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Preschool for Children with Down Syndrome Bombed
Shattered glass litters the carpet at the Libyan Down Syndrome Society, and dust covers pictures of grinning children that adorn the hallway, thrown into darkness by a NATO strike early on Saturday.
It was unclear what the target of the strike was, though Libyan officials said it was Muammar Gaddafi himself, who was giving a live television address at the time.
"They maybe wanted to hit the television. This is a non-military, non-governmental building," said Mohammed al-Mehdi, head of the civil societies council, which licenses and oversees civil groups in Libya.
The missile completely destroyed an adjoining office in the compound that houses the government's commission for children.
The force of the blast blew in windows and doors in the parent-funded school for children with Down syndrome and officials said it damaged an orphanage on the floor above.
"I felt sad really. I kept thinking, what are we going to do with these children?" said Ismail Seddigh, who set up the school 17 years ago after his own daughter was born with Down syndrome.
"This is not the place we left on Thursday afternoon."
There were no children at the school when the missiles hit early on Saturday morning, since Friday begins the weekend in Libya. Children had been due to come in on Saturday morning
A mound of rubble was all that remained of one wing of the main building that adjoined the school, though an antenna of some kind protruded from the ruins.
Both Mehdi and Seddigh said they had assumed that the antenna on the building was there to strengthen mobile phone signals and were not aware of any other use.
In the rubble of the main building, a shredding machine packed with sliced up documents lay on its side. A fax and phone were nearby and shelves of files could be seen.
The Libyan government has repeatedly said that NATO airstrikes have hurt and killed civilians but has not responded to requests by journalists to visit the hospitals, making it tough to verify casualty figures.
NATO has hit inside or near Gaddafi's compound before, or struck military or logisitical sites. Saturday's government-organised visit was the first to bring journalists -- whom government minders watch closely -- to a civilian site.
Inside the school, the power had been knocked out by the strikes, the floor was wet because of a leaking pipe and desks were covered in glass and debris.
Seddigh's school prepared children with Down syndrome up to the age of 6 to go to normal schools, giving them speech therapy, handicrafts and sports sessions and teaching them to read and write. It handles 50 to 60 children a day.
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CCX Plans to Liquidate Remaining Assets in Colombia
The remnants of Brazilian mogul Eike Batista’s once-sprawling empire continue to unravel, with CCX Carvao da Colombia SA planning to liquidate the rest of its holdings in Colombia, according to the BN Americas. Just a few months after selling its largest remaining asset to Turkey-based Yildirim Holding AS for $45 million USD, the mining firm has decided that commercial production at its remaining sites is not viable.
“The liquidation process of such assets will be composed of several procedures and stages that, according to the legal advisors of the company, will take at least six months,” said CCX in a statement.
Batista formerly held the claim as the richest person in Brazil before his fortunes took a turn. CCX was among his smaller companies after he spun it off in May 2012 to manage coal mine projects in Colombia, but it hit rough waters in 2013 when Batista’s EBX Group announced plans to delist the firm then postponed that move and saw two board members resign.
Months later, CCX agreed to sell off the bulk of its assets in Colombia — including open-pit mines Cañaverales and Papayal in the department of La Guajira, the San Juan underground long-wall mine, a 150-kilometer railroad, and a port project — for an announced price of $450 million USD to Yildrim Holding. The final deal was later reported by Bloomberg to be valued at only $125 million USD, however.
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Gambino associate gets break after telling judge he plans on becoming different kind of family guy
December 14, 2011 Dapper_Don
Lucky he’s a family guy!
A federal judge gave a mobster a break yesterday after the goon said he plans on starting a very different kind of “family.”
Frank Roccaforte, a three-time loser and associate of the Gambino crime family, had pleaded for leniency from Judge Richard Berman, saying he plans on becoming a law-abiding citizen, marrying his girlfriend and starting a family when he gets out of the big house.
Roccaforte, 31, who was swept up in a massive Mafia crackdown earlier this year, was facing up to 57 months in the slammer after pleading guilty to assault, drug dealing and illegal bookmaking.
Frank Roccaforte
Roccaforte’s mother, Joyce, also pleaded for leniency from the judge, blaming her late husband for leading Frank into a life of crime.
The judge sentenced Roccaforte to 46 months, warning him this is his last shot at redemption.
“You’re getting close to real trouble, and this is the opportunity to turn your life around,” the judge said. Roccaforte flashed a big smile at his mom after the judge read the sentence.
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Korean Drama Lovers in Prague Information
Drama Title: Lovers in Prague
Alternative Title: 프라하의 연인 / Peurahaui Yeonin / Praha Lovers
Published Date: September, 2005
Casts: Jun Do Yeon, Kim Joo Hyuk, Kim Min Joon, Yoon Se Ah
Subtitle: English Sub
The president's daughter, Yoon Jae-hee (Jun Do-yeon) is a Korean diplomat in Prague. She has only recently recovered from a devastating break up five years earlier with Ji Young-woo (Kim Min-joon), the son of a prominent Korean businessman. Choi Sang-hyun (Kim Joo-hyuk) is a detective who goes to Prague searching for his ex-girlfriend Hye-joo (Yoon Se-ah). Hye-joo broke up with Sang-hyun over the phone from Prague and Sang-hyun can not except it.Sang-hyun meets Jae-hee in Prague and misunderstandings abound. Eventually the two help each other and become friends. When they return to Korea love blossoms, but their respective ex’s and very different social status put it to the test.
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shh, don't wake the DRUNKEN HOUSEWIFE
Meandering anecdotes and an occasional incisive comment, courtesy of an overeducated, feminist former-professional, who is continually outsmarted by her overly-gifted children and genius spouse and who seeks refuge in books, cocktails, and the occasional Xanax.
how to elicit homicidal feelings
I was having a spectacularly bad day, a terrible, awful, horrible day, which was known to my life's companion, the Sober Husband. As I was having problems using a translation application on the iPad to try to communicate with the Chinese exchange student staying with us, the Sober Husband remarked cruelly, "Even a toddler can use an iPad."
He'll be lucky if he makes it through the next twenty-four hours without being maimed.
Posted by the Drunken Housewife at 6:46 PM 1 comment:
drawing life
I take life drawing classes, where a room of artists (many of whom are extremely gifted) each week painstakingly and silently draw a naked model. The Sober Husband has perhaps not understood the seriousness of this venture, and recently called out to me as I left, "Have fun! I hope you get someone really good looking!"
"That's not what it's about," I corrected him loftily. "It's actually better if it's someone interesting looking, like once we had a fat person and everyone loved it. It was so much better than when we had the really gorgeous body builder."
In truth, the energy in the room had been terrible the time we had the handsome, perfectly toned gym-goer (who spent his break periods perusing a magazine which I swear was called "The Perfect Body"). Normally there's no creepy energy to be detected anywhere, but that time, the model himself seemed to be getting off on having us draw him, and it seemed, well, unwholesome. I felt almost exploited (and also I found it was surprisingly hard to draw true washboard abs without having the washboard-ness of it come out looking like wrinkles).
Last night I remembered that conversation, as I ended up having to eat my own words. I settled in happily at my easel, and I looked up to see the ugliest person I have ever seen naked (and I've been to nude beaches, people, as well as to leather events). My initial reaction, I am ashamed to admit, was "I don't want to see this." The model was a woman of indeterminate but far from young age, who had a small frame but was carrying a lot of excess weight. She had rolls and rolls of fat and horrible, draping, loose, crepey skin. And sadly, she wasn't the kind of fat person of whom they always say, "She has such a pretty face." Her face looked like a child's drawing of a witch: tiny, squinty eyes, a sharp nose, and thin, nearly nonexistent lips, and bags, such bags under her eyes. Her hair was wispy and thin and needed the roots touched up.
I quailed, and I hated myself for it. I reminded myself during the first short pose: "You're not the spring chicken you once were, either. You aren't the same size you were in your twenties, and you always go far too long before you touch up your own roots. You've got no right to be judgmental. " Then the model turned and bent over, presenting me and my companions on either side with a remarkably explicit view of her crotch. I wanted to flee. "I can't draw this," I thought to myself. "I don't want to look at this." I drew a leg only.
Our instructor was trying to teach us (or those of us who want to learn new techniques; many of the more accomplished artists prefer to follow their own lead) a new technique, "massing in", where we would shade in the bulk of a form, rather than drawing its outline. I tried to focus on that, and I made a lot of exuberant, bright, pastel sketches. They were slightly abstracted, and I liked that. Gradually I got caught up in the art, and I lost that horrible feeling of wanting to flee. I drew and drew, losing track of time. I admired the model for her bravery in presenting herself to us.
I challenged myself to find something beautiful about this model, and I did. Her small feet had the most delicate arches, so beautifully shaped. I drew the feet.
Towards the end of the class I was pleased with some of the work I'd done, and I felt I'd gotten a lot out of the "massing in" technique, which I resolved to use again. We reached my favorite part of the class, the longer poses. And then it went all bitter and unhappy for me. The model was facing me directly for a twenty minute pose, and she was watching my every pencil stroke. I was struggling with drawing her face, and I could see her looking at my awful, ugly, witch drawing. I erased the face and redrew it, and then erased it and re-redrew it. I could not stomach having her look at my ugly picture, and I tried hard to make it look more flattering. I felt awful.
After that, I tore off one of my most exuberant orange pastel sketches, one with the model's hair flying about and no face shown at all, to turn in to my instructor, and I left early. "There's another pose, Carole," the teacher said wheedlingly, but I said, as nicely as I could, "Gotta get home."
busy, busy
I've had a burst of energy lately, which has been mostly channeled into cooking. Here are two observations I have to share with you: first, the next time you make an upside-down cake, instead of melting butter and mixing in brown sugar, instead cook a quarter cup of honey until it is dark and slightly reduced. Add your fruit to that and proceed making your cake. You'll discover that caramelized honey is one of the most magnificent tastes in the world, and you'll wonder, "Caramelized honey? Why haven't I been eating that forever?" Secondly, if you make your own onion dip from scratch -- and I don't mean mixing powdered soup mix with sour cream, I mean cooking your own onions in butter until they're golden and soft, mincing them, and mixing them with sour cream, cream cheese, salt, and pepper -- the results will cause everyone who tastes it to go into a contemplative gobbling state. They will not want to stop eating that onion dip, even if you implore them to save some room because there are four other dishes coming.
As well as cooking, another hobby, reading, has been paying off of late. Thankfully my long, rough stretch of reading God-awful books came to an end, with the excellent "Blind Submission" by Debra Ginsberg. "Blind Submission" is the story of a young, aimless woman who winds up working for an extremely tightly wound boss, a boss who insinuates herself into all areas of her employees' lives and leaves their sanity on shaky ground. This reminded me very much of an over-the-top boss I had for a while when I was practicing law. My old boss used to try power ploys like trying to make us come in at six a.m. "My MUNI route doesn't start running until seven," I said acerbically. "Just roll out of bed and call a cab," said my boss airily. "I am not about to start taking a ten dollar taxi ride to work every day," I said firmly. "That's going to be fifty dollars a week!" But then my favorite colleague, who lived even further from the office than I do, agreed to come in at six. Our boss then decided to up the ante and by the end of the day had forced him to agree to show up at four thirty a.m. Meanwhile I was still scheduled to arrive hours later, after the 5 Fulton majestically began its route and leisurely conveyed me downtown. My friend looked haunted at the prospect of needing to be at the office by 4:30, and I chided him. "You've got to grow a backbone!" "I do have the backbone.. the backbone of a frog," he mourned.
After reading "Blind Submission", I had horrendous nightmares that I was back in that job. But perhaps the true nightmare is that a highly educated, talented person chooses to be unemployed, as though Betty Friedan had never written "The Feminine Mystique." My psychiatrist tried a few weeks ago to push me gently into going back into the law, but I"m resisting. "I can't face it, all that stress," I told him frankly. Maybe next time I'll tell him I'm still having nightmares about one of my hellish bosses from those days. But my psychiatrist thinks I'd be happier if I had people routinely appreciating my intelligence and paying me for my insights. Maybe he's right. After all, that's an occasional cause of strife in the home, my accusations of being treated like a dullard. Here's a cinematic treatment for you all:
Posted by the Drunken Housewife at 7:00 PM 4 comments:
get the message
How I get messages left for me, regarding my volunteer work: "Some crazy cat lady called, wants you to take a crazy cat."
I have been in a deep funk since New Year's Eve, a depression which I haven't felt like talking about. I don't feel entitled to be depressed: I have a lovely life, truly. My immune system has never gotten back up to par after I had surgery last year, but I'm not in chronic pain any more, like I was before I had surgery. I don't want to whine. But yet I have no energy and no joy.
I have been cooking, though, making food that requires me to grind up four different kinds of seeds with my mortar and pestle and finally opening the dusty bottle of pomegranate molasses I'd bought ages ago. Today I bought a bottle of maraschino liqueur so I can make my own maraschino cherries for Manhattans, a good winter drink. Last week I bought a lovely, expensive whiskey on sale for Manhattans, and I couldn't get the fancy, sealed-in-wax cork out. I ended up running down the block in slippers, Lola trailing behind, seeking out the first gym-toned, gay neighbor I could find to extract the cork for me. "Manhattans? That's what my mom drinks," said my buff across-the-street neighbor. I felt humiliated by the matronly nature of my intended beverage and, trying to get my image restored as a sophisticate, confided that I was going to make my own maraschino cherries, before heading back across the street with the bottle in one hand and Lola's arm in the other.
Contributing to the funk, I hit a bad streak in reading, picking up one terrible, poorly written book after another. The only good book I've read over the past month was a terrifically depressing one, "The Good Soldiers" by David Finkel, telling the story of a particular battalion sent to Iraq. This incredibly engrossing and dark account led to a lot of contemplation about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the price paid by individual service members for our national policy aims, and the bizarre split between what is said in Washington, D.C. about the course of a war and what is said by the people who are waging it. It wasn't a pick-me-up, but I was glad I read it, and I pushed the Sober Husband into reading it as well.
The Sober Husband has been in a funk of his own of late, and Iris is perpetually looking on the dark side. Only Lola remains perky, laughing maniacally. Even so, she has become convinced that there is a yeti living on our block, a yeti which peers in the laundry room windows of an evening. I've taken her out to the yard and shone a light around, demonstrating that clearly no yeti lurks out there, but Lola remains convinced that the yeti is nimble and able to evade the beams of the flashlight.
Adding to our melancholic winter mood, we have a pathetic, undersocialized tortoiseshell cat living here. Iris, Lola and I are supposed to be working our magic on her, turning her into a loving, snuggly lapcat as we've done so many times before, but this cat is intractable. She has been here at least three weeks and still is very difficult to catch. I can't imagine anyone ever adopting this cat, which is a depressing thing to think about. She's sweet and, no matter how terrified, will not scratch, but no one wants a cat who lives under your bed and attempts to live without interacting with you whatsoever.
This cat is such a nonentity that even our own cats have not reacted to her presence. Normally our three resident cats, all former foster kittens themselves, hiss at any foster cat for a few days and then accept the visitor into their tribe, but this cat seems to be below them somehow, not important enough to be noticed. She was abandoned as a kitten in the projects, and I don't know what is going to become of her. For now, she's hiding under my bed, lurking about and avoiding the overtures of the depressed people who live here, and we're trying to have some hope for her.
Posted by the Drunken Housewife at 10:11 PM 7 comments:
the latest craze
The latest craze around here is a game eleven year-old Iris uber Alles thought up. We have to be each other and stay in character (although Iris, the director of the game, allows herself to break out of character to rage at Lola for being out of character).
Iris's imitation of Lola is pretty much limited to braying "Hyunnh hyunnh hyunnh" nonstop, imitating her little sister's laugh. "Iris, you gotta swear if you're being Lola," I said (Lola has taken up recreational swearing in a big way lately, although I have urged her strongly to limit this to the home). Iris agreed. "Fuck the fuck on! Fuck the fuck on!" she shouted. "Lola says that in a sweet little happy voice," I criticized.
Lola had trouble getting into character at first, and I gave her too some helpful suggestions. "Remember to shout 'LUCY!!!' a lot. Also, you could say, 'I hate you!'"
They made me play the Sober Husband, and I turned on NPR. A voice droned about biochemicals, and I said firmly, "Be quiet. This is interesting. I'm trying to listen." I went easy on him, though, feeling that it would encourage disrespect on the part of the children if I ridiculed their father too much.
Evidently he felt no such compunctions. I was out much of the evening at my life drawing class, and later he said, "We played a new game all evening. I had to pretend to be you, and they were each other."
"Oh? What did you do?" I looked at him. He was shamefaced and unable to admit the hideous truth, although he did mumble something about saying "I need to play Warcraft now" in the game.
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Cate Underwood
Cate Underwood is a very busy woman being a model, photographer and DJ. She started out as a photographer and has even taken images of herself for editorials and advertising. She is a Kiev native who was marketed for wearing black. She has been called a 'well-dressed vagabond' with full lips and stunning cheekbones. Only 25, she has certainly been a much sought after model with photography and modeling shots in Vogue Ukraine. She was also profiled by Vogue Italia.
Most of her time in more recent years has been spent in New York City where she has made a name for herself on the runway, with her photography art, and DJ work. DJing is more of a hobby for her, but still a passion. She first started as a DJ in Ukraine, but also played for Vogue's Fashion Night out in Milan.
Cate has shot for several different brands, mostly in Ukraine including her cover shot for L'Officiel Ukraine. She also won an award for Fashion Forward through Harper Bazaar. According to an interview her first cover was at 19 and she was 21 when she appeared on the cover of L'Officiel for her second time.
As part of her photography work, Cate Underwood covered New York Fashion Week for V. She did a photo diary where she appeared on the cover. She said it was more fun than a job since it was showing Fashion Week through her eyes.
In a 2013 interview she stated she has no idea where she will be in five years, but she knows she will not stop with her career in the modeling industry whether it is taking more photos or being on runways. She enjoys the work and knows she does not want to stop.
Nationality: Ukrainian
Cate Underwood has signed with several agencies, but her mother agency is Star System in Paris. Other agencies include New York Model Management, IMG (Paris, Milano, and London), Uno Models Barcelona, Iconic Management Hamburg, and Joy Model Management Sao Paulo.
Work History by Year
Cate Underwood is typically in advertisements and editorials; however, she does other modeling work too.
Cate Underwood appeared in Vagabond fall/winter 2014 for various campaigns, with photographs by Joan Braun. She was also in Mauro Grifoni fall/winter 2014 and H&M Love Music Campaign spring 2014 with photographs by Sharif Hamza.
In 2013 she was in the All Saints spring advertisement with photographs by Roger Rich. A year before she appeared in Suister.com fall/winter 12 campaign.
Her editorial work has included photos by Francesco Carrozzini in It's All About Women, Vogue Italia's editorial. Also in 2014 she was in Ukrainian Designers Harper's Bazaar editorial, Dear Denim Elle Italia, and Travel Notes Elle Italia.
Her 2013 editorials include Cate in OysterMag.com, Mutual Support for Noi.se by JD Forte, and School I.D. Veoir magazine.
In 2012 she was photographed for Not Just a Label Shot by Annabelle Byrne for Volt Magazine and Dressed to Kill for V Magazine.
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San Francisco 49ers great Dwight Clark dies at age 61!
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SANTA CLARA, Kalifornia (PNN) - June 4, 2018 - San Francisco 49ers legend Dwight Clark passed away Monday at the age of 61, his family confirmed. An All-Pro and two-time Super Bowl champion, Clark was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig's disease, in March of 2017.
"The San Francisco 49ers family has suffered a tremendous loss today with the passing of Dwight Clark," the team announced in a statement. "We extend our condolences and prayers to Dwight's wife, Kelly, his family, friends and fans, as we join together to mourn the death of one the most beloved figures in 49ers history.”
The team statement continued, "For almost four decades, he served as a charismatic ambassador for our team and the Bay Area. Dwight's personality and his sense of humor endeared him to everyone he came into contact with, even during his most trying times. The strength, perseverance and grace with which he battled ALS will long serve as an inspiration to so many. Dwight will always carry a special place in our hearts and his legacy will live on as we continue to battle this terrible disease."
Clark was on the receiving end of the iconic game-winning touchdown - memorialized as "The Catch" - in the 1981 NFL Championship Game. That era-defining play shifted the balance of power in the NFC, ending the hegemony of the 1970s Dallas Cowboys and launching the 49ers dynasty of the 1980s.
The Niners would go on to win Super Bowl XVI, the first professional sports championship the city of San Francisco had ever experienced.
Clark spent the entirety of his nine-year career with the 49ers, ranking third and fourth in franchise history in receiving yards (6,750) and receptions (506), respectively. A big, physical target at 6-foot-4, Clark emerged as Hall of Famer Joe Montana's go-to receiver, as Bill Walsh's West Coast offense reigned supreme throughout the 1980s.
If not for a serendipitous phone call intended for former Clemson quarterback Steve Fuller, Clark's career might have been a dream. When Walsh called to arrange a workout for Fuller, Clark happened to answer the phone. Walsh invited the receiver to come along and catch passes for his roommate. Weeks later, the 49ers drafted Clark in the 10th of 12 rounds, pairing him with their third-round quarterback from Notre Dame. The rest is history, as Montana-to-Clark became one of the greatest connections in NFL lore.
Overseeing the entire operation was Hall of Fame owner Eddie DeBartolo Jr., who released his own statement on Clark's passing.
"My heart is broken. Today, I lost my little brother and one of my best friends. I cannot put into words how special Dwight was to me and to everyone his life touched. He was an amazing husband, father, grandfather, brother, and a great friend and teammate. He showed tremendous courage and dignity in his battle with ALS and we hope there will soon be a cure for this horrendous disease.”
DeBartolo continued, "I will always remember Dwight the way he was - larger than life, handsome, charismatic, and the one who could pull off wearing a fur coat at our Super Bowl parade. He was responsible for one of the most iconic plays in NFL history that began our run of Super Bowl championships, but to me, he will always be an extension of my family. I love him and will miss him terribly. Our hearts and prayers are with his wife Kelly, his children, and the entire Clark family."
Following his sterling career on the field, Clark worked his way through San Francisco's front office, ultimately rising to general manager. He went on to become Director of Football Operations for the reconstituted Cleveland Browns from 1999-2002.
In a moving tribute to Clark’s legacy, NFL Network's Michael Silver wrote last September that the former player and executive "carried an aura of awesomeness into his post-football existence: Handsome, charming, and perpetually cheerful, the man lit up a room without acting as though he owned it."
"More importantly," Silver recalled, "Clark taught me that a man could live out a remarkable dream, emerge as a beloved icon for one of Amerika's most storied cities, receive the spoils that come with such a regal role, and never, ever act as though he were owed a morsel of it."
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In 1971 Phillip Werren released a 4 Lp box through Simon Fraser University of his early Electronic Work which was recorded at S.F.U., McGill University & Radio Warzawa, Poland. Only 100 copies where ever made. A few years ago I discovered this record and was completly blown away. The Lp has heavy elements of tape collage, Modular Synthisis, voice, and experimental thought. Some of the pieces where conceived by psychedelic and occult influences. Much of the record was done with a Buchla 100 Series,the first of their modular synthesizers. I tracked down Phil in Toronto where's he's been living a number of years. Phil taught music composition and theory at York University in Toronto from 1977 to 1997,where he headed York's Electronic Music Studio.
The Album was created for the most part at the height of the late 60's at Simon Fraser University. "1968 was a year of great upheaval: at SFU, Canada's Berkeley, 114 people were arrested for their part in the protest over the firing of the entire faculty of the Political Science and Anthropology department. Marcuse, Baba Ram Dass and others came to speak to us at peril to themselves; acid and mescaline abounded and apocalypse seemed to fairly shout out at us in the rarified atmosphere of Burnaby Mountain. The neo-fascist architecture of the university seemed to beg for anarchy and chaos and linear thought itself seemed doomed to extinction."
"The electronic music studio at SFU was at that time probably the most sophisticated studio in Canada. After working in studios at Columbia and Radio Warsaw, both of which were small and somewhat limiting, I found it impossible to continue composing with the Princetonian precision in which I had been schooled. The SFU studio contained the most recent synthesizer designed by Don Buchla. I only vaguely understood what it did and realized that I would have to put aside my rigid preconceptions of how one sound should follow another. The sequencer, a device which can generate a sequence of sound events in a more-or-less random pattern and at times seemed to have a life of its own, became for me a sort-of window through which I could see/hear a universe of sound I had never imagined possible. It was necessary for me to Òstep backÓ from these sequences of sound-events, to control them in some other way: through the mix of one sequence with another in time and space."
This album is a nugget of Canadian Psychedelic Avant-Garde history, up there with the early works of Bill Bissett, The Nihilist Spasm Band, and Intersystems. Also in line with early America works by Robert Ashley, Tod Dockstader, and Gordon Mumma.
Phil and his Engineer friend Tony Crea have transfered the original tapes to digital and cleaned it all up for this CD reissue. Original artwork on the cover was created by local Vancouver Artist JAS Felter.
Composed By, Synthesizer [Buchla System 100, Moog Modular System], Electronics [Vari-speed, Krohnhite Band-pass And Notch Filters, Ampex Two And Four Channel Tape Machines]
Disc One
1-1 - Phases I - 44:11
1-2 - Phases II - 31:24
Disc Two
2-1 - Phases III - 23:18
2-2 - To Phyllis - 14:05
2-3 - Whale Piece - 5:38
2-4 - Polish Wedding Music - 14:55
2-5 - Vortex - 14:31
Phases I (1969)
Part of the cyclical work based on the poetic images of W.B. Yeats, created in collaboration with Wilfrid Mennell and Philippa Polson. Premiered at Simon Fraser University Theatre, April 1969.
Phases II (1969)
Part II of Yeats cycle, created in collaboration with Wilfrid Mennell and Philippa Polson. Premiered at Simon Fraser University Theatre, June 1969.
Phases III (1970)
Part III of Yeats cycle. Premiered at Simon Fraser University Theatre, April 1971.
To Phyllis (1971)
Commissioned by Phyllis Lamhut for a dance premiered by her company in New York, March 1971.
Whale Piece (1970-71)
Score for Streams, choreographed by Edith Feinstein and performed by the SFU Dance Workshop, January 1971.
Polish Wedding Music (1967)
Composed at Radio Warsawa, Poland, 1966-67. Premiered at the Vancouver Art Gallery, September 1968.
Excerpts from this composition were used as the sound track for the Al Razutis film, Aaeon. Premiered at Simon Fraser University Theatre, April 1971.
Assistance from the President's Research Grants Committee of Simon Fraser University (Vancouver BC) in making the original recording possible is gratefully acknowledged.
All compositions were created in the Simon Fraser University Electronic Music Studio, Vancouver BC, except Polish Wedding Music, composed at Radio Warzawa in Poland. Polish Wedding Music and Vortex were originally two-channel compositions. All other music has been dubbed from the original four channel tapes to two channels for this recording. All recordings should be played at full volume.
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Ronald Murphy July 16, 2012 at 1:26 pm
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Don’t let the title of this movie fool you. After reading about it on “hellbound, the movie website”, with all the videos, blogs, and resources; I learned that it is more of a dialouge between theologians, ministers, and lay people about their different interpretations of just what the Bible doctrine of Hell is. Several leading ministers and theologians are finding what the “Literal Translation of… the Bible” and the primative Catholic (Latin=Universal) church’s teaching on the subject is: That Hell is not eternal but is finite and produces a purging of sinfulness, evils, and wickedness away, and turning souls back to their Creator–who will ultimately reconcile His fallen creation, rather than punishing them hopelessly forever!
However, the directors and producers also have included interviews with those who hold to the “traditional” limited atonement and eternal Hell belief, which seemed to begin in the 5th Century A.D. with Augustine, the leading Latin theologian, and Justinian the Roman Emperor. I think that this movie will be very enlightening, and I hope bring a good expose of what happened in church history to change what the primative and Apostolic Church believed about Hell.
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1 Interpretation
1.1 In this Appendix the following words and expressions shall have the following meanings:
Convention Limit
In respect of a ship, the limit of liability of the shipowner of that ship for claims (other than claims for loss of life or personal injury) at the Overspill Claim Date, calculated in accordance with Article 6, paragraph 1(b) of the International Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims 1976 (the Convention) and converted from Special Drawing Rights into United States Dollars at the rate of exchange conclusively certified by the Association as being the rate prevailing on the Overspill Claim Date, provided that:
a when a ship is entered for a proportion (the “relevant proportion”) of its tonnage only, the Convention Limit shall be the relevant proportion of the limit of liability calculated and converted as aforesaid, and
b each ship shall be deemed to be a seagoing ship to which the Convention applies, notwithstanding any provision in the Convention to the contrary.
Group Reinsurance Limit
The amount of the smallest claim (other than any claim arising in respect of oil pollution) incurred by the Association or any other party to the Pooling Agreement which would exhaust the largest limit for any type of claim (other than any claim arising in respect of oil pollution) from time to time imposed in the Group Excess Loss Policies.
Overspill Call
A call levied by the Association pursuant to paragraph 5 for the purpose of providing funds to pay part of a Overspill Claim.
Overspill Claim
That part (if any) of a claim (other than a claim arising in respect of oil pollution) incurred by the Association or by any other party to the Pooling Agreement under the terms of entry of a ship which exceeds or may exceed the Group Reinsurance Limit.
Overspill Claim Date
In relation to any Overspill Call, the time and date on which there occurred the incident or occurrence giving rise to the Overspill Claim in respect of which the Overspill Call is made, or if the Policy Year in which such incident or occurrence has been closed in accordance with the provisions of paragraphs 6.1 and 6.2, noon GMT on 20th August of the Policy Year in respect of which the Association makes a declaration under paragraph 6.3.
1.2 All claims incurred by the Association or any other party to the Pooling Agreement under the entry of any one ship arising directly from any one incident or occurrence including any claim in respect of liability for the removal or non-removal of any wreck shall be treated for the purposes of this Appendix VI as if they were one claim.
1.3 Any reference to a claim incurred by the Association or by any other party to the Pooling Agreement shall be deemed to include the costs and expenses associated therewith.
2 Recoverability of Overspill Claims
2.1 Without prejudice to any other applicable limit, any Overspill Claim incurred by the Association shall not be recoverable from the Association in excess of the aggregate of
a that part of the Overspill Claim which is eligible for pooling under the Pooling Agreement but which, under the terms of the Pooling Agreement, is to be borne by the Association, and
b the maximum amount that the Association is able to recover from the other parties to the Pooling Agreement as their contributions to the Overspill Claim under the terms of the Pooling Agreement.
2.2 The aggregate amount referred to in paragraph 2.1 shall be reduced to the extent that the Association can evidence
a that costs have been properly incurred by it in collecting or seeking to collect
i Overspill Call levied to provide funds to pay that part of the Overspill Claim referred to in paragraph 2.1(a) or,
ii the amount referred to in paragraph 2.1(b) or
b that it is unable to collect an amount equal to that part of the Overspill Call referred to in paragraph 2.1 sub-paragraph (a) which it had intended to pay out of the levy of Overspill Calls because any Overspill Calls so levied, or parts thereof, are not economically recoverable, provided that if due to change in circumstances such amounts subsequently become economically recoverable, the aggregate amount referred to in paragraph 2.1 shall be reinstated to that extent.
2.3 In evidencing the matters referred to in paragraph 2.2 sub-paragraph (b) the Association shall be required to show that
a it has levied Overspill Calls on all of its Members in respect of the Overspill Claim referred to in paragraph 2.1. on all Members entered in the Association on the Overspill Claim Date in accordance with and in the maximum amount permitted under paragraph 5, and
b it has levied those Overspill Calls in a timely manner, has not released or otherwise waived a Member’s obligation to pay those Calls and has taken all reasonable steps to recover those Calls.
3 Payment of Overspill Claims
3.1 The funds required to pay any Overspill Claim incurred by the Association shall be provided
a from such sums as the Association is able to recover from the other parties to the Pooling Agreement as their contribution to the Overspill Claim, and
b from such sums as the Association is able to recover from any special insurance which may in the discretion of the Association have been effected to protect the Association against the risk of payments of the Overspill Claims, and
c from such proportion as the Association in its discretion determines of any sums standing to the credit of the reserves as the Association may in its discretion have established, and
d by levying one or more Overspill Calls in accordance with paragraph 5, irrespective of whether the Association has sought to recover or has recovered all or any of the sums referred to in paragraph 3.1 sub-paragraph (b), but provided the Association shall first have made a determination in accordance with paragraph 3.1 sub-paragraph (c), and
e from any interest accruing to the Association on any funds provided as aforesaid.
3.2 The funds required to pay such proportion of any Overspill Claim incurred by any other party to the Pooling Agreement which the Association is liable to contribute under the terms of the Pooling Agreement shall be provided in the manner specified in paragraph 3.1 sub-paragraphs (b) – (e).
3.3 To the extent that the Association intends to provide funds required to pay any Overspill Claim incurred by it in the manner specified in paragraph 3.1 sub-paragraph (d), the Association shall only be required to pay such Overspill Claim as and when such funds are received by it, provided that it can show from time to time, in seeking to collect such funds, it has taken the steps referred to in paragraph 2.3 sub-paragraphs (a) and (b).
4 Overspill Claims – expert determinations
4.1 Any of the issues referred to in paragraph 4.2 on which the Association and a Member cannot agree shall be referred to a panel (the Panel) constituted in accordance with the arrangements established in the Pooling Agreement, which, acting as a body of experts and not as an arbitration tribunal, shall determine the issue.
4.2 This paragraph 4 shall apply to any issue of whether, for the purpose of applying any of the provisions in paragraphs 2.2, 2.3 and 3.3 in relation to any Overspill Claim (the “relevant Overspill Claim”),
a costs have been properly incurred in collecting or seeking to collect Overspill Claims,
b any Overspill Call or part thereof is economically recoverable, or
c in seeking to collect the funds referred to in paragraph 3.3, the Association has taken the steps referred to in that paragraph 3.3.
4.3 If the Panel has not been constituted at a time when the Member wishes to refer an issue to it, the Association shall, on request by the Member, give a direction for the constitution of the Panel as required under the Pooling Agreement.
4.4 The Association may (and, on the direction of the Member, shall) give such direction as is required under the Pooling Agreement for the formal instruction of the Panel to investigate any issue and to give its determination as soon as reasonably practicable.
4.5 The Panel shall in its discretion decide what information, documents, evidence and submissions it requires in order to determine an issue and how to obtain these, and the Association and the Member shall co-operate fully with the Panel.
4.6 In determining any issue referred to it under this paragraph 4 the Panel shall endeavour to follow the same procedure as it follows in determining issues arising in respect of the relevant Overspill Claim which are referred to it under the Pooling Agreement.
4.7 In determining an issue the members of the Panel
a shall rely on their own knowledge and expertise, and
b may rely on any information, documents, evidence or submission provided to it by the Association or the Member as the Panel sees fit.
4.8 If the three members of the Panel cannot agree on any matter, the view of the majority shall prevail.
4.9 The Panel shall not be required to give reasons for any determination.
4.10 The Panel’s determination shall be final and binding upon the Association and the Member (subject only to paragraph 4.11) and there shall be no right of appeal from such determination.
4.11 If the Panel makes a determination on an issue referred to in paragraph 4.2 sub-paragraphs (b) or (c) the Association or the Member may refer the issue back to the Panel, notwithstanding paragraph 4.10, if it considers that the position has materially changed since the Panel made its determination.
4.12 The costs of the Panel shall be paid by the Association.
4.13 Costs, indemnities and other sums payable to the Panel by the Association in relation to any Overspill Claim, whether the reference to the Panel has been made under this paragraph 4 or under the Pooling Agreement, shall be deemed to be costs properly incurred by the Association in respect of that Overspill Claim for the purposes specified in paragraph 2.2 sub-paragraph (a).
5 Levying of Overspill Calls
5.1 If
a the Association shall at any time determine that funds are or may in future be required to pay part of an Overspill Claim (whether incurred by the Association or by any other party to the Pooling Agreement); and
b the Association shall have made a declaration under paragraphs 6.1 or 6.3 that a Policy Year shall remain open for the purpose of levying an Overspill Call or Calls in respect of that Overspill Claim,
the Association in its discretion, at any time or times after such declaration has been made, may levy one or more Overspill Calls in respect of that Overspill Claim in accordance with paragraph 5.2.
5.2 The Association shall levy any such Overspill Call
a on all Members entered in the Association on the Overspill Claim Date in respect of ships entered by them at that time, notwithstanding the fact that, if the Overspill Claim Date shall be in a Policy Year in respect of which the Association has made a declaration under paragraph 6.3, any such ship may not have been entered in the Association at the time the relevant incident or occurrence occurred, and
b at such percentage of the Convention Limit of each such ship as the Association in its discretion shall decide.
5.3 An Overspill Call shall not be levied in respect of any ship entered on the Overspill Claim Date with an overall limit of cover equal to or less than the Group Reinsurance Limit.
5.4 The Association shall not levy on any Member in respect of the entry of any ship an Overspill Call or Calls in respect of any one Overspill Claim exceeding in the aggregate two and a half per cent (2.5%) of the Convention Limit of that ship.
5.5 If at any time after the levying of an Overspill Call upon the Members entered in the Association in any Policy Year, it shall appear to the Association that the whole of such Overspill Call is unlikely to be required to meet the Overspill Claim in respect of which such Overspill Call was levied, the Association may decide to dispose of any excess which in the opinion of the Association is not so required in one or both of the following ways:
a by transferring the excess or any part thereof to the reserve in accordance with Rule 19 in the Rules for Ships; or
b by returning the excess or any part thereof to those Members who have paid that Overspill Call or Calls in proportion to the payments made by them.
6 Closing of Policy Years for Overspill Calls
6.1 If at any time prior to the expiry of a period of thirty-six months from the commencement of a Policy Year (the “relevant Policy Year”), any of the parties to the Pooling Agreement sends a notice (an “Overspill Notice”) in accordance with the Pooling Agreement that an incident or occurrence has occurred in the relevant Policy Year which has given or at any time may give rise to an Overspill Claim, the Association shall as soon as practicable declare that the relevant Policy Year shall remain open for the purpose of levying an Overspill Call or Calls in respect of that claim and the relevant Policy Year shall not be closed for the purpose of making an Overspill Call or Calls in respect of that claim until such date as the Association shall determine.
6.2 If at the expiry of the period of thirty-six months provided for in paragraph 6.1, no Overspill Notice as therein provided for has been sent, the relevant Policy Year shall be closed automatically for the purpose of levying Overspill Calls only, whether or not closed for any other purposes, such closure to have effect from the date falling thirty-six months after the commencement of the relevant Policy Year.
6.3 If at any time after a Policy Year has been closed in accordance with the provisions of paragraphs 6.1 and 6.2, it appears to the Association that an incident or occurrence which occurred during such closed Policy Year may then or at any time in the future give rise to an Overspill Claim, the Association shall as soon as practicable declare that the earliest subsequent open Policy Year (not being a Policy Year in respect of which the Association has already made a declaration in accordance with paragraphs 6.1 or 6.3) shall remain open for the purpose of levying an Overspill Call or Calls in respect of that claim, and such open Policy Year shall not be closed for the purpose of making an Overspill Call or Calls in respect of that claim until such date as the Association shall determine.
6.4 A Policy Year shall not be closed for the purpose of levying Overspill Calls save in accordance with this paragraph 6.
7 Security for Overspill Calls on termination or cessor
a the Association makes a declaration in accordance with paragraphs 6.1 or 6.3 that a Policy Year shall remain open for the purpose of levying an Overspill Call or Calls, and
b a Member who is liable to pay any such Overspill Call or Calls as may be levied by the Association in accordance with paragraph 5 ceases or has ceased to be insured by the Association for any reason, or the Association determines that the insurance of any such Member cease,
the Association may require such Member to provide to the Association by such date as the Association may determine (the “due date”) a guarantee or other security in respect of the Member’s estimated future liability for such Overspill Call or Calls, such guarantee or other security to be in such form and amount (the “guarantee amount”) and upon such terms as the Association in its discretion may deem to be appropriate in the circumstances.
7.2 Unless and until such guarantee or other security as is required by the Association has been provided by the Member, the Member shall not be entitled to recovery from the Association of any claims whatsoever and whensoever arising in respect of any and all ships entered in the Association for any Policy Year by him or on his behalf.
7.3 If such guarantee or other security is not provided by the Member to the Association by the due date, a sum equal to the guarantee amount shall be due and payable by the Member to the Association on the due date, and shall be retained by the Association as a security deposit on such terms as the Association in its discretion may deem to be appropriate in the circumstances.
7.4 The provision of a guarantee or other security as required by the Association (including a payment in accordance with paragraph 7.3) shall in no way restrict or limit the Member’s liability to pay such Overspill Call or Calls as may be levied by the Association in accordance with paragraph 5.
See also the Guidance to Rule 18.
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George Washington University Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute
2016-17 Calendar of Events
CFP Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects (deadline nearing!)
Deadline approaching!
The GW Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute (MEMSI) is sponsoring a conference on "Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects in the Early Modern and Medieval Periods." The conference will be held on Friday March 11 and Saturday March 12. The keynote lecture will be given by Jane Bennett. The five double plenary sessions include:
Karl Steel and Sharon Kinoshita
Kellie Robertson and Valerie Allen
Carla Nappi and Peggy McCracken
Eileen Joy and Julian Yates
Julia Reinhard Lupton
We hope that you will join us ... and that you will consider proposing a presentation. The deadline to submit a paper abstract or to propose a panel or round table is Friday October 15. You may email your submission to gwmemsi@gmail.com.
To maintain an intimate feel and to ensure that the conference conversations are coherent and sustained, participation in the event is limited to eighty. We hope to see you in Washington!
Posted by Jeffrey Cohen at Thursday, September 30, 2010 No comments: Links to this post
Summer Research Grants: The Results Are In
We announced here that we were able, through the generosity of a donor, to support modestly five of our dissertation writing graduate students over the summer (see also here). The experiment paid off well. Here's what they accomplished, in their own words.
This summer, with the help of funding from MEMSI, I got a good start on my research for my chapter on Mandeville and botanical vertu. I began by reading a wide variety of herbals (from Greek, Roman,
Arabic, and medieval sources), in order to get a grasp of the form, conventions, and history of the herbal tradition. Yet, however hard I tried to pin down the conventions of the herbal, I found that they aren’t so self-contained. Treatises on the “virtues” and uses of plants can be found alongside treatises on other subjects of natural history: rocks and precious stones (lapidaries), animals, weather, and astrology (for example, the Vienna Dioscurides, a 6th Century manuscript celebrated for its illustrations of the plants described in Dioscurides’ De materia medica, also contains a substantial treatise on birds). I therefore had to adjust my understanding of herbals -- as well as the moments of
botanical vertu in Mandeville’s Travels -- as a component in a larger system, or “ecology,” of other
natural phenomena. This led me to ask more interesting questions about the Travels and how it participates in not only the tradition of herbals specifically but natural history writing in general. From this research, a primary question emerged to help guide my chapter on Mandeville: What happens when we read Mandeville as a natural philosopher? How might this worldview “answer” to more constraining worldviews found in the Travels, such as Christianity? I also did some research on medieval European gardens and orchards and their place in culture. This research, along with a re-reading of “Sir Orfeo,” has led me to begin with my chapter on the grafted tree in “Sir Orfeo,” instead of beginning with a chapter on Mandeville’s Travels. This summer research helped me sort through my ideas and dissertation plans in what is typically an off-period (because students aren’t typically funded for summer). It was a great kick-start to my dissertation and I’m now in the process of drafting my first chapter.
Jessica Frazier
The summer funding granted to the MEMSI PhD students afforded me the opportunity to conduct
sustained archival research into the correspondence and/or dissonance between early modern
fashion and “English” identity—an inquiry central not only to my ongoing dissertation project
but also to upcoming conference presentations. I benefited from the examination of three distinct
archives: the literary texts housed at the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC); the Tudor
and Stuart portrait exhibitions at the National Portrait Gallery (London, England); and the actual
sartorial collections at the Fashion Museum (Bath, England). All of these archives respectively
and distinctly furthered and complicated my approach to the engagement between fashion thing
and fashionable subject. Through my reading of Richard Hakluyt’s The principal navigations, voyages,
traffiques and discoveries of the English nation, made by sea or over-land, to the remote and farthest distant quartersof the earth (1598-1600) at the Folger Library, I began to develop a theorization of “trauell” that will provide the framework for much of my dissertation. Days spent at the National Portrait Gallery and the Fashion Museum not only materialized the fashion accessories that I hope to follow in my dissertation (diamonds, feathers, and lovelocks) but also brought me into contact with the past in a way that stirred questions about historicity itself. Indeed, I will present a paper at the 1st Biennial Meeting of the BABEL Working Group later this fall that examines the relationship between history and objective agency within the East/West paradigm of Philip Massinger’s The Renegado. My experiences of looking and reading over the past few months have undoubtedly shaped my thinking and writing about fashion in unexpected and provocative ways. And it has underscored for me the
compelling possibilities of the kinds of interdisciplinary conversations encouraged by MEMSI—
conversations between texts, between archives, and between colleagues across specialties.
Nedda Mehdizadeh
The research grant awarded by GWMEMSI this summer gave me the opportunity to progress significantly on my dissertation project. At the beginning of the summer, I had a personal goal to research the local archives in Washington, DC and to compose a working draft of the first chapter of my project by summer’s end, leaving the month of September to revise. It is precisely because of the support given by GWMEMSI that I was able to accomplish this goal. I spent each day at the Folger Shakespeare Library, turning its wonderful work environment into my personal office and its congenial atmosphere into a space in which I could share my developing ideas with scholars from around the world. I was also able to think ahead to the Babel Working Group conference this November and the Shakespeare Association of America conference April 2011, for which the research I conducted at the Folger Shakespeare Library will be significant. I am now making the final changes to my first chapter, and looking forward to beginning my second dissertation chapter this October.
The generous fellowship allowed me to achieve a great deal this summer – even more, perhaps, than I set out to do! Because of the funding, I was able to travel into the city, and pay parking and metro fares in order to study at the Folger Shakespeare Library, where I began to research instances where western sound travels to the east. Most exciting was my reading of a document that is not easily accessible: the travel narrative of Thomas Dallam, an organ maker in Queen Elizabeth’s service who ventured to Istanbul to craft a huge clockwork organ as a gift from Elizabeth to Mehmed III. His narrative is singular because it presents a westerner’s encounter with the east and Dallam is allowed access to certain areas of close proximity to the “Grand Signoir” because his musical abilities so charmed Mehmed. I was also able to spend time this summer performing research for my data dumps (a four week process, where I write questions I’m interested in researching and thinking through as my dissertation proceeds, then answer these questions) and taking my field exams, on which I am happy to report that I earned a “high pass.” Through my data dumps, I was able to carefully consider both terms in my title “Sounding Otherness”, and began to think more broadly about what these “othernesses” might include. In addition to the otherness of Indian sound (indicating both “Indians” in the east, as well as those in the west), I began to encounter sounds of gender/sexuality, witchcraft, death, and divinity, which, like Indian sounds, are not necessarily locatable to certain places or bodies. While I have not yet consolidated these various sounds of otherness into chapter headings, I was excited to come across these sounds of otherness, in great part because of the fellowship which allowed me to focus on my research. This summer was really the first chance I have had to focus solely on my dissertation project, which I found more exciting and intriguing as the summer (and my reading) progressed. Again, I am so grateful for this fellowship which allowed me the ability to finally pursue my dissertation research and begin an academic journey through early modern sounds of otherness.
Lowell Duckert
I spent most of my early summer drafting the first chapter of my dissertation "Water Ralegh's Hydrography of Desire" at the Folger Shakespeare Library. After finishing my draft and sending it to my committee for revision, I began researching my second chapter on early modern travel narratives related to the Northwest Passage: this involved reading historical documents, contemporary theoretical works on the post-human and the philosophy of science, and also recent studies of glaciers and icy bodies. I'm interested in early modern perspectives on living ice, icescapes, and glaciers for what they may teach us about the coconstituitiveness of humans and nonhumans in the present, a process I'm (tentatively) calling ecocompositionality: like glaciers, how do we de/recompose with the physical world, create shared narratives, and process towards new futures? I wrote nearly half of the chapter during the rest of the summer. In addition, I co-organized a panel with Alf Siewers called "Nature Post-Catastophe" for the upcoming BABEL Working Group conference in Austin, TX this November. With Professor Siewer's assistance, I wrote our panel proposal and invited four panelists from across the country to take part. Without the generous amount of summer money, I would not have been able to achieve half as much!
Posted by Jeffrey Cohen at Wednesday, September 15, 2010 No comments: Links to this post
Rereading the Tempest, AKA Temfest
The GW Africana Studies Program, Latino Studies Program, and Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute are proud to sponsor in partnership two events that focus upon Shakespeare's The Tempest and its legacies. You can read some background here.
TemFest I
Friday October 1 at 2PM Rome Hall (801 22nd St NW) room 771
A panel of GW faculty and graduate students speaking about the play in its context, as a site for contemporary research, as a provocation to new literature, criticism, theory. This panel is especially for faculty and graduate students. Moderated by Jennifer James, and featuring:
Jonathan Gil Harris, "The Tempest and the Temporalities of Globalization"
Christopher Sten, "Leo Marx's "Shakespeare's American Fable'"
Jennifer Wood, "DisOrienting Soundscapes in The Tempest"
Robert McRuer, "Derek Jarman and Queer Tempests"
Antonio López, "Blackface Calibán and the Making of Americanists"
Holly Dugan, "Tempests: Rape in the Brave New World"
TemFest II
Friday December 3 at 3 PM 1957 E Street Room B12
A panel of scholars speaking about the afterlife of the play, sharing their own research and holding a lively public conversation. For a general audience; all are welcome. Featuring:
Anston Bosman, "Accident and Amazement in recent Tempests"
Anston Bosman is Associate Professor and Director of Studies in the English Department at Amherst College. His publications this year include a review essay in Shakespeare Quarterly on the British-South African production of The Tempest and the chapter on "Shakespeare and Globalization" in The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare. He is completing a book on transnational theater in the early modern Germanic world and a collaborative project on "Intertheatricality" with Gina Bloom (UC Davis) and Will West (Northwestern).
Steve Mentz, "The Void in The Tempest"
Steve Mentz is Associate Professor of English at St. John's University in New York City. His recent work on maritime literary culture includes the book At the Bottom of Shakespeare's Ocean (Continuum, 2009) and a gallery exhibition at the Folger Shakespeare Library, "Lost at Sea: The Ocean in the English Imagination, 1550 - 1750." He has also written a study of Elizabethan prose fiction, Romance for Sale in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2006) and co-edited a collection about early modern criminality, Rogues and Early Modern English Culture (Michigan, 2004). Works in progress include a study of shipwreck narratives and a co-edited collection on Thomas Nashe.
J Michael Dash, "Ariel's Isle, Caribbean Rewritings of The Tempest"
J. Michael Dash, Professor of French and Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University, is a leading scholar in the fields of Caribbean and Francophone literatures. Dash is the author of two of the most influential works of Caribbean cultural history, The Other America: Caribbean Literature in a New World Context (University Press of Virginia, 1998) and Literature and Ideology in Haiti: 1915-1961(MacMillan, 1981). He has also written many other notable works, including Haiti and the United States (MacMillan, 1997) and a study of the Martiniquan writer Edouard Glissant (Cambridge University Press, 1995). His most recent study, Culture and Customs of Haiti, appeared in 2001 (Greenwood Press).
Both events are free and welcome all who wish to attend. Please join us.
Posted by Jeffrey Cohen at Friday, September 10, 2010 No comments: Links to this post
Huw Griffiths @ GW 10/1
You are invited to our second fall seminar on Friday, October 1 at 9 AM. The seminar takes place in Rome Hall 771 located at 801 22nd St. NW. Breakfast will be served.
Huw Griffiths from the University of Sydney will discuss his precirculated paper "The Hands and Tongues of Sovereignty in Shakespeare's King John." The paper will be available at least a week ahead of time. Please contact Lowell Duckert [lduckert@gwu.edu] if you would like to attend.
Professor Griffiths's broad interest is sixteenth and seventeenth-century English literature and culture, with specific interests in constructions of the early modern nation; rhetoric, politics and the body; sovereignty; violence in Shakespeare’s history plays; Shakespeare and Wales; representations of the ruin. Other interests include eighteenth-century adaptations of Shakespeare, contemporary British poetry and contemporary gay fiction. He has a few books forthcoming -- Shakespearean Biopolitics and A Nation in Ruins: Space, Text and History in Early Modern England -- and has published several articles and book chapters. He is also the author of Hamlet: A Reader’s Guide to Essential Criticism (Palgrave 2005).
Join us on the 1st!
Posted by Anonymous at Thursday, September 09, 2010 No comments: Links to this post
Roundtable on Objects, Networks and Materiality @ Kalamazoo
scene from the Gundestrup cauldron
GW MEMSI is happy to announce the participants for its 2011 roundtable on "Objects, Networks and Materiality" at 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo:
Laurie Finke, "A Parliament of Things?"
Julie Orlemanski, "Things without Faces"
Valerie Allen, "Medieval Nets"
Liza Blake, "Passionate Matter"
Kellie Robertson, "Remediating Matter"
Lowell Duckert, "The Ice Age is Never Over"
We immodestly propose that this is the smartest, most radiant line-up of medievalists and early modernists ever assembled.
Click here for a complete list of 2015-16 events.
All GW MEMSI events are free and welcome all who would like to attend.
Jeffrey J Cohen, Director of GW MEMSI
Heather Bamford
Denver Brunsman
Leah Chang
Patrick Cook
Ingrid Creppell
Paul Duff
Holly Dugan
Jonathan Hsy
Alexa Alice Joubin
Phillip Jacks
Dina Khoury
Jaime Marroquin
Suzanne Miller
Mika Natif
Marcy Norton
Linda Levy Peck
Ayanna Thompson
Barbara von Barghahn
Lynn Westwater
Andrew Zimmerman
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GW MEMSI brings the study of early Europe within a global perspective to students (from undergraduate to doctoral), teachers and researchers, and an interested public. Every event we sponsor is free and open to all who wish to attend. Given the current economic landscape, we are always seeking philanthropic funding for our initiatives. If you can help, please contact the Director (jjcohen@gwu.edu) directly. You may also donate online, but please ensure that you designate your gift for the GW Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute.
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ARRANGEMENTS FOR ESTABLISHING MANAGEMENT ENGINE DEFAULT SETTINGS
The employment of a process of applying user-defined defaults to a management engine or analogous arrangement, wherein a system BIOS calls or recalls such defaults, as needed, from NVRAM responsive to the need for a reset of defaults.
Springfield, Randall S. (Chapel Hill, NC, US)
Locker, Howard (Cary, NC, US)
Challener, David C. (Raleigh, NC, US)
Pennisi, Joseph M. (Apex, NC, US)
Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd (Singapore, SG)
711/E12.008
G06F15/177; G06F12/00; G06F12/02
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PATEL, NITIN C
Lenovo (8001 Development drive Building 8, 2nd Floor Legal/Valeria Pozdeeva, Morrisville, NC, 27560, US)
1. A method comprising: ascertaining, during a system boot, a computer system default set in effect; comparing the computer system default set in effect to a predetermined default set; and reverting the computer system default set in effect to the predetermined default set responsive to ascertaining a computer system default set in effect different from the predetermined default set; said reverting comprising: reading the predetermined default set from NVRAM; and prompting a default reset, whereby the predetermined default set goes into effect.
2. The method according to claim 1, wherein said ascertaining, comparing and reverting are performed by a system BIOS.
3. The method according to claim 1, wherein said ascertaining comprises ascertaining an active management technology default set in effect and said comparing comprises comparing the active management technology default set in effect with a predetermined active management technology default set.
4. The method according to claim 1, wherein said reading comprises reading a predetermined default set that has been written into NVRAM by a BIOS-authorized process.
5. The method according to claim 4, wherein said reading of a predetermined default set that has been written into NVRAM by a BIOS-authorized process comprises reading an encrypted default set that has been written into NVRAM by a BIOS-authorized process.
6. The method according to claim 1, wherein said reading comprises reading a predetermined default set that has been obtained from an external medium and written into NVRAM.
7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the external medium comprises a USB key.
8. The method according to claim 1, wherein said prompting comprises prompting a provisioning code to place the predetermined default set in effect.
9. The method according to claim 1, wherein said NVRAM comprises flash memory.
10. An apparatus comprising: a main memory; a NVRAM; a manager in communication with said main memory and said NVRAM, said manager acting to: ascertain, during a system boot, a default set in effect; compare the default set in effect to a predetermined default set; and revert the default set in effect to the predetermined default set responsive to ascertaining a computer system default set in effect different from the predetermined default set; said manager further comprising a reader which reads the predetermined default set from said NVRAM; said manager further acting to prompt a default reset, whereby the predetermined default set goes into effect.
11. The apparatus according to claim 10, wherein said manager comprises a system BIOS.
12. The apparatus according to claim 10, further comprising: active management technology; the default set in effect and the predetermined default set being associated with said active management technology.
13. The apparatus according to claim 10, wherein: said manager comprises a system BIOS; and the predetermined default set comprises a default set written into said NVRAM by a BIOS-authorized process.
14. The apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the predetermined default set comprises an encrypted default set written into said NVRAM by said BIOS-authorized process.
15. The apparatus according to claim 10, wherein said predetermined default set originates from an external medium.
16. The apparatus according to claim 15, wherein the external medium comprises a USB key.
17. The apparatus according to claim 10, wherein said manager acts to prompt a provisioning code to place the predetermined default set in effect.
18. The method according to claim 10, wherein said NVRAM comprises flash memory.
19. A program storage device readable by machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine to perform a method comprising: ascertaining, during a system boot, a computer system default set in effect; comparing the computer system default set in effect to a predetermined default set; and reverting the computer system default set in effect to the predetermined default set responsive to ascertaining a computer system default set in effect different from the predetermined default set; said reverting comprising: reading the predetermined default set from NVRAM; and prompting a default reset, whereby the predetermined default set goes into effect.
The present invention relates generally to computer systems and to methods and arrangements for establishing customer/user defaults in computer systems.
Active Management Technology (AMT) is an emerging technology finding increasingly widespread use. A version produced by Intel is known as “Intel AMT”, or “iAMT”. Background information regarding iAMT may be found at www.intel.com/software.amt2. Generally, an AMT such as iAMT will contain a Management Engine (ME) which includes a service processor, dedicated firmware for the service processor, and logic in an Ethernet and/or 802.11 and/or WAN controller to allow the ME to communicate with other locations across the internet even when the system is off.
Typically, AMT defaults are pre-set at the factory, but users increasingly are requesting their own set of unique defaults. Clearly, this is cumbersome as higher manufacturing costs are necessary for customizing unique “planars” (or boards), and in turn this creates greater opportunity for defects. In other words, at best, present solutions involve physically altering one part or another on the board, which not only is costly but—given the added steps involved—provides greater challenges for quality control.
Accordingly, a compelling need has been recognized in connection with establishing unique customer defaults in a more cost-effective manner with greater assurances of quality.
Broadly contemplated herein, in accordance with at least one presently preferred embodiment of the present invention, is the employment of an external medium in applying user-defined defaults to a management engine or analogous arrangement, wherein a system BIOS calls or recalls such defaults, as needed, from NVRAM responsive to the need for a reset of defaults.
In summary, one aspect of the invention provides a method comprising: ascertaining, during a system boot, a computer system default set in effect; comparing the computer system default set in effect to a predetermined default set; and reverting the computer system default set in effect to the predetermined default set responsive to ascertaining a computer system default set in effect different from the predetermined default set; the reverting comprising: reading the predetermined default set from NVRAM; and prompting a default reset, whereby the predetermined default set goes into effect.
Another aspect of the invention provides an apparatus comprising: a main memory; a NVRAM; a manager in communication with the main memory and the NVRAM, the manager acting to: ascertain, during a system boot, a default set in effect; compare the default set in effect to a predetermined default set; and revert the default set in effect to the predetermined default set responsive to ascertaining a computer system default set in effect different from the predetermined default set; the manager further comprising a reader which reads the predetermined default set from the flash memory; the manager further acting to prompt a default reset, whereby the predetermined default set goes into effect.
Furthermore, an additional aspect of the invention provides a program storage device readable by machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine to perform a method comprising: ascertaining, during a system boot, a computer system default set in effect; comparing the computer system default set in effect to a predetermined default set; and reverting the computer system default set in effect to the predetermined default set responsive to ascertaining a computer system default set in effect different from the predetermined default set; the reverting comprising: reading the predetermined default set from flash memory; and prompting a default reset, whereby the predetermined default set goes into effect.
For a better understanding of the present invention, together with other and further features and advantages thereof, reference is made to the following description, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, and the scope of the invention will be pointed out in the appended claims.
FIG. 1 schematically illustrates a computer system with added components.
FIG. 2 schematically illustrates a ME and components.
FIG. 3 schematically illustrates a process flow for establishing user defaults.
It will be readily understood that the components of the present invention, as generally described and illustrated in the Figures herein, may be arranged and designed in a wide variety of different configurations. Thus, the following more detailed description of the embodiments of the apparatus, system, and method of the present invention, as represented in FIGS. 1 through 3, is not intended to limit the scope of the invention, as claimed, but is merely representative of selected embodiments of the invention.
Reference throughout this specification to “one embodiment” or “an embodiment” (or the like) means that a particular feature, structure, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment is included in at least one embodiment of the present invention. Thus, appearances of the phrases “in one embodiment” or “in an embodiment” in various places throughout this specification are not necessarily all referring to the same embodiment.
Furthermore, the described features, structures, or characteristics may be combined in any suitable manner in one or more embodiments. In the following description, numerous specific details are provided, such as examples of programming, software modules, user selections, network transactions, database queries, database structures, hardware modules, hardware circuits, hardware chips, etc., to provide a thorough understanding of embodiments of the invention. One skilled in the relevant art will recognize, however, that the invention can be practiced without one or more of the specific details, or with other methods, components, materials, etc. In other instances, well-known structures, materials, or operations are not shown or described in detail to avoid obscuring aspects of the invention.
The illustrated embodiments of the invention will be best understood by reference to the drawings, wherein like parts are designated by like numerals or other labels throughout. The following description is intended only by way of example, and simply illustrates certain selected embodiments of devices, systems, and processes that are consistent with the invention as claimed herein.
Referring now to FIG. 1, there is depicted a block diagram of an illustrative embodiment of a computer system 12. The illustrative embodiment depicted in FIG. 1 may be a notebook computer system, such as one of the ThinkPad® series of personal computers sold by Lenovo (US) Inc. of Morrisville, N.C., however, as will become apparent from the following description, the present invention is applicable to any data processing system. Notebook computers may alternatively be referred to as “notebooks”, “laptops”, “laptop computers” or “mobile computers” herein, and these terms should be understood as being essentially interchangeable with one another.
As shown in FIG. 1, computer system 12 includes at least one system processor 42, which is coupled to a Read-Only Memory (ROM) 40 and a system memory 46 by a processor bus 44. System processor 42, which may comprise one of the AMD™ line of processors produced by AMD Corporation or a processor produced by Intel Corporation, is a general-purpose processor that executes boot code 41 stored within ROM 40 at power-on and thereafter processes data under the control of operating system and application software stored in system memory 46. System processor 42 is coupled via processor bus 44 and host bridge 48 to Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) local bus 50.
PCI local bus 50 supports the attachment of a number of devices, including adapters and bridges. Among these devices is network adapter 66, which interfaces computer system 12 to a LAN, and graphics adapter 68, which interfaces computer system 12 to display 69. Communication on PCI local bus 50 is governed by local PCI controller 52, which is in turn coupled to non-volatile random access memory (NVRAM) 56 via memory bus 54. Local PCI controller 52 can be coupled to additional buses and devices via a second host bridge 60.
Computer system 12 further includes Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) bus 62, which is coupled to PCI local bus 50 by ISA bridge 64. Coupled to ISA bus 62 is an input/output (I/O) controller 70, which controls communication between computer system 12 and attached peripheral devices such as a keyboard and mouse. In addition, I/O controller 70 supports external communication by computer system 12 via serial and parallel ports. A disk controller 72 is in communication with a disk drive 200. Of course, it should be appreciated that the system 12 may be built with different chip sets and a different bus structure, as well as with any other suitable substitute components, while providing comparable or analogous functions to those discussed above.
Indicated at 202 is a ME (management engine) which may be employed in accordance with at least one presently preferred embodiment of the present invention. ME's, as currently evolving (examples of which are being manufactured by Intel), are inclusive of several useful components that previously were operationally segregated. By integrating such components operationally, they can be more readily and flexibly managed to address contingent problems such as shutting down at least portions of a computer when the computer is in the hands of an unauthorized user. With regard to the system 12 shown in FIG. 1, the ME may be located on the PCI bus 50 as shown. It should be understood that the system 12 of FIG. 1 provides but one illustrative and non-restrictive example among a very wide variety of systems that can employ an ME in accordance with embodiments of the present invention.
Indicated at 86 is a BIOS (basic input/output system) whose functioning, in accordance with at least one presently preferred embodiment of the present invention, will be better understood from further discussion herebelow. As is known conventionally, associated with BIOS 86 is a flash memory 86a.
As shown schematically in FIG. 2, ME 202 may preferably include a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 205, Active Management Technology (AMT) 206 (which preferably is embodied by Intel AMT, or iAMT) and one or more security-based components 208. It will be noted, for the purposes of ongoing discussion herein, that those AMT's (and related software) and TPM's as manufactured by Intel are often referred to as “iAMT” and “iTPM” Background information regarding iAMT may be found at www.intel.com/software.amt2, while background information regarding TPM's may be found at the Trusted Computing Group website, www.trustedcomputinggroup.org.
Generally, an AMT such as iAMT will contain a Management Engine (ME) which is a service processor, dedicated firmware for the service processor, and logic in an Ethernet and/or 802.11 and/or WAN controller to allow the ME to communicate with other locations across the internet even when the system is off, as these parts will always have power (i.e., very little power is required). Accordingly, one may send items to the ME 202, and it can process and return items irrespective of whether the main operating system (OS) is running or not running. Thus, ME 202 enables contact with a network (210) even when the system is technically off. The network interface can be realized directly or indirectly via essentially any suitable arrangement, e.g., a network adapter such as that indicated at 66 in FIG. 1.
With continued reference to both FIGS. 1 and 2, as currently evolving in the context of AMT, architecture has been developed that includes an arrangement whereby BIOS 86 can read (e.g., via a reader arrangement 86b) a configuration record off of an external medium (for example, a USB key as inserted at a USB port 204) and thence configure the AMT 206 via this record. (This general arrangement is disclosed, by way of background information, at http://communities.intel.com/docs/DOC-1247#USB2.) Intel currently provides such architecture in the context of iAMT. Essentially, then, rather than burdening a user with the need to manually enter AMT configuration data (e.g., via a keyboard), a USB key or other external medium can readily contain such information and thence be introduced to system 12, e.g., during a boot (while a USB key is inserted in USB port 204). Such information is thence accepted by the AMT 206 and typically includes a set of parameters that enables AMT 206 to securely communicate with a server over network 210.
In accordance with at least one presently preferred embodiment of the present invention, there are broadly contemplated herein arrangements for employing an encrypted version of an AMT configuration record that has been written into essentially any system NVRAM, but most preferably flash memory 86a associated with BIOS 86, wherein the configuration record itself was already read by the BIOS 86 off a USB key as just described. A major benefit of this is that the user-defined or user-preferred configuration record that has derived from a USB key can be stored in the flash memory to be easily accessed in the future to the extent needed or desired. For instance, this may be of use when or if the system 12 loses battery power and as a matter of course reverts to factory defaults (especially, defaults not defined by the user) for the AMT. Here, in accordance with a presently preferred embodiment of the present invention, the BIOS 86 will automatically retrieve the user's own defined or preferred defaults at such a point in a rather quick and easy manner, as opposed to having them reestablished via a cumbersome process involving a reworking of the “board” or other physical manipulation of parts of system 12.
To this end, essentially, BIOS 86 will preferably be configured to detect whether or not a user's pre-defined AMT defaults are in effect. Referring now to a basic process, in accordance with at least one presently preferred embodiment of the present invention, as illustrated in FIG. 3 (with continued reference to FIGS. 1 and 2 as well), if, after initiation of a system boot (320), AMT 206 is detected by BIOS 86 (322) to be unprovisioned, that is, in a state (324/“YES”) where basic or factory defaults are in effect rather than a user's pre-defined defaults as previously obtained from a USB key, then the BIOS 86 can preferably proceed to act to revert the AMT to the user's pre-defined set of defaults. (Otherwise [324/“NO”], the boot continues with the user's pre-defined defaults already in place [332], essentially bypassing other steps now to be described.)
Continuing, BIOS 86 may obtain (326) the pre-defined user defaults from NVRAM (e.g., flash memory)86a via, e.g., a BIOS utility that previously has been provided to BIOS (e.g., during manufacture). Then, in accordance with an illustrative and non-restrictive embodiment, BIOS 86 may preferably call (328) a “provide” code (e.g., an Intel provide code such as MEBX, or Management Engine BIOS Extension) with an input constituted by the configuration record (that had been read by the BIOS off an external medium), thereby prompting the provision (or re-provision) of the user-defined defaults to the AMT (330). Thereupon, the system boot continues (332).
Any of a very wide variety of protection arrangements or processes may conceivably be employed to protect the configuration record. In accordance with a particularly preferred embodiment of the present invention, a key may be stored in system 12 in protected NVRAM (e.g., as indicated at 56 in FIG. 1); in this manner, an unauthorized user and/or unauthorized “rogue” program would not be able to add a configuration record.
By way of further elaboration and recapitulation, in accordance with at least one presently preferred embodiment of the present invention, a BIOS may preferably accept AMT configuration data (i.e., user default data) from any external medium and then retain such data in NVRAM.
Subsequently, when the BIOS boots up, this record of configuration data can be obtained from the NVRAM and then sent to the appropriate code (e.g., the Intel MEBX code) to initialize the AMT in accordance with the settings obtained from flash. Accordingly, user-defined default settings for AMT will always be readily available for the user without necessitating an expensive or potentially risky reworking of the system “boards”. Distilled another way, some basic steps in accordance with at least one preferred embodiment of the present invention involve, essentially: embedding an AMT configuration record into BIOS flash memory; employing the BIOS to present this USB-based record to an appropriate code (such as MEBX) itself employed for initializing AMT; and thereupon setting the AMT to the USB-based user-defined (or user-specific) defaults.
While the foregoing discussion makes note of the provision of user-based defaults via a USB key, they can certainly be provided via other types of suitable external media. For instance, a utility can readily build a file for “provisioning” (providing AMT defaults) that can be written to NVRAM (e.g., flash memory) without ever using a USB key. Essentially, once the file is built, it can be sent to BIOS via essentially any of a very wide variety of conceivable methods. By way of an illustrative and non-restrictive example, since it may well be cumbersome to employ a USB during a manufacturing process, an alternative arrangement could involve the provision of a file to BIOS via network access during manufacturing.
It is to be understood that the present invention, in accordance with at least one presently preferred embodiment, includes elements that may be implemented on at least one general-purpose computer running suitable software programs. These may also be implemented on at least one Integrated Circuit or part of at least one Integrated Circuit. Thus, it is to be understood that the invention may be implemented in hardware, software, or a combination of both.
If not otherwise stated herein, it is to be assumed that all patents, patent applications, patent publications and other publications (including web-based publications) mentioned and cited herein are hereby fully incorporated by reference herein as if set forth in their entirety herein.
Although illustrative embodiments of the present invention have been described herein with reference to the accompanying drawings, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to those precise embodiments, and that various other changes and modifications may be affected therein by one skilled in the art without departing from the scope or spirit of the invention.
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THE HYDROPLANE RACING LEAGUE HRL WILL HONOR THE MEMORY OF MATHIEU DAOUST AT THE REGATES DE VALLEYFIELD
July 11, 2019 Media Release
Valleyfield – The Hydroplane Racing League HRL will honor the memory of Mathieu Daoust at the Regates de Valleyfield.
A few days before the start of the 81st Regatta in Valleyfield, the most prestigious race on the circuit HRL wants to revisit the tragic events that took place in Brockville and invites the population to commemorate the life of Mathieu Daoust next weekend.
The organization first wishes to reiterate its condolences to the family and loved ones of driver, Mathieu Daoust, who lost his life at the wheel of GP-9 Miss Cleopatra on June 30th at the 1000 Islands Regatta & Festival, Brockville, Ontario.
Mr. Didier-Bernard Séguin, HRL Chairman of the Board who was present at the event would like to thank and underline the professionalism and support shown by the race teams, the drivers, the officials and the first responders. “The pain from this loss we mourn as an organization,” he says. HRL is a big family. All the drivers and their relatives know each other and meet each other every weekend. ”
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The last week was filled with questions for HRL. Indeed, since the last fatal accident that shook the regatta world in 1991, the organization has put several measures in place to enhance safety inside the cockpit of our drivers. However, in a qualifying event in the Grand Prix class, Mathieu Daoust was the victim of a loss of control that projected him into the trajectory of GP-57 Miss New Zealand and driver Jack Lupton who could not avoid the collision.
We are talking here about two experienced drivers, Jack, who despite his young age, has been racing on International Hydroplane Racing circuits for more than 6 years, and Mathieu who was in his 8th season.
Six races in various classes had been completed before the accident. It is on this basis that an investigation has been opened to determine causes and solutions. Both boats remain in Brockville for this purpose and HRL will examine with great interest each of the recommendations that will result.
Tribute to Mathieu Daoust – GP-9
The Regates de Valleyfield will take place from July 12th to the14th and several initiatives have been put in place to honor the campivallensian (Valleyfield) driver. Mathieu was a passionate athlete and was waiting for this event – like many other drivers – with impatience.
At a latter date the Hydroplane Racing League will put in place a permanent tribute to honor GP-9 driver Mathieu Daoust. The League will evaluate all the possibilities so that this honor is dignified and representative of the Quebec Grand Prix class driver.
A tribute to Robert Theoret had been prepared for several months to mark the death at the age of 76 of the driver who has marked a generation of Hydroplane enthusiasts. The Régates de Valleyfield organization created a button that it planned to sell during the event. Following the tragedy, the Théorêt family stated that the funds raised would be used to create an educational fund for Béatrice and Raphaël the children of Mathieu and Jessica.
Then on Friday morning before the start of the race program, a minute of silence will be observed in the drivers’ memory. On Saturday, July 13th at 9 AM, all Hydroplanes will run their engines for a minute to remind them that the GP-9 will always be with them. Pit Pass holders will be able to attend this moment which will be filled with emotions. On Sunday, before the final in the Grand Prix class, the crowd will be invited to take a moment of recollection.
Finally, during each evening show the host will invite festival-goers to take a moment to think about Mathieu and those close to him. An image will then be shown on the giant screens.
Mathieu Daoust was a real ambassador of sport who never hesitated to communicate his passion to the fans. He held an important place in the Hydroplane Racing League and will continue to occupy it through the many memories that every member of the HRL family shares with him.
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Hitman Episode 3: Marrakesh Review
Hitman Episode 3: Marrakesh Review James Coles
Summary: Episode 3: Marrakesh is entertaining but it doesn't build upon the brilliant Sapienza mission!
Peaked?
The latest chapter of the Hitman series sees Agent 47 head to Morocco to eliminate dodgy banker Claus Strandberg and corrupt army General Reza Zaydan.
Much like the previous two episodes, episode 3’s mission briefing is pretty intense. Marrakesh is on the verge of a revolution and a political conspiracy is unfolding thanks to an army general mounting a military coup and a Swedish banker embezzling some serious wonga. Your job is quite simple: assassinate the pair of them.
By and large, episode 3 is pretty much the same thing as the last two chapters – certainly in a gameplay sense anyway – but it’s also a different beast compared to both Paris and Sapienza. Essentially, episode 3 takes itself very seriously; there aren’t as many humorous assassination methods to perfect like in the first two chapters and this ultimately leads to a grimmer playing experience.
That’s not to say that there aren’t multiple opportunities and assassination techniques at your disposal in Marrakesh, it’s just that the majority aren’t as amusing to put into practice. General Zaydan is sheltering in a school with plenty of protection courtesy of his military comrades and gaining access to his hideout requires a stealthy approach as most of the soldiers won’t fall for the old ‘beat up a guard and steal his uniform’ trick. That’s not to say impersonating people to achieve your goal is now non-existent as the banker is cowering in a Swedish embassy where there are plenty of opportunities to acquire disguises to gain access to different levels of the building.
Now, there are elements to Marrakesh that I like. The architecture of the city coupled with the general hustle and bustle of the marketplace with all its rugs and sandals on sale looks fantastic. However, I didn’t get the same enjoyment playing through this level as I did when playing the last episode in Sapienza. That’s not to say episode 3 isn’t entertaining, but I’m not sure it will keep you ticking over until the release of the next chapter at the end of the month.
Graphics / Audio
Although Marrakech is bustling with a plethora of visually sleek market stalls, the ambience is severely let down by the muttering of locals in full-blown North American accents. While I can forgive the sub-standard sound design in Sapienza, as much of the town’s populace were tourists, here, the lazy voice-acting really hampers the visual splendour of the level.
Sure, Marrakesh looks like the real deal – it’s dense and by far the busiest in terms of what’s going on around you – but you’d be forgiven for thinking that you’re part of a training exercise instead of an assassination mission halfway across the world. Similarly, the first two episodes of Hitman are not good examples of voice-acting either, but unfortunately, episode 3 makes them both look Oscar worthy.
While Episode 3: Marrakesh is entertaining, it doesn’t build upon the brilliant Sapienza mission, and plot-wise, we don’t really learn anything new which leaves me feeling a little empty inside. Overall, I certainly lack the enthusiasm that I felt after completing episode 2. Perhaps the excellence of the Sapienza chapter meant I approached episode 3 with elevated expectations for what is only the halfway point in this series. Hopefully, Hitman hasn’t already past its peak.
James Coles From the UK, now living in Sydney, Australia. Really hates peanut butter. Twitter: @JimColesy
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Home Networking & Communications Nortel Bets on Microsoft NAP
Nortel Bets on Microsoft NAP
By Sean Michael Kerner | November 30, 2007
What do you do when you're locked in a battle for network access market share with the world's largest networking provider? If you're Nortel, you team up with one of the world's largest software providers.
Nortel is strengthening its Microsoft integration by supporting Microsoft's Network Access Protection (NAP) and its critical Statement of Health (SOH) protocol. The move, Nortel said, is to help enterprises contend with one of the key barriers of access control adoption, namely complexity.
Nortel's Secure Network Access (SAN) technologies now fully support SOH, which helps determine the security posture of an endpoint. With the full embrace of NAP, Nortel is placing itself in the Microsoft camp as an alternative to Cisco's Network Access Control (NAC).
"We've picked a path to move forward and that path is the Microsoft paradigm," John Gray, portfolio leader of business optimized networking for Nortel, told InternetNews.com. "Customers have a choice they can make against Cisco, and we can now sit at the table shoulder to shoulder with Microsoft to help customers with that choice."
Microsoft's NAP access control architecture is part of the upcoming Windows Server 2008 release and will support both Windows Vista and XP desktops as endpoints.
Microsoft opened the SOH protocol in May to the Trusted Computing Group's Trusted Network Connect (TNC) access control architecture. Nortel's SNA access control solution is TNC-compliant and is expected to make use of Microsoft's protocol as an extension of Nortel's existing TNC compliance.
When it comes to NAP, Microsoft is building a large ecosystem of vendors that will support it as part of a bid to ensure its dominance. In February, Microsoft had already boasted that it had some 100 partners, with varying degrees of intent and support for NAP compatibility.
