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The Lowell Community Health Center’s ArtUp Program is a Win-Win for Patients, Staff, Artists and Community.
In a newly-restored 1880s mill building, the 100,000-square-foot Lowell Community Health Center (Lowell CHC) provides services for thousands of area residents, and thanks to a creative program called ArtUp, it also serves as a gallery for the work of local artists. ArtUp was the brainstorm of Lowell attorney Michael Gallagher. “The idea was that art that was solicited by the health center and created by local artists would be purchased by generous local patrons to be donated to and hung at the health center,” Gallagher says. “The artist receives half the purchase price, the center receives the balance and the art, and the donors receive the tax benefit and acknowledgement of their generosity on a plaque.”
Local artists submitted work to an ArtUp committee chaired by interior designer Cathleen Stewart. “It was exciting to see what various artists’ visions of healing meant,” Stewart says, “and how it was expressed in their work. We edited the final selections for the online donor catalogue by content, color, size and diversity of mediums.”
Top left: Director of Development and Communications Clare Gunther. Bottom Left: ArtUp Committee Chair Cathleen Stewart. Top right: Lowell attorney Michael Gallagher. Bottom right: Committee Member Caroline Gallagher.
Buyers can now choose the art they’d like to donate from among large and small pieces, paintings and photographs, all of which can be used to to decorate a room or the “miles” of empty Lowell CHC walls. ArtUp donations often are made in honor or memory of a loved one or as a tribute to a local business, and help Lowell CHC to fund services that health insurance doesn’t cover, such as medical interpreters, health screenings, teen programs and community outreach.
According to Stewart, “Studies have shown that art contributes to healing by affecting both the emotional and physical human systems … Colors have various effects on healing, as well. Warm colors can improve mood, while cool colors make patients [and staff] feel calm. This practice of providing art for healing has roots in history—painted murals in Greek temples, sand paintings by Native Americans, religious art in churches that inspire hope. So what we are doing is not new, just a continuation of an innate knowledge that art is ‘good for what ails us.’ ”
“This art is seen by thousands of people every week,” says Dorcas Grigg-Saito, the CEO at Lowell CHC. “People respond to art, whether in the reception area, exam room, or walking down the health center hallways. One client told me, ‘I feel like a princess. I never get to go to a place that’s this beautiful.’ ” Grigg-Saito hopes Lowell CHC will offer gallery tours to the public in the future.
Artist Jennifer Clement is second-generation Lowellian born-and-raised in the city. “I am and have always been very proud of my roots in Lowell,” she says. “I feel Lowell itself is a work of art, ever changing and evolving, a work in progress just like a painting. What I have to offer my hometown and community is the vision I create through my art. I believe art heals. Creating art, viewing art and surrounding yourself with art offers countless and immeasurable benefits. I hope viewers allow themselves a moment from their day to connect, explore, reflect and heal.”
Lowell CHC provides health services for many residents of Lowell, a city long known as a cultural center, whose motto is “Art is the Handmaid of Human Good.” The health center’s “biggest gift to its community relates to access and dignity,” Gallagher says. “Access — for many who might not otherwise have it — to a clean, functional, attractive facility where young and not so young, often in their most difficult hours, are treated by a highly competent staff with respect and dignity. Can you imagine what it would express about the character of this city if we could fill this center of healing for folks of all backgrounds with locally made art and it becomes one of the largest art galleries west of Boston — and the only health center of its kind in the country?”
Caroline Gallagher, sister to Michael and ArtUp’s videographer and Web guru, sums up the project: “It’s a respectful gesture that acknowledges the work, education, training, practice and time spent by the artist who created the piece. It shows the artist that we know that they have value in our economy and in our society. There’s a great economic and creative ecosystem at play between the artist and the health center, the creative arts and healing, the donors that support the giving that supports the artists that support the healing that supports the community. It wraps itself around again and again and everybody wins.”
Lowell Community Health Center takes all types of health insurance, including private plans. Clients don’t have to be from Lowell to use its services or pharmacy. The center soon will offer dental services.
Lowell Community Health Center ArtUp
Lowell, Mass. / (978) 746-7891 / ArtUpLowell.com
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Posted on November 6, 2019 by Bryan Walters
Week 11 football previews
Hannan hosts Rebels; Point, Wahama on the road
By Bryan Walters - bwalters@aimmediamidwest.com
Point Pleasant running back Brady Adkins (26) gains additional yardage while being chased by Man defenders during the first half of a Week 9 football contest at OVB Field in Point Pleasant, W.Va.
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Wahama junior Gavin Stiltner, left, hauls in a touchdown pass while being defended by Ravenswood’s Mason Stutler during the second half of a Week 1 football contest at Bachtel Stadium in Mason, W.Va.
The final week of the 2019 football regular season kicks off in West Virginia this weekend as there are three contests going on within the Ohio Valley Publishing area.
Only one of the three locally scheduled contests are at home, with Hannan hosting the Tolsia Rebels. Point Pleasant travels to James Monroe for its season finale, while Wahama heads to Buffalo for its annual rivalry renewal.
Here’s a brief look at all of the Week 11 football games from the West Virginia side of the OVP area. All three of the Mountain State contests are slated for Friday night.
Tolsia Rebels (6-3) at Hannan Wildcats (1-8)
Tolsia won the first-ever matchup by a 55-0 count last year, but this year’s meeting is the first to ever be played at the Craigo Athletic Complex in Mason County. The Rebels are playoff-bound in Class A, but a win likely keeps them at home next week as they are currently tied with St. Marys for sixth in the playoff ratings. The Wildcats are making their season finale as they are 39th out of 41 teams in single-A. THS has won two straight and has outscored opponents by a 198-162 overall margin, while the Cats have dropped four straight and have been outscored 367-58. The Senior Night contest starts at 7 p.m.
Point Pleasant Big Blacks (3-4) at James Monroe Mavericks (6-3)
Point Pleasant is very likely making its season finale on the gridiron, but James Monroe is absolutely in the running for a postseason berth this Friday night when the two teams square off for the second straight year in a Week 11 matchup. The Mavericks currently sit 17th in the Class AA ratings and a win likely moves them into the top 16, while the Big Blacks are 24th overall in double-A. James Monroe owns a 3-2 edge in the all-time series, but PPHS has won the last two meetings — including a 20-14 decision in Lindside back in 2017. JMHS had a 4-game win streak snapped last week during a 49-12 setback at Bluefield, but the Mavericks have outscored opponents by a favorable 327-229 margin. The Big Blacks have won two straight, but have been outscored 162-139 in their seven previous outings. It is the fourth consecutive year in which these two teams have met on the gridiron.
Wahama White Falcons (3-6) at Buffalo Bison (5-4)
It will be the 68th meeting between these friendly rivals when play kicks off Friday night in Putnam County. Wahama leads the all-time series by a 37-29-1 margin and also won its last outing at BHS back in 2017 during a 20-19 overtime thriller. The Bison won 42-18 last season and need a win to remain in playoff contention as they currently sit 20th in the Class A ratings. The White Falcons are making their season finale as they are tied with Van and Pocahontas County for 28th in single-A. Buffalo has outscored opponents by a slim 170-158 overall margin, while WHS has been outscored by a 366-201 clip.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Previews for the Gallia Academy at Waverly and Eastern at Newark Catholic playoff contests in Ohio will be released in the Friday sports editions of the Gallipolis Daily Tribune, Point Pleasant Register and The Daily Sentinel.
https://www.mydailytribune.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/2019/11/web1_11.7-PP-Adkins.jpgPoint Pleasant running back Brady Adkins (26) gains additional yardage while being chased by Man defenders during the first half of a Week 9 football contest at OVB Field in Point Pleasant, W.Va. Bryan Walters|OVP Sports
https://www.mydailytribune.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/2019/11/web1_11.7-WAH-Stiltner.jpgWahama junior Gavin Stiltner, left, hauls in a touchdown pass while being defended by Ravenswood’s Mason Stutler during the second half of a Week 1 football contest at Bachtel Stadium in Mason, W.Va. Bryan Walters|OVP Sports
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Brian Rice | Tennessee Athletics | February 4, 2016
Holly Warlick celebrates her 100th career win
Warlick became just the 17th coach all-time to win 100 games in her first four years as a head coach.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Holly Warlick's players carried her off the court Thursday night at Thompson-Boling Arena, a journey the head coach was simultaneously grateful for and leery of.
"That was Andraya [Carter] and Jordan [Reynolds]," Warlick said with a wry smile. "Two that do not have a lot of sense."
If Carter had her way, there would have been an accompanying Gatorade shower on the court to celebrate Warlick's 100th victory as the head coach of the Lady Volunteers with a 75-57 triumph over the Arkansas Razorbacks.
Fortunately for Warlick's wardrobe and the wood surface of the court, cooler heads prevailed on the celebration. Carter instead got her head coach with a piece of the celebratory cake in the locker room.
"Andraya proceeded to put the cake on my face and neck so if I have icing it isn't because I ate the cake," Warlick said. "I promise you."
Warlick became just the 17th coach all-time to win 100 games in her first four years as a head coach, only the second from a Power Five conference in the last 24 years. Warlick is only the third head coach in Southeastern Conference history to win 100 games in her first four NCAA seasons, joining Andy Landers of Georgia and Van Chancellor of Ole Miss.
To achieve the mark, Tennessee needed to exact revenge on a Razorback team that upset the Lady Vols earlier this season in Fayetteville. A balanced attack with four players in double figures, led by Diamond DeShields and Mercedes Russell with 15 points each led UT to victory.
"I understand how you get your wins, it is from your coaches down to everybody and the players," said Warlick. "They were excited and some of those kids have been here for the four years that I have been here. It is a great honor and I appreciate it, but it boils down to surrounding yourself with great people. If I learned anything from Coach Summit I did learn that."
Then, it was time for a celebration. The team carried its head coach to center court for the traditional postgame circle, then retreated to the locker room where Tennessee men's basketball coach Rick Barnes wheeled in the celebration cake, complete with trick candles.
Vice chancellor and director of athletics Dave Hart presented Warlick with a game ball to commemorate the milestone.
"I want to first thank Dave Hart for taking a chance on me," Warlick said to open her postgame comments. "He hired an assistant coach in a big time women's basketball program and he has done nothing but support me. I want to really say thank you to him."
Though the last two games have represented a dramatic step forward for the Lady Vols, pushing Warlick's win total higher will be a challenge with a stretch that incudes trips to Texas A&M and Vanderbilt, before hosting South Carolina on Feb. 15.
"Our schedule has been unbelievable really," Warlick said. "Every time I look up it is a tough stretch. We just have to be ready, we may not like it, but its what we have and what we have to deal with. We have to take it one game at a time."
But headed into that stretch, they have a little extra lift, thanks to carrying their head coach for one night.
"We were all just so happy for her," Russell said. "100 wins in four years, that's a great accomplishment for her. We were just proud that we were a part of that. I think it was just a lot of emotions for everyone."
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J Biomol NMR. 1998 Jul;12(1):1-23.
Recommendations for the presentation of NMR structures of proteins and nucleic acids. IUPAC-IUBMB-IUPAB Inter-Union Task Group on the Standardization of Data Bases of Protein and Nucleic Acid Structures Determined by NMR Spectroscopy.
Markley JL1, Bax A, Arata Y, Hilbers CW, Kaptein R, Sykes BD, Wright PE, Wüthrich K.
Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison 53706-1569, USA.
The recommendations presented here are designed to support easier communication of NMR data and NMR structures of proteins and nucleic acids through unified nomenclature and reporting standards. Much of this document pertains to the reporting of data in journal articles; however, in the interest of the future development of structural biology, it is desirable that the bulk of the reported information be stored in computer-accessible form and be freely accessible to the scientific community in standardized formats for data exchange. These recommendations stem from an IUPAC-IUBMB-IUPAB inter-union venture with the direct involvement of ICSU and CODATA. The Task Group has reviewed previous formal recommendations and has extended them in the light of more recent developments in the field of biomolecular NMR spectroscopy. Drafts of the recommendations presented here have been examined critically by more than 50 specialists in the field and have gone through two rounds of extensive modification to incorporate suggestions and criticisms.
Amino Acids/chemistry
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular/methods*
Nucleic Acid Conformation*
Nucleic Acids/chemistry*
Oligodeoxyribonucleotides/chemistry
Peptides/chemistry
Protein Conformation*
Protein Structure, Secondary
Oligodeoxyribonucleotides
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Daisy Fern Turner1,2
F, #101826, b. 10 May 1903, d. 3 March 1993
Daisy F. Turner
b. 1903 Columbia Co. WA
d. 1993 Columbia Co. WA
[photo 1948]
Daisy Fern Turner was born on 10 May 1903 at Columbia Co., WA.1 She was the daughter of David Turner and Margaret M. Ball.1 Daisy Fern Turner married Reade Abel, son of Joseph L. Abel and Laura E. Johnson, on 27 November 1920 at Dayton, Columbia Co., WA.1 Daisy Fern Turner died on 3 March 1993 at Columbia Co., WA, at age 89.1 She was buried at Dayton City Cemetery, Dayton, Columbia Co., WA.2
From an obituary: Daisy T. Abel, 89, a resident of the Booker Rest Home died March 3, 1993, at Walla Walla General Hospital. One of 13 children, Mrs. Abel was born May 10, 1903, in Dayton to David and Margaret Ball Turner, pioneers who homesteaded in the area. She attended Star and Dayton schools. In 1919 she married Reade Abel in Dayton. She cooked at a logging camp near Dale, Ore., for several years. They also lived a short time in Wenatchee where she enjoyed packing fruit. The Abels returned to Dayton to live and she worked many seasons at Green Giant Co. She was very proud of her ability to pack asparagus and fruit and received many incentive awards for her work. Mr. Abel died in 1982.
She was a member of the Dayton First Christian Church. She enjoyed bingo, dancing and playing pinochle and ladies' tours to Las Vegas, Hawaii and Disneyland. Mrs. Abel is survived by a daughter and son-in-law, Aleen and Loren Spoonemore of Dayton; a brother Lavette Turner of Dayton; a grandson, Joe Spoonemore of Pullman; two granddaughters, Kay Nelsen of Kent, Wash., and Donna Reid of Dayton; six great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandson.1 Newspaper photo courtesy of Diana Mount.1
15 April 1910 Star, Columbia Co., WA "Daisy F." age 7, b. WA, with parents, etc.3
13 January 1920 Dayton, Columbia Co., WA "Daisy F.' age 17, b. WA, with parents, etc.4
10 April 1930 Dayton, Columbia Co., WA "Daisy" age 26, b. WA, with husband, etc.5
3 April 1940 Pilot Rock, Umatilla Co., OR "Daisy" age 36, b. WA, with husband, etc.6
Child of Daisy Fern Turner and Reade Abel
Aleen Abel+5
[S2276] Diana Mount, "DianaMount," database made available on-line courtesy of Diana Mount, http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/16520066/person/18032013574, database viwed 24 April 2014.
[S903] Find A Grave - A User-Contributed Listing of Cemeteries and Memorials; Find A Grave Founder Jim Tipton, 2009; online at http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gs&, Dayton City Cemetery, Dayton, Columbia Co., WA.
[S13] 1910 (April 15) U.S. Census, Star, Columbia Co., WA, ED 35, Sheet 1A (stamped 15).
[S14] 1920 (January 1) U.S. Census, Dayton, Columbia Co., WA, ED 35, Sheet 8B (back of stamped 238).
[S15] 1930 (April 1) U.S. Census, Dayton, Columbia Co., WA, ED 7-15, Sheet 2A (stamped 14).
[S16] 1940 (April 1) U.S. Census, Pilot Rock, Umatilla Co., OR, ED 30-57, Sheet 1B (back of stamped 370).
Reade Abel1
M, #101827, b. 19 March 1898, d. 27 May 1985
Reade Abel was born on 19 March 1898 at Nez Perce Co., ID.1 He was the son of Joseph L. Abel and Laura E. Johnson.1 Reade Abel married Daisy Fern Turner, daughter of David Turner and Margaret M. Ball, on 27 November 1920 at Dayton, Columbia Co., WA.1 Reade Abel died on 27 May 1985 at Dayton, Columbia Co., WA, at age 87.1 He was buried at Dayton City Cemetery, Dayton, Columbia Co., WA.2
10 April 1930 Dayton, Columbia Co., WA "Reade" age 32, b. ID, laborer for an apple orchard, with wife Daisy and daughter Aleen3
3 April 1940 Pilot Rock, Umatilla Co., OR "Read" age 42, b. ID, carpenter for a lumber mill, with wife Daisy and daughter Aleen4
Child of Reade Abel and Daisy Fern Turner
Joseph L. Abel1
Joseph L. Abel married Laura E. Johnson.1
Child of Joseph L. Abel and Laura E. Johnson
Reade Abel+1 b. 19 Mar 1898, d. 27 May 1985
Laura E. Johnson1
Laura E. Johnson married Joseph L. Abel.1
Child of Laura E. Johnson and Joseph L. Abel
George Alton Turner1,2,3
M, #101830, b. 5 July 1905, d. 2 September 1955
George Alton Turner was born on 5 July 1905 at Dayton, Columbia Co., WA.1 He was the son of David Turner and Margaret M. Ball.1 George Alton Turner died on 2 September 1955 at Spokane Co., WA, at age 50.1 He was buried at Dayton City Cemetery, Dayton, Columbia Co., WA.3
15 April 1910 Star, Columbia Co., WA "George A." age 5, b. WA, with parents, etc.2
13 January 1920 Dayton, Columbia Co., WA "George A." age 15, b. WA, with parents, etc.4
3 April 1940 Dayton, Columbia Co., WA "Dick" age 34, b. WA, with parents5
[S15] 1930 (April 1) U.S. Census, Dayton, Columbia Co., WA, ED 7-2, Sheet 3A (stamped 7).
Lavette Thomas Turner1
M, #101831, b. 7 November 1909, d. 18 December 1999
Lavette Thomas Turner
b. 1909 Dayton WA
d. 1999 Dayton WA
Lavette Thomas Turner was born on 7 November 1909 at Dayton, Columbia Co., WA.1 He was the son of David Turner and Margaret M. Ball.1 Lavette Thomas Turner married Geradine Bell circa 1939 at Spokane Co., WA.1 Lavette Thomas Turner died on 18 December 1999 at Dayton, Columbia Co., WA, at age 90.1 He was buried at Dayton City Cemetery, Dayton, Columbia Co., WA.2
From an obituary: Lavette Thomas Turner, 90, of 1011 S. Second Street, died December 18, 1999, at his home. Turner was born November 7, 1909, in Dayton to David and Margaret Ball Turner. He graduated in 1926 from Dayton High School and from Washington State university with a master's degree in biology. He married Geraldine Bell in 1939. She died two years later in childbirth. He served in the US Army Medical Corps during World War II. At one time, he was also a range manager with the US Department of Agriculture, responsible for developing better pastures on federal lands in the Southwestern United States. After more than thirty years, he retired and lived in Phoenix and Dayton.
Turner enjoyed raising quarter horses and collecting antique toys, cigarette lighters and knives. He was a member of the National Knife Collectors Association. Survivors include seven nieces, Erma Gilbertson of Seattle, Edna Kirby of Lewiston, Marilyn Murdock, Helen Jones and Alma Gowers, all of Poise, Alene Spoonemore of Dayton and Doris Robinson of Pocatello, Idaho; two nephews, Harry and Donald Gene Turner, both of Dayton. He was preceded in death by twelve brothers and sisters.1 Newspaper photo courtesy of Diana Mount.1
15 April 1910 Star, Columbia Co., WA "Lavette C." age 5/12, b. WA, with parents, etc.3
13 January 1920 Dayton, Columbia Co., WA "Lavette T." age 10, b. WA, with parents, etc.4
9 April 1930 Dayton, Columbia Co., WA "Lavette T." age 20, b. WA, with parents, etc.5
Geradine Bell1
F, #101832, b. circa 1914, d. 6 September 1941
Geradine Bell was born circa 1914 at Spokane Co., WA.1 She married Lavette Thomas Turner, son of David Turner and Margaret M. Ball, circa 1939 at Spokane Co., WA.1 Geradine Bell died on 6 September 1941 at Salt Lake Co., UT.1
George A. Martin1
George A. Martin married Theresa Peck.1
Child of George A. Martin and Theresa Peck
George Paul Martin+1 b. 26 Jul 1879, d. 29 Apr 1945
Theresa Peck1
Theresa Peck married George A. Martin.1
Child of Theresa Peck and George A. Martin
Ralph Leroy Hedges1
M, #101835, b. 21 April 1889, d. 23 May 1961
Ralph Leroy Hedges was born on 21 April 1889 at OR.1 He was the son of John E. Hedges and Mary I. Ford.1 Ralph Leroy Hedges married Ethel B. (????)2 Ralph Leroy Hedges married Bessie Maud Ball, daughter of Isaac Ball and Margaret E. Robbins, on 29 August 1952 at Skamania Co., WA.1 Ralph Leroy Hedges died on 23 May 1961 at Multnomah Co., OR, at age 72.1,2 He was buried at Winona Cemetery, Tualatin, Washington Co., OR.2
[S903] Find A Grave - A User-Contributed Listing of Cemeteries and Memorials; Find A Grave Founder Jim Tipton, 2009; online at http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gs&, Winona Cemetery, Tualatin, Washington Co., OR.
John E. Hedges1
John E. Hedges married Mary I. Ford.1
Child of John E. Hedges and Mary I. Ford
Ralph Leroy Hedges1 b. 21 Apr 1889, d. 23 May 1961
Mary I. Ford1
Mary I. Ford married John E. Hedges.1
Child of Mary I. Ford and John E. Hedges
Claude A. Heck1
M, #101838, b. 5 August 1902, d. 8 July 1983
Claude A. Heck was born on 5 August 1902 at MI.1 He was the son of Louis G. Heck and Emma F. Stewart.1 Claude A. Heck married Della B. Martin, daughter of George Paul Martin and Bessie Maud Ball, on 1 December 1927 at Clark Co., WA.1 Claude A. Heck died on 8 July 1983 at Crook Co., OR, at age 80.1
14 April 1930 Tualatin, Washington Co., OR "Claude A." age 27, b. MI, farm laborer, with wife Della and daughter Donna2
9 April 1940 Mosier, Wasco Co., OR "Claude A." age 37, b. MI, chauffer, with wife Della and children Donna and Hugh3
Children of Claude A. Heck and Della B. Martin
Donna B. Heck1
Hugh A. Heck1
[S15] 1930 (April 1) U.S. Census, Tualatin, Washington Co., OR, ED 34-59, Sheet 6B (back of stamped 222).
[S16] 1940 (April 1) U.S. Census, Mosier, Wasco Co., OR, ED 33-14, Sheet 3A (stamped 45).
Louis G. Heck1
Louis G. Heck married Emma F. Stewart.1
Child of Louis G. Heck and Emma F. Stewart
Claude A. Heck+1 b. 5 Aug 1902, d. 8 Jul 1983
Emma F. Stewart1
Emma F. Stewart married Louis G. Heck.1
Child of Emma F. Stewart and Louis G. Heck
Hugh A. Heck is the son of Claude A. Heck and Della B. Martin.2
Donna B. Heck is the daughter of Claude A. Heck and Della B. Martin.2
Albert Burrese1
M, #101843, b. 29 May 1909, d. 1989
Albert Burrese was born on 29 May 1909 at WA.1 He married Della B. Martin, daughter of George Paul Martin and Bessie Maud Ball, on 20 May 1952 at Skamania Co., WA.1 Albert Burrese died in 1989 at OR.1
L. Schrieber1
L. Schrieber was born circa 1909 at OR.1 He married Margeret A. Martin, daughter of George Paul Martin and Bessie Maud Ball.1
Paul E. Martin1
M, #101845, b. 30 January 1911, d. 23 October 1989
Paul E. Martin was born on 30 January 1911 at OR.1 He was the son of George Paul Martin and Bessie Maud Ball.1 Paul E. Martin married Frances Louise Blackburn on 24 June 1945 at Seattle, King Co., WA.1 Paul E. Martin died on 23 October 1989 at Multnomah Co., OR, at age 78.1
22 January 1920 Tualatin, Washington Co., OR "Paul A." age 8, b. OR, with parents, etc.2
Children of Paul E. Martin and Frances Louise Blackburn
Paul E. Martin1 b. 3 Jan 1949, d. 16 Feb 2006
Robert Martin1 b. 15 Jun 1951, d. 18 Dec 1996
[S14] 1920 (January 1) U.S. Census, Tualatin, Washington Co., OR, ED 434, Sheet 5B (back of stamped 269).
Frances Louise Blackburn1
F, #101846, b. 1 July 1923, d. 18 September 1988
Frances Louise Blackburn was born on 1 July 1923 at Yakima, Yakima Co., WA.1 She married Paul E. Martin, son of George Paul Martin and Bessie Maud Ball, on 24 June 1945 at Seattle, King Co., WA.1 Frances Louise Blackburn died on 18 September 1988 at Multnomah, Mulnomah Co., OR, at age 65.1
Children of Frances Louise Blackburn and Paul E. Martin
M, #101847, b. 3 January 1949, d. 16 February 2006
Paul E. Martin was born on 3 January 1949 at WA.1 He was the son of Paul E. Martin and Frances Louise Blackburn.1 Paul E. Martin died on 16 February 2006 at WA at age 57.1 He was buried at Tahoma National Cemetery, Kent, King Co., WA.2
[S903] Find A Grave - A User-Contributed Listing of Cemeteries and Memorials; Find A Grave Founder Jim Tipton, 2009; online at http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gs&, Tahoma National Cemetery, Kent, King Co., WA.
Janice Ruth Dukes1
[S1807] Washington Marriage Records 1854-2013, made available by Inc. Ancestry.com Operations (Provo, Utah) on-line at www.ancestry.com, 2017; database from the Washington State Archives (Olympia WA).
Robert Martin1
M, #101849, b. 15 June 1951, d. 18 December 1996
Robert Martin was born on 15 June 1951 at WA.1,2 He was the son of Paul E. Martin and Frances Louise Blackburn.1 Robert Martin died on 18 December 1996 at WA at age 45.1,2 He was buried at Hillcrest Burial Park, Kent, King Co., WA.3
[S903] Find A Grave, online, Hillcrest Burial Park, Kent, King Co., WA.
Daisy M. Martin1
F, #101850, b. 25 May 1912, d. 16 December 1993
Daisy M. Martin was born on 25 May 1912 at OR.1 She was the daughter of George Paul Martin and Bessie Maud Ball.1 Daisy M. Martin married Clyde B. Huskey circa 1935.1,2 Daisy M. Martin died on 16 December 1993 at Hood River Co., OR, at age 81.1
22 January 1920 Tualatin, Washington Co., OR "Daisy M." age 7, b. OR, with parents, etc.3
25 April 1940 Mosier, Wasco Co., OR "Daisy M." age 27, b. OR, with husband, etc.2
Child of Daisy M. Martin and Clyde B. Huskey
Jane M. Huskey2
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60 gallons of fuel spills in West Bypass accident
Crews responded to an accident at West Bypass and Sunshine that resulted in the spill of approximately 60 gallons of fuel.
60 gallons of fuel spills in West Bypass accident Crews responded to an accident at West Bypass and Sunshine that resulted in the spill of approximately 60 gallons of fuel. Check out this story on news-leader.com: https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/local/ozarks/2014/06/05/wreck-slows-traffic-sunshine-west-bypass/10006993/
Jonathan Shorman, News-Leader Published 9:31 a.m. CT June 5, 2014 | Updated 11:11 a.m. CT June 5, 2014
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Emergency crews responded to an accident at West Bypass and Sunshine Street that involved two vehicles and resulted in the spill of approximately 60 gallons of fuel.
A maroon SUV with extensive front-end damage was towed. Also towed was a dump truck.
Springfield police spokesperson Lisa Cox said an eastbound vehicle on Sunshine driven by a woman slowly rolled into the West Bypass intersection during a red slight and was struck by a dump truck traveling southbound.
The woman was transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries, Cox said. A man driving the dump truck declined medical attention.
Crews could be seen putting down sand south of the intersection in the southbound lane in an apparent effort to cleanup a fuel spill. Cox said the dump truck lost approximately 60 gallons of fuel.
As of 9:20 a.m. police were not allowing traffic into the southbound lane of West Bypass south of Sunshine Street, though other lanes were moving normally.
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These were the findings of the most detailed Canadian government housing study to date, Bloomberg reported. Condos accounted for about 53% of foreign property ownership in Vancouver, and 44% in Toronto.
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Ferrari 458 Spider Set For Frankfurt Debut, Scuderia Due 2013
Viknesh Vijayenthiran August 8, 2011 Comment Now!
2011 Ferrari 458 Italia Spider
The next couple of years are going to be tremendously busy for Ferrari as the automaker, already at record sales levels, prepares for the launch of a raft of new models.
The first of these will be the long-awaited 458 Spider, the convertible version of the stunning 458 Italia supercar and most likely the hotter of the two. That’s because the car is tipped to receive a new automated folding hard-top in lieu of its predecessor’s canvas soft-top, giving owner’s the best of both worlds.
It’s scheduled to make its debut at this September’s 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show before going on sale in Europe that same month. U.S. sales should start early next year.
The 458 Spider will get the same 570 horsepower and 400 pound-feet of torque 4.5-liter V-8 found in the hard-top, though could be slightly slower due to the extra weight required for its folding roof mechanism and chassis strengthening.
Due next year will be the replacements for the 599 GTB Fiorano and Enzo supercar. While we’ve seen spy shots of test mules for the 599 successor, not much is known about the car that will be Ferrari’s next flagship.
The Enzo successor is reportedly being called the F70 within Ferrari and is being tested with two very different powertrains. One option is a smaller twin-turbo V-8 engine said to be outputting around 700 horsepower and the other is a V-12 unit with an additional 50 to 100 horsepower.
While there were claims that Ferrari would go the V-8 route, it now looks as though the automaker will stick with a V-12 for its flagship. Expect plenty of active aerodynamics on this model and a significantly lighter curb weight than the already lithe Enzo.
Moving to 2013, Ferrari will launch a facelifted version of its California as well as the highly anticipated 458 Scuderia. This model will be quicker than the regular 458 Italia and will borrow a number of elements from the hardcore 458 Challenge race car.
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69th Rally of Monte Carlo
After a 'closed season' of less than two months, the 2001 FIA World Rally Championship begins this evening with the ceremonial start of the Rallye Monte Carlo. The event, which celebrates its 90th birthday this year, will start in earnest tomorrow ...
After a 'closed season' of less than two months, the 2001 FIA World Rally Championship begins this evening with the ceremonial start of the Rallye Monte Carlo. The event, which celebrates its 90th birthday this year, will start in earnest tomorrow morning on the icy mountain roads of southern France. Seven manufacturer teams have committed to the 14-round championship, and six of them are poised to fight for victory on the opening rally, traditionally one of the most unpredictable on the calendar.
Double world champion Peugeot has made only mild revisions to the successful 206 WRC, and altered its driver line-up with the signing of 1994 title-winner Didier Auriol. He joins reigning champion Marcus Gronholm, Gilles Panizzi and Harri Rovanpera, although the latter will not appear for the team until the next round in Sweden. Gronholm is confident that he will be an even stronger contender as he aims for a second crown, but the Finn admits that starting the year with a victory in Monte Carlo could prove difficult. "I should be better throughout the season because at least I know the rallies better," he said, "but I only managed five stages in Monte Carlo last year so my experience here is nearly zero. My aim is to settle back into competition and try to get some points." Local hopes are being pinned on Auriol and Panizzi - particularly the former, who is already a three-times winner of the rally. As was often the case last year, Peugeot's drivers have opted for different transmission set-ups. Gronholm's 206 will be fitted with three computer-controlled, 'active' differentials, while Auriol and Panizzi will use non-active examples at the front and rear of their cars.
The latest version of the Focus WRC incorporates a number of small revisions over its predecessor. Most notably, Ford's engineers have introduced a fly-by-wire throttle, as well as a new ceramic turbocharger and more sophisticated transmission that features traction control for the first time. The car's rear wing has also been reprofiled to reduce aerodynamic drag at high speeds. Ford's existing driver line-up of Colin McRae and Carlos Sainz has been bolstered further by the addition of Francois Delecour, who joined from Peugeot just before Christmas. The new signing is confident of a strong showing in Monte Carlo, an event that he won for his new employer back in 1994. "I've already been impressed with the car," he said, "and I don't see any reason why I shouldn't be able to fight for the win." Ford switches from Michelin tyres to Pirelli for 2001, although Sainz doesn't believe that the move will make too much difference. "I'm glad to work with Pirelli again," he said, "but Michelin was also strong. For the last few years, both tyre companies have been fighting hard for the championship, so it's quite close now anyway." For his part, McRae is resolved to put his 2000 disappointment behind him and fight for a second world title. "What happened last year has only made me more determined," he said. "I think we proved in the second half of the season that we've got a competitive and reliable car - now we just have to build on that."
Team Principal David Lapworth admits that Subaru is 'taking a risk' in both its choice of drivers and technical strategy in 2001. "The new car should be a major step forward," said Lapworth. "We wanted to stick our necks out, take some risks and hopefully set new standards for performance." Although the latest Impreza draws heavily on last year's model, the team's engineers have experimented with engine airflow and packaging. Double World Rally Championship runner-up Richard Burns is optimistic that the team has prepared for Monte Carlo's notoriously fickle weather conditions. "We've gone through just about every permutation of tyres that we can think of," he said. "I'd expect all of last year's title contenders to be involved again, as well as Didier Auriol (who moves to Peugeot). He'd a lean year in 2000 but I think he'll bounce back." Both of Subaru's 'young chargers', 26-year old Petter Solberg and 25-year old Markko Martin, will tackle Monte Carlo, with the Estonian nominated for manufacturers' points alongside Burns. Recent signing Toshihiro Arai is not scheduled to make his first appearance for the team until Portugal.
The Ralliart team takes its first real step towards the World Rally Car version of the Lancer in Monte Carlo, with a heavily-revised version of last year's car. It will feature improvements in key areas (in particular, its rear suspension and the flywheel) that will be incorporated in the new Lancer WRC that will make its debut in Sanremo later this year. The team's operations are now under the control of experienced co-ordinator George Donaldson, who joined Ralliart from Toyota Team Europe late last season. Four-times world champion Tommi Makinen has been encouraged by the progress made in recent testing. "The revised rear suspension makes a big difference," he said. "It's more than just increased travel - the geometry is improved too. Last year was difficult - it always is when you try to achieve something and fail - so I'm determined to win our titles back. That starts here, and my record in Monte Carlo is quite strong. I think we've got a good chance, particularly if the conditions stay slippery." Belgian driver Freddy Loix starts his third season with Mitsubishi determined to erase the memory of two difficult years. "I've had more testing and it's gone well," said Loix. "If conditions stay snowy and icy then the most important thing will be not to make mistakes. Just staying on the road will probably be good enough to guarantee a reasonable result."
Armin Schwarz stays with the Czech marque in 2001, as the firm celebrates its 100th year in motorsport. His Octavia WRC features mild modifications since the end of last season, most notably revised ducting in the engine bay to improve airflow to the turbo. Schwarz believes that it could take another year before Skoda is ready to fight for wins, but he believes that progress made in the meantime will keep the Octavia in contention for points finishes. " Monte's a good place to start," said Schwarz. "It's completely unpredictable and a good, clean run can be enough to score a fourth or a fifth place. The car's getting better all the time and if we stay out of trouble, a good result is possible." Schwarz has a new team-mate for 2001 - Bruno Thiry - although the Belgian drove for Skoda once before, on the Rally Great Britain in 1999. He finished fifth in Monte Carlo last year, and pre-event testing has left him hopeful of a repeat performance this season. "The Octavia's a big car but it handles quite well," said Thiry. "If the conditions are as unpredictable as ever, then one good tyre choice could be enough to score a good finish."
The Korean manufacturer fields new signing Piero Liatti alongside Alister McRae, with veteran Kenneth Eriksson due to appear on the next round in Sweden. Liatti's pre-event preparations were hit by an accident during the shakedown test yesterday. The Italian was experimenting with tyre choice but he slid off on his opening run and damaged his Accent WRC sufficiently to end hopes of further mileage. "I only drove for 200 metres," said Liatti. "I suppose my testing really starts tomorrow morning, so it'll be difficult." Team Principal David Whitehead reports that although the Accent's chassis was bent in the accident, the damage was all in front of the car's suspension and it has been completely repaired. Alister McRae suffered no such dramas, and the Scot is optimistic that changes to the Accent's engine will reap rewards. "I think we'll have closed the gap to the top teams since the end of last season," he said.
The new Xsara T4 World Rally Car is not scheduled to appear in the FIA World Championship until Catalunya in March, but Citroen is adopting a long-term strategy and has entered two of its drivers, Philippe Bugalski and Jesus Puras, for this weekend's event to help them gain experience. Both will use 1600cc Saxo kit cars that will not allow them to fight for overall honours, but the pair's aim will be to make and check pacenotes for the stages at competitive speed. Puras said: "I'm glad Citroen is giving us the chance to compete and recce for rallies outside of the Xsara T4 programme this year. At least we'll be able to have a look at the roads and conditions, and be better prepared for when we come back with the four-wheel drive car." Citroen's other driver, Thomas Radstrom, is not present in Monte Carlo but he will make use of the flexibility of his contract to drive for Mitsubishi in Sweden next month.
Beyond the factory World Rally Car entries, former works SEAT driver Toni Gardemeister switches to an HF Grifone-run Peugeot 206 WRC for Monte Carlo. The other leading World Rally Car privateer is likely to be Italian Piero Longhi, who fields a Toyota Corolla WRC.
In Group N, meanwhile, Manfred Stohl and Gustavo Trelles have enjoyed fierce competition in the category for more standard vehicles in recent years, and there's little to suggest that they'll break the habit in 2001. Both will compete in Monte Carlo this weekend, and reigning FIA Group N World Champion Stohl is predicting a tough fight - here, and during the rest of the year. "There have never been so many good drivers in Group N," he said. "Even outside the regular guys there are often local drivers who'll make it tough. It'll be hard to keep my title." Italian Gianluigi Galli is a likely challenger to Stohl and Trelles in Monte Carlo.
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Leg 1, Friday 19th January (667.49 km) SS 1 10:03 Bif. D 5 / D 10 - Roquesteron 22.89 km SS 2 10:46 Saint Pierre - Entrevaux 30.34 km SS 3 13:19 Bif. D 5 / D 10 - Roquesteron 22.89 km SS 4 14:02 Saint Pierre - Entrevaux 30.34 km SS 5 17:03 Comps Castellane 20.53 km SS 6 18:09 Clumanc - Lambruisse 14.75 km Leg 2 - Saturday 20th January (814.77 km)
SS 7 09:53 Bif. D 1 / C 1 - Turriers 24.12 km SS 8 11:06 Sisteron - Thoard 36.69 km SS 9 13:34 Clumanc - Lambruisse 14.75 km SS 10 15:07 Comps - Castellane 20.53 km SS 11 18:00 Sisteron - Thoard 36.69 km
Leg 3 - Sunday 21st January (277.11 km) SS 12 09:08 Sospel - La Bollene Vesubie 32.72 km SS 13 10:03 Loda - Luceram 16.55 km SS 14 12:28 Sospel - La Bollene Vesubie 32.72 km SS 15 13:23 Loda - Luceram 16.55 km 15:15 Finish of the rally in Monte-Carlo
ENTRY LIST (TOP 30)
1 Gronholm/Rautianen (Fin) Peugeot 206 WRC A8 2 Auriol/Giraudet (F) Peugeot 206 WRC A8 3 McRae/Grist (GB) Ford Focus RS WRC A8 4 Sainz/Moya (ES) Ford Focus RS WRC A8 5 Burns/Reid (GB) Subaru Impreza WRC A8
6 Solberg/Mills (N/GB) Subaru Impreza WRC A8 7 Makinen/Mannisenmaki (Fin) Mitsubishi Lancer Evo A8 8 Loix/Smeets (B) Mitsubishi Carisma GT A8 9 McRae.A/Senior (GB) Hyundai Accent WRC A8 10 Piero/Cassina (I) Hyundai Accent WRC A8
11 Schwarz/Hiemer (D) Skoda Octavia WRC A8 12 Thiry/Prevot (B) Skoda Octavia WRC A8
16 Panizzi/Panizzi (MC/F) Peugeot 206 WRC A8 17 Delecour/Grataloup (F) Ford Focus RS WRC A8 18 Martin/Park (EST/GB) Subaru Impreza WRC A8 19 Gardemeister/Lukander (Fin) Peugeot 206 WRC A8 20 Bugalski/Chiaroni (F) Citroen Saxo Kit Car A6
21 Puras/Marti (E) Citroen Saxo Kit Car A6 22 Longhi/Baggio (I) Toyota Corolla WRC A8 23 Stohl/Muller (A) Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI N4 24 Trelles/Fel Buone (ROU/RA) Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI N4 25 Galli/Bernacchini (I) Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI N4
26 Pozzo/Cretu (RA) Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI N4 27 Maselli/Arena (I) Fiat Punto Kit Car A6 28 Burri/Patthey (CH) Toyota Corolla WRC A8 29 Tsjoen/Vergalle (B) Toyota Corolla WRC A8 30 Zanchi/D'Esposito (I) Toyota Corolla WRC A8 -Dusty, WRC
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Rallye Monte Carlo: End of Leg 1
Drivers Tommi Makinen , Colin McRae , Carlos Sainz , Freddy Loix , Toshihiro Arai , Richard Burns , Harri Rovanpera , Gilles Panizzi , Didier Auriol , Marcus Gronholm , Petter Solberg , Alister McRae , Armin Schwarz , Philippe Bugalski , Thomas Radstrom , Jesus Puras , Kenneth Eriksson , Gustavo Trelles , Manfred Stohl , Piero Liatti , Gianluigi Galli , David White , Markko Martin
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Christian Lundgaard claims maiden F3 victory in Hungary Feature Race
By: Stephen Camp
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ART's Christian Lundgaard claimed his maiden FIA Formula 3 championship victory after leading with a superb lights-to-flag performance at the Hungaroring.
The Danish driver got a superb start and soon pulled a gap to team-mate Max Fewtrell and didn't look back, ensuring he snatched his first win after getting penalised in the opening race of the season.
Lundgaard even pushed on the final lap of the race to claim the fastest lap to add an extra two points to his tally for the afternoon, adding to the four he already had for taking pole position.
Fewtrell was unable to make an impression on Lundgaard's pace and continued to fall behind, however, the British driver did equal his best result of the campaign with another second-place finish after the second place in the Austrian Feature Race.
HWA Racelab's Jake Hughes put in a stunning performance to claim the final spot on the podium, he was stuck behind Hitech Grand Prix's Juri Vips for the majority of the race.
Vips had got stuck behind the Trident of Niko Kari for the majority of the race, but the Finn's tyres continued to degrade, Vips seized his chance on lap 18 and Hughes followed two corners later.
Hughes then passed Vips with on the penultimate lap to take the third place away from the Estonian with a bold move around the outside of Turn 3.
Vips with his fourth-place finish closed in on his title rivals from Prema in the form of Robert Shwartzman and Jehan Daruvala as both finished further down the order.
In the final few laps, a train of cars battled to get by the struggling Kari and there were countless passes with drivers locking up at almost every corner as they chased their rivals.
Shwartzman held onto to fifth place at the finish line ahead Carlin's Felipe Drugovich who scored his best finish of the season in sixth and duly claimed his first points too.
Leonardo Pulcini claimed third place for Hitech Grand Prix ahead of Marcus Armstrong in eighth, the New Zealander will be on reverse grid pole position for Sunday's sprint race.
Jenzer Motorsport's Yuki Tsunoda and Carlin's Logan Sargeant rounded out the top 10.
Daruvala lost his second place to Vips in the championship standings after not scoring any points in 11th place, losing further ground to Shwartzman who remains the championship leader by 20 points.
Kari fell down 12 positions in the final 5 laps, showing how much his Pirelli tyres fell off the cliff at the end, eventually finishing in 15th place.
Sauber Junior Team By Charouz's Lirim Zendeli had car troubles in the early stages of the races, but was able to rejoin the race 5 laps later after the team fixed the issues in the pitlane.
Pedro Piquet was the first retirement after complaining of brake issues and duly boxed his Trident.
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Battle Over IMF Chief: Proxy War Over Power of Banks?
There’s a fight afoot over who will be the next head of the IMF. Yours truly is not making odds on this one, save that Christine Lagarde is getting far and away the most attention in the media and more generally, a big push is on to have a European take the reins. The logic is that with the eurozone mess far and away the biggest priority, the new IMF chief needs to have credibility with the major actors, and that argues for a European choice.
The contrary camp is the “the countries formerly known as emerging” who point out that it is their turn to have an IMF head from one of their countries. The IMF has been led by a European since its inception. Even though votes have been rejiggered to give younger economies more weight, the mature ones still are in control of the outcome.
But what is intriguing are the arguments that follow, which reveal what the real stakes are. Crudely speaking, the advanced economies are far more bank friendly than their “emerging” counterparts. China is actively hostile to neoclassical economics and unfettered capital markets. Efforts to make China safe for investment bankers have been rebuffed. India sailed though the global financial crisis relatively well by having capital controls and heavily regulated banks. Pretty much any country that has taken IMF medicine (such as the countries caught in the Asian crisis, like Indonesia, South Korea, and Thailand) also sees the IMF as an enforcer for major capital market firms and international banks. Japan, as a military protectorate of the US, has limited degrees of freedom. Even so, during the Asian crisis, it pushed for a bailout within the region (ie, outside the IMF) and that idea was quickly slapped down by the US.
While the US and Europe have the voted to determine who gets the nod at the IMF, consider the open hostility to Western banks in this Guardian article (hat tip RN):
….in a letter to the G20 group of the world’s largest economies Brazil’s finance minister, Guido Mantega, said: “If the Fund wants to maintain its legitimacy, its managing director must be selected after broad consultation with the member countries.”…
There are equally trenchant opinions among IMF insiders. One former senior official said: “The big danger here is if the Europeans just try to put their person in. For example, Christine Lagarde [France’s finance minister]. That would be a disaster. The Europeans have their heads in the sand again and if they do it, there will be bad fallout.”
“Christine Lagarde stands for protecting big banks. I know people like what she said to Jamie Dimon [chief executive of JP Morgan Chase] at Davos but she’s the most pro-bank bailout of the lot.
“The Americans are going to try and put in [White House adviser] David Lipton as number two. Lipton is Mr Bank Bailout. He worked for Citigroup. If they put in Lagarde and Lipton, what does that say? We are going with the total bank protection plan. That would be a disaster.”….
Beijing, like Brasilia, appears keen for someone from an emerging economy to run the IMF this time. Jiang Yu, a spokeswoman for the Chinese foreign minister, said on Thursday that the IMF’s top executives should be appointed on the basis of “impartiality” and “merit”. This came after the state-run China Daily newspaper reported Guo Tianyong, a leading Chinese economist, predicting that “Europe’s history of chairing the IMF may be broken”
The open question is at what cost will the advanced economies incur in installing yet another European. The IMF has been tasked to play a bigger role in global surveillance, particularly in prodding countries to rebalance their economies and change other risk-creating practices. If both top and the number two posts at the IMF goes to Westerners, it’s likely to produce simmering resentment and undermine cooperation on crisis prevention initiatives. The efforts to continue to make the world safe for big banks is coming at higher and higher cost, but no one in charge seems terribly concerned about the intermediate term, much the less the long term.
This entry was posted in Banking industry, China, Corporate governance, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Japan, Politics, Regulations and regulators on May 23, 2011 by Yves Smith.
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Psychoanalystus May 23, 2011 at 1:30 am
Such twisted imperialistic logic! If a European is now needed at the helm of the IMF in order to better sort out the eurozone mess, then what was the reason for having Europeans run it for the past 65 years? And, not just a European, but a French European! We just have to keep that stupid French ego pumped up, now don’t we.
I concur with the Guardian article – “the Europeans have their heads in the sand”. The whole European house of cards is crumbling down, just like the US house of cards, yet they have the audacity to make demands from the developing world, which is now largely bankrolling western excesses.
Moreso, bankrupt (morally and financially) nations like France follow the lead of other bankrupt nations like the US, and start imperial wars of aggression in oil-rich Muslim nations. These people just don’t get it that the western sun has already set. Until recently I thought that only the US was following the Roman Empire collapse trajectory, but given recent data I think I better add Western Europe to that list as well.
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cheesus flatus May 23, 2011 at 1:35 am
You mean the transition from republic to empire, not the decline right?
I think we have had purely imperial presidents for at least 10 years now, if not much longer. The republic is over, as is democracy. I think we’re in full collapse now. And the barbarians doing the plundering are the banks and the rest of the oligarchs.
Ah well, it’s the typical empire trajectory. Nothing new here.
kares May 23, 2011 at 3:09 pm
what utter nonsense; must not have seen France and its well-developed welfare state.
big cheese May 23, 2011 at 1:33 am
The solution is obvious. Appoint a Chinese and then do a frame up on him too a la DSK. Then, you can get your Euro gal/guy in there.
Or better yet, get the banking equivalent of Clarence Thomas; find a person who looks Chinese but thinks like a European banking kleptocrat. Hmmm…where have I seen one of those before?
This is a great essay by Rebecca Solnit, on TomDispatch:
When Institutions Rape Nations
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175395/tomgram%3A_rebecca_solnit%2C_when_institutions_rape_nations/
readerOfTeaLeaves May 23, 2011 at 2:25 am
A quick googling of world population stats suggests that Europe and US are whistling in the wind.
Although I don’t equate pure population numbers with economic clout, it’s simply not realistic to expect that 60% of the world’s population (Asia) will continue to allow 11% (Europe) to call the tune.
And North America is 5% of world population, which only underscores my own belief that either the US and EU get more pragmatic, or we’ll be left behind by larger demographic and cultural forces.
Cheese Wiz May 23, 2011 at 7:29 am
I think you’re thinking about this far too democratically. The oligarchs, .001% of the world population are going to control the other 99.999% as slaves. Where does that leave you? If you’re lucky, psychopathic, and fawningly servile to the oligarchs you can be a slave driver.
FatCat May 23, 2011 at 2:36 pm
Oligarchic FatCat here, so listen up, Wiz boy! I like the way you think. I can use more slaves like you in MY oligarchic empire. Here’s a sweet deal, boy: you show ME that you can crack the whip on the backs of MY other slaves, you show ME that you’re willing to sell your own family into slave labor in MY camps, you show ME that you’re ready to put your 5-year old to work 16 hours a day 7 days a week on MY cotton farms, and I will make you chain gang leader in one of MY private prisons in California. Do we have a deal, boy!? Remember: kittens like me don’t take no for an answer. You turn down my offer and I’ll have you fired, foreclose on your house, reposses your car, and have one of MY judges put you in prison for life for that parking ticket you didn’t pay 10 years ago. Is that clear?!!!
vlade May 23, 2011 at 2:49 am
Give it to an Aussie :)
jake chase May 23, 2011 at 6:52 am
“If the Fund wants to maintain its legitimacy, its managing director must be selected after broad consultation with the member countries.”
I think the guy who said this should be appointed just for his imagination alone. The last time the IMF was legitimate was 1946, for about thirty days.
They’re talking about the veneer of legitimacy. There’s a difference.
Viator May 23, 2011 at 7:23 am
“it might be better if some leadership and authority came from outside of Europe with a fresh set of independent eyes.”
“If the Growth Eight(Brazil, Russia, India and China (the four BRICs) as well as Korea, Indonesia, Mexico and Turkey) were part of a regional club as is the EU, in my opinion it would seem a straightforward choice that the new IMF leader should come from one of their countries. Perhaps they should try to decide on a jointly preferredcandidate rather than each one promoting their own.”
Chairman, Goldman Sachs Asset Management
Tim May 23, 2011 at 8:33 am
What about Mark Carney or David Dodge from Canada?
The Europeans are making a big mistake here in pushing hard for Lagarde.
They are going to need capital from all over the world to re-capitalize the European banks after the inevitable Greek/Irish/Portuguese debt “haircuts”. Excluding the big exporting/surplus nations which have reserves to recycle from the process will reduce the IMF’s degrees of freedom in solving the problem.
This episode highlights the politicians’ need to keep “control” of a situation that is rapidly spiraling out of control. It also makes one wonder about all the side deals that have been struck amongst the leading European politicians.
ex-PFC Chuck May 23, 2011 at 10:29 am
This is likely a dumb question from someone who is among the more challenged when it comes to knowledge of the financial sphere, but could the “emergents” (Brazil, China, India, Russia, et al) resign from the IMF and set up their own alternative organization? Is it even feasible economically given the trade interrelationships? I suspect there would be huge political obstacles, both from established order as it pulls out all the stops to hang on to the status quo and, if it comes to pass, within the new organization as its founding countries fight among themselves over position, governance, etc. It seems to me that if such a thing were to happen it would have an impact on world affairs that makes the Arab Spring look like a sandbox dust-up by comparison. Just the threat of doing so, if it were plausible, could greatly increase their influence in the world finance institutions that are the legacy of World War II.
XRayD May 23, 2011 at 10:47 am
“We should say thank you,” said Mr. Diamond [CEO Barclays], who earlier this month defended his bank’s lucrative bonus payments before British lawmakers, “a very heartfelt thank you.”
With him on stage, the French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde was not impressed: “The best way the banking sector can say thank you is with good financing for the economy, sensible compensation packages and reinforcement of their capital.”
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/01/29/words-of-remorse-at-davos-sort-of/
The opposition will be the same as against Elizabeth Warren and protecting consumers against anyone who thinks it is time to put the vampire squid on a diet. It is bad for the world of Goldman et al. and Central Bankers doing God’s work:
“The most important commandment is not to inflict harm on others. Although it isn’t stated quite that way in the Ten Commandments, it follows from them.”
Jean-Claude Juncker, the prime minister of Luxembourg and president of the Euro Group, who argues that Athens isn’t bankrupt and that is is still possible for Greece to emerge from the crisis via “privatization”.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,764224,00.html
Maju May 23, 2011 at 11:18 am
If Lagarde wins it’ll be confirmed as a Sarkozy-made coup. A coup successful in all fronts.
This together with the advance of the right and even the far right in elections through Europe, USA, etc. forecasts very bad years to follow.
Brad Hansen May 23, 2011 at 11:24 am
In “Inside Job”, didn’t Christine Lagarde say, “Banks are a service industry, and they need to service the public, before the service themselves.” That was a sound bite I loved. And I liked everything else she has to say in that film. Was that just posing for the camera?
XRayD May 23, 2011 at 1:54 pm
Is that what DSK doing at the Sofitel? Getting room service?
frances snoot May 23, 2011 at 11:28 am
“Fee Fie Foe Fum
I smell the blood of an Englishman
Be he alive
Or be he dead
I’ll grind his bones
To make my bread.”
Stories, stories,stories: aren’t they fun? Did they kill all the giants?
Everyone knows the IMF is defunct. This is a filler story between Act 1, Act 2 and the red glove service.
Whence is that knocking?
How is’t with me, when every noise appals me?
What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes.
Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas in incarnadine,
Making the green one red. (Macbeth-Act 2)
http://www.shakespeare-literature.com/Macbeth/9.html
JasonRines May 23, 2011 at 2:12 pm
Shakespear is most appropriate. You are a spiritual person Frances with wisdom. I would not attempt to explain all the correlations and ironies here as it relates to mankind and God on a financial board as I would be labeled a crackpot I sure. “Beware the Ides of March”.
frances snoot May 23, 2011 at 3:50 pm
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/%27Fairy_ring%27_in_the_forest_-_geograph.org.uk_-_274456.jpg
Finance is faith with feathers.
Hugh May 23, 2011 at 1:11 pm
Important to keep in mind that this is about competing visions of kleptocracy. It is about power, and of course money, not reform. In this case, it just happens to be that the Euro and Anglo-Saxon versions of kleptocracy are aligned against the BRIC version.
I don’t think that the BRIC seriously think they can push through their own nominee. I’m not sure they could even agree on one. This looks more like laying down a marker and a leverage play, possibly a greater say on current IMF policy and staffing or on the selection of future IMF heads.
Remember no one is holding a gun to the head of the BRIC countries to stay in the IMF. If they were really serious about this, they could go off and start an IMF-like entity of their own.
There really isn’t an opt-out option to the global regulation of exchange, Hugh, by the hegemon. And those who treat nature as other have opted out of life altogether. It’s complete hypocrisy to claim entitlement when the only harmony one seeks with nature is a default termed death.
Because the Euro/Anglo stance is always apart seeking whole.
ScottS May 23, 2011 at 2:10 pm
I was going to say above that they can’t do anything without the US, as the USD is the global reserve currency.
But then again… doesn’t China have a few trillion US dollars kicking around with nothing better to do than dump ’em into Treasuries? I think we will see China start investing USD in south-east Asian countries, and probably Africa if the US (sorry, UN) invasion of Libya hasn’t scared them off.
It makes a kind of technical sense. Dollars and Yuan are just playthings in China. The real action is in population control. Can China outsource its production throughout south-east Asia to increase labor competition locally and therefore decrease inflationary pressures at home, keeping sweat-shop workers “in their place”?
just a wishful thought: what if banks and the IMF and first, second and third world financiers were, in fact, reasonably honorable…. what if controlling out-of-control “capitalism” and “free trade” and controlling the language about all the empty descriptions of our present situation were an honorable effort to rebalance the planet… what if our present crisis found a solution in ecologically sound banking and commerce… crisis is opportunity… what would ecologically sound banking look like…
F. Beard May 23, 2011 at 2:49 pm
what would ecologically sound banking look like… Susan Truxes
That’s a non-starter. All banking is based on theft of purchasing power from all money holders including and especially the poor. Furthermore, usury itself is problematic since it requires exponential growth to pay the interest.
What we need to do is remove ALL government privilege for the banks and usury. To privilege the banks and usury is to privilege oppression and environmental destruction.
how about this: we humans have health insurance to insure our well being… insurance is a form of finance…. why can’t we do an IMF that insures healthy ecology… and why wouldn’t this be good banking
hi susan, I just wanted to ask you: who should the trustees of this new ecology trust be – I would strongly advise against the current bank officers
TC May 24, 2011 at 12:04 am
Allow me to counter your “what if” with one of my own…
What if the IMF, the World Bank, the Federal Reserve, and the ECB were not dominated by fascists, but rather were run exclusively by proponents of a Hamiltonian credit system financing the build out of state-of-the-art, modular, high temperature, gas-cooled nuclear breeder reactors whose fuel source is estimated to last 400,000 years and whose CO2 pollution is zero? This among other investments geared toward elevating mankind’s command over limited natural resources through scientific advances propelling our capacity to get more using less (per capita), such as has been the general trend throughout Western society since the Golden Renaissance.
william May 23, 2011 at 3:20 pm
it’s true that Christine Lagarde is pro banks–if they happen to be French. She dislikes all the other banks and nobody in the banking community thinks she is pro banks.
TC May 23, 2011 at 11:52 pm
The question is not who will replace DSK, or which nation this person will hail from. Rather it is how soon will Bernanke and Geithner be taken down in similar, bloody fashion, that the global financial system then might be reorganized in bankruptcy. The game of “extend and pretend” has met its first formidable resistance in a chambermaid who could not be bought off…
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Retired U.S. Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer Jerome Sanders pleaded guilty to a March 2019 attack on Jessica Cox, a woman he punched when she tried to stop him from assaulting another woman in downtown San Diego
A retired U.S. Navy service member took off his medal-adorned uniform Tuesday in a San Diego courtroom after he was sentenced on assault charges.
Jerome Sanders appeared at his sentencing in full uniform. After learning his fate – a 45-day jail sentence for punching a woman on the streets of downtown San Diego – he removed his jacket. He was then handcuffed.
Sanders pleaded guilty to misdemeanor counts including assault and battery in an attack on victim Jessica Cox. Prosecutors with the San Diego City Attorney’s Office had asked for a 120-day sentence; Sanders received less than half of that.
Jerome Sanders, a retired 28-year Navy Officer, sentenced to 45-days in jail for punching a woman who tried to stop him from hitting another woman. He showed up in a medal adorned jacket, which he removed as he was handcuffed. His attorney said PTSD was a factor in assault. #nbc7 pic.twitter.com/JfhrgLOcXl
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Sanders punched Cox in the face on March 4 during a tense encounter in front of a 7-Eleven store near Sixth Avenue and C Street. Cox had confronted Sanders after she saw him assaulting another woman.
Cox threatened to call the police on Sanders and, in that moment, he turned around and punched her. The assault was captured on cellphone video.
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Superior Court of San Diego County Judge Carlos Varela called the attack “disturbing” and said what happened to Cox was “a nightmare.”
Immediately after the assault, Sanders fled. San Diego police released the video to the public in hopes of tracking down the assault suspect. A few weeks later, investigators identified the suspect as Sanders and charged him with assault.
Sanders’ then-fiancée and now wife, Joanne Martinez, was also charged in the case and sentenced to probation for lying to police.
Cox spoke in open court prior to Tuesday’s sentencing, telling the judge she intervened after seeing Sanders assaulting a woman who appeared to be in her 60s.
“I said, ‘You cannot hit a woman. He goes, ‘OK, I’ll hit you.’ Boom. Boom,” she recalled.
Quite a moment in court. Listen to a Good Samaritan describe how she was attack for trying prevent a man from assaulting another woman. And then listen to him apologize to her. #nbc7 pic.twitter.com/jhJw7VC22c
Cox also criticized Sanders for wearing his U.S. Navy uniform to court.
“He’s now wearing his uniform trying to come off as if he’s a better man than what he is,” Cox told the courtroom. “That’s unfortunate to the uniform he’s wearing, because he’s not.”
Prior to learning his sentence, Sanders turned toward Cox to apologize.
“I’d just like to say I’m sorry,” he told her. “I don’t know what happened; I didn’t find out until I saw the video. I turned myself in as soon as I found out about it.”
Prosecutor Mark Skeels called the case unusually violent.
He presented a picture of Cox showing a dark bruise under her left eye. But the extent of her injuries did not meet that standard of potential felony charges.
NBC 7 followed Cox’s story after the attack. Her eye was bruised, black and blue from her nose to her cheekbone, but no bones were broken.
“It’s a miracle she didn’t fracture her orbital socket or sustain permanent damage to her eye,” said Skeels.
Sanders’ attorney, Troy Owens, said the retired Navy servicemember was diagnosed with PTSD, and honorably discharged in 2018 with a service-related disability. He blamed a recent increase in prescribed medication as another reason behind the attack.
“There is anxiety. There are night tremors; there are nightmares. There are substance abuse issues all as a result of his service to our country,” Owens said.
A judge acknowledged several letters written on Sanders’ behalf. A psychologist said Sanders sought out services nine months before leaving the service.
In addition to the 45 days behind bars, Varela sentenced Sanders to three years probation.
Before leaving court, Cox walked up to Sanders and had one more thing to say to her attacker.
“I hope you get the help you need,” she told him.
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USDA Task Force Clearing Up Cover Crop Rules
June 4, 2013 | Posted in Cover Crops
Harmonized policies pertaining to cover crops and federal crop insurance may be in place this fall in time for the 2014 growing season and could encourage more cover-crop adoption.
A special USDA task force plans to issue “harmonized” cover-crop rules later this year to eliminate conflicts around crop-insurance policies and potentially remove a significant barrier to cover-crop adoption.
A task force of govenment agencies was created earlier this year after the USDA acknowledged the NRCS, RMA and FSA have conflicting directives about cover cropping.
The “Task Force To Harmonize Cover Crop Policies” was created earlier this year after the USDA acknowledged the Natural Resources Conservation Service, Risk Management Authority and Farm Service Agency all have conflicting directives about cover cropping.
Along with the lead agencies, the National Association of Conservation Districts, National Wildlife Foundation and the American Soybean Association are also players on this task force.
Some official language may be in place this fall for the 2014 growing season in time for farmers seeding winter wheat, says Ryan Stockwell, ag program manager for the Washington D.C.-based National Wildlife Federation, which has been coordinating the effort among cover crop stakeholders to rectify policy barriers to cover crop adoption and provided guidance to the interagency task force.
Rules Stifle Adoption
The process to address the confusion created by the USDA’s conflicting rules actually began in January, when the NWF brought Emporia, Kan., no-tiller Gail Fuller to Washington.
Fuller — recently named by the ASA as a Conservation Legacy Award winner —experienced a delayed termination of his cover crops last year due to extended periods of high winds that prevented him from spraying.
He planted soybeans and other cash crops on his 1,800-acre farm before terminating his mix of cover crops, which was left growing from a few days to 2 weeks after planting. He lost his crop-insurance coverage after he was chosen at random for a post-planting inspection during the summer.
“His yields were the same as his neighbors’ yields. So during the worst drought in 50 years, he lost his crop insurance,” Stockwell says.
Work Begins
The longtime grain and livestock farmer became the poster child, of sorts, for government policies on cover crops running amok.
While the RMA has taken a strict stance on cover-crop termination dates, the NRCS, in contrast, has been encouraging cover-crop use and paying some farmers to use them to improve soil health, control erosion or help clean up polluted watersheds, Stockwell says.
In March, the USDA agencies examined their individual policies on cover crops and began to pore over peer-reviewed science on the impacts and management of cover crops.
Research was requested on water use of cover crops and soil-moisture availability of the subsequent insured crop; impact of covers in weed and disease management; and the yield impact on subsequent commodity crops.
Then the group began addressing conflicting definitions of different agencies, such as the definition of double-cropped acres vs. a cover crop, or cropping years, trying to make them as similar as possible while maintaining the legal requirements of different agencies.
Coming up with guidance to address the “coverage cliff” that Fuller experienced was a major goal for National Wildlife Federation and its partners. Stockwell says farmers frequently point out the lack of familiarity with cover crops on the part of initial insurance agents and adjusters.
