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DOJ takes steps to cut off federal funds for sanctuary cities
Posted by Richard J. Tasoff | Jul 29, 2017 | 0 Comments
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has carried through on his threat to deny federal funding to areas that refuse to cooperate with immigration enforcement -- at least, to the extent he can. He announced recently that he will deny sanctuary cities some $385 million in grants that are contingent upon cooperation with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. To keep the money, the cities would have to agree hold immigrants in jail longer than strictly necessary in order to allow ICE to consider them for deportation.
"This is consistent with long-established cooperative principles among law enforcement agencies," Sessions insisted on Tuesday. As we've discussed before, however, many law enforcement agencies oppose cooperation with ICE because they have observed that such cooperation deters immigrants from reporting crimes or cooperating with police in other ways.
The City of San Francisco and Santa Clara County are currently involved in lawsuits over just how much funding could be denied. In an executive order early in his presidency, Donald Trump said that non-cooperating cities would be denied all federal funding. However, a federal judge ruled that the only funding that could legally be cut off was funding that was specifically contingent upon cooperation with ICE. Sessions later issued a memo acknowledging the deniable funding is limited.
The State of California is itself poised to end ICE holds and other cooperation statewide with the California Values Act.
Sessions apparently plans to make as much federal funding as possible contingent upon what many consider to be onerous, if not dangerous, immigration action by local authorities. He has indicated that an ordinary criminal justice grant, the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant, could be denied to sanctuary cities.
According to the Courthouse News Service, California stands to lose around $18 million in funding, based on last year's budget. San Francisco received $523,000 in such funding last year; Santa Clara County $14,800.
"Attorney General Sessions is imposing new conditions on certain grant funds, without apparent authorization from Congress and in violation of the Constitution," said San Francisco's city attorney in response. "We are reviewing these new grant documents, but we remain confident that San Francisco's sanctuary city policies comply with federal law and that San Francisco continues to be eligible for grant funding."
Last week, a federal judge refused to dismiss the lawsuits by San Francisco and Santa Clara County. He also denied a Justice Department motion to reconsider the injunction put in place earlier this spring that limited the effect of Trump's executive order to funds with existing conditions passed by Congress.
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Name: Lauren Davis
DOB: 10/9/1993
Birthplace: Cleveland, Ohio
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Personal: Daughter of Bill and Tracy Davis…Father is a cardiologist and mother is a nurse…Has one sibling, Billy… Began playing tennis at age 9…Began training at the Evert Tennis Academy at age 16.
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A planet lurking beyond Pluto – Is it the planet 9 in the outer Solar system?
Mar 1, 2019, 11:30 am
Pieces of evidence are yet to be confirmed, but it’s looking like there is an undiscovered planet; the planet 9 orbiting beyond the Kuiper Belt. Even if it is there, it’s far, big, and slow. The presence of such a planet will possibly explain the unique clustering of Kuiper Belt Objects that is vertiginous to the plane of the solar system.
The possible ninth planet as described in the paper written by Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown provides an evidential explanation for how such a distant planet could faze the Kuiper belt object orbits into their present sizes, shapes, and orientations. The two scientists have published academic papers presenting evidence of a sizeable undiscovered planet beyond Neptune and Pluto.
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Based on the new model presented by Batygin and Brown along with Fred Adams and Juliette Becker of the University of Michigan says that the hypothesized planet will have a mass of about five times that of the earth. It will have a semimajor orbital axis in the neighborhood of 400 astronomical units (AU), that will make it smaller and closer to the sun than previously suspected and even potentially brighter taking more than 10,000 years to orbit the Sun.
A lurking, distant planet 9 is not a new idea, but theorists were still searching for a head start over how an undiscovered planet could cause the arguments of the perihelion of distant, detached objects to line up. The evidence presented in the paper makes a precise prophecy about the outer space where there should be the other smaller worlds that will help guide future surveys.
The recent paper offers new details and evidence about the suspected nature and location of the undiscovered planet, which has been the subject of intense international research ever since Batygin and Brown’s 2016 announcement.
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Super Mario 3D Land (3DS) Review
Now we're down to the nitty gritty with a review of one of the most anticipated handheld titles of the year with Super Mario 3D Land. We've been covering this game ever since it was just tentatively titled Super Mario for 3DS. Judgment is at hand for Mario and the entire Mushroom Kingdom gang. Was all the hype worth the wait? Do 3DS owners have something new to play on their systems?
A near-perfect mix of 2D and 3D Mario magic
To say that the Nintendo 3DS has gotten off to a rocky start would be an understatement. With struggling sales and an empty library, there hasn't been too many reasons to pick up Nintendo's latest handheld. But with the price drop over the summer and new titles such as the subject of this review, Super Mario 3D Land, could we finally have a title that is worth getting a 3DS for that isn't a port or remake? Let all worries be put to rest as the answer is a resounding "yes."
By now Mario game stories shouldn't surprise anyone. Bowser, in his infinite ability to somehow capture and kidnap poor Princess Peach, has done the deed once again, leaving behind a postcard bragging about his misdeed to our mustachioed hero and a brigade of Toads. It is up to Mario to run and jump his way through eight worlds of increasingly challenging platforming perils. Unlike past Mario titles there aren't any themed worlds. There is no grassy world, jungle world, desert world, ice world, underwater world, etc. Instead what players have are levels that are themed and run the gamut from beaches to pyramids to plains to areas with blocks suspended over bottomless pits to frosty fjords to haunted houses, a mainstay of Mario games since Super Mario World. Every world ends with either an airship or castle level. Each world's ending airship or castle concludes with a boss battle. There are not many bosses to contend with. Players either avoid the attacks of Bowser while they perform platforming challenges and retract the bridge the koopa king stands on (done with a stomp of a button) or face off in a room with Boom Boom (returning from Super Mario Bros. 3) or his female counterpart who throws boomerangs, Pom Pom.
Mario is back, and he is nearly better than ever.
Super Mario 3D Land very much feels like a natural progression between Super Mario 64 and Super Mario Bros. 3. The latter mostly because the worlds of 3D Land are teeming with Tanooki tails. Not only can Mario nab one, twirl his tail to attack enemies as well as flutter across gaps-- the Tanooki suit is tantamount to a safety net as there is a wider margin for error with the tail than without one-- but the portly plumber's foes are seen equipped with tails of their own such as Goombas, Boos, Bullet Bills, Thwomps, among others. And they are not afraid to use them either! Apart from the Tanooki suit, Mario can utilize the returning fire flower to scorch the hind parts of any opposition that gets in his way as well as try out the new Boomerang suit that launches one boomerang at a time. This is a terrific way to give those dastardly Boomerang Bros. a taste of their own medicine. Players can store a second power-up via the touch screen, and access it at any time by tapping the bottom icon. As with past Mario games, if Mario is to take damage while powered up, he'll revert back to Super Mario. If he gets hurt then, he'll turn into Small Mario, and if he is nudged by a baddie, he'll lose a life.
A relic from Super Mario Bros. 3, the Tanooki suit, returns!
Thankfully, levels are built in such a way that they fit portable gaming sessions. The longest level takes about five minutes to complete. A checkpoint in the middle of each stage gives players a breather in case they mess up. Returning from games like Super Mario Galaxy 2, New Super Mario Bros. Wii, and Donkey Kong Country Returns comes the concept of the Super Guide. When a player loses five lives in a given level, an item box appears containing a special Tanooki leaf. This grants the player all the powers of the regular Tanooki suit plus invincibility. Falling into bottomless pits is still a danger, however. If the player loses five more lives, a P-wing surfaces, granting its user the ability to warp directly to the end of the stage with the only penalty being that they cannot earn glittering stars on their save file. These optional and in no way mandatory trinkets allow players of all skill ranges to go through Super Mario 3D Land without too much frustration.
Thrills and chills await Mario in 3D Land's haunted houses.
Though if one does decide to skip a level, they will pass up precious star medals. There are three hidden or placed in precarious locations throughout a level. These can be slightly off-screen, resting in a hazardous zone, or inside a secret pipe's bonus room. These bonus rooms taunt players who do not use the 3D depth slider as they are set up in such a way where the camera angle shows an optical illusion to those that don't view the room in full 3D. There are approximately 300 star medals to collect, and perfectionists will want to gather them all as there is a plus to getting them all. Not only that, but some levels won't even be available to players unless they have a set number of medals. Occasionally, one will come across mystery boxes on the world map. These are ten or so second challenges where the goal is to clear the room of all enemies and nab the medal before time expires. Additionally, players can exchange boxes via StreetPass functionality. Most will have no use for this feature, but it is nice that it is there for those that can utilize it.
Star medals (one seen behind the cage) are
well-hidden within the levels of Super Mario 3D Land.
Super Mario 3D Land is not a long game initially. It should take most players anywhere between 3-5 hours to complete. However, the post-game content stretches the game out exponentially in hours, and it never feels like artificial padding. After the main game is finished, a whole new set of special worlds is unlocked. These levels are either variations of levels from the original eight worlds or new configurations completely. Some have a strict time limit where Mario has to collect clocks to add time to the counter while others have an auto-scrolling screen that moves twice as fast as normal. Another level features Cosmic Mario from Super Mario Galaxy 2 who mimics Mario's moves masterfully, and if the player isn't budging, the phantom version of the plumber will hurt them. In addition to these new levels, there is a bonus for getting a gold flag on all levels (done by reaching the very top of every level's ending flagpole and receiving a 1up). Perhaps there is even an additional character to control who plays differently than Mario...
Originally I was worried when I read that the player had to hold a run button down. After playing 3D Land extensively over the past week or two, I understand the developer's decision in doing this. If Mario ran by holding the circle pad the entire way, the precision platforming involved in the game would be infinitely more difficult to accomplish. By holding down a button to dash, the player can fine-tune how fast he or she desires everyone's favorite plumber to run without accidentally falling off a platform. Aside from running, Mario has a plethora of tricks in his repertoire. He can crouch, charge up, and back-flip into the air, he can-- with some speed-- perform a long jump across large chasms, side-flip, ground pound, wall jump, and do so much more. For such a chunky fellow, Mario sure is limber. Another potential problem was that Mario moves in eight directions. Seeing as the camera is always in the perfect spot, one really doesn't notice this at all. My only true gripe is that half of the aforementioned maneuvers of Mario are completely optional, and most players won't even bother experimenting with them. Why should they? They aren't necessarily needed besides back-flip and the long jump to attain gold flags.
Some levels scroll automatically such as this one.
Super Mario 3D Land is a gorgeous game whether you play in full 3D with the depth slider up all the way or not. However, those with the slider jacked up will be able to judge distances much better than those who do not. Moreover, effects like giant spiked pillars coming from the background and thrusting themselves towards the foreground cannot be put to words how cool it is to see them in full stereoscopic 3D. It's like they're about to puncture your screen. The graphics are sensational with tremendous special effects such as fire, raindrops bouncing off the floor of a castle's keep, and dandelions dispersing their pollen when Mario tramples them. It is little things like this that make Mario's latest adventure so eye-popping and wonderful. The score is full of memorable melodies. The main theme is appropriately catchy, and many past themes from past Mario games make appearances such as Teresa Waltz from Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Bros. 3's athletic theme. Nintendo spared no expense crafting an excellent package with Super Mario 3D Land.
Say what you want about Bowser,
but you gotta admire his spunk.
Think of Super Mario 3D Land as a platforming playground-- something so playful that it makes you feel like a kid again while you play... or if you're a kid, it will still make you feel your age. That isn't to say that the gameplay is childish or immature. Far from it. Mario's newest run-and-jump shows that even characters twenty-five years and counting can dish out entertaining experiences that still feel fresh and enjoyable. Super Mario 3D Land is a near-perfect mix of 2D and 3D gameplay. Some levels one can explore in, some are strictly 2D, some hide their secrets off-screen as others challenge the player in more ways than one. If there was ever a reason to own a 3DS, Super Mario 3D Land is it. While by no means the perfect Mario game, it is the type of game that even the most cynical adult can have the child brought out in them.
[SuperPhillip Says: 9.5/10]
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coffeewithgames said...
"Super Mario 3D Land is not a long game initially. It should take most players anywhere between 3-5 hours to complete."
Wow, that's a lot shorter than I was expecting, and I guess because the screenshots reminded me a lot of the SMG games.
I was thinking the story mode would be at least 10 hours long, plus the replay of finding all the hidden/hard-to-reach items.
To coffee -- The first normal 8 worlds take 3-5 hours, plus another 3-5 in special world, then getting all 5 stars by Defeating bowser in world 8's final level, Beat every level as Mario, Beat every level as Luigi, Collect the gold (very top) flag on every level, Collect all star coins
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Trump strategy paper has good and less good news for Israel, but may not matter
Analysis'It's not designed to deal with the granular'
Administration’s new document says Israel ‘is not the cause’ of Mideast turmoil, but it lacks the Obama-era pledge to maintain Israel’s military edge
By Eric Cortellessa 19 December 2017, 7:01 pm 1 Edit
Eric Cortellessa covers American politics for The Times of Israel.
US President Donald Trump delivers a speech at the Ronald Reagan Building December 18, 2017, in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images/AFP)
WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump’s National Security Strategy released Monday — which declares that Israel is not the cause of the Middle East’s problems — will have very little practical impact, according to veteran US diplomats and experts on the region.
Such a document, which is released periodically by the White House because of a 1986 law, “bears little resemblance to reality usually,” said Aaron David Miller, a former Mideast peace negotiator in several administrations. “It’s not designed to deal with the granular.”
Trump’s offering generated headlines in Israel for one sentence in a 68-page document seeking to debunk what is often referred to as the “linkage theory” — the argument that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the root of the broader region’s instability.
“For generations the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians has been understood as the prime irritant preventing peace and prosperity in the region,” the missive said. “Today, the threats from jihadist terrorist organizations and the threat from Iran are creating the realization that Israel is not the cause of the region’s problems.”
US President Donald Trump speaks on his national security strategy at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, DC, on December 18, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / MANDEL NGAN)
It also said that Israel has found common interest with some of its Arab neighbors because of common threats — presumably referring to Iran — and that the Trump White House remains committed to brokering peace between Israelis and Palestinians.
While such a statement has not been included in similar past documents, a former diplomat with the Israeli-Palestinian file during the Obama administration said it does not mark a real policy shift.
“Ever since 9/11 and the Arab Spring, the two major seismic earthquakes of the Middle East, the public has come to realize that there are so many conflicts in the region and most of them don’t have anything to do with Israel,” David Makovsky, now with the Washington Institute of Near East Policy, told The Times of Israel. “I don’t think it’s a turning point at all.”
David Makovsky (screen caputre: YouTube)
“It used to be that this would be the overarching conflict,” he went on. “You would have [former Egyptian president Hosni] Mubarak and King Hussein come to the United States and say that if you unlock this conflict you solve the Middle East. There was a time when Americans believed that, but they just don’t believe it anymore.”
While Makovsky’s old boss, former US president Barack Obama, articulated to The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg that his famous 2009 Cairo speech to the Muslim world was partly designed to make that point (“My argument was this: Let’s all stop pretending that the cause of the Middle East’s problems is Israel”), he never quite elevated that stance to the level of a policy position.
In playing down the significance of the new US posture regarding the roots of Middle East turmoil, Miller noted that the document’s passage on Israel and the Palestinians was not included in Trump’s own remarks on Monday outlining his doctrine.
Aaron David Miller (Courtesy)
“Remember where it appears,” Miller told The Times of Israel. “It wasn’t important enough to appear in the actual text of the president’s speech. It occurs in the last section of the National Security Strategy with respect to the region.”
Furthermore, Miller pointed out a noteworthy departure — to Israel’s apparent detriment — in the new security strategy paper, when compared to the last National Security Strategy released by the Obama administration in 2015.
In a section devoted to the Middle East and the US government’s goal of seeking “stability and peace,” that 2015 document vows to invest “in the ability of Israel, Jordan, and our Gulf partners to deter aggression while maintaining our unwavering commitment to Israel’s security, including its Qualitative Military Edge.”
Trump’s National Security Strategy does not include similar language — what Miller called “the key bromide that has been a part of American policy for years.”
“You’ve gotta wonder who is thinking this through,” Miller said. “You basically drop one pro-Israel statement and insert another. It shows how little these documents actually mean.”
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Houses, Help & Hitting the Road!
Buddy takes on one of his most difficult cake builds, creating a cake that must represent houses from around the world for Century 21's 40th anniversary. To add to the challenge, it must also feed over 4000 employees and deliver to Las Vegas.
Sisters Sophie & Katherine own and operate one of the most successful cupcake bakeries in Washington, DC, "Georgetown Cupcake." The sisters agree to donate a huge Mardi Gras mask made out of a thousand cupcakes for a local fundraiser.
DC Cupcakes
Pupcakes
Sophie and Katherine offer to support a DC Animal Rescue fundraiser by creating a life size dog out of cupcakes as a centerpiece for the event. In the process, they also develop their first ever "pupcakes" for the gala as well.
Greek Festival
The sisters offer to come up with a Greek inspired cupcake and a giant work of Greek art made out of cupcakes when "Mommy" invites her Greek Orthodox priest to the bakery to participate in an upcoming Greek festival.
Roller Girls
The DC Roller Girl League asks sisters Sophie and Katherine to create an enormous version of their logo out of cupcakes for their opening day. Meanwhile, a trip to an exotic ingredient warehouse inspires a fun new cupcake flavor for Spring.
Wedding Recipe
In this episode, things get difficult when Sophie and Katherine are asked to make cupcakes for a wedding that will mix the bride and groom's family recipes. A new employee crosses Sophie on his first day by accepting a bad order of strawberries.
A local fireman asks for baking lessons leading to a sister vs. sister bake-off at the firehouse. Meanwhile, a picky customer sends back cupcakes for her daughter's Sweet 16 party, leaving the sisters to scramble to redo them all.
Sophie and Katherine build a giant nine-foot glow-in-the-dark guitar for a super sweet sixteen party, while Andres and Mommy bake pizza cupcakes to go with it.
Gorilla Birthday
Sophie and Katherine must juggle two major cupcake orders this week - one for a birthday party at the National Zoo. But to add to their chaos, the sisters must first clean and sanitized their kitchen before they can even start.
Shoe-in
Sophie and Katherine make a giant red high heeled shoe for DC's annual Halloween Drag Race. To join in on the fun, both Andres and Sergio decide to participate in the high-heel run.
Operation Cupcake
The sisters are given a special assignment to bake 10,000 cupcakes for the troops in Afghanistan. Baking 10,000 cupcakes is no easy task, but choosing which flavor makes it even tougher. To help decide, it's time for a good old fashion bake-off!
Cupcake Jackpot
Sophie and Katherine build a working slot machine for a casino-themed surprise 40th birthday party, while Andres fills an order for every flavor cupcake the shop ever made. But when the girls are pulled over during delivery, the surprise is on them.
It's Mommy and Daddy's 40th wedding anniversary, and Sophie and Katherine are throwing them a surprise party, complete with a portrait of the happy couple in cupcakes. Meanwhile, Andres has ideas of creating his own cupcake.
Sophie and Katherine push themselves to the limit creating a cupcake wedding dress for DC Fashion Week. But after learning their dress has to not only look chic but walk down the runway on a model, have the girls bitten off more than they can chew?
Sophie and Katherine agree to make a giant pink bra out of cupcakes for Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and with their head baker Andres, the sisters compete in a three-way bake-off to create the pink cupcakes that will go with it.
So You Think You Can Lion Dance?
The sisters build a Chinese lion for an Asian-Pacific Cultures event, while Andres has requested the task of creating an Asian inspired flavored cupcake. Meanwhile, the shop raises money selling special cupcakes for the Boys and Girls Club of DC
Cookie College
The sisters lend a hand by helping out a group of Girl Scouts earn their baking badges. But when they are asked to speak and make a giant cupcake badge for a Cookie College, will it be the Girls Scouts who return the favor by helping out the sisters?
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Brighton East Rail Trail, Brighton East Rail Trail
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BARRY ELLSWORTH: Seems strange to see Skyline Restaurant closed
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Published on: November 9, 2018 | Last Updated: November 9, 2018 3:42 PM EST
Barry Ellsworth
For the first time since I can remember, the lights are off at the venerable Skyline Restaurant.
After more than 60 years of operating the eatery – cooking, putting food on the table, or just plain waving to patrons, Jimmy Christos died Oct. 15, five days short of his 95th birthday.
Where there used to be a signs in the window touting occasional specials – bacon and eggs breakfast, Montreal smoked sandwich, fish and chips — there is notice that the restaurant is shuttered.
If you grew up in Trenton or have been a city resident for a few decades, chances are you ate in the Skyline. And also at the Times Square on Front Street, operated for decades by the late Bobby Christos, Jimmy’s brother.
Fries and gravy, washed down by a Coke, were the most popular items back in the ‘60s. At the Skyline counter, a piece of coconut cream pie was a special treat.
And, in the far booth, there would be Jimmy, often joined by fellow Greek Canadians such as the late Phil Panelas.
In the halcyon days of the Skyline, Jimmy would stay open to 2 a.m. or later if there were customers, and in the 1960s there were plenty as the downtown was alive with people and muscle cars. But no matter how late Jimmy stayed, he would be back at it at 6 a.m., even with only a few hours downtime.
Word has it he sometimes slept there, snatching some shuteye before beginning the ritual again, seven days a week.
He lived and breathed that restaurant and his dedication made him wealthy, as it did brother Bobby.
I remember my daughter Candy coming home and saying that Bobby had bought his kid a new car, I think it was a Mustang, as a high school graduation present.
“Where’s mine?” Candy asked.
I think I said something like, “It’s at Lange and Fetters.”
Jimmy cooked at times and I have never been in a restaurant that served up the food faster. I don’t know how Jimmy did it, and I am not sure I want to know.
He would also occasionally deliver beverage and edibles to your booth.
Jimmy had a knack of throwing the coffee cup and saucer onto the table, making a racket but never spilling a drop. I don’t know how he did that, either, but it’s a fact.
Jimmy came to Canada from Greece in the early 1950s, but his accent never changed. He would mumble away at you in his own brand of English patois. Half the time I couldn’t understand what he was saying, but it didn’t matter.
Customers came and went during long years – Bob Swan, Farley Sharpe, George Bonn to name only three of hundreds of thousands.
And the customers sat in the same booths with those small juke boxes on the wall as Jimmy resisted all attempts to get him to modernize.
I don’t know the future of the Skyline now that its steward-in-chief has departed.
But I do know that Jimmy’s passing and the dark restaurant leave a big hole in downtown Trenton.
Santa ready to visit Trenton Keeping the big bird flying
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The New Investor's Complete Guide to Brokers
Income Statements
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Investing for Beginners Basics
By Joshua Kennon
The broker and brokerage firm are the two primary relationships you will have when you begin your journey to investing, whether it's a stockbroker, commodities broker, futures broker, bond broker, or an all-purpose brokerage firm.
This broker guide for new investors explains some of the things you need to look for when selecting a brokerage firm, fees to avoid, an explanation of asset management accounts, how to read your brokerage account statements and trade confirmations, and more. It's part of our guide to investing in stocks.
Understanding Your Brokerage Account and Statement
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The best way to start investing is to open a brokerage account with a well-respected stockbroker. Here, we'll explain how commissions work, what is considered "reasonable", and what you should expect
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Whenever you buy or sell an investment through your brokerage account, you are going to receive a special document called a trade confirmation from your stockbroker.
It's important to check a handful of items on each and every trade confirmation you receive - errors can occur, and if you don't check your confirmation, you could end up losing a lot of money.
How Do I Choose a Stock Broker or Brokerage Account?
Now that you know the basics of how brokerage accounts work and why trade confirmations are important, it's time for you to set out to find your own, personal stockbroker.
There are two types of stockbrokers in the world - full-service stock brokers and discount stock brokers. They each have pros and cons.
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With their mahogany-paneled walls, gourmet coffee, and tailored stock recommendations, full-service stock brokers can cost a lot of money through higher fees, service charges, commissions, and more.
Despite their expensive prices, in some cases, their research and planning help is worth every penny.
Are There Any Fees I Should Refuse to Pay My Stock Broker?
There are a few fees that are so outrageous, yet common among some stockbrokers, brokerage firms, and banks that you absolutely must know about them.
Take a minute to educate yourself and if you find your accounts with a broker that insists on charging them, take your business elsewhere. They are going to nickel and dime you for every penny you have to your name.
Can I Buy Stocks Without a Stock Broker?
If you want to buy stock in a specific company, it may be possible for you to invest without a stockbroker, brokerage firm, or brokerage account!
Though it's likely you'll never hear talk about them on Wall Street, there is a special type of low-cost program you can join called "direct stock purchase plans".
My Stock Broker Offered Me an Asset Management Account. What Is It?
Many stockbrokers and brokerage firms are doing away with the traditional brokerage account entirely and introducing something new called the asset management account.
It may sound fancy, but if you hate paperwork, want everything in your life to come on one statement, and would rather pay a flat, small percentage of your account value instead of regular commissions, an asset management account may be a better choice for you.
My Broker Told Me All of My Stocks are Held in a Street Name. Is This Bad?
If you invest through a broker, brokerage firm, or bank, the odds are 99 to 1 that your stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and other assets are held in a street name, not your own name.
If My Broker Goes Bankrupt, Do I Lose All of My Money?
About once every decade, you see a host of brokers, brokerage firms, and banks fail and descend into bankruptcy protection. What happens if you held your investments, such as stocks, bonds, mutual funds, or retirement accounts, through a brokerage firm that went bankrupt?
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Now that you've chosen a stockbroker, you need to learn how to actually begin trading stocks within your brokerage account.
This beginner's guide to online stock trading will walk you through the twelve types of stock trades you can make, selecting individual stocks, ways to uncover hidden fees, expenses, and commissions, and much more. Think of it as your ultimate reference guide to stock trading.
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Fatty Food Consumption Could Increase Mental Illness Risk, Research Says
Put down that fast food burger. Your brain will thank you.
We already know that a high-fat diet will lead to obesity, heart problems, diabetes, and a host of other physical health issues, but a new study suggests that fatty food consumption is linked to our mental health as well. Research published in the Biological Psychiatry journal suggests that the more high-fat foods we eat, the more likely the composition of our gut bacteria will change. Eventually, severe changes in gut bacteria, even in the absence of obesity, will increase the risk of depression, anxiety, and other psychological disorders.
"This paper suggests that high-fat diets impair brain health, in part by disrupting the symbiotic relationship between humans and the microorganisms that occupy our gastrointestinal tracks,” said John Krystal, an author of the study and professor at Yale University.
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Scientists found that mice, when given high-fat diets, will also display memory problems, disruptions in normal behavior, and repetitive motions. Further research is necessary to secure these findings, scientists say, but it could lead to psychologists treating neurological disorders by analyzing our eating habits and the content of our gut bacteria.
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The Free Library > General Interest/Informational > General interest > Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England) > March 7, 1999
The Free Library > Date > 1999 > March > 7 > Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
So is 'rage' just a new excuse for violence?; Every day we hear about more cases of road rage, trolley rage and even air rage.
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IT all started suddenly and unexpectedly - when motorists saw red and road rage was born.
Trolley rage followed as angry shoppers clashed in supermarkets across the country.
Then holidaymakers joined in, terrorising airline staff with punch-ups at 30,000 feet.
Some hoteliers keep baseball bats behind the counter to protect themselves from raging guests.
Even golf courses, traditionally a haven of tranquillity, have seen violent rucks between middle-aged businessmen.
As a nation, we all appear to be behaving increasingly badly.
A survey by the Automobile Association has just revealed that 90 per cent of motorists have been involved in some type of road rage, from angry gestures to assaults.
Rising levels of aggression are the result of mounting stress in our lives, according to the AA, which has carried out extensive research into the topic.
Simon Woodings, of AA in the Midlands, said: "There is a mixture of things that make our lives more stressful and many people are simply reaching breaking point.
"In the past, if a driver cut you up, most people would have just raised their eyebrows and called them a roadhog. Today, it is more likely to turn into some kind of road rage incident.
"We are all living with a lot more stress and even the most trivial things can push us over the edge.
"Plus there are so many cars on the road fighting to get from A to B. And by the year 2002 the number of cars will have increased by a further 10 per cent. It can feel like a real battle just getting to work in the morning.
"Cars are becoming increasingly large and powerful. The motorist feels cocooned inside this metal box and even the most mild-mannered person can turn into an animal.
"Road rage is a virus affecting all kinds of drivers as aggression on the roads continues to grow.
"It's very worrying - we have already seen road rage deaths and, at this rate, we could see violence on an even greater scale."
While increased raging on the roads is a major concern, everyone would accept that driving can often be a stressful experience.
Yet aggression is also erupting in the very places once reserved for relaxation and calm.
Dave Jones, aged 28, a computer operator from Birmingham, admits he suffers from golf rage.
"You finish a fairly stressful week at work and have this idyllic image of a relaxing round, playing these glorious, swinging strokes in the countryside.
"Then by the third hole, when you are in the rough with other golfers waiting behind you, the stress builds up.
"I saw one man finish a round and throw his clubs straight into a river. And I have become so tense that after taking a shot that I have just chucked the club after the ball.
"It's certainly the result of mounting stress. You almost start to feel tense about relaxing, because the two or four hours on the golf course are your prized oasis of calm and you feel under pressure to enjoy it."
But for one expert, the rise in raging is not about the history of growing stress - it's down to geography.
Gill Mackenzie of the Campaign for Courtesy said: "People are behaving badly because they know they can get away with it.
"If they have a fight with someone in the supermarket or threaten a hotel receptionist, they can be pretty sure that they won't ever see them again.
"Few people live in small communities any more. So we don't have to face up to the consequences of our actions.
"You would find very little road rage or trolley rage in a small village. People know if they clash with someone that person may well turn out to be their auntie's best friend."
Prof Chris Cullen, a clinical psychologist at Keele University, who specialises in anger control, said: "There certainly seems to be more aggression in evidence today. The media have played a role, coming up with terms like road rage and air rage, turning it into a major issue.
"But the media were only identifying what was actually happening out in society and there is evidence of growing aggressiveness in many different areas.
"We are living in larger communities and many of the traditional ties have broken down. People driving to work have no relationship with other motorists on the road. You are far less likely to attack a motorist with a wheel brace if you know that person.
"People have become far more focused on themselves ever since the Thatcher period in the 1980s and we are seeing the consequences of that."
There seems to be no need for arguments. We appear to have turned into an aggressive breed, ready to rage at anyone who displeases us.
But the man who first coined the term road rage is having none of it. Motoring writer Mike Rutherford regrets coming up with that infamous tag five years ago.
"It's getting crazy - after road rage we had air rage, hotel rage, pool rage - any sort of rage you could possibly imagine," said Mike, who has founded the Motorists' Association.
"And I honestly don't think it exists. Anyone who is likely to carry a baseball bat in the car will probably punch an air hostess and cause havoc in a hotel.
"They are violent and aggressive - that's the way they are. To say that perfectly normal people suddenly turn into animals when they get behind the wheel is rubbish.
"I would say people do become braver when they are in a car. You might make a gesture at the bloke who cuts you up on the road.
"If you are standing next to him in the pub and he is twice the size of you, you're not likely to make a fuss if he gets served before you.
"But the trouble with having terms like road rage is that it becomes a kind of syndrome or illness and it implies that the driver can't help it. So people can believe it is not really their fault when they end up in a fight with another motorist.
"I think there is actually a place for road rage. Mistakes can be very costly on the roads and if someone is driving dangerously they should be made aware of it, otherwise they won't change the way they drive.
"As long as it is not violent, there's nothing wrong with pointing out mistakes. That's a world away from driving around with a weapon stashed in your boot.
"Drivers have always lost their tempers - but now we call it road rage, it ends up making the headlines and psychologists are paid a fortune to analyse it."
What do you think - are we all getting angrier? Do you get wound up behind the wheel - or have you been subjected to someone else's "road rage"? Write to Talk About, Sunday Mercury, 28 Colmore Circus, Birmingham B4 6AZ.
COPYRIGHT 1999 Birmingham Post & Mail Ltd
Hudson, Jenny
Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
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Bombarded with reminders of our stressful lives.
CARMEN REID: Teens turning the air black and blue.
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The oil barons of cannabis: Inside the illicit but lucrative world of ‘shatter’
When legalization begins on Oct. 17, consumers will still have to wait a year to lawfully buy the heavy stuff: Extracts, concentrates and the edibles that can be made from them. But for these outlaw entrepreneurs, those products are already big business
Published September 23, 2018 Updated October 15, 2018
Extract cannabis by 91Supreme, known as caviar, is shown at the Sunrise Wellness Foundation dispensary in Vancouver. Concentrates and extracts exist in a black and grey that will not become legal until the federal government sorts out a legislative framework for them in about a year.
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Behold the illegal travelling shatter salesman, who is not going anywhere soon. Behold how calm he is in the face of the legalization of recreational cannabis on Oct. 17, how … implacable. True, he is stoned, but he would be implacable anyway.
Andrew Alias, whose real name we are withholding – he is engaged, after all, in criminal activity – is a purveyor of the rarest and most potent of cannabis products. He sells concentrates and extracts, including shatter – cannabis oil that has been mechanically extracted from its plant and then concentrated and hardened into what looks like thin, clear peanut brittle. He sells shatter’s cousins, wax (more moisture than shatter, and emulsified; it crumbles on touch), sugar (less moisture than wax, therefore powdery) and caviar (more refined and distilled, like grainy gobs of honey). These are just some of the unguents a travelling shatter salesman sells.
Although Andrew prefers his formal title: cannabis brand ambassador. He is stubborn proof of how unpredictable and competitive the transition to legal weed is going to be.
Andrew unloads a pound of product every week – $30,000 worth, at anywhere from $30 to $80 a gram, depending on its potency. It’s all illegal. Andrew’s shatter is made by 91Supreme, a Vancouver producer of cannabis extracts that is, to put it delicately, not on Health Canada’s list of licensed manufacturers. Andrew refuses to say how he physically obtains 91Supreme’s wares, and the folks at 91Supreme claim not to know Andrew Alias.
This is the black and grey market, after all – the murky netherworld that Justin Trudeau wants to render superfluous by legalizing tamer cannabis products (dried cannabis and weaker forms of oil) next month. It will be another year before concentrates, extracts, stronger oils and many things that can be made from them, such as plastic vape pens and edibles, are legal. Even then, selection will be restricted to what each province lets you do, child.
Andrew Alias, the travelling shatter salesman, shown in Toronto.
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Andrew is an outlaw. But he only partly looks like one, with his fridge-like body, his blue-and-orange tattoos – PRACTICE PATIENCE, two letters per knuckle – his 18-karat-gold mandibular grill. He never removes his backpack, in which he carries cash and product: He says he was mugged and robbed of $25,000 a few weeks ago – people, he points out, get jealous. Otherwise, he’s a knowledgeable guy keen to improve the public’s perception of drug dealers, and rarely evasive, as long as you don’t want to go into too much detail. In other words, he is like most drug dealers you ever met, except that he’s a wholesaler, not a dealer. If everyone has a guy, says Andrew, he’s the guy that that guy has.
He is for now. Because the murky world of hash oil and extracts and concentrates and edibles, the last Wild West in the kingdom of cannabis, is finally being staked out by mainstream businesspeople, on Bay Street and elsewhere. Health Canada estimates that the market for such products expanded eightfold last year – much faster than the business of selling plain old dried cannabis (sometimes known as flower). The concentrate business is concentrating.
Industrial-scale extraction systems – already being used to make weak cannabis oil – are being sold to Canadian- and U.S.-licensed producers for anywhere from US$250,000 to US$1-million apiece. Last month, Veritas Pharma Inc., a medical-research company, acquired half of 3 Carbon Extractions Inc., a Vancouver-based extraction outfit. “It’s the fastest growing sector of the industry,” says 3 Carbon CEO Phil Kwong, who jumped into the extract game three years ago when he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and found concentrates helped. “With extraction, you take out all the extra stuff and focus it down to the good stuff. And there’s a larger diversity of product and how it can be taken.” In July, Ottawa’s CannaRoyalty Corp. agreed to manufacture and distribute the wares of San Francisco’s Pacific Remedy Inc., which makes shatter-coated joints (they use an uncooked fusilli noodle as a filter). And that’s just the light end of the list of products that cannabis oils and concentrates make possible: capsules (swallow), suppositories (insert), edibles (eat), vape pens (inhale), bath bombs (soak), creams (rub), lube (you know) and the aforementioned extracts.
As of this month, the federal government has issued a scant 117 licences to legally grow and sell marijuana, about half of which also permit the production and sale of cannabis oil, albeit a very mild and tepid version of it. Which poses another question that has been asked a lot in the run-up to Oct. 17: What will happen to black-marketeers, such as Andrew Alias, after weed goes legal? Will stubbled dudes who communicate only by text and who live in album-lined apartments become artifacts of the past, like men in bowler hats?
They will not. The black market, predicts Andrew, is never going away. A dealer's wider range of more potent products may be untested. But buying them from him is more discrete (the purchase leaves no electronic footprint) and arguably easier than schlepping to a dispensary or shopping online, which is what our governments want us to do.
Extracts and concentrates have a hillbilly past. The earliest versions of shatter were created with a homemade process known as “open blasting.” Does that sound safe? A typical open blast entailed stuffing a glass tube, perhaps the neck of a bong, with marijuana, filling the tube with lighter fluid (a source of the solvent butane), then filtering and “off-gassing” the butane in a dish over a flame until you were left with smokable residue. Many terrible explosions ensued, and the reputation of concentrate as “the crack of pot” was firmly established.
Over the years, as the process became mechanized and refined, it got safer. Today, extracts and concentrates are often made from trim – the cuttings and refuse left behind after a cannabis plant is clipped of its valuable buds. (Although, as demand for medical cannabis oil has grown, licensed producers such as Canopy Growth Corp., based in Smiths Falls, Ont., often render oil from higher-potency buds as well.) As recently as four years ago, trim was thrown out or given away free, a perk of working as a grow-op hand-trimmer for $25 an hour. These days, many cannabis farms buzz to the whir of mechanical trimmers that automatically vacuum up the trim: Even middling stuff with THC content of 10 per cent can fetch $500 a pound.
Then the chemistry starts. It’s a complicated process. The trim is placed in a sealed and welded stainless-steel container and rinsed with a solvent to wash the plant’s cannabinoid-rich resins off its leaves. (Butane, ethanol or CO2 are a few solvent options, but “solvent-free” cannabis extracts, washed in water, fetch premium prices.) The resulting sludge is then subjected to some or all of a series of processes – centrifuged, filtered, frozen (which helps separate the plant’s oil from its chlorophyll and fats), refiltered, distilled and redistilled.
Each stage produces a series of byproducts that become shatter, wax, crumble and their ilk – as well as ever-more refined cannabis oil that can be almost pure tetrahydrocannabinol (THC, the psychoactive compound in marijuana), almost pure cannabidiol (CBD, the non-intoxicating compound that some users claim is body-calming), or anything in between. The oil can then be used for vaping, for edibles, for tinctures and rubs, for balms and concentrates, for lotions and lubes.
And for making lots of money. In the marijuana dispensaries now common on the streets of many Canadian cities, you can pay less than $1 a gram for loose trim. But turn five grams of that trim into oil, inject the oil into a plastic cartridge, sell the cartridge in a vape pen, and the oil is suddenly worth $40 to $80 a gram, retail. (Vape pens, smokeless and odourless and masquerading as anything from a USB memory stick to a ballpoint, account for an estimated 15 per cent of the cannabis industry’s current revenue.) As one concentrate chemist puts it, it just like turning garbage into gold.
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Rosie Mondin, the CEO of Quadron Cannatech Corp., a Vancouver-based manufacturer of industrial-scale extraction equipment, was a cannabis advocate and lawyer when a string of clients approached her in 2013 for legal advice. They wanted to become licensed producers of cannabis under the Marijuana for Medical Purposes Regulations, the regulatory regime the Conservative government of Stephen Harper set up to eliminate the black market. (Such hopes didn’t pan out then, either.) “I thought, instead of doing this for others, I should do it for myself,” Ms. Mondin recalls.
Working with Shane Lander, a self-taught engineer and biochemist, and another partner, Leo Chamberland, Ms. Mondin borrowed $300,000 to buy a second-hand extraction machine. Mr. Lander started tinkering with it, eventually creating an extraction system of their own.
That beast, the Boss CO2 Extraction System, now for sale across the land, retails for $250,000 and looks like a cross between a Gothic arch and the Star Trek badge if it had been designed at Hogwarts. It’s about the size of a desk but twice as high, portable, and easy to use: It requires only two electrical outlets and a single human operator. Return on investment, Mr. Lander says, is three months. He claims to have installed extraction systems for at least two licensed medical-marijuana producers who will soon be making weak oil for the recreational market as well.
Ms. Mondin believes edibles and vaping – both of which use concentrated cannabis oil – are the future of the pot business, given widespread concerns about smoking. Now, at parties with her friends, “where they used to say no to a joint, they say yes to wanting to try the vape pen,” which heats cannabis to sub-combustion temperatures, producing vapour rather than smoke.
Besides, she says, “A lot of us have aging parents. A lot of them are going through cancers.” Bring out the vape pens, their preferred way to administer pain-relieving cannabis.
But there is no guarantee of success this early on in the cannabis-extraction sector. Competition is already fierce.
On a sunny day last spring, Paul Pedersen, the CEO of Nextleaf Cannabis Processing Solutions, is standing beside a tractor trailer parked outside a suburban warehouse in Port Coquitlam, B.C.. Until a week ago, the nondescript self-storage facility behind him was a grow-op. The grow-op’s assets have now been purchased by a licensed producer, and Mr. Pedersen and a team of technicians are using a corner of the space to test their new concentrate-production system, which will soon be installed on the tractor trailer. When it’s finished, they’ll be able to drive their mobile extraction lab from micro-grower to micro-grower.
How does someone come up with an idea like that? In 2016, Mr. Pedersen’s mother developed rheumatoid arthritis. A friend recommended a topical marijuana cream for her pain, but all the dispensaries were sold out. (Cannabis cream for arthritis is a bestseller to this day.) Travelling a few weeks later in Oregon – one of the first U.S. states to normalize recreational marijuana – Mr. Pedersen saw something he’d never seen before: a mobile extraction lab. A year and a million dollars later, he has a beta version of his travelling lab in operation.
As Nextleaf waits for its processing licence from Ottawa, the technical team has been tweaking the portable lab that will transform weed into concentrates and a full range of vapable, edible oils – “bridging the gap from soil to oil,” as Nextleaf’s slogan says. The team is eager to finish the job: Mr. Pedersen claims there are 4,000 cannabis growers within an hour’s drive of where they’re working. That’s a lot of mobile processing to be done. On the other hand, the vast majority of those growers will be rendered illegal by the Cannabis Act, at least for now. Will they stop growing marijuana? Will they apply for one of the small-scale micro-cultivation licences that Health Canada is promising? Or will the black market continue to fill demand for the extracts and concentrates Ottawa has yet to legalize?
The answer is possibly B and definitely C. Again and again, travelling around the nascent Canadian cannabis space, you hear the same sentiment: No one knows what’s actually going to happen after Oct. 17.
Walter Sorto is managing director of the Sunrise Wellness Foundation, a dispensary that is legal under Vancouver’s municipal laws, but regarded by the federal government, which outlaws dispensaries, as illegal.
To a newcomer, the array of concentrates and extracts at the Sunrise Wellness Foundation, a cannabis dispensary in Vancouver, is mind-boggling. There are daubs of this and dabs of that, gold and amber and sulfur yellow, in one-inch-wide vitrines, made by companies with fetching names: Elevated Extracts, Heavenly Daze, Kind Selections, Little Farma. These are the dispensary’s most valuable and potent delicacies: Kind Selection’s Kush Bomb SFE (solvent-free extract, very desirable), Miss Envy’s CBD capsules (two 20-mg pills, $6), medicine-dropper bottles of Green Island Naturals tinctures, to be absorbed sublingually (the Tranquillus – four parts body-calming CBD to one-part psychoactive THC – is popular, at $50 for 15 big doses), even Honey Tears, a superstrong concentrate the dispensary recommends for cancer pain. Walter Sorto, one of the dispensary’s three owners, just started his dad on Honey Tears. His dad has liver cancer.
Mr. Sorto – 48, looks 28, father of four, partner in three legal dispensaries while holding down a full-time job as a manager in a Crown corporation – earned an MBA at night school and worked for half a decade as a supply-chain management consultant in the Alberta oil-and-gas sector. Now, he wants to devote himself to the cannabis business, however challenging the regulatory environment. Sunrise is a legal dispensary under Vancouver’s municipal laws (the majority of Vancouver dispensaries are not). But it has been considered a “grey-zone” dispensary under provincial law, and illegal under federal law, which outlaws dispensaries, at least until Oct. 17, when each province will be allowed to set its own standards of who can sell, and how they can sell it. For the privilege of doing business in this legal limbo, Mr. Sorto and his partners pay an annual city licence fee of $30,000 per dispensary (they have three), and up to $12,000 more in provincial fees.
But mostly what a visitor notices about Walter Sorto’s dispensary, and about cannabis use in Vancouver in general, is the absence of any stigma or secrecy surrounding the purchase or use of weed and its byproducts. Mr. Sorto, who has a prescription for medical marijuana, kicks off every morning with 20 milligrams of 1-to-1 CBD/THC medicated coconut oil in his coffee, which he claims eases his arthritis (he’s a long-time surfer). That’s a lot of pot, but he insists it has no effect on his intellectual capacity. (If he was high when we met at 10 o’clock on a weekday morning, I certainly couldn’t tell.)
THC-medicated coconut oil.
Rafal Gerszak/The Globe and Mail
At the end of the day, he goes old-school and non-concentrate and partakes of a plain old hand-rolled doob of Lemon Sour Diesel (a sativa cultivar, sativa being the supposedly enlivening strain of cannabis) “to think” – or, if he has to cut the grass (the lawn variety), a joint of Lemon Haze. “It’s also sativa,” he says, “but it’s pure energy.” Then, to quiet his mind at bedtime, he’ll smoke a narcotic indica cultivar that also helps him sleep through the night. For most Canadians, this is a new way of living.
Of course, double-blind scientific evidence for the efficacy of Mr. Sorto’s medicine, or for many of the goods the dispensary sells, is stubbornly non-definitive: For decades institutions such as the National Research Council discouraged research on cannabis because it was illegal. Most evidence for the therapeutic value of cannabis (and wax and shatter and other derivatives) is anecdotal – tales told by many over dozens and even thousands of years.
But the faithful who buy at the Sunrise dispensary, and the priests who serve them, are believers and optimists. The staff complete multiweek courses to qualify as budtenders, as the sales staff at dispensaries are sometimes called. I sat in on a class. Fifteen people – men and women from 20 to 70 – packed a sweltering downtown office to listen to a lecture and watch a mind-crackingly complex video on the biochemistry of the human endocannabinoid system. Then, the supplicants gathered round to try some extract. By then, they were looking forward to it.
“I predict 30 per cent of the market will eventually be concentrates, shatters, butters and resins,” Mr. Sorto says. Eventually being the key word, since, of course, it will be illegal to buy them or edibles for at least another year. Mr. Sorto acknowledges the government’s desire to make edibles and extracts safe. But to make cannabis legal, and allow various governments their longed-for cut of the tax pie, Ottawa has made cannabis culture a lot more milquetoast. “We probably won’t be able to move many of the products we sell now, because of legalization,” Mr. Sorto says. “The transition’s gonna be brutal.”
Cannabis is weighed at the Sunrise dispensary. Mr. Sorto predicts that concentrates, shatters, butters and resins will one day make up 30 per cent of the market – but it has to be legal first.
A certain unnameable correspondent of my acquaintance was a timorous and only occasional user of cannabis. Nevertheless, he tried some concentrate. He has asked me to relate the experience to you, brave reader.
The adventure began when Andrew Alias introduced the correspondent to a young woman named Sara and her partner Nick, who were in Toronto from North Bay, Ont., to host an illegal pop-up dab bar in a downtown vape lounge, where customers can smoke pot indoors. I realize I now have to explain nearly every word in that sentence.
Andrew stages pop-up dab bars in his role as a cannabis brand ambassador. (To “dab,” à la Brylcreem’s “A little dab’ll do ya,” is to ingest concentrates such as shatter and caviar.) The date of the dab fest in question had been announced weeks in advance, via flyers and social media; the location was a secret until the actual day, and then announced on social media. Needless to say, the police are aware of many of these dab fests anyway, just as they are aware of unlicensed concentrate manufacturers such as 91Supreme. According to Mark Pugash, a spokesman for the Toronto police, “we are aware, we go online, we order, we arrest, and we put people before the courts.” But with the legal status of cannabis shifting, chiefly due to a series of high-court decisions that protect the right of patients to access cannabis products, convictions are not guaranteed. Furthermore, Mr. Pugash says, “we have competing priorities and finite resources.”
The vape lounge, which the correspondent attended with a pal, a seasoned stoner, was on the second floor of a low-rise building. The dab bar was a rectangular table at the back of the room.
By 10 p.m. there were lines of enthusiasts waiting to be dabbed by Sara off a dab rig on the dab bar. A standard dab rig is anywhere from four to twelve inches high, and consists of a titanium platform (a “nail”) installed in the mouth of a glass tube that descends into a glass chamber filled with water, out of which winds another, usually longer glass tube that ends in a mouthpiece. The nail is preheated, either electronically (via a transformer or batteries) or with a blow torch; the dabber places the dab of concentrate on the heated nail, simultaneously sucking the resulting vapour into the water bowl to cool it down, then out the top of the glass chamber through the long glass tube into the mouth and lungs and body and brain of the dabber.
In other words, a dab rig is like a bong, except prettier and more delicate. You can buy your own made-in-China dab rig, portable or otherwise, online or at a head shop, for $20 to $60. Some look like glass poo, but others are stunning. Andrew Alias has one that looks like E.T.
An example of what a dab rig looks like.
On the night in question, Sara was doling out tiny, gooey blobs of honey-coloured caviar that had been chemically extracted from a hybrid strain of marijuana called Master Bubba. It was a “fully dewaxed” (spun, frozen, filtered and distilled) cannabis oil whose terpenes (the plant compounds that give each strain its taste and smell and multisensate buzz, known as the “entourage effect”) had been separated out and then recombined. The chemistry of high-end cannabis extracts makes wine look like child’s play. The caviar’s THC content was slightly over 90 per cent “prior to combustion.” Dried marijuana with 30-per-cent THC content is considered couch-lock material. The government stuff is one-tenth as potent as that.
Our correspondent ingested his tidbit of caviar – half the size of a small pea – at 10:45 that evening. It was a Friday. There were younger men and women present who dabbed three and four times to the correspondent’s cautious once. The correspondent has no idea where they are now. Perhaps they are suddenly married, or working for the circus. The vapour in the dab rig was cool and minty.
Cannabis caviar.
At first, the correspondent felt nothing. Very shortly after that, he felt compelled to leave the vapour bar at high speed. Out on the sidewalk, he experienced a tingling up and down his forearms and thighs. A compelling need to walk and an urgent desire not to talk to anyone ensued – a five-minute phase of nervousness that his companion referred to as “the unnecessary anxiety.” The idea of anxiety as a superfluous emotion struck our gentle adventurer as a profound and brilliant concept.
Then he realized he was higher than he had been in … 45 years? But not bad, dizzy, whirling I-need-to-lie-down-oh-help-me-mommy! high. Everything outside his body was of interest, not just to his mind but to his mind via his body: In fact, his body and mind seemed to be in conversation about all these exterior phenomena, talking like two long-lost lovers who had suddenly encountered one another in a foreign city after years of exile. (Body: Look at those Russian mobsters on the hotel patio! Look at how big their heads are! Mind: Interesting that you think they are Russian.)
Everything the correspondent saw seemed to be touched by nowness. “You may not want to ride your bike,” his pal said as he headed into the subway – into Hell Itself, the correspondent feared – but then the correspondent immediately forgot about his friend. He proceeded to walk his bike around the fancy clubs and growling Ferraris and ultratanned smoothies of sophisticated Yorkville, Toronto’s most self-conscious neighbourhood, for two and a half hours, completely unself-consciously. It’s not that big a neighbourhood. He explored every cranny. (He never parked his bike because he was afraid he’d forget where he parked it.) He made his way through a laneway packed with patrons trying to get into a new disco, apologizing again and again as he pushed his bike past women in chainmail bustiers and guys with oiled hair piled atop their heads like beautiful desserts. “Why does everyone in Yorkville, men included, look like a hooker?” the correspondent asked himself. “And why do they seem so proud to look that way?”
By 1 a.m. our man had completed the 15-minute walk home. His wife looked at him as he stepped into their bedroom, then burst out laughing. “Do I look stoned?” the correspondent asked. “Yes!” she replied. He thereupon sat down and read and thought and made notes until 3:30 a.m., fell asleep and slept until 9:30 that morning. He felt slightly discombobulated until 5 p.m., but that didn’t stop him from buying groceries and planting some bushes. All in all, while the correspondent probably won’t try it again (because he doesn’t like vaping – it makes his lungs feel wet inside – and because he doesn’t like spending a day in an unrepentant haze), he thought it was an interesting experience.
Dabbing makes the world seem spanking new for a while, and then it doesn’t. But that is the arc, the up and the down, the strength and the weakness, of all cannabis. It doesn’t alter the nature of existence. It just masks some of the symptoms. Concentrates and extracts, in edible or any other form, simply accomplish this more decisively. The irony, given that the federal government legalized cannabis to eliminate the black market and shed light on the way Canadians use weed, is that you won’t be able to have that experience come Oct. 17. Unless you can figure out how to find Andrew Alias.
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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: Principal Preparation Transformation Center
Deadline: November 15, 2018
Guided by the belief that all lives have equal value, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is committed to ensuring that all students in the United States have the opportunity to receive a high-quality education. The Foundation’s K-12 program aims to increase the number of Black, Latino, and low-income students who earn a high school diploma, enroll in a postsecondary institution, and are on-track in their first year to attain a high-quality credential.
High-poverty, low-achieving school districts, which arguably need the best principals, have difficulty attracting high-quality applicants. Across America, high-poverty rural and urban school districts struggle to recruit and retain effective principals. There is currently a severe shortage of quality principals, particularly for high-need, “turnaround” schools.
The Foundation believes that when principal preparation programs sustainably implement quality programming at scale, new principals will be better prepared to positively impact outcomes for Black, Latino, and low-income students. To that end, it works with educators, policymakers, parents, and communities to support and scale successful programs and identify innovative new solutions that can help improve the recruitment and preparation of diverse, effective new principals.
The Foundation is interested in identifying and supporting “Principal Preparation Transformation Centers” (Centers) with the credibility and capacity to support a network of principal preparation programs that are committed to working together to strengthen all aspects of their model in the service of increasing the number of diverse, effective new school principals.
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MagazineJuly ›› 2018 issue
The Necessity for Hospitality Education in India
Author : Veer Vijay Singh, CEO & MD, Trance Hotels
Veer Vijay Singh, CEO & MD Trance Hotels
The Indian Hospitality Industry five years ago, we had stuck at a figure of 2.0 million tourists per year and this has gone up to 8.8 million per year. This has been possible due to strong marketing initiatives by the Government of India Tourism Department such as Incredible India 1, Incredible India 2, Athiti Devo Bhava and so on. Online visa has played a major role in easing the number of foreigners coming to our country. The fastest growing segment is the midscale segment which falls under the 3-4-star category as there is a large demand on the domestic tourists and as well as foreign tourists in these categories which are looking for clean, hygienic rooms with basic facilities at value for money proposition.
The Right Institute for Hospitality: The Indian Hotel education system can be covered under three types of institutions:
a. National Council - Central Government IHM (Institute of Hotel Management) in key cities of India.
b. Private Colleges of higher standards such as Taj Aurangabad, OCLD (Oberoi Centre for Learning & Development), Manipal College, and many more affiliated to International Hotel Schools.
c. Private Colleges of low and medium standards affiliated to Indian Universities.
In the Hotel Industry, aptitude and the personality along with ability of pleasing guests will always go a long way in differentiating between a good and average Hotelier
The standards of these colleges like syllabus, curriculum, infrastructure, faculty and so on varies and therefore, the quality of students who are graduates varies a lot too. We need to ensure that the students apart from being given theoretical and practical training in the colleges are sent for at least 2 Semesters of Industrial training to Star Hotels.
The students need to be given projects on various strategies and operating issues of the Hotels and these need to be minutely assessed and students need to be advised on the corrective steps that we need to be taken. The students also need to be given training on reading balance sheets, making budgets, understanding ROI, ROCE, revenue management, yield management, social networking, OTAs, website, loyalty program and many more.
Choosing Area of Interest in Hospitality
The Hospitality Industry students really need to make up their mind and chose the area of core competence between the following:
a.Food & Beverage Service
b.Food & Beverage Production
c.Front Office
d.Housekeeping
e.Sales & Marketing
After selecting the core competence, they need to concentrate in the final year in this area but sometimes they need guidance from their teachers/guardian. The college needs to offer at least one month in the 3rd year- specialized training for the core area to the student so that they may enhance their skills and be better prepared for their interviews in the industry.
Every graduate must do a small research on the Company that he applies for a job and then be prepared for his interview accordingly. He/she must also study the Hotel's journals and be aware of the latest happenings and trends in the Hotel industry, general knowledge, politics and hobbies are always subjects which the interviewer also dwells in. They should not boost of any of these subjects unless he/she is fully aware of them. In the Hotel Industry, aptitude and the personality along with ability of pleasing guests will always go a long way in differentiating between a good and average Hotelier.
My advice to the students who want to be successful in the Hotel Industry is as follows:
1.Choose this Industry provided you have the right aptitude for meeting and dealing with people.
2.The Hospitality Industry demands that you give in long hours of work on holidays and even though slowly this is changing as Hotels are also getting aware of "Work-life-balance", however, be prepared for the same.
3.There are fast changes happening in the Industry like revenue management, new software's like Opera, Oracle, Micros, IDS and booking channels are changing from the normal Travel Agents to OTAs, websites, and many more, and therefore, one must be good in these IT areas.
4.If you have the skill for culinary then hone them and opt for this professional area as it is highly rewarding and respected.
5.Be ready to move from one city to the other as it will give you a lot more learning and confidence.
6.Always take care of yourself and be smartly groomed.
7.Always be aware of the happenings in the world and be a good conversationalist.
8.Time management - this is the only asset which is equal to all, please respect your time and this will go a long way in making you successful.
Veer Vijay Singh, CEO & MD
A hotel industry stalwart, Veer Vijay Singh is currently the CEO and MD of the Trance Hotels. He has more than 40 years of experience working with the Taj Group of Hotels from the mid-70s, where he started his career as a trainee chef. Under his guidance Vivanta opened 17 new properties, making it an independent division of the Taj with over 40 hotels spread across 7 different countries. Through his leadership, Vivanta was declared the 'Third Best Hotel Brand' in the world by Cond, Nast Traveler USA in its Annual Business Travel Awards, 2013. An international hotelier, Veer Vijay has overseen operations of hotels in Australia, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Bhutan, Egypt, Dubai and Africa.
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Iona becomes a milk carton star
Iona Patrick and her brother Patch.
St Helen's Farm
A BURNHAM youngster will soon become a familiar face on a million breakfast tables across the UK.