Nortel's full embrace of Microsoft's NAP will include support across a broad range of Nortel equipment. This week Nortel announced a number of new additions to its Ethernet Routing Switch Portfolio, including updates to the 2500, 4500 and 5500 series of Ethernet Routing Switches that will all support Nortel's SNA access control.
Gray said the Microsoft NAP solution in Windows Server 2008 is a less complex approach than going with a full Cisco NAC approach.
Where Nortel intends to add its own value on top of Microsoft's NAP and the SOH protocol is with full post-admission policy control. SOH is typically used as a pre-network admission control check and is not used as part of a post-admission policy.
Gray explained that Nortel's SNA also provides post-connect security protection by fully integrating with Nortel's line of Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) and firewalls.
"So if an IDS sensor detects from a post connect something anomalous, it can enable an action to occur at the switch level, such as shutting off a port," Gray said.
For users who are connecting remotely to the enterprise, Nortel has just updated its VPN Gateway to provide additional security protections.
Nortel's VPN Gateway 7.0 is a blended IPsec and SSL VPN solution that lets users connect either via an IPsec client or through an SSL-encrypted interface. The solution now includes integration with Symantec's On Demand Protection tool for SSL VPN. The Symantec tool ensures that nothing stays on the endpoint in terms of cache or temporary files and that nothing can be pulled from the VPN session to the local device.
Even with its relationship with Microsoft and an expanded portfolio of switches and VPNs, Nortel is still facing an uphill battle against Cisco. A recent report from Synergy Research pegged Microsoft's share of the network switch space at just over 60 percent.
Gray, however, said Nortel is moving in the right direction.
"What's important is that for the last five quarters, quarter over quarter we've grown our business by double digits, and that's the litmus test from my perspective that we're doing the right thing."
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24-Hour Hotline • Kankakee Co: 815.932.3322 • Iroquois Co: 815.432.0420
“I was assaulted. What are my options?”
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Sexual Assault Response Team – SART
About KCCASA + ISAS
Sex crimes are far more common than most people believe. 1 in 5 women and 1 in 71 men have been raped at some time in their lives*. Shockingly, arrest, prosecution, and conviction rates remain extremely low for these crimes. Response to sexual assault and human trafficking needs to improve – not only to provide justice in individual cases but safety in our community. Since the majority of sexual assault and human trafficking perpetrators are serial offenders, and they are likely to continue to perpetrate violence in our communities if they are not held accountable for their crimes.
What is a SART?
Sexual Assault Response Teams (SARTs) are partnerships of agencies addressing the many roadblocks to justice in sex crime cases. These multidisciplinary teams of professionals work together to provide inter-agency, coordinated responses to sexual assault and human trafficking . This collaborative approach to sexual violence helps meet the needs of victims/survivors, and more effectively holds offenders accountable.
What does Kankakee and Iroquois County SART do?
One of the main functions of SART is to coordinate and optimize the criminal justice response to sexual assault and human trafficking in Kankakee and Iroquois County. That goal makes core agencies and professionals essential to the team. The coordination of services provided by these disciplines can have a critical impact on the experience of a victim seeking help and the careful, thorough collection of evidence to build the strongest case possible.
Members of the Kankakee and Iroquois County SART include:
Kankakee County Center Against Sexual Assault – KCCASA
Children’s Advocacy Center – CAC
The State’s Attorney
Law Enforcement – City of Kankakee, Kankakee Sheriff’s Department, City of Bradley, City of Bourbonnais, KCC Security
Kankakee Probation
Iroquois Probation
Campus Public Safety ONU
Presence St. Mary’s Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) Program
Riverside Hospital
ZONTA of Kankakee
The team meets once a month to:
Information-share and train internally
Develop SART response protocols
Problem solve barriers to effective prosecution of sex offenses
How does a SART benefit our community?
Cases involving Sexual Assault Response Teams**:
Are reported more quickly.
Yield more evidence.
Are more likely to lead to arrest.
Are the strongest predictor that charges will be filed.
Keep victims better informed and engaged throughout the criminal justice process.
For more information on Kankakee and Iroquois County SART contact the Legal Advocacy department of KCCASA at 815-932-7273 or email advocacy@kc-casa.org.
*Black, M.C., Basile, K.C., Breiding, M.J., Smith, S.G., Walters, M.L., Merrick, M.T., Chen, J., & Stevens, M.R. (2011). The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS): 2010 Summary Report. Atlanta, GA: National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
**Nugent-Borakove, M. E., Fanflik, P., Troutman, D., Johnson, N., Burgess, A., & O’Connor, A.L. (2006). Testing the Efficacy of SANE/SART Programs: Do They Make a Difference in Sexual Assault Arrest & Prosecution Outcomes?
KCCASA + ISAS have been serving survivors of sexual assault and human trafficking for over 26 years. We are committed to improving the quality of services available to victims and their loved ones. Learn more.
KCCASA + ISAS welcome and support all survivors, regardless of sex, gender identity or sexual orientation.
We provide a number of services to our community in the fight against sexual violence.
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We are here to listen 24/7. You can call our hotline at 815-932-3322 in Kankakee County , 815-432-0420 in Iroquois County or click here to email us.
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Jewish Funeral Services
The Obligation to Attend a Funeral
Source of the obligation. According to Maimonides / רמב"ם (Rambam, Hilchot Avel 14:1), the obligation to accompany the deceased to his or her burial is derived from the verse in the Book of Leviticus 19:18 — “You shall love your fellow man like yourself / ואהבת לריעך כמוך”. It is one of the acts of kindness — Gemilut Chasadim / גמילות חסדים that the famous Mishnah / משנה in Tractate Peah 1:1 lists among the deeds “for which a person receives interest payment in this world while the principal reward remains for him in the world to come / דברים שאדם אוכל מפירותיהן בעולם הזה והקרן קיימת לו לעולם הבא”.
As we have already discussed, any Jew who finds a Met Mitzvah / מת מצוה - a deceased who has nobody else to take care of his or her burial, is obligated to set aside his regular business, Torah study, performance of other religious duties, and certainly any pleasurable activities and bury the dead. One is obligated to do so even to a complete stranger.
Fullfilling the obligation. Even when others are available to bury the dead, but it is not clear if there will be enough people for a properly attended funeral, one has an obligation to stop work and Torah study to attend the funeral. It is important that a Minyan / מניין — a quorum of at least ten Jewish men over the age of thirteen, is present at the cemetery in order to recite Kaddish / קדיש at the graveside.
It is a great Mitzvah / מצוה to accompany the deceased to burial, but one does not have to interrupt work or Torah study when there are enough people already attending the funeral, unless it is a funeral of a major Torah scholar. The exception is when one actually sees the funeral procession. In this case one should join the procession and walk with them at least Arba Amot / ארבע אמות — four cubits to show respect for the deceased and sympathy for the mourners, even if one does not know the deceased. Some rule, however, that it is sufficient to stand in respect as the funeral procession passes. When the funeral procession has gone out of sight the custom is to say paraphrasing Daniel 12:13:
לך/לכי בשלום
ותנוח/ותנוחי על משכבך בשלום
ותעמד/ותעמדי לגורלך
לקץ הימים׃
Go in peace
and rest in peace and
stand up to your destiny
at the end of the days.
Cohen at a funeral. As was already explained, a Cohen / כהן - a priest, does not participate in a funeral, unless it is the funeral of one of his closest relatives. If a Cohen wishes to attend other funerals, he should not enter the chapel, while the casket is there. He may follow the funeral procession at a distance, but may not enter the cemetery.
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Empire Records Screening At Cinespia
A good lookin' Johnny Whitworth showed up at Cinespia on 7/26 and mingled with die-hard Empire Record fans, who continue to discover its undeniable lure almost 20 years after its release. Empire Records (1995) is a popular cult classic, with Johnny in the iconic role of A.J.- the sweet, sensitive, ADORABLE guy who pines over his longtime crush Corey, played by a gorgeous Liv Tyler.
Johnny took photos with fans, hung out with the boys of Empire Records, and probably got called A.J. more times than he can remember. If you've never been to a Cinespia screening at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, put it on your bucket list- you won't be disappointed.
Empire Records fans on their way.
Rex Manning fan on his way (yes this happens).
And let me just say, this cutie has aged the best- A.J. would be happy with his future self.
Special thanks from Johnny to all the fans who came out and enjoyed an epic night of Empire Records!
Better Than Leo
I know, you're thinking Titanic. I did too for a hot second.
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Jada Pinkett Smith’s Mom, Adrienne, Recalls Her Heroine Addiction On Red Table Talk
July 10, 2018 UCDNews
Jada Pinkett Smith and her mother Adrienne Banfiend-Jones tackled the issue of drug addiction on their latest episode of Red Table Talk. Adrienne opened up about her personal battle with heroine. ?It’s difficult to talk about something that is gonna go out to the world,” Adrienne said in the beginning of the episode. “I couldn’t hide the unmanageability of my life, and the emotional damage and the spiritual damage I did to myself and to her. That was devastating. I abused drugs for over 20 years.”
Adrienne, 64, has been sober for 27 years.
Watch the episode here.
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July, 2018: KIC co-Director David Muller, KIC member Sol Gruner and Physics Professor Veit Elser, have developed a method for achieving ultra-high resolution for their electron microscope, using monolayer molybdenum disulfide to achieve a world record for image resolution. The Cornell-developed electron microscope pixel array detector employed in this method was developed with support from the Kavli Institute at Cornell (KIC). Read more about this achievement in the Cornell Chronicle.
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June 2018: In a paper published in Nature, a team led by KIC member Uli Wiesner, the Spencer T. Olin Professor of Engineering in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, reports discovery of 10-nanometer, individual, self-assembled dodecahedral structures – 12-sided silica cages that could have applications in mesoscale material assembly, as well as medical diagnosis and therapeutics. Read the full story in the Cornell Chronicle.
May 2018: KIC members Jie Shan and Kin Fai Mak are experts on atomically thin materials, particularly their optical and electronic properties. They are also married and were recruited to Cornell last year through the provost’s NEXT Nano Initiative. They moved their shared lab and joint research group to Ithaca and have been up and running in the Physical Sciences Building since January, where they also manage the KIC facility. Read the full story in the Cornell Chronicle.
May, 2018: KIC congratulates Executive Committee member Hector Abruna on being elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Abruna is one of 84 new members and 21 foreign associates elected to NAS in recognition of his distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. This story originally appeared in the Cornell Chronicle.
April, 2018: KIC members Jie Shan and Kin Fai Mak have become the first to control atomically thin magnets with an electric field, a breakthrough that provides a blueprint for producing exceptionally powerful and efficient data storage in computer chips, among other applications. The research is detailed in the paper, “Electric-field switching of two-dimensional van der Waals magnets,” published March 12 in Nature Materials. Read the full story in the Cornell Chronicle.
March, 2018: In a study published March 8 in Science, KIC co-Director David Muller, in collaboration with University of Chicago scientists, revealed a technique to “sew” two patches of crystals seamlessly together to create atomically thin fabrics. Read more in the Cornell Chronicle.
March 2018: KIC members Grace Xing, Debdeep Jena and David Muller are among a team of Cornell researchers that have successfully devised a semi-conductor-superconductor crystal featuring gallium nitride (GaN) grown directly only a crystal of niobium nitride (NbN), a proven superconductor material used in many applications, including quantum communications and astronomy. Their research was published online March 8 in Nature. Read more in the Cornell Chronicle.
Feb 2018: Recent work from the lab of Lena Kourkoutis, KIC member and Assistant Professor of Applied & Engineering Physics, describes a new approach to characterizing and understanding exotic charge-ordered phases in manganite, shedding light on the material’s structure changes where the “fun” happens- at super cold temperatures. Read the full story in the Cornell Chronicle.
January, 2018: A KIC research team comprised of co-Directors Paul McEuen & David Muller, member Itai Cohen, and Postdoctoral Fellow Marc Miskin have built the ‘muscle’ for an electricity-conducting, environment-sensing, shape-changing machine the size of a human cell. Their work is outlined in “Graphene-based Bimorphs for Micron-sized, Autonomous Origami Machines,” published Jan. 2 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. See also the Cornell Chronicle
December, 2017: KIC co-Director David Muller and his research collaborators have discovered a method for basically inserting a 1-D semiconductor channel into the “fabric” of a 2-D materials. The electronic band structures of these channels exhibit the proprieties necessary for future electronics applications. This research was published in Nature Materials. Read more in the Cornell Chronicle.
Nov. 2017: KIC members Darrell Schlom and Kyle Shen address a decades-old mystery of “missing electrons.” Their work is detailed in a paper, “Lifshitz transition from valence fluctuations in YbAl3,” published Oct. 11 in Nature Communications. Read more in the Cornell Chronicle.
Nov. 2017: KIC members and postdocs explore the optical properties of single-atom-thick layers of graphene and report clear observations of exitons in bilayer graphene. The research by Paul McEuen, Farhan Rana, Long Ju and Lei Wang (all affiliated with KIC) was published in Science on Nov 17, 2017. Read more in the Cornell Chronicle.
Oct. 2017: Inspired by cephalopods such as the optopus that have the ability to quickly change color and shape, KIC member and Professor of Physics Itai Cohen has teamed up with Rob Shepherd, an assistant professor in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, to devise a method for precisely transforming stretchable 2D obejcts into 3D shapes. Read more about this research in the Cornell Chronicle.
Oct., 2017: A research group led by KIC members Grace Xing and Debdeep Jena recently achieved a new record in deep ultraviolet photonics at 40% internal quantum efficiency (IQE), which is more than twice the highest-reported value for the conventional heterostructures at comparable short DUV wavelengths. Full story available on the Cornell ECE news site.
Sept. 2017: KIC Director and John A. Newman Professor of Physical Science Paul McEuen has been named a Citation Laureate for his seminal contributions to carbon-based electronics. Read more about his research focus and impact.
The Cornell NEXT Nano Initative
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...we could nano-engineer batteries to make fossil fuels obsolete?
...we could create nanoscale machines as easily as we build electronic circuits?
NEXT is a mult-year interdisciplinary program at Cornell created to push nanoscale science and microsystems engineering to the next level of design, function and integration.
Our goal of hiring 10 outstanding nano/micro focused faculty members in the next five years is just the first of the NEXT initiatives at Cornell. Join us in building the future!
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The global carbon fiber in aerospace and defense market is expected to reach $1.6 billion by 2025
Trends, opportunities and forecast for carbon fiber in the aerospace and defense market to 2025 by aircraft (commercial aerospace, regional jets, general aviation, helicopter, military aircraft and UAV), by precursor type (PAN based, pitch based), by tow size (small tow, large tow), by modulus (standard, intermediate, high), and region (North America, Europe, Rest of the World (including APAC)
According to a new market report published by Lucintel, the future of the global carbon fiber in aerospace and defense market looks attractive with opportunities in commercial aircraft, regional aircraft, general aviation, helicopter, and UAVs. The global carbon fiber in the aerospace and defense market is expected to reach an estimated $1.6 billion by 2025 with a CAGR of 4.2% from 2020 to 2025. The major drivers for this market are increasing demand for high-performance lightweight materials in the aerospace/defense industry and growing production of advanced aircraft models with high composites content.
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In this market, carbon fiber composite is used in commercial aerospace, regional jets, helicopters, military aircraft, and UAVs. Lucintel forecasts that commercial aerospace will be the largest segment supported by the demand for lightweight materials in aircraft programs, such as Boeing 787 and Airbus A350. Carbon fiber for UAV is expected to witness the highest growth over the forecast period due to the increasing demand Unmanned Arial Vehicles for surveillance and growing use of lightweight materials in its development.
Based on the type of precursor, the carbon fiber market in the aerospace and defense industry can be segmented into two types: Polyacrylonitrile-based (PAN-based) and pitch-based. PAN-based carbon fiber usage is higher by value and volume because it is lower in cost than pitch-based.
By tow size, small tow (less than 24k) is expected to remain the largest segment by volume and witness the highest growth over the forecast period because its main use in the aerospace industry owing to high tensile strength. By modulus, the standard modulus is expected to remain the largest segment by volume over the forecast period.
North America is expected to remain the largest region during the forecast period. The growth of carbon fiber in the North American aerospace & defense market is driven by increasing carbon fiber content and growth of aircraft deliveries of B787 and B777.
Emerging trends, which have a direct impact on the dynamics of the industry, including the Increasing demand for continuous fiber-reinforced thermoplastics and growing initiatives for recycling of carbon fiber.
Lucintel, a leading global strategic consulting and market research firm, has analyzed growth opportunities in the global carbon fiber in aerospace and defense market by aircraft, by component, by precursor type, by tow size, by modulus, and region, and has compiled a comprehensive research report entitled “Growth Opportunities For Global Carbon Fiber in Aerospace and Defense Market 2020-2025: Trends, Forecast and Opportunity Analysis.” The Lucintel report serves as a catalyst for growth strategies as it provides comprehensive data and analysis on-trend, key drivers, and directions. The study includes a forecast of the growth opportunities in the global carbon fiber in aerospace and defense industry by aircraft, by component, by precursor type, by tow size, by modulus, and region as follows:
By Aircraft [Volume (M lbs) and Value ($ Million) from 2014 to 2025]:
By Component [Volume (M lbs) and Value ($ Million) from 2014 to 2025]:
By Precursor Type [Volume (M lbs) and Value ($ Million) from 2014 to 2025]:
PAN Based
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By Tow size [Volume (M lbs) from 2014 to 2025]:
Small Tow (<24K)
Large Tow (>24K)
By Modulus [Volume (M lbs) from 2014 to 2025]:
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ROW (Including APAC)
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This report answers following 11 key questions:
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Interview conducted by amazingflyingpoo
Storytelling is not an especially easy thing to do, and neither is building an enjoyable level in LittleBigPlanet. Put the two tasks together and now you've got a real challenge. You have to weave just the right tapestry of story-driven interest, punctuate it with meaningful player interaction, maintain a believable environment, and deliver a worthwhile gaming experience all at the same time. When a story-driven level in LBP comes together it's really something to behold, and one of the true masters of the trade is kaiju_kid.
So, what's a kaiju level like? That's not a simple question to answer. It might be touching, insightful, and surprise you with its profound social commentary. Or, it might be completely and utterly absurd such as a factory specializing in cybernetic livestock or an intergalactic takeout service. And yet still, it might be about an entire world made out of poop. Oh, right - that's still the absurd option.
Well then, never mind the wordy descriptions. Let's see some of his work for ourselves.
Remember: Never, ever, ever be the one wearing a red uniform.
All right, this one isn’t really a question, but if you would be so kind, please list the levels you’ve published on PSP to date and any statistics you’d like to share with us, i.e. plays, hearts, how many rocket animals per level, etc. Whatever you feel like sharing.
Sure, let me dust off my PSP and see...heh. I have to say, I'm not a big statistics person when it comes to my levels on either LBP ps3, or PSP. I promote it for a week, and then I never check back on it. Well, I take that back, lately I check the comments section alot on PS3, but I don't really care about rankings. My fellow friend creator amazingflyingpoo on the other hand is a stats freak and follows levels like they're baseball players. I didn't even know Nascow had moved up the ranks on Highest rated till told by poo. My levels are, in creation order:
Lifespan- currently STILL on page 1 of highest rated with 6775 plays, and 938 hearts
A Royal Flush -817 plays
Beauty of Grey- 560 plays
Nascow - on page2 with 1747 plays and 238 hearts
Star Trak - 418 plays
Silhouette City - 216 plays
Hmph, a little disappointed with Silhouettes performance as I thought it was unique, but so goes artsy levels, lol.
Now, tell me... of these levels, which is your favorite? And why?
My favorite level on PSP...wow, thats tough. I think it has to be The beauty of Grey because I realized the weird vision in my head for the most part. I wanted to do something surreal and visually arresting on the small screen, and I think I achieved that. It's not on par with say.. Jeffcu's ZEN, but I think it's up there somewhere with some of the best art themed levels. If I had a head for logic, I think I could have rivaled Jeff, but I'm a bigtime techtard. Therefore, I lean heavily on my visual artistic sensibilities and it seems to mask the fact I'm just presenting another run and jump level, lol. I also like to add poetry alot to highten the avant gardeness of it all, but the thing is artsy levels aren't so popular so it's kind of a bummer to make them knowing they won't see too many play/hearts. (See: Silhouette City)
How long have you been playing LBP?
I've been playing LBP since day 1 on Ps3, and have not stopped, like, ever. I think the most I've gone without playing some form of LBP was like 2 weeks in over a 2 year span or however long LBP has been out, much to the dismay of my girlfriend, haha. The only game to tear me away from LBP ps3 was LBP psp and thats because Amazing Flying Poopoo was out recruiting over at LittleBigNetwork since the scene was non existent over there. His levels sounded awesome, but I'd heard create was a mess so I didn't bother with it. However his enthusiasm was so contagious that I finally gave in, and don't regret it for a moment. I'd been going through burnout on PS3, and the PSP somehow seemd fresh even though it was the same game! Go figure. But I think it's because the PSP community is soo much more tight knit and supportive, and that will drive any creator to keep going.
What was the first full level you ever built? And what was it like?
My first full level on PS3 was a Spiderman tribute called The Amazing Sackman which I still think is great today, but not ME anymore. I have it stored on a separate account along with a Star Wars tribute level. Now that I have matured as a creator, I find tribute levels lacking creativeness as they're based on other peoples ideas. Not a bad thing, but I'd rather play something unfamiliar and fresh, y'know? I plan to publish them all on another account someday for others to enjoy as my whimsical stuff, but they kind of don't gel with my current create style. Having said that, I did make a Star Trek level on PSP, but I blame my creator friend Taffey for that misstep, lol. I mean, if you ARE going to make tribute levels, make the best dammned ones around right? Well, Taffey did just that with the Star Wars universe on the PSP, and I foolishly thought I could make something of equal quality with the Star Trek franchise. I think it came out fine, but it's kind of the black eye on my PSP facebook.
What creators and levels (if any) have inspired you to create?
This is going to sound selfish, but I'm not inspired by any one creator. Seriously. But there's a reason for this and I'll tell you why. I know my limitations as a creator, and I never play levels that are mindblowing and say I want to do what he/she did, because it's pointless. I create in a very specific way, and I don't have the desire or ability to copy what another creator is doing. All I can do is compliment them, and ask questions if they are open to revealing techniques or tips. On the contrary, I find that people are sometimes TOO inspired by others work which leads to an influx of copycat levels. (See: Bomb survival/Shark attack/etc.) What I will say is, I admire a lot of creators' moxie. Creators who are willing try different things, whether they will be popular or not. I like creators who think outside of the box and aren't influenced by anything but their desire to make something they think is awesome. LBP is full of these types of creators if you dig deep, but there's too many to pin any one down.
Aside from drawing inspiration from other creators and levels, is there anything in the world outside of LittleBigPlanet that inspires you? This could be a hobby, profession, or even a particular movie or type of music. Pretty much it can be anything in your personal life that has contributed to your experiences as well as inspired you as a creator.
Well, I have to start the answer to this question with a visual. Have you ever seen the picture of two theatre masks that are happy and sad? I think they're paired with the slogan: "Laugh today, cry tomorrow" or something like that. That's me in a nutshell...kind of like an emotionally bi-polar creator, lol. I say that because I'm influenced by either tragedy or the ridiculous. I absolutely LOVE sad music as it conjures all these emotions in my me, and my iPod is filled with songs like that. I also like sad poety and movies. That's where most of my ideas for levels on PS3 come from as I tend to make story driven levels, or levels with rhyming dialogue. For PSP, I unleash my crazy side as seen in Nascow which features Cow-cyborg cars, and Royal flush with its whole land of poop theme. I get that from watching shows like Robot Chicken, or Cartoon network. I think the two extremes balance each other and allow me to be in a Ying/Yang state, lol.
What are some of your favorite video games (excluding LBP) - new and old?
Favorite videogame? Really? You have no idea how hard it is for me to answer that question. I have been a gamer since the beginning, so it's hard for me to pick a single favorite game. I have every system made, literally. I have gone and bought every system I didn't own on eBay over the years making for an awesome collection and visual history of gaming. But I have to say, before LBP, the single game that sucked the most time out of me was Timesplitters 2 because it let you make your own FPS shooter levels. You could make limited story levels by using stationary weapons, changing lighting ,texture theme, weapons, enemies and thier routines, spawn points, etc. It's still extremely fun today and recommend it to anybody who wants to make custom FPS levels on a console.
If you could list your favorite things about LittleBigPlanet PSP, what would they be?
My favorite thing about LBP PSP is that it's not multiplayer. As a creator, that takes off SO MUCH pressure that you feel when you create for PS3. You don't have to worry if certain mechanics will work with more than one player such as springboards, vehicles, swings, and other things that get players killed when they're left behind or out of camera range on the ps3. There's just you, and you can pretty much be assured that the level will work 99% assuming that you did not make any bad level designs or vague gameplay. Unfortunately I still see levels that have those 2 flaws, so for some people beta testing is still a must.
And your least favorite thing(s)?
My least farovite thing about LBP PSP is that it never got the same treatment that it's big brother did when it came to quality assurance. There's still a lot of annoying bugs in create, and I honestly don't think they're even trying to fix them because the community is so much more...um, smaller? Or less active...or less demanding...something. Whatever the case may be, I think a solution has been shrugged off as a big "Oh well...it's functional"
What’s the worst thing that’s happened while creating?
I would love to have an amusing horror story about LBP PSP, but I don't. Boring , I know. The worst that's happened to me is that the game shut itself off as it does from time to time on the PSP, but I save every ten minutes, so I think I lost 10 minutes of work this one time. I told you it was a boring story didn't I?
On a sort of similar subject, have there ever been any great ideas you had that failed or for any other reason you never implemented?
Great ideas that failed... Well, I did have the idea to reproduce this Japanese arcade game called Boonga Boonga (Google it). If you've never heard of this game, it's basically an arcade cabinet with a huge butt protruding from it, and a plastic finger which you jab it with for amusement. Imagine walking into your local Chuck E. Cheese and seeing that. Anyway, this is supposedly the equivalent of an American wedgie in Japan, and Japanese kids love performing this prank on each other. So much so, that it warranted a video game. Oh, and there's a face onscreen that screams in discomfort as you do said action for extra fun factor. You can't tell me that wouldn't make a fun survival level on LBP.
Q: What's black and white and red all over? A: Sackboy falling to his death in a kaiju level.
You came onto the PSP scene pretty late compared to most authors. Did you feel that it was more difficult for you since you got a late start?
No, not all. I actually think I came in at the best possible time as the patch that fixed just about everything that was wrong had just been released and allowed me to literally make my first level - Lifespan, in about 4 days without any major problems. I also had no concept of what was trending in LBP PSP, so I wasn't influenced at all when making my first level which worked out great because I may have been discouraged by some authors before me who'd laid down the gauntlet as to what was possible. I didn't think I'd brought anything new to the table with Lifespan other than the use of an original song programmed by me and a more serious theme. I still have not played many PSP levels with creator made music which I think is grossly under used since the PSP song choices don't always fit a moody scene. I'm releasing a new level entitled The Tear Garden soon, and again, I whipped up another little music box for better effect. But back to the uh, question, no I'm glad I entered the scene when I did.
If I remember correctly, you tried jumping into LBP PSP earlier on, but it didn't turn out so well for you. What kinds of things drove you away then, and what kinds of things changed that made you willing to come back? Do you have any LBP PSP horror stories for us?
I'm a very patient person. If I go to a restaurant, I'm not the guy who's waving his arms and frowning because the waitress forgot to refill my diet Coke. But things change when it comes to LittleBigPlanet. If I place a Wobble bolt, and it wibbles instead of wobbling, then I start cursing like a drunken sailor. There's nothing I hate more than things that don't work as advertised. It's like going home with a hot swimsuit model, getting there, and then [EDIT: Insert script from The Crying Game here]
LBP for PSP was like that swimsuit model... all pretty in-game, but all the wrong parts in create mode. But then, that software patch that I talked about earlier came along and fixed everything, and it was all good y'know? That's when I started popping out levels left and right. I don't really have any horror stories other than LBP PSP leaving the following morning with my wallet and not leaving her real number, haha. Just kidding.
Lifespan was your first level on PSP and it was a remake of an old PS3 level of yours. Did you find it easier or harder than you expected to remake a level from PS3 on PSP (after all the patches came)?
Easier, for sure. I wanted to test the abilities and short comings of the PSP engine, and making a pre-existing level was the best way to do that. Not to mention that nothing looks cuter than a PS3 level squashed down to mini size. It's like a basket- of -puppies -with -bows -on -their- heads cute... awwww. Plus, when you have a popular level on PS3, you kinda want to take the franchise to all systems. Jackofcourse did it with Calamity Construction on PSP, and some other creators as well I think. It made it soo much easier to not worry about testing a new idea, and having it fail. It went very smoothly other than the Grim Reaper fight at the end of the level which used a piston on PS3, but would not co-operate on PSP. It kept going wobbly! As all PSP creators know, it's hard to make your piston stiff on PSP, lol.
Nascow is your second biggest success and it also won you a Wheely Good Sticker. The level was different than other levels that you have made because it was somewhat vehicle based (if a cow cyborg can be a vehicle). Was it hard for you to change your style up to meet the requirements of the competition that the level was made for?
No, I didn't have a problem with having to do something out of my comfort zone, because that's what creating is about. I once made a vehicle level on PS3 for a contest as well, but have since deleted it. It's just that, in this vast sea we call Little Big Planet, it's really, really hard to make a name for yourself. So once you make something that resonates with the audience, you just kind of fall into a pattern of wanting to repeat success, and suddenly you've become the creator who does "_______" kind of levels. And that's cool, but you risk turning your fanbase off when you do something unexpected. That's why in a way, I felt liberated on PSP, because it's my "anything goes" place to create, and has been a sort of outlet for trying stuff I didn't on PS3 - like a Cyborg Cow racer. Am I surprised Nascow is on page 2? Yes, but pleasantly so. Taking risks pays off a lot of times.
Here's a bit of a more personal question for you: You mentioned that you were pretty disappointed with the performance of Silhouette City. If you could have changed the level to be something that everyone would love, but it wasn't what you wanted the level to be, would you change it?
About that level...I can't complain I guess. It was a level with style over substance. I mean, I know in my heart I would not do anything just for plays ...but sometimes I double guess myself when I spent alot of time trying something different, whether visual or in theme, and seeing it fall flat. People feel like they've seen it all on LBP...but they've not seen anything at all if you ask me. I have tried incorporating spiritual themes, engaging stories, and unusual art styles, and have gotten mixed results. Most people don't know this, but my PSP level The Beauty of Grey is about prejudice in society. You start the level in a black and white world, and its inhabitants find this colorful little sack person strange and scary. But as you play on, they begin to appreciate that he's neither black or white, but something in between. He's represents the beauty of diversity in the world, the meshing of black and white to make grey. Does a 10 year old PSP player appreciate or even decode this message? Probably not, and thus the level is low rated or not hearted. And that's okay, because I know there's someone out there who forgave the simplistic gameplay, and was maybe moved by the experience rather than a top spot on the scoreboard. I actually thought ahead with my latest PSP level The Tear Garden, and put in bold letters inside the thread: "This level is boring", so that I cut them to the chase, lol. So my answer to your question... No.
To close this interview out I have a unique question for you: Going into this interview, was there any question that you hoped I would ask, and if so, could you state it as well as your answer.
I was wondering if you were going to ask if I was a kid, because it IS a common mistake. I have had people ask me what grade I'm in and what elementary school I go to, lol, but you know I'm not a kid - I'm an adult. Other common mistakes caused by PSN names: amazingflyingpoo is not really a talking pile of poop that can fly, and Taffey cannot stretch or be pulled across the room like gum.
Mmmm, cyborg hamburgers.
There's something a bit different about amazingflyingpoo this time, but Taffey can't quite put his sack-finger on it. Maybe it's the tie.
And for those of you with shiny iDevices, the direct link!
Playing kaiju_kid's levels is a lot like eating assorted jelly beans with your eyes closed. You might get delicious and joyful cherry flavor, or perhaps shocking and sobering licorice. You may get something unexpected like melon or chocolate, or hilarious and disgusting like... UGH! Who put these cat treats in my jelly beans??
Yeah, that's just like kaiju alright. Funny, and yet somehow I don't think I'll ever be the same.
kaiju_kid truly is a rare breed. He can make you cry one minute and laugh the next. He can sculpt beautiful artwork and write poetry, but he also never gets tired of good old-fashioned toilet humor. He knows his pop culture, he can turn a phrase with the best of them, and my gosh does he ever know how to build a level in LittleBigPlanet.
Well, that's all, folks! We hope you have enjoyed this installment of the Creator Spotlight. For past spotlights, please visit this link. See you next time!
This article was originally published in forum thread: PSP Creator Spotlight 5 - kaiju_kid started by Aya042 View original post
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nosemomkey - 03-26-2011
first!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
EDIT: (now that i got my rightfull place, i can finally say whats on my mind)
nice, i've always loved kaiju's levels, congratz kaiju-kid, you really deserve it, i mean, just the nascow-racing already deserves a creator spotlight, its humor is genius
seems like i have 15 minutes of awsome reading in front of me
xkappax• - 03-26-2011
Ooh. Cool. kaiju_kid! i know very few psp creators, because I don't really play lbp for psp, but I do know kaiju. He's a wonderful guy, and totally deserving of this spotlight! Congrats, and great work spotlight crew.
Morgana25 - 03-26-2011
"Morgana25 wanted his head on a platter."
Yes, yes this is exactly what I said about that level. 4 hour flight back from Seattle and I can't tell you how many times I attempted to finish that level..... *shivers* I'll never forget that flight. Excellent level but soooooooo hard. lol.
Great work Spotlight Crew! Excellent video and interview. Congrats Kaiju_kid on your spotlight and now if you'll kindly step over here I have a lovely silver serving platter all picked out for you... no, just hold still, it won't hurt.
BlackWolfe - 03-26-2011
Sweet, another creator to check out! At this rate, I'm going to have to start clearing space for more downloads soon.
Jayhawk_er - 03-26-2011
Hooray! I was waiting for KaijuKid to pop up in the spotlight, I've played each of his levels 5 or 6 times on my psp and love em all!
Great job spotlight crew!
unXpectiD - 03-27-2011
Awesome spotlight and kaiju, I noticed the dark underlying theme almost instantly in the beauty of grey. Awesome, I plan to critisize society in levels as well.
Congratulations and I look forward to playing the tear garden.
kaiju_kid - 03-27-2011
Wow, what an honor! Thanks guys, I really appreciate you taking the time to put this together! Especially since it's all done on your free time, and without pay or anything in return other than a sincere Thank You From yours truly. And Poo, the proof that you helped me get where I am is on Page 1 of Most popular levels on the psp servers, right next to yours and Taffeys levels.
-KK
P.S. Morgana, you can have my head only if you mount it above your fireplace.
Weretigr - 03-27-2011
Originally Posted by kaiju_kid
Hey, that's where I sleep! Why are you furnishing my bedroom??
Well, technically I sleep everywhere in Morgana's home... Alright, I'll let you off And thanks for the praise! You totally deserved this!
jkarow - 03-27-2011
Congrats, Kaiju! Great spotlight, it's always great to see one of these spiffy PSP spotlights! Too bad I can't play the levels you mentioned that I haven't tried yet (Star Trak, Royal Flush), because my LBP file is possibly corrupt or something.. Oh well, I'll play them eventually.. <.<
jimydog000 - 03-27-2011
um, what about *the tear garden* great spotlight by the way totally deserving kK!
Silver39 - 03-27-2011
Starting to run out of deserving creators unless AFP and Taffey get their spotlights.
Give AfP and Taffey their spotlights!!!!
But for sake of being relevant: Awesome spotlight for one of my favorite creators, great job spotlight crew.
Taffey - 03-27-2011
Congrats kaiju! It was a huge honor to work on your spotlight and so much fun to replay all of your levels as part of the process. Star Trak gets me every time - true comedic genius.
Mick'o'Mania - 03-27-2011
You know what. I could buy psp just because i want to play these levels. They're awesome!
Mnniska - 03-27-2011
Exellent spotlight there, GRRRRRRREAT JOB!
JetArtois - 03-27-2011
Great spotlight guys and about time for Kaiju Kid. His levels are awesome and have me in fits of laughter. Kids latest level, The Tear Garden, is beautiful and I still keep playing it now because its such a great place to be in. Congrats KK, you really deserve it. I need to get a PS3 and play your levels on that. Easily one of my favourite creators. Top Chap!!!
um, what about *the tear garden*
Good point -- That level just jumped out at me as both beautiful and well-designed. Definitely his best offering on PSP.
anoken - 03-27-2011
very well deserved! I've been playing his PSP levels from the start, they're great. Lifespan is indeed my favorite.
Domik12 - 03-29-2011
My congratulations, kaiju_kid! I love your levels, all of them very cool and creative!
SketchNZ - 03-30-2011
Congratulations Kaiju! I love Nascow!
Loved the video!
moonwire• - 03-30-2011
Congrats Kaiju! Poem up for you shortly And congrats to you spotlighters too for making it so good, it was enjoyable to read and the rewind was nice to watch too! I can't wait to download all the levels later on
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FEDERAL GOVERNMENT LAUNCHES IMMIGRATION REGULATIONS 2017
Posted on May 8, 2017 May 8, 2017 by admin
The Federal Government has formally presented the Immigration Regulations 2017 designed to enhance the protection of the nation’s borders from migratory crimes.
Making the presentation in Abuja, the Minister of Interior, Lt Gen Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau (rtd), said the objective of the Immigration Regulations 2017 is to provide a legal framework for the effective implementation of the Immigration Act, 2015, and to consolidate on the existing Regulations.
Gen. Dambazau pledged the full and effective implementation of the Regulations, emphasizing that the Regulations would properly position the Immigration Service in carrying out its mandate, and enhance the ease of doing business in the country.
The Minister noted thatthe numerous provisions of the Regulations would considerably enhance the protection of the nation’s borders and boost internal security, as they would check illegal migrations, trans-border crimes, trafficking in humans and weapons, and movement of terrorists and other criminals.
The Minister disclosed that ICT is also incorporated in the Regulation, as Nigeria is poised to introduce the biometric identity card, in use in ECOWAS sub-region to control and track the movement of people, as well as e-ticketing, which generates Advanced Passenger Information (API) from the point the passenger purchased the ticket, adding that these would build an adequate data bank on migrants and thereby check the influx of terrorism, and other crimes into the country.
Earlier, the Comptroller General, Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Mohammad Babandede, said the Immigration Regulations 2017 provides the legal framework for the effective implementation of the Immigration Act 2015, and pledged the commitment of the Service in implementing and enforcing the Regulations.
He said that until the 21st of May, 2015 when the revised Immigration Act, 2015 was enacted, the NIS had operated with the 1963 Act, its first legal instrument, which was signed by the then Minister of Internal Affairs, Alhaji Shehu Shagari,which had become obsolete and inadequate to handle the modern migration trends.
In an opening remark, the Director Overseeing the Office of Permanent Secretary (DOOPS), Ministry of Interior, Alhaji Muhammadu Maccido, said the Ministry would provide the enabling environment for NIS to fully implement the Regulations.
He added that the Regulation would provide for effective monitoring of immigrants through compulsory registration, with powers to arrest and prosecute illegal immigrants, and called for adequate training of the Immigration officers on the operation of the Regulations to ensure its effective enforcement.
Highlighting the core provisions of the Regulation, Director, Legal Services of the Ministry, Mr Adebola Odugbesan, stated that the Immigration Regulation 2017 provided the legal framework for the 2015 Immigration Act and replaced the 1963 Regulation.
He added that the Regulation consists of ten parts comprising, among others, Entry Into and Departure from Nigeria, Residence and Employment of Foreign National in Nigeria, Control of Crews and Stowaways, Control of Immigrants, encapsulated in the eighty new Regulations.
Source: Ministry of Interior
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Jurgen Klopp reflects on key tactical mistakes from his players against Salzburg
admin 3rd October 2019 LFCGlobe
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp provided his critical assessment of the Reds as they edged out RB Salzburg 4-3 at Anfield.
The Reds looked the part during the first-half as they hurried to a 3-0 lead after goals from Sadio Mane, Andy Robertson and Mohamed Salah.
However, Salzburg did the unlikely and got themselves back on level terms with half an hour to go as Hee-Chan Hwang, Takumi Minamino and Erling Haaland all scored for the visitors.
Despite the Reds looking lacklustre during the second-half, they found themselves a winner as Roberto Firmino’s flicked header was met by Salah, who finished past goalkeeper Cican Stankovic to give Liverpool all three points.
Speaking after the game, Klopp pointed out the issues he saw from the touchline, suggesting the Reds were too one-dimensional in midfield after the break, allowing Salzburg to counter them effectively.
Image: Liverpool FC via Getty Images
“How do I explain that? I think it was obvious: we left the very successful path of the first 30 minutes. That was some of the best football we played so far, against how we all saw a little bit later a very well organised team with a clear idea and identity,” he said.
“We did everything they don’t like, on a high speed, scored the three goals, could have scored more. They changed the system – that’s allowed and is not really a problem usually, but tonight it was for us because we changed the approach a little bit for some reason.
“Some were in a controlling mood, some were in an attacking mood, other positions were too hectic.
“The main problem was that we tried to finish our situations off through the middle of the park; they had one midfielder less in the defensive [area] because they took a bit more risk and left a No.10 in between the lines.
“So they had one midfielder less and we still tried to push through the centre. We lost the balls there, they passed the ball to the No.10, he could turn at the back of Fabinho, could turn and counter-attack.
“That changed the momentum of the game.
“We opened the door and they were running through, chasing through the door. They scored their goal, then at half-time we tried to adjust but all the goals they scored – first goal, we lost the ball easy; second or third goal, we lost the ball easy.
“Counter-attacks, when you are 3-1 up, makes not a lot of sense. But it happened. It was a very important lesson for us tonight, but I prefer massively to learn it in the game than after the game because if we would have lost 4-3 it would have been the same lesson.
“But now we won 4-3, so three points and a lot to learn from. So I’m fine. I knew before we have to improve a lot, now everybody knows it. That’s OK. We made it more intense than necessary but we sorted it result-wise.
“Three points in the group, game on, so now recover and face Leicester.”
Meanwhile, goalscorer Robertson also believes the Reds can learn from their mistakes, admitting they “got a bit complacent” after going three ahead.
“It’s a tough one to put your finger on,” he said.
“You’ve got three points in the Champions League and that’s not easy to do against whoever you’re playing. Salzburg are a good team but we have to be disappointed with probably the last 60 minutes of how we played.
“We allowed them back into it and we don’t usually do that, especially at home. We’re very good at killing off teams and when we’re 3-0 up we then control the game, which we never done.
“We got a bit complacent, we started giving passes away where we shouldn’t have, started getting a bit sloppy.
“We need to look at that because that can’t happen, but like I said, we can’t be too negative on ourselves – we got the three points and now this campaign’s up and running for the Champions League.”
Liverpool return to league action on Saturday as they look for their eighth consecutive win at the start of the Premier League season against Leicester City at Anfield.
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Eleanor H. Porter: Pollyanna
25. CHAPTER XXV. A WAITING GAME (continued)
"But I do mind, Pollyanna. I mind very much. I would do anything--almost anything for you, my dear; but I--for reasons which I do not care to speak of now, I don't wish Dr. Chilton called in on--on this case. And believe me, he can NOT know so much about--about your trouble, as this great doctor does, who will come from New York to-morrow."
Pollyanna still looked unconvinced.
"But, Aunt Polly, if you LOVED Dr. Chilton--"
"WHAT, Pollyanna?" Aunt Polly's voice was very sharp now. Her cheeks were very red, too.
"I say, if you loved Dr. Chilton, and didn't love the other one," sighed Pollyanna, "seems to me that would make some difference in the good he would do; and I love Dr. Chilton."
The nurse entered the room at that moment, and Aunt Polly rose to her feet abruptly, a look of relief on her face.
"I am very sorry, Pollyanna," she said, a little stiffly; "but I'm afraid you'll have to let me be the judge, this time. Besides, it's already arranged. The New York doctor is coming to-morrow."
As it happened, however, the New York doctor did not come "to-morrow." At the last moment a telegram told of an unavoidable delay owing to the sudden illness of the specialist himself. This led Pollyanna into a renewed pleading for the substitution of Dr. Chilton--"which would be so easy now, you know."
But as before, Aunt Polly shook her head and said "no, dear," very decisively, yet with a still more anxious assurance that she would do anything--anything but that--to please her dear Pollyanna.
As the days of waiting passed, one by one, it did indeed, seem that Aunt Polly was doing everything (but that) that she could do to please her niece.
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Nmap 7 Released!
November 23, 2015 by Live Hacking
Nmap project released Nmap 7 after three years and half development. The new version of Nmap had more 100 contributors and 3,200 code commits since Nmap 6. The new version has 171 Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE) and supports fully IPv6 from host discovery to port scanning to OS detection. [Read more…]
Filed Under: News, Open Source, Security, Tools Tagged With: nmap, Open Source
The OpenSSL project releases new versions of its software to squash 12 security vulnerabilities
March 19, 2015 by Ethical Hacker
(LiveHacking.Com) – The OpenSSL Project announced on March 16th that it would make a new release of its OpenSSL suite to fix a number security defects. As promised the project published three new versions today, OpenSSL versions 1.0.2a, 1.0.1m, 1.0.0r and 0.9.8zf. The highest severity defect fixed by these releases is classified as High.
Before looking at the defects which have been fixed, it is worth noting that the project has reclassified its advisory about the FREAK vulnerability from Low to High. It was previously classified as Low severity because it was originally thought that server RSA export ciphersuite support was rare: a client was only vulnerable to a MITM attack against a server which supports an RSA export ciphersuite. Recent studies have shown that RSA export ciphersuites support is far more common.
The new security advisory lists only one High severity fix, for CVE-2015-0291 – ClientHello sigalgs DoS. If a client connects to an OpenSSL 1.0.2 server and renegotiates with an invalid signature algorithms extension a NULL pointer dereference will occur. This can be exploited in a DoS attack against the server. This issue affects OpenSSL version 1.0.2.
The rest of the bug fixes are rated as Moderate or Low:
Multiblock corrupted pointer (CVE-2015-0290) – Severity: Moderate – OpenSSL 1.0.2 introduced the “multiblock” performance improvement. This feature only applies on 64 bit x86 architecture platforms that support AES NI instructions. A defect in the implementation of “multiblock” can cause OpenSSL’s internal write buffer to become incorrectly set to NULL when using non-blocking IO. Typically, when the user application is using a socket BIO for writing, this will only result in a failed connection. However if some other BIO is used then it is likely that a segmentation fault will be triggered, thus enabling a potential DoS attack.
Segmentation fault in DTLSv1_listen (CVE-2015-0207) – Severity: Moderate – The DTLSv1_listen function is intended to be stateless and processes the initial ClientHello from many peers. It is common for user code to loop over the call to DTLSv1_listen until a valid ClientHello is received with an associated cookie. A defect in the implementation of DTLSv1_listen means that state is preserved in the SSL object from one invocation to the next that can lead to a segmentation fault. Errors processing the initial ClientHello can trigger this scenario. An example of such an error could be that a DTLS1.0 only client is attempting to connect to a DTLS1.2 only server.
Segmentation fault in ASN1_TYPE_cmp (CVE-2015-0286) – Severity: Moderate – The function ASN1_TYPE_cmp will crash with an invalid read if an attempt is made to compare ASN.1 boolean types. Since ASN1_TYPE_cmp is used to check certificate signature algorithm consistency this can be used to crash any certificate verification operation and exploited in a DoS attack. Any application which performs certificate verification is vulnerable including OpenSSL clients and servers which enable client authentication.
Segmentation fault for invalid PSS parameters (CVE-2015-0208) – Severity: Moderate – The signature verification routines will crash with a NULL pointer dereference if presented with an ASN.1 signature using the RSA PSS algorithm and invalid parameters. Since these routines are used to verify certificate signature algorithms this can be used to crash any certificate verification operation and exploited in a DoS attack. Any application which performs certificate verification is vulnerable including OpenSSL clients and servers which enable client authentication.
ASN.1 structure reuse memory corruption (CVE-2015-0287) – Severity: Moderate – Reusing a structure in ASN.1 parsing may allow an attacker to cause memory corruption via an invalid write. Such reuse is and has been strongly discouraged and is believed to be rare.
PKCS7 NULL pointer dereferences (CVE-2015-0289) – Severity: Moderate – The PKCS#7 parsing code does not handle missing outer ContentInfo correctly. An attacker can craft malformed ASN.1-encoded PKCS#7 blobs with missing content and trigger a NULL pointer dereference on parsing.
Base64 decode (CVE-2015-0292) – Severity: Moderate – A vulnerability existed in previous versions of OpenSSL related to the processing of base64 encoded data. Any code path that reads base64 data from an untrusted source could be affected (such as the PEM processing routines). Maliciously crafted base 64 data could trigger a segmenation fault or memory corruption. This was addressed in previous versions of OpenSSL but has not been included in any security advisory until now.
DoS via reachable assert in SSLv2 servers (CVE-2015-0293) – Severity: Moderate – A malicious client can trigger an OPENSSL_assert (i.e., an abort) in servers that both support SSLv2 and enable export cipher suites by sending a specially crafted SSLv2 CLIENT-MASTER-KEY message.
Empty CKE with client auth and DHE (CVE-2015-1787) – Severity: Moderate – If client auth is used then a server can seg fault in the event of a DHE ciphersuite being selected and a zero length ClientKeyExchange message being sent by the client. This could be exploited in a DoS attack.
Handshake with unseeded PRNG (CVE-2015-0285) – Severity: Low – Under certain conditions an OpenSSL 1.0.2 client can complete a handshake with an unseeded PRNG.
Use After Free following d2i_ECPrivatekey error (CVE-2015-0209) – Severity: Low – A malformed EC private key file consumed via the d2i_ECPrivateKey function could cause a use after free condition. This, in turn, could cause a double free in several private key parsing functions (such as d2i_PrivateKey or EVP_PKCS82PKEY) and could lead to a DoS attack or memory corruption for applications that receive EC private keys from untrusted sources. This scenario is considered rare.
X509_to_X509_REQ NULL pointer deref (CVE-2015-0288) – Severity: Low – The function X509_to_X509_REQ will crash with a NULL pointer dereference if the certificate key is invalid. This function is rarely used in practice.
New versions of OpenSSL are available as listed below:
OpenSSL 1.0.2a is now available, including bug and security fixes.
OpenSSL 1.0.1m is now available, including bug and security fixes.
OpenSSL 1.0.0r is now available, including bug and security fixes.
OpenSSL 0.9.8zf is now available, including bug and security fixes.
Filed Under: News, Security, Vulnerability Tagged With: FREAK, Openssl, RSA, SSL
FREAK vulnerability weakens secure Web sites
March 4, 2015 by Ethical Hacker
(LiveHacking.Com) – FREAK (or ‘Factoring attack on RSA-EXPORT Keys’) is a newly disclosed vulnerability that can force browsers into using weaker encryption keys. Once the connection is using weaker keys then the traffic can be cracked relatively quickly. This then exposes all the information that was being sent over the secure connection.
The vulnerability stems directly from an old U.S. government policy that made it illegal to export strong encryption and required that weaker “export-grade” products be shipped to customers in other countries. These export restrictions were lifted in the late 1990s, but the weaker encryption got built-in into widely used software, some of which made its way back into USA.
In the 1990s the USA only allowed companies to create technology with 512-bit encryption for use overseas. The law was designed to limit the trade in military technology. But 512-bit encryption has long been seen as “unacceptably weak” and most security experts thought that its use had ceased completely.
According to the Washington Post, it is possible to crack the export-grade encryption key in about seven hours, using computers on Amazon Web services. The site freakattack.com has a list of sites that are vulnerable to FREAK. The list “includes news organizations, retailers and financial services sites such as americanexpress.com.” According to Nadia Heninger, a University of Pennsylvania cryptographer, over 5 million sites are vulnerable to this attack vector.
FREAK has been assigned the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures identifier CVE-2015-0204. According to the description, “The ssl3_get_key_exchange function in s3_clnt.c in OpenSSL before 0.9.8zd, 1.0.0 before 1.0.0p, and 1.0.1 before 1.0.1k allows remote SSL servers to conduct RSA-to-EXPORT_RSA downgrade attacks and facilitate brute-force decryption by offering a weak ephemeral RSA key in a noncompliant role.”
According to a security advisory from OpenSSL, “an OpenSSL client will accept the use of an RSA temporary key in a non-export RSA key exchange ciphersuite. A server could present a weak temporary key and downgrade the security of the session.”
This issue affects all current OpenSSL versions: 1.0.1, 1.0.0 and 0.9.8. OpenSSL 1.0.1 users should upgrade to 1.0.1k, OpenSSL 1.0.0 users should upgrade to 1.0.0p, and OpenSSL 0.9.8 users should upgrade to 0.9.8zd.
This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 22nd October 2014 by Karthikeyan Bhargavan of the PROSECCO team at INRIA. The fix was developed by Stephen Henson of the OpenSSL core team the following day.
It also looks like Android’s web browser and Apple’s Safari browser are vulnerable. According to Matt Green, “A group of cryptographers at INRIA, Microsoft Research and IMDEA have discovered some serious vulnerabilities in OpenSSL clients (e.g., Android) and Apple TLS/SSL clients (e.g., Safari) that allow a ‘man in the middle attacker’ to downgrade connections from ‘strong’ RSA to ‘export-grade’ RSA.”
Filed Under: News, Security, Vulnerability Tagged With: FREAK, RSA, SSL
Apple release iOS 8.1 and Apple TV 7.0.1 with new security patches
(LiveHacking.Com) – Apple has released iOS 8.1, primarily to activate Apple Pay, but also to patch five CVE-listed vulnerabilities including fixes for a Bluetooth flaw and a fix for the infamous SSL 3.0 POODLE security vulnerability.
POODLE (Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption) is the moniker given to a flaw in the SSL 3.0 protocol. SSL 3.0 is considered old and obsolete. It has been replaced by its successors TLS 1.0, TLS 1.1, and TLS 1.2. However many system still support SSL 3.0 for compatibility reasons. Many systems retry failed secure connections with older protocol versions, including SSL 3.0. This means that a hacker can trigger the use of SSL 3.0 and try to exploit POODLE.
The vulnerability only exists when the SSL 3.0 cipher suite uses a block cipher in CBC mode. As a result, Apple has disabled CBC cipher suites when TLS connection attempts fail in iOS 8.1.
Apple also fixed a flaw would could allow a malicious Bluetooth device to bypass pairing. According to Apple, “unencrypted connections were permitted from Human Interface Device-class Bluetooth Low Energy accessories. If an iOS device had paired with such an accessory, an attacker could spoof the legitimate accessory to establish a connection. The issue was addressed by denying unencrypted HID connections.”
With the recent spate of leaked celebrity photos, Apple’s iCloud service has remained under the spotlight. According to Apple a flaw has been fixed which could allow an attacker in a privileged network position to force iCloud data access clients to leak sensitive information. The problem is connected with a TLS certificate validation vulnerability that existed in the iCloud data access clients on previous versions of iOS.
Apple TV 7.0.1
The update to Apple TV is smaller than the changes to iOS, however just as significant. Like the iOS 8.1 release, Apple TV 7.0.1 denies unencrypted HID connections to block malicious Bluetooth input devices that try to bypass pairing. iOS 8.1 also disables CBC cipher suites when TLS connection attempts fail, this is needed to stop hackers trying to exploit the POODLE flaw in SSL 3.0.
Apple TV will periodically check for software updates and will install the update on the next check. However if you want to manually check for software updates go to “Settings -> General -> Update Software”.
Filed Under: Apple, News, Security Tagged With: Apple, Apple TV, iOS
Alleged Dropbox hack underlines danger of reusing passwords
(LiveHacking.Com) – News broke yesterday of an alleged hack on Dropbox that could have potentially leaked the passwords of millions of users. An anonymous hacker posted a few hundred usernames and passwords on Pastebin and claimed that they were for Dropbox accounts. The leaked list is for accounts with email addresses starting with the letter “b”. The opening text stated that Dropbox had been hacked and that the hacker had access to some 6,937,081 credentials. The hacker then asked for Bitcoin donations in exchange for more leaked passwords.
Dropbox was swift to reply to the allegations and said that recent news articles claiming that it was hacked weren’t true. “The usernames and passwords referenced in these articles were stolen from unrelated services, not Dropbox. Attackers then used these stolen credentials to try to log in to sites across the internet, including Dropbox,” wrote Anton Mityagin from Dropbox.
In a further update Dropbox said it had also checked a subsequent list of usernames and passwords that had been posted online, and that the second list was also not associated with Dropbox accounts.
If Dropbox is telling the whole truth, then it seems likely that the hackers have generated a list of user names and passwords from previous security breaches on non-Dropbox related sites and have tried their luck to see which users are using the same password on multiple sites. “Attacks like these are one of the reasons why we strongly encourage users not to reuse passwords across services,” added Mityagin.
Dropbox users who have used the same password on their Dropbox account and on another websites should change their Dropbox password immediately. For an added layer of security, Dropbox users can also enable 2 step verification.
Filed Under: News, Security Tagged With: Dropbox
Source code for BadUSB vulnerability posted on GitHub
October 7, 2014 by Ethical Hacker
(LiveHacking.Com) – Back in August, security researchers Karsten Nohl and Jakob Lell demonstrated how a USB device can be reprogrammed and used to infect a computer without the user’s knowledge. Dubbed BadUSB, the pair published their findings during the Black Hat conference, however they did not publish the source code or the reversed engineered firmware needed to perform the attack. Nohl and Lell said they did not release code in order to give firms making USB-controller firmware time to work out how to combat the problem.
Now two other researchers, Adam Caudill and Brandon Wilson have done their own research on BadUSB and produced code that can be used to exploit it. The source-code can be found on Github. Unlike Nohl and Lell, Caudill and Wilson think it is in the public’s interest to release the source code for public consumption.
“We’re releasing everything we’ve done here, nothing is being held back,” said Mr Wilson during his presentation at DerbyCon. “We believe that this information should not be limited to a select few as others have treated it. It needs to be available to the public.”
The BBC contacted Karsten Nohl about the new release, he said that “full disclosure” can motivate USB device makers to improve the security on their devices. However he also noted that the problem with BadUSB is not one particular device but rather, “the standard itself is what enables the attack and no single vendor is in a position to change that.” He added that, “it is unclear who would feel pressured to improve their products by the recent release.”
According to the GitHub page for the new source-code the following devices can be reprogrammed and used as attack vectors:
Patriot 8GB Supersonic Xpress
Kingston DataTraveler 3.0 T111 8GB
Silicon power marvel M60 64GB
Toshiba TransMemory-MX™ Black 16 GB
Patriot Stellar 64 Gb Phison
Filed Under: News, Security, Vulnerability Tagged With: USB
Researchers at Black Hat conference demo USB’s fatal flaw
August 9, 2014 by Ethical Hacker
(LiveHacking.Com) – Security experts Karsten Nohl and Jakob Lell have demonstrated how any USB device can be reprogrammed and used to infect a computer without the user’s knowledge.
During a presentation at the Black Hat Security conference, and in a subsequent interview with the BBC, the duo have raised the question about the future security of USB devices.
As part of the demo, a normal looking smartphone was connected to a laptop, maybe something a friend or colleague might ask you to do so they can charge the device. But the smartphone was modified to present itself as a network card and not a USB media device. The result was that the malicious software on the phone was able to redirect traffic from legitimate web sites to shadow servers, which fake and the look and feel of the genuine sites, but are actually designed just to steal login credentials.
According to a blog entry posted by the pair, USB’s great versatility is also its Achilles heel. “Since different device classes can plug into the same connectors, one type of device can turn into a more capable or malicious type without the user noticing,” wrote the researchers.
The experts, who work for Security Research Labs in Germany, gave a presentation at the Black Hat conference called “BadUSB — On accessories that turn evil.” Every USB device has a micro-controller that isn’t visible to the user. It is responsible for talking with the host device (e.g. a PC) and interfacing with the actual hardware. The firmware for these microcontrollers is different on every USB device and what the micro-controller software does is different on every device. Webcams, keyboards, network interfaces, smartphones and flash drives all perform different tasks and the software is developed accordingly.
However, the team managed to reverse engineer and hack the firmware on different devices in under two months. As a result they can re-program the devices and get them to act as something they are not.
During their Black Hat presentation, a standard USB drive was inserted into a computer. Malicious code implanted on the stick tricked the PC into thinking a keyboard had been plugged in. The fake keyboard then began typing in commands – and forced the computer to download malware from the internet.
Defending against this type of attack includes tactics like code-signing of the micro-controller firmware updates or the disabling of firmware changes in hardware. However these must all be implemented by the USB device makers and isn’t something that end users can enforce.
You can download the slides from the presentation here: https://srlabs.de/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/SRLabs-BadUSB-BlackHat-v1.pdf
Filed Under: Attack, Security, Vulnerability Tagged With: Black Hat, USB
Presentation on how to break Tor removed from Black Hat schedule
July 22, 2014 by Ethical Hacker
(LiveHacking.Com) – A highly anticipated briefing about a low-cost technique for de-anonymising Tor users has been removed from the Black Hat 2014 talk schedule for as-yet unknown reasons. The talk, which would have presented a method on how to identify Tor users, was cancelled at the request of attorneys for Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, where the speakers work as researchers.
The spokesperson for the conference, which is running in Las Vegas on August 6-7, said that a Carnegie Mellon attorney informed Black Hat that one of the speakers could not give the Tor talk because the material he would reveal has not been approved for public release by the university or by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI).
The Onion Router (TOR) Project network was originally developed with the US Naval Research Laboratory as part of an investigation into privacy and cryptography on the Internet. Tor re-directs Internet traffic through a set of encrypted relays to conceal a user’s location or usage from anyone monitoring their network traffic. Using Tor makes it more difficult for online activity to be traced including “visits to Web sites, online posts, instant messages, and other communication forms.”
According to Roger Dingledine, one of the original Tor developers, the project did not “ask Black Hat or CERT to cancel the talk. We did (and still
do) have questions for the presenter and for CERT about some aspects of the research, but we had no idea the talk would be pulled before the announcement was made.” He went on to say that the project encourages research on the Tor network along with responsible disclosure of all new and interesting attacks. “Researchers who have told us about bugs in the past have found us pretty helpful in fixing issues, and generally positive to work with,” he added.
Security researcher Alexander Volynkin was scheduled to give the talk titled ‘You Don’t Have to be the NSA to Break Tor: Deanonymizing Users on a Budget’ at the Black Hat conference. It would have outlined ways that individuals can try to find the original source of Tor traffic without the need for large amounts of computing power.
Filed Under: Cryptography, News, Security, Security Report Tagged With: Black Hat, Tor
Phishing and cyber-attacks likely to rise during the World Cup
June 10, 2014 by Ethical Hacker
(LiveHacking.Com) – As is often the case with large, well known events, cyber-criminals and spammers will be using the World Cup as a chance to steal more personal information and disrupt services in “cyber protests.”
According to TrendLabs phishing campaigns have intensified and are evening targeting Brazilian nationals in a attempt to steal from them during the fervor of the World Cup. Typical campaigns try to solicit information like credit card numbers or personal identifiable information (including name, date of birth and even national identity numbers), from unsuspecting victims. This data is later sold on the black market.
The example given by TrendLabs was for a $2.2 million lottery. As with legitimate lotteries you need to pay to enter. Since the lottery is a scam the credit details entered are harvested for sale. TrendLabs has identified more than 80,000 people whose credentials have been stolen. Of those 83% had email address from providers with domain names in the .br top-level domain.
But it isn’t only phishing that will be increasing during the World Cup. According to reports by Reuters, the hacker group Anonymous is preparing cyber-attacks on the corporate sponsors of the World Cup.
“We have already conducted late-night tests to see which of the sites are more vulnerable,” said the hacker who operates under the alias of Che Commodore. “We have a plan of attack.”
The threats by Anonymous and the increased amount of phishing are just another problem for the Brazilian government. The event has been marred by delays in the building of the stadiums and widespread discontent among Brazilians over the excessive cost of hosting the event in a country.
Recently Anonymous attacked the Brazil’s Foreign Ministry computer networks and leaked dozens of confidential emails. In what is a massive security breach, Anonymous posted 333 Foreign Ministry documents including documents about the briefing of talks between Brazilian officials and U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, and a list of sport ministers that plan to attend the World Cup.
The World Cup 2014 kicks off on 12 June with a game between hosts Brazil and Croatia. The event continues until Sunday 13 July when the final will be held in Rio de Janeiro.
Filed Under: News, Security Tagged With: Anonymous, Phishing, Spam
LulzSec Hacker Sabu helps stop over 300 cyber attacks
May 27, 2014 by Ethical Hacker
(LiveHacking.Com) – Hector Xavier Monsegur, a.k.a. the hacker “Sabu,” the former “leader” of hacking group LulzSec has been helping the FBI prevent cyber attacks since his 2011 arrest. As a result the court has been petitioned to have his sentence greatly reduced.
According to court documents filed by prosecutors in the Southern District of New York, the work of Hector Xavier Monsegur has helped to prevent losses of millions of dollars. Under current sentencing guidelines Sabu could face prison time of up to 26 years for hacking companies like Fox Television, PBS, Sony, and Nintendo.
In addition to Sabu’s direct involvement in criminal hacking activities, he also had knowledge of other major criminal hacking activities, including hacks into the computer servers of the Irish political party Fine Gael and the Sony PlayStation Network.
Sabu was arrested in June 2011 and pleaded guilty, as part of a co-operation agreement with the US government. As part of that co-operation Sabu “proactively cooperated with ongoing Government investigations” and sometimes worked “literally around the clock.” The court documents also say that Sabu’s “cooperation was complex and sophisticated, and the investigations in which he participated required close and precise coordination with law enforcement officers in several locations.”
The FBI estimates that with Sabu’s help it was able to disrupt or prevent at least 300 separate computer hacks. The victims included divisions of the United States Government such as the United States Armed Forces, the United States Congress, the United States Courts, and NASA. Although difficult to quantify, it is likely that Sabu’s help prevented at least millions of dollars in loss to these victims.
Because of the extent of his help Sabu has received threats which meant the FBI needed to relocate the hacker and some members of his family, presumably under some form of witness protection scheme.
The court filings note that Sabu was repeatedly “approached on the street and threatened or menaced about his cooperation once it became publicly known. Monsegur was also harassed by individuals who incorrectly concluded that he participated in the Government’s prosecution of the operators of the Silk Road website.”
He is due to be sentenced on Tuesday.
Filed Under: News, Security Tagged With: Hackers, LulzSec
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Watkins, P. C., Woodward, K., Stone, T., & Kolts, R. L.
Key references:
Watkins, P. C., Woodward, K., Stone, T., & Kolts, R. L. (2003). Gratitude and happiness: Development of a measure of gratitude, and relationship with subjective well-being. Social Behavior & Personality: An International Journal, 31, 431-452.
Primary use / Purpose:
The GRAT was designed to measure an individual's dispositional gratitude.
The authors proposed several traits that that a grateful person would exhibit. A grateful person would not feel deprived in life, they would have a sense of abundance. They would acknowledge the contribution of others to their success and well-being, would appreciate life's simple pleasures, and would acknowledge the importance of experiencing and expressing gratitude. Their conceptualisation of gratitude was shown to correlate with measures of subjective well-being and positive affect.
The revised Gratitude Resentment and Appreciation Test (GRAT) consists of 44 items measuring these characteristics. The short-form GRAT consists of 16 items. Both scales are rated on a nine point scale from I strongly disagree to I strongly agree with the statement.
Psychometrics:
The revised GRAT has been shown to have good internal consistency, factorial validity, construct validity, and temporal stability (Watkins et al., 2003)
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by Martin Higgins
The tragic collapse of the dot-com universe was responsible for my return to construction work. Although the e-commerce company I had worked for was one of the premier producers of award-winning smoke and high quality mirrors, it now is a pile of economic rubble, which brings me to my present job.
I joined the son of a close friend restoring and improving a home his mom had bought in Berkeley. He is knowledgeable and experienced in the construction trades, and was, for the sake of building permit sanity, listed as the owner/builder. He’s also in his mid-twenties, which makes me thirty years older than my boss, but I was more than happy to be his hired hand.
A “foundation up” renovation of a 1940s era duplex is a huge beast of a job. But in California—specifically Berkeley, California—it looms even larger, swollen by complicated local building codes, inflamed by moody inspectors, and antagonized by hermit/anarchist/activist neighbors who haven’t had any fun since rioting through the ’60s and swapping LSD for STDs.
Once the building’s seismic retrofit, shear walls, fire doors, flame blocks, egress modifications, alarm systems, and framing upgrades were all well underway, I began replacing the plumbing. When I pulled the water heaters, I inadvertently pulled the plug on our progress. Two plaster-like tubes led up from the top of the heaters, eventually disappearing through the roof of the house.
“Asbestos exhaust stacks. They’ve gotta go,” said my brawny partner, shaking his head, “Build a coffin and set them aside until we do a HazMat dump.”
I spent the next couple hours building a plywood box, carefully disassembling the deathly white pipes (while wearing protective gloves and a respirator), and sealing the carcinogen carrying cylinders in the hobby-shop casket.
The Environmental Protection Agency reference A340/1-90-019 in the code book provided an appropriate epitaph: “The Asbestos NESHAP requires facility owners and/or operators involved in demolition and renovation activities to control emissions of particulate asbestos to the outside air because no safe concentration of airborne asbestos has ever been established.”
Biohazard in a box. So it sat next to the house, covered with a tarp until I made arrangements to dispose of it properly. Later that week, during a routine run to the dump, I mentioned the asbestos pipes to the weighmaster. “Don’t bring it here!” he yelled, “I wanna’ retire from this job!” This was my first clue that I might have a problem getting rid of the toxic tubes.
Months passed, and the house went through a miraculous transformation thanks to a lot of hard work and attention to detail. As the final building inspection date approached, I called the local Hazardous Waste facility in Oakland only to find that it serviced each surrounding county on a revolving schedule.
The Berkeley residential HazMat collection was scheduled later that month, so I penciled it in my calendar and gathered up other items to drop off while I was there: old cans of paint, outdated insecticides, used motor oil, dried-out adhesives, and a mysterious mayonnaise jar filled with what looked like curdled milk and wingnuts.
On the drop-off date, I carefully loaded the Box of Death in my pickup truck with the other hazardous items and drove a few freeway stops to Oakland. As I drove, I wondered if the wind was finding its way into the seams of the sarcophagus, lifting microscopic asbestos fibers from the pipes and streaming them into the traffic behind me.
I glanced up at the rearview mirror and saw an SUV tailgating me. The driver was a talking on a cell phone and not paying attention to anything but her fingernails. I imagined the combined effects of asbestos and microwave radiation. When I saw a couple of kids bouncing up and down in the backseat, I signaled a lane change and pulled in front of a Lexus driven by a man in his 40s smoking a cigar. I was pretty sure I recognized him from the cover of a glory days dot com magazine. Bingo.
The Oakland Household Hazardous Waste facility is a tiny building and warehouse on the Oakland/Alameda border. If Oakland wanted to annoy Alameda, the Oakland Household Hazardous Waste facility was the perfect way to do it. Around the perimeter of the property were storage sheds covered with cryptic diamond-shaped signs, indecipherable alphanumeric codes, and dire warnings: Caustic! Flammable! Explosive! Corrosive! Biohazard! and the caution du jour, Asbestos! Cancer and Lung Disease Hazard! Yoo-hoo, Alameda!
I joined a line of autos that led up to the collection center where workers in white jumpsuits, protective boots, safety glasses, hats, and head rags unloaded and sorted containers from each vehicle. Their manner was so casual that they resembled a Rap posse onstage, swaggering back and forth, yelling out instructions, and striking poses as they identified each item. A hand lettered sign announced: Drivers are not allowed out of their vehicles for safety. I thought, “So, they would be allowed out of their vehicles for danger?” I watched the HazMat posse’s jive choreography sync up with John Mayer singing No Such Thing on my truck’s radio.
After waiting in line for twenty minutes, I was directed to pull into the unloading area. The workers swarmed around the pickup bed and quickly sorted the containers by type onto rolling wagons. The mayonnaise jar was relegated to a box full of other mayonnaise jars filled with indiscernible contents.
They ignored the cancer box, so I yelled out, “The wooden box has asbestos pipes!” They froze for a moment, then yelled out, “Asbestos!” which brought a supervisor jogging out of the warehouse up to the window of my truck.
“We don’t accept asbestos anymore,” he said, eyeing the box suspiciously.
“Where can I get rid of it?” I asked, offering my best sincere face.
“Altamont Landfill. I’ll get you the number.”
When I called the Altamont Landfill, a very helpful woman informed me that prior to arriving, I must wrap each piece of pipe in 6 mm plastic sheeting and seal every seam with duct tape. Upon arriving, I had to be “profiled” to acquire the appropriate acceptance form and get delivery instructions.
I returned to my construction site and, once again in protective gear, wrapped each pipe in a shiny black shroud of plastic and sealed them with silver duct tape. Now, the pipes looked like some high-tech equipment on its way to NASA rather than debris destined for the dump. I laid them back in the box, screwed the top back on and headed for Altamont, about 45 miles away.
As I drove, I thought about the Rolling Stones film Gimme’ Shelter, which focused on the free Rock concert at Altamont Speedway in 1969. A man in the audience was murdered by Hell’s Angels who were hired as security guards for what turned out to be a very violent event, and has since been regarded as, “the end of the Summer of Love.” If I had been headed to the San Clemente Landfill I would have probably been thinking about Nixon; Memphis Landfill, Elvis; Phnom Penh Landfill, Pol Pot.
I looked at my rearview mirror to check the box in my pickup bed as a Marlboro merchandise promotion van pulled into the lane behind me and rode my rear bumper. The driver wore an outsized cowboy hat and faded denim jacket. Perfect.
At the Altamont freeway exit, I slowed and followed the winding two-lane asphalt for several miles into the pristine countryside. Horses, cows, dogs, hawks, and crows were oblivious to the lethal load I was bringing into their midst. I wondered what type of containment canister would eventually hold my cargo. Fifty-five gallon steel drums set in cement? A concrete bunker? A fortified Con-Ex shipping container in some subterranean vault?
Whatever it was, it must keep its contents from reaching living beings and our water supply. I had faith. There were several government agencies guiding the process—unseen environmental guardians hovered over me. No doubt there would be concerned clerks and paperwork standing between me and a toxic dump.
I trusted.
I stopped for a moment at the landfill gate, then followed official looking signs to the receiving office and parked at the far end of the lot.
When I announced to the receptionist what I had, I was shown to a desk and presented with several forms to fill out. To simplify the process, I claimed that I was the “generator” of the waste and also the “customer.” I was told that the type of asbestos I had was less hazardous than “friable,” or loose particle asbestos. My “nonfriable” asbestos disposal would cost $27, but I would be able to use my “profile” to return with additional loads for the next 11 months. That’s a scant $2.25 a month for the right to dump carcinogens legally.
A few minutes later I was given a computer generated ticket and a long white strip of plastic. The Hazardous Waste woman directed me to the scale house. “Have a nice day,” she said, as I tied the white plastic flag to the side view mirror and drove up the hill. Huge tractor-trailers full of garbage chugged up the incline ahead of me and filled the air with their black diesel smoke. We climbed that mountain of garbage until, at the top, they turned off to a special dumping area and I rolled on to the scale house.
“Will I be able to leave the box here too?” I asked the manager, unsure what procedure I was about to undertake.
He squinted and shrugged, “Yeah. I mean, if it was me I would.” then waved me on down a packed dirt road that ended in a turn to the right or left. At this fork, a man directed trucks to turn one way or the other after determining their load. He stood about five feet tall with a scruffy hardhat, reflective safety vest, and big friendly smile. When he saw my white flag, he waved to me enthusiastically.
“Hold on, hold on, hold on!” he shouted, “You got asbestos?”
I grinned and nodded, prepared for the worst.
“Okay then,” he said, pointing to a group of people dumping yard waste and household rubbish. “Dump it right over there!”
I waved back at him, assuming he had not heard me correctly. “I said ‘Yes, I do have asbestos.’”
“Okay,” he said, happily repeating his instruction, “right over there!”
I couldn’t believe it. I was being told to put the poison pipes in with the coffee grounds and eggshells, headless Pichachu dolls and smashed TVs, holey underwear and unmatchable socks? We’re talkin’ nonfriable cancer here, Buddy; Tumor-Helper in the box.
Another dumpsite attendant waved me in, but I was still cautious, so I casually said “Asbestos, right?” and he pointed to the trash, “Wherever you like.
As I pulled the box from the bed of my truck onto the ground, I tried to rationalize what I had just gone through. Wrapping, sealing, boxing, driving an hour into the country, filling out forms, and having my profile recorded for posterity. I looked around at the seagulls picking through the trash, the kids helping their parents empty the family car, the attendants strolling around looking for misplaced treasures, and the gargantuan bulldozers crushing and piling the rubbish according to some arcane plan.
I’m sure what I did was correct according to the rules, but it didn’t seem right.
I got back in the pickup and drove back toward the scale house. In the rearview mirror I watched one of the gigantic bulldozers roll right over my Box of Death, crushing it flat, then backing up and flattening it further. The driver then used the immense shovel on the front of the dozer to lift the squashed box and a bunch of other garbage up and let it drop from on high. I saw tiny pieces of the brittle white pipes fall to the ground, followed by a cloud of dust and strips of black plastic stuck together with duct tape.
The dust moved in a whirlwind past a Mom, Dad, and daughter who stood on the bed of their pickup tossing black garbage bags onto heap. They laughed and joked with the casual glee that some people exhibit when dumping their junk. My eyes itched. I’m sure it was psychosomatic, but I had a cartoon-like mental image of microscopic glasslike fibers swirling in the breeze, blowing in the bulldozer exhaust, and carried into the sky on seagull wings.
EPA reference A340/1-90-019 clearly states “No safe concentration of airborne asbestos has ever been established.” But sitting in my truck at the dump and repeating it aloud, it now sounded less like a scientific shortcoming and more like the basis for courtroom denials and excuses.
I stared at the people, the dust cloud, and the ‘dozer in anger. Not a righteous anger, ignited by this mockery of logic and law, but a mounting rage because I had been had. Duped by the regulators, conned by the clerks, and manipulated into joining a $27-per year deception. People were breathing asbestos because of addle-brained bureaucracy and my unwitting delivery. I simmered, looking to vent, but it was all so futile.
The cloud moved on and so did I.
As I drove past the scale house, the weigh master gave me a smile and nod to send me on my way. As I headed down the garbage mountain, the white plastic flag on my mirror fluttered in the wind. I reached out and yanked it off, thinking, Surrender. How appropriate and let it fly from my fingers into the swirling dust behind my tailgate.
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Auteur / Author : ONLINE
Titre / Title : Manual de Apoio - Produçao de programas em radio comunitaria
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Editeur / Publisher : UNDP - UNESCO
Année / Year : 2003 Nbr. Pages : 51 pages / 245 Kb Taille / Size
URL : http://www.mediamoz.com/CR/crmanuals/ProdProgManApoio.pdf
Evaluation / Book review.
Integrating and training new programme producers
into a community radio – also on construction of
community editorial groups
A community radio is a unique tool for empowerment, social development and change. The main reason is that the community radio belongs to a limited group of people, a smaller community, where the basic conditions for life and its challenges are more or less the same, where we know each other, and where recent research shows that we generally really like to live.
Looking to such a reality in rural Mozambique, a community owned, operated and maintained radio should not be possible. And we know that it is only so with utmost commitment, care, planning - and some luck. A number of different tools can, however, facilitate the development of a framework where such a difficult sustainability can be obtained.
