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__label__wiki | 0.602911 | 0.602911 | Arne Duncan on achievement gaps: ‘Where is the outrage?’
by Joan Brasher May. 22, 2014, 8:53 AM
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam address education reporters at annual seminar
Arne Duncan addressed attendees at the National Education Writers Conference May 20. (John Russell/Vanderbilt)
Outrage is the proper response to the achievement gaps in America, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan told a roomful of education reporters gathered for the Education Writers Association’s 67th National Seminar.
His talk was the capstone of the annual event, which was held at Vanderbilt’s Peabody College of education and human development May 18-20.
“We have all followed the backlash against Donald Sterling’s bigoted remarks—it’s a backlash that was entirely fitting,” Duncan said. “But as outraged as we are by the words of one man, where is the outrage over our nation’s achievement gaps and the fact that millions of our children still don’t receive equal educational opportunity?”
Education remains “the key civil rights issue of the day,” he said, stating that too little progress has been made since Brown v. Board of Education, handed down 60 years ago this week.
“When children aren’t getting the full benefit of educational technology because of their income or zip code, it’s an injustice,” Duncan said. “When students of color and students with disabilities are disproportionately suspended or expelled, and when that disciplinary action stems from discriminatory policies or practices, it’s a civil rights violation.”
He called for greater accountability among education stockholders, and decried those who would “dumb down” educational expectations for disadvantaged students, rather than encourage them and expect them to achieve.
More than 500 education journalists and community members converged on Vanderbilt's campus for the EWA conference. (Steve Green/Vanderbilt)
Duncan praised Tennessee’s early adoption of the Common Core State Standards, and for significantly improving in the National Association of Educational Progress rankings over the past two years.
After his keynote, Duncan was interviewed on stage by NPR’s Steve Drummond and fielded questions from the audience.
Duncan then met with Peabody College faculty, including Patricia and Rodes Hart Dean of Education and Human Development Camilla Benbow, to learn more about the school’s nationally recognized education research.
Faculty presented studies on teacher preparation, teacher effectiveness data, recruitment and retention, technology in the classroom and special education. Several recent Peabody graduates who teach at Bailey STEM Magnet Middle School joined the conversation, along with the school’s principal, Christian Sawyer, and Metro Nashville Public Schools Director Jesse Register.
Arne Duncan met with Peabody researchers during the EWA conference, including Peabody dean Camilla Benbow (third from left). (John Russell/Vanderbilt)
“We were honored to host Secretary Duncan on the Vanderbilt campus,” Benbow said. “Under his leadership, districts, states and the federal government are innovating in many areas of education. We were delighted to be able to discuss with the secretary our own initiatives to improve teacher and principal preparation.”
Bill Haslam lauded Tennessee schools' most improved status and steadily rising NAEP scores. (Steve Green/Vanderbilt)
Earlier in the conference during a lunchtime keynote address, Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam gave attendees a rundown of the state’s educational journey.
He lauded Tennessee’s “most improved state” status since Common Core was implemented, and shared his disappointment over the decision to delay implementation of the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers.
Haslam spoke about Tennessee Promise, his recently passed free community college initiative, predicting it would “change the culture of the state.”
Reporters heard from a rich panel of researchers and top education stakeholders during the conference, including American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten and Columbia Journalism School’s Professor of Journalism and Dean Emeritus Nicholas Lemann.
Session moderators and panelists included representatives from TIME magazine, Education Week, The Huffington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Sun-Times and many others.
An awards banquet recognized the winners of the annual National Awards for Education Reporting and the recipient of the Fred M. Hechinger Grand Prize for Distinguished Education Reporting.
See a roundup of participant tweets at #ewa14.
Follow Peabody on Twitter at @vupeabody.
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Benbow reappointed as dean of Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College
Education Evolution: Vanderbilt scholars are working to align higher ed policy with 21st-century needs
Joan Brasher · (615) 322-NEWS ·
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__label__wiki | 0.59632 | 0.59632 | Kevin Boothe
Eli, Giants' Offense Need To Step It Up As Playoff Race Heats UpHeading into this week, Manning is ranked 31st among NFL passers with a 68.5 quarterback rating. The only player lower than him in the NFC is Josh Freeman.
Giants Expect Peyton Hillis To Carry The Load At Running Back It's now up to Peyton Hillis to handle a large workload at running back for the 1-6 Giants.
Keidel: Enough, Already — It's Time For The Giants To Shut Up Now the Giants, who keep belching these bromides about a playoff run, need to shut up. Win one game and then speak mildly, meekly and modestly.
Dottino: 3 Key Matchups For Giants-Chiefs, Plus A Prediction How much wiggle room do the Giants have? Not much when you are 0-3, but at least the NFC East does not appear to be nearly as strong as it was expected to be.
Dottino: Game Balls And Gassers From The Giants' Ugly Loss To BroncosThere were very few individual performances to point out, so for the first time we're going to select some units in our following segment because this was a collective effort.
Giants Ready To Show Off New-Look Offensive Line Against CowboysThe New York Giants' new-look offensive line is ready to show their stuff in Week 1 against the Cowboys.
Dottino: 3 Things To Watch For During Giants-PatriotsGet out of the preseason finale against the New England Patriots without any more injuries -- it's that simple.
Injured Victor Cruz Expects To Play In Season Opener Against Cowboys New York Giants receiver Victor Cruz has shed the protective boot he's been sporting, and expects to play in the regular-season opener against the Dallas Cowboys Sept. 8.
Giants Lose Offensive Lineman David Diehl For 6 WeeksThe Giants announced Wednesday that David Diehl will need surgery to repair an unstable right thumb. He is expected to be sidelined six weeks.
Coughlin On Upcoming Jets Game: 'It Will Be A Very Good Test For Us'The New York Giants received some good news from doctors regarding injuries to wide receiver Victor Cruz and center David Baas.
Coughlin Unhappy, Frustrated With Giants' Performance Against ColtsTom Coughlin was anything but happy. The Giants were limited to four field goals on five trips inside the Indianapolis 30.
Giants Players Head Up To Newtown, Hold Football Clinics For YoungstersRoughly 25 Giants headed to Newtown, Conn., on Thursday afternoon to hold football clinics for youngsters from the community.
Giants Keep Offensive Line Intact, Re-Sign Left Guard Kevin Boothe“The entire time I wanted to return to the New York Giants, and fortunately they wanted me back," Boothe said. "I’m happy to be back. It’s a great organization and a great team. I’m looking forward to this upcoming season.”
Will Beatty Staying 'Home' With Giants On 5-Year Deal“I’m glad I don’t have any of those free agency jitters to deal with," Beatty said. "It’s settled, we’re done and we’re moving on."
Inconsistency Doomed The Giants' Playoff Hopes, Chance At A RepeatThere is an obvious reason why the Giants went from a Super Bowl champion to a frustrated team that missed the playoffs. It's consistency. | cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line1688 |
__label__wiki | 0.76354 | 0.76354 | The Republican Party Is Split on Inequality
Bill Bradley May 2, 2014
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio is one of several city mayors focused on income inequality. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
Inequality is such a hot-button issue in America that a 696-page book on the topic by a French economist is on the New York Times bestseller list. And a Pew Research poll from this January found that 65 percent of Americans feel that inequality has skyrocketed in the last decade. This week, Pew released data about why those respondents feel the gap between the rich and poor is growing.
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The answers are all across the board, ranging from Congress to greed to wage gaps. But the largest contingent of responders, albeit a small one at 20 percent, feel that the country’s tax code and loopholes are the biggest driver of inequality. The politics of the tax-code-blaming contingent broke down like this: 26 percent said they were Democrats or Democrat-leaning independents, and 14 percent identified themselves as Republicans or independents who lean Republican.
I could point to countless examples of corporations exploiting all the holes in our tax code, from Caterpillar to Nike. And, if Pew’s poll is to be believed, 20 percent of Americans feel the wealthy and greedy corporations — are a big part of the problem. Problem is, what they’re doing isn’t illegal. Caterpillar dodged $2.4 billion in taxes without breaking a single law. “I think the wealthy have political clout that protects them from fair taxation,” one respondent to the poll wrote.
“There’s a really partisan side on the question of why has [inequality] increased,” Juliana Horowitz, a researcher at Pew, told me. “On the Democrat side, they seem to feel that the tax system benefits the wealthy and it’s unfair towards lower-income people. That is clearly the prevailing answer from Democrats and independents who lean democratic.”
Political pundits like to talk about the splintering of the Republican Party, and nowhere is that more obvious than in how they feel about inequality.
“We see that there is a split in the Republican Party between conservative Republicans and more moderate Republicans,” Horowitz continued. “While overall a majority of Republicans say that lowering taxes on the wealthy would help reduce poverty, half of moderate Republicans think that raising taxes on the wealthy would do more. Only 19 percent of conservative Republicans say raising taxes on the wealthy and corporations would do more for poverty.”
So, in sum: 14 percent of Republicans on the whole think raising taxes on the wealthy and corporations is a way to reduce poverty. But 50 percent of moderate Republicans agree with the majority of Democrats: Raising taxes on the wealthy is a sound way to reduce poverty and close the inequality gap. Or, as Horowitz put it, “Inequality and poverty are issues that divide the Republicans more than they divide the Democrats.”
What does all this data mean? It wouldn’t be unfair to call it unsurprising. We already know how each party feels about inequality, you say. This poll just reaffirms it. But what I find most encouraging is when you look in America’s cities grappling with worsening inequality from Detroit to New York to Los Angeles there’s a common thread — Democratic administrations are in place. And while inequality is something that also needs to be tackled in Congress, it certainly helps to have progressive mayors, from the party that is more concerned about this issue, at the helm in cities.
The Equity Factor is made possible with the support of the Surdna Foundation.
Bill Bradley is a writer and reporter living in Brooklyn. His work has appeared in Deadspin, GQ, and Vanity Fair, among others.
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__label__cc | 0.705211 | 0.294789 | Zita and Zeno
April 30, 2016 by Carrie-Anne
Saint Zita of Lucca (ca. 1212–27 April 1272), by Arnould de Vuez, Copyright Velvet
Santa Zita is mentioned in Canto XXI of Inferno, though of course not as a resident of Hell. Since she lived in Tuscany, I can only imagine Dante venerated her as much as just about everyone else.
Zita was born in the village of Monsagrati in Tuscany, near Lucca, and became a servant in the Fatinelli home at age twelve. She wasn’t treated very nicely, by either her masters or fellow servants, but she continued to keep a cheerful countenance and kind heart. Eventually, she became head of all the home’s affairs, and her uninterrupted piety moved the Fatinellis to become religious. She viewed her terrible treatment as penance assigned by God. By the time of her death, the Fatinellis almost worshipped her.
About 150 miracles were attributed to her, and she was discovered to be an incorruptible when she was exhumed in 1580. In 1696, she was canonized. The people of Lucca loved her, and a popular cult grew up around her. Eventually, other parts of Europe began venerating her too.
Zita means “little girl” in Tuscan Italian.
Zeno of Citium (ca. 334–262 BCE)
The Zeno who appears in The Divine Comedy (Canto IV, Inferno) is Zeno of Citium, not Zeno of Elea. This Zeno appears among the righteous non-Christians stuck in Limbo, and founded the Stoic school made famous by Seneca. He formulated his philosophy while studying with Crates of Thebes, a Cynic, and also studied with several Platonists and Megarians.
Zeno hailed from Cyprus, and was probably of Phoenician descent. Starting about 300 BCE, he taught in Athens. Initially, his followers were called Zenonians, but eventually came to be called Stoics, after the Stoa Poikile (Painted Porch), where Zeno taught. Many people admired him, among them frequent visitor King Antigonus II Gonatas of Macedonia. Zeno was offered Athenian citizenship, but he declined it out of loyalty to his homeland.
Zeno is the Latin form of the Greek name Zenon, which in turn derives from Zeus. The name Zeus is related to Dyeus, the name of an old Indo–European god, which probably means “sky” or “shine.”
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I loved your A2Z series, Carrie-Anne… Both of them. I have a lot of catching up to do, which I’ll get around to shortly 😉 Thank you for all the visits to Life In Dogs, and for sharing your insights and thoughts. Much, much appreciated 🙂
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Rappaccini's daughter Publication: Thousand Oaks, Ca. monterey media 2005 . 57 min. ;color. , Set in 18th Century Italy, "Rappaccini's Daughter" is the tale of a young scholar named Giovanni who falls in love with a beautiful, yet forbidden, girl who tends her father's poison garden. However, the strange and unearthly beauty of Beatrice masks a terrifying curse which Giovanni must tragically discover. Her father, the mysterious Dr. Rappaccini, has made her the subject of a diabolical experiment. In Giovanni's attempt to free Beatrice from the control of her father and to escape the poisonous effect she begins to have on him, he unwittingly destroys her. From the short story of master American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne, two quintessential Hawthorne themes are explored: the sins of interfering with another's soul and the futility of trying to tamper with nature. Date: 2005 Availability: No items available:
The blue hotel by Crane, Stephen Publication: Thousand Oaks, Ca. monterey media 2005 . 55 min. ; color. , Nebraska in the 1880's & bleak, lonely, and far from what you'd expect The Wild West to be. But for a naïve Swedish immigrant, the frontier parlor of "THE BLUE HOTEL" represent the quintessential western fantasy. No one can convince The Swede that his dime-store notions about The West are foolish. He sees murderous intentions all around him& and in his terror he turns everybody against him. Inevitably the Swede attracts tragedy. However, who is responsible? The negative Swede? Or the cliquish hotel guests? Date: 2005 Availability: No items available:
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The greatest man in the world by Thurber, James Publication: Thousand Oaks, Ca. monterey media 2004 . 51 min. ; color , Only the off-beat humor of writing great, James Thurber could bring to life a “hero” like Jack Smurch, played by Brad Davis (“Midnight Express”). Fortified with only a gallon of gin and a salami, Smurch bests even Lindberg with the first non-stop, around the world flight. During the four days he's airborne, this unknown kid becomes a world hero. But, on the ground a young reporter, anxious to tell the world about their new idol, learns Smurch is bad news. An arrogant, illiterate lout with a police record, Smurch's only interests are “parties, broads and dough.” But, the reporter is silenced and Smurch is locked up until the press and politicos can make him into their kind of American hero at any cost. Date: 2004 Availability: No items available: | cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line1694 |
__label__cc | 0.66519 | 0.33481 | Working with a computer hands-free using the Nouse Perceptual Vision Interface
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International Workshop on Video Processing and Recognition (VideoRec'07), May 28-30, 2007., Montréal, Québec, Canada
Normal work with a computer implies being able to perform the following three computer control tasks: 1) pointing , 2) clicking, and 3) typing. Many attempts have been made to make it possible to perform these tasks hands-free using a video image of the user as input. Nevertherless, rehabilitation center practitioners agree that no marketable solution making vision-based hands-free computer control a commonplace reality for disabled users has been produced as of yet. as reported by rehabilitation center practitioners, no marketable solution making vision-based hands-free computer control a commonplace reality for disabled users has been produced as of yet. Here we present the Nouse Perceptual Vision Interface (Nouse PVI) that is hoped to finally offer a solution to a long-awaited dream of many disabled users. Evolved from the original Nouse 'Nose as Mouse' concept and currently under testing with EBRI 1, Nouse PVI has several unique features that make it preferable to other hands-free vision-based computer input alternatives. First, its original idea of using the nose tip as a single reference point to control a computer has been confirmed to be very convenient for disabled users. For them the nose literally becomes a new 'finger' which they can use to write words, move a cursor on screen, click or type. Being able to track the nose tip with subpixel precision within a wide range of head motion, makes performing all control tasks possible. Its second main feature is a feedback-providing mechanism that is implemented using a concept of Perceptual Nouse Cursor (Nousor) which creates an invisible link between the computer and user and which is very important for control as it allows the user to adjust his/her head motion so that the computer can better interpret them.Finally, there are a number of design solutions related specifically tailored for vision-based data entry using small range head motion such as motion codes(NouseCode), a motion-based virtual keyboard (Nouse-Board and NousePad) and a word-by-word letter drawing tool (NouseChalk). While presenting the demonstrations of these innovative tools, we also address the issue of the user's ability and readiness to work with a computer in the brand new way - i.e. hands-free. The problem is that a user has to understand that it is not entirely the responsibility of a computer to understand what one wants, but it's also the responsibility of the user to make sure that the computer understands what the user motions mean. Just as a conventional computer user cannot move the cursor on the screen without first putting his or her hand on the mouse, a perceptual interface user cannot work with a computer until he or she 'connects' to it. That is, the computer and user must work as a team for the best control results to be achieved. This presentation therefore is designed to serve both as a guide to those developing vision-based input devices and as a tutorial for those who will be using them.
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__label__cc | 0.515312 | 0.484688 | Island of Hesjing (QAGS Supplement)/Talara City Guide
<h3>The Government District</h3> <p data-rte-fromparser="true">The area of Talara to the north of the Docks and Northeast of the market, where the noble class lives and the ruling body meets is known as the Government District, for obvious reasons. </p> <h4 data-rte-empty-lines-before="1">Ward 5: Temple Ward</h4> <p data-rte-fromparser="true">The Temple Ward is located along the coastal cliffs north of the Docks and west of the market. Religious Orders are located throughout, and temples to numerous deities can be found here. A secular individual usually represents the region, and meets with a cabinet of advisers consisting of clergy from each faith in the ward, so that no particular faith pushes its views onto the other. </p> <h4 data-rte-empty-lines-before="1">Ward 6: Palace Ward</h4> <p data-rte-fromparser="true">Known as the Royal Ward, this is the area where the Council of Wards holds meeting. It is also home to the Urathear’s home - which is Villa Caex; the People’s Court – where judicial matters are handles; embassies from other countries; Guard Hall – the headquarters of the City Guard, and it’s adjoining jail complex; and some of the most prestigious noble houses. The Palace Ward is located on the northwestern corner of the Island, north of the Temple Ward and west of the Noble Ward. </p> <h4 data-rte-empty-lines-before="1">Ward 7: Noble Ward</h4> <p data-rte-fromparser="true">The Golden Ward is home to most of the noble mansions and villas, as well as a few businesses that provide services to the highest caste of citizens. The ward is located in the north central part of the Island, east of the Palace Ward, north of the Market Square Ward, and east of the Campus ward. </p><p /> <!-- Saved in parser cache with key ogres:rte-parser-cache:2410 -->
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__label__wiki | 0.678369 | 0.678369 | Involvement of the Erk-MAP kinase pathway in TNFα regulation of trabecular matrix metalloproteinases and TIMPs
J. Preston Alexander, Ted Acott
PURPOSE. TNFα is a strong modulator expression of trabecular meshwork (TM) matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) and tissue inhibitor (TIMP). Laser trabeculoplasty appears to rely on this process to restore normal aqueous humor outflow facility. Thus, studies were conducted to determine whether the extracellular signal-regulated kinase (Erk)-mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase signal-transduction pathway is involved. METHODS. Porcine TM cells were treated with TNFα, and changes in MMPs and TIMPs were evaluated by zymography and Western immunoblot assay. Phosphospecific antibodies to proteins from the Erk pathway were used to evaluate responses to treatment with TNFα. Inhibitors of Mek, the kinase that activates Erk, and of protein kinase C (PKC) isoforms were used to define pathway involvement. RESULTS. Treatment with TNFα increased MMP-1, -3, and -9 and TIMP-1, whereas expression of MMP-2 was not affected and expression of TIMP-2 was decreased. Erk and Mek were rapidly phosphorylated after treatment with TNFα, and c-Raf-1 showed a significant bandshift. A specific inhibitor of Mek blocked the TNFα induction of the MMPs and TIMPs and the phosphorylation of Erk. An inhibitor of the PKC-μ isoform, which also blocks the effects of MMP-TIMP of TNFα, did not affect phosphorylation of Erk. CONCLUSIONS. The components of this MAP kinase pathway in the TM are dramatically affected by TNFα and inhibition of Erk's phosphorylation blocks the changes in MMP and TIMP expression. PKC μ, which is also required in this transduction process, does not appear to be upstream from Erk in the signaling cascade. Manipulation of this and related TM signal-transduction pathways may provide targets for developing improved glaucoma treatments.
Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science
https://doi.org/10.1167/iovs.01-1201
Extracellular Signal-Regulated MAP Kinases
Trabecular Meshwork
Protein Kinase C
Phospho-Specific Antibodies
Tissue Inhibitor of Metalloproteinase-2
Matrix Metalloproteinase 3
Trabeculectomy
Matrix Metalloproteinase Inhibitors
Aqueous Humor
Alexander, J. P., & Acott, T. (2003). Involvement of the Erk-MAP kinase pathway in TNFα regulation of trabecular matrix metalloproteinases and TIMPs. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 44(1), 164-169. https://doi.org/10.1167/iovs.01-1201
Involvement of the Erk-MAP kinase pathway in TNFα regulation of trabecular matrix metalloproteinases and TIMPs. / Alexander, J. Preston; Acott, Ted.
In: Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Vol. 44, No. 1, 01.01.2003, p. 164-169.
Alexander, JP & Acott, T 2003, 'Involvement of the Erk-MAP kinase pathway in TNFα regulation of trabecular matrix metalloproteinases and TIMPs', Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 164-169. https://doi.org/10.1167/iovs.01-1201
Alexander JP, Acott T. Involvement of the Erk-MAP kinase pathway in TNFα regulation of trabecular matrix metalloproteinases and TIMPs. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science. 2003 Jan 1;44(1):164-169. https://doi.org/10.1167/iovs.01-1201
Alexander, J. Preston ; Acott, Ted. / Involvement of the Erk-MAP kinase pathway in TNFα regulation of trabecular matrix metalloproteinases and TIMPs. In: Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science. 2003 ; Vol. 44, No. 1. pp. 164-169.
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AU - Alexander, J. Preston
AU - Acott, Ted
N2 - PURPOSE. TNFα is a strong modulator expression of trabecular meshwork (TM) matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) and tissue inhibitor (TIMP). Laser trabeculoplasty appears to rely on this process to restore normal aqueous humor outflow facility. Thus, studies were conducted to determine whether the extracellular signal-regulated kinase (Erk)-mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase signal-transduction pathway is involved. METHODS. Porcine TM cells were treated with TNFα, and changes in MMPs and TIMPs were evaluated by zymography and Western immunoblot assay. Phosphospecific antibodies to proteins from the Erk pathway were used to evaluate responses to treatment with TNFα. Inhibitors of Mek, the kinase that activates Erk, and of protein kinase C (PKC) isoforms were used to define pathway involvement. RESULTS. Treatment with TNFα increased MMP-1, -3, and -9 and TIMP-1, whereas expression of MMP-2 was not affected and expression of TIMP-2 was decreased. Erk and Mek were rapidly phosphorylated after treatment with TNFα, and c-Raf-1 showed a significant bandshift. A specific inhibitor of Mek blocked the TNFα induction of the MMPs and TIMPs and the phosphorylation of Erk. An inhibitor of the PKC-μ isoform, which also blocks the effects of MMP-TIMP of TNFα, did not affect phosphorylation of Erk. CONCLUSIONS. The components of this MAP kinase pathway in the TM are dramatically affected by TNFα and inhibition of Erk's phosphorylation blocks the changes in MMP and TIMP expression. PKC μ, which is also required in this transduction process, does not appear to be upstream from Erk in the signaling cascade. Manipulation of this and related TM signal-transduction pathways may provide targets for developing improved glaucoma treatments.
AB - PURPOSE. TNFα is a strong modulator expression of trabecular meshwork (TM) matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) and tissue inhibitor (TIMP). Laser trabeculoplasty appears to rely on this process to restore normal aqueous humor outflow facility. Thus, studies were conducted to determine whether the extracellular signal-regulated kinase (Erk)-mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase signal-transduction pathway is involved. METHODS. Porcine TM cells were treated with TNFα, and changes in MMPs and TIMPs were evaluated by zymography and Western immunoblot assay. Phosphospecific antibodies to proteins from the Erk pathway were used to evaluate responses to treatment with TNFα. Inhibitors of Mek, the kinase that activates Erk, and of protein kinase C (PKC) isoforms were used to define pathway involvement. RESULTS. Treatment with TNFα increased MMP-1, -3, and -9 and TIMP-1, whereas expression of MMP-2 was not affected and expression of TIMP-2 was decreased. Erk and Mek were rapidly phosphorylated after treatment with TNFα, and c-Raf-1 showed a significant bandshift. A specific inhibitor of Mek blocked the TNFα induction of the MMPs and TIMPs and the phosphorylation of Erk. An inhibitor of the PKC-μ isoform, which also blocks the effects of MMP-TIMP of TNFα, did not affect phosphorylation of Erk. CONCLUSIONS. The components of this MAP kinase pathway in the TM are dramatically affected by TNFα and inhibition of Erk's phosphorylation blocks the changes in MMP and TIMP expression. PKC μ, which is also required in this transduction process, does not appear to be upstream from Erk in the signaling cascade. Manipulation of this and related TM signal-transduction pathways may provide targets for developing improved glaucoma treatments.
U2 - 10.1167/iovs.01-1201
DO - 10.1167/iovs.01-1201
JO - Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science
JF - Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science
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Evaluations Backgrounder: A Summary of Formal Evaluations of Afterschool Programs' Impact on Academics, Behavior, Safety and Family Life
A steady stream of afterschool evaluations are showing important gains for children, not only in terms of academic achievement but also in terms of safety, discipline, attendance and avoidance of risky behaviors. In addition, researchers have found that afterschool programs encourage increased parental involvement, an important building block for student success. This updated evaluations backgrounder focuses on the impact of afterschool programs on academic outcomes, student behavior and parental concerns about children's safety. Download PDF
Afterschool Outcomes (2009)
National, state and local evaluations are providing evidence of the impact afterschool and summer programs have on academic outcomes for students. Download PDF
STEM Outcomes
The Defining Youth Outcomes for STEM Learning in Afterschool study aimed to identify what STEM learning outcomes these program leaders and supporters believe that afterschool programs could contribute to, what the indicators of progress toward such outcomes might be, and what types of evidence could be collected by afterschool programs, without regard to whether or not appropriate data collection tools currently exist. Download PDF
ABCs of High Quality Programs
High quality programs accelerate student academic achievement by helping students improve their attendance, behavior, and coursework. Download PDF
America After 3pm (2014)
America After 3PM spans a decade of data chronicling how children spend the hours between 3 and 6 p.m. — the hours after school ends and before parents typically return home from work. It highlights the trends of afterschool program participation, documents the benefits associated with participation in afterschool programs, and measures public support for afterschool programs. Learn More
The Achievement Gap Is Real. Vandell (2013)
New research demonstrates that more consistent time spent in afterschool activities during the elementary school years is linked to narrowing the academic and social gap at grade 5. Read More
The Life-Enhancing Benefits of Reading in Out-of-School Programs. Afterschool Alliance (2013)
Scholastic Family and Community Engagement (FACE) and the Afterschool Alliance have partnered to spotlight the role of reading in a child’s life and the unique ways afterschool programs can incorporate reading into their curricula, promoting students’ academic success, boosting self-confidence and improving their overall well-being. This issue brief points to research that demonstrate the number of positive outcomes associated with avid reading, such as academic gains, increased drive to do well in school and improved self-esteem. The brief also highlights the important role afterschool programs play in helping students access reading materials, as well as become engaged and critical readers. Read More
After School Program Quality and Student Outcomes: Reflections on Positive Key Findings on Learning and Development. Vandell (2013)
Returning to afterschool programs, there is a rapidly growing body of evidence that draws on the explosive growth of the field in recent years. This evidence is somewhat mixed, in part because of the considerable variation in afterschool programs. A substantial and growing number of studies, however, support the significant and positive impact of these programs on students and families in myriad ways. These afterschool programs should therefore be granted the same opportunities, including policy and budgetary supports by political leaders, as are being granted to other, more highly-promoted innovations for which the research evidence is mixed and inconclusive—for instance, value-added teacher compensation. Read More
Keeping Kids Safe and Supported in the Hours After School. Afterschool Alliance (2014)
The Afterschool Alliance, in partnership with MetLife Foundation, is proud to present the third of four issue briefs in our sixth series examining critical issues facing middle school youth and the vital role afterschool programs play in addressing these issues. This brief explores the variety of ways afterschool programs are keeping middle schoolers safe, getting them engaged in learning, and helping them take advantage of their full potential as they navigate school, peers and their surroundings. Read More
Reducing Chronic Absence Starting in the Early Grades. Attendanceworks (2011)
This toolkit (available online or in a printable version) offers information and resources to help city leaders address this essential but often overlooked ingredient of school success. Fostering a culture of attendance is not just what happens when children are in school. It is also about the habits nurtured before children enter kindergarten and messages reinforced during the afterschool hours. Read More
After-School Worries: Tough on Parents, Bad for Business. Catalyst & Brandeis University (2006)
In this report, we find that parental concern about afterschool time can be greatly reduced often at little cost to companies, and in ways that ultimately will help companies and their employees, especially parents, be fully productive. Organizations cannot afford to ignore a problem that potentially affects a full one-third of the U.S. labor pool.2 To ensure that this source of stress is effectively prevented—or interrupted where it has already begun—we recommend that organizations heed the advice of the working parents whose thoughts are reflected in this report and investigate workplace and community supports that can prevent and even mitigate the negative effects of parental concern about after-school time. Read More
What We Know About the Impact of 21st CCLC Program. American Institutes for Research (AIR)
The 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC) program is as complex and varied as the 1.5 million young people it serves nationwide. The 21st CCLC funding supports programming that ranges from small school-based centers (primarily providing academic supports and entirely funded by 21st CCLC dollars) to large multisite programs (offering comprehensive services, including academics, arts, and sports, and funded by a mix of public and private funds). Read More
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Thousands of fans have begun to prepare for Oscars parties to find out which actors, actresses, and movies of the 88th Academy Awards will win a gold statue. As part of the celebration, Shutterstock’s company designers have worked again this year to create fascinating pop art-inspired posters for popular films nominated by the Academy.
Like the many of the different types of movies nominated for the Best Picture award, Shutterstock says its posters share a theme of endurance and testing how far you can stretch the lengths of human nature.
“On the surface his work simply looks cool, but this shallow analysis misses the irony behind his cultural representations”
When you think of many of this year’s Best Picture nominees, movies like The Revenant, The Martian, and Mad Max share a common theme of strength, resilience, determination, and power. These themes are stunningly carried over into Shutterstock’s pop-art posters this year. Posters featured include Jordan Roland’s Warhol-inspired Mad Max: Fury Road, which offer a take on Warhol’s “subversive dictator portraits to shape this poster of Immortan Joe,” says the artist. In Cristin Burton’s Flirst-inspired Oscar Pop 2016 The Revenant, the poster includes assembled pieces the artist used to “create a vast, sinister, and lonely landscape.”
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The pop-art posters include a fun view of movies but also of topics that aren’t so fun. In Flo Lau’s The Big Short, inspired by Keith Haring, the artist chose a comedic approach to the dark subject of the bursting of the 2008 housing bubble.
Flirst is a collage artist who assembles disparate pieces to explore how he can change the harmony of the whole. For my poster, a homage to The Revenant, I assembled pieces to create a vast, sinister, and lonely landscape. The poster features a figure with very few people on his side; this represents the film’s main character, Hugh Glass, who was brutally attacked by a bear and left for dead in the winter wilderness.
“I wanted to portray the same witty chaotic vibe in my poster”
In his “Barcelona” series, Mario Corea Aiello forms a grungy collage of newspaper and magazine cutouts and heavy paint strokes. I felt this style would parallel the vicious storm that left Mark Watney for dead on Mars in The Martian. For the color scheme, I deferred to Eric White’s cover art from the original novel by Andy Weir to capture the characteristics of an otherworldly storm.
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My inspiration for this poster is one part Roy Lichtenstein and one part Stefan Sagmeister. Spotlight is about journalists uncovering a massive scandal in one of Boston’s oldest institutions, and I found that the perfectly contradictory homophone “pray/prey” encapsulates the shock and horror felt by the community when this scandal was made public.
To illustrate this, I pixelated an image of a priest, then tore off his head and replaced it with an image of a wolf. I looked to Warhol’s subversive dictator portraits to shape this poster of Immortan Joe.Warhol had a remarkable ability to distract from the meaning of his art. On the surface his work simply looks “cool”.
Mad Max: Fury Road has the same effect: The stylized nature of the film gets more attention than the meaning behind it.
I chose to feature Immortan Joe because he is a terrible person, but his iconic look makes him instantly recognizable. When I first read the plot summary for Room, I envisioned lonely, sterile characters, who had been institutionalized by their secluded environment.
Of course, when I saw the movie that perception quickly changed; the characters are full of life, love, and joy, and the audience instantly empathizes with them on a raw, human level. KAWS’ statues play on a similar deceit. Initially they have a sterile, robotic feel, but when you view them in their human-scale sizes and see their playful aesthetic, you experience an unexpected sense of connection.
“Welcome to the Oscars, Or as some people like to call it, the white people’s choice awards”
The Big Short takes a comedic approach to a dark subject, and I wanted to portray the same witty, chaotic vibe in my poster. Keith Haring was my inspiration because his high-contrast, brightly colored political work, which touches on grim subjects like rape, death, and war, hinges on the same contrast as the film. The poster is based on the film’s alligator-in-an-abandoned-pool scene; the alligator represents the main characters in the movie, who took advantage of the 2008 housing bubble and left the world in desperation when it burst.
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I chose to focus on the muddy gray areas and loopholes within Bridge of Spies. The Cold War was fueled by each side’s increasingly dire hypotheticals, causing mass paranoia among citizens and governments alike.
A large part of the film’s narrative focuses on the extent of protection under the law, especially for a Soviet spy. I reimagined Lady Justice, mixing her blindfold with the American and Soviet flags to represent how both countries were tied to their individuals’ principles of justice even while locked in an unending battle for the upper hand. Set in the eponymous 1950s borough, Brooklyn features then-contemporary imagery that now exemplifies the commodification of Brooklyn as a global brand.
Just as the Pop Art movement utilized mass advertising and irony to re-contextualize commercial art, I drew from today’s vintage, artisanal design trends, which are inspired by that era and setting.
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In that vein, I applied the animated footage and vector elements to illustrate how the contrasting settings of Brooklyn and Ireland re-contextualized the protagonist’s identity through a fluctuating sense of “home.”
The 88th annual Academy Awards are underway, and viewers are anxiously awaiting the ceremony to find out if their favorite flicks and actors win, which categories will see big “upsets,” and which speeches and performances will stand out. Not to mention how host Chris Rock will approach the “Oscars So White” controversy, and who he will target during the opening monologue. Did Leo finally take home a golden statue? The buzz began during the red carpet events prior to the official event.
Jennifer Jason Leigh, nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for The Hateful Eight, seemed slightly out of it during her interview with Ryan Seacrest on E!’s special. But arguably the biggest surprise was Best Actor nominee Leonardo DiCaprio (The Revenant) and Best Actress in a Supporting Role nominee Kate Winslet (Steve Jobs) playing to their nostalgic fans by walking the red carpet together. Can you believe it’s been nearly two decades since they starred together in the 1997 blockbuster film Titanic (which took home Best Picture)?
“If hosts were nominated, I wouldn’t be here; instead, you’d have Neil Patrick Harris.”
Rock, who addressed the issues with ease and expected humor, added that he did seriously consider quitting after so many people spoke out and pressured him to do so. “But the last thing I need is to lose another job to Kevin Hart,” he said, as the crowd erupted in laughter (including Hart himself, who was in the audience).
Arguably, the best part of Rock’s monologue was his blatant dig at Jada Pinkett-Smith and her vocal “boycott” of the Oscars. “Isn’t she on a TV show? Jada boycotting the Oscars is like me boycotting Rihanna’s panties,” he said.
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818 F2d 28 Henry Smith v. North Carolina National Bank
818 F.2d 28
Edwin David HENRY, Plaintiff-Appellant,
Michael Rand SMITH, Plaintiff,
NORTH CAROLINA NATIONAL BANK; Dan Bullard, Defendants-Appellees.
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
Submitted Jan. 29, 1987.
Decided May 1, 1987.
NOTICE: Fourth Circuit I.O.P. 36.6 states that citation of unpublished dispositions is disfavored except for establishing res judicata, estoppel, or the law of the case and requires service of copies of cited unpublished dispositions of the Fourth Circuit.
Before PHILLIPS and WILKINSON, Circuit Judges, and BUTZNER, Senior Circuit Judge.
Edwin David Henry, appellant pro se.
Robert White Johnson, for appellee North Carolina National Bank.
John F. Crossley, for appellee Dan Bullard.
A review of the record and the district court's opinion discloses that this appeal from its order denying relief under 42 U.S.C. Sec. 1983 is without merit. Because the dispositive issues recently have been decided authoritatively, we dispense with oral argument and affirm the judgment below on the reasoning of the district court. Henry v. North Carolina National Bank, C/A No. 85-1494-CRT (E.D.N.C., Nov. 12, 1986). | cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line1717 |
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As Waters contemplated the right away to approach a new, large client, he realized he did not have enough background in sales to close the deal. “Don helped me tell the story about our business in a better way,” says Waters. “He helped me figure out how best to represent the business and I realized that while we do residential, Pacific Electric had more value in the commercial sector.” Loewel hel-ped Waters tweak his business plan and financials to reflect the new focus.
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Standard Terminology for Fetal, Infant, and Perinatal Deaths
Wanda D. Barfield and COMMITTEE ON FETUS AND NEWBORN
Pediatrics May 2016, 137 (5) e20160551; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2016-0551
Wanda D. Barfield
Accurately defining and reporting perinatal deaths (ie, fetal and infant deaths) is a critical first step in understanding the magnitude and causes of these important events. In addition to obstetric health care providers, neonatologists and pediatricians should have easy access to current and updated resources that clearly provide US definitions and reporting requirements for live births, fetal deaths, and infant deaths. Correct identification of these vital events will improve local, state, and national data so that these deaths can be better addressed and prevented.
Perinatal mortality is the combination of fetal deaths and neonatal deaths. In the United States in 2013, the fetal mortality rate for gestations of at least 20 weeks (5.96 fetal deaths per 1000 live births and fetal deaths)1 was similar to the infant mortality rate (5.98 infant deaths per 1000 live births).2 Depending on the definition used, fetal mortality contributes to approximately 40% to 60% of perinatal mortality. Understanding the etiologies of these events and predicting risk begins with accurately defining cases; the collection and analysis of reliable statistical data are an essential part of in-depth investigations on local, state, and national levels.
Fetal and infant deaths occur within the clinical practice of several types of health care providers. Although obstetric practitioners report fetal deaths, certain situations can occur during a delivery in which viability or possibility of survival is unclear; the pediatrician or neonatologist may attend the delivery to assess the medical condition of the fetus or infant, assess pre-viable gestational age, provide care as indicated, and report a subsequent infant death, if it occurs. Incorrectly defining and reporting fetal deaths and early infant deaths may contribute to misclassification of these important events and result in inaccurate fetal and infant mortality rates.3 Within this context, the American Academy of Pediatrics provides definitions and reporting requirements of fetal death, live birth, and infant death to emphasize that neonatologists and pediatricians play an important role in recording accurate and timely information surrounding these events. This role includes making the determination of the specific vital event during delivery, recording information surrounding the event on the appropriate certificate or report in compliance with state-specific requirements, and documenting information that is as complete and as accurate as possible, including the underlying cause of death, when known. Although guidance for these definitions is provided elsewhere,4–6 it may not be readily available to pediatricians in the delivery room.
Both the collection and use of information about fetal, infant, and perinatal deaths have been hampered by lack of understanding of differences in definitions, statistical tabulations, and reporting requirements among providers and state, national, and international bodies. Distinctions can and should be made between the definition of an event and the reporting requirements for the event. The definition indicates the meaning of a term (eg, live birth, fetal death). A reporting requirement is that part of the defined event for which reporting is mandatory.
Challenges in consistent definitions of fetal and infant death mostly stem from the perception of viability, which should not change the definition of the event. In other words, an extremely preterm infant born at 16 weeks’ gestation may be defined as a live birth but is not currently viable outside of the womb. On the basis of international standards set by the World Health Organization,7 the National Center for Health Statistics of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines live birth, fetal death, infant death, and perinatal death as follows.4
A live birth is defined as the complete expulsion or extraction from the mother of a product of human conception, irrespective of the duration of pregnancy, which, after such expulsion or extraction, breathes or shows any other evidence of life, such as beating of the heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord, or definite movement of voluntary muscles, regardless of whether the umbilical cord has been cut or the placenta is attached. Heartbeats are to be distinguished from transient cardiac contractions; respirations are to be distinguished from fleeting respiratory efforts or gasps.
Fetal Death
A fetus is defined from 8 weeks after conception until term while in the uterus. Fetal death is defined as death before the complete expulsion or extraction from the mother of a product of human conception, irrespective of the duration of pregnancy that is not an induced termination of pregnancy. The death is indicated by the fact that, after such expulsion or extraction, the fetus does not breathe or show any other evidence of life such as beating of the heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord, or definite movement of voluntary muscles. Heartbeats are to be distinguished from transient cardiac contractions; respirations are to be distinguished from fleeting respiratory efforts or gasps.
For statistical purposes, fetal deaths are further subdivided as “early” (20–27 weeks’ gestation) or “late” (≥28 weeks’ gestation). The term “stillbirth” is also used to describe fetal deaths at 20 weeks’ gestation or more. Stillbirth is not specifically divided into early and late gestations, but for international comparisons the World Health Organization defines stillbirth as at or after 28 weeks’ gestation. Fetuses that die in utero before 20 weeks’ gestation are categorized specifically as miscarriages.
A live birth that results in death within the first year (<365 days) is defined as an infant death. Infant deaths are characterized as neonatal (<28 days) and further subdivided into early neonatal (<7 days), late neonatal (7–27 days), or postneonatal (28–364 days).
Perinatal deaths refer to a combination of fetal deaths and live births with only brief survival (days or weeks) and are grouped on the assumption that similar factors are associated with these losses. Perinatal death is not a reportable vital event, per se, but is used for statistical purposes. Three definitions of perinatal deaths are in use:
Definition I includes infant deaths that occur at less than 7 days of age and fetal deaths with a stated or presumed period of gestation of 28 weeks or more.
Definition II includes infant deaths that occur at less than 28 days of age and fetal deaths with a stated or presumed period of gestation of 20 weeks or more.
Definition III includes infant deaths that occur at less than 7 days of age and fetal deaths with a stated or presumed gestation of 20 weeks or more.
From national and international perspectives, perinatal deaths have important implications for both public health and clinical interventions. However, the interpretations of these definitions vary globally on the basis of cultural perspectives, clinical definitions of viability, and availability of information. The National Center for Health Statistics currently classifies perinatal deaths according to the first 2 definitions. Definition I is used by the National Center for Health Statistics and the World Health Organization to make international comparisons to account for variability in registering births and deaths between 20 and 27 weeks’ gestation.8 However, definition II is more inclusive and hence is more appropriate for monitoring perinatal deaths throughout gestation, because the majority of fetal deaths occur before 28 weeks’ gestation.
In the United States, states and independent reporting areas (ie, New York City; Washington, DC; and the US territories) register the certificates of live birth, death, and fetal death. These certificates/reports include clinical information. Challenges in consistent reporting of fetal death, in particular, stem from the variation in reporting requirements among states.9 Recommended definitions and reporting requirements are issued through the Model State Vital Statistics Act and Regulations (the Model Law).10,11 The Model Law recommends fetal death reporting for deaths that occur at 350 g birth weight or more or, if the weight is unknown, of 20 completed weeks’ gestation or more. However, states have the authority to register these vital events and might not necessarily follow the Model Law, which results in differences in birth weight and gestational age criteria for reporting fetal deaths (Table 1). States also vary in the quality of the data reported, which include missing data.9
Reporting Requirements for Fetal Death According to State or Reporting Area, 2014
All live births, regardless of gestational age, are reported as vital record events. Infant deaths involve both the reporting of a live birth event and a death event using a certificate of live birth and a certificate of death, respectively. Information from the certificate of live birth, including demographic information, selected maternal risk factors, maternal labor and delivery information, and infant weight and gestational age, is linked to information on the infant death certificate to include cause-of-death information. The fetal death certificate or report, a single document, includes maternal demographic information, selected maternal risk factors, labor and delivery information, and information about the fetus to include weight, gestational age, and cause of death. Accurate completion of these vital records is important for generating accurate data to determine the magnitude and causes of fetal, infant, and perinatal deaths.
A flow diagram for the determination of appropriate reporting of perinatal deaths was developed by the National Association for Public Health Statistics and Information Systems (Fig 1). The diagram delineates the sequence of reporting and can be used in delivery rooms to appropriately report perinatal events. Induced termination of pregnancy is included in the flow diagram but is beyond the scope of this report.
Hospital guidelines for reporting live births, infant deaths, fetal deaths, and induced terminations of pregnancy. (Adapted with permission from the National Association for Public Health Statistics and Information Systems; www.naphsis.org [available on request].)
In the circumstance of delivery events in which the fetus is of uncertain viability, if the infant is determined to be a live birth, the event is reported regardless of birth weight, length of gestation, survival time, or other clinical information (eg, Apgar scores). If fetal death is determined, the event is reported by the obstetric health care provider on the basis of state criteria, including both birth weight and gestational age. The careful use of accurate definitions is of utmost importance in medical record documentation of these events. Because there are no signs of life at delivery, fetal deaths are not assigned Apgar scores and are usually not admitted to the nursery or NICU. Postmortem examination of the fetus or infant and placenta may provide important information as to the cause of death; however, the actual evaluation and management of fetal and infant death are beyond the scope of this guidance and have been reported elsewhere.12
In summary, the accurate and timely reporting of live birth and fetal and infant death is the cornerstone of perinatal mortality data. Because reducing fetal and infant mortality is among the nation’s health goals, accurate definitions of these events are essential for understanding causes and researching potential solutions.
Vital events are best defined and reported as follows:
Live birth: The complete expulsion or extraction from the mother of a product of human conception, irrespective of the duration of pregnancy, which, after such expulsion or extraction, breathes or shows any other evidence of life such as beating of the heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord, or definite movement of voluntary muscles, regardless of whether the umbilical cord has been cut or the placenta is attached. Heartbeats are to be distinguished from transient cardiac contractions; respirations are to be distinguished from fleeting respiratory efforts or gasps.
Fetal death: Death before the complete expulsion or extraction from the mother of a product of human conception, irrespective of the duration of pregnancy that is not an induced termination of pregnancy. The death is indicated by the fact that, after such expulsion or extraction, the fetus does not breathe or show any other evidence of life such as beating of the heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord, or definite movement of voluntary muscles. Heartbeats are to be distinguished from transient cardiac contractions; respirations are to be distinguished from fleeting respiratory efforts or gasps.
Infant death: A live birth that results in death within the first year (<365 days).
Obtain accurate information on state law to file the fetal death certificate/report according to state requirements.
Complete reporting of live births, infant deaths, and fetal deaths (in support of obstetrician reporters) with the most accurate information possible to include pertinent demographic information, maternal medical history, and fetal or infant diagnoses.
Wanda Denise Barfield, MD, MPH, FAAP
wjb5{at}cdc.gov
Committee on Fetus and Newborn, 2014–2015
Kristi Watterberg, MD, FAAP, Chairperson
William Benitz, MD, FAAP
James Cummings, MD, FAAP
Eric Eichenwald, MD, FAAP
Brenda Poindexter, MD, FAAP
Dan L. Stewart, MD, FAAP
Susan W. Aucott, MD, FAAP
Karen M. Puopolo, MD, FAAP
Jay P. Goldsmith, MD, FAAP
Kasper S. Wang, MD, FAAP – AAP Section on Surgery
Thierry Lacaze, MD – Canadian Pediatric Society
Maria Ann Mascola, MD – American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
Tonse N.K. Raju, MD, FAAP – National Institutes of Health
Wanda D. Barfield, MD, MPH, FAAP – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Erin Keels, MS, APRN, NNP-BC – National Association of Neonatal Nurses
Jim Couto, MA
This document is copyrighted and is property of the American Academy of Pediatrics and its Board of Directors. All authors have filed conflict of interest statements with the American Academy of Pediatrics. Any conflicts have been resolved through a process approved by the Board of Directors. The American Academy of Pediatrics has neither solicited nor accepted any commercial involvement in the development of the content of this publication.
The views expressed in this document are not necessarily those of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the US Department of Health and Human Services.
Clinical reports from the American Academy of Pediatrics benefit from expertise and resources of liaisons and internal (AAP) and external reviewers. However, clinical reports from the American Academy of Pediatrics may not reflect the views of the liaisons or the organizations or government agencies that they represent.
The guidance in this report does not indicate an exclusive course of treatment or serve as a standard of medical care. Variations, taking into account individual circumstances, may be appropriate.
All clinical reports from the American Academy of Pediatrics automatically expire 5 years after publication unless reaffirmed, revised, or retired at or before that time.
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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — A woman was pronounced dead Friday after a fire broke out inside her Penn Hills home.
Around 1 p.m., crews were called to the 2000 block of School Street.
By the time firefighters arrived, resident Jim Ryan had carried his wife Rita out of the home. She had been bedridden.
“He brought her out of the house and put her in the car to get her away from the fire,” one relative said.
Unfortunately, Rita Ryan was pronounced dead at the scene.
North Bessemer firefighters say the fire was small and easily contained.
“Significant damage to the basement, it was all contained, the doors were closed, so the fire in the basement was isolated,” said North Bessemer Fire Dept. Asst. Chief David Zacchia.
During interviews with the homeowner, investigators were told that Jim Ryan had left home Friday morning to run errands around 7:30 a.m., leaving his wife at home.
He returned to find smoke coming from the home with his wife inside.
Preliminary investigations indicate that the woman died before the fire began, but the Medical Examiner later confirmed that smoke inhalation was the cause of Rita Ryan’s death.
Allegheny County detectives are questioning Jim Ryan as the investigation continues.
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Child phonology refers to virtually every phonetic and phonological phenomenon observable in the speech productions of children, including babbles. This includes qualitative and quantitative aspects of babbled utterances as well as all behaviors such as the deletion or modification of the sounds and syllables contained in the adult (target) forms that the child is trying to reproduce in his or her spoken utterances. This research is also increasingly concerned with issues in speech perception, a field of investigation that has traditionally followed its own course; it is only recently that the two fields have started to converge. The recent history of research on child phonology, the theoretical approaches and debates surrounding it, as well as the research methods and resources that have been employed to address these issues empirically, parallel the evolution of phonology, phonetics, and psycholinguistics as general fields of investigation. Child phonology contributes important observations, often organized in terms of developmental time periods, which can extend from the child’s earliest babbles to the stage when he or she masters the sounds, sound combinations, and suprasegmental properties of the ambient (target) language. Central debates within the field of child phonology concern the nature and origins of phonological representations as well as the ways in which they are acquired by children. Since the mid-1900s, the most central approaches to these questions have tended to fall on each side of the general divide between generative vs. functionalist (usage-based) approaches to phonology. Traditionally, generative approaches have embraced a universal stance on phonological primitives and their organization within hierarchical phonological representations, assumed to be innately available as part of the human language faculty. In contrast to this, functionalist approaches have utilized flatter (non-hierarchical) representational models and rejected nativist claims about the origin of phonological constructs. Since the beginning of the 1990s, this divide has been blurred significantly, both through the elaboration of constraint-based frameworks that incorporate phonetic evidence, from both speech perception and production, as part of accounts of phonological patterning, and through the formulation of emergentist approaches to phonological representation. Within this context, while controversies remain concerning the nature of phonological representations, debates are fueled by new outlooks on factors that might affect their emergence, including the types of learning mechanisms involved, the nature of the evidence available to the learner (e.g., perceptual, articulatory, and distributional), as well as the extent to which the learner can abstract away from this evidence. In parallel, recent advances in computer-assisted research methods and data availability, especially within the context of the PhonBank project, offer researchers unprecedented support for large-scale investigations of child language corpora. This combination of theoretical and methodological advances provides new and fertile grounds for research on child phonology and related implications for phonological theory.
Keywords: phonology, phonetics, development, acquisition, representation, perception, articulation, theory, PhonBank, Phon
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|In Weekly Column, Lisa Van Dusen, Left side Columns
Boris Johnson is casting content creators for a whole new sh*tshow. Public servants need not apply.
Lisa Van Dusen/For the Hill Times
“We need some true wild cards, artists, people who never went to university and fought their way out of an appalling hell hole, weirdos from William Gibson novels like that girl hired by Bigend as a brand ‘diviner’ who feels sick at the sight of Tommy Hilfiger or that Chinese-Cuban free runner from a crime family hired by the KGB.”
Chief Special Adviser to Prime Minister Boris Johnson Dominic Cummings’ (above) recent blog post soliciting resumés for Number 10.
As a person who had a brief fling with university and has an involuntary expert’s eye for appalling hell holes, I have to admit that certain passages of Dominic Cummings’ casting call for “weirdos and misfits with odd skills” to serve in the upper echelons of Her Majesty’s Government warmed the cockles of my heart. My favourite bit was the plea for “people who have worked in movies or on advertising campaigns. There are some very interesting possibilities in the intersection of technology and storytelling — if you’ve done something weird, this may be the place for you.”
I have no idea what Dominic Cummings’ definition of workplace weird is, but I’m guessing it doesn’t begin with a Morrissey ringtone and end with photocopying your arse at the office Christmas party. In an age when the executive branch version of the “intersection of technology and storytelling” is ghoulishly represented by Donald Trump’s Twitter feed, it only follows that the colonizers of the bureaucratic culture that gave us Yes, Prime Minister would be shaking the shrubbery for misfits and weirdos to help implement the next phase of Grand Theft Democracy: Attack of the Misfits and Weirdos.
As with every other bit of rubbish window dressing fashioned by Mr. Cummings and his fellow new world order “crap Rasputins”, Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller, this isn’t about respect for authentic misfits and weirdos. It’s about the exploitation of possibilities licensed by tactical, reality-show misfits and weirdos — including the president of the United States, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, the aforementioned Steves and Mr. Cummings himself — whose contrived peculiarities can rationalize a multitude of norm-breaking, democracy-degrading acts of political vandalism.
Only reality show misfits and weirdos of the mercenary variety cast in the cannonball operations currently besieging the United States and Britain could plausibly front the sort of dystopian lunacy unfolding at the US-Mexico border, in the Oval Office and in the frenzied halls of Brexitannia.
By issuing an APB for more “misfits and weirdos,” Mr. Cummings — Downing Street’s subsequent damage-control efforts notwithstanding — is establishing a pre-emptive rationale for every status quo-overturning, power consolidating cunning stunt the Johnson government will perpetrate in the name of “reform”. “We’re a government of misfits and weirdos,” they will quip with a screw-you shrug, as the gig economy morphs into cyberslavery and facial recognition technology is deployed at Tesco’s and Sainsbury’s to ration Hobnobs.
(Based on Cummings’ views on diversity and the people who espouse it — “They are usually babbling about ‘gender identity diversity blah blah’. What SW1 [the London postcode that includes Whitehall] needs is not more drivel about ‘identity’ and ‘diversity’ from Oxbridge humanities graduates but more genuine cognitive diversity” — Hobnobs will only be sold to bald, white men who fulfil his notion of “super-talented weirdos”, i.e. Dominic Cummings himself. Classic.)
Having worked in the Prime Minister’s Office of a G7 government, I have to admit there were days when the grim business of watching other people run the country might’ve been enlivened by the addition of a few genuine misfits and weirdos. But generally speaking, the machinery of government tends to purr along more smoothly when the misfits and weirdos are on the outside, covering the proceedings — without fear, favour or having to translate narrative wankery disguised as governance. | cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line1753 |
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This collection documents the artistic, administrative, and educational activities of UPP Arts. The materials in this collection reflect a decade of interdisciplinary collaborations between artists, educators, students, and community members who used place-based art to celebrate and build awareness for Providence’s urban ponds. Their work focused particularly on Mashapaug Pond and its environs, which include the site of the Gorham Manufacturing Company and the former West Elmwood neighborhood. While much of the material in this collection was created by UPP Arts’ founder and Executive Director Holly Ewald, the collaborative nature of UPP Arts means that it represents the work of many different artists and contributors. UPP Arts engaged artists and communities in public art-making through programs like educational prop- and costume-making workshops, film screenings, and the yearly Procession. These activities are represented in the collection through digital photographs and videos; teaching proposals and lesson plans; and artistic works. The collection also traces the grassroots development and evolution of UPP Arts, from its origins in an individual artist project into a nonprofit organization with strong ties to schools, government agencies, and Brown University. The educational resources in this collection derive from UPP Arts’ work with primary, middle, and high schools; its connections to local environmental advocates; and its partnership with the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage at Brown University. The collection gathers primary and secondary sources that inform what UPP Arts has termed the “four stories” of Mashapaug Pond: its history as a natural resource for Rhode Island’s indigenous populations; its value to industrial production, evidenced in the operations of the Gorham Manufacturing Company; the socioeconomic history of the pond’s adjacent neighborhoods and the City of Providence’s urban redevelopment efforts of the 1960s; and the environmental impacts, both historical and current, on the pond and its surroundings.
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__label__cc | 0.635745 | 0.364255 | A Popper question about corroboration
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_induction#Karl_Popper
The rational motivation for choosing a well-corroborated theory is that it is simply easier to falsify: Well-corroborated means that at least one kind of experiment (already conducted at least once) could (but did not) falsify the one theory, while the same kind of experiment, regardless of its outcome, would not falsify the other. So it is rational to choose the well-corroborated theory; it may not be more likely to be true, but it is easier to get rid of it if not.
I'm having trouble understanding the part that says the same kind of experiment, regardless of its outcome, would not falsify the other. If the outcome was false, wouldn't it falsify the other theory?
philosophy-of-science popper
I don't understand it either. It doesn't make much sense (I mean at a purely linguistic level, not wrt philosophical content). – DBK Apr 21 '13 at 22:16
To understand you need to read Miller's book "Critical Rationalism: A Restatement and Defense". Few thinkers today support Popper's corroboration concept. – Annotations Apr 22 '13 at 1:30
I don't have the book so I was hoping someone understood Miller's point. – user3306 Apr 23 '13 at 16:03
From my own limited knowledge of philosophy of science I believe this to be a reason to prefer ideas which have some type of experimental backing over ideas which have none.
Experiment A offers data that we can infer supports a Idea A but has no bearing on Idea B.
While our inference may be factually wrong, it would be logically better to support Idea A because it may eventually become falsified, while Idea B can never be falsified because it has no experiments which to reference. Idea B is almost in logical limbo due to a lack of support or falsification
The experiment being false has no bearing on Idea B, while it has bearing on Idea A. Inferences connect the experimental conclusion to the ideas.
My interpretation of the quote almost lends to the idea that it is better to believe in ideas which have been supported by falsification than it is to believe in ideas which have no reference to any experimental data or inferences at all.
ntettntett
You're probably going to have to read Karl Popper's paper on Falsification theory. The answer that LostPraxis gives explains it really well but I figured you might like some examples taken from Karl Popper's actual works.
it.http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/popper_falsification.html
During this time ideas like Communism and Psychoanalysis were all the rage in the world of economics and psychology respectively. Popper made the criticism though that these theories had no way of being disproven and therefore should not be accepted as theories at all.
No matter what you do, you could always look at some injustice in the world and contribute it to class inequality. It's a broad idea. Yet, when Karl Marx was first proposing Communism he had very specific observations that he was going to use to show that Communism was correct. For example, he thought that Communism was going to first happen in very first class economies like England. This didn't happen, Communism first hit Russia a place not too far away from the Dark Ages. Yet when this idea turned out to be not true people revised the theory of Communism to just mean, "Class inequality causes problems." This is too vague to be considered a scientific theory and therefore should be disregarded.
Compare this to Einstein's theory of relativity. Almost all parts of this theory are ultra-specific and have very visible grounds for being proven or disproven. For example, light is a particle and gravity has an effect on light.
To prove this they took pictures of the stars in a certain segment of sky during an eclipse where the sun's gravity should pull the light from the stars closer to the Sun. Then they took a picture of the stars in that segment of the sky when the Sun should have no affect on the starlight. Well, the gravity did affect the light and this helped prove Einstein's theory of relativity. Popper helped with this experiment oddly enough, he even mentions it.
So what Popper is saying is that if you have a theory that can be falsified with experiments then you have an acceptable scientific theory. If you have a theory that cannot be disproven no matter what kind of experiments you do to it, that is not a scientific theory. Like comparing Communism to Quantum Physics.
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'm having trouble understanding the part that says the same kind of experiment, regardless of its outcome, would not falsify the other.
Let the experiment be X, and we have two theories A and B. If X doesn't affect B regardless of it's result then simply B doesn't take the risk to even can be falsified by X.
If the outcome was false, wouldn't it falsify the other theory?
The point is not X result is true or false. If either result has affect on theory (say A) while has no effect on other theory (say B) then A is more scientific than B because of taking more risk.
XaqronXaqron
The most upvoted answer claims that experiments can support ideas. This is not compatible with Popperian epistemology, which explicitly attacks the idea of support: see "Realism and the aim of science" Chapter I. All scientific theories are guesses and there is no no support or justification or whatever that survives critical scrutiny:
Do all epistemologies suffer from the "regress of justifications" problem?.
Now, looking at the specific quote you give:
Corroboration is supposed to be a measure of the severity of a test. One theory A may make a specific prediction about the outcome of a test and so it would be tested severely by an experiment testing that outcome. Another theory B may not make a specific prediction about the outcome of that test. As such, the test is not relevant to judging B, but would refute A if it had some specific outcome. As such, even before doing the test A is more interesting since you can at least get rid of it by a test if it is no good. And if A passes the test you have no reason to discard it.
I should note that Popper did not consider corroboration a particularly important contribution and regarded it as useless in most practical situations for reasons explained in Chapter IV of "Realism and the aim of science".
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__label__cc | 0.736801 | 0.263199 | Tonight: Michael Moore on Iraq, Guns, and the Pope
On the 10 year anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq, this evening Piers Morgan will welcome Michael Moore for a live, face to face interview.
Taking to his Twitter account, which boasts nearly 1.5 million followers, earlier today the filmmaker offered some reflection:
10 yrs ago tonight. To think, our own president did this. He was an American, but he told a lie so he could send other Americans off to die.
— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) March 19, 2013
Joining "Piers Morgan Live" for the entire hour, Moore will share the trademark brand of candor and insight that has made him a household name, in the process landing his films on lists amongst some of the most influential, controversial, and polarizing of the last quarter of a century.
Outspoken on politics, the environment, and the economy, the 58-year-old native of Michigan is also particularly passionate about assault weapons and firearm legislation, a theme that led to his 2002, Academy Award winning movie "Bowling for Columbine."
Based around the events that led to the massacre at Columbine High School, Moore has since become a national voice on gun control, last discussing the matter with Morgan in July, following the movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colo.
So frustrated and enraged by the incident and those before it, Moore promised that he wasn't "going to come on another one of these damn TV shows either, after the next one of these shootings." It was a pledge he kept, even through the December tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn.
However, in advance of what he's calling a "Mass Movement Against Gun Violence," tonight Moore will again address an issue about which he says "now is the moment to make this happen."
Tune in this evening at 9 as the man behind such films as "Fahrenheit 9/11" and "Roger & Me" further addresses topics he deems critical to the future of the country.
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1. On the Popoe, Why dos anybody need Rome, Italy's permission to do anything or on how to raise our families? seduce our bank accounts. Dint God implement FreeWill?
That's funny so your getting upset about the amount of control the Pope has over the Catholic Church, but at the same time you advocate the control the government should have over the freedom and const*tional right of Americans. Sounds like you need a checkup from the neck up.
CR how are ya. do you have a serious issue to talk about? The pope is just my opinion, pretty silly watching for that white smoke and feeding for the approval of the wobbling cardinals and the grand Pope to make a discion in ones life for the future of your family CR!
Scott go and get your checkup!
Beth Thind
I applauded Piers and Michael Moore in last night's interview. I completely agree with everything talked about–especially the constant lack of any meaningful assault weapons bans passing in congress. Even govenor John Hinkenlooper of Colorado today passed a law requiring background checks for private and online gun sales and a ban on ammunition magazines that hold more than 15 rounds. I also emailed senator Harry Reid re his lack of courage in the senate to strongly promote with his colleagues passing the bill against the sale of all assault weapons. Thanks for encouraging we citizens, Piers.
On the Iraq war. Thanks Bush regime for starting an illegal war you say was just to satisfy a personal agenda ( my opinion, but millions say it). Still today in your books you glorify the president and vice president ( the puppet master of the scam) decimated our economy with the bill and the loss of over 4000 american soildiers! come on, tell me why it was justified. America wants to hear the psycotic logic for the Blunder!
And where would the world be today if we hadn't have gone into Iraq? The decision to go in, or not, was a right versus right decision. Unless you've lived in the Middle East and experienced the oppressive and brutal society that many Muslims live under you have no place to comment.
$ 4 trillion richer in the US bank, 4000 live american troops , the middle east would have took care of Saddam, and we woludnt have been duped in the biigest scam the presidancy has ever brought apon the history of its existance CR1
I think you've forgotten the Vietnam War which was a much bigger scam, if you want to put it that way, which cost over 58,000 American lives.
Well you know what. They had a Tax leid to pay for the vietnam war . And we had a tax put forth for every War, except Bush's deceptive Iraqi war and the afganastan war that with the two that deleted our surplus from the clinton era and totaled to the 6 – 7 trillion in added deficeit ( debt ) to our economy right now. Do some more research.
Scott, I thought you were worried about saving lives, not the costs?
Just like any other scam the victim brains is squeezed out first. You need to wake up and see who is running our country, it's not the dish rag Mosloms it's Israel stupid.
Jeff.
Thanks congress for authorizing it
Ok now, GUNS. In no way did anybody say ban all guns. But yet, Ignorant, stupified individuals, while some with guns already dont think we should do anything about the out of sight deaths and viloence from guns. No need for a National gun registry thats a data base to start the quest for weeding out the criminals and getting illegal guns of the streets in TIME, not tomorrow as the excuse keeps coming it wont make a difference ( The do nothing whackos and people who have something to hide) yet it will in time crack down on the sleazy street gun dealers and the unaccountable doings at some sanctioned gun shows ( Ethics, man) Go ahead and deny logic and common sense, but us very concerned americans will follow through with the new gun legislation. Lokk on your TV and the world CNN etc. the laws are on the floor and change is imminent. Keep rejecting the assault weapons banned the NRA right fenatics, your are so much helping our cause in the soon elections. the Nation sees your votes and change is coming. And the GOP is with its denial of equality rights for all, and rejection of womens rights, Keep up the arguement. Good as gold!
