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Demand for wind drives record year
John Hensley
Companies thirsty for renewable alternatives, technological advances, and the potential of offshore are just a few of the driving forces that propelled wind energy into a successful and profitable 2018.
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American wind power continued to push forward and reach new heights in 2018 — it was a record-setting year for corporate wind purchasing as customer demand for affordable, reliable, and clean energy continued to rise. Technology progressed further and more of the country’s electricity came from wind energy than ever before. That also means more families and businesses are seeing the benefits wind delivers to their communities. New, well-paying jobs, land-lease payments, and additional tax revenue, billions of dollars in investment, and greater access to renewable energy are just some of the advantages.
Companies large and small are taking advantage of the opportunities wind offers. C&I customers purchased 66 percent more wind power in 2018 than 2015 — the previous record year — with a total of 4,203 MW of deals signed. American businesses and non-utility purchasers such as universities and municipalities are attracted to wind’s low cost and price stability that protects them from fuel price spikes. For many businesses, wind is a way to meet their sustainability goals while locking in a predictable electricity price for years to come. This helps companies plan better for the future. And wind is the top choice for C&I customers. Data from the Business Renewables Center shows that wind provides more energy to corporate brands than any other renewable source.
“It’s the Un-carrier way to do the right thing by our customers, and moving to renewable energy is just a natural part of that,” said John Legere, president and CEO at T-Mobile. “And it’s not just the right thing to do — it’s smart business. We expect to cut T-Mobile’s energy costs by around $100 million in the next 15 years thanks to this move. Imagine the awesome things we can do for our customers with that.”
A diverse group of companies joined T-Mobile in signing wind deals in 2018. Last year saw a mix of repeat buyers including Walmart, Facebook, and Microsoft and first-time buyers such as AT&T, Shell Energy, Boston University, and Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines. These buyers join a growing list of companies choosing wind through long-term contracts, or power purchase agreements (PPAs).
In 2018, C&I customers purchased more than 4,203 MW of wind power. (Courtesy: AWEA)
On top of the cost savings and stability, the fact of the matter is more and more customers are demanding renewable energy. That has presented businesses an opportunity to directly respond to their customers’ desires. Look no further than the media boon Budweiser received for its 2019 Super Bowl commercial, which boasted about the company’s decision to brew 100 percent of its beer using wind power.
“As a leading brewer, Anheuser-Busch understands sustainability is not just related to our business, it is our business,” said Angie Slaughter, vice president of Sustainability at Anheuser-Busch. “We are proud that Budweiser is the first major beer brand to be brewed with 100 percent renewable electricity from wind power; we hope our efforts inspire others in our pursuit for a more sustainable future.”
Installed wind capacity hits a new high
Strong customer enthusiasm and positive market signals last year spurred significant new wind power installations. The fourth quarter of 2018 was the third highest on record for wind capacity installations across the country with more than 5,944 MW installed. This brings the total installed capacity of the U.S. to more than 96,488 MW, enough to power 30 million homes. Looking forward, seven states are now on track to double their installed wind capacity in the next few years.
Technology takes wind to the next frontier
Technological innovations and improved siting practices have also made wind turbines more efficient and increased their value to consumers. These improvements have driven the cost of wind down by 69 percent since 2009, making it the cheapest source of new generating capacity in many parts of the country. Advances in modern turbines help them reach stronger, steadier winds, which improves production and capacity factors. And improved performance helps drive more growth.
Notably, 2018 saw orders for the first 4 MW land-based turbines — nearly twice the capacity of the average U.S. turbine model in 2017. These more powerful turbines let developers better customize individual projects to better suit their local wind resource and the needs of their host community.
Technological advancements and wind-related R&D are also opening the potential of wind power’s next great frontier — offshore. Offshore wind development leapt into serious action in 2018 and that momentum shows no signs of slowing in 2019.
Offshore is coming ashore
Since the Block Island Wind Project became the country’s first operational offshore wind farm at the end of 2016, coastal states have been racing to gain a competitive edge for the burgeoning sector. Last August, Massachusetts passed legislation setting its offshore target to 3.2 GW by 2035. Already in 2019, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo tripled his state’s offshore target to 9 GW by 2035, raising the bar for the sector nationwide and boosting offshore wind’s prospects.
New Mexico is one of seven states on track to double their wind capacity. (Courtesy: AWEA)
States are also investing in critical infrastructure and technology that will make offshore wind a success. Take Massachusetts, which made improvements to the New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal to accommodate turbine parts and increased shipping traffic. Or look to MHI Vestas’ $35 million offshore gearbox testing facility at Clemson University in South Carolina. Physical infrastructure is only part of the puzzle. Just as onshore wind created thousands of jobs, the offshore wind sector expects to create thousands more as it matures. Many states are already investing in their workforce to train residents to fill the new positions.
“The industry is moving at a phenomenal pace,” said Walter Cruikshank, acting director at the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM). “There is great industry-wide confidence in the market …There are strong policy commitments from the states, particularly in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic, and a strong commitment from this Administration. We are actively working with leaseholders to move their projects forward.”
Innovations in turbine technology and new supply chains will continue to bring down the cost of offshore wind in the U.S. The deployment of new turbine models and offshore technology will continue to show that the United States’ world-class offshore wind resource is ripe for harvesting.
In December, BOEM held a major auction for three parcels off Massachusetts’ Martha’s Vineyard. The winning bids made by Equinor, Mayflower Wind Energy, a joint venture of Shell and EDP Renewables, and Vineyard Wind totaled more than $405 million. These results show that offshore wind is finally coming ashore in America. The auction shows the water is fine, and major international players in the industry are ready to jump in.
A successful year amplifies benefits
Wind’s growth is helping deliver benefits to communities across the country. More than 114,000 Americans across 50 states now work directly in wind. And the industry continues to create jobs: For example, wind-turbine technician is the second-fastest-growing profession in the country, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The profession is second only to solar installer. Nowhere have these jobs made more of a difference than in America’s rural communities, where 99 percent of the country’s wind fleet is located.
Jobs supported by the construction and operation of wind farms have created new opportunities for many to make a living without having to leave their hometown to find a job elsewhere. For many small towns across America, this has helped keep families together.
Nathan Simpson, a wind-energy instructor at Northeast Community College in Nebraska, observed this firsthand in his town.
“We have a lot of rural communities in our area that seem to be phasing out or growing smaller as time goes on,” he said. “Right now, with the new wind farms coming in, they provide that career path for a lot of those people who want to stay around their community and grow and develop or raise their families, to stick around and find a well-paying job, a job that gives back to their own community.”
The wind industry supports 114,000 American jobs. (Courtesy: AWEA)
Wind development also helps provide financial stability for many rural landowners — wind projects pay more than $289 million in land-lease payments each year. This number will only grow as more projects come online. These payments provide a dependable income, which hedges against poor crop yields, making wind a drought-proof cash crop for many farmers and ranchers. And because the typical wind farm leaves 99 percent of the land in its footprint untouched, wind is a value-add to the property, keeping most of the land usable for other purposes such as farming or ranching.
Meanwhile, new tax revenue and other payment arrangements from wind companies support local schools, public services, and law enforcement. In 2018, the industry paid more than $1 billion to state and local governments and private landowners in tax and lease payments. For many rural counties, wind-farm payments represent an enormous opportunity and boon to the county coffers.
“Wind energy … is transforming low-income rural areas in ways not seen since the federal government gave land to homesteaders 150 years ago,” the Omaha World-Herald reported. “As commodity prices threaten to reach decade lows and farmers struggle to meet debt payments, wind has saved family farms across a wide swath of the heartland.”
Wind has been able to do all this by providing a low-cost, reliable energy product that both makes good economic sense and delivers environmental benefits.
Wind boasts among the lowest environmental impacts of any utility-scale source of electricity generation. In 2018 alone, wind power created $9.4 billion in public health savings by cutting down air pollution that creates smog and triggers asthma attacks.
Keeping the momentum strong
Even as the markets are choosing wind, stable policies and infrastructure investment will play important roles in ensuring the U.S. wind industry keeps growing. At the top of the to-do list is updating and expanding America’s electric grid to meet 21st century needs. Investments in the grid will make electricity more affordable and reliable for American families and businesses. They’ll pave the way for a new clean energy economy, much like the creation of the interstate highways system in the 1950s unleashed decades of economic growth. Importantly, studies routinely show that transmission upgrades more than pay for themselves.
As more states and businesses recognize the value wind power delivers, the future looks bright. This will come into clearer focus following the release of the American Wind Energy Association’s 2018 Annual Market Report in April and in the run-up to AWEA’s WINDPOWER 2019 Conference on May 20-23 in Houston.
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is the deputy director for Industry and Data Analysis for the American Wind Energy Association. He directs AWEA’s analytical agenda through research and analysis on policies as well as collection and analysis of wind-energy market intelligence. Hensley leverages technology to efficiently collect, analyze, and distribute market data to AWEA members and stakeholders. He is responsible for AWEA’s suite of data services including quarterly and annual market reports, the U.S. wind market database, an interactive wind industry mapping platform, and various other data products. Hensley holds a Masters of International Economics and International Affairs from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Relations.
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Never attribute malice to something better explained by sloth or incompetence.
In the past weeks, we have examined various aspects of what can appear to be bias in news reporting, but are not. With the mistake, a news story can be simply an error which looks deliberate but is not. Sloth can result in stories that are poorly written or incompletely researched. Incompetence is when a reporter or editor doesn’t know enough about a subject to cover it adequately or appropriately, and credulity leads the writer to presume things are true or accurate because they want them to be or are ready to believe certain things.
All of these previous essays were an attempt to show what can seem to be bias but is not, so that we can understand the real thing by contrast. Too often something is presumed to be bias when it is simply a poor job by the reporter or an error. That’s why every installment of this essay starts with the same quote.
Genuine bias in the news media is when a reporter tells a story with an ideological tilt, changing the emphasis, point, or conclusion of a news event to fit that ideology. There are a host of reasons and ways this can be accomplished, and the examples are many and easy to find. Bias can be in which picture is selected for a story, who is interviewed, the balance of quotes used, the way an interview is edited, how quotes are grouped, and even the questions asked. What a reporter is interested, notices, and considers worthy to write about are all effected by and evidence of bias.
There are several kinds of bias that we must examine to understand this problem, know how to spot bias, how to consider it, and how to address it.
Acceptible Bias
Unintended Bias
Deliberate Bias
"Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided."
-Charles Curtis
Not all bias is unreasonable or unacceptable. Bias in and of its self is not a bad thing. For example, I am heavily biased against rapists and murderers, while my bias toward firemen and kittens is quite favorable. This is a kind of bias that we ought to have – positive toward what is good and negative toward what is evil.
C.S. Lewis wrote in The Abolition of Man that we ought to have proper reactions to things we are confronted by, and we need those reactions to be taught and informed as children so we respond appropriately. A sublime object should be met with a response of appreciation of beauty and aesthetic value. An atrocity or outrage should be met with opposition and a will to fight it.
“Until quite modern times all teachers and all men believed the universe to be such that certain emotional reactions on our part could be either congruous or incongruous to it – that objects did not merely receive, but merit, our approval or disapproval, our reverence or our contempt.”
Properly responding to an object or an idea is a virtue, and having bias against atrocity is right. The response of the world to the terrorist strikes on 9/11 was shock and horror, as it well ought to have been. The media responded appropriately by showing tributes to courage, outrage at the murder, and nobility of the response by the firefighters, the president, and the people around the world.
Another kind of acceptable bias is if, on a news show or in a report, someone is quoted or interviewed who has a specific opinion or bias and exhibits it. If you ask David Duke what he thinks of Mexicans, you'll get a pretty biased answer, and while what he has to say is reprehensible this is not an example of bias by the news source but rather of the person being interviewed. Too often, a news show is criticized for bias because someone they talked to demonstrates bias, but this is not the news show's problem unless they let something critical go unbalanced or unanswered, or give only one perspective of a controversial issue.
For example, on MSNBC's Scarborough Country, right-wing radio host Debbie Schlussel claimed that "there wasn't a peep" from Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton when Suha Arafat, wife of former Palestinian National Authority president Yasir Arafat, stated that Israelis "poison Palestinian water and air and cause cancer for them." In fact, Clinton disavowed Arafat's remarks after receiving an official translation. In the midst of a broadcast, it's unreasonable to expect every single reporter or talking head to instantly know and correct every statement made by someone.
In short, sometimes bias is acceptable and a part of doing the business of reporting the news, and criticism of such bias would be unreasonable and improper.
"We may, with instruction and opportunity mend our manners, or else alter for the worse, -- as the flesh and fortune shall serve; but the character, the internal, original bias, remains always the same, true to itself to the very last."
-by William Hazlitt
Most bias falls into this category. Unintended bias is the kind that results from a worldview or basic philosophy of the reporter or editor. Worldviews are positions that we take on issues without thinking about them. They are the ideals and beliefs we have that are unquestioned, unexamined. In the mathematical science of geometry there are postulates, rules that are not defended or explained, they are simply assumed. Some postulates of geometry are:
A point is a zero-dimensional figure, an entity with no dimensions
A line is a group of points with one dimension (width)
A two-dimensional (width and height) group of points
Space is a three dimensional group of points
These are unquestioned, they are the basis of the theorems which follow, nothing precedes them in terms of definition and examination within Geometry.
A worldview is like the set of mental postulates, the ideals by which a person builds their thoughts, arguments, and assumptions. This worldview is where bias comes from, it’s why someone assumes that evil is evil and good is good without thinking about it. This is what C.S. Lewis said needed to be informed, because it is where unthinking reactions come from.
If your basic worldview is that Allah is sovereign and Islam will ultimately prevail while all other peoples are either to convert or die, then the bombing of Zarqawi will be met with dismay and sadness, and your coverage will tend to show him as a martyr and hero. If your worldview is that America is God’s country and that we have a responsibility to defeat and subjugate all other peoples under this regime, then your coverage will reflect that.
Unintended bias is sometimes impossible to avoid. A very valid point is often raised about biased news coverage – everyone has a bias about almost every topic and it cannot be avoided. Your worldview shapes how you ask questions, where you turn for answers, and how you write a story. To a certain extent it is not possible to eliminate all bias from reporting. Since few even consider let alone examine or question their worldview, they are as unaware of it as we are of the air around us except when something brings it to our attention like suffocation or a very strong wind.
For the average reporter, like most people, deeper philosophical questions of what their worldview is and why they hold it are things they haven’t time or inclination to consider. Their ideology will slip out unnoticed because this is simply how they see things, and it never or rarely occurs to them to see things differently. In the essay last week on incompetence we saw how that can take place and the results.
In Europe, as well as early in the United States, newspapers are very clear on their bias, some even having names that make this obvious. They will take an editorial stance and openly hold to it when reporting the news. In a way, this is superior to the pretence of balance and fairness, which is fundamentally impossible when human beings are in charge. But surely there is a point at which we can reach where the bias is kept as much at a minimum as possible, and editors work to clean up as much as can be realistically.
Certainly as reported last week the paucity of conservative voices in major news outlets is not helping any dissenting opinion be known. Without writers in areas like science and the military that have some expertise and contacts, how can they write well? How is bias not going to be noticed if everyone’s worldview agrees?
Ideally, news should be reported as specifically and factually as possible, without the need for tilt or bias slipping in. Although this kind of reporting can be dry, it avoids the mistake of misleading the public or letting personal opinion shape the story. The simple facts of who, what, where, when, why, and how all tell the story. Often the desire to sell a story or make it more entertaining, interesting, or exciting can lead to real error or a certain viewpoint being displayed. While one cannot entirely eliminate bias, a conscious effort and understanding of one's bias can reduce it's effects considerably.
"Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized."
-by Benjamin Haydon
In some cases, however, the bias is intentional. Rather than a genuine expression of worldview or the result of a lack of knowing any better, this kind of bias is the most offensive when it is inappropriate. For some reporters, bias seems to be a way of life, a deliberate, calculated effort to each story for a specific political or ideological end. Deliberate Bias is perfectly fine in an opinion piece, writing simply what the person believes and thinks about a topic. On the editorial page of a newspaper this is proper and expected.
This is an important distinction. Bias is often charged from news organizations and what is pointed to is an editorial in the newspaper, an opinion column in a magazine, or an analysis and opinion show. When Maureen Dowd writes a column for the New York Times, she is very biased, but she's not writing a news story, she's writing her opinion, and that's what she gets paid for. When Bill O'Reilly airs a segment in the O'Reilly Factor, he's not giving a news story, even if he summarizes or reports one, he's giving opinion. Too often bias is accused where it is perfectly acceptable and proper.
But when this slips into the main news such as the front page, for example, then the line has been crossed between opinion and journalism. It is one thing to write an editorial about how why you don't like President Clinton, it is another thing entirely to write a story about his inaugural ball in such a way that you say he's a rotten so-and-so. One is proper and in it's place, the other is violating journalistic principles to slip your personal opinion into the news.
Such reporting is unprofessional and reprehensible. It brings the value and esteem of the organization they work for down and results in a product that people learn to distrust or avoid. Intentionally injecting your personal opinion into news, especially in a way that is alien to a news story will frustrate, anger, and alienate readers, even sometimes those that agree with your viewpoint.
This kind of bias is the kind that people often presume when it is at least some times not bias at all or unintended. One way bias can make it on to a front page, deliberately, is with polls. It is not unknown in news media for a poll to make it to the front page that simply was an excuse to put opinion there. Got a beef or position but can't make a news story out of it? Take a poll, then put the results on the front page with analysis, you can get your position out that way. I'll tackle polls in a later essay and go into this with more depth.
Certain reporters can be seen through a consistency in their work over the years and various stories to demonstrate a specific bias, one which damages their credibility and that of the organization they work for. For example, the Associated Press wire reporter Jennifer Loven and CNN's Christiane Amanpour (formerly of NPR's All Things Considered):
“Yes. I think the press was muzzled and I think the press self-muzzled. I'm sorry to say but certainly television and, perhaps, to a certain extent, my station was intimidated by the administration and its foot soldiers at Fox News. And it did, in fact, put a climate of fear and self-censorship, in my view, in terms of--of the kind of broadcast work we did. I mean, all of us should have...”
CNBC's Tina Brown asked her if she meant there was a particular story they she wasn’t allowed to do, and she responded:
“It's not a question of couldn't do it, it's a question of tone."
Ms Amanpour on Iraq (video file)
Ms Amanpour on how Hamas can't help the poor because Israel and the US refuse to fund them
Ms Amanpour downplaying a terrorist strike
Ms Amanpour's muslim background and distortions
Roger Simon examines Ms Amanpour claim that she was muzzled during Iraq War
EXAMPLES AND TYPES OF BIAS
There are many different sorts of bias that can show up, and here is a very limited list of types with examples of each.
Working For a Political Party
This kind of bias is when a news organization deliberately assists one political party or harms another, attempting to tilt audience opinion and shape election results or policy:
Election coverage harder on President Bush, study says
CBS News works with Kerry campaign to coordinate meeings in connection with Rathergate memo
CBS News runs scare story Reviving the Draft implying Bush wants to
Draft Story lacks advocacy information when it ran, was added to transcript later
CBS and New York Times collaborate on release of story timed to hurt Bush campaign
ABC News memo sent telling reporters not to hold Bush and Kerry campaigns "equally accountible"
Boi from Troy blog notes that Kerry win of debate was reported before debate took place on AP wire
Choice of Words
Another way of bias is to pick certain words, especially adjectives, to describe persons or events
Man asking questions of Theresa Heinz is described as heckler
BBC removes word "terrorist" from report on London bombing
CBC tries to explain why it refuses to label anyone a terrorist by policy
BBC and Reuters refuse to use the word terrorist
AP and Reuters reports try to paint palestinians in best possible light
Use of words conservative and liberal
Analysis of words used and how they reveal bias
Disproportionate Coverage
This is a bit more subtle, but bias none the less. Some reports tend to heavily emphasize some news and bury or de emphasize others.
Heavy focus on bad news from Iraq
Zarqawi is killed but coverage is on Haditha and recoverage of Hurricane Katrina
New York Times tries to tie President Bush to Abramoff scandal, ignores Democrats involved
Failure to Identify Party
One of the more sad and consistent examples of news media bias is a common tendency in news reports of scandal to identify the party affiliation of Republicans and avoid it with Democrats.
Representative William Jefferson (D. LA) not identified as Democrat
Niles Illinois Mayor is arrested, but Democrat party affiliation is not mentioned
Conservatives labeled but Liberals not
Senator John Ford resigns, but he's apparently not part of any political party
Buried or ignored stories
Newspapers cannot carry everything, and clearly some news has to be skipped, but when it fits a certain pattern and consistent theme, then you can see bias.
45 killed in fight with Insurgents ... but you don't find out that over half were other insurgents til further down
Iraq reporters tend to stay in a hotel
...and rely on informants who are hostile to coalition presence and Hussein's overthrow
Michael Yon on why Iraq's good news is ignored
10 top underreported stories of 2004
False Reporting of Events
Unfortunately, some of the most egregious bias is when a reporter deliberately reports events in a false, misleading or invented way.
New York Times reports 30 headless bodies were found in Iraq... when they were not.
Various examples of palestinian details left out, like how they had guns in an attack
New York Times story on terrorist omits critical details and background
Dozens killed in Afghanistan... but the fact that they are Taliban is omitted
Eason Jordan admits CNN was ordered not to cover some news in Iraq
Boos reported at Bush rally that did not occur
Reporter's Personal Politics
Reporters can sometimes inject their own politics into news stories. Here are examples of them admitting personal bias.
Jesse Jackson says media used to be in Democrats' hands
Mike Wallace says reporter should not warn US soldiers of ambush
*UPDATE: This video is available to watch online at Learner.Org. (You have to register). Search for Ethics in America. Click on Under Orders, Under Fire Part II. While the entire show is worth watching, you'll see the exchange starting at about minute 34.
Eason Jordan claims reporters "targeted" by coalition military in Iraq
Newsweek reporter admits bias in 2004 election
Background of Seymore Hersh
Simpatico with my liberal values
ABC White House Correspondent Terry Moran admits anti military bias in press corps
Not just in the US: BBC sends hecklers to conservative politician's meeting
Executive Producer of "Good Morning America" sickened by Bush
Global warming skeptics compared to holocaust deniers
And here are examples of them injecting this bias into a news story.
Scott Laidlaw can't resist slipping debunked and baseless Bush AWOL story into totally unrelated news
Can he?
Seattle Times report on West Wing cancellation claims "we loved" show
Collection of Dan Rather bias quotes
Words added to soldier's quote by reporter
Presumption that Global Warming's rise of 1 1/2 degrees over a century is noticed by people
Selective and edited Quotes
Unfortunately, something reporters are infamous for (fairly or not) is the selective use of quoting, picking parts of what someone says and presenting them out of context or in portions that mislead.
Halo designer quote left off key ending
Rumsfeld says no exit strategy?
Misleading Imagery
One of the choices that is available to an editor, publisher, or designer of a news program or source is what images are used. For example, when OJ Simpson was on trial, Newsweek ran the most sinister picture they could find of the man and doctored it to look even more shadowy.
A Guantanamo bay protest is held, but only 7 people show up... can you tell from the pictures?
Suskind holds up a map and claims it is what it is not
Reuters Wishful Thinking
Goofy pictures of people, and Cheney with Retire sign
Improving the Composition by making soldiers look bad
Digitally manipulated photos
Story about Bush's arrival written before arrival occurs
Reporter doesn't bother checking with Mark Cuban before releasing boat story
Iran asked for guarantees, but not according to CNN's report
Dan Rather's history of bogus reports and shoddy research
One Final Bit
The Texas Air National Guard memo catastrophe for CBS was a sad event that started out as error and ended up as idiocy and bias, with lies and disinformation mixed in by the end.
Rathergate memo in quotes
Reporters are doing a job, and for the most part they do a fine job. Their work is time consuming, and like any job being a good reporter is hard work that takes real talent. The nightly news runs about an hour on network television, but it carries dozens of stories with careful editing, camera work, timing, and writing. This is an accomplishment that is truly phenomenal, which makes 24-hour news even more impressive, although often quite repetitive.
The intent of these essays is not to attack or vilify reporters, most of whom do a fine job and avoid bias whenever they can.
However, there is a reason that terms such as “Drive By Media” and “Legacy Media” are used to describe all too many news organizations. There is good reason that newspaper circulation is dropping, news branches are cutting back staff, and TV news viewing is fading rapidly. There is good reason that reporters are viewed with suspicion and distrust, and why the internet is rapidly becoming the most used source for news and information. Fox News Channel grew from a tiny cable network to often having better ratings and viewership than network news on important events.
At least part of the reason is that the older news stations are largely out of touch with what Americans think on issues and view to be true and accurate. When the news organizations such as New York Times and CNN personally state to have majority political positions and religious ideology opposite that of the majority of their customers, then if they aren’t careful about how they express their opinions or what they cover, customers will look elsewhere. The internet and cable news has changed the availability of news stories, breaking a lock on information that the news networks, magazines, and newspapers enjoyed for centuries. And people are looking elsewhere for their information.
At least part of the answer may be to stop pretending a lack of bias and be open about it. The New York Times’ former editor in chief Daniel Okrent openly admitted that the paper is biased to the left politically, but only after retiring. Maybe its time for CNN, Fox News, CBS, the LA Times and others to be open and honest about their political position, and let the viewers and readers choose.
As things are headed right now, the nightly news on network television is going to disappear within 10 years, probably replaced by short news segments every hour and internet sites. Big newspapers seem to be on the wane, with local newspapers giving local news and information rather than state or international. That might be for the best overall, with the news organizations now heavily into press moving to the internet instead.
In any case, I hope this has been at least a little informative and useful for understanding, recognizing, and avoiding bias in the news.
Part One: The Mistake
Part Two: Sloth
Part Three: Incompetence and Credulity
Anna Venger said...
Well said. That was quite a collection of links.
The overall bias is palpable and has been for quite some time. You are right that much that happens is not bias, but many have become distrustful when there are so many evidences of actual bias out there. Changing quotes, photoshopping pictures are shocking because that's clearly intentional, but it does happen.
What is saddest to me is that many news agencies hold much of the population and their views in contempt. They really can't see the other point of view. That's fine for opinion pieces, but not for people who are supposed to be presenting fair information to the public.
Oh, the kitten is adorable...a real "awww" picture.
Christopher R Taylor said...
www.kittenwars.com! That's where I found the kitty :)
Thanks. My daughter will appreciate the site. We're kitty fans.
Willard Whyte said...
I did not respond to your blog the last time because I was visiting Anna’s and it was largely her supplements that frosted my windows. As does most of the attack on the “liberal” bias in the media. It comes from Bush apologists mainly, and features citation after citation alleging bias by the left. As if reporters from the “left” have a monopoly on inherent flaws in on-the-fly journalism you note. Or are somehow pure and unbiased, yourself included, for you come at all your analysis from an a priori set of “facts” about reporter mindset. Or your “worldview” about religion, belief in God and what activities must exist to demonstrate faith. I’m not a regular churchgoer, but I would match my depth of faith against yours any day. Anna would say I am a godless idiot too arrogant to properly background a science piece with thorough interviewing of a variety of scientists before writing a piece for print or broadcast.
You are hung by your own rope. One of the stories you cited as evidence of intentional bias was the one headlined as a CBS/NYT story timed to harm the Bush campaign. As I read the WP story you linked to, it clearly stated that the two senior editors ran with the story when they did because they feared all their hard work was being lost because the story was leaking out through the Internet. So the timing resulted from competitive pressures that are common, not some conspiracy hatched in a Georgetown bar by two leftists filled with bias. Some Republican politicians, and the Wall Street Journal – both Bush supporters – cast this in a partisan light because that’s how they view the world. Was the story fair and balanced? I don’t know because I never read it or saw it. Was it correct? I also don’t know the answer to that. It probably was timed to appear before the election because the War was a critical issue in the election for readers and viewers. So it would be a story with high consumer interest, whatever it said. And that would sell newspapers or draw viewers. That’s the prime motivator. Always has been and always will.
I watch Fox News and I don’t recall seeing a piece in the last few days on the GAO review of bonuses paid to defense contractors – even when their performance on contracts was horrid. As a taxpayer, I find this multi-billion dollar waste to be quite maddening, and another in a long, long string of examples of terrible management of that operation in this administration. The money flying out the back door of the Pentagon at home and abroad is reprehensible But Fox passes that story by because it views it as just another attack on Bush. Thus, no air time. That’s the intentional bias you speak of, and any voice suggesting that is a good thing for democracy is dead wrong. And I say this as a supporter of the War on Terror, the goals of the Iraq operation and most of the tactical methods employed.
You and Anna are both wrong – not about Dan Rather, perhaps or Ted Turner. Just as I am not wrong about Rupert Murdoch or Pat Robertson or Rush Limbaugh. Each time any one of them or their running dogs spins the news, edits with malice or bias a foresight, they undermine one of the vital legs this democracy and this nation stand on... You see to a degree, but through a glass darkly.
Most journalists are seekers of truth, principled people who work very hard – harder on most given days than the average bear. Most are not very well paid, and work ghastly hours following the news. A great many get their hands dirty and their clothes soiled covering the news, at times with blood, at times with sewage as they wade through New Orleans after a hurricane. And if they tire of watching bodies float by and stop to pointedly ask where the hell is FEMA, that’s emotion, not bias. And it is their job to ask that question when it is on the lips of 90 percent of the people on the ground they are interviewing.
Most reporters, editors and photographers and cameramen work for local papers, local stations and see themselves as apologists for no one, advocates for only the customers. With your broad brush you paint them all as slothful, indolent, unintelligent, thoughtless and shallow. And unprincipled, for what you accuse them of violates the very ethics of the trade. And each omission is perceived as evidence of bias, rather than an oversight or error or misjudgment. Judge not, lest ye be judged.
And deadline pressure will not ease, it will only worsen – for now the New York Times and CBS and Fox no longer can wait for the next run of the press or the next Nightly News because anything they have, no matter how thinly substantiated or verified, must go up on the Internet, lest someone, somewhere in the world post it first.
If indeed you do care about accuracy, context, balance and reasonable discussion based on sound science or evidence, you should be quite concerned. Because all of that is very quickly being sucked down the drain by the new Lords of “journalism:” Be first, be the loudest, be the fastest and loosest with your argument, and win baby, at any cost, even if it is truth. And My Side has no flaws, whether that is Red or Blue.
If bias is what you oppose, opppose any sign of it from any quarter, and you will be striking an important blow for democracy. For the independent watchdog -- imperfect as it will always be -- MUST be there if we are going to struggle for what is right, regardless of whether the chips falling are Red or Blue.
If I attributed the anti-business bias accusation to you wrongly, I apologize.
You are hung by your own rope. One of the stories you cited as evidence of intentional bias was the one headlined as a CBS/NYT story timed to harm the Bush campaign. As I read the WP story you linked to, it clearly stated that the two senior editors ran with the story when they did because they feared all their hard work was being lost because the story was leaking out through the Internet.
Actually if you'll note they were going to release it soon but put it out sooner than they desired because of the problem you mention. Unless their plan was to release it after the November elections (less than a month away) - which was not the case, according to the story - the timing was being worked on between the two sources to release it to damage President Bush's campaign.
As for bias in myself, of course I have bias, I've never claimed otherwise and am not a professional journalist. Surely you can see the difference? I searched long and hard in vain for tangible examples of conservative bias I could put in the list - some made it into the "misleading images" section - but they are hard to find. I don't doubt they exist, but since the media its self admits they are heavily liberal and there just aren't many conservative outlets, there are fewer examples.
I slogged my way all over the internet and could not find more examples - at least, not credible ones. If anyone has some to offer, please do link them, that's every bit as bad as liberal bias.
No the discussion was a negotiation of partners on the story about how to move it up to meet the competition. And to release it before the election when it was most relevant and most marketable. Two news organizations jointly pursuing a story of this type is not unusual, nor is it evidence of a conspiracy motivated by bias or an intent to affect the voting -- in and of itself. Only if you view it from that starting point.
The story itself, by its nature, may have had the impact of revealing a flaw in the Bush record. Just as many, many watchdog stories did during the Clinton years, and in the run-up to the 1996 voting.
Are you saying they should have held this story until after the election to shield the Bush campaign from negative ramifications of it publication?
How about the other examples? You're arguing over one. Do any of the others support his case?
" Anna would say I am a godless idiot too arrogant to properly background a science piece..."
Actually, without knowing you personally I wouldn't have said. I wouldn't comment on you specifically without knowing your situation specifically. Also, I rarely refer to anyone as an "idiot" or "godless". Those are your words, not mine. Please don't attempt to read my mind or imply that you know what I'll say before I say it.
Furthermore, I have cousins that work in media. I assure you that I am aware of their hard work and intelligence. They are both very gifted people.
General comments I made were in no way meant to be applied to all journalists, but to show that there are real problem areas out there worth addressing.
As far as your examples of individuals like Robertson and Limbaugh as biased reporters go, of course they are biased. Their point of view is identified from the get-go. Furthermore, they aren't reporters but partisans, specifically using news items as a base to discuss their opinions. Everyone knows that before they listen.
CT has identified some of the things that get people upset with the news, about which they cry bias. He has pointed out that most of the time there is no bias but human beings being human beings. He has also said that most journalists weren't intentionally biased.
I can't picture a journalist "going easy" on any of their subjects (except in cases of outright bias, but most of the time they want a good story), so why can't journalists take some heat themselves as someone examines their profession?
Anna, you miss the point on Rush and Pat and so many of the same ilk. You are quite informed and quite aware, and in most instances you can separate opinion from "straight news." These personalities move from one to the other in the blink on an eye in the course of a program -- they make broad statements and specific facutal representations with no attribution or substantiation, all part of the point of view that colors their programming. The viewer cannot separate; most take all of it as fact, assuming it would not be aired if it were not true.
Twenty years ago, before talk radio and 24-hour cable blurred this line, newspapers, magazines and TV news programs clearly stated when something was an opinion, or an analysis, which takes a look at a matter with a particular point of view. What Mr. Taylor quite rightly points out is that opinion and "slant" creeps ever more easily into the content that is supposed to be "straight" -- that is, dispensed with as much a degree of neutrality fairness and even-handed pressure on all sources or speakers as is possible. Rather certainly did this, and should have been fired decades ago for it. Cronkite did the same from a more conservative position before him.
Often, what passes for broadcast news now is a quick summary of what occurred and then an immediate cut to the "spin room," with a chance for Red to characterize the news and and then an equal chance for Blue. And very little energy expended helping the reader or viewer measure it all with some perspective on the distorted statistics, exception-to-the-rule examples or flat lies both sides use to defend their position or spin.
On the religion thing, I did extrapolate to godless. But what else do you mean when you cite a poll finding that a majority of journalists are not regular churchgoers, thus in their hearts cannot relate to those of faith, understand where they are coming from and approach that topic in an even-handed manner? I don't attend church each Sunday; ergo, I am not a man of God and simply cannot understand. Fill the newsroom with loyal churchgoers and "liberal" bias will disappear. Yes, maybe. But it will be replaced with a different bias, and one by its very nature imbued with far less self-doubt and open-mindedness than exists there now. For in that mindset -- or for some faiths -- a great deal is written in stone, not subject to evaluation and dissent. I don't see that as progress; I see that as, at best, the other side of the same coin.
And no, I didn't go through each of the items cited, because a scan of each of the headers he placed on them showed each to be an example of what he and others perceive as "liberal" bias. And in his response, he said he combed the Internet and searched until the cows came home and could find no examples of "conservative" bias. And that is absurd. Because you both agree that any number of "news" outlets, from the Wall Street Journal to The Washington Times to Fox News, openly state they "come at" the news from an anti-liberal position in order to provide a "balance" of offerings for the folks out there.
Mr. Taylor approaches this topic from a starting point that is this: There is "liberal" bias in the media. He then finds examples of such bias and says his case is proved. I allow that there is bias of all varieties in the media, and always has been. I suggest you read "The Powers That Be," an excellent book revealing bias in many media outlets over the years -- on the left and the right, from the Chandlers at the LA Times, to the McCormicks at the Chicago Tribune, Luce at Time and the founders of CBS.
I firmly agree with the premise that bias is a bad thing, because most people absorb this stuff with an inherent trust in its neutrality. Or at least they used to. As more and more media personalities feel freer and freer to openly cloak news with their bias -- or point of view -- it all rapidly approaches propaganda -- of the right or the left, or as I prefer from the Red or the Blue. Mr. Taylor finds no bias in conservative media because the chords struck in that reporting or broadcasting rarely strikes a dissonant chord with his worldview. It's not out of place; it's not an outrageous liberal spin or plot.
Most people out there are not strongly liberal or strongly conservative, if anyone can even come up with a clear definition of those terms. They are all over the map, depending on the issue, the way a question is phrased, the current events of the moment. They are often struggling to make sense of an incredibly complex world, and a range of issues they are far from expert on, and know in their guts there are no simple answers for.
They just want the who, what, where, when and how -- in one place, and then maybe the Why and the What it Means and the Is It Right or Good in another. That's all getting blurred and people sense that, along with the anger, the stridency and the outright manipulation. That's why they are turning it off -- and that goes for Internet blogs too, for the hit rates are dropping there too. They go to the media to find out what's happening -- and are greeted by the Red-Blue warfare, this crossfire of "facts" and a decibel level that makes them switch to American Idol as fast as they can.
And that's all a bad thing. The only thing worse, for me, is people -- inside the media and out -- who think the way to respond to declining ratings, circulation is to harden the point of view, ratchet up the volume and the acrimony and deepen the divide.
The answer is not philosophical advocacy journalism from any quarter.
Just tell the truth as best you can -- and come back tomorrow if you screwed it up or missed an important point. And for you and Mr. Taylor, if you think a reporter or broadcaster spun a story, ignored an important aspect or got taken to the cleaners by the spinmeisters, point it out to them. Trust me, journalists hate being wrong, looking stupid or getting chumped more than anything else. The rank and file that produce 90% of what you see and read. The columnists? Forget it.
And demand more, but not in attack mode, not in a way that denigrates the moral fibre of those doing the work. And approach the task fully aware of your own bias.
For you could be wrong -- as could I. If we don't approach every analysis with that as the base assumption, the effort is doomed.
Seems to me that Mr White is doing what he accuses Mr Taylor of doing: having a foregone conclusion. Mr Taylor has heavily documented his positions, and Mr White refuses to read them. Why? Because he presumes them to be false or misleading and simply chooses not to even bother researching what is said.
And that's just sad. I can't find much on conservative bias in the media either, other than accusations of Fox News and complaints about ownership.
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Stretching for many miles along the Volga, Stalingrad ranked among Russia's greatest industrial cities; here it is seen as a battlefield. The drawings in this thread give an extraordinarily realistic picture of fighting conditions in the outer suburbs and inside the city during WWII. Above, a great factory building on the outskirts has been converted into a formidable fortress, while in the foreground debris serves as a strong point, blazing defiance at advancing German tanks. Below, an impression of fighting in the city centre; in the same building different floors are held by one side and the other.
The battle of Stalingrad was unique, said General Dietmar, the Nazi military spokesman at the time. “The Russians have done everything that could be done to fortify the city, and their talent of fortification was well known.” For the first time in modern warfare the Germans were confronted with the task of fighting right through a great city which was being systematically defended. Street fighting in a town of 500,000 people was indeed a phenomenon. These vivid drawings tell their own story.
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Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, the Marx Brothers, the Three Stooges (well, the ones with Curly, although I prefer Shemp), Laurel & Hardy, W.C. Fields, and Mae West are among the few comedians of yesteryear who have withstood the test of time. There are far more who haven’t. Examples of this are Martin and Lewis (who never made a good film), Abbott & Costello (who perhaps made two good, but not great films) and … Wheeler and Woolsey. Who? See what I mean? Briefly, they were the hottest pair since peanut butter and jelly. For the most part, they deserve to be forgotten… with few exceptions, one being the pre-code comedy Diplomaniacs (1933, directed by William A. Seiter), which is one of the most jaw-dropping films of the 1930s. Possibly the most racist movie since D.W Griffith set the world on fire, it’s also about as straight as a flaming bunny and, in spite of itself, funny and weird as hell. Apart from one element, it could also serve as a banner film for MAGA fans.
Although Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey made a few films apart, it was only their work together (21 films in 8 years) that was successful. The teaming only ended with Woolsey’s premature death in 1938 from kidney failure. Their last film was 1937’s High Flyers, but with their risqué humor, the spot-on consensus is that their pre-code films are superior. Unlike other comedy teams, their films were not revived on television, which undoubtedly has contributed to their being largely forgotten. Still, it’s easy to see why their appeal hasn’t lasted. Their routines are stage-bound, both having come from vaudeville. Physically, Woolsey reminds one of George Burns. Wheeler is the skinny curly-haired boy.
Diplomaniacs came out the same year as Duck Soup and bears a similar, surreal anti-war message. The difference is in the latent homosexuality of their characters, which is a far cry from the raging hetero libidos of the Marx boys (that’s the one element MAGA boys have to get past, but they should, because there is plenty here for them).
Wheeler and Woolsey are barbers on the Adoop reservation, which doesn’t make for good business since red man can’t grow beard. Yup, every blatant stereotype about “Injuns” is intact. Naturally, the Native Americans are WASPS in face paint. The college educated chief can help the boys out financially with a commission to represent his tribe in the Geneva Peace conference.
Time for a song: “The red man was the big man and then came the great big white man and the white man is the right man. The whites got the red and the reds got the blues and the red, white, and blue was born.” Naturally, it’s got dancing native girls (well, painted white girls) in bathing suits, celebrating their kind being wiped out, and it ends with a Busby Berkeley kaleidoscope and the boys flying into outer space.
The next color demographic to get walloped is the yellow man, played sleazily by Hugh Herbert in a Fu Manchu mustache. “What kind of vamp you want?” he asks his white boss man. “A female vamp.” “What color? Red? Yellow? Black?” “How about white?” “But white ones get dirty.” “I want a white girl. She’ll have to get dirty to stop this peace movement.”
Herbert brings in Marjorie White (through a chute), wrapped in plastic. Yup, this is the misogyny portion of the program. “Open her up.”
Marjorie doesn’t mind. She steals every scene she’s in as the dumb blonde, but her work is cut out for her. Butch John Wheeler (with a phallic cigar) and Woolsey (in a feathered nightgown and cap) sleep in the same bed together, do a bit of snuggling, slap each other on the ass, break into song and dance (during which they declare they’re not interested in marriage and, to prove it, don’t even blink at a bevy of dancing buxom blondes) and start their mornings with a pedicure ordered by a man who makes Liberace look straight.
Marjorie tries to woo Woolsey. “Sing to me.” “My pants are too tight.” Of course, she fails. Girls do not interest him. A second vamp arrives in the form of Phyllis Barry, who literally kills with a smoking kiss (the curse of Eve). She’s just as unlucky; and even though the dual vamps are supposed to be stopping the boy from delivering peace, she’s got other things on mind (as she swings in a tree). “This is no time for sex.” “That’s what you say.” Poor Phyllis tries her smoking lips on Wheeler, but he one ups Bill Clinton by killing her with a cigar to the mouth.
After political intrigue, illegal Chinese immigrants, failed assassinations, efforts to stop peace, and guardian Injuns around every corner, the boys end with an extended blackface musical number that’s so over the top, it makes Al Jolson look progressive.
Although Wheeler and Woolsey lack the idiosyncratic personalities of the Marx Brothers, and their jokes often fall flat, pound-for pound, Diplomaniacs may be even more surreal than Duck Soup and is recommended… with the right crowd.
The Bitter Tea of General Yen is, for Frank Capra, surprisingly saccharine free. In addition to being an interracial love story, it’s equally seditious in calling out the avarice and hypocrisy of Christian evangelization. Miscegenation was still against the law in 1934 and the result was a box office failure (Barbara Stanwyck, who was very proud of the film, blamed its failure on the backlash of bigots. Today, the pissed off racists would be bombing Rotten Tomatoes with accusations of SJW propaganda). Just like today, audiences did not want a mirror held up to the hypocrisy in their social and religious status quo. That Bitter Tea was also sexually frank was a kiss of death. Capra learned his lesson, and went straight back to making populist WASP fodder.
Although it does have Nils Asther in Oriental makeup, he generally avoids stereotypes and invests the general with refreshing complexity. Stanwyck plays the missionary Megan who is at first saved by Yen, finds him revolting, and then is paradoxically aroused by him. A dream sequence in which Megan sees Yen as a devilish caricature, followed by revealing him as an Asian Valentino, is pre-code film at its most artistically sensual, lustrously lensed (by Joseph Walker) and impeccable in its art direction. Despite her Wonder Bread religiosity and the fact that she’s already engaged to a white man, Megan is increasingly attracted to the warlord. With atypical complexity, Capra confronts social mores, and ends the film with poetic devastation. Bitter Tea is far preferable to Capra’s later output, and deserves rediscovery.
Next week, I’ll break from pre-code film and look at a King and a Pope in 2018, with a guarantee of offending everyone.
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3 thoughts on “PRE-CODE HEAVEN: DIPLOMANIACS (1933) AND THE BITTER TEA OF GENERAL YEN (1933)”
Andre Solnikkar says:
Re DIPLOMANIACS:
The Native Americans are the most sensible characters in the whole movie, even if they do make the mistake of hiring W&W.
The lyrics, BTW, are a bit off. Here’s how they actually go:
“This once was the country of the red man,
when the red man was the head man.
And then came the great big white man – ”
“Paul Whiteman?” – “That’s right, man!
But the paleface crept where the warrior slept,
and stepped on the Indian corn.” – “Ouch!”
“Then the whites got the red
and the reds got the blues,
and the red, white, and blue was born.”
Casting British actor Edward Cooper as the chief is, I’d say, quite obviously a joke in itself – as is the casting of Hugh Herbert…. and his pseudo-Charlie Chan inanities (“It is written that it is written that it is written”). Just for fun, imagine, for a second, that the part had been played by an Asian actor. How demeaning for him to have to spout those lines!
Yep, Marjorie White comes in her original packaging (“One-a vamp on-a rye, coming up!”). Surreal humor or not, that might well be misogyny. But please note that it is the VILLAINS who treat her as an object. Both White and Phyllis Barry prove to be more resourceful than the boys, and they assert themselves pretty well (sing to me, indeed).
And yep, there is a blackface number. If there’s any doubt about it’s intent, note how Wheeler’s black glass frames turn white during this scene. …
LRobHubbard says:
Diplomaniacs shows on TCM 7/12 in the early hours – so set those DVRs if you’re interested in checking this out.
Brian Paige says:
Anyone who thinks Diplomaniacs is a film for the Trump MAGA crowd clearly misunderstood the entire film. The blackface number at the end is kind of a pseudo protest song done in the name of world peace.
Oh and who is John Wheeler? Bert Wheeler is in the movie, and he’s not the “butch one with the cigar.” That’s Woolsey.
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The List Thus Far (Certfied Weird Movies)
200 Motels (1971)
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953)
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension (1984)
After Last Season (2009)
Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams (1990)
Alice [Neco Z Alenky] (1988)
The American Astronaut (2001)
Antichrist (2009)
The Apple (1980)
Arise! The SubGenius Movie (1992)
Arizona Dream (1993)
Audition [Ôdishon] (1999)
Barbarella (1968)
Barton Fink (1991)
Batman Returns (1992)
The Beast [La Bête] (1975)
The Beast of Yucca Flats (1961)
Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
Beauty and the Beast [La Belle et la Bete] (1946)
The Bed Sitting Room (1969)
Begotten (1991)
Belladonna of Sadness (1973)
Belle de Jour (1967)
Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010)
Birdboy: The Forgotten Children (2015)
Black Moon (1975)
Blood Diner (1987)
Blood Freak (1972)
The Blood of a Poet [Le sang d’un poète] (1930)
Blood Tea and Red String (2006)
The Boxer’s Omen [Mo] (1983)
A Boy and His Dog (1975)
Branded to Kill (1967)
Brand Upon the Brain! (2006)
Bronson (2008)
Bubba Ho-Tep (2002)
Careful (1992)
Carnival of Souls (1962)
Catch-22 (1970)
Cat Soup (2001)
Cemetery Man [Dellamorte Dellamore] (1994)
Un Chien Andalou (1929)
Christmas on Mars (2008)
The City of Lost Children [La cité des enfants perdus] (1995)
City of Women (1980)
Clean, Shaven (1993)
The Color of Pomegranates [Sayat Nova] (1969)
The Company of Wolves (1984)
Conspirators of Pleasure (1996)
The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover (1989)
Cowards Bend the Knee, or, the Blue Hands (2003)
The Cremator [Spalovac Mrtvol] (1969)
Cube (1997)
Daisies [Sedmikrásky] (1966)
The Dance of Reality (2013)
The Dark Backward (1991)
Dark City (1998)
Dead Alive (1992)
Dead Leaves (2004)
Death Bed: The Bed That Eats (1977)
Death by Hanging (1968)
Death Laid an Egg [La morte ha fatto l’uovo] (1968)
Dementia [Daughter of Horror] (1955)
Der Samurai (2014)
Desperate Living (1977)
Dillinger is Dead (1969)
Django Kill… If You Live, Shoot! (1967)
Doggiewogiez! Poochiewoochiez! (2012)
Dogtooth [Kynodontas] (2009)
Dogville (2003)
Dr. Caligari (1989)
Eden and After (1970)
Eisenstein in Guanajuato (2015)
Elevator Movie (2004)
Enter the Void (2009)
Escape from Tomorrow (2013)
Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970)
The Exterminating Angel [El àngel exterminador] (1962)
Eyes Without a Face [Les Yeux sans Visage] (1965)
The Face of Another (1966)
The Falls (1980)
Fantastic Planet [La Planète Sauvage] (1973)
Fantasy Mission Force (1983)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
Fellini Satyricon (1969)
Female Trouble (1974)
A Field in England (2013)
Final Flesh (2009)
The Forbidden Room (2015)
Forbidden Zone (1982)
Funeral Parade of Roses [Bara no sôretsu] (1969)
Funky Forest: The First Contact (2005)
Glen or Glenda (1953)
Godmonster of Indian Flats (1973)
Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell (1968)
Goodbye Uncle Tom (1971)
Gozu (2003)
La Grande Bouffe (1973)
Greaser’s Palace (1972)
The Greasy Strangler (2016)
Häxan [Witchcraft Through the Ages] (1922)
Head (1968)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
Help! Help! The Globolinks [Hilfe! Hilfe! Die Globolinks] (1969)
Holy Motors (2012)
The Holy Mountain (1973)
The Horrors of Spider Island [Ein Toter hing im Netz] (1960)
The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973)
Hour of the Wolf [Vargtimmen] (1968)
House [Hausu] (1977)
Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)
How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989)
Hugo the Hippo (1975)
The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (1978)
I Can See You (2008)
Idiots and Angels (2008)
If…. (1968)
I’m A Cyborg, But That’s OK [Saibogujiman Kwenchana] (2006)
The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle (2009)
Indecent Desires (1968)
Inherent Vice (2014)
INLAND EMPIRE (2006)
Innocence (2004)
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life (1995)
It’s Such a Beautiful Day (2011)
I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse [J’irai Comme un Cheval Fou] (1973)
Japanese Summer: Double Suicide (1967)
John Dies at the End (2012)
Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
Keyhole (2011)
Kin-Dza-Dza (1986)
Kontroll (2003)
Kung Fu Hustle (2004)
Kwaidan (1964)
L’Age d’Or (1930)
The Lair of the White Worm (1988)
Last Year at Marienbad [L’Année Dernière à Marienbad] (1961)
The Legend of Suram Fortress [Ambavi Suramis Tsikhitsa] (1984)
Lemonade Joe [Limonádový Joe aneb Konská Opera] (1964)
Léolo (1992)
L’Immortelle (1963)
L’Inhumaine (1924)
Liquid Sky (1982)
Lisztomania (1975)
Little Otik [Otesánek] (2000)
The Lobster (2015)
Lost Highway (1997)
Love Exposure (2008)
The Love Witch (2016)
Lucifer Rising (1981)
Lunacy [Sileni] (2005)
The Lure [Córki Dancingu] (2015)
Maelstrom (2000)
Malpertuis (1972)
Mandy (2018)
Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966)
Marquis (1989)
Meet the Feebles (1989)
The Milky Way [La Voie Lactee] (1969)
Millennium Actress (2001)
Mind Game (2004)
Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life (1983)
Mood Indigo (2013)
Mr. Nobody (2009)
Mulholland Drive (2001)
My Winnipeg (2007)
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997)
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941)
Night of the Hunter (1955)
Night Train to Terror (1985)
Ninja Champion (1985)
No Smoking (2007)
Nostalghia (1983)
Nothing but Trouble (1991)
Nuit Noire [Black Night] (2005)
O Lucky Man! (1973)
A Page of Madness [Kurutta ippêji] (1926)
Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
Paprika (2006)
Perfect Blue (1997)
Performance (1968/1970)
Phantasm (1979)
The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
Pink Floyd the Wall (1982)
The Pornographers (1966)
Prospero’s Books (1991)
The Red Squirrel [La Ardilla Roja] (1993)
The Reflecting Skin (1990)
Reflections of Evil (2002)
Repo Man (1984)
A Report on the Party and Guests (1966)
Robot Monster (1953)
Roma (1972) [AKA Fellini’s Roma]
Rubin & Ed (1991)
The Ruling Class (1972)
The Saddest Music in the World (2003)
Sans Soleil (1983)
Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny (1972)
Santa Claus (1959)
Santa Sangre (1989)
The Saragossa Manuscript (1965)
Save the Green Planet! (2003)
A Scanner Darkly (2006)
Schizopolis (1996)
The Science of Sleep (2006)
The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb (1993)
A Serious Man (2009)
Seven Servants (1996)
Shanks (1974)
Silent Hill (2006)
The Singing Ringing Tree (1957)
Sita Sings the Blues (2008)
Skidoo (1968)
Skins [Pieles] (2017)
Society (1989)
Solaris [Solyaris] (1972)
Songs from the Second Floor (2000)
Sorry to Bother You (2018)
Spider Baby (1967)
Steppenwolf (1974)
Strange Frame: Love & Sax (2012)
Street of Crocodiles (1986)
Survive Style 5+ (2004)
Sweet Movie (1974)
Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971)
The Swimmer (1968)
Synecdoche, New York (2008)
Tales from the Quadead Zone (1987)
The Taste of Tea (2004)
Taxidermia (2006)
Tekkonkinkreet (2006)
The Telephone Book (1971)
The Tenant (1976)
Teorema (1968)
The Testament of Orpheus (1960)
Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)
That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
Thundercrack! (1975)
Tideland (2005)
Time Bandits (1981)
The Tingler (1959)
Titus (1999)
Tokyo Gore Police (2008)
Toto the Hero [Toto le Heros] (1991)
Trash Humpers (2009)
The Trial (1962)
The Triplets of Belleville (2003)
Tromeo & Juliet (1996)
True Stories (1986)
Tuvalu (1999)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)
Under the Skin (2013)
Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer (1984)
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)
Vampire’s Kiss (1988)
Vampyr (1932)
Viva la Muerte [Long Live Death] (1971)
Waking Life (2001)
Waltz with Bashir (2008)
Wax, or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees (1991)
Weekend (1967)
Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
Why Don’t You Play in Hell? (2013)
Wild at Heart (1990)
The Woman in the Dunes (1964)
Wool 100% (2006)
WR: Mysteries of the Organism (1971)
Yellow Submarine (1968)
You, the Living [Du Levande] (2007)
Zardoz (1974)
Zazie dans le Metro (1960)
A Zed and Two Noughts (1985)
Zéro de conduite (1933)
Celine and Julie Go Boating [Céline et Julie vont en bateau] (1974)
Electric Dragon 80000V (2001)
The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001)
Singapore Sling (1990)
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The past is never where you think you left it.
The Enchanted Island
Posted on August 21, 2018 by englishcountryhouses
Annagh Head, Erris
The mist cleared. And for a moment, I thought I saw it – the enchanted island of Manister Ladhra. Far out in the Atlantic, it hovered high and green and swathed in cloud, while the gulls danced on the wind and the gannets dived below me. Then it was gone.
Phantom islands have been coming and going off the west coast of Ireland for a thousand years. The most famous is Hy Brasil, which was shown on Catalan and Venetian maps in the 14th century and still appeared on navigational charts as late as the 1860s. Hy Brasil (no relation to the South American country) was a terrestrial paradise, with a harbour, houses and a castle at its heart. It appeared every seven years and for the rest of the time it lay shrouded in cloud, kept hidden by the hand of God, or by a powerful sorcerer, or by evil spirits, depending on which version of the story one believes.
Ortelius’s 1572 map of Ireland. The island of Hy Brasil is at top left.
There were many other such phantoms. Beyond Donegal there was an island called Tir Hudi, which contained all the riches of the world until it was enchanted by druids. North Mayo fishermen used to talk about Imaire Buidhe, an island where they might sometimes hear the sound of livestock and see the leaves of apple and oak before ‘the fog rose, and nothing was seen but the foam curling on the billow and the tossing of the porpoise.’ Also off the North Mayo coast, just beyond the Stags of Broadhaven, lay the Sunken Land, a country of hills and valleys with cattle in green pastures and sheep browsing on the slopes. Like Hy Brasil, it appeared every seven years when the Seal People, to whom it belonged, took human form.
Manister Ladhra (or Monaster Ladiri, or Monaster Lettera) belongs to this group of mythic islands. It was said to lie about a mile off Annagh, a wild and windswept headland on the Erris coast. Anyone lucky enough to glimpse it would be able to make out a delightful green land, with woods and valleys, rivers and little bays. Some claimed it was covered with church buildings, with a belfry and a tower. Others said it was ruled by a great king and crowned with a fortress garrisoned by giants who were ‘armed at all points with their caparisoned horses, standing in stables fast asleep, but waiting to be awoke by the sound of a great bell.’
What Manister Ladhra had in common with all the other mythic islands along the west coast was that it was always out of reach. Like them, it embodied a ‘longing for a land where there should be no sorrow, or age, death, or decay,’ as one 19th-century historian put it. It symbolised a ‘pathetic desire to escape the sadness of life.’
For a moment, I thought I saw it.
The Slaughter of Erris
Posted on April 7, 2018 by englishcountryhouses
It was just a folk-memory. A story that grandmothers told to children at the fireside.
Once upon a time, so this story went, the King of Munster invaded Erris with a great army. There was a terrible battle among the sandhills and the king was killed, along with his entire army.
For centuries nothing remained to commemorate the Slaughter of Erris except for the legend and a few curious place-names in the fields and dunes of the Mullet, that slip of land in the extreme north-west of Mayo that reaches out into the cold grey sea, uncertain as to whether it belongs or not. A mound of earth in a field was Righ Mhuimnigh, the King of Munster. A nearby hollow in the dunes was Lug na Fullagh, the Hole of Blood. Nearby was a spot called the Leacht ard, the High Monument. But there was no monument. Nothing to show for the horror that was supposed to have taken place once upon a time in this remote corner of Mayo.
Then in 1811 a tremendous storm hit the coast. When it was over, the sands had shifted, leaving behind a sea of human bones. There were bones scattered in the Hole of Blood, bones among the sandhills, and bones all round the place called Leacht ard. Stranger still, a monument had appeared. A huge conical stone cairn, 15ft high and 30ft across, was standing intact on a platform of rock where before there had been nothing but sand. It was the Leacht air Iorruis – the Monument to the Slaughter of Erris.
The Monument to the Slaughter of Erris
Every antiquarian visitor to Mayo mentioned this cairn. John O’Donovan, who helped to compile the first Irish Ordnance Survey maps in the 1830s, measured it with the help of a human shin-bone he found in the sand. The local priest excavated Righ Mhuimnigh and found a skeleton of a man standing upright, a sign that the mound was the grave of a tribal chief, perhaps even a king of Munster. T. J. Westropp, who surveyed the coast of Erris at the beginning of the twentieth century, photographed the cairn and measured it and wrote in awe of its ‘loneliness and weird surroundings, looking down to a featureless coast and unbounded sea’. By the 1940s the cairn was a recognised landmark, one of Erris’s most remarkable antiquities.
When we came here five years ago, we went looking for the Monument to the Slaughter of Erris. We knew where it was meant to be, and you’d think a 15ft-high stone cairn would be hard to miss. But could we find it? Over the years we peered at scattered stones and grassy mounds, at satellite images and ancient maps. We tramped over the dunes and drove down rutted tracks and combed the coast. There was no sign of it.
Then the other day, all of a sudden there it was. In the middle of a farmer’s field, towering over the sandhills, looking just as it did in Westropp’s photograph and as obvious as anything could be. We knew that part of the coast so well. I still don’t understand how we missed it for so long. We had to go back a few days later to check that it hadn’t vanished, like Brigadoon.
But here’s the strange thing. Part of me is sorry. Part of me wishes those precious stones had stayed in myth and memory, forever out of reach, just as the past is always out of reach.
Part of me regrets the finding.
A small act of remembrance
Posted on November 10, 2017 by englishcountryhouses
The little protestant church in Belmullet has been closed for half a century. Stark and forlorn, it stands on the edge of town, surrounded by its dead, waiting for revival or resurrection. You can find redundant Church of Ireland churches like this all over the west, uncomfortable reminders of the sea of faith’s long withdrawing roar.
But this church on the edge of County Mayo holds a strange surprise. In one corner of the graveyard there is a huddle of thirteen neat gravestones, each bearing the distinctive mark of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission – regimental badge, rank, name, unit, date of death and age. There are British soldiers and sailors and airmen here; a sapper from the Royal Engineers, a trooper from the Royal Armoured Corps, a 55-year-old RAF wing commander. All they have in common is that the sea took them, and the sea gave them up to Erris.
U-boat attacks on British shipping during WWII meant bodies were often washed ashore on the harsh Atlantic coastline from Belmullet down to Blacksod. Five of the servicemen laid to rest here died in the sinking of the troopship Mohamed Ali El-Kebir off Donegal on 7 August 1940. Four more were lost on 2 July 1940, when the SS Arandora Star was hit by a torpedo 125 miles off the Irish coast.
By an awful irony, the Arandora Star’s cargo wasn’t troops or military supplies. She was carrying 1200 German and Italian internees from Liverpool to camps in Canada, and 713 of them drowned, along with 37 military guards. The first that Erris knew of the disaster was a month later, on 3 August, when some locals found a decomposing body floating in the surf near Binghamstown, between Belmullet and Blacksod. Documents in the man’s overcoat showed him to be an Italian who until two months before had been living in Pontypridd in South Wales. He was just the first.
Later that day a second body was seen floating by the base of the cliffs at Erris Head, but no one could reach it. The following morning, a third was spotted in the sea off the Inishkea Islands.
Within days there were around 100 bodies floating off the Inishkeas. Some would never be recovered, in spite of heroic efforts by local people, who risked their lives to bring the lost to land. Others had nothing to show who they were when they were finally brought to shore. One carried a medal bearing the inscription, ‘Catholic: in case of accident send for a priest.’ Another had a bottle opener in his pocket inscribed ‘Tennents Lager’.
Two men went out through the crashing waves in a curragh to get a rope round the drowned man by the cliffs at Erris Head, and volunteers hauled him up the 200ft-high cliffs. He was wearing a pin-striped tweed suit and black shoes, and in his pockets were a religious medal, a pack of cards and a threepenny bit. That was all.
The soldiers, most wearing full uniform, were identified by their tags: Trooper Frank Carter, Private Donald Domican, Gunner Wallace Goodwin, Private William Chick. That’s how these four young men came to be buried in the little graveyard at Belmullet, how I come to this small act of remembrance. A farmer and two young lads waded out waist-deep into the sea with a towline at Annagh Head to bring in the body of 19-year-old Private Chick. When they’d got him ashore they found a photograph of a girl in his breast pocket, and they wept.
The Western World 2
Posted on March 27, 2017 by englishcountryhouses
Synge got three Guardian articles out of Erris, each illustrated with one of Jack Yeats’ oddly haunting drawings of thatched cabins, empty roads and half-formed faces. One day, they drove to the village of Geesala and walked out along the edge of Blacksod Bay until they came to the hamlet of Dooyork. The houses they saw were poor and primitive, ‘broken-down hovels of the worst kind’. People stared from their doorways as they walked by. Women passed them bringing in heaps of seaweed or turf in great panniers slung across horses, often with a toddler perched on top.
They got back to Belmullet to find Carter Square heaving with humanity. It was Friday 23 June, the eve of the Feast of St John the Baptist, and as the sun went down bonfires were being lit all over the west of Ireland. ‘A relic of Druidical rites’, according to Synge, presumably referring to the fact that St John’s Eve was close enough to the summer solstice for it to be a dual celebration, with prayers said for God’s blessing on the crops and torches carried through the fields to sanctify them.
Carter Square boasted the biggest bonfire in Erris, and the celebrations were more exuberant. There was dancing and music and games, fire-play as boys leapt through the flames and hurled burning sods of paraffin-soaked turf into the sky and caught them and hurled them up again. Synge and Yeats stood in the square and watched the spectacle. Synge wrote of how small boys shrieked and cheered and threw up firebrands for hours together. Yeats drew the scene, and noticed how one frightened little girl held tight to his friend’s hand.
In January 1907, the Abbey Theatre hosted the premiere of Synge’s great work, The Playboy of the Western World. The story of how a rural community lionises Christy Mahon, the young stranger whom they believe to have killed his father, caused a riot.
Now, Playboy was set ‘near a village, on a wild coast of Mayo’. And not just any coast, but the coast of Erris. Christy locates the scene as he makes love to Pegeen Mike in a speech which James Agate described as more exquisite than anything in Romeo and Juliet:
Let you wait, to hear me talking, till we’re astray in Erris, when Good Friday’s by, drinking a sup from a well, and making mighty kisses with our wetted mouths, or gaming in a gap of sunshine, with yourself stretched back unto your necklace, in the flowers of the earth.
In his preface to the play, Synge referred to the kind of talk one could hear ‘in any little hillside cabin in Geesala, or Carraroe, or Dingle Bay’. When Christy’s father arrives on the scene and threatens to expose his son’s homicidal boasting, he is urged to ‘take the road to Belmullet’, while Christy is offstage and triumphing in mule races ‘on the sands below’.
That was enough for Geesala. As far as the village was concerned, the summer walk that Synge and Yeats took to Dooyork was obviously the source for Ireland’s greatest contribution to 20th-century drama. And myth and truth began to blur in that peculiar way they have, uncertain and yet eager to outdo each other. When we first arrived in Erris, I was told that a rusty, tumbledown shed on the road out of Geesala was where Synge had written Playboy; a notion later modified and qualified so that the shed became the shebeen where the play was set. The Erris Players put on Playboy down on Doolough Strand in 2013 ‘(in Tent)’, and they still perform Synge’s works. Riders to the Sea is the most recent.
A hotel was put up in Geesala in the 1980s, the biggest building in the village, and called Ostan [‘Hotel’] Synge. When it changed its name a few years ago to Abhainn Mhór, ‘Blackwater’, the connection was maintained in the name of its new bar, the ‘John Millington Synge’, which was decked out like an upmarket shebeen which the hotel’s owners claimed was ‘based on the world-renowned play’. Then it was shut down, turning the sanitised faux squalor into an empty stage set, without players or audience.
And is Geesala that village on a wild coast of Mayo? Was it in one of the broken-down hovels at Dooyork that Christy Mahon tried to lead Pegeen Mike astray in Erris?
Perhaps. It fits, and not just in time and place and biography. Masefield said that Synge’s place was always outside the circle, and Erris is nothing if not that. On the edge of things. But art and life rarely fit as neatly as we might like. The truth is that the Western World of Synge’s Playboy is more likely a composite creation of Kerry and Erris and the Aran Islands.
So what? If you look for truth, take this. Truth is a tall stranger holding a little girl’s hand to keep her safe in the light of flaming bonfires.
Carter Square, Belmullet in 1909
It is late. The square is full of flaring fire and people.
In the falling midsummer light of a St John’s Eve crowds laugh and gasp at the antics of the boys as they hurl flaming paraffin-soaked sods of turf high into the sky, catching them and throwing them up over and again, leaping over bonfires, colliding with each other, swinging lengths of burning hay-rope around their heads. A child, caught in an ecstasy of pleasure and dread, reaches out unthinking to clutch the hand of a tall man, who just as unthinking returns its grip. This unlikely couple, who have never met before and will never meet again, stand close together, holding hands, until the fire play is done. Then the little girl vanishes back into the crowd and the half-light.
On any day, Carter Square in Belmullet is a mass of moving metal. Cars and 4x4s, camper vans and delivery trucks converge on a tiny traffic island topped with a piece of contemporary public sculpture, a tall stone pillar of uncertain meaning. The bright-lit windows of Shevlin’s ‘Complete House Finish’ – to be a simple hardware store is no longer enough, even in Mayo – gaze blindly across at the supermarket in the grandly named Royal Shopping Mall, at the young mothers drinking Fanta and Coke in Fun Bobby’s Bistro. Cars career onto the pavement outside the Bank of Ireland, barely coming to a halt on the double yellow lines before their elderly drivers spring, with surprising agility, at the ATM.
A hundred years ago, there was no pillar in Carter Square. No roundabout. On the monthly fair days, Belmullet’s broad market square was filled with stalls and hawkers and livestock and people bargaining for tinker’s goods and young pigs and second-hand clothing. The rest of the time, the only movement in a little town with less than 700 inhabitants came from an occasional cart or gig passing through, or from the bowler-hatted men in collarless shirts who stood and passed the time of day and cursed their terriers and their barefoot children for chasing the chickens that pecked in the mud.