One of these important sustainability aspects has to do with the staffing of a community radio: paying expensive salaries is simply not an option, nor desirable: we want the radio programmes to be produced by our people, we want the languages and ways of using these to be ours, we want the metaphors and cultural references to come from our history and present reality… so we need to find a way of working with community members, who give their time and special community capacity to the radio on a volunteer basis. Many find it questionable, even sometimes unethical, to call on community members to work without pay. But this is the only way financially possible - and we do it in so many other community development contexts. We all have to give what we have in terms of time and experience to move towards our future dreams.
As a volunteer community programme producer you work on the basis of a contract with the radio, which ensures that you have rights and obligations. You will learn a lot from courses and from daily contact with the colleagues and the equipment - and you will facilitate a unique community service through the radio!
One of the many issues when working with a group of volunteers has to do with effectively managing this group. UNESCO in Mozambique has developed a concept of "Mobiliser", who ensures that the community programmers always are representative of all the communities in the community, who plan for effective introduction of new volunteers into the groups and who coordinate the work of the editorial groups.
Training, inclusion, coaching and support is very important in such a radio, because the groups of community producers by nature is very fluid: while some start in the radio, others stop - sometimes there are too many programmers available, at other times too few. And training is something that never stops. It has to be an ongoing, integral part of the life of a radio.
These are the issues dealt with in this manual. Good luck. It is worth all the effort !!!! It is for you and your children - your community!
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Ariana Grande Is Mrs. Steal Your Man (Or Woman?) In 'Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored' Video
WHAT DOES THIS TWIST ENDING MEAN?!
Happy thank u, next day! Ariana Grande's fifth album arrived into the world on Friday (February 8), just in time to gloss over all that drama concerning her scrapped Grammys performance. Ever the generous queen, Ari also shared the video for the album's closing track: the iconically titled "break up with your girlfriend, i'm bored."
As previously teased, the trippy clip stars Riverdale hunk Charles Melton, who has his eyes fixed on Grande... but his hands all over model Ariel Yasmine, who's styled to look exactly like the singer, sky-high ponytail and all. When the scene moves from a nightclub to a house party, Grande does a little Single White Female-inspired makeover by ditching her platinum wig and attempting to steal Melton away. Or is it actually the girl she was after the whole time? You'll have to wait until the steamy makeout-in-a-pool scene at the end to decide for yourself. Let the theories begin.
As for the song itself, it finds Ari back in "7 Rings"-esque boss mode, lusting over some glossy pop-trap beats and stirring up all the drama: "Break up with your girlfriend / Yeah, yeah, 'cause I'm bored / You can hit it in the mornin' / Yeah, yeah, like it's yours."
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Dear Thing by Julie Cohen
After years of watching her best friends Ben and Claire try for a baby, Romily has offered to give them the one thing that they want most.
Romily expects it will be easy to be a surrogate. She's already a single mother, and she has no desire for any more children. But Romily isn't prepared for the overwhelming feelings that have taken hold of her and which threaten to ruin her friendship with Ben and Claire-and even destroy their marriage.
Now there are three friends, two mothers and only one baby, and an impossible decision to make...
I was expecting Dear Thing to have a much sadder tone than it did and while I did feel the sadness emanating from Claire and Ben initially I was actually more buoyed up by their hopefulness during most of the story.
Their path to a family and children of their own wasn’t going according to plan, in fact they were at the end of the road in some ways and I could honestly feel both their positions through the words of Julie Cohen. The frustration from Ben and the exhaustion from Claire were both clear… So when Romily presented herself as a possible surrogate the whole novel’s feelings became more hopeful (at least from Ben) and excitedly wary from Claire. Perhaps that was the crux of the story- there are highs and lows constantly being felt when faced with infertility, no matter what stage you’re in or what your current treatment is.
I was so hopeful for them and yet kept myself guarded throughout the story because I was worried about Romily. Not just because she was doing this thing for her friends without really considering the implications but also because she just seemed so unsettled and there was always this underlying tension between herself and Claire. I was thrilled when their friendship solidified because they both needed the support and you could tell that there could be true love between them if they would just accept each other.
The tension in the plot was intense throughout- there wasn’t a moment until the end that I was relaxed about the outcome- and even then I was surprised. Perhaps the most grounding force in Dear Thing though was Posie, Romily’s daughter, who presented herself so honestly and with such poise that I relied on her to keep the novel on steady ground.
Dear Thing was a very well thought out novel that moved quickly with many, many emotions portrayed by the author with grace.
Thank you to St.Martin's Press for our review copy. All opinions are our own.
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T.A. Williams Stranded on a desert island
Please welcome T.A.Williams, author of What happens in the Alps..., as he tackles our Desert Island Interview!
About T.A.:
Firstly, my name isn't T A. It's Trevor. I write under the androgynous name T A Williams because 65% of books are read by women. In my first book, "Dirty Minds" one of the (female) characters suggests the imbalance is due to the fact that men spend too much time getting drunk and watching football. I couldn't possibly comment. Ask my wife...
I've written all sorts: thrillers, historical novels, short stories and now I'm enjoying myself hugely writing humour and romance. Romantic comedies are what we all need from time to time. Life isn’t always very fair. It isn’t always a lot of fun, but when it is, we need to embrace it. If my books can put a smile on your face and maybe give your heartstrings a tug, then I know I’ve done my job.
I‘ve lived all over Europe, but now I live in a little village in sleepy Devon, tucked away in south west England. I love the place. That’s why you’ll find leafy lanes and thatched cottages in most of my books. Oh, yes, and a black Labrador.
I've been writing since I was 14 and that is half a century ago. However, underneath this bald, wrinkly exterior, there beats the heart of a youngster. My wife is convinced I will never grow up. I hope she's right.
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T.A.Williams Stranded on a Desert Island
If you could only have one book with you, what would it be?
I suppose the best book would be “How to survive on a Desert Island”, but I can’t find that on Amazon. Although I write fiction I don’t read a lot of it so I’d opt for something non-fiction and long. At the moment I’m hooked on the First World War so maybe Mark Thompson’s excellent “The White War”.
What one luxury item would you want to be stranded with?
If a windsurfer counts as a luxury, then a windsurfer. I love the sport and it might even help me get round the island without getting eaten by a shark.
What is the one practical item you would want to have with you to use?
The kind of massive, sharp knife that Crocodile Dundee carries round with him. Would help with food, construction, defence…
Would you enjoy the solitude, even briefly, or would it drive you crazy?
Although I thoroughly enjoy myself if I’m at a party, I quite enjoy solitude. So, no, I don’t think it would drive me any crazier than I already am.
If you could be stranded with one other person, who would you want it to be?
My wife. She’s a clever woman and a very practical person.
What modern technology would you miss the most?
My computer, so I could carry on writing.
What food or beverage would you miss the most?
Probably wine.
How many days do you think you would cope without rescue?
Psychologically I reckon I could manage a fairly long time. Of course, if the food was terrible I might crack sooner!
What is the first thing you would do when rescued?
Open a bottle of ice cold champagne and write a book about my experiences.
What would be your first Tweet or Facebook update upon your return?
“What Happens on a Desert Island” coming out in three months time. Pre-order now.”
What happens in the Alps...
UP IN THE MAGICAL, SNOW-KISSED MOUNTAINS…
Two years ago, Annie Brewer’s life was turned upside down when her adrenaline-junkie husband died in a tragic climbing accident. So she’s hoping that moving to the beautiful village of Santorso in the Italian Alps will finally put her life back on track!
…ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN!
She might be going into business with her oldest friend – notorious lady-charmer Matt Brown – but men are definitely out of the question for Annie! That is, until she bumps into tall, dark and delicious Alessandro Lago on the ski slopes…and spontaneously says ‘Yes’ to a date!
It must be the crisp, mountain air but suddenly, anything seems possible. The only trouble is, chivalrous Matt is looking more gorgeous than ever…
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That's What Friends Are For by Marcie Steele
Best friends tell each other everything… right?
Sam and Louise have been best friends since they hung their coats side by side on the first day of primary school. Now in their thirties, they’re just as close, but life is a little bit more complicated…
On the outside, thirty-something Sam seems to have it all; the gorgeous husband, the beautiful home and the flourishing business. But things are not quite as rosy as they seem. So when handsome stranger, Dan, walks into her life, Sam finds his attentions hard to resist.
Louise might seem like life and soul of the party, but her outgoing exterior hides her sadness about the heartbreak in her past. She just wants someone to love – but all Louise gets left with is a quick fumble with an ex at the end of the night.
When a glamorous face from the past returns to shake things up, things get even more complicated for Sam and Louise. And just when they need each other the most, they’ve reason to wonder whether they ever really knew each other at all.
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At first I had a hard time keeping the characters straight in That’s What Friends Are For because the names seemed to run together and there were a number of primary and secondary roles. I also found it tricky to place them in the town they lived in at the start- not sure quite why though? It became much more visual to me though once we were given the scenes within the market which is when I started to connect the people, places and their relationships.
The novel has a softer image for the cover than I would have expected from the content. There are a number of challenges within the plot that certainly don’t make this novel exclusively a “light” read and while the two main women, Sam and Louise, are indeed best friends they spend much of the novel at odds with each other and are certainly not in each other’s pockets. They both have some residual heartache that is haunting them and are not entirely comfortable with each other. It was as if they were remaining friends out of habit rather than need.
I found Sam to be the likeable one of the two main characters. I warmed to her and her difficulties within her marriage and she generally had my empathy throughout the story. Louise, though quirky and fun, was much more frustrating. Her daughter’s needs were so far out of her spectrum that I began to actually dislike her- while I understood somewhat how she arrived at her “disinterest” in Charley, I just couldn’t accept her indifference. She also used Matt as a babysitter without giving him any friendship (it seems) in return and this rubbed me the wrong way also quite apart from her treatment of Sam.
On the whole though I quite liked the story and did find that I enjoyed the novel!
Thank you to Bookouture for our review copy. All opinions are our own.
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Labels: * Kathryn, 3.5 Star, Friendship Lit, Mom Lit, Single Girl Lit
Father's Day by Simon Van Booy
I loved this book. From the cover to the very last page, this book moved me in many ways. I lost my Dad a couple years ago and not a day goes by that I don't miss him. This book was an emotional read that brought back so many wonderful memories and also showed just how difficult being a parent is, no matter the circumstance that brought you to being one.
This was a sad story at times, and given the tragic circumstances that brought Harvey and her uncle together to become a family, that was only to be expected. I did enjoy the power of redemption type theme that I felt the uncle's life brought to the story and I definitely loved that the social worker involved was such a hero.
The story was one that moved me in many ways as there are always those people who become our family when they may not have wanted to or may not have been expecting to. This story demonstrated that in epic proportions. I think it is a true tribute to the ties that bind us as to how this story played out.
A great read, but a bit slow at times, I was captivated by the tale of a family that came to be and the love they shared.
Thank you to Harper Collins for our review copy. All opinions are our own.
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David Meredith Stranded on a desert island
Please welcome David Meredith, author of The Reflections of Queen Snow White, as he tackles our Desert Island Interview!
About David:
David Meredith is a writer and educator originally from Knoxville, Tennessee. He recieved both a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts from East Tennessee State University, in Johnson City, Tennessee as well as a Tennessee State Teaching license. On and off, he spent nearly a decade, from 1999-2010 teaching English in Northern Japan, but currently lives with his wife and three children in the Nashville Area where he continues to write and teach English.
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Neither of them are my favorite books, but in the name of pure utility, perhaps My Side of the Mountain or Hatchet. The Official Boy Scout Handbook might not be a bad idea to have around either.
Perhaps a private jet, but I suppose that would rather defeat the purpose of being stranded in the first place, so maybe a really comfortable bed.
You mean, besides a volleyball with a face on it? I suppose the most important would be a sturdy knife… or maybe an ice skate.
In general, I enjoy solitude so I don’t suppose it would be all that bad. I’m not a misanthrope though, so it would probably get to me eventually.
I suppose the easy answer is my wife, but if you are talking famous or literary figures probably Bear Gryllis. He might feed me grubs, mold, and fungus, but at least I’d survive.
I’m sure it would be my computer. I’ve rushed off to work without my laptop a time or two and I might as well have been marooned on a desert island. Those made for really long days.
Well, since Bear is out spearing fish in our lagoon, I’d be free to get the coconut rum distillery up and running, so I think I’d be good. ;)
The thing about coping with tragedy and hardship of any kind is that you never know how much of it you can handle until you are forced to handle it. For most people, that amount is almost always far more than they previously believed they could ever endure.
Bath, shave, and haircut.
Well… I’m back! Spalding didn’t make it. #railsonraftnexttime
The Reflections of Queen Snow White
What happens when "happily ever after" has come and gone?
On the eve of her only daughter, Princess Raven's wedding, an aging Snow White finds it impossible to share in the joyous spirit of the occasion. The ceremony itself promises to be the most glamorous social event of the decade. Snow White’s castle has been meticulously scrubbed, polished and opulently decorated for the celebration. It is already nearly bursting with jubilant guests and merry well-wishers. Prince Edel, Raven's fiancé, is a fine man from a neighboring kingdom and Snow White's own domain is prosperous and at peace. Things could not be better, in fact, except for one thing:
The queen has been in a moribund state of hopeless depression for over a year with no end in sight. It is only when, in a fit of bitter despair, she seeks solitude in the vastness of her own sprawling castle and climbs a long disused and forgotten tower stair that she comes face to face with herself in the very same magic mirror used by her stepmother of old.
It promises her respite in its shimmering depths, but can Snow White trust a device that was so precious to a woman who sought to cause her such irreparable harm? Can she confront the demons of her own difficult past to discover a better future for herself and her family? And finally, can she release her soul-crushing grief and suffocating loneliness to once again discover what "happily ever after" really means?
Only time will tell as she wrestles with her past and is forced to confront The Reflections of Queen Snow White.
Still Mine by Amy Stuart
WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU VANISH FROM YOUR LIFE AND LEAVE NO STORY BEHIND?
SOMEONE WILL MAKE ONE UP FOR YOU.
Clare is on the run.
From her past, from her ex, and from her own secrets. When she turns up alone in the remote mining town of Blackmore asking about Shayna Fowles, the local girl who disappeared, everyone wants to know who Clare really is and what she's hiding. As it turns out, she's hiding a lot, including what ties her to Shayna in the first place. But everyone in this place is hiding something from Jared, Shayna's golden-haired ex-husband, to Charlie, the charming small-town drug pusher, to Derek, Shayna's overly involved family doctor, to Louise and Wilfred, her distraught parents.
Did Shayna flee? Was she killed? Is it possible she's still alive?
Sabrina-Kate- 4 Star
I truly enjoy a good suspenseful book and this one was quite well written. I really dislike it when I can figure a book out before the ending and this one kept me guessing until the very end. I kept making assumptions about things and was not able to quite figure things out. I kept trying to guess, especially about the relationship between Clare and Shayna. One assumes that they were connected somehow or that they knew each other due to the way Clare speaks and thinks about her.
I still don't fully understand everything that happened or maybe I question why certain things happened as they don't necessarily make sense to me. I am not sure why Clare was so easily persuaded to go on this mission but I could definitely understand her need to escape her abusive husband.
The book was pretty dark and even made me feel uneasy at times. I was never quite sure who had what intention and even who could be trustworthy. To be honest, I even had my doubts still after finishing the book. I enjoyed that aspect because it makes me continue to think and ponder and hopefully that also means that there will be a sequel.
For a debut novel, it was pretty well thought out and had a lot of intriguing moments. Some parts were not as straightforward as I could hope that they would be so that is why I didn't give it a perfect rating. However, I really enjoyed this book and would recommend it for anyone who likes this genre of story.
Thank you to Simon & Schuster for our review copy. All opinions are our own.
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The Year We Turned Forty by Liz Fenton & Lisa Steinke
If you could repeat one year of your life, what would you do differently?
Jessie loves her son Lucas more than anything, but it tears her up inside that he was conceived in an affair that ended her marriage to a man she still loves, a man who just told her he's getting remarried. This time around, she’s determined to bury the secret of Lucas’ paternity, and to repair the fissures that sent her wandering the first time.
Gabriela regrets that she wasted her most fertile years in hot pursuit of a publishing career. Yes, she’s one of the biggest authors in the world, but maybe what she really wanted to create was a family. With a chance to do it again, she’s focused on convincing her husband, Colin, to give her the baby she desires.
Claire is the only one who has made peace with her past: her twenty-two year old daughter, Emily, is finally on track after the turmoil of adolescence, and she's recently gotten engaged, with the two carat diamond on her finger to prove it. But if she’s being honest, Claire still fantasizes about her own missed opportunities: a chance to bond with her mother before it was too late, and the possibility of preventing her daughter from years of anguish. Plus, there’s the man who got away—the man who may have been her one true love.
But it doesn’t take long for all three women to learn that re-living a life and making different decisions only leads to new problems and consequences—and that the mistakes they made may, in fact, have been the best choices of all…
Recently I read my first novel by these great writers- The Status of all Things, and I was happily attached to all the characters very quickly in that book. The Year We Turned Forty has a similar magical aspect as in The Status of All Things- there is some sort of trigger or action that gave the characters the ability for a “re-do”. It was a little disappointing that the same idea was taken into the next novel but as I enjoy their writing so much I quickly overlooked the similarity.
The Year We Turned Forty is compelling from a character and plot stand point. Many of us would be interested in finding out if our lives would have been different if we’d just chosen a different path or made another choice and the women in this story are given the chance to go back and redo everything that happened to them from their 40th birthdays for a whole year.
What was interesting were the three best friends who have not only completely different lives but also have different attitudes to life. They are so close and yet very different and I couldn’t help but wonder how they’d remained so close throughout the years. We are given a snapshot of a period in their friendship and only a few glimpses at the past that have brought us to this moment. I wish we’d had a bit more of their past to connect them in the present.
The plot was well weaved as it comprised the three different voices into a very well-paced storyline. All the characters were realistic and most importantly, for me, were the ages of the characters- they were experiencing different things than those in their 20’s – older children with teenage issues or new adult issues, the illness and loss of parents and the career versus motherhood aspect of life.
Thank you to Washington Square Press for our review copy. All opinions are our own.
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Labels: * Kathryn, 4 Star, Friendship Lit, Mom Lit, Single Girl Lit
Would you rather with Carol Maloney Scott
Please welcome Carol Maloney Scott, author of Accidental Makeovers.
Carol Maloney Scott:
Carol Maloney Scott, author of the Rom-Com on the Edge series, is a frazzled new bride and wiener dog fanatic. She is a lover of donuts, and a hater mornings. Recently unearthing a childhood passion for writing, she can once again be seen carrying around a notebook and staring into space. Her stories are witty, fresh and real, just like life.
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Chocolate. Everything is better with chocolate, except pickles. There is no hope for pickles.
Bridget was one of the first chick lit characters to make me laugh out loud and embarrass myself in public. So, definitely Bridget.
Wine. Vodka is too strong, and beer reminds me of pee.
This one is spa times a billion. However, in a few weeks I am going camping – pray for me.
Water or mountains?
Water wins, but mountains are a close second. A mountain lake is ideal, but I am a beach girl, too.
Zombies or vampires?
Vampires. They are glamorous and mysterious, and zombies are just…yucky. I especially hate that noise they make – you’re dead, shut up!!
Dogs all day long. They provide endless entertainment, unconditional love and comfort. But I must say I have seen some damn cute kittens recently. I just prefer animals that actually like me. Also without claws.
Coke. But I REALLY need to stop drinking soda! Never mind vampires or zombies – hunchbacks will need to be my new favorite characters, when I turn into a pretzel from osteoporosis, due to a lifetime of drinking sugary acid. Okay, rant over.
Neither. I am secretly not a real grown up. Except for the wine.
I enjoy both, depending on how much I feel like sitting upright and waiting for my food while watching other people…never mind, take away.
High heels, even though the same bones that fear becoming a hunchback also politely ask that I favor the other two choices a little more often.
I used to be staunchly loyal to physical books, but if I continued down that path I would be buried in fiction right now. My husband bought me a Kindle a couple of years ago, and it is my new best friend.
Paperback or Hardcover?
Hardcovers are archaic, and a complete waste of money.
Pen when I am journaling, pencil in my calendar book, and when plotting my novels. Feelings can be permanent, but plans need to be flexible.
Mad Men, Downton Abbey or Breaking Bad?
Breaking Bad. The tension was incredible.
Even though I have come to love some quality dramatic series and movies, comedy will always be my favorite. Laughter is essential to my well-being. Plus so many things are so hilarious!
Twilight or Hunger Games?
I hate both equally.
I used to be lipstick all the way, but I’ve recently discovered gloss can also be fun. Chapstick is for children, men and nuns.
Facebook. Twitter is just too limiting for me – I am a wordy chick!
I plot the whole thing, and then make a million changes, just like in my real life. I’m a flexible planner.
Accidental Makevers
Twenty-something, single mom Bianca yearns for more. The cosmetology license she worked so hard to get is collecting dust while she waitresses for her mother’s catering business, but she has no clue how to turn her dreams of being a makeup artist into reality. Adding to her unhappiness is her dead-end relationship with her immature, video game-obsessed baby daddy, Max. Although he runs a successful business and Bianca still gets a thrill whenever she sees him play the drums in his cover band, Chain, she can’t deny that he’s starting to feel like her big, tattooed second child.
In desperate need of a life makeover, her fortune takes a positive turn when she crosses paths with an impulsive, runaway bride who has the connections to help Bianca achieve her goals. Suddenly, doors are being opened for her and she has a fabulous, new job that’s reigniting her zest for life. Too bad Max isn’t on board with these changes, and he starts acting like a jealous jerk, which brings their faltering relationship to a boiling point just about the time Bianca meets Eric, a sexy and charming financial manager. Eric comes from a different world, but one Bianca is increasingly eager to join.
Bianca expects her friends and family to be supportive of her budding romance with Eric, but to her surprise, they’re all on Team Max and they rally behind him when he launches a campaign to win her back. Nothing wrong with bar fights, fake girlfriends, and strategically placed rodents when they're all in the name of true love, right?
Will she be lured back to her familiar life, or will a successful career makeover beautify her love life?
Neverending Beginnings by Mary Chris Escobar
Kate is alarmed to find out that her best friend Amy is getting married after dating for only six months. Her alarm turns to shock when she learns that the groom-to-be is Kate's old college ex. As the big day approaches, Kate's inability to hide her feelings is threatening to ruin her friendship with Amy.
Kate’s last minute, vodka-fueled wedding toast has her wishing she could turn back the clock and make things right. Imagine her surprise when she wakes up the next day and finds out she can.
Forced to relive one of the most painful weeks of her life, Kate slowly works to repair the damage she has done. In the process, she learns a lot about herself and the cynically charming best man, Ben.
Kaley- 4 Star
We all have days and moments we would love to do over. Maybe you embarrassed yourself or hurt someone else. Or maybe you just made a really stupid decision. No matter the reason, we may wish for another chance to make things right even though we know it’s never going to happen. But Mary Chris Escobar’s heroine, Kate, gets that chance in Neverending Beginnings. Yep. Thanks to a truly awful bridesmaid’s speech, Kate gets to relive the week before her best friend’s wedding all over again. And again. And again.
On the one hand, I’m glad Kate lived the week over so many times because every time gave more insight into her, as a character, and gave her some much needed self-introspection as well. Some weeks allowed for getting to know minor characters more fully. There’s one week she lives that she goes to visit her dad and we learn more about her childhood and how she has (not) been dealing with her mother’s death. On the other hand, I almost got a little bored after yet another instance of Kate waking up after the wedding and realizing she had to relive the week again. Overall though, every week gives the reader more information and strengthened what we already knew. I didn’t really find the story too repetitive, which is a surprise for a book that is about a character living the same week over and over again!
It can sometimes be hard for me to read books where the main character makes really stupid, cringe worthy decisions. Kate made a lot of those. A lot. There were times I wanted to smack her upside the head because she wasn’t realizing what needed to be done to get her out of this Groundhog Day-esque situation (clearly I see myself as an expert because of all the movies and books I’ve watched or read with a similar story line). But she was a really endearing character and I loved reading about her.
Even though Neverending Beginnings has a storyline that has been done before – having to relive the same event over again until you get it “right” – Mary Chris Escobar’s novel felt fresh. I was pretty captivated and invested in the story and definitely had a bit of a book hangover when I finished it. It might be why I immediately hopped online to download Delayed, which is a novella about a minor character from the novel. I need to see how the Happily Ever After was going! Neverending Beginnings is sweet, funny, and a great read. I definitely recommend it!
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Would you rather with Diane Barnes
Please welcome Diane Barnes, author of Waiting for Ethan.
Diane Barnes:
Though she always dreamed about being the shortstop for the Boston Red Sox, Diane Barnes is a marketing writer in Massachusetts. She participates in two monthly writing groups and attends novel writing workshops in Boston and Worcester, Massachusetts.
She started “Waiting for Ethan” as a challenge to participate in National Novel Writing Month. The original story was about a character who dated a string of freshly divorced men who all had issues with their ex-wives. She won’t say if that idea came from her dating experiences.
In 2012, Diane was one of eight writers who attended the Boston Writers’ Studio, an exclusive four-day intense writing workshop taught by bestselling author Elizabeth Berg. Diane says having her idol read her work was a moment she’ll never forget.
When not crafting novels, Diane spends her time playing tennis, going to the beach or watching her beloved Red Sox. She completed her first half marathon in 2014 (to combat her love of chocolate) and lives in central Massachusetts with her husband Steve; they often fantasize about moving to Turks and Caicos – for the winter months at least.
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Without a doubt CHOCOLATE
Bridget Jones!
Wine, preferably red!
Spa, camping would be hell!
Water!
I’d run from both!
Dogs, my favorite is a Golden Retriever named Colby!!
Pepsi, I often conducted taste tests at the beach as a kid.
If I have to choose one, tea, but really hot chocolate!
Dine out.
Flip flops.
Physical book.
Hardcover because that means I probably couldn’t wait for it to go to paperpack.
Keyboard! I think better when I'm typing!
Downton Abbey.
This is tough. I will go with Hunger Games
Lipgloss!
Fly by the seat of my pants!!
Waiting for Ethan
No Ordinary Life by Suzanne Redfearn
Suzanne Redfearn delivers another gripping page-turner in her latest novel, a story about a young mother's fight to protect her children from the dangerous world of Hollywood. Faye Martin never expected her husband to abandon her and her three children . . . or that she'd have to struggle every day to make ends meet. So when her four-year-old daughter is discovered through a YouTube video and offered a starring role on a television series, it seems like her prayers have been answered. But when the reality of their new life settles in, Faye realizes that fame and fortune don't come without a price. And in a world where everyone is an actor and every move is scrutinized by millions, it's impossible to know who to trust, and Faye finds herself utterly alone in her struggle to save her family. Emotionally riveting and insightful, NO ORDINARY LIFE is an unforgettable novel about the preciousness of childhood and the difficult choices a mother needs to make in order to protect this fragile time in her children's lives.
No Ordinary Life completely engrossed me from the start. I was immediately drawn to adorable Molly. (Cute as a button, you could picture her sprinkling her sweetness all over the place.) I was also happy Suzanne Redfern initially introduced us to the characters in the town they came from because the novel rapidly moved to LA and a completely different existence. In this case their original surroundings gave a good grounding for the people that they had been before their lives changed- without it I don’t think I would have found them so realistic nor empathised with them so much.
I’ve often wonder what kind of person it takes to live the life of a star like this? It seems like so much work, so much planning and then so much boredom. It’s also a false sense of reality for a child to grow up in this way- the adoration juxtaposed with the isolation. One of the older actresses on the set quite clearly tries to warn Faye of the difficulties while still trying to show her it’s possible to have a good life.
The children were written really well, you could tell Redfern had given them as much thought as the adults in the novel. They behaved exactly as one would expect and even the budding relationships between the teens were perfectly enacted.
The one character I didn’t really understand was Sean. As the father of the children I never grasped if he was on their side of if he was simply out to get money? His role in the novel seemed to be unfocussed and he behaved completely out of character than the man we were initially introduced to (who simply couldn’t cope with being a father) .
There are a good many people to follow throughout No Ordinary Life but they melded together and were all there for a reason. The story is perfectly executed and I was fully drawn in from the very start.
Thank you to Grand Central Publishing for our review copy. All opinions are our own.
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MANDALABAND II - THE EYE OF WENDOR: PROPHECIES
Mandalaband
Symphonic Prog
3.32 | 51 ratings | 13 reviews | 12% 5 stars
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1. The eye of Wendor (4:47)
2. Florian's song (2:36)
3. Ride to the city (3;25)
4. Almar's tower (1:56)
5. Like the wind (2:42)
6. The tempest (1:03)
7. Dawn of a new day (4:15)
8. Departure from Carthilias (2:37)
9. Elsethea (2:48)
10. Witch of Waldow Wood (4:37)
11. Silesandre (3:29)
12. Aenord's lament (1:52)
13. Funeral of the king (1:33)
14. Coronation of Damien (2:23)
Bonus tracks on RPM cd release: 15 to 18: Om Mani Padme Hum
Bonus track on Eclectic Discs CD
15 Dawn of a new day (Original mix)(4:14)
- Davy Rohl / synthesizers, backing vocals
- Kim Turner / drums, acoustic guitar, percussion, backing vocals (all except 12)
- Stuart Wolstenholme / synthesizers, Mellotron (all except 12-14)
+ Norman Barrett / voice box guitar (4-9)
- Steve Broomhead / guitars, vocals (1-2-4-5-7 to 14)
- Friday Brown / vocals (5)
- Mike Carlton / trombone (3)
- Phil Chapman / sax, flute (1-2-3, 8 to 11, 13)
- Ritchie Close / piano, orchestra (1-2-3-5-9-10-11-13-14)
- Lol Creme / vocals (9)
- Andy Crompton / trombone (3)
- Terry Davies / orchestra score (7-12 to 14)
- Michael Davis / conductor of Hallé orchestra (1-2-3-5-6-7-9-11-12-14)
- Paul B.Farr / French horn (3-5-14)
- Mark Gilbanks / trumpet (2-3-10-11-14)
- John Gilstron / sweep (4)
- Pete Glennon / bass (2-10)
- Kevin godley / lead& backing vocals (9-10)
- Dave Gorton / trombone (3)
- Graham Gouldman / bass, lead & backing vocals (2-9-11)
- David Hassle / percussion (3-7-8-10-11-14)
- Justin Hayward / lead & backing vocals (7)
- Russell Hayward / French horn (3-5-14)
- Les Holroyd / bass (1)
- Martin Lawrence / percussion, vocals (5-7-10-14)
- John Lees / electric guitar (1-10)
- Jimmy McDonnell / electric guitar (3-5-7-9-11-14)
- Gerry Murphy / North Umbrian pipes (1), Uilian pipes (7)
- Fiano Parker / vocals (7-12)
- Mel Pritchard / drums, percussion (1-6-10)
- Micky Purton / French horn (3-5-14)
- Maddy Pryor / lead vocals (5)
- Noel Redding / bass (3-13)
- Richard Scott / recorders (14)
- Tony Spath / oboe (10-12)
- Eric Stewart / lead vocals (2)
- Alf Tramontin / bass (5-7-8-14)
- Jon Turner / organ
- Andy Wardaugh / trumpet (2-3-10-11-14)
- Ian Wilson / vocals (11)
- Paul Young / lead & backing vocals (11)
- The Gerald Brown Singers (2-7-8-12-13-14)
Lp. Chrysalis Records CHR 1181
Cd. Outline Records OL 9.51232
Cd. Revolution per Minute RPM 105 (1992)
CD. Eclectic Discs 2003 ECLCD 1004
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Eye of Wendor
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Om Mani Padme Hum (Shm/Mini Lp Jacket/Remaster)
BELLE ANTIQUE 2017 $41.57
Eye Of Wendor: Prophecies (Shm/Mini Lp Jacket/Remaster)
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Eclectic $201.59
$158.55 (used)
AD - Sangreal by Mandalaband (2011-06-28)
Legend Records $75.86
INDIE JAPAN 2011 $95.00
MANDALABAND I +3(paper-sleeve)(remaster)(reissue)
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MANDALABAND Mandalaband II - The Eye of Wendor: Prophecies reviews
Review by Sean Trane
SPECIAL COLLABORATOR Prog Folk
Totally over-blown , over-estimated , over-rated , over-done star-filled project. Well, it's not that bad , actually. I am usually not attracted to those concepts/projects and this one is no exception, so you won't hear much good from me , here.
Posted Thursday, April 15, 2004 | Review this album | Report (Review #28532)
Review by Joolz
I can't help feeling disappointed with this .....
Despite buying the LP back in 1978 because of the contribution of Hayward/Prior/BJH, until a few months ago I had not heard it for many years yet in my head was what I thought was a Prog classic. I now tend to think I was wrong. Sure, there are some good bits and some good performances, but it doesn't flow as it should. Too often tracks start, toodle along a bit and then just finish or fade into the next track without fully developing a cohesive musical theme or narrative, despite some nice ideas. It is an album of chunks: basically a collection of songs tenuously connected by a number of instrumental passages. When executed with the genius of, for example, Genesis ('Supper's Ready'), disparate sections can be made to sound as if they really do belong together. Sadly, that is not the case here.
There are one or two turkeys (the jazzy/funky 'Florian's Song' and 'Elsethea' seem uninspired to me) while the highlight is the Justin Hayward sung 'Dawn Of A New Day' which is sublime. Overall, it's nice enough in a late-70s pop-rock-opera sort of way, and perhaps a working band like Camel might have pulled it off. Perhaps it deserves a more in-depth review. Perhaps I am doing it a disservice. As it is, I can't help feeling disappointed .....
Posted Wednesday, April 19, 2006 | Review this album | Report (Review #75509)
Review by Heptade
The 70s was, of course, the era of the big concept album. This one stands up very well, in my opinion. BJH's and 10cc's engineer, Dave Rohl (now a noted Egyptologist), was the brainchild behind this album, which utilized the talents of members of both those bands, as well as special guests Maddy Prior (Steeleye Span), Justin Hayward and Paul Young of Sad Cafe. Hayward also sang on Jeff Wayne's "The War of the Worlds", so he must have had a soft spot for these projects. There is a fantasy story running through the album, although it's not that clear or interesting, but fortunately the music is good enough that you don't need to bother following it. The music style is grandiose pop prog, the sort of thing that Moody Blues, Camel or Barclay James Harvest fans will really go for, including swelling strings, swooning melodies and choral vocals. There are some beautiful songs on here, particularly "Dawn of a New Day", sung by Hayward, which is an all-time fave of mine, and "Like the Wind", which features Prior at her most dramatic. I consider this album an unqualified success, not an all-time classic but a very enjoyable record of bright, hopeful music.
Posted Wednesday, December 6, 2006 | Review this album | Report (Review #101808)
Review by Matti
Right, Sean, 'overblown' is exactly the word to describe this album. (Hayward & Lodge's Blue Jays album is to me overproduced the same way as this one.) That's really a shame, because it could have been a wonderful concept and a collaboration. Vocalists are mainly Justin Hayward (Moody Blues), Eric Stewart (10cc) and Maddie Prior (Steeleye Span). The list of players is very overblown too, the basic rock combo featuring Barclay James Harvest.
The story is some heroic fairy tale with a Tolkienish feel (I didn't bother to read it thru and I wonder who does). The opening track evokes images of a peaceful land and eventually you think of Shire, the land of hobbits. But the story itself doesn't really reach the listener, the main characters remain unmemorable. Besides Hayward and Stewart sound very similar here.
Often the music is like some early 80's rock opera produced for TV. Some tracks are irritating, some are beautiful. Originally my review was rather negative but I've grown to enjoy this album more. Also it's much more instrumentally oriented than I thought at first. JEFF WAYNE's War of the Worlds from the same year, well, THAT's what I really call overblown!
Posted Thursday, May 3, 2007 | Review this album | Report (Review #120650)
Review by kenethlevine
SPECIAL COLLABORATOR Prog-Folk Team
My comments are based on the original LP. One problem is that projects like this take so long to brew, that by the time they are released, they are almost passe by definition. Such was the case here, as the album did not see release until late 1978, when apathy towards prog was only exceeded by apathy towards pretentious concept albums.
Despite and perhaps partly because of the all star cast, cohesiveness is lacking, and, rather than subtle purposeful contrasts, we see bipolar mood shifts in a lot of the material. The best here is top notch neo prog before its time - in particular the powerful one-two punch of "Florian's Song" and "Ride to the City" on side 1, and "Witch of Waldow Wood" and "Silesandre" from Side 2. Lush atmospheres and compatible vocals a la 10CC meets BJH. Actually, it is 10CC meets BJH.
Contributions from Maddy Prior and Justin Hayward are also valuable if not stellar, but the rest is definitely overblown, particularly the last few tracks, where we start wishing for any ending, even a tragic one.
So, a mixed bag. The Eye of Wendor is definitely in the second tier of the multi-artist extravaganza's that were thrown together frequently during the 1970s.
Posted Friday, June 22, 2007 | Review this album | Report (Review #126549)
Review by Easy Livin
At this rate it will be at least 2038 before the final part is released
By the time of this 1978 album, the Mandalaband was more of a project than a band as such. The sticker on the front of this release gives the game away immediately by proclaiming boldly that the album features Barclay James Harvest, 10CC, Justin Hayward, Maddy Prior and Noel Redding. The project's founder, David Rohl, had been around for some time as a musician and a photographer before releasing the 1975 eponymous debut of Mandalaband. This album, "The Eye of Wendor: prophecies" was the second and to date final album released in that name.
During the intervening period between the two albums, Rohl became a studio engineer, rising to the position to chief engineer at Strawberry studios. This led to him working with a wide range of artists, many of whom he called upon to contribute to this release. The artists concerned did not seek payment for their contributions, costs also being kept down by using the studio at off-peak times.
Intended as the first part of a trilogy this album unashamedly takes its concept from a Tolkien-esque fantasy story. Unfortunately, the record company decided against sponsoring the second and third parts of the trilogy, and the story remains unfinished. If you wish to read the tale, it is told in full in the accompanying booklet for the re-released version of the CD. All the songs here are composed by Rohl, the guest artists taking on roles.
As to the music itself, we actually have a rather eclectic mix of symphonic prog, heavy prog and Celtic rock among others. The songs tend to take on the character of the principal performer, with Justin Hayward's and Maddy Prior's tracks for example sounding like extracts from their solo albums. As such, the album often has the flavour of a rock opera with grand orchestration and precise performances. It is perhaps this very precision which brings with it a lack of soul.
The best track is probably "Witch of Waldow Wood", which features the distinctive tones of Kevin Godley, together with some excellent lead guitar played by Steve Broomhead and John Lees.
In all, in terms of the power and the ambition on show here, this is a very impressive album. The compositions too are highly melodic and well arranged. Despite all this, I cannot help but feel the album seems incomplete and a little disjointed. Worth a listen all the same, chances are you'll enjoy at least some of it.
Posted Tuesday, May 20, 2008 | Review this album | Report (Review #171693)
The list of guests on this album is impressive.
From his previous musical experience, Rohl got acquaintance with 10CC and BJH, and there is no surprise that most of their line-up is represented here (they played for free apparently). No surprise either that this album shows so many similarities with the early BJH ones, mixing tons of chord instruments with symphonic (in the true sense of the word) music.
Dear friend Whoolly is probably not alien to this. I was moderately enthusiast about these early BJH days (except ''Once Again'') and the same feeling prevails here. Not bad at all, but nothing from the other world either (''Ride To The City'').
Too many orchestrations overall are inundating this work (''Dawn of a New Day'', ''Aenord's Lament'') and it seems to me that this work is trying too to emulate some ''Renaissance'' ones; but without reaching their level IMHHO.
All in all, there is nothing wrong with this album but it is far from being attractive or original (''Silandre''). So, what's the point? Well, probably the fact that the excellent and long suite (over twenty minutes) from their first album has been added to the CD version. Actually, ''Om Mani Padme Hum'' is by far the most interesting piece of music from ''Mandalaband''.
As such, three stars for this release.
Posted Friday, May 15, 2009 | Review this album | Report (Review #216011)
Review by Marty McFly
SPECIAL COLLABORATOR Errors and Omissions Team
Well, since I've first listened to this music, I've became addicted to this music. Same as with Ayreon's first CD, Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence second CD, or Metropolis part 2. And Blomljud of course. Sleeping in Traffic and few others. Not all songs I can listen more times, The Eye of Wendor has (very) insteresting part only first half of it, second one is good, but not as good. Then Florian's song has beautiful guitar. Use of orchestra (sounds like that) in Ride to the City is remarkable. Alma's Tower evokes fantasy feeling inside me. Something like Discworld. For me, this album is a jewel. What a terrific fantasy story, I kinda like them a lot. Then little bit worse Like the Wind (vocals, I know, some may like them, but I don't). Then The Tempest, so called filled, but then new day came, very nice one. Vocals are pretty good. Elsethea, song about evil witch starts sounding addictive when he starts singing "hiding...", watch for it guys. Then chorals again, not so interesting for me. After this one we have song about good witch. At least it seems like good one. OK, in fact I've never read this part of lyrics, nor listened carefuly. OK again, I admit, it's about evil witch. And first one ? Who knows. Silesandre is beautiful. She would be, if she could be real. And also brave as hell. "When she must return to her domain, where even the brave no longer set forth." Lament is quite a lamenting, huh ? And Funeral of the King is far more electric, than you could expect. Coronation of Damien, nice end to the story. When I'm listening again tunes of "Dawn of a New Day", I can't help myself but to give it five stars. This is not overblown and hyped, at least not for me, because I've came to this record as a unknown, without no advertisment, no reviews read, strange sounding band which CAN be interesting. And The Eye of Wendor interesting is, indeed. A lot, a very, a super album which I can recommend to everyone who likes soft prog rock, orchestral parts and good, tender vocals.
5(-), there are some parts bad and most of them good. For me, masterpiece like effort.
Posted Saturday, June 13, 2009 | Review this album | Report (Review #220983)
Review by Tarcisio Moura
Well, quite different in almost all aspects from their debut in 1975. While the first album was a symphonic rock album about a very real and contemporary subject (the invasion and domination of Tibet by the Chinese forces), this one is a more orchestrated celtic/pop-rock album of sorts telling a fairy tale story based on J.R.R. Tolkien´s writings (yes, even in the 70´s there were already people writing songs about hobbits and all). There was no band to speak of: none of the original members plays on this CD, replaced by an all star assemble to play and sing the parts of the characters. So members of 10cc, Barclay James Harvest, The Moody Blues, Steeleye Span, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, etc all participate on this overblown work.
I´m not surprised it didn´t chart at all (promping the recording company to cancel a proposed continuation of the story, which was supposed to be a trilogy). First, the timing was wrong (1978 wasn´t exactly the best year for such undertaken, right?). Secondly and most important, the album sounds a bit unfinished. There are several tracks that contains good ideas and very nice melodies that never seem to develop to their peak. So in the end, we have an album that is quite pleasant and easy to hear from start to finish. And yet it gives the impression that it lacks some cohesion and continuity. There are no real lows, but neither there are real highlights. My Eclectic CD edition has a beautiful reproduction of the original art cover and story, but no lyrics. A different version of Dawn O fA New Day is included as a bonus track.
Conclusion: good, ok, but hardly essential at all. Their debut was much more interesting and sounded like a band. This one is more like a soundtrack of a musical or even a good movie: nice, well done and works better when you´re watching the scenes. 3 stars.
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Originally Mandalaband were never destined to exist since the great first album, but, while going to work at Indigo Sound in Manchester in 1976, Rohl was asked to write the soundtrack for a film version of The Lord of the Rings.This movie never appeared in the industry, but, as Rohl had already started working on its music, he finished his composing work around 1978.Without a supporting group he asked his close friends to help him out with the recordings of the so called ''The eye of Wendor'', that ended up to be a fantasy story by Rohl with a Tolkien-esque atmosphere.The result was a line-up of more than 30 musicians/singers, including Woolly Wolstenholme, John Lees, Justin Hayward to name a few, for a process that took place at Strawberry Studios in Stockport.The album was released in 1978 on Chrysalis.
While not exactly moving away from the style of the masterful debut, ''The eye of Wendor'' can be regarded better as an Orchestral Rock album, delivered as a symphony of multiple variations, somewhere in the middle of BARCLAY JAMES HARVEST smooth, melodic orchestrations and THE ENID's more grandiose and Classical-influenced style.No long epics in here, this album consists of 14 very short movements, that are tighly connected to offer a long symphonic-oriented work, where a dreamy and ethereal atmosphere is evident throughout.Plenty of string sections, wind instruments and choirs produce a trully cinematic feeling, perfect for the needs of a similar movie.A few cuts are rather close to sound effects than structured musicianship and the extreme dose of orchestral textures may annoy the traditional prog listener.On the other hand Rohl's ability to create majestic soundscapes is undoubtful with all these nice piano interludes, beautiful, romantic vocal arrangements and Classical sections.Guitars and synthesizers are really measured, used where Rohl thought they should, but definitely adding the work an excellent power.A couple of more GENTLE GIANT-like quirky passages are also present, but seem to be a bit far from an otherwise very atmospheric and at moments dramatic work.Again though, at the end remains a bittersweet taste of the sporadically used guitars of Steve Broomhead, who managed to deliver some amazing melodies.
Absolutely far from the extraordinary compositions of ''Mandalaband'', this albums is a real stunner for all fans of cinematic Art Rock or melodic semi-Symphonic Rock of the BARCLAY JAMES HARVEST school.Still among these short pieces every listener will find plenty of beautiful arrangements with a rockin' attitude.Recommended.
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Continuing a similar overblown classical sound as on the debut album, producer/composer David Rohl completely retooled the band and brought in an army of musicians for the follow up. The second album featured, among others, all of the original members of 10CC, the current members of Barclay James Harvest, Justin Hayward of The Moody Blues, and Steeleye Span's Maddy Prior.
The result is, understandably schizophrenic. There is a good amount of symphonic rock, although at many times the orchestral arrangements sound like Mantovani, where true emotion is replaced with heavy pounding on piano keys. The better portions are the tracks that more closely resemble the lighter, slightly folky sound of the Moodies and BJH. 10CC members add to the lushness of the vocals. Eric Stewart, Graham Gouldman and Kevin Godley all have standoutmoments, while Lol Crème is left in the background. Maddy Prior's single track, Like The Wind is a fine showcase for her excellent voice.
So this album is a bit uneven, but it is also a slight step up from the debut.
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This is one of my favourite albums of alltime. I really like the way Davy Rohl blends symphonic passages with rock and moreover how he integrates folk music with orchestral. There are many guests, but normally these are not my favorites: Most come from folk music or from not- too-progressive ro ... (read more)
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This album comes with a "guest star list" that is above and beyond believe!!! As it counts 42 musicians (and thats without the choir of "London chorale") Whooaahh...still it is a remarkable piece of work in the world of prog music!! Imagine...Beatles/10 cc/Barclay James Harvest/Moody blues...to n ... (read more)
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A Tweet Too Far ?
Reopened October 2019 - includes archived threads from pre-2019
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Re: A Tweet Too Far ?
by zetreque on November 5th, 2017, 8:58 pm
Here is an interesting case.
Twitter users sue Donald Trump for blocking them over critical comments
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... -institute
A list of people he blocked before that lawsuit in July. So I'm sure it's much larger.
https://www.wired.com/story/donald-trum ... r-blocked/
What I'm curious about is how many people have him blocked.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation ... story.html
But in an interview Wednesday, Citron said her views had changed. Since Trump has come to use his personal account for official government business — announcing changes in military policy and staffing through his @realDonaldTrump handle — Citron now says the president could be violating the First Amendment by blocking dissenting viewpoints.
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by someguy1 on November 5th, 2017, 9:04 pm
Since Trump uses his Twitter to announce government policy, it seems reasonable that he has no right to block someone from his Twitter, any more than he'd have the right to prohibit you from watching a Sarah Huckabee press conference. But hasn't he blocked certain news outlets from his press conferences? Is that legal? I don't remember how that came out.
Legal rights around Twitter are developing rapidly. There are lawsuits against Twitter for viewpoint censorship. The question of whether Twitter is a private company or a de facto public utility is working its way through our legal system.
Also it was funny the other day that some low-level Twitter employee on their last day of work at the company deleted Trump's account.
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Twitter being a private company probably has the right to terminate Trump's account. Would have to look into their terms of service. The grey area might be if they think he is jeopardizing the safety of the country through tweets which increase hate or violence.
by toucana on November 12th, 2017, 5:22 am
To which Senator John McCain replied on his official senate webpage:
“President Trump today stated that he believed Vladimir Putin is being sincere when he denies Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and reiterated that he hopes to cooperate with Russia in Syria. There’s nothing ‘America First’ about taking the word of a KGB colonel over that of the American intelligence community. There’s no ‘principled realism’ in cooperating with Russia to prop up the murderous Assad regime, which remains the greatest obstacle to a political solution that would bring an end to the bloodshed in Syria. Vladimir Putin does not have America’s interests at heart. To believe otherwise is not only naive but also places our national security at risk.”
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by zetreque on November 12th, 2017, 12:19 pm
President Chump
Former U.S. intelligence officials: Trump being ‘played’ by Putin
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/pos ... -by-putin/
Last night he posted a scary tweet insulting NK again. This Thanksgiving I will just be grateful if imbecile chump hasn't gotten us nuked yet. It's crazy we have a president this childish.
by TheVat on November 13th, 2017, 1:51 pm
by TheVat on November 15th, 2017, 10:43 am
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-shooting-wrong-tweet_us_5a0bedf9e4b0bc648a0ebb0a
Is it really this hard to fake empathy?
by zetreque on November 15th, 2017, 2:46 pm
Ever since the election I have wanted to fly the American flag upsidedown but I don't want to deal with the repercussions and I doubt it would make much of a difference unless it did turn into a controversy. Too bad that isn't a movement similar to the one above where I mentioned the trend of people flying police themed American flags. I don't care what anyone says, a large percentage of this country is in serious distress over what's going on in the government.
People must not forget the hundreds of thousands who marched in protest over the past year.
by toucana on December 2nd, 2017, 4:35 pm
Problem - If Trump knew at the time he sacked General Flynn in January 2017 that Flynn had been caught lying to the FBI as well as to VP Mike Pence, then that means that Trump was guilty of attempted obstruction of justice when he approached FBI director James Comey several days later and asked him to let Flynn off from any further investigation into the Russian collusion scandal .
(Why ? - Because lying to the FBI in the course of a criminal investigation is a felony offence. This Tweet will be Exhibit A in Trump's trial.)
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/12/02/politics/trump-tweet-flynn-firing-fbi-reaction/index.html
by TheVat on December 2nd, 2017, 9:13 pm
I just surfed over here to SPCF to post the same link.
I'm not sure our finest political satirists could make this stuff up. Yes, Trump just implicated himself in obstruction of justice, and not just attempted obstruction. Flynn could have been charged much earlier, if Trump had cooperated with the DOJ concerning his knowledge of Flynn's falsehoods. He's got legal cover, I guess, on the firing of Comey, but that wouldn't necessarily protect him in the larger picture where it seems more apparent that he was trying to deflect the FBI from pursuing Flynn.
Thursday was Jonathan Swift's 350 birthday. Swift would surely be enjoying this madness.
by jocular on December 2nd, 2017, 9:41 pm
Does it look like Trump's team (=I Trump ;-) ) were trying to get dirt on Clinton by offering potential concessions to Russia in the event he would win the election?
Any more to it than that (of course obstructing justice would be "more".I just mean would that sum up the primary motivation and first actions?)
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by toucana on December 3rd, 2017, 8:03 am
It gets better:
Members of Trump's team are now trying to tell the Washington Post that what MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell has called 'the most self-destructive tweet in history' was written not by President Trump, but by an attorney on his personal private staff called John Dowd.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-obstruction-justice-claims-michael-flynn-fbi-tweet-russia-investigation-latest-a8089171.html
This raises two possibilities:
- Either Donald Trump is relying on the services of the most comically incompetent lawyer in modern history, one who apparently either slept his way through law college, or bought his degree online from 'Trump University'.
- He's lying (again).
by jocular on December 3rd, 2017, 11:46 am
toucana » December 3rd, 2017, 8:03 am wrote:
Or this lawyer is providing deniability by taking the fall ? (they might both say "it was him" and create a grey area of uncertainty)
What if Trump claims he mangled the verbal advice from his lawyer and "misquoted" (+he was tired) ?
EDIT: Does the buck now stop with(one of?) the Prez's lawyer?
by toucana on December 3rd, 2017, 12:22 pm
Dear Donald - Would you like the bad news first, or the *really* bad news first ?
- Former FBI director James Comey testified on oath at a congressional hearing on 8 June that you asked him to abandon the criminal enquiry into Michael Flynn on 14 February, and he also had the foresight to take contemporaneous notes and to circulate them as memoranda to other senior FBI colleagues at the time.
- James Comey was carrying a mobile phone rigged with an SS7 exploit that recorded everything that you said to him. That was why he smiled so broadly when you posted that menacing tweet about "Comey had better hope there are no tapes".
https://patribotics.blog/2017/06/13/exclusive-director-comey-legally-taped-calls-meetings-with-trump/
by zetreque on December 5th, 2017, 2:23 am
We really need to end trump before he ends us both physically and morally.
Race between physical destruction of United States at hands of Marshal Kim Jong-Un, and moral destruction at hands of Donald Trump, said to be too close to call.
https://twitter.com/DPRK_News/status/937784518118903810
by TheVat on December 5th, 2017, 12:54 pm
Nice photoshopped pic!
Good piece in the NYT today (don't have link atm) on why it will be more practical to impeach than to prosecute. NYT gives you 10 free articles each month - if you have any left, this is worth reading.
One more injustice I was reminded of yesterday was that Billy Bush, the tv host who was the one laughing and playing along with Trump's infamous Access Hollywood tape remarks, lost his job for that while the other guy became POTUS. Bush, on Colbert last night, which I caught a piece of, said that at the time he thought Trump was doing some kind of comedy thing - as did others on the bus. I can see that. When you hear the whole tape, it does sound like some kind of shtick someone would make up to get a cheap laugh with a bunch of guys. I can credit that Bush, once he realized Trump meant all that, and that there were 20-plus women who had been victimized by Trump, was mortified. So I am feeling like maybe Bush's big sin was being clueless, and that's hardly grounds for firing from a U.S. television network.
by zetreque on December 5th, 2017, 1:24 pm
I saw it. Billy Bush calls for the conversation to continue but of course I noticed that the moment his article came out it quickly moved to the bottom of the headlines again. He is so right, there is so much garbage going on that the conversation doesn't continue because people get distracted by the next thing.
by toucana on July 1st, 2018, 1:00 pm
President Donald Trump on 27 June 2018:
Three days later:
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/06/immigration-bill-president-falsely-claims-he-never-pushed-republicans-to-vote-for-measure.html
by toucana on July 4th, 2018, 6:11 am
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/03/trump-twitter-pore-pour-693629
When you’re blowing it so badly that even the dictionary is trolling you, it’s a sign of trouble. (Palmer Report)
by toucana on October 25th, 2018, 3:06 am
Fox News rush-released the news-flash seen above on Twitter yesterday in response to the discovery of seven pipe bombs sent to former Presidents Obama and Bill Clinton, as a well as a number of other public figures such as George Soros, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), former CIA director John Brennan, and media organisation CNN which had to evacuate its NY news-room live on air.
Fox News equally quickly deleted that particular Tweet, but not before Samantha Bee, among others, had time to note that "Auto-correct doesn't change 'white powder into 'white power' - unless you type 'white power' a LOT".
by toucana on October 25th, 2018, 11:42 am
Earlier today Trump refuted a NYT story that accused of him using an insecure iPhone even though he had been repeatedly warned by aides that his conversations were being actively monitored by both Russian and Chinese intelligence agencies.
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/trump-iphone-hack-china-russia-apple-twitter-tweetdeck-a8601066.html
Trump published his denial that he was relying on an iPhone in the following Tweet:
The so-called experts on Trump over at the New York Times wrote a long and boring article on my cellphone usage that is so incorrect I do not have time here to correct it. I only use Government Phones, and have only one seldom used government cell phone. Story is soooo wrong!
but he did so on an iPhone !
by TheVat on October 25th, 2018, 11:50 am
If I were a political satirist like Christopher Buckley, I would feel there was no hope of writing another novel that could match the hilarious absurdity of real life.
We can’t hand over our government to someone whose deepest darkest secrets may be in the hands of our enemies.
Donald Trump - 2016 Presidential campaign.
p.s. - The Chinese have offered him the use of a brand new Huawei cellphone
by BadgerJelly on October 28th, 2018, 2:01 am
As something of a different perspective in the political landscape in the US:
https://bigthink.com/politics-current-a ... ry-clinton
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by SciameriKen on October 28th, 2018, 9:50 pm
BadgerJelly » Sun Oct 28, 2018 6:01 am wrote: As something of a different perspective in the political landscape in the US:
Hillary Clinton and what she stands for—the status quo, the preservation of global capitalism and even the Republican tradition—is the primary problem for the left, which Žižek said has ceased to question the fundamentals of the system.
Yup -- that right there... Interesting article - thanks!
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by toucana on November 19th, 2018, 11:09 am
Nothing like getting off on the right foot with the new incoming chairman of the House Intel committee - (As of 1st January 2019).
by TheVat on November 19th, 2018, 12:43 pm
I wondered if Barron had gotten hold of Dad's cellphone, but then realized he's probably too old for that kind of joke. He's 12 now.
by toucana on November 19th, 2018, 1:24 pm
We have to practice decorum"
Donald Trump - White House Friday 16th November 2018
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/11/16/people-have-behave-donald-trump-demands-reporters-practice-decorum-white-house/
by toucana on December 10th, 2018, 6:44 pm
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French and German GCSE grading to be less severe from 2020
Written by: Pete Henshaw | Published: 06 November 2019
This is long overdue and has hopefully resulted from teacher complaints. A Level languages also ...
Posted by: Diane, 07/11/2019
Exam boards are to be told to adjust grading standards in French and German because the subjects are being marked too severely.
There has long been concern in schools that the severe and continuing drop in language GCSE entries is because it is harder to achieve the top grades in these subjects.
After investigating the issue, exams watchdog Ofqual this week confirmed that “that there is a sufficiently strong case to make an adjustment to grading standards in French and German, but not Spanish”.
Dr Michelle Meadows, Ofqual’s director of strategy, risk and research, said: “Building on our extensive body of work, we have looked at this issue from a wide range of different perspectives. We are satisfied that a sufficiently strong case exists for us to intervene to adjust grading standards in GCSE French and German. We are talking to exam boards about how best to implement this adjustment.”
Ofqual’s investigation included statistical evidence, scrutiny of students’ work, and judgements from senior examiners.
The watchdog will now work with exam boards to implement these adjustments for next summer’s exams, although changes may be phased in over more than one year.
This year, 42,791 students took GCSE German, compared to 62,932 in 2014 and 76,695 in 2009. In French, 130,831 sat the GCSE exam in 2019, compared to 177,288 in 2014 and 201,940 in 2009.
School leaders, long concerned about the fall in language entries are happy with the outcome of Ofqual’s investigation, although now want to see similar action taken at A level.
Geoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said: “We have repeatedly argued that modern foreign languages are graded too severely and we are delighted that Ofqual has now decided to take action. The take-up of these subjects has fallen catastrophically over the course of several years and the perception that they are particularly difficult has been one of the drivers of this problem.
“It is by no means the whole solution. There is a severe shortage of modern foreign language teachers and this may become more challenging in the context of Brexit because schools rely heavily on being able to recruit staff from EU countries. And we need a national strategy to enthuse young people about learning languages.
“We will also continue to press Ofqual to tackle severe grading in A level languages where entries in French and German have also plummeted. It will obviously help if we can improve the numbers taking languages at GCSE but the situation is so grave that we believe there is a compelling case for action at A level as well.”
This is long overdue and has hopefully resulted from teacher complaints. A Level languages also need to be addressed urgently, particularly French where the grade boundaries for AQA French are unacceptably high and penalise able linguists who chose this language.
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Writing: Another Manifesto
Where Stories Come From
By Laura Steadham Smith
I write because I might be the worst person I know. I write because azaleas bloom in spring. I write to remember what it felt like to run through the woods as a kid. I write to become someone else. I write because one of my favorite sounds is pride in my Dad’s voice. I write because other people are infinitely more interesting than I am. I write because I am too many different people to keep track of.
I write because I over-think everything. I write because I’m a narcissist. I write because I hate myself. I write because I’m not good at talking. I write because counseling costs money and booze is bad for my liver. I write because I think that, maybe someday, I’ll figure things out. I write because I’m lonely. I write because Laura Ingalls Wilder. I write because I don’t want to admit I wish I had gone to med school. I write because I have to. I write because I’m too type A to function and need a place for my thoughts to go after I’ve organized all the dishes in matching pairs and made to-do lists of all the clutter inside my head. I write because sometimes music takes too much energy.
I write because sometimes I want to. I write to say something beautiful. I write because I want other people to understand each other. I write because I don’t understand anyone. I write because knowing thyself seems like a good idea. I write because I think empathy is the most important virtue in the world. I write because I’m too selfish to be empathetic.
I write because I like words—their rhythm, their melody, the way they fill a space with sound and light. I write because the world is connected. I write because people are all the same. I write because people make no sense and are totally different. I write because I want someone to listen to me. I write because I found myself in books. I write because I read so much as a kid that I have weak social skills and making friends is hard. I write because sometimes finding a quiet hillside to watch leaves fall and read about other people’s lives becomes lonely.
I write because good people do terrible things. I write because I like making people laugh. I write because I cry when I see kindness and I’m not supposed to feel things that deeply. I write because I like drinking coffee and staring out the window. I write to prove to myself that I’m not lazy or spoiled. I write because I might not be lazy, but I’m definitely spoiled. I write because color and imagery glitter and I like shiny things. I write because magic.
I write because my grandfather built his own house, and I want someone to remember. I write because my grandmother carried demons until she died and passed them on to her children. I write to exorcise them, and I hide my stories from my family. I write because my story is one of many. I write because sometimes red clay roads lead to warm fireplaces and fried catfish and happy dogs. I write because sometimes wraparound porches hide bodies.
I write because everyone loves to hate rednecks. I write because I do, too, but I am ashamed when I meet people with dirt under their fingernails because I know I don’t work that hard. I write because I’m angry. I write because I’m hopeful. I write because I don’t know how to change my own oil or drive a four-wheeler—only how to hold onto the back without falling off. I write because I’m a glutton for punishment. I write because an ex-boyfriend told me writing made me brave.
I write because I spend less time on Gchat these days. I write because I’m manipulative and hypocritical. I write because I’ve been doing it so long I think I have to. I write because I like telling stories. I write to play pretend as a grownup. I write because nothing about me feels very grown up—not my stack of self-obsessed journals or the receipts stuffed in my desk drawer or the scuffed shoes under my bed, the ones I used to wear to punk shows.
I write because I’m crazy enough to believe I could tell you something about yourself.
Laura Steadham Smith's work is forthcoming in Quarterly West and The Red Clay Review and has been awarded the Colby Kullman prize and an AWP Intro Journals prize in fiction. She was also recognized by the Southern Writers Symposium as a notable emerging writer.
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Get SSO Software That Supports Multiple Applications Out-of-the-box
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Multiple Applications Support
There is no dearth for the number of applications that have found a place in our work lives. Whether it is a Higher Educational Institution or a Commercial Enterprise, we depend on a whole bunch of applications to get our day to day tasks done. But, managing multiple applications automatically means that they have multiple credentials. Single Sign-On, as we know, is a technology that allows us to get rid of multiple credentials and access them with a single click.
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The ability of the SSO platform to integrate with multiple applications is one of the selection criteria. Some of the ways of integrating these applications with the platform could be through the authentication protocols they support such as SAML, CAS etc.
Let us take for instance, a University uses Banner as their portal, Gmail as their email provider, Net Partner as the Financial Aid portal, students would need to have the ability to access all of these apps with one set of credentials using a single click. This also means that the SSO portal that is being chosen needs to have natively built integration with these apps. The SSO tool would first authenticate the user with a set of credentials which would suffice to help them access all of the applications without having to enter separate credentials for each of them.
Typically, the types of applications that are used at an Institution/Enterprise can be grouped into the following categories:
Email – Gmail® & Outlook®
ERP – SAP®, Banner®, WebAdvisor®, Canvas®
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In addition to the above mentioned basic system, there are several other critical apps that form the IT backbone of the organization such as the CRM(Zoho, FreshSales, Salesforce).
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New York State Reverses Decision, Requires Full Environmental Review of Tar Sands-by-Rail Facility
Posted by Andrew Tarwerdi 615sc on May 24, 2015 · Flag
DeSmogBlog | May 24, 2015 | Column by Justin Mikulka
In what came as a welcome surprise to activists in Albany, New York, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) reversed an earlier decision and now will require a full environmental review for a proposed tar sands oil heating facility at the Port of Albany.
“It is good for New York State that the DEC came to a proper decision in one of the most important environmental matters facing the state. We look forward to participating with the state on a full public safety and environmental review that is robust and protective of our communities and our waterways,” said Riverkeeper President Paul Gallay.
Riverkeeper is one of many groups fighting the plan by Global Partners to add tar sands oil to the Bakken oil it is already moving down and along the Hudson River in large amounts, efforts highlighted in this recent New York Times Op-Doc.
Riverkeeper also recently filed a lawsuit challenging the Department of Transportation’s recent new oil-by-rail regulations.
Albany has become the largest distribution hub for crude oil on the East Coast due to its rail access and its port on the Hudson River and this transformation happened with so little fanfare that the local community was initially unaware of what the DEC had permitted.
There were no ribbon cutting ceremonies or big public announcements made by local government officials who were aware of what was happening. The mayor of Albany could be found cutting ribbons for the opening of Subway shops or bars, but not a word about the 2.8 billion gallons a year of oil that were permitted to arrive in Albany by train by the DEC.
And then the first oil tanker that was filled with 12 million gallons of Bakken oil loaded from rail cars and sent off down the Hudson promptly ran around. Luckily no oil was spilled and, as a result, local people began to ask questions just as Bakken trains began to derail and explode with alarming frequency, as noted in this short documentary about the risks posed by oil trains to Albany and the Hudson.
In addition to Riverkeeper, efforts to require a full environmental review for Global’s application were supported by Earthjustice, the Sierra Club, Scenic Hudson, the Center for Biological Diversity, Environmental Advocates and the local group People of Albany United for Safe Energy (PAUSE).
Earthjustice filed a lawsuit last year challenging the DEC decision to not require a full environmental review on behalf of several of the groups involved as well as the local tenant association for a community located directly along the rail tracks. Chris Amato of Earthjustice led the efforts and welcomed this decision.
“This is wonderful and welcome news for the people of Albany,” said Chris Amato, Earthjustice attorney. “We are gratified that DEC has listened to the community’s concerns and agrees with us that Global’s proposal will have significant environmental impacts. We look forward to working with the Department to identify the multitude of threats to the health and safety of communities that make this project a disaster-in-waiting.”
However, in the past week the expected outcome was not that the DEC would arrive at the conclusion they did. Capital New York reported that the DEC had been making the rounds of local politicians and informing them that it would be “legally difficult” for them to not allow Global to go forward with their plans for building a facility for heating tar sands crude.
So what changed the expected outcome? One significant development was a letter from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to the DEC commissioner Joe Martens making two points.
The first was reminding Martens that he had not responded to a letter sent by the EPA a year ago asking for more information about the proposed project and pointing out flaws in the DEC’s air pollution analysis.
The second was to let Martens know that the EPA wanted to see any proposed permit to allow Global’s heating facility prior to the official review period so that the EPA could work “corroboratively with DEC to ensure that outstanding permitting issues concerning Global are addressed.”
While oil will still be transported to Albany by rail and then down the Hudson by barge and tanker, for now it is likely to remain the Bakken oil and not Canadian tar sands — which avoids the disaster that tar sands spills create in water.
This is welcome news in Albany and in communities all along the Hudson due to the risks involved.
NorthJersey.com recently reported on the risks posed by moving oil on the Hudson and spoke about these risks to retired Texas A&M University oceanography professor and expert on oil spills, Chuck Kennicutt.
“I have no side in this issue, but I do know one thing: You will have a spill,” said Chuck Kennicutt. “It’s almost inevitable. The question is how big.”
At least for now, thanks to the efforts of a large coalition of groups in New York, if that spill does occur, it won’t be Canadian tar sands oil.
http://www.desmogblog.com/2015/05/24/new-york-state-reverses-decision-requires-full-environmental-review-tar-sands-rail-facility
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Sandra Steubing commented 2015-05-24 22:25:24 -0400 · Flag
Inevitable spills, inevitable explosions. Isn’t it time to switch? Go to the study by world class scientists at Cornell and Standford re 100% renewables by 2030. http://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/NewYorkWWSEnPolicy.pdf.
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Thomas Nast Santa Claus...
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San Antonio, Texas...
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General Logan's funeral...
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* "After Longfellow" and Christmas themed poetry
* Ornate Front Cover
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A. B. Frost print 'Lost Their Way'...
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Popular F.S. Church Christmas print...
* Frederick Stuart Church
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Thanksgiving issue...
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Cowboys on horseback...
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Santa Claus is captured by children...
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Henry Stanley, explorer... Frederic Remington...
HARPER'S WEEKLY, from New York, dated December 22, 1888 The full front page of the issue contains the portrait of 'Henry M. Stanley', the famous African explorer. Inside the issue is a full page "The Expedition to Hayti" which is comprised of two half page illustrations and an inset of Admiral Luce. The doublepage centerfold is "The Late Henry Hobson Richardson'... See More
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First Thanksgiving... duck hunting...
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Cambridege architecture...
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The Boston fire... Yale-Princeton football...
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Doublepage centerfold of "The Princeton-Yale Football Match at the Berkeley Oval." Full pg. illus. of "Thrust His Lance Through His Body and Rode Him Down.&... See More
Death of Jefferson Davis...
HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, Dec. 14, 1889 Nice halfpg. shows: 'The Late Jefferson Davis' and a halfpg. of: 'Jefferson Davis' House at Beauvoir, Miss.'
Nice doublepage centerfold: 'Sketches Along the Line of the New Croton Aqueduct'. Fullpg: 'Sketches of a Transatlantic Voyage'.
One of the best Remington prints...
HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, December 21, 1889 There are many nice prints in this issue, but by far the most desirable is the great doublepage centerfold done by famed Western artist Frederic Remington, titled: "Cow-Boys Coming To Town For Christmas" showing four of them on horseback coming into a typically Western town. A nice item for display.
Among other prints in this issue ... See More
Christmas... Chicago Auditorium...
HARPER'S WEEKLY December 28, 1889. Front full pg. illus. of "Christmas Greetings." Inside is a full pg. illus. of "The Interior of the Chicago Auditorium."
Doublepage centerfold containing a poem and two large illus. pertaining to "Hail Christmas." Full pg. of illus. pertaining to "First Impressions Abroad." Full pg. illus. of "Reception of the Del... See More
Nice Christmas issue for display...
HARPER'S BAZAR -- CHRISTMAS 1889
* Nice Christmas issue for display
* Rare 19th century color use
This issue still has the nice color outer wrapper with a nice Christmas theme (see). A nice double page centerfold: "Ho, For The Christmas Tree!" (see).
The complete issue, never bound nor trimmed, minor wear at the margins, and an address label on the cover.... See More
Oystering in the Chesapeake...
HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, Jan. 11, 1890 Two nice halfpg. scenes of: 'Oystering On the Chesapeake--Working the Beds Off Annapolis' & 'Raking in Shallow Water'.
Nice Frederic Remington doublepage centerfold: 'Hunting the Caribou--'Shoot! Shoot!' plus another Remington print showing soldiers in a gunfight.
Views of St. Paul, Minnesota...
HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, Feb. 22, 1890 Halfpg. Remington print for a story: 'The Aztec Treasure House'. Doublepage centerfold: 'The Sierra Nevada Snow Blockade'. Halfpg: 'New York's Blockaded Streets' & 'New Harvard Gates, As Designed & as Executed'.
Supplement has a great doublepage centerfold of: 'The City of St. Paul, Minnesota, ... See More
Rail shooting on the Delaware...
HARPER'S WEEKLY, Nov. 1, 1890 Very nice full front page: 'Rail Shooting on the Delaware' shows 2 men in a boat, duck-hunting. Full page with 7 scenes of 'Americans on the Eiffel Tower'. Great full page beach scene: 'On the Beach at Trouville'.
Thanksgiving preparations...
HARPER'S WEEKLY, Nov. 22, 1890 (excludes Supplement - see note below) Full ftpg: 'At the Horse Show, Madison Square Garden'. Fullpg: 'The Day Before Thanksgiving' shows cooks preparing the meal.
Doublepage centerfold: 'A Wedding in the Chinese Quarter--Mott St., N.Y.' Halfpg. military print by Remington.
Note: The price shown does not include the hard-to-find supple... See More
Great football issue...
HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, Nov. 29, 1890 Certainly the prime print in this issue is the very nice doublepage centerfold by Frederic Remington captioned: "Football - A Collision At The Ropes". Among the many other prints are: "The Flower Show at Madison Square Garden" which is the entire front page; "Launch of the Armored Cruiser 'Maine' At the Brooklyn Na... See More
Pine Ridge Indian Agency...
HARPER'S WEEKLY December 6, 1890. Front full pg. illus. of "No Frost Within." Inside is a full pg. illus. of "Chasing a Major General." Full pg. illus. of "Concentrating Troops on the Northern Indian Agencies."
Doublepage centerfold of "Lighting the Yule Log." Three 1/4 pg. portraits of "The Late August Belmont, of New York" "The Late Ben... See More
Canadian lumber regions...
HARPER'S WEEKLY December 13, 1890 Front full pg. illus. of "The United States Cruiser 'Philadelphia'." Inside are two 1/4 pg. portraits of "John P. Haines, President of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, New York" and "Mrs. Jeannette M. Thurber, Founder of the National Conservatory of Music."
Three small portraits of "A South... See More
Sitting Bull...
HARPER'S WEEKLY, December 20, 1890 Very nice full page: 'The City of Cumberland, Maryland' shows 5 scenes. One-third pg: 'A Trio of Indian Chiefs' includes Sitting Bull. Full page of athletic scenes includes tennis.
Remington print: Apache scout...
HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, December 27, 1890 The full ftpg. features a nice Frederic Remington print: 'One of the Ft. Keogh Cheyenne Scout Corps', very displayable. Inside has 7 more Remington prints of soldiers & Indians, including: 'Apache Scout'.
Other news and advertisements of the day are included. This issue is complete in 16 pages and is in good condition.... See More
Three color political prints...
JUDGE magazine, New York, Dec. 27, 1890
* Color political prints
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Views of Grand Rapids...
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Scenes from the horse show...
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Paderewski...
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The opening of Congress...
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Tunnel under Niagara Falls...
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Football stars...
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Work of the Salvation Army...
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Building the Panama Canal...
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The masked ball...
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Christmas in a cavalry camp...
HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, Dec. 24, 1892 Full ftpg. hunting print by A.B. Frost: 'Missed 'em Agin, by Ginger!' Fullpg. of photos on the Gould family. Very nice & displayable doublepage centerfold by F. Remington: 'Roasting Christmas Beef in a Cavalry Camp'. Nice fullpg: 'A Deer Hunt in Louisiana'
Displayable New Year's color cover...
FRANK LESLIE'S ILLUSTRATED,New York, Dec. 29, 1892 The issue still retains the typically elusive color front wrapper which shows a nice, wintry scene, captioned: "New Year 1893" see. Very nice for display.
The inside ftpg. shows: "The Unique New Year's Festival in Philadelphia--A Procession of Masqueraders...". Other prints include: "The Columbian Exposition... See More
Quail shooting... Ostrich farming in California...
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Immigrants on Ellis Island...
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The Columbian Exposition at Chicago...
HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, Oct. 28, 1893 In the masthead is: 'An 8 Pg. World's Fair Supplement' included within on glossy stock. Fullpg. Remington: 'Sketches from the Recent English Military Tournament'. Many prints on the Expo.
Complete issue.... See More
Remington centerfold: "Toro, Toro!"...
HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, Dec. 9, 1893 Nice fullpg. with 7 scenes of 'In the San Juan Country', of New Mexico. But the significant content is the terrific dblpgctrfld. by Remington: 'Toro, Toro!' showing a California Vaquero chasing a steer.
F.S. Church Christmas bears print...
CHRISTMAS NUMBER - FRANK LESLIE'S WEEKLY, New York, Dec. 14, 1893 The full front page is a nice print of: "A Christmas Visit to Grandma". Although there are many full page Christmas prints within, certainly the most notable would be the nice full page: "The Christmas Slide" by the famed artist Frank S. Church, showing his iconic bears sliding in the snow (see).
The complet... See More
F.S. Chrurch Christmas bears print...
A nice F.S. Church dancing bears print...
HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, Dec. 16, 1893 Full ftpg. is a street scene in New York City. Nice fullpg. by F.S. Church showing dancing bears. Color doublepage centerfold. by H. Pyle: 'The Pirates' Christmas--a scene in the Town Jail'. Fullpg: 'First Christmas Eve' & fullpg: 'Christmas In the South--'See, the Conquering Heroines Come'
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A.B. Frost illustrations... W.A. Rogers illustrations...
HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, Dec. 23, 1893 The front page is an illustration by A.B. Frost showing a Black man & his dog entitled: "Fo' De Lan's Sake! I Done Forgot De Chillun's Candy!". Within the issue is another full page Frost illustration "The Christmas Savings". Articles "The Chaplain of the House" and "The New Brigadier-Genera... See More
Christmas in 1893...
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Architectual League of New York...
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Commenting on TU Dublin involvement with the project Dr Bernadette Quinn (pictured right) said: “FESTSPACE will investigate how festivals and events affect the inclusivity of public spaces. The Irish project will have a particular emphasis on commemorative events planned as part of the Decade of Centenaries programme. Festivals and events are an important part of Dublin city’s cultural landscape, and many are staged in indoor and outdoor public spaces. This research is interested in understanding how these events affect those who use public spaces and ultimately in learning about how public spaces can become more inclusive”.
Welcoming the announcement from HERA, Professor Brian O’Neill, Director of Research, Innovation and Enterprise at TU Dublin, said: “TU Dublin is excited to play a part in what is one of the largest research programmes ever examining the major social, cultural, and political challenges facing Europe and the world. FESTSPACE is just one of 20 transnational projects, which have recently received €20m in funding under the HERA programme and is a fantastic opportunity for TU Dublin to build relationships with humanities researchers across Europe while enabling the widespread sharing of knowledge and expertise.”
Commenting on the news, Dr Eavan O’Brien, Assistant Director of the Irish Research Council, said: “We congratulate Dr Bernadette Quinn and her fellow researchers at TU Dublin on their success in the HERA joint research programme. Undoubtedly, their collaboration with researchers from the United Kingdom, Sweden and Spain will deepen the understanding and knowledge gained during this project. We are delighted that Ireland’s researchers are part of this transnational funding opportunity.”
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Biography of St. Aidan
Aidan was the first bishop and abbot of Lindisfarne, the small island off the coast of northern England located between present day Berwich-on-Tweed and Bamburgh. A native of Ireland, he was born in the latter part of the sixth century and became a monk of Iona, where St. Columcille had established his monastery earlier.
When King Oswald of Northumbria requested a bishop to help convert his pagan subjects, Aidan was consecrated and arrived in Northumbria in 635. He made his headquarters on Lindisfarne.
From there he evangelized and founded missionary outposts, including a monastery at Melrose. Among his many Anglo-Saxon protégés were Hild of Whitby and Cuthbert.