“For us, current polices don’t reflect true risk associated with a cover crop getting a little too tall,” Stockwell says. “The problem may not be management decision, but a weather issue.
"We’ve had guys with long-term no-tilled fields cutting ruts in the mud to spray cover crops quickly so they’re not out of compliance with the RMA..."
— GAIL FULLER
“The big question is allowing that flexibility for farmers to manage cover crops to meet specifications of the growing year. Rather than having a hardened date for termination, should we have a policy that recognizes some years are dry and hot and you should terminate early, while other years it will be wet and you can let it go a little longer?”
It looks as though the federal government’s solution will center on geography. Stockwell says the NRCS used wind-water erosion modeling and precipitation-efficiency index models to come up with suggestions based on geographic areas and erosion and precipitation data.
That produced recommendations for cover-crop termination deadlines for four areas across the U.S., based on prevailing moisture levels.
“Those recommendations say that in the driest parts of the nation, you should terminate a cover crop 35 days before planting an insured crop. Where moisture is slightly more plentiful, it goes down to 15 days,” Stockwell says. “Termination at planting is allowed in another zone, and terminating a cover crop before the insured crop emerges is recommended in areas with plentiful moisture.”
The next step is for the RMA to draft specific language on policies to reflect those suggestions, “or they may come up with something different,” Stockwell says.
Future Discussions
Stockwell, who is actually working with cover crops as he transitions a small farm in Wisconsin to no-till, says this entire effort will have some long-term benefits as well.
The findings should direct more specific questions to crop researchers and help farmers evaluate specific cover crops to use in their rotations, he says.
The task force found there is plenty of cover-crop research out there, but much of it doesn’t address the risk factor, or yield impact to subsequent cash crops.
Behind The Times
Fuller’s story begins last August, when his name was randomly pulled for a growing-season inspection.
He thought he’d passed the initial inspection that month, but his case was sent up for review with the agent’s superior, an apparently his use of cover crops raised some red flags.
“They asked me lots and lots of questions, didn’t tell me what they were looking for and just kept asking more questions and finally said they would review it,” Fuller said Tuesday.
Last October, the company disqualified him from crop insurance on seven fields because of supposed “interplanting” practices where his cover crops were involved. Another soybean field was disqualified for general farming practices because of failure to control weeds.
Fuller says the weather was so dry that the soybeans didn’t establish and the mix of glyphosate, 2,4-D and Prefix didn’t seem to work on the weeds. A flush of weeds returned in summer and he didn’t spray them, per the advice from a letter he received from his custom applicator.
For the seven fields disqualified for interplanting, Fuller says the insurance company was using a rule that wasn’t written for cover crops and was being misinterpreted. It’s common practice in his area to plant cash crops first and then spray covers crops because that usually provides the best termination results, he says.
But last year, temperatures were in the 90s and 100s during soybean planting. Two weeks with winds gusting over 40 mph kept him from spraying, and custom applicators were already tied up and unavailable.
“I didn’t understand the rules and continued to do what I’ve done in the past,” Fuller says.
Little Or No Data
Fuller described how he talked with a top official at the Kansas RMA office and was told they had data on his region that served as a basis of their decision. When Fuller asked to see it, the office acquiesced.
Fuller says he received a PowerPoint presentation from a University of Nebraska Extension agent containing no scientific data and only a single line mentioning that cover crops can use water. Another document came from a Kansas State University agronomy newsletter discussing cover crops and timing issues, but it also had no data, Fuller says.
A third document from the USDA Agricultural Research Service in Akron, Col., contained some scientific data on a research project from the mid-1980s involving a monoculture of cover crops, Fuller says.
“Those are the things they’re using to dictate millions of dollars — yes or no,” Fuller says. “I talked to the authors. One had no idea they were using his information and he sent me a letter backing my stance. Another author told me their work was being taken completely out of context and it wasn’t relevant to eastern Kansas.
“When we’re using PowerPoints to dictate rules and regulations, something isn’t right,” he says. “The RMA in Washington told me I got caught in a trap set for farmers that are fraudulent in crop insurance. It wasn’t set for me, but I got my foot caught in it.”
In January, through the support of the NWF and other groups, Fuller met with directors of the RMA and NRCS and several representatives of Congress and discussed his situation. Among other things, he pointed out that he was awarded am NRCS Conservation Innovation Grant to work with cover crops and livestock, but that field was one of those disqualified by the RMA for insurance.
“We’ve got three government agencies controlling production ag and none of them are on the same page, and that needs to stop. You need to pick a direction,” Fuller recalls saying. “We can’t be getting paid here for one practice, then walk across isle and get denied for doing the same thing.”
Changes Coming
The same month he was in Washington, Fuller appealed the insurance decision through mediation and was denied, without explanation, in March. The next step is filing for arbitration with the American Arbitration Association, which appoints someone both sides agree on to hear the case.
Depending on what happens, it could be 20 months before Fuller’s insurance denial is completely settled.
“What they’ve done to the soil-health movement is inexcusable,” Fuller says. “We’ve got producers just loving what we’re doing here, but they’re scared to try cover crops, thanks to the RMA. We’ve had guys with long-term no-tilled fields cutting ruts in the mud to spray cover crops quickly so they’re not out of compliance with the RMA.
“But the response I got from Washington was unbelievable. I think there will be some huge changes.”
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The Good for Nothing Seventh Young Lady
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She was the godly thief of the 24th century, yet she was reincarnated as a good-for-nothing idiot with no parents. Not only that, she had to bend her will according to her relatives’ mood. Idiot? Trash? Very well, sooner or later, she will show these group of silly earthlings what it means to be too late for regrets!
Battle-qi? Magic? Her talent on both magic and martial arts will mortify every genius in existence. The position of the clan chief? The mythological Vermilion Bird? Want them? So sorry~ She already took them!
But who will tell her, that the cute boy who gets carsick easily was really the mythological Vermilion Bird? Then, what about the elder that’s residing in her body, just which deity does that mysterious soul belong to? Furthermore……
Why was it that other people’s companion were those kind of domineering, and incomparably mighty type. Why was it the ones around her were either an evil merchant or a sly fox, a useless nerd or a playboy, the worst is this sick pretty boy! What happened to ruling the world, and standing above all else? Please don’t f*ck with me!
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Nana (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ rated it
Status: c155
Review at April 22, 2016
Promising start, a weak young female died, and her body is taken by a powerful being. But up to chapter 15 I feel disheartened by this series >.<
The MC only observing while acting like a fool.
rating 3/5 star
Update (December 25th, 2016)
The pace is pick up greatly after the lady got the aforementioned mystical bird. That is the reason of increase in my rating to 5/5 star. We star see more cunningness and shamelessness of MC and her antics. More character is introduced... more>> too, increasing the charm of the story.
Definitely worth reading, but the pace of the translator is left nothing to be desired. I advise that you need to hide this series to another reading list other than your main, so you can binge read it. <<less
BillionJellyfish rated it
Status: c1425
This is your typical cliché transmigration novel:
Famous 21st century thief transmigrates into a trash body
Family trouble: scheming Uncles/Aunts, arrogant step siblings, etc.
Trash body actually has a secret background
Petty villains that never learn their lesson and always comes back for revenge
MC takes revenge by face slapping every one
MC from weak to strong with a powerful backing: OP ML, powerful and wealthy friends, mythological contract beasts, heaven defying luck, etc. (You name it, this MC probably got it)
I never understood one thing: in all the cultivation novels that I have read... more>> so far, WHY DOES THE MC NEVER KILL OFF THE FRECKIN VILLAINS BUT INSTEAD WAIT FOR THEM TO COME BACK TO CAUSE MORE TROUBLE?! This is one of the most frustrating things that I encounter in many cultivation novels, when the MC obviously have the power and strength to kill off pesky villains but instead let them go, like why?! These villains keep on being recycled over and over again to cause trouble for the MC and still never learn their lesson after being stripped of power, wealth, limbs, talent, etc. I got to applaud these villains for being dedicated and determined in chasing after the MC just to be humiliated every time, like are they all masochists or something??
Eh, if you got the time to spare, don't mind cliché plots, and very very very slow romance, go for it. It's been 1400+ chapters and there is barely any romance going on. After 1400+ chapters, the MC is still 14-15. In the beginning of the novel, the MC was 13, it took her over 1000 chapters to age 2-3 years, so I'm kind of tired and done with this novel at this point. <<less
laexdream rated it
Guhhhh..... I'm tempted to put like, a 4.5 out of 5 just for the descriptiveness of each chapter. Cause sometimes, it's a bit - nope, a lot - slow... But then it's really fun to read, and I can't wait for future chapters.... so I settled with a 5 out of 5 instead, haha.
This is a series that you want to wait for it to be completed before reading.... It gets slow at parts, with LOTS of description of people's reactions or backstory. But the payoff is worth it... Just...... more>> Sometimes I wish I could sleep for a year and then come back to it instead of tasting morsels of it each week...
All the translators are great, but this current translator is like, God, with how fast they upload new stuff. Anyway, it does deserve its 5 star rating, so there you go. Try it~ <<less
ArchersGoon rated it
'The Good for Nothing Seventh Young Lady, ' is definitely one of my favorite Chinese novels. I love the novels with a strong female lead. I also like the fact the MC, Shen Yanxiao is a sneaky, sneaky thief.
However, this is so frustrating! I have read until ch 105, but there hasn't been a new chapter for over a month! The translations stop right in the middle of a gambling story arc where the MC is sure to do something sneaky and exciting. I hope someone continues to translate... more>> this soon, or at least posts the Raws. I tried to go to the original author's site, but it is entirely in Chinese. Even with Google Translate, figuring out the chapter subscription system in Chinese is a little too complicated. I am not sure if the payment is secure or even possible.
Yay! A new chapter! <<less
Promethean rated it
Reading all these reincarnation series makes me not want to ever reincarnate into an ancient chinese famiry. Because wholly shit, they are all a**holes. And I don't want to be poor in ancient china either because it'll be hell, but shit, they are all bastards who don't care.
Its even worse because before the reincarnation, she was mentally retarded, and they still wanted to kill her. A mentally retarded child.
As of Chapter 2. =D
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In the beginning, this story was still passable. It was slightly above the typical godly-whatever-transmigrates-into-a-waste-and-becomes-mega-OP story. But as with these typical stories, MC levels up at an ungodly rate, and despite this seemingly impossible cultivation rate, other people are only mildly surprised when the find out. And when they have beaten up all the badies at their level, soon they have to leave school to look for higher level bad guys to beat up. And soon they leave the city and then then leave for another continent and then eventually... more>> leave the world, all the way looking for people to fight/recruit/face slap. Also, it annoys me that the levels of beasts are changing all the time. Like in the beginning, thousands of mercenaries couldn't even put up any sort of fight against the phoenix. But then chapters later, we have 2 phoenixes + 6 other same level beasts, and a regular army is enough to fight them head on? My math's isn't that good, but that just doesn't make sense.
Also, I don't understand why a modern woman who was supposedly in some secret organisation, is such a... hm how do I say this?... why is she such a virgin? She blushed when thinking about holding hands with ML? And she becomes super flustered and embarrassed when ML catches her and accidentally touches her boobs? And she cries inside when she learns that ML used the same chopsticks that she used. It was, as MC calls it, the "legendary indirect kiss." Girl calm the fck down, everyone at one stage has indirectly kissed someone else, especially as a baby cause they put whatever they can hold in their mouths. If you blush and get hot and bothered by an indirect kiss, you'll probably die when you actually do a real kiss. Lame. MC's level of cool and badass dropped dramatically as the story continued, especially when the abrupt start of her relationship with ML. No seriously that relationship came out of nowhere. I saw it coming a mile away, but still one day ML was like, I have feelings for her she will be my wife. ??? WHat? <<less
RubyRunt rated it
I cried and laughed so much reading this. There's one word to describe this story: BEAUTIFUL!!
The MC is amazing. She's OP but she's also the most hardworking person in the entire novel. And she's incredibly smart and funny. The ML is amazing too. The romance is bit slow (the get together after 1450 chapters I guess) but it's extremely enjoyable. You can feel them falling in love togheter. They both very doting and devoted anx the ML doesn't even bother to speak to anyone else. The side characters are... more>> so beautifully written! You'll fall in love with every single one of them. And the action is amazing! My advice: never underestimate anyone. All the characters are hidden tigers. One of them really shocked the sh** out of me! I was like: whaaaat!?!. Some arcs are sadder then others. I found myself sobbing at 4 am after reading some chapters.
there's this moment when she succesfully created her own territory with demons and humans living together in peace. The four countries tried to take her down so they had a war. And there was this pair of twin demons who followed her from the start. They were outnumbered and the youngest brother had beasts gnawing at his flesh while trying to protect the dying older one. And while he was dying he remembered how they first came to this land thousand of years ago and joked about who should be the boss and finally decided on the older. While he was dying his last thoughts were: brother, how about in the next life you be the youngest.
I cried like a baby. <<less
Nowody rated it
This is one of the best novels I have ever read.
There's no harem, stupid sex, misunderstandings, r*pe stuff, story recycling, and boring stuff.
MC has five good friends that are more than side characters and are not thrown away after a few chapters. They exist throughout the entire storyline. MC's teachers are funny characters and I love them; and I'm sure you'll too. Each of them have their own stories and problems. And their stories aren't fillers like other novels because they're interconnected. The author doesn't reveal all of the plot/purpose... more>> of the story at the same time; he reveals story info part by part and lets you make guesses. You don't feel like a God looking over the novel world, you feel the mystery just like the MC does. Well even MC's identity and race is a mystery at first.
MC's and her friends' spirit beasts are fun, they're interesting characters themselves. Especially you'll love MC's own spirit beast.
MC befriends demons and rules them. Builds cities and stuff. These are very unique and I didn't read these elements in other novels.
The dialogues of this novel are well written and has lots of hilarious stuff. Romance in this novel is very slow but not unreasonable.
There are other races like Gods, demons, elfs, dwarfs, dragons etc and lores which enrich the story to a great extent. In the second part of the novel the MC travels to the elf continent because she's apparently an elf (well hybrid), and it's like an entire different story there because she has to cultivate in the elf way from the start (of course her human cultivation is still strong) ; but this arc is very enjoyable and you're not going to be disappointed. It's not a filler either, it plays important role in the story. The chapters are short but the translation is fast. And the quality of translation is excellent.
Side-villains are OK, although a little annoying. They just talk too much. I'm like just f*ck off, shut yo mouth, and die bitch. There are some main villains that are unlike recycling-side-villains but they're yet to be revealed.
Just read it man. <<less
Rahan06 rated it
The novel is over all really great. Sometimes it dragged a bit in the dwarf arc but it good.
I really love the MC and Xiu the ML. First there were no such romance but as the story progressed it bloomed perfectly. The friends of the MC were also great.
In the last part of the novel I truly cried reading the chapters the author wrote the story very beautifully. The ML looked like a ice berg but he is truly a romantic person and he really loved the MC not like... more>> other novels. So I have to give it 5. <<less
Lolistalker rated it
I have high hope and expectation at first seeing the rating, I thought that at least it would be a decent way to waste time even if it is not exceptionally good, unfortunately I still get disappointed
so, it starts with a common cliche, nothing wrong with that, but nothing special, the MC get reincarnated from the modern world (I presume, since it was not stated clearly, and it was said that she is a godly thief with all kind of ability that should not be possible in our... more>> reality) into a body of a 14 years old girl, basically a useless good for nothing body that almost died thanks to her cousin bullying her because the original owner of the body is literally an idiot
Basic cliche background, nothing wrong with that, in fact, I find that to be quite interesting with a lot of potentials to develop but back to the reason why I'm disappointed in this novel
in chapter 3, there is a voice coming from inside the MC, claiming to be the Devil, he named himself as Xiu, when the MC asked for more information about Xiu, he just brushed it off and I have no idea why the MC is not suspicious nor curious about this unknown entity inside her body, ok maybe she is has given up and move on because she can't do anything about it? But what happens next truly define this novel to me, I will copy and paste a little bit of chapter 4 and then I will comment on it
After being silent for a moment, Xiu speaked, “Killing you is equivalent to killing me myself.”
“As of now, I am attaching myself and existing within your body. In case that you are dead, my soul will also subsequently fly away and scatter.”
This information is not bad! Shen Yanxiao was beaming as she continued to acquire information fraudulently.
‘So, after you have obtain your freedom, will it mean that you can be relieved in eliminating me?”
“I will never kill you.”
“Oh? Why?” Shen Yanxiao opened her mouth as she smiled happily while inquiring. However, there was nevertheless a complete differencebetween the naive smiles of hers and the sharpness in her eyes.
“During the time when I choose to stay in your body, we have already agreed and signed a soul agreement where I will lose ninety percent of my soul if I was to kill you.” Xiu’s voice was like the untranquil waves.
To suffer a damage of ninety percent! Shen Yanxiao seriously wanted to clap her hands. Although it was still unclear on why Xiu was able to attach and exist within her body, she could now be certain that Xiu absolutely would not make any move regardless of any situation because everything was like he had said. For killing her was equivalent to himself committing suicide!
So, as you can see, the MC who is a reincarnation of a self-proclaimed "Godly Thief" is basically a retard
Without any evidence nor a concrete proof, heck, not even a convincing reasoning, she just believes everything the Devil said, the Devil, the one that is usually portrayed as a cunning, sly, back-stabber, liar, and the personification of evil itself that will do anything to achieve its goal, heck, why did the Devil even tell her that he is the Devil, why not act as if he is a godly spirit or something!?
This is dumb, even if you have no f*cking choice at least be a little suspicious! I have no problem with the situation itself, what infruating me is how the MC act and behave to the situation, I really hate it when the author often *tell* how awesome the MC or whatever character but not *show*, but even worse is when the MC actually act the opposite of what he/she is portrayed by the author
and of course, it happens again a few more times later, I don't know how much the novel will change for the better or worse later on but so far it is deeply flawed and very unimmersive, I just can't take this novel seriously, I do find it to be entertaining at times, especially if you don't have much expectation and just want to waste time but I just can't ignore the flaw unfortunately, especially since the author seems to be unaware of his flaw and take this novel too seriously, I usually don't have any problem reading stupid and ridiculous novel such as The Strongest System etc, because the author of that novel is aware of what he is doing and what kind of novel he is writing without being a hypocrite and shy about it, instead embrace it and just go crazy
btw the translation quality is alright, there's typo and minor grammar flaw here and there but nothing serious, which is a plus I guess
conclusion, if you could ignore the flawed logic that works in this universe then you might have some fun but just don't expect too much
Evil Kirito rated it
Definitely a worthwhile read. Not the ruthless MC type but still great. No harem/reverse harem sh*t and the camaderie between the lead and the main sides feels good to read. And of course there's your usual 'black-belly style stuff!
lilanimegrl rated it
The MC has a very refreshing attitude, she's playful but not overly heinous and she doesn't start off strong in the beginning. It was a gradual process which she learned with all the companions she befriended. It might be a bit slow in certain arcs but it all connects and the final battle in the last arc was amazing.
I love that there is no constant bickering between the main couple, they are their own love interests, there's no direct competition (although it hints that one of her friends is silently in love with her).
I gobbled up the translations too quickly and since I know a bit of conversational mandarin (sadly chinese illiterate), went ahead and listened to the rest through the audiobook (available at ximalaya). I strongly recommend readers that can understand mandarin to listen to the audiobook as it helps portray the emotions of each character through the tone of the voices and the background music.
windcasterfuu rated it
I have to say that I really like reading this novel as well as the author who writes them. This novel has a wonderful mix of action, adventure, comedy, as well as character development that I cannot wait to find out what happens next each time a new chapter is released. I especially like the funny moments I have read in this novel and the MC is. The MC is a really likable person and I also like how she uses her previous life skills to go and steal from... more>> people, especially those who were mean to her and the reactions from those she stole from. I hope to see more chapters of the story development as well as character development as this is really great. <<less
17117 rated it
I feel like the author set up so many things but never got around to using them. There are so many loose ends.
This had a lot of potential, but it just felts like the author rushed things at the end. It's still pretty good though.
It's still pretty good. The MC is smart and strong. The ML is powerful but doesn't tease the MC as much as the ML's in other transmigration/reincarnation novels. He's willing to do anything for the MC. But the love that developed between them doesn't feel natural.... more>> It just happened. I'd recommend this if you're thirsty for transmigration/reincarnation novels with a strong MC and ML. <<less
seraph751 rated it
Unique for a female protag. and she not chasing/transmigrated to find oneself engaged the crown prince/side prince, plus... there is actual movement, i.e. it does not all take place in one city. I enjoyed her unique way if you will of adjusting her income and the fallout from that. Overall if you are looking for a good novel with a strong female protag. check this one out!
Biah_belle rated it
She's funny cuz she's a kleptomaniac not as assassin in her old life aha. So while she can't do anything like create and sell heaven defying potions to sell, she just straight up robs and pickpockets her way through funding her growth X')
Reminds me of A Thought Through Eternity (Will Eternal it's called now). The way the the main character in Will Eternal robbed chickens to feed his growth ahaha.
nevelvir rated it
This is the first ever novel that I found in this site and read through MTL until the very end.
The story itself is great, the progress is also great, the translation (until now) is superb. The characters inside is also great.
At first, I thought of this story as the standard transmigration novel and so on. But as I was reading the translations, I unknowingly got hooked and as I was impatient about the progress of the story I challenged the MTL version....
Surprisingly, I like the story very much. Each characters,... more>> I want to get to know them more. Each villains, I want to smack them off from the face of the continent.
The only thing I am dissapointed in, is..... there is no after-marriage epilogue for the MC and ML *cries a bucket* how great would it be if there are epilogues with little bun (s) around to annoy our black-bellied MC and her friends and family.
Sigh, overall, this is one hell of a ride full of enjoyment (and also tears). Cheers for the author, and keep up the good work for the translator team! <<less
MidstNost rated it
This story is really worth the read. I'm actually very very very grateful to the author that they didn't throw away the side characters. Though, the only problem I have is with the romance. It seems really forced and it felt like it just popped out of nowhere. It would've been better if there's already hints of it from the beginning and the male lead already introduced. Also, if I had the money, I would really gladly donate to the translators. Last point is, this is probably the best xuanhuan/wuxia... more>> novel with a female lead I could find. If someone wants a more serious romance then I recommend Enchantress Among Alchemist though I still think this story is better. <<less
Tilyn
550 (translated) and complete (raws)
I loved it.
To me it started as a typical reincarnation story where she has to fight her way up because she is considered a waste. However, that part is over quite fast and then the story becomes completely new and exiting. The author is always dropping small hints about the plot and making you kind of guess what is coming as the story expands, while actually being surprised about it. To me it never got bored. Once I started reading it was hard to stop,... more>> hence me going to google translator for help.
The things I liked the most:
The MC is awesome, she use her previous knowledge at the fullest, she is mentally strong, can be funny, very intelligent. Ruthless to the ones that hurt her or her friends and very kind to the ones that help her, even if it is with something small.
I personally liked that she used her past life abilities in this new world and that it becomes a huge advantage for her. I mean, she spent most of her past life developing her abilities, of course she needs to use them now, that's how she can overcome her initial waste state. These abilities become very useful and they can also bring funny moments.
Not everyone falls in love at her at first sight!!!.
I mean, even later when she became pretty and everyone couldn't stop looking at her, they only admire her. There is no other women's jealousy for stolen men and things like that. (Well, there is only one, but is a jealousy over all she has)
. And the romance is small but it really develops nicely over time.
She makes so many good friends. The supporting characters are awesome, I love them all!!!.
I'm really expecting the side stories about them, especially the illusion group and blue glass please!!!.
The are bad people that actually learn from mistakes. Not all, but there are!!
What is so redundant that kind of make me skip a few lines:
Everyone that see her simple appearance has to criticize/judge her. After a while it gets boring because there are lines and lines of unknown people criticizing her for: being at a specific place they don't consider her worthy of, doing a test she looks too small for, or wanted to buy something expensive while wearing simple clothes. Etc.. And of course this people get slapped in the face time and time again. I actually ended up skipping lines.
There are so many levels of power that I couldn't keep up with all of them. If you think that they had reached the maximum level, well, someone will appear with another higher power level. But maybe it is also because I was reading from google translate. The explanation of it, I actually ended up skipping some at the end.
Overall its a very interesting story, it has a lot of friendship, action, massive battles and a bit of romance. Funny and sad moments. You wont regret reading it.
Better wait for a lot of chapters to accumulate because they are really short and the ideas actually are still hanging there at the end of one chapter just to continue in the next.
And, if you cry easily then don't read the battle chapters with other people in the room. I cried so much!!!
Umiru rated it
Plot armor; as thick as her skin.
Translation skills: abysmal.
Anything new? Barely.
... more>> The only thing that "Godly thief" has proven to be, up to this point, is plot-armor that will let her bypass all security and obtain items and/or information that is unavailable to everybody, EXCEPT her.
The downtrodden mentally disabled child that the "Goofy thief" transmigrates into just so happens to "regain her intelligence" before the seal is broken. Just because a foreign soul took control of the body! Let's ignore all of the other pitiful reincarnation novels' that just happens to be very similar... If the 'retardation' was actually caused by a seal or defect in the brain, simply replacing the soul would NOT help, logically speaking.
Next; the excessive, poor, satire and annoying way that the passages and events in this absolutely heinous story are described. One chapter in the usually well-written novel could cover what 50 of these, do. Unnecessary events explained over and over by the author and horribly translated by the group who does this novel. Why do I have to read about how something won't happen one minute, but the next minute it happens?! At least, if I am going to read about something that is being bounced back-and-forth like a tennis ball, make it a pleasant read. PLEASE.
I'm not ridiculing the translation team that does work on this novel, nor the people that read and/or donate to support them. But, please, use the wonderful Google-senpai. It could teach you various works of art and even provides a dictionary, spell-check and tutorials on how to form a correct paragraph.
This is merely my opinion. Don't get incensed over my passage above.
Oh, and one more thing. What would happen if you switched the gender of the main and supporting characters'?
-Male surrounded by beauties that'd make people jealous.
-Portrayed as a cold, insensitive person that will do anything that suits their mood best.
-An absolute nitwit when it comes to making a somewhat rational decision...
I think I've stated my point. The read is worth around 1.5 to 2 stars if you have nothing better to do and would be on the same level as all of the other novels out there that are the same with the protagonist being a male. I gave it one to help offset the high amount of 5 stars that it was getting. <<less
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Inside the Giants, Browns trade that left Odell Beckham stunned
Mar 13, 2019 | 2:30 AM
Dave Gettleman called Odell Beckham Jr. directly on Tuesday night to tell him he had traded him to the Cleveland Browns.
Beckham, 26, knew a year ago that Gettleman was talking to teams about trading him off the Giants. So it’s not like the GM’s phone call was unexpected.
In fact, in recent days, Beckham had wondered amid all the rumors of his departure whether he’d wake up one day on a different team.
But Beckham still was stunned Tuesday, according to sources close to him, that it actually had happened.
He is no longer a Giant. OBJ no longer will wear blue. He will be immortalized in his Giant uniform, reaching back for that iconic one-handed catch as a rookie in 2014.
But he is now part of the Dawg Pound. He is now a Brown.
And truth be told, this is best for Beckham.
Odell Beckham. (Ezra Shaw / Getty Images)
He escapes a Giant franchise drowning in its misplaced loyalty to Eli Manning, with eight wins in its last 33 games. And he joins a rising tide in Cleveland led by Baker Mayfield, OBJ’s best friend Jarvis Landry, mentor and wide receivers coach Adam Henry, and an excellent GM in John Dorsey.
It is the culmination of trade talks that began when Gettleman listened to overtures from the L.A. Rams last spring, which were first reported by the Daily News and kicked off a flurry of interest in OBJ from various suitors including the Niners and Patriots.
The conversations never truly subsided, even after Gettleman re-signed Beckham to a five-year, $90 million contract last August. And ultimately, Gettleman paid Beckham $21.5 million in for 12 games in 2018 ($20 million signing bonus, $1.459 million in base salary) to then trade him.
And now by dealing Beckham, Gettleman assumes a $16 million dead cap hit on the Giants’ books for 2019. This on top of failing to rebuild the offensive line sufficiently for his first season with a 5-11 record.
Rough goings for the GM, indeed.
The idea that this was going to take two first-round picks was simply the Giants negotiating.
Their original asking price last spring with the Rams was a first-round pick plus a second- or third-round pick. And generally that’s what they got on Tuesday, plus a player.
The Browns sent their No. 17 overall pick, a third-round pick (No. 95 overall) and third-year free safety Jabrill Peppers (of East Orange, N.J.) to the Giants.
The inclusion of Peppers was a big deal to the Giants, I’m told. As the trade was coming together, a message was conveyed on the Giants’ demands: “They want the safety,” a source said.
The Giants have two first-round picks in April’s draft now, too. So they have the capital to potentially get both a franchise quarterback and a premier pass rusher using the Nos. 6 and 17 overall picks.
On the other hand, the pressure is on Gettleman to pick great players there, as well, since he just traded one off his roster.
“Gettleman had better do well with those picks,” one NFL executive told the News. “It’s hard to replace that level of talent.”
To that end, what can’t get lost in the Giants’ hype of Saquon Barkley and the Manning lovefest, is how truly great a player Gettleman just traded.
What’s going to get lost in the Giants’ hype of Saquon Barkley and the Manning lovefest, however, is how truly great a player that Gettleman just traded off the Giants for good.
Jabrill Peppers. (Matthew Stockman / Getty Images)
Beckham shattered Giants and NFL records left and right, amassing 91, 96 and 101 catches in his first three seasons, plus a ridiculous 35 touchdown catches in his first 43 NFL games.
Ironically, where it all started to fall apart was in the preseason in Aug. 2017 in Cleveland. Browns safety Briean Boddy-Calhoun undercut Beckham on an ugly hit after Manning overthrew a hospital ball to OBJ. And Beckham limped off the field in agony.
He said he was OK. And he tried to play through, but then he broke his ankle after catching a slant from Manning in Week 5 against the Chargers. OBJ missed the rest of the season. Manning’s poor play led to Ben McAdoo asking him to play just the first half in Oakland. Manning refused to play at all. Geno Smith started. Everybody got fired.
And then Beckham grinded, and worked, and pushed himself to rehab and start fresh with Gettleman and Shurmur and to help the organization win. Until he realized he’d come all the way back to play with a QB and a team that still wasn’t ready to win.
Throughout, Beckham’s behavior often did not jibe with what the organization expected of him: from his 2015 street fight on the field with Josh Norman that Tom Coughlin declined to break up; to the infamous Boat Trip; to last spring’s scandalous video from his vacation to France.
But all in all, Beckham is one of a kind, a transcendent talent, and the Giants are going to miss him.
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Andy Davies is a designer from Providence, but got his start in San Francisco, where he built a lot of websites for startups before moving into building systems and identities for foundations and open-source movements. Andy originally studied print design, but annoyed his professors by turning every project into an app or website.
In his free time, Andy enjoys drawing black metal album covers, trail running, and judging other people’s taste in beer.
Read on to learn more about our newest team member.
1. Where’d you get educated and/or what jobs led you to your new job at MojoTech?
I went to the University of San Francisco (where I only spent a few semesters studying design; I went there originally for biology). From there I worked at an interactive agency called Mule and then the Washington Post.
2. Before your life at MojoTech, what was the most interesting project you ever worked on?
I built an anniversary campaign for the Wikimedia Foundation. Designing something that had to accommodate dozens of languages and alphabets (and per the user culture, be built only with open source tools) was by far the gnarliest, most fascinating challenge I’ve ever had to beat.
3. What do you enjoy most/least about design?
Love: building things that make someone’s life easier and maybe a little bit better. Don’t love: Design cultures that don’t take responsibility for what they’re building or their obligations to users.
4. What personal characteristics do you feel are necessary to be a successful designer?
Humility and hunger. Designers tend to have a huge chip on their collective shoulder (for many, many reasons), but it doesn’t do a lick of good—it hurts the product and irritates everyone you work with. A willingness to be wrong, to listen, and to learn better methods and thinking is absolutely critical.
5. What do you get out of design work that you couldn’t get from any other kind of work?
I get a chance to marry form and function—the latter trumps the former, but it’s an opportunity to combine delight and quiet simplicity with functional products. Plus there are the precious moments where you’re given free range to get real weird with a project.
6. Describe a time when you confronted a problem that really tested your know-how.
I once had to figure out how to turn a film catalog into an industry-focused, information-dense resource instead of a consumer-oriented visual experience (it’s a bunch of films, so it’s the sort of approach you’d expect—but not one that was appropriate for the client’s audience).
7. Now that you’re at MojoTech, what are you most excited about?
I’m real stoked to build larger-scale, fleshed out products. Things that are gonna touch larger audiences that’ll interact with them on a daily basis.
8. Which professionals do you turn to or what blogs do you read for inspiration?
Julie Zhou and John Maeda do a lot of fantastic writing about design and design leadership, and I love RWD and ShopTalk’s design/front-end podcasty goodness — Ethan Marcotte and Chris Coyier are two weird, delightful Web dudes. Jen Simmons has some incredible design/web dev writing and showcases experiments with a lot of CSS weirdness.
9. You’ve been banished to a deserted island with—gasp—no wifi, but lots of power outlets.
Does this mean I can charge my Tesla? It’s 2016, I’m assuming they can turn into boats and/or spaceships at this point.
10. What technology is going to take over the world next?
AR. It’s still pretty buzzwordy, but really, once you’ve built a Pokemon game out of it what can't you do?
11. If you weren’t a designer, what occupation would you choose?
Medicine — I originally wanted to be an oncologist. That same deductive approach and human focus informs a big hunk of my design process.
12. What is your idea of happiness?
Doing something that matters with people who care.
Also calzones and lawns (after seven years in San Francisco and New York, man, I really missed grass).
13. The red pill or the blue pill?
Blue pill. I’ll sleep through the robot apocalypse, thanks.
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James Comey will testify that President Trump…
James Comey will testify that President Trump told him ‘I need loyalty’
In this March 20, 2017 photo, FBI Director James Comey pauses as he testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the House Intelligence Committee hearing on allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Comey’s appearance Thursday before the Senate intelligence committee is one of the most anticipated congressional hearings in years. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
By Associated Press |
PUBLISHED: June 7, 2017 at 12:00 am | UPDATED: September 11, 2018 at 12:00 am
WASHINGTON >> Former FBI Director James Comey will say in his opening statement to a congressional hearing that President Donald Trump told him, “I need loyalty. I expect loyalty” during a January dinner.
Comey is set to testify before the Senate Intelligence committee Thursday. His prepared statement was released Wednesday afternoon. They confirm some of what has already been reported publicly in the media. But the information has not previously come directly and publicly from Comey.
In the statement, Comey says he and Trump dined together privately in January. During the meal, he says Trump asked him if he wanted to remain on as FBI director. Comey says he replied that he wanted to serve out his ten-year term and “was not on anybody’s side politically.”
• Document: Read James Comey’s prepared statement for the Senate Intelligence committee
Comey says Trump then made his statement about loyalty.
Trump abruptly fired Comey last month.
Also in the written testimony, Comey says it was “very concerning” when President Donald Trump asked him to back off an investigation of former National Security Adviser Mike Flynn.
He says Trump asked him to stay behind in the Oval Office after a meeting with a larger group, and as they stood near a grandfather clock, Trump described Flynn as a good guy who’d been through a lot.
Then the president said to Comey: “I hope you can let this go.”
Comey said that he immediately prepared a memo documenting the February exchange. And the investigation continued.
Comey also says he informed Donald Trump in early January that he was not personally under investigation in the bureau’s Russia counter-intelligence investigation.
Trump was then president-elect. Comey says that the decision to give Trump that assurance came after consultation with top bureau officials.
Comey says he documented their meeting afterward by typing up notes on a laptop in an FBI vehicle outside Trump Tower “the moment I walked out of the meeting.”
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Stimulusol XR
Posted by Dave Blount at 11:25 AM
If watching the Cloward-Piven strategy being used to destroy your country under the guise of "stimulus" is starting to get you down, ask your prescriber about Stimulusol XR:
Via The Nose on Your Face, on a tip from TED.
Barking Moonbats Practice Their Projection Skills
Posted by Dave Blount at 9:10 AM
Two of the most profoundly unappealing figures on the left are unhinged NBC propagandist Keith Olbermann and shrill Tinseltown B-lister Janeane Garofalo. Here they hook up to crap in their hands and fling it at El Rushbo and conservatives in general:
A skanky moonbat accuses Rush of self-loathing, and a neurotic creep does the same for Michael Steele. Just when you thought the projection couldn't become any more cartoonish, these Marxists reach a consensus that conservatism is really authoritarianism, no doubt on the premise that anyone who resists the expansion of government power must be a totalitarian. Then we learn that conservatism is also "the unrestrained id."
At least Garofalo admits to being "a narcissist that suffers with self-loathing." But…
I am a far better person than [Rush] is, and I don't say that with arrogance, I say that because it's fact.
Preserving his perfect record of always being completely wrong about everything, Olbie concurs.
Hat tip: The Blogprof.
Obama's Financial Wizardry in Action
Watch the Dow fall as Chairman Zero yaps:
Every word from this Marxist's mouth brings it down another point.
Via Gateway Pundit, on a tip from Burning Hot.
Portrait of a Teenage Obamunist
You might want to slip into a hazmat suit before watching this one.
The money quote:
The minute Obama became president, I got the right to do the hell I want to do.
This is your culture on liberal degeneracy.
Squeeeeeeeeeal Like a Piggie
The character in this video is not an intransigent pig escaped from its wallow, but Mike Tracey, Vice President of the College Democrats at the College of New Jersey. He was arrested following a lecture by Ann Coulter after repeatedly trying to rush the stage.
Lucky for the moonbat Ann didn't make the arrest herself; she might have given him something to squeal about.
On a tip from Wiggins.
Mortgaging America to the Chicoms
Unless we are able to reinstate responsible government soon, it might be a good idea to learn Mandarin. Here we see the Chinese scooping up foreclosed homes in Southern California:
If our Chinese creditors don't find what they want on the foreclosure market, rumor has it the Feds will use imminent domain to seize private property on their behalf. According to Hal Turner:
The United States of America has tendered to China a written agreement which grants to the People's Republic of China, an option to exercise Eminent Domain within the USA, as collateral for China's continued purchase of US Treasury Notes and existing US Currency reserves!
On February 11, Bloomberg Business News reported that China was seeking "guarantees" for its US Government debt (Story Here), and it now appears they got it. Well placed senior sources at the US Embassy in Beijing CONFIRM the formal written agreement was delivered by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during her recent trip to China.
This means that in the event the US Government defaults on its financial obligations to China, the Communist Government of China would be permitted to physically take — inside the USA — land, buildings, factories, perhaps even entire cities — to satisfy the financial obligations of the US government.
Put simply, the feds have actually mortgaged the physical land and property of all citizens and businesses in the United States. They have given to a foreign power, their Constitutional power to "take" all of our property, as actual collateral for continued Chinese funding of US deficit spending and the continued carrying of US national debt.
How else is the government going to borrow the $trillions needed for Chairman Zero's socialist spending spree? No serious person thinks that much can be raised through taxation, so collateral will be needed. Good thing his Secretary of State has experience pulling sneaky deals with the Chinese.
If it's true that Obama is literally mortgaging parts of the country to a hostile foreign power, he may end up having something in common with Lincoln after all — by presiding over a civil war.
On tips from Matt L and rrobin.
Atlas Shrugged Sales Are Going Through the Roof
If you were to read only one work of fiction, it should be Atlas Shrugged, in which Ayn Rand foresees the destruction of America by collectivist looters like Obama, and the emergence of a resistance that refuses to be enslaved by Marxist ideology. Encouragingly, sales of the prophetic book are soaring:
Sales of Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" have almost tripled over the first seven weeks of this year compared with sales for the same period in 2008. This continues a strong trend after bookstore sales reached an all-time annual high in 2008 of about 200,000 copies sold.
"Americans are flocking to buy and read 'Atlas Shrugged' because there are uncanny similarities between the plot-line of the book and the events of our day" said Yaron Brook, Executive Director at the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights. "Americans are rightfully concerned about the economic crisis and government's increasing intervention and attempts to control the economy. Ayn Rand understood and identified the deeper causes of the crisis we're facing, and she offered, in 'Atlas Shrugged,' a principled and practical solution consistent with American values."
Who is John Galt? If you don't know, find out.
Buy it before they ban it.
Hat tip: The Jawa Report, on a tip from Burning Hot.
Via The People's Cube, on a tip from Gregory of Yardale.
31% of Dems Approve of Occupying Homes
It would be nice to think that Democrats voted for Obama by some terrible mistake, having been duped by the hardcore leftists running the media into thinking he was the kind of guy who might uphold the liberties on which this country was founded. But according to a recent Rasmussen poll, an alarming 31% of them favor the ACORN policy of encouraging people to occupy foreclosed homes, in direct violation of the property rights without which non-totalitarian civilization cannot function. Only 35% of Dems are opposed, with the rest too clueless to make up their minds.
Once again media radicals have skewed the numbers by casting as put-upon saints those who take out mortgages they can't afford and then expect to stay in other people's houses for free, while the rest of us work hard and play by the rules. But the number of liberals who are in effect actual communists may be high enough to prevent them from turning on the new administration, even as its true nature becomes obvious.
Hat tip: Teh Resistance Blog, on a tip from V the K.
Government Food
Some are concerned that if the regime in Washington succeeds in its apparent aim of bankrupting the economy with flagrantly unsustainable spending, and our money becomes worthless, mass starvation will result. To alleviate these fears, Obama has nationalized the food industry. New government brands will appear on the shelves soon:
On tips from Al C and J.
Mayor Driven Out of Office for Harmless Joke
You know liberty is in trouble when a mayor can be driven out of office for passing along a mild private joke at the expense of Dear Leader:
The mayor of a small Southern California city says he will resign after being criticized for sharing an e-mail picture depicting the White House lawn planted with watermelons under the title "No Easter egg hunt this year."
Los Alamitos Mayor Dean Grose issued a statement Thursday saying he is sorry and will step down as mayor at the City Council meeting on March 2.
Grose came under fire for sending the picture to what he called "a small group of friends." One of the recipients, a local businesswoman and city volunteer, publicly scolded the mayor for his actions.
The fink who ratted him out was a black woman who sacrificed friendship to the motto, "Never Fail to Be Offended."
The offending picture:
How hurtful. Too bad Chairman Zero can't inflict any more righteous retribution than he already is by deliberately driving Whitey's country into bankruptcy.
Library Pushes Homosexual Propaganda on Children
For an appalling example of how the degenerate moonbat establishment is shaping the next generation in its image, check out the YA Zone for young adults (grades 6-12) at Wisconsin's West Bend Community Memorial Library. It features a large section entitled "Out of the Closet: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Fiction and Non-Fiction." Offerings include:
Last Exit to Normal by Michael Harmon — What could be better for an urban, skateboard-loving teenager being raised by two dads than moving to rural Montana? Almost anything, in Ben Campbell's eyes. The town is too small, the people are too country, and now it's even harder for him to deal with his gay dads.
Hero by Perry Moore — With a mother who has inexplicably disappeared, nascent superpowers and a burgeoning understanding of his gay sexuality, Thom Creed's life is anything but normal.
Freak Show by James St. James — Inspired by his own experience, adult author ("Disco Bloodbath") and media personality James St. James makes his YA debut with this novel about a young drag queen who makes a grand entrance into a conservative high school.
Luna by Julie Anne Peters — From as early as she can remember, Regan O'Neill has known that her brother, Liam, was different. That he was, in fact, a girl. Transgender.
Absolutely, Positively Not by David LaRochelle — Steven's a 16-year-old boy with two obsessions: sex and getting his driving license. The problem is, Steven's not thinking girls when he's thinking sex. Could he be — don't say it — gay?
Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan — High school sophomore Paul lives in a present-day gaytopia, where boys come out of the closet to become class president, and the Gay-Straight Alliance has more members than the football team. The cheerleaders ride Harleys, and the cross-dressing homecoming queen is also the star quarterback. Paul meets artistic Noah in the bookstore. They pass notes rife with meaningful detail; paint in Noah's psychedelic, art-covered room; and fall in sweet, realistic teenage love, unencumbered by gay bashing, sexual-identity crises, and parental rejection.
The list goes on and on and on. The intent to encourage children to experiment with homosexual depravity is glaring.
If we don't take our culture back, it's going to continue to be transformed into something so unhealthy and unclean, we'll thank Muslims for wiping it away.
This one sums up what they're turning our country into.
On a tip from J.
Enivonazis Continue to Campaign Against Toilet Paper
Cheryl Croak's demand that we use only one square at a time was not the last word in the enviromoonbat campaign against toilet paper. From The Guardian, the Bible of Britain's liberal elite:
The tenderness of the delicate American buttock is causing more environmental devastation than the country's love of gas-guzzling cars, fast food or McMansions, according to green campaigners. At fault, they say, is the US public's insistence on extra-soft, quilted and multi-ply products when they use the bathroom.
Here I was thinking that once we succumbed to socialism, Euroweenies would stop their envious sniping, with all the world united in love for our ethnically correct Community Organizer in Chief.
Chides environazi Allen Hershkowitz of the Natural Resources Defence Council:
I really do think it is overwhelmingly an American phenomenom. People just don't understand that softness equals ecological destruction.
Enlightened Europeans, on the other hand, mop up their messy derrières with recycled sandpaper, thus contributing to the planet's salvation.
As moonbattery merges with Islam, this obsession with making us feel guilty about wiping our behinds will take the next logical step. The reason Religion-of-Peaceniks will only touch a Koran with their right hand is that the left is traditionally reserved for… other purposes. Charmin is in short supply out on the sands of Arabia.
No no no. Don't use both hands!
On a tip from mega. Hat tip: BelchSpeak.
Another Tale of Socialized Medicine
From socialized Britain, here's what's in store for us now that Chairman Zero — always a friend of unions — has nationalized healthcare:
A paramedic refused to help a man in agony with a broken back because he was on his lunchbreak, a tribunal was told.
Robert Chambers was approached by the man's desperate friends as he filled his ambulance with fuel.
To their horror he told them to wait for another ambulance before driving off.
At last an ambulance arrived whose driver wasn't on his lunch break. But it didn't have the space to transport a patient with back injuries. So he waited 40 minutes for a third ambulance. No doubt further apathy and incompetence awaited at the hospital. Welcome to our glorious socialist future.
It's a great time to be a moocher or a slacker — but not such a good time to be anything else.
On a tip from Ian.
Scientists Address the Menace of Belching Sheep
Posted by Dave Blount at 6:47 PM
Long after Western society has collapsed beneath the weight of moonbattery, people will look back and marvel at the technology we developed. But they'll marvel even more at what we chose to waste it on. Here we see scientists in New Zealand trying to prevent sheep from belching, because — like dimwitted lunatics — they imagine the belches will make it be too hot out:
You would think with all the years there have been sheep on the planet, the weather would be nice and warm by now. Or maybe sheep didn't get the idea of belching greenhouse gases until after Al Gore came out with "A Convenient Lie."
What Billy Clubs Are For
There are people who cry out to be clubbed. If you don't agree, maybe the video below will convince you.
First, Hot Air sets the scene:
A student group holed up in the campus cafeteria [at New York University] last week for three days with a list of demands including, among various other items, scholarships for Palestinian students, greater budgetary transparency, and complete amnesty for themselves, of course. On day three, NYU got bored with taking them semi-seriously and moved to end it.
Without further ado…
Greg Gutfeld is right: anyone who sympathizes with these people is beyond hope.
On a tip from Burning Hot.
Obama Works His Magic on the Market
Every time he opens his mouth about his plans for the economy…
Last November 3, the Dow Jones was at 9,320. Then a Marxist punk was elected President of the USA. At close today, the Dow was at 7,182. That's a drop of 18.59 points per day since the election. At this rate, it will hit zero in 386 days — just over a year.
The next election will come too late to save us.
On a tip from Matt L.
Media halos for the Hallowed One. Compliments of John.
San Francisco Moves Toward Banning Cars
Back in the Carter era, ultra-left punk rock loudmouth Jello Biafra ran for Mayor of San Francisco. His platform included forcing businessmen to wear clown suits and banning cars within the city. The latter policy may soon be enacted:
San Francisco officials are considering limits on when and where private cars can drive on Market Street in an effort to make the thoroughfare faster for buses and safer for pedestrians and bicyclists.
But that's just Market Street, you say. Don't forget, the liberal agenda is so outrageous, it can only be imposed in increments.
"There's a growing momentum to restrict cars, but it will probably be done in baby steps," said Supervisor Chris Daly, the chief proponent at City Hall of a car-free Market Street.
The negative effects on business are obvious, but countering that is the "growing awareness [among lunatic ideologues] of how cars aggravate global warming."
Why not just get it over with all at once and put Jello Biafra in charge?
He couldn't be worse than Newsom — or Obama.
Hat tip: Zoominac.
Dead Rat Fashion
Just how depraved is the fashionable elite? This offers a clue:
A designer has unveiled a full face headdress made of real mice and rat carcasses on the fringes of London Fashion Week.
A model paraded up and down the catwalk in the headdress, which covered her whole face except her eyes — rat tails dangling down at the front and whiskers tickling her skin.
The creation was designed by French-born hairdresser and wigmaker Charlie Le Mindu, 22.
"I really like mice and rats. But everybody doesn't like them and I just wanted to show people it could be really beautiful," he told AFP after the show.
Asked if he was worried about how animal rights campaigners might react, he said: "It's better to make them [the rodents] beautiful than give them to the snakes."
Letting your pet snake eat: bad. Wearing dead rats on your face: good. This makes as much sense as anything else in the tasteless parody of reality moonbattery is sucking us into.
Beautiful, huh? Plus, it's shariah-compliant.
Hat tip: Dave Barry's Blog, on a tip from nancz.
Confiscation of Guns Begins
Pro-terrorist Attorney General Eric Holder considers us a "nation of cowards," but he isn't taking any chances about us defending our property and our country from the Marxist looters who now run the government. The inevitable campaign to strip away our Second Amendment rights has begun.
Holder announced yesterday that he wants a new ban on "assault weapons." Supposedly, we should be willing to let corrupt authoritarians infringe on our right to bear arms so that the weapons don't fall into the hands of criminals in Mexico. An easier way to prevent this would be for the government to perform its most fundamental task: defend the border. But with Crappy Nappy heading DHS, even the pretense of border security is out the window.
Regarding what's next after "assault weapons," Holder mumbles, "I'm not sure exactly what the sequencing will be." But we can be sure that inch by inch, the camel will push us out of the tent, until the government agents who should be defending the border are instead tearing our houses apart to look for .22 rifles to confiscate.
Disarming the "cowards."
On tips from Conan, Brad L, and J.
Authorities Enforce Immigration Law, Crappy Nappy Flabbergasted
When it comes to the sick joke of open borders moonbat Nappy Napolitano serving as head of Homeland Security, every day is a new punch line.
Immigrant rights groups blasted President Obama on Wednesday for breaking what they called his "personal commitment" to change Bush-era immigration raids after U.S. authorities raided an engine machine shop in Washington state and detained illegal immigrants.
The Obama administration itself seemed taken aback by the raid by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, with Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano vowing to Congress that she would "get to the bottom of this."
"The secretary is not happy and this is not her policy," a Homeland Security official said Wednesday evening, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the secretary's review is ongoing.
Authorities actually enforcing immigration law? Heads will roll!
If you thought W's border policy bordered on treasonous, wait until Chairman Zero starts the "immigration reform debate" as promised. Inundating the country with tens of millions of welfare dependents from the Third World is a crucial aspect of the Democrat strategy to impose permanent one-party socialist rule.
Having done her best to destroy Arizona, Nappy gets her hands on national security.
On a tip from The MaryHunter.
Training Future Generations of Tree-Dwelling Moonbats
Remember the moonbats who climbed up in the trees in Berkeley and wouldn't come down for nearly two years because they wanted to prevent a sports complex from being built? Remember Tinseltown bubblehead Daryl Hannah, who climbed into a tree on someone else's property on behalf of Mexican squatters, so that she had to be extracted like a cat? Another generation of arboreal Marxists is heading down the pipe. An Englishman's Castle reports that children are being assigned this book as homework:
Here's the plot: A nice old geezer has a tree in his yard, and he lets kids play in it. But then he sells the house, and the new owner decides to cut the tree down. So the kids climb up the tree and sing protest songs, with the encouragement of their parents. The owner calls the police, but soon the mayor arrives to confirm that trees belong to everyone. The mayor takes over the house and the children play in their communist tree happily ever after.
Needless to say, children raised on this evil garbage are going to be slow to grasp that property rights are the fundamental basis of free civilization.
On a tip from Antara.
Low Rent
Educrats don't find the school day long enough to cram children's heads full of all the degenerate moonbattery they want to impose, so they have extended their brainwashing campaign into extracurricular activities by having kids stage the play "Rent," a romp through the sewer that features homosexuals, drag queens, thieves, and AIDS. The Gray Hag approvingly reports:
The New York producers of "Rent," who receive some royalties from the school edition, said they hoped it would become a new, revenue-generating staple of the high school musical landscape, as well as a teaching tool that augments sex education and draws teenagers to acting and theater with a more modern production than, say, "The Music Man."
The student version throws a bone to parents by cleaning up some of the foul language, but keeps the "sex education" aspects intact.
Ron Martin, a theater teacher at Corona del Mar High School in Newport Beach, California, decided to put on the student version of the play "hoping that it would counter what he saw as creeping homophobia on this Orange County campus." Martin boasts,
In this instance, having an agenda as a teacher didn't give me pause. My job is to give my students life skills. Discrimination is wrong on all levels.
"Discrimination" is moonbattese for resisting corruption and depravity. But despite the "life skills" children might learn, grownups thankfully stepped in and canceled the production, leaving Martin to squeal that "homosexuality is not wrong!"
However, high school productions of this trash have gotten the green light at other high schools, even in normally civilized parts of the country like Texas.
Crows Jeffrey Seller, a "Rent" producer:
Like it or not, we're right smack in the middle of an enormous cultural shift right now.
Next up as the culture shifts: middle school productions of "The 120 Days of Sodom," by the Marquis de Sade.
Providing role models deemed appropriate by educrats.
While pigs busily bankrupt us, the rest of the world is still out there. Via Maggie's Farm.
Out Comes the Race Card to Save Roland Burris
The sun set this evening, and in slightly less surprising news, ethnically correct supporters of the corrupt Roland Burris, who was chosen to be the next junior Senator from Illinois by the corrupt Rod Blagojevich explicitly because of his skin color, are screaming that it's racist to ask him to resign.
Chicago politics are national now.
Hat tip: Gateway Pundit, on a tip from Burning Hot.
No Stimulus for White Male Construction Workers
So that everyone remembers just what "post-racial politics" means, here's another look at escaped garden gnome and Obama economic advisor Robert Reich assuring us that the $trillions of our money Chairman Zero is throwing to the winds won't inadvertently lead to employment for "white male construction workers":
In a more enlightened world, Reich would spend the rest of his public career flying through the air at dwarf-tossing competitions.
On a tip from Steve.
What a Mean Thing to Say About a Witch
Remember when moonbats screeched that Bill O'Reilly owed archetypal liberal journalist Helen Thomas an apology for comparing her to the Wicked Witch of the East? An apology is due all right — but to the witch, not Thomas. Here's an example of why:
Via theblogprof.
Ecokooks Escape to New Zealand
Posted by Dave Blount at 12:39 PM
Australia once served as penal colony. New Zealand may follow in this tradition by becoming a colony for the ecologically insane:
Adam Fier recently sold his home, got rid of his car and pulled his twin 6-year-old girls out of elementary school in Montgomery County [Maryland]. He and his wife packed the family's belongings and moved to New Zealand — a place they had never visited or seen before, and where they have no family or professional connections. Among the top reasons: global warming.
Global warming won't affect New Zealand, because it "has an excellent environmental record."
No one let it slip that global warming isn't real, or that it wouldn't be a problem even if it were — not until we've gotten as many Adam Fiers out of the country as possible.
A moonbat clan succumbs to irrational Fier.
New York Times Reduced to Telling Lies About Competition
The New York Times — once a highly respected newspaper — has been caught in a particularly spiteful lie:
The New York Times wrongly reported that the [Wall Street] Journal's circulation growth is due to heavy discounting and that the use of this tactic had increased since the News Corp takeover. Like most subscription newspapers, the Journal uses discounted offers to attract new subscribers. However, in 2008 the Journal moved away from deep discounting and raised the introductory offer and newsstand pricing by nearly 40%. Even with higher prices across the board, Individually Paid Circulation continues to grow in an industry that is largely shrinking. Print circulation revenue for the most recent quarter was up by nearly 9% over the year prior.
"The New York Times may choose to speculate and offer its opinions in its business coverage, and there were many erroneous assumptions and speculations made in the story. However, regarding our circulation strategy and recent strong success, the Times simply got it wrong today," said Paul Bascobert, chief marketing officer for Dow Jones & Company and The Wall Street Journal.
Failure to accurately represent the facts may be responsible for the Gray Lady's own circulation figures, which have been moving in the opposite direction.
On a tip from mandible claw.
Robert Scheer Begins to Smell the Coffee
Here's some news: a liberal has proven capable of recognizing true fascism. Here's liberal journalist Robert Scheer on NPR, via The Hawblog:
I don't think the idea of nationalizing, as it's now being called — which means bailing out these banks, setting them straight, then letting them go private again, which is the model that everybody is using, and the people who get screwed are the people whose retirement funds had common or preferred shares and they get wiped out, and these bankers come out richer than ever at the other end — that's not a leftist idea and it's not socialism. This is what we used to, in Comparative Economic Systems, call fascism. It's putting government at the service of the big financial interests. That's what happened in Italy, that's what happened in Germany, that's what happened in Japan.
Despite the "down with bankers" slant, Scheer is correct that fascism is what you get when an authoritarian government entangles its tendrils with ostensibly private industry.
Tony Blankley was on hand to ask,
What I don't understand is how my colleagues on this show, who I believe were for Obama, are now saying he's leading a fascist regime. Did he mislead them a few weeks ago when he was still running?
Scheer's befuddled response is something we'll be hearing more often as liberals who aren't total fiends wake up and realize what they've done to this country:
To answer your question, I am disappointed in Barack Obama and I'm not quite sure what he's doing.
It's going to be a little difficult to pretend the Moonbat Messiah is whoever you want him to be, now that he is actively engaged in destroying our economic system to pave the way for authoritarianism — as anyone familiar with his background should have predicted he would do.
Even Scheer is starting to get it.
On a tip from Rob Banks.
Military Wary of Chairman Zero
Obama had better get started on that domestic army he's been planning. It looks like the real military is not drinking the Kool-Aid:
When asked how they feel about President-elect Barack Obama as commander in chief, six out of 10 active-duty service members say they are uncertain or pessimistic, according to a Military Times survey. …
"Being that the Marine Corps can be sent anywhere in the world with the snap of his fingers, nobody has confidence in this guy as commander in chief," said one lance corporal who asked not to be identified.
Obama hasn't generated much enthusiasm with his plans to prematurely withdraw from Iraq and to homosexualize the military with a repeal of "don't ask, don't tell," which will open the door to endless lawsuits. The military voted for McCain by a margin of 3 to 1.
One third of respondents were optimistic about Chairman Zero. In part this can be ascribed to the positive attitude that characterizes our military, but it is mainly due to our "post-racial" politics. Eight out of 10 blacks were optimistic.
This poll was from before he took office, so numbers are likely to be substantially lower now.
On a tip from Conan.
Obamas Settle on a Dog
Try not to think about the way Chairman Zero is flushing this country's future down the toilet with his multi-$trillion left-wing spending spree. Think of the lighter side: his family is getting a new dog. Michelle has settled on a breed: the Portuguese Water Dog. This rare breed isn't much to look at, but it does possess a symbolically relevant skill:
They are native to Portugal's coast, where they have been used by fishers to herd their catch into nets.
What better sidekick for a socialist ruler? Plus, unlike Plugs, they don't shed.
It even looks a bit like Michelle — although friendlier.
On a tip from Heather M.
Jews Infect Muslim Food With Cancer!
This is the official word from Egyptian cleric Ahmad Abd Al-Salam, so don't you dare insult Allah by failing to believe it:
The Jews conspire to infect the food of the Muslims with cancer. It is the Jews who infect food with cancer and ship it to Muslim countries.
As if that wasn't bad enough…
We hate the Jews because they spare no effort in stripping Muslim girls of their clothes. It is the Jews who conspire to have Muslim girls, and even married Muslim women, wear clothes that are tight, short, or see-through, or clothes that are open from the front, or the back, from the right or the left.
When Chas Freeman is head of the National Intelligence Council, we can look forward to information with this slant and accuracy being featured prominently in intelligence reports.
Compliments of Diversity Lane.
More on Chas Freeman, Obama's Pick to Head the National Intelligence Council
To give an idea of just how far off the rails the government has gone under the current leadership, here's more information on Chas Freeman, the bin Laden associate Chairman Zero deems fit to head the National Intelligence Council.
Here's what he had to say about the communist Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989:
I find the dominant view in China about this very plausible, i.e. that the truly unforgivable mistake of the Chinese authorities was the failure to intervene on a timely basis to nip the demonstrations in the bud, rather than — as would have been both wise and efficacious — to intervene with force when all other measures had failed to restore domestic tranquility to Beijing and other major urban centers in China. In this optic, the Politburo's response to the mob scene at "Tian'anmen" stands as a monument to overly cautious behavior on the part of the leadership, not as an example of rash action. …
I thus share the hope of the majority in China that no Chinese government will repeat the mistakes of Zhao Ziyang's dilatory tactics of appeasement in dealing with domestic protesters in China.
At least the inaptly named Freeman's views fit smoothly with Shrillary's announcement that the Obama regime couldn't care less about the Chicoms' appalling contempt for human rights. They may also fit with Obama's plans to create a Gestapo-style domestic army as large as the military.
Freeman was an ambassador to Saudi Arabia who, like many State Department types, went native. He has also been President of the Middle East Policy Council, which exists largely to publish the journal Middle East Policy. Via American Thinker, this Editor's Note offers an example of what you can read in it:
Of course, many observers knew from the beginning that the war was an excuse to enlarge the U.S. strategic "footprint" (as neocon William Kristol calls it) on top of the lakes of oil in the Gulf region and make life safer for Irael, starting with the easiest problem case, Iraq. If the governments in the area did not come around, no problem; American troops were there in any case and would protect Israel.… In a New York Times op-ed (July 18), Benny Morris put the matter to Bush/Cheney crudely: bomb the suspected sites now or Israel will have to use nuclear weapons on Iran later. Call it extortion, if you will. But perhaps a better term is moral hazard: having been "insured" by the United States, Israel does not have to be cautious or even sensible. The Georgians seem to have learned this lesson too, and without having to pay the high premium that a first-class standing army of lobbyists requires.
According to the sort of people who run our government now, besieged democracies like Israel and Georgia are the bad guys, and the USA should stop encouraging them to defend themselves.
Sultan Knish has more on Freeman:
He's called Hezbollah a legitimate outgrowth of Lebanese nationalism and denied that it was an Iranian puppet. He bragged about his million dollar donation from the Saudi King to fund his organization, which he used to publish Walt and Mearsheimer's article attacking the "Jewish lobby". These days he's pushing for a "One State Solution" in Israel, code for the destruction of Israel.
Much of this has already been effectively laid out by such as Melanie Philips. There is however a lot more I have learned.
Chas Freeman is co-chair of the US China Policy Foundation and the American Iranian Council, with offices in Iran, holder of the Order of Abd Al-Azziz, 1st Class. He is also board chairman of Projects International Inc, a company that facilitates all sorts of projects, particularly in Saudi Arabia.
And even more significantly, Chas Freeman is on the International Advisory Board of China National Offshore Oil Co. CNOOC is a State owned enterprise, controlled by the Chinese government. As such Chas Freeman has openly worked for both Saudi Arabia and the People's Republic of China.
No wonder he's so forgiving of the Chicoms' dictatorship; he's in bed with it.
Regarding Iraq, Freeman wants to "help the Shiites win fast, consolidate their damn dictatorship and get the hell out" because "it's very hard to imagine anything except a Saddam-style reign of terror succeeding in pacifying the place." If it weren't too late to put Saddam back in power, no doubt that would be Freeman's preferred course of action.
In this quote, Freeman simultaneously denounces the removal of Saddam and justifies the al Qaeda atrocities of 9/11:
One lesson of September 11th that we need to recall more than any other is that if we attack someone else's homeland in this day and age, we can expect that our own homeland will be attacked. We know that if we attack Saddam he will use weapons of mass destruction in whatever way he can.
Note that he also confirmed the almost universally held view that Saddam had WMD. But that didn't stop Freeman from turning on his heel and ridiculing this view when it became politically expedient.
In short, Freeman is an unhinged left-wing radical who vehemently opposes the interests of the USA and our allies, while toadying to our enemies. What kind of people did you expect Obama to pick to shape our foreign policy?
Chas Freeman. America's enemies are now at the helm.
On tips from Rob Banks, J, and Mike_W.
Al Gore Quietly Backs Off From a Lie
Here's a surprise — it looks like Al Gore is backing off from one of the lies that constitute his lucrative global warming hype fests.
Former Vice President Al Gore is removing a dramatic slide in his global warming presentation. The New York Times reports Gore used a graph from a disaster research center in Brussels to illustrate that human-driven climate change is, "creating weather-related disasters that are completely unprecedented."
But the Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, which came up with the raw data, says no such direct correlation can be proven: "Justifying the upward trend in hydro-meteorological disaster occurrence and impacts essentially through climate change would be misleading. Climate change is probably an actor in this increase but not the major one… We need to be cautious when interpreting disaster data… and remain objective scientific observers."