The intrusions of a modern world were less frequent, but no less unpredictable: the sound of a gramophone coming from an open door, competing with a fiddler or a crooned lullaby floating through a window next door; the occasional foreign face attracting a parade of curious followers.
On 16 June 1905, the writer John Millington Synge and the artist Jack B. Yeats arrived in Carter’s Square to stay for the week at Deehan’s Royal Hotel, a solid three-storey establishment presided over by seventy-four-year-old Mary Deehan. The two men were collaborating on a series of articles for the Manchester Guardian on poverty in the west of Ireland. They had set off from Dublin on 3 June 1905, first taking the train down to Galway and then going up into Erris. Synge was delighted to be offered £25 4s. 0d. for twelve 1400-word articles, ‘more than I’ve ever had yet’. Then Jack Yeats let slip that he was being paid even more for illustrating them. ‘Though I had much the heavier job the dirty skunks paid him more than they paid me, and that’s a thorn in my dignity’, he told a friend weeks after returning from the trip.
In Erris, Synge and Jack found poverty without nobility and a rain-soaked landscape. The ‘endless wastes of brown mountain and bog’, the ‘miserable cottages’, the rain, the absence of granite and limestone which was such a feature of the Connemara coast, all conspired to give them ‘an almost intolerable feeling of dampness and discomfort’. Even the people in the fields, weeding their potatoes and cutting turf, seemed drab. ‘Their draggled, colourless clothes – so unlike the homespuns of Connemara – added indescribably to the feeling of wretchedness.’
And yet, and yet. They didn’t know it then, but in Erris, these two Dublin playboys had found a western world that would live on for ever.
Posted on October 20, 2016 by englishcountryhouses
Cillíní, children’s burial grounds, gathered folklore to themselves, stories and beliefs that suggested that even if we forgot the unbaptised, the landscape would remind us of their presence. It was thought that if you walked on certain pieces of ground at night, you would lose your way. ‘An unbaptised child is in darkness’, explained folktale collector P J Gaynor in the 1940s, ‘and will continue so till the Day of Judgement, and when a person treads on the spot where that child is buried he walks into the darkness; he is surrounded by it and consequently, he goes astray’.
There are other traditions: the rash which was said to break out on your skin if you stepped on the grave of an unbaptised child; the dead baby baptised posthumously in its grave by the tears of a repentant sinner. One old story told that the souls of the unbaptised carried candles with them into limbo. At night, these flickering flames could be seen outside the walls of cemeteries, as children tried to reach their families within.
As I stand in front of the cillín at Doohoma with the sea at my back and the wingless Icarus beside me, the thought that hits like grief is, ‘What did they think, these people, as they buried their children?’ Was it really a shameful clandestine act, the tiny corpse wrapped in its shroud and left by night in the cold dark earth with no mourners, no prayers and no hope of a sure and certain resurrection? Who was there to say goodbye? My own religious belief is unfashionably Anglican and typically English, leaving me caught between doubt and hope, with none of the certainties found by friends who are atheistic or devout. But a God who could so order things that the innocent along with the lost and the troubled could be denied salvation strikes me as a heartless God indeed.
Perhaps the community action that made the new cemetery at Doohoma back in the 1920s was an act of resistance. Phelim Henry’s graveyard was created around the children’s burial ground. It deliberately embraced the generations of stillborns, the suicides and the drowned strangers within its sod walls, bringing them into consecrated ground, as though Doohoma was reclaiming its dead from limbo.
A couple of days after Easter we were walking on the beach. It was bright but bitterly cold. The tide was out and there were maybe a dozen others on that long strand, joggers and dog walkers. One woman stood by, looking distracted, a long blue lead dangling from her hand.
‘It’s Brandon,’ she said, as if this were explanation enough. We waited.
‘He’s so wilful. He just goes off with anyone.’
She scanned the beach, expecting the wilful Brandon to appear from nowhere. As indeed he did, a muscular yellow labrador trotting happily along beside three walkers, confident as though they belonged to him. The group was half a mile away, but they were coming in our direction and the woman relaxed, loosening her tight grip on the empty lead.
We talked as she waited for Brandon to remember his home, exchanged pleasantries about the weather, the holidays. Then, after a moment’s pause, she threw an unlooked-for phrase into the conversation.
‘Wasn’t it a terrible tragedy for Easter? Did you hear? He was a relative…’
I couldn’t follow the complicated familial relationships. That mattered less than the story she told. The day before, the family of the man in question had returned home after a visit with friends, to discover that he had hanged himself.
We made the expected noises of sadness. How awful. His poor children. I felt vaguely angry and vaguely sorry, as I always do when suicide touches my life in a distant way. Then Brandon bounded up, unconcerned and unrepentant, and the woman hauled him home at the end of the long blue lead.
Two days later we drove through the village. It was noon and the way was filled with hundreds of cars. So was the village itself. They lined both sides of the road, filling the verges and the lanes running down to the beach, stretching out into the countryside for nearly a mile. Men in sombre suits were directing traffic. The layby next to the graveyard was cordoned off.
I glanced across at Helen and she nodded. ‘That man. It’ll be the funeral.’
I knew who she meant without asking. And I thought of the mound in the corner of the cemetery, of the dead brought back from the edge of things, of those who had known too much of life and those who had known too little.
A place that harbours memory
There are several hundred children’s burial grounds, cillíní, in Mayo, and at least eighteen in Erris – probably more, since some sites must be lost to memory. Most of the Erris survivals are on or near the coast, like the mound in the cemetery at Doohoma. There is another at Doolough, a few miles north. It nestles among the dunes and marram grass beside the beach. Bones exposed by the shifting sands were reinterred in Glencastle Cemetery, near Belmullet, about sixty years ago. When they were later stolen (by medical students, apparently) and more bones began to surface around the original cillín, the story quickly got about that the dead had returned to the shore. Their rightful place was on the edge of things.
Other cillíní are scattered around Blacksod Bay and Broadhaven Bay. At least one lies far out at sea on Dubhoileán Mór, the Big Black Island, where it stands beside ancient ruined buildings, ritual sites whose meaning has been lost, with only seabirds, seals and peregrine falcons to mourn for unknown children whose lives were ended before they began. There are two more cillíní, ignored and unnoticed, beside the main road from Castlebar to Belmullet. In the 1890s Dr Browne, the Dublin anthropometrist, found what he called ‘an infant cemetery’ at Bunmore, deep in the heart of Ballycroy. Browne commented that ‘unbaptised or still-born infants are buried at night in separate burying grounds, by themselves’.
There is another on the road from Bangor to Geesala, high up on the side of Mount Jubilee. This 130-metre high hill, where St Patrick himself is said to have celebrated mass, was originally called Tristia. It was renamed by Dr John MacHale, bishop of Killala, in about 1825 to mark Pope Leo XII’s Year of Universal Jubilee. He singled out such a modest hill because a villager was passing by it late one night when he saw a vision of the Virgin Mary perched on a ladder and either descending from or ascending to the heavens. Unfortunately, when the man went back to the site in daylight he couldn’t work out exactly where the vision had been. Bishop MacHale arrived on the spot and rolled a stone down the hill, announcing with commendable pragmatism that wherever it came to rest was the site of the Virgin’s ascent (or descent); and he caused a little church to be built there to commemorate the event. The cillín is close by this little chapel, a stony mound that gains significance from the nearness of holiness, becoming, like its neighbour, a place that harbours memory.
But not one that recalls it in any concrete way. The grave-markers at cillíní are always simple: nothing more than a small stone, standing or fallen, or perhaps a clutch of the white quartz pebbles. There are never names. I have stood at every cillín in Erris, from the jumble of stones inside the clifftop fortress of Dun Fiacr, where the sea foam flew round me like snow; to the little ringfort beside a sandy creek at Talach, down in the far south of the barony; and I have never found a single inscription to remember a child’s passing, no message of hope or mourning. Often there are no markers of any kind, so that a swell in the lie of a field and a note on a Victorian map are all there is to show that the dead are here. That and the tears.
Is that because these dead had no name? Quite literally, in the case of the stillborn, their identities as unformed as their bodies, and the sickly neonates for whom the act of naming seemed a pointless waste, and the strangers thrown up on the shore. By being buried with them, the suicides and the unrepentant sinners also have their identities stripped from them; they are denied both admission to the presence of God, and an admission that they have lived on earth.
Like the stillborn, it is as if they had never been.
Like so many of the burial grounds in Erris, the graveyard at Doohoma looks out to sea. The square two-acre plot lies on a quiet hillside a mile out of the village, close to the strand, walled and gated and neatly kept. Tarmac paths encircle the perimeter. There are stone benches provided by local firms of stone masons as comfort and advertisement – ‘donated by Nephin Headstones’, ‘donated by Connolly Memorials’ – and a little shrine to Our Lady, who stands aloof and flanked by two painted angels. At some point one of the angels has lost his wings. They lie, perfectly intact, at the Virgin’s feet while their flightless owner stands with eyes downcast, a repentant Icarus, a player in a failed Annunciation.
The people of Doohoma fought hard and long for their own graveyard. For centuries the nearest cemetery was at Kiltane, ten miles away. Often enough when bad weather and worse roads prevented a funeral party from taking a corpse on its last journey, it had to be kept in a house for days on end. Years of campaigning for a local burial ground by Phelim Henry, owner of Henry’s Hotel in Doohoma, came to a head one night in November 1926 at a public meeting in Belmullet. Tasked with reviewing the provision of cemeteries in Erris, not only did the County Health Board turn down Henry’s repeated request for a graveyard at Doohoma, but a Mr McGeehin stood up to say that if there was to be a new burial ground in the district, Geesala rather than Doohoma was the best place for it; he would donate the site himself.
Doohoma wasn’t going to give away to Geesala, which was a good five miles away. Phelim Henry told McGeehin that his site was ‘a shaking bog in which you couldn’t bury a dog’. He told the Board of Health that there was spirit left in the people of Doohoma, and they would take matters into their own hands. And he went home and called out the men of the district. At dawn two days later, 300 men answered his call: they had an Irish acre fenced with sod walls and drained before the sun disappeared on the Western horizon. The next day Henry waited on the Bishop of Killala and secured his promise to come and consecrate the graveyard.
Eight months later, in the presence of a thousand people gathered on the hillside outside the village, the Bishop paid public tribute to Doohoma’s efforts. He consecrated the ground, urged that the people ‘should not open graves in an irregular manner, which would hereafter lead to endless confusion’ and awarded a fifty-day indulgence to everyone present. Then he climbed back into his motor car and drove away along the strand.
Cattle now graze the surrounding fields while the graves, grown to four hundred or so, are tended with love and respect, the Henrys and their neighbours cared for in death. Doohoma looks after its own. The sod wall has been replaced by a sturdy concrete fence, to deter the dead from wandering.
The only odd note in this tale of civic pride is a rough grass-covered mound, ten yards across and maybe two yards high, which stands in one corner of the cemetery. In stark contrast to the neat rows of marble tombstones with their jars of flowers and raked gravel beds, this hillock is unkempt, neglected. Rocks and stones lie scattered over its surface without pattern or obvious meaning.
But they do have meaning, poignant even in that already poignant spot. On the side of the mound an ornate heart-shaped piece of grey marble bears a message:
Blessed are the Children
For Innocence
Is One with Heaven
Surrounded now by the ranks of righteous dead, the mound predates the cemetery and the Bishop’s consecration by decades, maybe centuries. Long before Phelim Henry issued his call to the men of the townland to build their new graveyard between sunrise and sunset, the hours of darkness saw God knows how many sad processions along the strand to this place that stood alone by the sea, unconsecrated and unblessed.
For this was originally a cillín, a children’s burial ground, where the stillborn and the unbaptised were laid to rest along with suicides and drowned strangers – a sad association of those who had known nothing and those who had known too much of life.
Keats vs. Newton
A double rainbow over Tullaghan Bay
Keats accused Newton of destroying all the poetry of the rainbow ‘by reducing it to the prismatic colours’. When I first started to notice the rainbows of Tullaghanbaun, part of me didn’t want to see the poetry drowned in a storm of science and angles of reflection and refraction. Isn’t it enough to know that the rainbow comes and goes, I thought, not a thing in itself but a fleeting relationship between me and the sun?
No, it’s not enough. Familiarity breeds not contempt, but curiosity. I began to ask myself why so many bridges to nowhere here, in this land of no promise?
The physics is fairly straightforward. It needs to be, for me to understand it. When light moves from one medium into another where its speed is different, the light ray is bent, or refracted. Because different wavelengths are bent to different extents, the light separates: red bends less sharply than violet, and this refraction is what creates a spectrum of colours.
As light hits the ‘front’ of a droplet of rain it is refracted and separated: instead of passing straight through, some of this refracted light is then reflected from the ‘back’ of the droplet, which acts as a mirror of sorts. And as the light bounces in the general direction of its source, it is refracted once more as it leaves the medium of the water and re-enters the air, and so it separates further. This process of refraction, reflection and refraction is what creates a primary rainbow. The secondary bow, outside the primary and always dimmer than its companion, is caused by light reflecting not once, but twice, bouncing across the back of the droplet before exiting. That second reflection is the reason why the colours are reversed in the secondary.
A secondary bow is always there in a theoretical sort of way, but it is usually too faint to be visible unless the primary is bright. Even more theoretical are the tertiary rainbow, the product of three internal reflections; and the quaternary, the product of four. Because light is lost with each reflection, it is rare for these to be visible with the naked eye. Both were photographed for the first time in history in 2011, and three years later a quinary rainbow was observed and photographed in New Mexico appearing in Alexander’s dark band, between the primary and secondary, so faint that even with enhanced imaging you’d be hard put to see it.
In normal circumstances, the most you can hope for is a double rainbow, and the only way to see either a single or a double is to have the sun behind you and rain in front of you. The best time of day is early or late, because the lower the sun is in the sky, the more rainbow you see. Think of a rainbow as the edge of a disc of light, the centre of which is diametrically opposed to the sun in the sky. So as the sun rises, more of this disc sinks below the observer’s horizon, and when the sun reaches a certain height it vanishes altogether. ‘The noonday-bow is therefore best seen “smiling in a winter’s day”,’ said Constable, ‘as in the summer after the sun has passed a certain altitude, a rainbow cannot appear.’
So you need sun for a rainbow. You also need rain: the clue is in the name. And there is plenty of rain here. In most months of the year, it rains on most days in Erris. But the curious thing is that the rain rarely lasts for more than a few minutes, and the showers are so localised that I watch them coming, sweeping in across the bog with that striped, jagged look that the sky has as clouds break under the weight of water. Or they creep over the Nephin Begs, covering their peaks in white to tumble down the mountainside and race towards me across the bay.
These localised showers bring Tullaghan its rainbows. The sun shines at my back and the sky turns dark and suddenly, for a moment there is Bifröst linking earth and heaven, there is God’s covenant. There is the poetry.
A rain shower moving down the bay
[For my explanation of how rainbows work, I’ve drawn on The Rainbow Bridge: Rainbows in Art, Myth and Science, by Raymond L. Lee and Alistair B. Fraser (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001). Needless to say, if I’ve got it wrong the fault is mine and not theirs.]
Don Alonso and the Devil’s Hook 4/4
Posted on September 25, 2016 by englishcountryhouses
By the afternoon of 23 September 1588, Tullaghan Bay was quiet again. The remains of the Rata Santa Maria Encoronada lay smouldering on its side by the shore. Don Alonso and his men had boarded the Duquesa, taking with them plate, money, armour and personal weapons. They’d been forced to leave behind their victuals and heavy ordnance; but no doubt the Devil’s Hook found a use for these things.
Bursting at the seams with men and baggage – her own complement of about 250 crew and soldiers, the 400 from the Rata and some survivors from another ship that had foundered nearby – the Duquesa set sail on the morning tide, bound for home. English soldiers watched from a distance as Don Alonso boarded her, but outnumbered and surrounded by hostile locals, they were powerless to stop him.
The Duquesa didn’t get very far. A combination of calms and stormy weather meant that four days later she was back where she started at the entrance to Blacksod Bay, and it was only through fine seamanship that she wasn’t lost among the islands. Sir Richard Bingham assumed Don Alonso and his men must be cast away. It was not possible he could escape, he reported to Dublin, ‘except his ship were most strong and good, for he was marvellously pestered with such numbers of men’.
The Duquesa set out again, this time heading north for Scotland. She had crossed Donegal Bay and made about seventy miles when storms forced her towards the shore. Although she dropped her anchors, her cables broke and on 29 September she was driven aground at Tramore Beach in Donegal.
The Spaniards disembarked, carrying Don Alonso, whose leg had been injured in an accident with the capstan during the storm, so that he could neither walk nor ride. They set up camp by the ship, fortified their positions, and pondered their next move. One of the guns transferred to land from the Duquesa was still there, half-buried in the sands, in the 1960s.
But Don Alonso’s luck held. Again, he and his men had been wrecked in a part of Ireland that preferred Spain to England: the local chieftain, McSweeny Na Doe, was happy to help them, and through an interpreter, an Irish monk who was travelling with Don Alonso, he told them that an Armada ship, the Girona, lay at anchor nineteen miles away in the harbour at Killybegs. She was battered, but she could be repaired.
In early October the Spaniards from the Duquesa set off for Killybegs. Don Alonso, still suffering from his injuries, was carried on a litter between four men. There were persistent rumours that English soldiers were on their way, and as soon as Don Alonso arrived he set about getting the Girona fit for the sea. His plan was still to get across to Scotland, a voyage of between 150 and 200 miles.
On 26 October 1588, after giving the MacSweenys and their friends some wine and a quantity of firearms, Don Alonso set sail, ‘having for his pilots three Irishmen and a Scot’. The Girona was massively overladen: there were about 1300 men aboard, and even then some were left behind to find their own way home, chiefly galley slaves and pressed men.
And now, finally, Don Alonso’s luck ran out. On the night of 28 October the Girona foundered on rocks near the Giant’s Causeway. There were a handful of survivors, all Italians. Everyone else was drowned.
Back in Erris, the rebels who had helped Don Alonso and the other Spaniards were facing retribution from Sir Richard Bingham and the English garrison. Bingham had William Burke, the Blind Abbot, arrested and imprisoned; he was freed three months later after agreeing to provide his son as a pledge. Justin MacDonnell, ‘a notable ringleader of mischief’, was charged with treason under martial law. For giving food to the Spaniards and denying it to the English soldiers who were hunting them, for whipping up his people ‘in a very disorderly sort of way by mutiny’, and because ‘he was but a loose man’, he was hanged.
The Devil’s Hook had with him a number of Spaniards whom he had picked up along the way, and he refused to hand them over to Bingham. He knew what their fate would be if the English had them, and he knew too that they would make excellent fighters, since they faced certain death if they were captured. He retreated with them and his own clan deep into Erris, where for months the English hunted him through the bogs and out into the islands, never quite catching him, until he simply vanished into the past, a barely-remembered footnote to a barely-remembered history.
The Rata Santa Maria Encoronada, or what’s left of her, is still there beneath the sands of Tullaghan Bay. Once, I thought I saw the shadow of a ship out there.
It was just clouds scudding across the sun.
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Scene By Scene: STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN – Pt VIII – ‘By the Book’
As voted for on Twitter by followers, I will be analysing Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan scene by scene in this multi-part exploration of Nicholas Meyer’s 1982 sequel…
One of the key aspects to the character arc of James T. Kirk across The Wrath of Khan is how he, as Dr. McCoy puts it toward the beginning, hides behind rules and regulations as a way of insulating himself from his own lack of inertia. Following the Reliant’s ambush, and the death of young a Starfleet crewmen who represent the next generation, Kirk has nowhere else to hide.
It has been oft-discussed in analysing Star Trek about how frequently the Captain of the ship puts himself in unnecessary risk. Jean-Luc Picard jokes in Star Trek: Nemesis how his first officer, Will Riker, is a “tyrannical martinet” for never allowing him on away missions. By that point, Star Trek can laugh at its own history, across multiple series and Captains, of the figurehead throwing themselves into the fray – and this is precisely what Kirk does once the Enterprise reaches space station Regula 1, upon hearing no word from Carol Marcus or her people.
Across The Wrath of Khan, Kirk has been challenged by regulations, or he has enforced them with company drills or refusing to take command from Spock upon joining them for the training cruise, and the green, curious Lieutenant Saavik has been there repeatedly to query any attempts to not go “by the book”, as Spock later describes it. Saavik here quotes General Order Fifteen: “No flag officer shall beam into a hazardous area without armed escort” as a justification for joining the away mission, and Kirk knows in this case she is not going by the book herself.
You sense in Nicholas Meyer’s writing a clear distrust of extreme, enforced regulation. Once Kirk throws those self-enforced shackles off, he starts to rediscover the swagger and humour he displayed in The Original Series. He begins to embrace that deeper humanity, even in the face of the kind of chilling horror he encounters on Regula 1.
While The Wrath of Khan primarily operates as a naval adventure, with a dash in places of WW2 submarine thriller, during the Regula 1 sequence Meyer segues almost quite deliberately into haunted house horror.
Regula 1, cold and deserted following the Reliant’s unseen arrival, blends the open, quiet, ominous terror of the Overlook Hotel in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining with the science-fiction dread of the Nostromo in Ridley Scott’s Alien, both movies which cast a long shadow over cinema in subsequent decades. These sequences are tense and unerring, filled with the lingering horror of what Khan, off screen, may have wrought. Bones bumping into the bloodied, hanging corpses of Regula 1 scientists brings it home, accompanied by a thundering blast of horror movie strings from James Horner.
Had we witnessed Khan’s attack, and the slaughter of the Regula 1 team, this sequence would have been much less effective; instead we are left to imagine what, if we’re sticking with a horror movie theme, could have been a slasher in all but name. “He tortured those people. He went wild. He slit their throats” the traumatised Captain Terrell, once found in the station, recounts to Kirk, having witnessed a terror all the more potent for how we can imagine it.
In some respects, it almost doesn’t track with the performance Ricardo Montalban gives as Khan. There are points we see how feral and unhinged he is, particularly toward the end when he loses control, but Meyer intentionally holds back on showing Khan actively murder people. We never see him directly break out into violence; he never even fights Kirk mano-a-mano, which could have happened given the shape both Montalban & William Shatner were in as middle aged men (Kirk does of course get such a fight when he battles Commander Kruge in The Search for Spock). We simply hear Khan urbanely, almost with a degree of irritation, order Terrell to murder Kirk. These choices simply add to the enigma and terror of Khan and his crew, hearing horrors recounted. “He’s completely mad, Admiral” Terrell reports, and you can believe it.
It further adds to, as previously discussed, just how much Khan and his crew break the traditional, regulatory norms of Starfleet and societal conduct. They don’t just attack, they slaughter. They are marauders and do the futuristic equivalent on Regula 1 of rape and pillage, stringing innocent people up (civilians, lest we forget) having sacked the station in order to reap it’s riches – in this case the Genesis materials, which Carol and her scientists wisely destroyed any information of before Khan or his people could access them.
What’s interesting is that when Carol and the escaped survivors beam down to the Regula planet, down to what we later see to be Eden, Khan didn’t follow them. As the traumatised Pavel Chekov recounts “He spent most of his time trying to wring information out of the people” suggesting that Khan focused on torturing and interrogating captured Regula scientists to give up the secrets of Heaven. “Those people back there bought escape time for Genesis with their lives” Bones makes explicit. Many scientists in this case, not Bothans, died to protect this information.
Perhaps Khan didn’t follow Carol and the scientists down to Regula because he was unable to see, or understand, the Edenic paradise Kirk soon realises exists there, hidden in plain sight. Saavik reports Regula as “a planetoid we know to be lifeless” but Kirk understands from Carol’s Genesis briefing that the first stage of bringing life from lifelessness was to test the device underground. It is a neat, symbolic inversion of classical Christian and Greek myth; Khan raises himself from the Hell of Ceti Alpha V (where he later maroons the Reliant crew) but is unable to find Heaven, which itself has been rendered below, as opposed to above.
Kirk’s decision to follow them, to beam down to Regula, is not just proof he is abandoning regulation: it is a veritable leap of faith. All the scans suggest Regula is a dead planet, a moon incapable of supporting life, yet he is willing to buck the rule book and find out where they went. He and Spock, in one of the frequent, lovely conversations they have in The Wrath of Khan where they display the pure simpatico only friends and colleagues over decades would have, discuss how going by the book renders the Enterprise and her crew in a far graver situation than is ultimately the case. “Admiral, if we go by the book, like Lieutenant Saavik, hours could seem like days” Spock reports. If Saavik justified her own rule breaking to follow Kirk, Kirk does the same to undertake his leap, and Bones ironically is much less certain of Kirk’s faith than he earlier in the film encouraged him to be. “Suppose they went nowhere?” he anxiously asks. “Then this will be your big chance to get away from it all” is Kirk’s brilliantly pithy reply.
This existentialism, and Kirk’s continued abandonment of Starfleet regulations, provide the catalyst for the moment his own journey to rebirth and the film’s direct Christian allusions become clear. The Admiral is about to face his own youth by discovering his own personal paradise.
Don’t miss out on the rest of this series here:
I – ‘A No-Win Scenario’
II – ‘Surely, the Best of Times’
III – ‘Something We Can Transplant’
IV – ‘Death and Life Together’
V – ‘First Best Destiny’
VI – ”Round Perdition’s Flames’
VII – ‘The Word is Given’
VIII – ‘By the Book’
IX – ‘There Always Are… Possibilities’
X – ‘Sauce for the Goose’
XI – ‘Live Long and Prosper’
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Members of Northern Ireland Legislative Assembly (MLAs) return from their Summer holidays tomorrow. The Assembly still has a relatively new makeup following last May’s elections. However, on paper, the Executive makeup is apparently very different from before – or is it?
There have been a few minor changes in party strengths since the 2011-6 Assembly but the overall party position is little changed. It is the makeup of the Executive which is substantially changed.
In the previous Assembly the Executive was made up of a 5 Party Cosy Coalition under the rules which make mandatory coalition compulsory. Collective responsibility is not required. Democratic Unionists (DUP), Sinn Fein (SF), Ulster Unionists(UUP), Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) and the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (APNI) all supplied ministers to the Executive. The UK Independence Party (UKIP), the Green Party and Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV), all with a single MLA each, and an Independent MLA formed the nearest thing to an opposition – 4 out of 108 MLA’s.
During the 2011-6 period a few upsets, mostly involving the UUP, caused a bit of variation. Two UUP MLA’s jumped ship to form their own party (NI21) about half way through the 5 year term. The latter party split spectacularly two days before the 2014 Council and European Parliament elections with its 2 MLAs remaining as Independents. Late on in the life of the Assembly the UUP withdrew its Minister from the Executive but this had little effect on the Cosy Coalition which continued in a state of cross-community stasis arguing among each other over welfare reform and the state of paramilitary ceasefires. The inability of the Assembly to pass any controversial legislation remained unchanged.
So what has changed since the election? Well we still have a mandatory coalition (supposed to produce power sharing between Unionists and Nationalist/Republicans). Now, though, the Executive is made up DUP(38 seats), SF(28 seats) and a single Independent. The latter was appointed to get over the fact that neither DUP or SF were prepared to trust their Executive partners with the Justice Portfolio. So, in theory, 67 MLAs back the Government.
Meanwhile, with some provision for an ineffective opposition having been agreed between the parties last Christmas, UUP(16 seats) and SDLP(12 seats) went into opposition. Their parties have a total of 28 MLAs between them.
Finally an assortment of 8 APNI, 2 Greens, 2 People before Profit (PBP new to the Assembly), and one TUV make up a group not joining either the Executive or Opposition. That is all well and good with a veneer of normal politics possibly appearing.
However, let’s look at the other way of dividing up the Assembly Members. All Assembly Members are required to register a “Designation” when they are elected. They can change this later if they want. The Designation is important because it affects the outcome of some types of votes in the Assembly and, in theory, control of the Mandatory Coalition. MLAs can register as “Unionist,” “Nationalist” or “Other.” The First Minister is drawn, in the first instance, from the largest Party of the Largest Designation. The Deputy First Minister (in reality more of a Joint First Minister) is chosen from the Largest Party of the Second Largest Designation.
The more sinister importance of the Designation is when 30 or more members of the Assembly put down what is known as a “Petition of Concern” in advance of a particular motion. When this happens the relevant motion can only be passed if voted for by majorities of both the Unionist and Nationalist Designations. This particular regulation was originally intended to protect minorities but, in one of the more spectacular ironies of Northern Ireland politics, was last used towards the end of the 2011-6 Assembly to quash legislation for the introduction of same sex marriage which had actually achieved a majority had the vote had been straightforward.
In the new Assembly the Designations cut right across the Executive/Opposition divide. At present there are 56 MLAs registered as “Unionist,” 40 MLAs registered as “Nationalist” and 12 registered as “Other.”
The 56 “Unionists” consist of 38 DUP and 1 Independent from the Executive Parties, 16 UUP from the Official Opposition Parties and 1 TUV from outside both those groupings.
The 40 “Nationalists” consist of 28 SF from the Executive Parties and 12 SDLP from the Official Opposition.
The 12 “Others” consist of 8 APNI, 2 Greens and 2 PBP all from outside the Executive and Opposition groupings.
Please try to keep up – I’ll ask questions later.
In short, the Designations, which influence the weighted voting of Petition of Concern motions, no longer have any relevance to the Executive/Opposition set up. What are they for? Why do the larger parties not want to put their abolition up for negotiation?
The essentially sectarian nature of the Designations and Petitions of Concern dates back to 1998 when what was known as the “Peace Process” was in full swing and the main argument used against their abolition is still that that process would be damaged. However, the undoubted real reason for the larger parties, particularly DUP and SF, wanting to preserve the undemocratic system is that they are becoming increasingly comfortable and entrenched. While those two parties usually remain at loggerheads on most issues, they will now do anything to avoid losing what they suppose to be power in our Devolved Government. That is why nothing important ever gets done by Stormont.
What the rest of us have woken up to is that The Peace Process is OVER. The Executive and Opposition now cut right across the Sectarian divide. We are no longer operating our democracy while staring down the barrels of Republican and Loyalist Paramilitary guns. There is no more need for Designations, Petitions of Concern nor Mandatory Coalitions.
The Cosy Coalition and most of the Cosy Opposition at Stormont don’t want to listen to the alarm clock. It is up to us in the real world outside the gates of Stormont to ensure that the 2021-6 Assembly consists of radical reformers who will tear the whole unworkable structure down and build proper democratically accountable devolved government in its place. This can be achieved by the ordinary hard working citizens of Northern Ireland. My party, UKIP, stands ready to support them.
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Fate/Grand Order Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia 09 (A New Ally) #FGO_ep7 #FGOBabylonia
December 2nd, 2019 AstroNerdBoy
Fate/Grand Order Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia 09
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Fate/Grand Order -絶対魔獣戦線バビロニア- Episode 09
Fate/Grand Order: Zettai Majū Sensen Babylonia ep. 09
SPOILER Summary/Synopsis
Ana recovers from her battle injuries while Ritsuka, Mash, and Merlin make a report to Gilgamesh. Romani and Da Vinci recount the history of Gorgon and why she hates humanity. Since Gorgon fears the other goddesses, Gilgamesh decides they must deal with Ishtar by buying her off. Ana rejoins the party, and the foursome plus Fou go with a donkey cart full of treasure for Ishtar.
They arrive at Mt. Ebih, where Ishtar attacks them. Ana and Mash keep Ishtar distracted while Ritsuka empties a bag full of gems into the air. Ishtar sees the gems and stops her attacks. Since she uses gems in her magecraft, such a thing would fuel this for a long time. Then when she sees the cart full of treasure, combined with an offer for 25% of the treasures of Gilgamesh, she agrees to become Ritsuka’s Servant, provided he kiss her feet to seal the deal.
Inside Ishtar’s temple, she confirms Romani’s suspicion that she’s a Psuedo-Servant, having possessed a willing human. The fusion creates a new personality. Once Romani’s concerns are addressed, the group sets out. Ishtar drinks in their praises, but when they speak of her Bull of Heaven, Gugalanna, she doesn’t tell them she’s apparently not in possession of the beast.
That night at their camp, Ishtar gets up and is surprised Ritsuka is keeping watch, proving how much he cares for Mash. Ishtar shyly wants to know if Ritsuka is in love with her to want to bring her to his side. He’s flustered, but denies it. She claims to be joking, but she does seem more dere than during the day. She speaks of how she doesn’t have a problem with humans. However, she doesn’t like that they rejected the gods. Dawn approaches and she leaves to get some sleep, advising him to do so as well.
Thoughts/Review
And so another enjoyable episode comes to an end with Fate/Grand Order Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia 09.
A New Servant
We lost three Servants in the previous episode. And now we gain a new one with Ishtar. Although the episode does not state it, it is clear that Ishtar and TOHSAKA Rin from Fate/stay night (and other Fate titles) merged to form the Archer Servant we know and love. I’m told the game really didn’t go into details on this merger. I had hoped that the anime might flesh things out more. I mean, what would cause Rin to accept being merged with a goddess and becoming a whole new entity?
Alas, no such explanations came. Instead, long time fans of the Fate franchise have to laugh at the in-joke of Ishtar’s love of gems. It doesn’t make sense for a goddess to need gems to fuel magecraft, but that’s exactly what Rin has always used. (Well, except maybe for Fate/EXTRA…I don’t remember her using gems there.)
Still, there’s this other personality there that shows up at night. I look forward to getting an explanation of this since I skipped the story in the game.
Gilgamesh’s Plan
Gilgamesh has always been an utter bastard in the Fate franchise. I didn’t care for him in Fate/Zero or any of the Fate/stay night routes. But in Fate/Grand Order Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia 09, I can’t help but like his Caster form. He’s still a bastard, but he’s a fun one. His plan to buy Ishtar just cracked me up.
He must know whom Istar is joined with and thus her love for gems. And thus he launched this devious plan to allow her to have up to 30% of the gems in the Treasury of Babylon.
Final Thoughts and Conclusion
I’ll wrap up my review of Fate/Grand Order Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia 09 with some bullet point thoughts.
It was a nice touch seeing the repairs to the wall being made after Gorgon’s attack.
I couldn’t help but laugh that Ishtar had Japanese lucky cats outside her temple.
Still on Ishtar, her wanting Ritsuka to kiss her feet made me laugh.
Also, the brief battle they had with Ishtar was fun to watch.
I like the fun interactions between Da Vinci and Romani.
Ana is awesome. That is all.
In the end, Fate/Grand Order Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia 09 was an enjoyable episode.
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OverMaster says:
The Rin in EXTRA is not the same Rin from Stay Night.
Since EXTRA takes place in a near future in another timeline, there ‘Rin’ is actually Rin’s niece, the daughter of a child Tokiomi haf out of marriage (probably with an Einzbern woman, hence EXTRA Rin’s real hair color being blonde). The actual EXTRA counterpart of FSN’s Rin was a freedom fighter against the plutocracy of Leo’s family along that world’s Shirou and Shinji, and she raised her niece. To honor her, the niece adopted Rin’s appearance and name as her avatar in the Moon Cell.
By the way, a boy also used Shinji’s name and appearance for his avatar, so that’s part of why EXTRA’s Shinji is not as vile as Stay Night’s.
AstroNerdBoy says:
I did know that (though not all of the details, which I appreciate). I just wasn’t sure if the Rin there used gems or not.
Ah. Thanks for the info!
By the way, sorry, I meant an Edelfelt woman (like Luvia), not an Einzbern.
arimareiji says:
Sometimes I feel weird about not knowing a lot of the understory they make obvious allusions to. (^_^)°
But it’s never too long before we get another scene full of ero-fanservice, which reminds me to write off my ignorance as relatively unimportant… since their primary goal seems to be light entertainment, which they accomplish (despite the ero). (^_~)
Thanks for the fill-ins.
Yeah, that’s why they should have just animated the whole story and been done with it.
fg7dragon says:
ANB Note: Just to be safe, I wrapped your comments in a spoiler tag as there are some folks who are watching the anime who’ve never played the game.
Spoiler Inside: Ishtar Spoiler
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Basically, Ishtar, The Queen of Heaven, and Ereshkigal, Queen of the Underworld, were originally a single goddess that split into 2 over time. As such, since they’re using Rin’s Saint Graph because Divine Spirits like Ishtar and Ereshkigal can’t be summoned as Servant, they take turns at being in control of the body, with Rin in the day and Ereshkigal in the night.
Later on, Ereshkigal can be summoned separately rather than as a part of Ishtar, but that’s after the conflict with Solomon’s 72 Demons is done.
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I do want to summon Eresh when she shows up for Christmas.
That aside, thanks for the info.
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Layers of history: The Tell-Tale Heart by Jill Dawson and Truths by Rebecca S Buck … and a Zodiac flash
It was my wedding anniversary last week and, despite shying away from romantic fiction, I thought I ought to read a novel with a heart at its centre. Thus Jill Dawson’s novel made its way to the top of my TBR pile and, because of its thematic parallels, Rebecca Buck’s novel followed on.
Patrick Robson, a history professor with thirty-odd years of over-straining both his literal and metaphorical heart, wakes up in hospital following major surgery with his ex-wife at his bedside. Two hundred years apart, two teenage boys experience their sexual awakening under the wide skies of the Fenlands, and discover how the odds are stacked against those not born into wealth in cash or land. What connects the three main characters is that Drew Beamish was carrying a donor card when he was killed in a motorcycling accident, and Patrick has received his heart, while Willie Beamiss, only just escaping hanging or deportation for rioting, is one of Drew’s ancestors, and commemorated in the local museum.
Each of these strands is interesting in its own right: I had a sense that, like Pat Barker in Regeneration, Jill Dawson had had fun portraying Patrick’s view of women:
This habit women have – a role Helen often claimed not to want – of telling me what I’m feeling. Tremendously helpful. Like having an interpreter at hand to translate you to yourself. (p127)
The historical strand in particular was rich in its depiction of the countryside and the poverty-stricken family’s attachment to the land and the modern teenager reminded me of the major omission from my post on fictional schools: Zoe Heller’s marvellous novel, Notes on a Scandal. And I enjoyed discovering the reverberations between the different threads. Yet I also felt that this novel was trying to cover too much and two, rather than three, interlinked storylines might have worked better.
In her debut novel, Truths, Rebecca Buck has restricted herself to two narrative threads, contained within a common setting albeit separated by 200 years. Like Willie Beamiss in The Tell-Tale Heart, Elizabeth is held in a squalid prison cell for little more than the offence of powerlessness and poverty but she, unfortunately, is sentenced to hang via the ghoulish short-drop method, while her cellmates await deportation. Two centuries later, Jen is a costumed tour guide in the same prison, constrained less by locks and bolts than by her detachment from the horrors she acts out with the museum visitors and her continual denial of the yearnings of her own heart. Like Drew and his ancestor, Willie, Jen undergoes her own awakening as she faces the truth about her sexual orientation, but not before she has fought off the threat that lies within the shadows of the high prison walls.
I found both these narratives compelling and, as might be expected from an author who has done a job similar to Jen’s, the historical context fascinating. For me, the shared setting was sufficient to link the two women’s stories, but Rebecca Buck has thrown a couple of other potential connections into the mix. When, waiting in the darkness for her next group of tourists, Jen hears strange sounds she can’t account for, there’s a suggestion this could be an echo of another layer of history unfolding in the same place, but unseen.
In a similar way, Jill Dawson asks readers to entertain the possibility that Patrick’s personality change following his operation is due to the memories held within his new heart. By having these hypotheses voiced by secondary characters, both authors are cleverly allowing for different readings of their novels, depending on one’s tolerance of the supernatural. While I’m far from the most rational of beings, my tolerance for such matters is rather low and I found Jill Dawson’s memorising heart idea overly emphasised in both the structure of the novel (Willy Beamiss’ narrative directly following Patrick’s unfamiliar feelings as he lies in his hospital bed) and in the blurb.
Thinking more widely on belief in the irrational, I don’t think I’ve ever read a novel that used the Zodiac to join up the various historical layers. I’ve no patience with horoscopes and neither know nor care what personality traits are attributed to the signs. I did know a little about my own as a child but my failure to live up to the description was another source of shame. So I wasn’t confident of meeting Charli Mills’ latest flash fiction challenge to write a 99-word story focusing on the personality traits of a character informed by the Zodiac. But I’ve managed to come up with something that sits comfortably with my cynicism about all that mumbo-jumbo:
“No, Gemma, let Leonie go first.”
“But I’m the oldest!” The little girl stamped her foot. “I should be the leader.”
Her mother ran her hand through her hair. What was the matter with them both? “Come on, Leonie!” She grabbed her younger daughter by the arm and dragged her into the centre of the room.
Leonie stood, shrunk into herself, rubbing at her eyes. Gemma scowled. Their mother sighed, wondering who would be first to dissolve into tears. “It’s just a straightforward game of Follow the Leader,” she hissed. “Leonie has to lead. It’s written in the stars.”
I wonder if you can tell from this which star sign is mine?
Thanks to Sceptre for my review copy of The Tell-Tale Heart.
There were a few song lyrics in this novel but the one that caught my attention was another old folk song from England’s north-east, sung in a lovely Northumbrian accent.
Truths is published by Bold Strokes Books – and I actually bought my own copy from one of their extremely entertaining events earlier this summer. But here’s a photo I took at the weekend of the museum on which the prison in the novel is based.
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So you managed it. Well done; cynicism well put to one side. I like the story, esp the reason at the end. Your reviews put me in mind of two books. One I have yet to read: the Luminaries by E Catton, the Booker winner last year because for the review I read there seem to be an astrological element to the narrative structure. The second is Waterland by Graham Swift for the narrative link across decades, albeit not in the same supernatural way, but in the attachment to the land informing the events of the present.
Thanks for flagging up the astronomical angle on The Luminaries, which I'd heard about but didn't quite get, other than the fact that the chapters get progressively shorter. In fact, since it's sitting on my desk waiting to be read, I've had a look at the "note to the reader" and still don't understand it. Don't imagine that's one I'll review!
Both novels are intriguing, mostly because of the history and how it permeates the stories. I've read similar books, neither title comes to mind, though. One was a mystery 200 years old resolved by a modern deputy searching for an escaped prisoner. I don't mind some supernatural, in fact I like a bit of it to make us think of other possibilities. Let see...I can't guess your sign (I'm not well versed in horoscopes despite the prompt) but I'll take a guess at your Myers Briggs: ISTP? The flash sounds like a meltdown in the managers' meeting when power struggles erupt and the CEO becomes mom! Great take on the prompt nonetheless!
I thought you'd like the layers of history here, but oh dear, the Myers Briggs! I've often intended to use it as the basis for characters, especially in trying to create people very different to me, but I've never managed (perhaps because I score so highly on introversion and intuition?) So in answer to your question, I'm probably a lot less rational than you think. I had to dig around to find my test scores but I'm a INFP, consistent with my own expectations. However that was ten years ago, so I was intrigued to see if anything has changed for me and, lo and behold, I'm a step nearer your assessment: INTP. As I suspected, I come out as even more introverted than on the previous assessment but interesting that the difference score is greatest for intuition on both occasions. I was quite perplexed that the T-F dichotomy had swapped places but I think I probably am more tough-minded I used to be. Would be interested in your thoughts and how useful you found it in your managerial work.
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Interesting to read about this book. At first I thought you were referring to Edgar Allen Poe’s story The Tell-tale Heart!
I too loved Zoe Heller’s Notes on a Scandal. One of my all-time favourite books ever!
Sorry I confused you, Gargi, but thanks for flagging it up. I'd forgotten about that story and I don't think Jill Dawson's novel refers to it at all, but worth revisiting http://www.poestories.com/read/telltaleheart.
Glad you also enjoyed Notes on a Scandal. Did you get to see the film too?
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This 80-Year-Old Veteran Has Been Making Christmas Toys For Kids In Need For 50 Years
Every Christmas, Jim Annis dons the Santa costume and distributes toys for the kids who cannot afford it.
By Moumita Basu
Jim Annis, an 80-year-old veteran from Sanford, North Carolina, has been making toys for kids in need for 50 years now, reported ABC7. He spends most of his time carving, sculpting, and sanding wood and making toys. And on Christmas, he dons the Santa costume and distributes toys among kids who cannot afford them.
Believe it...Santa is very real after all!!
Meet the amazing Jim Annis 🎅 ❤️🎁https://t.co/SAw9PsKC0V#holidayspirit #Christmas
— Jay Rombach (@Jay_Rombach) December 24, 2019
In an interview with WTVD, he said, "When the Salvation Army gives out the food and clothes to people in this area, I give out my toys. It feels like you're sort of forgotten about at Christmas time."
Jim Annis donates nearly 300 toys to the Salvation Army. Other than the wooden scraps he gets from nearby homeowners, he pays for everything else out of pocket. He remembers waking up Christmas morning with no gifts to open. https://t.co/QmrvTAJS2d
— Brian Sherrod (@BrianNBCNEB) December 22, 2019
In his workshop, Annis makes toys of cars, dolls, piggy banks, tractors, and firetrucks, and apart from the wooden scraps he gathers from nearby homeowners, he pays for everything out of his own pocket. Annis said, "Between the wheels and paint, I spent about $1000."
Real-life #Santa: Army vet, 80, has made Christmas toys for #kids in need for 50 years. For Jim Annis, #Christmas is about giving.The 80-year-old #Army #veteran has helped Santa out every #holiday season for the past 50 years by creating wooden toys. https://t.co/5hL4tewDQV pic.twitter.com/tfmyegsaiW
— MilitaryVeteranProje (@MilitaryVetera) December 15, 2019
The war veteran also said that he will give around 300 handmade toys to the Salvation Army of Sanford and every bit of it goes for the children in need during this Christmas season.
Vet gets emotional explaining why he makes toys for kids For the past 50 years, 80-year-old Army veteran Jim Annis spends the holidays making wooden toys for children in need. CNN affiliate WTVD's Akilah Davis reports. https://t.co/lPIPmBp5by #Video #USRC pic.twitter.com/ckTckJam9M
— Top U.S. & World News🗽 (@USRealityCheck) December 13, 2019
Undoubtedly, it is a lot of work for Annis alone, but all of it is worth it and he hopes to continue the tradition of spreading the joy as long as he can. He said, "I love when people ask me how much do I get paid for making these toys. I tell them my pay is when I see the smile on kids' faces. I hope to be able to do this until my toes curl up."
Growing up, Annis was part of a big family and they were not so well off. Hence, he understands what poverty is and what effect it can have on children. He said, "My dad, he worked, but didn't make a lot of money. It's hard to have a big Christmas with five kids." This is an incredible gesture from his part and we all hope that Jim continues to bring a smile on the face of all children for years to come.
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← Saturday, 19th June, 2010.
Saturday, 3rd July, 2010 →
Saturday, 26th June, 2010.
“When It Hurts,
It’s Doing You Good.”
Well, I think that’s the motto of
a famous English “public” school. And
we all know that the “public” school system produces many fine inhabitants of
the Palace of Westminster.
It is almost the war-cry of those who are
trying to tell us that Mr. Osborne’s Budget will cure everything from the
British economic crisis to pimples on the belly.
What it will do, of course, is put the
burden of recovery on those who can least afford it: those who have been used for centuries to
provide wealth for the rich at very little cost. Those are they who are factory-fodder in
peace time and gun-fodder in war-time.
Presently, they are being just about kept on the unemployment-shelf for
when things pick up. Then, you will
hear many of them, when working in low-paid jobs, say “Well, at least I’ve got
a job.”
A friend of mine sent me a comical e-mail
about the situation. He quoted this
verse of an old music-hall song:
“It’s the same the
whole world over:
It’s the poor wot gets
the blame;
It’s the rich wot gets
the pleasure.
Ain’t it all a
******** shame?”
Wales, Those-Who-Know-What’s-Best-For-Us
claim, is part of the United Kingdom.
We pay our taxes into the Westminster coffers, so that must prove that we
are, indeed, UK citizens.
The first “B” in BBC stands for
“British”. Therefore, one should think
it safe to assume that a station called “BBC Radio Four UK” would be all
inclusive: Scots, Welsh, Northern Irish,
and even people on the Isle of Wight.
On Wednesday, I heard a commentator on
that station talking about the effects of the Budget. Apparently, it will affect “The Midlands and
the North of England” greatly.
Mid-Wales and the North of Scotland were not mentioned. Neither was anywhere except England.
Does this mean that Mother England has
already and without any fanfare or ceremony given independence to all her
satellite nations? And can we in Wales, and other parts of the former
“United” Kingdom, begin to make all our own laws?
The Other Side Of
After my debunking of the “I went into a
shop and they all started speaking Welsh” myth last week, I was really pleased
to meet an Englishman who gave praise to our language and culture.
I was in “The Celtic Twilight Zone”, that
lovely strip of rolling countryside along the Wales-England Border. He was from Kent, and you can’t get much more
English than that.
He told me that he had heard the story of
the non-existent shop and the supposed anti-English use of Welsh several times. And he told me that he waved two imaginary
fingers at the person or persons spreading that lie.
As someone who spends many of his holidays
in Wales, he has met nothing but kindness and welcoming
attitudes wherever he goes in our land.
He is greeted in shops in English and, if there was a conversation going
on in Welsh before he entered, he is pleased to hear them revert to that
language when speaking with each other.
So don’t forget to put two fingers (real
or imaginary) up to any liar who spreads the fable. It is not a rude sign: it is the Welsh sign of victory first used at
the Battle of Agincourt . . .
Archie Lowe
achie.lowe@laughingdragons.co.uk
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Monthly Archive:: March 2014
By Paola Nadeau | Category Construction and Maintenance | on March, 2014
Adding Value, Beauty And Functionality To Your Home: Kitchen Remodeling in Westland, MI
Undoubtedly the central hub of many a home, the kitchen is a mecca of family interactions. Many an adult has fond childhood memories of standing on a stool in their Grandmother’s kitchen, attempting to take in the
By Paola Nadeau | Category Electronics and Electrical | on March, 2014
Get the Job Done Faster By Renting a Backhoe Loader
A backhoe loader can do the job of three separate pieces of equipment. Instead of renting a backhoe, a tractor and a loader, you can get your job finished faster by simply getting a backhoe loader and
By Paola Nadeau | Category Law | on March, 2014
Three Tips to Find an Accident Attorney Olympia
Due to your recent traffic collision, you need an accident attorney Olympia area fast. When financial losses are adding up quicker than you can count them it is time to take action. It is important to find
By Pou0iaso | Category Home and Garden | on March, 2014
When To Contact The Professionals For Black Mold Removal In Philadelphia
Have you ever heard the term that too much of a good thing can be bad for you? Take for instance, the fact that mold is all around us and in the case of penicillin it can
By Paola Nadeau | Category Health Care | on March, 2014
Guide to Food Allergies in Louisville, KY
Food allergies affect around 7% of the united States population. Though that may seem like a small percentage, the number of food allergies in Louisville KY cases grows daily which causes concern for health care providers. A
What to do if you find your chairlift has broken down
While chairlifts are built to be incredibly sturdy and long-lasting, there is simply no way of ensuring that they are completely invulnerable to suffering from mechanical problems. When you consider that you may have been using a
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Wire Rope Specifications, PA
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You Will Just Love The New Construction in Sierra Vista
Are you looking for new homes or New Construction in Sierra Vista? If you’re looking for new upscale single-family homes; homes that are conveniently located, all you have to do is look up the web site for
By Paola Nadeau | Category Telecommunications | on March, 2014
What Is A Local Area Network?
An LAN or local area network is a group of two or more devices, usually personal computers, printers, or other equipment, that have been connected to each other in some fashion in order to increase the efficiency
By Paola Nadeau | Category Lawyers and Law Firms | on March, 2014
Options To Choose With An Attorney For DUI in Wichita, KS
Dealing with a DUI can be tough. Because of the thousands of deaths that occur every year, due to drunk driving, those who are suspected of committing the offense are immediately scrutinized and harshly judged. However, you’ll
Taking Prompt Action by Hiring Car Accident Lawyers in Columbus, GA
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Getting to Work: ASTHO’s Federal Policy Priorities in 2020
Beyond Opioids: Tobacco and Other Substance Use Among Pregnant Women
State Health Policy Issues to Watch in 2020
Top Nine Public Health Highlights of 2019
Reflecting and Looking Ahead: Federal Health Policy in 2019 and Beyond
Six Tips for Sustaining Accreditation
December 05, 2019|11:52 a.m.| Joanne Pearsol, deputy director of the Ohio Department of Health, and Susan Ramsey, former director of Washington State Department of Health’s Office of Performance and Accountability
How are public health agencies in various stages of the Public Health Accreditation Board’s (PHAB) accreditation journey approaching sustainability and reaccreditation?
Initial public health agency accreditation demonstrates that a state, territorial, local, or tribal public health agency has the capacity to provide the 10 Essential Public Health Services, develop and manage an effective health department, and maintain strong communications with the governing entity. Reaccreditation builds upon a health department’s initial accreditation efforts. It focuses on how health departments maintain capacity, ensure accountability, and support continuous quality improvement so that they continue to evolve, improve, and advance.
Working with public health agencies to sustain success and momentum from accreditation and prepare for reaccreditation, we observed six key strategies for success:
1. Celebrate Your Success, but Plan Early
Initial accreditation takes a great deal of energy and resources. Once your health agency becomes accredited, celebrate your success—but begin reaccreditation efforts sooner than later. Within the first six months of achieving accreditation, leaders and staff should begin to utilize their PHAB site visit report to identify opportunities for improvement and begin preparing to submit annual reports of their agency’s progress since initial accreditation.
Planning will be the most important tool that you use in sustaining and preparing for reaccreditation. Whenever you plan, you plan to succeed. Also, remember that things take longer than you think. At a minimum, plan for reaccreditation two years before you are due. Develop and implement a plan that will help you sleep better at night!
Did you know: Within the first year it became accredited, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services prepared to maintain staff engagement. The agency created a workplan and annual report survey tool to gather data from staff and compiled insightful responses into an internal resource and posters. The team disseminated these widely to keep staff informed, satisfied, and engaged in the process.
2. Capture Institutional Knowledge
There will be many lessons learned during initial accreditation. Document the people involved and the processes used to achieve success, as the people who are there now may not be later. Key information will include components of initial accreditation, such as funding, staffing, communication strategies, and team responsibilities. When have a record of what worked well or fell flat, what templates you used, and your timeline, you will be better prepared to plan for reaccreditation.
Did you know: The Ohio Department of Health tailored ASTHO’s Accreditation Sustainability Plan Template to capture feedback from staff who participated in initial accreditation.
3. Plan for Succession
Unexpected events can leave your organization suddenly susceptible to vacancies in key positions, from the accreditation coordinator to critical contributors. These transitions are never easy, but you can minimize potential negative impacts through succession planning. Engage new people and engage the next generation of workers. View the process as a development opportunity: these individuals will help when there is turnover.
Did you know: The Connecticut State Department of Public Health integrated accreditation roles and responsibilities into “succession binders” that help each employee plan for succession and pending retirements. The agency included this as an appendix to its sustainability plan.
4. Invest Time in Reviewing the PHAB Standards and Measures
The PHAB Standards and Measures continue to evolve, and the version used for your initial accreditation likely has changed to reflect the evolving public health landscape. There are differences between initial accreditation, PHAB annual reports, and reaccreditation. Invest time in training staff at all levels of the agency on how to interpret and understand what a measure is asking for and why it is important for developing a highly functioning health department. Reaccreditation provides an opportunity for the public health agency to determine and describe the extent to which it meets the requirements for each measure and how it plans to advance in the areas addressed by the measure.
Did you know: The Arizona Department of Health Services created a visual tracking tool in Microsoft Excel to illustrate progress on all reaccreditation requirements by domain. For each requirement, the tool tracks the staff responsible, deadlines, and progression through an internal review process.
5. Communicate Widely, Well, and Often
When pursuing reaccreditation, communicating with staff and partners is important. To plan your communication strategies:
Understand your objective. Why are you communicating?
Understand your audience. Who are you communicating to? What do they need to know?
Plan what you want to say, and how you’ll send the message.
Seek feedback on how well your message was received.
When you do this, you will be able to craft a communication plan with messages that your audience will receive positively. Identify who, what, when, where, why and what’s in it for them. Change the language from accreditation‐focused to a framework that uses terms such as standards, improvement, and a high‐ functioning organization.
Did you know: The New Jersey Department of Health developed an accreditation awareness campaign that included internal and external communication materials and timelines.
6. Talk to Those Who Have Been There
Leadership, accreditation coordinators, domain leads, and teams can learn from other agencies through the collaborative process that takes place when a PHAB site team evaluates the health agency. For example, getting an objective perspective has helped others health agencies consider how they can demonstrate their success through more intentional and comprehensive measurable outcomes. Ask other jurisdictions who have been through this process about their experiences, what they learned, and what did and did not work well.
Did you know: Many jurisdictions are willing to share what they know. The Public Health Performance Improvement Network (phPIN) and my.ASTHO communities facilitate sharing of templates, tools, and innovative thinking.
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UNDP, 234 results 234
UNESCO. Funds-in-Trust, 75 results 75
Unicef, 33 results 33
ICCROM, 32 results 32
IOC, 18 results 18
UNESCO Regional Centre for Reading Materials in Asia, 12 results 12
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (Nepal), 5 results 5
UNESCO Regional Office for Education in the Arab States (Lebanon), 5 results 5
Fine Instruments Centre (Korea R), 3 results 3
Asian Development Bank, 3 results 3
Asia and the Pacific, 1504 results 1504
India, 107 results 107
Pakistan, 81 results 81
Japan, 70 results 70
Iraq, 65 results 65
Turkey, 46 results 46
Israel, 37 results 37
Lebanon, 34 results 34
Asia and the Pacific Item
Note de G.A. Raadi, Président du Comité international pour les musées au Directeur général de l'Unesco informant que Mr. Jean Verrier, Inspecteur général des monuments historiques en France représentera le Comité à la Conférence intergouvernementale...
Second master plan of operations for the education project in Burma
Institute for Applied Research on Natural Resources, Abu-Ghraib (phase II) (IRQ.71/545/A/OI/13)
FR PUNES AG 8-LEG-A-293-13-3bis-0
Lettre de créance
Accord entre le Gouvernement du Liban et l'Unesco relatif au Bureau régional de l'Unesco pour l'éducation dans les pays arabes
Accord par échange de lettre entre le Gouvernement du Liban et l'Unesco
Plan of Operation - Educational Research Centre, Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (IRQ.23)
FR PUNES AG 8-LEG-A-293-13-4-0
Participation Programme - Project agreement No. 4926 - Mutual Appreciation of Eastern and Western Cultural Values - ED/32/42 of July 13, 1960
Master Plan of Operations of Programme for Development of Children and Youth in Hill Tribe Communities in Thailand
Basic Agreement between UN, FAO, ICAO, ILO, Unesco, WHO, TAB and the Govenrment of Burma
Printed copy.
Basic Agreement on Aid to Members between United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organazation and the Government of Afghanistan
Pleins pouvoirs du Président de la République libanaise délivrés à Mr. Charles Ammoun, Ministre plénipotentiaire, délégué permanent du Liban auprès de l'UNESCO pour représenter le Liban à la Conférence intergouvernementale...
Cambodia - Full Powers - Second Protocol to the Hague Convention of 1954 for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict,The Hague, 26 March 1999
FR PUNES AG 8-LEG-A-114-B-13-1
Service contract between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization regarding the sending to the Republic of Philippines of a consultative educational Mission
FR PUNES AG 8-LEG-A-32-1
Déclaration du Gouvernement Royal du Cambodge relative à la protection des biens culturels en cas de conflits armés
Exchange of notes between UNESCO and the U.K. Delegation to UNESCO concerning the provision of a technical assistance fellowship to the Government of Hong-Kong
Agreement on Technical Assistance between Unesco and the Government of Iraq
Project 7.21.1 Code 129-7211
Agreement on Technical Assistance between Unesco and the Government of the Republic of China
Project 3.421.3 Code 171-3403
Acceptation de l'Irak avec traduction
FR PUNES AG 8-LEG-A-14-55-1
Instrument of Acceptance - Unofficial Translation.
Standard Technical Assistance Agreement
Agreement between the Government of the Sultanate of Oman and Unesco
Echange des notes entre l'UNESCO et le Gouvernement Turque relatif à l'aide dans le domaine du developpement des Bibliothèques Nationales - Project 4628
Basic Agreement on Aid to Member States between United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the Government of Thailand
Rural Primary Education and Teacher Training Project in the People's Republic of Southern Yemen
Accession of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
Plan of operation - Flood Warning System CAM.11 May 1968
Accord de base concernant le programme de participation aux activités des Etats membres entre l'Unesco et le gouvernement du Royaume du Laos
Agreement between UNESCO and UNRWA on a Program of Technical Assistance for training and retraining of children, youth and adults among the Palestine Refugee population
Exchange of notes between Unesco and the Government of Japan regarding the Regional Seminar of the Indo-Pacific area on the International exchange of Publications to be organized in Tokyo in November 1957 - Project No. 4653
Plan of operation for an Education Primary Teacher Training Project in Iraq
Teacher training for engineering colleges, Warangal (IND-43)
FR PUNES AG 8-LEG-A-293-3-4-1
Refining and petrochemical division, Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehra Dun (WS.0566.137) (IND.29)
Plan of Operation - National Institute of Foundry and Forge Technology at Ranghi, Bihar (WS/1166.93 RIO/PRG)
Postgraduate Agricultural Education and Research Project revision form
FR PUNES AG 8-LEG-A-293-3-12-1
Photocopy.
Plan of Operation - Work-Oriented Adult Literacy Pilot Project (WS.0367.182 RIO PRG) (IRA.17)
English Language Reading Programme (TON/72/004/2/OI/13) - Project of the Government of Tonga
Item is undated and not signed.
Development of Broadcasting Services
Project Agreement No.2425 - Contribution to Scientific Research
Funds-in-trust agreement concerning one year extension of a specialist in school mapping
[Agreement with the Government of Malaysia for an expert in news agency operation, 1 August 1967 - 31 January 1968]
Agreement between the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the Government of the Republic of Korea on the establishment of the Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding [as a Category II Centre]
UNESCO/New Zealand Funds-in-Trust Cooperation: project on "Creating Learning Communities for Children"
Original Instrument/Contribution Arrangement between the Government of New Zealand and UNESCO.
Illiteracy eradication in Huong Son District in Viet Nam
National Federation of UNESCO Associations in Japan; 1 original signed. Project description, budget
Agreement on friendly ties between the cities of Bethlehem (Palestine) and Verona (Italy) under the auspices of the Director-General of UNESCO
Convention entre l'UNESCO et le Gouvernement de la République Démocratique Populaire Lao - Programme de coopération - Création d'une Maison du Patrimoine à Luang-Prabang
Letter indicating the representatives of Australia for the International Conference of States for the adoption of a Regional Convention on the Recognition of Studies, Diplomas and Degrees in Higher Education in Asia and the Pacific
Letter indicating the representative of the Hong Kong Government for the International Conference of States on the Recognition of Studies, Diplomas and Degrees in Higher Education in Asia and the Pacific
Pleins pouvoirs de la République Populaire Démocratique de Corée pour signer la Convention régionale sur la reconnaissance des études, des diplômes et des grades de l'enseignement supérieur en Asie et dans le Pacifique
Instrument of Accession by the Philippines to the Regional Convention on the Recognition of Studies, Diplomas and Degrees in Higher Education in Asia and the Pacific
Instrument of Acceptance by Jordan - Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat, Ramsar
FR PUNES AG 8-LEG-A-398-398/20-1
Instrument d'adhésion du Japon - Convention relative aux zones humides d'importance internationale particulièrement comme habitats de la sauvagine, Ramsar
Instrument with English translation.
Instrument of accession of India - Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat, Ramsar
Tajikistan - Instrument of Succession - Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat
FR PUNES AG 8-LEG-A-398-150-1
Urban Community Development and Speech Therapy Projects in Hong Kong - Plan of operations
Korea - Plan of operations for a Pre-Primary Education Project
Full powers of the United Arab Emirates to represent the Government at the International Conference of States on the Recognition of Studies, Diplomas and Degrees in Higher Education in the Arab States
State of Bahrain - Instrument of Accession to the Convention on the Recognition of Studies, Diplomas and Degrees in Higher Education in the Arab States
Agreement for consultant's services - Indonesia - TA No. 274, the North Sumatra University Project, between ADB and UNESCO
Letter informing that Kazakstan succeeds to the Convention on the Recognition of Studies, Diplomas and Degrees concerning Higher Education in the States belonging to the Europe Region
Full power of the Government of Australia to sign the Convention on the Recognition of Qualifications concerning Higher Education in the European Region
FR PUNES AG 8-LEG-A-460-A-3-1
[National Food and Nutrition Programme in the Republic of the Philippines] - Plan of operations
Plan of operations for an in-service teacher-training project in Jordan
Acceptation de la Syrie
Agreement between UNESCO and the Government of the Kingdom of Cambodia - Plan of Operation for the project "National Capacity Building for Human Resources in Archaeology and Architecture at the Royal University of Fine Arts"
Summary of the Reports by Professor Jean-Marie Arnoult and Professor Andrea Papi, UNESCO Experts, on Süleymaniye Book Hospital
Full powers on behalf of the Government of Japan
FR PUNES AG 8-LEG-A-1075-3-1
Project Agreement between UNESCO and the Arab Gulf Programme for United Nations Development Organizations (AGFUND) concerning a project for the support of the Centre for the Development and Production of Teaching Materials in the Syrian Arab Republic
Memorandum of Understanding between UNESCO and the Shenzhen Municipal People's Government, People's Republic of China
Letter of Intent between the UNESCO and the Ministry of culture of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Supplementary Agreement between UNESCO and the Government of Malaysia on Cooperation in Education, the Sciences, Culture, Communication and Information
Contrat entre le Gouvernement royal d'Afghanistan et l'Organisation des Nations Unies pour l'Education, la Science et la Culture concernant l'envoi en Afghanistan d'une Mission d'Experts-Conseils en matière d'éducation
Agreement between Unesco and the Government of Thailand regarding the Asia Regional Office of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Agreement on Technical Assistance between Unesco and the Government of Ceylon
Ratification of Israel of the Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict
Ratification deposited on 3rd October 1957.
Cyprus - Credentials - Second Protocol to the Hague Convention of 1954 for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict
Instrument de ratification, par l'Iran, de la Convention et du Protocole
Australie - Convention pour la protection des biens culturels en cas de conflit armé
Instrument de ratification.
Basic agreement on aid to Member States between the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the Government of Indonesia
Plan of Operation - India - Six Regional Engineering Colleges
Phase II National Institute for Technical Teacher Training, Beirut (LEB.17)
FR PUNES AG 8-LEG-A-293-11-2(II)-1
Basic agreement concerning the programme of participation in Member States activities between UNESCO and the Government of Israel
Project 2325 - Equipment for natural science laboratory $3,000 - Ref. NS/PP/854.307
Basic agreement concerning the programme of participation in Member States' Activities
Project 1356 - Meeting of Experts on the Teaching of Arabic to Non-Arabs, to be held in Spain from 21/25 September 1959...$3,000 Ref. ED/858330 of 20 July 1959 accepted by the National Commission of the United Arab Republic on 18 August 1959
Developing Basic Education covering Teacher Training Institutes in Sind, Punjab, Baluchistan and NWFP and Agricultural and Rural Education especially Agricultural Training Institutes in Baluchistan, Sind, NWPF and Punjab
Project agreement concluded between Unesco and the Government of Kuwait - No. 4754 - Expert, for 3 months, organization of museums Ref. MUS/842.285
Revised standard agreement
Agreement between Unesco and the Government of Iran
Agreement between Unesco and the Government of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan
Plan d'opération - Faculty of Engineering, University of Damascus (SYR.21)
FR PUNES AG 8-LEG-A-293-36-A/293/26/2-1
Plan of operation - Industrial Testing and Research Centre, Damascus (SYR.17)
Assistance au project de planification de l'éducation - Plan d'opérations - Fonds de dépôt du Royaume de l'Arabie Saudite
Plan of operation - National Hydraulics Laboratory (67/68/APS/3379) Phnom Penh
SF - Plan of Operation - Ceylon College of Technology, Colombo (CEY-10)
Plan of Operation - Computation Centre, Institute of Economics, Rangoon (BUR.15)
Plan of Operation - Technical Teacher Educational and Vocational Training (SIN.4)
Plan of operation - Survey of the seismicity of the Balkan region (REG.172)
Regional Seminar on the use of Publications for Schools as part of Unesco's Major Project on Mutual Appreciation of Wester and Eastern Cultural Values - Project No. 4915 - Agreement with New Zealand
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Register Log In AmbergrisCaye.com Home Forums Sports Joel Borland wins Junior Cross-Country Classic
Joel Borland wins Junior Cross-Country Classic #404738
Joel Borland, Champion
Joel Borland of the INDECO team won the 2011 Junior Cross Country Cycling Classic held under the auspices of the Belize Cycling Association on the Western Highway from the San Jose Succotz ferry to Belize City on Sunday, April 3.
Borland clocked three hours 56 minutes and 21 seconds on his 70-mile ride and out-sprinted Juan Umana and Kyle Gentle of the Cayo High Road, and Austin Armstrong of the Twin Towns cycling team to take the garland.
With his victory Borland won the $300 first prize and the winner’s trophy from the Belize Cycling Association and a $100 prize donated by the Butler family. He also received the champion’s garland donated by Florasol, a gift basket and a case of fruit juice donated by Grace Kennedy.
Juan Umana won the $200 second prize and a trophy donated by Atlantic Insurance and a gift basket and a case of fruit juice donated by Grace Kennedy.