Aidan’s biographer, the Venerable Bede (673-735) wrote more affectionately of Aidan than possibly any other saint, except Cuthbert. The qualities that appealed to Bede were the very ones that contributed to Aidan’s appeal as a teacher: passionate love of goodness tempered with humility, warmth and a gentle spirit.
Stories of Aidan also clearly reflect one of the most ancient and enduring traits of authentic Christian spirituality: concern for and love of the poor and strangers. Scholar Dom Gougaud calls Aidan the “true Apostle of England,” for it was Aidan’s missionary outreach in Northumbria that had such a lasting effect upon the conversion of the Saxons. The statue of Aidan which stands on Lindisfarne today shows him holding the torch of faith he brought to that part of England. Aidan died in 651. His feast day is August 31st.
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Pakistan appoints new intelligence chief
AP , ISLAMABAD
Pakistan named a new chief for its main intelligence service, a change sure to be closely scrutinized by US officials who have questioned the powerful spy agency’s loyalties in the “war on terror.”
The appointment of Lieutenant-General Ahmed Shujaa Pasha as head of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) was among several changes in what appeared to be a major shake-up of the military leadership.
In his most recent capacity as director-general of military operations, Pasha oversaw military offensives against insurgents in the nuclear-armed nation’s restive northwest.
The region is reportedly home to Taliban and al-Qaeda militants involved in attacks on US and NATO forces in Afghanistan as well as rising strikes within Pakistan.
The statement late on Monday gave no more details about Pasha, but Pakistani defense analyst Talat Masood described him as “highly professional.”
Pasha replaces Lieutenant-General Nadeem Taj, who was in the position about a year after being appointed by former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf.
Musharraf, a former army chief and US ally, was forced to quit the presidency in August amid threats of impeachment by the fledgling civilian government.
The statement listed several new postings that are expected to take effect in several weeks.
Masood said that the changes appeared to be an effort by General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, who succeeded Musharraf as army chief and once headed the ISI himself, to consolidate his control over the military.
US intelligence agencies suspect rogue elements in the ISI have been giving Taliban militants sensitive information to aid them in their growing insurgency in Afghanistan.
India and Afghanistan — and reportedly the US — also suspect the agency of involvement in the July 7 bombing outside India’s Embassy in Kabul that killed more than 60 people. Pakistan denies the allegations.
Pakistani intelligence helped create the Taliban militia, many of whose leaders and recruits studied at religious schools in Pakistan.
The army statement said Taj has been appointed Corps Commander for Gujranwala.
Major Murad Khan, an army spokesman, said yesterday that Major-General Javed Iqbal would succeed Pasha as director-general of military operations. He declined to provide any details about Iqbal.
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US legislators want to close TSA security gaps, improve covert testing
Ben Goldstein
The chairmen of two US House committees overseeing aviation security have introduced legislation that would require TSA to implement an improved covert testing program to identify security gaps in its screening process.
The Covert Testing and Risk Mitigation Improvement Act would codify procedures recommended by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), establish standards for the tests and require the agency to track and report progress in resolving vulnerabilities to Congress.
“This legislation will ensure that the security testing of our airport checkpoints is done correctly with proper follow-through,” said House Homeland Security chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Mississippi), who sponsored the legislation along with Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Elijah Cummings (D-Maryland).
“For too long, TSA has not been properly introducing fixes for clear security gaps that could potentially save lives. I urge the House to quickly pass this legislation, so we can be sure TSA is operating as effectively—and safely—as possible.”
The legislation follows an April 2019 declassified study issued by the GAO that found TSA has failed to take timely action to resolve longstanding vulnerabilities identified through covert testing. Of the nine security risks identified since 2015, none had been formally resolved as of September 2018, the report found.
The GAO also found TSA “is not using a risk-informed approach” in its covert testing program, meaning the agency has “limited assurance that Security Operations is targeting the most likely threat.” TSA has failed to establish timeframes and milestones for mitigation, as well as procedures to ensure milestones are met.
The bill would require TSA to conduct three risk-informed covert testing projects each year, in addition to implementing a long-term headquarters-based program designed to track changes in overall screening effectiveness over time.
TSA would have 60 days from the time it identifies a vulnerability to determine root causes; 120 days to decide whether to mitigate it; and 180 days to conduct follow-up testing to assess the effectiveness of measures underway toward resolution.
The agency would also be tasked with compiling an annual list of vulnerabilities that have been identified through the tests, as well as key milestones for mitigation, that would be submitted to Congress along with its annual budget request.
Three years following the bill’s enactment, the GAO would submit to Congress a report documenting the effectiveness of TSA’s covert testing projects and its efforts to resolve vulnerabilities.
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Seven Princes
by John R. Fultz
Supplied for review by Hachette New Zealand
Reviewed By: Simon Litten
Jan Butterworth
Seven Princes is author John R. Fultz’s first novel, and is also book one of the Books of the Shaper. He previously had published fiction at shorter lengths, principally fantasy both light and dark, has written several comics or graphic novels if you prefer – and it was this graphic novel mode of expression that most struck me as I read Seven Princes.
To me Seven Princes is a graphic novel composed solely of words rather than pictures and words. As the reader well knows, a comic tells a story using pictures first with dialogue balloons (and the occasional text line) to supplement the action. Character growth is achieved by modifying the image of the in-scene characters, and dramatic atmosphere is produced by the drawn backdrop. In Seven Princes Mr Fultz rendered his comic in words on the page.
Another technique of comics is the depiction of heroes and villains in stylised form. Well defined musculature with thews that can hew for the men, curves and attributes that would not be out of place in a showing by Vargas of his girls. Unfortunately, this style can lead to a certain caricature of thought if delivered as words.
For me Seven Princes was book well suited to live as a graphic novel, a medium for which it was probably imagined in, but as a straight novel it left me cold and asking for less or at least for the story to break out of the well worn path it was following. However, if you enjoy fantasy of the traditional style and mores – prince deprived of his rightful inheritance by a usurper, the evil bred in the blood of the villain, the battle of good and evil – then this is the book and the series for you.
-Simon Litten
There's a hell of a lot happening in this first volume of a new fantasy series, and apart from a couple of reasonably brief slow spots, it moves along at a very brisk pace. Seven Princes is a dark fantasy saga that's epic in scope, and at times reads like a big-budget action film unfolding. ...But don't let that analogy put you off, it's not nearly as overblown or daft as the average Michael Bay summer blockbuster.
All the classic/traditional elements are here: Heroic warriors & black-hearted villains; Legendary creatures; Magic & sorcery; Romance, war & betrayal; Triumph & tragedy. And blood-soaked carnage on a grand scale... Yep, there's a very high body count in this book, and not just among the supporting cast. No one's safe in this story as the author's not at all afraid to kill off important main characters in order to advance or thicken the plot. That was a refreshing change, and I found myself really surprised at a couple of characters' unexpected early exits.
John Fultz is apparently a writer of comics, and that probably explains the almost cinematic style of the narrative at times. That's not a criticism though - it suits the story he's telling and certainly keeps things moving forward.
Seven Princes is Fultz's first novel, and occasionally that shows, mainly in the pacing, and in not getting to know some of the characters or places as much as we should. There's enough happening in Seven Princes to comfortably fill a couple of novels, and it would have been nice to see the story given at least another couple of hundred pages or so, just to let the world and it's characters breathe a little more deeply.
But all that aside, Fultz is a storyteller who knows how to spin a good yarn. Sure, it mightn't be the most original fantasy story around (if such a thing even exists now) but it uses the familiar elements well, and it's an entertaining read.
Seven Princes won't be to everyone's tastes to be sure, but if you don't mind your heroic fantasy sprinkled with horror and seasoned with graphic & gory violence, then this is definitely worth a look.
-Jan Butterworth
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news at 6:00 starts right now. >>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. a real-life towering inferno. a high-rise hotel in dubai goes up in flames as a huge crowd gathers to celebrate the new year. a new york man arrested accused of plotting to kill people on new year's eve. >> but first the countdown to 2016. hundreds of thousands of people gathering in times square. how the nypd plans on keeping them safe tonight. good evening, happy new year. i'm dana tyler. >>> it is an iconic celebration seen around the world. tonight an estimated 1 million people will pack into times square. 6,000 nypd officers there to keep them safe. chopper 2 over the crossroads of the world tonight. you can see the crowds cordoned off already. but they are ready for the celebration at midnight. cbs 2's brian conybeare ready, too, with the patient partiers joining us live from times square. brian. >> reporter: oh, dana people do need to pack their patience tonight. some folks got here as early as 9 a.m. and they are being kept in those pens by the nypd. but what everyone is waiting
news at 6:00 starts right now. >>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. a real-life towering inferno. a high-rise hotel in dubai goes up in flames as a huge crowd gathers to celebrate the new year. a new york man arrested accused of plotting to kill people on new year's eve. >> but first the countdown to 2016. hundreds of thousands of people gathering in times square. how the nypd plans on keeping them safe tonight. good evening, happy new year. i'm dana tyler....
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KTVU FOX 2 News at Noon : KTVU : December 31, 2015 12:00pm-12:31pm PST
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. [ end of realtime captioning ] announcer: today on "tmz" -- harvey: bill cosby is formally a criminal defendant. gary: he's officially been charged with aggravated indecent assault, a felony. this is from 2004 against andrea constand. kim: what's aggravated assault? are you aggravated every time someone assaults you? that was a very pleasant assault, i'm not aggravated at all. >> dolvett quince, one of the trainers from the "biggest loser." we talked to him about rob kardashian, recently diagnosed with diabetes. >> that's a byproduct of bad decisions. harvey: what's the bad decision? anthony: food decisions. gary: trust me, there's been many times i'm about to start a meal, i know it's a bad decision. dax: geo
. [ end of realtime captioning ] announcer: today on "tmz" -- harvey: bill cosby is formally a criminal defendant. gary: he's officially been charged with aggravated indecent assault, a felony. this is from 2004 against andrea constand. kim: what's aggravated assault? are you aggravated every time someone assaults you? that was a very pleasant assault, i'm not aggravated at all. >> dolvett quince, one of the trainers from the "biggest loser." we talked to him about rob...
KPIX 5 Noon News : KPIX : December 31, 2015 12:00pm-12:31pm PST
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>>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. >>> we start with breaking news out of dubai where flames engulfed 20 stories of a luxury hotel. burning debris is raining down from the building located near the burj khalifa the world's tallest skyscraper. it broke out near a fireworks display about 10 p.m. dubai time. here's a live look now where they just rang in the new year just minutes ago. there's a 12-hour time difference. the tower by the way is 1,000 feet tall and nearly two million people expected in dubai for that celebration. and you can see they still have some work to do there. right now we're learning one person has died of a heart attack. 14 people have minor injuries. the cause of the fire is under investigation. >>> here at home huge crowds gathered on the waterfront as a megaship travels through the bay. the benjamin franklin docked at the oakland outer harbor an hour and a half ago. kpix 5's jackie ward tells us there was quite a watch party for it. jackie, you had a front row seat. >> reporter: it was beautiful. people wanted a good spot to welcome the ben
>>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. >>> we start with breaking news out of dubai where flames engulfed 20 stories of a luxury hotel. burning debris is raining down from the building located near the burj khalifa the world's tallest skyscraper. it broke out near a fireworks display about 10 p.m. dubai time. here's a live look now where they just rang in the new year just minutes ago. there's a 12-hour time difference. the tower by the way is 1,000 feet tall...
KTVU Mornings on 2 at 9am : KTVU : December 31, 2015 9:00am-10:01am PST
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dark. we are doing a little scheduling in realtime. to give the amount of time if we can be back at city hall on the 20th but tenderloin on the 13th. i know the captain has been very accommodating. >> for people in the audience, the next meeting will be the first week in january, 6, 2016 at city hall beginning at 5:30. >> i'm going to be out of the country on the 20th. i would ask you to select a different date so we can all be here and participate in this discussion. >> i would love for all of us to be here and participate in the discussion. i actually can pick a date. that's my job. so i would like for you to be able to be here. let's do this. chief, do you have a sense, i know we talked about this. is the 13th too soon. i just, i want to pick a date and meet it. commissioner dejesus is out of the country and in order to accommodate that, do we need to move it to february? >> i think that would be best. january 13th is one of the dates for the reengineering. we'll all be in washington d.c. and since they are planning on finishing. we are planning on finishing our work for january
dark. we are doing a little scheduling in realtime. to give the amount of time if we can be back at city hall on the 20th but tenderloin on the 13th. i know the captain has been very accommodating. >> for people in the audience, the next meeting will be the first week in january, 6, 2016 at city hall beginning at 5:30. >> i'm going to be out of the country on the 20th. i would ask you to select a different date so we can all be here and participate in this discussion. >> i...
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point having that a little bit more clear on the website and realtime the we're talking about when do go down to dbi whether or not this is realistic but people said i want to know what the waits times before i go down maybe a two housing or nouftd in the hour and a half reorganizing the information for the less familiar that is people that are not as familiar with the process and making that friendly and the transmission was a theme that came up in the focus groups a lot okay. we want to do things more electronically and expanding the online offering you know work with in the office and finally publicizing it for complaints more often cited by property owners if i had an issue kwha where can i go and make sure that there is no, i, do that confidently and a process to follow up on that. >> prospective of dbis role okay. so this was derived from quite a bit what we were analyzing in the survey reluctance we're seeing again that differentiation between property owners and professionals amongst the professionals in large part an understanding that dbis role is safeguarding the public whe
point having that a little bit more clear on the website and realtime the we're talking about when do go down to dbi whether or not this is realistic but people said i want to know what the waits times before i go down maybe a two housing or nouftd in the hour and a half reorganizing the information for the less familiar that is people that are not as familiar with the process and making that friendly and the transmission was a theme that came up in the focus groups a lot okay. we want to do...
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about civil cases, the court of public opinion. now the possibility he could serve realtime. >> reporter: today's charges stemming from the kais case of a woman named andrea constan, 21 years old when she says cosby assaulted her in 2004 in the athletic department at temple university, his alma mater. this is cosby's home, the place it's said he brought her. >> on the evening in question, mr. cosby urged her to take pills that he provided to her and to drink wine. the effect of which rendered her unable to move, respond to his advances, and he committed >> reporter: it was january 2004 when he allegedly invited her to his suburban philadelphia home. the criminal complaint says he gave her three blue pills he allegedly claimed were herbal saying they would make her feel good and take the edge off, calling them three friends to help her relax. asked her to taste the wine. within minutes she claimed she began experiencing blurry vision and difficulty speaking. cosby then allegedly telling her to lie down, according to the criminal complaint, and assaulted her while she remained frozen and p
about civil cases, the court of public opinion. now the possibility he could serve realtime. >> reporter: today's charges stemming from the kais case of a woman named andrea constan, 21 years old when she says cosby assaulted her in 2004 in the athletic department at temple university, his alma mater. this is cosby's home, the place it's said he brought her. >> on the evening in question, mr. cosby urged her to take pills that he provided to her and to drink wine. the effect of...
Caught on Camera : MSNBCW : December 30, 2015 8:00pm-9:01pm PST
in realtime. after the guards leave, a few of the inmates move to the window blocking the view from outside. a minute later, rivera, in full view of the camera, takes off his shirt and attacks herman. >> one of these guys thought that wearing a bunny suit meant that mr. herman had child molest charges. >> herman is no saint. he's in there on a kidnapping charge. but he's not a child molester, which even hardened felons consider reprehensible. with the accuracy of an experienced boxer, rivera lands 13 punches on his face and midsection. rivera finishes with a knee to the chest and then goes back to finish his juice box. herman spends the next 20 minutes washing his wounds before the second inmate morris unleashes a barrage of blows to his chest. >> it's bizarre conduct by these assailants because they actually looked at his booking card, and there was nothing in there about child molesting at all. and he was never charged with it. >> the assault continues. morris comes back with a vicious kick to the head followed by some heavy swings by quint. and then a fourth inmate, reyes enters
in realtime. after the guards leave, a few of the inmates move to the window blocking the view from outside. a minute later, rivera, in full view of the camera, takes off his shirt and attacks herman. >> one of these guys thought that wearing a bunny suit meant that mr. herman had child molest charges. >> herman is no saint. he's in there on a kidnapping charge. but he's not a child molester, which even hardened felons consider reprehensible. with the accuracy of an experienced...
. captions by: caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com >>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. >>> once america's favorite father, now charge with sexual assault. the criminal case against bill cosby that could send him to prison. >> a sea of blue and a final salute to a fallen hero who dedicated his life to protecting others. >> plus -- >> if you had children a son would you want him to play >> i didn't necessarily want to, um, put my child in that if i could avoid that. >> this jets football player with a strong reaction after seeing the movie "concussion." why he says he feels betrayed by the nfl. good evening, i'm dana tyler. >>> we begin tonight with a sexual assault charge against bill cosby. the comedian appeared before a judge today looking frail and walking with a cane as he arrived at the courthouse. he was formally booked on a charge of aggravated indecent assault, forced to turn over his passport and is now free on bail. kenneth craig reports from pennsylvania. >> reporter: that arraignment happened through the door behind me and bill cosby walked in real
. captions by: caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com >>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. >>> once america's favorite father, now charge with sexual assault. the criminal case against bill cosby that could send him to prison. >> a sea of blue and a final salute to a fallen hero who dedicated his life to protecting others. >> plus -- >> if you had children a son would you want him to play >> i didn't necessarily want to, um, put...
The Lead With Jake Tapper : CNNW : December 30, 2015 1:00pm-2:01pm PST
three days. but now it appears there's no realtime fraim for how long they can stay in mexico? >> a u.s. marshal official in houston says never get by in three days and they expect it to take a little bit longer. you can take a listen to what they said. >> it depends on the court system down there. and it also depends on the fact that the couches have legal council. and it seems to me if they wanted to they can pay as much money to drag this thing out as long as they want to. >> jim, that marshal saying he wouldn't be shocked if this took several weeks to get them back here to texas and into the kusty of tarrant county. >> ed lavandera in dallas, thank you. follow me on facebook or twitter or tweet the show. that's it for "the lead" today. i'm jim sciutto in today for jake tapper. brianna keilar is coming up next. she is filling in for wolf blitzer in that familiar place, "the situation room." it's hard to find time to keep up on my shows. that's why i switched from u-verse to xfinity. now i can download my dvr recordings and take them anywhere. ready or not, here i come! (whispers)
three days. but now it appears there's no realtime fraim for how long they can stay in mexico? >> a u.s. marshal official in houston says never get by in three days and they expect it to take a little bit longer. you can take a listen to what they said. >> it depends on the court system down there. and it also depends on the fact that the couches have legal council. and it seems to me if they wanted to they can pay as much money to drag this thing out as long as they want to....
At This Hour With Berman and Bolduan : CNNW : December 30, 2015 8:00am-9:01am PST
, we have to remember, this line of attack was used against bill clinton in realtime back in the 1990s. in 1998 in the midst of the impeachment, democrats picked up seats, and it did not hit bill clinton then in real time politically, so i am curious to see why anybody would think it hurts hillary clinton 20 years later. it does not add up to me. i think that if i were a hillary staffer, i would be smile ing the the more he does this. >> and doug high, you are watching it happen in realtime 2015-2016, and donald trump in the final rally of the year. is this a smart move for him today, and can it work going forward? >> well, it is a smart move for trump in that it continues the conversation that donald trump a has had for months. talk about anything that doesn't deal with how to defeat isis or grow jobs and fix schools, and the trade with china, but he did not add any specifics to. if you want a substantive campaign, do anything but talk about anything but the issues, jeb bush, carly fiorina's face, cell phones, whatever, you will draw the headline, and do well in the polls, but ultimat
, we have to remember, this line of attack was used against bill clinton in realtime back in the 1990s. in 1998 in the midst of the impeachment, democrats picked up seats, and it did not hit bill clinton then in real time politically, so i am curious to see why anybody would think it hurts hillary clinton 20 years later. it does not add up to me. i think that if i were a hillary staffer, i would be smile ing the the more he does this. >> and doug high, you are watching it happen in...
CNN Newsroom With Carol Costello : CNNW : December 30, 2015 6:00am-8:01am PST
belgium that night. suggesting possible realtime coordination from suspects or a suspect in belgium for those attacks in paris. notably they found a samsung smart phone outside the concert hall in a trash bin that the attackers left it there. and inside they found 25 messages going back to one of these phones in belgium. the last message just before the attack said "we are about to get started." these messages sent over a period of about one day to this phone in belgium, poppy. so this possibility of realtime coordination from here in belgium where we are right now. >> absolutely. and it shows that the porous borders we talked about so much in our coverage in paris flowing in and out of belgium into the paris, back and forth, how wide the web was. let's talk specifically about this threat in belgium right now. you have the so called name of it a kamikaze riders. a muslim biker gang linked to this and terror and also in investigations in the past. do we know anything about that organization? >> quite extraordinary titled group. the kamikaze riders. and they ever been in the cross-hai
belgium that night. suggesting possible realtime coordination from suspects or a suspect in belgium for those attacks in paris. notably they found a samsung smart phone outside the concert hall in a trash bin that the attackers left it there. and inside they found 25 messages going back to one of these phones in belgium. the last message just before the attack said "we are about to get started." these messages sent over a period of about one day to this phone in belgium, poppy. so...
KPIX 5 News at 6AM : KPIX : December 30, 2015 6:00am-7:01am PST
>>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. >>> good morning. it's wednesday, december 30. i'm betty yu. >> i'm anne makovec. frank and michelle are off. >>> news out of fairfield this morning a 4-year-old boy is dead, the grandmother the suspect. it started with a 911 call about a drowning. kpix 5's jackie ward reports. >> reporter: police knew almost immediately that this death was suspicious and it was quickly determined that the boy was placed in a bathtub and intentionally drowned. police say the boy was in custody with this woman. 51-year-old dawn raines-hewes. his grandmother. fairfield police and fire personnel went to a house on the 1400 block of jefferson street yesterday morning just before 11:00. that's when they found the little boy. >> officers and fire personnel found a 4-year-old little boy who was unconscious not breathing. they began resuscitation efforts and the 4-year-old was transported to a nearby trauma center where he died. >> reporter: raines-hewes is being held in solano county jail without bail. a 6-year-old and 1-year-old were also in her custod
>>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. >>> good morning. it's wednesday, december 30. i'm betty yu. >> i'm anne makovec. frank and michelle are off. >>> news out of fairfield this morning a 4-year-old boy is dead, the grandmother the suspect. it started with a 911 call about a drowning. kpix 5's jackie ward reports. >> reporter: police knew almost immediately that this death was suspicious and it was quickly determined that the boy was...
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Today in the Bay : KNTV : December 30, 2015 5:00am-6:01am PST
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update on a stubborn pregnant elephant seal. we've been watching it play out in realtime. the 900-pound mammal was successfully captured and moved to her new home yesterday. she's been trying to cross highway 37 in sonoma county. crews tried to redirect her gently into the san pablo bay. but this seal was relentless. >> we are not a 900-pound elephant seal so she's deciding to do whatever she wants. >> they eventually did trap her, sedated her and loaded her up in the back of a truck. crews took her to chimney rock at point reyes where she was released. the location has an established colony for elephant seals. we were trying to figure out why she was trying to get out of the ocean and cross on the highway. some marine experts thought she could be pregnant. we're not sure. >> she probably doesn't feel very well. that's a lot of baby in you. >>> 5:25. this is a really disturbing story. a little boy is dead and his grandmother, of all people, in handcuffs. the disturbing details being revealed about the 4-year-old's death and why police are pointing the finger at that grandmother. >> what
update on a stubborn pregnant elephant seal. we've been watching it play out in realtime. the 900-pound mammal was successfully captured and moved to her new home yesterday. she's been trying to cross highway 37 in sonoma county. crews tried to redirect her gently into the san pablo bay. but this seal was relentless. >> we are not a 900-pound elephant seal so she's deciding to do whatever she wants. >> they eventually did trap her, sedated her and loaded her up in the back of a...
night's sleep ♪ >>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. >>> good morning. it's wednesday, december 30. i'm betty yu. >> i'm anne makovec. frank and michelle are off. >>> news out of fairfield this morning a 4-year-old boy is dead, the grandmother the suspect. it started with a 911 call about a drowning. kpix 5's jackie ward reports. >> reporter: police knew almost immediately that this death was suspicious and it was quickly determined that the boy was placed in a bathtub and intentionally drowned. police say the boy was in custody with this woman. 51-year-old dawn raines-hewes.
night's sleep ♪ >>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. >>> good morning. it's wednesday, december 30. i'm betty yu. >> i'm anne makovec. frank and michelle are off. >>> news out of fairfield this morning a 4-year-old boy is dead, the grandmother the suspect. it started with a 911 call about a drowning. kpix 5's jackie ward reports. >> reporter: police knew almost immediately that this death was suspicious and it was quickly determined...
Anderson Cooper 360 : CNNW : December 29, 2015 8:00pm-9:01pm PST
the mother should do some realtime. so i get that. but at the same time, i just think there may be another side to this story. and before we jump on the band wagon and do our public lynching we might want to hold back a little bit and wait and hear what they have to say. >> we will keep following it. >>> coming up next, deadly flooding in missouri, rivers there near or over record levels. i take prilosec otc each morning for my frequent heartburn because you can't beat zero heartburn! ahhh the sweet taste of victory! prilosec otc. one pill each morning. 24 hours. zero heartburn. to discover the best shows friends together and movies with xfinity's winter watchlist. later on, we'll conspire ♪ ♪ as we dream by the fire ♪ a beautiful sight, we're happy tonight ♪ ♪ watching in a winter watchlist land, ♪ ♪ watching in a winter watchlist land! ♪ xfinity's winter watchlist. watch now with xfinity on demand- your home for the best entertainment this holiday season. >>> more on tonight's breaking news. record rain bringing deadly flooding. sweeping across missouri. we're see
the mother should do some realtime. so i get that. but at the same time, i just think there may be another side to this story. and before we jump on the band wagon and do our public lynching we might want to hold back a little bit and wait and hear what they have to say. >> we will keep following it. >>> coming up next, deadly flooding in missouri, rivers there near or over record levels. i take prilosec otc each morning for my frequent heartburn because you can't beat zero...
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FOX 5 News at 6 : WNYW : December 29, 2015 6:00pm-6:30pm EST
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have smartphones so that they can receive pictures of any potential suspects in realtime. now, that's something that we're used to every day, a technology we all use, but in terms of the relatively new. so he's hoping to have that in place for new year's eve, those officers will benefit from that. and they've also beefed up the video surveillance system which in this particular area is one of the most intense in the city. ernie? >> now, lisa, you've been covering in the story i know for a long time in this city. how is this going to affect, you know, the experience of the people who go out there to celebrate in times square? >> well, ernie, a lot of it for people who have come here before there's going to be 14 entry points and what they call the bow tie area, and then when people go through, they will be checked. they will also have radiation detectors with police, that's been done before. they'll be checked twice before they're actually allowed into the pens, but the biggest thing people are going to notice are the presence of officers, hundreds of them from this critical re
have smartphones so that they can receive pictures of any potential suspects in realtime. now, that's something that we're used to every day, a technology we all use, but in terms of the relatively new. so he's hoping to have that in place for new year's eve, those officers will benefit from that. and they've also beefed up the video surveillance system which in this particular area is one of the most intense in the city. ernie? >> now, lisa, you've been covering in the story i know for...
realtime captioning ] >> today on "tmz" -- >> david spade has put it on the line and said president obama is just thirsty, thirsty, thirsty and so is his wife. >> what president is doing reality shows? >> referring to bear grylls. and another thing, michelle obama is on "ellen" more than i am. which i don't know if there's a little jealousy in that. [laughter] >> robert downey jr. no longer a felon. got a pardon from governor jerry brown. >> it's the holiday. i'm not throwing water all over it. >> are you talking privilege here? >> yeah. >> he had people he could call. >> did not do it. >> who you're saying this, this is very typical, his kung fu master wrote a letter for him. [laughter] >> so madonna and guy ritchie
realtime captioning ] >> today on "tmz" -- >> david spade has put it on the line and said president obama is just thirsty, thirsty, thirsty and so is his wife. >> what president is doing reality shows? >> referring to bear grylls. and another thing, michelle obama is on "ellen" more than i am. which i don't know if there's a little jealousy in that. [laughter] >> robert downey jr. no longer a felon. got a pardon from governor jerry brown....
>>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. >>> an unwanted delivery at a san jose firehouse. package of explosives that appeared and prompted evacuations. good afternoon, everyone. i'm frank mallicoat. >> i'm maria medina. it happened at station 11 at 2840 the villages parkway. cate caugiran reports from san jose with more on what sent the bomb squad to the scene. cate. >>> reporter: the materials were black powder and shotgun caps for the purpose of making shotgun shells. but in the hour they were investigating san jose firefighter evacuated people 300 feet from the station. around 10 a.m. someone dropped off two milk criticized boxes here at the station and a -- milk crate boxes here at the station and they found the boxes with questionable material and didn't know how to properly dispose of them. >> they were cleaning out an old storage unit found this product and were like that doesn't look safe and brought it appropriately to the fire station. we would ask people in the future to not transport that material to basically call us to the scene to be evaluated the
>>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. >>> an unwanted delivery at a san jose firehouse. package of explosives that appeared and prompted evacuations. good afternoon, everyone. i'm frank mallicoat. >> i'm maria medina. it happened at station 11 at 2840 the villages parkway. cate caugiran reports from san jose with more on what sent the bomb squad to the scene. cate. >>> reporter: the materials were black powder and shotgun caps for the purpose of...
realtime captioning ] after trying brookside crunchy clusters, @carlybeyar tweeted: at this point, i should just be a brookside chocolate ambassador. well, i am sorry, carly... it's something you earn. brookside. talk about delicious. ♪ >>> live, from new york city, it's the "wendy williams show." ♪ >> you won't believe what i'm about to tell you. my girls have always turned out. i give it to you straight, no chaser. ♪ >>> now, here's wendy! [ cheers and applause ] >> wendy: thank you for
realtime captioning ] after trying brookside crunchy clusters, @carlybeyar tweeted: at this point, i should just be a brookside chocolate ambassador. well, i am sorry, carly... it's something you earn. brookside. talk about delicious. ♪ >>> live, from new york city, it's the "wendy williams show." ♪ >> you won't believe what i'm about to tell you. my girls have always turned out. i give it to you straight, no chaser. ♪ >>> now, here's wendy! [ cheers and...
CBS This Morning : KPIX : December 29, 2015 7:00am-9:01am PST
realtime is linda macdonald. >>> good morning. i'm frank mallicoat. it's 7:56. here's what's imagine. an elephant seal is now in a lagoon next to highway 37 in sonoma county. wildlife expert and the chp hope it stays in the water. yesterday the 500-pound female kept waddling on the highway causing a jam. >>> hundreds of people without power. utility workers are going house to house to lee store gas but they can only do that if someone is home. >>> coming up next on "cbs this morning," a look at the highest profile legal storage of the year. analyst rikki klieman is in studio 57. more on that plus. >>> stay with us. traffic and weather in just a moment. ,, ,,,,,, >>> let's look at conditions on the peninsula. southbound 101 just before 92. it is over to the right shoulder. light conditions anyway as you work your way through there. now, taking the san mateo bridge out of hayward into foster city, we are not seeing any brake lights right now. drive times are clear. elsewhere though we are seeing a few sluggish conditions northbound 280 especially along the extension as you head into san fr
realtime is linda macdonald. >>> good morning. i'm frank mallicoat. it's 7:56. here's what's imagine. an elephant seal is now in a lagoon next to highway 37 in sonoma county. wildlife expert and the chp hope it stays in the water. yesterday the 500-pound female kept waddling on the highway causing a jam. >>> hundreds of people without power. utility workers are going house to house to lee store gas but they can only do that if someone is home. >>> coming up next on...
Newscenter 5 at Six : WCVB : December 28, 2015 6:00pm-6:30pm EST
free wcvb app. stay with us for realtime closings and delays. it is a free download in the phil: there was a dramatic rescue pulling two people out of a burning home. mary is live at the scene. mary? >> they were first on scene at granite street and they pulled a man and older woman from the flames. the woman does have serious injuries and she was rushed to a worcester hospital. the fire chief says those two officers saved her life or at least gave her a fighting chance. she is not out of the woods yet. it was a neighbor who called 9-1-1 to report the flames that appeared to start on the porch of the multi-family apartment house. the fire spread upward and ignited a propane gas grill on the second floor porch. >> the police got here on scene and they made a pretty dramatic rescue. two police officers were transported to the hospital for smoke inhalation and are being evaluated as we speak. >> as many as eight people live here, but the two victims at the time a woman is in hour. the state police fire marshall's office is here on scene, but no ruling on a possible cause live in we
free wcvb app. stay with us for realtime closings and delays. it is a free download in the phil: there was a dramatic rescue pulling two people out of a burning home. mary is live at the scene. mary? >> they were first on scene at granite street and they pulled a man and older woman from the flames. the woman does have serious injuries and she was rushed to a worcester hospital. the fire chief says those two officers saved her life or at least gave her a fighting chance. she is not out...
Newscenter Five at Five-Thirty : WCVB : December 28, 2015 5:30pm-6:00pm EST
with the mobile app. realtime closings and delays and it is a free download in jc: a mother and daughter are making up a story about a baby being thrown into the merrimack river on christmas eve. they are charged with making a false 9-1-1 call and obstructing a police investigation. holly fowler is being held on $5,000 cash bail and her daughter, 23-year-old christine released on personal recognizance. the mother and daughter's motivation remains unclear, but prosecutors say there are incations of mental illness. >> speaking with the police there may be mental health issues in regards to both of them. jc: a helicopter and dive team implemented a search costing a total of thousands of dollars. phil: a man accused of biting off a portion of another man's ear faced a judge. he was charged with mayhem. mayhem is the actual charge. prosecutors say a fight between pererra and his new girlfriend's boyfriend resulted in him biting off he will be back in court next month. meantime this man was ordered christmas day. he is accused of locking himself inside a home with a gup threatening to
with the mobile app. realtime closings and delays and it is a free download in jc: a mother and daughter are making up a story about a baby being thrown into the merrimack river on christmas eve. they are charged with making a false 9-1-1 call and obstructing a police investigation. holly fowler is being held on $5,000 cash bail and her daughter, 23-year-old christine released on personal recognizance. the mother and daughter's motivation remains unclear, but prosecutors say there are...
Newscenter 5 at Five : WCVB : December 28, 2015 5:00pm-5:30pm EST
radar and realtime closings and delays. app store. jc: breaking news in webster. they are in the hospital after you are aring into a burning home. the woman serious injuries and was also taken to the hospital. a neighbor called 9-1-1 to report the fire on granite street this afternoon. >> police got here on scene first. they made a pretty dramatic rescue on the first floor of the building. two police officers were transported to the hospital for smoke inhalation and are being evaluated as we speak. >> as many as eight people live in the multi-family home, but only two were home at the time. phil: no charges in the shooting of 12-year-old tamir rice. a grand jury denied to indict timothy loman and his fellow officer. it happened in 2014. the 12-year-old was holding a pellet gun which the officers say they thought was real. we will have much more on the response from tamir's family and the community at 5:30. under way to make sure everyone stays safe as we ring in the new year. just today boston police are investigating a noncredible threat. newscenter 5's todd todd is live in cop
radar and realtime closings and delays. app store. jc: breaking news in webster. they are in the hospital after you are aring into a burning home. the woman serious injuries and was also taken to the hospital. a neighbor called 9-1-1 to report the fire on granite street this afternoon. >> police got here on scene first. they made a pretty dramatic rescue on the first floor of the building. two police officers were transported to the hospital for smoke inhalation and are being evaluated...
. have a great day. [ end of realtime captioning ] ioning ] >> today on "tmz" -- >> merry x-mass, everybody! [applause] here's what we're doing today. we're playing a game and the stakes are, you can get a bottle of champagne, a gift card and a dvd. what you need to do, you're going to attach the balls to your butt and then you're gonna knock santa claus off. if you do that, you get clues and if you get the clues in 45 seconds you get the prize. >> charlie's first. harvey: and go! ♪ >> oh, this is actually pretty hard. >> lower, lower! lower! >> ok! lower! kneeling! >> go,
. have a great day. [ end of realtime captioning ] ioning ] >> today on "tmz" -- >> merry x-mass, everybody! [applause] here's what we're doing today. we're playing a game and the stakes are, you can get a bottle of champagne, a gift card and a dvd. what you need to do, you're going to attach the balls to your butt and then you're gonna knock santa claus off. if you do that, you get clues and if you get the clues in 45 seconds you get the prize. >> charlie's first....
MSNBC Live With Thomas Roberts : MSNBCW : December 28, 2015 10:00am-12:01pm PST
is showing the toy gun next to the real gun and making the argument in realtime the police wouldn't be able to tell the difference there. >> you have the prosecutor calling and saying, you know what? we don't need these pellet guns, these air guns, made even more showing again how similar they actually looked. ari melber -- >> i have to add one more thing. looking at the news, it is striking that this was a 12-year-old boy and when the car pulls up, the officers don't do much of any analysis, fact finding or anything else. within second shoot this boy. now, they say they had apprehension of fear of their lives. of course, they just showed up. that's the big question here i think is not answered by this prosecutor's presentation was, did they really have the legally required fear of imminent, grievous bodily harm or death to themselves or others and knowledgeably make that determination before the boy was shot dead? the grand jury telling us that they thought it was justified. >> the person calling 911 dispatcher said there's a boy, probably fake and probably a juvenile. >> the prose
is showing the toy gun next to the real gun and making the argument in realtime the police wouldn't be able to tell the difference there. >> you have the prosecutor calling and saying, you know what? we don't need these pellet guns, these air guns, made even more showing again how similar they actually looked. ari melber -- >> i have to add one more thing. looking at the news, it is striking that this was a 12-year-old boy and when the car pulls up, the officers don't do much of...
here tomorrow. >> have a great day. [ end of realtime captioning ] >>> it's "the wendy williams show"! >> my girls are always turned out. i give it to you straight. no chaser. >> announcer: now, here's wendy! [ cheers and applause ] ♪
Squawk on the Street : CNBC : December 28, 2015 9:00am-11:01am EST
realtime -- if that's a realtime version of knowing how your sales have done over the holiday period, if you can look at how an app downloads within that period of time as an indication of how much of physical merchandise has been sold and how much of it is left on retailers shelves. >> also some analyst reports citing strong demand as a holiday gift. electronics are the sweet spot in terms of the retail spending. interestingly enough, apple getting mentioned when it comes to the strength of products and gifts given over the holiday reason that doesn't seem to be helping the stock out much. >> no. apple at the end of the quarter does seem more often than not to have more downside, and that is proving to be the case now. amazon shares up not quite 1%. we mentioned earlier the long release they always like to put out at this time. the key news, if there was any, 3 million new customers for prime in the third week of december or more than 3 million. all they'll tell us is there are tens of millions of members worldwide. they are having success with their video business. "the man in the
realtime -- if that's a realtime version of knowing how your sales have done over the holiday period, if you can look at how an app downloads within that period of time as an indication of how much of physical merchandise has been sold and how much of it is left on retailers shelves. >> also some analyst reports citing strong demand as a holiday gift. electronics are the sweet spot in terms of the retail spending. interestingly enough, apple getting mentioned when it comes to the...
Building Inspection Commission 12/16/15 : SFGTV : December 27, 2015 12:00pm-2:31pm PST
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Eyewitness News at 7 : KYW : December 27, 2015 7:00am-8:01am EST
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that? >> yes. >> that is a realtime, i'm telling you. i'm not making this stuff up. fog, it the is looking better at the shore. live look at ocean city, it is a morning jog or walk, on the boardwalk, it will turn into a nice a afternoon. let's check out visibility, now again, it is less than a mile in a lot of locations but moving through next couple of hours things will get better because wind will kick up a little bit. improving visibility by nine or 10:00. advisory until 10:00 this morning for the the entire region. all the way up to the the poconos. we should see cloud and sun this afternoon. the here's where we have to get to tie record. we have to get to 64. that is not hard for philadelphia we should beat that easily, 63 in trenton. only 59, that is a record in allentown. sixty-seven, for atlantic city. here's where we are right now, cool, because of the clouds, that fog and mist, 40's north and west of the city, low to mid 50's to the south and east but there is some warmth, look at pittsburgh. 66 degrees. that warmer air just waiting to move eastward we are still wedged wi
that? >> yes. >> that is a realtime, i'm telling you. i'm not making this stuff up. fog, it the is looking better at the shore. live look at ocean city, it is a morning jog or walk, on the boardwalk, it will turn into a nice a afternoon. let's check out visibility, now again, it is less than a mile in a lot of locations but moving through next couple of hours things will get better because wind will kick up a little bit. improving visibility by nine or 10:00. advisory until 10:00...
Transportation Authority Full Board 12/15/15 : SFGTV : December 26, 2015 7:00am-8:01am PST
go in realtime to the back office to purchase the ticket and here we are with the regular adult cable car fare. so you can see i have been purchasing quite a few throughout the day. here is my regular cable car fare and when i'm ready to get on the cable car, i select that fare. it asks me are you sure? let's do it. i use the ticket and this launches my ticket. this is the version of the digital ticket on muni mobile. applause is welcome. thank you. [ applause ] >> so what's beautiful about mobile ticketing is it's fun and exciting and beautiful and add ed mentioned this is a highly secured system. as the animation shows this isn't just a picture, it's a screen shot. by tapping my phone you see the color change components on the tickets. this isn't a rerecording of the animated ticket. likewise you can see my fare at the bottom corner and a blinking expiration time stamp. we take a level approach to security to ensure this is a valid fare. once i'm done, all of my tickets live in the my tickets screen of the app where i can come back and use the ticket again. if i wanted to hop on wit
go in realtime to the back office to purchase the ticket and here we are with the regular adult cable car fare. so you can see i have been purchasing quite a few throughout the day. here is my regular cable car fare and when i'm ready to get on the cable car, i select that fare. it asks me are you sure? let's do it. i use the ticket and this launches my ticket. this is the version of the digital ticket on muni mobile. applause is welcome. thank you. [ applause ] >> so what's beautiful...
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Eyewitness News This Morning : WABC : December 26, 2015 9:00am-10:00am EST
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>>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. >>> good morning, 9 a.m. developing now, a christmas day tragedy. a family found dead inside a luxury apartment in new jersey. this is now being called a double murder-suicide. eyewitness news is live with who police say is responsible and the phone call that steered officers to the grisly scene. >> new this morning, a mother loses control of the car that she is riding in slamming into a pole and crashing into vehicles. two children inside the car. this morning, she is facing serious charges. >>> a dramatic rescue in westchester county. firefighters save a teenage girl trapped in a burning building. this morning, we are learning what may have sparked the flames. >> and a christmastime wave of severe weather continues to make its way around the south as the tornado touches down in alabama. we have an update on injuries as clean-up gets under way. >> meanwhile, some much milder than usual winter weather continues here. saturday, december 26, a stretch of unseasonable weather continues. i'm rob nelson. >> i'm lauren glassberg in
>>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. >>> good morning, 9 a.m. developing now, a christmas day tragedy. a family found dead inside a luxury apartment in new jersey. this is now being called a double murder-suicide. eyewitness news is live with who police say is responsible and the phone call that steered officers to the grisly scene. >> new this morning, a mother loses control of the car that she is riding in slamming into a pole and crashing into...
Smerconish : CNNW : December 26, 2015 6:00am-7:01am PST
indiana woman learns she's a grandmother. and you're about to see her reaction in realtime. take a look. >> huh? oh, my god! oh, my god! i've been dreaming that it was a girl! >> and there you have it. >> i love it. i had a dream it was a girl! >> grandma. she gets her wish, apparently. she had no idea that her son and daughter-in-law were visiting for the holidays. that was the first surprise. what made it more special was that moment there. they brought their newly adopted baby girl. and as you see, grandma is overjoyed. and as she said, she was wishing for a baby girl. >> and you know what? she makes us all smile. i mean, that is infectious. that congratulations to that family. that is just awesome. >> she can't speak, she's so happy. >> oh. >>> you know, still to come, we have to talk about this fierce battle that's under way in iraq to retake the city of ramadi from isis terrorists. door-to-door combat is under way. but there are boobc tr bchlboob are set by isis soldiers that are slowing down iraqi soldiers. coughing...sniffling... and wishing you could stay in bed all day. w
indiana woman learns she's a grandmother. and you're about to see her reaction in realtime. take a look. >> huh? oh, my god! oh, my god! i've been dreaming that it was a girl! >> and there you have it. >> i love it. i had a dream it was a girl! >> grandma. she gets her wish, apparently. she had no idea that her son and daughter-in-law were visiting for the holidays. that was the first surprise. what made it more special was that moment there. they brought their newly...
CBS Evening News With Scott Pelley : KPIX : December 25, 2015 5:30pm-6:01pm PST
media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. >>> now at 6:00, as a shootout at a bart station, a man opens fire, hitting a police officer. >> plus, a coming man getting involved after families in the east bay say they are getting their mail late or not at all. >> but we begin with the weather, a freeze warning for parts of the bay area. good evening, and merry christmas! i'm brian hackney. >> thanks for joining us. i'm betty yu. ken and veronica are off tonight. >>> let's get over to chief meteorologist paul deanno. >> tell you what, it's going to be cold tonight. it was chilly throughout the day. did you know it was a white christmas about 10 miles east of downtown san jose. take a peek. mount hamilton folks up there got an inch of snow at 4,000 feet of elevation. the snow stuck overnight and look at that! it was a white christmas in parts of santa clara county. it also snowed last night even at the summit of highway 17. which is only 1700 feet in elevation. so snow in the higher elevations yesterday and it will be cold tonigh
media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. >>> now at 6:00, as a shootout at a bart station, a man opens fire, hitting a police officer. >> plus, a coming man getting involved after families in the east bay say they are getting their mail late or not at all. >> but we begin with the weather, a freeze warning for parts of the bay area. good evening, and merry christmas! i'm brian hackney. >> thanks for...
>>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. >>> merry christmas, i'm anne makovec in for frank and michelle. we begin with breaking news this morning. we just confirmed that a police officer has been shot at the hayward bart station possibly at the parking garage on d street and grand street. this happened about 45 minutes ago. kpix 5 reporter devin fehely just got on the scene a few minutes ago. devin, he is on the phone right now, have you been able to find out anything? >> reporter: yes. i'm here at the bart station at the intersection of grand and c street in hayward. i spoke to a witness of the shooting a short time ago. he tells me there was an exchange of gunfire. an officer was shot as well as the suspect. now, he says that it appears that the officer had been shot in the armed. he actually witnessed that officer and a second officer actually try to arrest or put handcuffs on the suspect. that was obviously complicated by the fact that the officer had been shot in the arm and that he appeared to struggle to get those handcuffs on the suspect. now, what led up to t
>>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. >>> merry christmas, i'm anne makovec in for frank and michelle. we begin with breaking news this morning. we just confirmed that a police officer has been shot at the hayward bart station possibly at the parking garage on d street and grand street. this happened about 45 minutes ago. kpix 5 reporter devin fehely just got on the scene a few minutes ago. devin, he is on the phone right now, have you been able to find out...
heal as you rest. advil pm. for a healing night's sleep. >>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. >>> it is 7:26. merry christmas. i'm anne makovec. it is a white christmas in san jose and in santa clara valley. you can see the east foothills through the clouds at least. mount hamilton got a good dusting of snow yesterday. it's believed to be the first time in decades it's had snow for christmas. you won't be able to drive there though. so don't dry that. mount hamilton voted closed east of quimby road. so don't try that. there is snow in the truckee tahoe area at elevations down to 2,000 feet. chains are required right now on 80 baxter and truckee and 50 from kyburz to meyers. >>> on "cbs this morning" rita moreno. weather coming up in just a minute. announcer: it's time to make room for the new mattress models! during sleep train's huge year end clearance sale... get beautyrest, posturepedic even tempur-pedic mattress sets at low clearance prices! save even more on floor samples demonstrators, and closeout inventory! plus, same-day delivery, set-up and removal of your
heal as you rest. advil pm. for a healing night's sleep. >>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. >>> it is 7:26. merry christmas. i'm anne makovec. it is a white christmas in san jose and in santa clara valley. you can see the east foothills through the clouds at least. mount hamilton got a good dusting of snow yesterday. it's believed to be the first time in decades it's had snow for christmas. you won't be able to drive there though. so don't dry that. mount...
friday, >>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. >>> it is 5 a.m. on christmas morning. that's a live look at the bay bridge. coming to work it looked like a ghost town a lot of people still in bed this christmas morning. i'm anne makovec. >> i'm brian hackney. merry christmas! >>> it's going to be a cold start for just about everybody today. we have freeze warnings posted for tonight in the bay area as the numbers are going to go down. more sunshine and gusty winds around the bay area. northwest wind, drying direction, chance of a shower or two but it's pretty much over. here's the freeze watch for tonight and tomorrow night in most inland valleys. the overnight lows records possible tonight. just be aware of the fact that it's going to be cold. on the futurecast, you can watch those northwesterlies just blow the moisture out of the bay area. we'll have some sun and some clouds. but the general feeling will be increasing sunshine and brisk chilly out there today. overnight all the clouds go away, clear skies means the temperatures will plummet. so here's what we expect
friday, >>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. >>> it is 5 a.m. on christmas morning. that's a live look at the bay bridge. coming to work it looked like a ghost town a lot of people still in bed this christmas morning. i'm anne makovec. >> i'm brian hackney. merry christmas! >>> it's going to be a cold start for just about everybody today. we have freeze warnings posted for tonight in the bay area as the numbers are going to go down. more...
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lot of volunteers helping out. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, friday, >>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. >>> it is 5 a.m. on christmas morning. that's a live look at the bay bridge. coming to work it looked like a ghost town a lot of people still in bed this christmas morning. i'm anne makovec. >> i'm brian hackney. merry christmas! >>> it's going to be a cold start for just about everybody today. we have freeze warnings posted for tonight in the bay area as the numbers are going to go down. more sunshine and gusty winds around the bay area. northwest wind, drying direction, chance of a shower or two but it's pretty much over. here's the freeze watch for tonight and tomorrow night in most inland valleys. the overnight lows records possible tonight. just be aware of the fact that it's going to be cold. on the futurecast, you can watch those northwesterlies just blow the moisture out
lot of volunteers helping out. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, friday, >>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. >>> it is 5 a.m. on christmas morning. that's a live look at the bay bridge. coming to work it looked like a ghost town a lot of people still in bed this christmas morning. i'm anne makovec. >> i'm brian hackney. merry christmas! >>> it's going to be a cold start for just about everybody today. we have freeze warnings posted for tonight in the bay area as...
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Chicago's Shidduch Group Meets
Over forty women gathered at the Annual Chicago Shidduch Group Conference on Sunday, July 27th/Tammuz 29 to learn, network, gain inspiration, and guidance in their journey of making shidduch Group Network welcomed women and post-seminary girls to an evening packed with fun and practical direction in guiding our children to the chuppah. Mrs. Bergovoy shared the story of how the Chicago Shidduch Group was formed with just a small group of friends nine years ago. Based upon Torah and the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, the group’s activities led to engagements and has evolved into a global network. With chapters in over four dozen cities, the International Shidduch Group Network, now a tax-exempt 501(c)3 charitable organization, has had an important part in making hundreds of shidduchim since its inception.
The uplifting evening began with a dvar Torah by Mrs. Brocha Wolf of the Chicago Mitzvah Campaign. Raffle drawings, including a one day pass to the JLI Women’s Day Event, were sprinkled throughout and winners claimed a variety of prizes. Elegant table settings were featured by Rochel Bukiet, party planner and stylist extraordinaire.
The highlight of the evening was the sought-after guest speaker Mrs.Esther Friedman. Mrs. Friedman is an experienced shidduch coach and co-director of the Torah Learning Center and Director of the Jewish Women’s Institute in Overland Park, Kansas. With her in-depth knowledge of Torah, Kabballah and Temperament Theory, Rebbetzin Friedman has counseled and helped countless people in all walks of life, including those in the parsha of shidduchim.
Mrs. Friedman incorporates personal stories into her down-to-earth yet uncommon approach to shidduchim. She shared that when she was twenty-one, her father came to her with a suggestion for a shidduch. But first he asked her, “Is there anyone you’re interested in going out with?”
She emphasized the importance of trusting our children, because “then they will trust us and trust themselves.” She enumerated over a dozen practical aspects to ensure a good shidduch, including approaches to reference checking, recommended duration and frequency of dating, the importance of a good shadchan as a go-between, and the need for a mashpia/coach with whom to process and explore any and all doubts/concerns that come forward. While the end goal is to make a dira b’tachtonim--to create a dwelling place for Hashem-- Mrs. Friedman acknowledged that what we accomplish in a shidduch is greater than Kriyas Yam Suf, the splitting of the sea.
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Posted on December 17, 2013 by Simon
Anger and disappointment as Burma football teams exits SEA Games – The Irrawaddy
http://www.irrawaddy.org/sports/anger-disappointment-burmas-men-go-sea-games-football.html
RANGOON — Burma’s U-23 footballers went down 1-0 to Indonesia at the SEA Games men’s football competition in Rangoon on Monday night, a result that sees the hosts out of the tournament.
Indonesia progressed to the semi-finals on the head-to-head rule, despite having an inferior goal difference to Burma’s men’s team, after both countries finished joint-second in their group, one point behind Thailand on seven points.
Speaking after the match, Burma coach Park Sung Hwa said that he thought a 1-0 loss would be enough for the home country to progress, seemingly misunderstanding that the head-to-head stipulation, which dictates that in the event of teams finishing level on points, the result of the match between the sides decides who progresses, rather than goal difference. Burma went into the game with +5 goal difference, compared with Indonesia’s -2.
“I didn’t know it in advance and therefore made some mistakes with formation and tactics,” the coach said in a post match press conference, his remarks delivered in Korean and translated to Burmese and in turn to English.
The mix-up and Burma’s exit from the competition seems likely to mark the end of Park’s tenure, after a match in which a first half penalty—coolly-taken by Indonesia’s Alfin Ismail Tuasalamony after a John Aldridge-style staccato run-up—turned out to be enough for Indonesia to progress.
For much of the game the away team looked the more likely to score, though both sides had chances before the referee blew for time after 95 minutes of play.
Burma was mostly restricted to long range efforts in the second half as the favored hosts tried to claw back Indonesia’s lead. However, for the most part the Burmese snatched at their shots, skying several efforts high and wide.
Clearly missing injured midfielder Kyi Lin, who limped out of the Saturday 1-1 draw with Thailand, and star striker Kyaw Ko Ko, who was left on the substitutes bench, the Burmese towards the end were reduced to pinging hopeful long balls into the Indonesian box, which the away team’s defense dealt with comfortably.
One spectacular 79th minute volley by Burma’s number 9 Kaung Si Thu was the high point of the host’s second half—a dipping rasper fired from the edge of the D, which dropped inches wide of the Indonesian goal with the ‘keeper a spectator.
Indonesia however had chances to wrap the game up before the end, with Bayu Gatra Sanggiawan dragging wide in the 78th minute, despite having a clear sight of the Burmese goal inside the penalty area after a well-worked move down the left.
Otherwise, while the Indonesians regularly got in behind the Burmese defense when they attacked down the left, the final pass by the visitors was left wanting.
The match was marred by the sending-off of Burma’s Ye Lin Aung with normal time set to expire, as the home team’s frustrations grew.
By the end, the tension spilled from pitch to stand, with the ref having to remove a rock lobbed onto the pitch—seemingly by an irate Burmese supporter—as the game drew to a close and it became apparent that the hosts were not going to find an equalizer.
After the game angry Burmese fans ripped up stadium seats and hurled them pitchside—or as close as they could get, given the fence, moat and running track separating the playing surface from the stands.
Violence spilled outside the stadium, with riot police called in to control the angry spectators who took their anger at the Burma team’s elimination to the streets outside Rangoon’s Thuwanna Stadium, a reprise of some of the recent bouts of football hooliganism that Burma has become known for.
Anger also spread to cyberspace, with a hacker group briefly taking down the SEA Games website, which was back up a few minutes later.
A message posted on the hacked page read “Hello, Seagame 2013. Hacked By Blink Hacker Group We don’t want to deface your site. But, today’s football match’s results brought us here. Please take legal action (at least a complain) against the vietnam referee for his deeds.”
Blink Hacker Group’s previous targets include state television station MRTV-4, various Burmese government ministries and local newspaper websites.
By Thursday morning Burma had slipped to third in the overall SEA Games medals table. With Thailand seemingly unassailable at the top with 59 gold medals, the hosts are left in a three way battle with Vietnam and Indonesia for second, third and fourth places in the medals ranking.
BY SIMON ROUGHNEEN AND SANAY LIN
Burma, Culture & Religion, Reporting from Burma/Myanmar, The Irrawaddy
Tagged Burma, football, myanmar, Rangoon, SEA Games, Thuwanna, Yangon
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Collision of Milky Way and Andromeda Predicted * 100 million years from now
COLLISION OF MILKY WAY AND ANDROMEDA PREDICTED
TO OCCUR 100 MILLION YEARS FROM NOW.
A MASSIVE HEAD-ON OF TWO GALAXIES.
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Astronomers predict that, about 100 million years from now, our galaxy, the Milky Way, having about 800 billion stars, will collide with a neighboring galaxy, Andromeda, having about 1.2 trillion stars.
A galactic collision does not mean the stars from both galaxies will collide. There is no massive fireworks. It is a slow ‘silent’ collision. There is plenty of space in between stars, so they will merely pass each other. But the resulting massive electro-magnetic maelstrom will result in the birth and death of millions of stars. The collision will take a few million years to occur.
About a hundred billion years ago, there was a super-nova, a massive explosion of all explosions whose light illuminated half of the Known or Observable Universe. Its remnants now form the Virgo super-cluster of about a thousand galaxies, of which, our home, the Milky Way is but a tiny dot. We are of star material, a cosmic brew that gave birth to consciousness.
We are so tiny, a mere micro-dot in the vast Known Universe with a diameter of 93 billion light years. If the Observable Universe were the mere size of our solar system, Earth would be the size of an electron in an atom. Our sun is but one of the 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars found in trillions of galaxies, each galaxy having an average of about a trillion stars. Beyond the 93-billion light years, nothing is unknown because light has not yet travelled to Earth.
Yet we are so big because we have consciousness. When we gaze at a star through a telescope a thousand light years away, we become part of that star and we become that star. We transcend the physical universe with our minds. Every new discovery we make with our puny instruments becomes part of us. Perspective is power. Our consciousness thus sanctifies God’s creation at the mere consciousness if it.
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u12 – observable universe
p15 – God created us from starust
u11 – our sophisticated instruments
u13 – I feel so small
u09 – I carry the sins of mankind
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STARTING LIFE AT SEVENTY * The Secret to Life is in our Stars
STARTING LIFE AT SEVENTY
THE SECRET TO LIFE IS IN OUR STARS
Freelance blogger, retired columnist Philippine Daily Inquirer
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Seventy-year-old Kevin was so bored with life that he started thinking of death. He started getting sick with imagined diseases. In total depression, wanting to die but not knowing how to, he took a walk in the nearby woods, contemplating suicide.
He stumbled and sprained his ankle. Unable to walk, he lay on the grass, and for the first time, saw the panorama of the stars like a million diadems on soft black velvet. Suddenly, he realized that he took many beautiful things for granted, that life was worth living, and it was not too late to start life at 70. His entire life of emptiness and misery flashed back in a split second. He was sad how he had wasted his life.
A deep spiritual transformation emerged. He complained aloud to the Lord in in tears. He vented his anger on the Lord, blaming Him for his misery and pain, until he realized that, for the first time in his life, he was praying for help. There was only himself and the world to blame. Only then did he realize, that he was still alive, that life was so precious, that life was what he made of it
Unable to walk, he was forced to sleep until morning on top of soft summer leaves. Resisting old age and weakness, he wandered aimlessly for two days, wondering what to do with himself. He bought bread in a bakery along the road. There, he met a young lady sitting on the curb, crying. He brought her out to a nearby garden, and asked her to lie down on the grass with him. She meekly obeyed, no questions asked. They watched the clear star-studded evening sky for a whole ten minutes in silence.
SANDRA. My name is Sandra. Hey, look, a shooting star.
KEVIN. I’m Kevin. I was ready to commit suicide two days ago, Sandra. The stars saved me. They made me feel alive.
SANDRA. I have cancer. The doctor said I will die in six months.
KEVIN. How nice. You have six months to start your life.
SANDRA. What would you have me do?
KEVIN. Give yourself to others, that’s the only way to die. Forget yourself in others.
SANDRA. I am not important. Everybody else is. Sounds like a good plan. Yes, I will try it. Look, another shooting star.
KEVIN. A shooting star, in all its grandeur, lives only for two seconds at most. You have six months. You have plenty of time.
SANDRA. Thank you, Kevin. I will never forget you.
Kevin did not fully realize the utter spiritual comfort he gave Sandra. It just came out of him. Now he knew what to do with himself. Going back home, he resolved to begin a life for the Lord and for others. It was not too late. It was only then did he really begin his life. He found his youth in his old age. After seven decades of emptiness, he began to live.
With his last savings, he built a kitchen named “SOUP FOR THE SOUL”, inviting other old people. Every day, they came, about 50 of them, men and women in rags, a noisy bunch who began to discover their youth in their old age in each other. When his money was running out, he told the sad news to all that he had to close the kitchen.
Rebecca, a 78-year-old feisty woman, stood up and said, “No way. We will raise the money.” They had a big rowdy meeting. Everybody was screaming. In the midst of the pandemonium, a beautiful young lady alighted from a black limousine and approached them. All were silent.
SANDRA. Hi, Kevin. I can see your making a mess of your life. I’ve searched high and low for you.
KEVIN. Kitchen mess, yes. Sandra, it’s nice to see you so alive. Let me see, it has been 12 months since we met, right?
SANDRA. Eighteen, Kevin. I did not die after six months because if you live for others, you don’t easily die. You taught me the secret to life, Kevin.
KEVIN. It’s no secret. It’s just that we are mostly blind because we do not want to see.
REBECCA. Hey, Sandra, you know what …….
SANDRA. Hush, grandma. I know. The soup may ran out, but not the love we all share.
Sandra winked. She gave Kevin a small bag full of cash. Everyone screamed. Soup for the Soul was alive and well. It became immortal and would never die. Somehow the Lord planned its finances, not Kevin, not Sandra, not anyone.
SANDRA. Tell me, Kevin, do you lie down on the grass with these people?
KEVIN. No grass around here. Anyway, we don’t need shooting stars.
SANDRA. I know, because you are shooting stars to each other, right?
KEVIN. Right. God bless your pretty soul, Sandra.
In an instant, like a brilliant shooting star, Sandra is gone.
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THE SKATEBOARD PRODIGAL SON * Listen to your kids * A Lesson in Parenting
THE SKATEBOARD PRODIGAL SON
LISTEN TO YOUR KIDS * A LESSON IN PARENTING
INSPIRED BY A TRUE STORY
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parents must be humble enough
to admit that their children
maybe wiser than them
because true wisdom
is in the heart, not in the mind
and millennial kids have plenty of heart
Morning breakfast table.
KEVIN. Guys. I’m going to California to join the skateboard tilt.
DAD. What? You’re giving up school?
KEVIN. Not really. It’s just for the summer.
DAD. No way. You gain nothing from skateboards. It’s a dead end.
MOM. Wait, Dad. Let’s hear him out.
DAD. There is nothing to hear. Case closed.
MOM. I want to hear. Speak up, young man.
DAD. As I said, there’s no career or money in it. I won’t permit you to waste your life.
KEVIN. Waste my life? Dad, I want to build my life.
DAD. Not this way. No. That’s final.
MOM. That’s something – build your life? How?
DAD. It will destroy your life.
MOM. Wait, wait. Hear him out. Build your life?
KEVIN. Yes. I don’t know how to explain it.
DAD. End of discussion. Case closed.
Kevin storms out to his room, bangs the door.
MOM. We must listen. We can’t just impose ourselves on him. He is a grown man.
DAD. He’s a boy, an infantile child.
MOM. He said ‘build your life’. Magic words. It means gain self-confidence. Be your own man.
DAD. He can gain self-confidence in the campus. Case closed.
Next day, Kevin stole money from Dad’s wallet and left for California. Fuming, Dad said he no long had a son. Mom was silent, not wanting to start a quarrel. She turned around to hide a smile, because she knew Kevin could take care of himself. Skateboards could make or break him – that’s the risk, she thought.
In a week, Kevin’s money had been spent. Lisa, a wealthy skateboard champ, who had ran away from home, saw Kevin’s unique style and was so impressed, she took him into her pad. In a week, she was pregnant, resigned to not joining the skateboard tilt, but happy to have a skateboard baby, which was for her, more important than the ramp.
Kevin had a hard time learning the ropes. He crashed into a tree and broke an arm. This encouraged him all the more. In a week, he was back. He was climbing rooftops and diving down pavements. He mastered the triple twirl with ease. He injured his knee, his skull saved by his dented helmet. Lisa was happy to foot the bills because she knew Kevin had a champion’s blood in his veins. His determination was amazing. True enough, Kevin became the California champ, destined to go for the national conference.
TV ANCHOR. So Kevin, it looks like your headed for stardom.
KEVIN. Mmmmm, not yet. I still have a lot to learn. Getting there though.
TV ANCHOR. Tell me, Kevin, what makes you tick. You had half a dozen injuries shown all over the papers. You have been labeled the Skateboard Paraplegic. But you keep going.
KEVIN. Two ingredients, sir. First is love. My girl Lisa and my mom and dad. Love fuels my spirit. Getting a baby made me more resolute. Love is my source of energy. Second is self-confidence, the most important virtue for a skateboard guy. For the first time in my life, I believed in myself. Before that, I was a shy quiet nobody. I hated myself. Now, I love myself.
When he got his trophy, he raised it to the sky and screamed, “Hey, Dad. This is for you.”
Mom and Dad saw the whole thing on TV. Mom was in tears and Dad was still angry because Kevin defied his authority. But the trophy softened his anger.
DAD. You’re right, Mom, skateboards build lives.
MOM. It is very dangerous to mix arrogance and ignorance, Dad. We almost lost a son.
DAD. Yes, I know. But now, humility has replaced my arrogance, and wisdom my ignorance.
MOM. Humility and wisdom? Magical mix.
When Kevin came home, he was scared his Dad had not forgiven him. But when Dad held his arms up, everything melted into an embrace.
KEVIN. Mom, dad, meet Lisa, ex-skateboard champ, and Lawrence, future skateboard champ.
Mom and Dad screamed when they saw Kevin’s wife and baby.
DAD. What’s this?
KEVIN. The $300 I stole from you.
DAD. Think nothing of it, Kevin. Keep it. God bless you.
KEVIN. No, I insist. (He forces it into Dad’s shirt pocket.)
MOM. (Grabbing the money.) Give me that. Steak and salad and red wine, anyone? My prodigal son has returned. Let’s feast and thank the Lord.
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CGC Census: Grades by Decade
After nearly 20 years of CGC grading (2000-2019), it is possible to see the percentages of grades assigned to comic books broken out by the ages of the comics (decades).
Cumulative Percentage of CGC Submissions By Grade Per Comic Decade (Universal and Signature only)
The graphic above shows that the percentage of higher grades decrease as the comic books get older, as we would expect, however the graphic does not accurately represent all comic books in existence. For example, judging from the numbers shown, it could be assumed that 49% of comic books from the 1960s are CGC 8.0 or higher.
However, assuming that 49% of comic books from the 1960s are CGC 8.0 or higher is not even close to accurate. What the 49% represents is that 49% of comic books from the 1960s which have been graded by CGC have been 8.0 or higher. The key factor is that these books have been graded by CGC, that is, someone selected the books to be graded, prepared the books for grading, and paid the costs of grading. There are many comic books for which CGC grading is hard to justify, due to the costs of CGC grading.
While any comic book can be graded by CGC, it is hard to understand why someone might pay $27, not including the costs of shipping, to have CGC grade and encapsulate comics which do not sell for at least $27. Most comic books do not sell for $27, including comic books from the 1960s, due to the condition of the comic or the lack of demand in the marketplace.
In order to better understand the condition of comic books from the 1960s, it would make sense to evaluate the CGC grades for comic books where all copies (regardless of condition) are worth submitting to CGC for grading. This scenario is most likely to occur with the highest valued comic books, where the difference in prices between even a CGC 0.5 and a CGC 1.0 are higher than the cost of CGC grading. For those comic books, the percentages of each CGC grade are a better representation (sample) of all copies in existence, rather than just the comics that are “CGC-worthy”.
Comparison of Cumulative Percentage of CGC Submissions By Grade for the 1960s against Amazing Fantasy #15 (1962)
The difference is staggering. Rather than expecting 49% of comic books from the 1960s to be CGC 8.0 or higher, it can be seen that only 3% of copies of Amazing Fantasy #15 (1962) have been CGC 8.0 or higher. While we should not expect every comic book from the 1960s to have the same percentages, it is reasonable to expect that Marvel comics from 1962 would be quite similar to the grades for Amazing Fantasy #15, if all copies (regardless of condition) were submitted to CGC for grading. Rather than expect 8.0 to be the average condition for comics from the 1960s, it might be safer to expect to find half of all copies no better than 3.5 to 4.0.
While there is no way to know the percentages for each grade for every comic book in existence, we can get a better representation of what may be in existence by studying the CGC Census for comic books which are “CGC-worthy” (that is, justifiable of the CGC costs, regardless of condition) as the representative for comics of the same age with similar distributions and histories. Future articles on this website will examine other comics for which every copy is worthy of submitting to CGC, regardless of condition.
One thing to note: Because these are percentages, this entire article makes no mention or estimate for the actual number of each comic still in existence. This evaluation is reflecting the percentages of each grade, whether there are 100 or 1,000,000 copies.
Author adminPosted on October 18, 2019 October 18, 2019 Categories basic info, case study
Overstreet Market Report – December 2018 OSPG #49
The following post contains the Overstreet Market Report supplied to the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide #49, published in July 2019.
GREG HOLLAND
Despite the increasing attention placed upon slabs (third party professionally graded and encapsulated comic books), it is the raw (ungraded, non-slabbed) comic books which remain the overwhelming majority of comic books in existence, available for purchase, and sold each year. Price guides such as this one remain extremely important to the market by providing accurate listings and values for raw comics, if for no other reason than the immense size of the raw comic market this guide serves. Slabs represent a very small percentage of all comic books in existence, however, the slabbed comic market represents a much larger percentage of total dollars spent annually, particularly for the highest valued (and highest publicity key issue) comic books in each decade. The largest of the professional grading companies for comic books has been Certified Guaranty Company (CGC) since opening to the public in 2000. With CGC permission, I have been compiling the CGC census into a searchable database online since 2003. If any other grading companies also make their census information available and give permission, they will be included in future reports. While there are billions of comic books in existence, 4,161,087 comic books were reported as having been professionally graded and encapsulated according to the official CGC census by mid-December 2018. The counts break out as: 3,405,568 universal grades, 659,200 signature series, 53,488 restored, and 42,831 qualified grades. Those 4,161,087 slabs are for 179,409 different comic books, seeming to show that the average comic book sent to CGC has been graded 23 times. In fact, more than 50,000 different comics have been graded only once, more than half of the 179,409 comics have been graded three times or less, and more than 129,000 (72%) of the 179,409 have been graded fewer than ten times. Only 4% of comic books sent to CGC have been graded at least 100 times. The nine most submitted comic books to date have been graded at least 10,000 times. This might seem like a very high number of copies graded, but even 10,000 is only 10% if the print run was 100,000 comics. The comics in the top most submitted were printed in multiple hundreds of thousands of copies. The most often CGC graded comic book is Amazing Spider-Man #300 with more than 18,000 copies graded, followed by New Mutants #98, and Wolverine Limited Series #1. The next five are Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #8, Uncanny X-Men #266, Incredible Hulk #181, Amazing Spider-Man #361, and Amazing Spider-Man #129. In ninth place is Spawn #1, followed by Amazing Spider-Man #252 in tenth, which is likely to exceed 10,000 graded copies by the time of this publication. Nine of the top ten most submitted books are from Marvel, plus Spawn #1 from Image Comics. The top most submitted comic from D.C. Comics is Batman: The Killing Joke at 17th most submitted with 5,770 copies on the CGC census. All the Top 100 most-submitted comics are from Marvel (85), D.C. Comics (11), or Image (4). The first book represented by another publisher is Rai #0 (1992) from Valiant Comics at position #101 (2,512 copies graded). The Top 100 most-submitted books to CGC represent 476,015 copies on the CGC census, which is 11.4% of all CGC graded comics. The Top 1% of comics submitted to CGC (1,794 different comics) represent 1,715,163 slabs, or 41% of all slabs.
CGC Census Counts by Comic Decade (as of mid-December 2018):
1930s = 8,254 (0.2%) –
1940s = 138,426 (3.3%) –
1960s = 656,900 (15.8%) –
Others = 2,095 (<0.1%) –
Total = 4,161,087.
Drawing broad conclusions using the CGC census information is more problematic than simply calculating the numbers. CGC counts, totals, and averages do not necessarily represent a sample of the whole comic book market. Comics which are sent to CGC have often been selected by the submitter for exceptional qualities of high grade condition, high market value, or both. By definition, the average raw comic is unlikely to be exceptional. Another important note is that comics which have few copies on the CGC census are not necessarily rare. When a comic book has little market value, even if it is very old, there is little reason to pay for third-party professional grading and encapsulation. Comics which appear uncommon on the CGC census may be extremely common and of little value in the market. One common phrase often used with CGC graded comics is the phrase “highest graded”. According to the CGC census, the highest graded copy is rarely alone. The potential buyer for a highest graded copy should check to see if the copy is still the highest graded because more copies may be graded at any time. The buyer should also know if the highest graded copy is one of one, one of ten, or one of hundreds at the same grade. Over 25% of all CGC graded comics are also the “highest graded” for that issue. More than 1,000,000 CGC graded comics are technically the “highest graded” while fewer than 50,000 are the “single highest graded” copy with at least one lower graded copy on the CGC census. Everyone should be aware that the phrase “highest graded” rarely means “single highest graded”. Additionally, any premiums paid for the single highest graded copy of a comic book should be considered carefully, since another copy at the same grade or higher could potentially be graded tomorrow. There is also quite a bit of debate and mystery associated with the highest possible CGC grades of CGC 9.9 and CGC 10. At the time of this writing, CGC had assigned the CGC 9.9 grade to 15,432 comics (about 1 out of every 270 comics graded) and assigned the CGC 10 grade to 3,503 comics (about 1 out of every 1,188 comics graded). The CGC 9.9 and CGC 10 grades are overwhelmingly associated with recently-printed comic books. 80% of CGC 9.9 and 86% of CGC 10 books were printed since CGC opened to the public in 2000. A high percentage of the remaining CGC 9.9 and CGC 10 comics were printed in the 1990s with chromium wraparound covers. It is common to point to the CGC 9.9 and CGC 10 grades (and their corresponding high prices in the market) as examples of extremes, even extreme absurdities, but it should be recognized that CGC 9.9 and CGC 10 are extremely infrequent, particularly for comics printed in the 1990s and earlier which do not feature chromium covers. The oldest CGC 10 comic book is Kolynos Presents the White Guard #1 (1949), which was a promotional comic book for a toothpaste company. The oldest standard comic book graded CGC 10 is a copy of Thor #156 (1968). The oldest comic book graded CGC 9.9 is a copy of Zip Comics #7 (1940). All three of the oldest CGC 9.9 and CGC 10 books listed above were graded by CGC more than 15 years ago. For key issue comics, it is nearly universally-accepted that the three biggest superheroes in the comic book industry are Superman, Batman, and Spider-Man, so it is worth noting that CGC has graded 69 copies of Action Comics #1 (1st Superman, 1938), 68 copies of Detective Comics #27 (1st Batman, 1939), and 3,061 copies of Amazing Fantasy #15 (1st Spider-Man, 1962). If there were unreported CGC resubmissions for copies of these (or any other) comic books, then the CGC census numbers are too high. While this means that the CGC census has errors, the actual number of CGC slabs in the market (and available for purchase) is always equal to the number reported or is even lower. More information like this market report is available at slabdata.com, and more detailed CGC census analysis can be performed at cgcdata.com.
Author adminPosted on July 16, 2019 Categories basic infoTags Market, Overstreet, Report
Why is this slab more valuable than that one?
This post is taken from the CGC Board where user “Hollywood1892” asked:
QUESTION: Why is NYX #3 More Valuable than New Mutants #87 and New Mutants #98?
“Supply and demand determine value” is easy to say, and it’s the right answer …but… I like putting actual numbers to those concepts.
SUPPLY (CGC 9.8 universal counts):
New Mutants #87 = 1,454
NYX #3 = 1,505
VALUE (CGC 9.8 universal sales average):
New Mutants #87 = $425
NYX #3 = $915
DEMAND (supply times value):
New Mutants #87 = 1,454 x $425 = $617,950
New Mutants #98 = 2,759 x $750 = $2,069,250
NYX #3 = 1,505 x $915 = $1,377,075
NYX #3 is basically halfway between New Mutants #87 and New Mutants #98 in DEMAND (as defined above). The individual prices for each copy are less important, because the supplies are different. Put the two together (SUPPLY x VALUE) and you get something (DEMAND) that’s possible to compare across books.
There are plenty of objections to this simple calculation, such as:
What about the CGC 9.6, CGC 9.4, etc.?
What about all the additional raw copies that have never been sent to CGC?
What about the higher grades?
What about the fact that these books had different numbers of copies printed in the first place, regardless of how many are on the CGC Census?
What about more copies being sent to CGC all the time?
These objections are valid, but the original question reflected only one variable (Value) while the answer given here includes three variables (Value, Supply, Demand). It’s always possible to add more variables to any equation, but we quickly realize that both Pareto and Occam are more famous than we are for good reason…
They didn’t spend all day asking “But what about these 14 other things?”
Author adminPosted on March 13, 2019 March 13, 2019 Categories case study
Where is the cut-off for “High Grade”?
If we’re discussing where the cut-off for “high grade” comics would be, in terms of condition, then there’s an answer based on the eye appeal of a comic. It’s hard to see how a comic book rated at least Very Fine to Near Mint (VF/NM, or 9.0 on the 10 scale) wouldn’t be a “high grade” comic according to its appearance.
However, if the comic was produced last week and was a 9.0 condition, it would actually be “low grade” relative to the quantities which would be available at 9.4 (Near Mint) and above.
It would be hard to say that 9.6 or higher is required for a comic to be “high grade” (regardless of age) since there are older comics which may not even exist in grades above 8.0, particularly comics from the beginning of the superhero genre of the late 1930s to 1940s.
Using the decades of the comics as a guide, and offering possible cut-off points as a percentage of CGC graded copies (Universal and Signature), the following chart provides some extra information to the discussion.
There isn’t a definite conclusion to be made from the numbers, and there isn’t a definite answer to when comics no longer “look high grade” from an appearance standpoint (being in the eye of the beholder), but more than 3,000,000 CGC graded comics were analyzed to produce the chart above. That’s at least a little more information than we had before.
Author adminPosted on November 8, 2017 November 8, 2017 Categories basic info, case study, general notes
Highest Graded! But is it Single Highest Graded?
There is a natural desire to celebrate owning (or offering for sale) the “Highest Graded” copy of a comic book, which can be determined by looking at the CGC Census.
There is also a difference between the “Single Highest Graded” copy of a comic book and owning one of the “Highest Graded” copies (are there 2 or 200?) graded (so far).
Here’s a breakdown of “Highest Graded” for Universal and Signature Series CGC graded comics, as of October 3, 2017 CGC Census:
172,631 different comic books on the CGC Census, 3,546,449 CGC graded comics, and 3,475,440 are Universal or Signature Series (about 71,000 are either Restored or Qualified grades).