But don't expect him to trim out the rest of the documented lies. That would leave him with no props, and nothing to say as he huffs and puffs and waves his arms.
The Goracle will still wear his sandwich board.
Obama Laugh Riot
In exchange for the America we've known and loved our whole lives, at least Obamunism is giving us some laughs. The site What Obama Means to Me is all the more hilarious for apparently being on the level as it collects praise of Chairman Zero, to be collected in a book and presented to the Moonbat Messiah to stoke his national debt–sized ego.
This offering captures the tone:
Obama means a new America, I feel he is the best thing that has happened to the country ever.Every time I listen to him I feel hope and I feel tears coming to my eyes…
Tears come to my eyes too, but I'm not feeling much hope.
Uh oh, someone had better click the Report Abuse link for this one:
Socialism does not work, check history and see what happens to gov. plans such as yours.
The site also offers a complete selection of Obama gear, including this bib, which should prove useful to the many black supremacists who suffer from drooling disorders:
Since establishment journalists have proven unable to restrain their slobber where BHO is concerned, there's one for them too:
California School Spends Fortune Teaching Spanish to Mexicans
A middle school in California is heeding Chairman Zero's call to spend ourselves into national bankruptcy by wasting $10,000 per year to teach Advanced Placement Spanish to colonists who already speak it as their native language.
Teaching kids something they already know improves their self-esteem. Bleats Lemon Grove School District Superintendent Ernie Anastos:
Our goal is basically to provide kids with an opportunity to excel and to feel really satisfied about doing the higher level work.
Another benefit is it pads their grade point averages, making it easier for Hispanics to edge out Gringos for university slots, since openly discriminating against Caucasians is supposed to be off limits in California colleges.
They would teach the kids English, but that might be difficult, subjecting sensitive students to frustration. Besides, there apparently won't be much use for English in the Mexifornia of the future.
On a tip from V the K.
Night of the Living Democrats
This is too good to save for Halloween:
On a tip from Smokey.
An Adventure in Creative Journalism
One downside to modern technology is that the unscrupulous can use it to make people say pretty much anything, as demonstrated in this appalling attempt to take out John Gibson:
Remember the Alamo
America's worst and most contemptible enemies have taken control of the government and are using it to systematically destroy the economic freedom on which our way of life is based. Our backs are to the wall. This is as good a time as any to remember the Alamo.
On this date in 1836, Lieutenant Colonel William Barret Travis wrote the following letter from the Alamo, which was under his command:
I am besieged, by a thousand or more of the Mexicans under Santa Anna — I have sustained a continual Bombardment & cannonade for 24 hours & have not lost a man — The enemy has demanded a surrender at discretion, otherwise, the garrison are to be put to the sword, if the fort is taken — I have answered the demand with a cannon shot, & our flag still waves proudly from the walls — I shall never surrender or retreat. Then, I call on you in the name of Liberty, of patriotism & everything dear to the American character, to come to our aid, with all dispatch — The enemy is receiving reinforcements daily & will no doubt increase to three or four thousand in four or five days. If this call is neglected, I am determined to sustain myself as long as possible & die like a soldier who never forgets what is due to his own honor & that of his country — VICTORY OR DEATH.
America is not dead so long as a single American continues to fight in this spirit.
An enduring symbol of American resistance to enemies foreign and domestic.
On a tip from Byron.
Obama to Put bin Laden Associate in Charge of National Intelligence Council
This shouldn't come as a surprise:
Amid the criticism that has already emerged about President Obama's reported pick for the powerful position of chairman of the National Intelligence Council, there is a yet unmentioned problem that is likely cause even bigger troubles: He had business ties to the bin Laden family after 9/11.
Charles "Chas" Freeman, a former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, had business connections with the bin Laden family and their Saudi Binladin Group, a multi-billion dollar construction conglomerate founded by the father of Osama bin Laden. As chairman of Projects International, Inc., a company that develops international business deals, Mr. Freeman asserted in an interview with the Associated Press less than a month after September 11 that he was still "discussing proposals with the Bin Laden Group — and that won't change."
Also, Freeman's think tank Middle East Policy Council has raked in tens of $thousands per year from the bin Laden family. He opines that bin Laden is still "a very honored name" in Saudi Arabia, but the extent to which Osama's activities have alienated him from the rest of the family is highly disputable.
Freeman has established his liberal bona fides by denouncing America's successful antiterror policy, siding with Arabs against Israel, sympathizing with Jewish conspiracy crapola, publicly comparing W with Caligula, and donating $1,000 to Chairman Zero's campaign.
We have only just begun to pay the price for letting our country's worst enemies take over our government.
Chas Freeman may soon take the helm of the NIC.
On a tip from Ashley R.
The Magic of Obamanomics
Using the power of Obamanomics, Chairman Zero could seize half of your property and redistribute it to Henrietta Hughes without taxing you a penny. Here's how it works:
Say Group A works hard and has created $1 trillion in wealth out of nothing. Group B smokes crack and watches Oprah, and doesn't create any wealth at all. It receives food stamps, welfare, subsidized housing, et cetera, ad nauseam, but say Group B has no more wealth than it creates. If Chairman Zero wants to spread the wealth around so that both groups have the same amount, he doesn't have to take half a $trillion from Group A. All he needs to do is give Group B $1 trillion dollars that doesn't exist in the form of mortgage bailouts and stimulus packages.
Since the money doesn't exist, the government will have to print it. Instead of $1 trillion dollars, there is now $2 trillion that represents $1 trillion of actual wealth. By making money worth half as much, Obama has effectively seized half of what Group A worked to create.
But there's no reason Group B should settle for only half of the wealth. After all, it suffers oppression. This is why Obama is passing out more money than exists in the entire economy.
Just because Obama doesn't need to tax us doesn't mean that he won't. Taxes will be going up, because higher taxes are a form of social justice. But there will be tax cuts for some — namely, those who don't pay any taxes. Some of their welfare handouts will be renamed "tax rebates."
To paraphrase Tom Brokaw: Take that, America!
Via Air Farce One, on a tip from woewoe. Hat tip: Free Republic.
Community Activist Rapes 11-Year-Old
Whereas some community activists get to rape the whole country, others have to settle for little kids.
A community activist who once ran for mayor of Erie [Pennsylvania] must be treated to determine if he's mentally competent for trial on charges he raped an 11-year-old girl.
Authorities say Rubin Swift, 34, raped the girl repeatedly in 2006 and 2007. He's also accused of insurance fraud for allegedly faking a stolen car report and trying to get medical benefits using bogus identification and medical records. …
A judge ordered the mental health treatment yesterday at the request of Swift's attorney.
Swift ran for mayor of Erie in 2004. He once raised money for the homeless by living in a plywood shanty in downtown Erie and walked to Washington, D.C. to protest high gasoline prices in 2004.
Swift might have angled for a presidential pardon from his fellow community activist. But Chairman Zero would consider his protesting high gas prices to be not too swift. So he's laying the groundwork for an insanity defense, which ought to work well for him, given his history of escaping from mental institutions.
Maybe Obama will use the same defense after the economy inevitably collapses as a result of his gargantuan Cloward-Piven spending spree. Or maybe the fools who voted for him will.
If it were just tax evasion, Swift would qualify for a cabinet position.
On a tip from Name.
Profiles in Hypocrisy: Gavin Newsom
While our civilization circles the drain as a result of the cultural corrosion and economic insanity they've imposed, liberals attempt to distract us with righteous crusades against make-believe menaces like bottled water, a favorite bugaboo of San Franfreakshow Mayor Gavim Newsom. But what's this?
This week, the City Insider spotted an almost empty case of bottled water in the back of Mayor Gavin Newsom's hybrid sport utility vehicle as it was parked in front of City Hall. At least one full bottle of Crystal Geyser Alpine Spring Water remained under the plastic covering.
This from the mayor who in June 2007 issued an executive order directing city government to no longer purchase bottled water, saying the containers clog landfills… Newsom, a former restaurateur, last year called on the restaurant industry to stop selling bottled water to customers and start serving local tap water instead.
We're told that the water "belonged to the mayor's security detail and wasn't purchased with city funds." Yet a mayoral spokesweenie confesses:
The mayor will be the first to admit that he occasionally indulges in bottled water. It's not something he's proud of.
But so long as we little people don't indulge in this vice, the planet will be okay.
Maybe Newsom thought the mic was a bottle of water.
On a tip from CQM.
American Taxpayers Lavishly Reward Palestinians for Terrorist Rocket Attacks
Not all of the mountains of money Obama is stealing from us, our children, and our grandchildren will be showered upon parasitical welfare queens like Henrietta Hughes. Remember when Palestinians ran phone banks from their terror nest, urging Americans to vote for BHO? This won't go unrewarded. First Obama declared he would spend a fortune of our money to import Palestinians to America so they can vote for him. Now this:
The United States plans to offer more than $900 million to help rebuild Gaza after Israel's invasion and to strengthen the Western-backed Palestinian Authority, U.S. officials said on Monday.
As usual, the injury to our already crippled economy is accompanied by an insult to our intelligence. According to an anonymous official:
This money is for Gaza and to help strengthen the Palestinian Authority. It is not going to go to Hamas.
You see, we're not giving the money to Hamas terrorists. We're giving it to the United Nations to give to Hamas terrorists, who control the Gaza Strip and obviously will be soaking up the fortunes the Democrats shovel into that cesspool. The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank isn't much better.
No wonder Palestinians won't stop firing rockets at Israeli population centers until they evoke a response. We are in effect paying them hundreds of $millions for doing it.
Palestinians celebrating Obama's election. No wait, it was 9/11.
On tips from mega and Oiao.
WaPo Cowards Regret Their Lapse
The cartoon below accompanied an article in the Washington Post about women being sexually aroused by watching apes have sex:
But then WaPo realized that the cartoon is racist, and posted this apology to Al Sharpton et al.:
The magazine was printed before a widely publicized incident last week in which a chimpanzee attacked and badly mauled a woman in Stamford, Conn. In addition, the image and text inadvertently may conjure racial stereotypes that The Post does not countenance. We regret the lapse.
Unless they are confessing that they can't tell the difference between monkeys and blacks, WaPo's craven editors are attempting to forestall the sort of run-in with the race grievance industry the New York Post just experienced.
Our new era of "postracial politics" sure is a great time to be a race hustler. Sharpton has the establishment media snuffling his malodorous tail feathers without even having to ask.
Hat tip: Michelle Malkin, on a tip from Burning Hot.
Here's a sign of things to come:
The FBI now says a Minneapolis man may have been the first U.S. citizen to carry out a terrorist suicide bombing.
FBI Director Robert Mueller said Monday, Shirwa Ahmed, who killed himself in an attack in Somalia in October, was recruited in the United States, specifically in Minnesota.
The Minneapolis area has been so heavily colonized by Muslims from Somalia that it recently elected ultra-left Nation of Islam alumnus Keith Ellison to Congress. Mueller worries:
World politics often shape terrorist and criminal threats against the United States… A crisis in the horn of Africa may well have a ripple effect in Minneapolis.
This means that the next time a Twin City Mohammedan blows himself up, it could be at the Mall of America. Isn't multiculturalism exciting?
Henrietta Hughes, System-Milking Real Estate Mogul
Henrietta Hughes is the personification of Obamunism in more ways than one. Not only is she a parasite who expects the government to give her whatever she wants for free, she is also an utter fraud:
During Obama's campaign to promote his stimulus package, he staged an event with a woman, Henrietta Hughes, who, as it turns out, appears to be anything but truly needy. Henrietta was given an audience with Obama to beg for a home. When aid was provided via the offer of free rent by an opportunistic politician, the liberal press spouted that Henrietta was actually given a free home and implied it came from Obama. The lie has propagated through the liberal media and, quite honestly, it nauseated us because it was so obviously staged and such a distorted lie. Well, as it turns out, the lie didn't end there. …
It appears that the desperate homeless woman owns real estate she shifted into the name of her son to avoid taxes and acquire government aid. Apparently, Henrietta is the teacher and Tom Daschle is just a student. Henrietta also apparently sold real estate at a significant profit in 2005. Henrietta has now become the poster child the Democrats wish to use to justify the massive expense of helping the chronically unemployed, not-so-needy and not-at-all-homeless.
To add insult to injury, when Chairman Zero steals $billions from us, our children, and our grandchildren to shower upon the Henrietta Hugheses of the world, we're asked to believe it's a "stimulus" that will help the economy.
Slavery reinstated: you work so that she doesn't have to.
Hat tip: Free Republic, on a tip from Cheetah.
How Hollyweird's Voice of God Got Chairman Zero in the White House
Hollyweird gave its all to install Chairman Zero in the White House, but James Earl Jones likes to think he did more than most. Supposedly Tinseltown casting him and fellow black actor Morgan Freeman as God paved the way for our Affirmative Action messiah.
In addition to providing the voice of God in movies and commercials, Jones is famous for recording the King James version of the Bible. More appropriately, he's also famous as the voice of Darth Vader.
Via Glenn Beck.
Army Officer Sues to See BHO's Birth Certificate
No wonder Obama has plans to create his own Gestapo-style domestic army with a budget as large as the military. The imposition of socialism hasn't even required him to order soldiers to fire on fellow Americans yet, and already there is dissent in the ranks. As an Army officer, Scott Easterling is required to follow orders from a sitting president — so he insists on knowing whether Obama is qualified to hold the post.
Normally candidates are vetted by the media. But since Obama was effectively installed by the media, he managed to evade this unpleasantness, to such an extent that we still don't know for sure that he was born in this country, since he won't release a vault copy birth certificate. If he was born in Kenya as African relatives have claimed, he is not eligible to be President, per the Constitution. Easterling has taken the matter to court, so that he can know that when he faces terrorist bullets in Iraq, he's doing it on orders passed down from a legitimate authority.
Obama's version of "transparency" isn't inspiring the loyalty he will need to stay in the saddle when his suicidal economic policies lead to social unrest.
Obama learns people still want to see his birth certificate. Via Caption This!
How Democrats Brought Down the American Economy
Because we will no doubt be told for the next decade that the ongoing financial collapse is somehow the fault of W and the Republicans, we could never remind ourselves too often of who really caused the subprime crisis that set it off, and who tried to stop it:
It's beginning to look like Affirmative Action shouldn't be applied to mortgages after all — or to choosing our political leadership.
On tips from SK.
Compliments of Stephen H.
Bill Moyers, Hypocrisy Incarnate
Even at coercively funded PBS, no one crawls with their belly lower to the ground than moonbat propagandist Bill Moyers, the utterly unhinged liberal twit who as noted earlier has furtively raked in over $20 million of taxpayer money through the malignancy known as public broadcasting. Moyers was a top thug in the same LBJ administration that featured anti-American gadfly Ramsey Clark as Attorney General, orchestrating the disgraceful 1964 campaign against Barry Goldwater. The Wall Street Journal highlights some new revelations regarding his relationship with J. Edgar Hoover in those days:
Under the Freedom of Information Act, the Washington Post has obtained a few of the former FBI director's secret files. According to a Thursday front-page story, Hoover was "consumed" with exposing a (nonexistent) relationship between a gay photographer and Jack Valenti, the late film industry lobbyist who was then an aide to Lyndon Johnson. Hoover's M.O. was to amass incriminating personal information as political blackmail.
But as the Post reports in passing, the dossier also reveals that Mr. Moyers — then a special assistant to LBJ — requested in 1964 that Hoover's G-men "investigate two other administration figures who were 'suspected as having homosexual tendencies.'"
This isn't the first time Mr. Moyers's name has come up in connection with Hoover's abuse of office. When Laurence Silberman, now a federal appeals judge, was acting Attorney General in 1975, he was obliged to read Hoover's secret files in their entirety in preparation for testimony before Congress — and as far as we know remains one of the only living officials to have done so. "It was the single worst experience of my long governmental service," he wrote in these pages in 2005.
Amid "bits of dirt on figures such as Martin Luther King," Judge Silberman found a 1964 memo from Mr. Moyers directing Hoover's agents to investigate Barry Goldwater's campaign staff for evidence of homosexual activity. A few weeks before, an LBJ aide named Walter Jenkins had been arrested in a men's bathroom, and Mr. Silberman wrote that Mr. Moyers and his boss evidently wanted leverage in the event Goldwater tried to use the liaison against them. (He didn't, as it happened.)
Once again we see that right vs. left is really more a matter of high vs. low. The WSJ further notes:
Memories are short in Washington, and Mr. Moyers has gone on to promote himself as a political moralist, routinely sermonizing about what he claims are abuses of power by his ideological enemies. Since 9/11, he has been particularly intense in criticizing President Bush for his antiterror policies, such as warrantless wiretapping against al Qaeda.
Yet the historical record suggests that when Mr. Moyers was in a position of actual power, he was complicit in FBI dirt-digging against U.S. citizens solely for political purposes.
A devastating argument against socialized media can be made in two words: Bill Moyers.
Your tax dollar at work.
On a tip from Varla.
The Entertainment Industry's Economic Policy, Journalism's Objective
The ultra left's Gramscian strategy of establishing cultural hegemony by taking over the news media, academia, and the entertainment industry has been succeeding spectacularly. Bill Maher may be said to personify this appalling process, by which we have been stripped of our own culture by vermin who aim to destroy it. Friday night, he was on TV saying this:
If we killed two random, rich greedy pigs; blew them up at halftime at next year's Super Bowl. Or left them hanging on the big board at the New York Stock Exchange, you know, as a warning, with their balls in their mouths, I think it would really make everyone else sit up and take notice.
It could be Obama has finally found himself a Commerce Secretary.
On the same program, Chrystia Freeland of the Financial Times let slip her main journalistic objective:
It's important to prepare the ground for radical government action.
That sums up the purpose of the establishment media.
Bill Maher has a message for America.
Shrillary Sells Out Tibet, Taiwan to Follow
Not all potential casualties of Chairman Zero's disastrous regime are Americans. Some live on the other side of the world:
Amnesty International and a pro-Tibet group voiced shock Friday after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton vowed not to let human rights concerns hinder cooperation with China.
Paying her first visit to Asia as the top US diplomat, Clinton said the United States would continue to press China on long-standing US concerns over human rights such as its rule over Tibet.
"But our pressing on those issues can't interfere on the global economic crisis, the global climate change crisis and the security crisis," Clinton told reporters in Seoul just before leaving for Beijing.
T. Kumar of Amnesty International USA said the global rights lobby was "shocked and extremely disappointed" by Clinton's remarks.
"The United States is one of the only countries that can meaningfully stand up to China on human rights issues," he said.
But human rights play second fiddle to the manufactured or entirely fictional crises the current regime has already proven so adept at exploiting. When the Chicoms are done mopping up in Tibet, they will be heading for Taiwan. Who's going to stop them, Obama? Before he's done reducing our economy to ruins, we'll be no match for the Chinese anyway.
Ice Fails to Melt, But Obama Still to Use Global Warming Hoax to Finish Off Economy
Another blow to the global warming farce:
A glitch in satellite sensors caused scientists to underestimate the extent of Arctic sea ice by 500,000 square kilometers (193,000 square miles), a California- size area, the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center said.
The error, due to a problem called "sensor drift," began in early January and caused a slowly growing underestimation of sea ice extent until mid-February. That's when "puzzled readers" alerted the NSIDC about data showing ice-covered areas as stretches of open ocean, the Boulder, Colorado-based group said on its Web site. … The extent of Arctic sea ice is seen as a key measure of how rising temperatures are affecting the Earth.
It's good that someone is paying attention, rather than taking official propaganda at face value. We have reached the point in our slide toward totalitarianism where all data originating from the government is suspect, if not presumably false.
In light of the cold winters we've been having, it shouldn't be surprising that all the ice isn't melting after all. Nonetheless, the hoax is pressing full steam ahead. In the name of this fictional crisis, Obama will be imposing a cap-and-trade system to suppress harmless CO2 emissions. This is estimated to cost the American economy as much as $1.3 trillion over the next 21 years.
But at this point, what's another $trillion? We'll be burning US currency to heat our homes by the time we get Obama out of the White House.
On tips from Murff, Chad, Lyle, and Burning Hot. Hat tip: Gateway Pundit.
The Island of Doctor Moreau Revisited
The moonbattery that has poisoned academia is leading us toward a nightmarish science fiction dystopia. As evidence, I present "All Together Now: Developmental and Ethical Considerations for Biologically Uplifting Nonhuman Animals," an article published in the Journal of Evolution and Technology. From the abstract:
As the potential for enhancement technologies migrates from the theoretical to the practical, a difficult and important decision will be imposed upon human civilization, namely the issue as to whether or not we are morally obligated to biologically enhance nonhuman animals and integrate them into human and posthuman society. … Through the application of Rawlsian moral frameworks, and in consideration of the acknowledgement of legally recognized nonhuman persons, it can be shown that the presence of uplift biotechnologies will represent a new primary good and will thus necessitate the inclusion of highly sapient nonhumans into what has traditionally been regarded as human society.
"Rawlsian" refers to moonbat navel-gazer John Rawls, who "revitalized the social-contract tradition, using it to articulate and defend a detailed vision of egalitarian liberalism."
Too bad Travis's estate won't be able to sue the cops for using excessive force, which no doubt it would in the future. But then, the "biologically enhanced" animals of the future may be able to hold off the police with machine guns.
Abortion is only the beginning of the horrors liberals have made possible by denying the fundamental difference between humans and animals.
Enhanced animals will of course be eligible for food stamps.
Hooligan Mob to Target Coal Plant
Totalitarian regimes often require ostensibly independent action. An example would be the maniacal students who went wild during China's Cultural Revolution, inflicting violence on those deemed insufficiently fanatical in their devotion to communism. Similar tactics will be required to push through the global warming agenda, which will entail radically restricting our liberty and lowering our standard of living in the name of a "crisis" that does not exist.
Environmentalist demagogue Al Gore has been trying to egg on the sort of moonbat hooligans who riot at WTO conferences to attack power plants that use one of our most precious yet abundant resources, coal. His rallying cry has been heeded. Capitol Climate Action, planned for March 2, will protest the existence of a coal plant in DC. Participants are encouraged to impersonate normal Americans by wearing their "Sunday best" — meaning they will make every effort to find matching shoes.
Leftists target coal not because it oppresses the polar bears, but because it produces 56% of our electricity. The only viable alternatives are oil — which we must import mostly from hostile regimes because Democrats severely restrict drilling in our own country — and nuclear — which liberals also resist tooth and nail.
Not even Al Gore thinks windmills and pixie dust can meet our energy needs. The idea is to cripple the economy and make us helpless, the better to soften us up for socialism.
Here's global warming profiteer James Hansen — a known fraud who nonetheless holds a top position in the federal bureaucracy — encouraging punks to use strong-arm tactics to advance the government's goal of banning coal:
The protest will be pure theater; these totalitarians are not protesting against the government, but on its behalf against what remains of our freedom. If you doubt Chairman Zero is on the same page, here he is promising to exploit the global warming farce to bankrupt coal plants:
Before long you'll flip the switch and the lights won't come on. You'll know whom to thank.
On a tip from Dave K.
Obama Wish List
Blowing Holes in Bambi
A response to Robert Gibbs's lame attempt to attack countermoonbat Rick Santelli and to defend Chairman Zero's indefensible mortgage bailout:
On a tip from Al C.
Race Ideology Used to Prevent Children From Excelling
When socialist utopia is attained, we will all be as equal to each other as a box full of nails. However, some students violate the precepts of social justice by being intelligent and by striving to succeed. Ambitious middle school children have been signing up for high school classes as a way to achieve their potential…
But the nation's foremost scholars in middle-school education are worried the fast-growing trend is leaving minority children behind. They also question whether the practice is legal because, nationwide, it has tended to result in students being segregated by race.
Here we see why their obsession with race is so important to the moonbat totalitarians who dream of imposing absolute equality. You can't be allowed to achieve anything more that the laziest moron, because if you do, that would be racist. Any nail that stands out will be hammered down in the name of political correctness.
How else to create an entire nation of Henrietta Hugheses, who wouldn't dream of rebelling so long as their troughs are kept full of free slop?
Hat tip: Half Sigma, on a tip from V the K.
Transsexual Freakazoid Kills Elderly Husband
Maybe it's not such a good idea to marry a girl who is actually a guy, even if he is 32 years younger than you are:
An Ohio transgender woman [sic] has pleaded guilty to reckless homicide for exercising her [sic] 73-year-old husband to death in an apartment complex swimming pool.
Middlefield police say surveillance video shows 41-year-old Christine Newton-John pulling James Mason around the pool by his arms and legs and preventing him from leaving. Mason had a heart attack on June 2 just after the extended swim session.
"Christine's" name used to be John Vallandingham. He faces up to a five whole years for killing Mason. Presumably he'll get to serve them in a women's prison.
Slavery for Stability
We're being asked to make a similar trade — socialism for stability. Deals with the Devil don't tend to work out.
ACORN Brownshirts Seize Homes Across the Country
More on the militantly racist, communist thugs from ACORN, and their war on the concept of property:
The Porkulus package funnels $billions of our money to these goons, who will help ensure ACORN alumnus Obama's reelection with their nationwide voter fraud operations. These Bolsheviks are running the country now.
The RAT Board
There was more to the atrocious "stimulus" package than hundreds of $billions of frivolous pork barrel spending that will leave generations of Americans in debt. It also advanced the liberal goals of putting the healthcare industry under direct federal control, and secretively repealing welfare reform so as to breed future generations of state-dependent Democrat voters. Better still for an administration that crawled out of the sewers of Chicago politics, it gives the White House tremendous leverage to squash corruption investigations. A furtive provision in the bill
creates something called the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board — the RAT Board, as it's known by the few insiders who are aware of it. The board would oversee the in-house watchdogs, known as inspectors general, whose job is to independently investigate allegations of wrongdoing at various federal agencies, without fear of interference by political appointees or the White House.
In the name of accountability and transparency, Congress has given the RAT Board the authority to ask "that an inspector general conduct or refrain from conducting an audit or investigation." If the inspector general doesn't want to follow the wishes of the RAT Board, he'll have to write a report explaining his decision to the board, as well as to the head of his agency (from whom he is supposedly independent) and to Congress. In the end, a determined inspector general can probably get his way, but only after jumping through bureaucratic hoops that will inevitably make him hesitate to go forward.
When Iowa Republican Sen. Charles Grassley, a longtime champion of inspectors general, read the words "conduct or refrain from conducting," alarm bells went off. The language means that the board — whose chairman will be appointed by the president — can reach deep inside a federal agency and tell an inspector general to lay off some particularly sensitive subject. Or, conversely, it can tell the inspector general to go after a tempting political target.
Grassley was a member of the House-Senate conference committee. Yet he only learned of the RAT provision buried deep in the 1,073 pages of wasteful spending when he was tipped off by a worried inspector general. According to a Democrat Senator, RAT was "something the Obama administration wanted included in this bill."
When he learned about RAT, Grassley wanted to voice his objections before the Senate. But there was no time; they had to hurry up and vote so that Nazi Pelousy could jet off to Europe — and so that no one would have time to read the bill.
This is what the Moonbat Messiah calls "transparency." Here he is explaining how it will be a "touchstone" of his regime:
On tips from The MaryHunter and Reuben C.
Terror Camps in the USA
Somehow I doubt this is on Chairman Zero's radar screen:
The whole movie is available at Homegrown Jihad. More on Islamic terrorist training camps in the USA can be found at RBO.
On tips from Code3 and SK.
See here for more on one of these moonbat icons. On a tip from V the K.
Obama Takes Up Truth-Telling
Chairman Zero had some surprisingly truthful things to say on signing the Porkzilla "stimulus" package, which will condemn generations of Americans to poverty by advancing socialism and crushing our economy under a mountain of frivolous debt.
According to President Pencilneck, the bill will inflict "real and lasting change for generations to come." True enough, since the wealth and freedom that have characterized America up to now are in long-term jeopardy.
More ominously, he proclaimed that his signing this knife to the gut of our economic system "does mark the beginning of the end."
Unless he and the radicals running Congress are stopped soon, this statement will prove to be true for the last best hope of earth.
ACORN Thugs Now Breaking Into and Seizing Homes
We are following more closely in the footsteps of Zimbabwe than I thought. ACORN — the radical leftist group best known for its massive voter fraud operations — is now breaking into homes to seize control of them. Crows ACORN's Louis Beverly after goons broke the padlock on a home that had been foreclosed and was being remodeled:
This is our house now.
ACORN proudly asserts that it is engaging in similar criminal acts nationwide.
Without property rights, there are no rights at all. It's a short step from communists seizing a house that belongs to a bank to seizing the one that belongs to you.
Meanwhile, Obama has proclaimed that he will expropriate $75 billion from those of us who pay our bills and play by the rules, to pay the mortgages of those who don't — a superficially civilized way of doing just what ACORN is doing. But he must be familiar with ACORN's more physical tactics, having trained their shock troops.
The Porkulus heist will funnel $billions of our money into ACORN's pockets, ensuring that their thuggery will continue to escalate.
Via The Political Jungle.
On tips from Gregory of Yardale and J. Hat tip: Michelle Malkin.
Countermoonbat Santelli Backed by 93% of CNBC Viewers
Despite the sneering response Rick Santelli got from his colleagues at CNBC for giving voice to those of us who are not ready to give up on America and succumb to socialism, currently 93% of viewers in left-leaning CNBC's own poll would like to join the "Chicago Tea Party" Santelli proposes as a protest against the Obama regime forcing us to give $billions upon $billions to people who took out mortgages they can't afford.
The Soviet Union went out not with a bang but a whimper, but the same might not hold true for the USA. One month into this travesty of a presidency and the anger is already reaching explosive levels. We are still Americans, no matter what sort of socialist weasel the liberal fifth column has been able to install in the White House. Our country is worth fighting for.
On tips from navek and J.
Obama Disses Winston Churchill
As if any further affirmation of the greatness of Winston Churchill were required, the cockroaches who have taken over the American government have effectively denounced his memory:
A bust of the former prime minister once voted the greatest Briton in history, which was loaned to George W Bush from the Government's art collection after the September 11 attacks, has now been formally handed back.
The bronze by Sir Jacob Epstein, worth hundreds of thousands of pounds if it were ever sold on the open market, enjoyed pride of place in the Oval Office during President Bush's tenure.
But when British officials offered to let Mr Obama to hang onto the bust for a further four years, the White House said: "Thanks, but no thanks."
To Americans, Churchill is the hero whose courageous leadership saved our sister Britain from Nazi conquest. To Obama, he is a pale-faced colonial oppressor.
Nothing could be more symbolic of the Obama Administration and what it means for our civilization.
Greatness is gone now.
EPA to Start Regulating All Human Activity
If you think the economy is in trouble now, wait until the effects of this insanity hits your wallet:
The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to act for the first time to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that scientists blame for the warming of the planet, according to top Obama administration officials.
The decision, which most likely would play out in stages over a period of months, would have a profound impact on transportation, manufacturing costs and how utilities generate power. It could accelerate the progress of energy and climate change legislation in Congress and form a basis for the United States' negotiating position at United Nations climate talks set for December in Copenhagen.
Carbon dioxide is an essential element of our atmosphere that plants need to live, and that is generated by all human activity, including breathing. There is no evidence that it causes the natural and inevitable process of climate fluctuation. But by pretending that it is harmful to the planet, the government has established that literally everything we do is bad and subject to suppressive legislation. The negative consequences for our economy — not to mention our liberty — could not be overstated.
Unless we revolt against the leftist lunatics who are imposing this bizarre new form of totalitarianism, America will soon be reduced to sub–Third World living standards. This might be a good time to look into immigrating to communist China — for the freedom to generate wealth.
Slamming the brakes on civilization will supposedly benefit the polar bears.
On tips from Matt L, Gregory of Yardale, J, and Burning Hot.
Anti-Obama Sign Confiscated by Cops
The word "abort" means to terminate before completion. However, in the context of pregnancy, it's used as a euphemism for murdering a child before it is born. Unfortunately for Chip Harrison of Oklahoma City, some agents of our ubiquitous government get the meanings mixed up, as when police officers confiscated a sign from his car reading "Abort Obama Not the Unborn," on the grounds that it was supposedly a threat to the life of Chairman Zero.
As Harrison explains, "Abort Obama" means get him out of office before he can finish destroying the country. Being a Christian, he doesn't endorse abortion in the sense of murdering people. In Obama's case, it would make for an extremely late-term abortion, since he is already an adolescent.
Police admitted they got carried away; nonetheless, the Secret Service showed up at Harrison's house to look around and make sure he isn't "part of any hate groups." This is why you should always keep pro-life literature hidden under the floorboards.
Luckily for Obama, it's too late to abort him in the homicidal sense.
On tips from J, Conservigilant, nancz, Wiggins, Ryan N, Vernon M, and Burning Hot.
It just keeps on happening. Now Yahoo makes the Freudian slip that defines a presidency:
Chairman Zero would still be a junior Senate backbencher if he didn't have a name with such visceral subconscious appeal for the Democrat base. But the real Osama never dreamed of doing the damage to this country President Pencilneck has already set underway.
Chairman Zero is welcomed to the Valley of the Sun. Via Michelle Malkin, on a tip from Burning Hot.
Hopey Change Won't Help MSNBC's Ratings
The rise of the Moonbat Messiah is bad news for everyone — even the left-wing propagandists who put him in power. From the Western Center for Journalism:
You won't hear executives at MSNBC chanting "yes we can." The network that they cobbled together as a TV version of the left-wing screed Air America is in the ratings dumper. Advertising dollars that have never been easy are getting thinner. …
Keith Olbermann may need to go back to sports. MSNBC is in big trouble without Bush to bash. Olbermann, Rachel Maddow and even Chris Matthews have filled their shows with nothing but anti-Bush hysteria for the last year. Now that their punching bag-in-chief has left Washington, they are lost.
Chris Matthews famously yelped that he gets a thrill up his leg whenever Chairman Zero reads a teleprompter, and considers it his job to ensure the success of the new regime. But he clearly considered it his job to ensure the failure of the Bush Administration, which he mocked and insulted relentlessly.
Co-cockroach Keith Olbermann's Bush Derangement Syndrome is arguably severe enough to justify institutionalization. As an example, he tried to get viewers to believe that Pat Tillman was not killed by friendly fire, but murdered on W's behalf.
Another commentator who loves to hate Bush, liberal activist Rachel Maddow, said on her show following [Bush's] farewell address, "this is the start of the part where we don't have President Bush to kick around anymore… there can be no promise that we won't be compelled to try to keep on with the kicking around." She spoke with the caption, "goodbye and good riddance," situated behind her. She then proceeded to kick Bush around for ten minutes straight, blaming him for everything from Katrina, 9/11, the existence of Hamas, the recession, and "two worthless wars." She had practically filled her show with anti-Bush rants and guests. After January 20, she has struggled to find new material.
Call it the lunatic left's answer to "fair and balanced." The network is staffed by such childish and unprofessional moonbats that switching from their 24-hour version of the Two Minutes Hate to reporting factual news is out of the question.
Presumably they'll devote the next four years to nibbling cuticles from Chairman Zero's toes. When advertising drops off to nothing, they'll be well positioned for a bailout.
Make that "The Power of Hopey Change."
On a tip from Murff.
Free Housing for Drunken Bums
For alcoholic derelicts who don't find San Francisco to their taste, Rochester, Minnesota could be a nice place to settle:
A housing project for homeless chronic alcoholics is being planned at the Olmsted County government campus in east Rochester, near the Fuad Mansour youth soccer complex.
The location will be particularly convenient for degenerates who augment their drunkenness with pedophilia. The center will be a "wet house" — which means residents won't have to hide their bottles.
The tab of $200,000 per unit will be picked up by you. A bureaucrat explains why $millions should be wasted on this depraved project:
We can take it and do our best to spend it here, or let them spend it in South Dakota or Wisconsin.
Government "stimulus" has its own logic.
Kids playing soccer in Rochester will soon have some new fans.
On a tip from butlerj.
Develop Your Democrat Skill Set
Even in Hopey-Change America, it's still important to have skills; you just need different skills. There's a slave class that works and a master class that reaps the benefits. If you want to belong to the latter, you need to know how to snivel, whine, and wallow in self-pity.
The new regime is sponsoring a contest to spur development of this crucial skill set. Submit your sob story here, and if it's sufficiently pathetic, maybe Chairman Zero will read it off a teleprompter at a spontaneous town meeting, as the audience coos and weeps.
Big Brother Is Watching — But Don't You Dare Watch Back
Similarities between Britain and the Soviet Union become more striking by the day. It is now a criminal offense to take a photograph of a police officer. As for citizens…
There are more than four million CCTV cameras in the UK, the largest number in the world. Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras follow our every car journey, and officers are now routinely deployed at major public gatherings with cameras on their helmets.
Police are even beginning to insist that pubs — as a condition of being granted a licence — install CCTV cameras to watch their regulars having a drink.
Indeed, some pubs are even being told to ban their customers from wearing hats, in case it makes identification by these cameras more difficult — thus the extraordinary situation of Yorkshiremen being told it is no longer acceptable to wear a flat cap to their local pub!
The new law against taking pictures of bobbies is being justified on counterterrorism grounds. But it could have other uses.
There's also the not inconsiderable fact it will make it very hard for Press photographers to record legitimate protests, given the heavy presence of police on the streets at any modern day rally. It will also prevent those protesters who fear heavy-handed tactics from filming the police's response, as is currently common place.
Violators face up to 10 years in jail. In contrast, the punishment for being a real terrorist is having the tabloids cluck their tongues in disapproval when you go out to spend your welfare check.
Officer! Arrest yourself at once!
On a tip from mandy.
Racist Pro-Terrorist Attorney General Calls America a "Nation of Cowards"
Our skeevy pro-terrorist Attorney General, who like the President owes his position in part to being black, has denounced the country over which his gang of racist Marxists now rules as "essentially a nation of cowards" on racial matters.
Eric Holder doesn't like it that we "self-segregate." Birds of a feather flocking together is evidently a problem to be solved by our ubiquitous government. Holder says the Justice Department has a special responsibility to help drive the liberal race agenda. Maybe he'll push for a law requiring that if four people are in a car or at a table, at least two of them have to be black, like in TV commercials.
Unhinged ideologues like Holder are now running the country they think of as belonging to the hated white man who handed them their positions out of condescending political correctness. If he's right that we're cowards about race, we're about to pay a price for it.
Presiding over a "nation of cowards."
On tips from Conservigilant, mega, Matt L, and Montag. Hat tip: Hot Air.
Out Comes the Race Card to Defuse Porkulus Opposition
As we might have expected, opposition to Chairman 0's Marxist policies is being depicted as "racist." Check out this cartoon from yesterday's New York Post:
The reference is to Travis the psycho chimp — and to The Anointed One, if Al Sharpton is to be believed. For some reason, whenever a monkey is referred to, Sharpton et al. think people are talking about them. Screeches Barbara Ciara, president of the National Association of Black Journalists:
How could the Post let this cartoon pass as satire? To compare the nation's first African-American commander in chief to a dead chimpanzee is nothing short of racist drivel.
Ethnically correct New York State Senator Eric Adams has started gibbering about lynching.
Never mind that the Porkzilla outrage was pushed by BHO but written by his fellow travelers in Congress. If the chimp represented anyone in particular, it would Nazi Pelousy.
But the liberal establishment's reflexes are well-honed. Racism is everywhere, because when they play the race card, they win.
On tips from Al Sharptongue, hiram, Conservigilant, and Darth T.
Ultimate Challenge
Anyone who can watch this video start to finish without tossing their cookies deserves to have a Presidential Medal of Moonbattery pinned on by BHO himself:
The Money Hole
Some people think The Onion is parody. Actually, it's run by a team of psychics. Here they predicted the "stimulus" package:
On a tip from Lyle.
From yesterday's anti-Porkulus protest in Denver, compliments of El Marco.
Bloomberg: NYC Faces Cataclysmic Doom
As if killer bees and Y2K weren't bad enough, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is now screeching that his city will soon be underwater due to the imaginary global warming crisis:
Water levels around New York City could rise by 2 feet or more in the coming decades and average temperatures will likely go up 4 to 7.5 degrees, according to a report released today by a panel of scientists convened by Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
The city must adapt to global warming or risk having to rebuild facilities after flooding, Bloomberg said in releasing the report by the New York City Panel on Climate Change. …
The New York City report, which was funded by a $350,000 grant from the [left-wing] Rockefeller Foundation, predicts that sea levels will rise by 12 to 23 inches and possibly more by the end of the century. Accelerated ice melt in Greenland and Antarctica could mean that sea levels will rise as much as 41 to 55 inches, the report says.
Let me guess: this disaster can only be forestalled through yet higher taxes and still more suffocating regulations, which coincidentally benefit no one but authoritarian bureauweenies like Michael Bloomberg.
Note to Bloomie: Hollyweird crapola is not real.
A Tax on Each Toilet Flush
The flaky environmentalism fad has been a huge boon to government, which can use it to justify greedy levels of taxation on every last aspect of human existence. Now comes a tax on flushing your toilet in Australia. Enthuses Adelaide University Water Management Professor Mike Young:
Some people may go as far as not flushing their toilet as often because the less sewage you produce, the less sewage rate you pay.
Won't that smell wonderful? When people get tired of wearing clothespins on their noses and finally flush, the government gets to gobble a little more wealth.
The idea must have been inspired by complaints of Big Brother flushing our money down the toilet.
Chairman Zero Confused With Jesus Again
The creepy Cult of the Obamessiah has spread all the way to Southeast Asia. A church billboard in Singapore:
We are living in a sick parody of reality.
The word from Singapore is that this sign is actually a rebuke of Obamamites, and not a tasteless example of their astounding capacity for self-parody. You need to read the whole sign, which you can't do in the picture. On a tip from Terrence K.
Bushfire Arsonist Worships Mother Earth
This should be surprising, but isn't at all. A sociopath responsible for deliberately setting one of the bushfires that have been devastating Australia appears to be an environmentalist.
Brendan Sokaluk, 39 of Churchill was named after a Victorian court lifted a suppression order allowing him to be named by the media.
Sokaluk has been charged with arson causing death, lighting a bushfire and one count of possessing child pornography. The Churchill fire he is alleged to have started burnt out more than 30,000 hectares and killed 21 people.
Sokaluk maintains a MySpace page that given what he has done is spooky. … The page is scattered with appalling spelling, suggesting that Sokaluk may have been illiterate, or had suffered a learning disability.
Or that he's a moonbat.
In the hero section, Sokaluk writes "my heroe [sic] is mother earth with out her we all would be dead."
No doubt Mother Earth appreciates his efforts to finally clean up some of the dead wood that his fellow envirowackos wouldn't allow to be cleared, thus causing the fires to become so massive.
Islamofascism by Increments
They say if you put a frog in a pot and bring it slowly to a boil, it will fail to jump out to safety, unable to perceive the incremental rise in temperature. Until recently, Marxists used this concept as a guide to imposing socialism on America, although they have recently grown arrogant enough to slam a lid on the pot and crank the heat up. Muslims, on the other hand, are still imposing their will by increments:
A former FBI special agent told law enforcement and Homeland Security personnel that a network of Islamic organizations are working to incrementally implement Islamic law in the United States.
During a presentation at the Bedford County Emergency Management Agency, former FBI agent John Guandolo briefed members about groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood, which he claims is working with other Islamic groups to slowly implement Shariah, also known as Islamic law, which encompasses all areas of life.…
"They're having great success of implementing Shariah law, I could give you a thousand examples," Guandolo said.
He said small concessions like installing foot baths, and colleges forced to have separate swimming times for Islamic men and women so not to offend Muslims, are other parts of the strategy.
But Guandolo said that federal leadership is reluctant to act against these Islamic organizations due to political correctness and the threats of lawsuits.
He said that Muslim groups will demand concessions on matters by saying, "You have to do this; you have to do this or I will be offended."
Absurdly, the strategy works. There aren't that many Muslims in the USA, but there aren't that many communists either, yet the Porkzilla bill driving a knife through the heart of economic freedom went through Washington like grease through a goose.
Guandolo now works with Stephen Coughlin "to advise leaders at the federal level and also brief local law enforcement about the Islamic threat at home." Coughlin used to be the Islamic Expert for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but was fired for complaining that the leftist bureaucracy deliberately blocked his attempts to alert us to the tendrils of Islamofascism spreading through the country.
For a glimpse of where this is leading, look across the Atlantic, where the head of the Church of England triumphantly crows that shariah is coming to Britain.
On tips from Al C and Conservigilant.
Putin Warns Us Not to Sink Any Deeper Into Socialism
Hopey Change has taken us down the rabbit hole and through the looking glass, into a Jabberwocky world where a Russian strongman warns America to preserve what's left of its economic liberty. Vladimir Putin at the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland:
Although additional protectionism will prove inevitable during the crisis, all of us must display a sense of proportion.
Excessive intervention in economic activity and blind faith in the state's omnipotence is another possible mistake.
True, the state's increased role in times of crisis is a natural reaction to market setbacks. Instead of streamlining market mechanisms, some are tempted to expand state economic intervention to the greatest possible extent.
The concentration of surplus assets in the hands of the state is a negative aspect of anti-crisis measures in virtually every nation.
In the 20th century, the Soviet Union made the state's role absolute. In the long run, this made the Soviet economy totally uncompetitive. This lesson cost us dearly. I am sure nobody wants to see it repeated.
If Putin is so sure of that, he hasn't been studying up on the Cloward-Piven Marxists now in charge of our government.
He's right to worry on our behalf. As the Democrat campaign to replace liberty with socialism brings our economy down, the world economy is going with it.
Hat tip: Gateway Pundit; on a tip from Gregory of Yardale.
SF Budgets to Be Cut, But Not for Bums or Illegals
California's profligate spending has pushed government to the edge of bankruptcy, finally forcing some cuts in unnecessary services. In accordance with liberal "values," cuts will target those politically incorrect enough to provide their own shelter or speak English. From San Fransicko:
Mayor Newsom has asked the Department of Public Health to come up with $100 million in cuts to help the city bridge its $576 million budget deficit. And the Health Commission wants its say.
Today the group is expected to approve a three-page, single-spaced list of "Principles to Guide Budget Reductions" and is asking staff to explain how each cut jibes with the guidelines.
One section is a little controversial. The commission wants to prioritize services for "the homeless over the housed" and "those whose first language is not English."
Jim Illig, president of the commission, said it is essential that health programs for non-English speakers remain intact — even if it means services for English speakers are cut.
All animals are equal, but derelicts and the hordes of illegal aliens overwhelming California are more equal.
The Real Che Guevara
In light of Hollyweird having excreted yet another hagiography of Fidel Castro's sociopathic executioner, Moonbattery is honored to present a guest editorial by Dr. Douglas Young, Professor of Political Science and History at Gainesville State College in Gainesville, Georgia:
Hollywood has dutifully churned out yet another cinematic agitprop paean to a leftist "martyr," this time Ernesto Guevara. So let's recall the real "Che" and try to discern why many supposedly democratic, civil libertarian liberals still swoon over this Stalinist mass-murderer.
The meticulous myth of Senor Guevara is of a handsome Argentine heroically helping Fidel Castro's guerrillas liberate Cuba from Fulgencio Batista's military dictatorship in 1959. Then he became a global revolutionary icon inspiring the downtrodden to rise up everywhere, even personally leading rebel warriors in the Congo before being executed doing the same in Bolivia in 1967. The (communist) party line says Che personifies the selfless humanitarian courageously fighting for "social justice." He's the Marxists' martyred Christ figure replete with pictures of his half-naked corpse riddled with bullet holes. And the classic poster of an angry young Guevara has scarred countless college dorm rooms for over 40 years, putting a face on the eternally young rebel for angry adolescents everywhere.
Moonbat Pietà.
The real Guevara was a reckless bourgeois adrenaline-junkie seeking a place in history as a liberator of the oppressed. But this fanatic's vehicle of "liberation" was Stalinism, named for Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, murderer of well over 20 million of his own people. As one of Castro's top lieutenants, Che helped steer Cuba's revolutionary regime in a radically repressive direction. Soon after overthrowing Batista, Guevara choreographed the executions of hundreds of Batista officials without any fair trials. He thought nothing of summarily executing even fellow guerrillas suspected of disloyalty and shot one himself with no due process.
Che was a purist political fanatic who saw everything in stark black and white. Therefore he vociferously opposed freedoms of religion, speech, press, assembly, protest, or any other rights not completely consistent with his North Korean-style communism. How many rock music-loving teens sporting Guevara t-shirts today know their hero supported Cuba's 1960s' repression of the genre? How many homosexual fans know he had gays jailed?
Did the Obama volunteers in that Texas campaign headquarters with Che's poster on the wall know that Guevara fervently opposed any free elections? How "progressive" is that?
At Obama's Houston campaign office.
How socially just was it that Che was enraged when the Russians blinked during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis and withdrew their nuclear missiles from the island, thus averting a nuclear war? Guevara was such a zealous ideologue that he relished the specter of millions of Cuban lives sacrificed on the altar of communism, declaring Cuba "a people ready to sacrifice itself to nuclear arms, that its ashes might serve as a basis for new societies." Some humanitarian.
Che was a narcissist who boasted that "I have no house, wife, children, parents, or brothers; my friends are friends as long as they think like me, politically." This is a role model for today's "post-political" voters claiming we should get beyond partisanship?
Adding to the ridiculousness of the Che cult is that he was virtually a complete failure. As a medical doctor, he never even had a practice. When put in charge of the Cuban economy at the start of Castro's government, his uncompromising communist diktats ran it completely into the ground, from which it never recovered. Humiliated, and also angry that Castro wasn't fomenting enough revolution abroad, he then tried to lead such quixotic adventures in Argentina, the Congo, and Bolivia, failing miserably everywhere while sacrificing the lives of scores of naive, idealistic young followers as deluded pawns in the service of his personality cult.
Another reason he fled Cuba in the mid-1960s was the complete mess he made of his private life. Though he preached sexual purity to his colleagues, he was a shameless adulterer who abandoned two wives and many children, some legitimate, others not. As a grandson put it, "he was never home." The public Che who supposedly had such great love for humanity privately couldn't stand most folks.
Guevara's promiscuous communist adventurism was the pattern of a terminal adolescent running away from his problems to get caught up in some heroic crusade against his eternal bete noir, "Yankee imperialism."
So why do so many well-heeled American libs still admire this thug? Are the young simply ignorant of his execrable record and drawn to the image of the dashing young rebel? Do older progressives feel guilt for their free market prosperity, and showing solidarity with Che absolves them? Do hippies-turned-yuppies get nostalgic for their youthful protests and rationalize that the symbolism of Che as a "social reformer" eclipses his actual horrific human rights record? And are some American Guevaraistas truly dangerous leftists who seek to emulate their icon and destroy our free, democratic, capitalist society? Ask that guy wearing the Che t-shirt.
Save the Earth: Ban Water
This Penn & Teller classic is good for another round of laughs:
Obamunists unwittingly indicate the economic benefit of the "stimulus" package. On a tip from J.
The Dow responds to Chairman Zero signing the economic suicide pact that the media insists on referring to as a "stimulus" package:
Every time this Marxist uncaps his pen or opens his mouth, $billions of wealth are erased on the stock market. His election may surpass the Civil War to become the most expensive disaster in American history.
Compliments of Matt L.
An Ominous Knifing in China
Dissident Chinese blogger Xu Lia has been knifed:
Xu Lai, the writer behind Pro-State in Flames, was speaking at the One Way Street bookshop in Beijing on Saturday afternoon when he was attacked, the Southern Metropolis Daily reported. He had been speaking for a couple of hours and was answering questions when a fracas erupted.
His wife said that two men forced Xu Lai into the men's toilet. She chased after them and found that one was holding a vegetable knife and the other a dagger. The men escaped, leaving Xu Lai on the ground with a cut to his stomach.
Why would anyone want to stab Xu Lai?
Mr Xu is famous for his biting and often sarcastic style in commenting on social and political issues. … His blog is believed to carry many entries penned by other contributors.
Blogs are extremely popular in China, where newspapers are heavily censored. Cyberspace police patrol the internet, swiftly closing sites deemed too risqué, but they remain the most important medium for self-expression in China.
Cristy Li is right to wonder what the Chinese government might know about the stabbing. As she notes, the Chicoms have been cracking down on free speech online. She also notes that our current crop of power-drunk Democrats aren't fans of free speech either, as demonstrated by their increasingly open plans to censor conservative radio, and asks,
Can the Internet be far away? How long will it be before Dems in Congress take a page from China and begin blocking access to websites they don't approve of?
Henry "Phantom of the Congress" Waxman answers her questions:
Senior FCC staff working for acting Federal Communications Commissioner Michael Copps held meetings last week with policy and legislative advisers to House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman to discuss ways the committee can create openings for the FCC to put in place a form of the "Fairness Doctrine" without actually calling it such.
Waxman is also interested, say sources, in looking at how the Internet is being used for content and free speech purposes. … Copps has been a supporter of putting in place policies that would allow the federal government to have greater oversight over the content that TV and radio stations broadcast to the public, and both the FCC and Waxman are looking to licensing and renewal of licensing as a means of enforcing "Fairness Doctrine" type policies without actually using the hot-button term "Fairness Doctrine." …
The House Energy and Commerce Committee is also looking at how it can put in place policies that would allow it greater oversight of the Internet. "Internet radio is becoming a big deal, and we're seeing that some web sites are able to control traffic and information…," says one committee staffer. "We're at very early stages on this, but the chairman has made it clear that oversight of the Internet is one of his top priorities."
A Democrat committee member illustrates why you should never ever take government cheese, even on the rare occasions that it tastes good:
Thanks to the stimulus package, we've established that broadband networks — the Internet — are critical, national infrastructure. We think that gives us an opening to look at what runs over that critical infrastructure.
That is, the Internet belongs to Big Brother, so Big Brother will determine what can be said over it.
In typical Orwellian style, liberals funded by the sinister George Soros are pretending that their radio/Internet censorship plans are the opposite of censorship:
Also involved in "brainstorming" on [the] Fairness Doctrine and online monitoring has been the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, which has published studies pressing for the Fairness Doctrine, as well as the radical MoveOn.org, which has been speaking to committee staff about policies that would allow them to use their five to six million person database to mobilize complaints against radio, TV or online entities they perceive to be limiting free speech or limiting opinion.
If pulling the plug on Rush and Drudge doesn't silence opposition, it shouldn't be hard to find Obamunist thugs willing to pull a knife in the men's room.
Xu Lai may have paid the price for blogging in a country run by leftists.
On tips from Cristy Li and Cheetah. Hat tip: Free Republic.
Global Warming Gastronomic Guilt Meter
Since global warming is not real, there's no reason your lunch couldn't be the cause of it. To see just how much harm your hamburger will inflict on the put-upon polar bears, check out the Eat Low Carbon Diet Calculator, which adds up the CO2 demerits you earn by eating.
It's the moonbat equivalent of a calculator that determines how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, with of course plenty of neurotic guilt thrown in. Once again we see that no one could outdo liberals when it comes to creating parodies of the liberal point of view.
Incredibly, this appears to be on the level.
On a tip from suitepotato.
Children Taught to Pray to Obama
In a brainwashing project that ought to tug on liberal heartstrings, schoolchildren have been encouraged to address prayers to Chairman Zero. A touching example:
I would appreciate it if you would try to make this a greener planet and try to bring home the troops and end the war. I am very luckey because I am not part of a military family, but it saddens me to hear about all the people who die in Iraque and know that somewhere In the world people are greiving over a lost family member.
It looks like our public schools are succeeding in their mission of cranking out a new generation of Democrats.
Here's one in the spirit of famous Obamamites Henrietta Hughes and Julio the Beggar:
Dear Mr. Obama. Please Make it rain candy!
Behind the project is the NEA, the bloated, hard left teachers union that can be sure the Moonbat Messiah will answer all its Marxist prayers.
USA Today could hardly contain its gushing tone in reporting this nauseating story, which triumphantly concludes:
Another child drew Obama as the "new sunrise of America." One made Earth and labeled it "Obamaland," and still another created the president's face as half dark and half light skin tones with the words: "United We Are One."
Sasha's drawing is an all-green globe. Her enthusiasm for Obama and his ability to get the job done speaks volumes: "I just think he's really, really awesome."
Helen Thomas wouldn't lay on her makeup this heavily.
Another Obamamite rolls down the NEA's assembly line.
On a tip from MP.
Obama Anagrams
What's in a name? Via Free Republic, here are some of the names found in "President Obama" using an anagram generator:
It Namedrops Abe
Snob Made Pirate
A Tribesman Dope
A TARP Monies Bed
Diaper Men Boast
A Pained Mobster
Snob Team Diaper
Bandmaster Opie
Inert Samba Dope
Animals Aren't People After All
According to his owners, a chimpanzee named Travis
was toilet trained, dressed himself, took his own bath, ate at the table and drank wine from a stemmed glass. He also brushed his teeth using a Water Pik, logged onto the computer to look at pictures, and watched television using the remote control.
But despite his sophisticated ways, Travis has come to a bad end.
An out-of-control pet chimpanzee attacked a woman inside a Stamford home, police said. The animal severely tore up the 55-year-old woman's face. She was taken to Stamford Hospital with very severe wounds. She was in critical condition. The 200-pound ape was named Travis. The victim was a guest of Travis's owners, who called police after the attack, according to the AP.
A source told Fox 5's Lisa Evers that Travis may have been rattled and didn't recognize the victim because she had changed her hair color.
When police arrived, the chimp went after the officers. He opened a police car's door and cornered an officer, who shot the ape numerous times.
Travis retreated to the house and died of his wounds.
There's a lesson in this story somewhere.
On tips from Wiggins and nancz.
Taking the Adult Out of Adult Beverages
According to the Nanny State, there could be no such thing as an adult beverage, because we are all children to be supervised closely. In "Live Free or Die" New Hampshire, a new law has been proposed that would prevent restaurants from serving more than one drink per hour and four drinks per sitting to a customer.
Courts will soon rule on whether the clock starts when you order the drink or when you're served, and whether it counts as a new sitting if you move to a different table.
Next will come regulations to ensure that you don't swallow your drink too quickly.
Obama Coins as Fake as the Moonbat Messiah
Bad news for Obamorabila collectors:
You may have seen the commercial where Montel Williams hawks some goofy collectible coins with President Obama's face IN FULL COLOR OMG. If you were planning on ordering some, though, watch this video from KATU 2 TV in Portland, Oregon first. A father and daughter bought the coins and discovered that they're just regular money with color stickers applied. One of the news anchors even comments that she could see the face on the coin through the sticker when she looked at it from the side.
But then, since they are tributes to Obama, the coins wouldn't be genuine if they weren't fake.
Today Chairman Zero is scheduled to sign the USA's economic death warrant in Denver at a cost of $30,000 to each American family. Anyone in the area who would rather spend their own money than have Big Government do it is invited to join Michelle Malkin on the west steps of the State Capitol at noon. Bring your own 4-foot-wide check for $30,000 made out to the looting parasites in Washington. More at Slapstick Politics.
Tomorrow The Anointed One will be at Dobson High School in Mesa to hype the porkulus outrage and bask in adulation. In the spirit of Julio the Beggar and Henrietta Hughes, protestors are encouraged to bring signs asking BHO for whatever handouts their hearts desire. More at KFYI.
Quietly accepting what liberals are doing to this country is not an option.
Compliments of Gary B.
Replacement Found for Nahoul the Terrorist Bee
Palestinians have replaced Nahoul the Terrorist Bee, who in turn took the place of psychotic Mickey Mouse knockoff Farfour the Jew-Hating Rodent. With Chairman Zero spending millions of our dollars to import Palestinians, I wonder if this CAIR bear will be coming over:
Hat tips: Israellycool, Hot Air; on a tip from AC.
Bat-Faced Congresscreep: FDR Didn't Spend Enough
These Marxist saboteurs really do plan to bankrupt the country à la Cloward-Piven. Here Rep. Henry Waxman of Beverly Hills explains that the reason the Depression dragged on until WWII stopped it is not that FDR paralyzed the economy with his ham-fisted socialism, but that he didn't spend enough:
It could never be enough. When Porkzilla flops, far from being chastised, Dems will demand we spend even more. The inevitable collapse could come before the 2010 elections.
On a tip from Kevin R.
Four Years Is a Long Time
Great artwork by Hugh — seen here first, by the way.
Harry Potter and the Ziono-Hollyweird Conspiracy
When it comes to ignorance and extravagant paranoia, even Keith Olbermann would be challenged to outdo Iranian propaganda:
Governmedia Sets Sights on Hamburgers
Enjoy hamburgers while you can. The media proclaims that they cause global warming — inevitably a prelude to legal restrictions.
Hamburgers are allegedly the "Hummers of food" largely because of the environmental menace of bovine flatulence. Authorities have decided that livestock accounts for 18% of the greenhouse gas emissions that have made for such a sweltering winter. We are told that eating meat more than once a week is an unnecessary luxury that damages the planet. Also, we should stop consuming dairy products.
When our current government's Cloward-Piven economic policies reduce us to a diet of mush, at least we'll know it's for the good of the polar bears.
Something else liberals want to take away from us.
On a tip from nancz.
Prince Charles Embarks on a 16,000-Mile Global Warming Crusade — By Private Jet
With the situation looking so bleak for Western Civilization, we could all use a little laugh — so the Prince of Wales may be good for something after all. The latest chuckle from Charles:
Prince Charles was accused of hypocrisy last night for using a private jet on an 'environmental' tour of South America.
The prince will travel to the region next month in a visit costing an estimated £300,000 as part of his crusade against global warming.
He will use a luxury airliner to transport himself, the Duchess of Cornwall and a 14-strong entourage to Chile, Brazil and Ecuador on a 16,400-mile round trip.
Aides insist that Prince Chucklehead will offset his emissions — possibly meaning that the taxpayer will also be on the hook for a bottle of Beano.
Prince Chuckles has an emissions problem.
Paterson Secretly Showers Taxpayer Money on Staffers
No wonder New York's unelected governor has to tax everything conceivable — even including porn downloads:
Gov. Paterson has secretly granted raises of as much as 46 percent to more than a dozen staffers at a time when he has asked 130,000 state workers to give up 3 percent pay hikes because of the state's fiscal crisis, The Post has learned.
The startling pay hikes, costing about $250,000 annually, were granted after the governor's "emergency" declaration in August of a looming fiscal crisis that required the state to cut spending and impose a "hard" hiring freeze.
One raise was approved as recently as last month — when Paterson claimed the budget deficit had reached an unprecedented $15.5 billion. …
Disclosure of the secret pay hikes comes as Paterson is under attack for spending well over $20,000 in state funds on a four-day stay for himself and several aides during President Obama's inaugural last month, and for planning a state-funded junket to Davos, Switzerland, which he canceled only after his plans became public.
Paterson, in his budget proposal outlined in December, demanded that state workers who belong to the Civil Service Employees Association and the Public Employee Federation forgo negotiated, 3 percent pay hikes that would kick in April 1 or face massive layoffs.
They say that just as capitalism is the unequal distribution of wealth, socialism is, as Winston Churchill put it, "the equal sharing of misery." But when it comes to Party insiders, George Orwell was correct that "some animals are more equal than others."
On tips from Jacob C and Wiggins.
Sales to the New York Times must have been brisk on Valentine's Day. Via Kabuki Shojo, on a tip from Matt L.
Obama Spending $Millions to Import Palestinians
Your tax dollar is hard at work, importing Palestinian victims of Israeli aggression so that we can set up our own Gaza Strips. From the office of the Moonbat Messiah:
Memorandum for the Secretary of State
By the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, including section 2(c)(1) of the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962 (the "Act"), as amended (22 U.S.C. 2601), I hereby determine, pursuant to section 2(c)(1) of the Act, that it is important to the national interest to furnish assistance under the Act in an amount not to exceed $20.3 million from the United States Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund for the purpose of meeting unexpected and urgent refugee and migration needs, including by contributions to international, governmental, and nongovernmental organizations and payment of administrative expenses of Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration of the Department of State, related to humanitarian needs of Palestinian refugees and conflict victims in Gaza.
If Palestinians would elect Hamas, they should be a highly reliable Democrat constituency — especially once they get their mouths on the teat of the recently supercharged welfare state. Why should Israelis have all the thrill and excitement of watching suicide bombers go off on crowded streets?
On a tip from Randy M.
RFC Radio
The next step in the liberal march toward totalitarianism, after crushing our economy under unsustainable debt with the porkulus package, will be driving conservatives off the radio. Fortunately we will still have the Internet, where new venues for countermoonbattery appear every day. For example, RFC Radio launches today at noon Eastern.
Here's how the folks at RFC describe themselves:
We are the biggest, baddest Liberty-minded Internet radio station on the planet. We've got 24/7 streaming News, Rock and Talk. Listen while you browse our website, surf the 'net, check email, clean your gun, write an angry letter to your congressman, or blog on your own conservative or libertarian site.
Our Mission is to Rock!! and "boost the signal" in and between conservative and libertarian camps. We also aim to bust the Rich/Boring/Grumpy/Old White Men conservative stereotype. (This ain't yer Grandpa's radio station!!)
RFC Rock is collected from the albums of the greatest rockers of all time. Most of our play list is hard and classic rock. Some is alternative; some is borderline pop; none is lame. Crank it.
RFC Talk is an eclectic mix of conservative and/or libertarian perspectives. We've got broadcasts, micro-podcasts, interview forums, panel discussions, and guest appearances by conservative pundits, authors, and activists. We've got some Names — and some Newbies. There's something for everyone — and not everything will be everyone's personal cup o' tea. Check out the Show Schedule and figure it out.
RFC News is gathered from our station Affiliates and trusted sources on the blogosphere.
Sounds like it could be worth checking out. Enjoy it before Hope & Change turn the Internet into public television.
