health" at BKWSU gigs, although did or does he not also co-ordinates the Cambridge BK center?
Personally, I just find it surprising that a BK would do anything at all with their time that is not directly connected with service, especially collectively, even if only in the long run. Would that mean making new karmic accounts, subtle Maya and against Shrimat?
Looks like a lot of usual suspects ... can anyone fill in the missing BK titles? The J. Watumull Memorial Global Hospital and Research Centre is, as we know, also a "Brahma Kumaris initiative".
I do not wish to be pedantic. I am genuinely interested in knowing how it came about and how fits in the bigger picture. I agree that it both does genuine good work, is used as a front and, how GHRC is surprisingly business-like. Obviously it gives great hope that BKs club together to do genuine good work and it warrants ongoing investigation, e.g.
is the what medical research and how related is it to BK Raja Yoga?
What benefits do the BKWSU reap from it both directly, e.g a "free" hospital for Madhuban; and indirectly, e.g. kudos and appearances?
How much is it used directly for BK service?
Let's perform an autopsy ... I feel that there is really no need for me to go into detail about observations made many times elsewhere about wah-wah about the United Nations, "Global" references, BKs acting under cover etc. What I will draw attention to is the infiltration of direct BK concepts and terminology into NON-LABELLED BKs or BK events which is, of course, leading non-BKs into a preparatory "soft" entry into BK-ism, e.g. Lighthouse, radiate, "see the soul" etc. I label the serviceable BKs in brackets below which were not included in the original quotations. The briefs and introductions are so recognizable for anyone that has been around BK for any number of years.
I also note that I cannot actual find any references to Cambridge Centre for Integral Health outside of BK/Janki Foundation articles, that it is surprising similar in sound to the world renown Aspen Centre for Integral Health and flag up the BKs "Oxbridge" pretensions. "Oxbridge" being the valued term used to describe those who rose from the two most leading universities in the world Oxford and Cambridge".
Now, what is the difference between Janki Foundation and the BKWSU and how do we distinguish it? Could it be that perhaps it was originally separate but that it has been usurped or dragged down into mundane BK service? Could it be that it was even meant to steer the BKs into genuine human service? Or has it just been used to get a free hospital up in Abu "AS WELL" like they got the donations for the solar cooking system?
I mean, let us look at the accounting ... do the SS, or the BKWSU on behalf of the SS, actually pay for their health care and medical service? In this light, it might just be another asset in the "penniless kingdom" enjoyed by the "penniless prince and princesses".
a Mind, Body, Spirit event wrote: 4.00pm – 5.00pm Room 1 'The Science of Spiritual Magic'
Over the ages, poets and philosophers have described this beautiful world of ours as magical. More recently scientists are also joining the ranks to understand the magic. The field of Spirituality tries to explore this magic. However, there is a science behind this magic. As in other fields of Science eg: electricity, inaccuracy or vagueness doesn't bring results or bring chance results, in the same way, inaccuracy in the spiritual fields won't bring results. Effort made at the level of accuracy, clarity and subtlety are rewarded with success like magic.
Dr Prashant Kakoday, Cambridge, UK
A surgeon by profession, Dr Kakoday is mainly interested in areas of consciousness, mind and meditation. Over the past ten years, his research and interest has been in the areas of attitudes, emotions, stress and health. His views on Health, entitled 'The concept of Total Health' were presented to the World Health Organisation in 1994. He has spoken at various national and international health conferences and has given talks and programmes in more than 60 countries including United Nations in Geneva. Presently he coordinates the activities of Inner Space as well as the centre for Integral Health in Cambridge.
Dr Prashant will also be available on stand no 45
Stand No: 45 is, of course, "Inner Space - Brahma Kumaris" of which Prashant is the Cambridge "franchisee".
The Janki Foundation wrote: The Feel Good Factor - January 2004
The Sunday morning panel, ‘Living a Healing Attitude’, was chaired by (BK) David Goodman ...
Prashant discussed perception, awareness and how this can determine our own reality. For example, a cancer cell avidly consumes all the nutrition it can at the cost of other cells. It works for itself and not for the benefit of the whole body. Our society promotes an attitude that is similarly superficial, self-orientated and insecure. In contrast, to relate well to our patients, we have to relate from a point of security, from a healthy attitude and awareness, coming from within. This approach allows us to see others in their greatness, to see the soul. Doing this can help to transform the consciousness of the other; when the message resonates with the person, it generates healing.