The polls are slipping. Even in left leaning Colorado, public opinion has shifted dramatically away from the ban and restrictions the state legislature has tabled. Lawmakers there badly misread the pulse of voters. The losers in Colorado will be the Democrats.
Gov. Cuomo's poll ratings have also slipped since his over reaching on the gun issue.
Political ambitions never drives the best policy. Cuomo's 2016 presidential ambitions are shot, he will never be president now. NYS is the 4th largest gun owning state in the country. I think many gun owners are just waking up to what's happened. Cuomo's bill was so far reaching not only from a const*tional standpoint but also from the impact it has had on traditional shooting sports in the state and businesses that it has devasted in that field that it simply doesn't pass the smell test. The bill's passage certainly didn't follow protocol.
Don Wilkinson
Don't own a gun, but listening to Michael Moore makes me want to join the NRA. If you want to get something done, get some credible spokespersons. Moore is not credible.
harhar
Piers and Michael look like kin.
harhardehar
Piers and Michael look like kin. Aye
Amanda Ryan
Why won't my posts go up?
Scott – Seriously! Heres some logic an common sense for your idiotic argument. The argument is framed as follows: Ban assault weapons in order to prevent another Sandy Hook. In 2011, the number of deaths where an assault weapon was used is .012 (1%). This fact leads one to logically conclude that a ban on assault weapons does nothing to stop or prevent future deaths. So why do it? Why not pursue legislation that will actually make a difference. Such as, allow law abiding citizens to carry their guns and be able to respond when some maniac decides to go on a shooting rampage! The police and the government can only respond after the fact. They cannot protect you or your family against someone that wants to hurt you. They can only pursue and arrest them after you are dead!
Logic: TheSandy Hook shooter got his guns from his mother, who got them legally because there was no assault weapons/high capacity clip ban.
Does anyone know how to send an email to harry Reid? I tried harry_Reid@Reid.senate.gov but it did not work.
We had a gun registry in Canada for 15 years. Here is what we found. Many people did not register their guns in the first place, making them criminals who`s only crime was not registering. Those who did register were constantly worried that the lists of the guns had fallen into the wrong hands and that they would now be victims of break and enters or even violent home invasions.The gun registry database was hacked into more than 400 times the police admitted. Gun owners were also worried that the police would now treat them differently than those who did not own guns.That is, they felt the police would approach them with fear and be triggy happy, expecting that perhaps they might be shot. Every time the police attended a call, they were warned that there were registered guns there. Of course there might be guns at any residence because not all people registered their guns in the first place, giving the police a false sense of security. Anonymity of gun owners who had guns actually protected all citizens because nobody was sure if those inside might be armed. Even those without guns had this protection. Neighbours would snitch on others who had unregistered guns. In one case, a senior citizen in his 80`s who had a couple of un-registered guns innocently confided in a neighbour whom he thought he could trust with this information. The senior was arrested at gun point, taken to police headquarters, stripped of his clothes and thrown in a cell. His guns were destroyed. He was later released and charged with a criminal act. The gun registry also relies on serial numbers. If those serial numbers are removed, the gun immediately becomes untraceable and the person who the gun is registered to can sell or lend or give that gun away and it can not be traced back to them. Gun owners are not audited and if there were, they could claim that gun stolen or lost in the bottom of a big lake when they were boating with it when the boat turned over accidentally.The registry could also be used by a tyrannical government to disarm the people.History has proven this.
Real gun control begins at home. The money spent on a registry would be better spent giving grants for gun safes and trigger locks. Licensing is used here in Canada and anyone caught with a gun without a license has their guns taken and they are charged. A gun registry is a witch hunt and puts citizens in a bad position all around.
You think, Youd really better look again and put your money where you mouth is. the GOP (NRA) is on a roller coaster of tradgedy with its 1950's political agena and ideas. They stooped to low efforts to have sarah palin to the RNC to again divide the base, (we love the show). The head of the new RNC sloagan is helarious with his New age ,re-wording of the old, out dated sloagan of the war against women and the right to prochoice, gay rights, OH: thrying to encourage the minorities with new vrebage that they want their vote but they dispises you even though your the new majority, Oh that hurts! Now lets talk about the new gun legislation thats on the floor now ( turn to the world news) and see the legislation gain power to restore american safty. Those GOP that vote NO are being watchd by the american population as a whole right now and will get annilated at the next election. Ill be there to remind you!
Wow sm. you really have buried your head in the sand. You have had too much to drink of the liberal Koolaid. The tax and spend policies of your liberal buddies will come home to roost before long. The GOP will be there to pick up the pieces and save this country.
I believe in reform and a more equal society, but what I can't tolerate is an arrogant government that wants to legislate the way and means I can protect myself and family.
Id think you might not know how to handle a gun, You might hurt yourself. I could be wrong. thanks for reposting the video ,that puts half a smile on my face. talk to ya soon sir.
Just to remind you of that arrogance Scott, I'm posting your favorite video!
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzEd6MNihlg&w=640&h=360]
At least the girl is cute!
What a moron
Gil Ostler
As a Canadian watching the Iraq war day in and day out ... i'm proud of my government for staying out of Iraq and the ensuing quagmire that it has become ... Americans should read Vincent Bugliosi's book " The Case Against George W. Bush for Murder " ... it will illuminate you greatly about what he and his conspirators did and what should and can be done about them.
I was rather embarrassed by Canada's none commitment. Jean Chretien's decision to stay out was merely political to placate his liberal base in Quebec. His decision not to enter was not based on any moral conviction, that's for sure. Sadly it's impact is still being felt vis a vis US Canadian relations today.
I agree with you about Canada. When an allied coalition is in a binding agreement all coutries should follow through with their obligations with their stated concerns noted. In a million to one chance Canada was invaded they would call on the allied coalition with expectations to assist. Its their choice,but it could come back tobite them in the butt. I was totally against bush's ( Chainey as the pupet master) Iraq war, we were all ready commited to a serious war>
Ya it figures another bad seed to our north we should of beaten you back in the 1700 wars Canada is a pain in the butt you all wine and talk lots of crap about the us but where do you go for healthcare and to make millions keep you're crappy singers up there please and don't come here for health visits we have to deal with our own broken Obama care now I use to own a home in dig by so I have herd it all from my relatives
Thomas the Canadian.
not sure if you are aware, but we have full healthcare coverage in Canada with the best cancer hospitals and leading edge science. So I am confused by your comment. Why would a Canadian drive over the boarder to the US to pay for their hospital bill when it's free in Canada. Moron.
Also as a Canadian that make over 200k a year. I am proud to pay 50 percent taxes to make sure that me and all other Canadians who can't afford it have well taken care of , hospitals, streets, infrastructure. Also I'm glad we didn't go to Iraq. We don't feel the need to go to war or pick fights in the playground. We would rather play like adults and do business with our words not out fists. In the mature world of adults that's why your country is falling apart and ours is thriving. Maybe you should come to Canada and get a health check up. 😉 it's free.
@Thomas the Canadian. If health is so good in Canada, why did the former Permier of New Foundland opt to have his heart operation in the US?
"You an Englishman, and you're just another a dictator, Pierse?? You're no better than Obama. I don't wonder Britain don't want you!!"
This is a serious question, what is your issue or what are you trtying to get across to us on this website besides are current knowledge that you cant stand Piers, But you pop up on here every other night. I just cant get a grasp on where you stand on any issue, Please enlighten us. just curious, are you British ?
Gail young
As usual, Michael Moore is bringing it! Awesome. Someone with refreshing courage. 6,500 dead in a war that was a lie.
The only thing Michael Moore is bringing are donuts to stuff his face with after the show.
Don't own a gun, but listening to Michael Moore makes me want to join the NRA. His appearance will result in record gun and ammo sales tomorrow. If you really want to accomplish something get some credible guests.
Ray Barnes
You're right about Moore being a motivator to action, I just wrote both my state Senators to OPPOSE any proposed gun control measures and I just donated $100 to the NRA. The second ammendment is the freedom that guarantees all others.
Morgan and Moore ......... I am thankful they are only a couple of talking heads that wish a for totalitarian society. They will be making their millions pedaling the absurd while all the rest of us are working for wages that actually provide the goods and services that serve society. Like the watching the Kardashians, sometimes I have to tune in to see what the media can actually put on the air and get sponsors to pay for!
I'm sick of liberals spewing about banning semi automatic rifles which are incorrectly called assault rifles....According to the FBI more people are killed in this country each year with hammers then with rifles..Foaming.Libs like Michael Moore and Piers Morgan haven't a clue about what they're talking about...because if they did their outrage would be directed where it should be directed and that's at the criminal thugs ...By far the most shooting deaths done in this country are done by criminal thugs shooting other thugs with illegal handguns...None of these bans would have prevented any of those mass shootings,and these libs know it...The bans that ended in 2004 proved that these bans don't work and were a dismal failure..this is a fact and not a theory.
hey, I genuallyam just curious, Do You Own A semi-automatic gun? or are you just argueing just to argue about something that dosent effect you at this point in time. Do you have government conspiracy theories , do you attend on using an assaut weapon ( the sloppy cutting machine which is uncontrollable in the mdst of a flash accurance) to shoot first and ask questions later. inquireing minds liked to know.
colleen kelly mellor
Tried to email harry reid to tell him to put back assault rifle ban but hit a wall when "nevada" listed as his region..I'm in nc and ri..mike..give us the email address exactly where our message can get thru
Harry reid doesnt care about you get over it
On guns, as Canadians, my family and I will no longer travel to the United States. We've always known of the right to bear arms, but, recent events are just too shocking and serious for us to feel safe.
Your comment is completely ridiculous. You have a greater chance of being struck by lightning, killed in a road accident, or hit by a drunk driver than being shot in the US. On a per capita basis there have been nearly as many mass shootings in Canada. Remember most of the shootings that happen in the US or any country for that matter are more often than not gang related and occur in deprived neighborhoods, neighborhoods you are unlikely to ever visit. Get real! You're just being silly!
Dear CR. Ridiculous or not, you in your country have mass shootings in public places involving innocent bystanders. We do not in Canada have the gun violence equal to the same proportion of our population. This speaks for itself. Frankly, the whole right to bear arms is nothing short of ridiculous and dangerous.
What about all the shootings in Toronto and Vancouver. Reports of these are in the press almost daily.
Adam NYC
What fantasy world are you living in? As of a decade or so, the # of people killed by guns in the US was greater than Canada and dozens of other countries, and it was greater by 2,3, 5, or 10 times. I'm sure that the figures haven't changed much since. Nice way to argue– just invent stats out of thin air!
Adam it sounds like you are making the stats up now. The overall homicide rate (murder by all means) in the US is just over twice that of Canada's. If you want to do some other comparisons using Canada, Canada's overall homicide rate is nearly two and half times higher than countries like Switzerland, Germany and France. Surprisingly though these three European counties are some of the biggest gun owning nations on the planet and are ranked 3rd, 4th and 5th globally in terms of private gun ownership. On a per capita basis the Swiss own more than twice the number of guns as Canadians, and the Germans and French more than 50% more. So if guns are really the problem these three countries should have significantly higher homicide rates than our good neighbor to the north, but they don't. All three have some of, if not the lowest homicides rates in the world. The problem in this country is not about the number guns we own, but about the vast and ever growing inequality gap that exists.
Great Elizabeth – stay out! We don't need your liberal money.....
Steve, you are nothing short of rude and only hurt the perception of Americans.
Hey, I'm from Canada and listening to these two fear mongering idiots on gun control makes me want to stay out of the US too .. not because of guns, but because of lefty idiots like those two!
that's fine with me, you can stay in Canada, I live in Las Vegas and I OPEN CARRY, because I can, and I will, and it is legal to do so. So if you don't like our country, then don't come here.
I am so sick of this guy, he needs to go back to England and take Mike Moore with him. They are so stupid to think Guns kill people rather than look at the person behind the gun. Looking at it the way they do, what is the difference in saying Cars kill people. Guns are a mechanical device just like a car. More people are killed by cars than guns. So whats next, take our cars? If they don't like guns, then don't use them but who are they to force their opinion on others.
When are the fanatics in the NRA going to come up with a new argument? No assault weapons ban assures us that Newtown will happen again. Cancer doesn't kill people, people kill people! Why do you want to see more children murdered?
The name "Michael Moore" is not spoken in my household, EVER.
Why because you all can't read or understand English?
If criminals obeyed our laws, we would have zero murders.
Laws are like locks, they only keep honest people outside the door.
No government can legislate what is in the mind of an individual citizen, even one who is mentally incompetent.
Law abiding citizens did not kill anyone in Columbine, Aurora or Sandy Hook.
Piers and Michael have very well placed emotions, just misplaced anger.... Their anger should be focused on the judges and legislators who take the teeth out of crime sentences for criminals, including the ones who illegally use a firearm in the commission of a crime. The idea of declaring schools "gun free zones" is absolutely stupid... Since when do criminals obey laws ??? That's why they are called criminals !!! Make the punishment harsher for violent crimes, and don't weenie out on using the death penalty !!! I don't care if it is a deterrent to another criminal or not, eliminate the criminal that performed the heinous acts !!! Piers... you keep talking about the kill rate with guns for the past year... more people were killed last year with hammers, you twit !!!! Don't jump on some emotional bandwagon.... work towards something that is constructive, that can provide real results !!!! Criminals certainly are NOT going to turn in their guns just because a ban exists on them... And now Michel is talking about the damage from an AR type rifle and how the bullets "shred" the bodies of the little kids... has he ever seen what a single shotgun blast does to a body ??? What a moron Michael Moore is....
I am NOT an NRA member, nor do I own a gun... however, I understand the rights to own and maintain a firearm, and acknowledge that a firearm, in the hands of a criminal, can be devastating.... however the key point is IN THE HANDS OF A CRIMINAL !!!! Law abiding citizens do not do what these evil people do.... Do not for a second think that any "assault" rifle ban is going to even touch the real problem, because it won't.... Even if you could round up every single pistol and rifle of any type in this country in one instance, the bad guys would still get them.... from China, from Korea, from Syria, from wherever they could, and still perform evil in this country.... Once again, that's what makes them CRIMINALS !!!!
The fact that you are discussing this issue with this moron as opposed to any ordinary person off the street fits the stupid premise of your mind dulling show......to a "T".........
Can you please post Harry Reid's e-mail address or scroll it at the bottom of the screen, please?
Where is Mr. Moore's outrage at the entertainment industry? It has been reported that the Sandy Hook killer treated his killing spree as a video game.
Remember, Moore is not likely to vilify the very industry he works in!
Piers and Michael both need to quit whining. This is America. Go home Piers
Keep up the good work Piers!!!!
Michael Moore is correct about the Criminals who took us into the Iraq War(s) based on Total Lies... However, Michael Moore is WAY OFF BASE when it comes to the Gun Control issue!!! Obama is just a continuation of Bush in so many ways - he has issued "Executive Orders" that would make Hitler look like a Schoolboy... Make no mistake: Globalists Absolutely Want to Disarm America! ...
Stand strong, America - Flush Fiendstein's Gun Control Bill, Completely!!!
Adam did not use a Bushmaster at Sandy Hook it was all done with a pistol. I wish Piers would get his facts straight.
Amalee
WHO CARE WTH HE KILLED THEM WITH???!!!
The fact is they were killed. If you ask me, they're ALL ASSULT WEAPONS.
..next thing we hear is he shot them from behind, in the dark, they were all handicapped minorities killed for oil, eh.
Mine is not an assault weapon. It has never assaulted anyone. Mine has kindness. When a criminal attempts to harm my family. I will then kill them with kindness.
Hes a lib he doesnt care about facts just emotions
Jerry Conchilla
You and Michael Moore talked about how the Connecticut shooter used an assault rifle to shoot each child multiple times.
HE DID NOT USE AN ASSAULT RIFLE!! The rifle was found in his car. He used pistols to kill the kids. You have got to read the reports before you distort the truth.
Betty Robbins, Ph.D.
Please ask one of your guests on gun control why it is that we have agrede we can regulate the 1st Amendment, the foundation of Democracy, yet not the 2nd Amendment. I cannot yell "fire" in a crowded theater or burn a cross in my neighbor's yard. Those acts are illegal,and regulated under the 1st Amendment,; yet I can purchase assault rifles and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. How perverted are these priorities? Please explain.
Shame on Harry Reid. Does he not have any child in Iraq, any grandchild in a public school, any loved one going to a shopping mall?
Sentekin Can
Ms. Robbins, Thanks for speaking our minds. As all over the world the rich (republicans here) and starts the wars, the poor kids fight and die.
Can you please put HARRY REID'S email up for everyone to see?? I missed it and when looking for it found that it isn't listed. (Because of the amount of emails)- Micheal Moore is right, we all need to email this government turd if we want change in this country. I am a monther of two elementaryschoolers and i know I'm gonna stand up and do something.
Yeah, right after you posy your email.....
http://www.reid.senate.gov
Aviti811@gmail.com
Have a field day.
michael weir
peirs and Michael, those kids was just babies, their blood cries out for us to do something,
V felix
Sent my emails to Reid, Rubio and Nelson. Lets see if I get an answer other than a form letter. Whole gun issue makes me ill. Where are the politicians with guts? Vote them out in the next election if they can't pass a gun control law. It's not a lifetime job
Thank you harry reid!
WHAT A WONDERFUL DAY TODAY,CRY BABY PIERS MORGAN GOT HIS , AND HE IS SAD BECAUSE WE DIDNT BAN THE ASSAULT WEAPONS, WHO REALLY THOUGHT WE WOULD OR SHOULD, HAHAHAHA AT YOU, CRY PIERS CRY, YOU CRY BABY, GET OVER IT, THIS WOULDNT FIX ANYTHING ANYWAY, GUNS DONT KILL PEOPLE , PEOPLE DO , I HAVE GUNS THEY DONT SHOOT ANYBODY, THEY SHOOT PAPER , AT GUN RANGES ONLY.
Amen dana
Hmmmm, I'm thinking they got a discount on a nice hotel room for the night .. with a California King sized bed?
Democrats promote the culture of death via their endorsement of abortion. We have an entertainment industry that promotes a culture of violence. The Sandy Hook killer was obsessed with violent video games. So why have we not heard Piers or Mr. Moore calling out their fellow liberals and co-workers in the entertainment industry on their role in the rise of violence in our country?
If we are to believe that simply viewing a cigarette ad will cause people to smoke, it follows suit that viewing violent movies and games causes people to act out that way. Will Mr. Moore have the guts to call out his fellow rich liberals in the media for their part in this?
It's really sad when Michael Moore is considered an expert witness on anything. When a conspiracy theorist comes on and spews generalities as facts it turns us off! Shame on them for accusing responsible gun owners of wanting tragedies like sandy hook to happen. Graffic images and discussion on children being murdered is not appropriate.
Pam Arterburn
Somebody tell Piers to let Michael Moore talk. He needs to LISTEN rather than talk on top of MM and change the direction of the conversation every 30 seconds. Jesus. Whatever happened to a host who actually understood that the GUEST should be the focal point of an INTERVIEW? Jack Paar, Steve Allen, Dick Cavett, Johnny Carson–Piers, watch these shows and study up. You ranting while an expert is sitting there NOT talking is not an interview!
Piers, Please keep it going. "When good people do nothing"....disaster happens/has happened. Thanks for your tenacity and courage. Couldn't care less about the whinning 2nd Amenders...stupid, stupid, stupid non-thinking paralyzed in another century folk.
“Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.” - Edmund Burke
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana
It’s only been 70 years since WW2 ended. And already, many people have forgotten the important teachings from the most unfortunate event, for example, how Hitler so quickly came to power in a formerly “democratic” country and triggered a world war, and how over 60 MILLION people were killed in the atrocities of WW2.
“Our children's safety and future” is the VERY reason why we the people need to be well-armed. Lives equal to 6,000 years of gun victims can be lost only in a matter of a few years if we couldn’t prevent another world war...
That is why we the people must always watch what our government does and always have the power over the government (by physically outgunning them) and make sure that any power-hungry politicians with tyrannical tendencies know their limit, that their wildest dreams wouldn’t ever come true (so they won’t even dare try) because the people have the power to fight against the corrupt government to the bitter end. And it is our moral obligation to pass on this “power of the people” to the later generations as our Founding Fathers intended, to ensure that our great-great-great-grand-children will enjoy the freedom that we enjoy today. We must fight tooth and nail to preserve the Second Amendment.
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin
Tedd, You are on the money. The event that cemented my belief and support in the second ammendment happened when I was reading a book on the holocaust in my high school library. I'm a pretty tough guy, but it brought me to tears. There was a photo of a soldier with his rifle aimed at the back of a civilian woman's head, the woman clutched her child in her arms as she walked past women that were already shot dead by the soldiers. Undoubtedly, she was dead seconds after the picture was taken...along with her child. There have been far more people killed by their governments during genocidal "cleansings" than have been killed by civilian criminal activities and murders and in nearly all cases the first thing that must happen is the people must be rendered powerless and this is achieved by removing their strength of arms. The second ammendment is there as a final check and balance on a government that already has considerable checks and balances. The second ammendment guarantees that the people retain the power to augment the government by force of arms should the government fail to be by the people and for the people.
We need a president like him.
http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2013/03/bill-whittles-virtual-state-of-the-union-guns-in-america-video-2588444.html
Twelve million unarmed men, women and children were unable to resist being murdered by their own National Socialist government in Germany. Perhaps fifty million unarmed men, women and children were murdered by their own Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Fifty million Chinese murdered by their own government under Mao who also disarmed his people, and in Cuba and in Vietnam and in the killing fields of Cambodia. Now you say that can't happen here. You say we're protected. BY WHAT?? By the Const*tution that you're in the process of destroying? You are in violation of your oaths of office but so much as introducing this legislation let alone passing it. My fellow Americans, the previous inhabitants of this chamber watched as one hundred million people were murdered after being disarmed by their own governments. Every single one of those men, women and children, were as real and precious and irreplaceable as the children at Newtown. And I tell you here and now that I will be damned if I let that happen to the American people.
rhyll peel
Piers and Michael
you are not alone...there are like-minded people....we are as dumbfounded and angry... yes, active grassroots conversation and vocalizing is the answer....thank you thank you for your courage....you've earned your respected positions,
a grateful Canadian
Paul Choudek
I listen to you and Michael Moore talk about the thousands of people who die as a result of guns What is your stance on the millions of kids who have been aborted?
People just want to pretend away what is happening to innocent children on a regular basis. It's easier for people to live in denial than face what life in America has become. It seems people think it will never happen to them or their children. Gun control or reality check? I don't know which one we need more!!! If we stop talking about it, it will go away. Wake up!
Kevin from Washington
So, do the people screen posts at Piers Morgan's blog?
Piers thank you for being a "people's reporter". I have sent the following e-mail after your comments to Harry Reed:
"As a Democrat I am extremely disappointed your retreat in gun control issue. I hope you will pay more attention to the opinions of people who elected you.
Respectefully,
Sentekin Can"
Joe stenmiller
What the ??? After Piers in the past makes faces and sarcastic comments about people who dont know their facts, he repeats with an air of believing it 1 Million gun deaths in US since Lennon died with Yoko Ono as his source. Recent national homicide stats, not all with guns is 14k per year. How do you comeint up with a millon gun deaths. Yet he repeats it and it scrolls below the screen – this is crap – not journalism. Shame for such nonsense. This is why the general public take anti-gun nuts less seriously than defenders of the 2nd amendment.
IT IS TIME YOU ALL READ THE SECOND AMENDMENT , WE HAVE A RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS, IT HAS BEEN RECENTLY DISCUSSED BY THE SUPREME COURT, AND THEY HAVE DECIDED THAT, YES THE PEOPLE HAVE THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS AND IT SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED. PERIOD WHAT DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND . GUNS DID NOT KILL KIDS AT A SCHOOL OR IN A MOVIE THEATER , CRAZY PEOPLE DID , GET MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES GOING NOT GUN CONTROL YOU FOOLS
Dana, you are so correct, I would love nothing more than to deport Morgan, and they can take Moore with him
Lainie
What gives Piers Morgan the right to criticize the United States of America! We are no longer British colonies. He needs to shut up and take his pompous British butt back to England. Will they pay him big bucks to do nothing but criticize? I doubt it.
Dawn Marie Rae
Thanks Piers for your continuing coverage for gun control, and especially tonight with Michael Moore. I sent this to my two senators and addressed it to Harry Reid:
I don't need a reply and I am also not living in Nevada, but you might want to get the footage of Piers Morgan Live with Michael Moore that is running tonight, especially after your cave-in today on the bill for an assault rifle ban, et all. You should be ashamed after all that has happened. I am a well-read person and don't come to this opinion lightly. I hope you'll reconsider making the bill all-encompassing, or at the very least, put it up for a vote, despite the supposed lack of support from you and your colleagues. I am sure you expected backlash on this, I hope you get more. Does the NRA pay the congress that much to discard even the semblance of trying for a vote? An email goes to my senators in Texas as well.
Piers likes beating his drum but he doesn't understand EVERYTHING involved.Assualt rifles,ok the ruger mini 14 is a common ranch rifle with a 10 round magazine,but a new folding stock 30 round mag laser optics and you have an assualt rifle.Same gun just a cosmitic dress up.And let's say you do get the ban.Then what?You think people are just going to give up thier guns.NO cops will have to take them and you will have even more killings and a possable civil war.But then hey that would be great for CNN.
If someone wants to kill they will find a way.Timothay McVey killed 100's and he didn't use a gun.
Here is a challenge for Piers,have someone take you to the slums of Detriot and drop you off and let you walk at night 20 blocks by yourself and see how far you get and see if you feel completly safe being unarmed.Take your cell phone and call 911 when you need to,but the cops only come AFTER a crime has been comited not before.
WELL SAID LEE, ITS ABOUT TIME THERE IS SOME COMMON SENSE , AND YOU ARE TRULY CORRECT,THIS WAS BAD LEGISLATION THAT WOULD NOT HELP ANYTHING.
Kevin from Washington State
Piers and Micheal, I did contact my Senators, as well as my State Representatives, and I told them all that if they were to vote for ANY gun legislation, I would vote them out of office.
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
For those Canadian viewers and Michael Moore especialy this Canadian news piece by the CBC is quite revealing about the gun violence in Chicago. None of community activists, gang members or victims interviewed believe that stricter gun laws will have any impact. The message from the hoods most affected by gun violence resoundingly say it is all about jobs and providing hope for the future that will stop the killings. The problem is we live in one of the most unequal societies in the western world. If countries like Switzerland, the 3rd largest gun owning nation in world, with one the lowest homicide rates on the planet can live with guns, what does it say about our society? You have to wonder whether our politicians are really listening.
CR, I agree with this post (you did not insult this time) and that career criminals will always find a means including the use of illegal weapons. However, it is unlikely that the recent school shooting would have taken place, or to the extent that it did, had the boy's mother not had so many guns in the house. The point is that with guns so readily available, it is all too easy for killings to happen whether planned or spur of the moment anger as we also see too often.
But that is down to parental responsibility. Banning a particular type of gun just because it looks scary is just paying lip service to the greater problem. There are 300 million guns in circulation in this country and an estimated 6 million A15 style rifles, along with millions of others types of rifles that the media hasn't even begun talking about yet. Any ban that comes into effect will not see the confiscation of these, they will always be in circulation along with the 10s of millions of large capacity magazines. As I said in the post above, the Swiss are the 3rd largest gun owning nation on the planet, most Swiss homes own an assault rifle, and yet they have one of the lowest homicide rates in the world. Now that you know the Swiss are a gun loving nation too, would it put you off visiting there? Likewise would it put you off visiting Germany or France who are ranked 4th and 5th in the world in terms of private gun ownership? Again the Germans and French have equally low homicide rates as the Swiss. Or would you feel safer visiting Britain that has a virtual gun ban? Surprisingly though Britain's overall homicide rate, despite having very few guns in private circulation has one of the highest homicide rates in Western Europe, and was named only a few years ago by the EU as the violent crime capital of Europe. One's own perception is often wrong.
I totally agree, Piers and Michael, and share your outrage. I sent an email to Senate leader H. Reid and urged others on FB to do so.
Reid pulled the bill because it will not have enough votes to pass, that is a fact.
It is just 'feel good' 'window dressing' and would not have stopped the mass murders in Aurora, Columbine,
Sandy Hook or in Arizona where Rep Giffords was shot and others killed.
None of the proposed gun bans would have prevented any of those evil mass shooting...The lies and deceit on the Morgan show with the foaming liberal "fat boy" Michael Moore was disgusting,,This turd would use as a prop the pictures of the victims and the families of the victims for his gun grabbing agenda knowing full well that no bans would have prevented that evil or any other shooting tragedy..what a miserable excuse of a human being this and fat revolting "thing" is...Morgan as usual was milking this for all he could for his miserable ratings,and was rejoicing that Moore actually made him look thin.
LOL!! LOL!! Couldn't have said it better! Is it me, or was Moore sitting in two chairs?
Some sobering thoughts from a former judge!
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkhc6hwJ7ZA&w=640&h=360]
Thanks for posting these are the hard cold and truthful facts...refreshing from all the liberals binging on liberal ideology,and deceitful propaganda.
P Lindsey
Connecting Feinstein's "looks like a mean weapon" ban and the Moscone/Milk murders in SF is ridiculous. Dan White used a .38 Special, a revolver, not an "assault rife" or even a semi-automatic pistol. Piers Morgan + Michael Moore: put them together and they still don't have a whole brain.
George Koenig
I bet they have bodyguards with firearms and not a single shot muzzleloader either. What a bunch of hypocrites.
Tonkatwn
Just now watching this on the West Coast. Can anybody give me the minute entry when Piers & Michael start making out?
Thanks michael, I just emailed Harry Reid and told him to get his head out of his ass and include the assault weapons ban in the Gun Ban Bill.
Anada, let me know when you take a weapons course, and actually know what an assault weapon is. after 18 years in the army, I believe that I have a better idea than you. take a minute and read the second amendment... it sure looks like you are exercising your first. SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED...
R.Slye
as a non-citizen of America who are you to discuss our 2nd amendment. Don't you have problems in your own country you could go solve. You might not believe in god and you might not believe in guns,but when someone kicks your door down the first thing you will do is call someone with a gun and pray they get there in time.
Dan V.
Piers, Keep it going on the need for gun control and strong law enforcement.
The Harry Reid announcement today convinces me there is weakness, corruption and self interest in government. If it's all about self interest and money, then I for one am boycotting Vegas trips while this fool is in office.
Wow... watching this episode with Michael Moore talking about the "evil" NRA and how they want to push killing with guns. When Michael Moore himself said (re: the latest school shooting) ..."it only took one bullet to kill these kids, what is going through his mind to continue to shoot them". People... Guns do not kill people, people kill other people. So, he says a statement saying what is wrong with this persons' mind not the gun he used. He is just a Progressive wanting to push this country to a level of incompetence and socialistic behavior. They want to have more strict background checks. did you know the guy who killed all those kids went through three differernt background checks and was rejected everytime!!! Okay... so lets make any possesion of guns illegal, now to see how this works, look south of the border! The cartels run that country, because they are the only ones who have the guns... and money, so they now own most of the police, because the police don't want any of their family killed. If only criminals have guns, we are all doomed!
Now... don't get me wrong, I don't want anyone killed with guns unless someone is protecting themselves or another.
Chicago... DC... even CT have very strict gun control. What went wrong? TX, AZ have very open gun possession laws, a different tale there. People like Michael Moore and the host of this show have a political agenda that is not good for this country or it's citizens. America Must Stand Proud and not be deterred by Progressive Liberals, who use Hollywood as a way to manipulate the masses. Remember, we are all Americans and these people need to stop driving a wedge between people who love this country and what She stands for. -Thank you for your time...
Steve Grosnickle
My wife and I are US citizens living in Canada. We watch in horror as the US society refuses to make decisions to protect the people (i.e. the gun culture that is rampant throughout society). In Canadian society the rights and safety of the whole are more important than one’s individual rights. For example, gun registration is mandatory and restrictions on gun ownership are imbedded in the law. As a result there are very few people killed due to gun violence. People accept this as a part of good governance and a requirement for a civil society. I just hope that the American society comes to their senses and realizes that freedom without rules creates anarchy in the streets.
On your show today you asked people to contact Harry Reid and express anger at backing down on the amendment to ban assault weapons. I’m unable to get on the site (I have no US address) so I’m making my voice heard through your show. Keep up the fight. It is an important one.
Piers the poll number are falling, kind of similar to your viewer ratings. The vast majority of Americans don't support a ban. The country is divided down the middle, so youvcan't misleadingly claim a vast majority.
The BBC has just reported Newtown is seeing a spike in pistol permit applications from residents since the tragedy. Local police are saying this is due in part to the tragedy, but also due to the threat of stricter new gun laws.
If there is an average of 10,000 gun murders per year or less since John Lennon died 33 years ago that equals 300,000 plus murders .Where is Yoko Ono getting her statistics that there have been over 1.2 million murders with guns in America since Jonh Lennon died? She has quadrupled the statistics. I think I have over inflated the10,000 per year average. More lies to try to take guns away from law abiding citizens.
Well spotted even if you triple the annual number you don't get to the number they published. The rule is simple, don't believe anything CNN says if they are prepared to publish Tweets as gospel from flakey sources.
You're counting the number of murders? really? You actually see a difference between 10,000 and 1,000.000 murders?Are you sure you counted all of the little children that were murdered in Newton. 10 million murders a year wouldn't change your mind!
Morgan's credibility as a journalist are shot, his shows audience numbers are plummeting, I wonder how much longer before CNN pulls the plug?
God please for give them, because their guns will kill their kids more than any war they engage in. Shame
AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!
God please forgive all the drivers and passengers, because their CARS will kill our kids more than any guns. SHAME.
By far the most common type of injury accident involving children are those that also involve motor vehicle collisions. According to the National Center for Statistics and Analysis (NCSA), nearly 250,000 children are injured every year in car accidents. This means that on any given day nearly 700 children are harmed due to accidents on our roadways. OF THE 250,000 KIDS INJURED EACH YEAR, APPROXIMATELY 2,000 DIE FROM THEIR INJURIES. Children make up about 5% of total fatalities due to car accidents. In fact, for children between the ages of 2 and 14, “motor vehicle accidents are the leading cause of death.” Car accidents are also the leading cause of acquired disability (e.g., brain injury, paralysis, etc.) for children nationwide. And approximately 20% of the children who die in a car accident each year are killed in accidents involving a driver who is legally intoxicated. Nearly half of these children were killed while riding as passengers in an automobile driven by an intoxicated driver.
http://www.articlesbase.com/law-articles/children-car-accidents-the-alarming-statistics-695796.html
So many postings – no wonder, Mr. Morgan has touched again the American Heart – the Gun -.
Great show! Thank you CNN!
But you must know Piers is doing it solely for his ratings, right?
But that's just it his viewer numbers are plummeting.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/usa/9361012/Piers-Morgan-brings-worst-ratings-to-CNN-prime-time-slot-in-21-years.html
It must be frustrating to the viewers to explain (and of course insult) that a gun is a good thing for all Americans, and Mr. Morgan just don't get it. "All you need is a gun" and not "All you need is love". NRA makes the billions + politicians get the votes + people think they are a big deal with weapons (since wild west) = Guns are staying, right the way it is! Period.
againistgunviolence
Kudos to Piers Morgan and Michael Moore for taking a stand against gun violence.. Wouldn't it be wonderful if everyone that rejected the catholic church but not JESUS, organized a mass movement against assault weapons, by not reelecting any of the democrats and republicans that opposed the 'assault weapon ban'.
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P, MORGAN NEEDS TO RETURN TO HIS COUNTRY AND LEAVE THE UNITED STATES TO AMERICANS. IT IS NOT RIGHT PEOPLE FROM OTHER COUNTRIES COME HERE AND TRIES TO CHANGE OUR LAWS TO MATCH THE LAWS OF THEIR NATIVE COUNTRY. IF HE LIKES GUN CONTROL SO MUCH AND DON'T LIKE OUR LAWS, THEN GO BACK TO ENGLAND AND LEAVE US ALONE. I HAVE NEVER SEEN A GUN GET OFF A SHELF BY ITS SELF AND DO ANYTHING. IF HE IS SO STUPID TO THINK GUNS DO THE HARM, THEN I WANT HIM TO FILM A GUN SHOOTING A TARGET WITHOUT A PERSON PULLING THE TRIGER.
I absolutely respect and love Michael Moore. And I totally agree with him. Something has got to be done and if the President can't do it who can?
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__label__cc | 0.68941 | 0.31059 | Piers Morgan challenges John Lott and Ben Ferguson on gun death statistics and the prospect of arming citizens
As yet another mass shooting rocks – and shocks – America, in the process dominating the news cycle and re-engerizing the national debate on gun control, on Monday evening "Piers Morgan Live" invited a lively panel to discuss the more tenuous points of weapon legislation, and gun law.
"They don't use a consistent standard," insisted John Lott, an author and staunch gun rights advocate, when responding to Piers Morgan's mass shooting statistics as credited to "Mother Jones." "Piers, yelling isn't going to make those numbers right...others have looked at this, and they would warn you to be careful, not to use those numbers."
With the basis of the host's argument centering around a goal of limiting the number of firearms in circulation – specifically assault weapons – and tightening regulations, guests like Ben Ferguson routinely suggest that his desires are misguided.
"You want to blame the AR-15, and you think that if we ban this AR-15, federally ban it, that somehow that is going to fix the issue," said Ferguson, joining the program live, via satellite.
In contrast to Morgan, Ferguson favors arming the appropriate officials, and not simply guards at the front of a building, all in hopes of offering protection to every day citizens:
"We are saying that if you are in the United States Navy, and we trust you with Navy ships, and war," began the conservative radio host, "why the hell wouldn't we trust you to carry your weapon to work with you, when we trust you with top secret information?"
Watch the clip for more of Morgan's interview with the likes of Lott and Ferguson, and for the next edition of "Piers Morgan Live," watch CNN every night at 9.
Can't have this debate every time there is a shooting? You act as if you are an American. Gain citizenship and then make that argument. Until then you are not welcome in my country. Unfortunately the immigration service allows you to be here. You better hope CNN doesn't can you for your tabloid journalism and sends you back to Jeremy Clarkson for another "lesson" on etiquette. Or you can mind the business of your claimed he country and stay out of ours.
Not the time to be attacking Piers KM. The problem is right here in the US and not with his commentary. By the way, born and raised in the US since 1966 and you are more than welcome to not only to be in this country but to express your Opinion as well Piers. Not that you need my permission :)). Point that came to my attention. I do believe in freedom to possess a firearm. I believe that this is one of the main reasons that the US has never been directly assaulted in war on our soil. If you have that many people with that many weapons it would be suicide to do so. Point to make is that the gun nuts say we should arm our Teachers so that we can protect our schools. That's all we need to do is arm our Teachers and provide some guards with more weapons to make sure our children are not gunned dowm by some nut with a gun. This guy walked in to a Naval Yard that is fully protected by guards with full Auto Weapons, security, gates, etc and 12 people died. What do you expect a few "teachers" to do with a small caliber handgun tucked behind his waistband as he is trying to teach a lesson on HISTORY to his First graders.
Great response Doug!!!
September 17, 2013 at 1:21 am | Report abuse |
MrReasonable
You are incorrect about the security at the base. Yes, there are guards when you enter, but once inside, it is a gun-free zone. Take note how all of these mass shootings have two things in common, 1) it was in a gun-free zone, and 2) the shooter had serious mental health problems. This man should have never had a security clearance with his history. And the base should allow people who are allowed to carry weapons everywhere else to also carry them on base. Remember Ft. Hood? Also a gun-free zone.
September 17, 2013 at 10:44 am | Report abuse |
IT WAS A SHOTGUN THAT WAS USED!!! NO FULL AUTO GUN! GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT!!
September 17, 2013 at 5:22 pm | Report abuse |
Bob Vaquero
If a shotgun (recommended by VP Biden for home defense) was preferred over an AR-15 by a very successful (unfortunately) mass murderer ... it means that Piers' crusade against semi-autos is at least moot.
He must address this issue tonight.
Enough is enough . God bless you Mr.Morgan American or not thank you for standing up for all of us. It doesn't take much thinking to know guns of any caliber , let alone, the assault killing machine that was used on Mondays massacre does not and should not be available and accessible to us.
The shooter brought a shotgun, you know, the weapon Biden said we should have? Piers Morgan is such an idiot, having an entire show about a weapon that was NOT used in the shooting. Where are the real journalists?
Mary.... Seems you are just like all the other liberals... The fact that piers said there was an AR15 used does not make it the truth..... The FBI stated that the shooter had a SHOTGUN when he entered the base.... NO AR15 ..... He gained access to other weapons from the DEAD..... Please try to be a little objective and studious before you come on a forum and make yourself look like a FOOL......
"[Firearms] should not be available and accessible to us?" Then who should have access to firearms? The people who tell you what to do and how to live? Please remove yourself from this great country and take Piers with you.
randallhurd2013
Piers Morgan was probably an avid reader of Mein Kemp.. That's what Hitler did, and a few others. Removed the firearms then went after the Jews, I wonder what piers agenda Is for America since he's a Self proclaimed activist trying to save America like the British did the first time when they burned the Whitehouse down. I would trust anything he says as a person. And as a person, he's spreading hate and discontent through a place that use to report news. Now he's using the media outlet as the truck drivers do with no focus on the mission statement.
wrong Mary, it was not an assault weapon used in the shooting. It was a SHOTGUN!!!! Also TWO Handguns taken from security
Steven C
Mary, Enough is Enough. The Harvard Law Journal published a report called "WOULD BANNING FIREARMS REDUCE
MURDER AND SUICIDE?" which compared the firearm laws with several nations around the world to the Murder and Suicide rates of those same countries. The conclusion is, Both events (Murder and Suicide) are a cultural issue that can not be corrected via legislation. Banning guns did not reduce the overall Homicide or Suicide rate in the countries where those rates were already high. However, in countries were these rates were already low, allowing the good citizens to own even military grade fully automatic firearms did not increase the homicide/suicide rate. Enough is Enough. Try reading reports outside your comfort zone. I do, and I am convinced even more that disarming the good citizens will not make anyone safer.
Do you realize how America came to be? America was founded by immigration. I was born and raised in this country and am ashamed of how most Americans think and how the people let the government walk all over it's citizens. Its sad to see that ignorance is still bred in this country that results in such hatred. Piers has a point. The second amendment was put in place to defend our borders from invasion. It isn't there so some idiot can buy whatever gun he wants and go shooting people. Just because Piers comes from the UK does not mean he has no intelligence or can't have an opinion.
Sorry but you need to actually read the 2nd Amendment before you comment on it. It doesn't have anything to do with invasion, hunting, muskets, etc. It is specifically written and intended to give the people the means to ensure that they are not subject to the type of government they just overthrew.
Well for one thing, the last time the British tried to take guns away, I hope you know the rest, and maybe if piers wasn't an illegal Alien we might let him hang hang out, number three, it sounds like I know how you were raised the nut doesn't fall to far from the tree. You don't buy guns to go kill people, ill let the government take care of dumping more chlorine in the gene pool. Number 4 piers has zero information that's correct about anything relating to Guns, at best he's jumping with those short little legs grasping for straws and hopes someone is stupid enough to listen, and it shows when he opens his mouth that he knows nothing on the subject, and at best on the subject he has to steal someone else's argument because he has none of his own, and after all, how could he, he's probable never seen one up close. As far as he's ever come to defending anything it's those lame arguments he has on TV, and you wouldn't be defending something that pathetic had it not been for the fact that he's on TV. and with that he runs back to the UK award ceremonies and tells them how stupid and weak people like you are at his butt kissing flagellation party.
I think I'll stand outside of Buckingham palace with a sign reading **** the queen to protest royal decadence. Adds about as much to British politics as Piers has added through his non-arguments and the British people and government will respect my opinion and not deport me right?
2nd amendment to protect us from goverment
Mister Peebles
If "Leave our country" is the best you can do, your position is weaker than a house of cards. Xenophobia never wins in the long run.
I don't particularly care if Pier Morgan lives in the United States or not. All I ask is CNN remove him from this show (let him go back to judging jj"America's Got Talent" or something ) and find a commentator of the stature of the person Piers Morgan replaced. Find another Larry King!!!!!!
Tell Piers to go back to England if he doesn't like guns, and quit trying to cram his beliefs down everybodys throats..
Guns save more lives than they cost. Is Piers going to outlaw machetes in african nations because some gangs there use them to cut peoples arms and legs off, and kill them. People kill people. I for one would rather be shot with a gun than hacked with a machete. The way to stop crime is to impose a swift death penalty for criminals and lock up the lunatics instead of letting them run loose until the next time they stop taking their medications. Then only thing keeping the crazies and criminals from running rampant is their fear that their next intended victim might have a gun to protect themselves with.
Piers, England already tried once to disarm us and take us over. Kiss my butt if you think we will allow it to happen again...
The problem is not his citizenship, but his stupidity: his information is not correct as the shooter DID NOT have an AR 15 but a Remington 870 Shotgun, which he had bought legally the day before. The only AR 15s used at the base were in use by the responders. I suggest that Mr. Morgan contacts a psychiatrist in order to resolve his obvious,and quite ridiculous, fixation with the AR 15 (which by the way is an icorrect way to describe that type of gun anyway)
The problem is not his citizenship, but his stupidity: his information is not correct as the shooter DID NOT have an AR 15 but a Remington 870 Shotgun, which he had bought legally the day before. The only AR 15s used at the base were in use by the responders. I suggest that Mr. Morgan contacts a psychiatrist in order to resolve his obvious,and quite ridiculous, fixation with the AR 15 (which by the way is an icorrect way to describe that type of gun anyway).
I didn't know piers was an illegal alien, now wonder he hates guns so much, he must have a lot of problem jumping the fence. That's terrible, dang illegal alien over here talking about how bad it is here. He needs to go south of the border a couple times to learn from them.
Piers comes from a country where they have strict gun control, and, as a result, very few gun-related deaths. This is something a typical American could never understand, and is the perfect reason why Piers is the perfect person to make the argument. I am American. I was raised with guns in my house, was taught to shoot from a young age, and then served in the US Marines during the GWOT and Operation Iraqi Freedom. I've done a hell of a lot of shooting. After leaving the Marines, I moved to Australia, where they have extremely strict gun control, which was enacted in 1996 after a gun massacre at Port Arthur in Tasmania. Since then, Australia's gun crime has reduced substantially, and continues to fall every year. There hasn't been a mass shooting in Australia in the 17 years since the legislation took effect. As an American living in a country that has tight gun laws, I am in a unique position to have seen both sides of the argument. Piers is no different, and is therefore very well qualified to speak on the subject. Americans who have no experience with gun control (and I mean REAL gun control, not the ridiculous laws we pass in the US that amount to little more than symbolic political posturing) are the ones who are in no position to make an educated judgment.
And you did not succeed in making your three opponents fall over each other like you had likely planned. Neither did you succeed on making yourself look like a lone voice in the wilderness. Of course you had no chance to take them apart one by one as you make use of polemical representations of statistical data
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No, I think he made these fools look like the clowns they are: out of touch, confused, bought-and-paid-for by the NRA to push its tiresome fear mongering positions.
How so? Besides riling them up and jumping between them to try to get them to talk over each other. Even when Piers was trying to get John Lott to call the statistics bogus VS calling the use of the statistics unethical. The Antis have tried to label people into their 20s as children, so you really can't take Mother Jones at face value. Where is your argumentation to back up your statements?
September 17, 2013 at 10:04 pm | Report abuse |
Actually, piers looked like a little baby who didn't get his way, after they figured out that you could care less about firearms, and you just used the topic to drag a few people on stage to point out your vulgar false sense worth and narcissistic self stemming, the one guy in the middle had to pull out the " Your a Baby" move setting ground rules that you need to shut up until Im finished to save face, then humored you which is more than I would have done, and explained something that you'll never understand, self defense in a Mob, which is no easy feat, aw. Yeah,,, About that,,,
Most of the shooting in the USA are gangs the problem was this man as the others lose nothing its not there families not there love ones that are going to suffer may be they should.
What if we do this, take away all government aid, to any ones family that is in a gang that killed some one. They don’t seem to care about going to jail, it’s a joke to them. So what if there social security, there food stamps, there welfare, was cut off, to there families. This would make them understand that they are not just hurting the family of the person they killed, but there own family. This would make there family’s, make sure they were not in the gang. Put a little skin in the game, it would change the way they think now wouldn’t it.
They can win back aid and other benefits by turning in gang members that have killed.
So these mass shootings and murders are gang related? I do not believe so. These are a direct result of people being allowed to have guns they should not and people not sounding off warnings when they see someone who has great potential of this behavior. Every time there's at least one or more people saying, " I thought there was something wrong with that guy."
Guns in US is a lost case...Americans are teenagers out of control, Europeans are matured adults....it is a lost argument just like any argument with your teenager....unless you from Europe you will not understand your argument....I do!!!
Last info I heard out of Great Britian was that the people wanted their firearms back.
Yes, sounds mature to me. They realized they made a mistake giving up what rights they still had a few years ago.
Oh, and MR MORGAN..... as I understand it this morning, no AR was used in the Navy yard shooting.
Put a big FAIL on you forehead, Mr Morgan.
What piers and his ilk fail to mention is that the UK has had an epidemic of stabbing so that officers have to wear vests to protect against them. Sure gun crime has gone down, the criminals are using knives, which can be just as dangerous and untraceable. Maybe you won't see a lot of mass stabbings, but mass shooting/stabbings are rare and crime and homicide are widespread. Not that rare if it happens to someone you know, but there are larger issues. This is a is a societal issue not a weapons issue. But passing laws is the easy way out, so Piers can go on ranting and ignoring the root issues
If they're so grown up, must be talking about the rest of Europe. I heard the streets after a 11pm is a turd floater, that would mean immaturity runs ramped. If England wanted to join the rest of the Civilized world, A good first step is stop urinating on the streets.
France, Sweden, Belgium, Finland and Norway plus a few other nations in Europe would disagree with you.
Piers is ranting about an AR-15 purchased in Virginia. The suspect purchased a shotgun in VA. He took the AR-15 off a responding police officer that he shot. You owe it to your viewers to GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT........
Right you are, he doesn't even know the difference between a base and a shipyard.
How dare you tell the truth when Piers is being dishonest in order to further his anti-second amendment mission!
Morgan ranted and walked all over his guests. He presented them with false information and, because they were not aware of the FACTS, could not effectively respond to his aggressive, impolite and inaccurate attack. Not sure why CNN wants to give this Brit a platform. His behavior is insulting and he owes his guests an apology. Piers, make sure your brain is engaged before putting your mouth in motion...... As the Muslim menace becomes more acute in the UK, I would be willing to bet that Brits will regret not having weapons. One thing is sure, the radical Islamist will have theirs......
Mr. Morgan is not interested in interviewing his guests. He seems to enjoy interviewing himself. He is rude and annoying and that is why I turned the channel and stopped listening to the ass.
Opposed to fellating the gun nuts?
He has NO clue. He needs to be fired! I have watched him for years and he is way out of control on this topic.
Ben Ferguson: "We are saying that if you are in the United States Navy, and we trust you with Navy ships, and war, why the hell wouldn't we trust you to carry your weapon to work with you, when we trust you with top secret information?"
Ummmm,..... the contractor met that description and he sure as hell couldn't be trusted.
He did not meet the requirements to receive a security clearance. He had a PATTERN OF MISCONDUCT discharge, which means other than honorable. Therefore he was suppose to be issued a security clearance after than, also he was not suppose to be able to purchase guns of any kind. So that would mean that the federal government system failed to do their job properly.
It is painfully obvious the background check standards and procedures aren't strict enough.
After all, this guy obtained a "secret" security clearance, well beyond what an ordinary American needs to purchase a firearm.
I mean he WASN'T suppose to receive a security clearance or the ability to purchase guns.
I just seen Piers Morgan when he was running his mouth against 3 other people on the debate of ar15's... I own a ar15..... I have never went on a shooting spree and I never will..... I am a law abiding citizen. Those people who have committed those unforgivable acts are P.O.S Cowards. But because I own one, Piers Morgan believe that its a bad thing. Because I am an American and the right to bear arms is every Americans right. Piers Morgan are you saying taking away my ar15 will make the world a better place? or perhaps only allowing it to hold 10 rounds? Or I have to fill out a registration to own it? You are a ****ing dumb *** Piers Morgan and it is Americans like you who are destroying this country one ignorant thought at a time. You can can have my guns when you pry them from my cold dead hands.
Why would any citizen need an assault rifle? These type weapons should be for military or law enforcement use only. Not to be carried home. Should be checked in and secured when not on duty. Check the statistics for gun crimes and violence in countries where they have banned firearms vs. America. Just because you can do/have something does not mean it is the better or most intelligent option. What would you do if someone broke into your house while you were away and found your AR15, you came home while the burglar was still there and used it to kill your family? Broaden your mind instead of the gaping hole in your face.
i own an ar15 and use it every time i go to my ranch and hunt hogs or sheep...there are too many out there for my deer rifle that only holds 3 shells...you have no idea what you are talking about! most people who own guns keep them locked up you idiot
Jarrod, the voice of reason, stupidity, and ignorance that characterizes the gun rights movement as selfish, paranoid saps who have nothing better to do with their time.
First of all get the facts straight, this was a Naval Shipyard NOT a Navy Base. Get the facts before you start criticizing security and protocol of a military base. The shooter took the AR from a guard he shot. You are arguing an issue that did not occur. If you keep on suggesting it was a Navy base, you can bring unwanted attention to all active military installations. As a Journalist I would hope you use proper terms before coming on the air. Fort Hood was a base, this today is a shipyard.
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Phyllis A.
It's simple, stop watching Piers and CNN will replace him!
Steve O'Kelley
I believe that Mr. Morgan is an opinionated bully who refuses to let his guests even make their opinions known. He always tries to indicate that life is somehow much better in England than in the United States. I feel that you should send him packing to England and thereby restore some semblance of objective news reporting to CNN. I have no intention of tuning in for any future CNN broadcasts when Mr. Morgan is on the air.
Steve, you are 100% correct, life in England is much better than the US, but you will never understand it, but Pierce will...
Piers is correct. NO offense to anybody but the comments above and on this blog are way off target. I highly respect Piers after he TRIED to bring up the fact other countries in the world have guns but their killing rate is WAY LOWER than US. Piers tried to ask why. This subject is hardly ever discussed in the news. Why not? I think the public is not mature or intelligent enough to deal with it? Show executives and producers need to keep ratings high to keep sponsors coming? The problems is not guns in America, but the sense of belonging and community in America.
KenB
Mother Jones data analysis was not "peer" reviewed and would not withstand the rigor of a REAL analysis. The selectively cherry picked data to fit their conclusion. Time to get a new job Piers and stop trying to pretend that what you do is journalism ... it is the worst kind of intellectually dishonest sensationalism ... no surprise there
To be fair, people have found fault with John Lott's data, too.
Only the liberal media have found fault with Lott's data, Mr. Peebles.
Eery time Piers Morgan hosts a program after a mass shooting in the US, her refers to the absence of shooting deaths in Great Britain without noting the laws regarding gun possession among peace officers in the USA and Great Britain. In Great Britain, "bobbies," "peace officers," are not permitted to carry weapons, unless they are a member of the "special officers trained to carry weapons" and called in when officers on duty make the call to request the services of specially trained officers. I think of the geographical size and population of the United States and compare it to that of Great Britain and I wonder if there is a more difficult situation in the states. In Great Britain, we certainly see the royals with hunting rifles; I think back to my childhood in rural Ohio where every child the age of six years knows safety rules, such as "never point a rifle at anyone" and, where every child the age of six years knows to "immediately drop to the ground" if you see a weapon pointed towards you. I must wonder if the culture surrounding hunting with rifles, may be enough to permit rifles and safety of human life to co-exist. On the other-hand, Mr. Morgan needs to think back on his own childhood in Great Britain any night he must host another show on a mass shooting in the states. Mr.Morgan, in Great Britain not even your peace officers carry a weapon while on duty. Only special duty officers, trained in the practice and use of weapons, are called to a site if the peace office on duty make the request to dispatch. Mr. Morgan, you are the host of a news program and so I ask you to get your research team to see how many mass shootings, if any, have been committed with a hunting rifle? As an anthropologist, I would also like to hear you mention a possible bias, as you were raised in a country that prohibits their "bobbies," or "peace officers" to carry a weapon on duty. In Great Britain, only "bobbies" or peace officers are permitted to make the request for specially trained, armed, officers to be dispatched to the site. I noted how hunting culture appears to include enough rules to help protect a young child from an accidental injury. Mr. Morgan, you have repeatedly focused on a need for stricter gun laws here, and I wonder if you remember the laws in Great Britain. When I listen to your British accent, I think about a society raised to believe the every day police force has no need to carry a weapon, and about police officers trained to control a potentially dangerous, until specially armed and trained members arrive on site.
And your point is??? I got bored halfway through your ' book' falling asleep; saying a lot but saying nothing...are you a politician??
NO offense but you make no point at all. Canada also has many guns but way less shootings than America. Why?
Why? because Americans have a gun mentality. The rest of the civilized western countries don't. Until they change their mindset all the laws in the world won't help them. The more violence the more guns they buy. Hard to believe an entire country can be that stupid, but they are. Arm teachers, arm movie goers, arm shoppers etc. Where does it end? forget the mass shootings. 10,000 murders a yr. Untold gun violence daily. 300 million guns & counting.
I can tell u that in other western countries we don't walk around with guns shooting people not because of laws. What are the laws anyway?...who cares why because it is not in our DNA.
They will make their mental health excuses, because after all people in other countries have no mental health issues. Well no then violent video games/movies/music. I guess that is it because no kids play video games/watch movies/or listen to music in other countries. No father in the house. That must be it because divorce is no where but in the US.
Piers seriously stop wasting your time. If killing children in an elementary school doesn't faze them nothing will.
Americans worry about terrorism...they are doing it to themselves.
Likewise Britain has one of the lowest gun ownership levels in world and yet it has a homicide rate that's substantially higher than many of its large gun owning European neighbors.
Gilbert D'Souza
USA is capable of protecting its citizens from any kind of external aggression/enemies but not from its own citizens. The main reason for this is the belief that 'guns can protect'. Whereas, guns can only kill. A desire to own a gun is the desire of a immature mind. Children like to play with toy guns. And the same children when grow up physically and remain a child in the mind, like to play with real guns.
Since you are such an adult, and do not feel owning a gun is mature, can I come and put a Gun Free Zone sign in front of your house? Come on, stand behind your words.
Way to setup a straw man Reasonable. The commenter was suggesting there is a pathology about gun ownership that is extremely infantile, and you respond with complete nonsense.
JrMartinez
Well have fun protecting yourself and home with a "Smile" Naive!
If you don't like guns go back to the UK. I don't care! I hate you! As far as I am concerned you are an insignificant liberal hack with no morals. You are FREE to leave if you don't like my guns. Hell the borders are open and you can just walk across if you want. Bye!
I guess piers is bouncing like a yo yo. Scream and yell like a Little girl, that will help. Hey dumb dumb, from what I hear about this guy is had a dishonorable Discharge, hhhmmmm,, you think it's legal to buy a firearm with BIG CHICKEN DINNER,,,,BCD. I THINK Your defending a criminal. And it's illegal to have a CHL with a BCD. You said you can't have this debate anymore, then you said you'll do it again, which is it, like the guy said,your obsessed with AR15's. OBTW. Did murder stop in England where you belong,
Hey, you forgot to mention how One guy can go to a base with heavily concentration of ARMED GUARDS, and still 12 people died. I blame that o. Crappy security. The MP s can't protect the guy standing next to. Them.so why don't you call it like it is, don't forget turd, you can't have a dishonorable and buy a weapon,it's on the federal registration form, so you need to get your facts straight and its PTSD,NOT PDST,Don't get that screwed up either turd. So your a hypocrite, your blaming Ar15s, your next guest to you it was mental health, your all screwed up and full of crap like a X-mas turkey. What makes me laugh at night is your reading a script, and can't even hear the guy that's your guest. It's like your on a whole other sheet of music, so have you heard when their going to fire you yet, after you tried to get a job back in England?
I am sitting watching Piers Morgan yapping off about the shootings today, As tragic as this is YOU Mr. Morgan need to get your facts straight. Dave's post above mirrors my thoughts. I will NOT watch his garbage any longer! People should start a boycott of CNN until he is removed from the air. He is a pot stirring Loud Mouth that feeds on the suffering of others! He will not listen to the answers any guest tries to give, he abruply cuts them off if they challenge his views, He needs to go! NOW!!!
Lets start guarding our gun law borders. We could put every unemployed person back to work ! The NRA wants us to enforce existing gun laws not write new ones. We may not be any better at guarding gun borders than our national borders but a job is a job. We could fine the gun border criminals to pay for the program. We could also resell the guns for funding and job security. Nothing else is working.
I am not against some limited form of gun control. But, people kill people, not guns. The people involved are sick. One big issue you never discuss us how the media constantly airing these tragedies and going over and over it can tip an unstable person to consider a violent act as a way to solve their issues or make their point. Pierce, let up a little. It is not J U S T guns that are the problem. You can do tour part by not harping on it and making it so famous.
laffy
How's this for stats? 2500 shootings with lone gunmen stopped by armed civilians. In ONE year.
http://rense.com/general95/sch-shootings-stopped.html
Y bad and a list of shootings from previous years. Stopped by armed civilians.
Once again we have a gun shooting tragedy in America! Is anyone surprised? We just need to admit that the USA is a violent country and hope that these tragedies happen fewer and further between. I respect Piers' right to take his position (no matter what his nationality), as well as the gun lobby, but all of this blather amounts to nothing. As long as the NRA continues to buy off politicians who hide behind the 2nd amendment, there will never be any resolution to this problem. Pray for the victims. That is about all we can do – and, of course, wait for the next time!
Just unbeliveable it happens again and again some noise is made and that's it! The 3 gentlmen interviewed are the reason this WILL happen again as sure as the sun will rise. Please also tell them that a dead person is a dead person be it 1 or more it don't make a difference. If any one has mental issues then too 12 people are difficult to kill with a pencil!!
Morgan and other liberal gun gabbers have been salivating for another shooting to exploit for their gun gabbing agenda...The comparison being made between the armed guards at that navel base and teachers being armed,is not correct and inaccurate...two different types of situations...Washington DC has probably the most gun control in the country and DC has a total ban on Semi automatic AR style rifles.. BTW less people die each year in this county by being shot with any kind of rifle then by being killed with hammers ...Chicago just to name one city has on a regular bases a dozen or so shooting every weekend,and yet Morgan and the liberal media rarely even mentions this...By far the most gun violence in this country is being done by criminal thugs shooting other thugs with illegal handguns..Gun control is not the answer and has been proven over and over to be ineffective and worthless..just as banning certain kinds of cars would be to prevent auto accidents and drunk driving. Morgan couldn't wait to say that the shooter used a "assault rifle" and that everyone was shot by it...Not true...The doctors had reported earlier that day that victims were shot by other calibers...meaning more then one gun was used...and the AR rifle could have been taken from a guard and I have no doubt that if the AR were taken from a guard or police officer that this would be covered up by the feds.
You're an a$$ brass. NO ONE has been salivating for another mass shooting.
If anything, this incident wets the lips of gun makers and sellers, who almost always see increased sales after these tragedies.
Arrie Steenkamp
It certainly is time that the USA investigate on how these tragic shootings are going to be minimized or even eradicated. I do however have a problem with the way Piers Morgan conducted his interview with Ben Ferguson and the other two gentlemen. His put his view forward but will not allow the other parties to air their views by speaking conyiniously while they are trying to express their views. Piers why do you invite guests to your your show if you are not interested to afford the change to put their views across. I have always enjoyed your interviews, but if you continue in this way I will certainly start switchiing to another channel in future. Bye the way, I live in South Africa where we have very strict gun control laws. despite these laws more innocent people (especially farmers and helpless old people) are being murdered in my country every year, than American soldiers dying in the Afganistan and Irak every year.
Zave Smith
Piers, thank you for your courages and bold stand against the carnage that American inflicts on itself. May I make a modest suggestion. We need to stop talking about "Gun Control". American's hate the anything with the word, "Control". Let us advocate for sensible "Gun Safety" instead.
While this might seem like a game of semantics, we all know the power of words. Who can be against, "Gun Safety"?
Sensible "Gun Safety" can include measures like; background checks, required safety training in order to obtain a gun permit, requiring liability insurance, just like we do with autos, and even banning the ownership of military style guns except for gun range practice and sport.
That sounds good on principle. We all know that doesn't work. All the laws and regulations will not halt gun violence. Criminals don't pay attention to laws. That's why they're criminals. The only way to stop it or even put a dent in is to remove the weapons from citizens. My father is an NRA member and is very responsible with his guns. They stay locked in a safe when he's not hunting. We have the gun law debate too. The unfortunate fact is our country hasn't even overcome racism and hatred. It has been over fifty years since slavery was abolished but yet the hatred still remains. People don't accept other people so what makes you think our society is ready to accept the responsibility of deadly weapons? Americans have a belief of superiority, among our own countrymen as well as others. They choose to ignore sense and compassion.
I don't know why you think that taking the guns away from all the responsible gun owning citizens would stop all the gun violence we see here in America. Considering that the majority of gun crime is committed with illegally obtained firearms, that would only continue and more than likely get worse if the right to bear arms was taken away. Besides all that it seems like everyone is getting off the point that this man never should have gotten any kind of security clearance as well as been able to buy any type of firearm due to his general discharge from the military because of a PATTERN OF MISCONDUCT
Zave, your also a MORON
Now there's a Cheer Leader for Decent with NO real OPINION.
IS THAT BEN WHO WENT TO MCDONALDS AFTER 911 INSTEAD OF THE MILITARY
It's now being reported that Alexis entered the base with only a shotgun...and that he took 2 handguns from guards ..and no AR type of rifle was used at all. If this is true then that would make Morgan incompetent or a liar.or both.because he went on and on about Alexis using only a AR type of rifle without knowing the facts.
Because the gun nuts would have conceded the point had it been an AR-15? Probably not.
Your gripe with media inaccuracies is legitimate, but it does not strengthen to pro-gun position.
CNN reports today it was a shotgun and not an AR-15. Changes the discussion slightly, more to mental health which seems to be the root cause.
Jeff Backlund
This guy loves hearing himself talk and spouts off misinformation before getting ANY correct facts. The UK didn't want him anymore, we shouldn't want him so please go away Piers!
