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Guild:Earth Walkers (Darkmoon Faire EU)
This article is a guild information page for Earth Walkers of Darkmoon Faire Europe.
The contents herein are entirely player made and in no way represent official World of Warcraft history or occurrences which are accurate for all realms. The characters and events listed are of an independent nature and applied for roleplaying, fictional, speculative, or opinions from a limited playerbase only. Guild pages must comply with the guild page policy.
Earth Walkers
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Darkmoon Faire Europe
Xiphol, Windmane, Zurai'jin
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Earth Walkers @ Darkmoon Faire
The Earth Walkers are a loose coalition of the beast races of Azeroth under the current leadership of three Elders. They are joined due to their will to protect the living things of Azeroth and welcome new members.
Whilst no actual recorded history of the Earth Walkers remains, various stories and accounts that have been passed down through generations of members are now widely accepted as it's history.
Originally, years before the Third War and orcs settling on Kalimdor, the tauren were a nomadic race, wandering the plains of Kalimdor hunting Kodo. The tribes and camps of which they were all a part of ranged from small villages all the way to vast tent cities.
One such nomadic village went under the tutelage and leadership of Lokka and Muhale Earthwalker. It is told that the Earthwalker family lead the village for a great many years before the orcs settled and, although the true origin of the name and story of the family's rise to leadership has, sadly, long since been forgotten, one myth is still kept alive.
The Myth Edit
It is said, that whilst on a hunt, the first Earthwalker - whose name did not survive the years - once came upon a great White Lion drowning in a river. Without a thought for his own safety, the Earthwalker waded in and pulled the Lion to the shore. In thanks, the Lion blessed the young Earthwalker with unnatural sight and boundless endurance.
Before he left, the Lion told the Earthwalker that somewhere in the plains, a great Black Lion stalked, and that should the Earthwalker ever come across it, he must tell it the name White Mist, lest the Black Lion devour him on the spot. With that, the Lion left in a bound and disappeared before the Earthwalker's eyes. The young Earthwalker sat by the river, contemplating this strange omen for many days before returning to his camp.
Upon his return, he counselled with the camp's Seer, who told him of a vision she had received whilst the Earthwalker was away. In the vision, a great Black Lion was terrorising a town at night. Many of the cities inhabitants had attempted to catch or slay the beast, but had failed at every attempt. Hearing this, the Earthwalker left immediately for the town, believing it his destiny to aid the townspeople.
He reached the town on his fourth night of travel. Upon his arrival, he was met with the usual hospitality of the tauren and was offered a place to sleep, an offer he declined, instead asking for permission to sleep on the town's borders. He was warned by the town that a Black Lion often came at night and that anyone asleep outside would likely be killed. The Earthwalker thanked them for their concern and explained his task to the astonished townspeople before walking to the borders to spend the night.
It was then, a few hours after he had settled himself, that he heard a low growl directly behind him. Turning slowly, he came face to face with the Black Lion. It was easily twice the size of the White Lion, and it's fangs were as long as spearheads. It continued to growl at him, speaking in an animal tongue and gnashing on each of it's words: “Who are you to be so foolish as to sleep outside? An easy meal you are for the shadow!”
The Earthwalker pushed himself to his feet and stared defiantly at the Lion. The exact words he used have been forgotten but it is assumed that he mentioned White Mist's name as the Black Lion roared in anger and ran off into the wilderness.
Many from the town heard the roar and rushed to the Earthwalker's aid. Finding him unharmed, and no trace of the Lion, the townspeople immediately congratulated him on scaring the beast away.
He stayed for many days afterwards, basking in the hospitality and praise of the town, but soon he pined for his own village and set his mind on returning. Several of the tauren from the town insisted on going with him, and so it was that he returned to his tribe with new members and tales of victory.
The Myth ends at this point, and it is assumed that because of this great deed he was granted leadership. Whilst none know how true this story is, the myth is always kept alive by the Earth Walker's lorekeeper.
Many generations of Earthwalker went by before anything remarkable happened. The tribe had grown larger and more prosperous, and content with their leaders' abilities, all members became known as Earthwalkers. They were renowned for their bravery and for their incredible care of the earth. It was always passed down that through a respect of living things of the world, one could become more in tune with it and more prosperous because of it.
Eventually, the Earthwalker family themselves lost all lineage with a sterile leader, so instead leadership was passed on in the traditional method of rewarding great deeds, such as it had been in the time of The Myth. In homage to the greatest of their leaders, all members vowed to keep the tribal name.
Note: It is also possible that distant relations of the Earthwalker family still exists, although this would now be impossible to prove, as many years have passed since their reign.
During the next few generations, there were of course skirmishes with centaur, but as they roved so much, the Earthwalkers rarely met any real resistance and led a generally peaceful life.
The Third War Edit
Dwelling so far inland at the time, the landing of the orcs wasn't heard about by the Earthwalkers until quite a while after the event. Curious at the news that Cairne Bloodhoof had built a refuge for all tauren, the tribe began to make their way to Mulgore. Some members were unhappy with this decision and refused to go, instead heading further north.
Upon their arrival, they saw that the great city of Thunderbluff was already a vast collection of tents. Many of the members stayed in the city itself, whilst some preferred staying at the bottom of the mesa. During their stay, they met many of the orcs and trolls that had come to the shores of Kalimdor, some of which even requested to join the tribe.
The tribe arrive in Thunderbluff
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The inclusion of other races to the Earthwalkers was debated for a great many days whilst the tribe stayed in Thunderbluff. The final decision came to the Elder at that time, Odah Wildcall. Reticent to make a decision whilst some members were split and still travelling north, he called the tribe to return to wandering. Those orcs and trolls that wished to come along with them, were allowed for the moment, but under the condition that if after they had met with the rest of the tribe, the general consensus was to disallow the inclusion of other races, they would have to find their own way back.
During the long walk north, the tribe were attacked by a savage bunch of Centaur who were already fleeing from orcish forces. Odah was mortally wounded, but in his last moments he saw the brutal efficiency of the trolls and orcs they had brought with them drive back and defeat the Centaur. One orc in particular had prevailed above all others, taking down Centaur left and right, with whatever weapon he had to hand, and a great black Worg that followed him. With his dying breaths, Odah granted the orcs and trolls membership and passed leadership of the tribe to the orc that had saved so many of the tribe: Xiphol Skullslinger
The tribe accepted Xiphol immediately due to his bravery, and the fact that he carried Odah's body alone, refusing any help. Surprisingly, later that day they came across the members that had refused to travel to Thunderbluff.
They were far further south than when the group had split and amongst their ranks, there were several new faces, mostly trolls that the tribe had found washed ashore at the north eastern edge of the Barrens. It transpired that the split group had helped the trolls gather their belongings and tend to their wounded and fatigued. For this the trolls were grateful and some had promised to join the tribe. The others now went on their way to join up with the rest of Thrall's new horde.
The two halves of the tribe now joined again, one of the first tauren to accept Xiphol from the main group explained to the others what had happened. Together, tauren, orc and troll buried Odah beneath the shade of a tree, a spot that still exists in the Barrens and is often travelled to.
The Change Edit
Xiphol's sudden rise to leadership brought about a great many changes. A few of the Original tauren who's families had been members of the Earthwalker tribe for generations found it hard to immediately adjust. In order to resolve this and avoid any tension, at Xiphol's insistence a second leader, with equal rule, was appointed from amongst the original tribesmen: Windmane, the one they called The Traveller.
Things settled and stayed this way for a while. The tribe continued to lead it's nomadic lifestyle, though soon some orcs and trolls became restless and a few of their number left for Durotar and Thrall's expanding new city. The few that stayed became permanent members, embracing the tribe's virtues and way of life.
Soon however, tensions once again began to mount. This time, from the trolls. Seeing a tauren and orc leader, they felt it unfair that their own views weren't represented as fully. A council was held and so it was that from the trolls, Xiphol and Windmane selected Zurai'jin as the third Elder. It was at this same time that the tribe was renamed as Earth Walkers.
Currently Edit
The current Elders are the same as they were at the beginning of the new Earth Walkers. Many of the orcish members ignored the rediscovery of their home world of Draenor, instead concentrating on the continued well-being of their new home.
During the events prior to the landing of Horde forces on Northrend, the Earth Walkers took up the fight and helped defend several positions in the Barrens and Mulgore, whilst those with the capacity helped the wounded. The current events on Northrend have also largely gone unnoticed, though there is interest amongst the ranks in Grizzly Hills and the destroyed World Tree attempt that rests there: Vordrassil.
Members Edit
Current Elders Edit
Xiphol Worgrunner
Previously known as Xiphol Skullslinger , his name was changed by one of the seers of the Earth Walkers shortly after his rise to leadership. The first Elder of the new Earth Walkers, he stands as a symbol of the tribe's strength and determination.
Windmane the Traveller
A member of the Earth Walkers for countless years before Xiphol's arrival, Windmane often travelled off alone, returning in times of need. He represents the wisdom and tradition of the Earth Walkers.
Zurai'jin
The final member to become an Elder, Zurai'jin was originally the priest of a small tribe of Darkspear Trolls who crashed on the north eastern edge of the Barrens during the orcs' landing on Kalimdor. Zurai'jin is a symbol for the spiritual and philosophical side of the Earth Walkers
The Rest of the Tribe Edit
Tauren Edit
The tribe was started with the tauren, and so long as they remain, it's roots will always be remembered, and it's values upheld. They are the backbone of the tribe, and make up the majority of it's members.
Orcs Edit
Since the first meeting with the orcs in Thunderbluff, the tribe has readily accepted them due to their similar views and values. Whilst it's true that some who join do not find quite what they were looking for, those that remain tend to be the more spiritual, shamanistic members of the race (though it is certainly not limited to these).
Trolls Edit
Viewed at the outset as the weakest link in the chain, the trolls eventually earned their place with the election of Zurai'jin as an Elder. Through his spiritual power, the rest of the tribe have come to view their troll members with more respect.
Sin'dorei Edit
The Sin'dorei are generally excluded as their values and ideals are too far apart from those of the tribe. This is not to say that all Blood Elves behave this way, but as of yet, none have demonstrated enough of an appreciation of the livings things of Azeroth the warrant their inclusion in the tribe.
Forsaken Edit
As with the Sin'dorei, Forsaken are also excluded from membership. As well as a mismatch of values, the majority of tauren, Earth Walkers or otherwise, find undeath abhorrent, so the decision was made to fully exclude Forsaken to avoid unnecessary tensions.
Joining Edit
Joining the Earth Walkers is not a simple task. But like most things in life, the harder tasks are often the more rewarding.
The Request Edit
A prospective new member would first need to seek out a current member, and simply ask to join. The act of asking is an impressive first step, as the prospective member (especially orcs and trolls) would be committing themselves to an often new and alien way of life. In essence, this is seen as a good first step, and the prospective member will either be taken to an Elder, or be given further information on how to meet with an Elder.
The Meeting Edit
The meeting with an Elder is not an event to be taken lightly. Whilst all three Elders have different outlooks on life, they are all aware of what does and doesn't suit the tribe's way. That said, it is not always immediately clear whether a prospective new member will fit in, so more often than not, they are given a chance to prove themselves.
The Trial Edit
At this stage the prospective new member will be accepted into the tribe as an initiate. Before they are to become a full, active member, they are given a short task. The tasks themselves may vary from person to person and it is entirely at the discretion of the testing Elder or Elders as to what that task entails. In the past, members have been asked to go on physical or spiritual journeys, retrieval tasks and even scouting missions that have been useful to the tribe.
The Council and The Decision Edit
If the task is completed successfully, in a manner acceptable to the Elders, they will go to council.
The decision will then be made as to whether the prospective new member is allowed to stay, or whether they are not suitable.
If successful, the new member will be accepted into the tribe with an initiation ceremony, and their new life as an Earth Walker will begin.
If unsuccessful, they may try again when they deem themselves ready, though it is entirely at the Elder's discretion to refuse the member before The Trial if they do not feel the member has grown.
Roles Edit
The Earth Walkers include many members with many different talents. This is not to say that every member of the tribe has a specific job to do as all members are seen as important.
Amongst their numbers currently are:
Beastmasters, Druids, Healers, Hunters, Longrunners, Priests, Scouts, Seers, Shaman,Witch Doctors and even Warriors.
Whilst one may not find all the members in the same place at the same time, they are always there, and there whereabouts generally always accounted for.
Faith Edit
The Earth Walkers are tolerant of all members' beliefs and ideologies and though they have no single faith of their own, they adhere to tenets and virtues usually already inherent in most of their members.
From knowledge, all other things flow. By increasing one's wisdom, it is possible to enhance every aspect of life, be it spiritual, physical or mental.
Through Tolerance, a greater understanding of others and the world in which everything lives can be gained. Tolerance teaches to understand and care for those out of your normal boundaries.
The decision to disallow Blood Elves and Forsaken as members is not an issue of tolerance, but more an issue of ideals. Their ideals and values are too far from those of the tribe to warrant their inclusion. Whilst some may call this a gross generalisation, it is kept this way to maintain order and balance. It is important to remember, though they are generally not accepted into the tribe, the Earth Walkers bear no other horde races any ill will.
Members of opposing factions should also be tolerated. However. this does not overrule reactions in a hostile situation. See Respect for Life.
Respect for Life
The Earth Walkers believe all life to be important. Be that a plant, insect or animal, or even a member of an opposing faction. By respecting the living things of Azeroth, one gains respect in return and will find their lives enriched in the process.
It is important to note that respect for life does not say that a member of the Earth Walkers should simply refuse to fight if set upon by any hostile force, be that Alliance or otherwise. They would be entirely within their rights to defend themselves. However, an Earth Walker must try not to instigate combat unless the situation truly calls for it, and killing must never be in cold blood.
Other Information Edit
All other information is on the Earth Walkers guild website: Earth Walkers
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Preview: San Francisco 49ers (1-9) at Miami Dolphins (6-4)
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By Al Sacco @AlSacco49
Nov 23, 2016 at 5:30 PM • --
Week after week, the narrative is the same. It would be one thing if the San Francisco 49ers (1-9) actually found new and inventive ways of losing. That would at least keep things interesting, but they don't. In fact, it's pretty much the same thing every week. The team comes out relatively competitive for the first half and then gets their doors blown off in the second. The defense allows tons of yards and points, the offense plays well in flashes but ultimately falls flat, and the coaching staff seems like they have no idea what a second half adjustment is. Will any of this change in Week 12 when the Niners visit Miami to take on the red-hot Dolphins (6-4)? Probably not.
Remember when QB Colin Kaepernick wore that Dolphins hat? Just kidding, The last time these two actually hooked up was Week 14 of 2012, when the 49ers used three second-half touchdowns to pull away in a 27-13 victory. WR Michael Crabtree paced San Francisco with nine grabs for 93 yards and Kaepernick sealed the game with a 50-yard touchdown run. OLB Aldon Smith added two sacks for the Niners, who improved to 9-3-1.
This week, I'm going to take a different approach to this section and actually look at the coaches. I understand that the roster in San Francisco is limited at best, but the more I see the second half collapses that have become so familiar, the more I wonder about head coach Chip Kelly. His offense has been boring, predictable, and really struggled to move the ball. The 49ers have been held to 302 total yards or less in eight games and are currently 30th in the league in that category with 3,096. Since Week 3, they've only managed 18.6 points per game, which is a real problem when your defense gives up over 30 on a regular basis. And how about that defense? His hire of defensive coordinator Jim O'Neil was curious, to begin with, but it's looked even worse as the season has progressed. O'Neil is presiding over a historically bad unit, despite having what was expected to be some decent young talent. It will be interesting to see what happens from here on out because, at this point, Kelly isn't inspiring much confidence.
When you look at Adam Gase, it's hard not to imagine what could have been. It was rumored that he was the choice to replace Jim Harbaugh back in 2015, but he refused to keep Jim Tomsula on as the defensive coordinator. Any deal they might have had seemed to fall apart in the final hours and Tomsula was ultimately named head coach. Now, less than two years later, Gase has the Dolphins playing some of their best football in years after a slow start. Gase is the kind of innovative offensive mind the 49ers needed and hoped they were getting with Kelly. If Gase continues to go on to have success, it will just continue to sting a San Francisco fan base that's been put through the ringer the past 24 months or so.
Stats to Know
A big part of the second half issues goes hand in hand with the drop-off in quarterback play. Kaepernick has actually been quite good in the first half since taking over for QB Blaine Gabbert in Week 6, going 50-of-68 (73.5 percent) for 746 yards and six touchdown passes. The issue is, he falls off a cliff in the second half and his numbers dip considerably. In the third and fourth quarter, Kap is 36-of-94 (38%) with 398 yards passing and one score. Overall, the 49ers have been held scoreless in the third quarter in six of their 10 games and have been outscored 153-89 in the second half this year.
Game Changing Factor
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It's been a tale of two seasons so far in Miami, as the difference between the Dolphins' first five games (1-4) and last five games (5-0) has been like night and day. Behind the emergence of RB Jay Ajayi, the running game has exploded to average 163.8 yards per contest since Week 6. In comparison, they couldn't find any running lanes early on and were held to 72.4 yards on the ground in Weeks 1-5. The defense has also turned it around, going from allowing about 400 yards to the opposition to allowing just over 300. A strong running game and improving defense is a tried and true recipe for success in the NFL and will be very difficult to overcome for a Niners team that's allowed a league-worst 1,795 yards rushing and can't move the ball on offense.
News from the Week
FS Eric Reid has been lost for the season. He suffered a torn biceps injury in the final minutes of the 49ers' game against the New England Patriots and will require season-ending surgery.
Making his 400th career field goal last week against the Patriots, at 84.7% (400 of 472), K Phil Dawson has the best field goal percentage in NFL history among kickers with 400 career made field goals.
LB Ahmad Brooks ranks third in 49ers franchise history with 49 career sacks.
TE Vance McDonald ranks second among tight ends in the NFL this season with 17.9 yards per reception (Rob Gronkowski, NE - 21.6).
QB Colin Kaepernick's 7.22 yards per run this season leads the NFL among quarterbacks with at least 10 attempts.
Kickoff: Sunday, November 27, 2016 at 10:00 a.m. PT
Where: Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida
All-Time Matchup: Series tied 6-6
Last Meeting: 12/9/12, 49ers win 27-13, at SF
Current Streak: Won 1
Betting: The Dolphins are 7.5-point favorites
NFL Fan Picks: 81% pick the Dolphins to win according to Yahoo! Sports
49ers Fan Picks: Within our Pick 'em Contest, 78% believe the Dolphins will win
49ers Schedule: View full schedule
Dolphins News: Dolphins news at Problitz.com
Follow Game Online: NFL.com's Game Center
Discuss: Niner Talk forum
Follow Us: Facebook, Twitter, Google+
The game will be televised on FOX (Check 506 Sports to see if it is local).
Play-By-Play: Thom Brennaman
Color Analyst: Charles Davis
Sideline Reporter: Holly Sonders
KGO 810 AM and The Bone 107.7 FM (Other markets) will carry the radio broadcast with Ted Robinson doing the play-by-play and Tim Ryan as the color analyst. ESPN Deportes and KKSF 910 AM will carry the Spanish broadcast.
San Francisco 49ers Injuries
DT Quinton Dial (knee/neck), LB Aaron Lynch (ankle), WR Torrey Smith (shoulder), CB Jimmie Ward (concussion)
Miami Dolphins Injuries
C Mike Pouncey (hip)
T Branden Albert (wrist)
RB Kenyan Drake (knee), CB Xavien Howard (knee), LB Jelani Jenkins (knee/hand), WR Jarvis Landry (shoulder), LB Spencer Paysinger (neck), WR Kenny Stills (calf), DT Ndamukong Suh (knee), T Laremy Tunsil (shoulder), DE Mario Williams (ankle)
Game Averages (Rank)
20.4 (24th)
Offense Pts
21.8 (21st)
309.6 (30th)
Offense Yds
189.8 (31st)
Offense Pass
119.8 (5th)
Offense Rush
31.3 (32nd)
Defense Pts Allowed
431.1 (32nd)
Defense Yds Allowed
Defense Pass Allowed
Defense Rush Allowed
Passing Comp Yds TD INT
Colin Kaepernick, SF 53.1 1144 7 2
Ryan Tannehill, MIA 65.9 2289 12 8
Rushing Car Yds Avg TD
Carlos Hyde, SF 141 529 3.8 6
Jay Ajayi, MIA 143 802 5.6 6
Receiving Rec Yds Avg TD
Jeremy Kerley, SF 40 424 10.6 3
Jarvis Landry, MIA 60 686 11.4 2
The 49ers' visit to the renovated Hard Rock Stadium to face the Dolphins is seeing ticket prices starting at $77, and averaging $220.
This is the least expensive 49ers road game remaining this season.
Parking in Miami on game day starts at $15 according to ParkWhiz.com.
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Depressed teens treated with radical magnetic brain stimulation
By Emily Rice • Medical Reporter
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Teenagers have a reputation for being sulky and irritable.
But when occasional moodiness extends into months of persistent melancholy, it can be an early sign a child is suffering depression, according to Monash Health child psychiatrist Michael Gordon.
"Their marks are dropping, they are not socialising, they have withdrawn into their rooms ... their self esteem is low," Dr Gordon said.
Traditional treatment approaches include psychotherapy and anti-depressant medication.
But as veteran mental health nurse Chris Pavlou explained, not all teenagers respond to those options.
"For around 40 to 60 percent this does not work," Ms Pavlou said.
"It is not effective."
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Now a team of mental health experts at Monash Health in Melbourne have been given permission by the Therapeutic Goods Administration to embark on a radical treatment approach to adolescent depression.
Known as transcranial magnetic stimulation - or TMS for short - it involves placing a magnetic paddle against the patient's head which emits small electrical pulses.
That energy is thought to stimulate nerve cells in the region of the brain involved in mood control.
So far 13 teenagers have undergone magnetic therapy at Dandenong Hospital in Melbourne's south-east.
The young patients are exposed to the magnetic pulses for five half-hour sessions over a month.
And while still in the early stages of the trial, lead researcher Dr Gordon said most patients have reported a lift in mood.
"A number of people have become less depressed ... when other things have failed or not worked. So we're buoyed by that," he said.
Ms Pavlou has also detected a noticeable change in several of the young depression sufferers.
"It is really really exciting to see the difference in the way these young people feel, how their positivity has come back," she said.
Meg Stewart is one of those to undergo the treatment. (Supplied)
Year 12 student Meg Stewart is among those taking part, after suffering severe bouts of depression since her early teens.
"It is like a dark cloud that follows you 24-7," the 18-year-old said.
"For a long time I struggled with telling a lot of people. I thought it would make me seem weak and vulnerable."
After being prescribed various anti-depressant medications with mixed results, Ms Stewart decided to try TMS.
While her depression has not been cured, she did experience an improvement in how she felt immediately after the sessions.
"I thought 'why not, I'll give it a shot'. And you know it was a regally positive experience," Ms Stewart said.
TMS is non-invasive, painless and some patients find it so relaxing they even fall asleep during treatment.
But some do experience slight side-effects such as headaches.
Studies on adults suggest TMS is effective on about 30 percent of depression patients for whom traditional interventions have not worked.
The true impact on adolescent mental health is still under examination.
To continue their study, Monash Health is recruiting more teenagers with clinically diagnosed depression.
Ms Stewart is staying positive by focusing on her Year 12 schoolwork and her burgeoning business - Meg's Cakes.
"I bake cakes, so that is kind of my saviour. It's my happy place," she said.
She said her best therapy of all is her loving friends and family.
"I've got so much support around me and I'm really lucky with that."
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Evaluación microbiológica de menudencias porcinas recolectadas de centros procesadores en un región importante de producción porcina de los Estados Unidos
Évaluation microbiologique d’abats de porc prélevés dans des établissements de transformation dans une région de production porcine importante aux États-Unis
Alan K. Erickson, PhD; Monte Fuhrman, DVM; William Benjy Mikel, PhD; Jon Ertl, DVM; Laura L. Ruesch, MS; Debra Murray; Zachary Lau, BS
AKE, LLR, DM, ZL: Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota. MF: Pipestone Veterinary Services, Pipestone, Minnesota. WBM: WPF Technical Services, Lexington, Kentucky. JE: Sioux Nation Ag Center, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Corresponding author: Dr Alan K. Erickson, Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, 1155 N. Campus Drive, Box 2175, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD 57007; Tel: 605-688-6544; Email: alan.erickson@sdstate.edu.
Cite as: Erickson AK, Fuhrman M, Mikel WB, et al. Microbiological evaluation of pork offal products collected from processing facilities in a major United States pork-producing region. J Swine Health Prod. 2019;27(1):34-38.
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Analysis of 370 offal samples from 15 US pork-processing facilities detected Yersinia enterocolitica-positive (2.4%) and Salmonella-positive (21.8%) samples and mesophilic aerobic plate counts > 107 colony-forming units/g (3.2%). A risk assessment showed intestine (20%), brain (21%), liver and heart (73%), and kidney (87%) sampling batches were acceptable for human consumption.
El análisis de 370 muestras de menudencias de 15 centros procesadores de cerdo de EUA detectó muestras positivas al Yersinia enterocolitica (2.4%) y positivas a la Salmonella (21.8%), y conteo de placa aeróbica de mesófilos > 107 unidades/g formadoras de colonias (3.2%). Una evaluación de riesgo mostró que los lotes de muestreo de intestino (20%), cerebro (21%), hígado y corazón (73%), y riñón (87%) eran aceptables para consumo humano.
L’analyse de 370 échantillons d’abats provenant de 15 établissements de transformation américain a permis de détecter des échantillons positifs pour Yersinia enterocolitica (2.4%) et Salmonella (21.8%) ainsi que des dénombrements de bactéries mésophiles aérobiques > 107 unités formatrices de colonies/g (3.2%). Une évaluation du risque a démontré que les lots échantillonnés d’intestins (20%), de cerveau (21%), de foie et de cœur (73%), ainsi que de reins (87%) étaient acceptables pour consommation humaine.
Keywords: swine, offal, Salmonella, Yersinia, Toxoplasma
Received: March 20, 2018
Accepted: August 21, 2018
Edible offal products from slaughtered hogs represent about 14% of the animal’s live weight.1 These edible offal products include variety meats, which are the edible organs and glands including brain, heart, kidney, liver, thymus gland, and tongue. In the United States, it is estimated that five million metric tons of pork variety meats and other byproducts are generated each year with a large amount of this material being rendered to generate low value products like blood meal, fat, grease, meat and bone meal, and pet food.2 An alternative use of US pork offal would be to market and sell the edible offal products to consumers in countries that prefer strong tasting pork products, like variety meats.3 The desirability of pork offal in foreign markets makes them higher value products in those markets than in the United States, which would likely increase the value of live hogs for US producers.
The purpose of the current study was to determine if pork offal products (brain, heart, intestine, kidney, and liver) as currently produced in US pork-processing facilities are acceptable as food products for human consumption by worldwide populations. To evaluate the microbiological status of pork offal products, sampling batches of five types of pork offal were tested for general contamination and specific human pathogens including Salmonella spp., Yersinia enterocolitica, and Toxoplasma gondii, which have been identified as three of the most common foodborne hazards in pork.4 Salmonella spp. and Y enterocolitica are normal components of the intestinal microflora of healthy pigs that can easily contaminate other pork products within the processing facility environment.5,6 Both Salmonella spp. and Y enterocolitica cause intestinal infections in humans leading to diarrhea.7 Severe Salmonella infections, which occur more commonly in young and elderly persons, can lead to bloody diarrhea, vomiting, and rarely death, while severe Y enterocolitica infections can cause extraintestinal sequelae, such as reactive arthritis, that can persist for years.7 Toxoplasma gondii is a protozoan parasite that can infect a variety of porcine organs including brain, heart, and lungs.8 Toxoplasma gondii causes mild influenza-like symptoms in most infected humans, but it can cause life-threatening infections in fetuses and immunocompromised individuals.9
The sampling protocol for this study was based on a risk assessment model designed to determine if the offal products coming from an individual processing facility on a particular sampling day are acceptable for human consumption.10 In this model, the two criteria used to design the sampling protocol were: 1) level of concern relative to human health hazards of each potential pathogen (eg, indicator, moderate, serious, or severe) and 2) condition of use of the food product (eg, if the food has a preparation step, such as heating, that would reduce microorganism populations).10,11 The level of risk to humans for the three pathogens evaluated in this study (Salmonella spp., Y enterocolitica, T gondii) is considered serious based on their ability to cause incapacitating, but not usually life-threatening, disease. To be considered acceptable for human consumption when testing for a serious human pathogen with decreased risk due to inactivation by heating, a sampling batch needs to consist of five samples, all of which need to test negative for the presence of the pathogen.10 The mesophilic aerobic plate count (APC) is an indicator test of food acceptability12, with counts less than 1 × 107 colony-forming units/g (CFU/g) considered a negative result. An acceptable APC sampling batch needs to consist of five samples with at least two of the five samples testing negative. Based on this risk assessment model, our sampling protocol included one sampling batch of five types of offal from 15 large pork-processing facilities in ten states (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina, South Dakota, and Tennessee) distributed throughout the major pork-producing region of the midwestern and southeastern United States. Selection of slaughterhouses was by convenience, based on proximity to members of the research team. All samples were collected from federally inspected facilities which operate in accordance with the US federal humane slaughter regulations.
Samples of heart, kidney, and liver were obtained from the carcass prior to evisceration or from offal trays depending upon facility operational protocols. An approximately 25-cm segment of ileum was harvested from the intestine just proximal to the ileocecal valve. Brains were harvested by cutting the skull down the median plane using a band saw and then the brain was removed using sterile forceps and placed into a sterile bag. Five samples (> 400 g each) of each type of offal were collected by placing each sample in a sterile Whirl-Pak bag (Nasco, Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin) minimizing cross contamination as best as possible. Offal samples were obtained every 5 to 10 minutes to ensure that animals from multiple farms were represented in each sampling batch. Immediately upon collection, samples were placed on ice and stored at 4°C prior to shipment for laboratory analysis. Tests for Y enterocolitica, Salmonella, and APC were initiated within 96 hours of sample collection. Prior to analysis of the intestine samples, the intestinal contents were removed from the lumen by gently squeezing the contents out of the end of the ileum segment. Approximately 100 g of each offal sample were stored at -20°C for T gondii detection.
Mesophilic aerobic plate counts were performed by homogenizing 25 g of the minced offal sample in 225 mL of buffered peptone water (BPW) using a Seward 3500 stomacher (Islandia, New York) for 2 minutes at 265 rpm. The resulting tissue homogenate was diluted into BPW using 100-fold serial dilutions. One milliliter of each dilution was pipetted onto a 3M Aerobic Count Petrifilm plate (Maplewood, Minnesota) and allowed to incubate at 37°C for 48 hours. Colonies of aerobic bacteria were counted and the APC was calculated as CFU/g of tissue.
Salmonella spp. detection was performed using a method based on the US Department of Agriculture’s Microbiology Laboratory Guidebook.13 Minced offal pieces (25 g) were homogenized in 225 mL of BPW using a stomacher for 2 minutes at 265 rpm and then incubated overnight at 37°C. A commercially available real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method that uses a Hygiena BAX analyzer (Hygiena, Camarillo, California) was used to screen for the presence of Salmonella DNA. Samples that tested positive for Salmonella using PCR were cultured to a pair of selective secondary liquid enrichment media (Hajna Tetrathionate and Rappaport-Vassiliadis Broth; BD, Franklin Lakes, New Jersey) and incubated overnight at 37°C. Ten microliters of each of these broth cultures were spread onto a pair of selective agar plates (XLT and Brilliant Green; BD, Franklin Lakes, New Jersey) and incubated overnight at 37°C. Plates were visually examined to identify potential Salmonella spp. colonies.13 The identity of each suspected Salmonella spp. colony was verified by biotyping using a Bruker Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization-Time of Flight Mass Spectrometer (MALDI-TOF MS; Bruker Daltonics, Billerica, Massachusetts).
For detection of Y enterocolitica, minced offal samples (25 g) were homogenized in 225 mL of BPW using a stomacher for 2 minutes at 265 rpm. One hundred microliters of the resulting homogenate were spread onto MacConkey and Cefsulodin-Irgasan-Novobiocin (CIN) agar plates (BD, Franklin Lakes, New Jersey) and allowed to incubate at 37°C for 48 hours.14 The identity of each suspected Y enterocolitica colony was verified by biotyping using a Bruker MALDI-TOF MS.15
While it is known that T gondii oocysts are partially inactivated by freezing, the DNA-based PCR assay used in this study is capable of detecting the presence of T gondii DNA in frozen tissue.15 Ten grams of minced, thawed offal were placed into a stomacher bag and 25 mL of cell lysis buffer containing 100 mM Tris hydrochloride (pH = 8.0), 5 mM EDTA, 0.2% sodium dodecyl sulphate, 200 mM sodium chloride, and 40 mg/L proteinase K (30 mAnson U/mg) was added. The sample was homogenized using a stomacher at 265 rpm for 2 minutes and then incubated in a water bath at 55°C for 16 hours to release any T gondii oocysts present. The sample was homogenized using a stomacher at 265 rpm for 1 additional minute and then centrifuged for 45 minutes at 3500g. Five milliliters of the supernatant were heated at 100°C for 10 minutes to inactivate proteinase K and then stored at -20°C until PCR testing. The T gondii DNA in the samples was amplified and detected using the primers and real-time quantitative PCR method described by Opsteegh et al.15 A positive control sample of frozen T gondii-infected sheep placenta was used to verify that the sample preparation and PCR methods effectively detected T gondii DNA in frozen tissue samples.
Of the 370 offal samples, 9 (2.4%) tested positive for Y enterocolitica, 81 (21.9%) tested positive for Salmonella spp., 11 (3%) had APC > 107 CFU/g, and 0 (0%) tested positive for T gondii (Table 1). The 9 Yersinia-positive samples included 3 of 70 (4.3%) brains, 1 of 75 (1.3%) heart, 1 of 75 (1.3%) intestine, 2 of 75 (2.7%) kidneys, and 2 of 75 (2.7%) livers. The 81 Salmonella spp.-positive samples included 25 of 70 (35.7%) brains, 9 of 75 (12%) hearts, 37 of 75 (49.3%) intestines, 2 of 75 (2.7%) kidneys, and 8 of 75 (10.7%) livers. All eleven offal samples that had APC > 107 CFU/g were intestine.
Table 1: Percentage of offal samples by type with a positive test for various microbiological pathogens*
Offal type
Samples that tested positive, No. (%)
Yersinia enterocolitica
APC > 107 CFU/g
Toxoplasma gondii
Intestine (n = 75) 1 (1.3) 37 (49.3) 11 (14.7) 0 (0)
Heart (n = 75) 1 (1.3) 9 (12) 0 (0) 0 (0)
Kidney (n = 75) 2 (2.7) 2 (2.7) 0 (0) 0 (0)
Brain (n = 70)† 3 (4.3) 25 (35.7) 0 (0) 0 (0)
Liver (n = 75) 2 (2.7) 8 (10.7) 0 (0) 0 (0)
Total (N = 370) 9 (2.4) 81 (21.9) 11 (3.0) 0 (0)
* Offal samples were collected from 15 large pork-processing facilities in 10 states distributed throughout the major pork-producing region of the midwestern and southeastern United States.
† One processing plant did not allow the collectors to obtain brain samples.
APC = mesophilic aerobic plate counts; CFU = colony-forming units.
Results from APC analysis of brain, heart, kidney, and liver showed that overall contamination of these types of offal was relatively low with 14 of the 15 facilities having APCs that averaged less than 5.0 log10 CFU/g (Figure 1), which is in the normal range for raw meat samples.12 Average APCs from intestine were much higher than the other types of offal with 10 processing facilities having average APC counts for intestine over 5.0 log10 CFU/g and 6 of those 10 processing facilities having average APC counts for intestine between 6.0 and 7.01 log10 CFU/g. Since none of the sampling batches of offal had 3 of 5 samples with APC counts over 7.0 log10 CFU/g, all offal batches were determined to be acceptable for human consumption based on APC results.
Figure 1: Mesophilic aerobic plate counts of offal samples collected from 15 pork-processing facilities in the United States. Offal tissues sampled were brain, heart, kidney, liver, and intestine. APC = mesophilic aerobic plate counts; CFU = colony-forming units.
To determine if offal samples produced in a processing facility on a specific day were acceptable for human consumption, the five samples of offal collected from an individual processing facility were considered a sampling batch for risk assessment analysis. In the current study, 68 of 74 (91.9%) sampling batches of all types of offal were acceptable for human consumption based on Y enterocolitica testing and 43 of 74 (58.1%) sampling batches were acceptable based on Salmonella spp. testing (Table 2). All offal sampling batches were acceptable for human consumption based on APC and T gondii testing. All Yersinia-positive samples originated from two processing facilities, so 13 of 15 processing facilities produced five types of offal that were acceptable for human consumption based on Y enterocolitica testing. Salmonella spp. contamination of offal products was much higher with 31 of 74 sampling batches judged unacceptable. These 31 unacceptable sampling batches included 11 brain, 3 heart, 12 intestine, 2 kidney, and 3 liver. For offal coming from a processing facility to be considered acceptable for human consumption, a sampling batch of offal must pass all four microbiological tests. In this study, 41 of 74 (55.4%) sampling batches passed all four tests. Of these 41 acceptable offal sampling batches, only 3 were brain and 3 were intestine. While both brain and intestine are consumed as human foods in various parts of the world, these two types of offal are not as valuable, based on food product desirability and potential export market price,3 as the other three types of offal tested in this study. When we focus on the higher value offal products, which include heart, kidney, and liver, a higher percentage of sampling batches (35 of 45; 77.8%) passed all four microbiological tests and were acceptable for human consumption.
Table 2: Percentage of US pork-processing facilities producing an acceptable sampling batch of each type of offal based on microbiological tests for specific pathogens and APC*
US processing facilities producing a sampling batch of offal acceptable for human consumption, No. (%)
All four tests
Intestine (n = 15) 14 (93.3) 3 (20) 15 (100) 15 (100) 3 (20)
Heart (n = 15) 14 (93.3) 12 (80) 15 (100) 15 (100) 11 (73.3)
Kidney (n = 15) 14 (93.3) 13 (86.7) 15 (100) 15 (100) 13 (86.7)
Brain (n = 14)† 12 (85.7) 3 (21.4) 14 (100) 14 (100) 3 (21.4)
Liver (n = 15) 14 (93.3) 12 (80) 15 (100) 15 (100) 11 (73.3)
Total (N = 74) 68 (91.9) 43 (58.1) 74 (100) 74 (100) 41 (55.4)
APC = mesophilic aerobic plate counts.
The purpose of the current study was to evaluate the extent of microbiological contamination of edible pork offal as currently processed by large US pork slaughterhouses. This study is not intended to be a comprehensive microbiological survey of all types of pork offal from US pork processors. Of the potential foodborne pathogens tested for in this study, Salmonella spp. contamination represents the biggest impediment to marketing US-produced pork offal products as human foods. A similar study of microbiological status of pork offal products produced by Korean slaughterhouses also identified Salmonella as the main foodborne pathogen in pork offal.16 The type of pork offal that was most commonly contaminated with Salmonella spp. was intestine with 12 of 15 sampling batches of intestine determined to be unacceptable for human consumption. Overall, 49.3% of the intestinal samples tested positive for Salmonella spp., which is similar to the percentage of Salmonella-positive cecal samples detected in market swine (35%) and sows (50%) at US slaughterhouses.17 Although it is possible for intestines to become contaminated during processing, the prevalence of Salmonella spp. in this study’s intestinal samples is likely an indication of the percentage of pigs whose intestines (distal ileum) contained Salmonella spp. at slaughter. Since the percentage of intestines that naturally contain Salmonella spp. is high, US pork-processing facilities that want to market intestine as a human food product, such as chitlins, may benefit from incorporating some type of post-harvest disinfection step, eg, an organic acid wash of the intestinal lumen, to decrease levels of Salmonella spp. in these intestinal products.7
The other offal products evaluated in this study, including brain, heart, kidney, and liver, are typically sterile at the time of animal slaughter, but can easily become contaminated by microbes during slaughtering, processing, packaging, and storage.18 The main source of microbial contamination of these offal products in pork-processing facilities comes from tissues, such as intestine, lymph nodes, and tonsils, which are naturally infected with potential foodborne pathogens including both Salmonella and Y enterocolitica.19,20 For example, Salmonella-infected intestine can easily become a source of contamination of other tissues at the time of evisceration of the animal, especially if the intestinal wall becomes perforated and the intestinal contents leak onto other tissues, offal trays, processing equipment, or gloves and tools of facility workers.11 Offal products are particularly vulnerable to this type of contamination since these products are removed from the animal at the same time as the intestine and are then often transported and processed in the same area of the facility as intestine.16
Other than intestine, the pork offal product that was most highly contaminated with Salmonella spp. was brain with 11 of 14 sampling batches determined to be unacceptable for human consumption and 35.7% of brain samples testing positive for Salmonella. The likely reason for the high percentage of Salmonella-positive brains is that the harvesting method resulted in contamination. While other offal samples in this study were obtained from the carcass prior to evisceration or from offal trays, the brain samples were harvested from skulls by splitting the skull down the median plane using a band saw and then the brain was removed and placed into a sterile bag using sterile forceps. The blade of the band saw must cut through multiple types of tissues in the skull including the tonsils, which are known to harbor Salmonella and is a likely source of contamination.20 To effectively market brains as a human food, an alternative method for harvest would have to be implemented to minimize contamination during processing.
Microbiological contamination of heart, kidney, and liver was relatively low in the current study with 10 of the 15 processing facilities having no positive Salmonella spp. results, and 14 of the 15 facilities having no positive Y enterocolitica results. A logical method for further reducing microbial contamination of these types of offal would be to incorporate Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) systems for processing, packing, transporting, and storing pork offal. The effectiveness of these HACCP programs in reducing contamination of meat products by potential pathogens is demonstrated by 35% of cecal samples from market swine at slaughter testing positive for Salmonella, but only 1.2% of retail pork chops testing positive for Salmonella.17 A similar reduction in the Salmonella contamination of heart, kidney, and liver would likely occur if HACCP systems for pork offal were implemented at all stages of processing.
Heart, kidney, and liver as currently harvested by a majority of US processing facilities tested in this study were acceptable for human consumption based on microbiological evaluation for aerobic bacteria, Salmonella spp., Y enterocolitica, and T gondii.
Of the three potential foodborne pathogens evaluated in this study, Salmonella spp. was the most common contaminant of pork offal products.
This research is based upon work supported by a National Pork Board International Trade Research Grant. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Pork Board.
None reported.
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Why You Should Obtain Death Certificate Of Your Loved Ones
Director, Public Affairs Department, National Population Commission, Mr Mohamed Isah, has urged Nigerians to always obtain death certificates for their deceased ones.
Isah gave the advice during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Abuja.
He explained that death certificate was another platform of updating the country’s population, saying that it is as important as birth certificate.
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He said the certificate provides demographic records to the commission, which it analyses and disseminates as data for public consumption.
According to him, death certificate is important because it states the cause of death as well as age and time the death occurred.
Isah noted that it also helped in informing the populace that a particular cause of death was endemic.
“With the information gathered, we can tell Nigerians that a particular ailment has been causing deaths.
“It can also help the government plan as well as intervene in order to prevent future deaths.
“Death certificate also gives a next of kin the right to get or collect the deceased entitlements,” he said.
Isah further said that death certificate also helps in gathering information on infants and maternal mortality, epidemics and endemics as well as keep track of diseases.
The director explained that when the practice of collection of death certificate becomes a norm, it would no longer be necessary to conduct census, because the records would have been up to date at any particular material time.
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“Nigerians find it difficult to collect death certificate if there is nothing to inherit from the deceased.
“But it is not about inheritance; the information gathered from cause of death is key.
“Like in Kaltungo town in Gombe State, snake bite is a major cause of death in that town and with that information, government was able to intervene,” he added.
Isah, therefore, appealed to Nigerians to always obtain a death certificate to assist the commission in its statutory role of data collation and analysis.
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A Rick Steves Tour
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We came, we saw, we conquered. Perhaps not in the way of Caesar, but we did, nonetheless. It was sad saying goodbye to everyone, but exciting too as everyone left with a different plan. Bill & Becky were on their way to Venice. Barbra was heading to another Rick Steves tour! Tracy & Matthew on their way back to Germany. Christine & Bob were off to Tuscany. And some were headed home with a suitcase full of souvenirs and a lifetime of memories.
Rick Steves is very protective of each tour members privacy, and as such the guides are not allowed to pass out emails etc, but we were encouraged to make our own connections. I offered to set up a private Facebook group where we could all connect and share photos and stories once we returned home. And it's been SO wonderful to keep in touch with these friends and continue to relive our time together in Italy. How about a reunion tour?! (ohmygosh that would be awesome! when can we go?!?!)
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As for us, we took the high-speed train back to Rome for an early flight out the next day. We stayed at the FCO Airport Hilton for ease in getting to the airport in the morning. This was our first "big box" hotel since arriving in Italy and it made my heart break a little. But the convenience was worth it and we set out for the airport early the next morning.
Thank you, friends for joining us on this journey.
Love, Michaela & Antonio
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Quote from: Monsieur OUXX on 09 Jan 2018, 09:25
This is aimed at explaining once and for all what I mean every time I try to express some concerns regarding what I sometimes call "vector abilities", sometimes "3D geometry", sometimes "subpixel transformations", etc.
BTW, AGS currently is middleground, because it has software renderer which is purely 2D, and two 3D renderers (where we have to solve these pixel-perfect problem too).
Yes, AGS makes it even worse, because its behaviour can lean to either side of my chart depending on the renderer chosen in the settings. AGS' obsolete dependencies have magically turned this paradigm into some sort of hardware uncertainty instead of being strictly a design choice. Oh, AGS!
Strictly speaking, it is possible to implement full 3D effects in AGS, for example, make rooms rotate around all 3 axes, using native Direct3D and OpenGL abilities, but software renderer will work much worse.
Yes, but there's a reason why it's never used (several plugins have appeard along the way to tap into DirectX's abilities, and they all died from lack of support). There shouldn't be a "programming genius" inbetween the game designer and the engine. The game designer should be able to use the 3D engine's abilities (using simple, high level code) by himself. that's what MonoAGS lets us do. And that's good.
Moving back to my concern of "OK but OpenGL does virtually nothing, I'd recommend using some middleware" : As an illustration, think of how Unity's high-level 3D primitives are used in this purely 2D example : https://unity3d.com/fr/learn/tutorials/s/procedural-cave-generation-tutorial
Do we really want to implement all those fantastic objects (2D grid, etc.) by hand?
Crimson Wizard
- If a sprite changes on the file system, you have to reimport it --> you have addressed that. (by the way, make sure that room backgrounds are not managed separately -- AGS keeps them in a black box, unlike sprites)
These things (and others) may work differently in MonoAGS, for instance room background is basically another object. Also I gave few of my crazy ideas to tzachs, some of them he seem to have implemented already, such as "infinite rooms" that stretch into any direction forever . I believe in that case you won't have a static background, but dynamically created and adjusted layers, or something like that.
« Last Edit: 09 Jan 2018, 10:35 by Crimson Wizard »
I don't think anyone minds as long as the graphics used for the room (if any) is updated easily from the file system (through any given process that you would come up with), and if that update does not block another person working on the project.
@tzachs : I finally got to have a look at your source code, and I must say it looks really really promising.
Here are my concerns :
- Like I said before, all my concerns about Sound Engine and about Assets Management are gone. Hurray!
- I'd still feel more comfortable if GUIs management was unloaded onto some third-party library like GTK# or similar,
- Keep an eye on (mild) reflexivity. One day we might want to make it possible to access objects properties through script* (for example, through an in-game console). Therefore, be careful with "anonymous" fields used by Protobufs/Protocontract. Oh wait this is actually C#. We can access an object properties through its name any time, any place.
- I suggest even more than previously the use of automatic solution generation, since I saw that you have one .sln file per target platform. https://www.reddit.com/r/dotnet/comments/6hmjrf/cmake_now_support_c/
- I'm kinda worried that there are platform-dependent wrappers for every core feature, such as drawing, input, etc. Isn't that managed by OpenTK? Or is it only some "transparent" wrapping meant for some basic C# trick (make advantage of interfaces or whatnot)?
- I would suggest taking the opportunity of this engine rewrite to put some distance between the absolute core point n' click engine (rooms, inventories, etc.) and the things that might be custom. Two examples from the top of my head : the hard-coded fade-in/fade out as seen in RoomEvents.cs, and the player's behaviour on Verb events as seen in Player/Approach. I'm not saying you should kill all that, I'm just suggesting that you imagine what could be this "less hard-coded layer of code", and that you move those things there after creating the required event hooks in the core.
- event hooks! event hooks everywhere! E.g. OnNewItemInInventory
- Have you considered an importer for an existing AGS 3.4 project? --> That would be for the community. remember how many people had a hard time switching from 2.72 to 3.0?
- You have re-implemented all the usual classes such as lists, dictionaries, events, trees (you're literally using C#!), point, rectangle (you're literally using OpenTK!), etc. I won't complain because everyone does it (ScummVM, etc.), but... what is it with you people?
- One big big concern: the IDE as it is now, and even if you intgrate an "editor" as an in-game GUI, the game development workflow would be to run and debug the game from within Visual Studio. Even if it's a free Visual Studio, we can't redistribute it, which means that we must tell the users to download two separate things: 1) MonoAGS, and 2) Visual Studio. For me that's a no go. Any solution would be better than that -- like swapping to SharpDevelop or MonoDevelop. An answer that comes to mind is : "no, you misunderstood, first you compile the game in visual studio but then you can distribute the unfinished game to develop it 'from within itself', as some sort of standalone Editor" --> that doesn't sound like a good solution, because then you can't change (and recompile) any custom script inside it as long as it travels outside of visual Studio.
* Just in case you wonder why, here is one possible illustration : that could come handy for commercial games to automatically patch softlocks that many players might have in their saved game.
Overall I would like to congratulate you for how compact is your code.
Also, kudos for using async/await.
« Last Edit: 09 Jan 2018, 15:50 by Monsieur OUXX »
Lol, right, Monsieur OUXX, I am pestering tzachs about this from the first moment I learnt about the engine. Even suggesting my aid in dividing things apart .
But, I guess, this could use a community's hive mind examination at some point too.
BTW, I do not remember if tzachs mentioned about this, but in his engine the game objects are actually component-based, like in Unity, which means you may convert one object into another by adding/removing/replacing behavior component.
For example, your character has behaviors like (dummy names, because I do not remember them) HasVisuals, CanBeInRoom, HasInventory, etc. Now, at any point in time you add CanBeOnGUI behavior, and boom, character becomes a GUI element, while retaining everything else, walks among the buttons and talks to labels. ... well, assuming you also add TalkTo interactions to them.
(I believe you may see basic example of this in the Demo Game's feature demonstration menu.)
Lol, right, Monsieur OUXX, I am pestering tzachs about this from the first moment I learnt about the engine.
I've read that in many of your comments, but I wasn't sure that I was targetting the "same" code separation, because here I'm specifically targetting stuff that wasn't even separated in AGS itself (blocking room transitions being the most obvious example)
Yes, that's very good.
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Even if it's a free Visual Studio, we can't redistribute it bla bla bla ...
I presume you got too hung up on Visual Studio that you took the time to breathe and realize that there are other options (The fact that you mentioned SharpDevelop as an option suggests to me that you're not really up to date). A ton of stuff has happened with the .NET eco system since they open sourced it. You can use Visual Studio if you like, you can use MonoDevelop you like, you can use Atom, you can use Visual Studio Code, you can use ViM, you can use eMacs, you can even use notepad and command line build tools. There's not really any restrictions anymore since Microsoft released the dotnet CLI tools, which is a lot more user friendly than MSBuild. Support for writing and building C# is easy, accessible and free.
Presumably the future IDE would be distributed with the dotnet CLI tools included, so that anyone would be able to build the game. If you need to code you could download you favorite code editor software, which most likely has a plugin for C# building. I have a hard time picturing a coder which wouldn't be delighted over the opportunity to use their favorite tool for game development.