An introduction to the ‘Values in Health Care – a spiritual approach’ personal and team development programme was given by (BK) Joy Rendell and (demi-BK) Sarah Eagger. Participants were finally asked to make an action plan; using the analogy of a lighthouse, it was an opportunity to think of grounding, nurturing, radiating
BK event in Bristol wrote: Free Talk: 'A New Consciousness'.
(BK) Dr Prashant Kakoday specialised in surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons in London. Over the past 5 years he has combined both orthodox and holistic methods of treatment in his practice. He feels the present approach to health is incomplete because it ignores the meaning and significance of illness itself.
He has delivered courses on stress in more than 31 countries including at the United Nations and World Health Organisation in Geneva.
He is currently director of the Centre for Integral Health in Cambridge.
BK Global Retreat wrote: The Healing Power of Happiness - Prashant Kakode,
Happiness is our natural state. Inner happiness is also the ultimate answer to the entire riddle of life. The reason we lose that state of happiness is that we challenge some fundamental laws of nature.
Join Dr Prashant Kakode, Director of the Cambridge Centre for Integral Health, in exploring how fundamental spiritual principles, when practiced regularly, build the power to free us from negative states and allow our original and natural state of bliss, peace, compassion and respect to re-emerge.
Prashant speaks with great depth, clarity, wisdom and humour; the fruits of practising meditation for over 25 years and a life long research of the mind-body connection.
No real mention it is 25 years a BK practising BK meditation ... The Mind, Body, Spirit event feature other BK owned, influenced and co-promoted business such as Bliss, Relax Kids, a trainer/corporate reorganizer and the BKs (Official) ran the meditation room.
One interesting question to ask is who do BKs think they are giving money to ... or the karma is coming back from ... when they donate either time or labor to the Janki Foundation? What do BKs think the Janki Foundation is?
"a Cambridge, UK based organization with world-wide commitments to health education and strategy. It offers clarification on the subject of inner health and how we can help ourselves at all levels. Patients are helped to trace the origins of their stress and emotional suffering and to reassess their approach to life."
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Please give a short description of your interest in joining this forum.: To exchange views with past and present members of BKWSU and its splinter groups.
Post by arjun » 24 Dec 2007
Janki Dadiji's biodata:
http://www.brahmakumaris.com/Bio-Data_of_Dadi_Janki.doc
Post by fluffy bunny » 24 Dec 2007
arjun wrote: Janki Dadiji's biodata ...
Its a press release, so I guess it is OK to pre-publish it here for comments;
I notice the usual bullsh*t about; "a modern form of ancient art of Raja Yoga"
the numbers are wrong about "the community of 400 between 1937 and 51"
I have a problem with "practice of remembrance of God" because they were worshipping Lekhraj Kirpalani as God until at least 1950
she wasn't a nurse and there is no mention of her in the Vishwa Ratan book
a question of joining in 1937 because she is not on the list of members, which month? (at least they don't claim her to be one of the leadership this time)
she did not exactly write her own books
and she did not organize inter-faith seminars, she just turned up at them.
And having a BeeGee sing about you at your 90th Birthday is kind of scrapping the barrel, is not it? As it was to "remember her", he and she got it all wrong.
BKWSU wrote: PROFILE: RAJYOGINI Dadi JANKI - Chief of Brahma Kumaris
Dadi (Elder Sister) Janki has dedicated more than 70 years of her life to the work of the Prajapita Brahma Kumari Ishwariya Vishwa Vidyalaya (Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University) of which she is the Administrative Head. After serving throughout India in the years following independence, she moved to London, UK, in 1974 and from there her vision and drive saw the organisation’s teachings carried into more than 100 countries. She has been based back in India since August 2007, at the main headquarters in Mt Abu, Rajasthan, following the passing away of Dadi Prakashmani, the former head.
Now internationally acknowledged as a great spiritual leader, Dadi’s lifelong focus has been to align her mind and heart to God’s will and purpose. She experiences God as a source of pure love and wisdom, and has made those qualities the foundation of her life. This spiritual strength enables her to be a beacon of light in the lives of others.
Dadi is deeply and compassionately aware of the selfish tendencies that currently afflict human relationships and affairs, and that put our world in peril. However, she is a visionary, with an unswerving optimism. “In the winter, we foresee the spring”, she says. “Those with a positive vision of the future give us an image of a world on this planet where all things are given freely, where the highest human potential is fully realised.” That future world is guaranteed, in Dadi’s eyes, but to reach it, our consciousness has to change.