Five-year-old Iona Patrick will become the latest milk carton star for St Helen’s Farm goats’ milk after submitting a letter of praise to the Yorkshire-based company.
The Burnham Infants School pupil told bosses how much she loves goats’ milk after completing a school project on farm animals.
Mum Lorraine Davies said: “We were so excited when we got the news. Iona is amazed and thinks it’s brilliant. We feel famous.
“Iona was amazed we could drink goats’ milk and so, we went on a little taste adventure and bought some of the fresh St Helen’s Farm goats’ milk.
“We love goat’s milk. It’s a real change and this has been such a nice surprise.”
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Thomson Reuters to Honor a New Breed of Tax Professional at Inaugural Taxologist Awards
New York - Thomson Reuters announces the Taxologist Awards, a program that recognizes outstanding tax departments and individuals who are driving significant value to their organization by embracing tax technology.
The inaugural winners of the Taxologist Awards will be announced at SYNERGY 2014 — a conference for users of Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE tax technology — on Nov. 5 in Washington, D.C. A $10,000 donation in the name of the Taxologist of the Year will be made to the U.S. school of their choice to further technology initiatives.
The Taxologist Awards will recognize tax technology innovators in eight categories:
Innovative Tax Department of the Year
Rookie Tax Department of the Year
Taxologist of the Year
Excellence in Data Management
Excellence in Tax Process Transformation
Excellence in Global Transformation
Excellence in Tax and Finance Alignment
Excellence in Tax Research
Taxologist Awards finalists will enjoy VIP treatment at the upcoming SYNERGY 2014 conference. Deadline for submission has been extended to Oct. 1. For more information on the awards, visit www.taxologistawards.com.
“In this global economy, the need for tax technology has never been more prominent. Those who pioneer these advances often go unnoticed, lacking the recognition they deserve,” said Joe Harpaz, managing director for the corporate segment for the Tax & Accounting business of Thomson Reuters. “The Taxologist Awards will honor these tax pioneers for their remarkable achievements in improving data quality, tax process efficiency and tax insight.”
The awards will be reviewed by a panel of industry leaders including:
Ralph Cunningham, managing editor of International Tax Review
Eli J. Dicker, executive director of the Tax Executives Institute
Joe Harpaz, managing director, Tax & Accounting, Thomson Reuters
Lauren Kovar, director, Client Advisory & Strategy, Thomson Reuters
Brian Peccarelli, president, Tax & Accounting, Thomson Reuters
To learn more information about the Taxologist Awards, visit www.taxologistawards.com.
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Be Wise With Money
Making the Most of Retirement
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Thrivent member Bill Blanton of Cypress, Texas, has one word to say about retirement: "Awesome."
After working 48 years, Bill was more than ready to retire. Today he and his wife, Pat, are spending their days traveling, being with family and pursuing Bill's favorite hobby – fishing.
But it took some wise planning and intentionality to get to where the Blantons are today.
Bill had a significant amount in retirement accounts through 401(k) retirement plan contributions at two employers. And at age 64, he realized he hadn't talked to anyone about his financial goals.
The couple met Thrivent Financial representative Matt Miller at a Thrivent-sponsored Social Security workshop. When Matt sat down with the Blantons, they talked about fishing, faith and family.
Matt also asked about the couple's current financial position and their goals for retirement.
Based on their goals, Matt recommended combining the two 401(k) accounts into a traditional individual retirement account (IRA) – a process known as a rollover.
Although it would take some administrative work to move the money, an IRA would give them a wider choice of investment options, all the funds would be in one place and they would continue to have tax-deferred growth potential.
Matt provided the Blantons with a number of illustrations and projections to show how their retirement funds could help meet their financial goals. He also talked about estate strategies and how to leave a legacy for their grandchildren.
After several meetings with Matt, the Blantons had found a strategy they were comfortable with. Matt remembers how it felt to see the Blantons relax, knowing they had a strategy in place: "It's the part of our job that is truly the most rewarding."
Through the years, Bill and Pat have to come to really know Matt. "We think the world of him," says Bill. "He's more than my financial advisor. He's a friend."
Working with Matt had an unexpected bonus for Bill and Pat: "I had planned to retire in November 2014," says Bill. "But after talking with Matt, I found out that financially I could retire as early as March 2014. I ended up retiring in June. I had a financial plan that could take care of me so I could focus on my love – Fishers of Men. That's a plus right there."
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FUNKPROOF 'THE REVIVAL'
September 27- 2019
Vinyl (LP - 180g) + Digital DL Card
George Semper needs little introduction to soul and funk fans. The Trinidadian-American multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, publisher and label owner from San Diego is known as an innovator of the jazz organ, wielding major influence on funk and hip-hop. Notably sampled by Cypress Hill on their classic ‘Insane In The Brain’, Semper’s talent led him to collaborate with literally hundreds of artists, including Jimmy Smith, Merry Clayton, Isaac Hayes, Joe Tex, Johnny Taylor and Donny Hathaway. His 1966 LP Makin’ Waves is considered a Hammond organ essential and his 1977 production The Perfect Circle a cornerstone of Bay Area Funk.
George Semper’s career began in the late 1950’s as a leader of several R&B soul groups like the Kingsmen, Imperialites and Chessmen. He ran two successful San Diego nightclubs, and his abilities as a musician, writer, and arranger led to a varied performance and studio career throughout the 1960s and all the way through the 2000s. He worked with legendary acts from the likes of Brenton Wood, Mary Love and Johnny Taylor & he collaborated with venues such as Carnegie Hall, The Monterey Jazz Festival and Wattstax. George Semper was AR and musical director for clubs, artists and labels…he produced his own records, those of others and those for his own Inner City Records & Inner City Attractions labels. Many of these are now considered highly collectable gems.
Lesser known are Semper’s numerous band concepts and unreleased studio projects…all cut with top LA session players at recording studios in Hollywood, Compton and Watts. One such is … FUNKPROOF.
FUNKPROOF was formed in 1972 and was comprised of players from Brenton Wood’s United Soul Association and The Merry Clayton band. Semper produced the recordings himself and he’s handling the Hammond B3, keys, Sax and lead vocals. Original members Al McKay (Earth Wind & Fire) and Robert Roselle were later replaced by Richard Cavasos on guitar, Nathaniel “Basey” Johnson (Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd St Rhythm Band) on bass and Ernest Ray “Brother Puff” Johnson (The Ghetto, Hot Ice) completing the lineup on drums.
FUNKPROOF completed a full-length album (slated for release by MGM) that was never issued (because MGM was acquired by Polydor) until now! Today we present to you this unreleased hidden funk gem, completely remastered and its history revived, straight from The George Semper Music Archives vaults. Every track on this remarkable album delivers a consistently funky and soulful groove! Pitched between Chitlin’ circuit grit and electronic exploration, FUNKPROOF conveys a timeless message of love, life, and happiness through urban music culture.
This unreleased 1972 Funk-bomb is now available as a deluxe 180g vinyl edition (limited to 500 copies), and also comes with an insert containing exclusive liner notes and pictures. Also included with this release is a digital download card (w/extra tracks).
An exclusive color vinyl variant for this release is also available from LIGHT IN THE ATTIC (100 copies GOLD vinyl), from FATBEATS (100 copies HIGHLIGHTER YELLOW vinyl) & From WAX BUYERS CLUB FRANCE (CLEAR WITH YELLOW vinyl).
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Montreal Gay Village Summer Events
All Montreal
Evelyn Reid
Evelyn Reid is a writer who specializes in Montreal.
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Every spring and summer, the Montreal Gay Village undergoes a transformation. Its main thoroughfare, Sainte-Catherine Street, shuts down to car traffic, making room for the neighborhood to come alive with free art exhibits, street sales, performances, and spontaneous busking action. And, like clockwork, Gay Village restaurants and bars flood the concrete with terraces. Keep reading for a breakdown of this summer's top events.
Montreal Gay Village Summer Events: 2018 Pedestrian Zone
TripSavvy / Taylor McIntyre
The Montreal Gay Village's busiest thoroughfare, Sainte-Catherine Street, first went car-free for an entire season in spring and summer 2008. It was a hit with tourists and locals—so much so that the pedestrianization of the Gay Village became a summer norm every year thereafter. In 2018, the Montreal Gay Village goes pedestrian from May 3 to September 24, 2018. The entirety of Sainte-Catherine Street East, from St. Hubert to Papineau, is pedestrian-friendly. See a map of the Montreal Gay Village pedestrian zone.
Montreal Gay Village Summer Events: Patio Madness
Photo by Flickr user oknidius
If there's a restaurant in the Montreal Gay Village, there's probably a patio to go with it. As soon as the pedestrian zone is set up, Sainte-Catherine Street bars and restaurants unleash their patios. If you love to people watch, you can find more than 60 patios in the area.
A few establishments are not to be missed. Check out Le Saloon Bistro Bar. The waiters are adorable, the vibe is fun and loud, and it mixes some of the best cocktails in the village. Another best bet is Le Resto du Village, which sells one of Montreal's best poutines. It's open 24 hours and you can bring your own booze. In fact, you better bring your own booze—they don't sell any. Just north of the car-free zone is Grenade, where creative cocktails, reasonable drink prices, and Asian street food are de rigueur.
Montreal Gay Village Summer Events: Monthly Sidewalk Sales
Photo courtesy of Aires Libres
Part and parcel of the Montreal Gay Village car-free experience is open-air shopping. The village holds a sidewalk sale (aka "vente trottoir") three times in summer 2018: June 4–10, July 9–15, and August 27–September 2. All along the village's pedestrian zone on Sainte-Catherine Street, you will find merchants selling their products in front of their stores. This is a great opportunity to add new pieces to your wardrobe.
Montreal Gay Village Summer Events: Outdoor Movie Nights
As soon as the summer sun sets (around 8:30 p.m.), film-loving locals and visitors can indulge in free movie nights once a month. The gay-themed movies are shown in Parc de l'Espoir (Park of Hope), a Montreal Gay Village public space just across the street from Le Saloon that serves as an AIDS victims memorial. If there is rain, the films will be shown the following day. The following films will be featured in 2018:
June 15: "Carol"
July 16: "Heartbeats" (original title "Les Amours Imaginaires")
August 15: "The Danish Girl"
September 14: "Brokeback Mountain"
Montreal Gay Village Summer Events: Mtl en Arts 2018
Photo courtesy of Mtl en Arts
For five days, the Montreal Gay Village turns into an open-air art gallery featuring one kilometer of artwork by more than 170 artists across several city blocks of the pedestrian zone. In 2018, Mtl en Arts runs June 27 through July 1. More than 200,000 people will attend and get the chance to meet the artists and buy original artwork. Expect live performances as well as live and even interactive art creation to be thrown into the mix.
Montreal Gay Village Summer Events: Pride 2018
Photo by Flickr user Nav Jagpal
Held from August 9 to 19, Montreal's Pride Week features family activities, cabaret performances, club nights, conferences, and free events. Pride Week culminates in the city's one and only Pride Parade on August 19. Naturally, the Montreal Gay Village serves as a hub.
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ASUS X550CA-XO113H Laptop Review
Alan Martin Contact via Twitter | February 28, 2019 4:41 pm GMT
Page 1 ASUS X550CA-XO113H Laptop Review
Page 2 Performance, Heat & Noise, and Battery Life Review
Page 3 Keyboard, Touchpad and Verdict Review
Incredible value
Impressively quiet and cool
Decent touchpad and keyboard
Feels cheap
Slow Celeron processor
Unimpressive screen
Review Price: £329.99
15.6-inch 1366x768 display
Intel Celeron 1007U 1.4GHZ processor
What is the Asus X550CA-XO113H?
We recently looked at the ASUS V550C: a £500 laptop that did very little wrong, but didn’t really excel in the price bracket either. Well, we’re back looking at the Asus X550CA-XO113H, which retails for £170 less, and could be ideal for the family on a budget or the student wanting to do basic word processing and web browsing. It’s got an Intel Celeron processor, 4GB RAM and a 500GB hard disk,
which is certainly lower specs than the laptops we’ve been looking at of late, but can it punch above its weight to be bargain of the year?
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Asus X550CA-XO113H – Design & Build Quality
Like the V550C, the X550C has plenty of the trappings of an Ultrabook in terms of appearance, although at 15.6-inches, it’s fooling nobody really. Still, it’s very thin all round and has the stylish minimalism that’s in laptop style at the moment. Like the V550C, it’s black, rather than chrome, although the texture is completely different – markedly cheaper. Asus describes it as a ‘classic spin line finish’. What this actually means is it feels ever so slightly like vinyl, with the circular grooves from the Asus logo in the middle to the outside of the lid.
When you lift the lid, the colour-scheme changes to a metallic silver around the keyboard, although the black remains on the plastic bezel around the screen. The keyboard area is textured with small dimples around the touchpad, but around the keyboard it’s mainly smooth, adding light dots just above. It’s an eclectic mix of styles that doesn’t quite come off in our view. You can definitely tell it’s on the cheaper end of the laptop scale, especially as the keys make an off-putting rattling noise when you type at anything approaching speed.
All of the connectivity is down the left hand side of the laptop with a VGA port, two USB slots, an HDMI port, an Ethernet port and a headphone/microphone jack. On the right hand side, there’s a DVD drive – impressive considering its low price, and the fact that it’s really rather slim. So slim in fact, that the Ethernet port requires the plastic to be pulled down a little to make the cable fit.
Asus X550CA-XO113H – Screen Quality
One area the laptop saves costs is through its screen – there’s no touch controls, which is fine because we don’t use them that often in Windows 8 anyway. What’s less fine is the general quality it offers: while the brightness is generally okay, the resolution of 1366 x 768 isn’t too great which leads to slightly blurry images. Worse, it’s really pixelated when viewed up close – it’s particularly noticeable on the icons, which are clearly squared off in an obvious mesh style on the screen. The colour accuracy is okay, if a little washed out, but the viewing angles aren’t too bad.
To be entirely fair, we shouldn’t expect anything more from a £329 laptop, and its perfectly fine for everyday use – it should just be noted that the screen is one of the more obvious areas of cost saving.
Alan was Deputy Editor of Alphr.com, senior Editor at Mediablaze and a Producer at Mousebreaker, and has freelanced widely for The New Statesman, CNET and Pocket Gamer. Alan currently writes news for …
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'Pet Sematary' (2019) Movie Review
Stephen King has been going through an epic cinematic renaissance lately. We’ve seen a glut of fantastic, interesting big and small screen takes on the horror master’s work—and maybe one not so great attempt, sorry Dark Tower fans. The latest endeavor is a reworking of his 1983 novel Pet Sematary from directors Dennis Widmyer and Kevin Kolsch, the duo behind indie horror hit Starry Eyes. And it’s…fine.
That single underwhelming sentence pretty well sums up my feeling on the movie in total. It’s a slick, well-constructed studio horror offering that often favors gore over scares, makes at least one major but understandable change to the source material—which has been given away in every damn trailer—and provides a modestly entertaining watch for genre fans that I’ll never need think of again.
Not the first Pet Sematary adaptation, I think I prefer Mary Lambert’s 1989 version. They both tell the same story and aside from aesthetic choices, this does little to differentiate itself from that iteration. In fact, it often plays more like a remake than a separate adaptation of King’s novel. Widmyer and Kolsch’s film feels beholden to it and at least twice play off of the audience’s assumed memory of that film. At two key points, perhaps the two most enduring images from the book and earlier movie, they set up a moment like the predecessor, only to tweak the outcome just enough to subvert expectations ever so slightly. It feels more concerned with riffing than delivering substance or insight.
At its core, Pet Sematary is a horror take on dealing with trauma and tragedy. It centers on a family, the Creeds—Louis (Jason Clarke), Rachel (Amy Seimetz), Ellie (Jete Laurence), and baby Gage (Hugo and Lucas Lavoie)—newly relocated to a small Maine town, coming to terms with grief and loss. They’re haunted and tormented, and when their new neighbor, Jud Crandall (a grizzled, cigarette-stained John Lithgow, who is my new style icon), shows them a spot in the woods that brings dead things back to life, though they’re not the same, it further complicates the familial pain.
Pet Sematary hits all the horror markers. The dark, gloomy woods are constantly cloaked in fog, like a smoke machine left on at a high school dance. Early on, after an off-screen traffic accident, we see a dude’s brain leak out of his skull. There are creepy kids, a funeral procession where creepy kids wear creepy masks, local Native American myths, and lots of horrified reactions to horrific things. The production design of the Sematary, and the improvised bulwark to keep people away from the sinister spot in the woods, provide nice spooky elements.
But it never sits with the sadness and pain, never reflects on the distress and damage. It’s all surface level theatrics and never delves into the darkness and parental despair, leaving the actors with little to chew on. The window dressings provide mood and tone, but few real scares and little tension.
Out of its premiere at SXSW recently, many folks shouted praise for Pet Sematary, but I just don’t get the raves. From my perspective, while it’s okay—genre enthusiasts and those with a particular affection for the source will likely find more to cling to—it never does much to distinguish itself from the horror horde. I enjoyed it well enough in the moment—it has dead things coming back to life, I’m an easy mark—but outside of temporary distractions, there’s not much to recommend and it feels like a missed chance.
Posted by Brent McKnight at 9:46 AM
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GLOBAL - As people around the world celebrated World Water Day 2015 on Sunday 22 March, the United Nations released a new report predicting major water shortages of 40 per cent across the globe in line with a 55 per cent increase in demand by 2050.
The unsustainable use of water globally has already led to 20 per cent of the world’s aquifers being currently over-exploited and inappropriate agricultural practices, among other things, has been found to underminine the environment’s capacity to provide clean water.
The World Water Development Report 2015 states that by 2050, agriculture, which is the largest user of water resources, accounting for around 70 per cent of all freshwater withdrawals globally and over 90 per cent in most of the world’s least-developed countries, will need to produce 60 per cent more food globally, and 100 per cent more in developing countries.
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Practices like efficient irrigation techniques can also have a dramatic impact on reducing water demand, especially in rural areas.
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Game of Thrones 7x02: Stormborn
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King's Landing -> Dragonstone -> Pyke -> Winterfell -> The Wall -> Old Town
Dragonstone
We start this episode in Dragonstone where Daenerys and Tyrion are finally talking! Since taking over Westeros with dragons would be too easy and narratively unsatisfying Daenerys wants to defeat Cersei...more cleanly?
To be fair, burning down everything wouldn't lead to a fun land to rule over. Lady Tyrell isn't buying that, though. Peasants loved Margaery but she still died. So, maybe a few peasant being burnt wouldn't be all that bad? In the end, Daenerys wants to be a responsible leader and keep innocent casualties to a minimum. Despite my sarcasm, I do agree. It is nice not to kill innocents.
Beyond that, Daenerys also grilled Varys on his shifting loyalties. Varys pretty much says that he's loyal to Westeros and will be loyal to her so long as she's a good queen. Daenerys excepts this on the condition that Varys let's her know if she's being a bad queen. They agree. Of course, neither of them think of the scenario of Daenerys being a bad queen in such a way that Varys fears repercussions for speaking up against her and thus plots against her in secrecy. But I did!
Anyway, the war plan is for the Tyrells and Dorne to lay siege to King's Landing because they believe the Lords won't rush to defend Cersei from local Westerosi armies. Meanwhile, the foreign armies of the Unsullied and Dothraki attack Casterly Rock. Everyone is amenable to this plan so Yara takes Ellaria Sand and the Sand Snakes back to Dorne to gather their army. What could possibly go wrong?
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The first appearance of the X-Cutioner and the death of Mastermind.
Writer: Scott Lobdell
Penciler: Jason Pearson, Tom Grummet (2nd Story)
Inker: Mark Farmer, Al Milgrom (2nd Story)
Letterer: Chris Eliopoulis, Steve Dutro (2nd Story)
Colorist: Kevin Tinsley & Eric Moran, Glynis Oliver (2nd Story)
In San Miguel, the X-Cutioner kills Tower. Elsewhere, Jean is shopping with her son Nate when the pair is attacked by a group of Nimrod Sentinels. Thankfully, they are rescued first by XSE agents Bishop & Shard, then by Icemaster and his X-Men. In the real world, on Muir Island, Storm, Colossus & Archangel are trying to determine how to rescue Jean, Bishop & Iceman, who have been sucked into a dying Mastermind's mind after they arrived on the island following a strange letter Mastermind sent to Jean. Inside Mastermind's mind, the illusions he's created start to break down, while outside, the rest of the X-Men detect the arrival of the X-Cutioner, who wants to kill Mastermind. As the X-Men fight X-Cutioner, Jean is able to break Mastermind's illusion and send her teammates' minds back into their bodies, but she refuses to leave the dying Mastermind behind. But after he elicits a promise from Jean that she won't remember him with hatred, he uses the last of his strength to force her out, then dies. Outside, the X-Cutioner manages to escape, but he leaves behind a grievously-wounded Colossus.
Labels: '93 Annuals, "Fatal Attractions", Annuals, Comic Book reviews, comics, Scott Lobdell, Uncanny X-Men, X-aminations, X-Men
X-aminations in August 2017
A big month ahead, as we get the launch of yet another regular series (albeit a quarterly one) in X-Men Unlimited, the start of the next linewide crossover, "Fatal Attractions", in X-Factor, and, sadly, the end of Alan Davis' Excalibur run, along with a look at the fourth series of Marvel Universe trading cards.
On Sale April 1993
August 2: X-Men (vol. 2) #21
August 3: X-Force #23
August 4: Excalibur #66
August 9: X-Men Unlimited #1
August 10: X-Factor Annual #8
August 11: Cable #2
On Sale May 1993
August 16: Uncanny X-Men #302
August 17: X-Factor #92
August 18: Wolverine #71
August 23: X-Men (vol. 2) #22
August 24: X-Force #24
August 25: Excalibur #67
August 30: Unstacking the Deck: Marvel Universe Series IV
Labels: comics, X-Men
Game of Thrones 7x01: Dragonstone
King's Landing -> Dragonstone -> The Twins -> Winterfell -> The Wall -> Old Town
Hey, Game of Thrones is back! I...don't have much to say except that. So, let's get to the review!
We start off with Walder Frey addressing his family at a feast. This is a bit odd since Walder died at the end of last season, so I at first I thought this was a flashback. Then he gave a toast with his clan where he obviously poisoned the wine. So, yeah, the Freys die and “Walder” reveals himself\herself to be, of course, Arya.
Later, Arya is wandering towards King's Landing to do some more killing when she comes across some Lannister soldiers. They turn out to be decent folk and even offer Arya some food and wine. I'm not sure what exactly the point of this scene was. Maybe it was to make Arya feel guilty about killing all the Freys when there may have been some good eggs in there or maybe it's to teach Arya to be more careful about indiscriminately Lannisters in the name of revenge or maybe it was an excuse to get Ed Sheeran to sing and appear on screen.
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"Tooth & Nail"
Wolverine battles Sauron.
Script: Larry Hama
Penciler: Dwayne Turner
Inker: Richard Bennet
Letterer: Steve Buccellato
As Wolverine fights Sauron, Jubilee escapes from her captors aboard a pterodactyl. Elsewhere, Rogue escapes from Brainchild's prison, and orders him to tell her who made the fist of iron and meddled with his mind. At Sauron's citadel, Sauron's followers join the fight, pummeling Wolverine with rocks and seemingly burying him alive. Meanwhile, Jubilee fights off one of her captors with her Walkman, knocking him off his pterodactyl, and when she urges her mount to save him, she earns the respect of his fellow riders. who declare she is now one of them. Elsewhere, Rogue spots a stampede of dinosaurs heading towards Sauron's citadel, and inside, Wolverine emerges from the rock pile to discover that he's in the path of the herd of dinosaurs Sauron has summoned.
Posted by Austin Gorton at 1:30 PM 3 comments: Links to this post
Labels: Comic Book reviews, comics, Larry Hama, Wolverine, Wolverine (series), X-aminations
"Underpinnings"
Multiple Man is infected by the Legacy Virus.
Penciler: Joe Quesada
Inker: Al Milgrom
Letterer: Richard Starkings
Colorist: Tom Smith
Editor: Kelly Corvese
Group Editor: Bob Harras
Underlord: Tom DeFalco
In the tunnels beneath Genosha, X-Factor hunts for the escaped mutate, hoping to capture him before the Magistrates kill him. Finding an interactive map of the system, Polaris sees a trio of Magistrates approaching Wolfsbane, but when Havok & Strong Guy arrive to help, she has already overpowered them. Meanwhile, Val meets Quicksilver at the airport, and continues to manipulate him. Back in the sewers, Madrox finds the escaped mutate. He is near death, and in order to resuscitate him, Madrox is forced to create a duplicate, thus exposing himself to the same disease killing the mutate. After he's revived, the mutate reiterates that he doesn't want to die a lab rat, so X-Factor returns him to the treatment center and ensures he's allowed to die with dignity. The Genoshan president promises Havok they'll free the mutates of their mental conditioning once they've found the source and cure for the disease afflicting them, and as they leave, Wolfsbane tells Madrox he looks like death warmed over.
Labels: "Fatal Attractions", All New X-Factor, Comic Book reviews, comics, Jan Duursema, Scott Lobdell, X-aminations, X-Factor
"Dominion!"
Fitzroy attacks Forge & Mystique.
Pencils: John Romita Jr.
Inks: Dan Green
Letterer: Chris Eliopoulis
Colorist: Steve Buccellato
Master Mold: Tom DeFalco
Fitzroy tortures Selene in order to attract the Gamesmaster's attention and call a meeting of the Upstarts. There, the Gamesmaster reveals their next high profile target will be Forge. At the X-Mansion, Colossus tends to his sick sister, while Moira & Xavier debate sharing their suspicions that Illyana is infected with the Legacy Virus. Xavier says he is bringing someone in to interface with the Shi'ar diagnostic equipment to be sure. Meanwhile, Storm & Bishop are en route to Forge's home in Eagle Plaza when they detect an energy surge in the area. At Eagle Plaza, Fitzroy attacks Forge & Mystique. Forge sends Mystique to call for help, then does his best to fend off Fitzroy. At the X-Mansion, Mystique's call sends the rest of the X-Men racing to respond. At Eagle Plaza, Fitzroy overpowers Forge, but is briefly distracted by Mystique returning in the form of Bishop. But after seeing through the ruse, Fitzroy triggers a massive explosion, just as Storm arrives outside Eagle Plaza.
Labels: "Fatal Attractions", Comic Book reviews, comics, Lobdell/Romita Jr., Uncanny X-Men, X-aminations, X-Men
Force in Focus: Star Wars #67
"The Darker"
Chewbacca & Threepio battle an ancient evil inside Arbra
Script: David Michelinie
Layouts: Ron Frenz
Finishes: Tom Palmer
Colors: Glynis Wein
Editor: Louise Jones
Hoojib Wrangler: Jim Shooter
On the way to a briefing, Artoo overhears a call for help and follows it into one of the base's many tunnels, an action spotted by one of the Hoojibs. At the briefing, Leia announces that the Rebels have learned one of three bounty hunters worked with Boba Fett to capture Han Solo, and then was cut out of the deal by Fett, so the Alliance intends to find all three in the hopes they'll turn on Fett. As the Rebels prepare to depart, the Hoojibs tell Threepio about Artoo's absence, leading he & Chewbacca to journey deep inside the base. They eventually discover a massive ancient city protected by a force barrier, and inside, a damaged Artoo along with a creature called the Darker, who claims to be the dark energy of the original Arbrans taken physical form. Able to control emotions, he fills the Hoojibs with fear and turns Chewbacca's devotion to his friends into rage, setting him after Threepio. Stumbling across a library, Threepio learns that the Darker can be dispersed by coming into contact with the energy field surrounding the city. After Threepio breaks the Darker's control by calling on Chewbacca's affection for Han, Chewbacca throws the creature into the field, destroying him. Returning to the surface, they are greeted by a Rebel pilot who tells them Luke is looking for them, and to get ready to depart: their "vacation" is over.
Posted by Austin Gorton at 12:00 PM 1 comment: Links to this post
Labels: "The Search for Han Solo", Comic Book reviews, comics, Force in Focus, Michelinie/Frenz, Star Wars
"White Lies, Dark Truth"
Excalibur defeats Nigel and the RCX.
Writer/Penciler: Alan Davis
Inker: Mark Farmer
Letterer: Chris Eliopoulos
Nightcrawler realizes Kitty is an impostor, confirming that Nigel is up to no good. He & Cerise shake their Warpie guards and teleport to where their teammates are being held captive. Meanwhile, watching from Otherworld, Roma promises to keep her vow not to interfere, even though Captain Britain faces certain death. At Cloud Nine, Nigel attempts to coerce Captain Britain into serving his agenda, but Captain Britain discovers he's been tricked about Meggan's comatose state. His ruse revealed, Nigel sets the Warpies to attack Captain Britain. Elsewhere, a fight breaks out between more Warpies and the revived Excalibur, though some of the Warpies join the side of Excalibur, whom they've come to like. As word of the fight spreads, Nigel orders the rest of the Warpies away, leaving behind a badly beaten and dying Captain Britain. Roma then appears before him and revives him, paying him back for her previous manipulations. As the battle rages, Nigel gets the drop on Nightcrawler, but Captain Britain intervenes, saving him and allowing Nightcrawler to knock out Nigel, ending the fight. In the aftermath, Alistair agrees to look after the remaining Warpies, just as Rachel appears before her friends, declaring that with her memories fully intact, she now intends to return to the future, hoping the power of the Phoenix can make a difference there.
Labels: Comic Book reviews, comics, Davis/Farmer, Excalibur, X-aminations
X-amining X-Force #22
"Ordnance Weighed in Blood"
X-Force returns to Earth with Cable's stuff in tow.
Writer: Fabian Nicieza
Penciler: Greg Capullo
Inkers: Conrad/Candelario
Letterer: Chris Eliopolous
Colorists: Tinsley/Moran
As Graymalkin breaks up, Lila Cheney teleports Iron Man & the SHIELD force back to their shuttle and the rest of X-Force to Camp Verde, while Cannonball & Sunspot head back to Earth aboard an escape pod Professor managed to get them into before the station exploded. Elsewhere, the captive Boomer, Warpath & Siryn learn they've been captured by Gideon & the Externals. At Camp Verde, Cannonball & Sunspot touch down, and while they can't preserve Professor's programming, all of Cable's gear, jettisoned from Graymalkin, lands shortly thereafter. In Canada, Domino, Grizzly & Hammer break into Department K searching for info on Cable, only to be confronted by the new Weapon: Prime team. In Boston, Deadpool attacks Vanessa and her roommate, and Deadpool's associate Sluggo kills one of them. In Arizona, X-Force is inventorying the equipment they received from Graymalkin when they are contacted by the Externals, who declare that if Cannonball doesn't turn himself over to them, they will kill his captured teammates.
Labels: Comic Book reviews, comics, Nicieza/Capullo, X-aminations, X-Force
X-amining X-Men (vol. 2) #20
"Digging in the Dirt"
The first appearance of Revanche.
Pencils: Andy Kubert
Inkers: Mark Pennington, Bob Wiacek (pgs 22-23)
Letterer: Bill Oakley
Colorist: Joe Rosas
Professor X & Jubilee visit Colossus & Illyana, after which Jubilee heads outside to rollerblade. On the way, she bumps into Psylocke, who approaches Cyclops in the hanger and kisses him. Rattled, he rushes past Jean, who grows suspicious when Psylocke emerges after him. Jean proceeds to check on Beast & Gambit in the Danger Room, then Storm & Rogue in the infirmary. Meanwhile, Cyclops packs a bag, telling Xavier he's going to visit his grandparents in Alaska. After he lukewarmly bids goodbye to Jean, she confronts Psylocke in the Danger Room and asks point blank if she & Cyclops are having an affair. Psylocke admits she's attracted to Cyclops, but that nothing has happened. When Jean asks if Psylocke is telepathically manipulating him, a fight breaks out, which is interrupted by the appearance of someone wearing Psylocke's old armor. Believing it to be a hologram conjured by Jean, Psylocke attacks, but the armored figure overpowers her. As the rest of the X-Men, drawn to the commotion, enter the Danger Room, the armored figure removes her mask to reveal Psylocke's original form, declaring she is the real Betsy Braddock, and that Psylocke is, and has always been, an impostor.
Labels: Blue/Gold Era, Comic Book reviews, comics, Nicieza/Kubert, X-aminations, X-Men, X-Men (vol. 2)
The Milch Studies: DEADWOOD Season One - “Suppose the Foot Says…”
As unbelievable as this might seem, the starting place for Deadwood can be found in the book of 1st Corinthians, Chapter 12: Suppose the foot says, “I am not a hand. So I don’t belong to the body.” By saying this, it cannot stop being part of the body. And suppose the ear says, “I am not an eye. So I don’t belong to the body.” By saying this, it cannot stop being part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, how could it hear? If the whole body were an ear, how could it smell? God has placed each part in the body just as he wanted it to be. If all the parts were the same, how could there be a body? As it is, there are many parts. But there is only one body.
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Labels: Deadwood, The Milch Studies, TV
Force in Focus: Star Wars Annual #2
"Shadeshine!"
An untold tale of Han Solo.
Scripter: David Michelinie
Penciler: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Rudi Nebres
Colorist: George Roussos
Letterers: Rosen & Chiang
Editor: Jim Salicrup
Word Speeder: Jim Shooter
Searching the planet Ventooine for a possible weapon called the Shadeshine, Luke, Lando & Threepio are chased into a temple by Stormtroopers. Inside, they discover a statue of Han Solo & a priest named Vetter Piin, who tells them that Han, having saved Piin's people from the Shadeshine, is considered the savior of Ventooine. He activates a recording made by Han, which recounts the tale. Landing on the planet in search of a valuable spice, Han inadvertently foiled an assassination attempt on Tieress Chrysala, consort to the ruling Satab. A grateful Chrysala took Han to the Satab's palace, where he learned the Satab was a cruel dictator ruling through the power of the Shadeshine, which burned out the user's body, forcing each Sataba to select a replacement while he entered the Hall of Satabs, to be placed in suspended animation until a cure is found. Having been selected to be the next Satab, Chrysala spared Han that fate by touching the Shadeshine first. Then Han & Chrysala prevented the former Satab from entering hibernation, forcing his body to burn out, after which Chrysala willing entered hibernation without naming a successor, thus ending the deadly cycle. Declared a hero, Han left the planet with the Shadeshine, which he destroyed aboard the Millennium Falcon. The story over, Luke manages to trick the pursuing Stormtroopers into entering the Hall of the Satabs, trapping them in suspended animation. As they Rebels leave the planet, despite not acquiring the Shadeshine, they are comforted by having once again heard the voice of their friend.
Labels: Comic Book reviews, comics, Force in Focus, Star Wars
A Very Special Episode - Amazing Spider-Man #96-98
As you may or may not know, Doctor Bitz and I are two of the co-hosts of "A Very Special Episode", a podcast which reviews "very special" episodes of pop culture - those stories where the usual rhythm or tone of an ongoing narrative is briefly interrupted to discuss a serious, topical or otherwise atonal issue, usually with little advance warning or subsequent follow-up. Most often, we review TV episodes, like the infamous child molester episode of Diff'rent Strokes or the episode of Family Ties where Alex Keaton grapples with the death of his previously-unmentioned best friend by turning the show into a one-act play.
But in our recent episode, we branched out to review a very special comic book story for the first time, specifically the Comics Code-less anti-drug story in Amazing Spider-Man #96-98. Given that a lot of the regular readers of this site read, you know, comic books, and/or are generally fans of Spider-Man, I figured I'd give the episode a special plug here. Plus, Doctor Bitz and I (along with one of our other co-hosts, Full House Reviewed's Ryan Alexander-Tanner) are joined for the episode by the writer of the Chasing Amazing blog, Mark Ginocchio, who also recently wrote the book on Spider-Man, 100 Things Spider-Man Fans Should Know and Do Before They Die.
So while you're waiting in line for Spider-Man: Homecoming this weekend, give it a listen, and if you like what you hear, check out some of our other episodes (and if you want to buy Mark's book, too, I won't stop you...).
The link below will enable you to listen to and/or download the episode directly, but you can also listen via iTunes, Google Play, Podbean or Stitcher, with links to all four on the show's main website linked to above.
http://media.averyspecialepisodepodcast.com/AVerySpecialEpisode021.mp3
Labels: Blogs, podcast, Spider-Man
X-amining Cable #1
"Rocks and Waves"
Cable emerges in his future time and reunites with Kane.
Penciler: Art Thibert
Inker: Danny Miki, Dan Panosian, Trevor Scott & Al Milgrom
Colorist: Marie Javins
Kane watches a recording of a battle involving Cable & his Clan Chosen teammates. Having become something of an expert on the Clan Chosen's exploits in the hopes of getting a better understanding of Cable, his activities draw the attention of the Citizens Protectorate's General Haight, who wants to prevent Kane from interfering with his plans. After Kane defeats some street thugs sent after him by Haight, he hires the Flatliners to capture or kill Kane. The Flatliners track Kane to the Clan Chosen's hideout, and they have the upper hand until Cable suddenly returns and helps turn the tide. Evacuating their base, Cable tells the Clan they need to go to Niagra, where the New Caananites have built a new Time Displacement Nexus. Meanwhile, General Haight offers Sinsear the opportunity get revenge on Cable by traveling back in time. At a base in the Adirondacks, Cable briefs the Clan Chosen on the Tinex, which is in Niagra Falls. Kane hopes it will enable him to return to his home time, and Cable reveals the New Caananites are planning on using it to maintain their control over the High-Lord ascension by killing someone in the past: Cable.
Labels: Cable (series), Comic Book reviews, comics, Nicieza/Thibert, X-aminations
The Milch Studies: DEADWOOD Season One - “Okay, What If We Do It As A Western?”
Following the fast cancellation of Big Apple, David Milch spent the next three years without a show on the air. Still wanting to create something out of Steven Bochco’s shadow, most likely burned out on NYPD Blue scripts, and with a post 9-11 resolve to “never” write about contemporary America again (he’d later renege), Milch found himself pitching a new series to HBO.
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Police Arrest Five Algerians in Plot to Attack Pope
From the Daily Record
FIVE men were arrested today by police investigating a suspected plot to harm the Pope.
Scotland Yard officers swooped on several people after information emerged that Pope Benedict XVI could be in danger.
The men were working as street cleaners, Westminster City Council revealed. They were arrested by officers from the Met's Counter Terrorism Command shortly before 6am.
The five men were working for Veolia Environmental Services, a contractor which employs 650 on-street staff to keep Westminster's streets clean and free from rubbish.
The suspects, aged 26, 27, 36, 40 and 50, were held under the Terrorism Act 2000 at business premises in central London.
They were taken to a central London police station, where they will be interviewed by detectives.
It was later reported that the men were of Algerian origin.
Posted by Michael Barber at 10:33 AM
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UK Trades Union Congress: Shorter working day means better productivity
The largest British trade union association Trades Union Congress (TUC) has released a study on the ratio of working hours and productivity in 10 most developed EU countries. The union experts concluded that workers in Denmark and the Netherlands are the most productive. The longest working day and the lowest labor productivity was registered in the UK and Austria.
The TUC, which unites 49 specialized unions with a total membership of 5.5 million of people, analyzed official data from Eurostat and the OECD on average working hours in 10 EU countries with the most developed economies and labor productivity. The experts then drew a link between these two indicators. The British researchers took the OECD data on productivity by countries, taking the UK as a reference point with a conditional indicator of 100. Thus, countries with labor productivity lower than in Britain were ranked below 100, and those with the greater productivity were above 100.
The TUC concluded that the highest labor productivity is observed in developed EU countries with the shortest working day.
A longer working day indicates lower productivity. Denmark ranked first in the TUC rating. There, the average workweek in 2018 was the shortest - only 37.7 hours, while the labor productivity index was 123.5. Of these EU countries, this index is higher only in Ireland (162.7), but the working week is longer there (an average of 39.4 hours).
At the bottom of the ranking were Austria and the United Kingdom, where the longest working weeks were found (41.2 hours and 42 hours, respectively) with relatively low labor productivity (111.4 and 100, respectively). In addition, the TUC considered that the average employee, for example in Germany, works 1.8 hours less per week than the British one, but is 14.6% more productive. And the Danes, who work four weeks less than the British, are 23.5% more productive.
On average, in 28 EU countries, the working week in 2018 was 40.2 hours with a productivity indicator of 91.4.
In this regard, the TUC believes that combination of a longer work week and low productivity "deprives workers of a normal personal life... Overworking, stress and exhaustion have become a new reality."
Secretary General of the trade union, Frances O'Grady, sharply criticized the "British culture of long working hours." She called for a change in the British labor system, noting that reducing working hours in other countries showed that it was good not only for employees, but also for productivity.
“As new technologies develop our economy, ordinary workers should also feel the benefits of this. And this means a shorter working day, more time for family and friends, decent wages for everyone,” Head of the trade union association said.
source: tuc.org.uk
Monday, January 20th 2020 - 10:01 Samsung appoints new mobile chief
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Samsung appoints new mobile chief
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Malaysian field hospital receives Sultan Azlan Shah innovation award
Health director-general (DG) Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah (L) receives the Sultan Azlan Shah Trophy Innovation Award from the Sultan of Perak, Sultan Nazrin Shah (R), as Lt Gen Datuk Dr Ya’akop Koming (C), the former DG of ATM Health Services Division, looks on. — Pix from Buletin KKD
KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Field Hospital (MFH) received yet another recognition after it was honoured with the Sultan Azlan Shah Trophy Innovation Award.
Health director-general (DG) Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the award recognised the collaborative work between the Ministry of Health (MOH) and Malaysian Armed Forces (ATM) for the planning, setting up and operating of the MFH in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.
“It was with great humility I received the Sultan Azlan Shah Trophy Innovation Award on behalf of the MOH together with Lt Gen Datuk Dr Ya’akop Koming, the former DG of ATM Health Services Division, from Sultan Nazrin Shah, the Sultan of Perak and Colonel-in-Chief of the ATM Royal Medical Corps,” Noor Hisham said in his latest Facebook posting last night.
The award was presented on Friday evening during the Regimental Dinner held in conjunction with the 52nd anniversary of the Royal Medical Corps.
The MFH has previously received various international accolades including from the World Health Organisation, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and various other international and local agencies.
Noor Hisham said the field hospital had been in operation since December 2017 to ease the stress of the influx of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar.
“The MOH, via Op Starlight 1, managed the hospital before it was taken over by the ATM in March 2018,” he said.
Apart from complete tertiary health services, the MFH also mobilises the Forward Medical Team (FMT) to the refugee camp to implement various health assistance programmes for the Rohingya refugees. — Bernama
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Disciplines History Asian History
Cinderella's Sisters A Revisionist History of Footbinding
by Dorothy Ko (Author)
Philip E. Lilienthal Imprint in Asian Studies
Illustrations: 53 b/w photographs, 1 map, 1 table
GIGANTIC HISTORIES OF THE NATION IN THE GLOBE
The Rhetoric of Tianzu, 1880s–1910s
The last assembly line of the last factory producing shoes for bound feet ground to a halt in November 1999. Using eight pairs of wooden lasts, old craftsmen in the Zhiqiang Shoe Factory in Harbin had been making three hundred pairs of “lotus shoes” annually since 1991, but lately over half of the inventory had languished in the warehouse. The customers were all more than eighty years old and dwindling fast. In a solemn ceremony, the factory donated the lasts to the Heilongjiang Museum of Ethnography. A curator voiced a widely shared sentiment: “The ‘three-inch golden lotus’ is a historical testament to the bodily and psychological damage that women suffered in feudal society. The sad songs of small feet would never be sung again; so much pain and tears are etched on the wooden lasts.” A reporter echoed: “Something as tiny as the lasts stands as a testament to the progress of Chinese women from being oppressed to being given a new life” (emphases mine).
Both the tone and terminology of the article are familiar; condemnation and pity are the only acceptable ways of discoursing on small feet in modern China. The sense of relief is palpable and heartfelt—as a remnant of a feudal past, footbinding can finally be relegated to the museum. Yet underneath the disavowal there lurks a wistfulness, as evinced by the repeated use of historical “testament.” The wooden lasts bear a contradictory witness, to past oppression and present liberation. Let bygones be bygones, but we cannot and should not forget. Footbinding as a haunting has been useful to the project of envisioning a modern China. It had to be present, displayed, and reiterated as modernity’s Other.
This disquiet continues to ignite the potency and relevance of the subject. The “Culture Fever” in the mid- to late-1980s that ensued from Deng Xiaoping’s reforms prompted renewed interest in traditional culture, resulting in a glut of books and articles on footbinding in the 1990s that are cut from the same cloth. In these works, the bound foot remains a shorthand for all that was wrong with traditional China: oppression of women, insularity, despotism, and disregard for human rights.Such reflections on the past are grounded in the present, affording a progressive view of history: things are getting better; our lives are freer than theirs. One troubling aspect of this view of history is encapsulated in the passive voice used by the reporter: women were so oppressed that they could not save themselves. Liberation depended on a bestowal of new life from a reformist state or the educated elite.
This degrading view of women with bound feet, a hallmark of the modern nationalist discourse, has seldom been challenged by feminist or Marxist scholars who share many of the nationalist’s modernist assumptions about freedom and agency. Curiously, a subject as incendiary as footbinding has thus been the most uncontroversial issue in and out of China. In troubling this consensus, it is essential to first examine the extent to which the imaginations of a modern Chinese nation were rooted in the rhetoric of “natural feet” and the social campaigns of the anti-footbinding movement in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. We begin, therefore, with the end.
THE END: TWO KINDS OF HISTORY; THREE KINDS OF TIME; SECONDHAND VOICES
At first glance, identifying the end of footbinding as a social practice in modern China seems an uncomplicated task. Successive regimes have issued prohibition edicts with titles and dates; offcial and unoffcial campaigns to eradicate footbinding have also left a long and visible paper trail. Tracing their incomplete and contested implementation, however, is a different matter. The magnitude of local variations also defies a generalized chronology of national patterns.Even more vexing is the problem of ontological ambiguity: in any given locale, did footbinding end when the majority of young girls ceased to bind or when adult women had to let their feet out? What do we make of the women who hid themselves from government inspection teams or reapplied the binders as soon as the inspectors left? Consider the tale of a defiant woman who handed a donut twist to the foot inspector dispatched by the state. She would let her feet out, she promised, if he could undo the frying and untwist the pastry back into a piece of pliable dough. Unlike the cutting of men’s queues, footbinding is an irrevocable bodily process once the bones are bent and new muscular habits formed. “Liberated feet,” as they were called, were harder to walk on and more deformed than bound feet.
The end of a phenomenon as widespread and varied as footbinding is a drawn-out process. The decades from the 1880s to the 1930s witnessed the disintegration of the previously coherent subject of “footbinding” into three components, or three kinds of time: on the level of cosmology or episteme, the cultural prestige or justification of footbinding; on the level of customs and conventions, footbinding as a social practice; and on the level of personal experience, footbinding as individual embodiment. The end did not come in the form of a linear progression from bondage to liberation, in which the old gave way to the new overnight. Instead, the end meant linguistic and emotional confusion as the three kinds of time grew out of sync: in one locale the old raison d’être became dated but mothers kept binding their daughters’ feet; in another locale the age-old practice was outlawed, but people clung to the customary thinking of small feet as desirable.
The end of footbinding is thus characterized not by a clean break or a sense of finality but by its opposite: a lingering in-between-ness, a seesawing motion of time, sentiments, and fashion. By focusing on a cast of previously ignored characters—Chinese women reformers, unrepentant connoisseurs, girl students, women who struggled to let their feet out, foot inspectors, tabloid writers, and shopkeepers who collected picture postcards as a hobby, for example—this and the next two chapters seek to present an alternative picture of this transitional period. On the local if not visceral and bodily level, the demise of footbinding appeared to be more problematic than the story told from a linear enlightenment perspective penned by the leading male thinkers in the twentieth century.
The stubbornness of women’s bodies stands out as the most visible yet perplexing aspect of this alternative history. Time’s arrow traveled its course steadily on the level of individual lives as national time and global time, histories external to the women’s bodies, hurried ahead by leaps and bounds. This simple fact dictates that no state decree or social movement can truly end footbinding until the individual lives have expired one by one. The “voice” of these women—not articulated voices but murmurs from within their bodies—arose from an ambiguous space between individual and national histories. How do we hear them, in multiple tones and pitches, when the language they speak is often a language not of words but of the body, and is thus alien to us?
Anti-footbinding legislation and campaigns belong to the realm of “gigantic history.” Since they are traceable through public documents and amenable to the methods of political and social history, it is not surprising that they have been widely analyzed. But Susan Stewart has reminded us that there are two kinds of history: “We find the miniature at the origin of private, individual history, but we find the gigantic at the origin of public and natural history.” We know the miniature only as the contained, “a spatial whole or temporal parts,” whereas the gigantic is the container. Likewise, there are two rhythms of women’s history in China, one private-individual and the other public-national. We have mistaken the latter as the only narrative because the voices in it are familiar to us and require little translation, contained as they are by narratives of the nation with which we can identify.
We have heard the voice of the modern woman in Qiu Jin (1875–1907), the knight-errant who denounced footbinding, left her marriage, traveled to Japan, cross-dressed as Charlie Chaplin for the camera, and became a martyr for the republican revolution. We have also celebrated the career of Ding Ling (1904–86), who took lovers, traveled to Yanan, and became the resident feminist writer of the communist revolution.Theirs were journeys of the romantic hero in quest of personal and national salvation. In their pathos of political activism, self-realization, and sexual yearnings, we have found images of our cherished selves. We have thus succumbed to the seduction of their rhetoric: they speak the language of individual freedom and self-determination, but this individualism is in fact a reflected ideal that has no life outside the nationalist discourse. Their female voices were contained by, and were speaking in the terms of, the gigantic history of the nation.
There are many other female speaking selves on the margins of or outside gigantic history. Those of the illiterate footbound women constitute one example.Their voices, however, are not immediately audible to us. Two kinds of translation are necessary before these “miniaturized” or “contained” histories are brought to light. The first involves a translation from the silent presence of the footbound woman’s body to her hidden inner world. The second involves a translation from others’ writings quoting her utterances. In this and the next two chapters, we will strain to hear these secondhand voices, be they bodily murmurs, reasoned articulation, or screams of anguish. These are refracted instead of “authentic” voices, contained as they are by male narratives, gigantic histories, and other exterior concerns. But they are no less “real” because of that.
Even when we have, on occasion, transcripts of interviews with village women describing their experience of binding feet, the linguistic terms they used and political awareness they exhibited were acquired after the fact. For example, when the filmmakers Carma Hinton and Richard Gordon interviewed three footbound grannies from Long Bow Village for their acclaimed documentary Small Happiness, one spoke of learning the word feng jian (feudal) from the communists, who invented it. The word enabled her to name the roots of her oppression (another invented word) in old China, but does not convey her actual feelings when she had her feet bound as a young girl.Because of this inevitable intervention of time and the intrusion of new linguistic categories that reorganize one’s memories, even female voices as seemingly unmediated as in face-to-face interviews are in fact secondhand voices that require translation. There is no “authentic” female voice.
Ironically, only by way of translation can we hope to be faithful to the multiple tonalities of a confusing time. The period from the 1880s to the 1930s comprised a transitional stage when the rhythms beneath the woman’s skin seem out of sync with the body politic at large. New visions of female and social bodies had taken shape, but old values, embodied by women with bound feet, remained concrete and visible. The footbound woman in modern China is thus a remnant; her presence demands attention and analysis, not condemnation. For it is in the corporeality of her presence that we seek her “agency,” in conjunction with what she purportedly wrote or said. In focusing on the cerebral voices of women writers and activists, our current picture of the range of experiences and subjectivities of women in modern China is woefully incomplete and disembodied.
If efforts to end footbinding were complicated by the stubbornness of individual bodies, the “end” should be seen not as an unequivocal moment but a confusing period of bind-unbind-bind-unbind. Somehow during the tug-of-war footbinding shrank in stature. It was not so much outlawed as outmoded; footbinding came to a virtual death when its cultural prestige extinguished. To put it another way, the end came when the practice exhausted all justifications within the existing repertoire of cultural symbols and values, even as myriad women continued to tighten their binding cloths every day. The lingering presence of footbound women as they were seen hobbling on the streets of treaty ports or pulling a plough in a Shandong village elicited pity and curiosity because they appeared dated and out of place. (See fig. 1.) They were not even supposed to walk or venture outdoors! These incongruities bring to the fore the contradictions that a woman had to embody as remnant of the old order and bearer of the new.
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The history of footbinding is full of contradictions and unexpected turns. The practice originated in the dance culture of China's medieval court and spread to gentry families, brothels, maid's quarters, and peasant households. Conventional views of footbinding as patriarchal oppression often neglect its complex history and the incentives of the women involved. This revisionist history, elegantly written and meticulously researched, presents a fascinating new picture of the practice from its beginnings in the tenth century to its demise in the twentieth century. Neither condemning nor defending foot-binding, Dorothy Ko debunks many myths and misconceptions about its origins, development, and eventual end, exploring in the process the entanglements of male power and female desires during the practice's thousand-year history.
Cinderella's Sisters argues that rather than stemming from sexual perversion, men's desire for bound feet was connected to larger concerns such as cultural nostalgia, regional rivalries, and claims of male privilege. Nor were women hapless victims, the author contends. Ko describes how women—those who could afford it—bound their own and their daughters' feet to signal their high status and self-respect. Femininity, like the binding of feet, was associated with bodily labor and domestic work, and properly bound feet and beautifully made shoes both required exquisite skills and technical knowledge passed from generation to generation. Throughout her narrative, Ko deftly wields methods of social history, literary criticism, material culture studies, and the history of the body and fashion to illustrate how a practice that began as embodied lyricism—as a way to live as the poets imagined—ended up being an exercise in excess and folly.
Dorothy Ko is Professor of History at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the author of Every Step a Lotus: Shoes for Bound Feet (California, 2001) and Teachers of the Inner Chambers: Women and Culture in Seventeenth-Century China (1994). She is coeditor of Women and Confucian Cultures in Premodern China, Korea, and Japan (California, 2003).
“This elegant volume—in its writing as well as in the shape—is an important contribution to the anthropological history of China. . . . Dorothy Ko has splendidly achieved her goal to write a history of footbinding which has never been attempted, presenting the powerful forces that made binding feet a conventional practice and then a contemptuous habit to be forbidden, and focusing on its interaction with private and social history.” —Ming Qing Yanjiu
“Dorothy Ko's daring in taking on the difficult subject of footbinding has resulted in a tour-de-force. In Cinderella's Sisters she rises above nationalist, feminist, and Orientalist polemic to place footbinding clearly in the domain of the history of fashion. Her ingenious narrative strategy—putting the modern story of foobinding's disappearance at the beginning—sets up her historical account of its premodern heyday as a story of concealment—of hidden sources, hidden bodies, and hidden meanings. As illusion, footbinding reveals women's sisterhood in responses to being objects of desire."—Charlotte Furth, author of A Flourishing Yin: Gender in China's Medical History: 960–1665
"Cinderella's Sister's is the long-awaited, definitive work on Chinese footbinding in English.The work also plugs into current concerns with the history of the body and of fashion. But it also does much more: at every turn it tells us something new about late imperial and republican-era Chinese society and history. It is remarkably rich in fascinating detail. A great read."—William T. Rowe, author of Saving the World: Chen Hongmou and Elite Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century China
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PART I: THE BODY EXPOSED
1. Gigantic Histories of the Nation in the Globe: The Rhetoric of Tianzu, 1880s–1910s
2. The Body Inside Out: The Practice of Fangzu, 1900s–1930s
3. The Bound Foot as Antique: Connoisseurship in an Age of Disavowal, 1930s–1941
PART II: THE BODY CONCEALED
4. From Ancient Texts to Current Customs: In Search of Footbinding’s Origins
5. The Erotics of Place: Male Desires and the Imaginary Geography of the Northwest
6. Cinderella’s Dreams: The Burden and Uses of the Female Body
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Sustainable growth: overview
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Why we want to lead the way to a sustainable tea industry
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Cross-cutting programmes that aim to change lives
Partnerships and programmes supporting sustainable tea
In 2018, we were working on around 40 major sustainable sourcing programmes in our tea supply chain. The objectives of these programmes included increasing tea workers’ and smallholders’ incomes, improving health, empowering women, improving sanitation, supporting biodiversity and addressing climate change. Our increasingly holistic approach means individual programmes often address multiple issues.
Shaping the change we want to see
Of world tea production is now Rainforest Alliance CertifiedTM
To achieve our ambitions for tea, we need to work with many partners, from tea-growers, suppliers and NGOs, to local and national governments, the wider tea industry and beyond.
One of the most important ways to drive change in any agricultural sector is through certification. In 2007, we assisted the Rainforest Alliance in the development of local indicators for sustainable tea production in Kenya in accordance with the Sustainable Agriculture Network certification standard and began to certify our tea farms, in the process helping to transform both our own supply chain and the wider industry.
In 2007, we became the first major tea company to commit to sustainably sourcing tea on a large scale. In the same year Kericho, our largest tea estate in Kenya, was the first tea farm to achieve Rainforest Alliance certification.
Today, Rainforest Alliance CertifiedTM tea accounts for around 20% of the world’s tea production, and we work with suppliers in 14 countries in Africa and Asia to train smallholder farmers so they can achieve farm certification. In Kenya alone, over 700,000 smallholder farmers have achieved Rainforest Alliance certification for their farms.
However, certification is not the only way to create change. We recognise the importance of exploring alternative approaches which in some cases are a better fit or go further than existing schemes.
Impact through partnerships
Public–private partnerships are an important way in which we develop sustainable practices and improve the livelihoods of the people working in tea supply chains. We have signed public–private partnerships in Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania and Vietnam, helping us reach around 600,000 farmers since 2006.
One of our longest-running partnerships of this kind was in Kenya, with the Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) and IDH (The Sustainable Trade Initiative). Launched in 2006, it enabled 86,000 lead farmers – including around 42,000 women – to train at Farmer Field Schools for guidance on how to share best agricultural practices, increase yields, improve quality and improve their health and nutrition. As a result, around 580,000 farmers have met the standards for Rainforest Alliance farm certification. In 2016, with the Farmer Field Schools fully embedded, we handed over full responsibility for them to KTDA.
Blockchain: exploring new ways to transform tea supply chains
We want to make tea production more sustainable - and help the people who improve their agricultural practices by enabling them to increase their incomes.
As with many crops, one of the biggest challenges in this area is traceability - knowing who produced a specific consignment of tea, and being able to show that they have put sustainable methods into action.
Solving this challenge could unlock financial incentives that reward sustainability - and we're exploring a number of innovative approaches.
In December 2017, we announced a pioneering partnership initiative, known as Project Trado. It explores the use of blockchain and other data technologies to create a shared data system for tea farmers in Malawi. The technology works by gathering and encoding standardised information from farmers about their produce, including production quality and price. This information is then available to all parties that can access that blockchain, making the supply chain – and its sustainability information – traceable and transparent.
This has huge potential. Barclays, BNP Paribas, Rabobank and Standard Chartered, which are all part of the initiative, could use this data to offer preferential terms or access to credit based on the evidence of sustainability supported by the blockchain.