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Quote from: ChamberOfFear on 09 Jan 2018, 16:24
All I'm saying is that you can't legally redistribute Visual Studio (true?). Therefore AGS 5 can't be shipped with it (true?). Therefore if we want to be serious, AGS has to be shipped with another, user-friendly way of building the game. I know programmers (I am one) love to say "here are the sources, all you have to do is..." but real-life people, especially AGS users, need to have an all-inclusive solution provided. Not to mention AGS is portable (it doesn't have to be installed).
MonoAGS has been made with Visual Studio so far, and we know how sometimes it's tricky to build a program in a different IDE than the one in which it was originally built. I'll believe it can be built with a free, open-source, redistributable, portable IDE when I see it.
@tzachs, a question for you : why did you put emphass on functional languages in the docs? did you have some advantage on mind regarding the making of a game with your engine?
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Quote from: Monsieur OUXX
Ah, great explanation, thanks!
Yes, it's a valid concern against OpenGL which I was not really aware of. I'll need to study it more.
By game production pipeline I meant that the work of the project leader, game designer, artists and scripter don't overlap.
Here is how they sometimes overlap in AGS :
- Every time you add a sprite or a room, it modifies game.agf or some other central set of files. Conflicts cannot be resolved easily.
So that's another reason for me to switch to dotnet core, their csproj supports globbing patterns so you don't have to specify specific files that are included in the project (it's possible that mono supports the new csproj too now, btw, not sure). Besides the csproj there's nothing else so there would be no conflict here.
Room background is not separate. All assets are treated the same (at least when developing): files in the file system.
- if you add or remove a sound, it creates its corresponding name in the script. It breaks compilation if you remove the sound. (the sound artist's work conflicts with the scripter's work)
Hmmmm, that's a touchy subject. I understand your concern, but on the other hand named assets are also important for intellisense and avoiding typos. It's currently not a problem but it might be when I develop the editor- I'll think about how to address that when I get there.
About the GUI : I strongly recommend that you use a thirs-party library, and that you don't implement GUIs yourself! Home-made GUIs are the plague of many game frameworks. There's always a moment when scripters want to extend the behaviour or aspect of a GUI control, and then they can't because they can't hook on the controler events or graphical containers, or can't make sense of the rendering flow. And then you will have to carry that weight. Have you ought about GTK?
Yes, I thought about GTK# among others. I have two problems with that:
1. I want to be able to have the GUIs as part of the world, meaning I need to control when and where to render it with OpenGL. So that pretty much rules out all GUI libraries that are not OpenGL based. The best GUI framework I found for OpenGL is nanogui, which I still consider my fallback plan if my current plan doesn't work as I want. The problem with that is nanogui's c# binding looks abandoned which means that I'll need to maintain the binding myself, plus get a deep understanding of nanogui workings and I tend to believe that the weight this will carry on me is not smaller then have my own framework in place. And also, this doesn't solve my second problem...
2. So, what Crimson Wizard said here:
Quote from: Crimson Wizard
Now, at any point in time you add CanBeOnGUI behavior, and boom, character becomes a GUI element, while retaining everything else, walks among the buttons and talks to labels.
I'll basically lose this ability for GUIs if I follow that route. The fact that GUIs in the engine are treated the same as all other objects and can be manipulated the same, I feel that's a great power for the engine to have.
Therefore, be careful with "anonymous" fields used by Protobufs/Protocontract.
Just to be clear here, protobuf is just used for the saved games file format, that's it.
I suggest even more than previously the use of automatic solution generation, since I saw that you have one .sln file per target platform.
mmm, no? I only have one sln file. Are you talking perhaps about the csproj files? I have a csproj file per platform, not a sln file per platform. I'll have to read about cmake for c# more, I'm kind of hesitant because I didn't see any c# project actually using it yet (but maybe it's because it's new, based on your link). There's a known solution for the multiple projects per platform in the c# world: Protobuild- it's used by both MonoGame and Xage, so I'm more inclined to use it. However I'm still not convinced that the added dependency (be it protobuild or cmake or something else) and the cost that goes with it is worth the multiple projects "pain", maybe it's because I haven't experienced that pain yet, currently I kind of like that clean separation between projects. Also protobuild does not currently support dotnet core as far as I know- I did want to play with it at some point to gain a better understanding of the benefits, but I don't consider this a priority. If another contributor will come and want to add something like that, I'll probably not going to stop her/him though (except for the dotnet core issue...).
For graphics rendering, OpenTK supplies OpenGL bindings and OpenGL ES bindings. Those are not the same unfortunately. So I have 2 implementations of "IGraphicsBackend", the OpenGL one is used by desktop (Windows, Mac and Linux), and the OpenGLES one is used by Android & IOS. And I'll probably need yet another implementation when I add UWP (xbox and windows store) which will either be DirectX or Angle. For input, OpenTK handles it cross-platform for desktops but not for mobile: I use the xamarin APIs which are native representations of the android and ios APIs, but they are not the same. I might switch in the future if I find something.
For bitmap and text rendering, I also currently have 3 implementations (desktop, android and ios) but I want to switch to SkiaSharp which is completely cross platform (and also gives a lot of other benefits like hardware accelerated text rendering). Currently stuck on this, btw: if somebody knows/figures out how to solve this, let me know.
Yes, I'm discussing solutions with Crimson Wizard. However... rooms are not adventure game specific? Room = Scene, and every game engine on the planet (I think) have this concept. The "OnBeforeFadeIn/OnAfterFadeIn" events for moving in/out between scenes is also generic and not adventure game specific.
MonoAGS has event hooks a-plenty. All lists that are marked as "IAGSBindingList" have an "OnListChanged" event which gives all the items that were added/removed from that list. Good call on the inventory items though, as I didn't change it from "IList" to "IAGSBindingList" yet, will fix.
Also, all components implement "INotifyPropertyChanged", which you can subscribe to and get events whenever any property in the component changes (this is how the inspector refreshes itself to show you whenever something changes in the game).
- Have you considered an importer for an existing AGS 3.4 project?
I suspect it's going to be crazy amount of work. If somebody else wants to work on it, that would be great. I'm not going to, though, not in the foreseeable future.
lol, yeah, it looks bad...
My core engine library targets dotnet standard which means I can target both dotnet framework, mono or dotnet core.
OpenTK is still not officially supported with dotnet core (it's in progress), meaning that the core engine can't reference OpenTK, only the desktop engine project can reference it. So I had to copy a bunch of their classes to make it work. Once they support dotnet core I'll be able to remove those.
For drawing bitmaps, I used stuff from System.Drawing which is also not part of the dotnet standard so I had to take dotnet framework code. Once I switch to SkiaSharp I'll be able to remove those.
And finally, my binding list is not taken from c#, it's my implementation that's there for adding those hooks you mentioned earlier which don't exist in the original list implementation. And tree is also my implementation, there's no tree data structure in c#.
I don't think I did? I just listed F# as potentially the best candidate if you want to code your game using something not c#, because I know it's a dotnet implementation that is actively supported by Microsoft, and I'm not sure how actively maintained and complete other dotnet implementations are (everything else afaik is developed by the community and not sponsored by major players, I might be wrong about that).
Ok, so I guess it's time to talk about my plans for the editor (important note - everything here is subject to change and might not actually happen).
First, regarding your concern: I'm hoping to distribute the editor in several flavors: the standalone version will come bundled with the dotnet cli but without any IDE. Like persn said, you'd be able to use pretty much any ide you want (you can program in notepad if that's what you want) with that. That's pretty much the equivalent for unity.
Other flavors would be as IDE add-ins, and I'm planning to target Visual Studio and MonoDevelop (hopefully all flavors will share as much code as possible between them), though that's probably not going to happen for the first version (version 0.1 coming sometimes this decade to your home). The MonoDevelop addin can be packaged together with MonoDevelop and distributed. For the visual studio flavor, yeah, you'll want to download VS first and then download the AGS extension.
Regarding what you said earlier about hard-coded verbs: the plan is for the editor to have somewhere a place to edit your list of verbs (or you'll use a game template which has the verbs pre-set). The editor will auto-generate a "Verbs.cs" file with your verbs, and the core engine itself will not have knowledge about specific verbs.
You'll also be able to edit your outfits and choose which animations are part of that outfit, those animation names will also be auto-generated to a cs file.
As for the animation editor, I plan to have a basic layout like AGS has with individual frames and live preview, but also will have a "switch to timeline" button: this will place your frames on the timeline, and you'll be able to add tweening for properties (shown on separate tracks in addition to the frames), and possibly set various blendings. And one last thing for the animation editor would be to allow for composition animations -> show the entire object tree so that you'll be able to have separate animations for the head and body (for example) and see how they work together.
For the room/scene designer, I plan the canvas to have a similar interface that InkScape has for moving/rotating/scaling objects (with grid lines/snapping for alignments etc) and for editing areas something similar to InkScape vector tools as well. In the tree view of the scene you'll be able to show/hide/lock/unlock layers or individual objects, and selecting an object will show the inspector (called "Properties Window" in AGS but the same principle, pretty much exists in all editors). From the inspector you'll be able to set values and add/remove components. You should be able to switch between "playing the room" to "editing the room" immediately (I hope), or maybe even editing while playing. You'll be able to see and edit the GUIs from the scene designer (they might not "belong" to the scene, but it's just that more convenient to see how the game will actually look from the editor). When adding a new object to the canvas you'll be able to select from various presets (object, character, button, etc): each preset is basically an entity with a specific set of components and defaults. The presets that are available for you to use will be dictated by the game template you choose, or you'll be able to create your own presets (or import from modules, etc). This is kind-of similar to prefabs in unity (but not as powerful- will probably extend this to be as powerful eventually). For each of those presets a friendly interface will be auto-generated for your coding pleasure (so you'll be able to write "character.Walk" instead of "character.GetComponent<IWalkComponent>().Walk").
For events/interactions- my observation here is that for most adventure games, most of the interactions are basically the player character says something in response for looking/interacting with an object in the room. Really, I don't think I'm exaggerating if I say that's 75% of interactions in a typical game is just that. That's why, I want first to make this as painless as possible. If you type on a object/verb combo line in the editor, it would automatically translate into player.Say(..whatever you typed..). Otherwise you'll have either the current AGS option of going straight to code, or you'll have the option to open the interaction editor. The interaction editor might be similar in some ways to what Blade Coder has. At least for the first phase, I'm not planning to have graphs with nodes a-la articy/draft, but a list of interactions with if/else branching as indented, we'll see how it goes and maybe I'll re-evaluate. The functions in the interaction editor (like the properties from the inspector, btw) will have help links directly in the editor (it will be extracted directly from the api documentation for built in functions/properties, and extracted from code attributes for external modules). You should be able to run code from the interaction editor and to run saved editor interactions from the code. Also, the interactions themselves will not be hidden, code will be generated for you so this can also be seen as a learning tool. And finally, I plan to have async/await support directly in the interaction editor. Hard to explain without a picture, but basically if you add a "Walk", for example, it will add an "await" with "walk" on the same line, but then you'll be able to drag the "await" section to its own line and put other actions between the "walk" and the "await" so you can have the character walk in parallel to other things going on in this cutscene.
Another interaction related feature I want to have is a "matrix" window. This aims to be a productivity enhancer for writing interactions in bulks and also to solve the problem of a lot of games (that drives me crazy) where the developer forgets to code all of the interactions. The matrix window will have all interactable objects + inventory items as both rows and columns. Each cell is an interaction that has to be filled. You'll have a nice "you're 64% there!" label showing you how much of the interactions are done. And you'll be able to click on each cell to edit the interaction (with any of the methods I talked about for interactions), you'll also be able to mark specific cells as "default" (which will activate that whatever "I can't do that" default interaction you configured) or as "bug: not supposed to happen" (which will also activate the default interaction but might do something else like crashing you if you debug, or send an email from a tester or whatever you set it to do on "bug"). You'll have some controls for filtering the matrix to specific rooms/only inventory/etc if it's getting too big and/or you want to focus on something specific. And finally, you'll have a "start marathon" button which will rotate between "unfilled cells" with easy shortcut keys to pass to the next interaction.
As for speech, this is also a big pain-point for me with current AGS. I still want to support the current workflow, but also have a speech control window (maybe somewhat similar to the speech center plugin), and you won't be forced to number your speech lines in the code yourself, the string itself will be the id and map to a numbered filename (or filenames for multiple localilizations), though you'll be able to override with a number for specific lines (like if you have multiple lines with the same string but need to be said differently). You'll be able to write director notes in the speech window for specific lines, and create nice looking scripts for voice actors. Also, there will be a "start marathon" button here too, you'll select a character and it will run over all of the script lines for that character and open the speech line editor. From the speech line editor you'll be able to record the voice and do basic editing. When recording you'll have keyboard shortcuts to stop this take and start a new take, and a shortcut to move to the next line. For editing you'll be able to trim beginning/end of takes, change volume/pitch/reverb. You'll be able to delete takes, and keep multiple takes (for repeating sentence where you might want some variation in how a character says a line). I still painfully remember the amount of time it took to get the independently recorded lines from the voice actor, open a big-ass audio software where all I want to do basically is select the good takes, and then do some trimming and volume adjustments, then manually exporting to files, figure out the correct filename and then needing to test it in the game to see that I completely screwed it up... This whole process took ages. Hopefully doing it all in-editor will save huge amounts of time.
Another interesting possibility here that I want to explore, is being able to open the speech line editor directly as you're playing the game. So, for editing, the game developer will be able to edit lines while playing the game which gives better context. For recording, if the voice actor is recording remotely, the game developer might prepare a few saves where the character speaks, and either instruct the voice actor what to do to get to her/his lines, or even code to directly cut to the dialogs. If the voice actor is recording with the developer in a studio, then hopefully the game developer could bring her/his laptop and hook it up to recording hardware, and switch to the saves/coded dialogs while showing the monitor to the voice actor. The goal here is that the context of the actions will be much clearer to the voice actor as the dialogs are played.
I'm going to skip various other things the editor needs (editing settings, deployments, fonts, cursors, and I maybe forgot lot of important points), but one last point I want to touch on is customizability.
There are obvious customizations you can expect, like authoring your own components and being able to edit their properties in the designer.
But more than that, as the editor will be using the same framework as the engine, it will use the same mechanisms for customizations the engine uses: meaning, almost everything should be able to be replaced if you want. You'll be able to code your own inspector if you so choose and replace the existing inspector (and then share it as a module for other developers), etc.
Quote from: tzachs on 09 Jan 2018, 22:02
The best GUI framework I found for OpenGL is nanogui,
Sorry for not reading everything, but did you take a look at https://github.com/ocornut/imgui
I'm using in my project, it's a immediate mode gui that works with opengl and it's in constant update.
@tzachs : you have addressed all my worries, except for the IDE (second point below).
- About Protobuild : (btw, yes I meant multipe .csproj, not multiple .sln) you said you haven't experienced the pain of the multiple projects to maintain.
Out of curiosity, how do you currently work? Is it like this: You have the several .csproj in VS and when you build, it builds them all and you trust that is the MacOS project got built successflly, then it's OK? (not that Protobuild would address that paradigm -- just trying to have some context). The pain usually comes later, after seveal years, when you need to let users use a different IDE/Compiler or a newer version of the original IDE. You get entangled in the many versions of VS -- well not you specifically because you know how to upgrade your csproj, but there's always someone who asks about a version that you don't own -- and you cry.
I mentionned VS but I'm perfectly aware that nowadays the VC++ restributable bullshit is gone, so don't hit back on VS. My concern can be applied to trying to compile a .csproj with any "unforeseen" IDE/compiler. That's when the automated project generation becomes a magical tool.
- About the IDE : still very skeptical. the statement "you could virtually make your game in Notepad" is not acceptable, but it's always something that's very hard to hear for developers. I could virtually make my AGS game in Notepad just by writing XML. Bleh. The fact that the game designer can carry around his CLI tools is not an answer either. He/she wants to press "play", not type command line commands to run compilation. Finally, the IDE has a second purpose: organizing files and assets, and allowing thirs-party tools (plugins), as you and hamberOfFear mentionned.
Therefore, I'm asking again: what's the plan regarding a 1) legally distributable, 2) lightweight, 3) portable (no installer needed), 4) cross-platform IDE that would be rebranded "AGS 5"?
For now, MonoDevelop addresses these criteria, I believe, but is available from source only (!) and is apparently complex to turn into a portable installation. I'm not surprised that the Unity guys managed to do it, and make it seem easy, but they have way more time and money to achieve miracles
The fact that the game designer can carry around his CLI tools is not an answer either. He/she wants to press "play", not type command line commands to run compilation.
Maybe I was being ambiguous in my previous post, but I hope it was understood that I wasn't actually suggesting that the user of the IDE was going to type commands, because that's just insane. The dotnet CLI tools would just be prerequisite to install, in the same way that the .NET runtime and Visual C++ redistributables already is for the current AGS. The actual command typing commands would be handled "under the hood" in the IDE. From the end users perspective it would still be a build and/or play button, like we already have.
I didn't have time to read @tzachs post since I'm at work so I hope I didn't say something that was already said.
That's good. I assume that CLI is also redsitributable, like VC++ rdistributables were. But the IDE needs to be redistributable (licensing) too. That was one of the strong advantages of AGS: lightweight, free and portable.
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qptain_Nemo told me that MonoAGS most likely will run on Arch Linux ARM too.
So, green light also from my side:
The fact of mentionning SharpDevelop as an option for the IDE suggests that not being really up to date with the .NET eco system.
@ChamberOfFear Can you explain how? Which specific point do I misunderstand? Is it only compatible with "traditional" .Net Framework? Is it compatible with Mono? Is it compatible with .Net Core? Is it out of support? Etc. It's free, portable, lightweight, under MIT license, and specfically targetted at C#, so it makes it a very appealing candidate.
@tzachs Any reason why you don't use Monogame as the "middleware" that other point-n-click engines use? (see initial table). It has recently switched to .Net Core and it has the most permissive Microsoft license. I know it was mentionned before but we never elaborated. It might not be too late.
Other question : do you use tools such as mkbundle or Monokickstart to bundle Mono in the current version of MonoAGS?
Quote from: Theme on 10 Jan 2018, 07:21
I did look at it. I ruled it out mainly because I'm not sure how "immediate mode" integrates well with my design. Also I remember reading about it and people were talking about it more as a "GUI prototyping tool". And finally, the sample picture on the c# binding front page didn't look appealing. On the plus side the images on the original imgui project look better, and the c# binding is actively maintained, so I will keep it in mind.
You have the several .csproj in VS and when you build, it builds them all and you trust that is the MacOS project got built successflly, then it's OK?
First of all, when I develop I rotate between developing from Mac and developing from Windows (and I'll add Linux to my rotations when support is added for that) to see that things are working well on both platforms. When I compile locally, I only compile the projects for the platform I'm testing, so I'm not compiling mobile if I don't test mobile. Once I submit a PR, the automated build kicks in which compiles for all platforms and runs the tests.
The pain usually comes later, after seveal years, when you need to let users use a different IDE/Compiler or a newer version of the original IDE. You get entangled in the many versions of VS -- well not you specifically because you know how to upgrade your csproj, but there's always someone who asks about a version that you don't own -- and you cry.
I don't think that's currently a problem in c# world. There are multiple IDEs, but only a single compiler (Roslyn) which everybody uses. If it will become a problem, I will re-evaluate.
the statement "you could virtually make your game in Notepad" is not acceptable, but it's always something that's very hard to hear for developers. I could virtually make my AGS game in Notepad just by writing XML.
Perhaps notepad was a bad example, but the point here is that while you can write your AGS game with XML on notepad, you can't debug it without the AGS editor, you don't have intellisense, code navigation, etc, without the AGS editor. With MonoAGS you can do all that without the editor, and you'll be able to do that no matter which flavor of the editor you install. Now, this wasn't meant as an answer to your specific concerns, this is obviously not a solution to a lot of people who want something built in. But it is very important to a lot of people who already have their favorite IDEs/tools and want to stick with it.
Sorry for not being clear, you'll have a "play" button in the standalone version which will run the cli tools.
If MonoDevelop doesn't pan out, then I'll search for alternatives, or worst case (don't want to go there, but it's always an option) build my own.
Btw, apparently unity are now shipping with Visual Studio instead of MonoDevelop. So maybe it is possible to bundle with Visual Studio (or maybe Unity and Microsoft made a deal, I don't know).
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When I first started development, MonoAGS was a very strong candidate for a backend. I started installing the framework, but I remember the instructions were very confusing for me, and I don't remember if ever got it to work. I remember thinking "yeah, it's not going to fly with non-programmers". Also MonoGame (or any complete game engine) brings with it a lot of baggage, dependencies, opinions and quirks that restrict my own design. Not using it gives me more freedom. However, I'm not ruling out looking into integrating with MonoGame as an optional backend (same goes for Unity, btw).
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From what I can gather from their Github page, SharpDevelop is Windows only.
No work was done regarding deployment yet, so no. Also, as I plan on removing Mono, most likely I will not use those.
I would like to make a small note about this, saying that it does not even have to be tzachs to make such project converter.
AGS project's format is known and parsing code available. MonoAGS project's format will be known (when it's fleshed out) and code available. So, format-wise - no problem. Two problems that I foresee:
* Finding a correspondence between AGS entities and MonoAGS entities, because same things could be represented in different ways in these two engines.
* Converting scripts, because language is slightly different, and many classes/functions names are different.
I believe this will require coding some kind of wrapper for MonoAGS to emulate AGS behavior. Like AGSCharacter, extending AGSMono's Character class, and so on.
I believe this will require coding some kind of wrapper for MonoAGS to emulate AGS behavior.
I was thinking the same thing. The (small) thing is that MonoAGS doesn't have a parser for AGS script or loading AGS resources. So it might be simpler to do it on AGS side, as an exporter.
Right, Clarvalon has released an exporter to Xage (with source, apparently) which might be a good place to start.
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Is there a new generation of jazz artists
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« on: 12 Jul 2014, 05:40 pm »
The familiar names are passing away. Is there a new generation that I am just not aware of or is the genre dying along with the masters?
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Re: Is there a new generation of jazz artists
« Reply #1 on: 12 Jul 2014, 06:05 pm »
The best new star are Sax Gordon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGMEErujaH0
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There are plenty of new, virtuoso players; unfortunately there are no good new composers and it's killing Jazz.
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The genre is still alive with new artists.
It however has changed & morphed a little.
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Quote from: Devil Doc on 12 Jul 2014, 06:22 pm
Agree in general, but there are exceptions, of course.
One example ( if you do not mind mid-eastern influence) is the Cohen family, living in NYC now.
Particularly the band named Third World Love, led by Avishai Cohen( trumpet)
http://www.amazon.com/Songs-Portraits-Third-World-Love/dp/B007BS0YDM
more can be found at anzic records (no affiliation whatsoever).
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« Reply #5 on: 12 Aug 2014, 05:39 pm »
I agree with the plethora of virtuoso's, but I will disagree (quite vehemently) with the claim that there are no good new composers.
There are a huge number of great new jazz composers, its just that they compose in different way than in the past.
The standard concept of 'head-solos-head' is gone. Gone too is the heavy reliance on the II-V7-I progression.
Besides being open to many other chord progressions, modern composers use odd meters, superimposed rhythms and other unorthodox rhythmic constructions in their search for new modes of expression. Influences from ethnic folk, rock, contemporary classical, world music, etc are also integrated much more.
I'm not sure at what era you claim that good composing ended, and the era of not good composing started, so I won't bother to name great modern composers. But it is quite possible you would disagree anyway, because you might be looking for something quite different in jazz composition anyway.
What I find interesting is that when the big band era ended, and jazz became something to sit down and listen to, instead of music to dance to in the 50's, the critics and musicians alike said the same thing you are saying.
For example, Bebop was almost universally derided by critics.
Tommy Dorsey claimed, "Bebop has set music back 20 years." Louis Armstrong complained that beboppers were playing wrong chords, and a prominent New York critic said, "Bebop sounds to me like a hardware store in an earthquake."
But looking back, we can see that bebop was an important era with many great composers.
It seems to me that the history of all the arts follow a similar pattern. Something new is always criticized by the generation before it, then it becomes accepted and adopted, then something new comes along, and the pattern starts again.
« Last Edit: 12 Aug 2014, 06:43 pm by simoon »
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I am certainly haven't comprehensively searched all the new artists by any means.
After 20 years of listening to exclusively jazz, I occasionally dip my toes back in. I love the old school stuff and the only one that I know of and love is Melody Gardot. She literally plays and writes music like they used to.
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« Reply #7 on: 13 Aug 2014, 04:35 am »
"Sax Gordon" needs some pasties and G-strings to make that strip show tenor work if he his going to be the "new star".
Plenty of competent,exciting,interesting,arresting "Jazz" musicians out there running amok, throwing a little of this and a little of that into their music. The fact that no dominant style or musician has emerged in the last twenty years raises lots of questions about the future of the music. The only truth I see is that none of the players can be called virtuoso or brilliant like someone like Charlie Parker or Clifford Brown. Nobody is composing like Duke or Mingus, or arranging like Gil Evans. I think the fault lies in the listener who has not done the due diligence on the history and Art of the music and have not done the listening and absorbed the mastery of the music. They always say they know, but they really don't, if we had a more sophisticated audience we would have better Jazz music right now and not stand for so much mediocre music. How can we tolerate an ignorant society that will not build a temple to our great gift to the world ? The only real truth is that this is a national embarrassment.
Chazro
Is Jazz dead or dying? No. Is there a new generation of Jazz artists? Definitely (yes). Are there virtuosos that are as good as the old-timers? Yes. IMO though, there's a lack of new 'standards' being written. While there's brilliant music being written, I can't think of someone today that's comparable to someone like a Billy Strayhorn. That said, there's more Jazz being released on a monthly basis than I can afford to buy! I regularly go to allaboutjazz.com, jazztimes.com, & downbeat.com. I also go to various sites that pertain to my personal favorite; Latin Jazz. Of course YouTube is an essential tool. Jazz is absolutely alive and well and certainly going to outlive all of us!
Asking modern jazz composers to compose like Duke, Mingus, or Strayhorn is like asking contemporary classical composers to compose like Mozart or Beethoven. Either would sound disingenuous, and frankly, silly. Modern composers in either field have had decades (and centuries in the case of classical) of changes, influences, new concepts, etc. There is no going back, unless one is more interested in nostalgia than progress. There is no lack of brilliant contemporary composers, they are just not going to sound like the past.
Back when Ellington and Strayhorn were composing, jazz was the popular music of its day. It served a different purpose than it does today.
As I previously said, when bebop entered the scene, the previous generation of musicians and critics made the same statements you are making about current jazz, that there were no good composers and the players were not as brilliant as the previous generation. You are just repeating the pattern, only you are allowing for more composers and players from the past (to include bebop, post-bop, hard bop), and disregarding the present. Just like the big band generation did with bebop.
In 30 years from now, many of the current generation of jazz fans will be saying, "no one composes like Chic Corea, Terje Rypdal, Keith Jarrett, Steve Coleman, Joe Zawinul, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Eberhard Weber, Ralph Towner, (and many others) any more. Or play like Alan Holdsworth, John McLauglin, Hiromi, Jaco, Billy Cobham, Jack Dejonette, Don Cherry, Randy Brecker, Ponty." Yet in 30 years from now, jazz will still have it's share of great composers and players.
If jazz is in trouble, it has more to do with it being thought of like it's a museum piece (seriously, how many more releases do we need of 'standards?), not the growing, evolving art form it truly is.
rajacat
« Reply #10 on: 14 Aug 2014, 06:43 pm »
Quote from: simoon on 14 Aug 2014, 06:28 pm
You talkin' to me? Down boy...you're preaching to the choir! If you read carefully, I prefaced my comment by saying; "While there's brilliant music being written....". I think that's pretty clear. You wanna preach? Preach. I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't attempt to do so at my expense. We're on the same side dude!;)
Quote from: Chazro on 14 Aug 2014, 08:10 pm
Responding more to jazzcourier.
Sorry for the confusion.
« Reply #13 on: 15 Aug 2014, 12:32 am »
The condemnation of Bebop, or "Modern Jazz" was a fallacy. It was promoted by a press that thrived on this weak kneed controversy, and few shared the general consensus that the music was ruined.There were always quotes by someone like Tommy Dorsey,who was well past his prime and held a strong animosity that the music was changing. Older bandleaders lined up to challenge the new music and Ellington for one incorporated modernism into his compositions.Benny Goodman sought out Fats Navarro and Wardell Gray and along with Billy Bauer,Clyde Lombardi and Mary Lou Williams create a distinct ensemble based on Bop in 1948.Artie Shaw did the same with forward looking arrangers like Tadd Dameron and filled his last band with modern players. Count Basie waited until the early 50's to hire Wardell Gray,Buddy DeFranco,Serge Chaloff and Clark Terry for his septet. The influence of Parker and Gillespie was profound and led these musicians of a prior generation to stop and re-think what was valuable in their music,they focused on it and absorbed it, and in each case it emerged as something new,different and vital.
So if you don't know these recordings I mentioned you should check them out,just like any good music from any era of Jazz.I don't want to put anyone down, but that list of musicians who will be remembered 30 years from today,well that smacks of some kind of internet armchair safari through the hall of Jazz overrated (Ralph Towner? nobody remembers him now!) Everybody wants to be an expert,but nobody wants to learn.
Audio - It's all a big fake.
How come it's all a bunch of dudes? Besides singers, there just don't seem to be many women in Jazz.
Quote from: Tyson on 15 Aug 2014, 03:51 am
Here's one.
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Nestled between a tranquil beach on one side and the popular Pacific Ocean surf beach on the other, the laid-back character of Manly seems a thousand miles from busy Sydney, yet it’s only a ferry ride away. Whether you like to feed your sense of adventure, your tummy, your curiosity or simply sit back and take it all in, this beachside town has something for everyone.
The 30-minute ferry ride to Manly provides undoubtedly one of the best views you’ll get of the thriving harbour. One of the first things you’ll notice when you arrive is the bustle of local restaurants and bars. Soak up panoramic harbour views at the Manly Pavilion, relax just off Shelly beach at The Boat House for a long leisurely brunch, or for something a little different, create your own platter of delicious meats, cheeses and pickles at Cured. The Four Pines Brewing Company is a craft beer lover’s delight, while Manly Spirits Co. serves up premium gin and botanical vodkas infused with native ingredients.
From one end of Manly beach to the other, you’ll find an array of water activities to suit the whole family. Try a stand-up paddle boarding or kayaking tour. Manly Kayak Centre will guide you around exclusive beaches and stunning scenery and even offers a picnic. Learn to surf in Queenscliff (which is at the northern end of the beach) with Manly Surf School or perhaps an amble along the tree lined corso to the south end where you can swim and snorkel in the calm waters of the beautiful Shelly beach; it’s a great place for kids.
If exploring if your thing, the Manly to Spit Bridge coastal walk meanders around the harbour foreshore through some of Sydney’s most stunning scenery and bushland. The whole walk is 10 kilometres (6 miles) however it’s broken up into shorter walks which are well sign posted with direction and information. Observe the bush and coastal wildlife including whales during the migration season, learn about Australia’s colonial history, take in the views from spectacular vantage points and enjoy a well-earned dip in one of the many off-the-beaten-track harbour beaches. Join EcoTreasures, an Advanced Eco Tourism certified experience, for a guided snorkel to spot native marine life. If stretching out on the golden sand for some Vitamin D is more your style, there’s 1.5 kilometres (0.9 miles) of it to choose your perfect spot from.
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Surry Hills, Sydney, New South Wales
Once home to Sydney's rag trade, this buzzing inner-city neighbourhood has converted its industrial warehouses into swanky gallery spaces and million-dollar apartments. On the southern reaches of Sydney's city centre, jacaranda-lined streets, upscale boutiques and restored terrace houses contrast with edgy dive bars and colourful characters.
Crown Street is undoubtedly the retail gem in Surry Hills, but the area's most defining trait is an ever-changing food scene. It's home to some of the best coffee in the city, like Artificer Coffee whose food-free coffee menu is as minimalist as its floor-to-ceiling American oak interior. If you’d like your coffee with a side of brunch, check out longstanding favourites like Bourke Street Bakery, Bills and Four Ate Five and Paramount Coffee Project.
Butter is an unexpected hybrid of fried chicken restaurant, sneaker store and Champagne bar, while Nomad is all about Mediterranean fare to share. At the higher end of the culinary spectrum is Toko, serving award-winning Japanese, and walk-in wine bar Poly. Don’t miss a visit to lively Chin Chin, the second installment of the famed Melbourne institution. Enjoy the afternoon with a relaxing brew in The Beresford's outdoor beer garden, or at the eclectic Dolphin Hotel.
Finish your adventure with a show at the Belvoir, one of Australia's most celebrated theatre companies. Many of Australia's most famous actors have performed here, including Geoffrey Rush, Cate Blanchett, Judy Davis and David Wenham. Alternatively, see a cult classic or a new release film at the historic Golden Age Cinema and Bar.
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Room 10, Potts Point, Sydney, New South Wales
Largely occupied by Sydney's well heeled (and well fed), Potts Point is something of an inner-city oasis with a Parisian twist. With spectacular harbour views and leafy streets, this historic neighbourhood, just east of the city centre, is also characterised by a buzzing cafe culture and designer lapdogs out for their daily stroll.
You needn't stroll far along Potts Point's leafy streets to notice the abundance of gorgeous Art Deco architecture dating back to the 1920s, as well as mansions from the 19th century. If you happen to be passing through one of the interconnecting laneways, you may notice a queue wrapped around one inconspicuous blue doorway. This tiny hole-in-the-wall is Room 10, and it serves some of the best coffee out of Potts Point, plus all-day breakfast and lunch that is definitely worth the wait.
With more than 200 restaurants within the Potts Point vicinity, food aficionados are spoilt for choice when it comes to dining out. Among the better-known landmarks is Fratelli Paradiso, which serves casual Italian fare, or for a decidedly more night-time setting, Monopole is a bar and restaurant in one, with expert cocktails and hearty, European-inspired share plates. Ms G's is another popular haunt, famed for its eclectic design and creative Asian menu.
Potts Point also has a flourishing creative community, providing a bevy of artistic entertainment for locals and visitors alike. For small-scale musical theatre or an intimate cabaret show, visit Hayes Theatre Co on Greenknowe Avenue, SBW Stables Theatre, or the Kings Cross Theatre (KXT), an indie theatre housed within the Kings Cross Hotel.
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Poor Toms Gin Hall, Marrickville, Sydney, New South Wales
Marrickville, a multicultural suburb in Sydney's Inner West, is a great mix of a heaving high street, artisan producers, warehouse converted breweries, and some of the best places for brunch in the city.
Just 20 minutes southwest from the centre of Sydney, you can find Coffee Alchemy, a Marrickville favourite and regular on “Sydney's best coffee” lists. Try a latte made with the house standard Goodness Galileo blend or get a bit more creative with specialty roasts such as the Hairy Chest or Holy Hildegard. If it’s a meal you want, the Cornersmith is a must, with cool minimalist design and a regularly changing, ethically sourced blackboard menu. For a taste of Marrickville’s Vietnamese community, look out for the red awning on Illawarra road for what are widely considered the best banh mi (Vietnamese pork rolls) in Sydney. Huge queues form at Marrickville Pork Roll for its baked-on-the-premises baguette with rich strips of barbecued pork accompanied by fresh, crunchy vegetables and a house-made secret sauce.
Boutique beer lovers could spend days discovering the craft breweries of Marrickville. Start at Batch Brewing Co's converted warehouse before wandering to the likes of The Grifter, Stockade, Sauce, Wildflower and Poor Toms for gin fans.
On the weekend, the Addison Road Community Centre is home to the Marrickville Market, which showcases the area's organic producers and has stalls selling vintage goods and street food snacks. Finish your adventure with a late-night visit to LazyBones Lounge, a local live jazz lounge that’s been a hit with locals since it opened in 2013.
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Bicentennial Park, Glebe, Sydney, New South Wales
Nestled between two universities, this inner-city village, just five minutes from Sydney’s Central Station via bus or car, is home to an eclectic community of students, academics, activists and new-agers. You'll hear them discussing everything from chakras to Che Guevara in its casual eateries, bookstores and pocket-sized bars.
Glebe’s wake-up call is at The Wedge Espresso, which serves coffee using a variety of methods, such as filter and cold brew, alongside an all-day breakfast menu catering to the vegan and gluten free. Don't miss Glebe’s popular Saturday markets, where bargain hunters and bohemians flock for second-hand clothing, handmade arts and crafts and up-and-coming designers. There's a handful of food stalls selling everything from Turkish pide to artisan pastries for you to enjoy while listening to the soothing sounds of street performers on the lawn.
Bibliophiles head to Glebe for its string of local bookshops. Drop into independently run Gleebooks, where shelves are lined with the newest titles in Australian literature as well as crime, history and philosophy. Around the corner on Derwent Street, Florilegium specialises in gardening titles, with more than 5000 new and second-hand books. Sappho is another well-known book and record store, with a beautiful courtyard café that doubles as a wine bar in the evening.
Away from the hubbub of Glebe Point Road, there's peace and quiet to be found along the harbour foreshore. Glebe's waterfront encompasses four parks – Federal, Jubilee, Bicentennial and Blackwattle Bay – spanning more than 17 hectares (42 acres) of open grasslands, sports fields, playgrounds and wetlands.
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Cockatoo Island
Cockatoo Island, Sydney, New South Wales
Here’s something most visitors don’t realise: the best views in Sydney aren’t found in any of its five-star hotels. To wake up to the ultimate knock-your-socks-off views, check into one of Cockatoo Island's various accommodation options, from camping and glamping to apartments.
A short ferry ride from Sydney’s city centre, Cockatoo Island hosts exciting yearly events like the famous Biennale Sydney art festival. Don’t rush to leave in the morning because there is plenty to explore on Sydney Harbour’s largest island, including the sandstone convict barracks and the massive turbine hall, a relic of the island’s days as a shipbuilding base. Regular ferries run from Circular Quay.
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‘Shut up and play’: Panthers legend erupts
It’s not a happy place in Penrith right now.
21st May 2019 9:32 AM
PENRITH have endured a tumultuous 2019 season both on and off the field and now a former club legend has had enough.
Mark Geyer has watched on as the playing group leak points while those in power reportedly struggle to gel.
Insiders have indicated there are factions among the playing roster and there is talk of a breakdown in the relationship between head coach Ivan Cleary and his assistant Cameron Ciraldo since the departure of general manager of football Phil Gould.
But Geyer has one simple message for the players to combat the troubled times currently engulfing their club.
I've got no doubt there's some players in the Panthers ranks that aren't Ivan fans," the premiership-winning forward said.
"I've got no doubt that some of them were (Anthony) Griffin fans, but the fact is, you've got a job to do.
"It doesn't matter who your boss is. If our boss at Triple M got sacked tomorrow and someone else came in, guess what, we've still got to turn up to work and do our job.
"The time for excuses are over. I don't care what coaches are arguing. In fact, I think most coaches at all clubs have disagreements.
It hasn’t been pretty in Penrith.
"I don't care what players aren't fans with Ivan. Pull your fingers out and start winning games and then you can have the right to say whatever you want. But until then, you've just got to shut up and play footy."
Geyer isn't the only one fed up with what the Panthers are dishing up as they group was booed from the field following a 30-10 loss to the Warriors over the weekend.
Currently sitting at 2-8 and finals effectively a foregone conclusion, the Panthers turmoil has taken a stronghold. Geyer just wants to see results come on the field and believes it's all down to "attitude".
"I think of a team in recent memory who have had a more disrupted six months in their football seasons," Geyer said.
"Since Griffin was sacked, that was basically the domino effect that's happened to this very day.
"We saw the sex tape dramas in the off-season, we've seen Phil Gould leaving, we've seen other stuff is starting to happen. It always seems to happen when you're losing games.
"The only way you're going to get rid of all the naysay and hearsay is winning games.
"But to miss 44 tackles again on the weekend (against the Warriors), it's about attitude. You can't just flick the switch, you've got to have it."
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Adjectives rule ‘Organic scrotal braisin’ Gwyneth Paltrow’s first Goop health summit
Posted on June 23, 2017 by Doug Powell
It’s lazy to poke holes in the wellness industry.
So here’s to fun and laziness.
Dr. Kellogg has been an easy target for two centuries, other shamen and woman date back to antiquity, when who knew why anyone had explosive diahhrea, other than the ether or the gods.
Anyone who likes Coldplay enough to marry the singer has serious problems, and should not be dispensing advice for anyone.
Andrea Mandell of USA Today reports Goop, Gwyneth Paltrow’s lifestyle website, tested its first summit in the gluten-free city of Los Angeles last Saturday. The price was steep: Roughly 600 attendees paid anywhere from $500 (for a “Lapis” pass) to $1,500 (for a “Clear Quartz” pass) to experience all things Goop for over nine hours. From crystal therapy to organic bone broth sampling, here’s how our experience went down at Paltrow’s first conference.
8:45 a.m. This is technically the time I’m allowed into “Goop hall,” where I’ve been promised a long list of vendors showcasing goods for me to try. But I’m still at home, trying to figure out if the dress code will be more athleisure or free-spirited sundress. The first session doesn’t start until 10 a.m., so what’s the harm in arriving a tad late?
9:30 a.m. Huge mistake. After being given my entry pass for the day – a bracelet of brown worry beads with a blue tassel, signifying my lowest-tier status (Lapis), I enter Goop hall and it is immediately epic. There’s a woman giving crystal therapy readings seated on cushions, the line for aura photography (a thing!) is 25 people deep, the flavored oxygen bar is packed and Dyson blowouts are in full swing.
9:35 a.m. Mildly panicked, I quickly get to breakfast, sampling in quick succession: Bulletproof Coffee Plus (coffee blended with something called Brain Octane Oil, grass-fed Butter and pasture-raised collagen protein), a tiny pink glazed donut from Erin McKenna’s Bakery and a sushi-inspired breakfast lox burrito from Kye’s.
9:40 a.m. I spot Gwyneth Paltrow walking in and hugging her staff as she takes in the peak Goopdom. (She wore a pink sundress, and I feel vindicated, but in truth anything went, as the dress code varied from athleisure to jeans.) The crowd here is mostly female, white, and between the ages of 30-50.
10 a.m. We assemble into the “chat room,” a forum style hall in which Blythe Danner’s pre-recorded voice welcomes us over the PA. Paltrow takes the blush-tone stage to greet us and explains how she became interested in this space in 1999, after her father was diagnosed with throat cancer. “I was trying to get him to eat healthier and I made him this batch of zucchini bread that was everything-free and I thought it was delicious,” she says. “And he bit into it and went, ‘Well, it’s like biting into The New York Times’.” As the audience chuckles, she says luckily gluten-free sugar-free food “has made a lot of progress since the ’90s.”
10:15 a.m.. Paltrow introduces us to the “the guy responsible for the term conscious uncoupling,” Dr. Habib Sadeghi, who will be instructing us on something called Cosmic Flow. But it’s a rough start: Sadeghi’s hour-long session proves to be a puzzling, extemporaneous jumble of his battle with testicular cancer, “the ontological experience called your life,” queries on why water is wet and how birds know how to fly (my 8-year-old could deliver this talk; get out there and earn your keep). He reads thank you notes from his patients and holds an existential discussion on how we chew our lunch. “I am one of the most authentic beings you will ever meet!” says Sadeghi, which immediately makes me question whether he is authentic. “Because I will never sell you short.” Somewhat deflated, I await the next session on gut health.
I’ve always told my daughters, when someone says “trust me,” run away.
11:35 a.m. Dr. Alejandro Junger (known for his Paltrow-approved master cleanses) takes the stage with Dr. Steven Gundry and Dr. Amy Myers. I know nothing about gut health, so I’m here for this: Teach me about my gut! But the first 10 minutes meander so much I get antsy and sneak out to try more of the samplings in Goop hall. There goes my gut.
11:45 a.m. Living the high life, I try Belcampo’s organic bone broth (unsalted, it’s hospital-like, but becomes more appetizing once you stir in offered mix-ins like apple cider vinegar and honey), before moving onto Moon Juice’s Blue Tonic with Brain Dust. There’s also a progressive display of pre-filled vape pens from hmbldt and an area called The Pharmacy, where you can buy Paltrow’s pre-packaged vitamins ($90).
12:05 p.m. Scooting back into gut health, it seems I’ve missed Gundry advising the audience to go hungry: “Don’t eat. I can’t stress that enough. We have the ability to store fat,” he instructed, according to my colleague at the Los Angeles Times.
12:15 p.m. Break! Though all of the activities available in the courtyard booked up for the day by 10 a.m. (an annoyance to many who paid hundreds if not thousands to be here) I luck out and get my aura photographed (a purple-y red, as it turns out, signifying I’m both a “visionary” and “passionate”). I sample “kale cookies ‘n cream” vegan ice cream. (Pass.) Two women I run into from Kansas City have told me they’re not super into the panels so far, and might try a nearby hike.
12:35 p.m. Onto a psychotherapy panel called The Tools! Paltrow moderates this one herself, and the session features her go-to doctors, Dr. Phil Stutz and Barry Michels. Initially, I’m worried they’re going to espouse more why-do-birds-fly generalities, but suddenly a red-headed woman volunteers to go up on stage for a session of LIVE THERAPY. (Paltrow gives up her seat and sits cross-legged on the floor.) It’s a remarkably raw, honest 30 minutes and closes with a talk about positive entitlement. “60 to 80 percent of the women in my practice don’t feel that basic sense of entitlement, that ‘I deserve this,’ ” says Michels. At their prompting, the room of women shout, “I’m an animal!” The hour ends with Paltrow opening up about her struggle with perfectionism. The doctors coin our fear The Shadow. “It’s whatever you wish you weren’t,” says Michels, no matter how much success you have.
1:15 pm Lunch is a yogi’s dream: Kale salads from Sweetgreen, poke bowls from Sweetfin, the matcha bar in full swing. Paltrow is off in an enclosed garden space having a catered meal with those who shelled out $1,500. This is not me, but I’m cool, I get to watch people willingly submit themselves to electrolyte IV drips in the courtyard.
3:45 p.m. The sex panel! Just when I thought I couldn’t take any more advice, renowned relationship expert Esther Perel (whose podcast I will now subscribe to), takes the stage with Girls showrunner Jenni Konner and “orgasmic genius” Nicole Daedone. Konner explains she and Lena Dunham depicted mostly bad sex on Girls because “we showed what sex is like in your twenties.” Perel disputes the common belief that women have lower libidos than men. “I don’t think women don’t want sex, I think women don’t want the sex they have,” she says. The session gets the biggest applause of the day.
5:05 p.m. Cute servers circle the chat room with trays of refreshing fruit smoothies. I’m starting to think Paltrow is a genius.
5:15 p.m. After a brief Q&A with Tracy Anderson, we’re onto the celebrity-packed keynote panel called Balls in the Air, which features Cameron Diaz, Tory Burch, Nicole Richie and Miranda Kerr, with Paltrow moderating. The convo is focused not on how these successful, beautiful women do it all, but how they choose what not to do. Diaz reveals why she hasn’t made a movie in over three years.
After being on the road continuously for her film career, “I just went, ‘I can’t really say who I am, to myself. Which is a hard thing to face up to,” says the actress, who married Benji Madden in 2015. “I can’t do the same things I’ve been doing for two decades…if I want to have a full life.” Richie’s tip on how she stays sane? “I like to wake up an hour before my kids, just so I can be alone.” The session ends on a classically Goop note, with Kerr revealing she once tried leech facials, and brought the leeches home because they kill them otherwise. “They’re in my koi pod,” she says.
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A former professor of food safety and the publisher of barfblog.com, Powell is passionate about food, has five daughters, and is an OK goaltender in pickup hockey. Download Doug’s CV here.
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Edythe Christene Applegate December 31, 1923 - September 28, 2012
Edythe Christene (Turner) Applegate, age 88, of Raytown formerly of Ozark, MO departed this life to be with Jesus on Friday, September 28, 2012. She was born near Ava, on December 31, 1923 to Clifford and Daisy Turner .On June 13, 1941 she was united in marriage to Lawrence Applegate at the country home of Reverend and Mrs. Willis Turner. Edythe and Lawrence were longtime residents of the Mt. Tabor community where she faithfully served beside Lawrence as a pastor’s wife. She accepted Christ at the early age of 12 and spent most of her life living in Douglas County. She later moved to Ozark to be near her children. Edythe served in several church organizations and functions. She was Reading Clerk for the General Baptist Missouri Association for 13 years and served 14 years as president of Logan WMS at First General Baptist Church of Ava. She organized Kennedy Women’s Missionary at Black Oak Church and Trivett WMS at Oak Grove and served as president of these societies. She bestowed her love and enjoyed caring for the lonely and elderly people. Edythe was always ready to organize lunches and serve families at First General Baptist who had lost loved ones. After Lawrence passed away, Edythe organized a widow’s fellowship and emotional healing which she greatly enjoyed. Presently, Edythe was a member of Lane Avenue Baptist Church, Kansas City, MO. Edythe dearly loved her family and was a devoted wife and loving mother. Edythe was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, daughter Charlotte Yeoman, son-in-law John Yeoman, three brothers Lowell, Merle and Bob. Edythe is survived by her son Reverend Jerry Applegate and wife Jo of Raytown; five grandchildren Jeff and Kay Applegate, Bryon and Tiffany Applegate, Todd and Lisa Applegate Sharla and Jeff Buthod and Sonya and Justin McDaniel; nine great-grandchildren Landon, Kyle and Jalen Applegate, Blake and Tara Buthod, Madison, Sierra, Aramie and Grant Applegate; two great-great grandchildren Nevaeh and Addison. She is also survived by her sister Chestene Lietch; sister-in-law Helen Turner; several nieces and nephews who were dear to her heart, also many dear friends and other caring relatives. Funeral service for Edythe will be 10:00 A.M. Wednesday, October 3, 2012 in Ava General Baptist Church, Ava, MO with Rev. Jerry Applegate and Rev. Oren Alcorn officiating. Burial will follow in Mt. Tabor Cemetery. Visitation will be held 6 to 7 P.M. Tuesday, October 2, 2012 in Barnes Family Funeral Home Ozark, MO. On line condolences may be shared at www.barnesfamilyfunerals.com.
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Coutinho hat trick as Bayern bounces back to rout Bremen 6-1
Sunday, Dec 15th 2019 (12:47 AM)
Philippe Coutinho scored a hat trick and set up two more goals as Bayern Munich came from behind to rout Werder Bremen 6-1 and end a two-game losing run in the Bundesliga on Saturday.
Robert Lewandowski scored two and substitute Thomas Müller grabbed the other as Bayern bounced back from successive 2-1 defeats to Borussia Mönchengladbach and Bayer Leverkusen.
Bremen's visit came just at the right time for the seven-time defending champion. Bremen had lost its previous 20 competitive games against Bayern, 17 in the league and three in the German Cup.
Bayern's scorer Philippe Coutinho, front, celebrates after scoring his side's sixth goal during the German Bundesliga soccer match between FC Bayern Munich and SV Werder Bremen in Munich, Germany, Saturday, Dec. 14, 2019. (AP PhotoMatthias Schrader)
But Florian Kohfeldt's team gave the home side an early scare when Milot Rashica opened the scoring by rifling a shot from outside the penalty area past Manuel Neuer in the 24th minute.
Jiri Pavlenka denied Lewandowski in the 40th, when the Poland star only had the goalkeeper to beat, and then saved Coutinho's effort from the rebound.
But the Bremen 'keeper was beaten twice before the break. Serge Gnabry gave Coutinho a tap-in in the 45th and the Brazilian set up Lewandowski to break his two-game scoring drought in first-half injury time. Lewandowski had scored in the first 12 games of the season, a record, before an unexpected dry spell.
Bayern's Robert Lewandowski celebrates after scoring his side's fourth goal during the German Bundesliga soccer match between FC Bayern Munich and SV Werder Bremen in Munich, Germany, Saturday, Dec. 14, 2019. (AP PhotoMatthias Schrader)
Coutinho's second goal in the 63rd all but sealed the win, but the goals kept coming with Lewandowski grabbing his second in the 72nd, Coutinho setting up Thomas Müller in the 75th and completing his hat trick in the 78th.
Goals from Marco Reus, Jadon Sancho, Thorgan Hazard and Nico Schulz gave third-place Borussia Dortmund a 4-0 win in Mainz — its fourth consecutive win since its Champions League loss in Barcelona.