Now Chavez Can Be President for Life
Obama's Venezuelan prototype is now potentially dictator for life:
President Hugo Chavez says a referendum victory that removed limits on his re-election is a mandate to intensify his socialist agenda for decades to come. Opponents warn of an impending dictatorship. …
With the courts, the legislature and the election council all under his influence, and now with no limits on his re-election, officials say Chavez is virtually unstoppable.
"Effectively this will become a dictatorship," opposition leader Omar Barboza told The Associated Press. "It's control of all the powers, lack of separation of powers, unscrupulous use of state resources, persecution of adversaries."
Closer to home, Dem Congresscreep Jose Serrano has already begun efforts to repeal the 22nd Amendment, so that the Moonbat Messiah might guide us into socialism forever and ever.
However, Hopey Change may encounter some resistance in Venezuela:
"Chavez's intention is clear: He aspires to be president for life," said Michael Shifter of the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington. "He is convinced he embodies the popular will and is indispensable to the country's progress. But his capacity to pull this off is far from assured."
He said the global financial crisis and the plunging price of oil, which accounts for 94 percent of Venezuela's exports and nearly half its federal budget, will limit Chavez's ability to maintain the level of public spending that has fueled his popularity.
Likewise, the obscene orgy of public spending in Washington will be brought down to earth by economic realities. The Dems are counting on their control of the media to deflect the blame for the disaster they have made inevitable with Porkzilla — but the public may not be as stupid as our rulers assume.
Serrano brown-nosing Chavez.
On tips from gomergirl and Name.
Looter Suing Wal-Mart Still Shops There
Wal-Mart's prices are so good that just because the company is so negligent that you can't go into the garden center without getting bitten by a snake is no reason to stop shopping there.
A 42-year-old man bitten by a snake in a Pembroke Pines Wal-Mart garden center is suing the company for negligence.
Jay Richitelli says he is the third Floridian in three years to be attacked in a Wal-Mart by a pygmy rattler. … But he's been back to Wal-Mart several times, saying their prices are too good to shop elsewhere.
But if his suit is successful, Richitelli will be doing his shopping at Neiman Marcus — while the rest of us pay a little more at Wal-Mart to finance his fortune.
Homeless by Choice
Henrietta Hughes, the archetypal Obamunist, was showered with cash and given a free home after she bleated to The Anointed One that she wanted the government to give her a kitchen. Now it turns out that if Henrietta was homeless, it was by choice:
At President Obama's town hall meeting in Fort Myers on Tuesday, Henrietta Hughes stood up and told the President she has been homeless since 2003 and can't find a job.
She also says she's reach a dead end with government assistance and none of the local charity agencies will help.
However, a local organization is coming forward saying Hughes isn't being honest about how much help she's had in the past.
The director of We Care Outreach Ministry, Tanya Johnson, says just last month she offered Henrietta Hughes permanent housing and a place to stay free for three months, but Hughes refused.
"We would have allowed her to stay for the first 90 days, no income. You know free," said Tanya Johnson.
We Care Outreach Ministry is a faith based organization in Fort Myers.
Johnson says she also gave Henrietta and her son Corey, money, food and offered Corey job training courses, but it was refused.
"We have extended a lot of her services to her," Johnson said.
Despite being "homeless" since 2003, Henrietta and her son sold property for $47,000 in 2005.
Yet we're being asked to give up the economic freedom that enabled this country to become what it is so that shuffling herds of Henriettas can be spared from having to look for a job.
Henrietta Hughes, Obama prop.
On tips from baldeagle390 and Viking04.
Celebrating Multicultural Diversity in Buffalo
In case you blinked and missed the MSM's coverage of this latest example of festive multicultural diversity:
Orchard Park police are investigating a particularly gruesome killing, the beheading of a woman, after her husband — an influential member of the local Muslim community — reported her death to police Thursday.
Police identified the victim as Aasiya Z. Hassan, 37. Detectives have charged her husband, Muzzammil Hassan, 44, with second-degree murder. …
Muzzammil Hassan is the founder and chief executive officer of Bridges TV, which he launched in 2004, amid hopes that it would help portray Muslims in a more positive light.
Aasiya had filed for divorce, so from the Mohammedan point of view, she probably had it coming. Move along, nothing to see here.
On tips from Lyle, AC, puffdaddy, and Antara.
Conyers Goes After Sheriff Joe
Members of the previous administration aren't the only ones the corrupt leftist thug and Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee John Conyers wants taken to task for countermoonbattery. Now he's after Joe Arpaio, the Arizona sheriff who has heroically stood up to liberal quislings as he defends the Phoenix area from Mexican colonization.
Specifically, Arpaio is charged with racism, because being mainly Hispanic, the invaders he rounds up are above the laws of the white man. This is the equivalent of charging Douglas MacArthur with racism for fighting Asians.
Surprisingly, the federal government has actually allowed Arpaio to do his job and arrest the illegal aliens who are turning Phoenix into a war zone. But with Crappy Nappy Napolitano in charge of Homeland Security and Conyers whining to the skeevy pro-terrorist Attorney General about Sheriff Joe, this policy is unlikely to last.
The moonbats in charge are not fans of Sheriff Joe.
Cupcake Kookiness
Appropriately, the image above is made out of cupcakes. Next they'll make one out of Cheez Doodles equating Obama with Jesus.
On a tip from gomergirl.
Yngwie Malmsteen Gets It
Guitar virtuoso Yngwie Malmsteen on why Obamunists can keep the change:
Where are people going to go for the opportunity to achieve their capabilities when Democrats have succeeded at turning America into Sweden?
For The Anointed One slowed the rise of the oceans. Compliments of Diversity Lane.
Obamunist "Transparency"
This gives an idea of how determined Democrats were to ram through the obscene Porkzilla package before anyone could find out what was in it:
Democratic staffers released the final version of the stimulus bill at about 11 p.m. [Thursday] night after delaying the release for hours to put it into a format which people cannot "search" on their home computers.
Instead of publishing the bill as a regular internet document -- which people can search by "key words" and otherwise, the Dems took hours to convert the final bill from the regular searchable format into "pdf" files, which can be read but not searched.
Three of the four .pdf files had no text embedded, just images of the text, which did not permit text searches of the bill.
Dems knew that no one would have time to wade through over 1,000 pages of nearly unintelligible bureaucratese in time for the vote on Friday. They may as well have released the bill in Sanskrit.
On a tip from Air2air.
Phoenix Chaos Goes Federal
As a result of Governor Janet "Crappy Nappy" Napolitano's politically correct refusal to defend the Arizona border from incursion, Phoenix is now the Number 2 city in the world for the Mexican national pastime, kidnapping, behind only Mexico City.
The good news is that at long last Nappy the Crapster is out of here, and with a responsible governor, we may be able to reassert control of the border, even without federal help. The bad news: Nappy was The Anointed One's preposterous choice to head homeland security.
On a tip from AC.
Pork for Vermin
Power-hungry socialist bureaucrats aren't the only ones to benefit from the $trillion porkulus outrage. There's also the salt marsh harvest mouse, a denizen of Speaker Nazi Pelousy's neighborhood. Porkzilla
includes $30 million for wetlands restoration that the Obama administration intends to spend in the San Francisco Bay Area to protect, among other things, the endangered salt marsh harvest mouse.
No doubt all that extra cash in the pockets of mice will do wonders to stimulate the economy.
Compliments of Dave K.
Obamoney
Once the current Cloward-Piven spending spree has reduced the value of the dollar to nothing, we'll be needing new currency:
Via The People's Cube, on a tip from Burning Hot.
Obamunist Partisanship Suppresses Airworthiness Directives
Given the tragic crash in Buffalo Thursday night, this might be a good time to reflect on the potentially high price of the fanatical partisanship characterizing the regime in Washington. Aircraft operators must constantly stay abreast of FAA Airworthiness Directives, which warn them of urgent safety issues. But lately there have been no ADs. From Aero-News.net:
A White House memo appears to be the reason why we haven't seen any new airworthiness directives issued by the FAA over the past several weeks.
The Wall Street Journal reports a memo signed by White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel on January 20 directed all federal agencies to freeze any pending regulations that originated during the Bush administration… until they could be reviewed by the new sheriffs in town.
In addition to holding off decisions on such political footballs as new mining and drilling standards, the rule also prevented the FAA from issuing any new ADs over a two-week period.
FAA spokeswoman Laura Brown said the memo left the FAA's authority in limbo… Richard Williams of Denver-based Aviation DataSource Inc. notes previous changeovers between presidential administrations never affected the FAA… but "[t]his time, they managed to stop the FAA bureaucracy dead in its tracks."
No doubt they've done the same for our antiterror defenses.
Sure enough, the FAA site reveals there have been no new Airworthiness Directives since January 23.
But party control is what matters, not the insignificant lives of the little people.
Tragedy in Buffalo.
Death by a Thousand Sitcoms
America never could have been reduced to allowing its current leadership if leftists hadn't used their control of the media to steadily corrode our culture for decades. Because Christianity has traditionally served as a bulwark against the authoritarian socialist ideology advanced by moonbats, it is a frequent target of media ridicule, as typified by a recent episode of the moronic sitcom 30 Rock.
Alec Baldwin's character grudgingly attends a Catholic mass in an attempt to get a Hispanic girl into bed. During the service he mocks the Lord's Prayer and makes fun of Catholics for having so many babies, presumably because they don't have the good sense to abort them. Then comes confession, during which he tells the cartoonishly hapless priest to "can it," and then taunts him about sex until the priest suffers a breakdown and runs screaming from the confessional.
Naturally Baldwin gets the girl in the end.
By making this childishly sacrilegious attitude all but ubiquitous, Gramscian lefties have reduced the mainstream culture to a spiritual vacuum, which they are now attempting to fill with the Cult of the Moonbat Messiah — some with less subtlety than others. Via RedState, this photo was taken in the children's section of a Borders bookstore in Dallas:
At least now we have a religion sitcoms won't ridicule.
On tips from Michael C and V the K.
Moonbat Valentine's Day Cards
More at Right Wing News.
The Pile of Paper That Destroyed America
It wasn't a stimulus package or even a spending package. It was a socialist coup.
Waste Not Want Not
You only need to watch the first 12 seconds; the rest is duckspeak:
"You never want a serious crisis go to waste," says Obama's Chief Henchman Rahm "Dead Fish" Emanuel, the skeevy lowlife who will be in charge of fabricating numbers for our next census.
To really get the most out of a crisis, you need to make it worse — as bad as possible — for example, by flushing away $1 trillion on frivolous pork during a recession. Once you've made the crisis bad enough, you can impose almost anything.
On a tip from David B.
Take 2: Cotton Eye Joker. Compliments of Cheesecake.
Why Porkulus Must Be Voted on Before Anyone Can Read It
Congresscritters will not be getting 48 hours to leaf through the 1,071-page final version of the unreadable $790 billion (not counting interest) Porkzilla power grab as promised. Even Dem Senator Frank Loutenberg, I mean Lautenberg, admits that none of his colleagues will have a chance to read it. But there's a good reason to force an immediate vote: Queen Nancy is jetting off to Europe today.
Unfortunately, she plans to come back.
Queen Nancy will take to the skies once again.
Despite all the menacing Hopey Change in the air, some things remain the same. This cartoon is from 1956:
Liberals Outraged Over Crucifixes at Catholic University
The liberal campaign to eradicate Christianity is becoming surreal. A brouhaha has erupted at Boston College, the world's highest ranked Catholic university, over crucifixes in the classrooms.
Squeaks a moonbat professor:
Such symbols … represents a bias towards one way of thinking, elevates one set of ideals above others, honors one group of people in preference to the rest without any meaningful discussion or elaboration.
Screeches another:
Not only can such symbols be insulting to those who do not consider themselves Christians, it can be offensive to Christians as well. Taking umbrage by such symbols has nothing to do with the identity of one's faith. It is about whether symbols that represent a specific branch of beliefs have a place in the scared space of a classroom where we are to teach the students to think independently and do all we can to be unbiased. … Such displays are insulting to me as a teacher/scholar.
The "unbiased" teacher/scholar then thumped his sunken chest and proclaimed that "I would not and most definitely will not" teach in a classroom with a crucifix.
Did I mention that Boston College is a Catholic institution? Next they'll demand the removal of Bibles from churches.
On a tip from Bernie D.
Who Helped Enviromoonbats Cause the Massive Australian Bushfires?
Moonbats have rightly been held accountable by the public for the severe bushfire situation in Australia:
During question time at a packed community meeting in Arthurs Creek on Melbourne's northern fringe, Warwick Spooner — whose mother Marilyn and brother Damien perished along with their home in the Strathewen blaze — criticised the Nillumbik council for the limitations it placed on residents wanting the council's help or permission to clean up around their properties in preparation for the bushfire season. "We've lost two people in my family because you dickheads won't cut trees down," he said. …
Bushfire expert David Packham explains that unless brush is cleared, "disastrous fires can and will occur." But the do-gooder enviroweenies running the government don't seem to care:
It has been a difficult lesson for me to accept that despite the severe damage to our forests and even a fatal fire in our nation's capital, the political decision has been to do nothing that will change the extreme threat to which our forests and rural lands are exposed.
The decision to ignore the threat has been encouraged by some shocking pseudo-science from a few academics who use arguments that may have a place in political discourse but should have no place in managing our environment and protecting it and us from the bushfire threat.
The conclusion of these academics is that high intensity fires are good for the environment and that the resulting mudslides after rains are merely localised and serve to redistribute nutrients. The purpose of this failed policy is to secure uninformed city votes.
Only a few expert retired fire managers, experienced bushies and some courageous politicians are prepared to buck the decision to lock up our bush and leave it to burn.
The politicians who willingly accept this rubbish use it to justify the perpetuation of the greatest threat to our forests, water supplies, homes and lives in order to secure a minority green vote. They continue to throw millions (and no doubt soon billions) at ineffective suppression toys, while the few foresters and bush people who know how to manage our public lands are starved of the resources they need to reduce fuel loads.
It is hard for me to see this perversion of public policy and to accept that the folk of the bush have lost their battle to live a safe life in a cared-for rural and forest environment, all because of the environmental fantasies of outraged extremists and latte conservationists.
In wreaking such devastating havoc, moonbats may have had help from their traditional allies. From an interesting article published last fall:
Australia has been singled out as a target for "forest jihad" by a group of Islamic extremists urging Muslims to deliberately light bushfires as a weapon of terror.
It's already known that arson has been involved in the fires, which have burned down whole towns and killed over 180 Australians. A suspect has been charged with lighting a wildfire near Churchill that killed 21. Authorities are keeping his identity secret, to protect the poor darling.
Police have issued this picture of a maniac wanted for starting an eight-acre blaze near Melbourne:
What would motivate the sociopaths who started these fires? We may never know, especially since any connection with Islam is likely to be suppressed by both the government and the media. But it would hardly be surprising if the fires turn out to be a devastating consequence of the unconscious synergy between the two greatest threats to Western Civilization: moonbattery and Islam.
On tips from mandible claw, gomergirl, and Burning Hot. Hat tip: Gateway Pundit.
There Won't Always Be an England — If Moonbats Have Their Way
Just as Americans have fireworks on the Fourth of July, the English celebrate their love of country with parades on Saint George's Day — unless bureaucrats forbid them.
England's biggest St George's Day parade is facing the axe after councillors said many of those attending it were racist.
For the last decade up to 15,000 have assembled in the town of West Bromwich under the slogan "Forever England, For Everyone."
Children and parents from all over the country parade through the Black Country town waving St George flags and marching to rousing anthems such as Jerusalem.
But no longer.
In a letter to the organisers, one councillor, Yvonne Davies, said the parade created an "unhealthy atmosphere" and inspired young boys to be racist.
She wrote: "It is not only the parade which is the problem, but the tribal excitement it creates."
Translated out of liberalese, this means the parade encourages the English to love England. We certainly can't have that, or they might get the idea of defending it from the moonbat–Muslim alliance that is systematically destroying it.
England's flag, the Cross of Saint George, is anathema to moonbats.
Hat tip: UP Pompeii, on a tip from Conservigilant.
The Book Burning Begins
If we are to bring about Change, we must erase our errant past — to protect the children, of course:
It's hard to believe, but true: under a law Congress passed last year aimed at regulating hazards in children's products, the federal government has now advised that children's books published before 1985 should not be considered safe and may in many cases be unlawful to sell or distribute. Merchants, thrift stores, and booksellers may be at risk if they sell older volumes, or even give them away, without first subjecting them to testing — at prohibitive expense. Many used-book sellers, consignment stores, Goodwill outlets, and the like have accordingly begun to refuse new donations of pre-1985 volumes, yank existing ones off their shelves, and in some cases discard them en masse.
The pretext is lead.
Not until 1985 did it become unlawful to use lead pigments in the inks, dyes, and paints used in children's books. Before then — and perhaps particularly in the great age of children's-book illustration that lasted through the early twentieth century — the use of such pigments was not uncommon, and testing can still detect lead residues in books today. This doesn't mean that the books pose any hazard to children. While lead poisoning from other sources, such as paint in old houses, remains a serious public health problem in some communities, no one seems to have been able to produce a single instance in which an American child has been made ill by the lead in old book illustrations — not surprisingly, since unlike poorly maintained wall paint, book pigments do not tend to flake off in large lead-laden chips for toddlers to put into their mouths.
The textbook example of nanny state Nazism known as the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 went into effect Tuesday. Reports bookstore owner Valorie Jacobsen:
Our bookstore is the sole means of income for our family, and we currently have over 7,000 books catalogued. In our children's department, 35 percent of our picture books and 65 percent of our chapter books were printed before 1985. … We cannot simply discard a wealth of our culture's nineteenth and twentieth children's literature over this. … I was willing to resist the censorship of 1984 and the Fire Department of Fahrenheit 451 long before I became a bookseller, so I'd love to run a black market in quality children's books — but at the same time it's not like the CPSC [Consumer Product Safety Commission] has never destroyed a small, harmless company before.
She had better obey:
Penalties under the law are strict and can include $100,000 fines and prison time, regardless of whether any child is harmed.
Next on the bonfire: all other books bureaucrats regard as potentially toxic. As our government proves with most every law it passes, bad ideas are much more of a hazard than trace amounts of lead.
Book burning: One of the few traditions moonbats won't oppose.
Brush With Doom
According to Rep Paul Kanjorski (D-PA), last September a run on money markets brought our economic system to within a few hours of absolute meltdown, which would have led to a global collapse within a day. At around 2:15, this video gets scary:
Bloomberg reports that something similar happened in Britain in October.
These days it's not easy to know what to believe, as Democrats attempt to panic the herd into submitting to the socialist power play currently underway in Washington. One thing is clear: we need to hold tight to our liberties, because economic chaos will increasingly be used as an excuse to snatch them away in the name of moonbat ideology that in the long run won't do us any more good than it did Russians.
Via TMFSinchiruna, on a tip from Randy M.
More Militant Moonbats Against Toy Guys
When logic isn't helping you push across your agenda, drag out some dead children. Warning: this moonbat propaganda is particularly tasteless.
Age of Obamination
Whether this is on the level, or a particularly vicious parody, I have no idea:
If the sound of your supper splashing into the wastebasket drowned out the words, Dan Cleary has the lyrics.
British concept of an adult toy.
Rasmussen: Public Is Aware That Congress Is Incompetent
It didn't take the Moonbat Messiah long to start sliding in opinion polls, but here's a poll liberals can take heart in: only 67% of us think we could do a better job ourselves than the Dems running Congress.
A surprising 19% believe corrupt socialist fools like Nazi Pelousy and Dingy Harry Reid know better than they do how to run the economy, over which the federal government now exerts command and control authority through hyper-regulation and targeted bailouts.
For now, only 44% "think a group of people selected at random from the phone book would do a better job addressing the nation's problems than the current Congress" — although 20% are undecided, and the Porkulus package will make up their minds, once its outrageous contents and catastrophic effects seep past the media.
More good news for Dems: only 58% agree that "no matter how bad things are, Congress can always find a way to make them worse."
Maybe the rulers of our kakistocracy don't need to worry about infuriated crowds closing in on their castle with torches and pitchforks — for another month or so.
Hopefully it won't be long.
On tips from mandible claw and Burning Hot.
Moonbats Quash a Store in San Francisco
According to the San Franfreakshow Comical,
It is too easy to make fun of the people who packed Room 400 in San Francisco's City Hall to stop American Apparel from opening a store on Valencia Street in the Mission District last week.
But let's make fun of them anyway — and everyone of their kind. It's the least we can do to repay them for making it impossible to do business in this country. Even the Comical is appalled:
They are not serious people. They live in a world where facts like 27 vacant storefronts on Valencia Street and 9.3 percent unemployment statewide and nearly 600,000 jobs lost nationally last month do not matter. The few who read books know no authors beyond Naomi Klein. They do not believe that the world has changed since the 1999 World Trade Organization protests in Seattle. This accounts for both the static nature of their vocabulary — "no formula retail!" is their death chant, though anyone who has picked up a newspaper in the last five months could tell you that there isn't a single retail establishment with a formula today — and the juvenile nature of their worldview. They do not want to see businesses be successful.
American Apparel pays immigrant labor over twice minimum wage to make clothes in Los Angeles. But it constitutes a chain store, so moonbats want it banned. They regard it as a "parasite" on their rotting urban "ecosystem." Those who would defend the capitalist exploiters received no quarter from SF's righteous liberals:
When a young man stood before the board and said that he only had health care because of his job at American Apparel, a voice in the overflow room called, "Get a job somewhere else!" Another employee told a story about a young Latino man who was able to send money to his family in Central America, and this news was met with sneers. An American Apparel representative told the board that he had gotten messages from people threatening to throw a brick through the store window, and the crowd laughed.
Don't bother asking liberals who they are going to tax if no one's allowed to run a business. They'll just tell you "the rich" have plenty of money.
Capitalist exploiters.
Britain Reduced to Begging Muslims Not to Attack
The sun has set on the British Empire after all. This once proud country has been reduced to running ads on Pakistani television, begging Muslim bullies to leave it alone on the grounds that Britain is becoming Islamized. The taxpayer is putting up £400,000 to finance the campaign.
If bureauweenies determine them to be successful, more money will be wasted running the humiliating ads in Egypt, Yemen, and Indonesia.
An alternate approach would be to stop letting Muslims colonize what's left of their country. But then they wouldn't be able to plead for protected dhimmi status.
Muslims at play on the streets of Britainistan.
Hat tip: Jihad Watch; on tips from SK and Burning Hot.
New York Times Stock Hits New Low
Not all the economic news is bad. Via NewsBusters, here's how stock in the New York Times has been trending:
No wonder Gray Lady Marxists hate economic freedom so much. The free market is about to finish off their fifth-column rag. The company has lost $200 million in value in just the last three months.
But $200 million is chump change when the taxpayer is footing the bill, and the Times has proven very adept at sucking Chairman Zero's toes. Maybe it's angling for a bailout. That's how businesses are run now.
Stay Classy, Moonbats
A 12-year-old girl makes an impassioned plea for liberals to stop butchering babies by the millions through abortion:
Our self-proclaimed moral superiors on the enlightened left responded — but their remarks had to be removed from YouTube, and comments for this video shut off:
We apologize for turning off the commenting functionality. This was not to stop genuine discussion or debate on the issue but was, rather, a response to the cowardly who used it as an opportunity to throw insults and threats at a young girl that they hated without reason. Thank-you to everyone who, whether in agreement or not, has responded in a respectful manner.
Some of the comments reportedly consisted of sexual abuse directed at the 12-year-old girl. Again we see that reasoning with progressives would be like trying to talk to a chimpanzee as it craps in its hand and flings it at you.
Hat tip: The Other McCain; on a tip from V the K.
Fortune in Tax Money Spent on Tasteless Statue
Hanoi John Kerry recently explained that the reason the government doesn't stimulate the economy by letting us keep our own hard-earned money so we'll have more of it to spend is that we may not spend it properly. Intones Lurch:
If you put a tax cut into the hands of a business or family, there's no guarantee that they're going to invest that or invest it in America. They're free to go invest anywhere that they want if they choose to invest.
Whereas the government spends our money much more wisely. For example:
Dogs do the darndest things.They poop, they hump and they sniff in all the wrong places.
And now you can see them do all of the above every time you cross the pedestrian bridge over Interstate 80 in Berkeley, Calif., thanks to the largesse of the taxpayers.
Artist Scott Donahue of Emeryville, Calif., was paid $196,000 by Berkeley's public arts program to create two large statues, which feature small, artistic medallions that show dogs doing what dogs do best.
"Various things," Donahue said. "Biting each other, chasing each other… One dog is defecating, two dogs are fornicating."
But with the country in a deep recession and California on the verge of bankruptcy, some taxpayers are questioning the money Donahue got for his work. His total budget was $196,000 — 1.5 percent of the total budget for building the pedestrian bridge. And all of it came from taxpayers.
Bailout money for California, which has spent itself to the brink of bankruptcy, is part of the Porkzilla package that just passed — so whether you live there or not, you paid for the pooping dog.
Government looters are stealing from us, our children, and our grandchildren by the $trillions. But at least they're preventing us from spending our money unwisely.
Government art.
On tips from Matt L, Burning Hot, and Wiggins.
Muslims Riot Over Ski Sticker
A Jewish Swede showed up at a ski resort in Kashmir, India with an Arabic sticker on his skis reading "In the name of Allah, the most beneficent, most merciful." He says his Muslim wife gave it to him for luck, and he put it on his equipment by accident.
Local Muslims weren't buying it. An irate mob nearly beat him. Protests over the sticker spilled over into a neighboring town, where they clashed with riot police. At last a cleric deigned to pardon him, and the mobs calmed down to wait for the next pretext to erupt.
Next time the Swede wants a sticker on his skis, it would be safer to go with John 3:16.
On a tip from Subrookie.
Henrietta Hughes Hits the Victimhood Jackpot
Jesus healed lepers and gave eyesight to the blind. But The Anointed One is asked to grant free kitchens. More from yesterday's spectacle in Fort Myers:
There is now a Henrietta Hughes website, where we learn that the mendicant Obamunist won't be needing federal freebies, because she has been showered with cash and even given a free house. Hard work can't hold a candle to victimhood these days.
The goal of the Democrat Party is to reduce us all to a herd of Henrietta Hugheses, blubbering victims slobbering on the shoes of bureaucrats as we beg for a handout. But we won't be getting free houses. To paraphrase Margaret Thatcher, eventually socialists run out of other people's money — even if they're willing to rob from future generations.
On tips from TED and Wiggins.
Via Country Store.
Cream Pies Needed in Detroit
That America's most liberal city has become an unlivable hellhole is hardly surprising, in light of the folks in charge of it. The latest episode:
Detroit City Council President Monica Conyers had to be restrained during a confrontation last week with Councilman Kwame Kenyatta in which she hurled insults at Kenyatta about his hearing aid, health and education. …
Sources who described the incident on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter said the Feb. 4 argument escalated after Conyers called Kenyatta stupid, following his insistence that she submit in writing her request to cut his budget.
When Kenyatta asked her what she said, Conyers responded he needed to learn how to talk to a woman.
Kenyatta shot back that when he was with a woman, he would do so. That prompted Conyers to yell at Kenyatta that he was stupid, citing his lack of a college degree, to tell him he "can't hear" — a dig at his hearing aid — and to try to rub in his face rumors that Kenyatta has cancer.
As at least one council staffer and a council security officer restrained Conyers while she tried to walk toward Kenyatta, he retorted that he hears just fine, doesn't have cancer and told her she needs help. Kenyatta made a report with the council's security unit about the incident, which took place in his office.
As Kenyatta observes, this is "classical Monica Conyers." She was involved in a bar fight right before taking office, and called the Council President "Shrek" during a council meeting. If this wasn't such a good time to be a moonbat in government, she might look into a career in professional wrestling.
As went Detroit, so goes America. Conyers is married to John Conyers, the very powerful Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, who has been making noise about throwing George Bush and members of his administration in jail, to the delight of the nutroots.
If only Conyers and Kenyatta had been armed with pies.
Economists Respond to Obamanomics
On January 9, Chairman Zero proclaimed the following:
There is no disagreement that we need action by our government, a recovery plan that will help to jumpstart the economy.
Economists have responded:
With all due respect Mr. President, that is not true.
Notwithstanding reports that all economists are now Keynesians and that we all support a big increase in the burden of government, we do not believe that more government spending is a way to improve economic performance. More government spending by Hoover and Roosevelt did not pull the United States economy out of the Great Depression in the 1930s. More government spending did not solve Japan's "lost decade" in the 1990s. As such, it is a triumph of hope over experience to believe that more government spending will help the U.S. today. To improve the economy, policy makers should focus on reforms that remove impediments to work, saving, investment and production. Lower tax rates and a reduction in the burden of government are the best ways of using fiscal policy to boost growth.
The list of economists signing the above statement is impressive. The next stimulus package had better include some variation of the Fairness Doctrine to shut these people up.
Obamanomics.
Obamunism in Nature
There's nothing unnatural about the strategy unions pursue against businesses and socialists like Obama are employing against America — as proven by the Emerald Cockroach Wasp:
When it comes time for the female wasp to lay her eggs, she finds a roach and stings it in a precise spot in the ganglia to reversibly paralyze its front legs, then stings it in a different spot to disable the escape reflex. She then chews off half the roach's antennae, and uses the stubs to lead the zombified roach around like a dog on a leash until they reach her burrow where she lays her eggs in its stomach, and buries it alive. The lobotomized roach then rests quietly while the baby inside of it hatches, and proceeds to systematically eat the roach's internal organs in a specific order that keeps it alive until the very end, at which point the new wasp finishes hollowing out the shell and emerges.
Media propaganda and terror of being called "racist" have disabled our escape reflex. Crushing the economy under massive government debt will metaphorically paralyze our legs. Those who actually voted for Obama are already being led around like dogs on a leash.
From the husk of a prideless, government-dependent generation will emerge a new swarm of socialist inflicters of Hope and Change.
Zombified roaches saluting a wasp, via Bucks Right.
Hat tip: Teh Resistance Blog, on a tip from Gregory of Yardale.
California Counties Ready to Revolt
Good thing the lefties running California will be getting a bailout at federal taxpayers' expense. Otherwise, their inept attempts to impose socialism on the erstwhile Golden State would likely result in a rebellion.
Enraged at being forced to spend fortunes they don't have on pernicious do-gooder programs, and at being forced to wait for funds to come back from the virtually bankrupt state, counties have been threatening to withhold money from Sacramento. One county is filing a lawsuit against the state. The problem is that the money to fund the extravagant social service programs that draw so many illegal aliens to California just isn't there.
At least it wasn't there, until Porkzilla passed. Now California can waste money expropriated from all over the country. Yet the media whines that it's still not enough.
On a tip from SK.
Our New Form of Government Has Worked Well in Zimbabwe
The $trillions our Democrat rulers are washing down the drain with their bailouts and pork packages make it clear they are perfectly willing to destroy the economy if that's what it takes to impose socialism. But if the ship goes down, they'll drown too, right?
Not necessarily. Race-based socialism has already been tried in Zimbabwe, and it's working out fine for the leadership, as evidenced by Robert Mugabe's coming birthday bash:
It is the 85th birthday of President Mugabe this month and the zealots of his Zanu (PF) party are determined that it should be an occasion that their great leader will never forget.
In recent days they have been out soliciting "donations" from corporate Zimbabwe and have drawn up a wish list that is scarcely credible in a land where seven million citizens survive on international food aid, 94 per cent are jobless and cholera rampages through a population debilitated by hunger.
The list includes 2,000 bottles of champagne (Moët & Chandon or '61 Bollinger preferred); 8,000 lobsters; 100kg of prawns; 4,000 portions of caviar; 8,000 boxes of Ferrero Rocher chocolates; 3,000 ducks; and much else besides. A postscript adds: "No mealie meal" — the ground corn staple on which the vast majority of Zimbabweans survived until the country's collapse rendered even that a luxury.
Why would any of the businesses still surviving in Zimbabwe want to donate? Because invitations to do so
were made by groups of youths from the 21st February Movement who were aggressive and threatening, and warned that they would make life difficult for the businesses if they did not stump up.
But Chairman Zero would never resort to such tactics — not when he could finance the bash with his next "stimulus" package. Americans won't be needing any mealie meal. We can eat Hope and Change.
Global Warming Causes Insanity
As the rise of the Moonbat Messiah makes clear, the world is going insane. What could be the cause? Since going mad is a bad thing, and Bush is out of office, there could only be one culprit: global warming.
"Climate change could have a real impact on our psyches," says Paul Epstein, the associate director for the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School.
According to establishment propagandists, the nonexistent global warming crisis causes not only all manner of natural disasters, but also emotional distress. On the last part, they're right:
Last year, an anxious, depressed 17-year-old boy was admitted to the psychiatric unit at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne. He was refusing to drink water. Worried about drought related to climate change, the young man was convinced that if he drank, millions of people would die. The Australian doctors wrote the case up as the first known instance of "climate change delusion."
Robert Salo, the psychiatrist who runs the inpatient unit where the boy was treated, has now seen several more patients with psychosis or anxiety disorders focused on climate change, as well as children who are having nightmares about global-warming-related natural disasters.
Global warming doesn't really make people crazy. But anecdotal evidence continues to suggest that belief in it does.
Obama Seizes Control of Census
If you thought blowing $1 trillion on liberal pork during a recession was audacious, try this: the White House has now seized control of the 2010 census, so that the numbers can be fudged to keep Democrats in control of Congress.
Chicago politics alumnus Rahm Emanuel, infamous for his bare-knuckle partisanship, now has responsibility for producing the desired census numbers. This will be done by using sampling to distort the actual population, under the farcical fig leaf of making sure sacred minorities aren't underrepresented. Look for the population of places like the South Bronx to explode as if by magic, requiring additional Congressional representation.
The next time Nazi Pelousy claims that 500 million American jobs will be lost for every month we don't do her bidding, she'll be able to back it up by pointing to the suddenly massive population of Detroit.
Fudging the census numbers not only facilitates congressional gerrymandering, but will assist Obama's reelection by affecting the Electoral College.
It will also help the regime to funnel goodies paid for by all of us to areas that support Obama. No doubt San Francisco will be found to need new infrastructure much more urgently than Provo.
Less than a month into this tragicomedy and it's already becoming clear that we will no longer be able to believe data coming from the government. How many people really live in America? No one will know, unless Emanuel keeps a separate set of books.
On a tip from Chad N.
Soon to Follow Porkulus: Gun Confiscation
What will be next for the Obamunists, after they have used the recession as a pretext to spend $trillions of our money in a bid to crush capitalism under mountains of government debt? Since people are already aware that yesterday's "stimulus package" was an extravagantly expensive fraud not even intended to help the economy, it won't be long before they start getting extremely angry. Fortunately for the government, it won't matter how mad we are, once our liberal masters have had us declawed.
For an idea of what's coming on the Obamunist wish list, have a look at The Obama Forum, which bills itself as "the forum for supporters of Barack Obama." Below are comments from a thread entitled "Gun Control & Confiscation President Obama's Plan For Disarming White America. Yes We Can!"
Anyone who doesn't want to turn in their guns is a racist Just admit it, if you don't want to turn in your guns you secretly harbor a dislike for blacks and want to kill them all, but don't worry you can redeem yourself by turning in your guns so what are you waiting for.
The fact that gun owners are racist is common knowledge. That's why we need the OYB (Obama Youth Brigade). Otherwise, the supporters of Obama will be defenseless against these bigots.
This is as close as you'll find to a voice of reason:
I can't be a racist, I'm black. Besides, I need it to defend myself when walking around my block.
To which another Obamunist responds,
Well naturally black people can keep their guns.
…and another chimes in,
We have to target law abiding gun owners, 99% of witch aren't black. This will be a perfect oppurtunity to disarm white america. Only then can we bring about change.
Soon the discussion goes completely off the rails.
Roy Rogers had guns with ivory grips… probably to match his pastey white wife's ass. I mean her face was whiter than that damn white ass horse Trigger. You know with a name like that you've got yourself some real life gun nuts there baby.
But guns shouldn't be the only thing confiscated. Racist books and magazines like the Turner Diaries should be confiscated and burned.
Maybe the whole forum is a parody; with Obamunism it's impossible to tell. But one thing is certain: like all socialist regimes, our current one will eventually seek to disarm us.
Via Magic Negro Watch.
Head Teacher Driven Out for Promoting Integration
The moonbat–Muslim alliance has claimed another victim. Head teacher Julia Robinson of Meersbrook Bank primary school in Sheffield, England has resigned "after a lot of pressure." She was accused of being a "racist" for wanting Muslims to attend the same school assemblies as the other children.
Islamic activists have been throwing the tantrums that serve them so well, egging on parents to withdraw their kids from school assemblies if they don't get their own separate Muslim ones. The liberal education establishment is only too happy to pander to these militant colonists by throwing overboard anyone accused of resisting dhimmitude.
So much for liberals' vaunted "inclusiveness" — and so much for assimilation, which will not be permitted to happen until demographics allow the native British population to be assimilated into the ummah.
On a tip from Puffdaddy.
Porkulus Poll
You can fool some of the people some of the time, but the Dems' gargantuan smash-and-grab package is fooling hardly anyone. An AT&T/Yahoo! poll asks where people stand on yesterday's Porkzilla bill. With nearly 60,000 votes in, 63% are aware that "It's expensive and won't fix anything."
November 2010 can't come soon enough.
Via Hannity.
On a tip from Code3.
Newsflash: We Don't Care About Pork in Bloated Spendulus Bill
Straight from the mouth of looter Charles "Chucky Schmucky" Schumer:
We need to be sure Chucky and friends find out just how wrong they are.
Via Left Right News.
Milton Friedman attempts to explain economic freedom to a barking moonbat:
If only he were still around to explain this to Congress — not that the Dems would be any more likely to get it than Donahue.
The Messiah and a Disciple
Maybe the Fairness Doctrine will help Julio realize his broadcaster dream.
On a tip from Travis A.
What Else Did Anyone Expect?
The Dow finished down 382 points on the day. Investors know Porkulus is no stimulus package.
Stimulis, a Drug We're Better Off Without
Via Right.org, where you can calculate how much the government has promised to take from your family for counterproductive bailouts.
Newsweek Declares Cold War Victory
If you thought the Cold War ended when the Soviet Union collapsed, check out the current cover on Newsweek:
Reagan didn't save us after all. But despite the moonbat media's wishful thinking, the Land of the Free isn't dead yet.
Canada Knows What We Have to Look Forward To
With the help of the unforgivable traitors Specter, Collins, and Snowe, the Senate has passed the pork-laden socialist power play the media complicitly calls a "stimulus package." Predictably, the stock market has reacted by going into freefall.
In addition to burying the economy in senseless debt that we may never be able to repay and setting the table for Zimbabwe-style inflation rates, Porkzilla allows the federal government to ration healthcare. Combined with last week's expansion of SCHIP, this means we essentially already have socialized medicine. For an idea of what this means, we need look no farther than Canada:
In Ontario, Lindsay McCreith was suffering from headaches and seizures yet faced a four and a half month wait for an MRI scan in January of 2006. Deciding that the wait was untenable, Mr. McCreith did what a lot of Canadians do: He went south, and paid for an MRI scan across the border in Buffalo. The MRI revealed a malignant brain tumor.
Ontario's government system still refused to provide timely treatment, offering instead a months-long wait for surgery. In the end, Mr. McCreith returned to Buffalo and paid for surgery that may have saved his life.
Too bad escaping to America won't be an option, when America has undergone Change and isn't here anymore.
Those who are deemed by the bureaucracy to be too old will be up a creek when they need healthcare. Ask Bill Murray of Alberta, who
waited in pain for more than a year to see a specialist for his arthritic hip. The specialist recommended a "Birmingham" hip resurfacing surgery (a state-of-the-art procedure that gives better results than basic hip replacement) as the best medical option. But government bureaucrats determined that Mr. Murray, who was 57, was "too old" to enjoy the benefits of this procedure and said no. In the end, he was also denied the opportunity to pay for the procedure himself in Alberta.
We have fought major wars over far less than what Democrats have been able to impose on this country in only three weeks of control in Washington.
Via Are We Lumberjacks?
Our Future if We Can't Stop the Government's Spending Spree
Compliments of Smokey.
Thanks to Porkulus, Daschle Will Help Nationalize Healthcare After All
There's more to the Porkzilla abomination than an attempt to bury the economy so deep in debt that our capitalist system can never recover. This bid to establish socialism works much more directly in some respects. For example, disgraced tax cheat Tom Daschle — who was to be in charge of nationalizing the healthcare industry — left his mark on the bill. Writes Betsy McCaughey (page numbers refer to H.R. 1 EH):
The bill's health rules will affect "every individual in the United States" (445, 454, 479). Your medical treatments will be tracked electronically by a federal system. … One new bureaucracy, the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, will monitor treatments to make sure your doctor is doing what the federal government deems appropriate and cost effective. The goal is to reduce costs and "guide" your doctor's decisions (442, 446). These provisions in the stimulus bill are virtually identical to what Daschle prescribed in his 2008 book, "Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis." According to Daschle, doctors have to give up autonomy and "learn to operate less like solo practitioners."
That will go for everyone in America after Hope & Change put an end to the enlightened individualism that has made this country great.
But what about doctors who resist absorption into the federal Borg?
Hospitals and doctors that are not "meaningful users" of the new system will face penalties. "Meaningful user" isn't defined in the bill. That will be left to the HHS secretary, who will be empowered to impose "more stringent measures of meaningful use over time" (511, 518, 540-541)
What penalties will deter your doctor from going beyond the electronically delivered protocols when your condition is atypical or you need an experimental treatment? The vagueness is intentional. In his book, Daschle proposed an appointed body with vast powers to make the "tough" decisions elected politicians won't make.
The stimulus bill does that, and calls it the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research (190-192). The goal, Daschle's book explained, is to slow the development and use of new medications and technologies because they are driving up costs. He praises Europeans for being more willing to accept "hopeless diagnoses" and "forgo experimental treatments," and he chastises Americans for expecting too much from the health-care system.
Even before socialized medicine inevitably degenerates into mandatory euthanasia à la Logan's Run, the elderly will be hit hard.
Daschle says health-care reform "will not be pain free." Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them.
The slippery Daschle gets credit for the strategy of hiding this takeover of the healthcare system in an unrelated bill.
Daschle supported the Clinton administration's health-care overhaul in 1994, and attributed its failure to debate and delay. A year ago, Daschle wrote that the next president should act quickly before critics mount an opposition. "If that means attaching a health-care plan to the federal budget, so be it," he said.
McCaughey concludes:
The health-care industry is the largest employer in the U.S. It produces almost 17 percent of the nation's gross domestic product. Yet the bill treats health care the way European governments do: as a cost problem instead of a growth industry. Imagine limiting growth and innovation in the electronics or auto industry during this downturn. This stimulus is dangerous to your health and the economy.
It's been said by many that Porkzilla is not a stimulus package, but a spending bill. More accurately, it is a power play. The ultra-left Democrats in control of the government intend to destroy America as we know it and impose authoritarian socialism; the passage of this bill will indicate how quickly they can do so.
Still not through destroying our country.
NY Times Writer Gushes Lurid Obamalove
The New York Times is runny with the slobber that oozes from the liberal establishment's love affair with Chairman Zero. Confesses Obama pom-pom girl Judith Warner:
The other night I dreamt of Barack Obama. He was taking a shower right when I needed to get into the bathroom to shave my legs, and then he was being yelled at by my husband, Max, for smoking in the house. It was not clear whether Max was feeling protective of the president's health or jealous because of the cigarette.
Warner wants us to know she isn't the only one with off-color dreams of the Moonbat Messiah.
Many women — not too surprisingly — were dreaming about sex with the president. In these dreams, the women replaced Michelle with greater or lesser guilt or, in the case of a 62-year-old woman in North Florida, whose dream was reported to me by her daughter, found a fully above-board solution: "Michelle had divorced Barack because he had become 'too much of a star.' He then married my mother, who was oh so proud to be the first lady," the daughter wrote me.
There was some daydreaming too, much of it a collective fantasy about the still-hot Obama marriage. "Barack and Michelle Obama look like they have sex. They look like they like having sex," a Los Angeles woman wrote to me, summing up the comments of many. …
One woman wrote that when she couldn't get to sleep at night, she "lay in bed and thought about the Obama girls in their rooms at the White House. I thought about Marian Robinson up on the third floor. And about Barack and Michelle, a couple who clearly have a 'thing' for each other, spooning together in bed. It helped me relax."
Unfortunately, the exaltedness of The One reminds some people of their own shortcomings.
These are people for whom the Obamas are not just a beacon of hope, inspiration and "demigodlikeness," as a New York lawyer put it, but also a kind of mirror. And the refracted image of self they see is not one they much admire.
"I keep thinking about how I squandered my education and youth," the New York lawyer wrote to me. "I went off to college from high school being completely community-minded, doing a lot of volunteer work for the homeless and for hunger and tutoring poor kids. Then I got to college and forgot my ideals. Barack was my year at Columbia. Why wasn't I hanging out with him and being serious and following my ideals instead of hanging out in clubs? Same with law school. I partied my way through instead of taking advantage of all that I could have. Both Obamas were there when I was. I feel like if I'd been a better person I would have gotten to know them."
Inadequacy in the face of the Moonbat Messiah even effects the sleazy dreams.
Another Washington woman, a global health care consultant, expressed her sense of Obama-inadequacy in a dream: "I dreamed I was an Obama girl. I had a chance to be in the same room with him for the first time. There were dark velvet chairs and he was standing there with all this dark and mist around him. His lips so purple and sensuous as if to be otherworldly," she wrote to me. "I moved gently toward him and then I said the wrong thing. Obama tamped it down like some vapor that didn't register. He wasn't even flattered."
Imagine expecting a paper that would publish this crap to fulfill its duty of defending the public from Obama's already alarming power grabs. At least at the very end of her gushy reverie of an editorial, Warner rallies herself and asks an intelligent question:
What will happen if fantasy turns to contempt?
As an MSM propagandist, it's Warner's job to keep that from happening. She's got her work cut out for her.
The Anointed One has come to claim hearts.
On a tip from Scaramouche.
Psychology Today's Steven Kotler Wants to Lose 4.4 Billion People
The hostility to human life at the core of moonbat ideology has risen alarmingly close to the surface at Psychology Today's blog "The Playing Field," where bestselling author Steven Kotler outdoes Hitler and Chairman Mao with his declaration that "we need to lose 4.4 billion people."
Kotler hates babies so much, he wants people jailed for having too many of them. But since not having children takes awhile, we may need to break out the Zyklon B. Screams Kotler:
You think the economy is bad now — wait a few years. Wait until we're almost completely out of oil and food and water and available land — we need to lose 4.4 billion people and we need to lose them fast.
Moonbats have been shrieking that we're about to run out of resources at least since Malthus in the 18th century. Like other cultists, they press onward with their apocalyptic prophecies, regardless of how spectacularly they are proven wrong.
Displaying the bizarre inversion that characterizes leftist thought, Kotler calls Nadya Suleman — who admittedly should never have been implanted with all those embryos — a "murderer" for not having any of her babies killed.
PETA president Ingrid Newkirk may believe that "a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy," but Kotler holds that a boy is less than a dog:
So do I think that a dog's life is worth more than a humans? I think that no dog has ever, intentionally, for reasons of selfish greed, destroyed their home like we have ours. I think that yes, there are way too many people on the planet, and while I'm not advocating mass euthanasia (though mandatory birth control sounds pretty good to me), I think before we start saying humans are worth more than dogs, we need to examine exactly what we have contributed to the quality of life for all species on this planet, not just our own.
It's a relief to hear our liberal elite intelligentsia doesn't openly advocate genocide — yet.
Once again we see that liberal thought is not just juvenile, asinine, and wrong. It is evil and insane. In a word, it's satanic.
Kotler doesn't like humans.
On a tip from Conservigilant.
Democrat Honor Roll
If you'd like to contact a politician, but don't have anything nasty to say, try dropping a friendly line to one of the 11 Democrats who put the country's future ahead of short-term political gain by bucking Nazi Pelousy, Chairman Zero, et al. and voting against Porkzilla:
Allen Boyd [D, FL]
Bobby Bright [D, AL]
Jim Cooper [D, TN]
Brad Ellsworth [D, IN]
Parker Griffith [D, AL]
Paul Kanjorski [D, PA]
Frank Kratovil [D, MD]
Walter Minnick [D, ID]
Collin Peterson [D, MN]
Heath Shuler [D, NC]
Gene Taylor [D, MS]
More than half are Blue Dogs. They might want to switch parties with certain Senate turncoats.
Maybe we could ship them out for some Blue Dogs.
On a tip from keepthechange08.
Val Kilmer May Run for Governor of New Mexico
As America begins to circle the drain, new opportunities are opening in the kakistocracy for the lowest elements of our society. For example, the egomaniacal if mediocre actor Val Kilmer wants to run for governor of New Mexico. He claims to have the support of disgraced current governor Bill Richardson, who was going to be Chairman Zero's Commerce secretary, but had to bow out due to excessively conspicuous ethics violations.
Kilmer's attitude toward the military is a good fit with our country's current liberal leadership. Here he is explaining why an actor knows more about combat than a soldier:
A guy who's lived through the horror of Vietnam has not spent his life preparing his mind for it. He's some punk. Most guys were borderline criminal or poor, and that's why they got sent to Vietnam. It was all the poor, wretched kids who got beat up by their dads, guys who didn't get on the football team, couldn't finagle a scholarship. They didn't have the emotional equipment to handle that experience. But this is what an actor trains to do. I can more effectively represent that kid in Vietnam than a guy who was there.
"Some punk" — Kilmer may not be very good at acting, but like a true lib, he's an ace at projection.
Some punk shows off his glamorous physique.
Rancher Sued for Defending Property From Mexican Invaders
Roger Barnett's ranch near Douglas, Arizona is known as "the avenue of choice" for illegal aliens invading the country. The lawless colonizers have torn up his water pumps, killed his calves, destroyed fences, stolen vehicles, buried parts of his property in trash 10 inches deep, and even broken into his home.
Since our quisling government wouldn't do anything about it, Barnett, a former sheriff's deputy, started rounding up aliens on his property and holding them for the Border Patrol, so the invaders could get a stern talking-to before being released. As a reward for not passively allowing himself to be victimized, Barnett and his wife are now being sued by Mexican nationals for $32 million for "civil rights violations" and "the infliction of emotional distress."
That this preposterous case could even make it to court confirms what we've known for some time: our government sides with Mexican criminals against lawful American citizens. No government that fails to represent the interests of the people it taxes can call itself legitimate.
Illegal aliens' contribution to the Arizona landscape.
On tips from Raptorman, Wiggins, Conservigilant, Matt L, and Frank W.
A Single Sentence From the Porkzilla Bill
No wonder the looters in Congress don't take the trouble to read the malignant bills they pass. One sentence from the swan dive into national bankruptcy known by the media as the "Stimulus Package":
For transit capital assistance grants, $6,000,000,000 (increased by $1,500,000,000), of which $5,400,000,000 (increased by $1,350,000,000) shall be for grants under 5 section 5307 of title 49, United States Code and shall be apportioned in accordance with section 5336 of such title (other than subsections (i)(1) and (j)) but may not be combined or commingled with any other funds apportioned under such section 5336, and of which $600,000,000 (increased by $150,000,000) shall be for grants under section 5311 of such title and shall be apportioned in accordance with such section 5311 but may not be combined or commingled with any other funds apportioned under that section: Provided, That of the funds provided for section 5311 under this heading, 3 percent shall be made available for section 5311(c)(1): Provided further, That applicable chapter 53 requirements shall apply except that the Federal share of the costs for which a grant is made under this heading shall be, at the option of the recipient, up to 100 percent: Provided further, In lieu of the requirements of section 1103 of this Act, funds made available under this heading shall be apportioned not later than 7 days after the date of enactment of this Act: Provided further, That for purposes of applying section 1104 of this 25 253 Act to this appropriation, the deadline for grantees to enter into obligations to make use of not less than 50 percent of the funds awarded shall be 90 days after apportionment: Provided further, That the provisions of section 1101(b) of Public Law 109–59 shall apply to funds made available under this heading: Provided further, That not-withstanding any other provision of law, of the funds apportioned in accordance with section 5336, up to three-quarters of 1 percent shall be available for administrative expenses and program management oversight and of the funds apportioned in accordance with section 5311, up to one-half of 1 percent shall be available for administrative expenses and program management oversight and both amounts shall remain available for obligation until September 30, 2012: Provided further, That the preceding proviso shall apply in lieu of the provisions in section 1106 of this Act.
Via Free Republic, on a tip from hiram.
Sword of Damocles Is Ready to Drop
Glenn Beck demonstrates the effect turning the keys to the liquor cabinet over to a bunch of drunks will inevitably have on the value of the dollar:
Unless we find a way to replace our government with responsible leadership in the immediate future, we are very likely in for Weimar Republic–style hyperinflation. Don't bother buying firewood; soon burning cash will be cheaper.
A Weimar German stokes her stove with money.
Another Robert Gibbs Press Conference
Via The Nose on Your Face, on a tip from Oiao.
Weigh in With Sphincter
RINO Senator Arlen Specter, plans to stab both his party and future generations of Americans in the back by voting for the outrageous Porkzilla package, which appears purposely designed to break capitalism by crushing our economy under an unsupportable mountain of unnecessary debt. Without defections from turncoat Republicans, this headlong leap into national insolvency could be blocked with a filibuster.
Just as electing Obama will have consequences for America, voting for this obscenely bloated spending bill will have consequences for Sphincter — especially if he plans to run as a Republican again. In case you'd like to tell him so, but haven't been able to get through because his office phone is inaccessible and his email contact site has reportedly blown up, The MaryHunter passes along some contact information that might help:
DC phone: (202) 224-4254
DC fax: (202) 228-1229
Harrisburg phone: (717) 782-3951
Harrisburg fax: (717) 782-4920
Emails to contact:
Scott_Hoeflich@specter.senate.gov
Maria_Plakoudas@specter.senate.gov
Christopher_Bradish@specter.senate.gov
thomas_dower@specter.senate.gov
seema_singh@specter.senate.gov
corene_ashley@specter.senate.gov
regina_campbell@specter.senate.gov
gayle_mills@specter.senate.gov
You can find similar information for other Senators at Our Country Deserves Better PAC. Don't forget to be civil.
Time is running out to give Sphincter a piece of your mind.
Via Caption This!
Creator of Obama Poster Busted for Vandalism
There isn't much associated with the Moonbat Messiah that isn't rooted in a criminal mentality. You know the poster of The Anointed One done in the style of Soviet and Nazi propaganda art that has been plastered all over the country since last summer? It's creator has now been busted in Boston for vandalism.
Shepard Fairey, 38, was arrested Friday night on his way to the Institute of Contemporary Art for a kickoff event for his first solo exhibition, called "Supply and Demand."
Two warrants were issued for Fairey on Jan. 24 after police determined he'd tagged property in two locations with graffiti based on the Andre the Giant street art campaign from his early career…
Fairy is also in trouble for copyright infringement, because his ubiquitous Obama poster is based on a photograph belonging to AP.
Chump change.
On tips from Matt L and Scaramouche.
Cher Denounces Republicans, Praises Moonbat Messiah
If only W could have stuck around a little longer…
Cher told CNSNews.com that living under Republican rule almost "killed" her, and she does not understand why anyone would want to be a Republican.
Typically of dreary has-beens trying to seem relevant in the cesspool of our entertainment industry, Cher is heavily into BHO:
His intelligence is so great and his spirit is so great, I believe he will be able to do as much if not more than anyone could possibly do.
For his first miracle, the Moonbat Messiah will blow over $1 trillion on liberal pork, despite the country being nearly broke.
Cher attempted to apply her own great intelligence to the question of how anyone but the "rich" (Cher herself is a zillionaire) and Christians could fail to embrace moonbattery:
I try to be charitable and there are some really good Republicans, but I just don't understand how anyone would want to be a Republican. I just can't figure it. I don't understand. If you're poor, if you're any kind of minority — gay, black, Latino, anything. If you're not a rich — I don't know. If you're not a rich born-again-Christian, I don't get it.
Wasn't that nice of her to try to be charitable? Maybe she feels a tiny hint of gratitude to Republican Sonny Bono, who launched her career.
A primary reason this country appears to be headed for decline is that narrow-minded leftist cretins like Cher control our mainstream culture.
Cher expresses astonishment on being told she's absurd.
On tips from Matt L, nancz, and Wiggins.
Boston Globe Readers Sneer at Porkzilla, Obama, and Chappaquiddick Ted
The liberal Boston Globe's Boston.com announced that half-living homicidal degenerate Ted Kennedy was being shipped to Washington to vote for the obscene Porkzilla package, reminiscent of his "dramatic return" last summer to vote for further socializing medicine. Encouragingly, the comments on the story appear to be universally contemptuous of Chappaquiddick Ted and the $1 trillion bid to break the back of capitalism. Unedited and unselected, here are all the comments on the first page:
If the money is used to put a wind farm up on Nantucket Sound, then for once, go Teddy go.
Who is being "Dramatic?" Getting on a plane and flying first class is not to tough of an adventure…my God!!
THIS BILL HAS MORE PORK IN IT.. THAN A PIG FARMER….THEN THE DEMS DON;T NEED THE REPUBLICANS.. ALL THEY NEED IS KENNEDY AND PELOSI… AND SOMEONE SHOULD TELL PELOSI.. WE DON'T HAVE 500 MILLION PEOPLE LIVING IN AMERICA.. DAMN NO WONDER WE ARE IN TROUBLE THE DEMS DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW MANY AMERICANS THERE ARE……IDIOTS
I'm sure the democrats will get Sen. Kennedy to vote, even if he is on a gurny and they have to hold up his hand. The longer this bill is around the more it stinks. The stink will still be on the democrats in 2010.
So, are we the taxpayers footing the bill for Mr. Ted to fly to DC from Florida? Enough is enough from this high flying prima donas.. I for one hope they are all defeated in 2010.
A responsible politician would acknowledge that they've been absent for the entire debate and that given the enormity of the situation, at best, should recluse themselves. At no time in the debate, has the issue of how this debt will be repaid…only that it will fall on the shoulders of future generations. I believe in action, but with so much at stake, the mere fact that we're rushing into a final decision so quickly, borders on irresponsibility. Look to yourselves and ask how much time you take when making "life determining" decisions. Bet the issue is throughly reviewed before moving forward.
They still don't get it… "He is flying in to vote" really means here is another term-limit deficient, self-focused democrat on our backs. He knew the bill was being about to go to vote weeks ago so why not wait before leaving town? Guess they added the cost of their private planes and gas in the spending package.
I guess the Democrats are pretty desperate to pass this bill. This should prove they're willing to do whatever it takes to get their way. This should tell everyone how bad this pork-spending bill is.
I'm sure he has read the entire bill and will vote yes because he cares so much about you and me. We all know Teddy is so bipartisan. This bill is a complete joke, they want to shove this down our throats as soon as possible before everyone realizes this turd should be flushed down the bowl. SOCIALISM SUCKS. IMPEACH OBAMA (worst president ever) NOW.
Is he fit to vote? There are so many old codgers in the House and Senate now who should be tested for mental acuity if they are going to be voting on serious decisions. On that point, all Americans disgusted with this continued out-of-control spending need to use years of service as a litmus test in the 2010 primaries. This goes for both parties! All members of Congress with 20+ years needs to be sent packing with their fat pensions. We need new blood if we are to get any real change.
When it come to spending money on big government he'll show up no matter how sick he is, but when it comes to acting on matters concerning "us the people" he's somewhere on a yacht vacationing, what a coward.
just great ,now we are doomed.This is the worst nightmare in my lifetime.This is the most bizarre president in history.And by far the most radical.It is terrifying .I just hope his numbers keep plummeting so he loses his political capital.
I guess everything this old geezer does these days is "dramatic". What would have been REALLY dramatic is if he would have tried to save Mary Joe from the watery grave that he put her in, or better yet if he would have stayed faithful to his wife that night…
This is UNREAL!
RIDICULOUS!!! Most "normal" people do not have theluxury of showing up for work when they feel like it. If his condition prevents him from going to work, he should resign or be fired. Hopefully, his condition will soon accomodate this request! It is time for him to join his brothers!
Biden was right--there will be a voter backlash against the socialist democrats. We need another "Contract With America" from Newt. Four years of this blind drive toward stupidity and American voters will be ready for another change.
Are the democrats so scared that they will no get their way that they have to have a sick man come in to try to save them?
It looks like Hope & Change are wearing thin fast, even in left-leaning Boston. Villagers are starting to sharpen their pitchforks.
New Jersey Permits Homosexual Divorce
Good news and bad news for homosexuals in New Jersey: you can't get "married," but at least you can get divorced.
Gay marriages performed outside New Jersey are recognized in the state for the purpose of divorce, according to a ruling Friday by a judge deciding whether a lesbian couple married in Canada can split.
La Kia Hammond wants a divorce so she can drag her daughter back up to Canada and get married again, presumably to another lesbian. She can't get divorced up there, because she's not a resident.
The fun is only beginning. Some countries already endorse getting married to animals. Whether you can divorce animals in New Jersey is unclear.
On a tip from Franco.
American Killed by Terrorist Released From Club Gitmo
There's no question that released Club Gitmo vacationers will kill Americans. It's already happened:
A New York woman was killed in a terrorist attack at the U.S. Embassy in Sana, Yemen, in September. And U.S. counterterrorism officials have now confirmed that Said Ali al-Shihri, 35, who was released from the Guantanamo Bay prison center in 2007, is the deputy leader of Al Qaeda in that Mideast country and is a suspect in the attack.
Eighteen-year-old Susan Elbaneh of Lackawanna, New York died in the attack. According to the Defense Department, she is probably not the first American to be killed by a Gitmo alumnus.
The Obamination Administration has decided to close Gitmo to send a signal that the War on Terror is over. But terror's war on us has only just begun, and no one seems to have a clue what to do with Gitmo vacationers, despite the obvious solution to this problem having been developed over 100 years ago.
On a tip from Frank W.
Foster Mother Banned After Failing to Prevent Conversion to Christianity
The campaign to Islamize Britain in the name of political correctness has ended the career of a foster mother who had looked after over 80 children, after she failed to prevent one of her wards from converting from Islam to Christianity.
The teenage convert was in foster care because she had been abused in her home, hardly an unusual situation for Muslim girls. The foster mother not only did not pressure her to convert, but initially tried to dissuade her. But her efforts were insufficient. When it came to light that the girl had gotten herself baptized, her foster care manager became "incandescent with rage."
Now Britain has one fewer foster parents. The girl is back with her abusive family. If they find out she converted, they will likely kill her, which is probably why her name hasn't been released.
One by one, the lights of civilization flicker and die.
On tips from Knights of the Dumb Table and Panday.
Al Franken: Yet Another Tax Cheat Democrat
If Al Franken's brazen bid to cheat his way into the Senate is blocked, he could always join the Obamination Administration. He has shown the appropriate contempt for paying the taxes Democrats are so eager to raise:
Overlooked in coverage of Tim Geithner's and Tom Daschle's unpaid taxes is the $70,000 that Minnesota Democratic senatorial candidate Al Franken has admitted to owing in back taxes, interest, and penalties.
Last April, the California Tax Franchise Board revealed that Franken owed the state $5,800 in taxes, fines, and penalties because he did not file returns in 2003 through 2007. Franken then admitted that he owed more than $50,000 in back taxes to 17 states.
Democrats stand resolutely not only for high taxes, but also for the working man. Given their characteristic hypocrisy, this is no surprise:
On top of failing to pay taxes in 17 states, the New York State Workers' Compensation Board hit Franken's corporation with a $25,000 penalty for failing to carry worker's compensation insurance for his employees in New York.
In light of tax cheats Daschle and Nancy Killefer going under the bus, maybe our Democrat rulers have pushed their arrogance as far as it can go. But if the corrupt, obnoxious, unelected, and outrageously unqualified Franken is actually seated in the Senate, we'll know there are no limits.
If they can seat this lowlife, anything goes.
Sean Penn Declares That Fox News Anchors Are Failed Actors Who Envy Him
In a recent nauseatingly obsequious interview with PBS propagandist Tavis Smiley, radical left actor Sean "Spicoli" Penn discussed his role in "Milk," a movie devoted to promoting homosexual depravity, the primary cause of the AIDS epidemic. Spicoli announced that the criticism he gets tends
to be from failed actors. Like the Fox anchors who are just clearly very envious.
Smiley, who had just slathered Penn with elaborate praise for his "embrace of humanity," responded:
That's about as straightforward as it comes.
That was your tax dollar at work, paying an idiot to stroke the bloated ego of a paranoid psychotic. No doubt Spicoli has a Bill O'Reilly doll at home that he tortures with cigarettes, to go with his Ann Coulter doll.
Spicoli holds forth.
Ethnically Correct AIDS Awareness Day
In case you missed it, yesterday was National Black HIV-AIDS Awareness Day. Guess when they're holding National White HIV-AIDs Awareness Day? That's right, never. We wouldn't want to be racist.
Obama Coffee
Chairman Zero has his work cut out for him if he's going to suppress America's entrepreneurial instincts in favor of a society consisting of socialists passively shuffling toward free handouts. At a roadside in Hawaii, where the Moonbat Messiah is alleged to have been born:
A closer look at the product for sale:
Half light, half dark: just like our Halfrican POTUS. The name of the company — Hawaiian Moonbeans — couldn't be more appropriate.
Compliments of C-Bug.
A traditional Saturday Creature Feature, on a tip from Dennis S.