One possible outcome is that, through access to cheaper levels of working capital, smallholders will be able to increase investments in their farms to become more productive without needing to convert more land. We're also exploring the potential for creating a sustainability fund, which could be invested in areas including legal services, irrigation systems, solar panels, farmer field schools, or new seedlings for interplanting.
Project Trado is currently a pilot initiative, convened by The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL)
Respecting human rights in our tea supply chain
Respecting and advancing human rights are at the core of our business. But we know that human rights abuses persist in some of the markets and sectors in which we operate - including the tea supply chain.
Our Responsible Sourcing Policy, described in Advancing human rights with suppliers and business partners, underpins our commitment to conduct business with integrity, openness and respect for universal human rights and core labour principles throughout our supply chain.
Alongside this commitment, we also work on programmes and partnerships to address specific human rights issues around tea.
These issues include women's safety and labour conditions on tea estates in regions such as Assam in India and Kericho in Kenya, where we continue to work to eradicate unacceptable practices. Our work with UN Women on programmes to promote women's safety, including through developing A Global Framework on Women’s Safety (PDF | 7MB), is described in Safety for women and our Human Rights Report 2017 (PDF | 10MB).
The issues also include land rights − and we describe our application of our Land Rights Principles for a new factory and tea estate in Rwanda in Understanding our human rights impacts.
Sustainable agriculture & beyond
We work with a range of partners on initiatives that take sustainable agricultural practices as a starting point, and go beyond them to tackle wider social and environmental issues.
In 2017 we joined the Ethical Tea Partnership (ETP), a non-governmental organisation which works with tea companies and retailers to drive improvements in sustainability. It focuses on improving the lives and livelihoods of tea workers and farmers and the environment in which tea is produced. Our work with the ETP includes our Safety for Women and Girls partnership and the Malawi Tea 2020 programme which has increased tea sector wages and established farmer field schools in Malawi.
Malawi Tea 2020: better wages, better livelihoods
Jordy van Honk is Programme Director for Tea at IDH.
“We reached a significant milestone in the Malawi Tea 2020 programme in 2018: closing 25% of the net living wage gap. This means that 50,000 tea workers on plantations in Malawi now get 57% more than the country’s agricultural minimum daily wage.
This was the result of a truly collaborative effort with stakeholders from across the entire tea value chain to achieve a living wage for tea workers. With a collective bargaining process successfully embedded, we’re creating a safer workplace for tea workers, especially women. The framework we’ve developed is a sustainable procurement model that shows buyers how they can contribute to a living wage.”
See www.malawitea2020.com
Indian tea estates and factories achieved trustea verification by 2018
We were founder members of trustea, the Indian tea industry collaboration on sustainability. The trustea logo guarantees the social, economic, agronomic and environmental performance of Indian tea estates, smallholders and ‘bought leaf factories’ – factories that buy tea from multiple sources.
The initiative started in 2013, setting out to cover over 600 tea factories and impacting 40,000 smallholders and 500,000 tea estate workers. By the end of 2018, 586 factories and tea estates had achieved trustea verification, impacting around 48,000 smallholders and 546,000 tea estate workers, over half of whom were women.
trustea: more knowledge, better tea
Daleram Gulia is our Procurement Manager in Sustainable Sourcing.
"You can see the change on the ground – people are hungry for knowledge," says Daleram. "The first question smallholders ask is: 'can you help me on judicious use of pesticides?' Then they want to know about compliance, green leaf-handling, how to improve quality, etc."
Daleram works with our tea supply chain in India, where around half the country's tea production is grown by smallholders – and where smallholder potential is being unlocked by trustea, as he explains. "Conditions for smallholders vary widely across the country, but overall the number of growers is increasing. Often, smallholders are fragmented and dependent on agents to sell their green leaf (the leaves that are then dried into black tea). That can mean they lack access to information about prices, traceability and sustainable agricultural practices – it also means it can be hard to get visibility of where and how our tea is grown.
trustea requires tea factories to first map their supply chain, which creates a connection to individual smallholders and the opportunity for them to organise in groups. That means we can reach them with soil management practices, training in sustainable agriculture, and a wide range of professional techniques so we can guide them towards compliance with trustea's code requirements.
Since 2013, the volumes of trustea verified teas in India’s domestic market have risen steadily, reaching about 47% of the country’s tea production in 2018. For Unilever, that means more knowledge about who’s growing our tea, and how. It also gives us greater assurance that the tea we’re selling meets mandatory criteria on wages, plant protection, safety and pesticide use – as per the Tea Board of India’s Plant Protection Code (PPC).”
Daleram and colleagues explain more about trustea in this film.
In 2014 we launched Tea 2030 with Forum for the Future. Tata Global Beverages, Yorkshire Tea, James Finlays, the Ethical Tea Partnership and Fairtrade International have also joined the initiative. Tea 2030 focuses on three areas: sustainable landscapes, market mechanisms and engaging consumers.
For further details of how our partnership programmes are enhancing the lives of smallholders and encouraging young farmers to maintain the tea industry, see Inclusive business.
Unlocking smallholders’ potential through technology
Our Lipton brand has deep roots in Sri Lanka, where Sir Thomas Lipton grew his first tea more than a century ago. Today, more than 70% of the tea leaves grown on the island are farmed by smallholders, working in plots that average less than an acre (under half a hectare). But too often they have been unable to access the information and support they need to unlock their full potential.
As Neville Ratnayake, Chairman of Sri Lanka Federation of Tea Smallholders, describes it: “The average monthly tea yield in Sri Lanka is 300 kg. However, we have identified cases where farmers have been able to get yields of up to 800 kg through an organised, scientific approach. But these methods are not widely adopted because most farmers use localised, traditional practices due to a lack of access to information. This is holding back individual farmers and the progress of an entire industry.”
In 2017, we began a new partnership with the Federation and telecoms provider Dialog Axiata to reach 400,000 smallholders with knowledge and sustainable growing techniques. By using technology to ensure smallholders get advice just when they need it, the partnership aims to help them grow their yields and incomes – while making our supply chain more resilient and sustainable.
Smallholders in the scheme get agricultural advice through Dialog’s Govi Mithuru (Farmer’s Friend) mobile platform. With content provided by a number of organisations, such as the Ministry of Agriculture, Govi Mithuru delivers voice mails tailored to a farmer’s crop, location and stage of cultivation. With the Federation and a local university, we also aim to set up model farms where farmers from neighbouring areas will be invited to study and learn face to face.
No tea without water
Responsible water management is essential to sustainable tea production, and we're working on a number of programmes to raise awareness and reduce impacts.
In Sri Lanka, for example, we began work in 2018 with Sri Lanka Water Partnership (SLWP), also known as Lanka Jalani, to promote responsible water stewardship in tea landscapes through schools in and around tea estates. The programme promotes Rainforest Alliance practices and is active in 15 schools in the Agra Oya basin.
In Kenya, we’re involved in IDH’s (The Sustainable Trade Initiative) Sustainable Landscapes Initiative. It aims to stop and reverse deforestation in the South West Mau forest, which is contributing to water shortages and drought. By 2018, 250 hectares of forest had been rehabilitated, and work is underway to provide local cattle herds with alternative fodder to reduce the pressure on the forest.
Find out more about how we're Working with our suppliers and farmers to manage water use.
Understanding how to reduce pesticides
The climate and agricultural practices on our plantations in Kenya and Tanzania allow tea to be grown without pesticides, but in some parts of the world conditions currently require pesticides to preserve yields.
We encourage the global tea industry to reduce the use of pesticides to a minimum. Our Unilever Guidelines on Use of Pesticides in Sustainable Tea Sourcing are applied through our Sustainable Agriculture Code.
No pesticides, no pests?
In 2014, we commissioned CABI – the Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International – to conduct an independent scientific study to evaluate non-pesticide methods for protecting tea crops in India.
In partnership with the Tocklai Tea Research Institute, CABI conducted field trials over 2015–2017 on tea estates in Assam. In the Phulbari tea garden, for example, the results showed that an ecologically managed plot can deliver a comparable yield to one conventionally managed with pesticides. This was the first time this had been demonstrated through a scientific study.
CABI has now developed a toolkit of best practice to help tea growers combat common pests such as red spider mite, loopers, thrips, black rot and the tea mosquito bug.
Ensuring tea has a long-term future
Tea cultivars studied to understand their genetic diversity
Tea is second only to water as the world’s most popular non-alcoholic drink – and our brands are long-standing favourites the world over. While we believe the tea industry and our tea brands have a bright future, we recognise the challenges presented to their growth. These include climate change, water scarcity, competition for land, working conditions and rapidly changing consumer markets.
We’re developing a number of agricultural interventions to increase the resilience of tea for the future. We are working with the Crop Trust to develop a global conservation strategy, building on our work of sourcing more than 1,000 tea cultivars from around the world in order to map tea's genetic diversity.
With Nature Source Improved Plants, we’re working to accelerate the breeding of varieties more resilient to climate change or differentiated on quality. And with Microsoft AI for Earth and Cranfield University’s Centre for Environmental and Agricultural Informatics, we’re looking at how to adopt digital agricultural solutions (such as crop modelling and remote sensing) to increase productivity sustainably on our tea plantation in Kenya.
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Marvin Miller, Ted Simmons elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
Former St. Louis Cardinals catcher Ted Simmons delivers remarks during St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame induction ceremonies in 2015. File Photo by Bill Greenblatt/UPI | License Photo
Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Marvin Miller and Ted Simmons have been elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame as part of the class of 2020.
Miller, a former Major League Baseball Players Association leader, revolutionized the sport. He led baseball is establishing free agency for players after six seasons of service, salary arbitration and grievance arbitration. He also was the union leader through five work stoppages.
Miller enters the Hall of Fame after failing to collect enough veterans committee votes in his first seven attempts for the honor. He died in 2012 at 95 years old. Miller was the union leader from 1966 to 1982.
"Players are pleased that Marvin will now take his rightful and long overdue place in the Hall of Fame in recognition of the monumental and positive impact he had on our game and our industry," MLBPA executive director Tony Clark said in a statement.
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Simmons, 70, was an eight-time All-Star. He played 13 seasons with the St. Louis Cardinals. The switch-hitting catcher also spent time with the Atlanta Braves and Milwaukee Brewers during his 21 seasons.
Simmons was named on 13 of 16 ballots, achieving 81.3 percent of the vote. Miller earned 75 percent of the vote, the exact amount needed for entry into the Hall of Fame.
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INTERVIEW: Find about more about Mantis Burn Racing
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Developer: VooFoo Studios (www.voofoostudios.com)
Formats: Playstation 4, Xbox One, PC
Release Date: October 12th 2016
Check out our interview with Sean Walsh, Marketing and PR Manager at VooFoo Studios:
Q. For anyone who hasn’t heard of it, what exactly is Mantis Burn Racing?
It’s a top down arcade style racing game with a lot of depth. It might remind people of the classic top down games but we’ve got certain things that help make it stand out.
Q. Mantis Burn Racing is already available on Steam Early Access for gamers to try ahead of its upcoming release. Has this early feedback had an impact on the game’s development and what sort of changes have you made because of it?
We wanted to do Early Access for those reasons really, to listen to feedback and make the right changes that people wanted. Having said that, our game in Early Access was quite well developed – it’s not been in Early Access for very long and it’s not a game that was going to be in early access for years. There weren’t masses of things we expected people to say since it was fairly well developed. One of the biggest things we got from Early Access feedback that we’ve changed was the camera angles. Whilst gamers liked the top down view some found it made them nauseous and they like slightly different views, so we’ve implemented different variations of the camera view. We also introduced things like the weekly challenges as well as smaller updates, but I’d say the camera views are the biggest changes we made based on listening to feedback.
Q. How many tracks are you planning for the full release and what sort of environments will they be based upon?
In the full release there’ll be eight tracks that are reversible, bringing a total of sixteen tracks. There are two environments with a sand town based environment and a city based environment that’s more inspired by places like downtown Tokyo city. There will be a third environment which will be completely different – I can’t quite say what it’ll be but it won’t be sandy and it won’t be in a city. We’re working on some different things, so it could have some snow in it, it could have some ice in it – who knows? We’ll have about twenty tracks soon after launch and we’ll give away the third environment for free so there’ll be quite a lot of content.
Q. Mantis Burn Racing is one of the earliest games revealed to be utilising the Playstation 4 Pro’s improved capabilities. What sort of improvements will the game see when played on Sony’s improved console?
The great thing about Mantis Burn Racing is that it’s one of the very few games that are going to be supporting full native 4K resolution. Most people are saying they’re upscaling to 4K, but it’s native with Mantis Burn Racing and we’re really proud of that. Ultimately it will look as good as it can look; it’ll be crystal clear, the environments will look even better, the cars will look even better and it will play at 60fps and at 1080p on local four player co-op too.
Q. What sort of single player mode will players of the game be able to work through?
There’s a full career mode which again is something we think sets the game apart, because there’s about fifteen to twenty hours of career to work through. There’s not just racing either, with nine different events including the likes of ‘Overtake’, ‘Accumulator’ and ‘Lockout’ that all offer different ways to play. You earn RPG-like XP as you develop through the career too, which will allow you to upgrade your car and change its appearance. The career is very important in the game.
Q. You’ve previously worked on games such as Big Sky Infinity, Pure Pool and Hustle Kings, so a racer is a real change of style for you guys. How has the development process been on such a radical change of genre and is this something you’ve always wanted to do as a studio?
Absolutely, it is a change, but our founder developed a game called Max Rally on the Amiga in 1998 and he actually loves racing games, so it makes a lot more sense than some people might realise. Plus we didn’t want to get pigeonholed to a particular genre, because we can do a lot more and we want to do a lot more. It all kind of made sense; it’s kind of like a follow up to Max Rally even though it’s been a lot of years since it released. We’ve always wanted to make this game and it’s only now we’ve got the right team in place to make a game like this and make it the best it can be.
Q. From simply looking at Mantis Burn Racing I got massive Micro Machines vibes. What other racers would you say have inspired the game?
Lots really, I guess Max Rally since it’s the studio founder’s game so that was the ultimate inspiration, except making it a lot more modern and innovative. Micro Machines clearly inspired it too, but we played a lot like Mashed, Motorstorm and Rock ‘N Roll Racing. We’ve got a wide appreciation of racing games, but we also wanted to make something a little different and much more modern.
Q. Besides being incredibly fun to play, what would you say makes Mantis Burn Racing stand out amongst all the other racers available on the market today?
Certainly the visuals. We hope it’s one of the best, if not the best, looking top down racers on console and PC. I think the depth and level of career mode and progression too – I’ve previously mentioned the RPG style upgrade system so there’s a lot of depth to the progression. There’s four player local split-screen, which although is considered an old feature isn’t really used much any more so we’ve made that modern in a way.
Q. When is Mantis Burn Racing going to officially launch and what platforms will we see it on?
It’s on Early Access right now for PC, but it’s coming to Playstation 4 and Xbox One as a digital download on October 12th. It’ll be here in time for the Playstation 4 Pro.
Q. Can you tell us something about the game that no-one outside of the development team knows?
Mantis is the name of our in-house game engine which is our own that we developed ourselves. ‘Mantis Burn’ was basically the project name for the game and we went through loads of different titles and different pub sessions to come up with a better name, but we kept coming back to ‘Mantis Burn’. We stuck ‘Racing’ on the end so people knew what is was and we just went with it.
You can find out more about Mantis Burn Racing on the game’s official website through this link.
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Amid steady battery growth, Fluence sets sights on market share, transmission assets
Having proven itself on utility-scale projects, the company eyes behind-the-meter projects on the commercial-industrial side and opportunities at the ‘center of the grid.'
Iulia Gheorghiu @IMGheorghiu
As the storage sector continues to develop, the utility-scale battery joint venture created by tech giants Siemens and AES Corporation is aiming to increase its market share in the commercial and industrial space.
Growing quickly in the nine months since its launch, Fluence expanded to new headquarters on Tuesday in Arlington, Va.
The company is largely known for utility-scale storage projects and replacing peaker plants with batteries in California, but now its leaders are eyeing more opportunities with renewable integration and storage applications for transmission. Its rapid rise, backed by the capital and experience of its parent companies, also enables its leadership to focus on large-scale behind-the-meter (BTM) opportunities.
"I believe transmission is going to be one of the next big things," Stephen Coughlin, Fluence's CEO, told Utility Dive. "You can move power around in times of less congestion, store it and then it's already where it needs to be, and then release it."
Battery storage: The grid's Swiss Army knife?
By virtue of being able to capture energy and to feed it back into the grid, battery storage can play a lot of roles. However, as more uses are explored, U.S. regulations have yet to catch up.
"The problem with storage is that it does things that the current regulation doesn't remunerate," Andrés Gluski, AES president and CEO, told Utility Dive.
Gluski credits states for putting out legislation that provides the right incentives for storage, noting that it varies state by state.
Arizona, Colorado and Nevada are working on energy storage policies and the proposed targets to help develop the industry.
One issue is that storage largely lacks tax incentives when placed apart from renewables. Rules that would put storage on equal footing with renewable assets would make the top of the regulatory wishlist for Fluence's chief operating officer, John Zahurancik.
"There are places that you could use energy storage that are in the center of the grid," not necessarily paired with renewables, Zahurancik told Utility Dive.
And beyond its siting, Gluski pointed out that there are multiple potential capabilities where storage lacks regulations.
"Something as simple as a mandate to consider energy storage and the procurements is very helpful," Coughlin said.
Coughlin also referred to transmission as an important application of storage.
"There's a huge role for energy storage in transmission," Gluski said, "basically allowing you to run the transmission lines closer to their nameplate capacity, rather than having to build out just for peak which may last an hour."
In Virginia, home to AES and to Fluence's headquarters, the state is currently working on a goal to cut carbon emissions in the power sector 30% by 2030. The goal, established by former Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe, includes an initiative in the state's voluntary renewable portfolio standard program to use 15% renewable energy in Virginia's energy mix by 2025.
Current Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam sees a role for storage in the state's clean energy goals as technology is improving to help store intermittent renewable energy.
"I'll work with our agencies and I'll work with our private sector to do everything that we can to move that forward," Northam told Utility Dive.
Northam, who participated in the ribbon-cutting for Fluence's new headquarters, did not clarify the specific role energy storage would serve in the 2018 Virginia Energy Plan.
From left to right: Zahurancik, Heribert Stumpf of Siemens USA, Coughlin, Northam, Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., Gluski and Katie Cristol from the Arlington County Board.
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Fluence hit the ground running by combining AES and Siemens' storage businesses. That's how, less than a year in, it is working on the largest of five batteries for San Diego Gas & Electric, at 40 MW / 160 MWh.
"We're just having projects signed very quickly," Coughlin said.
The energy storage market may be nascent compared to other technology, but Fluence sees a solid path to maturity by its concise focus, cemented by the international reputations of its parent companies.
"I think over time you're going to see the real credible players kind of rise to the top," Coughlin said, "and those that really don't have the track record and have difficulty honoring the performance [contracts] that they sign up to, that will become clear over the next several years."
The Fluence CEO estimates the joint venture makes up 10% to 12% of today's utility-scale, commercial and industrial energy storage market share. He wants to see that rise to 25% in the next five years.
While Fluence has been making a name for itself on the utility and power developer scale, the team is beginning to focus "on the commercial-industrial side, behind the meter," Zahurancik said.
Fluence also expects to grow its renewable integration through its SunFlex system. The offering is unique to the joint venture, which also offers Siestorage and Advancion energy storage systems, previously offered by Siemens and AES respectively.
Siestorage, smaller and shorter duration systems, provide black start capabilities and lightning-fast response for critical loads, while the Advancion systems are larger and longer duration, mostly for utility-scale applications.
SunFlex is designed to share the power conversion equipment between the battery and the solar PV, meant to "smooth the ramping" when dealing with renewable intermittency and "time-shift solar energy," according to Coughlin.
"It's a more efficient and cheaper design than if you build these sorts of storage and solar separately," he said.
While moving into the C&I space, Fluence officials say the company is not joining the fray of residential energy storage developers and installers.
The business may be tempting given the recent incentives state-level incentives established this year for residential storage and solar-plus-storage installations. For example, California's Energy Commission's 2019 Building Energy Code includes an energy storage incentive as part of its rooftop solar requirement for new residences starting in 2020. And small-scale storage developers are not the only ones trying to profit from growing customer interest. Green Mountain Power offers a residential battery storage program where the systems are owned by the utility.
But Fluence is not taking the bait at the risk of overextending itself from its specialty.
"It's a different operating model and we're not set up to take advantage of that opportunity," Coughlin said.
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Europe 1600 – 1815
Rooms 1 – 7
About Europe 1600 – 1815
In Europe 1600 – 1815 over 1100 objects from the V&A’s collections of 17th- and 18th-century European art and design are displayed in a suite of seven galleries. The collection comprises some of the most magnificent works held by the V&A.
These galleries have been made possible thanks to the generosity of the Heritage Lottery Fund, the children of Her Highness Sheikha Amna Bint Mohammed Al Thani, the Friends of the V&A, The Selz Foundation, Würth Group, The Wolfson Foundation, Dr Genevieve Davies, William Loschert, the J Paul Getty Jr Charitable Trust and many other private individuals and trusts.
Writing cabinet, made by Michael Kimmel, 1750 – 55, Dresden, Germany
Triumph of Harlequin, fan, painted by Felicita Tibaldi Subleyras and Pierre Subleyras, about 1750, Italy
The visit of Louis XIV to the Château de Juvisy, oil painting, by Pierre-Denis Martin, about 1700, France
Formal ensemble, 1790 – 1800, France
Mask, 1700 – 25, Italy
Clock, made by John Moore & Son, about 1810, France
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Actress Imelda Staunton takes us on a journey to discover objects made in Europe for some of the period’s most discerning leaders of taste - King Louis XIV, Queen Marie Antoinette and Catherine the Great
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Get closer to one of the star objects in the Europe 1600-1815 galleries: a painting that depicts a huge annual procession in Brussels in 1615
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"Devotees in the Courthouse of Love" -- Lola officiates her first nuptials on "Wedding Day," an annual event when couples flock to the Hall of Justice to be married free of charge. Also, Lola and public defender Emily Lopez are torn between civil laws and the laws of a higher power when it seems they must allow Phoebe (Emma Dumont), a nun with a shady past, to go to prison for a criminal act against the church that she believes is morally right, on ALL RISE, Monday, Oct. 21 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Pictured (L-R): J. Alex Brinson as Luke Watkins and Jessica Camacho as Emily Lopez Photo: Sonja Flemming/CBS ©2019 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved
"Devotees in the Courthouse of Love" -- Lola officiates her first nuptials on "Wedding Day," an annual event when couples flock to the Hall of Justice to be married free of charge. Also, Lola and public defender Emily Lopez are torn between civil laws and the laws of a higher power when it seems they must allow Phoebe (Emma Dumont), a nun with a shady past, to go to prison for a criminal act against the church that she believes is morally right, on ALL RISE, Monday, Oct. 21 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Pictured (L-R): Jessica Camacho as Emily Lopez and Jennifer Parsons as Miranda Photo: Sonja Flemming/CBS ©2019 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved
"Devotees in the Courthouse of Love" -- Lola officiates her first nuptials on "Wedding Day," an annual event when couples flock to the Hall of Justice to be married free of charge. Also, Lola and public defender Emily Lopez are torn between civil laws and the laws of a higher power when it seems they must allow Phoebe (Emma Dumont), a nun with a shady past, to go to prison for a criminal act against the church that she believes is morally right, on ALL RISE, Monday, Oct. 21 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Pictured (L-R): Lindsay Mendez as Sara Castillo, J. Alex Brinson as Luke Watkins, and Jessica Camacho as Emily Lopez Photo: Sonja Flemming/CBS ©2019 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved
"Devotees in the Courthouse of Love" -- Lola officiates her first nuptials on "Wedding Day," an annual event when couples flock to the Hall of Justice to be married free of charge. Also, Lola and public defender Emily Lopez are torn between civil laws and the laws of a higher power when it seems they must allow Phoebe (Emma Dumont), a nun with a shady past, to go to prison for a criminal act against the church that she believes is morally right, on ALL RISE, Monday, Oct. 21 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Pictured: Simone Missick as Lola Carmichael Photo: Sonja Flemming/CBS ©2019 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved
"Devotees in the Courthouse of Love" -- Lola officiates her first nuptials on "Wedding Day," an annual event when couples flock to the Hall of Justice to be married free of charge. Also, Lola and public defender Emily Lopez are torn between civil laws and the laws of a higher power when it seems they must allow Phoebe (Emma Dumont), a nun with a shady past, to go to prison for a criminal act against the church that she believes is morally right, on ALL RISE, Monday, Oct. 21 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Pictured: Wilson Bethel as Mark Callan Photo: Sonja Flemming/CBS ©2019 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved
"Devotees in the Courthouse of Love" -- Lola officiates her first nuptials on "Wedding Day," an annual event when couples flock to the Hall of Justice to be married free of charge. Also, Lola and public defender Emily Lopez are torn between civil laws and the laws of a higher power when it seems they must allow Phoebe (Emma Dumont), a nun with a shady past, to go to prison for a criminal act against the church that she believes is morally right, on ALL RISE, Monday, Oct. 21 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Pictured (L-R): Lindsay Mendez as Sara Castillo, Ari Frenkel as Ryan, Kersti Bryan as Corina, J. Alex Brinson as Luke Watkins, and Simone Missick as Lola Carmichael Photo: Sonja Flemming/CBS ©2019 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved
"Devotees in the Courthouse of Love" -- Lola officiates her first nuptials on "Wedding Day," an annual event when couples flock to the Hall of Justice to be married free of charge. Also, Lola and public defender Emily Lopez are torn between civil laws and the laws of a higher power when it seems they must allow Phoebe (Emma Dumont), a nun with a shady past, to go to prison for a criminal act against the church that she believes is morally right, on ALL RISE, Monday, Oct. 21 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Pictured: Jessica Camacho as Emily Lopez Photo: Sonja Flemming/CBS ©2019 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved
"Devotees in the Courthouse of Love" -- Lola officiates her first nuptials on "Wedding Day," an annual event when couples flock to the Hall of Justice to be married free of charge. Also, Lola and public defender Emily Lopez are torn between civil laws and the laws of a higher power when it seems they must allow Phoebe (Emma Dumont), a nun with a shady past, to go to prison for a criminal act against the church that she believes is morally right, on ALL RISE, Monday, Oct. 21 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Pictured (L-R): Jennifer Parsons as Miranda and Jessica Camacho as Emily Lopez Photo: Sonja Flemming/CBS ©2019 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved
"Devotees in the Courthouse of Love" -- Lola officiates her first nuptials on "Wedding Day," an annual event when couples flock to the Hall of Justice to be married free of charge. Also, Lola and public defender Emily Lopez are torn between civil laws and the laws of a higher power when it seems they must allow Phoebe (Emma Dumont), a nun with a shady past, to go to prison for a criminal act against the church that she believes is morally right, on ALL RISE, Monday, Oct. 21 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Pictured (L-R): Emma Dumont as Phoebe and Jessica Camacho as Emily Lopez Photo: Sonja Flemming/CBS ©2019 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved
"Devotees in the Courthouse of Love" -- Lola officiates her first nuptials on "Wedding Day," an annual event when couples flock to the Hall of Justice to be married free of charge. Also, Lola and public defender Emily Lopez are torn between civil laws and the laws of a higher power when it seems they must allow Phoebe (Emma Dumont), a nun with a shady past, to go to prison for a criminal act against the church that she believes is morally right, on ALL RISE, Monday, Oct. 21 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Pictured (L-R): J. Alex Brinson as Luke Watkins and Ruthie Ann Miles as Sherri Kansky Photo: Sonja Flemming/CBS ©2019 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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'Rolling Stone' Announced That It Messed Up Its Huge UVA Rape Story
A horrific story about rape has turned into a bizarre parable about the perpetuation of misinformation in the media.
by Allie Conti
Dec 5 2014, 9:15pm
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Sabrina Rubin Erdely was having a banner year. The Rolling Stone journalist came out with three excellent stories in 2014 that garnered a ton of attention—but none more so than "A Rape on Campus." The story, which currently has an insane 173,000 Facebook shares, began with the brutal gang rape of a student named "Jackie" by seven fraternity brothers at the University of Virginia in 2012. Later, Erdley probed into the reporting process for on-campus assaults and came back with some alarming news.
Besides getting attention, the November 19 article caused real-world change—much of it triggered by the horrific, hyper-specific details in the opening anecdote. Soon after the piece came out, UVA suspended all frats until January. University President Teresa Sullivan announced there would be a discussion about "our next steps in preventing sexual assault and sexual violence."
But now it turns out that Erdley might have been misled by the woman who made her career-making feature so powerful. So a horrific story about rape has turned into a bizarre parable about the perpetuation of misinformation in the media.
The Washington Post reported Friday that Phi Kappa Psi—the fraternity whose brothers allegedly raped Jackie—planned to issue a statement refuting "A Rape on Campus." That's probably what caused Rolling Stone's managing editor to issue a "note to our readers," which includes the following:
In the face of new information, there now appear to be discrepancies in Jackie's account, and we have come to the conclusion that our trust in her was misplaced. We were trying to be sensitive to the unfair shame and humiliation many women feel after a sexual assault and now regret the decision to not contact the alleged assaulters to get their account. We are taking this seriously and apologize to anyone who was affected by the story.
But where it gets weirder is that the Post has apparently deleted parts of its own story. The original story (about the Rolling Stone story) included the line: "The Post determined that the student Jackie named is not a member of Phi Kappa Psi and had never met her in person." Now there's a vague and possibly misleading explanation appended to the article. What's more, Jackie is now saying that she asked Erdley to remove her from the article, but that the journalist refused. The idea that a journalist might publish a story about an alleged rape victim without her consent is, needless to say, incredibly disturbing.
But all media fuckery aside, what's really sad is that one in five women are raped on college campuses, and only 1 percent of their rapists are punished. As a result of one enormous journalistic error, women who report rape—and the outlets that report on their stories—will now be under extra scrutiny. That's exactly what Anna Merlan over at Jezebel pointed out in a story that went up quickly after Rolling Stone's retraction. (And to add one more layer to the whole thing, she made that point in her own retraction about a post in which she openly mocked people questioning the veracity of "A Rape on Campus.")
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First Bhutan-Thailand Friendship Drive Sets-off on Epic Journey
Bangkok (Thailand) – July 1, 2019 (travelindex.com) – The epic eight-day journey set off from Bangkok on Friday, 21 June and will have covered 3,000 km by the time it arrives in the Bhutanese capital of Thimphu on Friday, 28 June. The route follows the Myanmar-Thailand-India trilateral highway through the three countries before entering Bhutan through Phuentsholing on the Bhutan-India border on Thursday, 27 June.
The ‘Bhutan-Thailand Friendship Drive – Connecting Peoples of the Two Kingdoms by Land’ is one of the flagship events commemorating the 30th anniversary in 2019 of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Thailand and Bhutan. It is also in celebration of the auspicious Royal Coronation in Thailand and reflects both countries’ reverence of the monarchy institution, with Bhutan also having a king.
Mr. Chattan Kunjara Na Ayudhya, TAT Deputy Governor for International Marketing – Asia and the South Pacific, said that as the first friendship drive between Thailand and Bhutan, this event aims to further strengthen relations on all levels between the two kingdoms.
Taking part in the ‘Bhutan-Thailand Friendship Drive – Connecting Peoples of the Two Kingdoms by Land’ are 21 participants, comprising officials from the Royal Thai Government, Royal Bhutanese Embassy, Thairung Union Car Public Company Limited and two youth representatives – one each from Thailand and Bhutan.
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OKC RIVERSPORT to host American Canoe Association Sprint and Slalom National Team Trials April 12-14
The country’s top canoe and kayak athletes will compete in the first step of the Olympic selection process with an eye on Tokyo 2020
The best canoe and kayak athletes from around the country will compete in the ACA Sprint and Slalom National Team Trials April 12-14 in downtown Oklahoma City’s Boathouse District. More than 110 athletes from age 14 to 45 are expected to compete.
“National Team Trials is the beginning of the Olympic selection process,” explained OKC RIVERSPORT Manager of Paddlesports Aasim Saleh. “Those with a good showing at team trials will be selected for the Junior, Senior and Para World Championships later this year.”
The America Canoe Association’s search for a venue for nationals was an easy one.
“The ACA chose to hold nationals in Oklahoma City because the Boathouse District is the only location in the country that can hold whitewater and flatwater competitions simultaneously,” said executive director Mike Knopp. “Plus, our proximity to great hotels and restaurants in Bricktown and Downtown made their decision a no-brainer.”
In conjunction, RIVERSPORT OKC will also host Team Canada’s Slalom National Team Trials on RIVERSPORT Rapids. Athletes from four Canadian provinces, including Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec, as well as two Canadian Nationals from France, will compete.
“Team Canada consistently brings their slalom kayakers to train at RIVERSPORT Rapids,” said Knopp. “RIVERSPORT Rapids is the best competitive whitewater course in North America.”
Participating athletes will compete in the Boathouse District April 12-14.
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In Final Stretch of Legislative Session, Ed Boards Urge Action to Save Public Charter Schools
The shot clock is winding down on the short 2016 legislative session, and the future remains unknown for Washington’s eight public charter schools.
With less than two weeks remaining on the legislative calendar, editorial boards from around the state continue to call on our state’s leaders to find a solution for the state’s charter schools following a Supreme Court ruling last year that declared the funding mechanism for these schools to be unconstitutional.
The Olympian: Charter schools fix deserves action
Charters should be available as a legitimate educational alternative — especially for families and students in poorer households that have been underserved by ordinary public schools — until data show they are not delivering results. So far, results are highly promising.
Yakima Herald: Charter school fix must keep current ones and allow more
The schools already have brought together students, parents, educators and community members who have invested their time and toil to set up the schools. A number of individuals in the Yakima Valley have signaled that they would like to follow suit. The Legislature is letting down these committed charter school supporters — present and future — if they heed the critics who reflexively fear that something different just might be something better.
Seattle Times: Time for drama to end: House should vote on charter schools
Voters wanted charter schools as an option in this state. The Senate approved a bill that answered the Supreme Court’s concerns. The House Education Committee has deliberately let the issue languish and now seems to be obstructing a solution.
A charter school fix was a key policy priority of the Roundtable to start the session, and it remains so today. We urge lawmakers in both parties and in both chambers to find a solution before session adjourns on March 10th.
Education Benchmarks Show Mixed Results for Washington
Yesterday’s update to the Benchmarks for a Better Washington shows that our state’s education system continues to produce mix results. Washington scores among the top 10 states in the nation in 8th grade math performance, ranking 7th overall. That success is tempered by the fact that just 39 percent of our students scored proficient or better on the nation’s math exam in 2015. Looking at other education metrics, Washington ranks 38th in high school graduation rate, despite an uptick in the graduation rate to 78.2 percent in 2014. And, we’ve moved closer to the bottom 10 states for bachelor’s degrees awarded per capita, ranking 39th with 4.6 degrees awarded per 1,000 residents in 2013.
There are opportunities ahead to improve not only Washington’s education rankings, but to take actions that will lead to better outcomes for Washington students. In the short-term, the best opportunity is for state lawmakers to take action on legislation that will allow for the continued operation of public charter schools in our state. The Senate passed a charter school bill early in the legislative session and, with just two weeks left in the session, we’re getting down to crunch time. Public charter schools provide options and opportunities for students who have been historically underserved in our state, and, in just the first year, Washington’s public charter school students are making impressive achievement gains. It’s time to act and deliver a solution that will allow for the continued operation of these schools. Learn more about the charter school effort from the Washington Charter Schools Association and Act Now for Washington Students.
To view the Benchmarks for a Better Washington, click here.
NEW: February 2016 Benchmarks for a Better Washington
How does Washington rank on key issues like innovation, education, transportation, and business climate? Find out in the latest update to the Benchmarks for a Better Washington, released today by the Washington Roundtable.
The Benchmarks that tells us exactly how Washington ranks on a set of 13 key data points, as compared to the other 49 states. Our goal? Make Washington a top 10 state for quality of life and innovation while ensuring it is not one of the 10 most expensive states in which to do business.
Click below to see the February 2016 Benchmarks for a Better Washington:
Based on data collected since the Benchmarks were updated in the fall of 2015:
Washington continues to be a leader in growth and innovation, ranking 4th in private sector job creation and 5th in patent generation.
Our education system continues to produce mixed results. Washington ranks 7th in 8th grade math performance, a slight decline from the previous ranking, though still in the top 10 states. Our state continues to rank among the bottom third of all states based on high school graduation rates (38th) and bachelor’s degrees awarded per capita (39th).
Washington falls to 40th for average statewide commute time (now 26.8 minutes).
Washington drops down to 38th for business tax burden. The state and local business tax burden is equal to 5.4 percent of gross state product.
The Benchmarks tell us where Washington stands today on these key metrics and remind us that hard work is needed to catch up, keep up, and move ahead. See the full report, including an in-depth Fact Sheet at waroundtable.com/benchmarks.
Parents, Students, Teachers Voice Support for Bill to Fix Public Charter Schools
A large, passionate crowd — young and old — braved the weather on Friday to travel to Olympia in support of a bill to fix public charter schools in Washington state.
An @Excel_WA parent making some final adjustments to her testimony, on her way to Olympia. #waleg #act4wastudents pic.twitter.com/bUHO8YeJ0A
— ActNowForWAStudents (@ActNowForWA) February 19, 2016
MT @WA_Charters: Rain won’t keep @Excel_WA students from traveling to Olympia to fight for charters! #walegpic.twitter.com/beItsWi47c#waedu
— AWB (@awbolympia) February 19, 2016
Busy day for charter school hearing with House Education Committee #waleg #waedu pic.twitter.com/MUWngTnoKQ
— Holly Thorpe (@HollyiThorpe) February 19, 2016
Great crowd for @WA_Charters at House hearing. #waedu #waleg #act4wastudents pic.twitter.com/5m1PaPfkVk
— StandforChildren WA (@WashingtonStand) February 19, 2016
The House Education Committee opened public testimony on SB 6194, a bill to fix the way these schools are funded. (Last September, the Washington Supreme Court declared the previous funding mechanism for public charter schools to be unconstitutional.) During the hearing, parents, students, and faculty told success story after success story, and pleaded with committee members to keep open the doors of their schools.
Katie, student: The greatest part of public charter schools is that amazing opportunities are available to anyone free of charge. #waleg
— WA Charters (@WA_Charters) February 19, 2016
Ashley Lopez, @Excel_WA student: My teachers help me excel in academics every day, while also learning orchestra & computer science. #waleg
Jadynn Isabell, student: In my first day at @SummitWA, I knew my new teachers would help me get to college. #waleg pic.twitter.com/MZQHAEUguM
Shirline, parent: Public charter schools are not a silver bullet, but they are already proving a critical part of the solution. #waleg
Adel Sefrioui, @Excel_WA: Public charter schools are held more accountable to the public, and we serve a more diverse population. #waleg
Heskiyas Wondaferew, @Excel_WA student: I am standing here, asking you humbly not to take my education away. pic.twitter.com/5Ge1fpHOQm
Less than three weeks remaining in the 2016 legislative session. The House Education Committee has scheduled executive action on the public charter schools bill next Thursday, February 25th. Stay tuned here for updates, or follow us on Facebook and Twitter . Act Now for Washington Students also for more on the issue, including an online petition where you can voice your support for public charter schools. Check it out.
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Many people seem to think that when we meditate we should only have pure thoughts of enlightenment and bliss. Ironically, this mindset often keeps folks from talking about one of the biggest benefits of meditation: better sex.
A client of mine who is a lawyer in New York City started meditating because he was dealing with anxiety. He came to a group meditation one year after learning and said, “You joked once before about meditation making my sex better, but what’s happening for me is crazy. It feels crass and un-meditatey to say, but my sex life is stunning now. It is fun, loving and primal. Meditation and primal sex aren’t an intuitive fit, but now I’m a believer.” Obviously meditation was not the only contributing factor— after all, it takes two to tango— but his is not an uncommon report.
So why does meditation make you better in bed? Well, let’s consider context first. Many of us are stressed out, whether from work, our relationships, money, or any of our many responsibilities. We’re often so caught up in all the stress in our heads that we’re not fully in touch with our bodies, and we’re also frequently so busy reliving the past and rehearsing the future that we’re not present in the right now. None of these things are ingredients for a great sex life. Additionally, stress increases cortisol and adrenaline levels, and these increased levels of cortisol and adrenaline decrease sexual desire and performance (among other negative effects).
You’ve probably heard that meditation is an incredibly powerful stress-reducing tool, and this is true. So on a biological level, meditation can increase sexual desire and performance by reducing the amount of cortisol and adrenaline running through our bodies. But there are a few other reasons that meditation is such a powerful tool for improving your sex life.
For starters, meditation gives you deep rest, which means more energy for sex. It’s pretty hard to feel turned on if you’re exhausted, and unfortunately, many of us feel so fatigued after a busy day that the last thing on our minds is having a high-energy romp in the bedroom. But when you meditate you de-excite the nervous system and give your body rest that is deeper than sleep, which actually helps you feel more awake afterward. This jolt of energy may be just what you need after work to energize you for a passionate evening with your partner.
The act of de-exciting the nervous system also helps relax your brain and body, which makes it easier for you to become aroused. There is a reason why almost every civilization since the beginning of time has some sort of mating ritual before sex; things like a nice dinner, champagne, oysters and music can help set the mood and relax you for sex. The more relaxed you are going into the act itself, the more likely you are to enjoy it and therefore climax.
Speaking of the act itself, having a meditation practice can also help you during sex. Meditation strengthens the mind-body connection, making you more aware of your body and the physical sensations running through it. When you’re experiencing the world through all your senses as opposed to just through your brain, you’re more receptive to every sensation— which is obviously pretty helpful when you’re having sex.
Meditation also helps strengthen your sense of connectedness, both to the current moment and to your partner. Instead of being distracted about what happened at work today or your to-do list for tomorrow, you’re better able to stay in the right here, right now. Additionally, meditation increases mirror neuron functioning, meaning that you’re more highly attuned to what your partner is feeling. This fact, coupled with the fact that you’re relaxed and present, will probably mean you’ll be a far more intuitive and generous partner.
A final way that meditation contributes to your sex life is that it helps you find internal fulfillment. Your happiness exists in one place and that is inside of you, and it exists in one time and that is right now. Meditation gives you a means to access that happiness, making you less likely to think that you need your partner to complete you. When you’re able to access your own fulfillment and bliss, you’re actually able to give more of yourself, making you a better partner.
If you’re interested in learning more about the neuroscience behind why meditation improves your sex life, join me at The Path on June 15 at 7p. We’ll chat about sex and meditation while enjoying dark chocolate, sake, and a penthouse view of NYC. It’ll be one aphrodisiac of an evening.
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Updated: 11:24 AM EST Feb 9, 2012
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Louisville Metro Police said a man abused and assaulted his elderly mother because she closed down their joint bank account.WLKY spoke with the 70-year-old victim about what happened and what she wants to happen next.David Hacker, 51, was indicted Tuesday. Click Like For Louisville News Updates:He is accused of punching his 70-year-old mother, Ruth Hacker."He's taken my last money too. And then he turns around and does this," said Ruth Hacker.According to an arrest warrant, David Hacker went to his mother's home on Norwich Boulevard in August, angry that she had closed her bank account, which had his name on it as well."I didn't know he got upset. He just come busting in the door," said Ruth Hacker.Police said David Hacker then struck his mother in the left eye with a closed fist."He came over here and just hit me, and kept hitting me, and kept hitting me," said Ruth Hacker. "He was calling me (names).The warrant stated David Hacker also took his mother's phone so she couldn't call 911.She eventually ran to a neighbor's house to call police, but by the time officers arrived, her son was gone."This eye here was black and (my) nose was like pushed over to one side," said Ruth Hacker.David Hacker was arrested a few days later and has now been indicted.But his mother said the charges are small comfort compared to the hurt of how she's been treated by her own blood."I've cried, a lot. I really have. I did a lot for him," said Ruth Hacker. The arrest warrant stated that police are also investigating David Hacker for possible exploitation of a vulnerable adult.WLKY went to his home Thursday to try to get a comment, but was unsuccessful.David Hacker is being charged with knowing abuse or neglect of an adult and intimidating a participant in the legal process, which are both felonies.He's also facing a fourth-degree assault charge, which is a misdemeanor.David Hacker's arraignment is scheduled for Monday afternoon.
Louisville Metro Police said a man abused and assaulted his elderly mother because she closed down their joint bank account.
WLKY spoke with the 70-year-old victim about what happened and what she wants to happen next.
David Hacker, 51, was indicted Tuesday.
Click Like For Louisville News Updates:
He is accused of punching his 70-year-old mother, Ruth Hacker.
"He's taken my last money too. And then he turns around and does this," said Ruth Hacker.
According to an arrest warrant, David Hacker went to his mother's home on Norwich Boulevard in August, angry that she had closed her bank account, which had his name on it as well.
"I didn't know he got upset. He just come busting in the door," said Ruth Hacker.
Police said David Hacker then struck his mother in the left eye with a closed fist.
"He came over here and just hit me, and kept hitting me, and kept hitting me," said Ruth Hacker. "He was calling me (names).
The warrant stated David Hacker also took his mother's phone so she couldn't call 911.
She eventually ran to a neighbor's house to call police, but by the time officers arrived, her son was gone.
"This eye here was black and (my) nose was like pushed over to one side," said Ruth Hacker.
David Hacker was arrested a few days later and has now been indicted.
But his mother said the charges are small comfort compared to the hurt of how she's been treated by her own blood.
"I've cried, a lot. I really have. I did a lot for him," said Ruth Hacker.
The arrest warrant stated that police are also investigating David Hacker for possible exploitation of a vulnerable adult.
WLKY went to his home Thursday to try to get a comment, but was unsuccessful.
David Hacker is being charged with knowing abuse or neglect of an adult and intimidating a participant in the legal process, which are both felonies.
He's also facing a fourth-degree assault charge, which is a misdemeanor.
David Hacker's arraignment is scheduled for Monday afternoon.
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IN THE UK WITH WHEELY WONDERFUL CYCLING
Cycling Holiday
Legends and Stories in Welsh Border Cycling Holidays
The Welsh Borders are full of stories and legends. Here are a few you can visit on our cycling and walking holidays
Dragons in the Radnor forest
According to a legend, the local people built four churches in a circle around the Radnor Forest in order to contain the last dragon in Wales, who lay sleeping in the area. The churches, at Llanfihangel Cefnllys, Llanfihangel Rhydithon (Dolau), Llanfihangel Nant Melan and Llanfihangel Cascob, were all dedicated to St Michael (Welsh: Mihangel) victor over the dragon. Some people believed that the dragon would awaken if any of the four churches were destroyed Visit on the Welsh Border Cycle Tour
The Mortimer Trail at Aymestrey
"Everyone loves a good ghost story, so I’m glad to say we have a haunted wood, Pokehouse Wood. The word ‘poke’ originates from Puck, one of the many old English words for fairy.
So notorious was Pokehouse Wood in days gone by - for the spirits led travellers astray - that a local man donated a parcel of land to finance a stipend to pay a man to ring the bell at Aymestrey Church for an hour at sunset in order to guide travellers down the hill and across the river to safety. In Aymestrey you can still see the hole in the bell tower fashioned, especially to allow the bell ropes to be pulled from the church’s porch. Whether you believe the folklore or are a sceptic, it’s a great story, and myths and legends add so much to our experience of the landscape.
Another local woodland called Slaughterhouse Covert, commemorates the massacre of the Lancastrian forces defeated at The Battle of Mortimer’s Cross, (1461). After fleeing the battlefield along the Covenhope Valley, they were caught by Yorkists and locals with a strong dislike for the Welsh descended Lancastrians." thanks to the wonderful Riverside Inn at Aymestrey, one of your overnight stops on the Mortimer Trail - great food & welcome
The Radnor Valley - Standing stones and Ley lines
Explore this area on our Herefordshire Gardens Cycle tour (its a good reason to explore whilst visiting Whimble Gardens)
"The Radnor Valley is rich in wildlife and wildflowers and has an exceptional wealth of historical and prehistoric features, dating back to the earliest times. This is the heartland of the book The Old Straight Trackby Alfred Watkins. It was he who first proposed the theories of Ley-lines from observations garnered whilst delivering beer in Radnor and Herefordshire. The most important ley-lines appear to emanate from Old Radnor church and run across the landscape, as if linking ancient sites and landscape features, one of which is the site of the standing stones in the valley bottom known as ‘Fourstones’.
Situated in a region referred to as the Walton Basin, the Four Stones are the only confirmed Welsh example of a four-poster stone circle. The circle is about 16½ ft (5 m) across and the stone heights range from 3 ft (1 m) to 6 ft (1.9 m). The tallest stone at the North-west may have served to indicate the sun as it set behind the dome-shaped Whimble hill (visible in the distance, at centre-right of picture) on the Celtic festival days of Beltane and Lughnasa (present day May Day and Lammas). Like other standing stones in the region, the shapes of these stones appear to mimic the shapes of nearby hills. The stone at the South-west (left of picture) has three cupmarks on its upper surface, and it may have served to indicate the midwinter setting sun. A local legend tells of the stones going to the nearby Hindwell Pool for a drink whenever they hear the bells of Old Radnor church ringing! " thanks to Martin Powell
A mile to the east lies ‘Castle Ring’ an ancient hill fort and close by is Offa’s Dyke. Built in the 8th. century, Offa’s Dyke is a significant feature of the landscape, wending it’s way across the Border Country and is now a long distance footpath enjoyed by many walkers. A site of even greater archeological significance has been discovered more recently: An unusually large ring ditch near Walton Court Farm, in Radnorshire’s Walton Basin. The ring ditch, which was identified as a cropmark from aerial photography, measures around 100m diameter and is defined by a relatively narrow ditch. Part of the site underlies two Roman marching camps and the excavation was designed to test their relationship to the ring ditch.
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So first, all window seat passengers would need to board.He had a big jump this year probably because he was hardly heard from.Niang had a strong showing with 18 points, eight rebounds and seven assists in the contest and will be back with the for Tuesday’s home game against the Spurs.
The Raiders Foundation, in partnership with the USO Las Vegas, hosts a fun event for current military members and their spouses to compete in a 6 event combine to fundraise for the USO Las Vegas at the Warrior Fitness Center at Nellis Air Force Base, Saturday, November 10, in Las Vegas, Nevada.We didn’t see the growth teams would like to see year over year.I threw the ball and I ran the ball, but I was mostly a runner.
Pletcher faced No.Miami might not need an interior defensive lineman, but Wilkins is the type of player and person you build around.Murray rebounded from a career-low .907 save percentage in his second full NHL season to post a .919 save percentage this season.
Devin Cannady added 16 points and four rebounds for the Tigers .No matter who is in there, we have to be able to execute and get things done.completed both field-goal attempts, including a 55-yard try, during Friday’s 21 preseason loss to the Vikings.Any commercial use or distribution without the express written consent of AP is strictly prohibited.
That’s unacceptable.An MRI showed no structural damage.According to ‘s Rob Bradford, the 35-year-old played in eight successful innings Sunday morning, and has nine more scheduled for Tuesday.So, for sure, I have hope.
The Catamounts shot 53 percent from the floor while Jacksonville was at 37 percent .And after Panarin’s stretch pass to Atkinson was washed out due to offsides, Josh Anderson made it a 5 game by scoring his career-best 20th goal of the year on a semi-break late in regulation.The wheels came off a bit.He says exactly what is happening, and if you understand football and how football works – which is where my dad came in – then Mitch is the second piece of that puzzle.The Black Hawks, just a .500 team by early January, embarked on a remarkable streak, losing three games in February and only one in March.
Center Mathew Barzal is an impact player, but he has had cold streaks, too.The Tongan winger touched down in both halves but suffered a leg injury on a night when Trinity also lost Tom Johnstone to what could be a recurrence of a knee injury.The Bruins’ top line of , and Pastrnak has caused fits for opposing teams all season and it should be no different in the playoffs.was naed Defensive Player of the Year.If you would like to search for all players born on a certain day, for example all players born on December 25th in any year, choose the month and day with the drop down boxes and then choose the ‘Month and Day Search’ option.He fell to Nebraska’s Dakota Geer, 5, in the seventh-place match at 184.
A statement from Badminton Horse Trials on social media said: It is with very great sadness that we hear of the sudden death of Mike Tucker, for so long the voice of equestrianism on television and indeed at numerous events and shows all over the UK and round the world.The Braves evened the season series against the Bulldogs with the win.TITANS TIDBITS: �?Firkser grew up playing basketball and both roller and ice hockey at elite levels and didn’t begin playing football until his sophomore year of high school.With Edwin Encarnacion out of the lineup for Seattle on Sunday, Daniel Vogelbach will take his place as designated hitter for the evening.Here’s hoping the franchise makes it a special night for their longest-tenured current player.
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Article Courtesy of: Kevin Edwards, The Wayne Independent
When the Hornets hit the mat for the opening round of this year's District Two Duals tournament, they will do so with one of the area's truly dazzling resumes.
Coach Ryan Chulada's squad is the area's “feelgood” story of the winter sports season, having already exceeded even their veteran skipper's wildest expectations.
Honesdale will head into Wednesday evening's action sporting an overall record of 18-3. The Red & Black closed out the Lackawanna League campaign with a perfect 8-0 mark and are reigning Division II champs As a result, the Hornets have earned a top seed and the right to host this year's edition of the event.
According to District Two Chairman Dr. Jay Starnes, the 2016-17 Class AA tourney will be held Wednesday at the Wayne Highlands Middle School gymnasium.
Doors will open at 4:30 p.m. with wrestling set to commence at 5:30 p.m.
Honesdale will open up its gold medal quest in the quarterfinals against Berwick, the fourth seeded team from the Wyoming Valley Conference.
The Bulldogs will enter the competition with an overall record of 4-8. They finished up their league schedule at 2-3, good for fourth in the standings.
Wilkes Barre Meyers copped the WVC's Division II crown with a perfect 5-0 record. Tunkhannock, Dallas and Hazleton Area wound up in a dead heat atop the Division I heap.
The Hornets and Dawgs have already met once this year at Berwick's annual invitational tournament. There, Coach Chulada's lads used a combination of falls and forfeits to hammer out a 61-16 victory.
While Honesdale is busy battling Berwick, Lake Lehman and Valley View will be squaring off on the other mat.
The Black Knights are coming off a 4-1 showing in Wyoming Valley Conference action, finishing second in Division II.
Valley View enters the fray with a 6-2 Lackawanna League mark. The Cougars' only losses came at the hands of Western Wayne and Honesdale.
Meanwhile, the other half of this year's AA bracket is being hosted Wednesday night by Meyers High School in Wilkes Barre.
The Mohawks are the top seeded WVC squad and will see quarterfinal action against Montrose. Also wrestling in the Diamond City will be Hanover Area and Western Wayne.
All winners will advance to Pittston Area on Saturday for the District Two finals and consolation matches.
Action gets underway at noon.
In the Clutch
Each time Honesdale has needed a match-clinching, crunch time win this year, Troy Russell has answered the bell.
A senior co-captain who's been a varsity wrestler for four years, Russell heads into District Duals with a sparkling 22-3 record.
And, two of those wins were of the spectacular variety with a crucial match hanging in the balance.
The first time Russell rode to the rescue came last Wednesday against Western Wayne. The Wildcats held a 31-28 lead heading into the evening's final bout, but Troy rose to the occasion.
He wasted no time in taking control, notching a pair of early takedowns at the expense of Mitchell Herzog.
Moments later, the match was over. Russell had ground out a 15-0 technical fall and given Honesdale an electrifying win. This 33-31 decision put an end to a decade of Western Wayne dominance. The Wildcats hadn't lost a regular season dual meet since 2009 and had won seven consecutive titles.
Less than 72 hours later, Coach Chulada turned to Russell once again with a match on the line. And this time, the divisional crown was also up for grabs.
The Hornets were once again trailing on the road at Valley View when Troy strode to the mat at 126.
Down 34-29, only a pin could catapult the Red & Black to victory … and Russell delivered.
His first period clamp of Tony Mellado (:51) gave Honesdale a 40-39 win.
The Red & Black then rolled to an easy win over Scranton Prep, putting the finishing touches on a perfect 8-0 season in the Lackawanna League.
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Home > Bradford > New indoor play at Bradford garden centre creates 39 new jobs
New indoor play at Bradford garden centre creates 39 new jobs
The new indoor play area at Tong Garden Centre has created 39 new jobs for local people.
Grass Hoppers indoor play has recruited 26 permanent and 13 seasonal team members to work in the state of the art 15,000 square feet indoor play area and the new 200 seater Woody’s Kitchen.
The indoor play roles include receptionists, queue management assistants, party assistants, a party supervisor and a play supervisor. 15 of the 39 have been recruited to work in Woody’s Kitchen that serves a selection of freshly made pizzas, paninis, barista made coffee and 40 flavours of ice cream.
Neil Barwise, Tong’s newly appointed head of People and Culture, said: “We are thrilled that our latest investment in making Tong one of the north’s leading garden centres has created 39 new jobs for local people and we’re delighted with the calibre of people that we have attracted. We wish them all a long, happy and fulfilling career at Tong.
“We used a specially commissioned video to help with the recruitment of catering team members for both Woody’s Kitchen and our main 300 seater restaurant and we’re delighted with the results.”
Tong’s owners have invested more than £2 m to create the new indoor play area that includes a large pre-school soft play area, a role play zone, new party rooms, a play frame and a sports court. The new indoor play adjoins the outdoor Grass Hoppers adventure playground that has been visited by over a quarter of a million children since it opened in 2016.
Tong Garden Centre provides employment for 180 people in a mixture of permanent and casual positions.
Grass Hoppers is a 60,000 square feet indoor and outdoor play area at Tong Garden Centre’s Tong Lane site.
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From being underestimated to becoming head chef
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Chef Li Si shares how she earned her stripes in the male-dominated F&B industry
In contrast to her towering male counterparts, pans and knives look much larger in Chef Li Si's hands. To the surprise of many, this petite Chef de Cuisine helms the young team at Japanese-Spanish restaurant, BAM! in Tras Street, Singapore.
Surprising people has been a constant in the 30-year-old's journey – even now, with over 12 years of experience under her belt.
"When customers want to compliment the team and I show up, they're surprised to see a female," she laughed. "I look a lot younger - even our suppliers mistake me for a student and ask me where the chef is."
Li Si started her culinary education with At-Sunrice GlobalChef Academy in 2005. She recalls that her parents reluctantly supported her as this path was unconventional for a woman at that time.
Although Li Si's mother was not as supportive of her decision in the beginning, she has now eaten at all the restaurants Li Si has worked at.
PHOTO CREDIT: YOUTH.SG/TARINI TILVE
At 19, the young, budding cook had to work twice as hard to prove that she was as capable as her male counterparts.
When she went on her first internship alongside a male classmate, she was placed in the pastry section even though she was a culinary student.
Her classmate, however, was thrust into the sweltering heat of the hot kitchen to grill and cook over fire – an ability that Li Si had learned and practiced in school.
It wasn't until years later as a full-time kitchen staff did Li Si realise that what she went through was quite unusual. Pastry students belong in the pastry section, while culinary students would practice in the hot kitchen.
"I was not upset, I just accepted it. We were new so I thought it was normal," she said.