There are 1,004,156 CGC graded comics which are technically “Highest Graded” – that is, 28.3% of ALL CGC graded comics, more than 1-in-4 CGC Graded comics are also “Highest Graded” copies.
There are 95,628 “Single Highest Graded” copies, and over half of them are also the “Only Graded Copy”… so 54,811 are single highest without any “competition”.
That leaves 40,817 “Single Highest Graded” copies which have at least one other lower graded copy on the CGC Census. That means 4% (about 1-in-25) of the 1,004,156 comics that can claim to be “Highest Graded” on the census are also “Single Highest Graded” with at least two copies graded.
Here is the breakdown of the 95,628 “Single Highest Graded” copies:
54,811 are “single highest” and “only graded copy”
13,101 are “single highest” and “one of two copies graded”
6,108 are “single highest” and “one of three copies graded”
3,668 are “single highest” and “one of four copies graded”
9,330 are “single highest” with 5 to 10 copies graded
4,165 are “single highest” with 11 to 20 copies graded
797 are “single highest” with 51 to 100 copies graded
804 are “single highest” with 101 to 1,000 copies graded
69 are “single highest” with more than 1,000 copies graded
The “Single Highest Grade” in terms of highest total Universal and Signature Series copies graded are:
Rank as of Oct. 3, 2017
Universal and Signature CGC Submissions
Highest CGC Grade
1 13,301 10 New Mutants 98 (1991)
2 8,772 9.9 Incredible Hulk 181 (1974)
3 7,556 10 Wolverine 1 (1988)
4 4,026 10 Web of Spider-Man 1 (1985)
5 3,792 9.9 X-Men 141 (1981)
6 3,411 9.9 Uncanny X-Men 142 (1981)
7 3,067 9.9 Avengers Annual 10 (1981)
8 3,008 9.9 New Teen Titans 2 (1980)
9 2,577 9.9 Batman: The Dark Knight Returns 1 (1986)
10 2,573 9.8 Amazing Spider-Man 1 (1963)
11 2,541 9.9 X-Force 2 (1991)
12 2,516 9.8 Amazing Spider-Man 14 (1964)
13 2,222 9.9 X-Factor 24 (1988)
14 1,936 9.9 Incredible Hulk 271 (1982)
15 1,930 9.9 The Marvels Project 1 Sketch Cover (2009)
16 1,874 9.9 Walking Dead 19 (2005)
17 1,858 9.9 Uncanny X-Men 244 (1989)
18 1,842 9.9 X-Men 140 (1980)
19 1,815 10 Amazing Spider-Man 363 (1992)
21 1,770 10 Deadpool 1 (1993)
22 1,767 10 Rai 0 (1992)
23 1,767 9.9 Shazam 1 (1973)
24 1,752 9.9 Iron Man and Sub-Mariner 1 (1968)
25 1,699 9.9 Batman 404 (1987)
Author adminPosted on October 3, 2017 November 8, 2017 Categories basic info, case study
Most Popular Comic Book Publishers Submitted to CGC
The most often submitted publishers to CGC, as of the January 17, 2017 CGC Census. To date, at least one submission has been made for 2,476 different publishers.
58% of all submissions are Marvel comic books, and 20% are D.C. Comics. Marvel can also claim another 0.4% each for Timely and Atlas titles, while D.C. also adds 0.6% for Vertigo titles.
Image Comics has also published as Skybound and Top Cow, to total more than 6% of CGC submissions. Only two other publishers total at least 1% of CGC submissions, Dell Publishing and Valiant Comics.
Author adminPosted on January 23, 2017 November 8, 2017 Categories basic infoTags cgcdata, d.c., dark horse, dc, dell, gold key, harvey, idw, image, marvel, publishers, submissions, totals, valiant, vertigo
1930s Comics – Popular Submissions to CGC from 2000 to 2015
Popular comic book submissions to CGC from 2000 to 2015 are fairly consistent, with the same comics appearing most years, but a few surprises do appear as recent events such as movie releases, character re-introductions, and television series impact the demand for their CGC graded key issues.
1930s: View a three-year “Top 10” and an overall ranking for comic books from 1930 to 1939 in the chart below (enlarge), or as a printable PDF.
Author adminPosted on January 23, 2017 November 8, 2017 Categories case studyTags 1930s, 1938, 1939, Action 1, Action Comics, Action Comics 1, batman, cgcdata, decades, Detective 27, Detective Comics, Detective Comics 27, popular, submissions, superman, totals
1940s: View the annual “Top 10” and an overall ranking for comic books from 1940 to 1949 in the chart below (enlarge), or as a printable PDF.
Author adminPosted on January 23, 2017 November 8, 2017 Categories case studyTags 1940s, batman, batman 1, cgcdata, decades, golden, popular, submissions, superman, totals
Author adminPosted on January 23, 2017 November 8, 2017 Categories case studyTags 1950s, action 252, cgcdata, decades, flash, flash 105, golden, green lantern, popular, showcase 22, submissions, supergirl, totals, uncle scrooge
Case Study: Most Popular 1990s Comics Submitted to CGC by Publisher
The most popular submissions to CGC for 1990s comic books by the top four 1990s publishers, Marvel, D.C., Valiant, and Image.
Click to enlarge, or download as a PDF.
Author adminPosted on January 23, 2017 November 8, 2017 Categories case studyTags 1990s, cgcdata, d.c., dc, decades, image, marvel, submissions, totals, valiant
A total of 3,233,122 comic books appear on the CGC Census as of January 17, 2017…
… just in case anyone was wondering.
To calculate the current CGC Census totals, click this link and give the page about 20 seconds to load.
Author adminPosted on January 20, 2017 November 8, 2017 Format AsideCategories basic info, general notesTags cgcdata, introduction, submissions, totals
The Age Old Question…
Some traditional names for the ages of comic books have been in place for a while (Golden Age, Silver Age), and some are still being argued (Copper Age, Modern Age).
This website will usually refer to comic books by the decade of their release (or date printed inside), rather than by ages, Golden, Silver, Bronze, etc.
While there is little doubt that a comic book from 1939 and another from 1952 are both Golden Age, there is a significant difference in comics from the 1930s compared to comics from the 1950s. The addition of a sub-age in the Golden Age (like Atomic Age) may be useful for some, but in all cases these ages are linked with years.
For clarity and to eliminate confusion, this website will say 1950s comic books when it means 1950-1959, rather than attempt to separate Golden Age, Atomic Age, and Silver Age… which can all lay claim to at least a portion of the 1950s.
Comics from the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, and 2020s will be referenced in the tags of articles and charts, when applicable. Other age labels may be included, but will not be required.
Author adminPosted on January 20, 2017 November 8, 2017 Format AsideCategories basic info, general notesTags ages, bronze, cgcdata, chromium, copper, decades, golden, introduction, modern, notes, reference, silver, slabdata
Author adminPosted on January 20, 2017 November 8, 2017 Categories case studyTags 1990s, cgcdata, chromium, copper, deadpool, decades, gambit, new mutants 98, popular, spawn, spider-man, submissions, totals, x-men 266
Author adminPosted on January 20, 2017 November 8, 2017 Categories case studyTags 1980s, asm 300, batman, black suit, bronze, cgcdata, copper, decades, popular, secret wars 8, spider-man, spider-man 300, submissions, totals, venom, wolverine
Author adminPosted on January 20, 2017 November 8, 2017 Categories case studyTags 1970s, asm 121, asm 122, asm 129, bronze, cgcdata, decades, gwen, hulk 181, popular, punisher, spider-man, star wars, submissions, thanos, totals, wolverine, x-men, x-men 94
Author adminPosted on January 20, 2017 November 8, 2017 Categories case studyTags 1960s, amazing fantasy 15, cgcdata, decades, fantastic four 48, iron man 1, marvel, popular, silver, silver surfer, spider-man, submissions, totals
Notes on CGC census information
The CGC Census is updated weekly at cgccomics.com and was updated periodically as early as 2003. It is the policy of CGC to replace their census information with each update, so the author of this site created a database for prior CGC census data. As each update was released, the database grew to the point that CGCdata.com was established to provide an easy method for searching current and historical CGC census information. Permission was given by CGC for the compilation and provision of the historical CGC census data starting in 2003. Earlier CGC census data files originally provided to the authors of the Standard Catalog of Comic Books from July 2001 and January 2002 were also provided to CGCdata.com.
Additional information is often requested which is not available in the CGC Census. Examples include: grader notes, the identity of signatures, and individual submitter or dealer submission information. That type of information is not available in the CGC Census, and is not available to CGCdata.com or slabdata.com.
The CGCdata.com and slabdata.com websites only contain information which was publicly available, which has been stored and compiled for analysis.
Author adminPosted on January 18, 2017 November 8, 2017 Format AsideCategories basic info, general notesTags census, cgcdata, introduction, slabdata
Case Study: Star Wars #1 (1977) CGC Submissions
A comparison of the number of CGC submissions for Star Wars #1 (1977) over time, including both the regular edition and the 35-cent variant.
The total submissions as of January 2017 are 5,895 copies of Star Wars #1 regular edition, and 195 copies of the Star Wars #1 35-cent variant. The 35-cent variant is effectively a 1:30 variant of the regular edition (1 variant for every 30.2 regular), for copies of both submitted to CGC.
It is likely that the Star Wars #1 (1977) 35-cent variant is significantly lower than 3% of the existing/remaining supply, because lower grade copies of the Star Wars #1 regular edition are generally not “worth submitting” for professional grading when considering the resale value compared to the submission and grading fees.
Author adminPosted on January 18, 2017 November 8, 2017 Categories case studyTags 35 cent, cgcdata, star wars, submissions, variant
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CAT21 - Girona (Barcelona Catalonia)
Location: Girona (Barcelona Catalonia)
Classification: Central Hotel
Price by definition:
Capacity: 47 bedrooms
Barcelona – 64 miles, Figueres – 27 miles, Andorra – 132 miles
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This Girona hotel is a very good 3 star property which despite not being right in the centre of the city has much going for it.
Located at the entrance to the city about 5 minutes by car from the historical centre, it features 47 tastefully decorated bedrooms distributed over 3 floors easily accessed by lift. Each bedroom is exterior and has a private bathroom, telephone, satellite TV, internet connection, air conditioning and heating with individual control, minibar and hairdryer.
Facilities include restaurant, terrace, breakfast room, social lounge, swimming pool, sauna, Jacuzzi, solarium, gym, cafeteria, 24 hour reception, safe, fax, internet connection and laundry service.
There is a regular bus which runs past the hotel into the centre of town.
GIRONA the so-called “City of the Four Rivers” is located about 60 miles north of Barcelona and has a population of around 75,000 people. The city features a truly wonderful historic centre dominated by medieval buildings and many reminders of the city’s Roman, Arab and Jewish past. Girona is a wonderful place for a short break or as a base for longer stays.
Inside the walled enclosure of the city; La Forca Vella, you find The Call Jueu, or JEWISH QUARTER, where the Jewish community lived for six centuries from 890 to 1492. It is considered to be one of the best preserved Jewish quarters in Western Europe. The Jews exercised a great influence here and projected their skills and knowledge far beyond the city limits. Life in the “aljama” (Jewish community) was concentrated around the synagogue, which had various sites over the years. The very prestigious "Kabbalistic School" was founded here, the first in the Iberian Peninsula. There is an exhibition in the Bonastruc Ca Porta Centre (named after the Rabbi of the Girona Cabalists and which contains THE MUSEUM OF HISTORY OF THE JEWS and the Nahmanides Institute) on the way of life of the Girona Jews. It features one of the most important collections of Jewish tombstones in Europe.
Girona´s CATHEDRAL, which is reached by an incredibly steep rococo staircase, is home to the widest gothic nave in world. The cathedral is the result of various superimposed styles (11th – 18th centuries). Of the first Romanesque building (1038), the cloister and part of the tower are conserved. The Cathedral’s Museum displays the famous 12th century Tapestry of the Creation, the 10th century Beatus Codex and a rich collection of medieval gold and silverwork. The GIRONA ART MUSEUM, located in the old Episcopal Palace, is where some of the most important medieval art collections of Catalonia are exhibited.
If you visit the cathedral close to sunset, be sure to climb the narrow streets behind, to the city walls. From here the view over the city and entire plain is breathtaking.
Close to the cathedral are the 13th-century Banys Arabs ARAB BATHS which are well worth visiting. Despite the presence of elements of Muslim origin, this is a Romanesque building, inspired by the Roman thermal or public baths. The most interesting of the three rooms, each holding pools with different water temperatures, is the frigidarium, or cold water room, with its rustic vault and central dome resting on slender columns.
In the Old Quarter too, be sure to see the AGULLANA MANSION (14th – 17th century) a noble house. The mansion, together with the adjoining steps and façade of the Sant Martí Acosta, make up one of the most outstanding Baroque ensembles in Spain. The covered, biased arch of the mansion has long been one of the most photographed icons of the city.
The RAMBLA DE LA LIBERTAT is one of the city’s busiest and liveliest spots, due to its physical attractiveness and its role as the principal commercial centre. This area, used as a market as far back as medieval times, bursts into bloom on Sunday mornings for the flower market. A great variety of shops and cafés shelter beneath the characteristic arches and porches along this street; living testimony of the continued use of this area over the centuries.
The HOUSES OF THE ONYAR which are situated on the banks of the River Onyar and the bridges which span it are one of the most typical and spectacular sights of Girona. These houses overlooking the river were built towards the end of the Middle Ages, and were attached to the walls which encircled the old quarter and the Mercadal borough. On a clear day, the reflection in the river of these colorful houses and the occasional line of washing blowing in the breeze is quite spellbinding.
On the north side of the town you can relax at one of the many cafes and restaurants which surround the PLACA DE LA INDEPENDECIA, a colonnaded 18th century square just across the river from the Old Quarter. Afterwards, visit the nearby MUSEUM OF CINEMA which is the only one in Spain.
****AROUND GIRONA****
Girona´s excellent location between the Pyrenees and the Costa Brava makes it an ideal central point to take excursions to the beaches of Costa Brava and the pretty coastal towns of Begur, Tamaríu, Calella de Palafrugell. Also Peratallada, a beautifully preserved small medieval town of honey-coloured sandstone.
Another good trip is to the north into the volcanic Garrotxa region with the snow-capped Pyrenees in the distance. See Besalu, a pretty medieval town with a very impressive 12th century fortified stone bridge, built at an unusual angle, with a tower and eight arches of irregular proportions. There are also the remains of a Jewish Call here including a Romanesque Mikwah or ritual bathhouse connected to a synagogue. It is said to be one of only three ever found in Europe.
Olot, accessed via winding mountain roads which have inspired many Catalan painters, is also worth visiting not least for the journey itself which runs though the national park where ancient villages doze beneath dormant volcanoes.
****THE DALÍ TRIANGLE****
The collectionist Reynold Morse, the founder of the Dali Museum in Saint Petersburg (U.S A.), was the first to use the term "Daliland" to refer to the painters native Catalan region of Empordá, which he considered essential to the understanding of his cosmography. The Dali route is shaped like a triangle, with Figueres, Cadaques-Portlligat and Púbol as the three corners. Each of these places is easily visited from Girona.
FIGUERES, where Salvador Dalí was born and died, is where the Theatre-Museum is located. The Theatre-Museum, built over the former 19th century Municipal Theatre which was burnt down at the end of the Civil War, was officially opened on 28 September 1974. Most of Dalí´s works are in this museum and Dalí himself is also buried here alongside the church that was the scene of both his christening and his funeral.
CADAQUES, a white-walled fishing village at the tip of the Cap de Creus peninsula, was the Dalís´ summer home. Here, one can see many of the landscapes painted by the young Dali. When Dali met Gala, he broke away from his family and bought a fishermens hut situated between a small jetty and the road to Cadaques, in the village of PORTLLIGAT. He lived here permanently from 1930 onwards - except during the Civil War and the ensuing years- gradually altering and enlarging the property. The house and garden, which is full of olive trees, together occupy some 10,000 m2, and the site has been protected by law since 1953. Every detail of the house bears his imprint, from the dissected bone at the entrance to the sculpture known as Our Lord of the Refuse in the middle of the garden. The most significant feature, however, are the large eggs standing on the roof, which he later repeated in the remodeling of Torre Galatea in Figueres. The house still contains the original furniture and decoration - the paintings and documents are at the Theatre-Museum - which has been open to the public since 1997.
PUBOL Castle stands in a small hamlet a few kilometres from La Bisbal. Dali gave the castle to Gala in the spring of 1970, on the condition that he himself would not enter it unless personally invited by Gala. He restored the old Gothic-Renaissance palace, furnished it with items bought from antique dealers in the area and filled the garden with sculptures. He painted some frescoes inside and later did two water colours entitled View of Pubol and another painting, Galas Castle at Pubol. In the basement he built the crypt where Gala is buried. On the day of her death, 10 June 1982, Dali left Portlligat and went to live in Pubol alongside his muse. During the two years he spent there, he painted his last oil paintings, signed his will, created the Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation, directed the Dalinization of Torre Galatea in Figueres, and received the title of Marquis Dali of Pubol.
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evelyn waugh has a wicked sense of humour, and brideshead revisited is no exception. we picked up the 750 minute mini-series from the local library in hopes of some decent entertainment, and here are the results.
episode 1: et in arcadia ego
we are introduced to charles ryder (jeremy irons). wow, young irons. he is in the military, suffering the idiocy of powerfreaks. we learn he is a painter, and quite sensitive to the social sufferings of his fellow officers. soon our characters wind up outside an estate known as brideshead. ryder has been there before. and so begins a journey into the history of charles ryder and how he came to know brideshead.
charles attends oxford and is one of the good boys. soon he winds up hanging out with the dandies, developing a reputation with a certain sebastian flyte (anthony andrews). sebastian is a chap who insists on carrying about a large, stuffed teddy bear named aloysius with him.
school ends, charles ends up at home. blast. boring. however this is probably the most amusing bit thus far. john gielgud plays his father, edward, an eccentric fellow who appreciates imaginary constructs and torturing the young charles with condescension. gielgud is hilarious here. alas, the fun must end as charles receives a note that sebastian is hurt and he must rush off by train to brideshead at once.
episode 2: home and abroad
brideshead. charles and sebastian spend many days wandering the estate and drinking vintage wine while sebastian’s foot heals. we are introduced the rest of the brideshead clan, and wander through much discussion of religion, specifically catholicism. we get to see jeremy iron’s scrawny white ass. a boring episode, really, compared to the first one.
suddenly i realize that the figures of charles and sebastian in venice is very reminiscent of the talented mr. ripley, and that if they ever redid brideshead the character of sebastian would undoubtedly be played by jude law.
episode 3: the bleak light of day
a decline episode. charles and sebastian begin strongly together, and through the episode they grow apart. as charles notes, while moving closer to sebastian’s family he floats farther apart from sebastian.
after a proper function they get royally drunk, go for a ride in a motor car with some ladies, and sebastian ends up facing drunken driving charges. they are saved by the quick thinking rex mottram, who contrives a plot in which the crown is convinced that sebastian had just come down from oxford and was not at all accustomed to wine. rex is played by a youngish charles keating, whose presence immediately dredged up childhood memories of watching the american soap another world as a boy, during summers away from school. charles keating played that rascal carl hutchins, who i quite liked.
the significant event this episode of brideshead is the mysterious disappearance of dear aloysius. his flightful air and benevolent manner is missed gravely. i suspect the remaining episodes shall not be the same without him, as sebastian continues his decline into drunken adulthood. if only our brave aloysius were there to support him through these troubling times.
episode 4: sebastian against the world
the fall. sebastian’s drunkenness reaches new lows. his depression and alcoholism are brought into the open through several unbecoming incidents. sebastian is sent down from oxford, and he goes abroad for travel with his caretaker. charles is simply crushed by this news. while charles is packing up after his term at oxford our old boy aloysius makes a guest spot. huzzah aloysius! i hope he doesn’t turn into a drunkard like his friend sebastian.
charles’ father approves of him quitting oxford to take up painting. his father that this should be done “abroad” if at all possible. more gielgud. huzzah again!
it is painful, however, watching charles skirt around the edges of a family collapsing in upon itself. they want to pull him in and reject him all at once. poor charles. for fans of jeremy irons’ physique, there is more of it in this installment.
episode 5: a blow upon a bruise
charles and sebastian spend a holiday together at brideshead by chance. the bottles are initially banished, but sebastian is a fiend on the prowl. eventually the family lets him at the drink and he obliterates himself. there is talk of an intervention.
the title of this episode says it all. a very sad affair. charles is away crushed. we now understand the sadness he faces in episode one when he first sets eyes on brideshead after so many years.
looked on the back of the video and realized we are not yet at the halfway point. this is fine by me, as it is turning out to be an admirable series. we acquired these from the library, so i’m hoping i can find the other 975 episodes haven’t been rented by someone who’s died or absconded with them when they fled the country. worse yet, we’ll find all the episodes are viewable except the last half hour of the series which is garbled in some way. that’s the risk of mini-series by library.
about two months in which the middle episodes in the brideshead series are rented from the public library by another individual, as i feared would happen, causing much irritation and waiting. and waiting. and waiting.
episode 6: julia
where were we? ah, yes. sebastian has disappeared, with 300 quid, though he was left under the watchful eye of rex. but this episode of brideshead, as titled, is about julia. it begins with memories (note: things that happened in the past must be remembered in sepia). then it moves on to the roots and development of the relationship between julia and rex. perhaps the most memorable part of this episode involve rex’s attempts at converting from protestantism to catholicism. he approaches the task with the logical mind of a businessman, thinking he can simply sign a form and be done with it. his character infuses much needed wit into this episode. nonetheless, this digression from the primary plot is a welcome narrative, and amusing unto itself.
episode 7: the unseen hook
charles learns of the whereabouts of sebastian. upon the request of lady marchmain on her deathbed, charles goes to fez to convince him to come to england.
what charles finds is a broken man, withered by drink and having taken up with a nasty german fellow. this is the last we will see of sebastian, broken and pitiful.
the one bright spot in this episode is the appearance of charles’ father and his brutal wit and harsh honesty.
episode 8: brideshead deserted
charles is commissioned by bridey to paint the house, which charles gladly does.
now this is where things became confusing for me. perhaps i blanked out or the series is simply confusing. charles, seemingly out of nowhere, is married. he returns from a two year trip through south america and mexico and we find out that he has a wife that he had left behind. say what?
the notable bit in this episode is the awful looking beard that charles emerges with. fortunately, he will soon have it removed. only a ghastly moustache shall remain, a reminder that the series soon draws to a close and we near the time whence the drama began so many episodes ago.
episode 9: orphans of the storm
or, the charles and julia get it on episode.
after much coo-cooing charles and julia come out in the open with their love, and both charles’ wife celia and julia’s husband rex are well aware.
this episode also contains the brief return of the absurd anthony blanche. it is difficult, really, to describe how absurd the man is. he made me think of tim curry.
episode 10: a twitch upon the thread
bridey is engaged, and will eventually lose his virginity (there is a great joke about this made in the final episode by lord marchmain, bridey’s father).
as well, cordelia returns. she was in spain helping the wounded during the civil war.
everyone seems pleasant enough and the sight of charles and julia being close has grown commonplace. this is a sad episode, in some ways, as we know our tale will soon wind to an end. we can sense the threads of closure sewing shut the grand narrative of brideshead.
episode 11: brideshead revisited
war looms. lord marchmain returns from abroad to brideshead, displacing bridey, largely because he has come home to die. the episode begins with a great deal of wit by lord marchmain, but quickly dissolves into a struggle over religion. the children are all aghast that their father has repelled the priest and the concept of a religious death. charles is in complete accord with lord marchmain and this is the cause of certain strife with the family. the theme of religion and morality strung throughout the episodes reaches its apex here.
father mackay is brought in for absolution while lord marchmain seems to be at death’s door. there is a scuffle, charles vehemently arguing that the father should not be allowed in while lord marchmain is still alive as the shock may be enough to kill him.
these are the final turns around the noose that charles ties for himself. you had the lady! you had the house! and you flushed it, charles. his cynicism towards religion and belief in truth get the better of him and he forces himself out of julia’s life.
it is all little more than a memory now. charles goes off to war, and brideshead represents a fond but depressing reminder of yesteryear when he comes across it one cold day in the course of duty during the war.
the house is empty, save for a few serving girls, much military equipment, and old nanny hawkins in her room. charles takes tea to old nan and gets the goods on the recent history of the marchmains. nan reminded me of a delightful nanny i once knew, the grandmother of family friends, the kind of elderly lady that outlives most of her children, grandchildren, and possibly great-grandchildren.
later, a young soldier says to charles, “you said you knew this place before.”
“yes. it belongs to friends of mine.”
charles still has his sense of humour when he jokingly says “i’m homeless, childless, middle-aged, and loveless.” after a bit of cheering he makes his way to the chapel, kneels, and says a prayer.
what is to be said? a thousand other shards of narrative than i have given here. this is a slow moving story that is filled will countless touching, humourous, and intriguing moments. it leaves you feeling complete and tired, having traveled the long journey through charles’ life as a young man and into middle age.
although the sheer size of this series is daunting, i encourage you wholeheartedly to take it on one wintry week when you are well stocked with bombay sapphire tonics and your heart is open to the world of evelyn waugh’s brideshead.
Author japhPosted on September 2, 2003 January 11, 2016 Categories books, tvTags evelyn waugh
that’s incredible!
watching a look back at that kooky tv show ‘that’s incredible!’
it is remarkable looking back at the early days of extreme tv. i got to thinking about why this show, while sometimes borderline nuts, never seemed to go over the edge. you didn’t see blood and guts and broken bones. people did crazy shit, such as getting bullets shot at their heads or driving a plane through the arc de triomphe or stuffing their bodies in a tiny box.
the difference between ‘that’s incredible!’ and today’s extreme programs is that the emphasis was on success, not on fantastic failure. television shows these days prey on crashing and burning, rather than on the sheer amazement over incredible acts.
i’d much rather watch a show about human potential than one focusing on the pathetic idiocy of our species. i see enough of that every day.
Author japhPosted on August 11, 2003 January 11, 2016 Categories tv
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From Towcester
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After watching a tv programme last night i am convinced that the Titanic is not sitting at the bottom of the Atlantic but is infact its sister ship the Olympic.
The Olympic was terminally damaged by a collision with a British warship and was returned to Harland and Wolf for possible repair.
Once the ship had been identified as having a broken back it was just a big pile of floating sc rap that the White Star Line could not claim on insurace.
The Titanic was very near completion and as a result the Olympic took on changes that slowly made it look identical to the Titanic.
On the day of the Titanic launch the big boss of White Star Line said that he was not feeling well and could not go into the boat (was found sunning himself in France a few hours later) and most of the crew walked off the ship and put themselves out of a job on purpose.
The Californian rushed out of port empty (except for 3000+ blankets) and came to a sudden stop in the middle of the Atlantic for no reason.
The damage on the Titanic was identical to the damage on the Olympic after its collision.
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Posted on: 2006/12/30 9:46
lilcandycane
Re: Is it Titanic or Olympic at the bottom of the sea
That theory has been discussed to death..I can assure you that anyone who knows titanic can tell you that titanic did indeed sink. There were to many differences between the 2 ships...but the thing that convinces me is that the ships were open for anyone to see and there were thousands of men working on both...After titanic sank I find it hard to believe that not one person said a thing to anyone....It was Titanic...I know some people here can give more detailed information...I never believed the theory so i never looked into it...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn3UTGDeD3g
Mark Chirnside
Iceman wrote:
I disagree entirely. As an aside, can you tell me if this was the SKY TV conspiracy special, which fired aired in 2004?
Olympic was not terminally damaged -- none of the expert testimony supported that.
It was impossible to break the ship's 'back' even if it was damaged (and I don't believe it was). The keel was made of a series of plates, and if any plates were damaged they could be removed and repaired.
Titanic was not as near to completion as conspiracy theorists often make out. J. P. Morgan was not the head of White Star, rather IMM -- and yes, he missed the maiden voyage and went to France to be with his mistress. I'm sure he would wish to be discreet about that. Does it prove he was part of a conspiracy? No.
Titanic's crew did not walk off the ship, those you refer to were the delivery crew who took her from Belfast to Southampton, and would not have accompanied her to New York in any event.
Californian was not empty, nor do I believe she had 3,000 blankets onboard as no contemporary documentation has yet been produced to support that.
She did not stop for no reason -- Californian's Captain Lord stopped because of field ice; a very good reason to stop. Nor do I believe any damage to Titanic was identical to Olympic's.
I wrote a short, analysis at the link here (bottom):
http://www.markchirnside.co.uk/DISSERTATION.htm -- or the direct link: http://www.markchirnside.co.uk/Conspiracy_Dissertation.pdf
Mark Chirnside, Warwickshire, England.
'RMS Olympic: Titanic's Sister.'
lilcandycane wrote:
That theory has been discussed to death...titanic did indeed sink.
I agree entirely, lilcandycane. It's unfortunate that some conspiracy theorists distort sources and historical data in order to make it fit their pre-conceived conclusions.
I never believed the theory
I think that is a great credit to you.
bombjon
this is utter crap do u seriously think the Titanic didn't sink this is jst another conspiracey. when the Olympic was launched it can no side walls on the promenade deck the passengers complained about the cold so when they were building the titanic they covered half of it with walls and windows
. SO THERE
Guest_Anonymous
it was proven that the titanic is the shipo that sunk in 1912 as the build number was found indented into the titanics sheet metel the olympic may of got titanics original perpelor in 1911 when it needed repairs after slipping a perpelor blade
keithurban2007
Titanic is indeed on the bottom of the Atlantic because Olympic didn't sink she was scrapped years after Titanic sank.
Kirsty-Anne
From Powys, Wales
i think I have to agree there, definately Titanic down there. There is too much concrete or in her case iron evidence to prove that she is the one lying on the ocean floor.
Am not an expert but was olympic scrapped in 1936??? i know that some of her panelling resides in a pub in England
Yes the Olympic was scrapped in 1935-1936. I believe the Mauritania was scrapped the same year. I've seen a picture of both of them at dock, side by side. It was really sad, two great ships. Some of the interior of Olympic was put up for auction, and I don't remeber the name of the hotel but they have some of it.
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Verizon's AOL Deal Is So Money And The Media Still Doesn't Know It
Co-written with Jesse Redniss and originally published at www.braveventures.com.
The media has been doing a lot of snickering about Verizon’s purchase of AOL today, because, after all, who actually admits to watching something on AOL or even knowing what’s on there. It’s all so 1998.
Media types may not watch AOL but clearly someone is: over 65 million Americans to be exact. In fact, when it comes to video, Comscore consistently shows AOL a not-too-distant third behind YouTube and Facebook, a fact not unnoticed by ad buyers. While it may not be sexy, it is the future of TV, which isn't about "shows" but about great stories both long and short form, something AOL has in spades.
While the perception may be that AOL is stuck in the “You’ve Got Mail” days (note the number of headlines that will pun off of this today), the reality is quite different: AOL is a sleek 21st century media company that has wide-ranging content deals with everyone from the very successful millennial-focused MCN AwesomenessTV to NBC to the Huffington Post to dozens of other niche creators. It’s that range that makes them so strong: AOL covers a broad spectrum of demos which not only enables consumer choice (do I want to snack on video or do I want a full meal), it also gives advertisers the breadth and depth they want for better, more focused targeting.
Which is really what the AOL deal is all about: targeting. If there’s an audience segment you want to reach, you can find them on AOL. And if you want a way to deliver it, they’ve got that covered too.
You see, while no one was looking, AOL made the transition from chat room organizer to ad tech powerhouse. With first quarter revenue from their ad tech units well north of $200 million. AOL has bought up a number of technologies like Adap.tv, AdLearn Open Platform, Vidible, Gravity and Convertro, which they’ve recently relaunched under the One by AOL moniker, giving advertisers an end-to-end solution across multiple screens.
Verizon, on the other hand, has a way to serve that up, via its VDMS (Verizon Digital Media Services, a content and ad delivery system that competes with the likes of Brightcove and the Platform.) And while VDMS has yet to live up to its potential, combining that platform with AOL’s ad tech services gives Verizon the ability to serve up ads to whatever segment you want to reach.
That’s just on desktop. The problem AOL, Yahoo and other web-based services have run into is that more and more views are coming via mobile and mobile means no cookies. No cookies means all that sexy ad tech software is pretty much useless, which is where Verizon comes in: as the nation’s largest mobile provider, they have all sorts of data about mobile usage, including the ability to track user identity across devices, which can make those ad tech platforms useful again.
While the tech is clearly driving this deal, it’s AOL’s content play that make it all the more interesting, particularly if Verizon is planning on using all this new AOL content in its upcoming V-POP (Virtual Pay-TV Operator) play.
Oh right, that.
Verizon’s V-POP is more than just a rumor, it’s something the company has actually announced it’s planning on rolling out sometime this summer and if you look under the hood, the pieces are all there for a really kick-ass system.
There’s the UX piece that they have from OnCue, the failed Intel V-POP they bought last January. There’s the distribution piece from their mobile network (we’re thinking video watched over the Verizon V-POP is exempt from bandwidth caps.) And now there’s the additional content, both short and long form, that they get from AOL to supplement the network content they’ll negotiate through FIOS.
The combination of short and long form content reflects the way people watch video now: a two minute clip on the phone while you’re waiting for an appointment, a sixty minute show at home on the big screen TV. And it’s baffling to viewers why the same company can’t provide them with all of this, why they have to switch inputs, switch apps to go from one to the other.
A fully integrated experience is where the future is going as it gives viewers the option of choosing their own experience, sort of like a Sleep Number mattress: everyone can get the exact bundle they want with the right mix of short and long form content. (Remember Verizon’s recent pick-your-own-bundle fiasco? While ESPN and NBC certainly weren’t happy, the notion of “dialing in” the perfect bundle might just be the secret sauce behind Verizon’s new V-POP service.)
So let’s review what we have here: a strong tech play that boosts the value of AOL’s ad tech products by giving them some much needed mobile juju. A strong content play that may form the nucleus of the upcoming Verizon V-POP’s broader content strategy. A dial-your-own content bundling option.
Looks like a win from here.
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Restoration of Israel. 1But the LORD will take pity on Jacob and again choose Israel, and will settle them on their own land; foreigners will join them and attach themselves to the house of Jacob.a 2The nations will take them and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess them* as male and female slaves on the Lord’s land; they will take captive their captors and rule over their oppressors.b
Downfall of the King of Babylon. 3On the day when the LORD gives you rest from your sorrow and turmoil, from the hard service with which you served,c 4you will take up this taunt-song* against the king of Babylon:d
How the oppressor has come to an end!
how the turmoil has ended!
5The LORD has broken the rod of the wicked,
the staff of the tyrantse
6That struck the peoples in wrath
with relentless blows;
That ruled the nations in anger,
with boundless persecution.f
7The whole earth rests peacefully,
song breaks forth;
8The very cypresses rejoice over you,
the cedars of Lebanon:
“Now that you are laid to rest,
no one comes to cut us down.”g
9Below, Sheol is all astir
preparing for your coming;
Awakening the shades to greet you,
all the leaders of the earth;
Making all the kings of the nations
rise from their thrones.
10All of them speak out
and say to you,
“You too have become weak like us,
you are just like us!
11Down to Sheol your pomp is brought,
the sound of your harps.
Maggots are the couch beneath you,
worms your blanket.”h
12How you have fallen from the heavens,
O Morning Star,* son of the dawn!
How you have been cut down to the earth,
you who conquered nations!i
13In your heart you said:
“I will scale the heavens;
Above the stars of God*
I will set up my throne;
I will take my seat on the Mount of Assembly,
on the heights of Zaphon.j
14I will ascend above the tops of the clouds;
I will be like the Most High!”k
15No! Down to Sheol you will be brought
to the depths of the pit!l
16When they see you they will stare,
pondering over you:
“Is this the man who made the earth tremble,
who shook kingdoms?
17Who made the world a wilderness,
razed its cities,
and gave captives no release?”
18All the kings of the nations lie in glory,
each in his own tomb;m
19But you are cast forth without burial,
like loathsome carrion,
Covered with the slain, with those struck by the sword,
a trampled corpse,
Going down to the very stones of the pit.n
20You will never be together with them in the grave,
For you have ruined your land,
you have slain your people!
Let him never be named,
that offshoot of evil!
21Make ready to slaughter his sons
for the guilt of their fathers;o
Lest they rise and possess the earth,
and fill the breadth of the world with cities.*
22I will rise up against them, says the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, progeny and offspring, says the LORD.p 23I will make it a haunt of hoot owls and a marshland; I will sweep it with the broom of destruction, oracle of the LORD of hosts.
God’s Plan for Assyria*
24The LORD of hosts has sworn:
As I have resolved,
so shall it be;
As I have planned,
so shall it stand:
25To break the Assyrian in my land
and trample him on my mountains;
Then his yoke shall be removed from them,
and his burden from their shoulder.q
26This is the plan proposed for the whole earth,
and this the hand outstretched over all the nations.*
27The LORD of hosts has planned;
who can thwart him?
His hand is stretched out;
who can turn it back?r
Philistia.* 28In the year that King Ahaz died,* there came this oracle:
29* Do not rejoice, Philistia, not one of you,
that the rod which struck you is broken;
For out of the serpent’s root shall come an adder,
its offspring shall be a flying saraph.
30In my pastures the poor shall graze,
and the needy lie down in safety;
But I will kill your root with famine
that shall slay even your remnant.
31Howl, O gate; cry out, O city!
Philistia, all of you melts away!
For there comes a smoke from the north,*
without a straggler in its ranks.
32What will one answer the messengers of the nations?*
“The LORD has established Zion,
and in her the afflicted of his people find refuge.”
* [14:2] Possess them: Israel will make slaves of the nations who escort it back to its land.
* [14:4–21] This taunt-song, a satirical funeral lament, is a beautiful example of classical Hebrew poetry. According to the prose introduction and the prosaic conclusion (vv. 22–23), it is directed against the king of Babylon, though Babylon is mentioned nowhere in the song itself. If the reference to Babylon is accurate, the piece was composed long after the time of Isaiah, for Babylon was not a threat to Judah in the eighth century. Some have argued that Isaiah wrote it at the death of an Assyrian king and the references to Babylon were made by a later editor, but this is far from certain.
* [14:12] Morning Star: term addressed to the king of Babylon. The Vulgate translates as “Lucifer,” a name applied by the church Fathers to Satan. Son of the dawn: Heb., ben shahar, may reflect the name of a pagan deity.
* [14:13–15] God: not Elohim, the common word for God, but El, the name of the head of the pantheon in Canaanite mythology, a god who was early identified with the Lord in Israelite thought. Mount of Assembly: mountain where the council of the gods met, according to Canaanite mythology. Zaphon: the sacred mountain of Baal, originally the Jebel el-Aqra north of Ugarit, but other mountains have been identified with it, including Mount Zion in Jerusalem (Ps 48:3). The attempt to usurp the place of God (v. 14), coupled with the dramatic reversal (“above the stars of God” to “the depths of the pit”) occasioned the interpretation that saw here the rebellion and fall of Satan.
* [14:21] Cities: if the text is correct, it presumably refers to cities as expressions of human pride, authority, and oppression (cf. Gn 11:1–9; Na 3:1–4).
* [14:24–27] The motif of God’s plan or work is a recurring thread running through Isaiah’s oracles. The plans of Judah’s enemies will not come to pass (7:5–7; 8:9–10; 10:7), but God’s plan for his work of disciplining his own people (5:12, 19; 28:21), and then for punishing the foreign agents God used to administer that discipline (10:12) will come to pass.
* [14:26] Hand outstretched over all the nations: as it was once outstretched over Israel (9:11, 16, 20; 5:25).
* [14:28–31] This oracle seems to reflect the political situation soon after the death of Ahaz in 715 B.C., when Ashdod and the other Philistine cities were trying to create a united front to rebel against Assyria. Ahaz had refused to join the rebels in 735 B.C. and remained loyal to Assyria during the rest of his reign, but the Philistines may have had higher hopes for his son Hezekiah. Judah, however, did not join in Ashdod’s disastrous revolt in 713–711 B.C. (cf. 20:1).
* [14:28] The year that King Ahaz died: 715 B.C.
* [14:29] The occasion for this oracle is usually taken to be the death of an Assyrian king; the Philistines were vassals of Assyria, whereas no victories of Ahaz over the Philistines are recorded. The chronological notice (in the year that King Ahaz died) may be incorrect, for no Assyrian king died around 715, the date usually assigned for the death of Ahaz. Flying saraph: a winged cobra, often portrayed in Egyptian art and on Israelite seals. The Hebrew saraph means “to burn” and perhaps is applied to the cobra because of the burning sensation of its bite.
* [14:31] Smoke from the north: the dust raised from the approach of the Assyrian army.
* [14:32] Messengers of the nations: envoys from Philistia, and from Egypt and Ethiopia, the real powers behind the Philistine revolt (20:1–6; cf. 18:1–2).
a. [14:1] Is 56:3; 60:4; Ps 102:14; Jer 24:6; Zec 1:17.
b. [14:2] Is 49:22–23; 60:14; 66:20.
c. [14:3] Ex 33:14; Jos 1:13; Jer 30:10.
d. [14:4] Hb 2:6.
e. [14:5] Is 10:24–27.
f. [14:6] Is 10:5–7.
g. [14:8] Is 37:24; 44:23; 55:12; Ez 31:16.
h. [14:11] Sir 10:11.
i. [14:12] Jb 14:10.
j. [14:13] Jer 51:53; Am 9:2.
k. [14:14] Ez 28:2; Zep 2:15; 2 Thes 2:4.
l. [14:15] Ez 28:8–9; 32:23; Mt 11:23; Acts 12:23.
m. [14:18] Jb 3:14–15.
n. [14:19] Is 66:24.
o. [14:21] Ex 20:5; Mt 23:35.
p. [14:22] Jer 51:62; Jb 18:19.
q. [14:25] Is 9:3; 10:27a.
r. [14:27] Is 23:8–9; Jb 40:8; Jer 4:28.
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America Today - Teachers Arming in Schools
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Re: America Today - Teachers Arming in Schools
Post by Lone Star » August 12, 2019, 7:35 am
Well, I coulda told ya so.
With all the renewed calls for banning guns -- specifically, the ominously named "assault rifle" -- the FBI produces some stats that blows up the Left's narrative about guns -- AGAIN.
Just in 2017, the FBI crime statistics show that more people were killed with hammers and clubs than were killed with long guns or rifles of ANY kind by a tally of 467 to 403. The FBI defines a rifle as bolt-action, pump action, single shot, semi-automatic and the ominously named "assault rifle."
Only a very small percentage of those rifle homicides were committed with the ominously named "assault rifle." That means that the gap between hammers and assault rifles is even greater than that of all rifles.
It should also be noted that the same FBI crime stats show that over 1,500 people were killed with knives or what is described as "cutting instruments." 400% more killed with knives than with rifles.
What do you call it when the statistics -- the facts -- the truth -- doesn't match what is being claimed? It's just a question.
Guns and knives and hammers don't kill people. Evil people kill people.
Post by Doodoo » August 12, 2019, 8:33 am
First off please tell us what is exactly "being claimed"?
"What do you call it when the statistics -- the facts -- the truth -- doesn't match what is being claimed? It's just a question." You start off by claiming a renewed call to ban guns and then jump into "assault rifle" a specific So please relay to us the Claim you have.
The CDC’s Wonder database shows that in 2017, 39,773 people in the US lost their lives at the point of a gun, marking the onward march of firearm fatalities in a country renowned for its lax approach to gun controls. When adjusted for age fluctuations, that represents a total of 12 deaths per 100,000 people – up from 10.1 in 2010 and the highest rate since 1996.
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Post by papafarang » August 12, 2019, 8:47 am
so how many killed with swiss army knives and how many killed with machetes ? picking just one type of gun and comparing with 100 types of knives/swords/machetes/blades is comical at best. So best compare how many killed with samurai swords against assault rifles. or how about mass murders with knives , got a number on those. Your argument just means teachers should be armed with knives I guess then
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Post by AlexO » August 12, 2019, 9:31 am
Lone Star wrote: ↑
‘Assault Weapons’ and Magazine Bans Do Not Lower Homicide Rates
Source: Boston University School of Public Health
Michael Spiegel of Boston University and gun control advocate David Hemenway of Harvard University teamed up to study the effect of bans on “high-capacity” magazines and “assault weapons”.
A simple summary of their findings indicate that such bans would not lower homicide rates.
Named "The Impact of State Firearm Laws on Homicide and Suicide Deaths in the USA, 1991–2016: a Panel Study."
The study isolated four states and 10 different types of gun control. They measured the effectiveness of the laws in stemming homicide rates. Their research indicates that “high-capacity” magazine and “assault weapons” bans do not lower homicide rates.
Michael Spiegel:
Although I completely understand the desire to ban assault weapons, I just don’t see empirical evidence that such bans have any substantial impact on homicide rates. These bans are most often based on characteristics of guns that are not directly tied to their lethality.
Laws regulating the sale of assault weapons are unlikely to have a large impact on homicide rates, because these weapons are used in only a very small proportion of homicides. The vast majority of firearm homicides in the United States are committed with handguns.
The study also found that:
changes in household gun ownership were not found to be significantly associated with homicide or suicide rates.
Another LIB Myth busted. According to this study, a gun in the house does NOT put the homeowner at greater risk.
You just seem to quote overall homicide figures. No one really cares about the gangbangers/ Latino gangsters type shootings. They can wipe each other off the face of the world as far as most people are concerned. Its the mass slaughter, killing of innocents in basically walk through shootings using military grade weapons and high capacity magazines that are nearly 100% to blame for these atrocities. Why does anyone outside of the military need to own this type of killing equipment. I agree that it is people who kill but owning/having one of these guns makes the job a hell of a lot easier.
Post by Lone Star » August 12, 2019, 10:07 am
AlexO wrote: ↑
I'm aware of the emphasis.
That's why my most recent post dealt squarely with the long guns and specifically "assault rifles." Hammers and clubs and knives are more deadly than ALL rifle styles in America involved in homicides.
Just the other day, a lunatic with a knife in Southern California went on a random stabbing spree. 4 dead. 2 wounded.
A semiautomatic rifle, regardless of clip size, does not qualify as military grade or as an assault weapon. Military grade rifles and assault rifles are not available to the general public. They are already heavily restricted.
As I recall, none of the weapons used in any of the mass shootings were military grade or assault rifles.
Post by papafarang » August 12, 2019, 11:30 am
long guns ? so how many killed with long knives, your still including hammers ,clubs ,knives,frying pans,sticks,rocks to plump up the numbers , so if plumping numbers , put hand guns, rifles, shotguns together then ,and … yep guns are still Americas favorite murder weapon.as for another person murdering 4 people over 2 hours, imagine if it took the police 2 hours to catch a guy with a gun and how much damage and mayhem he could have caused with a gun
Post by AlexO » August 12, 2019, 1:28 pm
Jeez LS, I have kinda supported you in most of your fights against the OTHER side. But that really takes the biscuit, (sorry UK term) so the mass slaughters are mainly the result of someone walking into a school, shopping mall, nightclub and blasting people to death with a hunting rifle. Please show by example one of these insane actions were carried out by a single shot, bolt action, breech loading gun. Are Americans so scared of deer etc the they need 30 round quick fire guns just in case the deer gets angry.
You are really losing me as a supporter and the the argument LS. An imitation AK47, AR15 are not military grade?? It does not take huge skill or expertise to modify the working parts of these guns back to fully functioning military killing weapons. Where in the US of A are the deer so dangerous that you need 30 round magazines to ensure your safety. I have asked a couple of questions A/ When was the last time a patriotic citizen "carrying" was able to prevent these crimes by shooting the perp and B/ When did a mass murderer with a single shot, bolt action hunting rifle nutter carry out the mass slaughter of innocent civilians. To date no response. I say again 4 and 2, not the same as 20 and 26.
imagine if it took the police 2 hours to catch a guy with a gun and how much damage and mayhem he could have caused with a gun
Oooops.
Someone -- unintentionally -- just repeated what Americans argue as a great reason for KEEPING their guns. It was almost echoed verbatim in the words of 2nd Amendment advocates: "Police can't be everywhere."
Americans know it, law enforcement admits it, and it's why most of US law enforcement encourages responsible gun ownership. They know they can't be everywhere.
long guns ?
so if plumping numbers , put hand guns, rifles, shotguns together then
More evidence that you haven't been paying attention.
Long guns are called that because, well, they're long. Like rifles and shotguns, which ARE included in the numbers.
I'm discussing mass shootings and the common weapons of choice that tend to affect the highest numbers of victims, not handguns.
I'm not necessarily trying to gain any "support" -- just explaining how things are; and I don't expect people from other countries to ever understand.
Semi-automatic weapons are not classified as military grade or "assault weapons" in the legal definition.
You're correct. It doesn't take huge skill to modify a semi-automatic, but then that would be illegal and bring them closer to the legal definition of "assault rifle." But they are not sold that way. Anyone who modifies a firearm to be fully automatic will have big problems with ATF.
The Right to Bear Arms has nothing to do with hunting, AlexO. That's not why the Founders and Framers included it in the Bill of Rights and placed it second in the list.
Statistics from various sources indicate that there are over 1 MILLION occurrences per year -- in a population of over 310 million people -- where firearms are used to defend innocent people and save lives against criminal attack, home invasions, car jackings and other similar crimes. (I ran across one the other day. I'll try to dig it up.)
That's only 0.32% of the population in a society that is free. The statistics bear out the fact that the use of weapons for DEFENSE far outweigh the number of occurrences of mass shootings. Like you said, no one's interested if gang-bangers kill each other with handguns or anything else.
Now after looking at this map and how states view firearms for protection on school campuses, who still thinks that there will be enough states to ratify a change in the 2nd Amendment? There are only 6 states who have no such legislation allowing people to protect themselves on school campuses.
In some states, included in the legislation to arm teachers are concealed carry laws that allow any adult with a concealed carry permit to have a gun on campus and also allows college students to have guns on university campuses.
The six states that have no provision for any such possession of firearms on campus.
- Alaska (Alaskans already know how to handle their business.)
- California (Who's surprised?)
- Illinois (Chicago is located here. Who needs guns, right?)
Where mass shootings are involved -- whether on or off campus -- the weapon of choice has been a long gun -- a rifle. The anti-gun crowd likes to call any long gun that looks "scary" with a clip an "assault rifle," but that's not the legal definition.
"Assault rifles" have a selectable firing mode and can fire fully automatic. Select firing mode allows the shooter to toggle between semiautomatic (single shot on each pull) or fully automatic (multiple shots on each pull).
Most handguns, many rifles and even shotguns work in semiautomatic mode. Pull the trigger, one projectile comes out. Semiautomatic firearms are NOT assault weapons.
Fully automatic weapons are also known as machine guns and ARE "assault weapons." Fully automatic weapons are not accessible to the general population.
The graphic below shows two scary looking long guns. Only one meets the definition of "assault rifle."
In summary, it's how the long gun performs that qualifies it as an "assault rifle" -- not how it looks. There are hunting rifles of much larger caliber that have multiround clips that do more damage than a .223 caliber round from the M4 or Mossberg MMR.
NOTE: Each state has their own gun laws and definitions within those laws. It's quite possible that there are some states that will have an "assault rifle" definition that differs.
A/ When was the last time a patriotic citizen "carrying" was able to prevent these crimes by shooting the perp and
There are several surveys quoted in this article. The numbers range from 100,000 uses of firearms in self defense per year to 2.5 million or more.
https://www.wnd.com/2005/09/32103/
The number of times firearms are used in defense for law-abiding citizens is thousands more times than the homicide rate with firearms in the US.
Post by FrazeeDK » August 13, 2019, 1:23 pm
plenty of jackasses in the States that are irresponsible with firearms. You only need to go out into most any rural area to see road signs swiss-cheesed with bullet holes... As for defining "military grade" well it seems Lone Star is referring to a weapon with automatic firing capability, i.e. one trigger pull, many bullets. Other than a mechanical difference in a trigger sear there's no difference between a commercially sold semi-automatic AK-47, M-16 or any of the many and sundry military styled weapons with high capacity mags.. The gun control advocates should just apply a higher excise tax to such weapons and magazines...
Post by Doodoo » August 13, 2019, 1:36 pm
LS states "The Fully automatic weapons are also known as machine guns and ARE "assault weapons." Fully automatic weapons are not accessible to the general population."
And research says
"Here Are The Actual Federal Laws Regulating Machine Guns In The U.S.
Private ownership of machine guns made after 1986 is banned by federal law. All pre-1986 automatic weapons must be registered with the ATF and require extensive background checks before private citizens may own them."
So the answer is YES you can own a fully automatic weapon in the USA
Post by Lone Star » August 13, 2019, 2:46 pm
Doodoo wrote: ↑
I'm fully aware of ALL of that, and my previous statement is correct, which is why I made reference to the general population. A guy off the street -- general population -- doesn't walk into a retail outlet and buy a fully automatic weapon as a private citizen.
Usually only private gun dealers have pre-1986 automatic weapons, and yes, there are extensive background checks and expensive ATF stamps that must be paid to get the weapons. Those who acquire these weapons are registered. The ATF doesn't grant these stamps easily for what are now 34+ year-old weapons.
In all my years in law enforcement and being around private gun owners, I have known exactly ONE person who had the financial resources to acquire ATF stamps for several automatic weapons. That was a guy I met in 1979 in West Texas. He had a basement full of weapons. He was a gun dealer and collector.
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Post by vlad » August 13, 2019, 3:03 pm
So when we see video's on U TUBE where a 16 yr old walks in and is offered a fully Automated assault rife its fake ?? and wallmart have now stopped selling them ?? how many u tube videos have we seen where people have walked in gun shops and walked out with an assault rifle LS. Do not try and tell us there all background checked. The evidence is there for all to see.
Yes, glad it's just road signs.
Yes, having a selector switch to make firing fully automatic is part of the legal definition in many states. Yes, the caliber of the round is usually the same between "military grade" and being available for general population purchase.
In the past, there have been efforts to over-tax weapons, over-tax ammunition, outlaw ammunition, outlaw high-capacity magazines and even require the purchase of liability insurance at an extremely high cost to anyone purchasing a weapon -- all to act as deterrents to exercise one's right to arms. There have even been attempts by groups to sue gun manufacturers for the actions of a maniac who misuses their product and assaults someone. All have been a "work-around" to try to prevent a right granted by the US Constitution. For any number of reasons -- mostly court-related -- none have made it to fruition.
PC culture has had much to do with failure to report individuals who are likely to be a danger to themselves and others, or a failure by various levels of government agencies to act within the law to "red flag" an individual and prevent the acquisition of the firearm.
Then you should tell the whole story when you have a chance
Where you are concerned -- and you've proven it to be so -- it requires that I write a History of the World with each post in order to tell what you consider to be "the whole story." As it is, you and vladdie and your other cohorts already complain that my posts are too long and that you don't even bother to read them anyway. You had a little party about this just the other day in the US Politics thread. So when I post, I'm not posting to meet the benchmark of people who regularly announce that they aren't even reading what I post. But apparently, you do read what I post.
You spend your days scouring my posts looking for an opening -- any opening -- to try to characterize me as someone who is untruthful and not to be trusted. You have made yourself a self-appointed sleuth in finding something that happened 10 days before or 10 years after or in another article or is in some tangential way related -- and then claim that my information cannot be trusted. The evidence of your efforts? With all that I have provided with sources here on guns -- and my personal experience and opinions on guns over half a century (not that I am an expert in any way) -- the only thing you can find to attack is that I didn't go into enough detail for you as to how automatic weapons are obtained. But you went there anyway, and I elaborated on it, as I often do for the readership.
Most people know what "general population" means. That's why I didn't get into the weeds of explaining any process for obtaining a fully automatic weapon. If you really want to get technical, as you so often attempt to do, I never said that automatic could not be obtained at all. Besides -- and this is key -- the guys who obtain ATF stamps are NOT the guys we need to fear going into and shooting up a Walmart or school. The Feds know who they are and know what weapons they possess.
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Post by Barney » August 13, 2019, 4:17 pm
Just a comment
So this whole thread has morphed from a story about a documentary about 1 area of the USA pushing to arm teachers, but has now turned into just another gun , no gun argument. Same rhetoric as all the other long winded discussions.
I don't have a dog in any of the fights in regard to guns or no guns but wonder about what is a real historical root cause of how the USA got to this stage in its history of frequent mass shootings, yes other countries have mass shootings but no way near in the same number as the USA, to where it now has a completely different mind set and culture to the rest of the developed 1st world. The gun culture in the USA is with what is perceived to be amongst the normal population, maybe I am wrong but the normal population of other countries do not think or are as passionate about guns. The 2nd amendment is just a part of the discussion, to allow gun people to provide some legitimacy and which now is a very tired argument. The USA need to go much deeper to find the root cause of the mentality.
Keep the guns, I don't care, but the people of the USA need to have a good hard look at themselves, admit something is wrong and not be so defensive and aggressive in using the 2nd amendment.
I have over the last number of years worked for large USA construction companies and a large number of the guys I work with guns seem to be a very popular subject, they are passionate, I'll give them that. I don't join in but just passively listen and wonder how I, as an aussie, am so far apart from that thinking and discussion. They all have multiple numbers of guns. Good responsible guys with proper storage of their weapons and to my knowledge none would ever go out and cause havoc.
I think in my very short exposure to guns I have fired a 22 gun maybe 5 times that's it. It was never spoke of in the family or part of my social upbringing for any one around me to have guns. I'm sure some did but just lying around the shed in most likely in bad condition. Lots of blokes do have legal guns in Australia and head out bush on to properties to shoot roos, etc. Conspiracy theories aside once Australia had our Port Arthur massacre the govt was very quick to reign in the non required guns with a buy back scheme. There is no argument from me that the criminals have guns, but as long as they shoot each other aussies don't care.
My good friend and work colleague from the states who has just retired is well into his guns and hunting, we are absolutely poles apart on that thinking and what we would do with our personal recreation time. I would relax and go camping or whatever with not ever a thought of going shooting or killing something. He just emailed me and said he is going fishing in Alaska, then to Idaho to shoot elk, then back Deer shooting then after that goose and duck hunting. His whole recreation is shooting. Good luck to him but it isn't my cup of tea.
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Police in China Shot and Killed an Ethnic Minority Uyghur Student
Police in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region shot and killed an ethnic minority Uyghur student motorcyclist and wounded two of his pillion riders after they allegedly ran a red light on the weekend, sparking mammoth protests over the violent action, according to residents.
High school student Abdulbasit Ablimit, 17, died on the spot after he was shot from behind by policemen on patrol late Saturday in Kelpin county in Aksu prefecture, while the two other Uyghurs who suffered gunshot wounds have been detained, the residents said.
“I’m not sure whether he did not see the red light signal or he intentionally beat the red light,” a Kelpin county employee told RFA’s Uyghur Service, speaking on condition of anonymity. “The police shot him from behind and killed him.”
“In our county, traffic police always stop motorcyclists and check their license and ID card,” said another resident, also speaking anonymously. “Possibly, the young guy did not have any documents with him and, fearing he would be fined, sped away and was shot by the police.”
The shooting sparked anger among family members and relatives of the three students from Qum’eriq village in Yurchi township as well as other residents, all of whom marched to the county office carrying Ablimit’s body wrapped in white cloth to protest the police action.
“About 400 to 500 people took part in the march, hoisting Ablimit’s body,” the Kelpin county employee said.
“They demanded that the authorities provide quick answers to the circumstances that led to the shooting,” he said. “They also wanted the policeman who killed Abdulbasit to be punished according to the law.”
Security forces blocked the path of the protesters but they changed course and marched towards Yurchi township and were again prevented from reaching their destination, eyewitnesses said.
Protests dispersed
Eventually, the security forces brutally dispersed the demonstration, beating and detaining a dozen Uyghurs, including Ablimit’s uncle Mahmut Hesamidin, they said.
“The police harshly broke up the protests, detaining 10 to 15 people and seizing Abdulbasit’s body,” according to an eyewitness.
“Abdulbasit, who lost his father when he was one year old, may have fled from the police in order to prevent his mom from paying a traffic fine of about 200 to 300 yuan [U.S. $32 to U.S. $48],” he said.
Another eyewitness who spoke to RFA said the families of the two injured pillion riders were concerned about their well-being.
“They don’t know where the two boys are being held. They only know that they were riding pillion on Abdulbasit’s motorcycle and were injured in the shooting.”
Yurchi police confirmed the shooting and protests but declined to provide details.
Police in Gezlik township, which is close to Yurchi, also confirmed the incident but told RFA to contact the local government office for details.
“Now the situation is peaceful and under control,” a Gezlik police officer said.
Tense situation
But residents said the situation was tense in Kelpin county with armed security forces patrolling the streets.
“I live near the suburbs of Kelpin town and I see armed security forces and military trucks passing by the streets. The situation is still tense.”
China has intensified a sweeping security crackdown in Xinjiang, where according to official figures about 100 people, mostly Uyghurs, are believed to have been killed over the past year for alleged links to terrorism and separatism.
Many Uyghurs complain that they are subject to political, cultural, and religious repression for opposing Chinese rule in the resource-rich region.
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Hang Tuah Did Indeed Exist, Says Prof Nik Hassan Shuhaimi
BANGI, 26 September 2014 – A renouned archeologist Professor Emeritus Dato’ Dr Nik Hassan Shuhaimi Nik Abdul Rahman believes that Hang Tuah did exist because his tomb was found in Tanjung Kling Melaka.
The Principal Research Fellow at the Institute of the Malay World and Civilization (ATMA) of The National University of Malaysia (UKM) said the discovery of the ancient grave there confirmed that Hang Tuah was burried there.
He was delivering his lecture on ‘Hang Tuah: Between Myth and Reality’ as part of the Tun Seri Lanang series here today.
Prof Nik Hassan said the tomb was discovered in 1981.The Islamic Religious Council feared it would become a place of worship, and restoration was then not made.
However, in the 1990s the then Chief Minister of Malacca, Tan Sri Abdul Rahim Thamby Chik decided to repair the tomb and promote it as a tourist attraction.
He said the tomb was long as befitted someone of a heroic status in the days of the Malacca Sultanate when persons of importance had graves that were large.
Besides that, he drew references from the literature Sejarah Melayu (the Malay Annals), Hikayat Hang Tuah and research work of Prof Dr Sulastrin Sutrisno titled ‘Hikayat Hang Tuah: Analysis of structure and function’, at the University of Gajah Mada, Indonesia.
He also used numerous sources from oral history of which there are many.
Prof Nik Hassan said there are also the works of many scholars whom he found to have acceptable facts.
If story-telling and literature were about real places and historical governments, it would be reasonable to believe that the Malay hero also lived and that it is simply not a fairy tale.
Prof Nik Hassan admits that no dates were mentioned at all in the entries of the old stories. Modern researchers have to refer to other sources to determine the time based on the incidents and the names of the kings or emperors, as had been done using the Chinese Ming Dynasty in the 15th century AD.
British researchers like R.O. Winstedt and R.J. Wilkinson assumed Hang Tuah was a figure in literature merely because they accepted the stories as literature and not history.
Renowned scholar Tan Sri Prof Emeritus Dr Khoo Kay Kim had also said that evidence of the existence of Hang Tuah must be brought forward to show the warrior actually existed.
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Industry and Community Network) Prof Dr Imtan Ho Abdullah and Head Librarian Hafsah Muhammad were among those who attended the lecture.
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Thanks for the reply Bruce. Hager died early in 2007. The last couple of months before his death he would show me posts from an online forum. I am curious as to what forum he was following. I regret not paying closer attention at the time. Were there discussions about the case on Sluggo's site or was his site just for viewing? I am sorry if this doesn't seem related to the case to most of you but from my perspective it is of relevance.
If you can post some of the names of posters on that forum I may be able to identify the forum.
Smith was a late comer -
Small Cooper forums and private Yahoo groups about the Cooper case go clear back into the 90's. Im not going to try to list them all - with a few notable exceptions, many of them were run by cranks with no knowledge whatever. A Google search might turn some of those old extinct groups up. Blevins did a search for them and found my name on several of the old ones, and harassed me about it at Dropzone later.
Jo Weber posted in a few of those old threads as she was working up her vita for presentation to Himmelsbach. You could almost see her history being formed as she tried one story out then would vanish only to appear somewhere else trying another version of her story. Years later at DZ, I finally hit her with some of her own words from early threads and she went ballistic and started calling me names, claiming she had never said what she had said earlier! But she couldnt deny her own history with the old urls still available on Google. The issue is what exactly had Duane said according to Jo, about the Cooper case. JT said he had Jo on tape saying 'he might have known who Cooper was' vs. 'I am DB Cooper'! Jo's early posts do not claim that Duane told her he was DB Cooper. Snowmman got a kick out of unraveling her 'trail of bullshit'. Bruce Smith didn't think it did any harm ... which is a commentary of another type.
Prior to Dropzone by 2-3 years: the primary Cooper thread was at Websleuths. East Coast and West Coast (Myers & Dvorsky) were persecuting some guy (Ted Mayfield) for being DB Cooper. You can read about that on Wiki. They even got news coverage on several TV station in Washington. Snowmman was prominent at the Websleuth Cooper thread. Weber was never at Websleuths because the competition for truth and facts was too stiff. Dropzone finally opened a Cooper thread and Weber claimed responsibility for that - who knows what the truth about that was. The Websleuth thread died but still exists today, and just about everyone there moved to Dropzone. Shutter has even gone over and posted in the old Websluth thread, in the current era.
But there were three other small Cooper threads in addition to Websleuth. One thread was at a Science forum and it had real potential until a religious nut in South Dakota joined the forum and destroyed the site! There was another private Cooper thread at Yahoo Groups but it died from lack of participation and management - some say it was Sluggo who started that group? The third group was buried/closed to the public. Galen Cook is rumored to have had a private forum - maybe you should ask Bruce Smith about that.
It wasn't until Ckret joined the Dropzone thread that any Cooper thread became viable. Everything including this forum has been a spinoff of Dropzone and Dropzone people.
A Google search will turn up a lot of these old extinct threads. The Internet has opened the case up to the public - this wasn't available before. Before that people talked about the case within the circles of their families and friends and work colleagues, informally.
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A big thank you for the reply. I believe I remember Mark Bennet, 377, snowman, and maybe Shutter, R-99 as well as your name. I very well be mistaken about some of the names but I am fairly certain of snowman, 377, and almost positive of Mark Bennett.(Hager's favorite) Was the Cooper thread at dropzone opened in 2007 or 2008? Hag and I discussed D. B. up to a couple of days before his death in March of 2007. A lot of our conversations were actually his answers (or explanations) to whatever was being discussed online at the time. We were involved in a discussion of a certain part of the case which was extremely important to Hag. This was just a couple of days before his passing. Unfortunately we never got the chance to finish it. I am hoping to find the forum Hager was following in hopes it may provide some answers or at least some additional clues into what we were discussing. Thank you once again for your response Georger. I would love to hear more from you and also others about how you got interested in the case.
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It wasn’t me that Haggar read unless he has access from the great beyond. I joined Dropzone after attending the DB Cooper symposium in 2011. If Haggar can follow from the great beyond I think we’ll have questions for him beyond the Cooper case.
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I apologize for my mistake Mr. Bennett. I must of misunderstood whom Hag was referring to when he said 'Mark'. Any other 'Marks ' in the vortex around 2006 or very early 2007?
Hag (no disrespect intended), the Old Thread at DZ goes back to at least 2004 and may have existed in 2003 or earlier. NickDG makes a coment in one of his posts on Jul 2004 as follows:
"In August 2000, the D.B. Cooper case was exhumed in this column and readers still call and write to ask if the clues we provided have panned out.
Back then a Florida woman named Jo Weber called to say she suspected her late husband, Duane Weber, had been D.B. Cooper, the only man who ever hijacked a commercial airliner in this country and got away with it. "
So maybe people at the DZ were discussing Cooper and Weber in particular clear back in 2000? I know we never discussed Weber at Websleuths because I was there almost from its start to when Weber surfaced at DZ. My first intro to Weber was at DZ. I have a complete copy of the old thread at DZ which has since been taken down.
Websleuth was active clear up until 2008: Snow, Sluggo, and several others were posting at Websleuth and Dropzone in 2007-08. I have those old posts saved.
Thanks Georger. I thought Hager was following 'you guys'(his term) on DZ but when I went to that site the earliest posts I could see started in 2008. I was under the impression that the DZ actually started in 2008. At one point ,not long before Hager's passing, there was some discussion about the various. D. B. Cooper letters. I think Vancouver B.C. was mentioned . Although Hager had doubts about the authenticity of the letters he did think there might have been some connection between Vancouver and the case. He said there was a business (some place where they may have been involved in some type of metal manufacturing) that I believe he said was located somewhere in the lower third of the state of Washington.(I think he described it as being in the south central part of the state). I am sorry I don't remember the name of it.(sorry again Mr.Bennett, I am obviously not good with names) Hager said this company had another plant (if that's the right description) located in Vancouver B.C. They were different branches of the same company. I think the B.C. location might have been the company's headquarters .
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(couldn't seem to be able to fit this into the above) Hager thought he originally might have met Chuck Dooley at the company's Washington site.
First, Snowmman is on this thread at this moment. Second, here are some of the times for people joining the current DZ Cooper forum. I don't have any information on the earlier DZ Cooper forum.
Quade, 02/03/2008, which was the start of the present forum.
Georger, 05/25/2008.
Bruce Smith, 03/03/2009.
Robert99, 03/13/2009.
MrShutter45, 12/25/2011.
FYI, my involvement in the Cooper matter started when the FBI asked for public assistance. I ended up talking to Sluggo for quite a while and he told me about the DZ Cooper forum. I didn't post on any Cooper forum prior to joining the DZ Cooper forum on March 13, 2009.
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1. ...Smith was a late comer -
2. ... Jo Weber posted in a few of those old threads as she was working up her vita for presentation to Himmelsbach. You could almost see her history being formed as she tried one story out then would vanish only to appear somewhere else trying another version of her story. Snowmman got a kick out of unraveling her 'trail of bullshit'. Bruce Smith didn't think it did any harm ... which is a commentary of another type.
3. ...The third group was buried/closed to the public. Galen Cook is rumored to have had a private forum - maybe you should ask Bruce Smith about that.
4. It wasn't until Ckret joined the Dropzone thread that any Cooper thread became viable. Everything including this forum has been a spinoff of Dropzone and Dropzone people.
1. Late comer? 2009 was ten years ago. Plus, G, you joined the DZ only a few months before I did.
2. Did Jo Weber do any harm? Only in the fact that a serial liar creates a toxic environment to discuss important issues, such as our investigations. More troubling is Jo's extraordinary knowledge base. Plus, she has unprecedented access to Cooper principals. I was shocked when Lee Dormuth (Tina's brother-in-law) told me that Jo was talking to his wife (Jane Mucklow Dormuth - Tina's sister) the night before I showed up at their doorstep in Shelton, WA. Also, when I contacted MSgt Billy Waugh, he stunned me by saying at our first interview: "I hope you're not like that Jo Weber lady. She's crazy!"
How did Jo know the Dormuths and Billy's contact info? There are many other instances where Jo seems to have an unprecedented level of insider information. I have often wondered - and written - if she is "someone else's eyes and ears."
3. Galen does not have a chat room or any kind of online forum. In fact, he posted frequently at the DZ, and got kicked off for bad behavior, as have many of us... right, G???
4. Yup. Larry Carr kicked everything into high gear. It is one of the salient points of his legacy.
Some background for Haggar....
As Robert shows above, I joined the DZ in 2011. I was always curious about the case but never looked into over the years. while surfing on the web I seen Marla Cooper's story making headlines. I started looking into her story and found multiple problems. somewhere a long the line I found the DZ. it was tough at the start. somehow I was accepted and fell into place.
As time went by Mr. Blevins became an issue after we decided to take him up on "checking things for ourselves". we found all kinds of problems and it went downhill drastically from then on. he's already molding himself into what happened the last time. I seen the thread slowly dying and decided to take a risk an open a new forum minus a few members. not long after the opening of this thread. the DZ was shutdown.
I use to be pretty good at research and finding things and as time went by the bickering returned. it was here, and constantly dealing with Mr. Blevins. it's not very easy to get a bunch of people to discuss things. some seek fame and $$$$ while others try and control. some try to do both. I don't like to put labels on people as others have done in the past. people are people. we have good runs and then it skews. my goal is not reaching every human on the planet. it's a forum meant to discuss DB Cooper. a lot of people don't really care about who Cooper is. I just want to try and make some sense out of everything available. I think my stretch on Websleuths steams from Georger getting a vacation on the DZ. several of us went over there for a while. Jo Weber can drive you crazy too being on the same thread. she is positive Duane knew my father? she would call me two or three times a week. all I would say for an hour is, right, yes, ok etc.
A group of four guys acting as one gave me the first set of 302's that were never posted before. this was before Geoffrey posted his. a lot of good has spawned from this site. new documents, members showing up on the tube. we even have Brian Ingram on here but he only posted once. that's the short of my stint...
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Thanks Shutter.(and everyone else). I appreciate everyone's response. I am not sure which site Hag was following back in 2007 but at this point it may not be as relevant as I once thought. It's not that I don't care about it but it's obvious that if anybody from that time period is still involved in investigating the case more than likely they would be involved here. I really believe this is where Hager would want me to be. Besides all of that, I really like this place. (great site Shutter)
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I think you are right about my couple of posts at Wbsleuth during a vacation from DZ!
History of Jo Weber story -
According to Weber herself, she began investigating Cooper in 1995:
"Three days before he died in 1995, Weber told his wife, "I am Dan Cooper." The name meant nothing to her, she said; but months later, a friend told her of its significance in the hijacking. She went to her local library to research D.B. Cooper, found Max Gunther's book, and discovered notations in the margins in her husband's handwriting.[5]" wiki
Then the Max Gunther library book supposedly containing Duane's notes at Virginia Beach, Virginia. mysteriously vanished! Nobody could produce the book again to test Jo's claim that the hand writing she cited in Gunther's Cooper book was in fact Duane's hand writing. The Library was contacted and the book was 'missing or lost'!
Im not sure when Jo and Duane moved to Virginia Beach, Virginia but she made another claim. She said after she and Duane moved to Virginia Beach, Duane took her to see the house where Richard McCoy had been killed in 1974. According to Jo, Duane was sorry and felt guilty about McCoy's death at the hands of the FBI. Jo said Duane remarked: 'McCoy died a useless death'. Jo claims she knew nothing about the Cooper hijacking at the time.
So Jo says she started her case clear back in 1995. She was also advertising a new realty business at Pace FL.
Jo was still 'researching and asking for help in 2006. She posted here in 2006 detailing her search history: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login
She contacted a writer (Pasternak) in 2000 seeking help; he wrote an article on her case. She then contacted FBI Agent Himmelsback and convinced him to open a file in her behalf. Himmelsbach referred her to Jerry Thomas. According to JT Jo's claim was that Duane 'might have known who Cooper was' not that Duane had been DB Cooper! JT claims to have a recording of that telephone call.
Jo never could perfect a consistent proven case. She contacted hundreds of people saying "Please help me! I only want the truth."
At length she filed complaints against SA Larry Carr and tried to get him fired. That ended Carr's participation on Dropzone.
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A Google search might turn some of those old extinct groups up. Blevins did a search for them and found my name on several of the old ones, and harassed me about it at Dropzone later.
Actually Georger, you can blame me for that, at least in part. There was a time when I didn't think that Blevins was that bad and that people on the forum was a little too hard on him. I was wrong, obviously, and I know that now. But, I was the one that came across the article with all of those "filthy comments" that Blevins so often alludes to and I sent him a link. I had no idea at the time that he was going to constantly bring it up and was NEVER going to let it go. I regret doing it every time he brings it up. But, as much as I'd like to, I can't undo it. My bad .
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He's never shown a shred of proof. the last time he thought he had Georger's IP it was a Google bot IP.
The original story Blevins has was Regina gave him the IP addresses. then years later he claimed his tech buddy found them. another site is still running but I don't have the link. I have a very good idea who some of them are and it isn't Georger. the 2011 site was before I even came into the picture.
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Kris Delmhorst – Blood Test
Kris Delmhorst is based out of the Boston folk music scene, but for her seventh record Blood Test she chose a change of scenery by returning to her childhood home of Brooklyn to record it with singer/songwriter Anders Parker as producer.
The decision likely influenced the record as the setting recalls memories of Kris’ earlier days of being “one of seven million faces,” from 92nd St. The song is built on memories as she fondly reminisces about tea, movies, and “singing all the way to Bleecker.”
But beyond that is an album of changing tides, with references to the sea in several songs that provide a more wide-open and often liberating perspective on topics discussed in the songs.
Opening track Blood Test, for example, is a commentary on the increasing dependence we have on technology. “What happened to the night?/It’s full of buzzing and the blazing lights/Trade the darkness for a screen/Lose the moon/and just keep the gleam.”
Likewise, My Ohio – the most touching moment on the record – is Kris’ ode to a friend who has passed on, using imagery of the ocean to help aid the idea that beyond life is something vast and open.
Weather is also a common theme throughout the record as Kris sings about seeing “the red sky warning” in Saw It All, the high winds in Lighthouse, and delivering rain in We Deliver. It’s calming, even though the weather often referred to can be rough and unpredictable, it continuously creates scenes that evoke reflection but does so peacefully and without being intrusive.
The sound of the record offers varying degrees of folk and americana, from the Weepies-sounding indie-rock Bright Green World, to the folk-rock sound reminiscent of early Sarah Harmer (or Weeping Tile even) on Temporary Sun. Saw It All has a bluesy backdrop to it while Blood Test rests on the hinges of 90s singer/songwriter and alternative.
And not since those glory days of singer/songwriters could a chorus like the one in Hushabye hold its own. The song is one of the record’s best written but the chorus cuts it off, leaving it flat, not taking it any further. 18 years ago, it would have sufficed, as the genre was getting too comfortable, but today it feels incomplete.
In some ways, that level of comfort is echoed on the record. But rather than implying that the comfort at play here signifies a lack of adventure, Blood Test is more about security and reassurance. It’s about recollecting your thoughts, memories and desires and organizing them in a way that brings the greatest amount of peace of mind and satisfaction.
1. Blood Test
2. Homeless
3. 92nd St
4. Saw It All
5. Bees
6. We Deliver
7. Little Frame
8. Bright Green World
9. Temporary Sun
10. Hushabye
11. My Ohio
12. Lighthouse
tagged with Americana, Blood Test, Boston folk scene, folk music, Kris Delmhorst
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"That's the most frustrating thing, not playing the game that you love and your profession. But mentally I'm pretty good. I'm in a good place and I've got some good people around me who give me good support," he added.
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Duchess of Cambridge Loves: Jewelry for Engagement and Wedding Day
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Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge’s Wedding Day Tiara
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We’re back with our ‘Duchess Loves’ series and taking a look at jewellery worn by the Duchess of Cambridge. Kate’s collection is very much a varied one and since the royal wedding we’ve seen Her Royal Highness wear everything from affordable pieces, which can be purchased for £25, to opulent items, which retail for five figures. I’ve decided to divide this segment into a series of posts and for today’s we’ll be looking at engagement and bridal jewellery.Cast your minds back to November 16, 2010 (can you believe it’s been almost three years?), Clarence House officially made the announcement royal fans had been waiting years for: Prince William and his long-time girlfriend were engaged to be married. I recall coming in from a university lecture, switching on Sky News and hearing the joyous announcement. It was the first time the public were introduced to Kate, and on that day a worldwide fascination with everything the future Duchess wore began.
Duchess of Cambridge Engagement Bridal Jewelry
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While Kate’s royal blue Issa wrap dress became an instant hit, all we really wanted to see was her engagement ring.