MyAgain!
So..the AR15 was not used. When can I expect the retraction from Piers and CNN for his out burst on the air last night. When will you allow"get the facts first" in your reporting? When will you allow the time needed to offer a clear and concise reporting of events. When will you fire this fool?
wrong piers!
so now tthat its not a AR15 are you still trying to ban them or are you trying to ban shotguns???
Morgan is a MORON
Mr. Morgan played fast and loose with the facts last night, just as he always does. It is sad that what was once a pretty good news organization has fallen so low that someone like him would even be on the air, much less have his own show. How about it, Mr. Morgan, will you have the ethical backbone to go on the air tonight and admit that you were wrong about the shooter legally buying an AR15 in Virginia? Will you have the ethical backbone to admit you engaged in really sloppy journalism? And will you have the ethical backbone to present the information on mass shootings from a recognized scholarly article instead of from a puff piece in Mother Jones? Somehow, I doubt it. Bullies are cowards at heart and are afraid to admit they are wrong, and you are a bully of the worst kind, Mr. Morgan.
Here is a suggestion that might help curtail this gun violence: Families of slain victims should start suing these gun shops for not checking backgrounds. Force them into a court battle that could last a long time costing them time and money and maybe force them to close their doors.
Sensationalizing events in order to advance a political agenda is wrong. People are less likely to be killed by a mass shooter than by a gang banger, lightning, drunk driver, heart disease, cancer or natural disaster. Collectivists find that using emotionally charged events like this one, make it easy to manipulate the opinions of the intellectually dependent. Stating that mass shootings only occur in the US is a testament to the ease of manipulating the uninformed from a position of perceived responsibility and credibility. Piers has a fiduciary duty to avoid making false or misleading statements to his viewers if he wants to be respected as a journalist or TV host. Touting logic as the backbone of his arguments is flawed if he cherry picks his facts and continues to make blanket statements in order to further his personal agenda. I hope he reads this and reflects on his approach. So far, he has become one of the talking heads that seems to galvanize the resolve of American gun rights activists and pro-gun single issue voters.
" There have been 10 separate shootings in Washington, D.C., since the night of Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013, not counting the rampage at the Navy Yard on Monday morning, police told The Huffington Post over the phone. The number reflects only those shootings to which police responded."
"Those 10 shootings left two dead and an additional 13 wounded."
"The shootings did not capture the attention of the national news media. Even among many local outlets, most of the shootings were ignored."
So CNN is this the reason you have not covered any of this?
"Five separate shootings occurred between 10 p.m. Thursday night and 8 a.m. Friday morning in various neighborhoods across the city. One of the incidents occurred on 14th St. Northwest, a popular area full of bars and restaurants, but most were in lower-income areas."
. Chicago nearly always has a dozen or more shootings every weekend, and it's rarely reported in the media and this includes the pompous deceitful snooty windbag Morgan.
Not only was a AR 15 not used and Morgan was grossly irresponsible in his reporting, even going as far to say "Alexis had legally bought this rifle"...that had to be an outright lie and Morgan should be immediately fired from CNN. I can almost hear Morgan now..."What difference does it make" quoting a famous liberal line. ...it is also now known that this navel base was lacking in their security and have been even warned to beef up their security..and that the feds have actually cut funds for security...Which means this could be also the federal government fault which is not surprising.
Piers – where is your public retraction for getting the story wrong – NO AR-15 USED DURING THE SHOOTING!!! You berated your guests for not agreeing with Mother Jones stats, yet you can't even get basic facts like this right! So now are you going to lead a vendetta against shotguns??? Joe Biden said we should all get them!!?? You are a joke...
andy hajducky
Morgan again, again and again is wrong and never apologizes. He was wrong about Virginia in stating gun deaths and is wrong that the DC shooter used an AR-15, come on, when is someone going to call this guy out for what he is, a slimy brit, yellow sensationalist.
No AR15 was used. No matter how you try to band guns they only us something to kill people as you see around the world. But if its for the kids there was kidnap kids that when on talked about. If its not than what could it be?
What if this is away for them to know who to watch? Let them watch were not cowards that blame others .
Piers....just really have to say I am frustrated with your rants and lack of real reporting. Here we are the day after and find out that some of the things you continued to harp on last night were just untrue..... You stopped being a respectable journalists a while ago and now are just constantly trying to push your own agenda. Nothing wrong with pushing your own agenda except you still try to call yourself a journalist.
How absolutely true. No AR15 associated with the guy in D.C. HOWEVER Mr. Morgan ranted away on it. I will not be watching him again. Doesn't like using the facts, only emotions.
Name*Randy
Yeah what he said its.a cheap Knock off and a setup with cheap shots in regards to or desperately trying to copy the Spin Factor, Smo copying the spin factor and calling it the Grill that just doesn't work for a sissy or girly man like pierce. I'd fire him and put someone like the Rock in there. I also heard a rumor that Ms. Morgin Pierce does Skeet with Obama and he's trolling on the air verses PCMB, I wonder what his score is on PCMB. (Politically Correct Media Blogger). ,
Clyde*
Alexis was armed initially with a shotgun. He then shot a security guard and took his 9mm.
Upon entering the bldg., he apparently absconded the AR-15. This is my understanding of the facts. Piers Morgan does not nor will he ever reflect my beliefs. Morgan can kiss my All-American ass!
Hi Clyde,
I agree with you on the reporting. I also think it is a fair question to ask why the AR15 was there in the first place, It obviously did nothing to stop the shooter. It only added to the death toll.
Clyde..there was no AR 15 used at all by the shooter Morgans reporting on this was a irresponsible lie...but then again this is nothing new from the deceitful Morgan who has a history of lies and deceit.CNN should fire this clown immediately.
Piers, when you do not provide sound reasoning for your position, it makes me feel like you lose credibility. It means your opinion carries no weight...at least no more than anyone else who does not lay out a structured, reasoned position. You want people to agree with you but are not willing to do the work. If you want people to follow your lead, then lead.
1. You cannot lead by telling people what to believe. If you ask them what they believe, and why, and then ask them how they solve the trade offs associated with their position, THEN you are leading people to the same conclusion instead of shouting them down – IF – you have a sound position that is supported by facts and reason. I challenge you to use your considerable resources to put together something sound and meaningful if you want to honor the victims.
2. When you try to invoke "common sense" solutions like "get rid of guns so people stop dying", you make me feel like you are politicizing the issue. You give me the sense that you have not thought it out, that your knee is jerking due to emotion instead of reason. It is obvious to most thoughtful people that this is a more complex issue than that. Like most of societies problems, there will be a trade off. If creating gun free zones has worked, you need to show that. Because to many people, it is clear that gun free zones become targets for cowards with guns. I challenge you to show the world that enlarging those zones, and/or reducing the concentration of guns in the "gun zones" has helped. You just might lead me to see things your way.
3. When you only present certain facts and not others, I feel like you are manipulating the discussion, not conducting a debate. I feel like you are wasting your power to make a difference. Your power to make a difference lies in your ability to get a message out, to get an idea out to the world. You have not made me feel that you are the most qualified person to make policy. Your background gives you no credibility to do so. Your analysis gives you no credibility to do so. But you CAN bring together the people that have the credibility. Do THAT, facilitate discovery and policy generation. Use your influence to have a real debate instead of an emotional shouting match.
I have given you four calls to action. Will you take at least one of them and do something good for our society? If you do, I'll support you. If you choose instead to add fuel to the emotional fire that is burning in our country due to the abhorrent actions of our current leadership. When our leaders use survivors and victims of these tragedies to lend credibility to their poorly thought out solutions, it looks as this were some kind of a game. There are no winners because it is not a game. I challenge you to show the world that you are greater than that. Please use your influence in a manner that can cause real change. The world is watching. What will you do?
And by the way... Rick Warren is not Americas pastor. You cant even get that right. Warren is spoke of in the Bible though when they talk of endtime false prophets,doctrines of deamons and all that stuff. He wouldnt know the word of God if it hit him in the face...or you either for all that matters. Did you go to clown college?
Well Piers it looks like you stepped in it once again and spread your stinking irresponisble reporting all over the place. No illegal entry by the shooter and no automatic weapon. Seems like someone should apologize.
Dave in Colorado
Now that FBI Washington field office just confirmed gunman was NOT armed with AR15. Spokesperson says 1 shotgun and 2 pistols recovered. https://twitter.com/PamelaBrownCNN/status/379960354841047040
I can't wait to see Piers Morgan to retract his misinformation, apologize to the guests that were on the show and admit that he was wrong in stating that the gunman bought and used a AR-15 in the Navy Yard killings.
If Mogan even does acknowledge his lies in this horrific evil shooting,he'll blow it off by saying something like "there are still 13 dead".His inflated ego won't allow him to admit his irresponsible deceit ...And somehow a shotgun just doesn't fit the liberal gun grabbing narrative.
Perhaps every citizen in the U.S. should be armed with AR-15s ? After all, it is part of the American culture, then that way people can shoot down innocent people when ever they feel angry or hear voices. I'm so bored with American news, mass shootings and coverage that goes on for 2 weeks straight. If there is no control in the U.S. then why bother reporting these tragedies; it doesn't go anywhere anyways. People sob and then forget about it until the next mass shooting.
Rob2
Two FACTS are now beyond question. 1) Aaron Alexis did not have or use an AR-15. 2) The bad guy with a gun was stopped by good guys with guns. What is ironic is the constant images of the responders (you know the men who arrived armed to PROTECT themselves and others against the attacker) carrying AR style weapons. Let the import of that sink in for a moment. The AR is THE GO TO choice of those whose job it is to protect, yet we are always told by Piers & others that it has no use in that capacity?
I only watched part of this because I do not agree with Piers, basically on any opinion he has.
I just want to point out that an AR-15 was not used by Aaron Alexis and Piers should apologize for his rant about the need to ban AR-15's.
I am sick of his rants about gun control. If all the guns were taken away people like Aaron Alexis would still find away to kill on a massive scale. Knifes, swords, bombs, and other devices will be used instead. Banning guns is not the answer!
CNN....you should reconsider having Piers on your payroll. I know I would personally watch cnn more if you did not employ him, I am sure I am not the only one that feels this way.
Tim...here here...Mogans ratings are at the bottom of the barrel...mostly because more and more people ae getting tired of his snotty BS..It's only a matter of time before CNN cans this buffoon.
Once again we have a reminder that the type of weapon doesn't matter. The Ft Hood shooter killed more people with only a handgun. Now this guy uses Biden's approved shotgun. When will the easily persuaded people learn?
Ron, you need to remember that this administration thinks that someone on a military base in Texas who shouts "Allahu Akbar" while he is killing 13 and wounding 30 military personnel. Then while in court said the attack was "a jihad against U.S. Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan", says that this behavior is classified as "Work Place Violence".
What a surprise the Liberal machine jumped with both feet into this mess claiming an "assault rife" was use. Shocking to discover that they were in fact incorrect /gasp. Once again the truth is clouded in their reporting by their agenda. Yet they wonder why people don't believe them when they say they only want "common sense gun control"...
Still waiting for Piers to make good on his threat: "I can spare those Americans who want me deported a lot of effort by saying this: If you don’t change your gun laws to at least try to stop this relentless tidal wave of murderous carnage... I would... seriously consider deporting myself." And when you ask what difference the type of guns makes, after an hour long rant about THE TYPE OF GUN, well probably not much as the number of people who still consider you a journalist is rapidly approaching zero.
Yeah that really shows his intelligence, although it would be nice if the screen door was faster than his legs, but being wrong as he usually is, I'd call ICE, they can better explain that there's no such thing as self deportation, but I'm sure that can be arranged. It's probably a good thing at this point. Maybe CNN. Will get tired of you embarrassing them by turning their grill session into a Austin Texas Engineering bonfire ceremonies. They'll probably call Donald Trump in for the "Your Fired " thing, I. Hope they Air that.
Hey Piers,
It is OK to send weapons to Syrian rebels and Al Qayda associates ( http://www.cnnDOTcom/2012/08/01/us/syria-rebels-us-aid/index.html) but you want to disarm the public?
Sadly, once again, boosting ones TV Ratings and social media status takes precedence over facts. Unfortunately, it probably boosted AR-15 sales (again). I think Piers should apologize for his gross negligence... unless he wants to ban Vice President Joe Biden's choice of guns. I don't think we will ban shotguns.
When will Piers see that all of these tragedies have something in common. Not the gun but the mental health issues. And by the way, why doesn't Piers find out how this guy was cleared for access to this site.
Maybe Jake Tapper can tell Piers what the "lead" is.
fhw
Piers needs to get his facts straight before ha starts ranting about AR-15's. The shooter didn't even have an AR-15.
The man was cleared to access military bases because he passed all of the background checks required and he held a valid job on the Washington Navy Yard. How did he pass the background checks? He had never been convicted of any Felony's nor had he been INVOLUNTARILY committed to a mental heath facility. He was actively seeking help for mental heath issues for Post Traumatic Stress after helping clean up the World Trade Towers in 2001. Proactive attempts to treat PTSD are not held against veterans, otherwise it would discourage participation and prevent many men and women from seeking help for treatable issues.
Bruce Cousin
Piers:
Here's a thought or two:
1) Keep the sale of guns as is. All semi and automatic weapons, and ammo, will be sent after purchase to your gun club/ range. All will be kept under secure and locked facilities and never leave the premises. If you want to shoot these, you got to your gun club. Where else do you need to use them? Failure for the gun shop to send them to these facilities will result in their closure (I understand they all want to comply with the laws.......)
2) All gun cubs/ranges will provide secure facilities for these weapons. They will charge for this to offset the cost and the cost to the gun owner will be tax deductible.
3) You will be allowed to keep single shot shotguns, rifles and pistols in your home. This will allow anyone to defend their property and person and provide the freedom to hunters to use them whenever they hunt. I do not believe semi or fully automatic guns are needed for hunting or protection, when is the last time someone robbed a house carrying an AK-47?
Removing all guns may not be the answer but putting them where they belong, controlling the access to them after purchase for the purposes they are to be used for, infringes on no ones rights. You can buy the gun, you can use it whenever you want, you just cant carry it around town to kill innocent people.
Are you a Brit?
The rules you are proposing, (Storing firearms and ammunition at the shooting range) were in place in England before the 1990's, yet that did not prevent the Dunblaine Massacre. In response to the Dunblaine shooting England banned all semi-automatic firearms and all handguns from private ownership yet (according the the UK Bureau of Statistics) the National Murder rate is greater today than it was in 1990. (except in 2012, the year London hosted the Summer Olympics and the Queens Jubilee. That year the murder rate fell to 1983 rate, which was another record low year not seen since 1968.)
As Piers is fond of pointing out, the numbers of murders committed by a firearm in the UK are very low (something like 83 per year) but he ignores that the total number of Homicides per year are still higher than before total gun control was enacted. The next question I have not been able to answer. How many JUSTIFIED HOMICIDES were there in the UK? Compare today's Justified Homicides to the number in the early 1990's.
Like Piers, Your proposal holds no water. The problem is cultural, not legislative. and the answer will not be so easy as banning guns.
Steven, there have never been any central storage rules in Britain. Dunblane was a policing failure. The police were warned about the shooter months prior but did nothing to revoke his gun license, despite the request being escalated to the local police chief.
True, gun crime has doubled in Britain since the handgun ban. Also what's interesting to note, is that despite having low gun ownership levels, and a relatively low gun homicide rate, the violent crime rate in Britain is one of the highest in the western world. Furthermore, its overall homicide rate is about 40% higher than neighboring France and Germany, both large gun owning counties, ranked 4th and 5th in the world in terms of private gun ownership levels.
Walter Swickis
It's simple. No guns........ no shootings.
Right. Just like how DC and Chicago have been gun free zones until just recently, and how there was no crime there either until just recently. Oh, wait.
Walter. Go look up the UK Bureau of Statistics records of Homicides. They maintain a detailed list dating back to Eighteen Ninety Eight. (1898). The UK passed a total Gun Control in 1992 in response to the Dunblaine Massacre, yet in 1992 the homicide rate in the UK topped 700 for the first time in the UK history. . . and it kept increasing for the next 10 years topping out in 2003 at over 1200 homicides (in a Nation roughly equal to New York) The average homicide rate for the next 10 years was about 800 per year. (Averaging highs and lows, and 2012 was a very low year).
So, your statement. No Guns, no murders is FALSE. (At least in the UK) All Homicides have one thing in common. HUMANS. How do you propose to solve that problem?
Morgan has now proved without a doubt that he invents his own facts,to fit his anti gun agenda...Morgan is irresponsible and deceitful, with a history of lies and deceit all through his seedy career. Morgan went as far last night with his foaming gun grabbing lying spew to say that Alexis had bought his AR-15 legally...and we now know that is not true because Alexis had a shotgun and not an AR-15 at all ..and Morgan just lied to push his agenda... One thing is crystal clear from this horrific tragedy,is a shotgun can be just as devastating as an AR-15...But a Shotgun just doesn't seem to fit the liberal narrative.
At least one Canadian commentator is talking common sense when it comes gun control and a recent Harvard study!
EDMONTON SUN: Gun argument shot down
BY LORNE GUNTER, QMI AGENCY – UPDATED: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2013 04:14 PM MDT
http://www.edmontonsun.com/2013/09/17/gun-argument-shot-down
Even before the world knew exactly how many victims Aaron Alexis had killed at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday – first reports were "at least three,"then six and finally 12 – advocates for more gun control were using the tragedy to advance their cause. United States Senator Diane Feinstein, a Democrat from California, asked "When will enough be enough?" She then called on Congress to reopen debate on tighter gun laws – laws that failed to pass earlier this year in the wake of last December's elementary school massacre in Newtown, Conn. Several Hollywood celebrities and even U.S.
President Barack Obama echoed Feinstein's plea for greater control over civilian gun ownership.
But a fascinating study out of Harvard University last month proves what
gun-rights defenders have been saying for decades: There is little or no correlation between gun ownership levels and gun violence. Some of the most violent countries in the world have strict gun control laws, while many countries with comparatively lax gun laws (Norway and Switzerland, for example) have low, low rates of violent crime. What determines whether a country, province or even a city has a gun-crime problem is cultural or social, not legislative. For instance, many of the most violent cities in America – Washington, D.C., Detroit and Chicago – typically have very restrictive gun ordinances on their books. Meanwhile, states such as North Dakota and Wyoming, where guns are easy to come by, have few crimes.
The Harvard study, called "Would banning firearms reduce murder and suicide?" concluded there is little direct connection between the ease of civilian firearms acquisition and the incidence of gun violence. It points out, for instance, that Norway, where 32% of the adult population is armed
(compared with 34% in the U.S.), has one of Western Europe's highest household gun ownership rates, "but also its lowest murder rate."
Russia, one of the most violent countries in Europe, has among the continent's strictest guns laws. Private handgun ownership is banned in Russia. Still, the murder rate there is nearly four times greater than it is
in the United States. Annually, the murder rate in Russia is 30.6 per 100,000 residents. In the States it is 7.8 per 100,000. Scandinavian
countries have high rates of private gun ownership. Yet they also have among
the lowest murder and suicide rates in the world. In Finland, for instance, gun ownership is 39,000 per 100,000, higher even than in America. That is also nearly 10 times the official rate in Russia. Yet Finland's murder rate is less than one-tenth of Russia's – 1.98 per 100,000 versus 30.6 per 100,000. (It's also only one-quarter of the American rate).
As has been pointed out many times in the past, in Switzerland every adult male is required to have a powerful long gun (usually an automatic or semi-automatic) in his home for defence of the country's neutrality against
invasion. Yet Switzerland, like Norway, has a very low rate of murder and other gun violence. The Harvard study also found that the U.S., which we are told ad nauseum is the most violent country in the world, isn't even close to being the most violent country in the relatively peaceful region of North America and Europe, together. In murders, America ranks seventh behind Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine. In suicides, it is 22nd.
That's a lot of statistics to absorb all at once. But all those numbers can be boiled down to once conclusion: Even if Sen. Feinstein and other gun-control activists got their way, their solution would have no impact.
Time to get some objective reporting from the BBC.
The shooter used a shotgun. No AR15 was used.
Walter Horne
Piers Morgan should be on the air apologizing for how many times he is wrong about facts on stories in the news. He is very slack!
Now it is clear that the shooter did not use an AR-15. Maybe we should use a little more critical thought before we rush to judge one specific weapon. This man did this with a shotgun. Shotguns will never be illegal in this country. It won't ever happen. Even Joe Biden says people should buy shotguns. Clearly, gun control is not the magical answer that will put an end to this kind of tragedy. There is nothing in the recent gun control proposals that would have stopped this from happening. Using early and unreliable reports to rush to blame one certain weapon is irresponsible journalism. It also distracts people from one of the bigger issues which is an underfunded mental health system in this country. This man reached out to 911 and others for help. I think the question we should be asking is: why was he not evaluated by a mental health professional and put on a psychiatric hold as a result of the 911 call? This would have prevented this tragedy and save this young veteran's life.
Piers Morgan will be looking to ban 00 buck now. I can see him saying, only the military or police should be allowed to use buckshot, to think that civilians can buy shotgun shells that hold 8 .32 caliber balls is outrageous.
Mr. Morgan, you have absolutely no standing in this country to influence policies. Your job is to report the news and the facts, which seems to be quite difficult for you. The shooter at the Washington Navy Yard did not even have an assault weapon but you jump on the wagon with the rest of the " liberal media".
I believe your only intent is an attempt to inflame the American public on this issue. We have enough problems in our country with out an outsider distorting the facts and pushing your views down our throat. Report the news or go home.
Morgan you going to retract your BS lies about the AR15 or sweep it under the rug like any loser liberal would do?
Your a disgrace to society!
Craig Gilliland
Mr. Morgan I have one question to ask. Why did you report that the firearm used in the Navy Yard shooting was an AR-15? Wasn't it a shot gun? There goes your whole arguement for banning that nasty black rifle. Like many American, I enjoy CNN except for segment and I usually tune you out. You are not a true intellectual who fosters debate, but just an average entertainer. You use bold face lies, sensationalism, and people's emotions to push your brand of thoughtless entertainment. Just remember that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Sooner or later the people in the U.S are going to turn you off.
Proud to be an American in Sterling, CO
Craig. Gilliland
Here's another good one. Why is it all of a sudden a civilian problem with the gun fire on a military installation. That is a bad invention of the News that this is a problem with the USA. So where was the news reports on taking away rocket Launchers and Bombs after the USS cole was hit. How about outlawing steak knives mentally disturbed people use those. How about we make a law that really will have a good affect on the problem. Like say,,,,, hhhmmmm people who are criminally insane are not allowed to have anything that can be used as a weapon?
Doug N
Bravo...........
Mudbug Mama
Piers Morgan is the reason I no longer watch CNN, he screams at & over his "guests". Having lived in the UK for 5 years I have a number of lovely British friends, and they all have the same "laughing stock" opinion of him. If CNN wants me back as a viewer, they will have to cut loose this British buffoon.
I'm still waiting for Piers to retract his accusations that the shooter had an AR-15. Also, what made him think he had one? What source did he have? I bet he'll blame an intern for the misinformation. I watch CNN, but I'm leaning on leaving due to him one sided interviews and cutting off the guests because he doesn't like their answers.
Why isn't he pushing to ban Shot Guns now? The problem is the background checks and the medical community not having a direct link to the FBI. The administration tried to push a Bill for Gun Restrictions as well as a more in depth background checks. I liked the increased checks, but the Assault Weapons Gun Ban section was too much / too quick. It banned current weapons by name / model. It technically made my .22 cal plinker illegal because the ammo tube held 12 rounds. If the Bill would have had the background check section, I believe it would have / should have passed. The current administration got greedy.
Doug N The Founders in the war with Britain relied on their own weapons and non-traditional tactics. The British and the Colonial Army had muskets – easy to teach to fire and inaccurate. Colonials had Pennsylvania (or Kentucky) rifles – accurate at long range weapons requiring training and practice.
The Founders when discussing the 2nd Amendment recognized that the population (militia – all able bodied men) should have weapons sufficient (or superior) to an enemy or the government to prevent attack.
The Founders did not believe in government gun control because they feared the government more than they feared their neighbor. I would suggest not be so willing to increase registration because no country that increased registration ever gained greater safety and usually ended up be more subservient to the government as it became more dictatorial.
The old saw "Don't believe anything you read and half of what you see applies here" the press has abandoned responsible reporting in favor of sensationalism. I don't really listen to the news because fact checking is a thing of the past.
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Piers Morgan there are many of us that will chip in to book you a cabin on a boat home. Time to get out of the land of the free and go back where you came from. As soon as you can.
When you read stories like this from Piers' home country about plans by Gordon Brown the then Prime Minister to introduce Marshall Law in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, I'm glad I live here. Very worrying indeed!
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24184728
Gordon Brown discussed deploying troops on Britain's streets as news of the 2008 financial crisis became clear, an ex-Labour spin doctor has claimed.
In extracts of a book published in the Daily Mail, Damian McBride said the former prime minister feared "anarchy" once the scale of the crisis was known.
According to the book, Mr Brown said: "We'd have to think: do we have curfews, do we put the Army on the streets, how do we get order back?"
Mr Brown has not yet commented.
Mr McBride, who resigned in 2009 after he was caught planning to smear senior Conservatives, said he had a meeting with Mr Brown on the evening before he announced the part-nationalisation of UK banks in October 2008.
'Anarchy tomorrow'
Mr Brown is quoted as saying: "If the banks are shutting their doors, and the cash points aren't working, and people go to Tesco and their cards aren't being accepted, the whole thing will just explode.
"If you can't buy food or petrol or medicine for your kids, people will just start breaking the windows and helping themselves.
"And as soon as people see that on TV, that's the end, because everyone will think that's OK now, that's just what we all have to do. It'll be anarchy. That's what could happen tomorrow."
According to Mr McBride's book, Power Trip, Mr Brown feared panic from other countries could spread to the UK.
Nothing I report is factual. I am a limey buffoon and I wish someone would shoot me with an AR-15.
Dear Piers Morgan. I read the comment attributed to your name ending with a statement "I wish someone would shoot me with an AR-15". I am concerned because you sound very depressed and must ask. . . are you thinking about hurting yourself? If so, please talk with a close friend or co-worker and request help to see a professional in treating depression. there is nothing shameful in asking for help. Even if we disagree, I still wish you all the best.
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Seriously, Steven? How can you put the man down? I like what he's doing in America and I hope he keeps on fighting it. But we all know what will happen to him if he does.
It sounds like you've never stood for anything and the few things you did your mind was changed by the best argument having no reservations of your own. And yes, piers will be fired soon because stupid is not something that goes down easy from a pathetic, in all seriousness, try this for a self help study, stand up for something, not matter what, build it up in your mind, defend it at all cost, and hang in there. That's how people notice you,
You sound and think like a typical American.....shallow, unsympathetic, gun crazy person,. How boring it is hearing about another mass shooting, endless coverage on CNN , then everything is forgotten.
Yea not much of a fight when your always jumping the gun, Pun! Piers will be fired soon, when it comes out he wants Americans killed. His response every time a shooting happens is of supreme Glory that he can report it. Since he is so sincere with excitement that only means that he knew it was going to happen, "odds" so when it does he goes crazy with excitement as if he were there living the dream through the person who did it. Pretty sick if you ask me. But yeah, hoping people get killed so he can report it, pretty damn sick.
Seriously? Does anyone here truly believe Pier Morgan actually replied to anyone's comments on this forum????? Someone posing as Mr. Morgan "wishes someone would shoot me with an AR-15." Which sounds like a suicidal comment to me. "suicide by cop" mass shootings have been in the news since the late 1990's, so I am seriously concerned if anyone is thinking of hurting others with the goal to end their life.
If expressing concern for someone who expressing suicidal thought is considered "Picking on" that person. Then yeah, I am picking on the person posing as Piers Morgan.
If someone is dumb enough to do that. who cares about that, It's chlorine in the gene pool. It will keep them from infecting the planet with offspring. As for Piers. "Give a man a match he'll be warm for a day. "Set a man on fire he'll be warm for the rest of his life." You'll be fired from SS Agenda Machine. ITs people like you, that need to be Fired for spreading rumors, Hate, and Discontent. My statements may be excessively brash, but your the one who flipped that switch!!
Randy, your "excessively brash" statements seem to contain as much hate and discontent as Piers Morgan's show. Not abusive, but not exactly helpful in carrying on a meaningful conversation. Have you written to CNN to request they replace Piers Morgan with someone more in manner of Larry King, Someone who treats all of their guest with dignity, even when they disagree.
Sandra, you talk about "Americans" as if you are an outsider. May I ask what country you call home, and do you or have you lived in America?
Piers has received numerous death threats on this issue because (most) Americans just love their weapons and don't want to hear him talk about GUN CONTROL. I live in Ontario, Canada.....proud to be Canadian....safe, peaceful, had one mass shooting in Montreal University a long time ago. Doesn't happen here like it does in the States. We have less violence here, we're not gun crazy, and mental health care for those that need it.
What irritates me about Piers Morgan is the same thing that irritates me about Chris Matthews or Bill O'Reilly (Last guy is "conservative" host on Fox.) All three people constantly interrupt and insult their guest when they do not agree with the guest point of view.
The death threats are shameful, and from people who think they are posting Anonymously. Truth is, there is very little that is truly Anonymous on the Internet. there is a trail right back to your PC every time. If Mr. Morgan truly thought he was under threat he could file a complaint to the FBI and the individual in question tracked down.
Real world, What I believe will happen to Piers Morgan is, his ratings reportedly are not nearly as high as Larry Kings were, and as he continues to mistreat his guest he will continue to lose viewers. Eventually CNN will cancel his contract and Piers can go back to something he is truly good at. Being a judge on "America's Got Talent.
Canada does seem to have a better Mental Health Care system, though I have heard horror stories about Health Care if you have an ailment that is expensive to treat. (long wait times). America trashed our Mental health care after serious abuses were discovered back in the '60's and '70's. Now the mentally ill's right to choose if they take their medication is more important than keeping society safe.
While it seems that there have been numerous mass shootings (3 or more victims) reported in the news, reality is the number of events have not changed over the past 20 years. (just after Pres. Clinton signed the "Assault Weapons Ban". What is very interesting is, the total number of murders in the United States (by any weapon) has dropped from 18,000 (roughly) in the mid 1990's to 14,500 (roughly) for the past three years. The last time the United States saw national murders under 15,000 was 1969. That is better than both the United Kingdom and Australia, both who passed severe gun laws. Australia's murder rate is a little lower, but the UK is actually higher than it was before the gun ban was passed. (Sorry, I have not looked up Canada's records. Will work on that in October.)
What does that prove? That the problem of murders is a HUMAN problem and is not driven by any particular weapon. I have read Studies published in the Harvard Journal of Law (not pro-gun) which indicate that the number of firearms available in any given country had no relevance to the number of murders carried out every year. There is something about the society that controls the prevalence of murders. Good societies have low homicides, bad societies have high homicide rates. The UK is about the same land mass and population as several individual American States. If you compare the murder rate of the UK to any one State, and the UK suddenly looks very dangerous while living in America looks very safe. However, as with any country or city, There are places that Good Citizens do not want to be after dark. Or if you DO find your self there, a prudent person will have the means to defend themselves.
I am starting to ramble. I appreciate you answering my personal questions. As I mentioned before. I will do some research of Canada's homicide rate (if I can find where they keep those stats) to add to my UK and Australian Data. Maybe we will cross on a CNN comment again to compare notes then.
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I like what he is doing. I hope he keeps up the fight.
Sandra, you closed your first post by saying "I home he (Piers Morgan) keeps on fighting it. But we all know what will happen to him if he does." What exactly do you think will happen to Piers Morgan if he continues to argue for a ban on firearms in America?
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Similar to other issues such as the Rinkeydink set, the 1936 Sport Stamps are simply cutouts directly from newspapers. The baseball sports stamps are the most known but there were also ones featuring football players and boxers (and likely others). In addition to the pro baseball and football players, collegians and minor leaguers were included, too.
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There wasn’t much variation in terms of the design on these. They were printed in the shape of a large postage stamp with the word ‘SPORT’ written vertically on the left side of the picture and ‘STAMP’ on the right. Above the player’s image was the name of the newspaper and at the bottom was his name, position, and team in a thin rectangle. Below the stamp was a short biography of the player. Some collectors kept the bio portion cutting around it and including it with the stamp while others simply removed that part.
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Q: Where did you grow up, and how did this influence your writing?
A: I grew up on Chaucer Drive in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, so it must be fate that I became a writer. I enjoyed Geoffrey Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales” in high school, too. As a result, I picked Chaucer for part of my pen name.
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Not for me. In fact, this was the only topic I could think about as I considered what to write about next. My new book, which will be published on Sept. 27, is the culmination of eight months of wrestling with this brutal but extremely relevant plague on our society.
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A: So far I only have a few, so every one is precious! Their positive feedback is a huge boost!
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A: After four novels in four years, I need a bit of a mental break following “Streaks of Blue.” But my next goal is to attempt to write a trilogy. So far I’m toying with the name “Mammyth,” but it’s all very nebulous at this point.
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A: My twin son and daughter. I’m not sure “inspire” is the right word though. They’re both 2, so it’s more like they demand that I get out of bed each day.
Q: When you’re not writing, how do you spend your time?
A: Working, raising twin toddlers, cutting a lot of grass (we have a pretty big yard) and, very soon, preparing for my league’s fantasy football league draft!
Q: What is your writing process?
A: I actually hand write the first draft. I can’t sit at the computer for that phase of the project. It takes too long to come up with all of my ideas. When I do get a good idea, I never have writer’s block. The first draft takes me about 3 months. Then it’s rewriting, overhauling and editing for another 3-5 months. The cover concept took a lot longer to finalize for “Streaks of Blue” than for “Queens are Wild.”
Published 2013-08-24.
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Image August 10, 2013 by queensarewild
Damon Za’s 3D version of the “Streaks of Blue” cover
Tagged Damon Za, Jack Chaucer, Newtown, Streaks of Blue
Cover reveal for “Streaks of Blue”!!!
South African designer Damon Za has produced this stunner of a cover for my next novel, which will be published this fall.
Tagged Damon Za, fiction, Jack Chaucer, Newtown, shootings, Streaks of Blue, young adult
July 19, 2013 by queensarewild
Cover artist switch …
Damon Za of Cape Town, South Africa, is now crafting the cover for “Streaks of Blue.” Ida and I both agreed it was time for a fresh set of eyes and ideas. No stone left unturned for this book cover! My wife and I honeymooned in Cape Town and beyond back in 2008, so it’s kind of fitting.
Tagged Damon Za, Jack Chaucer, South Africa, Streaks of Blue
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__label__cc | 0.72668 | 0.27332 | Drawing Quotations
Drawing Quotes from:
John French Sloan
Robert Barry
Hunting Quotes
Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.
Mountain Quotes
I have been watching and drawing the surface of Mars. It is wonderfully full of detail. There is certainly no question about there being mountains and large greatly elevated plateaus.
Edward E. Barnard
Accused Quotes
I've been falsely accused of drawing too much from real life. But I am a petty thief - I take little things. And, I mean, I can hardly write 10 words before I start to make things up. I start to invent, because that's what I want to do. I'm running away to an invented place.
I do a lot of work on computers, but I am so practiced in drawing that I can draw it full size, and you can take the measurements off my drawings. It's like drafting, but it's a work of art - a really beautiful drawing.
Career Quotes
One of the things when you're drawing a comic book is that you're spending four or five times as long to draw it as the writer takes to write it. In my career I've had to spend a week drawing something that a writer has thrown out in an hour. And there's nothing worse than having to work on something that no previous thought has gone into.
Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.
Children Quotes
I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn't hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away.
Lines Quotes
It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables.
Gil Kane
Firsts Quotes
The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing.
I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.
Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.
I've never seen bad drawing destroy a good idea. On the other hand, I've never seen a good drawing save a bad idea.
Paul Conrad
Trying Quotes
Above and beyond drawing my creations, I try to incorporate some kind of message. I try not to end as merely a question but try to provide a conclusion within the work.
Natsuki Takaya
I don't like drawing characters facing right. If I tried to do that at a book signing, I'd have to pencil it first.
Stephan Pastis
Joy Quotes
If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then that's the best of both worlds - and I'll use those computers!
Exercise Quotes
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity. The activity of the intuition consists in making spontaneous judgements which are not the result of conscious trains of reasoning... The exercise of ingenuity in mathematics consists in aiding the intuition through suitable arrangements of propositions, and perhaps geometrical figures or drawings.
Sketching Quotes
One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
I ended up reading comics and just started drawing at a very young age. By high school, I was putting together longer stories. In college, I started doing strips for the newspaper and doing mini-comics. It sort of grew in scope and scale over time.
Tim Fish
What Matters Quotes
The drawing and the crafting of the story are fun, but it's the overall meaning that matters to me. It might escape some people who just want to read a comic, and that's fine. The overall meaning is what matters.
Horse Quotes
I grew up loving horses. I was relatively obsessed, starting with my rocking horse at age 2, all the way through my painting and drawing phase.
I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have done erotic pictures?
Once a bustling logging town, Sandpoint has embraced its natural beauty to become an amazing resort town drawing people near and far to enjoy its beauty and recreational possibilities. It's truly a small town with a huge backyard.
Nate Holland
The first things I remember drawing were battles - big sheets of paper covered in terrible scenes of carnage - though when you looked closely, there were little jokes and speech bubbles and odd things going on in the background.
Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.
I don't know where I got the idea for 'The Great Thumbprint Drawing Book'; I just told my brain to think of a book, and it did.
Illustration Quotes
Not to make him blush, but any story illustrated by Mike Mignola does things that prose alone cant accomplish. The illustrations create mood and atmosphere, drawing the reader more deeply into the story than words could do on their own.
Tired Quotes
When I come home and I'm tired from filming all day, I expect her to be there and make sure everything is cool for me. You know, like drawing my bath and helping me into bed.
The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.
Long Quotes
But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred from the imperfect state in which the Science is now found after it has been so long and so intensely studied.
Nassau William Senior
I have made it a rule for a long time, not to part with the copyright of my drawings, for I have been so copied, my drawings reproduced and sold for advertisements and done in ways I hate.
Arts Quotes
Arts education is a big part of building a 21st century creative mind, and I think that we have let way too many kids lose their way by not drawing in their young minds with music, dance, painting and the other various ways we can express those things we do not have words for.
Heather Watts
Actual Quotes
I am quite convinced now... that the actual training of drawing cartoons - which is, of course, my style - led to my producing Spot. Cartoons must be very simple and have as few words as possible, and so, too, must the 'Spot' books.
Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette.
Lying Quotes
I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.
Believe Quotes
I believe that architecture, as anything else in life, is evolutionary. Ideas evolve; they don't come from outer space and crash into the drawing board.
Able Quotes
There are days when I'm completely depressed and able to do only one drawing
Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.
Kate DiCamillo
Looks Quotes
I don't usually go in for reviews of buildings that aren't yet built, since you can tell only so much from drawings and plans, and, besides, has there ever been a building that didn't look great as a model?
Paul Goldberger
Emotional Quotes
Preliminary drawings or sketches in oil or pastel often have an immediacy and emotional appeal far greater than the final canvas.
Paul Mellon
I've been drawing authors and politicians for newspapers for many years. I try to read up on the person; in the case of authors, read one of their books. I watch interviews via YouTube and collect pictures via the Internet.
Siegfried Woldhek
A line is a dot that went for a walk.
Two Quotes
At that point it certainly would be called abstract. That is to say, you had a model and there'd be one or two or three people there drawing the model but otherwise you had abstractions all around the room, even though the model was in front of you.
Sometimes, you start with the drawing and then the gag comes to you in the middle of it. That is when you start working on the solution of the gag, which is composition, placing, equilibrium, and character design.
Sergio Aragones
I was the kid who was drawing on tables or removing the legs of furniture.
Ty Pennington
Lasts Quotes
When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit of certain configurations is obvious to anyone.
A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.
Bill Griffith
I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because 'you aren't going to make a living doing that.' I liked looking in art books at the work of painters.
Billy Childish
Mold Quotes
I like doing clay work. It's different from drawing on a page because you have something to mold into different shapes. It's quite visual, it's a thing you can hold and feel, and that makes it different from drawing.
Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.
Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.
Tree Quotes
If I try to articulate every little detail in a drawing, it would be like missing the forest for the trees, so it's just about getting the outline of the forest.
Feet Quotes
I used to find great difficulty in drawing feet.
Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
Games Quotes
When I retire I'm gonna bet on Wolves drawing every game. I'll be a multi-millionaire!
Paul Ince
You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.
Few people know that I am also an artist; I truly enjoy sketching and drawing.
American Athlete Quotes
On occasion I have drawn as a release from painting. The economy in using paper, pencil, charcoal and crayon can help towards a greater gamble and higher rewards. I also find that drawing can generate ideas more rapidly than painting.
Contain Quotes
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
William Strunk, Jr.
Black And White Quotes
Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white.
I just sit at the drawing board most of the time. I am used to talking to people. I love going to conventions, getting feedback and talking to people. Some artists don't. Some artists sit at their drawing board because their personality actually dictates that.
Years Quotes
I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven.
Iain Banks
I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.
I had TB as a child. So I was put to doing things like drawing and reading. And I was raised in a family where manners were important. Maybe that's why I seem so refined.
You know, when I was younger I was into all kinds of art - drawing, painting, all that stuff. But I played drums, played piano forever.
For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.
Vices Quotes
For me, drawing generates thinking and vice versa.
Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.
My contribution to the world is my ability to draw. I will draw as much as I can for as many people as I can for as long as I can.
Lions Quotes
As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
Thinking Quotes
I think the most important thing you can do is to keep drawing no matter what. And to not be afraid of drawing whatever interests you. If there is something that you want to draw, to make, then I think you should pursue it and not let anybody tell you that you cant do it.
I wrote a lot. I was in programs for drawing when I was a kid.
I sit, I think, I make some drawings. As a designer, you cannot retire totally.
Anyone Quotes
When I was being honest with myself, I had to own that there was something about me that was drawing an energy in my life that left me feeling underserved and unfulfilled. I decided to grow. I decided to purge myself of anyone and anything that was not full of goodness, serving me or making me happy.
Brother Quotes
I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They're nowhere. I know they're nowhere and they don't exist, but if nowhere means that's where they are, that's where I want to be.
The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.
Self Quotes
In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better.
I felt the need to get back to painting and I thought the best way was to start drawing, so I enrolled in a life drawing class. I soon discovered that people made very interesting subjects and I am still surprised that I had never discovered it before.
Cutting Quotes
In bad weather, I spent hours drawing action figures on paper, coloring them, backing them on cardboard, then cutting them out and creating whole stories around their lives.
Waiting Quotes
Even the National Bank of Romania doesn't have the huge resources needed to intervene in the market and keep the leu at an acceptable level, because they're drawing close to a floor below which the bank's reserves can't drop. The central bank has to wait for a moment of calm to efficiently conduct its interventions.
A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
Anybody Quotes
A lot of people don't realize this, but probably the one person that gets made fun of in 'South Park' more than anybody is my dad. Stan's father, Randy - my dad's name is Randy - that's my drawing of my dad; that's me doing my dad's voice. That is just my dad. Even Stan's last name, Marsh, was my dad's stepfather's name.
Emergencies Quotes
I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood.
Clothes Quotes
All the drawings and sketches and clothes of Yves Saint Laurent in the '70s were so colorful, so bright.
While I drew, and wept along with the terrified children I was drawing, I really felt the burden I am bearing. I felt that I have no right to withdraw from the responsibility of being an advocate.
I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sake.
Als Quotes
At one point people in al Qaeda were actually drawing monthly paychecks when they were based in Sudan.
Peter Bergen
You have to make thousands and thousands of drawings before an illustration is perfected.
Richard MacDonald
Pieces Quotes
When we draw on the tablet, the drawing shows up on the computer screen. If we have chosen to tell the computer that the stylist is to behave like a piece of chalk, or a pen, or a wet brush, it will.
Teacher Quotes
When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late '30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the teachers and satirizing the events in the school, then having them published in our school magazine, got me some notoriety.
Bil Keane
My mother encouraged it so much. She was so supportive. Even if as a kid, I would do the dumbest trick, which now that I look back on some things, she would love it, she would say that's amazing, or if I'd make the ugliest drawing, she would hang it up. She was amazing.
Why go now? That is the question people asked when I announced I was retiring. A combination of things made me feel it was all drawing to a natural end.
Graeme Le Saux
Animal Quotes
I got into animals by drawing hair follicles. I liked drawing hair, and from that I got into feathers and fur, then into images of animals. The patterning is the same, but the proportions of the body change from one animal to the next. A lot of it is just geometry and consciousness.
Land Quotes
Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.
Bases Quotes
I still do a lot of drawing on a daily basis.
By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects.
Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
Woods Quotes
I will never tire of recommending the custom, practiced by the best architects, of preparing not only drawings and sketches, but also models of wood or any other material. These... enable us to examine... the work as a whole... and, before continuing any further, to estimate the likely trouble and expense.
Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.
I think making a movie is like drawing or creating an art piece. The artwork reflects part of your personality, but not all.
Entrepreneurship is like a computer game in which you have to master every level before achieving success. Startups repeatedly stumble and have to go back to the drawing board. The best way to skip some levels and to increase the odds of survival is to learn from others who have already played the game.
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__label__cc | 0.618068 | 0.381932 | Bull (2016)
Mondays 10:00 PM on CBS
2x22 "Death Sentence"
Aired 2 years ago - May 08, 2018
Bull’s team is rocked when their client, Elliott Miles, is found guilty of murder, and they must regroup as the trial enters the penalty phase in order to prevent him from being sentenced to death. But when new evidence emerges that could prove Elliott’s innocence, Bull must find a way to present it in court without being found in contempt. Also, Marissa faces hard truths about her relationship with Bull. MORE -LESS
offer to take the death penalty off the table.
It's reckless...
how to set the fire.
The car is the most traceable piece of evidence
(FOOTFALLS APPROACHING)
Well, do you happen to remember the night of the murder,
- What about her? - Well, I went and
He's very resistant to the idea of being prepped at all.
and how to throw a football.
Get this to Danny.
And we're not going to.
We know from our research that any information
Mr. Palmer. I should have known
You talk down to people, sir.
characterized by persistent antisocial behavior,
And you need me.
JAMESON: The husband interrupts.
but there was a ring sent to the FBI.
- A trophy? - A souvenir.
of psychopathy.
ROSENBERG: I have just one question for you, Doctor.
CABLE: So, Danny got the security footage
at that location at that time.
I adore more than words can describe
that I cannot bear to see you be less
a lot of latitude, but this is where I draw the line.
DANNY: It's just a question
isn't built on any real feeling.
It's one of these two.
(DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE)
Get off my property before I call the police.
He wants to know where Dr. Bull is.
Trust me. Please. Y-You don't want to do that.
I'd like to call for a brief recess, Your Honor.
She said he referred to those things as his mementos.
2x21 "Reckless"
Bull’s team worries that they’re in over their heads when they take on the seemingly unwinnable case of Elliott Miles, a mute man facing the death penalty if he’s found guilty of murder and arson. Also, Bull is stunned to learn that his ex-wife is remarrying.
We, uh... we met at the airport
You are a free man.
BULL: Oh-ho-ho-ho! God.
I can... give you a ride home, if you need.
Thank you for doing that.
focused and d-disciplined.
You sleep in your office.
wants to execute you...
this case as a capital crime.
Got pulled over for driving a stolen SUV,
Does he at least have an alibi?
Anything that can help us pinpoint
Well, I haven't always admired me.
It means that during voir dire,
Did what he wanted to do with her and then,
so be it, but it's your fault for choosing to work for a fool.
Okay. Well, how do we find these people?
we'd like to, uh, dismiss this juror.
The day my ex got remarried.
(SIGHS)
Well, I hope you said that you'd discuss it with our client,
is that you're dragging the rest of us into it.
- (CHUCKLES, SNIFFLES) - Take your time.
his face is all over the Internet and the papers.
And you're willing to say that on the stand?
I mean, let's be honest.
He was running out of the front of the house.
They wanted to see if I recognized anyone.
and this was three days before you identified him.
to determine how to evaluate the strength of the identification.
Your description was pretty... general.
You've always been this rock,
I wanted to tell you.
♪ ♪
work on a jobsite at 68-8 Peak Street,
Mr. Wilson, doesn't it stand to reason
(CHUCKLES): But... I get the definite impression
But now I think...
Now, the interview was less than three days
I'm sorry, did... did you just say you have no idea?
2x20 "Justified"
Aired 2 years ago - Apr 17, 2018
A friend from Bull’s past enlists his services to help convince a jury that a domestic abuse survivor who shot her husband in his sleep is not guilty of murder because she feared for her life and the life of her unborn child.
DANNY: Oh, and that's...
Dr. Grint from the Survivors' Justice Project?
Happy to do it, but the truth is,
It's one of those stories I can pretty much
to raise money for cancer research.
You've given up on her already.
Fine by me.
with their first child, she shot him in the back while he slept.
Life in prison or no jail time at all.
And I have a jury pool list
Well, I tried for a week to get an appointment with your office,
They don't exist.
It's all about the questions.
when confronted with a potentially dangerous situation,
Yes, it was...
While I didn't see any evidence of physical abuse,
that the victim was afraid of his wife,
And isn't it true that sometimes abusive partners
Nope. I left her three messages.
According to her, he wasn't violent,
Any other discouraging news on the investigative front?
make her see the truth,
They're all correct, you know.
She's giving you very little to work with.
I find that surprising. He was your brother.
We'd try, but Brian's schedule was so unpredictable.
What if I told you that Brian fractured Kate's clavicle
Now, let's just talk about... the long sleeves in the summer.
you never saw a propensity to violence?
and we have no one to tell it but you.
I think we have to take it.
Not only have I never cheated on my husband,
became nine to three.
that no one can corroborate.
He was on the faculty board in charge of my scholarship,
So, anyway, I didn't flip on the light,
tell her that if she ever went to the police, he'd kill her.
This thing's gonna go one of two ways.
2x19 "A Redemption"
Bull helps Jim Grayson, a respectable family man who was arrested for changing his identity after being the unwitting getaway driver in a fatal robbery years ago. Bull hopes they can convince the jury that Jim has redeemed himself for his past misdeeds by living an upstanding life for years.
I'd be, uh, happy to, Your Honor.
after looking for this murderer for 18 years?
George Brown drove the getaway vehicle.
Listen to his side of the story.
My older brother had a DUI,
Once they had his prints, it was all over.
Mrs. Grayson?
punish people who commit crimes,
This is a good man.
And a commitment to the idea that no matter
I have had a string of interesting relationships.
I guess I'd try to find a similar position somewhere else.
Everything I've been through has made me who I am today.
And the shock of all of it,
And when the baby came, and she was a she,
It's gonna give you peace.
Both parents were killed in a car accident
You're only making things worse.
That's not a lie he needed to tell me,
We found a gun under a mattress
that the pattern of his prints is consistent
Is that an accurate reflection of your testimony, Detective?
and his wife Kristen
Well, if you didn't plan on using the gun
I came in there, waved the gun around,
He bought $10,000 worth of electronics at a Best Buy
But I'm calling
it's not gonna take much to turn them red.
So he's got to be concerned that the cops are on their way.
There is no way he could have done it.
whoever sold the stolen Social Security number to George
that the man sitting before you here today is the same man
and eyewitness accounts
That Rick can testify to it, but who's gonna believe him?
of an employee of the store,
Uh, but truthfully, within 90 seconds,
With that in mind, we'd like to enter into evidence
between the witness and the victim.
I don't know. Maybe he's a smoker.
of this guy's life while he sits in jail
2x18 "Bad Medicine"
Aired 2 years ago - Mar 27, 2018
Bull helps a doctor who crossed state lines to purchase a marijuana-derived oil to treat her patients in Virginia, where the oil is illegal. But the case is complicated when Assistant U.S. Attorney Sylvia Banner has the DEA arrest her for possession with intent to distribute.
2x16 "Absolution"
Bull seizes upon the opportunity to get a new trial for an old client when doubt is cast upon evidence that helped convict him of murder 14 years earlier. Also, Danny is reluctant to work with Cable’s replacement.
2x15 "Witness for the Prosecution"
Aired 2 years ago - Feb 27, 2018
The DA hires Bull to help convict Hazel Diaz, an infamous drug dealer who murdered a police officer but has managed to avoid jail for years on an insanity defense by feigning schizophrenia.
2x14 "Keep Your Friends Close"
Bull is brought on to help the FBI’s case against a hacker whom they believe breached air traffic control at LaGuardia Airport. But when Cable learns that the accused is her friend’s husband, she risks breaking the law—and defying Bull—to try and prove his innocence.
2x13 "Kill Shot"
Aired 2 years ago - Jan 23, 2018
A widow hires Bull to help represent her when the police decide that she is the most likely suspect in orchestrating her wealthy husband’s death, making it look like a home invasion gone wrong.
2x12 "Grey Areas"
Bull takes a psychologist friend, Dr. Donovan Benanti, as a client when the therapist is sued for malpractice following a patient’s deadly rampage. As Bull worries a trial loss could set new precedent regarding doctor-patient confidentiality, he aims to convince the jury that clinicians aren’t directly responsible for their patients’ actions.
2x11 "Survival Instincts"
Bull represents Jemma Whitbeck, a teenager arrested for robbing a jewelry store with an older man she disappeared with 18 months ago. To persuade the jury she is not guilty, Bull argues that Jemma was actually a victim of his abuse and manipulation and not his willing accomplice.
2x10 "Home for the Holidays"
Aired 2 years ago - Dec 12, 2017
As Christmas approaches, Bull is amused when he meets a 9-year-old girl who wants to hire him to help her divorce her parents, but he’s shocked when a judge appoints him her temporary guardian. Also, Marissa discovers disturbing information about her boyfriend, Kyle.
2x9 "Thanksgiving"
Aired 2 years ago - Nov 21, 2017
As Thanksgiving approaches, Bull releases his team to enjoy the holiday with their families, only to find himself working a case solo when he agrees to help a boxer who is being tried for murder. Also, Chunk makes a major personal decision at his family’s Thanksgiving dinner, while Marissa’s dinner with Kyle is abruptly cancelled when he is mugged.
2x8 "The Devil, The Detail"
Bull agrees to help the parents of a former employee sue a drug company when their son commits suicide during a drug trial. However, the task is complicated when the company brings in their own trial scientist, Arti Cander.
(DISTANT SIREN WAILING)
♪ But let's talk about it ♪
Marissa, if I don't have a list of the 75 potential jurors
Let me call Dep Pharmaceutical,
Our cofounder and CEO, Tessa Snyder,
Now, what can I do for you?
We have no interest in settling.
I knew Simon. We all did.
Tough job. No one likes candy.
I'll see you in court, Dr. Bull.
Shared experience does not equal empathy.
And hopefully, we'll shock 'em into siding with us.
to make good on that purchase.
But then... I wish everything cost less.
Well, that was easy.
put someone as your emergency contact,
You mean Arti? How could she?
without letting the witness answer.
(CROWD CHATTER)
Did you know each other well?
I don't know. I...
because that's what my body wants to do.
JUDGE: Does the defense have any questions for the witness?
It specifies 30 days.
the suicidal ideation the two of you experienced?
My guess is, Manhattan Hill Medical tipped them off.
(DOOR OPENS, FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)
Benny the hero.
Well, this was a long time ago.
After that...
BENNY: That was, uh...
Okay. All right. So-so-so let's review.
Is that the sound of jurors starting to move?
I wanted a fresh start, okay?
No problem, Your Honor.
for deaths and hospitalizations.
And by that I mean we all know drug companies
And can you tell the jury
to ferret out the liars,
who are willing to put untested drugs into their bodies
I love that sound.
and that had taken a toll on his disposition.
2x7 "No Good Deed"
Bull is asked to help a teachers union represent a woman who is being prosecuted by the DA for helping an impoverished student pass an important test, but who may be the scapegoat for a larger cheating scandal.
2x6 "The Exception to the Rule"
Aired 2 years ago - Oct 31, 2017
Bull travels to a small town on a personal mission to help his high school sweetheart, Allison, sue a local factory that she believes is making residents ill by contaminating the water.
called Warwick Furniture Manufacturing.
in the adult world we were about to enter.
Well, maybe I'll run up to Danville with you,
He worked for Warwick.
Uh-huh.
Get over here and give me a serious hug.
Kidney cancer.
Everyone just stop. Now, I know you're upset.
Ally?
and I think we should squeeze those bastards
Where I come from, that's the ultimate party trick, lady.
Zack and I get to meet with opposing council.
Mm, that's quite an image, Cable.
Listen, I know it's been a long time,
♪ Yeah, you know me ♪
that would bypass the polluted wells
You said that like you almost meant it.
Though, if I were to get this case in front of a jury,
to hear from the plaintiffs
Now tell me about voir dire.
and pass buckets of water from person to person.
We move to strike, Your Honor.
Do you have any questions for this juror?
that would seem to make her attractive to the defense.
but it's the most plausible explanation I've heard.
You aware that he died of lung cancer?
and give them that opportunity.
I don't get my turn?
that I realized something was very wrong.
and I somehow must have hit my head on the floor.
a short recess.
with the fact that he became your doctor after news
for an independent exam
And right now she thinks that Brian
but how about if you're sick the next time you use it?"
Can Ally come out and play?
would you mind speaking your piece
And your husband...
You were born here.
so grateful to them,
that Warwick didn't put the ice on the highway
And I know that the company stopped doing it
This town is Warwick.
2x5 "Play the Hand You're Dealt"
Bull navigates the unfamiliar rules of a Native American tribal court when his college roommate is accused of committing murder on his reservation. Also, Bull meets Marissa’s new boyfriend, Kyle.
The only reason I am here, my dear, is to make you smile.
Looked in the wallet, realized he lived
Something I should know?
I think I just didn't assign much importance to it,
That you publicly threatened the murder victim
He liked to play the tough guy.
You guys have your own courts, your own rules.
Ultimately, he got banned from every casino
You know, in fact,
He was actually a pretty fantastic guy.
How do we get your friend out on bail?
In this court, it only takes a majority to convict,
In Marstick. I'm aware of it.
That's Wera Harjo, Pat's widow.
Many years ago, I studied law in Albany.
Chief, this man is accused of murder.
There are no bail bondsmen on the reservation.
Wow. I feel underdressed.
Great. Cable, Chunk, split those up.
that Mack is more likely than not the murderer.
Hey, hey, hey, don't worry.
on that corner. Biggest project in all of Queens.
Let's go find a fine restaurant, drink some good wine,
cars stolen from the parking lot.
for those reports, so...
He's the guy with noisy parties in the middle of the week.
after a onehour lunch break.
he owns the car wash, runs an auto shop.
I'm feeling drops, Mr. Colón.
It could.
The bullet that killed Pat was a .3006 Springfield caliber,
the cops'll look for you for a while, but then...
Easy to move, impossible to trace.
Kill a man, frame someone else,
we will commence closing arguments
at those incident reports and starting to figure things out.
I let my anger get the best of me.
and make sure that he never hurts anybody again.
not for some poker hands.
in the murder of Patwin Harjo.
2x4 "The Illusion of Control"
Bull hires an eccentric attorney to represent him when a celebrity sues him after his advice regarding her custody case backfires.
While he was caring for her, he dropped the boy off.
See what you can work out.
So, when you hear it, when someone shares it with you,
a sliver of what I'm feeling.
That video of you cross-examining that Crip?
Wow. Just squint,
I just wish he looked more...
he's got three Ph.D.s,
He's a brilliant man, he's a good human being,
mock juries tend to be fairly unreliable.
because that's basically what she's done.
"doctors make the worst patients"?
You want to win?
You can't force the father to do anything.
on the Web and social media.
Think of, uh,
Can't help but notice you got... what is that, a wrist brace?
Do you believe in fate?
Salaam. Excuse me. Hi.
Hey. How goes it?
So just follow up with him, in case I lose cell service, yeah?
In fact, he hired you away from Homeland Security.
Dr. Bull, that evening, after meeting
My firm isn't on trial here...
Defense, your witness.
It was really just...
We have a winner.
Bull, do you want to win?
Have you read studies?
your biological mother appeared,
But based on what Harrison told me about the situation,
Five minutes. Standby for the all clear.
Has the jury arrived at a verdict?
2x3 "A Business of Favors"
The DA's office asks Bull to assist them in their prosecution of a fraternity when a pledge accidentally drowns during a hazing incident, but his efforts may be derailed when the students close ranks to stonewall him.
I hope you boys brought something to read.
when he said those things.
A timeout? Wait a second.
This won't take long.
Well, that was a bad idea.
About where you are and what you're doing.
I don't know what to tell you.
She posted this video, but she doesn't leave a suicide note?
into a college fund for their son,
Benny, the law is there to protect the people,
to rule for our client.
that it doesn't dovetail with our client's.
Damn it, Benny! Come on!
After everything I just said?
They have all sorts of online chat substrings
Too obvious. That's who the other side will strike first.
Why would he... willingly carry that burden with him
certainties, rules.
I loved Emily so much.
Did you give her the drugs?
Not while I'm running the show.
Maybe I just made it up.
what do you mean, murder weapon?
when he entered the hotel room.
I don't know that we're gonna have a lot of luck today.
Perhaps even a cure found? Objection,
or altered that essence?
that you're aware of, is there?
What are you still doing here?
And now I am gonna do
to visit this girl who lived upstate.
That is, drugs that are used by both people and animals?
weren't you, sir?
you didn't do anything about it once it was gone,
See, I'm a... I'm a Catholic.
Maybe being 18?
'Cause if you can, I have to ask you,
2x2 "Already Gone"
Bull impulsively agrees to have Benny represent Adam Harris, a young man charged with murder for helping his terminally ill girlfriend end her life, a decision which clashes with Benny's religious beliefs.
2x1 "School for Scandal"
Aired 2 years ago - Sep 26, 2017
When Bull joins the district attorney in a case against Kara Clayton, who claims she killed her billionaire husband in self-defense, tensions run high when he learns that his on-again, off-again romantic interest, Diana Lindsay, is defending the widow. Also, Chunk makes a decision about his future.
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You might have missed one of the Samsung Galaxy S8’s best features — support for Gigabit LTE.
That’s because, for now, it’s still a little-known technology most phones don’t support. The good news is the carriers are doing something about it, upgrading their networks to higher speeds and more capacity, all so that episode of “The Walking Dead” or that YouTube cat video streams to your phone without any distortions or buffering. And with that comes more phones that support it.
As these networks get faster, you’re going to hear the term Gigabit LTE get bandied about. Samsung‘s Galaxy S8, for instance, is the first phone capable of tapping into the technology.
But what is Gigabit LTE? And why should I care? Here are all the answers to your Gigabit LTE questions.
What is Gigabit LTE?
Gigabit LTE is an advanced form of LTE, the 4G wireless technology that the cellular carriers use to connect mobile devices. Just check out the upper right-hand corner of your phone — the letters LTE (which stand for long-term evolution) will appear next to the signal bars.
Gigabit LTE is named so because the connection speed peaks at 1 gigabit per second, or the same speed that Google Fiber offers its landline-based internet connection. In other words, really, really fast stuff.
Is this that 5G thing I keep hearing about?
Nope. While many of the techniques used are similar to next-generation wireless technology, this isn’t 5G. Of course, the carriers could go on a big marketing blitz and start calling it 5G (they did the same thing with 4G), but on a technical level, it’s still part of the current generation of wireless tech.
So what’s true 5G?
5G is even faster, going well beyond 1 gigabits per second and making even Google Fiber (and Gigabit LTE) look like a turtle taking a leisurely stroll. More importantly, it’s extremely responsive — minimizing the lag between when your phone pings the network and when it gets a reply down to virtually zero. That allows you to do things like remotely drive a car or perform surgery.
Does Gigabit LTE mean you’ll get 1 gigabit of data all the time?
Nope. The operative word there is “peak.” It’s a theoretical benchmark that you’ll never actually get to in real-world situations, whether due to reception issues or the fact that other people are competing for the same signal.
Sounds awesome. How does it work?
This is where it gets a little technical, so I’ll break it down as simply as possible.
There are three ingredients that make up Gigabit LTE. The first is something called 4×4 MIMO, which simply put is having four antennas in the phone able to pick up different signals. Hey, you can always have more antennas (even if they are pretty hard to cram into our increasingly svelte phones).
Then there’s carrier aggregation, which takes different bands of radio frequencies (which mobile phones use to transmit data) and binds them together so your phone can pick up the speediest one available. Think of it as a three-lane highway so cars can weave in and out depending on which has less traffic.
Lastly, there’s 256 QAM, which is an acronym of words that are mind-bogglingly complex, so don’t worry about them. Remember that highway analogy? Well, with 256 QAM, you’ll have big tractor trailers carrying data instead of tiny cars.
Taken together, and you’ve got a network that is not only faster, but has enough capacity for all your binge-watching needs.
Thanks, now I have a headache.
I warned you.
OK, so how fast is Gigabit LTE?
Your mileage will vary based on where you live and how many people are also on the network. Australia carrier Telstra has launched its Gigabit LTE network, and it has seen speeds between 100 to 300 megabits per second, or nearly 18 times faster than the average speeds posted by T-Mobile and Verizon‘s recent performance in an OpenSignal test.
T-Mobile claims that a Gigabit LTE network let you download a two-hour movie in 15 seconds.
What can I do with it?
Well, there’s the downloading movies bit. Or you can download photos, videos or big PowerPoint presentations in a flash. You can also kiss goodbye to that lag time you see when you load up older pictures in Google Photos.
Technically speaking, it’s actually faster to pull files off of the cloud than for your phone to read the memory on your flash card.
Any other benefits?
Beyond speed, getting more people on a Gigabit LTE network means you free up more data capacity for everyone. Every time you ping the network for a video or website, you are hogging up that sliver of spectrum for your phone. But if you can get done in a flash, you free up that spectrum for another user.
Bottom line: You’re likely to see fewer awkward pauses as you load up a website.
When can I get Gigabit LTE?
Ah, the million-dollar question. The carriers are all in different states of upgrading their networks to accommodate this technology. T-Mobile appears to be the closest, having employed all three ingredients. Its CEO, John Legere, vowed in January to be the first to achieve Gigabit LTE speeds.
Sprint, Verizon and AT&T have all said they’ll get to Gigabit LTE later this year, too.
Where will I get it?
T-Mobile already has a list of markets that benefit from this technology.
Sprint tested Gigabit LTE in New Orleans, and said it would expand the coverage to other markets this year.