Chef Li Si was one of eight nominees for the Chef of The Year 2019 award in the female category.
PHOTO CREDIT: BAM.SG
Despite keeping her from cooking over heat and flame, Li Si appreciated her time in the pastry section.
"I was actually grateful that I learned baking. It is a useful skill that I can use to innovate," she recalled.
While the initial road was difficult, Li Si carved a name for herself and was promoted.
"Once they saw that I was responsible and could do the work that was given to me, I was placed in the hot kitchen," she said.
In 2009, Li Si became a finalist for the World Gourmet Summit’s 'Outstanding Culinary Apprentice', where she was chosen based on her performance in school and her internship.
The winner is chosen based on level of passion, sense of responsibility and enthusiasm for learning.
PHOTO CREDIT: TOH LI SI
After culinary school, Li Si continued to grow when she got the chance to learn under prominent figures like Chef Andoni Luis Anduriz of Mugaritz, a trailblazer for innovation and creativity who sits on the board of Euro Toque, an international association of European chefs.
She even traveled to Spain and Dubai, cooking for other restaurants and participating in inter-hotel competitions to gain more exposure.
"In Dubai, I was the only senior female chef in the whole hotel. When I went into meetings, I would get weird glances or surprised faces," she mentioned. "It took time for people to get used to it."
Chef Li Si (far right) spent three years with her team in Zengo, Dubai.
Li Si believes the reason there are not as many women working in the industry is because of how physically taxing it can be. She often cooks in the sweltering heat of the kitchen for up to 15 hours a day.
However, in the past decade, Li Si is happy to have seen an increase of women in the industry.
"It is funny because women naturally have traits that make good chefs, like being organised, being good at multitasking and having attention for detail," she mentioned.
Li Si’s Braised Inaniwa Udon from BAM! is made of various mushrooms and fat choy.
PHOTO CREDIT:YOUTH.SG/TARINI TILVE
A long way from her pastry section days, Li Si had to claw her way to the top and earn the respect of her peers through blood, sweat and tears.
Leading the young, passionate team of BAM! for 3 years now, this chef has mastered the art of navigating the kitchen despite her small frame.
"I definitely want to show people that you don’t have to look a certain way to follow your dream. It’s about being able to adapt and overcome your challenges."
BANNER AND TEASER PHOTO CREDIT: YOUTH.SG/TARINI TILVE
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Walter and Miriam Rutman Distinguished Professor
Biological Chemist Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina 1979
PhD (Biological Sciences) Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Argentina 1985
Micronutrient transition metals (copper, zinc, cobalt, nickel, iron, and manganese) play a central role in the interaction of pathogenic (and beneficial) bacteria with higher eukaryote hosts. Our research is directed to understand the bacterial mechanisms of metal homeostasis required for these interactions. In particular, we focus on the functions of transmembrane transporters and chaperone molecules that tightly control metal uptake and distribution. These molecules appear to be key determinants of virulence in pathological bacteria like Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, or symbionts such as Rhizobium meliloti. In addition, we study the molecular structure and biochemical mechanisms of metal selectivity in transmembrane transport ATPases. Our multidisciplinary approaches include structural and molecular biology, enzymology, biophysics, protein chemistry, fluorescence microscopy, and microbiology. Through a number of ongoing collaborations, we also employ crystallography, X-ray fluorescence and spectroscopy, and bioinformatics to gain insights into the role of metals in bacterial virulence. Collaboration and camaraderie among postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and undergraduate students are hallmarks of our work. I enjoy mentoring these young colleagues and guiding their progress into a scientific career.
arguello@wpi.edu
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Ion transport across membranes
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A Heavy Metal Balancing Act: Studying Copper to Help Cells Fight Back Against Bacterial Invaders
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Important 20th Century Design 25 September 2005
Fulvio Bianconi 1915–1996
Born in Padua in 1915, Fulvio Bianconi initially rose to prominence as an illustrator, graphic designer and caricaturist working for Italy’s top companies during the 1930s. Designing for big names like Fiat, Pathé and Pirelli, Bianconi employed his passion for drawing as the creative mind behind one of Italy’s most prestigious publishing houses, Garzanti for over 30 years. However, it is perhaps his post-war collaboration with Paolo Venini and experimentation with glass which best defines his legacy as an artist.
On a business trip to Murano in 1947, Bianconi met with Paolo Venini who immediately recognized his talent and offered him a position as artistic director, a post which had recently been vacated by the celebrated architect Carlo Scarpa. Engaged on a free-lance basis, Bianconi’s arrangement with Venini was somewhat unusual but seemed to suit his idiosyncratic personality and artistic inclinations.
From the very beginning, Bianconi’s approach at Venini was entirely that of a fine artist, drawing inspiration from modern art, fashion and graphic design. As a cartoonist and caricaturist he was also able to re-envision cultural themes from Italy’s past and express them in a fresh, contemporary way. All of this was in fact encouraged by Venini, who seemed to have an innate understanding of Bianconi’s frenetic style and unique abilities.
From 1947 to 1950, Bianconi designed numerous series of sculptural objects and vessels including the Commedia dell’Art figures, Fazoletto (handkerchief) vases, Pezzati (patchwork) and con Macchie (stained) vessels, all of which have all now become icons of post-war Italian design. Sometimes surreal, often abstract, these series captured the spirit of the times and expressed the essence of La Dolce Vita and the exuberance of post-war Italy. While Murano had been demonstrating an awareness of modern art since the early part of the century, it is only with Bianconi that it found itself on equal footing.
Bianconi designed unique, modern art objects on a human-scale and for this, Murano glass was the perfect vehicle. From this point of view, one could say that Bianconi was instrumental in the liberation of Murano glass from its own cultural and historical definitions.
Auction Results Fulvio Bianconi
Fulvio Bianconi
Con Macchie vase
result: $197,000
rare and important Sirena vase
Important Con Macchie vase, model 4324
estimate: $90,000–120,000
Sirena vase
Marghuerite vase
Con Macchie vase, model 4325
Con Macchia vase
A Rete vase, model 4232
Monumental Fasce Orizzontale vase, model 1522
rare Fasce Verticale vase, model 4404
Bikini vase
Teatrino vase
Rare Pezzato vase, model 3541
Fasce Verticale bottle, model 4404
Bikini vase, model 4333
Commedia dell'Arte figures, pair
Monumental Fasce Orizzontali vase
Rare Pezzato Americano vase, model 3541
rare Cappello del Mago vase
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ADP Takes Swipe at Ackman, Setting Stage for a Fight
Human-resources software firm rejects Pershing Square’s request to extend deadline to nominate directors
Updated Aug. 4, 2017 7:20 pm ET
Automatic Data Processing Inc. fired an unusual broadside against activist investor William Ackman Friday, taking the first strike in what is shaping up to be a nasty fight over the human-resources software giant’s leadership.
ADP said early Friday that Mr. Ackman had taken a stake in the company and revealed he was seeking to throw out half the company’s board and replace Chief Executive Carlos Rodriguez.
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Cloudy. A few flurries or snow showers possible. Low 18F. Winds WNW at 5 to 10 mph..
Cloudy. A few flurries or snow showers possible. Low 18F. Winds WNW at 5 to 10 mph.
Students stop for a bite in the Evansdale Crossing dining area on West Virginia University's Evansdale Campus on Monday.
Staff photo by Clarissa Cottrill
Woodburn Hall is home to students again as West Virginia University ushered in its first day of classes for the spring semester.
Students look through posters on sale in the Mountainlair on the first day of classes Monday in Morgantown.
Students exit a PRT car on Monday during the first day of classes on the Evansdale Campus in Morgantown.
WVU President E. Gordon Gee ushers in 2020.
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WVU students head back to campus for first day of class
by Clarissa Cottrill MORGANTOWN NEWS EDITOR
Clarissa Cottrill
MORGANTOWN — West Virginia University welcomed students back for 2020 and the spring semester with the first day of classes on campus.
Students, faculty and staff filled the sidewalks, streets and parking lots on WVU's campuses to kick off another year for the university.
"Our core Mountaineer values are stronger than ever," WVU President E. Gordon Gee said in his first "Gee Mail" video message of the year. "Our numbers are up all around."
Part of those values is letting students know university resources are there to help them as they progress through the semester, according to Dean of Students Corey Farris.
"There are a number of people and places that can help them," he said of students who want to improve or keep resolutions — from stress management and mental health help at the Carruth Center and physical health and wellness at WellWVU.
The first day of classes was going well, according to WVU officials about halfway through the day, with mild weather and a welcoming atmosphere contributing to that.
"The students are back, the traffic is back and it's not raining," Associate Provost Evan Widders said.
The first day was going "great," according to Farris, who added that a break from classes, exams and papers was positive and de-stressing.
"Students are excited to be back," he said. "They're well-rested."
As the semester ticks on, some of that stress and anxiety is bound to return though — for some even with that first glance at the syllabus. Farris advised students to stay on top of their work and use calendars and planners to avoid procrastination and last-minute obstacles.
"When you get to the point where you're struggling ... ask for help," he said.
Students should be aware of impending graduation and check in with advisors to make sure they are registered for all the right classes, Widders said, adding that the last day to add or drop a class is Friday.
Going into the new year and semester, there's a lot to look forward to at WVU.
"We have one of the best freshman classes ever academically speaking," Widders said, adding that more students are pursuing degrees in engineering and the sciences and there is a lot of momentum in undergraduate research projects.
This year will also be the time to re-launch WVU's "Would You" campaign, according to Farris, which helps students engage, help and take care of each other by getting involved.
"We're looking forward to kicking that in high gear," he said.
"Would You" is an anti-hazing and safety campaign that asks questions such as, “Would you help those in need? If someone were left unconscious due to an alcohol and hazing incident, would you call 911? If someone were being harassed on a night out, would you intervene or call someone to help? If someone were struggling in a class and you had the ability to help, would you," according to a previous WVU press release.
The campaign originally launched in November with a showing of the documentary “Breathe, Nolan, Breathe,” which chronicles the events surrounding the 2014 death of Nolan Burch, a freshman who participated in hazing at the Kappa Sigma house, where the unsanctioned fraternity members made him chug a bottle of bourbon.
"We want students to have a great out-of-class experience," Farris said. "Get involved and help a friend home or to the hospital."
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White House memo confirms President Trump asked Ukraine's president to investigate Biden
Updated: 5:48 PM CDT Sep 25, 2019
President Donald Trump repeatedly prodded Ukraine's new leader to work with Rudy Giuliani and the U.S. attorney general to investigate Democratic political rival Joe Biden, according to a rough transcript summarizing the call released Wednesday.In the call, Trump raised unsubstantiated allegations that the former vice president sought to interfere with a Ukrainian prosecutor's investigation of his son Hunter. "There's a lot of talk about Biden's son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that," Trump said to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.The conversation between the two leaders is one piece of a whistleblower's complaint, which followed the July 25 call. The complaint is central to the formal impeachment inquiry launched Tuesday by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.Read the full transcript hereThe release of the rough transcript set the parameters of the political debate to come, with Trump dismissing it as routine and Democrats saying it laid the ground for an impeachment inquiry.The connection to Attorney General William Barr marked a new and potentially more serious issue for Trump because it shows he took steps to involve the U.S. government with a foreign country to investigate a political rival.Trump aides believed that his oblique, message-by-suggestion style of speaking would not lend itself to the discovery of a "smoking gun" in the transcript. His messages to his staff were at the center of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into obstruction of justice in the Trump-Russia case.One example in the transcript: Trump says to Zelenskiy, "I would like for you to do us a favor though because our country has been through a lot and Ukraine knows a lot about it."Trump has recently confirmed that he ordered the freezing of nearly $400 million in aid to Ukraine a few days before the call.House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Wednesday he's introducing a resolution to disapprove of Pelosi's "decision to move forward with an impeachment inquiry without any debate or vote on such a resolution by the full House."
President Donald Trump repeatedly prodded Ukraine's new leader to work with Rudy Giuliani and the U.S. attorney general to investigate Democratic political rival Joe Biden, according to a rough transcript summarizing the call released Wednesday.
In the call, Trump raised unsubstantiated allegations that the former vice president sought to interfere with a Ukrainian prosecutor's investigation of his son Hunter.
"There's a lot of talk about Biden's son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that," Trump said to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
The conversation between the two leaders is one piece of a whistleblower's complaint, which followed the July 25 call. The complaint is central to the formal impeachment inquiry launched Tuesday by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Read the full transcript here
The release of the rough transcript set the parameters of the political debate to come, with Trump dismissing it as routine and Democrats saying it laid the ground for an impeachment inquiry.
How impeachment works and what’s happened with previous presidents
The connection to Attorney General William Barr marked a new and potentially more serious issue for Trump because it shows he took steps to involve the U.S. government with a foreign country to investigate a political rival.
Trump aides believed that his oblique, message-by-suggestion style of speaking would not lend itself to the discovery of a "smoking gun" in the transcript. His messages to his staff were at the center of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into obstruction of justice in the Trump-Russia case.
One example in the transcript: Trump says to Zelenskiy, "I would like for you to do us a favor though because our country has been through a lot and Ukraine knows a lot about it."
Trump has recently confirmed that he ordered the freezing of nearly $400 million in aid to Ukraine a few days before the call.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Wednesday he's introducing a resolution to disapprove of Pelosi's "decision to move forward with an impeachment inquiry without any debate or vote on such a resolution by the full House."
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Early Morning Rush: Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020
Here's a look at this morning's top stories.
HIT-AND-RUN DRIVER SEARCH | Authorities are searching for the driver that did not stop for a school bus and hit a 14-year-old Muskegon County student, sending him to the hospital in critical condition with two broken legs. The driver did not stop after the incident and has not come forward yet.
IMPEACHMENT LATEST | The House is preparing to vote to send articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the Senate Wednesday for a landmark trial on whether the charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress are grounds for removal.
DEBATE RECAP | The Democratic presidential candidates met in Iowa for the final debate before the first primary votes are cast in about three weeks. Because this was the smallest debate field of this election, candidates had more opportunity to criticize each other's proposals as well as tout their own.
PARK PLACE OPENS FRIDAY | Park Place Provisionary in Muskegon will start selling adult-use, recreational marijuana on Friday, Jan. 17. The dispensary will be giving away t-shirts to the first 100 customers that read "I made history and all I got with this dope t-shirt."
OTTAWA VAPING BAN | During Tuesday's Ottawa County Board of Commissioners regular session, officials approved the proposal to ban vaping on county-owned property and in all enclosed public and private worksites and public places, such as stores, banks, libraries, sports arenas and more.
FORECAST | Light rain and snow track through West Michigan mid-day. Today will be cloudy and cool with afternoon rain south and snow north. High 36°.
For these stories and more, check out 13 ON YOUR SIDE Mornings at 6 a.m.
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FreeSync 2 Support Headed to Xbox One S and One X
During the reveal of Microsoft’s stronger Xbox One console, then still named Project Scorpio, the company surprised friend and foe with the console’s ability to support AMD FreeSync 2, which eliminates stuttering and synchronizes the display’s refresh rate with the provided framerate provided by the console. Of course, you’d need a FreeSync compatible display, although the upcoming HDMI 2.1 specification has similar functionalities.
It turns out that not only the Xbox One X can support AMD FreeSync 2, because Microsoft announced variable refresh rate support for the Xbox One S as well, with both devices supporting HDMI 2.1. It is worth noting that the console’s FreeSync functionality will only operate via the HDMI port as neither the One S nor the One X has a DisplayPort input.
Variable refresh rates will be introduced in the upcoming Spring Update for the Xbox One platform and should be available shortly for Xbox Insiders. That was announced during Microsoft’s Xbox Season Première live stream. The Spring Update will also bring native support for 1440p displays. Microsoft is also currently investigating to automatically switch the display’s setting to ‘game mode’ with lower latencies whenever the console is turned on.
At the moment, FreeSync 2 is only available on monitors and no television are currently available with a variable refresh rate. However, expect upcoming models with HDMI 2.1 ports to have support for this feature.
Alpha-insiders will be able to test out the variable refresh rate in the coming days, and it will become available to insiders in the beta, delta and omega ring as well. An official and final release date for the Spring Update hasn’t been announced yet.
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Microsoft And Xbox’s E3 2018 Media Briefing Will Take Place On Sunday June 10th At 1PM PT / 4PM ET
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ZSL Whipsnade Zoo becomes a space for high-tech wild elephant conservation.
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By Anne Dangerfield and Sophie Vine.
This year, the elephant habitat at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo is becoming a space for wild elephant conservation.
The Arribada conservation tech initiative is working with ZSL Whipsnade Zoo to develop an early warning thermal camera system to help reduce human-elephant conflict in the wild. The project will use machine learning to automatically recognize the thermal photo of an elephant and send an alert to communities that an elephant has been spotted nearby. Alerts will reduce surprise elephant encounters, which are often the cause of elephants injuring humans and, in retaliation or fear, humans hurting elephants.
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Whipsnade’s elephants in thermal vision feeding at their inside hay net.
Teaching a computer to automatically recognize an elephant in thermal vision requires thousands of pictures and the elephant habitat at Whipsnade Zoo is the perfect place to gather them. With the help of the keepers, Arribada has been collecting pictures over the last four months with special thermal cameras.
Sophie Vines, our Thermal Imaging Intern describes a typical day taking pictures at the elephant enclosure:
"My day begins at the grass paddock where the elephants spend their summer. I get the equipment set up for some close-up shots before the elephant girls walk out. As they begin to troop out, sometimes one-by-one, other times altogether as a bundle of grey, I quickly switch on the cameras. The older girls hardly give me or my strange bright green boxes a second thought; occasionally glancing my way or pausing for a small grass snack on their journey to the hay nets. The youngest and cheekiest member of the herd, Beth, never fails to put on a show at the sight of me. Over the last few months I have collected numerous images of her charging around in front of the camera, trunk flailing.
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The typical outside camera set up. I'm currently testing two different resolution sensors to see if one performs better than the other so taking side-by-side images to compare is one of my tasks.
Once the ele’s are on the grass for the day, I am often seen madly dashing around the outskirts of the paddock with my tripods, capturing different angles and noting weather conditions and the distance of the elephants from the camera. This information will help not only train a computer but test the limits of this technology. At what distance does the computer stop being able to identify the pattern of white pixels as an elephant? Is there an optimum temperature window, above which, elephant bodies become one with the scenery and identification becomes impossible? Answering these vital questions will help understand how these cameras will perform in the real-world, where communities will depend on them to help reduce conflict the face with elephants almost daily.
Training the computer to identify humans is also important. We can’t have emergency elephant alerts sent to communities every time a person walks past the cameras. So, part of my time is spent shadowing the keepers like a mad paparazzi desperate for the perfect shot. In addition to their daily work caring for the elephants, the keepers pose for the thermal camera, bringing in the photographs that will train the computer to differentiate an elephant from a human. But they do more than just pose for the camera. They are keen to help wherever they can, whether it be suggesting camera placements for great ele shots, discussing ideas for the technology itself or using their unique connection with the elephants to position them in the exact angles I need.
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Select algorithm results with confidence in elephant identification between 0 and 1
During my time, I’ve realized it’s easy for keepers to become strangers to ZSL’s conservation work because they focus so much on the health and wellbeing of the animals in their care – but it’s not so easy with an overly eager intern waving cameras in your face! Many of the keepers have commented that this project has brought them back in touch with ZSL’s real-life conservation work to help the wild species they dedicate their lives to caring for in captivity. Their patience and enthusiasm for the project has been amazing.
Although I’ve had some challenging days, this is a fantastic project to be part of and I can’t wait to see how it changes the lives of both wild elephants and local communities."
Arribada and ZSL will continue to develop and test the thermal cameras with Whipsnade Zoo’s elephants before taking them into real communities. We hope this project can connect people to ZSL’s conservation projects and show how animals in zoos can play a vital role in the conservation of their wild counterparts, help preserve wild animal populations and better their livelihoods.
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About Z. Elizabeth
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Weekly Splurges
Posted on June 24, 2014 June 15, 2014 by Z. Elizabeth
Seeking Havok – Lila Felix
Her life is just as messed up as her name.
All she wanted was a friend—one that knew her and not her circumstances. She needed somewhere to call home. Hers was an open door for countless men looking for the services her mother offered them. She camouflaged herself against lockers and blackboards to avoid the stares and whispers at school.
And then she found Cal…and Fade.
Cal lives like Frankenstein, rising at night to work and just trying to make it until dawn. He avoids most relationships, afraid of the things he will be asked to do. He moonlights as Fade, a radio station DJ who spends hours counseling his peers on their troubles. It was all mundane until Jocelyn called the station.
Cal and Havok pursue a friendship.
Jocelyn and Fade pursue a relationship beyond the confines of the radio waves.
But when Havok disappears, Cal will find that Havok has been guarding a lifetime worth of secrets. And when Fade and Jocelyn’s all night phone conversations cease, he finds a link between them he never saw coming.
Amazon UK: £0.00
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A Perfect Moment – Becca Lee
“When life threatens perfect, it’s time to step up and kick life in the balls.”
Ella’s perfect moment was taken from her is the worst possible way. Humiliated, heart broken and absolutely determined not to allow her heart be destroyed for a second time, she builds an ice wall around her heart.
Preston has known that he was in love his big sister’s best friend since the age of fifteen. Over ten years on, and an opportunity to be her knight in shining armour is too good to miss. Putting his heart on the line, he’s on a mission to show Ella that the perfect moment is possible.
Ella’s instinct is to run when she realises her feelings for her bestie’s little brother may just run a little bit deeper than just friends. But if she can’t run, she’ll try every trick in the book to shake off his affection and realign his feelings.
She already had her perfect moment, and there is no chance she’ll let her heart thaw for Preston. No matter how good he looks in the firefighter’s Christmas calendar.
*** Contains steamy-hot moments, romance, friendship and a bulk load of swearing – non explicit sex scenes. ***
Unfamiliar – Erica Cope & Komal Kant
Hailey Peters has always held onto the familiar. From the way she wears her hair, to dating her childhood friend-turned high school sweetheart–she sticks with what she knows, and she’s convinced herself that this is what makes her happy.
Chase Lancaster doesn’t play by the rules. He’s a classically trained pianist who rocks out in a punk rock band every weekend, and isn’t afraid of taking chances.
When they are assigned to co-write a song for their college music class, Hailey can’t imagine anyone she has anything less in common with than Chase. She is a sweater-wearing, neat freak, and he is disheveled and rough around the edges. As they spend time together, they both find a place in each other’s lives—a place where they challenge each other to be different and to embrace the unfamiliar.
Hailey never planned for a Chase Lancaster in her life, and she is about to find out that this walking contradiction will change her forever.
Changed – Heather Dahlgren
Kenz Greene hated high school. Having no friends, no boyfriend, and worst of all being bullied—graduation was the only thing she looked forward to. After graduation, she completely reinvents herself becoming the person she always wanted to be. Someone different. Changed. When she gets to college, she easily makes friends, boyfriends, and loves life. For once in her life, she adores the person she has become.
Enter Campbell Boyd—the attraction between them is instant. He is sexy as hell. Sweet, romantic, flirty. He definitely knows how to treat a woman in and out of the bedroom.
Once he has his sights set on Kenz, there is nothing that will stand in his way. Or maybe there is something that could ruin it all? One small detail that Kenz tries desperately to ignore—one that can only be swept under the rug for so long.
What happens when the past and present collide and secrets are revealed? Is it possible to forgive or will it destroy them both? One thing’s for sure—things are going to change
The Best Laid Plans – Tamara Mataya
Jayne Griffin isn’t looking for Mr. Right. She’s looking for Mr. RTFN and a toe-curling good time. She’s got the brains, the powerful job as a futures broker, and thanks to a makeover and a thin book of dating advice, the confidence to turn any man’s head.
Malcolm Black notices his high school crush, Jayne, from the stage of her company’s work party. His adolescent feelings for her died beneath months of abuse at the hands of bullies. Abuse that was Jayne’s fault. Though this scorching hot studio musician is unrecognizable as the band geek he used to be, the hurt still lives inside him, and he hatches a plan: Seduce Jayne into falling in love with him, and then shatter her heart.
The white-hot chemistry between them is a pleasant surprise. It all goes so smoothly until Feelings start to develop… and that invitation to their ten year high school reunion lands in their inboxes.
Jayne wants the perfect lover. Malcolm wants revenge. But you know what they say about The Best Laid Plans…
More Than Music – Elizabeth Briggs
Music major Maddie Taylor seems to have her life all figured out. She’s just finished her junior year of college, has a summer internship lined up with the LA Philharmonic, and plans to go to grad school to write movie scores. Only her roommates know she practices guitar every night and secretly dreams of a louder life. But geeky girls like her don’t get to be rock stars.
Tattooed singer Jared Cross has a new girl every week, but when he catches Maddie playing one of his songs, she attracts his attention in an unexpected way. His band needs a fourth member for The Sound, a reality TV show competition—and he wants her. Though Maddie refuses to be another notch on Jared’s bedpost, she agrees to risk everything for the chance to be a rock star.
Once on the show, Maddie discovers there’s more to Jared behind his flirty smile, and with each performance their attraction becomes impossible to ignore. When the show pressures Jared to flaunt his player image, they’re forced to keep their relationship secret, but Maddie can’t help but want something real.
As the competition heats up, Jared will do whatever it takes for his band to win, and Maddie must decide if following her dream is worth losing her heart.
Burned – Tara Sivec
Seventeen years old when he broke my heart.
Seventeen days later when another picked up the pieces.
Seventeen years together.
Seventeen thousand problems.
Seventeen days of reliving my past and finding a new future.
Seventeen minutes until it all went up in flames.
Seventeen breaths until I took my last.
This is my story…and it’s going to burn.
Letters Home – Rebecca Brooke
Life is all about the jigsaw, right? Finding the different puzzle pieces to complete your very own picture. A career you love, a house to make a home, a lover to complete you, and keep you warm at night.
Danielle Renton has a life, and she loves it. A recent law school graduate, she’d been floored when her boyfriend, Nate Lewis, enlisted during their sophomore year of college. At the time, she’d been concerned with what that meant for them as a couple, but in the years that followed, they’d learned to adapt to the logistics of an army relationship.
But when life throws her a curve ball, how will she cope? Can she pick up the pieces and make her picture beautiful again? Or does she realize that, sometimes, the pieces can be too broken to fit back together…(
Talk To Me – Clare James
*Caution: This story contains explicit sex scenes with an alpha hockey player … who gives an entirely new meaning to the term Body Checking. *
Finn Daley took the world by storm two years ago when he was drafted by the NHL. The young, handsome, high-scoring player quickly became a fan favorite. He had everything going for him: fame, fortune, a promising career, and his pick of women. But when he made an abrupt exit from the NHL last spring, everything changed and he’s been in hiding ever since.
Casey Scott plans to find out why.
After interning for free all summer at the top television station in the Twin Cities, Casey lands an on-air gig. Trouble is, the new role is Sports Girl—which means reporting from local bars and tailgating parties to create excitement for the hometown heroes. All while wearing tiny team jerseys that are so tight they leave little to the imagination.
But she has a plan. Uncover the biggest sports mystery of the decade, and she’ll be on her way. Question is, how far will she go to get the story?
Just Friends? – K E Osborn
A talented young singer and actress, Australian born Katerina Barrett, decides to follow her dreams and move to the United States of America to attend AMDA College in Los Angeles, to further her music and acting career. On her orientation day a cocky, self absorbed and arrogant Will Sanders, catches her attention. Immediately she’s drawn and she knows she should stay away from him and concentrate on her career – but, life is never that easy.
The chemistry is undeniable and Kat doesn’t want to let her guard down. When she gives herself to Will, she’s left hurt when he confesses that he doesn’t do the ‘relationship thing’.
Through a turn of fortunate events they are both chosen to play the lead roles in an up and coming new indie movie, the Nightwalker Series. Their relationship blossoms as does their fame, turning their world upside down and leaving them asking, are we ‘just friends’?
This week’s splurges
Posted on December 13, 2013 by Z. Elizabeth
Red Hill – Jamie McGuire
When the world ends, can love survive?
For Scarlet, raising her two daughters alone makes fighting for tomorrow an everyday battle. Nathan has a wife, but can’t remember what it’s like to be in love; only his young daughter Zoe makes coming home worthwhile. Miranda’s biggest concern is whether her new VW Bug is big enough to carry her sister and their boyfriends on a weekend escape from college finals.
When reports of a widespread, deadly “outbreak” begin to surface, these ordinary people face extraordinary circumstances and suddenly their fates are intertwined. Recognizing they can’t outrun the danger, Scarlet, Nathan, and Miranda desperately seek shelter at the same secluded ranch, Red Hill. Emotions run high while old and new relationships are tested in the face of a terrifying enemy—an enemy who no longer remembers what it’s like to be human.
Set against the backdrop of a brilliantly realized apocalyptic world, love somehow finds a way to survive. But what happens when the one you’d die for becomes the one who could destroy you?
Red Hill grabs you from page one and doesn’t let go until its stunning conclusion. This is #1 New York Times bestselling author Jamie McGuire at her unforgettable best.
A Beautiful Wedding – Jamie McGuire
You know that Abby Abernathy unexpectedly became Mrs. Maddox. But what do you really know?
Why did Abby pop the question?
What secrets were shared before the ceremony?
Where did they spend their wedding night?
Who else knew about it . . . and didn’t tell?
Everything about Abby and Travis’s elopement was top-secret . . . until now. Fans of Beautiful Disaster and Walking Disaster will get all of their questions answered in this whirlwind tale of the wedding day (and night!)—and as with all good stories, this one will definitely have been worth the wait.
Castle Hill – Samantha Young
A Joss and Braden Novella
Braden Carmichael never imagined he’d fall as hard and as fast as he did for Jocelyn Butler. He also could not have anticipated how difficult it would be to convince her to give in to love. But now that he has her, he’s never letting go. He’s got it all planned—the passionate proposal, the dream wedding, the sexy Hawaiian honeymoon—even the perfect family they’ll start.
After trying to flee from her painful past, Joss is finally allowing herself to embrace the future. But when things start moving faster than she anticipated, she finds herself panicking over something Braden can’t understand. After everything they’ve been through, Joss is sure that their love can survive even her worst fears. But, this time, she may push Braden too far—and risk losing everything all over again…
Wedding Night – Sophie Kinsella
Lottie just knows that her boyfriend is going to propose during lunch at one of London’s fanciest restaurants. But when his big question involves a trip abroad, not a trip down the aisle, she’s completely crushed. So when Ben, an old flame, calls her out of the blue and reminds Lottie of their pact to get married if they were both still single at thirty, she jumps at the chance. No formal dates—just a quick march to the altar and a honeymoon on Ikonos, the sun-drenched Greek island where they first met years ago.
Their family and friends are horrified. Fliss, Lottie’s older sister, knows that Lottie can be impulsive—but surely this is her worst decision yet. And Ben’s colleague Lorcan fears that this hasty marriage will ruin his friend’s career. To keep Lottie and Ben from making a terrible mistake, Fliss concocts an elaborate scheme to sabotage their wedding night. As she and Lorcan jet off to Ikonos in pursuit, Lottie and Ben are in for a honeymoon to remember, for better . . . or worse.
Sweet (#2)- Erin McCarthy
Jessica Sweet thought going away to college would finally make her free of her parents’ constant judgments and insistence she play chastity club role model for their church events, but if anything, the freedom has made her realize she can’t go home and be a hypocrite anymore. Tired of dodging their questions, she stays at school over the summer and lands in an unexpected crash pad: Riley Mann’s house.
Sarcastic, cocky, and full of opinions, Riley is also sexy personified with tattoos and biceps earned from working as a roofer all day. Not the right guy for her even if Jessica was looking for a relationship, which she is definitely not. But Jessica knows that Riley hides the burden of having to raise his younger brothers behind that grin and as she helps him get his house in order for a custody hearing, they begin to fall hard for each other, and she is forced to question what she’s hiding herself.
Jessica has never had a problem getting naked with a guy, but when it comes to showing Riley how she truly feels inside, her fear of rejection may just ruin the best thing—the best guy—to ever happen to her…
The World Without A Future – Nazarea Andrews
She was born the day the world ended…
Nurrin has lived her entire life with zombies—trapped behind walls meant to keep them safe. She’s mostly happy there. But when a zombie horde breach the walls of her Haven, she has to trust her brother, Collin, and his best friend to keep her alive.
He just wants his past to die…
Finn O’Malley has given up on voicing warnings that are ignored. No one cares that the zombies are changing. Now all that matters is keeping Collin and Nurrin safe from what’s outside the walls of a Haven. But when Nurrin’s best friend picks up a contact infection, he agrees to get the medicine needed to save his life. Forced together, relying on each other in a strange Haven, zombies aren’t the most dangerous thing they’re facing.
In their world, only one thing remains true: everything ends in blood.
Posted on November 9, 2013 November 8, 2013 by Z. Elizabeth
With Every Heartbeat – Melody Grace
Rome. The city of young lovers, old secrets, and intoxicating new desire…
I thought I knew what I wanted in life. I thought my destiny was set. Then I met him, and everything changed.
Raphael is bold, passionate, and seductive. He sees something in me I never dreamed possible, and now he’s determined to show me a world beyond rules — a dance without limits. I want to trust him, but I’m scared. Because I know once I fall, there’ll be no going back.
An innocent dancer. A mysterious stranger. As Annalise is drawn deeper into the romantic delights of Rome, she’ll question everything she believed about her future. But with opening night looming, can she find the strength to risk it all? And will she be forced to choose between her one true love, ballet, and the new passion in her heart
Amzon UK: £0.99
The Edge of Always – J.A Redmerski
He was taking the long road. She was taking the road to nowhere. It just so happened that they led to the same place…
When everything falls apart, love remains . . .
THE EDGE OF ALWAYS
Camryn Bennett has never been happier. Five months after meeting on a Greyhound bus, she and her soul mate Andrew Parrish are engaged—and a wedding isn’t the only special event in their future. Nervous but excited, Camryn can’t wait to begin the rest of her life with Andrew – a man she knows in her heart will love her always. They have so much to look forward to—until tragedy blindsides them.
Andrew doesn’t understand how this could happen to them. He’s trying to move on, and thought Camryn was doing the same. But when Andrew discovers Camryn is secretly harboring a mountain of pain and attempting to numb it in damaging ways, there is nothing he won’t do to bring her back to life. Determined to prove that their love can survive anything, Andrew decides to take Camryn on a new journey filled with hope and passion. If only he can convince her to come along for the ride…
Amazon US: $ (Price doesnt show to me)
Johnny’s Girl – Paige Toon
Meg’s life has taken a turn for the perfect. She is the envy of millions with her drop dead gorgeous husband, their two beautiful sons and her new mansion in Henley. Her celebrity PA days are over. But desperate to keep up with her rock star husband, Johnny Jefferson, she uproots her perfect family and moves back to LA.
Meg has to learn to live with her new celebrity status and the insecurities of her old life, which keep reappearing. Under the paparazzi flash of an A-List party, complete with red carpet, champagne and canapés, Johnny’s rock star past catches up with him and Meg’s worst nightmare becomes a reality…
Mine – Katy Evans
He’s mine, and I’m his. Our love is all-consuming, powerful,
imperfect, and real…
In the international bestseller REAL, the unstoppable bad boy of the Underground fighting circuit finally met his match. Hired to keep him in prime condition, Brooke Dumas unleashed a primal desire in Remington “Riptide” Tate as vital as the air he breathes… and now he can’t live without her.
Brooke never imagined she would end up with the man who is every woman’s dream, but not all dreams end happily ever after, and just when they need each other the most, she is torn away from his side. Now with distance and darkness between them, the only thing left is to fight for the love of the man she calls MINE.
Night Owl – M. Pierce
Love is unstoppable…
At twenty-eight, Matt Sky has the perfect life. He has a beautiful girlfriend, a massive inheritance, and four national bestsellers — all penned under his airtight alias, M. Pierce.
At twenty-seven, Hannah Catalano has a train wreck. Her boyfriend is a deadbeat and her job is abysmal.
Matt and Hannah meet online as writing partners. Their relationship is safe, anonymous, and innocent…
Until Matt sees a picture of Hannah.
Hannah’s picture sparks an attraction Matt is powerless to ignore. When circumstance brings Matt and Hannah together, the strangers begin a love story that’s passionate, poignant, unforgettable, and unstoppable.
Posted on September 27, 2013 September 26, 2013 by Z. Elizabeth
The Art Of Letting Go – Anna Bloom
One year. One woman. One Diary. One question: can you ever stop history from repeating itself and if you could what would you do to stop it?
When Lilah McCannon realises at the age of twenty-five that history is going to repeat itself and she is going to become her mother—bored, drunk and wearing a twinset—there is only one thing to do: take drastic action.
Turning her back on her old life, Lilah’s plan is to enrol at university, get a degree and prove she is a grown-up.
As plans go, it is a good one. There are rules to follow: no alcohol, no cigarettes, no boys and no going home. But when Lilah meets the lead singer of a local band and finds herself unexpectedly falling in love, she realises her rules are not going to be the only things hard to keep.
With the academic year slipping by too quickly, Lilah faces a barrage of new challenges: will she ever make it up the Library stairs without having a heart attack? Can she handle a day on campus without drinking vodka? Will she ever manage to read a history book without falling asleep? And most importantly, can she become the grown-up that she desperately wants to be.
With her head and her heart pulling her in different directions can Lilah learn the hardest lesson that her first year of university has to teach her: The Art of Letting Go?
Lovers Unmasked – 4 Lovely authors
Mystery and intrigue surround Halloween night as friends surrender to long-hidden desires, lovers relinquish control, and the heat of passion threatens to consume them all…
Danielle has a plan—use the company Halloween party to seduce the sexy mail guy who works a few floors up who she’s been meeting for coffee for the past few months. The only problem? He’s not who she thinks he is, and he has seduction plans of his own.
Kindergarten teachers aren’t known for breaking the rules, but Steph is ready to go undercover—and get under the covers—to work her magic on her best friend, Landon. Sexy costume necessary, multiple orgasms crucial, real identity optional.
When Stacy discovers her sex-on-a-stick ex at her Hollywood Halloween blow-out, she decides to show the cocky homicide detective exactly what he’s been missing. But she’s not the only one plotting revenge, and Ian’s the only one who can save her.
Lieutenant Derek Tyler and Ginger Peet have overcome every seemingly impossible hurdle on the path to happiness, but when they each receive life-changing news on the same day, will their hard-won trust stand up to the test? Or will their attempts to shield one another drive them apart?
Enjoy your tricks and treats in this sexy anthology featuring bestselling authors Katee Robert, Cari Quinn, Samanthe Beck, and Tessa Bailey.
All Of You – Christina Lee
Avery has just met her hot upstairs neighbor. He’s irresistible. Tattooed. And a virgin.
Nursing student Avery Michaels wants nothing to do with dating—she’s perfectly happy single. Privy to too many of her mother’s bad decisions and even worse taste in boyfriends, all Avery can handle is a string of uncomplicated hookups whenever the mood strikes.
When she meets smoking hot tattoo artist Bennett, she wants him—for just one night. But he won’t accept a no-strings-attached arrangement. He lives by a straight-laced code of values based on his own troubled upbringing.
Bennett sees something special in Avery and he wants more from her. Way more. As Avery wrestles with her emotions for Bennett, danger and tragedy force them to open up to each other. And Avery must face the terrifying realization that she wants more from him, too.
So she needs to make a choice—let Bennett go or finally let him in
Simple Perfection (‘#2)- Abbi Glines
Woods had his perfect life mapped out for him. Rise up the ranks of the family business. Marry the rich girl of his parents’ dreams. Pretend that wealth and privilege was all he’d ever wanted. Then a girl named Della breezed into town, a beautifully imperfect stranger who captured his heart and opened his eyes to a new kind of future. Woods is ready and willing to sacrifice everything for her when the sudden death of his father leaves him with his mother to care for and a business to manage.
Della is determined to be strong for Woods, even as she’s quietly falling to pieces. No matter how far from home she’s run, the ghosts of her past have never stopped haunting her. Struggling to hide her true feelings from Woods, Della fears she can’t be his rock without dragging him down into the darkness with her. But is she strong enough to let go of the last thing holding her together?
Dirt (#2) – India Lee
Five months ago, Amanda Nathan was a dumped, scorned, and tragically bored moderator for the Internet’s largest gossip community “HDU,” spending her small town days and nights hiding her pitiable life from catty neighbors. Then, she became an overnight sensation after negotiating a contract to stage a romance with Hollywood’s favorite womanizer, going from moderating the pages of HDU to gracing them daily.
Now, there are no contracts involved in Amanda’s life — she’s on top of the world with not only a job on the TV writing staff of Leadoff but a Hollywood publicist, a pumped up wardrobe, and a real-life, contract-free boyfriend in the former womanizer, Liam Brody.
But how long will the good times last in an industry known for the worst kinds of drama? Amanda’s high fashion closet isn’t exactly free of skeletons considering her past with actress Casey Mulreed, creator of Leadoff’s rival TV show, Legacy — a prodigy and darling so loved by America that her recently outed addiction can’t keep her from the very top of the industry, where she has every last intention to stay. And of course, keeping that crown requires butting heads with Amanda — to say the least.
Good thing this time, the small town girl from Merit, Missouri is just a tad more prepared to handle that signature Hollywood scandal…
Attachments – Rainbow Rowell
“Hi, I’m the guy who reads your e-mail, and also, I love you . . . ”
Beth Fremont and Jennifer Scribner-Snyder know that somebody is monitoring their work e-mail. (Everybody in the newsroom knows. It’s company policy.) But they can’t quite bring themselves to take it seriously. They go on sending each other endless and endlessly hilarious e-mails, discussing every aspect of their personal lives.
Meanwhile, Lincoln O’Neill can’t believe this is his job now- reading other people’s e-mail. When he applied to be “internet security officer,” he pictured himself building firewalls and crushing hackers- not writing up a report every time a sports reporter forwards a dirty joke.
When Lincoln comes across Beth’s and Jennifer’s messages, he knows he should turn them in. But he can’t help being entertained-and captivated-by their stories.
By the time Lincoln realizes he’s falling for Beth, it’s way too late to introduce himself.
Amazon UK: £0.99 (on sale)
Posted on September 6, 2013 September 6, 2013 by Z. Elizabeth
Smash Into You – Shelly Crane
Jude has spent the whole twenty one years of his life running. From what, he wasn’t quite sure. His mother tried to keep him safe; a low profile, a constant move on the horizon, a week’s pay always stashed away. She tried to instill in him that he was special somehow, though would never elaborate. He never felt different. He was so completely normal and vanilla that he wondered if it had all been in her head. But then she was murdered and all he saw was a running silhouette of a man as his mother said three final words to him. Three words that changed his whole being.
Never stop running…
Now he’s semi-settled into a big town. The college is huge and easy to blend into. It’s been three months since he had to move because ‘Biloxi’, as he calls the man who killed his mother, found him once more.
Then Marley, an eighteen year old girl who is as infuriating as she is blissfully ignorant of her gorgeousness, smashes into his car with hers. Then smashes into his life as he realizes that whatever it is he has that Biloxi wants, she has it, too. And now, they’re after them both.
This Much Is True – Katherine Owen
Fate brings them together
Fame & lies keep them apart
One truth remains…
She’s become the Paly High girl with the most tragic story…
At 17, Tally Landon just wants to graduate and leave for New York to pursue ballet. Her best friend Marla convinces her to attend one last party—a college party—where she can be among strangers and evade the whisperings about her heartbreaking loss of her twin that follows her everywhere she goes. She meets Lincoln Presley, Stanford’s famous baseball wonder and has a little fun at his expense—when she lies about her age and who she really is—intent on being someone else for the night and escaping her tragic story.
His only focus is baseball, but he can’t forget the girl he saved on Valentine’s Day…
At 22, Lincoln Presley’s star is on the rise—about to finish at Stanford and expected to be taken early in Major League Baseball’s upcoming draft—his cousin’s party serves as a welcome distraction. But then, he sees the girl from Valentine’s Day that he saved from that horrific car accident and can’t quite hide his disappointment when she appears to look right through him and not remember him at all. He vows to learn her name at least before he leaves. What’s the harm in getting to know this girl? What’s the worst that can happen?
They share this incredible connection, but fate soon tests these star-crossed lovers in all kinds of ways…
And yet, despite the lies being told to protect the other, and the trappings of fame that continually separate them, and in lieu of the deception by those they’ve come to trust the most; one truth remains.
This much is true
Mirage (1)- Ashley Suzanne
Mira and Kylee meet Danny and Skylar during freshman orientation, their first week of college. Two sets of best friends embark on a new adventure together, forming life long bonds.
Mira and Danny are looking forward to their future as husband and wife. Everything was going according to plan. That was until tragedy struck them on graduation night leaving three broken people to pick up the pieces.
Skylar has always stood in the background, watching his best friend begin a life with the woman he fell in love with until he can no longer keep a distance.
Right when Mira thinks her life is back on track it spirals out of control. What if everything you thought you knew was nothing more than a mirage.
Freefall – Tess Oliver
After leaving high school, with a hard won diploma and the title of most likely to break hearts, Alexander “Nix” Pierce has left his wild, out of control years mostly behind him. A small inheritance from his grandfather has given him the funds to open up his tattoo shop, Freefall, and he has started to pull his life together. Aside from trying to keep his best friend, Dray, from killing himself in the fight ring, and his slight obsession with a pin-up model he’s never met, Nix’s life is going smoothly . . . until Scotlyn James, the object of his obsession, walks into his shop.
Ever since a tragic accident killed her family and left her alone in the world, Scotlyn James hasn’t spoken one word. Up until now she didn’t care that she had no way of talking to people. Her awful aunt would never have listened, and Lincoln Hammond the arrogant, selfish man who pulled her from the streets of Los Angeles wouldn’t hear her words if she could speak. But when Lincoln insists she get a tattoo to cover up a scar on her side, Scotlyn meets the artist, Nix Pierce. And now she longs for her voice. Now she has found someone who will hear her.
Unteachable – Leah Raeder
I met him at a carnival, of all corny places. The summer I turned eighteen, in that chaos of neon lights and cheap thrills, I met a man so sweet, so beautiful, he seemed to come from another world. We had one night: intense, scary, real. Then I ran, like I always do. Because I didn’t want to be abandoned again.
But I couldn’t run far enough.
I knew him as Evan that night. When I walked into his classroom, he became Mr. Wilke.
I don’t know if what we’re doing is wrong. The rules say one thing; my heart says screw the rules. I can’t let him lose his job. And I can’t lose him.
In the movies, this would have a happy ending. I grow up. I love, I lose, I learn. And I move on. But this is life, and there’s no script. You make it up as you go along.
And you don’t pray for a happy ending. You pray for it to never end.
Posted on August 16, 2013 August 11, 2013 by Z. Elizabeth
Into the Deep – Samantha Young
Live young. Live hard. Love deep.
Charley Redford was just an ordinary girl until Jake Caplin moved to her small town in Indiana and convinced her she was extraordinary. Almost from day one Jake pulled Charley into the deep and promised he was right there with her. But when a tragic incident darkened Jake’s life he waded out into the shallows and left Charley behind.
Almost four years later Charley thinks she’s moved on. That is until she takes a study year abroad in Edinburgh and bumps into none other than Jake Caplin at a party with his new girlfriend. The bad-boy-turned-good attempts to convince Charley to forgive him, and as her best friend starts spending time with Jake’s, Charley calls a truce, only to find herself tumbling back into a friendship with him.
As they grow closer, the spark between them flares and begins playing havoc with their lives and relationships. When jealousy and longing rear their destructive heads, Charley and Jake struggle to come to grips with what they mean to one another.
And even if they work it out, there is no guarantee Charley will ever trust Jake to lead her back into the deep…
If You Leave (#2) – Courtney Cole
26-year old Gabriel Vincent is a badass hero. Or he used to be, anyway. As an ex-Army Ranger, Gabe never thought he needed anyone. But after one horrible night in Afghanistan scars him in a way that he can’t get past, he needs someone who can help him heal…even if he doesn’t realize it.
25-year old Madison Hill doesn’t need anybody…or so she thinks. She grew up watching her parents’ messed-up abusive relationship and she knows there’s no way in hell that she’s ever letting that happen to her.
They don’t know it in the beginning, but Gabriel and Madison will soon develop a weakness: Each other.
But Gabriel’s got a secret, a hidden monster that he’s afraid Maddy could never overcome… And Maddy’s got issues that she’s afraid Gabe will never understand. They quickly realize that they need each other to be whole, but at the same time they know that they’ve got demons to fight.
And the problem with demons is that they never die quietly.
Fear Of Falling – S.L Jennings
I can’t remember the last time I felt completely safe. Security seemed more like a luxury to me, reserved for those who were fortunate enough to have picture perfect childhoods. For those who didn’t bear the ugly scars that keep me bound in constant, debilitating fear. I’ve run from that fear my entire life. But when I met him, for once, I couldn’t run anymore.
He scared the hell out of me in a way that excited every fiber of my being. It wasn’t the tattoos or the piercings. It wasn’t the warmth that seemed to radiate from his frame and blanket me whenever he was near. It was just…him. The scary beautiful man that threatened to alter 23 years of routine and rituals, and make me face my crippling fear.
My name is Kami and I am constantly afraid. And the thing that scares me the most is the very thing I want.
“Don’t worry,” he smiled, pulling me into the hard warmth of his chest. “I’ve got you. I’ll always catch you when you fall.”
And just like that, Blaine had staked his claim on the untouched part of me that no living soul had ever moved. He had captured every fear, every reservation, and crushed them in the palm of his inked hand.
Posted in In My Mailbox
Posted on July 22, 2013 July 21, 2013 by Z. Elizabeth
In My Mailbox is a weekly meme hosted by The Story Siren, in which book bloggers post about the books they’ve bought, borrowed or received in the past week.
In my inbox:
Saving Amy -Nicola Haken
Inevitable -Nicola Haken
The Uni Files – Anna Bloom
Sweet Deception – Grace Henderson
This week I bought:
Thoughtless – S.C Stephens
From Netgalley:
Wicked Beat – Olivia Cunning
Fight For Her (1)- Kelly Favor
One word that describes Krista Everett: driven. She’s the youngest female executive in the UFF, an organization that’s poised to take over Las Vegas with the most exciting fights the world has ever seen.
But Krista has one problem, and his name is Noah Summers. Noah is the biggest star in the UFF, and he’s disappeared, walked away from the sport at his peak. Krista is tasked with getting him back to Las Vegas to take on the biggest fight of his career.
With her job on the line, Krista tracks Noah down to a small town in Western Massachusetts, and an isolated cabin high up in the mountains, away from the crowds that have haunted him since his rise to fame.
Unfortunately, the world’s most dangerous man isn’t very happy to see Krista, and he doesn’t want to hear anything about Vegas. That’s when Krista is forced to try any means necessary to get him back for one last fight—even if it means falling in love.
In the end, Krista and Noah will need to decide between their love for each other and their own self-interest. And they’ll both end up in the fight of their lives
Amazon UK – £1.98
Amazon US – $2.99
Frigid (1)- J.Lynn
For twenty-one-year-old Sydney, being in love with Kyler isn’t anything new. They’d been best friends ever since he pushed her down on the playground and she made him eat a mud pie. Somewhere over the years, she fell for him and fell hard. The big problem with that? Kyler puts the ‘man’ in man-whore. He’s never stayed with a girl longer than a few nights, and with it being their last year in college, Syd doesn’t want to risk their friendship by declaring her love.
Kyler has always put Syd on a pedestal that was too high for him to reach. To him, she’s perfect and she’s everything. But the feelings he has for her, he’s always hidden away or focused on any other female. After all, Kyler will always be the poor boy from the wrong side of tracks, and Syd will always be the one girl he can never have.
But when they’re stranded together at a posh ski resort due to a massive Nor’easter, there’s nothing stopping their red-hot feelings for each other from coming to the surface. Can their friendship survive the attraction? Better yet, can they survive at all? Because as the snow falls, someone is stalking them, and this ski trip may be a life-changer in more ways than one
Left Drowning – Jessica Park
What does it take to rise from life’s depths, swim against the current, and breathe?
Weighted down by the loss of her parents, Blythe McGuire struggles to keep her head above water as she trudges through her last year at Matthews College. Then a chance meeting sends Blythe crashing into something she doesn’t expect—an undeniable attraction to a dark-haired senior named Chris Shepherd, whose past may be even more complicated than her own. As their relationship deepens, Chris pulls Blythe out of the stupor she’s been in since the night a fire took half her family. She begins to heal, and even, haltingly, to love this guy who helps her find new paths to pleasure and self-discovery. But as Blythe moves into calmer waters, she realizes Chris is the one still strangled by his family’s traumatic history. As dark currents threaten to pull him under, Blythe may be the only person who can keep him from drowning.
Park and Violet – Marian Tee
On her first year studying abroad, beautiful and vivacious 18-year-old Violet York is on a mission to forget her past. Once, she loved being the Queen of Flirts, loved playing hard-to-get and, eventually, getting caught. Now, she can’t get enough distance between her and all the boys in the world. Well,all the boys except for Park Jin.
Park is like no guy she’s ever met. He’s a 20-year-old Nordic god with a strange accent, or at least that’s one of Violet’s better descriptions of him. Most times, when they’re, literally, fighting like cats and dogs, she prefers to think of him as the blond gorilla, he’s a foul-mouthed jerk who calls her a banshee, a midget, and every other ugly nickname that comes to his nasty mind, goes out of his way to be rude to Violet, and, best of all, he hates girls.
Both Park and Violet carry scars in their hearts, scars that they’re desperate to hide. In each other, they find the unlikeliest allies, a way to keep themselves apart from everyone else and, more importantly, from ever falling in love again.
Yet when they’re not on each other’s throats Park and Violet can’t help succumbing to the intense chemistry between them. As kisses outnumber hisses, there’s a question that’s getting harder and harder for the two to ignore.
Is it time to risk their hearts again?
For almost two years now, Kiera’s boyfriend, Denny, has been everything she’s ever wanted: loving, tender and endlessly devoted to her. When they head off to a new city to start their lives together, Denny at his dream job and Kiera at a top-notch university, everything seems perfect. Then an unforeseen obligation forces the happy couple apart.
Feeling lonely, confused, and in need of comfort, Kiera turns to an unexpected source—a local rock star named Kellan Kyle. At first, he’s purely a friend that she can lean on, but as her loneliness grows, so does their relationship. And then one night everything changes…and none of them will ever be the same
Posted on July 5, 2013 July 3, 2013 by Z. Elizabeth
His Wicked Games – Ember Casey
Trapped with a billionaire in his mysterious mansion… Can she beat him at his own game?
Lily would do anything to save the Frazer Center for the Arts—even take on the infamous billionaire Calder Cunningham.
The Cunninghams have long held a reputation for being eccentric—and secretive. When Lily breaks onto their estate, she only wants to find and reason with Calder. (All right, all right, she wants to punch him in the face, too, but that’s Plan B.) The Cunningham family was the Frazer Center’s largest benefactor for years—until Calder took over the family funds and broke the pledge contract without warning. Now the Center is on the brink of closing, and she’s desperate to save the institution her father founded.
Calder is willing to consider her pleas—but for a price. Lily must indulge his whims, play along with his sexual games—all while confined to his mysterious mansion—or she’ll never get the funds to save the Center. But there’s more to the arrogant billionaire than meets the eye, and the longer they play cat and mouse, the more Lily begins to question her own feelings of hatred for the man.
Addicted To You – Krista Becca Richie
No one would suspect shy Lily Calloway’s biggest secret. While everyone is dancing at college bars, Lily stays in the bathroom. To get laid. Her compulsion leads her to one-night stands, steamy hookups and events she shamefully regrets. The only person who knows her secret happens to have one of his own.
Loren Hale’s best friend is his bottle of bourbon. Lily comes at a close second. For three years, they’ve pretended to be in a real relationship, hiding their addictions from their families. They’ve mastered the art of concealing flasks and random guys that filter in and out of their apartment.
But when they go on a family boat trip, surrounded by open seas and limited male bodies in sight, Lily’s confronted with a big fear. Only one guy onboard can fill her addiction, and she’s sworn off going there with Loren Hale ever again.
Now the only person who can truly help her can barely help himself.
Today Only – D. Love
In life, there are times you are granted a miracle. It may not be the one you wanted exactly, but it will be the one you need. It will prepare you for the next step in your journey and help you learn to accept the life you are given, even if that life can be heartbreaking.
Falling Into Us – Jasinda Wilder
THE STORY YOU THOUGHT YOU KNEW…
When Kyle Calloway died, he took a part of Nell with him. She wasn’t the only one left to pick up the pieces, however; Kyle’s death left a gaping hole in the hearts and lives of his parents and his older brother Colton, and ultimately broke the will of the girl he loved.
THE STORY YOU NEVER IMAGINED…
Becca de Rosa is Nell’s best friend. When Kyle died, Nell was so devastated that no one could reach her, not even her best friend Becca. As she tries to help Nell through her grief, Becca’s own life is thrust into turmoil, and everything she knows is changed.
Jason Dorsey asked Nell out the week after her sixteenth birthday, but that date never happened. Instead, he ended up going out with Nell’s best friend, Becca. He had no way of knowing, then, how that one date would send him on a life-long journey with Becca. He had no way of knowing the tragedies and triumphs he would experience, or that in Becca, he might find the love of a lifetime.
THE HEARTACHE YOU’LL NEVER FORGET…
Killing Sarai – J.A Redmerski
Sarai was only fourteen when her mother uprooted her to live in Mexico with a notorious drug lord. Over time she forgot what it was like to live a normal life, but she never let go of her hope to escape the compound where she has been held for the past nine years.
Victor is a cold-blooded assassin who, like Sarai, has known only death and violence since he was a young boy. When Victor arrives at the compound to collect details and payment for a hit, Sarai sees him as her only opportunity for escape. But things don’t go as planned and instead of finding transport back to Tucson, she finds herself free from one dangerous man and caught in the clutches of another.
While on the run, Victor strays from his primal nature as he succumbs to his conscience and resolves to help Sarai. As they grow closer, he finds himself willing to risk everything to keep her alive; even his relationship with his devoted brother and liaison, Niklas, who now like everyone else wants Sarai dead.
As Victor and Sarai slowly build a trust, the differences between them seem to lessen, and an unlikely attraction intensifies. But Victor’s brutal skills and experience may not be enough in the end to save her, as the power she unknowingly holds over him may ultimately be what gets her killed.
This is their story…
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Offseason Forecast: Houston Texans – NFL.com
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The surprising Houston Texans are dealing with a new surprise: starting quarterback Matt Schaub is out for the rest of the 2011 NFL Season with something called a Lisfranc Injury. Now, USC grad and National…
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War crime or murder?
Craig Murray:
"A word on the legal position, which is very plain. To attack a foreign flagged vessel in international waters is illegal. It is not piracy, as the Israeli vessels carried a military commission. It is rather an act of illegal warfare.
Because the incident took place on the high seas does not mean however that international law is the only applicable law. The Law of the Sea is quite plain that, when an incident takes place on a ship on the high seas (outside anybody's territorial waters) the applicable law is that of the flag state of the ship on which the incident occurred. In legal terms, the Turkish ship was Turkish territory.
There are therefore two clear legal possibilities.