Umana’s teammate Kyle Gentle won the $100 third prize donated by Plus TV and trophy from the Association, as well as a gift basket and a case of fruit juice from Grace Kennedy.
Austin Armstrong was also in that final sprint and he received a medal from Jea McFadzean, who also presented medals to the top 10 finishers, and a case of juice.
Giovanni Lovell of team INDECO clocked three hours 56 minutes and 35 seconds as he finished fifth, but he was first in the Youth category and received a $200 prize and a trophy donated by Elena Morgan
Oscar Quiros of the Cayo Uprising team clocked three hours 56 minutes and 57 seconds to finish sixth, but he was second among the youths to win a $100 prize and a trophy donated by Emil Figueroa
Aiden Juan of Cayo High Road clocked four hours seven minutes and 49 seconds as he sprinted for 11th place but he was third among the Youths to win a $50 prize and a trophy donated by Atlantic Insurance.
Wasani Castro of the Clear Di Land cycling team was seventh in four hours two minutes and 43 seconds; while Reese Cattouse of the C-Ray team overcame leg cramps in the final mile to finish eighth in four hours three minutes and 10 seconds.
Gian Zetina of the Cayo Uprising team was ninth in four hours three minutes and 54 seconds.
Juan Cuellar Samos led the sprint for 10th place in four hours seven minutes and 49 seconds, while Zetina’s teammates, Christopher Sandoval, Zahir Figueroa and Justin Wade were also in that sprint to take 12th, 13th and 14th places. Eldon Simmons of M&M Engineering finished 15th in four hours eight minutes and six seconds
Jea McFadzean also presented medals to all the participating cyclists of the C-Ray, Clear the Land, Indeco, M & M Engineering, Twin Towns, Cayo Uprising and Cayo High Road teams.
Zahir Figueroa had led the race to win the first $50 prize at the Cial Hill and another $50 from Cleanmaster Systems at mile 69 and a half.
Dalvin Cowo of Cayo High Road took over to win a mattress in front of the Log Cabins and a $50 prize at Framdini Farm.
Steven Castañeda won a $100 prize from Joseph Freight then Cowo took the next $100 prize passing the Texaco Station on the Benque road.
Brandon Guzman took over the pace to win a $100 prize from Belize Bank passing the manager’s residence, and another $10 prize at the San Ignacio Police Station.
Cowo took over the pace after crossing the Hawkesworth bridge entering Santa Elena to win a $100 prize at the Public Works Depot and a $50 prize from Cayo Cargo.
Jared Flowers surged ahead to win the $100 prize at the Captain Nicholas Seawright Monument and another $50 prize at the Red Creek Bridge.
Zahir Figueroa was still on the pace as he passed the Esperanza Softball Field to win a $50 prize sponsored by former Minister of Sports Hon. Elvin Penner; and Dalvin Cowo won a $100 prize offered by Isuara Williams in memory of Kristopher Chuc at Central Farm
Zahir Figueroa won a $30 gift certificate at the Georgeville junction with the Mountain Pine Ridge Road and a $200 prize from Pine Lumber in Georgeville.
Jared Flowers took over to win the next $50 prize at the Mile 59 Superstore, then it was Giovanni Lovell surging ahead to win a $150 prize at the Garbutt’s Service Station in Roaring Creek Village while Steven Castañeda won the $75 second prize.
Lovell won the next $100 station prize offered by the Borland family at the George Price Boulevard junction and swept the next tree station prizes including a $75 prize at the Belize Zoo.
Austin Armstrong was on the pace to win a $50 prize at mile 25, then Borland came to the fore to win a gift basket at mile 18.
Juan Umana won a $25 prize in Bainesville and was still on the pace to win a $50 prize passing the Hattieville Old Folk’s home. Oscar Quiros led at Mile 8 to win a gift basket, but Giovanni Lovell was back on the pace passing Old Belize Museum and up to mile 2.
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source{d}
Lead Infrastructure Engineer
At source{d} we are building the technology stack for the next generation of Machine Learning powered developer tools. We are an open-core company built around our Open Source projects. We have raised over ten million USD so far, and we are currently growing our team.
This position is open to those wishing to work remotely between the San Francisco and Moscow Timezones as well as those who want to work from our Madrid Office.
This position is for a Lead Engineer in the Infrastructure team. The team has currently 3 members.
The Infrastructure team manages multiple clusters:
Pipeline clusters, built on bare metal servers at a hosting provider. It has more than 1000 threads, more than 6TB of RAM and 500TB of storage, and it is backed by CoreOS and Kubernetes. It has two main goals: on the one hand, it stores all the available public code in a distributed filesystem and on the other hand, it runs intensive computation jobs over the stored data on top of Apache Spark.
Machine Learning research cluster, built on bare metal servers at our Madrid office. It is backed by CoreOS and Kubernetes too and it has GPUs available on every server to run deep learning algorithms.
Multiple Google Kubernetes Engine clusters for public-facing services. All clusters are managed with Terraform, Kubernetes and Helm.
The team also maintains several services such as databases, queues, continuous integration, monitoring, logging, etc.
At source{d}, we care about Open Source, which is why we as the infrastructure team we contribute to projects such as Terraform & CoreOS and create our own. We maintain the official Terraform provider for Helm (terraform-provider-helm).
We are looking for someone with a background in Linux, networking and containers, passion for automation and experience working at scale. Finally, knowledge of at least one backend/scripting language who cares about best development practices.
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BREAKING: Federal Judge Declares GOP Gerrymandering Illegal; Hope Restored In USA
A lot of pundits have spent the last few years talking about the reason Democrats have lost so many seats in Congress since 2010. For instance, a few months ago, the host of Real Time with Bill Maher complained that “Democrats have gone from the party that protects people to the party that protects feelings.” Fox News, of course, blames the loss of seats on President Obama. Vox blames the problem on too much complacency in the Democratic Party and the fact that, historically speaking, the party of two-term presidents usually loses down ballot races. None of them are entirely correct. The reason so many Democrats have lost seats is because of a devious plan called REDMAP (Redistricting Majority Project).
(Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
REDMAP was the brainchild of Chris Jankowski, a Republican strategist who ran a group called Republican State Leadership Committee. REDMAP was a brilliant scheme put in place to flip enough state legislatures from Democratically-controlled to Republican-controlled before the last census so that Republicans would be in charge when it came time to redraw congressional and state legislative lines.
They put their plan in place in several states and it worked so well that Republicans eventually gained control of not only a bunch of state legislatures, but also both houses of Congress. What REDMAP really did was allow Republicans to steal democracy from millions of Americans. In gerrymandered districts the people’s voice is no longer being heard. In essence they have no representation in congress.
Sadly, gerrymandering is a legal tool politicians use to gain an unfair advantage. However, it should be illegal because in almost every instance it’s about racial discrimination. Politicians pack minorities and the poor into as few districts as possible, spreading the conservative, mainly white vote around liberally.
Suppose there are 20 districts in a state. Republican politicians will pack the poor and minorities into three or four districts, guaranteeing the other 16 or 17 districts stay in firm Republican control. Control they can then use to make laws that affect everyone in the state. North Carolina’s “bathroom law” for instance. The bathroom law forced transgendered people to use the bathroom that fit their birth gender, not the gender they currently identify as. As a whole transgender support may be at 65 percent, but that doesn’t matter when the minority is getting to make the rules we all have to follow.
Republican Strategist Chris Jankowski
(Courtesy of W.W. Norton & Company)
There was a bit of good news for democracy this week though. REDMAP took a major hit Tuesday when a panel of federal judges in North Carolina ruled the state’s election districts were unconstitutional partisan gerrymanders. The panel of judges gave lawmakers a deadline of January 29 to fix the districts, and that no more elections can be held until the problem has been fixed. The lawsuit that brought about the judgement was filed by the League of Women voters and Common Cause. They felt like their voices were not being heard and they sought to remedy that situation. In states like North Carolina, gerrymandering is a big problem. The panel of judges may have set some precedent Tuesday. Hopefully that precedent will be used to start righting some of the wrongs that Republicans have perpetuated on millions of people throughout the country. It’s time to take our democracy back!
Here’s what Twitter had to say.
Whoa: Court strikes down North Carolina's GOP-drawn congressional map as an illegal partisan gerrymander. This is the map where the GOP proudly admitted to partisan gerrymandering to defend themselves from charges of illegal racial gerrymandering https://t.co/PZ02S9QeYO
— Stephen Wolf (@PoliticsWolf) January 9, 2018
Breaking: We won! Three-judge-court in North Carolina strikes down congressional partisan gerrymander. Much more to come after we digest this 200+page opinion. #voting #northcarolina #fairmaps
— Danielle Lang (@DaniLang_DC) January 9, 2018
It's, "one person-one vote," not, "one Republican-one vote."
Congress must act to end unconstitutional gerrymandering now.https://t.co/KPZft0J2Zx
— Randy Bryce (@IronStache) January 10, 2018
It's kinda ironic that this is about the only thing the Republicans ever did that worked as they intended it to.
— Dot of Blue in a Sea of Red (@mountaincrat) January 10, 2018
Okay now let's get the rest of the states on board and put an end to Gerrymandering!
North Carolina Congressional Map Ruled Unconstitutionally Gerrymandered https://t.co/W1BCu5Y96U
— Susan (@Suzmassara) January 10, 2018
Featured Image via W.W. Norton & Co.
Gerrymandering case
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Halliburton Company
Industry: Energy management company
Halliburton Company is an American multinational corporation. One of the world's largest oil field service companies, it has operations in more than 70 countries. It owns hundreds of subsidiaries, affiliates, branches, brands, and divisions worldwide and employs approximately 55,000 people. Founder: Erle P. HalliburtonFounded: 1919, Duncan, Oklahoma, United StatesCEO: Jeff Miller (Jun 1, 2017–)Headquarters: Houston, Texas, United StatesRevenue: 20.62 billion USD (2017)Subsidiaries: Halliburton International Inc, Halliburton AS,
Site: http://www.halliburton.com/
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Halliburton Employees
Anthony Wright Houston, Texas
Halliburton Years January 2013 - October 2014
Job Lead Product Manager at GE Oil & Gas
Industry Oil & Energy
GE Oil & Gas October 2014 - June 2015
Halliburton January 2013 - October 2014
Halliburton December 2011 - January 2013
Halliburton February 2010 - December 2011
Halliburton April 2009 - February 2010
Halliburton January 2008 - April 2009
Exelon Nuclear May 2007 - August 2007
Purdue University May 2005 - May 2006
Air Products and Chemicals August 2001 - August 2002
Dana Holding Corporation January 2000 - September 2000
Drilling, Petroleum, Engineering, Solidworks, ANSYS, Project Management, Logging, C++, Hydraulics, Oilfield, Microsoft Office, Oil/Gas, Formation Evaluation, Project Engineering, Offshore Drilling, LWD, Drilling Engineering, Petrophysics, Gas, Petroleum Engineering, Directional Drilling, SolidWorks, Oil & Gas, Energy Industry, Business Development, Product Lifecycle...
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business 2013 — 2015
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Business Administration, Marketing & Strategy
Purdue University 2005 — 2007
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Mechanical Engineering
University of Karlsruhe 2006 — 2006
Mechanical Engineering, Homogeneous Charge Combustion Ignition (HCCI), Master's Research
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering
Interstaatliche Hochschule für Technik Buchs NTB Buchs Sg 2004 — 2004
Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's Research
Oxford University 2003 — 2003
Patrick Bizzell Stillwater, Oklahoma
Halliburton Years 2010 - 2010
Job MWD/LWD Consultant
WellBenders Directional Services, LLC November 2013 - Present
Siloam springsFire department June 2011 - November 2013
Archer - the well company 2010 - 2011
Halliburton 2010 - 2010
Great White Energy Services 2006 - 2009
MWD, Directional Drilling, Oil & Gas Industry, Horizontal Directional..., Firefighting, Hazardous Materials, NIMS, Emergency Services, Emergency Medical, Fire Safety, Rescue, Public Safety, Fire Suppression Systems, Disaster Response, EMS, Emergency Management, Fire Investigation, Fire Prevention, Fire Service, Firefighters, First Responder, Incident Command, Homeland Security, Preparedness, Structural Firefighting, Technical Rescue, Vehicle Extrication, Water Rescue, Weapons of Mass..., EMT, Industrial Safety, Hazard Recognition, QHSE, Drilling, Paramedic, Emergency, First Aid, Ambulance, Field Operations, Fire Management, Confined Space Rescue, Hazardous Materials..., Supervisory Skills, Oilfield, Cpr Certified, Hazmat Operations, Behavior Based Safety, Rope Rescue, LWD, Petroleum
Eastern Oklahoma County Technology Center 2010 — 2010
Emergency Medical Technician, Medicine
Oklahoma State University 2001 — 2006
Bachelor of Science (BS)
Angel M. Martinez Houston, Texas
Halliburton Years 2006 - Present
Job Global Service Technician at Fann Instrument Company
Fann Instrument Company August 2006 - Present
Halliburton 2006 - Present
Chandler Engineering June 2000 - August 2006
Videojet Systems International 1994 - 1996
Coulter Electronics April 1986 - May 1990
Honeywell Information Systems 1982 - 1986
Electronics, Pneumatics, Hydraulics, Temperature Controlled, Pressure Handling, Electronics Repair, Elevators, Medical Equipment, Calibration, Electro-mechanical, Engineering, Preventive Maintenance, Equipment Maintenance, Maintenance & Repair, Pressure, Field Service, Test Equipment, Instrumentation, Petroleum, Oilfield, Upstream, Oil & Gas, Troubleshooting, Drilling, Gas
Instituto Tecnologico de Puerto Rico- Recinto de Manati 1978 — 1980
Associate's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
Kieth Walker II Longview, Texas
Halliburton Years February 2008 - September 2010
Job Energy
Industry Mining & Metals
Independent Contracting June 2015 - Present
Currently seeking new opportunities January 2015 - Present
Archer - the well company December 2013 - December 2014
Cetco Energy Services September 2013 - December 2013
Casedhole Solutions November 2012 - September 2013
Casedhole Solutions May 2012 - November 2012
Mission Well Services, LLC November 2011 - May 2012
Halliburton Energy Services September 2010 - November 2011
Halliburton February 2008 - September 2010
Halliburton September 2006 - February 2008
Gas, Negotiation, Energy, Pipelines, Customer Relations, Drilling, Oil, Microsoft Office, Contract Negotiation, New Business Development, Natural Gas, Petroleum, Excel, Supervisory Skills, Problem Solving, Sales Management, Onshore, Word, Customer Service, Completion, Contract Management, manager training, Pressure, Pumps, Wireline, Logging, Hydraulics, Completions, Stimulation, Cement, SAP, Management, Engineering, Fluids, Tubing, Operations Management, Safety Management..., Logistics, Sales, Human Resources, Petrochemical, Inventory Management, Fracture, Training, Account Management, Industrial Safety, Downstream Oil, Oilfield, Oil/Gas, Field Operations
Texas A&M University 1998 — 1998
Jacksonville College-Main Campus 1995 — 1995
Blinn College 1994 — 1994
HAKOUM Mohamed Algeria area
Halliburton Years April 2014 - Present
Job field service specialist at Halliburton KSA
Halliburton April 2014 - Present
Baker Hughes November 2007 - March 2014
baker atlas November 2007 - January 2013
local high school April 2007 - November 2007
crane operator, fork lift operator, heavy duty driver, Informatics knewledge, pomp maintenance, Petroleum, Logging, Explosives, Petroleum Engineering, Gas, Drilling, Offshore Drilling, Oil/Gas, Reservoir Engineering, Onshore, Oilfield, Upstream, Troubleshooting, Drilling Engineering, Wireline, Pressure, Formation Evaluation, QHSE, Directional Drilling, Completions, Tubing, Fluids, Stimulation, Well Testing, Oil
Djameeat Ibn khaldun-Teaarat 2001 — 2006
Bachelor of Science (BS), Chemistry
colonel Amirouch high school 1998 — 2001
bachelor of gene electric, Technologie / technicien du génie électrique, de l''électronique et des communications
Akindeji jolasinmi Dallas/Fort Worth Area
Halliburton Years March 2012 - November 2014
Job Managing Partner at Jdavanti Consortium LLC
Industry Real Estate
Jdavanti Consortium LLC January 2014 - Present
Lemonade designs Enterprise January 2012 - Present
Halliburton March 2012 - November 2014
Petroleum, Energy, Energy Industry, Drilling, Project Management, Leadership, Change Management, Strategic Planning, Business Strategy, New Business Development, Business Analysis, Contractors, Heavy Equipment, Oil/Gas, Oil & Gas Industry, Computer Science, Supply, Procurement, Capital Equipment, Web Design, Computer Proficiency, Aviation, Flight Dispatch, Real Estate, Real Estate Transactions, Creative Real Estate...
Igbinedion University, Okada 2009 — 2012
Bachelor's degree, Computer Sc. And Information Tech
Delta State Polytechnic
OND, Computer and information tech
Viktoriya Kirk Houston, Texas Area
Halliburton Years February 2014 - Present
Job Global QA/QC and Bioassay Manager at Halliburton
Halliburton February 2014 - Present
Halliburton February 2013 - February 2014
Halliburton December 2007 - November 2011
Halliburton October 2008 - April 2010
Halliburton November 2006 - October 2008
Macy's 2004 - 2006
Quality Assurance, Petroleum, Completion, Oil/Gas, Testing, Gas, ISO, Oilfield, Onshore, Inspection, Oil & Gas, Offshore Drilling, Engineering, Supervisory Skills, Quality Control, Leadership, Upstream, Energy, SAP, Materials, Management, Solidworks, Drilling, Oil & Gas Industry, ISO 9001
Kherson State Agrarian University 1998 — 2003
Masters, Science of Agriculture
Fidel Okoro Slidell, Louisiana
Job Oil & Energy Professional
Halliburton Energy Service June 2013 - Present
Western Wirelin inc Belle Chase Louisiana January 1998 - December 2005
Drilling, Petroleum, Completions, Slickline, Stimulation, Gas, International Logistics, Sales, Sand Control, Completion, Tubing, Oilfield, Pressure, Petroleum Engineering, Offshore Drilling, Drilling Engineering, Oil, Onshore, Upstream, Well Testing
Delta State University (NG) 1995 — 1997
Economics, 3yrs
Erejuwa ll Collage Warri South LGA 1981 — 1986
Yu Ye Austin, Texas
Halliburton Years May 2014 - August 2014
Job Graduate Research Assistant
The University of Texas at Austin August 2012 - Present
Halliburton May 2014 - August 2014
Andes Petroleum Ecuador LTD June 2013 - July 2013
China National Petroleum Corporation June 2010 - August 2010
Seismic data..., Well Logging, core inerpretation, Petra, Landmark, Kingdom Suite, Corel Draw, Microsoft Office, Geology, Depositional systems, Petroleum, Seismology, Reservoir Management, Oilfield, Stratigraphy, Oil & Gas Industry, Mineral Exploration, Sequence Stratigraphy, Earth Science
The University of Texas at Austin 2012 — 2014
Master of Science (MS), Geology/Earth Science, General, Cumulative GPA: 3.61
University of Waterloo 2009 — 2012
Bachelor of Science (BS), Geology/Earth Science, General
China University of Geosciences (Beijing) 2007 — 2009
Belkacem Sennour Houston, Texas Area
Halliburton Years August 2008 - January 2011
Job Senior Staff Reservoir Engineer at Murphy Oil
Murphy Oil February 2013 - Present
Marathon Oil Corporation January 2011 - February 2013
Halliburton August 2008 - January 2011
Sonatrach January 2005 - July 2008
Sonatrach December 2001 - December 2004
Reservoir Engineering, Reservoir Simulation, Reservoir Management, Petroleum Economics, Field Development, Reserves, Production Forecasting, Production Optimization, Petroleum Engineering, Product Optimization, Drilling, Forecasting, Petrophysics, Completion, Geology, Stimulation, Petroleum, Upstream, Gas, Petroleum Geology, Characterization, Artificial Lift, Geophysics, Completions, Oilfield, Petrel, Logging, Well Testing, Fracture, Onshore, Offshore Drilling
Ecole du Pétrole et des Moteurs 2000 — 2001
Master of Science (MS), Reservoir Engineering
Institut National des Hydrocarbures et de la Chimie 1994 — 1997
Bachelor's degree, Petroleum Engineering
Université des Sciences et de la Technologie 'Houari Boumediène' 1991 — 1994
Minor in Technology, Engineering Technology, General
Jeff Callahan Los Angeles, California
Job Virtual Sales Account Manager
Industry Computer Networking
Cisco December 2014 - Present
Hewlett-Packard February 2014 - November 2014
Hewlett-Packard April 2013 - February 2014
Mybullfrog.com Verizon Wireless Premium Retailer December 2012 - April 2013
Elite Baseball 2010 - 2013
Wireless Advocates July 2011 - December 2012
T-Mobile 2010 - 2011
Aaron's, Inc 2008 - 2008
Spring Mobile 2005 - 2007
Sales, Customer Service, Leadership, Time Management, Youth Development, Athletics, Customer Satisfaction, Sales Process, Sales Management, Direct Sales, Retail, Wireless, Sales Operations, Account Management, Customer Retention, Cold Calling, Team Building, Inventory Management, Strategic Planning, Microsoft Office, Salesforce.com, B2B, Coaching, Solution Selling, Telecommunications, Cellular Communications, Store Management, CRM, Mobile Devices, P, Employee Training, Recruiting, Merchandising, Loss Prevention, Process Improvement, SaaS, Training, Marketing
Salt Lake Community College 2012 — 2015
AS, Business Management
Broadview University 2004 — 2005
Rocky Mountain College 2001 — 2003
Dustin Mays Toledo, Ohio Area
Halliburton Years July 2009 - May 2010
Job Networking Assistant @ Liberty Center Local Schools
Industry Information Technology and Services
Liberty Center School District July 2014 - Present
nwoca May 2013 - July 2014
Halliburton July 2009 - May 2010
Halliburton energy services October 2006 - July 2009
United States Marine Corps June 2000 - August 2003
Troubleshooting, Management, Network Administration, Microsoft Office, Computer Hardware, Technical Support, Software Installation, Security, Team Leadership, Time Management, Software Documentation, Networking, Windows Server, System Administration, Active Directory, Windows 7, Servers, Help Desk Support, VPN, Operating Systems, Switches, IT Service Management, VMware, Citrix, Routers, Laptops, Administration, Testing, Wireless Networking, Integration, Computer Repair, Virtualization, Microsoft Exchange, Google Apps For...
Herzing University-Toledo 2015 — 2016
Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Network and System Administration/Administrator
Northwest State Community College 2011 — 2013
Associate's degree, Computer Programming
Kiat Fah Chong Bellaire, Texas
Halliburton Years April 2007 - April 2009
Job Licensed Acupuncturist at Healing Rock Acupuncture
Industry Medical Practice
Healing Rock Acupuncture October 2012 - Present
ACAOM September 2009 - September 2012
Halliburton April 2007 - April 2009
Wearnes Tech June 2006 - April 2007
BC2L November 2004 - May 2006
Chinese Herbal Medicine, Oil/Gas, Testing, PCB design, Characterization, Petroleum, Electricians, Manufacturing, Sensors, FPGA, ARM, Drilling, Energy, PCB Design
American College of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine 2009 — 2012
Master's Degree, Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine
National University of Singapore 2000 — 2003
Degree in Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ngee Ann Polytechnic 1996 — 1999
Diploma, Electrical Engineering
Kong Hwa Primary School
Martha Sandia Houston, Texas
Halliburton Years March 2012 - April 2013
Stork Technical Services April 2013 - Present
Halliburton March 2012 - April 2013
Halliburton December 2009 - March 2012
Halliburton January 2007 - December 2009
Landmark Graphics January 2006 - December 2006
Landmark Graphics August 2000 - December 2005
Tecnofluor - Fluor Daniel January 1992 - January 1998
Sales Management, New Business Development, Business Management, PeopleSoft, People Management, Business Analysis, General Management, Sales Process, Business Process..., Profit/Loss..., Marketing Strategy, Business Strategy, Financial Analysis, Team Building, Teamwork, Team Leadership, Strategy, Business Development, Competitive Analysis, Leadership, Upstream, Oil & Gas, Energy, Management, Petroleum, Oil, Gas, Onshore, Offshore Drilling, Energy Industry
Colorado School of Mines 1998 — 2000
Master Science, Mineral Economics, Specialization Business Strategy & Finance
Master Science, Petroleum Economics and Management
French Institut of Petroleum 1998 — 2000
MSc, Petroleum Economics
BSc, Civil Engineer
Raj Gunda Houston, Texas Area
Halliburton Years October 2005 - December 2014
Job Lead Hyperion at Cheniere Energy, Inc.
Cheniere Energy, Inc. January 2015 - Present
Halliburton October 2005 - December 2014
NORC at the University of Chicago June 2004 - September 2005
GE Power Conversion September 2003 - May 2004
Cta Consulting February 2003 - August 2003
Outsourcing Inc August 2001 - February 2003
Redprairie Corporation January 2001 - July 2001
HK Systems/Irista Inc March 1998 - December 2000
McHugh Freeman November 1997 - February 1998
Business Intelligence, Business Analysis, Integration, Databases, SDLC, Microsoft SQL Server, Software Development, ERP, Enterprise Architecture, Business Process..., Data Warehousing, IT Strategy, Software Project..., Requirements Analysis, Business Process, ETL
Fergusson College Pg Centre 1992 — 1995
Masters in Computer Science, Computer Science, A
Chandra Reynolds Lawton, Oklahoma Area
Halliburton Years March 2013 - October 2014
Job Lead Warehouseman , halliburton Energy Services Manufacturing
Industry Warehousing
Halliburton Energy Services September 2014 - Present
Halliburton March 2013 - October 2014
Forklift Operator, Supervisory Skills, Inspection, Factory, Materials, Cement, Metal Fabrication, Manufacturing, Customer Service, Petroleum, Forklift Operation, Customer Satisfaction, Gas, Training, Energy, Logging, Industrial Safety, Cranes, Onshore, Oil, Sap, Machining, Calibration
Cameron College
Bachelor of Science (BSc), criminal justice and corrections
Jeremy Monroe Heber Springs, Arkansas
Halliburton Years February 2013 - March 2014
Job Driver at DSC
Husband 4 Hire September 2014 - Present
Diamond state carriers July 2014 - September 2014
ESS Transport March 2014 - July 2014
Halliburton February 2013 - March 2014
PTI November 2010 - February 2013
Brock Excavation June 2008 - November 2010
Expertech March 2006 - June 2008
Accurate boring company January 2006 - March 2006
CPCS January 2005 - December 2005
Utility services unlimited March 2002 - December 2004
Fiber Optics, Heavy Equipment, Dump Truck, Truck Driving, Operations Management, Management, Project Management, Construction Supervision, Staff Supervision, Field Supervision, Utility Construction, Utilities Management, Natural Gas, Horizontal Directional..., Drilling, Construction Management, Workplace Safety, Hydraulic Fracturing, Equipment Operation, Leadership, Microsoft Word, Strategic Planning, Project Planning, Customer Service, Gas, Oil, SAP, Negotiation, Training, Team Leadership, Contract Management, Oil/Gas, Petroleum
EACC-ASU 1998 — 2000
N/A, CAD/CADD Drafting and/or Design Technology/Technician, B
ICS Learn 1997 — 1999
Certified, Automobile/Automotive Mechanics Technology/Technician, A
Marvell High 1990 — 1998
High School, Grammar, B
Barbara T. Grand Junction, Colorado Area
Halliburton Years January 2002 - May 2002
Job ...
Industry Hospital & Health Care
Western Valley Family Practice May 2007 - June 2009
Family Health West Urgent Care March 2007 - May 2009
STARTEK June 2004 - May 2007
Medical Strategies May 2003 - April 2004
VA Medical Center August 2002 - April 2003
Halliburton January 2002 - May 2002
Central Distributing ( Budwiser ) May 2000 - January 2002
USS Kitty Hawk CV-63 February 1998 - July 1999
Healthcare, Hospitals, Cpr Certified, Phlebotomy, Healthcare Information..., Healthcare Management, HIPAA, BLS, Patient Safety, ACLS, Critical Care, Aircraft Handling, Industrial Security, Firefighting, Combat medicine, ICD-9, ICD-9-CM, ICD-10, E-Clinical Works Program, Bloodborne Pathogens, First Aid, Urgent Care, Medical Terminology, Medical Records, Medical Billing, Medical Coding, Medical Surgical..., Medicaid Billing, Front Office, Back Office, Patient Counseling, Occupational Medicine, CDL Class A, BP, and able to do much..., CPT, Vital Signs, EKG, Medicare, Medicaid, Medication..., Blood Pressure, Home Care, Healthcare Consulting, Medical Assisting, Appointment Scheduling, Data Entry, Orthopedic, Multi-line Phone, Wound Care
Metropolitan State University of Denver 2004 — 2005
VUB program, English, Math, Computer, power point, excel, word, windows and other computer programs
Intellitec College-Grand Junction 2002 — 2003
Associate's Degree, Occupational Medicine in Medical Studies
Piscataway High School 1992 — 1994
Shawn Mire Kaplan, Louisiana
Halliburton Years June 2013 - Present
Job Electrical/Mechanical Tech II at Halliburton
Halliburton June 2013 - Present
Kaplan Telephone Company May 2012 - June 2013
Troubleshooting, Project Management, Testing, Project Planning, Networking, Sales, Team Leadership, Process Improvement, Integration, Telecommunications, Change Management, ITIL, Software Documentation, Windows, Microsoft Office, Program Management, Analysis, Team Building, PowerPoint, Logistics
Acadiana Technical College-Gulf Area Campus 2010 — 2012
Dirk Neumann Houston, Texas Area
Job 18 Years SAP Treasury & Risk Management, IHC, Cash Management, Banking, Exposure Management & Hedge Accounting
IAM Treasury Services LLC May 2009 - Present
SymQ December 2013 - June 2014
GTG - Global Treasury Group Ltda. May 2000 - December 2013
FMC Technologies 2012 - 2013
SAP International January 1999 - May 2000
SAP International, Miami, FL 1999 - 2000
PricewaterhouseCoopers London October 1997 - December 1998
Andersen Consulting (Accenture) October 1995 - September 1997
Management Consulting, Business Analysis, SAP, Banking, Risk Management, Requirements Analysis, SAP R/3, Project Implementation, Cash Management, IFRS, Team Leadership, Testing, Team Building, Program Management, People Management, Business Process, ERP, IT Strategy, Management, Pre-sales, SAP ERP, SAP Netweaver, Analysis, Project Management, Solution Architecture, Consulting, Treasury, SAP BI, SAP Implementation, Business Process..., Business Transformation
Brunel University London 1991 — 1995
BA (hons), European Business Studies
Buckinghamshire New University 1991 — 1995
BA, European Business Studies
Fachhochschule Osnabrück 1991 — 1995
Dipl Kfm (FH), European Business Studies
Scuola di Amministrazzione Aziendale di Torino 1993 — 1993
European Business Studies
Université Bordeaux I 1990 — 1991
Brittany Edwards, MS HRM, PHR Houston, Texas Area
Job Senior HR Operations Partner at Halliburton
Industry Human Resources
Halliburton July 2013 - February 2015
Purdue University August 2011 - May 2013
TVS Motor Company May 2012 - May 2012
Evonik Degussa January 2012 - April 2012
Lafayette School Corporation August 2009 - June 2011
Human Resources, Employee Relations, Compensation & Benefits, SAP HR, Microsoft Excel, Workforce Planning, Risk Management, Recruiting, Onboarding, Training, Microsoft Office, Job Analysis, Public Speaking, Teamwork, Teaching, PowerPoint, Employee Engagement, Organizational..., Organizational Behavior, Process Improvement, Strategic Planning, Team Building, Competency Management, Cross-functional Team..., Cultural Awareness, HR Project Management, HR Transformation
Purdue University - Krannert School of Management 2011 — 2013
MSHRM, Human Resource Management
GISMA Business School 2013 — 2013
Study Abroad- Hannover, Germany
Oregon State University 2004 — 2007
BA, History, Education; 3.83 /4.0
West Albany High School
Igor Bybliv New Baltimore, Michigan
Halliburton Years January 2015 - Present
Job Field Engineer at Halliburton
Halliburton January 2015 - Present
Baker Hughes August 2010 - January 2015
Arrow Research LLC April 2004 - August 2010
Petroleum Engineering, Logging, Offshore Drilling, Petroleum, Oil/Gas, Completion, Formation Evaluation, Reservoir Management, Petrophysics, Geoscientists, Pump Down Perforation...
Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas 1980 — 1985
Master's degree, Petroleum/Geology Engineering
Lela Michele Tyree Amarillo, Texas
Halliburton Years May 2013 - Present
Job ESG Admin Associate Payroll Dept, Expenses, Data Entry, Accounting Services at Halliburton
Halliburton May 2013 - Present
Northwest Texas Health care May 2010 - March 2013
Parker Farms August 2004 - December 2009
Health Insurance, Associates Accounting..., Office Management..., Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Exchange, Accounts Payable, Account Reconciliation, Accounts Receivable, Data Entry, Data Management, Spreadsheets, Access, Software Documentation, Office Management, Supervisory Skills, Invoicing, SAP, Payroll, Administration, Administrative..., Outlook, Upstream, Oilfield
American Commercial College-Lubbock
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Accounting and Business/Management
Montery Lubbock Texas
Kimberly Wilson, GPHR Houston, Texas
Job Director of Human Resources
Halliburton July 2012 - April 2013
Halliburton August 2010 - July 2012
Halliburton March 2008 - December 2010
NASA 2000 - 2008
TriQuest Precision Plastics 1998 - 1999
PacifiCorp Financial Services 1995 - 1997
Global Human Resources..., Personnel Management, HR Policies, Human Resources, Compensation & Benefit, Succession Planning, Deferred Compensation, Organizational Design, Workforce Planning, Talent Management, HR Consulting, HRIS, HR Transformation, Labor Relations, Performance Appraisal, Onboarding, Leadership, Management, Employee Relations
Boston University Brussels Graduate Center (BUB) 1992 — 1994
Master's degree, Business Administration and Management, General
Portland State University 1986 — 1988
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Psychology
GPHR
Jianjun Yan Calgary, Canada Area
Halliburton Years June 2010 - October 2011
Job TAGD Drilling Engineer
Athabasca Oil Corporation October 2011 - Present
Halliburton June 2010 - October 2011
Schlumberger July 2002 - June 2010
Directional Drilling, Drilling, Drilling Engineering, Petroleum Engineering, Onshore, Oilfield, Oil/Gas, Offshore Drilling, Completions
University of Petroleum (Beijing) 1999 — 2002
Master, Petroleum Engineering
Harbin University of Science and Technology 1992 — 1996
Bachelor, Mechanical Engineering
Kamal Hajiev Houston, Texas Area
Halliburton Years August 1997 - Present
Job Principal Consultant IM
Halliburton August 1997 - Present
Chevron October 2007 - July 2014
BP Exploration 1999 - 2007
AIOC 1997 - 1999
KMNGR 1993 - 1997
Baku Regional Centre for Computer Engineering 1984 - 1993
Management, Upstream, Petroleum, Gas, Energy, Oil/Gas, Business Analysis, Geophysics, Seismology, Petroleum Geology, Petrel, Offshore Drilling, Onshore, Energy Industry, Completion, Oilfield, Solaris 8/9/10, Data Management, Project Management, Oil & Gas
Azjarbajžan Tehniki Universiteti 1979 — 1984
april larsen San Antonio, Texas Area
Halliburton Years November 2014 - 2015
Job Looking to make professional connections.
Twin Eagle 2015 - Present
QC Energy Resources 2015 - June 2015
Halliburton November 2014 - 2015
Prism Electronics Corp August 2010 - February 2014
Pinnergy September 2014 - 2014
Microsoft Office, Customer Service, Microsoft Word, Sales, Inventory Management, Microsoft Excel, Outlook, Logistics, Purchasing, PowerPoint, Project Management, Teamwork, Retail, Customer Satisfaction, Strategic Planning, Supply Chain, Data Entry, Inventory Control, Warehousing, Time Management, Shipping, Invoicing, Supervisory Skills, Supply Chain Management, Petroleum, Oil, Logistics Management, Negotiation, Process Scheduler
Everest College-San Jose 2008 — 2009
Medical Insurance Specialist/Medical Biller
San Jose City College 2005 — 2005
Associate's degree, Dental Assisting/Assistant
Amy Mock Latrobe, Pennsylvania
Job Logistics Coordinator at FMC Technologies
FMC Technologies July 2015 - Present
FMC Technologies September 2013 - Present
FMC Technologies October 2011 - September 2013
SOS Employment Group 2011 - 2011
Curves 2006 - 2010
Dominion Resources, Armstrong Energy LLLC 2002 - 2006
Oil/Gas, Gas, SAP, Troubleshooting, Energy, Microsoft Office, Project Management, Process Improvement, Microsoft Excel, Software Documentation, Operations Management, Supervisory Skills, Team Leadership, Project Planning, Customer Service, Procurement, Contract Management, Logistics, Process Scheduler, Analysis, Quality Assurance, Human Resources, Training, Oil, Sales, Materials Management, Microsoft Word, Oil & Gas
Cambria-Rowe Business College-Indiana 1995 — 1997
Associate's degree, Business Management
Dalia Herrera-Avalos Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Area
Halliburton Years December 2012 - Present
Job Advisor Petrophysicist en Halliburton
Halliburton December 2012 - Present
Halliburton December 2010 - September 2012
Industrial Perforadora de Campeche September 2009 - November 2010
Schlumberger January 2005 - June 2009
Petróleo y gas natural, Análisis de registros, Industria petrolera, Perforaciones, Ingeniería del petróleo, Campos petrolíferos, Evaluación de formación, Geología del petróleo, Gas, Sector de exploración y..., Petrofísica, Oilfield, Log Analysis
Instituto Tecnológico de Ciudad Madero 2000 — 2004
Ing. Geociencias
Lahcene Hellali Algeria area
Halliburton Years February 2012 - December 2013
Job QHSE advisor at Saudi Aramco
Saudi Aramco March 2014 - Present
Expro Gulf ltd October 2010 - December 2011
ADWOC February 2007 - September 2010
NEBORS drilling February 2005 - August 2007
Occupational Health, Inspection, QHSE, Drilling, Hazard Recognition, Auditing, Training, Quality Management, Management, Software Documentation, Investigation, NEBOSH, Analysis, Oil/Gas, Onshore
ELTC , UMIST university manchester UK 2001 — 2003
IELTC
University of Algiers 1997 — 2001
first degree, Communication and public relations
Muhammad Shafqat Shahzad Houston, Texas
Halliburton Years March 2011 - February 2012
Job Operations Geologist at Chevron
Chevron June 2014 - Present
Chevron February 2002 - Present
Chevron February 2012 - June 2014
Halliburton March 2011 - February 2012
Marathon Oil Company November 2008 - January 2011
LMKR September 2004 - October 2008
LMKR February 2004 - August 2004
Halliburton October 2002 - January 2004
LMKR March 2000 - September 2002
Earth Science, Upstream, Geology, Geophysics, Data Management, Data Mapping, Energy Industry, Field Development, Geoframe, Geochemistry, Geological Mapping, Geophysical Surveys, Oil, Geographix, OpenWorks, Petrel, Petroleum Geology, Petrophysics, Product Optimization, Reservoir Engineering, Oil/Gas, Oilfield, Petroleum, Reservoir Management, Sedimentology, Seismology, Oil & Gas
University of the Punjab, Lahore 1995 — 1998
Master’s Degree, Applied Geology, Specialization in Petroleum Geology
Bachelor’s Degree, Applied Geology
Islamia University, Bahawalpur 1991 — 1993
Bachelor’s Degree, Bachelor of Arts - Mass Communication
Hao Ge Houston, Texas Area
Job Tech ProfPinnacle Geosciences at Halliburton
University of Louisiana at Lafayette September 2006 - May 2008
Petroleum Engineering, Drilling, Fluids, Earth Science, Offshore Drilling, Reservoir Simulation, Well Testing, Reservoir Engineering, Petrophysics, Petroleum Geology, Logging, Geophysics, Reservoir Management, Geology, Seismology, Petrel, Upstream, Petroleum, Completion, Characterization, Energy Industry, Formation Evaluation, Oil & Gas Industry, Natural Gas, Gas, Drilling Engineering, Energy
University of Louisiana at Lafayette 2006 — 2008
MS, Petroleum Engineering
Changchun University of Science and Technology 2004 — 2006
BS, Computer Science and Technology
BS, Environmental Science
Paulo Penna Houston, Texas Area
Halliburton Years October 2014 - Present
Job Advisor Global Tech Svcs na Halliburton
Halliburton October 2014 - Present
PCP Telecom February 2001 - September 2006
PETROBRAS July 1989 - January 2001
Onshore, Petroleum, Oil/Gas, Upstream, Logging, LWD, Gas, Pressure, Completion, Offshore Operations, Reservoir Engineering, Petrophysics
Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais 1983 — 1988
Engenheiro, Engenheiro Eletricista
Vadim Akhmadikin Houston, Texas Area
Job Business Development Manager at Halliburton
Halliburton November 2013 - January 2014
Schlumberger October 2010 - April 2013
Schlumberger January 2009 - March 2011
DynaEnergetics Rus July 2008 - December 2008
Schlumberger September 1992 - May 2008
Wire Line, Oilfield, Petroleum, Wireline, Logging, Upstream, Oil/Gas, Oil & Gas Industry, Geophysics, Energy Industry, Formation Evaluation, Petroleum Engineering, Perforation, Gas, Energy, Stimulation, Engineering, Onshore, Completion, Procurement, Reservoir Management, Drilling, Well Testing, Offshore Drilling, Explosives, Manufacturing Operations, Field Development, Drilling Engineering, Completions, Reservoir Engineering, QHSE, Directional Drilling, Pressure, Cement, Subsea Engineering, Petrophysics, Natural Gas, Downstream Oil & Gas, Field Operations, Offshore Operations, Geology, Earth Science, Seismology, Pipelines, Data Acquisition, Product Optimization, Petroleum Geology, LNG, Pumps, Petrel
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University 2005 — 2008
Master, MBA
Башкирский Государственный Университет 1983 — 1990
Master of Science (MSc), Physics
Charles Helmke New Orleans, Louisiana
Job Surface Data Logger at Halliburton
National Park Service May 2014 - June 2014
National Park Service August 2013 - March 2014
Earth Search Inc. February 2013 - August 2013
Plant Services October 2010 - February 2013
Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans February 2010 - March 2010
BTU Cottbus August 2008 - February 2010
National Trust for Scotland August 2009 - October 2009
University of New Orleans January 2008 - June 2008
University of New Orleans May 2005 - August 2005
Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus 2008 — 2010
Master of Arts, World Heritage Studies
University of New Orleans 2003 — 2008
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Anthropology
Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz 2006 — 2007
Geographic Information Science and Cartography
Harsha Balagere Houston, Texas
Halliburton Years June 2008 - December 2008
Job Senior Consultant at Catapult Systems
Catapult Systems March 2015 - Present
Catapult Systems August 2012 - March 2015
ERM Information Solutions Inc. November 2009 - August 2012
Halliburton June 2008 - December 2008
Business Intelligence, Microsoft SQL Server, SSRS, ASP.NET, Software Development, WPF, SQL, C#, VB.NET, Oracle, Windows Azure, SSIS, .NET, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, System Testing, Unit Testing, Microsoft Test Manager, DTS, Visio, Knockout JS, SharePoint, Bootstrap, jQuery
University of Houston-Clear Lake 2006 — 2008
Master of Science, Management Information Systems
Dayananda Sagar College Of Engineering 2001 — 2005
Bachelor of Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering
Joseph Nwachukwu Houston, Texas Area
Job Product Specialist Production Engineer at Halliburton
Colossus Group Corporation September 2012 - December 2012
University of Houston January 2011 - August 2012
PFC Energy December 2011 - May 2012
Dragnet Solutions Ltd January 2009 - January 2011
Engineering Materials Development Institute February 2007 - February 2008
Integrated Fibres Limited May 2005 - October 2005
Well Drilling and..., Reservoir Engineering, Formation Evaluation, Production Operations, Well Testing, Petroleum Project..., Hydraulic Fracturing, Petroleum, Drilling, Engineering, Petrophysics, Energy, Drilling Engineering, Production Technology, EOR, R&D, Chemical Engineering, Petroleum Engineering, Upstream, Geology, Pressure, Characterization, Modeling, Completions, Process Simulation, Analysis, Fluids, Completion
University of Houston 2011 — 2012
M.Eng, Petroleum Engineering, 3.86
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University 2001 — 2006
B.Eng, Chemical Engineering
Graham Blake Lafayette, Louisiana Area
Halliburton Years June 2013 - April 2014
Job Welder / Fitter and Carbide Specialist
Navarre Fabricaton April 2014 - Present
Halliburton June 2013 - April 2014
Knight Fishing Services May 2012 - May 2013
Baker Hughes November 2011 - May 2012
AEP River Operations March 2011 - September 2011
SMAW, FCAW, Tig, MIG, Brazing, Metal Fabrication, Seamanship, Forklift Operator, Welding, Inspection, Offshore Drilling, Heavy Equipment, Oilfield, Safety Management..., Subsea Engineering, MIG welding, Drilling, Petroleum, Oil & Gas
Acadiana Technical College-Lafayette Campus 2009 — 2011
Certificate, Welding
Daniel Adesina Reno, Nevada Area
Job Engineer at Western Sierras
Redhorse Corporation December 2011 - May 2013
Oklahoma State University September 2009 - May 2011
NEW START DEVELOPMENT LLC May 2010 - August 2010
Alcatel-Lucent March 2007 - July 2009
Wadmus Engineering and Construction Limited. August 2005 - March 2007
Engineering, Water, Construction, Environmental, Inspection, Enviromental, Consultants, Air Quality, Air Quality Modeling, Air Quality Engineering, Environmental Research, AutoCAD, Environmental Awareness, Civil Engineering, Title V Permitting, AERMOD, Emission Inventories, Ambient Air Monitoring, Environmental Strategies, Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Environmental..., Engineering Design, Project Management, Customer Service, Management, Energy, Gas
University of Nevada-Reno 2012 — 2014
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Business Administration, Management and Operations
MSC, ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
Federal University of Technology Minna 2002 — 2006
BSc, Civil Engineering
Carlton Robinson Norman, Oklahoma
Halliburton Years March 2014 - Present
Job Area Resource Coordinator at Halliburton
Halliburton March 2014 - Present
Halliburton Special Services February 2012 - March 2014
Halliburton Special Services February 2010 - February 2012
Cox Communications June 2008 - February 2010
Circuit City February 2006 - June 2008
Gas, Oil/Gas, Petroleum Engineering, Oilfield, Petroleum, Drilling, Onshore, Oil & Gas Industry, Energy, Energy Industry, Completion, Natural Gas, Pumps, Cement, Pressure, Well Testing, Supervisory Skills, Pipelines, Stimulation, Inspection, Oil
ITT Technical Institute-Oklahoma City 2006 — 2008
Associate's degree, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications
Cameron University 2004 — 2005
MacArthur High School 2000 — 2004
Quy Doan Los Angeles, California
Halliburton Years April 2014 - May 2015
Halliburton April 2014 - May 2015
Halliburton March 2012 - March 2014
Halliburton January 2010 - February 2012
Vietnam Petroleum Institute (VPI) February 2009 - November 2009
Vietnam Petroleum Institute (VPI) June 2008 - January 2009
University of Southern California 2015 — 2017
Master’s Degree, Petroleum Engineering
Ho Chi Minh University of Technology 2004 — 2009
Bachelor’s Degree, Chemical Engineering
Brad Popchoke Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Halliburton Years January 2007 - June 2007
Job Looking for employment in Inside/Outside Sales or Dispatch
M&N Holdings, LLC March 2015 - Present
National Oilwell Varco July 2013 - February 2015
National Oilwell Varco September 2010 - July 2013
Cantera Concrete Company June 2010 - September 2010
Mathis Brothers Furniture April 2010 - June 2010
Mathis Brothers Furniture January 2010 - March 2010
Thomasville Home Furnishings July 2009 - December 2009
National Oilwell Varco July 2007 - June 2009
Halliburton January 2007 - June 2007
Bronco Drilling June 2006 - January 2007
Customer Service, Microsoft Office, Logistics, Leadership, Sales, Operations Management, Management, Warehousing, Procurement, Materials Management, Supervisory Skills, Supply Chain Management, Microsoft Excel, Inventory Control, Inspection, Energy, Project Planning, Manufacturing, Project Management, Microsoft Word, Engineering, Troubleshooting, Team Leadership, Forklift Operation, Schedules, microsoft outlook, Client Billing, Shipping & Receiving, International &..., Assembly Processes, Debt Collection, Bill of Lading, Oil & Gas, Oil & Gas Industry, Oilfield, Upstream, Drilling, Downhole Tools, Accounts Payable, Google Docs, CPR Certified, H2S, Petroleum, Gas, Onshore, Energy Industry, Inventory Management
Emergency Medical Technician Basic
Francis Tuttle Technology Center 2003 — 2003
Private Investigations / Security
Putnam City High School 1996 — 2000
Keith Kenny Katy, Texas
Job Survey Management Manager
Halliburton April 2010 - December 2014
Halliburton July 2006 - March 2010
Sperry-Sun Drilling Services June 1997 - December 1999
Sperry-Sun Drilling Services October 1993 - May 1997
College of the North Atlantic 1989 — 1993
Petroleum Engineering Technology
Memorial University of Newfoundland 1987 — 1988
Beaconsfield High School 1982 — 1987
Arnold (A.J) Villarreal Odessa/Midland, Texas Area
Halliburton Years July 2011 - February 2012
Job Electronic technician at Pro Petro Services
Pro Petro Services February 2014 - Present
Rising star services February 2012 - February 2014
Orthopeadics Specialist of Austin February 2011 - July 2011
Texas Heart and Vascular February 2010 - February 2011
AirBorn Inc. August 2005 - January 2010
Electronics, Oil & Gas, Troubleshooting, Petroleum, Onshore, Drilling, Oilfield, Offshore Drilling, Gas, Engineering, Electricians, Calibration, Six Sigma, Maintenance, Manufacturing, Instrumentation, Maintenance, Preventive Maintenance, Inspection, Wiring, Hardware, Supervisory Skills, Customer Service, Safety Management...
Everest Institute-Austin
Lingyu Tian Manchester, New Hampshire
Halliburton Years June 2013 - August 2013
Job Software Developer at Autodesk
Industry Computer Software
Autodesk March 2014 - Present
Halliburton June 2013 - August 2013
Exploration and Development Research Institute July 2011 - August 2011
C++, Java, Python, C, Qt, C#, JavaScript, ActionScript 3.0, SQL, Databases, Matlab, Github, Unit Testing, Software Development, Software Project..., Weka, Visual Studio, ASP.NET, Oracle
Brandeis University 2012 — 2013
Master's degree, Computer Science & IT Entrepreneurship
University of Shanghai for Science and Technology 2008 — 2012
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science
Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg (HAW Hamburg) 2010 — 2011
Exchange, Information Engineering
Vatsal Modi Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Halliburton Years May 2012 - July 2012
Job Chemical Engineering Graduate Student at Carnegie Mellon University
Scientific Precision Pvt. Ltd. May 2014 - August 2014
Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited May 2013 - July 2013
Halliburton May 2012 - July 2012
Process Optimization, Chemical Engineering, Process Simulation, Aspen HYSYS, Matlab, Process Engineering, Chemistry, Parallel Programming, Process Scheduling, Aspen Plus, C++, C, Python, Java, GAMS, COMSOL, Unix, Go, Graph Theory, CFX, Microsoft Office, Distillation, Thermodynamics, Materials Science, Organic Chemistry, P&ID, Heat Transfer, Polymers, Engineering, Visual Basic, AutoCAD, Photoshop, Corel Draw, ANSYS, Fortran, Systems Engineering...
Carnegie Mellon University 2014 — 2015
Master of Science (M.S.), Chemical Engineering, GPA: 4.0/4.0
Institute Of Chemical Technology 2010 — 2014
Bachelor of Chemical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, CGPA: 7.6/10.0
South Indian Education Society 2008 — 2010
High School, Science, Percentage: 89.6/100
alaa noor Houston, Texas Area
Halliburton Years June 2010 - July 2012
Halliburton June 2010 - July 2012
ophthalmologist clinic January 2010 - April 2010
Omniat Telecom August 2009 - January 2010
Customer Service, Contract Management, Microsoft Office, Procurement, Environmental Science, Health Management, Database Administration, Environmental..., Supervisory Skills, Gas, Oil, Petroleum, Energy
University of New Haven 2012 — 2014
Master's Degree, Environmental Science
Jami'at Al-Basrah 2004 — 2009
Bachelor's Degree, Biology/Biological Sciences, General
Chase Buer Bismarck, North Dakota Area
Halliburton Years February 2011 - May 2014
Pumpco services June 2014 - Present
Ponderosa Bar & Pizza October 2009 - Present
Halliburton February 2011 - May 2014
Tade &Tade Inc June 2006 - September 2009
Aevenia, Inc. June 2008 - September 2008
Microsoft Office, Forklift Operation, Petroleum, Onshore, Microsoft Word, Supervisory Skills
Dakota College at Bottineau 2009 — 2011
Wildlife, Fish and Wildlands Science and Management
Scobey High School 2006 — 2009
Diploma, General Studies
Michael Turkett Duncan, Oklahoma
Halliburton Years September 1986 - September 1999
Job Marketing Coordinator/Graphic Designer
Duncan Regional Hospital March 2011 - Present
Watters Engineering September 1999 - July 2003
Halliburton September 1986 - September 1999
Brochures, Layout, Graphics, Art, Creative Direction, Catalogs, Marketing, Graphic Design, Photoshop, Logo Design, Corporate Identity, Illustrator, Image Editing, Advertising, Image Manipulation, Flyers, Business Cards, Visual Communication, Collateral, Corporate Branding, Branding & Identity, Invitations, Adobe InDesign, Macromedia Freehand, Adobe Illustrator, QuarkXPress, Photo Editing, Marketing Coordinator, Photography, InDesign
Heritage College-Oklahoma City 2003 — 2005
Associates, Therapeutic Body Work
University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma
Bobbi Jo Baker Williamsport, Pennsylvania Area
Halliburton Years January 2013 - February 2015
Job Professional seeking employment in Supply Chain, SAP, IT, Electronics, or Administration.
Jenny Montgomery Scott 2004 - 2010
United States Postal Service 2000 - 2004
Gas, Oil & Gas Industry, Electronics, Computer Networking, Materials Coordinator, Database Administration, Administration, Onshore, Energy, Oil, Engineering, Operations Management, Inspection, Petroleum, Oilfield, Natural Gas, Management, Project Planning, Pressure, Supervisory Skills
ITT Technical Institute-Bensalem 2007 — 2009
Associate's degree, Computer Networking Systems, 3.8
South Williamsport High School 1987 — 1991
Ugur Serinturk Grand Junction, Colorado Area
Halliburton Years November 2013 - Present
Job Drilling Fluids Engineer at Halliburton
Halliburton November 2013 - Present
Park City Municipal Corporation May 2012 - November 2013
Chemical Engineering, Oilfield, Drilling Fluids, Oil & Gas, Energy, Onshore, WELLSIGHT Express, Business Planning, Management, Customer Service, Research, Training, Sales, OSHA Certified, Mathematics, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint
İnönü Üniversitesi 2004 — 2008
Bachelor's Degree, Chemical Engineering
Jake Boudreaux Lafayette, Louisiana Area
Job Performance Development Coordinator at Halliburton
Halliburton June 2011 - September 2013
Halliburton August 2009 - June 2011
Halliburton February 2009 - August 2009
Completion, Offshore Drilling, Scuba Diving, Oil/Gas, Onshore, Petroleum, ASME, Occupational Health, Quality Management, Gas, Oil & Gas, Subsea Engineering, Pressure, Offshore Operations, Upstream, Oilfield, Oil, Supervisory Skills, Drilling, Oil & Gas Industry
Acadiana Technical College-Teche Area Campus 2005 — 2007
Trade, Computer Numerically Controlled (CNC) Machinist Technology/CNC Machinist
Erath High School 2003 — 2006
Derek MacLeod Austin, Texas
Job Sr Technical Lead at General Motors
Friedkin Companies, Inc. July 2003 - May 2012
Friedkin Information Technology March 2003 - July 2003
JPMorgan Chase 1997 - 2001
VALIC 1994 - 1997
USAble Systems/Blue Cross/Blue Shield of AR 1993 - 1994
Philadelphia American Life Insurance Company 1992 - 1993
Applications..., Software Quality..., Software Project..., Multi-Platform..., Business Analysis, Applications Software..., Mainframe, Distributed Systems, Project Management, Vendor Management, Software Quality..., Process Improvement, IT Management, Data Warehousing, Microsoft SQL Server, SDLC, Business Intelligence, Quality Assurance, Integration, DB2, Software Development, Leadership, Business Process, SQL, Software Documentation, IT Strategy, Analysis, SharePoint, Solution Architecture, Project Planning, Disaster Recovery, Enterprise Architecture, Visio
Apostolic Bible Institute Inc
Bachelor's degree, Theology/Theological Studies
Krista Kilbourn Marlow, Oklahoma
Halliburton Years September 2010 - March 2015
Job Deputy Clerk at Stephens County Assessor
Industry Government Administration
Stephens County Assessor April 2015 - Present
Halliburton September 2010 - March 2015
Halliburton September 2010 - January 2012
Simmons Center June 2009 - September 2010
Human Resources, Onboarding, Process Scheduler, Purchasing, Customer Service, Microsoft Excel, Interviews, Microsoft Word, SAP, New Hire Orientations, Policy, Sourcing
Cameron University School of Business 2015 — 2017
Ashford University 2006 — 2010
BA, Organizational Management, 3.85
Red River Area Vo-Tech 1986 — 1987
Muhammad Nur Nasution BEng, MBA Lafayette, Louisiana Area
Job Operation Leader/Engineer expert in Completion, Well Intervention, Cementing and Stimulation
Halliburton February 2011 - July 2012
Halliburton April 2010 - January 2011
Halliburton July 2008 - September 2010
Drilling, Oilfield, Offshore Drilling, Nitrogen, Well Stimulation, Petroleum, Oil/Gas, Drilling Engineering, Cement, Formation Evaluation, Completion, Gas, Well Testing, Onshore, Stimulation, Logging, Completions, Pressure, Upstream, Pumps, Energy Industry, Tubing, Directional Drilling, Petroleum Engineering, Operations Management, Offshore Operations, Field Development, Reservoir Engineering, Wireline, QHSE, Reservoir Management, Natural Gas, Subsea Engineering, Oil & Gas Industry, Energy, Fluids, Engineering, Pipelines, Field Operations, Geology, Hydraulics, Petrochemical, Supervisory Skills, LNG, Well Intervention, HAZOP, Downstream Oil & Gas, Project Engineering, EPC, FPSO
IPMI International Business School 2006 — 2008
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), General Management
Universitas Trisakti 1990 — 1994
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Petroleum Engineering Department
Beatriz Kanhan Houston, Texas Area
Halliburton Years September 2014 - Present
Job IT Application Analyst at Halliburton
Halliburton September 2014 - Present
Elumini People & Software January 2007 - December 2007
Americanas.com April 2004 - August 2006
Petrobras November 2003 - February 2004
Franco, Celano & Baroncelli (FCB) Comunicação January 2003 - October 2003
Sá Ribeiro Comunicação October 2001 - December 2002
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Julia Lodge
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Julia Gillard’s Altona house is up for auction this coming Saturday 14/12/2013 at 2 p.m. I believe many people will be very curious to know how much it will fetch and who will be the successful bidder.
According to a newspapers article, an inspector described the house as having huge potential as a pile of rubble. “Put up a bunch of units? You’d have to develop, to make it worthwhile,” she says. I am thinking an astute investor would not have paid a premium to pull down this house. Subdivision and redevelopment could be achieved more cheaply with a similar property elsewhere in Altona.
If you are going to pay much more for this house because the first female Australian PM has resided in it during her reign, you may as well capitalize on its “celebrity status“. Rather than diminishing or erasing its historical association through redevelopment, the investor should instead embrace, enhance and prolong its “celebrity allure“. I have suggested in a previous post that the successful bidder may consider turning this investment into a holiday rental house featuring a Prime Ministerial suite and experience, with a rich story to tell. I think Julia Lodge will be a good, appropriate name reflecting its history as this is her abode and this humble house has also operated as “The Lodge” out of Canberra over a significant duration of time.
Now I will let my imaginations run wild and explore with the readers how this holiday house could look like and what features it could have in order to resurrect the one and only Prime Ministerial experience in Australia. It may come as a surprise to you that with information publicly accessible from the internet, you can actually stock the house full of memorabilia associated with Ms Gillard.
Ms Gillard said that a favourite location in her Altona house is the rear family room where she and her partner Tim Mathieson love relaxing near the fireplace (Ref 1). Another article describes her preference of sitting closest to the fireplace in Kirribilli House, Sydney and curling up on the Lodge sofa in Canberra with Tim Mathieson, switching on Midsomer Murders and pullling out the knitting needles to work on a baby’s cardigan.
Furniture could include:
A replica of the Lodge sofa could be put in one of the two lounges in her Altona house.
An armchair for knitting as pictured in the photo shoot featured in the July 2003 issue of The Australian Women Weekly magazine.
Julia Gillard posing in an armchair knitting
a toy kangaroo for the royal baby
Many holiday houses stock DVDs, CDs and books in the lounge to provide entertainment for their guests.
The booklist could include:
My Story – Julia Gillard’s political memoir released in Oct 2014 by Penguin Random House (Ref 2, 2a)
The Stalking of Julia Gillard by Fairfax journalist Kerry-Anne Walsh.
The Making of Julia Gillard by Jacqueline Ken.
Take Your Best Shot: The Prime Ministership of Julia Gillard by Jacqueline Ken.
The Gillard Governments by Mark Evans, Roger Wettenhall and Chris Aulich to be released on 2/1/2014.
Bewitched and Bedevilled – Women Write the Gillard Years by Samantha Trenoweth, published on 1/12/2013.
Remarkable Times: Australian Politics 2010-13: What Really Happened by Laurie Oakes.
Books on former PM Kevin Rudd, including:
His planned autobiography (Ref 3).
Tales from the Political Trenches by Maxine McKew.
The Rudd Rebellion by political strategist Bruce Hawker.
Power Trip: The Political Journey of Kevin Rudd by David Marr.
Battlelines – a 2009 book written by current PM Tony Abbott and surprisingly a book that made into her PM office (Ref 3a).
The Grapes Of Wrath – John Steinbeck’s devastating tale of dispossession and poverty – which is her all-time favourite book (Ref 3b).
Something Fishy by Shane Maloney (Ref 3a).
Time for Change: Australia in the 21st Century by Tim Wright where Julia Gillard contributes the section on healthcare (Ref 3a).
Books on knitting, including Baby Cashmerino 3 – a pattern-book by knitting titan Debbie Bliss that was used by Julia Gillard (Ref 4).
Books on hairdressing.
The Australian Women Weekly magazine July 2013 issue which features a photo (see above) of her knitting a Royal Kangaroo and which had attracted heavy criticism for being a publicity stunt (Ref 5, 6, 7, 8).
The DVDs could include:
A compilation of TV programs Ms Gillard had “starred” in. I am surprised that there is an entry for Julia Gillard in IMDb (Internet Movie Database), which is usually reserved for celebrities in the show business. You can see the list of TV programs she had appeared in from her filmography. The manner this entry is written, particularly the section on her biography, is actually quite demeaning. I could recall watching her, who was then the Deputy PM, appearing on Channel Ten’s “I’m not smarter than a 5th grader” in which she won the $100,000 prize (Ref 9). The IMDb author is apparently not exhaustive enough as this reality TV episode is not included in her filmography.
At Home With Julia – a 4-part TV series shown on ABC, and created and played by Amanda Bishop. Ms Gillard was apparently not amused by this satirical sitcom. “I think aspects of that first episode were funny but I’ve got more to do than sit around watching ABC TV,” she said (Ref 10).
TV drama based on The Stalking of Julia Gillard, played by Rachel Griffiths, unlikely to air until at least 2015 (Ref 11).
Her significant speeches such as the world-famous Misogynist Speech and the Concession Speech after losing to Kevin Rudd in a leadership spill on 26/6/2013.
The Concession Speech
Interviews with Julia Gillard, including the Conversation with Anne Summers at the Sydney Opera House and Melbourne Town Hall. You can order the DVD here.
Political commentaries and news snippets of Julia Gillard, including her meetings with prominent world leaders such as Barrack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
Videos of Julia Gillard’s “Cinderella Moments“.
Midsomer Murders – a detective drama watched by Julia Gillard (Ref 12).
Game of Thrones – she has named watching this fantasy drama TV series as one of her favourite pastimes (Ref 13).
Movies of Eric Bana (including Black Hawk Down) and Cate Blanchett – her favourite film stars (Ref 14).
Wales in Australia – a BBC documentary about the impact of the Welsh on the shaping of Australia, in which the host Huw Edwards conducted an interview with Julia Gillard (Ref 15).
Videos on yoga, boxing and bosu ball exercises that she do (Ref 16).
Recordings of footy games involving Western Bulldogs – she is an ardent supporter of this AFL club (Ref 17).
CDs could include her favourite music albums (Ref 18):
Cold Chisel – Twentieth Century
Bruce Springsteen – Born to Run
Midnight Oil – Blue Sky Mining
Crowded House – Woodface
Things Of Stone And Wood – The Yearning
Julia Gillard has on many occasions named knitting as her favourite pastime and also as a means to unwind and switch off (Ref 19, 20, 21, 22, ). When not preoccupied with leading the nation, she would spend her time at the Lodge knitting woollen cardigans for babies. To reflect this hobby, we could have in the lounge:
Knitting materials, guide and pattern books.
A lime-green knitting handbag with silver lining and marked with an official Air Force flight tag “CABIN: Prime Minister” that she used to carry (Ref 23, 24).
A replica of the Royal Baby Kangaroo that she had knitted as a gift for Prince George before she was disposed as the PM and whose fate we do not know – did she still send this gift to its intended recipient? (Ref 25).
The Royal Baby Kangaroo with Julia Gillard’s dog Reuben
A replica of the little jacket she knitted for the then Finance Minister Penny Wong’s baby daughter, Alexandra, and of a maroon smock-coat for one of her former chief of staff Amanda Lampe’s twin daughters (Ref 26).
A replica of the scarf knitted by her that raised $4050 at a charity auction at the Federal Press Gallery’s Midwinter Ball for helping someone beats the winter chill (Ref 27).
A replica of A Tale of Two Jules painted by artist Tony Sowersby, an entrant in the Bald Archy Prize, in 2011 depicting Julia Gillard knitting in a scene with WikiLeaks crusader Julian Assange and former Alaska governator Sarah Palin. (Ref 28).
A Tale of Two Jules by Tony Sowersby
Other stuff that could be put in the lounges may include:
A yoga mat and a bosu ball that she does exercises with (Ref 29).
There are quite a number of political board and card games, particularly those based on US politics (Ref 29a, 29b). In view of the political drama over the past six years, it is surprising that there is yet an entrepreneur attempt to invent a game themed after Australian politics, in which the players can take on the roles of local politicians such as Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Tony Abbott, Malcolm Turnbull, Bill Shorten, Julie Bishop, etc.
A stuffed toy dog replica of Reuben – a cavoodle given as a 50th birthday present from Ms Gillard’s partner, Tim Mathieson (Ref 30). They often take Reuben for a morning walk around Cherry Lake in Altona (Ref 31). Ms Gillard has proclaimed herself to be a “dog person” (Ref 32).
Julia Gillard with Reuben at her Altona house
Photo by Joe Armao
There is an interesting cartoon on Reuben on Crikey’s website that would look good on the wall.
Wall paintings may include Aboriginal Art as in Kirribili House, the PM’s Sydney residence (Ref 33) or landmark photos of meeting with foreign leaders.
Julia Gillard giving Barack Obama a lesson on Aussie Rules Game in his Oval Office
The Sherrin football that Julia Gillard gave as a present to US President Barack Obama (Ref 34). Ms Gillard had also kept a Sherrin football celebrating 150 years of AFL in her PM office at the Parliament House (Ref 34a). Perhaps Ms Gillard had parted with her treasured football, which she gifted to Mr. Obama.
This is another favourite spot in the house for Ms Gillard. How can it be presented for the telling of vivid stories?
First, the dining table should have a replica of that infamous empty fruit bowl. Read my earlier post.
2005 Photo by Ken Irwin for Fairfax Media
Ms Gillard loves telling this story: “We had a celebrated incident where we had a visiting foreign leader so you put dinner on for them. There was much shooing of people out of the dining room because someone spotted possum wee making its way down the wall to one of the very precious paintings from the National Gallery.” (Ref 35). We could reproduce the scene here by hanging replicas of the National Gallery paintings on the wall, a figurine of a possum, faked urinal trails down the wall as well as a written account of the story framed on the wall.
One of the most demeaning and offensive things that was done to Ms Gillard is the creation of a supposedly “mock” menu by Joe Richards, owner of Brisbane-based Richards and Richards Restaurant at a $1000 per head fundraising dinner for Mal Brough, the LNP candidate for the federal seat of Fisher. This menu featured a dish called “Julia Gillard Kentucky Fried Quail” which is described as “Small Breasts, Huge Thighs & A Big Red Box” (Ref 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42). This menu can be made into a table placemat. The purpose is not to ridicule Ms Gillard but to remind the guests how much sexism she has suffered.