Jürgen Klinsmann claimed his first win in charge of Hertha Berlin thanks to Vladimir Darida's rocket inside the left post for a 1-0 home victory over high-flying Freiburg.
Darida let fly from outside the penalty area to decide a lackluster game in the 53rd. It was Hertha's first win in six league games.
Cologne defeated nine-man Bayer Leverkusen 2-0 in the Rhine derby and Union Berlin was held to a 1-1 draw at Paderborn.
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Galileo Mission: Doresa and Milena satellites go into wrong orbit
Two of ESA’s Galileo satellites – Europe’s version of the American GPS satellite navigation system – have not gone into the correct orbit.
However, the European Space Agency says the fifth and sixth satellites – Doresa and Milena – launched from French Guiana on August 22 are under control.
The agency is examining the implications of the anomaly.
Doresa and Milena went up on a Soyuz rocket after a 24-hour delay because of bad weather.
“Observations taken after the separation of the satellites from the Soyuz VS09 (rocket) for the Galileo Mission show a gap between the orbit achieved and that which was planned,” said launch service provider Arianespace, in a statement.
“They have been placed on a lower orbit than expected. Teams are studying the impact this could have on the satellites,” it added.
Galileo satellites Doresa and Milena have not gone into the correct orbit after launch (photo ESA/Arianespace)
Arianespace declined to comment on whether their trajectories could be corrected, the AFP news agency reports.
After years of delay, Galileo is now finally moving towards full deployment.
ESA, which is building the system on behalf of the EU, expects to have a 26-satellite constellation in orbit by 2017.
The EU is investing billions in its satellite navigation project.
It believes Galileo will bring significant returns to European economies in the form of new businesses that can exploit precise timing and location data delivered from orbit.
What is Europe’s Galileo system?
A project of the European Commission and the European Space Agency (ESA)
30 satellites are likely to be launched in batches in the coming years
Galileo will work alongside GPS and the Russian Glonass systems
Full system promises real-time positioning down to a meter or less
It should deepen and extend high-value markets already initiated by GPS
Cost to date: 6 billion euros; budget set aside to 2020: 7 billion euros
European GDP reliant now on GPS applications: 800 billion euros per annum
Source: EC/ESA
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Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod
New Os X Research Warns Of Stealthier Mac Attacks
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In-memory code injection covers tracks
By Dan Goodin in San Francisco
21st January 2009 00:40 GMT
A computer security researcher has discovered a new way to inject hostile code directly into the memory of machines running Apple's OS X operating system, a technique that makes it significantly harder for investigators to detect Mac attacks using today's forensics practices.
The technique, which Italian researcher Vincenzo Iozzo plans to detail at the Black Hat security conference in Washington next month, makes it possible to carry out stealthy Mac attacks that until now have not been possible. The in-memory injection approach allows unauthorized software to be installed on a Mac without leaving traces of the attack code or other tell-tale signs that the machine has been compromised.
Similar stealth techniques have existed for more than two years for infecting Windows and Linux machines, but until now, researchers knew of no reliable way to cover their tracks when attacking Macs. It's likely only a matter of time until malware developers begin using the method in the wild, said researcher Charles Miller, who has reviewed Iozzo's work.
The register: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/21/st...er_mac_attacks/
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Originally known as 'Avalanche' the group formed in 2008 and have released five albums since and now return to the road for a mammoth 2020 tour, bringing their metal-infused pop perfection to you in an explosive live show featuring support from Battle Beasts and Seven Spires!
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Er Shun artificially inseminated at the Calgary Zoo
Calgary, AB – The first giant panda twins born
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Calgary is Now on Baby Panda Watch!
The Calgary Zoo hopes to introduce more giant pandas back into the world by through artificial insemination of Er Shun, that was conducted yesterday at 12 p.m.
Back in mid-March, the Calgary Zoo announced that Er Shun had entered her breeding cycle. The animal care team has been monitoring her hormone levels ever since and waiting for the precise time to artificially inseminate her with the help of a specialist from China. Pandas only ovulate for up to three days out of the year. A special thanks to the Toronto Zoo's Gabriela Mastromonaco, PhD, Curator of Reproductive Programs & Research, and her lab for assistance with hormone monitoring.
Calgarians and the world are now on baby panda watch and will have to wait several weeks to know if the procedure worked when confirmed by ultrasound. Er Shun is being cared for in her custom den in the back of Panda Passage, with a comprehensive team ensuring her well-being. When the time is right, she will give birth there.
The Calgary Zoo is a conservation organization with facilities, programs and people designed to protect and save vulnerable species through breeding as well as release programs.
Giant pandas are an umbrella species and by helping to protect them, other species who inhabit their environment will also be protected. They are a vulnerable species with 1,800 estimated to be in the world.
In 2012, an agreement was signed between the Chinese and Canadian governments for a 10-year breeding loan of giant pandas. Er Shun and Da Mao arrived in Canada on March 25, 2013 to the Toronto Zoo. After being successfully artificially inseminated, Er Shun delivered her cubs, Jia Panpan and Jia Yueyue on October 13, 2015. These were the first giant pandas to be born in Canada.
Da Mao and Er Shun will remain in Calgary for the full five-years of their stay. The cubs, Jia Panpan and Jia Yueyue will return to China after 18 months since arrival.
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The Calgary Zoo is a conservation leader whose mission is to take and inspire action to sustain wildlife and wild places. As a not-for-profit charitable institution, a portion of all revenue is reinvested back into conservation activities at the zoo and around the world.
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DOPE MUSIC VIDEO SHOWCASE
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Hello, I’m Maggie Mayhem and I’m an eight year old Border Terrier. You may know me from my Twitter profile (@maggiemay_hem) or from my numerous TV appearances (but no, I’m not the dog from There’s Something About Mary). I’ve recently had my first book published, called How to Look After Your Human: A Dog’s Guide and it was written in response to the numerous cries for help I’ve had over the years from canine acquaintances who have no idea how to whip their humans into shape. I own two and a half humans; I feel like I’ve got the older two well trained and the smaller one is a work in progress, but I like a challenge.
In reality though, not all dogs are as fortunate as me in the people we choose to share our lives with, and I wanted to do something to help. That’s why I decided to donate my advance from How to Look After Your Human to the wonderful folk over at Border Terrier Welfare who work tirelessly to rehome over 160 Border Terriers a year. I know, it’s hard to believe that such an attractive, intelligent and all-round fabulous breed of dog could ever be wanting for a place to call home, but it’s true. Border Terrier Welfare make it their priority to find new homes for Border Terriers who, through no fault of their own, have fallen on hard times. It costs £250 to re-home every single dog and the charity rely solely on fundraising and donations, and the noble work of their volunteers.
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Get in Cardiff Half condition at Healthspan Wales 10K Series
The Healthspan Wales 10K Series provides the perfect preparation for Cardiff University Cardiff Half Marathon runners.
Entries are now on sale as the popular quartet of 10K races returns to four iconic locations across South Wales, before the main event on Sunday 4th October. Runners can secure their place at each of the events or save with Multi-Event Ticket offer to get themselves in peak condition for the iconic 13.1 miles of the Cardiff Half.
Almost 18,000 runners stepped up from their regular Saturday parkrun to enjoy the full Run 4 Wales 10K experience in 2019. This year’s Series saw some of the nation’s leading athletes battle it out ahead of thousands of club runners and charity fundraisers.
Thousands made the most of the Multi-Event Ticket offer and added new collection of commemorative t-shirts to their running wardrobe.
The Brecon Carreg Cardiff Bay Run will kickoff another blockbuster year of Welsh distance running on Sunday 29th March, 2020. More than 6,000 runners will race across Cardiff’s historic bay before the series moves east to Newport.
Marathon hopefuls from across the world will be gearing up to take on the 26.2 miles of the ABP Newport Wales Marathon less than a month later on Sunday 19th April, 2020. But runners also have the chance to extend their 10K streak at the ABP Newport Wales 10K on a celebratory day of distance running.
Runners then have almost three months to recover or up their training for the Series’ summer finale. The Healthspan Porthcawl 10K returns for its second instalment on Sunday 5th July after the success of the inaugural event before the Barry Island 10K rounds off the four race series on Sunday 2nd August.
Keen runners can save on entries with Healthspan Wales 10K Series Multi-Event Tickets, but are being urged to act fast to avoid disappointment. Only 1,000 are available on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Season tickets, granting access to all four races in the Series will go on sale priced at £80, a saving of £21 versus entering individually.
Three event passes, granting access to three races in the series are priced at £63 for a saving of up to £13 versus entering individually. Two event passes, granting access to two races in the series are priced at £44 for a saving of up to £7 versus entering individually.
Get your Healthspan Wales 10K Series Season Ticket here, or if you can’t commit to all four races, register with a Three-Event or Two-Event Pass.
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M5 motorway
Everything we know about M5 traffic near Weston-super-Mare which closed road and stopped traffic
Two people have been injured in the incident between J21 and J22 for Burnham-on-Sea
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Air ambulance lands on M5 between junctions 21 and 22 (Image: Katrina Watson)
Two people have been injured in a serious collision on the M5 near Weston-super-Mare.
An Avon and Somerset Constabulary spokesperson confirmed that the service was called shortly before midday today (Monday, July 8) to reports of a collision involving a 4x4 and another vehicle - reported initially as a lorry but believed to be a caravan towed by the Land Rover.
All lanes on the M5 northbound between J22 and J21 are currently closed to traffic, with extensive delays forming behind the scene of the incident.
Follow live updates on the M5 crash in our traffic blog.
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A spokesperson for South Western Ambulance Service said: "We were called at 11.59am about a road traffic incident, reportedly involving an overturned vehicle, on the M5 northbound near Junction 21.
There have been long delays (Image: Joe Morgan)
"We've sent an air ambulance, a hazardous area response team, and another paramedic to attend the incident.
"There are two reported casualties."
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It is not yet known how seriously the victims have been injured.
Great Western Air Ambulance were also on the scene, which led to the M5 southbound being temporarily closed to allow for the safe arrival and departure of the air ambulance.
One eyewitness at the scene described 'five or six fire engines' heading towards the scene of the incident.
All emergency services have been contacted for further updates as the situation develops.
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Home News Latest DJ Fly crowned DMC World DJ Champion
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DJ Fly crowned DMC World DJ Champion
Just when you think the art of turntablism can't get more innovative, exciting and challenging, the DMC DJ Championships spring back in to their annual season of action and surprised the world. Packing out a one day, all-day-long event at the massive, London venue Indig02, DMC has yet again proven to revitalize, boost and replenish this rich DJ culture. Including a myriad of excellent showcases and workshops including B-Boying, beatboxing and ofcourse Djing, this year's competition was truly something special, and further solidified DMC's importance in the technological advances in the art of DJing and music creation.
The battles were fantastic and turbulent, with incredible skill on show, but at the end of the evening France's DJ Fly took the title with flare and the undeniable unfiltered swag of a champion. Ritchie Ruftone repped for the UK and arrived at second place in style. DMC Online Champ Jon 1st went on to showcase a spellbinding set with the crowd behind him, and took the 3rd place after pleasing the judges with his cutting skills.
Switching places from the results of last year's championships, Ritchie Ruftone nabbed first place in the Battle for World Supremacy, beating Canada's very own DJ Vekked who pulled out a performance of a lifetime, inclusive of his trademark theatrics. In a typically heated pursuit for the team battle title, France's Mr Viktor, Deska & DJ Hertz took the sought after DMC Winner's jackets and will tough to beat in 2014s proceedings.
Before the Final's winner was announced, the crowd were lucky enough to witness a once in a lifetime DMC Winners Showcase and Freestyle Jam that included the likes of Cash Money, DJ Netik, DJ Fly, DJ Unkut, Mr Thing, Chris Karns (Vajra), Mr Switch and Jon 1st. You will have to wait for the DVD's release to find out who shone the brightest.
Event: The DMC World DJ Final and Battle For World Supremacy 2013, 5th October, Indig02, London
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Paul Evans is an award-nominated paediatric health consultant, certified nutritionist, spokesperson, contributing writer, broadcaster, researcher and founder of School Health UK with 10+ years of experience in the Education and Health sector.
Having been recognised for his efforts in the realms of Childhood obesity, Paul Evans continues to contribute toward the ever growing sphere of this confronting sector in health.
Paul has worked with over 200 education institutions on a consultancy basis for a number of years, demonstrating not only a wealth of knowledge and experience, but the ability to successfully implement innovative changes in the sphere of obesity improvement, that has seen dramatic progression at a National level.
Paul, based in North West London, continues to work across the UK as the Managing Director and an Executive Health Consultant with School Health UK - the country's 'most impacting' School Health organisation whilst also being regularly consulted on National Childhood Obesity publications.
Paul offers himself as an 'ambassador to schools, for Childhood Obesity'.
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Paul West Wants to Help Perth Grow Its Own Produce
The chef and star of River Cottage Australia is now touring his new cookbook, and he’s passionate about the home veggie patch.
by Max Brearley
Honesty and genuine enthusiasm are endearing. Paul West has both in spades. The star of River Cottage Australia found his audience first on Foxtel and later through SBS reruns. His tale: a larrikin chef, once of the Vue de Monde brigade, who sets about transforming a rundown property in Central Tilba, a few hours south-east of Canberra.
But after four seasons, the curtain was drawn. It meant a move away from the farm to Melbourne, and, some would say, from the persona he’d built. But you soon realise it’s not a persona: that curiosity and passion is Paul West. I saw that firsthand, as a co-director of Truffle Kerfuffle in 2017. He loaded up his own schedule, dropped into farms, and held the attention of everyone from school kids to the barman at the local pub. You see that now in his work on ABC’s Gardening Australia, Catalyst and Back Roads. Like the old adage goes: as one door closes, another opens.
West is currently touring his new book – The Edible Garden Cookbook & Growing Guide – around Australia, using it as a vehicle to discuss growing in urban environments. He says it’s “a celebration of all things food and community”, but the book, which details how he turned his suburban block into a resource for his growing family, could just as easily be titled “Life after River Cottage”.
“From a romantic perspective you think of green pasture, soil on the hands, but realistically that can’t always be the way and romanticism needs to take a back seat,” he says.
The book takes a pragmatic approach, covering the essentials of growing in the city. Think water-efficient veggie patches, composting, backyard chooks and beekeeping – things that are attractive to home cooks and chefs alike. The concept of growing-your-own has taken root across Perth at venues such as Bib & Tucker (rooftop bees), Brookfield Place (which has a chef’s garden that supplies herbs and small greens to its restaurants) and the soon-to-open Coogee Common. Also important to note: the example set by the trailblazing (and now missed) Greenhouse when it opened almost a decade ago.
While the rural idyll is a “one day” dream for some, urban growing is an immediate and powerful possibility for the majority, even if it’s just starting with some leafy greens.
“They’re so important for our daily diet,” says West. “They pretty much deteriorate from the moment of harvest. Go into transport and it can be two or three days before they’re on the shelves. With city-growing there can be near to zero travel. You get it at its freshest. It just makes sense.”
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Northern Sky Theater Announces 2020 Shows
by BWW News Desk
BroadwayWorld.com Jan. 2, 2020
Northern Sky Theater has announced its 2020 Season in Door County, Wisconsin.
Northern Sky Theater will expand its 2020 season to include ten shows, seven in the summer, two in the fall, and one during the winter holidays. During the summer, three will be performed at its outdoor venue, the Peninsula State Park Amphitheatre, and four at its new indoor space, the Gould Theater. The two fall shows and the holiday show will be held in the Gould. While continuing its traditional performance schedule in the park, the company will use the Gould to augment the season in a way that was not possible in the past.
"One of the major reasons for building a new theater was to have more control in scheduling our season and more assurances against weather-affected shows," said Artistic Director Jeff Herbst. "The Gould gives us both, and with the success of our first show in this new space last fall, we are certainly encouraged to provide our audience with more opportunities to see programming indoors."
Northern Sky's mission is creating original musicals and plays, now with over sixty-five in its canon. The shows in the 2020 season will emphasize this mission while also celebrating fifty years of performances in the park, thirty years under the umbrella of Northern Sky, and the first year of summer performances indoors.
The lineup for the outdoor season, running from June 10th to August 29th, is as follows:
Love Stings
Love Stings is a world premiere musical comedy by Richard Castle and Matthew Levine. The plot is adapted from a P. G. Wodehouse story revolving around idealistic Bill Zapper. While planning a lavish wedding on a 1960s Door County bee farm, Bill begins to wonder if he and his reluctant fiancée are truly right for each other. Will the outrageous wedding go off without a hitch? Or is this the calm before the swarm? This honey of a show is sure to be all the buzz.
Castle and Levine's first show for Northern Sky, Oklahoma in Wisconsin, was directed by Pam Kriger. "After working with Richard and Matthew in 2017, I am delighted to be collaborating with them on another original musical for Northern Sky," said Kriger.
Fishing for the Moon
Fishing for the Moon, which premiered in 1992, was the first collaboration between Fred Alley and James Kaplan, who would go on to write some of Northern Sky's most beloved shows. The slightly madcap plot takes place right after the Civil War with delightfully drawn characters and some absurd misunderstandings.
"Fred and James wrote a valentine to musical comedy with Fishing. It's one of their sweetest shows, while still being incredibly funny," Herbst said.
Belgians in Heaven
Belgians in Heaven, with book and lyrics by Doc Heide and Lee Becker and music by Heide and Kaplan, is a metaphysical polka musical with a hilarious cast of characters. Belgians follows the antics of Leo and Roger, two battling farming brothers; Mildred, a talking chicken; Angelique, a bumbling angel; Henry, a simple savant; Josephine, a booyah-making neighbor; and enough alter personalities to fill up heaven.
"It's a terrific line-up in the park, with a signature world premiere and two shows that hearken back to Northern Sky's beginnings," Herbst said. "We also wanted to celebrate fifty years of performances in the park by bringing back two shows from our predecessor, the Heritage Ensemble, which will both have indoor performances."
The lineup for the summer schedule in the Gould Theater, running from June 16th to September 5th, is as follows:
Dad's Season Tickets
Dad's Season Tickets, by Matt Zembrowski, premiered as Northern Sky's first production in the new Gould Theater last fall. This homage to all things Packers and what that means for a Green Bay family was Northern Sky's biggest hit in its 28-year history of doing fall shows.
"This is a show that we knew our summer audiences would absolutely love, but it's not readily transferrable to the outdoor stage. So, since we now are able to, we will present it indoors during the summer," said Managing Director Dave Maier.
Song of the Inland Seas
Song of the Inland Seas, created by Dave Peterson, was the first show presented in Peninsula State Park in 1970. This fiftieth anniversary presentation, celebrating the songs and stories of the Great Lakes, will have a limited six-performance run.
The Mountains Call My Name
The Mountains Call My Name, by Doc Heide, also dates back to the Heritage Ensemble days and was first presented in 1989. The show features the engaging tales of John Muir, the Wisconsin-raised conservationist responsible for our national park system.
SkyWriting!
SkyWriting! assembled by Ray Jivoff with music by Brett Ryback, is a new collaboration between Northern Sky and Write On Door County. The show will feature the writing of local students, presented by professional actors. The writing will center on nature and conservation, making it a perfect companion piece to The Mountains Call My Name.
"Ray Jivoff has worked with students for years, unlocking their creative writing potential and weaving the results into a collection of stories, poems, songs, and vignettes," explained Associate Artistic Director Molly Rhode. "We thought hearing one of the earliest voices on the subject of conservation along with the voices of our young people would be a wonderful synthesis on a very relevant topic."
Northern Sky will present two shows in repertory in its fall season, running from September 11th to October 31st, in the Gould Theater.
Naked Radio
Naked Radio, by Paul Libman and Dave Hudson, is back by popular demand after making its debut in 2017 featuring three actors playing fifteen characters. A small town radio station gets swallowed up by a corporate parent and the local DJs are relegated to obscurity. But when a snowstorm knocks the power out and the station loses its tie to the pre-programmed feed, the guys have to punt. Two DJs. One Blizzard. No Records.
And If Elected
And If Elected, created by Dave Peterson, Jeff Herbst, and Fred Alley, is Northern Sky's quadrennial romp through past presidential campaigns. The show uses authentic songs and humor to poke fun at and reflect on the very real blood sport of American politicking.
In addition, Home for the Holidays will be presented between Christmas and the New Year. First offered in 2007, the show will continue to feature performers with ties to Northern Sky returning for a week of signature concerts.
"Three years ago we launched our Constellation Campaign to build a creative center and the Gould Theater," said Development Director Holly Feldman. "The goal for our now well-established, professional troupe is to use this facility to its fullest potential."
Herbst added, "Our 2020 season fully embraces this new goal while maintaining our presence in the park. We are now realizing our vision. Two stages. One sky. It's truly inspiring."
Northern Sky's Outdoor Season runs from June 10th - August 29th at the Peninsula State Park Amphitheater in Fish Creek, WI. A park sticker is not required to attend performances in the State Park within one hour prior to performances.
The company's Indoor Season will be held at Northern Sky's new Gould Theater on the corner of County Roads A & F in Fish Creek. The summer indoor season runs from June 16th - September 5th. The fall indoor season runs September 11th - October 31st.
Tickets will go on sale March 2nd in the Northern Sky box office at the Gould Theater, via phone at (920) 854-6117, and online at www.NorthernSkyTheater.com.
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Taking Action on Climate Change: The Forecast for Cancún and Beyond
Series: Global Views
Nathan Hultman, Sarah Puritz Milsom, and Katherine Sierra Monday, November 22, 2010
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Negotiators to the 16th Conference of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will meet in Cancun (COP16) November 29 to December 10, 2010. The Mexican hosts have tried hard to avoid the overblown hopes of last year’s meetings in Copenhagen—and expectations remain modest. Instead of striving for a master agreement, delegates in Cancun will look to agree on the building blocks that tackle key issues for global cooperation. Nevertheless, while there is no expectation for a binding international treaty, elements of these individual building blocks remain contentious, and success in negotiating a balanced package of actions therefore remains uncertain.
What to Watch in Cancun
Can the delicate balance achieved under the Copenhagen Accord be maintained? The Copenhagen Accord provided a means for both developing and developing countries to declare emission reductions. This was combined with pledges of significant financial support for developing countries along with the creation of a Copenhagen Green Fund. But the Accord is under pressure because of disagreements, most notably between the United States and China, on the Accord’s provisions for transparency of monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) and in renewed questions about equitable burden-sharing under an eventual emissions regime. Unless these issues can be resolved, it will be difficult to move toward fulfilling pledges of long-term finance. And, the less contentious and therefore more likely agreements in the areas of forestry, technology and adaptation might be stuck waiting in the wings.
What to Watch Beyond Cancun
From Climate Change to Green Growth. Stronger links between climate change and green growth are crucial. Look for the reframing of the climate change challenge toward a positive agenda of energy security, competitiveness and job creation driven by innovation.
Innovations in the Carbon Markets. With poor prospects for an extension of the Kyoto Protocol, international regulatory uncertainty is growing. Look to uncoordinated but innovative regional, country and local emission trading schemes, and a debate on pathways for eventual convergence.
Delivering on Climate Change Finance. Continued work to design innovative funding sources—many of which will depend on either a carbon tax or emission trading—will be critical. In the United States, policymakers may need to reconsider policies that price carbon as part of its deficit reduction strategy. From all contributing countries, expect a strong focus on resultsand performance-based funding, and new tools to leverage the private sector.
Showing the Way in Forestry. Significant progress has been made in defining approaches to reduce emissions from deforestation and land degradation which could show how commitments and funding can be combined on the ground with MRV. And look to an extension of this approach for agriculture and land use as well.
Focusing on Innovation. Expect strong momentum in building technology cooperation which focuses on knowledge partnership and innovation networks.
Recognizing Adaptation as a Development Challenge. With consequences of a changing climate already impairing developing country growth prospects and impacting the poorest and most vulnerable, expect continued movement toward building climate-resilience and national adaptation plans into core development strategies.
Changing the Conversation
Irrespective of the outcome in Cancun, actions will continue to be taken from the bottom-up by national and local governments and through bilateral and pluri-lateral cooperation, private sector initiatives and civil society. If progress under the UNFCCC continues to be halting, some efforts may shift to other institutions beyond the UNFCCC, such as the G-20, Montreal Protocol and the WTO, to pursue discreet parts of the climate agenda. And expect debate on more radical approaches that might entail moving away from a single treaty toward a suite of sector agreements, or which build on the GATT experience to forge agreements among interested countries on emission reductions and compliance targets. The challenge will be to build on bottom-up initiatives that develop new tools and instruments, but simultaneously balance the need for international goal-setting on climate policy outcomes and burden sharing.
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ACT II Presents "A Christmas Carol"
Benjamin Russell High School Auditorium
This "A Christmas Carol" goes beyond other adaptations with a unique dramatic concept. At the opening curtain, Charles Dickens himself is introduced to the audience, ready to present one of the famed platform readings of his stories that packed auditoriums in Europe and America. Of course, the story chosen is one which he often performed, "A Christmas Carol." The story unfolds behind him, and soon Dickens is weaving in and out of the action, observing, performing small roles, interpolating short passages of rich narrative never heard in other versions. He handles props and helps Scrooge and others with costume changes. Originally conceived for Mr. Jakes' home stage, The Hilton Head Playhouse, the play is supremely flexible in cast and design. Jim Volz, former managing director of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival where the play received its professional premiere, says of it, "In John Jakes' hands, "A Christmas Carol" recaptures the magic and mystique of the Dickens original. It is a brilliant script."
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Holy See, Italy tax agreement regarding the Vatican bank goes into effect
Picture of the Vatican bank from July 2016. An agreement between the Holy See and Italy regarding taxation surround the Vatican bank came into effect Oct. 15. Photo courtesy of Joi Ito via Flickr [https://flic.kr/p/HxzgWj]
By Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Individuals and entities that have accounts at the Vatican bank and are subject to taxation in Italy will have until mid-April to report to Italian authorities the income earned by their Vatican accounts.
As part of ongoing efforts by the Vatican to increase financial transparency and accountability, an agreement between the Holy See and Italy concerning taxes went into effect Oct. 15.
The Vatican released further details about the agreement in a press release Oct. 17, reiterating that individuals and entities had 180 days from the date of implementation to follow the convention's mandates, complete the necessary paperwork and – for those with Vatican bank accounts – to inform the proper Italian tax authorities.
The convention's application will be overseen by the Vatican Secretariat of State, the press release said.
The tax convention on income from capital and other income from financial activities in Vatican City State applies to citizens whose tax residence is in Italy.
The agreement, initially signed April 1, 2015, includes the full exchange of financial information about asset holders who are subject to Italian taxes and establishes the procedures necessary for declaring and paying taxes on income, which would include interest or earnings from bonds, investments and savings in Vatican institutions.
The bilateral convention was meant to clarify and simplify rules and procedures concerning tax obligations and taxpayer information. It parallels standard agreements between countries on tax matters and follows a general model developed by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which seeks to reduce possibilities for tax evasion.
The convention applies to individuals and entities with Italian residence and subject to Italian taxes such as clerics, dignitaries, Vatican employees, wage-earners – including temporary hires and pensioners of the Holy See – as well as institutes of consecrated life, societies of apostolic life and other foundations and entities.
The Lateran Pacts of 1929, in which the Vatican and the Italian state recognized each other as sovereign nations, established that Vatican salaries would be tax-free and institutions on Vatican property, including "extraterritorial" property outside Vatican City State walls, would be tax-exempt. Those properties include pontifical universities, seminaries and the headquarters of religious orders.
A separate tax agreement between the Vatican and Italy in 2012 established that commercial church-owned businesses in Italy, such as guest houses run by religious institutes, were subject to Italian taxes.
Properties used for purely religious, nonprofit purposes were tax-exempt under the 2012 agreement and will continue to be exempt under the new convention. However, Italy still would have no right to tax "central bodies of the Catholic Church" headquartered on Vatican property and any profit-making entities operating inside Vatican City, such as the Vatican Museums and publishing house, according to a source familiar with the convention.
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Meet the world's ugliest dog
Posted: Jun 27, 2015 6:49 PM CST | Updated: Dec 2, 2015 5:19 PM CST
(CNN) -- Quasi Modo, a short-spined mix breed dog from Florida, was named the world's ugliest dog Friday for epitomizing \"excellence in ugliness.\"
The 10-year-old pitbull-Dutch shepherd mix won the dubious title from a pool of 27 underdogs at the annual World's Ugliest Dog contest at the Sonoma-Marin Fair in Petaluma, California.
The judges score the dogs on first impressions, unusual attributes, natural ugliness, personality and audience impression, according to the event's website.
\"We aren't interested in lineage, it's the inner beauty and personality that shine in our World's Ugliest Dog contest,\" said Karen Spencer, marketing director for Sonoma-Marin Fair, which organizes the event.
The first runner-up was Sweepee Rambo, a Chinese crested chihuahua, who takes pride in her soft freckled skin and blond Mohawk. The second runner-up was Frodo, a 12.5-year-old Chinese crested hairless-chihuahua mix from Sparks, Nevada, who loves to be bossy, according to his official bio.
Because many of the homely hounds, including this year's ugliest, come from shelters and puppy mills, the contest aims to encourage adoption of dogs regardless of their physical shortcomings.
Quasi Modo's owner found him at an animal shelter, according to his biography on the contest's website.
\"Luckily, one of the veterinarians there saw the sparkle in my eyes and took me home,\" his bio says.
He has multiple birth defects to his spine and his back is too short for the rest of his body.
\"In spite of this I still run, play and enjoy life to the fullest.\"
Grown men have mistaken him for a hyena or Tasmanian devil and jumped on their cars to get away from him, \"but once they get to know me I win them over with my bubbly personality,\" the bio says.
\"I love to meet new people and teach them about diversity. I have become a great ambassador for teaching people about acceptance and tolerance for things that are different. You should never judge a book by its cover! Just because an animal or person looks different doesn't mean they're any less deserving of love. It's OK to be different.\"
This was his second year in the contest after making his debut in 2014. His owners brought him to the contest during their honeymoon.
The Spirit Award was presented to Precious, an 8-year-old chihuahua from Petaluma, for visiting disabled veterans with her owner.
\"My mom is a disabled veteran and gives of her time volunteering also. She says there is no 'I' in team, we believe in team spirit and teamwork. She and I love to help others who are down and out no matter what the cause or economic status,\" Precious says in her bio.
Precious has a \"sight issue\" from the vet putting wrong drops in her eye as a puppy, according to her bio. She loves long walks on the beach at sunset, rides in the car with the wind in her face, picnics, table scraps (even though I get a balanced diet), doggy treats and rides in my stroller.
\"I'm living my life with purpose and love.\"
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Weekend Box Office Review For October 2nd – October 4th
By B. George Young on October 7, 2015 in Articles › Entertainment
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Although this was the fourth straight weekend that a new movie opened up at #1, the trend of the top two spots belonging to newcomers ended after three weeks. It was no surprise that The Martian had a huge debut, and the movie also got stellar reviews. Hotel Transylvania 2 had a very good sophomore weekend and Sicario jumped all the way from #10 to #3 and quadrupled its box office, likely thanks to all of those commercials for it. Next weekend the newest version of the classic tale, Pan opens along with The Walk and biopic Steve Jobs. Here is a breakdown of the top movie money makers for this past weekend…
#1: The Martian
Weekend Gross: $55 million
Total Gross: $55 million
Director: Ridley Scott ($180 million net worth)
Starring: Matt Damon ($90 million net worth) as Mark Watney, Jessica Chastain ($12 million net worth) as Melissa Lewis, Kristen Wiig ($16 million net worth) as Annie Montrose and Jeff Daniels ($45 million net worth) as Teddy Sanders.
Budget: $108 million
#2: Hotel Transylvania 2
Total Gross: $90.5 million
Director: Genndy Tartakovsky
Starring (voices): Adam Sandler ($360 million net worth) as Dracula, Andy Samberg ($16 million net worth) as Jonathan, Selena Gomez ($20 million net worth) as Mavis, Kevin James ($80 million net worth) as Frankenstein and David Spade ($40 million net worth) as Griffin.
Budget: $80 million
#3: Sicario
Weekend Gross: $12.1 million
Starring: Emily Blunt ($16 million net worth) as Kate Macer, Josh Brolin ($35 million net worth) as Matt Graver, Benicio Del Toro ($45 million net worth) as Alejandro and Victor Garber ($5 million net worth) Dave Jennings.
#4: The Intern
Director: Nancy Meyers
Starring: Robert De Niro ($200 million net worth) as Ben, Anne Hathaway ($35 million net worth) as Jules and Rene Russo ($40 million net worth) as Fiona.
#5: Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
Weekend Gross: $7.7 million
Starring: Dylan O'Brien ($5 million net worth) as Thomas, Kaya Scodelario ($1 million net worth) as Teresa and Thomas Brodie-Sangster as Newt.
#6: Black Mass
Director: Scott Cooper
Starring: Johnny Depp ($400 million net worth) as James "Whitey" Bulger, Benedict Cumberbatch ($15 million net worth) as Billy Bulger, Dakota Johnson ($1 million net worth) as Lindsey Cyr and Joel Edgerton ($3 million net worth) as John Connolly.
#7: Everest
Director: Baltasar Kormakur
Starring: Jason Clarke ($2 million net worth) as Rob Hall, Ang Phula Sherpha as Ang Dorjee, Thomas M. Wright as Michael Groom and Josh Brolin ($35 million net worth) as Beck Weathers.
#8: The Visit
Weekend Gross: $4 million
Director: M. Night Shyamalan ($50 million net worth)
Starring: Olivia DeJonge as Becca, Ed Oxenbould as Tyler and Deanna Dunagan as Nana.
Budget: $5 million
#9: War Room
Director: Alex Kendrick
Starring: Priscilla C. Shirer as Elizabeth Jordan, T.C. Stallings as Tony Jordan and Karen Abercrombie as Miss Clara.
#10: The Perfect Guy
Director: David M. Rosenthal
Starring: Sanaa Lathan ($4 million net worth) as Leah, Michael Ealy ($3 million net worth) as Carter and Morris Chestnut ($4 million net worth) as Dave.
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ACRP, The Avoca Group announce strategic clinical research partnership
The Association of Clinical Research Professionals (ACRP) and the Avoca Group have announced a new strategic partnership aimed at driving quality, standardization and collaboration in clinical research.
The Avoca Group, whose clients include top five pharmaceutical companies and global contract research organizations (CROs), is a driving force behind the continuous improvement of outsourced clinical research and leader of the Avoca Quality Consortium™ (AQC).
The AQC brings together 70 pharma, biotech and clinical service companies that share a commitment to collaboratively improving the execution and management of outsourced clinical trials.
"This partnership brings together two of the leading organizations in clinical research with a shared commitment to driving standards and improved performance quality. We are excited to partner with The Avoca Group in support of our mission to promote excellence in clinical research," said Jim Kremidas, ACRP Executive Director. "ACRP is leading innovation in clinical research workforce development by setting standards for professional competence, and building and validating competence in the workforce. We believe working with The Avoca Group will enhance development and delivery of new therapies to patients."
"Investigational sites are a key stakeholder group in the clinical trial process, yet silos between sponsors, CROs, and sites exist which impacts the quality of clinical trials", said Patricia Leuchten, Founder and CEO, The Avoca Group. "We're excited for the opportunity to work closely with ACRP. The partnership is in keeping with our vision to improve industry collaboration in clinical research and in doing so, make a tangible difference in improving quality and driving efficiency in the clinical trial execution process."
Initiatives for 2018 include adaption of the AQC's quality oversight tools for use at the site and sharing site inspection case studies. The AQC provides members with over 300 leading practice tools, guidelines, and standards that deliver meaningful improvements to the speed, efficiency, and quality of clinical trial execution, plus the means to track and influence the development of innovative new approaches.
ACRP and The Avoca Group will also partner on a co-sponsored full-day program on April 27, 2018, in conjunction with ACRP 2018, the premier education and networking event for clinical research professionals. ACRP 2018 will be held April 27 – May 1, 2018, just outside Washington, DC at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland.
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BTV School Board chairman gives fiery goodbye
Chairman Porter says Commissioner Wick asked if the district had "gone too far" in hiring leaders of color. Wick called this "false and slanderous."
BTV School Board chairman gives fiery goodbye Chairman Porter says Commissioner Wick asked if the district had "gone too far" in hiring leaders of color. Wick called this "false and slanderous." Check out this story on burlingtonfreepress.com: http://bfpne.ws/2DBq5Bv
Nicole Higgins DeSmet, Free Press Staff Writer Published 10:41 p.m. ET Jan. 23, 2018 | Updated 3:13 p.m. ET Jan. 24, 2018
Burlington School Board Chairman Mark Porter reads a statement in which he accused fellow board member Jeffrey Wick of racism during a board meeting on Tuesday, January 23, 2018.(Photo: ALEX LaVIN/CCCTV)
Burlington School Board Chairman Mark Porter accused a fellow board member of racism in the final minutes of Tuesday's budget meeting before tossing out that he would not run for re-election.
Porter described being unsettled after visiting board member Jeff Wick's house to talk about district issues.
"This past summer I was invited to commissioner Wick's house to talk. While we were talking on his front lawn Commissioner Wick said to me, 'I understand we need to hire more teachers of color but have we gone too far in hiring district leadership of color?'" Porter said reading from a prepared statement.
Wick wrote in a statement to the Burlington Free Press that Porter's accusation was "score-settling, gratuitous, false and slanderous — and an inappropriate use of the position of board chair."
Porter in his board remarks said Wick's voting record — against the the superintendent’s contract renewal and goals, which included sustainable financial practices, creating a districtwide strategic plan and developing a comprehensive plan for a welcoming and inclusive learning community — revealed his bias. Porter added that the voters would decide whether to unseat Wick on Town Meeting Day.
Though Porter did not specify when Wick’s seat is up for re-election, the district’s website lists Wick's term as ending in 2019.
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The accusation comes as Superintendent Yaw Obeng agreed to extend his contract for three more years. The district, under his guidance, has committed to achieving a new level of equity by hiring staff that reflects Burlington's growing diversity.
Wick called Porter's accusations totally inaccurate and said when Porter concluded his statement at the School Board meeting. "I'm shocked that you have distorted our conversation and taken a personal attack at me."
Burlington School Board member Jeffrey Wick reacts after board chairman Mark Porter read a statement accusing Wick of racism during a board meeting on Tuesday, January 23, 2018. (Photo: ALEX LaVIN/CCCTV)
Wick wrote in a brief statement to the Burlington Free Press on Wednesday morning that he saw the district's diversity as one of its greatest assets.
"I hope it goes without saying that I fully support our children of color, our new Americans, and our teachers and work force," Wick wrote.
Wick later said in an interview that he thought Porter's remarks were calculated to undermine him and the eight challengers to School Board seats which are up for election in March. Some of the challengers, according to Porter and Wick, had taught in public schools.
Porter in addition to giving notice and accusing Wick of racial bias also said in his statement that the challengers' teachers union connections constituted a conflict of interest.
When asked to comment, board member Ryan McLaren wrote an email to say that he had no answer yet. School Board Vice Chairwoman Stephanie Seguino sent a statement on behalf of the board on Wednesday morning
Seguino wrote that the board was not in a position to adjudicate what was said in a private conversation.
"Our focus as a board is to be clear for the public about: 1) our fundamental principles, and 2) as a matter of protocol, how we conduct ourselves in the future as Board members. To that end, the Board has requested advice on protocol for a Board response and a legal opinion on the appropriateness of the delivery of Chair Porter's personal statement to the Board last night under chair's prerogatives and Robert’s Rules of Order."
The Burlington School District declined to comment, saying that it was a board issue.
Porter cited personal business and a new bride as his reasons for stepping down, but he had clashed this fall with board members, including Wick, over how the board should be run and interact with the public.
More: Superintendent's contract questions bring out Burlington School Board, community tensions
Porter’s surprise announcement followed a board vote on a the fiscal year 2019 school budget.
The budget, which will be brought to voters in March, is projected to raise equalized pupil spending to $15,111, an increase of 0.8 percent over the last fiscal year, according to the district on Wednesday. This could raise education property taxes by 7.99 percent.
Porter voted against the measure.
Contact Nicole Higgins DeSmet ndesmet@freepressmedia.com or 802-660-1845. Follow her on Twitter @NicoleHDeSmet.
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Facebook & Twitter allegedly taking insufficient action to stop spread of hate speech & misinformation through their platforms
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US Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren critizes Facebook's new political ad rules
Author: Emily Birnbaum, The Hill
"Warren turns up heat over Facebook's ad rules," 15 Oct 2019
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a top-tier Democratic presidential candidate, is turning up the heat in her battle with one of the most powerful tech companies in the world, Facebook, as she shines a spotlight on the company’s rules on political ads... Critics have argued that Facebook is abdicating responsibility over its powerful platform, which reaches more than 2 billion people globally, while the company and free speech advocates have insisted it’s risky for Facebook to take more control over what political candidates are allowed to say. “The policies they’ve announced are an explicit invitation to politicians to spread falsehoods,” Paul Barrett, the deputy director of the New York University’s Stern Center for Business and Human Rights, told The Hill. “And that is not something that we ought to applaud.”
... Facebook has emphasized that it believes politicians should be exempt from many of its rules on speech. Facebook runs a third-party fact-checking program, which adds disclaimers to posts that can be proven false, but it now says that politicians’ posts and advertisements will not go through that system.
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Facebook exempts political ads from ban on making false claims
Author: Alex Hern, The Guardian
Facebook has quietly rescinded a policy banning false claims in advertising...The social network had previously banned adverts containing “deceptive, false or misleading content"... [But] the rules have narrowed considerably, only banning adverts that “include claims debunked by third-party fact-checkers, or, in certain circumstances, claims debunked by organisations with particular expertise”... Facebook [has] clarified that only politicians currently in office or running for office, and political parties, are exempt: other political adverts still need to be true... A Facebook spokesman said: “We don’t believe that it’s an appropriate role for us to referee political debates. Nor do we think it would be appropriate to prevent a politician’s speech from reaching its audience and being subject to public debate and scrutiny.”
... Facebook’s decision comes as the rival service TikTok takes the opposite stance... “Any paid ads that come into the community need to fit the standards for our platform, and the nature of paid political ads is not something we believe fits the TikTok platform experience,” wrote Blake Chandlee, the company’s vice-president of global business solutions. “To that end, we will not allow paid ads that promote or oppose a candidate, current leader, political party or group, or issue at the federal, state, or local level – including election-related ads, advocacy ads, or issue ads.”
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Ex-Twitter CEO says social media platforms shouldn’t ‘treat every account equally’
Author: Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC
Former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo told CNBC on Monday that the social media company should give different sharing permissions to different types of accounts as a way to improve discourse on its platform. “You have to start treating all these accounts differently,” Costolo said... “You’ve got high authority accounts, like newspaper accounts … that may be allowed to tweet things that a user that just signed up yesterday and has zero followers shouldn’t.”... Twitter has recently shown a willingness to differentiate among accounts, announcing in June a new feature that would label tweets from influential government officials who violate its content policies instead of taking the posts down.
... Twitter and other social media companies such as Facebook have faced scrutiny over the way they regulate — or fail to regulate — content. Critics argue the companies should do more to crack down on discriminatory and offensive content. Others believe the platforms should not be restrictive, and some argue they should apply the free speech standards of the First Amendment, which applies to how government entities regulate speech, not publicly traded companies.
Twitter announces removal of thousands of accounts to fight against spread of disinformation
Author: NPR (US)
“Twitter Removes Thousands Of Accounts For Manipulating Its Platform”, 20 Sep 2019
… Twitter permanently suspended thousands of accounts in its ongoing effort to fight the spread of disinformation and political discord on its platform, the company announced… The Twitter accounts came from the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Ecuador and China... Groups of suspended accounts were involved in various information campaigns, using tactics like spreading content through fake accounts and spamming through retweets.
The accounts were suspended for violating Twitter's policy on platform manipulation, which Twitter defines as large-scale aggressive or deceptive activity that misleads or disrupts people's social media activity. Twitter has been suspending or removing accounts linked to this sort of activity throughout the year. In August, the company suspended around 200,000 accounts it reported were used to discredit pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong. So far, the companies' progress has been slow, said Nina Jankowicz, a global fellow at the Wilson Center's Kennan Institute in Washington, D.C. She said shutting down disinformation campaigns will take both tech-based solutions and educating people through digital literacy…
Twitter didn't just suspend or remove the accounts. The company also put many of them into an archive of millions of tweets the platform identified as part of "state-backed information operations."
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Commentary: Facebook should align its policies & practices with human rights norms
Author: Professor John Ruggie, The New York Times
"Should I quit Facebook? It's complicated," 28 Nov 2018
S. Matthew Liao... absolves Facebook of any responsibility for its role in the ethnic cleansing of the Muslim Rohingya population in largely Buddhist Myanmar. Hate speech and incitement to violence on Facebook helped drive this genocidal campaign. Mr. Liao reasons that “Facebook did not intend for those things to occur on its platform.” The problem with this “intentionality” standard is that press reports and direct appeals repeatedly warned Facebook, first about the risks and then the actual events. Under prevailing international human rights norms, knowingly continuing to allow the vitriol to be posted turns Facebook into a “contributor” to the heinous acts themselves.
... On Nov. 5, [Facebook] issued an independent human rights impact assessment of its role in Myanmar. In an accompanying blog, Alex Warofka, a Facebook policy product manager, stated that “we weren’t doing enough to help prevent our platform from being used to foment division and incite offline violence.” Facebook should now align its policies and practices with prevailing international human rights norms.
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Commentary: Do you have a moral duty to leave Facebook?
Author: S. Matthew Liao, The New York Times
From the perspective of one’s duties to others, the possibility of a duty to leave Facebook arises once one recognizes that Facebook has played a significant role in undermining democratic values around the world. For example, Facebook has been used to spread white supremacist propaganda and anti-Semitic messages in and outside the United States. The United Nations has blamed Facebook for the dissemination of hate speech against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar that resulted in their ethnic cleansing... [D]o we have an obligation to leave Facebook for others’ sake? The answer is a resounding yes for those who are intentionally spreading hate speech and fake news on Facebook. For those of us who do not engage in such objectionable behavior, it is helpful to consider whether Facebook has crossed certain moral “red lines"... Facebook would have crossed a moral red line if it had, for example... intentionally assisted in the dissemination of hate speech in Myanmar. But the evidence indicates that Facebook did not intend for those things to occur on its platform... we should not place the responsibility to uphold democratic values entirely on Facebook. As moral agents, we should also hold ourselves responsible for our conduct... For now I’m going to stay on Facebook. But if new information suggests that Facebook has crossed a moral red line, we will all have an obligation to opt out.
Professor John Ruggie calls upon Facebook to make significant changes to align its practices with the UNGPs & prevent it being used to incite violence
Author: John G. Ruggie, Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government
"Facebook in the rest of the world," 15 November 2018
On the eve of the recent closely watched US mid-term elections Facebook released a human rights impact assessment of its possible role in the ethnic cleansing of that country’s Muslim Rohingya population... A Facebook blog announcing the report states that “we weren’t doing enough to help prevent our platform from being used to foment division and incite offline violence.”... We find comparable Facebook involvement in murderous incitement and misinformation in other countries, including Egypt after the Arab spring, India, Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Ukraine... CEO Mark Zuckerberg [said] at a US Senate hearing on US electoral ‘meddling’: “it's clear now that we didn't do enough to prevent these tools from being used for harm.”... In the blog announcing the Myanmar report, Alex Worka, Policy Product Manager states: “We agree that we can and should have done more.”
... In committing to do more, Facebook has indicated that in future its practices will be “consistent with” the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights... [P]ersistent refusal to substantially change what the company does to reduce its role in others’ promotion of social strife and violence makes the attribution of ‘contribution’ inescapable. I welcome the steps Facebook has announced, including promising conduct consistent with the UN Guiding Principles. But much will have to change at the company, beginning with its business model.
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Commentary: Tech companies’ inability to control fake news exacerbates violent acts
Author: Jennifer Easterday & Hana Ivanhoe, OpenGlobalRights
The exponential growth of the ICT industry has had stark consequences in the form of human lives and livelihoods, usually of the world’s most vulnerable and marginalized populations—calling into question the industry’s “growth at all costs” approach to business... Social media is being weaponized by extremists and inadvertently utilized as a megaphone for amplifying hate speech by everyday people... [E]arlier this year, Sri Lanka again descended into violence as online rumors spurred deadly attacks by members of the Buddhist majority against Muslims... Over the course of three days in March, mobs burned mosques, Muslim homes, and Muslim-owned shops... In response, the government temporarily blocked social media, including Facebook and two other social media platforms Facebook owns, WhatsApp and Instagram.
... Despite repeated early warnings and flags of violent content, Facebook failed to delete offensive posts or take any sort of ameliorative action. It was only after Facebook’s services were blocked, officials said, that the company took notice. Even then, the company’s initial response was limited to the adoption of a voluntary internal policy whereby it would “downrank” false posts and work with third parties to identify posts for eventual removal... While there are a number of initiatives already in place to address human rights practices at ICT companies generally, some fairly robust company-specific CSR and human rights policies at leading ICT companies, and a couple IGO/NGO initiatives looking at best practices for corporate behavior in high-risk settings, we still lack a collaborative initiative tailored specifically to ICT companies doing business in high-risk settings.
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Response from Facebook
Author: Facebook
We are deeply disturbed by the violence that occurred in Sri Lanka this past March. We want to make sure that Facebook is a place where people can express themselves and connect with their friends, families, and communities, and we know this requires that our platform is a place where people feel safe. That’s why our Community Standards have clear rules against hate speech and content that incites violence, and we remove such content as soon as we’re made aware of it... Our approach to hate speech and incitement to violence—especially in conflict and post-conflict environments—has evolved over time and continues to change... . In Sri Lanka specifically, we’re actively building up teams that deal with reported content, working with civil society and government to better understand local context and challenges, and building out our technical capabilities so that we can more proactively address abusive content on Facebook. [[We’re also carrying out an independent human rights impact assessment of Facebook’s role in Sri Lanka to help inform our approach.]]... [W]e’re committed to having the right policies, products, people, and partnerships in place to help keep our community in Sri Lanka and around the world safe.
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Twitter does not permit hateful conduct, abuse, threats of violence, or targeted harassment on our service. These type of behaviors do not encourage free expression or foster open dialogue; they stifle them. As part of our overall health initiative, we are investing resources in personnel, policies, product, and operations to ensure we are promoting conversation and debate that is civic-minded, open, and healthy. We have brought on independent academics from Oxford and Leiden universities to hold our entire approach to account. However, this is not just a Twitter issue, it is a societal one... As our CEO Jack Dorsey stated in front of Congress in the U.S., serving the public conversation means disincentivizing abusive behaviors, removing automated attempts to deceive and promote disinformation at scale, and ensuring that when the public comes to our service, they gain a constructive, informed view of the world's conversation. We all have a part to play in this - we are committed to playing ours.
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Community policing is a collective effort between community and police that identifies problems in neighborhoods and searches for solutions to the problems. Based on member ties that are mutually beneficial, community policing can give law enforcement a way to re-energize communities. Developing strong communities is essential in creating a healthy atmosphere in which crime does not flourish.
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Community Police Officers are assigned to areas in Cabarrus County, which enables each Officer to build relationships in their assigned community. It also enables Officers to identify problems in individual neighborhoods by becoming familiar with crime trends and statistics and working with residents in each community to learn their concerns. Community Officers investigate certain crimes, such as property crime, in their assigned areas, to work with the residents in identifying unfamiliar vehicles and people. They work closely with the Criminal Investigations Division. Community Officers also work closely with the Crime Prevention Officer in identifying ways to be proactive by preventing crimes from occurring. Officers attend Neighborhood Watch meetings in communities on a regular basis. You may see Community Officers at many community and county special events, as an opportunity to get to know residents.
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Radio Cabin 94.6 FM nominated for Community Radio Award
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Herne Bay’s Local community radio station Radio Cabin 94.6 FM has been shortlisted in the annual national Community Radio Awards.
The station has made the shortlist, which was whittled down from more than 360 entries from 77 stations from every corner of the UK.
The station has been shortlisted in the Speech and Journalism category for their broadcast on the Opening of the Herne Centre.