The coverage will be spotty at first, with select cities and even areas within cities tapping into Gigabit LTE.
Which phones will be able to tap into this technology?
Samsung’s Galaxy S8 is the first phone to run on Gigabit LTE, but it won’t be the last. The capability is bundled into Qualcomm‘s Snapdragon 835 processor (which powers the S8), so any phone getting that chip will likely tap into Gigabit LTE too.
As many as 10 Android devices will use the 835, according to Sherif Hanna, head of Gigabit LTE and 5G marketing for Qualcomm.
Apple doesn’t use a Snapdragon chip. Does that mean the next iPhone will be left out?
Not necessarily, Qualcomm also sells a standalone modem called the X16 that also picked up Gigabit LTE. Apple, for instance, designs its own A line of processors, but uses Qualcomm for the modem in its iPhone.
https://www.cnet.com/how-to/gigabit-lte-crazy-fast-wireless-speeds-explained/
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Forecasting hurricane track and intensity, providing decision support for wildfires, issuing warnings for harmful algal blooms: these are just a snapshot of how NOAA’s research over the past year has provided vital services to Americans every day.
NOAA is the nation’s premier ocean, weather, and atmospheric science agency. Our scientists explore from the bottom of the ocean to the surface of the sun, to protect lives and property, support a vibrant economy, and help build national security. Nearly every American relies every day on the many products and services that come from NOAA research.
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NOAA’s HYSPLIT computer model helped forecasters estimate the concentration and movement of sulfur dioxide in the air during Kilauea eruptions — vital information needed by Hawaii’s emergency responders. Credit: USGS
The NOAA Science Report celebrates NOAA’s research and development in four sections: (1) Introduction, (2) Theme Chapters (3) Bibliometrics, and (4) NOAA’s Scientific Workforce. Together, these sections highlight how NOAA’s research products impact the lives of all Americans.
Report explains why NOAA invests in research
The Introduction defines NOAA’s research portfolio, answering questions such as why NOAA invests in research, what kind of research NOAA supports, where NOAA invests in research, and how NOAA transitions research into operations, applications and helps enable commercial uses.
The report spans the entire range of NOAA’s mission, and the 72 stories featured in this year’s report represent a selection of NOAA’s research and development accomplishments, including the following examples:
Accelerate the Blue Economy
-Strengthened economic and environmental sustainability of fisheries through the use of a dynamic management strategy.
-Mapped more than 635 thousand square kilometers of seafloor in and around the Pacific Remote Islands.
-Released web-based tool for exploration, permitting, and siting of offshore aquaculture in the Gulf of Mexico.
-Introduced a new program for nation-wide expansion of precision navigation services to high traffic U.S. ports.
-Provided weekly warnings for harmful algal blooms along Florida’s coasts.
Prepare for Extreme Weather
-Increased skill in forecasting hurricane intensity through the development of two new models.
-Estimated the transport and dispersion of harmful sulfur dioxide and volcanic ash during Kilauea volcanic eruption.
-Launched two new satellites to improve weather, severe weather, hurricane, flooding, fire weather, and air quality forecasts.
-Deployed over 200 incident meteorologists on the scene of wildfires.
-Doubled the accuracy of current operational flash flood prediction systems and improved the spatial resolution by 500 percent.
-Increased understanding of the effects of Arctic sea ice loss on mid-latitude weather.
NOAA leads in federal weather, oceanography, marine & freshwater biology and fisheries research
The Bibliometrics section of the NOAA Science Report measures the productivity and impact of NOAA science in major research areas across the agency. Between 2011 and 2017, NOAA authored or co-authored 13,621 publications and more than 90 percent of the articles published have been cited. In comparison to other federal agencies, NOAA has the highest productivity in the fields of meteorology & atmospheric sciences, marine & freshwater biology, fisheries, and oceanography.
Report profiles excellence of scientific workforce
The final section of the NOAA Science Report, NOAA’s Scientific Workforce, highlights the creative and vibrant workforce that is at the core of NOAA’s research and development, and mission services enterprise. Between 2017 and 2018, over 200 individuals and teams were recognized by internal and external entities for their achievements.
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R. P. Mildren, D. W. Coutts, D. J. Spence
MQ Photonics Research Centre
We report a parametric anti-Stokes Raman laser using potassium gadolinium tungstate, generating output chiefly at the first anti-Stokes at 508 nm. The compact 4.5 cm long device is pumped by a Q-switched 532 nm laser and uses an off-axis Stokes resonator to provide non-collinear phase matching between the pump and the generated Stokes and anti-Stokes fields. Anti-Stokes output energies up 0.27 mJ were obtained at a conversion efficiency from the pump of 0.46%. Second- and third-order anti-Stokes lines at 486 nm and 465 nm were also observed.
tungstates
Raman lasers
phase matching
Bibliographical note
This paper was published in Optics express and is made available as an electronic reprint with the permission of OSA. The paper can be found at the following URL on the OSA website: http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-17-2-810. Systematic or multiple reproduction or distribution to multiple locations via electronic or other means is prohibited and is subject to penalties under law.
Mildren, R. P., Coutts, D. W., & Spence, D. J. (2009). All-solid-state parametric Raman anti-Stokes laser at 508 nm. Optics Express, 17(2), 810-818. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.17.000810
Mildren, R. P. ; Coutts, D. W. ; Spence, D. J. / All-solid-state parametric Raman anti-Stokes laser at 508 nm. In: Optics Express. 2009 ; Vol. 17, No. 2. pp. 810-818.
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Storeage creates LG retail experience store in Singapore
H&M store Estudio Mariscal, Barcelona
Edtudio Mariscal did a complete work for H&M in Barcelona: Architecture, lighting, furniture, graphics… even the shopping bags. A design project aimed at creating excitement among the customers that go into the shop. Excitement at buying clothes and also to be shopping in a pleasant, comfortable, unique place. To make sure that the area is the setting for a pleasant, fun-filled experience. Second objective: that the clothes should find their own place, that the distribution of the shop should order the exhibition of the clothes and the routes. Design at the service of the shop’s activity, never the other way round.
The new H&M shop is found in the most commercial street of Barcelona, Portal de l’Àngel, in the building which was, until recently, the head office of the company Catalana de Gas. The original building, which is listed, is a vestige of the bourgeois architecture from the end of the 19th century, and is the work of Domènech Estapà, an architect who was opposed to the Modernista movement and more inclined towards a neo-classical style.
The fact that it is listed and the architectural style of the building were two premises that partly marked our project. The listing was, on the one hand, a real headache in complying with the heritage regulations. But, on the other hand, it was an opportunity to work on a space with noucentista proportions; from a time when square meters were not measured in terms of profitability, hence the huge staircase and the empty space that reaches up into the dome. A genuine old-fashioned luxury.
The change of use of the building was another conditioning factor for the project. We converted an area destined to be the offices of an important company into a modern clothes shop aimed, mainly, at young people, lovers of the latest trends. This meant approaching the project by trying to conciliate the “old” with the “new”. A remorse, bourgeois, baroque dialogue with a pop, modern, contemporary style.
We were very respectful with the different architectural features. We made a great effort to reform the building, highlighting the aspects which, over time and the different uses of the building in its latest stage, had been removed or altered. Things like the dome, the three public rooms, the staircase well and the imperial staircase.
We conceived an ephemeral interior architecture, composed of features that can be added and removed. A second exempt skin was superimposed on the old architecture, creating a new image, without blurring the original. This, which could have been an obstacle throughout the project, became an incentive as it finally helped us to achieve a multipurpose space which is flexible, modular and versatile. The objective, at all times, was to order the product to show H&M collections in the best possible way, which is why the second skin is neutral, in black and white.
The building is so large —1,720 square meters— that we tried to flee from monotony so that the new layout would have rhythm. Not just a rhythm in the formal aspect, but also in the intensity with which each area is experienced. To achieve this, we prepared surprises, changes of atmosphere, each with its own personality, different from the previous one. In this way, the route is more dynamic, as each corner creates expectation. Our aim was to add a “plus” of excitement and emotion for H&M customers.
We used pieces of puzzles to achieve an open design, which creates disparate situations that resolve, invade or colonise each corner of the space. To create furniture that responds to this modular need, we used metal that is superimposed and contrasts with the original wood and stone.
This shop was also conceived as a laboratory. It is a flag ship, an insignia shop. A logistical laboratory in which we studied how to make a storeroom that would enable the rails to be continuously restocked. We also concentrated on on how best to display the clothes. We investigated new ways of showing them and making the most of them. Shelves, rails and hangers, modules, Meccano ceiling fittings were designed bearing in mind the various sizes of the garments and the H&M accessories.
In the entrance, we started an explosion of light, colour and movement, through the LED screens. This entrance works as a shop window, shop sign and access. The communication between the interior and the exterior, which normally happens through the shop window, in this case consists of a virtual shop window. The pedestrian street is a flood of people that the entrance to H&M absorbs like a vacuum cleaner. To respect the façade, a minimal logo was placed.
The three public rooms on the first floor of the building, which used to be the offices of the directors of Catalana de Gas, have been restored and are integrated into the shopping space, as they have been given a new use. In these three rooms, the contrast between old and new is more evident, as the wooden display cabinets, the chimneys and the original wooden dais have been preserved and share the space with the new metal furnishings.
The staircase and the dome are two very important features of the alteration. We have emphasised the stairwell, the emptiness created by the staircase. The new staircase that has been built is not as important as the stairwell through which the light from the dome that tops the building travels. This central atrium communicates the floors and allows the natural light to pervade the interior. The cone is a metaphor, a symbol of rising up into the heights, a spiral towards the sky to capture the light.
In the new basement, sculptural features are integrated providing colour and identity to the space. A series of cactuses, in organic shapes, upholstered in materials in bright colours spatter the area and give it character.
In addition to the interior design and the design of the furniture, Estudio Mariscal was responsible for the lighting and its image and communication.
It is important to recognise, in a project such as this one, the creative freedom that H&M gave us at all times and the cordial, fluent relationship we have had with the client during all the stages of the project.
Client: H&M
Architecture, interiors and graphic design: Estudio Mariscal
Location: c/ Portal de l’Àngel 22, Barcelona, Spain
Area: 1.720 m2
Contractor: Dula Bau
Furniture and commercial equipment: Dula Ibérica
Structural engineering: nb35
Technical architecture and services: MC Arquitectura e Ingeniería
Leds (provider): BARCO
Leds (installation): SONO
Lighting: iGuzzini
Renovation: Artecc
Aluminium stairs: Alcan
Continous pavement: Pavindus
Personal Shopper area: Guitarra chair, by J. Mariscal for Uno Design
Noble room 3 Zodiac sofa, by J. Mariscal for Uno Design
Shop area, stools and seats Guitarra
Fitting rooms, stools by Estudio Mariscal for H&M
Sculpture: Taller de escultura Pere Casanovas
http://www.archdaily.com/10512/hm-store-in-barcelona-estudio-mariscal/
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The trade of Glasgow is a large subject, and I can only glance at its early history. Before the seventeenth century there was little trade of any kind in Scotland, and few or no manufactures. Even the commonest articles of daily use, such as horse-shoes, harness, bridles, and saddles, were imported ready-made from Flanders. Yet there was, in the middle ages, trade to some extent, and probably a good deal of it was in the hands of the religious bodies. There is a charter by William the Lion granting to the monks of Scone exemption from customs duties for one ship and its merchandise, showing that these monks were at that early period carrying on a foreign trade. But by the middle of the seventeenth century there was a great change, and the trade of Glasgow in particular had by that time, for so small a place as it then was, become considerable. In the reigns of James VI. and Charles I. a considerable traffic was carried on by traders carrying goods of home manufacture from Glasgow into England, and bringing home “merchand waires.”1 Under the liberal administration of Cromwell, too, Scotland generally – hating him though she did – could not but acknowledge the advantages she possessed in perfect freedom of commerce. A Scotch vessel was then at liberty to carry a Scotch cargo to Barbadoes and to bring the sugar of Barbadoes into the port of London.2 Speaking of the merchants of Glasgow, Franck says that in 1650 their commerce was extensive. “Moreover,” he adds, “they dwell in the face of France with a free trade. The staple of the country consists of linens, friezes, furs, tartans, pelts, hides, tallow, skins, and various other small manufactures and commodities.”3 In the report “on the Settlement of the Revenues of Excise and Customs in Scotland” made to Cromwell by Thomas Tucker in 16564 he speaks of Glasgow as “one of the most considerable burghs, as well for the structure as the trade of it. The inhabitants, all but the students of the College which is here, are traders and dealers – some for Ireland with small smiddy coals in open boats from four to ten tons, from whence they bring hoops, rungs, barrel staves, meal, oats, and butter; some for France with pladding, coals, and herring, of which there is a great fishing yearly in the western sea, for which they return salt, pepper, rosin, and prunes; some to Norway for timber; and every one with their neighbours the highlanders, who come hither from the Isles and Western parts.”
The Restoration came, and with it the Scotch regained their independence, but they soon found, to use the words of Lord Macaulay, that “independence had its discomforts as well as its dignity.”5 The English Parliament treated them as aliens. A new Navigation Act put them on almost the same footing with the Dutch, and high, and in some cases prohibitory duties were imposed on the products of Scottish industry. But there was no redress – nothing for it, in short, but a union of the kingdoms, for which matters were now fast ripening.
Yet previous to that event the trade of Glasgow had, as I have said, become considerable. We may form some idea of it from an account preserved in one of the acts of the Scottish Parliament of the year 1698, relating to the affairs of a once opulent but then reduced Glasgow merchant, a Mr. James Gilhagie. He had applied to Parliament for relief, and a state of his mercantile transactions and his losses is embodied in the act. It bears that besides the lands of Easter Craigs and Kennyhill, of which he was proprietor, Mr. Gilhagie had possessed houses in Saltmarket and in the neighbouring streets, besides his plenishing in them, and “his two well furnist buiths and merchant ware.” All these had been destroyed by the great fire in 1677, causing a loss if 20,000 merks – more than £1000 sterling. He possessed a ship, which was lost with all her cargo, consisting of French wines, causing a farther loss of £500 sterling. He had been largely engaged in coal works near Glasgow, by which he had lost 20,000 merks more; and he had been engaged in adventures from Glasgow to Archangel, Madeira, and the Canary Islands. This was in the time of William III.;6 and there were many other merchants in the city at that time whose transactions were very considerable.
But when the Union came the trade of Glasgow received a great impetus. There was a general outcry against it at the time, and at first it certainly was productive of some changes which were unpopular. Among other things the days of cheap claret came to an end, as Scotland, after the Union, had to cease importing French products. But notwithstanding the opposition, it soon became apparent that this important political measure was to be the cause of increased prosperity to all Scotland. In conformity with England she had to cease exporting her wool, but on the other hand she found in England a market for wool and linen, and a greatly enlarged demand for grain and Highland cattle. In the first year after the Union the total revenue from the excise in Scotland was, in round number, £35,000. In 1808, after the lapse of a hundred years, it had increased to £180,000 – more than five time the produce of the first year.*
Until the beginning of the eighteenth century the trade of Glasgow, besides herrings, consisted chiefly of coarse woollen goods and sugar. The rise of the last-mentioned industry, in 1667, I have already noticed. The first “manufactory” which the city possessed was established in 1638. It was a weaving factory, and the magistrates hastened to encourage the novel proposal, and to offer liberal terms to the projectors. Marking as it does the commencement, though in a very small way, of a new order of things which was destined to contribute so largely to the prosperity of the city, it may be interesting to quote the minute of the town council on the subject. It is entitled in the burgh records, “Anent the Manufactorie,” and is as follows:- “31 January 1638. The said day foirasmeikle as Robert Fleyming merchand, and his pairtineris, ar of mynd and intentioun to erect and tak up ane hous of manufactorie within this burgh, quhairby ane number of the poorer sort of people within the samin may be imployt and putt to wark; And the said provost bailies and Counsall considering the grait good, utilitie, and proffeitt will redound to this brught and haill incorporation thairof thairby, they have concludit, all in ane voyce, for the said Robert his better encuragement to the said good wark to sett to him ane lare and tak of thair grait ludging and yairds att the back thairof lyand within this burght in the drygaitt, except the twa laich foir voultis and back galreis at the back of the samin lyand be eist the entrie of the said grait tenement, and of the buithe under the tolbuithe presentlie occupayt be James Wood, all maill frie of ony othir kynd of deutie, during the space of fifteen yeirs eftir his entry.” But the days of free trade had no yet come. The incorporation of Weavers got alarmed, and it was reported to the town council, on the 5th of May following, “that the weivors friemen feirit that the erecting of the manufactorie suld prove hurtfull and prejudiciall to thame,” and they insisted that provision should be made that anything required to be woven by the citizens should be done by the incorporation of Weavers only. The projectors yielded, and thairfoir,” as the minute of council bears, Patrick Bell, ane of the undertakeris, for himself and in name of his partineris, was content that it suld be enactit that there sould be no woovis wovin of tounis folkis thairin be thair servandis in hurt and prejudice of the said friemen, bot be thais onlie quha ar frie with this calling.” Such was the first manufactory in Glasgow, and such the ideas then prevailing as to freedom of trade.
But the real commencement of commercial enterprise was subsequent to the Union, and it began in Glasgow, as already mentioned, with her trade with the American colonies. The tobacco trade commenced in 1707. The Glasgow traders had at first no ships of their own, and their first ventures to Mary and Virginia were in vessels chartered from Whitehaven. It was no doubt to trade carried on in such vessels, at an early period, that Tucker in his report to Cromwell refers when he says, writing in 1656, “Here hath been some [merchants] who have adventured as far as Barbadoes, but the losses they have sustained by reason of their going out, and coming home late every year, made them discontinue going thither any more.” It was not till eleven years after the Union that a vessel belonging to Glasgow crossed the Atlantic.**
How very limited the trade of the city was, however, till far on in the eighteenth century we may judge from the state of banking in the city at that time. Banks, indeed, were unknown in Glasgow till a comparatively recent period. The Bank of Scotland, soon after its institution in Edinburgh, made an attempt to establish a branch in Glasgow, but it proved unsuccessful. The trial was renewed in 1731, but again it failed. At that time the small amount of bank accommodation that was required was provided by private traders. An example of this is found in an advertisement which appeared in the Edinburgh Evening Courant in July, 1730. It was inserted by “James Blair merchant at the head of the Saltmarket in Glasgow” – merchant being the designation then adopted by the shopkeepers – and he intimates that at his shop there “all persons who have occasion to buy or sell bills of exchange, or want money to borrow, or have money to lend on interest, &c., may deliver their commands.” The Royal Bank was established in Edinburgh in 1727, and the effect of its rivalry was to cause the temporary stoppage of the Bank of Scotland in the following year!
At first the foreign trade of Glasgow was confined to few hands, but it rapidly developed, and, along with it, other branches of industry. Sir John Dalrymple, writing shortly before 1788, says: “I once asked the late provost Cochran of Glasgow, who was eminently wise, and who has been a merchant there for seventy years, to what cause he attributed the sudden rise of Glasgow. He said it was all owing to four young men of talent and spirit who started at one time in business, and whose success gave example to the rest. The four had not ten thousand pounds amongst them when they began.” These four gentlemen were Mr. Cuningham of Lainshaw, Mr. Spiers of Elderslie, Mr. Glassford of Dugaldston, and Mr. Ritchie of Busby – the estates here named being all purchased out of their acquired wealth.7
It would be interesting to trace the history of the trade in coal, which in later times became so important, and to which Glasgow owes so much of its prosperity, and to know the prices at which that article was sold, but the notices on the subject are scant. The earliest mention of a coal-work in Scotland occurs in one of the Dunfermline charters in 1291.8 The workings in all coal-mines must have been for a long time on a very small scale, and the pits or shafts of very limited depth. A certain quantity was used for firing, but peat formed the common fuel of the country. Furze was also used and wood where there were forests. In the high grounds of Ayrshire there appears to have existed an extensive forest, and even at Preston, now so surrounded by coal-mines, wood was used as fuel for the salt pans. But generally wood had become a scarce and valuable commodity.9 Coal must have been imported as fuel previous to 1283, as in that year the municipal statutes of Berwick contain regulations for selling it alongside the vessels importing it. By the beginning of the fifteenth century it had become a common article of merchandise.10 In the following century, when it was more wrought in Scotland, it was occasionally exported, but the general supply was so small that in 1563 an act was passed prohibiting the exportation – the statute bearing that coal was often used as ballast for ships, and that the export caused “a most exorbitant dearth and scantiness of fuel.” Writing in the reign of James I. Eneo Silvio describes Scotland as a cold country, generally void of trees, but, he adds, “there is a sulphurous stone dug up which is used for firing,” and these, he says, were distributed to the poor at the church doors where the country was denuded of wood.11
There is an entry in our burgh records under date 19th August 1578, from which we learn that the Archbishop of Glasgow had let “the coilheuchtis and colis withtin the baronie of glasgw for the space of three yeris, for the yeirlie payment to the said reverend father of forty pundis money, togeddir witht threttene scoir and ten laidis of colis.” At this time the pound Scots had come to be worth only about two shillings and sixpence sterling, so that the rent of all the coal within the barony, with the use of the existing shafts or openings, was only £5 per annum and 270 “laids” of coal. The term laid or load, as applied to coals, is not now used in Lanarkshire, but in some other districts it is. In Haddingtonshire, where the term is still employed, there are seven laids in a ton of coal. That gives 320 pounds to a laid, or very nearly what is practically the burden of a pack-horse. This, it is highly probable, was the quantity represented by the “laid” in the archbishop’s lease. From another entry in the council minutes four years before this time12 we find that the price of “a laid of colis to the tolbuytht” was twenty-two pence Scots, or less than 2½d., and as that was for only a single laid we may safely assume that the value of what the tacksman had to deliver would be at most not more than twopence the laid. At this rate the entire rent drawn by the archbishop for all the coal within the barony was only £7, 5s. per annum.
In 1621 the lords of the privy council fixed the price of coal at seven shillings and eightpence (7⅔d.) the load.13 but from the accounts of the household expenses of Archbishop Sharp in 1665 we find him paying 10d. a load for coal.14 From another notice in the privy council records it appears that in the year 1621 the average weekly gains of a collier’s family was about five merks (5s. 6d.).
In 1655 the magistrates let the coal in what is termed in their minute “the muir heughe,” to two of the burgesses, Patrick Bryce and James Anderson. The terms of the agreement were that the town should “deburse for advancement of the said work twa thousand merkis Scotis” (£111, 2s. 2d.). The tenants were to have the first year free, and thereafter to pay to the town yearly 600 merks (£33, 4s.), and at no time to charge more than four shillings (fourpence sterling) for the hutch of coals – the hutch to contain nine gallons. They were to be bound “to keep the work on futt threttein yeirs,” and to employ eight hewers and no more. This arrangement does not appear to have been successful, or else the coal accessible by the shallow workings then in use had become exhausted. There is a minute accordingly by the town council some ten years afterwards, which bears that coals have “become verie scant and dear, so that the hutch bought of befoir on the hill for four shilling is now bought for no less than six shilling (sixpence), and that in regard of the decay of the coall hewes about the towne quhilk maks ane great outcry among the inhabitants and mainlie the poor, and the magistrats and councell knowing the same to be most trew, and being informed that coalles may be win and gottin in their awin land in Gorballes, they have therefoir concludit to give to Patrick Bryce Weaver ane thousand marks moneye (£55, 11s.) to sett down there twa shanks presentlie.” The pits could not have been very deep which were put down for that sum.
The late Mr. James Baird of Cambusdoon repeated to me in 1875 a statement made to him some fifty years before by an old man, William Wotherspoon – then seventy-eight years of age – to the effect that when he was a boy of fourteen he was in the habit of carting coals from the Greenend pit of the Calder Ironworks to Glasgow (a distance of nearly twelve miles), where he sold them in the Gallowgate for fifteenpence the cart – this sum being all he got to meet the price which had been paid for the coals at the pit mouth and for the carting. This would be about the year 1760. Wotherspoon occasionally got employment for his cart in returning, and he saved money. He became, Mr. Baird told me, a very strong man, and was able to lift two and a half hundredweight in each hand. I do not know what quantity of coals was in the cart, but it would probably be about nine or at most ten hundredweight.
That fifteenpence was the usual market price of a cart of coals delivered in Glasgow in the middle of the eighteenth century is confirmed by the early accounts of the Town’s Hospital. McUre says15 that the directors had it in design “to publish Regulations together with an abstract of the first year’s management,” and these particulars did appear in a little volume, now very scarce, printed in Glasgow in 1742.16 Among the items of expenditure for the year 1737 given in this report I find: “Coals, 560 carts, £29, 13s. 2d.” – that is, less than 1s. 3d. the cart.*** When Gibson wrote his History of Glasgow in 1778 “a cart of coals,” he tells us, contained nine cwt., and we may assume that it was the same in the earlier part of the century.
By the beginning of the eighteenth century Glasgow had become known for its manufacture of plaids – that indispensable article of apparel in early times; and when the magistrates resolved to make a present to the Princess of Wales the minute of council bears that “it was judged not improper to send to her Highness a swatch of plaids as the manufacture peculiar to this place, for keeping the place in her highness’ remembrance.”17 A number of plaids were forwarded accordingly, and were graciously accepted. The letter by the magistrates to the princess describes the plaids as “what are generally used in Scotland by our women for covers when they goe abroad and by some men for the morning guns [gowns?] or for hangings in bed chambers.” This was at the time of the outbreak of the rebellion of 1715, and the city transmitted at the same time to the king what he, no doubt, valued more than the “swatch of plaids” – namely, an offer to raise and officer a regiment of five hundred men. The offer was received with thanks, but the magistrates were informed that the government had already taken such precautions as would render it unnecessary to put the city to that expense.
At a subsequent date we find the magistrates making regulations as to “linnen and cotton handkerchiefs,” the manufacture of which had also been introduced in Glasgow, and there is a statute directed against the use of false or loose colours, and against handkerchiefs “being made shorter in length than they are in breadth.”18 The foreign trade of the city increased rapidly. In the year 1775, in the single article of tobacco, Glasgow imported from America no less than 57, 143 hogsheads, being more than a half of all the tobacco imported into Great Britain in that year.19
The subsequent history of the trade and commerce of Glasgow does not fall within the scope of these notices. The increase in the commercial prosperity of the city after the middle of the eighteenth century was very rapid. Many causes combined to produce this result, and not the least among them was the deepening of the river.
1 See Minutes of Council, 1625.
2 Ordinance in Council, 12th April, 1654.
3 Northern Memoirs.
4 Printed by the Bannatyne Club.
5 History, vol. iii. p. 253.
6 History of the Merchants’ House, printed for Private Circulation, 1866, p. 526.
7 Dr. Strang, Glasgow and its Clubs.
8 Scotland in the Middle Ages.
9 Professor Innes, Preface to Chartulary of Melrose, p. 16.
10 Early Records of Mining, by R. W. Cochrane Patrick, Esq., p. xliv.
11 Descriptio Asie et Europe, Paris, 1534.
12 5th May, 1574.
13 Privy Council Records.
14 Maitland Miscellany, vol. ii. p. 524.
15 P. 315.
16 A Short Account of the Town’s Hospital in Glasgow, 1742.
17 Burgh Records, 26th August, 1715.
18 11th March, 1726.
19 Denholm’s History, p. 213.
* I’m not sure if MacGeorge is purposely comparing the revenue from a year post-Union to that of a century after instead of that from pre-Union to that of the century after. England was consistently detrimental and sought to thwart Scottish trade outside the island, for example, the Darien Scheme of which more information can be found in my footnote to Chambers’ ‘Domestic Annals’ chapter on the Reign of William III. The ceasing of trade with France must have been very detrimental all round as well.
** They had, however, left from Leith and travelled to the other side of the Atlantic pre-Union, to Panama – see Darien Scheme footnote above.
*** MacGeorge’s insistence on providing the exchange rate with England every time a cost is mentioned has zero relevance unless your specific interest is the exchange rate between the two countries. £1 Scots was as hard-earned and treated the same in Scotland as £1 Sterling was in England. He might as well have constantly compared it with the Russian Ruble of the same period.
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After a year of #MAGA, it’s time to stop coddling Trump’s base
by: Greg Fish on November 14, 2017
Former Alabama Chief Justice and U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore speaks at a rally in Fairhope, Alabama — Monday, Sept. 25, 2017 (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
Update June 20, 2019: An NBC News poll found that Roy Moore leads the GOP field as a potential challenger to Alabama Senator Doug Jones. Today, Roy Moore announced he will run for the Senate seat. Below is our 2017 article during the Roy Moore candidacy that details the terminal rot at the core of the GOP.
When Hillary Clinton called a swath of Trump supporters a “basket of deplorables,” you could practically hear the groaning of political consultants and the feigned outrage of right-wing pundits the moment the words left her lips. She was going against the narrative laid out by Fox News and Breitbart and swallowed hook, line, and sinker by traditional media. The narrative that Trump voters were just fed up with globalism and the sneering “coastal elites” who looked down on their old-fashioned, wholesome ways, deaf to their economic anxiety.
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Red America, we were told, was simply looking for accountability in government and results from their elected officials, something they feel they hadn’t gotten for some time now. Any accusations of racism, xenophobia, backwards nihilism, and malicious tribalism, despite those being the primary themes of Trump’s campaign, were just liberal PC hysterics, right-wing talking heads accosted us. Clinton’s remarks, in stark contrast to the right’s talking points, were asking us to consider that maybe, just maybe, there’s a plurality of Trump backers who deep down, simply aren’t good people. It didn’t go over well.
Yet, almost a year into the Trump presidency, we found that virtually none of the things we were told about his voters was true, that they were soothing fiction they and their favorite East Coast millionaires on TV and the web told each other and the world.
They have refused to hold Trump accountable for his failures, pretending that it was Obama sleeping in and golfing every weekend even though that’s a Trumpian trademark. Conservatives who still vote with him more than 9 times out of 10 but disagree on his governing philosophy are branded as liberal traitors for not worshipping the ground The Orange One walks on by the apoplectic denizens of right-wing social media demanding they be purged from the GOP.
They refuse to take advantage of free career training also offering free food and job placement to improve their future. They sing praises to Trump for “bringing America back” as he isolates us from the world stage by deferring to tin-pot dictators he admires and sabotages our reach, standing, and lucrative trade deals by pretending that all other nations are incapable of functioning without America as an economic partner. Much like a delusional “pick up artist,” he thinks that if he negs other countries enough, they’ll put out, financially speaking. He talks tough on Twitter though, and this is apparently enough for his political fan club.
But yet, none of this is necessarily bad on its own. Hypocritical and self-deceptive, sure, but not exactly reeking of evil. No, the really disturbing traits of the MAGA crowd were trying to justify a Nazi march in Charlottesville by blaming the Soros-Illuminati-Antifa bogeyman, their support for assaulting reporters, their advocacy for sociopathic disdain and outright racism towards their fellow citizens, their daily defense of Trump’s corruption while obsessing over any possible conflict of interest to the left, real or imagined, and now, as the cherry on top of an excrement sundae, defending pedophilia as being better than being liberal.
On the off chance you were trapped under a rock with no access to the outside world, allow me to elaborate. Roy Moore, a judge who managed to get kicked off the Alabama Supreme Court twice for disregarding the law in favor of his personal theocratic doctrine, was exposed by the Washington Post for preying on a 14-year-old girl when he was in his early 30s, as well as pursuing a 16 and an 18-year-old. In response, he alleged a media conspiracy to smear him in a hurried fundraising e-mail blast, issued rambling statements which were little more than the typical Trumpian buzzword salad of furious indignation with repeated chants of “fake news,” and demanded a retraction with threats of a lawsuit.
Of course, this is all par for the course for predators and it’s hardly the point that DA Bad Touch would deny the growing reports of his inappropriate actions. No, the real tragedy here is that the Republican media machine and his state’s party apparatchiks immediately ran interference for him. Breitbart, under Steve Bannon’s obvious direction, excused him as just an old-fashioned romantic in consensual relationships with girls a tad younger than proper and sent reporters to try and discredit the Post’s sources. His supporters rushed to denounce the reports as lies by “desperate Democrats” almost instantly. Fox News picked up where Breitbart left off, portraying his victims as liars while dismissing his actions as much ado about nothing if true. It’s as if they read the Narcissist’s Prayer and decided that was the perfect playbook.
But the Alabama GOP really took it to a new level as county chairs rushed to dismiss or downplay the story while vehemently rejecting the idea that his Democratic challenger, Doug Jones, could possibly deserve a vote. In other words, they’d rather cast a ballot for a pedophile than anyone with a D next to their name because said pedophile hates all the same things and people they do, and is a Republican.
Even worse, some tried to invoke faith to defend his lack of self-control by citing that many mothers in the Bible were teenagers married to older men, forgetting that we don’t live in the ancient Middle East and have different standards for appropriate behavior. Do Alabama Republicans really think it’s fine for a 30-something to kidnap and violently try to strip a 16 year old as she fought back, tell her no one will believe her, then leave creepy notes in her high school yearbook, and have those in power bury the story for decades because they wanted to make sure that Moore wouldn’t face consequences for his predatory actions and further their agendas?
Even worse, 37% of Evangelicals in Alabama said they were now more likely to vote for Moore in light of the new revelations. The values embraced by these so-called values voters appear to be child abuse, homophobia, racism, and authoritarianism. Since mathematically, the “liberal elites” they so despise know them and/or are related to them, it stands to reason that instead of hating urbanites and liberals for demeaning and not understanding them, they loathe them for knowing exactly what lies beneath the media-friendly talking points and insist on holding them accountable for their amoral, abusive tribalism.
Just ask yourself what kind of people want to vote for a lawless, Bible-thumping pedophile whose proclivities were ignored for decades over someone who put KKK terrorists in jail for killing four young girls. How comfortable would you feel around them? Would you call them decent people with a functioning moral compass? Or would you start wondering exactly why they wouldn’t want to vote for someone who prosecuted Klansmen and let your mind go to some very dark and unpleasant places?
When the media invaded small towns and exurban America after Trump’s shocking electoral upset, they wanted to see countless stories about themselves as quirky, old-fashioned hard workers, sick and tired of Washington playing with their lives. They were rewarded with a tsunami of such tales, but underneath, almost every one of them noted the undercurrent of entitlement and racial animus. As the recent Politico profile of Johnstown, PA shows, these themes have only gotten more attention as years on the right-wing beat have shown those “coastal elites” that no, they didn’t misread or misunderstand their subjects, and this is really what they think.
Far from exonerating them to the public at large, these long-form exposes confirmed many of the worst stereotypes about them. Trump voters demanding that the media focus on them certainly got what they wanted. Now, they’re livid at what the media found when they really started digging. The myth of small town, wholesome Americana is dying, and as it does, the dirty secrets of these places are coming out, like a collection of H.P. Lovecraft stories where the extraterrestrial monsters turn out to be normal people doing monstrous things no one wants to acknowledge as not to break the Norman Rockwell-esque façade.
A while ago, I warned that the GOP was rapidly becoming unmoored from conservatism and embracing angry, tribal populism at epidemic levels. At one point, I implied it was trying to change the country from a shining city on a hill into an old hoarder’s decrepit mansion filled with nostalgic symbols of greatness long passed. I’ll still stand by this metaphor but say that it’s incomplete. That mansion also has a nasty termite infestation, dry rot behind the walls, and sewage pipes in the living room and master bedroom have sprung leaks the occupant refuses to fix despite the stench and squishy floors. It’s no longer just a fixer-upper. It’s a total teardown with few salvageable parts.
Consider that the same people now defending Moore were convinced that a pizza place in DC was part of Hillary Clinton’s secret child sex slave ring and needed to be investigated just a few months ago, and weeks prior, were busy rightfully pillorying Weinstein and most of Hollywood for the rampant sexual abuse in the entertainment industry. Now, faced with a child molester running for the seat left vacant by Jeff Sessions and unable to get rid of him due to Alabama’s ballot laws, they’re rushing to his defense. The naked hypocrisy that would be mind-blowing just a few years ago was almost expected because, after Trump, there is no moral bottom anymore. Or decency. Or truth. Or facts.
Whoa, whoa, hold on, the right will protest, there you go again, calling everyone you don’t like racists and bigots. Except this isn’t a question of being PC. This is about calling NFL players racial slurs with disdain to wide-eyed reporters because they spoke their minds. This is about insisting that you’re being discriminated against in favor of minorities despite never being able to show a single incident of this, assuming that if minority candidates get the job, there’s no way they could’ve been better-qualified candidates but received preferential treatment. And this is about insisting that people unlike them be treated like second-class citizens because they’re different and therefore, must be punished for being different.
It’s also about the lowering of standards and lacking actual principles as demonstrated by the right’s embrace of whataboutism. Like the Soviet authoritarians before them, the MAGA crowd has embraced this fallacy to deflect any criticism by changing the topic to the perceived or real failings of others. Every other sentence on Fox News now starts with “but what about?” as if the contributors and pundits are getting paid by the number of times they use that phrase. They’re not even pretending to look for higher moral ground, they’re looking for excuses to stay in the gutter and wallow in their own delusions of righteousness and grandeur. If they can’t accomplish their goals, they’ll comfort themselves in the failures of their many enemies.
The same can be seen in the right’s love affair with trolling. In a recent episode of Last Week Tonight, John Oliver tore into Fox and Friends celebrating Trump’s trolling about whether or not we’re about to start a nuclear war with North Korea — and as a reminder for the readers who may not be sure, nuclear war is a bad thing — saying that nowhere in the Midwest are there laid-off factory workers cheering the fact that an NYT reporter got freaked out by the presidents’ latest antics instead of wondering where the new jobs are. But he’s wrong. There absolutely are and they proudly said so to numerous reporters and pundits. If they can’t get better healthcare or new jobs, their standards for winning are being lowered to trolldom.
And this brings us back to Clinton’s basket of deplorables. Can we really look at what the MAGA faithful have been up to, what they’re cheering, and how they’ve dealt with criticism and the media spotlight and honestly say that the vast majority of them are good people? Are we going to call those who shrugged off a neo-Nazi march, tried to justify an ISIS-style attack by one of those neo-Nazis as a response to “provocations form the left” and embrace false flag conspiracy theories, use the n-word in front of reporters in racist spiels, defend a pedophile because he has an R next to his name on the ballot, and spend their days vomiting hate and bile on their fellow citizens on social media, and pretend this is just normal political discourse? Or will we finally call a spade a spade?
We desperately wanted to, and still want to, pretend that there aren’t racists, bigots, neo-Nazis, and nihilists among us because just mathematically and demographically speaking, they’d be our parents, and friends, and aunts and uncles, and teachers, and co-workers, and bosses. We tried to shut our eyes and hum real loud in 2016, believing in our heart of hearts that there’s no way an openly racist lout with backwards views would win and that a nation which just four years before re-elected its first black president will reject him. That denial was our undoing. We can’t close our eyes to the truth again.
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Vittal Mallya was married thrice in his lifetime, and Vijay Mallya was the son of his first wife, Lalitha Mallya. However, the couple divorced within a year of their marriage. Vijay Mallya and Rekha have two daughters, Leanna and Tanya.
At the age of 28, Mallya lost his father, Vittal Mallya to a heart attack. After the death of his father, in , he became the chairman of the United Breweries Group in As a chairman of the United Breweries Group, he focused on Alcohol business which was regarded to be having much more profitable than the core businesses involved. It is the most consumed beer in India and is also available in 52 other countries.
Vijay Mallya during his youthful days In , when the Indian domestic-airlines market was in its least favorable circumstances, Mallya initiated Kingfisher Airlines with world-class facilities and the airlines became an instant hit.
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Later, Kingfisher airlines started international flights; which became a drastic downfall for the company. The company began incurring significant losses and accumulated enormous debt. The airlines shut down on October , and it even failed to pay the salaries of their employees. In , he became associated with the Janta Party lead by Subramanian Swami.
In , with support from Congress Party and the Janta Dal, Mallya contested as an independent candidate from Karnataka. He won and was elected to Rajya Sabha.
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Should I, therefore, be a hypocrite? Because one of these businesses failed, should I live my life differently?
I am not a hypocrite. But then came the global financial crisis, and domestic policy paralysis.
Many Indian companies — especially family-owned businesses, with fuzzy distinctions between company assets and controlling shareholders — ran into severe financial difficulties.
Raghuram Rajan, the central bank governor, and Arun Jaitley, the finance minister, are determined to clean up the banking system weighed down by bad loans.
And all three men seem inclined to make an example of the erstwhile king of good times — and demonstrate they can hold rich debt defaulters to account. Spanish pop star Enrique Iglesias was flown in to perform. A few weeks later, Rajan spoke out. If you are in trouble, you should be cutting down on your expenses.
Kingfisher Villa, the beachfront bungalow in Goa Until then, Indian banks had seemed resigned to a protracted legal battle to collect repayment. By the time they petitioned the court, however, Mallya had already returned to the United Kingdom, where he has permanent residency and owns a London apartment, an office and a large country home in Hertfordshire.
How ludicrous can that be! Both before and after the Kingfisher collapse, he was fiercely criticised by employees and in the media for jetting to global sporting events and parties, while failing to pay thousands of Kingfisher employees, who had worked without salaries for months in the hope that the tycoon would manage to keep the cash-strapped airline aloft.
It was disgruntled unpaid engineers who finally grounded the carrier, refusing to certify the planes as safe to fly. Yet at the Dorchester, the businessman scoffs at the suggestion that he misread the current mood in India.
But what did I spend on my birthday party? Yet in a puritanical country — where alcohol consumption is still regarded by many as a sin and highly regulated, and where wealthy businessmen usually keep a low profile — Mallya was always a soft target. As he mingled with his guests, he was followed closely by attendants bearing his phones, drinks and cigars on silver trays. Everyone wants to be like him, and when they cannot be like him, they just hate him.
And it is true that, even before this crisis, in person at small gatherings he had always been a more subdued, and sharper, personality than his image — and fondness for bling — would suggest. I am a very private, simple guy. People are completely swayed and influenced by the professional side of me which is misunderstood to be my personal side.
I am brand ambassador for my Kingfisher in a media dark environment. The reason why I endorsed my own brand was because I wanted to create an aspirational value around the brand identity and the brand image.
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Women, fancy cars, aeroplanes. All this was brought into play in creating a brand identity and brand personality of Kingfisher. It all got lumped on me. One bursts into the Kingfisher beer jingle. Mallya says he also hears often from other Indian tycoons, anxious that the onslaught against him is a precursor of a wider offensive against indebted businessmen.
His canniest move came in , when Prime Minister Morarji Desai — who drank his own urine and publicly touted its health benefits — pledged to impose total prohibition in India by Vittal bought up Indian distilleries and breweries from their panicked owners at bargain-basement prices. In , just two years later, Desai was ousted, and the prohibition threat receded.
In , at the age of 23, he had launched Kingfisher Premium beer, inspired by a defunct colonial brand whose label was buried in United Breweries archives. Alcohol sales are regulated by individual states, which sell beer and spirits at government outlets at controlled prices, with the highest taxes of any industry in India.
United Spirits is said by company insiders to require , separate permits to operate each year. Mallya worked the unwieldy system adeptly, establishing apparently unassailable dominance of the market. United Breweries, led by Kingfisher beer, sold more than half the beer drunk in India. Growth was buoyant.
For Mallya, these were indeed good times. In India, air travel was considered a luxury — transportation for the privileged — rather than a basic service in a modern economy.
Subject to punitive taxes, especially on jet fuel, aviation was dominated by utilitarian carriers, including the former state monopoly carrier and a clutch of no-frills start-ups.
He launched his carrier with great fanfare — and a lavish party — in May , on the 18th birthday of his son Siddharth. Mallya was confident he could win over Indian travellers with a taste of the good life he himself so visibly enjoyed.
Passengers on short-haul economy flights got hot meals and personal entertainment systems. But Mallya wanted Kingfisher to fly abroad. However, months before the launch of Kingfisher, New Delhi had instituted a requirement that Indian airlines had to have been flying for five years, and have a fleet of 20 planes, before they could operate international fights.
This rule — still in force today — is fiercely criticised by aviation professionals and start-up carriers as being designed chiefly to protect incumbent carriers.A few weeks later, Rajan spoke out. Yet at the Dorchester, the businessman scoffs at the suggestion that he misread the current mood in India.
The most popular company of Mallya was Kingfisher which was shut down in but apart from this, he co-owns the Formula One team Sahara Force India as well. Several agencies including the Income Tax Department and the Central Bureau of Investigation are investigating Mallya for charges including financial fraud and money laundering, [50] [51] [48] [52] and the Attorney General said that Mallya's assets abroad are "far in excess to loans taken by him".
Indian authorities have cancelled his passport. As per media reports, he had already left India.
He faces the prospect of either digging deep in his pockets to settle with his lenders, or possibly, never returning to India. Unfortunately, there is nothing I can do to help him along with that. As a chairman of the United Breweries Group, he focused on Alcohol business which was regarded to be having much more profitable than the core businesses involved.
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Our specialist family lawyers have recognised expertise in this area and will be able to guide and advise you on your domestic or international surrogacy arrangement.
It is our privilege to help you to become legal parents through the route of surrogacy or adoption and to ensure you are recognised as the legal parents of your child.
Surrogacy is a complex area of law, in particular where there are international elements to your surrogacy arrangement, and it is important you have clear and expert advice so that you go into the arrangement with all relevant information. We have an understanding of the surrogacy process, both in the UK and abroad, gained over many years of legal practice in this area.
Surrogacy arrangements are not contractually enforceable in England, in contrast to the position in the USA (and elsewhere). Whilst disputes between intended parents and their surrogate are rare, they do happen and the court may need to intervene to make decisions based on the child’s welfare.
If you have a child using a surrogate, the law relating to legal parentage is complex, but generally, you will not be the legal parents under English law. The surrogate (who gives birth to the child) is the legal mother of the child, unless and until her legal parentage is extinguished by the court. If your arrangement is international, this can be in stark contrast to the position in the country of birth where you may be recognised as the legal parents.
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Parental order in surrogacy
To make sure you are legally recognised as your child’s legal parent (and to give you parental responsibility for the child), you will need to make an application to court for a Parental Order. This order will recognise you as the legal parent and crucially will extinguish all the legal rights and responsibilities of the surrogate.
We can advise you on the application process, what the court process will involve, and the conditions required for the court to be able to make a parental order.
In short, the conditions for the court to make a parental order are:
The intended parent(s) must be over the age of 18
At least one of the intended parents must be genetically related to the child (having donated the egg or the sperm for conception)
At least one of the intended parents must be domiciled in the UK
The conception must have taken place artificially (which can include home insemination) – rather than naturally through intercourse
The child must have his or her home with the intended parent(s) at the time of the application
The surrogate mother (and her husband) must fully, and with a full understanding, consent unconditionally to the making of the order at the time of the application
We pride ourselves on being efficient and cost effective and can either represent you at court hearings or give you solid advice in the background to your parental order application (for example, assistance with drafting your application and statements).
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Undertake careful research into all options available to you: different countries, the legal process, immigration aspects, enforceability of agreements, costs, clinics, doctors and agencies (surrogacy and egg donation). Try to speak to others who have had experience of the process. If you are embarking on an international arrangement, ask the agency what experience they have with foreign clients and ensure they have knowledge of the parental order process. Question the clinics/ doctors to check their success rates.
Which type of surrogacy will work for you? You can choose from traditional surrogacy where the Intended Father’s sperm is artificially inseminated into the surrogate, or gestational (host) surrogacy where IVF is used to inseminate the surrogate with the Intended Mother’s egg and donor sperm, and therefore the surrogate has no genetic relationship with the child. For more information: http://www.surrogacyuk.org/about_us/types-of-surrogacy
Keep copies of all relevant documents and the research you have undertaken. Keep careful records of all payments made in relation to the surrogacy arrangement, including the medical treatment, as this will be relevant to your parental order application.
Make an application for a parental order immediately after the birth of the child, even if you and your partner are not physically present here (one of you must be domiciled in England and Wales). We can help with the lodging of the application if you are not in the country.
Try to ensure good continuing communication with the surrogate (and her spouse) after birth; the surrogate (and her spouse) will need to give their consent to the making of the parental order and that consent can’t be given before the birth.
Ensure that a comprehensive record of all sums paid to the surrogate mother is kept. Payments made to a surrogate over and above her reasonable expenses will need to be authorised by the court.
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Wicked for You: Wicked Lovers Series by Shayla Black
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Ever since he rescued her from a dangerous kidnapper, Mystery Mullins has wanted Axel Dillon. When he returned her to her Hollywood father and tabloid life, she was grateful…and a little in love. Mystery wasn’t ready to let Axel go, even after the soldier gently turned her away because, at nineteen, she was too young.
Now, six years later, Mystery is grown, with a flourishing career and a full life—but she’s still stuck on Axel. Disguised, she propositions him in a bar, and the night they spend together is beyond her wildest dreams. Mystery steels herself to walk away—except the sheets are barely cold when her past comes back to haunt her.
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Wow this was a fun read! I loved how Ms. Black melded the BDSM romance seamlessly into the exciting story. I never once felt that anything was forced. Her characters had a nice depth to them so that you cared and became vested into the dangerous mystery. And that mystery kept me guessing through the whole book. I’ll add that I’m not always a fan of the ‘go back in time reminiscing’ but that was a great story in itself that added so much to the book. This book had it all; scorching hot romance, danger, intrigue and mystery. It covered all my wants.
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A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1963 256 pages A Wrinkle in Time is one of those books I think I have very clear memories of - and then I read it again and discover that I missed something entirely. I first read A Wrinkle in Time - or, rather, … Continue reading A Wrinkle in Time
May 12, 2014 Kathryn R. Fiction, Historical fiction, Teens, Tweens/middle grades
Super Secondaries: The Ladies of Norvelt
Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos Farrar Straus Giroux, 2011 341 pages I have a thing for dark humor. I'm also a fan of period fiction (sometimes truly historical, sometimes not) and stories with a strong regional flavor. Give me a book, TV show, or movie that combines the two, and I'm in heaven. … Continue reading Super Secondaries: The Ladies of Norvelt
April 25, 2014 April 25, 2014 Kathryn R. Fiction, Teens, Tweens/middle grades
Up a Road Slowly
Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt Follett, 1966 192 pages Irene Hunt's Up a Road Slowly is a problem book. I can't remember where I first heard about it, but I do remember being told that it's a great book for girls. By the time I finished reading it, however, I wasn't sure - … Continue reading Up a Road Slowly
April 11, 2014 Kathryn R. Comics, Fiction, Sci Fi & Fantasy, Tweens/middle grades
Flora and Ulysses
Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo; ill. by K.G. Campbell Candlewick Press, 2013 233 pages Finding inspiration in the sublime or the exceptional is fairly easy: the girl who bravely battles the wilderness, cancer, or a super-villain is an obvious candidate to inspire the next generation of women. The problem is, most … Continue reading Flora and Ulysses
March 28, 2014 April 9, 2014 Kathryn R. Books by Age Group, Sci Fi & Fantasy, Teens, Tweens/middle grades, Young women
Super Secondaries: The Women of Middle Earth
Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien Allen & Unwin, 1954-55 I don't just talk about Lord of the Rings, I gush. J.R.R. Tolkien's epic fantasy about the fictional realm of Middle Earth is one of my desert-island books, a work of art that comes closer to my own personal definition of literary perfection than … Continue reading Super Secondaries: The Women of Middle Earth
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This weeks edition of the Rotherham Advertiser, takes Rotherham Council to task on the debt issue.
This eye watering debt mountain, will become much more onerous for us to bear, when interest rates rise towards 5% over the next few years!
If Rotherham was a country, our debt mountain would be somewhere between Greece and Ukraine’s. Little wonder then, it has been concealed from us?
Rotherham’s citizens will be paying the price for this monumental folly for years to come, so long, that my grandchildren will still be paying for it, long after the current leadership is gone and forgotten.
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Abdul razaq on March 16, 2014 at 3:43 pm said:
Voters Is it time to wake up and not vote these clowns other wise our great great great children will be paying for these debts being incurred by mismanagement, greed and sleaze by these labour clowns
Colin Tawn on March 16, 2014 at 4:25 pm said:
This thread exposes the lies Akhtar wrote in his letter to the ‘Advertiser’. £488 million is Rotherham’s total debt not £248 million as written by Akhtar. How is it the Deputy Leader of RMBC does not know/will not say the true scale of the debt he and his Labour party cronies have wracked up? A monumental amount of money which cannot be repaid unless further cuts in services, and increases in Rents and Council Tax are implemented. These debts have been accrued with the full knowledge and co-operation of Borough councillors Burton and Dalton amongst others. Burton
claimed at an Anston Parish Council meeting last year when questioned about lack of spending on our local paths and roads “It’s the cuts”, she quickly backtracked when I pointed out to her the roads and paths had been crumbling since 2008. She is a complete waste of space.
Akhtar who seeks the leadership of RMBC is, like all Labour councillors very fond of trotting out his favourite soundbite’; “Blame the government. It’s their fault we have to make cuts”. No doubt about it, Akhtar and Gordon Brown have the same approach to taxpayers money ie: It’s not ours so we can spend it how we choose.
Time for change.
Save moneys on March 16, 2014 at 7:16 pm said:
Does this mean all peppercorn rents will finish in Rotherham on council buildings
maltbyblogger on March 16, 2014 at 7:51 pm said:
Reblogged this on maltbyblogger and commented:
Good to see the Advertiser giving the facts of the whole sorry, sordid situation of RMBC. If voters still have not woken up to how bad this is we might as well give up all hope of a decent future for Rotherham.
Wotatwat on March 17, 2014 at 8:49 am said:
While ever Rotherham continues to vote year in year out for the present set of incompetents sponsored under the Labour Party banner nothing will change. This town has fallen so far economically and is now so deep in debt there is no way back. If it was a business it would have gone bust years ago and the directors charged with trading while insolvent. However a business would not exist with 66 directors on the board unlike RMBC.
Independent Anston on March 17, 2014 at 11:01 am said:
I understand there was a positive surplus on the accounts when RMBC took over from Kiveton rural district. Since that time we have lost services, facilities and pay more in real terms. There is only one answer, split RMBC into the units prior to 1975.
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When James and Robia Scott needed to take care of their health care needs, they found Samaritan Ministries.
Robia, who plays a Planned Parenthood clinic director in the film Unplanned, says they feel that “insurance the way it’s done feels like it’s kind of a manipulation.”
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“We love how personal it is,” Robia continues. “I love that we see who has a Need. To be able to write them a note and send them a prayer is beautiful, as well as when we have a Need and receive handwritten notes and words of encouragement from members and know that they’re praying for us.
“It really feels honestly like a big family,” she says. “The unity and community of Samaritan is so different than how insurance companies work. They’re not about the people and serving the needs of people.
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Category: interreligious marriage
Today’s letter – No Papists
Dear Governor Schwarzenegger –
If you think the gays have it bad, did you know that England’s 1688 Bill of Rights prohibits heirs to the British throne from marrying a Catholic? As recently as 1978, the queen’s cousin Prince Michael of Kent was removed from the line of succession when he married Marie-Christine von Reibnitz.
Catholics make up about 8% of Britian’s population, but Prime Minister Gordon Brown pointed out that “in the 21st century, people do expect discrimination to be removed.”
Since the British head of state is also regent of 15 other nations including Canada, Australia, Jamaica and Barbados, changing the law is complicated since all would have to agree to the changes.
Yes, it is complicated, but what a relief to hear a politician talking about removing discrimination to boost their popularity. Maybe your Republicans should try it?
Today’s letter – governors Wallace and Schwarzenegger
It was 1963 – just 45 years ago today – that Governor George Wallace stood in a campus doorway while attempting to exclude two black students from the University of Alabama.
Telling people that they’re too dumb to attend school, then standing in the doorway while they are trying to do it, is just stupid. Excluding even one person from fully participating in our economy and society hurts us all.
Now 45 years later, the same people who were opposed to racial integration are trying to block same-sex marriage. They say that homosexuals are not capable or worthy of forming long-term stable relationships, then slam the door on those who simply seek that stability. It’s the same argument, and it’s still stupid.
Every bone in my body knows that all of our fundamental freedoms depend on equal legal protections. It is un-American and un-Christian to stand in the way of people who are just trying to do the right thing.
I thank God that you aren’t the kind of governor George Wallace was, and that you’re willing to fight with us to change “separate but equal” into “equal,” even against the policy of your political party.
Today’s stamp: “Toward equality in our schools” celebrating the Mendez v. Westminster decision to integrate our schools. That was 1947 – who argues for segregation now?
Today’s letter – the popular vote
Do you think civil rights should be decided by an emotional popular vote, or by the ultimate popular vote, the Constitution?
Every human rights victory we hold dear (like suffrage, apartheid, the United Nations and slavery) was installed by decree, not by popular vote.
Please help a pro-same-sex-marriage Supreme Court decision to stick in the law, and in the minds of the people. Please support the freedom to marry for all Californians.
Today’s letter – Traditional marriage
When President Gerald R. Ford was running for his first term in congress in 1948, he delayed his marriage to Elizabeth Warren until after the election because he was worried that voters would punish him for marrying a divorced woman.
That was “traditional marriage” back then: you got one try to get it right, and after that you were ‘defective’ and couldn’t even take communion at church.
Much has changed in fifty years. Now Tom Cruise can get married as many times as he wants to, and nobody bats an eye. Obviously “traditional marriage” is simply a social and economic construct that unites two people and their families according to their individual choice.
Governor, would you help bring “traditional marriage” back to the people, by allowing all of the people of California to marry the person that they want to?
If Gerald Ford can marry a divorced woman and be elected President, I should have the freedom to marry the person I love, whether they are a felon, foreigner, divorcee, widower, ugly, white, Catholic, Republican, or – in my case – male.
Today’s letter – don’t protect marriage, improve it
Marriage sure has gone through a lot of changes in the past centuries.
A girl’s father used to decide who his daughter would marry. Then there were bans on interfaith and interracial marriages. Nowadays, almost everybody can choose who they marry – except for me. A special ban on same-sex couples takes away my right to choose who I marry and gives it to the government.
The only person who should be making the choice of who I marry is me.
Governor, it is time to stop “protecting” marriage, and start improving it.
Today’s letter – Big Brother should not block love
The latest installment of the CBS reality show Big Brother has a new twist. Eight couples are bonded together in the Big Brother house as “soul mates” based on personality matching performed before the show.
In addition to the standard “cute” couples, there are also an interracial couple, an intergenerational couple, an interfaith couple, and a same-sex couple.
All of these pairs are competing on equal footing, with one exception. If the “showmance” blossoms, all of these couples can get married except the same-sex couple.
Why would you take it upon yourself, Governor, to stand in the way of what anybody with the brains God gave geese knows? Love comes in many flavors, and it should be up to the people in the relationship – not Big Brother – to decide if they want to marry.
I wish you would support the freedom for all committed couples to make the commitment of marriage.
Today’s letter – Same is not a shame
Last night a friend of mine made an interesting observation. He pointed out that traditionally, marriage has been about ‘sameness.’ Same religion, same interests, same city, same house, same race, same bed.
Why would it be so strange to also have the same sex? Wearing each others’ clothes is no longer ‘weird’ but rather efficient. Being able to use the same locker room at the gym is quite practical. Not having to worry about putting the toilet seat down is quite a peacemaker too.
They say that the exception proves the rule. Just like there are exceptions to sameness, there are exceptions to differences. Please, support the freedom for same-sex couples to make the same commitment of marriage that same-religion, same-location, same-interests, same-house, same-bed, same-race couples can – and do – make every day. Please support the freedom to marry.
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Taxi drivers across Spain are on a strike against the cab-hailing services such as Uber once again, as per reports. It was back in July that they went on a strike demanding the government to bring in more stringent regulations on such services. They claim such cab-hailing services as unfair competition.
In Barcelona, an indefinite strike was announced on Friday. And, the taxi drivers used their vehicles to block Gran Via in Madrid. The protest went on throughout the weekend and is still on.
The strike has been called off in Barcelona after the Catalan government came up with proposals to regulate the VTC (vehicle for hire) sector. It includes a wait time of 15 minutes between booking a cab and being able to take a ride. But the taxi drivers want this wait time to be extended to at least 24 hours.
Violence reported
A report by Huffington Post claims that a Cabify car was attacked by protestors making the driver suffer a panic attack. It was stated that police used cardiopulmonary resuscitation manoeuvres to help him. It was also reported by AP that the police arrested seven people for causing violence. Following such incidences, Elite Taxi BCN, one of the associations that backs the strike shared a video of its spokesman Alberto Álvarez asking protestors to remain peaceful.
Uber and Cabify services still on
Back in July 2018, the cab-hailing services had halted their services on a temporary basis in the city. But this time, their services are still on. In the summer, the taxi strike came to an end after the government accepted to transfer regulatory competency for the VTC sector. But the taxi war seems to have not ended.
Pressure due to Mobile World Congress
Given that the annual Mobile World Congress tradeshow is all set to take place in Barcelona next month, this strike in the taxi industry has put authorities under pressure. The strike against the app-based taxi services might cause trouble to around 100,000 techies visiting the city to attend the tradeshow.
As it might paralyse the city economically and politically, we need to wait for a few more days to know the result of this strike. One thing that is known is that if the proposed waiting limits are imposed, then scores of drivers will be put out of work.
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The Department of Social Sciences and Business (ISE), Roskilde University, invites applications for a position as assistant professor in Global Studies from January 1 2020 or as soon as possible thereafter. The position is limited to 3 years.
ISE calls for an assistant professor to join our vibrant, interdisciplinary Global Studies research community. The applicant must be skilled and committed to develop our research and teaching in global political economy as it pertains to climate change and/or military security. We seek a person who will contribute to the intellectual life of the Department by engaging in novel research, in high quality teaching, and by taking part in the academic activities of the Department.
ISE conducts interdisciplinary, collaborative and socially engaged research based on political science, economics, anthropology, business studies, sociology, legal studies, and development studies. The Department hosts an innovative and interdisciplinary university environment characterized by academic and methodological diversity in research and education. Researchers at ISE emphasise research methodologies and share a commitment to understanding society and businesses in diverse contexts of change and global engagement. We produce research at the highest international level that feeds into our educational programmes and leverages into social, economic and political change. Research at the Department is organised into research groups. In one of these groups, we expect the successful candidate to work closely with colleagues trained as for instance sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, or economists. Read more about the research groups here.
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We expect our new assistant professor to develop a field of expertise by adding new significant elements to the doctoral thesis and to publish in leading journals within the relevant field. We further expect you to contribute to the research culture in the department (academic citizenship). Your daily work will primarily include research and research-based classroom teaching and project supervision with associated examination obligations within International Studies at BA level and Global Studies at MA level and in one or both of our Social Science BA programmes. In addition to research and research-based teaching, the position involves sharing knowledge with the rest of society including participation in the public debate.
The position entails an obligatory educational training programme that will give you pedagogical and didactic tools as well as familiarize you with the educational model of the University of Roskilde called Problem-oriented project learning (PPL).
The ideal candidate is expected to:
Develop a field of expertise beyond the scope of the doctoral thesis
Accomplish research meeting international standards
Contribute to the development of the research profile of the department
Actively work with pedagogical development
Contribute to the long-term well-being of the department
Perform minor administrative tasks
Complete the educational training programme for assistant professors at Roskilde University
Applicants must hold a relevant social science PhD degree. The ideal candidate matches the following characteristics:
Documented research qualifications within Global Political Economy
Teaching experience at bachelor and master level within Global Political Economy
Strong methodological skills
Experience with teaching at an interdisciplinary educational program
Teaching experience with a problem-oriented approach
The ideal candidate shall furthermore be enterprising and possess good communication skills and be a visible involved participant in the department’s daily activities, in addition to being willing to engage in disciplinary and interdisciplinary collaboration across the department.
Ability to teach in Danish is a great asset. Selected applicants who do not speak Danish (or possibly Swedish or Norwegian) will be requested to acquire the necessary skills in Danish within the first two years of service, so as to ensure that they can participate satisfactorily in teaching activities as well as in academic and administrative activities at the university. At the time of appointment, selected applicants must master English for academic purposes. Potential applicants from outside Denmark will find information about life in Denmark (taxation, healthcare etc.) here.
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For further information about the position, please contact Head of Department Peter Kragelund on tel. (+45) 4674 3335 / jpk@ruc.dk or Deputy Head of Department Bodil Damgaard (+45) 4674 2251 / bodam@ruc.dk
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Cebu is the focal point of the Visayas and one of the main commercial and leisure centers of the Philippines.
Easily accessible to travelers, Cebu has one of the country’s busiest international airports, with direct flights to and from Los Angeles, Dubai, Singapore, and Hong Kong.
While much smaller compared to Luzon or Mindanao, this geographic center is a giant in its cultural and economic contributions to the Philippines.
Yearly, Cebu draws 4.3 million foreign and local travelers for its vibrant capital, dreamy beaches, and colorful traditions.
Nearby dive spots, moreover, are teeming with some of the rarest aquatic life in the region, offering some of the best diving in the globe.
Most travelers who visit Cebu begin and end their adventure on Mactan Island through its international airport. Seagrove is just 15 minutes away from the airport and is accessed through Punta Engaňo Road where most of the resorts in Mactan are located.
Mactan Island features some of the best global hotel and resort brands in the country. Seagrove will be home to the first Holiday Inn Resorts in the country and will be the first amongst many exciting leisure to concepts on open in its grounds.
From Mactan, travelers are easily and quickly transported from the lively urban offerings of the city to island destinations with white-sand beaches and a fantastic range of aquatic life. Seagrove is 5 minutes away from the Punta Engano wharf, which ferry adventure seekers to quick island getaways or to some of the best diving spots in Cebu.
The island’s various sea ports ferry adventure seekers to quick island getaways, such as Malapascua and Moalboal off the northern and southernmost tips of Cebu.
Just a 45 minute drive from Mactan is, Cebu City. Cebu’s capital is a treasure trove of delights with its exciting culinary scene, growing retail landscape, and dynamic entertainment circuit.
From quaint to trendy, Cebu City’s lifestyle scene offers all the comforts travelers need, but coupled with a laid-back charm that most visitors find relaxing and refreshing.
Many of the country’s top creative movers—from fashion and interior designers to architects, chefs, and painters—proudly call Cebu home.
Beyond this wealth of artistry and heritage, the island’s prime attractions are its lively metropolis with Ayala Center Cebu—managed by the same team behind Seagrove—as its premiere mixed-use commercial district.
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Avoid these storage ROI pitfalls
Many organizations fail to do ROI analyses for their storage operations, and those that do such analyses often overlook key metrics.