If we didn’t think Prince William was Prince Charming before, we certainly did when we saw he had presented his future wife with his late mother’s oval blue engagement ring, which consists of fourteen solitaire diamonds elegantly surrounding a twelve carat oval blue Ceylon sapphire set in 18-karat white gold. Below we see the dazzling ring on Diana and Kate.
It was created by former Crown Jeweller Garrard & Co. and cost £28,000. The show-stopping ring was featured in Garrard’s collection at the time of the engagement and was surprisingly not unique either. Both the Princess Royal’s and the late Queen Mother’s original engagements rings were both sapphires. Charles did not propose to the, then, Lady Diana Spencer with ring in hand, but instead Garrard was called in to provide samples.
Diana later told her biographer Andrew Morton:
‘A briefcase comes along on the pretext that Andrew is getting a signet ring for his 21st birthday and along comes these sapphires – I mean ‘nuggets’ – I suppose I chose it, we all chipped in. The Queen paid for it.’
It has been said Diana selected it because it reminded her of her mother’s engagement ring, however, according to Leslie Field, author of The Queen’s Jewels:
‘She had said she would like a sapphire and chose this one purely because she liked it. Somebody came up with the story that she immediately went for the biggest, but I asked her and she told me it definitely wasn’t the biggest, she simply thought it was beautiful.’
The Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer officially announced their engagement on 24 February 1981, in the grounds of Buckingham Palace. It was later said the ring was too big for her, but there was no time to alter it before the engagement, so one will notice Diana often the held the ring to keep it in place on the day of the announcement.
PRINCE CHARLES AND LADY DIANA SPENCER ENGAGEMENT
After the divorce of Charles and Diana, the possession of the ring returned to Prince Charles and it remained at Kensington Palace. After Diana’s tragic death in 1997, Charles took his sons to the palace to select mementos from their mother’s possessions. Harry selected the engagement ring, while William chose Diana’s £18,000 yellow gold Cartier Tank Française watch. The brothers exchanged mementos when William decided to propose to Kate. Harry thinks of Kate as a sister and it is obvious both princes wanted her to have their mother’s ring.
It was incredibly kind of Harry and a lovely gesture on William’s behalf who spoke about his choice during theengagement interview:
‘It is very special to me. It was my way of making sure my mother didn’t miss out on today and the excitement, and the fact we are going to spend the rest of our lives together.’
While Kate had this to say:
‘It’s beautiful. I just hope to look after it. It’s very, very special.’
Like her late mother-in-law, Kate had the ring resized, asking Crown Jewellers G. Collins & Sons to attach two platinum beads to act as runners inside the bottom of the ring to ensure it did not fall from her finger on the day of the wedding (I had to have my own engagement ring resized and as there are diamonds inset in the band, I was quite worried they would ‘pop out’. Thankfully the jewellers did a seamless job!). Diana and Kate’s iconic ring has very much earned it’s place in royal history and has sparked countless imitations.
Kate cleverly coordinated her look around her engagement ring and kept the rest of her jewellery quite simple. She opted for matching earrings and necklace set by Tiffany & Co. (with thanks to Diana’s Jewels and My Small Obsessions). It is believed the set is from a past season Elsa Peretti collection. Below we see the sapphire oval Cabochon by the Yard earrings set in yellow gold, hanging a bezel set diamond stud.
Diana’s Jewels
The matching oval Cabochan by the Yard necklace in 18 karat gold features two bezel-set diamonds on either side of the sapphire. It is believed the piece retailed for roughly one thousand pounds. The exact pieces Kate wore are unavailable (she was photographed wearing the necklace as far back as 2008), but contemporary versions of the set in lapis lazuli are currently available at Tiffany & Co.
William and Kate’s engagement portraits were released in 2010 and taken by the immensely talented Mario Testino in the Cornwall Room, part of the private quarters at St James’s Palace.
The British Monarchy
Kate’s engagement ring (and the couple’s romantic embrace) took centre stage. Keeping accessories to a minimum the beaming future bride selected her Links of London Hope Egg Earrings. The £275 white topaz earrings represent hope and new life and are considered a very attractive and important symbol in Russia, commonly given as birthday gifts.
Moving onto the royal wedding, Kate looked absolutely beautiful in her ivory and satin Alexander McQueen. She accessorised the look wonderfully and I think we all agree she was an impeccably beautiful bride.Nothing signals a royal wedding like a tiara, and if a future queen cannot wear one on her wedding day, who can? Kate looked regal in the Cartier ‘Halo’ Tiara lent to her by the Queen.
The ‘Halo’ Tiara was made by Cartier in 1936 and purchased by HRH The Duke of York (later King George VI) for his wife HRH The Duchess of York (later Queen Elizabeth). The tiara is formed as a band of 16 graduated scrolls set with 739 brilliants and 149 baton diamonds. The Duchess of York only wore it once publicly before becoming Queen Consort and moving on to larger and more opulent pieces.
The tiara was presented to Princess Elizabeth (now HM The Queen) by her mother on her 18th birthday, however she has never worn it publicly and like her mother, is said not to have been terribly fond of it.
The tiara has been loaned out on many occasions to Princess Margaret and Princess Anne over the years, before their own collections grew.
A look at the tiara with Kate’s veil at The Royal Collection’s show ‘The Royal Wedding Dress: A Story of Great British Design’ at Buckingham Palace.
The royal wedding marked the one and only occasion we’ve seen Kate wear a tiara thus far. When she does wear one in the future it is very much thought it will be the ‘Halo’. It’s a nicely sized tiara – not too big, not too small – and what I would describe as an excellent starter tiara. I look forward to seeing the Duchess wear it in the future.
Michael and Carole Middleton had matching earrings commissioned from London jewellers Robinson Pelham as a wedding gift. Their design is derived from the acorn and oak leaves which form part of the Middleton family coat of arms and they perfectly compliment the ‘Halo’ tiara echoing the scroll elements in the design. The £15K earrings are made of 18 karat white gold and diamonds in the form of a curled diamond set oak leaf top and a pear-shaped diamond set drop with a central articulated pave set diamond acorn.
When Kate wears the ‘Halo’ tiara next, I would be very surprised if she doesn’t elect to wear the earrings, too.
Finally, we take a look at Kate’s 18-karat gold wedding band. It is made from Welsh gold already owned by the Royal Family and in the care of royal jewellers, a long-standing tradition in the British Royal Family. Both William and Kate had a hand in the design while William elected not to wear a wedding ring because the Prince “isn’t one for jewellery”.
How similar is Kate’s ring to Welsh gold on offer to the public? Dr Mike Bassett, expert in minerals and mining told the BBC:
‘From its discovery by the Romans, up until when the colonial gold rushes of the 19th century opened up new sources, the gold produced in Wales played a reasonable part in the British economy; though it was never regarded as anything distinct from gold in general.
Welsh gold only became fashionable when the Queen Mother chose it for her wedding ring in 1923. But it really is an ‘Emperor’s new-clothes’ vanity, as it’s visually and very nearly chemically indistinguishable; gold is gold is gold.’
It’s very interesting to read the history of the pieces Kate has worn. In later posts in this jewellery series we’ll be looking at pieces (including tiaras) the Duchess may wear in years to come. Next up, we’ll be looking at Kate’s ‘borrowed jewellery’ along with the symbolism and history behind them.
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garston and halewood Constituency Details
CONTROLLING PARTYLabour
Garston and Halewood is a UK parliament constituency that is represented in the House of Commons by Maria Eagle of the Labour party.
The Garston and Halewood constituency has a total population of 98,135, of which 78,170 are eligible (18+) to vote (79.7%).
Garston and Halewood ranks 376th in a list of the largest constituencies in the UK (geographical size), and 282th in a list of the largest constituencies by population size.
Maria Eagle
Maria Eagle (born 17 February 1961) is a British Labour Party politician who is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Garston and Halewood.
She has held the rank of Minister of State at both the Government Equalities Office and the Ministry of Justice. She was previously a Minister at the Department for Work and Pensions, the Department for Education and Skills, and the Northern Ireland Office. After the 2010 general election she became the Shadow Solicitor General. On 8 October 2010, Eagle was announced as the Shadow Secretary of State for Transport in Ed Miliband's new shadow cabinet. She is, as of 7 October 2013, Shadow Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Eagle
Address Maria Eagle MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
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Election turnout for the Garston And Halewood constituency in 2015 was 66.10%, lower than the average UK turnout at 66.1%.
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William Ward Green Male - - http://www.greengarstonhalewood.co.uk/
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Conservative Downey, Richard
Labour Eagle, Maria
Liberal Democrat Keaveney, Paula
UKIP Hammond, Tony
Election turnout for the Garston And Halewood constituency in 2010 was 60%, higher than the average UK turnout at 65.1%.
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Not Just the Daily Grind: Today’s Must Reads (or so) - Sept. 28, 2011
In Wealthy Germany, the Church Should Become Poor!
Never before his third voyage to his native land had Benedict XVI given such powerful emphasis to the ideal of a Church poor in structures, in possessions, in power. At the same time, however, he insisted on the need for a vigorous "public presence" of this same Church. Is it possible to have both at once? (Also sprach der Papst von Rom - 4)
How at last my fellow Italians fell out of love with Silvio, by Beppe Severgnini, Italian political commentator and author of Mamma mia! Berlusconi’s Italy Explained for Posterity and Friends Abroad. Italy is currently crossing a treacherous border – perhaps the third and final such crossing, as far as Mr Berlusconi is concerned. The first border was between complicity and embarrassment. The second divides embarrassment from irritation and shame, while the third is between shame and anger. (This definitely fits to “italomaniacs” in search of strong emotions—sort of Cavalleria Rusticana in pinstripes)
Berlusconi “stunned and saddened” by bishop’s speech -
Political sources said Berlusconi was left “stunned and saddened” by the speech by Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco (see my previous post), who said Italy needed to “purify the air.” “It’s one more nail in the coffin,” said James Walston, political science professor at the American University of Rome. “When and if Berlusconi stands for office again, the bishops’ message is clear: don’t vote for him.” (The definitive scientific prove that Silvio is human)
Harris Poll: Romney, Ron Paul Best Obama -
Mitt Romney stands the best chance among Republican presidential contenders of beating President Barack Obama in next year’s election, according to a new Harris Interactive poll released Tuesday. The former Massachusetts governor also was the favored GOP candidate among independent voters, with Texas Rep. Ron Paul following close behind, according to the online survey of 2,462 adults taken in mid-September. The news was also good for Paul when pitted against Obama in a head-to-head matchup. (OK, but what the hell happened to Rick Perry?)
"It is time once again for the Church resolutely to set aside her worldliness"
Only in this way can the real scandal of Christianity, that of the cross, shine among men, without being overshadowed "by other painful scandals on the part of the preachers of the faith." The pope's speech to German Catholics active in the Church and in society (Also sprach der Papst von Rom - 3)
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“Work hard, play hard, learn hard” – Graduation 2017
Posted on June 23, 2017. Category: Uncategorized, WCS News
On June 16, 2017 the Otto Graham Gymnasium was packed full. Over 25o people were there to watch the Waterford Country School Awards and Graduation ceremony. With the 60 kids from the Levine Education Center (the ‘school’ at Waterford Country School) looking on and cheering, numerous awards were given, each of the 6 Seniors was given the opportunity to say a few words and special guest speakers commemorated the day.
Sharon Butcher, WCS School Principal, said “When people find out I work at Waterford country School they inevitably say, wow, that must be hard work! Some days its hard, but most days it’s great. This is the fun part. Today I am SO proud of these students…your children.” After calling all the staff to stand and be recognized as part of the team that makes WCS great…awards were given out to all the Lower School (K-5) and Upper School (6-12th grade) students. Awards like “Good sportsmanship,” “Extra-Ordinary Effort,” “Acts of Kindness,” “Class Olympian,” “Word Wizard,” “Creativity in Writing,” “Music Enthusiasm”, “Most Improved,” “Industrial Arts”and “School Spirit” just to name a few. Vice Principal, Pam Giannelli, broke into the programming to shout out some “I Caught You’s” which were unique things she caught students doing over the year. Things like antique bottlecapping, peer mentoring, creating a lunch delivery service, impersonating staff, recycling, and impressive records for scrabble, dodgeball, basketball and the walking challenge (One student walked 51 miles in the month of May…the highest record in walking challenge history!) If you think this kind of recognition is strange, think again. Waterford Country School touts the motto “Where Everybody is Somebody” and nowhere is it more evident than a day like awards day. When everyone gets recognized because they each have unique strengths and obstacles they’ve overcome. We celebrate each of our students and their success.
Emotional Seniors gave speeches thanking their families and the those who supported them through their school career. Nick said “When I came here 7 years ago, I was a defiant little punk with no dreams or aspirations. Here…I’ve made family.” Eric wrote “For 5 years, WCS was the place I called home.” CJ greeted the crowd with “Konichiwa!” and called 2 special teachers up on the stage “I bought you presents!” Ryan talked about looking back and being shocked to realize that “For a kid who had such distrust for everyone, I genuinely connected with staff here…developed family-like bonds.” Ashley state matter of factly “I didn’t see myself finishing high school” but credited the support and love and security she found at Waterford Country School. “Thanks for the pep talks, even when I rolled my eyes!” She echoed what many of the other Seniors realized, “Obstacles can’t stop you, problems can’t stop you, other people can’t stop you, the only one who can stop you is yourself. Thank you for believing in me.”
Guest speaker, Danny Miller, spoke about being a former WCS student, struggling with a learning disability and behavioral problems. He told the students “overcoming obstacles is a lifelong pursuit…you can achieve anything if you put your mind to it.” Danny recalled stories of his time at WCS and the obstacles he faced in his academic life. Humbly, he recognized how much the skills and strategies he learned spurred him on to the place he is now, just completing a Master’s in Social Work degree. What he considers his “greatest achievement.” He encouraged the class of 2017, “Barriers do not limit your potential to achieve. It takes perseverance and determination.”
“We work hard, play hard and learn hard at Waterford Country School,” claims Sharon Butcher. It’s evident from the overwhelming feeling of hope and pride that filled the gymnasium, Waterford Country School is not just dispensing knowledge to its students but strengthening children and families that desperately need compassionate care.
For more information about our private special education school, visit the Special Education Page.
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Hunts Brook Academy Open House
Posted on May 31, 2017. Category:
Introducing Hunts Brook Academy! Our newest venture. You are cordially invited to attend an Open House of the campus, school, farm and tour the new site of Hunts Brook Academy therapeutic boarding school for middle school age boys. This Open House is specifically geared towards Education Consultants but interested families may also attend. The Open House is an opportunity to meet the Director and HBA staff, tour our beautiful 300 acre campus and find out who we are and if we are a good fit for your families. Lunch will be provided. Dress comfortably for a walking tour.
Travelers can find special arrangements at:
Holiday Inn, New London, CT 06320 (860) 443-7000
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Special Education Open House
Posted on October 20, 2016. Category:
The 2016-2017 school year if off and running! Please join us the evening of October 20 for an OPEN HOUSE.
See your child’s classroom, meet their teachers. It is a great time to build relationships with students, teachers and staff. We truly look forward to this evening. Hope to see you then!
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An emotional Graduation Day
Posted on July 8, 2016. Category: WCS News
Before he could get a word out, one graduating Senior, started by warning the audience “This is emotional for me…” Looking around the gymnasium filled with Waterford Country School staff, families, kids, founding family members, caregivers, special advocates, DCF workers, foster families and friends…it was obviously emotional for everyone. Not a dry eye in the room.
What do you say about kids who come to a special school with incredibly tough backgrounds, both personally and academically? What do you do when you realize without this little school with about 70 kids nestled in the woods of Quaker Hill, these 3 young adults would not be holding diplomas and moving on into young adulthood with success? You find yourself getting emotional. The Director of the WCS Residential Treatment Program, Emily Thomson says, “It’s pretty remarkable…coming in, you see a child who doesn’t want to be here…and you get to watch them grow right before your eyes.” On June 16th, awards were handed out for achievement in the lower school, 8th grade graduates were recognized and the 3 high school graduates received their diplomas. You could see how proud they were and how close they had become as a group as younger children hugged and congratulated their older peers.
The beaming smile that never left graduating Senior Magan Alejandro’s face all through the procession, ceremony and picture-taking says it all. “Magan is incredibly resilient, she is a young lady now, she advocates for herself, she knows what she wants and she’s going after it.” From her time in the WCS Residential program to the Therapeutic Foster Care Program and her year with us at the Special Education Progam…”She’s a success story. We hope she comes back in a few years and speaks to our kids.”
On hand to watch Magan and the other graduates were her mom, foster parents, DCF worker, a CT judge and founding family member Herb Schacht (at 93 years young!). She invited everyone who played a part in her arrival at this momentous day…and they came. Over 250 people came to give testimony to the work that WCS endeavors to do. Shaking hands with WCS Executive Director, Bill Martin, to receive her diploma you could hear Magan exhale excitedly, “We did it!” To which he replied “No…you did it.” Our deepest congratulations to the 3 graduating Seniors. We are so proud of who you are and how far you have come.
“This day shows the spirit of Waterford Country School, that we CAN help kids.”
For more information about the WCS Special Education Program visit this page.
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Friday, May 22, 2009:
The first part of Obama's revenge for being so dissed by Bibi is to send Joe Biden to Lebanon, where his very presence will immeasurably help Hezbollah in the upcoming election.
Why it is a mistake for Dieudonne M'Bala M'Bala to associate himself with Le Pen? Dieudonne has two huge advantages: he's black, and he's a comedian. That gave him double immunity against the slur, and allowed him to say simple truths denied to everybody else. Once he associated himself with Le Pen he immediately lost these advantages, was swallowed whole by the Le Pen meme, and will be depicted as just another self-hating ethnic joining the white racists because he was an 'anti-Semite' all along. Associating with Le Pen immediately took him outside of the mainstream, and made him toxic to the legion of moral and decent people. It is just bad tactics, and the JIZ are so powerful we can't afford such slips.
The 'Temple 4': the usual poor losers who are led by a police informant/agent who supplies the plan and the weapons, and sets the patsies up for when an arrest is politically useful. This is so obvious now that it is noticed by everybody. The FBI agents who try to stop Jewish crimes are stymied and threatened, and the FBI agents who manufacture phony crimes against Jewish targets become heroes.
David Ignatius, who should have a gif of a fluttering Israeli flag beside his by-line (truth in advertising), continues the great American 'journalist' tradition of telling Americans what Bibi is thinking so Americans can behave accordingly:
"The Israeli prime minister wants U.S. and Arab leaders to pledge that any future Palestinian state will be demilitarized - with no army and no control over its airspace - before he agrees to negotiate the details of statehood. Netanyahu probably isn't bluffing on this one: Unless a formula can be reached that protects Israeli security, he won't play."
Meanwhile, back at the (Israeli) ranch, David Sanger continues his stellar work of conveying Israeli propaganda about a non-existent Syrian nuclear program by conveying Israeli propaganda about an non-existent Iranian nuclear program, using the purest Judy Miller style - note the use of the telltale 'outside experts' and 'administration officials', i. e., Dennis Ross - made so infamous by the New York Times to create the Jewish lies which tricked Americans into the disastrous War For The Jews known as the attack on Iraq.
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Corporate Culture: Surviving Through Change
Written By Julia Goldstein
If corporate culture is “the sum of the nature of the people who work at a company,” as Concur CEO Steve Singh said Oct. 2 at the GeekWire Summit in Seattle, then what happens when a company is acquired and that group of people expands?
“A great corporate culture helps companies deal with challenges,” Singh said, including the challenge of acquisition. A year after SAP acquired Concur, Singh and Concur President Elena Donio discussed what has changed.
Donio explained that part of her job is “keeping the noise to a minimum,” which means encouraging employees to focus on what they have always done and prioritize meeting customer needs rather than worrying about the impact of the acquisition. She said Concur continues to emphasize its core values of listening to the customer and continually innovating.
Joining a company that relies on legacy technology may present a challenge, but Concur still is invested in constant improvement and not just accepting the status quo. And, according to Singh, SAP believes in giving Concur its chance to shine and, “80 to 90 percent of the time, it’s been phenomenal.”
Concur’s culture also emphasizes employee satisfaction. When Donio took a leave of absence in 2007, the company re-evaluated the corporate culture and asked, “Are we embracing every human being and giving (employees) a chance to thrive?” Singh decided that Concur needed to do a better job of that and encourage excellent employees like Donio to return.
As for Donio, she decided that staying home with her children was not what she wanted, as she relishes the chance to impact so many people’s lives through her work. Still, she now measures success by impact on employees and customers, not in hours worked or miles traveled.
Not all businesses place the same emphasis on encouraging employees to have lives outside of work. On the first day of the GeekWire Summit, New York Times reporter David Streitfeld, co-author of the Amazon exposé that appeared in the paper in August, led a panel discussion with several former Amazon employees, all of whom now run their own companies.
All three panelists spoke positively of their experience at Amazon. Sandi Lin, CEO of Skilljar, agrees with the leadership principles that Amazon promotes and has implemented many of them into her own business. She sees value in being obsessive about the customer experience and setting high expectations for her employees.
When Streitfeld probed the panelists about the intense work environment at Amazon, SquareHub founder Dave Cotter said, “You say ‘intense’ like it’s a bad thing.” And Nadia Shouraboura, CEO of Hointer, said that, compared to Hointer employees, Amazon workers are “slackers.” Clearly, some people thrive on risk and prioritize giving their all to the business, taking a certain pride in how hard they work. As Lin explained, “We’re motivated by working hard and changing the world.”
Donio also wants to change the world by providing innovative travel-expense reporting solutions to her customers while creating a supportive workplace for employees. Contrary to the Amazon approach, which many startups have embraced as well, she believes that innovation doesn’t necessarily require an extremely intense corporate atmosphere. SAP appears to agree, claiming to provide careers that are “exciting, rewarding, and über flexible.”
Although there certainly are growing pains, it seems Concur has made it through this acquisition process without having to check its corporate culture at the door.
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Archive for the ‘OccupyMissoula’ Category
OccupyHelena Saturday
October 26, 2011 in #OccupyWallStreet, Montana, OccupyMissoula
OccupyHelena is calling for an Occupy Our Capitol for Saturday…and they’ve got a full agenda, starting at noon in Hill Park.
Highlighting the day is a soapboxing event at 2:30 on the steps of the capitol…and then later at 5 p.m. there’s a soup & bread supper and General Assembly.
If you’re looking for ride-sharing, it looks like this post from OccupyMissoula is helping out with that.
And from a comment I saw on one of the posts, it appears that OccupyButte will be there, as will the OccupyDillon atfolks.
So muster up, people….there is nothing better than a good old peaceful protest gathering on the steps of the capitol in Helena Montana on a gorgeous crisp fall day. I’ve done it in January, and it’s a fabulous venue.
Conrad’s back in true form
October 26, 2011 in #OccupyWallStreet, Barack Obama, Conrad Burns, Economy & Business, Montana, OccupyMissoula, Racism, Tea Party, Tribal issues
by Pete Talbot
“I shouldn’t say this …” Conrad Burns said. It was the only accurate statement he made all day.
He then went on to insult Indians, Wall Street occupiers and the President.
He was talking to a small tea party crowd in Billings, an event organized by Americans for Prosperity and underwritten by the billionaire Koch brothers.
I’ve been waiting for another Montana blogger to write about this (Montana Cowgirl, Pogie?) but haven’t seen a thing. Maybe Conrad’s speech was so obtuse it didn’t deserve notice. I, however, think it might because it mirrors the far-right’s rhetoric of ignorance, intolerance and racism.
Ignorance: “Burns was there to ‘expose the Obama administration’s $40 billion energy tax grab that will destroy jobs, decrease government revenues at a time of exploding national debt and make America less competitive.'”
In reality, the idea is to eliminate taxpayer-financed oil subsidies and tax breaks, and reinvest the $40 billion into social programs, green energy and job creation, according to Forcechange.com. C’mon Conrad, continued subsidies for oil companies with record-breaking profits are going to reduce the deficit, destroy jobs and make America less competitive? Well, it might give the oil companies slightly less money to employ corporate mouthpieces such as yourself.
Intolerance: On the Wall Street/Missoula/Helena/etc. occupiers, Burns said: “I feel sorry for these kids. They’re kind of spoiled. They’re down there having a hissy fit. They don’t know who they’re mad at.”
Oh, they know who they’re mad at, these spoiled kids, it’s the likes of you: politicians who push economic inequality, and advance the financial institutions responsible for a recession that’s crippling middle-class Montanans and devastating the poor.
Racism: “We got a guy in the White House (who) believes all of us should be dependent on the government,” Burns said. “I shouldn’t say this, but he wants this whole country to become like an Indian reservation.”
Conrad is on the record as a bigot: Arabs, African-Americans and now, Native Americans. Those damn Indians … and after all that the government has done for them. (R.I.P. Elouise Cobell. Please ignore Burns’ spiteful comments.)
So Conrad is still out there. He’s working for GAGE, a Leo Giacometto/Son-of-Rehberg Washington, D.C., lobbying firm, and spewing far-right rhetoric.
In these troubled times, do we really need the former Senator sowing seeds of hate, divisiveness and malice. I think not.
“To Petition the Government for a Redress of Grievances”
October 15, 2011 in #OccupyWallStreet, Congress, Corporate Personhood, Corporatism, Crony Capitalism, Editorial Commentary, OccupyMissoula, U.S. Constitution
By JC
(This is but the opinion of one Occupier in Solidarity, and not the consensus of OccupyMissoula)
Many people do not understand what the Occupy movement is all about, and preconceptions and prejudices abound. I have spent most of the last two weeks working to understand this movement and help organize OccupyMissoula. I’m not sure why I stuck my neck out, and devoted all my time, but it has changed the way I look at politics, movements, and my community.
In the words of an elderly gentleman I have known and respected for the 25 years I have lived in Missoula, “this is the most important movement I have seen since the the Great Depression.”
Similarly, last night I had the honor to meet 4 young high school students who had decided to put on suits and come down to the County Court House and OccupyMissoula to “check things out.” We had a great conversation and I felt inspired that our youth feel the same concerns that our more experienced community members do, and felt compelled to participate, and to write about their experience (one of them was a writer for their high school’s newspaper).
It took an article in no less than Fox News, tweeted across the internet in a “Holy Shit” moment to put it all into perspective for me: “The key isn’t what protesters are for but rather what they’re against.” Continue Reading »
OccupyMissoula up and Running! First GA Saturday 10am @Caras Park Fish Sculptures
October 5, 2011 in #OccupyWallStreet, OccupyMissoula
Well, somebody didn’t get any sleep last night, and OccupyMissoula has a new website up. It’s chock full of information, links and resources so go check it out!
And OccupyMissoula will be having its first GA on saturday. The GA has been moved to the fish sculptures at Caras Park, as the XXX’s at the Farmer’s Market was going to be too small, due to the anticipated large assembly. Here’s a note about the change:
To clarify how this came about. The initial planners who are just trying to get things moving initially picked the xxxx’s because of the high visibility on what is the main street of town. We are very happy that it is likely that will be too small of a space for everyone. and the goal is in no way to obstruct the circle square market. SO, the 99% won’t fit at the xxxx’s, and perhaps it is inappropriate in general. We hear that, and will be moving the GA to fish sculpture next to the river market, so we won’t interfere with traffic by overflowing into the streets. Again I want to stress that these decision was only made to get the ball rolling and get everyone in one place so we could reach consensus on a Occupy Missoula location. Please bring your ideas to the general assembly and they will be heard.
There also will be a planning meeting on thursday at 4pm at Break Expresso:
Missoula activists and family–please meet at Break Expresso, 4pm this Thursday. We need your creative minds to prepare for a General Assembly in Missoula. The invite is including everyone–artists, veterans, writers, politicians, freedom-fighters, journalists, concerned parents, houseless, legislators–if you feel you have something to contribute to a Missoula General Assembly and wished to be involved in the planning of such…get thee forthwith–to the Break. If you are a seasoned activist, trained facilitator or legal expert–we would like to leverage your experience, as well, although you would only be a person with an opinion.
And how can we forget our NYC #OccupyWallStreet compatriots who are putting on a huge demonstration today? Thousands marched from Foley Square to the Financial District. The march represents the joining of over 40 union and community organizations in the movement. As material becomes available, I’ll post it up. Until then, join the LiveStream.
10-4 WeWantMore (People)! OccupyMissoula Starts Tonight
OccupyMissoula had its first meeting in downtown Missoula yesterday and was a great success bringing folks together to identify local support and resources and planning how to move forward. Today, October 4th is the kickoff public event. Look for much more information as we get this puppy moving, and get our website up and running.
From OccupyMontana:
Join us for 10-4 WeWantMore (People)! an initial planning event at the U of M Tuesday 7pm between the UC and Library, rain or shine. Saturday at the Fish Sculptures at Caras Park Missoula Farmer’s Market near the XXXs, starting at 10AM, will be a practice run at General Assembly. These events are in solidarity with #OWS.
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OPP investigating 2 reported sexual assaults at music festival in Little Current, Ont.
Manitoulin OPP are investigating two reports of sexual assault a country music festival.
Global News File
Manitoulin OPP are investigating two sexual assaults that reportedly occurred at a country music festival in Little Current, Ont., over the weekend.
Officers were called to the Country Fest fairgrounds on Sunday at 2:10 a.m. for a report of a woman with injuries, according to police.
Man charged after reportedly rifling through cars in Bradford, police say
OPP say the woman was walking back to her campsite at the festival when she was reportedly assaulted by an unknown man.
The woman was transported to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police say.
While police were investigating the incident, officers say they received a second complaint of another woman who was reportedly assaulted at the festival.
Police searching for suspect after alleged theft of lottery tickets in Barrie
OPP say they believe the two events are linked and are looking to identify a male suspect.
The suspect is described as about five feet 11 inches tall and approximately 19 years old with a thin build and dark hair that’s short on the sides and longer on the top, police say.
Anyone with information can contact the OPP at 1-888-310-1122 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
WATCH: Frustration builds over cancellation of Ontario Roxodus music festival
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Water bubbles up from a sewer cover at the intersection of Calder Place and 23rd Street in Beaumont where several roads remained heavily flooded throughout the afternoon. Boaters and other emergency personnel were conducting rescue missions to those in need throughout the morning and afternoon, Thursday, September 19, 2019. (Kim Brent/The Beaumont Enterprise via AP)
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Storm-scarred Texas coast picks up after lmelda's deluge
HOUSTON (AP) — Kids were still in classrooms as roads around them became rivers. Drivers warned to stay off highways wound up abandoning their submerged cars. Thousands of people called 911, but rescue crews found many weren't in real danger. Waters from Tropical Storm Imelda began to recede Friday...
Splendora Police Lt. Troy Teller, left, Cpl. Jacob Rutherford and Mike Jones pull a boat carrying Anita McFadden and Fred Stewart from their flooded neighborhood inundated by rain from Tropical Depression Imelda on Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019, in Spendora, Texas. (Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via AP)
September 19, 2019 - 11:43 pm
2 dead as Imelda strands drivers, floods homes in Texas
CHINA, Texas (AP) — The slow-churning remnants of Tropical Storm Imelda flooded parts of Texas on Thursday, leaving at least two people dead and rescue crews with boats scrambling to reach stranded drivers and families trapped in their homes during a relentless downpour that drew comparisons to...
A man uses a powered saw to cut away a felled tree blocking Harrington Sound Road in the aftermath of Hurricane Humberto, in the Smiths parish of Bermuda, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019. Humberto blew off rooftops, toppled trees and knocked out power but officials said Thursday that the Category 3 storm caused no reported deaths. (AP Photo/Akil J. Simmons)
Hurricane rips roofs, cuts power in Bermuda, but no deaths
MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Humberto blew off rooftops, toppled trees and knocked out power as it blew past the British Atlantic island of Bermuda. But officials said Thursday that the Category 3 storm caused no reported deaths. "We've made it through and everyone is safe," Premier David Burt said. "...
A flooded out car is stranded in high water off U.S. 59 as rain from Tropical Depression Imelda inundated the area on Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019, near Spendora, Texas. (Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via AP)
The Latest: Conditions in Houston improve as Imelda departs
HOUSTON (AP) — The Latest on the remnants of Tropical Storm Imelda (all times local): 9:50 p.m. Houston officials say floodwaters are receding across most of the city and efforts will continue through the night to clear the city's freeways of hundreds of vehicles stalled by the flooding. The...
People board up an Urban Cottage store in preparation for Hurricane Humberto in Hamilton, Bermuda, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019. Bermuda’s government called up troops and urged people on the British Atlantic island to make final preparations for an expected close brush Wednesday with Hurricane Humberto, a powerful Category 3 storm. Authorities ordered early closings of schools, transportation and government offices. (AP Photo/Akil J. Simmons)
Humberto brushes Bermuda as new hurricane threatens Mexico
MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Humberto lashed Bermuda with strong winds Wednesday as the powerful Category 3 storm passed just to the north of the British Atlantic territory, while a newly formed hurricane threatened tourist resorts along Mexico's Pacific coast. The hurricane came within about 75 miles (...
Angel Marshman wades through floodwaters from Tropical Depression Imelda after trying to start his flooded car Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019, in Galveston, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
No severe impacts from Imelda as it moves through Texas
HOUSTON (AP) — Tropical Depression Imelda has deluged parts of Southeast Texas with rain, but officials in Houston and surrounding communities said Wednesday that so far there have been no severe consequences. Glenn LaMont, deputy emergency management coordinator in Brazoria County, located south...
In this image made from video provided by Atlas, emergency services carry an injured woman on a stretcher, in Ontiyente, Spain, Thursday, Sept. 12 2019. A large area of southeast Spain was battered Thursday by what was forecast to be its heaviest rainfall in more than a century, with the storms wreaking widespread destruction and killing at least two people. (Atlas via AP)
Dutchman's body found, raises Spain's storm death toll to 7
MADRID (AP) — Spanish police say they have found the body of a missing Dutchman, raising the death toll in last week's storms and flooding in southeastern Spain to seven. The Civil Guard in the southeastern province of Alicante said the body was found Tuesday in a canal after he was swept away in...
Bermuda braces for approach of Category 3 Hurricane Humberto
MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Humberto grew into a powerful Category 3 storm Tuesday evening, and officials on Bermuda made plans for early shutdowns of schools, public transportation and government offices on the British Atlantic territory ahead of the storm's likely close pass on Wednesday. Tropical...
Democratic presidential candidate and South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg speaks Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019, as organizer Alicia Garza, right, looks on during an event with Supermajority in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard)
Buttigieg unveils disaster relief plan in hurricane-hit city
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg on Tuesday visited a South Carolina city ravaged by hurricanes twice in three years and pledged to improve the government response to disasters as part of an effort to combat storm damage that he says is the result of climate...
Houston area preparing for heavy rain, flooding from Imelda
HOUSTON (AP) — Officials in the Houston area were preparing high-water vehicles and staging rescue boats Tuesday as Tropical Storm Imelda moved in from the Gulf of Mexico, threatening to dump up to 18 inches of rain in parts of Southeast Texas and southwestern Louisiana over the next few days. The...
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INJURY? WHAT INJURY? SANCHEZ CAPS CHILE OUTING WITH BRACE
By admin On Nov 16, 2016 296 0
Alexis Sanchez eased any fear of injury ahead of Arsenal’s game against Manchester United after he put in a match-winning performance for Chile against Uruguay to get their World Cup qualifying campaign back on track.
The Arsenal star scored twice in the second-half to give Chile a crucial three points in World Cup qualifying. Edinson Cavani had given Uruguay the lead after 14 minutes before Eduardo Vargas equalised on the stroke of half-time.
With his right thigh heavily bandaged, Sanchez scored his 35th and 36th goal for Chile in the space of 16 minutes before coming off to a standing ovation.
The Copa America champions found themselves in a battle to qualify for Russia 2018 after falling to four defeats and two draws in their opening 11 games, good enough for fifth in the table.
And when Luis Suarez and Cavani combined to give Uruguay the lead after 14 minutes, the Santiago crowd were left fearing the worst. But so often the hero for his country, Sanchez overcame his injury to inspire them to victory.
His first came after he turned away from a defender following a throw-in and unleashed a dipping pop shot at goalkeeper Egidio Arevalo, who failed to deal with it effectively.
Soon after, he latched on to a looping ball from Marcelo Diaz and fended off two defenders before slotting the ball home. Much to the delight of Arsene Wenger, he came off after 84 minutes.
A poor night for Uruguay was compounded late on when Suarez missed a the chance to get them back in the match from the penalty spot.
Claudio Bravo, who had also been an injury doubt going into the game, saved what can only be described as a tame shot from the Barcelona striker after diving to his left.
Sanchez missed Chile’s World Cup qualifier against Colombia last week after suffering a thigh injury and Arsenal expected him to return to north London for treatment.
But he remained with the side and returned to training just in time to be included in the game against Uruguay.
Wenger had previously expressed his concern that Chile would make the ‘suicidal’ decision to play his star forward whilst still injured, insisting Sanchez would want to play even if he was at risk of causing serious damage to himself.
We have to get access for our medical staff to the MRI scan to see what grade it is, how bad it is and make absolutely sure they don’t make any suicidal decision that could harm his future for two or three months.
Wenger said ‘He always wants to play and that’s where it is a more sensitive case because he’s always ready to play even when injured.’
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Healthy man nearly needs heart transplant after getting flu
By Denise Dador and ABC7.com staff
It's estimated 25 million Americans are affected by the flu annually, but did you know it can attack your heart?
Doctors say it's another reason not to forget to your flu shot.
Because of this virus, one man nearly ended up getting a heart transplant. Alfino Donastorg has always been active, but two years ago he got sick.
"I thought it was just a common cold," said Donastorg.
When he became short of breath, he ended up in the hospital.
"They were telling me my heart was failing, heart transplant is imminent," he said.
Donastorg had cardiomyopathy - a weakening of the heart muscle that led to congestive heart failure at age 38.
"He was a healthy young man who was just exposed to the flu and it attacked his heart," said Dr. Yordanka Reyna, a cardiologist who specializes in advanced heart failure and transplant.
Reyna said the flu causes inflammation that can quickly lead to cardiac symptoms. "Shortness of breath, leg swelling, a cough at night," said Reyna. She added heart disease due to the flu can happen to anyone.
"Go to the emergency room, go to the doctor, they can test very easily and very fast," said Reyna.
Doctors worked to keep Donastorg off the heart transplant list.
"We managed to get him better with intravenous medicines, diuretics," Reyna said.
Donastorg still can't believe how close he came to death.
"Your body tells you, 'Hey listen, there's something that's not right, please get checked out,'" he said.
His message to everyone is to not ignore the signs!
Reyna reminds everyone to get vaccinated for the flu every season because the strains change. She said if you do have the flu and you take an anti-viral medication like Tamiflu, but don't improve within a week, call your doctor or get to the emergency room.
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Title Economic impact of the change in tax rate on small enterprises of manufacturing and construction sectors: Evidence from Russia 2006-2014
Author Karen Tumanyants
The hypothesis about positive influence of lower tax rate was tested on the Russian small businesses of construction and manufacturing sectors. The period from 2006 to 2014 includes the three-year gap, during which the net income tax rate was the same for all Russian regions, and the six-year interval of regionally differentiated tax rates. Quantitative estimates of the consequences of tax change without time lag, with time lags 1 and 2 year were made on the basis of double logarithmic regressions with fixed effects. Positive effect of lower tax rate was documented. The number of enterprises was the indicator, which was influenced most. A regional tax rate decrease by 1 per cent results in an increase of the number of small enterprises by 0.1-0.2%. This effect becomes evident in the first year of regional tax rate change and remains on the same level during the following two years. 1% decrease in tax rate led to 0.1% increase in the turnover of the company. Tax stimulus led to an increase of employment in manufacturing industry (the coefficient of elasticity is 0.1), while the impact on employment in construction sector was not identified. There is a potential for expanding tax revenues to the Russian budget system by increasing the taxation base with the help of the positive effect from tax rate reduction.
Tumanyants, Karen, 2018. "Economic impact of the change in tax rate on small enterprises of manufacturing and construction sectors: Evidence from Russia 2006-2014", Business and Economic Horizons, Vol.14, Issue3, pp.642-658. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15208/beh.2018.45
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Tsenes, C., & Thomakos, D. D. (2017). The double trap: taxes and subsidies as determinants of economic growth and the end of the downward growth spiral in Greece. In D. D. Thomakos, & K. I. Nikolopoulos, Taxation in crisis: tax policy and the quest for economic growth (pp. 359-387). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
Tumanyants, K. (2015). Fiskal'nyj jeffekt snizhenija nalogovoj nagruzki na maloe predprinimatel'stvo v Rossii [Fiscal effect of reduced taxes for small businesses in Russia]. Financial journal, 2(24), 16-24 [in Russian].
Tumanyants, K., & Sinitsyna, E. D. (2017). Jeffekt snizhenija nalogovoj stavki: sluchaj malogo biznesa v Rossii [The effect of lowering tax rates: the case of small business in Russia]. XVIII April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development. 11-14 April 2017. Moscow [in Russian].
Tumanyants, K., & Soboleva, E. D. (2014). Jeffekt snizhenija nalogovoj stavki na ob#ekt "dohody minus rashody" pri uproshhennoj sisteme nalogooblozhenija [Effect of tax rate decrease for the object "income minus expenses" at the simplified taxation system]. Regional economy. South of Russia(3), 74-81 [in Russian]
Keywords Small business, entrepreneurship, tax rate, construction, manufacturing, fiscal stimulus, fixed effects model, the simplified system of taxation, the object of "net income", employment, revenue, turnover
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.15208/beh.2018.45
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Make...or Break?
Overload Journal #1 - Apr 1993 + Programming Topics Author: Peter Arnold
I remember once reading the claim that writing makefiles for C++ developments is more difficult than writing C++ itself!
An interesting claim which, although made in an article criticising the world at large for making the mistake of thinking there was any value in object-oriented programming in the first place, nevertheless capitalized on the fact that MAKE is all too often regarded as something of a black art.
"I never use it", declared one of my colleagues when I mentioned MAKE:"I always use the Project Manager within the IDE."
In terms of keeping track of dependencies, MAKE does everything Project Manager does, but with greater flexibility and efficiency; and it does more. It has also been "frigged" in numerous ways over the years by various people (presumably including the originator of the above claim!) who try to make it do more still. In this article I look briefly at three examples of flexibility (implicit rules, macros and directives) and one example of improved efficiency (batching).
Suppose we have a general-purpose object library, utils.lib, which contains 50 commonly-used modules for file i/o, screen handling etc. The first entry in a makefile would look something like this:
utils.lib: prog1.obj prog2.obj prog3.obj prog4.obj \
prog49.obj prog50.obj
This type of entry is called an explicit rule with no commands. The dependencies of utils.lib (the target) are explicitly defined to be prog1.obj, prog2.obj, etc. (the sources), but no commands follow the list of dependencies: the real work is done further down the makefile.
Having told MAKE which files the library depends on, we now need to go on to make each .obj file the target in another rule, to define what determines whether the file is up to date, and what to do, if necessary, to bring it up to date:
prog1.obj: prog1.cpp utils.h tcc -c -mc -f- prog1.cpp tlib utils.lib -+prog1.obj
prog2.obj: prog2.cpp utils.h tcc -c -mc -f- prog2.cpp tlib utils.lib -+prog2.obj
prog50.obj: prog50.cpp utils.h tcc -c -mc -f- prog50.cpp tlib utils.lib -+prog50.obj
Each of these is an explicit rule with commands: if any source is newer than the corresponding target, the TCC command will be executed, bringing the .obj file up to date, and the TLIB command will then be executed, adding the new version to the library.
What if we decide to use the small memory model instead of the compact one? Or add other compiler options? All 50 TCC commands will need to be changed. This is where macros can be used very effectively. Where the same text is repeated a number of times in a makefile, a change can be time-consuming and could introduce inconsistencies, so a macro definition can be added at the start of the makefile:
COMPILE = tcc -c -mc -f-
and each of the commands changed to use the macro. For example, the command to compile prog50.cpp becomes
$(C0MPILE) prog50.cpp
Now, to change the compiler options, only the macro definition needs to be changed, and consistency is assured.
From time to time, new modules will be created and added to the library. Each new module must be added as a source in the first rule in the makefile, to make the library dependent on it. In addition, a new rule must be added, to tell MAKE what to do to bring the module up to date. So the new module's name must be entered five times: once in the first rule, twice in its own rule, and once in each of the TCC and TLIB commands.
Once again, this repetition can be time-consuming, and risks introducing inconsistencies; also, the makefile will grow and grow.
Fortunately, where rules follow the same simple pattern in this way, MAKE allows implicit rules to be defined. Apart from the first rule (the one for utils.lib), all the rules in our makefile can be replaced by a single implicit rule:
.cpp.obj:
$(COMPILE) $<
This acts as a rule for any .obj file listed as a source in the utils.lib rule, and makes each .obj file dependent on a file of the same name with a .cpp extension. The predefined macro $< expands to the full filename of the .cpp file.
Now, not only has our makefile has just shrunk by 150 lines or so, but also each module is only defined in once place. When we add a new module matching the implicit rule, it only needs to be added to the first rule.
There doesn't appear to be as much use for our user-defined macro COMPILE any more; as the TCC command is now only used in one place, we might as well revert to using the command itself.
Additionally, we can add the TLIB command to put the .obj file in utils.lib using another predefined macro, $&, which expands to the base filename (i.e. the filename minus extension):
.cpp.obj: tcc -c -mc -f- $< tlib utils.lib -+$&
But what about utils.h, which the .obj files depend on? An implicit rule cannot (by definition) have explicit dependencies, so how do we tell MAKE that it must compile prog1 .obj if utils.h changes?
The answer is to use the .autodepend dot directive. This causes MAKE to detect the dependency on utils.h for itself: it does this by looking at information put in the .obj files by TC and TCC recording which include files were used in the compilation.
When MAKE executes commands, a feature known as batching can be used to increase efficiency by executing a command with a list of filenames. If we add braces around the command in our implicit rule:
.cpp.obj: tcc -c -f- {$< }
the braces tell MAKE to delay execution of the command until it has determined whether the next command will be the same, and combine them if so. This takes advantage of the fact that TCC, like many programs, can take a list of filenames on the command line:
tcc prog1.cpp prog2.cpp prog3.cpp
which is more efficient than:
tcc prog1.cpp tcc prog2.cpp tcc prog3.cpp
because the compiler does not have to be repeatedly loaded from disk, but remains in memory to compile all three modules.
But what if we modify our makefile to use batching?
tcc -c -mc -f- {$< } tlib utils.lib {-+$& }
The two commands (TCC and TLIB) are always invoked one after the other: MAKE will be unable to batch any commands, as no two consecutive commands are the same.
So, having improved our makefile with a combination of an implicit rule, a dot directive and two predefined macros, how can we take advantage of batching when there is more than one command to execute to bring each .obj file up to date?
Solutions are invited, and a selection will be included in a later issue, along with the author's own solution.
Other aspects of MAKE to be covered in future articles include command input redirection, temporary file passing, and more predefined macros and directives. Also, since MAKE's usefulness extends far beyond the realms of compiling and linking, some unusual uses will be examined. Suggestions (small or large) for (ab)using MAKE are invited, whether genuinely useful or merely as an amusing contribution to the world of "frigged" makefiles (which includes such things as adding the makefile's own name to the list of dependencies to force a build when the makefile is edited!).
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===Postwar===
The FCU was one of the attendants of the 2008 [[G7 Summit]] aboard the [[Arkbird]] and was involved in talks for the development of the [[International Space Station]].{{Ref|GAZE-2|"[[GAZE: Arkbird Declaration Summit 2008#Ark After Stonehenge|Ark After Stonehenge]]", ''[[GAZE: Arkbird Declaration Summit 2008]]''. Retrieved January 25, 2017.}}
The FCU was one of the attendees of the 2008 [[G7 Summit]] aboard the [[Arkbird]] and was involved in talks for the development of the [[International Space Station]].{{Ref|GAZE-2|"[[GAZE: Arkbird Declaration Summit 2008#Ark After Stonehenge|Ark After Stonehenge]]", ''[[GAZE: Arkbird Declaration Summit 2008]]''. Retrieved January 25, 2017.}}
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Federation of Central Usea
Central Usea
Robert Sinclair
Unidentified ground, air, and naval forces
The Federation of Central Usea (中央ユージア連合),[1] frequently referred to as the FCU, is one of the major countries on the Usean continent. Although unofficial, the FCU is considered to be the head state of the Independent State Allied Forces.[2]
Pre-Ulysses
The FCU is believed to have existed for quite some time, possibly as one of the first Usean countries. The Federation was one of the member states of the Central Usea Treaty Organization (UTO), and with its size and economic influence, held considerable sway over the multinational governing body. The FCU also held long-standing hostilities with the Federal Republic of Erusea to the west, which would culminate in the 1990s; FCU troops were stationed on the Erusian borders for an unknown reason at the start of the decade.[3]
In 1995, the Skully Islands—a territory under FCU jurisdiction—were taken over by an anti-government rebel force. Lieutenant General Robert Tyler, serving as the head of the military in the Federation's southern territories, quelled the uprising with the assistance of Scarface Squadron and other mercenary forces.[4][5]
Response to Ulysses
In October 1994, the Ulysses 1994XF04 asteroid was discovered by researchers from two Usean universities who shared their findings with the FCU government. The Federation leaders requested further research be done and kept the information classified until it had been confirmed that countermeasures were required.[3]
After consulting with the nation's Aerospace Society, the news of Ulysses' approach was publicly revealed by President Robert Sinclair in a historic press conference on April 20, 1996. The head of the FCU's Department of Defense, Richard Payne, responded by ordering the return of all FCU forces stationed overseas, including those involved in the ongoing dispute between the Federation and Erusea along the southern Amber-Ugellas border. This order left the international coalition forces in a precarious situation, forcing the UTO to retire its personnel from the area shortly thereafter.[3][6]
In the years that followed, the FCU would be instrumental in the creation of Stonehenge. Initially conceived as an internal FCU defense initiative, the STN eventually became a multinational project after it proved too great an endeavor for one nation to undertake. Stonehenge was designed and built by an international team of scientists and builders in the neutral country of San Salvacion, Usea's "Symbol of Peace".[7] Despite foreign collaboration, the Federation would remain the primary contributor to Stonehenge's construction effort in terms of both capital and total manpower provided.
Outbreak of war
After Ulysses' impact in July 1999, problems stemming from the continent's refugee crisis caused Erusea to invade San Salvacion and capture Stonehenge. Erusea's actions outraged the international community and led to an exchange of threats between President Sinclair and the Erusian leadership. When Erusea did not withdraw on the FCU's September 14 deadline, Sinclair announced the disintegration of the UTO's economic alliance and the formation of the Independent State Allied Forces, triggering the Continental War.[3][7]
The FCU was one of the attendees of the 2008 G7 Summit aboard the Arkbird and was involved in talks for the development of the International Space Station.[8]
The FCU's de facto leadership in ISAF is similar to how many people consider the United States of America to be the de facto leader of similar multinational organizations, particularly NATO.
This later became a factor in Ace Combat: Assault Horizon, where Andrei Markov would eventually target the United States exclusively for an accident caused by NATO.
↑ Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War Perfect Guide, page 229.
↑ Hasegawa 1/72 "F-22 Raptor ACE COMBAT Mobius 1" (plastic model) description.
↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Usea Today: Asteroid on Collision Course With Earth!. Retrieved July 16, 2018.
↑ Air Combat.
↑ "Military Commander To Become Chief Of Staff", Usea Today: Asteroid on Collision Course With Earth!. Retrieved July 19, 2018.
↑ Aces At War: A History, page needed.
↑ 7.0 7.1 Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies.
↑ "Ark After Stonehenge", GAZE: Arkbird Declaration Summit 2008. Retrieved January 25, 2017.
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Africa Wildlife and Conservation News, Elephants, fighting wildlife crime, Southern Africa
Zimbabwe – scandal as council by-passes government in awarding elephant hunting concession
Date: July 31, 2019Author: somervillesustainableconservation 0 Comments
Standard (Zimbabwe)
Jumbo scandal rocks council
BY NQOBANI NDLOVU
THE Tsholotsho Rural District Council has been caught in scandal after it was exposed for by-passing Cabinet in awarding an elephant hunting concession tender to a safari operator.
The council early this year flighted a tender for a joint venture elephant hunting concession for Tsholotsho North constituency, which it eventually awarded to Matupula Hunters.
A rival safari operator, Lodzi Hunters and Safaris, challenged the decision at the High Court of Zimbabwe accusing the council of not following the proper procurement processes.
Lodzi Hunters and Safaris also wrote to the Procurement Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (PRAZ), which ruled in its favour, correspondence in the possession of The Standard shows.
According to PRAZ, which is responsible for controlling and regulating the procurement processes of government departments, ministries and parastatals, Cabinet approval must be sought in joint ventures of such nature, hence the awarding of a joint hunting concession tender to Matupula Hunters in Tsholotsho North was illegal.
“The present application (by Lodzi) is for the review of the procurement proceedings in respect of the Tsholotsho North Hunting concession tender number TRDC: 03/2019.
“Applicant is alleging that the procurement proceedings were riddled with gross irregularities and illegalities as to render the said proceedings liable for being reviewed and set aside,” PRAZ chairperson Joel Mambara wrote in a final determination following the sitting of a review panel on June 19.
The respondent in the case was the Tsholotsho council.
Lodzi Hunters and Matupula Hunters are both legitimate holders of hunting permits in the Tsholotsho North and South areas respectively. The two safari operators have been at loggerheads for years over hunting permits.
“Before going into the merits of the matter, the review panel raised the issue of the need for the respondent to be cleared by Cabinet first before commencing any tender proceedings involving joint ventures. This is in terms of s100 of the Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets Act (Chapter 22:23).
“The respondent, in response, said that it was not aware of such a requirement.
“In view of this requirement, the respondent conceded, and properly so, that the application to set aside the tender proceedings be granted.
“By unanimous decision, the application to set aside the procurement proceedings relating to the Tsholotsho North Tender No TRDC: 03/2019 be and is hereby granted.”
The council’s acting chairperson Nkululeko Sibanda refused to shed light on the matter when contacted for comment.
Lodzi and Matupula Hunters have been locked in a dispute over the hunting rights in Tsholotsho North for years.
In 2017, Matupula Hunters contested the decision by the local authority to give Lodzi Hunters a permit to conduct elephant hunting in the same area in which it has exclusive safari rights for five years for the purpose of raising funds for the construction of a football stadium.
In 2015, when the need to fund the construction of Tsholotsho Stadium arose, the local authority decided to give Lodzi permission to hunt in the whole of Tsholotsho district, including the area exclusive to Matupula Hunters .
Matupula Hunters engaged the council to settle the matter, but to no avail, as the local authority, together with Lodzi, insisted that they had the right to bring hunters to shoot elephants in Tsholotsho, leading to the court dispute.
Over $360 000 raised for the construction of a stadium through the sale of 60 elephants, each going for $18 000, which were in 2013 donated by the Environment, Water and Climate Change ministry then under Saviour Kasukuwere, was allegedly stolen.
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Best Actor 1985: Harrison Ford in Witness
Harrison Ford received his only Oscar nomination for playing Detective Captain John Book in Witness.
Witness is fairly effective thriller which involves a cop hiding out with an Amish witness who saw the murder of a police officer by a corrupt police officer.
Harrison Ford takes on the role of the strong willed good guy in this as he has done in many other films. Harrison Ford does not give a performance here that is anything that far from his standard action film performance like in Star Wars or in Indiana Jones. Here though Ford seems to strive purposely to tone down the bits of humor he usually adds to these kinds of performances. He instead does try to make it seem like a real man in this situation rather than a less realistic action hero. That is the only major difference though from his usual performance.
Ford does a fine job even though it is a usual job. He helps carry the audience through the thriller. He gives a completely fine leading performance, and Ford puts the usual confidence and effort into the performance. He is always completely watchable and is never boring. He gives his character the proper amount of strength, and succeeds creating a good leading character, something which Ford is usually very capable in doing.
Ford works well contrasting the city world from the Amish world. Ford is effective in showing the difference in the ways of the city people from the rural Amish people. Ford never over plays the sequences that shows the differences between the groups of people, and helps to illustrate this part of the film very well. Ford adds a humor nicely when he does the singing scene and when he says that it is great coffee. He never though does the traditional action hero style humor found in some of his other films. Ford's performance on a whole though is not that much and is just a standard good performance from Ford. That is certainly not nothing, and it certainly is something not everyone can do, but at the same time it is not anything overly amazing either.
Labels: 1985, Best Actor, Harrison Ford, oscar
Harrison Ford in Witness
William Hurt in Kiss of the Spider Woman
Jon Voight in Runaway Train
James Garner in Murphy's Romance
Jack Nicholson in Prizzi's Honor
Who Do you Pick? Who Do You Predict?
Labels: 1985, Best Actor, Harrison Ford, Jack Nicholson, James Garner, Jon Voight, oscar, William Hurt
Best Actor 1958: The Results
5. Spencer Tracy in The Old Man and The Sea- Tracy fails to really make an actual character out of the old man, and always is clearly acting. His narration is better than his performance.
4. Paul Newman in Cat On A Hot Tin Roof- Paul Newman gives a good performance as Brick, and shows the characters pains and frustrations very well.
3. David Niven in Separate Tables- The falseness of the character is well done, and then his later admittance of his actually nature is well handled by Niven.
2. Tony Curtis in The Defiant Ones- Curtis is very good at showing the depth of his character, and never overdoes a single part of his performance. His character's transformation is earned and feels natural opposed to artificial.
1. Sidney Poitier in The Defiant Ones- Poitier uses his natural charisma and his abilities to create a powerful character.
Alec Guinness in A Horse's Mouth
James Stewart in Vertigo
Labels: 1958, Best Actor, David Niven, oscar, Paul Newman, Sidney Poitier, Spencer Tracy, Tony Curtis
Best Actor 1958: Paul Newman in A Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Paul Newman received his first Oscar nomination for playing Brick in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a somewhat strange adaptation of Tennessee Williams' play, because it is basically a repressed film about repression, since it was a heavily censored version of the play.
This censorship most heavily effected Paul Newman character since the movie could never exactly say who he really was and what he really was. Newman though never really lets that hurt his performance though. Newman always shows what is not said by the script well, although I wonder how his performance would have been like if the play had not be altered at all.
Paul Newman begins with not really doing much at all, and is just drinking and turning away and everyone. He just continues to reject everyone and everything including his wife Maggie (Elizabeth Taylor). He makes only short responses, and turns away from her advances. Newman does this for a long period until Maggie talks about Skipper to Brick. Brick finally changes his facade, and yells at her to stop mentioning Skipper. Newman does a fine job showing Brick's frustrations and anger, at the death of Skipper.
Brick though basically tries to revert back to his ignoring until Big Daddy (Burl Ives) begins to question Brick too. The whole long confrontation between Brick and Big Daddy is handled very well by Newman and Ives. Both show the characters' histories exceptionally well, and their conflict shows some of the strongest moments in Newman's performance. Such as when he is not allowed a drink by Big Daddy he makes it clear that Brick needs the alcohol badly. Also Newman shows his character regrets perfectly especially Brick's regrets involving Skipper's death. His best scene though is probably when he breakdown in front of Big Daddy, telling how he cares about love more than things. Overall Newman gives a strong performance despite some hindrances involving the script. He shows the pains of the character, and tries his best to show the hidden side of the character, made hidden by the script changes.
Best Actor 1958: Sidney Poitier in The Defiant Ones
Sidney Poitier received his first Oscar nomination for playing Noah Cullen a black convict who is trying to escape prison in The Defiant Ones.
Poitier plays the black convict very well. Poitier has his usually natural charisma, although he clearly reduces it here a bit to be believable as the convict. He does have a natural "cool" to him no matter what that works quite well. He has it when he not saying anything at all, and he does it with just a look. Poitier many times uses that as Cullen's way of basically fighting back against Joker (Tony Curtis). This mights have not worked but Poitier does it so Cullen wins even if Joker says a lot more. Poitier natural presence works incredibly well throughout the film, and Poitier though never only uses just that and forgets to act.
Poitier makes a strong portrait of an angry man who is basically just tired of being looked down and upon and being mistreated. Poitier never makes him just only angry but rather a complicated man, who shows exactly why he is angry. Poitier is always strong particularly when he tells Joker not to call him boy or anything else derogatory. His scenes where he explains his anger are very well done. Such as when he complains about his wife always telling to be nice, or tells about his religious father. Also when he speaks about how he ended up in jail. He creates reason for his character and sympathy through his explanations, but he never panders for it and earns it naturally.
Everything Poitier does in this film is well done. The only problem I might have is that Cullen really does not undergo any changes. He is basically the same man throughout the film, and just goes back to his singing at the end. All the development belongs to Curtis' character. But this is not Poitier's fault his character not changing is merely in the script. Poitier though anyways pulls a lot out his character, and probably created a much deeper character than was in the script due to his performance. Both he and Curtis succeed with their separate characters, and they both work together well. Both give very good performances, and I believe Poitier could have given an even greater performance if the script did not prevent it.
Labels: 1958, Best Actor, oscar, Sidney Poitier
Best Actor 1958: Tony Curtis in The Defiant Ones
Tony Curtis received his only Oscar nomination for playing the white escaped convict John "Joker" Jackson in The Defiant Ones.
The Defiant Ones I felt was a fairly effective drama about a white and a black chain gang runaways who learn more about each other as they try to out run the law. Many seem to think this film is overly heavy handed and overbearing. I never felt that though.
Tony Curtis plays the southern white man who is chained to the black man. This is a good example of two leads working well together. Neither tries to steal scenes from the other and they rather work well together. Curtis plays his part very well actually. His accent is not overdone, although it is not perfect, but it work fine.
Curtis could have really overplayed his character the whole way through. He could have been just an over the top racist character, and then his transition to caring about Poitier's character would have been completely strange and unjustified. Instead Curtis plays it much better, as a man with some racist tendencies but he is not only that. Curtis could have done a lot of overacting but he never does. When he calls Poitier's character various things he never makes it seem too obtuse, instead it shows it as merely the way the man is.
Curtis shows well that the character himself tries to put down the Poitier character because he basically wants to try to see someone lower in society than him. Curtis portrays his frustrations well, and fully realizes Joker as a person and not some symbolic character. Particularly strong scenes for Curtis are when he tries to stop a possibly lynching of himself, or when he talks about his knowledge of lynching. Another strong scene is when he is with the single mother they hold up with briefly. His scene where he describes his dreams is very well handled.
The best part of his performance though is how his character changes. Curtis never just does it but makes it gradual and possibly due to how he played Joker at the beginning. Curtis shows that the man naturally learned to change his view of Poitier's character, and it is not artificial at all as it could have been. Curtis' performance on a whole is very good, and works well for the film. He never has a scene which is unbelievably good, but he is always good, in a part that could have easily been played poorly.
Labels: 1958, Best Actor, oscar, Tony Curtis
Best Actor 1958: David Niven in Separate Tables
David Niven received an Oscar from his only Oscar nomination for playing Major Angus Pollock in Separate Tables.
Separate Tables is a fairly well done adaptation of a play, and weaves between the different stories well, but I did feel that the Kerr and Niven section was stronger than the Lancaster and Hayworth section, although the latter certainly still has its quality.
David Niven is one of those actors that seems like he must have been nominated for an Oscar more than once, but no, he was only ever nominated for this film alone. Luckily it was a deserving nomination, although I would say it certainly has supporting screen time, but his role does have the importance of a leading role.
Niven is superb in every scene he is in even if he is only in a few scenes. He carries himself perfectly in this film. He gives an interesting performance because he does these various mannerisms, in his voice and his posture that one would expect from a British officer, except they seem slightly false. But the interesting part is they are suppose to be false, and forced really. Niven does this false routine just right, so it is not obvious but is at the same time clearly off in some way.
David Niven stays very restrained with his short performance but creates a very powerful performance. Niven focuses mostly on his face, which Niven uses to great effect. He shows a history of the character with his face. Some of his expressions are especially effective such as when he looks at the newspaper that tells of his act, or when he find out that the others found out. His scenes with Deborah Kerr are brilliant and both play off each other very well, well their doing these incredibly introverted characters. Niven is really perfect here showing the shy nature of the character impeccably well, along with his attempts to be a "normal" soldier. Niven is never off and makes the best use of all he has giving a very good performance.
Labels: 1958, Best Actor, David Niven, oscar
Best Actor 1958: Spencer Tracy in The Old Man and the Sea
Spencer Tracy received his sixth Oscar nomination for playing the titular character in The Old man and the sea.
The old man and the sea is a rather odd adaptation of the story in many ways, and perhaps relies too much on narration. It is technically flawed so much that sometimes it can become distracting. There is very few actors in the film, only two have any real screen time one being a boy who is very poorly played, so much that he doesn't even seem to cry when he is suppose to and the other is Spencer Tracy.
Tracy also is the narrator in the film and not just the Old man. His narration is actually fine for a narration and I find he actually gives a better narration than a performance as the old man. As the old man Tracy is in many ways very awkward, and well watching the performance I was unfortunately reminded in some ways of his performance in Captain Courageous. I suppose Tracy should just not have played fishermen.
Tracy does not seem to know what exactly to do with this performance. He never really creates a character exactly, he has some ideas but he never makes anything out of it. He kind of does an accent but he never really does one. That is something wrong about the performance. He never really is believable as the fisherman and his attempts to be him are always slightly false.
The Old Man talks to himself and Tracy does not handle this well. He seems to be acting to himself rather than really talking to himself. He never seems to be the man who talks to himself, but instead he overdose it and again he rings false. Tracy's narration is good but very little else of his performance is very good. He never really gets into the character and this stops him from ever giving a compelling performance. I did not hate this performance but I did not ever see it succeeding either.
Tony Curtis in The Defiant Ones
Sidney Poitier in The Defiant Ones
David Niven in Separate Tables
Paul Newman in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Spencer Tracy in The Old Man and the Sea
5. Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady- Harrison effectively plays Henry Higgins throughout the film, and is perfectly cast in the part of the snobbish English Professor.
4. Richard Burton in Becket- Richard Burton gives a quietly effective performance as Thomas Becket.
3. Peter O'Toole in Becket- I would have not minded giving Peter O'Toole two wins for playing King Henry the II because he plays him very differently even though he still shows the same man. O'Toole shows a younger Henry and gives an effective and in many ways entertaining performance as Henry.
2. Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove- Peter Sellers succeeds completely in making all three characters different and he gets a good amount of laughs from each.
1.Anthony Quinn in Zorba the Greek- Quinn is another perfectly cast actor, and he makes the most out of his role filling it with a great amount of life and depth. Who really could have played this role besides Quinn?
Labels: 1964, Anthony Quinn, Best Actor, oscar, Peter O'Toole, Peter Sellers, Rex Harrison, Richard Burton
Best Actor 1964: Anthony Quinn in Zorba the Greek
Anthony Quinn received his fourth and last Oscar nomination for playing Alexis Zorba in Zorba the Greek.
Zorba the Greek is a fairly interesting film about an Englishmen and a Greek going to Crete, where there lives are affected by the various goingons in the village they stay in.
Alexis Zorba is one of those characters that seem to have a person tailor made to play them, and that person is Anthony Quinn. He just fits the type of Zorba brilliantly, and here is a performance that would be very difficult for anyone to replicate. Quinn fully throws himself into this role, and fills his performance with incredible strength and energy.
Zorba is a man with many lusts, and he does not mind acting upon them constantly. Quinn never overplays this fact about Zorba and instead he is as naturalistic as possible. Quinn shows the self-described madness of the man perfectly. The dance that Quinn does works incredibly well, and Quinn uses it show the nature of the character fantastically. Every lust that Quinn shows Quinn handles as well as any lust can be. Quinn makes it a fully natural aspect of the character with the lusting after the various women and the enjoyment of alcohol. His scenes where he romances Madame Hortense (Lilia Kedrova) are brilliant.
Zorba played by Quinn is not just a crazy Greek man, but Quinn puts more depth into him, making Zorba a wild man but also a real and in some ways a poetic one. Quinn is equally effective in Zorba's quiet moments as he is in his loud moments. The almost silent moments were Zorba reflects on his life, or the scenes where he reflects on death are just perfect. Quinn seemed born to play this role, therefore he claims his birthright creating a memorable and incredibly effective performance.
Labels: 1964, Anthony Quinn, Best Actor, oscar
Best Actor 1964: Peter O'Toole in Becket
Peter O'Toole received his second Oscar Nomination for playing King Henry II in Becket.
This is the first time O'Toole played Henry II since he would play him again in The Lion in Winter. O'Toole is possibly the only person who was nominated for the same role twice and is almost equally great in both. O'Toole really shows a different side of Henry in Becket but still the same person as in the Lion in Winter. He shows a younger Henry, a more exuberant Henry, and a Henry with vastly different problems than the one in the Lion in Winter.
O'Toole plays Henry in a very loud and almost over the top manner, but I do not ever think he goes completely over the top. He shows Henry to be a boisterous man, but also at times one who has a greater understanding of things. O'Toole is always effective and Henry changes emotions in a heartbeat, which O'Toole handles very well. O'Toole makes it believable that Henry would say how he hates Becket so much, but then despair over having to mistreat him.
O'Toole like Burton commands great presence in this film. He always gives the proper strength to his performance to show the strength of the King. O'Toole controls the scenes without Burton impeccably well, and never does anything that is even slightly dull. Something interesting I found in his performance was that is was both dramatically compelling and very entertaining at times too. I really enjoyed the scenes where he ridicules his children and mother, because O'Toole was so entertaining in them. O'Toole finds the proper balance though and never forgets the different facets of the character.
Like I said in Burton's review, Burton and O'Toole work fantastically together. every scene they share together is brilliant. Their best scene though being their last scene together which works incredibly well because both men are at the top of their form. O'Toole best scene probably alone though is his scene where he indirectly signs Becket's death warrant.O'Toole shows all the sides of Henry here brilliantly. He shows the man's humble and his cruel side, and is the equal of Burton's last scene.
Best Actor 1964: Richard Burton in Becket
Richard Burton received his third Oscar nomination for playing Saint Thomas Becket the martyred Arch Bishop of Canterbury in Becket.
Becket I found to be a very effective period piece, and sometimes very entertaining. I liked the film the whole way through really, and it was helped overall by the two leads.
Becket is an example where both of the leads did deserve their nominations, and one does not just make the other seem pointless. They both are important to the film, and they both handle their roles very well but in massively different ways. O'Toole gives a very loud performance, and Burton gives a very quiet performance.
Burton has the title role who goes through several changes throughout the course of the film from King Henry II's (Peter O'Toole) loyal council to his fierce rival at the end. Burton is effective throughout the film, and I thought there was particular strength in the early scenes that show his friendship with Henry. O'Toole and Burton work fantastically together, they share the scene rather than trying to steal it from each other. They play off each other well with O'Toole being so loud and Burton being very quiet and withdrawn. His reactions to what O'Toole says are always superb. Particularly strong moments are when Burton reflects about a old Saxon's life and another scene where he realizes the King's rather pitiful request of him.
Burton though changes and advances Becket as he becomes the Arch Bishop of Canterbury and begins to realize his duties must cause him to strive away from King Henry. I felt Burton handled his conflict well without ever over doing it, since he showed a little bit of it beforehand making it so it was not a sudden and unrealistic change. Burton handles his changed ways very well. He never over plays the goodness of the character and still shows him to be man. Burton shows excellent command and gives the proper power to the character. The scene where excommunicates the noble is perfectly done by Burton.
As Becket slowly determines his fate Burton brilliant conveys this realization with perfect subtlety, never just openly saying it but rather perfectly showing through his face. His final scenes are all brilliant, particularly the final two. His last scene with O'Toole is truly effecting and his very last scene holds incredible emotional strength due to Burton's performance. His whole performance until he meets his fate is incredible. Burton creates a perfect and effective portrait of man, and succeeds fully with every challenging aspect of Becket.
Labels: 1964, Best Actor, oscar, Richard Burton
Best Actor 1964: Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove
Peter Sellers received his first Oscar nomination for playing Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, President Merkin Muffley and Dr. Strangelove in Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
Dr. Strangelove is a brilliant satire by Stanley Kubrick, It has an excellent story, excellent art direction and excellent cinematography.The acting is also brilliant but it is not the kind of traditional brilliance usually found in great acting.
Sellers is one of the few Oscar nominees to be nominated for more than one role, and he is the only one to be nominated for three roles in the same film. The best way to review his performance than is to take each part of his performance separately.
The first role you see him in the film is that of Group Captain Mandrake. Mandrake is a very particular character in the the film since he is not insane. Sellers perfectly plays Mandrake as the very proper RAF English Captain, who tries to learn the recall code from the crazed general Ripper. As Mandrake Sellers creates a satisfactory character who works very well in his scenes, and although he is not exactly going for laughs he helps create them through his restrained delivery. I really enjoyed how Mandrake always kept completely proper with all the insanity around him. Not an overly memorable character exactly but certainly fulfills his role exceedingly well.
The second role is that of the President of the United States Merkin Muffley. Sellers completely plays Merkin differently from Mandrake and creates completely separate characters. Merkin again does not seem totally insane but not really completely sane either. He plays Merkin equally well as Mandrake. Sellers characterizes Merkin very well as the not particularly confidant but concerned President of the United States. This time though Merkin is more in the position to create more laughs which Sellers does quite well. Many coming from his phone scene with the Russian leader. His president is incredibly memorable, and again he gives a perfect performance as Merkin.
His third and strangest role is Dr. Strangelove. This role really has no seriousness to its role, and Sellers handles the purely comedic role exceedingly well. Everything he does as Strangelove makes his scenes as memorable as they are. His mannerisms in this scene are perfect as is that very odd voice he used for this character. Strangelove could easily have fell flat and the movie really would have suffered but Sellers takes on the challenge succeeds fully. As Strangelove he again creates an unforgettable character who always creates many laughs. All three characters are created completely differently by Sellers. He plays each one exceedingly well, and gives a perfect performance for three different characters. His voices and mannerisms are all perfectly effective. Sellers succeeds with all three characters. Now they are all basically caricatures, but that does not matter for that is their purpose.
Labels: 1964, Best Actor, oscar, Peter Sellers
Best Actor 1964: Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady
Rex Harrison won his only Oscar from his second and final Oscar nomination for playing Professor Henry Higgins an English professor who decides to mold a flower girl into a proper lady.
My Fair Lady is one of the over the top 60's musicals. I did kind of enjoy it well enough, even though it is a bit too long, and slightly too slow at times.
Rex Harrison is a lead in a musical, but he really does not sing any songs. He strangely talks through them instead. It is a bizarre method but it does work for the character who is a bit too stuck up to sing. That really represents his whole performance though. Everything he does in the performance no matter how strange it seems to be it works very well for the character. He never really changes his facade very much and even when he does it is very minimal. But again that seems exactly as Higgins should be. Harrison really does play Higgins definitively. Would anyone else really seem correct in his role, I do not think so. Harrison simply personifies Higgins perfectly. Harrison never does falter and always comes off correctly as the overly proper English professor. Harrison plays the role with the proper amount of determination and humor. His posture and mannerisms are always positively proper and his arm gestures and everything else. Harrison is always somewhat enjoyable to watch in this, because he stays the same way basically throughout the film. His role though is not one of over complication because of this. Everything is fairly on the surface with this performance, and he is not entertaining as some performances.
Labels: 1964, Best Actor, oscar, Rex Harrison
Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady
Anthony Quinn in Zorba the Greek
Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove
Peter O'Toole in Becket
Richard Burton in Becket
Who do you Predict? Who do you Pick?
5. Albert Finney in Murder on the Orient Express- Finney is not anything overly great in the film, but I thought he did what he needed to.
4. Dustin Hoffman in Lenny- Hoffman never really seems like he is Lenny Bruce and he is a bit boring at the beginning, but later on he gives a very effective performance.
3. Al Pacino in the Godfather Part 2- Pacino is completely brilliant as Micheal Corleone and successfully continues the story of an incredibly memorable character
2. Jack Nicholson in Chinatown- Nicholson creates an incredibly memorable private detective, and makes the most of his natural charisma to deliver one of his finest performances.
1. Art Carney in Harry and Tonto- Art Carney creates a perfect portrait of an elderly man. Carney completely deserved to win and is unfairly maligned by people who probably have not seen his brilliant performance.
Art Carney in Harry and Tonto
Jack Nicholson in Chinatown
Al Pacino in The Godfather Part 2
Gene Hackman in The Conversation
Gene Wilder in Young Frankenstein
Labels: 1974, Al Pacino, Albert Finney, Art Carney, Best Actor, Dustin Hoffman, Jack Nicholson, oscar
Best Actor 1974: Jack Nicholson in Chinatown
Jack Nicholson received his fourth Oscar nomination for playing private detective Jake Gittes who is in way over his head in Chinatown.
Chinatown is a brilliant film noir, that is just about a perfect film. Everything about it is excellent the story, the direction, the music, the look of the film and of course the acting.
Jack Nicholson is the third nominee from this year that gives a flawless performance. Nicholson is perfect as Jake Gittes in Chinatown. This is a performance where Nicholson is in his top dramatic and charismatic form. Nicholson creates a unique and interesting private detective even though that type of character has been played millions of times before. Nicholson carries himself with the proper energy and strength throughout the film. He carries the audience through the complicated plot perfectly.
Nicholson again is perfect in every scene, and he properly depends on his natural charisma. He does not over do it, though and still creates the character of Gittes which is more than just Jack Nicholson. Gittes begins the film as a fairly confidant private eye, who successfully finds out if people are having affairs for people. Every scene were Gittes manipulates someone so he can get information or do something else, seems completely realistic because Nicholson is so perfectly charismatic in the role, and brings the film a certain gravity which it might not have been able to attain without him.
I particularly like the scene where the man in the barber shop ridicules Jake's line of work. Nicholson is perfect in his anger and annoyance that anyone would think he was doing something wrong. Gittes attempt to always be right and correct, even when he doesn't know what is going on is always spot on. Nicholson is of course perfect in the final scene, where his plans collapse on him. His final face he gives in looking back at what happens helps in making that ending so memorably tragic. This is not a performance that seems overly difficult from a brief description but Nicholson is always interesting and entertaining. Perhaps the character in the wrong hands could have been off but Nicholson makes Gittes into one of the most memorable characters in cinematic history. He give a great performance and is integral to the film and of course earns:
Labels: 1974, Best Actor, Jack Nicholson, oscar
Best Actor 1974: Al Pacino in The Godfather Part 2
Al Pacino received his third Oscar nomination for again playing Michael Corleone the head of the Corleone crime family in the Godfather Part 2.
The Godfather Part 2 is of course the sequel to the great Godfather. I believe Part 2 is a successful sequel, although I don't believe it is better than the original as some believe. It still obviously is a great film with some great performances.
The greatest being Al Pacino's performance as Michael Corleone. Michael now is cold and a much darker man than he was at the beginning of the first one. His transformation though is not fully complete and that is part of the brilliance of this performance. Michael begins in this fully in control of the Corleone family. Pacino shows very well the cold calculating character of Michael now. The way his face conveys that he is always business and always determined to succeed. He has no joy in his work here but only determination for power.
It is interesting to compare how Pacino handles Micheal early dealing compared to how Brando handles Vito's dealings. Pacino is always cold and proficient. He always seems fully in charge as Michael and all to intelligent. Nothing causes him to accept defeat, Pacino completely convinces us of his nature. Michael never seems to be acting cold, and dark, but instead that is merely what he is. Pacino is perfect at completely establishing Michael as a fully realized person.