Peter Jell, station manager, said: “We are delighted to have been recognised among a large number of other stations doing great work across the UK”.
Head of News and Sport at Radio Cabin 94.6 FM, Peter Guise added “It is very important for a local community radio station to bring important local community events to the forefront of its broadcasting. Being part of the community it serves and helping listeners be a part of it is the best way to promote the community. This was a fun piece to do for us, needing a variety of radio skills from a number of people, and underlines how far the station has come”.
Martin Steers, awards chair, said: "Now in their third year, the entries are getting better and better, and we’re really able to show off the diverse broadcasting that the countries stations undertake for the benefit of their communities. We wish Radio Cabin 94.6 FM good luck and can’t wait to host the ceremony in Sheffield in September”
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Chattanooga women roll into SoCon final
Mercer tops Samford to earn championship berth against Mocs
Chattanooga women roll into SoCon final Mercer tops Samford to earn championship berth against Mocs Check out this story on citizen-times.com: http://avlne.ws/2lInPfe
STAFF REPORT Published 4:05 p.m. ET March 3, 2017
Chattanooga's Jasmine Joyner, shown in a game during the 2016 SoCon Tournament, scored 19 points Friday as the Mocs defeated UNC Greensboro for a berth in the 2017 tournament championship game.(Photo: Colby Rabon/Citizen-Times)Buy Photo
ASHEVILLE – Chattanooga gets a day of rest as it prepares for its fifth consecutive appearance in the Southern Conference Women's Basketball Tournament championship game.
Not that the top-seeded Mocs were challenged in their first two games at U.S. Cellular Center.
Chattanooga (20-10) cruised to a 73-53 win against UNC Greensboro in the semifinals Friday, one day after opening the postseason with an 85-41 romp over Western Carolina.
The Mocs will face No. 2 seed Mercer in the championship game at 1 p.m. Sunday.
The Spartans (17-14) trailed by one point after the first quarter, but the Mocs took control from there and led by 16 after three quarters. UNCG never got closer than 13.
All-SoCon first-teamer Jasmine Joyner finished with 19 points, 10 rebounds and four blocks for Chattanooga, which will be seeking its fifth consecutive conference championship. Chelsey Shumpert had 18 points and Lakelyn Bouldin 16.
UNCG's Nadine Soliman, the SoCon freshman of the year, scored 26 points.
Mercer 63, Samford 52: Sydni Means scored 21 and SoCon player of the year Kahlia Lawrence 20 to lead the Bears into the tournament championship game.
Mercer (25-5) led by only two points heading into the fourth quarter but outscored the sixth-seeded Bulldogs 23-14 in the final period.
Lydia McGee scored 11 to lead Samford (12-19), which upset No. 3 seed East Tennessee State in the quarterfinals.
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DOUBLE WIN FOR LEXUS RC F GT3 TEAMS
Lexus RC F GT3 teams have won both races in the latest round of Europe's International GT Open series at Belgium's famous Spa-Francorchamps circuit.
Lexus has now won the first four races in the seven-round, 14-race series.
Spanish/Swiss pair Alberto Costa/Philipp Frommenwiler triumphed in hot, sunny conditions while German brothers Dominik and Mario Farnbacher were victorious a day later in a rain-affected race.
Across the border in Germany, a Lexus RC F GT3 (Iguchi Takuto/Gamo Naoyo/Yabuki Hisashi) finished second in class in the annual 24-Hour race on the full Nuerburgring Nordschleife circuit.
Surprisingly, Dominik Farnbacher was able to compete in both meetings, driving a couple of stints at The Ring before winning at Spa.
The Farnbacher brothers now lead the International GT Open Series by five points.
Costa led from pole position in the earlier race and, after a driver change, Frommenwiler emerged from the pits with a nine-second lead over his closest rivals in a BMW. He maintained that lead to the end.
The complexion of the second race at Spa changed dramatically when heavy rain struck the upper part of the 7km circuit after most of the driver changes and some crews chose to keep racing on dry weather tyres.
A late-race accident forced the deployment of the safety car and triggered an eight-minute sprint to the finish, with Andrea Fontana (Lamborghini) narrowly leading Dominik Farnbacher.
The two cars touched at the famed La Source hairpin, briefly allowing Piergiuseppe Perazzini (Ferrari) into the lead.
But Farnbacher fought back to win the race for Lexus.
The next round is at Circuit Paul Ricard in the south of France on June 10-11.
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Concordia Lutheran High School
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Blessings on your summer holiday that it is filled with peace and joy. My prayers are with our students traveling in, near, and far away from The Fort on service trips and family vacations. To those providing service with their church youth groups - thank you for making a difference in the lives of others. Concordia also has a number of students attending the LCMS National Youth Gathering in Minneapolis July 11-15. Enjoy and celebrate our Real. Present. God. with 20,000+ youth in this awesome event! Concordia is blessed by the partnership of churches and youth groups that provide support and love to our families.
Hello Concordia,
The excitement of the past school year also brings a reality that not everyone will be back on campus in August for the new school year. After the school year ended we learned that two of our beloved teachers are moving away from Concordia:
Mr. Chris Brune, World History Teacher and Assistant Football Coach, announced his Call acceptance to St. Peter’s Lutheran School (Fort Wayne). We are sad to see Mr. Brune depart from the classroom and hallways of Concordia Lutheran High School, but know with confidence, that he will be a blessing as Principal at St. Peters.
Mrs. Lizette Pierce, Spanish Teacher, will be moving back home to Arizona as her husband will become the athletic director at a high school near their hometown. Mrs. Pierce has brought tremendous joy and enthusiasm to our school community in her teaching style and love for all-things Concordia.
Thank you Mr. Brune and Mrs. Pierce for being servants and leaders to our students and families through your years of teaching and coaching at Concordia! God’s Peace be with you!
Concordia continues to be blessed by its alumni who desire and choose to serve in our school community. During his recent retirement speech to the Concordia faculty and staff, Mr. Chris Gieschen asked all of the CLHS Alumni in the group of teachers, staff, and their spouses to stand. Nearly 35% of the people stood. Tremendous commitment and hope for our school. This desire to be in the Concordia Community continues as 3½ of the five new teachers joining Concordia in August 2019, are graduates of Concordia Lutheran High School.
A few notes of news and new teacher introductions for the 2019-20 school year:
Schedule: Concordia will keep the same time schedule in 2019-20. Academic classes begin at 8:40 AM on A/B Days. Academic classes begin at 8:00 AM on C/D/E days. CLHS 2019-20 Student Schedules
Ms. Kim Nash is our new Guidance Department Director beginning July 1. Ms. Nash will continue to serve students H-M.
Ms. Stephanie Marks, has added Testing Coordinator, to her responsibilities in the Media Information Center and as Assistant Athletic Director. As Testing Coordinator, Ms. Marks will oversee AP, iStep, ASVAB, and other testing services Concordia administers.
Mrs. Vicki Ober, who has been the Guidance Department Director for many years, has retired from full-time employment at Concordia. Mrs. Ober will continue to serve part-time at Concordia through December 2019, advising us on Graduation Pathways and Advanced Placement (AP) developments that are ongoing. Mr. Michael Campbell will now serve students N-Z. Thank you Mrs. Ober for your service and leadership in our Guidance Department in your long-standing ministry at Concordia.
Band Teacher: Mrs. Jennifer (Reynolds) Porath is Concordia’s new Director of Bands. Mrs. Porath has been teaching instrumental band at Lutheran South HS and their elementary/middle schools in St. Louis, Missouri. Jennifer (Reynolds) Porath is a graduate from Concordia University Nebraska, and a 2012 graduate from our Concordia Lutheran High School.
Science Teachers: Mr. Brian Loesel and Mrs. Jenny (Keck) Wade are our two new Science Teachers for 2019-2020.
Mr. Brian Loesel comes to us from St. Charles, Missouri, via Concordia University Wisconsin where he completed is M.S in Education. Mr. Loesel also has a degree in Exercise and Movement Science from Missouri State University.
Mrs. Jenny (Keck) Wade is a 2006 CLHS Graduate, with a Bachelor of Science degree and a Master of Education degree, both from Kent State. Mrs. Wade most recently taught at St. Paul's Lutheran School in Fort Wayne.
Social Studies Teacher: Mr. Peter Hoffman is our new World History Teacher. Mr. Hoffman brings 25 years of teaching and ministry experience to Concordia. For the past seven years, Mr. Hoffman has been serving as an educator in Tunisia on the continent of Africa and return to Fort Wayne following their post. Mr. Hoffman’s wife, Brenda (Kiess) Hoffman, is a CLHS Graduate. Peter and Brenda were active through education and social ministry programs in Tunisia, a Muslim dominated culture.
Theology Teacher: Rev. Theodore Hoham is our newest Theology Teacher, having recently graduated from Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne. Rev Hoham is also a CLHS Graduate, who attended the US Army Academy at West Point, served as an officer in the US Army, and continues serving as a US Army Chaplain. Rev. Hoham is the husband of Concordia Teacher, Mrs. Lizzy Hoham.
Students and Parents, if you haven’t done so yet, you may view your Semester 2 Report Cards via Concordia’s OnCampus app. Please contact the school office if you need login assistance, or the course teacher if you have questions about a specific class.
Go Concordia!
Patrick Frerking
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Opioids Epidemic
Kevin Dietz, Reporter
Published: September 6, 2017, 10:00 pm
Tags: Opioid Addiction, Opioids Epidemic, Health
Former drug dealer warns parents about opioids
Former addict, drug dealer begs parents to pay attention to warning signs
Robert Bogues was one of those guys who supplies the people you love with the pills, pot and powder that destroys their lives.
He was a big-time drug dealer and now he is sharing his story in hopes of helping families steer clear of addictive drugs. Bogues has seen a great deal in his life so far.
"I’ve seen more kids die from this. They end up buying on the street, somewhere, now they’re paying $500 a week for their Vicodin supply, OxyContin -- whatever it is. Then somebody says, 'Hey you could save that money if you just do this amount of heroin,’ and then low and behold they get ahold of some Carfentanil -- dead," he said.
Bogues obliterated much of his life and the lives of so many others with drugs. He started first by using them and then he moved into selling them. He has learned many lessons along the way and is eager to share them with the parents he meets.
His first lesson: Pay attention to the early signs and put a stop to them.
"The kids are always gonna work, start working with what is out of mom and dad’s medicine chest or what they can get online," said Bogues.
He has been sober for five years and he is hoping to make up for past mistakes by trying to help save lives. This former dealer who faced addiction, prison, homelessness and almost daily danger on the streets selling drugs now is reduced to tears when he is face-to-face with parents of drug addicted children.
"Each parent introduced themselves, and you know how they lost their kids to drugs. And it is the first I’ve ever sat in front of parents like that," recalls Bogues. "They want to hear that I’m sorry because I represent the drug dealer that sold them the drugs at that point. But more than anything I want to understand the reality of drugs and addiction -- that their kids weren’t themselves.”
Bogues says he was not that different from other kids. He was looking to be popular in high school and when academics and athletics didn’t deliver the prestige, he found selling pot did.
"It was the power,” Bogues said. "Yeah, it was the popularity. I was the guy, I had the joints out in the parking lot. And it probably coincides with the actual paying for my own pot. It was more power.”
Many dealers start selling drugs in order to support their own addiction. It spirals quickly into big-time dealing. Bogues advanced pretty quickly selling cocaine, heroin and crystal meth. He witnessed it all but he says he hasn’t seen anything like the grip prescription pills has on our communities.
"I don’t know how many people I know that are hooked on Adderall but they believe because it’s prescribed that it’s OK," he said.
And according to Bogues, it was always easy to convince a pill addict to switch to heroin by simply pointing out it is cheaper and stronger. And because of this epidemic, Bogues said heroin is where serious drug dealers make their millions day after day.
His overall message is pretty simple: If you are addicted GET INTO RECOVERY TODAY.
Police, prevention, education, treatment and recovery. Bogues said we are failing in every category when it comes to opioid addiction. He said that has to change if America is going to survive this opioid epidemic.
MORE: Opioid Nation
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Farmington rethinks endorsement of Quebec to Massachusetts power line
In a letter, Gov. Paul LePage said four lawmakers who wrote to Massachusetts expressing their opposition to the New England Clean Energy Connect project "may now have to deal with reprimands."
By Rachel OhmStaff Writer
FARMINGTON — Town officials are rethinking their endorsement of the New England Clean Energy Connect project, a controversial plan to build a Quebec to Massachusetts transmission line that would run through western Maine, including through Farmington and other parts of Franklin County.
At the urging of Sen. Tom Saviello, R-Franklin County, the board of selectmen is doing more research into the project, which they endorsed at the request of Central Maine Power in July 2017.
Sen. Thomas Saviello, R-Franklin, discusses a bill before the Health and Human Services Committee on Feb. 23, 2016. Saviello urged the Farmington Board of Selectmen on Tuesday to do more research on the New England Clean Energy Connect project, a 145-mile power line Central Maine Power wants to build through western Maine to carry hydro produced electricity to Massachusetts. Staff file photo by Joe Phelan
Saviello, who spoke to the board Tuesday night, said CMP, the developer of the project in Maine, is not offering the same economic benefits that have accompanied proposals for the same transmission line through Vermont and New Hampshire.
“The thing that really concerns me is in Vermont the company that proposed this line proposed $312 million for economic development,” Saviello said. “In New Hampshire, the company that was turned down (by the state) proposed $200 million. CMP has proposed crickets — zero dollars. That really bothers me as a senator for this district.”
John Carroll, project manager for NECEC, said that bids on the transmission line submitted in New Hampshire and Vermont were more costly and would have caused more disruption in communities and on public land, requiring the companies behind those proposals to offer up more compensation to offset the impact.
“The difference in cost is entirely based on how thoughtful the three projects were,” Carroll said. “Our project was carefully cited to maximize the existing infrastructure and minimize community impact. That’s reflected in the cost.”
CMP has received letters of support from 37 of the 38 communities along the corridor, which includes about 145 miles of new line to be built between Beattie Township on the Quebec border and Lewiston, as well as about 50 miles of line to be rebuilt from Lewiston to Pownal. The only community CMP hasn’t contacted yet is New Sharon.
Response to the project has been mixed, with Republican Gov. Paul LePage expressing support for NECEC, while the Natural Resources Council of Maine has opposed the project because of environmental concerns.
Saviello’s discussion with Farmington leaders and those in other Franklin County communities that could be affected comes as the senator and other lawmakers have clashed with the governor over the project.
LePage this week wrote a letter in support of NECEC that was sent to Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker and Philippe Couillard, the premier of Quebec, in response to a letter Saviello and three others sent to the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities expressing opposition.
The lawmakers, a bi-partisan group of leaders for the committees on Environment and Natural Resources and Energy, Utilities and Technology, wrote in their letter they had a number of concerns, including the impact on Maine’s wildlife, forests and clean water.
But LePage, in his letter, said they gave the appearance there is wide-spread opposition to the project in the Maine Legislature.
“These four members represented only themselves and may now have to deal with reprimands for having suggested otherwise,” LePage wrote. “I, on the other hand, speak with the full authority of my office and believe that the NECEC will benefit all of us by bringing clean, Canadian hydroelectric power into our grid with minimal environmental or scenic impact in my State.”
In addition to Saviello, the lawmakers who sent the letter were Sen. David Woodsome, R-York County; Rep. Ralph Tucker, D-Brunswick; and Rep. Seth Berry, D-Bowdoinham.
“It was just written as four individual legislators who happened to be on two committees,” Tucker said. “It was very clear in the letter we were not proposing any legislation, we were just concerned. The only person who can reprimand us is the speaker of the House or the Senate president if we have abused our authority, which we have not.”
In the letter, the lawmakers criticized CMP’s promise that the project would bring jobs and tax revenue to Maine, saying an economic study by the company was inflated to inaccurately project the benefits the state would see.
“We understand and appreciate that Central Maine Power has done significant outreach to local municipalities within the project corridor,” the letter said. “However, this outreach appears to have been conducted in revenue-starved municipalities and support for the project may be based solely on the idea that this is the only option available to them. We disagree.”
It also mentioned that CMP has not offered benefits on the same scale as the two proposals in Vermont and New Hampshire, which were also considered by Massachusetts as it sought a developer to bring a line down from Quebec.
A final concern raised in the letter stated the transmission line could suppress future development of renewable energy in Maine in part due to increased congestion on the transmission system.
Richard Davis, Farmington town manager, said selectmen raised few concerns about the project last July. In Farmington, unlike some other areas the transmission line would pass through, the project would only require a widening of the existing power line corridor, not cutting a new corridor. In addition, CMP has also said the line will add to the tax base and generate additional tax revenue for the town.
Right now Davis said selectmen are in a “wait and see mode” and will do more research on the project before officially considering revoking their endorsement.
“Certainly (more economic benefits) would be helpful,” Davis said. “But I think maybe the larger issue is what are the environmental ramifications of this project and why aren’t the people of Maine going to benefit from reduced electrical costs?”
The project is expected to generate about $60 million a year in net income for CMP’s parent company, Avangrid. In order for it to get approval, Maine regulators must find that NECEC will benefit Maine residents.
None of the electricity will be sold in Maine and the nature of the line restricts in-state generators such as wind or solar farms from connecting, but CMP has said the project could save Maine ratepayers about $40 million a year by lowering wholesale electricity costs in New England.
The company has also said the line will generate about $18 million a year in new tax revenue along the corridor and will create almost 1,700 direct and indirect jobs during construction.
“I would hope that before they change their minds we would go back and visit with them,” Carroll said. “We like to think we’ve been a long-time partner with all of these communities, and we would want to speak to them to understand their reservations rather than just have them change their position on the project.”
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Why Maple Syrup Is Controversial, Plus Other Debates in the Food Industry
Mandi Kerr
Food is a topic on which everyone has an opinion. But some foods and food practices are more controversial than others. In some cases, debates go on for years, even decades. Discover some of the biggest controversies in the food industry, ahead.
People are stealing maple syrup
Canadians are serious about their maple syrup. | Creighton359/iStock/Getty Images
Maple syrup is a major source of conflict in Canada. “Barrel rollers” sell syrup on the black market while farmers have the government watching their every move in the syrup making process, according to Eater. The Netflix series, Dirty Money, highlights the ongoing controversy.
Hint: Three letters on a bag of food is controversial.
There are mixed messages about GMOs. | Robyn Beck/Getty Images
GMOs, or genetically modified organisms, are a major source of conflict in the food industry. Non-GMO labels are on many items in grocery stores. And brands, such as Chipotle and Trader Joe’s, have stopped selling products containing GMOs, according to Slate. But there are a lot of mixed messages and people may not know as much about GMOs as they think.
Hint: A small company took on a food industry giant, and won.
Just Mayo vs. Big Egg
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Just Mayo, a vegan spread, that is in fact not mayonnaise by the government’s definition, came under fire for its label, according to The Washington Post. The largest condiment company in the world, Big Egg, threatened the company with a lawsuit and later dropped it. After a yearlong dispute, Just Mayo can keep the name, “Just Mayo” so long as the label says the product doesn’t contain eggs.
Hint: These two brands are always at war.
Coke vs. Pepsi
Many people are loyal to one brand. | Joe Raedle/Getty Images
One of the most divisive questions is “Coke or Pepsi?” An individual will almost always have an answer right away, being loyal to one brand over the other. In the last decade, Coke’s market share has grown more than Pepsi, according to CNN. But in individual categories, Pepsi takes the top spot.
Hint: This ingredient in food is becoming public enemy no. 1.
People love to debate about gluten. | Timmary/iStock/Getty Images
More and more people are reaching for gluten-free foods. But there’s an ongoing debate about whether gluten is bad for you. For those who are intolerant to gluten, they have to buy gluten-free products. But for everyone else, abstaining from gluten may not be necessary.
Hint: Where you put this condiment on your plate is controversial.
Ketchup on fries
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How you choose to eat french fries is another controversy in the food industry. Covering fries in ketchup is considered by some to be wrong. The more socially acceptable method is to individually dip fries in ketchup that’s on the side of your plate.
Hint: Eating this type of pizza may get you ridiculed.
Deep-dish pizza
Should it be considered pizza? | Bhofack2/iStock/Getty Images
No matter how you like to eat pizza — folded to resemble a taco, or dare we say, with utensils — deep-dish pizza is one type of pie that gets a lot of criticism. “As I have said often…I really like deep dish…just hate that they call it pizza,” Michael Symon, Food Network chef and co-host of ABC’s The Chew, tweeted.
Read more: Things You Should Always Buy at Aldi Besides Cheap Food
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Get in the holiday spirit with these 10 Christmas activities in Chicago
By Adam Lukach
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Dec 14, 2017 | 9:55 AM
Christmas Around the World at The Museum of Science and Industry. (Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune)
Nothing dresses up Chicago like the holiday season. Lights twinkle from the trees, wreaths hang from doorways and decorations make windows festive. The holidays are a perfect time to spread love and loosen up before another year, so we’ve rounded up some of our favorite holiday-related activities, Christmas or otherwise, that are sure to put you in the spirit.
Happy’s holiday pop-up bar at Chicago Athletic Association
12 S. Michigan Ave. 312-940-3552
If you’re heading to Millennium Park to check out the Christmas tree or enjoy a little ice skating action, the Chicago Athletic Association has a holiday-themed bar right across the street where you can grab a beverage before or after your rendezvous. The yuletide pop-up bar is called Happy’s, featuring a seasonal drink menu from mixologist and beverage director Paul McGee as well as fun programs, including DJ nights and other live music, karaoke and trivia. 5 p.m. to midnight Fridays and Saturdays, noon to 5 p.m. Sundays through Dec. 30. chicagoathletichotel.com
Hot Chocolate Bar at 20 East
20 E. Delaware Place 312-397-3633
During brunch hours throughout the month of December, 20 East is serving up a hot chocolate bar where guests can create their version of the classic winter drink. For $6, you can grab a mug and top it off with other sweets like marshmallows, whipped cream, different chocolate items, graham crackers, candy canes and more. And, for $10, you can make your hot chocolate a boozy one. So, if you’re out on the weekend and you’re cold, look no further for a way to warm up. 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays through December. 20eastchicago.com
Christmas Around the World at MSI
Museum of Science and Industry, 5700 S. Lake Shore Drive 773-684-1414
Everyone’s got their own holiday traditions, and every year, the Museum of Science and Industry celebrates everyone’s traditions, and we mean everyone. MSI’s annual holiday display is titled Christmas Around World, an exploration of cultural holiday traditions from all around the globe, from Austria to China to Guatemala. And, if you thought the tree in Millennium Park was tall, MSI’s holiday foliage stands four-stories tall, running from the floor to its domed ceiling. The weekends feature a diverse collection of live cultural performances as well. Open 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily except for Christmas; holiday hours 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Dec. 2-3, Dec. 9-10, Dec. 16-23 and Dec. 26-30. Tickets: $11-$18. msichicago.org
Curling and cocktails at Upstairs at the Gwen
521 N. Rush St. 312-645-1500
You’ve seen curling on TV, and maybe you’ve even wanted to try your hand at some furious, broom-powered rock racing. Thanks to the Gwen, you can. Up on their Upstairs rooftop bar, a tidy little curling rink is waiting for you and your friends to test your skills at the icey game, although this rink isn’t technically made of ice. You can curl with a winter cocktail too — maybe not at the same time — as the Gwen includes one beverage in the cost of your curling ticket. Seasonal selections include sugar and spice mulled wine and Gwengow rum punch. 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily (weather permitting) through March. Tickets: $25 for 30-minute session, which includes one cocktail. thegwenchicago.com/curling
Seasonal beers at Moody Tongue
2136 S. Peoria St., 312-600-5111
In the mood for a winter brew? Head over to the taproom of local sudsmasters Moody Tongue to find a special menu of seasonal beers, including heavy cold-weather options like a Bourbon Barrel-Aged Gingerbread imperial stout and a Bourbon Barrel-Aged 12 Layer Cake imperial stout, or something lighter like the Shaved Black Truffle Pilsner, actually brewed with the hand-shaved Australian truffles. Hours vary daily, closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays. moodytongue.com
Ugly Sweater Party at Howl at the Moon
26 W. Hubbard St. 312-863-7427
Break out your ugliest holiday sweater and head to Howl at the Moon for its annual Ugly Sweater Party, which is pretty self-explanatory. Your holiday sweater gets you free admission, and it could also win you $100: the evening features an ugliest sweater competition with the aforementioned prize going to the winner. Sweatered or not, everyone can find Leinenkugel’s seasonal selections, cinnamon toast shots and 86-ounce “buckets of cheer” (Three Olives cherry vodka, raspberry schnapps, melon liqueur, lemon lime and cranberry) for $25. Santa will also be on-hand for photo opps. 5 p.m. Dec. 15. howlatthemoon.com
ZooLights at Lincoln Park Zoo
2001 N. Clark St. 312-742-2000
Lincoln Park Zoo helps everyone get into the holiday spirit, animals included, with its ZooLights celebration. The zoo strings holiday lights through practically every inch of its space, creating a festive, dazzling display. They get plenty of mileage out of the setup, too, with a variety of events that are both family-friendly and fit for the older crowds, including a light maze, light shows, ice-sculpture carving, arts and crafts and, of course, spiced wines and frosty brew. 4:30 to 9 p.m. daily through Dec. 23, and from Dec. 26 to Jan. 7. Free entry; food and drink available at extra cost. lpzoo.org
Annual Christmas Tree at Millennium Park
Wrigley Square at Michigan Avenue and Randolph Street
You put your tree on display in your living room; Chicago plops its Christmas greenery in Millennium Park, which is pretty much like the city’s living room, right? Chicago decks out a towering tree every year, and this year’s — the city’s 104th annual edition — is a 62-foot-tall Norway spruce with a 37-foot base donated by Illinois resident Darlene Dorfler. The towering luminary shimmers in top-to-bottom blue light and is honestly quite a sight. One annoyance? It is difficult to fit it all into one Instagram frame. Open 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily, tree on display through Jan. 4. cityofchicago.org
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Holiday Lights Tour from Chicago Trolley and Double Decker
Hancock Building, 875 N. Michigan Ave.
Chicago’s downtown holiday lights are lovely, but let’s face it: No one wants to have to walk through the cold to see them all. That’s where the trolley comes in. You can brave the weather and take everything from the top deck, or stay inside on the lower level on Chicago Trolley and Double Decker’s Holiday Lights Tour. The 2.5-hour tour also makes stops at Christkindlmarket and ZooLights, so you can sample multiple spirited traditions all in one ride. This is not a “hop-on, hop-off” tour, though, so be ready to sit tight when the trolley isn’t making a planned stop. 5:30, 6 and 6:30 p.m. through Dec. 23. Tickets: $18-$29, chicagotrolley.com
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‘The Nutcracker’ at Joffrey Ballet
10 E. Randolph St. 312-739-0120
The world-renowned Joffrey Ballet introduced a new version of its annual “Nutcracker” production — one helmed by Christopher Wheeldon, 2015 Tony Award winner for choreography — that cast old-world Chicago as the primary setting: It’s 1893, and the World’s Fair is in town. Wheeldon’s version tells the story of a sculptress creating the fair's iconic Statue of the Republic, her daughter and the surprises that happen when they host a holiday party. Dates vary; 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. through Dec. 30. Tickets: $35-$165. joffrey.org
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The Crown Season 3 Has Found Its Princess Anne
As fans are likely well aware, The Crown is set to undergo some dramatic casting changes when the highly-acclaimed series returns for its third season. With the show set to jump forward quite a few years into the future, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip's daughter Anne will have aged significantly. Set to take on the age-progressed role is newcomer Erin Doherty.
Princess Anne is the latest member of the royal family to be recast. The next season has already meant changing out the actors who portray Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip, and Princess Margaret. Other members of the royal family are set to follow. Reported by THR, the casting of Erin Doherty means that the actress is the latest to join the updated ensemble. For her part, Doherty joins what should end up being an entirely new cast for The Crown.
Are you wondering where you may have seen Erin Doherty before? The actress is a relative newcomer, whose life is definitely about to change as she joins the cast of one television's most talked-about dramas. Doherty has landed the role with what IMDB indicates are two credits.
Erin Doherty's casting on The Crown comes on the heels of starring in one episode of Call the Midwife as Jessie Marsh. She will also play Fabienne in the upcoming miniseries adaptation of Les Misérables. The miniseries will also star Olivia Colman, who has been cast to play Queen Elizabeth II in The Crown Season 3. A connection!
Still left to officially cast are the roles of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip's three other children, Prince Charles, Prince Andrew, and Prince Edward. Despite an earlier report by the Daily Mail stating that The Durells' Josh O'Conner had been cast in the role of Prince Charles, there has been no official confirmation. Fans of The Crown will just have to stay tuned.
It will be interesting to see how fans react to so many new cast members taking on roles; they are so familiar with other actors playing at this point. In a way, it makes The Crown a bit of an anthology in that so much will be changing. The characters will remain the same however with the cast as the only revolving aspect. With Erin Doherty being the first adult to take on the role of Princess Anne, she will be viewers' first impression of the royal couple's daughter.
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Citi cut £900m from technology costs
Bank says it is ‘on target’ for $3bn IT and operational savings
By Leo King
Computerworld UK
Citi has eliminated $1.42 billion (£904 million) from technology and communications costs over eighteen months, through dramatic changes to servers and storage, better system integration and processes, and the elimination of legacy software.
Don Callahan, Citi’s chief administrative administrative officer who reports to CEO Vikram Pandit, told CIO sister title Computerworld UK that the bank was moving forcefully to hit targets of slashing $3 billion from operational and technology costs by 2011. Plans were drawn up in May 2008, and cost reductions began to notice on the balance sheet at the start of last year.
The bank, until a few years ago one of the world’s largest with $25 billion annual profits, has had a troubled recent history with subprime mortgages, and recorded a $1.6 billion loss for the year to 31 December. Supported by US taxpayer money in the wake of the financial crisis, it paid $20 billion back to the US government last year, contributing to a loss of $7.6 billion for the final quarter.
Callahan said that efficiency in operations and technology (O&T) was now “critical” to “the company’s efforts to get fit.” The technology targets represent around a fifth of overall cost cutting at the bank.
Citi was “well ahead of schedule” with the O&T savings, he said. “We intend to be one of the most efficient operators in our industry, and we have made and continue to make significant progress against that goal”.
The bank had developed a “complex” IT setup by its own admissions, a result of the way it evolved into a mass of different businesses through acquisitions.
Callahan said that over recent months the “better” prioritisation of systems and processes, as well as the removal of redundant technology, were key steps in transforming Citi’s IT operations. A focus on “working smarter” and integrating processes and systems was driving the change, he said, adding that “there is still much work to do”.
The bank has been focusing on increasing “server, mainframe and storage utilisation”. Alongside this, it is consolidating its datacentres and making better use of facilities, and reducing the array of applications it uses.
Processes are being standardised in a number of functions and regions, “where it makes sense to do so”. There is also extensive work to improve hardware efficiency and system integration, and the bank sees that putting its various credit card businesses on a single IT software platform is a “high priority”. It has also started work to standardise on a single platform for its banking services.
Around half of the £904 million savings so far are attributable to technology and facilities transformational work, and a quarter to the sale of Citi’s Germany and Smith Barney businesses. This week, Barclays agreed to acquire Citi’s Italian credit card business.
But large scale redundancies have also contributed to the massive cost cuts. The 265,000 staff working across the group now represents some 58,000 fewer than a year ago. These steps and other “management decisions” represented a quarter of the operational cost cuts.
Callahan insisted Citi is “working to maintain service levels” across its business, during all the changes taking place. As the bank presses ahead with tough cost cutting, he said the technology changes were playing a vital part in its “stabilisation”.
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The CIO’s next role: Business co-creator
CIOs are increasingly working with business peers and third parties to develop new digital products and services, a major theme at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium in May.
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CIOs long ago shed their perception as order-taking technologists to those with a seat at the executive table, a badge of honor that underscores their arrival as trusted business partners. But to retain this elevated status in an era when businesses are increasingly leaning into digital capabilities, today’s IT leaders must now co-create new products and services for customers.
That may sound daunting for CIOs, many of whom are modernizing IT systems and spearheading digital transformations. But consider that CIOs are best positioned among their C-suite peers to co-create with business partners. Design thinking, agile practices, an increasing emphasis on learning about customers’ needs — IT leaders are uniquely steeped in what drives business strategy.
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While many consider this phenomenon IT-business alignment, co-evolution may be a better metaphor. Borrowed from biology, co-evolution encompasses organic synergies among IT and business, as well as with partners and the broader ecosystems at work in a sector, said Joe Peppard, principal research scientist of MIT’s Sloan Center for Information Systems Research, at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium in Cambridge, Mass., in May.
“In the past, business defined how to solve a problem and looked to IT to solve it,” said Belkis Vasquez-McCall, a partner at McKinsey Digital, at the Symposium. “Now IT executives are co-defining the problem and leading the evolution around defining a solution. We have to come together to participate in the new economy.”
Co-evolution morphs into co-creation, cementing the role of IT leadership as critical, agreed CIOs participating in an array of strategy-oriented panels at the Symposium.
Reaching across the aisle
At Mercer, a Marsh & McLennan subsidiary that provides technology and advisory services for health, wealth and career professionals, IT staffers are empowered to take initiative. For instance, one tech lead alerted Chief Digital Officer Gail Evans to the fact that a certain data connector, properly applied, could save the company $800,000. Evans, who revamped Mercer’s operating model around open source technology, APIs and microservices, has appointed staffers to serve as business relationship managers (BREs) — liaisons between IT and the business.
Mercer, which conducts monthly portfolio reviews and pores over KPIs to refine strategy, also created a “digital playbook.” One fruit of its digital initiatives includes Warren, a virtual assistant that Mercer consultants can query for facts about their clients. Ultimately, Evans said that all of her work is geared toward serving clients, solving stakeholder problems, and driving revenue and profitability.
“We can’t do tech drive-bys,” said Evans, adding that 23,000 employees rely on leadership to grow the company. “We must be a bit ahead of our business partners. The worse place you can be is your business wants to go to digital and you are just starting."
Evans emphasizes cultivating knowledge about the business objective and learning about client and customer needs from the outside in. While tech expertise is table stakes, co-creators must also be aware of what the competition is doing, quickly assess market opportunities and threats and figure out how to disrupt — or risk being disrupted. A good co-creator defines what it means to win while inspiring colleagues to get ready for change.
"Tech will change often and you have to keep your skill, but I am most proud about how colleagues have embraced changes, asked questions, and behaved differently," Evans says.
Co-locating to co-create
Dick’s Sporting Goods CTO Paul Gaffney and his business peers co-create solutions that strengthen connections between the retail chain’s store associates and customers. To do this, Gaffney co-locates IT and business leaders for agile development and product management, leveraging design thinking to create services employees and customers will enjoy.
“When they’re all together in the same place, that yields the highest probability of the best results,” Gaffney said. For feedback, Dick’s also got store associates and customers in a room to test new solutions.
Sometimes creating those solutions invites tension between IT and the business, but resolving conflicts is essential for serving the customer. Moreover, “inflicting” poor solutions on associates impacts their ability to make the customer happy, Gaffney said at the MIT event.
“You can't expect them to deliver happiness if we give them tools they hate,” Gaffney said. “If anything we do is not in service of front-line humans, it prevents us from being future-ready.”
For others embarking on a co-creation journey, Gaffney recommends checking your ego at the door.
“A leadership team is most effective when they are less concerned about being right,” Gaffney said. It’s also critical for IT leaders to be able to change the language they use depending on whom they are talking to. For example, a CIO or CTO might need to alter the way they explain “this is what it could be, or here are the mechanism to do this” depending on whether they are speaking to a CEO, CFO or COO.
And keep programming and learning. Every six months Gaffney devotes a few days to building new software. “If I don't do it, I would lose touch with exponential change,” Gaffney says.
Co-creation with partner organizations
Co-creation with the business isn’t happening within bubble of an MIT conference. One high-profile co-creation example emerged out of Mastercard earlier this year, when the company partnered with Apple and Goldman Sachs on Apple Card, a digital credit card built into the Apple Wallet on the iPhone, Jorn Lambert, executive vice president of digital solutions, told CIO.com in a May interview. Consumers can register for Apple Card directly on the device without filling out paperwork.
To launch such a service, Mastercard relies on a device, an OS, an application, a browser and several other components whose core competency lies with Apple. Apple meanwhile doesn’t operate a global payments network at scale, which is Mastercard’s bailiwick.
Lambert says the effort, which includes critical API connections between the three partners’ platforms, reflects Mastercard’s willingness to partner with companies to create the best products.
“Co-creation with the right partners to set a new standard or benchmark is crucial,” Lambert says. “We need to make sure to recognize trends, lean into them and make the right choices.
Keeping ahead of the curve
Funneling data to a single source of truth, ostensibly to cultivate better business insights, is another common co-creation initiative.
At Pure Storage, CIO Cathy Southwick is working with her business constituents on a unified data platform. Pure business units historically operated their own IT services, racked up several data siloes in the process. Southwick, who had experiences streamlining processes in her more than 22 years in various IT leadership roles at AT&T, is securing commitments to generate a standard way of looking at data.
Southwick aims to “bring some of [operational] discipline,” which she says will help Pure Storage see what's coming around the corner and predict business trends, as well as future opportunities for growth. “Co-creation is important,” Southwick says. “Until IT has that relationship with the business, the question of relevancy is always a factor.”
While IT leaders are pursuing initiatives with the best of intentions, they also recognize that bureaucracy has a habit of stifling progress.
Or as George Westerman, senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, noted at the Symposium, “As fast as technology changes, IT organizations change much more slowly.”
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“The climax is unflinching, perectly set up and extremely moving. The suffering of the world, and the light of the world, are beautifully entwined in this book.”
“A biracial love story in Upper Canada in the 1830s might not normally attract B.C. readers, but take it from me: There’s a wealth of understanding and thoughtfulness here, as well as crystalline prose.”
— Vancouver Sun
“Oonagh is a sensitively written novel by a storyteller with a tale to tell … As good as historical fiction can be, Oonagh is, like Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes, a welcome contriution when Black History Month rolls around again.”
— The Sun Times
“Fact is interwoven so well into the more whimsical elements that it all reads seamlessly.”
“A compelling tale … From the opening chapter to the heartbreaking conclusion, the story moves with wonderful pace, never pausing to take a breath. This is one of those rare books that effortlessly transports the reader – sights, sounds, smells and all – to an important time in the history of Canada.”
— Herizons
“Mary Tilberg powerfully imagines a story for a remarkable couple who are mentioned in passing by Susanna Moodie, but otherwise completely forgotten — till now. As an act of narrative resurrection, Oonagh is both gripping and moving.”
— Steven Heighton, author of The Shadow Boxer
“Beautifully written by this masterful storyteller, Oonagh draws us into a story of race and class, joy and sorrow, fear and newfound freedom writ large. The tale of Chauncey Taylor’s flight to freedom, his success in his barbering business in Upper Canada, and his love for his sharp-tongued Irish lass are painted with a fine hand, as are the underlying tensions of race and class that threaten their union.”
—Karolyn Smardz Frost, author of I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land
In 1831, eighteen-year-old Oonagh Corcoran emigrates with her sister from southern Ireland to Upper Canada. In the deep folds of cool, green forest off the vast inland sea of Lake Ontario, she believes she has found paradise — only to discover that the New World harbours its own horrible injustices when she meets a fugitive slave from Virginia named Chauncey Taylor. Love grows between them as Chauncey slowly reveals his terrible past to Oonagh, reliving the pain and tragedy he and his family suffered as slaves. The two find that even in their small, accepting community, there are certain lines that can never be crossed.
Based on historical research, Oonagh is both a powerful love story and a gripping tale that reaches deep into the secret heart of our nation’s past.
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The Last Days of Born Again History
by Saul Landau
In my neighborhood of trimmed lawns and two or more car garages, with one or two more vehicles parked outside the garage, I counted fifteen American flags in less than five minutes of my slow trot, most of them new since the US invaded Iraq. One house had a sign with a US flag waving over a map of Iraq. Americans learn geography through war, experience the traumas of battle-well, virtually-and root for the good guys. We know we’re good because God blesses America and f..s our enemies-with the help of the missiles, bombs, tanks and other war technology with which He has blessed us. Our God loves peace and keeps us, as Gore Vidal quipped, in “perpetual war.” Our God does not like opposition, from within, or from our former friends abroad. He has told our leaders, all of whom remain in close contact with Him, to punish such heretic behavior.
Our God is one of love and compassion, although he seems to act out of rage and retribution. But some of the media, particularly Fox and CNN, seem to have found hidden in FCC regulations some clause that dictates that their major news reporting task is to follow the orders of our God-chosen political leaders-since the majority did not choose them. Former officers, like Lt. Col. Oliver North who, in violation of the law, conspired to sell missiles to Iran in the 1980s in order to fund the Nicaraguan Contras-another violation of the law-now appear as honored war experts and cheerleaders for our troops .
On April 6, before I jogged through my neighborhood, I watched TV images of bombs and artillery shells decimating Iraq, Iraqi women and children pleading for water. One scene even showed a full hospital without running water, so the doctor could not mix plaster with which to make a cast for a small boy’s broken arm.
On line I saw more horrific images from non-US sources, including Agence France Presse. Mutilated bodies of children and weeping adults holding their dead kids! Liberating Iraq! Yes, death is the ultimate liberation!
Bush has set forth “a worldview that is intrinsically paranoid,” writes philosopher Francois Bernard in the March 31 Ha’aretz, “imbued with visions of the most regressive Crusades, drenched in a frightening symbolism that sees any external opposition as evidence of crime and in which every decision and every action bear the seal of a vengeful divinity.” Since 9/11/01-was this the work of the Devil?-God has emerged as the dominant force in US politics. This God preaches democracy, although its meaning has yet to become clear. It has something to do with good, the United States, the United Kingdom and other members of the coalition of the willing, versus the axes of evil and their tacit partners in malice.
Our God teaches us that shopping and going to Disneyland constitute the highest spiritual values-outside of attending church once a week. Our God has singled us out among all peoples, even though we came from all peoples, as His chosen elite to reside in His promised land. After all, the Puritans of Massachusetts Bay believed in that very ethos as did the first slave owners in the South. Since God had sent them to this land without first providing them with knowledge of farming, He must have meant for them to acquire slaves to do their work. How else could they remain free to think noble thoughts, engage in carefree sexual adventures with their more comely servants and copse patriotic songs, like Dixie? Yes, tradition vibrates strongly in this land of ever newly arriving immigrants.
Well-dressed people pour out of churches, get in their SUVs and drive to their $400,000 plus homes. Some will watch sports on TV, others will tune in to the presstitutes, as Uri Avnery calls them, who report on the war in Iraq. “Their original sin,” he says, “was their agreement to be ’embedded’ in army units. This American term sounds like being put to bed, and that is what it amounts to in practice. A journalist who lies down in the bed of an army unit becomes a voluntary slave. He is attached to the commander’s staff, led to the places the commander is interested in, sees what the commander wants him or her to see, is turned away from the places the commanders does not want him to see, hears what the my wants him to hear and does not hear what the army does not want him to hear. He is worse than an official army spokesman, because he pretends to be an independent reporter. The problem is not that he only sees a small piece of the grand mosaic of the war, but that he transmits a mendacious view of that piece.”
The rosy reports on the “news” of the virtuous coalition troops’ steady triumph over the unfair-fighting forces of evil give several residents of my suburban neighborhood reason to feel righteous, if not downright pious in their support of the Bush Administration’s policy. Those Bush supporters I have spoken to see no relationship between their comfortable life styles and the devastation the US military has inflicted in Iraq. “Now we’re even for what they did to us,” said a sales manager at a local hotel chain. He referred to 9/11, as if Saddam Hussein and the Iraqis had actually done those foul deeds. “They’re not going to try that one again,” he said smugly. Almost half of Americans polled blame Saddam for 9/11-thanks to President Bush’s constant references to “his links” to terrorists, reported without critical comment by the media.
Most Americans don’t have access through TV news or the daily print press of critical reporting coming out of Iraq. On April 8, Robert Fisk of the Independent filed this report:
“It looks very neat on television, the American marines on the banks of the Tigris, the all-so-funny visit to the presidential palace, the videotape of Saddam Hussein’s golden loo. But the innocent are bleeding and screaming with pain to bring us our exciting television pictures and to provide Messrs Bush and Blair with their boastful talk of victory. I watched two-and-a-half-year-old Ali Najour lying in agony on the bed, his clothes soaked with blood, a tube through his nose.”
Ignorant of and therefore oblivious to Iraqi pain, one would think the suburbanites would at least respond to their state’s fiscal crisis. How much will they have to pay if Bush actually tries to realize his post-war reconstruction plans for Iraq? Californians, already faced with a $35 billion state deficit, look forward to paying heavier state and local taxes to make up for the shortfall from the federal government’s yearly allocation to the states. They do not seem to worry about additional costs for rebuilding Iraq. When I mention the tax-cut for the very wealthy, their eyes glaze over.
I have also met the programmed “born-agains,” those who believe robot-like that what they view on TV as current history is the working out of biblical prophecy. One woman mentioned the battles of Gog and Magog that must precede the final reckoning. She identifies “100% with our President.” He, unlike the lascivious Bill Clinton, “is a true Christian.” Most of the neighbors with whom I spoke said that the bloodshed had upset them, but “that’s the price we have to pay for security,” one man said as he pruned his roses.
In Iraq, the born-again Christians work with the US military. Meg Laughlin in the April 5 Miami Herald quoted Evangelical Christian Army chaplain Josh Llano. “They want water. I have it, as long as they agree to get baptized,” he said. “In so many ways,” write Laughlin, “this represents the true mindset of the individuals who have pushed this war. It is right down the line with the actions of this administration over the past three years; recall that, when our airmen were being held in China back in 2001, Mr. Bush was only concerned with whether or not they had Bibles.”
Nothing in the fundamentalist theology seems to inhibit consumption, however. These God-fearing people buy gas-guzzling vehicles, pay Mexicans to mow their lawns and drop chemicals into their swimming pools and take periodic vacations in Las Vegas-where God does not always bless them. In church, they listen to the pious sermons about what being a Christian means in daily life. But their interpretation of the Bible does not sensitize them to the pain of the Iraqis. I notice a satisfied, almost smug smile on the faces of the men as they announce their support for the president and his war like policies. They repeat Bush’s lines about the need to get rid of Saddam’s “weapons of mass destruction” and “we had to act because the UN is worthless” arguments.
My neighbors have problems, like all people. Their suburban-reared kids often drink and then drive, use drugs and get caught or fail to make college-level grades. But many of the parents themselves also tend to use addictive substances and then go into religious programs to recover-or get divorced, go bankrupt and even commit suicide. Those I spoke with consider themselves good people, kind, charitable. Like many suburban families, my neighbors spend parts of their weekends on shopping expeditions for lawn, garden, patio and pool supplies, home furniture, kitchen needs and of course clothing. Most of them cannot quite understand why some people would protest a war against a brute like Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
“Those hedonistic terrorists are getting what they deserve,” opined one older neighbor with a prominently displayed flag on her lawn. She had just returned from her Baptist church service where she prayed for President Bush to prevail. Later she will take advantage of a sale to buy her grandchildren some new back packs for their school backs. “Lord knows, they sure get plenty of use.” I nod. She says: “God bless you!”
In Iraq, Saddam invokes God as well. Alive or dead, his words continue to call on his people to resist in the name of the Muslim homeland and Allah. That God has lost this war. Or maybe just this battle for Iraq in the last days of born-again history?
SAUL LANDAU’s film IRAQ: VOICES FROM THE STREETS is distributed by Cinema Guild, 800-723-5522. Find him on the web at www.rprogreso.com He teaches at Cal Poly Pomona University and is a fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies. He can be reached at: landau@counterpunch.org
More articles by:Saul Landau
SAUL LANDAU’s A BUSH AND BOTOX WORLD was published by CounterPunch / AK Press.
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No, Mister, You Can’t Share My Pain
by John Maxwell
If you shared my pain you would not continue to make me suffer, to torture me, to deny me my dignity and my rights, especially my rights to self-determination and self-expression.
Six years ago you sent your Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to perform an action illegal under the laws of your country, my country and of the international community of nations.
It was an act so outrageous, so bestially vile and wicked that your journalists and news agencies, your diplomats and politicians to this day cannot bring themselves to truthfully describe or own up to the crime that was committed when US Ambassador James Foley, a career diplomat, arrived at the house of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide with a bunch of CIA thugs and US Marines to kidnap the president of Haiti and his wife.
The Aristides were stowed aboard a CIA plane normally used for ‘renditions’ of suspected terrorists to the worldwide US gulag of dungeons and torture chambers.
The plane, on which the Aristides are listed as “cargo”, flew to Antigua – an hour away – and remained on the ground in Antigua while Colin Powell’s State Department and the CIA tried to blackmail and bribe various African countries to accept (“give asylum to”) the kidnapped president and his wife.
The Central African Republic – one of George W Bush’s ‘Dark Corners of the World’ – agreed for an undisclosed sum, to give the Aristides temporary asylum.
Before any credible plot can be designed and paid for – for the disappearance of the Aristides – they are rescued by friends, flown to temporary asylum in Jamaica where the Government cravenly yielded to the blackmail of Condoleezza Rice to deny them the permanent asylum to which they were entitled and which most Jamaicans had hoped for.
Meanwhile, in Haiti, the US Marines protected an undisciplined ragbag of rapists and murderers to allow them entry to the capital. The Marines chased the medical students out of the new Medical School established by Aristide with Cuban help and teachers. The Marines bivouac in the school, going out on nightly raids, trailed by fleets of ambulances with body bags, hunting down Fanmi Lavalas activists described as ‘chimeres’ – terrorists.
The real terrorists, led by two convicted murderers, Chamblain and Philippe, assisted the Marines in the eradication of ‘chimeres’ until the Marines were replaced by foreign troops, paid by the United Nations, who took up the hunt on behalf of the civilised world – France, Canada, the US and Brazil.
The terrorists and the remains of the Duvalier tontons and the CIA-bred FRAPF declared open season on the remnants of Aristide’s programmes to build democracy. They burnt down the new museum of Haitian culture, destroyed the children’s television station and generally laid waste to anything and everything which could remind Haitians of their glorious history.
Haitians don’t know that without their help Latin America might still be part of the Spanish Empire and Simon Bolivar a brief historical footnote.
Imagine, Niggers Speaking French!
About 90 years ago when Professor Woodrow Wilson was president of the USA, his secretary of state was a fundamentalist lawyer named William Jennings Bryan who had three times run unsuccessfully for president.
The Americans had decided to invade Haiti to collect debts owed by Haiti to Citibank.
General Smedley Butler, the only American soldier to have twice won the Congressional Medal of Honour, described his role in the US Army:
“I helped make Mexico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half-a-dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long.
General Butler said: “I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. … My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups. This is typical in the military service.” Butler compared himself unfavourably to Al Capone. He said his official racketeering made Capone look like an amateur.
Secretary Bryan was dumbfounded by the Haitians. “Imagine,” he said, “Niggers speaking French!”
Smedley Butler and Bryan were involved in Haiti because of something that happened nearly a hundred years before. The French slave-masters, expelled from Haiti and defeated again when they tried to re-enslave the Haitians, connived with the Americans to starve them into submission by a trade embargo. With no sale for Haitian sugar, the country was weak and run-down when a French fleet arrived bearing a demand for reparations. Having bought their freedom in blood, the Haitians were to purchase it again in gold.
The French demanded, essentially, that the Haitians pay France an amount equivalent to 90 per cent of the entire Haitian budget for the foreseeable future. When this commitment proved too arduous to honour, the City Bank offered the Haitians a ‘debt exchange”, paying off the French in exchange for a lower-interest, longer-term debt. The terms may have seemed better but were just as usurious and it was not paid off until 1947.
Because of the debt the Americans invaded Haiti, seized the Treasury, exiled the president, their Jim Crow policies were used to divide the society, to harass the poor and finally provoked a second struggle for freedom which was one of the most brutal episodes in colonial history.
Long before Franco bombed Guernica, exciting the horror and revulsion of civilised people, the Americans perfected their dive-bombing techniques against unarmed Haitian peasants, many of whom had never seen aircraft before.