Dadi is a pioneer of a modern form of the ancient art of Raja Yoga. Through this structured and disciplined method of spiritual development, she has shown thousands of people of all backgrounds and walks of life how to regain true self-respect, to become free of addictive and negative tendencies and thereby able to contribute more to present-day society as well as a future world.
Dadi was born in 1916 in the northern Indian province of Sind, now part of Pakistan. From her earliest days, a concern for the wellbeing of others was a driving force in her life. Her childhood memories include travelling around in her Father’s horse and carriage to advocate the benefits of a vegetarian diet, and sitting with the sick and elderly to help lift their spirits. She spent only three years in formal education and then went on many pilgrimages in her search for truth and the understanding of the Divine.
In 1937, at the age of 21, Dadi joined the Ishwariya Vishwa Vidyalaya founded by Prajapita Brahma. Formerly known as Dada Lekhraj, Brahma Baba had been a successful jeweller whose visionary experiences as he approached the age of 60 led him to dedicate his wealth to the task of spiritual renewal. One of his insights was that women, who at that time were granted few rights of self-determination, represented a huge, under used spiritual resource. Between 1937 and 1951 a community of nearly 400 was formed, comprised mostly of women.
The community devoted this time to intense spiritual endeavour. The exploration of soul consciousness in meditation awakened a deeper awareness of the original and eternal identity as a source of all spiritual attainments. The practice of remembrance of God was mastered as the method for self transformation.
This period laid the foundation of a life of freedom from the limitations imposed on women at that time. Despite the joy they experienced at their new-found liberation, conditions were sometimes daunting and Dadi’s role demanded hard physical work as well as sensitivity and skill, as she was appointed nurse to this group of pioneers. She was helped by the fact that through much of her life she had endured a series of illnesses that both tested and helped her to develop and refine her ability to conquer physical infirmity.
Service abroad
In 1974, Dadi left India to carry the teachings overseas. She based herself in London, now the International Co-ordinating Office of the BKs. Through word of mouth and personal experience, others soon realized that the spiritual university’s core teaching, of regaining self-reliance through understanding and connection with the Supreme, was a need of the times in Western society. Many have experienced that an over-emphasis on material success has led to spiritual poverty and a decline in the higher values that spring from our spiritual roots.
Through Dadi’s guidance and inspiration, centres teaching Raja Yoga now exist in more than 100 countries. Regular students carry the benefits received into their family and workplace. Teachers offer free courses in meditation, positive thinking, self-esteem and other self-development tools, as well as conducting programmes in hospitals, offices, schools, prisons and in other community contexts.
Dadi has also led the development of several international projects promoting vision, values and action at grass-roots level. The Brahma Kumaris maintain a strong presence and contribution at the United Nations, and Dadi served as one of the Keepers of Wisdom, an advisory group of eminent spiritual and religious leaders, at the UN Earth Summit in Rio, Brazil and at Habitat II in Istanbul, Turkey.
In 1997, the Janki Foundation for Global Health Care was established and launched in her honour in London. A charitable trust, it supports the work of the Global Hospital and Research Centre in Mt Abu, Rajasthan, as well as promoting greater awareness of holistic health and the spiritual dimension of health care world-wide.
Dadi has promoted inter-religious understanding and co-operation throughout her life. She is a Patron of the World Congress of Faiths and a member of the Global Peace Initiative of Women Religious and Spiritual Leaders. In December 2003 she was invited as a spiritual resource to be part of a small delegation of religious leaders who took part in dialogues in Jerusalem, Gaza and Ramallah, to help build trust and develop joint initiatives between Palestinian and Israeli women.
Now in her nineties, Dadi still travels extensively, enabling leaders from the worlds of politics, religion, medicine, science, education and other fields, as well as individuals at every level of society, to absorb spiritual strength by renewing their own link with the divine.
Among her many honours, in 2004 Dadi was awarded the Grand Cordon of the first order of Al Istiklal (the Medal of Independence) by HM King Abdullah ll of Jordan in recognition of her humanitarian service to the world.