Johanna Ambrosio
At many shops, adding incremental storage is an operational expense that few people analyze deeply, if at all, from a cost-versus-benefit point of view. Storage is simply considered a cost of doing business, much like buying a few additional PCs might be.
But at some point -- whether because of an expensive new storage area network (SAN) or a business application that requires major storage purchases -- the costs add up enough that a full-fledged ROI analysis is warranted. Where that point is "depends on whose pocketbook we're talking about," says David Hill, vice president of storage research at the Aberdeen Group in Boston. "To some it's $100,000 and to others it's a million."
Wherever the cut-off is, it's a lot lower nowadays than it used to be, according to Tom Pisello, CEO and founder of Alinean LLC, an Orlando, Fla.-based concern that sells tools and methodologies for doing ROI analysis. He starts the range for doing storage-oriented ROI at $50,000, whereas it used to be above $250,000. "Any SAN is within that, most NAS [network-attached storage] systems are within that, and most consolidation projects" are at least at the $50,000 mark, he explains.
"Folks are wanting more accountability on capital expenditures, and IT is now half of that number for most organizations," Pisello says. Given the weak economy, executives are trying to "manage the bottom-line expenses," especially if they've been unable to increase top-line revenue.
To Hill's mind, the biggest problem with most IT-oriented ROI analyses is that they are geared to a "straight" cost/benefit ratio -- how much the proposed solution will make or save versus what it will cost. And that's fine as far as it goes, but that's not how corporate executives look at most investments, technology or otherwise. "The financial community cares more about rates of return and that sort of thing," he explains. "My concern is that IT organizations have to make sure that they're in coordination with what the CFO looks at in terms of ROI."
Still, problems can arise, even with a so-called simple ROI analysis, starting with the assumptions made at the very beginning of the process. Mike Karp, a senior analyst with Enterprise Management Associates, in Boulder, Colo., devotes an entire chapter in a book he co-authored, Storage Solutions: A Buyer's Guide, to the ROI process and how IT departments need to start by collecting data on the costs and revenue associated with existing storage. Then there can be some comparisons made with how the proposed new system will change the existing cost structure.
For example, Karp quotes a study of 400 large corporations that says that downtime costs an average of $1,400 per minute. So if you're proposing a new storage system that will keep your business applications up and more available, that's a pretty good baseline to use.
Also, the value of data that's put on various storage devices may change over time, not necessarily because data gets older, but because of changes in how it's used and how often it's accessed.
Karp concurs with Aberdeen's Hill that it's well worth an IT administrator's effort to express storage ROI facts and figures in terms that senior management can relate to, such as internal rates of return and net present value.
"The real value is not that the new system fulfills some technical requirement, but that it supports some business process. So we have to realize what the value of the business is to our company," Karp explains. "Upper management absolutely does not want to hear about I/O and block versus file storage."
Also, Karp says, make sure to calculate how much time is saved with the new system -- because time saved translates into personnel costs saved, which can easily outweigh hardware and software costs. He suggests figuring out the number of hours you currently spend doing manual backups, restarts, tape handling, storage capacity planning and other storage management tasks. Then figure out what the new system will do for you, how much time will be saved -- and how much money will be saved through personnel costs.
Other factors that can easily be overlooked include additional revenue generated by no longer having to take the system offline to be backed up, lower costs due to the centralization of a SAN, and reduced real estate needs in the data center.
Another ROI pitfall, Karp and others say, is not distinguishing between hard savings -- those that can be quantified -- and "soft" measures, like "better brand loyalty," that can't easily be measured. So, while factors like "peace of mind" may be important to an IT staff member, they will not impress the executive honcho who has to approve the proposal.
Still, Pisello maintains that soft measures are important to list and that they often can help win over a top manager, assuming the nuts-and-bolts business case has also been made. "Reducing costs is interesting, but you also have to keep an eye on strategy," he says.
Finally, as Aberdeen's Hill says, it's essential that when the ROI analysis is done and the project approved, that someone goes back later and determines whether the initial ROI estimate turned out to be accurate. "Few organizations follow up and measure what the hell actually happened," he says. "Once you get the money, you forget why you got it."
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__label__wiki | 0.572896 | 0.572896 | Group Condemns Increasing Cases of Child Rape, Battery
A group of non-governmental organizations comprising of child’s rights organizations, and women and youth groups has condemned in strong terms the alarming and increasing rate of reported rape of children and general atmosphere of child abuse in the country.
In a press statement, the groups including the Africans Unite Against Child Abuse (AFRUCA-UK), Spaces for Change, the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN), Media Concern Initiative for Women & Children (MediaCon), Healing Hearts Foundation, Project Alert on Violence Against Women and Children, the Charles and Doosurh Abaagu Foundation, and the Women Environmental Programme (WEP), the Triumphant Foundation for Widows and Orphans organization and the Next Generation Youth Initiative International (NEGYII) stressed that the trend had reached an unacceptable level and must be stopped by all legal means.
The recent reaction followed the report that a two-year old baby was raped in Nasarawa State by a police corporal, Anthony Onoja.
‘On a daily basis, we are bombarded by the abominable news of the rape of innocent children and hapless girls across the country. When it is not a porn-addicted 14 year-old boy A 14-year-old boy, raping to death a nine-year old in Ikorodu, Lagos, it is a 35-year-old pastor, Yakubu Izang in Jos, Plateau State defiling two underage girls entrusted into his care for prayers, or an 18 year –old girl on an evening errand gang-raped by eight artisans in the Odume Obosi area of Anambra State, a 47-year-old man, Orire Agidiogun, docked in Lagos for who allegedly raped a four-year-old child, and now a law-enforcement officer in the name of Police Corporal Anthony Onoja, committing the most beastly act and harming an innocent baby, a two-year-old toddler at Kabayi in Nasarawa State. What this shows is that our beloved country is tending towards anarchy, a lawless state where the most powerless and most defenseless are harmed without any repercussion. Clearly, this is unacceptable’, the statement added.
The group also noted that just like the rape cases, virtually nothing was being done by the government agencies vested with the responsibility of protecting children to halt the incessant attacks on children, particularly under-aged house helps, orphans and indigent children nation-wide. The statement cited instances including that of an 11-year old house help, Ita Bassey-Eno, who died after being set ablaze by her guardian, Mrs. Nkese Iroakazi, a nurse a few months ago in Lagos.
‘From my point of view as a UK based charity, there needs to be more intensive, strong, prolonged and continuous joint action to help protect Nigerian children. All it takes is for something terrible to happen to just one child here in the UK and all hell breaks loose. Heads will roll, people will lose their jobs, government will be sued, if possible, parliament will hold a major session, policy changes will happen etc. The situation needs to be similar in Nigeria… One child is one too many’, says Debbie Ariyo of AFRUKA-UK.
Sophie Mbanisi, Executive Director of the Healing Heart Foundation says only the strictest punishment for the culprits would do. ‘This madness against children— God’s gift to us– just must stop. The evil is increasing by the day because no “Pharoah” or “Herod” has been made a scapegoat yet, in the real sense of it, and we must all join hands to put an end to this wickedness,” she said.
‘Nigerian laws are too weak to protect women and girls against rape and defilement, says Victoria Ibezim-Ohaeri of Spaces for Change. “The ratification and domestication of the Child Rights Convention has hardly helped to protect women and girls from recurrent sexual violence. We need strong laws that bark and bite, and not just lip-service legal standards that merely conform to the tenets of global formality. Protecting women and young daughters from sexual abuse and violence is a moral and legal obligation that the Nigerian government must take very seriously,” she added.
‘Though we are aware that Corporal Onoja, the pervert who raped the two-year old, is currently on trial, we want the trial and eventual conviction to be made public so as to serve as a deterrent to others. And as many Onojas as are prowling the country and defiling innocent and defenseless children should be shown the way to where they belong—the jail’, said Betty Abah of ERA.
Section 31 and 32 of the Child’s Right Act make child rape case a criminal offence which attracts life imprisonment or 14 years imprisonment.
‘It does not augur well for our image as a nation when all the international indices regarding the welfare of children portray us in alarming negatives’, the statement concluded. | cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line1898 |
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With the onslaught of Fortnite, Overwatch and the slew of other battle royale games devouring gamers' time, the world of online shooting has changed around Call of Duty. Activision and developer Treyarch haven't been caught snoozing at the wheel, however, and Black Ops 4 brings a huge change for the blockbuster franchise - Blackout, a battle royale mode grown from Call of Duty's robust DNA.
From the outset it's apparent that Treyarch has some ideas of its own about arena shoot-'em-ups. As you descend on the map you do it not in the caress of a parachute, but piloting a nimble and speedy wingsuit that will enable to hit your desired location with a lot of accuracy. And those locations, by the way, play like a greatest hits collection of Call of Duty's multiplayer, with the likes of Nuketown and Rivertown offering plenty to chew on.
Vehicles are a big part of play, giving Blackout a pace that defies the size of the map. It's tactical too, though, and with players well camouflaged from the start its the sound of weapons and rates of fire that will tell you what you're up against. When some of the weapons in play are as surprising as the zombie-summoning Monkey Bomb, however, be prepared to think on your feet.
Treyarch hasn't forgotten Call of Duty's bread and butter, mind you. It's the 10 year anniversary of Call of Duty Zombies and Activision is promising the biggest undead launch offering ever. Traditional multiplayer, meanwhile, takes place between Black Ops 2 and 3 and serves as a prequel to the game's Specialists and their backstories. It's been built to offer more choice and reward more styles of play. Between these changes and the new Blackout mode, veterans and newcomers alike are going to need to be on their toes for Black Ops 4.
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As news reports proliferate about the Trump administration suppressing science, it is crucial to understand that muzzling federal scientists isn’t
new—and that science itself is not the solution to our political problems.
By Tim Schwab
The Trump administration’s efforts to rationalize any policy decision—or self-aggrandizing propaganda—with the use of “alternative facts” has generated criticism that his administration is anti-science. Critics have taken to social media and even organized a March for Science to call “for science that upholds the common good, and for political leaders and policymakers to enact evidence-based policies in the public interest.”
Some of this concern was triggered by last-week’s so-called “gag order” at USDA, when a top official sent out a memo barring the agency’s scientists from sharing information with the public. Journalists cited it as the most recent in a series of such gag orders issued during the first week of the new Trump administration.
This gag order doesn’t appear to be a completely new practice at USDA. During the Obama administration ten USDA scientists petitioned the USDA about suppression of science, citing the agency’s efforts to support the research agenda of corporate agribusiness interests (Monsanto was the only company named in the complaint).
One whistleblower who went public, Jonathan Lundgren, claims that the USDA railroaded him when he began sharing scientific findings that challenged the industrial model of pesticide-soaked monocultures. USDA severely penalized Lundgren for not filing his administrative paperwork correctly, a routine sin among USDA scientists that is usually overlooked.
Whether it’s Obama or Trump in the White House, the political power of the biotech and pesticide companies does not change. These industries pour hundreds of millions of dollars into campaign coffers and lobbying, which generates unparalleled influence over government rules and regulations—and government science that is supposed to inform public policy.
Lundgren’s whistleblower complaint was dismissed by USDA, naturally, and the agency has walked back its most-recent gag order as having been a mere miscommunication. That explanation rings hollow in light of the similar news from other government agencies under the fledgling Trump presidency. As now-former USDA researcher Lundgren commented on twitter, USDA can rescind the gag order, but “the message was sent.”
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Unlike most founders, Adam Hasham’s entrepreneurship journey didn’t start with any particular idea. He didn’t have a vision for a product or service – but he did have a background in both computer engineering and finance, and a drive to simply create something of his own, whatever that might turn out to be.
“I just knew I wanted to have my own company,” Adam says. “The idea came later.”
Having recently relocated to Toronto from Singapore, he spent a few months reading, researching and talking to people, in effort to identify what kind of company he could create. It was 2013 and Amazon was cementing itself as a global eCommerce leader, shipping generic goods from distant warehouses to consumers’ front doors. Etsy was also doing big business, making it easy to purchase specialized goods from distant cities, states and countries.
Adam saw an opportunity.
“I thought, why don’t we try making a marketplace that would make it easy for people to access specialized local goods, but with a near-instant gratification experience from on-demand delivery?” he says. “So, I built Hurrier. An on-demand delivery platform.”
Hurrier launched in the summer of 2013, with a small team of bike couriers who delivered everything from takeout meals to lice combs to diapers to customers, who ordered using an online platform. The on-demand service industry in North America was heating up, Adam says, but there was next to no direct competition in Toronto at the time. It didn’t take long for the company to build brand recognition.
“I’m proud of even being able to get into the space.”
Not that growing Hurrier was without challenges. Maintaining what Adam calls a “three-sided marketplace” — customers, retailers and couriers — required plenty of finessing to keep everyone happy and engaged. And then there were the challenges that came with being a Canadian company.
“Being a Canadian company with Canadian data points, it’s really challenging to raise money from U.S. investors,” Adam explains. “What made it even more challenging was that our service was also localized. We were only operational in Toronto.”
The highly local nature of Hurrier made it difficult to attract investment, American or Canadian. Adam says many investors also balked at him being a sole founder. There was one exception: Marcus Daniels and HIGHLINE.vc.
“As a solo founder, you have no one to talk to or bounce ideas of off. Marcus was literally there every day — finding out what we were doing, making connections,” Adam says. “He was completely accessible … He was like a full-time advisor.”
Hurrier’s success in Toronto was enough to attract the interest of foodora, a Berlin-based online food delivery company owned by Rocket Internet.
The fit between Hurrier and Rocket Internet-powered foodora was a natural one: Hurrier had a growing network of users and a strong understanding of the Canadian market, while Rocket Internet and foodora brought resources and experience operating a delivery business at scale.
In September 2015, just over two years after launching, Hurrier was officially acquired by foodora.
“There’s always the question of do you build it or buy it,” David Albert, foodora’s managing director in Canada, told TechVibes at the time of the acquisition. “Hurrier really helped us to move faster in the Canadian space.”
Adam stayed on with foodora, living and working in Berlin until late 2016. Foodora itself was later acquired by Delivery Hero.
Adam has since accepted a job with Amazon in Seattle. Now working in product strategy for Alexa, Amazon’s virtual assistant, he’s got only pride for how Hurrier’s story ended:
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__label__wiki | 0.646661 | 0.646661 | THE CATHOLIC PARISH OF ST COLUMBA AND ST THERESA, CHESTER
Plas Newton Lane, Chester, CH2 1SA Parish Office 01244 624019 stcolumbaschurch2016@outlook.com
19th Jan 2020 Joint Newsletter PDF
Other Chester Parishes
Previous Newsletters (PDF)
2020 Newsletters – PDF
Farewell Party for Frs Jonathan & Isidore 4-9-19
Anniversary photo gallery
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Welcome to the website of the Catholic Parish of St Columba and St Theresa, Chester
ACCESS TO ST. COLUMBA’S CHURCH:
Please note that builders are in the process of making a new ramp and steps at the rear entrance to the Church. Access will be from the FRONT PORCHES ONLY until further notice. The outside lights at 6.30 p.m. Mass will be left on overnight and turned off on Sunday morning. The Hall outside lights will also be left on. Please take extra care when arriving and departing, especially at week-end Masses. Thank you.
The Parish of St Columba and St Theresa was formed in July 2019 by merger of the previously separate parishes: St Columba in the Plas Newton area of Chester and St Theresa in the Blacon area of Chester.
The formal merging into one parish coincided with the move to other appointments of the Parish Priest Fr Jonathan Brandon and the Parochial Administrator Fr Isidore Madueke, and subsequently by the appointment by our Diocesan Bishop Mark Davies of Fr William Damah CSSR as Parish Priest and Fr James Mchamungu CSSR as Assistant Priest of the newly merged parish, with both priests residing at St Theresa’s presbytery.
Set out below are our usual Sunday Mass times at both churches – BUT please check our Latest Newsletter for any variations from the normal Mass times, and for information over the forthcoming week about services and activities at both churches throughout the week , and for making arrangements regarding Weddings and Baptisms.
Sunday Vigil Mass: At St Columba’s, 6.30pm each Saturday.
Sunday Mass: 9.30am at St Theresa’s, and 11.00am at St Columba’s.
The Joint Newsletter, along with the website, is the main source of information for services and activities in the churches, and the website holds an archive of newsletters (in convenient pdf format, and accessed via the menu bar). The archive goes back several years. The website was originally developed for St Columba’s, and it is acknowledged that, for the moment, it does not fully reflect the functioning of the newly merged parish. Its revision or replacement is currently under consideration.
The Newsletter extracts below provide further information about the recent parish merger and clergy appointments.
WELCOMING OUR NEW CLERGY – Newsletter announcement 8-9-19
We welcome Fr William and Fr James this weekend. We hope that they will be very happy here in the Parish of St. Columba & St Theresa. God bless them in their work.
PARISH CLERGY CHANGES – Newsletter announcement 25-8-19:
Rev. Fr. William Damah CSSp is our new Parish Priest. Fr. William was born in 1957, a native of Ghana. He was ordained priest on the 1st July 1996 and his subsequent service includes – Parish Priest of St Francis Xavier, Yapei, Ghana 1998-2001, Regional Superior of his Order in Ghana 2001-04, Assistant Priest at St Mary & Peter, Westminster Diocese 2004-05 and Sacred Heart Southwark Diocese 2005-06, Parish Priest of St Chad’s Southwark Diocese 2006-16, and St Bernadette’s Motherwell Diocese 2016-19. Fr. William’s hobbies include Walking, Gardening and Volleyball.
Rev. Fr. James Mchamungu CSSp is to be Assistant Priest with Fr. William. He was born in 1975, a native of Tanzania. He was ordained priest in 2008 and his subsequent service includes Youth Ministry in Salford 2008-09 and in the Revive Project (supporting refugees and asylum seekers) 2009-11, Assistant Parish Priest at St Anne’s & St Brigid, Salford Diocese 2010-13. In 2013-14 Fr. James served the Spiritan Community in Carfin and in 2014-15 he attained a Masters Degree in Business Administration. Since then Fr. James has been the Spiritans’ Provincial Bursar for UK, based in Hoole. Some of you will know him from his times supplying for Masses at St Columba’s.
Fr. William and Fr. James will take up residence in the Presbytery at St Theresa’s during the week commencing 1st September, to live ‘in community’ and serve the parish from there. They will celebrate their first parish Masses for Sunday 8th September. Let us give them the warmest of welcomes.
CLERGY MOVES:
Bishop Mark has asked Fr. Jonathan and Fr. Isidore to move to new appointments. Fr. Jonathan is moving to be Parish Priest of St. Vincent’s, Altrincham and Fr. Isidore is moving to Shrewsbury Cathedral to assist with the pastoral care of the parishes connected with the Cathedral. Bishop Mark has asked the Congregation of the Holy Spirit (the Spiritans) to assume pastoral care of this parish of St. Columba and St. Theresa. The Spiritans have considerable experience running a number of parishes across the country including in London, Salford and Scotland. The Spiritans will nominate a priest for Bishop Mark to appoint as dedicated Parish Priest. This will be an experienced priest but not a member of the Spiritan retirement community. He will live in the presbytery at St. Theresa’s with another Spiritan but will continue to serve both the churches of our one parish. These appointments take effect on 8th September 2019.
PARISH MERGER – Newsletter announcement 28-7-19:
When Fr. Jonathan was appointed Parish Priest three and a half years ago he was asked by the Bishop to bring together the two parishes of St. Columba and St. Theresa into one parish. In practical terms the parishes have operated as one parish for the last three years. I am pleased to say that Bishop Mark has now issued the decree merging the two parishes into the one parish of St. Columba and St. Theresa. This means that the parish is one not only in practical terms but also in Church law. The merger of our parish has also meant a change in the boundaries of all the parishes of Chester and the Bishop has issued a decree to this effect. Both the decrees are available for you to consult on the notice boards of both the churches and on our parish website.
the DECREE of MERGER and
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__label__cc | 0.722705 | 0.277295 | by Stella's | Dec 8, 2017 | Seafood
Stella’s Fish Cafe offers a veritable plethora of satisfactory seafood delights that will tantalize the tastebuds. If you’re in a seafood rut, this is the right place to start. We’ve compiled a list of 6 delicious seafood dishes that you’ll be eager to try this holiday season. Let’s start with a delicious classic: oysters rockefeller.
This classic dish first appeared in New Orleans. Because of its rich flavors, it was named after the very wealthy John D. Rockefeller, the infamous oil tycoon. It starts with fresh, raw oysters. From there, they are topped with a variety of herbs and vegetation, including spinach and parsley. While the classic recipe calls for a butter sauce, Stella’s improved upon that idea with a luscious Creole hollandaise. Prosciutto and parmesan enhance the herbaceous flavors, followed by a sprinkling of breadcrumbs for texture. From there, the oysters are baked and served on the half shell. Oysters rockefeller are great for those palates seeking to mix up their normal shellfish routine.
If you’re looking for something a little more traditional, crab cakes may be in your future. While many crab cakes found in restaurants are full of imitation crab and other fillers, Stella’s uses only the freshest jumbo lump crab meat. We add in a twist of citrus and creamy aioli, creating a moist crab cake perfect for dipping in our chili vinaigrette.
Love salads and big flavors? A tuna nicoise can appeal to both! It starts with a pan seared tuna filet. Stella’s opts for the best of the best, crusting our rich ahi tuna in sesame. Your traditional nicoise is a tasty treat, packed full of green beans, potatoes, and eggs, but Stella’s takes it a step further with pickled green beans and a tomato tapenade that will leave you asking for more.
For those looking for a creole classic, our jambalaya is perfect. It’s a classic flavor combination packed full of hearty meats. Simmered rice and tomatoes create the base for our combination of chicken, shrimp, tasso ham, and spicy andouille sausage. It’s packed full of Creole spices and goes great with a glass of wine. | cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line1919 |
__label__cc | 0.688175 | 0.311825 | Archive: "Dead Sea Scrolls" Tag
Not to Worry
January 2, 1978 by Ben Crowder • adversary, anti-Mormon literature, Bible scholars, Book of Mormon, Christian(s), Christianity, Dead Sea Scrolls, debate, debating, devil(s), disputation, divine origin, Eduard Meyer, existence, God, Greek, Hebrew(s), Higher Critic, Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith, literary critic, Mormonism, murmuring, New Education Testament, religion, resurrection, scholar(s), scholarship, schoolmen, Soren Kierkegaard, testimony, the Church, the critic(s), the Higher critic(s), The Terrible Questions, vanity
in Expressions of Faith: Testimonies of Latter-day Saint Scholars, edited by Susan Easton Black (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1996): 139-154. Reprinted from a talk given October 31, 1994
New Approaches to Book of Mormon Study
January 2, 1977 by Ben Crowder • Abyssinia, ancient parallels, Anointed One, apocrypha, Arab(s), Assumption of Moses, authenticity, authenticity doubtful, authenticity positive, authenticity possible, Babylon, Bedouin(s), believer, Bible, Book of Jubilees, Book of Mormon, brass, bronze, castles, Catholic(s), China, Christian(s), circumstantial, commentary, complexity, critical examination, criticism, D. W. Thomas, Dead Sea Scrolls, death, deceit, deceiver, discovery, divine power, document discoveries, doubtful authenticity, Eden, Egyptian, Egyptian names, elephants, English, Etruscan, Euphrates, evidence, Ezekiel, forgery, fraud, Friedrich Blass, garden of Eden, Ghumdan, gigunu, God, Godhead, gods, grave, ha-eretz, Hamlet, Hebrew(s), Hebrew(s) Bible, Hem, hermeneutics, hiding up, Hittite(s), hochtempel, Hymn of Thanksgiving, Indo-European, Ishmael, Israel, Israelites, Jacob, Jaredites, Jarmo, Jehoiachim, Jeremiah, Jesus Christ, Jews, Joseph (sold into Egypt), Joseph Justin Scaliger, Joseph Smith, Joseph Smith Jr., Judaeans, Koran, Lachish, Land of Eden, language(s), Lehi, Lehi in the Desert, liberty, limited vocabulary, Manti, Manual of Discipline, Master of Justice, Medieval, Metallic format, Mimmation, Mohammed, Moroni, Moses, Nephi, New Education Testament, New Education World, Noah, nunnation, Old Testament, Old World, Paanchi, philology, plausible story, poet(s) Arab, proof, Pyramid, revelation(s), scholar(s), scholarship, scripture(s), sealed up, Seals of Babylonia, Shakespeare, temples of passage, testimony, the critic(s), the Scrolls, tieftempel, Tigris, Tower of Babel, tower temples, Turamian, Ur-Abraham, Ur-Genesis, weights and measures, witnesses, writing, Zedekiah, Ziggurat
a series of articles in The Improvement Era, 1953, 1954; CWHN 8:54-126
A Strange Thing in the Land
March 27, 1975 by Ben Crowder • Abraham, Abyssinia, Adam, angel(s), Apocalypse of Adam, apocalyptic, apocrypha, Bible, Bodleian Library, Book of Adam, Book of Enoch, Book of Jeu, Book of Mormon, celestial law, Christian(s), City of Enoch, cosmology, Dead Sea Scrolls, Enoch, God, Greek Enoch, heavenly tablets, James Bruce, Jesus Christ, Jews, Joseph Justin Scaliger, Joseph Smith, Jude, literature, Mahijah, Mahujah, Methusaleh, Moses, New Education Testament, Noah, Oannes, of Moses, Old Testament, Origen (early church father), Parley P. Pratt, Pearl of Great Price, Prophecy of Enoch, R. H. Charles, Revelation, Richard Laurence, sacred writing, Satan, scholar(s), Slavonic Enoch, The LORD, Watchers, wickedness, Zion
“‘A Strange Thing in the Land’: The Return of the Book of Enoch,” a series of articles in Ensign; CWHN 2:91-301
Secrets of the Scriptures
April 25, 1974 by Ben Crowder • 1 Jeu, 2 Jeu, Adam, Adam as Michael, ancient prayer circle, ancient religious writings, animals, Apocalypse of Abraham, Askew Manuscript, Berlin Papyrus, Book of Enoch, Book of Nature, Books, children of God, Christian(s) cosmology, Clementine Recognitions, cosmism, creatio ex nihilo, creation(s) as organization, damnation, Dead Sea Scrolls, degrees of glory, Disneyland, divinity, dogs, Egyptian(s), energy, eternal progression, Ginza, Gregory of Nyssa, heavens, hell, Ignatius, joy, Kabbalah, libraries of ancient writings, light, Mandaean writings, Manichaean writings, matter, measurement and creation, Michael, mortality, Mother of the Living, multiplicity of worlds, mysteries of creation, Nag Hammadi codices, Odes of Solomon, ordinances, Origen (early church father), physical world, Pistis Sophia, pre-mortal existence, probation, progeny, progression, purification, salvation, Satan, science fiction, Sefer Yetzirah, Sent One(s), skena, Sons of Light, space, spark (of creation), spirit (and matter), the Gospel of Philip, the Gospel of Truth, topos, treasure (physical substance), Walt Disney, world(s), writings ancient, Zohar
“Secrets of the Scriptures — The Creation,” 29 pp., typed transcript of a talk given in Glendale, California in 1969. One of the best examples of Nibley’s use of ancient apocryphal writings. The talk was also unusual in that he expressed gratitude that it was being recorded. Brothers and Sisters, I am actually glad that …
More Voices from the Dust
January 2, 1972 by Ben Crowder • ancient writings, apocrypha, baptism, Bible, biblical manuscripts, Book of Mormon, Christian(s), Christianity, Dead Sea Scrolls, desert, Essene documents, Jewish, John the Baptist, Manual of Discipline, New Education Testament, Old Testament, Qumran caves, Sectarian documents, Septuagint, the Gospel of John
Instructor 91:3 (March 1956):71-72,74; CWHN 1:239-244. Some brief references to the Dead Sea Scrolls. — Midgley
Expanding Gospel
March 18, 1969 by Ben Crowder • Adam, Aeons of Peace, angel(s) first, apocryphal works writings, baptism Christian, Christianity, darkness Watchers of, Dead Sea Scrolls, drama, Egypt First Dynasty, evil One, God, good, Horus, Jews, King(s), knowledge, light Sons of Light, Marduk, matter, Memphite theology, Menes, Messiah, ordinances, Plan of Salvation, Ptah, resurrection, salvation, Satan, Seth, Shabako stone, Sons of Darkness, Sons of God, Sons of Heaven, Sons of Light, spirit (and matter), spirituality, Teti, the Gospel, Tiamat, Two Ways doctrine of the, Watchers, Watchers of Darkness
BYU Studies 7:1 (Autumn 1965): 3-27; reprinted in Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless (Prov: Religious Studies Center, 1978):21-47; CWHN 12:177-211. A talk given as the Second Annual BYU Faculty Lecture on March 17, 1965. — Midgley
The Dead Sea Scrolls
July 2, 1967 by Ben Crowder • ancient religious writings, Arab(s), Bible, buried records, Dead Sea Scrolls, Dead Sea Scrolls discoveries in 1947 and 1952 and 1956, desert, government of Jordan, Hebrew(s) University, Jerusalem, Jews, Messiah, Qumran, Qumran caves, Teacher of Righteousness, Wadi Murrabb'at, wilderness
Instructor 98:7 (July 1963): 233-235; CWHN 1: 245-252. An address originally given on July 5, 1962, to the Seminary and Institute Faculty assembled at Brigham Young University. — Midgley
Rediscovery of the Apocrypha and the Book of Mormon
March 17, 1965 by Ben Crowder • Abraham, Alma, ancient Israel practice, anti-gnostic, apocrypha, apocryphal works writings, Babylonian(s), Baruch, Bible, Book of Jubilees, Book of Mormon, buried up unto the Lord, Cain, Christian(s), Christianity, Coffin texts, Copper Scroll, Creation Apocrypha, Dead Sea Scrolls, Demotic, devil(s), doctrine(s), Egypt, Egyptian(s), ephod of Cia, false teachers, filthy water, Gentiles, Gilgamish, God, Helaman, hidden book, hieratic, hieroglyphics, house boat Israel, images, iron rod, Isaac, Isaiah, Israel, Jacob, Jeremiah, Jesus Christ, Jewish Apocrypha, Jews, Joseph Smith, Judaism, King Benjamin, King(s) Benjamin, knowledge, Laban, Lehi, libraries, Lord Raglan, Manual of Discipline, metaphors, Nephi, newly discovered, Odes of Solomon, olive tree, Origins of Religion, Paanchi, path, Pharaoh, plan of redemption, plates, pre-existence, pride of the world, private libraries, prophet(s), reality, Reformed Egyptian, righteous, Satan, scripture(s), Sons of Darkness, Sons of Light, star(s), testamentary literature, the Gospel of Philip, The LORD, The Pearl, the plan, the Redeemer, the two ways, the wicked, the Word of God, third dimension, treasures, wilderness, will of God, Wisdom of Solomon, writing, Zenos, [Egyptian] genealogical records
58 pp. d.s. typed transcript of a lecture given on March 17, 1965; CWHN 12:212-263. The imagery and practices found in the Book of Mormon are compared with certain phrases and material concerns found in Jewish and Christian apocryphal writings. — Midgley Listen to recording: Part 1 Part 2 Right-click (cntrl-click for macs) and “save …
Israel’s Neighbors
February 24, 1965 by Ben Crowder • Abraham, Akkadian, Amarna discoveries tablets, Amorites, Asia Minor, Assurbanipal library, Babylonia, Beirut, Bible, biblical, Biblos, Bokazkoi, Book of Mormon, Canaan, Canaanite, Celts, Chaldean(s), Chinese, Christian(s), creation(s), cuneiform, Dead Sea Scrolls, deluge, Egypt, Egyptian Wisdom Literature, Etruscan, Genesis Apocryphon, Gilgamish, Greece, Greek, Hazor, Hebrew(s), Hittite(s), Hurian(s), Hyksos, Indo-European, Israel, Jerusalem, Jews, kingship, Lebanon, Mari library, Melchizedek, Mesopotamia, Mettoni, Midian, Minoan, Nuzzi library, Old Testament, On (city of), Palestine, Pearl of Great Price, Persia, Philistines, Ras Shamra library, religion, Sectarians, Semitic, Shabako stone, Sumerian, Syria, the Flood, the Nile, Ugarit, uniformity, Yeb, Zadok, Zadokites
33 pp., a typed transcript of a talk given on February 24, 1965. A discussion of the religious and cultural impact of Egypt, Babylon and other neighbors on events in Israel. — Midgley Listen to recording: Part 1 Part 2 [Right-click (cntrl-click for macs) and “save link as” to download onto MP3] This recording is also …
The Early Christian Church
March 3, 1964 by Ben Crowder • Abraham and the early Christian church, Axial change Period of history (600 B.C.), Boghaz-Keui Turkey, Book of Mormon buried libraries, Chenoboskian writings, Christian(s) history, Christian(s) library, Coptic church, Dead Sea Scrolls, discoveries at Amarna Royal Archives, Egyptian Egyptian-Christian Library, Forty Days, gnosis pre-Christian, Greeks, Hittite(s) records and annals, Isaac, Jacob, Jesus Christ time of, Jewish Library, Jews, Joseph Smith Jr. and the early Christian church, libraries, manuscript(s), Martin Luther, Nag Hammadi codices, Odes of Solomon, Palestine, patternism, Pearl of Great Price, pre-mortal existence, priesthood, Prof. William Foxwell Albright, Protestantism, Pylos, Ras Shamra, redemption, rediscovery, Reformation, restoration of all things, resurrection, Roman Catholicism, sacrament, shewbread, temple(s) libraries, the Church, the Fall, the Gospel of the Twelve Apostles, Two Ways doctrine of the
The Early Christian Church in the Light of Some Newly Discovered Papyri from Egypt (Provo: BYU Extension Publications, 1964): 20 pp. An address delivered to the BYU Tri-Stake Fireside, March 3, 1964, which draws attention to the contents of some of the Coptic Nag Hammadi materials. — Midgley Listen to recording: MP3 [Right-click (cntrl-click for … | cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line1925 |
__label__cc | 0.53605 | 0.46395 | As Croatia enters the EU, will it help or hamper its booming tourism industry?
Darko Bandic, Associated Press
- Jul 01, 2013 2:30 am
Skift Take
Croatia’s coasts are famous and about to get a lot more crowded.
— Rafat Ali
Croatia’s ravishing coast of more than 1,000 islands is a favorite destination for Europeans and travelers from further away. Croatia draws much of its income from tourism and hopes to earn more once the country formally enters the European Union on July 1.
What are Croatia’s top destinations?
Croatia’s coast features dozens of small towns with narrow, winding streets, small churches and historic monuments. The most famous is Dubrovnik, in the south Adriatic near the border with Montenegro. The medieval walled city is a favorite spot for cruisers who are sailing the Adriatic. The city was bombed during the war in 1991, and is a UNESCO world heritage site. Up north is the Istrian peninsula with its famous wine and goat cheese, while in the middle are the islands: The party island of Hvar, visited by Tom Cruise and Beyonce, among others, or Vis, which was off limits during communist era as a military base.
What will change with the EU entry?
Croatia has drawn many EU citizens in the past, who are attracted by its unspoiled nature, rich vegetation, good roads and closeness to Hungary, Slovakia or the Czech Republic. Croatian officials are hoping that the EU entry will make access even easier for EU citizens, who will no longer have to deal with customs clearance. Croatia will not be using the euro currency immediately.
Will there be a downside?
As an EU country, Croatia will have to introduce visas for the citizens of non-EU states, such as Russia and Ukraine, which is likely to scare them away from Croatia, perhaps toward Montenegro to the south, already a favorite destination for rich Russians. Croatian officials have traveled to Russia and Ukraine for talks with tour operators there in an effort to work around the problem.
How to best enjoy Croatia
Unlike Greece or Turkey, Croatia does not have that many all-inclusive, resort-type hotels and relies mostly on smaller four-star accommodation and private rooms for rent. The Croatian coast is mostly rocky with crystal blue sea and a prevailing scent of pine trees. The best way to enjoy it is to rent a sail boat, find a secluded beach, sip wine and nibble on typical hard cheese and dry ham under the shadow of pine trees.
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Tags: croatia, eu, tourism
Photo Credit: A lighthouse Porer in northern Adriatic is photographed from the air. The lighthouse is used for tourist accommodation. Darko Bandic / Associated Press
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__label__cc | 0.676834 | 0.323166 | Dinara unravels mystery of Eastern Flyway
After an absence of transmissions from our satellite tagged birds for several weeks, a transmission just received from Dinara in central Pakistan is very welcome and exciting news. Her new location marks another important milestone in our growing understanding of the easterly flyway that some Sociable Lapwings take on route to India and Pakistan and the overall complexity of the species’ migration.
Two transmissions recorded on November 13th confirm Dinara’s location is now in central Pakistan, in the Indus floodplain, not far from Shujaabad.
Dinara’s amazing journey started quite slowly with her staying near to her breeding site until at least early September. The first news of her migration came from a satellite transmission on October 4th when she surprised us by turning up at Lake Talimarzhan in Southern Uzbekistan. Dinara spent at least a couple of weeks there suggesting the location might well be a staging site for birds taking this particular route south.
Lake Talimarzhan is a designated Important Bird Area (IBA) and Dinara’s presence there was the first record we have of Sociable Lapwing at the site or for that matter in Southern Uzbekistan. The lake is a large reservoir on the border between a developed agricultural area and the desert and is situated 45km south-west of Karshi. Other threatened species using this IBA include Ferruginous Duck and Houbara Bustard.
In the map below you can see Dinara’s route plotted in red. The blue routes to and from Kazakhstan and The Sudan denote the westerly flyway that satellite tracking in previous years has confirmed and are primarily the routes provided by Erzhan. The green dots represent all known Sociable Lapwing records from 1850 – 2010 with the dot size scaled to flock size.
Johannes Kamp – RSPB Researcher and Steppe conservation specialist – comments as follows on Dinara’s arrival in Pakistan…
“The route this bird has taken confirms a possible route suggested by us for a couple of years, based on historic records in our database. Birds from Kazakhstan seem to depart via Uzbekistan and western Tajikistan, avoiding the high mountains of Tien Shan, Pamir and Hindukush and fly on a rather long detour. They probably stopover somewhere in the lowlands and then rush though the hostile highland deserts of Afghanistan, stopping over again in the Indus valley in Pakistan. There are a couple of old records in the vicinity of the current location – one from the second half of November and one in March.
Based on the timing of these observations, I think it is unlikely Dinara will stay in the Indus valley, but rather continue to the south Pakistan coast or to Gujarat in India – Let’s hope she keeps transmitting!”
If you’d like to keep in touch with Dinara and the other Sociable Lapwings’ Amazing Journey you can sign up for email alerts that will advise you when we add new information to this website.
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__label__wiki | 0.950368 | 0.950368 | British state wanted to crush people’s revolt
Published Tue 15 Jun 2010
Bloody Sunday was a British atrocity, and the biggest single killing by state forces in the course of the conflict in Northern Ireland.
The murder of 14 civil rights protesters was part of a wholesale repression of Catholics by the Northern Irish government and the British state.
British troops were sent into Northern Ireland in August 1969 because the armed sectarian police force could no longer contain an effective insurrection in Derry, the second largest city in Northern Ireland.
People were fighting back against a system where access to jobs, housing and effective votes depended on whether you were Catholic or Protestant.
The Labour government had to act to prop up a Unionist government that ran Northern Ireland as a sectarian, one party state.
At that time the IRA scarcely existed. But the brutality of the British army turned that around.
In July 1970 the British imposed a curfew on the Lower Falls Catholic area of Belfast. It wasn’t until February 1971 that the IRA killed its first British soldier.
On 9 August 1971 the army swooped into Catholic areas at dawn, dragging off 346 men to be interned – detained without trial, often for years.
Few were IRA activists. No Loyalists were taken. Nine civilians were shot dead as rioting spread in response.
Then came Bloody Sunday. A march was organised in opposition to internment – and was deemed illegal.
It was scheduled to begin in the Creggan area of Derry and to weave through the Bogside before proceeding to Guildhall Square in the city centre.
It never got that far. The paratroops went into the Bogside and opened fire.
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__label__cc | 0.697863 | 0.302137 | Should your best programmers have to check everyone else's code into source control?
One of the differences between svn and git is the ability to control access to the repository. It's hard to compare the two because there is a difference of perspective about who should be allowed to commit changes at all!
This question is about using git as a centralized repository for a team at a company somewhere. Assume that the members of the team are of varying skill levels, much the way they are at most companies.
Git seems to assume that your only your best (most productive, most experienced) programmers are trusted to check in code. If that's the case, you are taking their time away from actually writing code to review other people's code in order to check it in. Does this pay off? I really want to focus this question on what is the best use of your best programmer's time, not on best version-control practices in general. A corollary might be, do good programmers quit if a significant portion of their job is to review other people's code? I think both questions boil down to: is the review worth the productivity hit?
version-control productivity code-reviews
GlenPetersonGlenPeterson
Define "best programmer"? Best at what? Following arbitrary rules? Cranking out code? Writing zero-defect code? – Timo Geusch Jan 7 '13 at 20:49
Sorry, I'm still trying to get my brain around the concept of reviewing uncontrolled (ie non-checked in) code... surely one of the key benefits of using a SCS is that the Review can be made against a known/controlled iteration of the code? – Andrew Jan 7 '13 at 21:11
@Andrew with git any developer can have his own repo (on his personal computer) and a public personal repo (the one on a server, behind apache) that he can only add changes to. The difference is, that only the lead developers repo is the "blessed one", the one from which everyone should checkout from. The lead checkouts code from developer's public repos and merges them to his public repo. You both have known/controlled iteration as well as source control at all times. – Hubert Kario Jan 7 '13 at 21:24
"Git seems to assume that your only your best (most productive, most experienced) programmers are trusted to check in code" is an incorrect presumption. Git can be configured how you want. The "Pull request" model is just one way - ideally suited to open source projects with a potential large number of unknown contributors. In most commercial environments, the "pull request" model would be a red flag, indicating poor SDLC and QC processes and procedures. – mattnz Jan 7 '13 at 21:45
I believe @mattnz is correct here. This is solely a result of a strong open source influence on git where there is a core dev team that controls the state of the repo, but others are welcome to contribute as well. – Steven Evers Jan 7 '13 at 21:52
Since it's not clear from your question, I just want to point out that a gatekeeper workflow is by no means required with git. It's popular with open source projects because of the large number of untrusted contributors, but doesn't make as much sense within an organization. You have the option to give everyone push access if you want.
What people are neglecting in this analysis is that good programmers spend a lot of time dealing with other programmers' broken code anyway. If everyone has push access, then the build will get broken, and the best programmers tend to be the ones frequently integrating and tracking down the culprits when things break.
The thing about everyone having push access is that when something breaks, everyone who pulls gets a broken build until the offending commit is reverted or fixed. With a gatekeeper workflow, only the gatekeeper is affected. In other words, you are affecting only one of your best programmers instead of all of them.
It might turn out that your code quality is fairly high and the cost-benefit ratio of a gatekeeper is still not worth it, but don't neglect the familiar costs. Just because you are accustomed to that productivity loss doesn't mean it isn't incurred.
Also, don't forget to explore hybrid options. It's very easy with git to set up a repository that anyone can push to, then have a gatekeeper like a senior developer, tester, or even an automated continuous integration server decide if and when a change makes it into a second, more stable repository. That way you can get the best of both worlds.
Karl BielefeldtKarl Bielefeldt
+1: For ...Good programmers spend a lot of time dealing with other programmers' broken code anyway. – Jim G. Jan 8 '13 at 2:32
+1 Best answer. Especially pointing out that one dev committing a build-breaking bug negatively impacts everybody. – Evan Plaice Jan 8 '13 at 3:48
Been in that situation, turned out out best two programmers were full time used to review and correct other people's code. Sure the code quality on the VCS was good but morale for these two dwindled faster than a toilet flush. What started as a seemingly good idea turned to nightmare when these two ran out the door to places where they could get, say, more creative tasks. – Newtopian Sep 9 '16 at 15:08
That's a good point, @Newtopian. The places where I've seen this succeed have more of a microservice model, and only one scrum team has commit access to any given microservice, but responsibility is spread around for the system as a whole. If you don't have at least a couple experienced programmers per scrum team your hiring practices need improving. – Karl Bielefeldt Sep 9 '16 at 16:45
I have worked at a job where check-ins were limited to team leads only (and team leads couldn't check in their own code). This served as our mechanism to enforce code reviews, largely because of a number of incidents where bad commits got into the codebase even around gated check-ins and static analysis.
On one hand, it did it's job. A number of bad commits were found before they got into the codebase (and promptly forgotten for a week or so until someone stumbled upon them). This caused less disruption in the codebase. Plus, I could push back some formatting/structure things before they became tech debt; catch some bugs before they became bugs. And it gave me a great feel for what my team was doing.
On the other hand, it caused me to spontaneously go into murderous rages when my 3 line change took 4 hours to commit because of having to track down another lead and get them to do the commit. It pushed me to do far less frequent commits than is best practice, and occasionally led to issues trying to track changes to the developer that did them.
I would not generally recommend it except in the most needing environments. Doing the reviews and commits wasn't too bad actually. Having my own process dependent on the whims of others though was infuriating. If you can't trust your developers to check in code, get better developers.
@HubertKario - If your best developers are spending time doing code reviews and the rest are effectively blocked until that's complete, I don't see too much practical difference. – Telastyn Jan 7 '13 at 21:16
How they are blocked? You create a patch (commit locally), submit it upstream, and keep working on new widget (create new local commits). If your change is applied verbatim you just need checkout and merge the lead's repo. If it wasn't applied verbatim you can still rebase your later work. If the change is really critical, you can publish it in your own public repo and tell people to checkout it from there or just send them patches. In this case git will detect that a change was already made and just skip applying the specific upstream patch. – Hubert Kario Jan 7 '13 at 21:30
The last line in this question is really the whole point in my eyes. A developer not trusted will be ineffective at best and hateful of his job at worst. Don't hire people you won't trust. It's pointlessly wasting money on people you won't allow to do the job you're paying them for anyway. – Jimmy Hoffa Jan 7 '13 at 21:41
@HubertKario - you know better than I. The environment I was in made it annoying to juggle the different branches/changesets. – Telastyn Jan 7 '13 at 22:08
@Telastyn I don't know if I'm supposed to interpret your answer as literally as I did, but another downside to that would be the annotation/blame history would be all wrong. If you found some code you didn't understand, you'd end up asking the reviewer that committed it, not the programmer who wrote it. – Daniel Kaplan Jan 8 '13 at 1:00
No. Anyone should be able to commit.
If you have problems with bugs being committed it's not the source control policy which is wrong. It's the devs who fails to make sure that what he/she commit works. So what you have to do is to define clear guidelines on what to commit and when.
Another great thing is called unit tests ;)
There is an alternative though.
a) If you use distributed version control you can create a main repos to which only pull requests can be made. In that way all devs can get versioning of their own code while you get control of the main branch.
b) In subversion and similar you could use branches where each dev has to create patches to get it into the main branch.
jgauffinjgauffin
This. If you're committing without unit and build tests, having a code review requirement is an imperfect bandage. – Brian Knoblauch Jan 7 '13 at 21:25
yeah. That's why I mentioned the alternatives. Code reviews is better than nothing. Not being able to version the code is a pain no developer should be exposed to. – jgauffin Jan 7 '13 at 21:28
Unit tests don't help if they're written by the same <insert your fav 4 letters here> as the unit code. – ott-- Jan 7 '13 at 22:03
@BrianKnoblauch: one could argue that the opposite is true, too. Ideally, you should have both. – Doc Brown Jan 8 '13 at 7:02
@ott-- I just heard a story about a dev who left after committing a horrible mess of a fix and commenting out all the Asserts in his unit tests. Tests succeed by default so took a while to notice the issue! – Alex Jan 8 '13 at 10:09
You should have a look at projects such as Gerrit which allows all developers to push their code into 'review' branch and once you senior / lead devs are happy with these changes they can push them into master/release.
If they are not happy, they can leave comments next to a line of code, ask for updated patch etc.
This way anybody with a change pending can get it out as soon as it is ready and only qualified people (with the right +2 privileges in Gerrit) will be able to push that code to test and later to production.
rochalrochal
We use gerrit with great success. Solves every issue the OP has a problem with and even some he does not know he has. – mattnz Jan 8 '13 at 4:32
No, it's a poor use of your best talent. Imagine a publishing company taking their most successful authors and making them do editing; bad idea.
There should be code reviews, but that doesn't mean it's always a Sr. checking a jr's code. Eventually, everyone on the team should be expected to get to the level where they can contribute code with minimal guidance. They go through the three levels of trust:
None - I want to see every line of code before you check it in.
Some - Let me know what you're doing and I'll provide feedback
Most - Go do your job and only ask for help when needed.
Advantages of freeing up your talent:
focus on design
involvement in setting up coding standards and enforcement strategies (without manually doing it all themselves)
tackle the tough coding problems
provide mentorship (without having approve every line of code)
There are developers interested in a management path who may prefer not to code all day long; leave the others alone.
BЈовић
+1. Let the team review the team - both, the reviewer and the reviewed, can profit, even if the reviewer is less experienced than the reviewed. And you can do all the review AFTER check-in. IMO, if you prevent people from checking in, their productivity will decrease (despite their motivation). – Andy Jan 9 '13 at 12:08
is the review worth the productivity hit?
It depends on team "balance" and on how reviews are set up. Both are matters of management and teamwork, no amount of version control technological magic (centralized or distributed) can have a substantial influence on that.
If done wrong, productivity hit will of course kill any benefits of the review; the answer is though not to drop idea of reviews but to find out how to do it right.
One approach to find out if your reviews are OK is to use issue tracking tool to track time spent on reviews (some code review tools allow for that, too). If you find out reviews are taking quite a lot of time, invest some effort into finding the reasons and ways to improve things. Also, it wouldn't hurt to have regular 1:1s with team members to discover potential issues with code reviews.
If "best" programmers in the team are forced to spend hours digging through incomprehensible garbage produced by crappy coders, solution is to fire crap-makers, not to appeal to VCS technology.
In one of the past projects I was assigned to review code changes done by permanently under-performing team member, in a component that took almost an hour to just build and run tests. I started reading the diffs and when I noticed an uncompilable change, I simply finished review, posted necessary comments and asked management to ensure that further review requests come with written confirmation that their code compiles. There were no "review requests" since and soon the guy left.
On the other side, when team is reasonably balanced, code reviews are fun and educative. In my prior project, we had a requirement for 100% code review and it neither took much time nor was distracting. There were bugs discovered through review, and there were debates about coding style and design choices, but that felt just... normal.
If code changes are being blocked for days... weeks from getting to QA for testing "because of reviews", studying about VCS tricks would be the least likely way to solve this problem. Instead one would better focus their effort on finding out issues in the way how review process is organized.
- Oh integration of this change was much delayed because reviewer got suddenly sick, what a misfortune.
- Hello! Hell-lo-o-o, did you ever think of having backup reviewers to deal with cases like that?
gnatgnat
Yes. But only if you're talking about distributed source control. With centralized -- it depends.
If there are only few programmers, it takes little time. Certainly less than the fixes that will be needed to remove bugs and technical debt later.
If there are very many programmers, you can delegate the task of actual code-review to lieutenants and have the lead developer pull their changes (nearly) unquestionably. It works for Linux kernel, I don't think that there are any larger software projects...
Again, if the project is small, the lead will quickly see who gives good code and who produces bad code. He will quite quickly see that J.Random writes good code that needs only checking for architectural decisions while the intern writes bad code that needs to be reviewed line by line before merging. The feedback this way generated will reduce maintenance burden down the line and give first hand experience on whatever the intern actually learns and should be kept in company. Pulling and merging branch from other git repo takes literally a (couple) dozen seconds, usually reading the titles of commit messages will take more time, so after I know who can be trusted to write good code merging other people's code is a non-issue.
Hubert KarioHubert Kario
Code review doesn't necessarily require the attention of only your very best programmers. IMO, it should be an informal thing. Just a second opinion or a second pair of eyes on a piece of code from a non-rookie before it gets checked into production. It helps mitigate major oversights while also helping people get better at coding as a craft by being exposed to other dev perspectives.
Sort of a less-obnoxious pair-programming lite. In other words, it shouldn't take long and you shouldn't have to wait for somebody for hours. Anything in your development process that involves people waiting for things is a waste of money and crippling to momentum/morale, IMO.
If code review were meant to stop 99.5% of bugs before they got into your code base in the first place, there'd be no real point to sophisticated version control. That said, git is intimidating at first but basic general use isn't that complicated and it's highly configurable.. You should be able to stop for a few hours to teach everybody how to use it. Everybody commits. All but the noobiest rookies review until they demonstrate expertise at something.
Erik ReppenErik Reppen
As long as the changes being submitted have been reviewed by the 'best programmers' anyone should be allowed submit code. The only person who should have the ability to enforce control on a repository is the Release Engineer, if that person exists.
Personally, I'd be well pissed off if I had to check in other people's code.
Some input on your edit: No, they shouldn't. Reviews are a necessary evil, they do more good than harm and good programmers will appreciate this. Maybe there's a reluctance to participate in reviews because they don't like the idea of 'lesser programmers' criticising their code. That's just too bad. They would be far more likely to quit if the codeline is constantly buggy and they instead spend their time cleaning up after other people's half-baked submissions.
JamesJames
Yes, review is worth it. I'm not sure there is a productivity hit if the review process is proportional for the following reasons:
It keeps programmers honest - if you know it will be reviewed, people will take less shortcuts
It helps new programmers learn from more experience programmers
It helps transfer domain specific knowledge
Review is another gate where bugs and potential issues can be found and fixed
By not allowing all programmers to use source control they lose the ability to track changes, undo mistakes and see a reasonable history of changes. I'm not sure you would ever want only your "best" programmers to be able to check in to git.
Having said that, I think it is reasonable that you have someone who is in charge of certain key branches, such as a release branch. In this case I would imagine that everyone can use the git repository, but only certain people merge into the release branch. I'm not sure there is a way to enforce this in git, but it should be possible to do by process and just checking no one else has checked into it.
Merging into the release branch could be done by the "best" programmers, or more likely done by competent people after sufficient review has taken place.
-1: It keeps programmers honest - if you know it will be reviewed, people will take less shortcuts. - Hmm... I'd be concerned about the introduction of moral hazard. That is, developers could get lazy or sloppy because they know that a more senior developer will always take responsibility for their code in the form of a code review. – Jim G. Jan 8 '13 at 2:34
The reviewer does not take responsibility for the code at all, but instead gives advice and instruction on issues with the code. The original developer must fix the issues and is still responsible for the code. – Steve Jan 8 '13 at 7:07
do good programmers quit if a significant portion of their job is to review other people's code?
If they are not enjoying the job and forced to do this activity, then YES. It is very likely to happen. As finding next interesting work for a good developer is not a big challenge nowadays.
Absolutely NO. It is for sure waste of their time, except for some critical logic which needs to be in rock-solid state.
However, junior or in-experienced developers probably should be on a probation time for a code quality, just to be on a safe side and making sure that their code follows team development guidelines, at least for couple weeks before getting privilege to commit themselves.
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December 6, 2014 by Sophie E Tallis
Publication Day!!!!!
Lol, okay, I’m already late I know, but it’s taken me nearly a week to process what’s happened!
My epic fantasy, White Mountain, the first of my Darkling Chronicles trilogy, was brilliantly published by Kristell Ink Publishing and Grimbold Books last week on 1st December 2014!!!!
To say I’m ecstatic would be a gross understatement, kind of like saying that George Lucas is only vaguely fond of science fiction!
My wonderful new publishers are a world, in fact, a galaxy far far away from what I had encountered previously and the level of dedication, hard work, expertise and passion with which they have approached the publishing of White Mountain, is more than I could ever have hoped for. From the attention to detail, the editing, the formatting, the layout, the beautiful calligraphy, not to mention the AWESOME original artwork commissioned for the AWESOME new cover!!! Wow! I’ve gone from hell to heaven in one leap!
I won’t dwell on the past two years, mostly because this is an incredibly happy time and I don’t want to miss a blissful second of it! I’m humble and thankful beyond words, but mostly, for the first time in ages, I am really truly excited, thrilled and proud to have my novel, a book that took ten years in the writing and researching, finally published as it always should have been!
So, before I continue gushing all over your lovely carpet, what is the book actually about?
Well, beyond the plot itself, a struggle for survival against all odds, the courage it takes to stay the course and an epic showdown between good versus evil, the book is also about identity.
Wendya Undokki
Yes, it’s an epic fantasy in the old-fashioned ‘high fantasy’ tradition, but the themes run deeper than just the action. Throughout the book, the primary issues are around identity, how do we define it, define ourselves? Are we fated to repeat history, to be slaves to our genes? What defines family? Is it the people we are related to through blood that constitute a family or the people we choose to have in our lives, people we love and trust? I have my own personal reasons for being interested in that subject matter. I have said on more than one occasion that I identify with Wendya the most, for many of the same conflicted, complicated reasons.
The book deals with another of my passions, the transformative nature of the world we live in today. Our disappearing natural planet mirrors the growing confines that many of the main characters find themselves in. Humanity is everywhere, how does an ancient pre-existing culture hope to continue surviving, in secret, under such overwhelming pressures? How can the world continue as it is, with the current level of wanton destruction? In many ways the disintegration of the natural world perfectly reflects the disintegration of the characters own archaic civilisation, long past its prime and teetering on the edge of extinction.
I don’t hate every aspect of modern life, like Tolkien generally did, how could I? Where would I be without my blog, my TV, my modern comforts?
But like so many of us armchair activists, I worry for the planet’s future, for nature and the few wild places left. Even in the small rural idyll where I grew up, the bluebell wood at the bottom of the road that I used to play bare foot in, with the little twisting stream running through it, was torn up and replaced by ten ugly Barratt houses. Instead of building much needed houses on brown field sites crying out for rejuvenation or renovating the UK’s many abandoned buildings, our precious woodlands and green spaces are being carved up.
Once lost, those precious green spaces are lost forever.
The Grey Forest
Again, loss is a running theme too. Something we all experience to varying degrees and something that each of the characters have certainly experienced. Loss is as much a part of life as life itself, it is something that can define us, if we let it, or spur us on to achieve our goals while we still have time.
Lol, I’m sounding terribly serious here when I don’t mean to be. The novel has humour and lightness, particularly in the running banter between the characters, but in many ways it is an exploration of the state of humanity through a fantasy lens. That’s probably my favourite genre, not just fantasy, but ‘magic realism’, the blending of the real world with the fantastical one.
Anyway, enough pontificating. Here is a small excerpt from White Mountain, hope you enjoy it! 😀 xxx
The midday sun passed into a hazy afternoon. The last soldiers descended, and the host were on their way again, marching at a great pace to recover lost time. The landscape changed around them. Flat plains and rambling hills of tussock gave way to gnarled weather-beaten rock and thicket beds, their needle like thorns starkly black against the grey granite.
The ground sloped steadily downward before levelling, where the barren expanses of rock fell away into mud, reed and bog. They had reached the Shudras, the silent marshes.
Slimy quagmires stretched out before them as an endless sea. Troughs of stagnant water riddled their way into hazardous deep pools. Foul smelling vapours rose from the ground in choking clouds. The thought of crossing such a place lowered all their spirits.
“This was once a wondrous land,” Hallm said. “These were the water-meadows of the great Kara Kara River. The pure waters fed Fendellin’s rarest orchids here. Grass-pipers, willow larks and meadow-cranes, flitted amongst its grasses. Now, its foul mud clogs every channel and tributary with stagnant filth. Its water sprites and larks have long departed.”
“Our beasts cannot cross this!” King Baillum declared raising his hand. “The pathways should be clear at this time of year. This is the only passage through the swamps…the waters have risen! Another evil M’Sorreck has perpetrated on this land. If we try passing, we shall lose many good horses. Certainly, the wagons cannot cross.”
“How far do these marshes stretch?” Korrun asked Hallm.
“Eight and ten leagues at the shortest crossing, which is here,” he replied.
The King’s stoicism gave way to anger. “How could this happen? We sent scouts ahead to gauge the terrain. Why did they not report this? Bring them here!” he demanded.
Frell whispered into his father’s ear. The dwelf watched the King’s face change, an unmistakable flash of shock. The news was not good. Korrun glanced at Wendya and the wizard. As if reading his mind, Gralen stepped forward.
“If wheels are no use, wings will have to do,” he said boldly. “My kin can take the wagons and the oxen if the rest of you can find a way through?”
Korrun smiled. “He is right, Sire. If the fÿrrens can carry the heavier loads, we should be able to cross. I am a tracker and used to finding lost pathways. I’m sure we can find a way.”
“And if the horses are lost?”
“Then my kindred will have more burdens to bear,” replied Gralen simply. “A dworll is lighter than an ox!”
King Baillum managed a brief smile. “No obstacles too great? We shall see,” he said beckoning to Sedgewick above.
Sedgewick and the other dragons swooped down to carry the various wagons and carts, siege-rams and battle gear, too heavy for the marshes. The most careful dragons carried the nervous beasts, zebu, water buffalo and battle oxen, the eighteen leagues north, to dry land.
Following Korrun and Hallm, the army began their arduous crossing of the Shudras.
It was well into the night before the last exhausted traveller reached the delights of hard ground once more. They set up camp, the slimy mud and stench of the marshes clinging to each bedraggled member as an unwelcome reminder of the day. A deep unease fell on them.
Korrun sat quietly by one of the campfires, listening to Lord Tollam and Hallm speculate, in hushed tones on the battle to come.
“It could be a Hal’Torren’s choice all over again,” Hallm commented.
The other dworlls nodded grimly.
“Hal’Torren’s choice? What’s that?” Korrun asked.
Hallm shrugged. “It’s any situation where the outcome is pre- determined or unavoidable, and usually terrible.”
Lord Tollam poked the fire, his violet eyes reflecting the glimmer of the flames. “It is an old legend, but a true story. Hal’Torren was a nobleman, strong, incorruptible, a hero and leader to his people. He lived in Oralam, a beautiful city once. One day he returned home to find his family held hostage by his sworn enemy, M’Sorreck. Hal’Torren loved his family deeply, his wife, his three young children. He offered his life in exchange for theirs. But Morreck wanted something far more precious. He wanted to break Hal’Torren utterly.” Tollam sighed. “No matter what he did, how he bartered and begged, Hal’Torren was given a dreadful choice. Watch ten thousand of his own people perish, innocent children and families like his own, to save just one member of his family, or save his people and watch all his family die. Now Hal’Torren was a great leader, and he loved his people, but like any father, how could he sacrifice his own family?”
Korrun looked at the wise old dworll. “What did he choose?”
“To condemn ten thousand souls to a grisly death, to save one of his family.” He shook his head. “Then he had to make the worst choice of all…which member of his family to save. That is Hal’Torren’s choice. It is no choice at all. You are damned whichever path you take!”
“How did it end?” the dwelf asked quietly.
Lord Tollam sighed and glanced at his son as if thanking the gods that he never had to face such a choice. “Tragically of course…he chose to save his daughter, the youngest of his three children. They were then forced to watch his wife and two sons being murdered before them. Naturally, it traumatised the young girl. Only a few years later her father found her hanging from a willow tree. He promptly hung himself beside her. You see why Hal’Torren’s choice is impossible. Save one, sacrifice others, condemn yourself.”
“Morreck is a fengal beast, a monster!” Korrun said through gritted teeth.
“Yes, of the worst kind…” replied Tollam.
Hallm looked at his father for a moment then turned to the dwelf. “Have you ever faced a Hal’Torren’s choice?” he asked.
Korrun shifted uneasily, his face half hidden in shadow. “Once,” he whispered.
“What happened?” Hallm asked, trying to hide his surprise.
The dwelf stood up, his eyes lost in the fire. “I made the wrong choice,” he said simply, then turned and left.
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Wow! My fifth interview!!!
It’s been less than two weeks since the publication of my debut novel, White Mountain – Book 1 of The Darkling Chronicles, and what a wondrous whirlwind it has been, with hardly a moment to catch breath!
I guess that’s symptomatic of life really. Remember of the old saying about waiting for a bus then three come along at once?
Well, I’ve been in the very VERY fortunate position of having been on the most magical bus ride in recent weeks, with a few bumps in the road, the occasional pit stop and some breathtaking views along the way…not to mention the magical destination!
So, I must share with you (a few days late I’m afraid) the wonderful interview I did with the multi-talented writing powerhouse that is Morgen Bailey.
For those of you unfamiliar with Morgen with an ‘e’ Bailey, you simply MUST check out her amazing writing blog/website: http://morgenbailey.wordpress.com
An astonishing site and resource for writers of any genre. The multi-talented interviewer extraordinaire showcases poetry, short stories, flash fiction, competitions, forums, events, submission info., writing exercises, author spotlights, blog interviews, writing tips, podcasts you name it! An emporium of everything a writer and reader could possibly want.
Where Morgen finds the time, I have no idea.
As frequent visitors to my blog will know, I really struggle on a daily basis to juggle the demands of life, work, writing and promoting…just never enough hours in the day!
So, sit back for a moment, relax, make sure that coffee or tea is piping hot and you’re nicely snuggled with your arrangement of cushions, for my 5th interview and Morgen’s no.512!!! Wow!
Check it out guys: http://morgenbailey.wordpress.com/2012/10/06/daily-interview-no-512-with-writer-sophie-e-tallis
Short link: http://wp.me/p18Ztn-43V
😀 xx
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This ministry seeks men and women who are interested in serving as altar servers for Masses held at St. Teresa’s. For information, contact Don Hartmann.
Eucharistic Ministers are trained parishioners who assist with the distribution of Holy Communion at Mass, to the homebound, and to our parishioners in convalescent homes. The essence of this role is to draw faith from the people. For information, contact the Parish Office at 203-263-2008.
As a ministry of hospitality, greeters welcome people as they arrive for Mass, with an emphasis on making the “newcomer” comfortable. Your efforts will reflect the warm, welcoming atmosphere that is St. Teresa of Avila. For information, contact the Parish Office.
Lectors are men and Women who proclaim the Scriptures at Mass, open to anyone of high school age and up. The essence of the role of Lector is to draw faith from the listeners, the people of God. For information, contact the Parish Office at 203-263-2008.
What better way to bring the children of our parish to Jesus than by sharing the Word of God with them!
At Mass where we have Liturgy of the Word for Children, after the Opening Prayer, the children will be dismissed to the church hall with the Adult Proclaimer and Youth Assistants: there they will hear and discuss the Sunday readings (which are adapted for children) and participate in song and activity. The Adult Proclaimer proclaims the Gospel and the Youth Assistants will help the Adult Proclaimer with the First Reading, Responsorial Psalm, Reflection, Creed, Prayers of the Faithful and handouts. Everyone returns to Mass for the Liturgy of the Eucharist.