Three RINOs in the Senate need to hear from as many people as possible that participating in the wanton looting of our country's future by voting for the $1+ trillion (with interest) Porkzilla "stimulus" package will not be forgiven. Click to contact:
Senator Olympia Snowe
Senator Susan Collins
Senator Arlen Specter
When your grandchildren ask you why you left them buried in debt, it will be nice to be able to tell them you tried to stop it.
Clintonista Retreads for Change
Unfortunately, the more Dems "Change," the more they stay the same:
Use Found for Ashley Judd's Swollen Air-Filled Head
Even Palin-deranged Hollyweird self-parody Trashley Crudd is good for something. Compliments of J:
Thanks to avalon for this link to an amusing account of Trashley performing a selfless humanitarian publicity stunt.
Moonbats Continue to Campaign Against Saracuda
Sarah Palin so perfectly embodies everything liberals hate that they can't stop campaigning against her. Tinseltown bubblehead Ashley Judd is still exploiting Palin Derangement Syndrome to extract cash from fools for the moonbat racket Defenders of Wildlife. In a new video, Crudd denounces Alaska's necessary practice of keeping the wolf population under control:
It's time to stop Sarah Palin and stop this senseless savagery. Palin is … casting aside science and championing the slaughter of wildlife.
Actually, the main purpose of shooting a few wolves is to prevent them from eating all the moose and caribou. But you couldn't really expect Ashley to grasp anything more complicated than, "Wolves good, Sarah Palin bad."
This is what a screeching idiot looks like.
On a tip from Chad.
ABC Propagandist George Stephanopoulos Participates in White House Strategy Sessions
Obama isn't providing us much Hope, but there has been plenty of Audacity — particularly regarding the corrupt alliance between his regime and the left-wing media establishment that essentially installed it. It turns out that ABC's George Stephanopoulos — a former Clintonista — is back in the White House:
Stephanopoulos has participated in daily phone strategy sessions with now White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel throughout his tenure at ABC.
Brent Bozell of the Media Research Center has demanded an explanation for this major violation of journalistic ethics, and that Stephanie recuse himself from reporting on the Obamanation Administration, of which he is an unofficial member. The response: the sound of crickets chirping.
Next time the media won't call him on it — now he is the media.
Hat tip: LGF, on a tip from Burning Hot.
Sometimes news stories are two halves of a whole, and should be published as a pair.
Story One:
The new White House Web site puts the administration of President Barack Obama on record as favoring a "worldwide ban on weapons that interfere with military and commercial satellites."
This is consistent with liberal hostility toward "weaponizing space," which has motivated moonbats to oppose space-based antimissile defense systems since Reagan days.
Story Two:
Iran says it has launched its first domestically made satellite into orbit.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the launch had been successful and that with it Iran had "officially achieved a presence in space". … A US state department official said the launch was of "great concern" and could lead to ballistic missile development. … France has also expressed concern, saying the technology used was "very similar" to that used in ballistic missiles.
Iran's terrorist mullahs have of course been hard at work building nuclear weapons for these missiles to deliver — and there are now no grownups in a position to slow them down.
When our cities are smoldering radioactive ruins, we'll know whom to thank for the Change.
On tips from Rob Banks.
Graven Idol Chia Pet
It isn't easy to be cheesy even by Obamunist standards:
It goes from cornrows to afro in 1-2 weeks, and can be yours for a mere $19.95. No shrine to the Moonbat Messiah is complete without one.
Order quickly, before Chairman Zero forbids graven images of His Hopiness.
On tips from Lyle.
Baby Murdered at Abortion Clinic
I know, I know, it happens hundreds of times a day, and our tax money supports it. But this case is particularly appalling.
Eighteen and pregnant, Sycloria Williams went to an abortion clinic outside Miami and paid $1,200 for Dr. Pierre Jean-Jacque Renelique to terminate her 23-week pregnancy.
Three days later, she sat in a reclining chair, medicated to dilate her cervix and otherwise get her ready for the procedure.
Only Renelique didn't arrive in time. According to Williams and the Florida Department of Health, she went into labor and delivered a live baby girl.
Sounds like a tragedy averted. But it didn't turn out that way.
One of the clinic's owners, who has no medical license, cut the infant's umbilical cord. Williams says the woman placed the baby in a plastic biohazard bag and threw it out.
Police recovered the decomposing remains in a cardboard box a week later after getting anonymous tips.
Obviously this is murder. But in a society run by criminals, is murder necessarily a crime? Readers will recall that our new Affirmative Action president adamantly defended the practice of killing children who survive botched abortions by just leaving them to die.
On tips from Bubba, Viking04, and Matt.
RFK Jr Announces That Hog Farmers Are a Greater Threat Than Al Qaeda
Seeing is believing:
Lunatics like this are running the country now.
Lost Your Job? Thank the Government
The 1.5 million foreign workers the government brings in each year pales in comparison to how many are pouring over the unguarded border, not only taking jobs but destroying them by crippling the economy with the burden they place on social services. But soon they'll all have amnesty, along with all their relatives, guaranteeing a permanent Democrat majority. Then we won't need jobs. We can just sit home and collect our "tax cuts" from Chairman Zero.
Hat tip: Right Wing Video; on a tip from SK.
Won't You Be Sorry
Maybe this will work: If world government doesn't impose a pre-industrial socialist slave state right now, the animals are going to commit suicide!
A Tree Responds to the Weeping Moonbats
Moonbats who weep and scream over the plight of trees have finally received a response, via The Nose on Your Face:
On a tip from Adam.
Via Obamicon.Me, on a tip from bb.
Taxachusetts Sues New Hampshire for Not Being a Kleptocracy
The Founding Fathers designed our system so as to apply the free market to liberty, allowing states to compete with each other for freedom. Unsurprisingly, moonbats don't like it.
Battle lines have been drawn between tax-free New Hampshire and "Taxachusetts" — and the line is at the states' border.
Bay State officials said New Hampshire businesses should be collecting Massachusetts' 5 percent sales tax from residents who cross the border to shop — and save money.
According to greedy bureauweenies, inmates of the People's Republic of Massachusetts should not be allowed to escape the liberal state's excessive taxation by shopping elsewhere. The concept of federalism is lost on moonbats, who can't seem to grasp why anyone would limit the central power they worship.
World's Richest Geek Tries to Terrify Audience
Yuk yuk. That Bill Gates is such a card:
Microsoft founder turned philanthropist Bill Gates released a glass full of mosquitoes at an elite technology conference to make a point about the deadly disease malaria.
"Malaria is spread by mosquitoes," Gates said while opening a jar onstage at the Technology, Entertainment, Design Conference — a gathering known to attract technology kings, politicians, and Hollywood stars.
"I brought some. Here I'll let them roam around. There is no reason only poor people should be infected."
A few minutes after releasing the jarful of mosquitoes, Gates told his audience that the insects didn't really have malaria. But I doubt he told them the reason mosquitoes are able to kill so many millions in the Third World: his fellow sanctimonious liberal do-gooders have managed to suppress the use of DDT, which had saved half a billion lives but is considered ideologically unclean by moonbats.
A zillionaire amuses himself.
On tips from Matt L, Matt from the Knights of the Dumb Table, and nancz.
Even NBC Pundit Notices Similarity Between Obama and Lenin
It looks like CNBC's Jim Cramer has wandered off the reservation by admitting to the obvious similarities between our first Affirmative Action president and the communist maniac who imposed totalitarian hell on Russia:
Obama dogged Wall Street by saying there would be a time "for them to make profits, and there will be time for them to get bonuses. Now's not that time. And that's a message that I intend to send directly to them."
Cramer made this comparison: "There was a little snippet last week that was, 'Now is not the time for profits.' Look — in Lenin's book, "What Is to Be Done," is simple text of what I always though was for the communists. It was remarkable to hear very similar language from 'What Is to Be Done?' which is we have no place for profits."
Chairman Zero had better get a tighter leash on his media lapdogs if he's going to push his agenda through before America wakes up and defends itself.
For once, Marx was right: "History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce."
Hat tip: Gateway Pundit; on a tip from Burning Hot.
Obama Cancels Oil Leases
If the economy isn't in bad enough shape yet for Democrats to scare people into submitting to their porkulus package, maybe this will help. Yesterday the Obama Nation Administration announced that it will cancel oil drilling leases on over 130,000 acres in Utah.
What this country really needs for total economic panic to set in is the price of gas to shoot up. With moonbats running the government, it won't take long.
But no doubt the "stimulus" package includes a few hundred $billion to study engines that run on unicorn flatulence, so we won't be needing to drill for oil anyway.
On a tip from Cheetah. Hat tip: wizbang.
Obama Picks Porn Lawyer David Ogden for Deputy Attorney General
Chairman Zero isn't getting any better at picking people for high-level positions. His choice to serve as deputy attorney general under skeevy pro-terrorist lowlife Eric Holder is moonbat lawyer David Ogden.
In the 2005 case Roper v. Simmons, Ogden alarmingly argued that the USA must abide by a death penalty treaty that we never signed, because otherwise we would be flouting international norms. The idea that the demented laws and treaties favored by decadent Euroweenies ought to hold weight in American courts is taken quite seriously on the left's outer fringe, as a means of circumnavigating the will of voters.
Like most moonbats, Ogden is a big fan of abortion. Here's what he has to say about the psychological effects killing her own child has on any woman who hasn't totally cauterized her conscience:
[I]t is grossly misleading to tell a woman that abortion imposes possible detrimental psychological effects when the risks are negligible in most cases, when the evidence shows that she is more likely to experience feelings of relief and happiness, and when child-birth and child-rearing or adoption may pose concomitant (if not greater) risks or adverse psychological effects.
In addition to advancing mental health (according to Ogden), abortion is highly convenient in a society so degenerate that children are exposed to bums fumbling in their stained and malodorous trousers as they gawk at online pornography — a state of affairs Ogden has defended by fighting the use of Internet filters in public libraries. He has lawyered for Playboy, Penthouse, the largest distributor of hard-core porno movies, and even the ACLU.
Ogden definitely gets Chairman Zero's Big Government approach. He has sued the government to force taxpayers to finance a Braille version of Playboy. It's unclear whether this included scratch-and-sniff technology.
An all-purpose warrior on behalf of moonbat decadence, Ogden has also fought to homosexualize the military and "has urged courts to treat traditional definitions of marriage as a social prejudice."
They might want to change the name to the Department of Social Justice.
Rumors that Ogden has filmed himself being spanked by Janet Reno could not be confirmed.
Transparent Phoniness
The transparency we were promised:
The transparency we're getting:
How's that for Change?
On a tip from TED.
Hippies Weep for the Trees
Grab your hankies, moonbats! As for everyone else, this classic is good for another round of laughs:
Hippies Wail for Dead Trees - Watch more Funny Videos
Maybe it's not such a bad idea to blubber and scream — considering that people like this are now in charge of our energy policy.
Democrat Authenticity
Yes, this is the same Tom Daschle who just got nailed for not paying taxes on his limousine and driver:
Other than their greed and lust for power, there isn't much about these people that isn't 100% fake.
On a tip from LT Nixon.
Porkulus Package Includes Bonanza for Hard Left LCCR
By now people are beginning to figure out that the $1 trillion+ "stimulus package" is not even intended to have a beneficial effect on the economy. So what do liberals want to buy with all this money they are looting from us, our children, and our grandchildren? The answer: more liberalism. RedState reports:
The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights ("LCCR") is a far left interest group.
The group opposed conservative judges. The group agitates for card check. The group is in favor of the Fairness Doctrine. It is chiefly an agitator for affirmative action programs and tries to pressure banks into giving high risk loans like those that caused the housing crisis. If you oppose them, they label you a racist.
LCCR operates like ACORN. And the Senate Democrats are about to give them $90 million of your money.
The $90,000,000.00 payout to these moonbat foot soldiers is buried in the "stimulus" bill in the section "Digital-to-Analog Converter Program."
Maybe the Dems' outrageous porkulus package will be a stimulus after all. If it doesn't stimulate the American public to rage, nothing will.
Anyone have a caption for this? On a tip from The MaryHunter.
Pelosi: Every Month We Don't Pass Porkulus Bill, America Loses 500,000,000 Jobs
There's no time to ask what's in the Democrats' gargantuan porkulus bill, whether it will stimulate the economy in the slightest, or how many generations it will take to dig out from under the debt it will create. We need to embrace socialism by pushing it through this instant, because as Speaker of the House Nazi Pelousy informs us, for every month we don't pass this bloated package of moonbat pork, 500 million Americans lose their jobs:
Imagine the fun the media could have showing this over and over again were a Republican to tell such a hilariously stupid lie.
On tips from AC, Murff, and Dennis S. Hat tip: It's Curtains for You…
Fictional NYC Fireman to Promote 9/11 Conspiracy Lunacy
September 11 has been forgotten by most, or Chairman Zero could never have been elected. But even some moonbats still remember the heroism of the many firemen who were killed on that awful day. The TV show "Rescue Me" will keep the memories alive by featuring an NYC firefighter who believes the atrocities of 9/11 were the work of the Bush Administration. The part is played by Daniel Sunjata, who actually holds this view in what passes for "real life" among actors:
In the episode, Mr. Sunjata's character delivers a two-minute monologue for a French journalist describing a "neoconservative government effort" to control the world's oil, drastically increase military spending and "change the definition of pre-emptive attack." To put it into action, he continues, "what you need is a new Pearl Harbor. That's what they said they needed."
Mr. Sunjata surprised some of the TV reporters when he said that he "absolutely, 100 percent" supports the assertion that "9/11 was an inside job."
Future generations will grow up believing that Republicans were behind 9/11, and that al Qaeda terrorists were innocent victims of imperial neocons. Thanks to their control of the media, the bad guys are winning.
Moonbats rewrite history to turn this to their advantage.
Grade School Kids Compelled to Propagandize for Obama
Vladimir Lenin, who imposed a communist police state on Russia, famously said:
Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
Our own schoolmasters get the kids for much longer — and they've taken Lenin's lesson to heart:
Students at an elementary school in New Rochelle, NY, a largely Democratic suburb of New York City with a City Council and School Board dominated by Democrats, were recently assigned an in-class assignment to color in drawings of Barack Obama to mark the occasion of the inauguration of the 44th President. The drawings depicted Obama in various heroic poses, flags waving in the background, but one drawing went beyond adulation into overt political activity disguised as a pedagogical exercise. The drawing is a campaign button, in the center of a circle Barack Obama is smiling surrounded by another circle with the words "Students for Obama 2008". …
New Rochelle Superintendent of Schools Richard Organisciak, an Obama supporter, did not respond to emails requesting comment.
Even among young children, Obamunists encounter some resistance. Complained one second-grader:
I was mad. I wanted McCain to win.
I wonder if that goes on her permanent record.
What public schools teach instead of the three R's.
On a tip from Robert Cox.
Chairman Zero's Tailspin Begins
Right after the hype fest of the Moonbat Messiah's coronation, The Anointed One had a Strongly Approve rate of 44% and a Strongly Disapprove rate of 14%, with an approval index of +30. After two weeks of the public watching this post turtle try to govern, the rates are 37% and 22%, respectively; the approval index has been cut in half, despite a media obsequiously devoted to propping him up. At this pace his positive ratings will last another two weeks.
No amount of propaganda is going to turn an adolescent Marxist into a competent American President. However, if Obama takes the establishment media down with him, but not the entire economy, this whole debacle will leave us better off in the end.
Via Rasmussen Reports.
On a tip from Karin.
Congress Sets Table for Confiscation of Firearms
A people has not been truly subjugated by its government so long as it preserves the means to defend itself. So it should come as no surprise that our new leftist regime is already pressing aggressively toward the goal of confiscating handguns, the Second Amendment be damned. Worldview Times comments on H.R. 45:
This bill would require a license for handguns and semiautomatics, including those currently possessed. The applicant must be thumbprinted and sign a certification that, effectively, the firearm will not be kept in a place where it would be available for the defense of the gun owner's family. The applicant must also make available ALL of his psychiatric records, pass an exam, and pay a fee of up to $25. The license may be renewed after five years and may be revoked. Private sales would be outlawed, and reports to the attorney general of all transactions would be required, even when, as the bill allows, the AG determines that a state licensing system is sufficiently draconian to substitute for the federal license. With virtually no exceptions, ALL firearms transactions (involving semiautos, handguns, long guns, etc.) would be subject to a Brady check. In addition, the bill would make it unlawful in nearly all cases to keep any loaded firearm for self-defense. A variety of "crimes by omission" (such as failure to report certain things) would be created. Criminal penalties of up to ten years and almost unlimited regulatory and inspection authority would be established.
As Leonardo da Vinci pointed out, it is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end. Once we've been disarmed, resistance will be all but impossible, and Big Government can continue to metastasize like the terminal cancer it is with no restraint whatsoever.
Hat tip: Six Meat Buffet, on a tip from Dennis S.
Education Fail
Maybe schools should ease up on the victim studies and go back to teaching math.
Disgraced Tax Cheat Tom Daschle on Enforcing Tax Laws
Too bad, Tom. It's up to others to nationalize the healthcare industry now.
I wonder how he feels about fellow tax cheat Tim Geithner still getting to be Treasury Secretary.
Police Retreat From What's Left of Britain
Until only recently, Britain ranked among the greatest civilizations in the history of the world. Now, its police cower and run from conquering barbarians. Moonbattery has reduced it to this:
Heroes who fought in the Battle of Britain are still alive to witness this.
On a tip from TD.
Google Tells Kids What to Wish for the World
Like many moonbat propagandists, the lefties at Google target the impressionable minds of children. Their Doodle 4 Google campaign invites kids to design a new homepage logo around the theme "What I Wish for the World."
These are exciting times and both our country and the world are on the brink of significant change. At Google we believe in thinking big, and dreaming big, and we can't think of anything more important than encouraging students to do the same.
The Obamunist rapture is at hand! Examples of what kids are supposed to wish for:
… we use plants for electricity
… we make college free for everyone
… we give health insurance to all who need it
The nice thing about indoctrinating grade school kids is they don't bring up issues of fairness and feasibility. Needless to say, that the world be cured of moonbattery did not make the list.
Tax Cheat Nancy Killefer Withdraws
From the list of tax cheats who will fill top positions in the Obama Administration, we can subtract Nancy Killefer:
An Obama administration official says Nancy Killefer is withdrawing her candidacy to be the first chief performance officer for the federal government. …
When her selection was announced by President Barack Obama on Jan. 7, The Associated Press disclosed that in 2005 the District of Columbia government had filed a more than $900 tax lien on her home for failure to pay unemployment compensation tax on household help.
Too bad tax cheats Timothy Geithner and Tom Daschle didn't show enough shame to withdraw. But at least Daschle's nomination may get sunk, like fellow crook Bill Richardson's.
Chairman Zero certainly has changed the culture in Washington, as promised. If Bush 43 and Co. had half as many ethical problems, MSM talking heads would have blown out their vocal cords.
First, evil possessed Killheifer's left hand…
On tips from V the K and Varla. Hat tip: Ace of Spades HQ.
Moonbat Radio Flops Again
No wonder Democrats are so gung-ho about the Unfairness Doctrine, which would coerce radio stations to feature left-wing talk show hosts even if no one wants to listen to them. Two weeks into the Age of Obama, and already DC's WWRC OBAMA 1260 has been forced to change format because radio listeners get enough moonbattery from print and TV. The Washington Compost reports:
President Obama may be riding high in Washington, but OBAMA 1260 is not.
The area's only progressive talk station is changing formats, dropping such syndicated liberal hosts as Ed Schultz, Stephanie Miller and Bill Press in favor of financial news, starting next week.
The move by Redskins owner Dan Snyder, who purchased the station, WWRC, and others in Washington last summer, leaves the city without a liberal radio outlet. Program Director Greg Tantum says he thought the station could work because of enthusiasm over Obama, but that ratings collapsed to a level that could not be measured after the election.
But ratings nearly doubled, he says, at Snyder's conservative station, WTNT, which features Laura Ingraham and Bill Bennett.
As NewsBusters points out, there are other liberal talk stations in DC, namely NPR affiliate WAMU and the even wackier Pacifica station WPFW. But WWRC is the only one competing as a commercial station. Its predictable failure illustrates why liberals' hatred of free markets is particularly intense when it comes to radio.
Moonbat Confession
Occasionally progressives have lapses in their habitual dishonesty. From Post Secret:
Not to worry, liberals — until Sarah Palin runs for national office again, Rush Limbaugh is filling in as Emmanuel Goldstein for the Two Minutes Hate that with moonbats runs for 24 hours daily.
Via Michelle Malkin, on a tip from Burning Hot.
The Rangel Rule
Finally some constructive legislation has been proposed:
Texas Republican Congressman John Carter says he wants everyone to get the same treatment when it comes to taxes. He has introduced what he's calling the "Rangel Rule."
"Under the bill, any U.S. citizen who owes back taxes can pay them and automatically waive all interest and penalties by writing 'Rangel Rule' on their return."
Rangel is Congressman Charles Rangel — the Democratic House Ways and Means Committee chairman — who admitted he failed to pay taxes on rental income for years. He has apologized and agreed to pay back taxes. But Carter says Rangel hasn't paid interest or penalties.
Let's hope tax cheats Timothy Geithner and Tom Daschle wrote "Rangel Rule" on their returns.
Anarchy + Communism = Moonbattery
It used to confuse me that 20-something adolescents in black clothes with bugs in their hair call themselves anarchists while espousing a communist ideology by which the State provides everything for free at someone else's expense. If anarchy is no government, and communism is absolute enslavement to government, that would make them opposites, right?
But these opposites attract, merging with toxic synergism to form something still more pernicious and depraved, a grotesque ideology that scholars of political pathology call moonbattery. To see it on display, refer to America's most liberal city:
Tasha Flowers, a Detroit single mom, broke into a foreclosed home in a fancy Detroit neighborhood and squatted there with her SEVEN children. When police came to escort her and the family out, it was done nicely and orderly, according to neighbors and witnesses from the Neighborhood Association. But Flowers filed a lawsuit against Detroit Police claiming that Detroit Police beat her and her family (they have no pictures or hospital records, according to reports), and that they came to "her" house the next day to apologize, along with gift cards to Walmart and Target and $100.
The marriage of anarchy and communism produces such hideous offspring that people would rebel against it — if they were informed of its extent. That's where the moonbat media comes in. To continue:
But that's not how the Detroit media — both newspapers, the Detroit Free Press and the Detroit Newsistan — covered it. … From the way they "report," er … regurgiatate it, you'd never know that this was a foreclosed home that Ms. Flowers didn't own, nor did she belong in it, and that she was a squatter. They don't even report the real reason why police were there — ie., to escort her out. …
Even worse, many national media outlets picked up on their phony stories, including the Chicago Tribune, MSNBC, etc., all of whom reported on the alleged Detroit police brutality, and none of whom reported that this woman is a squatter.
Anarchy means you don't have to work to buy a home; you can just squat in someone else's. Communism means you can sue taxpayers for $millions when the police throw you out. Moonbattery means the media takes your side.
On a tip from Steve G.
Crooked Congressman Proposes Concentration Camps
Remember Alcee Hastings, the federal judge who after being impeached for corruption became a Democrat Congresscrook and Co-Chair of Shrillary Rotten's presidential campaign? Nancy "Culture of Corruption" Pelosi wanted him to head the House Intelligence Committee, but was forced to back off due to the outraged reaction to having a known criminal in charge of our security. Yet Hastings still has security concerns:
Rep. Alcee L. Hastings, D-Fla., has introduced to the House of Representatives a new bill, H.R. 645, calling for the secretary of homeland security to establish no fewer than six national emergency centers for corralling civilians on military installations.
The proposed bill, which has received little mainstream media attention, appears designed to create the type of detention center that those concerned about use of the military in domestic affairs fear could be used as concentration camps for political dissidents, such as occurred in Nazi Germany.
Hastings may be best known for saying this about Sarah Palin:
Anybody toting guns and stripping moose don't care too much about what they do with Jews and blacks.
Yet Saracuda isn't the one proposing concentration camps. Maybe Hastings actually believes his own rhetoric, and wants to make us into lampshades before we do the same to him. Whatever his motives, "toting guns" is a wise practice, given the people running our government.
How's this for a culture of corruption?
On a tip from Dennis S.
MSM Offers Opportunity to Merge With the Anointed One
The Cult of the Moonbat Messiah just keeps getting creepier:
Follow the instructions at the Detroit Free Press and you too can merge your face with BHO's and become one with The One.
So much for the media providing a brake on government. Joseph Goebbels wouldn't have pushed statist idolatry this far.
On tips from V the K and Burning Hot. Hat tip: The Ryskind Sketchbook.
Obama Calls Patriotic Jessica Simpson Fat
One downside to installing an adolescent in the White House is he's likely to behave like one — like Chairman Zero did yesterday by publicly ridiculing Jessica Simpson's figure. The Anointed One observed that the lovely Ms. Simpson is "in a weight battle apparently." This predictably brought yuks from NBC's execrable Matt Lauer.
That will teach Simpson for traveling far and wide to visit the troops Obama has pointedly and repeatedly ignored.
Eat your heart out, Michelle Obama.
On tips from SK and Karin.
The Boss at a Loss
If anything could be worse than watching my Cards lose the Super Bowl because one lousy play at the end of the first half went awry, it was having to run from the room in disgust when the musically vapid but politically obnoxious Bruce Springsteen came on for the halftime show — creating a stark contrast to the presence of the heroic David Petraeus, who performed the coin toss.
I didn't catch whether Springsteen took the opportunity to apologize for oppressing the working masses he pretends to represent by signing an exclusive deal with Wal-Mart to sell a greatest hits CD. Here's how "The Boss" explained his crime against the proletariat to the NY Times:
Springsteen told the Times that his team didn't vet the issue as closely as he should have, and that he "dropped the ball on it."
Springsteen went on to say: "It was a mistake. Our batting average is usually very good, but we missed that one. Fans will call you on that stuff, as it should be."
Leftists loathe Wal-Mart for providing people of limited means the products they need at prices they can afford, which requires resisting the unionization that inevitably drives costs through the ceiling.
Opposes capitalist Wal-Mart — unless there's money to be made.
On tips from Wiggins, Viking04, and Joe from the Great Democratic Paradise of Michigan.
Al Gore Foiled by Punxsutawney Phil
These days even a groundhog can get the better of Al Gore:
The world's most famous groundhog has seen his shadow which, legend has it, means this already long winter will last for six more weeks.
It can't be fun trying to whip up panic about global warming when it just keeps getting colder. Even liberals are starting to ridicule the Goracle.
Having pwned the Goracle, Punxsutawney Phil is raised aloft in triumph.
On tips from Lyle and Burning Hot. Hat tip: American Spectator.
Tax Cheat Tom Daschle Says He's Sorry
One good thing has come of the Age of Obama: We now know how to get zillionaire Democrat bigwigs to pay their back taxes. All you have to do is appoint them to cabinet positions.
Upon getting nominated, Timothy Geithner, who as Treasury Secretary will be overseeing the IRS, paid up — and so did Chairman Zero's choice to oversee the state takeover of the healthcare industry as head of the Health and Human Services Department.
It looks like we've found an exception to Democrat supporter Leona Helmsley's dictum:
Only the little people pay taxes.
Not to worry about Tom Daschle trying to cheat the government out of $128,203; he says he's sorry — though it's doubtful he is anywhere near as sorry as the American public will be as it figures out what the liberal media duped it into electing.
Tax cheat Tom Daschle needed the money to spend on new glasses.
Corpsicle Evokes Yawns in Detroit
We don't have to wait for $trillion dollar "stimulus" packages to cause a complete economic collapse to have cool postapocalyptic adventures like Mad Max. Thanks to having been run exclusively by lefties for decades, America's most liberal city has already crossed into the bleak future moonbattery has in store for us, making it an ideal destination for urban explorers. Recently, someone called a reporter with a tip on a dead guy found in the elevator shaft of an abandoned building on Detroit's west side:
"He's encased in ice, except his legs, which are sticking out like Popsicle sticks," the caller phoned to tell this reporter.
"Why didn't your friend call the police?"
"He was trespassing and didn't want to get in trouble," the caller replied. As it happens, the caller's friend is an urban explorer who gets thrills rummaging through and photographing the ruins of Detroit. It turns out that this explorer last week was playing hockey with a group of other explorers on the frozen waters that had collected in the basement of the building. None of the men called the police, the explorer said. They, in fact, continued their hockey game.
According to a derelict who lives in the building, the corpse had "been down there since last month at least." No one had bothered to call the police. After several calls to 911, the reporter managed to get the Fire Department to come haul the corpse away.
Per liberal ideology, human life is a random accident, devoid of meaning. This is why progressives have no qualms about abortion. It's also why stories like this one will become all the more common if our culture continues to go off the rails to the left.
A postcard from Detroit.
On a tip from Joe from the Great Democratic Paradise of Michigan.
PBS Moonbat: Obama Is America "by Virtue of His Being"
Liberals are certainly getting our money's worth out of taxpayer-subsidized PBS affiliate KCET in Los Angeles. Check out this completely over the top ode to Chairman Zero:
Obama is the more perfect union. He is a house united. Obama is the New Generation and the hot light of a dawn that goes way beyond clever talk of morning in America.
Quite simply, quite plainly, just by virtue his being, Obama is America. The first true American to lead our nation.
Even Kim Jong-Il would blush if his media got this carried away.
More From the NY Times Archives: W Tried to Stop Fannie and Freddie
The Gray Lady might want to do some scrubbing of her archives. Just as she predicted a decade ago that race-based mortgages would cause the government to have to bail out Fannie Mae, she let it slip back in 2003 that unlike the Dems, W was trying to do something about it:
The Bush administration today recommended the most significant regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry since the savings and loan crisis a decade ago. …
The plan is an acknowledgment by the administration that oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — which together have issued more than $1.5 trillion in outstanding debt — is broken. A report by outside investigators in July concluded that Freddie Mac manipulated its accounting to mislead investors, and critics have said Fannie Mae does not adequately hedge against rising interest rates.
Unfornately the proposal…
would not repeal the significant government subsidies granted to the two companies. And it does not alter the implicit guarantee that Washington will bail the companies out if they run into financial difficulty; that perception enables them to issue debt at significantly lower rates than their competitors. Nor would it remove the companies' exemptions from taxes and antifraud provisions of federal securities laws.
But even limited efforts to reign in these government-sponsored enterprises were bitterly resisted by Democrats, who characteristically raised a smokescreen by bleating about "affordable housing":
Among the groups denouncing the proposal today were the National Association of Home Builders and Congressional Democrats who fear that tighter regulation of the companies could sharply reduce their commitment to financing low-income and affordable housing.
''These two entities — Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — are not facing any kind of financial crisis,'' said Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts, the ranking Democrat on the Financial Services Committee. ''The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.''
The real reason Democrats defended Fannie and Freddie from regulation?
''The regulator has not only been outmanned, it has been outlobbied,'' said Representative Richard H. Baker, the Louisiana Republican who has proposed legislation similar to the administration proposal and who leads a subcommittee that oversees the companies.
This lobbying entailed paying off corrupt Democrats, prominently including Barney Fwank, Chris Clod, Hanoi John Kerry, Shrillary Rotten, and of course, Chairman Zero.
Nonetheless, future generations will be told by their history books that Republicans caused the economy to collapse.
On a tip from xantl.
Even New York Times Saw the Crash Coming
It seems everyone knew that forcing banks to lend based on skin color instead of ability to repay was going to lead to disaster — even the New York Times. From the September 30, 1999 edition:
In a move that could help increase home ownership rates among minorities and low-income consumers, the Fannie Mae Corporation is easing the credit requirements on loans that it will purchase from banks and other lenders.
The action, which will begin as a pilot program involving 24 banks in 15 markets — including the New York metropolitan region — will encourage those banks to extend home mortgages to individuals whose credit is generally not good enough to qualify for conventional loans. Fannie Mae officials say they hope to make it a nationwide program by next spring.
Fannie Mae, the nation's biggest underwriter of home mortgages, has been under increasing pressure from the Clinton Administration to expand mortgage loans among low and moderate income people and felt pressure from stock holders to maintain its phenomenal growth in profits.
In addition, banks, thrift institutions and mortgage companies have been pressing Fannie Mae to help them make more loans to so-called subprime borrowers. … Demographic information on these borrowers is sketchy. But at least one study indicates that 18 percent of the loans in the subprime market went to black borrowers, compared to 5 per cent of loans in the conventional loan market.
In moving, even tentatively, into this new area of lending, Fannie Mae is taking on significantly more risk, which may not pose any difficulties during flush economic times. But the government-subsidized corporation may run into trouble in an economic downturn, prompting a government rescue similar to that of the savings and loan industry in the 1980's.
The Gray Lady's crystal ball didn't mention that this would bring the entire economy down, as we know now.
A little more background:
Fannie Mae, the nation's biggest underwriter of home mortgages, does not lend money directly to consumers. Instead, it purchases loans that banks make on what is called the secondary market. By expanding the type of loans that it will buy, Fannie Mae is hoping to spur banks to make more loans to people with less-than-stellar credit ratings. …
The change in policy also comes at the same time that HUD is investigating allegations of racial discrimination in the automated underwriting systems used by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to determine the credit-worthiness of credit applicants.
Race-based mortgages started under Carter with the insane Community Reinvestment Act, and were pushed aggressively under Clinton. Now Obama, who as a lawyer for ACORN was involved in using the CRA to browbeat banks into making bad loans, the financial crisis this lunacy caused is being used as a pretext to plunge us into a still worse crisis with the cataclysmically wasteful porkulus, I mean, stimulus package, in an apparently deliberate attempt to recreate the Democrat Party's glory days of the Great Depression.
Elections have consequences, all right.
Vaclav Klaus Takes Another Swing at Global Warming Sham
His country's familiarity with the underside of communists' boots has clarified Czech President Vaclav Klaus's perspective regarding the global warming hoax:
I don't think that there is any global warming. I don't see the statistical data for that. … Environmentalism and the global warming alarmism is challenging our freedom. Al Gore is an important person in this movement. … I'm afraid that the current crisis will be misused for radically constraining the functioning of the markets and market economy all around the world. … I'm more afraid of the consequences of the crisis than the crisis itself.
If more Republicans had the spine to denounce this farcical Trojan horse for Soviet-style economic policies, America would stand a better chance of surviving the next four years intact.
Another Dem for Political Censorship of Radio
Democrat National Convention delegate Terrel Shepherd, evidently too dumb to find NPR on his radio dial, explains why the Unfairness Doctrine should be used to impose Obamunist propaganda on commercial radio stations:
In recent years it has gotten to where it is almost unsafe for me to drive while listening to all of those radical conservative hate spewers all over the dial.
I sometimes find myself pressing on the gas a little harder, gripping the wheel a little tighter, and driving more on offense than on defense while trying to listen to those shows. I can literally feel my heart rate and blood pressure elevate as "The Great American," Rush, "The Great One," Prager, Medved, Huiit [sic], Ingraham, Savage are on.…
It is literally sickening sometimes to listen to. They are all gaseous balls of hate and rage whose only purpose in life is to incite hate, rage and not-so-covert racism with their over-the-top rhetoric. I don't want them silenced because I feel that everyone should be able to express their opinions. I just want to hear an opposing view, and there are none.
So it's the "gaseous balls of hate and rage" whose rhetoric is over the top?
By controlling virtually all print and television media, the liberal elite has created a market for conservative opinion on the radio. But liberals have never been friends of free markets. Rather than listen to NPR's taxpayer-supported moonbattery, they want the channels that broadcast Rush et al. to be coerced into broadcasting lefty kooks who have no market. Phony liberal assertions that they don't want to silence conservatives notwithstanding, the result would be to force radio stations to carry nonpolitical programming — except left-wing NPR, which doesn't have to worry about whether anyone is listening.
Like all modern liberals, this guy can be scary:
I'm ready to take a page from the Obama playbook and be the change I've been waiting for. I know that there are people out there who feel the same as I do about this and just need to be ignited. Just like the Obama campaign was a grass root effort, this can be too. I'm sure this cause is on the administration's agenda…
Kind of reminds you of Peggy Joseph, the ethnically correct Obamunist who was sure she'd never have to pay for gasoline or housing again once The Anointed One had ascended.
If the Founding Fathers could have granted us the right of freedom of speech for all time, they would have. But rights can't be granted in perpetuity. Each generation has to earn them. Those we don't earn will be taken away by thugs like Terrel Shepherd.
Wants to control what you listen to.
Congresscrooks Award Themselves an Extra $93,000 Apiece of Our Money
How far do these parasitical criminals have to go before we get the torches and pitchforks ready?
Hat tip: Gateway Pundit; on a tip from ent.
British Want Their Guns Back
But it's easier to give up liberty than to get the government to return it:
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الجمعة، 7 سبتمبر 2018
Controversy as a result of colloquial language textbooks
With the beginning of the new school year, the inclusion of the vernacular in the educational curricula in Morocco in a wave of criticism of the broad as the mogulun circulated pages said that it is a textbook to teach the Arabic language included words in the Moroccan language, including the names of some food and clothing
According to Moroccan newspapers, the Moroccan Ministry of Education confirmed the validity of the social networking sites, pointing out that these amendments are dictated by the educational directives for basic education
The ministry added that the words in colloquial language are limited and that the aim is to simplify the lesson for the student and end the break in the student between his dialect and the language to be learned, and this move affected the debate between advocates of the use of slang in educational decisions and rejecting them
For their part, opponents of the move to include slang in the school curriculum as serious and considered it a resolution aimed at pleasing the Francophone lobby in the country to strengthen the status of the French language at the expense of Arabic, while the advocates of the move that it will facilitate the child's understanding
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بث مباشر مبارة الاردن وتايوان تصفيات كأس العالم 2022 اليوم
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The Sweet Smell of Old Books
By Victoria Loustalot
CB I Hate Perfume is located on a bare Brooklyn block of concrete warehouses and spindly trees. A red door opens on a cement floor splattered with gold and black paint. Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams” is on low; tiny white lights twinkle from the ceiling. I’m here to field-test “In the Library,” a perfume inspired by the proprietor Christopher Brosius’s love of books and his inability to pass a secondhand bookshop without stopping in.
According to the shop’s description, the perfume is supposed to evoke a first-edition English novel via “Russian and Moroccan leather bindings, worn cloth, and a hint of wood polish.” That may very well be, but when I dab it on the inside of my wrist, I’m hit by caramel, vanilla, and the waft from a lit fireplace. The scent is warm and smoky, and I wish the used books I own smelled this way and not mildewed and stuffy.
I wander the shop, letting the perfume dry. The words of famous writers and thinkers are scattered among the displays. The Archetype Series, of “primal smells” that are “serene, timeless, and beyond gender,” cites Plato (“Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself”); the Experience Series, devoted to “a sense of place,” takes a page from Noel Coward (“As a matter of fact, I believe it is smell more than anything else that can carry one swiftly over the hills and far away”). My personal favorite, for the Secret History Series, is a declaration from Joseph Conrad: “We live as we dream: Alone.”
Two hours, one subway ride, half a coffee, and an eight-block walk later, “In the Library” has turned sweet and light on my skin, with the faintest trace of Scotch.
The Erasure of Political History at the National Archives
By Masha Gessen
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NGA Online Editions :: Alfred Stieglitz Key Set
sheet (trimmed to image): 11.5 x 8.9 cm (4 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.)
mount: 32.8 x 24.7 cm (12 15/16 x 9 3/4 in.)
Alfred Stieglitz Collection
1949.3.456
Stieglitz Estate Number 238A
Key Set Number 650
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650 of 1642 from the Alfred Stieglitz Key Set
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“. . . Yesterday we had a deep purple Lake—& a rainbow sky—intensely dark & small chasing pink & purple clouds chasing each other in front of the deep sombreness—and a rainbow—” (Stieglitz to Marie Rapp, 6 October 1920 [YCAL]).
A print of this image at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, is inscribed by Dorothy Norman, “Rainbow Lake George 1920.”
Stieglitz Collections
A corresponding print was given to the following institution(s) by Alfred Stieglitz during his lifetime, or was received or acquired from the estate:
The Art Institute of Chicago, 1949.737 (inscribed: L.G.2)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 92.1943.4
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Ph-157
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1997-146-112 (inscribed: For D. S. N. / M’ch 28/40 / C.C.)
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, center verso, in graphite: AS
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: 238 A
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Two Lives: Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz—A Conversation in Painting and Photographs, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, December 2, 1992–April 4, 1993; IBM Gallery of Science and Art, New York, April 27–June 26, 1993; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, July 17–September 12, 1993; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 2–December 5, 1993
Arrowsmith, Alexandra, Thomas West, and Belinda Rathbone. Two Lives: A Conversation in Paintings and Photographs. Exh. cat. The Phillips Collection, Washington and New York, 1992: 37.
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 650.
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Academic & Professional Books Environmental & Social Studies Pollution & Remediation Pollution & Remediation: General
Ecological Impacts of Tsunamis on Coastal Ecosystems Lessons from the Great East Japan Earthquake
Series: Ecological Research Monographs
By: Jotaro Urabe(Editor), Tohru Nakashizuka(Editor)
410 pages, 60 colour & 83 b/w illustrations, 64 tables
ISBN: 9784431564461 Hardback Oct 2016 Usually dispatched within 1-2 weeks
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Ecological Impacts of Tsunamis on Coastal Ecosystems focuses on the ecological impacts of the Great East Japan Earthquake and resulting tsunamis, a rare and extremely large disturbance event, on various coastal ecosystems in Japan's Tohoku area, including sub-tidal and tidal animal communities, sand dune plant communities and coastal forests. The studies presented here describe not only how species and populations in these ecosystems were disturbed by the earthquake and tsunamis, but also how the communities have responded to the event and what types of anthropogenic activities will hamper their recovery processes.
In the ecological sciences, it is often argued that large disturbances are critical to shaping community structures and biodiversity in local and regional habitats. However, our understanding of these roles remains limited, simply because there have been few opportunities to examine and address the ecological impacts of large disturbance events. The scale of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake makes it one of the largest hazards in the past 1000 years. Thus, this book provides a unique opportunity to advance our understanding of the ecological impacts of large and rare disturbances and the implications of these events in the conservation and management of coastal ecosystems.
Following an outline of the Great East Japan Earthquake, the book's content is divided into two major parts. Part I reports on studies examining the ecological impacts of the tsunamis on sub-tidal and tidal animal communities, while Part II focuses on terrestrial plant communities in Japan's coastal Tohoku area.
Ecological Impacts of Tsunamis on Coastal Ecosystems will benefit all scientists interested in the ecological impacts of large disturbances on aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems in general, and especially those who are interested in the ecological management of coastal ecosystems and Ecosystem based Disaster Risk Reduction (EcoDRR).
1 Outline of the Great East Japan Earthquake
Part I Aquatic Ecosystems
2 Succession of an intertidal community on a jetty on the northeast coast of Honshu Island after the Great East Japan Earthquake
3 Rocky Intertidal Zonation: Impacts and Recovery from the 2011 Tohoku Megaquake
4 Quantitative Evaluation of the Impact of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake Tsunami on the Rocky Intertidal Community
5 Rocky Intertidal Barnacle Population Dynamics: Impacts and Recovery from the 2011 Tohoku Megaquake
6 Ecological impacts of earthquake and tsunami and the following succession on the subtidal macrobenthic community in Onagawa Bay, northeastern Japan, with special reference to the dominant taxon, polychaetes
7 Ecological consequences of the tsunamis caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent disturbance events in a shallow brackish lagoon in Sendai Bay, Japan
8 Impacts of the tsunami disaster caused by the 3.11 Great East Japan Earthquake on the benthic communities and their recovery in tidal flats of Matsukawaura Lagoon, Soma, Japan
9 Colonization of the restored and newly created tidal flats by benthic animals in the Sanriku region of northern Japan
10 Effects of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake on intertidal macrobenthos in Iwate Prefecture
11 Ecological responses of macrobenthic communities in tidal flats to disturbances by the Great East Japan Earthquake
12 The effects of liquefaction, tsunami and land subsidence on intertidal mollusks following the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake
13 Ecological impacts and recovery of molluscan populations after the tsunami struck around Matsushima Bay and Sendai Bay, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan
14 Genetic structures of Euspira fortunei metapopulations along the northeast coast of Japan after the tsunamis caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake
15 Impacts of fuel spills caused by the 2011 Japanese tsunami on the subtidal soft-bottom communities of a semi-enclosed bay located on the Sanriku coast
Part II Terrestrial Ecosystems
16 Impact of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami on coastal vegetation and landscapes in Northeast Japan: Findings based on remotely sensed data analysis
17 Susceptibility of sandy-beach flora to the 2011 Tohoku-oki tsunami in northern Tohoku, Japan
18 The species composition of buried seeds of seashore vegetation disturbed by the 2011 Tohoku-oki tsunami in northern Tohoku, Japan
19 Plant diversity and considerations for conservation of it in infrastructure reconstruction planning after the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami of 2011
20 Regeneration of damaged coastal forests caused by the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake Tsunami
21 Flora of freshwater wetlands in the tsunami-affected zone of the Tohoku region
22 Influences of large, infrequent disturbance caused by tsunami on coastal forest communities
23 Survey of Impact of the Great East Japan Earthquake on the Natural Environment in Tohoku Coastal Regions
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Academic & Professional Books Reference Physical Sciences Cosmology & Astronomy
Handbook / Manual Popular Science
By: Charles A Cardona
188 pages, 97 black & white illustrations, 33 colour illustrations
ISBN: 9781441970398 Paperback Nov 2010 Usually dispatched within 1-2 weeks
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The Pocket Field Guide to Star Clusters is written for practical astronomers and is intended for use at the telescope (or binoculars). It is a succinct, easy to understand guide with some good information in a concise yet easily understood format suited to actually using the book while observing. Thus this book is principally about observing star clusters - how to see them, how to find them, and how to image them. The first half dozen pages contain a brief outline in simple terms as to what star clusters are, and in the next approximately 150 pages there are two-page spreads for each star cluster that include concise, easy to read descriptions, observing notes, and facts, as well as photography/imaging notes, and suggested instruments. 'Finder' star charts help observers easily locate the cluster. Digital images (by the renowned digital imager Jan Wisniewski) illustrate the book throughout.
Preface.- Part I: Background.- Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Understanding Stars and Star Clusters.- Chapter 3: How to Use This Book.- Part II: Star Clusters.- Chapter 4: Descriptions, Images, and Charts.- Index.
Charles Cardona has been a teaching assistant in Astronomy at SUNY Suffolk Community College in New York, a former observatory director, a Variable Star section director, and a chairman of the board at the Custer Institute Observatory. He also taught courses, lectures, and seminars in Astronomy, Optics, and Computer Science. He was also the publisher of the Observatory Report Newsletter. In addition to his astronomy work, Charles has been an entrepreneur and has built and sold several companies. During the past 10 years, he has donated more than $200,000 to astronomy, education, and related children's causes. He recently organized the installation of a new observatory dome and telescope equipment. He is currently involved in various educational programs and groups dedicated to finding missing children.
From the reviews: "An informative and easy to follow discussion about the life of stars sets the scene for the formation of star clusters themselves. This pocket guide then delivers a set of descriptions, images and charts for each of the 50 clusters covered. The charts are uncluttered and useful, and the descriptions interesting ! . ideal for a beginner ! ." (Steve Richards, Sky at Night Magazine, April, 2011)
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You are here : Home / Events / CCG mergers: The essential event for CCGs considering a merger in April 2021
CCG mergers: The essential event for CCGs considering a merger in April 2021
Venue : Maple House, 150 Corporation Street, Birmingham, B4 6TB
Date : 19 March 2020
Event Time : 10:00am - 4:15pm
Note: Please log in to the members’ area to access the booking link.
The rapidly changing NHS landscape, the need to improve population health and to drive efficiencies has led to an unprecedented number of CCG mergers due to take place in April 2020, and many more CCGs are considering a merger in April 2021. A key lesson from previous mergers has been that building a strong case for change during the application phase with member practices, local partners, and the public is critical when forming a new CCG.
This national learning event hosted by NHS Clinical Commissioners (NHSCC) in partnership with Browne Jacobson LLP and NHS England and Improvement (NHSEI) is for CCGs considering a merger in April 2021. It is designed to give attendees:
An opportunity to learn from other CCGs about their experiences of merging, the risks and the benefits.
Knowledge on how to build a compelling case for change and how best to engage stakeholders and get them on board.
An understanding of the merger process, with top tips on how to get ahead in the application phase, and information about the support and advice on offer.
The event is designed to be practical and interactive, and there will be a mix of speakers from CCGs, NHSCC, NHSEI and Browne Jacobson LLP.
Please log in to the members’ area to access the booking link. Initially, two places are reserved for each group of CCGs considering merging together in April 2021. Additional places may be available. This event is free and open to all CCGs considering merging in 2021.
If you have any questions please contact office@nhscc.org.
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7 Things to Consider Before Getting Back With Your Ex
How to do the second time around right.
By Samantha Vincenty
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As painful as a breakup can be, relationships usually end for good reason—especially when one or both of you are unhappy more often than not, and you'd be better off meeting someone new. On rarer occasions, lingering feelings for an ex are so strong that "rekindling things" doesn't quite describe it, because that fire never went out. Even many seemingly-rock-solid celebrity marriages were preceded by a brief split: Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard, Adam Levine and Behati Prinsloo and Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade, to name just a few.
Reconciliations can work out, but is it right for your situation? Here's some expert advice on the questions to ask when you're considering getting back together with an ex.
Is the main issue that drove you apart resolvable?
"The number one criteria that must be met is that something has changed," says psychologist Cortney Warren, PhD. "There is a reason that the relationship didn't work the last time you dated—maybe many reasons. Whatever they were contributed to your previous breakup. So, if it's going to work this time, one or both of you must have evolved."
"Unless they fix what the situation was that broke them up to begin with, it's just going to happen again and again," says relationship expert Rachel A. Sussman, LCSW, citing possible differences such as religion or wanting to move away for a job.
Do you both agree on what your past differences were?
In order to work out the issues that caused the breakup, you need to agree on what those problems were in the first place. Failure to do so will bring the reunion honeymoon period to a screeching halt a week, a month, or two months in, says Sussman.
"The couple has to have a really good talk," she continues. "They have to have a true understanding of the narrative of what broke them up. They should be on the same page about that narrative, and they should be on the same page about what needs to change."
Have you given each other enough space to know how to do things better this time?
Don't even consider getting back together until you've given your split some room to breathe, Sussman warns. "Has the couple had time during that breakup to reflect and change, and maybe work on themselves?" she asks. "That couple has a greater likelihood of working it out than the couple who only broke up for two weeks and just gets back together out of insecurity, loneliness, or for the wrong reasons."
Is your ex open to getting back together?
This should probably go without saying, but exploring the possibility of reconciliation needs to be mutual. Too many movies portray the hero as "persistent" and "romantic" when he's actually exhibiting stalking behavior, as this Atlantic article highlights, while in real life, requests like "don't call me again" should always be taken seriously.
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If you do want to broach the topic, Sussman recommends reaching out to see if they're open to discussing it. "It's always good to take responsibility, say 'Hey, I've done a lot of soul searching and I've seen mistakes that I made, and I'd really like the opportunity to talk with you,'" she says. "So you're not asking for anything in person, just listen to what they have to say. I think that's always a good opportunity to take personal responsibility."
Are you afraid you won't find someone else?
This is one of those aforementioned wrong reasons to reunite, says Sussman: "It's fear. Fear of being alone, fear of never meeting anybody, fear that this is the last opportunity they're going to have, fear of dating." Wondering if you'll ever find a match after a romantic disappointment is completely understandable. But that worry shouldn't guide your choices.
Will you ask your ex the tough questions?
This is particularly important if they're the one initiating a reconciliation, or they've disappointed and hurt you repeatedly in the past. "You can be skeptical," Sussman says, asking them things such as, 'what makes you think it's going to be different this time? Why should I believe you? How do I know you're going to be consistent in what you're saying?'"
Warren offers a few more: "What's different about who you are now that will make our relationship work this time around? And what do you need from me to make this succeed that you didn't get last time we dated?"
Have you conveniently forgotten the darker parts of your relationship?
Take a cold-eyed inventory of your relationship. Did the happier times really outnumber the sad ones?
"Humans often look back on an ex with rose-tinted glasses and remember only the positive aspects of the relationship," Warren explains. "For many, we selectively remember only what was good about an ex and former relationship because the negative aspects of the relationship that broke us up are too painful or upsetting to hold in our conscious awareness." Instead of scrolling through old selfies of you two on a tropical vacation, you might try checking the transcripts—aka, your old emails and text exchanges—to better revisit what things were truly like.
"If it was a relationship where the good outweighs the bad, I'd be hard pressed to wonder, 'why not get back together?,'" Sussman says. "I've seen couples do it, and go on and get married, and stay married. It can happen."
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Carol Burnett lights up Dr. Phillips Center with laughter
By Matthew J. Palm
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In January, Carol Burnett received the inaugural Carol Burnett Award at the 76th annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
You know you’ve made it when you serve as your own warmup act. Entertainment icon Carol Burnett got the crowd roaring Monday night at Orlando’s Dr. Phillips Center before she even took the stage — just by playing clips from her beloved variety show.
It’s hard to mention Burnett, whose eponymous television program ran from 1967-1978, without throwing around words like “legend” and “icon.” But her charm endures because in person she’s far more approachable than those grandiose words suggest.
Watching the clips of her audience interaction decades ago, and then observing her with Monday’s Orlando crowd, it’s clear her act hasn’t changed — because it’s not an act. She’s genuinely interested in people — and, of course, in making people laugh.
For 90 minutes Monday, she did just that — showing videos, telling showbiz stories and talking with Central Floridians.
Longtime fans got backstage info. When dim-bulb blonde Mrs. Wiggins bit her nails, Burnett was really chomping on her fingers to stop from laughing. Turns out it was famed designer Bob Mackie’s idea to leave the curtain rod in Burnett’s Scarlett O’Hara-esque dress for the classic “Went With the Wind’ spoof.
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Burnett spoke on her love of all her show’s movie parodies, recalling that as a child she would gather friends to re-enact the films she saw.
Her anecdotes went beyond the fabled TV program. She talked of earlier times — the late 1950s — when she was pulling double duty by working on the weekly Garry Moore Show and performing eight times a week on Broadway in “Once Upon a Mattress.” For one stretch, she said, she went 20-odd days working both jobs with no time off.
That came to stop when she climbed up on her mattresses during a matinee of the Broadway musical — and promptly fell asleep.
“Then they gave me a day off,” she said.
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If the acting bug hadn’t bitten her in college, she said, she might have become a journalist. “I’m glad I’m not that now,” she commented, to a roar from the crowd.
As always, she knows how to make her audience part of the comedy. One man told her that as a child he wanted to grow up and marry her — then added this was the first his husband was hearing about that.
“So you’ve come out of the closet then?” Burnett commented drily from the stage.
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Another Central Floridian asked how she kept from laughing during the “Carol Burnett Show” sketches. Burnett, without missing a beat: “Well, I wasn’t terribly successful at it.”
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She credited the success of the show to its repertory nature, where collaboration with co-stars Tim Conway, Harvey Korman and Vicki Lawrence was the order of the day.
“I didn’t want to be a diva, and I never was,” Burnett said.
She still isn’t — and all the more wonderful for that.
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Judge dismisses compensation claim for freed death-row inmate Clemente Aguirre-Jarquin
Clemente Aguirre-Jarquin, a Honduran immigrant exonerated in November after 10 years on death row, sits in his Tampa, Florida home for an interview on Nov. 20 2018. (Joey Roulette for the Orlando Sentinel)
A judge on Thursday dismissed former death-row inmate Clemente Aguirre-Jarquin’s request for compensation under a state law providing money for people who were wrongfully incarcerated.
Two months after he became the 28th man freed from Florida’s death row last November, Aguirre-Jarquin filed a claim under Florida’s Victims of Wrongful Incarceration Compensation Act, a 2008 law giving people $50,000 per year they were unjustly imprisoned. Aguirre-Jarquin may have been eligible for up to $700,000 had his request been approved.
Aguirre-Jarquin spent nearly 15 years behind bars — including 10 on death row — for the 2004 murders of Cheryl Williams and her mother Carol Bareis in Seminole County.
The Florida Supreme Court tossed his conviction and ordered a new trial in 2016 after new evidence surfaced, including a series of confessions made by Samantha Williams, Cheryl Williams’ daughter, that she had killed her mother and grandmother. Williams has not been charged with a crime in her relatives’ deaths.
The Seminole-Brevard State Attorney’s Office dropped the case against Aguirre-Jarquin in November, as his second trial was in jury selection, after testimony emerged casting doubt on Samantha Williams’ alibi the night of the killings.
But prosecutors for State Attorney Phil Archer still opted to challenge Aguirre-Jarquin’s compensation claim, citing a 90-day deadline after a conviction is vacated to request compensation. Archer argued Aguirre-Jarquin should have filed his claim in 2016, after the Florida Supreme Court’s decision to vacate his conviction.
Aguirre-Jarquin’s lawyers called that position “absurd,” because prosecutors immediately announced they would re-try Aguirre-Jarquin and he remained behind bars for two more years while awaiting his second trial.
The law says those seeking compensation must file a petition and give “proper notice to the prosecuting authority in the underlying felony for which the person was incarcerated.”
In his ruling, Circuit Judge John Galluzzo said Aguirre-Jarquin’s argument “conflates custody and incarceration.”
“The ‘was incarcerated’ language is connected to ‘the underlying felony,’” Galluzzo wrote. “Therefore, while Mr. Aguirre remained in custody until November 2018, he was no longer incarcerated on the underlying felonies in this case once the mandate was issued on the order vacating his conviction and sentence.”
Galluzzo described the wording of the compensation law as “cumbersome,” “counterintuitive,” and “ill suited to situations like this case when the petitioner remains in custody facing retrial.”
“However, it was incumbent upon counsel to be aware of the deadlines contained in the statute and the case law interpreting that deadline,” Galluzzo wrote. “The Court cannot rewrite a clear and unambiguous statute … because it believes the statute was drafted poorly or that Mr. Aguirre should be entitled to compensation.”
One of the lawyers representing Aguirre-Jarquin, Josh Dubin, said they will “certainly” appeal Galluzzo’s decision.
“I respectfully think he got it wrong,” Dubin said Thursday. “It really doesn’t make any sense that someone would be expected to file a claim while they’re still incarcerated on the same day. … This was one step in what’s going to be a long road for the State of Florida if they think they’re going to fight compensation for Clemente Aguirre.”
Archer said Galluzzo “had no choice but to follow the existing case law establishing the time limitations for filing this type of Petition.”
“It’s up to the Florida Legislature to change the existing law if their intent is to extend the filing period,” Archer said.
In court filings contesting Aguirre-Jarquin’s petition, prosecutors have presented another argument against Aguirre-Jarquin being recognized as wrongfully incarcerated: There is still “substantial evidence” he killed Bareis and Cheryl Williams, they say.
When prosecutors dropped the case against Aguirre-Jarquin in November, Archer’s spokesman, Todd Brown, said prosecutors would meet with the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office to “determine if there are any investigative avenues that can be pursued, or any further action to be taken in this case.”
Brown said Thursday that no decision has been made regarding any potential further action.
Aguirre-Jarquin currently lives in a community in Tampa for people who were wrongfully incarcerated. The Honduran immigrant — who entered the United States without legal authorization about a year before he was arrested — intends to seek asylum.
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Dubin declined to comment on how Aguirre-Jarquin is being financially supported, other than to say he “has friends and family and a legal team that care about him.”
“There’s a whole community of people that support and help support the wrongly accused, especially those who spent more than a decade in jail for a crime they didn’t commit,” Dubin said. “He wants to be a proud member of society.”
Michael Williams can be reached at miwilliams@orlandosentinel.com, 407-420-5022 or @michaeldamianw.
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Cyclone boys dominate Baldwin
Greg Mast
Jan 15, 2020 at 12:36 PM Jan 15, 2020 at 12:36 PM
The Ottawa High School boys basketball coaching staff wanted to see the Cyclones come out and play a dominating style.
“That was the challenge to them before the game,” Ottawa coach Cliff McCullough said after the Cyclones’ 71-34 victory Tuesday over Baldwin. “Go put the game out of hand, out of reach, early and often. I want them to develop that killer intinct. You stay on the throttle until I stop it. It was nice to be able to come in and do what we were supposed to do.”
Ottawa jumped on top quickly and never looked back. Ottawa gained a 40-20 halftime lead and pushed the lead past the 30-point mark in the third quarter.
“The third quarter was big,” McCullough said. “We came out and extended the [lead].”
The reason behind the season-best scoring output was the defense. Ottawa turned turnovers and missed shots into layups and a dunk.
“We have to get back to defense dictating how you play on offense,” McCullough said. “It leads to run outs. It led to our first dunk of the season. It leads to really good things. If we can start locking some people up defensively, good things are going to happen.”
Ottawa attacked Baldwin’s zone defense in the halfcourt. McCullough liked how the Cyclones were patient.
“They did challenge us in their zone,” McCullough said. “They went to that zone and we always struggle with a zone. We don’t run it very effectively. We adapted to some things that they were doing. Our shot selection tonight was pretty good.”
McCullough used the three week break of only playing one game to work on the offense.
“We are trying to fine-tune everything we do offensively because we have so many weapons,” McCullough said. “If we can get a lot of different touches on the ball and score it, it makes it easier.”
The game was the start of a big stretch of games with five games over an 11-day period. McCullough said the Cyclones need a deeper bench.
“I hope to get a couple more guys adddd to the rotation,” McCullough said. “I would like to find us another big.”
Ottawa (4-2) plays Thursday in a rescheduled game against Topeka West in Topeka. Next week, Ottawa plays three games in the Basehor-Linwood Tournament.
“Starting Thursday and next week is brutal,” McCullough said. “We are playing pretty good at home. We have to get a win on the road. You have to win on the road. We have four coming up.”
Ottawa will play Tonganoxie on Feb. 24 in a rescheduled game from this past Friday.
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Gender and Forms of Conflict: The Moral Hazards of Dating the Security Council
Vasuki Nesiah
The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Conflict
Edited by Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Naomi Cahn, Dina Francesca Haynes, and Nahla Valji
Political Science, Comparative Politics
10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199300983.013.23
Mapping Forms of Conflict: From International Humanitarian Law to International Conflict Feminism
International humanitarian law
International Conflict Feminism
International Conflict Feminism’s challenge to international humanitarian law
Representations and Consequences: Interrogation of International Conflict Feminism Maps
Representation of gender in the context of conflict in ICF maps
Representation of human rights in the context of humanitarian crisis in International Conflict Feminism maps
Foreword I
Foreword II
Introduction: Mapping the Terrain: Gender and Conflict in Contemporary Perspective
Theories of War
From Women and War to Gender and Conflict?: Feminist Trajectories
The Silences in the Rules That Regulate Women during Times of Armed Conflict
How Should We Explain the Recurrence of Violent Conflict, and What Might Gender Have to Do with It?
The Gendered Nexus between Conflict and Citizenship in Historical Perspective
Violent Conflict and Changes in Gender Economic Roles: Implications for Post-Conflict Economic Recovery
Victims Who are Men
Women, Peace, and Security: A Critical Analysis of the Security Council’s Vision
Participation and Protection: Security Council Dynamics, Bureaucratic Politics, and the Evolution of the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda
A Genealogy of the Centrality of Sexual Violence to Gender and Conflict
1325 + 17 = ?: Filling in the Blanks of the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda
Complementarity and Convergence?: Women, Peace and Security and Counterterrorism
Unlocking the Potential of CEDAW as an Important Accountability Tool for the Women, Peace and Security Agenda
The Promise and Limits of Indicators on Women, Peace and Security
Humanitarian Intervention and Gender Dynamics
(Re)Considering Gender Jurisprudence
Complementarity as a Catalyst for Gender Justice in National Prosecutions
Forced Marriage during Conflict and Mass Atrocity
Advancing Justice and Making Amends Through Reparations: Legal and Operational Considerations
Conflict, Displacement, and Refugees
The Martial Rape of Girls and Women in Antiquity and Modernity
“Mind the Gap”: Measuring and Understanding Gendered Conflict Experiences
Intersectionality: Working in Conflict
Agency and Gender Norms in War Economies
Risk and Resilience: The Physical and Mental Health of Female Civilians during War
The Gender Implications of Small Arms and Light Weapons in Conflict Situations
Unmanned Weapons: Looking for the Gender Dimensions
Gender and Peacekeeping
Peacekeeping, Human Trafficking, and Sexual Abuse and Exploitation
Women, Peace Negotiations, and Peace Agreements: Opportunities and Challenges
Women’s Organizations and Peace Initiatives
Gender and Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration: Reviewing and Advancing the Field
Decolonial Feminism, Gender, and Transitional Justice in Latin America
Gender and Governance in Post-Conflict and Democratizing Settings
Who Defines the Red Lines?: The Prospects for Safeguarding Women’s Rights and Securing Their Future in Post-Transition Afghanistan
“That’s Not My Daughter”: The Paradoxes of Documenting Jihadist Mass Rape in 1990s Algeria and Beyond
Consequences of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence on Post-Conflict Society: Case Study of Reparations in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Colombia: Gender and Land Restitution
Knowing Masculinities in Armed Conflict?: Reflections from Research in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Northern Ireland: The Significance of a Bottom-Up Women’s Movement in a Politically Contested Society
Gendered Suffering and the Eviction of the Native: The Politics of Birth in Occupied East Jerusalem
Rwanda: Women’s Political Participation in Post-Conflict State-Building
Sri Lanka: The Impact of Militarization on Women
This chapter compares and contrasts the successes and failures of “conflict mapping” in international humanitarian law (IHL) and international conflict feminism (ICF), a phrase the author uses to refer to feminist initiatives aimed at strengthening international law and policy’s response to women’s experiences. The chapter begins by describing the IHL regime for classification of forms of conflict and the consequences of these stratifications on conflict resolution. It addresses the strategies of ICF, and the challenge it brings to the conflict maps of IHL for not adequately addressing women’s specific needs. The chapter then questions the conflict maps of ICF. It demonstrates the ways in which ICF’s approach to gender, while commendable, can also be simplistic and inadequate.