Wings of Soul (Health Communications, Inc, USA, 2000)
Pearls of Wisdom (Health Communications, Inc, USA, 2000)
Companion of God (BKIS, London, 1999; Hodder & Stoughton, UK, 2003)
Inside Out (BKIS, London, 2003)
BKWSU wrote: Highlights
Appointed Administrative Head, Brahma Kumaris, 27 August
Keynote speaker at Centre of Excellence in Women’s Health, San Francisco, USA
Secrets of Transformation programme with Rev Michael Moran, Senior Minister of Sacramento’s Spiritual Life Centre
Robin Gibb (formerly of Bee Gees) sings new song, Mother of Love, dedicated to Dadi Janki for her 90th birthday and was performed at launch of Just-a-Minute initiative, London
I know how TO LIVE and I know how TO DIE, public event with Dr Andrew Powell, Oxford, UK
Appointed patron of World Congress of Faiths
Keynote speaker at BE THE CHANGE, three-day seminar in London
COURAGE OF CONSCIENCE AWARD, Cambridge, Mass., USA
Guest speaker, WHAT THE BLEEP DO WE KNOW? conference, Miami, USA
KASHI HUMANITARIAN AWARD presented by Ma Jaya, USA
Keynote speech, II International Congress of Mothers, Om Shanti Retreat Centre, Delhi (in conjunction with Mama organisation, Moscow, Russia)
World Council of Religious Leaders executive meeting, Jerusalem
Helps launch The Women’s Partnership for Peace in the Middle East, under auspices of the Global Peace Initiative of Women Religious & Spiritual Leaders, Oslo, Norway
Through the Brain Barrier dialogue with Prof Colin Blakemore and Dr Peter Fenwick, Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford
Companion of God published by Hodder & Stoughton, UK
Joined HRH The Prince of Wales and other spiritual leaders in launching Respect, It’s About Time, an interfaith initiative, Birmingham, UK
Addressed Second UN World Assembly on Aging, Madrid
Led delegation to UN World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg
Participant in convening The Global Peace Initiative of Women Religious & Spiritual Leaders, an outcome of Millennium World Peace Summit, at UN’s Palais des Nations, Geneva
Health Communications, Inc., USA, publish Wings of Soul and Pearls of Wisdom
Led delegation to UN World Summit on Social Development, Geneva
Panelist and presenter at Geneva 2000 Forum, Switzerland, on Human Aspects of Social Integration
Head of Brahma Kumaris delegation and presenter, Millennium World Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders, UN General Assembly Hall, New York
Plenary presenter, State of the World Forum, New York
Janki Foundation for Global Health Care launched in UK
Led delegation to Habitat II, UN Conference on Human Settlements, Istanbul, Turkey. Addressed world governments on need for people-centred development, and pivotal role of human and spiritual values for survival
Helped inspire Living Values: an Educational Initiative, launched in consultation with representatives from Educational Cluster of UNICEF, providing guiding principles and tools for development of the whole child. Kit for educators now being implemented in 60 countries
Speaker, State of the World Forum, San Francisco, USA
Launch of Companion of God in Chinese, to audience of 5,000 in Singapore
Initiated Young Women of Wisdom project in honour of UNICEF’s 50th anniversary to celebrate the Girl Child, developing self-esteem and dignity in young women across the globe
Led delegation to UN Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, China
Launched Sharing our Values for a Better World, a world-wide project promoting values-centred development in politics, science, education and health
Hosted UK launch of the Year of Inter-religious Understanding and Co-operation, bringing together 600 people from all faiths and communities
Elected Vice-President of the World Congress of Faiths
Opening of Global Retreat Centre, Oxford, UK
Participates in Keepers of Wisdom, a group of spiritual and religious leaders convened to advise political leaders on spiritual dilemmas underpinning global environmental issues, UN Earth Summit, Rio
Opening of Global Co-operation House, London, as international co-ordinating office for Brahma Kumaris worldwide, and serving local communities through people-centred educational programmes
Launched Global Co-operation for a Better World, first UN Peace Messenger Initiative, at House of Lords, London. Project involves people of all walks of life, from street children to Prime Ministers, in 129 countries, in variety of self help community projects
Launched Million Minutes of Peace Appeal, largest non-fundraising project for UN International Year of Peace, with activities in 88 countries. Project recognised with seven UN Peace Messenger awards
Appointed Co-administrative Head of Brahma Kumaris
Overseeing expansion of work of Ishwariya Vishwa Vidyalaya into more than 100 countries, demonstrating the universality of spiritual truths and human nature across cultures of East and West
Travelled to more than 100 countries visiting community projects, addressing major conferences and events and meeting world leaders in many fields, including religion, politics and science
One of few women spiritual leaders in India (and the world), establishing teaching centres across the country, empowering individuals to bring spiritual values into their lives and women in particular to develop self-reliance and leadership skills
Training in leadership skills which, for women, was an unprecedented challenge to social conventions of the time. In charge of health care and general nurse for early Brahma Kumaris community
Joined Ishwariya Vishwa Vidyalaya, at that time a 400-strong community of mainly women
Born in the northern Indian province of Sind (now part of Pakistan)
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Post by primal.logic » 25 Dec 2007
Well, it becomes clear as to why this foundation was started, but first a history lesson - Global Hospital in Mt Abu was initiated out of a bk need. At the time the only hospital was a government one which was more likely to kill you and which the BKs refused to use. Which meant that whenever anyone got sick they had to be driven some hours away for care. That usually meant that if someone was unwell, they would wait until others were also not well and drive them all down together - pity the first one to get sick.