Ushers ensure the Church is prepared for Mass, greet parishioners as they enter the church, collect the offering, arrange the offertory procession, distribute bulletins, seat people when necessary, and attend to needs during Mass when necessary. For information, contact Bob Barsi through the parish offices.
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Sanctuary Committee
The mission of the Sanctuary Ministry is to provide the necessary linens for each Mass, change altar clothes seasonally, refill altar candles, replace votive candles, and replace water in holy water fonts. For information, contact Bob Sullivan
Treasury Committee
The Treasury Committee comprises a team of people who count the weekly offertory contributions and deposit them into the bank. Each team has a captain responsible for making the weekly deposit. For information, contact Don Banks.
The Choir’s call is fundamentally musical, carried out through the music of the community of faith in worship. Music is a gift which bears the church’s praise, prayer, story, and proclamation around work, sacraments, and prayer. The center of the Choir’s task is the people’s song – leading people in their song. For information, contact Sherry Langrock.
Youth Choir and Music Ministry
Let’s Sing! Choir is open to 2nd through 12th grades and offers all the opportunity to raise your voices in praise & share your gift of music with our parish. Rehearsals are on Thursdays at St. Teresa's from 6:00pm to 7:00pm. We hope to be singing twice monthly at masses and may have the opportunity to sing/play during holidays and liturgical feasts. For more information, please email Sherry Langrock.
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Ch 17: America and World War II - Middle School US History: Homeschool Curriculum
The America and World War II unit of this Middle School US History Homeschool course is designed to help homeschooled students learn about America's involvement in World War II. Parents can use the short videos to introduce topics, break up lessons and keep students engaged.
This unit of our Middle School US History Homeschool course will benefit any student who is trying to learn about the events and politics of World War II. There is no faster or easier way to learn about World War II. Among those who would benefit are:
Students who require an efficient, self-paced course of study to learn about Pearl Harbor, the Pacific Ocean theater, Japanese internment and the Yalta Conference.
Homeschool parents looking to spend less time preparing lessons and more time teaching.
Homeschool parents who need a history curriculum that appeals to multiple learning types (visual or auditory).
Gifted students and students with learning differences.
Students watch a short, fun video lesson that covers a specific unit topic.
Students and parents can refer to the video transcripts to reinforce learning.
Short quizzes and an America and World War II unit exam confirm understanding or identify any topics that require review.
America and World War II Unit Objectives:
Learn about the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Read about the domestic policies of World War II.
Explore the European Theater in World War II.
Discuss the Holocaust and anti-Semitism.
Discover how World War II was changed by the atomic bomb.
Discuss events and battles of the Pacific Ocean Theater.
Learn about the Potsdam Conference and international politics during World War II.
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1. World War II: The Start of the Second World War
Learn all about the start of World War II and why the League of Nations could not stop aggression by Italy, Germany and Japan in the 1930s, which led to the outbreak of this second global conflict.
2. The Attack on Pearl Harbor: The Beginning of American Involvement in World War II
On December 7, 1941, the Empire of Japan launched a surprise attack against Allied possessions in the Pacific, including the American military base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. After decades of conflict between the two nations, the U.S. declared war.
3. The European Theater in WWII: The Eastern Front, Western Front & Fight for North Africa
Hitler and Nazi Germany dominated the European fields of battle early in WWII. This lesson is an overview of key military operations between 1939 and 1943 in Europe on both the Eastern and Western fronts.
4. The Holocaust: Anti-Semitism and Genocide in Nazi Germany
The Holocaust was the persecution and mass murder of as many as 11 million people by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis between 1933 and 1945. Learn about the people they targeted, the progression of events leading up to the Final Solution and the end of the genocide in this lesson.
5. The Pacific Ocean Theater of WWII: Japan vs. The Allies
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the United States entered WWII. Watch this video to learn about some of the key battles, as well as the general nature, of the Pacific theater of the war.
6. The United States During WWII: The Home Front
When the United States entered World War II in December 1941, life changed almost overnight for those on the battle front and on the home front. Learn about the war's dramatic and lasting effects on American government, economy and society.
7. Domestic Politics During World War II: The Election of 1940
The rest of the world was already fighting World War II, but the United States had a decision to make: should the nation stay out of it or try to save the day? Learn about this decision and more in this lesson.
8. Domestic Politics During World War II: The War Years (1941-1945)
Even during wartime, democracy continues. In this lesson, we'll learn how politics affected President Roosevelt's war policies and about the 1944 election and its implications for the post-war world.
9. Japanese-American Internment: Facts and History
The attack on Pearl Harbor unleashed a wave of fear and prejudice toward Japanese Americans. In this lesson, we'll learn how the government forced them into internment camps, what life in the camps was like, and how the internment affected the nation.
10. Hiroshima and Nagasaki: How the Atomic Bomb Changed Warfare During WWII
As America and its WWII allies considered invading Japan, the Manhattan Project successfully developed an atomic weapon. Its use on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, precipitated VJ Day, the end of the Pacific war, on August 14, 1945.
11. The Yalta Conference and The Potsdam Conference: US Diplomacy & International Politics During World War II
Throughout the course of WWII, leaders of many Allied nations met many times to discuss strategy. Then, near the end of the war, two historic conferences shaped the post-war world.
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Barneys is Selling Luxury Bongs, Vapes and a $1,475 Grinder
Don’t care how much your weed costs? Then Barneys new luxury head shop The High End is for you.
When they’re shopping for bud, cannabis consumers in Californiahave thousands of places to choose from. But when it comes to catering to the consumer expectations of high net-worth customers, fewer companies are vying for that space. There have been a few breakouts, however. There’s MedMen’s up-scale chain of marijuana dispensaries, which have been dubbed both the “Apple store of weed” and “the Barneys of weed.” Plug is another high-end cannabis dispensary in Los Angeles, which LA Weekly also called “the Barneys of weed.” But come March, the true “Barneys of weed” will be a cannabis shop actually run by Barneys. And that store will be selling luxury bongs, vapes and a sterling silver grinder that costs almost $1,500.
Luxury Department Store Enters the High-End Cannabis Retail Space
In case you didn’t get the picture, Barneys is driving the point home with branding. The company is dubbing the new high-end retail space it’s developing for cannabis consumers, The High End. More than slicing into the upscale consumer market for cannabis, Barneys wants The High End to craft an environment that will attract the formidable marketing force of Instagram influencers.
The High End is more about draw than it is about products. But that doesn’t mean the store’s offerings won’t be absurdly top-shelf. If you’re someone who likes weed and has no idea how to spend money, check out what’s in store at The High End.
First, there’s the most luxurious paraphernalia you can imagine. Dvambez rolling papers made from 100 percent French-grown, organic hemp. Artisanal, one-of-a-kind, hand-blown water pipes and bongs by chic glassware studio Siemon and Salazar. Stash boxes crafted by the boutique jewelry designer Martine Ali. Even diamond-studded and gold roach-clips designed by Good Art Hlywd. Exclusive silver and rose gold vape pens. And don’t forget your grinder! A pure sterling silver weed grinder will set you back just $1,475.
The High End will certainly deliver the goods. But its real goal is delivering an experience. “If someone is going to come into a physical store, they really expect more than product, because product, unfortunately, is available in a million different places,” CEO and president of Barneys Daniella Vitale told the New York Times. “We want to make sure there is an entertainment value here.”
Barneys Cannabis Store Won’t Have a Dispensary License
Vitale says that upscale retailers are under pressure to produce Instagram-friendly moments for the high-profile influencers who might check out the store. Barneys’ creative director Matthew Mazzucca said The High End will offer a mid-century vibe, replete with lots of glass, patinated brass and raw marble.
But for all the luxurious touches, underneath The High End is basically another head shop. Barneys isn’t planning on getting a dispensary license for its new cannabis shop. And that means customers won’t be able to purchase cannabis there.
Instead, Barneys has partnered with a number of boutique and high-end cannabis producers and retailer whose products will be on offer at The High End. One such producer is Beboe, a retailer that has collaborated with famed Bay Area cultivator Mario Sherbinksi, among others.
So if you’re shopping at The High End, you won’t be able to walk out of the store with any fresh bud for your thousand-dollar grinder. Or with any oil for your thousand-dollar vape pen. But you will be able to place an order for delivery with Beboe representatives.
The High End will open at the Barneys store in Beverly Hills in March. The company plans to open several more High End shops across California, and may even set up in New York if the state legalizes weed this year.
“Barneys Is Selling Luxury Bongs, Vapes and a $1,475 Grinder.” Green Rush Daily, 11 Feb. 2019, greenrushdaily.com/products/barneys-is-selling-luxury-bongs-vapes-and-a-1475-grinder/.
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Yondi K. Morris-Andrews (@YondiMorris) is a founding partner of Knight, Morris & Reddick Law Group (@KMRLawGroup). She specializes in various practice areas including corporate, entertainment, and real estate transactions. With her corporate clients, Mrs. Morris-Andrews works mostly with start-up companies, offering them advice on how to form as an entity, while drafting and negotiating contracts on the company’s behalf. Morris-Andrews offers creative solutions for her entrepreneur clients, and is able to guide them as they grow from the start-up phase to experienced businesses. She has been hired by her clients to act as general counsel, handling any needs that might arise from the day-to-day responsibilities of running a business.
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Posted by Carmen Elsa Irarragorri Wyland on January 12, 2020 at 8:03pm in Current Events
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Whatever you think of Marianne Williamson or the fact that she ended her presidential campaign this week, is inconsequential.
We have a few things that make America, America — namely our freedom of the press and our freedom of speech. The way in which Williamson (and Harris and Gabbard) were treated in this election should appall every woman who still fights for equality and any American citizen concerned with the future of our Democracy as we know it.
Take for example, the polls and info graphics that omitted some of the presidential candidates running. Williamson was regularly cut from candidate photos, stories and polls from the outset, denying the American public all the options and restricting their choices. By the end, some people had never even heard of her. Was it the journalist or their publisher’s decision to do this? If a journalist can’t tell their story for fear a sponsor will pull-out or they unscrupulously spread false rumors because they are too lazy to do their own research, is that the “new” freedom of the press?
Skewed poll results featured “viable candidates” and yet those same poll results were used to influence people’s opinions on ALL the candidate’s “viability to win.” If you don’t support someone because you don’t think they can win, then question WHO is telling you they can’t win. It was a sick hive mind loop, hell bent on keeping the status quo.
We know that the Russians facilitated Trump’s win in 2016 by infiltrating social media to propagandize. And we know by self-admission that the DNC subverted Bernie Sanders’ run for the Democratic nominee in 2016 and rigged the nomination process in favor of Hillary Clinton. The message to America was your vote didn’t matter and your “pre-vote” also didn’t matter.
What we hadn’t seen yet though, was a large scale, calculated, well-funded smack down of a progressive newcomer at the national level to the point that her own base turned against her. She was attacked by not only conservatives but also Democrats and most disturbingly, by women liberals — even though they shared her values and comprised some of her base prior to the smear.
The take down strategy? “Operation: Mock, Reject & Omit.” This was a master hit job — cruel, relentless and paid for until victorious. And with the DNC, the self-appointed gatekeepers of the electoral process, constantly moving the bar to make the debates, Williamson didn’t stand a chance to win the primary. Oh there was a “witch hunt” going on alright, but it wasn’t at the top, it was at the bottom. The message now became that your “pre- pre- vote” didn’t matter.
Williamson was triggering every hot button that normally politicians avoid and by the second debate when she started getting applause for her ideas, the axe fell. Talking points seriously mis-characterizing Williamson’s positions on vaccines and anti-depressants were uttered almost verbatim across every network, newspaper and magazine within days.
Social media had a field day with outright lies and rumors about her. Williamson’s immediate response was to refute, deny and correct but no one can out run (or out spend) a massive media tsunami. If we don’t have freedom of speech without retribution then we don’t have a true democracy.
But who would have had a vested interest in her absence? Perhaps big chemical or pharmaceutical companies might applaud her exit — those that advertise their drugs and products on all the major media outlets you consume where she could be interviewed as a candidate? She was mostly relegated to daytime versus ratings-fueled prime time where her message could be heard. You’d be stunned at her minuscule allocation.
All she ever wanted was an independent party to monitor these industries but that was enough to irk the ire and to spread lies which unleashed a liberal rage and a media push back never seen before. And p.s. Some of those companies are now being indicted for the very same over-prescription and mass marketing harmful behaviors that Williamson called out.
Williamson wanted ALL money out of politics. Enemies weren’t hard to find. There were defense contractors who stood to profit from more wars rather than wage peace as she advocated. As a pro-choice candidate and a gun safety advocate, she threatened the future of the NRA and the goals of conservative, evangelical and anti-abortion groups. With her anti-mass incarceration and pro-immigration stances, she angered those who stood to profit from building jails and detainee centers that heartlessly rip immigrant children away from their parents. Racist and hate groups were diametrically opposed to her reparations plan. The list of players goes on.
Any one of these opposing groups funding elected politicians or any of her Democratic opponents with a large opp research war chest could have launched a surface-to-air media missile to take her campaign out. While other candidates were spending money to get elected, she was spending her limited grassroots funding to refute the falsehoods.
The word “Democracy” means a government “of the people.” Marianne Williamson was of the people — an intelligent orator, activist and leader for more than 30 years on topics of peace, human rights, women, children and environmental issues. More times than not she was reduced to “Spiritual Guru to Oprah” when introduced, rather than “entrepreneur and author of 13 best-selling books” OR the “founder of Project Angel Food, a non-profit that feeds AIDS patients,” OR “founder of Sister Giant, a national political forum to affect change and elect women political candidates” OR “co-founder of the Peace Alliance, an organization to make peace building a priority through legislation.”
None of her secular resume mattered. Instead, she was a labeled a “religious nut,” a “new age orb queen,” or “the crystal lady “ — all outrageous headlines that got clicks for the advertisers. Through relentless propaganda you would think she was a “woo woo wackadoodle newb” and be scared into thinking she would kill off an un-inoculated city with a measles epidemic or cause your suicide by taking away your Zoloft — all things she refuted.
What mattered to them was that you laughed at her for trying to “pray away a hurricane.” They wanted you to think she lacked any experience and would wreak havoc on our great country. So be honest…that IS what you still think of her, right? Congrats! They won because you bought in.They didn’t want you to actually learn about her policies, the real content of her character, her impressive resume and accomplishments or to hear her speak. Because if you did, you’d change your mind. Maybe she was pretty amazing? Presidential even? | cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line1960 |
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“Die Dignified”: Top five news stories you need to know.
April 14, 2014 /in /by Bob Johnson, MFA
Here are the top stories about religion that you need to know:
Stephanie Lewis, Center | Photo: New York Post.
Muslim bus driver’s discrimination lawsuit against MTA continues, even after driver’s death more than two years ago • France’s Far-Right To Ban Faith-Based School Lunch Options • Sacred Grounds — for Lawsuits • Religious leaders agree on interfaith teachings for children • Are Christians the Most Persecuted Religious Group?
Muslim bus driver’s discrimination lawsuit against MTA continues, even after driver’s death more than two years ago
‘I would rather die dignified than compromise my religious beliefs,’ Stephanie Lewis told her husband before she died.
Lewis refused to put an MTA logo on her khimar and the MTA fired her. In 2004, Lewis sued the MTA but died (because she could no longer afford health insurance or health care) before her case was completed.
Last week, Brooklyn Federal Court Judge Sandra Townes said that the case can continue even though the MTA filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit.
France’s Far-Right To Ban Faith-Based School Lunch Options
France is in the news again. This time because far-right National Front leader Marine Le Pen said his party would prevent schools from offering special lunches for Muslim students in the 11 towns it won in local elections. The party claims that accommodating student’s religious needs are contrary to France’s secular values. What will the children eat?
Sacred Grounds — for Lawsuits
Kentucky Fried Chicken recently had to pay $40,000 to settle a religious discrimination claim. U.P.S. recently agreed to pay $70,000 to settle another religious discrimination claim. According to this article, religious discrimination claims are on the rise. What are some ways to avoid such lawsuits? Hint: accommodation and respect.
Religious leaders agree on interfaith teachings for children
Can you guess where (state or country) this article appeared? The answer might surprise you.
Are Christians the Most Persecuted Religious Group?
In his latest book, The Global War on Christians, author John Allen claims that Christians are “the most persecuted religious body on the planet.” On the other hand, David Frankfurter, a Boston University professor and chair of religion, says “The problem with imagining a global persecution of Christians, or of any religious group, is that each case is really quite different.” Read the article to learn more.
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When Spirits Are Angry…
On August 8, 2019 November 5, 2019 By tatyana.paide.2015In afterlife, spirit communication, spirits
when a spirit got mad at me…
This is an unusual post, because it speaks about dark moments of spirit communication. Avoiding negativity, great masters prefer speak about positive side of spirit communication. Lately, I uploaded to Kindle new manuscript Weaved From Errors of My Ancestors. Spirits of my ancestors had mercy on me, and never crossed the boarders of our standards of politeness. But spirits whom I managed to attract into my life did. They were Russian spirits, I have no idea how I managed to annoy them. They left their… feces on floor, chairs, table and on my bed. I had to wash my apartment and bed. Should I talk about it publicly? After weighing the pros and cons, I decided to talk.
I will start from the evening, my nephew’s birthday party, where, at the end of it, sipping the last cup of coffee, I shared my story with relatives. Their reaction strengthened my confidence that it was necessary to write about the shadowy sides of communication with the world of spirits, as only the rosy tones of talk create wrong impression of what may wait us when it would our turn to say goodbye to friends on earth and move on to the next world.
It is believed that all Russians drink much. Not all! At our family gathering of young and old, alcoholic beverages were not consumed fervently; if we have sinned, then it was overeating of tasty food, which distinguishes Russian feasts in the American diaspora. When we were finally done with Ribeye tenderloin, fish of various varieties, colors, and types of cooking, and Happy Birthday was sang, and the kids had their moment putting out the candles on a luxurious cake and we had had our black coffee to withstand the pressure of the delicacies, and old people turned on their favorite Moscow show based on the ever-living memories of Moscow popular show “Blue Lights”, from which the kids washed off to their computers, and I, finally ventured to start my risky story about an unpleasant encounter with spirit world. I knew that none of my relatives, of course, did not believe in spirits. They simply tolerated my mediumship, as a kind of strangeness, and as I am old, that strangeness was forgiven to me.
As a medium, I hear the dead and can also talk with them as I would speak to you. My relatives consider this gift a nature’s mistake. But today, I had a rare trump card in my hands, the material proof of spirits’ existence, so I could not refrain from talking. If “hearing voices” is marred by suspicion of schizophrenia or hallucination, then reading the signs left by the spirits in my apartment did not require any supernatural qualities like clairvoyance or clairaudience -– as normal vision and average perception of smell would be sufficient to see these signs.
“Do you remember Lenochka from Leningrad, the clairvoyant who stayed with us when she came to Tallinn?” I asked my nephew. — “Of course, I remember!”– replied Vladimir.
I continued my story. She died homeless on the streets of Moscow. She told me that at that time, in the eighties, they opened her vision channel with helps of drugs. In the 80’s , it seemed OK. However, soon Lenochka became addicted to heroin, found herself homeless on the Moscow streets, and died early from an overdose. As it was predicted in the years ago during perestroika, her spirit found me in Los Angeles, settled in my aura, everything was nice and quiet, but once Lenochka got mad at me.
Relatives pricked up, and I told them how once, when I came home, I felt a strange smell in the apartment – reminiscent of the smell and color of infantile excrement, or feces. Its color was yellowish or light brown. Size was most likely tenth or fifteenth of human feces. Beige stains covered the floor around the dining table, and “decorated” chairs.
In the bedroom, the peculiar smell was nauseous. My bed was not done, it was “open,” and the sheets, blankets, bedspreads on the edge of the bed and the floor of my small bedroom were littered with small piles of feces that the spirits had produced. Spirit of Lenochka could not do it alone. she had to have help from other girls who nested in a Russian celebrity’s cove in my aura. I talked to them asking where were their brains and feel of decency, when they did what they were told to do – to kaki in another person’s bed. I asked where they were coming from, and why they were dead at so young age? Did they ODed? Their answer was more shocking than the poop in my apartment. The young girls, told that their parents, in need for money, sold them to the local bordellos. They told that they were afraid of Lenochka, the celeb’s girlfriend, their “boss”, and they do not know anything, and they do what they were told to do.
Cleaning up my apartment took a lot of my time. The hardest thing was to wash the bed, because I had to wash everything from blankets to pillows, comforters and mattress bedding – thank God I used those.
But the matter did not end there. I had to wash all the bed linen from the “spiritual” poop five times, as Lenochka was still annoyed by me. And the pooping incident was repeated five times, before destiny had mercy on me and Lenochka and her company disappeared from my aura.
I am at age 85. It was physically difficult for me to make the bed right after I had just reset it. But Lenochka did not sober, and did not come to herself. It turns out that healing the drug addiction in the astral world is 100 times more difficult than on the earth …This would have to be written and spoken loudly, because one day we will all be there. And I heard about the tragic stories of the spirits’ hopeless struggles with this kind of dependencies.
I was almost done with my story, when an elder gentleman, let call him Venia interrupted my speech. He peered at me with frightened, wide-open eyes, and asked: “Did you saw it all in your dream? It came to you in your dream?!”
— No, Venia, it was not a dream. It was difficult to wash it, it was unpleasant to wash the floor, I threw the floor cloths into dumpster. …
The ladies were silent. A gentleman poured himself a brandy and downed it without toasts or comments.
And I understood it does not matter how strongly a person would deny God, the subtle world, and the existence of spirits, somewhere in the depths of the soul, he knows that this is true, the subtle world exists, and the day will come, when we will meet our Maker and have to stand there and being judged.
I think that forgetting our stay in the astral world between rebirths is given for a reason. Firstly, not seeing and not hearing spirits precludes direct communication and this inability to communicate offers the most powerful protection from the spirits, which is very important, especially protection from the evil, negative-minded spirits, capable of causing considerable evil to folks on earth.
And, wait a minute! In many cultures, the honoring spirits of the dead with food, left for them, is a common tradition… It is assumed that spirits eat! But if they eat, they have to poop! In other words, astral body is a material thing, and subtle world is as real and dreamy as our world… Sorry atheists, spirits are real!
But this is a different topic, which is worth talking about separately.
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__label__cc | 0.660963 | 0.339037 | ← College Boyz – Nuttin’ Less, Nuttin’ Mo’ (October 4, 1994)
Simple E – Colouz Uv Sound (October 11, 1994) →
Artifacts – Between A Rock And A Hard Place (October 11, 1994)
The Artifacts are the Newark, New Jersey born and bred duo of Tame One and El Da Sensei. Like a lot of kids on the East Coast, Tame and El would first fall in love with hip-hop through graffiti, as they were both known for their tags. Eventually, the two would not only tag walls and trains but also begin to tag team the microphone. They became a group and would soon land a deal with Big Beat Records, where they would release their debut album Between A Rock And A Hard Place.
For some reason I always thought that Tame and El produced their own tracks, so I was a bit surprised when I read the liner notes and discovered that Buckwild, T-Ray and Redman produced the entire album. Between A Rock would produce a couple of underground hits, and even though it didn’t sell a ton of units it was well received by the streets and the critics (The Source even gave it a solid 4 mic rating). The Artifacts would release one more album in 1997 before breaking up and going their separate ways. Tame and El would go on to release a ton of solo albums and collab efforts on independent labels, and both continue to record and release music today.
I was very familiar with their first two singles back in the day, but for some reason I never copped the album. I probably just overlooked it due to the abundance of dope shit that seemed to be coming out on a weekly basis back then. I came across a used copy of Between A Rock And A Hard Place a few years back and this is my first time listening to it until now.
Don’t judge me.
Drama – (Mortal Kombat Fatality) – The Artifacts let a dope instrumental rock (courtesy of a dude who simply goes by Drew) that is equally beautiful and hard, and lives up to the song’s title.
C Mon Wit Da Git Down – Buckwild serves El and Tame One a groove filled with soulful heat that they use to make a decent first impression, even though this was the second single released from the album. This one sounds way better today than I remember it back in ’94.
Wrong Side Of Da Tracks – This was the lead single from Between A Rock that finds El and Tame paying homage to the art of graffiti and taggin’. T-Ray slides the duo an understated mellow backdrop complete with a soothing horn loop on the hook. This is an underrated gem from the nineties.
Heavy Ammunition – The Artifacts take turns comparing their rhymes to guns over a bassy T-Ray produced track. This was the first ho-hum moment of the evening for me.
Attack Of New Jeruzalum – Tame and El invite their buddy Jay Burns Jaya to join them on the mic as they each spit a verse over Buckwild’s instrumental. All three parties spit decent verses (shout out to Jay Burns for the Goya Adobo reference in his verse. My lady put me on to that a few years ago. Lawry’s aint got shit on that stuff when it comes to seasoning) but I was very unimpressed by Buckwild’s mediocre production work on this one.
Notty Headed Nigguhz – This shit was boring as hell.
Whayback – The Artifacts get things back on track (no pun intended) with this one. El and Tame reminisce about their introduction to hip-hop and the early days of them trying to get on while paying their dues. I absolutely love T-Ray’s smooth instrumental, and the horn loop intertwined throughout is a thing of beauty.
Flexi With Da Tech(nique) – Here’s yet another ho-hum joint. Wait…did I really just here Tame One say “Every female Huxtable was fuckable”? Rudy was thirteen years old when the Cosby Show ended. I see you R. Kelly.
Cummin’ Thru Ya Fuckin’ Block – Redman swoops through and provides a high energy hook along with the bangin’ bass heavy backdrop for his Jersey bredrin to rhyme on. I was super disappointed that Reggie didn’t spit a verse on this one, which might have benefited the Artifacts. Because we all know Red would have murdered them on their own shit.
Lower Da Boom – The Artifacts dedicate this ode to marijuana, as Tame and El take turns (similar to a joint) rhyming about all of its herbal goodness. Tame begins his second verse with “Ooh, I hope to live to see the day they make it legal, so all the people can see what I’m smokin’ aint evil”. Well, the way things are going, he may get his wish.
What Goes On? – Tame One and El use this one to explain why they call certain ladies bitches. Their reasoning is pretty juvenile, but Buckwild serves up arguably the best instrumental on Between A Rock.
Dynamite Soul – Solid filler material
Whassup Now Muthafucka? – T-Ray lays down a stripped-down backdrop (with an ill vocal sample on the hook) for Tame One and El to each spit a verse on and close out the album. The fellas don’t sound terrible on this one, but stronger emcees would have made T-Ray’s instrumental stand out more.
I’m sure my opinion will be the minority here, but I wasn’t super impressed by Between A Rock And A Hard Place. Tame One and El Da Sensei are average emcees at best, whose vocal tones and flows tend to run together, and while they never embarrass themselves on the album they don’t produce any outstanding lyrical output, either. Speaking of producing, Buckwild and T-Ray (and I can’t forget Redman) serve up some heat for the duo to spit on, but for every fire track they create there’s a mediocre one to match it. In my opinion, Between A Rock And A Hard Place falls somewhere in between mediocre and an average place.
2 Responses to Artifacts – Between A Rock And A Hard Place (October 11, 1994)
I agree with you. I fell asleep after the fourth song. Average album.
just wanted to say first of all not sure why but i also thought they did their own beats, could swear in their tracks they make reference to tame doing production but i guess not, and that huxtable line was weird as shit first time i heard it i thought “pretty sure that show had kids in it”
i actually found artifacts off the lesser-known hard 2 obtain (kmd affiliates) who had them on a track called “a lil sumething” you might want to give that a listen too since it’s an okay track
anyway i disagree with a lot of this review – while there were a lot of mediocre tracks i think el and tame were suave on the mic and worked with the nice bass-heavy beats, even if it was kind of disappointing to find out they didn’t do their own beats, to me it was above average but nothing to change hip-hop – it was, at the least, enjoyably consistent and a smooth listen
my favourite tracks were “c’mon wit da git down”, “wrong side of da tracks” (there’s a demo version of this in which they sound like they were 16), “lower da boom” and “what goes on” (which you might notice uses exactly the same sample as big L’s “put it on”), there’s a bonus track on some releases which is a remix of “c’mon wit da git down”, it has busta rhymes on it making his dumb post-lotns noises and half-rapping which ruins the otherwise decent track
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__label__wiki | 0.856481 | 0.856481 | Three pointers, bench contributions power Aztecs past Presbyterian on opening night
Then-freshman guard Najé Murray drives to the basket for two of her 14 points during SDSU's 77-50 win over Presbyterian College.
Photo by Weicheng Han
by Zach Engberg, Sports Editor
San Diego State women’s basketball opened its 2017-18 season on Friday by handling Presbyterian College, 77-50.
SDSU never trailed, and was only tied for the first 12 seconds of the contest until a three pointer by senior guard Myckynzie Fort put the Scarlet and Black up for good.
Fort led the Aztecs with 16 points and seven rebounds.
After the Blue Hose pushed the game to 48-36 in the middle of the third quarter, the Aztecs went on a 23-4 run spanning the third and fourth quarters.
Freshman guard Naje Murray opened the final frame with three consecutive three pointers, putting an already lopsided game out of reach for Presbyterian.
Murray’s 14 points led all reserves, who accounted for more than half of SDSU’s scoring output, outpacing the Presbyterian bench, 39-5.
“They don’t have any film on us freshmen,” Murray said, “so they don’t know what we can do yet, so they just kind of leave me open.”
Head coach Stacie Terry said the team’s depth is a factor that sets this season’s team apart from those in the past.
“I think the difference tonight was our bench,” Terry said. “The biggest thing was out depth, when you can get 40 points off the bench that’s gonna be a good thing. The bright spot about all that is everyone coming off the bench will be here next year.”
Murray was one of five freshmen, and eight underclassmen, to play for SDSU.
All eight came off the bench.
Murray’s three point outburst was just a microcosm of a dominant effort from behind the arc for SDSU. The Aztecs shot 8-13 in the first half to open up a 42-27 halftime lead, and went 12-25 for the game from three.
Senior forward Lexy Thorderson led the charge with four threes on seven attempts – her only shots in the contest – scoring 12 points.
The Aztecs held the Presbyterian long ball in check – the Blue Hose shot only 4-31 from three, with three of the makes coming in the second quarter.
Senior Blue Hose guard Courtney Storey led all scores with 22 points on 10-17 shooting. Storey played all 40 minutes for Presbyterian and was one of only two Presbyterian players to score in double figures.
The Aztecs bullied the Blue Hose on the glass, outrebounding them 45-26.
“It did surprise me, but it was a pleasant surprise,” Terry said. “We run for every offensive rebound we give up so they’ll be happy to know that it was only six… We have struggled really bad in this area these past couple of years so that has been a focus.”
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__label__cc | 0.701247 | 0.298753 | The McCain Campaign Doesn't Care About The Economy
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__label__wiki | 0.84128 | 0.84128 | Suicide attempt in Lagos: Cameroonian discharged, repatriated
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A Cameroonian, Fredrick Gino, who attempted to commit suicide by climbing a high tension electric pole on May 6 in Lagos has been discharged from the psychiatric hospital and repatriated.
Gino had attempted to electrocute himself at Adebisi Oguniyi Crescent, Lekki-Ikate Roundabout area of Lagos before he was rescued.
It took the intervention of the Lagos State Emergency Management Authority and the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps to bring him down.
Gino, after being rescued, was taken to the Psychiatric Department of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja for treatment.
The Chief Medical Director of LASUTH, Prof. Wale Oke, who confirmed the report to the News Agency of Nigeria, said Gino was treated free at LASUTH for six months.
According to Oke, the patient, whose medical bills and feeding cost N1.4 million, was finally repatriated to Cameroon in collaboration with the Nigeria Immigration Service Office through the Lagos Office.
Oke said that the expatriate was accompanied by the Deputy Controller of Immigration, a psychiatric nurse and two social workers to the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja.
Oke said: “It is part of the Lagos State Government Policy to treat destitute and people unknown.
“We are glad to have been involved in the rehabilitation of Gino.
“We hope that the Government of Cameroon will take it up from where we stopped and give him a better life.”
Gino, in an interview with NAN before his repatriation, thanked the Lagos State Government, LASUTH management, doctors and the supporting staff nurses who attended to him.
Gino said: “I thank the Lagos State Government for saving my life; I also thank the nurses and doctors in charge of my case and all the staff of the hospital.
“Most of them checked on me regularly. I am happy to go back to my country, I am happy; I will see my family alive.”
Also, Ogunlaye Olufemi, one of the social workers who attended to Gino at the psychiatric department, said the patient had fully regained sanity, adding that he interacted well with others.
A psychiatric nurse, Taiwo Amusa, said that Gino was fit to go back to his country.
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__label__cc | 0.575571 | 0.424429 | Flash Review: I’m Not A Robot
February 6, 2018 by kfangurl 66 Comments
I’d be the first to admit that when it first became apparent that Robot Romance was going to be dramaland’s Next Big Trend, I was.. not terribly excited.
I don’t have a pre-existing love for robot stories, for one thing. On top of that, the thought of the potential problems arising from a human-robot romance made the genre feel even less promising. Happily for me, though, neither of these concerns applied in this show, woot!
Not only is the romance in this drama between two very real humans, the two humans are played by Yoo Seung Ho and Chae Soo Bin, who are – for lack of a better word – Super Stinkin’ Cute together. I could watch these two just make googly heart-eyes at each other, all day long. ❤
STUFF I LIKED
Show is not without its flaws, so this section might look like it’s made up of fewer items than the other sections in this review combined. Let me just state upfront for the record, that even though this is the shorter list, Chae Soo Bin and Yoo Seung Ho, individually and together, made this watch more than worthwhile.
Chae Soo Bin as Ji Ah / Aji3
Chae Soo Bin’s struck me as a solid actress from the first time I laid eyes on her, in 2015’s Sassy Go Go. I mean, she took a Mean Girl character, and made her pop – but not in a hateful way. That takes skillz, and Chae Soo Bin’s got it in spades.
It’s not surprising – but still completely impressive – that in a few short years, Chae Soo Bin’s now firmly in leading lady territory. Well deserved and well done, I say. Not only does Chae Soo Bin make Ji Ah feel warm, relatable and completely real, she’s solidly good as Aji3 too – the real Aji3, I mean.
As a character, I found Ji Ah earnest and likable right off the bat, possibly because our introduction to her is of her being nice to the random schoolgirl next in line, but not hesitating to stand up to the random jerk who then tries to cut in line. She seemed to me, to be genuinely keen to do a good job, and sassy enough to fight for what she feels is rightfully hers.
I liked her even more, when I realized that her hardworking earnestness wasn’t just applied to what looked like a part-time job; I loved how enterprising and creative she was, and I admired her for fighting to achieve her dreams, [MINOR SPOILER] even when her Oppa (Seo Dong Won) was angry with her for not getting a proper job, and threw her out of the house. [END SPOILER]
I loved how Ji Ah never lost her sense of warmth – or her sense of feisty independence – through it all. I also loved that Chae Soo Bin delivered all of Ji Ah’s moments with an emotional resonance that felt real and believable.
I will talk about the more emotional scenes later in the OTP section, but for now, I’d like to highlight two of the more lighthearted moments when Ji Ah shone a little extra, to my eyes.
[SPOILER ALERT]
E9. This episode, Baek Gyun (Uhm Ki Joon) and Min Kyu (Yoo Seung Ho) end up fighting over who should get to take Aji3. The two men go back and forth for a bit, with neither party looking at all ready to back down. I kinda love that Ji Ah decides to take things into her own faux-robotic hands, announces that she’s out of battery, and pretends to go into sleep mode, right there in the middle of the squabble. I thought that was cute, and also, pretty clever, that she was able to find a way to interrupt the petty antics of the boys, without blowing her robot cover.
E11. In episode 11, Min Kyu refrains from patting Aji3 on the head, because of his promise to Baek Gyun to not touch Aji3. I kinda love Ji Ah’s disappointment – because it shows how much she actually is enjoying getting closer to Min Kyu – and even more, I love her annoyance at Baek Gyun for making that decision for her, when it’s her body he’s talking about. I love that Ji Ah is so clear on her right to personal agency, even while role-playing a robot.
[END SPOILER]
Yoo Seung Ho as Min Kyu
I’ve been a fan of Yoo Seung Ho’s expressive broody gaze and impossibly warm smile ever since I saw him in 2012’s Operation Proposal, and I was super pleased to have him cast as our romantic leading man.
As I expected, Yoo Seung Ho did not disappoint. He breathed layers and nuance into Min Kyu, and delivered with such range and depth, that there were more than a few times that I felt completely sucked into Min Kyu’s emotions, even while my brain protested the logic lapses in the drama world that surrounded him. Plus, every time Min Kyu smiled, I felt like the hearts in my eyes were exploding in fireworks made up entirely of pint-sized puppies, rainbows, sparkles and unicorns. ❤
It took me a couple of episodes to get a good sense of Min Kyu as a character, because while there were times that Min Kyu seemed super likable and amiable, like when he drives into the grounds of his home and waves to his butler (Kim Ha Kyoon), there were other times when he appeared unnecessarily cold, [MINOR SPOILER] like when he pronounced that the stray employee who’d accidentally appeared in front of him, would get a pay cut. [END SPOILER] Until my sense of Min Kyu settled into something more positive several episodes into my watch, it was Yoo Seung Ho’s personal charm and irresistible smile that buoyed my feelings towards Min Kyu.
Once Show painted in the details of how Min Kyu lost his parents and how he’d developed his first allergic reaction, however, it wasn’t long before my heart completely went out to Min Kyu. Add on the flecks of innocence and fear that Yoo Seung Ho injected into Min Kyu’s gaze, and I was completely drawn in to root for Min Kyu for the long haul.
There are a couple of scenes that Yoo Seung Ho killed it extra, he was just so amazing. Here’s the quick spotlight on my favorites.
E13-14. Min Kyu goes through a rollercoaster of emotions this pair of episodes, from joy, to disbelief, to anger, to peace, back to anger, to fear, to despair. He is so angry that Aji3 can’t seem to remember the kiss, and that leads to other realizations; that for all that Aji3 says and does, it’s all not supposed to be real. The reality of her being a robot is sinking in, and it’s destroying him, because he is so devastated that every emotion that they’ve shared isn’t real.
That last scene, of Min Kyu’s drunken admission, is so raw. His wounds feel so fresh; I feel like I’m gazing at his tattered heart even as I look upon his face. The single tear that runs down his cheek feels like it comes from such a deep place in his heart.
Oof. Poor Min Kyu.
E21. I find myself completely sucked in to Min Kyu’s emotions as he gazes on the face of his beloved Aji3, when he comes face-to-face with Ji Ah. There is wonder at seeing the human inspiration for Aji3, and there is a rising joy, at seeing the face that he never thought he would, again, and there is inner conflict, as his brain struggles to process what is before him. Yoo Seung Ho kills it, and I feel like I’m so in tune with Min Kyu’s emotions, just by watching his eyes.
E24. Yoo Seung Ho truly is the master of the expressive soulful gaze. The scene where Min Kyu finds Ji Ah on the beach is so good. From happy and relieved, he quickly transitions into disbelief and shock, then horror and sorrow, as the realization that Ji Ah had deceived him sinks in. He barely needs to say anything; his face says it all, and so eloquently too. Wow.
Our OTP together
There are times when Shows cast two talented actors opposite each other – only to end up with an OTP that just doesn’t pop, because of a lack of personal chemistry. This is so not one of those times. In fact, Yoo Seung Ho and Chae Soo Bin are so cute separately and together, and share such a warm, easy, natural chemistry, that I feel like Show’s casting director literally hit the jackpot with this pairing.
From the bickery scenes, to the playful teasing scenes, to the meaty emotional moments, and everything in between, there never was a moment when I felt like Yoo Seung Ho and Chae Soo Bin didn’t belong together. I loved having them share my screen, regardless of what their characters were doing, and where we were in our story. I just always looked forward to more of them together, which is a sure sign of a winning OTP.
When you peel away the fancy robot layers, our OTP set-up is essentially one of forced proximity and the resulting connections and feelings, which is simply one of my favorite drama things, ever. I very much enjoyed seeing Min Kyu enjoy Aji3’s company more and more, and Ji Ah growing to care for Min Kyu, in spite of herself.
As our OTP becomes more and more fond of each other, the emotional resonance in their interactions deepen as well. This organic growth, combined with the excellent, nuanced delivery of both actors, made it so easy to get sucked into this OTP journey. These two had me grinning goofy grins and choking back sympathetic tears in turn, and it was altogether pretty glorious.
Here’s the quickish spotlight on my personal top 3 OTP moments.
The re-set
Min Kyu’s pain at the reset in episode 18 is so well-played and believable. It feels like a truly heartbreaking moment, because to him – to his heart – it’s not just a case of erasing shared memories; it’s basically killing the one that he fell in love with. Aji3 will no longer exist, even though her shell will remain. That’s why he sobs so heartrendingly, and that’s why I can’t swallow away the lump in my throat.
The parting words he and Aji3 say to each other, are so poignant as well. They each thank the other for all that the other has done for them, and how the other has made them feel; they each apologize, and it’s all so poignant and beautiful. Poor Min Kyu. He really believes that he’s causing the love of his life to cease to exist, by the willful action of his hand.
In episode 19, the whole goodbye scene is even more heartrending the second time around because Show paints in more context. The goodbye date is so poignant, and the “I love you” even more heartbreaking, now that I know that Min Kyu had pushed Aji3’s reset button as he’d said it.
Augh. So moving and so painful, in just the best way.
The warehouse lock-in
It is entirely tropey that Min Kyu gets sent to the warehouse with Ji Ah at the end of episode 22, and that they get locked in there without much cell-phone battery left between them to get themselves out. On the upside, though, I really liked what Show did with the time spent.
Instead of the usual rom-com hyperawareness sort of hijinks, we get heart-to-heart conversations and honest confessions, spoken freely as to a stranger who will presumably become a memory with the dawn. I enjoyed the heartfelt words that both Min Kyu and Ji Ah spoke, especially the ones that conveyed veiled gratitude. I particularly love that Min Kyu knows what Aji3 would say – “You did well” – if she saw him now.
So much catharsis and honesty in the air this scene, and I love it.
The reconciliation
I freaking love episode 27, it’s so lovely.
I love that the meteor shower announcement triggers in both Min Kyu and Ji Ah the memory of the promise they’d made previously. And I love that we spend pretty much all of this episode in honest conversation between Min Kyu and Ji Ah. For a show where there are so many lies, the level of honest conversation is really impressive. And what a bonus, that Ji Ah is so endearing, while she’s being honest. She’s shy, yet candid, and I love her for it.
Min Kyu relaxing, and allowing himself to enjoy the moment as Ji Ah answered all his questions, was really nice to see as well. And his decision to stop things where they were, before he judged that it would become too intense of a memory for him to handle, is understandable as well. He doesn’t know, in that moment, whether he would ever be able to have a normal relationship with Ji Ah, and that’s why he backs away from the moment. And I appreciate that he’s honest about it. I love that the honesty is reciprocal.
Even more, I love that Ji Ah doesn’t allow him to just walk away. She calls out to him, and tells him what she came to tell him, that she loves him. OMG, the feels, as he walks back to her, holds her face in his hands, and kisses her. All of that context, of emotional honesty and catharsis, really comes together to make the moment truly special, and I flail. ❤
[END SPOILERS]
Special shout-out: Aji3 herself
Even though Aji3 spends a lot of time being in the background of our story, I found myself growing very affectionate of her, by the later episodes.
I love that Aji3’s a smart robot, which we first see an indication of, in episode 24, when she creates the backup folder as a response to Ji Ah’s promise to Min Kyu, that she will remember everything forever. In episode 28, we see again how smart she is, when she’s able to tell that the people around her are sad, even though they are all saying happy words. Plus, there’s the way she basically breaks out of prison, to go home. How badass and smart is she? ❤
When Show spent a lot of time on the corporate machinations in the later episodes, I was most interested in Aji3 being out and about, and interacting with people, in her quirky, clever, robotic way. I felt a little thrill every time Aji3 did well in an interaction, and made the world around her a little bit better.
..Which is why I was so upset when writer-nim wrote the Santa Maria team as retiring Aji3 and making a new robot in her stead. I mean, couldn’t they have kept Aji3 around AND made a new robot? After getting all attached to Aji3, it felt to me like they were killing her. *cries*
STUFF I WAS NEUTRAL ABOUT
Well, perhaps I should say, neutral-tending-towards-positive. Coz while I didn’t love these parts of the show right off the bat, at least one of these things kinda grew on me by Show’s end.
The Santa Maria team
Right from the moment that I met them, I felt that the Santa Maria team seemed kooky and kind of lame. Their bumbling antics didn’t seem to jive with their scientific smarts, in my head, and I found myself zoning into neutral every time we spent time with the team in their lab.
That said, however, these kooks did grow on me by Show’s end. As their relationship with Min Kyu grew, my affection for them grew as well.
In episode 19, it was heartwarming to see this bunch of socially awkward nerds do their best to make Min Kyu feel less alone. Staying up to wait for him, making him porridge, and playing games with him in the middle of the night; it’s all so awkward yet so very sincere.
Perhaps most endearingly poignant of all, is the scene in episode 26, where Hok Tal and Ssan Ip (Song Jae Ryong and Kim Min Kyu – ha, that really is his name, isn’t that the darndest thing?) literally fall over their own feet chasing down Min Kyu’s car, because of the sliver of hope that he would reconcile with them. Aw.
Show’s sense of humor
So I’m not saying that I never found Show funny; it’s just that, whenever Show reached for broad comedy as its idea of funny, I found myself not really laughing alongside, more often than not.
[SPOILER] For example, the extended scenes in episode 8 involving the bumbling Santa Maria team trying – and failing – to deal with the army of tiny crabs that Min Kyu had sent them. We even see Baek Gyun and Jin Bae trying to have a serious conversation while attempting to ignore the critters that are literally crawling over them both. The scenes are played for comedy, but I just wasn’t feeling it. [END SPOILER]
STUFF I DIDN’T LIKE
The corporate stuff
I outright disliked the corporate machinations in our story, and whenever any of the scheming conniving characters came on my screen, I found myself zoning out. The corporate politics in this show managed to be both ridiculous and boring at the same time. That’s.. quite a feat, I suppose.
It felt like the scheming people were taking themselves way too seriously, and thinking themselves to be way more important that they actually were. On top of that, the English-speaking characters that these schemers got involved with, were delivered in terribly stilted and stiff fashion (sadly, as usual), and that just added to the unintended comedy and my eye-rolling.
For example, there’s a scene in episode 28 that stood out to me as extra ridiculous. The whole scene where President Hwang (Kang Ki Young) is threatening Jang Doo Sam, makes so little sense. Not only does Kang Ki Young play it OTT, with theatrically large expressions, Jang Doo Sam doesn’t even seem to actually know that the accident was a set-up, and so, in the scene, it’s Hwang who basically informs him of the set-up, while giving him money to go away. I actually laughed out loud, it was so dumb.
The arc with the other human allergy patient
The other thing that made me cringe was the side arc around Johnny Brown and Tilda Morton, the other human allergy patient and his human savior. The entire thing is so stilted, obvious and awkward, in the writing, the acting as well as the overall execution. It was all extremely uncomfortable to watch. Yikes.
For what it’s worth, while I never liked the Johnny Brown arc, I understood its purpose: to give Min Kyu’s case a point of reference. Still, I can’t help thinking that this could’ve been handled in a better, more organic fashion.
JI AH’S HEART LAMPS [SPOILERS]
Shout-out to blog regular Dame Holly, who first mentioned to me in a comment, that she found a lot of meaning and significance in Ji Ah’s hearts, which then made me pay a little extra attention to the heart lamps during my own watch. At around the episode 16 mark, I finally started to see at least some of the lamps’ significance.
It is Ji Ah’s warmth – her human touch – that lights up her own heart lamp. To me, this refers to her passion for life, as well as her kindness to people. Ji Ah’s warmth lights up her own heart, which in turn lights up Min Kyu’s heretofore cold and spark-less heart. And she needs to do it for him, because he can’t do it on his own.
In episode 17, the emphasis on the heart lamps being shared with a special someone – and only one special someone – is brought out, with the add-on that touching the lamp will bring to mind that very special someone. Min Kyu touches the lamp and it brings Aji3 to mind, and his feelings for Aji3 finally shift into focus. In this sense, the lamps help to literally shed light on your heart.
Additionally, it occurs to me that the lamps are different from other ways of creating connection with your loved one because the lamps literally bring warmth as they light up. It warms a heretofore cold heart, and it brings light to a heart that heretofore was in darkness. I find that a very sweet metaphor, and I thought that the heart lamps brought a very nice touch to our characters and their story.
MY TAKE ON THE ALLEGED MISOGYNY IN THIS SHOW
I saw at least one tweet that said that there’s a lot of misogyny in this show, and the writer of the tweet stated that she had issues with the way women are treated in this show.
Having seen the whole drama now, I have to say that I personally don’t quite see the same.
It’s true that Ji Ah gets treated less than well by Min Kyu, but it does make a difference that Min Kyu thinks she’s a robot and therefore not a real human. Therefore how he treats her has nothing to do with how women are treated. She is, to him, basically the same as his other household appliances.
Of course, one could argue that Aji3 didn’t have to be made in the likeness of a cute girl wearing a short skirt, and didn’t have to be programmed to greet her master with “I love you.” The “I love you” thing is a cultural quirk, I believe, coz if I’m not mistaken, even call center employees greet their customers similarly. I can agree with the short skirt thing, but am willing to look past it. And, I guess you could say that Aji3 did have to be made in the likeness of a cute girl, otherwise the entire premise of this show would be shot.
In Show’s defense, the Santa Maria team is pretty fair, since they make their next robot look like a man instead.
Also, the whole, “I’m her master” vs. “I’m her creator” thing at the end of episode 9 can feel problematic if we think of Ji Ah as human, but in the context of our story – and context really is everything here – she is supposed to be a robot, a literal object. And therefore, again, I didn’t take issue with the master vs. creator angle of the scene.
The bottom line, I think, is that if you’re determined to take issue with how Show handles itself in this area, you’re perfectly entitled to do so. But.. if you choose to do so, you’d be missing out on a pretty awesome OTP, in my opinion. 🙂
THOUGHTS ON THE ENDING [SPOILERS]
Not gonna lie; I found the press conference decidedly cheesy and I also didn’t care too much about the love triangle angst between Hok Tal, Ssan Ip and Sun Hye (Lee Min Ji).
But, on the upside, there is quite a bit of cute, and that made up for just about everything.
I love that Pi (Park Se Wan) asks Baek Gyun if he’d like to date, and I love even more, that she doesn’t flinch even when he laughs nervously and is unable to look her in the eye. They make a cute couple, and I was pretty happy to be able to follow them on their first date. More than actually seeing them together, it was refreshing to see Pi being so much more confident around Baek Gyun.
It’s also really heartwarming to see that Min Kyu and the Santa Maria team have become a found family, with them sharing a dinner table on what appears to be a regular basis, and talking and laughing together, and supporting one another. What struck me most at seeing this unfold on my screen, is how much these people appear to genuinely like one another. Seeing that Min Kyu now has the warmth of a family dinner table to enjoy made me happy.
More than anything, Min Kyu and Ji Ah are just really cute whenever they are together, and seeing them laugh together, and support one another, and hold hands and kiss and generally be the epitome of Couple Cute together, was enough to give me goofy grins for days.
My favorite couple moment these two shared in this finale, is hands-down the moment that Min Kyu surveys all of Ji Ah’s notes on her various inventions, and turns to smile at her, saying, “What should I do? I like you even more.”
Flail. I just love that he loves her inventions, and that this inventive streak in her impresses him so much that it fills him with wonder. And, I love that he’s literally bought every single one of her inventions, before he even knew her. Gah. These two are just meant to be, is what. ❤
I usually am not too hot on time skips in finales, but this is one time that I actually found myself rather enjoying Show’s 2-year time skip.
First of all, we see that the Santa Maria team has a new robot to introduce to the world. I’m still sore at them for basically killing off Aji3, but I appreciate that the new robot is a boy. (No but seriously, how cute would it be, if they’d kept Aji3 around, and then made the new robot to look just like Min Kyu? We could have an actual robot romance on our hands, which, in my opinion, would be pretty darn cute.)
Second of all, we see that Min Kyu has completed his military service, which is something that was impossible for him in episode 1. What a nice call-back, to demonstrate just how far he’s come. And what a bonus, that we are reminded of just how dreamy Yoo Seung Ho looks in military fatigues, heh.
Third of all, it’s great to see that almost everyone in this drama world is happily and anxiously looking forward to Min Kyu’s return, and that they all hurry to his house to welcome him home. For someone who started our story so alone in that big ol’ mansion, it’s feels lovely to know that this time, he’s going home to a whole bunch of people who love and appreciate him.
Last – and possibly best – of all, I love this call-back to our OTP’s earlier umbrella moment. It’s so similar, but so different. The way Ji Ah loses her balance; the way Min Kyu catches her in his arms; the way their eyes lock, with the umbrella overhead – that’s all so déjà vu similar. But the teasing smiles they share; the sparkle in their eyes; the familiarity of the way they touch; and the languid, happy, delicious way they drown in kisses, reminds me all over again, of how far these two have come. Love.
THE FINAL VERDICT:
Suspension of disbelief is required in pretty big spades, but our OTP is so cute, that for them, it’s easy to throw logic out the window.
FINAL GRADE: B+
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66 thoughts on “Flash Review: I’m Not A Robot”
allthingsanu
I am still pretty new to K Dramas but this one blew my mind! I wanted to read your thoughts about the show as I had loved your review of “Heirs” and it led me to believe that we have similar tastes. First off, what you said about Yoo Seung Ho’s SMILE! 😍 WITH your permission, I am going to quote you on my blog as I am planning to write my own review on this show! So please grant me permission for the same. I agreed with your take though not completely. I loved the crab scene! I found it to be stupidly funny! 😂 Also, I may the only one to be saying this, ESP after reading through your review and comments, but I was glad that they scrapped Aji3 and changed her face and gender. I was actually hoping to SEE the male model. It would have made for a nice setting for a sequel, if they ever wanted to revisit the same universe. I was super excited thinking that they could have a star for the scene! Like a cameo! But sadly, that didn’t happen. It never struck me that they could make a male model of Min Kyun! It is an interesting idea, of course, with HIS PERMISSION. I came across this idea in your comments section. But, I would had a problem with that too. Just, make a new face. I was surprised that you didn’t have a separate review for the brilliant OST! 😍 I AGREE 100% about the machinations at the corporate world. It was disappointing to watch Kang (supporting actor) play such a part. He is always positive in All the shows! I loved their chemistry! I think this pairing deserves another drama!! I also felt cheated when we didn’t see the big home coming! It was super nice to come back to the start though. A nice way to cycle back and show progress at the same time by sending Min Kyun to the military. I wanted to see a proper date or when Min Kyun tells Ji Ah ‘I love you’! He told Aji3, not her!! And maybe another scene when he proposes with the meteor necklace! 😍 I have a question for you: do you feel bad when you stop watching a show?
Hi there Anu, I’m glad that you’re enjoying your new adventures in Dramaland, and are even looking to start blogging about the shows. 🙂 With regards to quoting me, I’m fine with some quoting (ie, not the whole review), with a link back to this original post. I’d be interested to read what you have to say in your review, so I look forward to you posting it! 🙂
Aw, that’s ok that you were happy about them scrapping Aji3.. for me, I’d already grown fond of her, so it felt like they killed off one of my favorite characters, and that made me sad.
As for dropping a show.. I don’t actually feel bad, if I’m convinced that it’s just not working for me. Sometimes I’ve pushed through to the finish line because it’s a show that everyone else loves and I don’t, and I’m hoping that I’ll love it as much as other people, but consistently, I regret pushing through. I’ve done that enough times to learn my lesson a little bit, and just go with my gut. If a show really isn’t working for me, I drop it and try my best not to look back. I hope that helps!
It does help! I dropped ‘Devilish Joy’ after six episodes and felt a little bad about it. But seriously, the show was doing nothing for me and I had already spent a good SIX hours of my life on it! If you ever watch it, I would love to read your take. I haven’t written anything on my blog since the past year and K Dramas have inspired me to write again! I would only like to quote your description of Yoo Seung Ho’s SMILE!!!!!!! Thanks for granting permission for the same.
I heard good things about Devilish Joy (well, in the sense that there were a bunch of Twitter pals who were having a good time watching it), but I could not make it through E1, honestly. I made a few separate stabs at E1, but never managed more than a few minutes. It just wasn’t working for me. So.. I guess it’s a good thing that you ended up dropping it, if you weren’t enjoying it. 6 hours is better than 16! 😉
Oh God! So, you did try it?!! I had searched your blog for a review! I wanted to know if I was alone in feeling this way about the show. What about “My secret Romance”? Sung Hoon is so hot!! But is that enough?!
I did attempt it, but never got very far. I typically don’t write posts on shows that I don’t even finish the first episode of, though I might mention those in my Year In Review posts. I attempted My Secret Romance with Sung Hoon too, but didn’t even get through E1 of that. It’s something you might like if you’re only in it for Sung Hoon, but I wanted more and what I did see of it was.. not great. 😛
I have seen two episodes of ‘My secret Romance’ so far and I am not loving it. The song at the end is lovely and I really dig the animation at the beginning. Even animated Sung Hoon is so HOT! But only hot Sung Hoon is not gonna save the show for me. He needs to act better and the show is not gripping….In fact, his behaviour in the second episode was downright sexual harrassment. I didn’t find it funny at ALL.
I guess we feel pretty much the same about My Secret Romance then! 😅 Have you tried Noble, My Love? It’s super tropey and predictable, but somehow, I found it a fun watch, where I found My Secret Romance unappealing. If you haven’t seen it, give it a try, maybe. It’s a web drama so the episodes are super short. And you get lots of handsome Sung Hoon. 😉
Yes. One of my friend, who loves K Drama also suggested the same show. Where can I watch it??
I watched Noble, My Love here. There are ads, but I use AdBlock on my laptop and I don’t actually see the ads. I hope that helps! 🙂
I will try! Thanks!
You’re super welcome! ❤
Hello! Just wanted to let you know that “Noble, My Love” is now available on Viki.
Ah, thanks for sharing, anu! ❤
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Francis Mendoza
i’ve watched this with my girlfriend and i’m so in love with this show. It’s on the same level drama with Weightlifting Fairy and they actually have several similar scenes! I hide at my girlfriend’s back because i’m too shy to show her i’m crying on some episodes. Thank you for your review, it gave me more insights on the characters. 😀
Aw, that’s so great, that you loved this show, AND that you watched it with your girlfriend! 😀 I think more couples should watch dramas together, but that’s just me 😉 Thanks for enjoying this review, Francis! 🙂 Another sweet drama that you might enjoy, if you haven’t already seen it, is Go Back Couple (also known as Go Back Spouses). You can check out my quick review here. 🙂
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iamjoy
I agree with your reviews. I really like this show! You are right, Yoo Seung Ho and Chae Soo Bin are so perfect together, their chemistry on screen was overflowing. I wish to see them on another drama (but sadly, kdramas rarely repeat pairings). Their acting is so great!
I love the reset scene as well, it is so heartbreaking. And the heartfelt confession during the meteor shower. But aside from the scenes you highlight, I just want to add two more that struck me.
First is on the episode 12, when it was raining and Min Kyu shared the transparent umbrella with Aji3, telling her how the umbrella made him feel and how he wanted to meet the inventor. The way she looked at him is just melting, her eyes sparkling with myriad of emotions (literal *heart in her eyes*), you can really see on her eyes how she is amazed and grateful that for the first time in her life, someone appreciated her invention, and I think she just fall in love with him right then and there (that’s why she lost control and kiss him) That’s a stellar acting for Chae Soo Bin.
And another one is the heart shattering outburst/monologue of Kim Min Kyu on episode 26. That was perfectly done. The height of emotion on that scene was overwhelming, you can really feel the pain and suffering Min Kyu was going through for all the lies and deception of the woman (and the people) he learned to love and trust. More than anything, he is so scared that Jia just might just really used him and didn’t love him (of course, we know it’s not true). And I love how Jia just listened and accepted it understandingly and patiently. She didn’t try to resist or explain, she just stood there, and let him burst out his anger, and I think that’s nice. Because what Min Kyu needed the most that time is for him to release all his anger and frustrations. He was deceived, and he has all the right to be mad. I think Jia knows it, too, so she just let him. That scene was so well-done and well-delivered.
And another: when Jia’s brother gave Min Kyu his resignation, and Min Kyu learned that his trusted subordinate is Jia’s brother, the way he said “get lost” was heart breaking, his voice was cracking, and I just want to give him a hug.
Yoo Seung Ho is really a brilliant actor. and Chae Soo Bin is really good, too. They delivered the emotions perfectly. When they smile, I smile. When they cry, I cry, When they were hurting, I feel like I was hurting, too. And making the viewers feel what the character is feeling is what a good actor should do.
I love this show, and I feel slightly disappointed with the ratings. But then again, the rating says a little about the quality of a kdrama. I already watched some shows that has low ratings but turned out to be a good drama I won’t forget, and also dramas with high ratings that didn’t turn out as good as I expected.
More shows for Yoo Seung Ho and Chae Soo Bin ❤❤❤
Glad you enjoyed this show – and this review, joy! 😀 I really enjoyed the scenes that you highlighted as well – those were very well done also. I didn’t love all of this show, but one thing this show had, was heart. ❤ And a pair of super cute leads, heh. 😍😍 I'd love to have more Yoo Seung Ho and Chae Soo Bin on my screen too. 😉
I finished this! I agree on many points! I have a horrible cough though right now so I can’t concentrate but I will come back when I feel better.
Yay that you finished this one, DF!! It’s totally not your usual thing, but yay that you liked it! 🙂 Also, I hope you’re feeling better now. I had a horrible cough for about a year(!!!), so I totally feel you on this one! Hugs ❤
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I have soooo much feels in this kdrama. thank goodness and I read your reviews. and I was like.. This is what exactly I wanna say! its soo addicting that I watched it for the third time! 😁😁 I never knew Yoo Seung ho that’s why I googled his name and find out that he’s the prince chunchu of the historical kdrama Queen Seon deok! and of course chae soo bin of love in the moonlight. I am not a robot is the only kdrama that gives me a roller coaster ride of emotions. I enjoyed it! daebak!🙌
Glad you enjoyed this show, jinny – and thanks for enjoying the review! 🙂 Yoo Seung Ho really is lovely. I enjoyed him very much in Operation Proposal, which isn’t a rom-com, but more of a time-travel melodrama. I thought he was very good in that. Might be worth considering, if you’re hungry for more Yoo Seung Ho 🙂
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I didn’t really like this show, but that was because of my personal taste. I’ve seen just a few episodes though, and their acting is very good!
Personal taste definitely counts for A LOT, in drama watching, so it’s perfectly ok that you don’t love a show, even if everyone else loves it! 😀 I do agree, Yoo Seung Ho and Chae Soo Bin are both excellent in their deliveries 🙂
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Steph Asio (@phetsoisa)
Thanks for your review and I totally agree with you!!! This show hit the jackpot with the pairing — Chae Soo Bin and Yoo Seung Ho have perfect chemistry on-screen! Maybe it’s because they are around the same age (Seung Ho is just a year older). And these two actors are really good and they act with so much depth.
And I have to agree with you on the reset scene. Feels hit me straight to the bone! Both actors delivered well and I really like that after Min Kyu pushed Aji 3’s reset button, a tear fell from Ji Ah’s eyes. I can’t. I was sobbing during that scene. Perfectly executed.
I also liked that there was some sort of a ranking to Min Kyu’s personal appliances, haha. That was so funny. The robot cleaner was Aji 3’s sunbae. Haha.
I just feel sad that this show had low ratings in Korea. I felt bad for the actors and all of the production team because their efforts weren’t recognized that much in Korea. But still, they were a hit internationally, so I hope they get awards/recognition for this drama! It was really worth the watch.
I’ll give this drama a 9!
I’m glad you enjoyed this one as well, Steph! Indeed, Yoo Seung Ho and Chae Soo Bin are perfectly matched. The casting director deserves an award, I think, coz together, these two really made my screen explode with cuteness. ❤ And not only that, they brought the feels, so well. That reset scene made me tear up too, it was so well done. ❤
Lol. Min Kyu's ranking of his appliances was cute. To think that he even celebrated their birthdays! 😂
It's sad about low ratings.. but I've come to accept that ratings rarely tell the full story. I rank Healer as one of my favorite kdramas of all time, but it suffered dismal ratings in Korea. The injustice of it all! 😭
I watched the first half of the drama as it aired and liked but didn’t necessarily love it though it killed with the chemistry between the leads. I got busy and took a break and the drama had completed when I jumped back in. It was a few episodes before he found out the truth and I whipped through the last half very quickly. I appreciate that the drama didn’t spend a lot of time on secondary characters, there really wasn’t much of a love triangle for either lead, and I found it easy to skip most of the corporate shenanigans which were pretty lame.
I hate love triangles and what happened with the scientist ex-boyfriend worked so much better. The moment he realized why she broke up with him and that he basically dissed her kind of common sense smarts over his PhD smarts was well done because I’ve seen people have to deal with this kind of snobbery in real life.
This has been one of the few times the time jump worked for me and I actually appreciated that he went and did his service because it showed that he really had healed and was better even if she wasn’t right by him.
Basically this drama worked so well because the leads are so dang good together. I have always liked the actor but dropped Imaginary Cat, stayed away from Remember and planned on watching Ruler until 9 out of 10 reviews hated on it so much so the last thing I finished with YSH was Arang and the Magistrate! (I’ve never tried Operation Proposal) I don’t know what to think that the dramas I’m not interested in do great in the ratings and this one not so much.
I think chemistry between actors is a roll of the dice and glad it worked so well this time around.
PS: I really think they could have skipped a lot of the side stuff and done a really fast paced 12 episode drama but that’s just me.