Possibility one is that the Israeli commandos were acting on behalf of the government of Israel in killing the activists on the ships. In that case Israel is in a position of war with Turkey, and the act falls under international jurisdiction as a war crime.
Possibility two is that, if the killings were not authorised Israeli military action, they were acts of murder under Turkish jurisdiction. If Israel does not consider itself in a position of war with Turkey, then it must hand over the commandos involved for trial in Turkey under Turkish law.
In brief, if Israel and Turkey are not at war, then it is Turkish law which is applicable to what happened on the ship. It is for Turkey, not Israel, to carry out any inquiry or investigation into events and to initiate any prosecutions. Israel is obliged to hand over indicted personnel for prosecution."
In either case the Israelis are obligated to turn over the murderers for trial. As there is no hope the Jews will comply (remember that international law does not apply to Jews), we'll likely have to wait for the end of the shitty little country to see justice done (and a lot of other justice awaits that rapidly approaching end).
Fisk touches on the amazing disconnect between today's politicians and 'journalists' and the will of the average decent and moral person (the lying of 'journalists' in the face of the facts is particularly remarkable in the flotilla massacre). Generally, you will see these people gesticulate with one hand as they lie. That's because the other hand is held behind the back, palm up, while some Jew feeds shekels into it. Of course, the problem isn't just Zionism - environmental policies and rule by corporations and banksters also come directly to mind - but the vast gulf is most obvious - and most obviously explained by bribery and blackmail - when it comes to the Jewish Problem. We can only solve the Jewish Problem when we put the mad dog down. Politicians and 'journalists' are in our way.
On to Gaza
The Gandhis on the Irish vessel "Rachel Corrie" have decided to proceed to Gaza. If the Jews don't welcome it with rose petals I sure wouldn't want to be a Jew.
Over the side
The lack of any real weapons puts and end to Jewish attempts at defending the massacre: "Saddam's WMD found aboard Gaza Freedom flotilla" Even DEBKA, in a posting typically overflowing with lies, is embarrassed by the IDF. I love the fact that the unarmed peaceniks - btw, see what happens to Gandhi? - faced with an armed-to-the-fangs IDF soldier, apparently simply picked him up and threw him over the side! We need collectively to throw Israel over the side.
A possible real response
"Ankara warned that further supply vessels will be sent to Gaza, escorted by the Turkish Navy, a development with unpredictable consequences."
First - and only, so far - non-bullshit response. The European and American Jew-slaves will be waiting for further investigations forever. What's to investigate?
In cold blood, and on videotape
"This time, the Israeli war machine may have gone too far for international public opinion to stomach":
"While the Israeli naval interception was clearly well planned, its accompanying blackout of communications was evidently not swift enough, failing to prevent Turkish satellite TV footage broadcasting for several minutes what was taking place. Those images relayed by international media nail the lie in the Israeli version of events. (Whether the US media do so will be telling.)
Taken from different angles on various positions of the vessel, the TV images show the following:
The convoy was intercepted at around 5am local time, some 150 kilometres (90 miles) off the coast of Gaza in international waters.
Israeli commandos are seen hauling themselves on to the aid ship. The commandos were armed with assault rifles and handguns, wearing helmets and full body armour. It appears that the passengers and crew are unaware of the intrusion. The Israeli personnel were able to assemble without any opposition; they seemed casual in their movements, then raising their guns in assault mode, covering each other with pointed weapons before filing off to their intended target area on the ship. Other images show an Israeli military helicopter hovering over the convoy and high-speed marine dinghies approaching.
Chaotic scenes ensue. Aid workers are seen lying on decks wounded with what appear to be gunshots. Some of the injured – all clearly civilian in appearance – are lying motionless and unconscious, presumably dead. Other aid workers are shown trying to assist the wounded. One woman is seen carrying a blood-soaked stretcher amid the mayhem.
Some of the footage shows a melee of aid workers scuffling with Israeli commandos. None of the civilians are shown to be carrying knives."
And, the videos themselves.
I congratulate World Jewry for its world-wide stupendous effort to suppress the Gaza flotilla massacre story, then mangle it, and then mangle it again. I'm sure gift baskets from the Head Jew are headed all over the world.
Fresh from his wildly successful trip to Canada, "Netanyahu cancels Washington trip". Too bad - I was looking forward to watching Barry's embarrassment as he was forced to pick up with his teeth dollars slowly dropped by Bibi on the floor.
"'Criminal pirate' Israel makes a fool of the OECD only days after it clasped the viper to its bosom" The OECD is now a supporter of piracy and murder in international waters.
Smart Israelis should be able to see the writing on the (apartheid) wall. Sell your home and belongings now, while there still is a market for them. When the stampede begins, all you own in Israel will be worthless. Get out now, while the getting is good.
'Propaganda coup'
. . . and the actions of National Socialism created a 'propaganda coup' for World Jewry, who have used it over and over to kill people and steal their lands, all the while stifling any and all criticism of the most monstrous crimes . . .
You have to admit that watching supremacists - including Isabel Kershner and the entire leadership of the NYT - talk about themselves is hilarious. The big issue is not the dead people, or the crimes that resulted in an atrocity (one of many), but the possible negative repercussions on the supremacist group caused by people finding out the facts. This is e-x-a-c-t-l-y how a psychopath thinks, almost out of a psychology textbook!
Kill the mad dog, now!
The reason Israel is unique - and why it must be put down like a mad dog, now! - is that it is really a psychopathic serial killer masquerading as a country. The world has to end this, not just for moral reasons (which would be enough), but out of motives of self-defense and self-preservation. As I keep saying, this kind of atrocious behavior will continue, becoming worse and worse, until we all rise up to stop it. When you combine violent racist supremacism with military might, including nuclear weapons, disaster is inevitable. Note how World Jewry supports the latest outrage, and is itself outraged that anybody would dare question the (im)moral choices of the Superior Beings.
Gaza flotilla massacre
It is early days, but the Jew-controlled media was obviously issued an order from Israel to suppress information on the mass murder - one which Israel knew was going to happen - to give World Jewry enough time to manage the PR. Al Jazeera almost has a monopoly on the news. A Google news search produces close to nothing.
We can start to measure the end of the shitty little country in months.
The response of Israel to the Gaza flotilla is like somebody trying to answer the question 'When did you stop beating your wife?' No matter what the Jews do, all they end up accomplishing is broadcasting their vileness to the world. Of course, the flotilla organizers know that violent Jewish supremacism is oblivious to how it looks to decent and moral human beings. As always, supremacism contains all that is needed for its own destruction.
"Slamming The Lid On A Can Of Worms" - note the intimidation against those documenting Israeli crimes.
"Israel's Permanent War on Palestine" I think Jonathan Cook is doing the best ongoing job of documenting the crimes of the Jews against the Palestinians.
"How To Make A Population Disappear"
Highway 443:
"Israel's apartheid road"
"Israel allows Palestinians on highway 443 to Ramallah – but blocks the exit"
"The Road to Injustice"
"QuAIA's Tim McCaskell: Pride Toronto's censorship is making "Israeli Apartheid" household words":
"The term 'Israeli Apartheid' will be front and centre in this year's Pride Parade. I'm told [Toronto Councillor] Kyle Rae threatened to start arresting people... Being arrested to talk about my politics in my community is something that I'm quite willing to envisage.... Not everybody would want to be arrested and they might want to protest in other ways. I think what we'll see is a real diversity of tactics around this around the parade. But you can be very certain that 'Israeli Apartheid' will be communicated to all those people who are coming to participate in and watch the parade this year. It will not go away!"
"Canadian Tar Sands Will Be US' Largest Imported Oil Source in 2010: Ecologically Destructive & Immoral." This was the plan all along - replace reliance on the crazies with reliance on those subservient Canadians. This is why the Canadian Governor General was ordered to block the coalition government to be led by an environmentalist who would certainly have put constraints on oil sands development (and why she will go down in history as by far the worst Governor General in the history of Canada). I'm getting sick and tired of people making obviously immoral choices and not being called out on it.
"More news in the vaccination wars":
"Parents who didn’t vaccinate repeatedly cited herd immunity as a flaw in vaccinations, and angrily insisted that it wasn’t their job to look after the health of the community. The emotional reasoning couldn’t be more evident - they seem to believe that anything that is good for your neighbor is by definition taking from you, that there is no such thing as a win-win solution. For this, I blame decades of libertarian/conservative political propaganda that’s made even the ostensibly liberal yuppies that inculcate anti-vaccination sentiment start to think that doing right by their children must mean screwing over all other children. (You also get this mentality in the competition for day care slots and tracking children as 'gifted' at younger and younger ages.) The reality is that life isn’t all dog eat dog. Sometimes by doing right by others, you do right by yourself. Vaccines are a classic example of this - protecting yourself from disease means doing so for others. "
Amazing cartoon on the issue: "The Facts In The Case Of Dr. Andrew Wakefield"
"Help The Gaza Flotilla Now"
"Boycott BP"
"BP Decisions Set Stage for Disaster"
"BP Pressured Rig Worker to Hurry Before Disaster, Father Says"
Confirmation of the 'blob'?: "BP Goes For Extra Hurricane Point: 22 Mile Long Plume Moving Toward Alabama" Six miles wide.
"Oil spill hearings: BP man on Deepwater Horizon rig refuses to testify, says he will take the Fifth"
"Your Israel lobby at work: ZOA blasts Obama appointee for saying al-Quds" - actually, the amazing thing is he said al-Quds.
Scariest thing I've read in months: "Shalom on the range: In search of the American Crypto-Jew"
"Jewish Tribalism in Action: Charles Schumer poised to become Senate Majority Leader" - makes the point that Jewish success in America isn't due to hard work or innate Jewish intelligence, but what amounts to a secret society headed to dominance through a concerted program of group networking, aided by the fact that nobody is allowed to notice that it is going on. Kagan is another excellent example. This would be unobjectionable if their motives, building Anti-Assimilation Land through violence, weren't so abhorrent. Schumer is utterly open about what he is up to.
"Two Italian Supermarkets Suspend Sales of Settlement Products"
"Settlers Take Over Beit Safafa Home" "Al–Walaja village is gradually disappearing"
Amusing series from Coteret on Israeli 'diplomacy':
Finnish travel agent humiliated after admitting that her fiancé is Egyptian;
Czech Foreign Minister “humiliated”;
GPO sends sarcastic ‘joke e-mail’ on Gaza (this reminds me of the revisionists insisting that the concentration camps were actually a series of health spas for the Jews).
"Yediot: Shift in US-Israel policy result of Jewish financial pressure on Democrats ahead of mid-terms":
"Information that was received by Israeli sources would seem to indicate that the principal reason for the change in approach to Israel is pressure from Democrat lawmakers who are running for election and are finding themselves hard put to enlist Jewish donors to their campaigns. There is a great deal of anger at Obama within the Jewish community and disappointment over his policy toward Israel. Officials in the Democratic Party are afraid that the Jews will take revenge in the midterm elections, which is the reason for the vigorous courting of Israel. In other words, the fear is that the Jewish vote will gravitate away from Democratic candidates to Republicans."
It is funny how the Jews invariably confuse 'the vote' with money.
"IDF takes Obama aide, family to occupied Golan":
"There has been a longstanding policy in the U.S. that serving government officials should not take private visits to Israeli-occupied territories.
So why has Pres. Obama's highest ranking adviser, Rahm Emanuel, been taking his family to the Israeli-occupied Golan?"
"‘Irvine, Brandeis students were wrong about Oren’" (or, with Finkelstein's improved heading: "Fifty student government presidents apply for jobs at Jewish law firms"; my emphasis in red):
"“I thought it was important that we show there isn’t this uprising of students against Israel,” explained Brandon Carroll, the outgoing student government president at Virginia Tech University. “There are a lot of students who are very supportive” of Israel.
Carroll, troubled by what he saw at Brandeis and UC-Irvine, last week turned to his campus’s American Israel Public Affairs Committee representative, who he said suggested circulating such a letter, which they then drafted together."
Dennis Prager wins the prestigious 'Fanger of the Year' award.
"Toronto’s Gay Pride parade will exclude contentious group":
"Lawyer Martin Gladstone, who has fought for years to have Queers Against Israeli Apartheid excluded from the Pride parade, said he’s “ecstatic” at the decision."
"Pride without apartheid":
"Over the last 30 years the queer community has used Pride to speak out about the rights and roles of all women, against apartheid in South Africa, against the Catholic Church and against Mike Harris's Conservative government by carrying his head through the streets on a platter. Never before have we been censored. Never before have we been accused of hate.
Now The National Post, which has run no less than two editorials and several opinion columns denouncing Pride for allowing QUAIA to march, has advised our community to hold a non-controversial celebration without the "Leather and drag fringe elements."
One of the most positive and important points of Pride is, and always has been, that there will be something to offend everybody. What Pride is or isn't shouldn't be decided by a few pundits, politicians and lobbyists with agendas unrelated to queer rights.
So I suggest, regardless of what Pride Toronto, the various governments and the media say, that we, the right thinking, free speech supporting, democratic believing queers and friends of queers ignore the edicts of those who presume to dictate what pride should be.
We should take back our parade with our own signs, our own protests and our own concerns, return to our roots, get back in touch with our ACT UP impulses and display a little of the civil disobedience we used to change things so radically over the last 30 years.
The battle for worldwide equality, queer or otherwise, is far from over.
Advances we've made in Canada must be demanded for the rest of the world -- and that's not going to happen unless we force people to look at the issues and open up the debate.
This Pride, let's fight for the right to speak out. Not to censor.
And for those who do want a polite, homogeneous, family-friendly parade with neither controversy nor conflict I say go to Disneyland. They have one like that every day."
Great headline: "Group that dare not speak its name to march in Toronto’s Pride Parade anyway"
There's a big struggle amongst the Jews over the flotilla to Gaza. The fangers want to sink and kill; the lites think that Israeli legitimacy can't stand another hit. Thus the schizophrenic response. Turkey helped Israeli into the OECD on the understanding that Israel would allow Turkish humanitarian aid into Gaza. Now Israel is offering to allow Turkish humanitarian aid into Gaza as long as Turkey stops the flotilla!
"Israeli Think Tank Calls for Sabotaging "Delegitimizers" of Israel":
"By claiming that respect for Palestinian rights, whether as refugees or as Israeli citizens, would result in the “elimination” of the Israeli state, the Reut Institute gives its stamp of approval to the view that underpinnings of the Israeli government are incompatible with universally accepted human rights codified in basic instruments of international law. Thus, without intending, the Reut Institute lends its authoritative voice to human rights advocates who condemn the discriminatory Israeli form of government as outside the law and therefore illegitimate."
Dersh: the 80 percent case! I'd like to hear the 80 percent case for the Nazis. Dersh, after looking the same for decades, suddenly looks old, close to death even. Is it all the lying?
"Arrest warrant issued for mystery Scot Christopher Lockwood in hunt for killers of Hamas official assassinated by Mossad" If he is not in Israel, he will be trying to get to that international haven for criminality (a link in the Desertpeace posting leads to a Jewish scam I'd never heard of - the 'locksmiths' in question seem to still be in business). Note how the haven is used in the attack on Iceland.
"Oil inspectors let companies fill in own audits, while one admitted getting high on meth, report says" "Oil Rig Survivors Held by Company for 40 Hours Without Contact"
"Gerald Posner's Plagiarism Is a Bottomless Pit (Allegedly)" Read the comment on nosejobs.
I hadn't heard this one:
"When the most relevant of these tapes was released, Nixon advisor Dean Burch said of George H.W. Bush: 'He broke out in a**holes and sh*t himself to death…'"
Who's in Charge of the Oil Leak?
"Who's in Charge of the Oil Leak?":
"The Environmental Protection Agency ordered BP to stop using the toxic dispersant Corexit to break up their oil mess in the Gulf of Mexico. BP decided to keep on using it. And why not? They're basically in charge down there.
That is essentially what Mother Jones reporter Mac McClelland discovered when she took a trip down to Grand Isle, Louisiana, in the hopes of getting to Elmer's Island Wildlife Refuge. Except that every time she tried to get to Elmer's Island, a funny thing happened: The cops stopped her. Why?
"The blockade to Elmer's is now four cop cars strong. As we pull up, deputies start bawling us out; all media need to go to the Grand Isle community center, where a "BP Information Center" sign now hangs out front. Inside, a couple of Times-Picayune reporters circle BP representative Barbara Martin, who tells them that if they want passage to Elmer they have to get it from another BP flack, Irvin Lipp; Grand Isle beach is closed too, she adds. When we inform the Times-Pic reporters otherwise, she asks Dr. Hazlett if he's a reporter; he says, "No." She says, "Good." She doesn't ask me. We tell her that deputies were just yelling at us, and she seems truly upset. For one, she's married to a Jefferson Parish sheriff's deputy. For another, "We don't need more of a black eye than we already have."
"But it wasn't BP that was yelling at us, it was the sheriff's office," we say.
"Yeah, I know, but we have…a very strong relationship."
"What do you mean? You have a lot of sway over the sheriff's office?"
"Oh yeah."
"How much?"
"A lot.""
So, basically, BP is now regulating access to a state-owned and operated wildlife refuge. Why? "It's BP's oil." That is a quote, from BP flack Barbara Martin. BP now can prevent journalists from going to Elmer's Island unattended, because they own the oil that is ruining it. "
"Flash Bulletin: Corexit is Killing the Gulf":
"In a New York Times article by Paul Quinlan, British Petroleum (BP) is using a dispersant with the trade name of Corexit, even though alternative dispersants have been shown to be far less toxic, and in some cases nearly twice as effective.
And even though scientists have warned that Corexit could cause long-term harm to marine life, BP has ordered almost a million more gallons of the deadly dispersant from Nalso, a company with whom BP enjoys a cozy relationship.
Even our own EPA data ranks Corexit as being 20 times more toxic, and far less effective in handling southern Louisiana crude than some other dispersants.
Historically, workers who have cleaned up after the use of Corexit have suffered with health problems, including blood in their urine.
Carys Mitchelmore, a professor at the University of Maryland’s Environmental Science asked, “Why wouldn’t you go for the lesser toxic formulation?”
BP spokesman Jon Pack defended the use of Corexit by saying their attention is focused on plugging the leak [gusher], and not what dispersant is used.
“It’s a chemical [Corexit] that the oil industry makes to sell to itself, basically,” said Richard Charter, a senior policy advisor for Defenders of Wildlife.
Alan Levine, the head of Louisiana’s Department of Health and Hospitals, said: “We don’t have any data or evidence behind the use of these chemicals in the water. We’re now basically using one of the richest ecosystems in the world as a laboratory.”
As reported in Britain’s Telegraph, Louisiana state Secretary of the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, Robert Barham reported: “We’re very disappointed in their [EPA and oil company executives] approach. The federal procedures call for a consensus between federal authorities, the responsible party and the states involved. When we met and expressed our concerns [over the use of Corexit], apparently they decided to go without us.”
And go they did. Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency allowed BP to turn our Gulf of Mexico into a toxic testing ground, instead of removing the crude oil."
"That's good news for investor Warren Buffett. His Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A)is Nalco's largest shareholder, with a 6.5% stake."
"The REAL Reason BP Is Refusing Other Chemicals":
"BP is refusing to use other chemicals in its dispersion efforts in the Gulf, despite protests from the EPA and US Government about the toxicity of the chemical it's using, something called Corexit.
A simple web search brings up a company called Nalco, who is the manfacturer of this "wonderful" product.
On Nalco's board of directors:
Rodney F Chase - former Deputy Chief Group Executive of - you guessed it - BP.
- Also served on board of Lehman Brothers.
Carl M Casale - Executive VP and CFO of MONSANTO.
Daniel S Saunders - Former President EXXON MOBIL
NALCO's largest shareholder? Berkshire Hathaway, owned by Warren Buffett.
Do we really want these clowns helping out BP in tackling the biggest oil spill in history? A former President of Exxon Mobil and Executives from Monstanto and Lehman Brothers? Sounds like a recipe for disaster if you ask me."
The Democrats are claiming that it is OK for Barry to do the BP bop as the Republicans also receive political donations from BP!
No choice
Don't you think it is interesting that the sinking of the South Korean ship, and subsequent unsubstantiated bloviating about it being the work of North Korea, occurred right in the middle of delicate negotiations with Japan over the American base in Okinawa? Until recently, the Japanese government wanted to kick the Americans out of Okinawa:
"Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama decided to honor an agreement to relocate a U.S. military base within Okinawa, saying threats from countries such as North Korea trump local sentiment to shift it elsewhere.
Hatoyama has “no choice” but to relocate the Futenma Marine Air Base on the island, he told Okinawa Governor Hirokazu Nakaima yesterday. Apologizing for abandoning a campaign pledge, he said the decision was made “given security concerns in East Asia such as the situation on the Korean Peninsula.”"
Obama's sucking up to BP is appalling:
"We should be sending a clear message that this BP oil spill catastrophe will justify preventing Obama from getting a second term. Maybe that would work to get this smarmy politician to do what is right and necessary for millions of Americans that will suffer a long time because of this corporate failure."
"Oceanographers Attack Obama Administration's Oil Spill Response" I wonder what oil spill response they are referring to.
Madsen: "White House Covers Up Menacing Oil "Blob"" If true, this means that the Gulf, and possibly part of the Eastern Seaboard, is already completely and permanently dead, with the 'blob' serving to allow BP to survive on the PR fumes caused by the delay in the full effects of the oil devastation.
On Day One of the spill, a functioning government that wasn't a corporate toady would have:
taken all of BP's assets in partial payment for the damage caused;
hired BP's management to fix the problem under government supervision, on the proviso that each day the spill continued the BP executives would spend an extra year in jail for their crimes;
started the drilling of the relief hole (we keep hearing this is going to take months, so why hasn't it started?);
if the BP 'experts' weren't producing, quickly replaced them with real experts.
Sadly, it is probably already too late.
Even Aleister wasn't that abominable
Mr Crowley:
". . . clearly, this was a provocative and unprovoked and unwarranted action by North Korea. We, of course, have concern at all times that these kinds of irrational actions by North Korea potentially can provoke a broader crisis. We are focused on the immediate challenge before us and will be consulting, as I’ve said, with our partners in the coming days.
At the same time, we are looking at the longer term and what we want to see for the Korean Peninsula. And there are clear actions that North Korea has to take. And so we are looking at not only how we address the immediate challenge and the tragic and emotional – I mean, the tragedy that has occurred. Remember, this was an unprovoked action that resulted in the deaths of 46 South Korean sailors. This is abominable. It is not the way that civilized nations act towards one another."
Of course, civilized nations act towards one another by engaging in unprovoked wars based on fictitious weapons of mass destruction resulting in the deaths of over a million Iraqis, not one of whom was a South Korean sailor.
"Yemeni cleric advocates killing US civilians" What a monster! Of course, the cleric is an American citizen that the United States has already put on its assassination list, so maybe he's just a monster of irony.
Terrorism and diplomacy
Ray McGovern does a good job at tying together the terrorist attack on Iran by Jundallah - a group the United States funds - and the collapse of the last round of Iranian nuclear negotiations. In a nutshell, the U. S. sabotaged the negotiations by ordering a terrorist attack at the critical time. The sabotage explains why it has been hard to read Iranian intentions - Iran has always wanted some kind of swap deal, but correctly doesn't trust the Jew-slave Americans. Speaking of which, from "Iran, Sun Tzu and the dominatrix" by Pepe Escobar":
"Let's face it: Hillary Clinton is one hell of a dominatrix.
At first the United States Secretary of State said the Brazil-Turkey mediation to get Iran to accept a nuclear fuel swap was destined to fail. Then the US State Department said it was the 'last chance' for an agreement without sanctions. And finally, less than 24 hours after a successful agreement in Tehran, Hillary whips the UN Security Council into submission and triumphantly proclaims to the world a draft resolution for a fourth UN round of sanctions against Iran has been reached.
She framed the drive towards sanctions as 'an answer to the efforts undertaken in Tehran over the last few days'. Wait a minute. Immediately after a genuine - and fruitful - mediation on a very sensitive dossier by two emerging powers - and honest brokers - in the multipolar world, Brazil and Turkey, Washington and its two European Union allies at the Security Council, France and Britain, torpedo it. Is this what passes for global 'diplomacy'?"
and (my emphasis in red):
"So we have come to a situation whereby a real, Iran-approved nuclear fuel swap is on the table at the International Atomic Energy Agency while an offensive towards sanctions on Iran is ongoing at the UN. Who is the real 'international community' going to trust? Erdogan could not have put it better; 'This is the time to discuss whether we believe in the supremacy of law or the law of the supremes and superiors ...'
Most of all, what the developing world sees is the past - US, France, Britain, Germany - fighting against the advance of the future - China, India, Brazil, Turkey, Indonesia. The global security architecture - policed by a bunch of fearful, self-appointed Western guardians - is in a coma. The 'Atlanticist' West is sinking Titanic-style.
Only the powerful pro-infinite war lobby in the US is capable of framing a first step towards a full nuclear agreement with Iran as a disaster. That includes the largely discredited pro-Iraq war New York Times (the Brazil-Turkey mediation is 'complicating sanctions talk') and Washington Post (Iran 'creates illusion of progress in nuclear negotiations').
For the pro-war lobby the Brazil-Turkey-mediated fuel swap is a 'threat' because it is on a direct collision course with an attack on Iran (initiated by Israel, then dragging the US) and 'regime change' - the never-reneged Washington desire.
At a recent Council on Foreign Relations speech in Montreal, luminary Dr Zbigniew 'let's conquer Eurasia' Brzezinski warned that a 'global political awakening', along with infighting among the global elite, was something to be deeply feared. The former US national security adviser remarked that 'for the first time in all of human history mankind is politically awakened - that's a total new reality - it has not been so for most of human history'.
Who do these politically awakened upstarts such as Brazil and Turkey think they are - daring to disturb 'our' rule of the world? And then uninformed Americans keep asking themselves 'Why do they hate us?' Because, among other reasons, unilateral to the core, Washington does not hesitate to lift its middle finger even to its closest friends."
A Progressive Agenda to Remake Washington
It has now become officially impossible to distinguish pieces in the Onion from those in the New York Times: "A Progressive Agenda to Remake Washington" Giving billions to the people who caused the problem, who promptly paid it to themselves in bonuses? Health care 'reform', aka the Health Care Industry Enrichment Act? Charter schools? Non-reform banking reform? You can't get any more 'progressive' than that.
Shoe on the other foot
The Toronto Police Service is listing "non-Jewish Shiksa" as a victim category in its latest hate crime study. Since 'shiksa' is a word used by Jews in a disparaging way, and anti-hate laws are primarily to be used to provide sympathy for Jews to allow them to kill people and steal their lands, official Jewry is outraged.
The extortion racket
"The Heresy Of The Greeks Offers Hope" (Pilger):
"What has happened in Greece is theft on an epic, though not unfamiliar scale. In Britain, the “rescue” of banks like Northern Rock and the Royal Bank of Scotland has cost billions of pounds. Thanks to the former prime minister, Gordon Brown, and his passion for the avaricious instincts of the City of London, these gifts of public money were unconditional, and the bankers have continued to pay each other the booty they call bonuses. Under Britain’s political monoculture, they can do as they wish. In the United States, the situation is even more remarkable, reports investigative journalist David DeGraw, “[as the principal Wall Street banks] that destroyed the economy pay zero in taxes and get $33 billion in refunds”.
In Greece, as in America and Britain, the ordinary people have been told they must repay the debts of the rich and powerful who incurred the debts. Jobs, pensions and public services are to be slashed and burned, with privateers in charge. For the European Union and the IMF, the opportunity presents to “change the culture” and dismantle the social welfare of Greece, just as the IMF and the World Bank have “structurally adjusted” (impoverished and controlled) countries across the developing world."
"The Greek People are the Victims of an Extortion Racket" - extortion is exactly the word for it. The banksters bribe the politicians to allow them to lend money to the government - or do something inscrutable that they can later call 'lend' - then they suddenly imagine a 'crisis', which requires the immediate assumption of more debt to pay off the first set of loans. Their thugs come around and say: 'Nice little economy you've got there; shame if anything were to happen to it'. Thus, the freshly re-bribed politicians agree to austerity measures to doubly repay the banksters out of the lives of the people of Greece (or Iceland or any one of a number of third-world countries). The extortion is an endless cycle, as the new tranche of loans will have to be repaid, and so on forever, with ever increasing levels of austerity. Moral and decent people know that the 'debt', if it is to be repayed at all, must be payed out of the freshly flayed skins of the banksters and politicians. Once some country makes this decision for the first time the extortion racket of the banksters will be finished forever.
Too much to blog about, so I'll have to chip away.
"5 Reasons You Won't See the Worst of the Gulf Oil Spill"
"BP and the ‘Little Eichmanns’" Given our celebration of the worst excesses of greed, the terrorist attack by BP on the Gulf was inevitable. Reminds me of the thesis of 'The Corporation'.
"NASA: This Was The Hottest Six Months On Record. No Global Warming, Huh?" "Warmest April, Ever - NOAA Releases New Global Temperature Data"
"Novice Level Monster on Fox News Fails to Defeat Atheist" - funny to watch him swat the chippy interviewer away like he was a fly.
Unusual truth - "Bailout Plan Is All About 'Rescuing Banks and Rich Greeks'"
"Top Italian policemen get up to five years for violent attack on G8 protesters" Rule of law in Italy.
Iran released a French woman that France swore up and down was not a spy. Guess what?
Entirely the fault of the Jews, who don't care what they destroy as long as they get their insane way:
". . . by answering Brazil and Turkey's extraordinary diplomatic effort with an arrogant assertion of the P-5's power to demand the rapid imposition of new sanctions on Iran and reinstating a demand that Iran must suspend enrichment to avoid new sanctions, the Obama Administration is following a course that could inflict serious damage not only on America's global standing, but also on the legitimacy of the Security Council itself."
Millions of illegally displaced Palestinians can't even get into Israel to reach the crossing into the West Bank, let alone be allowed into the West Bank, but one Jew can't cross, in what looks like a reputation-polishing trick, and it is the "end of Israel as a freedom-loving state of law". Supremacists! More Jews Gone Wild:
The Elvis Costello boycott is really hitting hard, perhaps the first time that the Jews have got it through their thick skulls that we really, really, really hate what they do.
"Attorney seeks to bar Goldstone from US"
"Jewish Democratic group asks syndicate to nix Pat Buchanan's column"
A middle-aged man walked into a mosque in Florida during evening prayers, detonated a pipe bomb, and its wasn't news.
"Bio-control of Afghan opium crop?" - increasingly difficult to keep our conspiracy stories straight. I thought we were in Afghanistan to keep the heroin flowing. Or is this just a control of supply to up the price on the streets of Europe?
Another realist gone
Admiral Dennis Blair was fired immediately after the Brazil-Turkey-Iran deal, and right after Hillary made a fool of herself and her country by continuing the sanction talk. The fangs are just dripping with blood. Blair was a 'realist' (i.e., 'anti-Semite'), and an anti-hawk on Iran. It will be interesting to see if he will be blamed for the intelligence cock-up - which the fangers probably think was intentional - that lead to the Americans being so flat footed on the Iran deal.
Red faces at Foggy Bottom
Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett on the Jew-slave, Hillary Clinton (my emphasis in red):
"Her actions may also have reflected a certain amount of dishonesty - we do not know what other word to use - on the Obama Administration's part. In the wake of the Brazil-Turkey deal, the Administration is once again requiring Iran's suspension of all activities related to uranium enrichment to avoid the imposition of new sanctions. As of Monday, the Administration's position is that, even if Tehran carried out the steps specified in its agreement with Brazil and Turkey, new sanctions should be adopted unless Iran suspends enrichment activities.
But that had not been the Administration's position since the Baradei proposal for refueling the TRR was first tabled in October. From that point until this Monday, the Administration repeatedly indicated that Iranian acceptance of the Baradei proposal would preclude the imposition of further sanctions, at least until there had been further negotiations about the broader range of issues associated with the Islamic Republic's nuclear program. At least in the near term, the avoidance of new sanctions was no longer linked to suspension. (Senior British officials told us last fall that this was why, as a matter of policy, Her Majesty's Government did not want to see the TRR deal go through - because it would then be practically impossible to sanction Iran over its continued refusal to abide by Security Council resolutions calling for suspension.)
Now that Tehran has accepted the main elements of the Baradei proposal - the transfer of 1,200 kilos of low-enriched uranium out of Iran in exchange for new fuel for the TRR - the United States has unilaterally changed the game."
"Brazil and Turkey - both non-permanent members of the Security Council - are already indicating that they are not about to roll over in the face of Secretary Clinton's bluster. Turkish Foreign Minister Davutoğlu says that Prime Minister Erdoğan will personally lobby his P-5 counterparts not to torpedo the Brazil-Turkey deal by prematurely passing a new sanctions resolution; Davutoğlu himself will work with the 10 non-permanent members. We expect that Brazil will also be intensively involved in efforts to slow the sanctions train. And, behind China's statement of ongoing support for the two-track approach, Chinese sources are indicating that, while it may not be harmful to have the language of a new sanctions resolution ready to go in case the Brazil-Turkey deal falls apart, successful implementation of that deal could obviate the need for new sanctions."
Then they go on to list all the ways the sanctions have been watered down, to the point of being meaningless.
It is rare to see a new world order arrive so cleanly and clearly. The old way, with the United States ordered to perform Jewish folk dances until it was time to unilaterally call for a War For The Jews, wasn't sitting right with the rest of the world, but the Euro-trash dips were too cowed to do anything about it. Enter Brazil and Turkey, and an end to the old unilateralism. In particular, an end to the Jew-goaded American habit of solving all conflicts - or, in this case, phony conflicts - with threats and bluster and war rather than old-fashioned diplomacy (it is interesting that recent American 'diplomacy' is exactly how middle-aged Jews like Dershowitz, Foxman, Horowitz, etc, etc, purport to 'debate': shouting, threatening, bullying) . The Americans always set everything up as 'our way or the highway' - you agree with us 100% on who we're threatening to kill, or you are as bad as they are and also in our sights. Brazil and Turkey called the bluff (along with the very diplomatically clever China). Hillary's puffing and strutting is just more embarrassment for a former superpower, worn out with too many Wars For The Jews.
Bullshit Promotion
Can you imagine how loud the American 'left' would be screaming if the BP spill had occurred on Bush's watch (of course, the background for the spill did occur on Bush's watch, but the clean-up is all on Obama)? Obama's lucky: the 'left' won't attack him, the right stays away as an attack on Obama would be an attack on a sacred corporation, and the mainstream media is doing its usual job to hide the truth. How does Obama explain:
The Coast Guard is assisting BP in preventing even the most rudimentary press coverage of the damage BP has caused (part of a general strategy of obfuscation by BP, aided and abetted by the Obama Administration)?
"Video shows federal officials knew quickly of potential for massive oil flow in Gulf spill"? And yet it took weeks to mobilize any kind of practical response (exactly like the Bush Administration with Katrina).
BP's cover-up of the damning video - which showed that things were much worse than BP was saying - was aided and abetted by the Obama Administration, which had access to the live feed and was using it as a kind of office lava lamp?
"Deepwater Horizon Was Supposed To Be Inspected At Least 1X A Month. It Wasn't. Why?" (it was actually inspected more often during the Bush Administration!)?
To his credit, Obama has separated the group of bureaucrats who encourage drilling from those who regulate it!! I wonder if Barry said: "Oynesie, yer doin' a heck of a job!" just before he told him it might be a good time to move on.
BP intends to come out of this with almost no liability for the hundreds of billions or trillions of dollars of damage it caused (despite the fact the entire problem was based on BP cutting corners to save a little money), and with the drill site operational and, with a new rig, pumping oil.
What lite looks like
"Blog post: I'm baffled by Noam Chomsky's contradictions on Palestine":
"In his 17 May interview on Democracy Now he told Amy Goodman that his planned itinerary included a meeting with Salam Fayyad, the unelected US- and Israeli-backed "prime minister" of the Ramallah Palestinian Authority imposed after the US helped overthrow the Hamas-led 'national unity government' that came after the 2006 election. Chomsky told Goodman:
I was going to meet with the Prime Minister [Fayyad]. Unfortunately, I couldn’t. But his office called me here in Amman this morning, and we had a long discussion.
He is pursuing policies, which, in my view, are quite sensible, policies of essentially developing facts on the ground. It’s almost - I think it’s probably a conscious imitation of the early Zionist policies, establishing facts on the ground and hoping that the political forms that follow will be determined by them. And the policies sound to me like sensible and sound ones. The question, of course, is whether - the extent to which Israel and the United States, which is a determining factor - the extent to which they’ll permit them to be implemented. But if implemented, and if, of course, Israel and the United States would terminate their systematic effort to separate Gaza from the West Bank, which is quite illegal, if that continues, yes, it could turn into a viable Palestinian state.
Really? Chomsky the great critic of US efforts to undermine democracy and impose its clients around the world is now effusively endorsing what is in effect a US-backed puppet regime?"
Note how the Jew-controlled media is crafting Salam Fayyad as the new 'reasonable guy', the 'guy we can talk to', years of collaboration having worn out the old 'reasonable guy', Mahmoud Abbas. Noam's endorsement of the new collaborator is exactly what we'd expect to see from a rabid Zionist looking for the new guy to sell out the Palestinians.
A bad case
Hilarious NYT headline:
"Iranian offer on uranium could complicate sanctions talks"
The article has been rejigged and retitled: "U.S. Is Skeptical on Iranian Deal for Nuclear Fuel"
Yes, the complete compliance by Iran with the ostensible purpose of the sanctions could 'complicate' things, especially if the sanctions talk had nothing to do with Iran's mythical nuclear program and everything to do with Jewish power in the Middle East and Washington.
Note how Brazil and Turkey waltzed right in to the huge diplomatic hole created by the fact that the world's only 'superpower' has been rendered completely impotent by having a bad case of the Jews. Brazil may have in fact ended the American veto on world political decisions. The unbelievable weakness in the U. S. - caused completely by Jew-dominance - will be noticed by the rest of the world, and everybody will start to act without regard for the laughing-stock Yanks. We will now find out just how Jew-controlled the Americans really are:
"Will Washington and its allies bow to the evidence? Or will they insist on playing a loser's game?"
Weiss alert
Occasionally, as I just did, I'll praise Weiss, but this posting proves, definitively, that at heart he is just another supremacist Jew using his status as a 'lite' to further violent and utterly abhorrent Jewish group goals. Look at the video. The vile Horowitz bullies a student trying to ask an honest question about the smears he conducts against legal criticisms of Israeli actions on American campuses (note how her outfit seems to give him the right to ask her completely irrelevant and illegitimate questions - that's what scary, and the fact that Weiss' supremacism blinds him to it). It is impossible for any decent and moral human being to misconstrue this video as Weiss so easily does. The supremacist Jews will never be able to fix the problem that they have caused (ironically, given the video, the problem will be fixed by the Hezbollah defensive rocket fire), and people like Weiss are a big part of the problem.
Daniel Pipes thinks the fact that an Arab-American woman won the Miss USA beauty pageant must be an example of affirmative action. After all, how else could such ugly people win beauty competitions? The creepy thing is that beardo Pipes has a world-class collection of photos of Arab winners of beauty competitions! Maybe he secretly realizes he's playing for the wrong team. I wonder what Pipes thinks about all the Jews in the Harvard Law School. Kagan's affirmative action?
Jeffrey Goldberg labels himself a 'liberal' presumably because he has a slightly slower kill rate in the Final Solution for the Palestinians than the craziest of the settlers. In his previous posting, the 'liberal' Goldberg refers to 'ridiculous men like Noam Chomsky', not exactly what a mainstream American liberal might say, especially after Noam had his tarnished reputation polished up in the IDF border car wash.
Smart Weiss: Petraeus is blackmailing the Jews to fund his Presidential run - 'pay for my campaign and I'll stop telling the truth about how much American support for Israel damages the U. S.'
Unclear on the concept: "Corrections of the Times"
"Maariv: Minister Ben Eliezer shaken by hostility to Israel in EU, OECD membership notwithstanding":
"Israel is in the worst situation it has ever been in vis-à-vis the world. They just hate you."
"'French Jews killed Muslim out of racist motives'":
""Following the suspects' arrest, it was discovered that Dan L. and his brother, who was also detained, have connections to the Jewish Defense League (JDL), an extreme right-wing group founded by Rabbi Kahana. The two were previously members of the organization.
Btw, whatever happened to that 'anti-Semitic' machete attack in Gatineau?
"Boycotting the boycotters":
". . . Israel itself is one of the world's prolific boycotters. Not only does it boycott, it preaches to others, at times even forces others, to follow in tow. Israel has imposed a cultural, academic, political, economic and military boycott on the territories. At the same time, almost no one here utters a dissenting word questioning the legitimacy of these boycotts. Yet the thought of boycotting the boycotter? Now that's inconceivable."
"Robert Fisk: Dubai police hunt Briton over murder of Hamas official":
"The emirate of Dubai has named a British citizen as a 19th suspect of the killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, the Hamas official murdered in the emirate four months ago, apparently by a group that included holders of forged British passports. According to a source in the United Arab Emirates, the suspect arrived in Dubai under his own name and carrying a genuine British passport.
The document, the details of which are known by The Independent on Sunday but which we have decided not to publish, shows that he holds a real British passport dated 24 October 2007, valid for 11 years, and was born in 1948. It is believed that his father was a Jewish Palestinian who migrated to the UK just after the Second World War. Dubai police have informed Interpol of the name and passport number of the suspect. The man is believed to be hiding in Western Europe."
"Israeli activist buys Arabs' land for Jewish settlements":
"He gave an example from six months ago. Using an Arab family from the northern Israeli city of Acco, he bought a property in Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood.
The Arab family negotiated with the property's Palestinian owners and managed to get what he said was a discounted price for moving in immediately. When the deal had been processed and signed and the money transferred, the Arab family transferred the deed to a Jewish family that moved in."
"From Murder Mystery To Spy Thriller: The Continuing Saga of The Mumbai Terrorist Attacks":
"It has been established that Headley was an agent of the US Drug Enforcement Administration, and his plea bargain leads us to conclude he was also a US intelligence agent: in other words, a spy. It is also known he was involved with the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), and supplied information to them about targets attacked on 26/11. There are three possible explanations that would fit these facts:
1) He started off as a US intelligence agent, but was won over by the LeT, and was acting on their behalf.
2) The US intelligence agency employing him was complicit in the 26/11 attacks. Since the most likely fallout of such attacks would be increased tension and even armed clashes on the Pakistan-India border, and since it appears to be a priority of US foreign policy to reduce such tension, this would suggest that Headley was being handled by a rogue element in US intelligence.
3) The third possibility is that he remained loyal to the US agency, which, in turn, was following US policy. His brief, unknown to the FBI, was to infiltrate the LeT, find out their plans, and report to the US agency so that those plans could be foiled. In order to infiltrate the LeT, he had to win their trust by participating in their activities, including preparations for their Bombay attacks, and while he was doing so, the FBI got on his trail. He did, in fact, pass on intelligence of the planned 26/11 attacks to his US handlers, who, in turn, passed it on to Indian intelligence.
All these are plausible scenarios, but what more or less rules out 1) and 2) is that, as Mushrif reminds us, US intelligence did alert the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) on 18 November 2008 that an LeT ship was trying to infiltrate Indian waters with hostile intent and provided its coordinates, after having earlier warned of an attack from the sea on coastal hotels (pp.182-87). Headley was the likely source of this intelligence. If he was an LeT agent, why would he pass it on to the US agency? And if the latter wanted the attack to succeed, why would they pass on the intelligence to RAW? So 3) seems the most likely explanation."
"But why would Indians block intelligence that could have prevented the terrorist attacks of 26-29 November 2008? Mushrif’s explanation is that the IB has been infiltrated by Hindu extremists who in the last few years have changed their strategy from fermenting communal pogroms to carrying out terrorist attacks and blaming them on Muslims."
The BDS campaign, and the movement to depict the shitty little county as an apartheid state, have proven so successful that Shin Bet has taken to arresting Palestinian intellectual leaders.
"The Search for Cleopatra’s Tomb Redux"
"FBI Hopes Leaky Breast Implant Points Way to Most Wanted Fugitive 'Whitey' Bulger"
Madsen:
"A well-placed British source informed WMR that Rahm Emanuel's father, Benjamin Emanuel, specialized in the terrorist bombings of buses carrying British troops and policemen during the British Mandate in Palestine."
Saban:
"Saban: I had the chance to talk to Hillary about a lot of things including this and I also talked to Rahm Emanuel and Rahm Emanuel for instance told me ‘I am more hawkish than 50 percent of the people in Israel.’"
Atwood is not only the center of the universe, but a huge advocate of free speech, unless the free speech is a criticism of her. I don't think she realizes how much she stepped in it this time (the oddest thing about all of this is that her rationalization of her behavior makes her seem utterly uninformed and incapable of making a coherent argument to the point where analysis of her work will have to be revised to turn her into some kind of idiot savant, incapable of intellectually grasping the themes of her own writings). Every year she has her cheerleaders attempt to promote her for a Nobel Prize, but the Swedish anti-Semitic haters of free speech will never even consider her now (not that they would have anyway).
"America Held Hostage: Year 62"
"Posner threatens to sue Miami New Times over plagiarism claims" "Gerald Posner Hires Rush to Judgment Author Mark Lane in Plagiarism Case" Posner seems to have decided to turn his own plagiarism into a publicity stunt!
Happy Nakba Day
"Happy Nakba Day"
"US Photo Exhibit Shows 6srael Stealing Water From Syria":
"Israeli Consul General in Los Angeles Jacob Dayan sent a complaint letter to the owners of the Annenberg Space for Photography, saying “the venue is being used as a political tool to spread lies about Israel's part in the global effort to provide clean and fresh drinking water.”"
"Hizballah Prepares for the Next War":
"Reports over the past year suggest that Hizballah has received advanced Russian shoulder-fired antiaircraft missiles, and some fighters have been trained in Syria on larger truck-mounted missile systems. U.S. and Israeli intelligence sources say Hizballah has also augmented its arsenal with larger, longer-range rockets with guidance capabilities. Many analysts believe that in the event of another war, Hizballah plans to strike strategic targets deep inside Israel. In February, movement leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah hinted that Hizballah now had the ability to strike targets in Tel Aviv.
Although last month's Israeli claims that Syria transferred Scud ballistic missiles to Hizballah remain unsubstantiated — and some military analysts are skeptical, given the rocket's size and cumbersome logistical requirements — the group is believed to have acquired Syrian-manufactured M-600 guided rockets. The M-600, a copy of an Iranian rocket, can carry a 1,100-lb. (500 kg) warhead a distance of 155 miles (250 km), and its guidance system allows Hizballah to target Israel's Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv from hidden bases in the northern Bekaa Valley."
All moral and decent people around the world will cheer each Hezbollah direct hit. Related: "Hezbollah drone threatens Israel" (note the Zionist propaganda!). Israel illegally flies military planes over Lebanon every day.
"How German Companies Bribed Their Way to Greek Deals" - yet the German's are self-righteous that they are the ants and the Greeks are the grasshoppers.
Bangkok: "like a war zone". This is what worries the elites (the NYT seems to have set up the shot general).
Chris Hedges "No One Cares":
"The roots of mass apathy are found in the profound divide between liberals, who are mostly white and well educated, and our disenfranchised working class, whose sons and daughters, because they cannot get decent jobs with benefits, have few options besides the military. Liberals, whose children are more often to be found in elite colleges than the Marine Corps, did not fight the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1994 and the dismantling of our manufacturing base. They did nothing when the Democrats gutted welfare two years later and stood by as our banks were turned over to Wall Street speculators. They signed on, by supporting the Clinton and Obama Democrats, for the corporate rape carried out in the name of globalization and endless war, and they ignored the plight of the poor. And for this reason the poor have little interest in the moral protestations of liberals. We have lost all credibility. We are justly hated for our tacit complicity in the corporate assault on workers and their families.
Our passivity has resulted, however, in much more than imperial adventurism and a permanent underclass. A slow-motion coup by a corporate state has cemented into place a neofeudalism in which there are only masters and serfs. And the process is one that cannot be reversed through the traditional mechanisms of electoral politics."
"“The entire government is basically privatized,” Scahill went on. “In fact, 100 percent of people in this country that make $100,000 or less might as well remit everything they owe in taxes to contractors rather than paying the government. That is how privatized the society is, that is how much of government has been outsourced in this society. There are 18 U.S. intelligence agencies on the military and civilian side and 70 percent of their combined budget is outsourced to for-profit corporations who simultaneously work the United States government as well as multinational corporations and foreign governments. We have radically outsourced the intelligence operations in this country because we have radically outsourced everything. Sixty-nine percent of the Pentagon’s entire work force, and I am not talking only about the battlefield, is now privatized. In Afghanistan we have the most staggering statistics. The Obama administration is infinitely worse in Afghanistan in terms of its employment of mercenaries and other private contractors than the Bush administration. Right now in Afghanistan there are 104,000 Department of Defense contractors alongside 68,000 U.S. troops. There is almost a 2-to-1 ratio of private-sector for-profit forces that are on the U.S. government payroll versus the active-duty or actual military forces in the country. And that is not taking into account the fact that the State Department has 14,000 contractors in Afghanistan.”"
More boycott choices: Home Depot and Samsung.
Gish Gallup
"Israeli settlers attack Palestinian mosques" The settlers keep having to meet their high standards of evil.
"Thurston Howellitz?" Discussion banned by MetaFilter.
"Movement mounting against Reisman receiving honorary degree" - without mentioning she funds a charity dedicated to helping those who kill Palestinians. Bookninja, which purports to be a bit edgy, applauds Atwood (there are people in the Canadian book world you don't mess with).
Acknowledgement of the Jewish biowarfare connection: "Israeli scientists prepare for arrival of deadly fungus"
"6,500 disabled children in Gaza after war"
"From Shas to Hamas: The group behind the South Park controversy" + "The Revenge Attack Myth" = ?
"Why Syria will keep saying ‘no’ to Washington"
"From 1982: how the New York Times justified the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon"
The most interesting part of the Zionist attack against Goldstone is that we know it was directed out of Avigdor Lieberman's office, and the usual hasbaraites said 'aye-aye, captain' and immediately wrote their hit pieces.
Speaking of Lieberman: "Maariv: Lieberman launching diplomatic offensive against Saudis"
BP and its partners may not know much about safely running oil rigs, but they sure know waivers.
"We can't ALL be anti-semites, can we?"
Reactions to the Atwood/Ghosh obscene rationalizations:
"Ghoshwood’s Mendacity"
"Dear Ms. Atwood, I Regret to Inform You that You Have Failed the Lie Detector Test"
"Novelistic Scabs"
The bottom line is that Israel has a severe legitimacy crisis which is being fought off by the Zionists through various propaganda efforts, including buying off some money-hungry shabbos goyim into providing the illusion that Israel is a legitimate country. It is the same old story, and Atwood's Coulter-esque interest in 'free speech' - at least for people who aren't Palestinians - is pathetic.
Speaking of buying off the shabbos goyim: "Yediot: After bowing to US pressure on OECD vote, Turkey wants gestures from Israel"
"Just How Leaky Are Assertions From the Anti-Global Warming Crowd?" (my emphasis in red):
"Guernica: Do you think climate scientists might benefit from taking a page from the Republican playbook of how to better convey their message? I watched a debate between you and Marc Morano, the Republican communications guy, and he was generally much more aggressive. He kept interrupting, probably tripled your word output, and kept repeating key phrases. These kinds of tactics seem to work on a public with a short attention span.
Joseph Romm: That technique is called the Gish Gallup. It was invented by a Creationist. You talk fast, interrupt and throw out a non-stop stream of one-line lies or half-truths. There’s not much one can do about that technique, because in a debate you can’t constantly say, “That’s false, that’s false, that’s false.” Every one of those sentences takes a paragraph to rebut. So again you’re left in this realm of what you don’t rebut goes unrebutted. When you do rebut you use up all of your time. So I don’t think there’s anything productive to be gained by those debates. Juan Cole [President of the Global Americana Institute] wrote a piece urging climate scientists not to debate because you’re automatically giving equal weight to disinformation."
The love that really dare not speak its name
Kagan literally came up out of nowhere, with no academic or administrative record to speak of, to be picked by none other than Larry Summers to be Dean of the Harvard Law School. She's unprecedented as a Supreme Court judge as she has neither:
any judicial experience;
any kind of distinguished academic history (i.e., she can in no way be said to be 'learned in the law');
any experience at practising law.
She's an administrator, probably a good one, either as Dean or Solicitor General, and her experience is in handing jobs to others. She has no more place on the U. S. Supreme Court than any personnel manager at a medium-sized corporation. Her colleagues keep calling her brilliant, but her brilliance, if any, isn't in the law (she seems to be brilliant at arranging to have powerful mentors and cheerleaders).
The truth is difficult to find, but some people are starting to slowly catch on. She's a cog in the Jewish takeover of American power. From the seminal posting by Guy-Uriel Charles:
"Now one might ask, how can one get tenure at not one but two of the nation's top law schools with what would appear to an outsider to be a thin publication record? I don't know the answer to that question. But when you compare Kagan's publication record to that of Harold Koh's, who was Dean at Yale Law School at about the same time Kagan was Dean at Harvard, and whose name has also been floated as a potential SCOTUS nominee (though apparently much less seriously), the difference is striking. Koh has published over 100 articles and has authored or co-authored eight books. Granted, Koh has been in teaching about six years longer than Kagan."
and (the key, albeit misunderstood):
"Granting that we know very little about Kagan, what do we make of the facts that we do know? Here are some data that gives me pause about Kagan. When Elena Kagan was Dean of the Harvard Law School, she hired 29 tenured or tenure-track faculty members. But she did not hire a single black, Latino, or American Indian faculty member. Not one, not even a token. Of the 29 people she hired, all of them with one exception were white. Under Kagan's watch Harvard hired 28 white faculty members and one Asian American."
White? Here's where we get into the love that really dare not speak its name, Jewish supremacism. A letter to Salon by Revocatus Digitus Flatum:
"Why Kagan has been chosen, and will be the next Supreme Court Justice: Jewish favoritism.
Glenn deleted my post when I said this. Because, gee, there is no such thing. There is no such thing as Jewish favoritism.
There is WASP favoritism, right? I mean, we are all agreed on that point - it's the historical narrative of this nation, put forth by every college professor this side of Reykjavik.
But there is no such thing as Jewish favoritism. So we must think of all the different reasons why Kagan will be the next Supreme. That's what were paid to do - to deny the obvious, and bash our heads against the wall to keep people from seeing the obvious. It's hard work, but the reward is great - book deals, public speaking engagements, face-time on TV. Frequent flyer miles."
From a letter to Salon by lysias:
"By the way, I got the impression, from looking at the faculty list of Harvard Law School at http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/index.html, that a lot of the recent hires had Jewish names (even granted that all law schools have a disproportionate number of Jews on the faculty). I wonder if Kagan thinks that is enough consideration for minorities."
From a comment by Tom Watson to a posting by Kevin MacDonald:
"I did see a short list of her “White” hires, and all but, one, were Jews. LOL. I’m not even sure about the one."
'White' covers a lot of sins. We're hypersensitive about discrimination in favor of whites, or reverse discrimination in favor of anybody except Jews. The fact that Kagan's job was to stack Harvard Law School with Jews - and more research needs to be done on the numbers (and yeah, I know she wasn't the only one involved in the decision process, but she certainly was the main one) - is literally invisible. The only way we can see it at all is by misunderstanding what appears to be discrimination against visible minorities.
Wayne Madsen sometimes goes overboard, but this report (0r here) on the BP/Haliburton attack on the world seems just about right.
"Oil: So how'd the BP executives get off the Deepwater Horizon?" Answer: they didn't have to pee in a cup.
"Oil Slickonomics (Part II)"
How supremacists think: "PM Shamir on terrorism: it’s ok, if you are a Jew"
"Sheizaf: A tale of two charters"
"Ottawa tilts towards Israel in a nonsensical way" Certainly the Christian Zionists have their share of the blame, but ignoring Jewish blackmail and bribery, and Jewish control of the media, is a huge mistake.
Speakeing of which, the Jews lost control of the CanWest television stations, so have come up with a quick backroom deal to keep the newspapers. The named main player is GoldenTree Asset Management.
"Sfard: The lesser known settlement freeze deal" Since there is no freeze anyway, the whole thing is a joke intended to give more concessions to the nuttiest of the settlers.
Noam, champion of espionage.
"Declassified GAO Report Exposes Fatally Flawed Israel Investigations"
"Kagan Nomination Reveals How Jews Operate" - very smart. The concept of 'group brilliance' seems to be particularly connected with Harvard (other obvious fools are Larry Summers, Michael Ignatieff, and Niall Ferguson). You can probably connect the decline of the United States in a mire of elitist group-think and nepotism to the decline of its most famous university.
Speaking of which: "The Harvard Number" (why are the white supremacists the only ones on top of these issues?)
"OECD Accepts Israel as Member, Group Expanding to 34" Unfortunate, but more evidence of the widening, and huge, gap between the elites and decent human beings.
"Welfare system could cause Israel to collapse, economist warns"
The mysterious disappearance of a nuclear scientist.
"Sampling of BDS creativity - Ireland, UK, France, US and Canada"
Note the picture: I think Uri Avnery is smoking crack.
Payback for the patsy: "Barrage of Drone Missiles in North Waziristan" (part of "Drone Watch 2010")
"Manchurian Candidate Market" But is it necessary to scare politicians if you own them?
Is World Jewry experimenting with biological warfare agents on Americans?
There was an order to fire at Kent State.
The Jews have lost control of a large portion of the Canadian media, but are scheming, with the help of the usual shabbos goyim, to get it back.
As I said, there is nothing that will come between third-rate Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood and a prize (with a cool million to make principles melt away). I don't think she's an idiot (although this interview makes her sound like one), but given the certainty of the end of the shitty little country within ten years, she's soon going to look like some kind of monster, like the singers who appeared at Sun City or Heidegger 'getting along' with the Nazis.
"Would You Put Up With What is Being Asked of the Greek People?" The Greek people are going to pay to refinance the loans made through the stupidity of the banksters, then they'll have to pay again when the new loans come due. The politicians were well bribed at the time of the original loans, and are being well bribed to agree to the terms of the refinancing. The only way out of this is to refuse to submit to the schemes of the banksters and their bought politicians. In other words, you can stop paying now, or you can keep paying forever. There is some indication that the Greek people understand this.
"Guest Post: Eyewitness Reports Suggest BP Cut Safety Corners on Deepwater Horizon" Better: there is some indication that the disaster occurred due to inattention caused by the presence of BP bigwigs on the rig celebrating the BP safety record.
Holder changes the story a little from 'lone nut' to a vague Taliban connection, presumably to provide ammunition for weakening the human rights of Americans (Holder is starting to make John Ashcroft look like a relative champion of human rights).
The latest in the fanger attacks against the Zionist Goldstone is to challenge his background as a judge during Apartheid!
Arianna pays the bills: 'Chavez' War Against the Jews"
"The language of Zionism"
Lone nuttery
I'm getting a strong Lee Harvey Oswald vibe off the Faisal Shahzad story. The conspirators had a series of big plans for the Oswald tale, including an attack on Cuba or even a nuclear war with the Soviet Union (that's why they had built in layers of connections between Oswald and various characters who could be described as communist agents). Unfortunately for them, the escape of Oswald from assassination at the School Book Depository or the Texas Theater meant that they had to scale back their plans to 'lone nut'.