And that was before Gyan Sarovar had been built. So either the BKs did not have the resources or wanted to use those resources elsewhere - probably to build Gyan Sarovar. So they did the ususual and sucked their contacts dry - for the money from the Wattumuls, an architect who was the daughter of a bk etc etc.
The whole thing was also a front to try and win over the local community. The locals of Mt Abu were particularly angry with the BKs because since the BKs had multiplied the price of land and property had gone through the roof. So many foreigners were buying land up there (mostly Indians from overseas) that the locals simply could not afford a place to live. Which meant that they were living 10 to a room. And now the BKs wanted to build Gyan Sarovar - and I know that took a lot of manoevering due to protests from the locals.
And talking of fronts - it is officially and legally the J.Wattumal Hospital. It was never a bk hospital. But the Wattumal bit is ignored and everyone sees it as a bk hospital - no, the BKs provide lots of volunteer staff but it is not a bk hospital.
As it is not a bk hospital, but the BKs are dependent on it, funding and support needs to come from outside the BKs. Enter the Janki Foundation - whose brief is to support "Global Hospital" (or should be call it by its legal name - the "J. Wattumal Memorial Hospital"?).
Knowing the BKs, they probably talked the money out of J. Wattumal's widow at his funeral.
primal.logic wrote: As it is not a BK hospital, but the BKs are dependent on it, funding and support needs to come from outside the BKs. Enter the Janki Foundation - whose brief is to support "Global Hospital." (or should be call it by its legal name - the "J. Wattumal Memorial Hospital"?)
As far as I remember, I was a BK when Global Hospital was being built and contributions were collected from BKs also towards the establishment of the above hospital.
In fact, I vaguely remember our BK teacher announcing in the class that since the major contributors are the Wattumul family, the hospital will be named after them, but if any person or group contributes for a particular facility/room in the hospital, their name would be displayed as a contributor, which is normally not done in the Yagya.
So, I think BKs are also a partner in the above hospital.
Hmmn ... the BKWSU's relationship with the citizens of Mount Abu. That would make a good thread. On the basis of my knowledge, all I can confirm is that the hospital WAS built with the needs of the Seniors/BKs and that there WERE bad relationships with the locals. I can see the logic of the "pay off" towards the local people and, yes, it is NOT a BK hospital per se. What do we have ... something that, as usual, is as muddied as a *******. The BKs can claim it is theirs and that it is not theirs as it suits them.
GHRC wrote: In 1991, the Brahma Kumaris, a worldwide socio-spiritual organization having its headquarters at Mount Abu, established J.Watumull Global Hospital & Research Centre. The hospital was envisaged to be in a position to fill a lacunae in health services for residents of district Sirohi, Rajasthan and especially for the local community of Mount Abu. The hospital would also cater as an emergency medical centre for the numerous guests of national and international conferences and retreats organized by the Brahma Kumaris at its complexes at Mount Abu and Abu Road. A charitable trust Global Hospital & Research Centre (Mumbai) was registered to manage the affairs of the hospital.
Mumbai is where Ramesh works and set up the other trust, is not it? There is a Mr Sanjay Kirpalani, Businessman, Mumbai in the Trustees. Keeping it in the family? Looking at the 2005 accounts, employment and administration costs are approximately $ 391,399 per annum. Are those all BKs being paid?