You’re probably right that this drama could’ve been shaved down to 12 episodes. We could have ended up with a more consistently charming watch, with none of the corporate shenanigans. Kinda like how Something About 1% was handled. This drama was really carried on the charms – individual and combined – of our leads. So a 12-episode version focusing just on that, would’ve been truly lovely, I think! ❤
Most viewers didn't take to Operation Proposal when it aired, as I remember, but I personally really enjoyed it. I think it really helps, to think of it as a melodrama rather than a rom-com. I think the promos were slanted more in the rom-com direction, and that didn't help viewers' expectations. I went in not knowing what to expect, and came away enjoying the show as a whole. I even found it mildly thought-provoking. It was the very first review I posted on this blog, ever, so it's very rough around the edges, but if you're curious, you can find that review here. I hope that helps! 🙂
Dame Holly Has A Hat (@Lee_Tennant)
My final I Am Not a Robot essay (I promise)
I wrote this around the end of episode 14 (28) before the final episodes that unfortunately just sort of meandered. But considering where all our female characters ended up, apart from Aji3, it still applies.
Today’s subject is the commodifying of women through the characters of Ji A, Aji3 and Ri El and the various attempts by all three of our female leads to attain self-determination in a hyper-patriarchal culture.
Aji3 is, of course, a simulacrum of a women who is literally being bartered over: sold and traded and threatened with physical harm. In this episode, she gets told outright her job is to be owned by a man and to do what she’s told. She then breaks free and heads home.
Ri El is the real woman. The one who is definitely ‘not a robot’. And she is fighting against *the exact same thing that Aji3 is* – despite being a human being. I have to repeat that because it’s a really important point. Ri El as the “real” human woman in this text is being treated exactly the same way as the literal object, Aji3. And she’s also tired of it and also fighting back.
What’s most interesting here is JiA. She has been both human and object throughout this whole thing and she’s the only one who’s truly attained her autonomy. Therefore her happiness becomes the happiness of all women because it’s a happiness built on being allowed to be completely herself. She is, as she’s said from the beginning, not a robot.
Or not… I have to update this a bit because as I said I was a bit confused by them scrapping and updating Aji3. It’s possible it was done for purely mundane reasons (she was played by Chae Soo Bin and they didn’t have the budget to have her play both parts in the same scene) but I have wondered if they were making a final statement that Aji3 was definitely an object and shouldn’t be confused with a person.
In such a quiet, small way what they did with Ri El was really lovely. This show refused (mostly) to bow to tropes and having an awesome second female lead gave them scope to explore some of these issues with a “real girl”. They even called her Riel (real). Every single female character was a layered, three-dimensional person and I can’t remember the last time a kdrama did that.
And I have definitely outstayed my welcome now… Adios!
I have 35 more episodes of The First Half of My Life to watch in payment for basically hijacking your blog.
Thank you for your insightful reflections on this drama. I agree with all you’ve said x10. I felt the same of RiEl, but didn’t catch the name until you so brilliantly pointed it out. As to Professor Hong having AiJi3 look like JiAh….didn’t he say something about wanting to try to figure out why she broke up with him and that he hoped to understand her better was the reason why he did the look alike? Wish I’d paid more attention to what he said. Do you remember that and where it was in the drama? So love Uhm Ki Joon … such an amazing actor. From crazy psycho brother killer in Defendant to nurdy professor looking for love !
He did say that was the reason he created her – to Min Kyu in the last episode I think. I just didn’t believe him. In the same way he was talking about “reverse Turing tests” when he sent Jia to pretend to be Aji3 but he was mostly concerned with his funding and reputation.
I mean, he created e created an android version of his ex who greets him with “I love you, master”. Understanding her was not his greater priority.
But I have to give him credit for his character growth. He had more growth as a character than Min Kyu and that’s saying something.
This is a guy who started off the show with “this is my dumb ex” and “this is my obedient android girlfriend, she’s way better than you”. And by the end he’s saying things like, “Leave it to Jia, she’ll handle it,” and “don’t underestimate your sister, she’s really smart”.
I really loved that he basically sat Jin Bae down after the competition and said “fyi we’re both jerks”. And Jin Bae didn’t care that he was a jerk but the Professor *stopped being a jerk*.
I do agree with Prof Hong’s character growth. And I think there was considerable character growth in all of our characters….even big brother. His perhaps not as grand as the others….but he did come to accept his sister’s unique self. And he did take back his resignation. Seo DongWon is an amazing character actor who seems to show up in all my favorite dramas.
That’s a great observation about Ri El being treated like an object, just like Aji3, even though she was the REAL woman! I do appreciate that Ri El stood up for herself and didn’t allow herself to be bartered off by her father. Ji Ah also gained recognition, independence and respect. But poor Aji3 got retired, sob. I guess that was possibly the point, that if you’re human, you can fight for your independence and your rights. You have a different set of rights, and a different future, from even the best robot, who gets retired &/or scrapped regardless of her will.
PS: I sure hope you’re enjoying your watch of The First Half Of My Life! 😀
My2Girls
Our streak continues. I loved this show for the same reason that you did and had the same problems with it that you had. I agreed 100% with the finale review on DB and that we SHOULD have seen him in his home with all those people in the final scene. I loved seeing all the characters rush to see him but then felt cheated that the scene didnt happen. I wanted so much to see that clean, cold house filled with warmth, laughter, and hugs. But I can imagine it. You have done another wonderful job on this review. As always I appreciate all you have done and as Ji Ah would say, “you did well.”
Hi5 Amy! We really do seem to have amazingly similar tastes and reactions to our dramas! ❤ And you are so right, it would've been more meaningful to have actually witnessed Min Kyu going home to the people waiting for him, rather than have that happen offscreen. They probably either ran out of screen time, or decided that they just really wanted the final scene to be the umbrella call-back kiss. I could've used an epilogue of everyone gathered in the house though! That would've been great. 🙂
PS: I literally went “awww!” when you wrote, “you did well.” Thank you 😘😘❤
Webby
Oh one more thing. IANAR has a hinted at depth that I wish they had explored more. It spoke to a human anxiety today about being replaced by robots/artificial intelligence.
I am not a robot – I, the human being, will and cannot be replaced by a robotic incarnation of me.
I am not a robot – I, the robot, am not just the sum of my mechanical parts, but the product of the human input that surrounds me.
I am not a robot – I, the robot, am only the vessel by which you humans express yourself, and your fears of a robotic future are only an extension of your awareness that you have not been good stewards of your intelligence.
I am not a robot – I, the human being, will not bow to those who would dictate to me, but instead rebelliously cling to illogical humanity.
Your post reminds me of Aji3’s amazing “Kaja Jib-e” at the end of episode 14 (I refuse to call it episode 28). When she was told she was going to be a military robot and her “job was being owned by a man” she just went, “stuff that!” and left. I loved it. That was one of my favourite scenes of the whole thing.
Agency – esp, female agency – was such a strong theme of this show but if a robot could be seen as a metaphor of the commodification of people then Aji3’s “Kaja jib-e” was such a powerful message of self-determination for people generally. Even a robot isn’t going to tolerate being treated as a robot for long.
I admit I was a little bummed they followed that up by scrapping her (!?). It was such a weird resolution to the whole thing. It’s the one plot point I didn’t like.
Yeah I liked that entire Aji3 arc a lot because it did have a lot to say about the general trend of thought about the future of intelligent systems. I like that it feels like the press is done scaring us about our pointless future against robotic overlords and is now thinking about possible synergies. Korea, with their national Go defeat against Watson, is probably contemplating exactly this issue, which makes IANAR’s gentle message quite lovely.
Hence the loss of Aji3 herself was felt, but maybe we can take a page out of WallE and Baymax’s resurrection scenes, and just figure – the next version came back better for the lessons learnt. :))
Just wanted to butt in here and say, the very fact that Aji3 wanted to go home, made it all the more tragic, that they killed her off. I DON’T UNDERSTAND, WRITER-NIM. WHHYYY?? 😭😭
So eloquent and so well-put, dear Webby! ❤ Yes, this show definitely had hints of depth, but those were basically gentle nods, and Show didn't delve deeper or go meatier. It's a pity, but I suppose the priority was to focus on the human relationships. One second thought.. perhaps they could've used the corporate setting to delve into these issues more, instead of the silly machinations we got instead.
mywebfoot (@mywebfoot)
Yeah! That would be a good place to have placed that story instead! Thanks again for the review kfangirl! See you around the interwebs!
Thanks for popping on by, dear Webby! HUGS. ❤ ❤ See you around somewhere soon! 😘
First of all… thank youuuu for the review. I know it’s been ages since I’ve popped up and that’s cause I’ve been k-MIA basically. No mood for anything and also no time.
However, I did marathon IANAR over a few weekends and I enjoyed it, in almost exactly the same bits as you and rolled my eyeballs practically in unison with you on the corporate intrigue bits. So meh.
But … I found the crab scene hilarious! It made me chuckle so. I have a thing so dumb scenes played straight I think. So were the early Aji3 – Kim Min Gyu Test scenes. The perfume-catch was pretty silly, as was the death by metal boob.
So on that bit we were a bit different! Still I am glad u caught IANAR and I got a chance to say hi again!!
Webby!! ❤ It's always lovely to see you around! 😘 I completely understand the lack of mood – and the lack of time! I'm watching far less drama now than before, but thankfully, the mood's in a reasonably good place. I find myself enjoying at least some dramas rather than none at all, so that's always a good thing! 🙂
Heh, that's fun, that you enjoyed the crab scene! I knew what Show was going for, and I was trying to get into it – but I failed miserably. I guess I wasn't in the mood? Lol. But I did find the early Aji3-Min Kyu test scenes rather amusing, so it wasn't all terrible for me, on the funny front! 😉
For me this show was a 9.5 out of 10. I loved, loved, loved it.
I thought it was so amazing I must have written 10 essays on it on various blogs and boards over the last few weeks. IMHO, it’s one of the best kdramas ever made and is definitely an early contender for ‘Best Show of 2018’.
I do (and will) have a few grumbles about the final episodes. It wouldn’t be a kdrama if it didn’t meander to its ending and I also didn’t like them suddenly retiring Aji3. I found it odd they were so determined to rescue her and then promptly scrapped. It was the one narrative decision they made that I didn’t like.
But overall this was one of the best TV shows ever written. The script, acting, direction and cinematography were all nearly perfect. Its use in particular of visual metaphor was so beautiful. It was so heartwarming but also extremely clever – nay genius. If anything, my issues with the final episodes are a product of its near-perfection. It built my expectations far too high for any mere TV show to meet.
The last few weeks have been such a rollercoaster of emotions for me. I’m so sad it’s over and now need to nurse my feelings for the next little low-rated nugget of perfect to obsess over.
PS: It wouldn’t be INAR without a reference to random Tilda hate. That became my favourite thing ever.
I believe I promised (threatened?) essays that I wrote along the way. You will now be in receipt of them…
Firstly, I find it very strange that anybody could accuse this show of misogynism. This show has to be the most feminist thing to come out of Korea – ever.
It reminds me of Do Bong Soon. Of course, that show got derailed by the OTP and didn’t follow through on some of the main themes. (It was a great OTP though). But before it threw those themes out the window, it was examining a lot of the same issues.
So when our show begins we have a much-older man entranced by a child who, when she has the audacity to show autonomy and break it off, builds an obedient, docile robot version of her. The scene where he first saw her she is particularly child like: dressed like a doll and enthusiastically eating.
Then we have a man who can only handle people he can completely control. He’s becoming obsessed with a robot girlfriend because he’s too scared a real woman will hurt him. His motivated reasoning at the beginning of the show was extraordinary and the whole ‘Pretty’ thing is just outstandingly sexist. There are some interesting articles on why A.I. is female and this is clearly referencing that.
On top of this, we have a brother whose success is utterly dependent on him receiving preferential treatment for being born a man. He gets angry at the female lead whenever he can’t control her and wields the financial advantage he has to force her to his will. The only time he’s seen to defend her is if he thinks her form is being appropriated by another man.
And all of this? Is in a show called “I Am Not a Robot” about a female object bought and sold and generally treated like a commodity.
And the female lead? Is definitely *not a robot*.
It’s genius.
I love your take on this, Dame Holly! 😀 You are so right, our female lead was ABSOLUTELY not a robot, and showed everyone so, during the course of our story. She was strong, creative, independent, and not afraid to stand up and speak up for what she felt was right. And so it is, that Min Kyu, who has every expectation that he’s receiving a robot designed to do his bidding, discovers that Ji Ah is SO much more, when he gets to really know her.
I’m with you, in not quite understanding the accusations of misogyny that were leveled at this show. I definitely remember smatterings of those sentiments on Twitter, though I didn’t pursue them. I rationalize that those were possibly gut reactions to the sight of Ji Ah being dressed up as Aji3, and required to do her master’s bidding. Once you put in the context, and once you understand the full story that Show is working to tell, though, I can’t see how anyone would insist that the show is misogynistic.
This is not an essay but I wanted to add to the feminism discussion (that I am mostly having with myself but, whatever!).
You mentioned the scene where Jia gets angry about the Professor telling Min Kyu not to touch her. I love, love, love that episode. Basically, every male spent the whole episode arguing over who would get to touch her or own her and it was only the female scientist who pointed out that the issue here was fraud. They were committing scientific fraud and is Min Kyu was being lied to.
Her conversation earlier in that episode with the Professor was so amazing:
Him: You don’t have to do this ( pretending to be Aji 3) if you don’t want to.
Her: Do you know this is the first time you asked me?
Me: Is the entire point. I mean, the guy built a robot with your face to obey him completely.
I also thought there was something really interesting going in with Ji A in that episode. That in a way she found the robot persona liberating. She could kiss the guy she clearly likes and then put it down to her programming. “Oh, this is the part where I was told we should kiss. So I will kiss you.” It’s like she was using the Aji 3 persona to be free of her social pressures and just do and say what she wants within a cultural framework that still frowns upon women making the first move.
Again, so true. Baek Gyun never even asked Ji Ah for permission to use her face for Aji3, come to think of it, which is a glaring big deal. If he’d had any awareness of respect for personal boundaries, he should have thought of asking for permission to use her face. But I guess if he’d done that, we wouldn’t have a story on our hands, heh.
Also, what an interesting observation, about Ji Ah finding the robot persona liberating! That’s basically her using the context that was created to confine her, to be strong, independent, and even romantically forward. Ha! I love it! ❤
Ji A’s hearts: An essay
Jia built her hearts while she was dating the Professor. They were designed to represent two hearts in perfect sync. The Professor didn’t treat her hearts with respect, which led to the end of their relationship.
It took four years after the break up, but she finally got the hearts working again, right before she met Min Kyu. She then submitted them to a competition run by his company and they saw the value in her hearts but Min Kyu shut the competition down. She then agreed to pose as the Robot in the hope that she could convince Min Kyu of the value of her hearts.
Her brother broke her hearts when he threw her out of his house. But then her ex-boyfriend finally recognised their worth and repaired them right around the same time that Min Kyu’s reinstated the competition to assess the worth of her hearts.
She entered her hearts into the competition and although they didn’t win, it didn’t matter because Min Kyu asked for her hearts anyway. He had both until he was finally ready to give her one so now she and Min Kyu both have one of her hearts, connected across time and space no matter where they are.
Just don’t ask me about Min Kyu’s house of cards because I don’t want to appear like too much of a crazy person…
I think that’s enough for today
PS I hate Tilda.
PPS I actually don’t but random Tilda hate is the funniest thing this show gave us.
Aw, I love how you’ve laid out the context for Ji Ah’s hearts, Dame Holly ❤ Now that you've laid out the map for it, the connections appear so clear and meaningful. 😍 It's also significant that all the men in this context eventually grow to appreciate and respect Ji Ah's hearts – the very hearts that they once scoffed at. Again, a nod to the feminist streak in this show. 🙂
PS: I really would love to hear what you have to say about Min Kyu's house of cards 😉
PPS: Random Tilda hate really is one of the funniest things to come out of this show. Considering how cringey Johnny & Tilda's arc was, that's quite the silver lining indeed! 😂
Dame Holly
I think Min Kyu’s house of cards is the show’s establishing metaphor.
He started building the house of cards when his parents died. By the beginning of the show, it was a castle that mirrored the castle he lived in, the giant facade he put between himself and the world. It was so huge that it blocked out the sunlight and the room he lived in was dark. When Jia arrived, she knocked down his house of cards. At first he was upset, but then he realised the hall was now bathed in sunlight.
And that’s the entire show right there. His life is a house of cards. She will bring it crashing down. It will be painful but in the end it’ll let the sunlight in.
Aw. Reading your analogy made me smile. Thanks Dame Holly! 😀 I love your thoughts on Min Kyu’s house of cards. It really is a great metaphor; thanks for unpacking it for us so well! I feel like if/when I rewatch this show, I’ll appreciate it more, after reading all of your lovely insights. 😘
Let me just state for the record, I am SO glad that you and your big love for this show are here, Dame Holly. ❤ Thanks for sharing all of your thoughts and insights, it really adds depth to the drama discussion on this page. There is no such thing as outstaying your welcome, ESPECIALLY if you're sharing such lovely insights and perspectives with the rest of us! 😘
Thanks for sharing all these lovely essays with us – now I'm gonna respond to each of them, coz you just can't lump all the thoughts and insights into one, now, can you? 😉
seankfletcher
Another great review! Yes, I enjoyed this show very much. I also think both leads have a great future ahead. And, did we see the three laws of robotics in action? Yes we did – A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm etc…
Hi sean! Glad you enjoyed the show – and this review! 😀 I absolutely agree, both Yoo Seung Ho and Chae Soo Bin are very talented, and I can’t wait to see more from the both of them 🙂
PS: That’s cool, about the laws of robotics! Thanks for sharing & pointing it out, coz I wouldn’t have known otherwise 😉
Thank you for your kind response. I am currently watching Misty (very, very good), Radio Romance (nicely done), Iron Ladies (one of the better Taiwanese dramas to come along of late), finished watching Spring Has Come (recommended) and just started BG – Bodyguard (which is the sort of Japanese drama I like). I also finished Mr Right (Chinese drama which was fabulous for the first 28 episodes and then lost the plot for the next 17).
Wow, you’ve been super productive on the drama front, Sean! 😀 I’ve been hearing excellent things about Misty, which hadn’t actually been on my plan-to-watch list. It’s now firmly on the list, thanks to all the raves I’ve been hearing! 🙂 I’ve already got Radio Romance on my list, and have now added Spring Has Come to the list as well.
I’m bummed to hear about Mr. Right, coz I was hoping it would be good. I was so taken with Jin Dong after watching the amazing The First Half Of My Life, that I was looking forward to seeing him in his next project, which was Mr. Right. Dang. I might dip my toes in for the first little bit, since you did say that the earlier stretch was good! If you haven’t seen The First Half Of My Life, I highly recommend it! 😀 | cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line2002 |
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Plato leads away from pole in race one on a wet and wild weekend at Silverstone. Image thanks to BTCC.
Silverstone provided us with another tumultuous BTCC weekend as Sunday’s changeable weather conditions set the stage perfectly for an enthralling day of touring car action. In the end, it was Tom Ingram who stamped his authority on the 1.6-mile Silverstone National Circuit as the Toyota Corolla driver won the opening two races of the season to give him a fighting chance of the title heading into Brands Hatch GP. To say Silverstone was action-packed would be an understatement. I’ve given my thoughts on the action in Silverstone Weekend Wrap.
Advantage Turkington Heading Into Brands Hatch GP
Whilst his championship lead was slashed after race two at Knockhill, it’s Colin Turkington who still holds the advantage going into the final race weekend of the season after 14th, 2nd and 7th place finishes over the Silverstone weekend. Coming through the rollercoaster weekend that was the Silverstone weekend unscathed would have required Turkington to draw upon all his years of BTCC experience, and a strong 2nd place in a red-flagged race two ensured him his first silverware since race two at Snetterton three rounds before. Given the strength of the BMW, it’s hard to believe that Turkington had gone eight races without reaching the podium.
Colin Turkington retained his advantage on a dramatic Silverstone weekend. Image thanks to BTCC.
Qualifying was always going to be a challenge with the weight in the car, and whilst Jordan and Cammish would close the gap in race one, it was Turkington who finished best of the trio in both the following two races to open up his points lead again. 16 points isn’t a huge amount heading into the final three races at Brands, but it’s a gap nonetheless and once which Turkington will have to do anything and everything to protect.
Separated by just one point, Dan Cammish and Andrew Jordan’s tense fight to be best of the rest came to a head in race two under the safety car as the pair banged doors on the approach to Brooklands. Whilst Cammish would finish the race in 3rd and Jordan down in 8th, Cammish was hit with a £1500 fine and three penalty points post-race, with strong words coming from both in the aftermath.
With neither driver having anything to lose in the Brands Hatch title finale the clash adds a fascinating subplot to the championship fight. Cammish’s two-year contract extension at Team Dynamics means his BTCC future is secure, whilst Jordan’s plans to stay on the grid for 2020 appear to be less than firm following PIRTEK’s unfortunate withdrawal.
Either way, I cannot wait for race one at Brands to get underway. 11th, 3rd and 12th place finishes for Cammish and 10th, 8th and 8th place finishes for Jordan mean that the pair both suffered challenging weekends, but the title fight isn’t over yet. Both will have eyes for one thing only, and that’s the #1 currently on the side of Turkington’s car.
Tom Ingram The Silverstone King
Tom Ingram continued his Silverstone win-streak. Image thanks to BTCC.
Tom Ingram’s record at Silverstone is nothing short of fantastic, and two race victories on Sunday bring his win tally to five in four years at the circuit. The Toyota Corolla has been quick at the fast-flowing circuits and Silverstone was no exception as Ingram passed Plato at Brooklands for the lead in race one, and then recovered brilliantly after losing the lead to Oliphant in race two following contact with Plato.
They were Ingram’s first back to back race wins in the BTCC, and they lifted him into championship contention going into the final weekend, with the Speedworks driver 61 points off the lead with 67 left to play for. Whilst mathematically possible, Ingram’s chances of a title in his first season as a works Toyota driver appear slim at best.
With a season of experience in the Corolla now under his belt, Ingram will no doubt be targeting the title in 2020. His consistency this year has been remarkable, and two race wins at Silverstone mean that everyone at Speedworks will head into Brands Hatch and the offseason with a spring in their step and a hell of a lot of confidence for 2020.
So Close Yet So Far For Jason Plato
Jason Plato in the thick of the action. Image thanks to BTCC.
Jason Plato’s first pole position since 2017 demonstrated the potential of the Power Maxed Racing Astra around confines of the Silverstone National Circuit, and for many JP fans, hopes were high for win number 97 on Sunday after a long wait since the last drink.
2nd, 4th and 6th place finishes across the three races mean that despite not reaching the top step, Plato’s Silverstone weekend was, in fact, a good one. He rose to 7th in the championship standings on 205 points.
Whilst a good overall package, the Vauxhall Astra hasn’t quite managed to keep pace with the likes on the FK8 Civic or BMW 3 Series in 2019 but Plato will take solace from the fact that after two disappointing seasons of finishing 12th and 27th in the standings, he looks to be back on the right track this year. He sits just 23 points behind Rory Butcher who occupies 6th and perhaps sweeter still, he’s ahead of both Matt Neal and ex-teammate Ash Sutton in the table, and 88 points ahead of teammate Rob Collard.
Standout Weekend For Team HARD
Jack Goff prevailed in a wild race three. Image thanks to BTCC.
Part of the BTCC fabric since 2012, Team HARD were rewarded for their commitment to the series with a fantastic Silverstone and a long-awaited first race victory. 2019 has been a tough year for Tony Gilham’s outfit, fielding four ageing Volkswagen CCs in a competitive field. But there can be no doubt that Jack Goff’s race three victory was fully deserved, and it will be a popular result in the BTCC community.
A smart strategy call to change to wet tyres when the rain came down was aided by the fact in a sense there was nothing to lose from making the move. Jack Goff held on superbly in a tight battle with Aiden Moffat to ensure he remains a BTCC race winner for the third year in a row.
Given a BTCC lifeline at the last minute, Goff now sits best of the Team HARD VWs in 21st in the championship standings just four points behind Senna Proctor. His cool head and experience were invaluable in helping Team HARD take their first race win. Michael Crees was another to take advantage of the opportunity to switch to wet tyres as he secured his best ever BTCC race finish of 9th in race three.
Truth be told, it’s unlikely that the Volkswagen CC will ever be a regular race winner in the BTCC again. However race three on Sunday was a brilliant reminder of what winning touring car races means to teams and drivers, and it was a just reward for everyone at Team HARD for their commitment to the BTCC.
The final round of the 2019 BTCC season takes place at Brands Hatch GP on the 12th/13th October.
Championship Top Ten After Silverstone
1 Colin TURKINGTON Team BMW 297
2 Dan CAMMISH Halfords Yuasa Racing 281
3 Andrew JORDAN BMW Pirtek Racing 280
4 Josh COOK BTC Racing 263
5 Tom INGRAM Team Toyota GB with Ginsters 236
6 Rory BUTCHER Cobra Sport AmD AutoAid/RCIB Insurance 228
7 Jason PLATO Power Maxed Racing 205
8 Matt NEAL Halfords Yuasa Racing 199
9 Ashley SUTTON Adrian Flux Subaru Racing 191
10 Tom CHILTON Team Shredded Wheat Racing 174
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November 9, 2019 Dale Palisoc 0
It has been 39 years since we last entered Overlook Hotel. It has been nearly 40 years since The Shining came out and the classic is still embedded in everybody’s head. Stanley Kubrick did a great job in adapting Stephen King’s novel, despite some controversy between the two creators. One’s taste did not match the other’s but as for us viewers, the film is such a classical masterpiece. So, this just raises the question: Should there really be a sequel? Honestly, if you ask me, I’d say yes. While the first movie was widely loved by many people, it was just a so-so for me. It was classified as a horror movie but I wasn’t scared, not even once! I saw it instead as a creative adaptation of family abuse. And at the core of the story, it truly is. The sequel to it, Doctor Sleep, changed my mind about the movie. It made me appreciate it even more as it dove deeper into its lore. So, Bingers, here is my review of Mike Flanagan’s Doctor Sleep.
Doc is Now Doctor Sleep
Do you still remember Danny and his iconic scene of biking around the halls of the Overlook Hotel? I bet the image of him running around his bicycle over the patterns of the hotel’s carpet is still fresh in your memory! Remember that because that boy is now a man. Danny, or Doc, is now Doctor Sleep. After escaping the trauma that he and his mother, Wendy, experience from his dad, Jack, at the hotel, he is now trying to live past it. But it is just not that simple to do! The movie graciously showed us their life after the events of The Shining. To an extent, it served as a refresher to those who haven’t seen the first movie in a long time. I particularly loved the casting for a young Wendy because she had similarities to Shelley Duval.
Rebecca Ferguson terrifies in Doctor Sleep. | The Little Binger | Credit: Warner Bros. Pictures
Doctor Sleep tried its best blend the past with the present, and even the future. In the first movie, we were just given an overview of the phenomenon called The Shining. To put it in layman’s term, the shining is a special ability that few people have. Think of them as the mutants form the X-Men! It has long been established that Danny is one of them and in the sequel, there are more of them.
Look for The Shine
For every prey, there is a predator, and that is where this group of a cult-like villains enter the picture. Rose the Hat (Rebecca Ferguson) plays this soon-to-be-iconic villain in Doctor Sleep. She heads the group of individuals who feeds off the shine of some gifted individuals. Their ways are ruthless and utterly terrifying. Fear and pain is the source of their life and feeding off innocent children is what they do best. Most of the film had them at the spotlight and I got no problem with it. Ferguson’s performance as the cunning and beautifully terrifying villain is such a joy to watch! To a point, I wished to see a movie just revolving around her group’s freaky ways.
Revisit Room 237 in Doctor Sleep. | The Little Binger | Credit: Warner Bros. Pictures
Doctor Sleep is a more than just a horror movie. It has a deeper narrative underneath its terrifying facade. It is, in fact, more about how the present generation fights to have their shot at leaving a mark and shining despite the older one’s attempts at stealing it from them and I think that’s beautifully relevant. The film has a rich story but even richer characters. It tells a story that not only will terrify you but will also leave you thinking about its greatness!
Director: Mike Flanagan
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Rebecca Ferguson
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Life from a libertarian perspective
by thenewliberty
Brexit case blown out the water by Brexiteer
More political legerdemain from Brexiteers: whoever this Tory minister is on Radio 4’s Today has just blown the whole raison d’etre of Brexit out the water.
Remember one of the reasons to leave is so that we can reduce bureaucracy? All that red tape that comes from the evil EU dictatorship that we have no say in (apart from the same elections that all EU citizens vote in).
Her: “Yes, we’ve agreed that we’ll need regulatory equivalence. But what about animal welfare, for example? We may want more rigorous standards – we can now do that and we’ll still meet the lower EU standards”
So we haven’t got rid of bureaucracy, we’re planning to increase it. (But that’s ok if it’s British politicians that rule us, not Johnny Foreigner.)
And we could have done this anyway within the EU.
And we could have lobbied for ALL the EU to follow those higher standards.
So we’re making it more expensive for our farmers to do business AND they’ll have to compete with EU farmers with lower standards and hence costs.
And the Tory government are trying to paint this as a win? That Brexit is still a good deal? How stupid do they think we are?
Oh, hang on… they know: 52% stupid.
Useful fools.
You’ve handed unrestricted surveillance and police powers to authoritarian May (or, soon, Corbyn).
You’ve given us MORE red tape.
We still have to agree to meet EU laws and standards.
You’ve not taken control of the border, as anyone in the EU can fly to Dublin, drive up the M1 to Belfast and get a ferry to mainland Britain.
And we’re paying MORE to the EU for the privilege of leaving.
You’ve been hoodwinked.
We told you so.
Brexit and Trumpism: standing on the shoulders of racism
So we awake this morning to another ‘surprise result’, the election of Donald Trump to the role of President of the United States of America. After the June 2016 referendum and 2015 General Election we in the U.K. should be acutely aware that polls can be wrong. Along with the ‘shy Tories’ who, against the odds, brought a Conservative majority parliament in 2015, and the vote to leave the European Union, we Britons have become acutely aware of the phenomenon of ‘hidden voters’; those who don’t answer polls or lie about their intentions.
However, this article isn’t about polls and how, in a close race, they can be wrong.The topic of this article is the primary reason that the UK voted to leave the EU and why Trump will soon be President of the USA.
And that reason? Racism. Pure and simple.
Both the campaign to leave the EU and Trump’s election speeches led on immigration: “Take back our country” and “Take control of our borders”.
This may be why so many polls were wrong: people were embarrassed to admit to their views. Many claimed they wanted to bring back law-making ability to the UK parliament – though ironically these same people are now planning to march on the Supreme Court, like some heavy-handed lynch-mob, to try to wrest the law-making role of parliament away and give it solely to the unelected executive.
The fact that a significant number of voters had racist intentions is evident by the dramatic rise in racist hate crimes in the U.K. since the referendum. The racists who despised the fact they weren’t allowed to openly harm others suddenly felt vindicated. Cries of “go home” and worse are more commonplace for people of colour and anyone identifying as a Muslim. These are the people who won the referendum, and now they feel that 52% of us are with them, but just too spineless to be honest.
Trump’s openly bigoted and racist assertions about Mexicans and Muslims have uncovered greater hidden racism in the US.
We have moved into dark times. In 2016 the ‘western world’ has become a nasty, illiberal and dangerous place. In June the UK voted against free movement of people and capital; yesterday the US did the same.
This isn’t due to a ‘resurgent right-wing’ in politics, as I often see claimed. There are many on the ‘left’ who openly (and discreetly) supported Brexit, though they hid their dislike for foreigners behind their protectionism of the indigenous populations: Corbyn was on record for his dislike of open borders and the EU; Gordon Brown, while Prime Minister, campaigned using the slogan “British Jobs for British Workers”. Similarly Trump’s success relied on the votes of the American working class who have seen jobs lost to China and elsewhere. Ironically Trump is actively supporting the same dislike of ‘globalisation’ (read: free-ish markets) as the anti-capitalist protesters who make fools of themselves at G12 summits and on their hilarious “Million Mask March”. Even more ironically is that the protesters wear masks made in China and Trump has his branded clothes made in Mexico.
And this is not a reaction to the rich political class, as many claim: Farage is a career politician; Trump is a billionaire businessman.
These ‘leaders’ are collectivists. They want control of ‘their’ patch of the planet and don’t want others entering that they don’t like. They abhor the free movement of capital and the free movement of people. They abhor liberty.
Nineteen Eighty-Four is here. Did you even notice?
Between the totalitarian leanings of our rulers, using the threat of terrorism to ramp up surveillance while simultaneously abandoning the rule of law, and the cries for censorship of the individual by the neopuritans, Orwell’s dystopian vision of Nineteen Eighty-Four is in place. We didn’t heed his warnings, and the state used his book as its strategy:
the government plans to enact a law that gives it the right to look at all your electronic ‘metadata’, so it can see who you’ve called, your web searches, etc. “If you have nothing to hide them you’ve nothing to fear”: Orwell’s ubiquitous ‘telescreen’ operated by the omniscient Big Brother.
the government bombs countries that even its own parliament has denied it the power to, thereby abandoning the rule of law.
the government promotes its wars on terror and war on drugs. It aids this by telling us daily, via its press releases and briefings, who we have to hate: currently this is ‘immigrants flooding into the country unchecked, because of the EU’. Orwell predicted perpetual war and the daily two minute hate.
the language we use is being controlled, words we use are being banned, even thoughts are being outlawed. If we offend someone with our words on a subscription service we can be reported to the police and prosecuted. Orwell predicted the idea of ‘thoughtcrime’; this is now a fact: people are in prison for writing words on a forum where readers have to actively choose to read them.
the government tells us that debt is too high whilst simultaneously increasing debt, that it is fighting for our freedom in the ‘war on terror’ whilst simultaneously reducing our freedom, that we need to save money by reducing wage rises whilst giving itself inflation-busting pay rises. Orwell predicted ‘doublespeak’, where the state can convince the gullible populace of two contradictory views simultaneously.
the government uses your worst fears to promote its agenda. You’re not able to afford healthcare or support yourself in your old age? The state can help you there. Afraid of terrorists? The state can help you there. Worried your children will be uneducated? The state can help you there? Unable to choose which vendor is honest? The state can help you there. Whatever your worst fear, the state has its solution. Orwell predicted that the state would use your worst fears against you to promote your compliance. This is your personal Room 101.
Nineteen Eighty-Four is here.
You don’t see that?
2 + 2 = 5 Comrade.
The Justification of the modern State
When we voluntaryists declare that the state is an immoral coercive authority we are challenged usually with the argument “but without the state the weak would be at the mercy of the strong”.
As voluntaryists we care about the coercion of the weak by the strong more than most would, and so we sympathise with this predicament, we would still say that the coercive power of the state is worse: the cure is worse than the ailment; if the answer is ‘the state’ then you’re asking the wrong question.
But let us assume for the moment that a coercive power has been enacted as an agent ‘of the people’ by a substantial minority of its subjects, and without this coercive power the poor would be abused, robbed, libelled, evicted, or even imprisoned, raped and murdered.
Ignoring the positive rights that many infer on the modern state, let us assume that protecting the weak from the strong is the sole justification for a ‘legitimised’ coercive power, such as the modern state.
So shall we review the current situation in the UK?
Legal aid has been effectively withdrawn from many of the poorest people, thereby enabling the ‘powerful’ to ride roughshod over their rights. At the same time habeas corpus and double indemnity have been withdrawn;
The libel laws in the UK prevent anyone but the richest from starting, or more importantly winning, a court case;
Many of the poorest are subject to sub-standard education reducing their life options, provided with little or no useful career guidance, and condemning them to the dead-end jobs at best, or worse: a life on benefits;
The ‘poor’ suffer higher effective tax rates due the application of VAT and ‘sin taxes’ on ‘luxury purchases’, such as fuel, tobacco and alcohol;
Many of the poorest are left with few legitimate career options and can end up convicted of victimless crimes, such as prostitution, drug use (with associated theft) and drug dealing. Once imprisoned they struggle to break out of the vicious circle of imprisonment, release and recidivism;
Recent historical cases have shown that many in power have raped and potentially murdered young children with the state covering their tracks for decades.
In light of these examples it should be obvious that the modern state is not protecting the weakest from the strong; in fact in the last example it is doing the complete opposite.
Hasn’t the state proved itself to have breached its only justification for existing?
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Who will build the roads? We will.
[This was written as a speech and delivered at Libertarian Home in September 2014]
I’ve spoken and written before on the topic of ‘the road to liberty needs a strategy’. I’d like to elaborate on this topic with some subsequent thoughts I’ve had. All libertarians accept that we want to reduce or remove the state, so how do we get to that libertarian nirvana; or at least closer to it?
There is no simple answer.
Murray Rothbard said:
“Only liberty can achieve man’s prosperity, fulfilment and happiness. In short, libertarianism will win because it is true, because it is the correct policy for mankind, and truth will eventually out.”
Whilst I agree with the sentiment I don’t think it’s as easy or inevitable as Rothbard imagined. I don’t believe that we can currently win against the state and its supporters solely via political means. The state has too powerful an incentive to relinquish its existence, and the people are as yet unconvinced of its inherently violent nature.
As Macchiaveli said:
“It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institution and merely lukewarm defenders in those who gain by the new ones.”
As I’ve said before there’s no point getting involved in political parties – they’re corrupt and still require taxation, which is ultimately obtained through the threat of violence. And in a democracy they rely on hoodwinking the electorate, buying them off with money stolen from us.
Instead I propose a multi-faceted approach to achieve our libertarian society, utilising anti-political and entrepreneurial economic methods. Some of you may say that I am proposing an agorist approach towards achieving a libertarian society, as described by [Samuel Edward] Konkin III in the New Libertarian Manifesto. Well, while I see some advantages in this approach as a strategy, I am personally closer aligned to Rothbard’s vision of anarcho-capitalism. And I am definitely not going so far as to propose any of the currently-illegal counter-economics tactics that J Neil Shulman introduced to Agorism! Getting into a violent confrontation with the state would not be advantageous; at least not at this stage while it is so powerful.
The first facet of my approach is education.
We can, and should, educate the public about the dangers of the state and how we believe that liberty is the best philosophy for the human race. But how successful is this approach? In the UK the IEA has existed since 1955 and the ASI since 1977; yet they haven’t brought about any discernibly radical change in the thinking of the electorate. In fact a recent (11 May 2014) YouGov poll showed that 60% of respondents wanted rail renationalised compared to 20% who didn’t. Of those who supported renationalisation only 21% thought the trains would then run on time and 22% thought customer service would improve. How has the pro-market argument been lost so badly when less than a quarter of people who want trains renationalised think it will improve the service???
This is shocking!
People are happy to buy innovative or inexpensive products that only the free market can create, yet they want state-owned railways and more NHS?!
Fellow libertarians, we are losing this debate!
We need to educate with facts – we must always take the debate back to empirical evidence of why the market is better than the state. We must destroy their claims with that evidence and thereby expose their ideas as empty rhetoric and lies. For example, almost any scare-story that Ed Miliband brings to the forefront of debate is quickly dismissible with evidence (e.g. his blathering on about “irresponsible capitalism”). We know we have the stronger moral argument: a state based on violence cannot be more moral than a free society built on consent.
However, it’s not enough just to educate, we need to do more than win the debate: we need to encourage people to think differently about the state; we need to alter their perception of it. People need to start questioning the state’s motives and see that its actions are not for the greater good as it claims. To do this we need to control the language of debate, as the statists previously have. This way we can break people’s mental adherence to statist language and encourage them to think about how they are controlled by the state.
We should start by always refer to the state as requiring violence to enact its will, point out that if it couldn’t rely on violence then it would fail. We should always talk about taxes as penalties and benefits as subsidies. We should criticise the concept of tax as indentured labour, and especially criticise sin taxes and their impact on the poor. [For example, of a £12 bottle of spirits only £2.10 goes to the entire value chain – whereas £9.90 goes to the Exchequer. We need to show how sin taxes disproportionately affect the poor, and how most taxes fall heaviest on the poor and working class.]
Most importantly we need to create disillusionment in the state and its agencies.
You only have to look at the news to find cases that we can talk, blog and tweet about. We should adopt the outrage that statists stir up for our own ends – as the underlying cause of their latest campaign-du-jour is often state failure, not market failure.
power prices – affected by state restrictions, climate levies and pricing controls;
rail pricing – affected by state monopoly of the infrastructure and regionally franchised (outsourced) to the highest bidder;
crime – affected by state criminalisation of victimless crimes (10,000 out of 84,000 prisoners were in for drug-related offences; 20,000 in for robbery, burglary, theft & handling);
youth unemployment – exacerbated by the national minimum wage;
bankers’ bonuses – government bailout of banks which market would have let fail;
hedge funds – how they increase value, not destroy;
finally, holiday prices outside of school terms – state distortion of the market caused by treating schools as prisons and pupils as prisoners; etc.
I propose that we should always use current affairs as a focal point, enabling us to frame the debate around liberty versus the state. Where possible we should utilise contemporary news stories to talk about how evil the state is. We can discuss these on social media, in conversations, in blogs, etc.
For example, recent UK news stories that are appropriate include:
Ashya King – taken from NHS by parents to get the treatment they want for him, and are prepared to sell their home to pay for, but were subjected to arrest and imprisonment because they dare to question our national religion of the NHS;
Rotherham – police and council ignore or cover up 1,400 cases of child abuse.
And internationally:
Police brutality – in the US the murder by police of Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri;
The plight of Gazans – innocent people being killed in a dispute between two bloodthirsty states (and both were democratically elected, if you want to demonstrate that democracy <> freedom);
State surveillance – Snowden’s leaks: revelations to some, no surprise to many of us.
Other historical stories, but still in the public consciousness:
Hillsborough – police cover up their incompetence with lies and falsified statements;
Bloody Sunday – British army gun down peaceful protesters;
Ian Tomlinson – unlawfully killed by Met Police during G20 protests;
Jean Charles de Menezes – innocent electrician executed with seven shots to the head after police had held him down and first evacuated a crowded tube train; incidentally, did you know that their shoot-to-kill policy is still in place?
All the above cases can be utilised to demonstrate the power of the state and the fact that it’s only there to protect itself and its agents. Finally, dismiss democracy wherever possible and don’t engage with it. Tell people that you don’t vote and they’ll always respond with “then you have no say”. This is easily countered by firstly pointing out that a bad decision made by millions is no more morally right than a bad decision made by one, or a thousand. Secondly, you can point out that by voting they’re validating 5 years of incompetent and interfering political decisions. They cannot complain as they participated in the election and so implicitly support the winner, whether they voted for them or not.
The second facet is taking action. Talking alone won’t change anything
While it’s very enjoyable, there’s no point sitting month after month, talking about the differences between agorism, voluntaryism, anarchocapitalism, Georgism, objectivism, etc., if nothing comes out of it.
We need to act if we want this new society – nobody else will do it for us.
Marx and Engels may have sat in a room and wrote their philosophy without personally doing anything about enacting it, but the people who did so could see the power they could grab; with libertarianism there is no power structure, so no incentive for power-hungry politicians. We want to liberate people – so to provide for them with alternative market solutions we rely on entrepreneurs. They will be our agents of change…
…and, in fact, they already are. But I’ll come on to that shortly.
So how do we build a strategy to actively undermine the state? The answer is through acts of resistance and even civil disobedience.
Here are a few example ideas:
police the police (there are many accounts on Facebook, Twitter and even YouTube that expose police brutality and their ignorance of the laws they claim to be upholding);
attend council meetings, film them and blog about them;
expose corruption and incompetence of any public officials you encounter (note: Private Eye is great for this);
FoI requests (remarkably easy, though often resisted by the challenged organisation);
object to legislative in writing at the Green Paper consultation stage;
use encryption technologies for communication;
Support human rights organisations in their fight against state oppression of the individual;
Sit in on public enquiries and blog/tweet about them;
write letters to newspapers – blogging doesn’t provide as wide an audience;
withdraw from paying for the TV licence;
protest on the streets or via petitions (against the latest war, etc.);
tax resistance – potentially costly though.
Though these actions will help us undermine public confidence in the state and win the moral argument, people will still primarily care about all the things that affect them – health care, benefits, etc.
So that brings me onto the third facet…
The third facet of my proposed approach: let’s build the society that we want.
Let’s do it ourselves.
Rather than try to change the state let’s make it obsolete.
WE need to identify private solutions and publicise these. There are many existing services that replace the state systems that we complain about. And those services that don’t exist we need to create.
Let’s look at a few examples:
Health care.
One of the most common complaints about the NHS is getting to see a GP, especially in crowded urban areas. As the price of consulting a GP is currently zero, and supply is limited, there is always over-demand. This causes service rationing, demonstrated best by waiting lists.
However, there are alternatives:
Technology is making remote care possible over videoconferencing services. For example the US firm MeMD offers an instant consultation for $49.95.
There are many primary health care providers in the UK offering private consultations for as little as £70 for 15 minutes.
Most interesting however a new subscription method of medical care is emerging in the US called concierge medicine (aka ‘retainer medicine’ or ‘direct care’). Simon knows more about this topic than me, having written several articles on it, but a quick Google search and I found ‘My Healthcare Clinic’, based in south London. A £25 per month subscription provides you unlimited 20 minute appointments and an annual health examination.
The great thing about this service rationing is that charging for GP appointments is back on the political agenda. This will instantly make all the above services comparatively less expensive, thereby encouraging more people to go outside the NHS. There is already a large market in UK residents travelling to have surgery in cheaper countries, such as those in the former eastern bloc.
Most insurers offer better schemes for serious illness and death than the state schemes, we should be encouraging people to investigate these more;
Friendly Societies still exist and as mutual societies provide all of their profits back to their members.
Many trade unions offer benevolent funds for hardship cases, as well as many other excellent member services. Some examples from Unite include free legal and financial advice, credit union facilities for the ‘financially disenfranchised’ and a tax refund service. (Unions suggesting their members utilise legal tax avoidance? Surely not!)
There is one challenge in withering the state: how do we unwind the Ponzi scheme that is ‘national insurance’ and pensions within the ‘welfare state’? This will concern many who wrongly believe that they have paid into some fictional pension scheme. This isn’t easy to answer, but it’s an important answer if we are to progress. Interestingly, the coalition government has implemented legislation that requires all but the smallest employers to force all of their staff into contributory private pension schemes, albeit with low contributions initially. However, this could be seen as the first small step towards removing state pensions for all but the poorest.
Whilst private education is still prohibitive (except for children of MPs, and prospective MPs, and MPs), there is an alternative that many parents have utilised: home education. This has become increasingly popular in general, but particularly with libertarians. Also, with the advent of the internet, there are now many primary, secondary and even tertiary education courses available for free online now.
There’s even a Facebook support group called The Libertarian Homeschooler.
Who will build the roads? Entrepreneurs will. You may have read about the private road in Kelston, near Bath – the local council closed a road causing a 14 mile diversion. This increased fuels bills and travel time for thousands of commuters; an entrepreneur (Mike Watts) has built a private road and charges £2 per journey.
Avoiding state licensing and monopolies of taxis has been recognised as beneficial to customers and Uber was founded with this in mind. However, some states are fighting back – it has recently been banned in Germany.
States that issue their own currency can constantly devalue it; this is a hidden tax that most don’t recognise as such and never get to vote for or against.
As many of you know there has been an explosion of private or ‘cryptocurrencies’ in recent years as stable technological solutions become available: Bitcoin is but one example of these. Interestingly I was recently reading the European Central Bank’s October 2012 document entitled ‘Virtual Currency Schemes’ and was pleased to see the invention of Bitcoin credited to the concepts of the Austrian school. There was even a sidebar mentioning Mises and Hayek, a footnote mentioning Rothbard and a reference to Hayek’s 1976 publication ‘Denationalisation of Money’. HMRC has even recognised Bitcoin this year, albeit primarily to tax transactions.
So those are some easy areas; how about the really difficult areas where even the various strands of libertarianism frequently disagree, such as private policing and private courts?
There are already many private alternatives to courts, such as arbitration and mediation. For example, family law solicitors advise that you should first attempt private mediation to negotiate financial divorce settlements rather than go to court, as it’s faster and cheaper. In employment matters there are many arbitration services, including ACAS, that an employee, employer, customer or supplier can utilise. In fact The London Court of International Arbitration is one of the world’s leading international institutions for commercial dispute resolution and currently hears 300 commercial cases per year.
This is always a difficult area, as many imagine policing to just be limited to the uniformed thugs you occasionally see after a crime has been committed. But surely preventing crime is better than solving it afterwards?
The first of the nine principles of good policing, as defined by Sir Robert Peel in 1829, is crime prevention. Police judge their success by the number of arrests they make, whereas the public judge their success by the absence of crime; this is a fundamental difference.
So how do you deter crime?
My business office is fitted with an alarm that is connected to a manned security centre 24 x 7; it costs £230+VAT per year, whereas just to be issued by the police with a unique reference number for our alarm service costs £40.51+VAT. Did you know that there are 330,000 private security staff in the UK compared to around 132,000 police officers? Increasingly in recent years residents are clubbing together and procuring private security guards to patrol their streets. I found a company called 1st Class Protection which has many contracts for protecting residential streets in London. In one publicised example seventy residents across five streets in St. John’s Wood have clubbed together and pay £1,000 per annum each for a patrol service.
As you can see there are already many private alternatives available to state services. We need to encourage use of these services, as they contrast well against the state’s poor services. Its inability to provide the assistance that it uses to justify its existence will just make more people discontent with having taxes extracted from them. And where private alternatives don’t already exist then why don’t you invent them? Are there any gaps in the market that you can think of that can undermine the state? If so then why don’t you create a service to fill those gaps?
So why aren’t you helping? How can you help personally?
Most importantly, be an entrepreneur: they are the only ones that can create a society based on libertarian ideals. We need to out-deliver, out-manoeuvre and out-compete the state; only private business can do this. If you don’t feel you can effect this societal change personally, then at least investigate and use alternatives to state services. If you find that these services are good then publicise them widely. It all undermines the perception of the state as mankind’s saviour and provider.
My proposed strategy is threefold:
Firstly, educate people as to how consensual market solutions are better, and that the state can only adversely distort the market;
Secondly, undermine the public’s confidence in the state by exposing its corruption, violence and other failings;
Lastly, show them examples of how the market can and does provide better solutions than the state.
In his book Civil Disobedience Henry David Thoreau said:
“I heartily accept the motto,—“That government is best which governs least;” and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which I also believe, —“That government is best which governs not at all;” and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient.”
So are we libertarians really prepared for that kind of government, the one that governs least?
2014 is the 70th anniversary of the publication of Hayek’s ‘The Road to Serfdom’. Instead of travelling along that road to serfdom we should start building the road to liberty.
Our liberty.
Who will build that road?
We will.
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Conflict Time Photography: A Review
I recently attended an exhibition at the Tate Modern called Conflict Time Photography, which I think is worth a visit for any followers of this blog. It is an exhibition of photographs and artefacts from conflict, with a clever twist: they document the period following the conflict under discussion. As such they vary from photographs taken minutes after the atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima, through to 99 years after World War I soldiers were executed in a field by their own compatriots. There are many haunting photographs, though few thankfully are particularly gruesome.
The exhibition is cleverly laid out. It starts in a room called ‘Moments Later’ which features photographs such as the haunting picture of a shell-shocked Marine, taken during the Vietnam war, as shown below. The photographs each feature a caption which explains the context.
Shell Shocked US Marine,
The Battle of Hue 1968.
© Don McCullin
As you progress around the exhibition you come further forward in time from the featured conflicts, until you end up in the last room, ’85-100 Years Later’. This room features four photographs taken in 2013 of the execution sites of deserting World War I soldiers.
There are many conflicts covered, including:
World War II, including the devastation of Dresden, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, the Normandy defences and the holocaust
The war in Lebanon
The first and second Iraq wars
The Cold War, including the partition of Berlin
The exhibition documents the aftermath of the worst of human atrocities against fellow humans, from the use of indiscriminate bombing of civilians (Dresden, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Aqa Ali-Khuja, etc.) through to targeted genocide in Bosnia.
This video here narrated by Dan Snow gives a brief tour of the exhibition, which is on until March 15th at the Tate Modern. It is a depressing experience, but I urge everyone to go to see it.
The only criticism I have of this exhibition is that it ignores the elephant in the room: the state. Violence by individuals or gangs cannot rival the state’s ability to wage war against local or foreign populations. This exhibition is really a testament to the violence that the state’s authority is built upon. This is demonstrated by the photograph below, which shows a devastated Dresden, where around 25,000 people perished in the bombing raid and subsequent firestorms.
Dresden After Allied Raids, Germany 1945
© SLUB Dresden / Deutsche Fotothek / Richard Peter, sen.
As Kurt Vonnegut’s famous experience in the fire-bombing of Dresden is used early in this exhibition, as well as becoming the basis for his famous book Slaughterhouse Five, it is fitting to use the sign-off he used on texts and essays for the rest of his life:
Liberty League’s Freedom Forum 2014 – Day One
For the second year I’ve attended the Freedom Forum, Liberty League’s conference (aimed at students) based in London. On day one I attended three excellent panel debates:
Technology – setting us free or hiding the chains: this was chaired by Marc Sidwell of City AM (THE libertarian newspaper – worth a read). Many technologies were discussed including encryption technologies, such as PGP, and Bitcoin. The key thought that I took away from this debate was that no matter what technologies we introduce to evade the state’s interference, it is but a temporary reprieve, for the state will simply outlaw or neutralise that technology (e.g. laws around encryption keys needing submitting to law enforcement agencies, closure of Silk Road, etc.). I have some thoughts on this, which may become a future article (or even a start-up!)
The Welfare Debate – should libertarians support a welfare state? This was an excellent, if somewhat fractious, debate. It comprised speakers from across the libertarian spectrum, ranging from the bleeding heart libertarian approach to the hardcore objectivist. The viewpoints ranged from the Citizen’s Basic Income to a return to voluntary and contributory methods, such as friendly societies, trade unions, etc. While I am sympathetic to the pragmatic aims of the CBI advocates I have yet to be convinced that this approach won’t simply distort the market and create new moral hazards (and ultimately it still requires taxation of some description, whether a sales tax or Land Value Tax).
The lifestyle freedoms debate: should victimless crimes be punished: This was a lively debate chaired by Chris Snowdon and comprising a panel of a former-Chief Constable, a porn star and a ‘radfem’ (Julie Bindel). The cases for drug legalisation, pornography and prostitution were put forward by the first two panelists, and then Julie Bindel spoke against prostitution. Sadly her contribution to the debate was the usual Marxist-style rhetoric, complaining that “prostitution is like any other capitalist exploitative industry”. Her case appeared to be that although she “didn’t want to ban anything” she did want to remove the choice of sex work for those from lower socio-economic groups or anybody that may have been abused in the past.
I look forward to today’s sessions. Look out for tweets with the hash tag #LLFF14.
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__label__wiki | 0.798446 | 0.798446 | With Project Eirini, Cloud Foundry Adapts to a New Open Source Ecosystem
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4 Apr 2019 11:15am, by Alex Williams
The days of Cloud Foundry’s youth are behind us. That much is apparent at the Cloud Foundry Summit in Philadelphia this week. Now comes the continuing transition from an open source platform for launching 12-factor apps to one that respects its roots but continues to expand with Project Eirini, a Kubernetes backend for Cloud Foundry that deploys Cloud Foundry apps to a Kubernetes backend, using OCI images and Kubernetes deployments.
Described on GitHub as an “Orchestrator Provider Interface” (OPI), Eirini can be used to translate run-time instructions written for Diego, the scheduler built for Cloud Foundry, so they can be understood by Kubernetes. Eirini is built as a backend scheduler with an API that abstracts away orchestration from Cloud Foundry’s control plane. It can work with any scheduler, be it Diego, Kubernetes or Docker Swarm. At its core, OCI embraces the concepts of Long Running Processes (LRPs) and Tasks that maps to orchestrators. Currently, this means support for Kubernetes. Other orchestrators may be integrated as long as there is an implementation of the OPI layer for the target platform.
Eirini was originally developed by IBM, which showed a use case in a Cloud Foundry Summit keynote by Jason McGee and Briana Frank.
IBM developed #ProjectEirini to manage and extend #CloudFoundry services within #Kubernetes environments. Now supported in @IBM's enterprise @cloudfoundry distro. — @jrmcgee, @FranklyBriana #CFSummit pic.twitter.com/BUBxZ8ZpK5
— The New Stack (@thenewstack) April 4, 2019
At the Cloud Foundry Summit, Eirini is the center of attention. It reflects the change and adaptation that has come as member organizations mature and develop their developer teams. Vendors are adapting to the changes that have come as open source communities have become the epicenter of application development. The change is an external one for all involved. The communities develop the technologies that developers then use to build modern applications that use multiple services in what we generally know as a microservices approach.
Cloud Foundry Building the Future
The Cloud Foundry Foundation has had to adapt over the years, especially as open source technologies such as Kubernetes have received such attention. Cloud Foundry leaders will often like to talk about how Kubernetes is hyped. They make their point that it’s not always new and shiny that’s needed. Customers at Fortune 500 companies need the basics for their growing developer teams. A 12-factor app is still complicated enough for organizations new to continuous integration and continuous delivery. The antidote has historically been to provide professional services to help members build out their teams and begin the process of at scale development, deployment and management.
Pivotal, the leading CF provider, has built a platform that uses a pair programming model to help organizations build developer teams. The company’s approach is popular with customers such as Comcast, which have used the model to move beyond its scope as a cable television provider to multichannel entertainment provider.
The Comcast story: Making the transition from a telecom operations company to a technology and a product organization and now a company focusing on the customer experience. Customer experience stems from “happy developers” who build the technology and the products. #CFSummit pic.twitter.com/g6Eg8sOgH5
— Alex Williams cfsummit (@alexwilliams) April 2, 2019
And so the discussion continues over the future of Cloud Foundry. And its direction. But it’s not just about Cloud Foundry any more, It’s how Cloud Foundry interoperates with different runtimes, cloud services, schedulers and orchestration engines. Kubernetes may get a lot of attention but its future is also questioned, enough so that even with Kubernetes enjoying such wild popularity, customers still want Diego to be alive and well.
Cloud Foundry is used by about half of the Fortune 500 companies such as Comcast, Liberty Mutual and Home Depot. It is alive and well even if it is not the “one” platform that it used to be.
It’s absurd to believe that there is just one platform anymore. It’s also absurd to focus on the hype of one platform when there are so many other services that are dependent upon each other. CF had to adapt to this new world and so have its customers who have long depended on Diego as their scheduler of choice. But Diego is tightly bound to CF and the shift, as it has been for years, is for more loosely coupled architectures across distributed systems.
Still, the concern about shifting away from Diego is real. Developers have traditionally used the Cloud Foundry API (CAPI) to push their code to their apps. Further, Diego is critical to platform operators who use Diego to monitor the application, its resiliency and a host of other factors.
But the reality is that economics are deep at play. No one company can develop the software. They just don’t have the manpower to build, deploy and support a technology stack and then sell it for hundreds of thousands of dollars. It’s too expensive for them and developers have too many options available.
For open source communities, it’s also a matter of economics. Organizations like Cloud Foundry have to adapt to meet the needs of their community and large vendors such as Pivotal that are dedicating engineers to the project.
And the users themselves? For the sponsors of The Cloud Foundry Foundation, such as Comcast, the focus on developer tooling has brought upside.
Cloud Foundry and Pivotal are sponsors of The New Stack.
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__label__cc | 0.665846 | 0.334154 | Lenzing Group: VEOCEL™ Introduces Eco Cycle Technology To Drive Circularity In Nonwoven Applications
MIAMI, Fla./LENZING, Austria — March 26, 2019 — Lenzing Group today announced the introduction of Eco Cycle technology under its specialty nonwoven brand, VEOCEL™. Eco Cycle technology is a testament to the Veocel brand’s commitment to driving sustainability and circularity in the nonwoven industry. The technology involves the upcycling of a substantial proportion of pre-consumer cotton scraps, e.g. from garment production, and mixing with sustainably sourced wood pulp, to produce pure new virgin Veocel branded lyocell fibers for nonwoven applications.
“Since the inception of the Veocel brand, we have been pioneering the development and application of sustainable nonwoven technologies and applications. Eco Cycle technology encompasses our commitment to providing the industry with sustainable raw materials and driving circularity in the nonwoven industry ecosystem. Promoting circular economy will be a key strategy of the Lenzing Group in the long run. Eco Cycle technology will enable us to a bold new step in driving the discussion of circularity of natural botanic materials in the ecosystem,” said Jürgen Eizinger, vice president of Global Business Management Nonwovens, Lenzing AG.
Eco Cycle technology leverages Lenzing’s award-winning efficient closed-loop production process to produce virgin Veocel branded lyocell fibers with upcycled pre-consumer cotton scraps and wood pulp from sustainable sources. The process recovers more than 99 percent of the solvent and water in a closed loop and repeatedly feeds it back into the production process. This results in extremely low levels of emissions and absence of optical brighteners in the Veocel branded lyocell fiber production.
“Produced using an environmentally friendly and sustainable process, Veocel Lyocell fibers are certified clean and safe. With Eco Cycle technology, these fibers for nonwoven applications offer nonwoven roll-good manufacturers a convenient way to contribute to the circular economy without the necessity to engage in mechanical recycling which possibly produce harmful byproducts and emissions. This holistic approach enables us to set new benchmarks in circularity,” Eizinger added.
Veocel branded lyocell fibers have been certified Biobased® by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Blending Veocel branded Lyocell fibers with other fibers adds a greater degree of smoothness and absorbency to nonwoven fabrics, and will significantly improve the liquid absorbency in wet wipes, offering a more convenient way to clean surfaces.
Editor’s Note: Lenzing’s lyocell fiber production does not involve any optical brighteners. The cotton scraps used during the closed-loop production process enabled by Eco Cycle technology are in dark colors where optical brighteners are not needed. Hence, optical brighteners do not exist in the white-color lyocell fibers produced using cotton scraps and wood pulp from sustainable sources.
Source: The Lenzing Group
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We Shot the Messenger and Seat 11E
The whole thing started with a red-haired guy being in 11- E – which was my seat – on a flight to Vancouver. This dude had a friendly face and told me to take the seat beside him, because someone was in his and the attendants would work it all out. Ergg, I was already frustrated because I had just left the book I was immersed in, about staying in your creative zone (news flash: turn off your cell), at an airport coffee shop. As the plane lifted into the early winter sky I heard the guy tell the woman to his left that he had a company called Creativision. What? Creative what? My ‘a synchronistic thing is about to happen instinct’ was tingling. His name was Shawn MacDonell and he gave me details about his company @_creativision sparking my curiosity. Shawn has the gift for releasing your story from you in a simple manner and soon it was me telling this stranger in 11 E enough about my family of six for him to catch-up to me in the luggage area and say, you and your kids should have a web site. People like stories like yours.
We all thought it was a fun concept but who would have thought that wrestling everyone into agreeing to a name would be such a huge biggest hurdle. That alone made us realize that www.weshotthemessenger.com would require a whole lot of familia give and take, and devine amounts of patience.
Life is funny, right? The people that we seem destined to meet come to us in novel ways. I must have told Shawn in 11-E about Text Me, Love Mom; Two Girls, Two Boys, One Empty Nest – my book about that stage of life when you switch from taking care of a bunch of rambunctious, hungry, lovelorn teenagers in your home – to instead longing for their attention, or guiding their insane mishaps as they stretch out into the world alone. But over that pack of teeny pretzels and a peppermint tea I yakked more about how those four kids were now all in some way or the other involved in the arts, which led him to suggest the web site for our “genetically intertwined media group”.
Rose, my youngest daughter, had a childhood dream to be a singer, her brother, Levi, aspired to be the person at the drive-through window who gets all your money, her brother, Kyle, imagined being a stuntman as a kid, and my eldest daughter, Shea, was an artist from the moment she picked up her first purple crayon. Click, click, click into the present and the would-be singer is a photographer; the McDonald’s window guy performs stand-up comedy and writes for film, the stuntman became the guy filming the stunts, and is now a filmmaker, and the eldest, well, she never really changed. They all thought the web site was a compelling idea, (er – I think they did – nothings easy-peasy with five bosses) but in the mean time we hired Shawn and Creativision to push us to define our goals and to create fun promotional tools on earlier projects.
Fast forward three years and finally the web site exists. My kids are an independent lot and work solo or with artists in their chosen fields, but remarkably they do come together – even across long distances to share ideas, applaud new creations, boost each other’s brave artistic egos and have been able to collaborate occasionally – the best of these was a daring comedic film, Disabled and Dangerous, written by both Levi and our funny friend, Barry Varga, to raise funds for ALS, which Barry has since fallen victim to. Kyle and his company filmed the short comic movie, Shea did storyboards and Rose, Levi, and I mobilized a community of stunning volunteers. Their dad acted in it (quite valiantly) and was an executive producer.
The kids (aside for supplying me with two-hundred pages of ‘Oh my God, she’s/he’s where? Doing what?’ in Text Me, Love Mom, also made hilarious promo videos for the book. Shea painted the wistful cover and Rose flattered me with her photograph for the back. Rose takes photos for all of us when asked, Levi writes scripts for Kyle, Shea storyboards for the guys, we must all be part of Levi’s stand-up muse. Babysitting Shea’s little girls so that she can make art, also results in a lot of art, though the little girls and I do not have dramatically different levels of raw talent. It all goes round and round in a whirl of cooperative artistic nepotism. Shea says, that even when we’re busy on our own projects, We Shot the Messenger’s purpose is so that they can cross-pollinate. Need a photographer? Check out my sister. Want to see Vancouver’s funniest comic – you gotta see my brother? Looking for a film maker? Turns out I have this other brother. Need a mural? A painting? Or the most unique grownup colouring book? I have an older sister. And our mom – she wrote a book about the bunch of us. You have to see the ABOUT page and the BIOS. We’ve each independently worked out how to assemble a website over the years, but this one was put together by Shea because she’s the easiest of my children to bribe into doing things. I just dangle a night without her darling daughters under her nose, and bam, look who shows up in my kitchen ready to work.
It took forever and a day to come up with the name – www.weshotthemessenger.com Click on CONVERSATIONS in the menu to read that wild funny ride. It will give you a feel for the stubborn, comedic, annoying, love we bounce around. The site will grow, it’ll change, we’ll argue some more, I’ll post dumb mom things and risk being booted out. Like us on the www.facebook.com/weshotthemessengermediagroup/ and follow us on Instagram @weshotthemessenger and twitter @weshotmessenger. It’s been a delicate operation, encouraging my kids to create all this, because actively endorsing something taints it with uncoolness. But they’re not afraid to shoot the messenger. As long as I’ll let them mock me every step of the way, they’ll take an idea, and run with it.
*a gazillion thanks to the guy I married, who stands behind us all.
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Rian Johnson Might Make Another Original Movie Before Returning To Star Wars
Discussion in 'SWNN News Feed' started by SWNN Probe, Sep 16, 2019.