We're seeing exactly the same scenario with Faisal Shahzad. He was obviously supposed to die in some sort of confrontation with law enforcement, and his continued life - together with the unfortunate slip about Army planes illegally performing law enforcement activities on American soil (one of the key signs of fascism, btw) - meant that the big plans for the phony terrorist attack had to be trimmed. The lying mainstream media did its job automatically, with extremely specific and detailed connections between Shahzad and Pakistani 'terrorist' groups. With Shahzad alive, and capable of talking, the Official Story has become . . . lone nut.
Of course, the conspirators will still make the best of a bad situation, using Shahzad as the excuse to increase the scope of illegal drone attacks on innocent Pakistanis. There will be more no-fly list nonsense in the United States. Any 'terrorist' attack also allows the Security Industrial Complex to make more money, and the increased strategy of tension against the American people allows for the promotion of more Wars For The Jews.
Portrait of a patsy
Spy scrubbing
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Sol-Feace (Sega CD)
Ship speed fixed, selectable at start
Developed by Wolf Team
Published by Wolf Team in 1991
It just occurred to me that Sol-Feace might have been the only shmup to be included in a bundle release with a console. What an honor! This happened only in US and Europe, in Japan it was merely a launch title aimed at showcasing the technical prowess of the recently released add-on for the Mega Drive. This huge responsibility is partially the reason why a few people disregard the game as a valid effort, since it didn’t really step up Mega Drive specs to the revolutionary standards promised by Sega. Sol-Deace, the cartridge version released later only in the US, is there to prove it. Originally appearing for the Sharp X68000 computer, the game is a classic horizontal space shooter: scroll right, fight your way across the stage, beat the boss, repeat for six more levels to reach the end. Probably due to the genre saturation that took over the console market at the time and the negative hype from initial reviews, this simple yet elegantly executed shmup was taken for granted by lots of people.
One of the clear advantages that came with the CD format was the available space for programming, and Sol-Feace uses this extra room exclusively for a lengthy intro with crisp narration and cut scenes. I played the Japanese game, so the storytelling was a mystery to me because I understand bollocks of Japanese. I was content just to know that my spaceship is piloted by a guy and a girl (Engrish is present in brief messages in-between stages, but do not allude to the main story). I guess I never said that, but the spaceship’s main hull reminds me of a horse’s head. Horse of the galaxy, riding the universe to destroy an evil sentient computer! After departing from what seems to be an orbital landing field, the ship travels through an asteroid-filled area, an enemy base and the surface of an artificial sun, facing a huge battleship afterwards. A swift scramble into the enemy’s core facilities in Pluto precedes a treacherous mission on Jupiter's third moon, and then comes the final showdown for the fate of human kind.
Behold the most hated foe in Sol-Feace
Sol-Feace’s gimmick resides in the way power-ups are handled. All three weapons (vulcan, laser and grenade/missile) can be combined at the player’s will when an item is uncovered. Whenever the ship is spawned, either when the game starts or when you lose a life, the very first power-up generates the upper and lower cannons and provides a basic vulcan shot. After that touching a power-up icon is what determines where it will be activated: descending upon the item applies its power to the lower cannon, going up against it does the same to the upper cannon and approaching a power-up horizontally executes the effect on the main ship. Once the upper and lower cannons are activated, refrain from shooting, move around to adjust the cannon’s openings and fire to lock them in place. It’s possible to have firing angles close to 45º.
The soundtrack to Sol-Feace is awesome, but these days I must admit that I find the cartridge version renditions in Sol-Deace to be more charming. The Japanese version of Sol-Feace has a richer set of sound effects than the discs from other regions, but overall the sound design in all variations is pretty good. For example, besides changing the appearance of the cannons each weapon type has its own characteristic sound. My friends and I always thought of the vulcan as the "bubble gum" shot. Missiles are the most powerful weapon and make a neat sinking sound when they hit something. Laser is less powerful but is capable of piercing multiple enemies at once.
Some other aspects of the gameplay aren’t as explicit as the ones I mentioned above. One of them is the ship’s exhaust animation, which appears whenever you’re moving forward and is capable of damaging enemies. It’s an invaluable resource during the fifth stage, by the way my favorite one. Wait till the enemy ships approach from behind and dart forward as they come close, just beware of the blocking lasers inside the tunnels - they activate as soon as your ship crosses their detection range. If you want to alter ship speed you must do it in the configuration screen at the start menu. Default is Middle, with Slow and Fast as alternatives. For a game that uses only one button, I can't help but wonder why Wolf Team didn’t include selectable speeds during the actual gameplay.
Enter into a sphere of artificial solar gravity and pass through immediately
(courtesy of YouTube user kirgeez)
I think the challenge in this game suits the 16-bit format quite well. Practice and memorization become more important by the 4th stage, but even then Sol-Feace is always capable of taking the player by surprise due to random elements (the whole 5th stage and the 6th boss are to blame for this). Every credit is started with five lives, which is far above the average for any 1-hit death shmup. I couldn’t grasp the exact interval for extends due to the way scoring is implemented, but I noticed the first one comes with 30.000 points, with further extends reachable as the game unfolds. There seem to be shadier aspects in the scoring system, as indicated by when the 3rd boss gave me half of the expected 50.000 points when defeated. I have absolutely no idea why it happened, and since I was trying to beat my old high score that made quite a difference in the long run. Be aware that bosses time out, so don't abuse milking when playing for score.
Even though Sol-Feace doesn't get bold graphically and doesn’t take the genre any further (as expected from a launch title in a new console), it provides good fun and doesn’t sound derivative at all. The harder difficulty is dubbed "Mania" (or "Advanced" in Western versions) and practically consists of a new game, with more enemies and more bullets coming from every corner. What's important is that in whatever mode you choose the game oozes with nice atmosphere, and it’s hard to pick on any technical aspect besides the lack of instantly selectable speed. A little slowdown and flicker is to be expected, loading times are short and the available continues are surely welcome during the learning process.
My high score was improved roughly 5% over the previous one I had (Normal difficulty, Middle speed).
Labels: Horizontal, Sega CD
Zap Zap: Pew Pew (Xbox Live)
Developed by Ergostudios Games
Published by Ergostudios Games in 2010
Another lazy evening trying to catch up with a couple of months of XBLIG releases, and there I was choosing another little shmup to pass the time while a new batch of trial downloads went on in the background. Zap Zap: Pew Pew (don’t laugh) was the chosen one. A humble vertical romp built completely over a retro mindset, with a simplicity that leads me to believe it might have been merely an exercise in programming. A joke to many but a charm to some, is it to be disregarded as unworthy of one’s time? Suffice it to say that within a plethora of games made out of scarce resources this one surely ranks above the average. In fact, it’s a nice way to spend an hour or so and sink back into the realms of 80s nostalgia.
This game is a short one. There are 24 stages but they all go by in a snap. Some of them have bosses, most of them don’t. Bare bones graphics dictate the flow, minimalistic music sets the vibe and shallow humor establishes the interaction within the story, since the main motivation for you to play the game is to gain access to the secrets of the universe. It's not a vertizontal and it looks and plays like Galaga at times, but a few tricks here and there offer some interesting albeit brief shooting moments. It’s so lighthearted in tone that you don’t even mind the amount of "air" in the action, an aspect that makes it an easy gateway for new-gen players who want to know how old-style shmups actually play.
Oops!!! Isn't this a vertical shooter?!?
Permanent firepower consists of a pea shot, a mine layer and a tractor beam. All weapons are activated with dedicated buttons, but the tractor beam and the mine layer are only acquired later in the game. Laying mines is used mainly to take care of enemies coming from behind, but since mines scroll down slowly they can also be used to hit enemies coming from the top of the screen. The tractor beam works just like in Zero Wing, grabbing whatever enemy is in front of the ship and releasing it if you will. However, here it’s much more useful for offense than defense. Special icons provide temporary upgrades that last for one stage only, and consist of three-way shots and exploding mines. Three-way is great, but the exploding mines cause more confusion than practical advantage. The final icon you’ll come across is the occasional extra life (1UP).
Zap Zap had the potential to be a great indie game. The incremental ideas implemented stage after stage show a fresh creativity, it only needed a bit of fleshing out to evolve into full-blown concepts for a meatier shmup. I can forgive the lack of support for the D-pad, the only unforgivable flaw is the poor (every enemy is worth only a single point) and broken scoring system (just park your ship below one of the respawning cells of the last boss and blast away for whatever score you want to achieve). Considering these drawbacks and the wasted gameplay potential it’s hard not to think of the game as a letdown, but let’s try to highlight the good parts in it, starting with the bosses. They’re a treat and a couple of them will hack your ship’s controls so that it behaves erratically. The first one will have you spinning as he fires a two-way spread while enemies pass by from below and from the sides. Later on a large spaceship will do something unexpected and switch control functions with the player: you're still able to fire but all movement inputs will be transferred over to the boss, meaning you must avoid hitting your own ship as it moves around at (the boss’s) will. It surely messes your head during a try or two. A few bosses will require the player to use mines on the back of their weak spots to be damaged. Some enemies/walls will only be destroyed if you grab something with the tractor beam and get aggressive on them.
One person missed that last part and set out on a journey
(courtesy of YouTube user PickHutHG)
Previously played stages can be directly selected for practicing, shortening the time to beat the game even more. The built-in autofire is nice but doesn't have a fast firing rate, so mashing the button might be necessary in certain areas. Despite the extreme simplicity the game doesn’t sound derivative when compared to the classics of old, and while the poor production values might scare some people off the fun factor doesn’t disappoint those who’re willing to support a decent effort from an indie developer. Besides the aforementioned influences there’s also a quick nod in the gameplay to the classic Demon Attack, and I could swear one of the tunes is directly lifted from the contemporary Space Invaders - Infinity Gene (note: Zap Zap was released between the iOS and XBLA/PSN versions of Taito’s classic revival title).
Contrary to what its name suggests, the game doesn't have much in the way of sound effects to properly match the title. The secrets of the universe weren't that exciting after all, but my hour of easy fun with Zap Zap: Pew Pew ended with the following final score.
R-Type II (Playstation)
Developed by Irem in 1989
Published by Ascii Entertainment in 1998
Those who’ve been there know that R-Type presented the outset of an intergalactic struggle, a desperate mission to free enslaved solar systems from the evil clutches of the Bydo empire. As expected (for us anyway), the Bydo weren’t really gone after the heroic actions of the first chapter, so in R-Type II we have yet another chance to kick their asses. A couple of weeks ago the time came to finally continue the battle against the evil clutches of doom, in more of the same alien, claustrophobic outer space landscapes filled with deaths in every corner. Yes, the style didn’t change a single bit, so players should prepare for another glorious dose of strategic memorization in order to fully enjoy the wonders of R-Type II.
It was with pleasure that I dusted off the R-Types compilation for the Playstation, a must-have package that includes arcade-perfect renditions of R-Type and R-Type II. Are you a shmupper and Playstation collector but still don’t own R-Types? Shame on you, my friend! If you’re one who enjoys extra stuff in your shmup media, you’re also missing out on a neat animated intro and several bits of valuable information about the enemies for both games, as well as a comprehensive glimpse at the Bydo backstory.
As a sequel, I feel that R-Type II doesn’t get much credit today. As far as sequels go it isn’t as well regarded as Gradius II, for instance. This probably stems from the fact that it doesn’t really offer a huge step-up above the original (unlike Gradius), but it should also be mentioned that further games in the series helped eclipse it because of their wider improvement leaps. Nevertheless R-Type II is just as much fun as the original, and for the regular bystander it might even surpass R-Type because of a few factors that make it a slightly easier challenge.
Battleships of doom
Classic gameplay: it returns intact from the first game. The new R9C (C for custom) is capable of firing single and charge shots, as well as missiles acquired with M items. By taking any of the weapon power-ups a force pod will appear from the left. The force is an invincible device, causing damage by contact and shielding the ship against regular bullets. It can be attached either in front or at the rear of the ship, with the detachment process being controlled by a separate button. A second power-up item will activate the selected weapon’s capabilities, and a third one will max it out, also granting maximum power to the force pod. Bits are tiny half-spheres that hover above and below the ship and carry some of the force pod power, providing extra firepower and protection. And let’s not forget about the ever so important speed-up (S). All items are concealed inside these tiny mechas that bounce around and leave the screen if they’re not destroyed in time.
New aspects of the gameplay include exclusive additions to the weapon gallery. Alongside the classic wave shot (red), bouncing lasers (blue) and crawling streams (yellow) we now have a forward laser that “bends” with mild homing ability (green) and exploding clusters (gray). An alternative to the regular homing missile type (red M) is the new ground missile (blue M) that explodes along the surface it hits for a brief distance. The charge shot has a secondary charge level that generates a wider, even more powerful blast. To trigger it you need to release the button at the correct time because the charge gauge keeps cycling over the initial charging round.
R-Type II is comprised of six loopable stages with two checkpoints each. Even though this might indicate the game is short, all levels are a bit longer than in the original and do not incur in any severe recovery problem – an aspect that killed R-Type for many people, since it was more reasonable to restart the game than to go on if you died in the last couple of stages. This alone is reason to qualify R-Type II as an easier, more approachable game. The design builds upon ideas of the original and blends them with graceful taste, such as in the baby aliens and the breakable serpents of the last level, or the moving blocks that create/destroy a living maze in the fifth stage prior to a boss that sounds a little familiar. The huge spaceship level is expanded to a deadly fleet of smaller battleships that move around the whole screen in a continuous attempt to corner and crush the player. And not everyone knows that to uncover Dobkeratops, R-Type’s iconic first boss, you need to actually blast the nose of the first boss in this game.
The start of a new mission against the Bydo empire
(courtesy of YouTube user KobayashiBR)
More intense from the get-go, R-Type II boasts an energetic BGM on the first stage, which follows a brief animation sequence that shows the R9C departing for battle. As in all games of the series, atmosphere is king and dictates the tone of the rest of the soundtrack. My favorite song has to be the one that plays during the 4th stage, I even decided to switch from wave shot to laser halfway through this level just to listen to it more clearly. You see, wave shot is still the best weapon to play the game, but the downside is that it’s too noisy. Its sound effects easily overshadow whatever is playing in the background.
Speaking of strategy, after taking wave shot in the first stage I stick to it until stage 4. Then I grab it again briefly during the fifth stage, but the game practically forces you to retake the laser in order to go through a vertical passage. Wave shot is again the key to safely get through the destructible net prior to the last boss, then the laser is once again shoved down the player’s throat. From the new weapons my favorite is the bending laser (green), the gray one is awkward, slow and its short reach doesn’t help at all. Missile type is mostly irrelevant, but it’s much better to have ground missiles during the whole battle against the space fleet of the third stage. One thing that bothered me is the score you get from the second boss: for reasons I yet don’t know, sometimes you lose points instead of getting the 7.000 you deserve for killing the creature. Maybe its moving penis is sensitive to something the player does, I can’t be sure (insert Giger-esque sexual imagery reference here FOR GREAT JUSTICE).
One thing in R-Type II that’s clearly tougher than in the first chapter is the second loop. It’s balls-to-the-wall hard. I wish I had gone past the first stage when I looped the game but I didn’t. I guess this serves as a hint that Irem actually listened to its audience when developing the game: make the first loop more manageable, but release the Kraken in the second loop. Extends come with 200.000, 350.000 and {probably} for every 150.000 points afterwards. Note that the Playstation disc allows the player to map a separate button for shot autofire (which makes a perfect control setup), as well as position the HUD wherever you want on the screen.
R-Type II was partially “ported” to the Super Nintendo as Super R-Type. This isn’t a pure port in that it only retains a few stages while adding new ones and replacing bosses. Another way to legally play the original arcade game is in the R-Type Dimensions compilation, released for the Xbox Live Arcade in 2009. My final score on the Playstation version is below (NORMAL, loop 2-1).
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Labels: Horizontal, Playstation
Side Arms (Playstation 2)
Developed by Capcom
Published by Capcom in 2006
Shooting left and right was a concept pioneered by Defender. Great success in the arcades, Defender allowed the player to attack aliens from both sides of the screen and control scrolling speed at the same time. Many similar shooters followed its trail, but as far as I can tell associating the same bidirectional controls with automatic scrolling was only seen five years later with Capcom’s exquisite Section Z. Following the cool experience of that game Capcom continued their venture into the same gaming style with Side Arms, originally released in 1986. Some people refer to it as Side Arms - Hyper Dyne, as seen in the small subtitle at the start screen, but the shorter and less clunky Side Arms sounds better to me.
For those with no access to the arcade version, Capcom Classics Collection Volume 2 on the Playstation 2 is one of the legal ways to play Side Arms at home. The compilation is definitely a must have for any Capcom and arcade fan since it includes titles from several genres and a handful of other shmups. Side Arms is completely customizable with button mapping, optional autofire, multiple difficulties and general tweaks. I recommend turning off “infinite credits” if the player wants to have single credit sessions because once the credit is over pressing any active button will trigger a continue.
Piloting a giant space mecha across non-stop landscapes to destroy evil aliens is the heart of the mission in Side Arms. There are no fade-outs or intermissions between stages, just kill the boss and keep moving at the same steady pace, reacting to whatever hazards come from all sides. One buttons shoots right, another button shoots left and a third button is used to switch weapons. Weapons aren’t at your disposal from the start, it’s necessary to pick them up along the way. There lies the basic rule of the gameplay: icons are released by defeated enemies and change/cycle when shot at, so they must be sorted out until the desired function appears. In a few occasions fixed items will be released for direct pick-up (shooting them won’t do anything), often prior to boss fights. That’s the game giving an explicit hint that should be read as “use this weapon, it’s the best one”.
Infested caves need to be purified of all alien evil
Icons will cycle in the following manner: Pow, bit, Pow, SG, Pow, MBL, Pow, 3way, Pow, mirrored Pow (woP) and either a star or a yasichi (looks like a lollipop). Once the star or the yasichi is reached the icon won’t cycle anymore. Contrary to the standard assumption, instead of upgrading weapon power Pow increases the speed, with the mirrored Pow working as a speed-down item. Speed level is displayed by the three colored blocks below the weapon array. Now to the weapons: bit adds an option that circles the character and provides a bit of extra firepower, SG is a fan-shaped short spread pattern, MBL is your good old straight laser, 3way is a spread weapon with actual reach and "auto" depends on which of the last items you get (the star adds vertical shots with autofire and the yasichi adds autofire to the basic shot). All weapons can be powered up once by taking another item of the same type with the exception of the bit - it's possible to have up to three of them. Any currently weapon used is lost upon death.
Weapons are important, but even most important in Side Arms is the item that appears alone and alternates quickly between the Greek letters α and β. It invokes an armor that involves the mecha and fires auxiliary weaker shots in 8 directions, also providing protection against two hits (on the second hit the upgrade will be lost). In co-op the α/β item behaves in a different manner, combining both players into one whose control functions are shared by both parties. Losing the armor reverts it back to separate entities. α/β items always appear from selected enemies or by hitting certain areas in the screen, some of them unsuspectedly hidden (look for corners and flat platforms). Also hidden are 1UPs and score bonuses such as strawberries, cows and golden barrels. Besides 1UPs, extra lives are awarded with every 100.000 points you score.
While the graphic design still holds an underground charm that’s typical to the 1980s, the music in Side Arms is atrociously cheesy. It kinda makes me feel as if I’m playing a game late at night with dimmed lights, a false guilty pleasure of sorts. The action is somewhat repetitive, but the relentless enemy swarm in later levels only made me care about the repetition of bosses (there are only two of them, alternating between each other until the ultimate caterpillar boss appears). Each weapon comes with sprite changes on the character, but I find it funny that after the robot receives the α/β armor it looks like he's with stomach pain whenever he shoots. The effect is lessened if you decide to approach the game as player 2 because the second robot is bulkier and looks more menacing. Another difference is that the 8-way extra shots of the player 2 side work as boomerangs instead of regular outgoing projectiles.
Side Arm's attract mode
(courtesy of YouTube user ReplayBurners)
Side Arms can be engaging for a while, but it isn't as cohesive or fun as Capcom's previous Section Z. Although built over an attractive concept, it fails to deliver a long-lasting experience because of some weird details in the gameplay. Explicit flaws relate to how easily confusing it can get. In certain areas you might practically go through a massive solid block, only to get stuck in a tiny tip of the scenery and die. There's a brief spell after losing the armor where the currently used weapon will revert back to the default shot, making the player believe he's lost it. Don't fret and wait for the weapon to resume its duties, if you don't keep the cool and die remember that there's almost no window to breathe upon respawn. That's why consecutive deaths abound while you're learning the game. Parallax is used with moderation but could've been of actual use in the 4th stage: most of the floating specks of mud belong to the background but a few of them will annoyingly get in your way, severely hampering navigation and dodging. On a minor note, stage duration is rather uneven, but thankfully later levels get increasingly shorter as you reach the end of the journey.
Even as irregular as it is I do appreciate some aspects of the game, such as the seamless connection between stages, the way the scrolling frequently goes up and down or the pressure added by those chasing caterpillars whenever the screen is cluttered with other enemies. Activating autofire in the options menu makes any the "auto" weapons useless, so my technique consisted of using mostly 3way for stages and MBL (laser) for bosses. Bits are an alternative if 3way isn't available, but that SG fan-shaped spread is downright dreadful.
In Side Arms the player's initials must be entered as soon as the credit is started, but there's a bug in the Capcom Classics Collection Volume 2: it won't register the result of a 1CC in the high score table of the attract mode. Fortunately it's at least kept in the upper display, as shown in the picture below (Normal difficulty, player 2 side, autofire ON).
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CAPSULE: VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS (2017)
August 1, 2017 Shane Wilson 3 Comments
DIRECTED BY: Luc Besson
FEATURING: Dane DeHaan, Cara Delevingne, Clive Owen, Rihanna
PLOT: A pair of hotshot space cops flirt with each other as they stumble upon a conspiracy surrounding a lost race that threatens the survival of the massive spaceport that serves as the hub of galactic peace and commerce.
WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Valerian is an optical feast, presenting settings and creatures that push the edge of the imagination. However, that same imagination has hung these visual treats upon a story that is strictly by-the-numbers, with characters who are stock at their best and unfathomably shallow at their worst, rendering the film all frosting, no cake.
COMMENTS: The audience was quiet. Respectful. No laughing. No chitchat. Definitely no cheering. A candidate for blockbuster of the summer unspooled before us, and we could have easily been transplanted to a golf tournament without causing a disturbance. We sat in silence, staring at the screen like we were on a field trip to the art museum.
Actually, Valerian wouldn’t be out of place in a museum; it’s a lovely piece of pop art. Luc Besson has crafted a green-screen wonderland, ranging from the impressionist beauty of an alien beach world to a mind-bending cross-dimensional duty-free bazaar. Sometimes he is unable to restrain himself and piles the settings on top of each other; one chase scene barrels through a half-dozen environments in the space of a couple minutes. From start to finish, the film is a visual stunner.
Which is why the audience’s silence, while not necessarily reflecting quality, is so devastating. Valerian is a lot to look at, but is ultimately an uninvolving experience. The action set-pieces have no kick, the story feels boilerplate, and the leads are dangerously lacking in chemistry. People like spectacular visuals, but they’re not inclined to cheer for them alone.
At times, it feels like Besson has extracted the spine of the story from his earlier sci-fi venture, The Fifth Element, and grafted new visuals on top of it. Dane DeHaan’s hero’s journey from callow to committed is clearly intended to mirror that of Bruce Willis. The overstuffed metropoli, aliens both corpulent and sinewy, the overwhelming power of *love*…they’re all straight out of Element’s playbook. Valerian even stops, like its older cousin, for a musical number. This one features Rihanna dancing (but not singing) and acting (but not, um, acting). What he hasn’t carried over includes any sort of stakes, much of a sense of humor, or charismatic characters. We’re supposed to take all those on faith.
Not that he only borrows from himself. The trio of duck-billed creatures who fence information feel like escapees from Labyrinth. A benevolent blue-hued race seems to have stepped directly out of Avatar (and brought some of their environmental and cultural issues with them). And overall, the film is surprisingly reminiscent of The Adventures of Tintin, another adaptation of a beloved French comic book that sacrificed character and story in favor of wondrous CGI visuals and a breakneck pace. Of course, Tintin is entirely animated, so perhaps our expectations for rich character development there are diminished. But Valerian has real actors, and this is where the trouble truly begins.
Design, as noted, is impressive, and there’s enough logic to the plot to earn a pass (ignoring, of course, the scene where a computer explains that the massive space station has traveled 700 million miles from Earth over the decades, which would put it somewhere just shy of Saturn). However, character is the gaping void of the center of the film, and the two leads bring absolutely nothing to the table. DeHaan is a black hole, delivering lines that are intended to mark him as a hard-bitten mercenary, but doing so in a voice cribbed from Keanu Reeves and bearing a look that suggests “bored 8th grader.” Cara Delevingne is marginally better, having the advantages of (a) being very pretty and (b) having only one emotion to play: cold irritation. The two are laden with banter, written to demonstrate their wit and cool under pressure, as well as to place them in the pantheon of great wisecracking romantic couples of the cinema. But DeHaan and Delevingne are nowhere near pulling it off. Their dialogue feels utterly false in their mouths, and because Besson puts their will-they-won’t-they dynamic at the forefront from the moment we meet them, the thud of their relationship is more than the film can overcome.
Besson’s instincts bend toward the weird. (Why else would you cast jazz legend Herbie Hancock as a futuristic bureaucrat?) But while his vision is undeniably heterodox , here he seems utterly unable to apply it. Perhaps the best indication of his failure of imagination comes in the very opening sequence, a montage chronicling the origin and growth of the City of a Thousand Planets. To accompany the growing alliance of humans and a variety of unusual extraterrestrials, he summons the ultimate alien: David Bowie. But what song from the catalog does Besson choose? “Space Oddity.” Gifted with the limitless power of creation, he settles for the cliché; the most obvious, expected choice. And no one cheers.
“Little splashes of a weirder, kinkier, much better movie kept popping up throughout Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, and even though they tended to vanish as quickly as they appeared, I still found myself missing them. They’re like phantasms making quick cameos from the nether, a brief flicker of a more adventurous, less compromised movie that perhaps could have been…” – Will Leitch, Paste Magazine (contemporaneous)
2017Clive OwenDane DeHaanHollywoodLuc BessonScience Fiction
LIST CANDIDATE: INHERENT VICE (2014)
January 14, 2015 Gregory J. Smalley (366weirdmovies) 11 Comments
Inherent Vice has been promoted to the List of the 366 Best Weird Movies ever made. Read the Certified Weird entry here.
DIRECTED BY: Paul Thomas Anderson
FEATURING: Joaquin Phoenix, Joanna Newsom, Josh Brolin, Katherine Waterston, Owen Wilson, Martin Short
PLOT: In 1970 Los Angeles, private investigator and marijuana enthusiast “Doc” Sportello investigates several converging cases while dodging a hippie-hating police detective out to get him.
WHY IT MIGHT MAKE THE LIST: Paul Thomas Anderson’s work has flitted around the edges of the bizarre, beginning with the baffling ending to Magnolia, through the reader-recommended oddity Punch-Drunk Love and the existential meanderings of The Master. With this stoned adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s studiously esoteric novel, Anderson may finally have passed over to the weird side for good.
COMMENTS: I don’t think it’s a mistake that’s it’s easy to misread the title Inherent Vice as Incoherent Voice. This smoky noir in which everything connects, but nothing does, is like a comic version of William Burroughs’ “Naked Lunch” (the novel, not the movie); but instead of an expatriate junkie’s 1950s nightmare, it’s an American pothead’s 1960s reality of a world of alarming signifiers (Vietnam, the Manson family, Nixon rallies) that float past, occasionally colliding and combining like the hot wax spheres in a lava lamp. The plot is doled out in fits and starts, as if Doc is suffering from blackouts. He probably as; at one point he writes “not hallucinating” in his detective’s notebook as an act of self-reassurance. Characters like Reese Witherspoon’s hot-to-trot assistant D.A. or Benicio Del Toro‘s maritime lawyer plop in to drop bits of exposition without much explanation of who they are, where they came from or why they care. Like a slightly more coherent Branded to Kill, deconstructing American detectives instead of Japanese yakuza, Inherent Vice assembles its pseudo-story out of warped genre tropes: hard-bitten detectives who inhale bong hits instead of slamming shots of bourbon; femme fatales who manipulate saps into giving them a good spanking.
Better to think of Inherent Vice not as a plotted movie, but as a movie composed of free-associated plot elements. There’s a decadent real-estate magnate with a private sex cult, Aryan biker gangs, hippie-hating flattoped cops, a disappearing surf-sax player, an insane asylum that doubles as a private prison, and a vertically integrated Taiwanese heroin consortium. For added oddness, there’s conspicuous product placement for nonexistent brands, ridiculous fang-shaped skyscrapers that pop up in formerly empty lots, and a manic Martin Short as a drug-snorting, cradle-robbing dentist. There is even resolution, of a sort: Doc discovers all of the missing persons before the end credits roll. But you may be mystified as to how he did it.
Inherent Vice is the new masterpiece of hippie noir. It rides that fine line between rationality and irrationality, heading towards a hazy neverland where universal paranoia holds sway. Not only does it ride that line, it eventually snorts it up.
“…an aggressively weird movie, which you should take not as a warning but as a compliment and an invitation to see it, to let its stoner vibes wash all over you.”–Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic (contemporaneous)
2014Clive OwenComedyConfusingConspiracyDrug abuseHollywoodJoaquin PhoenixJosh BrolinKatherine WaterstonMysteryNeo NoirPaul Thomas AndersonPostmodernRecommendedThomas Pynchon
CAPSULE: SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR (2014)
August 27, 2014 Gregory J. Smalley (366weirdmovies) 1 Comment
DIRECTED BY: Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller
FEATURING: Mickey Rourke, Powers Boothe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jessica Alba, Eva Green, Josh Brolin, Clive Owen, Bruce Willis
PLOT: Three stories involving gamblers, thugs, private detectives, strippers, corrupt senators, and femme fatales, and other disreputable denizens of the mythical Sin City.
WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: It doesn’t do anything new or better to distinguish itself from its Certified Weird predecessor; not that that’s necessarily a bad thing, entertainment wise, but the original represents the Sin City franchise on the List of the 366 Best Weird Movies well enough.
COMMENTS: First, the good (or bad) news: this 2014 followup does such a good job recreating the look and feel of the surprise 2005 hit, right down to renovating the rapidly aging faces of Mickey Rourke and Bruce Willis to the point where they’re indistinguishable from their decade-younger selves, that you could edit the stories from A Dame to Kill For into the original Sin City and never notice the difference. The tangled timeline—some of the stories here take place before any of the events in the first movie, while others are roughly contemporaneous with it—helps with that sense that Dame is not so much a sequel (or prequel) as it is an organic extension of the original, almost as if we were viewing deleted scenes. Returning from the first film is Rourke’s Marv, that slab of grizzled muscle with a vertical nose and a horizontal chin, who unites the stories and plays a supporting role in two out of three tales; Willis’ romantic cop Hartigan, in what is basically a cameo; and Jessica Alba’s diva stripper Nancy, now an alcoholic wreck. Josh Brolin tackles a younger (yet somehow more bitter and jaded) version of the role played by Clive Owen in the original, while Powers Boothe’s corrupt politico has a greatly expanded part as the new principal antagonist for two of the three characters. There are numerous callbacks to the previous films (e.g., a portrait of Nick Stahl’s Yellow Bastard on his fathers’ wall) and origin stories (we learn how Manute got his stylish gold eye). The real stars here are the new characters, though: Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s Johnny, a gambler with a golden touch whose boyish looks are a welcome contrast to the craggy male miens that otherwise populate the city, and especially Eva Green’s seductress Ava. Green is frequently nude—in fact, her first appearance naked, on a diving board in front of a digital moon, is itself justification for the movie’s existence—but she is also the first female character in the Sin City universe who is a worthy adversary for a male. Her femme fatale performance is campy, but riveting, and with ruby red lips and turquoise eyes accentuating her classical black and white beauty, she’s a breathtaking update of the archetype. The digital cinematography is as crisp and beautiful as the original film: the whites of characters’ eyes sometimes appear to glow, as does their spurting blood, and there are wonderfully evocative effects like tendrils of steam that hang in midair without dissipating. There are scattered weird visual touches, the most impressive of which is a giant poker hand (you’ll know it when you see it). Overall, fans who loved their first visit should find plenty of reason to go slumming again in this City, while those who had their misgivings about the trip may find themselves depressed by the burg’s seedier aspects, now that it’s really showing its age.
Given that the new Sin City is pretty much of a piece with its predecessor, its lackluster performance with critics and box office patrons requires explanation. The core fanbase seems appeased, based on a decent 7.2 IMDB rating, so we assume that the movie failed to put casual fans’ butts in theater seats. The lesson is that nine years between installments is not exactly striking while the iron is hot, no matter how faithful to the original you make the followup. On the critical side, Dame bashing may be partly a chance to reappraise the original, which caught reviewers by surprise with its technique. (Nathan Rabin candidly takes this tack in his review for The Dissolve). In 2005 nothing else quite leapt off the screen the way Sin City did, and the glowing visuals, star power and cinematic energy caught critics by surprise and allowed them to overlook the film’s many flaws: its painful faux-Chandler dialogue, pornographic brutality, and adolescent understanding of both masculinity and femininity. Since the visuals are no longer original, today’s reviewers appear to be looking past the screen’s gilded surface and letting their misgivings about the movie’s lack of any worldview beyond appreciation of the awesomeness of violence dictate their opinions.
“…it was easy to imagine that A Dame to Kill For would try to one-up the original, to push the envelope of perversity in some fresh and jarring (if likely unsuccessful) way. Instead, Rodriguez and Miller have erred in the opposite direction, offering up a movie that feels timid, half-hearted, eager to play it safe. The former path might have been a mistake. This one feels almost like a betrayal.”–Christopher Orr, The Atlantic (contemporaneous)
2014ActionBlack and WhiteBruce WillisClive OwenCrimeFilm NoirFlopFrank MillerHollywoodJessica AlbaJoseph Gordon-LevittJosh BrolinMickey RourkeRobert RodriguezTinted footage
171. SIN CITY (2005)
June 4, 2014 Gregory J. Smalley (366weirdmovies) 6 Comments
“It’s pretty damn weird to eat people.”–Marv, Sin City
DIRECTED BY: Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller, Quentin Tarantino (“special guest director”)
FEATURING: Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Clive Owen, Jessica Alba, Nick Stahl, Jaime King, Rosario Dawson, Elijah Wood, Benicio Del Toro, Brittany Murphy, Josh Hartnett
PLOT: The movie tells three stories (with some common characters) set in the mythical Basin City: in one, a police detective risks his life to stop a child-killer. In a second, a brutal, mentally ill criminal hunts down the men he believes killed the only woman who ever showed kindness to him. A final strand tells of a suave assassin who attempts to prevent someone else’s accidental killing from turning into an all-out war between the cops, the mafia, and the self-governing prostitutes of Old Town.
A fan of Frank Miller’s original series of Sin City comics, Robert Rodriguez wanted to make the movie as true to the book as possible: “a translation, not an adaptation.” The actual comics were used as the storyboards. The stories selected were “The Hard Goodbye ,” “The Big Fat Kill ,” and “That Yellow Bastard ” as well as the short “The Customer is Always Right.”
Rodriguez shot the opening segment, “The Customer is Always Right,” in one day as a proof-of-concept to convince Miller that he could do justice to the art style. He then used that clip to convince actors such as Bruce Willis and Benicio Del Toro to sign on to the project.
Rodriguez insisted that Miller receive a co-director credit on the film, but the Directors Guild of America objected to the credit (they do not allow co-directing). He then decided to give Miller full credit, but Miller refused. Rodriguez then resigned from the Guild so the co-directing credit could remain.
Quentin Tarantino directed a single scene in the movie (a segment from “The Big Fat Kill” involving a conversation between the severed head of Del Toro’s “Jackie-Boy” and Clive Owen’s “Dwight”). Tarantino directed for a salary of $1 as a way to repay Rodriguez for composing music for Kill Bill: Vol. 2 for $1.
The movie was entirely shot on Rodriguez’s “digital backlot” (green screen studio) near his home in Austin, Texas.
Sin City screened in competition at Cannes and won the Technical Grand Prize.
Plans for a sequel (based on Miller’s “A Dame to Kill For “) were announced immediately after the film was completed; the followup feature was delayed until 2014, however.
INDELIBLE IMAGE: From the very first frame—a woman in a blood-red backless cocktail dress on a balcony staring out over a steel-grey city—Sin City‘s pulp Expressionism is consistently startling and poetic. Since we’re fascinated by the weird, we’ll select the first sight of the Yellow Bastard, the bald, satellite dish-eared pedophile killer dyed the color of French’s mustard, as our unforgettable take-home image from the movie.
WHAT MAKES IT WEIRD: A marriage between the mythologies of film noir and violent comics, Sin City‘s bloody tales are set in an abstract urban hellscape inhabited by invulnerable tough guys and rough sexy dames. They play like the lost works of Raymond Chandler’s alternate universe grandson, written to scrape up a few bucks for a bottle of booze while he was down and out in Gotham City. With a cast of cannibal serial killers, jaundiced pedophiles and ninja hookers, the adventures of the hard-boiled demigods of Sin City are as fantastical as its random splotches of color in a monochrome landscape are visually unreal.
Original trailer for Sin City
COMMENTS: Sin City earns its “recommended” label almost solely on the basis of its visuals (bolstered by some finely weird touches), and not for its Continue reading 171. SIN CITY (2005) →
2005Benicio Del ToroBlack and WhiteBruce WillisClive OwenCrimeElijah WoodFilm NoirFrank MillerHollywoodJessica AlbaJosh HartnettMickey RourkeQuentin TarantinoRecommendedRobert RodriguezRosario DawsonTinted footage
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Brent Allan Winters
Inheritance Rights of Daughters
When God gave the principles of the law at Sinai, he did not express every possible application according to every issue that would bob forth from the flux of human relationships. Rather, He has left the specific applications of his unchanging principles to us.
About 38 years after God gave the law at Sinai, the daughters of a fellow named Zelophehad came to Moses with a complaint. Their father had died in the wilderness with near all the of the rest of Israel, but without any sons. These ladies asked Moses why the name of their father should be done away with simply because he had only daughters. They then made their claim to Moses: we should share in the inheritance our father’s property.
Moses took their request before the Lord, who affirmed these ladies point of view, commanding that they share in the inheritance from their father. The Lord went on to give specific guidance of inheritance in cases where a man had no sons but only daughters.
The principles of the law never change, but the persons and circumstances subject to the principle do change and require fresh application. Thus, John the apostle says, “Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you have heard from the beginning.” Speaking of the same commandment, he then refers to it in its fresh application: “Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you; because the darkness is past and the true light now shines.”
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As in his image we create the new not the past. I like quote of the Apostle John you have on your site.
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Asylum Ink
Artwork by Jason Moser
Psyche Eval (rants)
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About Entropy
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The saga of Entropy is a generation struggle against the collapse of society, the betrayal of friendships and the rise of Lovecraftian horrors from beyond known space. What begins in the not-too-distant future quickly escalates with ramifications felt hundreds of years from now in a sci-fi opera that blends the horror of the Great Old Ones with technology so advanced it appears as magic.
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Members of the organization known as Ellium have played a clandestine role in the building of societies dating back to the Knights Templar. Always playing the role of shepherd and not dictator, the Ellium’s motives have remained true to their roots until recently.
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The world we knew is no more. Virtually stripped of humanity, the crumbling shell of society struggles against mutation and death as the deadly Wormwood virus continues to lay waste to most life on Earth.
Hoping to stave off extinction, humanity sought out refuge among the stars. Forming colonies that thrived for a time, the resources needed to maintain their populations have dwindled and any hope of returning to Earth has been made impossible by the powerful Ellium – holders of the only cure to the Wormwood.
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The Artist crafted his masterpiece throughout the city in flesh and blood of its residents. A work of art to rival the greats, and in doing so, please those that lurk beyond. Wanting to expand his “materials”, The Artist stalked Detective Jennifer Kale, turning hunter into prey – a decision that ultimately leads to his downfall.
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AmbiScreen lights up the backs of your screens and more
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Ambient TV backlighting technology has so far failed to find a major audience in the U.S. despite several attempts by companies including Philips and its Ambilight. More recently, the makers of Project-Pyxis failed to reach their funding goals for that device.
AmbiScree is a new, LED-based backlighting device with somewhat more ambitious functionality than some prior products. It is controlled wirelessly via iOS (and later Android) mobile devices, and provides ambient lighting for TVs or any other display, as well as videogame consoles and any other device in the home, according to its Indiegogo campaign. AmbiScreen can also be used as an autonomous mood light system. So, in addition to creating light behind a TV, it can also be used to create ambient lighting in bathrooms and other rooms.
AmbiScreen ships in April. Future pricing for the standard version is $199, but early bird backers can get one at $149. Hand-made limited edition models in black and white carry future pricing of $299, but early bird backers can get either of those for $199. AmbiScreen’s makers are out to raise $50,000 by Jan. 10.
There is probably an audience for such a device despite the inability of ambient TV lighting to attract significant interest thus far in the U.S. Negatives for AmbiScreen, for now anyway, include the fact that it initially doesn’t support HDMI 2.0 or smart bulbs. But its makers say they’re trying to add those features down the road.
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October 19, 2013 John Roobol
When the balmy days of summer arrive in Pembrokeshire, the world is a warm friendly place and winter gales and rain are but a memory. The sea beckons and sail boats appear on the long flooded estuary of the Milford Haven waterway beneath blue skies with fluffy white clouds. It is a time to get out on the water. One option is to contract a days sail. My son Peter and I did this in August 2013. We contacted Brian Thomas who I knew in school days. Brian has a business refurbishing sailing boats and once operated a summer business of taking visitors by sail boat (a Drascombe lugger) along the waterway and out to Skomer Island. We planned a day sail to the islands on August Bank holiday (The islands of Skolkholm and Skomer lie off the western end of the Dale Peninsula). The day before was sunny but with a strong blustery wind and our family (including a new grandson) spent the day on sheltered Watwick Sands. The appointed day started clear and sunny but almost airless. We drove to Dale to meet on the pontoon there and found Brian ready with his 20 foot Hawk sailing boat. He was concerned at the lack of wind although the forecast was for force 3 and 4 that would have been perfect for a comfortable sail. As it was such a lovely day we decided to go ahead and see what could be achieved. So in very light northerly airs, we slowly threaded our way through the many yachts at their moorings off Dale village. We soon settled down with Brian as skipper, Peter on the tiller and I was free to make a photographic record for The Anchorage website to show visitors another local holiday activity.
Soon a light but intermittent breeze picked up off Dale Fort (where nature study courses are held) and we were able to sail across the two mile wide entrance of the waterway to arrive at Thorne Island with its Victorian Palmerston Folley fort (previously used as a hotel). In calm water we sailed around the island passing and greeting a lobster/crab fisherman who was winching up his pots on a long weedy line. Next we tacked back across the waterway to arrive off Watwick Sands. The northerly breeze picked up and we were able to run along the coast passing another Palmerston Folley – the West Blockhouse – to cross Mill Bay. This is an infamous black spot in the waterway. Long ago a submarine being towed broke loosed and was wrecked on the rocks near the blockhouse. More recently a boom defence vessel suffered the same fate and parts of her can be seen sticking out of the sand of Mill Bay at low tide. Most infamous was the giant crude oil tanker Sea Empress that ran aground on a shoal off Mill Bay and became a major oil spill incident. Much sea life and birds were killed off in this most major of accidents. Continuing west we passed beneath the white painted St. Ann’s lighthouse – now automated with the buildings as holiday apartments. The high sea cliffs here are made of Old Red Sandstone and consist of brightly coloured layers mainly red but some cream coloured.
Outside the waterway we picked up a good force 4 northerly breeze and tacked along the majestic and rugged cliff line towards Westdale Bay and Skomer Island. I photographed a tall red rock pinnacle rising out of the cliffs that was capped with yellow lichen. But the earlier light airs had delayed us and the tide had turned with the flood moving north. So we headed instead due west to Skolkholm Island. The distance from St Anne’s Head is around 5miles and Brians Hawke 20 sailed magnificently running along at about 6 knots. She is a fine sea boat and had been surprisingly manoeuvrable in the earlier light airs. It was a pleasant run across to Skolkholm on a single starboard tack, although the tide carried us to the northern end of the island. North of Skolkholm we shipped a few wave tops as we sailed across the Wildgoose tidal race. The west coast of Skolkholm was in sun shadow and little could be seen of the rocks Soon Skolkholm lighthouse on the south western tip of the island was visible and we turned along the very straight south side of the island. Here the sun shone on high cliffs revealing the same red and cream layering of the Old Red Sandstone as we had seen at St. Ann’s Head. A swell broke along the base of the cliffs but we were in the shelter of the high cliffs, so we opened our lunch box. Some beer and cider with leftover BBQ from the previous evening and some Cornish pasties went down very well in the warm sunshine as we admire the colours of the sea cliffs nearby. When we came out of the lee of the island we sailed on a port tack back towards St. Ann’s Head. On route we passed a few other sailing craft.
Skolkholm Island – named by Viking invaders – measures about one mile north-south and east-west with an area of 240 acres. It is flat topped (an old marine erosion surface) and around 150 feet high. It lacks trees and is famous for its bird population with 35,000 Manx shearwaters, 1000 storm petrels, 800 Lesser Black Backed gulls, 600 Herring Gulls as well as razorbill, guillemot, puffin colonies, oyster catchers, lapwings, skylarks, meadow and rock pipits and wheatears. Only ornithologists are permitted on the island (the Skolkholm Bird Observatory) where the accommodation is book up for some years in advance and there are no day visits for tourists. The Pembrokeshire islands were seized by the Normans and mainly used for summer grazing of sheep and cattle and winter catching of rabbits (the latter were introduced into Britain by the Normans). The island was farmed in the 18th and 19th centuries and the buildings remain.
Soon we were once again under the cliffs of St Ann’s Head and then crossing Mill Bay where we passed a launch with passengers engaged in mackerel fishing. On past Watwick Sands with the anchorage now in the afternoon crowded with sail and motor boats. We stayed on that port tack along the center of the Milford Haven Waterway as far as Stack Rock Fort – another Palmerston Folley – off Sandy Haven. The waterway between Dale and Stack Rock was crowded by yachts racing and temporary large yellow buoys marked the course. Most striking was a large trimaran that moved along much faster than any other yacht. Her triple hull held her rigidly upright and she sliced majestically through the water without pitching or rolling. Compared to the other monohull yachts, she looked like a real sea-going racing machine. Brian pointed out that the sheltered Milford Haven waterway made good sailing regardless of the weather. We sailed around Stack Rock and passed a pair of seals that live there. In the silence of our sailing craft, we could hear their loud calls to us as they watched us pass by. From there were able to return to Dale on a single starboard tack. We arrived back after some 6 hours of sailing after covering a distance of 22 miles. It had been a most pleasant and delightful day and we were delighted that the weather had cooperated with us.
Note: For those who like to sail Brian can be contacted by email at: family.williams22@btinternet.com
– John Roobol
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My Podcast Obsession: Interview Podcasts
November 26, 2018 By AJ Leave a Comment
Guys, I’m super obsessed with podcasts. This is a complete 180 from the me of a few years ago who swore up and down that she’d never abandon morning radio. My phone is loaded, my beloved Bose Soundsport Wireless Earbuds are more-oft-than-not are around my neck, and every chance I get, I am listening. But no true crime. It’s just not for me. Though I have been known to enjoy “My Dad Wrote a Porno” or “Missing Richard Simmons,” among others, my real jam is interview podcasts. I guess I just like to listen to people have conversations about themselves…? Mostly it’s celebrities but I do occasionally mix in “real” people or political figures. So if you too are itching for more audio material to consume, I invite you to enjoy my podcast obsession: interview podcasts!
The Adam Carolla Show – As a publicist, the thing I find incredibly cool about Adam is that while he’s one of the most downloaded podcasts around, he doesn’t sit up on a throne and only host top tier celebs. Adam has room for everybody and he’s always genuinely curious in stories. Adam himself has a pretty interesting background and rise to fame, in fact, but a major part of his background is radio, which clearly helps him rise to the top here.
Armchair Expert – A lot of interview podcasts try to put a spin on their show to set them apart ad in this case, Dax goes through a lengthy interview, always interesting to me – he’s super engaged and genuine – and then he and his Producer spend the last 20-30 minutes of the episode going back over the interview and correcting mistakes or offering support or background to something that had been discussed. I also happen to love this podcast’s branding. The website, the merch, the brand — all very on point. (Tipping my hat here to my friend Ryan, who turned me onto this one.)
Awards Chatter – The Hollywood Reporter’s Scott Feinberg is getting all the top tier celebs here. This podcast has been around few a few years and while I am all caught up on the last year’s worth of episodes, I’ve also been enjoying going all the way back to the beginning and listening to the old ones. Scott is just great at what he does (I say so on Twitter often, and he probably thinks I’m a little obsessed with him). I’ll be honest – he often has a Hollywood exec or expert on for the first 30 minutes to discuss something in the news and I skip through that. I just want the celebrity.
Curious with Josh Peck – Josh is still finding his legs as a podcast host and gets a wee bit rambly sometimes but he’ll get there. Maybe he’ll find a sidekick or producer to assist. He needs to do a little more background research on his guest. But he has had great guests so far and I think it’s fun to hear from someone as young as he is since most of the hosts you’re seeing here are older guys and gals.
Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness – Every other week or so, “Queer Eye” star “JVN” welcomes an expert to discuss whatever topic he is curious about that week. Sometimes it’s prophetic like a deep dive on Islam, and sometimes it’s as simple as having Michelle Kwan on to talk about “what’s up with figure skating?” It’s an easy listen, about 30 minutes every time, and so enthralling because not only is Jonathan genuinely curious, he is smart. I am always impressed with the questions and information.
Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast – Gilbert (whose voice is not as annoying as you think it is, I promise) co-hosts with comedy writer Frank Santopadre. Gilbert will only have guests on he’s heard of. That’s not to say he won’t be prepared and do research, but you won’t find Zac Efron here, just to plug a movie. He’s only interested in talking to, well, the people he’s interested in. Which I kind of dig. And as a result, you get to hear from Hollywood icons that aren’t often recognized by the mainstream.
ID10T w/ Chris Hardwick – A lot of people will accuse Hardwick of talking about himself too much – and I suppose he does – but it doesn’t bother me. He’s still the world’s most accomplished fanboy and I enjoy his nerdiness and dorky enthusiasm. And stepping into my PR role for a moment, I can also tell you, having met him, he was very nice to me, very generous, and supportive of the little indie films we sent his way.
Katie Couric – I love Katie. Do you follow her on Instagram? She is a delight. She co-hosts this podcast with political journalist Brian Goldsmith and because they are both journalists, they handle celebrity guests, political figures, news-relevant discussions and more with ease. At this point, I really want to go to a happy hour with Katie so if anyone can make that happen, shoot me a note, pretty please.
Off Camera with Sam Jones – Sam Jones seems to be friends with everybody and yet, I’d never heard of him. But this podcast, like Awards Chatter, has been around for ages and I’m enjoying going back to old episodes to catch up. Who is Sam? He is a photographer and director whose portraits of Barack Obama, Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Bob Dylan, Kristen Stewart, Robert Downey Jr, Amy Adams, and Jack Nicholson have appeared on the covers of Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Esquire, GQ, Time, Entertainment Weekly and Men’s Journal. So a few things you’ve heard of, yes? Plot twist: His podcast is also a TV series.
Pretty Big Deal with Ashley Graham – My dear friend Becky got me hooked on Ashley’s Instagram. If you are not familiar, she is a famous plus sized model, totally stunning, totally unapologetic, and quite influential. When she launched her podcast, she announced a pretty impressive guest list, debuting with Kim Kardashian West, then having Amy Schumer, activist Halima Aden, Olympian Lindsey Vonn and then some. She also records her podcasts on video so you can watch them on YouTube if that’s preferable.
Recode Decode – Host Kara Swisher is highly respected; one of tech’s most prominent journalists, known for insightful reporting and a straight-shooting style. I first came across her as a keynote at BlogHer 2014 and have been a worshiper ever since. She holds nothing back in hard-hitting interviews with celebrities, influential business leaders and outspoken personalities from media, politics and more. I especially loved her interview with Mark Zuckerberg. I said so on Twitter and she responded, which made my month.
WTF with Marc Maron – Marc Maron is perhaps the Godfather of the interview podcast, if not the originator, having started podcasting long before it was deemed cool. The show launched in September 2009 in Maron’s former garage, where he even interviewed then-President Obama. I think Marc can ramble on a bit and often fast forward through his long intros, but he’s still nailing it in every interview and he’s always hilarious besides. (I’ve seen him do stand-up and it was one of the most memorable sets I’ve ever seen. And he improved the whole thing.)
Bonus Podcasts!
How Did This Get Made – Not really an interview podcast, per se. Paul, Jason and June run through bad movies with hilarious commentary but often have celebrity guests join them either in studio or at live shows. This may actually be the podcast I love the most when I’ve seen the movie they’re discussing.
Oprah’s Master Class – Also not technically an interview but it’s a nice, easy listen at about 30 minutes per, with one celebrity speaking on a challenge they overcame the whole time, minus Oprah chiming in with backstory once or twice.
Late Night With Seth Meyers – They’re really just putting the episodes in an audio format but they do add a little more interview with a Producer backstage. And I just love “A Closer Look” with Seth. I actually prefer listening to the show over watching it for some reason. (And I’m never up that late anyway.)
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A lot of things were changed this year for the Hallowfest from the first year. One most prominent aspects was the fact that it was two weeks instead of one.
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Did this work better in theory or in reality? What do you think? Was it still going too fast? Impossibly fast? Or faster than you would've liked to enjoy the 'fest?
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Were the clues easier to figure out this year, now that most have had experience under their belt? Were they still too obscure (this being ones that weren't red herrings)?
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Mr. Zhong Shan leads the Ministry of Commerce; and oversees the Department of Human Resources.
Mr. Zhong Shan, a Han Chinese, is a native of Shangyu County, Zhejiang Province. He was born in October 1955, started his career in July 1972 and joined the CPC in June 1974. Mr. Zhong holds a PhD in economics from Zhejiang University and is a Senior Economist.
Mr. Zhong worked successively as General Manager and CPC Committee Secretary of Zhejiang Textiles Import & Export Company, Chairman, CPC Committee Secretary and General Manager of Zhejiang Zhongda Group Co., Ltd., and Chairman and General Manager of Zhejiang Zhongda Group Holding Co., Ltd. He was appointed Director General and Secretary of the CPC Leadership Group of the Department of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation of Zhejiang Province in December 1998. In January 2003, Mr. Zhong became Vice Governor and member of the CPC Committee of Zhejiang Provincial Government. In November 2008, Mr. Zhong was appointed Vice Minister and member of the CPC Leadership Group of the Ministry of Commerce. In July 2010, he was appointed Vice Minister, Deputy China International Trade Representative and member of the CPC Leadership Group of the Ministry of Commerce. Mr. Zhong has served as China International Trade Representative (ministerial level), Vice Minister and member of the CPC Leadership Group of the Ministry of Commerce since March 2013. He was appointed China International Trade Representative (ministerial level), Vice Minister and Deputy Secretary of the CPC Leadership Group of the Ministry of Commerce in June 2014. Zhong Shan took office as Minister of Commerce and Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of MOFCOM in February 2017.
Zhong Shan is a member of the 19th CPC Central Committee.
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20011013-GULBAHAR, AFGHANISTAN: Afghan children listen a lesson at a school in Gulbahar, some 30 km from Kabul, 13 October 2001. US warplanes and missiles bombarded Afghan airbases and military camps on Saturday, 13 october 2001, but frustrated opposition forces claimed Washington was not targeting frontline Taliban positions. Source: Sergei Ilnitsky.
Report Reveals Corruption At Education Ministry
This material belongs to: TOLOnews. The report says 75 percent of teacher training graduates are not being hired at schools due to corruption in the…
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China’s Anti-Corruption Czar, Accused of Corruption, to Step Down
This material belongs to: The Washington Free Beacon. Xi goes full Mao in codifying ‘thought’. China’s anti-corruption czar who is also the Communist Party official…
Source: TOTPI.
How Political Corruption Fuels Gang Violence In Central America
This material belongs to: Pacific Standard. Behind the devastating crime rates in the region lies an insidious network of political collaboration with violent gangs like…
Mmusi Maimane, leader of the opposition Democratic Alliance party, speaks during a keynote speech on the opening day of the Investing in African Mining Indaba in Johannesburg on October 4, 2017. Source: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg.
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Mmusi Maimane: In the 21st century, corruption shouldn’t be this easy
This material belongs to: BIZ News. JOHANNESBURG — Last week saw one of the biggest developments in South Africa’s state capture saga as it was revealed that US…
Source: Tech in Asia.
ESIC Launches Online Anti-corruption Education Tutorial
This material belongs to: LawInSport. The esports Integrity Coalition (ESIC) has today launched its esports specific online anti-corruption education tutorial. The tutorial, which can be…
Source: Daily Maverick.
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Corruption increases cost of business – Madonsela
This material belongs to: Namibian. FORMER South African public protector Thuli Madonsela says the cost of doing business increases when there is corruption. Madonsela, who…
Source: Scroll.in.
Rajasthan’s ordinance on immunity for officials seems to violate Supreme Court rulings on corruption
This material belongs to: Scroll.in. The state’s BJP government has protected judges and civil servants from being investigated for corruption unless permission is granted by…
Source: CGTN.
Corruption probes in Brazil have deep impact on business community
This material belongs to: CGTN. Dozens of politicians and big companies have been entangled in corruption allegations in Brazil as police and prosecutors look into…
BEIJING, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 04: Chinese President Xi Jinping attends welcoming ceremony for Malaysia's Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Alhaj Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah outside the Great Hall of the People on September 4, 2014 in Beijing, China. The invitation of President Xi Jinping, Sultan Tuanku Alhaj Abdul Halim Mu'Adzam Shah of Malaysia will pay a state visit to China from September 3rd to 8th. Source: Lintao Zhang/Getty Images.
The anti-corruption fight continues in China
Xi Jinping has more tigers, foxes and flies in his sights This material belongs to: Nikkei Asian Review. With or without Wang, president’s anti-graft purges to…
IMFC Governors applaud after UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon addressed them April 18, 2015 at the IMFC meeting at the 2015 IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings In Washington, DC. This was the first time a UN Secretary General has attended the IMFC meeting. Source: IMF Staff Photo/Stephen Jaffe.
IMF discusses fighting global corruption during annual meeting
This material belongs to: CGTN America. The annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund & World Bank has closed in Washington. One sideline agreement to…
Source: Leon Sadiki/Gallo.
South African Supreme Court upholds reinstating 783 corruption charges against Zuma
This material belongs to: Reuters. BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) – South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal on Friday upheld a High Court ruling to reinstate…
Reform Party chairman Hanno Pevkur at an event launching the party's local election campaign in Tallinn. Source: Siim Lõvi/ERR.