In my opinion, the BK can use the ambiguities to break the Maryadas, e.g. collection donations from non-BKs because the donations are not going to the BKWSU ... no, they are going to the J Wattumal Memorial Hospital. And then when they need some good PR or credibility, like on the Wikipedia, then SUDDENLY the hospital or the village outreach programme IS theirs and they LOOK good ... like a "real" charity. For example, the website asks for public donations outrightly. That is directly against what is written in the Murli.
What I want to know is, who or what is the "B.K.HEALTH CARE FUND" listed as a $792,133 in 2003 liability. The accounts are, here.
June 30, 2004 Conversation with Healthcare Professionals
The Point of Life Foundation hosted a conversation among healthcare practitioners and friends at a reception for Pratap Midha, MD, the Medical Director and BK. Nirwair Sani, Managing trustee of the Global Hospital and Research Center (GHRC), Mt. Abu, Rajasthan, who were both visiting New York.
How do they manage this .. well, it is business as usual ... but they manage it as having BKs in a PERSONAL capacity being directors of the Trust and then claim credits institutionally.
Looking at it from a different perspective ... why were BKs giving donations to a non-BK charity, or giving donations to and doing general social work-type charity? That too is against Shrimat in the Murli. I have heard it myself directly from Jayanti Kirpalani. Why would the BKWSU want to create karma with non-BK Shudras? Why help them when they are only going to go on and sin? So, yes, logically and intuitively, I would say a 'politics and PR' job and, sure, I can imagine them working the widow but we would need to find out for sure.
Legally, for there to be a "partnership", there would have to be a something on paper. It sounds like the BKWSU took donations from BKs and then GAVE it to the non-BK Trust that manages the hospital. I wonder how that works out on the tax side of things. I wonder if they were able to take tax relief out at both ends, i.e. taking it from BKs and giving it to the other trust? If the family had a lot of money then it would save them death duties or inheritance tax.
There are other BK run "trusts" involved ... http://Indiacare in Germany. It says on their website, "Verein zur Förderung gemeinnütziger Projekte in Indien" (Trust To Promote Charitable Projects In India). Our goals, activities and partners of the association. Since 1990, oversees the "Charitable Society for the promotion of social, medical and cultural institutions in India eV" In particular the Global Hospital & Research Centre in Mount Abu, Rajasthan, India, since April 1996 Member of the International Network Gesundheitsfördernder hospitals.
These guys also pulled in the money and technology for the solar energy systems ... again no mention of the Brahma Kumaris, only stuff like "Mount Abu", "Academy for a better world in Mt Abu", "WRST" (World Renewal Spiritual Trust) and Point of Life in the USA.
The Point of Life Foundation (POL) is a US non-profit entity, established to serve the global community. It is founded on the vision of a spiritual model of healthcare with a focus on the well-being of the whole person. It aims to integrate a people-centered approach within the existing paradigms in healthcare and to inform people about issues relevant to the holistic, with emphasis on the spiritual approach to health, care, healing, self-care, and healthcare education.
How we came to be
The work of the Point of Life Foundation has been inspired by the working model of the J. Watumull Global Hospital & Research Centre (GHRC) in Mount Abu, Rajasthan, India. This hospital, in addition to making basic health services accessible to a deprived population, is an international flagship introducing holistic and spiritual approaches to healthcare, through medical research and outreach projects. Further, the staff creates a healing environment of peace and positivity through daily contemplative practices.
POL supports the work of the J. Watumull Global Hospital & Research Centre (GHRC) and similar projects through facilitating ... donation of equipment and monetary assistance.
What we envision for the future
Implement and, through training of facilitators, continue to promote, in the US, Values in Healthcare ... designed by The Janki Foundation, UK.
The Watumull's main business was/is the Bank of Hawaii, right? I am not sure about which Watumull died ... Ellen Watumull's husband died in 1959. Was it Indru and Gulab?
From divinehumanism.org
Since then, word of the hospital and its philanthropic aims has gone around and financial support has been forthcoming from the Americas, Australia, Germany, Holland, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Kenya, Mauritius, Philippines, South Africa and United Kingdom.
Politics and PR about sums it up. The Germans were the first group of BKs to establish a trust/organisation for the raising of funds for BKs. That was back in the 80's. Not satisfied with normal donations to the bhandara, they created a legal entity to raise money. It was shunned initially by the Establishment but, no surprise when the Establishment changed its opinion when it saw how successful it was. Especially in providing funds for them.
It seems that creating legal entities to gain advantage outside of Shrimat has become the way to go.