The Americans set up a Haitian Army in the image of their Jim Crow Marines, and it was these people, the alien and alienated Élite who, with some conscripted blacks like the Duvaliers, have ruled Haiti for most of the last century.
When I flew over Haiti for the first time in 1959 en route from New York to San Juan, Puerto Rico, I saw for the first time the border between the green Dominican Republic and brown Haiti.
First-world journalists interpret the absence of trees on the Haitian side to the predations of the poor, disregarding the fact that Western religion and American capitalism were mainly responsible.
Why is it that nowhere else in the Caribbean is there similar deforestation?
Haiti’s Dessalines constitution offered sanctuary to every escaped slave of any colour. All such people of whatever colour were deemed ‘black’ and entitled to citizenship. Only officially certified ‘blacks’ could own land in Haiti.
The American occupation, anticipating Hayek, Freedman and Greenspan, decided that such a rule was a hindrance to development. The assistant secretary of the US Navy, one Franklin D Roosevelt, was given the job of writing a new, modern constitution for Haiti.
This constitution meant foreigners could own land. Within a very short time the lumberjacks were busy, felling old growth Mahogany and Caribbean Pine for carved doors for the rich and mahogany speedboats, boardroom tables seating 40, etc. The devastated land was put to produce rubber, sisal for ropes and all sorts of pie in the sky plantations.
When President Paul Magloire came to Jamaica 50 years ago Haitians were still speaking of an Artibonite dam for electricity and irrigation. But the ravages of the recent past were too much to recover.
As Marguerite Laurent (EziliDanto) writes: Don’t expect to learn how a people with a Vodun culture that reveres nature and especially the Mapou (oak-like or ceiba pendantra/bombax) trees, and other such big trees as the abode of living entities and therefore as sacred things, were forced to watch the Catholic Church, during Rejete – the violent anti-Vodun crusade – gather whole communities at gunpoint into public squares, and forced them to watch their agents burn Haitian trees in order to teach Haitians their Vodun Gods were not in nature, that the trees were the “houses of Satan”.
In partnership with the US, the mulatto President Elie Lescot (1941-45) summarily expelled peasants from more than 100,000 hectares of land, razing their homes and destroying more than a million fruit trees in the vain effort to cultivate rubber on a large plantation scale. Also, under the pretext of the Rejete campaign, thousands of acres of peasant lands were cleared of sacred trees so that the US could take their lands for agribusiness.
Norman Manley used to say “River Come Down” when his party seemed likely to prevail. The Kreyol word Lavalas conveys the same meaning.
Since the Haitian people’s decisive rejection of the Duvalier dictatorships in the early 90s, their spark and leader has been Jean-Bertrand Aristide whose bona fides may be assessed from the fact that the CIA and conservative Americans have been trying to discredit him almost from the word go.
As he put it in one of his books, his intention has been to build a paradise on the garbage heap bequeathed to Haiti by the US and the Elite.
The bill of particulars is too long to go into here, but the destruction of the new museum of Culture, the breaking up of the medical school, the destruction of the children’s television station gives you the flavour. But the essence is captured in the brutal attempt to obliterate the spirit of Haitian community; the attempt to destroy Lavalas by murdering its men and raping its women, the American-directed subversion of a real police force, the attacks on education and the obliteration of the community self-help systems which meant that when Hurricane Jeanne and all the other weather systems since have struck Haiti, many more have died than in any other country similarly stricken. In an earthquake, totally unpredictable, every bad factor is multiplied.
The American blocking of international aid means that there is no modern water supply anywhere, no town planning, no safe roads, none of the ordinary infrastructure of any other Caribbean state. There are no building standards, no emergency shelters, no parks.
So, when I write about mothers unwittingly walking on dead babies in the mud, when I write about people so poor they must eat patties made of clay and shortening, when I write about people with their faces ‘chopped off’ or about any of eight million horror stories from the crime scene that is Haiti, please don’t tell me you share their pain or mine.
Tell me, where is Lovinsky Pierre Antoine and ten thousand like him?
If you share my pain and their pain, why don’t you stop causing it? Why don’t you stop the torture?
If you want to understand me, look at the woman in the picture (above), and the children half-buried with her. You cannot hear their screams because they know there is no point in screaming. It will do no more good than voting.
What is she thinking: perhaps it is something like this – No, mister! You cannot share my pain!
Some time, perhaps after the camera is gone, people will return to dig us out with their bare hands. But not you.
JOHN MAXWELL writes for the Jamaica Observer, where this article originally appeared.
Copyright © 2010 JOHN MAXWELL
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Revealed: details of how troubled Derby pub would be revamped
Aim to make it a 'food destination'
Robin JohnsonBusiness Editor
Updated 13:49, 1 DEC 2018
Details have been revealed as to how the owners of Chellaston's Corner Pin pub plan to revamp the site.
This summer, Heineken’s Star Pubs & Bars, which owns the building, in Swarkestone Road, Chellaston, confirmed it intended to reopen the pub under a new name - The Three Shillings.
The pub has been boarded up since January when the last tenants left and Star Pubs & Bars has been looking for new operators ever since.
Now, the pub company is set to invest heavily in the building in the hope that this will attract a new manager and customers.
Star Pubs & Bars, last month, lodged planning applications with Derby City Council, which involve revamping both the interior and exterior of the Grade 2-listed pub, parts of which date back to 16th century.
This artist's impression shows what the revamped pub could look like (Image: Star Pubs and Bars)
According to the pub company, the aim is to transform the venue into a “food destination pub with an upmarket menu”.
The revamp would include:
A new kitchen and toilets
A new entrance porch to the rear garden
A new covered pergola
A brick-built firepit with "festoon lighting"
External wood cladding
If the plans get the go-ahead, the new-look pub could re-open early next year.
Star Pubs & Bars has major plans for the pub (Image: Derbyshire Live)
In planning documents submitted to the city council by Concept IDL, on behalf of Star Pubs & Bars, it said: “Our client believes that a pub is an important part of any community, as it offers a place for people to socialise and relax.
“The public house is very popular with the local community, often acting as a meeting place for friends and family as well as being a popular location for local businesses to lunch or relax at the end of the day.
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“Often the pub is one of the few places, which is inclusive to many areas of society. Star Pubs and Bars would like to strengthen this into the area by offering improved facilities throughout this refurbishment and improve the pub to be more suited to safe socialising.
“The refurbishment as a whole will be carried out to our client’s very high standards.”
The venue’s new name - The Three Shillings - has historical significance, according to Star Pubs, as Chellaston was worth three shillings when the king gave it to Henry de Ferrers in the 11th century.
The plans include installing a pergola to the rear of the pub (Image: Concept IDL)
Before its closure at the start of the year, The Corner Pin was the scene of some serious incidents.
Back in December, 2015, it was the scene of a major police incident when it was forced to close following a 50-man brawl.
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And, in October last year, landlord Craig Smith was attacked by thugs and left the pub over fears over his child’s safety, fearing further violence.
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Club hit with points deduction for fielding ineligible Derby County player
The 21-year-old Rams winger had been on loan at the National League side
Chris WatsonDigital football writer
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Braintree Town have been deducted three points for fielding an ineligible player from Derby County.
Aaron Eyoma had been on loan at the non-League side from the Rams.
However, he played a National League match against AFC Fylde on April 13 after his loan had officially ended.
Braintree thought the loan deal had been extended but this was not the case, and they have admitted breaching Rule 6.9 of the league's regulations.
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"Unfortunately, no extension to the previous loan arrangement had been sought or obtained," said the club in a statement. "Braintree Town therefore admitted the charge.
"In mitigation to both The FA and National League, our then-first-team manager Danny Searle advised club officials that the loan of the player was to be through to the end of the playing season, but that information was not included in the forms that were produced by Derby County and submitted by Braintree Town.
"This would normally have been spotted by either our club secretary Tom Woodley or chairman Lee Harding and a loan extension requested, but this did not happen as Tom Woodley was unavailable through injury incurred in the days before the match and the chairman was away on business.
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"Our then-first-team manager's mitigation was also supported by Derby County FC."
Braintree chairman Harding added: "We apologised to both The FA and our League and new arrangements have now been introduced to ensure that a loan player can not, in future, be included in our side unless a check is made on their eligibility."
Eyoma joined Derby last summer following his release by Premier League club Arsenal.
The 21-year-old had a loan stint with Woking before signing for Braintree on a one-month loan deal in March.
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The winger made seven league appearances for the Essex-based outfit - including six starts - and scored one goal.
Braintree won the match against Fylde 2-1, so those three points gained have been taken off them.
The league table has been amended with immediate effect but makes little difference to club, who had already been relegated from non-League's top flight this season.
They finished third from bottom of the table but have now dropped a place to 23rd.
Last season, Braintree were docked one point for fielding an ineligible player in two successive National League South games - though went on to be promoted via the play-offs.
Marc-Anthony Okoye played in a draw against Chippenham Town and a defeat by Hemel Hempstead in January while serving a two-match FA suspension.
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Number of deer affected by deadly virus could spike, DNR says
Epizootic hemorrhagic disease kills animals each year, but not at this rate, the DNR says.
Number of deer affected by deadly virus could spike, DNR says Epizootic hemorrhagic disease kills animals each year, but not at this rate, the DNR says. Check out this story on desmoinesregister.com: https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2019/08/27/iowa-dnr-ehd-deer-deadly-virus-midges-south-central-department-natural-epizootic-hemorrhagic-disease/2133493001/
Tyler J Davis, Des Moines Register Published 5:01 p.m. CT Aug. 27, 2019
Hundreds of deer in Iowa have died after contracting a debilitating virus in the south-central section of the state.
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is reporting an outbreak of Epizootic hemorrhagic disease in deer concentrated near Warren County. EHD is spread by female midges that feed on the dead animals, according to a DNR news release.
More than 400 deer in 2018 have died from the virus, and that number is likely to increase as bow hunting season begins. EHD kills animals each year, but not usually at this rate, the DNR says.
The sickness causes a fever in the affected deer and causes the cell membranes in its heart, lungs and diaphragm to weaken and burst.
"Infected deer are attracted to water to combat the fever and dehydration due to the hemorrhaging and usually die within a few days," the release reads. "In dry years, it can be worse as deer are more concentrated around water, and since the disease is spread by a biting midge, more deer can become infected."
EHD remains active, according to the release, until rain disperses the deer, wind disperses the midges or frost kills the midges. The virus should not be confused or associated with chronic wasting disease, a deadly ailment found in Iowa deer earlier in 2019.
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Americans are optimistic about their finances after election
32 percent in a survey said they’re optimistic they’ll make more in the near future because of the election results
Americans are optimistic about their finances after election 32 percent in a survey said they’re optimistic they’ll make more in the near future because of the election results Check out this story on detroitnews.com: http://detne.ws/2jOJxAa
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Published 12:05 a.m. ET Jan. 23, 2017
According to a recent survey by Allianz Life Insurance, Americans are optimistic about their finances after the election.(Photo: Dreamstime / TNS)
After spending much of last year worrying about the outcome of the presidential race, a recent survey by one of the nation’s largest life insurance companies found Americans have made New Year’s resolutions that reflect a hope that a brighter financial future is on the horizon.
The presidential election was a top worry for many people in 2016, both before and after the race was decided, but 32 percent of people who took a survey by Minneapolis-based Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America said they are optimistic they will make more money in the near future because of the election results.
“We like to test the waters and see how focused consumers are in their spending and saving habits. We wanted to take their pulse at the most optimistic time of the year,” said Katie Libbe, vice president of consumer insights at Allianz Life.
While spending less, saving more and paying down debt remain top priorities for many people in months ahead, other perennial favorites based on surveys done by other companies and organizations include health-related resolutions, such as losing weight, de-cluttering, managing time better and focusing on what’s important.
In its eighth annual New Year Financial Resolutions study, Fidelity Investments, based in Boston, found 45 percent of Americans feel they are in better financial shape, although economic concerns linger, and 70 percent of those surveyed by Fidelity predict they will be better off financially in 2017.
The top financial concerns for those taking the Fidelity survey are unexpected expenses and the economy. The survey also found that people who make resolutions tend to be more optimistic, debt-free and financially secure.
“People who make resolutions on money matters tend to feel better about the state of their finances and are generally in better financial shape than those who don’t,” said Ken Hevert, senior vice president of retirement at Fidelity.
Perhaps in response to an optimistic financial outlook, more respondents in the Allianz Life survey also claimed they’d seek professional help with their finances.
Nearly one in three — 29 percent — of those surveyed claimed they would be more likely to seek advice from a financial professional in 2017, the highest percentage in the study’s history.
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Castellanos, at least, has good day for Tigers
About the only luminary the Tigers could offer was Nick Castellanos, who had three of his team’s seven hits.
Castellanos, at least, has good day for Tigers About the only luminary the Tigers could offer was Nick Castellanos, who had three of his team’s seven hits. Check out this story on detroitnews.com: http://detne.ws/1FavLZv
Lynn Henning, The Detroit News Published 9:16 p.m. ET Aug. 30, 2015 | Updated 5:04 a.m. ET Aug. 31, 2015
Blue Jays 9, Tigers 2
Ben Revere (7) of the Toronto Blue Jays celebrates their victory with Kevin Pillar (11) and Jose Bautista (19) during the game against the Detroit Tigers on August 30, 2015, at Rogers Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Tom Szczerbowski, Getty Images
Edwin Encarnacion of the Toronto Blue Jays hits a solo home run in the first inning. Tom Szczerbowski, Getty Images
Russell Martin of the Toronto Blue Jays is congratulated by Ryan Goins after hitting a two-run home run in the fourth inning. Tom Szczerbowski, Getty Images
Jose Iglesias of the Detroit Tigers is caught in a run-down in the fifth inning as Ryan Goins of the Toronto Blue Jays chases him down before he would be tagged out. Tom Szczerbowski, Getty Images
Rajai Davis of the Detroit Tigers gets back to second base safely on a pick-off attempt in the sixth inning as Ryan Goins of the Toronto Blue Jays handles the throw. Tom Szczerbowski, Getty Images
Kevin Pillar of the Toronto Blue Jays leaps and nearly catches a double by Nick Castellanos of the Detroit Tigers in the seventh inning. Tom Szczerbowski, Getty Images
Mark Buehrle of the Toronto Blue Jays acknowledges the crowd reaction as he exits the game after being relieved in the seventh inning. Tom Szczerbowski, Getty Images
James McCann of the Detroit Tigers hits an RBI ground out in the seventh inning. Tom Szczerbowski, Getty Images
Mark Lowe of the Toronto Blue Jays delivers a pitch in the seventh inning. Tom Szczerbowski, Getty Images
Toronto Blue Jays' Edwin Encarnacion, right, rounds the bases after hitting a solo home run off Detroit Tigers starting pitcher Alfredo Simon as Tigers' shortstop Jose Iglesias, left, looks on during the first inning. Chris Young, Associated Press
Detroit Tigers' starting pitcher Alfredo Simon reacts on the mound during the first inning. Chris Young, AP
Toronto Blue Jays' Russell Martin, right, is congratulated by Troy Tulowitzki after hitting a two-run home run off Detroit Tigers pitcher Alfredo Simon during the fourth inning. Chris Young, Associated Press
Toronto Blue Jays' Russell Martin watches the flight of the ball as he hits a two-run home run off Detroit Tigers pitcher Alfredo Simon during the fourth inning. Chris Young, Associated Press
Bruce Rondon of the Detroit Tigers delivers a pitch in the eighth inning. Tom Szczerbowski, Getty Images
Ryan Goins of the Toronto Blue Jays slides across home plate safely to score a run on an RBI single by Josh Donaldson in the eighth inning. Tom Szczerbowski, Getty Images
Josh Donaldson of the Toronto Blue Jays celebrates their victory with Bo Schultz. Tom Szczerbowski, Getty Images
Toronto Blue Jays' Josh Donaldson, top, hits an RBI single to drive in Ryan Goins during the eighth inning. Chris Young, Associated Press
Toronto Blue Jays' Ryan Goins, bottom, slides into home plate as he scores on an RBI single by Josh Donaldson as Detroit Tigers catcher James McCann waits for the throw during the eighth inning. Chris Young, Associated Press
Toronto Blue Jays' Edwin Encarnacion, right, celebrates with Troy Tulowitzki after hitting a solo home run off Detroit Tigers starting pitcher Alfredo Simon during the first inning. Chris Young, Associated Press
Detroit Tigers reliever Drew VerHagen works against the Toronto Blue Jays during the sixth inning. Chris Young, Associated Press
From left, Ben Revere, Kevin Pillar and Jose Bautista celebrate their sweep over the Tigers Sunday.(Photo: Tom Szczerbowski, Getty Images)
Toronto — Had it been a hockey game, not many stars would have been asked to skate from Detroit’s bench following Sunday’s contest at Rogers Centre.
But this, after all, was big league baseball. And on a day when the Tigers again were bombed by the Blue Jays, 9-2, about the only luminary the Tigers could offer was third baseman Nick Castellanos, who had three of his team’s seven hits, two of which were Castellanos doubles.
“The big leagues is still the hardest league in the world,” said Castellanos, talking about his team’s travails after the Tigers had lost for the ninth time in their past 10 games. “At the beginning of this year, I had the biggest learning curve.
“It takes time to make adjustments, and to get at-bats.”
Castellanos on Sunday had his sixth game this season with three hits or more. He now is batting .249 and has a second-half OPS in the mid-.800s, 200 points more than his first-half OPS.
It’s all a matter of experience, he said, explaining that average hitters make adjustments each week, All-Star players make adjustments each game, and Hall of Famers make those same alterations within single at-bats.
Castellanos is working to narrow his own timeline — which the Tigers can all the more appreciate from a second-year player who is still only 23.
Trouble in Toronto
It was another miserable day Sunday for Alfredo Simon, who has absorbed back-to-back drubbings following a one-hit victory over the Rangers on Aug. 20.
He lasted five innings Sunday and the numbers were sorrowful: six hits, six runs, two walks, two strikeouts, four home runs, and a hit batter.
Simon’s ERA is now a bulging 5.09.
“In all three games, these guys (Blue Jays) threw a haymaker right out of the gate,” said Tigers manager Brad Ausmus, who, along with his pitching staff, got too good of a look at Toronto’s imposing lineup lumber.
Not necessary
Ausmus thought Simon should have been absolved of any blame, or suspicion, following a tight pitch to Troy Tulowitzki in the first inning. The pitch, a Simon fastball, came on an 0-2 count and followed home runs by Josh Donaldson and Edwin Encarnacion.
It spurred plate umpire Marvin Hudson to warn Simon and both dugouts that anything perceived as threatening a hitter would bring ejections of offending pitchers and managers.
“I don’t think either side thought we were throwing at Tulowitzki,” Ausmus said.
There were no further incidents and no dismissals.
Encarnacion was plunked by Simon in the fifth, but it was on a 47-mph eephus pitch that drew more laughs than ire.
The Tigers on Aug. 20 were within two games of .500 after they beat the Rangers at Comerica Park.
But they have since won only one game, on Aug. 26 against the Angels, courtesy of Justin Verlander’s one-hitter.
Toronto’s three-game weekend mauling of the Tigers was the Blue Jays’ first sweep of Detroit in a series at Rogers Centre since 2003, when the Tigers lost 119 games.
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Here's what's being improved in Wells Fargo Center renovations
The mezzanine level will get the bulk of the improvements with completion expected this fall.
Here's what's being improved in Wells Fargo Center renovations The mezzanine level will get the bulk of the improvements with completion expected this fall. Check out this story on courierpostonline.com: https://www.courierpostonline.com/story/sports/nhl/flyers/2018/03/05/wells-fargo-center-renovations-philadelphia-flyers-76-ers/395914002/
Dave Isaac, @davegisaac Published 1:25 p.m. ET March 5, 2018 | Updated 1:31 p.m. ET March 5, 2018
An artist's rendering of an open-concept section of Wells Fargo Center's mezzanine level. Completion is expected this fall.(Photo: Courtesy of Comcast Spectacor)
By the time next season starts for the Flyers and 76ers, Wells Fargo Center will look a little different inside.
After the venue hosted the Democratic National Convention in 2016, it started renovating the 40 suites that were hastily turned into broadcast booths and other changes were tabled until this summer.
Most of what will be redone is in the stadium’s upper level, which will replace 8,000 seats with new ones and a brand-new concourse that shows no sign of what the building looked like when it first opened its doors in 1996. The mezzanine level facelift will also include 150 LED screens showing the game as well as menus for food and drink vendors.
“At Comcast Spectacor, we are completely focused on transforming events into great experiences for our guests,” said chairman and CEO Dave Scott in a press release. “We have kept a close eye on recent introductions and upgrades across the NHL and NBA landscape, and designed a strategy that embodies the ‘best of the best’ arena features and advancements as we continue to elevate the customer experience at the Wells Fargo Center.”
New “open-air lounges” are going to be introduced into the upper level as well and the new look is already on display in two “landings” in opposite corners of the arena that were renovated last summer. The look will continue to be revamped with an open concept so fans can look down at the game from the concourse itself rather than in the tunnel that leads to the seats.
“Our guests have unlimited entertainment options at their fingertips,” president of Wells Fargo Center, John Page, said in a press release. “We’ve designed this next phase of the Wells Fargo Center to promote more social gathering inside the arena, and enhanced technology offerings that improve the overall experience.”
One element of the renovation that won’t be just the upper level is a new sound system with “next generation amplifiers, new mixing equipment and software delivering improved range, enhanced sound clarity and optimized balancing throughout the venue.”
The sound system as it stands this season blasts pregame music during warmups that may be connected to why the lower bowl isn’t as full as it once was while the Flyers and their opponents stretch on the ice, shoot at their goalies and flip pucks to fans.
Revamping the mezzanine level is the second phase of Wells Fargo Center’s renovations. The building is one of 14 in the NHL that were opened in 1996 or earlier. The next phase of the arena’s renovations is expected to include improvements to the lower bowl.
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Manly and Hasler in talks for return to coaching ranks
Des Hasler went to the Bulldogs after his Manly tenure was terminated in 2017. Picture: Dave Hunt/AAP
12th Oct 2018 12:33 PM
MANLY is set to go into the past for its next coach, with two-time premiership winning coach Des Hasler reportedly returning to the club.
Channel 9 News' Danny Weidler said the club was on the verge of signing Hasler to "a long-term deal to try and resurrect the troubled club".
Weidler said Hasler's manager, George Mimis, had been in deep negotiations for Hasler to go the Sea Eagles as soon as next year.
Hasler has also reportedly been asking potential staff members to stay free from other clubs so they can join him at Manly next year.
Weidler said the deal could be signed as early as next week, with Manly still to work out an exit deal for Trent Barrett, who gave the club the required 12 months' notice in July.
Hasler reportedly had issues with the owners of the Sea Eagles, the Penn family, but these are believed to have been worked out.
The Sea Eagles coaching job has been in the headlines after Barrett fell out with the club over infrastructure and support issues.
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It's been a long process for the Sea Eagles with plenty of potential coaches being thrown up as possibilities for the club.
Channel 7 reported on Thursday night that captain Daly Cherry-Evans would seek a release from the club if Neil Henry was appointed Sea Eagles coach. Henry appeared on the short list with John Cartwright, Jason Taylor and Hasler.
Taylor ruled himself out of the running, committing to taking over Sydney Roosters feeder side the North Sydney Bears in the NSW Cup.
Club legend Geoff Toovey revealed on Triple M's The Grill Team on Friday morning he hadn't even heard from the club.
"I've been in touch with a lot of fans and sponsors, they're not really happy with what is going on down there. But not the club, officially no," he said.
"I'm overwhelmed by the support I've been getting (from fans and media).
"Unfortunately they don't make the decisions the club, other people do. My fear for the club is it may just disappear off the face of the map, which frightens me. We need to make some changes and we need to make them soon."
Toovey admitted there were plenty of issues at Manly, especially after just narrowly avoiding the first wooden spoon in the club's history.
"I don't think it's the coaching position, it's about the whole structure of the club at the moment," he said.
"They have to look at why they're in this position to start with, the turnover of football and administration staff. It goes deeper than just the coach."
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20 Hot Sessions: Black Hat 2017
Cybersecurity Researchers Hit Las Vegas, as Annual Security Conference Turns 20 Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • July 25, 2017
Black Hat, which turns 20, runs this week at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. (Photo: Håkan Dahlström, via Flickr/CC)
Security comes to Las Vegas: This week's Black Hat USA 2017 security conference is in full swing at the Mandalay Bay hotel.
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Highlights of this, the 20th edition of Black Hat in Vegas, will no doubt include the annual Pwnie Awards - celebrating the cybersecurity industry's biggest failings - not to mention parties ranging from poolside to late-night clubs.
Of course, Black Hat also includes two days of top-notch briefings, ranging from attacking wind farm control networks and "breaking electronic door locks like you're on CSI: Cyber" to Web cache deception attacks and subverting internet of things devices to physically attack unsuspecting individuals.
Here are just some of the other hot sessions in store for this year:
Stepping Up Our Game (9:00 a.m.): In a keynote speech subtitled "refocusing the security community on defense and making security work for everyone," Facebook CSO Alex Stamos promises a post mortem on notable cybersecurity events of the past year and how the information security could have - but failed - to meet the challenge. "This talk will explore how we can adapt to better confront the obstacles we face as security practitioners," he says in a preview. "How do we foster intelligent discussion of real-world trade-offs while avoiding sensationalism?"
Battling DDoS Attacks With Statistics (10:30 a.m.): High-impact, low-cost distributed denial-of-service attacks remain an ongoing problem for network operators. But Ph.D. student Stefan Prandl says a statistical concept - power law distributions - can be applied to network traffic "to develop a new method of denial-of-service detection based entirely on packet header inspection" as well as potentially for intrusion detection. Further bonus: Such analytical techniques are largely tamper-proof, Prandl claims, and carry low computing costs.
Industroyer/Crashoverride: Zero Things Cool About A Threat Group Targeting The Power Grid (11:15 a.m.): Slovakian security company ESET and U.S. industrial cybersecurity firm Dragos have joined forces to analyze the 2015 and 2016 malware-driven attacks against Ukraine's power grid. The attacks are notable, in part, because previously researchers had only ever seen three pieces of malware designed to target industrial control systems: Stuxnet, Havex and BlackEnergy2. And the malware recovered from last year's attack - called Industroyer and Crashoverride - could be repurposed to target almost any other power grid, the researchers warn.
Real Humans, Simulated Attacks: Usability Testing With Attack Scenarios (11:15 a.m.) "User studies are critical to understanding how users perceive and interact with security and privacy software and features," according to Lorrie Faith Cranor, a professor of computer science and of engineering and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University, and former chief technologist at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. Ethically speaking, however, it's not acceptable to put actual users at risk, for testing purposes. Cranor promises to detail techniques for addressing this challenge.
The Avalanche Takedown: Landslide For Law Enforcement (11:15 a.m.): Tom Grasso, a member of the FBI's cyber division, will describe the joint takedown - by the FBI and law enforcement partners in 40 countries - of Avalanche, a resilient network rented by cybercriminals and used to spread malware and exfiltrate stolen data (see Police Shut Down Global Cybercriminal Fraud Service).
SS7 Attacker Heaven Turns Into Riot (1:30 p.m.): Subtitled "how to make nation-state and intelligence attackers' lives much harder on mobile networks," this talk will round up the serious - and so far, largely unfixed - Signaling System 7 protocol flaws in mobile networks worldwide (see Bank Account Hackers Used SS7 to Intercept Security Codes). To battle attempts to exploit these flaws, security researchers Martin Kacer and Philippe Langlois have developed an open source SS7 firewall, due to be released following the talk, that they promise will make exploits of SS7 for eavesdropping and geolocation purposes much more difficult.
ShieldFS: The Last Word In Ransomware Resilient File Systems (2:40 p.m.): Can Windows be patched against ransomware? That's the goal of the seven Italian security researchers behind ShieldFS, a Windows driver they've developed that "makes the Windows native file system immune to ransomware attacks," even if anti-malware defenses fail to detect or nuke the ransomware executable. "ShieldFS dynamically toggles a protection layer that acts as a copy-on-write mechanism whenever its detection component reveals suspicious activity," the researchers say.
So You Want To Market Your Security Product ... (2:40 p.m.): Truth in advertising, meet the Federal Trade Commission, which regulates vendors' marketing tactics, claims and advertisements. (Hint: They have to be true.) Two representatives of the FTC - commissioner Terrell Mcsweeny and attorney Aaron Alva - promise "guidance on what security companies should do to avoid making deceptive claims," as well as some of the best questions "researchers and security professionals can ask to challenge claims companies make."
Ochko123 - How the Feds Caught Russian Mega-Carder Roman Seleznev (4 p.m.): Who doesn't love a good cybercrime story, ranging from identifying and detaining a suspected mega-hacker, to defeating his defense in court, which hinged on digital forensic evidence contained on his laptop. Hear how the U.S. Department of Justice caught Russian hacker Roman Seleznev - tied to 400 point-of-sale hack attacks and $169 million in credit card fraud - from Harold Chun and Norman Barbosa, who prosecuted the case for the Justice Department. Spoiler: Seleznev this year was hit with a 27-year prison sentence (see Russian Receives Record-Setting US Hacking Sentence).
Offensive Malware Analysis (5:05 p.m.): Biomedical research institutions have been targeted this year - and likely before then, too - by OS X malware dubbed FruitFly (see Mac Malware Targets Biomedical Institutions). Patrick Wardle of security vendor Synack promises to demonstrate the malware's tricks in a live demonstration that involves feeding commands to its command-and-control server, and notes that takeaways don't apply just to malware written for macOS.
Tracking Ransomware End To End (5:05 p.m.): Three Google researchers - Luca Invernizzi, Kylie McRoberts and Elie Bursztein - promise to "demonstrate a method to track the ransomware ecosystem at scale, from distribution sites to the cash-out points," as well as to detail how the two largest ransomware families operate. "We uncover the cash-out points, tracking how the money exits the bitcoin network, enabling the authorities to pick up the money trail using conventional financial tracing means," they promise.
The Life and Times of Zero-Day Vulnerabilities and Their Exploits (5:05 p.m.:) Lillian Ablon, an information scientist at the RAND Corporation, offers lessons learned from her organization's analysis of more than 200 zero-day software vulnerabilities and related exploits - many of which have not yet been publicly revealed (see Zero-Day Facts of Life Revealed in RAND Study).
The Epocholypse 2038: What's In Store For The Next 20 Years (9 a.m.): On the occasion of the 20th Black Hat in Las Vegas, what's in store for the next 20 years? Hear predictions on upcoming information security developments, including attackers and motives, from the always insightful Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at Finnish security firm F-Secure.
The Shadow Brokers - Cyber Fear Game-Changers (9:05 a.m.): "Who are The Shadow Brokers? I have no clue. Nobody really does," says security researcher Matt Suiche, managing director of Dubai-based incident response firm Comae Technologies. In this presentation, however, Suiche promises to describe the "cyber fear as a service" outfit's impact on the information security space, which has included leaking attack tools designed by the Equation Group - apparently the National Security Agency. Suiche says he'll also "perform a deep dive" on some of the most powerful tools to have been leaked so far.
Practical Tips For Defending Web Applications In The Age Of DevOps (11:00 a.m.): Zane Lackey, CSO at Signal Sciences and the former director of security engineering at Etsy, shares techniques Etsy honed for building more secure web applications, including applying static analysis and dynamic scanning to code, and measuring security maturity efforts "in a non-theoretical way."
Attacking Encrypted USB Keys The Hard(ware) Way (12:10 p.m.): Do AES hardware-encrypted USB devices truly safeguard the data they store? Three Google security researchers Jean-Michel Picod, Rémi Audebert and Elie Bursztein audited multiple such USB keys, and promised to detail related vulnerabilities - and how to exploit them - to help others better evaluate the security of these devices before they make any related purchases.
Taking Over The World Through MQTT - Aftermath (2:30 p.m.): One year ago, researchers at security services firm IOActive found an open port on a server that traced to a protocol called MQTT, which is used by internet of things devices, and especially low-power devices. Unfortunately, securing MQTT appears to have been an afterthought, at least in many cases, because IOActive's Lucas Lundgren says the firm quickly found itself looking at coordinates for airplanes, and with access to "prisons with door control, cars, electrical meters, medical equipment, mobile phones, status of home alarm and home automation systems and a whole lot of other devices." Researchers also had the ability to control those devices. One year later, what's changed?
Exploiting Network Printers (3:50 p.m.): Security researcher Jens Müller details a large-scale analysis of printer attacks, leading him and fellow researchers at Germany's Ruhr University Bochum to develop an open source tool called Printer Exploitation Toolkit. "We used PRET to evaluate 20 printer models from different vendors and found all of them to be vulnerable to at least one of the tested attacks," he says. "These attacks included, for example, simple DoS attacks or skilled attacks, extracting print jobs and system files."
Intel AMT Stealth Breakthrough (3:50 p.m.): Researchers promise to demonstrate just how easily the critical Active Management Technology - AMT - flaw present in the firmware running on many Intel chips since 2010 can be remotely exploited (see Intel's AMT Flaw: Worse Than Feared). "During this talk we will discuss methods of remote pwning of almost every Intel based system, manufactured since 2010 or later," they say.
Lies and Damn Lies: Getting Past The Hype Of Endpoint Security Solutions (3:50 p.m.): For battling malware, what works best: signatures, machine learning, artificial intelligence, math models, or lions, tigers and bears? In an effort to move past hype into actionable information, security researchers Lidia Giuliano and Mike Spaulding, armed with thousands of malware samples, anti-virus console interfaces and more, say they spent five months testing how to test endpoint security products. Here's what they've learned.
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Now, Wait a minute! . . . I can already hear some of you. LOL!
"Down Under" means Australia, the "Terra Australis Felix" from the "Quigley" movie all riflemen know and love and the commonplace terms, "Down Under" means Australia!
Well, not so fast. Look at a globe. New Zealand lies at a much more southerly latitude. Wellington in particular, lies at 41.3º S ; the equivalent latitude in the US are the cities that lie in a line that goes from Southern Oregon to Southern Massachusetts. Apart form freaks of nature like the Gulf current Heat Pump that prevents the Europeans from freezing their butts off, climate is pretty much the same.
Then, ¿Why did we take short sleeved polos, cotton trousers and synthetic socks to their WINTER?!
Luckily we had packed, more out of habit than foresight, the usual rain gear and my "magic" wool sweater that Veronika knit for me a few years ago.
But . . . more on that later.
Our trek started in Connecticut, on the train to Grand Central Station NYC, and from there to Brooklyn, to pick up the pre-dropped heavy bags (and the rifles); and a taxi ride to Newark airport (EWR). Taxi ride from hell because he missed several turns and ended up driving us through Times Square. Not the best route in the middle of a Manhattan day.
We arrived to EWR in the nick of time, and after a very heated exchange where I told the "Wannabe-cabbie" he should look for another job, we went through the hassle of declaring the airguns, filling the forms, and explaining that New Zealand did not require from us a permit or license because it was a spring-piston "thingy". Luckily, we had printed the EMail from the New Zealand police and that proved to be priceless not only at the NJ point of embarkation, but also at other points on the route.
We went through the 5 hours flight to LAX and after crossing ALL the airport with the antediluvian shuttle system and, after a few hours wait, we boarded the 13 hour flight to Auckland.
Arriveing in Auckland we, again, presented ourselves to the New Zealand Police and declared our rifles. They started to fill out a license and permit form, but we told them that according to the Wellington Police that was not necessary. We showed them again the printed EMail and they requested to take a copy as they were unsure of how to handle Spring Piston airguns. The policeman then wrote in his copy all the details of both rifles.
After an hour and a half of extremely friendly conversation with the customs, bio-security section and the border protection people; and after telling them they would get a lot more airguns in the next week or so, we tackled the rental car agency and took delivery of our ride: a left handed Holden Barina (similar to the Chevrolet Spark):
The four seater became in no time a two seater, I felt like Captain Decatur calling for the "ship to be cleared for action", as I was removing the "bulkheads"
With the cargo stowed and the artillery aligned fore-and-aft, we were ready to take our first drive on the "right side of the road", as the English would call the left hand lane.
See what I mean? LOL! Luckily, my years in Manchester England had given me a taste of what it is to drive on the left. Still, it is a job better suited to two. In more than one occasion, Veronika had to remind me to "keep left".
We drove a few hours to Bay of Islands, stopping on the way for some sights and food.
Bay of Islands was as north as we would get in New Zealand, from there we started trekking through the wonderful natural setting that makes up the astounding flora and fauna of New Zealand.
From 3,000 years old trees to white flightless birds not bigger than a farm hen, to huge birds larger than a small giraffe, to wines and other wonders, New Zealand is truly "Middle Earth" in the best of the Tolkienesque terms.
With as much coastline as the US, you are never more than 120 kms (70 miles) from the sea in New Zealand
New Zealand owes it existence to the collision of two tectonic plates, one is subducted under the other, and it is part of the "ring of fire" of the Pacific. Geologically young, New Zealand's mountains are still on the rise, land gets formed and volcanic zones are numerous. About 13% of the electricity comes from GeoThermal sources
When a strong earthquake hit Hawke's Bay and destroyed the old town, it also added 300% to the available/buildable area. New Zealanders being what they are, simply decided to build a new city, which then became Napier, one of the Art Deco capitals of the world.
It is hard to express in words how awesome it is to be in the presence of a 3,000 year old living thing. This is a Kauri tree. That little blue spec is Veronika.
When New Zealand separated from Gondwana, some of the birds that remained in New Zealand developed quite substantial proportions. The Maoris arrived into New Zealand between the 800 and the 1200 CE, by then the Moa's were the dominant birds and an excellent source of protein. Alas the Moas only reproduced every 6 to 8 years, and therefore they went extinct under human pressure.
Quite different from most indigenous peoples that suffered with the encounter of Europeans in their land, the Maoris were well organized, had one language, and were fierce warriors. The British Empire had no other choice then that to negotiate a peace treaty. Maori culture is alive and well, Maori TV and radio are new, but thriving. Maori as a language is used in everyday life and in most government communications. In general they still hold onto their lands in a "stewardship" principle.
And Maori food . . . hmmmmmm!! VERY similar to Mexican Barbacoa. Just with more vegetables. Chicken, Lamb, sweet potato, and potatoes.
All maritime peoples have their mermaids . . . I am just more blessed in that mine is real. ;-)
As worthy sons of the Maori warriors and the British navy, New Zealanders are extremely proud of their involvement in both WW's and in recent conflicts. Never to shy away from a "good tiff", New Zealanders remember their fallen with RSA locations, War memorials and Honor rolls in every town. Peculiarly, this 55 mm cannon is well kept and almost in operational readiness.
Because of the weather, glowworms can survive year round in caves and very dark undercuts of rivers. Pity we could not take pictures inside as the number of glowworms allowed us to actually see inside what would otherwise been a completely dark cave
Eels are common in New Zealand's rivers. What is not common is a stupid tourist spoon-feeding them, ROFL! It was an interesting experience, though . . .
New Zealanders have a peculiar sense of humour. Another sample? at the airport, all those flights that still do not have an assigned gate, in the "Status" column you can read: "Relax"
How could we resist a visit to the "Hobbiton"?
Especially when we were received by the friendly locals?
New Zealand has excellent wines. As most of New Zealand, her wines are "untypical", but some are among the best in the world.
New Zealanders go through between 120 and 300 rainy days per year. Still, it was very auspicious when we arrived into Wellington with the "end of the rainbow". It would be the first of TWO days of sunshine.
And so, with our trustworthy and well armed mascot, Kauri (a Kiwi bird equipped with a Springfield 1903 A4 sniper rifle with an Unertl 12X externally adjustable scope), we appeared at the range. Kauri brings on his shoulder a Silver Fern as token of peace.
But, as luck would have it, Brookfield Scout Camp was still a flurry of activity, Adam was still setting targets, the firing line was being stapled to the markers, all sorts of final preparations were going on. And, on top, John Costello was giving a coaching session to the Junior shooters, those shooters that attended their first World Cup. LUCKILY, Brandon Some and the rest of the Ngaio Club had prepared their Grenada range for some practice.
And we tried to practice. At least get the guns settled in after several weeks of being disassembled and travelling. Wind was a factor, and there were few sighting in targets. BUT, with all the difficulties, it was a HUGE help. We did settle in the guns and managed to get some hits. We were told afterwards that the normal conditions on that mountain top are much worse. No wonder the Kiwis (what New Zealanders call themselves) are VERY experienced at shooting in the wind!
So, where exactly is the Range? Well the Kiwis would argue that it is in the center of the world, since there are about 10,000 miles to anyplace civilized, this must be the center, ¿right? :-)
We had connected through Email with the rest of the Team and we delivered to them their "representational garb", as well as all the pins for the traditional exchanges and gifts.
Properly suited and capped, the Team picture! Top from left: Greg Sauve, Veronika Ruf, Hector Medina; front from left: Alan Otsuka, Paul Plauche, Ray Apelles Foto for the historical archives, LOL!
One important aspect needed to be settled: as the number of shooters did not allow a "proper" Spring Piston National Teams event (4 teams of 4 shooters each), some negotiations were in order. After a brief conversation with Andy Kays and Adam Welsh, I was told that as long as all Nations agreed, we should organize ourselves.
Brief, separate, conversations with Kaidu Jalakas (Team Estonia), George Harde (Team Canada), Jaime Artaza (Team Chile) and ourselves made it clear that we wanted as inclusive an event as possible, and it was therefore decided to use TWO scores out of each National Team for the awards.
Having ironed that out, we set out for the range.
Sighting in is serious business! Veronika and Tom Peretti (Team Canada) on the sighting-in line.
Well, as serious as we can be! LOL! Brett Nixon and Paul Plauche.
Registration and sight-in day was a glorious affair. Sun was out, and wind was not a big factor. THAT was about to change!
A nice day in the sun!
But before the weather bushwhacked us, the Welcome Dinner! At the far end, Kaidu is talking to Alan, or, is it the other way around? ;-)
And above all the din and banter of the dinner, Adam Welsh (center) is trying to have the shooter's meeting. On the left is Andrew Ng, on the right Davey Lum.
On Friday, usual Kiwi weather sets in!
Next morning was cold and rainy and miserable. We had to re-sight and re-trajectory our guns. Luckily, the App (PP Calc), was as good as ever.
Going over Veronika's numbers. Every time she shoots, her numbers become more solid, more consistent. From there, a higher degree of confidence results.
After the sighting-in and the shooters meeting, we all went to our designated starting lanes.
I was squadded with Alex Magon, president of NZAFTA and MD for the Match. Upon my first shot with a clear center hit of the paddle, the target refused to fall. As much as I dislike calling for a Marshall and disrupting the rhythm of the shoot, I understand that the first shots are the most problematic. So Alex called for a Marshall, but suddenly ALL lanes were calling for Marshalls, clearly something had gone haywire.
A lot has been written about this, most of it by sourpusses that were not there to witness the whole affair, nor were able to provide any help, just criticism. And, here, I am sad to say that a number of shooters that WERE there, also went into ranting mode. Shame on them! If you are not part of the solution you are part of the problem and ranting away at anyone that lends an ear is not going to help any. The extreme consequence of this behaviour is that those that try to be sympathetic and listen end up drained, fed up; completely dejected not at the situation, but at the attitude of people that are highly regarded in the sport.
So, here goes the first lesson: If someone is projecting a lot of negative energy, if that someone cannot hold his keel on an even course to contrary winds, he is not a champion. Just walk away. He does not deserve to be heard. He may be a good shooter, an excellent shooter even. But not a champion. If you do not have the experience to deal with those idiots, then walk away. It is not worth it.
Those of us that have been around the block more than a few times on both sides (MD'ing and shooting), know how to cope with these idiots (and those that know me know that I do not use the words lightly). But those that are new or lack the mental selectivity to disconnect from the flow of negative energy, suffer a lot. More than a handful of shooters performed well under their normal level because of the extremely bad vibes from some of the top competitors.
In the end, the problem was traced to a modification of the GAMO targets. GAMO was kind and good enough to donate ALL the targets needed, but to the MD's discharge, GAMO has produced in the last 10 years at least 4 models with small differences. The modification that works in one model, renders the others useless. And even when dealing with the same model/series, the mod that makes one target work, may not with another.
In proper Kiwi fashion, and taking after the Royal Navy, "not a moment was to be lost". The shoot was stopped, the RGB's convened and among all of them decided to call it a day and allow the Kiwis to fix things up.
All the Kiwi shooters were called upon and all did a bit to solve the situation. Some of them went to pick up a testing pistol (a rare occurrence in a country that regards pistols as WMD's regardless of their propellant or power level), some went to retrieve the targets, some started modifying the targets (shimming the nib that had been ground off too much), some of them started painting faceplates, etc.
Team USA offered to help and we got commissioned with getting sighting in targets copied and the sighting in range set-up next day.
Veronika and I adjourned to the town, photocopying, dinner and a good night's sleep.
The day before, the RGB's decided to shoot TWO rounds on Saturday and leave ONE round for Sunday. To me that sounded like terribly ambitious, as it was hard on everyone. Suggestions of shooting 75 shots on Saturday and 75 shots on Sunday were not well received, so "mum" was the word for us.
Next morning at 06:00 we were up and having breakfast. By 07:00 we were at the Brookfield Scout Camp and we sat down for a while with some shooters having their breakfast. We collected a staple gun and proceeded to the sighting in range.
There we were met by Adam Welsh and Brett Nixon. Between the four of us, it was a piece of cake.
At 08:00 sighting in began. Because most of the Kiwis had been "drafted" for Marshalling, some of them had to "scratch" the shoot. Among those that had to stop shooting was Alex Magon, my squad mate. So I was paired up with Jeff Hemming, from Canada.
Jeff had been able to put in some 18 shots to my ONE. So I had to shoot all the targets needed to get even with him. I have to say that that was a marathon! LOL! We were going from target to target with no space of time in between. Going up to the glen and down to the paddocks, shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot . . . to some that may be fun or even desirable, not for me. My mind started wandering and I remembered an old soldier's song:
"O'er the Hills and O'er the Main,
To Flanders, Portugal and Spain,
The queen commands and we'll obey
O'er the Hills and far away."
Funny how riflemen come to similar ideas under similar conditions.
Still, we had to go on, and on we went. Till all the targets that I had not shot had been shot.
After that, we resumed a more leisurely pace.
Lane 23 black, target 46 can be seen. What is not easily visible is that there is a THICK cable in front. The cable attached a floating pontoon to land, but the rains had raised the water level, and with that, the level of the pontoon, and the angle of the cable. From my low sitting position, the cable obstructed about ¼ of the KZ.
Shooting by a waterfall is always an interesting experience. Some find that the white noise helps them concentrate, some find it distracting. In any event, the rains turned the trickling waterfall into a great sounding torrent.
Jeff shooting his GinB stocked TX-200 on lane 11 black. There is one target out in the open, another deep in the woods. A black target deep in the dark woods, with an aluminum colored KZ that was thought to reflect the light, but with no light available to reflect on a completely overcast day, this course was a TOUGH one to shoot on Saturday.
We ended the black course shooting in the open paddock. With interrupted rows of trees crosswise, and a line of trees to the back, plus the road at the rear, some very interesting wind effects were taking place there! Still, by the end of the first round I ended with a respectable 37/50. We now needed to shoot another 50 shot round!
It was then turn to shoot the white course. Here Jeff is ranging from the seated position before taking the shots kneeling. Rain and drizzle came and went, 11 times over the day.
Here is a closeup of the targets. Same animal, same color, very close together. Number is at the base of the post that holds the target. Adam could have tricked everyone by reversing the order of this one lane and made everyone shoot in the wrong order (as some MD's like to do, LOL!), but he didn't. Still an interesting setup as to the plain eye it presents a proximity that is simply not there.
A good hit by Jeff. And here you can see the difference in visibilities between the black (on the right) and the white targets (front and center). Even if the white target is down, it is still much more visible.
Lots of targets over water. Tricky for rangefinding.
As I expected, we did not finish the white course. We shot 28 shots of the second course, that with the first 49 made a total of 77 shots. The shoot was called off because those shooters shooting the black course complained that they could no longer see the targets. To be quite frank, there was more ambient light at sunset than there had been in the morning, and so told me the cameras. But, some teams have better coaches and managers than others. It is their job to do everything possible to help their Team score as best they can.
Sunday came and we again were up by 06:00 and at the range by 07:30 setting up the sighting in range. We were met at the range by Brett Nixon and we made short work of it. By 08:00 all shooters were lined up and ready to sight-in.
After sight-in Jeff and I still had to shoot 73 shots. So we proceeded to our last lane and continued the shooting. By the end of the white course I had posted a 36. Well, at least I was consistent.
Weather had started improving and we had some nice sun to shoot in. We finished the white course and then I got squadded with Neil Shelley for the grey course. ¿Can you see the difference between grey and white targets? I know, it is hard, ¿isn't it? If you think it is a piece of cake consider the following: The Grey target is on the right, the White target is on the left. Light and Shadows, my friends.
Neil had been shooting with Ray the previous two days, he said he had had a blast, and after I understood why; they both shoot extremely fast and, for a time, I allowed Neil to set the pace. But it was detrimental to my shooting, so I had to rein him in and take my time.
Second lesson: Stick to your rhythm.
Neil Shelley and Ray Apelles
When all was set and done, I posted another 36. Consistency . . . I say! LOL!
I knew that Javier Luna, from Chile had had a very good first course, and that Ray had struggled a bit on the first course, but I was completely unaware of how the others were doing. Brian Samson was, as always, doing very well, but he did not have a team. What we were focused on was the Team event. We had worked hard trying to get a 4 man team and when it was not possible, we worked hard to make a Team Event possible. That had been the focus of all the year-long activity and preparations.
And we did a little better than expected.
By the end of the day, Team Canada came in 3rd, Team USA came in second and Team Estonia took the first place by 3 points.
Although it was an Unofficial Friendly Competition, it is the first time since the 2007 12/20 ft-lbs schism that an American Team medals.
On the individual Spring-Piston side, Ray placed second, Veronika placed third in Women's Spring-Piston, tied for 12th in the overall Spring-Piston division and I placed fifth. On the PCP side: Paul Plauche placed third overall, Greg Sauve placed fifth overall and second on the veteran's list.
Team Chile put on an impressive performance on the PCP side and, it is interesting to note: had Brian Samson's score counted for a "team", even if he was shooting a spring-piston airgun in the PCP division, the English would have placed second. Now, that would have implied that Brian should have been registered as a PCP shooter and would have foregone his splendid victory in the Spring Piston category.
It is also MOST rewarding to see the young South African shooters, from the Juniors that placed at the top levels, to the Team that had a wonderful performance. Clearly a strong organization helps the sport become stronger.
So, let's see some of the pictures of the awards ceremony:
What goes hand in hand with good airgunning? Food! of course! LOL!
A VERY animated dinner. In the office, all the officers are pounding away at the keyboards to tally scores, make certificates and organize the awards.
Davey Lum begins reading the results of the Team Events, in the rear, Brett Nixon and Andrew Ng (standing).
Third place in Spring Piston: Team Canada
A VERY HAPPY, Team Canada!
In Second Place, Team USA
In First Place, Team Estonia. From left: Heli Jalakas, Ingrid Reinu, Allan Lindman and Kaidu Jalakas
In PCP. Third Place, the Kiwis! From left: Neil Shelley, Rob Cawood, Andrew Ng and Davey Lum
In PCP Second Place, Team Chile, from left: Rene Vazquez, Hans Stepke, Rogelio Veloso, Esteban Figueroa and Jaime Artaza
PCP First Place, Team South Africa. After the Team events, special categories and individual placings:
Brett Nixon, HP Springer champion.
Veronika Ruf, Third Place Women's Piston
South Africa picks up a 1-2 in Women's PCP and a 1-2 in Juniors (Stefan Viljoen is missing from this all-girls photo).
And for a good reason! Stefan posted the best Junior score, but also the BEST OVERALL score. A young World Champ we hope to see in the future.
Greg Sauve placed Second in the Veterans and Fifth overall
Richard Beaugie placed first in the Veterans and Second overall
A shooter from the old guard, Brian Furth placed first as Spring-Piston Veteran and Tenth overall in the Piston category.
A very happy Tom Peretti. He placed Ninth in the Piston category.
Roberto Menichelli placed Eighth in the Spring Piston category.