Pacino is great throughout the film but he has some particular stand out scenes that show the brilliance of his performance. Such as when he realizes Fredo's betrayal and then when he tells Fredo of the betrayal. Both scenes Pacino excels and creates incredibly effective scenes. Also the scene where Kay tells Micheal about the abortion. Pacino face as he realizes what she is saying is incredible. Finally the last scene where it shows the differences between the young Micheal and the current Micheal. Pacino makes the transition of the character believable, and fully memorable. Pacino performance is essential for the film, and Pacino does absolutely nothing wrong in this performance and is simply perfect. It is a performance that is hard describe because of the withdrawn nature of so much of it, but it is a perfect and unforgettable performance.
Labels: 1974, Al Pacino, Best Actor, oscar
Best Actor 1974: Art Carney in Harry and Tonto
Art Carney won his only Oscar from his only Oscar nomination for playing an elderly man Harry Coombes who travels across country with his cat.
Harry and Tonto is one of those dramatic comedies that follows an aging man through his travels, as he meets his relatives old friends, and strangers along the always side by side with his Cat. This is not a great film, but it serves its purpose well and it has a great performance in it.
Art Carney probably best known for playing Ed Norton in the Honeymooners shows in Harry and Tonto that he was as good of a dramatic actor as he was a comedic actor. First of all he fulfills that technical aspects of the parts perfectly. Carney seems like the exact age of the over 70 years old man despite the fact that Carney was only in his fifties at this time. Carney though completely seems to be the age, and never once looks or acts younger than he is suppose to be.
Art Carney is brilliant throughout the film from beginning to end. Harry starts out as an old man who lives with only with his Cat in New York City. Carney gives a very subtle portrait of a man who is not lonely even though he lives alone and has energy despite being old. Harry has not been forced in submission by his age, and Carney shows this without ever going over the top. After being taken out of his old apartment building he goes to live with one of his sons for a while. Again Carney is perfect here to interacting with his semi dysfunctional family. He shows his frustrations perfectly. A great scene in these early moments is where he goes to identify the body of a Russian friend of his at the Morgue. Carney's face and reaction to seeing his deceased friend is brilliant, and perfectly subtle.
Later Harry leaves his son to go out west. His last scene with his son is again perfect, and properly heartfelt. He goes out west and comes across different people and different places. Particular scenes are stronger than others but Carney is great in all of the scenes. He is especially brilliant in the superior scenes. One example being when he meets with his daughter (Ellen Burstyn). Both actors handle this scene especially well, showing a long troubled relationship with only this single scene. A big challenge but the actors pull it off.
Three other moments really exemplify the power of his performance. The scene where he meets his old girlfriend strikes the perfect emotional chord, which is achieved through Carney pitch perfect expressions, and emotions. The other scene where he meets his other son, and he tells his son that he can't live with him. Carney handles this talk so perfectly that it makes one memorable scene. Carney perfectly channels his caring for his son, but also his wish for his son to grow as a man. Then the final scenes where Tonto become sick might be the best. His final expression he gives to the kid and the cat, is incomparable. Carney is just absolutely perfect. He fully and perfectly creates a sympathetic portrait of the aged man. Carney gives a performance that no one could really imitate and he easily earns:
Labels: 1974, Art Carney, Best Actor, oscar
Best Actor 1974: Albert Finney in Murder on the Orient Express
Albert Finney received his second Oscar nomination for playing famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in Murder on the Orient Express.
Murder on the Orient Express is a movie that seems to have been made to be like a old fashioned movie. With its particular use of editing, cinematography, and acting. I actually enjoyed it well enough. I really have not seen a lot of Agatha Christie work so I cannot compare it to others, but I liked it as it is.
The acting in this film has a lot of over the top nature to that, and no one goes more over the top in this movie than Albert Finney. Again I have not seen other portrayals of Poirot so I am basing this solely on his performance and how it works in the film. Finney certainly is mannered here, by arching himself to have his head under his shoulders to look all the stranger. He uses a strange accent that is a bizarre mixture of his own British accent with a Belgianish accent. With all those oddities, I did like his performance actually. It is not subtle or really brilliant but I was entertained by his performance.
An interesting thing is that despite being the lead Finney's character really has very little to him, since I guess the other novels fleshed out Poirot instead. Finney is there as almost a machine just to solve the mystery. He has no personal stories or personal investments in the murder, he is just there to solve it. He does that with his various interrogations, which amount to basically the same thing over and over, but I find Finney makes them entertaining. Then Finney has his last scene involving the long explanation. I do believe Finney puts the right amount of energy into this scene to keep it going, and he almost makes the explanation seem believable. This is not an amazing performance at all, but I enjoyed it enough, and I thought it worked well for the film.
Labels: 1974, Albert Finney, Best Actor, oscar
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Te Ohanga me te Tāone Nui
Te Tāone
Kōrero: Hotels and motels
Hotels in New Zealand
Hotels in the 19th century
Types of early hotels
Hotels and liquor laws
Government and tourist hotels
Hotels and motels in the 2000s
Ashburton Arms, 1860s–1870s (3 o 3)
Accommodation houses like William Turton’s Ashburton Arms on the Canterbury Plains were an important form of shelter for 19th century travellers, who otherwise had to sleep outdoors or rely on the hospitality of homesteads along their route. Accommodation was not always as quiet as this scene – houses provided liquor as well as shelter, and quickly filled up, as this extract from George Chamier’s 1891 novel Philosopher Dick shows:
The third day brought the travellers to the first accommodation-house on the road. It was a large one-storied wooden building, bare and unsightly, and standing by itself on a wide reach of arid plains. It comprised an open bar, a capacious public room, and a number of sleeping apartments, all naked and dismal in their furnishings, but provided with as many stretcher beds as could be crammed into them. The kitchen and some little outhouses stood a short way off at the back.
Even from a distance it became evident that the place was fully occupied. Several drays were drawn up in front of the house, the stock-yard close by was full of bullocks, and several horses were tied up to the verandah posts. A gang of shearers could be noticed staggering about the premises, while the squeaking sound of a German concertina, the shuffling of feet, and a loud hubbub of voices greeted the travellers on their approach.
"We are in for a wet night," said Long Bill, with a knowing glance at the scene.
"It looks like it," replied Raleigh, as he watched the dark clouds gathering at the horizon.
Ashburton Museum
Reference: 3-88-225A
Source: George Chamier, Philosopher Dick: adventures and contemplations of a New Zealand shepherd. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1891, p. 422.
Dew Drop Inn, around 1910
First liquor licence, 1840
Paul Christoffel, 'Hotels and motels - Hotels in New Zealand', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/photograph/21252/ashburton-arms-1860s-1870s (accessed 20 January 2020)
He kōrero nā Paul Christoffel, i tāngia i te 11 Mar 2010
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Invertebrate Microbiology
The Introduction into Bacillus sphaericus of the Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. medellin cyt1Ab1 Gene Results in Higher Susceptibility of Resistant Mosquito Larva Populations to B. sphaericus
I. Thiéry, S. Hamon, A. Delécluse, S. Orduz
I. Thiéry
Unité des Bactéries Entomopathogènes, Institut Pasteur, 75724 Paris Cedex 15, France 1 and
S. Hamon
A. Delécluse
S. Orduz
CIB Biological Control Unit, Medellin, Columbia 2
The fragment containing the gene encoding the cytolytic Cyt1Ab1 protein from Bacillus thuringiensis subsp.medellin and its flanking sequences (I. Thiery, A. Delécluse, M. C. Tamayo, and S. Orduz, Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 63:468–473, 1997) was introduced into Bacillus sphaericus toxic strains 2362, 2297, and Iab872 by electroporation with the shuttle vector pMK3. Only small amounts of the protein were produced in recombinant strains 2362 and Iab872. The protein was detected in these strains only by Western blotting and immunodetection with antibody raised against Cyt1Ab1 protein. Large amounts of Cyt1Ab1 protein were produced in B. sphaericus recombinant strain 2297, and there was an additional crystal, other than that of the binary toxin, within the exosporium. The production of the Cyt1Ab1 protein in addition to the binary toxin did not increase the larvicidal activity of theB. sphaericus recombinant strain against susceptible mosquito populations of Culex pipiens orAedes aegypti. However, it partially restored (10 to 20 times) susceptibility of the resistant mosquito populations of C. pipiens (SPHAE) and Culex quinquefasciatus (GeoR) to the binary toxin. The Cyt1Ab1 protein produced in recombinantB. thuringiensis SPL407(pcyt1Ab1) was synthesized in two types of crystal—one round and with various dense areas, surrounded by an envelope, and the other a regular cuboid crystal, very similar to that found in the B. sphaericus recombinant strain.
Highly mosquitocidal strains ofBacillus sphaericus produce a proteinous binary toxin which is toxic to mosquito larvae (2, 5). This toxin binds to a specific receptor on the midgut epithelial cells of the larvae, and larval susceptibility depends on the affinity of this binding (12, 13). A B. sphaericusproduct (Spherimos; Novo Nordisk Co.) was used against urbanCulex pipiens subsp. pipiens (Say) larval populations in the South of France for 7 years before the first case of field resistance was reported (20). The resistant larval population is 50,000 to 100,000 times more resistant than the control population (14). Bacteria such as Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis produce several toxins, preventing the development of resistance in the mosquito larvae, although the mechanism by which susceptibility is maintained is unknown (9). Applications of B. thuringiensis subsp. israelensis over more than 18 years did not result in lower susceptibility of the treated populations, because several toxins were present (25). Thus, the introduction of another toxin into B. sphaericus strains might increase toxicity and prevent insects developing resistance. The genes encoding the Cry4B, Cry11A, or Cry11A plus Cyt1Aa1 endotoxins from B. thuringiensissubsp. israelensis have been isolated and were used to transform B. sphaericus strains 1593, 2362, and 2297 (1, 16, 17, 24). Production of these toxins led to an increase in toxicity to Aedes larvae, which were weakly susceptible to binary toxin, but no synergistic effect was demonstrated. Poncet et al. (16) showed that the production of Cry11A in B. sphaericus increases its toxicity to resistant Culex quinquefasciatus larvae. Federici and Bauer (7) and Wirth et al. (26) have shown that production of the cytolytic protein Cyt1Aa1 overcomes high levels of resistance, respectively, to Cry3A in a resistant population of Chrysomela scripta (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) and to Cry4A in a resistant population of C. quinquefasciatus.
The gene encoding the cytolytic protein Cyt1Ab1 fromB. thuringiensis subsp. medellin was isolated by Thiéry et al. (23). It is flanked upstream by a p21 gene in the same orientation. This gene encodes a P21 protein with a sequence 84% similar to that of the putative chaperone P20 from B. thuringiensis subsp.israelensis, which is probably responsible for the formation of Cyt1Ab1 crystals in a B. thuringiensiscrystal-negative recombinant strain (23).
The aim of this study was to introduce the fragment containing the gene encoding the cytolytic Cyt1Ab1 protein and its flanking sequences intoB. sphaericus strains. We checked that the gene was expressed and investigated whether the addition of the Cyt1Ab1 protein either increased the larvicidal activity of B. sphaericus against C. pipiens, overcame resistance to the binary toxin in resistant populations of mosquito larvae, or both.
Bacterial strains and plasmids. B. sphaericus strains 2362, 2297, and Iab872 were from the IEBC Collection of the Unité des Bactéries Entomopathogènes, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France. They were used as recipient microorganisms for electroporation (17, 22).Escherichia coli TG1 [K-12Δ(lac-proAB)supE thi hsdD F′(raD36 proA + proB + lacl lacZΔM15)] was used for cloning experiments. Recombinant B. thuringiensissubsp. thuringiensis strain SPL407 synthesizing the Cyt1Ab1 protein from B. thuringiensis subsp.medellin (23) was used as a control for mosquitocidal activity determinations and microscopy. The shuttle vector pMK3 was used in subcloning experiments (21). Kanamycin (5 μg/ml) was added when required.
DNA experiments.Restriction endonuclease digestion and ligation were carried out as previously described (18). Plasmid DNA was extracted and purified from E. coli with the Qiagen plasmid kit. DNA fragments were subjected to electrophoresis in 0.7% agarose gels. DNA fragments were eluted from agarose gel with the Prep-A-Gene DNA purification matrix kit (Bio-Rad, Hercules, Calif.).
The 2.5-kb HindIII-EcoRI insert of pCytM (containing the cyt1Ab1 and p21 genes) was inserted into the pMK3 vector, giving a 9.4-kb plasmid, pA7.
B. sphaericus strains 2297, 2362, and Iab872 were transformed with pMK3 or pA7 by electroporation as described by Taylor and Burke (22). B. sphaericuscells were grown in Luria broth (LB) medium, collected by centrifugation, and suspended in ice-cold 10% glycerol. B. sphaericus cells (200 μl) were placed in an ice-cold electroporation cuvette (0.2-cm interelectrode gap [Bio-Rad]) and transformed with 1 to 5 μg of plasmid DNA. The suspensions were subjected to a high-voltage pulse (25 μF, 2.5 kV, 400 Ω). The cells were then incubated in 2 ml of LB medium for 1 h at 37°C and plated on LB medium containing kanamycin (5 μg/ml).
We checked that the cyt1Ab1 gene was present in putative recombinant B. sphaericus strains by PCR with two oligonucleotide primers corresponding to the flanking sequences of the cyt1Ab1 gene, which was expected to give a product with a size of 705 bp.
Crystal purification. B. sphaericustransformants were grown in MBS medium (10) containing kanamycin (5 μg/ml) at 30°C and underwent shaking until cell lysis. Protein inclusion bodies were observed in phase-contrast microscopy after Coomassie brilliant blue staining (19) as modified by E. Frachon (7a). Prior to staining, protein inclusion bodies were washed with a solution (50% acetone–50% ethanol) to eliminate lipidic material. The bacterial culture was centrifuged, and the spore-crystal pellet was washed once with 1 M NaCl and twice in distilled water containing 1 mM phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride. The spore-crystal pellet from recombinant B. sphaericus strains was subjected to strong pulsed sonication (twice for 10 min, 40% duty cycle) on ice with a Branson B15 sonic cell disrupter (Branson Sonic Power Co., Smithkline Co.) to release the inclusions from the exosporium. Crystals were separated from spores on a discontinuous sucrose gradient (79% [wt/vol] and 67% [wt/vol]) with an SW28 swinging-bucket rotor in a Beckman L8-55 ultracentrifuge at 25,000 rpm at 4°C for 16 h. The pellet and the material between the layers were examined by light microscopy, and the spores and cells were counted.
Cultures of recombinant bacteria and purified crystals obtained by ultracentrifugation were treated as described by Charles et al. (4) and examined under an electron microscope.
Protein analysis.The protein concentrations of alkali-solubilized bacterial suspensions and purified crystals were determined by the Bradford assay with bovine serum albumin as the standard (3). Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) was performed with 12% polyacrylamide gels as previously described (6). Proteins were transferred to Hybond-C super membrane (Amersham) and detected immunologically with the Amersham ECL (enhanced chemiluminescence) Western blotting kit according to the manufacturer’s recommendations. Rabbit antisera directed against purified crystals of Cyt1Ab1 toxin were produced and used for detection.
Mosquitocidal activity assay.Bioassays were performed with young fourth-instar larvae of C. pipiens subsp.pipiens (strain Montpellier) from susceptible or resistant (Montpellier SPHAE) populations (14, 20) and with resistantC. quinquefasciatus (GeoR) larvae (8, 13). The bacterial pellet and purified crystals of B. sphaericus strains and of the control strain,B. thuringiensisSPL407(pcytM), were mixed with 10 ml of demineralized water in petri dishes (diameter, 5.5 cm) and tested in duplicate as previously described (23). Each experiment was performed three times. Larval mortality was recorded after 48 h, and 50 and 90% lethal concentrations (LC50s and LC90s, respectively) were determined by probit analysis with a program made by E. Frachon. LCs are given as means ± standard errors.
Transformation of B. sphaericusstrains.The 2.5-kb HindIII-EcoRI fragment from pCytM (23) was inserted into the pMK3 shuttle vector (21) as described in Materials and Methods. The resulting plasmid, pA7, was 9.4 kb and contained cyt1Ab1 andp21 and their flanking sequences.
pA7 was introduced into B. sphaericus2362, 2297, and Iab872 recipient strains by electroporation, and the cyt1Ab1 gene was detected by PCR. The expected 705-bp product was detected in positive B. sphaericus2362, 2297 and Iab872 clones (data not shown). The pMK3 vector was introduced into the same strains by electroporation, which then served as controls. A nonsporulating mutant, B. sphaericus 2297, that did not produce crystals was also transformed with both pMK3 and pA7. All recombinant clones were stable and were used for further experiments.
Synthesis of Cyt1Ab1 in B. sphaericusstrains.Cell lysis was complete after 72 to 90 h of culture for all recombinant B. sphaericus strains, whereas the parental recipient strains were totally lysed within 72 h. A large additional crystal was observed in the recombinantB. sphaericus strain 2297 (pcyt1Ab1) by light microscopy. It was shown to contain protein by Coomassie blue staining. A large amount of Cyt1Ab1 protein (30 kDa) was produced inB. sphaericus 2297 (Fig.1). This additional 30-kDa protein could only be detected by specific antibodies in recombinantB. sphaericus strains 2362(pcyt1Ab1) and IAb872(pcyt1Ab1) and the nonsporulating strain 2297(pcyt1Ab1), indicating a low level of expression of the cyt1Ab1 gene (Fig.2).
Protein analysis in wild-type and recombinantB. sphaericus strains. Fifteen micrograms of protein of the washed FWC was subjected to electrophoresis on an SDS-PAGE gel (12% polyacrylamide) followed by staining with Coomassie brilliant blue. Lanes: A, purified inclusion bodies of Cyt1Ab1 from B. thuringiensisSPL407(pcyt1Ab1); B, wild-type strain 2297; C, recombinant nonsporulating mutant strain 2297(pcyt1Ab1); D, recombinant strain 2297(pMK3); E, mutant asporulated strain 2297; F, recombinant strain 2297(pcyt1Ab1); G, recombinant strain Iab872(pcyt1Ab1); H, recombinant strain Iab872(pMK3); I, recombinant strain 2362(pcyt1Ab1); MW, low-molecular-mass kit standard protein markers from Pharmacia.
Western blot of 15 μg of protein from FWC or inclusion bodies of recombinant and wild-type B. sphaericus strains and of 5 μg of purified Cyt1Ab1 inclusion bodies from B. thuringiensisSPL407(pcyt1Ab1). The filter was incubated with antiserum (dilution 1/2,000) raised against Cyt1Ab1 protein purified from B. thuringiensisSPL407(pcyt1Ab1). Lanes: 1, 2297(pcyt1Ab1); 2, wild-type strain 2297; 3, nonsporulating mutant 2297(pcyt1Ab1); 4, nonsporulating mutant 2297(pMK3); 5, purified inclusion bodies of 2297(pcyt1Ab1); 6 and 7, purified inclusion bodies of nonsporulating mutant 2297(pcyt1Ab1) with 15 and 30 μg of protein, respectively; 8, Iab872(pcyt1Ab1); 9, 2362(pMK3); 10, 2362(pcyt1Ab1); 11, purified Cyt1Ab1 inclusion bodies; 12, wild-type strain Iab872; 13, Iab872(pMK3); 14, Iab872(pcyt1Ab1).
Inclusion body purification.Ultracentrifugation of the washed pellet of the recombinant and wild-type versions of strain 2297 through a biphasic sucrose gradient gave two main phases: a pellet and interlayer material. The pellet consisted mostly of free spores and spore-crystal complexes (linked by intact exosporium), whereas the interlayer material contained mostly inclusion bodies and was less than 10% spores. For the wild-type strain, 2297, there were 2 × 107 spores/mg of protein in the purified inclusion body layer, whereas there were 5 × 109 spores/mg of protein in the pellet. A total of 2.6 × 106 spores/mg of protein were found in the purified inclusion body suspension, and 1.7 × 108 spores/mg of protein were found in the pellet from the recombinant B. sphaericusstrain 2297(pcyt1Ab1). Thus for both strains, the interlayer material was 100 times enriched in inclusion bodies compared to the pellet.
The protein content of each phase was analyzed by SDS-PAGE (Fig. 3). The Cyt1Ab1 protein produced a band on SDS-PAGE gels and was detected in both spore-pellet and inclusion body phases obtained from the recombinant strain. Similar results were obtained for the P51-P41 binary toxin in recombinant and wild-type strains.
Protein analysis after sonication of FWC, inclusion body, and spore-pellet (after ultracentrifugation) suspensions from wild-type and recombinant B. sphaericus 2297 strains. Fifteen micrograms of protein per well was subjected to SDS-PAGE (12% polyacrylamide). Lanes: 1 to 3, wild-type strain 2297 (lane 1, FWC; lane 2, inclusion body suspension; lane 3, spore pellet); 4 and 5, mutant nonsporulating strain 2297(pMK3) (lane 4, FWC; lane 5, inclusion body suspension); 6 to 8, recombinant 2297(pcyt1Ab1) (lane 6, FWC; lane 7, inclusion body suspension; lane 8, spore pellet); 9 and 10, mutant nonsporulating strain 2297(pcyt1Ab1) (lane 9, FWC; lane 10, inclusion body suspension); MW, standard protein markers from Pharmacia low-molecular-mass kit.
Electron microscopy.The Cyt1Ab1 protein, purified from the B. thuringiensis crystal-negative strain SPL407 (23), was produced in two types of crystalline lattice inclusion bodies (Fig.4A): a more or less round body, with several parts differing in density, surrounded by an envelope (Fig.4B), and a cuboid body of uniform density with no membrane (Fig. 4C).
Electron micrographs of ultrathin sections of two crystalline inclusions of purified Cyt1Ab1 crystals from B. thuringiensis SPL407(pcyt1Ab1) (A) and inclusion bodies with various dense areas (B). (C) Cuboid crystalline inclusion body. Bar, 200 nm; Cry, crystal. The arrows indicate the crystalline lattice.
Two crystalline lattice inclusion bodies were present in the exosporium (Fig. 5A) when the cytolytic protein was produced with binary toxin in the recombinant B. sphaericus strain 2297(pA7), whereas only one inclusion body was present in the wild-type 2297 strain (Fig. 5B). We were unable to determine which crystal contained the cytolytic protein in the recombinant strain, but the B. sphaericus binary toxin crystal was clearly surrounded by an envelope, as seen in the parental strain and as observed by Charles (5a). We purified the inclusion bodies from the recombinant strain 2297(pMK3) and found that the strong sonication used to break the exosporium and release the inclusion bodies (Fig. 5C) destroyed or destabilized the inclusion body lattice.
Electron micrographs of ultrathin sections ofB. sphaericus 2297. (A) Spore crystal of recombinant B. sphaericus2297(pcyt1Ab1) after cell lysis. (B) Spore crystal of wild-type strain 2297. (C) Purified inclusion bodies from recombinant strain 2297(pMK3). Bar, 200 nm. S, spore; Cry, crystal.
Effect of the synthesis of the Cyt1Ab1 protein on the toxicity ofB. sphaericus. Final whole cultures (FWCs) of the wild-type strain and each recombinant B. sphaericus strain were assayed for toxicity to fourth-instar larvae of C. pipiens subsp.pipiens. They gave similar LC50s, a dilution of the FWC of about 10−6. The nonsporulating cultures were, as expected, only very weakly toxic (data not shown). Moreover the LC50 of the recombinant B. thuringiensis strain SPL407(pcyt1Ab1) FWC for C. pipiens and Aedes aegypti larvae was a ca. 2 × 10−2 to 7 × 10−2dilution. The toxicity of these recombinant cultures to A. aegypti larvae was no higher than that of the wild type (data not shown). The larvicidal activity per unit of protein of the recombinant strains 2297, 2362, and Iab872 was determined with C. pipiens larvae (Table 1). The toxicity of the FWC was compared to those of the spore-crystal pellets and the purified inclusion bodies obtained by ultracentrifugation, when sufficient quantities of protein were obtained for bioassays. The LC50s of the parental or recombinant strain FWCs were 15 to 73 ng of protein/ml, whereas those of the ultracentrifugation pellets were about 10 times lower, as were those of purified inclusion bodies from the 2297 parental strain (2 to 8 ng of protein per ml). Inclusion bodies purified from the recombinant strain 2297(pcyt1Ab1), which produced large amounts of the Cyt1Ab1 protein, were 10 times less toxic than those from the parental strain.
Larvicidal activity of B. sphaericus recombinant strains against C. pipiens subsp. pipiens larvae
The toxicities of the two nonsporulating 2297 strains were, as expected, very low—1,000 times less than that of the sporulated strains and about 20 times less than that of the Cyt1Ab1 protein alone. Purified cytolytic crystals were about 1,000 times less toxic than the binary toxin.
Populations of C. pipiens larvae resistant to B. sphaericus were exposed to FWC of wild-type strains 2297 and 2362 (Table 2). They were 5,000 to 90,000 times less susceptible than susceptible C. pipienspopulations (Table 1). The strain producing large amounts of Cyt1Ab1 protein [recombinant strain 2297(pcyt1Ab1)] was 10 times more toxic than the parental strain to this resistantCulex (SPHAE) population, whereas the strain producing small amounts of the protein [recombinant strain 2362(pcyt1Ab1)] was not significantly more toxic than the parental strain. Moreover, a resistant C. quinquefasciatus (GeoR) larval population was 20 times more susceptible to strain 2297(pcyt1Ab1) than to the parental strain. The nonsporulating 2297(pMK3) strain was five times less toxic to the resistant population (SPHAE [Table 2]) than to the susceptible population (Table 1). Similarly the toxicity of the nonsporulating strain 2297(pcyt1Ab1) to the resistant population (SPHAE) was half that to the susceptible population. The purified Cyt1Ab1 crystals alone were ca. 8 to 10 times less toxic to the resistant populations than to the susceptible populations.
Larvicidal activity of B. sphaericus recombinant strains against C. pipiens subsp. pipiens (SPHAE) and C. quinquefasciatus (GeoR) larval populations resistant toB. sphaericus
We introduced a plasmid containing the cyt1Ab1 gene encoding the cytolytic protein from B. thuringiensis subsp. medellin into toxicB. sphaericus strains by electroporation. The level of expression of the gene differed according to the strain into which the gene was transferred. Only strain 2297(pcyt1Ab1) produced Cyt1Ab1 protein in amounts large enough to be detected as a band by SDS-PAGE. The recombinant strain 2297(pcyt1Ab1) produced two cuboid crystalline inclusion bodies inside the exosporium: a large crystal surrounded by an envelope which probably contains the binary toxin (5a) and an additional inclusion body thought to contain the Cyt1Ab1 cytolytic protein (Fig. 5A). Immunocytochemical studies are required to confirm the contents of the inclusion bodies.
The B. sphaericus recombinant strains Iab872 and 2362 did not produce any additional crystals. This is consistent with the work of Bar et al. (1), who observed no extra crystals after introducing the genes encoding the Cyt1Aa1 (and/or Cry11A) from B. thuringiensis subsp.israelensis into B. sphaericus 2362. Other Cry4B and Cry11A toxins from B. thuringiensis subsp. israelensis have been synthesized in B. sphaericus 2297 (17), and Cry4B has been synthesized in strains 2362 and 1593 (24). However, an additional crystal was reported only for the recombinant B. sphaericus 2297 strain producing the Cry11A protein (16), although whether the protein accumulated inside or outside the exosporium was not determined. The production of an additional crystal may be recipient strain dependent, because it is only observed in B. sphaericus 2297, whether the gene is located on a plasmid or the chromosome. The introduction of the p19 orp21 gene at the same time may affect the crystallization of the Cry11A and Cyt1Ab1 proteins in B. sphaericus 2297. This effect could be studied by the deletion or interruption of these genes.
The production of the Cyt1Ab1 protein in B. thuringiensis SPL407 led to the synthesis of two crystals, one cuboid, with a very homogeneous lattice, and another, with areas of various densities surrounded by an envelope.B. sphaericus 2297(pcyt1Ab1) expressing the cyt1Ab1 gene produced only the cuboid crystal. Furthermore, production of the Cyt1Ab1 protein was much more efficient than that of the binary toxin: twice as much of the 30-kDa polypeptide (13% of total protein) as of the 41- or 56-kDa polypeptides was produced, as assessed by densitometry of Coomassie blue-stained gels (data not shown). This suggests thatcyt1Ab1 expression is under the control of a strong promoter in strain 2297 or that the stability of Cyt1Ab1 is increased by P21 (a chaperone-like protein). In contrast, Poncet et al. (16) found that twice as much binary toxin was synthesized in the recombinant strain 2297 producing Cry11A protein as in the parental strain.
We separated the inclusion bodies from the spores. The preparation contained high concentrations of inclusion bodies and 100 times fewer spores than the spore pellet of the parental and recombinant 2297 strains. Most exosporia were disrupted by the passage through a French press before ultracentrifugation (15), but the toxic fraction obtained was not pure. Strong sonication broke up not only the exosporium but also many of the crystalline lattices of inclusion bodies (as observed under the electron microscope). It probably also caused degradation of the binary protein but did not affect the larvicidal activity, despite the heating during sonication. The spore pellet and inclusion bodies were more toxic than the washed FWC culture of the parental 2297 strain. Purified inclusion bodies from the recombinant strain 2297, producing the Cyt1Ab1 crystal, were less toxic than the spore pellet. This may reflect different ratios of toxic proteins in the inclusion bodies and spore pellet or different particle sizes in the two extracts. Note that particle size is important in larval feeding behavior.
The Cyt1Ab1 protein did not increase the toxicity of the binary toxin to A. aegypti or C. pipiens larvae. This may be due to the low level of activity of Cyt1Ab1 alone: it was 1,000 times less toxic than the binary toxin. Further experiments, involving mixtures of various quantities of these two proteins, are required to determine whether there is any positive effect on toxicity to the mosquito population. These results contrast with those of Bar et al. (1), who observed a higher level of toxicity toAedes larvae in their recombinant 2362 strain producing the Cyt1Aa1 protein. In our study, the level of expression of thecyt1Ab1 gene in recombinant strain 2362 was probably too low to have any significant effect on toxicity. The toxicity of strain 2297 to A. aegypti larvae was very low and dose independent, and, thus, an LC50 could not be calculated and a negative slope was generally obtained (not shown).
The production of the Cyt1Ab1 protein in strain 2297 partly overcame the resistance to B. sphaericus binary toxin in resistant mosquito populations. The two resistant mosquito populations tested differ in their capacity to bind the toxin to the gut brush border membranes. The GeoR strain of C. quinquefasciatus has no functional receptor for B. sphaericus toxin, and no specific binding is observed (13). The midgut receptor for the binary toxin in the resistant strain of C. pipiens SPHAE is normal, suggesting that the resistant mechanism does not involve the binding step (14). The reduction in resistance of these two populations, caused by Cyt1Ab1, may be due to this cytolytic protein inducing additional pores in the gut membrane (11), enabling the binary toxin to pass through the membrane. It has been suggested previously that the Cyt1A protein is responsible for suppressing resistance to Cry toxins (7,25), but the mechanism involved is unknown.
We compared the activities of the nonsporulating strains [(2297(pMK3) and 2297(pcyt1Ab1)] and Cyt1Ab1 crystals against susceptible and resistant C. pipiensstrains. We found that the resistant SPHAE mosquito strain was more resistant (two to five times) to these nonsporulating strains and to the cytolytic protein itself. It is unclear whether this is due to factors produced during the vegetative phase. If this were the case, it would suggest that the mosquito population (SPHAE), which is resistant to binary toxin, may also have mechanisms limiting its susceptibility to these other factors. No such mechanisms have been identified. Alternatively, this resistance may be due to the SPHAE mosquito population being less susceptible generally than the C. pipiens subsp. pipiens population reared for 15 years in our laboratory. Given the very low level of toxicity, 50,000 to 100,000 less than that of the binary toxin, we conclude that this resistance results from the differences in the intrinsic susceptibilities of the populations.
Our results support the conclusions of other investigations demonstrating that the cytolytic protein is central to expression of resistance by the mosquito population.
We are indebted to P. Gounon, Central Station of Electron Microscopy, for free access to the ultramicrotome and electron microscope and C. Rolin for micrograph printing. We thank J.-F. Charles and B. Chavinier for help with electron microscopy. We thank N. Pasteur, Montpellier, France, for providing eggs of theB. sphaericus-resistant C. pipiens mosquito population (SPHAE strain) and C. Nielsen-LeRoux for larvae of the resistant C. quinquefasciatus population (GeoR strain).
This investigation received financial support from Colchiencas, Medellin, Colombia.
Received 30 March 1998.
Accepted 29 July 1998.
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Three decades into the IT industry and I'm still learning…
The Managing Developer
SpriteKit game development – Part 1
Here’s a new series that actually began during Christmas holidays of 2017. I had bought a shiny new MacBook in the Spring of 2017 so that I could get serious about iOS and MacOS development. I studied several books and online tutorials on Objective-C and a little bit of Swift. Fast forward to Christmas where I came up with my idea for writing a game that I’ve always been meaning to write. This would be my third game. I wrote a C++ game in the 1990s that was left unfinished. My ambitions were too grand. Here’s a shot of the gameboard in brilliant VGA. Yes…DUNE!
Years passed and the advent of .NET presented a learning opportunity. I would create a tile based Dungeons and Dragons homage to Ultima III. I wrote this first in VB.NET with a proxy wrapper into the DirectX 2D Libraries. I then ported it to C# targeting native DirectX libraries. Unfortunately I don’t have a screenshot of that game and the libraries are no longer easily available. I spent a lot of time on it and yet abandoned it as well.
The concept for the new game would be set in the Frank Herbert Dune universe. I wanted to use the Traveller RPG game rules, with a mixture of Dungeons and Dragon’s Gamma World. Mixed in would be a dialog based “choose your own adventure” plotline similar to Knights of the Old Republic game for XBox (awesome, awesome game). I decided to use Apple’s Swift language so that I could learn a new skill and develop my portfolio on GitHub.
So, I studied and completed this course: https://cartoonsmart.com/role-playing-games-with-sprite-kit-and-swift-3-subscriber-access/ I recommend this site. The tutorial teacher, Justin Dike, has a great sense of humor, easy disposition and very fun set of courses.
After finishing the tutorial, which was about 55 videos about 16-25 minutes each consisting of about an hour a video (watch, pause, write code, test, debug), I was ready to begin.
Using http://www.hacknplan.com to track my issues in a Trello like interface Jira board. I’m already having to adjust my sprint because I’m behind! It’s amazing that free resources like this are on the internet.
Using Articy https://www.nevigo.com/en/articydraft/overview/ (available via Steam) to do my storyboarding. I bought it for $100, which I thought was super cheap. When I get further along in my game engine I’ll start designing the flow of the game with this pretty impressive application.
I created a GitHub repo and initialized it with the iOS game kit created from the tutorial. Then I created a develop and a feature branch. Check it out here: https://github.com/BacchusPlateau/DuneTraveller
The first step was to convert the iOS project to a MacOS target. Even though this article used Obj-C (which I studied last year), the directions were applicable to Swift projects, and I was very grateful: https://www.raywenderlich.com/70837/how-to-port-your-sprite-kit-game-from-ios-to-os-x That took a few hours to tweak and get the new View (SKView) hooked up to the new build target.
The next step was to comment out all of the UIKit references from the iOS project and retrofit them with mouse and keyboard events. That’s what I’m currently working on. It’s difficult translating the iOS touchesBegan and touchesEnded to desktop events. There isn’t a lot of documentation on desktop SpriteKit game development, but I’m relishing the time spent.
Stay tuned for my next update in the series.
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Save On Meats Building Sells
The Save On Meats building may see a change under new ownership.
On February 28, 2013 Anthem Properties Group Ltd. finalized the acquisition of the historic Save On Meats building in downtown Vancouver. The building, at 43 West Hastings Street, was first erected in 1891 and has been the home of restaurateur/entrepreneur Mark Brand’s revamped Save On Meats deli and diner since 2011.
While Brand’s business will continue to run out of the Hastings Street-building, his venture will be consolidated onto the ground floor, as Anthem has plans to transform the 2nd, 3rd and 4th floors into loft office space. Along with the development of office space, Anthem’s ambitious project includes a renovation of the building all under a tight time constraint—the development company hopes to have the lofts ready for occupation as early as August 2013.
orty-three West Hastings Street is just one of several properties acquired by Anthem Properties in recent years and “Anthem is very pleased about this recent acquisition, adding another building to its downtown eastside portfolio which includes recent purchases: 190 Alexander Street and 425 Carrall Street (the former BC Electric Building),” says Alexa Baughen, Anthem’s Vice President of Investments and Communications, in a press release.
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2018: 47.70211 | Percent | Annual | Updated: Dec 19, 2019
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The Racial Dissimilarity Index measures the percentage of the non-hispanic white population in a county which would have to change Census tracts to equalize the racial distribution between white and non-white population groups across all tracts in the county.Multiyear estimates from the American Community Survey (ACS) are "period" estimates derived from a data sample collected over a period of time, as opposed to "point-in-time" estimates such as those from past decennial censuses. ACS 5-year estimate includes data collected over a 60-month period. The date of the data is the end of the 5-year period. For example, a value dated 2014 represents data from 2010 to 2014. However, they do not describe any specific day, month, or year within that time period.
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Please see "Section 3: Understanding and Using ACS Single-Year and Multiyear Estimates" on publication page 13 (file page 19) of the 2018 ACS General Handbook for a more thorough clarification. https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2018/acs/acs_general_handbook_2018.pdf
The Racial Dissimilarity Index measures the percentage of the non-hispanic white population in a county which would have to change Census tracts to equalize the racial distribution between white and non-white population groups across all tracts in the county.
Starting with the 2016 observations, the calculation has been changed so that counties with only one census tract have missing data. Zero values represent counties where the proportions of non-white population and non-hispanic white population are the same.Multiyear estimates from the American Community Survey (ACS) are "period" estimates derived from a data sample collected over a period of time, as opposed to "point-in-time" estimates such as those from past decennial censuses. ACS 5-year estimate includes data collected over a 60-month period. The date of the data is the end of the 5-year period. For example, a value dated 2014 represents data from 2010 to 2014. However, they do not describe any specific day, month, or year within that time period.
Racial Dissimilarity Index
Racial Dissimilarity Index: Kentucky
Unemployment Rate in Bell County, KY
White to Non-White Racial Dissimilarity Index for Bell County, KY
Bell County, KY Counties Kentucky States U.S. Regional Data
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Categories: Conspiracy, UFO Sightings
Black Knight Satellite Conspiracy Theory
Is a NASA photo of orbiting space junk really an image of a 13,000 year old alien satellite known as The Black Knight?
By NASA (NASA Photo ID: STS088-724-66) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
A NASA photo that is claimed to be of a piece of orbiting space junk is thought by conspiracy theorists to be a 13,000 year old alien satellite. Dubbed “The Black Knight Satellite” by theorists, its electrical noise was allegedly first heard in the 1899 radio experiments of Nikola Tesla. Is the Black Knight an extraterrestrial satellite or just a piece of NASA space junk?
1998 NASA photo claimed to be an extraterrestrial satellite known as the “Black Knight” | Image Credit: By NASA – NASA Photo ID: STS088-724-66, Public Domain, Link
The Black Knight Satellite Evidence From Conspiracy Theorists
While much material exists regarding the Black Knight Satellite, few articles online contain adequate references. We do however, know many of the facts behind the Black Knight narrative are true.
Unexplained Radio Signals
Nikola Tesla really did pick up repeating radio signals in 1899. He thought those signals came from space. Even today, we are pretty sure what he picked up came from space. Tesla himself said publicly that he’d picked up extraterrestrial radio signals from space. So let’s put a check mark next to that one.
Amateur HAM radio enthusiasts picked up the same signal as Nikola Tesla in the 1920’s. Scientists in Norway picked up similar signals in 1928. Both of these are also true.
In 1954, newspapers reported that the US Air Force was tracking two satellites in orbit around Earth. Oddly enough, no nation had the capability at this time. The Soviet Union launched the first man-made satellite in 1957. Consequently for conspiracy theorists, this was pure gold. If there were satellites in orbit before humans were capable, clearly they must have been alien in origin. Right?
The tracking of alien satellites seemed to be the smoking gun, and the Black Knight Satellite was born. Since there were unexplained events leading up to the story of The Black Knight, it’s this particular instance which defines it.
NASA Black Knight Satellite Cover Up
In 1998, astronauts on board space shuttle Endeavor flight STS-88 took photographs of a strange object. The photos were initially posted on NASA’s website, but were soon removed. NASA re-posted them with new URLs and descriptions of them as space junk and debris. The photos however, were clearly some type of craft. Was this a NASA cover up? And why?
The Black Knight Satellite Explanations – The Reality Check
If you’ve read any of my articles before, it won’t surprise you that I’m pretty skeptical. A 13,000 year old alien satellite orbiting the Earth is an awesome story, and I’d love for it to be true. Unfortunately, there are explanations for the events that led to the birth of the Black Knight Satellite.
Nikola Tesla’s Unexplained Radio Signals
Nikola Tesla detected rhythmic radio signals in 1899 and believed they came from space. We’re pretty sure he was correct. We’re also pretty sure that what the signals came from pulsars in deep space. Pulsars weren’t discovered until 68 years later in 1967. Since pulsars were unknown during Tesla’s time, he explained them as best he could.
Space From the Rocky Mountain National Partk | Photo by Jeremy Thomas on Unsplash
False Newspaper Articles
In 1954, newspapers actually did report about 2 satellites in orbit. The Black Knight Satellite story got its life from these articles. As it turns out, those newspaper articles were also fake. The articles were a publicity stunt by a man trying to sell a UFO book. Even the Air Force Officer that was cited was just a guy who’d seen a UFO once.
The Black Knight Satellite Mystery… Not So Much
From completely made up fiction to misidentified space junk almost every aspect of the Black Knight can be explained. And while some events are still a mystery, they all have plausible explanations that fit the bill. As it turns out, even the mysteries don’t require a 13,000 year old alien satellite as an explanation.
What about the Endeavor’s STS-88 flight where all those amazing photos were taken? Well those are real photos. A thermal blanket had been lost during one of the astronauts’ EVAs, the crew photographed it numerous times as it floated away. The thermal blanket was black on one side, silver on the other, and crumpled into a weird shape.
The Endgame for The Black Knight
The legend of the Black Knight Satellite owes itself to a string of unrelated events. Misidentified objects, outright fabrications, and legitimate scientific discoveries before their time all played a role. What keeps it going today is a combination of conspiracy prone amateurs and self-proclaimed Internet experts who believe they’re better qualified to identify space images than the scientists and astronauts who made it their life’s work to do so. While the conspiracy theorists continuously regurgitate the same bad information within their circles, the world of science leaves them in the darkness created by The Black Knight Satellite.
Dunning, B. “The Black Knight Satellite” Skeptoid Media, 4 Jun 2013.
Redpath, M. “The Truth About the Black Knight Satellite Mystery” Astronotes – Armagh Observatory and Planetarium’s Stellar Blog! July 18, 2013
15 thoughts on “Black Knight Satellite Conspiracy Theory”
EL'LoCo Ezzotilia
the million dollar question should be ” does the black satillite believe in the human species”??
I’m not so much interested in the theories that this is an alien satellite but more interested in who… https://t.co/9v2LRQurWA
Monica Riels
WOW. THEY. DONT, TALK. MUCH. ABOUT THEM, I THINK THERE ARE ALIENS SPIES, WATCHING. US, FLOATING
Mark Conroy
Mark Wenlock what a surprise it’s a fake.
Mark Wenlock
That’s what they want you believe lol
Bryon Bowen
Great artical, I have heard about this for many years and like many other items there is just no real attainable conclusions.. At least not to satisfy me..lol
Glad you enjoyed the read. I researched this pretty heavily because I’d seen it all over the Internet. Many of the clickbait sites just go hardcore against anyone saying it’s NOT an ancient alien satellite so I wanted to do something more neutral.
Alien UFO Blog true, there are so many who opt out to ancient aliens if they cannot get the rest of the information…it’s a shame I think there are a lot of encounters out there but everyone is scared
Perry Jones
Richard Henderson Bruce
Tugboat that took the moon here the other one had to stabilise after the black Knight broke down then the moon hit the earth knocking moon into an elliptical orbit. The moon is an observation deck for the annunaki. It caused the great flood and the so called asteroid impact . It changed the water level and formed tidal basins flooding the main land bridges between Europe’s UK island now. That’s what happened👽👽
Barbs Chapman
Apparently not so I’ve read somewhere on FB. Its believed to be just space junk apparently.
Kendrick Felder
Space junk that flees on it’s own with booster engines? Okay.
Anthony Kaye
Space junk from the time before man
At last some has a photo of the black night, so why is NASA got there thumds up there asses and not doing anything about it to get the true https://t.co/QqSZp4x541
Barry Smith
It communicates through people it’s been there for a long time
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Healthy body, Nutrition, Parenting
PRENATAL VITAMINS: IN CONVERSATION WITH STEPHEN TERRASS FROM TERRANOVA NUTRITION
Most of my time is spent studying and researching these days and the deeper I dig into the world of supplements and health foods the more concerned I become. My aim is to find out what really works and why! More importantly we all need to know what is in our supplements as most have binders and fillers that are not good for us. Most of my pregnant friends take Stephens prenatal Vitamins as they have no binders or fillers and they work!!
TERRANOVA PRENATAL MULTIVITAMIN
The Prenatal Multivitamin was one of the first products you launched when the company started in 2009. Considering how many prenatal products there already were on the market, why did you feel that formulating yet another one was such a priority?
STEPHEN:
In addition to genetics, the quality of nourishment of the pregnant woman is undoubtedly the most critical factor in the health of the developing foetus. Even those in the medical establishment who are less aware of the need for supplements in the general population will acknowledge the need for them in pregnant women. There is such a wide variation in both the nutrient levels and the variety of nutrients in prenatal multivitamins and I wanted to formulate a product which provided a wider selection of nutrients, and in potencies which were optimal without being excessive and which were appropriately balanced.
The degree of ‘purity’ of the physical environment that the foetus is exposed to is also crucial. But one major problem with prenatal supplements prior to Terranova has been the fact that with only a few exceptions worldwide, such products were almost invariably laden with numerous manufacturing additives. Ironically, the most common additive, magnesium stearate, which appears in the vast majority of supplements is known to interfere with dissolution of active ingredients and may impair absorption or bioavailability of nutrients! It is so essential that the foetus and the mother get the most out of the nourishment that is being consumed, and yet almost every prenatal product had at least one additive which made this more of a challenge!! In addition to this, NO manufacturing additives are beneficial to the health of either the foetus or the mother and ALL of them are counterproductive to the goal of avoiding impurities in the mother’s body. I decided from the very beginning that EVERY Terranova product was going to be 100% additive-free, and not surprisingly, the fact that the Terranova Prenatal Multivitamin was going to be additive-free was especially satisfying on a personal level.
Understandably, pregnant women will often consult their obstetrician about prenatal nutrition before deciding what product to take. Is the Terranova Prenatal Multivitamin likely to face resistance from more conservative OBs?
This is a valid question, because even those women who are avid supplement users will quite rightly be hesitant about what and how much to supplement when pregnant. In truth, there are many adjustments that should be made to one’s supplement programme when one finds out they are pregnant. Women SHOULD discuss this with their OB, and Terranova Prenatal Multivitamin was specifically formulated in a manner that respects the concerns of conventional OBs while still allowing for completeness and purity. In other words, we use potency levels which are not only safe, but which we believe are almost certainly consistent with the expectations of the typical conventional OB for a prenatal multivitamin.
You include several wholefood ingredients in every one of your vitamin products, including the prenatal formula. What purpose to these serve in the Prenatal Multivitamin?
Yes, all our nutritional formulation include what is know as a ‘Magnifood complex’. This is normally a blend of wholefood and botanical ingredients,many of which are freeze dried and organic – but in order to ensure the safety in pregnancy of all the ingredients, the Magnifood complex in Terranova Prenatal Multivitamin is comprised of only whole foods and with no herbs. These wholefoods are combined with the vitamins and minerals that you see listed on the label. Magnifood is designed to enhance or assist in the absorption, bioavailability, stability, metabolism and function of the vitamins and minerals in each product. The goal in the way Terranova products are formulated is to create an intensely synergistic formulation that is highly effective, remarkably versatile, gentle, balanced, 100% active, free from unnecessary ingredients and above all, safe. With almost every Terranova product, more than half of the weight of the product is whole foods.
Folic acid is, of course, the most widely publicised and researched nutritional need in pregnancy. I notice that you list ‘Folate’ on your label instead of folic acid. Can you explain the significance of this?
Folic acid is basically a synthetic version of the folate that is found in foods. Folic acid is not found in nature, and the human body cannot use folic acid as it is – it must first be metabolised into it’s active methylfolate form in order to provide it’s benefits. However, recent research has uncovered a shocking statistic that between 9-15% of the population have a genetic mutation which significantly impairs their ability to metabolise folic acid. In addition to this mutation impairing the health benefits of folic acid, folic acid which cannot be metabolised properly is thought to build up in some people leading to toxicity. When we became aware of just how prevalent and how significant this genetic mutation was, we immediately scheduled the removal of standard folic acid from ALL of our products which contained it and replaced the folic acid with methylfolate, the form which is already active and is not affected by this mutation. As far as I know, we were the first major company in the UK and Ireland to replace folic acid with methylfolate in all products. Not surprisingly, this issue takes on special significance in pregnancy because of the proven role that folate status has in the prevention of neural tube defects.
Prenatal Multivitamin Complex Veg Caps €11.85 available from most good health food stores
June 12, 2015 /3 Comments/by Alison
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Mr. Allan
Who's that guy?
Allan is a multi-disciplinary designer with a focus on creating and updating brand identities. Raised cross-continental between London, New York, and Paris. Allan studied at Central Saint Martins and began his career as a digital designer at Warner Bros.
Drawing from years of experience working in the creative field, Allan helps people create, elevate and upkeep more impactful identities. He believes that a strategic brand not only serves as an element of appeal but also as the primary message carrier for everything the company stands for.
"We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility" — Malcolm Gladwell on brands
Packaging of the World
Brandcetera
Etapes (France)
Indexbooks
Over the years, Allan has received attention around the web via Behance featurings. As a result, his work has been shared by others on sites such as Pinterest, design blogs and printed publications all over the world including Index Books, a Spanish design publication house based in Barcelona.
Twitter — Behance — Medium
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Transportation Secretary LaHood to Congress: Don't hold the American people hostage
The Federal Aviation Administration has been without funding since July 22nd when the Congress-approved funding for the agency expired. This Tuesday, lawmakers left for their summer vacation without voting to pass a funding extension.
The impasse has caused 4,000 FAA employees to be furloughed and has left the FAA unable to collect taxes on airline tickets. Analysts estimate that the government is losing about $200 million a week in revenue because of the partial shutdown.
Ray LaHood, U.S. Transportation Secretary, has urged members of Congress to come back to Capitol Hill to make a decision. LaHood joins Ali Velshi on American Morning today to tell us what the plan is for the next five weeks and to talk about the latest in the furlough.
"There are these controversial items that have been put in bills that didn't stop Congress on 20 other occasions from passing the extension," LaHood says. "Don't hold the American jobs and American people hostage over controversial issues that were not a problem 20 other times."
"Come back from your vacation, come back and put Americans to work the way you would do for your friends and neighbor so they receive a paycheck like Congress is," LaHood adds.
See the entire interview above.
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Skylake refresh —
Intel unveils Kaby Lake, its first post-“tick-tock” CPU architecture
New 7th-generation Core CPUs have a lot in common with the 6th generation.
Andrew Cunningham - Aug 30, 2016 1:00 pm UTC
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Intel's Kaby Lake CPUs are starting to come out now.
A labeled Kaby Lake die shot.
The Y-series CPU package is the same as Skylake—the CPU/GPU die is on the left, and the chipset die is on the right.
The larger U-series package. Chipset on the left, CPU/GPU die on the right. Both chips can be dropped into existing Skylake designs.
Low-voltage mobile parts are coming out now, and more powerful CPUs will follow in January.
Increases in clock speed and some other tweaks will deliver Intel's standard 10-15 percent year-over-year performance gains in most cases.
Intel says Kaby Lake chips can ramp their clock speed up slightly faster than Skylake could.
The 14nm process has been optimized somewhat, though it's still not as big a deal as the move to 10nm would be.
The GPU is only changing a little, and those changes are confined mostly to 4K-related media encoding and decoding.
Kaby will encode and decode 10-bit HEVC video, and it can decode 8-bit VP9 video.
Doing so dramatically reduces the amount of CPU power needed to play this video, which some of the lower-end Skylake chips couldn't play at all.
More media playback details.
Details on the specific kinds of 4K streams Kaby Lake can handle.
Intel’s tick-tock model may be dead, but the PC industry still demands new hardware every year. Many PC models are refreshed once a year or so, and that means that the PC makers need new stuff to put into those computers whether or not the laws of physics want to comply.
Enter “Kaby Lake,” the first of Intel’s post-tick-tock processor architectures. Kaby (rhymes with baby, named for a lake in Canada) first appeared on Intel’s public roadmaps in mid-2015 when the company realized that Cannonlake and its attendant 10nm manufacturing process wouldn’t be ready in time. No major architecture has changed, and Intel is still using a tweaked version of its 14nm manufacturing process, so most changes are relatively minor and built to serve a particular market niche.
Know your codenames
Codename and year
Prominent consumer CPU branding
Tick/tock
Westmere (2010) 32nm Core i3/i5/i7 Tick (new process)
Sandy Bridge (2011) 32nm Second-generation Core i3/i5/i7 Tock (new architecture)
Ivy Bridge (2012) 22nm Third-generation Core i3/i5/i7 Tick
Haswell (2013) 22nm Fourth-generation Core i3/i5/i7 Tock
Broadwell (2014-15) 14nm Fifth-generation Core i3/i5/i7, Core M Tick/"Process"
Skylake (2015-16) 14nm Sixth-generation Core i3/i5/i7, Core m3/m5/m7 Tock/"Architecture"
Kaby Lake (2016-17) "14nm+" Seventh-generation Core i3/i5/i7, Core m3 "Optimization"
Cannonlake (2017?) 10nm TBA "Process"
As usual, Intel is releasing the Kaby Lake processors in waves. Today, we’re getting dual-core low-voltage processors, the kind you’d find in thin-and-light consumer laptops. The first Kaby systems are slated to ship in September, and you’ll see lots of new laptops at IFA next week. Desktop CPUs and other higher-performance chips, including those with Intel Iris GPUs, will be announced in January around CES.
A tiny tiny “tick”
In 2014, when Intel’s 14nm process delays were holding up the Broadwell architecture, the company released a lineup of “Haswell refresh” processors that used small clock speed increases to outrun 2013’s original Haswell chips. Kaby Lake, despite a handful of changes and improvements, is only a slightly bigger deal.
First off, none of these mobile CPUs will include new chipsets, which means you’ll get the same connectivity options as before. The 100-series chipsets should still be more than adequate for most people, but they’re missing things like 10Gbps USB 3.1 gen 2, to say nothing of Thunderbolt. On the plus side, the lack of huge changes means that Kaby Lake chips can easily be dropped into existing Skylake designs, something that will help PC makers get Kaby Lake systems on the shelves in a hurry.
Kaby’s biggest advertised feature is improved support for 4K. All Kaby Lake integrated GPUs will support hardware-accelerated decoding and encoding of 10-bit HEVC/H.265 video streams and decoding of 8-bit VP9 streams. If you don’t already know, supporting hardware acceleration for certain codecs means that the GPU (usually via a dedicated media block) handles all the processing instead of the CPU. Not only does this use a fraction of the power that a CPU uses to accomplish the same task, but it frees the CPU cores up to do other things.
HDMI 2.0 and HDCP 2.2 are also supported, which (respectively) enable 4K output at 60Hz over an HDMI cable and provide the DRM required to carry an encrypted 4K signal from the thing that’s playing it to the screen that will show it. The maximum supported DisplayPort version remains 1.2, however, dashing the hopes of anyone who wants to drive a 5K display at 60Hz over a single cable using DisplayPort 1.3.
The biggest improvement from an architectural/manufacturing standpoint is something Intel is calling “14nm+,” an optimized version of the same process node used for both Broadwell and Skylake. The company isn’t sharing many details—Intel says that 14nm+ has an “improved fin profile” and “improved transistor channel strain,” for what that’s worth. But the changes are said to improve the performance of the transistors by about 12 percent. As Intel’s manufacturing processes stick around for longer, it makes sense that the company would spend more time optimizing them rather than just moving on to the next process as it has historically done. Foundries have been known to use multiple versions of a given process, so it’s not entirely unheard of.
CPU and GPU speed improvements come mostly from clock speed increases rather than architectural improvements, as they did in the Haswell refresh. Intel promises 12- to 19-percent better CPU performance over Skylake chips sold at the same price, which is commensurate with the speeds and prices laid out below. Intel claims “double-digit” GPU performance improvements in the Y-series parts and 8- to 10-percent improvements in the U-series parts.
Small launch, simple lineup (for now)
Today’s launch includes just six chips, three each from the Y- and U-series. As Intel adds vPro and Iris CPUs and other faster and slower options, its lineup will inevitably become more complicated. That’s what always happens. But right now Intel’s CPU lineup is refreshingly simple to explain, so let’s enjoy it while it lasts!
The three Y-series chips.
The three U-series chips.
The chipsets come with both Y- and U-series chips. They're still solid, but they're also identical to the Skylake chipsets.
For the third time in as many years, Intel is changing how it refers to its 4.5W Y-series chips. Broadwell changed the name from Core i3, i5, and i7 to simply “Core M.” Skylake split the Core M lineup into Core m3, m5, and m7 families. And Kaby Lake keeps m3 but changes m5 back to i5 and m7 back to i7.
Regardless of branding changes, Y-series Kaby processors are all easily identified by their model number and their 4.5W TDP (configurable up to 7W for systems with the heat dissipation to handle it and down to 3.5W for smaller, thinner devices with less headroom). The kinds of devices where you find Core M chips today—fanless laptops, convertible tablets, and Compute Sticks—won’t change.
The U-series are still run-of-the-mill mainstream dual-core parts and will likely remain the most widely used parts in mainstream $500-and-up laptops and boutique Ultrabooks like Dell’s XPS 13 or HP’s Spectre 13. The U-series chips are still i3, i5, and i7, and Intel’s processor badges for both Y- and U-series CPUs will all pick up a “7th gen” label to distinguish them from models with older parts.
All the CPUs have model numbers in the 7000 series, compared to 6000 for Skylake, 5000 for Broadwell, and so on. The GPUs for the Y- and U-series are now called the Intel HD 615 and 620, respectively. With the model numbers and CPU speeds in hand, we can compare the new Kaby Lake parts to their Skylake counterparts to see what kind of clock speed increases we can expect.
Year-over-year improvements
m3-6Y30 (900MHz, 2.2GHz Turbo) m5-6Y54 (1.1GHz, 2.7GHz Turbo) m7-6Y75 (1.2GHz, 3.1GHz Turbo) i3-6100U (2.3GHz) i5-6200U (2.3GHz, 2.8GHz Turbo) i7-6500U (2.5GHz, 3.1GHz Turbo)
m3-7Y30 (1.0GHz, 2.6GHz Turbo) i5-7Y74 (1.2GHz, 3.2GHz Turbo) i7-7Y75 (1.3GHz, 3.6GHz Turbo) i3-7100U (2.4GHz) i5-7200U (2.5GHz, 3.1GHz Turbo) i7-7500U (2.7GHz, 3.5GHz Turbo)
Base increase
100MHz (11%) 100MHz (9%) 100MHz (8.33%) 100MHz (4.33%) 200MHz (8.7%) 200MHz (8%)
Turbo increase
400MHz (18%) 500MHz (18.5%) 500MHz (16%) N/A 300MHz (10.7%) 400MHz (13%)
Given that nearly all of Kaby Lake's improvements are going to come from clock speed boosts, these numbers actually look pretty good. Even when Intel changes architectures and processes these days you normally only get 10 to 15 percent more CPU performance year-over-year, and Kaby Lake delivers that most of the time.
That said, the biggest increases are reserved for the Turbo Boost speeds, and those can be hard to rely on in the real world. Intel's CPUs are only designed to operate in Turbo Boost mode for short bursts of time, falling back to slower speeds when the PC they're in can no longer dissipate enough heat. Especially in thin-and-light Y-series laptops with no fans, processors will probably not maintain their top speeds for long.
In short, Kaby Lake CPUs may still be significantly faster than equivalent Skylake chips, but how fast depends more heavily than usual on your workload and the design of the laptop. Once we begin testing actual Kaby Lake systems, we should get a better idea of how things play out in practice.
Coming soon(ish): High performance and newer chipsets
The Kaby Lake lineup will be made whole in early 2017 when quad-core desktop and mobile parts hit the market. Those processors will include new chipsets, though socketed Kaby processors should be able to fit into existing 100-series motherboards after a BIOS update.
As Intel’s first “optimization” release in its new product development cycle, Kaby Lake is a bit underwhelming. Chip design takes time—Intel tells us that some of Skylake’s features were in development for five years—and Kaby Lake is obviously something Intel had to come up with on short notice once the company knew just how long the 14nm and 10nm transitions were going to take. In future “optimization” years—when we get chips that have the same amount of lead time as the “process” and “architecture” designs—I expect the improvements to be more significant.
If you’re thinking of buying a new PC soon but don’t need one today, Kaby Lake includes enough improvements that you might as well wait for it to roll out. But if you just bought a Skylake system or need a new PC today and you don’t have very specific 4K-related needs, you don’t have much to gain by going with Kaby Lake.
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Andrew Cunningham Andrew wrote and edited tech news and reviews at Ars Technica from 2012 to 2017, where he still occasionally freelances; he is currently a lead editor at Wirecutter. He also records a weekly book podcast called Overdue.
Twitter @AndrewWrites
Can someone explain to me what the hell it means for a processor to be "designed for the immersive internet"? I feel like that's one of the buzziest phrases I've seen in a while.
JimmiG Ars Scholae Palatinae
rabish12 wrote:
Well this is the same company that called one of its architectures "NetBurst"...This was around the time the first DotCom bubble burst.
raxx7 Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius et Subscriptor
A comment:
Yes, "Turbo Boost" depends on how well the system can handle the power, but power also depends on how you are using the chip.
It's one thing to all 2 cores and GPU loaded and another to have just one the cores loaded.
It's one thing to be CPU bound on a tight computational loop with 256-bit vectors and another to be CPU bound on branchy low IPC code.
All this to say: intel's "Turbo Boost" is a significant advantage for single thread performance, which is still a key parameter.
There are some not-so-bad improvements in single thread, given the context.
Last edited by raxx7 on Tue Aug 30, 2016 8:23 am
DarkSkyForever Ars Tribunus Militum
It's just marketing speak.
Sixclaws Ars Praefectus
It means that this time, the laptops that are going to use these chips will not choke when you play a 1080p (or higher resolution/60fps) video on Youtube.
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Degru Ars Scholae Palatinae
Well, finally someone will have full VP9 hardware decode support... about time with Google trying to push the codec so much.
zarakon Ars Scholae Palatinae
It means "get ready for interactive animated ads everywhere!"
hansmuff Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius et Subscriptor
The updated "Speed Shift" technology gives very quick bursts of high clocks, helping out certain software that operates in short bursts -- WebXPRT for instance. Anandtech gave a decent overview a while ago, and it has improved since then. I suppose this also translates to other things like certain pieces of Javascript etc commonly found online.
Plus there's the updated fixed function hardware for some video encoding that will push the CPU load down and lets it do other things while the graphics don't lag. On a mobile with integrated graphics, that's nice.
Of course it's QUITE some marketing speak.
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issor Ars Praefectus
I'm sure this move makes the most sense from the market perspective, but it's a bit frustrating that the high end workstation and server parts are stuck at Broadwell, two generations behind. Intel seems to be targeting each CPU generation at just one market segment. Worse, Intel is almost justified in doing so, since the performance difference between Broadwell, Skylake, and Kaby Lake is so small.
Bad Monkey! Ars Legatus Legionis et Subscriptor
Degru wrote:
If Intel's own datasheet on Skylake is to be believed, Skylake already supports VP9 decode to 4K 24p. What gives?
http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/pu ... -vol-1.pdf
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nehinks Ars Praefectus
Video decoding can be nasty - some of my older machines definitely struggle with 1080p h265. Glad to see we're finally at full hardware support for it.
I also find it interesting that the low end chips got the biggest performance boost. Might be in the market for another fanless system this fall, although I'll definitely be checking reviews to see who got the cooling correct, as it makes such a big difference.
issor wrote:
That's been Intel's MO for a while now: server chips lag one gen behind the current desktop and mobile SKUs. Broadwell-E didn't drop until after Skylake was released, Haswell-E didn't drop until Broadwell was released, etc., etc.,. Expect the same for Skylake-E.
The real reason is that high end server/workstation parts really need more work than the "consumer" parts (they're bigger chips and they need more validation) and thus they always arrive later.
polycyclicAnthrocene Ars Centurion et Subscriptor
The company isn’t sharing many details—Intel says that 14nm+ has an “improved fin profile” and “improved transistor channel strain,” for what that’s worth."
Both probably work toward improving performance per watt. FinFETs are used generally to reduce short channel effects that became intolerable with process reductions, i.e. the transistor channels just got too small in conventional (planar, non-finFET) transistors.
Improving the channel strain increases charge carrier mobility in the channel of the transistor. This increases switching speed (more GHz!!!).
Bad Monkey! wrote:
This ARS article is not great on details, anandtech shows the encode/decode capability differences very nicely 1/3 down the page.
Azethoth666 Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius et Subscriptor
Designed for the coming VR internet of course! Uhm, duh? Everyone knows that this time VR is replacing all old and soon obsolete UI.
Intel has predicted it and is riding the wave to victory! Also it sounds a lot better than netburst which sounded goddamned stupid.
/something
On the other hand it sounds a lot like this chip has more of the 4K requirements built in, and next year when we get faster connections out of the new chipset we can truly say that 4K is finally here.
Infinity4011 Ars Scholae Palatinae et Subscriptor
SpecTP wrote:
only 2 cores?
These are all mobile parts. They're meant for tablets and ultrabooks. The next set of parts they'll release will probably be higher watt parts designed for stuff like business-class laptops, and then they'll drop the desktop/workstation parts together because those are the smallest segment of their business now.
These chips came out when they did so that Apple and Microsoft (among others) could use them in their lineup refreshes. Expect them to appear in Surface Pro, Macbook Air, and other updated light duty laptops and tablets.
raxx7 wrote:
It makes sense also from "best use of fabs" perspective. It's much more profitable to dedicate the best fabs and process to consumer SKUs, because that's where the most demand for decreased power usage/increased battery life lies.
dagamer34 Ars Scholae Palatinae
I believe Intel used a hybrid approach of some GPU and some fixed function hardware for decoding VP9, just like they did with HEVC with Broadwell, which uses more power. Article is wrong that it is offloading to the GPU from the CPU, it was already doing that in Skylake. If any part of the decoding was happening on the CPU, it would consume about 70-80% CPU like it does on my 2014 Haskell 4Ghz iMac when playing 4k60 YouTube.
vnangia Ars Praetorian
I think probably the biggest takeaway is that Intel has really outdone itself in trying to muddle up its numbering scheme. I notice the Core Ms have been mixed up with the Core Is in this generation; for example, i7-7Y75. At least you can still tell here, for now, if you're paying attention. Pretty soon, I suspect you'll need to have to comparison shop using a ledger.
Is it deliberate to confuse OEMs and users, or is it just a bunch of monkeys with typewriters?
Brakiel Smack-Fu Master, in training
vnangia wrote:
Anandtech's article on Kaby Lake explains why the branding has changed.
There is a significant part of the server market which needs better performance/socket and better performance/watt and will pay a lot of money for those chips.
It's just that they also demand rock-solid chips.
"Pretty soon" ?
It's been like that for years already.
The saving grace is that ark.intel.com is actually functional.
BullBearMS Ars Praefectus
dagamer34 wrote:
Yup. Intel is using the same strategy that ARM based SOC's in mobile devices use. Include lots of fixed function hardware to preform functions that would otherwise be a power drain if carried out by the CPU or GPU.
If you remember, that was one of the reasons that x86 wasn't cost effective on mobile devices. You had to add extra chips to the device Build of Materials to preform tasks that any of the ARM based SOCs would have built in.
AnchorClanker Ars Scholae Palatinae et Subscriptor
But if you just bought a Skylake system or need a new PC today and you don’t have very specific 4K-related needs, you don’t have much to gain by going with Kaby Lake.
Thank you for that. I'm drawing up the parts list for a new box to replace my gracefully aging rig. Inasmuch as I have no particular need for 4K I'll go with an i7 6700K.
Rainbird Ars Centurion
I'm really hoping there will be an updated Skull Canyon based on Kaby Lake; a 10-20% GPU boost to that baby would make it quite capable as a gaming machine!
Whiner42 Ars Scholae Palatinae
Wait until Zen. Then you'll see some movement from Intel in the desktop/server market.
PottedMeat Ars Scholae Palatinae
i'm surprised they didn't call it " Intel® Immersive Internet "
Throw us a curve once in a while, intel. Put a 'NO' in one of the columns for 'Conflict Free' just because.
jmarchel Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
Am I the only one who thinks that using i7 name even in a mobile version on CPU with just 2 physical cores is a cheat on consumer?
I bet Intel engineers get stuck in a constant facepalm loop whenever they look over at the marketing department.
glarfsquared Ars Scholae Palatinae
Are the Kaby Lake processors expected to be drop in to the same socket as Skylake?
DoneByFriday Seniorius Lurkius
Don't forget that if you want to use the new silicon you'll need to get Windows 10.
"As previously communicated earlier this year, future silicon platforms including Intel’s upcoming 7th Gen Intel Core (Kaby Lake) processor family and AMD’s 7th generation processors (e.g. Bristol Ridge) will only be supported on Windows 10, and all future silicon releases will require the latest release of Windows 10."
https://blogs.windows.com/business/2016 ... r-windows/
26 posts | registered Mar 7, 2013
Solidstate89 Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius
The slides are a bit misleading/confusing, because it says Kaby Lake comes with HDR support but it only supports HDMI 2.0? Don't you need HDMI 2.0a for HDR support?
I've been waiting to update my HTPC with new hardware to futureproof it for 4K/HDR support but from the looks of it, I should continue waiting?
glarfsquared wrote:
Ondis Seniorius Lurkius
As noted by DoneByFriday, the Windows10 requirement is a huge minus for KabyLake, other OSes(Linux, BSD, etc) should run, but luck of earlier Windows support is worrisome.
It is almost as if good old Wintel days are here again.
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You're way behind the eight ball. Gonna need to support NETVC. Hech VP10 is out already as well! :-)
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الرئيسية The WTO Regime on Government Procurement: Challenge and Reform
The WTO Regime on Government Procurement: Challenge and Reform
Sue Arrowsmith, World Trade Organization
Originally an important but relatively obscure plurilateral instrument, the WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) is now becoming a pillar of the WTO system as a result of important developments since the Uruguay Round. This collection examines the issues and challenges that this raises for the GPA, as well as future prospects for addressing government procurement at a multilateral level. Coverage includes issues relating to pending accessions to the GPA, particularly those of developing countries with a large state sector such as China; the revised (provisionally agreed) GPA text of 2006, including provisions on electronic procurement and Special and Differential Treatment for Developing Countries; and procurement provisions in regional trade agreements and their significance for the multilateral system. Attention is also given to emerging issues, especially those concerning environmental, social and SME policy; competition law; and the implications of the recent economic crisis.
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The WTO Case Law of 2009: Legal and Economic Analysis
Henrik Horn, Petros C. Mavroidis
Evolution in Investment Treaty Law and Arbitration
Chester Brown, Kate Miles
T H E WTO RE G I M E O N G OVE R N M E N T
PRO C U RE M E N T : CH A L L E N G E
A N D RE F O R M
Originally an important but relatively obscure plurilateral instrument, the
WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) is now becoming
a pillar of the WTO system as a result of important developments since
the Uruguay Round. This collection examines the issues and challenges
that this raises for the GPA, as well as future prospects for addressing
government procurement at a multilateral level.
Coverage includes:
r Issues relating to pending accessions to the GPA, particularly those of
developing countries with a large state sector such as China.
r The revised (provisionally agreed) GPA text of 2006, including provisions on electronic procurement and special and differential treatment
for developing countries.
r Procurement provisions in regional trade agreements and their significance for the multilateral system.
Attention is also given to emerging issues, especially those concerning environmental, social and SME policy; competition law; and the implications
of the recent economic crisis.
sue arrowsmith is Achilles Professor of Public Procurement Law and
Policy and Director of the Public Procurement Research Group at the
University of Nottingham School of Law.
robert d. anderson is Counsellor and Team Leader for Government
Procurement in the Secretariat of the World Trade Organization, and
Special Professor in the School of Law at the University of Norttingham.
T H E WTO RE G I M E O N
G OVE R N M E N T
PRO C U RE M E N T :
CH A L L E N G E A N D RE F O R M
SU E AR ROW S M I T H
RO B E R T D. AN D E R S O N
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CON TE N T S
page ix
Foreword by Pascal Lamy
Perspective of the Chairman of the WTO Committee
on Government Procurement, Nicholas Niggli
part i The WTO regime on government
The WTO regime on government procurement: past, present
and future
robert d. anderson and sue arrowsmith
part ii Expanding the scope of the Agreement
on Government Procurement: accession and
Forging a more global procurement market: issues concerning
accessions to the Agreement on Government
robert d. anderson and kodjo osei-lah
Accession to the Agreement on Government Procurement:
the case of China
India’s possible accession to the Agreement on Government
Procurement: what are the pros and cons?
s. chakravarthy and kamala dawar
The benefits for developing countries of accession to the
Agreement on Government Procurement: the case of Chinese
chang-fa lo
The coverage negotiations under the Agreement on
Government Procurement: context, mandate, process
and prospects
Canada’s sub-central government entities and the Agreement
on Government Procurement: past and present
The procurement of state trading enterprises under the WTO
Agreements: a proposal for a way forward
Addressing purchasing arrangements between public sector
entities: what can the WTO learn from the EU’s
experience?
ping wang, roberto cavallo perin and dario casalini
part iii Revision of the procedural rules and
other transparency provisions of the Agreement
on Government Procurement
10 The Revised Agreement on Government Procurement:
changes to the procedural rules and other transparency
sue arrowsmith
part iv Developing countries in the WTO
procurement regime
11 Special and differential treatment and other special measures
for developing countries under the Agreement on Government
Procurement: the current text and new provisions
anna caroline müller
12 Building sustainable capacity in public procurement
peter trepte
13 Untying aid through the Agreement on Government
Procurement: a means to encourage developing countries’
accession to the Agreement and to improve aid
effectiveness?
annamaria la chimia
part v Economic and social development
(horizontal policies) in government
14 The national treatment and exceptions provisions of the
Agreement on Government Procurement and the pursuit
of horizontal policies
arwel davies
15 The limited case for permitting SME procurement
preferences in the Agreement on Government
john linarelli
16 Social policies in procurement and the Agreement
on Government Procurement: a perspective from
phoebe bolton and geo quinot
part vi Enforcement and remedies
17 Constructing a system of challenge procedures
to comply with the Agreement on Government
xinglin zhang
18 Designing effective challenge procedures: the EU’s experience
with remedies
hans-joachim priess and pascal friton
19 The design and operation of a bid challenge mechanism:
the experience of Hong Kong, China
henry gao
part vii Multilateralism and
20 Government procurement provisions in regional trade
agreements: a stepping stone to GPA accession?
robert d. anderson, anna caroline müller,
kodjo osei-lah, josefita pardo de león and
philippe pelletier
21 A case study of regionalism: the EC–CARIFORUM Economic
kamala dawar and simon evenett
part viii Challenges and new
22 Ensuring integrity and competition in public procurement
markets: a dual challenge for good governance
robert d. anderson, william e. kovacic and
23 Developing multilateral rules on government procurement:
the value of soft law
24 Work of UNCITRAL on government procurement:
purpose, objectives and complementarity with the
work of the WTO
caroline nicholas
25 Global procurement law in times of crisis: new Buy American
policies and options in the WTO legal system
26 Procurement in times of crisis: lessons from US government
procurement in three episodes of ‘crisis’ in the twenty-first
joshua i. schwartz
CO N T R I B U TO R S
mr robert d. anderson is Counsellor in the Intellectual Property Division of the Secretariat of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva,
Switzerland, where he heads the Secretariat team supporting the work of
the WTO Committee on Government Procurement and the renegotiation of the plurilateral Agreement on Government Procurement. He also
has advisory responsibilities regarding international competition policy issues. He travels extensively to the developing regions of the world
to present technical assistance workshops and seminars on government
procurement and competition policy. Prior to joining the WTO in 1997,
Robert held various positions in the Canadian Competition Bureau where
he gained experience in: (i) competition policy advocacy and legislative
reform; (ii) competition law enforcement and case analysis; and (iii) international dimensions of competition law and policy. Earlier in his career,
he worked at the Economic Council of Canada and the Saskatchewan
Department of Finance.
In addition to being co-editor of this volume with Professor Sue
Arrowsmith, Robert is co-editor (with Professor Nancy Gallini of the
University of British Columbia) of Competition Policy and Intellectual Property Rights in the Knowledge-based Economy (Industry Canada
Research Series, 1998). He is the author/co-author of articles published
in the Journal of International Economic Law, the Public Procurement
Law Review, the Antitrust Law Journal, the Swiss Review of International
Economic Relations (‘Aussenwirtschaft’) and the Canadian Competition
Record, in addition to chapters in numerous edited volumes. He holds
degrees in economics and law from the University of British Columbia
and Osgoode Hall Law School, respectively. He is a Special Professor in the
School of Law of the University of Nottingham, is also on the part-time
faculty of the World Trade Institute in Berne, Switzerland and has acted as
a guest speaker in post-graduate programmes of the George Washington
University in Washington, DC.
professor sue arrowsmith is Achilles Professor of Public Procurement Law and Policy and Director of the Public Procurement Research
Group (PPRG) in the School of Law, University of Nottingham, where
she is also Director of the innovative new Executive Programme in Public
Procurement Law and Policy (LL M/Diploma/Certificate).
Her numerous publications on procurement have been extensively
cited by courts and in legislative texts in North America, Asia and Africa,
as well as throughout Europe. Her recent authored books include The
Law of Public and Utilities Procurement (2nd edn 2005); (with Linarelli
and Wallace) Regulating Public Procurement: National and International
Perspectives (2000); and Government Procurement in the WTO (2003).
She is also co-editor and co-author of Social and Environmental Policies in EC Procurement: New Directives and New Directions (Cambridge
University Press, 2009) and Public Procurement Regulation in the 21st
Century: Reform of the UNCITRAL Model Law on Procurement (2009). In
1992 she launched the first international academic journal on public procurement, Public Procurement Law Review, which she still edits, and also
launched the conferences ‘Public Procurement: Global Revolution’ back in
She has been involved in procurement law reform for many years as
a member (since 1997) of the European Commission’s Advisory Committee for the Opening Up of Public Procurement; as a member of the
UNCITRAL Experts Group on Procurement; and as a consultant and
trainer for many bodies, including the UK Office of Government Commerce, WTO, European Commission, OECD, EU, European Central
Bank, ILO and the Law Commission of England and Wales. She is Project
Leader of the European Commission-funded Asia Link project for developing a global academic network on public procurement regulation as well
as of the global Procurement Law Academic Network (PLAN) launched
under the auspices of that project.
In 2007 she was awarded the CIPS Swinbank Medal for her contribution
to thought innovation in purchasing and supply.
professor phoebe bolton is Professor of Law at Stellenbosch University, South Africa and the author of a number of publications in the
area of government contracts, supply chain management and government
procurement. She is, moreover, the author of The Law of Government Procurement in South Africa (2007). The book is the first comprehensive and
structured analysis of the law on government contracts and government
procurement in South Africa and the only major African legal text on
procurement regulation.