There could be a recipe book on Ms Gillard’s favourite dishes. She had said she loves roast lamb with lots of roast potatoes, carrots, peas, gravy and mint sauce (Ref 43).
There is a sex scene in the TV satire “At Home with Julia” depicting Julia Gillard and Tim Mathieson on the office floor draped in an Australian flag. This has provoked outrage in many viewers who feel this is disrespectful, tantamount to desecrating the Australian flag as government protocol said the flag should not fall or lie on the ground or be used as a cover (Ref 44, 45). However, I have seen many people wearing clothes (shirts, boardshorts, etc). with prints of Australian flags. Hence, I think it is alright to imprint the Union Jack motifs on bedsheets, blankets and pillow cases – firstly these aren’t flags and secondly they are placed on beds, not on the floor.
The master bedroom is ensuite with a walk-in wardrobe. In addition to its usual function of keeping clothes and shoes, it can provide additional “accessories” to enact the “Julia Gillard presence“.
What came to my mind first is a replica of her size 36 Midas pump blue suede shoe that was seized by the protesters from the Aboriginal Tent Embassy when she and Tony Abbott were presenting the inaugural National Emergency Medals on 26/1/2012. Read this post for further details of the story.
Replica of the jersey presented by Western Bulldogs to her.
Jokes were being made about Ms Gillard’s hair colour. She had been rudely labelled as a redhead and a ranga and political caricatures always try to inflate or emphasize this genetic trait of her – something that she is born with (Ref <a href=” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>46, 47). She had in fact declared that she is proud with her hair colour in a Q & A programme on ABC TV.
A red wig can be provided in the wardrobe for anyone to put on, to see whether they will in fact look better with a different hair colour.
Soon after Ms Gillard became PM, she was criticized for her poor fashion sense of wearing heavy, brocaded coats and oversized cuffs and collars. The image consultant Imogen Lamport said the jacket she had worn resembled a cheap motel bedspread (Ref 48, 49). She suggested the PM be given a clothing allowance to polish up her appearance. The feminist Germaine Greer made this comment: “What I want her to do is get rid of those bloody jackets! They don’t fit. Every time she turns around, you’ve got that strange horizontal crease which means they’re cut too narrow in the hips. You’ve got a big arse, Julia, just get on with it.” (Ref 50, 51). The then Opposition Leader Tony Abbott agreed with this assessment. He said: “I know, I know, I know. Germaine Greer was right on this subject.” (Ref 51a). After seeing a photo of Ms Gillard visiting tsunami-ravaged Japan, the prominent Australian horse trainer and businesswoman Gai Waterhouse remarked: “She desperately needs a make-over. It wasn’t the carnage behind that gave me the horrors, but the woman standing in front of it.” (Ref 52). Apparently Ms Gillard has finally found her fashion feet for she is no longer criticized in this aspect (Ref 53, 54).
Expert tips provided by image consultant Imogen Lamport
Many tourist spots provide period, ethnic or stage costumes for people to don and take photos as mementos. Similarly, stocking the wardrobe with some copies of Ms Gillard’s clothes before and after her makeover, such as the “technicolor screamcoat” (Ref 55) shown in the photo above, may turn out to be a tourist drawcard.
Julia Gillard Letter Box
Unlike other houses in the same street, 9 Medford Street Altona does not have a letter box. However, the new owner can install a special letter box. Anyone who wishes to send letters to Julia Gillard can mail to this address, just like children from all over the world can send Christmas cards to Santa Claus via a particular post box in Finland. I do not think Julia Gillard will be interested in receiving and reading these letters. Instead, these letters could be collected, opened and put into a nicely-decorated “Mystery Box” in the house where they can be read by the guests.
I know that Ms Gillard is at home whenever I see a red AFP (Australian Federal Police) car parked opposite her house. This is a defining characteristic of this quiet street in Altona. I would miss its presence. There could a miniaturized replica of the AFP car in the front garden which can doubled up as part of a play space for kids.
A clay or timber statue of Reuben can be used to adorn the timber decked area in the rear garden.
Activities/Itineraries
Ms Gillard had mentioned on many occasions that she enjoys living in Altona. Indeed, Altona is a hidden gem with many attractions and significant natural parklands that are being neglected by Melbourne tourism promoters. I have suggested itineraries of touring Altona and you can find a comprehensive coverage of Altona’s various attractions here.
Julia Gillard and Tim Mathieson walking on the Altona Pier
One idea is to create a Julia Gillard Itinerary, covering locations in Altona that she had visited and which guests could retrace the paths she had taken. These would include Cherry Lake where she and her partner Tim often bring their dog Reuben for a walk, Altona Beach, Altona Pier and restaurants she had patronized such as Melissa Cakes in Pier Street and Waffee at Harrington Square.
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Julia Gillard and Tim Mathieson at Melissa Cakes in Pier Street
In her concession speech, Ms Gillard said: “It doesn’t explain everything, it doesn’t explain nothing, it explains some things. And it is for the nation to think in a sophisticated way about those shades of grey. What I am absolutely confident of is it will be easier for the next woman and the woman after that and the woman after that. And I’m proud of that.” (Ref 56)
The holiday house operator can promote the stay as an educational experience – the chance of better understanding what Ms Gillard had gone through and of grasping the essence of the philosophy behind those shades of grey ……
PS. Maybe one day, the story of Julia Gillard will become a local legend, passed from one generation to the next and there will be this local saying: “If you have not been to Medford Street, you have not been to Altona“. While in Altona, try the Medford Street Burger from Stella Grill Restaurant located at 56 Pier Street. This is a vegetarian burger containing vegi patti, roasted bell pepper, baby spinach, Spanish onion, fetta cheese and dijonnaise (menu link).
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David on December 30, 2013 at 8:02 AM
Anthony this is not only one of the best summaries of Julia Gillard's career as PM it is also a masterful overview of the (parlous) state of Australian political commentary/media engagement of the last few years and as usual, you tie it back beautifully to Altona. You're a genius.
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Here’s a look at big moments in visual arts as we celebrate the highs, lows and uh-ohs of the departing decade in Dallas culture, 2010-2019.
“Dior: From Paris to the World” was a hit at the Dallas Museum of Art.(Tom Fox / Staff Photographer)
‘Dior’ ousted ‘Mexico’ (barely), but ‘Tut’ reigns supreme
The Dallas Museum of Art enjoyed a series of milestones between 2010 and 2019. Its presentation of “Dior: From Paris to the World” (2019) emerged as the highest-attended ticketed special exhibition of the past decade. It also ranks as the sixth highest-attended ticketed special exhibition in DMA history. Not only that, it wowed the critics. The Dallas Morning News labeled it “a jaw-dropping fashion art exhibition,” with critic Rick Brettell adding the salsa: “If ever there were an exhibition about aesthetic spectacle at the DMA, this is it.”
Attendance exceeded (though not by much) another popular show from the past decade, “México 1900–1950: Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, José Clemente Orozco, and the Avant-Garde” (2017). “Mexico” was the second-highest-attended exhibition of the decade and ranks as the eighth-highest in DMA history. Both the “Dior” and “Mexico” exhibitions happened under Agustín Arteaga, who himself represents a decade high point: Arteaga became director in 2016.
As for the highest-attended ticketed exhibition in museum history, that one still remains “Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs.”
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Tony Tasset’s “Eye” sculpture in downtown Dallas stands 30 feet tall.(Ryan Michalesko / Staff Photographer)
The ‘Eye’ has it
If you blinked in late summer of 2013, you might’ve missed the installation of a three-story eyeball on Main Street. Multimedia artist Tony Tasset’s sculpture Eye stands 30 feet tall, looking out over a bed of grass that on most days remains gated off from the public. A few days a month, the lawn hosts weddings, events, workout classes, picnics and — you guessed it — social media photo shoots. Headington Cos., in collaboration with the Nasher Sculpture Center, acquired the large-scale artwork to mark the renovation of the Joule Hotel, a luxury hotel that contains some of downtown’s swankiest bars and restaurants. Like the hotel, Eye served as a harbinger of development in the Central Business District, which this decade has seen an influx of hotels, bars and public spaces, many of which are primed for the unblinking lens of Instagram.
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In 2015, French conceptual artist Loris Gréaud hired actors to pose as rioting patrons and destroy the sculptures in his solo exhibition “The Unplayed Notes Museum” at Dallas Contemporary.(Minsk Studio)
An artist destroyed his own Dallas exhibition
Confusion, panic, the sound of objects shattering. It had been a routine (if unusually well-attended) art opening at Dallas Contemporary on a Saturday night in 2015 when the chaos began. French conceptual artist Loris Gréaud had hired actors to pose as rioting patrons and destroy the sculptures in his new solo exhibition “The Unplayed Notes Museum.” Guests were ushered out into the safety of the parking lot. The act of destruction itself and resulting debris was, in fact, the actual artistic statement. As stunning as the whole incident was, the real jaw-dropper came later. A Dallas art critic penned an unfavorable review and was told by the artist in a series of despicable Facebook messages that she needed to do some studying and get a boyfriend. The exchange drew national press attention, and he later thanked her for the publicity.
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The Wyly Theatre hosted “Aurora,” an interactive art exhibition in the Dallas Arts District, in October 2015.(Vernon Bryant / Staff Photographer)
Homegrown arts initiatives put Dallas on the international map
While the rest of the art world was focused on the usual suspects, Dallas was busily poising itself to become one of the hottest (and perhaps somewhat unexpected) international contemporary art destinations. The Dallas Contemporary underwent a transformation with a new building, new director, new curators and a new globally attuned vision. Artists Shane Pennington and Joshua King founded Aurora, a new-media event that transforms the city into an interactive wonderland of light and sound. The Nasher Sculpture Center announced the creation of the Nasher Prize, which at $100,000 is the world’s biggest prize for sculpture.
The Dallas Art Fair celebrated its 10th anniversary and opened 214 Projects, presenting year-round exhibitions and programming beyond the annual April fair. And the granddaddy of all Dallas art events, Howard and Cindy Rachofsky’s Two x Two for AIDS and Art, hit the 20-year mark and raised a record $9.3 million in 2018. At a grand total of $92 million raised, the auction is the largest annual fundraiser for both amfAR (the Foundation for AIDS Research) and the Dallas Museum of Art, showing that collectors can have hearts as deep as their pockets.
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Lyza Hernandez admired Yayoi Kusama’s installation “All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins” at the Dallas Museum of Art in September 2017.(Nathan Hunsinger / Staff Photographer)
Kusama’s ‘Pumpkins’ flooded our Instagram accounts
You don’t often see the words “infinity mirrors and glowing pumpkins” in the same sentence. But you could revel in the combination in 2017 when the Dallas Museum of Art opened the smartphone crowd-pleaser “Yayoi Kusama: All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins” by the 88-year-old Japanese artist. The DMA show proved to be a sensation, despite allowing visitors only 45 seconds inside and two at a time to see 62 acrylic yellow pumpkins covered in black polka dots.
People gathered around Leonardo da Vinci’s “Salvator Mundi” at a Christie’s auction room in London in October 2017.(Kirsty Wigglesworth / The Associated Press)
The story of a painting — starring Leonardo da Vinci, Trump, Russia, the Saudi crown prince and Dallas — had us obsessed
One of the most bizarre stories of the past decade unfolded at the Dallas Museum of Art. In 2012, its then-director, Maxwell Anderson, tried to persuade his board to purchase a painting by Leonardo da Vinci titled Salvator Mundi. For eight months, it sat on an easel in a carefully guarded storeroom. Back then, the painting carried a price tag of $125 million, which the DMA board agreed to pay, making an offer of $80 million in cash, with other proposed options adding up to the purchase price. Two of the three New York art dealers who owned the painting agreed. The third did not.
So, the deal was nixed. And from there, it got really weird. Today, the painting’s journey reads like the plot of a John le Carré thriller that connects the dots from the Russian seller of the painting (who bought it after the DMA could not), to special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of President Donald Trump.
Finally, in 2017, the painting was auctioned off for a record $450.3 million, making it the most valuable artwork ever sold. So who made the winning bid? The Saudi crown prince, who bought it from the Russian oligarch, and who today keeps it on his yacht, where only his friends can see it.
Mexico-based artist Carlos Ranc pops into Culture Hole, a 44-square-foot underground art exhibition space in Deep Ellum.(Jeffrey McWhorter / Special Contributor)
Artists went underground (literally) and got creative about space
The 2010s brought a resurgence in DIY energy. Alternative spaces, collectives and pop-ups seemed to creep into every available North Texas apartment, storefront and warehouse, galvanizing the local artistic community with a renewed sense of purpose and presence. While many of the original venues (Oliver Francis Gallery, Beefhaus, CentralTrak) have since shuttered, and collectives (Homecoming! Committee, Art Beef) have disbanded, at least one (the Reading Room) is still standing, and one (Culture Hole) is still firmly planted 6 feet underground. Founded by artists Gregory Ruppe and Jeff Gibbons, Culture Hole is only accessible one night a month, when visitors descend a small metal ladder to sit shoulder to shoulder in a defunct cellar, accompanied by anything from an artist making omelets to order, to the stuffed corpse of a mule, to an immersive video projection. That some of the most ambitious and experimental art in Dallas takes places in a 44-square-foot bunker is proof that bigger isn’t always better.
Sources from: The Dallas Morning News
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Home > Politics > Can Scottish MPs Make a Difference In Westminster?
Can Scottish MPs Make a Difference In Westminster?
David Younger looks at the mass of contradictions ahead of the SNP at the next general election and questions the strategy many on the Yes side have moved towards.
No disrespect to the pollsters here but there are a number of factors which will alter this result dramatically.
One is that there is a tendency to treat the LibDems as a lost cause. This may be true but the LibDems have an enviable history of building up a strong constituency organisation in those constituencies they hold and they are very likely to be able to hold on to at least half of their present number of seats.
Another is the disruptive effect of the UKIP vote. We saw that recently when Labour came within a whisker of losing a seat in the last bye-election and this effect will be considerably greater in the general election. If UKIP pursue a policy of targeting all marginal seats as well as those they feel most confident of winning, then between forty and eighty seats could change hands between Labour and Conservative which adds to the uncertainty of the outcome.
Then there is the matter of what the Conservatives will do between now and May. After George Osborne’s apocryphal autumn statement, watch out for the budget. I expect something along the lines of: “Well, we told you things were going to be tough, but it seems that maybe, due to our masterful handling of the nation’s economy (no laughing here please – they actually believe this) things aren’t going to be quite so bad after all – here are some goodies.”
As for Labour, theirs is a soft vote. They bounced up by four points after the Autumn Statement and that can come down again just as quickly. The word from Central Office is that many senior figures in the Labour Party have begun to realise that Labour’s implosion in Scotland is in serious danger of being replicated in England and they have no answer to this. They are fighting with the Conservatives for the same ever-narrowing sector of the electorate and that is a battle they are always going to lose. Voters in England have taken notes here and there is growing distrust of Labour generally.
Political discourse in England has increased – not, perhaps, to the same extent as in Scotland but the referendum has had an effect across the whole of the UK. This may well be reflected in the turnout which could rise for the first time in many elections and who knows who these new voters may choose to vote for.
It’s early days yet and these figures will almost certainly change before May but the one thing that concerns me here is that, assuming the result is about as forecast here, why is it a good thing for the SNP to hold the balance of power? This is an incredibly dangerous position to be in. If the SNP prop up a minority Labour administration, the resentment in England would be colossal, both on the grounds that two-thirds of the electorate didn’t vote for them and – worst of all – that a party of Scottish MPs was holding Westminster to ransom. And things wouldn’t go too well for the SNP in Scotland either. To get anything near what the Scottish electorate would want to see – or regard as a success for the SNP – would involve rewriting the Labour manifesto. As a junior partner in a coalition, the SNP would take a battering, after all, the LibDems tried it and it didn’t work out so well for them.
The only path that the SNP could take is the most difficult of all. They could negotiate a withdrawal of Scottish MPs from Westminster. We could call it DevoMax to make everyone comfortable, but even if it comes out as complete independence, this is not so outlandish as it may first appear. The Conservatives, for one, would identify advantages in that they would probably be able to continue their coalition in a reduced parliament while being free of the stigma of being the party which oversaw the break-up of the UK. Labour, after their meltdown in Scotland, would be desperate to avoid a repeat in England and the English electorate would at last feel that they had a legislature that was for them and not influenced by others.
The problem is selling it to Scotland. This may sound silly given that there is already a bedrock support for independence and the opposition is – or certainly appears to be – soft but there is still considerable concern about the UK fiscal position. John Warren’s excellent piece lifts the lid a little on the practical problems which both the main Westminster parties have tied themselves into – with no plan B by the way – but his subject analysis does not address the issue of how the UK presently props up the balance of payments deficit. This is done by converting wealth into assets – overwhelmingly property. These assets produce virtually no new wealth, serving merely to protect wealth already in existence and serving as an attractor for wealth from abroad. Scotland has the advantage of a balance of payments surplus (not including oil) and, as Jim Sillars pointed out in the referendum debates, this in itself attracts an inward flow of foreign funds. Indeed, no less a body than the IMF predicted that an independent Scottish currency would be more likely to face problems of over valuation rather than a fall in value.
The problem is in selling the idea that we do not have to order our fiscal affairs as a mirror image of Westminster and in the referendum debate the Yes camp manifestly failed to do this, partly because so much attention was fixed on the SNPs plans for an independent Scotland which were picked at by the opposition in purely Westminster terms. The SNP have an Achilles heel in that, as they stand at present, they are both a functioning political party and an independence movement. Sometimes you can’t be both. Part of the success of the Better Together campaign was founded on their successfully treating the Referendum like a general election with emphasis on party politics. Weaknesses in the SNP manifesto were seized upon and no reference was ever made to the fact that, in an independent Scotland, the SNP would be just one party – indeed they might even split to form more than one party. Instead, the emphasis was on what an independent Scotland would be like as a de facto one party state.
The SNP, as power brokers in Westminster, would fail miserably in the face of the opposition which would come from all sides and they would achieve little for the people of Scotland. They would have no friends in parliament apart from a handful of MPs and their party political ambitions would be torn apart. Better they stick to independence and leave the other MPs to fight their own battles.
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autonomyscotland says:
6th January 2015 at 3:01 pm
Reblogged this on Common Weal.
benmadigan says:
posted yesterday what appears to be a sort of companion piece to this – particularly with regards to the central paragraphs and the question “why is it a good thing for the SNP to hold the balance of power?”
It sets out the current statistics as well as the pros and cons of potential and likely outcomes of the 2015 General Election.
https://eurofree3.wordpress.com/2015/01/06/land-of-hope-and-glory/
macart763 says:
As I understood it, the SNP would negotiate support on a vote by vote basis and that such support would be conditional. When did they declare they’d form a coalition with anyone? The one thing they did rule out categorically was propping any Tory government.
Or has there been further releases by the SG on the matter?
MBC says:
Agree Macart. This article makes a lot of assumptions. It would be far better to avoid any form of formal coalition. Look what happened to the LibDems.
Politics is a pretty misleading game at the best of times and generally practised by people versed in the dark arts of misdirection, double speak and quick change. It never really helps to assume anything and its always best to form an opinion on policies made, actions taken, effects achieved or not as the case may be and points of record.
Until such times as the SNP actually say they plan any form of coalition, then its best to take them on their original statement.
I’m not much into political game playing myself. Neither the whatiffery or the whataboutery, the overthink or the overanalyse. Someone either has your best interests at heart and works to benefit all in their population/community/work/home or they do not.
The establishment parties have used up their coinage on that count. The SNP have proven capable and as far as politicians can be, reasonably trustworthy and transparent by comparison. They’ve earned the right to be taken at their word on this matter. I’d sooner trust them to represent Scotland’s interests at Westminster than, yet again, send down the same representation we have for the past several decades and watch as yet more misery is inflicted on the electorate.
Jim Arnott says:
The IFS are merely restating what McCrone said in the mid 70’s. An independent Scotland would have a strong currency – indeed so strong it could pose some problems. Well guess what, I would prefer a strong currency to having to live with a decimated Sterling which will happen when interest rates rise making UK debt unsustainable. The Referendum result merely De onstrates that we Scots never learn.
JPJ2 says:
” Better they stick to independence and leave the other MPs to fight their own battles.”
Sheer idiocy. Electing anyone other than the SNP is to GUARANTEE very poor prospects for Scotland.
Who is David Younger campaigning for in the 2015 GE?
david steel says:
its a good piece this – Sturgeon and Salmond (as defacto westminster leader) has ruled out coalition with the Tories but what happens if they are the largest party but need SNP to Govern. The labour party would be the smaller of the two big parties but wont give in to Salmonds demands ….. would they try to govern minority government ? but if a vote of no confidence SNP could bring them down.
It would be a political stalemate – with the SNP blamed as wreckers of the British parliament and in any quick rerun of GE how would it play with ex labour voters who shifted to SNP when they realise that even with 40 mps SNP cant do anything without agreement with the others and is impotent.
In my humble opinion the one view that might get some traction is the one stated in the article where Salmond could go to the Tories and say to them – Fully federal solution to UK , Scotland gets all the powers it requires under the UK banner and the Tories get an eternal inbuilt majority in what becomes a defacto English Parliament , with only English votes for English Laws and no subsidy junkie scots to worry about.
The real treat behind this idea is the EU in/out referendum that only the Tories are delivering and with an out result based on English votes then that gives the newly federal Scotland a big excuse to take the now tiny further step to independence for Scotland.
So in short – forget the red tories and stitch a deal for full devomax / federalism with the blue ones – its not a coalition with them but delivery of all the powers Scotland needs once and for all with the big carrot of indyref 2 if England votes us out of Europe.
David Agnew says:
nice idea in theory, but in practice not so much. Since the 97 the party has not been able to shed itself of the mantle of the anti-Scottish party. Its never even looked in the mirror let alone begun to talk about how it came to pitiful state it finds itself in. Instead we see them declare that its simply down to us not listening to them. Its a mindstate that has transformed them into a toxic and lethal political cocktail.
The SNP will well remember what happened the last time they made a deal with the conservatives and it has taken this long for them to truly recover. The Tories are the party whose Scottish leader declared with confidence to an English party conference that 9 out of 10 Scottish households had contributed nothing to the success of Britain. It was Osborne who went one step further and declared that Scotland had only been allowed to use the pound, and subsequently had contributed nothing to the success of sterling either. On just about every constitutional matter it has been proven that they are as dishonest as Scottish labour. The SNP simply won’t do it.
Martin Wood says:
As things have progressed the idea of an SNP powerbroker arrangement seems less likely.
It would not be tolerated by the English electorate and suicide in England for Labour.
This whole thing seems to be a mess in waiting and a “National Government” looks like the solution the Conservatives and Labour will reach for.
How this plays out in Scotland is anyones guess
Good to see that someone is looking at this from the south of the border perspective.
Why wouldn’t Labour (who hate the SNP with a vengeance) just say to the SNP “we don’t feel that we can enter into an agreement with a political organisation that is diametrically opposed to much of what we stand for.”
What do the SNP do then?
1. Abstain from voting and let Labour control parliament without any concessions to the SNP?
1a. Abstain, but now a Tory / Lib Dem / UKIP / DUP coalition might be biggest.
2. Side with Labour anyway, and so Labour get the benefits and the SNP still get no concessions.
3. Side with the Tories to spite Labour.
In the long term there is no downside for Labour not agreeing anything with the SNP. Either they will get the SNP’s support but not have to give any concessions, or they show that a vote for the SNP is a vote for the Tories.
If Labour DO enter into some sort of agreement with the SNP it will only encourage further calls for independence / devo max that will hurt Labour.
Interesting times!
muttley79 says:
Labour cannot show that a vote for the SNP is a vote for the Tories because of the election results of 1979, 1983, 1987, 1992 and 2010, amongst others. When are Labour types going to acknowledge these catastrophic failures to prevent the most neo-liberal Tory governments imaginable?
If Labour want to play hardball then the SNP can vote for them in confidence motions but against Labour on everything else thus keeping Labour in power as a zombie government unable to do anything else. This is perfectly feasible since the coalition brought in the Fixed Term Parliaments Act. Sooner or later Labour would have to do deals with the SNP or other parties in order to get things done.
If Labour instead choose to go in with the Tories then that finishes them for good in Scotland (and probably in England and Wales as well).
As said above we are blessed to live in interesting times!
Peter A Bell says:
6th January 2015 at 10:09 pm
Good to see somebody thinking in terms of options rather than obstacles.
Andy Ellis (@ndls61) says:
Not sure why you think the “SNP as power broker” scenario is less likely? If GE15 delivers another hung parliament with the SNP/Greens/PC holding the balance of power…..what other solution would you suggest? The proposed Con/Lab National Coalition idea may be attractive to dyed in the wool britnats and atavistic SNP haters in NuLab (we all remember their unthinking hatred in 2010 when they set their faces against any attempt to even try and form an alternative to the ConDem Coalition, don’t we?), but it is probably even more of an existential threat to Labour in northern England, never mind Scotland, than Better Together proved for Scottish Labour.
Of course things may change over coming months, but the polling evidence so far, and the smart money in betting odds, is still pointing towards Labour as biggest party but well short of an absolute majority (whatever “John” Murphy says!). In that scenario Labour would be well advised to finally show us the corpse of the vile New Labour project, and negotiate the best deal they can with the SNP. If that entails ditching Trident, delivering devo max, electoral reform etc, etc….Hell, they’ll be biting Big Eck’s hand off!
Given what happened to the LD’s after their disastrous mishandling of the Coalition negotiations in the ten days in May 2010, the SNP just have to hold their nerve. No formal coalition is necessary or indeed desirable; all they have to do is make their terms abundantly clear, and ensure Labour’s feet are held to the fire.
I think it’s a win/win for Scotland; either Labour do the right thing, or another GE is inevitable. That will lead to further increase in SNP support, and with luck #indyref2 in short order.
The key word here is “options”. The most valuable commodity in politics. To put it as simply as possible, voting SNP opens up options for Scotland. Voting for any of the British parties closes off options.
Given that we cannot possibly know the precise outcome of the coming UK general election, we have to play safe and vote SNP. Imagining all the possible outcomes is pointless exercise, even if entertaining in the way that speculation always is for a certain breed of political anorak. We cannot possibly vote in such a way as to cover all possible outcomes. And if we listen to all the pundits urging us to vote according to their favoured outcome we will end up with nothing more than a headache.
There is no doubt that a substantial contingent of SNP MPs holding the balance of power at Westminster would present the party with some serious conundrums. But the alternative is to go back to business as usual with the faux rivalries of the British parties and Scotland being, at best, ignored and, quite probably, punished. To vote for the British parties is to abandon the gains that have been made as a result of the referendum campaign. A vote for the SNP is a vote to consolidate those gains.
deewal says:
Nailed as usual by Mr Bell.
David Younger says:
I’m not suggesting that we vote in any way tactically, or that we should not vote SNP. What I have tried to do here is to point out tis a very dangerous road ahead for us, regardless of the outcome. The perspective south of the border is very different from what we see up here. I don’t see even the limited Smith Commission proposals getting through Parliament and that is yet another dimension to take into account. I, for one, will not vote for any Westminster-based party but what I don’t want to see is the potential for a majority independence movement wasted if voters see some sort of deal after the election which is clearly not working.
The question is moot as the British parties are likely to come to some accommodation amongst themselves in order to prevent the SNP acting a power-brokers. In which case, a strong contingent of SNP MPs becomes even more important. Otherwise, Scotland will have no voice at all at Westminster.
Barbara McKenzie says:
Spot on, Peter Bell.
Gordon bradley says:
All bets on a ” national government ”
When this was first mooted I was sceptical.
Then progressively persuaded till now it has the ring of inevitability to it.
Scotland will go mental. Stitched up again !
What larks !
Its going to lively !
The National Government route would be the death knell for Labour in Scotland (although they are already in melt-down!) and probably in much of northern & urban England. It would be a defining moment for them, much as it was the last time the experiment was tried. I just don’t see it happening – and if it did, it will simply increase support for the SNP and independence, leading to indyref2 being called for and probably won following a renewed mandate after HR elections in 2016.
Correct Andy. SLAB would be almost certainly signing their own death warrant if there was a Tory-Labour government at Westminster, although as far as I am aware no Labour figures have yet denied it. They would be dead in Wales, and much of the north of England as well.
Actually a Labour / Tory coalition wouldn’t just kill the Labour Party it’d split it from top to bottom with possibly breakaway party(ies) being formed – with MPs and MSPs splitting away which would lead to all sorts of consequences as well. I suspect lessons of Ramsay McDonald’s National Government are still remembered as folklore within Labour and its for this, and other reasons, that they’d only go down this route if absolutely desperate (or even more politically inept than normal).
Mathew says:
Agree with the above, I think the trauma of a second election would be preferable to Labour than a national government. Holyrood, though, could be a different matter – wouldn’t surprise me to see Labour and the Tories band together to remove the SNP from power.
The SNP have an Achilles heel in that, as they stand at present, they are both a functioning political party and an independence movement.
You could make a good case that the SNP were both before the 2011 elections came through, although there were still unaligned left wingers who supported independence. However, in the years since then, and particularly after the referendum result, I do not think you can say the SNP is the, or an, independence movement, given other political parties campaigned for. They are the leading pro-independence party, but the movement is far broader than the SNP now. The SNP are the main hope of delivering another independence referendum, given their history, resources and political experience.
I don’t buy the argument that the SNP could negotiate independence, if they held the balance of power at Westminster, after the general election. At the very best I can only see the SNP helping deliver Devo max, and I am not see that as much of a hope either. Maybe that is being pessimistic, but they would be looking for significant powers going to Scotland at the very least. I have difficulty picturing the British state giving up Scotland completely after the events of last year (and the entire referendum campaign). If independence is going to occur, then the most likely delivery is by means of a referendum.
I think you are being pessimistic! The britnats have a problem; all current evidence shows they are in for a nightmare scenario post GE15. If they try to stitch things up by forming a Grand Colaition or National Government to shut the SNP out, it will cause outrage in Scotland, increase support for the SNP & independence, and hasten #indyref2 post HR16 elections. It will also sicken many south of the border in BOTH parties I imagine!
If they don’t go down that path, the only feasible path is some form of compromise with the SNP. The price for this should be clear well beforehand, and given previous experience I’m confident the SNP are smarter than the LD’s were in May 2010. I think the cards are actually in our favour; the britnats are between a rock and a hard place.
Andy, I don’t believe that Tory backbenchers would accept a Tory-Labour government. They would be highly embarrassed, and would feel the formation of a coalition with Labour demeaning, if Scotland was the cause and main issue behind it! I think quite a number of Tory and Labour MPs would resign and join UKIP, probably causing a number of by elections. I reckon Tory backbenchers would seek to destabilise it, a la the Major government shambles. In all likelihood an alliance between the main two parties in England would prevent a referendum on the EU, I many Tories would go ballistic at that as well. They have their eyes set on a referendum on the EU.
I think that’s why there is more of an argument that SNP would get more out of a Devo-max deal with the Tories.
You have to remember that with a large contingent of 40 or so MPs for the SNP then Scotland has spoken and rejected the Westminster parties policies and the Smith Commission proposals. It therefore is easy for Cameron to solve his English votes for English laws problem by pointing out that the Scots have endorsed devomax / full federalism. You cant keep the people behind bars forever as it were.
He could actually claim he was saving the union as if proper Devomax was rejected again then it makes indyref2 inevitable as scots would be so pissed off.
Cameron would also get an automatic majority in an “English Parliament” – whats not to like from his point of view (apart from losing oil revenues – but of course they are only a small proportion of UK economy and a curse anyway so we were told) .
I can see no way that labour would agree to devomax as it would be cutting their own throats on a uk level and therefore I can see no deal being done.
There is zero prospect of the SNP making a deal, formal or otherwise with the Tories. They have specifically said they wouldn’t, and neither their members or voters would stand for it. All the Tories can hope for is that they somehow manage to get a majority (which hardly looks likely!?), or that they can do a deal with Labour which would be electoral seppuku for Labour.
EVEL is a cynical ploy by the Tories to try and get power in England, without actually delivering “proper” federalism for the UK as a whole +/or a way to delay and shackle devo-max for Scotland. It just won’t work. There is no appetite in most of England for devolution involving “federalising” the whole UK – the concept has no legs.
If it is beyond the ken of the britnats to fashion an acceptable deal on devomax it simply makes independence happen more quickly. Good!
Clootie says:
I think you are underestimating the voters rejection of the LibDems in England. It is only because of the Part machine that I expect them to hold around 15 seats.
Your read of Scottish Politics and the SNP I’m afraid demonstrates a lack of understanding of the change taking place North of the border.
Michael Marten says:
There has been no denial in the press that the so-called “Labour” party would NOT enter into a coalition with the Tories, and if you want to see what happens when you ask them, see my blog posting from earlier today: http://inthepublicsphere.wordpress.com/2015/01/06/will-there-be-a-labour-coalition-with-the-tories-after-the-general-election/ Not that this should necessarily be taken as being conclusive evidence, I should add! 🙂
Ken MacColl says:
Would be interesting to hear what John Murphy thinks of this?
bjsalba says:
Just exactly how did the Parliament come to be returned to us in the first place? We we didn’t hold the balance of power then, did we?
If they did try a Lab/Con Govt of national Unity, what would the press do? Somehow I don’t see them going ga-ga over it.
A “government of national unity” would be a defensive move by the British state. As the mouthpiece of the British establishment, the British media will be dutifully supportive.
Pentland Firth says:
It would be “desperate” rather than “defensive”; the last ditch defence of a broken British political system. It could only be “sold” to a majority of Red and Blue Tory backbenchers if a national or international crisis was invented to justify it (sticking it to the SNP wouldn’t wash with opinion in England, never mind Scotland) , but I agree that the British media, including their branch offices in North Britain, would be fully supportive. Commentators in the Guardian and the Spectator have already written in support of the idea.
Exactly. It can be successfully sold to the British public. It was in the 1930s. TBH, it’s probably what the British mainstream actually wants, provided that it is a genuine via media, which shouldn’t be too difficult given that there’s hardly a whisker between Labour and Tories. It’s the kind of scenario that will require real canniness for either partner to get anything meaningful out of it.
Meanwhile, that leaves the SNP in permanent and impotent opposition, and I wonder what they can do from that position?
For some time I have been thinking that such a scenario calls for some kind of extra-parliamentary pressure such as a broad-based Yes movement in Scotland to give grist to our MPs mill.
scav says:
It would be a problematical defence of the union for the government at Westminster to be (to a first approximation) England and the opposition to be Scotland and Wales.
That’s a bigger constitutional nightmare than a robust tail of SNP MPs wagging the unprincipled Labour dog on a few issues (such as Trident) where probably most traditional Labour voters would be secretly breathing a sigh of relief that their party was being pulled back from the far-right.
StrandedKiwi says:
The best outcome that the SNP/Greens/CP/…(LD)… could do for the rUK would be to force a change to proportional representation for Westminster (and local government) elections. This would facilitate a move to more government closer to the people.
Bernicia says:
7th January 2015 at 12:04 am
Labour have manifesto for AV.
JBS says:
The Labour Party didn’t appear to be too sure about the merits of AV in 2011:
“…Ed Miliband – who also backed AV, while many of his own party did not…”
tony martin says:
Basically, the problem is one of the politics of despair that is First past the post in the south. We should see this as a unique opportunity to transform british politics for ever. A large number of SNP mp’s together with other small parties including The Greens,and Plaid Cymru, could seize the time and demand a proper democratic proportional representation system (not AV) as part of any deal. Coupled with radical demands including the Living Wage and an end to austerity policies. It would show that the SNP is not just interested in Scottish issues.The prospect of Scotland being responsible for such irreversible progressive change in Britain fills me with optimistic excitement.
@ andy ellis, you think a deal is impossible with the Tories – all Salmond has to to do if Tories agree to full devo is abstain on all matters that is outwith foreign affairs and defence other than a federation bill. It isn’t supporting a tory government, its just not voting against them – theres a difference.
Even if it is perceived as propping a tory govt – would it matter if we had secured a big goal of a fully federal uk? I don’t think that would bother the voters at home as 90% of UK tory govt policies wouldn’t affect us as they would be devolved or be in the process of being devolved.
The other thing with letting a tory government get on with it is the euro referendum – which brings about indyref2 far far quicker if the vote is out.
All things are possible of course…I just think it’s both vanishingly unlikely from a political perspective, and probably unnecessary from an electoral perspective. The problem with your scenario is that it DOES involve a modicum of agreement / cooperation with the Tories. I’m highly doubtful that’d fly with Scottish voters, and still less with SNP members. The issue would be the problem which effectively makes Home Rule in the context of the UK a fiction; the system simply couldn’t cope with an “English” parliament controlled by one party, and a federal “UK” parliament controlled by another party or coalition of parties – it just wouldn’t work! That circle has never really been squared in over 100 years – just look at the proposals to deal with > 80 Irish Nationalist MP’s prior to WW1, and how that would have panned out if Irish independence hadn’t intervened!
Propping up a further Tory administration would have an impact on Scotland due to the continuation of austerity policies, which wouldn’t be mitigated by devomax because they would drag their feet on implementing it for long enough to ensure the Scottish block grant was cut.
Also, if you honestly believe the Tories (or any other britnats for that matter!) are actually going to offer anything approaching full federalism with only defence & foreign affairs excluded, I have some magic beans you might be interested in….? 😉
My ambitions for the outcome of the GE are much less than those of others above. I just hope the SNP will have a much larger number of MP’s and that the ongoing commitment of those who support Scottish self government will be greater than ever before. The fight must go on whatever happens.
”but his subject analysis does not address the issue of how the UK presently props up the balance of payments deficit. This is done by converting wealth into assets – overwhelmingly property. These assets produce virtually no new wealth, serving merely to protect wealth already in existence and serving as an attractor for wealth from abroad. Scotland has the advantage of a balance of payments surplus (not including oil) and, as Jim Sillars pointed out in the referendum debates, this in itself attracts an inward flow of foreign funds. Indeed, no less a body than the IMF predicted that an independent Scottish currency would be more likely to face problems of over valuation rather than a fall in value.’
The fact that Scotland had a balance of payments surplus with rUk was one of the reasons BT refused consider an entry into CU. Of course this was possible bluff as CU would have been the least worst option for both. But politically it would have been a very hard sell to England/ Wales for Scotland to maintain CU while also reducing the tax receipts leading to a devalue of Sterling. Also Scotland’s balance of payments surplus would soon be eroded if the value of a indy currency was over valued as the IMF predicted as it would have hit the main industry/ exports, whiskey, tourism, renewables, etc. When push comes to shove, you are right, the problem has been the high value of the pound since the 80 s for the financial service industry. The problem was always asymetry. Had rUK and Scotland been closer in size then it would have been tenable…but Scotland is not like Holland compared to germany/ Sweden/ Norway/ Denmark in the Euro, but more like Spain or Portugal/ Germany (just) swings and round abouts.
Ask yourself why would a maufacturer in England vote to maintain a currency union with a country that puts his business/ livelihood at a disadvantage? Similarly a seperate currency could have incured punitive tarriffs with rUK (as it would not yet be in the EU) limiting exports to rUk 70% trading partner. There would have been agressive competition between rUK and Scotland with regards to the respecitve weight of their balance of payments. And RUK wsa in the driving seat.
Darien says:
Scotland in fact buys far more from England than it sells back. Think supermarkets/retail and trucks heading north on M6. Scotland’s exports, while greater per capita than England’s, are constrained by the union – for a variety of ‘logistical’ and institutional reasons. So the union is bad news overall for Scotland’s trade. Scotland needs to focus much more on developing its international trade and freedom from union constraints and ‘ways of doing things’ will be necessary to achieve that.
mapsalfordp says:
As Bernadette McAlliskey pointed out: you should never help to govern something you can’t control.
flit2013 says:
Milliband would end up like MacDonald after the last government of ‘national unity’ if there is a grand coalition. Labour are so close to the Tories economically that the SNP would need be very wary of supporting any austerity budgets – after all YES was not about business as usual. Salmond is not party leader and it will end in tears if he subsumes that role de facto at WM without Nicola – the boss – and a much less combative and more conciliatory person – evidently being in charge. UKIP/Tory alliance is still the most obvious outcome, but SNP support for a minority Labour government would need to be on a confidence and supply basis only – Labour are toxic in Scotland and it could so easily backfire.
There are ways SNP & allies could hold WM/Eng govt to ransom & still be very popular- ie. seek reversal of any privatization of NHS & also of railways,post,etc., argue for free education in rUK & other popular social democratic policies.
Suggest banks need a plan to re pay their debt to the state to fund essential public services
Seek to help Wales re its particularly bad NHS problems.
Re Sinn Fein & DUP, together they have quite a lot of seats.
What can SNP + perhaps help do to get them a better deal than their recent one with cameron, in which i gather NI assembly finally agreed to welfare austerity measures they were holding up, if they help further scottish & welsh interests?
ebreah says:
In all probability, SNP will be returned as the third largest party in Westminster. How the SNP will use this advantage depends on its objective in relation to its ultimate aim i.e. Scottish independence. If the SNP is going for short or mid term gains, it is probably prudent to participate whether in a coalition or supply-and-confidence agreement. Here the SNP can extract anything it wants from Westminster.
I believe though we will be playing a long game with Westminster. We must never forget the ultimate aim is to gain independence. Perhaps it is better to be in Westminster and wreck havoc from within rather than fight outwith. Maybe the establishment will be so sick with the Scots and kick us out of the union. A constructive independence gained.
In my mind, there is one simple solution to all these conundra….. independence.
Scotland’s job, politically, has always been to send a bloc of similar MPs to Westminster. It is the only way Scotland has a chance of a voice in a parliament where they are outnumbered. Two hundred years ago, patronage meant it was a bloc that supported the ruling party. A hundred years ago it was to send a bloc supporting the union (with Ireland). In our time it is to send a bloc that will stand up for Scottish interests.
Time will tell if we have reached a tipping point where the electorate decide that Labour are no longer the best vehicle for that aim and abandon them in droves.
Gordon Adam says:
I think you’re all counting your chickens before they’re hatched, remember what happened in September. While a massive swing to SNP overall is required to oust the incumbent Labour MPs and opinion polls appear to be showing just that, remember the polls pre-indyref, they; like the WM politicians, cannot be trusted. Instead of counting hypothetical SNP votes, get out there and make it happen.
No chickens being counted
Anyone that thinks there will be an SNP/Lab coalition really is quite deluded. The hatred that Labour harbors towards them is quite pathological and can only get worse when the votes are counted.
I personally think that the outcome of the GE will be a Con/UKIP coalition this being a more favourable option to the right leaning south of England. Milliband has neither the following or vision, to counter this. A bit like Jim Murphy, take someone else’s idea and add a thousand nurses. They have no clear plans for the future, expect only mud flinging in their campaign.
The only way I can see for the SNP to make any real difference is through swing votes and back room deals. This means that they’ll need to reconsider their stance on voting for English only policies. Which means that the push for EVEL will be stronger than ever. In hindsight, it would seem that the Tories have pulled another blinder on both the electorate and the labour party. I wonder who really pulls the strings.
Charles Murphy (no relation) says:
Every Scottish M P sent Westminster .. Must hold in his or her heart belief in full independnce . This is the goal , this is what 100000 SNP members want , this is what we joined for . I for one do not want devo anything , min , max or middle .
If we are not electing them to go there and fight tooth and nail for independence ,…. Why are sending them ?
Outside of the lofty halls of acedemia or the game playing political intellectuals voicing ever widening scenarios of how SNP may or not be able to manipulate or affect the outcomes of governance in a hung parliament , here , down at street level , we want to know that the goal is and will continue to be .. Independence for Scotland .
Nothing more .. Nothing less ..
Hear, hear Charles, my sentiments exactly
The SNP should stand on an independence mandate only for the UK General Election. They would be assured of votes from 45% of the electorate. With FPTP that is easily a Scots majority of 30+ seats, and gives a mandate for independence. So we have to ask why the SNP are not doing this. Some party apparatchiks seem to think it will scare the voters. Obviously it would not scare the 45%. It would probably have the opposite effect. It would galvanise Yes voters, and some No voters who now know they were diddled with the vow. Might even get over 50% of votes, not that its needed for FPTP.
Sure Scot says:
SNP leader has ruled out proposing a quick second referendum. Oops sorry Salmond is not the leader any more – or is he?
Salmond is now saying the main objective for the GE vote is to push for home rule.
Looks like even the SNP are having second thoughts about independence. Maybe something to do with the oil price now below $50 a barrel.
http://m.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/scottish-independence-no-quick-referendum-1-3654756
There won’t be any SNP Labour coalition either.
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/ed-miliband-rules-out-chance-4959151
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Andre Iguodala has yet to suit up for the Memphis Grizzlies, but the team is confident it will find him a new home before the trade deadline.
ESPN's Brian Windhorst and Tim MacMahon reported the squad's intentions on The Hoop Collective.
"The word on the street is that they really do believe that they're going to find a trade for Iguodala," Windhorst said (via RealGM).
"They're adamant about that," MacMahon said. "Well, they've been adamant about it for months, but now that we're in the zone where they're actually having real talks. Again, what I feel in talking to people out there is that they do think that's going to happen."
Iguodala was traded to the Grizzlies this offseason after spending the previous six years with the Golden State Warriors, helping the team win three NBA titles. While he was a key part of the team's success, the squad needed to clear his $17.2 million salary for 2019-20.
Though there was speculation Memphis would then either flip him in another trade or buy out his contract, the organization held on to him with the hope he could be a mentor.
"Grizzlies are hoping that Iguodala can help their young players that need to learn how to win," David Aldridge of The Athletic reported in June.
Iguodala never reported, however, essentially forcing the team to trade him or get nothing out of him.
Shams Charania of The Athletic reported the Denver Nuggets, Dallas Mavericks, Houston Rockets and Los Angeles Clippers have all engaged in talks for Iguodala, but just about every contender could use an experienced player of his skill set.
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Will Glenn survive season six of 'The Walking Dead'?
Steven Yeun is featured on one of six variant covers of Entertainment Weekly.
Entertainment Weekly is clearly excited about the return of The Walking Dead. The hit AMC undead drama returns for the second half of season six this Sunday. To celebrate, EW has devoted six variant "special collector's covers" to the show's zombie apocalypse survivors -- including Steven Yeun as Glenn Rhee.
This Week's Cover: The Walking Dead returns with 6 exclusive EW collector's covers
The magazine has done this before, although last time Glenn shared the cover with his lady love Maggie, played by Lauren Cohan (who also got her own cover this time). This set of covers is decidedly less action-y, but still depicts the survivors in a state of alert, ready for some shit to go down. Because shit's gonna go down.
Will Glenn survive the season?
The show has promised that this will be the bloodiest, most harrowing season of The Walking Dead yet, primarily because we will be introduced to villainous Negan, the most dangerous adversary our heroes have ever encountered. Dude is bad. And the outlook is not good, particularly for Glenn.
[SPOILERS] Fans of The Walking Dead comic book know that Glenn notoriously dies at the hands of Negan in issue #100. It is a vicious, merciless, horrific death. I've been dreading the show's inevitable introduction of Negan, played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan, specifically because of what it could mean for Glenn's fate.
Granted, the show version of The Walking Dead has not quite followed the comic book storyline, which is ongoing, beat for beat. Plot points have diverged and converged, and certain characters that died in the comic book are still alive (for now) on the show, and vice versa. Could the show give Glenn a reprieve?
We've already seen the now-notorious Great Glenn Death Fake-Out of 2015, which I think we can all agree was traumatizing enough. But was that just a red herring to lull us into believing that the fan-favorite character, having already narrowly escaped death, is now in the clear? The Walking Dead is a cruel, cruel show.
More here: The Walking Dead: Steven Yeun reflects on the 'Is Glenn dead?' controversy
Fingers crossed, dammit. Whatever the case, not everyone is getting out of this season unscathed. Star Andrew Lincoln, who plays Rick, says the season finale script made him sick to his stomach.
"It was the first day in the whole six years of working on The Walking Dead that I was late for work because I woke up in the middle of the night and I couldn't get back to sleep," Lincoln told Entertainment Weekly. "I was so angry and frustrated and I felt sick. And that was just after reading it."
Anyway, here are the rest of the covers:
Season six of The Walking Dead returns Sunday, February 14 on AMC.
More here: Entertainment Weekly published 6 different ‘Walking Dead’ covers, but this is the one that matters
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Apple’s next-gen Mac Pro might be released in the very near future
October 23rd, 2019 at 6:35 PM
Apple at WWDC this year finally took the wraps off of its completely re-designed Mac Pro. Years in the making, Apple’s next-gen Mac Pro was designed from the ground up to address many of the complaints people had with the trash can Mac Pro it introduced back in 2013. Interestingly, even Apple executives, with the benefit of hindsight, have conceded that the 2013 design was misguided.
“I think we designed ourselves into a bit of a thermal corner,” Apple’s Craig Federighi said in 2017. “Being able to put larger single GPUs required a different system architecture and more thermal capacity than that system was designed to accommodate.”
Not to fear: What the new Mac Pro lacks in aesthetic appeal, it more than makes up for with sheer power and expandability. Of course, the powerhouse of a computer won’t come cheap, with the entry-level model priced at a whopping $5,999.
When Apple first introduced the new Mac Pro, it didn’t have a release date or even a launch window to share. And though there was a sketchy rumor claiming that we’d see a release by the end of September, that obviously didn’t come to pass. Now comes word via MacRumors that Apple’s next-gen Mac Pro might see the light of day sooner rather than later.
“Apple today updated its Mac Configuration Utility for authorized technicians,” MacRumors notes, “with instructions on how to place the new Mac Pro in DFU mode, according to a reliable source.”
The source was subsequently told that Apple’s move here strongly suggests that the “new Mac Pro will be released imminently.”
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Police say an officer shot an attempted robber who was holding a victim at gunpoint in a parking garage at Lenox Square mall Saturday.
Hilary Nolasco-Delobre, 18, and Davon Myles 26, are charged with breach of peace stemming from melee at Sarku Japan at Westfield Trumbull Mall
Tempers flared up this week at a Connecticut mall over portion sizes, leading at least two diners to physically attack an employee at a Japanese eatery.
The food fracas took place at the Westfield Trumbull Mall at around 4.30pm on Wednesday and was caught on video, which has been making its rounds on social media.
The video shows a man and a woman hurling trays and napkins and other items at staff working at Sarku Japan restaurant situated in the mall food court.
New York police have shared a shocking video that shows a Bronx man violently assaulting his girlfriend at their job before he was eventually released under the state’s new bail reform.
The Harriman Village Police department said that 20-year-old Jay Vasquez-Paulino attacked the woman he had been dating for about a month on Tuesday.
The assault took place at the Superior Packing company in Harriman, where the duo had been employed.
Horrifying video shows Vasquez-Paulino repeatedly punching and kicking at the woman.
At one point, he even throws his phone at the woman. A bystander can be seen sitting in a chair while the man assaults his girlfriend, but he fails to break the two up.
A woman notices the commotion and tries to put some distance between Vasquez-Paulino and the woman, able to get the man to exit.
Man Trashes A Connecticut Bloomingdale’s Store In A Violent Rampage!
A violent rampage caught on surveillance camera shows a man destroying display counters and assaulting a security guard inside of a Bloomingdale’s in Connecticut.
The incident happened around 6:45 p.m. Tuesday at The SoNo Collection Mall on 100 Water Street in Norwalk.
Authorities say Justin Gilbertie entered the cosmetics department and started knocking down items and smashing display units.
One of the security guards confronted Gilberte, who allegedly punched the guard and continued to throw products.
Another security guard attempted to pepper spray Gilberte, but officials say it did little to stop the rampage.
When officers arrived at the scene, they were able to restrain Gilberte after a brief struggle.
He is charged with two counts of third-degree assault, criminal mischief, interfering with an officer, and breach of peace.
Officers say that a security guard and another person sustained minor injuries.
This was an isolated incident, and Bloomingdales is open for business, as is The SoNo Collection Mall.
Woman Caught On Camera Walking Naked Through Miami International Airport
A woman walking through the baggage claim area of Miami International Airport while casually removing all of her clothes is now in custody for a mental evaluation.
It was just before midnight when stunned passengers spotted the woman walking by in her dark blue underwear.
Cellphone video shows the woman appears to be singing as she calmly takes off her clothes while walking through the area.
Eventually, she is nude in the middle of the airport.
Moments later, video shows her on top of a police car near the airport exit. She jumps off in traffic and runs over to a waiting police officer who takes her into custody.
Passengers who saw the video were not expecting what they saw.
Cop Handles This Situation Like A True Professional!
This should be a de-escalation training video.
Mother Arrested on 1st-Degree Murder for Taking Some “Me-Time” and Left her Infant Baby in a Bathtub to Drown.
A Tennessee mother has been charged with murder after her infant son was left unattended in a bathtub full of water and died.
Lindsee Louise Leonardo, 32, was charged with first-degree murder in the death of her 11-month-old son Aiden Leonardo, who was left in the tub with his 23-month-old sister.
An 11-month-old Tennessee boy left in a bathtub without supervision has died and his mother is facing charges of murder and abuse after telling authorities she left the child to have some “me time.”
The boy, who was found unresponsive in the tub Wednesday night, died Friday morning, East Tennessee Children’s Hospital spokeswoman Erica Estep told news outlets.
Leonardo was charged Thursday with aggravated child abuse, the Knox County Sheriff’s Office said. The office announced Friday that Leonardo had been charged with first-degree murder.
Leonardo told police she left Aiden Leonardo and a 23-month-old sibling in the tub so she could have some “me time,” an arrest warrant said. She told police she was away for about 10 minutes during which she smoked a cigarette and listened to music, the warrant states.
Married Teacher, 40, is Charged with Rape After ‘Having a Threesome with Student and Female Ex-Teacher’
A married high school volleyball coach has been charged with rape after police said she engaged in a threesome with a teen boy and an adult female former teacher.
Tulsa County deputies said Joyce Churchwell, a teacher at Berryhill Public Schools, has been under investigation since mid-December. She is accused of having a sexual relationship with a student.
Deputies said they interviewed a student who admitted to having a sexual encounter with Churchwell at her home while her husband was away.
Investigators served multiple search warrants, spoke with witnesses and looked through electronic messages. The District Attorney’s Office issued an arrest warrant based on the evidence collected.
Churchwell turned herself in Tuesday upon learning about the warrant, deputies said.
A Driver Is Left Bloodied After Being Forced Out Of His Vehicle By Raleigh Police Officers!
Is this excessive force?
Florida Man Behind Bars for Allegedly Scamming More than $1M from Walmart
A Florida man accused of a million-dollar Walmart scheme was arrested in Washington County, Florida after deputies pulled him over in a traffic stop.
According to Washington County deputies, Thomas Frudaker, 25, was pulled over on January 8th, 2020.
Deputies say they discovered that Frudaker had an active felony warrant out of Arizona for failure to appear for court on charges of fraudulent schemes and trafficking in stolen property.
According to deputies, Frudaker is currently on felony probation for scheming another Walmart store in Arizona. They say he is believed to have defrauded a total of $1.3 million in inventory from more than 1,000 other Walmart stores nationwide.
Frudaker is waiting for extradition in the Washington County Jail.
Florida Woman Burglarized and Urinated in Unlocked Car.
Gainesville woman was arrested Monday after police said she burglarized an unlocked car and urinated in the driver’s seat.
According to the arrest report Lisa Stearns, 49, entered an unlocked car near Northeast 8th Street and took everything in the center console and urinated on the driver’s seat. She left the car and walked toward an empty house near Northeast 9th Street and went inside to use the bathroom.
The car owner followed Stearns to the house until police arrived.
Stearns was charged with burglary, criminal mischief and trespassing. She was booked at the Alachua County Jail with no bond set.
New Jersey Woman Allegedly Stabbed Her Boyfriend to Death with Nail Clippers.
A woman Kathleen Ayala, 30, is accused of using a nail clipper to stab her husband has been charged with murder, authorities announced Tuesday.
She also faces weapons charges stemming from the attack that occurred early Sunday at a mobile home complex in Millville, New Jersey.
Ayala and Axel Torres, 35, were arguing in their trailer when the dispute turned physical, according to the Cumberland County Prosecutor’s Office.
Texas Gunman Tries To Rob A McDonald’s At Gun Point But Leaves Empty Handed!
Authorities in Houston are searching for at least two suspects who terrorized a McDonald’s location, with an armed man entering the restaurant and threatening employees before escaping the same way he came in.
Landlord Dies After Being Shoved By A Tenant Who Refused To Pay $200 In Back Rent!
A Queens landlord trying to collect $200 in back rent was shoved down the front steps by a deadbeat tenant. The landlord, whose head slammed into the sidewalk, suffered a traumatic brain injury. Medics took him to Elmhurst Hospital, where he died. Police charged the tenant with manslaughter, though the Queens district attorney’s office has yet to formally charge him
Florida Woman Caught Making Bomb in Florida Walmart With Nails, Mason Jar, Shoelaces
On Saturday, a 37-year-old woman was arrested for allegedly crafting a homemade bomb at a Tampa Walmart.
Emily Stallard was with a child at the time, according to Hillsborough deputies who were called to the scene by a security guard.
He says he noticed something wasn’t quite right.
According to the arrest report, the woman was roaming the aisles for more than an hour. Her behavior was “suspicious,” the security guard told deputies.
Additionally, WFLA has learned the child was the woman’s son, according to her boyfriend.
As Stallard was shopping at Walmart late Saturday afternoon, the security guard on duty began watching her closely, even alerting an FWC officer who was also in the store.
According to the arrest report, the two men were able to stop the mother just as she was about to light the wick of a candle, built in a mason jar with nails and denatured alcohol.
“This shows how important it is that if you see something out of place, say something,” Hillsborough Sheriff Spokesperson Amanda Granit said. “Your actions and what you saw could really make a huge difference, as it did in this case.”
In addition to charges of arson and child endangerment, the woman was also charged with resisting arrest after deputies say she spit on them while being loaded in the patrol car.
“This is really alarming to see this type of behavior and to see a person in such a public place where they could cause damage or hurt people around them,” Granit said.
Stallard remains behind bars at this time.
Kentucky Woman Charged with Murder After ‘Commanding a Pit Bull to Savage a Man to Death’
A Kentucky Mellisa Wolke woman has been charged with murder after allegedly commanding a pitbull to attack a neighbor who died after a dog mauled him.
State police say a woman has been charged with murder after a man with dog bites was found dead in Rockcastle County.
“They’ll be able to tell if it was a gunshot, a dog bite, or heart attack,” said Trooper Scottie Pennington of the Kentucky State Police.
KSP and Sheriff’s Deputies responded to a 9-1-1 call, which came at roughly 3:40 am. When they got to the home on Pug Lane of the U.S. 25, they were met by an overly aggressive dog. According to an arrest citation, 38-year-old Melissa Wolke sicced her pitbull on a man. A neighbor who called 9-1-1 says witnessed Wolke attacking a man and giving her dog commands to attack him. When officers arrived at the home, they found Wolke in the backyard sitting on the man and punching him in the face, while the dog attacked him.
“In the interest of their safety and everyone in the neighborhood, they put the animal down,” Pennington said.
According to Pennington, the victim had dog bites on his face and head, but no one can say for certain if he was killed by those bite wounds.
According to Wolke’s arrest citation, she appeared to have blood on her hands and feet, and a large clump of hair in her hands that were consistent with the victim’s hair. During an interview, Wolke told KSP she was going ‘redneck’ on a man and that she was the owner of the pitbull, which she calls ‘Denali’.
Beautiful Cartel Boss & Ruthless Assassin 21, ‘La Catrina’ is Gunned Down by Police
Video footage has emerged showing the dying moments of a female cartel boss after she was fatally wounded during a shootout with police in Mexico.
The clip and photographs appear to confirm she was María Guadalupe López Esquivel, known as ‘La Catrina,’ a female member of a cartel hit squad that massacred 13 police officers in October.
The 21-year-old was involved in an attack against the military, national guard and police in La Bocanda, a town in the central state of Michoacán.
Officials in Michoacán said six male gunmen were captured and a woman was killed after they opened fire on soldiers and police in the same area where the October ambush occurred.
State officials initially did not provide the identity of the woman killed in the Friday shootout, but videos and photos posted on the internet late Sunday showed the woman wounded on a stretcher, with a tattoo of a ‘Catrina’ on her thigh.
Photos of the woman circulated earlier showed the same tattoo in the same place; some photos also show her holding a pistol.
The Catrina is a skeletal female figure with a wide hat that has become associated with Mexico’s Day of the Dead.
Teacher Charged with Having Sex With an Underage Student and Sending Him Nudes.
A high school teacher in the Darlington County School District has been arrested for having sex with a 16-year-old student.
The teacher, Anna Elizabeth Jeanette Patton, has been charged with three crimes: sexual battery with a student 16 or 17 years of age, no aggravated force or coercion; criminal solicitation of a minor; and disseminating harmful material or exhibiting harmful performance to minors.
“The employee has been placed on administrative leave, pending the outcome of the investigation,” Audrey Childers, a spokesperson for the school district, wrote in a news release.
Patton, who is believed to have a young son of her own, is also accused of sending the 16-year-old student nude photos via various social media accounts.
Patton was taken into custody based on evidence gathered in the course of the investigation and statements made by the alleged victim to law enforcement officials.
The 22-year-old remained in jail without bond on Monday afternoon.
Babysitter Faces Charges After Recording a Two-Year-Old Boy Vaping and Sharing the Footage of him Coughing and Crying on Social Media
Pennsylvania State Police troopers are continuing to investigate an incident where a 2-year-old child was recorded inhaling from a vaping device.
The video of the incident started circulating on social media Sunday
The device is believed to have contained 3 percent nicotine and did not have any traces of THC.
The child did not display any ill effects, other than coughing, after inhaling the smoke.
Authorities notified the child’s parents, who were unaware of that the incident ever took place.
Authorities addressed the situation on Twitter, saying the Crime Investigation Unit are aware of the footage.
‘The Troop A, Indiana Criminal Investigation Unit is aware of a video and is investigating the related incident in which a 2-year-old child was given a vaping device,’ they wrote.
Man Beats Another Man in a Theater for Using His Phone During a Movie.
A yoga instructor in Iowa was arrested for allegedly beating up a man using his cellphone and ‘ruining’ a showing of Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood on Friday.
Nicholas Glasgow, 34, was taken into police custody for assault causing bodily injury after an incident at the Marcus Sycamore Cinema in Iowa City, in September.
According to a police report obtained by Smoking Gun, Glasgow became annoyed with a fellow moviegoer before the film began and demanded staff to speak with the victim about his phone usage.
Employees at Marcus Sycamore Cinema reported Glasgow saying, ‘to take care of it or he would,’ but no altercations were reported during the film’s screening.
However, Glasgow approached the victim and his friend after the movie to demand an apology for ‘ruining the film for him.’
Before the victim could respond, Glasgow, who’s six-feet-tall and 230 pounds, unleashed a thrashing on the man.
‘Before he could reaction, [Glasgow] began striking him in the face with a closed-hand fist. The victim and [Glasgow] began to fighting, the victim ended up on the ground, and [Glasgow] starting kicking the victim,’ the police report says.
Couple Arrested After Using Bikes To Lure Thieves, Beat Them With Bats & Posted Videos Online!
Bait & Beat: A couple in Visalia faces charges of assault with a deadly weapon and conspiracy after Visalia Police said they lured people onto their property to steal an unsecured bike and beat them with baseball bats.
Self-Snitching: Man Gets Arrested After Cops Watch His Every Move On IG Live!
Self snitching on social media.
Man Tries To Kidnap A 6-Year-Old Girl In Front Of Her Family!
A homeless man with a lengthy criminal record was behind bars this week after he tried to kidnap a young girl from her mother’s arms at a Venice Beach pizzeria before being tackled by the victim’s uncle, according to police and the family.
The startling crime took place about 7 p.m. on Jan. 4, Los Angeles Police Department officials said.
Evan McLaurin-Nelson, 31, approached a woman who was with her child and told the mother that he knew the girl and needed to “save her,” police said in a written statement.
He then followed the mother until she sat down with her 6-year-old daughter in her lap.
McLaurin-Nelson grabbed for the girl, but was forcefully pushed away by a male family member, according to police and surveillance camera footage of the incident.
“Several seconds later, the suspect attempted to grab the girl again,” according to the statement. “This time, the victim’s family member was able to grab the suspect and throw him to the ground. He wrestled with the suspect for several minutes until LAPD Pacific Division officers responded and took the suspect into custody.”
It took six officers to subdue the man, who appeared to be intoxicated, family members said.
Brawl Breaks Out Between Waffle House Employees & Customers!
Not one employee with nonslip shoes.
Shirtless Florida Woman’s Attempt to Flirt with Deputy Fails.
A belching shirtless woman who told a deputy he was the “sexiest thing” she’d seen was arrested after investigators say she was in a traffic crash, according to an affidavit.
When a Martin County Sheriff’s deputy arrived at the Nov. 24 crash in the area of Southeast Indian Street and Southeast Dixie Highway in Stuart, he noticed Jamie Schmude, 30, behind the wheel of the crashed four-door vehicle.
She had no shirt on, and her unbuttoned jeans were lowered to her thighs. The vehicle smelled of booze. Schmude slurred her words, mumbling incoherent sentences.
A Woman is Facing Life in Prison For Arranging a ‘Medieval’ Fight-to-the-Death Duel Between her Ex-husband and Her Lover.
A divorced mother-of-four who arranged a deadly ‘medieval duel’ between her ex-husband and her lover to see which of her two admirers would win her hand is facing life behind bars.
Asta Juskauskiene, 35, left her husband Giedruis Juskauskas, when she started seeing Mantas Kvedaras, after meeting the 25-year-old online following his release from prison in Lithuania.
Mr Juskauskas was still in a physical relationship with his ex-wife despite their divorce in December 2018, while Kvedaras flew to the UK just five days before the murder to stay at Juskauskiene’s east London home.
Both men claimed her as their own so she decided to settle the argument with a fight to the death in an alleyway in Stratford – a duel that she meticulously arranged while at home looking after her children, the youngest of which she shared with Mr Juskauskas.
Kvedaras, who admitted murder, stabbed his love rival 35 times to his body, chest and neck on June 17 last year, leaving Mr Juskauskas to bleed to death at the scene.
Juskauskiene had conspiracy to murder and perverting the course of justice but was today convicted of the charges following a five week trial at Kingston Crown Court.
Juskauskiene stood expressionless in the dock wearing a grey chequered dress with a white blouse collar and as the verdict was delivered.
Federal Manhunt for Bank Robber Known as the ‘Bad Wig Bandit’
The FBI is looking for a man who robbed several banks in the Charlotte area while wearing not-so-convincing wigs as a disguise and made off with cash without using a weapon.
The ‘Bad Wig Bandit,’ is on the loose and the feds are asking the public for help in tracking him down.
The bureau on Thursday said the suspect, a medium build black male either in his 20s or 30s, robbed three banks in the Charlotte area over the course of the last three weeks.
In each of the robberies, the man simply passed a note to a bank employee. The robber is then believed to have gotten in a getaway car and fled the scene.
On December 13, he is alleged to have tried to rob the BB&T Bank in Huntersville, North Carolina.
Brazen Attack on Las Vegas Bus Leaves Man without an Eye
The suspect put his feet on the victim’s lap after he sat down, according to police.
And when the man asked the suspect to remove his feet the aggressor then punched him multiple times until the victim became unconscious.
The video released by authorities shows the victim falling to the bus floor after being struck in the head by the suspect.
Officers said the wanted suspect appeared to be in his mid-30s and exited the bus after the attack.
Police said the victim in the incident lost an eye in the attack.
Police Use K9 To Break Up A Fight At A McDonald’s In Florida!
Did they have to use their K9 to break up the fight?
Woman Posed As 16-Year-Old Boy To Sexually Assault Up To 50 Girls After Grooming Them Online!
A twisted British woman allegedly disguised herself as a teenage boy to groom dozens of girls online — so she could sexually assault them. Gemma Watts, 21, of Enfield, North London, is accused of posing as 16-year-old “Jake Waton” on social media and swapping intimate photos with her teen victims before meeting up with them at multiple places across the country. Watts has pleaded guilty to sexual offenses involving four girls — three 15-year-olds and one only 14 — but police believe she may have assaulted as many as 50
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Nana Poku Kwarteng, the father of late Dancehall artiste Ebony Reigns, has given a hint about how much he will take from proceeds from unreleased records of his daughter.
Starboy Kwarteng, as he is currently known within Ghana’s showbiz circles, was involved in a feud with Ebony’s manager and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Rufftown Records, Bullet after his daughter passed away.
Mr Kwarteng had accused Bullet of using dubious means to cheat him in the sharing of profit that accrued from Ebony’s tribute concert.
However, after burying their differences, the late singer’s father revealed that an agreement had been reached in principle to revert to splitting profits in the same manner it was done when Ebony was alive.
When Citi TV asked whether it would be 60 percent to the record label and 40 percent to him (Starboy Kwarteng), he responded in the affirmative.
“It will be as it has always been. Nothing has changed yet, so for now the arrangement remains the same,” he responded with a wry smile on his face.
Both Nana Kwarteng and Rufftown Records have agreed to also organise an anniversary programme in memory of the late dancehall diva.
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Veteran Somalia MP Boqore assassinated in Mogadishu
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NBA free agency rumors: Mario Hezonja signing with Knicks
Hezonja averaged a career-high 9.6 points and 3.7 rebounds per game for the Magic last season.