Reform chair files bill to bar candidacy of those convicted of corruption
This material belongs to: ERR.ee. Chairman of the opposition Reform Party Hanno Pevkur on Monday filed a bill with the Riigikogu aimed at eliminating the…
Source: nigeriafilms.com.
Corruption: We must take up the task of policing Judges – Femi Falana
This material belongs to: Daily Post. Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana has asked members of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) to take up the task…
Source: The Economist.
British police get a new weapon to fight corruption
This material belongs to: The Economist. Foreign crooks will find it harder to hang on to their London mansions and sports cars. For successful crooks…
Are there disturbing attitudes about what constitutes corruption that lie beneath the recent number of corruption cases? Source: AFP/Roslan Rahman.
Commentary: Bold moves needed to weed out unhealthy attitudes about corruption
This material belongs to: Channel NewsAsia. Ernst & Young Advisory’s Reuben Khoo and Saket Bhartia say that strengthening whistle-blowing measures and public education are key…
Bank of Mexico Governor Agustin Carstens participates in a discussion on the global economy during the World Bank/IMF Annual Meeting in Washington October 9, 2014. Source: REUTERS/Joshua Roberts.
Anti-corruption push key to economic growth in Mexico – Carstens
This material belongs to: Reuters. MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Better economic prospects for Mexico depend on a concerted push to end corruption in the country,…
Mohammed Alderajy, former member of parliament for Baghdad. Source: Euromoney.
Iraq’s next battle: corruption
This material belongs to: Euromoney. Iraq’s former industry minister, Mohammed Alderajy, is brutally honest about the country’s culture of corruption and resistance to reform. The…
Source: Godfreytimes Blog.
Corruption: Punishing conniving banks, officials
This material belongs to: PUNCH. The recent declaration of hostile action against corrupt bank executives and directors by the Central Bank of Nigeria raises some…
UPCOMING DEVELOPMENTS: Artist's impression of Yoma Central and The Peninsula Yangon, projects which Yoma has undertaken in collaboration with several international corporations and financiers. Source: YOMA STRATEGIC HOLDINGS.
‘Anti-corruption a competitive strength’
This material belongs to: The Business Times. Corruption in Myanmar is widely described as “endemic”, and experts trace its roots to the decades of military…
Pope Francis arrives in John Paul II (Giovanni Paolo II) Square outside the Duomo cathedral, in Cesena, Italy, Sunday, Oct. 1, 2017. Pope Francis is in Cesena and Bologna for a one-day visit. Source: AP Photo/Antonio Calanni.
Corruption is the ‘termite of politics,’ Pope Francis says
This material belongs to: CRUX. Speaking in the north-central Italian town of Cesena on Sunday, Pope Francis outlined his own version of “Profiles in Courage,”…
Source: gk170.ru.
Vic public servants show corruption fears
This material belongs to: 9News. A quarter of Victorian public servants fear losing their job if they report corruption, while just one third are confident…
Miners at work. Source: Juan Barreto.
Mercury in the Air, in the Water, in the People
This material belongs to: OCCRP. Using circular motions, Misael Reyes massages soft wet mud over a copper plate, causing it to flow – and reveal…
United States Senator Robert Menendez, a Democrat from New Jersey, is on trial on federal corruption charges in Newark. Recent court rulings overturning the convictions of former New York legislative leaders Dean G. Skelos and Sheldon Silver could play a role in Mr. Menendez’s case. Source: Bryan Anselm for The New York Times.
Overturned Convictions Loom Over Menendez’s Corruption Trial
This material belongs to: The New York Times. NEWARK — They were two of the most notable corruption convictions in recent political history, two entrenched…
Photo: SACP deputy general-secretary Jeremy Cronin and other union and SACP members kickstart the anti-corruption march in Cape Town this morning. Source: Rebbeca Davis.
COSATU knows how to fight political corruption in South Africa
Cosatu to strike against state capture, corruption This material belongs to: News24. Johannesburg – Cosatu will on September 27 hold a nationwide strike against state capture,…
Dean G. Skelos, and his son Adam leaving Federal Court in Manhattan after being found guilty in December 2015. On Tuesday, their convictions were overturned. Source: Andrew Renneisen for The New York Times.
Dean Skelos’s 2015 Corruption Conviction Is Overturned
This material belongs to: The New York Times. A federal appeals panel on Tuesday overturned the 2015 corruption convictions of Dean G. Skelos, once the powerful…
In Las Claritas, the sewage system has collapsed and raw sewage flows along the main street. Source: William Urdaneta.
Gold and Chaos in Orinoco
This material belongs to: OCCRP. In Venezuela’s prisons, the pran (gang boss), who gives pranato its name, is the supreme and unquestionable leader of the…
Source: thezimbabwestar.com.
‘Craft policies to curb smuggling, corruption’
This material belongs to: News Day. The Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce (ZNCC) yesterday called on government to craft effective measures to curb smuggling, corruption…
From left: Member, Advanced Peoples Democratic Alliance Party (APDA), Mr Dan Nwanyanwu; Interim, National Chairman, Malam Shitu Mohammed-Cabiru; and Interim Deputy National Chairman (South), Mr Fijabi Adebo, unveiling the party’s flag in Abuja on Monday (4/6/17). Source: Ernest Okorie/BJO/NAN.
APDA lauds proposed establishment of special courts for corruption, financial crime cases
This material belongs to: Premium Times. One of the newly registered parties, the Advanced Peoples Democratic Alliance, APDA, has praised the Nigerian Judiciary for its…
At Molinos Calderón, in the village of La Ramona of El Callao sector, a miner shows portions of gold on a bill of 50 bolivars. Gold is used as currency in towns in the south of the Bolivar state. Source: William Urdaneta.
This material belongs to: OCCRP. A joint investigation by Efecto Cocuyo and OCCRP explores the Orinoco Mining Arc — the Venezuelan government’s controversial attempt to…
IBAC outgoing foundation commissioner Stephen O’Bryan has praised the agency after its annual report was released. Source: Herald Sun.
IBAC annual report trumpets body’s results
This material belongs to: Herald Sun. Victoria’s peak anti-corruption body has trumpeted its results in its annual report released to parliament today. The independent Broad-based…
Source: yahoo.com.
China top graft buster says corruption fight ‘world class hard’
This material belongs to: Reuters. BEIJING (Reuters) – Fixing the corruption problem in China’s ruling Communist Party is “world class hard” and the battle will…
Princess Haya bint al-Hussein of Jordan alongside her brother, Prince Ali bin al-Hussein, at the FIFA Congress in Zurich in February 2016. Princess Haya managed her brother’s two campaigns for the FIFA presidency. Source: Philipp Schmidli/Getty Images.
The Princess, the Private Investigator and Another Inquiry for FIFA
This material belongs to: The New York Times. LONDON — A Jordanian princess who is married to the billionaire ruler of Dubai has for more…
A woman walks out of a branch of Ocean Bank located in the PetroVietnam building in Hanoi, Vietnam, Sept. 1, 2017. Source: VOA News.
Probe into State Firms Reveals Nagging Corruption Problem in Vietnam
This material belongs to: VOA News. A multi-million-dollar banking flap being investigated in Vietnam this month casts light on a tough corruption problem that nips…
April 01, 2016.Mcebisi Jonas,Deputy Finance Minister at the SARS head office in Pretoria. Source: FREDDY MAVUNDA. Business Day.
KPMG shows SA needs to build immunity to corruption on all fronts, says Mcebisi Jonas
This material belongs to: Business Day. The complicity of audit firm KPMG in corrupt activities showed that the private sector also had to be censured, former…
Источник фото: BBC.
Addressing Corruption with Clarity
This material belongs to: IMF. By Christine Lagarde, IMF Managing Director. Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, September 18, 2017 September 18, 2017 Introduction Thank you, Norm,…
Gennady Golovkin throws a left at Canelo Alvarez. Source: Getty Images.
Everyone’s furious at ‘corruption’ that stole megafight from Golovkin
This material belongs to: New York Post. Veteran boxing trainer and commentator Teddy Atlas slammed judge Adelaide Byrd for her seemingly lopsided scoring of the controversial…
Generic photo of a Victorian ambulance. Source: ABC News.
Drug use and corruption ‘likely’ to be widespread among Victorian paramedics, report finds
This material belongs to: ABC News. The Victorian anti-corruption watchdog is warning corruption and illicit drug use is “likely” to be widespread among the state’s…
Dmitry Rybolovlev, the Russian billionaire who allegedly met with Donald Trump during his campaign, received a Cypriot passport in exchange for investing in the Bank of Cyprus. Source: Patrick Kovarik/AFP/Getty Images.
Cyprus ‘selling’ EU citizenship to super rich of Russia and Ukraine
This material belongs to: The Guardian. Passports issued under ‘golden visa’ scheme raises €4bn since 2013, according to papers seen by the Guardian. Billionaire Russian…
Source: Reddit.
Report claims ethnic minority police officers are more vulnerable to corruption
This material belongs to: DutchNews.nl. The justice minister’s research institute WODC has published a new report which claims police officers with an ethnic minority background…
EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on their ability to report, film or take pictures in Tehran. Members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Navy march during a parade to commemorate the anniversary of the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88), in Tehran September 22, 2011. Source: REUTERS/Stringer.
Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corruption Empire
This material belongs to: Asharq Al-Awsat. London- Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps is being forced to shrink its sprawling business empire and some of its senior members…
Source: Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr.
The US and UK may step in to tackle South African corruption: expert
This material belongs to: Business Tech. With the United Kingdom (UK) and US authorities updating their laws to tackle international corruption, there are now indications that…
Construction is underway at the V.C. Summer Nuclear Station in Jenkinsville, S.C. where Westinghouse Electric Co. is building two AP1000 reactors. The work is behind schedule and over budget. Source: South Carolina Electric & Gas.
Phil Noble: S.C’s nuclear scandal, corruption and accountability: Guest Columnist
This material belongs to: South Strand News. The current scandal of SCANA’s (S.C. Electric and Gas parent company) and Santee Cooper’s nuclear debacle is arguably…
A female trainee with the Syrian Democratic Forces at her graduation ceremony in northern Syria on August 9, 2017. Source: Sgt. Mitchell Ryan for US Army.
Revealed: The Pentagon Is Spending Up To $2.2 Billion on Soviet-Style Arms for Syrian Rebels
This material belongs to: OCCRP. The Pentagon has relied on an army of contractors and sub-contractors – from blue-chip military giants to firms linked to…
Youssef Chahed, Tunisia's newly appointed Prime Minister addressing the Tunisian parliament on August 26, 2016. Source: Middle East Monitor.
Chahed: The New Government will be at war with terrorism and corruption
This material belongs to: Middle East Monitor. Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed said, Monday, that his new cabinet will be a “war government that will…
Source: The Interview Magazine.
Sagay: Bank chiefs aiding corruption should face trial
This material belongs to: The Nation. The Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) will push for the prosecution of bank chiefs who connive with looters…
The United States Department of Justice has been investigating Prime Minister Najib Razak of Malaysia for corruption for over a year. Source: Fazry Ismail/European Pressphoto Agency.
Malaysian Leader, Under Corruption Cloud, Will Meet With Trump
This material belongs to: NY Times. KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — For more than a year, Prime Minister Najib Razak of Malaysia has been under the…
Source: BIZ News.
Everything you’ve wanted to know about McKinnsey’s corruption in SA
Money lies revealed! Pressure grows on McKinsey over SA graft scandal. This material belongs to: BIZ News. EDINBURGH — Global consultancy McKinsey distanced itself from the Gupta-Zuma scandal…
Forensic investigator Paul O’Sullivan. Source: BIZ News.
Paul O’Sullivan: #GuptaLeaks emails are authentic – arrests by Christmas
This material belongs to: BIZ News. LONDON — Paul O’Sullivan’s Forensics For Justice has access to the #GuptaLeaks cache and after running a number of tests has…
The former presidents Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, center, and Dilma Rousseff, in Recife, Brazil, last month. Source: Leo Caldas/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images.
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Brazilian Corruption Case Ensnares Ex-Presidents da Silva and Rousseff
This material belongs to: NY Times. SÃO PAULO, Brazil — Brazil’s attorney general on Tuesday charged former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva; his successor, Dilma Rousseff; and…
Source: NY Times.
Everything you need to know about Sen. Robert Menendez’s corruption trial
This material belongs to: The Washington Post. On Wednesday, a U.S. senator will sit before a jury of his peers and face charges that his…
Some of the money went towards an international lobbying operation to deflect criticism of Azerbaijan’s president, Ilham Aliyev, pictured with his wife Mehriban outside 10 Downing Street. Source: Luke MacGregor/Reuters.
UK at centre of secret $3bn Azerbaijani money laundering and lobbying scheme
This material belongs to: The Guardian. Exclusive: Leaked data reveals thousands of covert payments, including to European politicians and journalists. Azerbaijan’s ruling elite operated a secret…
Moldova only prosecuted two high-profile corruption cases in the past two years, despite scores of investitagions and arrests. Source: Damian Gadal/Flikr.
Moldova NGOs Say Big Fish Avoiding Corruption Trials
This material belongs to: Balkan Insight. While corruption investigations are coming fast and furious in Moldova, few cases involving important people seem to end up…
Source: Lowy Institute.
‘Nothing Can be Done Well as Long as There is Corruption’
This material belongs to: The Irrawaddy. YANGON — U Thin Maung, a member of Myanmar’s anti-corruption commission, explained in a recent interview with The Irrawaddy…
CAPE TOWNSOUTH AFRICA, 05MAY11 - Ebrahim Patel, Minister of Economic Development of South Africa, during the Job Creation session at the World Economic Forum on Africa 2011 held in Cape Town, South Africa, 4-6 May 2011. Source: Eric Miller.
Patel: Corruption toll could be R27bn to GDP, 76 000 job losses
This material belongs to: Daily Maverick. Cape Town – Corruption costs the SA gross domestic product (GDP) at least R27bn annually as well as the…
Source: Sowetan LIVE.
President Jacob Zuma’s son Duduzane denies alleged corruption
This material belongs to: BBC. The son of South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma has denied involvement in alleged corruption despite his links with controversial businessmen.…
The student saved last money to pay a bribe to a teacher. The highest levels of corruption reported occur in schools. File photo. Source: Gallo Images/ IStock.
Schools and SAPS generate most corruption complaints
This material belongs to: Sunday Times. The highest levels of corruption reported occur in schools‚ representing 9.9% of the total‚ followed by corruption in the…
Source: Ekathimerini.
Technical Chamber of Greece proposes integrated database to tackle red tape, corruption
This material belongs to: Ekathimerini. In the effort to overcome Greece’s notorious bureaucracy, conflicting laws and corruption that is sabotaging badly need investment, the president…
Source: Premium Times.
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Interview: How investigation into Alison-Madueke’s corruption killed NEXT newspaper — Dele Olojede
This material belongs to: Premium Times. Feyi: In terms of the operation of NEXT, you had 13,000 applications and you picked 90 out of them.…
Yingluck's former commerce minister Boonsong Teriyapirom who is accused of falsifying government-to-government rice deals arrives at the Supreme Court in Bangkok, Thailand, August 25, 2017. Source: REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha.
Ex-Thai commerce minister sentenced to 42 years in jail over rice bidding scam
This material belongs to: Xinhua. A former Thai commerce minister was on Friday sentenced to 42 years in jail under a historical lawsuit involving an…
Former Thailand's Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra arrives at the Supreme Court in Bangkok Thailand, Bangkok, Thailand on August 1, 2017. Source: Anusak Laowilas/NurPhoto via Getty Images.
Thailand Issues an Arrest Warrant for Its Former Prime Minister After She Fails to Show For a Verdict
This material belongs to: Time. Thailand’s Supreme Court has issued an arrest warrant for former prime minster of Thailand Yingluck Shinawatra after she failed to show up…
Interview Business against corruption Expert opinion International review
This material belongs to: Premium Times. In this second part of his extensive interview with Feyi Fawehinmi, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Dele Olojede, speaks on why NEXT newspapers, which…
Source: Delcia Lopez, STAFF.
Corruption in state governments? Researchers turn to reporters for answers
This material belongs to: Chron. AUSTIN – What are the most corrupt state governments in the United States? It’s a question that public interest groups…
A British executive of drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline has been charged with corruption after a probe found the firm made billions of yuan from bribing doctors and hospitals. Source: AP.
China has a message for Western companies: corruption does not pay
This material belongs to: South China Morning Post. Nicholas Leong says awareness of shifting regulations and due compliance are the safeguards for foreign firms, as…
Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating Trump, is looking at his past deals. Illustration by Oliver Munday. Source: Skynesher / Getty (hands).
Trump’s Business of Corruption
This material belongs to: New Yorker. The first part is located here. The second part is located here. This is the final part. It was difficult…
Jabu Mabuza, president of Busa says culprits of corruption need to be appropriately prosecuted and named and shamed. Source: Moneyweb.
Cancer of corruption needs to be excised completely – Busa
This material belongs to: Moneyweb. It is the responsibility of all companies to report all potential cases. The recent spate of alleged corrupt activities involving…
Part One. This material belongs to: New Yorker. That wasn’t the only puzzling thing about the loans. At the time that B.T.A. was lending all this…
This material belongs to: New Yorker. What secrets will Mueller find when he investigates the President’s foreign deals? President Donald Trump’s attorney Jay Sekulow recently…
Source: Google.
Corruption, climate change nexus
This material belongs to: Zambia Daily Mail. Kelvin Siwale THE effects of corruption go as far as causing environmental degradation which culminates into climate change.…
Source: Mosaique FM.
Tunisia’s Fight Against Corruption: An Interview with Chawki Tabib
This material belongs to: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. “We are heavily counting on Tunisian and international civil society, the media, and every single Tunisian…
Mr. Oscar N. Onyema, Chief Executive Officer, The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) with Ms. Olajobi Makinwa, Chief, Anti-Corruption & Transparency and Africa, United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) while receiving the Best Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Company Award at 2015 African Business Awards held in New York, USA. Source: Newsverge.
Anti-corruption key to SMEs survival – CBI
This material belongs to: Vanguard. The convention of Business Integrity, has identified anti-corruption as a key to the survival of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises,…
In Nigeria, one anti-corruption campaigner fears that if the era of U.S.-led transparency initiatives is over, the relapse will be stark.Source: Alex Webb / Magnum.
The Trump Administration Rolls Back Anti-Corruption Efforts in the Oil Industry
This material belongs to: The New Yorker. In February, in one of its first acts of lawmaking, the Trump Administration, with the Republican-controlled Congress, rescinded…
A solar project in Nigeria. Source: Greentech.
Nigeria has lost N11trn to power sector corruption
This material belongs to: Vanguard. Nigeria has lost a whooping N11 trillion to corruption in the power sector since 1999, a university lecturer, Dr Yemi…
President Park Geun-hye (C) was ousted in 2017 after a corruption probe by South Korean authorities. Source: JUNG YEON-JE/AFP/Getty Images.
As Asia’s Corporates Grow Up, Tackling Global Corruption Will Fall To The UN
This material belongs to: Forbes. As Asian economies continue to expand and the region becomes increasingly critical of the success of global business, the need…
Gustavo de Hoyos Walther, Coparmex President. Source: Comparmex.
Mexico’s Billionaires Concerned With Corruption, Head Of Leading Business Group Says
This material belongs to: Forbes. The Confederation of Mexican Employers (Coparmex), a voluntary membership business organization with 36,000 members that include companies owned by Mexico’s billionaires,…
Source: Star of Mysore.
Panama Papers: The Ghost Of Corruption Will Destabilise Our Country One Day And Then…
This material belongs to: Star of Mysore. Therefore, the decision taken by the Pakistan Supreme Court in the Panama Papers Scandal is worth emulating by our…
El presidente mexicano realizará una visita de Estado a Guatemala el próximo 5 de junio. Source: La Vanguardia.
Mexican Firms Paid $89.5M in Bribes in 2016; Sweeping Anti-Corruption Law Now Targets Officials and Businesses
This material belongs to: CNS News. Mexican anti-corruption advocates are giving an enthusiastic thumbs up to sweeping new anti-corruption law that took effect last month, in…
Source: Zohar Lazar.
Trump Has Turned America’s Reputation for Fighting Corruption Into a Joke
This material belongs to: Mother Jones. “Everyone seems to know (or hope) that the present administration is an exception.” Jessica Tillipman was recently leading an anti-corruption…
Source: ISTOCK.
Weakening of state institutions ‘boosts private sector corruption’
This material belongs to: Business Day. The private sector has been complicit in facilitating the illegal removal of money out of SA, warns academic. The…
Trevor Munroe. Source: ICD Group.
‘Bad-Mind’ Active – Crime, Violence, Corruption And Envy. The Worst Things About Living In Jamaica
This material belongs to: The Gleaner. Crime, violence and ‘bad-mindedness’ have emerged as the main issues that cause most Jamaicans to not be so proud…
Corruption uncovered by a proposed ACT Integrity Commission would only see the light of day when they came before the courts, under one model put forward. Source: Karleen Minney.
ACT corruption body hearings should be secret, inquiry hears
This material belongs to: The Canberra Times. Findings by an ACT corruption watchdog could remain secret until if or when the matter comes before a…
Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Source: jornalggn.com.
After Lula’s Conviction, A Typology of Presidential Corruption
This material belongs to: InSight Crime. On the surface, former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva‘s 9-year sentence for corruption seems reminiscent of numerous…
Corruption fighters create new coalition
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The history of the American Poultry Association
The First Poultry Show
First Poultry Show In America
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Official Record on Orgin of APA
Origin of APA by John Robinson
Identifying Qualified Judges
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List of Standards
APA Standard Covers
Overview of the Standard Changes
The 1910 Standard
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UNQUESTIONABLY, the new Standard will be more eagerly sought and more generally sold than any of the preceding editions. This will not be due merely to two most obvious facts: specifically, that more people in the United States and Canada are engaged in raising Standard-bred poultry. and more recruits are entering the ranks than ever before, but also because the science and practice of breeding poultry has advanced during the past eight years and the new Standard records not only that advance, but is in a measure a vision of the future, by some of the best minds engaged in poultry work.
Each Standard seems to be perfect, or nearly so, at the time it is published, or at least breeders frame a description of their favorite variety which to them embodies all that is ideal. They neither can imagine nor visualize anything more perfect; yet, within half a decade or so, the ideal so recently perfect is found faulty in many particulars and the Standard is denounced as away behind the breeders and their birds. That was one of the criticisms of the Standard just passing, made by a certain few. In the future, my dear breeders and editors (some of you). do not forget that the Revision Committee of 1923 tried to make the Standard requirements sufficiently high to keep the breeders busy improving their fowls for eight years to come, or during the life of the present Standard. This committee was criticized on the floor at the last convention of the American Poultry Association for adopting descriptions too far in advance of the breeders and their birds, and, curiously enough, by some of the parties that not long ago proclaimed the present Standard “obsolete” and “behind the breeders.”
It will be of interest to you, reader, to learn whether the requirements of the new Standard are likely to over-tax your skill as a breeder of the varieties you breed or favor. Of course, there are changes in the text. That is what “revision” is for. As progress in breeding is made. ideals change. This simple fact conclusively proves that there are in reality no such things as ideals, unless we take the most perfect conceptions of our minds as our ideals. in which case the ideals change and improve with the fuller development of our minds. An actual ideal, then, we never have in the sense of being actually perfect. Our ideal is but our mental conception at the time. And no mind is stationary. Therefore, Standards must change constantly and the Standard requirements should be as far ahead of the times as our minds can clearly vision, but not hazily imagine.
Each general revision marks, then, the beginning of a new epoch in ideals and hence in breeding, which epoch or which period is forecast for you by this new work, “The Standard of Perfection, 1923 Revision.” Its provisions indicate the goal of the breeder and exhibitor, and without it as a guide neither would have aims or objectives, the judge would be without authority and the industry without a purpose. Without this single guide a breeder can not hope successfully to attain the highest accepted ideals or even approach them. Without the latest Standard, any breeder of Standard-bred poultry is absolutely out of the race for honors as such.
The above statements are as true in regard to judges of Standard-bred poultry as to breeders. No statement can be more obvious than that a judge must be exceedingly conversant with Standard requirements in order to meet with any success whatsoever-In his chosen field.
The changes in text are many and varied. Many, here and there. were made simply to express more clearly the meaning of the text, which is commendable. Others were made for the most fundamental of reasons, i.e., the characteristics of many breeds have changed or it was thought that they should change.
A great many. if not most of such changes. were adopted at the suggestion of the specialty clubs representing their respective varieties. This seems to be an admirable plan to correct an impression that is being created. perhaps for political effect, by certain agitators who are possibly more alarmed about votes than well-informed on actual conditions. To the end of informing readers generally as to the relations between representatives of the specialty clubs and the Revision Committee. I will state that there was ever a spirit of cooperation and a desire on the part of the latter to concede everything that could be conceded and yet maintain a consistent policy of Standard-making. In one case we were informed that the representative never saw the inside of a Standard and did not care whether we adopted his suggestions or not because if these suggestions were not adopted the club which he represented would print a Standard of its own. Even in this very extreme case, misunderstandings were found to exist, amicable relations were soon established, and adjustments that were not only satisfactory but very pleasing to all were adopted.
From the experience gained on three Revision Committees, and by working considerably on the fourth, I can say that-while I believe that there is every reason to accord to specialty clubs every consideration possible and to weigh every suggested change most carefully and fully. yet, I can see great danger in accepting their words as final. One reason is that the younger and less experienced breeders are usually the most active and Influential In me circles of their clubs and their judgment Is not always most sound. Many times they do not know intimately, as yet, the best Interest of their own breed or variety, nor the limits of breeding possibilities. In the second place. they quite likely know next to nothing of the broad. fundamental principles of Standard-making, and are usually not a bit inclined to recognize them when pointed out. Their variety is their “supreme” and “sole” interest. In their minds. no others are worthy of much, if and consideration.
As an example of the above, it is generally agreed that all Partridge varieties shall correspond In color description. But the recommendations of the Partridge Plymouth Rock Club might not and often does not correspond to those of the Partridge Wyandotte Club, and neither would conform to the recommendations from the breeders of Partridge Cochlns; yet the avowed purpose of the Partridge’ Plymouth Rock or of the Partridge Wyandotte from the beginning until the present moment has admittedly been to place on the form of a Plymouth Rock or of a Wyandotte, the identical plumage of a Partridge Cochin.
The Specialty Clubs whose object It Is to promote the welfare of Columbian Plymouth Rocks and Columbian Wyandottes did not recommend changes that are identical by any means; yet, the purpose of the creators of both these varieties was to acquire the Light Brahms plumage. There must be some final agency to act as a clearing house between these specialty clubs in the interest of general welfare; if not. there will be very little uniformity In the Standard and without uniformity a Standard Is a Standard In name only.
Changes In the arrangement of the text, which Simplify the finding of disqualifications by placing them where they naturally belong, and the classification of general disqualifications and the rules on cutting for defects will appeal to those who are constant users of this book. A general index will be found In the back of the book, which arrangement permits a better grouping of the preliminary subject matter.
Another distinct benefit to the purchasers of the new Standards will come from a study or the new Illustrations, of which there are many. They, too, have the advantage of uniformity. The old illustrations were to be prized in most every way, but they were the product of several artists. every one of them good, but of distinctive technique, which means that the different illustrations had a different tone or expression.. This is very largely overcome by having all new cuts and changes made by one artist, The effect of such uniformity will Improve the appearance or the book considerably.
Utility Features Receive Recognition
The additional chapters constitute perhaps the most striking change, The most important of these deals with the market or utility side of Standard-bred poultry. though much more complete definitions are also found In this Standard. The chapter on capons which Is an entirely new department, in reality admits market classes of all breeds to poultry shows. though only the heavy, or those of medium weight, are likely to take advantage of it. Interest in this feature has been shown at exhibitions already in advance of the Standard.
Another innovation is the chapter on “Judging Eggs.” This Is introduced for the first time in any Standard and should do much to popularize egg displays In times which might well be characterized as “The Egg Age” in the Poultry History. At times It seems as though everyone was counting eggs and forgetting all about flesh, looks, and most everything else.
The text concerning market or utility characteristics of fowls has been both clarified and amplified by several new illustrations. and diagrams, and new illustratlve charts by Artist A. O. Schilling, showing a much more complete nomenclature have been added. These are new features and add much value to the book.
The utility features of poultry are thereby fully recognized and encouraged In the new Standard. We may say there are but two products from poultry, eggs and meat, and both are recognized and then invited to honorable places among our exhibits at all shows run under American Poultry Association rules.
By these additional features shows will be able to increase the interest felt in their exhibitions and will draw another and different class of exhibitors and visitors.
The Association has faith In this work, not only as a true and accurate description of what is or may be “best” In. every way in the poultry world, but it has expectations so firm and so sound that they already amount to a realization of pecuniary reward that Is most satisfactory-to express this feeling mildly.
Click on the Amercian Poultry Association logo above to access the full website.
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Widescreen [ed.].
Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2006.
1 videodisc (ca. 108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
DVD format, region 1, widescreen (2.40:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround.
Based on the novel by Gerald Petievich.
Special features: Director Clark Johnson and writer George Nolfi commentary; Deleted scenes with optional commentary by George Nolfi; Alternate ending with optional commentary by George Nolfi; "The Secret Service a tradition of excellence"; "In the President's shadow: protecting the President"; Theatrical trailers.
Pete Garrison is on the presidential protection detail when another Secret Service agent is murdered. An informer tells Garrison about an elaborate assassination conspiracy that is related to this murder and is well underway. Garrison also happens to be having an affair with the First Lady, the stress of which causes him to flunk a lie detector test when word of the plot to kill the president becomes more than just paranoia. Garrison is soon on the run, being hunted by his protege David Breckinridge. But Garrison is at the top of his game and he knows all of the secret service tricks and uses them to evade his former comrades as the clock ticks down to assassination.
MPAA rating: PG-13; for some intense action violence and a scene of sensuality.
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Adventure films.
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Milchan, Arnon.
Nolfi, George.
Johnson, Clark, 1954-
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Alvin Levy
A 'rocket' scientist in my previous life, working for Northrop Grumman on Long Island for 33 years after receiving PhD from Columbia University. During that time also taught, lectured, invented, consulted, authored nearly 100 refereed publications, on loan for one year to NASA as a visiting scholar and a short time to Cambridge University, England, as a visiting professor. Retired in 1998 soon after being elected to the ACBL Board of Directors, representing NYC and Long Island (District 24).
Unit Board member (Nassau-Suffolk Bridge Association) and District Board member for as long as I can remember...maybe 40 years. Past President and Tournament Chair. ACBL Board of Directors, 1996-2019 (leaving after 24 years), President 2003; WBF Executive Council 2004-2022, currently 1st VP and Technology Committee chair. On the ACBL I served as chair of the online-bridge committee (serving officially and unofficially since 1997 when I established the committee). Trustee of ACBL 401(k) since 1999-2019.
Originated the World Computer-Bridge Championship in 1997 and have run it annually at a major human championship ever since. See the official website which I maintain, https://bridgebotchampionship.com/ Many published articles on bridge-bot play.
With an eye toward promoting bridge, I published a page of bridge links, titled 'explore the world of bridge on the Internet’ at www.allevybridge.com/allevy/worldofbridge.html/ See the June 2012 Bridge Bulletin and previous Bridge Winners article, Log on for Bridge June, 2012 ACBL Bridge Bulletin http://www.allevybridge.com/allevy/exploring.html
Member of ACBL Laws Commission and WBF Laws Committee.
Editor (chair of the drafting committee) of the Laws of Rubber Bridge 2014 in collaboration with the Portland Club.
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Anti-Doping Violation by Geir Helgemo results in Team Zimmerman disqualification from Orlando Rosenblum Cup
by Alvin Levy Feb. 27, 2019
Extract of the Ruling of the Hearing of the WBF Antidoping Panel held on 11th February 2019 in Lausanne at the Maison Du Sport International
In compliance with the provisions of the Code of the World Anti-Doping Agency, a number of samples were obtained from Players participating in the World Bridge Series held in Orlando in 2018. On 29th September 2019, Geir Helgemo provided a sample that was sent for laboratory testing; the results identified an Adverse Analytical Finding with the presence of Clomifene and synthetic Testosterone that constituted an Anti-Doping Rule Violation as specified within the World Bridge Federation Anti-Doping Rules.
As a consequence of the laboratory analysis, an anti-doping charge was brought against the player; he accepted that he had committed the violation and accepted a provisional suspended pending consideration by the Anti-Doping Panel. He provided details of how the prohibited substances may have come to be present in his system.
The Anti-Doping Hearing Panel, having found Geir Helgemo guilty of an AntiDoping Rule Violation, unanimously imposed the following sanctions:
a) Geir Helgemo shall be ineligible to take part in bridge competition for a period of one year. Since he has previously accepted a voluntary provisional suspension, Geir Helgemo remains suspended until 20 November 2019. b) The title, medal, awards and masterpoints achieved by Geir Helgemo in the Rosenblum Cup 2018 and in all other competitions within the World Bridge Series 2018 are revoked and the medals and awards have to be returned to the WBF. c) Consequent upon the Anti-Doping Rule Violation by Geir Helgemo, the Team Zimmerman result in the Final is automatically disqualified and the Team considered to have lost the Final of the Rosenblum Cup. d) The Anti-Doping Hearing Panel having determined that the Team had No
Fault or Negligence, the Team-mates are allowed to retain their medals, awards and masterpoints related to the second place of ranking in the Rosenblum Cup. e) The nature of this and all championships require the National Federation to attest to the good standing of the athlete; no wrong doing or responsibility was found to be held against the Monaco Bridge Federation. f) Geir Helgemo shall refund the WBF for the costs of the hearing, calculated at 3659 €.
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Ata Aydin, Member
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Herman De Wael, Secretary
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JOHNNY ENGLISH STRIKES AGAIN is the third installment of the Johnny English comedy series, with Rowan Atkinson returning as the much loved accidental secret agent. The new adventure begins when a cyber-attack reveals the identity of all active undercover agents in Britain, leaving Johnny English as the secret service’s last hope. Called out of retirement, English dives head first into action with the mission to find the mastermind hacker. As a man with few skills and analogue methods, Johnny English must overcome the challenges of modern technology to make this mission a success.
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Rowan Atkinson, Emma Thompson and Olga Kurylenko co-star in this third chapter in the long-running spy-spoof series.
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Rowan Atkinson returns for the second sequel to his Bond-lite spy satire, but on the laugh meter Johnny English is no Austin Powers — or Mr. Bean.
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Cell-surface attachment of bacterial cellulosomes
In a long–lasting series of collaborations with national and international institutions including the Faculty of Sciences and Technology (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), The Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel), Newcastle University (UK) and Queen’s University (Canada), FMV-CIISA researchers are contributing to the elucidation of the unique molecular mechanisms used by anaerobic bacteria for cellular attachment of cellulosomes. Cellulosomes (Fig. 1) are one of Nature’s most intricate multi-enzyme complexes dedicated to degrade cellulosic biomass to simpler sugars. Knowledge about this very efficient nano-machine has enormous interest not only to produce bioethanol, but also for the construction of other dynamic protein assemblies. The research work that reveals how this assembly attaches to the bacterial cell walls from Clostridium thermocellum and Acetivibrio cellulolyticus was recently published in Scientific Reports: http://www.nature.com/articles/srep38292
Attachment is achieved through dynamic interaction of cohesin and dockerin modules, as schematized in Fig. 2. The structures of five different cohesin-dockerin complexes (Fig. 3), from the two bacteria, were solved by X-ray Crystallography to reveal the functional complexity of cellulosome recruitment to the cell envelope. In contrast to a previously suggested “static” model, the data support the hypothesis that binding of large cellulosomal complexes to the bacterial surface is mediated by a dual-binding mode that, nonetheless, assumes a diversity of mechanisms in different bacteria.
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Home | Ragionar d’Amore – Alle radici della lingua italiana
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The Unipol Group and Fondazione Musica Insieme: four evenings with poetry at the Unipol Auditorium
The Unipol Group and Fondazione Musica Insieme, united for years by a shared commitment and desire to organise initiatives of important cultural value, have renewed their collaboration in 2019 for “Ragionar d’Amore – Alle radici della lingua italiana” (“Speaking of love – The roots of the Italian language”): a programme that features the reading of verses and novellas in which the great poets Guido Cavalcanti, Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarca and Giovanni Boccaccio celebrated all aspects of love: its devastating strength in the rhymes of Dolce Stil Novo, its saving power sung in Dante’s Vita Nova, its spiritual elevation in Canzoniere, and its thousand faces, at times solemn, at times ironic, narrated in The Decameron. The beloved women of the four authors, Primavera, Beatrice, Laura and Fiammetta, will return to life through the vivid imagery of intense feelings that even the centuries have not dulled.
Luigi Lo Cascio, critically acclaimed Italian actor with a wide public following, will read the poems by Cavalcanti and Dante, while Laura Morante, one of the most sought-after actors in Italy, will interpret Petrarca and Boccaccio. The verses will be echoed by music closely linked to the authors and epochs in program, given new light thanks to the experience of the specialised groups Cantilena Antiqua, Ensemble Consonantia, Consorteria delle Tenebre and La Pifarescha.
One evening will be dedicated to each poet at the Unipol Auditorium, with free admission subject to availability and commencement at 8.30 pm: on 29 October the program will open with Cavalcanti (Cantilena Antiqua), continuing with Dante on 5 November (Ensemble Consonantia), Petrarch on 12 November (Consorteria delle Tenebre), and closing on 19 November with Boccaccio (La Pifarescha).
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The occasion of a fancy dress skating carnival in the Victoria Rink inspired Notman's first large composite in 1870. This event was staged in honour of Prince Arthur, who, as an officer in training with the Rifle Brigade, was stationed in Montreal. Notman declared his intention of making a record of the event, and invited those who planned to participate in the skating carnival to bring their costumes and skates to the studio and have their portraits taken for a composite photograph. One hundred and fifty people came in answer to the advertisement to don their brightly coloured costumes representing various themes and epochs.
On completion of this composite photograph, measuring 20 x 27 1/2 inches, Notman had his staff produce a much larger coloured version as well, measuring 37 1/2 x 53 1/2 inches. By use of a solar enlarger (an apparatus using sunlight as a light source), the image was projected on to a large canvas that had previously been coated with light-sensitive photographic emulsion. During the necessary very long exposure the image gradually appeared on the emulsified canvas. After fixing, washing, and drying, the canvas was attached to a wooden stretcher, of the type used for oil paintings. The image was then coloured in oil by Notman's two most talented artists of that period, Henry Sandham and Edward Sharpe.
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This composite photograph illustrates the skating carnival held at the Victoria Rink in Montreal, March 1, 1870, in honour of Prince Arthur. This version of the composite was actually painted in colour, which helps to convey some of the kaleidoscopic effect of such gatherings.
For reasons lost to history, Miss Prior as "Girl of the Period" does not appear in the composite. A Miss Bethune as the same character does, however, in the very bottom right-hand corner, lighted cigarette in hand. The artist, photographer William Notman, has found his way of expressing disapproval at the antics of the "Girl of the Period." A man dressed in Aboriginal costume appears to be aiming his arrow directly at her.
Notman was evidently well aware of boundaries that should not be transgressed in fancy dress. A newspaper report congratulated him for omitting from the composite "the monstrosities and idiocies of bad taste, which never should have disfigured the Fancy Dress Assembly."
Montreal Gazette, 26 April 1876.
This coloured composite photograph was produced by William Notman, who transferred the image to a canvas. It was then painted with oils by Henry Sandham and Edward Sharpe.
This framed picture was on display in the Notman studio for 65 years. In 1955 it was given to McGill University.
Work on the composite began immediately after the event, and the coloured image was ready by April 25, 1870, a scant two months later.
Prince Arthur, the Duke of Connaught, in the lower left corner, was Queen Victoria's youngest son. He was 20 years of age at the time.
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Matchmaking in the UFC is Broken
March 25, 2018 March 28, 2018 cstRyan 0 Comments Conor McGregor, Daniel Cormier, Georges St Pierre, Jose Aldo, Max Holloway, Robert Whitaker
Perhaps in the past, the UFC never had a legitimate ladder that governed who got a title shot, when, and based on what criteria. It just seems like recently, it’s become a problem for the world’s largest MMA promotion. In this, the first of a three part series, we’ll look at what broke the matchmaking process. In subsequent posts, we’ll look at one way to fix matchmaking, and we’ll finish up by considering the ramifications of such a solution.
Conor Takes Over
In an effort to maximize on the skyrocketing popularity of Conor McGregor, the UFC made some decisions that allowed it to short-circuit the understood progression of contenders in the featherweight and lightweight divisions. These decisions, while extremely effective, financially served to create a blueprint that has frozen the featherweight and lightweight divisions, disrupted the middleweight division, paused progress at light-heavyweight, and potentially upset the heavyweight division.
What did they do? They allowed for super fights to happen, fights that gave key fighters title shots without having to fight within the division first. Conor, who in December 2015, knocked out Jose Aldo to become the featherweight champion, went immediately into the #1 position at lightweight to fight Eddie Alvarez, the reigning champion there. Conor won that fight, becoming the UFC’s first two-weight champion creating confusion on whether or not he would be allowed to defend both belts.
Surging up the ladder, Max Holloway sought to avenge his loss to Conor and take the 145lb belt. Unfortunately, Conor left to fight Floyd Mayweather, a move that would upset both featherweight and lightweight classes.
Lightweight in Limbo
The UFC stripped Conor of the featherweight title, and Holloway eventually won that belt becoming the new champion, but at lightweight, the situation got stickier. Conor was still the reigning champion, and with him unable to defend his title due to the Mayweather fight, the UFC raised an interim champion in Tony Ferguson who defeated Kevin Lee back in 2017.
After Conor lost to Mayweather, the thought was that he was going to come back and unify the title, but nearly 2 years after he defeated Eddie Alvarez, it doesn’t seem like it is going to happen. As a result, Ferguson instead of Conor, will defend the interim title against 25-0 Khabib Nurmagamedov.
The Return of GSP
But Conor is not the only person to have created ladder havoc in the UFC. Georges St Pierre, arguably one of the greatest welterweights of all time, coming off a 4-year semi-retirement from the sport, was allowed to leapfrog the entire Middleweight division, skip the interim title holder Robert Whitaker and fight for a title in a weight class he has never competed. And he won.
But instead of going to fight Whitaker to unify the title, GSP decided to surrender the title, leaving Whitaker to assume the role of champion without defeating the reigning title holder.
Daniel Cormier, Heavyweight
Now, Daniel Cormier, the light-heavyweight title holder is moving up to heavyweight to challenge the current heavyweight champion, Stipe Miocic. Cormier is also absolved from fighting anyone at heavyweight first, and should he win, would have to decide if he is going to defend both the light-heavyweight and heavyweight titles.
These super fights, or money fights, are bad for the sport. While they do achieve a short-term gain by building a lot of excitement quickly, in each of the examples, they have served to damage the divisions that are left in their wake.
Fix the Matchmaking Process
The UFC must return to a predictable ladder structure that allows fighters to work their way up to title contention and fans to understand why one fighter should get a title shot over another.
We also need to find a way to keep matchmakers from being influenced by Twitter beefs and post-fight call-outs that seem to create buzz, but don’t create match-ups that are actually good for the sport. In the case of Colby Covington, a fighter who tried to get a title shot by disrespecting others, has had implications on his fight camp teammates, other fighters in the UFC, and the people of Brazil.
So, how do you do it? How do you fix what is broken about matchmaking in the UFC? How do you legitimize the Championship belt again?
Well, I have a solution, and I’ll share it with you in my next blog post.
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It’s Spider-Week! Well, only kind of, with two of the four books I’m eyeing featuring some sort of arachnid motif from the House that Stan (and Jack and Steve others) Built. But if the creepy crawlies aren’t your thing, there’s teenage drama and superhero fantasies to keep your interest.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer #2 (BOOM! Studios)
Jordie Bellaire and Dan Mora’s first foray in Sunnydale absolutely slayed (yay for puns!), and readers have been itching to see where they take the Scooby Gang in their follow-up. The writing is as electric as the artwork. The new Buffy reads as if Joss Whedon had created the show today – the setting is updated but the characters are as they were back in 1997.
Amazing Spider-Man #16 (Marvel)
Nick Spencer’s run on ASM has dedicated a lot of real estate working with the mythos established during Dan Slott’s 10-year run, which had great ideas rarely executed to their full potential. Now, Spencer begins an arc which he has seeded throughout the previous 15 issues. There’s a lot riding on this too, as Kraven the Hunter has had only two stories of note (not for good reasons) since being resurrected from his Last Hunt. Hopefully, the third time is the charm for the famed hunter.
Venom #11 (Marvel)
Unfortunately, toxic elements of the comics community exist, and the death threats Donny Cates has received over his Venom series is disgraceful. It does prove Stan Lee correct in readers only wanting the illusion of change. However, that means Cates is doing something rarely seen in the Big Two: altering the status quo. Sure, it’ll probably be retconned in the future by some other writer or more likely, some Disney exec. But in the meantime, Venom continues to be a wild ride.
Mage: The Hero Denied #15 (Image)
The Mage saga has finally come to an end. 35 years after its debut, Matt Wagner’s superhero-fantasy mashup is wrapping up the last of its three arcs. Loosely using the term “semi-autobiographical,” Wagner isn’t thought of as belonging with the likes of Alan Moore and Grant Morrison, but Mage has proved that he perhaps should. After all, if he can stick the landing this journey will have been magical.
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HUSKY SPOTLIGHT: Alyssa Broadt
Field Hockey’s Alyssa Broadt describes her journey to Bloomsburg
Connor McKay, Sports Editor
Bloomsburg University is home to some exceptional athletes, all with their own story. Among devotion to their teams, many athletes also balance their love of their family, friends, and education.
Field hockey player Alyssa Broadt is one of those athletes. A junior biology/pre-med major, Broadt explained in an interview her story of becoming a Husky athlete, and all the hard work that goes into playing a sport that so drives her life.
Broadt is a local girl, born and raised right here in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. She explained how she grew up with the town that was, “super small and I knew everyone.”
Being from such a small town, Broadt originally did not even consider Bloomsburg University. She had grand dreams of playing for the Maryland Terrapins at the Division I level for their championship field hockey program.
Unfortunately, Broadt fell ill the summer before her junior year of high school. While originally diagnosed with Crohn’s disease, this was actually a misdiagnosis and she was eventually correctly diagnosed with ulcerative colitis.
Field hockey has been a major part of Broadt’s life to say the least. Her love of the sport began in seventh grade and this year marks her 9th year of playing. She described her enjoyment of playing middle school soccer with friends and upon joining the field hockey team at her middle school, became enamored with the new challenges and competition the sport presented.
To say Broadt loves competition is an understatement. In her high school career, she racked up the accolades of being a four-year varsity letter winner and senior captain of her field hockey team, and also playing track and field and diving. Broadt is a member of the National Honors Society, and National Art Society. When asked how she balanced all of those responsibilities on her plate, Broadt remarked, “I just don’t like being bored.”
She discussed her very loving and supportive parents who were, “always on me and keeping myself busy.”
When asked to describe the biggest differences between playing at the collegiate level compared to the high school level, Broadt clarified the major leap in playing ability via the speed, caliber, and skill of collegiate athletes.
The contrast between those who play for fun compared to those who love competitive play was a focal point. Broadt stated, “You have to push yourself beyond what you would in high school.”
In discussing her favorite memory playing as a Husky, Broadt told the riveting tale of a game against Slippery Rock University, during her freshman year.
While being down one goal, the Huskies are able to snag a corner and the coach puts her in at the forward position (Broadt plays midfield and had little experience). Despite her nerves, her senior captain gave her some simple advice to keep her stick on the ground and an eye on the ball.
When the corner was shot, the ball ricocheted off her stick and she sent the game into overtime along with scoring her first collegiate goal. Along with the Huskies coming back to win the game, Broadt described scoring the goal as, “the greatest feeling” surely the type of moment every athlete wants to experience.
Broadt wishes to keep sports in life even when she retires from the field. She voiced how, “sports have always been in my family” and coaching would be a great opportunity for her. She already has experience coaching her high school team, and will be coaching them for their winter indoor tournaments this upcoming winter.
Trying to balance the difficulty of a biology/pre-med major along with being an athlete is no easy task. Broadt further went into detail on managing the balance, recounting how her honors classes in high school both prepared her and allowed her to excel. Her motivation to work in medicine and help others stems back from her own time spent in the hospital and noble desire to help others the way she was helped.
In thinking of plans for after graduation, Broadt has been considering working in the field of cardiology. Voicing, “The cardiac system is super interesting to me.” Broadt is also connected to the field because of her grandfather, who suffers from heart disease. Like most of us though, the future remains unclear and she also expressed her consideration of working in the veterinary field, because of her love of animals and childhood pets.
When asked to portray the biggest obstacle she is currently facing, the blunt answer of “time management” is a complication every college student must face, athlete or not.
Broadt further defined how the responsibilities of being a student-athlete can be overwhelming at times, but she, “always has the support of her teammates.”
In response to a question asking to outline the goals of the field hockey team for this season, Broadt replied, “Being better than we were last year, improve individually to improve as a team.”
She noted how the players have already put up individual season goals in the locker room and the strong drive to beat Shippensburg University along with any other school in the Pennsylvania State Conference.
Broadt’s response to the question of asking for advice for an underclassman looking to balance the trials of school/life/sports was, “Definitely push yourself to be the best person you can be, don’t take anything for granted. There’s things to focus on outside of athletics like school.”
A highly motivated young woman, a look into Broadt’s life and athletic career is a prime example of how hard work, dedication, and a strong family can provide a limitless future.
The Huskies currently sit an 0-4 record, but have a long remaining season to rise from the pitfalls of their defeat and return as underdogs.
Their next match is scheduled for this Saturday the 21, against the Seton Hill University Griffins. This is an especially special match because along with being a home game, it is Kid’s Day as well. The match is set to start at 12:00 p.m. Let’s hope the Huskies go out and snag their first win of the season!
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No, this blog has not turned into a political forum which hopes to to debate the virtues or monarchy. What interests me today is the figure of the Queen that I’ve seen popping up in a couple of books that we particularly enjoy reading at the moment.
I can’t take credit for this first book by Tom McLaughin which tells the lovely story of Harry and the cat he gets for his birthday Mr Tiddles. My son who likes to romp about in the park after school introduced me to The Diabolical Mr Tiddles a couple of weeks ago. He ran to the display shelf at the library, picked it up, ran back to me, and said with a big mischievous grin on his face “Mum, my teacher read this to us last year, I love it, can we read it again?”. How could I not oblige him? And of course we took it home and read it quite a few times since.
After Harry’s dream to get a cat comes true, he does all he can to make him as happy as a cat can be. They watch TV and play video games together and slurp yummy looking milkshakes.
Harry even strokes Mr Tiddles’s tummy until he drifts into a dreamy sleep at night. This seems like paradise, but like any honey moon, this period of bliss eventually comes to an end. On the day Mr Tiddles decides to show his love by bringing Harry a nice fresh mouse, Harry unsurprisingly turns a funny colour.
Mr Tiddles, who is not the kind of cat to let this mishap deter him, decides to get something else for Harry. This time he brings him his favourite treat: a triple chocolate cream-and-custard cake with extra banana jam. Who could possibly resist this? The trouble is that after that, every morning Harry wakes up to find more and more outrageously lavish gifts. Yummy jelly beans, a pogo stick, an electric guitar, a giant train set, the list goes on and on until one day he finds a horse in his bedroom!
Harry who is both delighted and puzzled by this endlessly growing collection of things decides one night that he will follow Mr Tiddles to see where all these presents come from. And guess where he ends up?
That’s right, the rascally moggy has decided to burgle the Queen’s palace! But the minute Mr Tiddles lays his paw on her Majesty’s crown, Harry shouts “Stop!”. Needless to say the Queen is not amused and asks her guards “to arrest these two intruders for Acts of Cheekiness Against the Crown.”
Harry then pleads his friend’s cause and explains that he’s only been taking things because he cares about him so much. Her Majesty looks at Mr Tiddles long and hard and she tells him that it is wrong to steal. She can see that he has learned his lesson and decides that she will forget about it as long as he returns all the things he has taken to their original owners. When the two friends are finished, they share a big hug and agree that having each other is the best present ever.
The Queen’s forgiveness and the moral lesson she teaches Mr Tiddles are valuable. But what I like most is the ending which shows that love and affection is worth much more that material possessions. My children were wowed by the various presents that Harry got, but they agreed it was much more fun to spend time together, having a lovely picnic, with no external distraction. And because Christmas is just around the corner, I am happy to find subtle reminders that things don’t necessarily bring you long term happiness.
Now The Queen’s Hat by Steve Antony is a different kettle of fish. We went to a reading of his during half term and have been practicing drawing corgis, butlers and pandas steadily since.
Bear with me if the panda does not make sense yet. The Queen’s Hat is a gorgeous picture book that can be read to toddlers, but that will also has appeal to older kids. The Queen who is on her way to visit someone very special, sees her hat flying away: SWISH! Breaking protocol, she and her guards start running after the lost hat which gets swept to Trafalgar Square, and all through London Zoo, and all along the Underground. The hat does not stop there and carries on all the way to the top of Big Ben.
The fantastically detailed and fun pictures of these well known sights covered by swarms of red and black guards, the option to ‘spot the corgi or Queen’, and the fantastic floating umbrellas that bring them all to Kensington Palace are gorgeous eye candies.
And what better end to a story than a happy baby, the one she was going to visit, her grandson (presumably).
This is a great book to read before a visit to any of London’s attractions and sights, or to offer to visitors regardless of their mother tongue since the text is easily translated. We love the guards’s shiny jackets on the cover, the fun ending, and the details of every single double page.
If you want to learn how to draw a corgi, just start with a sausage and visit this page.
Now for the panda reference. Steve has a new book coming out in January about manners, doughnuts, and pandas, a joyous combination don’t you think? He kindly read it after the Queen’s Hat and showed the kids how to draw a panda. FYI: the event we attended took place at Tales on Moon Lane, a great independent bookshop in Herne Hill (south London) specialising in children’s books.
Now I won’t suggest you try to make the impressive triple chocolate cream-and-custard cake with extra banana jam as a follow up activity, but why not try these simple, tried and tested banana boats? They are yummy, easy and fairly quick too. In this house we like peanut butter, chocolate and dessicated coconut, but you could try any combination you like, by just following these instructions.
Finally if you need a little bit of silliness after the seriousness of monarchy, then have a look at this classic camp song which includes bananas, corn, potatoes and apples. Have fun!
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April 3/01 11:07 am - California Report, B.C. Training Camp
Posted by Editor on 04/3/01
Sizzler Cross Country - San Jose, California
(courtesy Andreas Hestler)
Nice one with the April Fools, you had us running and freaking, but we figured it out. Anyway Seamus, Chris and I did the 13th annual Sizzler Classic this weekend and Will Reutly and Ben Sexton our Rocky Juniors were there doing well also.
The race was a two lap Cali style double track, felt like one big climb. We arrived a little late so with a minimum of warm up we diced with Bas, Henrik and Josh all who were top 10 from the weekend before. ( well Josh did blow in the end at Sea Otter as did I). It was really good training, not to long or too technical I think this will be very good for Napa. We are not allowed on the course till Thursday so as everyone arrives tension is mounting and some are a little angry.
Weather here has been great. See you at the weekend.
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National Cycling Centre (Calgary) Western Development Camp
(courtesy Dan Proulx)
The city of Penticton played host to the 6th annual National Cycling Centre - Calgary Development Camp for Espoir and Junior athletes. The camp was attended by 20 athletes from Alberta and British Columbia. The camp covered 450km of the beautiful south Okanagan in simulated races and training rides during a 6 day period. The camp highlighted some of western Canada's best young cycling talent.
The coaching staff included Kurt Innes (Head Coach, National Cycling Centre -Calgary), guest coach Ron Hayman (former professional cyclist, coach and manager) and myself, Dan Proulx, Development Coach for the National Cycling Centre - Calgary and coordinator for the annual training camp.
The venue was selected for its variety of routes, hilly terrain and temperate weather. The community is extremely supportive of the camp and cycling. Penticton is the host city for Ironman Canada.
Upon arrival to the camp, participants selected team captains for the week's racing events. Laura Yoisten and Chris Bentley were picked as captains for their respective teams. Each captain then picked their "dream team" from the selection of riders in attendance.
The teams were both evenly matched. The selections were difficult for the team captains as they weighed the strengths and weaknesses of each rider selected. The captains got an appreciation for how difficult team selections would be in the real world. After team selections, each athlete was issued two racing numbers for use during each stage of the week long race.
The first event was a team "tire change" requiring each member to change a tire completely. The time was taken from the team's last member. The pressure was on as each team struggled to get less experienced riders through a quick change. The fastest tire change was 2min and 30 seconds from Eric Holland ( a junior) using a zefal frame mount pump. The total time for each team counted on the team classification but had no bearing on the individual G.C.
The first day of racing featured a 15km time trial near the Observatory. This is a desert like area just west of Penticton. The course was an out and back 5km loop. The course allowed the coaches to take splits for each 5km segment and to film the riders on several turnarounds. The riders pushed themselves to the limit throughout this event and really showed their strength.
The leader after stage 1 was Eric Daggett (2nd year senior) and Laura Yoisten (2nd year junior). The leaders were awarded their jerseys in beautiful desert sunshine and 15 degree temperatures. Andrew Davidson showed incredible improvement and placed 3rd overall in this event.
In the afternoon of day 1, the athletes completed a 40km circuit race near the town of Summerland. The riders rode nearly 15km (uphill) to reach the course. Ron Hayman (former 7-11 rider and former National Team Coach) selected the course for this event.
The loop was a "keremese type course". Ron said it reminded him a lot of professional races he had done in Europe. The course included 2 rough railway crossings and a severe "popper" of 10-12% grade in each lap. The course also featured a very steep downhill with a gravel covered right hand turn at the bottom. The pack handled this race very well despite the fear of the uphill each lap. The course emphasized skills in reading wind direction, efficient cornering and maximizing climbing ability. At the end of the stage, the standings remained the same - Eric Daggett and Laura Yoisten leading the field.
Day 2 was a recovery day. Each rider was assigned a different workout based on their current state of fatigue. Most athletes rode 20-30km on their own or in small groups.
The afternoon skills & drills workout was rained out. Athletes spent the afternoon viewing the video footage from the previous days stages. The feedback proved to be invaluable for many of the athletes.
Day 3 was planned as a race over much of Ironman Canada bicycle course (155km). After an early morning reconnaissance, I decided to postpone the event. In some of the high passes, the course was completely covered with hard packed snow. It was definitely not a good day for racing over the extensive route.
The alternate workout proved to be harder than the Ironman route itself. The course began in Okanagan Falls and featured a classic hill known locally as "The Wall". The 2km climb featuring switch back turns and some very steep grades. The course forced athletes to climb hard on each and every lap. The rest of the course was rolling. It winded and twisted its way along mountain lakes and meadows before returning for the descent of the wall - a "nerve racking" series of heavily sanded curves - ending in a 75km/hr straight downhill pitch.
The first lap saw an early solo break from Ryan McKenzie. The first climb up the Wall shattered the pack. After the summit - riders were left to combine in small groups and try to chase back to the main group. Each and every lap left more and more riders suffering alone or with small groups - desperately trying to limit their losses to the leaders.