One of the brothers involved was Golo - a German tech head who virtually single handedly created, built and financed the entire solar power system and cooking system for Gyan Sarovar. Interestingly, he talked the money for the project out of the Australian Government via their Embassy in New Dehli. Golo was the one who told me about the German Trust. I think he was behind Indiacare - he/they brought containers of second hand medical equipment from Germany for Global Hospital.
Post by fluffy bunny » 11 Jan 2008
Here is an interesting one for all those who don't believe that the BKWSU uses the Janki Foundation as a front for service they could never achieve under their own steam ...
Check out the download section for the guest list for the launch and play 'Spot the BK'.
All those serviceworth BKs in amongst the good and great ... and not one registered as such. Even Jayanti is from The Janki Foundation instead. :?:
Post by mr green » 11 Jan 2008
ex-l, the Janki Foundation is not just a front for the BKs. It is the BKs, plain and simple.
Re: Janki Foundation is not a front organisation
Post by fluffy bunny » 09 Apr 2008
No, its not a front ... it is a court for BK royalty!
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Please give a short description of your interest in joining this forum.: I was an active BK for 12 years. That was long ago. Now I am just a person.
Post by joel » 10 Apr 2008
Rajneesh, too, allowed himself to be worshipped, saying "I am not attached to it."
Personality cult, is, in my understanding, when you lose yourself -- your independent-standing -- to another person. When this happens en-masse, around a particular person, you have a religion, or a mass movement, or a cult.
Subsuming oneself in adoration of another. I am thinking of some parents I know, seeing how they adore their children, going gaga over each day's story of their child's discoveries, how personality colors each new ability. It is a big deal for the children, too, feeling that they are seen. Not feeling seen, feeling alone in my disconnected cannot-become-reality-until-acknowledged misery. At the same time, the privacy of my own creative world.
In this case, the parent supports the child. In the other case, the followers also actually support the leader.
Actually, at every level of human society, interactions are subject to manipulations and coercions. It can happen that the stakes are high for one person and not so much for the other. The high-stakes side just has to subvert the decision of the indifferent side. Happens with parents, in schools, no situation or interaction in life excluded! What are the consequences for a society that "allows" coercion and corruption? Our novelists tell us. It is the drama of life. Emergent, uncontrolled. There is no escape from the war-mongerers, fundamentalists, opportunists. All belong to our current world reality.
The Dadis wearing crowns, briefly, ceremonially, an act of love by the members of her spiritual family, with milennariast view of destruction and rebirth.
The beliefs of imminent world destruction and eternal reward create a sense of anxiety that can be hijacked to manipulate financial decisions, or to disconnect a person's feelings from their actions, justifying the unjustifiable.
Any sufficiently large interest we can expect to be expressed through multiple institutional entities, as are that mysteriously powerful mover of society: the corporation.
If being surroounded with the words and living personalties of these Dadis satisfies you, and you'd like to express that with crowns, who are the Dadis to disappoint them. Rajneesh said as much. His followers do it because it pleases them.
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He claims the rhetoric might be exploiting the public's emotions.
The State Of The Culture crew sat down to discuss Jussie Smollett's highly-publicized attack. Joe Budden starts by summing up the case: Jussie Smollett "was allegedly brutally attacked recently in Chicago by 'MAGA terrorists.' They broke his ribs, they put a noose about his neck, they poured bleach on him and called him derogatory names. The FBI is on the case now but it has confirmed that a letter was previously sent to a FOX studio that contained threatening language and a powdery substance said to be Tylenol."
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His co-hosts offered their insights citing the recent increase of hate crimes in the United States and how incidents involving celebrities are bound to gain more attention even though similar events are constantly happening to others. The fact that the legal authorities have not released video evidence of the attack, however, was called into question.
Budden expressed the most skepticism. He could not envision a black man keeping a noose around his neck for 45 minutes after being attacked in such a manner. He also said the note sent by FOX looked dubious too "like some bullsh*t I saw in Austin Powers." The rapper clarified that he does believe the attack happened, but he questions the context considering his distrust for Hollywood.
"Famous rich people, when bad things happen and they want to cover the story because famous people to fuck shit sometimes like humans," Joe remarked, "You cover the story to protect your image, your likeness and your career."
He fears the story may be preying on the emotions of the community, a concern that was previously voiced by Azealia Banks. "I'm waiting for footage. Just show me footage and I'll shut the fuck up," he added.
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