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The Knicks will reportedly sign former Orlando swingman Mario Hezonja.
New York and the 23-year-old wing agreed to a one-year, $6.5 million contract Sunday, according to a report from ESPN. The Trail Blazers, Kings and Grizzlies were also interested in Hezonja the report says.
For Hezonja and KNICKS, it's a one-year, $6.5M deal, sources tell ESPN. He'll have a real opportunity to create some traction for his career with the Knicks. https://t.co/hLe6jPXwaI
- Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July 2, 2018
Hezonja averaged a career-high 9.6 points and 3.7 rebounds per game for the Magic last season. But, he shot just 33.7 percent from 3-point range.
Hezonja was originally selected by the Magic with the fifth pick in the 2015 NBA Draft. He has struggled with consistency and poor shooting numbers throughout his first three NBA seasons.
Orlando did not pick up Hezonja's fourth-year option, making him an unrestricted free agent this summer.
The Magic selected Texas center Mohamed Bamba with the sixth pick in last month's draft.
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October 22, 2018 / 5:02 AM / a year ago
U.S. Midwest refiners look like earnings winners in Q3
Stephanie Kelly
NEW YORK, Oct 22 (Reuters) - U.S. refiners are expected to post strong earnings for the third quarter, with Midwest producers leading the way thanks to cheaper prices for Canadian crude that pushed down input costs.
Independent refiners benefited from a steep discount for U.S. crude oil below the price of global benchmark Brent. WTCLc1-LCOc1 A further discount on oil out of Midland, Texas, may have also helped, though that discount declined in the most recent quarter.
Because of transportation constraints, Canada’s oil has a steeper discount than U.S. crude, and analysts believe this should benefit refiners situated in the Midwest that process a higher volume of that country’s crude than those on the Gulf Coast.
“Until you see adequate relief up in west Canada, we think the number one region for refining economics in the U.S. will continue to be the U.S. midcontinent,” said Zachary Rogers, a refining and oil markets research analyst at consultancy Wood Mackenzie.
Canadian crude is currently priced at almost $50 less than U.S. crude, an all-time record. During the third quarter it was as low as $43.50 per barrel less than WTI, according to Shorcan Energy brokers.
Canadian producers have been forced to sell crude at a discount as production has outpaced pipeline capacity.
Top importers of Canadian crude to Midwest refineries include Marathon Petroleum Corp, Flint Hills Resources and BP Plc, EIA data showed. Marathon currently ranks in the 98th percentile in Refinitiv Eikon’s analyst revisions model for North American stocks, due to strong trends in forward earnings estimates and recommendations.
Canadian crude oil imports to the Midwest totaled almost 74.6 million barrels in July, the most on record for that month, according to U.S. Energy Information Administration data. [For a graphic on top Canadian crude importers in the Midwest, see: tmsnrt.rs/2P2TiLl ]
Refiners on the East Coast and Gulf Coast are also expected to post strong results, Rogers said. Most refiners benefited from sharp declines in the Midland grade, which in August hit its widest discount to U.S. crude in six years. WTC-WTM.
Since then, however, that Midland differential has narrowed, and margins for gasoline, known as the crack spread, RBc1-CLc1 have since declined. That tempered some analysts’ projections for third-quarter earnings.
“I don’t think our outlook for refiners is as strong as it would have been 30 days ago,” said Nick Holmes, an investment analyst at Tortoise Capital.
Refiners with exposure to the differential, such as Delek US Holdings Inc, may see less of a benefit, Holmes said. Since Oct. 8, nine analysts have lowered expectations for Delek’s third-quarter earnings per share, while just two have raised estimates, according to Eikon.
Heading into the fourth quarter, markets for diesel and heating oil will carry the industry at a time when supply for the products are at seasonal four-year lows, EIA data showed.
During the current quarter, the 3:2:1 crack spread CL321-1=R, an indicator of refiner profits, has been trading around its highest seasonal level since 2012, although it was even higher last year.
Heating oil prices this winter are projected to be at their strongest since 2014, said Greg Gmoser, associate director in the refining and marketing group at IHS Markit.
“Our analysis points to the system teetering on the edge of some substantial price spikes,” said Rogers of Wood Mackenzie.
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Browse: Home » 2012 » November » Another Court Finds Online Statements With Links Are Not Defamatory – Seldon v. Compass Restaurant
Another Court Finds Online Statements With Links Are Not Defamatory – Seldon v. Compass Restaurant
November 1, 2012 · by Venkat Balasubramani · in Content Regulation
[Post by Venkat Balasubramani with comments from Eric]
Seldon v. Compass Restaurant, 2012 NY Slip Op 32673(U) (NY Sup Ct. Oct. 21, 2012)
Eric posted about Redmond v. Gawker Media, a California case where the court found that use of links by a Gawker author helped defeat a claim for defamation. This case reaches a similar result.
Seldon, proceeding pro se, sued Compass Restaurant and several Jane Does (including an email address) for disseminating an email that allegedly contained multiple defamatory statements about him. You can click through to the decision to see the statements, but among other things the email calls him a “serial suer, scammer, spammer, embezzler, and revenge artist.” The email offered a few “supporting links,” including an LA Times Article, a few links from Justia, one from Pacer, and one from WIPO.
The court says that in determining whether a statement is actionable or a mere statement of opinion, the court looks to the statement overall, in context. An opinion can still be actionable if it implies a basis on undisclosed facts. On the other hand, a statement of opinion that discloses background facts is not actionable. In fact, these statements are more likely to be understood by the audience as mere conjecture. The court concludes (citing to Sandals Resort v. Google) that the statement in this case falls in the latter category. It is accompanied by articles in the form of links, and the email expressly says that it contains “supporting links”.
Like the Gawker ruling Eric blogged about, this is a great result for bloggers, and anyone who traffics in links and commentary online. It’s also good illustration of how the context rule plays out online. (See also “A Twitter Exception for Defamation?“)
Compass had a section 230 defense lurking in the background. (See Mitan v. A. Neumann and the cases cited there.) The one tweak could be the existence of an ownership interest or employment relationship. (See Lansing v. Southwest Airlines.) Either way, the court does not need to reach this issue, having concluded that the email is not actionable in the first instance.
Eric’s Comments: This is a really terrific ruling. My enthusiasm about it is slightly diluted by the fact that Redmond v. Gawker got to the same place first; and that, like the Gawker opinion, this opinion is also unpublished.
Combined with the Redmond v. Gawker opinion and others, like Finkel v. Dauber, I think we’re seeing burgeoning precedents suggesting two principles:
1) The Internet has a variety of contexts to evaluate the veracity of fact-like statements, and some Internet contexts reduce the likelihood that readers will assume the statements were intended to be facts…or truthful.
2) An online statement that distills facts, and then links to sources, is more likely to be insulated from defamation liability.
I think both trends are highly positive. However, we need to couple these developments with anti-SLAPP laws to quickly and cheaply screen out lawsuits over these statements and to financially discourage plaintiffs from bringing their socially wasteful lawsuits.
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Wondering Willis Eschenbach's Thunderstorm at WUWT
Sou | 8:55 AM Go to the first of 28 comments. Add a comment
After a dull patch, Anthony Watts decided to liven up his blog by handing it over to Wondering Willis Eschenbach to say a few words to another WUWT regular, Roy Spencer - who maintains the UAH record of satellite data (of atmospheric temperature).
I'll just pick up on a couple of things in this "Willis blows his top" episode and post links to archived versions for their entertainment value. You could say that Willis is acting out his Thunderstorm hypothesis. No sign yet that his heat is dissipating or his governor is kicking in :)
Roy Spencer wrote an article in response to Willis Eschenbach's wonderings on clouds (archived here and here and here), which Willis thought he made up all by himself with data that scientists collected but never used (so Willis seems to think). Roy says in part (see full archived version here - updated here):
The reason I am picking on Willis a little bit here is that his posts sometimes lead to comments like this:
“Geez – if I was one of the hoard of IPCC enthusiastic fools, this would be downright embarrassing. I sure wouldn’t want my mom to know I was so ineffective that some guy named Willis sits in his den and does more and better work than my entire IPCC crowd of hundreds of scientists, economists, psychologists, train engineers, tree surgeons, etc does in 4-5 years.”
C’mon, folks! Do you really think that of the billions of dollars spent on designing, launching, and keeping these satellite instruments going, that no one thought to analyze the data? Really? That’s why hundreds of scientists and engineers collaborated on such projects in the first place!
Just because you can’t find some technical issue described in blogs doesn’t mean it hasn’t been addressed. It’s in the scientific literature, and in workshop reports, conference proceedings, etc.
Willis doesn't like it and replies, apparently in all seriousness (see full archived version here):
Dr. Roy, the citizen climate scientists are the ones who have made the overwhelming majority of the gains in the struggle against rampant climate alarmism. It is people like Steve McIntyre and Anthony Watts and Donna LaFramboise and myself and Joanne Nova and Warwick Hughes and the late John Daly, citizen climate scientists all, who did the work that your fellow mainstream climate scientists either neglected or refused to do. You should be showering us with thanks for doing the work your peers didn’t get done, not speciously claiming that we are likeable idiots like Homer Simpson.
Seriously? Does Willis seriously think that climate scientists all around the world stop what they are doing to read pearls of wisdom dripping from denier blogs? How many climate scientists have ever heard of anyone in Willis' list of science deniers? Maybe a dozen? Two dozen? Maybe as many as fifty. The scientists who blog and tweet may have come across some of the names in passing. Apart from the handful of prominent scientists who've been attacked by these deniers (and maybe not all of them, at that), I'd guess that the vast majority of scientists who study any part of the earth system have never heard of this lot. They are too busy doing scientific research. They'd know there are people who are 'deniers' who write letters to the paper but most scientists wouldn't bother with the active science-denying sub-culture on blogs.
Where's the spoon?
Willis goes further and doesn't just want the scientists to give him their data to play with (which they do freely), he wants them to give him a list of scientific papers. Hasn't he heard of Google Scholar (the layperson's Web of Science)? Willis writes at WUWT:
So, Roy’s claim seems to be that my work couldn’t possibly be original, because all conceivable analyses of the data have already been done. Now that’s a curious claim in any case … but in this case, somehow, he seems to have omitted the links to the work he says antedates mine.
When someone starts making unreferenced, uncited, unsupported accusations about me like that, there’s only one thing to say … Where’s the beef? Where’s the study? Where’s the data?
In fact, I know of no one who has done a number of the things that I’ve done with the CERES data. If Dr. Roy thinks so, then he needs to provide evidence of that. He needs to show, for example, that someone has analyzed the data in this fashion:
Willis isn't just upset that he's been challenged to do what any student would do first, let alone any scientist - a review of the literature, a check to see what's been done already - before trying to reinvent the wheel. He demands that someone else spoonfeed him the literature as well.
Willis' dummy spit has provided entertainment to "warmists" and fake sceptics alike. In case there is anyone who wants to wade through it all but doesn't want to have to go to WUWT or Roy Spencers' blogs, here are the archived threads.
Roy Spencer's original article chiding Willis Eschenbach and making suggestions
Willis Eschenbach's response rant at WUWT - updated archive here, still later update here
Roy Spencer's reply to Willis' rant Willisgate: Take 2
From the WUWT comments
Some people are using Roy's post as an opportunity to let off steam about Willis' generally bad behaviour. Others have dreamt up reasons they think will explain Roy's original article. How to explain the inexplicable - two sceptics having a disagreement! Lots are sticking up for Willis against the big bad scientist. Others are acting as peacemakers. I've just picked out a few - not a representative sample.
M Courtney (and Joe Crawford) think that Roy Spencer is feeling threatened by the brilliance of citizen scientist Wondering Willis Eschenbach and says:
Joe Crawford says at October 9, 2013 at 1:30 pm
Don’t quite know how, Willis, but it sure looks like you unintentionally stepped on someone’s toes. “Maybe you’re getting too close to an area Dr. Roy or one of his grads is researching.”
That has the ring of truth. There are commitments made in academia that cannot be ignored, rightly.
Ronald "OMG it's insects" Voisin says:
Willis, you’re way overreacting.
thisisnotgoodtogo only gets a mention because I'm mentioned in the same breath as realclimate.org (Flattery will get you everywhere - haha. The other day in his Hot Sheet Anthony raised me to the status of Michael Mann. Just goes to show how little fake sceptics know!):
““Career scientists like myself have not done enough public outreach to describe what they have done. And when we do such outreach, it is usually too technical to understand. We are too busy publishing-or-perishing.”
This sounds plagiarized. From RealClimate. Or Mrs Hot Whopper?
Fieldos says what probably quite a few are thinking:
I used to enjoy Willis’ posts, but it’s getting too much. This blog is getting to be less of Watts Up With That? and too much of What’s up with Willis !…
Jeremy gives Willis a backhanded compliment and doesn't understand what Roy Spencer wrote when he says:
Roy is wrong to slander anyone not doing “novel” work. There’s plenty of scientists who never do an original piece of work in their lives, their work and expertise have great value.
What you talking about Willis -
Dr. Roy’s article is not a hatchet job, it is a cautionary tale and a reminder to cite precedent. All he is doing is advocating good science. Don’t be so thin skinned.
pokerguy says:
He always does. PLus, I don’t think this is the place. Willis, you’re just not as important as you obviously think you are.
So tiresome.
Stop bleating, Roy is right and Watts is is more than indulgent.
Mark Bofill says:
Chad,
The most regrettable thing about this whole affair is the publicizing of fights among skeptics. While everyone may have different views about exactly how much or how little man’s activities or CO2 affect climate, I think there is general agreement that the effect is nugatory, and it does not serve our “cause” (to borrow the alarmists’ term) to disagree in this manner.
Yeah, in one sense. In another it’s reassuring. I don’t want skeptics to start worrying about the “cause”; look what it did to the Team. So long as we squabble publicly, it’s easier to believe that when we don’t squabble it’s not a show for company.
Update: And with a hat tip to William Connolley, this one's priceless - from Wondering Willis "I'm Wonderful" Eschenbach, who says he almost single-handedly revealed - ummm, I'd disagree with Willis. They revealed nothing but what one would expect. What the emails showed was that scientists do good science, and just like the rest of the normal population, scientists get mighty sick and tired of the tiny percentage of the population who are the illiterati that refuse to accept reality (extract - from updated archive here).
Willis Eschenbach says:
Steve Garcia says: October 10, 2013 at 12:31 am
… Nope. The ONLY person who really made a difference was Mr Climategate himself. And we don’t know if he (she?) was a climatologist or a citizen climatologist. It seems virtually certain to ME that he/she could not have had access without being an inside climate person.
...Well, I’m the guy who filed the very first FOIA request to the UEA folks, an act that was the unwitting genesis of the actions described in the Climategate emails.
So while you are right that Mr. Climategate did a great thing by revealing how the UEA folks and the rest lied, cheated and broke the law in response to my FOIA request and others as well … you’re misunderstanding the causality here. Without Warwick Hughes and me and Steve McIntyre and all the others putting the pressure on Phil Jones and the rest of the un-indicted co-conspirators, there would have been nothing for Mr. Climategate to reveal.
Mr. Climategate was just the reporter, Steve. All he did was let people know how the UEA folks were responding to our FOIA requests, with lies and trickery.
You’re mistaking the finger pointing at the moon for the moon itself. The reporter that broke the story is important, sure … but the participants in the story, the actual actors, are the reason that the story exists to be revealed.
From the Roy Spencer comments
Don Monfort says (excerpt - click here for the archived copy):
Anybody remember the stoopid, vicious and personal attack from Willis against Judith Curry on her blog:
Stephen Wilde says:
I’ve personally endured offensive diatribes from Willis far worse than Roy’s measured comments.
I'm guessing Don Monfort and Willis don't see eye to eye, he's back again and this time paints a picture that I figure more than one person will think is on the money:
Oh, a lot of the legendary DIY climate science blogger’s sycophants have shown up to defend their hero. You should have known better, Dr. Roy. That Homer Simpson thing really got under Willis’s thin translucent skin. His image of himself is the dude in the Dos Equis ‘most interesting man in the world’ commercial.
I had no idea who Dos Equis "most interesting man in the world" is and maybe you don't either. It's an advertising gimmick. Here's an image I found on this site:
Source: EatMeDaily.com
Here's Willis, he even got a mention on DeSmog Blog, so I guess he's been noticed somewhere outside of his wonderings at WUWT.
Source: DeSmogBlog
There are hundreds more comments if you have the stamina and interest. It gets boring very quickly.
Labels: Anthony Watts, Roy Spencer, Willis Eschenbach, WUWT
Cugel October 11, 2013 at 9:56 AM
How delicious. Denier scientists are discovering that anti-science sweeps them up along with the majority.
Spencer claims to have been "disowned" by most climate scientists, but I rather doubt any care about him that much.
Yep... the "cumulonumbskull" clouds are thick in this discussion.
bill October 11, 2013 at 11:36 AM
Anyone who thinks the world stands to benefit from the lumpen-populism of the activist anti-science, anti-elitist crowd - e.g. the Tea Party, UKIP - need only read these exchanges. Mencken's warning about 'unadorned morons' comes to mind...
I love that Willis doesn't understand what plagiarism is.
I also love the way these guys make it out like debunking "alarmism" is their mission, that it's crucial for the future of humanity, and they're really pro-science, but then they can't be arsed forking out the money for a subscription to Nature - or even just the $30 a pop required for the articles they want to critique. I mean, how many articles does Watts put up every week - 2 or 3? Surely he can afford the odd $100 to actually read them ... but it's clear in this case that Willis hasn't read past the abstract of the paper Spencer is talking about.
I love the guy in comments - jj? - saying "how can Willis have plagiarized an article he hasn't even read?" Delicious!
That's how you know WUWT is not fossil fuel funded.
Of course Anthony Watts just loves this. More revenue for him from the hits on his website. It's obvious that is the only reason he lets Eschenbach have free access to post whatever crap he wants.
Victor Venema October 12, 2013 at 7:37 AM
Somehow this does not happen. There was a small peak on the Friday the IPCC SPM was published. Otherwise nothing is happening.
http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s36wattsup&r=12
Interesting in the weekly cycle. WUWT is mainly read by people bored at work. In their precious free time in the weekend much less people are interested in all that nonsense.
William M. Connolley October 11, 2013 at 8:06 PM
Its such fun. I enjoyed posting a couple of comments at Dr Spencer's blog, but I was censored after a while (amusingly, just after being accused of it myself).
You missed (probably because its waay) down a great one where WE claims that all "climategate" belong to him.
Sou October 11, 2013 at 11:11 PM
That's priceless, William. Not only has Wondering "I'm Wonderful" Willis single-handedly re-invented the entire field of climate science with his wonderings, he single-handedly discovered that scientists do science by email!
(See updated comment.)
There should be an annual award - the Stunning Huger Dunning-Kruger - for works of superlative staggering self-confidence in one's own self-ignorance.
Eschenbach would win it hands-down.
Bernard J.
bill October 12, 2013 at 3:36 PM
I just have to share this gem -
“Willis fanboys… no one takes him or what he posts here seriously”
This forum IS peer review and debate, unlike whatever echo chamber your mind lives in.
I repeat, it is impossible to satirize these people; no level of overweening, feckless, obtuse grandiosity could ever hope to exceed the reality.
These are the same cast people to whom it's 'obvious' that the Grand Canyon was carved by Noah's Flood, or that the Ancient Minoans were speaking a dialect of Polynesian. The woods - and the cultural equivalent, the internet - are full of them. Their bubble simply cannot be pricked. Sane societies never let them anywhere near the levers of policy...
Sou October 12, 2013 at 5:35 PM
You are right, Bill. It's not just impossible to satirise this crowd, it's impossible to communicate with them because they are not rational or logical.
I don't seem to come across people like this in real life or if I do they don't display their oddity to me. The internet gives people the opportunity to meet other people like them who have a most unusual way of processing information. It makes kings out of cranks.
Noah! Here is the very Dr. Roy Spencer himself.
"In relation to the basic claims of Christianity, do what I did! Read the Bible. Judge it for itself. Put it to the test. I am confident that you too will find the Bible not only to be in agreement with proven facts of science, but also to be the book which will lead you to a personal faith in God the creator of all things."
http://theevolutioncrisis.org.uk/testimony2.php
It's not so easy when someone enters your echo chamber. Good night.
It's turned very toxic over there ... poptech is going to town on Willis's dishonesty and lack of credentials in a very petty way, and threatening to employ "the nuclear option" if he is banned. Willis is refusing to admit he wasn't accused of plagiarism, isn't addressing any of the central criticisms and is leaving it to his fanboys to defend him. Someone has already managed to defend his claim that he has a "peer-reviewed" publication in Nature Communications. There is no level of stupid they won't jump to!
It is interesting to read the large number of commenters who don't like Willis. And he really is quite vicious when cornered!
Bwana_Mkubwa October 14, 2013 at 7:47 PM
Oops. I'm sorry Bwana_Mkubwa. I clicked the wrong button and accidentally deleted your comment. I'll post it again below, but it will be from "Anon". I don't have as much control of blogger as I'd sometimes like to have.
Love the irony that poptech is asking for Willis's computer codes and Willis is ignoring the request.
Bwana_Mkubwa
I noticed that, Bwana. Plus the fact that quite a few WUWT-ers lined up against Willis, others were "pro" Willis, some trying to make peace, and some just sitting on the sidelines.
I think Willis got a bit of a wake up call, finding out that he's not adored by everyone at WUWT. If Willis was hoping for support from Anthony Watts he didn't get it either, with Anthony writing on Roy Spencer's blog:
I see this little tiff as a bump. No worries from my end.
In the "sceptic" hierarchy, it looks as if Roy Spencer ranks more highly than Willis Eschenbach!
Catmando October 14, 2013 at 10:56 PM
Of course Spencer ranks more highly. He is a proper scientist and a denier. Scores more highly than a masseur.
You may find this interesting,
Who is Willis Eschenbach?
http://www.populartechnology.net/2013/10/who-is-willis-eschenbach.html
As of 2012 Mr. Eschenbach has been employed as a House Carpenter.
He is not a “computer modeler”, he is not an “engineer” and he is certainly not a “scientist” (despite all ridiculous claims to the contrary).
“A final question, one asked on Judith Curry’s blog a year ago by a real scientist, Willis Eschenbach…”
PopTech also complains about Willis being called a scientist.
Well Willis does have some scientific publications. One of which is actually cited: Historical bird and terrestrial mammal extinction rates and causes by Craig Loehle and Willis Eschenbach. (3 times).
I am not sure whether a publication in E&E counts:
THE THUNDERSTORM THERMOSTAT HYPOTHESIS: HOW CLOUDS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTROL THE EARTH'S TEMPERATURE.
The introduction of Eschenbach at the Heartland conference (ICCC7), which "reveals" that he is a carpenter, also states that the has published in Nature. This is a comment on a research article. Not every comment is published by Nature, so it is worth something. And you can put your comments in your publication list. Still I would personally not claim to have published in Nature, if I only had a comment. Such a claim would suggest an original research article.
Thus he contributed to the scientific literature. I feel this is sufficient to call Willis Eschenbach a scientist. Amateur scientist would be more accurate, but not necessary, especially as being an amateur is perfectly fine. In the 19th century this was the norm and people were worrying about the quality of the work of professional scientists.
Having a published paper does not make one a scientist. A comment in Nature is not remotely the same as an original research paper. By making this claim he is trying to inflate his credentials which he does not have.
There is a big difference between being an amateur scientist and a scientist.
Victor Venema October 19, 2013 at 10:00 PM
What should someone do to be a scientist in your eyes? Please try to find some objective general definition, not one aimed at keeping Eschenbach out. Think of all the young scientists, which may not have a lot of papers, but are doing serious good work.
I do not want to claim that Eschenback contributes much to our understanding. I hope that that was clear from my previous comment.
What is he big difference between an amateur and a professional. Except for being paid. I admit that there is a correlation in climatology, but that is no causation. Zeke Hausfather is doing a great job as an amateur scientist and contributes a lot. Many professionals do not contribute much. My first paper on homogenization was written in my free time, while being funded to work on clouds. Thus you could state that that was hobby, the work of an amateur in homogenization.
Here you go, http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scientist
A scientist is "a person who is trained in a science and whose job involves doing scientific research or solving scientific problems."
Willis has no educational background or any professional experience as a scientist. The only thing he can be considered is an amateur scientist.
Okay, you win.
Personally I find the definition too restrictive. When Einstein wrote his paper on special relativity he was working as a patent clerk. Thus he was not a scientist at the time according to Webster.
I looked at Wikipedia, they have a completely different definition, that does not discriminate against amateurs: "A scientist, in a broad sense, is one engaging in a systematic activity to acquire knowledge. In a more restricted sense, a scientist is an individual who uses the scientific method."
But also according to this definition, Eschenbach would not be a scientist.
WebHubTelescope October 19, 2013 at 6:47 AM
Skeptics are starting to eat their own?
No one except the fanboys at WUWT take Willis seriously. Dr. Spencer is just saying what most of the credentialed scientists in the skeptic community were thinking.
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At large in Ballard with Peggy Sturdivant
By at_large_in_ballard on November 29, 2009 at 10:25 AM
Ballard News-Tribune. November 25, 2009
All Raves
A few weeks ago, I noticed a “rave” for Ballard Market in the “Rants and Raves” section in the Sunday paper.
Ballard Market had made a gift of specially ordered flowers on behalf of an employee celebrating 45 years of service at Ballard Swedish Hospital. That would be Zita.
Zita Niemeyer has worked at Ballard Hospital for 45 years, starting when it was Ballard Community Hospital and now as Swedish Hospital. She is manager of surgical services.
When she found out that Ballard Market insisted on donating the special order of zinnias ordered by her husband Phil, she asked son Joel to help her submit a “rave” to the Seattle Times.
In turn it was Joel, by coincidence one of my favorite readers, who convinced his mother to let me interview her.
Zita didn’t want to talk about herself, but she’s always eager show off surgical services. For several hours last week, I tried to keep pace as we charged through the hospital, lay in wait for the Executive Director and experienced the love fest that exists between her and her surgical staff.
Her small office has family photos and surgical works of art created by her husband Phil, an interior designer. The clock hands pass scalpel blades and along the wall is a framed display of surgeon’s needles.
Zita bubbles with enthusiasm about the department, as though it’s a brand new toy, not a 45-year love affair.
She’s proud that Ballard Surgery Department has the highest employee satisfaction ratings of all the departments and their patient surveys show 99 percent satisfaction.
She treasures letters from surgical patients stating they wouldn’t have their surgery anyplace else.
Of course, Zita puts all of the credit on her staff of 35 to 40 nurses and support staff, as well as the surgeons and anesthesiologists.
She loves that nurses approach her with their own ideas for improving quality; she has found, in working on what’s called “best practices,” that Ballard is often ahead of the curve.
Tuesdays are the busiest days ever since Dr. Downer started performing minimally invasive total hip replacement at Ballard on that day of the week.
Zita also credits the hospital’s ongoing surgical renaissance and diversification to Executive and Medical Director Rayburn Lewis, who is recruiting dynamic new surgeons to Ballard.
“I’ve just got the best nurses,” Zita said throughout the tour of waiting room, recovery room and surgical suites, her blue eyes bright above the hospital-green scrubs.
At various stops she introduced a nurse by name, identifying their particular passion, scheduling, policy-writing, data management, etc. The nurses all beamed at Zita.
“She doesn’t try to mother us,” one said, “but we’re like family.”
“She’s truly interested in our ideas,” said another nurse. “Shared leadership is not just a concept.”
“Staff rarely leave the surgical department,” Zita admitted. “Unless they move from Seattle.”
Meanwhile Zita continued to look on every person, object and department fondly, from the new reclining chair for waiting family members to electronic file sharing to the Community Health Clinic on the fourth floor and the display of pharmaceutical bottles she found at a garage sale and donated to the hospital.
Outside of her work, Zita and Phil Niemeyer celebrated their 50th anniversary on Nov. 15. They raised two sons in Ballard, and over the course of a decade ran a bed and breakfast from their home on View Ridge.
She and Phil currently live five minutes from the hospital and conveniently close to Ballard Market.
Asked about the zinnia order (Zita’s favorite) that led to the Seattle Times “rave,” store manager Steve Williams is embarrassed by all the attention it has received.
He got wind of the order and told the floral manager, “For goodness sake, let’s just donate the flowers. Someone who’s served the community for 45 years deserves them.”
His mother worked at Overlake Hospital for 30 years before her death some nine years ago. Steve knows well that the healthcare profession can sometimes be thankless.
Steve heard about the “rave” when his sister spotted it in the newspaper and called to ask, “Did you do that because of mom?”
As he told his sister then and has explained since, “It was just the right thing to do.” He knows Zita Niemeyer and says, “She revs up the store every time that she comes in. She’s a hoot.”
As for Zita, the one thing that she downplays at the hospital is her own 45 years of service, saying, “I don’t believe in changing jobs. If you have some hard times or don’t like something, just make it better.”
As for retiring, don’t even ask the question. Zita loves “her” nurses and she loves “her” surgeons, but obviously it’s raves all around.
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Tag: gilberto jimenez
Red Sox No. 7 Prospect Gilberto Jimenez Identified as Potential Breakout Prospect for 2020 by MLB Pipeline
Red Sox outfield prospect Gilberto Jimenez has been named a potential breakout candidate for the 2020 season, according to MLB.com’s Jim Callis, Jonathan Mayo and Mike Rosenbaum:
“Red Sox: Gilberto Jimenez, OF (No. 7) — A $10,000 steal from the Dominican Republic in 2017, Jimenez skipped a level last season and led the short-season New York-Penn League in batting (.359) in his U.S. debut. The best center-field defender and one of the fastest runners in Boston’s system, he’ll make the jump to full-season ball in 2020.”
As the above excerpt from this article mentions, Jimenez enjoyed great success in his first professional season stateside, slashing .359/.393/.470 with three home runs, 19 RBI, and 16 RBI over 59 games with Short-Season Lowell in 2019.
In a span of less than two years, the 19-year-old out of the Dominican Republic has worked his way up from unranked to the seventh-ranked prospect in Boston’s farm system.
Using the 20-80 scouting sale, Jimenez’s hit tool is graded as slightly above average, while his power tool is graded as slightly below average, his run tool is graded as well above average, and his fielding tool is graded as slightly below average. All in all, the young outfielder is graded as an average prospect, per MLB Pipeline.
Projected by SoxProspects.com to begin the 2020 minor-league season with Low-A Greenville, it will be interesting to see how Jimenez’s game translates to the next level in the South Atlantic League.
Among Red Sox minor-league center fielders, Jimenez currently sits fifth behind Marcus Wilson, Duran, Keith Curcio, and Cole Brannen on SoxProspects.com‘s depth charts.
Last year, MLB Pipeline predicted that left-hander Darwinzon Hernandez, then Boston’s seventh-ranked prospect, would be a breakout prospect in 2019. The 23-year-old only made his big league debut on April 23rd, made his impact felt as a reliever later in the season, and now looks poised to play a key role in the Sox’ bullpen in 2020.
Author Brendan CampbellPosted on January 2, 2020 January 2, 2020 Categories Baseball, Sports, UncategorizedTags Baseball, boston, chaim bloom, farm system, gilberto jimenez, jarren duran, marcus wilson, mlb, offseason, outfielders, prospects, red soxLeave a comment on Red Sox No. 7 Prospect Gilberto Jimenez Identified as Potential Breakout Prospect for 2020 by MLB Pipeline
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Ringwear Plain Cover
Burchard Vossmann
5th – 21st June 2015
Opening reception: Thursday 4th June 2015
Campbell Works is delighted to present the first solo exhibition in London of recent works by Berlin based artist Burchard Vossmann.
Vossmann’s artistic practice employs the roles of collector, archivist and researcher of everyday ephemera, who, for over 30 years, has been collating the objects that the rest of us throw away. From matchbox’s, tickets, lighters, cigarette packets, bottle tops to sweet wrappers, their primary use over, these discarded items become in the hands of the artist re-imagined graphic components in the ever-expanding universe of his new visual lexicon.
Through the late 80’s and 90’s Vossmann walked the streets of dozens of global cities including London, Berlin, Moscow, Hanoi, Hong Kong, Los Angeles and Beijing, scouring the pavements for new materials. To accompany him on one of his ‘City Walks ‘ was not only an education in the transience of civilization, but also to see the world through his ‘magpie’ eyes engendered a deep respect for the rarefied aesthetics of the gutter.
Vossmann creates highly structured artworks that synthesize the elements into works that hint towards their tangible origins and histories. In his working process Vossmann has utilized the office shredder to shred a huge range of materials from thousands of pounds worth of de regulated German deutschmarks, newspapers, magazines to British postage stamps including hundreds of Penny Blacks. This finely shredded material is then painstaking glued back together in new ‘mis-registered’ aligned panels creating exquisite tapestries of colour. However, the abstract quality of his work conceals Vossmann’s deeper fascination, that of the subtext of ‘power systems’ at play within simple disposable objects such as packaging, tickets, stamps, etc. His work seeks to expose these relationships and our attachment and unconscious understandings of these systems through a reduction of the material to a purely formal aspect, the works drawing us in by their inherent aesthetic aspects.
For Ringwear Plain Cover, Vossmann has extended his oeuvre yet further, to work with record covers and their inner sleeves, the ‘ringwear cover’. Renown in Berlin for his meticulous collecting, he was offered the entire collection of records from the legendary Berlin nightclub, Dschungle (The Jungle Club): which began in the heady days of 1978, was sung about by David Bowie in ‘Where are we now?’ and which finally closed its doors in 1993.
Following a critically acclaimed show at the Gas Station gallery in Berlin in 2014, Vossmann will present a selection of works in London, that honor both the legacy of this infamous nightclub, and the contribution of the celebrity role call of Dj’s that handled and played the clubs ‘resident’ record collection.
The works themselves are unnervingly simple, the plain unadorned sleeves arranged in grids adopt a monumental minimalism that hint towards Donald Judd or Carl Andre, but Vossmann utilizes the faded tones, the center holes and shadowy marks left by the once present vinyl’s they used to protect, to remind us again that everything passes. The club, the records, the DJs, all now silent; it is only the cardboard, cellophane and haptic resonance of this ephemera that remains. Alongside these large wall pieces are smaller works, made from single record sleeves, many very well known, which like the postage stamps and deutschmarks, have been processed through an office shredder and reconstructed into new abstract form. The resulting woks are simultaneously recognizable to those who know and love these original covers, while remaining aesthetically esoteric to those who have no idea from what record the work originates.
Andy Warhol’s Velvet Underground featuring Nico, “Shredded Covers”, 2014, shredded cover on wood. 31,5 x 31,5 x 1,4 cm
Ringwear Plain Cover – White, 2014, 157,5 x 157,5 cm
Burchard Vossmann was born in 1954 in Garrel, Oldenburg, Germany and has lived and worked in Berlin since 1982. After graduating from Fachhochschule Hildesheim with a diploma in graphic design he worked for many years to support his artistic practice as a graphic designer, developing his interest and sensibility for labels and brands that has so heavily influenced his work.
In 1993 he received a scholarship from Stiftung Kulturfonds in Berlin for a European City Walks project that took him to 6 European cities with fellow artist Stefan Nestler collecting materials for new bodies of work. This was followed by ‘City Walks’ in many Asian and North American Cities, through the late nineties.
Since 2001 Vossmann extended his collecting by searching the Internet for ephemera and materials that were becoming rarer and harder to find in any large quantities on the ever-increasing cleaner streets of Europe. With the arrival of eBay in 1995 these opportunities radically increase, both in volume and diversity of materials, which unleashed a new scale of ambition for Vossmann’s work and the meticulous process of sorting, numbering and storing these new material. The artists Berlin studio is an extraordinary place of order and fascination from which emerges these incredible poetic works.
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Telemedicine Neurology Stroke Physician
Providence Health & Services' Telemedicine group is seeking a full-time, board-certified Neurologist to provide patient care as part of Telestroke Call Panel, giving hospitals instant access to specialists and improving clinical outcomes. This is a work-from-home position hired out of Everett, Washington, but the physician will have the ability to work from any state with all necessary equipment and technology provided. This is an excellent opportunity to join an extraordinary, collegial and supportive team.
Use Video technology to provide consultation to hospital emergency rooms and medical/surgical floors
12 hour shifts that include nights and weekends
2+ years' experience required
Ability to license and credential in the respective states and hospitals with Telestroke programs
Telemedicine experience preferred, but not required
Generous compensation and benefits package
Telehealth is a unique program that connects people with the care they need no matter where they are. Sophisticated, state-of-the-art technology allows our providers to consult, diagnose and treat patients in real time. Location is no longer a limiting factor. Providence Health & Services together with its affiliates, Swedish Health Services and Kadlec, offer more than 40 Telehealth services ranging from Primary Care to Critical Care. Telehealth: Right Care. Right Time. Wherever You Are.
Everett is a scenic community 25 miles north of Seattle on the edge of Puget Sound. With a deep industrial history, Everett still maintains strong roots in technology, aerospace and service-based employment. The Flying Heritage Museum, Funko's flagship toystore and the Jetty Island Beach all provide an escape from the ordinary, while hiking trails, art galleries and theaters offer year-round entertainment.
Providence Health & Services (PH&S) offers a comprehensive range of health and social services at more than 20 hospitals, 400 clinics and hundreds of locally driven programs across four western states: Alaska, Montana, Oregon and Washington. With multiple Magnet and Pathway to Excellence designations, PH&S is committed to its 100-year mission of serving the poor and vulnerable by providing compassionate care to all who need its services.
Facility Name: Telehealth
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Medical Specialty: Neurology
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Approachable. Compassionate. Home town boy. All words used to describe Charlie Justice. One only has to spend five minutes with Charlie to know that he is not your usual politician.
Husband to Kathleen for twenty years and proud father of two young daughters Erin and Allison, Charlie grew up the youngest of five children in the heart of Pinellas. As a student at Boca Ciega High, Charlie excelled in academics, but really thrived at putting smiles on his classmates’ faces. To this day, his colleagues and friends admire his optimism and his ability to bring out the best in any person or situation.
After high school, Charlie attended St. Petersburg College, and the University of South Florida. It was important to him to stay close to his family, and build a life in his beloved hometown. During his time in college, he saw Pinellas County grow at an exponential rate. St. Petersburg and the bay area was becoming a metropolis in Florida, and along with that came typical growing pains. Roads were becoming congested, beaches overcrowded, and crime was on the rise. He decided that it was time to get involved and give back to the community that had given him so much. He became active in local politics, eventually becoming the legislative aide to Representative Lars Hafner. His admiration for our area grew, and so did his calling to public service. Five years later, Charlie earned the opportunity to represent us as a State Representative and later as a State Senator.
Tallahassee is a far different place from Tampa Bay. But Charlie relied on the good people of his district that he has come to know and love. He has succeeded in strengthening rights for our military, bringing home millions in beach re-nourishment funds, standing strong for our natural resources and protecting our coastline from near shore oil drilling and mandating stronger consumer protections for the safety of our families. His constituents demanded more attention and money for our schools, and Charlie delivered. To this day he remains a tireless advocate for education and teachers. His district was concerned about every vote being counted and Charlie delivered again, strongly supporting the switch to paper ballots. He continues to stand up for fair and ethical elections, working to rein in frivolous campaign spending by special interests and raising voter confidence by ensuring that everyone has the right and ability to vote.
Charlie credits his open door policy and community involvement for his success. He is constantly in the community, talking to nurses, teachers and others on the front lines who can offer real solutions to state wide problems. It is because of them that Charlie advocates so effectively for our most vulnerable. He has called for stricter regulations on nursing homes and harsher penalties for elder and child abuse. He supports measures to make our foster care system safer and programs that get homeless off the street. He has brought home funds for community organizations such as PARC, Gulf Coast Family Services, Hospice of the Florida Suncoast, and Vincent House, just to name a few.
Charlie has continued that same philosophy on the County Commission. He is working with many community partners addressing the poverty issues in Lealman, Midtown and throughout Pinellas. He worked to pass ordinances providing relief for wage theft victims, providing assistance to human trafficking victims, and expanded Pinellas’ human rights ordinance.
Charlie’s leadership was recognized by his peers when they selected him to serve as Chairman of the Pinellas Commission. He also has served as Chair of the Tourist Development Council, the Pinellas Economic Development Council, and in leadership positions of the Tampa Bay Estuary Program, the Area Agency on Aging of Pasco- Pinellas Board, the Metropolitan Planning Organization and the Pinellas Historical Preservation Board.
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Sulekha.com to launch a wedding services platform
The platform, currently in its beta stage, will allow users to discover and connect with specialised wedding service providers across various categories
Anandi Chandrashekhar
Technology company Sulekha.com, which serves as a digital platform for local businesses, will be launching a platform for wedding-related services by the middle of next month, its chief executive, Satya Prabhakar, told ET.
The platform, currently in its beta stage, will allow users to discover and connect with specialised wedding service providers across various categories, Prabhakar said.
Chennai-headquartered Sulekha has 2,500 registered and 30,000 free-listed service providers and small and medium enterprises providing wedding-related services.“We would like to remove the friction between consumers and service providers and help in the thinking, ideation and preparation for weddings,” said Prabhakar.
The company intends to display up to 20,000 service portfolios in the coming months, across categories like catering, décor, venues, bridal services and photography, among others. Wedding services currently account for 15% of the company’s revenues. Prabhakar expects it to rise to 25% in FY 2019 after the launch.
With its foray into the wedding services and planning market, Sulekha will be competing with UrbanClap, which launched wedding planning and related on-demand services in November 2017, and with startups like Wedmegood, Shaadimagic.com and Shaadisaga.
However, Sulekha’s platform will allow users to match their needs and connect with service providers, while competitors help users discover, hire and pay for professionals offering wedding-related services on their platform.
“We refer to our platform as a matchmaker, connecting service professionals with prospective customers. We help these customers find the right services as opposed to what an aggregator does. We’re helping small and medium enterprises with discoverability and customers,” said Prabhakar.
Sulekha will have another competitor in Chennai-based Matrimony.com. The Rs 1,700-crore market cap listed provider of matchmaking services has over 2,000 registered venues and also offers related services like wedding photography, catering and honeymoon packages.
Prabhakar pegs the wedding services market in India at Rs 1,50,000 crore, of which he expects Sulekha to capture a 10% share by 2020. “We expect the catering, event organisation and photography categories to deliver the highest profits in the next two years due to the unit economics,” he said. Of the 23 million leads generated in last year by Sulekha, up to 100,000 pertained to wedding-related requests from metros and tier-2 cities in India, he said.
Sulekha, which began as a digital classifieds service in 2007, has attempted to pivot into a digital platform for small and medium businesses in the last one year and expects to post an operating profit in 2017-18. The company has reduced employee head count by half in the last two years. During this period, the company posted losses even as it made investments in its technology infrastructure.
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Karl du Fresne: De Bres and Henry
Labels: Karl du Fresne, Race relations
If anyone was to compile a list of the enemies of free speech in New Zealand, the name of Joris de Bres would have to be on it. The Race Relations Commissioner was in full cry again today, demanding that TVNZ do something about Paul Henry for his silly comments about the Governor-General, Sir Anand Satyanand.
I’m neither a cheerleader for Henry nor one of those people who splutter with indignation every time he offends someone. I do think that on this occasion he made an oaf of himself, and he probably realises it himself. It’s not just a matter of whether Henry's question to John Key about whether Satyanand was a real New Zealander had a racist undertone (which it did). Almost as shameful was that the fact that it was downright ignorant and unprofessional, since a broadcaster of Henry’s standing could surely have been expected to know – or made an effort to find out – that Satyanand has as much claim as anyone to call himself a New Zealander.
But we don’t need a state commissar like de Bres to point all this out. People are perfectly capable of coming to their own conclusions about Henry’s behaviour without guidance from left-leaning government functionaries as to the proper exercise of free speech.
As de Bres himself pointed out more than once when interviewed on Morning Report, anyone offended by Henry’s line of questioning can seek a remedy through the broadcasting complaints procedure (as they appear to be doing). So why does de Bres need to butt in? His intervention struck me as completely gratuitous.
His justification was pretty wobbly too. In an attempt to demonstrate his commitment to free speech, de Bres argued that it wasn’t a question of whether Henry should be allowed to say what he said, but rather whether his employer should condone it. Hmmm … that seems a pretty fine distinction. One way of interpreting it is that de Bres regards Henry as beyond redemption, but sees TVNZ – as a state broadcaster – as politically more open to correction.
I was also intrigued by his comment that one of the Breakfast programme’s major advertisers is Heritage Hotels, which he pointed out has a lot of Indian employees who have reason to feel aggrieved by Henry’s remarks. The clear implication was that the hotel company might consider withdrawing its advertising. I wonder, is it the function of the Race Relations Commissioner to raise the idea of an advertising boycott as a way of exerting pressure on a rogue television host? I wouldn’t have thought so – but it wouldn’t be the first time de Bres has overstepped the mark.
Well said, Karl.
Honestly, the furore over this whole thing is ridiculous. Talk about a PC culture!
People should just chill out - and get a life.
And keep up the entertainment, Paul!
Perhaps Joris de Bres should start listening to Willy Jackson on Radio Live. Plenty of racist comments and sentiments there. But silly me, obviously maori people are allowed to make racist comments.
I agree with Karl, de Bres, like Minto is strictly one eyed and against anything white - why doesn't de Bres rule against Hone Harawera's hatred of whitey? Both de Bres and Minto are liabilities to our country. We used to have a sense of humour in NZ, but we are allowing it ot be destroyed.
Dr. Goebbels seems to be alive and well and living in New Zealand. Show some guts Nzers, stick up for individuality. We need people like de Bres and the thought police in the media like a hole in the head. Good on Paul Henry for saying what a lot of people think.
If we can't find a better candidate for the race relations commissioner's job, the Race Relations commission should be abolished - under deBres' stewardship it has does nothing but make mischief!
Why do we even have a RRC? Its another lefty tax sucking fluff piece of PC crap that chokes NZ .
De Bres needs to go and arguably, so does the actual position he fills. There is little point to it, particularly when the holder of the position weighs in against silly rudeness like Paul Henry's, but leaves Harawira's much more virulent racism uncriticised and had nothing whatsoever to say about racist statements which erupted when a blonde part Indian woman won an Indian beauty pageant. By behaving in this manner de Bres shows firmly which camp he has aligned himself with; the very noisy group of left wing zealots who believe that a non-white person cannot possibly be a racist in anything they say or do. If you have a shred of honour or common sense Boris, fall upon your sword as did Paul Henry. Go and get a real job.
This link reveals De Bres to be a lifelong Marxist-Leninist dedicated to fomenting racial discord with a view to one day bringing about revolution.
http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2006/10/who-is-joris-de-bres.html
Was Henry under the influence of drug like alcohol, or a strong medication that made him turn his brain off?
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Dr Greg Clydesdale: Media campaign increases harm
Labels: Christchurch attack, Crusaders, Dr Greg Clydesdale, Media
At Lincoln University, we were all deeply affected by the attack on the Al Noor Mosque and Linwood Islamic Centre. We lost four people. I personally lost a marker, a young man who had just finished his PhD and had his whole life ahead of him.
The pitiful irony is the mass-murderer thought he was superior to someone who had just completed a PhD and was a good man in every sense of the word. It is invariably the case that those who claim white supremacy are the ones who least fit that description.
The first day of lectures after the attack, I had to address what had happened. About fifteen percent of my class are Islamic and I know that many of the kiwi students would also be upset. So, I began by addressing the issue of white supremacy.
I told the class that, if we were to look at the world in the year 1930, we might get the impression that white people were superior. There is no doubt that the white people were the richest, the most educated and the most powerful. The British, by themselves ruled a quarter of the world.
However, I told my students if we went back 800 years, we would get a very different picture. If we were to judge in the year 1200, who were the superior people, it would not be those from Europe. It would be the Chinese and those in the Islamic world.
If we were racially superior, we would expect white people to consistently be the leading nation. But in reality, we only took the lead after the enlightenment and Industrial revolution. When we study the history of the world and the changing position of nations, it is hard to sustain a view of racial superiority. It is culture that makes the difference, not race.
At the end of the thirteenth century, Marco Polo visited China and confirm their supremacy in every facet of life. He records his amazement in his book The Travels.
Similarly, the Islamic people were far more advanced than the Europeans. In fact, it was interaction with the Islamic world that helped pull us out of the dark ages. In every sphere, the Islamic world was more advanced, from mathematics and chemistry to commerce. We can see this in the words we use today which have an Arabic origin.
In maths we gained the words algebra, algorithm, degree (daraja) and cube (ka’ab)
In chemistry, we gained alkali and alchemy from which we also get our word chemistry.
In music, we get lute and guitar (kithara).
In business, we get the words tariff, hazard and ream, and new products such as alcohol, sugar, cotton and coffee.
It is no coincidence that the richest places in Europe were those that traded with the Islamic world, that is the cities of Venice and Genoa. This was a time in which Europe progressed through contact with the Islamic world.
And of course, it was the time of the crusades. Hence, I was surprised to hear so many people saying the Crusader rugby team must change their name because of the mosque attacks. For a start, the rugby team had nothing to do with the attacks, but secondly, the calls show a very simple knowledge of what happened 800 years ago.
The crusades are being presented as something painful for Islamic people and yes, the Crusaders of old caused much pain. Their leaders lacked the sophistication of the Islamic leader Saladin who comfortably defeated the crusaders, but herein lies a vital point. The crusades were a period that symbolised Islamic supremacy. Not only that, the crusades represent an Islamic victory over white people.
But to the media conducting their own campaign against a rugby team, the crusades have a much narrower meaning. They ignore the superiority of the Islamic world that the crusades represented, so let me spell this out… we lost! They won!
It is a common human trait that when we experience events we cannot control, we focus on things we can control regardless of whether those things have any bearing on the events. Hence, the media were attempting to address the mosque shootings the best way they could; through a rugby team, but what will it achieve?
A mass murderer from Australia, dressed in combat clothes, takes a semi-automatic and shoots hundreds of people. Our Islamic people now have serious issues that will stay with them for the rest of their lives, but what do our media focus on, the name of a rugby team.
There are times when I get very embarrassed by the quality of journalism in New Zealand. They have an inability to identify what is truly affecting the lives of Islamic people in Canterbury, and they genuinely think changing the name of a rugby team will improve their welfare.
To add some perspective, consider the following - there are some relatives of victims who are not legal migrants but they want to stay in the country. It seems the name of our rugby team hasn’t deterred them. If we said to them ‘you can only stay in the country if you let us keep the Crusaders name’, what do you think they would answer?
Do you think it would be a tough decision for them?
Let me pose another question – if Hollywood made a movie on Richard the Lionheart and the Crusades, would we ban it from our theatres because it would upset Islamic people? The same principle is at play here.
Some ridiculous claims have been made. For example, it has been said that the word ‘crusades’ is equivalent to the word ‘jihad’. That is not true. Contemporary extremist armies have been proclaiming jihads against westerners, but no Western army today wants to reclaim Jerusalem.
As a rugby brand, the Crusades has been successful because it builds on a dominant theme of the Canterbury area. In particular, they are representing a region with a city named Christ Church. The horsemen wearing the cross are a meaningful theme. But once again, this has been distorted with media claiming that these people are carrying weapons and represent attacks on Muslims. It does not represent this at all - The swords aren’t real, and the horsemen are not attacking Muslims. They simply ride around the park to the excitement of children. There is no hint of death anywhere.
In fact, the Crusaders were badly affected by the Mosque massacre. Assistant coach Ronan O’Gara expressed this on hearing of shootings in the city and that his children were in lock-down. It is something that no parent wants to hear.
The massacre left everyone in deep shock and, when the lock-down was released and cars log-jammed in the city, there was a sense that it was the earthquake all over again.
There has been too much suffering in this city. But one thing that gave the city pleasure was the Crusaders rugby team, and sure enough the media started attacking them.
This raises an important question ‘will the name change actually have a negative effect on any people?’ And the answer is ‘yes’. The Crusaders is something Cantabrians are proud of. They bring joy to people who have suffered two extreme disasters over the last eight years. The people of Canterbury have had much change thrust upon them at a time when they need continuity. The CBD has been wiped off the map, many have lost homes and, in some cases, whole neighbourhoods. The last thing they needed was a massacre.
In his light, the media have been immoral on turning on one thing that has given them joy. Unless, a name change dramatically increases security for Islamic people, it does not justify imposing any more change on the people of Canterbury.
So, let’s return to the question, what will a name change achieve? It will not provide any more security. Islamic people are intelligent enough to know that the rugby team had nothing to do with the attack.
This issue illustrates a deeper problem with New Zealand society and the media in particular. We cannot discuss issues of multi-culturalism in a critical and mature manner.
Consider the example I gave at the beginning of this article in which I referred to the Chinese and Islamic world in the year 1200 being superior to the West – no problems there. But now imagine if someone said Western culture is currently superior to Islamic or any other culture – different story.
There is no doubt that after the enlightenment, Western cultures developed a large number of advantages in their ability to provide welfare for their members. The advance of knowledge in science and technology helped to improve health, economy and material welfare. Advances in philosophical debate led to advances in freedom with less oppression and exploitation.
Consider the words of the biologist Robert Sapolsky who has spent much time researching African wildlife. In his book Behave he describes people he encountered …
“who believe that epileptics are possessed and that the organs of murdered albinos have healing powers, where beating of wives, children and animals is the norm, five year olds herd cattle and haul fire wood, pubescent girls are clitoridectomized and given to old men as third wives.”
When we read such descriptions can we really say all culture are equal? Sapolsky is no racist. On the contrary, he is the last person you would accuse of that. He is merely noticing important aspects of the cultures he has worked within, and he goes on to note what he sees as the difference between these societies and those in the West:
“countries with minimal violence, extensive social safety nets, few child brides, numerous female legislators and sacrosanct civil liberties are usually direct descendants of the enlightenment.”
Of course, the enlightenment isn’t the only influence on Western society. Perhaps the biggest was a belief system with many useful guides to social interaction. This belief system is symbolised by a cross which, notably, is warn by the horseman who ride around the park before the Crusaders play; the very same horsemen that the media want to get rid of.
If, as a consequence of multi-culturalism, New Zealanders are forced to change the things they love, it could lead to a backlash against multi-culturalism. With this in mind, the media need to act with maturity when dealing with cultural differences. Most important, they need to show our own culture more respect.
Dr Greg Clydesdale is an economics lecturer at Lincoln University. The ideas expressed in this article are his personal opinion - not those of the university.
John Hurley said...
The shooter was a white nationalist. Were the anti-Chinese rioters in "Tongan supremacists"?
BTW Eric Kaufmann makes space for those who are opposed to rapid demographic change [for no perceived net benefit?] as "ethno‐traditional nationalism, a variety of nationalism which seeks to protect the traditional preponderance of ethnic majorities through slower immigration and assimilation but which does not seek to close the door entirely to migration or exclude minorities from national membership."
They complain about my "phobia". What is a phobia? It can be defined as a rational fear. My fears are totally rational. I fear the jihadis. I fear the demographic fact that, if immigration continues unchecked, Muslims will proliferate in my home country and, when their numbers increase to a sufficient degree, as they undoubtedly will, they will demand that their system, with all its barbarism and restrictions, be adopted. It is already happening elsewhere.
I couldn't agree more. Well said Dr Clydesdale. Our rush to complete PC will bring us down.
Good stuff, well said. I say that anytime someone is labelled a xenophobe, then the other person should be labelled a xenomaniac, with maniac meaning an unreasonable desire in favour.
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The Sonics claimed their lone NBA title on the road against the Washington Bullets in 1979.
The Seahawks won the NFC Championship Game at home three times, in the 2005, 2013 and 2014 seasons, but their lone Super Bowl title came away from home, obviously, at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, as no home team has ever played in, let alone won, a Super Bowl in their own crib.
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Stephen Jay Gould on “The Bell Curve”
Sat Jul 10th 2010 by abagond
Disclaimer: I have not read “The Bell Curve” for myself. The following is based instead on Stephen Jay Gould’s take on it. As a professor of biology at Harvard he knows the science way better than I do – like some of the important stuff “The Bell Curve” left out. He wrote about it in the 1996 edition of “The Mismeasure of Man”.
“The Bell Curve” (1994) by Richard J Herrnstein and Charles Murray is suppose to give the science proving that blacks in America have less intelligence in general than whites – and always will because intelligence, as measured by IQ, is mostly inborn or genetic. Further, they say this lack of intelligence is why things like crime, unemployment and illegitimacy are so high among blacks – and why throwing tax money at them will make little difference. In short: warmed-over social Darwinism.
As it turns out, even if you go by their numbers, IQ is weakly correlated with illegitimacy and so on – the numbers match up badly. So badly, in fact, that when they draw the lines on their graphs to show the relationships, they leave out the dots, the scatter of data points the lines are based on!
Further, correlation is not cause. After all, there is a much stronger correlation between your age and the national debt and yet neither causes the other.
And even Herrnstein and Murray admit that IQ is only 60% genetic. So only somewhat over half of these weak correlations-which-are-not-even-causes have anything to do with the inborn intelligence of black people.
And it gets worse:
All this is based on only one set of data with the numbers worked a certain way. But there are other sets of numbers, which they overlook – but would not if they had a strong case. And there are other ways to work the numbers. In fact, you can even show that it is impossible to measure intelligence by a single number!
That is no small point: Their argument depends on expressing intelligence as a single number. Not all scientists agree you can. The authors admit as much but do not make it plain why anyone would say that, a point which would cast their whole book into doubt – and make it clear that there are other ways to read the numbers. By leaving this out you do not see how weak their case is.
Their argument also depends on assuming that IQ is largely genetic therefore unchangeable. Not true.
Just because something is genetic does not mean it is set in stone. Height seems to be even more genetic than intelligence yet it is heavily affected by what you eat growing up – as people from India who bring up their children in America discover.
The same with IQ: in some countries it has gone up more in the past 50 years than the difference between blacks and whites in America. There is even a name for it: the Flynn Effect.
black IQ
The Flynn Effect
“black pathologies”
I am shocked simply shocked – about black unemployment
The mass incarceration of black men
Other pseudo-scientific racists:
Madison Grant
on Tue Jul 13th 2010 at 17:44:11 homelessgirl
It’s just like in Victorian tines when they had craniometry just scientific racism
Excellent article, Abagond. Just let me say this, though, before RR whines about it: Murray and Herrnstein don’t actually come out and SAY that low I.Q. is why blacks get arrested more, etc. They just imply it.
If they were to SAY it, it would be much easier to debunk them. The fact of the matter is, H&M are masters of innuendo.
It should also be pointed out that their work was never peer-reviewed, probably because of the obvious wholes it contains. This book was meant to be a political screed from the get-go, not science. It’s continued use by white supremacists 16 years after its racist implications were thoroughly debunked indicates that Murray and Herrnstien knew exactly what market they were aiming for when they wrote it.
on Tue Jul 13th 2010 at 19:21:52 Femi
I had to look twice before I saw it was published in 1994. At first I thought I saw 1894. I haven’t read it (and probably never will since pseudo-science annoys me) but it wouldn’t surprise me if it contained serious references to phrenology.
Apart from the sarcasm…
Quite a number of crimes actually require an incredible amount of imagination and intelligence to be pulled off. It sometimes makes me think, if the criminals had used their energy and enormous potential for something constructive they could have done a favour not only to themselves but to mankind as a whole.
I assume the authors would have a hard time to scientifically prove any one-sided correlation between intelligence and criminal energy had they studied a large enough sample of actual cases.
As for that 19th century ‘theory’ of genetic IQ and a correlation to ethnic background, we all know by now (mind you, this is 2010) that it’s bollocks.
on Tue Jul 13th 2010 at 20:09:14 Will
I heard about this, and was aware that this was out during that time. However, it’s not surprising as whites make it a mission to “prove” that blacks are less than human. It’s also not surprising that they love to target blacks and not themselves.
on Tue Jul 13th 2010 at 20:12:39 theobsidianfiles
Julian Abagond,
Thought I would weigh in here on the topic.
First off I have read The Bell Curve, and it is very important to understand exactly what the authors are saying before we go to debunking it. Their case is in a nutshell, is that of all the life measures, IQ, the amount of “general intelligence” is the one that matters the most, and they then proceed to explain why. Simply put, so their argument goes, the smarter you are, the more likely you are to have a more productive, law abiding life; the reverse is true if your are not very bright.
The book only takes a look at racial issues in a very limited way; the majority of the book doesn’t mention race much at all. But yes, they do suggest that differences between Blacks and Whites on tests and the like can be due at least in part to inborn, genetic differences in intelligence. This, a section of the book that is actually quite small in comparison to the whole, is what has made the Bell Curve so infamous.
The bigger argument the book is making is that American society will be bifurcated along IQ lines – between the Cognitive Elite and those who were born on the left side of said curve – and what needs to happen in order to manage this cleaving of society. I think it is a complex and interesting book, even while i disagree with much of it, and would urge you to actually read it for yourself. After all, if we’re gonna debunk the HBD crowd, we need to be well-informed as to what their key sources say.
Just some thoughts.
“The Bell Curve is a best-selling 1994 book by the late Harvard psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein and American Enterprise Institute political scientist Charles Murray. Its central argument is that intelligence is a better predictor of many factors including financial income, job performance, unwanted pregnancy, and crime than parents’ socioeconomic status or education level. Also, the book argues that those with high intelligence, the “cognitive elite”, are becoming separated from those of average and below-average intelligence and that this is a dangerous social trend. Most of the controversy concerns Chapters 13 and 14, in which the authors wrote about racial differences in intelligence and discuss the implications of those differences. The authors were reported throughout the popular press as arguing that these IQ differences are genetic, and they did indeed write in chapter 13: “It seems highly likely to us that both genes and the environment have something to do with racial differences.” The introduction to the chapter more cautiously states, “The debate about whether and how much genes and environment have to do with ethnic differences remains unresolved.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bell_Curve
Will said,
It’s also not surprising that they love to target blacks and not themselves.
I don’t know about that Will. Ever hear of the Darwin Awards? But then again, it has become an international phenomenon. I guess this is probably due to the fact there is no ethnic/racial basis for intelligence.
http://www.darwinawards.com/
“Named in honor of Charles Darwin, the father of evolution, the Darwin Awards commemorate those who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it.”
on Tue Jul 13th 2010 at 21:08:44 FG
“Further, they say this lack of intelligence is why things like crime, unemployment and illegitimacy are so high among blacks – and why throwing tax money at them will make little difference. In short: warmed-over social Darwinism.”
I’ve observed three general schools of thought about the source of these social pathologies:
(1) Liberal/Left. Black social problems are due to racial discrimination and poverty.
(2) Hereditarian. Racial differences in crime, family breakdown, and economic success are due to genetic differences between blacks and whites.
(3) Social conservative. Black social problems result from defective cultural values relating to family and academics held by the underclass.
Most who comment on this blog appear to subscribe wholeheartedly to (1). A few (e.g. RR) favor (2). Personally, I think (3) is the most explanatory though (1) also has some merit. I would agree with Hernstein and Murray that throwing money at the problems won’t solve them, but not for the same reason.
on Tue Jul 13th 2010 at 21:19:18 Danila
I like the way Ben O’Donnell put it (I don’t know where he stands on the issue overall, but I like this quote):
“Race and IQ tests are two nebulous determinants of nebulous qualities”
Race is a social construct. Genetically, I probably have more in common with the white people around the corner than I do with someone in Uganda. IQ is an equally shaky concept. What exactly is intelligence anyway, and who says IQ measures whatever it is? What if it is many different things? Why only math and verbal? So for anyone to try to link these two things that are both impossible to nail down and to claim that it’s genetics and not environment and oppression that explain the differences is foolish. It’s just foolish. And racist, because why?
I’ll tell you one thing these race-IQ comparisons might be good for: it’s a quick way to tell who is oppressed in a given region and who has more relative power. Why do Koreans in Japan score so much lower on IQ tests? Oppression. Why do Catholics in Northern Ireland have the same 15 pt. IQ gap as blacks in North America? Oppression. In many cases we’re dealing with the same “racial groups”. Are Koreans in Japan of inferior genetic stock? Why do the Irish get smarter when they cross the Atlantic? Come on.
http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-inferiorIQ.htm
this book looks interesting:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inequality_by_Design%3A_Cracking_the_Bell_Curve_Myth
This is the old debate of:
nature (genetics) v nuture (societal) debate within Psychology
I am also reminded of another issue in psychology, where one of its prominent psyhologists forged/falsified results to ‘demonstrate’ intelliegence was inherited from ‘genetics’.
Here is an overview:
http://www.jstor.org/pss/20298643
Great points, Danila!
FG, what is the substantial difference between #1 and #3?
I have to respectfully disagree with Danilla.
Race is more than merely a social construct, though of course it has profound social dimensions. But it is also biologically based, too. To deny this is to only to hamper one’s reasoning on the issue, and which inhibits us from properly engaging the scientific racists.
Satoshi Kanazawaa, an evolutionary psychologist who is a regular contributor at the Psychology Today website, has also gone on record as saying that criminals by and large, to have lower intelligence than those who don’t commit crime. He lays out the reasons why here:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-scientific-fundamentalist/201006/why-criminals-are-less-intelligent-non-criminals
If we are going to engage the scientific racists on the matter, we have to acknowledge some basic facts, and the facts are, that criminals tend to be less intelligent on average than non criminals. Here’s how I tackle the issue:
http://theobsidianfiles.wordpress.com/2010/01/26/the-hbders-black-crime-canard/
on Tue Jul 13th 2010 at 23:00:49 Ruth
A recent book by Richard Nisbett, Intelligence and How to Get It, debunks The Bell Curve at some length. The New York Times review is here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/books/review/Holt-t.html
(Obviously, the opening paragraph of the review sets up the Bell Curve argument as a straw man!)
I read the Nisbett book impatiently, thinking, “Hasn’t someone already shown all of this?” Which of course, they have–Nisbett performs a review of all the scholarly literature for a popular audience, and others have included much of this research elsewhere, including in the more-popular Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell.
The writing of The Bell Curve was funded by a eugenics/racist organization, The Pioneer Fund:
Ruth:
Excellent link!!!!
An excerpt from fair.org:
“Nearly all the research that Murray and Herrnstein relied on for their central claims about race and IQ was funded by the Pioneer Fund, described by the London Sunday Telegraph (3/12/89) as a “neo-Nazi organization closely integrated with the far right in American politics.” The fund’s mission is to promote eugenics, a philosophy that maintains that “genetically unfit” individuals or races are a threat to society. “
@Obsidianfiles
But it is also biologically based, too. To deny this is to only to hamper one’s reasoning on the issue, and which inhibits us from properly engaging the scientific racists.
Sorry, you’re wrong there OF.
The concept of “race” is fairly clear, historically speaking: persistent, relatively homogenous and discrete human subspecies.
We don’t have that.
Now, saying that there’s no race is NOT the same thing as saying that all human beings are biologically identical. The fact of the matter is, we’re too genetically DIVERSE to have races, not genetically identical.
Whether or not criminals are less intelligent is a completely different thing. But I would hazard a guess that the criminals who GET CAUGHT are probably less intelligent, yes.
Crime is a social concept. It has no necessary biological component. If you have no laws, you have no crime, QED. Furthermore, the U.S. criminal population has risen by 400% (or something like that) over the past few decades. Is that because the U.S. population is stupider? No: it’s because the U.S. is more of a police state today than it ever was before. Things which were once misdemeanors now get you jail time. This has nothing at all to do with biology.
Have you read the link I provided by Prof. Kanazawaa? I think his piece is a good jumping off point for our discussion here.
As for the question of race, it has been found that certain medications work better or worse depending on the race of the patient. This I don’t find objectionable in the least, and I am at a loss as to why you would.
Actually, The Bell Curve was published by Adam Bellow, son of famed writer Saul Bellow, who is known in his own right for writing In Praise of Nepotism. But yes, the Pioneer Fund has indeed had a role to play in the scientific racism movement.
It is also well known, that many, many criminals serving time in prison, are functional illiterates. This would tend to tally with what Kanazawaa has said.
Obsidian,
“As for the question of race, it has been found that certain medications work better or worse depending on the race of the patient. “
Actually, no they haven’t. They have found that effectiveness of some medications vary depending on the patient’s group, more specifically “black American” or “white American.” They have not provided any evidence that these same disparities apply to other “black” and “white” groups, and in fact some researchers have acknowledged that these social categorizations don’t tend to correspond with genetic predispositions (see info on the heart drug BiDil).
With regard to
Forgive me I did not read the link but I have to disagree.
In fact politicians are the biggest criminals and they seem to be getting away with their ‘criminality’ against a general populace that do not do crime, daily and across the world too.
I suspect its the other way as it suggests in the Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
“Thus, sages rule by emptying people’s hearts (keep them ignorant), filling their bellies, weakening their ambitions, and strengthening their bones”
on Wed Jul 14th 2010 at 00:29:09 theobsidianfiles
Fair enough, because one, I’m not a medical Man, and two, that really isn’t my point.
My point is simply that it doesn’t diminish our counter argument to simply acknowledge the biological differences that exist between Blacks, Whites and other groups. As I’ve pointed out in my linked article on my blog, we can focus on issues of real import when confronting scientific racists.
For example, let’s assume for the sake of argument that in aggregate, Black folks are more inclined to commit violent crimes than Whites and Asians.
The question then becomes: so what? What are we to do in light of this?