Keywords: international conflict feminism, gender, feminism, international humanitarian law, conflict mapping, conflict resolution
Vasuki Nesiah is Associate Professor of Practice at New York University. Her main areas of research include the law and politics of international human rights and humanitarianism, international feminisms, and the history of colonialism in international law. Her most immediate projects includes a book on reparations for colonialism and slavery, a book on International Conflict Feminism and a co-edited volume (with Luis Eslava and Michael Fakhri) on A Global History of Bandung and Critical Traditions in International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2017). She is one of the founding members of Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), continues as core faculty in Harvard Law School’s Institute for Global Law and Policy (IGLP) and is a Senior Fellow at Melbourne Law School. Professor Nesiah's publications can be accessed at http://nyu.academia.edu/VasukiNesiah.
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Barbie Will Be Honoured By The CFDA’s Board Of Directors
Barbie has worn many hats over her 60 years, but she’s always been a fashionista. That’s why the CFDA has decided to honor your girl with their Board of Director’s Tribute.
“Barbie has had such a wide influence on American fashion and culture,” President and CFDA CEO Steven Kolb said. “Her story personally resonated with so many CFDA members that the Board of Directors decided to honour her with the special tribute.”
Barbie will join the likes of, well, Michell Obama, who’s also taken home the award. And frankly, it makes sense. From her inception, Barbie has always been a leader in the world of fashion, with designers like Jeremy Scott and Alexander Wang using her as inspiration for their designs. Plus, the girl deserves it just based on the amount of times her hair has been chopped, head has been cut off and she’s been made to have sex with G.I. Joe. Sorry about that, by the way.
The internet, as it appears, is divided. With many pointing to Barbie’s historic ties to unrealistic body expectations and lack of diverse representation. Others are just pissed that a doll has its name on a list next to Gloria Steinham and Michelle Obama.
The @cfda is giving Barbie - the doll - the Board of Directors Award at its annual dinner in June. That’s the same award it gave Michelle Obama, Gloria Steinham, Cecile Richards and Michael Bloomberg. And that’s all I’m going to say about that. For now. https://t.co/0KHhtsiCl3 pic.twitter.com/ex9DV5Cs9R
— Robin Givhan (@RobinGivhan) May 16, 2019
*Scratches head.* Barbie, the doll that launched a million pre-adolescent diets, will receive the Board of Directors’ Tribute at the 2019 CFDA Fashion Awards for her contributions to fashion.
Past recipients: Michelle Obama, Gloria Steinem, Janelle Monáe, Cecile Richards
— Christina Binkley (@BinkleyOnStyle) May 16, 2019
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Bigger and better than all those that came before it Sonic 3 heralded larger and more interesting levels that seamlessly joined on to each other,…
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Steam Let’s Plays on YouTube
If you’re looking for some Steam Let’s Plays on YouTube then check out this page often because I will keep adding links to my list of YouTube gaming channels. So…What is a Let’s Play?
Introduction: A Let’s Play is known as a series of videos based on playthroughs of video games from the perspective of a fellow gamer. The term Let’s Play actually came from the Something Awful forums in 2007 to describe video gameplay via screenshots or actual footage.
Simply put, instead of being an objective, fact-based, informative overview of a game, it is actually a subjective, humorous, and personally opinionated commentary on aspects of the game noted by the video creator.
One could expect completely ridiculous and often exaggerated accounts of gameplay, guides, and walkthroughs, first impressions, discovering Easter eggs, glitches and bugs, and professional critical reviews from gamer journalists.
Many of these Let’s Players give their impression on Steam games so I thought, why not post the best ones here? Not everyone has access to expensive titles due to budget constraints. Watching a let’s play brings them up to speed.
The Age of YouTube Gaming
You’ve probably heard of these famous YouTubers: PewDiePie, Markiplier, StampyLongHead, TotalBiscuit, Cinemassacre, TeamFourStar, YOGSCAST, and RoosterTeeth. They all have a strong social media following and attract millions of fans (and sometimes haters) alike.
Image by DaGoldenEdits/CC BY-SA 4.0
Yep, you guessed it. Beyond 2010 was when YouTube gaming really picked up. People started making live streams and playthroughs which later on became a profitable source of revenue through clickable advertisements as videos gained more views.
As an avid fan of YouTube Let’s Plays, I want to show you guys some of my favorite channels on YouTube. I still watch many acclaimed YouTube channels and have subscribed to several that I found particularly funny or entertaining. Like everyone else, I consider Let’s Plays to be accurate depictions of the typical gaming experience with added commentary and sometimes minor edits.
These YouTube content creators upload videos on all kinds of games which is nice because I have a limited budget to spend on video games. Not only can I watch video game playthroughs for free but also I’m able to make better decisions on which games are worth buying from the Steam store and likely ones I would enjoy playing.
Edited by Wenxi/Logo by Rooster Teeth
A Brief Overview of YouTube Let’s Plays
Most YouTubers separate their playthroughs into several parts since video games are often lengthy, taking awhile to unlock all of the achievements. They or their fans usually decide whether a game should be finished before moving onto a new title.
If their videos have millions of views, then the uploader is likely to continue creating content for their fans. But these Let’s Players can be quite unpredictable, making videos on a whim out or of personal interests. Fans, in turn, will come and go.
In a way, Let’s Plays also serve as a walkthrough of the general objectives of a game including how to finish the main storyline, strategies for fighting boss battles, how to complete a certain quest, and so forth. However, I wouldn’t recommend them to everyone because of potential spoilers that ruin the game’s immersion effect.
Minecraft-The Typical Game for a Let’s Play
What are some YouTube channels for gamers?
Well, I’ve been browsing plenty of Let’s Play videos on YouTube all day. When you have too much free time, you tend to pick up on a lot of interesting video games you didn’t think existed. Gaming is a huge industry and fellow gamers are always looking for new titles to discover including on Steam.
Anyways, I’ll direct you to some of my favorite and most recommended YouTube channels for Steam Let’s Plays. I will be posting some of the more hilarious videos I can find on Steam games so enjoy and comment if you have any suggestions!
I’ll probably be compiling lists of the Top 20 Best YouTube Channels for Gamers or something like that. 🙂
What are some of your favorite YouTube gamers?
2 thoughts on “YouTube Let’s Plays”
I liked how you explained in a very natural and easy to digest way, what the famous “let’s play” stands for.
Personally, I used to be a big fan of the Cynical Brit (totalbiscuit) and his WoW walkthroughs. Always enternaining and fun to watch, especially his typical cynical sense of humor.
Do you know this guy and if so – what happedned with him, is he still around?
Wenxi says:
Yeah I’ve heard through the grapevine about TB from watching Jim Sterling and other YouTubers that were professional gaming critics.
I believe he is fighting cancer according to his Twitter page. It really sucks because I knew about him only two years ago. 🙁
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'Heartstoppingly chilling' Daily Express
As The Woman in Black celebrates thirty years on stage, discover the truly terrifying classic English ghost story behind the play.
Arthur Kipps, a junior solicitor, is summoned to attend the funeral of Mrs Alice Drablow, the sole inhabitant of Eel Marsh House. The house stands at the end of a causeway, wreathed in fog and mystery, but it is not until he glimpses a wasted young woman, dressed all in black, at the funeral, that a creeping sense of unease begins to take hold, a feeling deepened by the reluctance of the locals to talk of the woman in black – and her terrible purpose.
‘No one chills the heart like Susan Hill’ Daily Telegraph
"No one chills the heart like Susan Hill"
"An excellent ghost story… magnificently eerie… compulsive reading"
"A rattling good yarn, the sort that chills the mind as well as the spine"
"Heartstoppingly chilling"
"Terrifying... creepy classic"
The Benefit of Hindsight
The Comforts of Home: Simon Serrailler Book 9
Old Haunts
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Father, Father (Storycuts)
Susan Hill’s novels and short stories have won the Whitbread, Somerset Maugham and John Llewellyn Rhys awards, and the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year, and been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. She is the author of 56 books. The play adapted from her famous ghost story, The Woman in Black, has been running in the West End since 1989; it is also a major feature film. Her crime novels featuring DCS Simon Serrailler are currently being adapted for TV. Susan Hill was born in Scarborough and educated at King’s College London. She is married to the Shakespeare scholar Stanley Wells, and they have two daughters. Susan Hill was appointed a CBE in the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Honours. www.susan-hill.com
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LAS VEGAS OPEN 2019
Pétanque Club of Las Vegas
2nd International Open Select Doubles 2019
About Pétanque
1. Pétanque is played
- in a triples game with three players on each side, each player using two boules.
- in a doubles game with two players on each side, each player using three boules.
- in a single game with one player on each side, each player using three boules.
2. There is a toss of a coin to see which team goes first. Any player of the winning team picks a spot to start the game marking or placing a circle on the ground. When playing, player's feet cannot exit the circle before the boule reaches the ground.
3. Then this player throws the jack or « cochonnet » that must land within six to ten meters (20 to 30 feet) of the starting circle and one meter from any obstacle (wall, tree, etc.).
4. The player throws his first boule so that it lands close to the jack.
5. Then a player of the other team steps in the circle and tries to throw his boule closer to the jack than the previous boule, either knocking his opponent's boule out of the way, either landing his boule closer to the jack. The boule closest to the jack leads or is said to be "holding the point."
6. A player of the team that is not leading must continue throwing boules until the team takes the lead.
7. When a team runs out of boules, players of the other one finish throwing theirs, trying to land close to the jack.
8. When both teams are out of boules, the points are counted. The team that has the boule closest to the jack wins the round. In addition, that team also receives an additional point for each boule that is closer to the jack than the opponents' closest boule.
9. It's now the turn of one player of the winning team to throw the jack from its previous spot and the game goes on until one team reaches 13 points.
Official rules for pétanque
Video of a pétanque game
Petanque America Open (Amelia Island) 2017
1/4 final concours A
Team 1: Hervé Maréchal & Robert Dunn
Team 2: Marco Foyot & Bernard Martin
© 2019 by Pétanque Club of Las Vegas
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Estate Planning, Asset Protection & Wills
The Enterprise Investment Scheme allows qualifying companies access to equity investment from new and, in some cases, existing shareholders. The shareholders obtain potentially attractive tax breaks. At Pravin Hirani & Co, we can provide help if you are interested in financing your business in the Wembley area or you are interested in providing capital to businesses.
The purpose of the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) is to help certain types of small higher-risk unquoted trading companies to raise capital. It does so by providing income tax and CGT reliefs for investors in qualifying shares in these companies.
There are really two separate schemes within the EIS:
a scheme giving income tax relief on the investment and a CGT exemption on gains made when the shares are disposed of; and/or
a scheme aimed at providing a CGT deferral.
An individual may be able to take advantage of either or both of these schemes as long as they meet the relevant conditions which are considered below.
EIS reliefs available
Income tax relief
Investors may be given income tax relief at 30% on their investments of up to £1,000,000 a year (£2 million a year for knowledge-intensive companies from 6 April 2018).
The income tax relief is withdrawn if the shares are disposed of within three years.
Eligibility for income tax relief is restricted to companies with which you are not ‘connected’. This is considered in ‘cHow to qualify for income tax relief’c below.
CGT exemption
Gains on the disposal of EIS shares are exempt unless the income tax relief is withdrawn.
The CGT exemption may be restricted if an investor does not get full income tax relief on the subscription for EIS shares.
Losses on the disposal of EIS shares are allowable. The amount of the capital loss is restricted by the amount of the EIS income tax relief still attributable to the shares disposed of.
A capital loss arising on the disposal of EIS shares can be set against income.
CGT deferral
Gains arising on disposals of any assets can be deferred against subscriptions for shares in any EIS company.
Shares do not have to have income tax relief attributable to them in order to qualify for deferral relief.
The gain will become chargeable in the tax year when the subscription shares are disposed of.
There is no upper limit on the amount of deferral relief available to an individual although there is a limit on investment in a single company or group of companies.
Qualifying Companies
Companies must meet certain conditions for any of the reliefs to be available for the investor.
The company must be unquoted when the shares are issued and there must be no arrangement in existence at that time for it to cease to be unquoted.
All the shares comprised in the issue must be issued to raise money for the purpose of a qualifying business activity.
The money raised by the share issue must be wholly employed within a specified period by the company.
The investment must generally be made within seven years of the company’s first commercial sale.
The company or group must generally have fewer than 250 full time employees.
The size of the company is limited to £15 million (gross assets).
The amount of capital raised in any 12 month period is limited to £5 million (£10 million a year for knowledge-intensive companies from 6 April 2018).
The company must not be regarded as an ‘enterprise in difficulty’ under EC guidance
The company need only have a permanent establishment in the UK rather than carrying on a qualifying trade wholly or mainly in the UK.
Qualifying business activities
A trade will not qualify if excluded activities amount to a substantial part of the trade. The main excluded activities are:
dealing in land, in commodities or futures or in shares, securities or other financial instruments
dealing in goods other than in an ordinary trade of retail or wholesale distribution
leasing or letting assets on hire
receiving royalties or licence fees, other than, in certain cases, such payments arising from film production, or from research and development
providing legal or accountancy services
farming or market gardening
holding, managing, or occupying woodlands
operating or managing hotels, guest houses or hostels
operating or managing nursing homes or residential care homes
coal and steel production.
Time period in which the money is invested
The time limit for the employment of money invested is to two years from the issue of the shares or, if later, two years from the commencement of the qualifying activity.
Changes to the rules for qualifying companies
Over the years, governments make amendments to what are regarded as qualifying companies for EIS. The thrust of the changes is to ensure well-targeted support for investment into small and growing companies, with a particular focus on innovative companies. For example the conditions for knowledge-intensive companies vary from some of those mentioned above.
How to qualify for income tax relief
Eligibility for income tax relief is restricted to companies with which you are not 'connected' at any time during a period beginning two years before the issue of the shares and ending three years after that date, or three years from the commencement of the trade if later.
You can be connected with a company in two broad ways:
by virtue of the size of your stake in the company; or
by virtue of a working relationship between you and the company.
In both cases the position of your ‘associates’ is also taken into account.
Size of stake
You will be connected with the company at any time when you control directly or indirectly possess, or are entitled to acquire, more than 30% of the ordinary share capital of the company.
Working relationship
You will be connected with the company if you have been an employee or a paid director of the company.
There is an exception to this rule if you become a paid director of the company after you were issued with the shares.
You must never previously have been connected with the company and must not become connected with it in any other way. Also, you must never have been involved in carrying on the whole or any part of the trade or business carried on by the company.
How to qualify for CGT deferral relief
You can defer a chargeable gain which accrues to you on the disposal by you of any asset. In addition, you can defer revived gains arising to you in respect of earlier EIS, Venture Capital Trust (VCT) or CGT reinvestment relief investments.
There are some restrictions on investments against which gains can be deferred. These are designed, broadly, to prevent relief being obtained in circumstances where there is a disposal and acquisition of shares in the same company.
Receiving value from a company
The EIS is subject to a number of rules which are designed to ensure that investors are not able to obtain the full benefit of EIS reliefs if they receive value from the company during a specified period. If relief has already been given, it may be withdrawn.
Examples of the circumstances in which you would be treated as receiving value from the company are where the company:
buys any of its shares or securities which belong to you
makes a payment to you for giving up the right to payment of a debt (other than an ordinary trade debt)
repays a debt owed to you that was incurred before you subscribed for the shares
provides you with certain benefits or facilities
waives any liability of yours or an associate's to the company
undertakes to discharge, any such liability to a third party
lends you money which has not been repaid before the shares are issued.
Receipts of 'insignificant' value will not cause the withdrawal of relief.
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Edwards Brothers, Malloy Merge
With the demand for printed books shrinking, a consolidation in the manufacturing segment has been expected and now two of the country’s best known independent printers have announced a merger. Edwards Brothers and Malloy Inc., both based in Ann Arbor, have combined to create Edwards Brothers Malloy. The new company, with total sales of $115 million, will be led by Edwards Brothers president and CEO John Edwards with Bill Upton, president of Malloy, becoming v-p of operations, and Joe Upton, v-p of sales and marketing at Malloy, taking over that same role with Edwards Brothers Malloy.
Edwards Brothers Malloy will have three offset facilities—Edwards Brothers’ plants in Ann Arbor, and Lillington, N.C. and Malloy’s operation in Ann Arbor—along with 11 digital print plants in the U. S. Canada, and the U. K. The combination will allow the new company to offer a broader array of services to publishers. “We are no longer simply a book manufacturer—though we are still good at making books—we are a supply chain manager and an inventory management and delivery company. We can save publishers a lot of expense and time being a trusted supplier with full responsibility for their print orders. We’ll make sure the publisher never misses a sale, never has too many books sitting in a warehouse, and never has to worry about the quantity of their last reprint,” said John Edwards.
Edwards Brothers is best known for its Global Print Solutions distributed print partnership that allows publishers to print and distribute books with one order, one file, and one invoice around the world. Malloy has been focused on creating web-based service tools that allow customers to more easily manage their work at Malloy. Malloy also has a storage and fulfillment operation that serves over 100 mostly small publishers. "Together we offer a better value proposition," John Edwards said. He noted that the combined company will be able to fill the needs of publishers no matter how small the print run or where the publisher wants the book manufactured. "We can provide what publishers need when they need it," John Edwards said.
The focus of the new company will be on pursuing growth opportunities. To that end their current sales and customer services teams will remain largely intact, although there will be a few cuts on the sales side. More savings will come from combining corporate functions. Both Bill Upton and Edwards noted that they have relatively few common customers, which they believe will lead to new business as their respective customers become familiar with the capabilities of the other company. The men did not put a timetable on how long the integration will take. "We want to get it right," Bill Upton said.
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Pulse+IT Poll: August 1 – Hedging our bets
Written by Kate McDonald on 09 August 2016 .
It's a tough job for anyone to take up the reins at a new government agency and smooth over the ruffled feathers and lingering cynicism of the past few years in Australia eHealth so perhaps it's a blessing for new Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) CEO Tim Kelsey that not many people are aware of his existence.
Mr Kelsey was appointed to the top job at the ADHA just over a week ago in what came as a surprise move on behalf of the agency's board, nominating not just a newcomer to the country but one with a bit of baggage. Mr Kelsey is set to take up the high-profile role guiding the My Health Record program forward some time next week.
We asked readers whether they thought Mr Kelsey would have much ability to positively influence the roll-out of eHealth initiatives in Australia as ADHA head.
In this week's poll, we asked:
Do you think new ADHA CEO Tim Kelsey will be able to positively influence the roll-out of eHealth initiatives?
The results as at COB on Monday, August 8 were as follows:
Tim who?
Tuesday 16 (25%) 18 (29%) 29 (46%) 63
Wednesday 18 (31%) 17 (29%) 24 (41%) 59
Thursday 12 (34%) 11 (31%) 12 (34%) 35
Friday 9 (32%) 10 (36%) 9 (32%) 28
Monday 3 (20%) 3 (20%) 9 (60%) 15
As the results show, about equal numbers agree or disagree that Mr Kelsey will have a positive effect on eHealth but a small majority don't know who the new kid is. We'd be willing to bet that some of those who answered yes or no aren't really familiar with him either but are either cynics or hoping for the best.
Mr Kelsey has been notably described by one NHS chief clinical information officer as a “Marmite character” – you either like him or you don't – so we'll see how he adapts to the Australian industry and whether he morphs into a Vegemite man.
All eyes will be on him as a revised national eHealth strategy is finalised and released, hopefully in November, just as the evaluations of the opt-out trials of the My Health Record are being readied for submission to the minister.
To paraphrase the PM, it has never been a more exciting time to be the head of the Australian Digital Health Agency.
This week's Pulse+IT Poll question is: If you use clinical software or a hospital EMR, where do you sit on a sliding scale from very happy to not happy at all?
Subscribe to Pulse+IT's free eNewsletter service if you haven't already, and cast your vote.
If you have any suggestions for future Pulse+IT Polls, feel free to post these in the comments section below or submit a tip.
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Tags: ADHA, eHealth, Tim Kelsey
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Brisbane City Council
David Williams - 00:59:32
Interview:
David Williams describes his part in the state government's decision to renovate the football stadium at Brisbane's Lang Park. He notes that, despite controversy surrounding the decision, it was a more cost-effective option than alternative proposals such as redevelopment of the RNA showgrounds near the Royal Brisbane Hospital.
Beattie Government 1998-2007
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Greg Moran - 00:18:32
Greg Moran recalls that the 1957 split in the ALP was a very big issue in the Moran family with the community split across Catholic parishes between the ALP and the DLP.
Ian Brusasco - 00:30:57
Ian Brusasco discusses the influences on him by Clem Jones and Bryan Walsh.
Bryan Walsh
Clem Jones
Ian Brusasco states that during the Whitlam era the Toombul ward turned to the Liberal Party so he stood for the Lutwyche ward and won and took over chairing the BCC Health Committee and also, for a time, the Planning Committee.
Ian Brusasco outlines his maiden speech in the council, soon after he returned from visiting sporting facilities around the world including Greece, where he addressed the need for better sporting facilities in Brisbane and proposed Brisbane should nominate to hold the Commonwealth Games.
Ian Brusasco recalls his involvement with the Socceroos accompanying them around the world in preparation for the 1974 World Cup, and upon his return, he was approached by Clem Jones seeking someone to stand in the Toombul Ward by-election. Brusasco says he stood and won, becoming a Brisbane City Council (BCC) Alderman.
Brisbane Lord Mayor
Terry Hogan - 01:27:34
Terry Hogan recalls his move in 2005 from the public service to the Brisbane City Council. He describes the differences in organisational culture between the state government and the council. He outlines the council's responses to water scarcity and the provision of essential services.
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Jude Munro
Stephen Robertson
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Peter Andrews - 00:59:41
Peter Andrews discusses his role as Chief Scientist in helping shape the Smart State agenda. He outlines some of the issues on which the Smart State Council reported, and how the Council operated.
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Michael Rayner
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John Hay - 00:33:32
John Hay discusses the dispute regarding the Dutton Park Bridge, commenting on the role of the state government and Brisbane City Council.
Janice Mayes - 00:16:10
Janice Mayes discusses negotiating directly with politicians during the TAB Queensland privitisation.
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Maiden Esports Victory in Event 2!
Marcel storms to his and the team’s first win in F1 Esports Pro Series!
The 2019 F1 Esports Pro Series returned for its second round on Wednesday, with a packed grid taking to the virtual track at the Gfinity Esports Arena in London.
Racing at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Red Bull Ring and Silverstone, the series completed its next three rounds to reach the half-way point of the 2019 season.
Following on from back-to-back points finishes in Event 1, our drivers experienced a difficult start to Event 2.
But the comeback was on in a dramatic final race, as Marcel Kiefer secured both his and the team’s maiden win in the series!
The second event of the 2019 F1 Esports Pro Series commenced at the high-speed Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, with the track making its championship debut as the fourth venue of the present campaign.
While the 25% distance race started in dry conditions, the 18-lap affair proved to be one of the most difficult races yet, with a sudden downpour of rain creating tricky and changeable conditions.
Starting from P10 and P14, Daniele and Marcel made solid progress – advancing to P8 and P10 respectively when the rain arrived on Lap 3.
As conditions became more treacherous, Daniele pitted at the end of Lap 4 while Marcel opted to use the overcut strategy, staying out on track on the Soft tyres while the conditions only deteriorated.
After briefly leading, Marcel pitted on Lap 5 for Intermediate tyres to rejoin at the rear of the field. Fighting on, Daniele and Marcel eventually took P12 and P13 at the chequered flag.
The second round of Event 2 was contested at the Red Bull Ring and, after a mixed qualifying session, Marcel started from P8 while Daniele lined up in P20.
A lighting getaway was only the start of what was a spectacular race for Daniele, with the Italian advancing to P17 at the end of the first lap. Marching onwards, The Italian continued his ascension through the field, making solid progress to only narrowly miss out on a top 10 place – taking P11 to finish just in front of Marcel in P12.
The final race of Event 2 marked the team’s home race at Silverstone. And, after delivering a strong result last year, hopes were high for the sixth race of the season.
It was an impressive qualifying for the team, with Marcel securing a second-row starting spot in P3 – just 0.165s adrift of pole position – while Daniele started P12 at his favourite circuit on the calendar.
Securing a strong start, Marcel maintained P3 over the course of Lap 1, remaining close to first and second-placed runners David Tonizza and Frederik Rasmussen.
With Rasmussen clearing Tonizza on Lap 3, the Italian pitted for fresh tyres on Lap 5, allowing Marcel to move into second place and advancing into the lead when Rasmussen pitted one tour later.
Swapping his Soft-compound tyres for a set of Mediums, Marcel pitted on Lap 7, using the overcut strategy to his advantage to hold a net second place.
Closing in on Rasmussen, Marcel snatched first position with a diving move into Stowe with two laps remaining, going on to claim the team’s maiden win in the F1 Esports Pro Series!
Reaching the half-way point this season, Marcel currently holds P4 place in the Drivers’ Championship, advancing his tally 56 points.
While he was unfortunate to miss out on the top 10 in races 4-6, Daniele’s eight points from Event 1 help place the team P4 in the Constructors’ Standings.
The 2019 F1 Esports Pro Series will continue on November 6 at the Gfinity Esports Arena in London, with the field set to contest the next three races of the championship at Hockenheim, Spa and Monza.
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'Making Sense Of Marx' tag archive
David Archard, Mike Shortland, Denise Russell, Sebastian Gardner, Gregor McLennan, Peter Osborne, Keith Ansell-Pearson, David Lamb, Ralph Bannell, Paul Bagguley, Cynthia Hay, Richard Edwards, Chris Arthur, Jan Golinski and John FauvelRP 042 (Winter/Spring 1986)
Jeffrey Moussaieff Mason, ed., The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess, 1887-1904 Jeffrey Moussaleff Mason, The Assault on Truth: Freud’s suppression of the seduction theory Stephen Marcus, Freud and the Culture of Psychoanalysis David Archard Noel W. Thompson, The People’s Science: the popular political economy of exploitation and crisis, 1816-34 Mike Shortland R. C. Lewontin, […]
ReviewsA Dictionary of Marxist Thought, Arthur Brittan, C.J. Arthur, Christopher Hookway, Consciousness and Causality, Cynthia Hay, D. M. Armstrong, David Archard, David Lamb, David Michael Lewin, Denise Russell, Dictionary of Philosophy, Essentialism In the Thought of Karl Marx, Frederic Jameson, Freud and the Culture of Psychoanalysis, Gregor McLennan, Hegel's IntroductIon to the Lectures on the History of Philosophy C. J. Arthur, I. Frolov, ideology and human nature, J. Hoffman, Jeffrey Moussaieff Mason, Jeffrey Moussaleff Mason, John R. Gibbins, Jon Elster, Jonathan Rée David S. Landes, Jürgen Habermas, Keith Ansell Pearson, L. Kamin, Legitimacy and the State, Leibniz John Fauvel G. W. F. Hegel, Making Sense of Marx, Martin Jay, Mary Maynard, Mike Shortland, Noel W. Thompson, Norman Malcolm, Not in our Genes: biology, Paul Bagguley, Paul Ricoeur, Peirce, Personal Identity, Peter Osborne, R. C. Lewontin, Racism and Oppression, Ralph Bannell, Revolution in Time: clocks and the making of the modern world Jan Golinski George MacDonald Ross, Richard Edwards, Richard Swinburne, Robert Bernasconi, S. Rose, Sartre after Sartre, Scott Melkle, Sebastian Gardner, Sexism, Stephen Marcus, Sydney Shoemaker, The Assault on Truth: Freud's suppression of the seduction theory, The Body's Recollection of Being: phenomenologlcal psychology and the deconstruction of nihilism, The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess 1887-1904, The Gramscian Challenge: Coercion and consent in Marxist political theory, The People's Science: the popular political economy of exploitation and crisis 1816-34, The Question of Language in Heidegger's History of Being, The State and Civil Society: Studies in Hegel's political philosophy, The Theory of Communicative Action, Time and Narrative, Tom Bottomore, William Connolly, Z. A. Pelczynski
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Hamáček: Zeman will decide about Culture Minister’s resignation after meeting him on Tuesday
Tom McEnchroe
Social Democrat leader and Deputy Prime Minister Jan Hamáček met with President Miloš Zeman at Prague Castle on Thursday to discuss the resignation of fellow party member and Culture Minister Antonín Staněk. Mr. Hamáček has insisted that his replacement should be a political minister from his own ranks and that he already has a replacement. However, following the half-hour discussion he told the Czech News Agency that the president will only decide once he has met with Mr. Staněk on Tuesday.
Culture Minister Staněk resigned last Wednesday following pressure from the Czech cultural scene and his own party. However, he says the decision was not made by his own will, but as a result of the demand of his party leader. Prime Minister Andrej Babis called the nature of his resignation “unusual” on Monday, but told the news server iDNES that if the president does not accept he will ask for Staněk to go himself.
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Vietnamese group arrested over marijuana
Police have charged a group of Vietnamese citizens with the cultivation and sale of marijuana. Police uncovered 50 kilos of the drug and over 3,000 marijuana plants during a series of raids in Ústí nad Labem. Nine arrests were made in Ústí, while three more Vietnamese were later detained in Prague. Police said the group were exporting the marijuana to the Netherlands and Germany.
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Prague police have asked the municipality for a green light to activate automatic facial recognition cameras at six locations. That’s…
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Archive: Sport | Ice-hockey
In Sports News this Monday: Czechs’ great run in Davis Cup ends with semi-finals defeat to France – question marks hang over future involvement of star men Berdych and Štěpánek; Brno-Zlín ice hockey game abandoned after 13 minutes due to fog as Extraliga resumes; and Sparta drop more points in football top flight.
Czech ice hockey Extraliga gets under way
Ruth Fraňková
The new season of the Czech ice hockey Extraliga got underway on Friday, with the defending champions Zlín being beaten 5:2 by newcomers Mladá Boleslav. Třinec, Brno, and Plzeň, who are seen as favourites of the season, have come away with wins from the first round of the games.
In Sports News this Monday: Krpálek becomes first Czech judo world champion; Synek is again world champion in men’s single sculls; Kvitová fails to break US Open hoodoo with third round exit; Berdych through to last 16 at Flushing Meadows; Vaidišová plots comeback; and golden generation of hockey players pay tribute to coach Hlinka.
Jan Richter
In Sports News this Monday: Czech riders at Tour de France fall behind; Czechs win two golds and a bronze at European canoeing championships; and Russia’s KHL keeps drawing Czech players, and a referee.
Lev Praha to quit KHL over financial problems
The ice hockey club Lev Praha has shocked fans – and players – by announcing it will most likely withdraw from the Kontinental Hockey League next season. Owners of the Prague club, which reached the finals of the Russian-centred league this year, say they have not been able to secure a budget for next season.
Lev Praha not to take part in Kontinental Hockey League next season
The ice hockey club Lev Praha will not play next season in the Russia-centred Kontinental Hockey League. The Prague club, who reached the finals of the competition’s Gagarin Cup last season, are reported to be in financial difficulties. Lev Praha was the only Czech club in the Kontinental Hockey League in the last two seasons. The Czech News Agency reported that one possibility was that Lev would sit out next season and return in 2015-2016.
Chris Johnstone
In Sports News this Monday: relegations are decided on the last day of the Gambrinus League; Sparta Prague make it a hat trick at end of season awards; Tomáš Berdych makes it to the French quarter-finals; javelin thrower Vitězslav Veselý tops the Diamond League, and Zlín’s Petr Čajanka puts his retirement on ice.
Hockey: Blackhawks force Game 7
Jan Velinger
The Chicago Blackhawks rallied on Friday to defeat rivals the L.A. Kings in the Western Conference Final in the Stanley Cup playoffs, forcing a deciding Game 7 in the Windy City. The winner of the match-up will face the New York Rangers in the final. A win by the defending champion Blackhawks would leave one Czech in contention for a Stanley Cup ring - defenseman Michal Rozsival, who already has a ring from last year.
Hockey: Canadiens defeated
Hopes of reaching this year’s Stanley Cup final were dashed for forward Tomáš Plekanec and his fellow Montreal Canadiens on Thursday as the Habs faced the New York Rangers in Game 6 of their series. Chasing Rangers’ goalie Lundquist in their prior match, the Canadiens were unable to score this time around. The Rangers won 1:0 at home and will face either Chicago or L.A. in the final. Should defending champions Chicago defeat the Los Angeles Kings, one Czech will remain in contention for a Stanley Cup ring: defenseman Michal Rozsíval, who won with the Blackhawks last year.
Tomáš Plekanec helps Montreal Canadiens clawback
In ice hockey, Czech forward Tomáš Plekanec has helped keep alive the Stanley Cup hopes of the Montreal Canadiens. Plekanec scored in the 7:4 victory over the New York Rangers bringing the series to 2:3 in the best of seven semi-final confrontation. The sixth match in the series takes place in New York on Thursday.
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Bear Kept a Man Alive as Food Inside Its Den for a Month
A Russian man was rescued from a brown bear den Wednesday after the bear reportedly kept the man alive for a month to be used as food later.
Photo by Cibi Chakravarthi
WARNING: The images below are graphic in nature. Viewer discretion advised.
A group of hunters and their dogs in a remote area of Russia came across what they thought was just a bear den. The dogs’ persistent barking caused the hunters to go deeper into the den. Once inside, they found what they thought was a mummy. Until it moved. Apparently, a bear kept a man as food in its den for a month. The bear likely planned to eat the man at a later date.
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Known only as Alexander, the man was rushed to the hospital. He has multiple injuries, including a broken back and rotting flesh from laying still for so long. The victim can’t remember how old he is, but he told doctors the brown bear overpowered him and dragged him into his den. He said he’d been there for a month.
Bear Kept a Man as Food
Alexander spoke to a Russian news agency. “The bear preserved me as food for later. I drank my own urine to survive.” His spine had been broken when the bear sat on him.
Brown Bears and Prey
Brown bears are solitary animals. They spend most of their time hunting for food, and they’re omnivores. Their dens generally consist of any spot that provides cover from the elements, such as a cave, crevice, cavernous tree roots, or hollow logs.
When bears come out of hibernation, they are terrifically hungry. They will feed on most anything. Brown bears have been known to bury animals they kill. Sometimes, they won’t return to the prey for days or weeks. Theories suggest they do this to keep their prey hidden from other scavengers while the meat decomposes. This makes it easier for them to consume.
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California: A New Way of Life
David Reeder
A few days ago my friend Quoc Ha (AKA Q, a superb photographer whose work you'll see in RECOIL Issue 9) photographed and posted some of the images he crafted for the Calguns Foundation. The Calguns Foundation is an organization working (along with the Firearms Policy Coalition and others) to fight the ongoing anti-firearm legislation in California. No sooner do they defeat one law proposed to further restrict Californians' gun rights than another is vomited forth.
When I say the Calguns Foundation (CF) is fighting this anti-Second Amendment legislation, I mean that literally. On September 19th the Foundation filed a Federal civil right lawsuit against the acts and policies of two bilious members of the California state government: Attorney General Kamala D. Harris and state Department of Justice Firearms Bureau Chief Stephen Lindley. The lawsuit says the “California Department of Justice's practice of denying individuals' fundamental rights protected under the Second and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.” CF is using Q's imagery as part of an awareness campaign to further this fight.
Furthermore the lawsuit (Darrin Owen, et. al. vs. Kamala Harris, et. al. ) states the Department of Justice (DOJ), via the policies of defendants Harris and Lindley, “have been and continue to enforce a policy of forbidding many gun purchasers from taking possession of their lawfully-obtained firearms through what are commonly referred to as ‘DROS delays', sometimes for over a year or indefinitely.”
One would think that the recent recall of two Colorado politicians by voters would underscore how seriously our citizenry takes its Second Amendment rights. However transpicuous this is to us and those like us, the lawmakers who would infringe upon our constitutional rights either cannot see it or, more likely, they just don't care. How crass and inappropriate is it to leverage someone's murder to further a political agenda? How much more vile if the person doing so is the president of the United States, speaking not just in a public venue but an international one? The victims of a madman are not yet in the ground, the offices of recalled Colorado senators have not yet been cleaned out, but a national tragedy has been debased and marginalized by its conversion to a talking point, and odious state legislators stumble over themselves to follow suit.
Such actions, at the state level in California, at the federal level in Washington D.C. and elsewhere should be repugnant. Instead their appearance is a foregone conclusion.
Q's team did a fantastic job of putting together a campaign called “A New Way of Life,” intended to show what life in the Golden State will become should those laws pass. It is not a stretch to apply those same conditions to the rest of the country. The series of images show first the criminalization of law-abiding gun owners, then their registration and ultimately confiscation. I think it is an outstanding compilation of imagery, all the more so when you consider their team went from concept to execution in 3 days, working through the night to accomplish it.
“We are law-abiding Americans. We are patriots. We are fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, wives, husbands, brothers, and sisters. We are not criminals. We do not deserve to be treated like sex offenders simply because we exercise our Second Amendment gun rights. LIKE and SHARE if you agree, and FIGHT BACK NOW at www.DemandRights.com!” Quoc Ha
Take a look at Demand Rights; do what you can to sway California Governor Brown to veto gun control legislation. Consider donating to the Calguns Foundation (donations are tax deductible). Drop by Q Concepts and let them know you appreciate their work.
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Lena Dunham Is Done With Photoshop
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Lena Dunham Is Done With Photoshop — For Good
Carolyn L. Todd
Photo: Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images.
Last week, Lena Dunham started a public conversation about Photoshop sparked by a heavily-retouched Tentaciones, a Spanish magazine cover of the star. There was some back-and-forth over whether the magazine actually edited the photo, which was licensed from an old shoot. But Dunham set the record straight in an impassioned personal essay she penned for this week's Lenny Letter.
The actress explained that the particulars don't quite matter in the larger picture. "I didn’t have the energy or the drive to figure out at what point in its journey this image had lost my dimpled thighs or bulge of bicep fat, or whether my chin had been recrafted," she explained. "[W]as the image Photoshopped somewhere between raw digital file and Spanish glory? I think so, but who knows and really, who cares." The real issue? "I don’t recognize my own fucking body anymore. And that’s a problem."
The Girls star recounts how when she started doing professional shoots, she never thought to protest retouching. "I was 24, and whatever they did to make women appear important, desirable, and worthy of praise was what I wanted." But in the back of her mind, the actress — who has always been comfortable showing her unretouched body onscreen for Girls — knew she was being hypocritical. "Considering my commitment to showing my realistic body onscreen, this was a kind of cognitive dissonance I didn’t want to, and couldn’t yet, consider."
Photo: Courtesy of Vogue.
Dunham's first Photoshop disaster happened in 2014, when Jezebel put a bounty on the un-retouched photos from her Vogue cover-shoot. "Two years later and I’ve done countless shoots since, heard photographers say 'We’ll fix it in post'... They mean the parts of me that are ungainly and overstuffed. They mean the parts that hang over waistbands and bubble out from under Spanx." Still, Dunham went along with it. "I didn’t ask questions, assuming this was the game that made the rest of my creative life possible." And, she admits that she liked seeing perfected images of her imperfect body. "I also didn’t ask questions because it feels nice to look at a photo of yourself where everything that’s ever felt like too much is suddenly under perfect, glossy control."
For one reason or another, the Tentaciones cover was the last straw. "But something snapped when I saw that Spanish cover," Dunham says. "Maybe it was the feeling of barely recognizing myself and then being told it was 100 percent me but knowing it probably wasn’t and studying the picture closely for clues... Maybe it was the fact that I no longer understand what my own thighs look like," she continued. "But I knew that I was done." Done with the inherent dishonesty of Photoshopping.
A photo posted by Lena Dunham (@lenadunham) on Feb 29, 2016 at 5:22pm PST
"The gap between what I believe and what I allow to be done to my image has to close now. If that means no more fashion-magazine covers, so be it," the author declares. "If any magazines want to guarantee they’ll let my stomach roll show and my reddened cheek make an appearance, I am your girl Friday."
Dunham then signed off, "This body is the only one I have. I love it for what it’s given me. I hate it for what it’s denied me. And now, without further ado, I want to be able to pick my own thigh out of a lineup." And we say cheers to that.
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What Makes an Inventor?
Jan 5, 2018 Philippe Aghion , Ufuk Akcigit, Ari Hyytinen, Otto Toivanen
Economists have long examined the factors determining whether someone becomes an inventor, and they have generally found that the best step aspiring innovators can take is to be born to the right parents. But new research suggests that household income may be masking the influence of other related factors.
PARIS – Who becomes an inventor? Ideally, it would be anyone with a natural talent for innovation. But what if talent in innovation is misallocated, because some potential inventors are deprived of the conditions for success? After all, in addition to natural endowments, much depends on one’s social environment, and not every potential inventor is afforded the same level of education or parental support.
In a recently published study, we set out to answer these and related questions. Specifically, by merging three comprehensive data sets, we were able to see how the income and educational level of one’s parents and one’s own talents can determine whether one becomes an inventor. We then analyzed the interaction between these factors, and concluded that talent in innovation is indeed at risk of being misallocated under certain conditions.
A Privileged Class?
Before we turn to our own findings, consider the following figures, which show the effect of paternal income on the probability that an individual will become an inventor.
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Philippe Aghion
Philippe Aghion is a professor at the Collège de France and at the London School of Economics, and a fellow of the Econometric Society and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Ufuk Akcigit
Ufuk Akcigit is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Chicago, a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a research affiliate at the Center for Economic Policy Research.
Ari Hyytinen
Ari Hyytinen is Professor of Economics at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
Otto Toivanen
Otto Toivanen is a professor in the Department of Economics at Aalto University Business School, and an associate editor of the International Journal of Industrial Organization.
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Martial Geiser Jan 12, 2018
I am definitively missing the definition of "inventor" used in this article. Is an inventor, a person which has published a patent or, as given by Thefreedictionary, "a person who (...) devises some new process, appliance, machine, or article (...)". The article seems to switch between both definitions, which is very disturbing.
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nigel southway Jan 9, 2018
Its always the educational environment .... the family helps that process.
Maritza Guaderrama Jan 8, 2018
I think that some of the writers of that article should read Bourdieu carefully. It's shocking how the quantitative approach of the economist perspective on society is blind regarding the "good" texts and authors from social science.
Dart Krate Jan 7, 2018
Conflating Invention with Innovation in the first paragraph?
Tom W Jan 7, 2018
Note that this study wisely focuses on the "innovation potential" of a society, but does *not* claim that additional innovators or additional innovation is necessarily proportional to social welfare. If a society is operating well under its "innovation potential", then we would expect improvements in that potential to result in a large increase in social welfare. However, if the innovation landscape is already "crowded", then additional innovators or innovations might have a slim net impact - much of the new innovation might be redundant.
It's nice when well-conducted studies align with "common sense". Highly intelligent people tend to accomplish things that require a high degree of intelligence (as most innovations do). If your parents are rich and connected it provides a significant advantage.
Bryan Atkins Jan 5, 2018
Okay, interesting as far as it goes.
Now, let's look at innovation from an evolutionary point of view.
One way of describing biological speciation (innovation) is: the generation of original coding for a novel manner of relationship interface.
Biological speciation happens faster with an isolating mechanism: mountains, islands, being on the fringe of a population, etc.
Here's some innovation from a basement (not mom's, she's dead brah).
Most economists (youse guys too?), don't understand code, including monetary code, in a physics, evolution and complexity context.
That knowledge omission renders the above work as interesting, but unfortunately, as more policy duct tape when the whole dam's about to burst.
We're way past policy nudging because our problems are far more fundamental.
Here's one: The efficacy of world culture's dominant app -- humans deploying monetary code -- has been crushed by exponentially accelerating complexity.
The app lacks information processing Reach, Speed, Accuracy and Power, the very qualities necessary to pass natural selection tests.
Humans using monetary code sucks so bad as a value-calibration app that we're literally converting the sky and ocean into omnipotent terrorists wielding weapons of mass extinction, bringing the promise of "premature and perverted death" to our descendants.
Please see: Passing Natural Selection Tests http://ow.ly/b3lH30gFUUJ (3 minute read)
Culture, Complexity & Code2: http://ow.ly/4mJQ2r (longer, fuller treatment re code)
Woody Roberts Jan 5, 2018
What defines an Inventor? When does "Innovation" become "Invention"? When a patent is received? Then the patent office is an invention killer.
Agreed that a home environment that encourages curiosity and exploration is important and that has sufficient funding to afford the luxury of time and materials supporting such exploration is important. Also an environment that supports independence of thought.
Reasonable intelligence would be a factor - STEM education might be more of a natural progression for someone prone to innovation, rather than a causal factor.
Opportunity to innovate might be something to explore. Educational & corporate environments tend to discourage innovation. Social pressures also discourage innovation. So somewhere an inventor / innovator needs to have established the determination to innovate despite pressure to "just get the job done".
Developing sufficient trust in one's innovative capability is critical as is persistence as innovation can take a long time to develop.
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Etah: Locals gather at the cracker factory where six people, including the owner, were killed and several others injured in a blast, in Etah district of Uttar Pradesh on Sep 21, 2019.
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Are Singer Songwriters Valued? by Katharina Turner
My name is Katharina Turner and I am a singer-songwriter. I’ve been many things in my 32 years, and creating and delivering songs I’ve made is by far both my most challenging and most enjoyed pursuit. I approached Ragged University about the possibility of assisting me with my music and now I’m writing this essay to detail my experiences of the struggle to be paid.
I have as a singer songwriter encountered a lot of difficulty in being paid. I feel this is both about transcending through the system which has been in place as much as me myself, where I stand in my beliefs about the way the world interacts with me and things. And I am going to explore both these elements in this piece.
Self-Limitation
My experience is limited to about 2 and half years at the time of writing this. I started out as a freshly dropped out law student with the sudden remembrance of music being my most important joy in life, my forgotten purpose. In the past 1 and a half years I have been increasing my understanding of reality and increasing my self awareness. As if I didn’t realise in the beginning that that is a necessary step for me, because I intend to be an artist of a calibre the world has not seen before. Maybe that comes off as big headed but without going too deeply into it I am all about substance free total responsibility authenticity.
That means I recognise and accept everything as a reflection of aspects of myself, I bring those aspects into a state of healed, to being me myself and not the beliefs and perceptions provided by elements of enslavement, as soon as I realise and take account of what I have perceived in my experiences.
It also means I am careful with my language as much as I am able to be – for instance I do not perform, as that has a feel of fakeness to it, I instead consider myself as delivering my creations to those who listen. I do not have fans, as fanaticism is very extreme and I don’t fancy inflicting sense of extremism upon my friends and supporters. And that also means I can’t say the system is the problem. Because as soon as I change the beliefs that limited my expectations and perceptions, I found progress happening with me.
When I started out, I was really clueless. My life used to be very isolated and I was more naïve. I feel like the whole world is changing, but for all I know it’s just because I have been. I know I am talented, I know I could have been a child prodigy had I chosen different parents to take on, and things. But I didn’t go for the child prodigy route, I instead forgot music altogether in my teens when I and my parents in mirroring me increased the levels of attack and restricting my attempts to follow this love of expression. And I forgot for half of my 32 years, that music for me is as important as water. And I feel grateful because back then I probably would have been perfect for sexualised puppetry that had occurred so much in the music industry.
In 2012, I suddenly remembered and impulsively bought a guitar. I created my first ever song over a weekend and dropped out of law school on the Monday following that, qualified to act as a para-legal but too in love with the journey to free my expression to play with law any more. At that time I struggled to talk to people one to one…
When 6 months later I played 3 songs at an informal unplugged open mic, I was actually shaking. But people supported me despite the fact that my creations were then quite childish and my deliverance was so very shaky and not stage worthy.
Being Paid
At first it didn’t cross my mind to seek pay. In fact the next best thing – a bucket for tips – I clean forgot to remind the people around to gift me tips if they felt so inclined. That was during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2013, my first ever time playing a whole hour of songs for 8 days in a row. Not a penny was mine. That was my own doing. I could have asked! And I could have utilised the tips bucket if I didn’t have the attitude “but that feels like begging”.
I did in a sense get paid in that, in the gaining of experience and awareness around stage presence and self presentation and things around sound engineering (it’s importance, and the necessity for independent artists to back themselves up with a little knowledge of it that if needs be they can set the channels for themselves).
The majority of my experience is in playing open mics. And being amateur. I am currently stepping into being more professional and less amateur than I had been before. It has sort of become customary for artists to be given “free drinks” for playing at open mics, and at paying gigs. I will go into my perspectives of alcohol and music and this custom later.
In seeking paid gigs my experiences have shown me that people assumed me more naïve than I was and played me through desperation I had been feeling stuck in. while others were willing to give me a hand up with “insider info”, contacts, and also forms of collaboration – such as what is happening right here in my writing this for Ragged Music.
In terms of playing desperations I have had several such experiences. One was that someone assumed I didn’t know that most artists expect to receive at least £50 for playing a 45 minute gig. I was offered 120 mins with 2 15 min breaks, at £50. And to be paid, I also would have had to carry 45 mins unpaid in “audition” which was a live gig earlier in the same week. The way I saw that was that to accept would have totally devalued myself, plus it would have given that place the option to not follow through with the underpaid gig in the end – working for free isn’t something I wanted to pursue any more
Another experience I had was of outright exploitations. While busking, I was approached by someone who told me “You’re amazing contact xxxxx about gigs! Here’s his number! Tell him xxxx gave you his number.” So I contacted this person, and they informed me that they were my “Handler”. I received an email, about when I was playing and what was expected of me. Things like “bring at least 4 fans for guest list”… It felt very professional, at least it did to me at that time. And so I thought wow, levelling up! And so I prepared with increased practising and momentum, made sure I was on time, managed to gain names for guest list however only 1 person actually turned up for my portion of guest list – I wish I had had the sense of humour to bring 4 airblowing fans… Cause that’s the kind of sense of humour I have when I’ve not been oh so serious!
My “handler” turned up late, started drinking and kept calling everybody “cunts”. This gig, was basically an open mic, but in the way it was set up it was smaller than an open mic, the way it was advertised repelled customers instead of inviting them, and basically the promotion was a weight given to the artists themselves. Personally this is not acceptable – I create I deliver I can not guarantee people will turn up and I don’t have any interest in promotion and very little know how and time to devote to that aspect as well.
The pretence as well – fair enough what ever play at being wannabe… I did gain something from this though, I gained insight and experience. I also upped my game, and so I came a step closer to professionalism than I had been before that.
Asking to be paid ended my relationship with my “handler” after becoming entitled a “cunt” and a torrent of words “if you want paid go on x factor, you’ll have a ball and make fucking millions” – If I’d bothered replying I’d have said “no I wouldn’t, factor exploits artists out of ownership of their royalties, and only puppets gain xfactor-success… I have a dream I know my vision and my record deal, management etc. are a partnership, not an enslavement in order to attain fame and riches. And thank you for showing me how little I respected and valued my presence, talent, effort and time!” I later found out that Mr “Handler” did get paid and could have paid myself and the other artists…
The most idiotic experience I had of struggle to be paid was in approaching a pub local to where I lived. I suggested that as everyone who drank their sort of knew me in passing due to my locality, and that pub’s future possibility of a claim to fame, would they be willing to host me a paid gig so I could raise funds for myself to travel. I was met with an attack about stealing from charity simply because of the term “raise some funds”.
Bluntly put “covers” feels like a dirty word to me these days! People told me over and over and over “you gotta do covers to entice the crowd!” Well, if I didn’t know I have something to give maybe I’d believe that. And if I wasn’t so afraid of failing, and indeed of increasing my success and prestige, maybe, I’ll stop being told that. If you want to do covers, do covers, there’s plenty people love covers.
The point is I DON’T WANT TO. So I don’t. The point is maybe it would be good if there were places devoted to one or the other – places for cover artists and places for artists who have brought new creations to deliver.
I’ve also experienced venues demanding of me I’d have to put some covers in among my own stuff. I’ve turned down such job offers because it doesn’t appeal to me. I want to be clear though, being a cover artist is fine, it’s what some people enjoy hearing and it’s what some people enjoy doing and at times spoofing… I also want to be clear that personally I find it inappropriate for a venue to tell an artist what material to play.
And I further want to be clear that as someone who meets life from a total responsibility perspective I know this cover business will stop as soon as I stop the worries I allowed to play out in my head that I wasn’t good enough to reach achieving my dream.
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Offering the artists who play alcohol has become customary. And is even seen as a form of pay. I personally choose to not drink. I don’t remember the last time I had a drink but I think it was about mid way 2013. My reasons for not drinking are not wholly irrelevant So I will share: I committed myself to being myself, all of myself, authentically Katharina Turner. As soon as I drink alcohol I have broken that commitment and I’m not prepared to do that. It was an easy commitment for me to make because drinking in the past had been about peer pressure, about being hidden in plain sight, so doing as others did. I don’t enjoy not being able to remember, in fact in what I am healing myself from as a person, inability to remember what happened to me is probably the most scary thing for me to realise. And being clumsy is not something I had ever enjoyed.
Also in observation of society, the prevalence and social acceptance and reliance on alcohol is like an unawareness of wide spread alcohol addiction, I feel unwilling to support and promote this, and so I choose not to and turn down jobs that involved agreement to promote xxxxx drink because xxxxx drink was sponsoring that event.
And further, while some find it awesome, don’t need responsibility like you do in child caring or brain surgery so drink while you work boys, I find this so unprofessional. Artists like every bpdy else may think they improved with a drink but the truth is they become just as clumsy and loutish as the rest of the drunk folk were.
I once took part in a hired practice space, with a bunch of friends and their friends. And to audition some folk in a possibility that was subsequently abandoned. Among the people there were 2 who chose to get drunk, and if I was employing them they’d have been sacked as soon as they produced a can… Why hire space with expensive high quality equipment and get drunk?!
While I’ve always seemed to have drinking pals around who accepted the beers offered in exchange for my time, I haven’t ever been offered even a soft drink instead, except once from a sound engineer I consider a friend… And personally paying with drinks, is a very poor show, it doesn’t help me increase my progress, it doesn’t give me anything to invest in myself or my music with to give me a drink rather than some cash. Where as in being present in the venue sharing of myself and my creations invested in that venue, and all the people who were there – that was imbalanced.
They say charity starts at home. So start by committing to and giving to you yourself. How do I as an artist give myself support? How do I invest in my art and the tools that help me achieve my art? How can I improve my self support and self investment. And become clear about role, worth, value etc. What is my time worth? How do I value my time and my self and my art? How can I increase my self worth and self valuing?
My role as an artist does not involve being a promoter, ticket salesman, sound engineer. My opinion now is that any organiser, venue or event that is not prepared to promote it’s events, does not value it’s entertainment and therefore the people delivering entertainment – I avoid bothering with such people places and events.
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RIOT ROAD
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Prefer Not To Say is a verbatim theatre piece that exposes the inequality ever-present within the LGBTQIA+ community.
For the past 6 months our London-based company, Riot Road, has travelled around the country interviewing people from all walks of life giving everyday people the chance to come forward and have their say. As we journey through testimonies of contracting HIV, homelessness, abuse and prejudice, we gain an insight into the worlds of these brave real-life people and the pressing issues they face.
The piece explores a myriad of emotions as we listen to these important stories, offering up vital lessons and giving the LGBTQIA+ movement a platform to not only feel supported, but represented. Through careful consideration the selected testimonies will be presented through a series of monologues that will be learnt word for word, utterance for utterance by our four actors.
We aim to keep them as authentic as possible as it is integral to present a truthful depiction of the original documented material. Our actors will rehearse using the recorded material to ensure that every nuance is captured in order to encapsulate the true essence of the characters. One of the central aims of the piece is to leave the viewer feeling empowered urging them to embrace all ways of life no matter their sexual preference. We encourage people to attend with an open mind, and leave with an open heart.
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December 15, 2018 News & Opinion » News
Rochester artists, arts groups discuss funding options
By Tianna Mañón @TiannaManon and Rebecca Rafferty @rsrafferty
Is there a way to provide ongoing funding for Rochester’s vibrant, diverse arts community?
Local artists, arts organizations, and their supporters have been discussing that question for decades, and this year, it has begun to surface again. Friday afternoon, nearly 100 people — artists, elected officials, and representatives from arts organizations large and small — gathered in the auditorium at Visual Studies Workshop for a discussion hosted by the Arts and Cultural Council and members of City Council.
The meeting was originally planned as a smaller focus-group session to discuss an August 2018 consultant’s study. That study was prepared for city officials to help explore how a large theater on Parcel 5 would affect the local arts community. The report also noted how several other cities are funding the arts, and Friday’s meeting was planned to further discuss the second issue.
But after some artists and arts organizers expressed concern about not being included, the meeting was opened to anyone who wanted to attend. The event drew individual artists and representatives from large and small galleries, dance organizations, theaters, and literary organizations, but few people of color attended. One who did, artist Taurus Savant, said he regretted that the audience wasn't more diverse. He went, he said, to take information from the event back to his network.
He also attended, he said, “to make sure my voice is heard and that people who look like me will also be heard." Savant said he knows several artists who don’t receive much financial help for their projects and often depend on their savings account or crowdsourcing to complete artwork. Yet the general public often benefits from art, especially public art, he said, and he wants more financial backing for that work.
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Artists, representatives of area arts organizations, and arts supporters gathered in the auditorium of Visual Studies Workshop on Friday, December 14.
Many people at the meeting noted obstacles to securing arts funding, including where the money should come from and how it should be given out.
During an open forum, some participants noted what other cities and counties across the nation have done to create arts funding, including enacting a small arts tax. For example, Mesa County, Colorado, enacted a Quality of Life sales tax that provides funding for theaters, galleries, and other institutions and has driven economic development in the region.
Cuyahoga County, Ohio, enacted a cigarette tax to fund arts organizations and artists, said Bleu Cease, director of Rochester Contemporary Art Center.
Bleu Cease, executive director of Rochester Contemporary Arts Center, was among the arts representatives who spoke at the arts funding meeting.
Locally, Monroe County taxes hotel and motel revenue to help fund the Seneca Park Zoo, the Blue Cross Arena, and other venues, and some city officials have suggested that it could be used to help fund the arts.
But Rochester is a Democratic city in a conservative county, one participant at Friday’s meeting pointed out, and pressing for a tax for the arts would be an uphill battle on the county level.
Participants also raised the idea of creating an arts commissioner on the city or county level, either independent or government.
Musician and dancer Thomas Warfield noted that Rochester doesn’t have a clear mechanism for deciding how arts funding would be allocated. Determining who makes that decision will be key, he said. Discussions about funding options must include a discussion about equity in the arts, some participants said.
Friday’s meeting is likely to be the first of several on the topic of arts funding. City Council member Elaine Spaull, who initiated Friday’s event, said another will be organized soon, and information about it will be posted on the City of Rochester’s website.
MORE: Artist and owner of The Avenue Blackbox Theatre, Reenah Golden, on equity in arts funding discussions.
This story has been updated to reflect the print version that appears in CITY's Wednesday, December 19 issue.
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The staff at Rockford Foundries maintain their metallurgical knowledge and technical capability utilizing current technology and expertise. But, like the oldest preserved cast parts dating back to 3,000 BC, there is still room for the artisan:
The artist who can look at the crucible and know the exact right time to pour the castings. The specialist who can execute a production order at the highest rate of efficiency, while still maintaining product accuracy. The expert who can work with mounted or loose work patterns to craft a single unit or blanket productions.
Rockford Foundries is a family-owned business in Rockford, IL, dedicated to maintaining their reputation for quality, with every casting that they pour. Founded in Rockford’s original Water Power District, Rockford Foundries began as the Rockford Standard Pattern Works in the early 1930s. Today, they offer over 60 years of hands-on experience.
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Rockford Foundries specializes in sand castings from non-ferrous metals (alloys) – aluminum and oshalloy (low leaded red brass). Excelling in production of small quantity orders, Rockford Foundries can easily handle short run and loose work foundry jobs; however, they can also handle large quantity blanket orders. Core options include no-bake and shell sand.
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31 Spooky Nights: Sadako vs. Kayako
Posted On October 6, 2017 October 12, 2017 By Billy Seguire
The vengeful spirits of the Sadaka (The Ring) and Kayako (The Grudge) face off as a cursed trio struggles to break Sadaka’s curse with Kayako’s curse.
Billy: Let’s start right at the beginning for Sadako vs. Kayako because those first shots start us off on what looks to be a pretty strong film. A young social worker entering a house, greeted with flickering lights and a static-filled television screen. It seamlessly blends the aesthetics and narratives of the two franchises in a way that impressed me. Right off the bat I understood the connection between these two worlds, and it worked as a natural-feeling collision. It eased me in while also putting my fears about these two franchises not mixing well at ease. You can do it. This can work. I believe they exist in the same universe now.
One of the things I love about Japanese horror movies is that they aren’t afraid to start slow, and the burning build of that first act was tremendous, even as the urban legend professor enters the film to give us some sort of direction. I’m not going to bash urban legend professors. I love Candyman, after all, and the urban legend angle of that is what makes it work. So when the cursed tape was put in that context, the set up to this movie was everything I wanted and more.
Amelia: First things first, I’m Team Kayako. I am Team Kayako for life! She is a ghost that’s perfect: she is spectral, spiritual perfection. Sadako is so full of gimmicks: prophetic dreams, hallucinations, being able to break the curse by passing it on? Breaking the curse! You can break her curse! Everything about Sadako is lame.
Ring fans can fight me, okay? Sadako sucks.
Kayako on the other hand? Just a straight up ghost you do not want to fuck with. She is the lord high bitch of her house, and is able to project whatever she wants for those that enter it. She’ll transport you back in time, or make the house appear to be lived in to lure more people in. Plus just everything about her physically is freaky. The way she moves, the sounds she makes, how she lives in an attic. You think a VHS tape is scarier than a scuttling, croaking ghost that lives in the attic? Nah. You are wrong.
Billy: The biggest issue this movie has as it goes on is that it doesn’t spend nearly as much time setting up the Ju-On half of the narrative as it does Ringu. I understood and knew everything I needed to know about the cursed tape and Sadako, but that house and the little blue meowing boy remained a mystery.
There was always going to be a voyeur quality to this movie where people were going to watch it without seeing any of the source material. Even as someone who has seen the original films I have by no means seen every installment of the franchise. I knew this, so I was okay with changes I saw as an understandable departure from the source materials. As long as the movie catches me up on those changes, I’m okay. I had absolutely no problem with the staircase looking different than the previous film. I took more issues with the way the ghosts killed that seemed to be inconsistent. Houses can change. Ghosts are creepy because they can’t. They’re more stuck in their ways than a horror fanboy.
Amelia: Now, as far as the two ghosts go in this movie… they suck. These are not the ghosts that you will recognize from movie one of their franchises. Sadako kills you after two days instead of seven and she makes you kill yourself instead of doing it herself. Kayako meanwhile is still prowling her house and killing those who enter, but holy shit is she doing it at an accelerated rate! You used to be able to live in her house for a while before succumbing. In the first movie, Rika carries on for like, a decade after entering Kayako’s house. Nowadays, you so much as enter that house for a second and that’s it, dead right away.
There is no atmospheric build-up the way these two are being handled in this movie, none of the slow dread of creeping ever closer to a ghost related demise because the demise either comes via suicide from Sadako or instantly from Kayako.
And it’s not just the change up in their “ghost rules” that drags down any creepy tension. This movie is a joke: a literal joke! It started as an April Fool’s gag that got made into an actual movie because of fan interest. Which could have been really great because listening to fans can help improve a product. But this wasn’t a product to begin with, like I said, this was a joke. And it was approached from all angles as a joke. Here’s a legitimate poster for the movie:
No one took this seriously as something that could be scary. They took it as a joke. To which I can only say a big fuck you. I don’t joke about Kayako, okay? Bitch means business and filmmakers should approach her character as such.
And none of that is even touching on the loathing I have that the iconic Ju-On stairs that Kayako drags herself down have changed. I don’t have enough patience to tell you about how fucking angry that makes me!
Billy: There’s a history to Freddy vs. Jason that informs Sadako vs. Kayako wherein the former was originally supposed to be Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash, as in Ash Williams, as in the hero of Evil Dead. It’s interesting, because it would mean bringing in a tone that was completely at odds with the other two properties. I actually joked about this happening in Sadako vs. Kayako, especially when the exorcist says she called someone more skilled to take over. But then… it happens. As soon as that swaggering demonologist enters the film, it becomes completely different. It’s like a superhero from a manga comic entered the scene, and we suddenly have a snarky new lead with a blind child sidekick snapping his fingers and dealing with old problems in ways we’ve never seen before. Everything becomes bloated and exaggerated. I was shocked.
And I shouldn’t have been surprised. You don’t make a horror movie this way. This is the way you make a monster movie, and you had to end it with these ghosts becoming monsters on a grander scale. The fact that they do it by literally combining the two into one creature is… odd, but things were already out of the horror zone long before that. I don’t actually think this was a terrible film, or even a lesson for filmmakers, because on the terms it set itself out on, it succeeded. It’s more a lesson for me, as a viewer, to understand the necessity of genre and to pace my expectations accordingly. It’s tough to acknowledge that the fantastic, eerie atmospheric built up in the first half of this film had to give way to something more formulaic, but while it might remind me of its original Ringu and Ju-On franchises, it’s not the way a horror movie operates to smash its way together. It’s why sequels can be better in an action movie than a horror, and it’s why it’s actually WEIRD AS HELL that horror movies tend to go the endless sequel route more than most.