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While Lucasfilm announced Rian Johnson's planned Star Wars trilogy ahead of the release of The Last Jedi, the scheduling of the project hasn't been clear, and it's been revealed by Disney CEO Bob Iger that David Benioff and D. B. Weiss's first movie will arrive first, in 2022. So, in a more recent update, Johnson confirms that it will be a while before he gets back into writing and directing Star Wars, and that he may write and direct another movie before it comes out.
Talking to The Evening Standard while promoting his original murder mystery film Knives Out, Johnson explained that Lucasfilm is currently figuring out how to schedule their next set of Star Wars movies after this December's The Rise of Skywalker. As mentioned above, the first post-Skywalker Saga film planned to release is set to be produced and written by the team behind Game of Thrones, and that's still three years out, so Johnson has noted that he thinks that there's enough time for him to fit another original movie into the mix before his script has to be finished:
'The truth is they’re still figuring out their schedule, their game plan, so if it’s possible for me to squeeze in another film before or while working on that, I will.'
Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy reaffirmed plans for Rian Johnson's trilogy at Star Wars Celebration Chicago in April. While there has been speculation that Johnson could exit the project and someone else may take over due to The Last Jedi having a divided response with Star Wars fans, it's been largely unfounded with relation to Lucasfilm's actions - perhaps even more so after Game of Thrones had a substantially more divided reaction to its conclusion than The Last Jedi and Disney's CEO publicly reaffirmed plans to keep them involved.
Currently, Lucasfilm have reserved three Star Wars release dates: December 16, 2022, December 20, 2024, and December 18, 2026. Rian Johnson's first movie is likely to arrive somewhere between the first and last listed dates. Given that Disney have not scheduled many films past 2022, it's also possible that there may be other potential dates for Star Wars movies that are not yet scheduled. It's unlikely, however, that there will be Star Wars movies in the Decembers of 2021, 2023, 2025, and 2027, as those are all reserved for more movies in James Cameron's Avatar series. After Avengers: Endgame and Deadpool 2 ate substantially into Solo: A Star Wars Story's business, it's unlikely that Disney will want to position any of their future superhero tentpoles next to Star Wars spin-offs - and it's also possible that Memorial Day weekend, typical release date real estate for Star Wars prior to Disney's acquisition of Lucasfilm, may be better suited for other movies going forward. Thanksgiving and Christmas release windows may just be the best course of action for the galaxy far, far away.
Outside of the realm of Star Wars, Rian Johnson's Knives Out has done well for itself in terms of reviews after its screening at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival. So far, it has a 100% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes with 51 reviews, and an average score of 8.53 out of 10.
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#1 SWNN Probe, Sep 16, 2019
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I'm happy the Knives Out reviews are positive! I'm not sure how I feel about another film before Star Wars though. On one hand, if he has the time and an idea, go for it! That movie and Knives Out might help cleanse out the sour taste TLJ left some fans.* On the other hand, I'm really excited to see what Rian has in store for Star Wars moving forward. Either way, film fans should be pleased.
*assuming they'd be forgiving enough to see Knives Out or this hypothetical movie in the first place.
#2 Use the Falchion, Sep 16, 2019
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From a personal, selfish point of veiw, I'd like the RJ trilogy to arrive sooner rather than later; I'm SO looking forward to this! From a rational point of view, however, I'm more than fine with him doing other non-SW stuff before the SW schedule gets around to the RJ trilogy. One learns stuff and pick up tricks every time one creats something, which can be applied to future projects, so RJ would likely find cool things for his SW trilogy while working on another non-SW film. Go for it man! And most important of all, I hope RJ has some fun
#3 Angelman, Sep 16, 2019
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"bUT rUiN's cArEeR iS rUiNeD aFtEr tHe TLJ!" Some troll.
#4 Andrew Waples, Sep 16, 2019
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Andrew Waples said: ↑
Always when I see things like that, I try to find a somewhat hidden meaning behind the use of upper/lower case, but
neither "brs cre i rie atr te!" nor "UT UN AER S UND FE H TLJ!" make any sense to me.
#5 Meister Yoda, Sep 16, 2019
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I’d like to consult with those engineers who have done such a magnificent job lessening the lean on the Tower of Pisa. The monument was reopened to tourist this month after engineers used cables to relieve its struggle with gravity by 17 inches.
We need the help of these engineers because we have a Christmas tree that is also vertically challenged. We got it in one of those after-Christmas sales. You know the kind of sale where they take everything they marked up 200% before Christmas and cut it by 50% after Christmas. That means you finally pay what the ornaments were actually worth.
But, this tree is worthless because it haunches over to one side. I tend to blame it on my wife who wraps the tree in more lights than Mickey puts in his Light Parade and she blames me for not reading the assembly directions.
But, over the years, I’ve learned how to compensate for the tilt. It all hinges on the star. If I hang the star just right, the star serves as a counter weight to keep the tree straight. It always hinges on the star.
The new reality this year is that we all have a little tilt in our tree. It was put there as we saw the first of the twin towers begin their fatal lean and try as we might, and deny, as we will, that no Grinch, Scrooge or terrorist can take away Christmas, our tree still seems to be tilting. Is there something that we can hang on our Christmas this year that will alleviate the tilt we feel in our souls?
What about the star? Can we suspend a star over our dark desert of grief and find our way back to the manger? Over 2000 years ago the baby served as a counter weight to right a crooked world. Can the Baby bring hope again today?
With their cries and their coos, babies have a way of piercing the darkest of nights. In the hospital you often hear babies crying. But a cry that was heard by hospital staff on one particular night had no mixture of cooing.
Labor and Delivery nurses reported to Child Services that some parents were screaming at their newborn son to stop crying. Withdrawal pains from the alcohol ingested intrauterine caused this child to herald his arrival to anyone who would answer his cry for help.
The social workers that responded recognized the parents as frequent flyers. Multiple birthing was no problem with this couple because they did not consider parenting or procreation something to be undertaken in a sober manner. Each time they had a child removed for foster care, the parents replaced it with a new birth.
The parents did not desire reunification or intervention, but since initial reports originated from the hospital, the baby would get mandatory intervention. In fact, it was during an early intervention visit to the home that a social worker observed that the boy was “failing to thrive” and needed emergency shelter.
The workers call it “failure to thrive” because the baby was lethargic and not responding to stimuli. It was the worst case of “failure to thrive” they had ever seen and he was transferred to an emergency foster home and not expected to last the week.
But like one of those thumbnail sponges that respond to moisture by growing 100x their size, this little boy responded quickly to the love and touch of a caring home. At the end of the week, he no longer needed the intense care of an emergency home and he was transferred to a wonderful Catholic family for long-term foster care. He remained in the foster home for 15 months until a judge finally terminated the rights of the birth parents and declared him adoptable.
We first heard this story from a social worker eleven years ago when he came to our home during Advent to herald the good news that gave us great joy! Prior that year, we had applied to become adoptive parents and now our Christmas wise man had come to our home as a state social worker to tell us about our new baby boy.
Not long after that meeting, lawn signs and balloons decorated our house as the foster parents tearfully pulled into our driveway. After 20 months of going through the social system, this baby would be a little bigger than most, but had been nourished and fostered by two of the bravest parents I have ever met. As they placed our new son into our arms, I could almost hear their heart exploding from the loss.
God’s heart must have responded in a similar way as he turned over his son to an adoptive family – Joseph and Mary. But the plan was going to be about a baby – it has always been about a baby – and God sticks to his plans.
Our tree is tilted, our world is changed, but Christmas is still about following the Star of Hope to the Babe of Peace. It is still about following the hopes and dreams that shine from that star to become reincarnated in the heart of every newborn baby.
I’m not into bumper sticker theology, but there is an old bumper sticker that best summarizes it best – “Wise men still seek Him.”
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GolfBy Jay Rigdon on December 15, 2016 December 15, 2016
Tiger Woods officially signed a deal to play and endorse Bridgestone balls this week, but that’s a deal that has been in the works for some time. Tiger had to switch, since Nike was no longer going to be producing balls. Bubba Watson, though, is leaving Titleist for Volvik, a Korean company known more for its presence on the LPGA Tour.
This is certainly fascinating, as Volvik is a niche brand, and certainly possesses nowhere near the market share of Titleist and their trademark ProV1 line.
I've been told that Bubba will no longer be playing a Titleist ball in 2017, and will be playing Volvik colored balls. Can't make this up.
— No Laying Up (@NoLayingUp) December 13, 2016
No clue what Titleist is paying Bubba, but I’m told he’s getting $1 million from Volvik. Bizarre to jump ship on Titleist at that price.
In addition to the report from No Laying Up (also first to report that Tiger was going to be playing Bridgestone balls), a South Korean newspaper reported similarly after that:
The JoongAng Daily in South Korea is reporting that Watson has agreed to a deal to use Volvik golf balls starting next month. The Korean ball manufacturer mainly has been used on the LPGA Tour and is best known for golf balls it produces in a variety of colors. And that might be the perfect fit for the two-time Masters champion.
Watson for years has used a driver with a pink shaft and pink club head. He also wears different colored golf gloves. Shin Dong-hwan, president of Volvik USA, told the newspaper that Watson suggested using a pink golf ball for the final round of tournaments — and maybe even a green ball at the Masters.
Watson’s agent did dispute that, but only by calling it an unsubstantiated rumor, which is definitely not the same thing as a denial. What’s great about this, though, is the idea that Bubba is so enamored with the idea of color coordination that he is willing to switch balls, moving away from the ball that he’s played throughout his career, which has included 9 PGA Tour wins since 2010, including two Masters victories.
Whether he’ll take a performance hit or not, he’s opening himself up to a world of criticism. Imagine the firestorm of jokes if he slaps a green ball into the water on Masters Sunday.
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In cities all around the world, women face limitations in their everyday lives. How can public life be made more safe, how can women’s voices be heard more? Since 2012, ElsaMarie D’Silva has created change with Safecity, a crowdsourced mapping platform in India, Kenya, Cameroon, and Nepal to help report and stop abuse on city streets.
Vienna has been listed as the most liveable city in the world. When interviewed, some of the residents said that they live a high-quality life and can walk all over the city without fearing for their safety.
ElsaMarie D’SilvaShe is a BMW Foundation Responsible Leader
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ElsaMarie D'Silva has been focussing on women and youth empowerment in the area of gender-based violence. She is the founder and CEO of Safecity that crowdmaps sexual harassment in public spaces. D'Silva is a 2018 Yale World Fellow, a 2015 Aspen New Voices Fellow, and a member of the BMW Foundation Responsible Leaders Network.
Some years ago, Vienna decided to introduce gender mainstreaming to create a feminist city. Surely, we are seeing the results of this effort.
Every day, women and girls around the world are subject to sexual harassment and abuse as they go about their daily routines. They are catcalled, touched, groped, stalked, and stared at. Age does not matter, and nor does religion, caste, class, race or any other differentiator including body shape.
In my line of work, I speak to women and girls about their experiences and most of them, no matter the country, have a story to share. A journalist in Argentina recalled how she was stalked on the way to the library at the age of thirteen and ended up giving up her library sojourns as she didn't want to deal with the problem.
My visually impaired interpreter in Argentina told me how a man followed her and masturbated on her, making her really scared.
At the recent Paris Peace Forum, I held a workshop on “Women Friendly Cities” and a young woman from Berlin told me that she does not think the last mile connectivity from the metro to her house is safe.
Some pictures from our pitch session at the @ParisPeaceForum. Our members @eirliani and @elsamariedsilva presented to a full house. pic.twitter.com/pa5cQhYjlk
— Global Diplomacy Lab (@diplomacy_lab) November 12, 2018
Once she was followed by a man who had been drinking on the train, and on reaching her house, he smashed a glass bottle on her door. Thankfully, she had already entered her apartment, but the incident left her shaken.
In Mumbai and Delhi, the newspapers are full of stories of women experiencing such violations on a daily basis.
According to UN Women, one in three women around the world experience some form of sexual violence at least once in their lifetime. Around 80% choose not to report to any official authority. Indeed, there is a silence around the issue that makes it difficult to talk about it, report it, or call it out. Even on Yale University’s campus, where I am a World Fellow, according to the university's Campus Climate Survey of 2015, 72% of women who experienced sexual assault were reluctant to report it.
This lack of data further perpetuates the silence and invisibility of the issue. Even though everyone knows it is happening, there is no urgency to address it.
That’s why I co-founded Safecity in 2012. It is a crowd map for sexual violence in public spaces and it aims to bridge the data gap. We have collected over 11,500 personal stories.
Why does this issue matter? Women and girls constantly make adjustments to their behavior because of sexual violence: they make themselves smaller in public spaces in order to not draw attention to themselves, they dress in oversize clothing, they try to become invisible and often take longer routes.
They return home early so as not to put themselves at unnecessary risk, take more expensive transport options, preferring private vehicles over public transport, and limit their opportunities. Their self-esteem is constantly battered and their fear in public spaces prevents them from living a quality life.
In many countries, the ratio of men is higher than that of women, resulting in fewer women out in public, especially late at night.
This further creates anxiety as women stand out and may be more at risk for being attacked. While not all men are perpetrators, many certainly are silent bystanders, which further perpetuates this cycle of insecure cultures that puts the onus of women’s safety on the woman rather than society.
"Would it make a difference if there was a feminist outlook on urban planning?"
ElsaMarie D’Silva
Would it make a difference if there was a feminist outlook on urban planning? Would it make a difference if there were more gender-balanced representation in urban planning bodies, civic government, transport boards, and police forces? Would it build confidence in women to report but also make policies more inclusive?
It is a well-known fact that women and men experience cities differently. For example, street lighting is known to play an important part in the perception of safety for women and girls. Having adequate lighting can dramatically improve the feeling of being safe.
Similarly, the Broken Windows Theory of having well-maintained and clean infrastructure can also be a positive factor. Another set of action plans may center on creating effective support systems, such as responsive helplines, sensitive police, fast-track judicial systems, safe shelter homes, and gender-balanced policies.
These can create an environment conducive for women to take more risks and push boundaries, safely.
In dark streets, women often feel unsafe when they walk alone. Masashi Wakui
Many women avoid public transport because of possible harassments. JC Gellidon
The latest McKinsey & Company study states that advancing women’s equality can add $12 trillion to global growth. My country, India, could add $700 billion of additional GDP in 2025 if it improved women’s equality, upping its annual GDP growth by 1.4 percentage points.
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But the report indicated that comprehensive change including safety for women is needed before this can be achieved and that it would require bridging both economic and social gender gaps.
Girija Borkar, an economist, estimated that women in Delhi were willing to spend about $290 more per year for safer means of transport.
This economic cost burden might explain the low labor participation of women in India. I am curious to explore these topics in the upcoming BMW Foundation Global Table on Feminist Leadership for Resilient Cities in Udaipur, India.
Hopefully, we will identify concrete solutions that can be implemented to truly enable women and girls to participate more fully in society and live a quality life.
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Six people, including Puerto Rico’s former education secretary, were arrested in a sweeping corruption probe in which it’s alleged that they steered federal funds to unqualified, politically connected contractors, federal officials said Wednesday.
The FBI arrested former education secretary Julia Keleher, former Puerto Rico Health Insurance Administration head Ángela Ávila-Marrero; businessmen Fernando Scherrer-Caillet and Alberto Velázquez-Piñol, and education contractors Glenda E. Ponce-Mendoza and Mayra Ponce-Mendoza, who are sisters, on fraud and related charges.
“It was alleged that the defendants engaged in a public corruption campaign and profited at the expense of the Puerto Rican citizens and students,” Neil Sanchez, the special agent in charge of the U.S. Department of Education Office of Inspector General’s Southern Region, said in a Wednesday news conference. “This type of corruption is particularly egregious because it not only victimizes taxpayers, it victimizes those citizens and students that are in need of educational assistance.”
FBI AGENTS RAID SAN JUAN GOVERNMENT OFFICES AS PART OF INVESTIGATION INTO FRAUD, CORRUPTION
Federal agents escort former Puerto Rico Health Insurance Administration head Ángela Ávila-Marrero, who was arrested in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Wednesday. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)
The alleged fraud involved $15.5 million in federal money spent between 2017 and 2019. Keleher’s education department spent around $13 million during her two years as secretary. Another $2.5 million was spent by the insurance administration when Ávila-Marrero led the agency.
Officials said Velázques Piñol illegally used federal money to pay for lobbying, and improperly used contacts in the education and health insurance agencies to win contracts. Ponce-Mendoza worked as Keleher’s assistant; both her and her sister were friends with the former secretary.
Keleher is accused of steering contracts toward her friends without going through regular procedures.
PUERTO RICANS ACCUSED OF MISUSING $8M IN FUNDS
FBI agents escort businessman Fernando Scherrer-Caillet. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)
“It’s a shame because there is a lot to do for Puerto Rico and the people accused here profited from this, they sought to benefit their own personal interests and did not think they could help or that they were in a position to help Puerto Rico,” said Rosa Emilia Rodriguez, the U.S. attorney for Puerto Rico. “It’s embarrassing.”
Officials said there was no evidence that Keleher or Ávila-Marrero profited from the scheme. Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rossello was not involved in the investigation.
He was returning from vacation in Europe to meet with lawmakers about the investigation.
In a tweet, he said the “allegations against the people arrested today are a shame.”
Keleher’s tenure as the island territory’s education secretary was marred by criticism over her proposed expansion of charter schools and the closing of hundreds of schools after Hurricane Maria.
The island has been plagued by allegations of corrupt officials misusing funds in recent years.
“It’s a shame that we see this type of scheme, one after another,” Rodríguez said. “There’s much work to be done in Puerto Rico. … This is the type of case that’s been seen so much, involving federal funds, and it’s shameful.”
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Posted by Pointman on May 18, 2017 · 52 Comments
If you look at the political headlines lately, the press and TV are really running two stories to the exclusion of all else. The first is Trump firing James Comey as FBI director. It’s a bone they just can’t let go of but most people aren’t too interested. Comey stopped having the trust of the FBI rank and file last year over his refusal to prosecute Hillary, and after most people watched his slippery testimony to congress, he didn’t enjoy their trust either.
If Bill Clinton can fire his head of the FBI, there’s no reason why Trump can’t do the same. At the end of the day as with all senior government posts, there are no jobs for life and you “serve at the pleasure” of your president. Comey was hopelessly compromised by the Obama regime. When you and the people have no trust in the highest law enforcement officer in the land, you fire him. It’s as simple as that. His behaviour since has vindicated that decision.
The Democrats blamed him and the Russians for them losing last year’s election and have been howling for his dismissal ever since. Within twenty-four hours of Trump firing him, they were protesting about his unfair dismissal. Like Steve Bannon said, Trump’s true opposition is the media.
The other story is about Trump divulging military secrets to the Russian foreign secretary. Why on Earth he should do such a thing, the press have yet to share with us. Despite all the five people present at the meeting declaring this to be fake news, the story rages on. Will it dominate the current news cycle? Yes. Will it harm the Trump presidency? No.Why won’t it harm Trump? Because the pattern of the false news is apparent to everyone.
First of all, the lying press invent a story based on the information supplied by always anonymous sources. Then, on the same day, all the rest of the media pick up on the story and run with it as headline news presenting it now as established fact simply because they’re all reporting it. As if on cue, the Democrats become outraged and denounce Trump as being nefarious or incompetent depending on whether he’s being accused of being a traitor or an idiot. Not too far down the line, the story proves to be 100% false, but no retraction is ever made, and anyway by that stage another fake news story has been manufactured and the cycle begins anew.
I’ve said before that Trump doesn’t need the legacy media since he communicates to his voters directly using social media, but what he does need is for their current level of juvenile behaviour to continue, and for two very good reasons.
The first is the same reason he didn’t fire Comey on the first day of his administration; that would have looked petty and vindictive. Instead, he left him hanging out and dangling in the wind for months until he’d thoroughly discredited himself, because the average viewer watching him in the hearings knew he’d bent over backwards to prevent charges being laid at Hillary Clinton’s door that would have left anyone else but her facing serious consequences in a court of law.
In the same way, Trump is not minded to interfere in the media throwing one invented accusation after another at him. What’s actually getting eroded is any residual trust in them, and at some point he’ll carry out his threat of cancelling the daily White House briefings.
Then they’ll have to live on his scraps of press handouts, tweets and his weekly White House briefing to America, plus the usual fake news backed up with the usual fake anonymous sources. That’s his longer term thinking about the media, and they’re certainly cooperating Lemming-like in their own eventual destruction. By the time he eventually pulls the plug on them, few tears will be shed over their effective demise.
The shorter term reason for letting them carry on as they are, is that while they’re busy compulsing on one or two manufactured stories, they’re not reporting at all on what Trump is actually up to, and he’s making so many changes it’s difficult to keep track of them all, but they all share one common denominator; they are all aimed at rolling back the excesses of the Obama regime and restoring respect in the offices and institutions of government that Obama subverted.
Part of that rollback has been in public and to some extent or another has been covered with the usual howls of pain by the media. Because Obama couldn’t get what he wanted done past an elected Congress, he resorted to rule by diktat otherwise known as executive orders. Trump, from his first day in office, and as promised on the campaign trail, signed masses of executive orders to reverse most of Obama’s executive orders. What the Obama regime forgot was that anything enacted using an executive order, can just as easily be struck down by simply signing another executive order.
He appointed a man in charge of the EPA who’s busy cutting it down to a fraction of its size under Obama and rolling back all the regulations that were used to cripple industries such as coal mining and which would never have got past elected representatives of the people. The other very public rollback he did was replacing Obamacare with something more financially viable, and that’s a bullet he could have easily avoided.
The whole scheme was heading for collapse anyway, and in some ways it would have been more politic to let that happen so he could swoop in and fix the problem to popular acclaim, except that the people at the bottom of the economic pile would be badly hurt by it imploding. He has a genuine concern for them. If he has a vulnerability, that’d be it.
Domestically on the jobs front, he stopped the hemorrhaging of jobs to cheaper offshore locations by promising import tariffs on any of their goods being brought into America. On the foreign imports issue, he’s picked a fight with Canada over subsidised timber which should stay safely jammed up in a commercial court for years to come while in the meantime he levies a charge on Canadian lumber. He’s making an example of one exporter to America but no doubt won’t hesitate to make a second one should that become necessary.
By the end of his first term, I can see America out of NAFTA and possibly later the WTO, since its membership in both of them hasn’t been doing it any favours for a long time. Economically, Trump’s priority is America and American workers; it starts there and it ends there.
The other big area he had to address was the shambolic foreign policy mess left behind by Messrs Obama, Clinton and Kerry. With the simple expedient of dropping fifty-nine cruise missiles on Assad’s air force and destroying twenty percent of it, he let the world know that the good old days of any old ragged-assed tinpot dictator thumbing their nose at America were over from the minute Barack Obama dragged his sorry ass out of the White House.
Assad made the mistake of assuming that since he was under Russian protection, Trump wouldn’t give him a slap. Obama would never have done it because he was afraid of Putin who’d humiliated him on several occasions, Trump isn’t.
On the diplomatic front, Obama laid some poison behind mainly directed at Israel. Like a typical left-winger, he’s pro-Islam and anti-Zionist, which is liberal speak for hating Jews. Anti-Semitism seems to be an endemic disease of the liberal Left these days.
In the last days of his presidency he could safely show his true colours and directed Kerry to get Israel into difficulties at the UN as well as immediately funneling $200M of taxpayers’ money to the Palestinians. No doubt whatever was left after the usual off-shore accounts had their cut will be used to kill Israeli civilians. Why any American-Jewish association still contributes a red cent to the Democratic party is beyond me.
Since Trump has at least three Jewish grandchildren and had a reputation of being fair with both Jews and Blacks long before he got into politics, he didn’t have much trouble healing that rift. Perhaps it also explains why he’s moving the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem? Nice one Obama, the law of unintended consequences strikes again because that’s an implicit recognition that Israel owns that city and is there to stay.
In the interregnum when Trump was president-elect, Obama and the Democrats tried substantially the same poisoning of the well with Russia, but since neither Putin or Trump would fall out over such a childish neo-McCarthyite narrative, it’s since fizzled out of its own accord under a barrage of complete indifference to anyone outside the Washington Beltway or the legacy media.
Apart from those highly visible areas, the rest of Obama’s legacy consists of nothing more than various disconnected odds and ends that beyond having a feel good factor to be spun to massage his over-fed ego, never amounted to anything of note. If they aren’t patently doing some good, Trump will either ditch them or starve them of budget.
However, in my opinion Obama left a darker legacy behind and this is what Trump is addressing under cover of the legacy media massively fixated on gnawing its own hind legs off in a forlorn effort to get him removed from office.
Obama corrupted and brought into disrepute the grand offices of state. He actively encouraged federal bureaucrats like the IRS to suppress political opposition. He manipulated the judicial system by not only installing stooges like AG Lynch in it, but by packing the lower courts with judges of a liberal bias. He suborned the intelligence services to conduct illegal domestic surveillance of political opponents on a scale that I think has yet to become apparent.
He starved the armed services of budget and threw the cop on the beat onto the mercy of savages like BLM who had his tacit support murdering policemen responding to emergency call outs. Instead of the much hoped for bringing together of all the people of America irrespective of their colour, he became the most racially divisive president America has ever had.
In short, the Obama regime did nothing but corrupt and debase the government, judiciary, law enforcement and intelligence services of America and now that damage is being undone by Trump.
He gave little or no support to the police, instead opting for a light-touch approach to law enforcement by encouraging his congressmen to support elections of liberal police chiefs who were quite happy to enforce the law or not, dependent only on who was breaking it. That’s the reason left-wing antifa hooligans could riot in Berkley, attack people indiscriminately and destroy private property while the local police stood by and watched because they’d been ordered to stand down.
To compound his complete disrespect for policemen, he never once denounced their murder by organisations like BLM who actively encouraged luring them into lethal ambushes using phoney emergency calls. His final fuck you to law enforcement was to free over 300 drug dealers using presidential pardons as he left the White House. Obama used presidential pardons on 1,715 occasions, more than the previous 13 presidents combined, with the vast majority of them conferred on drug dealers. Note, drug dealers, not drug addicts. Someone really needs to look into his activities as a “community organiser” in Chicago.
Obama’s more than lax attitude to drug dealers wasn’t anything new to either law enforcement or state attorneys. He had instructed his Attorney General (AG) Eric Holder to relax sentencing on drug related crime by doing things like withholding details of amounts of drugs being carried by the dealer when they’d been arrested, thereby not automatically triggering mandatory minimum sentences.
He made it hard to catch drug dealers, and then when they were tried and found guilty, they did slap on the wrist jail time because of state attorneys constrained by what they could say when it came to sentencing using AG Holder’s new guidelines.
Trump was left with a huge morale problem he’s diligently addressed by doing simple things like never missing a photo opportunity with a bunch of cops, phoning the widows of officers killed in the line of duty, inviting surviving family to party rallies and most recently instituting a police memorial day to acknowledge those killed or injured on the job. The simple things like showing some support and seeing the White House lit up in blue are all part of building up morale again.
He’s still got a way to go on fixing that problem, but at least most policemen now think they’ve got a friend in the Oval Office, rather than an implacable enemy relentlessly determined to undermine all their efforts.
Trump’s AG Jeff Sessions has recently abolished Holder’s guidelines, much to the satisfaction of both law enforcement and prosecuting attorneys, who are battling what’s called the opioid crisis across America and need to put drug dealers away for as long as possible. Obama’s hometown of Chicago is the poster boy for that crisis and also suffers from a huge rise in the attendant number of homicides and shootings that come with a drugs blight on any community.
In any light, Obama bending over backwards to go easy on drug dealers is inexplicable. They rot the heart out of any community. By the way, most of those drugs are coming over the border from Mexico, which is why Trump wants the wall.
That’s not the only bit of tinkering Obama did with the judiciary. In 2013, the Democrats removed using what’s called Reid’s Rule, the filibuster from the process of the president appointing people to both the lower courts and federal positions. Essentially, Obama used it to pack the lower court with judges who were seen to be sympathetic to his liberal views on crime amongst other things. If you thought a whole judiciary couldn’t be politically rigged, think again.
Trump and Sessions have already started counter-packing the judiciary to rebalance it, and with more than a 100 appointments to be filled and more opening up each day, the Democrat’s Reid Rule has come back to haunt them and is now very much working in Trump’s favour.
To underline what eight years of administrative tinkering with the wheels of justice can do, Judge Neil Gorsuch after being newly appointed to the US Supreme Court, looked at the petitions being presented to him by the court’s cert pool of law clerks with an attached recommendation to grant or deny. He very quickly and to his surprise found out they were in too many cases making that recommendation not on points of law but political leaning. He immediately dispensed with the services of the cert pool and hired his own clerks to pre-process the petitions.
The military, after nearly a decade of micro-management from the White House, are just loving the change of working for Trump. Your orders are quite simple, gentlemen – kill ISIS. You need more budget? Yes Mr. President. How much? Probably north of $40B. Here’s $64B extra, go git them.
They knew the change was there from the first week onwards, because they rang the White House late at night to get permission to drone a high value target and expecting the usual hours-long delay while a target of opportunity slid off the radar. After he’d gotten out of bed he raged at them “You’re supposed to be good at killing terrorists, do it, you don’t need my permission every time” and that’s how a new relationship between Washington and the military was struck.
What also came out in last year’s presidential election was that election fraud seems to be a business as usual activity for the DNC. Though this was well known, the undercover filming done by James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas of activists doing things like bussing people in from neighbouring states really revealed how widespread it was.
The cynical old aphorism, vote early, vote often and even the dead can join in too, very much reflects the current situation in polling booths across America.
To give you some idea of how endemic this problem is, in Wisconsin the Democrats lost an estimated 300,000 votes in the presidential election when a voter Id law was passed just before it. The conservative foundation Judicial Watch recently put 11 states on warning to clean up their voter registration lists or face a federal lawsuit; they all have counties with more voters on their books than they have residents eligible to vote.
About a week ago, Trump established by executive order a Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity the details of which you can find by clicking the previous link which’ll take you directly to the White House announcement. The days are numbered of America having the most lax voter Id rules in the world, and knowing Trump he’ll chivvy that commission along in order to get something in place by next year’s mid terms. I have a suspicion that this move alone will mark the difference in the Dems doing poorly or catastrophically badly in certain states.
A slower and more grinding part of the rollback is going to be various hearings to shed a light on the darker and menacing activities of the Obama regime. Congressmen with a prosecutor’s background like Trey Gowdy, will be finding out who exactly within the federal IRS bureaucracy ordered yearly oppressive tax audits of political opponents, their families and their businesses. Some careers in government service are going to come to an abrupt and ignoble end.
It’s only a matter of time until a similar process kicks in with regard to the security services which were used to surveil political opponents or anybody they liked without seemingly any justification. Allegations of widespread surveillance on people like Senator Rand Paul and other senators are by now commonplace, with even Judge Scalia of the US Supreme Court harbouring suspicions that their private discussions in chambers were on too many occasions becoming common knowledge in the higher corridors of power.
As you can see, it’s not just Obama’s more public legacy which is being dismantled, but the darker bits of it as well, and none of it being remarked upon by a juvenile press which much prefers to manufacture fake news or make a mountain out of a mole hill story.
Trump goes to a restaurant with family and friends and the press are all over the story, probably by bribing yet another anonymous source. He prefers two scoops of ice cream, with the sly inference that as everyone else around the table only has one, it’s somehow unfair on everyone else except for Mike Pence, who prefers no ice cream on his fresh fruit dessert.
If such displacement activity masquerading as reportage is the best the self-proclaimed newspaper of record can come up with these days, it’s not hard to see why its circulation is plunging.
Over the space of nearly a decade, too many people in the judiciary, law enforcement and federal service got used to the idea that the path to advancement was to serve a liberal agenda in the shape of the Democratic party, rather than the people and the republic they’d sworn to serve. They need to be rooted out and replaced with people of integrity, otherwise all those institutions will increasingly be seen as serving the interests of various elites rather than the common citizen of America.
What Trump is doing is not just dismantling, it’s a necessary rebuilding of respect in national institutions such as offices of state, the courts, the police and the security services. Without first reversing the damage Obama did to the very fibre of the Republic, anything more constructive Trump attempts to do will be constantly sabotaged and undermined by the residual minions of Obama’s dark legacy.
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52 Responses to “Dismantling Obama’s darker legacy.”
mikedevx says:
Hello Sir,Just wanted to say, I’ve read your most recent article, “Dismantling Obama’s Darker Legacy”.I consider it one of the finest pieces you’ve written. It was FANTASTIC! Thank you!~mike
eagledriver50 says:
This is a first for me posting and in reading just some of the articles, your elucidation of the events and happenstance of what “brown stain” did, just confirms all along the Pres. Trump is going to go “The Big Ugly” this week. Tango Yankee on such writing. You and SD would be a treat to listen too if and when and where it occurs.
What the Obama regime forgot was that anything enacted using an executive order, can just as easily be struck down by simply signing another executive order.
I minor disagreement with what has become a weekly outstanding column on your part.
Obama did not forget. But he was counting on the Media to cow any Republican who might be elected, or as is more likely the thought, that Hillary would just add on to the EOs. What he did not anticipate was Trump. An anti-establishment president. Even after Trump won, Obama thought he could control Trump, like almost all the republicans, through the media.
Obama is no less intelligent than the media. But then he is no more intelligent either. And they are both being played by Trump like a harp from hell (attribution to Danny DeVito, as the Penguin).
rapscallion says:
Excellent piece again Pointman. Very instructive, and for those of us who are not on the Left, very uplifting. Trey Gowdy is the sort of politician I like. I know he’s legally trained and was a prosecutor for many years, but he comes across as absolutely straight down the middle, no messing type of man. His guiding light is the law and the constitution, and he will go after you if you break either, regardless of your political leanings. I could listen to him all day long, he has that wonderful southern drawl. To get a measure of the man, just watch this – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0dCTvX0wzs
I’m sure you’ve watched in before though Pointman.
Excellent analysis. The Democrats, in and outside the media, are trying to fight last years election. By the mid term elections there will be enough revelations to doom them to minority status.
I think the electoral reforms must utterly terrify the Dems. No wonder they are in hyperdrive with the only thing they (and the press) can think of at the moment – Russia and the non-existent collusion.
A great essay, as we have come to expect here.
Ross P says:
Margaret , I agree with regard voting reforms. But the best thing about it is that it should be one of the easiest issues to make major inroads into.
To have 2 million dead people still on voters rolls is beyond “third world” and should be simple to clean up and to put a procedure in place to ensure it stays up to date.
I find it very hard to believe that in most cases the electronic voting machines are privately owned and often with propriety software –government owner and certified or back to paper.
Voter ID is just common sense.
JohnTyler says:
If I were Putin and could influence the US presidential election, I would have donated $10,000,000 to the Hillary for president campaign, hacked every Trump computer and made all its info public and initiated a destroy Trump propaganda effort “confirming” that Trump was a propagator of child porn.
Because Russia obtains a very large percentage of their revenue by exporting oil and gas. The higher the price of oil and gas, the more revenue goes to Putin and Mother Russia which would allow Putin to engage in all sorts of overseas intrigue, fatten his Swiss bank account and further solidify his hold on power.
As everyone knows, Hillary would have followed the Obama (no) USA energy policy which would have acted to depress US oil/gas production and elevate world oil/gas prices (i.e., very helpful to Russian revenues and to Putin).
Hillary would have also followed the feckless foreign policy of Obama; another story for another day.
On the other hand Trump during the campaign was endlessly touting the need for the USA to become energy independent by increasing US production of oil/gas which would help depress world oil/gas prices. This would hurt Putin and Russia immensely, and of course, Putin/the Russians are very well aware of this.
Putin has/had zero benefit in having Trump as president and would have had much to gain during a Hillary presidency.
The notion (i.e.,the lie, the fabrication, the fraud) that Putin helped Trump is merely a ploy, a scam to demolish the Trump presidency.
Any idiot can see this.
@John Tyler – Politics not only makes strange bedfellows, it is very complex. You are correct that a Hillary presidency would have benefited Russia in this way. But Putin knew that Hillary was unstable and prone to rash decisions. Which is not good for global economics either. Plus she is a Soros toady who is trying to destroy nations in the name of a global governance, which Putin really despises. I think he was equally afraid of those qualities and the oil issue. I do not think he played any part in the elections, but then you will not find any democrat buying into any sanity when it comes to the election.
All countries try to influence elections in all other countries to some degree or another. Obama did everything except stage a reverse Revolutionary war to get Brexit defeated. And he of course did everything short of assassinating Netanyahu to sway the Israeli vote. It is not new nor will it change because the democrats have decided to make an issue of it.
Chris Dickensheets says:
Agree 100% the only thing I would like to add, with your blessing is: Obama did have Gaddafi assassinated which allowed his rather sizable cache of arms to fall into the hands of local ME militias. We have all seen how well that worked out. It impacted the entire ME and many, many nations from third world to first world. It will continue have an impact for more than a decade to come. Not a big fan of Gaddafi but he did keep his little corner of the ME under control for the benefit of the world in general. So in that respect Obama did intentionally provide arms to ISIS and Al Qaida in general. That alone is should have been the lynch pin for Impeachment.
Another great analysis of Trump’s game-play, giving the West dawning hopes that we may yet find a Trump of our own. However, you say; “The days are numbered of America having the most lax voter Id rules in the world …”
Sorry, but surely Australia has to lay claim to that particular ‘gong’. No ID needed to enrol on the register (just tick all the boxes and mail a form picked up at the post office), no ID needed to cast a compulsory vote … and yet there is zero likelihood of electoral reform on our bleak horizons.
We didn’t need a ‘dark’ Obama to pollute the wells in our judiciary, law enforcement, the bureaucracy or the military … our homegrown Liberal/Labor/Green Marxists have collectively achieved that over decades of corruption and cronyism.
The question remains … why has Trump embedded Goldman Sachs apparatchiks so deeply in his Administration? Is it really a case of him inviting them into his tent rather than having them on the outside pissing in? They were key players for Obama, HW Bush and Clinton so how come they are also working for Trump?
“One reason for the coziness could be that Goldman Sachs has been a springboard to high-ranking government positions, and it’s been that way since the Clinton Administration.”
https://capitalresearch.org/article/the-united-states-of-goldman-sachs-2/
“At what point will players like Goldman Sachs have handed so much ammunition to left-wing radicals who cannot tell the difference between crony capitalism and the real thing that they succeed in blowing up Western civilization?”
Is Trump deploying ‘use a thief to catch a thief’ principles? Goldman Sachs were/are the chief architects of Climate Fraud so how will that play out for Trump?
With our Prime Minister Turnbull being one-time General Manager for Goldman Sachs (Aust/NZ) and deeply indebted to GS for settling a multi-million dollar personal law suit against him, we are watching Turnbull increasing our sovereign debt ceiling by hundreds of billions of dollars as he continually proves he’s toeing the Goldman Sachs line in everything he says and does … reversing all PM Abbott’s anti-climate fraud moves … a true puppet performing for his masters.
We watch from the bleachers as Trump’s game-play evolves, and we live in hope.
Remembering our blogging buddy, NoIdea … three years since his untimely passing.
Is it really three years already?
Sadly missed.
NoFixedAddress says:
I appreciate your concern in regards Goldman Sachs but don’t forget that there are some very intelligent folk at that firm.
I doubt our current PM could hold a candle with them.
NFA … You’re right – each week Turnbull reveals himself to be a vacuous shell of a man – a true example of a Useful Idiot; the perfect spoiler, devoid of integrity or initiative who will do ‘whatever it takes’ at the bidding of his masters.
Sadly, some of the world’s most heinous murderers and criminals are “intelligent”. What Trump and the Free World needs are men and women of honour, duty, integrity and principles. Hopefully, by appointing key players who are in the best position to ‘Know your enemy’, Trump can succeed in his endeavours.
hoppers says:
Greetings Blackswan. Agree totally about MT. However some digging reveals what I believe are the real reasons it was felt that TA had to go and FM Bishop seemed so keen on the change.
http://johnhelmer.net/the-obama-shoe-banging-moment-on-the-ukraine-front-dutch-and-australian-troops-were-planning-to-start-war-with-russia-after-mh17-was-shot-down/
G’day Hoppers … well, that’s the first I’ve heard of that reason being Abbott’s downfall. Shades of Howard committing our troops to George Dubbya while the smoke was still rising over the WTC before he ever came home to let Aussies know he’d committed us to war.
Far worse I’d argue, putting our troops on the Russian border with all that implies. If you think back to the election MT did in fact allude to the fact that TA had done this on one occasion, quickly swept under the carpet.
gallopingcamel says:
What a breath taking analysis…..probably your best yet. I had to read it twice.
At the end you made the point that a country is defined by the quality of its institutions. Have you read “Why Nations Fail” by Acemoglu and Robinson?
While Trey Gowdy looks impressive in televised hearings he never seems able to be able to close the deal. For example the Benghazi hearings went nowhere in spite of his best efforts.
Sheryl Reynolds says:
The dogs may bark – but our caravan passes on. We will make America great again.
goodoleboy says:
http://www.youngcons.com/vote-fraud-warning-over-7-million-voters-registered-to-vote-in-more-than-one-state2/?ref=FacebookPost&utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral
Vote Fraud Warning: Over 7 Million Voters Registered to Vote in More Than One State.
I didn’t ask to take it but I think this a worthy comment.
from Jo Nova
May 20, 2017 at 3:43 pm · Reply
I keep thinking what’s going to happen when the truth actually does come out.
So many people from every walk of life will have so much egg on their faces, none of them the ordinary people, but the politicians, the scientists, the educators, and the media who have all pushed this for all its worth.
The ordinary person just believes what they are told, and never take the time to actually understand it, because, well, they can’t, because they don’t have the education, so they just believe what they are told, because they don’t expect ALL of these people to be telling untruths, and colluding together.
All of those ordinary people will be absolutely ropeable, and, I’m afraid, it will take a disaster of some sort for the first truths to start coming out, and then a courageous person to actually make a stand and say that it’s all been wrong.
Then, there will nowhere to hide, and that’s what worries me.
It’s not a case of, hey, it all only started as a practical joke to see how far we could take it. It’s too late for that now.
And every one of those people who have been pushing it will, all of them, be looking for someone else to blame.
This isn’t something that will just fade away. It’ll end in a huge and not very pretty crash of some sort.
We fight small little skirmishes that mean almost nothing, so we’re not going to make any impression.
We just have to wait it out, and that’s the great pity, that our voices are not heard, and even if they are heard, they are immediately discounted.
It won’t be one of us who provides that first insight. It has to be some sort of disaster, because now that it is so huge, there’s too much money to protect, and those making that money will do everything they can to continue what they are doing.
In effect, I think that as much as we do do, it’s all a waste really. We’d like to think we are making an impression, but it’s a lost cause now.
We just have to wait for that looming disaster, and hope we survive.
Even after that, even when we say that we’ve been saying this all along, we’ll become the biggest targets of all, because it was people like us who caused the spigots of all that cash to be turned off.
I know it probably sounds depressing, but it’s too big now and has a life of its own. Us, well we just nibble away at the edges hoping we are making an impression, but the tiny little bites we are taking out of the humungous monster aren’t even noticed.
Tony…don’t look at that way. Look at from the way Pointman does. When you see the cast of characters and the characters are vying for three things, relevancy, power and money. That is all they have. And for that, these people will be remembered for what there were, not for who they were. Which would you want for your epitaph?
Russ Wood says:
Pointy – I really love your essays! But may I ask you to pleeeease give your source for the absolutely incredible (literally – I can’t believe them) numbers of freed drug dealers. I mean, looking at those numbers, I thought this was a NYT piece knocking Trump (again). Hillary I could accept – but was Obama that corrupt also? Again, please remember that unusual claims need unusual confidence. Thanks!
Hi Russ. The article, one of many, that the clemency and pardon numbers come from is –
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-12/sessions-rolls-back-obamas-relaxed-sentencing-guidelines-drug-dealers
I do stack up research sources in preparation for an article, and usually check they can be found by googling a pertinent phrase in it surrounded by quotes.
Pointy
http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/17/nevada-sec-state-dmv-instructed-employees-to-register-non-citizens-to-vote/
Nevada Secretary of State : DMV instructed employees to register non-citizens to vote. Trump’s commission on voting irregularities really does have its work cut out.
The soution may be as simple as adopted in one (Indian?) State of a semi-permanent ink stamp on the voter’s right hand (or left if he only had one hand).
The ink wore off in 3-5 days.
@NoFixedAddress. Thank you for the suggestion. Sinclair republished the piece at Catallaxy Files.
http://catallaxyfiles.com/2017/05/21/cross-post-pointman-dismantling-obamas-darker-legacy/
http://circa.com/politics/barack-obamas-team-secretly-disclosed-years-of-illegal-nsa-searches-spying-on-americans
The illegal surveillance scandal gets bigger every time someone looks into it.
Another Ian says:
Have a read of the link at
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2017/05/02/tips-may-2017/#comment-83578
Hi Ian. That’s a very interesting article with a lot of facts to back it up. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
It overlaps on a leaks piece I’m working on at the moment. In passing, there’s another (Barium?) story doing the rounds in the IC about Trump saying that when he came back from his foreign relations trip, heads of leakers were going to roll and he was talking about criminal charges rather than dismissal apparently.
A lot of people are holding their breath in dread. Interesting times, hey?
Lisa Frank thinks the firing of Comey will help Trump to “Drain the Swamp”:
http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-bloggers/3555156/posts
Ray Gaskell says:
I love your writing Pointy, but I can find any evidence to back your assertion that Obama pardoned more people than any recent President. I really want to use this in an argument but I need to be sure of the facts.
Read the comments.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/05/trump_planning_to_trim_get_whitey_bureaucracy.html
The dismantling continues apace.
http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2017/05/30/obama-nearly-doubled-number-juvenile-illegal-aliens-given-amnesty-says-expert/?platform=hootsuite
“During his last year in office, former President Obama nearly doubled the number of juvenile illegal aliens who were given legal status and a pathway to permanent residence.”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/may/30/illegals-in-virginia-registered-vote-in-elections/
“More than 5,500 illegals registered to vote in Virginia in last decade; 1,852 actually cast ballots.”
Just as troubling, the PILF said, was Virginia’s efforts to try to hide the information from the public — a problem foundation President J. Christian Adams said began at the very top, with Gov. Terry McAuliffe.
“At the instruction of Governor McAuliffe’s political appointees, local election officials spent countless resources to prevent this information from spilling into the open,” Mr. Adams said in a statement releasing the report. “From NoVa to Norfolk and all urban and rural points in between, alien voters are casting ballots with practically no legal consequences in response.”
http://www.dailywire.com/news/17275/obama-era-slush-fund-funneling-cash-leftist-groups-amanda-prestigiacomo
“Advocates for big government and progressive power are using the Justice Department to extort money from corporations,” Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch said of the scam. “It’s a shakedown. It’s corrupt, pure and simple.”
On Wednesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions put an end to the corrupt practice once shrouded in secrecy.
“When the federal government settles a case against a corporate wrongdoer, any settlement funds should go first to the victims and then to the American people — not to bankroll third-party special interest groups or the political friends of whoever is in power,” said Sessions in a statement.”
Another Obama slush fund for his political cronies gets closed down.
http://americanlookout.com/while-democrats-obsess-over-russia-trump-has-nominated-11-conservatives-as-federal-judges/
While Democrats Obsess Over Russia, Trump Has Nominated 11 Conservatives As Federal Judges
“Now, while Democrats are still running around with their hair on fire screaming about Russia, President Trump is restoring balance to the judiciary by nominating conservatives to be federal judges.”
Jonathan Frodsham says:
Another fabulous article. He always nails it. Love Pointman.
http://truthfeed.com/trumps-epa-just-ended-obamas-reign-of-terror-against-american-farmers/86119/
While the Russia farce rumbles on, Trump rips out by the roots a regulation that was slowly strangling American farming, and it’s barely reported.
Federal Court Strikes Down Key Piece Of Obama’s Climate Agenda
https://www.youngcons.com/federal-court-strikes-down-key-piece-of-obamas-climate-agenda/
The rollback continues of 8 years of dictatorship by Obama’s bureaucracy.
Even the US Dept of Agriculture has hit the ‘reset’ button ….
“The US Department of Agriculture is advising employees to avoid using the term ‘climate change’ in their work and refer to it as ‘weather extremes’ instead.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4769874/Federal-deparment-told-avoid-using-term-climate-change.html
Trump quietly putting his stamp on the courts.
http://thehill.com/regulation/administration/346248-trump-quietly-putting-his-stamp-on-the-courts
“With five judges confirmed, another 30 pending and 123 seats left to fill, according to one group tracking the numbers, Trump has the opportunity to revamp the judiciary branch and carve out a legacy for himself that could stand the test of time.”
Rememember, these are lifetime appointments.
3 things Trump did this week while you weren’t looking.
http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/09/08/trump-policy-regulation-climate-immigration-000508
Trump is slowly reversing Obama’s damage to the American economy.
Exclusive: EPA to propose repealing Obama’s climate regulation – document.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-epa-carbon-exclusive/exclusive-epa-to-propose-repealing-obamas-climate-regulation-document-idUSKCN1C90BY
Why Is the Obama Administration Trying to Keep 11,000 Documents Sealed?
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-is-the-obama-administration-trying-to-keep-11-000-documents-sealed-20160418
Trump Takes a Wrecking Ball to Two Obama Legacies.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/trump-takes-wrecking-ball-two-obama-legacies-n810061
Ignoring the NBC spin/fake news narrative quoting other fake news outlets as sources, Trump’s destruction of Obama’s meager legacy continues.
OBAMA UNDONE: Trump DESTROYS Barack’s Legacy
http://thefederalistpapers.org/us/obama-undone-trump-destroys-baracks-legacy
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/455453/president-trump-undoes-obama-legacy-commonsense-nobama
A very interesting read. It actually has that rarity of these days – some analytical insight.
Kellyanne: ‘Bit by bit, President Trump is undoing the Obama legacy’ and people are thanking him profusely
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2018/11/04/kellyanne-bit-by-bit-president-trump-is-undoing-the-obama-legacy-and-people-are-thanking-him-profusely-690303
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What If Your Dreams Were Public Knowledge?
In this excerpt, iconic author Ursula K. Le Guin envisions a plane of existence where no one dreams alone.
By Sarah Mangiola
National Book Award-winning author Ursula K. Le Guin is known for her influential tales about worlds and cultures that are drastically different from our own.
In Le Guin's collection of fantastical short stories, Changing Planes, Sita Dulip is able to transport herself to fifteen societies not found on Earth. She does so by “changing planes.” After missing a literal plane, Sita passes the time in an airport by changing planes of existence as a form of escapism. She visits everything from a society that attempted to genetically engineer better life forms to one in which all but one family is descended from royalty.
The story “Social Dreaming of the Frin” takes Sita to the Frinthian plane—where dreams are public. Society dreams as a group, and it’s hard to escape for even one moment of privacy. People in close proximity to one another, such as those living in a city, all dream together—with often horrifying results. Frin is just one of the strange and sometimes humorous planes to be visited in Le Guin’s Changing Planes.
Read on for an excerpt from Changing Planes, and then download the book.
Changing Planes
By Ursula K. Le Guin
Social Dreaming of the Frin
NOTE: Much of the information for this piece comes from An Oneirological Survey on the Frinthian Plane, published by Mills College Press, and from conversations with Frinthian scholars and friends.
On the Frinthian plane, dreams are not private property. A troubled Frin has no need to lie on a couch recounting dreams to a psychoanalyst, for the doctor already knows what the patient dreamed last night, because the doctor dreamed it too; and the patient also dreamed what the doctor dreamed; and so did everyone else in the neighborhood.
To escape from the dreams of others or to have a private, a secret dream, the Frin must go out alone into the wilderness. And even in the wilderness, their sleep may be invaded by the strange dream visions of lions, antelope, bears, or mice.
While awake, and during much of their sleep, the Frin are as dream-deaf as we are. Only sleepers who are in or approaching REM sleep can participate in the dreams of others also in REM sleep.
REM is an acronym for “rapid eye movement,” a visible accompaniment of this stage of sleep; its signal in the brain is a characteristic type of electroencephalic wave. Most of our rememberable dreams occur during REM sleep.
Frinthian REM sleep and that of people on our plane yield very similar EEG traces, though there are some significant differences, in which may lie the key to the Frinthian ability to share dreams.
To share, the dreamers must be fairly close to one another. The carrying power of the average Frinthian dream is about that of the average human voice. A dream can be received easily within a hundred-meter radius, and bits and fragments of it may carry a good deal farther. A strong dream in a solitary place may well carry for two kilometers or even farther.
In a lonely farmhouse a Frin’s dreams mingle only with those of the rest of the family, along with echoes, whiffs, and glimpses of what the cattle in the barn and the dog dozing on the doorstop hear, smell, and see in their sleep.
In a village or town, with people asleep in all the houses around, the Frin spend at least part of every night in a shifting phantasmagoria of their own and other people’s dreams which I find hard to imagine.
I asked an acquaintance in a small town to tell me any dreams she could recall from the past night. At first she demurred, saying that they’d all been nonsense, and only “strong” dreams ought to be thought about and talked over. She was evidently reluctant to tell me, an outsider, things that had been going on in her neighbors’ heads. I managed at last to convince her that my interest was genuine and not voyeuristic. She thought a while and said, “Well, there was a woman—it was me in the dream, or sort of me, but I think it was the mayor’s wife’s dream, actually, they live at the corner—this woman, anyhow, and she was trying to find a baby that she’d had last year. She had put the baby into a dresser drawer and forgotten all about it, and now I was, she was, feeling worried about it—Had it had anything to eat? Since last year? Oh my word, how stupid we are in dreams! And then, oh, yes, then there was an awful argument between a naked man and a dwarf, they were in an empty cistern. That may have been my own dream, at least to start with. Because I know that cistern. It was on my grandfather’s farm where I used to stay when I was a child. But they both turned into lizards, I think. And then—oh yes!” She laughed. “I was being squashed by a pair of giant breasts, huge ones, with pointy nipples. I think that was the teenage boy next door, because I was terrified but kind of ecstatic, too. And what else was there? Oh, a mouse, it looked so delicious, and it didn’t know I was there, and I was just about to pounce, but then there was a horrible thing, a nightmare—a face without any eyes—and huge, hairy hands groping at me—and then I heard the three-year-old next door screaming, because I woke up too. That poor child has so many nightmares, she drives us all crazy. Oh, I don’t really like thinking about that one. I’m glad we forget most dreams. Wouldn’t it be awful if we had to remember them all!”
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Dreaming is a cyclical, not a continuous, activity, and so in small communities there are hours when one’s sleep theater, if one may call it so, is dark. REM sleep among settled, local groups of Frin tends to synchronise. As the cycles peak, about five times a night, several or many dreams may be going on simultaneously in everybody’s head, intermingling and influencing one another with their mad, inarguable logic, so that (as my friend in the village described it) the baby turns up in the cistern and the mouse hides between the breasts, while the eyeless monster disappears in the dust kicked up by a pig trotting past through a new dream, perhaps a dog’s, since the pig is rather dimly seen but is smelled with great particularity. But after such episodes comes a period when everyone can sleep in peace, without anything exciting happening at all.
In Frinthian cities, where one may be within dream range of hundreds of people every night, the layering and overlap of insubstantial imagery is, I’m told, so continual and so confusing that the dreams cancel out, like brushfuls of colors slapped one over the other without design; even one’s own dream blurs at once into the meaningless commotion, as if projected on a screen where a hundred films are already being shown, their soundtracks all running together. Only occasionally does a gesture, a voice, ring clear for a moment, or a particularly vivid wet dream or ghastly nightmare cause all the sleepers in a neighborhood to sigh, ejaculate, shudder, or wake up with a gasp.
Frin whose dreams are mostly troubling or disagreeable say they like living in the city for the very reason that their dreams are all but lost in the “stew,” as they call it. But others are upset by the constant oneiric noise and dislike spending even a few nights in a metropolis. “I hate to dream strangers’ dreams!” my village informant told me. “Ugh! When I come back from staying in the city, I wish I could wash out the inside of my head!”
Even on our plane, young children often have trouble understanding that the experiences they had just before they woke up aren’t “real.” It must be far more bewildering for Frinthian children, into whose innocent sleep enter the sensations and preoccupations of adults—accidents relived, griefs renewed, rapes reenacted, wrathful conversations held with people fifty years in the grave.
Frinthian dreams.
Photo Credit: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
But adult Frin are ready to answer children’s questions about the shared dreams and to discuss them, defining them always as dream, though not as unreal. There is no word corresponding to “unreal” in Frinthian; the nearest is “bodiless.” So the children learn to live with adults’ incomprehensible memories, unmentionable acts, and inexplicable emotions, much as do children who grow up on our plane amid the terrible incoherence of civil war or in times of plague and famine; or, indeed, children anywhere, at any time. Children learn what is real and what isn’t, what to notice and what to ignore, as a survival tactic. It is hard for an outsider to judge, but my impression of Frinthian children is that they mature early, psychologically. By the age of seven or eight they are treated by adults as equals.
As for the animals, no one knows what they make of the human dreams they evidently participate in. The domestic beasts of the Frin seemed to me to be remarkably pleasant, trustful, and intelligent. They are generally well looked after. The fact that the Frin share their dreams with their animals might explain why they use animals to haul and plow and for milk and wool, but not as meat.
The Frin say that animals are more sensitive dream receivers than human beings and can receive dreams even from people from other planes. Frinthian farmers have assured me that their cattle and swine are deeply disturbed by the visits of people from carnivorous planes. When I stayed at a farm in Enya Valley the chicken house was in an uproar half the night. I thought it was a fox, but my hosts said it was me.
People who have mingled their dreams all their lives say they are often uncertain where a dream began, whether it was originally theirs or somebody else’s; but within a family or village the author of a particularly erotic or ridiculous dream may be all too easily identified. People who know one another well can recognise the source dreamer from the tone or events of the dream, from its style. Still, it has become their own as they dream it. Each dream may be shaped differently in each mind. And, as with us, the personality of the dreamer, the oneiric I, is often tenuous, strangely disguised, or unpredictably different from the daylight person. Very puzzling dreams or those with powerful emotional affect may be discussed on and off all day by the community, without the origin of the dream ever being mentioned.
But most dreams, as with us, are forgotten at waking. Dreams elude their dreamers on every plane.
It might seem to us that the Frin have very little psychic privacy; but they are protected by this common amnesia, as well as by doubt as to any particular dream’s origin and by the obscurity of dream itself. Their dreams are truly common property. The sight of a red-and-black bird pecking at the ear of a bearded human head lying on a plate on a marble table and the rush of almost gleeful horror that accompanied it—did that come from Aunt Unia’s sleep, or Uncle Tu’s, or Grandfather’s, or the cook’s, or the girl next door’s? A child might ask, “Auntie, did you dream that head?” The stock answer is, “We all did.” Which is, of course, the truth.
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November 18, 2014 · 11:08 am
Glory, glory, Leeds United! #353/365
Not many posts to go now before I complete my 365 things to be grateful for so I shall have to be selective.
It’s been a while since the once mighty Leeds United gave me anything to be grateful for. We’ve been languishing in the lower leagues since 2004. Scandalous really, when you think about the size of the club.
Leeds United is the benchmark for how not to run a football club. And the new owner, convicted tax dodger, Massimo Cellino doesn’t appear to be fairing any better. We’re already on our fourth manager this season.
But one can’t simply change one’s allegiances because the team is going through a sticky patch. Admittedly, a decade-long sticky patch.
Supporting a football team – or any team for that matter – is an act of basic tribalism. And, as we all know, a tribe is for life, not just for Christmas. So we have to take the rough with the smooth. God knows we’ve had our fair share of rough. Even more than Wayne Rooney.
‘ave it.
Most of Leeds United’s success came in the late 60s and early 70s before I started watching them in the mid 1970s, just as they began to decline. Though, I did get to see them win the old first division title in 1992 before it changed to the Premier League.
To pay homage to that team, I have to give mention to our outstanding midfield quatro of: the combatant David Batty in the middle, partnered by the graceful Gary McAllister. On the right, the feisty and mesmerising Gordon Strachan and the on the left wing, the beguiling Gary Speed. (May the gods rest his soul.)
We won the league title three times in ‘69, ’74 and ’92.
Won the FA Cup in 1972 thrashing Arsenal 1-0. Alan ‘Sniffer’ Clarke scoring the only goal.
Won the League Cup in ’66. (Beating Arsenal 1-0.)
Won the Charity Shield in ’69, ’74 and ’92.
Lost 2-0 in the final of the European Cup in 1975 against Bayern Munich. Though we did have two penalty appeals turned down and a goal disallowed even though the ref initially gave it, then changed his mind after a lot of badgering from Franz Beckenbauer.
Billy Bremner being a perfect role model.
Won the UEFA cup in ’68 and ’71. Beating Hungarian team, Ferencváros and Italy’s Juventus respectively.
Lost 1-0 to A.C. Milan in the ’73 final of the European Cup Winners’ Cup final.
Champions League semi-finalists in 2001.
We’ll have to wait patiently until a chairperson with integrity and vision comes along to change the fortunes of the great Leeds United. And come it will, one day.
Meanwhile, here are some of their highlights.
1968-69 First Division champions
1964-65 First Division runners-up
1923-24 Second Division champions
1927-28 Second Division runners-up
2009-10 League One runners-up
1972 FA Cup winners
1965 FA Cup finalists
1968 Football League Cup winners
1996 Football League Cup finalists
1969 FA Charity Shield winners
1974 FA Charity Shield runners-up
1993 FA Youth Cup winners
1974-75 European Cup finalists
1969-70 European Cup semi finalists
1992-93 European Cup second round
2000-01 Champions League semi finalists
1972-73 European Cup-Winners Cup finalists
INTER CITIES FAIRS CUP/UEFA CUP
1967-68 European Fairs Cup winners
1966-67 European Fairs Cup finalists
1965-66 European Fairs Cup semi finalists
1968-69 European Fairs Cup quarter finalists
1971-72 UEFA Cup first round
1973-74 UEFA Cup third round
1979-80 UEFA Cup second round
1999-00 UEFA Cup semi finalists
1920-24 Second Division
1924-27 First Division
1992-2004 FA Premier League
2004-07 Championship
2007-10 League One
2010- Championship
Record all-time goalscorer : Peter Lorimer 238
Record appearances in league matches : Jack Charlton 629
Record all-time appearances : 773 Jack Charlton/Billy Bremner
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March 9, 2019 January 2, 2020 / Tammy Karatchuk / Leave a comment
Skating isn’t all about the medals.
It’s about the memories.
Medals are a bonus though.
During the Arborg Skating Club‘s 1988/1989 season, our coach produced three successful synchronized (precision) skating teams. I was on the eight-member senior team, winning two silver medal. Two competitions, two silver medals. Not too shabby.
We won the second silver medal at the 1989 Interlake Winter Games in Arborg, Manitoba – our home club – runners up to the St. Andrews Precice-ettes. However, the competition wasn’t an advancer. Merely a trial run to gauge participation. Those Winter Games were deemed a success, and Gimli, Manitoba would host the figure skating portion of the 1990 Interlake Winter Games.
The gold medal team would advance to the 1990 Manitoba Winter Games in Carmen, Manitoba. In theory.
Our coach, Joanne Hough, explained while the St. Andrews Precice-ettes were expected to win the 1990 Interlake Winter Games, they would probably pass the torch for Carmen to the silver medallists.
According to the 1989/1990 rules, a team was prohibited from competing at the Manitoba Winter Games and the provincial championships in the same year. No doubt St. Andrews would rather compete for another ticket to the Canadians.
Ergo, we were aiming for that silver medal.
It wasn’t that simple. First challenge – our eight-member team. We were so small, two sets of sisters made half our team – and I was part of that half. The smallest team allowed at the 1990 Winter Games was eight. That season, our coach wanted a 16-member team, the maximum. Then we could split into lines of eight and four.
However, it wouldn’t be the so-called easy breezy 1988/1989 season.
In September 1989, before fall skating school, we were on two missions: searching for eight more members and choreographing our program in the elementary school gymnasium. The arena didn’t have ice, and we needed a jump start. We recruited three skaters from Arborg’s middle-age team. One of the skaters pulled double duty, skating on our team and the middle-age team.
In the gym, while 11 of us sashayed to “The Doctor” by the Doobie Brothers, “Thru These Walls” by Phil Collins, and “Come Dancing” by The Kinks, we pitched names to Joanne of skaters who may want to compete.
Who wouldn’t want to compete at the Manitoba Winter Games? Yes, I’d already pre-punched my ticket to Carmen.
During fall school, we were still struggling to expand our team. Luckily, two former Arborg synchro skaters eagerly jumped on our team. However, our club was tapped out. We need more older skaters, preferably with experience.
A skater from Inwood joined our team. She had experience, plus Joanne was her coach. Okay, almost there. What did we think about approaching two skaters from Riverton?
And we were sixteen. But, there was another issue.
The 1989/1990 Arborg Junior Team with our coach, Joanne Hough. Two team members are missing from this photo. I’m third from the left in the back row.
According to the rules for the Winter Games, members of the synchronized skating teams must be ages seventeen and under. One of the Arborg girls we recruited wouldn’t be able to compete at the Games. The alternate plan if we didn’t advance to the Winter Games? All 16 members would go to the Manitoba Championships.
But we were double silver-plated. Runners up to St. Andrews. The unbeatable team. Sure, we were eight, but now we were a powerful 16-member team. Of course we were heading towards the Winter Games.
But, sometimes life throws curve balls.
Because we didn’t advance to the 1990 Manitoba Winter Games.
In fact, we almost didn’t medal after placing fourth in unexpected compulsories without music. After the free program – despite two falls – we won the bronze medal.
When they announced the synchro results, I believe I was the only team member who cheered. I remembering looking at one of my teammates, and she looked so sad. Some of us gathered to watch the medal ceremony for single’s where a teammate won the overall bronze medal.
I remember more about her bronze medal ceremony our bronze medal synchro ceremony.
But, that bronze pushed us. The season wasn’t over. We had work to do, and we worked. Hard.
That February, we won the gold at provincials. And today – March 9, 1990, marks 29 years since we won the 1990 Interlake Precision Regional Competition over the St. Andrews Precice-ettes.
During the 1993 ice show – Aladdin on Ice – I skated an exhibition performance with the senior skaters. We even reused some of the choreography from my former Junior team’s 1989/1990 season. But nothing matched the excitement of competitive synchro.
I’m proud to be part of the short legacy of that Arborg Precision Team. Our team skated for two seasons, and we never left a competition without hardware – amassing five medals.
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