The scientific racists, like Levin for example, would suggest and favor increased racial profiling. Now, let’s be clear – racial profiling does indeed reduce crime, but at the expense of civil liberties, something that is enshrined in our very way of life as Americans. So, we would have to ask the scientific racists, if they are comfortable with essentially taking away your and my civil liberties, all in the name of curtailing Black Crime.
If they say yes, the next question would have to be, how they would make such a proposal work in a land where the individual is not only held as sacrosanct, but is protected from the abuses of the State.
See how this works?
The issue really isn’t the “science” but whether those who push such a thing wants to change puiblic policy to reflect said “science” – and if they do, how they propose to get around the very fundaments of our society.
Again, please read my linked to article, I lay all this out.
J,
Please take the time to read Kanazawaa’s article. That way we can have an informed and respectful discussion, even if we come away in disagreement.
Fair enough?
Obsidian.
My point is simply that it doesn’t diminish our counter argument to simply acknowledge the biological differences that exist between Blacks, Whites and other groups.”
The first problem is this: who is black? Who is white? Those are socially defined and variable depending on the country or region, not to mention phenotype, so you can’t say that biological differences exist between these groups until we can nail who is what.
The second problem is this: who ever said that there were no biological differences between groups? It seems those who disagree with the idea of race as social construct assume that its proponents think there are no biological differences between groups (not “races,” but groups); that all humans are a homogeneous mass. This couldn’t be further from the truth.
Cheers theobsidianfile,
I took the time to read the article as you suggested
Forgive me, I am still going to stick with the philosophy of Lao Tzu, in this respect, as per my last post.
For me the issue is at best moot, because it doesn’t address the root issue, that of the scientific racists who want to change public policy. That to me is the real issue at hand, and if we keep trying to see how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, we can’t really get to the real issues.
on Wed Jul 14th 2010 at 01:33:19 Thaddeus
As for the question of race, it has been found that certain medications work better or worse depending on the race of the patient.
Actually, that’s not true. That’s based on ascribed race, not on genetics. And the same medications work equally well on anyone who has the same egentics complex.
Sorry, man. Fact. Genetics don’t come in a homogenous package.
Regarding illiteracy, since when is this correlated with intelligence? Stupid people read and smart people can’t read. Literacy is a LEARNED trait, not a genetically determined one.
Regarding Kanazawa, there are some HUGE epistemological holes in that fluff piece he wrote. Let’s look at some, OK?
We may infer this from the fact that behavior that would be classified as criminal if engaged in by humans, like murder, rape, assault, and theft, are quite common among other species.
What’s murder? If I kill soemoen, is that murder? If that’s the case, then a whole lot of people you and Kanazawa p´robably find laudable are murderers and by Kanazawa’s definition inferior, beginning with every Medal of Honor winner in the U.S.
Obviously, murder is not a fixed variable: it is sociologically determined and varies from society to society. It can thus have no necessary biological link, at least in the sense that Kanazawa gives it. A person who has a biology that makes himself or herself more likely to kill is only going to become a criminal if s/he kills people who society says s/he shouldn’t kill. As for women and murder… is abortion murder? Because if it is, a hell of a lot of women are now criminals and stupid, according to Kanazawa.
In short, SOCIETY decides what a crime is, not biology. So to presume that criminals are somehow biologically determined is foolish.
Secondly, what authorizes Kanazawa to presume that murder and crime are “evolutionary positive behaviors”? There is absolutely no proof of this in Darwinian theory. In fact, today’s evolutionists are much more likely to emphasize that it is humanity’s COOPERATIVE and SOCIAL nature which probablyu has pushed it along the track of evolution to the point where we have become, effectively, superorganic beings. It seems to me that our dear psycnhologist has a rather 19th century, social darwinistic “survival of the fittest” view of evolution which is not up today’s state of the art in the biological sciences.
Furthermore, have you notidec that Kanazawa’s “hypothesis” is tautological and is thus not a real hypothesis? He states that less intelligent people have greater difficulties in dealing with evolutionary novelties than more intelligent people. But how does he define “lesser intelligence”? Why, by classifying those who have succumbed to evolutionary pressures as ipso fato less intelligent.
Finally, Kanazawa, as I mentioned above, seems to have a VERY shaky notion of how evolution workd. Evolution occurs in VERY small – almost infintesimal – increments over millions of years. There is NO point in an individual’s existence – absent some very dramatic and extremely rare event – where evolutionary pressures are going to be felt, per se. Evolutionary pressures arent felt on an individual scale, but on the scale of mass popultations over multiple generations.
Why Kanazawa is blathering on about evolution in this fashion when he’s obviously not absored Darwin’s most basic lessons is beyond me, but his article would have a very difficult time passing through a peer review process.
Sorry, OF, but Kanazawa’s article is an excellent example of why pop science publications are not good authorities on any given topic.
(It should be noted, btw, that Kanazawa’s bio is less than stellar. He doesn’t seem to have published any scientific book, but only pop books. He’s a reader in management and his publishing record is one pop psych book after another. This guy isn’t writing as a scientist, OF, but as a pop essayist.)
on Wed Jul 14th 2010 at 03:03:40 Ankhesen Mié
Wow…draptopalooza. Talk about deliberate misreading.
So you have anything to add, Mié? You think crime is biological in nature, do you?
on Wed Jul 14th 2010 at 04:36:18 RR
You continue to surprise. I thought the whole “Bell Curve” issue was beyond the pale for you, and I was going to submit my own review, but here you have reintroduced it. I commend you (although you still didn’t read the book).
The following is an outright untruth. You wrote:
As it turns out, even if you go by their numbers, IQ is weakly correlated with illegitimacy and so on
The authors show that the probability of having a child out of wedlock decreases as IQ increases (see page 180 of “The Bell Curve” in Google books:
http://books.google.com/books?id=s4CKqxi6yWIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+bell+curve&hl=en&ei=FS89TNPhM8OC8gaZg-CkBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false
The authors never give the actual correlation between IQ and illegitimacy. There is a good discussion of this in chapter 8 of “The Bell Curve” for those who are interested.
Theobsidianfiles,
You are one of the few people who have posted on “The Bell Curve” who actually seems to have read and digested the book. Indeed, the discussion of race is a relatively small part of the book. From my perspective, “The Bell Curve” is probably THE most important book produced in the latter half of the 20th century. The implications of IQ differences just among whites is huge.
After all, if we’re gonna debunk the HBD crowd, we need to be well-informed as to what their key sources say.
Here, here! Finally someone who gets it! What are your specific objections to the book?
I couldn’t have said it better myself. Those who continue to insist that race is wholly a social construct are as intellectually blind as those who insisted hundreds of years ago that the world was flat. We may not like the implications associated with race, but race denial isn’t going to get us anywhere. I thought you asserted yourself manfully in “The HBDers’ Black Crime Canard”
FG,
Most who comment on this blog appear to subscribe wholeheartedly to (1). A few (e.g. RR) favor (2).
Not true. What I have stated is that blacks, on average, commit more crime and are, on average, less intelligent than whites. I never said that blacks were genetically predisposed to crime or low intelligence.
Thaddeus wrote:
Please concentrate on what race has become to be known scientifically NOW, i.e. a race is basically a very large extended family that inbreeds to some extent. Race is a continuum. IT IS NOT DISCRETE! Race is relative, like height.
The fact of the matter is, we’re too genetically DIVERSE to have races
This is ridiculous. Obviously, there are genetic similarities between groups of people. That is why forensic scientists are able to determine the degree of racial admixture, or lack thereof, from DNA samples with a high degree of probability.
Natasha W wrote:
The definitions of black and white aren’t exclusively socially defined. The definition, while often inadequate, is related to lineage (family). Of course DNA tests can give better quantitative indications of race, but visual inspection is still fairly accurate. Most Americans can determine whether a person is mostly black, mostly white or racially indeterminate.
The second problem is this: who ever said that there were no biological differences between groups? It seems those who disagree with the idea of race as social construct assume that its proponents think there are no biological differences between groups (not “races,” but groups)
If using the word “groups” instead of “race” makes you feel better, OK. I have no problem with that. The reality of race will still remain, regardless of what you call it. It will still be problematic because “groups” differ on a variety of measures, most problematically in the area of intelligence.
on Wed Jul 14th 2010 at 07:40:09 Femi
Why does that not surprise me?
I am RR.
No, race is not “a large extended family”. No human group the size of “blacks” is anywhere nearly as genetically congruent as a family.
One COULD argue that there are indeed human groups that inbreed to a certain extent and this is true, but these groups are properly called “populations”: they have none of the characteristics which races are presumed to have, beginning with the fact that they are not anything like biologically stable and discrete subspecies.
I should mention that I’m pretty damned up-to-date on this topic and that you and OF seem to share the same basic problem. This problem can be resumed as a lack of basic understanding of biology and genetics which makes you think that “race” is the only term we can use to discuss human biodiversity.
For the both of you, “races” must exist or humanity must be 100% genetically the same. There is no middle ground.
This false dichotomy isn’t caused by my lack of understanding of modern science, folks: it’s caused by the fact that your understanding of biology is apparently stuck somewhere in the 1960s.
Yes, there are patterns to human populations’ biologies. No, these are not races.I suggest that the both of you look up “clinactic distribution of genetic traits” which is what biologists talk about when they discuss human biopatterning.
And to give you an example that touches on that “there are racially-based medicines” argument of yours OF, the makers of that medicine are quite clear that the “race” that they make it for is socio-historically defined. In other words, it only makes sense within a given society and historical background. Something like 1.5 billion people on this planet are “black”: not even the majority of these people have the set of genetic and cultural values which creates the heart disease syndrome that said medicine is created to cure.
I further remind you that race isn’t and never was a statistical construct: one doesn’t have a race because a certain population has a 10% more chance of this or that occuring than another population. Race means subspecies and it presumes a stable inbreeding population that is genetically demonstrates more congruency among its members than its members demonstrate when compared to the general species population.
We don’t have that in humans.
There are only two ways one can plausibly postulate that race exists among us.
The first is what RR and OF are doing: be ignorant about the biological and historical definition of race and deny what science has clearly demonstrated about human biodiversity.
The second is what many of the scientists that people like RR love to quote on race do: subtly rework the definition of race so that the word now stands for any observable patterning in human biology at any level. This is a purely semantical switch which only works because the vast majority of laymen are emotionally attached to the concept of “race” and feel threatened in their identities when someone like me says “it doesn’t exist as a biological construct”. It’s a scientifically dubious procedure because it ammounts to pouring new wine into very old, dirty and cracked bottles. In no other field of science would this be acceptable. No other field of science says “Hey, we have radical new findings which overturn all our previous considerations regarding a phenomenon, but let’s continue using the old and inadequate terminology anyhow because it makes people feel better.”
Hi Thad,
I don’t think it’s necessary to attack Kanazawaa just because you disagree with him, LOL.
I would like to add another point to Natasha W’s. Where did they get all of this data.
I know I did not take what was called an IQ test in the fifties. The tests, they give in schools vary quite a bit and each does not cover the same assessments. When William Shockley came up with idea, I think who first coined the phrase “the bell curve,” most Black people lived in the south during Jim Crow. The assumption in all school systems that Black folk were inferior, so there were no test given to compare them to white students.
His ideas got traction because of his credentials as a physicist and Nobel Laureate. Not because his science was good. The average person is inclined to believe anyone who they feel can confirm their own prejudices and if a person has some celebrity or unrelated science background, it is good enough for them. In a climate that values anti-intellectualism, Ann Coulter revisiting
Herrnstein and Murray’s The Bell Curve has given those prejudices another supposedly valid voice.
Most times when the quacks come out, it only harms those individuals who buy that particular potion. This time it is calculated to harm large populations, so that a small minority can maintain supremacy.
When I saw the title I knew it would be someone like theobsidianfiles who claim to be dispassionate in their evaluation of The Bell Curve.
I am sure the Nazi guards were dispassionate as they marched their fellow humans being into the gas chambers.
RR,
RR: Not true. What I have stated is that blacks, on average, commit more crime and are, on average, less intelligent than whites.
I never said that blacks were genetically predisposed to crime or low intelligence
So would you like to offer an explanation why ‘blacks, on average, commit more crime and are, on average, less intelligent than whites’.
I was going to ask you here, if it was due to nature, nuture or an admixture of both??
However, when you suggest:
This would rule out the exclusivity of the ‘nature’ debate.
Thus leaving only two: nuture and/or an admixture of both.
Either way I do not want to put words into your mouth.
I will leave you to provide an answer of your own choice, that is if you choose to do so off course.
Well, from what I understand of the book, TBC seems to layout a number of correctives that I find to be tenuous at best for a whole host of reasons. One of the more controversial was in the cutting off inducements ie welfare, off to Black or otherwise lower IQ Women so that they would have fewer babies. As it turns out, the Welfare Reform Act of the latter 1990s effectively addressed this issue.
But that aside, it still doesn’t address the other side of the question, which is WHY smart White Women DON’T have babies, or as many of them. I address the matters here:
http://theobsidianfiles.wordpress.com/2009/12/21/lets-give-the-hbderseugenicists-what-they-want-a-thought-experiment/
http://theobsidianfiles.wordpress.com/2010/06/16/smart-white-mans-burden/
Would be very interested in hearing your thoughts on the matter.
In the meantime, as I’ve tried to explain to Thad, Natasha and a few others, the issue for me isn’t so much the “science” as much as it is “what do we do about it”? Science, be it well grounded or not, has little if any sway when it comes to how a society ought to be ran and ordered. The HBD crowd wants to reorder society based on HBD principles, running roughshod over Constitutional principles in the process, something that the vast majority of Americans find anathema. This is where the debate truly lies in my view, not in debates over what is or is not “science”.
Holla back
Your mention of my name (actually my blog’s name) and Godwin’s Law in the same sentence, merely for my saying that those who deign to speak out against The Bell Curve should at the very least be familiar with its contents, is most unfortunate. Nowhere have I said that I have agreed with the book or its authors, I was merely attempting to handle the matter in a reasonable manner. I take exception to your attempt to shutdown worthy discussion and debate by appealing to lowest common demoninator tactics.
You did that when you posted your comments.
Your disagreement is weakly constructed.
on Wed Jul 14th 2010 at 13:57:05 malanai
And how do you expect to address the “root issue”? What do you think could possibly be said that would satiate people hell bent on deeming millions of people inferior?
“In the meantime, as I’ve tried to explain to Thad, Natasha and a few others, the issue for me isn’t so much the “science” as much as it is “what do we do about it”? Science, be it well grounded or not, has little if any sway when it comes to how a society ought to be ran and ordered.”
And isn’t that a shame for a society that likes to consider science the end all and be all; the official word, and likes to consider themselves scientifically literate. But anyway, the science is very important because by looking at the methods used in many of the studies used to purport, it becomes fairly easy to poke holes in many of these arguments.
^Whoops. That was by me: Natasha.
Did you think I was entering an argument? After 30 some years of hearing all of the arguments, there is really nothing new I could contribute and especially to someone who says “The issue really isn’t the “science”.”
How does something purport to be fact, if the science behind it can not substantiate it?
It is like arguing with someone who thinks 2 + 2 = 5 in the decimal system.
What I was doing was using you as an example of anti-intellectualism.
And who decided what constitutes white and what constitutes black (talk less of this “mostly” business)? Society, and a very small segment of it at that.
“If using the word “groups” instead of “race” makes you feel better, OK. I have no problem with that. The reality of race will still remain, regardless of what you call it.”
A race and a group or population are not the same and you can not equate them.
on Wed Jul 14th 2010 at 14:50:38 JGreyden
Without self esteem, what’s the use of this IQ if it’s only to be driven toward madness .
I wonder why it is generally assumed here that this High IQ is a favourable self determining factor.
If two ducks were at odds, would they handle each other’s best eggs with as much care as they would do their own.
Replies below:
N: And how do you expect to address the “root issue”? What do you think could possibly be said that would satiate people hell bent on deeming millions of people inferior?
O: The root issue is simply this: scientific racists have always sought to use their “science” as a basis to change existing public policy, into that which they deem appropriate. However, our society is NOT based on science, legitimate or otherwise. Our society is based on a body of ideals, among them being the right to be judged, not as a group but as an individual. So, the notion that, for example, increased racial profiling is needed insofar as Black males are concerned, because it can be shown/proven that said males are more prone toward violent criminal acts – even if true – directly subverts the notion of civil liberties and abuses of the State against the individual, something which the Founding Fathers found abhorrent. In order to do what the scientific racists want to do, they would need in essence, to rewrite the Constitution, something that virtually all Americans would find unacceptable.
N: And isn’t that a shame for a society that likes to consider science the end all and be all; the official word, and likes to consider themselves scientifically literate. But anyway, the science is very important because by looking at the methods used in many of the studies used to purport, it becomes fairly easy to poke holes in many of these arguments.
O: Whether we like it or not, Science is the civil religion of our time, and people will use it to justify their views one way or another. I am suggesting that the real focus however, is NOT science, but whether what these folks propose to do with their “findings”.
“Our society is based on a body of ideals, among them being the right to be judged, not as a group but as an individual.”
Maybe on paper. Hardly ever in practice.
But you didn’t answer the question: how do you seek to addtress this issue? By discussing it on blogs?
If what you said were true, Brown v Board of Education would never have happened, to say nothing of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts.
As for how I intend to address the issue, yes, blogging does indeed help.
O: Oh great, so now you’re engage in Ad Hominem, too?
You’re proving my point: none of these rulings would have been needed if American society actually judged its people as individuals.
How does discussing IQ on blogs affect public policy or those who have the power to establish them?
@OF
Professor K’s theories have been critiqued based on their intellectual worth, not based on whether or not I like the guy. The man’s a psychologist whose only publishing history (as far as I can see) in the field of evolutionary biology consists of pop science titles which were never peer reviewed. That’s a simple fact, OF, not an insult. Furthermore, the man makes the supreme error of believing that evolution works on individuals and not on populations. This is a basic error.
As J is often wont to remind me, a PhD doesn’t give you lisence to theoretize about everything. Dr. K might be a bang-up psychologist, but his musings on evolution have about as much validity as my musings on automobile mechanics.
Correct. But given the fact that science has as much if not more legitimacy in our society today as, say, religion, people will always be trying to harnass it for political purposes. That is what The Bell Curve attempts to do. As Gould points out, it’s our job as scientists to debunk these political bastardizations of the discipline.
That’s my job. I’m not a senator or a street activist: I’m a social scientist.
Some would say, however, that that’s political enough.
Btw, Obsidianfiles, I do agree with you that people SHOULD read the book before critiquing it.
That said – and different from RR’s claims – it presents no great or conclusive evidence for a race-I.Q.-biology connection. Note that RR is quick to point out the fact that “this is not the book’s premise” when someone critiques TBC as racist propaganda. This is odd, however, because that’s PRECISELY the way RR reads the book, isn’t it?
So if “blacks are genetically inferior” isn’t TBC’s premise (and to be fair the book only IMPLIES this rather than states it), all well and good.
But if that’s the case, then why do the Steve Sailors and Anne Coulters and RRs of the world constantly present TBC as if it DID prove that blacks were biologically superior?
If you’ll look at the history of my and RR’s argument about this book on this site, you’ll clearly see that RR started out arguing – several times in fact – that TBC “proved” blacks were biologically inferior. It was only after I had trashed that claim a couple of times that he started accusing be of being “ignorant” and “not having read the book” because “of course” The Bell Curve never makes the claim that blacks are inferior.
So I think we can say that, regardless of what the book says, it strongly implies that blacks are biologically inferior and – given that the book is universally used as if it were proof of that hypothesis by the aryanist right and given the fact that its authors, to my knowledge, have never spoken out against this use – I think we can logically conclude that giving popular support to the disgraced notion of racially based IQ was indeed one of the book’s objectives.
In that sense, it is a racist book.
It matters because it exists. How does Abagond’s blog address the fact that millions of Whites still harbor racist views and attitudes? Will it change any minds, and if so, how do we know that? Yet I don’t see Abagond getting weak in the effort.
As for Brown, etc, it was because of the founding principles of this society that they were able to be brought about, not in spite of them. None of that has anything to do with science.
With all due respect Natasha, I really don’t see the point in going back and forth over this issue. The reality is that the scientific racists exist, and our pissing contest will not do anything to address them. It is my view that our time is better spent actually addressing their public polciy arguments, rather than attempting to argue them down as to the nature of their “science” -in the end, that won’t matter anyway. Gould died trying to debunk it. The scientifc racists are still around.
Please note that the scientific racists have not abated in their numbers, nor in their views, for more than a century. Please also note that The Bell Curve has sold incredibly well for a book of its length and dense academic prose/presentation. That tells me that your “mission”, such that it is, is a Fool’s Errand – such things persists, because a sizable portion of the American populace WANTS THEM TO.
So, let’s say that TBC is indeed a racist book? So? Haven’t you ever seen a racist book before? So what? That isn’t the issue, after all, the First Amendment protects the right of others to publish and read what some would consider racist content.
The issue is, WHAT POINT DO THOSE WITH THESE VIEWS WANT TO MAKE? If their point is to merely note that Blacks are intellectually inferior to Whites, fine. If there are people who wish to believe this, that’s on them.
If, on the other hand, these people wish to take their “evidence” to make the case that public policy should be altered or changed, THEN we have a problem, for the reasons I’ve outlined above here and over at my own blog. Please review the links I have provided to previous articles written by me on the matter.
It is important we understand what the real issues are and how to address them.
Because I reply to your comments does not mean that I am engaged in an argument. I have no desire to convince you of anything. I read so I know who my enemy is and how they think.
I will not be lulled by that dispassionate and pseudo rational crap.
“It matters because it exists. How does Abagond’s blog address the fact that millions of Whites still harbor racist views and attitudes? Will it change any minds, and if so, how do we know that?”
I comment on this blog because it has interesting topics, but I’m not under the impression that it will change many minds because I don’t think racism is based on reason or evidence.
You brought the topic up; I never said it had anything to do with science. But again: society is based on individuality on paper. You know and I know that people are viewed as groups in this country in practice, or else this post wouldn’t be necessary.
“With all due respect Natasha, I really don’t see the point in going back and forth over this issue. The reality is that the scientific racists exist, and our pissing contest will not do anything to address them. It is my view that our time is better spent actually addressing their public polciy arguments, rather than attempting to argue them down as to the nature of their “science” -in the end, that won’t matter anyway.”
This is not a pissing contest, it is a discussion. If you consider defending your arguments a burden, then you’re shooting yourself in the foot by making them.
You can not begin to debunk a claim unless you understand what it is founded upon (isn’t that what you were saying earlier?). Since their claims are based on “science” that is exactly what needs to be addressed. Or do you think you can knock down these arguments superficially?
What you have done so far is to present all of the scientific racists’ arguments. You have not refuted them. So I fail to see how your attempts are curtailing racist discussions much less racist policies.
You have no idea what I think, and I would urge you to take a few minutes to peruse my blogsite. I am no apologist for the scientific racists, indeed i vociferously oppose them. I just do so on grounds that actually matter, such as in the public polocy realm.
obdisian, my reply to you is in moderation (for whatever reason), but it should later appear directly above your comment.
N: I comment on this blog because it has interesting topics, but I’m not under the impression that it will change many minds because I don’t think racism is based on reason or evidence.
O: So why do you then impose such a standard on me?
N: You brought the topic up; I never said it had anything to do with science. But again: society is based on individuality on paper. You know and I know that people are viewed as groups in this country in practice, or else this post wouldn’t be necessary.
O: That’s not true; otherwise, Jim Crow would still be the law of the land, and racial profiling would never get a mention in the public discourse, let alone the legal one.
N: This is not a pissing contest, it is a discussion. If you consider defending your arguments a burden, then you’re shooting yourself in the foot by making them.
O: It is if we keep getting bogged down in stuff neither of us really has all that much of an interest in to begin with – I mean really, do you have a great interest in whether Black folks are intellectually inferior to Whites or not? I don’t – I’m interested in how these people want to use their “evidence” to craft public policy, which has far more grave implications.
N: You can not begin to debunk a claim unless you understand what it is founded upon (isn’t that what you were saying earlier?). Since their claims are based on “science” that is exactly what needs to be addressed. Or do you think you can knock down these arguments superficially?
O: What I was saying earlier, to Abagond, was that it would be helpful to understand what The Bell Curve was all about before attempting to trash it. Their, meaning, the scientific racists, arguments may be based on “science” but it is clear what their intent is – to change public policy. It is on this front that we can successfully debunk them, because, even if they’re right, in the eyes of the American legal system, such public policy prescriptions based on HBD is anathema to everything America holds dear.
N: What you have done so far is to present all of the scientific racists’ arguments. You have not refuted them. So I fail to see how your attempts are curtailing racist discussions much less racist policies.
O: Please see my linked articles back to my blog upthread, they will make my position quite clear. Merely attempting to accurately layout the opposition’s arguments and claims does not mean that I agree with same.
“So why do you then impose such a standard on me?”
I never imposed a standard on you — you imposed one on yourself by saying these blogs post “matter.” I simply asked how you were going to address the issue, and then how you thought blog discussions would affect these issues.
“That’s not true; otherwise, Jim Crow would still be the law of the land, and racial profiling would never get a mention in the public discourse, let alone the legal one.”
Mkay, obsidian. If you want to believe people are treated as individuals in American society (why does racial profiling exist in the first place?), then go right ahead. Everyone else will be waiting for you in reality.
“Please see my linked articles back to my blog upthread, they will make my position quite clear. Merely attempting to accurately layout the opposition’s arguments and claims does not mean that I agree with same.”
I don’t know if you agree with the claims, but you haven’t said anything on this post (I haven’t read the articles and, to be honest, I probably won’t be reading them) to repudiate them.
N: I never imposed a standard on you — you imposed one on yourself by saying these blogs post “matter.” I simply asked how you were going to address the issue, and then how you thought blog discussions would affect these issues.
O: These blog posts do matter to the extent that they serve as a record of those like us two who oppose the scientific racists online.
N: Mkay, obsidian. If you want to believe people are treated as individuals in American society (why does racial profiling exist in the first place?), then go right ahead. Everyone else will be waiting for you in reality.
O: Look, this isn’t a matter of theory for me, Natasha. I know about these issues firsthand, perhaps in ways you do not. And I am telling you that racial profiling is NOT the law of the land, otherwise we wouldn’t have the various legal protections we do. That’s not some crass jingoism on my part, just noting some basic facts.
N: I don’t know if you agree with the claims, but you haven’t said anything on this post (I haven’t read the articles and, to be honest, I probably won’t be reading them) to repudiate them.
O: Then not only haven’t you been reading closely enough my own words in this thread, but your unwillingness to take a few minutes and a click or two lout of your day to find out exactly what my views are in this regard, says a heck of a lot more about you than it does about me.
But then, I was the one saying that it is important to actually know what you;re talking about before you attempt to address it.
“Look, this isn’t a matter of theory for me, Natasha. I know about these issues firsthand, perhaps in ways you do not. And I am telling you that racial profiling is NOT the law of the land, otherwise we wouldn’t have the various legal protections we do. That’s not some crass jingoism on my part, just noting some basic facts.”
Very presumptuous of you to think I don’t have firsthand experience. I come from a city where raical profiling by police is well-documented and is indeed the de facto law of the land.
“Then not only haven’t you been reading closely enough my own words in this thread, but your unwillingness to take a few minutes and a click or two lout of your day to find out exactly what my views are in this regard, says a heck of a lot more about you than it does about me.
Uh, please. Save it. I have no use for your “articles” and your arrogance and personal attacks are not persuasive. You can keep directing commenters to read your “articles” or you can present some arguments here. Seeing as you choose to do the former, I guess this discussion is over.
@Obsidian
Please note that the scientific racists have not abated in their numbers, nor in their views, for more than a century.
Actually, they’ve abated in numbers in academia. Why do you think The Bell Curve couldn’t get past a peer review?
That tells me that your “mission”, such that it is, is a Fool’s Errand – such things persists, because a sizable portion of the American populace WANTS THEM TO.
Of course the masses want them to. Black and white, if this site is anything to go by. Nevertheless, I think Gould is right: there’s a need to constantly debunk this crap and there’s a BIG difference between racism as, essentially, a gutter theory and racism as something that’s taught as scientifically valid in classrooms.
As someone who has engaged with the policy process on several levels, Obsidian, yes, it does indeed make a difference whether crap like this gets challenged or not. In and of itself, it is not the key difference, no. But it is MUCH easier to argue policy when you can convince the majority that you have science behind you.
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N: Very presumptuous of you to think I don’t have firsthand experience. I come from a city where raical profiling by police is well-documented and is indeed the de facto law of the land.
O: Unless you know what it’s like to be damn near shot by the police because YOU were racially profiled, it becomes kinda hard to really engage you meaningfully. With all due respect.
N: Uh, please. Save it. I have no use for your “articles” and your arrogance and personal attacks are not persuasive. You can keep directing commenters to read your “articles” or you can present some arguments here. Seeing as you choose to do the former, I guess this discussion is over.
O: Thank God – I’ll drink to that.
Now, as I was saying…
T: Actually, they’ve abated in numbers in academia. Why do you think The Bell Curve couldn’t get past a peer review?
O: I don’t know, but then again I never made any such claim; what I said was that the book sold extremely well given the nature of the topic and its presentation. Do you deny this, and if so, on what basis?
O: That tells me that your “mission”, such that it is, is a Fool’s Errand – such things persists, because a sizable portion of the American populace WANTS THEM TO.
T: Of course the masses want them to. Black and white, if this site is anything to go by. Nevertheless, I think Gould is right: there’s a need to constantly debunk this crap and there’s a BIG difference between racism as, essentially, a gutter theory and racism as something that’s taught as scientifically valid in classrooms.
O: Gould is now dead and in his wake there has sprouted an entire sector of the Internet that is devoted to the very concerns he sought to fight against. That does not sound like much of a victory to me.
T: As someone who has engaged with the policy process on several levels, Obsidian, yes, it does indeed make a difference whether crap like this gets challenged or not. In and of itself, it is not the key difference, no. But it is MUCH easier to argue policy when you can convince the majority that you have science behind you.
O: I would be very interested in hearing to what extent you were invovled in said public policy issues that directly involved HBD. Please share?
obsidian, just want to comment on one point:
“Unless you know what it’s like to be damn near shot by the police because YOU were racially profiled, it becomes kinda hard to really engage you meaningfully. With all due respect. “
…Are you reading how foolish you sound? So a person needs to be nearly shot by the police in order to understand that racial profiling is a reality? You can’t be serious. You just can’t be. This is an only a desparate attempt to get the last word in a discussion where your claims clearly have no basis.
Anyway, I see your true colors coming out slowly — you don’t wish to engage anyone in discussion. You simply want to talk at people and throw whatever clout you think you have around. I’m embarassed I thought for even a few minutes you were genuine. Hathor seems to be right on in her assessment of you.
N: …Are you reading how foolish you sound? So a person needs to be nearly shot by the police in order to understand that racial profiling is a reality? You can’t be serious. You just can’t be. This is an only a desparate attempt to get the last word in a discussion where your claims clearly have no basis.
O: Wait, I thought we agreed that our discussion is over – so I must ask, are YOU serious? And yes, I find that often, personal experience trumps theoretical claptrap. And no, I don’t need to get the last word on you, of all people, LOL.
N: Anyway, I see your true colors coming out slowly — you don’t wish to engage anyone in discussion. You simply want to talk at people and throw whatever clout you think you have around. I’m embarassed I thought for even a few minutes you were genuine. Hathor seems to be right on in her assessment of you.
O: Wait, this coming from someone who refuses to even read the TWO, count em, TWO, articles I linked to in this thread? But you can “see” my “true colors”, right?
Oookaay…
on Wed Jul 14th 2010 at 22:45:44 boomer babe
This is crazy!!! the only reason those silly guys wrote that book is that they believe in DARWINISM period. What, I believe was a REAL bell curve, is ‘top forty music’ in my opinion. It seemed that Rock n Roll started in the late forties and died in the late 80s. The APEX’ was Woodstock in 1969 (those were the days) kids today even like Hendrix, etc. If you listen to modern music, it sounds kinda like the 80s in many ways, it never left the 80s, only technically ‘digital sound’. I wish they start teaching evolution as a ‘theory’ instead of fact. Another thing: most black people that believe in Education, make it very stressful and hard. Ive seen black women overstressed because the guy isnt with her, and the ‘homies, and when the guys are older, put it down, not knowing that they could have the brains to be engineers, etc. instead of being stoopid.
Thaddeus,
Families are not “genetically congruent”. This is a ridiculous assertion on your part. No humans, outside of identical twins, are genetically congruent. Families do share certain genetic markers. In this sense, we are all part of the human family. We are characterized as humans because we have morphological, genotypic, phenotypic and genetic similarities that distinguish us from other animals, like our next closest animal relative, the Chimpanzee. Again, we are back to the question of relativism. All humans are related. Some humans are more related to each other than they are to other groups of humans. Members of a given nuclear family are more related to each other than they are to non-nuclear extended family members. The nuclear family members in question are still more related to their first rank extended family members (nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles, 1st cousins) than 2nd rank members (grand nieces, grand nephews, great aunts, great uncles, 2nd cousins). The degree of relatedness keeps expanding in concentric circles, becoming weaker as the outer circle enlarges. Thus we can have groups like the Ibo, who share certain genetic markers through their lineages, being genetically distinct from Icelanders, who are the most inbred group on the planet.
If you wish to categorize people in terms of groups instead of using the dreaded racial classification, that’s fine. As I explained to Natasha W, it really doesn’t matter what you call the extended family in question, it will still mean the same thing. We will still be left with the problem associated with group/population differences. Instead of making statements like “Blacks differ from whites on X standard of measure” we can say things like “People of West African descent differ from people of Northern European descent on X standard of measure”. The differences are what people will focus on, not the nomenclature.
I should mention that I’m pretty damned up-to-date on this topic and that you and OF seem to share the same basic problem.
No, you really aren’t current regarding racial classification. To begin with, racial classification has always been an evolving process. There has never been a clear working definition of race, although we have come a long way from late 19th century strictures which you insist on clinging to. This wikipedia entry,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_definitions_of_race#Genetics_and_Medicine, sums things up nicely:
Definitions of race have varied across cultures and over time, and have been controversial for social, political and scientific reasons. Until the 19th century, race was thought by many to constitute an immutable and distinct type or species which shared particular racial characteristics, such as body constitution, temperament and mental capacities.
You keep arguing against 19th century notions of race. Your argument is out of date. Not even your favorite whipping boy, Philipe J. Rushton argues this. Sailer’s definition of race, i.e. a race is a extremely extended family that inbreeds to some extent, seems to square with what we currently know about race.
subtly rework the definition of race so that the word now stands for any observable patterning in human biology at any level.
The definition was not subtly reworked. It was openly changed. The definition changed with advances in genetics and forensics. We now know much more about gene flow and heritability than we did in the 19th century.
No other field of science says “Hey, we have radical new findings which overturn all our previous considerations regarding a phenomenon, but let’s continue using the old and inadequate terminology anyhow because it makes people feel better.”
You are obviously not familiar with many other fields of scientific endeavor. The once common belief that the world was flat was tossed on the trash heap of scientific history. The Ptolemaic view of a geocentric universe was tossed in favor of the Copernican heliocentric view of our solar system. Blood-letting has faded in popularity due to the advance of science as has the notion that swamp gas causes malaria. Science marches on, sometimes dramatically so. Please update your arguments.
If you’ll look at the history of my and RR’s argument about this book on this site, you’ll clearly see that RR started out arguing – several times in fact – that TBC “proved” blacks were biologically inferior.
This is a complete and outright lie. I defy to to cite even one reference where I stated that “The Bell Curve” proved that black were biologically inferior! You are a liar and a hypocrite.
Why do you think The Bell Curve couldn’t get past a peer review?
The book was never submitted for peer review. It was a book written for laymen, which you would know IF YOU HAD READ THE BOOK. Gould’s “Mismeasure of Man” wasn’t subject to peer review either.
William Shockley did not come up with the Gaussian curve nor did he originate the notions relating to intelligence that were in evidence during his time.
J wrote:
I think our outsized level of crime is due significantly to culture. Remember, we didn’t always have a 70% illegitimacy rate. There is undoubtedly a significant genetic component that predisposes us to impulsive behavior. At this point, I would say we face more cultural headwinds in reducing our crime rate. I would offer a similar explanation regarding intelligence. It is a mixture of both nature and nurture. We may not be able to narrow the IQ gap significantly in our lifetimes. I do know that we can do better academically and financially, regardless of our average level of intelligence. The first and easiest step is to encourage our legislators to pass an indefinite immigration moratorium.
It is debatable as to whether the 1996 Welfare Reform Act resulted in an overall decrease in the number of illegitimate births and by extension, births to low IQ women. On the whole, welfare reform was not catastrophic for poor women and it did save money. It is hard to say whether the Murray/Herrnstein solution, i.e. the cutting off of ALL benefits to unwed mothers, would have made more of a difference in lowering the illegitimacy rate.
As you point out in your thread, the birth dearth problem among smart white women has been discussed at considerable lengths among HBDers and “others”. I have to admit to being sympathetic to the problem, although for entirely selfish reasons. I believe the following:
1) WASPs, especially smart WASPs, must constitute a significant majority of the population in order to maintain our current standard of living here in the US. The relationship between Negro Americans and WASPs, while often tumultuous, will still be significantly better than those relationships we establish with non-WASPs, which is another reason why unrestricted immigration is a REALLY BAD IDEA.
2) Any nascent eugenics program adopted by WASPs will have spillover effects on blacks, hopefully resulting in smart black women having more children with smart black men. Of course, the old regression to the mean problem would no doubt be in effect, but I think we would be better off in this case wrt average IQ than we are currently.
Sailer has addressed the birth dearth problem in an essay entitled “Affordable Family Formation” —The Neglected Key To GOP’s Future. Places where really smart white people live are incredibly expensive, causing whites to either move to more family friendly places or causing them to limit the size of their families. I’ve have not encountered an HBDer who was in favor of furthering eugenic principles by manipulating federal and state law. They seem too busy fighting against dysgenic effects already embedded in law.
What I find disturbing regarding intelligence is that, at the extreme left and right had side of the curve, politics skew leftward. Moderately intelligent to mentally average people don’t seem to skew left or right, but very intelligent people have a tendency to engage vigorously in leftist politics. combine this with the tendency of the cognitive elite to isolate themselves from the rest of humanity and we have a very frightening. It is my fear that cognitive elitists will convince the lesser lights among them that race really is wholly a social construction and will be inclined to view average/low IQ as a character flaw.
race and a group or population are not the same and you can not equate them.
I guess it depends on what one means by group. From my perspective, it is all relative. There exist ethnic groups that do not constitute a race, but nonetheless share genetic markers and cultural interests. The distinctiveness of a group on phenotypical, morphological and genetical basis would determine whether a population/group constitutes a race. And note, the terms population, group and race are not mutually exclusive. Again, it’s all relative.
Psychology: Concepts and Applications By Jeffrey S. Nevid
Intelligence p. 264
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=LsVK0kSpzx8C&pg=PA273&lpg=PA273&dq=psychology+intelligence+nature+nurture+debate&source=bl&ots=SlmltPHXsF&sig=vP6j2Oa2-OKFFIo7uhvVzvbx4K0&hl=en&ei=10U-TJijMYn-0gTYt422Aw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CCcQ6AEwBDgo#v=onepage&q=psychology%20intelligence%20nature%20nurture%20debate&f=false
The biggest problem with the smart White folks, such as they are, isn’t the problem of finding affordable places to live, but rather, how to convince smart White females in their peak fertility years, to mate with Jeremy the Dork from the college campus engineering department. American Women love the idea of being able to choose their own mates, and simply put, they don’t find Jeremy hot. They tend to choose guys from the Humanities and Business/Law schools more interesting.
So, I have proposed a program that will ensure that there will be the kinds of smart White folk in America for decades to come. Here it is:
“The USA gov’t, at the same time it crackdown on NAMs, also offers the following to any Bright White Female who applies to an Ivy League or otherwise topflight Big State School:
Take the gov’t sanctioned and mandated IQ Test; if said BWF scores 120 or higher, she is automatically granted to the Ivy League or Big State School of her choice, all expenses paid, from undergrad all the way through PhD-with the provision that she will agree to mate with the Male students the school will have selected and birth no less than three babies, *before the age of 30*, to ensure the babies’ good health and genetic heritage.
As noted above, the Baby Daddies will be selected for the BWFs, on the basis of, first and foremost, their IQ scores. So, Rachel, let’s say, will be introduced shortly after the first quarter of her semester at university-Jeremy, from the Astrophysics Dept. They’ll meet at one of the state-sponsored, on-campus socials, designed for the specific purpose of bringing couples together. Jeremy will have already been screened to ensure that he comes from a similar familial and social background like Rachel, and the Guidance/Admissions Officers will run the point in doing this kind of on-campus matchmaking. Rachel will be expected to take a liking to Jeremy, and to begin setting about the business of bringing on the next Bright White Generation. Come semester’s end, the Deans and Trustees fully expect to hear a happy report of Rachel and Jeremy expecting their *first* child.
Of course, the school will cover all medical, pre and postpartum expenses, plus daycare, which will be on-site. Relationship counselors will be available, and of course the happy couple will be mandated to check in with them for the duration they’re at school. And of course, we fully expect the happy couple to marry before they leave school as well.
If any of this sounds too far-fetched to be real, I have two words for you in response: Yao Ming. You all know him, right? One of the stars of the NBA, Ming is the product of a state-sponsored Eugenics program of the Chinese gov’t. His mother and father were the captains of their respective national basketball teams, and the Party Bosses made sure they got together in a very close way-shortly thereafter, not-so-little Yao was born.
And the rest, as they say, is history.”
Would love to get your response on this.
As for Black folk, I was just talking about this with some frieds, and was wondering if there are any dating services extant for the HBCUs, and what their success rate was for getting Black Men and Women who had matriculated together and married, etc, how long they remained married, etc. It’s something I’m very interested in studying and would appreciate anyone out there who may have information to share in this regard.
Neither did I say that. You were reading another blogger who ref what I said to the Gaussian Curve. I said I think he coined the term the “Bell Curve” I did not say that Schockley originated the idea, he popularized it in the media.
You would know what I said if you had not tried to read in ignorance in my comment.
Cheers RR,
The thing is when you ask one question it opeens a number of issues/questions:
Here is a few thing that hit me asI read your post.
1. With regard to ‘illegitimacy’, is there any reason you do not see it merely as a socioligical change in the structure of the family, ie like polygamy to monogamy across the world, rather than a ‘deviant’ behaviour?
2. With regards to gene/s and ‘impulsive behaviour’? Would you like to elaborate here??
3. If intelligence is both an admixture of nature/nuture, would you like to break it down to percentages, in your own opinion ie 80% nature, 20% nurture, or vice versa etc??
on Thu Jul 15th 2010 at 00:11:11 RR
Illegitimacy is definitely a sociological change in the family. Unlike the structural change many societies experienced when monogamy largely replaced polygamy, we are moving toward a less stable familial structure. With increasing illegitimacy, children are less well cared for and are more vulnerable to male predation, especially female children. It is a structure in which both males and females are allowed to be sexually careless, which makes things worse for everyone. If indeed we are more impulsive than other groups due to our higher level of standing testosterone or the increased number of testosterone receptors, increased levels of illegitimacy will continue to be a disaster for us. It is a disaster for whites also, as Murray and Herrnstein argue in the book, but is taking longer perhaps because whites are somewhat less impulsive than we are.
I will not hazard a guess as to the percentages attributed to genes and environment in shaping intelligence.
on Thu Jul 15th 2010 at 00:22:22 J
With regard to family and raising children.
There is an African proverb’ it takes the village to raise a child’.
As long as the ‘extended communities’ are present and functional it need not end up as ‘less stable’ asyou imply…or do you think I am barking up the wrong tree??
Bearing in mind that the whole issue of single-parents cannot be divorced from what occurs in society, and womens’ issues.
So in other words as the family structure changes there needs to be a (positive) corresponding shift to accomadate this. However, society cannot obviously be seen to supporting any change and herin lies the contradiction.
Hope this makes some sense??
Anyhow and more importantly what are your thoughts, and how does this impact on intelligence, if at all??
theosbidianfiles,
I have to take strong issue with your assertion that smart white women are unwilling to mate with dorky white guys. Aside from the fact that their are lots of dorky white women around who don’t attract the more masculine, but less nerdy types of guys, dorky white guys get a considerable amount of play from Asian women. Then there is the age consideration. Smart white women generally postpone marriage and child-bearing until their late twenties. By that time, they are looking for stable intelligent guys. So dorks, so long as they stay in the game until their late twenties or early thirties, win! Smart white guys get theirs. The problem as Sailer has described it comes down to being able to afford a family. If a white or white/Asian couple live in a major city, they will be loathe to send their children to the local public school, assuming they were able to come up with a down payment on an apartment in the city. They would have to come up with tuition money, which is not tax deductible.
To sum up, smart white women don’t have to be bribed into mating with smart white men. Competition from Asian women is enough to sober many white women up. They may need to be bribed into bearing children though. Children are expensive.
theosbidanfiles,
Dating services for HBCUs. Ha! With sex ratios so incredibly skewed in favor of men? Fat chance of that. Perhaps at same-sex schools like Spellman and Morehouse, that might work, but probably not. They are both in Atlanta (Black Man’s Wish). Enterprising young marriage minded black women would be well advised to stay away from HBCUs. For black men though, it’s party time…at least until graduation.
on Thu Jul 15th 2010 at 00:40:24 theobsidianfiles
No, with all due respect you are changing the goalposts. We know that fertility in females begins to decline after say age 26 or so; we also know that in order for the smart White folks’ demographic future to be assured, said Women will need to pump out at least two kids apiece, and the earlier the better. Moreover, Women like living in places like NYC and LA. For most guys, its a take it or leave it kind of thing. Men go where the Women are, and the truth of the matter is, that Women like living in these places, NOT heartland America. So, again, Sailer’s argument is kinda moot.
The argument is in how to get smart WHITE Women to have babies and have em early, with Jeremy from the Engineering Dept. To date I haven’t seen anyone on your side of things seriously addressing this issue, hence my plan to save the Smart White People.
Holla back.
A bettter idea would be to make more efficient use of black middle and upper middle-class groups like Jack & Jill. It would be interesting to know how many former Jack & Jill members marry. After lascivious rounds at HBCUs, male former Jack & Jillers might come to appreciate the sweet young things they met in Jack & Jill, assuming those sweet young things haven’t already married white guys.
Yes, the ratio insofar as available Black Women to Men wrt college life is quite skewed, but still, middle class Black folks manage to marry, which tells me that it is not entirely impossible. Again, I don’t know for certain whether the HBCUs have dating services for its students and alumni, but it is an interesting thing to contemplate.
On a sidenote, and I don’t know if Abagond has addressed this or not, but the idea of assortative mating isn’t a helpful strategy for Black Women in my view. What do you think about this?
With all due respect, you couldn’t be more wrong. At age 26, a smart white woman has already figured out that the sexual odds are turning against her. If she is really smart, and hasn’t completely bought into a lot of feminist mumbo-jumbo, she is thinking strategically. She is thinking “Must find husband…stable…dependable…husband…for…procreation”. Smart 26-30 yo white women outnumber smart 26-30 yo white men. Dorky white men in this age group, assuming they are employed, have the whip hand. Especially in places like NYC or LA. Women like living in places like NYC UNTIL they get married. Then they think “Must have baby…must move to area with good school system and nice parks”. Sailer’s argument is anything but moot.
Of course middle-class black people marry. It is just an inherently dicer proposition, for blacks, mainly because of all the loose booty around….especially in Atlanta!
Assortive mating is a useful strategy for women regardless of race. A non-hypergamous marriage is less stable than a traditional hypergamous marriage. It is tougher for black women because they have to sober up and start thinking strategically at a much earlier age than white women do.
on Thu Jul 15th 2010 at 02:26:13 Thaddeus
I don’t know, but then again I never made any such claim; what I said was that the book sold extremely well given the nature of the topic and its presentation. Do you deny this, and if so, on what basis?
EXTREMELY well? As well as, say, any fiction best seller? First of all, the book sold only relatively well – relatively well for a supposed science text. Secondly, a lot was made out of the book by the mass media. Many people who bought it – including myself – did it out of curiosity. Its sales do not necessarily represent mass acceptance of its theories.
Gould is now dead and in his wake there has sprouted an entire sector of the Internet that is devoted to the very concerns he sought to fight against. That does not sound like much of a victory to me.
So let me get this straight: you believe some sort of ultimate victory is EVER going to be won on this issue? That’s not how this sort of thing goes, OF, as Gould himself recognized. Biodeterminism is too powerful a political tool for it to be abandoned. All that can be done is to debunk it. Now, I’m certainly no Gould, but today there are hundreds – perhaps thousands – of people like me in the sciences. When “The Mismeasure of Man” first came out, that wasn’t the case. We exist because Gould di what he did and I intend to carry on that legacy, in my own small way.
Knowing the history of biodeterminism, I’m not naive enough to believe it will ever be completely buried. Not when even so-called black ‘afrocentric” scholars like our pal J are only too willing to bring the beast back from the grave because they fool themselves into thinking that they can ride it.
I would be very interested in hearing to what extent you were invovled in said public policy issues that directly involved HBD. Please share?
Did I say HBD? I said policy issues that revolve around questions of biodeterminism. First of all, I live in Brazil. The policy issues I deal with are specific to this nation. I know that’s hard for Americans to imagine, but we aren’t an illusion done with smoke and mirrors by the Disney corporation.
@RR
Families are not “genetically congruent”. This is a ridiculous assertion on your part. No humans, outside of identical twins, are genetically congruent.
“Congruent” does not mean “identical”. Look it up.
Those bad genes are obviously screwing with your logical processes, RR. 😀
Quick, where are the hottest, smartest White Women living? In St. Louis or Canton, or in NYC or LA? I think we both know the answer.
I’m sure you’ve read what I wrote about Yao Ming. What I am proposing can be done, and since White Women tend to have more delicate fertility than do Black Women on average, they really can’t afford to wait until their latter 20s-early 30s. They need to be having babies below the 25 year old threshold, probably closer to their early 20s. Again, my proposal to save the Smart White Males definitely addresses all this, in very practical terms.
As for Black folks of college educated rank, again, I would be very interested in seeing as to whether any such dating services insofar as the HBCUs is concerned, is something I would very much like to know more about. After all, the college campus is the de factor mating ground for many young people. That’s simply a fact of life.
on Thu Jul 15th 2010 at 11:22:56 Femi
First of all, I’m far from being an expert in genetics but the way I think it can be understood is by using a metaphor with simple maths.
Assuming a sequence of natural numbers 1,2,3,4,5…, etc. We all know that there are odd and even numbers. Then there are primes, ie. divisible only by one or by themselves; 2,3,5,7,11 etc… Furthermore we could define as sub-groups all numbers that begin with 1 (1,10,100), 2 (2,20,200) etc. (Just as an example.)
Now you could arbitrarily determine that these groups of numbers are distinct “races”, simply ignoring and discarding the inherent characteristics of each individual member. In other words, just leave it as that since virtually everybody is able to understand it. Then build questionable theories – or even dogmata – around it to counteract any further thinking or questioning.
HOWEVER, this can’t be any further from reality.
Bringing the math example a bit closer to reality, take the number 12. It is divisible by 2,3,4 and 6. Then take number 14. It is higher than 12 but divisible only by 2 and 7. (It is assumed that every natural number is also divisible by 1 and by itself.) Both are even numbers but their inherent characteristics are quite different.
Then look at number 28. It is divisible by 2,4,7 and 14. If we were to make a more significant grouping than in the beginning we would conclude that 28 shares characteristics of both 12 and 14 but much less so of number 10 for instance although it’s also an even number.
Now take the numbers 9 and 12. Both are divisible by 3 although 9 is odd and 12 is even. Or 14 and 21. Both are divisible by 7, but 21 is odd, 14 even. 21 can also be divided by 3 which would fit into the group with number 12.
Looking at the primes, number 5 is a prime but it can be used as a divisor for 10,15,25 and 150 for instance so it also fits into any of those groups.
Once again, it’s a very simple metaphor but I reckon it’s a quite strong one since the genetic code is many million times more complex than this. The inherent criteria you can take to group humans together are therefore arbitrary.
Picking up my own example I made in an earlier thread, nothing prevents me from arbitrarily determining that all humans around the world who have hazel eyes, black hair, a predisposition to heart disease and who are precisely 6 foot tall are a “race”. It depends very much on how you WANT to look at things, thus limit your research according to your own bias before you even started bringing concrete data to the table.
^Femi, spot on.
“Wait, I thought we agreed that our discussion is over – so I must ask, are YOU serious? And yes, I find that often, personal experience trumps theoretical claptrap. And no, I don’t need to get the last word on you, of all people, LOL.”
Then why are you replying, yet again? Because you want to have the last word. Clearly. Yes, the dicussion was over but I just wanted you to understand how brainless that last attempt of yours was. You’re a joke.
I am afraid it is White people, who fist based their superiority on colour of skin. Then moved it to other variables like culture, religion, intelligence etc, are the ones who created this bio-determinism of ‘race’ and correlated behaviours associated with it.
This talk of ‘Whites’ being more ‘intellegent’ is just a continuation of the same, racism and White Supremacist thought, with Whites being superior over ‘everyone’ for teh past 500 years.
This is the appropriate context to place the debate about intelligence. Long before the issue of ‘biodeterminism’ arose Whites were already ‘superior’
However, since this represents part of your glorious culture and history as per your question – How do Whites separate themselves from their Whiteness??
It is impossible for you to call what it is.
O: Well, last time I heard, I had just as much a right to express my view as anyone else here, and for real, the ONLY person who really matters, is Mr. Abagond. Thus far, he hasn’t expressed a desire for me to cease and desist.
So, I suppose if you really want me to shut up, you can be so good as to lead by example.
obsidian, keep commenting. The more you comment, the more you prove my point.
It takes one to know one, hmm?
Where are the smartest, hottest MARRIED white women with children living? I’ll give you a hint: it ain’t NYC or LA. And who are the smartest, hottest white women married to? Smart white guys (and note, as women age, they are more inclined to equate smartness with hotness in men). I don’t think this is debatable. Again, I don’t think smart white women have to be bribed (especially in the manner you described) to have children. A state sponsored eugenics program is not needed in the US. The expense associated with bearing children needs to be lowered. Racial and ethnic diversity increases the cost associated with raising white children. That is why smart white women leave places like NYC and DC when they want to have children. And children have a tendency to make smart white women more conservative. This is the point of Sailer’s essay.
Femi,
Your analogy has nothing to do with genetics. You are making a case against our current system of Linnaean taxonomy. You seem to be saying that any system of categorization is arbitrary. You wrote:
nothing prevents me from arbitrarily determining that all humans around the world who have hazel eyes, black hair, a predisposition to heart disease and who are precisely 6 foot tall are a “race”.
By your line of reasoning, you could also declare all flowers with red stigma, yellow petals, that grow to precisely 6 inches and have green stems a new species of flower. But how useful would your to classifications be? Does this second analogy invalidate our current zoological classification of flora? I don’t think so because none of the previous analogies takes into account the phylogeny of organisms, i.e. descent by evolution. We don’t know how the given race/specie relate to other races/species. This is a major hole in your argument. Jared Diamond had made an argument similar to yours and his argument suffers from the same problem as yours.
I think that nuclear families generally provide more stable environments for children than extended communities here in the West, even when the extended communities are functional. As I understand it, “fostering” in Africa is widespread and seems to work for Africans. Here in the West, maximum parental investment in children seems to work best, with fostering seen as the less preferred option.
Whether society decides to support extended communities depends on whether we as a society view extended communities as viable as compared to nuclear families. Just because lots of people engage in a particular form of behavior doesn’t mean it is in society’s best interest to support that behavior. I am of the opinion that American society should not support extended communities over nuclear families. I think extended communities leave children more vulnerable to abuse.
I don’t know whether familial structure in itself impacts intelligence, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it did. Since nuclear families provide more stable environments for children, on average, than extended communities do, it seems logical that children reared in nuclear environments would be more likely to maximize their intellectual potentials than children in extended environments. I do not have any data to support this view, but it sounds right to me.
Glad to see ya! Let’s examine something for a moment, shall we?
Now, in the news are two young ladies who are either getting married, or who have announced plans to get married:
Bristol Palin
Chelsea Clinton.
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to determine which young lady here is more likely to have kids, RR. Already, Palin has announced plans to have more kids; Clinton, to date, has none.
Keep in mind the crucial, crucial age factor as well – Palin isn’t even 20 yet – she’s at her reproductive peak – while Clinton is into her third decade of life – for White Women, on a clear reproductive decline.
Yes, Clinton will most likely marry well, but given her own mom’s track record, it is unlikely that she’ll have many kids.
Palin, on the other hand, is very likely to follow in her mama’s footsteps, and pump out at least a few more before it’s said and done.
Palin lives in Alaska. Clinton lives in NYC. Assuming the former remains in AK, and Clinton moves to say, Chappaqua (did I spell that right?), who is more likely to have a higher standard of living insofar as raising a family is concerned?
My money’s on Clinton over Palin.
Simply put RR, and this is something I notice A LOT of HBDer type White guys simply refuse to deal with directly, is the simple fact that Smart White Women have options, and they exercise them – which means, living on the coastal cities, attending elite or near elite schools, then grad school, then wanting to experience independent living and career advancement, and of course, wanting to sexually explore their options with really hot guys, and THEN, after all that’s done, settle for Jeremy the Engineering Nerd and have, maybe, one kid at the fag end of her reproductive power and ability.
Guys like you haven’t figured out how to convince Women like Chelsea Clinton to make like Bristol Palin.
And it’s for this reason that Smart White Folk are likely to die out.
If you know anything about Game and the mating dance, it is always about what the Female wants. For Smart White Gals, they simply have better things to do with their time, lives and bodies, than to have three or four kids before the age of 25.
So long as that is the case, guys like you are demographically screwed – because even if you can get cheap housing and good schools, and you can indeed get both in flyover country America, the Smart White Gals DON’T WANT TO LIVE THERE. By and large, they want to live in or near the big coastal cities. Trust me when I tell you, Chelsea Clinton ain’t moving to Fargo, Jackson Hole, Des Moines or Austin – she’ll more than likely either remain in NYC with her new hubbie and one kid, or she’ll move out to the immediate suburbs of NYC. The only kinds of White Women who are cool with living in land-locked places like much of flyoever country, or in places like Alaska, are White Women like Bristol Palin. And by all accounts, she ain’t nowhere near as sharp as Chelsea Clinton.
So again, with all due respect, Sailer’s article is a red herring. The issue is convincing Smart White Women who matter, and who have options, to have babies when at the peak of their reproductive fitness and ability/potential, and to do it with those guys who have the most amount of raw brainpower – the Jeremys of the STEM Departments.
My plan practically addresses this, and again, we have realworld preceedent for it in the form of Yao Ming.
It can be done.
What’s your plan?
Good analogy with math, Femi. Bertrand Russell would be proud. 😀
All decent biologists have known for quite some time that what “races” you get are a function of what and how many characteristics you pick as your defining criteria – exactly analogous to your “family of numbers” metaphor.
It is very easy to divide humanity up into races by only looking at ONE characteristic – say blood type or skin color. This is what most rational biological determinists do.
It is somewhat more difficult to do this by looking at two or three characteristics, but it can be done if one limits one’s sample population. This is what those folks who created that “black” high blood pressure medicine did: they defined black according to african ancestry within a relatively small population base: the American south and people who’ve been out of the American south for a generation or two.
But as you add characteristics, the racial definition problem increases exponentially. There are, of course, literally millions of genetically descended human traits and if we were serious about the whole “race” thing, we’d need to find some sort of congruence among ALL of these and not just a handful of traits (note to RR: “congruence” does not mean “equality”).
We don’t find that at all.
Because of this, the number and types of races among human beings ARE A DIRECT FUNCTION of what and how many physical traits one chooses to measure. This is the same thing as saying that it is US – and not mother nature – who creates races.
Races do indeed exist, then, but they are human constructs and the number and types of traits we choose to perceive as being significant for race are determined by our society’s history and our socialization.
You are confusing species and sub-species, ie. “race”.
Humans are a species. I never said my arbitrary criteria constitutes a new species.
The efforts of some to further classify humans into sub-species according to any criteria that would make biological sense have been, and predictably will be, failing.
I am afraid it is White people, who fist based their superiority on colour of skin.
Oh, I agree. And white people were also the first humans to build concentration camps, J. That doesn’t mean that concentration camps are inevitable or that it’s a great and mighty thing if and when people of color build them.
Racism is bad science and worse politics. Period. It does not all of a sudden become joyful and glorious and good science when black people indulge in it. You’re as big a fool as any Stormfront operative when you blather on about how “mongoloids” or “icemen” are a “natural race”, J.
First of all, by realizing that “white” is a political construct which has had only one use in human history: that of denigrating other peoples. Secondly, by realizing that even thought it’s probably an impossibility under current historical and social conditions for one to claim that one is “raceless” (without falling into the popular myth that we thus don’t have to think about race), one CAN INDEED recover the history of a certain flexibilty and of counterhegemonic means of being white or black or what have you. Blood is not politics. Being cast by others or oneself as a certain race does not mean that one must inevitably hold certain positions. One does indeed have agency in this world and one’s position within this world and ones views about it are not inscribed by fate or racial “essence” from the moment of one’s birth.
Recovering diversity and destroying the racist and facist myth that “races” or “nations” are the inevitable and only forms of human politcal life is the very best way whites can seperate themselves from whiteness.
In other words, you have no control over what others call you (“white”), but you DO have control over whether or not you believe that said label implies that you needs must take certain political or cultural positions in life (“whiteness”).
This is why I disagree with Jensen. He wants to simultaneously inscribe whites in some sort of socio-political determinism while at the same time chide them to give up “whiteness”. Our cute little self-flagelating Macon does much the same thing. Both Jensen and Macon believe in “whiteness”. They don’t like it, but they believe that it is inevitable and that it dominates their political being.
RR blathers…
Your analogy has nothing to do with genetics. You are making a case against our current system of Linnaean taxonomy. You seem to be saying that any system of categorization is arbitrary.
Yes, the current Linnaean system of classification is not
a natural given. No biologist believes that. It is indeed a socio-historical construct. However, Femi doesn’t argue that we can rationally say whatever the hell we want – i.e. blue is in fact yellow. Femis is in fact arguing that even within the Linnean system, using its own criteria with regards to what is a species and a sub-species, human races don’t exist.
One could indeed line up all the characteristics of humanity and compare it to other species and it would show certain congruencies. This does not occur when we line up human characteristics. There is no set of, say, a 12 characteristics which only one sub-group of humans have and no others have. There are indeed line ups of characteristics which set humans aside as, say, mammals or primates. Characteristics which we share with all other members of the same grouping.
A typical example of RR’s thought processes
Begin an argument with a hypothesis. Like so:
I think that nuclear families generally provide more stable environments for children than extended communities here in the West, even when the extended communities are functional.
Fill in with three or four paragraphs of blather which in no way proves your hypothesis and contians little or no substantive data. Extra points if you cite a scientific paper or source which actually contradicts your hypothesis, claiming that it in fact supports it.
Conclude by restating your hypothesis, now in axiomatic form. Rely on the fact that most people in the west have no notion how rational scientific arguments should be constructed and will thus find your rhetoric quite impressive. Use the new axiom to bootstrap up another dubious hyptohesis. As so:
Since nuclear families provide more stable environments for children, on average, than extended communities do,, it seems logical that children reared in nuclear environments would be more likely to maximize their intellectual potentials than children in extended environments.
Repeat process until one has constructed the desired ideological structure, which one will now declare fully rational and scientific.
It’s worth pointing out that this sort of argumentation was raised to the form of a high art by Nazi propagandists.
I just lost all what I typed and not in the mood to type it all again.
Briefly I do agree with you about extended families in the West.
When I referred to ‘extended communities’, I was suggesting that uncles, aunts, cousins, very close friends etc have an input if not raising, then at least have an impact in the socialising process, rather than a single female parent isolated on her own. Personally I do not see it as leadingto child abuse.
This is what I was trying to get at. Personally I think we get too hung up on the institution of marriage, either it is created by God, or it has been ordained by society, but either way it should not change and if it does, then it is a ‘bad’ thing, and the causes of that change are deviant.
Ok. Substitute sub-species for species and my argument still holds. Whether you choose to call your designated grouping a sub-species or race is irrelevant. The salient point is that current Linnaean taxonomy is not arbitrary. It takes into account how species and sub-speices are related. It doesn’t matter what type of animal or plant is under discussion. Your example is incoherent because your are working under the assumption that evolution doesn’t matter. While our current system of racial classification is fuzzy and inexact around the edges doesn’t mean that the system of racial categorization itself is invalid or arbitrary.
Oh really? If racial taxonomy is failing, how is it that forensic scientists can identify the racial composition of a corpse with a high degree of probability? How is it that they are able to identify the racial composition of an alleged rapist from a semen sample?
a natural given.
You are not addressing my point. My point is that Linnaean taxonomy is not arbitrary. Whether or not taxonomy is a “natural given” is beside the point. Femi is, in fact, arguing that blue is yellow. There is nothing in any of the examples he has given to indicate that our current system of taxonomy is coherent. He is arguing that taxonomy is incoherent.
Femis is in fact arguing that even within the Linnean system, using its own criteria with regards to what is a species and a sub-species, human races don’t exist.
Substitute race for sub-species and the Linnean system works for humans. You and Femi seem to be under the impression that taxonomy is good enough for all fauna except humans. I am going to put to you the same question that I put to Femi, although I have presented this question to you many times in in various forms in the past and you have NEVER answered it:
If racial taxonomy is completely arbitrary, how is it that forensic scientists can identify the racial composition of a corpse with a high degree of probability? How is it that they are able to identify the racial composition of an alleged rapist from a semen sample?
If your mixed race daughter needed a bone marrow transplant and the doctor treating her excluded from consideration all of those potential donors not of mixed race (Caucasian/Negro/Indian presumably) heritage, would you object? Would you sue the people at the bone marrow registry? As you know (or perhaps don’t know) race plays a BIG part in bone marrow transplants. Why do you think that is? Please read this:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/05/27/health/main5044251.shtml
Here is a choice snip:
The reason that mixed-heritage patients are so hard to match can be found in the immune system.
Populations in different parts of the world developed certain proteins, or markers, that are part of the body’s natural defenses. These markers help the immune system determine which cells are foreign and should be rejected.
A match between two people who share many markers will reduce the risk of the donor and recipient cells attacking each other. Because certain markers tend to cluster in particular ethnic groups, matches are most often found among people of shared backgrounds. Multiracial patients often have uncommon profiles and a much harder time finding a donor.
About 6,000 patients in the U.S. are awaiting a bone marrow match.
Finding compatible organs for transplant is simpler. Organ matches rely essentially on blood type, which is not related to race.
I guess those people working at bone marrow registries who insist that potential donors identify their race are Nazis. Here is another article:
Are the people at Time Nazis too? Please address this issue.
You’re as big a fool as any Stormfront operative when you blather on about how “mongoloids” or “icemen” are a “natural race”, J.
Whenever you type something I know you like to put in insults.
Just to say you are even a bigger fool if you believe that Stormfront operatives are going to believe in theories that tie globally White people with racism (White Supremacy), and that this is the only doctrine manifested on the earth on a global level, to the detriment of the ‘majority’.
Even here on this blog you have had problems understanding the nuance of racism, by the words you have typed on this screen.
So your reasoning in the aforesaid does not make much sense. It does if you are trying to get a cheap shot in – as perusual.
2. As for Jensen and the issue of Whiteness?? Here is an instance where your understanding of ‘race’ cterm, lets you down.
What he is suggesting in my opinion is this.
Much of White culture is based on racism etc. There are some aspects of it which are not. To give up Whiteness is to forsake the racist aspect culture but to value the non-racist aspect.
Whiteness within the last 500 years has meant the denigration of the ‘other’.
So in valuing the non-racist aspect of White culture will not necessarily lead to a ‘de-valuing’ of ‘White’. It would bring White people in line vis-a-vis POC.
And I would also say Jensen analogy can equally apply to you as an individual on this blog also.
Hope this is clear(, since I am not very keen to go over it again).
There is no substituting here just so it fits your ideology. There are very clear scientific definitions for subspecies and species. Look it up. It’s free.
It’s like saying 2+3=6. Just substitute 3 with 4 and the statement is true.
I am aware that there is a difference between species and sub-species. Sub-species and race mean the same though. Subtitute sub-species for species in my earlier post and my argument stands. Instead of
“We don’t know how the given race/specie relate to other races/species.”
“We don’t know how the given race/sub-specie relates to other races/sub-species.
into my previous post.
Please address the forensic issue that I raised:
If racial taxonomy is failing, how is it that forensic scientists can identify the racial composition of a corpse with a high degree of probability? How is it that they are able to identify the racial composition of an alleged rapist from a semen sample?
As for the “forensic probability”. First of all you are making the deterministic assumption that “race” in humans does exist biologically speaking. Secondly, if there is now a high probability to detect someone’s skin colour and perhaps even hair structure, it is because there were studies being made that focused on those traits. The results of those studies can then be used for “racial” profiling. That is because there was targeted effort being made in that direction.
If there were focused genetic studies on bone structure, hair colour and diabetes for instance you could also narrow down the number of suspects by those criteria.
What is the difference and how does that define “race”, strictly biologically speaking?
Anyway what’s the benefit for the police if the result shows that it was a light skinned male, as opposed to for instance an athletic male, with brown hair and diabetes?
Just an encore to that forensic stuff.