Amelia: What I did find interesting while it was on the screen for all of five minutes, were the legitimate looking Japanese exorcism rituals. Whereas Sadako has been approached in the past as a puzzle to solve, here she’s just a straight up spirit that is inside those that watch the video. And if she’s a possessing spirit, maybe a good old fashioned exorcism beat-down will get her out. The girl kneeling in front of a candle lit altar in a white kimono, splashed with water because Sadako is very water-based and you fight fire with fire and water with water in the ceremony that the Shinto priestess choose, it’s a well done scene.
I watch international horror because I want to see how different cultures approach spirits and the supernatural. I’m frankly sick of seeing the Christian exorcism process: the power of Christ compels you! Compels me to what? Nod off having to watch this yet again? I was happy to see something different and wanted more of that throughout the story. But, surprise surprise, I didn’t.
Spooky Verdict
Billy: Four wells/Two stairs out of ten April Fool’s day gags that should have stayed a gag
I’ll say at least one thing for Sadako vs Kayako, and that’s that the Ringu half of the film was a hell of a lot stronger than Rings. You had a similar story of dissecting the “cursed tape” in an academic setting and bringing the VHS monster into the digital age, but where Rings falters in trying too many angles without sticking to any one approach, Sadako vs Kayako seems to do everything right by Ringu while completely ignoring what made Ju-On special. Blue kid kills a bunch of boys the instant they walk into the house? Where’s the dread? Gone. Replaced by superheroics.
Amelia: One well/Three stairs out of ten April Fool’s day gags that should have stayed a gag
I have too much love for Ju-On to see Sadako vs Kayako and not expect more than what I got. Ringu I can take or leave, but Ju-On is my favourite horror movie now and forever and I want the best for my scuttling attic bae Kayako. I think I could have enjoyed this more if the two “name brand” ghosts weren’t attached to it, but as it stands now, I just want to put on Ju-On and watch bae properly fuck up those that enter her cursed house.
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Timeline: Vladimir Putin - 20 tumultuous years as Russian president or PM
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Vladimir Putin was named acting president on Dec. 31, 1999, by then-president Boris Yeltsin. He has been in office as president or prime minister ever since, a period spanning two decades.
Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to Minister of Civil Defence, Emergencies and Disaster Relief Yevgeny Zinichev during a meeting in Moscow, Russia December 27, 2019. Sputnik/Aleksey Nikolskyi/Kremlin via REUTERS
Here are some highlights of Putin’s 20 years in power:
Aug. 9, 1999 - During an economic crisis, President Yeltsin names little-known security chief Vladimir Putin as his fifth acting prime minister in less than a year, and says he wants Putin to succeed him as president. In the following weeks, bombings of apartment blocks across Russia kill more than 300 people, in attacks Putin blames on Chechen militants. His popularity is boosted by his tough response, which includes the aerial bombing of parts of Chechnya and an assault to recapture the breakaway southern province. Some Kremlin critics question if Chechen militants were really behind the apartment bombings.
Dec. 31, 1999 - An ailing Yeltsin resigns and names Putin acting president.
March 26, 2000 - Putin wins his first presidential election.
Aug. 12, 2000 - The Kursk nuclear-powered submarine sinks to the bottom of the Barents Sea, killing all 118 crew after an explosion onboard. Putin’s image suffers a jolt after he comments on the crisis only after four days.
2002 - Chechen militants take more than 800 people hostage at a Moscow theater. Special forces end the siege, but use a poison gas in the process which kills many of the hostages.
2003 - Oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky is arrested and charged with fraud. He is later found guilty and jailed in a case his supporters say was punishment for his meddling in politics. He is only released in 2013 after Putin pardons him.
March 2004 - Putin wins second term as president with more than 70 percent of the vote after oil prices fuel a consumer boom and raise living standards, a trend that continues for another four years.
September 2004 - Islamist fighters seize more than 1,000 people in a school in Beslan, southern Russia, triggering a three-day siege that ends in gunfire. A total of 334 hostages are killed, more than half of them children. Some parents say the authorities botched the handling of the siege and blame Putin.
December 2004 - Putin scraps direct elections for regional governors, effectively making them Kremlin appointees. Putin says the move is needed to keep Russia united.
2005 - Putin describes the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union as the “greatest geopolitical catastrophe” of the 20th century.
2006 - Investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, a critic of rights abuses in Chechnya, is murdered in Moscow on Putin’s birthday. Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko dies in London that same year after being poisoned with a radioactive substance. A British inquiry years later concludes he was killed by Russian agents.
2007 - Putin gives a speech in Munich in which he lashes out at the United States, accusing Washington of the “almost uncontained hyper use of force in international relations”.
May 2008 - Constitutional limits on him serving more than two consecutive presidential terms see Putin become prime minister after his ally, Dmitry Medvedev, becomes president.
August 2008 - Russia fights and wins a short war with Georgia. Tbilisi loses control over two breakaway regions that are garrisoned with Russian troops.
2012 - Putin returns to the presidency, winning re-election with over 60% of the vote after a decision to extend presidential terms to six from four years. Large anti-Putin protests take place before and after the vote, with critics alleging voter fraud.
Feb. 7-23, 2014 - Russia hosts the winter Olympic games in the Black Sea resort of Sochi.
Feb. 27, 2014 - Russian forces start annexing Ukraine’s Crimea region after Ukrainian protesters oust their country’s Russia-friendly president Viktor Yanukovich. Russia incorporates Crimea the following month after a referendum condemned by the West. The United States and EU go on to impose sanctions on Moscow.
April 2014 - A pro-Russian separatist revolt breaks out in eastern Ukraine which results in a conflict, still ongoing, which hands the rebels control of a vast swath of territory and leaves more than 13,000 people dead. Western nations accuse Russia of backing the revolt; Moscow denies direct involvement.
Sept. 30, 2015 - Russia launches air strikes in Syria in its biggest Middle East intervention in decades, turning the tide of the conflict in President Bashar al-Assad’s favor.
November 2016 - Donald Trump is elected president of the United States after promising to improve battered ties with Moscow. However, U.S. authorities determine Russia tried to interfere in the election in Trump’s favor, casting a pall over U.S-Russia ties despite Moscow’s denials.
March 4, 2018 - A former Russian spy, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter are poisoned in England with a nerve agent. They survive but a woman who lives nearby dies after her partner brings home the poison found in a discarded perfume bottle. Britain accuses Russia, which denies involvement.
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Megan Davidson, 27, of Shelby, received some of the best and worst news of her life in 2012.
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In the three months of recovery that followed, she spent time researching everything fitness — reading fitness blogs, watching videos on YouTube, etc. While surfing the web, she stumbled upon Dana Linn Bailey, an American IFBB Pro fitness and figure competitor, who delivered a message of perseverance that resonated with Davidson.
“I decided at that point that I wanted to get into competing, so I spent the rest of my recovery researching nutrition, the posing, the suits, the makeup. I wanted to do it perfectly,” she said.
Once she was cleared by her doctor, she returned to the gym with the goal of entering her first figure competition.
She met that goal just one year after her surgery in October 2015.
“It was rough, and I was really scared because I felt so unprepared. I didn't know what I was getting myself into,” she said.
“I remember stepping out onstage after they called my name and I heard my little daughter in the crowd yell, ‘Go mommy!’ And it was just like, I found my purpose when that happened. I knew I belonged there.”
She placed fifth of eight total competitors.
“For my first show, I mean I didn't know what I was doing. These girls had coaches and I did this myself, so it was really rewarding,” she said.
She knew after walking offstage she wanted to continue competing, so she signed up for another competition.
Three weeks out from the show, she found out she was pregnant. The news was met with trepidation.
“I was scared because I had that surgery on my cervix and they had told me this could be a risk,” she said.
Much to her relief, she delivered a healthy baby boy, and she was still able to work out during her pregnancy.
“The whole time I was thinking, ‘I want to compete.’ I didn’t know why I wanted to throw myself back into a prep, but I felt very compelled to do so,” she said.
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“I would leave motivational notes for myself all over the house,” she said.
One of her favorites was by Helen Keller: “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
Just one month shy of her son’s first birthday, Davidson competed in another figure competition, beating 18 other women in one class and 22 in another.
“I was getting ready to go onstage and I was holding my son breastfeeding and women were walking by and they just were amazed by that. They were stunned,” she said. “And I'm sure it looked crazy, but you know, it was a proud moment for me.”
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“I got an answer to that ‘why,’” she said. “I felt like I needed to learn my inner strength. I needed to see what I could go through, what I was capable of, and I just feel like God used me to go through that, not only to learn how strong I could be, but that tumor went to research so that they could better understand this rare disease.”
She described the whole experience as empowering.
“I felt like that was my purpose — to just be an inspiration for other people and show that it is possible,” she said. “You can go through things and instead of asking ‘why,’ look for your what. What am I supposed to learn from this?
“That that's the message that I want to get across.”
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Is Jesse James going beta?
James posted this photo on his wedding day. (Instagram) Along with a photo of himself walking hand in hand with DeJoria, he posted the quote, "Happiness is only real when shared – Jon Krakauer," and tagged his new bride in the post.
When one of his followers questioned the quote, James replied, "No sorry it's not bulls**t. It's 100% True. Everything before seems so silly compared to how perfect she it. I have never felt so happy and so loved.”
Or he is after some of them sweet dollaz' since billionaire heirs especially aren't immune to some alfa dick with game.
The West Coast Choppers gearhead married the 35-year-old drag racer Sunday in Malibu, California. The wedding took place at the estate of the bride's father, John Paul DeJoria, who is the billionaire businessman behind the Paul Mitchell hair care products line and Patron Spirits Company.
Haha, the guy's genius. From porn stars to Ho(llywood) stars to rich heirs, I'd bet anything that before the end of his days this guy will marry more times than Liz Taylor. And I'd also bet one of them will be a raging career feminist like Jessica Valenti or some fuckface like that. I know he'll do it just for kicks.
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RE: Is Jesse James going beta?
This is what homegirl's billionaire's dad is thinking:
"My daughter's marriage to Jesse James much displeases me."
(03-25-2013 12:43 PM)guerrilla Wrote: This is what homegirl's billionaire's dad is thinking:
Actually, did you take a look at her dad?
He's probably saying
"YES!!! One for the men!"
Proof-in-point that women just want to marry their dads.
Parlay44
She's a 6 at best.
1. 35-year-old
2. drag racer
1. She's got mucho Dinero $$$$
Personally I couldn't care less how much money she has. She doesn't turn me on at all.
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MikeCF
I was friends with his best friend.
The guy has lived a life of women, partying, driving ferraris that MAYBE 1 or 2 of us ever will.
It's cheap to think we can think whether he is alpha or beta.
It's sorta like this. If Mike Tyson walked away form a fight, no one gets to call him a pussy. He's earned the right to fight or not.
If I were you guys, I'd stop asking, "Is 50 Cent Beta," or, "Is Jesse James Beta," and instead focus on how to bring yourselves up.
Because sniping at another man who has lived the life is just being crabs in a bucket.
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(03-25-2013 12:56 PM)MikeCF Wrote: I was friends with his best friend.
If anything, we should look at cats like this and say, "What is he doing that maybe I can incorporate into my overall Style?"
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(03-25-2013 12:50 PM)Parlay44 Wrote: Personally I couldn't care less how much money she has. She doesn't turn me on at all.
It's not about her at all. James will continue to screw on the side. This is him waving another brush stroke over his life's canvas.
Btw, there is a great story abut her father. Much to admire about that hard ass.
son of immigrant parents from Italy and Greece
he spent time in the company of a street gang in East Los Angeles, then enrolled in the U.S. Naval Reserve while still in high school and after graduation, joined the Navy with aspirations of attending dental school
a single father with a young son to support.
found himself homeless on more than one occasion. Those were the days of collecting Coke bottles and cans to cash them in for a few pennies at the corner drugstore to buy potatoes, rice, cereal, macaroni and cheese or canned soup.
http://www.islandconnections.com/edit/dejoria.htm
His wife?
Ex-Playboy playmate,
and C actress.
(03-25-2013 12:56 PM)MikeCF Wrote: If I were you guys, I'd stop asking, "Is 50 Cent Beta," or, "Is Jesse James Beta," and instead focus on how to bring yourselves up.
The title is to get eyeballs. Did you read the body of the post; it's not sniping, it's saying hell yeah.
Jesse is one public dude who is unashamedly giving these American bimbos the taste of their own medicine.
(03-25-2013 12:58 PM)thegmanifesto Wrote: Good point.
Also, as you know, these stories are all controlled by publicists.
We (usually) only learn what the media wants us to learn.
Who knows that Michael Jordan was a dead beat with his gambling debts and that Jordan's dad may have been murdered due to a gambling beef?
And you no doubt know about all of those "alpha males" guys here worship who are taking dick and sucking dick in LA.
Now if a guy like Tiger Woods pays $250 million to a woman, yeah, the guy is probably weak. Writing checks is strong evidence. A news article is not.
But if a guy gets married or says, "The love of the woman is the greatest gift you could ever receive," or if 50 Cent makes a "desperate" attempt to kiss someone on camera...There might be something else going on, ya know?
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(03-25-2013 01:12 PM)Gaston Wrote:
I've seen enough of these threads and know what direction they take.
I am trying to change the mindset of guys.
Don't believe media nonsense. It's all PR. You only read it because some publicist wants you to.
That's real "red pill" thinking.
To be honest, this guy's game must be solid because he's basically a man whore in real life but he got the daughter of a billionaire to commit to marriage. He probably has to post "beta" shit on Instagram to reduce her feelings of dread to tolerable levels so he can spend more time enjoying expensive booze and garages full of Ferraris.
This guy has received more bad press for cheating than anyone, Tiger Woods included. He got absolutely murdered in the media. Yet he recovers and marries a billionaire heiress who, while not a head turner, is passably attractive, younger than him and into the same shit he is (tattoos, cars).
Yeah, definitely beta.
"For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.” - Romans 8:18
(03-25-2013 01:37 PM)Hades Wrote: To be honest, this guy's game must be solid because he's basically a man whore in real life but he got the daughter of a billionaire to commit to marriage. He probably has to post "beta" shit on Instagram to reduce her feelings of dread to tolerable levels so he can spend more time enjoying expensive booze and garages full of Ferraris.
Except I would say that the lovey-dovey rhetoric isn't necessarily intended for her (she can sense his sincerity being around him, although she can't sense her own hamster, therefore even is she does not believe him, it won't necessary stop her from wanting to marry him. She has her own reasons for it.) and is intended for the audience at large. When you are middle-aged thrice-divorced adulterer, eloping with a billionaire's daughter has to at least be attempted to be delivered as being about "love", about being a "real thing". And even though every person with brains or experience knows that that is bullshit, average American idiots love to believe in fairy tales and tend to operate on trust. And in their case there's no doubt about that judging from those Facebook comments.
cafedelmar
Her father is an awesome entrepreneur. Was always curious about Patron tequila but never looked it up. Now I know who stands behind it
Roosh's next great book, Bang Heiress.
But seriously, MikeCF is right, Jesse James has better game than 99.999999999% of guys.
Andy_B
This is kinda stupid, IMO.
There's nothing "beta" about being in love or getting married. What's beta is getting married to the first girl who'll have you because you're scared you'll never get laid otherwise. Committing to a girl you love, after a prolonged period of being a player, is much more alpha than just staying a player until the end. At some point, you have to admit that the "too cool for school" attitude that many anti-marriage dudes have is a pretty silly and obvious defense mechanism.
FretDancer
Something many guys here don't seem to do. Don't waste your fucking time asking yourself (or even worse, others in a forum) if this or that guy is "Alpha" or "Beta".
Go find something better to do.
(03-25-2013 01:38 PM)scorpion Wrote: This guy has received more bad press for cheating than anyone, Tiger Woods included. He got absolutely murdered in the media. Yet he recovers and marries a billionaire heiress who, while not a head turner, is passably attractive, younger than him and into the same shit he is (tattoos, cars).
This is my thought. It's a lifestyle match as much as anything. A rough around the edges, tatted-up chick like that isn't going to be attractive to many of us here, but she might very well be a 10 in his eyes.
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Matthew Mendelsohn, Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet, Privy Council Office of Canada; Head, Prime Minister`s Results & Delivery Unit
Katherine Milkman, Professor, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; Co-Director, Behaviour Change for Good Initiative
Sendhil Mullainathan, Professor, Computation and Behavioral Science, University of Chicago Booth School of Business; Co-Founder and Scientific Advisor, ideas42; Co-Author of Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much (2013)
Kelly Peters, CEO and Co-Founder, BEWorks
Dilip Soman, Professor of Marketing, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
Cass Sunstein, Robert Walmsley University Professor, and Founder & Director, Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy, Harvard University; Author
Rory Sutherland, Vice Chairman, Ogilvy
Ned Welch, Adjunct Professor and Executive in Residence, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
Stephen Wendel, Head of Behavioral Science, Morningstar
Jiaying Zhao, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology and the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia
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*Early Bird (ends Feb. 15, 2020) General Admission: $1080.00 + HST; Canadian Public Servants and Rotman Alumni (degree programs only): $660.00 + HST; Current Students (limited quantity available): $195.00 + HST (SOLD OUT); Standard Pricing (begins Feb. 16, 2020) General Admission: $1440.00 + HST; Canadian Public Servants and Rotman Alumni (degree programs only): $880.00 + HST; Current Students (limited quantity available): $260.00 + HST
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All Early Bird Student tickets are now sold out. Standard Student tickets will be available on Feb 16, 2020. If you’re a current student at any post-secondary institution and would like to reserve your spot (Standard Student ticket price), please fill out this Waitlist Form. We will contact you on a first-come first-served basis when the Standard Student tickets become available.
Summary: On July 13 & 14, 2020, BEAR and the Rotman School of Management will host the Behavioural Exchange (BX) Conference.
Behavioural Exchange (BX) is the world’s leading behavioural science conference, bringing together global experts from government, academia and industry to explore new frontiers in this cutting-edge field.
BX2020 will be hosted by BEAR (Behavioural Economics in Action at the Rotman School, University of Toronto). BEAR is also the home of a large international partnership of academics and practitioners that aims to understand what it means to be a Behaviourally Informed Organization.
Day 1: Monday, July 13, 2020
8:00-8:59am check-in and breakfast; 9:00am sharp to 5:30pm sessions; 6:30-8:30pm reception at the Royal Ontario Museum
Day 2: Tuesday, July 14, 2020
8:00-8:59am check-in and breakfast; 9:00am sharp to 5:30pm sessions
Topics at BX2020
Financial Inclusion and Wellbeing
Blending AI (artificial intelligence) with BI (behavioural insights)
How can organizations embed BI
For the full conference program visit: https://www.bx2020.org/program
To learn more about confirmed speakers visit: https://www.bx2020.org/speakers
Questions: BX2020@rotman.utoronto.ca | Twitter: @UofT_BEAR
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Cancellations received in writing to events@rotman.utoronto.ca 24 hours prior to the event will receive a refund less a $10 administration fee per person. If we do not receive written notice of your cancellation, you will be charged the full amount for this session. Substitutions are always welcome.
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South Pasadena to Stencil Route 66 Shields!
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City to Reclaim Road History
On Saturday Feb 25 the City of South Pasadena will dedicate at least one of three Route 66 road signs to be stenciled onto Fair Oaks Avenue to commemorate the 90th Anniversary year of U.S. Highway 66. Fair Oaks was part of two different alignments of the iconic highway that traversed our city from 1926 to 1982.
A brief ceremony will take place at 11 am on Feb 25 at the corner of Fair Oaks Av and Mission Street. Several California and community champions of local heritage, including Mayor Pro-tem Dr. Richard Schneider and State Senator Anthony Portantino will help dedicate the historic emblems. The signs will be painted on the pavement adjacent to Fair Oaks Pharmacy, Comerica Bank and the Rialto Theater. Glen Duncan, president of the California Historic Route 66 Association explained the reason behind stenciled emblems: “typical metal signs along the roadside tend to disappear, becoming collector’s items, but no one will steal the road.”
The Association will offer memberships, memorabilia, and refreshments and exhibit a wealth of historical information about America’s historic “main street.” The public is invited to participate, learn about Route 66 heritage and be a part of its history.
All new individual members will receive a free Route 66 hat
New business members will get appropriate signage to attract heritage tourists:
Route 66 hats and maps and books will also be available for sale
Brad Colerick, South Pasadena’s local maestro of Americana music will also be on hand to dedicate his next album entitled “91030” which will feature a cover photo of Brad at one of the Route 66 commemorative signs.
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Healthy Food Access
Perceived Reactions of Elementary School Students to Changes in School Lunches After Implementation of the United States Department of Agriculture's New Meals Standards
Publisher: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
Publication: Childhood Obesity
Author(s): Turner L, and Chaloupka FJ
School leaders report widespread student acceptance of new healthier lunches offered after USDA improves nutrition standards.
This is the first national study to examine the perceptions of school leaders regarding student reactions to the new healthier lunches offered after the United States Department of Agriculture implemented updated nutrition standards for school meals in the 2012–2013 school year.
In spring 2013, 70 percent of elementary school leaders nationwide reported that students generally liked the healthier school lunches.
More than half of respondents (56.4%) reported that students complained at first, but student acceptance greatly increased by spring 2013.
Respondents at elementary schools with more students from lower-income families reported increases in student purchasing, compared with decreases reported from higher-SES schools.
Respondents did not perceive much change in the amount of food students were discarding.
Our studies show that kids are okay with these changes, and that there have not been widespread challenges with kids not buying or eating the meals.
Lindsey Turner, Co-investigator Bridging the Gap
The perceived reactions to the new meal standards were met with minimal backlash. Future studies should consider objectively measured data.
Five-hundred fifty seven elementary schools participating in the National School Lunch Program completed mail-back surveys in the second half of the 2012–2013 school year. Administrators and food service personnel answered questions regarding students’ purchasing, consumption, and attitudes towards the new meals.
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TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR LIFE
Wednesday, October 14, 2020, 10:00a.m.-3:00p.m.
Life has way of making so many demands on our time and energy. Sometimes the harder we try the more frustrating it can become. Taking time out to slow down and refocus can do wonders for our mind, body and spirit.
Life often offers us many challenges but you do not have to go it alone. On this one-day retreat, you will learn some very valuable and workable techniques that can assist you in your daily life. Christ is present among us and offers us His "Light" to guide our way. It is possible to turn a life of chaos into a life of peace and calm.
Presenter: Sr. Joan Marie Sasse, OSB
Donation: $45 per person includes tuition, morning beverages, and lunch after Mass
Sr. Joan Marie Sasse is a Benedictine Sister who was a member of Holy Spirit Monastery in Grand Terrace for many years. When the Community left California in 2012, she joined St. Lucy's Benedictine Community in Glendora. Sr. Joan Marie has earned degrees in Education, Theology, and Neuro Linguistic Programming. She was a teacher and school administrator in various elementary schools for over twenty years and served as a Parish Administrator or Pastoral Associate for thirteen years. Sr. Joan Marie was a Retreat Director at Serra Retreat House in Malibu for five years where she published five Meditation CD's and two CD's for self-improvement. Sr. Joan Marie currently gives weekly Retreats at Grand Terrace, CA.
STILL FULL OF SAP, STILL GREEN: A Spirituality of Aging
Monday, October 19-Thursday, October 22, 2020
This retreat will be inspired by research and by many writers' reflections on spirituality for the second half of life. Creative living within the season of wisdom, greater and ongoing maturation, and positive transformation of the inner life will be some of the meditations for a full life in the Spirit. Experiencing limitations during one's aging process will be explored as opportunities for transcendence and spiritual fecundity that could not be profoundly realized in earlier seasons of growth.
Presenters: Fr. Francis Benedict, OSB and Diane Bunker, Obl.OSB; Ph.D.; M.Div.
Room, board, and tuition: $330 single; $287.50 each shared
Fr. Francis Benedict has been a monk of Valyermo since 1967. He earned an MA in Philosophy from Loyola-Marymount University and an MS in Theology from Mt. Angel in Oregon. He was ordained a priest in 1976. He served as the Abbey's abbot for 16 years. His special areas of ministry include spiriutal direction, preaching retreats, and working with 12-step recovery groups. In addition to many responsibilities at the Abbey, he now serves as the Director of Oblates.
Dr. Diane Bunker is a retired psychologist who worked with older people receiving care in Rehabilitation Medicine and Hospice. She obtained her M.Div. and Ph.D. from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena. She comes with a wealth of personal, professional, and pastoral experience.
LOVE WAS HIS MEANING: The Spirituality of Julian of Norwich
Friday, October 30-Sunday, November 1, 2020
This retreat will explore major themes from Julian of Norwich's spiritual masterpiece Revelations of Divine Love. Julian was a 14th century English anchoress living in seclusion in her native Norwich. She experienced a series of 16 revelations of Christ Crucified while on her sickbed and spent the next decades of her life reflecting on their meaning. She is known for her profound saying: "Indeed all manner of things shall be very well!" The retreat will provide time for lectio divina on selections of her text as well as time for personal prayer and reflection.
Presenter: Fr. Stephen Coffey, OSB Cam
Room, board, and tuition: $275 single; $220 each shared
Fr. Stephen Coffey, a Massachusetts native, is a monk of the Camaldolese Congregation of the Order of St. Benedict and lives at the Monastery of the Risen Christ in San Luis Obispo, where he is director of oblates. He is a retreat director, spiritual director, and is involved in other formation ministries at the Hermitage in Big Sur and at San Lorenzo Seminary in Santa Ynez. He is a graduate of St. John's School of Theology in Collegeville, MN and holds degrees in Christian Spirituality from Creighton in Omaha and in Pastoral Leadership from Chaminade in Honolulu.
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — An uncle accused of inappropriate touching of his 14-year-old niece is fighting the allegations against him, evident in his denial of the government’s offer and his wish to set the case for trial. (Samoa News is withholding the name of the defendant to protect the...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — One of the four DPS officers accused of illegal activities and misconduct at the Juvenile Detention Center (JDC) told the court yesterday that the allegations against him are true. Okesene Alo, who is charged in two separate cases, appeared in High Court yesterday...
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Yorkville Apartments for Rent
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Located between 79th and 96th Streets between 3rd Ave and East End Avenue, Yorkville has become more accessible due to the City expansion of the subway line under 2nd Ave, most recently completed at the end of 2016. The T train runs the length of Manhattan along 2nd avenue (and is joined by the Q), relieving those living on the furthest east end of the city from long walks to the Lexington Avenue 4/5/6. Yorkville is bordered by the FDR, which makes it popular for those with vehicles. Car…
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Located between 79th and 96th Streets between 3rd Ave and East End Avenue, Yorkville has become more accessible due to the City expansion of the subway line under 2nd Ave, most recently completed at the end of 2016. The T train runs the length of Manhattan along 2nd avenue (and is joined by the Q), relieving those living on the furthest east end of the city from long walks to the Lexington Avenue 4/5/6. Yorkville is bordered by the FDR, which makes it popular for those with vehicles. Car rental companies by the highway and connections to other major highways in the metro area make getting out of the city a little simpler. The neighborhood meets all your basic needs, in terms of grocery stores, banks, and parks. While there used to be many low rise, narrow walk-ups, the area is quickly seeing an increase in mid to high rise buildings, many being co-ops.
For those who have furry friends, Carl Schurz Park on the East side is a great place to walk your dogs. Easy access to the East River also appeals to runners and cyclists alike, who can easily head up North for a run or ride while avoiding the crowd of Lower Manhattan. If exercising outside isn’t your thing, there is also Asphalt Green, a large sports complex that caters to both adults and children, and features an outdoor basketball court and soccer field.
Foodies know that Yorkville is home to Two Little Red Hens, a well-known neighborhood bakery, and boasts a location of Alice’s Tea Cup, a brunch spot that’s wildly popular due to their incredible baked goods and tea selection, in addition to on-point décor that transports brunch goers straight to Wonderland. Nightlife-wise, Yorkville is more conservative, with a couple of wine bars and beer bars, sprinkled with a fancier cocktail place, like the Penrose here or there. To sum up, the further East, the more quiet it gets in the evening.
Yorkville is in close proximity to many of the city’s elite private schools which makes this neighborhood a top choice for well-off families and their children. Expect to see school kids running around during the academic year.
Yorkville first began to gain a reputation in 1904 after the Great Slocum Disaster, when a boat carrying Lower East Side German-American passengers perished in flames. The close-knit community was showered with grief which led many to immigrate to other areas. Many chose to move to Yorkville, creating a predominantly German neighborhood. As time went on, many other small refugee communities such as the Jewish, and various Eastern European people also chose to call Yorkville home. And so a unique neighborhood of varying cultures was born, each striving to survive, but respectful of each other. Yorkville used to be characterized by mom and pop shops, and Eastern European ethnic foods, most famously lining 86th street. With modern development, however, many family-run restaurants were forced to close or move elsewhere, which is an unfortunate but common theme in New York’s history.
There used to be an elevated train running on Third Avenue that caused a bit of a tension between residents East and West of the rail, one that some say still exists today.
The cast-iron clock on 1501 Third Avenue between 84th and 85th Street is one of NYC’s smallest landmarks. Manufactured by the E. Howard Clock Company, it stands as an example of a rare street amenity, and was designated a city landmark in 1980.
That large cream colored, white-picket fenced mansion that can be seen from East End Ave. is Gracie Mansion. Once the house for New York governors, it was bought by the City of New York to expand Carl Schurz Park. The estate is now owned privately and maintained regularly.
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1.20 mi - 81st St - Museum of Natural History (81st St and Central Park West)
1.25 mi - Lexington Av (63rd St and Lexington Ave)
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Science Buddies Volunteer Wins Intel Science Talent Search
By Amy Cowen on March 19, 2012 6:10 AM
Nithin Tumma, a previous student mentor at Science Buddies, wins Intel Science Talent Search for cancer research project.
Nithin Tumma, winner of this year's Intel Science Talent Search
Each year, thousands of students complete science projects and participate in science fairs around the country—and around the world. With the national spotlight on science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education fueled by the Educate to Innovate campaign, Change the Equation, and the Google Science Fair, now in its second year, the science fair scene is evolving, but there are two competitions in the U. S. that stand among all others as pinnacles of science success: the Intel Science Talent Search (STS) and the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF).
The winners of this year's Intel Science Talent Search were announced last week, and Science Buddies was thrilled to learn that the top award went to Nithin Tumma, a senior at Port Huron Northern High School in Port Huron, Michigan. There were cheers all around when we heard the news because Nithin volunteered at Science Buddies as a high school mentor in our Ask an Expert forum last year and won the Craig Sander Outstanding Mentor Award for his contributions.
Advanced Student Science
Nithin's project for this year's Intel Science Talent Search deals with slowing the growth of breast cancer cells, a step which may aid in treating the disease. "I studied protein interactions during the progression of leukemia and breast cancer," explains Nithin, "and discovered possible therapeutic targets to slow the growth and spreading of the cancers."
His project built upon research he began working on last summer at Stony Brook University as a Simons Fellow. Prior to his Stony Brook fellowship, Nithin was a finalist at ISEF three years in a rows and won Best of Category and first place honors in the Cellular and Molecular Biology category last year for his project, "Identifying Novel Mechanisms of Cytochrome-P450 2E1 Regulation," a study of the ways in which insulin or metformin (two drugs commonly used to treat Type 2 diabetes) alters Cyp2E1, a liver enzyme that helps eliminate carcinogens.
In a letter Nithin wrote last year after his ISEF success, he put his own cumulative science fair experience in perspective. "Science fairs provide an opportunity to experience learning on a different level, a hands on approach that helps develop a deep, true understanding of subject matter. The topics that I know the most about are the topics that I have spent time researching, from global warming in seventh grade to the connections between diabetes and liver cancer, my current study."
This year, he adds breast cancer to the list of topics in which he has immersed himself with advanced student science projects and joins an elite group of young scientists who have been named finalists and winners of the Intel Science Talent Search.
"When I heard, I was totally taken aback," says Nithin. "I had no idea that I would win, and I truly think that any of the 40 kids just as easily could have taken home the first prize. At first I was shocked, then elated as it started to sink in."
Commitment to Science
While community service is increasingly valued among high school students (and incoming student admissions boards), not all students engaged in advanced research and preparing for top-level competition have time for one in-depth community project, much less several. Nithin has devoted time and energy to fostering science education in his community, to volunteering at Science Buddies, and to restoring historical and cultural landmarks as part of his work with the Port Huron Museum.
Passionate about science and the importance of high school science, Nithin didn't sit quietly when his local science fair disbanded due to funding and participation issues. Wanting to encourage advanced science activity at the student level—and hoping to foster interest in science among middle school students—Nithin started a science club at a local middle school. The club meets twice a month, beginning at the start of the school year, and encourages students to work on year-long science projects. In its first year, Nithin was excited to find that he had tapped into a wealth of interest in science. Students wanted an avenue for pursuing in-depth research and showcasing it at a fair. "We ended up having about 45 projects to present at a district science fair that I help set up," says Nithin.
He credits mentoring at Science Buddies as a student Expert in the Ask an Expert volunteer program with helping him recognize and understand the "teacher" within him. His experience at Ask an Expert, he says, also helped him better articulate science—both his own and scientific concepts he spent time explaining in answering questions from other students.
A Glimpse at Tomorrow
In an announcement of the winners issued by Intel, Wendy Hawkins asks... which of the 40 finalists from this years STS will go on to someday win a Nobel Prize? With the kind of talent, research, and dedication demonstrated by Nithin and other STS finalists this year, it is a question of merit and one supported by the growing list of past STS participants who have gone on to win Nobel Prizes. It's an impressive group. As Hawkins wrote: "We do know that the 40 finalists assembled here this week are well on their way to becoming science game changers. They are talented, brilliant, passionate, and they are able to communicate that passion and the science they care so deeply about to others in terms we can all understand—a necessary talent for an aspiring scientist."
We at Science Buddies are proud to have young scientists like Nithin as part of our team of volunteers!
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Biman is the national flag carrier, which is fully owned and operated by the Government of Bangladesh. The corporate body of Biman, namely ‘Bangladesh Biman Corporation’, is doing business as Biman Bangladesh Airlines under the Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism. Biman Bangladesh Airlines was formed on 4 January 1972 with 2500 skilled and unskilled manpower without any capital and aircraft. Biman was established as of a corporation on 27 October 1972 with a view to ensuring better operation and development of air transport service.
Over the last decades, Biman faced a number of problems. Information on mismanagement and corruption in the organisation has trickled out in recent years. Such incidents include mismanagement in ticket confirmation and reconfirmation, poor passenger service, corruption in purchasing spare parts, alleged corruption on aircraft lease, lack of planning with regard to scheduling, fleet planning, human resource management and so on.
Recently the present caretaker government took some reform measures. This includes turning Biman into a public limited company with financial autonomy, down-sizing of staff under a voluntary retirement scheme, and restructuring the Board of Directors. While these measures are closely intended to meet the long- felt need of reform of Biman, it is expected that the present study will facilitate a closer look at the key problems and processes that have led to the crippling situation that Biman finds itself.
Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) conducted this diagnostic study on Biman to explore its current business and operational status, to explore deep into the allegations of corruption and mismanagement, to identify the reasons behind its problems, and to identify the probable remedies of the existing problems.
In conducting the study, information both from primary and secondary sources was used. Apart from key informants, a survey on 402 passengers of Biman was conducted. Secondary sources included relevant laws, books, published and unpublished articles and reports, and website.
History Biman was established with a slogan “Your Home in the Sky” and it started operations in February 1972. After successfully completing a few domestic flights, on 10 February 1972, this aircraft crashed while on a test-flight. Soon after, one Boeing 707 and two Fokker F27 friendship aircrafts were included in the fleet, allowing Biman to begin international flights.
Until 1981, Biman’s fleet comprised of 6 Boeing aircrafts, two F-28, six F-27 and three DC-10s. Meanwhile, all the Boeing 707 were gradually phased out, while the fourth DC 10-30 aircraft was added to Biman’s fleet in January 1989. To modernize Biman’s domestic operations, two ATP aircrafts were added in 1990. The latest procurements of the carrier include two Boeing 737 that the airliner received in January 2003, followed by two F-28 procured in May 2004.
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Biman provides different types of services such as passenger service, cargo service, mail service, catering, and training for the Biman staff. Biman has two categories of passenger services, provided through the domestic and international flights that it operates. Biman offers 16 domestic and 102 international flights. Biman currently operates through 7 local and 26 world-wide branch offices. Biman earns about 80% of its revenue from passenger service, about 11% from cargo service and the rest 9% of its revenue from other sources. Among the total share of revenue earned from passengers, 91% is earned from international routes and 4.5% each from regional and domestic routes respectively. However, it is observed that the passenger share of Biman was 50% during 1995-1996. Since then it gradually declined to less than 43% in 2003-2004.
Administrative Structure The airline is 100% owned by the Bangladesh government. Bangladesh Biman Corporation is a commercial venture of the Ministry of Civil Aviation. The chief of this government-owned organization is by designation the Minister of the Aviation Ministry. This corporation is operated through a Board of Directors. Usually, this Board of Directors is headed by a Chairman who is supposed to be accountable to a higher authority.
According to the company’s organogram, the Managing Director (MD) is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Biman. There are eight divisions in Biman – administration, finance, flight operations, store and purchase, customer service, engineering, planning, and special project – each headed by an appointed Director of its own. Biman’s management and most of the financial matters fall under the responsibility of this eight-member Executive Board.
National and Global Network of Biman Biman has 202 approved local travel agents - 140 in Dhaka, 32 in Chittagong and 30 in Sylhet. Biman also has 120 travel agents in nine foreign stations - Thailand, UK and Ireland, USA, Singapore, Nepal, Germany, Japan/Korea, Canada, and France. Besides, Biman has 19 General Sales Agents (GSA) all over the world.
Diagnosis of Biman’s Problems
Administrative Limitations
Biman’s Dilemma: Biman is obliged, by legislation, to prioritise national interest over commercial ones, and not to be a purely commercial airliner. The government is exercising the power as given by the ordinance in its activities. In this context, the government is utilising Biman to render services for the nation, e.g. operating government VVIP flights, relief flights and hajj flight, and carrying perishable items at cheaper rates. In practice, the government is, on the one hand, receiving these services from Biman, but, on the other, creating an environment which dictates that Biman should run itself on its own finances by making profits. While it is passing through the most difficult period in terms of a financial crunch in its history of 35 years, to judge Biman’s performance on profitability alone, without giving any consideration to the wider service it has rendered for the national interest and at the behest of its owner, would not only be biased and partial, but also a great travesty of justice. Due to this dilemma Biman cannot operate itself distinctively either as commercial organization or as service organisation.
Lack of Authority and Accountability of the Executive Body: The Board is not accountable to a higher authority because the Minister of Aviation, who is the designated chief of the organisation is the Chairman of the Board himself. Therefore, the Board is neither directly accountable to any other body, nor is it under obligation to report to any other authority for its activities and
performance. This existing hierarchy creates problem in delegating the duties for the Managing Director, CEO of Biman.
Lack of Aviation Experts in the Authoritative bodies: It is noteworthy that there is no aviation expert in the Board who can guide Biman to operate in an efficient and effective manner in its technical as well as commercial aspects. Biman has never seen a professional as its CEO.
Political Influence: As a consequence of being a state-owned corporation,
Biman has suffered from being politicised in many aspects. It has been politicised in the following manners.
Operating domestic flights with wide bodied aircraft Continuing flights in loss-making routes Political Intervention in Recruitment and Promotions Decision-making under political influence
Corruption in different sectors of Biman is another significant barrier that is making it difficult for the organisation to break away from loss making ways. Incidents of corruption are evident in purchase and leasing of aircraft, store and purchase of spare parts, in the tender process and in ticketing and reconfirmation.
Corruption in Purchase and Lease of Aircrafts: Corruption and irregularities
in leasing process of Biman leads excess payment of US$ 45 million (estimated) in last five years. The following anomalies have been identified:
Decisions arbitrarily taken by the Chairman Technical personnel not involved in the tender preparing process Due to lack of skill and expertise technical and legal sides not ensured Lack of planning
Lack of scope of the board members and CEO to get involved in the leasing
and purchase process
Corruption in repair and maintenance: Corruption in repair and maintenance of aircrafts leads to huge loss of Biman every year, e.g. in last four years, the cost of repair and maintenance went up more than double from Tk 214.525 crore to Tk 489.08 crore even though the numbers of aircraft has fallen from 17 to 13, and total flight hour decreased by 25%.
Over the last 10-12 years, the repair orders mostly were given to 1 or 2 agencies which provide evidence of nepotism and significant political influences in the processes. Findings also reveals that, if the cost of component repair is to the tune of Tk 90 crore per year, then, out of this amount, around Tk 50 crore is wasted by corruption.
In addition following irregularities found research team during study period in store and purchase:
Most of the agents take certification giving bribe to CAAB Agents use fake name and address No engineer in store and purchase to receive spare parts ensuring quality Store has never been scrutinized/adjusted since its inception ICAO certification are not checked during tender process Unnecessary spare parts are purchased which will never be used
Corruption in relating to outstations of Biman: Every on-line station has employees posted from many sections like sales, finance, operations, traffic and field service. However, bulk of the services can be outsourced. In addition following irregularities revealed during study period:
Posting on outstation made on political consideration
Allegation of misappropriation of money by country managers
Never investigated any irregularities of out station
Over staffing in out stations
Large set up of outstation –which is not cost effective
Office station exist even the route is closed
Corruption in tender process: Irregularities in tender process of Biman include lack of transparency in tender process, political influence to bag illogical and unauthorised commissions, tainting of selection process in every sort of tender by political influences. These are well-known in such extent that no reputed airline manufacturer wants to get involved with these tender processes.
Corruption in buying tickets and reconfirmation: One third of the passengers (37.6%) who reconfirmed/purchased tickets from Biman sales centers reported about encountering problems. Major problems faced during reconfirmation and purchase are wasting time (59.4%), take extra money for reconfirming/ticketing (21%), creating artificial ticket crisis (15.1%). In addition, some travel agents are illegally favored, the Travel agents’ purchased amount of money is not deposited to Biman and submission of everyday statement and money deposit on weekly basis is not maintained by the travel agents properly.
Institutional Capacity: Problem of Human Resource
Biman's Man-Equipment Ratio (MER) at present is 1:367, while the international acceptable standard ratio is 1:200. Compared to other airlines, the number of Biman staff is fairly high but their remuneration is fairly low.
Biman does not recruit any staff directly (i.e. from external qualified candidates) in officer level. Maximum of them are promoted from lower positions. As a result, the scope of getting quality staff for Biman becomes lower. Hence in all directorates external efficient candidates are deprived, no competitive environment among the staff prevails, the existing staff remains reluctant as they feel that they will be promoted somehow. The promotions that occur are mostly executed through political lobby, which also deter internal competitions. Moreover, it has been alleged that Biman does not want to equip their staff with modern technologies, thus making their productivity even lower.
Lack of Planning
Biman is an organisation with no vision and mission. Every professional airline has a master plan for at least plan for five years but Biman does not have any plan at all. There are significant gaps in planning in the following arena. Corporate vision and strategy Improvement of procedures Employee productivity Improved information technology Image of the airline Revenue enhancement Increase market share and improve yield Product improvement driven by total customer satisfaction Expense reduction Increase in-house capability in maintenance and engineering Phased fleet renewal
As a consequence, the corporation is lacking in proper implementation and monitoring of planned and routine activities for its existence and improvement.
Biman does not follow the strategic route planning for its existing routes and for opening new routes. In the past, Biman opened many domestic and international
routes without doing any cost-benefit analysis, which is unbelievable especially in
a business sector that faces fierce and often cut-throat competition. Sometimes
routes were operated on political intentions knowing that it is quite non-viable.
Poor Financial Situation
Biman incurred losses of Tk 249.51 crore and Tk 836.25 crore in the fiscal years 2004-05 and 2005-06 respectively. Biman is lacking it capital base and eventually also does not get sufficient finance from the Government to fill the deficit.
Being an airline with a very narrow capital base, Biman was forced to borrow externally. These borrowings resulted in payment of huge amount of interest every year, draining a substantial portion of its income. Biman incurred losses from its inception to till to date about Tk 1,900 crore and its debt burden is over Tk 2,100 crore, payable to different organisations and now become unable for debt servicing and it cannot manage its spending without help from the government.
Flight Schedule Delay
According to the survey results, about 75% of the respondents had experienced flight delay during their last travel by Biman. This gives an indication of the large amount of funds that have to be spent by the airliner on a regular basis to compensate waiting passengers. Moreover, such schedule disruption creates negative impact on Biman’s commercial viability and the members of the traveling public tend to choose other airlines.
Operating Flights with Old Aircrafts
Old aircrafts cause higher maintenance and operation costs, create scope of corruption, incident and accident, and impose higher insurance premium rate. It
is very difficult to run an airline with old aircrafts. The operating cost of DC-10 is,
according to an estimate, US$ 1000 more per block hour than the new generation aircraft. It is calculated that if the new generation aircrafts are utilised 10 hours each per day, each aircraft will save US$ 3,00,00 per month. Thus four new generation aircrafts will save Biman US$ 1.2 million per month with regard to operation cost only. In addition, new aircraft and higher capacity are expected to generate higher revenue as well as much better schedule regularity.
Various Kinds of Aircrafts leading to Higher Operating Cost
Such a small fleet with only 13 aircrafts, Biman is comprised of three types of aircrafts manufactured by three different companies. To maintain this fleet, Biman needs to employ different categories of pilots, engineers and use various kinds of spare parts. This leads Biman into incurring higher operating cost.
Poor Quality of Customer Service
After assessing the service level of Biman in terms of the satisfaction of the passengers, majority of the respondents (72%) termed the service quality of Biman as poor. It has been revealed from the survey that about 85% of the respondents were not provided any information about flight delays. Furthermore, 77% of the respondents reported that during the flight delay no one from Biman came and wanted to know, if the passengers were having any problem or not.
About 65% of the respondents termed Biman’s in-flight services to be worsening than poor. Pre requisition of quality in-flight services is sufficient number of crew. Our analysis shows that 42% of the surveyed domestic flights moved with under compliment, 87% of the surveyed shuttle flights moved under complement, while 82% of the surveyed international flights moved with under compliment. In terms of routes, the highest portion of passengers who were found to be disinterested to fly with Biman in the future came from the East, Middle East and South East Asia (50%) while the lowest portion (15%) come from Gulf and Middle East. Greater portion of passenger (49 and 39 percent respectively) mentioned schedule problem and mismanagement respectively as reasons for not flying in Biman next. The other significant reported reasons were quality of in-flight service is not good, problem with ticket reconfirmation.
Due to the above-mentioned shortcomings Biman is now in a very bad shape. It has fallen into severe financial crisis. Furthermore, this organisation is also suffering from lack of strategic planning to overcome all other drawbacks.
To help Biman move out from its old-fashioned way of management, to accommodate the future opportunities and to avert the current crisis and threats, it is extremely essential for Biman to undertake the following steps set forth as recommendations.
1. Biman should have a vision and mission statement.
2. The dilemmas in the governance system of Biman need to be settled down through bringing in necessary changes in the Ordinance.
3. To ensure accountability, the Board of Directors needs to be reformed. The Minister for Civil Aviation should not be the Chairman of the Board of Directors. The responsibilities of the members of the Board should be specified.
4. Experts on commercial airline and aviation industry must be included as members in the Board of Directors.
5. Biman should abide by the current business methodologies as used in world- class airlines to make it successful and profitable.
6. The Annual Report should be made public. This report must include financial statements.
7. Biman should not be exploited in the name of national interest. It should not operate unprofitable flights.
8. Biman’s existing procurement rules should be appropriately amended so that Biman can take its own business decisions.
9. Biman should operate by Biman people without any interference from the Ministry.
1. Consultants should be hired with regard to finance and store and purchase.
1. Biman should make a phased fleet renewal plan.
2. Biman should develop and adopt a coping strategy addressing the market need. Leasing will reduce immediate capital requirements and will allow Biman to have flexibility in capacity which means that the airlines can scale-up or scale-down available seat capacity according to the market trend.
3. Biman should consider closing down the loss-making routes and divert the flights entirely to the profit-making ones.
4. Biman must discontinue operation of short sector flights by wide-bodied aircrafts.
5. Biman must operate with similar types of aircraft to reduce operating cost.
1. Biman should recruit staff with required qualification directly at officer level.
2. Analyzing current staff size and performing cost effective analysis, Biman should cut down its staff.
3. Recruitment, transfer, and promotion on political consideration must be stopped.
1. Biman needs to purchase new generation aircraft to save operation cost significantly.
2. Leasing and purchase process of aircraft should be made transparent.
3. During procurement of spare parts, technical experts must be included in the process.
4. Punitive actions against corrupt staff of the in and out station of Biman must be taken.
Modernisation of Biman
Modern cost effective inventory control system should be introduced.
Biman needs to keep its website continuously updated so that the clients can get the latest and complete information from the website.
Biman must go all out to introduce e-ticketing, e-reservation, and e- procurement of spare parts.
1. Delay analysis should be undertaken as a routine process and necessary steps should be taken to maintain the schedule in a tolerable delay range.
In-Flight Services
1. In-flight service must be improved. Steps may be undertaken to ensure full complement of cabin crew, professionalism among the cabin crew, and provision of proper flight crew training to ensure that quality service can be rendered by the cabin crew at all times.
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State Historical Society ‘Tasunka’ book featured in Atlanta children’s program
“Tasunka: A Lakota Horse Legend” is featured in the November Artful Stories program at the Michael C. Carlos Museum, located on the campus of Emory University in Atlanta, Ga.
The multi-award-winning South Dakota State Historical Society book, written and illustrated by Oglala Lakota artist Donald F. Montileaux, has received high praise since its publication in 2014.
The Carlos Museum designed Artful Stories for preschool children. The program combines art and literacy to build vocabulary, flexible thinking, problem-solving skills and fine motor skills. Picture books are chosen for their quality and connection to current museum exhibits. In November, the course centers around “Tasunka,” which teaches children about ledger-style drawings. The book accompanies the Carlos Museum’s exhibit “Indigenous Beauty: Masterworks of American Indian Art from the Diker Collection.”
“We are thrilled to be offering Montileaux’s ‘Tasunka: A Lakota Horse Legend’ as part of our Artful Stories program,” says Alyson Vuley from the Education Department of the Carlos Museum. “Each child involved with the program will receive a beautiful hardcover copy of ‘Tasunka’ to help them learn about the pictographic art of the Plains peoples.”
In addition to reading “Tasunka,” participants will create a pictorial shield based on an artifact at the Carlos Museum by Joseph No Two Horns, the man who is believed to have carved the South Dakota State Historical Society’s Great Sioux Horse Effigy. The effigy recently returned from a two-year world tour and is on display at the Cultural Heritage Center in Pierre.
“Tasunka” is a story of adventure, discovery, loss and renewal, set to beautiful illustrations that illuminate the story of the horse and its importance to the Plains people. Readers journey with a young warrior as he tracks a strange new creature across the Plains and discover the destructive nature of power as well as a lesson in redemption.
Montileaux uses traditional storytelling methods to impart wisdom to new generations, and through the Lakota translation by Agnes Gay, “Tasunka” preserves an important piece of Lakota culture. “Tasunka” is dedicated to Alex White Plume, who first told the legend to Montileaux.
“Tasunka: A Lakota Horse Legend” is available for $19.95 plus shipping and tax and can be purchased from most bookstores or ordered directly from the South Dakota Historical Society Press. Visit www.sdhspress.com, call (605) 773-6009 or email orders@sdhspress.com.
To find out more about the Carlos Museum and its exhibits, please visit www.carlos.emory.edu.
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Amazon increases paid leave for new parents
Originally published November 2, 2015 at 11:46 am Updated November 2, 2015 at 5:57 pm
Amazon has boosted its maternity leave to up to 20 weeks of paid leave for new birth mothers.
Rachel Lerman
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Amazon.com has boosted its maternity benefit to up to 20 weeks of paid leave for new birth mothers, joining a growing number of tech companies expanding benefits to retain hard-to-find technical talent.
The company sent an internal email Monday outlining the changes, which take effect Jan. 1 and apply to babies born or adopted since Oct. 1.
Under the policy, new parents of either gender who have worked at Amazon for at least a year will get six weeks of paid leave. That applies to birth parents and parents who adopt children.
Added to the 10 weeks birth moms are offered, plus four weeks of medical leave some moms qualify for, some of those mothers now have up to 20 weeks of paid time off.
This is the first time Amazon has offered paid time off for new fathers.
Amazon also introduced a “leave share program” that allows employees to gift all or part of the six-week leave to a spouse or partner who does not have paid parental leave through his or her own work.
That means the Amazon employee would come back to work, and his or her partner could get paid by Amazon to stay home and care for the child.
The announcement comes in the wake of Netflix’s highly publicized policy change this year, which gave employees up to a year of paid leave after birth or adoption of a child.
Microsoft followed suit almost immediately after, adding eight weeks of paid leave for new parents.
Amazon’s expanded benefits come not long after a New York Times investigation found that some Amazon employees were critical of the company’s work culture and were not happy with the benefits offered. The company has disputed the account.
Expanding benefits and perks has become almost routine for tech companies in recent months. An October survey from employer review site Glassdoor.com found that 79 percent of employees surveyed wanted additional benefits more than a pay raise.
Tech companies often implement changes before businesses in other industries because recruiting for engineering and other talent is so competitive, said Glassdoor community expert Scott Dobroski.
“The war for talent is so incredibly fierce in the tech industry, that (companies) will do anything and everything to attract and keep the very best talent on hand,” he said.
Although Amazon’s expanded benefits are a good step, Dobroski said, it’s still far behind many of its fellow tech giants.
Microsoft offers at least 12 weeks for parents regardless of gender. Google has been offering at least 12 weeks, and up to 22 weeks, for several years.
“Amazon’s policy can vary from parent to parent, and 20 weeks has actually already been seen by Google and some other companies for a few years,” Dobroski said. “So (Amazon) is actually a bit behind chronologically and in terms of perks and benefits.”
Chances are, Amazon knows that. It seems unlikely, Dobroski said, that the company would make a change without studying what its specific employee demographic wanted.
Amazon said it reviews its benefits every year and began focus groups and surveys about parental leave early this year.
Amazon’s expanded benefits extend to full-time workers employed in Amazon’s distribution centers. That contrasts with Netflix’s policy, which has been criticized for leaving out employees in its DVD-by-mail division.
Another piece of Amazon’s expanded-benefits announcement involves the “ramp back program,” which allows birth moms and primary caregivers to work either half time or three-quarter time during their first eight weeks back at work.
Under Amazon’s policy, birth mothers can take four weeks of paid leave before giving birth if a doctor determined it to be medically necessary.
Birth mothers then can have 10 weeks of paid maternity leave, and six weeks of paid parental leave.
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Adding paid leave for fathers should help women feel more comfortable about taking a leave, said Sophie Leroy, an assistant professor at University of Washington Bothell’s business school.
“The caregiver role is not just associated with women,” Leroy said.
The real change will be felt over time, she said, depending on how the policy is viewed internally.
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Amazon’s changes probably won’t end here.
Although Dobroski doubts Amazon’s changes are because of The New York Times article, he said it’s clear the company is taking a look at workplace culture and balance.
“It’s going to take a lot more than a one-time hit,” Dobroski said. “There could be more of this.”
Rachel Lerman: rlerman@seattletimes.com; on Twitter @rachelerman.
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The tour begins at the meeting point (port, rail station, hotel) Transfer to Tindari. The first stop at the Black Madonna’s Sanctuary then the Greek theater, the wall and the ruins of the old town. The view from the top is amazing. Back to the starting point.
The Godfather tour
Savoca-Forza d'Agrò-Taormina
The tour begins at the meeting point (port, rail station, hotel). Transfer to Savoca, where Francis Ford Coppola takes the scene for “The Godfather” movie. In Savoca you can see the place of the wedding scene between Mike Corleone and Apollonia Vitelli and the bar where Mike talks with Apolllonia’s father. Another stop is in Forza D’agrò where you can see the Cathedral SS. Annunziata that was the main square of Corleone. Last stop in Taormina where you can enjoy the view and the shopping time. Return to the place of departure.
Alcantara's gorges
The tour begins at the meeting point (port, rail station, hotel). Transfer to Alcantara’s gorges where you can do different activity. It’s amazing to see the lava stone and to touch the cold river’s water. You can spend all the time that you want. Back to the starting point.
Etna-Taormina
The tour begins at the meeting point(port, rail station, hotel). Transfer to mount Etna and stop at 2000 meters over the sea level. On the Etna you can enjoy the amazing view and you can see the craters. You can choose to stop and take an excursion that show you the top at 3000 meters. Transfer to Taormina where you can take your time for the shopping or you can see the greek theater. Back to the starting point.
All tours begin at the place established by the customer (port, rail station, hotel). Prices are per person.
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The tour begins at the meeting point (port, rail station, hotel). Transfer to Milazzo where you can see the castle and the panoramic point of the town. Transfer to the little town of Villafranca Tirrena. Tipical Sicilian lunch (first dish, second dish, fruits and sweets; water and homemade wine) offered by SICILY4YOU. Visit the historical museum of medicine and the Bauso’s Castle. Then transfer to Spadafora castle. Back at the starting point.
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Taormina-Villafranca Tirrena
The tour begins at the meeting point (port, rail station, hotel). Transfer to Taormina where you can take your time shopping or you can see the greek theater. Transfer to the little town of Villafranca Tirrena. Visit the historical museum of medicine and Bauso’s Castle. The tour goes on with the visit of Sanctuary ECCE HOMO. Back at the starting point.
Messina-Villafranca Tirrena
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Wine Tour 4
Minimum required 8 people
Meet at the designated location (port, railway station, hotels) and transfer to Santa Lucia del Mela. Guided tour of the modern winery to view the process of production and aging of wine. Then visit the ancient cellar dating back to 1700 and tasting of wines accompanied by tastings of local products. At the end of tour and tasting, with time to visit the castle of Santa Lucia del Mela from where you can enjoy an exceptional view on the Eolian Island . Return to the place of departure.
Simeto river Tour Bike
We are in a white track that pass through “Oasi del Simeto”, start from the ruins of Primosole bridge and go on a walkway along more than twenty km, and reaches the territory of Paternò in place called Ponte Barca. It is a dirt road clean and very simple to follow and almost perfectly flat. The feature of this hike is the ease with which you can face the path that can be covered by an audience of beginners and families with children.
Etna Tour Bike South Side
Excursion on the track of the volcano among the expanses of lava stone, the rough vegetation and rugged terrain make it incredibly evocative passage between the track and the surrounding soil.
Visit to the cave of Mount Nunziata, Randazzo lava flow of 1981, passing between the various refuges of forest that can be used by prior arrangement entity independent of the Etna Park, around the track from the south to the north side of Etna to plan Provenzana bypassing the top of the cone of Etna. Route of medium difficulty in its entirety as the total about 39/42 km.
Flight in Letojanni paragliding
Departure from the point established with the client and transfer to resort Letojanni (ME), Taormina exit. Taking off from Gallodoro (500) s.l.m. and landing on the beach in Letojanni. The necessary equipment is supplied, recommends a comfortable clothes, shoes that allow a little running for takeoff, jacket suited to the season. After a short briefing you are ready for takeoff. The duration of the flight is according to the weather conditions. Amusing experience. Security is on the first floor.
Meet at the designated location (port, railway station, hotels) and transfer to Linguaglossa. Guided tour of the modern winery. Tasting with a guide that give to you all the informations about the typical products.
Wine tasting that includes 4 wines and Sicilian starters: dried tomatoes, mushrooms and olives, salame, provola, dried and fresh pepato.
At the end of tasting back trip to the place of departure.
Meet at the designated location (port, railway station, hotels) and transfer to famous local winery in Castiglione di Sicilia.
Visit to the wineyard with tasting of 4 wines and extra-virgin olive oil.
Then light lunch provides a welcome to the winery with a selection of typical antipasti dishes of the area, followed by a pasta dish and seasonal fruit.
Coffee is also included with local sweets and an appropiate wine.
Wine Tour 3 (2 wineries)
Meet at the designated location (port, railway station, hotels) and transfer to famous local winery in Linguaglossa.
Tasting with a guide that give to you all the informations about the typical products.
Then transfer to another local winery in Castiglione di Sicilia.
Etna Tour Bike North Side
Excursion through the woods of the volcano with start from the forest “Cerrita” via a walkway winding over rocks and basalts and lava sand, continuing to climb to the refuge cross a dense forest fresh and fragrant just called the "Cerrita" because essentially composed of “Cerrie” continuing through the forest Cubania you get to the mountains Sartorius and plan Provenzana, crossing the lava flow of 2002, then go to admire the view of the Ionian coast from Citelli refuge and taking a refreshing drink at the refuge’s bar.
Cooking Lesson
Prices starting from 150€
Our cooking lesson start at the meeting point (port, station, airport, hotel). Transfer to Taormina that is the location where we operate. With our Chef let's start with market tour and fishmonger tour to buy the ingredients. We will use fresh ingredients according to the season. At the kitchen to cook a sicilian menù. You can learn traditional recipes of our country. After the cooking you will eating. You will eat what you cook. Sicilian lunch with wines and desserts. At the end you will also visit Taormina, Etna or any other destinations in the surrounded area. Contact us for more informations.
Wine tour & Cooking Lesson
Start at the meeting point (port, station, airport, hotel). Transfer to Taormina that is the location where we operate. With our Chef let's start with market tour and fishmonger tour to buy the ingredients. We will use fresh ingredients according to the season. At the kitchen to cook a sicilian menù. You can learn traditional recipes of our country. After the cooking you will eating. You will eat what you cook. Sicilian lunch with wines and desserts.
At the end transfer to Linguaglossa. Guided tour of the modern winery. Tasting with a guide that give to you all the informations about the typical products.
Wine tasting that includes 4 wines and Sicilian starters: dried tomatoes, mushrooms and olives, salame, provola, dried and fresh pepato. At the end of tasting back trip to the place of departure.
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Nelke & the Legendary Alchemists Shows First Screenshots For Shallistera, Judith, Iris, And Norn
By Sato November 30, 2018
We recently got a first look at the latest guests to appear in the Atelier all-star game, Nelke & the Legendary Alchemists, and Gust has provided details and first screenshots for Shallistera, Judith, Iris, and Norn over at the game’s official website.
Shallistera Argo (CV: Kotori Koiwai)
A traveling alchemist who is the daughter of the chief of a remote village. She appears calm on the surface, but inside she’s serious and passionate. As her role of the next chief, she studies everyday to be useful to her village. Suelle isn’t the best when it comes to tidying up, so we see Shallistera help her out in the above image. She appears to be concerned about Suelle who has been working hard by herself.
Judith Volltone (CV: Rie Kanda)
An alchemist who went beyond her own world due to the effects of a synthesized tool. She lends Nelke and the others a hand while finding a way to return to her world. She has a bright and lively personality, and is scatterbrained, so she can cause some trouble at times.
In the above screenshot we see a scene where Judith and the other alchemists talk about festivals from their hometowns.
Iris Fortner (CV: Sayuri Hara)
An alchemist who has arrived to work as a Raider, together with Edge. She’s, too, has a bright and lively personality, and is caring of others. She mingles with the other alchemists to take on new challenges.
Here we see Iris calling Edge for a good idea she wanted to share. Since she’s been on so many adventures up until now, she’s interested in trying new things.
Norn (CV: Natsumi Yanase)
A girl who says “-nya” with cat-like ears and tail. She can use basic alchemy, but her talent abilities are about apprentice level.
She often visits Escha because she apparently feels happy and comfortable around her as tail buddies since they both have tails.
Nelke & the Legendary Alchemists launches for PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, and Nintendo Switch in Japan on January 31, 2019. It’ll come to the West on March 26 in North America and March 29 in Europe for PS4, Switch, and PC. Check our previous report for its latest trailer showing how research is done.
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The Gurkha Trailblazer in its third edition will be held in Hong Kong on February 8, 2020. The event is named in honor of the Nepalese soldiers (Gurkhas) who lost their lives in global conflicts fighting for peace. The race also won the "Best New Race" award at the 2018 Gonerunning Hong Kong Trail Running Awards.
The race covers 2 distances- 12/ 26 km in the eastern New Territories. All proceeds from the event will go to Gurkha Cemeteries Trust’s Online High School Diploma Programme providing Scholarships for Nepalese youth in Hong Kong and Child Welfare Scheme’s projects to support Nepal's Children and Young People from Early Childhood Education to Successful Livelihoods.
Child Welfare Scheme (CWS) envisions a safe and accessible pathway that successfully leads Nepal’s disadvantaged children and young people from early childhood education to a sustainable livelihood. CWS aims to reinforce this pathway so that no child gets lost or diverted away from it as she grows into adulthood.
CWS was created by Douglas Maclagan who identified the many unmet needs of women and children in Nepal and designed programmes to address those needs. CWS’ growth over the years has been organic, reacting to the needs of the communities and always in line with the Government’s plans.
Learn more about CWS: www.cwshk.org/ 2526 8810
The Gurkha Cemeteries Trust is a non-profit charitable organisation. The objective of the Trust is to establish a non-profit-making educational and community institute to promote Gurkha culture, history and values in Hong Kong. The Trust also helps to maintain Gurkha cemeteries and heritage in Hong Kong. Gurkha cemeteries Trust also runs online High School Diploma program, an alternative pre-University opportunity to enter tertiary education for Nepalese students who have dropped out and cannot fit into the regular public school system. This program will not only help students to achieve academic qualifications but also will empower them in the community. The funds raised from this event will be used to provide scholarships to the students.
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Revolutionary Drug Trial Saves Aussie Mum
Posted by National Skin Cancer Centres on Nov 7, 2017 10:00:00 AM
Australian mum Julie Randall defeated advanced melanoma after taking part in a revolutionary drug trial in the US, 60 Minutes Australia reports.