Phoebe’s work has been cited in international and local books and articles as well as court decisions in South Africa. She is the recipient of numerous academic awards, including the CODESRIA prize for the best doctoral
thesis produced in Africa in 2006, the Andrew Mellon Foundation Fellowship, the Abe Bailey Travel Bursary, the DAAD in-country Scholarship
and the DAAD Scholarship for Young Academics and Scientists. Funding
from the National Research Foundation is currently enabling her to continue her research in the area of public procurement regulation. A British
Academy Grant further funds a project in collaboration with the PPRG
at the University of Nottingham to raise the academic profile of public
procurement regulation in Africa.
Phoebe regularly gives legal opinions to government departments and
private sector bidders and frequently presents papers on different aspects
of government contracts, procurement and supply chain management.
dr dario casalini is Assistant Professor of Public Law at the Faculty of
Economics, University of Turin (Italy), where he teaches public law for
economists and EU public procurement law. He is a lawyer at the Bar of
Turin and was visiting researcher at King’s College London in 2008–9.
He has taken part in several research projects focused on European
public procurement law and has published various articles on the issues
arising in the national implementation of EU procurement law, including
a book on the notion of body governed by public law and in-house provision (L’organismo di diritto pubblico e l’organizzazione in house, 2003).
He has presented papers at international conferences and his research
interests lie in the area of public and administrative law, public procurement, public utilities, national health services, public service and public
ownership across European national legal systems.
professor roberto cavallo perin is Full Professor of Administrative
Law at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Turin (Italy) and
a lawyer at the Bar of Turin, as well as former Deputy Director of the
University of Turin.
He has been leading several research projects mainly regarding public services, local authorities, public procurement law and civil servants’
ethics. His recent authored books include Al servizio della Nazione. Etica
e statuto dei funzionari pubblici (2009) and Commentario breve al testo
unico sulle autonomie locali (2006). He has presented conference papers
at various conferences and has taught university modules on public contracts law, public service, judicial review and local authorities’ autonomy
in several universities across Italy.
He is Deputy General Editor of the leading Italian review on administrative law, Diritto amministrativo, a member of the editorial board of Diritto
processuale amministrativo and was among the promoters of the establishment, in 2010, of the worldwide network IUS PUBLICUM among the
leading reviews of public and administrative law. He has nearly twenty
years’ experience of advising on public procurement law and between
2001 and 2006 he was a member of the Committee for the High Surveillance and Guarantee for the Winter Olympic Games of Turin. He is a
member of the Italian Association of Administrative Law Professors, of
the Italian Association of Administrative Procedure Law Professors and
of the Italian Association of City Planning Law.
dr s. chakravarthy is a civil servant by profession, being a member of the Indian Administrative Service. He has a masters degree in
mathematics and statistics. After joining the government, he obtained a
doctorate degree in management from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Subsequently he secured a law degree from Delhi University. In addition, he has certificates in public administration and public
enterprises from the University of Manchester, UK and Harvard University, USA. His experience as a civil servant in India over four decades
(1961–2002) has been essentially in the areas of industries, commerce,
management of state-owned enterprises, corporate law implementation
and competition law enforcement. Competition policy, industrial development and export promotion have been central to his specialization.
Competition law enforcement and management, international trade and
dealing with WTO issues with a strong emphasis on consumer and public interest have been his focus area in the past decade. Among the top
assignments he has held are Special Chief Secretary to Government and
member of the Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission.
As a member of the Company Law Board and of the Monopolies and
Restrictive Trade Practices Commission, he has around ten years’ experience as adjudicator. Presently, he is an advisor/consultant on competition
policy and law.
He was a member of the High Level Committee on Competition Policy
and Law, appointed by the Government of India, and also a member of
the Drafting Committee of the Indian Competition Law, 2002. He has
toured extensively, having visited more than thirty countries throughout
the world and, in particular, Asia, Africa and Europe, participating in
competition policy and law conferences.
His publications and contributions at conferences are in the areas of the
interface between trade policies and competition policy, IPRs and competition law, mergers and amalgamations, cartels, etc. He is a Consultant
to the World Bank, African Development Bank and the Competition
Commission of India.
mr david collins is a senior lecturer at the City Law School of City
University London where he teaches contracts, international economic
law, world trade law and international investment law. David previously
practised commercial litigation in Toronto, Canada and was a prosecutor
for the Attorney General of Ontario. He is a fellow of the Institute for
Globalization and International Regulation at Maastricht University and
a current development editor for the Manchester Journal of International
Economic Law. David has been a visiting fellow of the Institute of International Economic Law of Georgetown University and of the World Trade
Institute of the University of Berne, a visiting scholar at the University of
Sydney and a visiting professor at the ESADE Law School in Barcelona.
A qualified lawyer in England, Ontario and New York, he has also been
a consultant for several leading Canadian law firms and for the World
Bank. David holds a BA and a JD from the University of Toronto and an
MSc and a BCL from the University of Oxford.
dr arwel davies is Senior Lecturer in Law at Swansea University School
of Law.
kamala dawar is a policy analyst and lecturer in international trade
law and development policy. She undertakes research and training on
international trade and development-related issues for intergovernmental institutions including the WTO, World Bank, ITC-ILO, UNCTAD,
OSCE, the European Commission and public interest organizations such
as Consumers International and GTZ. She has published several articles in
the area of competition, government procurement, consumer policy and
international development. She holds advanced degrees from the London
School of Economics and the University of Amsterdam School of Law in
governance and in international and European trade law.
professor simon evenett is Professor in the Department of
Economics, at the University of St Gallen.
mr pascal friton is an associate of the international law firm Freshfields
Bruckhaus Deringer LLP and works in the firm’s Berlin office. He specializes in public procurement law as well as trade law. He joined Freshfields
Bruckhaus Deringer in 2008. Pascal completed his legal education at the
Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, and holds a master of laws
degree (LL M) from the University of Durham, UK.
He has recently published on several public procurement topics, in
particular on issues regarding the criteria for qualitative selection, especially the concept of self-cleaning (e.g. together with Sue Arrowsmith and
Hans-Joachim Priess, ‘Self-cleaning as a Defence to Exclusions for Misconduct: An Emerging Concept in EC Public Procurement Law?’, Public
Procurement Law Review, 18 (2009), 257).
professor henry gao is a tenured law professor at Singapore
Management University, and an associate of the Centre for International
Law at the National University of Singapore. With law degrees from three
continents, he started his career as the first Chinese lawyer at the WTO
Secretariat. Before moving to Singapore in late 2007, he taught law at
Hong Kong University, where he was also the Deputy Director of the East
Asian International Economic Law and Policy Programme.
A leading scholar on China and the WTO, Henry is the editor of
China’s Participation in the WTO (2005) and has published many articles
in prestigious international journals, including the Journal of International
Economic Law and the Journal of World Trade.
A frequent adviser to Asian governments, Henry has also been a consultant to the WTO, World Bank, Asian Development Bank and APEC.
As the Academic Coordinator to the first Asia–Pacific Regional Trade
Policy Course officially sponsored by the WTO, he helped the WTO to
establish this flagship training programme in the region and has also
been instrumental in building similar training programmes in China,
Singapore and Thailand. In 2009, when the WTO established the WTO
Chairs Programme to promote research, teaching and training activities on WTO issues in leading universities around the world, Henry was
invited to join the international Advisory Board. Among the twenty-plus
distinguished members of the Board, Henry is the only non-governmental
representative from Asia. Henry is the first Asian faculty member on the
Master in International Economic Law and Policy (IELPO) programme
in Barcelona, and the only Chinese faculty member at the Academy of
International Trade and Investment Law in Macau. His current research
focuses on the interaction between China’s trade policy and WTO rules,
as well as WTO dispute settlement, trade in services and free trade
agreements.
dr lili jiang is a visiting scholar at the Public Procurement Research
Group, School of Law, University of Nottingham.
mr william e. kovacic has served on the Federal Trade Commission
since January 2006, and served as Chairman from March 2008 until
March 2009. He has also served, since January 2009 as Vice-Chair for
Outreach of the International Competition Network. Before he became
a Commissioner, William was the FTC’s General Counsel from 2001
through 2004, and also worked for the Commission from 1979 until
1983, initially in the Bureau of Competition’s Planning Office and later
as an attorney adviser to former Commissioner George W. Douglas.
William was the E. K. Gubin Professor of Government Contracts Law
at George Washington University Law School, where he began teaching in
1999. He had taught at the George Mason University School of Law since
1986, after practising antitrust and government contracts law for three
years at Bryan Cave’s Washington, DC, office. Earlier in his career, he spent
one year on the majority staff of the US Senate Judiciary Committee’s
Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee.
Beginning in 1992, William was an adviser on antitrust and consumer protection issues to the governments of Armenia, Benin, Egypt, El
Salvador, Georgia, Guyana, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Morocco,
Nepal, Panama, Russia, Ukraine, Vietnam and Zimbabwe.
He received a bachelor degree from Princeton University in 1974 and
a law degree from Columbia University in 1978.
dr annamaria la chimia read law at the University of Rome ‘La
Sapienza’ in Italy and then moved to England for her graduate studies. She obtained an LL M (in international commercial law) and a Ph.D.
at the University of Nottingham, School of Law. She has been a lecturer in
law at the School of Law of the University of Nottingham since September
2006. She is Head (and founder) of the Humanitarian and Development
Procurement Unit of the Public Procurement Research Group (PPRG).
She is also a visiting professor at the Law School, University LUISS Guido
Carli di Roma for the academic year 2009–10 (spring semester). Since
June 2004 Annamaria has also taught on the masters degree programme
on human development and food security at the Universita’ degli Studi
di Roma Tre.
Prior to joining the School of Law, she worked as a lawyer in Italy where
she qualified as a barrister and solicitor in 2002 and became member of the
Italian bar. She has acted as expert adviser to the European Commission
(DG Trade and DG Development) and has collaborated as consultant
with the NGO ActionAid and the Commonwealth Secretariat. She has
also participated in a SIGMA project on the review of the Romanian
domestic public procurement legislation.
Her main research interests lie in the area of international development,
international trade law and European law (especially external relations,
public procurement and internal market).
She has recently been awarded a research grant by the British Academy
to carry out a research project on ‘food aid on both sides of the Atlantic:
a comparative study of EU and US food aid projects’.
She has published extensively in international and European law
reviews, and in edited collections. She is currently writing a book that
will be published in 2011.
professor john linarelli is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and
Professor of Law at the University of La Verne College of Law, in Ontario,
California, USA, where he has been on the faculty since 2002. He previously held full-time appointments as Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of East Anglia Law School and Lecturer in Law at the University of
Wales Aberystwyth. He practised public procurement law in the United
States for a number of years in several Washington, DC law firms, including Dickstein Shapiro LLP and Spriggs & Hollingsworth. He has served as
Director of Procurement Programmes for the International Law Institute
and as an adviser to various international organizations. While in practice,
John taught US government contracts law at the Catholic University of
America Columbus School of Law and international procurement courses
at Georgetown University Law Center. He has written extensively on international economic law, law and globalization, and legal issues affecting
developing states. He served as co-chair on the symposium, ‘What Makes
States Successful, Afghanistan and the Future of State Building’, held in
April 2010, which received widespread global attention with its focus
on developing practical strategies for assisting states transitioning from
conflict. He is co-author, with Professors Sue Arrowsmith and Don
Wallace Jr of Regulating Public Procurement: National and International
Perspectives (2000). He was lead author on Small and Medium Size Enterprises and Export-Led Growth: Are There Roles for Public Procurement Programmes? (1999). He is on the editorial board of the Public Procurement
Law Review. His recent work focuses on bringing theories of global justice
in contact with international economic law. He is co-editing, with Frank
Garcia and Chi Carmody, Global Justice and International Economic Law:
Opportunities and Challenges, to be published by Cambridge University
professor chang-fa lo is Chair Professor and Lifetime Distinguished
Professor at National Taiwan University. He is also the Director of the
Asian Center for WTO and International Health Law and Policy of the
NTU College of Law. In his capacity as the Director, he launched two
English journals: Asian Journal of WTO and International Health Law
and Policy and Contemporary Asia Arbitration Journal in 2006 and 2008
respectively; the former has been included in the SSCI list. He was the
Dean of the College and was the Director of the Center for Ethics, Law
and Society in Biomedicine and Technology at NTU. He received his SJD
from Harvard University Law School. He has served as a commissioner at
the Fair Trade Commission, which is in charge of the competition law in
Chinese Taipei; as a commissioner at the International Trade Commission,
which is responsible for the decision of the injury aspect of antidumping
measures; and also as a legal adviser to the government of Chinese Taipei
for the GATT/WTO accession negotiations.
He was appointed as National Chair Professor by the Ministry of Education for three years and has received other important academic awards.
He was a visiting professor at Tokyo University Faculty of Law. He was
appointed in 2006 by the Director General of the WTO for a trade dispute on tyres between the EC and Brazil as a panellist. In 2008 he was
also appointed by the WTO as a member of the Permanent Group of
Experts under the Subsidies Agreement. He teaches WTO law, government procurement law and competition law, among others. He is the
author of twelve books; the most recent ones are A Commentary on the
International Health Regulations (2005), and A New Charter for Global
Health Matters and WTO-Plus in Free Trade Agreements, both published in
ms anna caroline müller is Associate Lawyer at Clifford Chance
Frankfurt. She advises on national and international commercial
arbitration and litigation matters. Previously, she was part of the
government procurement team of the WTO’s Intellectual Property Division. In 2008–9 she successfully completed the German bar training programme with seats in New York (German Mission to the United Nations),
London (Clifford Chance) and Frankfurt (Clifford Chance). She obtained
full legal qualification in 2010 and holds a law degree and an LL M in
intellectual property law (University of Düsseldorf) as well as a Diplome
d’Études Approfondies in international relations from the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva. Her research is focused on international economic law with recent publications in the field of government
procurement.
ms caroline nicholas is the Secretary to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Working Group on Procurement, which is organizing the revision of UNCITRAL’s 1994 Model
Law on Procurement of Goods, Construction and Services. She has over
twenty years’ experience in various aspects of commercial law, and private and public international law, ranging from advising liquidators in
major international insolvencies, to advising on claims of the Kuwaiti
Government arising from Iraq’s 1990 invasion and occupation of Kuwait
at the United Nations Compensation Commission and working as an
internal fraud investigator in the United Nations. A member of the editorial board of the Public Procurement Law Review and regular contributor
to the PPLR and other journals, and regular presenter at international
procurement conferences, she is bringing the work of UNCITRAL in
modernizing procurement to a wide audience. She works with the main
international players in procurement and procurement reform (such as
the WTO, the World Bank and regional development banks, the OECD,
IDLO, and regional trade organizations, such as COMESA) to promote
harmonization in procurement rules and to support international trade
and development.
mr kwadwo (kodjo) osei-lah has been Counsellor at the World Trade
Organization since 2002, where his responsibilities cover technical and
professional support to the WTO’s work on government procurement,
and related technical cooperation and capacity building. A procurement specialist by profession, Kodjo’s experience covers procurement
operations, consultancy, project management, technical cooperation and
capacity building, and trade-related aspects of government procurement.
As Counsellor at the WTO and together with his WTO Secretariat
team colleagues, Kodjo assists the WTO Committee on Government
Procurement in the administration of the Agreement on Government
Procurement and the ongoing negotiations in that Agreement. In addition, he is responsible with team colleagues for the WTO Secretariat’s
technical cooperation activities in the area of government procurement.
Prior to joining the WTO, Kodjo held the position of Project Director
for several years at Crown Agents, a UK-based international development
consultancy firm. In this role his responsibilities covered the provision of
procurement consultancy services in client- and donor-funded projects
and programmes, including those funded by the World Bank. His specific
areas of focus included policy, strategy, reviews, reform, audits and value
for money improvement in public procurement. Kodjo was also previously for several years a London-based representative and procurement
manager for a Ghanaian mining group – the then State Gold Mining
Corporation (SGMC). His early professional career was as a mining engineer within the SGMC group in Ghana, with responsibilities variously
covering mine production and planning, project management and procurement planning. Kodjo has a mining degree, is a corporate member of
the UK’s Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply, and has an MBA
from Birmingham University, UK, specializing in strategic procurement
mrs josefita pardo de león is Legal Affairs Officer in the Accessions
Division of the World Trade Organization, where she serves as Secretary
and Co-Secretary for several Working Parties. She has also worked in the
Intellectual Property Division, the Institute for Training and Technical
Cooperation and the Agriculture and Commodities Division in the WTO
Secretariat. Before joining the WTO in 2004, she held various positions
in the Ministry of Economic Affairs and the private sector in her home
country, Guatemala.
Josefita holds a degree in international relations and a masters degree
in international law and economics. She has published in several areas,
focusing on trade liberalization, export diversification and their links to
growth and welfare.
mr philippe pelletier is a licensed attorney in Quebec, Canada, and
currently Junior Legal Affairs Officer in the Intellectual Property Division
of the World Trade Organization’s Secretariat. He works with the Secretariat team supporting the work of the WTO Committee on Government Procurement and the negotiations under the Agreement on Government Procurement. He also formerly interned in the Intellectual Property
Division of the WTO, where he assisted and contributed to the Division’s
work in the areas of intellectual property and government procurement.
Previously, he interned in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s
International Registration Systems Legal Service (Sector of Trademarks,
Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications), where he assisted with
the management of the three legal systems of international registration
(the Madrid System, the Hague System and the Lisbon Agreement). He
also held a postgraduate teaching assistant position in the areas of business law and securities regulation at the Faculty of Law of the University
Laval, Canada. Philippe is a graduate of the University Laval. He holds
a law degree and he is completing an LL M specializing in international
trade law and intellectual property law. He has studied international law
at the University of Gothenburg, School of Business, Economics and Law,
in Sweden; Austral Universidad, Facultad de Derecho, in Argentina; and
at the Université Toulouse 1 Capitole, in France.
dr hans-joachim priess has been a partner of the international law
firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP since 1994 and works in the
firm’s Berlin office. He specializes in German, European and international
public procurement law as well as international, customs and trade law
(including WTO law). He heads the firm’s public procurement working
group, which comprises sixteen partners and about fifty other lawyers in
eleven locations in Europe. Hans-Joachim has advised and represented
clients across Europe, including governments, on public procurement
legislation. He was a member of an expert group of the German Federal
Ministry of Economics and Labour tasked with the advancing of public
procurement law. He has represented many clients before the German
procurement review bodies and the Court of Justice of the European
Union. In May 2009 he was appointed a board member of forum vergabe
e.V., Germany’s most important professional association in the field of
public procurement law.
Hans-Joachim received his legal education at the universities of Kiel
(Dr iur, 1988) and Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, and Lausanne,
Switzerland, and at the Indiana University School of Law (LL M, 1984)
and Harvard Law School, US. He worked in Brussels from 1990 to
2000, including from 1991 onwards at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s
offices.
He publishes widely on general EU, trade and procurement law. He is
the author of, inter alia, Handbuch des europäischen Vergaberechts (3rd
edn 2005), joint editor and author of Beck’scher Kommentar zur VOB/A
(2001), joint editor and author of WTO Handbuch (2003), and joint editor
and author of the Beck’sches Formularbuch Vergaberecht (2004).
professor geo quinot is a professor in the Department of Public Law
in the Faculty of Law, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He mainly
teaches administrative and constitutional law, but is also involved in the
development of, and teaching in, new undergraduate and postgraduate
courses on public procurement regulation at the Stellenbosch Law Faculty.
He regularly instructs public administrators at Stellenbosch University’s
School of Public Management and Planning and in the University of Cape
Town’s Professional Development Project. His research focuses on general
administrative law, including a particular focus on the regulation of state
commercial activity. He is the author of various articles in academic
journals, mostly in the field of administrative law, chapters in books, and
two recent books, Administrative Law Cases and Materials (2008) and
State Commercial Activity: A Legal Framework (2009). He is the editor
of the Stellenbosch Law Review. Geo is currently involved in a British
Academy funded project on public procurement regulation in Southern
Africa as lead African partner in partnership with the Public Procurement
Research Group at the University of Nottingham, with Sue Arrowsmith as
project leader. Geo is also an advocate of the High Court of South Africa
and engages in public interest litigation and advises organs of state on
administrative law and public procurement matters. He studied law at the
University of Stellenbosch, where he obtained his doctorate in 2007 on a
dissertation focusing on government contracting, and at the University
of Virginia School of Law in the United States as a Fulbright fellow.
professor joshua i. schwartz is E. K. Gubin Professor of Government
Contracts Law and Co-Director of the Government Procurement Law
LL M Program, George Washington University.
dr peter trepte is a practising barrister with Littleton Chambers in
London and Counsel to Grayston & Company in Brussels. He is a special
professor with the Public Procurement Research Group, University of
Nottingham.
In the case of regulated procurement, he advises and represents public
and private sector clients on issues of EC procurement rules as well as on
the application of the WTO Agreement on Government Procurement and
the effect on the procurement rules of the EC’s preferential trade arrangements. At the international level, he has extensive and wide geographical
experience in Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America
of drafting national laws and implementing rules and regulations in the
field of public procurement; assessing and benchmarking national procurement systems; drafting standard bidding and contract documents
and guidance; developing appropriate procurement regulatory and institutional frameworks and dispute resolution mechanisms; and the design
and implementation of public and private sector procurement capacity
development programmes. He was one of three dispute panellists in the
procurement dispute between the US and South Korea under the WTO’s
Government Procurement Agreement.
Peter is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a member
of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply. He has lectured
and published widely on EC matters with particular reference to public
procurement and the utilities and is the author of Public Procurement in
the EU (2nd edn, 2007), ‘The Government Procurement Agreement’, in
Macrory, Appleton and Plummer, The World Trade Organization: Legal,
Economic and Political Analysis (2005) and Regulating Procurement (2004).
dr ping wang is a lecturer in law at the University of Nottingham’s
School of Law. He first read law in Beijing, and then obtained an LL M
and a Ph.D. at Nottingham. He is currently working in the field of public
procurement law, international trade law, European law and Chinese law.
His main research interests include the WTO Government Procurement
Agreement, comparative EC and Chinese competition law and intellectual
property law, the reform of Chinese public procurement law, and the
regulation of state enterprises in the international trade regime.
He is the Deputy Director of the Public Procurement Research Group.
dr xinglin zhang is currently an associate professor at the law school
of Dongbei University of Finance and Economics (in Dalian, China). She
first read law at Nankai University before qualifying as a lawyer in Tianjin,
China. She earned her first LL M degree (in international economic law)
from Renmin University of China in 1994 and her second LL M degree
(in international, commercial and European law) from the University of
Sheffield in 2003. She obtained a Ph.D. degree (in public procurement
law) in 2009 from the University of Nottingham.
Her main teaching and research interests are in public procurement law,
international economic law and Chinese economic law. Her publications
include ‘Supplier Review as a Mechanism for Securing Compliance with
Government Procurement Rules: A Critical Perspective’ (Public Procurement Law Review, 5 (2007), 325–51) and ‘Forum for Review by Suppliers
in Public Procurement: An Analysis and Assessment of the Models in
International Instruments’ (Public Procurement Law Review, 5 (2009),
201–26). She is also a PRC-qualified lawyer, specializing in government
procurement and international business law.
FO RE WO RD
Director-General, World Trade Organization
Government procurement is gaining ground as part of world trade, and as
part of the work of the World Trade Organization (WTO). During, and in
the aftermath of, the world economic crisis, much attention has focused
on public infrastructure investment and on government policies that
potentially limit the rights of foreign suppliers to bid on related contracts.
Such policies were a key focus of my 2009 end-of-year Overview of Developments in the International Trading Environment. In that overview, I
noted that ‘buy national’ and other restrictive government procurement
raise concerns for trade and the international trading system in three main
ways. First, they can exclude foreign suppliers from markets in which they
could otherwise hope to compete, either by reserving the market completely for domestic suppliers or by introducing administrative complexities that make procurement procedures less easily accessible for foreign
suppliers. Second, paradoxically, in some cases they may even raise the
costs or impede the operations of domestic companies in the countries
implementing the relevant measures, if such companies experience difficulties in sourcing domestically and cannot easily obtain waivers for
purchases abroad. Third, as in other economic sectors, the implementation of discriminatory government procurement measures in one country
may engender pressures for the adoption of similar measures by other
countries.1
Fortunately, while restrictive government policies relating to public
procurement remain a concern for the global trading system and continuing vigilance is warranted, the world has so far avoided a rush to
the wholesale adoption of such measures. This is no doubt due, in substantial measure, to the guarantees of non-discrimination and related
commitments embodied in the (plurilateral) WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) in addition to the assurances incorporated
1 Overview of Developments in the International Trading Environment: Annual Report by the
Director-General (WT/TPR/OV/12 of 18 November 2009), paragraph 140.
in the pledges of the G-20 Leaders and the good sense of governments
worldwide that have sought to avoid a repeat of the mutually destructive
proliferation of trade barriers that unnecessarily prolonged and deepened
the depression of the 1930s.
In the future, public procurement and related international trade disciplines are likely to be even more important for global economic growth
and development than they are at present. Past estimates have indicated
that overall government procurement spending accounts for as much as
15–20 per cent of GDP, on average, worldwide, though much of this is not
yet covered by current international disciplines. Moreover, infrastructure
investment and other public procurement in emerging market economies
in Africa, Asia and Latin America is likely to be a major driving force of
economic growth in the years to come.
This situation calls for a deepening and broadening of international
trade disciplines to ensure that, as far as possible, public infrastructure
investment and other aspects of government procurement are carried out
in a transparent and non-discriminatory manner that maximizes value for
money for governments and taxpayers. Equally important, the disciplines
themselves need to be continually updated to reflect developments in procurement methodologies and to ensure the maximum degree of flexibility
for Parties consistent with an open international trading regime. Most of
all, the membership of the GPA needs to be broadened to encompass
emerging actors in this field.
As detailed in this informative book, efforts are under way to address
each of these challenges. Ongoing negotiations between the Parties aim
to extend coverage and eliminate remaining discriminatory measures.
Provisional agreement has been reached on a revised and improved GPA
text.2 With regard to the membership of the Agreement, as detailed in
relevant chapters of the book, work on the accessions of several developing
countries is intensifying. Crucially, work on the accession of China is
proceeding well, with strong, positive engagement by both China itself and
the existing Parties. These developments presage a significant expansion
of the membership of the Agreement in the years to come.
On a number of occasions in the recent past I have referred to the
concept of governance. The idea of governance recognizes that the mere
opening of markets – however desirable – is not, by itself, enough to ensure
good economic performance. Rather, appropriate laws and institutions
2 GPA/W/297 of 11 December 2006, available at http://docsonline.wto.org/
DDFDocuments/t/PLURI/GPA/W297.doc.
are also needed, for example to enforce competition, address spillovers
such as environmental degradation and ensure the availability of accurate
information for consumers.
The GPA is a paradigm example of a trade opening instrument that
recognizes the need for governance mechanisms – in this case, the
procedural rules of the Agreement that ensure fair and transparent contracting practices and the domestic review or appeal mechanisms that
the Agreement requires Parties to put in place. In addition, the revised
GPA text contains a new and explicit requirement that procurement be
carried out in a manner that avoids conflicts of interest and prevents
corrupt practices. This is a significant innovation in WTO rules. Perhaps
the treatment of this issue in the revised GPA text will inform broader
debates on the role and future of the multilateral trading system.
The foregoing are but some of the aspects of procurement policy and
its treatment in the WTO that are addressed in this book. It is clear, from
this ambitious survey of developments and emerging challenges, that the
WTO Agreement on Government Procurement is in the process of taking
on substantially increased importance within the multilateral trading
system and as an underpinning of good policy in this sector. Policy issues
in this area merit in-depth consideration in the international community
not only by responsible government officials but also by businesses, nongovernmental organizations and their respective advisers. This book is a
serious contribution to such discussion. Academics and students will also
welcome it. I congratulate both the editors of this volume and the authors
responsible for the individual chapters, and look forward to the enriched
debate that the essays in the volume are likely to spawn.
PE R S P E C T IVE O F T H E CH A I R M A N O F T H E
WTO CO M M I T TE E O N G OVE R N M E N T
PRO C U RE M E N T , NI C H O L A S NI G G L I
( SW I T ZE R L A N D )
I believe that, in the coming decade, the WTO Agreement on Government
Procurement (GPA) will undergo a transition from being an important
but relatively obscure plurilateral treaty to becoming a central pillar of the
multilateral trading system. This reflects a confluence of factors, including: (i) the growing membership of the Agreement, and the prospect
of accession to it by a broad range of developing, transition and other
economies in the coming years; (ii) the prospect of a gradual broadening,
over time, of the extent of Parties’ procurements that are actually covered
by the Agreement, in addition to an updating of the Agreement itself
to enhance its flexibility, user-friendliness and relevance, for example, to
developing countries; and (iii) the role that public infrastructure investment will undoubtedly continue to play as an underpinning of growth in
the aftermath of the economic crisis, and the critical importance of such
spending being undertaken on the basis of principles of fair and open
competition to maximize value for taxpayers.
While the third factor noted above is largely exogenous to the work
of the WTO Committee on Government Procurement, the first and second fall directly within its remit, and have been the focus of intensified
effort by Parties to the Agreement, in addition to myself as Chairman,
and with the support of the Secretariat, in the past few years. On the
accession front, already there have been important achievements, and
much more is in the offing. As detailed elsewhere in this volume, the
accession of Chinese Taipei, as the forty-first WTO Member covered by
the Agreement, took effect on 15 July 2009. By the end of 2009, nine other
WTO Members (Albania, Armenia, China, Georgia, Jordan, the Kyrgyz
Republic, Moldova, Oman and Panama) had applied for accession to the
Agreement and submitted relevant documentation. Work on the accession of Armenia is well advanced, and is expected to be completed before
the end of 2010. Work on the accession of Jordan is also intensifying,
and it is my fond hope that it, too, will become a member of the GPA
family by late 2010/early 2011. Most significantly, work on the accession
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of China is proceeding well, with full engagement by both China itself
and the existing Parties, and I have every confidence that this, too, will
come to fruition in due course. These accessions represent, in many ways,
the future of the GPA.
Apart from the foregoing accessions on which work has already commenced and is, in some cases, well advanced, five other WTO Members
(Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Mongolia, Saudi
Arabia and Ukraine) have provisions in their respective WTO Accession
Protocols which call for them to seek GPA accession in due course. It
is noteworthy, also, that India has recently become an observer in the
Committee on Government Procurement – a position which enables it to
better assess its potential interests vis-à-vis the Agreement.1 Indeed, my
sense from my extensive personal contacts with diverse WTO delegations
is that a good number of Members of diverse sizes and levels of development from all regions of the world are actively looking at the possibility
of seeking GPA accession. This is, in part, spurred by the pending accession processes of China and the other acceding Parties I have mentioned.
In many cases, it has also been facilitated by Members’ participation in
bilateral trade agreements containing government procurement chapters
that are largely modelled on the GPA.2
Currently, the ongoing negotiations to expand the coverage of the
Agreement and renew the Agreement itself are, if anything, an even more
pressing item of business for the Committee than the pending accessions,
if only because there is now a real prospect of wrapping up the negotiations, and this is essential to unlocking the future. As is explained in detail
in relevant chapters of this book, the negotiations have a threefold purpose: (i) to improve and update the Agreement in the light, inter alia, of
developments in information technology and procurement methods; (ii)
to extend the coverage of the Agreement; and (iii) to eliminate remaining
discriminatory measures. Work on renewing the text of the Agreement
was largely completed in December 2006; however, under the terms of
the agreement struck at that time, the revised text cannot come into
force until a mutually satisfactory outcome has also been achieved in the
1 In addition to India, twenty-two other WTO Members, including two developed countries
(Australia and New Zealand) in addition to countries from all regions of the developing
world, are observers to the Agreement.
2 See the pathbreaking analysis in Robert D. Anderson, Anna Caroline Müller, Kodjo OseiLah, Josefita Pardo De León and Philippe Pelletier, ‘Government Procurement Provisions
in Regional Trade Agreements: A Stepping Stone to GPA Accession?’ in this volume,
chapter 20.
negotiations to extend the Agreement’s coverage. Since having the revised
text in place is tremendously important to facilitate the pending accessions, currently a major push is on to wrap up the coverage negotiations
and thereby permit the revised text to come into force. The Parties can
now see the summit (i.e. the conclusion of the negotiations), but have still
to climb it. The final metres are always the hardest.
In this context, and as described elsewhere in this volume, I have put
forward a ‘Roadmap’ for conclusion of all aspects of the current GPA
negotiations (covering both the text and the coverage aspects) by the
middle of 2011. The Roadmap encompasses four main elements, namely:
(i) the coverage negotiations; (ii) remaining work to be done on the text
of the Agreement, particularly its Final Provisions; (iii) the process for
bringing the revised Agreement into force, and in particular the issue
of whether it will be treated as a new WTO Agreement or simply as an
amendment to the existing one; and (iv) the future work programme
of the Committee. The overriding purpose of the Roadmap is to ensure
that all the issues before the Committee in the negotiations receive due
attention, in parallel fashion, throughout the year, to facilitate bringing
them all together and wrapping up the negotiations by the end of the year
or very shortly thereafter. The initial reception given to the Roadmap has
been overwhelmingly positive: all GPA Parties have pledged their full and
unconditional support. They have also expressed the view that, currently,
there is a window of opportunity to conclude the negotiations which will
not remain open forever. Thus, it is my hope that, when this book appears
in print, the negotiations will have been concluded or will be very close
indeed to being concluded, and the revised text will be in the process of
coming into force.
The challenges and processes outlined above are plumbed in depth
in this excellent and timely volume. In addition, the book delves into
historical aspects of the treatment of government procurement in the
World Trade Organization and into a range of other issues that are not a
principal focus of the current negotiations but that will be important in
the future. These include issues concerning the interface of government
procurement and the GPA with environmental sustainability and social
concerns, in addition to more technical matters such as the evolution of
the Agreement in relation to newer contracting practices.
As Chairman of the WTO Committee on Government Procurement,
I have benefited tremendously from a close partnership with the WTO
Secretariat team supporting the Committee, which is very ably led by
one of the co-editors of this book, Robert Anderson. I have also enjoyed
meeting and benefited greatly from the advice of leading academics in
the field, among whom the other co-editor, Professor Sue Arrowsmith, is
particularly eminent. I have formed the conviction that there is a great
need to foster public awareness of, and scholarly debate on, the objectives and modalities of the Agreement on Government Procurement and
related negotiating issues, challenges and priorities, in addition to the
future potential of the Agreement, which I have hinted at above. For these
reasons, I am pleased and honoured to have been invited by the editors
to contribute this Chairman’s Perspective on the Agreement, and to give
my full support to the publication of this book. Needless to say, the perspectives developed herein are the sole responsibility of the authors, and
are without prejudice to the interests of Parties to the Agreement or to
the prerogatives of the Chairman.
PRE F A CE
This book grew out of our sense that the World Trade Organization (WTO) regime on government procurement – currently consisting
principally of the plurilateral Agreement on Government Procurement
(GPA) – is undergoing a far-reaching transition from constituting an
important but relatively obscure element of the WTO to becoming a cornerstone of the international trading system. This change is occurring
first and foremost as a result of the pending accession to the Agreement
of important developing and transition economies such as China, Jordan
and Armenia but also as a result of the ongoing effort to modernize the
Agreement which is nearing completion and of increased interest in government procurement as a dimension of world trade in light of the recent
economic crisis. There is, in our view, a critical need for informed discussion and reflection on these developments in the international community
and among international legal scholars, practitioners and students. There
is, of course, already a significant body of literature on the GPA as it
emerged from the Uruguay Round and on other aspects of the WTO’s
procurement work, in particular on transparency, and we do not seek to
replicate this here. Rather, the aim of the present volume is to explain, and
to explore, the most recent developments concerning the WTO regime
for government procurement, and to stimulate debate on the challenges
that they pose.
Many persons contributed to the production of this book or otherwise
provided necessary support. Early versions of some of the papers incorporated in the volume were presented at the conference Public Procurement –
Global Revolution III, held at the University of Nottingham in June 2006.
Subsequent versions and additional papers in the volume were presented
at a Symposium held at the WTO in Geneva in February 2010 and at the
conference Public Procurement – Global Revolution IV in Nottingham in
April 2010. We are grateful to all those who made presentations at, or
assisted in the organization of, these events.
For their support and encouragement, warm thanks are expressed to
Pascal Lamy, Director-General of the WTO; to Nicholas Niggli, Chairman
of the WTO Committee on Government Procurement; and to Antony
Taubman, Director of the WTO’s Intellectual Property Division, which
is also responsible for the Organization’s work in relation to the GPA.
Within the Intellectual Property Division, thanks are due particularly to
Kodjo Osei-Lah, Josefita Pardo De León and Philippe Pelletier for their
contributions to and help with various chapters, and to Cathy Boyle and
Audrey Long for their able assistance. In addition, Anna Caroline Müller,
currently an associate at Clifford Chance in Frankfurt and formerly with
the Division, not only authored/co-authored three chapters of the book
but also helped with the checking of several other chapters. Thanks are
also due to Anthony Martin and Helen Swain of the WTO’s Information
and External Relations Division for their advice and able support.
At the School of Law of the University of Nottingham, thanks are due to
everyone in the Public Procurement Research Group. In particular, sincere
thanks are owed to Ping Wang, Deputy Director of the Group (and also
a participant in various WTO seminars and other events), and to Peter
Trepte, Special Professor, for their ongoing encouragement and assistance
in relation to this volume; to Sylvia de Mars (now a lecturer at Newcastle
University) for her extensive and very effective research assistance; to Lili
Jiang (also an author of one of the chapters) and Sandrine Umatoni for
their diligent processing of the manuscript; and to Paula Faustino for her
very able assistance with the last Global Revolution event.
Sue Arrowsmith would like to express her great appreciation to the
sponsors of the Public Procurement Research Group over the last three
years – Achilles Information, Bevan Brittan LLP, Addleshaw Goddard LLP
and the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply. Their support –
both financially and more generally – has been crucial for some of the
work that has gone into this volume. She would also like to thank those
many persons – too numerous to mention by name – with whom she has
had very fruitful discussions on issues related directly or indirectly to this
For helpful and enriching discussions on the topics addressed in the
volume, many of which occurred in the context of WTO technical assistance activities in diverse parts of the developing world, Robert Anderson
thanks, without implicating, Jonathan Denison Cross, Kamala Dawar,
Diane De Marliave, Simon Evenett, Daniel Gordon, Jean Grier, Frederic
Jenny, William Kovacic, Steven Schooner, Ping Wang and Christopher
Yukins, in addition to the other speakers and participants at the WTO
At Cambridge University Press, we are grateful to Kim Hughes for both
her encouragement and her patience; to Richard Woodham and Sarah
Roberts for their very able support; and also to Diane Ilott for highly
efficient copy-editing.
We record our sincere thanks to the authors/co-authors of all the chapters of the book, who freely gave of their time and insights and whose
contributions made the book possible.
Most of all, we express our appreciation to our spouses and children
for their support and encouragement, without which this project could
not have been completed. This book is for them.
D I S CL A I M E R
The opinions and conclusions contained in the contributions to this volume are the sole responsibility of the individual authors and should not
be attributed to the organizations with which they are affiliated. All errors
and omissions are the full responsibility of the authors. This includes
contributions prepared by professionals from the WTO Secretariat. None
of the chapters purports to reflect the opinions or views of the Members
of the WTO or of its Secretariat. Any citation of chapters in this volume should ascribe authorship to the individuals who have written the
contributions and not to the WTO. Nothing in this book is intended to
provide a legal interpretation of the WTO Agreements. In addition, none
of the terminology used in any of the chapters has any implications for the
sovereignty of any of the WTO’s Members. Lastly, it should be noted that
the various chapters included in the volume were finalized in the spring
of 2010 and do not reflect subsequent developments.
PA R T I
The WTO regime on government procurement
The WTO regime on government procurement:
1. Introduction to the chapter
Government procurement – the purchase of goods, construction services
and other services required by government bodies – accounts for a substantial proportion of GDP,1 and it is well recognized that discrimination
in this area (intentional or otherwise), as well as other practices, creates
significant barriers to trade.2 Thus government procurement is of great
potential interest for international trade regimes, including the WTO.
However, dealing with government procurement was not generally a priority in the early phase of the multilateral trading system, nor in early
regional and bilateral free trade agreements. Rather, the initial efforts of
those responsible for negotiating these arrangements tended to focus on
more conventional trade barriers, such as tariffs and quotas, both because
these were perceived as more important (and their removal a necessary
initial step for access to government markets in any case) and because
of the particular sensitivity of government procurement.3 As other trade
1 For an analysis see D. Audet, ‘Government Procurement: A Synthesis Report’, OECD Journal
on Budgeting, 2 (2002), 149.
2 Although not all discriminatory practices affect trade. On the economic issues see
F. Trionfetti, ‘The Economics of Opening Up Public Procurement’, chapter 12 in S. Arrowsmith and M. Trybus (eds.), Public Procurement: The Continuing Revolution (The Hague:
Kluwer Law International, 2002) and on markets in which foreign participation occurs
through a local presence S. Evenett and B. Hoekman, ‘Government Procurement of Services and Multilateral Disciplines’, chapter 6 in P. Sauvé and R. Stern (eds.), GATS 2000:
New Directions in Services Trade Liberalization (Washington: Brookings Institution Press,
2000), p. 143.
3 Factors here include the potential for using government procurement to promote personal and political interests and the value of procurement from a political perspective for
supporting social and development policies (for example, because of hidden costs). As
other trade barriers diminish, addressing government procurement can also become more
barriers have diminished, however, the WTO, in common with many
other regimes, has increasingly turned its attention to opening up public
markets: this is evidenced clearly by chapter 20 of this volume which
examines procurement provisions in regional trade agreements notified
to the WTO since 2000. Most recently, the importance of government
procurement has been enhanced by the increased importance of public
infrastructure investment and other procurement activities as an aspect
of world economic activity in the context of the recent economic crisis and as a consequence of continuing high growth and, consequently,
infrastructure demand in emerging economies such as China and India.
Also relevant is an increasing recognition, both in scholarly writing and
in public policy formulation, of the role of governance mechanisms –
i.e. the rules and institutions that establish the framework for the operation of markets – as an underpinning of long-run economic growth and
prosperity.4 Studies by economists such as Robert Wade have long identified corruption and clientism in public procurement policies as barriers
to efficient and sustainable development.5
There have already been efforts to deal with government procurement
within the WTO at a multilateral level and some of these efforts are continuing, as elaborated below. However, in contrast with many other areas
of WTO work, there has been relatively little progress in addressing the
issue at the multilateral level. As explained further below, government
procurement remains substantially outside the scope of the main disciplines of the multilateral trade agreements (e.g. those of the General
Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the General Agreement on
Trade in Services (GATS)) and efforts so far to extend existing agreements
or develop a new one are stalled or moving slowly.
In stark contrast is the position of the Agreement on Government
Procurement (GPA), which is a plurilateral Agreement of the WTO
regulating the government markets of those WTO Members that have
chosen to become Parties to it.6 The current GPA came into force in the
problematic politically as it remains one of the few tools left to government to protect
national industry.
4 See for background, Anderson and Osei-Lah, chapter 2 of this volume, section 4.2.2.
5 See e.g. R. Wade, ‘The System of Administrative and Political Corruption: Canal Irrigation in South India’, Journal of Development Studies, 18 (1982), 287, and more generally,
R. Wade, Governing the Market: Economic Theory and the Role of Government in East Asian
Industrialization (Princeton University Press, 2003).
6 In the WTO, a plurilateral agreement is an agreement whose members comprise less
than the full membership of the Organization. Currently, the GPA covers forty-one WTO
Members (see, for details, section 6.2 below).
mid-1990s with its roots in the modest Tokyo Round Code on Procurement just over thirty years ago, as we explain in section 3 below. Since
its first incarnation in the Tokyo Round, the Agreement has continually
expanded in its scope and developed in its content in a significant way. It
now seems poised on the threshold of a further deepening of disciplines,
as well as of an expansion of membership that will extend its scope beyond
the traditional developed country Parties.
The present volume focuses on the challenges that exist in seeking to
develop effective disciplines on procurement within the WTO and on
current and potential efforts to address these challenges. In this chapter,
we will outline the past development and current state of play of the WTO
regime on government procurement, setting the scene for the remaining
essays in this volume, and highlighting some of the key issues emerging
from the essays and from our own study of these subjects. As one of the
current authors has previously stated, ‘The increasing interest in GPA
membership, combined with the difficulties of progressing the multilateral initiatives, suggests that the GPA will remain the most important
instrument for developing meaningful participation in WTO procurement disciplines.’7 Given that this is likely to remain the case, at least in
the medium term, inevitably most of the focus of the volume and also of
this introductory chapter is on the GPA. However, multilateral agreements
and initiatives remain relevant both because they have some current, if
limited, application to procurement and because the potential for a multilateral agreement cannot necessarily be ruled out in the longer term. In
section 2 we thus outline briefly the current position of government procurement under the WTO’s multilateral rules and the initiatives that have
taken place to extend the multilateral rules in this area. The remaining
sections of this chapter are then devoted to a consideration of the GPA.
2. Government procurement and the multilateral rules of the WTO
2.1. Application of the multilateral agreements to government
So far as concerns the multilateral rules of the WTO, as we have
noted above these have little significance for government procurement
7 S. Arrowsmith, ‘Reviewing the GPA: The Role and Development of the Plurilateral Agreement after Doha’, Journal of International Economic Law, 5 (2002), 761.
8 See further S. Arrowsmith, Government Procurement in the WTO (The Hague: Kluwer Law
International, 2003), chapter 3; M. Dischendorfer, ‘The Existence and Development of
Multilateral Rules on Government Procurement under the Framework of the WTO’, Public
Procurement Law Review, 9 (2000), 1.
at present. In particular, whilst GATT and GATS both contain general
obligations on national treatment and most favoured nation (MFN),
government procurement is excluded from these obligations.
First, the key national treatment obligation in GATT Article III does
not apply to procurement. This requires, generally, that internal measures
should not be applied so as to afford protection to domestic production
(Article III.1). This general obligation is then elaborated in later provisions of Article III, one of which is Article III.4. This provides that in
measures relating to ‘internal sale, offering for sale, purchase, transportation, distribution or use’, the products of any WTO Member imported into
any other Member State shall be accorded treatment no less favourable
than that accorded to like products of national origin. Without a specific
exclusion this would include measures relating to government procurement – and a similar national treatment provision in the original draft of
these rules expressly stated that the measures covered did include laws and
regulations governing procurement of supplies by government agencies.9
However, ultimately national treatment was expressly excluded by Article III.8 of the GATT: this states that Article III is not to apply to ‘laws,
regulations or requirements governing the procurement by governmental agencies of products purchased for governmental purposes and not
with a view to commercial resale or with a view to use in the production
of goods for commercial resale’. The position with respect to the MFN
obligation of GATT, as stated in GATT Article I, has been slightly more
contentious, but the view of many scholars is that this, also, does not
apply to government procurement.10
The GATS likewise exempts procurement from its most significant
obligations, doing so very clearly in respect of both MFN and national
treatment. Thus Article XIII.1 provides that both Articles II (MFN) and
XVII (national treatment), as well as Article XVI on market access, shall
not apply to ‘laws, regulations or requirements governing the procurement by governmental agencies of services purchased for governmental
purposes and not with a view to commercial resale or with a view to use
in the supply of services for commercial resale’.
Thus in general under both GATT and GATS governments remain free
to discriminate in favour of national industry and to choose their own
procurement procedures and policies, no matter what obstacles these
9 Except for military purchases. See generally Arrowsmith, note 8 above, pp. 32–4.
10 See Arrowsmith, note 8 above, at pp. 61–3, and works cited there; Dischendorfer, note 8
above, pp. 15–17. Cf. A. Reich, ‘The New GATT Agreement on Government Procurement:
The Pitfalls of Plurilateralism and Strict Reciprocity’, Journal of World Trade, 31 (1997),
125 at 144.
might create for suppliers from other WTO Members in participating in
government contracts.
In light, in particular, of the current importance of the development
agenda in the WTO,11 it is also pertinent to mention that the WTO’s
multilateral rules impose few controls over the practice of tying aid,
whereby donors to developing countries require the recipients to spend
aid given on goods and services from the donor country. Whilst, in the
view of La Chimia as set out in chapter 13 of this volume, this practice may
be viewed as potentially distorting trade contrary to the basic principles
of WTO rules as well as reducing the effectiveness of the aid given, both
the initial tying of aid and the procurement of aid-funded goods under
discriminatory rules are largely outside the scope of WTO rules because
of a combination of the wording of the MFN and non-discrimination
rules and the government procurements exclusions referred to above.12
The multilateral agreements are, however, relevant to government procurement in at least two respects.13 First, these agreements at least oblige
governments to publish their general measures on government procurement, such as laws and regulations, under general provisions on publication of government measures found in GATT Article X and GATS
Article III.14 Second, the rules may have some potential role in controlling the procurement of state trading companies, which traditionally have
been considered to present a problem of discrimination in procurement
similar to that presented by public bodies in general. This is a complex
issue that is considered further by Wang in chapter 8 of the present volume.
2.2. Multilateral initiatives to expand WTO disciplines
in government procurement
The fact that government procurement remains largely uncontrolled at
present under the WTO’s key multilateral agreements, combined with the
increasing attention to this subject as described in section 1 above, means
that it is not surprising that subsequent to the Uruguay Round there have
11 See further chapter 11 of this volume.
12 Chapter 13 of this volume, section 2.3; A. La Chimia and S. Arrowsmith, ‘Addressing TiedAid: Towards a More Development Oriented WTO?’, Journal of International Economic
Law, 12 (2009), 707.
13 The WTO Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures is also potentially relevant in affecting the use of government procurement to subsidize national industry (for
example, through contracts under which an excessive price is paid): see Arrowsmith, note
8 above, pp. 85–7.
14 See further Arrowsmith, note 8 above, pp. 75–6 and 84.
been two significant initiatives to address this subject at the multilateral
level in the WTO. So far, however, these have made little progress.
The broader of these initiatives, although not the first in time, is an
initiative to develop an agreement on transparency in government procurement, which was launched at the Singapore Ministerial Conference
in 1996.15 This Conference set up a Working Group on Transparency in
Government Procurement (Transparency Working Group) ‘to conduct a
study on transparency in government procurement practices, taking into
account national policies, and, based on this study, to develop elements
for inclusion in an appropriate agreement’.16 The Conference did not confer any actual negotiating mandate but it was later agreed at the Fourth
Ministerial at Doha in 2001, which launched the current Doha Round of
WTO trade negotiations, that negotiations on procurement would begin
after the Fifth Ministerial ‘on the basis of a decision to be taken, by explicit
consensus, at that session on the modalities of negotiations’.17 However,
that Fifth Ministerial meeting at Cancún ended without any decision formally to start negotiations on government procurement: whilst a number
of WTO Members, especially the European Union (EU), considered negotiations on this to be important to the WTO package as a whole, several
other WTO Members were strongly opposed to starting any such negotiations – and, indeed, disagreement on this issue (and on the fate of the
other ‘Singapore’ issues)18 is generally believed to have been one factor
15 See further S. Arrowsmith, ‘Towards a Multilateral Agreement on Transparency in Government Procurement’, International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 47 (1998), 793;
Arrowsmith, ‘Transparency in Government Procurement: The Objectives of Regulation
and the Boundaries of the World Trade Organization’, Journal of World Trade, 37 (2003),
283; Dischendorfer, note 8 above; K. Abbott, ‘Rule-making in the WTO: Lessons from the
Case of Bribery and Corruption’, Journal of International Economic Law, 4 (2001), 275;
V. Rege, ‘Transparency in Government Procurement – Issues of Concern and Interest to
Developing Countries’, Journal of World Trade, 35 (2001), 489; J. Linarelli, ‘The WTO
Transparency Agenda: Law, Economics and International Relations Theory’, chapter 13
in Arrowsmith and Trybus, note 2 above; H.-J. Priess and C. Pitschas, ‘The WTO General
Council Decision of August 1, 2004: A Note on the Decision Not to Launch Negotiations
on Transparency in Government Procurement during the Doha Round’, Public Procurement Law Review, 14 (2005), NA1; V. Mosoti, ‘The WTO Agreement on Government
Procurement: A Necessary Evil in the Legal Strategy for Development in the Poor World?’,
University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Economic Law, 25 (2004), 593.
16 WTO, Ministerial Declaration, Ministerial Conference First Session, 13 December 1996
(WT/MIN(96)/DEC) (‘Singapore Declaration’).
17 WTO, Ministerial Declaration, Ministerial Conference Fourth Session, 14 November 2001
(WT/MIN(01)/DEC/W/1) (‘Doha Declaration’), paragraph 26.
18 The four original ‘Singapore issues’ (so designated since work on them was launched
at the First WTO Ministerial Conference, in Singapore) were: (i) the relationship
underlying the overall failure of the Fifth Ministerial Conference. Following that Conference, the general negotiations were put back on track with
the adoption of a General Council decision of 1 August 2004 which established a framework for continuing negotiations. However, as part of this
agreement it was decided to drop, for the time being, any continuing work
in a multilateral format towards negotiations on transparency in government procurement (and on the separate ‘Singapore’ issues of trade and
investment, and competition policy). The terms of the General Council’s
decision state that no further work towards negotiations on this matter
will take place in the WTO ‘during the Doha Round’ – thereby leaving
the door open to a resumption of work subsequent to the conclusion of
the Round.19
The prospect of concluding any significant agreement on transparency
in government procurement on a multilateral basis is thus clearly ruled
out, at least in the short term. However, it is possible that some countries
will try to move forward on this issue again once the Doha Round negotiations have been completed. A key issue to be addressed if progress is
to be made with this particular initiative is the precise role and purpose
of an agreement on transparency.20 The concept of transparency refers
generally to openness, and there is a general consensus on the type of
procurement rules that can be regarded as implementing transparency
in procurement, as discussed further in section 4 below. However, transparency is generally understood as a means to an end rather than an end
in itself, and is supportive of multiple objectives in public procurement.
In the context of the GPA, as we will see below, transparent procedures
were originally included in the Agreement mainly to support the GPA’s
non-discrimination rules; but transparency rules can also play an important role in supporting, in particular, the objectives of value for money
and integrity in public procurement.21 In the period leading up to the
Cancún Conference, a major effort was made to make clear that an agreement on transparency in government procurement would not entail rules
between trade and investment; (ii) the interaction between trade and competition policy;
(iii) transparency in government procurement; and (iv) ‘trade facilitation’, or possible
ways of simplifying trade procedures.
19 See Decision Adopted by the General Council on 1 August 2004, available at www.wto.
org/english/tratop e/dda e/draft text gc dg 31july04 e.htm.
20 See further Arrowsmith (2003), note 15 above.
21 See S. Arrowsmith, J. Linarelli and D. Wallace, Regulating Public Procurement: National
and International Perspectives (The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2000), chapter 2;
P. Trepte, Regulating Procurement: Understanding the Ends and Means of Public Procurement Regulation (Oxford University Press, 2004), passim.
on non-discrimination or market access; nonetheless, some WTO Members continued to have apprehensions that a transparency agreement was
envisaged as a first step towards non-discrimination rules, an objective
that they opposed. Rules on transparency were also defended as supportive of the ‘good governance’ objectives of public procurement referred to
above. However, not all WTO Members were supportive of this approach
either – some, indeed, considered it to be a departure from the WTO’s traditional market-opening agenda.22 This lack of clarity has impeded both
the commitment to negotiations on transparency and concrete progress in
deciding what precise obligations might be included in any transparency
agreement.23
The second initiative on government procurement that has been undertaken at the multilateral level subsequent to the Uruguay Round is that
which is called for under GATS Article XIII.2. Recognizing that the exclusion of government procurement was a major gap in the multilateral system but also that this gap could not realistically be filled in the Uruguay
Round itself, this provision required negotiations on government procurement of services to commence by 1997. These, along with negotiations on subsidies and safeguards, were to be conducted in the Working
Party on GATS Rules.24 It might be felt that there is an anomaly in pursuing negotiations on procurement of services and not procurement of
goods, especially given that it tends to be easier to open up markets in
the latter before dealing with the former; but this resulted simply from
the historical fact that there was an opportunity to insert such a provision for services during the Uruguay Round. Pursuant to this mandate,
the European Union has put forward detailed proposals for negotiations
that parallel the main elements of the GPA at least in some respects
(while obviously focusing on the procurement of services as compared
to goods);25 however, other WTO Members have shown a reluctance
to engage in negotiations on this topic. Recently, the discussions in the
22 It is noteworthy, in this regard, that the revised text of the GPA on which provisional agreement was reached in December 2006 explicitly embraces good governance in addition to
traditional market-opening objectives, as well as including a new substantive obligation
on the avoidance of corrupt practices. See further section 5.2 below.
23 Arrowsmith (2003), note 15 above.
24 The government procurement mandate was first taken up at the meeting of 8 December
1995: see Working Party on GATS Rules, Report of the Meeting of 8 December 1995
(S/WPGR/M/3).
25 See, in particular, Communication from the European Communities (document
S/WPGR/W/54 of 20 June 2006).
Working Group have focused on a range of topics, including the approach
to be taken up in informal technical discussions on the subject.26
2.3. The future for multilateral rules and government procurement
Since current initiatives for a multilateral agreement on transparency
have stalled and progress on the GATS mandate for negotiations has
been limited, whilst the GPA is rapidly gaining momentum, it is clear
that the focus of government procurement work in the GPA for the
short to medium term will be on the plurilateral approach. Given the
past opposition of some WTO Members to multilateral initiatives on
procurement, as well as the lack of interest on the part of others, it may
be that even in the longer term the GPA, possibly with a much-expanded
membership, will remain the main forum for regulating procurement
within the WTO. On the other hand, the potential benefits of a multilateral
approach to these issues should not be forgotten, in particular in bringing
within a regulatory framework states that have been unable to introduce
desired reforms in this area because of vested interests or other political
difficulties. In some cases, these may be the very states that would benefit
most from regulation in this field.
Two key points seem worth bearing in mind in the future pursuit of
any multilateral agenda on this topic. One is the need for a clear vision
from the outset of detailed negotiations of the precise objectives that
regulation will serve: the absence of such a vision appears to have been an
obstacle to progress in the work on transparency. A second point is that
possible multilateral rules need not seek to replicate the role of the GPA: it
could be more useful to focus on developing a different and more limited
agreement that would primarily serve those states that are unwilling or
unable to accede to the GPA in the near future. In this regard, the potential
benefits of ‘soft law’ approaches to the subject – for example, constructing
an agreement that might not be enforceable through the WTO’s dispute
settlement mechanism or through the kind of supplier remedies system
found in the current GPA27 – are reviewed by Jiang in chapter 23 of the
present volume.
For the present, however, the focus of the work in the WTO and of
the resources of the WTO and its Members is very likely to remain with
26 See Annual Report of the Working Party on GATS Rules to the Council for Trade in Services
(S/WPGR/19 of 2 October 2009).
27 On this system see further section 4.2 below.
the GPA. Indeed, interest in this approach appears to be intensifying.28
Accordingly, it is to this aspect of the WTO’s work that we now turn, and
give the greatest prominence in this book.
3. The WTO Agreement on Government Procurement: an increasing
role and the challenges ahead
In contrast with the progress in developing initiatives at multilateral level,
as we have mentioned, the GPA now seems poised for an increasingly
important role within the WTO and as an instrument of international
economic law.29 This is indicated by the increasing importance of public
procurement regulation, as outlined in section 1, combined with (i) the
gradually growing membership of the Agreement, and the prospect of
eventual accession to the Agreement by major developing countries; and
(ii) the ongoing modernization of the Agreement, which is intended
(among other purposes) to facilitate future accessions.30
This situation entails significant challenges for policymakers and for
those responsible for implementation of the Agreement – including Parties’ representatives in the Agreement on Government Procurement; government officials at the national level, in both the existing Parties and
WTO Members acceding to the GPA; the WTO Secretariat; the supplier
community; and all who advise and help to represent this broad range
of actors. A minimum requirement for the GPA to fulfil its mission is
the completion of the current negotiations under Article XXIV.7 of the
Agreement, which will put in place an improved and simplified text, and
will also expand the range of Parties’ procurements that are subject to the
Agreement. Beyond this, a host of other challenges beckon. These include:
(i) the carrying forward of pending accessions to the Agreement (doubtless a multi-year process in some cases); (ii) providing the assistance that
28 As detailed below, a good number of WTO Members, including developing and major
emerging market economies such as China, are now negotiating their accession to the
GPA. It is noteworthy, as well, that in February 2010 India became an observer to the
GPA, a role that it had not previously sought.
29 Mr Pascal Lamy, Director-General of the WTO, has noted that ‘Currently, the GPA appears
to be in the process of taking on relatively greater importance in the constellation of the
WTO Agreements.’ Pascal Lamy, ‘Keynote Remarks’ (Symposium on the WTO Agreement
on Government Procurement: Developmental and Trade Significance, Changing Context
and Future Prospects, 11–12 February 2010), available at www.wto.org/english/news
e/sppl e/sppl147 e.htm.
30 See, for supporting details, section 6.2 below and chapter 2 of this volume on accessions
and section 5 below, and references cited therein.
is needed to ensure that acceding countries reap the benefits of accession;
(iii) completing the work to which the Parties have pledged themselves
to develop arbitration procedures and indicative criteria concerning the
de-listing of covered entities that are no longer subject to government
control; and (iv) an expected eventual new round of amendments to
deal with pending issues that have only been touched upon, or have not
been addressed at all, in the current review of the Agreement. The latter
might include, for example, coverage of public–private partnerships and
of arrangements between public sector bodies, social considerations, the
treatment of tied aid under the Agreement, and the application of the
Agreement to ‘two-stage’ or ‘framework’ agreements. A number of these
topics are the subject of detailed reflections in designated chapters of this
book as well as being highlighted in the analysis below.
In contemplating these issues, it is appropriate to look back, if only
briefly, on the origins of the present Agreement on Government Procurement, in the negotiations leading to the Tokyo Round Procurement
Code. Such a glance back is encouraging, in that it shows how far the
legal framework for international trade in relation to public procurement markets has come in a time span of little more than three decades.
Indeed, in thinking about the issues broached in this book, we believe
that it is important to measure progress not only in terms of how far
current efforts may fall short of an abstract ideal, but in terms of how
far the global community has come, in a relatively short space of time, in
putting in place an international legal framework that is at least capable
of wrestling with these issues and serving as a basis for further substantive
policy development and market opening.
The remainder of the chapter is organized as follows. Section 4 briefly
reviews the origins of the current (1994) GPA and outlines the approach of
that instrument to regulating public procurement. Section 5 then examines the review of the Agreement that has taken place over the last few
years and highlights the main changes that are envisaged in a new text
of the Agreement which was agreed in 2006 (although it is not yet formally adopted). Section 6 then examines the challenges presently facing
the Agreement, including with respect to accessions; with respect to conclusion of the current negotiations on the new text discussed in section
5; and on coverage of the Agreement. Section 7 delves into the further
set of challenges which will, we believe, require further reflection and
policy action in the future. These include issues concerning the implementation of the Agreement; issues concerning future accessions to the
Agreement; and issues concerning the future evolution of the Agreement.
Throughout, references are made to relevant chapters of this book that
further illuminate the respective issues. Section 8 provides brief concluding remarks.
4. The past: the origins and key principles of the 1994 Agreement
on Government Procurement and the process leading to the
current review
4.1. The Tokyo Round Code: establishing the basic framework of
non-discrimination and transparency
Although government procurement formed part of the original agenda
for the negotiations concerning an International Trade Organization in
the aftermath of the Second World War, it was, as we have seen, largely
excluded from the application of the crucial non-discrimination provisions of both the GATT and GATS.31 It was not until 1979 – more than
thirty years later – that the first plurilateral agreement on government
procurement, namely the 1979 Tokyo Round Government Procurement
Code,32 was concluded. The original signatories to the Tokyo Round
Code, which built upon extensive preparatory work that was undertaken in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
(OECD),33 were Austria; Canada; the then European Community and its
then six Member States (Belgium, France, West Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands); Finland; Hong Kong, China; Japan; Norway;
Singapore; Switzerland; and the United States. Subsequently, the Code
also became applicable to Greece, Portugal and Spain upon their accession to the European Community, and Israel joined the Agreement in
The Tokyo Round Code, which came into force in January 1981, established a basic approach that is found also in the current (1994) GPA, but
was much more limited than the current Agreement in several respects.
Thus coverage was very limited, with the Code being limited to the
procurement of goods (reflecting the fact that the Tokyo Round as a
whole was concerned only with trade in goods). The Code also applied
31 See M. Pomeranz, ‘Towards a New International Order in Government Procurement’,
Law and Policy in International Business, 11 (1979), 1263; Arrowsmith, note 8 above,
32 See, for additional background, A. Blank and G. Marceau, ‘The History of Government
Procurement Negotiations since 1945’, Public Procurement Law Review, 5 (1996), 77.
33 Arrowsmith, note 8 above, pp. 31–4.
only to central government entities and – like the current Agreement – to
contracts above certain financial thresholds. However, it was recognized
that this was only a starting point and Article IX.6 expressly provided for
negotiations to begin within three years for extending entity coverage and
for including construction and other services.
As regards the approach to opening up access to covered procurement,
the Code, like the current Agreement, contained basic national treatment
and MFN obligations (Article II of the Code). Thus, for covered procurement states were prohibited from, for example, reserving procurement
for national firms or offering price preferences in their favour. These
non-discrimination obligations were supplemented with requirements
to follow specified transparent procurement procedures and to comply with certain other transparency requirements. As mentioned above,
transparency is a tool that can be used to achieve a number of goals in
government procurement, but in the context of the Tokyo Round Code its
function was to support the non-discrimination obligations by ensuring
that discrimination could be detected and monitored.34 This approach
had its foundations in the work of the OECD which had discovered that
whilst some of its Member States had overtly discriminatory policies set
out in transparent rules, this was not so with many states,35 meaning that
non-discrimination rules alone might not be effective to end discrimination and, moreover, could have an unequal impact between states.
As Arrowsmith has elaborated elsewhere,36 the concept of transparency in government procurement – whether supporting open markets,
integrity or other procurement goals such as accountability and value
for money – can be seen to have four main aspects, namely (i) ensuring adequate publicity for contract opportunities; (ii) ensuring public
availability and knowledge of the rules governing award procedures; (iii)
providing the basis for a rules-based procurement system, by limiting
the discretionary power of procurement authorities; and (iv) providing opportunities for interested parties (including, but not limited to,
interested suppliers) to enforce and verify that the rules have been followed. The transparency rules of the Code and its successor agreements
34 See OECD, Draft Instrument on Government Policies, Procedures and Practices (1975). The
preamble to the Tokyo Round Agreement mentions only the liberalization and expansion
of trade and improving the framework for the conduct of world trade, and prevention of
discrimination in its substantive objectives, as well as the need for transparency.
35 OECD, Government Purchasing in Europe, North America and Japan: Regulations and
Procedures (1966).
36 In the context of the GPA see Arrowsmith, note 8 above, p. 170.
reflect all these aspects of transparency to a greater or lesser extent. Thus
they support the non-discrimination rules by providing information on
opportunities for foreign suppliers as well as domestic ones; by ensuring –
through rule-based decision-making, with the applicable rules and criteria being disclosed in advance – that discriminatory decision-making
cannot be concealed; and by supporting verification and enforcement by
interested foreign suppliers and other relevant parties. The rules also provide for other requirements that support foreign access to markets, such
as minimum time limits for making requests to tender and for tendering,
and rules preventing technical specifications from being drafted in such
a way as to limit access to the market.
Specific procedural obligations that were included in the Code in this
respect were based on those already developed earlier in OECD discussions. They included, for example:
r Rules on technical specifications (Article IV);
r A general requirement to advertise procurements and to hold a compe-
tition using either an open procedure, under which any supplier may
bid, or selective tendering, in which only selected suppliers
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Preserving the past to inform the future
CHILDREN 1ST, 1 results 1
Royal Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, 1 results 1
Scotland, United Kindgdom, 1 results 1
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, 1 results 1
Child abuse, 1 results 1
Charities, 1 results 1
Child care, 1 results 1
Children (family), 1 results 1
Child welfare, 1 results 1
Social policy and welfare, 1 results 1
Only top-level descriptions Scotland, United Kindgdom Collection Social policy and welfare
CHILDREN 1ST (formerly the Royal Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children RSSPCC) records
GB 1847 C1ST
The majority of material in the collection relates to the Glasgow branch of the RSSPCC, including the predecessor organisation, the Glasgow Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Publications produced by the RSSPCC head office and the Scottish Children's League of Pity (junior branch of the RSSPCC) are also included, as well as a small assortment of records from other branches.
Records include
-financial records of the Glasgow branch, 1906-1972
-legacy papers, 1950-1978
-complaint books Glasgow, 1953-1965
-Glasgow branch minutes, 1889-1963
-Glasgow District Finance Committee minutes, 1903-1971
-records of the Ladies Auxiliary Committee Glasgow, 1888-1971
-annual reports of the head office, 1896-1982
-annual reports of the branches, 1896-1967
-additional Glasgow branch annual reports, 1889- 1985
-records of the Scottish Children’s League including: annual reports, 1904-1993, City Sparrows 1899-1979, minutes of the Glasgow branch 1898-1978 and ephemera
-legislative acts and reports on subjects affecting children, 1885-1938
-papers relating to the Non-Accidental Injury to Children committees for Strathkelvin, Lanark and Dumbarton, 1975-1981
-institutional records including printed copies of the Royal Charter and the Constitution, 1920-1975
-staff records, Dunbartonshire and Glasgow, 1964-1971
-records relating to staff training and development, 1898, 1936, and 1970-1978
-assorted promotional material, newsletters, and other publications, 1984-2003
-Glasgow building fund appeal records, 1965-1967, and annual appeal records, 1975
-Glasgow property records, including architectural plans, 1963-1965;
-Crookston Home records including minute books, cash books and visitor books, 1903-1925
-organisational histories, including a recorded reminiscence of a former RSSPCC Inspector, 1990
CHILDREN 1ST
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Bringing the Heat
If You Can't Take the Heat, Get Out of Miami
Email: allanatachauer@yahoo.com
Twitter: @ChitownHeiress
Instagram: ChitownHeiress
See You Tonight, Cleveland Cavaliers October 30, 2015
Welcome To The 2015-2016 NBA Season October 28, 2015
Heated Topics: Free Agency Begins July 1, 2015
Mario Chalmers Undergoes Knee Surgery June 1, 2015
Dwyane Wade: Leaving Miami? May 31, 2015
AllUCanHeat | Bringi… on Q&A with Wes Goldberg
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James Jones is off to Cleveland
July 16, 2014 allanatt Leave a comment
(Photo Credit: www.espn.com)
Following in Mike Miller’s footsteps, James Jones is the latest former Miami Heat player to join LeBron James in Cleveland.
According to reports, after a bit of recruiting from James himself, Jones has agreed to sign a $1.4 million veteran’s minimum contract with the Cleveland Cavaliers. The Cavaliers have also apparently reached out to Ray Allen but no decision has been made yet, as Allen may actually be ready to retire.
basketballCleveland Cavaliersfree agencyJames JonesLebron JamesMiami HeatNBA
Udonis Haslem: Another Piece of the Puzzle
(Photo Credit: www.nbcmiami.com)
Shortly after Dwyane Wade reached an agreement with the Miami Heat, Udonis Haslem did the same; according to the Sun Sentinel, Haslem has agreed to return to Miami on a $2.7 million space exception.
Haslem, once again like Wade, has taken it upon himself to help his team gain flexibility in terms of future signings and re-signings. He has been with the Heat since 2003.
basketballfree agencyMiami HeatNBAUdonis Haslem
Dwyane Wade: Home Is Where the Heat Are
July 15, 2014 allanatt 1 Comment
(Photo Credit: www.thejerseychaser.com)
Sources are reporting that Dwyane Wade and the Miami Heat have finally reached an agreement in terms of his new contract. Wade, who announced the news himself via his Instagram account (pictured below) has signed onto a two-year deal, worth roughly $34 million. However, it is important to note that there is a player-option set for the 2015-2016 season.
Home Is Where The Heart Is… My Home,My City,My House..#HeatLifer
A post shared by dwyanewade (@dwyanewade) on Jul 15, 2014 at 10:59am PDT
This is the second time Wade has taken a pay cut (the first being in 2010 when the infamous Big Three were born). In this instance, Wade is helping to give teammate Chris Bosh a full five-year, maximum deal, and new Miami Mafia member, Luol Deng, a two-year deal worth $20 million.
Although some NBA fans spoke of their desire for Wade to branch out to another city (after LeBron James’ announcement that he was returning to the Cleveland Cavaliers), it is no secret that Wade has dedicated his entire career to making the Heat the best team it can be; and personally, I do not see that changing anytime soon. Wade may support James’ decision but that certainly does not mean he plans to head to the Chicago Bulls, down the line.
basketballDwyane Wadefree agencyMiami HeatNBA
Birdman: Still Spreading His Wings in Miami
(Photo Credit: www.palmbeachpost.com)
Shortly after news of Mario Chalmers returning to the Miami Heat surfaced, according to several reports it seems as though teammate Chris Andersen (otherwise known as “Birdman”) is following in his footsteps.
Details beyond Andersen re-signing on a multiyear deal have yet to be released, but the important thing is that it appears as though the gang is back in action.
So far Chris Bosh, Dwyane Wade, Norris Cole, Udonis Haslem, Justin Hamilton, Chalmers and Andersen all have Heat contracts, or are expected to shortly.
LeBron James or not, South Beach is still looking pretty good to me.
basketballBirdmanChris Andersenfree agencyMiami HeatNBA
Mario Chalmers is back with the Miami Heat
In a surprising (at least to me) turn of events, Mario Chalmers has officially announced that he will be returning to the Miami Heat:
Proud to say I’m back wit the heat. Heat nation we still here
— Mario Chalmers (@mchalmers15) July 13, 2014
Chalmers has been with the Heat since 2008, and expressed major interest in returning again for the 2014-2015 season. However many, including myself, questioned whether or not this would be a good idea given his subpar performance during most of Miami’s postseason. Generally, Chalmers seemed to be missing in action, playing selfishly when he did appear to make more of an impression.
With that said, this season and postseason were the first time Heat Nation expressed disappointment in their point guard, so it is more than possible that next year will be a different, better story. Regardless though, I personally think Norris Cole has proven himself worthy enough to start over Chalmers.
As of now, details on his contract are still rolling in, but sources have confirmed that Chalmers will be signing on for two more years.
basketballfree agencyMario ChalmersMiami HeatNBA
Welcome to the Miami Heat, Luol Deng
(Photo Credit: www.msn.foxsports.com)
This just in: Luol Deng has signed a two-year, $20 million contract with the Miami Heat.
It is no secret that Heat president Pat Riley has had his eye on Deng since the season ended, but many were unsure how much money it would take to persuade him. Obviously though, the money was right, and the Heat have once again made a solid move in revamping their team for 2014-2015.
Dwyane Wade and Udonis Haslem are expected to re-sign with Miami any day now.
basketballCleveland Cavaliersfree agencyLuol DengMiami HeatNBA
Chris Bosh To Remain With Miami Heat
The latest in Miami Heat free agency news seems to be that despite LeBron James’ decision to leave Miami to return home to Cleveland, Chris Bosh has decided to re-sign on a five-year, $118 million contract. Up until now, most people believed that Bosh would find his way to the Houston Rockets, who have been busy making moves in order to clear space for the big man. The Rockets just traded Jeremy Lin to Los Angeles, an arrangement they may now be regretting.
With this latest development taking place, I assume Dwyane Wade will also re-sign and keep the Heat’s recent legacy alive.
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CHAMPS! Field Hockey Rides Big First Half to Landmark Crown
Susquehanna (10-11) 0 0 0 1 1
Scranton (13-7) 1 2 0 1 4
The University of Scranton field hockey team captured the program's first Landmark Conference championship with a 4-1 win over Susquehanna on Saturday.
1st - 12:25 - Gracie McClatchy (Scranton)
2nd - 19:39 - Brianna Witt (Scranton)
2nd - 29:24 - Allie Benadon (Scranton)
4th - 49:36 - Hunter Pitman (Susquehanna)
4th - 50:27 - Gracie McClatchy (Scranton)
G: Hunter Pitman - 1
A: Vivian Simone - 1
Sh: Hunter Pitman - 5
Sv: Emily Digaetano - 3
G: Gracie McClatchy - 2
A: Allie Benadon - 2
Sh: Gracie McClatchy - 4
Sv: Claire McAllister - 5
Gracie McClatchy Brianna Witt Allie Benadon
SCRANTON, Pa. – The No. 1 seed University of Scranton field hockey team (13-7) scored three first half goals and captured the program's first Landmark Conference title with a 4-1 win over the No. 3 seed Susquehanna River Hawks (10-11) on Saturday afternoon at Weiss Field in Scranton.
The Royals advance to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1997 and second time ever in program history.
Senior Gracie McClatchy (Havertown, Pa./Archbishop Carroll) was named Tournament MVP after scoring a pair of goals on the afternoon and recorded three goals and an assist over the team's two playoff games. McClatchy tallied a goal and an assist in the 3-0 win over Elizabethtown in Wednesday's semifinals.
Scranton was able to avenge last year's championship game loss to Susquehanna with the 4-1 win.
McClatchy opened the scoring with 2:35 to play in the first quarter as she collected a loose ball in front after a feed from senior Brianna Witt (Sloatsburg, N.Y./Suffern) and found the back of the net to put the Royals on the board. Susquehanna had a pair of penalty corners in the early stages of the second quarter, but were unable to find the back of the net and a defensive save from junior Christina Motz (Glenside, Pa./Gwynedd-Mercy Academy) after a shot from Anna Dietl kept it a 1-0 game for the time being. Scranton was able to extend the lead a few minutes later as Allie Benadon's (Hillsborough, N.J./Hillsborough) shot was turned away on a defensive save, but Witt fired home the rebound to make it a 2-0 game. The Royals put forth a phenomenal defensive effort in the second quarter led by Motz and seniors Lauren Earnshaw (Audubon, Pa./Methacton) and Caroline Mullen (Chester Springs, Pa./Villa Maria Academy) as the River Hawks had nine penalty corners in the quarter. Senior goalie Claire McAllister (Plymouth Meeting, Pa./Plymouth-Whitemarsh) made a key save on a shot from Susquehanna's Heather Casey during the stretch as well. Benadon extended the lead to 3-0 in the final minute of the first half as she buried a shot off a penalty corner that was taken by sophomore Shaelin de Wit (New Tripoli, Pa./Northwestern Lehigh).
The goals were Benadon's seventh of the season and Witt's sixth, while McClatchy leads the team with 13 goals.
The two teams battled through a scoreless third quarter with each team registering a couple of quality chances. Emily DiGaetano made three saves in the period for the River Hawks, while McAllister tallied a pair of saves in the final minute after a Susquehanna penalty corner. Hunter Pitman got Susquehanna on the board with 10:24 to play in the fourth, but McClatchy answered for the Royals just 51 seconds later with a feed across the goal mouth from Benadon to stretch the lead to 4-1.
Susquehanna held a slight 11-9 edge in shots and McClatchy paced Scranton with four shots on the afternoon. McAllister made five saves in net for the Royals, while DiGaetano and Veronica Green combined to make three saves for the River Hawks.
The 2019 NCAA Division III Field Hockey bracket will be unveiled in a press release on NCAA.com on Sunday night at 11:30 p.m. Check back to athletics.scranton.edu tomorrow night to see who the Royals' first round opponent will be.
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