Very Happy, George Harde collects his Seventh place win.
Ingrid Reinu took Sixth place in Spring Piston and Second in Women's Spring Piston
Hector Medina takes Fifth in Spring Piston category
Javier Luna takes Fourth in Spring Piston category.
Heli Jalakas takes Third in Spring Piston category and First in Women's Spring Piston.
Ray Apelles takes Second in Spring Piston category
A Very Happy Brian Samson, Spring Piston Champion WFTF 2015
Now, to the PCP's individuals:
In Tenth Place, Heinri Brink
In Ninth place, Lauren Parsons
In Eigth place, Natalie Terblanche
In Sixth place, after a long and protracted Shootoff, Stephen Franklin
In Fifth place, our own Greg Sauve
Suffering from the Champion's curse (that one year's champion always goes to the fourth place next year), the "selfie" magician, John Costello
Posting an incredible result for his first World's Championships, our own Paul Plauche garners the Third place.
Experience holds its own when Richard Beaugie places Second Overall
The new World Champ.
Andy Kays, president of the WFTF, had lost his voice. COMPLETELY. But everyone fell totally silent when he whispered that it had taken a lot of "cojones" to get the shoot back on track. He thanked Adam Welsh and expressed what we all felt: the shoot had been a challenge to ALL; in more than one dimension.
A question often asked is : ¿Why do we shoot WFTF?, ¿Why bother with low power, light pellets, international regulations, laws, air transportation, customs, permits, licenses, letters of invitation, hotels, drives, etc. etc. and etc.?
If I had to choose ONE answer, it would be: The people.
Almost every person you meet in the FT circuit is a gentleman, or a lady. With VERY few exceptions you will not find someone loud mouthed, rude, bothersome or noxious/toxic. Yes some of us are obsessive, but most are good natured.
Yes there is the fact that the places we go are fantastic.
Yes there is the aspect of the competition itself and measuring oneself against the best in the world.
Yes there is the novelty of seeing tens of thousands of dollars on display in some persons equipment. I still get a kick out of shooting my "squirrel gun", LOL!
But beyond that, the experience of being part of a group that goes through rain and shine, faulty targets and plain bad luck. Who we all go through the same hoops when travelling internationally. The Human side is what makes this a great sport.
I've made lifelong friends in these things. We see each other every year and if we don't, we enquire about health and family of our missing friend.
It would be nice if everyone could go at least once to a World's Matches. A better, deeper, understanding of this blue-green bubble we call planet Earth would be more prevalent.
And so, with thankful hearts we say good bye to our Kiwi hosts and all the friends, hoping to see them in Lithuania, 2015!
Kia Ora, Haere Ra (Good life and see you later)!
Special acknowledgements:
We REALLY need to thank Pyramyd Air, their support of the FT sport is exemplary.
We also need to thank TopGun Airguns and AEON scopes
Thanks also go to JSB for the pellets they make, not only under their own name but also under the AA brand.
Thanks should also be extended to Mayer & Grammelspacher, their consistent quality in the making of the Diana Mod. 54, the basis of all Team USA's Spring Piston rifles, is invaluable.
And we need to thank Alan Jones photography for the good pictures in this report.
Last, but defintely not least, I need to thank my wife, Veronika, for being the best in my life.
Nicolas Chiriboga
Felicitaciones por esos logros en el mundial. Recuerdo que cuando estuve donde ustedes estaban planificando su viaje. Se nota que disfrutaron mucho. Espero verles pronto!
Hector J MEDINA GOMEZ
Pues solo asomate por aca, compadre!
Gracias y un abrazo!
Vero y Hector
Paul Plauche' link
Great writeup Hector! You did a good job of representing the situation. Although the first day mishap was unfortunate, the shoot overall was great and the Kiwi's did a FANTASTIC job recovering. I really enjoyed their humility, hospitality, and giving nature. I look forward to seeing them again in the future.
I like you had to shoot 7 targets at the beginning to catch up with my squad mate, which was an interesting race... I meant pace. LOL. Overall, I shot 84 targets on Saturday with literally a 5 min break for lunch and 62 on Sunday. I remember sitting down with my sandwich and halfway through it them calling the course open and told my squad mate, "and away we go... "(Jackie Gleason reference) It was definitely and FT marathon.
Congratulations to all shooters. I enjoyed meeting all of you.
Hector Jose Medina Gomez
You did a GREAT job, Paul!
It was an honor and a pleasure to be your Teammate.
Adam Welsh
Hector this review was an epic, a really good read. Our NZ shooters and volunteers really enjoyed the interaction of Team USA. We also appreciated the help Veronika and yourself offered and provided when the chips were down.
It is true that "an even keel" is required at any big event, and it isn't just about shooting skill. "Rocking the boat" only does your head in........
It was great to meet you all, and Alan again (South Africa '09). I am sure you will see some familiar faces from NZ in the future as the desire to attend is definitely present now.
Regards to all, and thank for the frank and honest write up on the event, from a participant's perspective.
Adam;
It was a privilege, and a pleasure, to go through the experience with you guys.
We will keep the fondest of memories of all our Kiwi friends, . . . till we replace them with new ones! LOL!
Hope to see a strong Team NZ in Lithuania!
emilio mazzuco
Hola Emilio!
Felicidades por haber asistido a los "Nationals"!
Paciencia y perseverancia. . . en estas cosas no hay de otra.
Mauricio Angulo
Hetor y Veronika
Es un gusto verlos participando con excelentes resultados en los últimos mundiales, señal que poco a poco estas más cerca del podium.
afectuosamente deso lo mejor para ambos.
saludos desde el pueblo !!
maanch +
Ese mi Mau!
Mil gracias por tus amables palabras.
Te mandamos un beso y un abrazo (respectivamente) y también enviamos nuestros mejores deseos a toda la familia Ocotlán.
Vero y Héctor
Richard Beaugie
Just found this review and I have to say a big congratulations for getting it spot on from a shooters perspective. There has been far to much rubbish written about the NZ comp. As you say, mainly from people who didn't attend. The first day was a bit of a trial for everyone, competitors and organisers alike, but it was sorted and the competition ran pretty smoothly from then on. Hope to meet up with you again in Lithuania
Richard;
It was truly a privilege see you shoot. What a shootoff!
One day I will also be a veteran, and then . . . . LOL!
Thanks for reading these ramblings, my friend, your kind words are greatly appreciated.
The usual bunch of "pellet crazies" should be in Vilnius/Dubnigiai this August (plus, hopefully, some new ones, LOL!).
Hope to see you all soon.
2012 US National WFTF Spring Piston Champion
2012 WFTF Spring Piston Grand Prix Winner
2013 World's WFTF Spring Piston 7th place
2014 Texas State WFTF Piston Champion
2014 World's WFTF Spring Piston 5th place.
2015 Maine State Champion WFTF Piston
2015 Massachusetts State Champion WFTF Piston
2015 New York State Champion WFTF Piston
2015 US National WFTF Piston 2nd Place
2016 Canadian WFTF Piston Champion
2016 Pyramyd Air Cup WFTF Piston 1st Place
2017 US Nationals Open Piston 3rd Place
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Today in Apple history: iPod shuffle randomizes our music
By Luke Dormehl • 5:00 am, January 11, 2020
The iPod shuffle did away with the display (and celebrated randomness).
Photo: Apple
January 11, 2005: Steve Jobs introduces the world to iPod shuffle, an entry-level music player that lacks a display. The device randomly shuffles the audio files it holds, but lets users easily skip songs they don’t like.
The first iPod to use flash memory, the iPod shuffle plugs directly into a computer using onboard USB 2.0 and comes in 512MB and 1GB configurations. Oh, and it’s smaller than a pack of gum — and weighs less than an ounce!
Today in Apple history: Nike+iPod brings fitness tracking to your pocket
By Luke Dormehl • 7:10 am, July 13, 2019
The Nike+iPod Sport Kit was a nifty innovation.
July 13, 2006: Apple releases its first activity tracker, the Nike+iPod Sport Kit, which combines Cupertino’s popular music player with a smart pedometer.
The product marks Apple’s first step toward the kind of mobile health-tracking initiatives it will investigate in the following decade — most notably through its iOS Health app and the Apple Watch.
Today in Apple history: iPod mini is ‘world’s smallest music player’
By Luke Dormehl • 5:00 am, February 20, 2019
Apple makes big waves with the iPod mini.
February 20, 2004: Music goes small as the iPod mini arrives in Apple stores.
Released with 4GB of storage and in five colors, the diminutive iPod mini features a new “click wheel” that integrates control buttons into a solid-state, touch-sensitive scroll wheel. Despite its small size, the new music player’s market potential looms large. In fact, the iPod mini soon becomes the fastest-selling iPod yet.
Today in Apple history: iPod shows it has life after iPhone
By Luke Dormehl • 6:00 am, September 5, 2016
Apple released three new iPods, including the first iPod touch, nine years ago today.
September 5, 2007: Apple introduces its first new iPods after the release of the iPhone, with the third-gen iPod Nano, newly-renamed iPod Classic, and — most significantly — the debut of the iPod touch.
In doing so, it sets out to demonstrate that there is still plenty of life left in Apple’s iconic portable music player.
Today in Apple history: iPod touch is ‘iPhone without the phone’
The fourth-gen iPod touch closed the gap between iPod and iPhone.
September 1, 2010: Apple announces its fourth-generation iPod touch, a version of the portable music player which closes the gap between the iPod touch and the iPhone.
Along with being thinner than ever, the fourth-gen iPod touch’s main innovations include a redesigned form factor, Retina display, FaceTime calling via WiFi, HD video recording, and the same A4 chip found in the iPhone at the time.
Today in Apple history: Apple debuts its thinnest-ever iPod touch
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An exposition of Philippians 1:23 by one of the most outstanding pastors of the golden age of English Puritanism, dealing honestly with the doubts and fears that often assail a Christian facing the prospect of eternity, while also providing much needed counsel, strength and comfort. A devotional classic. More well known for his Reformed Pastor, Richard Baxter was the outstanding pastor of Kidderminster. Dying Thoughts is his exposition of Paul's words in Philippians 1:23: For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ, which is far better.' Benjamin Fawcett who made this abridged version of the original work wrote, The 'Dying Thoughts' of Mr. Baxter chiefly present to our view what every Christian may attain, and what it is the highest interest, as well as the indispensable duty of every Christian to aspire after.' In this little book, we see Baxter wrestling with his own doubts and fears as he faces eternity, jealously examining his own heart, anxious to test his own sincerity, taking nothing for granted. Baxter wanted to die with every grace in his soul in full vigour. A man of like passions as ourselves, his Dying Thoughts provides much needed counsel, strength and comfort because it deals with the same conflicts, complaints and desires which fill our own hearts.
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Series of massive explosions injure 4, including 2 firefighters, at California restaurant celebrating Oktoberfest
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VIDEO: Authorities reported multiple injuries after a series of electrical explosions sent massive fireballs into the air Saturday night at a shopping and dining complex in Huntington Beach. Staff at the Old World German restaurant on Center Avenue noticed an odor coming from the underground electrical vault. The fire department was called to the scene - where the restaurant was holding an Oktoberfest event - and the first explosion erupted shortly after, around 8:30 p.m. Two firefighters were injured while investigating the initial explosion just before another one went off. Witnesses say the lights started to flicker and the power went out before up to three explosions only about a minute apart rocked the restaurant. Huntington Beach Fire Department officials say two firefighters and two civilians were injured, including a restaurant employee who led fire crews to the vault.
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Squash and racquetball courts renamed at Eastlink Centre
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The City of Grande Prairie announced Monday that the squash and racquetball courts inside the Eastlink Centre are now called the Equity Rentals Squash and Racquetball Courts. Photo courtesy of City of Grande Prairie
The squash and racquetball courts inside the Eastlink Centre are now called the Equity Rentals Squash and Racquetball Courts.
The City of Grande Prairie, which owns and operates the Eastlink Centre, announced Monday that the renaming of the four courts was due to a new naming rights sponsorship partnership with Equity Rentals.
“The newly named Equity Rentals Squash and Racquetball Courts is a great example of a sponsor becoming a corporate partner,” said Jordan Wall, manager of Community Services Strategic Marketing for the City of Grande Prairie, in a release.
“Partnerships like these highlight how corporate investment into community facilities can have a lasting impact beyond just a name on a wall.”
The new partnership includes commitments to continuously improve the space, equipment and experience for the court users.
“When we were exploring the sponsorship opportunity, I wanted to ensure the naming rights not only promoted our business, but also benefited the users of the space,” said Daniel Goff of Equity Rentals in a release.
“I’ve been an active squash player for 15 years and an annual member of Eastlink Centre since it opened in 2011, so I know the value this has for people in Grande Prairie and am excited to support the community through this venture.”
The courts are situated in the east end of the Eastlink Centre Fieldhouse. Hours and more information on the courts are available here.
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Knockhill plays host to more than 100 Ferraris
With two big birthdays in the mix, Ferrari owners across the UK are heading this weekend to Knockhill to celebrate the Prancing Horse both on and off the track.
Maggie Barry
FANS of the Prancing Horse are in for a treat this weekend as the Ferrari Festival comes to Knockhill.
The biggest ever gathering of Ferraris in Scotland will take place at the Fife circuit.
More than 120 Ferraris are expected at the track to celebrate the 70th birthday of the marque.
They will include members of the Ferrari Owners’ Club as well as racing Ferraris on track in the Pirelli Classic Ferrari Championship.
In between races, the Ferrari drivers, celebrating 50 years of the Owners' Club, will be allowed on track to take their own cars around.
Stuart Gray, of Knockhill, said: “We are expecting it to be a sea of red with one or two yellow and black Ferraris in the mix.
“But whatever the colour, it is going to be an amazing spectacle.”
There will also be a static display of cars and those confirmed for the day include a LaFerrari valued at more than £2million - but expect to see some more surprises.
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To Thomas Davidson 23 December [1856]1
Down Bromley Kent
Dec. 23d
I do not know whether you will forgive me, a stranger to you personally though not to your works, taking the liberty of begging a favour of you.—2 Namely to ask for a piece of information, which you are more likely to be able to give than anyone, though it is doubtful whether you will be able.— I am particularly anxious to know & be permitted to quote (if I find it desirable) any fact showing, that a variable species is or is not equally variable at all times & places.—3 Some facts seem to show that a species may vary far more in one area than in another; & some other, & perhaps more numerous, facts seem to indicate that a variable species is always equally variable.
With your profound knowledge of Brachiopoda, you may be able to give me examples & inform me how this is, with the species which have had a long existence or wide range.— Of course in order to judge, specimens must have been examined nearly equal in number at the two times or places.— Variability in close connexion with or caused by attachment to various substances would probably be alike at all times; so that there are many difficulties in coming to any conclusion.4
I formerly talked on this subject with the late E. Forbes, & more recently with Mr Woodward of the British Museum, but could get no definite light.—5 If you are willing to give me information on this head, I shd. esteem it a great kindness, which I have no right to expect, except as a fellow student in Natural History.
I beg to remain | Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Dated by the relationship to the letter from Thomas Davidson, 29 December 1856.
Davidson was a fellow of the Geological Society of London and the author of works on Brachiopoda, particularly a monograph on fossil brachiopods (Davidson 1851–86).
CD had begun writing chapter 4 of his species book, ‘Variation under nature’ (Natural selection, pp. 95–171). In his discussion of individual variations, CD stated that: ‘I have applied, also to Mr. Davidson, whose vast experience in Brachiopodous shells, makes his opinion of the highest value’ (Natural selection, p. 106).
See letter from Thomas Davidson, 29 December 1856.
In Natural selection, p. 106, CD reported that: ‘innumerable examples could be given of the foregoing cases [of variability] & this was all that I could learn on this subject from the late Prof. E. Forbes & from Mr. Woodward.’ See letters from S. P. Woodward, 2 May 1856 and 15 July 1856.
Davidson, Thomas. 1851–86. British fossil Brachiopoda. 6 vols. London: Palæontographical Society.
Natural selection: Charles Darwin’s Natural selection: being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. Stauffer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1975.
Asks TWStCD about variation among brachiopods.
Letter details
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Source of text
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.142)
Darwin, C. R.
Davidson, Thomas
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2021,” accessed on 20 January 2020, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/DCP-LETT-2021.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 6
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Murfreesboro police officer investigated for alleged sex assault at football game
According to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigations, the reported attack took place Sept. 2 at the MTSU football stadium.
Murfreesboro police officer investigated for alleged sex assault at football game According to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigations, the reported attack took place Sept. 2 at the MTSU football stadium. Check out this story on dnj.com: https://www.dnj.com/story/news/2017/09/12/off-duty-murfreesboro-police-officer-investigated-alleged-sex-assault-mtsu-game/656887001/
Natalie Neysa Alund and Mariah Timms, Daily News Journal Published 8:52 a.m. CT Sept. 12, 2017 | Updated 2:04 p.m. CT Sept. 12, 2017
Murfreesboro Police Officer Mark Todd has been moved to a decommissioned status after the TBI confirmed an investigation into an alleged sexual assault that took place at an MTSU football game involving an off-duty MPD officer.(Photo: Submitted)
A Murfreesboro police officer is being investigated for an alleged sexual assault at a college football game, authorities said Tuesday.
A Murfreesboro Police spokesperson confirmed in an email Tuesday that the officer in question is Mark Todd.
"Upon being informed of the information, Todd was placed on decommissioned status in an administrative function pending the outcome of the investigation," PIO Kyle Evans said in an email. "The MPD is cooperating fully with the TBI."
The reported attack took place Sept. 2 at MTSU's Floyd stadium, Tennessee Bureau of Investigations spokeswoman Susan Niland said.
Niland said TBI agents are investigating the incident at the request of 16th Judicial District Attorney General Jennings Jones and that the officer was off-duty at the time of the alleged attack, which happened during the MTSU game against Vanderbilt.
Todd received a one-day suspension from the department in January. He and other officers were investigated for their roles in the arrests of elementary school students at Hobgood Elementary.
►MORE: Officers disciplined, suspended for roles in Hobgood arrests
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His suspension was related to the misuse of sick leave, previous DNJ reporting revealed, after he called in sick on the day of the arrests.
No additional details about the case have been released.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
Reach Natalie Neysa Alund at nalund@tennessean.com and follow her on Twitter @nataliealund. Reach Mariah Timms at mtimms@dnj.com and follow her on Twitter @mariahtimms.
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The popularity and success of Jack Sparrow and the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise have made pirate themed fancy dress parties very popular in recent years and at Disguises we have a great choice of pirate costumes and accessories for both guys and girls. Dressing up in a swashbuckling pirate costume is great fun and will get you all ready to have a memorable night. At Disguises we can help to get you looking totally authentic with our range of buccaneer outfits, wigs, boots, toy muskets, fake tattoos and more. Pirate facts and folklore fascinate most people and just so that you are all in the know, here are some interesting, fun facts about pirates that you can use as inspiration for your choice of pirate costumes and accessories. ...Read More
The popularity and success of Jack Sparrow and the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise have made pirate themed fancy dress parties very popular in recent years and at Disguises we have a great choice of pirate costumes and accessories for both guys and girls. Dressing up in a swashbuckling pirate costume is great fun and will get you all ready to have a memorable night. At Disguises we can help to get you looking totally authentic with our range of buccaneer outfits, wigs, boots, toy muskets, fake tattoos and more. Pirate facts and folklore fascinate most people and just so that you are all in the know, here are some interesting, fun facts about pirates that you can use as inspiration for your choice of pirate costumes and accessories. The most famous and scary pirate of all time was probably Blackbeard, whose real name was Edward Teach. He was the captain of a ship called The Queen Anne's Revenge, which he captured from the French navy in 1717. Despite being the most well known pirate, Blackbeard wasn’t the most successful pirate of all time; that accolade probably goes to Bartholomew Roberts aka Black Bart who, at the height of his success, is reported to have captured over 400 ships. The origins of the pirates skull and crossbones flag, known as the Jolly Roger, are actually unknown but two popular theories are that it might of come from the red flag that the French navy used to use called the Joli Rogue which translates to “pretty red” and was used warned other ships that no mercy would be shown in battle. The other popular theory is that the Jolly Roger was derived from “Old Roger” – a historic term for the Devil! Pirates weren’t only men, there were a few successful female pirates too including Mary Read, Anne Bonny, Grace O’Malley, and Ching Shih. Contrary to popular belief, most pirate treasure wasn’t gold and silver. It was usually more practical loot like food, lumber, cloth, and animal hides that they either kept for their own use or traded for gold or silver. From around 1650 onwards, the pirates used to congregate at a new hideout in Jamaica called Port Royal, which is where the reference in the Pirates of the Caribbean films comes from. Port Royal was a wild and crazy place where the pirates used to go to party and trade their ill-gotten gains. Misfortune met with Port Royal in 1692 though when an earthquake destroyed it. Every pirate ship used to have it’s set of rules, which were mostly about what was expected of everyone onboard and how any loot would be divided up. Surprisingly, despite each ship having it’s own rules, the one rule they all had in common was that there was to be no fighting aboard the ship between the crew! Grog was the pirate’s favorite drink. It was a cocktail of rum, water, lemon juice, and sugar. Huh, are you wondering if that’s where rum punch came from like we are?! So, there you have it! Now you’re all in the know about pirates, you just need to get your pirate costume ordered and you’re ready for a great night of fun. Dressing in costume can be an amazing way to put aside your identity for a night in order to let your fun, playful side out. With a pirate costume, you can be ready to show your whimsical side for any big event, from Halloween party to fancy dress gala. When you're hoping to make a swash-buckling entrance into your next costumed occasion, a pirate costume is the perfect way to put your dress up skills to the test.
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Space – accessibility, diplomacy and cooperation
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Sand, dust and rocks of different colours cover extensive areas of the Terra Cimmeria highland region, one of the oldest landscapes on Mars. The variations in colour are due to differences in the mineralogy as well as the texture of the surface material and are typical of the ancient Mars highlands.
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Space weather research will be intensified and an early warning system for the protection of terrestrial infrastructures will be developed. Heat storage on a power plant scale is set to become the basis for a low-carbon energy system. Highly automated, unmanned aircraft systems – from flexible and efficient freight transporters to swarms of 'flying eyes' – support the logistics sector and assist disaster relief workers in crisis regions.
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Shocking pictures show the abandoned fishing gear killing marine life at famous Devon beauty spot
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These are the shocking pictures of the tons of lost fishing gear snagging wildlife in the waters off one of Devon's coastal gems.
Volunteers have recovered tens of kilos of lost gear in just one day, but there is far more still lurking under the water.
Huge amounts of line, floats and weights have been snagged, lost or discarded off Hope’s Nose in Torquay over the past decades and the volunteers feel that even after four visits, there is still more to be done to clean the seas for the special wildlife in the area.
Pictures show fishing gear left behind in the water of Hope's Nose
Fathoms Free is holding an awareness event in the Bay on Sunday to let people know how the debris affects local wildlife in the Bay, large parts of which are covered by a marine conservation zone.
Hope’s Nose is nationally registered as a site of special scientific interest and is important for the Global Geopark status. It offers spectacular views across Tor Bay and Lyme Bay.
But it is also an extremely popular angling spot by fisherman casting from the rocks due to the position the ‘platform’ of rock. Different species of fish are targeted by anglers. It is reliable mackerel fishing, these can be caught in large numbers.
Most people who take part in angling and other leisure activities at Hope’s Nose do so responsibly and with respect for the environment, however, a significant few are ruining the area for everyone and risk the site being closed to the public. There have been complaints about anti-social behaviour, littering and illegal camping at the popular wildlife and fishing site, a Public Space Protection Order is now in place for the beauty spot.
As a result Torbay Council has been working with Torbay Coast and Countryside Trust, Devon & Cornwall Police and environmental charity Tide to address these issues and has introduced a Public Spaces Protection Order under the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014. The order imposes certain conditions on all people who visit and use the area.
Diver with the debris (Image: Tide Torbay/Fathoms Free)
Natallia Paliakova from the Cornwall based charity Fathoms Free said this is the fourth time the volunteer divers have gone to Hope’s Nose, to continue their project to remove angling gear from Hope’s Nose.
She said: “The sea bed was utterly matted with line and lures and even some fishing rods.
“There were many crabs and other sea creatures all caught up and although we managed to free some, it is really upsetting to think there are probably many more poor animals down there trapped in the line and hooks.
“Even the local seals have hooks lining their mouths.
“We did however manage to clear lots of gear and the sea bed is definitely less cluttered, however this is not a long term solution and we will have to get back there again soon.”
She said there was a risk that anglers would get new gear snagged not only on the discarded gear but on the rocks in the area.
The volunteers with their 'haul' from just one day (Image: Tide Torbay)
They are planning an awareness campaign at Brixham Breakwater on Sunday morning and will be giving advice as well as displaying some of the full ton sack of matted monofilament line, lead weights, broken fishing rods and general rubbish such as cans and bottles recovered. It weighed probably in excess of 100kg due to lead weights.
The clean up and awareness event are part of a collaborative project the Torquay Living Coasts attraction, the Sea Grass Initiative, Marine Management Organisation, Tide, Warwick Saunders (skipper or Arganaut), Fathoms Free and other local partners.
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Personal information, also known as personally identifiable information (PII) or personal data, for purposes of this Privacy Notice, means any information that (i) directly and clearly identifies an individual, or (ii) can be used in combination with other information to identify an individual. Personal information does not include such information if it is anonymous or if it has been rendered de-identified by removing personal identifiers.
Examples of personal information includes but not limited to:
An individual’s name.
Employee ID number.
Home phone number.
Names of family members.
Network ID, IP Address, Network Activities and Communications.
DFIN processes employee data for the performance of a contract that our employees are involved in such as payroll and benefits.
DFIN also processes employee data to meet our legal obligations under applicable legislations such as tax or health laws.
We also process employee data for legitimate business purposes including but not limited to:
Employee communications, including development and training programs;
Maintaining a global employee directory;
Human Resource activities including recruitment process, management of employee performance, beneficiary information, compensation and benefits;
Managing employee hiring such as background checks, emergency contact list, reference checks and terminations.
Managing the security of our network infrastructure to protect company, employees and customers’ data through the use of monitoring technologies such as data loss prevention tools, next generation firewall, and security incident and event management tools.
Sensitive employee data such as health information, compensation information and performance evaluations may be accessible by other DFIN employees on a need to know basis only if necessary with respect to legitimate human resource functions or related issues. Donnelley Financial does not sell, lease, or rent any employee personal or family data to any third party.
DFIN will obtain clear affirmative consent from an employee before using such employee's personal data for any purpose inconsistent with the purpose described above.
Use of Cookies and Other Technologies
When you visit our Site, we may automatically collect information such as your IP address, browser type and language, operating system, location, date and time using cookies. A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your device such as a phone or computer. The cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit to that website. As an example, a cookie may allow us to recognize your browser, whereas another cookie may store your preferences. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our site and allows us to improve our site. Cookies are a technology that can be used to help personalize your use of our site.
DFIN may use other technologies such as web beacons and remarketing technology to advertise on other websites you may visit. In doing so, a third party may place a unique ad-serving cookie on your device and use technical information about your browser and your activity at our site to serve advertisements to you on websites that are not owned or operated by DFIN.
You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether to accept or decline it at any time.
To enable DFIN to assess the effectiveness and usefulness of our site, and to give you the best user experience, we collect and store information on pages viewed by you, your domain names and similar information. Our site makes use of anonymous cookies for the purposes of:
Completion and support of site activity;
Site and system administration;
Research and development;
Anonymous user analysis, user profiling, and decision-making.
DFIN uses, stores and processes the personal information we collect to provide you with information, products and services which you request from us or similar products or services which you have already requested. The information is also used to improve our existing services and the content of our site.
When you contact DFIN, we may keep a record of your communication to help solve any issues that you might be facing. Depending on the country in which you live, work or access our site(s), your information may be retained for a reasonable time for use in future contact with you, or for future improvements to DFIN services.
In the event the information you provide to us is an application for employment, that application will be held in accordance with our HR records management policy. You have the option to opt-out or opt-in for further communications from DFIN.
DFIN may also use or disclose your personal information when DFIN believes, in good faith, that such use or disclosure is reasonably necessary to (i) comply with law, (ii) enforce or apply the terms of any of our user agreements, or (iii) protect the rights, property or safety of DFIN, DFIN’s users, or others. DFIN reserves the right to transfer and disclose your information if DFIN becomes involved in a business divestiture, change of control, sale, merger, or acquisition of all or a part of its business.
DFIN may share personal information we collect about you with our affiliates, business partners, service providers, subsidiaries, vendors, consultants and other service providers to perform work on our behalf. The information may be shared with third parties to offer or provide related services.
We may also share information with our customers when they need access to such personal information to fulfil specific transactions related to service you requested such as promotional campaigns. You may opt out of sharing your information with customers for related services by sending an email to dataprivacy@dfinsolutions.com. Upon receipt of your request to opt out of this information sharing, we will acknowledge your request and take appropriate measures in response.
DFIN may share your information in response to a request for information, if upon review, we determine that disclosure is in accordance with, or required by, any applicable law, regulation or legal process.
We may share your information if we determine that your actions are inconsistent with our user agreements or policies, or if we must protect the rights, property and safety of DFIN or others.
DFIN may post links to third party websites as a service to you. These third party websites are operated by companies that are outside of our control, and your activities at those third party websites will be governed by the policies and practices of those third parties. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of these third parties before disclosing any information, as we are not responsible for the privacy policies of those websites.
DFIN may share your personal information in connection with or during negotiations of any merger, sale of company assets, financing or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company.
The security of your personal information is important to us. We use reasonable physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect the personal information we collect. DFIN uses reasonable measures to safeguard personally identifiable information from loss, theft, misuse, alteration and unauthorized access or destruction. In addition, we maintain appropriate physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect your personal data, including:
Restricting access to personal data to our employees or service providers on a “need to know” basis;
Enforcing policies and procedures for our employees in their handling of personal data; and
Using technologies designed to safeguard data during its transmission, such as SSL encryption for the data you provide on some parts of our site and using appropriate security to safeguard the data that we have received.
DFIN also employs industry-standard measures and processes for detecting and responding to inappropriate attempts to breach our systems.
There is, however, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage that can be 100% secure. Therefore, DFIN cannot guarantee the absolute security of your information. The Internet by its nature is a public forum, and DFIN encourages you to use caution when disclosing information online. Often, you are in the best situation to protect yourself online. You are responsible for protecting your username and password from third party access, and for selecting passwords that are secure.
How We Monitor and Enforce
DFIN regularly reviews our compliance with our Privacy Notice. We also adhere to several self-regulatory frameworks in addition to complying with applicable laws. If we receive formal written complaints, we will follow up with the person making the complaint. We work with the appropriate regulatory authorities to resolve any complaints that cannot be resolved directly.
Compliance With Other Regulations
DFIN adheres to US and other international regulations such as PIPEDA and the European Union (“EU”) General Data Regulation 2016/679.
PIPEDA (Canada)
DFIN recognizes and has controls in place to ensure that the privacy of personal information about an “identifiable individual” used in the course of “commercial activity” is protected and managed in such a manner which meets or exceeds the guidelines set out in PIPEDA and applicable provincial legislation.
Data Transfer and Privacy Shield Framework
DFIN is a global organization with legal entities and business processes in operation across borders. DFIN complies with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework and the Swiss–U.S Privacy Shield Framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use and retention of personal data transferred from the European Union (EU), the United Kingdom (UK) and Switzerland to the United States, respectively.
DFIN has certified to the Department of Commerce that it adheres to the Privacy Shield Principles of Notice, Choice, Accountability for Onward Transfer, Security, Data Integrity and Purpose Limitation, Access, Recourse, Enforcement and Liability. Donnelley Financial is accordingly subject to the investigatory and enforcement powers of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
If there is any conflict between the terms of this Privacy Notice and the Privacy Shield Principles, the Privacy Shield Principles shall govern. To learn more about the Privacy Shield program, and to view our certification, please visit the Department of Commerce’s Privacy Shield Website at https://www.privacyshield.gov/.
With respect to any sharing of EU, UK and Swiss Business Contact Information for the purposes of marketing DFIN products and services, DFIN obtains assurances from its affiliates, subsidiaries and business partners that such entities will use and disclose such EU, UK and Swiss Business Contact Information for purposes of marketing DFIN products and services only.
In cases of onward transfer of EU, UK or Swiss Business Information to third parties pursuant to Privacy Shield, DFIN is potentially liable in the event of an improper disclosure. In certain situations, individuals may seek to opt-out of disclosures of their EU, UK and Swiss Business Contact Information by contacting DFIN as specified in the “How To Contact Us” section below.
DFIN takes appropriate technical and organizational measures to safeguard EU, UK and Swiss personal data against unauthorized or unlawful processing of, or accidental loss, damage, misuse, unauthorized access, unauthorized disclosure, unauthorized alteration, or destruction, and maintains reasonable procedures to help ensure that such information is relevant for its intended use, accurate, complete, current and not excessive and that such information is not retained longer than is reasonably necessary.
With respect to personal data received or transferred pursuant to the Privacy Shield Framework, DFIN is subject to the regulatory enforcement powers of the United States Federal Trade Commission. In certain situations, DFIN may disclose EU, UK and Swiss personal data as necessary in connection with the sale or transfer of all or part of its business, where required or permitted by law, where DFIN believes that such disclosures are appropriate in connection with a law enforcement request or as otherwise permitted by the Privacy Shield Principles, or in order to investigate, prevent or take action regarding illegal activities or suspected fraud or in order to comply with, enforce or apply DFIN agreements.
In compliance with the Privacy Shield Principles, DFIN commits to resolve complaints about our collection or use of your personal data at no cost to the individual. European Union, United Kingdom and Swiss individuals with inquiries or complaints regarding our Privacy Shield policy should contact our Global Data Privacy department at dataprivacy@dfinsolutions.com. DFIN will respond to your inquiry within 45 days.
In the event of a reported complaint that DFIN does not resolve itself, DFIN commits to cooperate with the EU Data Protection Authorities (DPAs), UK Information Commissioner (ICO) and the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC) and comply with the advice given by the EU DPA panel, or UK ICO or Swiss Commissioner with regard to human resource and non-human resource data transferred from the EU, UK and Switzerland to DFIN in the United States (US).
Under certain conditions, more fully described on the Privacy Shield website, you may invoke binding arbitration when other dispute resolution procedures have been exhausted.
Information Processor Activities
DFIN operates as a data processor for our business customers located in the US, UK and EU and other locations worldwide. DFIN’s business customers remain the data controllers with respect to any Customer data that they provide to DFIN for our provision of services. DFIN therefore acts in accordance with the instructions of such customers regarding the collection, processing, storage, deletion, access, rectification, portability and transfer of Customer data.
Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act – COPPA
DFIN does not sell or offer its services and products to children. As such, our sites are designed for adult user interaction. We do not intentionally collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If you are a parent or legal guardian of a minor under the age of 13 and believe that the minor has disclosed personal information to us, please contact us by following the “How to Contact Us” below.
You may have the right to access and review the personal data stored by us to confirm its accuracy, and if necessary you may request that personal data is updated if it is inaccurate. You may also request that certain personal data be deleted from our files. You may be required log into your account to exercise these rights, or contact us at dataprivacy@dfinsolutions.com.
DFIN will make reasonable efforts to comply with such requests, unless such requests are prohibited by law, or there is a legitimate business purpose to retain personal data. We reserve the right to verify your identity before any request to update or delete your personal data is processed by us. Please direct any questions about your personal data to DFIN Data Privacy at dataprivacy@dfinsolutions.com.
In accordance with this Policy and the Privacy Shield Principles, but excluding any transfers of data to third parties performing tasks directly on our behalf and pursuant to our instructions, where we receive Personal Information directly from an EU, or UK or Swiss individual to which such Personal Information relates, we will offer the individual the opportunity to choose (opt out) whether his or her Personal Information is (1) disclosed to a third party; or (2) used for a purpose that is materially different than the purpose it was originally collected or subsequently authorized by the individual.
Any individual who wishes to opt out can do so by contacting DFIN at the address provided below under the section of this Policy entitled “HOW TO CONTACT US”.
In situations where we receive Personal Information pertaining to EU, UK and Swiss individuals directly from our clients (and not the individual to whom the Personal Information relates), we will cooperate with our clients’ reasonable requests to:
assist them in informing the impacted individuals about (a) the possibility that we may disclose such individuals’ information to third parties and (b) the individual’s ability to opt out of such disclosures (except for disclosures to third parties performing tasks directly on our behalf and pursuant to our instructions); and
reasonably ensure that we process the information for purposes compatible with the purposes for which it was originally collected or subsequently authorized by the impacted individuals. After we have notified our clients, they will then inform us if any individuals have opted out of such disclosures.
In situations where DFIN process “Sensitive Personal Information” (which may include Personal Information relating to medical or health conditions, racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, the sex life of the individual, ideological views or activities, social security measures pertaining to an individual, or administrative or criminal proceedings and sanctions), we will seek informed express consent (opt in) from individuals if such information is to be disclosed to a third-party (except for disclosures to third parties performing tasks directly on our behalf and pursuant to our instructions) or used for purposes that are materially different from the purpose it was originally collected or subsequently authorized by the individual.
DFIN reserves the right at its absolute discretion to change this Privacy Notice from time to time. If this Privacy Notice changes, the revised version will be posted at the “Privacy Notice” link on the Site’s home page. In the event that the change is significant or material, we will notify you of such a change by revising the link on the home page to read “Newly Revised Privacy Notice.” Please check the Privacy Notice frequently. Your continued use of our sites constitutes acceptance of such changes in the Privacy Notice, except where further steps are required by applicable law. This Privacy Notice was last updated on March 28, 2019.
If you have any questions regarding DFIN’s privacy practices, the use of your personal data, or about this Privacy Notice, please contact us at:
Donnelley Financial Solutions (DFIN)
Global Data Privacy
35 West Wacker Dr.
Email: dataprivacy@dfinsolutions.com
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Drones Utilized in Search and Rescue Operations
By Alex · On May 29, 2017
A team from the FAA test site for drones in Texas spent quite a bit of time flying a drone along the Blanco River to aid search and rescue efforts following severe storms that took the lives of at least 17 beautiful people in the states of Texas and Oklahoma.
Jerry Hendrix, primary engineer at the Lone Star UAS Center at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, brought a team of 8 professional drone operators and 4 drones to Wimberley, Texas to assist with the search and rescue efforts.
The benefits of using drones is that they can safely fly lower than helicopters, and provide aerial video footage at a fraction of the cost of using helicopters. Hendrix’s team spent a couple of days flying the drones and live streaming the videos in an effort to find stranded people and livestock.
“Is there something that’s white? Is there a garment in there?” Hendrix explained. “Is there a color that could represent a body? Is there other debris that doesn’t normally go with that particular area?”
The team of drone operators didn’t find any bodies but said the whole exercise was a great learning experience for the team, which hopes to use what they learned at this natural disaster site on future search and rescue missions.
“We’re used to conducting testing in a controlled environment. In this case we’re in a chaotic environment,” Hendrix said. “We’re still trying to understand and assess where drones can be used in the search and rescue and how to coordinate with the manned operations.”
Original story via the Washington Post
My mother tells me that I've been playing around with gadgets and technology since the tender age of two, so I decided to finally channel that passion into writing about drones, my latest obsession.
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Very cool! Drones are jut another aspect of modern technology that never fails to amaze me and makes a crazy impact. So neat.
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Fantastic early work from Esther Phillips – recording here as a young girl, under the name of Little Esther – but with a voice that's every bit as great as on her 60s recordings for Atlantic, or her 70s hits on the CTI/Kudu label! The music is a mixture of R&B and blues – the latter infused with some larger charts that already show the kind of class that would set Esther apart from so many of her contemporaries – and make the vocalist a key bridge between generations during the years that soul music would search for more sophisticated sounds. The vibe is very much in the best styles that Lavern Baker was recording for Atlantic – with a similar richness in modes – and titles include "Sweet Lips", "The Storm", "I Paid My Dues", "Heart To Heart", "Cherry Wine", "Aged & Mellow", "The Deacon Moves In", "Tell Him That I Need Him", "I'll Be There", "Street Lights", "Mainliner", and "Ring A Ding Doo". CD
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A group who are best known for one huge hit in 1957 – but one who also recorded a fair bit of other wonderful material too – not just their early singles for Atlantic Records, but also a lot of material for other companies too – as you'll hear in this collection that brings together singles for King, Jubilee, Triple X, End, and other labels too! Although a girl group, The Bobbettes have lots of nice rough edges that are more R&B and deep soul overall – hardly the sweet pop of groups that would follow them in the 60s, and instead maybe a group expression of some of the modes that Ruth Brown and Lavern Baker were cutting for Atlantic – with maybe some of the energy of the doo wop groups thrown in for good measure. CD features 31 tracks – titles include "Speedy", "Zoomy", "Untrue Love", "I Shot Mr Lee", "Mr Lee", "I Don't Like It Like That (parts 1 & 2)", "Mr Johnny Q", "Looking For A Lover", "Mama Papa", "Over There", "Loneliness", "I Cried", "Um Bow Bow", and "The Dream". CD
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Deeply soulful sounds from a crucial time in music – that late 50s/early 60s stretch when R&B was merging into soul, and created so many wonderful records in the process! The set's filled with quick-stepping groovers that are on the hip side of the spectrum – tunes that might have a jazzy inflection here, or a skittish rhythm there – and always topped by a fantastic singer who really knows how to belt it out of the park! These are the same sort of gems we've been digging on Jazzman's Jukebox Jam series – and titles include "Screaming Please" by Buddy Ace, "Anytime" by Dee Irwin, "Where's My Money" by Willie Jones, "For This I Thank You" by Geno Parks Lovetones, "It's Alright" by Art Lassiter, "You Don't Have To Go" by Sam Myers, "A Help Each Other Romance" by Lavern Baker & Ben E King, "Miss You So" by Lillian Offitt, "Workin Man's Song" by The Falcons, and "Sally Lou" by Little Frankie Edwards. CD
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Susan DeMesquita, Ph.D.
Marshall University School of Medicine
1542 Spring Valley Drive
Huntington, WV 25755 USA
e: DAC007@MARSHALL.WVNET.EDU
Education, K12
Innovative or improved ways of doing things; More equitable access to technology or electronic information; Creation of new ideas, products, or services; Technology transfer; Local commitment to network-based activities; Leverage of public funding; Volunteer contributions of time and energy; Partnerships between public and private sector
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Athens, Wayne, Matewan, Harts, Welch (West Virginia)
Mentoring Science Students via Electronic Mail
A pervasive problem in rural West Virginia schools is cultural isolation from varied educational resources. Telecommunications enables educators and students to engage in dialogue and collaboration with their peers, both locally and in geographically remote regions. Science-By-Electronic- Mail is a science mentoring program that utilizes varied resources to generate interest and prepare students for productive careers in science, engineering and medicine by providing both the student and teacher with real world tools, team work, scientific challenges, motivation, encouragement and global educational resources. The rural science teachers implement the program by integrating technological resources into their existing science programs.
The traditional Science-By-Mail program was developed by the Boston Museum of Science and links 23,000 students with 2,400 scientist “pen pals.” The children receive by mail three science challenge packets a year that focuses on subjects that are generally interesting to young people. The scientist serves as a mentor and role model by personally writing several letters of encouragement a year and providing scientific expertise in their area of study. Science-By-Electronic-Mail enhances the traditional program by utilizing multi-media packages, Internet resources and provides EMAIL as the mechanism for real-world scientific communications.
The current program is a cooperative venture between Sunrise museum, higher education, communities and federal agencies to enhance the traditional program with the advantages of electronic resources. This year’s pilot program will reach more than 160 rural West Virginia students in 5 science classes (7th-9th grades) in the Harts, Athens, Matewan, Welch and Wayne. Ten professional scientists from Marshall University, West Virginia University, West Virginia Tech, US Forest Service and Greenbank Observatory and five resource specialists will be working with the students and their teachers using the Internet. The science faculty will access the state-wide network via their campus connection to the state-wide networking system (WVNET). Each student and teacher will have their own EMAIL address. These accounts are a donation by the Marshall University Computer Center.
Script files, menus and icons are used to access EMAIL, NASA educational resources, ANU News service, Art St. James Internet Menu, West Virginia’s Public Library card catalogues, and University based library systems, etc.. The News service was specialized to include KIDSNET, other K-12 discussion groups, and Science-By-EMAIL site and group topics. A rich source of purchased and free educational software from the Internet were pre-load on the Macintosh computers. One of the science teachers plans to supplement her course work with additional software packages from NASA SpaceMet. Reference notebooks, team projects, pre and post questionnaires, Internet Scavenger Hunt, work-shops and site visits are included in the project.
A new global world rich in educational resources is now available to these rural West Virginia science students. The empowerment of technology, personal inspiration and knowledge from teachers and scientists is an investment in West Virginia’s long-term intellectual and economic growth.
Jan I. Fox, M.S., Chair
Academic Computing
Huntington, WV 25755-9220
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El Paso police investigate woman's violent kidnapping from Lower Valley bus stop
An El Paso woman was allegedly kidnapped from a bus stop in the Riverside area of the Lower Valley.
El Paso police investigate woman's violent kidnapping from Lower Valley bus stop An El Paso woman was allegedly kidnapped from a bus stop in the Riverside area of the Lower Valley. Check out this story on ElPasoTimes.com: https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/crime/2019/08/27/kidnapping-woman-lower-valley-el-paso-police-investigate/2134321001/
Daniel Borunda, El Paso Times Published 6:24 p.m. MT Aug. 27, 2019
El Paso police are investigating the violent abduction of a 20-year-old woman from a bus stop in the Lower Valley.
The kidnapping occurred about 7:45 p.m. Friday on Knights Drive near Thomas Manor Park in the Riverside area, police said.
The woman told police that a man forced her into the bed of an old red truck, took her to a nearby secluded canal and beat her, officials said.
More crime news: Constables arrest Lower Valley man suspected of slashing patrol vehicle's tire in video
The woman received injuries to her face and body before the man was scared off when he heard children's voices in the area, a police news release stated.
The kidnapper was described by police as a slim man in his 20s who was wearing a white shirt with an unknown logo in the center, bluejeans and a blue cap.
El Paso police car. File art (Photo: Daniel Borunda/El Paso Times)
The case is under investigation by detectives with the Crimes Against Persons Unit.
A young woman claiming to be the victim posted on Twitter photos showing the bruises and scrapes on the sides of her face.
The woman stated that she was walking to church from a bus stop when the man driving the red truck stopped to ask her for her telephone number.
More: Kidnapping suspect jailed in El Paso after Amber Alert that ended in Juárez, Mexico
After rejecting the man’s repeated advances, the man allegedly got out and kidnapped the woman, took her under what she described as a nearby bridge and beat and tried to rape her until she was able to escape, according to the tweets made Sunday.
The information in the tweets has not been confirmed by police. It is El Paso Times policy not to identify victims of sexual assault.
Anyone with information on this case may call police at 915-832-4400 or may anonymously call Crime Stoppers of El Paso at 915-566-8477.
Daniel Borunda may be reached at 915-546-6102; dborunda@elpasotimes.com; @BorundaDaniel on Twitter.
Be aware of your surroundings. Stop looking at the cellphone.
Try to walk with friends instead of alone.
Walk on well-lighted, well-traveled streets.
Don’t display cash, jewelry, expensive clothing or valuables.
Carry purse or backpack close to the body.
Have house or car key ready before reaching the door.
If you think someone is following you, switch direction or cross street. If they are following you, go quickly to an open store, restaurant or lighted house. Don’t be afraid to yell for help.
Say “leave me alone” loudly if someone hassles you. Don’t be embarrassed.
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Sources: National Crime Prevention Council and El Paso Police Department
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News Release 2-Jan-2020
HIV patients lose smallpox immunity despite childhood vaccine, AIDS drugs
HIV-associated immune amnesia could explain why HIV-positive people still have shorter lives than HIV-negative counterparts
Oregon Health & Science University
HIV patients lose immunity to smallpox even though they were vaccinated against the disease as children and have had much of their immune system restored with antiretroviral therapy, according to a study published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.
Called HIV-associated immune amnesia, the finding could explain why people living with HIV still tend to have shorter lives on average than their HIV-negative counterparts despite being on antiretroviral therapy. The study follows other research recently published in the journals Science and Science Immunology that found the immune systems of children who contracted measles similarly "forgot" their immunity against other illnesses such as influenza.
Mark K. Slifka, Ph.D., a professor of molecular microbiology and immunology at the Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine and Oregon National Primate Research Center, led the study. Slifka and his colleagues compared the T-cell and antibody responses of a total of 100 HIV-positive and HIV-negative women who were vaccinated against smallpox in their youth.
The research team chose smallpox because its last known U.S. case was in 1949, meaning study subjects haven't recently been exposed to its virus, which would have triggered new T-cell and antibody responses.
They found the immune systems of HIV-positive women who were on antiretroviral therapy had a limited response when their blood was exposed to the vaccina virus, which is used in the smallpox vaccine. Normally, those vaccinated against smallpox have CD4 T cells that remember the virus and respond in large numbers when they're exposed again. Previous research has shown smallpox virus-specific CD4 T cells are maintained for up to 75 years after vaccination.
This finding happened despite the fact that antiretroviral therapy works by boosting CD4 T cell counts in HIV-positive patients. This indicates that while antiretroviral therapy may boost total T cell counts overall, it can't recover virus-specific T cells generated from prior childhood vaccinations.
Slifka and his colleagues plan to evaluate whether the same phenomenon occurs in HIV-infected men, and if people living with HIV also lose immune memory to other diseases.
Researchers who contributed to this study are affiliated with OHSU, SUNY Downstate, Georgetown University, Cornell University, University of Southern California and John Hopkins University.
This research was supported by the National Institutes of Health Public Health Service (grant U19 AI109948) and Oregon National Primate Research Center (grant 8P51 OD011092).
REFERENCE: Archana Thomas, Ericka Hammarlund, Lina Gao, Susan Holman, Katherine G. Michel, Marshall Glesby, Maria C. Villacres, Elizabeth T. Golub, Nadia R. Roan, Audrey L. French, Michael H. Augenbraun, Mark K. Slifka, "Loss of Pre-Existing Immunological Memory among HIV Infected Women Despite Immune Reconstitution with Antiretroviral Therapy," Journal of Infectious Diseases, Dec. 23, 2019, DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiz678, https://academic.oup.com/jid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/infdis/jiz678/5684906?guestAccessKey=d83ee54b-1796-4cfc-a915-7e489b48351c
Related OHSU News stories:
9/30/19, "New vaccine against yellow fever to be tested," https://news.ohsu.edu/2019/09/30/new-vaccine-against-tropical-disease-yellow-fever-to-be-tested
3/22/16, "Study shows tetanus shots needed every 30 years, not very 10," https://news.ohsu.edu/2016/03/22/study-shows-tetanus-shots-needed-every-30-years-not-every-10
Mark Slifka, Ph.D.: https://www.ohsu.edu/people/markslifka/afe02f87a78e2edba1441b90870cbabb
Oregon National Primate Research Center: https://www.ohsu.edu/people/markslifka/afe02f87a78e2edba1441b90870cbabb
Franny White
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Journal of Infectious Diseases
National Institutes of Health Public Health Service, Oregon National Primate Research Center
IMMUNOLOGY/ALLERGIES/ASTHMA
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Lleyns at heart of sheep breeding enterprise
Insights07 Mar 2018by Laura Bowyer
Not every farming business has its own mission statement but the McGowans at Incheoch do and they live up to it. Ewan Pate reports.
Neil and Debbie McGowan
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Farm facts
500 hectares (1,200 acres) at Incheoch, Shealwalls and Parkhead
1,000 ewes and 200 beef cows, pure Luing and Simmental/Luing crosses
Employed staff – two
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Neil completed a Nuffield Scholarship in 2015 looking at ’Selection for Efficiency in Breeding Better Beef and Sheep. See nuffieldinternational.org for more information
The McGowan’s aim is to produce ‘functional, efficient breeding stock’ and that goal remains at the front of everything they do on their upland farm near Alyth, Perthshire.
Neil and Debbie McGowan, Neil’s parents Finlay and Judy and his sister, Clare are well known for their pedigree herds of Simmental and Luing cattle and flocks of Lleyn and Texel sheep.