If someone analysed my DNA and incidentally came across some of my African “genetic pointers” just because that’s all they were looking for, they’ll be bloody surprised when they actually see me.
*I look like a mediterranean or middle eastern.*
I am not disputing the problem of the birth dearth among smart whites. Lower IQ whites have more children than higher IQ whites (Of course, this problem is even more pronounced among blacks). What I am disputing is your contention that high IQ white women marry and have children with people other than IQ white men. Again, a state sponsored eugenics program is not what’s needed to get smart whites to reproduce here in the US. What is needed is the elimination of the disincentives that discourage smart whites from reproducing. From my perspective, the disincentives are as follows:
1) Unrestricted immigration – This not inflates home prices (well, it did inflate home prices) but it also increases the labor pool, which lowers wages across the board. People with depressed wages have fewer children than they would have if their wages were not depressed. H1B visa holders depress engineering wages.
2) Affirmative Action – What’s the point of having smart white children if the kids can’t get into Harvard or Yale due to Affirmative Action (especially for immigrants). Please read the following:
http://www.mindingthecampus.com/originals/2010/07/how_diversity_punishes_asians.html
3) Mortgage deduction – This inflates home prices, causing many young couple to postpone child-bearing.
4) Crime – This also inflates home prices by encouraging white families to move away from NAM neighborhoods and into mostly white, outrageously overpriced, mostly white enclaves with good schools.
Simply put RR, and this is something I notice A LOT of HBDer type White guys simply refuse to deal with directly.
So long as that is the case, guys like you are demographically screwed
Oh, I get it. You think this discussion is some sort of racial pissing match. Guys like me? I don’t think so. I am black and married with children. I think I’m set. And if disaster strikes, there is always Atlanta 🙂 . I usually refrain from divulging my race unless I feel my race is germane to the argument. But since you jumped in my face……
You are not addressing my point. My point is that Linnaean taxonomy is not arbitrary.
Since when is saying that something is a product of a given socio-historical matrix is saying that it’s arbitrary, RR?
Femi is, in fact, arguing that blue is yellow.
No, he is not. Femi is not arguing that odd numbers are in fact even numbers. What he’s arguing is that the “sets” we make of these numbers are created by us according to our needs at the time and he’s clearly situating this within a chaotic organization of sets. If Femi was arguing that all biology was in fact like this, he’d be wrong. But what he’s arguing is that human biology is, in fact, a chaotic system of sets – quite like math, as Bertrand Russel pointed out a long time ago.
You are the one who’s trying to apply this to biology at large, but Femi never did that: he restricted his argument to human biology.
Substitute race for sub-species and the Linnean system works for humans.
No, it doesn’t. What are six physical characteristics that all white people share but which are not shared as a set by any other human group? I can give you 6 characteristics that all mammals share which are not shared as a set by any other biological group.
QED, RR: the system works to classify or species, but it breaks down when it hits a chaotic set: i.e. our species’ biology. If you don’t think this is the case, it should be relatively easy for you to answer the question I pose above, shouldn’t it? 😀
If your mixed race daughter needed a bone marrow transplant and the doctor treating her excluded from consideration all of those potential donors not of mixed race (Caucasian/Negro/Indian presumably) heritage, would you object?
Yes. Do you know why? Because there is no way in brazil, absent DNA testing, for a doctor to “eyeball” a potential donor and decide whether or not they are “of mixed race”. Plenbty of people who look and classify themselves as “white” or “black” or “Indian” are, in fact, mixed race.
So what is this doctor going to use to exclude potential donors, RR? What is his “raceometer”, exactly? What methodology will he employ? 😀
Yeah, I’d sue his ass right off.
In both cases because forensic scientists know that they are working within a given population and a given socio-historical background. An American forensic scientist, however, would have a hard time making this definition in Brazil because his socio-cultural identifiers won’t match up with those of the population around him. He’ll find a guy has certain physical characteristics and he’ll say “Oh, this was an African-American male”. The man’s family, hwever, might think of him as mixed or even white. It may very well be that he has “white” on his birth certificate.
So unless your forensicist were to take all this into consideration – in other words, unless he were to realize that he’s working in an environment which uses a different set of taxonomies – his classifications aren’t going to be of much use to the police. He’ll be telling everyone “look for a black man” when the witnesses will be saying they saw light brown or even white men.
Again, QED. Forensics is a practical discipline and any forencist worth his degree knows that he’s working with a given set of classifications. In other words, a forensic scientist can tell you how someone probably looked: wether or not said looks are classified as black, brown, white, red, asian, or mixed, depends quite alot on the surrounding society. Becasue forensics is a practical science, however, this problem rarely comes up because forensicists practice in a given society and tend to share the same culturally inculcated definitions as the people around them.
Want a clear example of what I’m talking about, RR? We have people here in Brazil who you’d call “black” who only have 20% African ancestry.
RR: I am not disputing the problem of the birth dearth among smart whites. Lower IQ whites have more children than higher IQ whites (Of course, this problem is even more pronounced among blacks).
O: ? Seems to me the only ones having a problem are the aforementioned Whites, LOL.
RR: What I am disputing is your contention that high IQ white women marry and have children with people other than IQ white men.
O: According to stuff like the GSS, White Males with a documented IQ over a certain threshold tend to remain bachelors and childless.
RR: Again, a state sponsored eugenics program is not what’s needed to get smart whites to reproduce here in the US. What is needed is the elimination of the disincentives that discourage smart whites from reproducing. From my perspective, the disincentives are as follows:
O: Yes, it is, because you still need to convince Smart White Women with options to start having babies at their peak reproductive years, which would be late teens to mid 20s, at the latest. Think: Bristol Palin. And you still have not addressed this. Why am I not surprised?
O: High IQ Whites have very little to fear from Jose and Pedro. Try again.
O: There are at least as many GWBs getting over on legacy admits and thereby taking spots from otherwise worthy Whites as there AA admits. Try again.
O: Housing prices are quite low in flyover country – compare home prices in Boise to Boston. Try again.
O: What’s the NAM population in Fargo, Butte, Des Moines or Boise? I’ll wait.
Oh, I get it. You think this discussion is some sort of racial pissing match. Guys like me? I don’t think so. I am black and married with children. I think I’m set. And if disaster strikes, there is always Atlanta . I usually refrain from divulging my race unless I feel my race is germane to the argument. But since you jumped in my face……
RR: My bad, I thought you were in said cohort. But my poiint still stands – it’s about giving what the Female wants, which is how it always is in the mating dance. And simply put, Smart White Women don’t want to live in landlocked, boring places, pumping out kids starting around age 20 or so. They want to live in the coastal cities, attend the best schools, then the best grad schools, then do cool and interesting stuff, including having a rich, childfree sex life with sexy and interesting guys, and then, when their bio clock is tolling loudly in their ears, settle down and have like one kid. And then they’ll want to live in the bubrs surrounding the coastal cities.
Now, RR, am I right or wrong about this – and if the latter, what evidence can you provide to the contrary?
on Fri Jul 16th 2010 at 02:36:21 RR
I am not saying that children raised in extended communities are destined to be abused. What I am saying is that they are more likely to be abused in such situations than children raised in nuclear households.
The changing composition of family has negatively impacted black Americans. I don’t think I have to enumerate all of the negative statistics associated with illegitimacy here. One could argue that these extended familial structures that led to so many negative outcomes were non-functional, so that the data is skewed. I would agree with you to a certain extent, but I would argue that the malfunctions of the extended community structure is more inherent to the entity itself. It seems to me that parents are much more concerned about their children than other relatives would be. Certainly, there are parents who don’t care at all about their kids and extended family members who treat their non-nuclear charges as if they were their own, but it seems to me that parents have more invested in their children than non-parental relatives do.
Regarding the high IQ birth dearth, blacks have it much worse. The charts in the link below are from Richard Hoste who referenced a study by Gerhard Meisenberg. Now understand that Richard Hoste is not a nice man. I would lump him in with Jared Taylor. Nonetheless the charts are interesting:
http://www.alternativeright.com/main/blogs/hbd-human-biodiversity/yes-dysgenics-is-a-problem/
The charts show that black women with an IQ of 120-130 have about 0.5 children, while black men with IQs greater than 120 father about 1.5 children. White women with IQs greater than 130 have almost as many children as white women with an IQ of 100 (~ 1.9) The same holds true for white men. IQ correlates less negatively for whites wrt fertility than it does for blacks. Whites in the US have higher fertility rates than European whites.
Yes, it is, because you still need to convince Smart White Women with options to start having babies at their peak reproductive years, which would be late teens to mid 20s, at the latest. Think: Bristol Palin. And you still have not addressed this. Why am I not surprised?
As I stated previously, white women of average IQ have about as many children as white women of superior IQ. I would say that Bristol Palin is of at least average IQ. 1.9 children per woman is still below replacement rate, but I am dubious that your plan would increase that rate substantially.
High IQ Whites have very little to fear from Jose and Pedro. Try again.
But in terms of wage depression, they have a lot to fear from Zao and Rahul, at least in the engineering fields.
There are at least as many GWBs getting over on legacy admits and thereby taking spots from otherwise worthy Whites as there AA admits. Try again.
It never ceases to amaze me how little blacks know about the effects of Affirmative Action. The following links shows the quantitative boost blacks get just for being black as compared to legacies:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_preferences
And here is another article stating that the SAT gap between the scores of legacies compared to the average score of incoming freshman is significantly less that the gap between black scores and average freshman scores:
http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=17266
Here is a snip:
A recent Center For Equal Opportunity (CEO) study found that in 1999 at the University of Virginia (UV), the relative odds of a legacy applicant being admitted – controlling for test scores, rank in his or her high-school class, legacy status, and in- or out-of-state residency – was 4.3 times that of a non-legacy applicant. By comparison, the CEO reports that “the relative odds ratio of black-to-white applicants – controlling for test scores, high-school grades, legacy status, and residency – is 111 to 1. That is, a black applicant has over a hundred times better chance of admission [to UV] compared to an equally qualified white candidate.” “Of all nonacademic factors,” the researchers summarize, “race is by far the heaviest thumb on the scale.”
Housing prices are quite low in flyover country – compare home prices in Boise to Boston.
This is precisely my point. The high cost of houses in large cities has a tendency to suppress child-bearing among high IQ women who, as you point out, like to live on the coasts.
What’s the NAM population in Fargo, Butte, Des Moines or Boise? I’ll wait.
See my previous response.
I agree that smart white women are drawn to the coasts. Your plan does not seem likely to increase the birth rates among smart white women though, being that white women with average IQ have approximately the same number of children.
What I am saying is that they are more likely to be abused in such situations than children raised in nuclear households.
…And it’s another in a series of RR instifactoids, folks!
Remember: if you can’t blind them with your brilliance, baffle them with your bullsh!t. 😀
on Fri Jul 16th 2010 at 10:07:30 Ms. Dominican Republic
Forgive me for my long essay if my life story:
I remember taking an IQ test twice in my life. My dad who is Afro-Latino has 120ish IQ and my mom is Black American has an IQ that is in the 120s also.The first time I was in the 9th grade. I scored 132. I was 14 or 13 at the time. The second time I took the test, I was in my first year of university. I believe I was taking some boring psychology or human development course. The class was 60% Female/40% Male. 70% White, 30% Non-White(Black, Latino,Asian).
When we all got our scores, the professor told us to share them. So we all went around the room telling our IQ number. Most of the class scored in the 100-120 range. A couple of students were below in the 90s and there were three of us above average. As far as race goes, everything was pretty equally mixed and there was not one group dominating the other in terms of IQ.
I received a 135 and I was 18 at the time. The other two kids were both males; and they scored 130 and 132. One was a Japanese-Brazilian American( he was sexy) and the other White American. Most of the class was indifferent towards this experiment; but this one ignorant and rude Saudi guy said something really sexist/racist. He didn’t want to believe that me, a Black woman could score higher than him and he accused me of cheating and he said that ‘Black people and women are suppose to have smaller and child-like brains.’ What the hell is that suppose to mean?
I personally think that IQ has nothing to do with race. I think environmental factors in infancy and early childhood play a major role.My parents always keep a small library of books in the house. We had at least 4,000 books in our house at one point. Most of the books were about nature, animals, history, and art. My mother was a stay at home mom up until I was maybe 6 or 7. She always would read to me and my brothers when we were going to sleep and we had to do book reports every Saturday. Before I entered school my mom was my primary educator. She actually sort of home schooled me between the ages of 1-4. I learned how to write, spell, and do some simple math.
I never thought I was a Einstein or a Newton. I’m always considered the ‘smart’ one in class or among my friends. I still get bad grades sometimes, I still make grammar and spelling errors. I cannot do equations or mad scientist experiments. I can however remember fact about famous battles in history such as “Battle of the Red Cliffs” in Ancient China. I known that my ancestors the Taino people contributed many words to English and Spanish such as: Hurricane, Hammock, Canoe, Cassava, Guava, Mangrove, Savannah, Papaya, are just to name a few. I also known that 1% of the human population has one common ancestor, Genghis Khan. 🙂
on Fri Jul 16th 2010 at 19:34:42 theobsidianfiles
Hi RR,
RR: Regarding the high IQ birth dearth, blacks have it much worse. The charts in the link below are from Richard Hoste who referenced a study by Gerhard Meisenberg. Now understand that Richard Hoste is not a nice man. I would lump him in with Jared Taylor. Nonetheless the charts are interesting:
O: Yes, that is rather interesting, and again goes to my earlier question as to whether the HBCUs or for that matter the other unis around the country with substantial Black student/grad populations, had matchmaking services and what the results of said services were, when it came to putting these putatively high IQ Black folk together. I have no idea as to whether such a thing exists but it would be fascinating to discover the result.
As for the study, I recall reading another similar study that said that high IQ Women in general had a harder time finding a mate and staying “yoked”. The study speculated as to why this was, among them extreme pickyness, but I’m not entirely sure on that front.
At any rate, it seems pretty clear, based on that study, that Black Women are once again, in a real bind. What else is new? Seems to me that my plan could be brought to bear on Smart Black folk too, hmm? 😉
RR: As I stated previously, white women of average IQ have about as many children as white women of superior IQ. I would say that Bristol Palin is of at least average IQ. 1.9 children per woman is still below replacement rate, but I am dubious that your plan would increase that rate substantially.
O: If indeed the goal is to raise the overall number of Smart White People – which would require White Women having an IQ above at least 120, having no less than two kids in their prime reproductive years, between late teens and mid 20s – then yea, my plan is indeed something to consider, because it is not likely that such a thing will just occur “naturally”. And again, Yao Ming proves that it can be done.
As for Bristol Palin, the average White IQ in this country hovers around 100. Palin comes from a family with lots of kids, no less than five. Sarah Palin’s IQ has been greatly discussed and no one argues that its higher than say, 105 or so. I think it’s safe to say that such Women are far more likely to have three or more kids than higher IQ White Women.
RR: But in terms of wage depression, they have a lot to fear from Zao and Rahul, at least in the engineering fields.
O: Then they should take it up with Bill Gates.
RR: There are at least as many GWBs getting over on legacy admits and thereby taking spots from otherwise worthy Whites as there AA admits. Try again.
RR: It never ceases to amaze me how little blacks know about the effects of Affirmative Action. The following links shows the quantitative boost blacks get just for being black as compared to legacies:
O: That’s because most Black folks don’t get Affirmative Action, whereas most White Women, do.
RR: And here is another article stating that the SAT gap between the scores of legacies compared to the average score of incoming freshman is significantly less that the gap between black scores and average freshman scores:
O: So, are we crafting public policy here on the basis of raw numbers of occurance, or, on the basis of something else?
O: Housing prices are quite low in flyover country – compare home prices in Boise to Boston.
RR: This is precisely my point. The high cost of houses in large cities has a tendency to suppress child-bearing among high IQ women who, as you point out, like to live on the coasts.
O: Yea, it proves that it is indeed possible to get relatively cheaper housing, tax rates and good public schools if one is willing to move to flyover country. So the question is, why aren’t higher IQ White Women willing to do this?
O:What’s the NAM population in Fargo, Butte, Des Moines or Boise? I’ll wait.
RR: See my previous response.
O: In did, and I ask the same question – given that these places have very low NAM populations, why aren’t Whites who have Black criminal concerns, simply moving there?
RR: I agree that smart white women are drawn to the coasts. Your plan does not seem likely to increase the birth rates among smart white women though, being that white women with average IQ have approximately the same number of children
O: Yes, but SMART WHITE folks – those having IQs say, at least two standard deviations above the norm, which is about 100 or so – are much smaller in number. In order to grow this number, a deliberate effort is needed. My plan addresses in a way that no one else has at present. And citing Yao Ming, his very existence proves, that such a thing can work.
It is a matter of will, RR. Simple as that.
on Fri Jul 16th 2010 at 20:06:07 Danila
I just want to say that I’ll be using Femi’s great numbers analogy.
on Sat Jul 17th 2010 at 19:18:55 RR
To my knowledge, there are no university affiliated match making services, although there are many services that cater to the alumni of specific colleges, including HBCUs (e.g. http://hbculove.com/). The army seems to be one place where blacks with above average black IQs meet/mate and marry.
High IQ white women seem to have an easier time finding mates than lower IQ white women, judging from the marriage statistics. Not only do higher IQ white women (and men) marry at greater rates than lower IQ whites, the marriages tend to last longer. This does not hold true for blacks, however. IQ has a less significant effect on blacks and our inclination to marry. Is this due to the skewed sex ratio? Maybe. I found this bizarre, but logical, I guess:
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/10/03/1064988410945.html
One statistic that has fascinated me that I don’t have a lot of corroborating data for is that black women seem somewhat higher average IQs than black men do. Not only are their IQs higher, but the standard deviation is larger, indicating a greater degree of variability among black women wrt intelligence. This means that there are more black female geniuses than there are black male geniuses. If the goal is to increase the number of births among smart black women, perhaps the military has shown the way. The army seems to be one place where blacks with above average black IQs meet/mate and marry. Besides the army and Jack & Jill, I can’t think of any other mechanism, other than state-sponsored segregation that will increase the birth rate of black women. This seems to be a systemic problem.
Sarah Palin’s IQ has been greatly discussed and no one argues that its higher than say, 105 or so. I think it’s safe to say that such Women are far more likely to have three or more kids than higher IQ White Women.
It is debatable as to whether Sarah Palin’s IQ estimates are accurate. It seems to me that she is brighter than 105, but certainly not a genius.
In did, and I ask the same question – given that these places have very low NAM populations, why aren’t Whites who have Black criminal concerns, simply moving there?
They do move there. They move to places like Ann Arbor, Chicago and its suburbs, Atlanta and its suburbs etc. Basically, they move to college towns. The whites that don’t move are rich enough to isolate themselves from the negative effects of diversity.
Yes, but SMART WHITE folks – those having IQs say, at least two standard deviations above the norm, which is about 100 or so – are much smaller in number. In order to grow this number, a deliberate effort is needed.
If it weren’t for the immigration problem, the white birth dearth would not be much of a problem. A much simpler and easily implementable solution to our current dysgenic problems would be to significantly reduce the number of immigrants we let into the country and to deport all illegal immigrants currently living in the country. If we insisted on having immigration, we could be more selective about who we let in. We could only let in immigrants with IQs > 120 from countries that have been under-represented in the US of late, i.e. Englishmen, Frenchmen, Germans, Dutchmen. We wouldn’t have to turn ourselves into a human/civil rights violating Communist machine.
Ms Dominican Republic,
No one here disputes that environment influences intelligence. What is in dispute is whether there is a genetic (ie ancestral, familial, racial) influence on intelligence. There are some here, like Thaddeus, who believe that genes have nothing to do with ancestry. I, on the other hand, believe that genes are heritable and passed down through lineages (families). Do you believe in the socio-biological concept of race? Does having books make people smart or do smart people have a lot of books? You report that you were home-schooled at an early age. Do you attribute your high IQ to your early education? What of the fact that racial differences in IQ manifest themselves in children as young as 4?
Femi is arguing that numbers and people can be grouped into scientifically useless sets, which is what he did in his example. He, like Diamond, extends this argument to race as basically being a scientifically useless series of sub-sets. My argument is that our current system of taxonomy can be applied to humans in a scientifically useful manner. It is useful because, unlike Femi’s simple example, it takes into account relationships between sub-species (races). That is, current Linnaean taxonomy takes evolution (descent, ancestry, families) into account. Race, currently, is not strictly characterized by traits a given grouping possesses, but rather how those traits were passed down through the ancestry of a group. Again, you are arguing against a 19th century construction that was dispensed with a long time ago. Philippe Rushton doesn’t even argue this.
What are six physical characteristics that all white people share but which are not shared as a set by any other human group?
You are again engaging in the same type of sophistry that Femi is. Physical characteristics overlap among humans. There is no bright line distinguishing one group of humans from another. But physical characteristics, as expressed through genes, which are heritable, are passed down through ancestries (lineages, families, races) and occur in various populations (races and ethnic groups) non-uniformly. What you are doing now is arguing against evolution.
In reference to the bone marrow question:
I do not doubt that race is not just black or white in Brazil although the doctor’s precise perception of race would be irrelevant. All he would really need to do would be to eyeball your daughter and then find someone who matched her perceived racial characteristics. The doctor could characterize your daughter as white, but he certainly wouldn’t include you or any of your blood relations (except your other children) in the list of viable donors. The racial characterization itself wouldn’t matter. The consistency of the characterization would be critical though. That is, whatever the doctor thought of as white would have to be applied equally to every perspective donor. Ditto for every other racial category popular in Brazil (and there are a bunch of them).
Of course, finding a precise racial match for mixed race people is a problem, which was the point of the articles. But characterizing people by race cuts down the search time, which hopefully aids the patients, who often don’t have a lot of time. In addition to suing the doctor trying to save your critically ill child, would you also sue the bone marrow registries of the world that use racial information in matching recipients to prospective donors? What about the Dana Farber Institute? Would you sue them to?
https://www.dana-farber.org/how/donatebone/minority-donors.asp
Here’s a snip:
A marrow or PBSC transplant requires matching tissue types between patient and donor. Because tissue type is inherited, a patient’s best chance of finding a match is with a brother or sister. Unfortunately, 70 percent of patients do not have a suitably matched donor in their family. Because tissue traits are inherited, a patient’s next best chance of finding a match is with someone of the same race or ethnicity.
You are effectively arguing that I, as a black man, should be unconcerned the paucity of Negro American bone marrow donors because race is a social construct. The folks at Dana Farber beg to differ with your unscientific opinion, as do I.
He’ll find a guy has certain physical characteristics and he’ll say “Oh, this was an African-American male”. The man’s family, hwever, might think of him as mixed or even white.
This is true, but not relevant with respect to the output of the genetic tests themselves. The results are reported in terms of racial percentages. That is, the forensic scientist would report numbers like:
85% West African descent, 15% Amerind descent
65% Northern European descent, 10%, Amerind descent, 25% West African descent
It would be the job of the forensic scientist to then translate those numbers into characteristics that fit a given locale. The point here is that racial composition can be broken down very scientifically and specifically. These outputs can then be used in non-racist ways to catch criminals, prescribe to patients, and help solve difficult genealogical questions. Henry Lewis Gates used DNA testing to get a better idea of his own racial background. As it turns out, Mr. Gates is about 50% West African and 50% Northern European. I imagine these findings are completely without basis and are the result of Nazi propaganda.
on Sat Jul 17th 2010 at 19:41:32 Thaddeus
No one here disputes that environment AND biology both don’t have something to do with human intelligence, RR, so please don’t use me as your strawman.
What people DO INDEED QUESTION is whether or not general I.Q. is in fact a be-all and end-all measure of human intelligence or that something as complex as human intelligence can be reified and reduced to a single number.
Another thing that I personally question is the idea that intelligence is a simple genetic trait that is easily passed along from paretn to child. The biological aspects of intelligence are probably hellishly complex and probably have multiple feedback loops with the environment, both physical and social. Thus the “good genes does it” argument is so much crap. I would also hazard a guess, based on what seems to be coming out in today’s research, that a lot of genes which contribute to intelligence are also not very eugenic in other aspects. People are remarking an awful lot lately on the linkages between certain forms of intelligence and certain forms of autism.
The main thing that people here question, however, is your completely lunatic assertion that “races” are the same thing as “families”. This is a definition of “race” which no biological scientist that I know of would sustain (and by “scientist”, I mean one who sustains said definition in a peer-reviewed text).
What I said of you is the following:
There are some here, like Thaddeus, who believe that genes have nothing to do with ancestry.
I think I accurately characterized your view on race. You have never disputed that intelligence is genetically influenced (others have though). But you are under the impression that genes are something other than heritable and that heritable traits are not transmitted through lineages.
I never said that races were “exactly” the same as families. What I said, quoting Sailer, was that:
A race is like an extremely extended family that inbreeds to some extent.
This is an up-to-date definition of race.
Femi is arguing that numbers and people can be grouped into scientifically useless sets, which is what he did in his example. He, like Diamond, extends this argument to race as basically being a scientifically useless series of sub-sets.
First of all, I don’t think that Femi argued that such groupings are “useless”: they are, indeed, incredibly useful in a political sense which is why people like you fight tooth and nail to naturalize them.
What Femi is arguing – and again, this is specifically within the context of human biology and not biology in general – is that such groupings are not objective or based upon empirical observation of nature: they are based on our own needs. We make them.
Regarding Linnean biological groupings, again, no one is arguing that such a system is useless but yourself. What is being argued is that such a system breaksdown when one tries to apply it to intraspecies biodiversity AMONG HUMANS. It is, in fact, by using the logic of Linnaean classification that we can show that there are no human subspecies.
There is no sophistry involved in this assertion, RR. One can very easily come up with a list of six characteristics which all mammals share. There is indeed a “bright line” dividing mammasl from other creatures. All the sophistry in the world isn’t going to bet you a reptile which lactates, bears live young, has hair or fur, has warm blood, etc. etc.
But you can’t find six characteristics which similarly distinguish human subspecies. Nothing in the Linnaean system says that there NEEDS MUST be subspecies, by the way. Subspecies can only be logically distingushed if we can articulate a series of traits which all members of the subspecies share.
There are NO six physical traits which all “blacks” share, RR. There is no line, however faint, which can be clearly drawn around everyone who is called “black” and which would contain a stable set of six physical characteristics.
Biologists have TRIED to apply the Linnaean system to human biodiversity for the better part of two centuries now and have roundly FAILED to come up with anything approaching consensus as to what races – or even how many races – exist. This is because of a very simple reason: huamnity is too young a species to have developed stable and discrete subspecies. Our genetic code is too diverse and too widely spread out. The most we can say is that there are certain clinactic distributions of traits among populations, but these distibutions don’t all run in parallel fashion. The resulting populations are much too chaotic, shifting and variable to be called subspecies.
When you say “Race, currently, is not strictly characterized by traits a given grouping possesses, but rather how those traits were passed down through the ancestry of a group,” what you really are doing is completely redefining the notion of “race” in order to make it congruent with our current understanding of human biodiversity. This is ridiculous and anti-scientific, RR.
We invent new terms to signify new understandings of phenomena in science. We do not pour new wine into old bottles.
“Race” has a very specific and historical meaning in human biology and it continues to have a useful meaning in biology in general as “sub-species”. It means a coherent, stable, discrete population which is more alike unto itself than it is to other populations in its species. This does indeed occur in the natural universe, but NOT among human beings.
It seems to me that people like you and Phil Rushton are much more concerned with saving the concept of “race” in human biology than you are with actually performing science. This is because your ultimate goal is to naturalize certain social and historical inequalities and the “race” concept has given sterling service in that respect.
Your political correctness in this aspect is leading you to REVERSE scientific methodology and etymology. Instead of using perfectly adequate new terms (“clinactic distribution of genetic traits” and “populations”) to describe our new understanding of human biodiversity, you are attempting to force these understandings back into the straight-jacket of “race”.
Here’s another metaphor to illustrate what you are effectively doing:
Not so long ago, scientists believed that outer space was filled with a mysterious supstance called “aether” which, among other things, transmitted gravity and radio waves. Empirical observation destroyed all basis for belief in this “fifth element”. We now know that space is mostly a vacuum, with occasional particals floating through it. There is no “fifth element” of “aether”, as far as we can detect.
So when this new empirical data started flowing in, did physicists say “OK, it’s vaccum, but when we say ‘aether’ we really mean vacuum. Will go on calling it ‘aether’ because ‘aether’ is just such a nice word”?
No, they did not. Why? Because aether is not just a wrod: it was a label which expressed and was expressed by a whole conceptual structure regarding outer space that was PROVEN INCORRECT.
In the same way, “race”, as applied to humans in a biological sense is not just a word, free of prior meaning, which we can warp any old way we like. It is a term which was produced by and which produces an INCORRECT understanding of human biodiversity. It presumes that human beings are divided up into discrete and releatively homogenous genetic packages. This is false.
there is thus only one reason to try and recycle the “race” concept, RR, and that’s political. We thus need to ask ourselves “Well, what can ‘race’ do, politically, that our current clinactic distributive understanding of human genetics not do?”
And you know what that is, RR? Race allows one to naturalize historical and social inequalities. Let’s say that one was raised during one’s formative years in South Africa, like Phil, under the Apartheid system and has thus acquired because of this a thoroughly illogical but emotionally deep fear or mistrust of “black people”. Clinactic theory simply wouldn’t allow you to toss all “black people” into one basket and declare them to be “intellectually inferior”. Clinactic theory understands that the genes for skin color do not march hand in hand with the probably millions of genes which influence intelligence. Only by presuming that there was some sort of relatively stable “genepool” which makes up “blackness” could one make that claim. One thus NEEDS to recover race theory in order to make one’s emotional/political beliefs seem objetcively real.
Now here’s a very good example of how you fail to perceive how genetics work, RR:
I do not doubt that race is not just black or white in Brazil although the doctor’s precise perception of race would be irrelevant. All he would really need to do would be to eyeball your daughter and then find someone who matched her perceived racial characteristics.
This is completely unscientific and foolish.
Let’s say the doctor eyeballs my daughter and notes that she looks a certain way. OK, he goes out to find another person who looks a certain way. Will this person thus have my daughter’s genotype?
Two people can look very much alike and have COMPLETELY different genotypes. To begin with, just because my daughter looks a certain way tells you NOTHING about her blood type, absent a blood test. It CERTAINLY doesn’t tell you anything about how likely she is to be a certain kind of bone marrow donor.
But let’s say our doctor is just as foolish and uninformed about modern genetics as you. He sees her and thinks “Well, she’s partially black and partially white, so let’s look for partially black/partially white donors to begin with.” That will cut down the numbers we’re looking for, right?
Wrong. Why? Because there is no specific bone marrow associated with “blackness”. “Black” is what we call people with a visible degree of African ancestry and Africa – as any biologist will tell you – is an incredibly genetically diverse set of human populations.
It turns out that my daughter’s “African” ancestry comes via Rio de Janeiro Brazil and the majority of this city’s African population came from 19th century Angola. That’s not going to help us in, say, New Orleans, where the majority of the African population came from around Dahomé. Worse: it could very well be that my daughter’s “black” ancestry is from Mozambique or even from the San peoples in Africa. How would you tell, simply by looking at her, if you were going on skin color, hair form, nose shape – i.e. the things that racists like yourself princiaplly look at when you classify people according to race?
It should be noted here that the snippet you copypasted also apparently has a very foggy understanding of what “race” is in biological terms. “West African” covers a huge variety of biologically diverse people, as does “Northern European”. What we properly have there are a set of populations. But your presumptive doctor would SURELY need to know, for the sake of his goal (correct bone marrow donors), whether that “West African” was Nigerian or San. The two groups are quite distinct, genetically speaking. And he’d certainly need to know as well if “Northern European” meant “Finnish” or “Saxon”.
All your snippet is telling us is that it helps to understand ancestry and human genetic biopatterning when we look for donors. That’s well and good. What it DOES NOT prove is the existence of discrete and stable subspecies. When one could just as easily say “black” or “San” or “West African” and make the same argument, but with radically differing results, then it becomes obvious that race is a function of the kind of cutting and labeling a given individual performs and not an objective, empirical phenomena which can be correctly perceived by all reasonable peoples.
So what would a REAL and RESPONSIBLE doctor do? He would try to get the best and most complete family history possible and also attempt a genetic assay. He would then look in geographic regions where that sort of genetic mixture was common. In my putative daughter’s case, that would probably mean Atlantic seaboard metropoli which have historically hosted large migration flows from southernwestern Africa and central Germany.
Races are not needed to make this determination and, given their historical scientific definition, there is a less than trivial chance that looking at a situation like this racially would result in a doctor naturalizing his prejudices.
Wow. Either you are thus very cynical or very thick. 😀 Where have I ever said or even indicated that genes have nothing to do with ancestry?
What I HAVE said is that ancestry is not race. Get it right.
Lineages are not races, RR. Race has a very specific meaning, as I outlined above, and it is not simply “genetic descent”.
No, that is not an up-to-date definition of race. That is a very poor metaphor constructed by a white supremacist who, as far as I know, has no substantive training in biology at all.
You will not find that definition of race in ANY biology textbook on the planet, I wager. Want to try?
on Sat Jul 17th 2010 at 22:11:08 Femi
Thaddeus is right. There is no scientifically peer-reviewed and accepted biological/genetic definition of “race” in humans. There were many, mostly contradictory, attempts of determining such classification but ALL of those attempts are AT THE VERY BEST controversial. Most are however outdated and/or pseudo-scientific and/or debunked.
Scientifically speaking, there is no such thing as the repeatedly proven theory “the sun is a star and the earth is a planet revolving around it” in human genetics in terms of “races”. Therefore EVERYBODY has to accept the undeniable fact that this issue is AT THE VERY BEST controversial and at worst invalid, unless someone comes up with scientifically peer-reviewed and plausible EVIDENCE, including a non-arbitrary definition of “race” in humans.
As long as no theory is proven beyond any doubt, we must assume that there only exists what has been scientifically proven so far. That is, one human “race”, ie. precisely one species homo sapiens with precisely one subspecies homo sapiens sapiens currently living on planet earth. Not more, not less. Everything else belongs to the realm of social sciences.
on Sat Jul 17th 2010 at 23:25:12 Y
Man I must give it to you Femi. That analogy is spot on. Human “races” much like numerical groupings are done at the discretion of those viewing the data. This is why someone who is black in the US would be considered mixed or even white in a different country.
Race truly is in the eye of the beholder.
For the record, I’m not against people like Phil searching for races. Hell, it’s a hypothesis. But extraordinary claims need extraordinary findings to back them up and nothing Rushton has turned up has been particularly convincing with regards to the existence of human subspecies.
It should also be pointed out that Rushton’s definition of race follows the old, obsolete notion of subspecies and not Steve Sailor/RR’s gloss that it’s “an extended family”.
God knows why anyone would think that a far-right film-critic cum blogger-journalist would be an authority on human biology in the first place…
on Sat Jul 17th 2010 at 23:47:01 J
Personally I would say the problem with this is the issue of ‘intelligence’ and how certain ‘forces’ within a particular society, reinforces the process(es) rather than race per se and not whether ‘races’ exists or not.
Since it is still possible for ‘those’ to say that even if races do not exist Black people are still less ‘intelligent’ than Whites, and that can be done on a ‘cultural’ basis.
on Sun Jul 18th 2010 at 01:49:22 RR
You are partially right. Even assuming, wrongly, that race is a wholly social construct, people of sub-Saharan African descent still have lower average IQs than people of European descent. There would still be genetic effects to consider in addition to environmental effects.
You must read more carefully. You wrote:
I wrote:
Femi is arguing that numbers and people can be grouped into scientifically useless sets.
Race has scientific utility. As I pointed out to you before, forensic scientists, genealogists, bone marrow specialists make beneficial scientific use of race all of the time. Femi’s example was arbitrary and scientifically useless. He used the analogy to make it seem as though racial groupings were just as arbitrary and scientifically useless. He was wrong and you are wrong.
What is being argued is that such a system breaksdown when one tries to apply it to intraspecies biodiversity AMONG HUMANS.
It does not breakdown for humans. It works for human and non-human animals. That’s what makes it useful. The type of animal being categorized is irrelevant. That is the beauty of the system. It works for all flora and fauna, including humans.
There is no sophistry involved in this assertion, RR. One can very easily come up with a list of six characteristics which all mammals share.
No, you are engaging in sophistry. I would agree with you that it is easy to classify mammals. It is also very easy to classify wolves. But yet we know that there are sub-species of wolf. We know that Eurasian wolves are separate and distinct from Tundra wolves (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subspecies_of_Canis_lupus). Sure, they share the basic characteristics of wolves, but we know they are sub-species (races) because we know HOW they evolved and we know that they differ genetically. There is no bright line separating Eurasian wolves from Tundra wolves. There are no definitions of Eurasian wolves and Tundra wolves. They can mate across sub-specie lines. But yet, Eurasian wolves and Tundra wolves are distinct enough to be classified as sub-species. There is a continuum among wolves just as there is among humans. There is more genetic diversity among humans than there is among wolves, but human groups also cluster genetically according to region. The system of taxonomy works for wolves and humans.
Let’s take a look at a couple of definitions of race. From wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(biology)
“In biology, races are distinct genetically divergent populations within the same species with relatively small morphological and genetic differences.”
That wasn’t hard. No need to revisit the 19th century as you have done to come up with a scientific definition of race. This definition is very modern. Here is another:
http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Race
“A race is a distinct population of humans distinguished in some way from other humans. The most widely observed races are those based on skin color, facial features, ancestry, genetics, and national origin. Conceptions of race, as well as specific racial groupings, are often controversial due to their political and sociological uses and implications.
Since the 1940s, evolutionary scientists have rejected the view of race according to which a number of finite lists of essential (e.g., Platonic) characteristics could be used to determine a like number of races.”
Your view is expressed here:
“Many social scientists, drawing on such biological research, believe common race definitions pertaining to humans have little taxonomic validity. They argue that race definitions are imprecise, arbitrary, derived from custom, and that the races observed vary according to the culture examined. They further maintain that race is best understood as a social construct. Some scientists have argued that this shift is motivated more by political than scientific reasons”.
Your view is not a scientific view but a political view because you don’t like the implacations of race.
I could go on, but I think you get the picture. Science is not static. The definition of the atom did not stop with the Greeks. It evolved over time as the methods of analysis improved. The word atom wasn’t scrapped because it is still a scientifically useful concept, even though the definition of atom has changed over time. The situation is similar with race. You are caught in the 19th century because arguments against 19th century ideas are all you can muster.
Just to say I did not suggest ‘race’ was anything in this post.
I was rather trying to demonstrate this point, which many seemed to have missed here, and if they did not miss it, they did not take the following into account:
You are being presumptuous. The doctor might very well be spot on. Until the person in question is given a histocompatibility antigen blood test, no one can know for sure, but certainly the doctor can cut down on the number of sure genetic dead ends by excluding people of fairly unmixed race, like you, presumably. It would be foolish and dangerous for the doctor to just test people at random. This is why bone marrow registries make note of every potential donors race (and degrees of admixture).
But let’s say our doctor is just as foolish and uninformed about modern genetics as you.
Yeah. Your stupid doctor, foolish me, and those idiots at the Dana Farber Institute. After all, they only save lives at Dana Farber.
All your snippet is telling us is that it helps to understand ancestry and human genetic biopatterning when we look for donors.
BINGO! I think you are on board now. You have trouble with the word race, not the concept of race. If it will make you feel better, we can use the phrase “human genetic biopatterning as expressed in groups of humans that inbreed to a certain extend” instead of race. Welcome to the 21st century.
He would try to get the best and most complete family history possible and also attempt a genetic assay.
Getting a family history means getting a racial history. What, you say, the patient is mostly of Scottish descent with some French and Norwegian thrown in. Great! Maybe the patient is Fulani and Kalenjin. Fabulous. The doctor will strive for the tightest ethnic/racial match possible. Of course, the doctor would not only have to assay the patient genetically, but every potential donor, which would be quite time consuming and expensive.
In my putative daughter’s case, that would probably mean Atlantic seaboard metropoli which have historically hosted large migration flows from southernwestern Africa and central Germany.
Great! So your doctor (or rather, the bone marrow registry folks your doctor would no doubt refer you to) would know where to look. People of seemingly unmixed south west African descent, like Rojane Fradique or seemingly unmixed German descent, like Gizele Bündchen could be eliminated right off the bat, which cuts down the search time, which may be crucial in your daughter’s case.
Where have I ever said or even indicated that genes have nothing to do with ancestry
You have done it every time you asserted that genes have nothing to do with subspecies (race). You are under the impression that humans can’t be classified into subspecies. You are wrong.
Indeed I do. How about this one (Evolutionary developmental biology By Brian Keith Hall, page 13)
http://books.google.com/books?id=dYtV-ip9UGEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=biology+book&hl=en&ei=aVZCTJaiJcGB8gaI2aWiDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CEMQ6AEwBDgU#v=onepage&q=race&f=false
“Phylogeny(G. phylon, a race) is equated with the evolution of species or lineages”
I understood what you meant (I think). Even assuming race didn’t was a fallacious concept, you are saying that cultural effects would still hold and the IQ gap between whites and blacks would still exist. Is this not what you meant?
And it something I have said here many times the socio-politics behind the concept of ‘race’ being removed – when in fact it has not really changed. All we have now is a different ‘spin’ on the word.
This is taken from RR’s link, and to be honest reading that link raised greater concerns in my mind.
However, for now this is what I would like to highlight once again:
“Alongside empirical and conceptual problems with “race,” following the Second World War evolutionary and social scientists were acutely aware of how beliefs about race had been used to justify discrimination, apartheid, slavery, and genocide. This questioning gained momentum in the 1960s during the U.S. civil rights movement and the emergence of numerous anti-colonial movements worldwide.”
ha ha ha almost RR
I was trying to suggest.
This is what ‘THOSE’ would suggest rather than ‘J’.
My position is that I do not believe IQ measures ‘intelligence’. In fact I am not sure what it measures??
Hope this has clarified.
It should also be pointed out that Rushton’s definition of race follows the old, obsolete notion of subspecies
This is tautological. Race is synonymous with subspecies. Let’s read what Rushton actually thinks (http://www.lrainc.com/swtaboo/stalkers/jpr01.html):
A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species. Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inheritedmorphological, behavioral, physiological traits. In flowers, insects, and non-human mammals, zoologists consistently and routinely study the process of racial differentiation. Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reproduce more frequently among themselves than they do with individuals in other groups.
Hmm. So Rushton believes that traits are inherited (passed down from generation to generation through families), and that races form over generations due to reproduction limited to members of the same group. Sounds like a large extended family to me. Notice how Rushton does NOT say that a race is defined by a limited discrete set of characteristics, which you were under the impression Rushton believed. I think Sailer and Rushton are in-sync here.
on Sun Jul 18th 2010 at 02:28:22 Y
I know right? People jock Steve Sailer as if he is a studied and researched geneticist. You all do know he sell computers in California right? I believe he go a degree in Computer Science at Rice U.
You all do know he sell computers in California right?
Does he? Give me his email address so I can get a good deal on the next computer I buy! The reason they read this clown is because he writes about race in a manner that bolsters their own self worth for the most part. I have read some of his articles and they read like a science fiction dime novel. I guess those who love his articles, do so, because it reconfirms their stereotypes. Stevo manages to gussy up his tripe in pseudo-intellectual words which seems to impress his minions. What was that old saying? Oh yes, ‘There’s a sucker born every minute’! Too bad there is too many suckers out there. He should stick to selling computers, barring that, if he wishes to give into his more creative side, he can write articles for Mad magazine or some such satirical publication.
It is not the credential one has. It is what one knows. Thad’s main man Stephen Jay Gould was a paleontologist, but yet weighed in quite heavily on one major psychological issue….IQ. Gould had no background in psychology.
Steve Sailer graduated from Rice University with a degree in marketing. He also has a MBA from UCLA.
Can you refute any of Sailer’s arguments? This is all that matters. Bad-mouthing the guy doesn’t undermine his definition of race:
A race is a large extended family that inbreeds to some extent.
Like him or not, you can’t call him ill-informed or stupid.
What I find extremely ironic about guys like Steve is that they practice what they claim “the left” preaches.
I mean, these are the sorts of guys who get bent out of shape about relativism, right? They think it`s some sort of French leftist conspiracy to destroy all that is good and worthy in the world, starting with science. And the insult that they reach for everytime they have to deal with a guy like me is “You’re just trying to confuse the issue with semantics, you no good soft-sciences lit major type, you!”
And yet, when you really look at it, it’s guys like Steve who’re desperately trying for forge counterfeit scientific creds for themselves and who use rhetoric as if it were a substitute for empirical proof.
The vast majority of empirical proof uncovered by science indicates that there is nothing remotely like subspecies in human biology. Because science is not an absolutist form of knowledge, there will always be gaps here and there that can be exploited by unscrupillous people who are more concerned with the political effects of science than science itself.
These are the Republican science pundits, for example, who scream that global warming is a hoax. It’s the born-again nutters who think evolution invalidates the Bible. And in human biology, it’s the white and other supremacists who can’t bear the thought that they are essentially the same soecies as peoples whom they hate and fear.
In other words, what Steve is trying to do is build a “politically correct” science, one that doesn’t challenge his prejudice and fears. Given that he knows very little about biology, the only way he can do that is through rhetoric.
And that’s where being a journalist becomes useful, I guess.
Thad wrote:
The vast majority of empirical proof uncovered by science indicates that there is nothing remotely like subspecies in human biology
No it doesn’t as evidenced by the success of forensic scientist, genealogists and bone marrow specialists.
Please stick to the science not the politics.
Shit. I lost a HUGE post.
RR, let’s just put it this way, as I think all of your so-called arguments and proof can be boiled down to this:
I asked you to give us an example of a biology textbook which understand race according to Steve Sailor’s “incestual” definition of it: i.e. “Race is an extremely extended family that interbreeds to some extent”.
You return with a definition of Phylogeny: “Phylogeny (G. phylon, a race) is equated with the evolution of species or lineages”
This is a definite “WTF?” moment for me, RR. It kind of defies logic. The fact that a term uses the Greek word for subspecies or race” is supposedly proof that “race is an extended family”?
Would you like to unpack that one for us?
RR, I’ve dealt with forensics and bone marrow above. Why you keep bringing them up as if nothing has been said about them is beyond me.
I know you have difficulty with reading comprehension, so let me review the points:
Forensics can only determine the “race” of a given person WITHIN a bounded socio-historical set of race defintions which are shared in common. An American forencist who applied his understanding of “black” to a Brazilian murder case is liable to confuse everyone. So as long as a forencist practices within one set of sociological givens, yes, he can determine race. An astrologer can similarly determine your astrological sign by simply looking at the objective fact of your date of birth. That classifcation, however, isn’t determined by mother nature but by a historically shaped set of sociological values. The astrologist’s codification is meaningless as soon as he steps outside that set of values.
With regards to bone marrow, no, none of those terms you’ve so far used (“French”, “West African” etc.) can tell us anything about the genetic composition of a person. Absent musch more detailed knowledge of their ancestry, such terms can do much more harm than good. A doctor CANNOT simply look at my daughter, racially classify her and then be on his marry looking for a bone marrow donor, as you say.
Regarding genealogy, I have no idea why you think this has anything to do with race, but I’m guessing it has to do with Sailor’s belief in the “incestual” definition of race.
Repeating bad theories when someone refutes them does not magically make them good, RR. So either show us how that forencist can make a cross cultural race classification, show us how a doctor can look at a child and see her genetic code, or please STFU.
But Gould had quite an impresive background in biology and the evolutionary sciences and everyone of those theories he trashed (and only one of the chapters was about IQ, btw) was supposedly based on “evolutionary biology”.
Furthermore, Gould did his homework by looking at the original data, its critics and its supporters. Finally, many of Gould’s articles on this topic were peer-reviewed (though MMM wasn’t).
None of which prepares him to even partially understand any single area of this debate.
Let’s take Sailor’s “incest” theory of race:
First of all, this is pulled straight from Steve’s bunghole. It is a completely new concept of race which no biologist in the world, AFAIK, has supported or would support.
The first problem with it would be its use of the word “family”.
To start off with, Sailor bastardizes the available terminology, taking any term that fits. The term “family” itself isn’t biological but sociological. Animals don’t have families. Steve apparently means “family” in the sense of a biological lineage, but its indicative of the value of his theory as a whole that he begins by using sociological terms to talk about genetics.
But OK, let’s geve Stevie his newb dues and say that he REALLY means some sort of biological lineage. Fair enough, right?
Well, this then runs smack up into another problem: humans f*** and they f*** alot and f***ing has been known to cause children. Every time a child is conceived, all the genetic dice are rolled and an entirely new configuration comes up. And we’re talking millions of dice here, plus mutations. Plus God knows how many combinations. So when two people have a kid, they don’t just pass down a small set of traits: they pass along a freshly mixed, whopping big conglomerate of genes.
Go back a generation and each time you do, that potential mix is doubled.
Subspecies, or races, occur when a breeding population is isolated long enough that its genetic mix boils down to a fairly stable set. Humanity nowhere has been divided up long enough to do this. Even the largest geographical divides on the planet (say the Sahara desert) have not been absolute enough to keep humanity divided on an evolutionary scale.
Steve’s theory mistakes evolutionary time with historical time. He thinks four or five – or even a dozen – generations of inbreeding is enough to give one discrete and stable biological packages. That is not the case, however, except for the teensiest human populations.
Now note what kinds of “races” Steve presumes exist in the world: blacks, whites, the French, Scandanavians… These are not small, inbreeding groups but vats conglomerates.
A “family” in Steve’s sense of the world is far too small and far too transitory to be anything like a stable human subspecies.
One final observation…
Though RR/Steve Sailor promulgates an incredibly micro version of race (to wit, the “incest” model), it is interesting to note that none of his political pronouncements stick with that theory.
As we’ve seen here and on his blog, Steve/RR loves talking about “blacks” as if they were a race. But blacks take in such a large, dispersed and diverse population that there’s no way they could possibly be considered a “large inbred family”.
Steve thus wishes to recover race not as a theory which could actually be used scientifically, but as a political tool which can be used to whomp on groups he doesn’t like.
“Blacks” – defined as the “race” which supposedly has a biologically-derived low IQ – cannont be defined as a “big inbred family”.
It seems we are arguing in circles. You believe that human biopatterning as expressed among groups (through lineages, families) can’t be characterized as race. I believe it can. If it makes you sleep easier at night believing that race does not exist, then so be it, but you do seem to believe in the concepts represented by race. If you want to call genetically distinct groups (extended families) that inbreed to some extent something other than races, Ok.
You have admitted that:
1) Some human groups are genetically distinct from other human groups.
2) Genes are heritable and passed down through lineages (families).
3) Distinct genetic traits are maintained within groups through endogamy.
Sailer summarizes the above in his definition of race.
You have concluded that because race is scientifically inexact, it is scientifically useless. Getting back to the hypothetically situation in which your daughter is in need of a bone marrow transplant, you wrote:
A doctor CANNOT simply look at my daughter, racially classify her and then be on his marry looking for a bone marrow donor, as you say.
What I said was that a doctor can look at your daughter, conclude she is of mixed race, and eliminate from consideration potential donors who are of relatively unmixed race (which represents a significant percentage of the population of Brazil). In this, race serves a scientifically utilitarian purpose. It makes the search process more efficient. Obviously, more information is better than less information. Having your daughter’s detailed racial (familial) history would help. Of course, obtaining the detailed familial (racial) history of every potential donor would be impossible. Using race speeds the search process and, hopefully speeds treatment. This is why bone marrow registries collect racial information. This is why the people at the Dana Farber Institute collect racial information. This is why there is an effort to recruit racial minorities as bone marrow donors. Race matters scientifically. Please answer the following questions:
Do you believe the bone marrow specialists at Dana Farber are uninformed in their scientific use of race?
Do you believe the people at Dana Farber are racists?
Would you sue Dana Farber? If yes, on what grounds?
If you had to find a donor for you daughter on your own without the benefit of bone marrow registries, how would you conduct the search?
My fault, he was a marketing major. Anyways the bottom line is ,many people in the blogosphere cite Sailer as some guru about genetic differences when he is just as informed(or clueless, take your pick) as the next non-scientist.
He essentially has access to the same information as lay people. He finds statistics about social dynamics and then find a scientific study to backup his spin. An example would be Sailor’s interracial marriage articles. Truth of the matter is Sailor doesn’t have a scientific background and is writing things and coming to conclusions in a fashion much like the people commenting on this blog. He is merely a commentator, not to be confused with an expert.
Again, this is STEVE SAILER’s definition of race not a BIOLOGICAL one. What you have here is someone changing concrete scientific definitions in order to suit his own sociopolitical stance.
Sailer is popular because he is a bright and engaging writer. His definition of race comes from what he has learned from scientists who study populations and genetics. His definition is not ground breaking, but it is very pithy. His definition is endorsed by many evolutionary biologists. Can you refute his definition?
RR, I will be very simple here.
Steve Sailor is making a very common scientific error: he is making the evidence fit his analytical term and not creating analytical terms according to the evidence.
In that Linnaean tradition that you apparently place so much store by, “race” has always meant a specific, stable inbreeding population, one which is distinct from the other groups of its species because its members are biologically more alike with each other than they are with other members of the species. Generally this occurs due to inbreeding, yes, but inbreeding which takes place over multiple tens of thousands of years.
“Lineage” is not “race” in this understanding because, of course, hybrids are the result of lineages and do not necessarily constitute a species. Not all species have subspecies, but all species have lineages. And don’t even get me started on “families”, RR, which are certainly nott a biological concept in the way you’re using it here (as a synonym for biological ancestry).
Now, this Linnean notion of “subspecies” has come under increasing fire in biology in general – and not just human biology – because it doesn’t take into consideration how genetic diversity actually works (not surprising as the concept was created some hundreds of years before we knew about genes). It has not been entirely rejected, however, because it does work for certain species. There are indeed populations on this planet which have been inbreeding amongst themselve for enough time to create a “package” of traits which are stable and distinct.
This “coherent and stable package of traits” concept is crucial to the theoretical construction of race. Race was and is meant for you to be able to CLEARLY classify a set population as distinct from another. Race is not used and is not meant to be used when such clear cut distinction isn’t possible.
Humanity has never created, anywhere in its history, clear-cut inbreeding populations on this level. In the sort of popular biological terms you love to employ, we are all mutts: we do not have stable and discrete breeding lineages which produce internally coherent populations.
This is because humanity itself is quite young as a species and has been a very successful species. Once out of Africa, we RAPIDLY colonized the entire world. in evolutionary terms, this occured in the blink of an eye: less than 50,000 years.
You and Steve Sailor are not interested in maintaing the linnean system of classification (which has its difficulties), nor are you interested in proposing a better one (which clinactic biologists are busy trying to do): your main interest is in recovering the term “race”.
A real scientist would as, as biologists have done, “Is ‘race’ really of any use in describing, given its undeniable intellectual baggage as a term which is universally understood to mean stable and coherent subspecies, which we now know don’t exist among humans?” He would be forced to conclude that “race” does not describe the chaotic mix and constantly shifting mix of human populations which, in no place, have achieved the genetic coherence and differentiation which is implied in the term “race”.
Such a person would thus say, “OK, we need a new set of clearly and carefully defined terms which can better account for the patternings in human biology. In the particular, we need to have terms which don’t imply that THIS genetic trait and THAT trait wlak hand-in-hand together in human biology”. This is what clinactic biology is doing. It understands that each trait is on a seperate cline and is distributed seperately. Being black, in other words, has NO necessary connection with having sycle cell anemia. The one does not necessarily have anything to do with each other.
You and Steve, however, are not biologists or scientists: you are political pundits intimately associated with people and groups who believe that certain branches of humanity are inherently, biologically superior to others.
A chaotic view of human genetic distribution (and please note that chaos does not necessarily mean “patternless” in modern science) deprives you of you main theoretical tool: a concept which allows you to postulate “good” and “bad” groups of human beings. If human biology doesn’t come in coherent packages, then such a belief is obviously as ridiculous as a belief in astrology or a flat Earth.
So what you’re trying to do is recover the term “race” at all costs. To do this, you engage in PRECISELY that sort of behavior that you accuse the “left” of: you toss established meaning out the window not because you have proof that it is incorrect, but because it is inconvenient. You invent new terms on the fly which promiscuously mix such concepts as “family”, “lineage”, “ethnic group” and “nation” and claim that all these are in fact simple synonyms of “race”, in spite of libraries of collected works showing and describing their differences.
You do this not because it allowws us to describe the world with greater precsion (which, I’ll remind you, is science’s only use): you do this to intentionally muddy the waters in order to save a political tool: the notion of “race” as a human biological constant.
And you’re quite right to say thatt we are talking circles around ech other, but this is because you are arguing in bad faith. You are arguing as a politician and I as a scientist.
So, for example, when I lay out WHY the practical application of forensics is not more proof of the existence of race than the practical application of astrology is proof that the stars rule our destiny, your only response is to act as if nothing has been said and repeat your original position.
This is not the behavior of one who’s involved in a rational dialogue, RR: it’s the behavior of one who professes true faith in a dogma.
As I said above, RR, the irony of this whole thing is that you and Stevie are as poltically correct as any Birkenstok-clad vegetarian earth-mother you care to name.
Sailer is popular because he is a bright and engaging writer. His definition of race comes from what he has learned from scientists who study populations and genetics. His definition is not ground breaking, but it is very pithy. His definition is endorsed by many evolutionary biologists.
Creationism is endorsed by many so-called biologists, too.
Please give us an examples of biologists who’ve claimed that Steve’s definition of race is a good one. Original sources, please, and not just names.
Better yet, show us one peer-reviewed biology text which claims that “race” and “family” are the same thing, RR.
Can you refute his definition?
I have above. Neither lineages nor families are subspecies.
Please answer the questions I posed to you:
on Sun Jul 18th 2010 at 17:00:05 Obsidian
Very good comments! Replies below:
O: Sarah Palin’s IQ has been greatly discussed and no one argues that its higher than say, 105 or so. I think it’s safe to say that such Women are far more likely to have three or more kids than higher IQ White Women.
RR: It is debatable as to whether Sarah Palin’s IQ estimates are accurate. It seems to me that she is brighter than 105, but certainly not a genius.
O: Fair enough, but it still doesn’t diminish my central point – that higher IQ folk tend to have fewer kids, and that’s regardless of the climes and times. They just do, and if you’re as familiar with psychometrics as much as I think you are, you then know well the inverse relationship between higher IQs and fertility/virility. Yes?
O: I did, and I ask the same question – given that these places have very low NAM populations, why aren’t Whites who have Black criminal concerns, simply moving there?
RR: They do move there. They move to places like Ann Arbor, Chicago and its suburbs, Atlanta and its suburbs etc. Basically, they move to college towns. The whites that don’t move are rich enough to isolate themselves from the negative effects of diversity.
O: Yes, but Fargo, Boise and Butte have university settings too, AND they have virtually non-existent NAM populations – again, something that is a concern for many of the folk we’re talking about. So again, the question stands. After all, and again, look at Sarah Palin – she lives in a state for many years that has very few if any NAMs, and she’s done quite well for herself, by any estimation. If she can do it, why can’t ostensibly cognitively superior Whites who have expressed direct concerns about NAMs?
O: Yes, but SMART WHITE folks – those having IQs say, at least two standard deviations above the norm, which is about 100 or so – are much smaller in number. In order to grow this number, a deliberate effort is needed.
RR: If it weren’t for the immigration problem, the white birth dearth would not be much of a problem. A much simpler and easily implementable solution to our current dysgenic problems would be to significantly reduce the number of immigrants we let into the country and to deport all illegal immigrants currently living in the country. If we insisted on having immigration, we could be more selective about who we let in. We could only let in immigrants with IQs > 120 from countries that have been under-represented in the US of late, i.e. Englishmen, Frenchmen, Germans, Dutchmen. We wouldn’t have to turn ourselves into a human/civil rights violating Communist machine.
O: I agree that scapegoating is always easier than actually taking a cold, hard look at oneself in the mirror. The problem with the immigration issue as it is currently understood, is that it serves two very important interests:
The Left/Dems who see in said community a burgeoning and reliable bloc of votes;
The Right/GOP who sees in said community a ready and CHEAP source of labor.
This latter point is hugely important, because for all the shouting being done in our time, in truth it has been past Presidents on the GOP side of the ledger who have either done nothing about the problem, or worse, have fostered “comprehensive immigration reform”. To wit: Ronald Reagan and GWB. Both parties have a vested interest in those Mexican illegals being here, and for very good reasons when one really gets honest about it – for one thing, White birth rates are indeed failing off, especially on the Left/Dem side of the ledger. Second, because nobody here, and that includes even Black Men, don’t want to do the nation’s crappiest jobs for little or nothing, like many Mexicans can and will do. Your talk about H1Bs is really beside the point, because that’s not where the action is. It’s those crappy jobs that need to be done that no one wants to do. Until we can have a brutally honest conversation about that, nothing else will change.
More replies below:
RR: To my knowledge, there are no university affiliated match making services, although there are many services that cater to the alumni of specific colleges, including HBCUs (e.g. http://hbculove.com/). The army seems to be one place where blacks with above average black IQs meet/mate and marry.
O: Yes, I’ve heard similar from other Black alums and the like. But it would be very interesting nonetheless to see what the actual stats say about their efforts and how successful they are in putting Black couples together from the college campus. Perhaps such infomation exists?
RR: High IQ white women seem to have an easier time finding mates than lower IQ white women, judging from the marriage statistics. Not only do higher IQ white women (and men) marry at greater rates than lower IQ whites, the marriages tend to last longer. This does not hold true for blacks, however. IQ has a less significant effect on blacks and our inclination to marry. Is this due to the skewed sex ratio? Maybe. I found this bizarre, but logical, I guess:
O: There’s a really good book I would like to recommend to you and everyone else reading along, called Promises I Can Keep. It clearly shows that poorer (and putatively) lower IQ Women have no problem finding mates or at the very least, baby daddies – what they have a problem with is finding *husbands*. So, we have to handle the above, what you said, with some care here. Yes, it is true, that higher IQ couples tend to marry more and stay together longer; but they also tend to marry later, which is a telling proxy as to the number of kids they will have, and in any event they remain smaller in overall numbers to the working class and lower cohort, which brings us back again to my Yao Ming Solution, LOL. No matter where you go, RR, there you are. 😉
As for how this whole thing shakes out wrt Black folk, I do think the skewed sex ratios play a big role. For example, right now in Abagond’s hometown of NYC, the Black Male unemployment rate is through the roof – and has been this way for decades, at least going back to the early 80s. In Harlem, where I presume Abagond lives, the current Black Male unemployment rate is 22%, or roughly one in every five Harlem Black Men; in the central Bronx, parts of Queens and the Red Hook and Park Slope sections of Brooklyn, that rate shoots up to damn near 50%(!!!) – that’s roughly HALF of ALL Black Males in said areas.
Being out of the workforce means in essense, being taken out of the serious dating pool for most Black Men, RR. You know it, I know it, and everyone reading this knows it, and does indeed have a powerful role to play in things.
And let’s not even get started on the high incarceration and homicide rates of Black Males…
I believe, first of all, that you don’t understand how or why they use race, based on your copypasta of a pop article about what they do.
Said article is a call to the general population to donate bone marrow. They are attempting to increase the biological diversity of their donor base and they are trying to get that idea across to John Q. Public who, like you, probably hasn`t cracked open a biology text since the 8th grade.
They are thus obviously going to use the term “racial and ethnic background” in this call, because this is what American laymen still understand as the key words which indicate biological diversity.
But the phrase “racial and ethnic backgrounds” – the term they actually use – is quite telling. Race and ethnicity are not the same thing: one is biological in nature and the other sociological and political.
I highly doubt that anyone at the Dana Farber institute actually thinks that categorizing people according to subspecies is the first step in finding a decent donor. What they want to look at is “background” and that is quite distinct from “race”, despite Steve Sailor’s sematic game that “lineage”, “family” and “race” are one and the same.
The rest of your questions are specious because your link does not tell us a single thing about how Dana Farber actually selects donors: it simply communicates to the general race-believeing public that they need as wide a biological base of donors as possible. This is a bit like a physicist telling a layman that a meteroite “falls to Earth” when he knows full well that in terms of physics, what really happened was that two bodies collided.
I would follow her family history and, failing that, look at populations which display similar mixes. I would not use race as a category. I would not say “Oh, my daughter’s half black and half white, so that’s where I’ll look”. My search would be much more precise than that and it’s first step would involve a genetic assay. NONE of this presumes the existence of stable, coherent and discrete human subspecies, which is the proper definition of Race.
Quick and dirty analysis of Steve’s definition:
“Sub-species, or race, has been up to now defined as a stable, congruent, coherent and discrete biological subset of a species. I declare that it no longer has this definition. I declare that race REALLY means raspberry sherbert.
Prove me wrong.
You really should accept my authority on these matters, you know, because i have an MBA and sell computers.”
on Sun Jul 18th 2010 at 17:24:29 Femi
I might be forgiven that I had no time to read through all the new posts which are certainly very interesting. I’d just like to add this.
As long as there is no global and commonly accepted single definition and grouping of “race in humans” which is valid throughout the entire humanity on our little planet, everybody can only conclude that such thing has no place in human biology/genetics. In order to have any credibility, the definition has to be as clear cut as : the chemical formula for water is H2O or planet earth is a sphere.
Secondly, any scientific effort in the hope to find the ultimate proof for “race” is a wasted one. Such efforts will always be biased and motivated by a questionable agenda.
EVEN IF one day commonly accepted biological evidence will be found, what would be the conclusion? That we as humans are all different? We already know that. Or that some are “less different” than others? We already know that too. Whatever it might be, it will NEVER be able to prove superiority or inferiority of one “race” over another in a global context.
I’m convinced that this sort of effort is much better invested in finding conclusions and solutions to the socially constructed plague called racism.
One final reply (for now!), LOL…
RR: One statistic that has fascinated me that I don’t have a lot of corroborating data for is that black women seem somewhat higher average IQs than black men do. Not only are their IQs higher, but the standard deviation is larger, indicating a greater degree of variability among black women wrt intelligence. This means that there are more black female geniuses than there are black male geniuses. If the goal is to increase the number of births among smart black women, perhaps the military has shown the way. The army seems to be one place where blacks with above average black IQs meet/mate and marry. Besides the army and Jack & Jill, I can’t think of any other mechanism, other than state-sponsored segregation that will increase the birth rate of black women. This seems to be a systemic problem.
O: Hmm. Very loaded comment! OK, let’s see if we can tease this apart…
For one thing, if what you’re saying is true, it would seem to buck the prevailing wisdom, which is that it is in the Male of the species that we see the most variation – more successes but more failures; more geniuses, but more dullards, and so on. Conventional wisdom on the matter holds that Women are more clumped in the middle of the bell curve, and indeed, there are precious few Female extremists in comparison to Males. So, if this is indeed the case it would raise some very interesting questions!
Second, I have to call into question what you’re saying above on the simple grounds that to date we haven’t seen much in the way of stand out brilliance on the part of Black Women. For example, if what you’re saying is true, we should be seeing many more equivalent examples of Jay-Z or NaS or the RZA in the Hip Hop world, and we simply don’t. Nor can we attribute this to some kind of sexism, since such artists can get ready assistance from the likes of Oprah Winfrey and others, who have gone on record against what they consider to be anti-Women lyrics of some rappers. Jay-Z didn’t have such backing when he founded Roc-A-Fella; nor did Russell Simmons when he found Def Jam Records. There is no equivalent in Black Female terms, to a DJ Premiere, or a Kanye West. There is no Black Female equivalent in recent years, to a Black Thought (Lauryn Hill is a very notable exception, but her best days are long behind her). I mean really, can we honestly say that Spindarella is on the same plane or higher, than Grandmaster Flash? The latter literally invented the cross fade function on the modern day DJing mixer, a key component of Turntablism, to say nothing of moving the ball forward on the genre by inventing scratching. What has Spindarella invented? And where are the Black Female equivalents to DJ Jazzy Jeff or DJ Cash Money, joint inventers of the Transformer scratch? Is DJ Nocera comparable to Mantronik?
If one accepts the premise that it takes considerable brainpower to create an entirely new musical artform, then the evidence as we have it, suggests strongly that your theory doesn’t wash.
And we can extend this out in other areas and genres. Zora Neale Hurston was a great writer and sociologist in her own right, but comparable to WEB DuBois? John Hope Franklin? Hmm…
Why? There are plenty of scientific journals, academic books, etc, which already do so. If one has a great interest in IQ, then one has access to these things. It is my contention that intelligence for the most part isn’t quantifiable. I’ve met many ‘dumb’ and gullible people of all sorts throughout my life, anyone from physicians who I have known personally, to lawyers, other professionals etc. You see their scope of learning is so concentrated on their acquiring their chosen profession, that they have, had, no time to delve into anything else. Some of them were just plain dense. Some recognized this and were remorseful as to this lack. I have also met plumbers, trades people artisans who were quite the opposite. Needless to say I was surprised because I had been been ‘brainwashed’ to think the opposite. That’s life however. What did, do, I deduce from this? Simply put, there are some ‘dumb’ people and some ‘smart’ people, it all depends on the individual. Instead of trying to figure out how intelligent people are, they should be examining why they even have a need fro such tests. What they effect is only one thing, superiority of one group over another. Besides which, there are many types of intelligence, is there a hierarchy as to which is better than the other? To much ifs, and. or buts for my comfort.