Ryan McKenzie continued to extend his lead and eventually won by over 11 minutes - making him the new leader. Laura Yoisten opened up a 5 minute gap over the women's field and placed 8th overall amoung all racers - including junior men.
This day taught everyone a lot about bike racing. It forced athletes to lose the "pack mentality" and realize that even when dropped - they are still in the race and there are still people and groups to catch. The riders were pushing to their limit even when they were all alone. I saw many racers go well beyond their previous limits.
Many of the athletes agreed that the event was much harder than a "real race". For the athletes who completed this workout - many learned that they could dig a lot deeper than they ever thought possible. The total distance for the ride was 130km.
Day 4 was another recovery day. The weather had turned sour and several riders elected to simply take the day off to recover. It was a relaxing day and a chance to enjoy some of Penticton's local flavour - namely the Hog's Breath Coffee Company and the Bike Barn.
In the evening, the riders were treated to a tactics presentation hosted by Ron Hayman. Ron is one of the few people in Canada who has done it all. He has been an Olympian, a professional rider, a National team coach and a professional manager. His insights into racing tactics were phenomenal. The basic message Ron presented was "positive racing" - encouraging athletes to work very hard in racing and to stay away from techniques like "blocking" which Ron agreed is "very common in low level racing". Ron encouraged the athletes to race in a manner that uses sound strategy and initiates aggressive efforts, rather than always waiting for the pack to pick up the pace.
Day 5 opened with bright sunshine and dry roads. A perfect day to handle the Ironman course. The start times were handicapped so that slower riders were given a head start. The gap between the first group and the last group was nearly 1 hour.
The Ironman course winds its way down the Okanagan valley for 70km to the town of Osoyoos. At Osoyoos, the riders climb 12km up the Richter Pass. After the summit, the athletes descended for 5km before meeting 8 rolling climbs (1km each at 6%). The course then turned and took in some beautiful backroads leading into Keremeos.
After Keremeos it was 30km of climbing and false flats up to Yellow Lake. The pace up to Yellow Lake was intense with the pack splitting and re-grouping several times in the climb. Cam McKinnon, Spencer Atkinson, Phil Abbott, Mike Patton, Andrew Davidson drove the pace as the pitch began to steepen. Ryan McKenzie and Eric Daggett launched an attack 2km from the top. They managed to retain their lead in front of a hard charging pack of hungry juniors including Geoff Argue and Doug Jensen of Vancouver. Laura Yoisten and Jenny Trew reached the top of the climb together - the lone female representatives in the main field.
The main group did well, but could not make up the handicap lead of the first group. Lysanne Delogne, Tricia Milner, Rachel Boekel (Canmore) and Heather Parrott (Vancouver) maintained their lead into Penticton and finished ahead of the main field by 6 minutes.
The 155km course claimed two crash victims. Felix Haspel and Yvonne Potter were both involved in minor crashes that forced them into the sag wagon. Felix was able to continue after a 10km transfer. Yvonne Potter was unable to continue.
Day 6 saw the entire group experience high levels of fatigue from the previous week of training. The morning featured a street circuit in downtown Penticton. The course featured some of the course used in the Tour De Vine criterium the previous year. The emphasis for the day was on cornering. Athletes were encouraged to switch lines and experience the corners using many different approaches. The course allowed all of the athletes to practice their pack skills and greatly improve their cornering. The workout was a great ending to an excellent week of training.
The afternoon featured a small awards ceremony where each of the athletes was presented with a commemorative cycling vest designed by Tacara Garment Manufacturers of Penticton. Each of the athletes were given the opportunity to say what they thought of the camp and the efforts of their fellow riders. It was clear that each athlete had pushed their limits and gained a great degree of respect for their fellow competitors.
After several pictures and kind words, the camp officially concluded. Athletes spent the evening training as professional bowlers at the local alley. Kevin Bowser proved that his future is in cycling and not amoung the 10 pins.
It was a wonderful camp and I am very impressed with the depth of fitness and ability these riders displayed. Western Canada has an excellent crop of development riders who will be shooting for the National team in the near future. I look forward to seeing some of these riders on the podium at Nationals this summer.
Special thanks to all the riders from Vancouver (coached by Jeremy Storie) who attended this camp.
Dan Proulx
Development Coach
Olympic Oval - National Cycling Centre, Calgary
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Don’t Turn It Off (guest post by Danielle Wenner)
Justin Weinberg
. April 13, 2017 at 10:31 am 9
The following is a guest post* by Danielle Wenner, assistant professor of philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University. It’s a response to Monday’s post, “When To Turn It Off.”
Don’t Turn it Off
by Danielle Wenner
@DanielleWenner
Some forms of critical evaluation and philosophical thinking are hard because they force us to suspend other habits of mind; habits that serve us well when our goal is to engage or persuade or befriend, but less well when our goal is to arrive at a precise characterization of what’s true, or of what follows from what. The trick, then, is not only to acquire Hájek’s philosophy tool kit, but to know when to use it.
This week at NPR’s 13.7, psychologist and philosopher Tania Lombrozo hypothesizes that one reason the tools in a philosopher’s toolkit may be difficult to learn and apply is because they undermine other, pro-social behaviors for productively interacting, conversing, and finding common cause with others. Lombrozo’s post was quickly followed up here at Daily Nous, with Justin opining that philosophers need to learn “When To Turn It Off”, a sentiment that was echoed among the chambers of the philosophy web-o-sphere. I want to push back against this sentiment.
I don’t necessarily disagree with Lombrozo’s hypothesis—in fact, personal experience bears it out: often the philosopher in me seems to be precisely the thing that cuts off fruitful discussion with others—not only potential friends, but existing friends and family too. What I take issue with is the suggestion that others’ inability—or more often, unwillingness—to interact on the basis of solid reasoning is itself a good reason to “turn it off”. Now, to be fair, I don’t take Justin to be making the strong claim that philosophers should learn to “turn off” their reasons-based means of communication. He seems to be making a weaker claim that we should “restrain the analytical impulse” to question implications, definitions, and distinctions when engaging in non-philosophical discourse. And I guess what I want to ask is: Why?
The American public (and perhaps publics more generally) have arrived at a time when “let’s just agree to disagree” is less tension-breaker than rule of life. People are positively hostile to disagreement or demonstration that they’ve engaged in logical fallacy. Our interest in finding the truth has been displaced by the interest in being right, regardless the cost. And it is costing us dearly. We have not only a president, but an EPA head who question established science about climate change. We have an administration that postulates the existence of alternative facts. And perhaps most importantly, we have persistent social media bubbles in which “alternative facts” are the reality and any attempt to question them is only further evidence of their truth.
None of this comes as news to anyone who’s been paying attention. But I find it striking that in this environment, there could be a call for philosophers—those who know how “to spot poor arguments, uncover hidden assumptions, tease out subtle implications and recognize false dichotomies”—to “turn it off” in service of promoting better social discourse. We might think “better social discourse” means having the kinds of conversations that are cost-free for all involved: no one has to acknowledge being wrong, no one has to face an uncomfortable truth, and we can all skip away happily knowing that we’re still friends. Or, we might decide that the real “better social discourse” is the one in which we stop pretending that both sides of every disagreement have equal merit, ask our interlocutors to grapple with reality, and put our relationships (both real and potential) on the line in service of the truth. That is, after all, what we’ve been trained for.
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A summer institute to help philosophy instructors design courses that convey the value of philosophy — put on by the Council of Independent Colleges, it is directed by Ned Hall (Harvard)
New research on the logical operations that the brain's individual dendritic compartments can perform — one possible upshot: “Brains may be far more complicated than we think”
The impeachment of Donald Trump is a teaching moment — especially if you’re teaching Rousseau, says David Williams (DePaul)
"What It Is Like To Be" is an anamorphic sculpture by Thomas Medicus made of 144 hand-painted glass strips — it was inspired by Thomas Nagel’s “What Is It Like To Be A Bat?”. Watch the video. (via Colossal)
The meaning of nihilism — Nolen Gertz (Twente) distinguishes nihilism from other concepts in its vicinity, such as pessimism, cynicism, and apathy
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"At 97, he wondered whether he’d been deceiving himself about the meaning of life and death" — a documentary about philosopher Herbert Fingarette made during the last few months of his life
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"Philosophy has a profound impact on me" — an interview with Cixin Liu, author of the tremendous Three-Body Problem science fiction trilogy
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Scientists use frog cells to build the first "living robots" — this “new form of life” has “enormous potential” but it also “raises a bevy of ethical questions”
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The editors of the revamped Philosophy describe "changes to the editorial process" at the journal — they’re “intended to bring it more in line with current peer-review practices”
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Damanhur Education APS
A concrete step for a “Twinship”
The Non-Profit Association Damanhur Education APS serves as the container for the realization of the twinning of an eco-village in the South, Guedè Chantier, Senegal, and an eco-village in the North, Damanhur, Italy. The vision brings concrete proposals for exchange between different realities, which have much to share with one another. The first step, after an initial visit by representatives from Guedé Chantier to Damanhur, consisted of a workshop for the preservation of vegetables and tomatoes, which was held in Guede Chantier. The workshop engaged 55 women from Guedè and 4 other villages to fight undernutrition in Guedè and in the nearby villages.
The idea of a twinship between Damanhur and Guede Chantier was born during the General Assembly of Gen-Europe in 2013. It is implemented through the Association Damanhur Education. Ousmane Ali Pame, President of Gen-Africa (Global Ecovillage Network), then Mayor of Guedé Chantier, and Macaco Tamerice (Martina Grosse Burlage), then President of Gen-Europe, currently President of Damanhur Education, speak of their respective realities, imagining how exciting and mutually beneficial it would be to facilitate a partnership between Damanhur and Guede Chantier, an eco-commune in northern Senegal. The Damanhur Education APS is identified as the suitable container to promote the twinship.
It took nearly a year to implement the first trip, but in 2014 two representatives of Guede Chantier—the same Ousmane Ali Pame and Hamet Thiam—came to Italy, hosted by Damanhur Education. On several occasions, they shared stories about life in the Senegalese village with Damanhurians.
Representatives of Guede Chantier and the representatives of Damanhur identified together a few points to make the twinning concrete and not solely an exchange of courtesy visits. The first key point identified was the transformation of food, a crucial theme for Guedé Chantier. There, food is in abundance for two to three months per year, with no ability to conserve it, resulting in the waste of tons of vegetables which are thrown away; subsequently creating an undernutrition problem for the following 8-9 months.
It took two years to bring a workshop on food processing to Guedé at which point the project became reality: in the beginning of March, 2016, two members of Damanhur Education—Macaco Tamerice and Pelicano Altea (Carla Dacomo)—lead a workshop on food preservation in Guede Chantier. This also benefited representatives of other neighboring villages.
During the visit, meetings with the entire village of Guedé were held to identify other projects to make the twinning even more fruitful. When the representatives of our organization came to Guede Chantier, after a long trip from Dakar, a crowd of about 300 people gathered to welcome them with a ceremony. The Elders expressed words of brotherhood and their greetings. The next day, the two women visited a permaculture project promoted by Gaia Education in Diarra, a nearby village. Many women from Diarra wanted to participate in the workshop on food transformation, which began the same afternoon.
The practical workshop educated 55 women from 5 different villages in various techniques to preserve vegetables and tomatoes. The women were so enthusiastic that they decided to create an Association for food processing, in order to continue the work.
The Senegalese women sold preserved foods produced during the workshop at the market, in one of the villages. The goods were highly appreciated and represented a new source of revenue. There will be annual meetings with the experts from Damanhur Education to further the education in food preservation, with the aim to improve the quality of nutrition while simultaneously creating income sources for the village women.
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Mayor Mike Duggan recently announced a plan that would allow thousands of vacant lots throughout the city of Detroit to be leased out to local residents.
According to reports from the Detroit Free Press and Livingston Daily, Duggan made his proposal at the national Reclaiming Vacant Properties conference at the Detroit Mariott Renaissance Center, with the intention of starting the program as early as this summer.
Under the program, vacant city lots would be sold off to residents for a lease period of three years, for $25 per year, so long as a neighborhood block club approves the sale and agrees to help maintain the aesthetic quality and safety of the lots in the immediate area.
According to the Detroit Free Press, Duggan’s program “piggybacks on existing programs” which allow the city to sell side lots to city residents, and to auction off houses that have been vacated due to unpaid taxes. Out of the 43 million Americans that are forced to relocate each year, the Detroit Land Bank Authority has seized and auctioned off 320 houses — although there are still many empty homes that haven’t been auctioned off yet.
The city of Detroit has filed about 1,000 lawsuits against owners of nuisance properties throughout the city so far, with permission from local judges (or from the lot owners themselves) to seize the properties. Once the lots are sold off to neighborhood clubs, the local block clubs will sign an agreement with the city that each lot is used for activities that are “compatible with the neighborhood.”
There doesn’t appear to be any plan for what will happen to the lots after the three-year-lease period is up, but if the program is successful, it seems likely that the lots will continue to be used for things like community gardens and parking spaces.
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Eastbourne Live
Coming from the sunshine coast of Southern England
The Surrounding Area
Alfriston
The Village of Alfriston (3.23 mins)
Lying beside the River Cuckmere, in a valley cradled on both sides by the South Downs,
Alfriston is one of the most picturesque of our ancient villages. During the Middle Ages
it was a thriving market community, but by the 19th century its reputation had been marred
by the trade of smuggling. The Old Market Cross Inn was originally the home of Stanton
Collins, leader of the Alfriston Gang who was later transported to the penal colony of
Australia. Its 14th century church has been called the Cathedral of the Downs, while nearby
the Old Clergy House has the distinction of being the first property owned by the National Trust.
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Hang Gliding at Beachy Head (2.25 mins)
In recent years, the mound of earth that once housed the RAF radar station at
Beachy Head has been transformed into a landing and take-off point for the sport
of Hang Gliding.
Discovering the South Downs (1.14 minutes)
Beachy head is featured in this delightful tour of the South Downs. The Downs stretch 100 miles
through two counties linking Beachy Head with the ancient capital of England, Winchester. It's a
downland praised by many writers, attracting visitors from all over the world. This is a unique piece
of English history, for all along the rolling downland ancient man left his mark, distinct features on the
landscape. This is a short trailer of Discovering the South Downs the 57 minute documentary
that can be obtained from Eastbourne Live and other outlets, including the Beachy Head Centre.
Above photograph : The South Downs at the River Cuckmere
DVD £10.99.
Discovering the Sussex Coast (55 secs)
Beachy Head and Eastbourne are featured in Discovering the Sussex Coast, which takes the viewer on
an excursion from Rye down to Emsworth on the Hampshire border. This Sussex coastline of shingle
beaches, chalk cliffs, river estuaries and marshland are all part of a wider tapestry of English history from
the Roman invasion in AD43 to Britain's front line in the Second World War. The artefacts of these
centuries still remain making the sea coast a fascinating attraction. This is a tailor to the 54 minute documentary, available on
DVD £10.99. from Eastbourne Live and other outlets including the Beachy Head Countryside Centre.
Photograph above : The remains of Hasting's harbour
East Dean
Parson Darby (2.15 mins)
Three hundred years ago in 1705, Parson Jonathan Darby, Rector of East Dean died from the
effects of a long, self-imposed vigil in stormy weather, warning ships of the treacherous inshore
waters of Beachy Head. What he created was the first warning light, its role later taken over by
Belle Tout and later Beachy Head lighthouse.
East Dean Church
A tour of this ancient church and its history, recorded in 1979.
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Jevington
Jevington Village (4.55 minutes)
Jevington lies in a fold in the South Downs, a village made famous for its horse racing stables.
In the centre of the village stands the Eight Bells Inn, today a popular place for locals and tourists
alike, but in 1799 it was owned by a notorious smuggler who was later transported to the
penal colony of Australia.
Litlington
Litlington Village (1.54 mins)
A quiet timeless hamlet lying almost isolated in the Cuckmere Valley, partly hidden by the folds of
the South Downs on a narrow road that runs from the main coastal road at Exceat to the village of
Wilmington. Its ancient church, built in 1150 stands on a point of land over-looking the tidal waters
of the river and meadowland that often floods in the winter.
Lullington Church (56 secs)
Within the parish of Alfriston stands Lullington Church, it is said to be the smallest in Sussex,
measuring just sixteen square feet and having seating capacity for only twenty people.
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Pevensey
Pevensey Flower Festival 2008 (1.29 mins)
Pevensey Parish Church celebrated its 100th annual Flower Festival on Saturday, 23rd
Pevensey Castle (1.52 mins)
The Romans built the fortress around 250AD as an anchorage for their ships and to protect the
nearby city of Anderida, which gave the castle its name. In AD491, the fortress fell before the
onslaught of the Saxon warlord, Aelle and everyone within was slaughtered. In 1066, William
camped briefly within the walls on his way to the fateful Battle of Hastings. After the Conquest, a Norman castle was built within
the walls and was besieged three times, first by William Rufus, Stephen and then Simon de Montford and gallantly defended by
Lady Joan Pelham.
Polegate (1.53 mins)
Polegate grew into a commuter town with the arrival of the railway in the 19th century; prior to that it
was the inns such as the Horse and Groom which welcomed the stage coaches. One of Polegate's
best loved attractions is an old windmill built in 1817.
Out of the Ordinary Festival (31.15 mins)
The Peace Circle at Knockhatch Park between Hailsham and Wilmington, was the venue for the
second annual three-day Out Of The Ordindary Festival held from the 12th - 14th September 2008.
Eastbourne Live TV was there to capture the event.
Winter Solstice (10.44 mins)
A number of people braved the cold December chill to celebrate the Winter Solstice at a newly
created Peace Circle half way between Wilmington and Hailsham at Knockhatch Park.
Wilmington (3.04 mins)
It is said that the 1,600 year old yew tree in the churchyard was planted over the grave of a
Saxon chief. The church was built in Norman times and during the 13th century became
part of the adjacent Benedictine priory. The village itself is timeless, a mixture of centuries
each blending in perfect harmony.
This is the original butterfly window destroyed when the church caught fire some years ago.
The Long Man of Wilmington (40 secs)
The origin of the extraordinary ancient figure on Windover Hill is lost in the mystery of time. Many believe it to be
a fertility God with hands outstretched opening up doors to another domain. Even today it is a site of pilgrimage
when pagans ritually celebrate the changing seasons of the year.
Mitchelham Priory (in Sound Only)
A historical tour of this ancient priory recorded in 1977.
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Celsion’s ThermoDox demonstrates impressive clinical response rates in highly refractory form of breast cancer
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LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J.—Celsion Corporation announced today positive interim data from its ongoing open-label Phase 2 DIGNITY Trial of ThermoDox® in recurrent chest wall (RCW) breast cancer. The trial is designed to enroll up to 20 patients at several U.S. clinical sites and is evaluating ThermoDox in combination with mild hyperthermia. Of the 17 patients enrolled and treated, 13 were eligible for evaluation of efficacy. Based on data available to date, every patient experienced a clinical benefit of their highly refractory disease within the ThermoDox treatment field, with a local response rate of 69 percent observed in the 13 evaluable patients, including five complete responses (CR), four partial responses (PR) and four patients with stable disease (SD). The company expects to complete enrollment in the study in the third quarter of 2015.
"We have observed durable local responses in two-thirds of the patients treated using ThermoDox in three clinical trials to-date, which is significant considering the fact that these patients present with highly resistant chest wall tumors that had progressed on multiple previous therapies, including chemotherapy, radiation and hormone therapy," noted Dr. Nicholas Borys, Celsion's senior vice president and chief medical officer. "We are aggressively pursuing opportunities to expand this program into Europe through the EURO-DIGNITY trial in which we expect to treat our first patient very soon."
These data are consistent with previously published Phase 1 data for ThermoDox plus hyperthermia in RCW breast cancer. The two similarly designed Phase 1 studies enrolled patients with highly resistant tumors found on the chest wall and who had progressed on previous therapies. Of the 29 patients treated in the two trials, 23 were eligible for evaluation of efficacy. A local response rate of 61 percent was reported in 14 of the 23 evaluable patients, with five complete responses and nine partial responses. A Clinical Response Rate (CR+PR+SD) was observed in 87 percent of the evaluable patients.
"These extremely impressive data position us to successfully pursue and take advantage of promising opportunities to accelerate the development and commercialization of ThermoDox in RCW breast cancer patients as we turn our attention to Europe and the initiation of EURO-DIGNITY, a multi-center study designed to evaluate ThermoDox's potential to locally control chest wall lesions in earlier stage patients," stated Michael H. Tardugno, Celsion's chairman, president and CEO. "Together, through our partnership with myTomorrows and our Early Access Program, our goal is faster commercialization and near-term revenue benefitting patients who are in dire need of more rapid access to new and better options for the treatment of this aggressive form of breast cancer."
San Francisco-based myTomorrows “facilitates early access programs for innovative medical treatments through an independent ‘Honest Broker’ approach,” its website states. “We collaborate with drug developers that have promising new treatments in development and make those treatments available. The empowered physician and patient in today’s connected environment can now gain access to clinical stage compounds through individual Named Patient Programs and cohort-based Compassionate Use Programs.”
The EURO-DIGNITY trial will evaluate ThermoDox plus hyperthermia and radiation in earlier stage breast cancer patients and is designed to support a registration filing in Europe. This study will be conducted in five countries with the support of key European investigators and with assistance from MedLogics Corporation, a hyperthermia device company based in Italy. In addition, Celsion has a license and distribution agreement with myTomorrows to implement an Early Access Program (EAP) for ThermoDox in all countries of the European Union plus Switzerland for the treatment of patients with RCW breast cancer. The company expects to have ThermoDox available in mid-2015 for sale at commercial prices to physicians who are treating patients with limited therapeutic options. The EAP provides physicians with access to products in later stage development that demonstrate evidence of clinical benefit with an acceptable safety profile and a quality manufacturing process in place.
Celsion is a fully-integrated oncology company focused on developing a portfolio of innovative cancer treatments, including directed chemotherapies, immunotherapies and RNA- or DNA-based therapies. The company's lead program is ThermoDox, a proprietary heat-activated liposomal encapsulation of doxorubicin, currently in Phase 3 development for the treatment of primary liver cancer. The pipeline also includes EGEN-001, a DNA-based immunotherapy for the localized treatment of ovarian and brain cancers. Celsion has three platform technologies for the development of novel nucleic acid- based immunotherapies and other anti-cancer DNA or RNA therapies, including TheraPlas™, TheraSilence™ and RAST™.
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John Mitchell, Jr.
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Simmons, William J., 1849-1890
Men of mark: eminent, progressive and rising
Simmons, William J., 1849-1890 (Author)
Place: G. M. Rewell & Co.
Publisher: Cleveland, O.
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. "John Mitchell, Jr." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed January 20, 2020. http://digital.gallery.nypl.org/items/510d47da-736a-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
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Braveheart to Baseball
Besides Mel Gibson’s uncanny pitching abilities as William Wallace in Braveheart, how does the movie connect to baseball? Actually in a number of ways, as you can see in the new Family Forest® National Treasure.
Many other Edward III descendants are probably looking forward to Opening Day, as I am. Batter up!
Isabella, daughter-in-law of Longshanks in Braveheart, was the mother of Edward III, who is the subject of one of the largest family history eBooks Millisecond Publishing has ever released. Recorded history is chock-full of stories about his descendants, and the Family Forest® can lead you generation-by-generation to tens of thousands of them. In The Family Forest® Descendants of King Edward III of England eBook you will be taken directly to a number of well-known people who were somehow involved with baseball.
The first person Adobe Reader locates for you in this book is the Hollywood actress who was known as “the First Lady of Baseball” while she was married to famous baseball player and manager Leo “the Lip” Durocher, Laraine Day.
Next is President William Howard Taft, who became on April 14, 1910 the first U.S. President to pitch a ball to open the baseball season. Then comes Raymond Otis “Ray” or “Ike” Boone, baseball player and scout, and his son Robert Raymond “Bob” Boone, baseball player, coach, manager, and executive.
Other descendants of Edward III are Nelson W. Doubleday, Jr., co-owner with Fred Wilpon of the New York Mets, Neil “Bing” Russell, an actor on Bonanza and owner of the Portland Mavericks Baseball Club, his son, famous Hollywood actor Kurt Russell who was a professional baseball player, and Bing’s grandson Matthew Neil “Matt” Franco, first baseman for the Atlanta Braves.
Then there are their cousins George Thomas “Tom” Seaver, famous pitcher for the New York Mets, rocket-scientist Wehner Von Braun who threw the first pitch to open the Atlanta Crackers’ 1958 baseball season, actor Paul Giamatti’s father Angelo Bartlett Giamatti who became Commissioner of Baseball in 1989, and wrapping up the lineup is President George Walker Bush who owned the Texas Rangers.
Author FamilyForestPosted on March 30, 2010 October 19, 2016 Categories A People-Centered Approach To History®, Ancestral History, Baseball, Braveheart, Family Forest National Treasure, Family Forest® Project, Genealogy, history, King Edward III of England, RoyaltyTags American History, Ancestral History, Baseball, Braveheart, Family Forest, Family Forest National Treasure Edition, Family Forest Project, FamilyForest.com, Genealogy, King Edward III1 Comment on Braveheart to Baseball
Disappointment turns to delight
I was teaching a new Family Forest® National Treasure customer how easy it is to pull up a 35-generation descendant chart for his ancestor and mine, Edward I, Longshanks, King of England (the English king from Braveheart).
This is an enormous chart that you can’t get on the Internet. It fills in over 154,000 boxes with the names of Longshanks’ descendants and the people they married, and it spans from the 1200s to in a number of cases, present day.
Customer experiences like this make my day. Since similar delightful experiences are already preserved and waiting for millions of others, including quite likely you and your family, I’d like to share this quick story with you.
The customer displayed this chart on his computer (which by the way is only one of countless millions of charts the National Treasure can generate), and he was disappointed. The chart did not reach down to him, yet. The closest connection he could find in the National Treasure was a pair of his great-great-grandparents.
So I quickly generated a Family Forest® kinship report from the National Treasure for his great-great-grandmother, Mrs. Sophie (Hale) Camp (PIN 103549 for those of you who would like to try this at home), and emailed him this 604-page PDF report of exactly how his ancestor is related to 43,431 different people and who their common ancestor is.
These relatives of our new customer include four signers of the Declaration of Independence, ten U.S. Presidents, several famous Civil War generals, Ransom Eli Olds (Oldsmobile), Thomas Edison, the Wright Brothers, Marjorie Merriweather Post (the key person responsible for bringing frozen food to our supermarkets), short-story writer O. Henry, Bill Gates, Hollywood actors Humphrey Bogart, Robert Redford, Clint Eastwood, Peter Fonda, Kurt Russell, Christopher Reeve, Matt Damon, Matthew Perry, and Tim Robbins, as well as many other readily recognizable people from human history.
Suddenly he was delighted with what the Family Forest® National Treasure can display about his own family’s ancestral heritage. Similar delight can be expected by the millions of others who have their own great-great-grandparents, or closer, already lineage-linked into the National Treasure.
And by the way, this name is not cutesy marketing puffery. It is called the National Treasure Edition because it can link more Americans personally, through generation-by-generation family ties, to more people, places, and events in human history than any other resource.
Also, this kinship report is another example of why we say that the Family Forest® is Networking Family History with Hollywood.™
Author FamilyForestPosted on March 26, 2010 Categories Ancestral History, Family Forest, Family Forest National Treasure, Family Forest® Project, Genealogy, history, Hollywood, National Treasure, UncategorizedTags Ancestral History, Ancestry, Family Forest National Treasure Edition, Family Forest Project, Family History, FamilyForest.com, Genealogy, Hollywood1 Comment on Disappointment turns to delight
Woman-Centered Genealogy
Before Women’s History Month ends, please let me remind you that I believe the Family Forest® Project is the most woman-centered genealogy resource available, intentionally by design.
There was a telling scene in the excellent Faces of America program where Meryl Streep tells Prof. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. that basically, she is not nearly as interested in the lives of her male ancestors as she is in the women who stood with them.
Wow, that sums up the direction I have been steering the Family Forest® Project in for 15 years. Wouldn’t cousin Meryl be the perfect celebrity spokesperson we need?
Countless choices appear before me each day as I perform my tour-guide service to of strategically growing the amazingly interconnected digital system of links we call the Family Forest®. I spend my days journeying through the nooks and crannies of thousands of years of human history and I leave a well-marked trail of everywhere I visit. The problem is that time does not allow me to enter nearly as much as I see.
So when faced with decisions about the most important parts I should tell you about, I have almost always chosen to follow the lines of the mothers and daughters. This deliberate intention consistently applied over the last 15 years has grown the Family Forest® into the most woman-centered genealogy resource available.
A number of examples of Family Forest® woman-centered genealogy can be downloaded free. They include some well-known and currently topical women such as Amelia Earhart, Julia Child, Sarah Jessica Parker, Meryl Streep, Brooke Shields, and Sarah Palin.
Author FamilyForestPosted on March 23, 2010 Categories Ancestral History, Family Forest, Family Forest National Treasure, Family Forest® Project, Genealogy, Meryl Streep, Sarah Jessica Parker, Sarah Palin, Who Do You Think You Are, Women's History MonthTags Ancestral History, Family Forest National Treasure Edition, FamilyForest.com, Genealogy, PBS, Sarah Palin, Women's History MonthLeave a comment on Woman-Centered Genealogy
Ancestor of all the Irish
One of them is the 916-page “The Family Forest® Descendants of Milesius of Spain for 84 Generations” eBook which has just gone live on Google Book Search.
Milesius is said to be the ancestor of all Irish people, and this book presents in standard genealogical format his generation-by-generation descendants leading into Hollywood movies and standard history books.
There is a fascinating monumental account of the origin of the Irish people which was written in the 1800’s. Genealogical Publishing Company calls it “the magnum opus of Irish Genealogy.”
What happens when the essence of this enormous work is intelligently digitally indexed in lineage-linked format? Actually, never-before-seen views of thousands of years of Irish ancestry appear.
Much more exciting are the enormous charts that can be summoned from the Family Forest® National Treasure Edition. If you click on Milesius (PIN 5897690) and request a 110-generation descendant view, you can visually explore the ancestral pathways leading to this one man from more than 200 hundred thousand of his descendants, a number of whom you will instantly recognize.
I feel certain that more than two billion living people have some ancestors on this chart. This includes Meryl Streep and Sarah Jessica Parker.
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day.
Author FamilyForestPosted on March 17, 2010 October 19, 2016 Categories Ancestors, Ancestral History, Family Forest, Family Forest National Treasure, Family Forest® Project, Genealogy, Hollywood, Irish, Meryl Streep, Milesius, Sarah Jessica Parker, St. PatrickTags Ancestral History, Ancestry, Family Forest National Treasure Edition, Family Forest Project, FamilyForest.com, Genealogy, Hollywood, Irish, St. Patricks DayLeave a comment on Ancestor of all the Irish
Sarah Jessica Parker on Who Do You Think You Are?
More importantly from a Family Forest® perspective, if you liked this show, you’ll love the Family Forest® National Treasure Edition. It picks up where the show leaves off.
I highly recommend this great program for everyone. It gives an excellent preview of the positive life enriching discoveries waiting to be found by each person who seeks to know about the bigger picture of where we came from.
For instance, consider just one of the intersections in Sarah Jessica Parker’s ancestry which was discussed in the program. His name is Samuel Elwell and he is PIN 327364 in the National Treasure.
Not only is he one of Sarah Jessica Parker’s ancestors, but according to the recorded history already mapped out in the National Treasure, he is one of the 5th-great-grandfathers of Norman Rockwell.
As much as Sarah Jessica Parker seemed to enjoy the feeling of being American that she gained from her ancestral discoveries, she should be elated to know that she shares Elwell ancestors with the person who personified Americans for decades, Norman Rockwell.
A much bigger surprise still awaits Sarah Jessica Parker and her Mom (Will someone please let them know?). According to recorded history, the wife of their Samuel Elwell is Mary Jones, daughter of Isaac and Deborah (Clark or Clarke) Jones.
Mary’s 20-generation ancestor view in the National Treasure pulls up a chart that anyone should be proud to claim as their own. I know, I’m speaking from personal experience, as parts of her ancestor chart I recognize as also my own.
This one map of some of the ancestral pathways of Sarah Jessica Parker covers some extremely interesting human history that Hollywood has been making great films of for decades. These include some of her ancestors in Braveheart and The Lion in Winter, one of which was portrayed by our Oscar-winning cousin.
Sarah Jessica Parker and her Mom can now watch a famous movie of our cousin portraying our ancestor. This is an example of why we say that the Family Forest® is Networking Family History with Hollywood.™
Author FamilyForestPosted on March 12, 2010 Categories Ancestral History, Family, Family Forest, Family Forest® Project, Genealogy, Hollywood, National Treasure, Norman Rockwell, Sarah Jessica Parker, television, Who Do You Think You AreTags Ancestral History, cousins, Family Forest, family ties, FamilyForest.com, Genealogy, Hollywood4 Comments on Sarah Jessica Parker on Who Do You Think You Are?
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A Los Angeles real estate firm has bought into Uptown.
Denver-based Centre Point properties sold its Denver Tower office building at Sherman Street and 19thAvenue last week to California-based Hayman Properties for $8.6 million.
Centre Point head Tucker Manion said the company planned to hold the building more than the 2½ years it owned Denver Tower.
“We bought it on a cap-rate basis and were looking to move rents up a little,” Manion said. “But given the market conditions over the last two years and the increase in rent, we thought it was a good time to take some money off the table.”
Denver Tower is a 10-story, 55,000-square-foot office building on a 0.2-acre lot. It was built in 1975 and sits at 1905 Sherman St. It’s 100 percent leased and Colorado Legal, which provides legal assistance to low-income Coloradans, takes about half of the building.
Centre Point paid about $6.6 million for the building in September 2013. At the time, space in the building was renting for slightly less than $16 per square foot, Manion said. Rates now are averaging about $18 per square foot.
Manion said some Uptown rents have reached about $24 per square foot and that there’s still room to hike lease rates at Denver Tower.
“That building should be able to get right around the $20 or $22 mark,” he said.
Jon Hendrickson and Aaron Johnson, a Cushman & Wakefield capital markets team, represented Centre Point in the sale. The same brokers sold the Wheeler Block Building on 29th Avenue to Centre Point last month.
Wheeler Block Building Sells for $7.7M
Denver Tower is Hayman’s first acquisition in the Denver market. The company’s website lists a dozen other office holdings between Texas and California.
Centre Point also owns a Capitol Hill office building at 789 Sherman St.
“What made that building attractive to us, and probably to the latest buyers as well, is that it sits in the Uptown market but can also draw from the downtown and Capitol Hill tenant base,” he said. “It can be a value option for users in that area, so even in a down cycle you’re going to have higher occupancies than your competitors.”
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book | Non-Fiction | Jul 2019
US & Canada → Simon & Schuster (Ed. Jofie Ferrari-Adler)
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Listed in Guardian's 2019 in Books: What You'll be Reading this Year
Listed in The Atlantic's The 15 Best Books of 2019
Lina, a homemaker in suburban Indiana, is a decade into a passionless marriage when she embarks on an affair that quickly becomes all-consuming and transforms her life. Sloane, a glamorous entrepreneur in the northeast, is married to a man who likes to watch her have sex with other men and women. Maggie, a high school student in North Dakota, begins a relationship with her married English teacher that will have extraordinary consequences for them both — as well as the community in which they live.
Over the past eight years, Lisa Taddeo, an award-winning journalist and longtime contributor to New York and Esquire, embedded herself with three ordinary women to write this deeply immersive account of their erotic lives and longings. The result — shocking, powerful, and timely — reads like George Packer’s The Unwinding, but for sex. Three Women is a major work from an exhilarating new talent.
Jake Smith-Bosanquet manages the translation rights for Three Women
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It’s been years since I’ve read a book as propulsive, engrossing, mind-bending, and required as Lisa Taddeo’s Three Women...It is the deepest dive into our neighbors’ consciousnesses that I’ve ever read, so immersive it approaches the Tolstoyan, and its narcotic pleasures mainline the only thing that can truly save us: empathy.
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One of the most riveting, assured and scorchingly original debuts I've ever read ... I can't imagine a scenario where this isn't one of the more important – and breathlessly debated – books of the year.
Intense and riveting. It gives us epic themes in miniature. These women broke my heart and I won't forget them.
I can’t remember the last time a book affected me as profoundly as Three Women...Truly, Three Women is an extraordinary offering.
Elisabeth Gilbert
Three Women is the new required reading for women and any person who wants to know them. Taddeo has given these women’s testimonies of desire, love and trauma a brilliance and dignity that is nothing short of revolutionary
Stephanie Danler
An instant feminist classic... In this utterly engrossing, frankly game-changing work of narrative nonfiction, a New York magazine contributor profiles a trio of everyday women, shining a light on their darkest desires and how men (and other women) often thwart those wants.
O, The Oprah Magazine
An unflinching dissection of female desire so poetically described, I forgot it was non-fiction. Lisa Taddeo makes a gorgeous, unabashed debut. Wow.
Not since John Carreyrou’s Bad Blood have I stayed up all night reading a book. Then I read Lisa Taddeo’s Three Women.
Bari Weiss
Three Women is painstaking, painful, unblinking, unsentimental, and utterly unapologetic. Lisa Taddeo comes scarily close to proving the truth of a line uttered by a character in an Antonya Nelson story: “Love is sadness.”
An extraordinary, documentary deep dive into the psychology of women and sex that is as unputdownable as the most page-turning fiction.
Three Women is riveting – a searing, honest, visceral and compulsive account of women’s desire. I’ve never read anything like it.
Esther Freud
This book will amaze you, for articulating so directly and beautifully the chaotic truths of women’s desire...my non-fiction book of the year. Astounding.
Jessie Burton
As gripping as the most gripping thriller.
Marian Keys
Addictive, totally addictive … Brilliant.
An utterly compelling, scorching piece of reportage.
Bookseller (Book of the Month)
I've not read something so confronting, humane and brilliant in a really long time. An outstanding achievement.
Kirian Millwood-Hargrave
The last [book] that blew my mind is Three Women by Lisa Taddeo … I tried to read it all in one night.
Pandora Sykes
Lisa Taddeo’s Three Women offers a fascinating excavation of the intricacies of love and desire, where they conspire and where they conflict. Read this book. You will forever rethink the erotics of women.
Her distinct proximity to her subjects shows in the intimate fantasies, scorching encounters, and profound pains they relate through her, but, the power resting fully with them, this never becomes voyeuristic... Readers will almost certainly fly through this, and want to talk about it.
Booklist (starred)
This is an unusual, startling and gripping debut. It feels to me like the kind of bold, timely, once-in-a-generation book that every house should have a copy of, and probably will before too long.
Three Women is an astonishing act of imaginative empathy and a gift to women around the world who feel their desires are ignored and their voices aren’t heard. This is a book that blazes, glitters and cuts to the heart of who we are. I’m not sure that a book can do more.
Three Women is a book with the thrill of the new and you can expect it to dominate WhatsApp threads, line Tube carriages and pop up in foreign AirBnBs for years to come. Taddeo hasn’t just caught a moment, she has spawned a new genre.
When three women tell their uncensored truth, they can liberate a nation. I feel deeply grateful to Lisa Taddeo for giving us this gift of raw authenticity.
Who among us can’t relate to the fear of being alone or the desire to be loved—even by someone who isn’t exactly perfect? It's this emotional universality that has me predicting this book will be the nonfiction read of the summer.
Becca Freeman
It’s Taddeo’s deep, almost feverish commitment to detail and context that elevates the stories, making them feel not just painfully real but revelatory…. By peeling back the layers with such clear-eyed compassion, Taddeo illuminates the essential, elemental mystery of what it is to be a woman in the world.”
Three Women’ captures the pain and powerlessness of desire as well as its heady joys….for all the freedoms women have won, female desire is often still considered unruly and unacceptable, even repulsive
Taddeo couldn't have known when she started that her book would so precisely tap into the zeitgeist, a year after the #MeToo movement demolished unspoken assumptions. Yet for this reason, her microscopic inventory of three women's private moments – down to the perfume one wore when she met her husband, or the skirt another chose when she reunited with her high-school sweetheart – feels urgent. …In sharing stories about consent, desire and memory, three women teach us about all the things we never talk about.
Written in a razor sharp literary style—think: Elena Ferrante on speed.
I am annoyed with myself for having read too quickly two books that I would go as far as to call newly minted masterpieces. I gulped down Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s Fleishman is in Trouble [also an ICM client] and Lisa Taddeo’s Three Women like a couple of icy Aperol spritzers, so addictively acute is their examination of life and, in particular, desire in 2019.
The Times UK
…in the way that many daughters seek to heal something our mothers lacked, “Three Women” burns a flare-bright path through the dark woods of women’s sexuality. In sentences that are as sharp — and bludgeoning, at times — as an ax, she retains the accuracy and integrity of nonfiction but risks the lyrical depths of prose and poetry…
Los Angeles Review
It doesn’t just aim. It succeeds. Three Women is an astonishing act of imaginative empathy and a gift to women around the world who feel their desires are ignored and their voices aren’t heard. This is a book that blazes, glitters and cuts to the heart of who we are. I’m not sure that a book can do much more.
The literary brilliance of the book will knock you back–how she channels these women’s voices through her own. . . . For anyone who thinks they know what women want, this book is an alarm, and its volume is turned all the way up.
Taddeo narrates with a magically light touch, inhabiting each [woman] so fully we feel as if we're living alongside them. The book is sexually explicit — you might blush when reading it — but it never feels gratuitous or clinical. Its prose is gorgeous, nearly lyrical as it describes the longings and frustrations that propel these ordinary women. Blending the skills of an ethnographer and a poet, Taddeo renders them extraordinary.
Three Women is a book with the thrill of the new and you can expect it to dominate WhatsApp threads ,line tube carriage and pop up in foreign AirBnbs for years to come. Taddeo hasn’t just caught a moment, she has spawned a new genre.
Evening Standard UK
What makes Three Women so remarkable and indelible, and also so refreshingly out-of-step with the tenor of the present moment, is Taddeo’s refusal to judge these “characters.” She is not particularly interested in determining who is right, who is wrong, and who is to blame. Intensity and compulsion draw her to these stories like tractor beams. What most fascinates her is how sexual desire transfigures the entire tissue of a personality and changes the course of lives
You’ll want to pass your copy on to a friend as soon as you’ve read it; it’s a book that begs discussion.
You’ll have to remind yourself these stories aren’t conjured straight from the writer’s imagination. They’re described with the emotional ferocity and lyrical prose of a really good novel.
The book is narrative in tone, and Taddeo is stellar at embodying the women, taking on the voice of each in turn. It produces a feeling that the reader is sitting down over coffee to listen to the deeply personal and frequently painful stories of Maggie, Lina and Sloane.
It’s as propulsive as any literary hybrid thriller, by a writer who exhibits a nearly supernatural and supremely novelistic capacity to inhabit her subjects’ consciousnesses
The Sewanee Review
She makes you see parts of yourself in each of these characters, even if you are sometimes appalled by them. You might find yourself needing to scream into a pillow – it just is that kind of book, the kind that deserves all the hyperbole I’m using right now.
Already backed by the likes of Oprah Winfrey and Caitlin Moran, ‘Three Women’ has the qualities and the momentum to become a literary sensation. It's also one the world could do with right now.
The hype for Three Women is real. In fact, it’s insufficient... She writes of their lives with intimacy, treating real women with the depth that fictional characters often receive — a reminder that each of our lives are story-worthy.
Three Women is a skilled example of imbricated layering, mixing high trauma with the quotidian, the profound with the peripheral
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The Outcasts : Bad Blood
Normally Corinne wouldn't have been caught dead in this area of town.. Normally she'd have been in a high class bar or club looking for a meal but that wouldn't go over too well right now. It just had been bad dumb luck really... She and Christine had left their small yet trendy apartment to grab a bite. The bad luck had started when they had come across what seemed to be congregation of a local gang.. and had only gotten worse when some of them decided that Corinne would be a weak and easy target. Against the number that there was, that was likely true. The scene had quickly erupted into chaos when her Lasombra companion had lighted into the aggressive men. Corinne had taken the opportunity to do what she did best when things got bad: run. She was confident in her companion's abilities to get out of the scuffle but Corinne was no fighter.
From there, the luck only got worse. She quickly lost her pursuers but in her flight, flailed to check the way was clear as she crossed a road. Neither she nor the taxi cab had any chance to see the other before it collided with her. She had quickly recovered before the driver could rush to her aid and she took off once more into the night. The most grievous of the injuries she'd received she healed but the use of that much of her vitae left her near to starving. She couldn't heal everything at present. She would need to feed soon though the state she was in would make that difficult. No classy place would let her in looking like this... That meant.. slumming it, however distasteful the thought was.
As she walked the empty suburban streets with the small, Edwardian-era houses, she searched vainly for any Kine... anywhere. Perhaps with the exception of the homeless... she wasn't quite that desperate yet. No, definitely not yet. There had to be some satisfactory median out here somewhere... A door slammed somewhere up ahead and then a figure emerged onto the sidewalk a distance ahead of her. Hooded it seemed under the orange glow of the streetlights. A thug perhaps? Well, that was still better than one who slept on the streets and ate out of dumpsters, was it not? She quickened her pace to catch up to what she could only assume was a man. She could quickly have him eating out of the palm of her hand so that she could get him into the proper position to feed... It had always been so easy for her... She wanted to feed so much...
As she drew up on him, she put a hand to his shoulder. His quick reaction to the touch surprised her but she was an actress.. she knew how to stay in character no matter what. "Bon soir, monsieur." she said. Good evening, sir. She had often found her native Parisian French, the smooth accent, was amazingly helpful in getting people to open up to her. As he turned, she could see his eyes were covered by sunglasses despite the darkness. His skin though held a fairly healthy complexion it seemed. With a mental shrug, she continued. "Monsieur, perhaps you can be of assistance to me?" she asked. "Please, if you would just remove your.. lunettes... um, your sunglasses that is..." she began. Her powers weren't reliant on his eyes quite in the same way as that of some other Kindred but she preferred it if possible.. She felt that she could hold the interest of her targets more with the ability to both see each others eyes.
Clan: Lasombra
Fera Tribes: Bagheera
SM Chapter: Dark Angels
Sabbat Clan: Ravnos Antitribu
Re: The Outcasts : Bad Blood
After having another conversation with his sister about him always sleeping during the day and leaving at night. Ever since the incident Jess has been trying to push Jericho into getting help. He decided he has heard enough and walked out of the house saying "I'm going out don't wait up for me ill be gone all night." He would occasionally leave when ever he felt his anger building but this time it was different. He had gotten a lead of where an old friend might be hiding so he decided to pay him a well deserved visit. As he was walking thinking about his sisters words and what she would do if she found out why he left he felt a hand touch his shoulder. He turned quickly to see if it was his sister but it turned out to be someone he has never met before. As she asked him for assistance he thought 'I have no time for this' so he takes off his sunglasses revealing his bright blue wolf eyes to scare her away.
Corinne jerked her hand back as the man acquiesced and revealed his eyes to her. It wasn't at all what she had expected to see. The eyes weren't... human, weren't Kine. They seemed the eyes of an animal. Her first thought was Lupine. She braced to run but there was no real anger directed to her, no pure hatred as the werewolves seemed to feel towards Kindred for whatever reason. No.. either such emotions, especially not the longer they stood there, as she studied him. He seemed only to become more... confused. It made her more confident. She had been around long enough to know much about their world.
She frowned. "You're Kindred?" she asked in a hushed but sharply questioning tone. "Are you Kindred?! Mais ton complexion.. You're skin.. You appear like one of them... a Kine.." That was something.. far more rare. Something she hadn't really noticed of other Kindred with maybe two exceptions in all her years. She was dying to ask how to replicate it for herself, if it was possible. Her pallor was alluring often enough but it was also at times conspicuous. "You are Kindred, yes? Ton yeux.. You're eyes, they speak of this..." she questioned. "Gangrel?" she asked. She couldn't imagine what else he could be as she was still standing here, not torn to shreds. "You are no lupine.." she said half to herself. "Bêtes... All beasts... But you.. you must be Kindred too... yes?" she prodded again.
She could see now, out of the corner of her eye, movement on a roof of one of the houses. She could recognize even from here the shape and movement of Christine. Back-up in case this Kindred man before her became trouble. She didn't expect it, not from his expression currently but it was better to be sure. She waited for an answer.
Christine mood wasn’t really that great tonight. When the gang of humans decided to mess with her new friend, the lasombra wasn’t really going to let them exactly get away free with that. She had charged into their little group like a storm, almost immediately breaking the leg of one of the humans, before gripping the other by the throat, throwing him at one of his mates. Those humans really had a bad luck meeting the lasombra. The 2 meters tall woman’s strength was really not something normal and by the time those fellas realized that it was already too late. All of them were to be hospitalized to a degree with broken arms or legs… or ribs. Still Christine knew well enough to not kill anyone, so she contented herself with simply breaking a bone or two. She’d love to snack on those guys, but decided not to. She was pretty sure police might show up any moment now, so she just left them there, speeding after in the direction Corinne had taken off.
“Seriously… that girl is nothing but troubles.” She sighed as she ran. Since they met, it was like the toreador attracted troubles on daily basis. It was both hilarious and annoying at the same time. Even how they met was a trouble… Christine had to save her from being killed by some sabbat thugs. Her new friend was surprisingly frail for a vampire.
Eventually she managed to hear the voice of her companion from afar. Christine’s hearing was quite good so it made finding things and people easier. She sped up to quickly find Corinne least the latter gets into trouble again.
Without losing any momentum, Christine nimbly climbed on top of the nearby houses for better view and faster movement as she quickly then finally located her friend. She was talking to a man and he didn’t seem exactly normal, judging from what she overheard Corinne saying. ‘ A gangrel?’ Christine thought, her eyes locked on him. If she needed, she could easily jump on him from here. For now she chose to remain silent and just be ready to take him out.
After seeing her reaction he felt confused 'why wasn't this women running and screaming and what is she talking about?' he thought. He quickly put his sunglasses back on and said "What are you talking about." in a concerned voice.
Jericho wasn't use to anyone not running and screaming when he shows his wolf eyes. He usually used them to scare people that got in his way of were just annoying but the fact that it didn't work this time made him feel uneasy.
'Who was this women why didn't she scream and why does she seem to know more about my eyes than I do?' he thought. Jericho was waiting for any excuse to bring out his claws and end this conversation. Looking to change the conversation he sighs as he says half annoyed "He is probably gone by now at least I get to help someone so what do you need my assistance with?"
Corinne's brow furrowed as she became a bit confused by this man's reaction, his seeming utter incomprehension to her questioning. Her mind quickly ran over all the facts, wondering if perhaps she had made a dire error of speaking the wrong things to a mere Kine.. but no, no Kine's eyes were like this. Impossible. No, the worse it could be was that this was some errant lupine and that was not a breach of the Masquerade.... she hoped. She opened her lips just a touch, just enough to let the man see the hint of her fangs and not be obvious to anyone else from any sort of distance. She wanted to see this man's reaction to another Kindred.
Her focus suddenly waned, the interest in this new thing being overwhelmed by the pain. Though she had healed much, her remaining injuries still were not merely superficial. She winced as her left arm twinged and she could acutely feel the broken collar bone that couldn't quite support the weight of the arm. It was by no means a serious injury for a Kindred but it was painful indeed. In reply to the man's question of how he could help, she flipped her hair back which was covering that shoulder, and made quiet sound from the pain of shifting the weight there. The broken bone was clearly evident beneath her ashen pale skin. Before the man, she let the bone begin to heal, it shifting back into place. [-1 BP]
She winced at the process, the pain and unnatural feeling of things moving beneath her skin and at the loss of yet more vitae. She would soon be desperate, unable to control herself so she had to halt the healing here and suffer for now. "A gentleman.. when you are not too busy, hmm?" she asked though her voice was strained from the pain. "Tu veux m'aider? You would help me now, but unfortunately I do not think that you are the help that I require, mon chère." she added with a sad smile. "Your heart does not beat, does it? You do not require breath... No, not what I need then..."
She turned, looking at the dark figure that she was sure was Christine and gestured for her companion to join them. Before replying once more to the young man with the wolfen eyes. "Aid me to my friend coming to join us... S'il vous plait." she said. She was still curious at his reaction to perhaps finding that she was little different than himself.... perhaps....
As soon as Jericho focused and realized how pale the women was it reminded him of his sire that saved him. How they look the same and the fangs she showed him are just like his.
After she asks him to take her to her friend he tells her "I'm no gentleman but ill know where I can get you some food just let me help you take some weight off your shoulder first." Jericho takes off his jacket and makes it into a sling. He walks up to her and says "this is going to help make it a little more comfortable." after he finishes talking he puts the sling on her and says "ill get you some food just wait here ill be back in a little."
Jericho was used to helping people when they came up to him with a problem. He learned a lot when he was in the military training especially when it came to first aid. He was always the one that went to help the people that got hurt during training. He never left anyone behind and leaving someone that's hurt wasn't who he is.
He knew the local gangs full of criminals around his neighborhood. He has been stalking one of them for a while waiting for the right time to strike. He thought to himself 'I guess today is not your lucky day.' as he ran straight to his target who was walking into an alley. He quickly grabbed him by the back of his head and smashed his face into the ground knocking him and some teeth out in the process. Jericho picks up the unconscious thug and throws him over his shoulder and walks back to the pale women.
Christine watched her friend ask for aid from the man and surprisingly he seemed to agree. The lasombra watched him dash of in the alleyways, probably hunting for a thug or something. Well it was a fine source of food as any though she really did prefer more cleaner blood. Thugs simply weren’t as tasty as some of the pray you can get at a good establishments if you have the skills.
As he vanished from around some corners, the lasombra quickly started to get down from the roof. It really wasn’t that hard, especially in her case. After some descend using some ledges, she jumped down the rest of the way, allowing for her leg muscles to easily absorb the rest of the inertia.
“So, he’s a gangrel?” Christine asked her friend, giving her a questioning look.” He seemed rather… confused and lost about your reaction to him.” She stated, wondering with what he will return exactly. In difference from Corinne, Christine wasn’t in such a hunger for now at least. She was going to have to feed soon also, but not right away. Maybe tomorrow was going to be a better and more lucky day.
"You think he's abandoned?" The lasombra asked, wondering about it also." I've heard gangrel tend to leave their... childes alone for a while, letting them get a feel about what they are on their own."
Corinne smiled just a little bit. Already she had some stranger offering to get her food. She most definitely still had the knack. Whatever this man meant by food though would be the determining factor in just what he was.... She was pretty sure already that he was Kindred but a bit of confirmation never hurt anyone. What did surprise her was this man seemed to not only know how to give medical attention but that he offered it to her, a total stranger and, for all he knew, a potential threat. She had to admit though, once made, the sling did help with the pain in her arm and shoulder somewhat. The ribs still cracked yet pained her but she'd be able to heal them soon enough.. hopefully. It helped not needing to breath. She tested the sling made of the man's jacket and finding it quite well done. "Merci..." she said to him sincerely and nodded when he told her to wait there.
Once he had left, she turned to Christine who came out of the shadows nearby after descending from the roof. She stared down the street in the direction the man had gone as the Lasombra asked her a question. "Je pense... I think so.." she answered. "Animal eyes.. Yeux des bêtes. He had animal eyes; something I have only seen among the Outlanders..."
She glanced to Christine with a thoughtful expression. She wasn't sure how long the Lasombra had been nearby, how long she had been watching but it seemed long enough to get the gist of the situation. "Bien sûr... Most indeed, he did seem to know little. I was... unsure if he even understood any of it. Aussi, I was unsure if even he was Kindred... I think.. he must be though.. with those eyes." she explained. She sighed. "Perhaps abandoned, orphaned.. yes. It is not uncommon sadly, more so among les Outlanders, bien sûr." she agreed. "When he returns, we shall attempt to discover more his origins." she added and then sighed, wincing at the pain of taking a breath to be able to speak.
The hunger was getting close to too much to bear. She began to move, heading slowly down the sidewalk in the direction that the man had gone. It was better moving than it was standing and waiting; it gave her something to focus on other than the ravenous hunger gnawing her insides. Fortunately, the ran into the confused young man as he was returning moments later. He must have known exactly where to go and he had an unconscious figure thrown over a shoulder. Corinne frowned slightly at that. She typically preyed upon her victims consciously, draining so little that they did not even realize it nor realize what she was. She could scarcely recall the last time she had been forced to feed like such. But.. needs took precedence. At least it seemed her guess about him being Kindred did seem to be confirmed though.
The young man was about to drop his burden in the street when Corinne shook a finger, glancing around. Most of the windows in the houses nearby were dark but it was still too much of a risk. "We must find.. what is the word... privacy from prying eyes." she said. "Here is too.. visible to any to see.. Were you not taught this?" she asked but then quickly shook her head. The Kine that the man had brought was bleeding a bit.. and the smell of it was tormenting her too much to think straight. "Somewhere out of sight..." she urged. The young man agreed and led them to the house where he'd come from and around to the backyard. It was better back here.. dark enough to not be completely noticeable and yet light enough to see still.
Corinne could not wait any longer, could no longer control herself. The second the Kine was placed on the ground, she was on him. Ah yes, this was more like it. She could feel the heat the Kine radiated, the life. She propped the unconscious body up enough that she could easily sink her fangs into the Kine's throat. And then the blood rushed over her tongue, into her mouth. The sweet, delicious blood that was unlike anything else in her experience.
[+4 BP] to Hungry (7)
Stop Feeding
Difficulty : 8
Roll : 1,2
botch - keeping feeding until victim is drained.
[+4 BP] totally of 8 BP gained.
The blood, she needed more.. more.. She kept drinking, losing all sense of how much she was consuming. She lost track of everything around her in her need. And all too soon, there was no more she could take, no more blood could be drawn to her mouth. She wanted more though the need quickly began to dissipate. Non, she was sated although not completely.. enough though. She dropped the body she held in a death-grip, only now realizing that the life had left him. She had killed the man.
Degeneration check
Roll : 3,8,2,3
Successes: 1
Corinne stood up quickly and took a step or two back from the body. Her head lowered, eyes closed. "Non... non.. Je nais voulais tué... Zut... zut.. I did not mean to..." she said half to herself. "Zut!" She opened her eyes again, looking at the others, her expression sad and guilty. "I did not mean to kill the man... I could not stop myself... I was too hungry."
After walking with the unconscious body he thinks to himself 'man what a weird night this is. I really hope its not going to get any weirder. I kind of feel bad for this poor guy hes going to die once she's done with him if shes anything like me.' "I cant say he doesn't deserve it but I wouldn't want to go that way." says Jericho as he turns the corner with the body.
Once he sees the pale women he was about to drop the body on the floor when he saw her shake her finger no. Once she tells him in private he takes her and another stranger to his back yard where it was much more private. He places the body on the ground and just as he let go the pale women was on the thug feeding from him. Seeing her like that reminded him of when he lost control causing him to walk a little bit away uncomfortably.
After she is done feeding from the body he realized she didn't mean to kill him from hearing her words only made him even more confused. "What do you mean you didn't mean to kill him they always die when we do that right?" he says puzzled by her reaction. "That's what always happens when I do that why would yours be any different?" Jericho said trying not to stare at her.
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