Selected shearling rams from both flocks are sold at an on-farm sale in early September but the Lleyns are at the commercial heart of the 1,000-ewe system. The story started with Debbie’s arrival at Incheoch in 2000, bringing with her 40 Lleyn ewes and 20 ewe hoggs.
The breed was still relatively unknown in Scotland but Debbie had experience going back to 1992 on her parents’ farm near Castle Douglas. At that time the farm was stocked with Blackface and Bleu du Maine sheep with Mule gimmers bought-in. The search was on for a smaller commercial ewe and the Lleyn caught Debbie’s eye even though it was on the minority breed list.
She says: “It is hard to believe it now with the Lleyn thought to be the fourth most numerous breed in the UK, but in the early 1980s it really was the last throw of the dice. They had nearly died out on Lleyn peninsula where they had been bred for centuries as dual purpose milk and meat animals under quite tough conditions. Only a few enthusiasts could see the potential and that is what saved them from extinction.
“We bought our first ones from Dennis Ison, who I think may have been one of the first people to have them in Scotland and put them to a Charollais tup. The next year we had a tup lamb on loan from Derek Steen and bred them pure.”
By this time Debbie had become so interested in the potential of these hardy and versatile white faced sheep that she had become breed development officer, a role she filled for seven years. During this time other breeders had become involved including Michael Cusiter on Orkney. The Lleyns were no longer a minority breed and on their way to making their mark in the commercial world. Breed sales at Carlisle and Perth were introduced.
Texels
The McGowans also run a 100 pedigree Texel flock to produce breeding stock for sale and also provide rams for use on their commercial Lleyns.
Neil says: “They are selected to add growth and carcase to prime lambs without adding any extra hassle.”
Lambing ease and high fat to allow lambs to be finished off grass and worm tolerance are key traits.
Meanwhile, Neil was experimenting with sheep breeds at Incheoch. He says: “I knew lamb survivability was the thing which paid the bills and I wanted to find a ewe which fitted the bill. I had been experimenting with various crosses with some success and once the Lleyns arrived we started to use them as part of the programme. It became clear that actually none of the crosses were working as well as the pure Lleyns.
Now all 1,000 ewes, apart from some pedigree Texels, are Lleyns including a stud flock of 300. The Texel is used as a terminal sire on most of the commercial ewes. The wisdom of moving to a single breed policy was reinforced by the foot-and-mouth outbreaks in 2001 and 2007. Taking away the need to go out and buy replacement breeding stock made biosecurity sense.
Neil says: “On my first trip to New Zealand in 1998 I had seen the work being done working with a pure breed then selecting for ewes which were efficient in their own environment. I came home keen to do that and realised the Lleyns enabled us to achieve the aim of having sheep which were a little less work to keep.
“Sheep are one of the few ways into farming for a new entrant. Some sunshine and a few bits of land which nobody wants is all which is needed to produce one of the most valuable of red meats. The only other ingredient is a lot of hard work, so it makes sense to minimise that side as much as possible.”
So the task of building up a ’functional, efficient and robust’ breeding flock began. Recording was soon put at the heart of the process. Lamb growth from grass is Signet recorded, but Neil and Debbie wanted also to be able to compare maternal traits accurately as an aid to selection. They decided to devise their own system but to keep it as simple as possible. They recruited SAC Consulting sheep specialist John Vipond to help and devise a scoring system which was easily recorded using only observation and a notebook or tablet.
It takes only three digits to describe ease of lambing, mothering score and lamb vigour. These scores are kept throughout the ewe’s life and are available under ’dam’s details’ on the on-farm ram sale catalogue. The scores also advise which ewes should be taken out of the stud flock and into the commercial flock.
The attention to detail in recording and selection is not only paying off in the ewe flock – it is also being reflected in the commercial lambs. All but those kept as replacements or sold for breeding, including gimmers, are destined for Woodhead Brothers. Over the years the improved genetic potential has seen liveweight increased by 4kg at 20 weeks. Last year 620 lambs were sold off autumn grass and red clover at an average carcase weight of 20.3kg. Only one graded O, with all the rest E, U or R making an average price of £76.
To achieve that level of performance good tolerance to worms is seen as a key factor and the McGowans have carried out thousands of faecal egg counts over the years to back up high estimated breeding value figures for the trait.
Lambing starts at the end of April into the first half of May and is all outside with the ewes not stocked too densely. Neil and Debbie supervise it all themselves with no outside help. There is no creep feeding for the lambs.
This is the second year the ewes have been fed on swedes over the leanest part of the late winter and the system works well requiring little time to move the electric fence forward every day. The ewes and ewe hoggs running with them also have access to a grass field and are offered hay as a supplement.
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Old telecom service habits die hard
If there's anything to glean from AT&T winning a recent Leadership award from Frost & Sullivan for SONET services, it's that this decades-old technology still has plenty of utility left in it.
Okay, I know what you're thinking: SONET is so 1980s and IP/Ethernet is today's vogue fashion. Like everyone else in telecom, I agree that an all IP/Ethernet vision will eventually eclipse the old stodgy TDM network, but in the near-term there's still plenty of life left in traditional SONET and hybrid Ethernet over SONET services.
In the release announcing AT&T's award, Frost reported that SONET services were a $3.15 billion industry in 2008. And while next-generation networks like Ethernet and MPLS (Multi-protocol Label Switching) will continue to challenge SONET, Frost & Sullivan does not expect an overall decline for many years.
While IP/Ethernet continues to enhance its carrier grade status with OAM and monitoring capabilities, there's a trust and comfort factor that telcos and large enterprise customers have come to know with SONET services.
At the same time, AT&T continues expand its Ethernet fortunes, offering a host of IP/Ethernet and Ethernet over SONET offerings for carrier and enterprise customers. But this isn't your grandfather's SONET. AT&T's Optical Mesh service, for example, enables customers to allocate SONET bandwidth as needed.
The ongoing desire for SONET and legacy transport services became even more evident to me during a conversation about Packet Optical Networking Platforms with Verizon's Glenn Wellbrock, Verizon's director of backbone network design.
While he acknowledged that yes Ethernet and IP are a big part of their service portfolio and transport network future via the deployment of PONP platforms from Fujitsu and Tellabs, SONET continues to maintain a strong presence in their network. In particular, wireless carriers continue to use Ethernet over SONET as their wireless backhaul mechanism of choice.
"The packet functionality in the Fujitsu and Tellabs PONP equipment has been less used so far mostly due to a lack of demand," explained Wellbrock. "It's not that we don't have a strong demand for Ethernet, but the problem has been it's generally been as private line or Ethernet over SONET. As a general rule so far, and this is something I expect to see change in 2010, but up till now most Ethernet is delivered from end to end on top of SONET."
Ongoing demand for dedicated SONET and traditional circuit-based services is not just a telco mentality, however. Cable operators are also finding that they need to have telco-grade circuit services in their holster to compete for the business user's dollar.
Motorola told me yesterday that while cable is rolling out Fiber to the Business-based services, they are asking for telco-grade elements to be included in the equipment they purchase.
"The cable industry has shown more interest in Fiber to the business, but when they ask us about ONTs their first question is do we have T1 or E1 capabilities," said Floyd Wagoner, senior manager for marketing for Motorola's Access Division. "Right away, we go back to old school because they need to sell the interfaces that the enterprises are used to purchasing."
It's clear that while Ethernet and IP are the ultimate transport and service future, old telecom service habits like SONET and T1 aren't going to die anytime soon. --Sean
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President Dave Doing Well
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 89, October 2-15, 1969
David Valler, convicted dope user, accused bomber, ex-candidate for President, and of late, Detroit News feature writer, seems to have pretty well squared things away with his former adversaries—the pigs.
Valler is doing 7 to 10 years in Jackson for two counts of violating the Michigan Narcotics Act and is the Principle defendant in a conspiracy case involving the bombings that took place in Detroit and Ann Arbor last year.
Dave was always a heavy drug user and ran a hard revolutionary line (which he even acted upon), but suddenly he has appeared in the pages of the Daily Pig (News) writing anti-dope and revolution articles.
The reasons for this are open to great speculation, but several are known.
When a reporter from a major radio station tried to get an interview from Valler in jail, Dave told him that he couldn’t because he had signed an exclusive contract with the News. At one time, sources say the News building was a primary target for the bombers. A strange peace.
Also, unconfirmed reports say that Valler has been transferred from Jackson to a minimum security prison farm because of his cooperativeness with the forces of good and right.
Further, there is speculation that Valler might turn out to be a prosecution witness when the bombing conspiracy trials begin again this Fall.
Valler faces up to 22 years in prison and he doesn’t want to do the time. No one would.
The question is—what is he willing to do to insure that he doesn’t.
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Communities Push Back on Koch Brother's 'Distasteful Effort' to Promote Fossil Fuels
By Ben Jervey
Religious leaders and environmental justice activists in Richmond, Virginia, are "pushing back" against the Koch-funded Fueling U.S. Forward campaign's efforts to target minority communities while promoting the "importance of domestic oil and natural gas to making people's lives better."
One element of the strategy to win the "hearts and minds" (as Alex Fitzsimmons of Fueling U.S. Forward put it) of minority communities was on display in Richmond, Virginia, last December, when the group threw a gospel concert that included pro-fossil fuel propaganda and a surprise award payment of four attendees' electric bills.
As the New York Times described:
Though few in the crowd knew it, the concert had a powerful sponsor: Fueling U.S. Forward, a public relations group for fossil fuels funded by Koch Industries, the oil and petrochemicals conglomerate led by the ultraconservative billionaire brothers David H. and Charles G. Koch. About halfway through the event, the music gave way to a panel discussion on how the holidays were made possible by energy—cheap energy, like oil and gas.
The concert flier was adorned with a red car bearing Christmas gifts. "Thankful for the fuels and innovation that make modern life possible," it read.
At the time, commenting on the event and the campaign to the New York Times, Eddie Bautista, executive director of the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance, called it "an exploitative, sad and borderline racist strategy."
Many local environmental advocates from minority communities felt the same. Last week, the region's congressional representative, A. Donald McEachin, hosted an environmental justice roundtable at a Baptist church in Petersburg, Virginia, a suburb of Richmond with a strong majority of residents that are people of color.
As reported in the Progress-Index, a daily newspaper from Petersburg, Virginia, a manager of the Virginia Conservation Network—a diverse group of conservation organizations that among other issues supports clean energy—said that the roundtable with Rep. McEachin was an effort "to push back against the Koch brothers."
Conservation organizer Mariah Davis, also with the Virginia Conservation Network, described the Fueling U.S. Forward event as "a distasteful effort by Koch to sway low-income communities away from clean energy."
According to the Progress-Index, Rep. McEachin himself, speaking of the Fueling U.S. Forward concert, "equated the group's payment of citizens' electric bills with the '30 pieces of silver' Judas took to betray Jesus."
As Fueling U.S. Forward works to purchase the hearts and minds of minority communities with electric bill payments and college scholarships, the campaign promotes oil and gas as necessary and cheap sources of energy. Not factored into their definition of "cheap," however, are the multitude of public health and environmental costs that are inflicted upon the lower-income communities the campaign is targeting.
Reposted with permission from our media associate DeSmogBlog.
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Nutrient Balance and Integrated Management Are Keys to Optimal Corn Yields
It takes more than high nitrogen uptake for corn to realize its maximum yield potential. Nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorus uptake needs to be in the proper ratio.
This is one of the main findings of a comprehensive review of corn research in the United States and worldwide over the past 100 years by cropping systems specialists, Ignacio Ciampitti of Kansas State University, and Tony Vyn of Purdue University.
“The highest corn yields, if there are no other limiting factors, are when nitrogen and potassium uptake is in a 1-to-1 ratio and nitrogen and phosphorus uptake is in a 5-to-1 ratio,” Ciampitti said. “Having the right nutrient balance within the plants is more important to increasing yields than just applying extra nitrogen.”
Those nutrient uptake ratios are measured in aboveground portions of the corn plant soon after physiological maturity is reached, he added. The ratios will be different at other stages of growth.
Corn takes up a higher percentage of its potassium (K) earlier in its life than nitrogen (N). By the flowering stage of development, corn has absorbed about 80 to 90 percent of its total seasonal K amount, but only 50 to 60 percent of its total seasonal N uptake, Ciampitti said.
As a result, as the season progresses, the N:K ratio in the plant gradually gets larger. At maturity, high-yielding corn has a ratio of about 1-to-1.
Similarly, the nitrogen:phosphorus (P) ratio within the plant changes as the season progresses – but in the opposite direction. P accumulation is greatest later in the season.
“Corn plants eventually accumulate most of their phosphorus in the kernels, and the proportionately later phosphorus uptake means that the nitrogen:phosphorus ratio declines as the season progresses,” Vyn said. “Changes in this ratio are related more to plant phosphorus changes than to changes in plant nitrogen.”
Although the yield level of corn is not strictly related to the N:P balance, in high-yield-potential corn systems, the best ratio in corn plants at physiological maturity was a ratio near 5-to-1, Ciampitti said.
Optimal nutrient ratios were found to be comparable between the U.S. and the rest of the world, and across the decades of corn hybrid improvement, the research review showed. In general, high-yielding corn systems require better nutrient balance and more nutrients, Ciampitti and Vyn said.
If fertilizer application adjustments are needed for corn production in the subsequent growing season to reach optimal N:K and N:P ratios based on a plant analysis done shortly after physiological maturity in the current season, these adjustments should be based on: (1) soil test data, (2) a consideration of potential soil nutrient supply from organic sources in the soil, and (3) expected yield and crop nutrient removal rates, Ciampitti said.
As important as nutrient balance is, the specialists found other factors important to achieving corn’s maximum yield potential.
“Yield improvement, both in the U.S. and worldwide, can’t be attributed solely to changes in nutrient application. It also reflects the combined effects of other production practices, such as water management, seeding rates, timeliness of field operations, insect and disease control, weed control, and more,” Ciampitti said.
Focusing solely on nutrient applications as the means of increasing corn yields will not always help producers close the gap between potential and actual yields, he said. There needs to be an integrated approach to corn yield improvement, including genetics and management.
“For example, we found one of the main factors contributing to continued corn yield gains in the U.S. was related to genetic improvements such as reduction in barrenness, more erect leaf angles, better flowering-silking synchrony, longer leaf stay green, better tolerance to pests and drought, and better tolerance to crowding,” Ciampitti said.
Another main factor is management, such as better fertilizer application methods and timing, pest control, earlier planting dates, reduced tillage systems, and water management, he added.
An integrated approach to improving corn yields is the most effective, he said, and key nutrient ratios should be monitored and managed for proper balance and optimal yields.
Source: K-State Research and Extension
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EFFector - Volume 9, Issue 2 - EFF Open Letter to US Net Users on Comm. Decency Act Compliance
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EFFector Online Volume 09 No. 02 Feb. 14, 1996 editors@eff.org
A Publication of the Electronic Frontier Foundation ISSN 1062-9424
EFF Open Letter to US Net Users on Comm. Decency Act Compliance
ALERTS: Blue Ribbon Campaign and "24 Hours in Democracy"
The CDA: Has It Fallen? Can It Get Up?
EFF Statement on CDA Impact, Substance and Process
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Dear U.S. members of the Internet community:
Now that the Communications Decency Act (CDA) has been signed into law, many
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EFF to inquire whether and how to bring their systems into compliance with
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We believe, as do many members of Congress, that this law is patently
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During the time between filing our Feb. 8th court challenge against the CDA,
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First, if you operate a general purpose system, our advice is to please be
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precisely because the CDA language is difficult to understand and apply,
that we cannot advise you yet what the proper procedures are. No one can,
and that is why the CDA will ultimately fail. Freedom of speech in the
electronic world is fragile --don't risk damaging it before it's clear that
you have to.
Second, if the fundamental focus of your business is distributing sexually
explicit materials, we suggest you implement a procedure to screen out
minors. Provisions in existing US law suggest that acceptable ways to
screen out minors are:
* to require credit card numbers to gain access; or
* to use a password system and verification of user identity and
age; and
* to have procedures in place which allow immediate removal of a
user if s/he is discovered to be a minor.
If you are contacted by a government authority in regard to a possible
violation of the new law, please notify us immediately. This way we can
work to address the legal issues of your specific situation and we can
keep track of how law enforcement agencies are interpreting the CDA, and
share this information with others who are trying to understand and evaluate
this law. And, with this information, we may be able to provide better
guidance in the future.
Again, we believe that the restrictions that have been included in the
legislation will be struck down in court. We have sought a temporary
restraining order (TRO), and plan to follow it with a request for a
preliminary injunction, to prevent enforcement until the court renders a
final judgment in this case. A judge is expected to hear on our request for
a TRO within a week.
In the meantime, while your are evaluating how to best manage risks, we urge
that you do not make any decisions based on hasty reasoning or fear of
liability. EFF is here to help you proceed in a reasonable and cautious
manner that emphasizes preserving the integrity of your service as well as
the First Amendment.
Lori K. Fena
Subject: ALERTS: Blue Ribbon Campaign and "24 Hours in Democracy"
* Blue Ribbon Campaign
[If this alert is redistributed separately, please leave this notice
attached: For more information, contact mech@eff.org. Released Feb. 12,
1996, do not redistribute after Mar. 1, 1996 - instead see
http://www.eff.org/blueribbon.html for updated information.]
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), decries the forfeiture of free
speech prescribed by the sweeping censorship provisions of the
telecommunications "reform" legislation, and similar regulatory attempts
at the US state, and non-US national, levels.
EFF is launching a campaign using a blue ribbon as a symbol to visually
communicate support for free speech in the electronic world. The blue
ribbon is the longer-term outgrowth of the blackened page protest, in
which thousands of WWW authors turned their web pages black for two days
after the Comm. "Decency" Act was signed into law. That protest
attracted a lot of much needed attention, but it is not enough!
As a provider of content on the Internet we invite you to join in this new
awareness campaign by displaying a link to a "Blue Ribbon" page (such as
the one at our site, and several others) with updates on what is
happening in the efforts to restrict - and preserve - free speech online.
WWW page icons, sample HTML anchors and information on the progress of the
campaign are all available from:
http://www.eff.org/blueribbon.html
This page links to updates on the legal challenges to the CDA, alerts
regarding other censorship attempts, even information for skeptics who
have been misled into believing the CDA is good legislation.
As our servers are somewhat overloaded, please feel free to use one of
the following alternate sites:
http://eff.apk.net/blueribbon.html
http://mirrors.yahoo.com/eff/blueribbon.html
http://www.currents.net/blueribbon.html
http://www.teleport.com/~richieb/blueribbon/
http://www.hotwired.com/special/indecent/
http://www.hotwired.com/userland/theblueribbon_489.html
http://www.nuvo.net/darkness/
http://www.surfwatch.com/surfwatch/censorship.html
http://www.planet.net:80/emperor/free.html
http://www.umsl.edu/~muns/blueribbon/1.htm
We are also seeking mirror sites who can run the Apache WWW server (or
another that will allow remote sites to use our domain name) to help absorb
some of the load on our system by serving local copies of the relevant
material as additional "www.eff.org" servers. If you can help with this,
please contact brown@eff.org
BBS-using readers may wish to post (or encourage their sysops to post)
ANSI and ASCII ribbons and frequently updated info on their systems.
When offline, try wearing a real blue ribbon on your shirt or jacket.
Don't wait in silence. Please join the fight for free speech, press and
association online!
* 24 Hours in Democracy [From dwiner@well.com]
[NOTE: This project is in need of volunteers to help coordinate things,
and in particular needs server resources. See
http://www.hotwired.com/staff/userland/24/sponsorshipopportunities.html
for more info. The original Feb. 14 date has been moved back to Feb. 22.
- mech@eff.org]
*** The net has been redefined ***
On February 8, 1996 cyberspace was redefined by the US Government.
If you doubt me, visit . Click on the
calendar icon next to What's New. Check out their coverage of the Telecom
Act, and their celebration of 24 Hours in Cyberspace. I think this trip
should be required reading for every freedom-loving webmaster, webwriter
and web user.
The first huge blast of cyberpsace puffery and a historic rejection of
the US Constitution, on the same day.
A coincidence? An accident of history? Hmmmm.
If we want real change, now is the time to make an investment in
democracy on the Internet.
Every voice can be heard. Our ideas speak for us. We can persuade,
cajole, taunt, seduce, use logic, examine all aspects of a problem, learn,
be angry, be scared, and then find the most eloquent statement, the one
that resonates deepest within all of us.
And then we march.
*** It's our turn ***
Here's my proposal.
Start time: 12:01AM, Pacific Time, February 22, 1996.
End time: 11:59PM, Pacific Time, February 22, 1996.
24 Hours of Democracy.
They defined cyberspace.
We define democracy.
*** Write an essay ***
What does freedom mean to you?
What does democracy mean to you?
What are your hopes and dreams for the Internet?
Have you ever experienced grace or nobility on the net?
Do you have children? Are you a child? What do you think?
How does the Internet help make things right?
Be angry! That's cool. And be respectful. It's Valentine's Day!
Write a love letter to the Internet.
*** How it works ***
Spend a couple of days writing your essay.
Talk about it with your friends. Share ideas. Listen.
When you're ready, post your essay to the web. If you don't have a
website, check out the Sponsors page at the 24 Hours website. I'm
enlisting the help of service providers. We may have an easy way for people
who don't have sites to get their essays posted to the web.
Shortly after the start time I'll mail a DaveNet piece telling you where
to send the URL for your page.
The styling of the page is entirely up to you. There's a Template page
n the 24 Hours site, the URL is at the bottom of this email. I suggest
using a white background for easy reading, and to contrast the black
backgrounds of last week. Use animated GIFs. RealAudio. Java applets.
Shockwave parts. JavaScript banners. Near the bottom of the page, put
some keywords about yourself, where you are geographically, your email
address. Web crawlers will be able to extract this information and index
it. Follow the example in the template if possible.
At the top of your page, create three links, Next, Prev and Index.
After the 24 Hours database is compiled, a few days after the end time,
we'll send you a mail message containing the addresses to fill into each
of these pointers. Next and Prev will point to essays written by other 24
Hours participants. The Index link will point to a home page for the
whole project.
Essays will not be judged or reviewed. You own your own words, and are
responsible for what you write.
*** Who can help ***
Moms & Dads: Ask your kids how they feel about the Internet. Have they
made new friends? What have they learned? Did the Internet ever scare them?
Make some quiet time. Listen.
Teachers: This would make a great homework assignment for your students.
Webmasters: You have to seduce people into caring about this stuff.
Convey your excitement to people you work with. It's not just about
pornography, it's about freedom. Point them to "Netscape"'s home page.
Ask them to read your essay. Create a page of pointers to their essays.
Computer users: Be a visionary! What kind of software would you like to
see coming from the software industry over the next few years?
Graphic artists: We need colorful schemes, a simple message, low
bandwidth art with commercial appeal.
Celebrities, political leaders: Do you have something to say?
Editorial organizations: Can you review essays and choose the most
compelling ones or the most interesting ones?
Online companies: We need mail, web and database servers; search
engines. Can you make it easier for your users to get a single page up on
your server? Can you assist them in registering their pages on Wednesday?
Can you give them a discount, or provide free storage for their essays?
Bandwidth, support and free service to participants is what counts.
Everyone: Have fun! That's what this is about. Be creative. As soon as
it stops being fun we stop growing, and that's the end. Be positive!
*** Only a week left ***
That's about it.
I've committed the next few weeks to making this happen.
I want to work with people, where possible, but by design it's a very
distributed Internet sort of thing.
I plan to write my own 24 Hours essay, and have lots of ideas for the
sponsors.
Let's have fun!
PS: People have said there's not enough time. I think there is. I've
been getting lots of long emails from people in response to the DaveNet
pieces I've been running. We'll get something done on 2/22/96 and then if
it works, we'll do it again in a few weeks.
PPS: Please watch for project
and sponsorship news and other information.
PPPS: Remember, if you want to participate in the legal system, it's
*very* important that if you're old enough, that you vote. Think about
who you can support. 1996 is an election year in the US. Be part of the
system. If you're a voter, please vote!
PPPPS: Please pass this essay on! The 24 Hours project is worldwide.
It's open to everyone, of all nationalities.
It's your turn to speak:
Subject: The CDA: Has It Fallen? Can It Get Up?
[Redistribute at will.]
In the days after the passage of the unconstitutional "Communications
Decency Act" as part of the Telecom bill, the CDA appears to be toppling
just as it should have begun to ride high in the saddle of fundamentalist
"victory" (though the battles are hardly over yet.)
The entire Congress passed this bill (some Members knowing it was
unconstititonal, and some on the other extreme not even knowing the CDA
existed), with the exception of the following legislators who voted
against the whole Telecom Bill:
Earl Hilliard (D-AL), Pete Stark (D-CA), Pat Schroeder (D-CO), Neil
Abercrombie (D-HI), Lane Evans (D-IL), Sidney Yates (D-IL), Barney Frank
(D-MA), John Conyers (D-MI), Collin Peterson (D-MN), Harold Volkmer (D-MO),
Pat Williams (D-MT), Maurice Hinchey (D-NY), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Peter
DeFazio (D-OR), Timothy Johnson (D-SD), Bernard Sanders (independent-VT)
Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Paul Simon (D-IL), Paul
Wellstone (D-MN), Russ Feingold (D-WI), and John McCain (R-AZ).
(Plus a handful that did not vote.) In all, only a singe Republican, out
of both Houses of Congress, voted to preserve American freedom of
expression.[*]
The President proclaimed, in the first State of the Union Address to
mention the Internet, "When parents control what their children see,
that's not censorship. That's enabling parents to assume more
responsibility for their children. And I urge them to do it". Clinton
then, in a signing party timed to coincide with the press attention given
to the "24 Hours In Cyberspace" multimedia event, enacted a law that
strips parents of the right and responsibility to decide what is
appropriate for their own children. The CDA would not only fail to help
"parents control what their children see" - a goal long supported by
EFF, ACLU, VTW, CDT and others opposed to the "decency" bill - but actually
hinder the development of tools and services to help parents and
teachers filter children's Net access.
* Backlash
It is ironic that it took passage of this law to garner the public and
media attention it warrants.
For 48 hours after President Clinton's signing of the CDA into law,
thousands of Web users and BBS sysops world wide took part in a "Thousand
Points of Darkness" protest of the new censorship law by turning their Web
page and login screen backgrounds to black, to mourn the death of the
Internet as we know it. Some, including online magazines such as
Factsheet Five Electric and Scamizdat, blanked out their entire online
offerings, replacing everything that had been available with a
single sentence: "This is what censorship looks like".
The protest garnered major news coverage of the Net censorship debate for
the first time. Finally the debate has shifted from false "save the
children" hype to the real issue: free speech, press and association
rights in new media. The "facts", figures and motives of the
lobbyists and lawmakers behind the CDA are at last being more widely
examined.
The "black page" protest is being followed up with a long term
awareness-raising and protest effort, in which particants, already
numbering in the tens of thousands, wear blue ribbons, and place
graphics of blue ribbons on their online services and homepages.
Participants range from individual users, to online journalism
sites like HotWired, to major centers of Internet connectivity like
Netcom and Yahoo!, among others.
As with Germany and France, where attempted censorship of online
information has backfired, leading to proscribed data's immediate
global availabilty from numerous anti-censorship "mirror sites", the U.S.
government may have to learn the hard way. The online community is
determined to knock the lesson into regulators' heads. To cater to
censored U.S. users, "offshore" anonymous Internet access providers are
popping up, such as Offshore Information Services Ltd -
http://online.offshore.com.ai/ - offering $50/month privacy-protected
accounts from tax-haven island Anguilla.
In case that were not enough, an ad-hoc programmer coalition, the Decense
Project - at http://www.clark.net/pub/rjc/decense.html - has produced an
"de-censoring" solution, which like that of the Anguilla ISP, also provides
privacy protection as a bonus: Decense, "a cgi script designed to
provide a double-blind pseudonym scheme which allows a site to hide
behind a chain of http servers which 'proxy' for it. Neither the user [ID]
requesting the document, nor the ultimate address of the destination web
site is immediately available to prying government eyes."
* Action in Court and Congress
The action has spread offline as well. There has already been an public
protest rally in Washington DC on Feb. 10, and there are others in the
works. The University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia will see a
demonstration just before a scheduled speech by VP Gore. A DC "Electronic
Freedom March" is gearing up, and even high school students are donning
blue ribbons and demonstrating against reactive academic censorship
Most importantly, the new law itself is under concerted attack in
the courts and on the Hill.
EFF, with ACLU and 24 other organizations, have filed a federal lawsuit
against the Department of Justice (DoJ), in the Phildelphia court of Judge
Ronald Buckwalter, challenging the CDA on constitutional grounds. As of
Feb. 13, Judge Buckwalter has not only commended the plaintiffs on a well-
written lawsuit, but has put the case on the fast track, demanding a DoJ
response by Wed. Feb. 14. The Judge further indicated that he will
likely grant plaintiffs' motion for a temporary restraining order (TRO),
by Thu., Feb. 15 at the latest, without further hearings.
The TRO would prevent enforcement of the CDA pending a hearing before and
decision from a panel of three judges, on a motion for a longer-term
preliminary injunction that would prevent all enforcment of the
"decency" provisions until the real meat of the case is settled -
whether the CDA stands up to constitutional challenges. The hearing on
the long-term injunction should take place within the next few weeks. And
the balance of the legal "tests" the CDA must face are very much in plaintiffs'
favor.
Though the DoJ has agreed to make no arrests under the new statutes between
now and the probable issuance of a TRO this week, content and access
providers should be warned that the FBI and other Justice Dept. agents
may later decide to prosecute for CDA violations committed during this
time, if they eventually win the case - a possibility everyone should be
concerned about. And plaintiffs' attorneys warn that even the little
assurance provided by DoJ for now is rather meaningless since it has not
been put in writing.
The Justice Dept. and the Christian Coalition are expected to present, as
evidence supporting the CDA, the most vulgar content they can possibly find
online - though this tactic could backfire. After all, the CDA does not
address pornography (obscenity) at all, since it is already illegal
online or offline, but rather targets indecency, a broader category
including nudity in almost any context, or "indecent" words like those
found in any PG-rated movie.
In the mean time, the Telecom bill has been delivered a one-two-punch by
some of the legislators that voted against it the first time around.
Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), like Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), was a
high-profile participant in the WWW Blackout protest, and has, with
Sen. Russ Feingold, introduced a new bill (S.1567) to repeal most of the
CDA. This legislation will likely need to be re-examined and modified to
make sure it actually succeeds in the goal of removing the threat posed
by the Communications Decency Act.
* Women's Groups and Others Join the Battle
Rep. Pat Schroeder (D-CO) is attacking another dangerous provision of
the Telecom Bill - an amendment outlawing the online distribution of
certain kinds of abortion-related information. The amendment in question
was slipped into the leviathan telecommuncations "deregulation" package
by Rep. Henry Hyde (R-IL), who also shepherded the final version of the CDA.
Schroeder announced that she will introduce a bill, when Congress
re-convenes on Feb. 26, to repeal this less well-known Telecom Bill
assault on free expression. (It should be noted that although Rep.
Shroeder voted against the Telecom bill in the final vote, she can be
partially blamed for the existence of the CDA in that bill - she voted
"yes" on it in committee deliberations, along with a majority of her
colleagues.)
The "abortion gag rule" in the Telecom bill is also being slammed in
in another lawsuit, Sanger v. Reno, filed in New York by the Center for
Reproductive Law and Policy, and many other plaintiffs. In this case,
U.S. Attorney Zachary Carter has (according to ACLU releases) admitted
the unconstitutionality of the CDA, and also agreed to hold off enforcing
it for a while. East District of New York Chief Judge Charles P. Sifton has
asked Chief Judge Jon O. Newman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd
Circuit to convene another 3-judge panel to decide this case.
Sifton has not granted a TRO or injuction. The Judge appears to find the
DoJ's assurances sufficient evidence that this particular provision will
not be enforced or chill free speech. His decision may also rely on the
fact that the section of the ancient Comstock censorship law modified
by the Telecom Bill to ban abortion info online, has not been enforced in
many years. However, no court has yet to rule the Comstock Act
unconstitutional, leaving some people worried for the short term, even if
they expect an eventual favorable decision from the 3-judge appellate court.
Content providers and internet users, as well as women's groups, are also
not pariticularly comforted by the platitudes of supporters of the
abortion info ban, who have disingenously claimed they simply want to
update the Comstock law for consistency reasons and to show support for
"Christian" ideals, but don't expect anyone to actually be censored
under the new revisions.
Plaintiffs' attorney Simon Heller said, "We are extremely pleased that the
Clinton Administration has recognized the invalidity of this law.
However, we believe a court ruling against the provision barring receipt
or provision of abortion information is still necessary to prevent a
future administration or radical right-wing members of Congress from
wielding it against women's health care providers and advocates."
* Shifting Lines
It is clear that the Internet and computer industries do not support the
Communications Decency Act, though most organizations in these fields did
not act, other than to support EFF and other advocacy groups, until too
late. It has shocked the commercial world as well as the general public
that Congress would actually pass a bill so terrible. The industry is,
however, increasinly participating in protest, and legal, action against
the CDA, realizing that such important decisions as what we each should
read or avoid cannot be left up to government. Even the usually
Beltway-shy Microsoft is taking a stand; in an AP interview, the company's
leader, Bill Gates, said of the Internet regulation attempt, "Unfortunately,
it means we're going to have to spend some time in Washington, DC. In
the first 15 years of Microsoft history, we never visited Washington."
And content producers of all sorts are expressing concern, even outrage,
from upstart multimedia giants, to major print publishers, all of
whom now find not only their free press rights but also their livelihoods
threatened. As journalism organizations have flocked to the pro-speech
side, only one news association, to our knowledge, has offered anything
but derision for the CDA. (Newspaper Association of America President
John Sturm expressed support for the telecom bill as a whole, citing only
disappointment at the censorship, and support of the "motives of the
conferees to protect children from obscene and indecent material". One
wonders how closely Mr. Sturm has questioned those motives.)
It is clear that the fundamentalist organizations and legislators behind
the CDA have neither an understanding of the medium and issue, nor any
particular desire to inform the public or the media. The Family Research
Council - http://www.frc.org - disinformed readers by quoting and
explaining in their newsletter the obscenity restrictions from an older
draft of the bill (which they helped replace with an unconstitutional
"indecency" version) in an attempt to imply that the FRC and their
favorite bill would prohibit online distribution of obscenity.
Religious right spokespersons, as well as CDA sponsors like Exon
and Hyde, repeatedly tell the press and tv news programs that they are
trying to "protect children from pornography" as if somehow unaware that
their bill actually makes it more difficult to prevent children from
being exposed to inappropriate materials, by removing all incentive to
continue developing services and software which genuinely perform this
needed function.
But perhaps even the moralists are having second thoughts (or trying to
save face): Confronted with World Wide Web co-creator Tim Berners-Lee's
free Net filtration software, Christian Coalition spokersperson
Heidi Strup conceded that the program "definitely would be a useful tool
for us." One must wonder how and why the CC and its allies failed to
realize this 6 months ago.
More education and outreach is clearly needed, so that legislators do not
fear the net, so that lobbyist groups do not push for unneeded and
hazardous legislation, and most importantly so that the general public
have a better understanding of their free speech rights and recognize the
early warning signs of censorship threats.
On the other side of the issue, organizations like Voters' Telecom Watch
(http://www.vtw.org), with help from local activists (see, for example
the "Tennessee Hit List" of bad legislators at
http://www.people.memphis.edu/~mddallara/hitlist.html)
vow to bring the Net constituency into its own in upcoming elections.
They are gearing up to vote out legislators and other officials at all
levels who betray the trust of their voters by pushing for censorship.
The online voting bloc will have a number of people to remove from
office, it seems, given Congresspersons like Rep. Thomas Bliley (R-VA),
chair of the House Telecom Committee, who seems to consider the CDA's
assault on the Constitution an inconsequential matter to be fixed by
"technical corrections" to the bill later in the year. And what about
Vice-President Al Gore? For all his "Information Superhighway" hype,
Gore stronly supported passage of the legislation, since, after all, the
courts can take care of the unconstitutional stuff. Sen. Carl Levin
(D-MI) echoed both sentiments, at an "ask the politicians" event in
Kalamazoo, MI, claiming that the CDA was only "one small page in a very
large bill", and stating that he knew it was unconstitutional and (you
won't believe this) that it is "always necessary to test the
Constitutionality of some legislation", ergo no service providers would
get hurt! Perhaps Sen. Levin considers this a game, but online voters
may just cure him of that notion come election day. And let's not
forget legislators from Connecticut and other states, who did not even
know the CDA was in the Telecom Bill - they passed it without reading
the bill at all, much less understanding it's impact.
* Civil Disobedience (and Decidedly Uncivil Obedience)
At present EFF cannot advise what to do and not do under the CDA.
No one can. The law is too vague and overbroad to be applied meaningfully.
Some sites are already closing, with more providers broadly self-censoring
their content. The moderator of an amateur radio discussion group
closed the forum down, saying only, "I have closed my mailing lists to
minors, not in protest but for my own protection. Since I enforce rules
of conduct for the lists, I think I'm too close to being part of content
creation to be safe should one of the subscribers post a 4-letter
word." If the judges in the cases challenging the CDA need any evidence
of the chilling effect of this legislation, this should be all they need.
Other content providers, including many who had never thought of posting
"offensive" materials at all, are engaging is widespread civil
disobedience, deliberately violating the new Act. A particularly
creative example can be found at http://coolheart.infi.net/exon/index.html
- you can send a Valentine'd Day card to Sen. Exon, reading "In honor of
Valentine's Day, I thought I would send you an example of some of the
nudity I've found on the Internet - Enjoy", and including your choice of
several classic works of art, including Michelangelo's "David" and
Boticelli's "Birth of Venus".
Yet more are being "uncivilly obedient", complying - barely - by
ROT13-encrypting "dirty words", putting "CENSORED!" banners all over
their web pages, replacing scatological terms with legislators'
surnames, and other actions of visible obedience-under-duress.
Still, helpful as these actions may - or may not - prove to be, some
protest activities are decidedly unhelpful. "Spamming" Senate and House
email addresses, particularly with indecent material is self-defeating.
Please remember that this legislation passed because legislators by and
large were too ignorant of the medium to recognize that the Net is not
really a den of pornographers and terrorists. Irresponsible and
overtly threatening gestures - especially threat letters or dirty
stories - will only prove to legislators' minds that they were right after
Lastly, please keep in mind that obvious civil disobedience can be
dangerous, particularly as "Oklahomans for Children and Families" and
other local fundamentalist groups are on the prowl, vowing to report to
police any CDA violations they find. The current hold on enforcement of
these laws by the Justice Dept. does not even mean you can't be prosecuted
for violations occuring now (assuming the court cases fail, which is
probably not a good assumption, fortunately), only that you won't be
prosecuted right now.
Stanton McCandlish,
Online Activist & Webmaster
San Francisco - Feb. 13, 1995
[* I observe that only one Republican voted against the CDA because it
is a fact. This does not constitute an endorsement of the Democractic
Party or any other kind of endorsement on my or EFF's part.]
Subject: EFF Statement on CDA Impact, Substance and Process
YOUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS HAVE BEEN SACRIFICED FOR POLITICAL EXPEDIENCY:
EFF Statement on 1996 Telecommunications Regulation Bill
Feb. 1, 1996 Electronic Frontier Foundation
Lori Fena, Exec. Dir.
415/436-9333 * lori@eff.org
Mike Godwin, Staff Counsel
510/548-3290 * mnemonic@eff.org
Shari Steele, Staff Counsel
301/375-8856 * ssteele@eff.org
telecommunications "reform" legislation passed overwhelmingly by the
House and Senate Feb. 1, 1996, almost immediately after being reported
out of committee, before the public was able to read, much less comment
upon this bill.
Congress demonstrates once more their willingness to abandon their most
sacred responsibilities - the protection of the US Constitution and
Bill of Rights - in order to expedite legislation that sacrifices
individual, family and community rights in its rush to win the support
of telecom industry giants as well as the religious right, during an
election year.
The consolation offered by our elected officials to those concerned about
abridging free speech, is that there is a high probability that the
censorship provisions in this bill would not stand up to court challenges
based on constitutional grounds.
Consider this a wake-up call. Our elected officials have spoken, and
with the passage of the most sweeping US telecommunications legislation
in over 60 years, our Constitutional rights in the new medium
of computer networking have been usurped. As the 21st century draws near,
our elected representatives have chosen to take us back to the close of
the 19th.
EFF is dismayed by the process and substance of this legislation, as
well as by the immediate and far-reaching negative impact it will have on
individuals, society and commerce.
This latest version of the "Communication Decency Act", originally proposed
by Sen. James Exon (D-NB), contains a deadly combination of a vague and
overly broad definition of what speech is unacceptable online, criminal
prosecution, and large monetary fines, which will set off a tidal wave of
censorship to avoid real and perceived liability.
Although the bill provides for some protection for service providers, this
shelter only exists if the provider takes an active role in censoring
public and private messages. We have already felt the industry foreshocks
when AOL and CompuServe responded to recent government censorship
requests. The censorship wave will begin with the largest online
services, and flow rapidly through the whole U.S. community of service
and content providers.
The result will be a crippling of free society and commerce in the U.S., and
damage to the global Internet.
Individual participants in this medium stand to lose the freedom that has
characterized the Internet since its beginning.
Providers of online content, such as authors of World Wide Web documents,
or hosts of AOL forums, will find themselves forced to "dumb down" all
information and entertainment that they provide into little more than a
cleansed, thin collection of "G-rated" material suitable for children.
If the Internet is one vast, global library of information, this
legislation will have reduced the public spaces of the Net to the
"children's room" of that library.
System operators and access providers will divert resources to censorship
mechanisms and programs to avoid exposure to felony-level criminal liability
for the actions and posts of users over whom they can exercise no control.
New multi-billion dollar industries currently based in the U.S., such as
Internet service, online publishing, and digital commerce, face
economic uncertainty just as they begin to hit their stride, as investors,
stockholders, and customers evaluate the negative impact of censorship on
the value of their product and their company.
The telecom bill unwisely encourages states to follow suit, defining and
legislating online censorship and liability their own ways. These
aftershocks, already working their way through state legislatures all
over the country, will subject individuals and companies to legal mayhem
as they run into contradictory local regulations enforced from afar against
providers and users in other jurisdictions.
The long-term effects could reach other media as well. As traditional
content providers such as publishers, newspapers, television shows and
talk radio, increasingly merge with online communications, it will
become prohibitively expensive to produce two versions of the content,
one for the Net, and one for everywhere else - a single, censored, version
for all formats would be produced, chilling expression in print and
other currently freer media.
A quick review of the political process which produced this bill
demonstrates how bad legislation occurs when the content of a bill is kept
from public scrutiny, allowing only staffers and lobbyists to participate.
* There have been no public hearings on this legislation. Neither the
CDA, nor the larger Telecom Bill have been presented openly to the
public. As a result, Congress has neither heard expert testimony about the
medium and industry, nor allowed constituents to review and comment on what
their "representatives" are doing.
* No conference committee report or final bill text was made available for
review, except to committee staffers and innermost lobbyists until after
passage. Despite repeated promises from House Speaker Newt Gingrich,
Congress has failed to provide online public access to committee reports
and "live" bills.
* Congresspersons voted for passage of this regulation without even having
time to read, much less consider the impact of, the bill - less than
one day after it is voted out of conference.
* The sponsors of the bill and its fundamentalist supporters have, with no
public participation or oversight, thrown away more rational proposals,
including the Cox/Wyden bill, which would have actually helped parents
and teachers control the online access of their children and students.
* The fundamentalist lobby and the CDA sponsors have "spun" this legislation
as "protecting children from pornography", when in fact it does not address
pornography at all, and actually removes the incentives to develop improved
filtering and labelling services. EFF continues to support empowering
parents and the education community with tools and services that
ensure children only have access to appropriate material online. Support
for free speech does not equate to support for pornography (obscenity),
harassment, or the sexual abuse of children, which are already illegal,
online or offline. Even the Justice Department itself has stated -
and demonstrated - that it already has all the authority it needs to
enforce these laws.
EFF, along with Taxpayer Assets Project and several other public interest
organizations, have repeatedly asked that current Congressional information
be immediately provided to the public, not just to lobbyists, and that
that the Telecom Bill be put on hold, pending full public participation
in this debate. Voters may wish to express to Congress how they feel
about being denied the right to read or have a say in legislation
that threatens their freedom of expression.
A brief summary of the problems inherent in the Telecom Bill's censorship
provisions illuminates the magnitude of the issues. The CDA would:
* subject all online content to the interpretation of ill-defined
"indecency" law;
* irrationally equate Internet communications with radio and TV broadcasting,
and unconstitutionally impose on computer networks indecency restrictions
that are more severe than those applied to any other medium;
* actively hinder the on-going development and refinement of real
solutions to problems such as online harassment and parents' needs to
supervise their own children's online access;
* in all probability will establish broad FCC regulation of the Internet,
with all of the attendant problems that will entail;
* create a new "access crime", equating the posting of material on a web
site, or even the provision of basic Internet access, with willful
transmission of indecent material directly to minors - harming the online
service industry, and retarding the development of the electronic press;
* afford no effective legal protection for system operators, creating a
speech-chilling liability no more sensible than holding librarians and
postmasters responsible for the content on bookshelves and in parcels.
* weaken the privacy of all Internet users by turning system operators
into snoops and censors.
* would criminalize even classic works of literature and art, or medical
and educational materials on breast cancer or sexually transmitted
disease. Obscenity law, not the indencency law used in the Telecom Bill,
considers literary, artistic or scientific value. Indecency law makes
no such exceptions.
Many reasonable adults might be surprised to find that the Telecom Bill's
indecency restrictions could ban:
* the online distribution of the King James Bible, which quite prominently
features the word "piss" (in II Kings) - a word already specifically
defined by the Supreme Court to be indecent;
* the text (or video, for that matter) of a PG movie that any child may
attend without parental supervision, not to mention the R-rated content
available on any of a number of cable TV stations;
* a _Schindler's_List_ WWW site, which could earn an Internet service
provider prison time;
* anything featuring nudity, in any context, including breast cancer
information or photos of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel paintings, which
could result in the poster have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars
in fines, if the material happened to seem "patently offensive" to an
excitable prosecutor.
This is the grim reality of censorship through indecency regulation: It
makes no allowances for artistic merit, social value, or medical necessity.
It is without reason, and without conscience.
Court Challenge
Fortunately, there is a very good chance that the courts will refuse
outright to uphold the Communications Decency provisions of the Telecom
Bill. EFF, along with other civil-liberties groups, will be mounting a
legal challenge to the bill's censorship provisions, on First Amendment and
other Constitutional grounds. Among the bases for challenging the act:
* Unconstitutional expansion of federal authority. It is inappropriate
for the Federal Communications Commission or any other federal agency to
dictate standards for content in a medium where there is no independent
Constitutional justification for federal regulation, as there has been in
the broadcast arena and in certain narrow areas of basic telephone
service. Like newspapers and bookstores, the Internet is fully protected
by the First Amendment.
* Vagueness and overbreadth. The terms the act relies on -- "indecency"
and "patently offensive" -- have never been positively defined by the
courts or the Congress, and so create uncertainty as to the scope of the
restriction, necessarily resulting in a "chilling effect" on protected
speech. Moreover, these terms criminalize broad classes of speech that are
understood to be protected by the First Amendment, including material that
has serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.
* Failure to use the "least restrictive means" to regulate speech. The
First Amendment requires that speech regulation laws must pass the "least
restrictive means" test. That is, if government censorship is not
the least restrictive possible means of ensuring the goal (protecting
an unwitting or under-age audience from unsolicited indecency), then
the restriction is unconstitutional. In the case of the Internet,
government control is demonstrably not the least restrictive means,
as filtration, ratings, and labeling technology and services are already
available and operational - from software tools to help parents shield
their children from inappropriate material, to special filtered
Usenet service for entire schools, in which all information has been
checked for indecent content.
An indecency restriction must pass all of these tests to be constitutional.
The Communications Decency Amendment fails every one of them.
EFF, together with a wide range of civil-liberties groups and
organizations that would be affected by the legislation, has already
joined preparations for a massive legal challenge to the CDA should
it pass - an effort that should enjoin enforcement of this legislation,
and, we hope, prevent the darker scenarios outlined above. The entire
process will be very costly in time, human resources and money, but is
necessary to protect what remains of our rights to free speech, press, and
association.
Launching of the Blue Ribbon Campaign
A blue ribbon is chosen as the symbol for the preservation of basic civil
rights in the electronic world.
EFF asks that a blue ribbon be worn or displayed to show support for the
essential human right of free speech. This fundamental building block of
free society, affirmed by the U.S. Bill of Rights in 1791, and by the U.N.
Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, has been sacrificed in the 1996 Telecom
Bill.
The blue ribbon will be a way to raise awareness of these issues, and for
the quiet voice of reason to be heard.
The voice of reason knows that free speech doesn't equate to abuse of
women and children, or the breeding of hatred or intolerance.
For more information on the Blue Ribbon Campaign, including blue ribbon
graphics we encourage Net users to prominently display on their WWW pages
with links to the URL below, please see:
gopher.eff.org, 1/Activism/BlueRibbon
ftp.eff.org, /pub/Activism/BlueRibbon/
For more information on the Communications Decency legislation and other
Internet censorship bills, see:
http://www.eff.org/pub/Alerts/
gopher.eff.org, 1/Alerts
ftp.eff.org, /pub/Alerts/
Subject: Activists' Corner
Please take a little bit of time to get some ribbon and safety pins,
which should be available at many local stores, and fashion some blue
ribbons to wear and to hand out. You'll be surprised how many people
will ask what it means and wear a ribbon themselves when you tell them.
Please also put blue ribbon graphics on your homepage. See
http://www.eff.org/blueribbon.html for more info. If you have some extra
time and resources, please set up your own blue ribbon info page, to help
spread the word - and spread the load on our hard-working servers (and
sysadmin! :)
* Pro-CDA Free Speech Skeptics
If you are active in online forums where the CDA is a hot topic, or are
hosting a blue ribbon page on your own site, you will sooner or later get
one or more flames from people professing to support the goals of the
Communications Decency Act. Many of these people will display hostility,
and an great deal of confusion about what the new law really says and means.
Many will also be ideologically opposed to the concepts of free speech.
The latter die-hards may be a lost cause, but even if they seem that way,
please refer them politely to http://www.eff.org/blueribbon/skeptical.html
- There they will find the CDA's provisions and their meaning explained
in lay terms as well as explorations of what the negative impact of the
CDA, if enforced, will be on online communications, electronic libraries,
Remember: People new to the net, who have seen little accurate media
coverage on this issue, and who are concerned about the welfare of their
kids, are not enemies. They are simply potential allies you have not yet won
over. Pro-speech advocates have something in our favor: We are telling
the truth about the CDA, about indecency law, and about the nature of the
Internet, and can prove it.
* URGENT: We Need to Know What's Happening in Your Area!
EFF does not have an army of hundreds of legal researchers. As a result,
we cannot track every piece of relevant legislation evey day. If you have
or can obtain information on impending state-level, or non-US national-level,
censorship (and anti-privacy) legislation and regulation, then please do
so, and pass the info on to us. Even if we completely defeat the CDA,
this will have done no good if every other state and country is passing
Exon-alike censorship bills. *This is happening already.*
When adequate info is available, it will appear at
http://www.eff.org/pub/Alerts/Foreign_and_local/ (currently featuring info
on progress in derailing a state Net censorship bill in New York, and a
partial update on what is happening in Germany - much more will be coming
soon.)
You may also wish to consider helping start a local "Electronic
Frontiers" organization in your area. There's not better time than now,
and if we all wait for someone else to do it, it will never get done.
You'll be in good company; such independent "EF" groups are already
active in Texas, New Hampshire, Norway, the UK, Italy, Australia and
several other places. If you are committed to doing this, please get in
touch with Stanton McCandlish, EFF's online activist (mech@eff.org), who
can put you in touch with people working on similar projects, and also
give you at outline of some steps to take to make it happen.