The wife and mother-of-two was diagnosed with stage four metastatic melanoma at age 50. Julie felt “completely healthy” until she suffered a brain seizure and doctors found the cancer that riddled her body. The melanoma had spread to her brain, lungs, pancreas, liver and lymph nodes, and there was nothing doctors could do to treat it. Julie was told she had nine months to live.
Professor Georgina Long, Co-Medical Director of Melanoma Institute Australia, delivered the diagnosis to Julie and felt helpless that she could not offer any hope. In an interview with 60 Minutes Australia, Professor Long said, “Melanoma is a terrible, cruel beast.”
Julie’s brain tumour was surgically removed and she started chemotherapy – treatments that would keep her alive for mere months. She was desperate for a lifeline, but no alternative therapies were available in Australia in the time she had. Despite this, she promised her children she would survive.
“I couldn’t let my daughters watch me die,” Julie told 60 Minutes Australia.
A clinical trial in Portland, Oregon, was about to start testing an experimental immunotherapy drug called Nivolumab in “hopeless” cases like Julie’s. The drug purported to kick-start the immune system, giving patients’ own bodies the ability to fight cancer cells. The trial was only open to American citizens and was already at full capacity, but Julie begged to participate; she was accepted after three months.
The drug has a response rate of 30 to 40 percent – meaning it has no effect on 60 percent of patients. Julie was lucky. After six weeks of fortnightly drug infusions, her scans showed a positive response to the therapy, so she continued.
Five years later, Julie is cancer free.
“Immunotherapy is a game changer,” Professor Long told 60 Minutes Australia. “It’s a penicillin moment in cancer treatment. Now my clinics are full of survivors.”
It is a field of medicine moving incredibly fast, offering revolutionary cancer treatment for patients like Julie who would otherwise die.
“It’s the best feeling ever that I’ve kept my promise,” Julie said.
60 Minutes Australia. Episode 21: Patient 71. www.9now.com.au/60-minutes/2017/episode-21. Aired 2 July, 2017.
Topics: Treatment, Research
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RPM Act Introduced in U.S. House of Representatives
U.S. Representatives Patrick McHenry (R-NC) and Raul Ruiz (D-CA) introduced H.R. 5434, the Recognizing the Protection of Motorsports Act of 2019 (RPM Act of 2019). The bipartisan RPM Act of 2019 protects Americans’ right to convert street vehicles into dedicated racecars and the motorsports-parts industry’s ability to sell products that enable racers to compete.
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New Jersey Warranty Disclosure Bill Sent to Governor
Legislation (S.B. 1712) in New Jersey that would require new car dealers to provide purchasers written notice that it is illegal for manufacturers or dealers to void a warranty or deny coverage because aftermarket or recycled parts were installed, or because someone other than the dealer-performed service passed the legislature and now goes to Governor Phil Murphy for approval.
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Many SEMA-member manufacturers, distributors and retailers have been impacted by the 2018 U.S. Supreme Court Wayfair decision that allows states to require sales tax collections based solely on the volume of sales into that state.
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Agreement Reached on NAFTA Replacement
Following months of negotiations, President Trump and U.S. House of Representatives Democrats reached agreement on the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) which will replace the NAFTA accord.
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Many SEMA member manufacturers, distributors and retailers have been impacted by the 2018 U.S. Supreme Court Wayfair decision that allows states to require sales tax collections based solely on the volume of sales into that state (economic nexus). The Court overturned its 1992 Quill decision, which previously required a company to have a physical presence before it could be compelled to collect sales tax.
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U.S. Government Reimposes Steel and Aluminum Tariffs on Argentina and Brazil
President Trump reimposed 25% tariffs on steel and 10% tariffs on aluminum imported into the United States from Argentina and Brazil on December 2.
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SEMA Publishes Two Brochures on EPA/CARB Regulation of Emissions-Related Specialty Auto Parts
SEMA has published two brochures on the regulation of emissions-related specialty auto parts under our nation’s clean air laws.
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USTR Grants Several Exclusions from China’s List 3 Tariffs, Including for Starter Motors
The U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) granted exclusion requests for 36 products from the List 3 Chinese imports subject to 25% tariffs.
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The laws and regulations that govern how SEMA members do business have a continuous impact on the way automotive specialty-equipment products are made, distributed and marketed. The charge of the SEMA government affairs office is to stay on top of all relevant state and federal legislation and regulations and advocate for industry positions to ensure the best possible outcome for SEMA’s membership. The following are a few examples of critical legislative/regulatory issues addressed by the SEMA government affairs team over the past year.
California Muffler Battle Takes Checkered Flag
You’ve just purchased the ride of your dreams and already have a list of upgrades in mind. If you’re like most enthusiasts, a new exhaust system is somewhere near the top of your list. Now imagine your surprise when you find out that your home state has passed an eleventh-hour piece of legislation that makes you question whether that modification is even legal. That’s exactly what happened to consumers in California earlier this year, but thanks to the efforts of SEMA and its allies in Sacramento, the problem has been solved.
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December 18, 2019 Arts + Life » Books
Vermont Booksellers' Reading Picks of 2019
By Dan Bolles @DanBolles, Margaret Grayson @mgrayson11, Margot Harrison, Pamela Polston @pamela7d, Ken Picard and Elizabeth M. Seyler
When you're buying a book, which would you rather ask for advice: an algorithm or a human being who spends most of their waking hours around books? If you live in Vermont, you have options, because the state's independent bookstores are hanging tough. One of them, the Vermont Book Shop in Middlebury, just celebrated its 70th year in business.
Meanwhile, to the east, the Norwich Bookstore is creeping up on its 30th birthday — and founders and co-owners Penny McConnel and Liza Bernard are looking for a buyer. "We have made a promise to our community that we will wait until we find the right person to take over the bookstore," Bernard tells Seven Days.
The torch has already been passed —twice — at the former Misty Valley Books, a Chester institution for 33 years. After a few years as Phoenix Books Misty Valley, the store was sold again in August and is now Blair Books & More.
Over the state line, Hanover, N.H., is getting a brand-new bookstore — this one with libations. According to its Facebook page, the staff of Still North Books & Bar is frantically shelving in preparation for a soft opening (books first, food and beverages to follow) on Thursday, December 19.
While they're busy with that, we asked a bunch of local booksellers for their top five recommendations published in 2019. If you're working on your winter reading list or wondering what to get your favorite bookworm, these folks have you covered, with plenty of locally authored titles in the mix. And they won't push "sponsored products" at you.
— M.H.
Claire Benedict
Co-owner and book buyer, Bear Pond Books, Montpelier
Feast Your Eyes by Myla Goldberg (Scribner). The first novel in nearly a decade from the New York Times best-selling author of Bee Season is the life story of a woman who sets out to become a photographer in 1950s New York City. The twist is that the novel is framed by the catalog cards of photos from the artist's first show at the Museum of Modern Art; each card is tied to a story or anecdote. "It's hard to describe, but very effective and really well done."
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed, by Lori Gottlieb (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). Everyone from Katie Couric to Bustle to the Washington Post has raved about psychotherapist and columnist Gottlieb's hit memoir, which is being turned into a series for ABC. In it, Gottlieb starts seeing a therapist to work through personal trauma, "and her experience with her clients mirrors her experience with her own therapist. It's a well-told story and a page turner."
Trust Exercise by Susan Choi (Henry Holt). A 2019 National Book Award winner, Choi centers her novel on interpersonal drama at a performing arts high school in Florida in the 1980s. "But it's really about how our memories and our experiences shape us far into the future. It's about how our past ripples through our lives in ways we don't realize."
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday). Benedict calls Whitehead "just a brilliant, brilliant writer." The Pulitzer Prize winner's latest novel is set in the Jim Crow South of the early 1960s and based on the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys, a very real, and very brutal, Florida reform school. "Whitehead takes a gut-wrenching chapter of American history and manages to convey devastation and injustice while imparting warmth and humanity."
Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Ballantine Books). Fans of the Cameron Crowe movie Almost Famous will find a lot to love about Reid's hairy tale of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Written as an oral history of the rise and fall of a popular 1970s rock band — think Crowe's Allman Brothers Band stand-in Stillwater, Benedict suggests — "It's really good, gossipy, peak-era rock and roll."
— D.B.
Liza Bernard & Penny McConnel
Owners, Norwich Bookstore
The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri (Ballantine Books). A family is forced to flee their home in war-torn Syria in this novel. "In recounting the daily brutality, as well as the glimmers of beauty, this novel humanizes the terrifying refugee stories we read about in the news," Bernard says, calling it "a beautiful rumination on seeing what is right in front of us — both the negative and the positive."
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson (Riverhead Books). Bernard calls this novel from the 2014 National Book Award winner "a spare, probing look at four generations of two families thrown together by a teenage pregnancy ... A powerful, poetic novel."
Field Trip to the Moon by John Hare (Margaret Ferguson Books). "I don't understand how John Hare can telegraph emotions without drawing a face, but he does!" Bernard writes of this debut picture book for ages 4 to 8. "In this wordless story, a young astronaut gets left behind on a field trip to the moon. But he is not alone. Saying more would spoil the story! You have to read it for yourself."
The Salt Path by Raynor Winn (Penguin Books). McConnel recommends this memoir in which a homeless couple in their fifties sets out to walk the South West Coast Path in England with "limited financial means, a tent and two sleeping bags." She calls Winn's debut "one of the more uplifting and positive books I have read in quite a while ... Ray and Moth walk through a magical and challenging landscape to come out the other side. I felt privileged to walk with them."
Right as Rain, by Lindsey Stoddard (HarperCollins). This second middle-grade novel from a Norwich native author is "another marvelous story for readers interested in something other than fantasy," McConnel says. "Our heroine, Rain, and her family have recently moved from Vermont to Brooklyn to start over after a family tragedy ... This is a gentle yet strong and heartfelt story about family, change and friendships."
— P.P.
Elizabeth Bluemle, Emily Copelandand Heather Bauman
Owner and booksellers, the Flying Pig Bookstore, Shelburne
Black Is the Body: Stories From My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine by Emily Bernard (Knopf). Bluemle calls the University of Vermont prof's memoir-in-essays "a miraculously honest, beautiful book for anyone who is a parent, has a parent, and/or is trying to navigate the thorny and sometimes subtle issues of race in our state and our country." Copeland says it's "so intimate that there is no way to leave that book without feeling as though you know Emily Bernard personally."
Suddenly You Are Nobody: Vermont Refugees Tell Their Stories by Jared Gange (Huntington Graphics). Gange gathered stories from 30 new Vermonters from 16 nations, Bluemle says. "There is no better way to turn strangers and neighbors into friends than by sharing stories and starting to know one another. Filled with lively and powerful stories and chock-full of beautiful color photographs from homelands near and far, this book is a Vermont treasure."
All About Dinner: Simple Meals, Expert Advice by Molly Stevens (W.W. Norton). The Burlington-area author does dinner in a book "filled with delicious recipes," Bluemle says. She loves Stevens' cookbooks because they teach method in addition to recipes, and "They're well-written cookbooks, which makes them a delight even for the non-cook."
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong (Penguin). Bauman sums up the premise of this best-selling debut novel: "What do you write to your mother who's illiterate?" "It's just one of the most spectacular books ... as an avid reader and a quick reader, I couldn't move through it quickly; I had to read parts out loud to myself, it was just so lovely."
Breathe: A Letter to My Sons by Imani Perry (Beacon Press). Bauman recommends this to readers of Ta-Nehisi Coates' Between the World and Me; like Coates, Perry addresses her fears and hopes for young African Americans in a racist society through a letter to her children. "It was an homage to them that I felt privileged to be reading, and also exploded my mind with her beautiful writing ... her insight and her tenderness with her voice."
Tod Gross
Manager, Phoenix Books Burlington,
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 by Garrett M. Graff (Avid Reader Press). "You can really tell the impact that this book had, because we got responses from people all over the country," Gross says of this oral history from the Montpelier-based author and journalist. "I know that this book has gone a long way to healing for a lot of people."
Charlotte Brontë Before Jane Eyre by Glynnis Fawkes (Disney-Hyperion). This graphic novel in the Center for Cartoon Studies Presents series tells the story of Charlotte Brontë's early years. [See page 34 for more on the Vermont author.] "I love the drawings, the kind of pen and ink. A lot of conversation. It's not text heavy, it's conversation heavy. Looking at her formative years is just a brilliant idea."
Black Is the Body: Stories From My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine by Emily Bernard (Knopf). "It's 12 essays, and it's really about her experiences being a black woman in America. It's a fabulous, honest, well-written collection of essays."
Suddenly You Are Nobody: Vermont Refugees Tell Their Stories by Jared Gange (Huntington Graphics). "A lot of these people are highly educated and had well-respected careers, and suddenly you come to this country, and you're nobody," Gross says of the self-published compilation.
All About Dinner: Simple Meals, Expert Advice by Molly Stevens (W.W. Norton). "The recipes are just amazing. They're not complicated, they're just really, really good. She is teaching technique as well as telling stories about her family and her life." Gross singles out Stevens' flourless dark chocolate cookies as particularly delicious.
— M.G.
Jackie Hoy
Manager, Crow Bookshop, Burlington
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown). The author of five New York Times bestsellers, Gladwell's "got a huge following," Hoy says. Here, he unpacks our interactions with strangers, spanning the realms of pop culture, politics and violence.
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk (Riverhead Books). This literary thriller about a recluse trying to solve a murder mystery is the most recently translated book from the winner of this year's Nobel Prize in Literature. "She's just a really beautiful writer," Hoy says. "Very meditative, a little bit philosophical."
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates (One World). This first novel from the acclaimed journalist and nonfiction writer is about a slave in the pre-Civil War South who uses superhuman powers to work on the Underground Railroad.
Sophia Valdez, Future Prez by Andrea Beaty and David Roberts (Harry N. Abrams). The Questioneers picture-book series features kids exploring different careers in the STEM fields; other titles include Rosie Revere, Engineer and Iggy Peck, Architect. "They're really neat," Hoy says.
Half Baked Harvest Super Simple: More Than 125 Recipes for Instant, Overnight, Meal-Prepped, and Easy Comfort Foods by Tieghan Gerard (Clarkson Potter). "I have cooked some of her recipes, and they're very good," Hoy says. "Some friends of mine bought this right when it came out and are cooking their way through it. They say there are very few that they haven't really loved."
Co-owner, Galaxy Bookshop, Hardwick
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern (Doubleday). "It's pure magic. I've never read anything like it in my life." The author of The Night Circus follows it up with this tale of a Vermont graduate student who is compelled on a journey to a library hidden far underground; his odyssey involves lost cities, love notes passed across time and stories spoken by the dead.
The Innocents by Michael Crummey (Doubleday). A brother and sister are orphaned for years in a remote part of Newfoundland and survive through fierce loyalty to each other. "Some parts are bleak and some are harsh, but it's gorgeous. He writes about people and place in a way that captures the soul."
Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell (Wednesday Books). This young adult novel "reads like grown-up Harry Potter fan fiction." The sequel to Carry On, it follows Simon Snow after he has beaten the villain. On a road trip, he and his friends encounter lots of ghoulish trouble and get very lost. "It's just fun."
A Woman's Guide to Cannabis: Using Marijuana to Feel Better, Look Better, Sleep Better — And Get High Like a Lady by Nikki Furrer (Workman Publishing). "Now that recreational marijuana is legal in Vermont, we get a lot of people asking for cookbooks, growing books, and books on health and wellness." This "practical, user-friendly, readable" guide offers everything from advice on how to navigate a typical dispensary to recipes for brownies.
The Grammarians by Cathleen Schine (Sarah Crichton Books). This "novel for word lovers" is about identical twins. As youths, they speak their own secret language, but as adults, "One takes a very hard-core approach" to language, "and the other a more colloquial approach." Their sparring makes for a "funny, clever, smart" read.
— E.M.S.
Jenny Lyons
Bookseller and marketing manager, Vermont Book Shop, Middlebury
The Winter Army: The World War II Odyssey of the 10th Mountain Division, America's Elite Alpine Warriors by Maurice Isserman (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). The founders of the 10th Mountain Division included elite skiers who brainstormed the idea of an alpine unit while sitting around the Charles Orvis Inn in Manchester, Vt., after a day of skiing at Bromley Mountain. "Anyone with an interest in skiing, climbing, mountaineering and/or military history will really like this book."
Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss by Margaret Renkl (Milkweed Editions). Lyons calls this collection of essays by a New York Times opinion writer a "small and beautiful package" that includes collage illustrations by the author's brother, Billy Renkl. Filled with observations of nature, which serve as settings for anecdotes of family, ancestry and heredity, "it's a very contemplative book."
Made Holy by Emily Arnason Casey (University of Georgia Press). "Her writing is really remarkable. I would give this [book] to anyone who likes memoirs," Lyons says of this essay collection by a Vermonter. "A good bit of the subject matter is about struggling with addiction and coming to terms with events that happened in your childhood."
Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips (Knopf). Shortlisted for the National Book Award, Phillips' debut novel is set among the reindeer herders of Russia's remote Kamchatka Peninsula. "It's filled with these insights into human nature. While the book may take place on the other side of the world, you feel uniquely connected to these characters and their riveting story. And it exposes you to a people and culture that you may not even have known existed. It's a great read for the mystery lover."
Marley by Jon Clinch (Atria Books). The Vermont author expands on Charles Dickens' classic A Christmas Carol with this prequel starring Jacob Marley, Ebenezer Scrooge's deceased business partner who is doomed to wander the earth in chains for his selfishness and greed. "Scrooge is almost created by Marley. They corrupted each other. It's very entertaining — and very dark — and apropos to the season." [See page 17 for more on Marley.]
— K.P.
Kari Meutsch
Co-owner, Yankee Bookshop, Woodstock
Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey (Tor Books). This first full-length novel from a Nebula and Hugo Award finalist is "like grown-up Harry Potter with a noir detective feel." The heroine "gets hired to solve a mystery at a magic school. So you're kind of watching her figure things out, and figure out how to be a better human, but you get all the fun of being inside a magic school again."
Ninth House, Leigh Bardugo (Flatiron Books). "This is the book that I always wanted from Leigh Bardugo," Meutsch says of the best-selling YA author's first adult fantasy, about a young woman who is "recruited to be part of this magic law enforcement society at Yale ... Again, it has that noir feel to it. Leigh builds these awesome worlds, and this one is rooted in reality."
Wilder Girls, Rory Power (Delacorte Press). This debut YA novel takes place at a remote boarding school where a group of girls has been quarantined with a mysterious disease that can cause "grotesque mutations." The novel has been praised as a work of body horror and a timely parable. "It's the one book this year that I finished and I thought immediately, I need to see this movie."
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern (Doubleday). "[Morgenstern] builds this very vivid world and just throws you into it ... As I was reading it I was torn because I wanted to rush through it to know what was going to happen, but I also wanted to savor every line."
Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi (Henry Holt). Meutsch has "been waiting on pins and needles" for the sequel to Adeyemi's best-selling YA fantasy Children of Blood and Bone. "It's set in Africa and pulls from West African mythology. So the magic system is based on mythology that you can go read about ... Anyone who loves mythology would love this book."
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Bear Pond Books (Montpelier)
77 Main St., Montpelier Barre/Montpelier VT 05602
www.bearpondbooks.com
Crow Bookshop
14 Church St., Burlington Burlington VT 05401
www.crowbooks.com
Flying Pig Bookstore
5247 Shelburne Rd., Shelburne Chittenden County VT 05482
www.flyingpigbooks.com
Galaxy Bookshop
41 S. Main St., Hardwick Northeast Kingdom VT 05843
galaxybookshop.com
Norwich Bookstore
291 Main St., Norwich Upper Valley VT 05055
www.norwichbookstore.com
Phoenix Books (Burlington)
191 Bank St., Burlington Burlington VT 05401
www.phoenixbooks.biz
Vermont Book Shop
38 Main St., Middlebury Middlebury Area VT 05753
Yankee Bookshop
12 Central St., Woodstock Upper Valley VT 05091-1007
www.yankeebookshop.com
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Sophia Loren speaks up about infamous photo with Jayne Mansfield's twin peaks
Nov. 5, 2014 12:00 a.m.
Antonio Calanni/APItalian actress Sophia Loren takes part in the Italian State RAI TV program "Che Tempo che Fa"
There's no statute of limitations on gossip, which is fortunate since big-screen legend Sophia Loren just shared the dish behind an infamous 57-year-old snapshot of old Hollywood.
Loren defined the term “side-eye” for pre-Urban Dictionary generations in a 1957 photo of her glaring at the heaving cleavage of her tablemate, Hollywood bombshell Jayne Mansfield.
That wasn't jealousy or disapproval, the 80-year-old actress told Entertainment Weekly: It was pure terror.
“Look at the picture. Where are my eyes? I'm staring at her nipples because I am afraid they are about to come onto my plate,” says Loren, who on Tuesday released her autobiography, “Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: My Life.” “In my face you can see the fear. I'm so frightened that everything in her dress is going to blow — BOOM! — and spill all over the table.”
But Mansfield, a nip-slip pioneer, wasn't oblivious to her majestic rack's struggle for freedom, Loren says: “She knew everyone was watching.”
The colorful Mansfield, who starred in several films and was reportedly decreed High Priestess of San Francisco's Church of Satan by Satanist-in-chief Anton LaVey himself, was killed in a car crash at age 34. Her children, including actress Mariska Hargitay of “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” survived the accident.
Today, Loren refuses requests to sign copies of the picture “out of respect for Jayne Mansfield because she's not with us anymore.”
Group to Lowe: Urine trouble
Rob Lowe has just made a dangerous enemy: the International Paruresis Association.
The IPA, an alliance of shy bladder syndrome sufferers, has seen DirecTV ads in which Lowe plays a geek who “can't go with other people in the room.” And the IPA is pis- well, peeved.
“We don't mind if people have a little fun with it,” IPA CEO Steve Soifer told The Associated Press. “It's a situation that a lot of people don't understand. In this particular case, the portrayal is making it look ridiculous, that this guy is a loser for having a problem.”
Despite the complaints, DirecTV says it will keep running the ads.
“Orange Is the New Black” star Lea DeLaria shouted down a screaming subway “preacher.” … Jay Z, Kanye West and Frank Ocean are being sued by a street peddler who says they stole his song “Made in America.”
Singer Angelo Moore of Fishbone is 49. … Actress Tatum O'Neal (“Paper Moon”) is 51. … Actress Tilda Swinton (“I Am Love”) is 54. … Actor-playwright Sam Shepard (“The Right Stuff”) is 71. … Singer Art Garfunkel is 73.
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How do I know if I have broken a bone in my foot?
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You'll need an foot x-ray to tell for sure whether you've broken or fractured a bone in your foot, but to complicate matters, bones break in many different ways, and subtle damage, such as a hairline fracture, can be difficult to detect. It can take two weeks for evidence of the body's attempt to heal a bone fracture to show up as an abnormality on an x-ray. So it's important to pay attention to symptoms.
One warning sign of a fracture is difficulty in walking after an injury. Don't be fooled, however. It's sometimes possible to walk on a broken foot, so check to see whether you have any pain or tenderness directly over the bone when you touch it lightly. Such focal pain may indicate a fracture, especially if it persists after you've rested briefly and followed the RICE regimen (rest, ice, compression, and elevation). Your best bet, if you have any doubts, is to get an x-ray, which may reveal whether you've broken a bone and, if so, whether it needs to be realigned. If an initial x-ray does not reveal a fracture, but the pain persists for more than 10 to 14 days, ask for a follow-up x-ray immediately to make sure your foot is not broken.
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A Magnet for pesky pigeon
Tony Jackson
High on the Cotswolds, late winter can be bleak. But when a foretaste of spring is in the air, when the sky is a vaulting arc of cloudless blue and the sun lights up the still bare tracery of trees and hedges, this typically English countryside enjoys a secluded, matchless charm. Even the vast acres of rape have a certain attraction particularly for the pigeon.
Pigeon shooting over decoys, one of the finest fieldsports on offer in the UK, can also be one of the most frustrating. I was a guest of the Cotswold Sporting Agency (part of the Cotswold Shooting Company), based in Cirencester and owned by Peter Tupper. There were five Guns taking part in the days crop protection and we placed ourselves under the direction of the pigeon professional, known to all as Pigeon Pete. Pete is a man dedicated not only to working in conjunction with Peter Tuppers clients, but also to assisting local farmers with crop protection.
Poor prospects for pest control
The prospects were not encouraging. The sun shone with a genuine hint of warmth after weeks of snowy, wet weather, and there was not a breath of wind to stir the birds. There were birds around, but they were content to sit in the woodlands, digesting an early morning feed, and were dozing in the unaccustomed sunshine. We drove in convoy to the centre of some 500 acres of rape. The other Guns, Ross Campbell-Hill and his son Hugo, Peters son Bertie Tupper and Wayne Smith, were despatched to their set-up hides. Pigeon Pete, Peter Tupper, cameraman Paul Quagliana and I drove round the headlands of several fields to a distant patch of rape, one of the few sites that had not yet been completely shredded by pigeon.
As our mud-splattered and gear-filled Land Rover slalomed round the edges of the fields, I was able to take in the damage to the crops. In places the rape had been completely destroyed and, wherever one looked, leaves were torn and shredded. Pigeon Pete told me that in the wintermonths, even when he had no clients willing to endure the cold and ill weather, he still had to patrol the fields at the behest of farmers desperate to preserve their crops. There was never much problem finding Guns eager to shoot in the spring and summer months, but the winter holds few attractions for the less hardy.
Pete swiftly erected a camoufl age netting hide against the side of a small, open copse surrounded by a tumbledown dry-stone wall. The stones were covered
in moss, and Pete made sure a green sheet was placed at the back of the hide as additional camouflage from the rear. A score of decoys were set out and a pigeon magnet was installed using a brace of previously shot birds. Peter Tupper had also brought along the latest magnet, made by Seeland, which has the advantage that one can adjust the speed of the arms by remote control from the hide and, in addition, if no pigeon are in the air, the battery can be saved by the click of a switch. The machine can be turned on again when pigeon start appearing. However, I decided to stick with Pigeon Petes simpler version rather than have to concentrate on remote control operation.
Petes views on magnets are interesting. Theyre good, he said, but I think theyve had their day. Pigeon are now used to them and are just as likely to be scared off as they are to be attracted. In fact, I think theres too much technology creeping into the sport and really successful shooters are reverting back to the old ways that involve fieldcraft. It is an interesting perspective.
Waiting for the flocks to arrive
So, with the picture complete and good wishes offered, the two Peters departed. They left Paul and me to discover what the pigeon had in store for us. My yellow Labrador, Jodie, crouched in the hide and I loaded my old hammergun, using 1oz of No 6 by Lyalvale. Some readers may recall that a few years ago I decided to put the gun, a Cogswell & Harrison 12-bore, made in 1878 and given to me by the late Gough Thomas, Shooting Timess gun editor, through proof. The barrels are Damascus and the action sound, but I was still very nervous. Would the gun pass the Birmingham Proof House test? In fact, it came through with flying colours and is now in regular use with 28g loads.
The sun shone, a blackbird sang, the pigeon twirled on the magnet arms and a snail crept up a thorn. There was not a sound. All was peaceful, far too peaceful. Then, abruptly, catching me unawares, a pigeon swooped across the decoys and turned to present an easy shot. I missed! And I wont beat about the bush I fluffed the next six shots. All right, the birds were dropping in from all angles, but there was no excuse, simply poor shooting. I handed the gun to Paul who almost immediately killed an overhead bird.
At this point Pigeon Pete arrived back to retrieve Paul, and I settled down to concentrate. A sudden flurry of birds from a distant wood, curling and diving at the decoys, gave me a bird on the deck at last. Then, as confidence oozed back I shot a further three pigeon without a miss, much to the delight of Jodie who was able to enjoy some retrieving action. Occasionally, I could hear distance shots from the other Guns who were obviously enjoying some sport. But as the afternoon drifted on and the sun sank behind the copse, cold clamped down on the countryside, a few pigeon, jackdaws and rooks headed high for the roosting woods and the decoys lure became redundant.
When all the equipment had been gathered up and stowed, we discovered that the total bag for the Guns was 16 birds. That is the way with pigeon shooting. We had all enjoyed some sport, some of us had shot better than others and there would always be another day when the bag might reach a treble figure. Such days are few and far between, but when they do occur the sport is equal to the best that gameshooting or, dare I say it, wildfowling can offer.
For further information contact the Cotswold Sporting Agency, tel 01285 657527.
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Museumsinsel – Historic Monuments and Modernisation
Sun 15.12.2019 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
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The Museum Island located in the heart of Berlin was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999. The unique ensemble unites five outstanding museum buildings of the 19th and the beginning 20th century. The tour provides an insight into the history of the Museumsinsel and its architecture and leads through highlights of the Altes Museum (Old Museum), the Neues Museum (New Museum) and the Pergamonmuseum.
Highlights: Antique statues "Praying Boy" and "Berlin Goddess" in Altes Museum, Bust of Nefertiti and "Berlin Gold Hat" in Neues Museum, Ishtar Gate and Processional Way from Babylon in Pergamonmuseum.
The number of participants is limited. Booking exclusively online. Remaining tickets at the Altes Museum cash point.
Meeting point: Altes Museum cash point.
James-Simon-Galerie (group registration upper foyer)
6 EUR plus area ticket Museum Island € 18,00 (reg.) / € 9,00 (red.)
Art of Islamic Cultures, Ancient Near Eastern Cultures, Ancient Egypt, Prehistory and early history, Ancient Worlds. Greeks, Etruscans and Romans
Antikensammlung, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte, Museum für Islamische Kunst, Vorderasiatisches Museum
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SMBC Home > News Release > News Release Back Number
2002(2002.01.08 - 2002.12.27)
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*Merger Between Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation and The Wakashio Bank, Limited
Partial Organizational Revision of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation's Head Office
*Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Announces Financial Assistance to Arai-Gumi, Ltd
*Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Announces Financial Assistance to Towa Real Estate Development
Organizational Structure of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group and Organizational Revision of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation's Head Office
*Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group's Earnings Forecast for FY 2002 Ending March 31,2003
*First Half of FY2002 ending March 31,2003 Earning Releases announced
*Approval for Establishment of Bank Holding Company
*Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Announces the Risk of Irrecoverability of the Claims on KOKUNE CORPORATION
*Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Announces Impairment of 'Other Securities' as of September 30, 2002
*Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Announces Revision of Earnings Estimates for First Half of Fiscal 2002 by Its Consolidated Subsidiary, The Bank of Kansai, Ltd.
*Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Announces Revision of Fiscal Year 2002 Earnings Estimates For Its Consolidated Subsidiary, Sakura KCS Corporation
Establishment of Corporate Revitalization Fund for The Daiei, Inc.
*Commencement of Trust Businesses
*Resolution of Extraordinary Shareholders' Meeting and Preferred Shareholders' Meeting Regarding Establishment of Wholly Owning Parent Company By Way of Stock Transfer
Merger of SMBC Group Securities Companies
*Notice regarding Determination of Initial Conversion Price of Series-III Preferred Stock (Type-II) (now Type 5 Preferred Stock) issued by The Sakura Bank, Limited (now Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation)
*Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Announces the Risk of Irrecoverability of the Claims on San-ei Development Co., Ltd.
*Conditions of the Stock Option Program
*Proposed Establishment of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc.
*Early Redemption of US Dollar Denominated Convertible Bonds Due 2004
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*Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Announces the Risk of Irrecoverability of the Claims on HITACHI SEIKI Co., Ltd.
*The Progress Report on Strengthening the Financial Base of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
*Financial information for the First Quarter of the Fiscal Year ending March 31,2003(Unaudited)
*Stock Option Program
*The Actions for Fortifying the Corporate Structure of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Group
*Comments on Today's Media Report
*Notice regarding Adjustment of Conversion Ratio of Type 1 Preferred Stock (now First Series Type 1 Preferred Stock) issued by The Sumitomo Bank, Limited (now Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation)
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*Basic Details of the Merger of Asset Management Subsidiaries
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Change of Directors of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
*FY2001 Earnings Releases
*Introduction of a Stock Option Program
*Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Announces Financial Assistance to Sumitomo Coal Mining Co., Ltd
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*Merger of Asset Management Subsidiaries
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What types of SEN do we provide for?
This is a maintained day special school for children aged 11-16 years. Children will be provided with an appropriately paced and differentiated curriculum. The school is accessible for wheelchair users and is on one level.
The pupil’s needs will be complex and significant in at least two areas of need as described in the SEN CoP. These are likely to be in the areas of cognition and learning (moderate learning difficulties), communication and interaction (autistic spectrum disorder and/or speech and language difficulties). The pupil may also have associated behavioural, emotional and social difficulties. In addition pupils may have sensory or physical difficulties.
All pupils that attend the school will be under assessment or have a statement of special educational needs or an education healthcare plan.
Admissions to the school are within the admissions policies on the website.
What is our approach to teaching pupils with SEN?
At Southall, we believe that effective learning can only take place as a result of good teaching and that is what we strive for in every lesson. It is recognised that learning takes place not only in the classroom, but also outside the classroom. We aim to ensure that the students at our school are provided with high quality learning experiences that lead to a consistently high level of individual achievement, both academic and social. More information is available in our learning & teaching policy.
This year we have successfully reviewed our staffing structure in order to meet the changing needs of the current and future students.
How do we adapt the curriculum and learning environment?
Our curriculum is designed to encourage and promote enthusiasm for learning. Our individualised approach provides increasing opportunities for developing personalised learning programmes to meet individual strengths and needs. Students have access to a broad range of activities and experiences to enable them to become mature, confident and competent young adults to make positive, lifelong contributions to our society and changing world.
It is recognised that learning takes place in an environment which is:
Challenging and stimulating
Peaceful and calm
Happy and organised
Well resourced
Makes learning accessible
Encouraging and appreciative
Provides equal opportunities
Provides a working atmosphereOur curriculum policy and statement is available on our website.
How do we enable pupils with SEN to engage in activities with other pupils who do not have SEN?
We aim to provide opportunities for our students to engage with pupils who do not have SEN through a wide range of activities, including college links, sports activity days and a number of events attended alongside mainstream peers.
How do we consult parents of pupils with SEN and involve them in their child’s education?
We believe that students are always more successful when parents and staff work together in their best interest. We ask parents to support the school by showing an interest in their child’s work and social development and ensuring that homework is completed carefully.
All pupils have an annual review or EHCP review meeting to which parents are invited.During the meeting, parents, the student and a range of appropriate professionals meet to review the EHCP or statement and educational progress. It is during this meeting that any changes are discussed and targets are set for the next 12 months. At the end of Year 9 the EHCP Transfer Review also includes a transition element which begins to map out post-16 opportunities and options.
All parents are invited to a parent/tutor consultation evening. This is a meeting held in school where the focus is very much about ensuring all concerned have a shared view about the progress your child is making and any additional support, equipment or provision they may need.
All parents also receive an end of year report. This is a written report which summarises your child’s progress in all the National Curriculum Subjects; it is completed towards the end of the summer term.
Parents are welcome to request less formal meetings at any point in the year. This is actively encouraged as we feel that sharing information between parents and school best promotes the learning and success of each child.
How do we consult pupils with SEN and involve them in their education?
Pupils are involved in their annual review/EHCP meetings. Pupils have the opportunity to contribute to their formative assessment through the marking scheme which identifies what went well and next steps.
We have a student council which were elected by their peers. The council meet fortnightly and contribute towards the decision making process for the school. The school council and other students are regularly involved in staff recruitment.
Every student who attends the school agrees to follow the school values.
How do we assess and review pupils’ progress towards their outcomes?
At Southall School we have clear aims for assessment, recording and reporting on student’s progress. These aims are:
Provide an educational environment where individual needs are met to enable each pupil to achieve their academic potential by:
Planning and implementing a broad, balanced and differentiated curriculum according to need.
Offering a broad range of academic and vocational subjects at examination and accreditation level.
Recognising the difficulties some pupils may encounter and put in place intervention strategies to help them progress further.
Procedures include a baseline assessment, monitoring and marking, annual reports and annual/EHCP transfer report.Parents and pupils have three meetings a year to discuss/plan for the current and next year. These are:An annual/EHCP transfer review
Parents and pupils have three meetings a year to discuss/plan for the current and next year. These are:
A tutor meeting
An annual/EHCP transfer review
An annual subject review
The assessment packages that are used within school are Connecting Steps for core subjects and internally developed tracking grids for foundation subjects.
We have had 141 reviews this year. We followed the LA timetable for transfer review focusing on year 9 and year 11. All reviews were returned in a timely manner. Following the withdrawal of curriculum levels we have been investigating alternative measures of tracking progress.
How do we support pupils preparing for adulthood?
We have a keystage 4 work related learning programme linked to local colleges. Some students access life for living skills. Students in year 11 enter a work experience programme of either a work placement or a series of world of work visits for those students with more complex needs.
Through the curriculum we support students preparing for adulthood and more details of this can be found within our PSHE & citizenship policy and our sex education policy.
How do we support pupils with SEN to improve their emotional and social development?
As a school we aim
• To help each student develop their academic, social and practical abilities
to their highest level.
• To help each student achieve self-confidence, initiative and independence.
• To create a caring, sharing and learning school community with relationships based on mutual trust and respect.
We do this by:
• Maintaining a PSHE profile for every student which highlights individualized targets.
• Running a social skills programme
• Supporting the students in using restorative practices
We work to support our students’ understanding of the local and wider communities. We do this in engaging in fundraising activities at a local and national level. This year we have participated in:
• Children in need
• Sports relief
• Red nose day
• Macmillan
• Hope House
What expertise and training do our staff have to support pupils with SEN?
All staff have clear job descriptions that detail the required qualifications for each post in school.
There is an ongoing programme of training and updates that is managed by the SLT. This includes for instance MAPA, ELKLAN, moving and handling, Makaton, epilepsy awareness, asthma awareness, diabetes awareness. In addition to these we also support staff in professional development and this year have supported Level 2 teaching assistant qualifications, Level 2 ICT qualifications, masters qualifications and more as well as professional development through conferences and networking.
Staff are encouraged to identify courses that they would like to attend through the Local Authority, Teaching School and other provisions.
We have a range of trainers in school who train staff on Makaton, MAPA, Moving and handling and more.
How will we secure specialist expertise?
A range of professionals support the students at school through the provision in the statement of their SEN or EHC plan. Referrals are also made for students according to their need. This may include:
HI/VI
Sensory Inclusion Service
CAMHS-LD
Links with Hope House
The school employs staff to deliver programmes directed by speech therapists and occupational therapists. All staff implement professional advice as appropriate.
How will we secure equipment and facilities to support pupils with SEN?
We are a maintained special school whose equipment and facilities are provided through the local authority.
In recent years we have had upgraded facilities in school that we have continued to maintain and upgrade. These include an accessible sports hall, sensory room, therapy room, soft room.
We consider bids for funding on a regular basis and have been successful in bids from the Big Lottery Fund, Children in Need, Mercer Trust, Wolves Trust. This year we are submitting a bid to the Lord Taverners’ Trust for a new minibus.
How do we involve other organisations in meeting the needs of pupils with SEN and supporting their families?
The SEN information report and the school offer link to Telford & Wrekin’s Local Offer.
http://www.telfordsend.org.uk/
The Local Offer provides information on what services you can expect from local agencies including education, health, social care and leisure.
We also have students from other authorities, links to their local offers are below:
https://www.shropshire.gov.uk/local-offer/
http://www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/send
http://www.staffordshirecares.info/pages/my-disability/children-additional-needs/send-reforms/Local-offer/Local-Offer.aspx
As well as the local offer directly work with social care services and health. In the last year we have developed the role of our Pastoral Care Officer to liaise with agencies and families.
How do we evaluate the effectiveness of our SEN provision?
We monitor each aspect of the school provision progress and achievement; teaching and learning; behaviour and safety; leadership and management and report this to the Governing Body. Pupil progress is monitored through a number of systems including our progress application – Connecting Steps, internal monitoring systems and annual reviews.
The governing body use a range of evidence to act as a critical friend and hold the school to account. Governors write an annual report on their work which can be found under the governors section of the website.
We listen and respond to external evaluation of the effectiveness of our school, for example Ofsted
We regularly ask families to tell us their views of the effectiveness of the school and respond to these comments accordingly
We regularly ask pupils to tell us their views of the school, particularly what they would like to improve, via the Student Council. These views are responded to accordingly.
How do we handle complaints from parents of children with SEN about provision made at the school?
We have a complaints policy which is available on the website and on request from the school office.
Who can young people and parents contact if they have concerns?
All parents have the opportunity to contact the tutor through home-school books in KS3. They also have the opportunity to contact school via phone or email. Visits to school are welcomed and encouraged.
Parents are requested to contact the school office and the appropriate person will get back to them.
What support services are available to parents?
The Pastoral Care Officer is available for support to parents. Telford & Wrekin and our neighbouring authorities have comprehensive local offers detailing support for parents.
The school has information and have links with IASS and PODS.
Leaflets offering various support are available in school.
Where can the LA’s local offer be found? How have we contributed to it?
Telford & Wrekin Council reviewed the school’s offer as part of their own local offer. The schools offer can be found on the website.
© Southall School 2020
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Shuttle Endeavour's L.A. Journey Stars in Stunning Time-Lapse Movie
By Tariq Malik 2012-10-17T20:32:29Z
Space shuttle Endeavour's trip through Los Angeles stars in a stunning time-lapse movie by a photography team led by Matt Givot. The movie "Mission 26: The Big Endeavour" chronicles Endeavour's delivery to the California Science Center on Oct. 12-14, 2012.
(Image: © Matthew Givot)
Space shuttle Endeavour, you're a star. A captivating new time-lapse movie has condensed Endeavour's recent three-day road trip to a Los Angeles museum into mere minutes, offering a spectacular tribute to the spaceship and the City of Angels.
The amazing time-lapse view of Endeavour's L.A. street journey, which ran from Friday to late Sunday (Oct. 12 to 14), was created by a team of photographers organized by Matthew Givot. The photographers spent four days following Endeavour's parade through Los Angeles as the shuttle made its way from Los Angeles International Airport to its final home, the California Science Center, to be placed on public display.
Mission 26 The Big Endeavour from Givot on Vimeo.
"The only thing that kept us going was pure love the art and adrenaline," Givot wrote in a video description on Vimeo, where he posted the time-lapse movie "Mission 26: The Big Endeavour." The title is a nod to Endeavour's final trip after 25 space missions during its career.
Endeavour made the 12-mile (19 kilometers) trip from the airport to the museum at a slow, careful pace, with work crews taking care to avoid snaring the shuttle on power lines or scraping its wings on trees or other obstacles. [Photos: Shuttle Endeavour Arrives at L.A. Museum Home]
Huge crowds turned out to see the space shuttle drive along the streets of Los Angeles. While a NASA transporter vehicle hauled the shuttle much of the way, a Toyota Tundra pickup truck towed Endeavour across a 405 Freeway overpass during the trip.
"The biggest thing for me, it was the people," Givot told SPACE.com. "It was just seeing the joy and excitement, and their pride of living in L.A. That was the best part of the whole thing."
It was clear to those watching Endeavour that the event was a once-in-a-lifetime experience, he added.
Givot was joined in the time-lapse project by photographers Joe Capra, Chris Pritchard, Brian Hawkins, Andrew Walker and Ryan Killackey. They worked closely with the Inglewood Police Department to prepare their jaw-dropping shots.
Space shuttle Endeavour's trip through Los Angeles stars in a stunning time-lapse movie by a photography team led by Matt Givot. The movie "Mission 26: The Big Endeavour" chronicles Endeavour's delivery to the California Science Center on Oct. 12-14, 2012. (Image credit: Matthew Givot)
NASA retired Endeavour along with the rest of its space shuttle fleet in 2011 after 30 years of spaceflight. The agency plans to use new private spacecraft to carry astronauts and cargo into orbit, and is developing a new rocket and space capsule for deep space missions.
Meanwhile, Endeavour and its sister ships Discovery and Atlantis, as well as the test orbiter Enterprise, are all being placed on public display, though Endeavour is the only one on the West Coast. Endeavour was delivered to Los Angeles on Sept. 21 after a three-day flight from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
"This has been an amazing experience that I will never forget," Givot wrote in his description. "My hope is that this film will show you the amount of dedicated people, and the teamwork, that it took to get the Endeavor to its new home."
You can follow SPACE.com Managing Editor Tariq Malik on Twitter @tariqjmalik and SPACE.com on Twitter @Spacedotcom. We're also on Facebook & Google+.
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Raised with timeless principles that once shaped his life, Michael takes his audiences on a humorous yet emotional journey through his story, revealing how the personal choices we make, the attitudes we carry, and the principles we choose to live by, determine the outcome of our lives. Michael quit his corporate job when his failure to live up to his potential was revealed, a day that changed the course of his life.
In the years that followed, Michael became an author, inventor, and a speaker, sharing his story-packed experience in company culture, leadership, will-power, mindset, and motivation, to inspire others to “Stay Alive All Your Life,” using 11 of life’s most valuable principles.
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WINNERS' INTERVIEW
WINNERS’ INTERVIEW
PROJECT M 2019: EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH WINNERS CLAUDIA LIM AND ERNEST SIOW
After being crowned the winners of Project M’s annual model search competition, what’s next for Claudia Lim and Ernest Siow? For now, it seems, the sky’s the limit.
ON CLAUDIA: Striped dress, $69, Lucia. Jessa top-stitch jacket (worn around waist), $49, The Editor’s Market. Sunglasses, $168, Glimpse. Belt, $7.90, Yishion. ON ERNEST: Bomber jacket, $32.90, Hi Style. Jacket, $129, and T-shirt, $49, H:CONNECT. Cross-body bag, $89.90, Pedro.
It is a warm Thursday afternoon on the rooftop of Bugis+. The sun is beating down mercilessly. For many of us, that would be reason enough to admit defeat and retreat to the air-conditioned indoors. But the relentless heat goes unnoticed by two models in the midst of a gruelling day-long photo shoot.
At first glance, it would appear that Claudia Lim and Ernest Siow are industry pros with years of modelling experience under their belts. Perched precariously on boxes, they strike pose after pose as the photographer’s camera clicks away. No instructions necessary – these two know their stuff. Finally, we call it a day, and it’s all smiles for the models who show no signs of fatigue whatsoever.
Despite their professionalism, Claudia and Ernest are no veterans. In fact, it has only been four months since the two were crowned this year’s winners of Project M and subsequently embarked on their modelling careers. “It is crazy how life can change in such a short span of time,” Claudia, 24, recalls.
“Sometimes I look back on the journey and can hardly believe it.”
On Claudia: Jacket, $269, HARDY HARDY. Mogen striped shirt, $45, The Editor’s Market. Rainbow top, $24.95, TEMT. Necklace, $15, ZENZI
On Ernest: PUMA x HAN KJØBENHAVN striped jacket, $219, Cayenne sweater, $159, and striped pants, $199, Puma. Sunglasses, $29, KIMOJ. Cross-body, $19.90, Yishion. On Claudia: Tank top, $17.90, and striped pants, $39.90, Playdress. Mogen striped shirt, $45, The Editor’s Market.
ON CLAUDIA: Multicoloured cropped top, $34.90, and skirt, $41.90, MDS. Straw hat, $16.95, TEMT. Sandals, $89.90, Pedro. Tights, stylist’s own.
THE PATH TO PROJECT M
Funnily enough, neither Claudia nor Ernest set out to join Project M in the first place. They can thank their friends for submitting their applications (without their knowledge). “You could say I was sabotaged!” Claudia jokes. “But I knew that Project M was a chance to step out of my comfort zone, challenge myself, and try something different for once.”
For 23-year-old Ernest, it was a case of now or never. “Modelling was something I had always yearned to do, but there was never a right time or place to start – until Project M came along.”
Despite their initially uncertain start, Claudia and Ernest immediately dove into the rigorous competition – from casting all the way to the final – and eventually found their groove. Striking looks aside, the self-professed dark horses impressed the judges with their work ethic and quiet determination. Ernest recalls: “Addie Low (founder of NOW Model Management and one of the judges) calls me ‘the quiet one’ because I would always be in the corner of the room practising my runway walk.” Having had no prior experience in modelling, Claudia knew she was at a disadvantage during the competition. “Compared with the other contestants, I had the most to improve on. But I saw that as an opportunity to make strides and become the best version of myself.”
And that they both did.
On Ernest: Sweatshirt hoodie, $29.90, Hi Style. Top, $45, and sweat shorts, $49, Alcoholiday. Sunglasses, $168, Glimpse. PUMA x HAN KJØBENHAVN backpack, $249, Puma.
On Claudia: Long vest, $59, iora. Matching set of vest and pants, $89, ZENZI. Dress, $69, Sans & Sans. On Ernest: Jacket, $129, H:CONNECT. Striped shirt, $49, Alcoholiday. Oxford pants, $49.99, Cotton On.
Project M was an “intense and eye-opening” experience. Another term Claudia would use to describe her journey to becoming this year’s champion? Life-changing. For years, she had focused all her attention on her first passion: architecture (she recently graduated from the National University of Singapore with a Masters in Architecture). “But winning the competition has opened my eyes to new opportunities.”
In the last four months, the leggy beauty (standing at 1.77m tall) has signed on to NOW Model Management and booked modelling gigs for Bugis Junction and Bugis+, Nuyou, and Swedish womenswear label SABINA SÖDERBERG (just to name a few). So where does Claudia see herself in five or 10 years? For now, she has no definite answer. “I’m an improvisator by nature! So at any moment, I probably have 10 schemes up my sleeve.” One of the aforementioned schemes is to combine her love for art and fashion. “I see a lot of similarities in both disciplines,” she notes. “I hope to someday start my own practice and do modelling concurrently.”
Ernest, on the other hand, has it all worked out. His objective is clear: to model full-time. At the moment, he is pursuing a Bachelor’s in Banking and Finance at the Singapore Institute of Management (University of London), but his ultimate goal is to work with international luxury brands and eventually make it to a Fashion Week. “In five years’ time, I plan to be living my dreams and living life to the fullest.”
Whatever life may have in store for Claudia and Ernest, it’s clear that the sky’s the limit.
Photography Veronica Tay, assisted by Melvin Leong. Fashion Styling Jerome Awasthi, assisted by Eugene Gideon. Hair Ash Loi Makeup Lolent Lee.
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Casey claims first European Tour title in 5 years
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Scotland's MacIntyre seizes four-shot lead in Germany
It’s Ahlers at a canter in King’s Cup
Ritthammer, MacIntyre neck and neck at European Open
Hamburg - England's Paul Casey ended a five-year wait for his 14th European Tour title with a thrilling one-shot victory at the European Open in Hamburg on Sunday.
The 42-year-old, who now plays the majority of his golf in the United States, trailed home hope Bernd Ritthammer and Scotland's Robert MacIntyre by a single stroke overnight, but fired a brilliant six-under 66 to claim the tournament.
It was Casey's first win on the European Tour since the 2014 KLM Open in the Netherlands.
That was the last time he had won a professional title until his triumph at the PGA Tour's Valspar Championship last March, a tournament he successfully defended this year.
Casey, who starred as Europe won the 2018 Ryder Cup in Paris, said he was not sure how he rediscovered his winning touch.
"I'm not sure I can put my finger on it and I'm not sure I'd tell you if I knew," he said.
"I'm enjoying my golf, I feel a good understanding of my game - you can't figure it out sometimes.
"A lot of those years that I lost were due to injuries and stuff. But who has a career without a blemish. At 42, it's nice to be somewhere near the top of the game."
His bogey-free final round, featuring crucial birdies on the 16th and 17th holes, proved enough to beat Ritthammer, MacIntyre and Austrian Matthias Schwab into a tie for second.
World No 924 Ritthammer needed a birdie on the par-five 18th to force a playoff in Germany, but could only manage a par as Casey took the spoils.
Casey now has his eyes on the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth, where he won the prestigious title in 2009, in two weeks' time.
"I love that golf course," he said. "Wentworth is where it started for me. I'm still a member at Burhill, maybe I'll take it back and have a drink with some friends.
"I'd love to make two out of two for my visits in Europe this year."
Leading final-round scores from the European Tour's European Open in Hamburg, Germany on Sunday (par 72/GBR & IRL unless stated):
274 - Paul Casey 66-73-69-66
275 - Matthias Schwab (AUT) 67-72-70-66, Bernd Ritthammer (GER) 71-66-70-68, Robert MacIntyre 68-65-74-68
276 - Bernd Wiesberger (AUT) 71-69-72-64
277 - Romain Wattel (FRA) 72-74-67-64
278 - Guido Migliozzi (ITA) 71-68-72-67, Pablo Larrazabal (ESP) 70-71-68-69
279 - Ashley Chesters 71-71-70-67, Niklas Lemke (SWE) 71-73-68-67
281 - Jeff Winther (DEN) 72-69-70-70
282 - Padraig Harrington 71-74-68-69, Louis de Jager (RSA) 72-69-71-70
283 - Dominic Foos (GER) 74-67-75-67, Sam Horsfield 75-68-71-69, Ben Evans 69-73-68-73
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Astroscale and University of Southampton Jointly Advance Business Case for Active Debris Removal Services
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NEWS: Astroscale signs up as latest SPRINT project for University of Southampton
Astroscale has announced that it will collaborate with the University of Southampton on a project to investigate collision risks between satellites.
Astroscale, the market-leader in developing a service to remove space debris and secure long-term orbital sustainability, today announced that it will collaborate with the University of Southampton on a project to investigate collision risks between satellites, highlighting the necessity for financial incentives for satellite operators to engage with active debris removal services.
The University of Southampton is a partner university on the national SPRINT (SPace Research and Innovation Network for Technology) programme and the project with Astroscale will be funded by SPRINT. The programme provides small businesses with unprecedented funded access to expertise from the UK’s top space universities to support the development of new products and services, enabled through space, for their core markets.
During the eight-month project, the effectiveness of different active debris removal strategies will be determined using the semi-deterministic model, Debris Analysis and Monitoring Architecture to the Geosynchronous Environment (DAMAGE). DAMAGE, developed by Hugh Lewis, Professor within the faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Southampton, can simulate the evolution of future debris populations and will support quantifying the financial value of debris removal to satellite operators. The software was extensively upgraded recently to provide the capability to simulate large satellite constellations in low Earth orbit.
The increase in the number of large satellite constellations will add thousands of objects to low-Earth orbit in the next ten years, increasing the likelihood of collision and posing a risk to the sustainability of the entire orbital environment. This project marks a significant step forward in identifying the commercial value of active debris removal services and justifying action to remove failed satellites to maintain the orbital environment. The results from the data will allow Astroscale to identify which debris removal strategies are most effective, strengthening the business case for future debris removal missions.
“Debris poses a threat to active satellites on which we rely daily. Though society is growing more aware of this increasing hazard, some satellite operators have not fully recognised the importance of removing their defunct spacecraft,” said John Auburn, Chief Commercial Officer of Astroscale. “By using DAMAGE to identify and model collision risk in orbit, we expect to quantify the value of debris removal to the maintenance of business sustainability.”
“Whilst Astroscale’s mission is technically very challenging, an equally large challenge, requiring extensive innovation, comes from proving the commercial business case for debris removal,” said Harriet Brettle, Business Analyst at Astroscale. “We are looking forward to working with Professor Hugh Lewis to identify effective debris removal strategies and further understand the collision risk faced by potential future customers.”
Professor Hugh Lewis added: “It is widely understood that removing debris from the orbital environment is important for the long-term sustainability of space activities, but it is challenging to determine how best to deploy removal technologies for the greatest effect. I’m delighted to be working with Astroscale to tackle this challenge and to enable their engineers to begin the drive towards a more sustainable future in space.”
The project is expected to be concluded and findings released in summer 2020.
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Wild Horses by B.J. Daniels
Wild Horses in the 1st book in the Montana Hamiltons Series.
This story is about Livie Hamilton and Cooper Barnett. She is one of the 6 daughters of the prominent Hamilton family.
Sarah and Buckmaster Hamilton are her parents. The background story, that is throughout the whole series, is trying to find out why Sarah disappeared for more than 20 years and what she was up to. And why she came back.
Book 1 starts us off with Livie (Olivia) and Cooper.
The biggest issue is that he's the farmhand. That makes the relationship difficult to begin with. It takes awhile for them to fully trust each other.
But when a blackmailer comes after Livie, Cooper knows he will do anything to protect her. It's as they are trying to figure out who is blackmailing her that they really get to know each other.
It's a cute story.
There's also the background plot that has to deal with the mother, Sarah. She has come back into their lives after being gone for 22yrs. She has no memory of where she's been but she's back. And there's lots of secrets following her!!
Definitely worth checking out.
Check out the rest of the Montana Hamiltons Series:
If you liked Wild Horses, you might like:
The Cahill Ranch Series by BJ Daniels
R.C. Ryan's Wyoming Sky Series
Linda Howard's Mackenzie Family Saga
B.J. Daniels' Beartooth, Montana Series
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Highlands leader Dickie Woods dies
Dickie Woods, born Carl Raymond Woods on April 7, 1940, passed away on April 16, 2016. He grew up in Sweetwater, Texas and was co-captain of the 1957 State Finalist Sweetwater Mustang Football team.
He went on to attend Rice University in Houston, TX on a football scholarship and played in the Sugar Bowl, Orange bowl and the Bluebonnet Bowl. Upon graduation, Dickie joined the Texas Air National Guard after marrying his high school sweetheart. He then moved to the east side of Houston and earned his pilots license and started his long entrepreneurial career. He bought his first business in 1966 and continued building and developing businesses in the North Channel Area throughout the 70s and 80s.
In 1985 he acquired Banana Bend Beach Park and brought his family to the Highlands area. Dickie began investing in the Highlands community and he joined the Highlands-Lynchburg Chamber of Commerce where he served many years in the board and multiple terms as the Vice President and President. His love for the community and its people translates through the many projects he initiated and supported. He was a long time member of the Northshore and Highlands Rotary Clubs, the Citizens Bond Advisory Committee for GCCISD, and President of the local county water board. He supported the local first responders and law enforcement initiatives and worked with county officials to bring improvements to the community that he loved. Dickie was also a great supporter of local youth programs through sports organizations, boy scouts, partners in education and the Goose Creek Education foundation. In 2006, he was recognized by the community for a lifetime of service and achievements with the Terry Davis Memorial Award.
Dickie enjoyed hunting and motorcycle trips with his buddies and spending time with his family. He loved touring the state parks with his wife of 54 years, Virginia, and their five grandchildren; Kenneth Michael McCann III, EmmaLee Lopez, Logan Lopez, Sarah Woods and Hunter Woods. He is also survived by his three children; Jennifer Woods-McCann, Jessica Woods-Lopez and Moises Lopez, and Dickson Woods and wife JoEllen, his sister Estelle Councilman of Sweetwater, TX, his brother Floyd Woods also of Highlands, TX. and nine beloved nieces and nephews.
Dickie is preceded in death by his Father Carl Dick Woods and his mother Thelma Francis Woods.
Dickie Woods, cherished Husband, Father, Grandfather, Brother, Uncle and friend to all he met
will be missed. A Celebration of Dickies Life will be held on Sunday, April 24, 2016 from 2pm-5pm at the San Jacinto Community Center 604 Highland Woods Drive Highlands, Texas 77562. Donations can be made in Dickies memory to the Highlands-Lynchburg Chamber of Commerce Dickie Woods memorial scholarship fund. Services have been entrusted to Sterling-White Funeral Home 11011 Crosby-Lynchburg Rd. Highlands, Texas 77562. To send the family condolences please visit www.sterlingwhite.com
East Harris County catches Sundays flash deluge
EAST HARRIS COUNTY The balmy and beautiful Sunday yielded to a fierce, hammering thunderstorm with over 100 lighting flashes a minute during the wee hours of Monday morning.
A storm cloud spread from Waller to Chambers Counties dropping from 10 to 20 inches of rain. The width of the deluge surge caused over 2000 flooding emergencies in Harris County alone.
In Crosby and Dayton 13 inches fell in less than six hours.
Thus far eight peoples deaths were counted as being storm related. That toll is expected to rise as water recede.
Some 123,000 were struck without power during the storm.
Governor Greg Abbott declared a State of Disaster for nine counties related to the deluge.
Harris County Judge Ed Emmett made an emergency declaration acting as chief administrator for the Harris County Court. This storm has set records
The San Jacinto River and Lake Houston continued to rise throughout Tuesday. A capsized boat on the San Jacinto River near Interstate 10 Tuesday revealed another fatality locally for a man.
Estimates Tuesday night indicate millions of dollars in damages from the storm city wide.
Man dies after tugboat flips on San Jacinto River
Harris County, TX Harris County Sheriffs Office Marine Unit along with the United States Coast Guard recovered a body of a male who drowned, after the tug boat he was working on submerged for an unknown reason on the San Jacinto River in East Harris County last Tuesday morning, April 19, 2016.
HCSO Marine unit was dispatched at around 9:00am to the San Jacinto River Bridge and Interstate 10 East. The tugboat had a crew of 5 working, when it became submerged.
HCSO marine personal rescued four people from the river to safety, but a fifth crew member was unaccounted for.
His body was located a short time later, and a Coast Guard boat assisted in recovering that victim.
The Coast Guard will determine how this maritime accident occurred.
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Dealer Spotlight: Bernie's Boats & Motors
Everett Johnson
Bernie's Boats and Motors was established in 1952 by Bernie and Joyce Stumfoll, originally part of Bernie's Sinclair service station. With customers looking for boats, Bernie began building kit boats from Chris Craft and selling Mercury outboards. In 1954 Bernie acquired the Evinrude outboard motor line. By 1957 Bernie made the decision to leave the service station business and become involved full time in the boating industry. With the completion of a new building, Bernie's added the boat lines of Holmes, Helton and Glastron.
Through the years Bernie built the business on customer service and customer satisfaction. Looking back, he says this is what carried the business through tough times when others could not survive.
In 1976, Bernie's son, Dennis joined the business and helped continue what his father had started. Still growing, Bernie's Boats and Motors built a new store in 1977 where they operate today. In 1994, Dennis bought his father out and became the sole owner. With Dennis at the helm, the business continues to grow. Just like his father, Dennis' insistence on customer service and quality workmanship in rigging and repair, has served them well.
Over the years, Bernie's has won every major customer service award given by the manufacturers they represent. In 1983, Bernie's was one of the first dealers to sign with Yamaha and in 1988 decided to drop Evinrude, giving their full attention to the Yamaha brand. Today, the staff of three service techs are all Yamaha factory trained.
Bernie's line was expanded in 2006 to include their proprietary Desperado high-performance bay boats. The 22' Desperado Outlaw handles rough water and shallow water equally well, gliding across flats with the efficiency of a true flats skiff and still capable of Cadillac smoothness in gulf surf and wind-driven bay chop. Standard features and options lists are nearly endless and each boat can be built and rigged to buyer's specifications in their shop.
Whether you take delivery of a complete rig or a new outboard, every customer is given a complete rundown and taken to the lake for on-the-water testing and operator instruction as the final step in their 100% customer satisfaction plan.
From the time you walk through the door and all the way through purchase and taking delivery, you'll find Bernie's staff courteous and eager to serve. Pay them a visit at 5001 North Navarro in Victoria, call 361 573 7809, or visit online berniesboats.com to learn more about their lineup of Desperado, VIP, Bay Stealth, Express, Flatlander and Comet Boats along with Yamaha outboards, parts and accessories.
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St. Petersburg police: Man dies after crashing motorcycle
Check tampabay.com for the latest breaking news and developments.
By Kirby Wilson
Published Jul. 14, 2019
A man died Saturday night after being thrown from his motorcycle scooter, the St. Petersburg police said in a news release.
Kevin Christopher Daigle, 31, was driving a black low-power motorcycle northbound on 58th Street North near 29th Avenue. It was about 10 p.m., the release said.
For reasons that remain unclear, the brakes of the Chongqing Astronautic Bashan locked, the release said.
The vehicle drifted eastward and hit a curb on the east side of the street. The impact threw Daigle to the ground, the release said.
Authorities took Daigle to St. Petersburg General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Alcohol was a factor in the crash, the release said. Daigle was not wearing a helmet.
Contact Kirby Wilson at kwilson@tampabay.com or (727) 893-8793. Follow @kirbywtweets.
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Selmon Expressway project causes detour on Westshore Boulevard
Earlier today• Transportation
The area will be closed to drivers headed north and south from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. through Friday.
Top Moffitt Cancer Center doctors failed to disclose payments from China, report says
Yesterday• Health
The money came from the “Thousand Talents Program” and went to personal accounts set up in China.
Clearwater’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade route has changed. Here’s how.
Yesterday• Clearwater
The annual march will not end at Coachman Park this year. Here’s the new route.
Wisconsin man arrested after going 145 mph on Bayside Bridge, deputies say
Jan. 17• Crime
He told deputies he was just “having some fun,” according to an arrest report.
He hired a hitman to kill his brother with a $160 down payment, Pinellas deputies say
Gary Hudge also offered to buy the hitman a bus ticket, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office.
Dave Bautista, Marvel’s ‘Drax,’ joins Tampa officer to lead Gasparilla parade
The Guardians of the Galaxy star will lead the Pirate invasion along with Tampa police Lt. Travis Maus, who recently served in the Middle East.
Ex-St. Pete cop to plead guilty to child porn charges
Matthew Enhoffer once received the Medal of Valor from the St. Petersburg Police Department. Now a federal judge will decide his fate.
Northbound lanes of Howard Frankland bridge were backed up Thursday morning after crash
A crash in the northbound lanes of Interstate 275 caused a major backup on the Howard Frankland Bridge Thursday morning.
St. Petersburg’s economy keeps improving with room to grow, data shows
Jan. 15• St. Petersburg
The city released its State of the Economy report Wednesday.
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