Subject: NewsNybbles
* EFF News
- www.eff.org, our web server, is now 4 web servers in one (3 in-house
machines, and 1 remote server - thanks to APK!) The mirroring is not
working perfectly yet. If you encounter problems, please try connecting
directly to the "master" version of www.eff.org, kragar.eff.org (e.g.
replace "www" in any EFF URL with "kragar".) Please do not bookmark or
create links to kragar URLs - the bugs should be worked out soon, and
the vast majority of connections via www.eff.org should work just fine.
- We've seen an increase in WWW traffic over the last week or so, from
60-80,000 hits per day to over 700,000 hits per day when we quit
counting. By now we estimate it is over 1,000,000 per day. Most of
this traffic is due to the Blue Ribbon Campaign. This is a very
encouraging sign that the campaign is working, and working rapidly.
- Ye editor's apologies for the lag between the last EFFector and this one.
I'm also EFF's webmaster, and simply keeping up with the telecom bill's
passage and the subsequent lawsuits and grassroots activism had absorbed
all available time. CDT, VTW and others reported on much of this action
very well, and thanks to the black page and blue ribbon campaigns,
there's been a load of "traditional" media attention as well, so we doubt
EFFector telling you the same things would have helped much anyway.
Things are now getting into the details - the legal challenges, the
action campaigns, the state and foreign shockwaves, so EFFector is
back on the beat.
* Get Out the Netly Vote
If the folks at the Voter's Telecommunication Watch have their way, civil
liberties on the Internet will be a prominent issue in federal, state and
local campaigns this year.
VTW has already started encouraging candidates to think about their
stances on encryption, censorship and public on-line access to government
documents. During a special election in Oregon to fill retiring Sen.
Packwood's seat. Candidates from the American, Democratic and Republican
parties all signed a "Technology Pledge," asserting their support of
civil liberties on the Internet. The one who had a track record of
actually upholding such values in Congress, then-Rep. Ron Wyden, won by a
narrow margin. Narrow enough that he may have lost if not for the
support of online constituents.
Given more preparation time, increased awareness, and the public ire
spawned by the passage of the Communications Decency Act, the online
voting bloc's power should be even larger, come November.
Since the conclusion of the Oregon election on Jan. 30, VTW has said it will
begin gearing up for other races in 1996. See http://www.vtw.org for
Those who aren't willing to wait can express their views with votes that
count in a different way. VoteLink, and advertiser-supported service free
to users presents topics on which visitors can vote and debate. The
results of these surveys are distributed to press organizations,
Congress, and the White House. VoteLink is available at
http://www.votelink.com. NOTE: VoteLink will soon have available a special
section on the CDA, and we urge you to add your input. The results of
this survey too will be send to regulators and major media outlets. This
is another opportunity to make your voice heard! [EFF does not
commercially endorse VoteLink or any other service or product. We simply
recognize a good opportunity for activists here.]
* Govt. Printing Office Online Access Finally "Free" - Fresh not Stale Bills
It seems as if the U.S. government has been heeding the call for
increased access to federal records. As of December 1,
the Government Printing Office's GPO Access on-line service has been
transformed from a restricted access, subscription-based service to a "free"
(already tax-paid) Internet service. It seems likely that the last year and
more of protests from Internet users has paid off - user upset at being
charged again - and charged a lot - for what they've already paid for
with their tax money. The action now must move to the state level, as
California and other areas prepare to gouge taxpayers to satisfy
monopolistic demands of companies accustomed to being able to re-sell
public information at high cost.
The GPO went on-line in June 1994, and since that time access to the
service has been free only at 600 of the nearly 1,400 Federal Deposit
Libraries and to users of 20 deposity library "gateways."
GPO Access provides on-line text of the Congressional Record, the Federal
Register, congressional bills, and other government documents to the
public the same day they are published. This is a very under-announced
victory. The much-touted "Thomas" service from the Library of Congress -
http://thomas.loc.gov - provides legislative texts far too late for many
of them to be of any use to the concerned citizen. Letters of support to
the GPO are now warranted - this agency has done on its own, in response
to citizen pressure, what all the promises of Speaker of the House Newt
Gingrich have failed to deliver: immediate public access to the law as it
is being made, rather than after the fact when it is too late to affect.
GPO access is not perfect. The interface could use some work, and there
remain problems with the publication process itself - committee and
conferences drafts remain the purview of specially-favored lobbyists, for
example, preventing almost all public input into the most important
decisions being made in Congress. But it's better than what was
previously available.
GPO is funded from Congressional monies for the Federal Depository
Library Program and can be accessed at http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/.
Users can also telnet to swais.access.gpo.gov and log in as "guest," or
dial direct to 202-512-1661, type "swais" and log in as "guest."
Australian and British citizens aren't so lucky however. It seems the
government-owned publishing organizations in these countries want to
exploit their copyright commercially instead of providing free Internet
access to the public information it is in charge of publishing. In the
UK, a group called the Campaign for Freedom of Information is calling for
the government to post the daily record of the parliament and the
Acts of Parliament to the Internet. Electronic Frontiers Australia may
take similar action "down under".
* PROFS Case Update - Closer to Resolution
Now in it's seventh year of litigation, all but one essential aspect of
the PROFS case has been settled. In Dec., 1995, the District Court for
Washington, DC, issued a ruling agreed upon by both parties which
stipulated that the government would pay the plaintiffs $585,803 to
cover attorney's fees and expenses in the portion of their complaint
concerning the preservation of federal e-mail.
The case began in 1989 when the American Historical Association and
journalist Scott Armstrong went to court seeking a temporary injunction
to prohibit the destruction of e-mail messages of the National Security
Council. Armstrong v. the Executive Office of the President is often
referred to as the PROFS case because the NSC was using IBM's PROFS
(Professional Office System) software for electronic mail.
The case also dealt with federal response to a Freedom of Information Act
request made by Armstrong and a controversy over whether NSC records are
agency records and therefore subject to the Federal Records Act or
presidential records, which are not. The only remaining portion of the
case left to be decided is the governments appeal of a District Court
judge's decision that NSC records were subject to the FOIA.
The judge made his ruling last spring and the decision was heard on
appeal in September. No judgement has yet been issued in the
government's appeal.
As a result of the PROFS case, the National Archives has set new
standards for the preservation of federal agency e-mail. All federal e-mail
messages are now considered official documents and subject to the FOIA as
are their paper counterparts. Also as a result of the PROFS case,
federal e-mail must now be transferred to paper or to electronic tape in
order to be preserved by the National Archives.
Also in December, the government dropped its own appeal in a related case
of the American Historical Association v. Carlin. A district court judge
had ruled illegal an agreement between former President George Bush and
former U.S. Archivist Don Wilson which gave the president control over the
backup tapes of e-mail messages at issue in the PROFS case.
Subject: Upcoming events
This schedule lists events that are directly EFF-related. A much more
detailed calendar of events likely to be of interest to our members and
supporters is maintained at:
ftp: ftp.eff.org, /pub/EFF/calendar.eff
gopher: gopher.eff.org, 1/EFF, calendar.eff
http://www.eff.org/pub/EFF/calendar.eff
Feb. 14 - CDA Protest Rally, U. Penn., Philadelphia PA
Be there, to protest Internet censorship right before a
speech by VP Gore!
URL: http://www.eff.org/pub/Alerts/pa_rally_021496.alert
Feb. 15 - HotWired Electronic Frontiers Forum; online event, 7pm PST
"speak"ers will include EFF's fellow members of the Coalition
to Stop the CDA, Shabbir Safdar of Voters' Telecom Watch and
Jonah Seiger of the Center for Democracy & Technology. Topic:
The Communications Decency Act and other threats to online
free speech. Users can participate via either WWW
(http://www.hotwired.com/club/) or telnet (chat.wired.com 2428).
URL: http://www.hotwired.com/club/
Feb. 22 - 24 Hours in Democracy, 12:01am-11:59pm PST
"They defined cyberspace. We define democracy." A global
multimedia event in support of online free speech, privacy and
other democratic values. NOTE: This event still needs a lot of
content, and a lot of volunteered time, effort, server horsepower,
etc. Please get active and help out!
URL: http://www.hotwired.com/userland/24/
Email: Dave Winer (dwiner@well.com)
Mar. 27-
30 - CFP96, the Sixth Conference on Computers, Freedom, & Privacy;
MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Sponsored by ACM SIGCOMM,
SIGCAS, SIGSAC, and the World Wide Web Consortium. This is
THE electronic privacy conference. Speakers include EFF
representatives (and CFP is also the time and place of the
EFF Pioneer Awards ceremony.)
Email: cfp96-info@mit.edu
URL: http://web.mit.edu/cfp96
Subject: Quote of the Day
"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can
stand by itself."
- Thomas Jefferson, "Notes on Virginia"
Find yourself wondering if your privacy and freedom of speech are safe
when bills to censor the Internet are swimming about in a sea of of
surveillance legislation and anti-terrorism hysteria? Worried that in
the rush to make us secure from ourselves that our government
representatives may deprive us of our essential civil liberties?
Concerned that legislative efforts nominally to "protect children" will
actually censor all communications down to only content suitable for
the playground? Alarmed by commercial and religious organizations abusing
the judicial and legislative processes to stifle satire, dissent and
criticism?
Join EFF!
Even if you don't live in the U.S., the anti-Internet hysteria will soon
be visiting a legislative body near you. If it hasn't already.
Subject: What YOU Can Do
* The Communications Decency Act & Other Censorship Legislation
The Communications Decency Act and similar legislation pose serious
threats to freedom of expression online, and to the livelihoods of system
operators. The legislation also undermines several crucial privacy
protections.
Business/industry persons concerned should alert their corporate govt.
affairs office and/or legal counsel. Everyone should write to their own
Representatives and Senators, letting them know that such abuses of
public trust will not be tolerated, that legislators who vote against
your free speech rights will be voted against by you in the next elections.
Join in the Blue Ribbon Campaign - see http://www.eff.org/blueribbon.html
Support the EFF Cyberspace Legal Defense Fund:
http://www.eff.org/pub/Alerts/cyberlegal_fund_eff.announce
For more information on what you can do to help stop this and other
dangerous legislation, see:
If you do not have full internet access (e.g. WWW), send your request
for information to ask@eff.org.
* Digital Telephony/Comms. Assistance to Law Enforcement Act
The FBI is now seeking both funding for the DT/CALEA wiretapping provisions,
and preparing to require that staggering numbers of citizens be
simultaneously wiretappable.
To oppose the funding, write to your own Senators and Representatives
urging them to vote against any appropriations for wiretapping.
We are aware of no major action on this threat at present, but keep your
eyes peeled. It will be back.
* Anti-Terrorism Bills
Numerous bills threatening your privacy and free speech have been introduced
this year. None of them are close to passage at this very moment, but
this status may change. Urge your Congresspersons to oppose these
unconstitutional and Big-Brotherish bills.
* The Anti-Electronic Racketeering Act
This bill is unlikely to pass in any form, being very poorly drafted, and
without much support. However, the CDA is just as bad and passed with
flying colors [the jolly roger?] in the Senate. It's better to be safe
than sorry. If you have a few moments to spare, writing to, faxing, or
calling your Congresspersons to urge opposition to this bill is a good
idea.
* Medical Privacy Legislation
Several bills relating to medical privacy issues are floating in Congress
right now. Urge your legislators to support only proposals that *truly*
enhance the medical privacy of citizens.
More information on this legislation will be available at
http://www.eff.org/pub/Privacy/Medical/ soon. Bug mech@eff.org to make
it appear there faster. :)
* Find Out Who Your Congresspersons Are
Writing letters to, faxing, and phoning your representatives in Congress
is one very important strategy of activism, and an essential way of
making sure YOUR voice is heard on vital issues.
EFF has lists of the Senate and House with contact information, as well
as lists of Congressional committees. (A House list is included in this
issue of EFFector). These lists are available at:
ftp.eff.org, /pub/Activism/Congress_cmtes/
gopher.eff.org, 1/EFF/Issues/Activism/Congress_cmtes
http://www.eff.org/pub/Activism/Congress_cmtes/
The full Senate and House lists are senate.list and hr.list, respectively.
Those not in the U.S. should seek out similar information about their
own legislative bodies. EFF will be happy to archive any such
information provided.
If you are having difficulty determining who your Representatives are,
try contacting your local League of Women Voters, who maintain a great
deal of legislative information, or consult the free ZIPPER service
that matches Zip Codes to Congressional districts with about 85%
accuracy at:
http://www.stardot.com/~lukeseem/zip.html
Computer Currents Interactive has provided Congress contact info, sorted
by who voted for and against the Communcations Decency Act:
http://www.currents.net/congress.html
* Join EFF!
You *know* privacy, freedom of speech and ability to make your voice heard
in government are important. You have probably participated in our online
campaigns and forums. Have you become a member of EFF yet? The best way to
protect your online rights is to be fully informed and to make your
opinions heard. EFF members are informed and are making a difference. Join
EFF today!
For EFF membership info, send queries to membership@eff.org, or send any
message to info@eff.org for basic EFF info, and a membership form.
EFFector Online is published by:
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General EFF, legal, policy or online resources queries: ask@eff.org
Editor: Stanton McCandlish, Online Activist, Webmaster (mech@eff.org)
Assoc. Editor: Ryan Thornburg, Communications Intern (rmt@eff.org)
This newsletter is printed on 100% recycled electrons.
Reproduction of this publication in electronic media is encouraged. Signed
articles do not necessarily represent the views of EFF. To reproduce
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Back issues are available at:
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Endorsement is one of two regimes provided in the CRA Regulation that allow credit ratings issued in a third country to be used for regulatory purposes in the EU – the other being equivalence/certification. Article 21(3) of the CRA Regulation requires ESMA to issue and update guidelines on the application of the endorsement regime specified under Article 4(3) of the same Regulation. This Consultation Paper proposes to update the previously issued 2011 Guidelines on Endorsement.
The proposed update of the 2011 Guidelines on Endorsement is mainly driven by the need to reflect the changes to Articles 6-12 and Annex I introduced by CRA 3, which will enter into force for the purposes of equivalence and endorsement on 1 June 2018. On that basis, ESMA has to update the Methodological Framework on which ESMA relies for assessing a third-country legal and supervisory framework for the purposes of endorsement and equivalence. This Methodological Framework is provided in Annex II of the 2011 Guidelines on Endorsement. By 1 June 2018, ESMA should also have completed a reassessment of all the previously assessed third-country legal and regulatory frameworks against the new requirements based on the updated Methodological Framework (provided in Annex III).
ESMA has taken this opportunity to reassess its approach to endorsement more broadly, based on the supervisory experience acquired since the adoption of the 2011 Guidelines on Endorsement. The proposed changes and clarification of the 2011 Guidelines on Endorsement focus in particular on ESMA’s understanding of points (b), (c), (d), and (e) of Article 4(3) of the CRA Regulation.
Furthermore, some parts of the 2011 Guidelines on Endorsement relate to the establishment of ESMA, the initial registration of CRAs and various transitional arrangements. The proposed updated Guidelines on Endorsement do not include these parts, as they are no longer relevant. Finally, some information in the 2011 Guidelines on Endorsement was not addressed to market participants but referred to ESMA’s internal processes. This information has also been excluded from the proposed updated guidelines on Endorsement, but is, for context, summarised in Section 4 of this Consultation Paper.
13/07/2016 2016/1121 Consultation Paper on the Guidelines on the validation and review of Credit Rating Agencies’ methodologies Credit Rating Agencies Consultation Paper PDF
12/05/2016 ESA/2016/41 Opinion of the ESAs- ECAI credit assessments Credit Rating Agencies, Joint Committee Opinion PDF
25/01/2016 2016/96 Slides from ESMA’s Open Hearing on validation and review of CRAs’ methodologies Credit Rating Agencies Consultation Paper PDF
17/11/2015 2015/1735 Discussion Paper on the validation and review of Credit Rating Agencies’ methodologies Credit Rating Agencies Consultation Paper PDF
20/03/2015 2015/558 Call for evidence on private and bilateral SFIs Credit Rating Agencies Consultation Paper PDF
118.4 KB This call for evidence should be read by all those involved in the EU securitisation markets. It is particularly targeted at the following market participants and the groups and trade associations who represent them: • Issuers, originators and sponsors of Structured Finance Instruments (SFIs);• Investors acting in the securitisation markets;• Market intermediaries other than the issuers, originators and sponsors of SFIs.Responses are most helpful to ESMA when they clearly indicate which question is being answered and provide evidence in support of the response, such as concrete examples of practices experienced, data or costs estimates. Should respondents feel that the distinction provided for by the two proposed categories (issuers vs. investors) is not suitable to their particular situation, ESMA welcomes these contributions in alternative format. ESMA will consider all responses that have been received by 20 May 2015. All contributions should be submitted online at www.esma.europa.eu under the heading ‘Your input - Consultations’.
03/02/2015 2015/233 Call for Evidence Competition, Choice and Conflicts of Interests in the CRA Industry Credit Rating Agencies Consultation Paper PDF
23/12/2014 JC/DP/2014/01 Discussion Paper- The Use of Credit Ratings by Financial Intermediaries Article 5(a) of the CRA Regulation Credit Rating Agencies, Joint Committee Consultation Paper PDF
16/07/2014 2014/845 Consultation Paper on periodic information to be submitted to ESMA by Credit Rating Agencies Credit Rating Agencies Consultation Paper PDF
367.99 KB Summary The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) is consulting on new supervisory guidelines regarding the information that is periodically submitted to ESMA by credit rating agencies. Good quality, relevant and timely data is key to the efficient and effective supervision of the CRA sector and the aim of this consultation paper is to ensure that the information that CRAs are requested to submit supports ESMA's supervisory work in identifying the key risks in the CRA sector. In addition to the periodic reporting to CEREP and SOCRAT, registered CRAs must notify ESMA of changes to their initial conditions for registration and submit periodically to ESMA information in accordance with ESMA’s Guidance on the enforcement practices and activities. CRAs must also submit annually to ESMA information regarding their revenues for the calculation of the supervisory fees and market share. Finally, CRAs submit to ESMA periodically other information that is used for on-going supervisory purposes. The guidelines are proposed under Article 16 of EU No 1095/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 November 2010, which enables ESMA to publish guidelines addressed to financial market participants with a view to establishing consistent, efficient and effective supervisory practices. These proposed guidelines will replace CESR’s Guidance on the enforcement practices and activities to be conducted under Article 21.3(a) of the Regulation (ESMA/2010/944) of 30 August 2010. The consultation paper should be by read by credit rating agencies (as defined in Article 3(1)(b) of the CRA Regulation), companies which have applied for registration or are considering applying for registration, competent authorities, and consumer groups. An open hearing on the issues contained in this paper will be held on 15 October 2014. The closing date for comments is 31 October 2014.
11/02/2014 2014/150 Consultation Paper on CRA3 Implementation Credit Rating Agencies Consultation Paper PDF
1.92 MB The consultation paper seeks stakeholders’ views on the draft RTS ESMA is required to adopt under the CRA3 Regulation. The input from stakeholders will help ESMA in drafting the final report. Respondents to this consultation are encouraged to provide the relevant data to support their arguments or proposals. Responding to this paper ESMA invites comments on all matters in this paper. Comments are most helpful if they: contain a clear rationale; include quantitative elements to support any concern; and describe any alternatives ESMA should consider, including alternative drafts. ESMA will consider all comments received by 11 April 2014.All contributions should be submitted online on the Consultation Page. Hearing ESMA is seeking input from users, producers of credit ratings, those involved in the issuance of structured finance instruments (issuers, originators and sponsors), anyone interested in the up-to-date individual rating data or in competition in the credit market.The hearing will be held on Friday, 14 March 2014, from 10.00 to 13.00 CET and is open to all. Please register on the Hearing page.
10/07/2013 2013/891 Discussion Paper on CRA3 Implementation Credit Rating Agencies Consultation Paper PDF
639.76 KB The Discussion Paper deals with the implementation of the CRA3 Regulation, which entered into force on 20 June 2013.The Regulation, which complements the existing regulatory framework for credit rating agencies (CRAs), requires ESMA to draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on:• disclosure requirements on structured finance instruments (SFIs);• the European Rating Platform (ERP); and• the periodic reporting on fees charged by CRAs.ESMA is seeking views from all interested parties by 10 October 2013 in order to assist in its preparation of the draft RTS to be published for consultation in early 2014. ESMA must submit the draft RTS to the European Commission by 21 June 2014.
20/12/2012 2012/841 Guidelines and recommendations on the scope of the CRA Regulation Credit Rating Agencies Consultation Paper PDF
19/09/2011 2011/302 Consultation paper- Regulatory technical standards on the information to be provided to ESMA by a credit rating agency in its application for registration and certification and for the assessment of its systemic importance Credit Rating Agencies Consultation Paper PDF
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15/11/2018 ESMA70-145-1081 Annual report on administrative and criminal sanctions and other administrative measures under MAR Market Abuse, Market Integrity Annual Report PDF
14/11/2013 2013/1650 ESMA begins preparatory work for new Market Abuse Regime Market Abuse, Market Integrity, Press Releases Press Release PDF
95.26 KB ESMA begins preparatory work for new Market Abuse Regime The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published a Discussion Paper setting out its initial views on the implementing measures it will have to develop for the new Market Abuse Regulation (MAR). MAR aims to enhance market integrity and investor protection. It will achieve this by updating and strengthening the existing market abuse framework, by extending its scope to new markets and trading strategies, and by introducing new requirements. The Discussion Paper presents positions and regulatory options on those issues where ESMA will have to develop MAR implementing measures, likely to include Regulatory Technical Standards, Delegated Acts and Guidelines. These implementing measures are of fundamental importance to the new regime, as they set out how MAR’s enlarged scope is to be implemented in practice by market participants, trading platforms, investors, issuers and persons related to financial markets. In developing these regulatory options ESMA, where similar requirements already exist under the current Market Abuse Directive (MAD), has taken into consideration the existing MAD Level 2 texts and ESMA/CESR guidelines to set out the DP positions in light of the extended scope of MAR. This Discussion Paper is based on the version of the MAR Level 1 text agreed by the European Parliament, the Council and the European Commission on 24 June 2013. The closing date for responses is Monday 27 January 2014. MAR Policy Areas The DP covers ten sections of MAR where ESMA is expected to have to provide input, these include: • conditions to be met by buyback programmes and stabilization measures to benefit from the exemption from market abuse prohibitions; • arrangement and procedures required for market soundings, from the perspective of both the sounding and the sounded market participants; • indicators and signals of market manipulation; • criteria to establish Accepted Market Practices; • arrangement, systems and procedures to put in place for the purpose of suspicious transactions and order reporting as well as its content and format; • issues relating to public disclosure of inside information and the conditions for delay; • format for insider lists; • issues concerning the reporting and public disclosure of managers’ transactions; • arrangements for fair presentation and disclosure of conflicts of interests by producers and disseminators of investment recommendations; • reporting of violations and related procedures. Next steps ESMA will consider the feedback it receives to this consultation in Q1 2014 and incorporate it in to its full consultation papers on both its draft Technical Standards and Technical Advice to the Commission. The dates for these consultations are will depend on the publication of the final version of MAR. Notes for editors 1. 2013/1649 Discussion Paper - ESMA’s policy orientations on possible implementing measures under the Market Abuse Regulation 2. Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on insider dealing and market manipulation (market abuse) (MAR) 3. ESMA is an independent EU Authority that was established on 1 January 2011 and works closely with the other European Supervisory Authorities responsible for banking (EBA), and insurance and occupational pensions (EIOPA), and the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB). 4. ESMA’s mission is to enhance the protection of investors and promote stable and well-functioning financial markets in the European Union (EU). As an independent institution, ESMA achieves this aim by building a single rule book for EU financial markets and ensuring its consistent application across the EU. ESMA contributes to the regulation of financial services firms with a pan-European reach, either through direct supervision or through the active co-ordination of national supervisory activity. Press Release 2013/1650 Discussion Paper 2013/1649
15/02/2016 2016/291 ESMA consults on implementation of the Benchmarks Regulation Market Integrity, Press Releases, Benchmarks Press Release PDF
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has today published a Discussion Paper (DP) regarding the technical implementation of the incoming Benchmarks Regulation (BR). ESMA is seeking stakeholder’s input to inform its future proposals on draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) and Technical Advice (TA) to the European Commission.
Benchmarks are used in financial markets as a reference to price financial instruments and to measure performance of investment funds, as well as being an important element of many financial contracts and their integrity is critical to financial markets and to investors in particular. The BR’s objective is to improve the governance and control over the benchmark process, thereby ensuring their reliability and protecting users. The changes aim to:
improve the quality of the input data and methodologies used by benchmark administrators;
ensure that benchmark contributors provide adequate data and are subject to proper controls; and
ensure the supervision and viability of critical benchmarks.
Steven Maijoor, ESMA Chair, said:
“The Benchmark Regulation, once implemented, will ensure the accuracy, robustness and integrity of benchmarks and the benchmark setting process by clarifying the behaviours and standards expected of administrators and contributors. These requirements will ensure that benchmarks are produced in a transparent and reliable manner and so contribute to well-functioning and stable markets, and investor protection.
“ESMA, in preparing for its work on regulatory technical standards and technical advice, is keen to ensure that all affected stakeholders have their views heard on this important topic and we hope that all interested parties will take this opportunity to contribute.”
The DP is seeking stakeholder’s feedback in the following areas:
definition of benchmarks;
requirements for the benchmark oversight function;
requirements for the benchmark input data;
governance and control requirements for supervised benchmark contributors;
authorisation and registration of an administrator; and
transparency requirements regarding the benchmark methodology.
The exact date when the Benchmarks Regulation will enter into force is still unknown as it has not yet been published in the Official Journal of the EU.
ESMA will hold an open hearing on the DP on 29 February 2016 in Paris. It will use the responses to its DP to develop detailed implementing measures on which it will publish a follow-up consultation in Q3 2016.
02/07/2019 ESMA71-99-1158 MWT Reclaim Schemes Release Market Integrity, Press Releases Press Release PDF
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06/12/2017 ESMA50-164-1173 Press Release MiFID/MAR Transitional Transparency Calculations Market Abuse, Market Integrity, MiFID - Secondary Markets, MiFID II: Transparency Calculations and DVC, Press Releases Press Release PDF
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When I get within five feet of the squirrel in the middle of the backyard, and he still hasn’t moved, I resort to drastic measures, but even throwing my empty ginger ale can in his direction doesn’t seem to faze him. He starts a little in irritation as it lands in the grass near him, and then proceeds to scamper at a leisurely pace between the trees and under the fence to the neighbor’s yard where he turns back to me as if to ask, “Satisfied, you meanie?”
“Did you come out here just to save that squirrel’s life, Scott?” he says, standing on the back porch with an air rifle in his hands and an exasperated smile on his face.
“What do you think?” I reply with a grin.
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Decorative Sasquatch
In an effort to get out of the house, we take a walk on the bike path meandering behind and between the yards of the large suburban homes in Katie’s old neighborhood, with fences and trees guarding immaculate lawns surrounding us on both sides.
Just off the path, we see a tiny, thin vine that seems to be growing out of nothing, attached to nothing, but upon more close examination we notice the almost invisible corkscrew tendrils that anchor it to the dead pine needles littering the ground, and underneath each little leaf, a miniature yellow flower growing.
We continue our walk down the path until we reach a dead end, but as we come around a corner, someone has placed a small statue of a Bigfoot in the traditional pose (walking with a sort of loping gait, hunched a little, looking over his shoulder like he expects somebody to ask him to help him move a couch and he wants to be out of there before it gets awkward). Both of us have been watching Planet of the Apes movies, and so we both jump and yelp a little when we first see it, like we think it might start demanding equal rights.
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Pose and Reality
We pose by the water while Katie’s dad takes a photo. I tilt my chin, try to remember to stand up straight, to look into the lens, to smile so it doesn’t look like I’m grimacing. Loud music blares from a speaker where two people sit resting who will, in a moment, be dancing to entertain the throngs of tourists crowding the docks.
We walk back toward the car and pass a child crouching in a fountain as torrents of water firehose onto him, and as we pass, he closes his eyes, moves deeper into the cascade, and seems to disappear almost completely.
I’m floating in the surf, my head and shoulders just above the surface, my brain waves smoothing out in rhythm with the rollers, when Katie’s brother catches my attention from a few yards away. “They’re coming to get us out,” he says, pointing behind us to the beach.
Katie and her dad are on the shore, the sky behind them piled high with thick, heavy, black clouds, grumbling with thunder.
I turn away, back to the ocean, staring with longing at the tide just starting to come in.
A Disturbance in the Force
“Scott,” says Katie, poking her head around the open sliding glass door, “stop reading the internet and come out here."
I dutifully step out into the darkness of a humid South Carolina night, and am greeted by a cacophony of voices: frogs, hundreds of them from the sound of it, all of them ribbiting and creaking and chirping in a metallic, croaking polyrhythm across the lagoon out behind our beach house.
Suddenly, after we listen to them for a few minutes, all of the voices cut off, and Katie and I look at each other curiously. Then, a hiss rises from the lagoon, and we hear a gentle drumming on the patio roof as it begins to rain.
There’s a sensation right before the wave comes: like I’m going to be pulled up the glassy green face of it and shot into the sky with the foam.
I push off the bottom and kick like mad, one arm in front to steer, one arm by my side, and I can feel the wave pick me and amplify my momentum. There’s a sound, too, rushing water, surging blood in my ears, and the feeling of flying, of being carried by a force so much bigger than me, lifted by a hand that could accidentally crush me without even knowing that I’m there.
When I’m done, I look back, forty yards or so back to where I started, to see Katie and her brother laughing in the surf, and I stand up in the shallows and start walking back to do it all over again.
Close Enough
‘Pressure Drop’ plays over the resort sound system as I sneak into the restroom during my afternoon on the beach, and I pee and sing along quietly, continuing to do so afterwards as I wash my hands until a man steps up next to me.
“You know who this is?” he says in a Caribbean accent, pointing up at the overhead speaker.
Of course I blank on the band the moment somebody asks me, but I punt, saying, “I know it’s from ‘The Harder They Come.’”
He considers this, then shrugs and nods, like, sure, that’ll do.
Only The Brave Deserve The Fair
We exit the main highway and drive down a tree-shaded road. Katie is checking her phone in the back while Audrey cheerfully continues to chatter away, periodically taking both hands off the wheel to gesture emphatically about a point she is making, and I watch the road in front of us, taking in the gorgeous green of oak and pine surrounding us on all sides.
Suddenly, for no reason, my vision seems to somehow expand, and where I normally see in a narrow slice in front of me, I now see wide-screen, as if the world has opened up, like in The Wizard of Oz, where Dorothy’s story goes from black and white into full-blown, saturated color.
My stomach drops away, like I’m not so much moving through the world as falling into it, hurtling into a space that is so rich and deep that I will be swallowed up, so I pull back my consciousness, startled, and the world obligingly retreats into its usual narrow band, normal, ordinary, and I wonder what I have lost.
Cranky at Dinner
Katie pokes her head in the door. “You’re not napping?” she exclaims in faux outrage.
I sheepishly take off my headphones, and over the tinny sound of bass, high hat, and snare rattling from the cans, start to explain, but she brushes me aside.
“If I put you down for a nap and you don’t nap, you might get cranky at dinner!” she says, as if she is pretending to be stern.
“Wasn’t that the dorm where all the football players lived?” Audrey asks as she drives down the road. All of the roads in North Carolina are surrounded by a riot of green - trees, grass verges, shrubs - and the air is wet with humidity.
“On game days, they’d take your IDs and if you were still in there after 11 PM they’d come and find you and throw you, I guess so you didn’t like deplete their testosterone or something,” she continues.
Katie scoffs, “Buncha sexual predators in there."
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“I’ve always hated the term ‘pre-boarding,’” Katie says, grimacing as the platinum flyers, the gold level status passengers, the medallion level customers, the whatevers all begin to board the plane before us.
“It’s just a scam to get people to believe that they’re special, to pay for the privilege of being ahead of you,” I reply.
“So if you have ‘Zone 1’ on your ticket, it’s actually, like, the third group to get on,” she says, pointing bitterly at the spots in front of the ticket taker’s desk where each group can line up for ‘Zone 1’ and so-on.
“‘Zone 4’ is actually just the bar next to the gate,” I say, and Katie laughs.
Different Styles
After she double checks the address on the letter she’s sending and then reopens the door on the mailbox to see if it actually went down, Katie notices me smirking.
When she asks me about it, I explain, “Just, you and I do things totally differently.”
“You can’t get it back!” she says defensively. “It’s a federal offense!"
When You Have Enough Money to Not Own Anything
“Do these people have anything in their houses?” Katie asks as we walk down another side street. The air is calm and cool, and an almost half-moon hangs in the dusk.
“It’s like they’re trying to figure out that balance between minimalism and having a really huge house,” I reply. “Minimalism is a privilege."
Storm’s Coming
“Well,” I think to myself, sitting in the kitchen after Katie has left, “I should jump on my bike and head over to the mall to buy those shoes.”
boom goes the sky, in a low-key, grumbly sort of way, and I look out the window to see that the horizon is blanketed in dark, angry looking clouds.
Within minutes, the world has gone three shades darker and more foreboding, and, as the wind begins to throw its weight around and whip the trees back and forth, I text Katie, “Yeah, I think I’m staying home."
Gone for the Summer
The boredom of a Monday night forces us outside, only to find oppressively quiet streets and thick, wet air that slow breezes only stir around to no relief.
“Want to walk toward the park?” I ask Katie. “It might be cooler.”
She thinks it over, maybe mulling the effort required to walk uphill, and finally agrees, so we walk up a side street under lights hazed by halos of moisture past silent homes, and peer in windows at empty kitchens and front halls; nobody home.
“We should be a band!” my co-worker exclaims. The World Cup final is over, and elated or despondent fans are exiting the bars and examining the items we have for sale.
“You play a lot of instruments,” he continues, “and I can MC, and you,” he says to another of our co-workers, “what do you do?”
“I’m the one who tells you about yourself,” she says sardonically.
Uninspired
This beat, which I’ve been working on for the last hour, changing the drum sounds, changing the accents, this beat... sucks. It’s too slow, or too spare, or just not very exciting, I’m not sure.
I take the headphones off (it continues playing, tinny and faint around my neck) and sigh deeply, and put my hands over my eyes. I can feel the lack of inspiration like a bandana wrapped tight around my head, and, with another sigh, hit stop, unplug the keyboard and USB interface, and begin wrapping up the cables.
Wait Lifting
The third box, the biggest one, is by far the heaviest yet, and I can feel the small of my back protesting faintly until I adjust to lift correctly using my legs. The contents shift slightly, and I hear the mildly distressing clink and rustle of pulverized glass sifting across the inside of the cardboard.
I haul the box out the front of the store, and as I stomp into the late afternoon, I can hear my landlord behind me. “You don’t have to remember to go to the gym today,” he calls to my retreating back, and I give a grudging, somewhat forced laugh.
Lillies Need Sunshine
The cold air of the grocery store chases me out into the mild late afternoon sunshine, and I breathe in the fragrant air. “Did you want to take the long way home?” I ask Katie.
She looks around hesitantly for a second, then nods. We walk down the hill away from the one church, and toward the other, and the sun turns the bricks all creamy, and the lilies they planted in the churchyard look like they’re just about to open.
“Stay out here,” I say to Katie before heading back (for the second time) in to the aisle of tools at the local big-box hardware store. “I’ll come get you.”
Like before, there’s nobody in there to help me, and the aisles seem organized in some non-arbitrary but impenetrable fashion that costs me several minutes of wandering before I find what we’re looking for, and then a couple more minutes to dig my way back out.
“I was going to shoot up a flare,” I say when I find her standing next to the bored looking cashier, “but I don’t think they would have approved."
“This is the knife that almost sliced my finger off right before our wedding,” I say as I use it to slice strawberries for dessert. Katie examines it.
“It’s still pretty dull,” she pronounces.
“It is,” I say, “but the problem is that it’s dull enough to slip, and sharp enough to nearly slice my finger off."
“He bought a brownstone, just a few blocks from where your parents stayed at that Air Bnb,” Katie says as we walk down Sixth Avenue in Brooklyn. Trees shade the sidewalk and a light breeze keeps us cool on this hot day.
“They paid, like, six million for it and still did a gut renovation on the thing,” she adds incredulously.
“If I pay six million dollars for something, that shit better be finished,” I say
Both Dan and I smell it at the same time: the unmistakeable, piney, pungent odor of weed drifting over the booth in this outdoor market.
I peek my head around the corner to the alley where we suspect the smell is coming from, and as I do, a guy just sort of standing back there by himself looks up at me, like he’s been waiting for me to show. We lock eyes for a long second before I turn around and go back to the booth.
“Yeah, that guy’s high, totally paranoid,” I say to Dan when I return.
For Display Only
“Hey,” I say to one of the other vendors who I know has been trained at the booth where I’m working today. “Did they ever teach you how to fold these scarves?”
“No, sorry,” she says, shrugging.
“‘Cause they’re double sided and I want to display both sides, but I’m pretty sure I’m gonna fuck it up,” I say as I walk away.
“I gotta get ready to go to work,” I say to Katie as I stand up from the couch. She stays where she is.
I’m already halfway down the hall when I hear her stand up too. “Fine, I’ve paused ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ because I love you,” she yell after me.
Katie turns the screen of her phone to me and swipes through another half-dozen photos of our recently deceased puppy. They’re in no particular order, so we watch her transition from relatively young and ridiculously photogenic, to older, slightly crooked, and ridiculously photogenic, and back again.
I’m still feeling a little sad and nostalgic when Katie takes back her phone, then turns it around again, to show me a picture of myself from two years ago: bald, somewhat sickly, thin and pale, clutching Katie’s teddy bear, about to go under the knife for surgery to remove a tumor the size of large grapefruit from my thigh.
“That’s weird,” I say, unable to completely convey how long ago that seems, how far away, as if it happened, not to someone else, but not at all, a rumor I might have heard, scarcely to be believed.
“Do not take a cab,” says the woman a few seats behind us on the train home from New Jersey. We’ve spent the Fourth of July celebrating the birthday of our dear friend, but a day out in the continuing heat wave has depleted us, leaving us with very little patience for entitled college students on their cellphones.
“You’ll get caught in firework traffic, and, just, Jesus are you crazy?” she continues, full-voiced.
“I hate her voice, but I like her attitude,” I tell Katie, who sighs, but nods.
Heat Death of the Universe (NYC Edition)
“Do not go outside,” John, our roommate, intones dramatically as he flings open the front door and leaves it to slam to behind him. “It is so hot!”
“Pretty bad, huh?” I say mildly from the kitchen down the hall.
“We’re all going to die,” he says with finality.
Avocado Lottery
The avocados on the bottom shelf are rock hard, the ones on top squishy and disgusting. I touch a few of each to try and find the magic medium and snatch my hand back in horror and repulsion, which draws the attention of another shopper.
“I think there might be one... yes, here you go,” he says, pulling it out and offering it to me.
I take it, and then promptly try and give it back to him, but he demurs, and I put it in my bag with a sort of grateful incredulity, like someone found a winning lottery ticket and just... handed it to me.
Those We Love
The heat is clearly getting to everyone, even if the train is air-conditioned, and people are just sort of barely tolerating one another in such close proximity, so I’m not exactly surprised when a woman makes a loud, startled, angry noise, and I look up from where I’m standing to see a pleasant, soft-eyed dog wearing a muzzle dance away behind his owner from a seated woman giving him the evil eye for having gotten just a little too close.
“Some people don’t like dogs,” Katie says with a shrug.
“Sure,” I say, “but touch my dog and I’ll end your fucking life.”
“Touch my dog and I’ll end your fucking life,” Katie says, nodding.
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North Texas first responders to get Christmas meal from 'Feed A Hero'
Cooks were busy Monday night preparing a feast to feed 4,500 first responders across North Texas.
Organizers of the group Feed A Hero say it's their way of thanking the men and women who serve their communities on Christmas Day keeping us safe.
“This all started with taking a turkey dinner to a fire station in Denton,” said Jim Searles. “Me and my kids did that and my kids said can we do more stations next year daddy.”
Five years later, the operation evolved into feed a hero. For this Christmas, one and a half tons of briskets are being cooked as part of a barbecue meal for first responders in seven counties.
Christmas day, when police and firefighters are on duty, few restaurants are open.
“As a former first responder I’ve eaten my fair share of 7-Eleven hot dogs, let me tell you.”
Each year more sponsors have come on board to feed a hero. From sandwich buns and briskets and all the supplies people have stepped up.
Up to 300 volunteers will deliver the meals on Christmas Day.
“They’ve re-arranged their Christmas because their kids want to come out and do this,” Searles said.
It will take all night of slow cooking to deliver a quality meal to first responders.
Bill Milroy has had an award winning career cooking barbecue. He’s also a former first responder so it’s like cooking for family.
“I’ll stay with it all night out here,” Milroy said. “About 6 a.m. we’ll start pulling it off and chopping them,” Milroy said.
The meals will go to more than 280 police and fire stations.
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Lori Loughlin hires prison coach to learn martial arts
Published January 4
Actress Lori Loughlin leaves a Boston courthouse in August, 2019.
Actress Lori Loughlin may finally be coming to terms with her potential time in the clink for her role in the college admissions scandal.
The “Full House” star, best known for her role as "Aunt Becky,” reportedly hired a prison coach to teach her martial arts, according to Radar Online. However, prison consultant John Fuller told FOX Business’ Neil Cavuto that her instructor is giving her bad guidance.
“Whoever gave her that advice — was clearly the worst advice that she’s received thus far,” he said Friday.
Fuller said inmates are able to watch TV, and “if she thinks she’s going to go in there and bully other inmates or actually defend herself she’s wrong” because multiple prisoners would “deliberately” target her. Fuller noted when a Brazilian jiu-jitsu professor, who was jailed for raping and killing his 1-year-old son, he was reportedly gang raped repeatedly for hours after news spread of his crime.
“That was someone who specialized in martial arts,” Fuller said.
Business mogul and ex-convict Martha Stewart, who served five months in 2004 at the Federal Prison Camp in Alderson, West Virginia, after being convicted of lying to federal agents investigating insider trading, made friends while she was incarcerated and even visited with them after she was released. Fuller said this was a different approach because the “object of being respected is not to disrespect.”
“If [Loughlin] is with a prison consultant and she’s practicing fighting, then obviously they are preparing her to be in disrespectful situations and that doesn’t happen often in prison camps because people behave themselves down to that particular custody level,” he explained.
However, Fuller said there are certain “prison etiquettes that you can’t ignore.”
“You don’t simply sit on someone’s bed to tie your shoe because you may be assigned to an upper bunk and this person’s on a lower bunk,” he said. “That’s an invitation for sexual advancement in prison.”
Even so, Loughlin can “navigate” the nuances as long as “her prison consultant is as experienced as she thinks he is.”
Loughlin and her fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, have accused prosecutors of deliberately hiding evidence in their case, court documents showed.
Loughlin and Giannulli have pleaded not guilty to allegedly paying $500,000 in bribes to get their daughters on the University of Southern California's crew team even though neither participated in the sport.
Fuller said if Loughlin accepts responsibility she would likely face less than 18 months in prison.
In October, the couple along with nine others were hit with federal bribery charges.
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Three Buckeyes earn spot on AP all-bowl team
Ezekiel Elliott's monster performance against Alabama was one of the standouts of bowl season.
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While the college football season won’t officially end until Oregon and Ohio State play in the inaugural College Football Playoff national championship game, all 38 postseason games with "bowl" in the title have been completed.
So no reason to wait: Let’s reveal our all-bowl team in advance of Monday night’s championship game.
Plenty of running backs and receivers put up the kinds of numbers that warranted a spot on the team, but there weren’t nearly as many memorable performances from tight ends. That’s why we decided to go with a 12-man offense featuring three running backs, three receivers and no tight ends.
Here are some of the players who didn’t make the cut: Georgia running back Nick Chubb (266 yards rushing in the Belk Bowl against Louisville); Baylor QB Pryce Petty (550 yards passing in the Cotton Bowl against Michigan State); Boise State receiver Thomas Sperbeck (12 catches for 199 yards in the Fiesta Bowl against Arizona; and Florida defensive end Dante Fowler (three sacks in the Birmingham Bowl against East Carolina).
The competition was tough, but after 38 games here are the players chosen the best of the best by a panel of AP writers who cover college football.
Marcus Mariota, Oregon: Threw for 338 yards and two touchdowns and ran for 62 yards and one more score while outplaying Florida State’s Jameis Winston in a Rose Bowl matchup of Heisman Trophy winners.
Ezekiel Elliott, Ohio State: Rushed for a Sugar Bowl-record 231 yards and two touchdowns while averaging 11.5 yards per carry in the Buckeyes’ 42-35 upset of Alabama.
Melvin Gordon, Wisconsin: Ran for 251 yards and three touchdowns in an Outback Bowl overtime 34-31 victory over Auburn and came up 41 yards short of matching Barry Sanders FBS single-season record.
Kareem Hunt, Toledo: Ran for 271 yards and tied an all-bowl record with five rushing touchdowns in a GoDaddy Bowl 63-44 win against Arkansas State.
Titus Davis, Central Michigan: Caught six passes for 137 yards and scored four touchdowns in Central Michigan’s 49-48 loss to Western Kentucky in the Bahamas Bowl. His final touchdown capped the play of the bowl season, CMU’s Hail Mary lateral. Davis went the final 15 yards as time expired on a play that covered 75 yards and included three laterals.
Deontay Greenberry, Houston: Caught two touchdown passes in the final four minutes of Houston’s 35-34 Armed Forces Bowl victory over Pittsburgh. He had a 25-yard touchdown catch with 59 seconds left, and then caught the decisive 2-point conversion pass.
Tommy Shuler, Marshall: Had 18 receptions for 185 yards and a touchdown in a 52-23 Boca Raton Bowl victory over Northern Illinois.
Taylor Decker, Ohio State: Anchored a line that helped Ohio State gain 537 yards against a vaunted Alabama defense.
Jacob Gilliam, Tennessee: Had a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee and an injured left hand that was heavily wrapped, yet he still helped Tennessee score touchdowns on its first four possessions in a 45-28 TaxSlayer Bowl win over Iowa.
Jack Allen, Michigan State: Allen, who didn’t allow a sack all season, helped Michigan State gain 552 yards in a 42-41 Cotton Bowl triumph over Baylor.
Kyle Costigan, Wisconsin: Played through a leg injury and helped hold together an offensive line that was without its starting center, paving the way for a Wisconsin ground attack that rushed for 400 yards while averaging 7.4 yards per carry against Auburn.
Shaq Mason, Georgia Tech: Helped Georgia Tech set an Orange Bowl record with 452 yards rushing in a 49-34 victory over Mississippi State.
Houston Bates, Louisiana Tech: The Illinois transfer produced 4 sacks to help Louisiana Tech beat his former team 35-18 in the Heart of Dallas Bowl.
Markus Golden, Missouri: Made 10 tackles – four behind the line of scrimmage – and had 1 sacks and forced a fumble to be the MVP of the Citrus Bowl in a 33-17 victory against Minnesota.
Chucky Hunter, TCU: Had five tackles – 1 for loss – and helped limit Mississippi to 9 yards rushing on 37 carries in TCU’s 42-3 Peach Bowl blowout.
Grady Jarrett, Clemson: Had 3 tackles for loss and forced a fumble in Clemson’s 40-6 Russell Athletic Bowl rout of Oklahoma.
Darron Lee, Ohio State: Made seven tackles – three for loss – and had two sacks against Alabama.
Jordan Pierce, Air Force: Made 10 tackles – three for loss – and had two sacks in a 38-24 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl victory over Western Michigan.
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Martrell Spaight, Arkansas: Had two tackles for loss and helped limit Texas to 59 total yards in the Razorbacks’ 31-7 Texas Bowl victory.
Troy Hill, Oregon: With All-America cornerback Ifo Ekpre-Olomu injured, Hill picked up the slack by making nine tackles, breaking up two passes and helping hold Florida State star receiver Rashad Greene in check.
Brian Poole, Florida: Scored on a 29-yard interception return and forced and recovered a fumble as Florida beat East Carolina 28-20 in the Birmingham Bowl.
Dominick Sanders, Georgia: Intercepted two passes in Georgia’s 37-14 Belk Bowl victory over Louisville.
Lorenzo Waters, Rutgers: Made 14 tackles, recovered two fumbles and blocked a field-goal attempt as Rutgers defeated North Carolina 40-21 in the Quick Lane Bowl.
Sam Ficken, Penn State: Made a 45-yard field goal with 20 seconds left in regulation to force overtime in a 31-30 Pinstripe Bowl win over Boston College. His extra point in overtime clinched the victory.
JK Scott, Alabama: Averaged 55 yards per punt against Ohio State. Five of his seven attempts forced the Buckeyes to start drives inside their own 20.
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Leonard Fournette, LSU: Ran for 143 yards and two touchdowns – including an 89-yarder – and also scored on a 100-yard kickoff return in LSU’s 31-28 Music City Bowl loss to Notre Dame.
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#Climatestrike, Revolt Summit "Trap The Vote Summit", Will Millennials End Racism?
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In this episode of the Freedom Train Podcast Series, Joseph and Patrick dive into three topics from around the world this past week. Friday September, 20th 2019, there was a global climate strike took place to draw attention to the current climate crisis, before the United Nations Climate Action Summit, which took place September 21st through the 23rd. Next, the gentlemen gave their opinions about the Revolt Summit "Trap The Vote Panel" which featured Tamika Mallory, T.I., Killer Mike, Candace Owens, Katrina Pierson, Steven Pargett, hosted by Jeff Johnson. The last topic discussed was, will our millennials be the generation to end racism? The gentlemen gave strong opinions on each topic, and would love to hear hat you think. Tune in!!!
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Violence In South Africa, Trump Denies Bahamians Temporary Protected Status,Tyrone Muhammad Protects Black Women At A Cost
In this episode of the Freedom Train Podcast Series, Joseph and Patrick discuss three current topics in the news. Nigerians and other African foreigners living in South Africa have been the target of violence from South Africans. Donald Trump and his administration have denied Bahamians Temporary Protected Status due to the devastation caused by Hurricane Dorian. A Chicago based activist named Tyrone Muhammad threw bricks through the window of a nail shop, in defense of black women being disrespected. Despite Tyrone's actions, the women in the community continue to spend their money at that particular shop. Joseph and Patrick also discussed whether black Americans truly care to escape the system of white supremacy. Tune in!!!
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Social Discussion: Amazon Rainforest, Texas Mass Shooting, Robert Mugabe Dies, Hurricane Dorian
During this social discussion show, Joe and Pat talked about the impact of 4 recent events giving both facts and their opinions on the matters presented. The discussion starts with the Amazon Rainforest, moves to the Texas Mass Shooting, then transitions to Robert Mugabe, and ends with Hurricane Dorian. Tune in to hear more.
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Mrs. Cynthia Felix Pierre
A native of Miami, FL and a first generation Haitian American, Cynthia Felix Pierre has never been the standard, normal or average professional. She has a combined passion for hair and Accounting. In her recent published book, Where Beauty Demands Structure, she knew this beauty business book would serve a great purpose in a time such as this. There's a significant number of her millennial counterparts in the beauty industry starting businesses wholeheartedly and they are not aware of many components. Cynthia had a passion for beauty and hair from the age of nine years old and committed to doing friends and relatives hair starting at eleven years old. At the age of fifteen she joined the Institute of Young Entrepreneurs at the Carrie P. Meek Educational Center of Miami-Dade College. She later won business plan competitions that would afford her the opportunity to travel to Milwaukee, WI and Dallas, TX to compete with other high schoolers around the United States. At the age of 16, Cynthia understood the impact of having a business plan that was detailed because it served as a road-map and also provided potential investors an idea of whether the business would be profitable and generate returns. Fast forward to 2011, Cynthia graduated from Florida State University with her degree in Accounting and Finance. One month prior to graduation she was not sure exactly what she wanted to do with her degree because her GPA was not appealing in the eyes of Big Four Firms. She took a leap of faith and interviewed for a Finance position in Beijing, China. After being selected for the opportunity she went to Beijing for two months. She later returned to the United States where she worked as an Escrow Analyst for a small firm and within two years she went into the government sector where she was hired as a Tax Auditor. She truly enjoyed the work and tax claims she worked through, but after three years she left her agency to focus on her studies and eventually started her salon consulting company.
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