As to reading and and then rebutting anything written by Steve Sailor? Number 1: What self-respecting black person would read such tripe and take it in? Who’s going to read tomes, article and the like, telling them that basically, they are as a group, mentally retarded? Which one of these ‘researchers’, are going to decide which black person is dumb and which aren’t? Will they start quantifying which group of blacks are less retarded than others? What goal post will they use? I might be a retard in many regards but a sucker I ain’t. What tells me this man is full of sh$t, is the fact that he, like others of his ilk, seem to be fixated on black people’s sexuality, him and that other clown Phillipe Rushton. Good ol’ Phillipe, taking to task by Queens University, for going to malls and asking racialized men about their pecker size! This was all in the name of science. If I didn’t know better, this to me sounded like a pick-up line, the kind a nerd would employ. I am sure it went down well with the interviewees!
Lastly, I am not going to spend untold hours on the internet searching out information to post on this blog. The reason is twofold. I don’t have the time nor inclination to do so, as this isn’t a great area of interest to me, HBDers, that is. ‘Rebutting’ what they have to say will only give them a platform and perverse legitimacy to what they write. The fact that there are hundreds of thousands of blogs, articles etc, is testament of this. There are a lot of people out there with low self-worth who succumb to these ramblings. Instead of concentrating the cause and effect of such issues of racism and class, for example, these clowns only serve to divert attention to what really ails society. It’s easier to blame these problems on people who are, were, historically oppressed in whatever fashion. I didn’t buy into this thinking in the past, and I am not going to do so now. Lastly, okay I lied, I rather go shopping! My IQ is a thousand when it comes to that. It is unquantifiable!
To quote Isaac Asimov:
“Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.”
For Asimov’s take on intelligence:
http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:6VfMnGVWd28J:www.pvc.maricopa.edu/~butler/091/asimovintelligence.pdf+isaac+asimov+what+is+intelligence%3F&hl=en&gl=ca&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgqXpH8NRBOTtJzs2Ur3WlMOFEf5N20pSTj-Wg_gSnP-yLQlz9ruFMWnfPMGi3Hy2SzvNXg1qlHDpiLb-9pJA7k6yuAilPCgMpXK4atOb62ypgYWS824IJziWKM6stenpju1dBW&sig=AHIEtbQj0Ml9NypcUOl0mMw9i-sFDfyrDw
We live in a very politically correct world. If Dana Farber could get away with not using race in scrutinizing a potential donor, they would. They use race because certain genetic markers turn up more frequently in some races/ethnicities than others. Take a look at the words they use again:
Because tissue traits are inherited, a patient’s next best chance of finding a match is with someone of the same race or ethnicity.
They are not dumbing down the issue for the supposedly stupid public. I guess they could rephrase the sentence so that it would be more to your liking, as follows:
“Because tissue traits are inherited, a patient’s next best chance of finding a match is with someone whose group biopatterning is similar to that of the bone marrow recipient.”
The meanings of the two sentences are the same, except the second is more verbose and less efficient.
What they want to look at is “background” and that is quite distinct from “race”
Ha! You are killing me! They don’t ask for the donors interests/hobbies or what they studied in college. They want racial background information because that is what they are looking for. Race is part of a donor’s background.
This is a bit like a physicist telling a layman that a meteroite “falls to Earth” when he knows full well that in terms of physics, what really happened was that two bodies collided.
No it isn’t. First of all, your analogy isn’t a question of just two bodies colliding. The physicist would tell the lay person that the meteorite was pulled toward the earth due to the force of gravity exerted by the earth on the meteorite. Lay people understand gravity as do physicists. Similarly the people at Dana Farber use race because in order to make a good match between donor and recipient, similar genetic markers must exist. These markers exist in specific racial/ethnic groups (or combinations thereof). So they use the word race because they mean the word race. The public understands this.
I would follow her family history and, failing that, look at populations which display similar mixes.
Similar mixes? You avoid using the phrase “racial mixes”, but nonetheless, mean race mix. How would you define “similar mixes”? How is a similar mix displayed? I guess you could interview potential donors and ask them about their “mix”, but how would you determine whom to interview? Would you just interview people at random in a give geographic area or would there be something in a perspective donor’s appearance that might incline you to inquire further as to that person’s “mix”?
My search would be much more precise than that and it’s first step would involve a genetic assay.
Yes, but whom would you assay? Would you assay people at random in a particular region? What would guide you in determining who was worthy of assaying? Remember, the clock would be ticking. You would have to use your time efficiently.
Said article is a call to the general population to donate bone marrow.
No it isn’t. Please read it again:
It is specifically a call for minority donors. And why might they need minority donors? Because they have minority patients who need very specific genetic markers in the donor in order for the transplant to work. These genetic markers are race/ethnicity specific.
Using race would allow us a greater degree of communication efficiency, for one, because we wouldn’t have to resort to using phrases like “human biopatterning expressed in groups”. A scientist could use the word race without worrying about his funding being stripped from him. It would also allow for a greater degree of intellectual inquiry than we have today. Yes, we know that racial groups differ, but we don’t know exactly why and how we differ. Perhaps, through the study of race, something could be uncovered that would lead to the improvement of Negro IQ. We will never get to such a place if we aren’t allowed to ask the right questions in the first place.
Low IQ folk didn’t always out-reproduce higher IQ folk. In fact, it has been postulated that due to the ability of higher IQ folk to acquire resources, they usually out reproduced less bright people. Greg Cochran produced a paper that asserts that high Jewish IQ was established as an outgrowth of their persecution in Europe, and inadvertantly had a eugenic effect, with more successful Jews out-reproducing less successful Jews.
The immigration problem is not a question of scape-goating. Immigrants really do lower the quality of life for Americans, especially black Americans. I would go into detail here, but abagond my yell at me and delete my comments. If you want to explore the issues Americans face regarding immigration, we can do it here:
https://abagond.wordpress.com/2010/04/29/arizona-sb1070/#comments
I will say that both the Democrats and Republicans are both horrible on the issue.
I will read “Promises I Can Keep”. I still think that if we implement an immigration moratorium we would not need to resort to draconian methods to improve the standard of living in this country.
The incarceration rate of black men is a real problem, although crime has gone down as a result of it. It puts blacks in a real quandary. If we advocate for lower incarceration rates for black men, we will inevitably get more crime. If we don’t, we have fewer eligible black males around. I guess it will be party time for my sons:). I’ll just have to convince them to marry….and to marry black women….black American Christian women.
Regarding the IQ differentials between black men and black women, perhaps the standard deviations for whites just don’t hold for blacks. After all, blacks and whites are quite different on a number of measures.
Jay-Z and Nas are successful in their chosen fields, it is debatable as to whether they possess superior intelligence. Black women outnumber black men in college across the board, perhaps even in engineering programs. We won’t even mention graduate school. Then again Sailer posted this the other day:
http://isteve.blogspot.com/2010/07/who-gets-5-on-ap-physics-c-exam.html
It seems that black males get 5s on their AP Physics C exams at a ratio of 13:1 compared to black females. I’m not sure what this means. If the numbers are similar for Calculus and other technical subjects, then perhaps the IQ data is off.
I’m not sure it is reasonable to compare Dubois and Franklin to Hurston. It seems to be an oranges to apples comparison. You also have to take into account the considerable about of sexism directed at black women then, both by black men and white men.
What self-respecting black person would read such tripe and take it in?
who’s going to read tomes, article and the like, telling them that basically, they are as a group, mentally retarded?
Well, me. Retarded is a harsh word. They are saying that blacks, on average, are less intelligent than whites. I don’t like this, but after mustering all of the dispassion that I could while researching the topic, I have come to agree with them. Why we are less intelligent is a different question.
Intelligence is a very important topic. The problems associated with IQ differentials between groups is probably the biggest problem the world is currently facing. If you don’t have time to research this topic you really need to make time.
Perhaps, through the study of race, something could be uncovered that would lead to the improvement of Negro IQ. We will never get to such a place if we aren’t allowed to ask the right questions in the first place.
“The improvement of Negro IQ”?? You really are taking a piss, aren’t you?
While we’re at it, here’s a fascinating and mind-boggling take on human intelligence by one of the most brilliant scientists alive.
on Mon Jul 19th 2010 at 15:14:59 theobsidianfiles
I find your citation of “sexism” as to why there aren’t ANY Black Female equivalents to DuBois or Franklin, or John Henrick Clarke or Jay-Z, or the RZA, to be fallacious. ALL of these Men, and many, many more, have faced far and away MORE obstacles to their success, up to and including death itself. I maintain: please show me the Black Female equivalent to Louis Armstrong; the Black Female equivalent to Dizzy Gillespie, or Jimi Hendrix, or Prince? Since we’ve been discussing Hip Hop a bit (and since you have yet to offer any Black Female equivalents to the Black Male names I’ve mentioned earlier), let’s take it a step further:
There any number of postmodern Black Feminists out there who seem to have a greater interest in “critiquing” Hip Hop than they are dealing with the very real problems they have with their White “sisters”; be that as it may, can we honestly say that any one of them are comparable to “Hip Hop scholar” Michael Eric Dyson? And if we cannot, are we then to blame “sexism” for it – even when, as you pointed out above, not only are Black Women more represented on the college campus than are Black Men, but score better on standardized tests to boot? How then are we to explain this, RR?
You tell me.
You might want to checkout an interesting paper written by Prof. Roy Baumeister; I think it’s “What Good Are Men?” or something like that. Look it up on Google, shouldn’t be hard to find. In it he makes the same argument – that WHITE, privileged Women, who had plenty of time and presumably more intelligence than poor Black Men living in Jim Crow conditions, never took their musical or artistic pursuits beyond entertaining friends at dinner parties and the like; meanwhile, poor Black Men who lived under the worst of conditions, not only moved the ball forward artistically, but founded entirely new artforms of music. Again, if we can cite such a thing as one manifestation of intelligence, then I say again, that your theory leaves a heck of a lot to be desired.
As for Jay-Z, a Man who by all accounts has very little formal education of any kind, when it comes to actually making money, I would put my money on him ahead of just about every Black Female MBA out there. Quick RR, tell me – where’d Jigga get his MBA from? 😉
I’m glad you’re going to sitdown and read the book Promises I Can Keep. Really engages some of the questions we both are raising and addressing in this thread. Moreover, I’ve had the chance to chat a bit with the authors of said book, and it was quite interesting to say the least. More on that, another time.
On Black Male incarceration, please note that I took no position as to whether it was good or bad for the Black community as a whole, or for Black Women as a whole for that matter. All I’m addressing is your query as to whether skewed sex ratios play a role as to why we see what we see in the modern day Black community along dating and mating lines. The simple truth of the matter is, for whatever the reason, yes, Black Men being locked up plays a role in skewing the sex ratios. Simply put, for every Brotha in the joint, that’s one less potential eligible Brotha out there for a Sista. Same deal with the massive and longstanding unemployment problem wrt Black Men. Same deal wrt the homicde rate. And so on.
Finally, wrt immigration – so long as both political parties stand to gain substantially from such a state of affairs, NOTHING will change. Moreover, many of the issues we are discussing have very little to do with immigration, for example, the high IQ White birthrate in this country historically. It’s always been lower than their lower IQ White brethren RR, and I’ve given a clear and present example, case in point by citing Sarah Palin and her daught Bristol. There are precious few NAMs in Alaska. Same deal in Boise, Des Moines, Fargo, Butte, etc et al. Red staters, who tend to be less intelligent than their Blue state brethren, also tend to have more babies on average. And it has been thus for quite some time now.
Also, since we are examining the whys and wherefores of IQ and the like, I would like to know what you think of the notion of “Clever Sillies”. You can find the idea online, no need for me to go into it all here. My reason for asking you about this is because I think it’s something of a dangerous assumption to go “smart=good, not so smart=bad”. My experience and observation tends to turn such a notion on its head, and Clever Sillies thinking is one reason why.
on Mon Jul 19th 2010 at 20:09:36 Menelik Charles
@ Bro Obsidian,
I like this notion of “clever sillies”. I guess these kinds of people take IQ tests & scores seriously, and go around looking down their noses at those apparently less fortunate than themselves. I’ve questioned the scientific legitimacy of IQ tests and they’ve suggested I was intellectually envious of them (this was at a gathering of Mensa members in London’s Hyde Park). Then I showed them my IQ test scores, and they soon shut up!
The level of snobbery these people exhibit is deeply offensive, and as a Black man I know that translates to bigotry in a heartbeat.
Yeah, “clever sillies” is a good one as it suggests a group of people who simply ”cannot see the wood for the trees”; much like angry nerds who just don’t get that the highest form of human intelligence is actually intuition since it encompasses all of the senses (plus the brain), and is most potent when matched with a hungry mind that wasn’t schooled at some Ivy League college. Malcolm X anyone? Or maybe even Obsidian!
on Tue Jul 20th 2010 at 02:46:53 RR
My, you feel quite strongly about this. I see your point, but it seems to me that black women had things at least as bad as black men did up until recent history. Then we have:
Oprah Winfrey – Richest black American
Harriet Wilson – First black novelist
Lucy Terry – First black poet
Gwendolyn Brooks – First Pulitzer Prize winner
Toni Morrison – First Nobel Prize winner in literature
First Licensed Pilot – Bessie Coleman
First Millionaire – Madame C. J. Walker
I will concede that historically there were more black male virtuosos than female virtuosos, but I maintain that the sexual gap in virtuosity is wider in whites than it is in blacks. Why is it that most of the work in Africa is done by women?
not only are Black Women more represented on the college campus than are Black Men, but score better on standardized tests to boot? How then are we to explain this, RR?
Yes, I get it. Perhaps it is something environmental. We seem to be seeing something akin to this in the white race, being that at many major campuses, white females outnumber white males (but not in the strictly technical disciplines).
Being that I’m not particularly fond of the Jigga Man, I don’t count his success as something we can be proud of. Ditto for the entire rap industry.
Perhaps men as a group are redundant. Here is a white woman with a very strong opinion on the matter:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/the-end-of-men/8135/
The triumphalism of the author could only have come from a white woman.
Moreover, many of the issues we are discussing have very little to do with immigration
Virtually all of the issues we are discussing here are impacted by immigration. It bothers me that many blacks don’t get this basic fact. It seems to me that in our blind hatred of the White Man, we overlook other, more basic threats, like illegitimacy and immigration. I will address your other comments on immigration in the other thread.
the high IQ White birthrate in this country historically. It’s always been lower than their lower IQ White brethren RR
I doubt that, though it is debatable. It is hard to say whether low IQ whites were having more babies than smarter whites in 1776, 1865 or 1946. It seems to be the case that whites of average and above average IQ have approximately the same number of children in the US.
I hadn’t heard of the phrase “Clever Sillies” before, but I think I touched on it earlier. Here is a link:
http://medicalhypotheses.blogspot.com/2009/11/clever-sillies-why-high-iq-lack-common.html
I particularly liked this:
So, the greater cognitive abilities of higher IQ tend also to be accompanied by a distinctive high IQ personality type including the trait of ‘Openness to experience’, ‘enlightened’ or progressive left-wing political values, and atheism.
And since evolved common sense usually produces the right answers in the social domain; this implies that, when it comes to solving social problems, the most intelligent people are more likely than those of average intelligence to have novel but silly ideas, and therefore to believe and behave maladaptively. I further suggest that this random silliness of the most intelligent people may be amplified to generate systematic wrongness when intellectuals are in addition ‘advertising’ their own high intelligence in the evolutionarily novel context of a modern IQ meritocracy.
Egad This explains Jared Diamond’s stupidity regarding the supposed non-existence of race. Thanks for upping me on that.
Menelik Charles wrote:
I agree. It will be couched in terms like “Race doesn’t exist”, as if just eliminating the word race would eliminate racism. This bigotry is most evident when the topic of discussion among liberals like Hannah Rosen, is working class whites.
on Tue Jul 20th 2010 at 03:30:06 Menelik Charles
@ RR & Obsidian,
Brothers, may I ask you both a question? OK. Did the authors of the Bell Curve question the scientific legitimacy of IQ tests in their book? I figure the answer to this single question will in turn answer another question I have spinning around in my head.
RR: My, you feel quite strongly about this. I see your point, but it seems to me that black women had things at least as bad as black men did up until recent history.
O: No, they didn’t. Black Women weren’t lynched anywhere near the degree that Black Men were, and that’s just for starters. For more on this point, you can go look up another prominent Black Woman’s work, one Ida B. Wells, who made it her life’s work to chronicle the grisly history as it unfolded in the early part of the last century for the Crisis Magazine.
Then there was the blatant employment discrimination that Black Men faced and continues to face to this day, in comparison to Black Women; in our time the unemployment rate for the former is about 20%; for the latter, it’s about 13%. Huge difference, I’d say.
Again, Prof. Baumeister speaks on this point at length. Google it up.
RR: Then we have:
RR: I will concede that historically there were more black male virtuosos than female virtuosos, but I maintain that the sexual gap in virtuosity is wider in whites than it is in blacks. Why is it that most of the work in Africa is done by women?
O: Now you’re changing the goalposts, RR. We weren’t talking about continental laborforce participation on the part of Black Women versus Black Men, we were examining whether Black Women, in America, were indeed more intelligent than Black Men, in aggregate. I have offered numerous examples-to be frank, far more than the counter examples you’ve offered-of Black Men who often came from serious disadvantages to go on not only to achieve, but to be true trailblazers in their respective fields. Yes, Oprah Winfrey and Madame CJ Walker are to be commended, same with Toni Morrison. But that doesn’t diminish any of what I said.
Moreover, if we were talking about Handel, or Beethoven or Chopin or Mozart, all kinds of praise would be given to their smarts and raw brainpower for being able to come up with the great works of art in music they’ve given the world; but when it comes to Black Men, their creativity doesn’t have anything to do with brainpower. Hmm.
O: not only are Black Women more represented on the college campus than are Black Men, but score better on standardized tests to boot? How then are we to explain this, RR?
RR: Yes, I get it. Perhaps it is something environmental. We seem to be seeing something akin to this in the white race, being that at many major campuses, white females outnumber white males (but not in the strictly technical disciplines).
O: Indeed. Which then raises a whole heck of a lot of questions as to the validity of standardized tests among a great many things, doesn’t it?
RR: Being that I’m not particularly fond of the Jigga Man, I don’t count his success as something we can be proud of. Ditto for the entire rap industry.
O: Well, with all due respect RR, just because YOU find Hip Hop distasteful, doesn’t mean that it lacks artistic merit or cognitive brainpower to pull off, which was the point I was making in response to your arguments about Black Women in aggregate. And the record on this matter is clear, Black Men have moved the ball forward in just about every conceivable way in comparison to Black Women, and we can see this in other genres of Black music, too-Jazz, R&B, Soul, Funk, you name it. It was Black Men, not Black Women, who took things to the next level.
RR: Perhaps men as a group are redundant. Here is a white woman with a very strong opinion on the matter:
O: Bearing in mind your general dislike for Hip Hop, I must nevertheless quote the words of Chuck D: don’t believe the hype…
RR: The triumphalism of the author could only have come from a white woman.
O: Yea, I and quite a few bloggers I know have addressed her screed at some length on our respective blogs. Personally, I find her analysis, such as it is, to be wanting.
O: Moreover, many of the issues we are discussing have very little to do with immigration
RR: Virtually all of the issues we are discussing here are impacted by immigration. It bothers me that many blacks don’t get this basic fact. It seems to me that in our blind hatred of the White Man, we overlook other, more basic threats, like illegitimacy and immigration. I will address your other comments on immigration in the other thread.
O: I can’t speak for anyone else, but there is no “blind hatred” on my part for “the White Man” here. Simply noting a fact-if you’re working as an overpaid gov’t or quasi-gov’t apparatchik, or in big law, or in certain kinds of medicine, or highpowered sales or the financial sector, etc, you have little to fear from either Affirmative Action or illegal immigration. If, on the other hand you work in manufacturing or construction, or on the lower levels of civil service, etc, et al, these two forces render you particularly vulnerable.
So, for the cohort we are examining, the high IQ White set, illegal immigration is really ain’t that big a deal. Ironically enough it is a concern of more modestly intelligent Whites who have something to fear along these lines.
As for Black folks, let us also be clear, and I say as much on my recent post on the dustup between the Tea Party and the NAACP-the average rank and file Black person is indeed VERY much concerned about illegal immigration, because it has a direct impact on the longstanding Black Male unemployment problem. Every poll or survey done on this bears this out-yet, our “leaders”, like the NAACP, continues to parrot the line given them by White Leftists and the like, that illegal immigrants are being scapegoated and so on. Black folk aren’t interested in scapegoating Hispanic illegals-they’re interested in not being marginalized even more than they are in the labor market. This is yet another example of “Clever Sillies” thinking that I’ve mentioned earlier, in fact, I refer to the kinds of Blacks who wind up at the NAACP “Black Clever Sillies”.
O: the high IQ White birthrate in this country historically. It’s always been lower than their lower IQ White brethren RR
RR: I doubt that, though it is debatable. It is hard to say whether low IQ whites were having more babies than smarter whites in 1776, 1865 or 1946. It seems to be the case that whites of average and above average IQ have approximately the same number of children in the US.
O: Well, the evidence as we have it says that the higher the IQ, the less fecundity/virility present. And there have been papers and blogposts written on the matter that surveys these periods you mention above. The result? Lower IQ folk have more kids than higher IQ folk. And let’s be clear here-we’re talking about folk with IQs over say, 120 or so, versus folks with IQs anywhere below 100. At least a bit more than one standard deviation, if not two or three.
RR: I hadn’t heard of the phrase “Clever Sillies” before, but I think I touched on it earlier. Here is a link:
RR: Egad This explains Jared Diamond’s stupidity regarding the supposed non-existence of race. Thanks for upping me on that.
O: You’re welcome.
Note: I renamed this post “Stephen Jay Gould on ‘The Bell Curve'”.
That is because at this point I plan to do two more posts on the book:
1. “Thomas Sowell on ‘The Bell Curve'” – Sowell is a black conservative so that should be interesting.
2. “The Bell Curve: the Argument” – based on my reading of the high-level argument of the book.
Herrnstein and Murray present the high-level argument in such a way that you can read and understand it without going through the hundreds of pages of the facts and figures and appendices they use to back it up. After reading the high-level argument I will make a decision about whether to read through all that.
Brothers, may I ask you both a question? OK. Did the authors of the Bell Curve question the scientific legitimacy of IQ tests in their book?
on Wed Jul 21st 2010 at 02:32:02 Menelik Charles
@ Anyone,
will anyone answer my question…please?
on Wed Jul 21st 2010 at 12:18:54 theobsidianfiles
MC,
As far as the authors of the Bell Curve are concerned, the best measure we have of potential life outcomes is IQ. Now of course, I have deep reservations about this. For example, Mensa is chockfull of high IQ people, but many of them are hardly masters of the universe or anything, LOL. And of course, we know that other factors-social ones-can supercede one’s IQ.
So, if you’re wanting to hear or read the authors of the Bell Curve basically questioning the validity of IQ testing and the like, get set for a big disappointment. They don’t do that. As far as they’re concerned, a big factor in life outcomes hinges on IQ, and the higher it is the greater chance your life turns out well.
Again, I have a whole host of reservations about such a position.
on Thu Jul 22nd 2010 at 00:49:02 RR
The authors give a brief introduction to the history and development of IQ tests. As O pointed out, they don’t discuss in any detail the scientific validity of the tests. They focus instead on the predictive power of IQ. Contrary to the popular belief of those who have not read the book, the authors go out of their way to say that the wide range of individual human potential can’t be reduced to a number. They state:
”This identification of IQ with attractive human qualities in general is unfortunate and wrong. Statistically, there is often a modest correlation with such qualities. But modest correlations are of little use in sizing up other individuals one by one.
Measures of intelligence have reliable statistical relationships with important social phenomena, but they are a limited tool for deciding what to make of any given individual
Granted, there were many more black men lynched than black women, but what of rape? Black women not only had to fear being raped by white men, but by black men too. How many black men were raped? This is NOT to say that black women were raped systematically en masse by white or black men, but I’m saying that that the hardship endured by black women is comparable to that of black men.
in our time the unemployment rate for the former is about 20%; for the latter, it’s about 13%.
But this is due mainly to the lower educational achievement of black men, not to mention the incarceration rate, etc. Affirmative Action is also a factor.
Well, with all due respect RR, just because YOU find Hip Hop distasteful, doesn’t mean that it lacks artistic merit or cognitive brainpower to pull off
I don’t find all of Rap distasteful. But is it really music? Do you really think Kanye West is the artistic equal of Louis Armstrong? Would you put Jay-Z up there with Scott Joplin?
I think that Americans of all walks of life are threatened to various degrees by immigration. And the negative effects of immigration are clearly magnified by Affirmative Action. If you are a Christian white with an IQ of below 130, you are under threat. Of course, Christian whites with IQs below 130 constitute a majority of the population, so it is a big deal.
I agree that most blacks are skeptical to downright hostile to immigration. And some blacks do scapegoat immigrants, not without some justification. The NAACP at this point in our history is NOT helping our cause. They are clearly hurting us.
Well, the evidence as we have it says that the higher the IQ, the less fecundity/virility present.
It seems there is an inverse correlation between economic development and fertility. Thus we have white women with IQs of 80 averaging less than 3 kids per woman. The averages for both low and high IQ used to be much higher, with, depending on the era, higher IQ people out-breeding lower IQ people.
I wondered why you changed the initial post. Now I understand. Good show! Just one thing, you probably should have done the reverse:
1)Read/skimmed the most important chapters of TBC.
2)Read the reviews of TBC.
By reading the book first, you could have drawn your own conclusions. Now, you have already relied on Stephen Jay Gould to give you your opinion. In any event, my hat is off to you!
on Thu Jul 22nd 2010 at 01:43:03 theobsidianfiles
RR: Granted, there were many more black men lynched than black women, but what of rape? Black women not only had to fear being raped by white men, but by black men too. How many black men were raped? This is NOT to say that black women were raped systematically en masse by white or black men, but I’m saying that that the hardship endured by black women is comparable to that of black men.
O: What about it? Was it an organized and longstanding thing, like lynching was? If so, why haven’t we heard about it, especially given the fact that Black Women are if anything, overrepresented on the college campus and academic life in comparison to Black Men? That isn’t to say that rape and other forms of sexual assault on Black Women weren’t wrong or otherwise weren’t a legitimate concern; they most certainly were. What I am saying is that for Black Women, whatever their hardships simply didn’t compare to that of Black Men, and come on RR, you know this. Name me the Black Female equivalent of Emmit Till. I’ll wait.
And again, we can take Black Women out of the mix altogether – as Prof. Baumeister clearly says in his paper, well to do WHITE WOMEN, who had plenty of free time on their hands, lived very comfortable lives and were putatively smarter than maligned Black Men, STILL couldn’t come up with original forms of music or advancing existing forms in any meaningful way; on the other hand, poor Black Men living under the worst of conditions in American life did, and this ranges from Jazz to Hip Hop and everything in between. Again, how does this square your thesis about Black Women being on average smarter than Black Men? If what you say is true, why can’t we find clear and present examples of this in just about every area of human endeavor? Why is it that if anything, it’s the reverse? What is up with that? Please explain?
RR: You wrote:
O: Affirmative Action to be sure, as everyone, including Black Women knows, that employers essentially get a two for one when they hire a Sista over a Brotha. This is borne out in part by the fact that even Brothas with four year degrees are STILL unemployed at a rate of two to one when compared to their White Male counterparts. So, that being the case, it kinda renders the whole “lower educational achievement” argument moot at best, because even Black Women with lesser education can still get jobs at a higher rate than Black Men – and if you want to bring up “incarceration”, again, Black Men with no record and college degrees still have a rougher go of it in the job market when compared to their Sistas. No RR, it’s the Racism, stupid, LOL. Plain and simple. Or should I say, it’s the Racialism, because it has been shown that groups can and will look out for each other before they will allow outsiders into their midst. This explains why entire industries or business or jobs have been and continue to be dominated by various ethnic groups. For example, the Irish have a veritable lock on the nation’s fire departments; Poles, certain trade unions; Italians, brick masons; Indians, motels and quickie marts; Asians, Chinese and other related Asian eateries, and so on. Black Men were prevented from building the kinds of patronage networks that makes things happen and gets Men jobs, due to longstanding Jim Crow traditions, even after they became illegal. This is why unemployment rates in Black America for Black Men continue to be skyhigh, especially when it comes to the skilled trades, firemen and the like. White Men can be incarcerated and still get good jobs that are all but out of reach for Black Men, and there have been studies done on this, RR. You think all those White guys down at the union hall have squeaky clean records, RR? Is that what you’re telling me? Come on.
O: Well, with all due respect RR, just because YOU find Hip Hop distasteful, doesn’t mean that it lacks artistic merit or cognitive brainpower to pull off
RR: I don’t find all of Rap distasteful. But is it really music? Do you really think Kanye West is the artistic equal of Louis Armstrong? Would you put Jay-Z up there with Scott Joplin?
O: Well, that’s a comfort. And yes, Hip Hop is indeed music. You’re allowing your personal bias to get in the way again, with all due respect, LOL. And I’ll say this: Grandmaster Flash is on the same plane creatively and inventively, as the White guy who invented the saxophone. J Dilla is to my mind comparable to the great Polish composer Chopin. And I’d put Mantronik up there with anything Handel’s done. To my mind, the RZA, or DJ Premiere is on a par with other classical composers, or jazz composers like Duke Ellington. Don’t take my word for any of this, take a look around on the internet and see the buzz on any of these guys and see for yourself.
RR: I think that Americans of all walks of life are threatened to various degrees by immigration. And the negative effects of immigration are clearly magnified by Affirmative Action. If you are a Christian white with an IQ of below 130, you are under threat. Of course, Christian whites with IQs below 130 constitute a majority of the population, so it is a big deal.
O: Again – if you are in a certain cohort of folk, Jose and Juan aren’t much of a threat to you, not your job or even their very presence. If on the other hand, you’re lower down on the totem pole, then yea, you’ve got something to worry about.
RR: I agree that most blacks are skeptical to downright hostile to immigration. And some blacks do scapegoat immigrants, not without some justification. The NAACP at this point in our history is NOT helping our cause. They are clearly hurting us.
O: Tru dat.
O: Well, the evidence as we have it says that the higher the IQ, the less fecundity/virility present.
RR: It seems there is an inverse correlation between economic development and fertility. Thus we have white women with IQs of 80 averaging less than 3 kids per woman. The averages for both low and high IQ used to be much higher, with, depending on the era, higher IQ people out-breeding lower IQ people.
O: Nice try RR, but the higher IQ folk have ALWAYS reproduced less than their lesser brethren, and this has been thus for quite some time historically. It’s just one of nature’s tradeoffs, and why that should be something that causes so many so much agita is something that is really beyond me.
Black men, even with college degrees, have higher levels of unemployment because we still tend to be less qualified than white men. We have a tendency to:
1) Go to less demanding institutions.
2) Major in less demanding fields.
3) Graduate (if we graduate) with lower GPAs and lower levels of work experience.
4) Have fewer personal contacts.
The above holds, to a lesser degree, for black women also as compared to black men. One could argue, as Sailer has, that women have a tendency to be more conformist than men, thus inclining them to take jobs that men would not have use for. So we see black women dominating wrt black men in occupations such as home health aide, social worker, administrative assistant as well as in occupations higher up the food chain like corporate law and accounting. I do not believe that racism accounts for the disparity in employment rates between black men and black women. I think it has much more to do with innate sex differences manifesting themselves in employment preferences.
While some white ethnic groups have carved out employment niches for themselves via trade unions, most white men today are not affiliated with unions. Most white men can’t get into unions. Remember, the only way unions can keep the wages of their members high is to restrict membership. They actively restrict management’s access to labor, this means barring the bulk of the white male population from employment via unions. Add to this the reality of waning union power over the last few decades and your argument doesn’t hold water. Sure, northeastern fire departments are dominated by the Irish, but so what? Most white men aren’t firemen, and with the economy floundering as it is, my guess is that there are going to be many fewer firemen than there are right now.
Your argument regarding the relative status of black men and women during slavery/segregation is troubling. I really don’t relish dredging up old womanist positions on this issue, but here I think they had a point. The system was not more brutal to black men than to black women. I think that what we see in, say, lynching statistics, is that men have a habit of being more challenging of established norms than women are, thus men have a tendency to come in contact with established justice systems to a greater degree than women do (even today). A male slave/sharecropper could be whipped or jailed for stealing a pig or attacking another black man in a dispute. The fact that women are less inclined to commit crimes or acts of violence does not mean that the system itself was easier on them. You asked for the black female equivalent of Emmit Till. We have to remember that, while the system of “justice” was perverse and cruel, Emmit Till did, in fact, whistle at that white woman. Again, this is not to say that he deserved to be killed for it, but white justice did have a logic to it and that logic was directed at those blacks who challenged the system. Black women less actively challenged the system. A black women could be raped, not for challenging the system, but merely for existing. This was a reality that I don’t think you have a full appreciation of.
Regarding fertility and intelligence, the jury is still out as to whether intelligence has always been negatively correlated with intelligence. A conclusion is difficult to draw because wealthy countries, with wide-ranging social safety networks, are inherently dysgenic. Poor countries are also inherently dysgenic. There seems to be a point in a countries development, assuming it actually develops, in which intelligence would have to be positively correlated with fertility.
on Sun Jul 25th 2010 at 06:19:51 Menelik Charles
Brothers, may I ask you both a question? Did the authors of the Bell Curve question the scientific legitimacy of IQ tests in their book?
Obsidian replied:
if you’re wanting to hear or read the authors of the Bell Curve basically questioning the validity of IQ testing and the like, get set for a big disappointment. They don’t do that.
RR replied:
The authors give a brief introduction to the history and development of IQ tests. As O pointed out, they don’t discuss in any detail the scientific validity of the tests.
just as I thought: they race through the very source of IQ scores without even so much as a nodding acknowledgement as to the controversy surrounding the scientific validity of IQ tests themselves! What gross intellectual dishonesty!
Bros. Obsidian and RR, I thank you most kindly for your answers but I think the debate you’re having stemming from IQ scores is really rather sad since, like the authors of the Bell Curve, it doesn’t question the source from whence they came. If it had done, this debate would have taken a very different turn.
Instead, you guys have played into the hands the Steve sailors, and Jamilas of this world by lending credibility (by simply not acknowledging a dubious source) to IQ scores which say an awful lot more about social class, poverty, culture, and racial privilege, than it does about group intelligence.
I can’t stop you guys debating but if you would, belatedly, take a turn towards critiquing the source, it would say much for the intellectual humility of the both of you…and quite possibly bring this debate to a rapid close, too!
I have to disagree with you regarding the alleged intellectual dishonesty of Murray and Herrnstein. I think they opted not do include a thorough discussion of the validity of IQ tests because that particular issue has been settled. There really is NO debate that IQ tests measure what we in the West associate with intelligence. The liberal advocates admit that IQ tests do, in fact, measure something that positively correlates with intellectual achievement. Even Robert Nisbett, hardly a staunch conservative, admits this.
RR said
I have to disagree with you regarding the alleged intellectual dishonesty of Murray and Herrnstein. I think they opted not do include a thorough discussion of the validity of IQ tests because that particular issue has been settled.
Bro., IQ tests are a much disputed measure of intelligence for reasons which I alluded to above. That one or more critics of these tests humbly concede some elemental use for such test takes little from their original critiques. Murray & Herrnstein produced a weighty tome in support of their hypothesis, and yet paid only a cursory acknowledgement to its basic scientific legitimacy. This is dishonest since it sought to conceal a wider debate which might have rendered their thesis redundant at source.
Your debate with Bro Obsidian leans in the direction of legitimising Murray & Herrnstein’s essential thesis. This I find disturbing. The authors are not the orthodoxy but the heretics of the field of intelligence inquiry!
The tests are only disputed in the political realm, not in the psychometric realm. Among psychologists, the validity of the tests are taken as an article of faith. At this time, most critics, not a few, concede the predicitive power of IQ tests in the area of academic achievement. Thus critics have resorted to other strategems like:
1) Expanding the definition of intelligence.
2) Denying that race exists.
3) Asserting that intelligence can be raised.
4) Insisting that intelligence differentials between groups can be blamed on cultural differences.
The major themes of TBC, i.e. IQ is positively correlated with many life outcomes and that groups of people differ in average IQ, reflects the orthodoxy of the psychological community. Again, psychologists don’t debate these ideas. They consider these topics beyond debate. Murray and Herrnsteins views are not heretical, but are disturbing nonetheless.
Murray, Herrnstein, Jensen, Flynn et al are not the heretics in this discussion.
“The tests are only disputed in the political realm, not in the psychometric realm. Among psychologists, the validity of the tests are taken as an article of faith.”
This is a misrepresentation of what psychologists believe.
Here is a critique from the psychologist Leon Kamin (he who revealed the forgery of psychological data so as to ‘prove’ intelligence is heriditary) with regard to the book ‘The Bell Curve’
Ch 19, p.387
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=NWFWm3GW90kC&pg=PA397&dq=Kamin+against+intelligence&hl=en&ei=_7ZMTKftN4i24AbL4YyaDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CEAQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=Kamin%20against%20intelligence&f=false
I have not misrepresented what psychologists believe. Even Kamin admits that IQ test are positively correlated with life outcomes. From page 387 in “Race and IQ” Kamin states:
More intriguingly, most indicators of our ability to function successfully in society correlate to a significant degree with IQ.
Kamin believes that IQ is not heritable, but he does not question the validity of IQ tests.
You suggested that all psychologists view IQ as an ‘article of faith’.
This is not true.
Furthermore I presented Kamin’s view as a critique of the book NOT what he thinks about IQ tests.
You have ‘correlated’ the two to bring about a ’cause and effect’ situation which obviously is not valid
I did not correlate the two. Currently, we were debating whether psychologists view IQ tests as valid. You have not presented evidence disproving my assertion.
Kamin and others question whether genes influence intelligence as Murray and Herrnstein assert in the book. Ok. The genetic issue is just one topic among many discussed in the book.
Lets go back over the words:
1. RR:
2. J:
” This is a misrepresentation of what psychologists believe.”
“I have not misrepresented what psychologists believe”
And then to support my contention that you did ‘correlate’ my secondary post which is Kamin’s critique of the Bell Curve to Statement 2. You continue 3, by saying, and I will quote you in full:
Hopefully this has clarified matters which is essentially about the misrepresentation of IQ/Intelligence vis-a-vis psychologist, which you describe as ‘an article of faith’.
Forgive me here RR,
If you knew your subject matter. There is no way you would write this:
“Currently, we were debating whether psychologists view IQ tests as valid.
YOU HAVE NOT PRESENTED EVIDENCE DISPROVING MY ASSERTION.”.”
I will leave it to you to research – or perhaps not as the case may be, whether it is the ‘article of faith’ that you have described in your previous post
No, matters have not been clarified. Recall what I wrote:
Among psychologists, the validity of the tests are taken as an article of faith.
Menelik Charles and I were discussing why the validity of IQ tests was not examined more thorougly in TBC. I assumed your remarks were related to that topic. It appears that you are criticisizing TBC on grounds other than the assumption Murray and Herrnstein make regarding the validity of IQ tests.
My point is not all psychologists accept IQ testing and the implications of intelligence etc. Hence not the ‘article of faith’, as you suggested
I have an IQ of a thousand when it comes to shopping and all that entails. However, when it comes to sports, I have an IQ of -100. How do the psychologist explain that contradiction?
on Mon Jul 26th 2010 at 00:42:55 RR
My point is that the overwhelming majority of psychologists, including Kamin, accept the validity of IQ testing, which is why IQ test are in widespread use among psychologists. The validity of IQ testing is an article of faith among psychologists. Please show evidence to the contrary if you can.
“My point is that the overwhelming majority of psychologists, including Kamin, accept the validity of IQ testing”
You did not say this in your intial post which I pointed out to you and hence a different tone andtenor in this post.
As for the ‘article of faith’ which you keep asking for, even to the point that I may not be able to ‘prove’ so.
Sadly, this reveals your lack of knowledge with regard to the issue of ‘intelligence’ within the academic subject of psychology. As I said, otherwise you would not ask
“Many scientists, psychologists, educators and members of the general public do not believe that the standard IQ test accurately measures intelligence…
Given these criticisms, a number of ALTERNATIVE intelligence tests have been proposed”
http://www.aboutintelligence.co.uk/alternative-brain-tests-for-intelligence.html
on Mon Jul 26th 2010 at 01:18:29 Mira
I always assumed there must be something wrong with those IQ tests. An individual can be smart, average or stupid, but there is no clear explanation for different races to have different average IQs. Especially given the fat this race/group IQ can change a lot in just a few years or a decade.
Unless those tests don’t measure intelligence but some other thing.
With regard to that last link I sent you. This carries us back full circle to the conversation between Menelik and yourself.
And why Menelik raised that very important question about the essence of IQ/testing, and was it properly discussed within The Bell Curve
You erred to think Menelik’s point is merely relegated to the ‘political realm’ since you now know that even with psychology, psychologists also have problem with regard to the validity of IQ tests.
And within the field of the subject of psychology, the question that Menelik raised and asked of you, is in fact very pertinent, even for psychologists for themselves.
Now do you see why I was not that keen to answer your question, even though I knew you were wrong in your assessment.
I do not deny that the question , ie the validity of IQ tests, was pertinent at one time. My contention is that the question, at least among the majority of psychologists, is settled. The question of the validity of IQ test has been settled. The tests are positively correlated with academic achievement and job performance. This is not debatable.
You are correct in stating that the cause of group differentials in average IQ are a matter of debate. The consensus opinion, among psychometricians, is that intelligence is influenced by environment and genetics. The area of debate is focused on the degree of nature/nurture involved in shaping intelligence.
Did you get tested at Macy’s or Saks? It has been shown that shoe fashion is the most g-loaded of the fashion questions:).
@RR: No my genius for shopping is inherent, must be something to do with being female, a natural intelligence if you will, confined to the female gender. I shop online, have the products sent to a friend in the States(free shipping), and pick it up when I go to visit them! It’s easier to compare prices on the internet! My genius is at its’ height when comparing the quality of an item, I can spot cheap crap at a glance.
Just one point the issue of ‘intelligence’ is NOT settled as you might suggest.
The subject of Psychology which is a ‘social science’ trying to emulate the ‘pure/natural’ sciences of (physiics, etc) is forever pushing forward the boundary of ‘knowledge’.
So the matter is not settled.
Then also there is an understanding of how things in the ‘academic world’ are applied to the world per se.
Just because IQs may be used in the world by some psychologists – or even the majority – does not make it ‘right’.
At very best it leads to a ‘consensus’. I would suggest it does NOT lead to a ‘paradigm’ in the sense that word where it is used within the ‘natural sciences’ (for the subject ‘Philosophy of Science’)
Kamin has also written an interesting piece on IQ and the ‘politics’ behhind it, suggesting it may be a ‘tool of oppression’ by those who devised it. This is yet another topic of discussion, perhaps for another time
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VLuNKpE41KcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Kamin+politics+of+IQ&hl=en&ei=825NTK2xDMeL4Aaj-ZSaDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
And just one other thing. The ‘main issue’ for most psychologists is whether intelligence is a matter of genes (hereditary) or nuture (the social environment).
Its not really about whether what races score what on IQs. Though some psychologist do attempt to utilise it for this purpose (ie political agendas)
Why do I say this??
If intelligence is about ‘nuture’. Then any score about a races’ IQs, can be fundamentally reduced to their social/material environment. Making it impossible to say that certain ‘races’ ie genetically are less intelligent.
So this is why psychologist start from the ‘accepted belief’ (priori) that intelligence is essentially derived from genes and subsequently then set out to ‘prove’ that certain races are less intelligent.
However, these psychologists, if we speaking ‘scientifically’ have to get over a number of ‘hurdles’.
1. They should be able to show what ‘intelligence’ is?
2. Is the form of measurement ‘accurate’ and reliable?? – This is also another feature of empirical science – Menelik’s point.
3. They should be able to then demonstrate that intelligence is essentially ‘genetically’ derived, and even be able to separate and isolate the ‘social’ factors. So as to ideally suggest, what percentage is genetics and/or what percentage is social??
So there are a number of pre-cusory steps that need to be in place before we can seriously begin to discuss the issuue whether certain races are less intelligent?? This
notwithstanding the various ‘political machinations’ which affects the aforesaid (of 1,2 and 3 respectively).
For this reason much of the debate within psychology, as it relates to ‘intelligence’ is at the level of the ‘nature/nuture debate’. This is what is taught in colleges etc, well in the UK at least and NOT that some races are less intelligent than others and this has been ‘proved’ by psychology.
It’s not even nature vs nurture question here. One should ask whether IQ test measure intelligence or something else.
But even in the nature vs nurture debate, things are not clear. Measuring IQ of different races and deciding which one is the smartest doesn’t make much sense because race is not a biological fact, but a cultural construct. So, whether intelligence is genetic or not is irrelevant, because race isn’t. In other words, all somebody can do is to say “the average IQ of people who identify themselves as X is….” But that doesn’t mean much in terms of any proofs, because anybody can identify themselves any way they want.
“Measuring IQ of different races and deciding which one is the smartest doesn’t make much sense because race is not a biological fact, but a cultural construct. So, whether intelligence is genetic or not is irrelevant, because race isn’t. In other words, all somebody can do is to say “the average IQ of people who identify themselves as X is….” But that doesn’t mean much in terms of any proofs, because anybody can identify themselves any way they want”.
Firstly, with regard to these psychologists, race does exist and you can classify people accordingly. RR has shown us some of the arguments that can be utilised in this respect quite.
Secondly, from the little I know, I do not think anyone has specifically gone around the world measuring intelligence of specific races.
I think what has happened there has been tests done for various countries across the world. these results have been collected and collated, which are available to any academics, to then argue that certain races are more intelligent than others.
Within America this process has been going on much longer and according to Kamin this has been used for ‘political reasons’ from the very beginning when the first Intelligence Quotient (IQ) test were devised in that country.
As for what the IQ tests measure??Personally from the little I know, psychologists do not put a lot of emphasis on ‘intelligence’. Since there are so many different types of intelligence and how it operates on a day to day basis in ordinary daily lives.
Its obvious that no IQ tests or any other for that matter that would be able to measure so many different mental capacities within a human being.
Psychologists usually work withn the theory that there is a thing called ‘intelligence’ – even if it cannot be easily defined – and there main question is how is this variable, as difficult as it is to define, obtained by humans (ie nature/nuture debate)??
Real quick:
RR: Black men, even with college degrees, have higher levels of unemployment because we still tend to be less qualified than white men. We have a tendency to:
O: The only factor above that has any merit, not on the basis of any personal bias on my part, but rather on the basis of actual studies done on the matter, is item four, which I have discussed at length on my blog (“Brothaman’s Dilemma”, etc). Traditionally speaking, Black Men didn’t have the patronage networks crucial in order to make things happen on the labor market and business world. This was for several reasons, Jim Crow being among them. All the other factors you mentioned above are specious. Just sayin.
RR: The above holds, to a lesser degree, for black women also as compared to black men. One could argue, as Sailer has, that women have a tendency to be more conformist than men, thus inclining them to take jobs that men would not have use for. So we see black women dominating wrt black men in occupations such as home health aide, social worker, administrative assistant as well as in occupations higher up the food chain like corporate law and accounting. I do not believe that racism accounts for the disparity in employment rates between black men and black women. I think it has much more to do with innate sex differences manifesting themselves in employment preferences.
O: The primary reason why Black Women have moved ahead in the job market over Black Men, and here I am focusing in the professions, is simple: Affirmative Action. Hiring a Black Woman essentially killed two birds with one stone, and we all know it. The end.
RR: While some white ethnic groups have carved out employment niches for themselves via trade unions, most white men today are not affiliated with unions.
O: So what; my point was made, and you have yet to actually refute it. Instead, you attempt to shift the goalpost, which you tend to do quite a bit, I am noticing.
RR: Most white men can’t get into unions.
O: I never made the claim that most White Men were members of unions. Non-sequitur yet again. 🙂
RR: Remember, the only way unions can keep the wages of their members high is to restrict membership. They actively restrict management’s access to labor, this means barring the bulk of the white male population from employment via unions. Add to this the reality of waning union power over the last few decades and your argument doesn’t hold water. Sure, northeastern fire departments are dominated by the Irish, but so what? Most white men aren’t firemen, and with the economy floundering as it is, my guess is that there are going to be many fewer firemen than there are right now.
O: Again, so what. MY POINT was in noting that White Men had patronage networks that existes and manfiests in various ways, from the firehouses and union halls of America’s big cities, to the country club golf courses and their old boy networks. THAT was my point, and that is something Black Men by and large do not have, and haven’t had for a very long time, if ever. Patronage is a huge factor when it comes to employment. Please see Bellow, In Praise of Nepotism.
RR: Your argument regarding the relative status of black men and women during slavery/segregation is troubling. I really don’t relish dredging up old womanist positions on this issue, but here I think they had a point. The system was not more brutal to black men than to black women. I think that what we see in, say, lynching statistics, is that men have a habit of being more challenging of established norms than women are, thus men have a tendency to come in contact with established justice systems to a greater degree than women do (even today). A male slave/sharecropper could be whipped or jailed for stealing a pig or attacking another black man in a dispute. The fact that women are less inclined to commit crimes or acts of violence does not mean that the system itself was easier on them. You asked for the black female equivalent of Emmit Till. We have to remember that, while the system of “justice” was perverse and cruel, Emmit Till did, in fact, whistle at that white woman. Again, this is not to say that he deserved to be killed for it, but white justice did have a logic to it and that logic was directed at those blacks who challenged the system. Black women less actively challenged the system. A black women could be raped, not for challenging the system, but merely for existing. This was a reality that I don’t think you have a full appreciation of.
O: What i don’t think you have a full appreciation of is the fact that we don’t know, for certain, what Till did or didn’t do; *we know what he is said to have done*. And this was the predicate for many lynchings of Black Men – they supposedly did something untoward, and the ONLY witness was the White Woman who was so offended – and we now know that often, she lied.
In any event, my point is simple. The sheer numbers of Black Women being lynched and mutilated, often while still alive, pales in comparison to Black Men. In no way am I attempting to belittle rape or sexual assualt, but if we are going to make any real, serious cases as to how hard Black Women had it, we would have to ask a simple apples to apples comparison question here, and the answer is, that Black Women did not endure the brunt of racial animus in the way that Black Men did. Simple as that.
RR: Regarding fertility and intelligence, the jury is still out as to whether intelligence has always been negatively correlated with intelligence. A conclusion is difficult to draw because wealthy countries, with wide-ranging social safety networks, are inherently dysgenic. Poor countries are also inherently dysgenic. There seems to be a point in a countries development, assuming it actually develops, in which intelligence would have to be positively correlated with fertility.
O: Read your Rushton, he sums it all up very well. There is a documented inverse correlation between heightened IQ and fecundity/virility.
on Sun Aug 1st 2010 at 01:12:03 RR
It is true that questions regarding the nature of intelligence have not been settled, although the validity of IQ tests in measuring what we in the West associate with intelligence, i.e. academic achievement, has been settled. The tests do correlate with academic achievement which is why the tests are used.
I seriously doubt that IQ tests were devised as tools of oppression. The study of intelligence is a valid field of endeavor. Of course, the field itself, like many others, has been used to further bigotry. This reality should not invalidate the field itself.
Intelligence, like race, is relative. What, exactly, does it mean to be intelligent? Is there some minimum threshold? Who knows? All we really need to know is that different people achieve (or don’t) intellectual and life goals with varying levels of success. Psychometricians only need to verify that the measurements they make via IQ tests are consistent, i.e. positively correlated with certain types of achievement. For instance, Murray and Herrnstein point out that when IQ is held constant, the wage gap between blacks and whites virtually disappears. IQ tests are not perfectly reliable. A person with a superior IQ is not destined to be successful and a person with a below average IQ is not fated to be a criminal, yet the trends are important. These trends are especially important in assaying the causes of inequality. How do we go about figuring out why groups differ if we dismiss a possible cause right off the bat?
The nature/nurture debate has been raging for a very long time. As you stated, scientists continue to study and debate the degree heredity and environment play in the development of cognitive function. Whether scientists know definitively the precise proportions genetics and environment influence intelligence is irrelevant to the current reality of racial difference in IQ. As the authors point out in TBC, even if it could be proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that the IQ gap is entirely environmental, it wouldn’t really matter because eliminating the gap is beyond our current capabilities. We just don’t know how to do it.
Mira wrote:
“One should ask whether IQ test measure intelligence or something else.”
This is a reasonable question, although irrelevant wrt the racial gap in IQ. Again, we know that whatever IQ tests measure, the results correlate positively with academic achievement. This is why IQ test are used as diagnostic tools.
As you know, I strongly disagree with the assertion that race is exclusively a social construct. Calling race something other than race will not eliminate problems associated with race. Pretending that race doesn’t exist with not narrow the IQ gaps between “groups” despite the fact that people can label themselves anything they like. People, generally speaking, are pretty good at categorizing themselves racially.
O wrote:
Black Men didn’t have the patronage networks crucial in order to make things happen on the labor market and business world.
I understand, but patronage networks don’t just pop out of thin air. They are created by specific people to be utilized by specific people. By your line of reasoning, no immigrant group should be successful because they were all shut out of patronage networks upon arrival in the US. The reality is that blacks are just not as good as other groups in forming patronage networks.
How are the other reasons I gave for the underachievement of black men specious? You state that black women are outpacing black men in the professions due to Affirmative Action, but how do you explain the disparate rates of achievement in high school graduation rates or in incarceration rates between the sexes? Are they due to Affirmative Action too?
Your insistence on an apples-to-apples comparison of racial oppression doesn’t make any sense. You are actively belittling the way in which black women were oppressed. Clearly, lynching was oppressive to both black men and black women, regardless of the number of actual blacks lynched. Relatively few blacks of either sex were actually lynched, but the threat of lynching was pervasive and effected black women and men in equal measure. Being lynched is worse than seeing a loved one lynched, but the net effect of terror is the same. The threat of rape is similar. Your view is naïve.
Wrt IQ and fertility, recall I said that as a tribe/country develops, at some point, intelligence becomes positively correlated with fertility. As a tribe/country attains a certain level of wealth, the correlation becomes negative. My point is that just because intelligence and fertility are currently negatively correlated for a given group/country does not mean it was always so.
on Sun Aug 1st 2010 at 01:42:13 J
Do forgive me – I did not read your post addressed to me. So obviously I cannot give a response.
Its nothing to do with you personally, but out of courtesy. I thought I would inform you.
If there are any bones of contention on your part. Perhaps Menelik might be able to answer. I am sure he can, cos he is well versed, and was the first one to raise the matter of the validity of IQ test, what does it measure, and teh problems with it n the area of pschology.
Nice one!!
on Sun Aug 8th 2010 at 00:21:06 theobsidianfiles
O: Black Men didn’t have the patronage networks crucial in order to make things happen on the labor market and business world.
RR: I understand, but patronage networks don’t just pop out of thin air. They are created by specific people to be utilized by specific people. By your line of reasoning, no immigrant group should be successful because they were all shut out of patronage networks upon arrival in the US. The reality is that blacks are just not as good as other groups in forming patronage networks.
O: If that’s the case RR, then we as a group of Black folk might as well pack it all in, yes? Afterall, YOU’RE Black, and just because you’re smart that doesn’t necessarily follow that your progeny will be. Regression to the mean and all that.
But the historical truth of the matter is, that Black Men have been locked out and prevented from developing the kinds of networks that other ethnic Men didn’t have to deal with, even if they were treated rather harshly. For example, Asian, Irish, Italian and Jewish Males faced varying degrees of ill-treatment and even discrimination, but all of these groups were able to prevail. The huge difference though, is that none of these groups were targeted for multi-generational mistreatment and disenfranchisement the way Black Men were. All of this is easily documented, from the destruction of prominent Black businesses by aggrieved Whites, to various practices done by Whites to prevent Black Men from participating in trade unions and other jobs.
RR: How are the other reasons I gave for the underachievement of black men specious?
O: They’re specious because for some reason, you either can’t or won’t take into account the history of Slavery and Jim Crow that hit Black Men especially hard. That’s why.
RR: You state that black women are outpacing black men in the professions due to Affirmative Action, but how do you explain the disparate rates of achievement in high school graduation rates or in incarceration rates between the sexes? Are they due to Affirmative Action too?
O: Not necessarily. These events are easily explained, for example, it is a fact that schools are much more female friendly in our time to the point where even upper middle class White folks are beginning to recognize it. We also know for a fact that Black Men are given different treatment in the criminal justice system, for example, different sentencing guidelines for selling crack cocaine over powered coke. And so on.
RR: Your insistence on an apples-to-apples comparison of racial oppression doesn’t make any sense.
O: You pointing out doing a comparison in this way is what doesn’t make any sense.
RR: You are actively belittling the way in which black women were oppressed.
O: No, I’m not. I am simply saying that they were impacted and indeed treated in a way completely different from the ways Black men were impacted and treated.
RR: Clearly, lynching was oppressive to both black men and black women, regardless of the number of actual blacks lynched. Relatively few blacks of either sex were actually lynched, but the threat of lynching was pervasive and effected black women and men in equal measure. Being lynched is worse than seeing a loved one lynched, but the net effect of terror is the same. The threat of rape is similar. Your view is naïve.
O: What’s naive is the way you keep whiteknighting for Black Women who by all accounts, don’t have any trouble speaking for themselves.
RR: Wrt IQ and fertility, recall I said that as a tribe/country develops, at some point, intelligence becomes positively correlated with fertility. As a tribe/country attains a certain level of wealth, the correlation becomes negative. My point is that just because intelligence and fertility are currently negatively correlated for a given group/country does not mean it was always so.
O: Well, again, all the evidence we have points to the fact that there is an inverse correlation between IQ and fecundity/virility. Don’t like it, take it up with Jensen and Rushton.
on Fri Dec 10th 2010 at 18:31:37 King
“Intelligence is inherited face it. Genetics plays a big role in how smart or stupid you will be. If your parents didn’t complete high school, odds are that you will also DROP OUT.”
So dropping out is what?? Genetic?
What coruscating analysis… dummy.
on Fri Jul 8th 2011 at 21:35:10 Ursulina
I would say the same but this is not always true… another question: what would you do if I had 5 million usd?
on Sun Jul 17th 2011 at 03:34:20 Fabio
Devastating debunking by Gould. Obviously H&M know nothing about the Flynn effect. Except that… they coined the term. Yes, the first time the “Flynn effect” is referred by this name is in the Bell Curve.
Way to go, Jay, way to go.
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$3,000 wedding: North Carolina bride saves money by exclusively using Amazon for wedding
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By Amber Rupinta
RALEIGH, N.C. -- Ashley Hicks is a new bride who married on June 8, 2019. The one thing she and her husband, who works in finance, knew they wanted as they started their new life, was to not go into debt for the wedding.
"I think the average in North Carolina is like $34,000 to spend on a wedding and my husband was like we're definitely not doing that," Hicks said.
Hicks was engaged in February and wanted a June wedding. With a short window to plan, she turned to a wedding planner who recommended using Amazon for quick turnarounds of purchases and many options for comparison shopping.
Hicks took the advice and ordered everything she needed on Amazon to plan her wedding.
"We bought my dress, shoes, bridesmaid dresses, their shoes, their jewelry, my husband's suspenders, all the groomsmen's gifts-except bowties, our table settings, and the plates, it was a long list," Hicks said. "We had about 150 guests, and I probably spent about $3,000 total including our food, all the attire, decorations, everything!"
The new bride says the detailed reviews on Amazon were key to making the right purchase. Hicks would find what she liked in a local store or online and look for something similar on Amazon.
Her dress ended up being one of the biggest cost savings items she found on Amazon after trying on a style she loved in a store.
"It was like a thousand dollar dress and I was like hmm, I don't know," Hicks said. "It was a cute dress, but, knew what I wanted and I wanted mermaid, I wanted lace."
Hicks said she had her measurements taken and found a similar style on Amazon from a dressmaker in China.
With good reviews and a lot of communication online, she ordered a similar looking dress from that dressmaker for a fraction of the cost.
"I paid $100," Hicks said. "Technically, it was $99, but, I paid 100 and I think a few cents for tax. She was like-okay it will be here in two weeks. It came, I put it on and it fit perfectly."
Hicks says her advice for anyone planning a special occasion is to use your resources and know you don't have to go into debt.
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Supreme Court temporarily shields Trump bank records
The Supreme Court on Friday temporarily shielded the bank records of President Donald Trump and three of his children from House Democrats
December 6, 2019, 11:22 PM
Supreme Court puts Trump taxes subpoena on hold during appealHouse investigators with the Oversight and Government Reform Committee requested Trump's records from the firm, Mazars USA, earlier this year but the company has not yet turned them over.The Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Friday temporarily shielded the bank records of President Donald Trump and three of his children from House Democrats.
In an order signed by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the House cannot enforce subpoenas issued to Deutsche Bank and Capital One at least until Dec. 13.
The justices are scheduled to discuss at least one and maybe two other similar cases at their private conference that day. One concerns a subpoena from the House for Trump's financial records and the other is a demand from the Manhattan district attorney for his tax returns.
The court already has blocked the House from getting the financial records while it considers what to do with the cases. The district attorney has agreed to hold off enforcing his subpoena until the justices act. A decision on whether to hear the cases could come by mid-December.
Trial judges and appellate panels in all three cases have ruled that the records held by the banks and Trump's accounting firm, Mazars USA, must be turned over.
The subpoenas to Deutsche Bank and Capital One also seek documents pertaining to three Trump children, Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump and Eric Trump; the Trump Organization; and other Trump business holdings.
Without a Supreme Court order, the banks would have had to begin turning over records to House committees next week.
Ginsburg oversees emergency appeals from New York.
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Home // News // Events // EPN Breakfast: The Future of Wildlife Conservation: Funding Strategies for the State of Ohio
EPN Breakfast: The Future of Wildlife Conservation: Funding Strategies for the State of Ohio
Nov 19, 2019, 2:30am - 8:00am
$22.00 (Breakfast & Lunch); College students FREE
Nationwide and Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center
Nicole R. Jackson
jackson.1457@osu.edu
Click here to view a video-based introduction to this program from our speakers and the EPN
PROGRAM OVERVIEW:
A major source of funding to support wildlife conservation derives from the activity of sportswomen and men through licensing and excise taxes. With declining numbers of these recreationists in our nation and state, there is a potential for significant funding shortages in years to come that will have grave impacts on wildlife conservation. Strategies currently employed that focus on how to recruit, retain, and reactivate hunters and anglers may not be enough, and engaging outdoor users more broadly may not fully address the funding question. Through this EPN program, we explore how wildlife conservation agencies, non-profits, and enthusiasts can build an effective and inclusive coalition to address future funding gaps. How do we increase the networks of both outdoor recreational participants, as well as hunters and anglers, in coalition-building to highlight and successfully conserve our state’s wildlife?
Join this EPN Breakfast Program to learn from Kendra Wecker (the Chief of Ohio’s Division of Wildlife) and Naomi Edelson (Senior Director for Wildlife Partnerships for the National Wildlife Federation; national expert on state-based conservation funding strategies), as we discuss a variety of strategies aimed at enhancing the future of wildlife conservation in Ohio. The discussion will cover traditional funding sources derived through activities such as hunting and fishing, as well as those related to taxing outdoor goods or shooting-specific sports equipment. Additional strategies include broader coalition-building with various stakeholders to expand the number of recreationists. Attendees will walk away from this program with a deeper knowledge of the most critical strategies and challenges to conserve wildlife in Ohio.
Kendra Wecker
Ms. Kendra Wecker was appointed by Mary Mertz, Director of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, in January 2019 to be the next chief of the Ohio Division of Wildlife. Ms. Wecker is an experienced executive administrator, having worked in the fields of Legislation, Wildlife Management, Event Management, and Volunteer Management. Prior to executive administration roles, Ms. Wecker served for 24 years with the Ohio Division of Wildlife as a Wildlife Diversity Coordinator. She was a member of the Ohio Biological Survey Board of Trustees from 2005 to 2016. She received a B.S. in Zoology from Ohio State.
Naomi Edelson
Ms. Naomi Edelson is currently leading a campaign on securing dedicated funding to prevent wildlife from becoming endangered in every state. It is a national legislative, coalition building and communications campaign. She also works on NWF's Gardening for Wildlife program (www.nwf.org/gardenforwildlife) including creator of the emerging Sacred Grounds (certification program for greening congregation grounds; www.nwf.org/sacredgrounds), creator of native plant finder, and monarch butterfly conservation. She is a co-founder of the Women in Wildlife Conservation Network. She received her M.S. in Wildlife Ecology from the University of Florida and B.S. in Wildlife Biology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
EPN Breakfast Program
7:15 a.m. Doors open at Ohio State 4-H Center; coffee served
7:40 a.m. Breakfast buffet served
8:10 a.m. Jeff Sharp, PhD. Director, School of Environment and Natural Resources provides welcome remarks
8:15 a.m. Kendra Wecker, chief, Ohio Division of Wildlife, provides an overview of the current status of wildlife conservation funding in Ohio and strategies to build an agency culture that seeks to broaden the agency’s definition of wildlife stakeholders.
8:35 a.m. Naomi Edelson, senior director of wildlife partnerships, the National Wildlife Federation (NWF), shares the NWF’s toolkit on state funding models, the responsibility of non-governmental organizations in elevating the wildlife crisis, and an update on federal wildlife conservation policy.
9:15 a.m. Audience Q & A session
9:30 a.m. Dr. Sharp’s closing comments and EPN Breakfast program concludes
9:35 a.m. Informal Networking
9:50 a.m. Workshop sessions to engage Ohio residents (open to all attendees) in discussing societal values in conservation, strategies to elevate the wildlife crisis, and to reduce barriers to participation and coalition building. This session will be designed to source ideas and goals to inform wildlife conservation for the state of Ohio. Additional workshop details below.
12:00 p.m. Wild Ohio Harvest cooking demonstration and discussion over a catered lunch. Additional cooking demonstration details below.
1:00 p.m. Program Concludes
Workshop session details.
10:00 a.m. Session 1 Topic: Wildlife access and engagement
Engagement in wildlife-related recreation is an important driver of support for conservation and establishing funding mechanisms. However, not all people have the same type of access to wildlife-based recreation. Differences in access and engagement often stem from where people live and the social influences on their lives. This session will be informed by a brief expert panel and accompanying Q&A session then move into a focus-group/small group discussion format to identify what drives (or limits) participation in wildlife-based recreation, and what partnerships could be developed to address unresolved questions on the path ahead. Significant blocks of time, as well as a rotation of individual participants in the workshop space, will be provided for participants to engage in a rotating set of questions and with attendees from various backgrounds. Information gathered from this session will be recorded and used to inform the Terrestrial Wildlife Ecology Lab at Ohio State and the Ohio Division of Wildlife.
11:00 a.m. Session 2 Topic: Wildlife funding sources
Breadth, and depth of responsibility that agencies and NGOs assume for wildlife conservation has increased over time while financial resources to meet rising costs have remained static or declined. Wildlife conservation is still mostly funded by consumptive users whose interests center on games species and there are means to direct resources toward threatened and endangered species. In between, there are populations and communities of plants and animals that support nature-based recreation but benefit only indirectly from programs that support game or endangered species conservation. Alternative funding streams are proposed or being developed to address conservation needs of non-game / non-endangered species. New funding sources will affect how different user-groups influence conservation policy and decision-making. This session will employ Q&A, focus-group, or small group discussion to explore how different revenue streams can be leveraged to optimally deliver wildlife conservation to meet the needs and interests of wildlife and stakeholders. Information gathered from this session will be recorded and used to inform the Terrestrial Wildlife Ecology Lab at Ohio State and the Ohio Division of Wildlife.
Wild Ohio Harvest cooking demonstration details.
The Ohio Division of Wildlife is working toward providing learning resources, connections, and hands-on opportunities tailored to people interested in sustainably harvesting (through hunting or fishing) and cooking their own wild game. This collection of diverse opportunities to learn new skills and connect with mentors and friends will be known as the Wild Ohio Harvest Community. The Wild Ohio Harvest Community will be a lifestyle and a community in which audiences of all kinds can feel comfortable choosing their own path to learning new skills and exploring their personal connection to the outdoors.
The Wild Ohio Harvest cooking demonstration is an additional component of this program that will occur from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. following the facilitated workshop. Alongside a catered lunch, participants will have the opportunity to experience a cooking demonstration on wild caught foods in Ohio (e.g., filleting fish, cooking game) as well as explore the new outreach efforts found under the Wild Ohio Harvest Community campaign. Walleye and perch will be sampled as fish tacos, as it will be a Taco Tuesday at the EPN! The mobile cooking station will be setup outside of the 4-H Center and small groups will rotate through their experience of this while lunch is served.
1. What if l selected "Pay at Door" option for payment? Please bring exact cash or a check written out to 'The Ohio State University'.
2. Who do I mail my check to?
Checks should be mailed to the following address:
Environmental Professionals Network
ATTN: Nicole Jackson, EPN Program Coordinator
2021 Coffey Road
3. Where do I park for events at the Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center?
When driving to our events, you will need to display an EPN Parking Permit (click the link to download and print) OR have an OSU A, B or C parking pass. You can either park in the lot to the west of the building (following the driveway to the north of the 4-H Center) or in either of the two lots on the east side of Fred Taylor Drive. When parking in either of these locations you will need to use one of the aforementioned parking passes.
4. Who is the caterer for the breakfasts? In Good Taste Catering is our BREAKFASTand LUNCH provider. If you have comments or concerns about your meal, please contact Nicole Jackson (jackson.1457@osu.edu) and she will pass the message along to the catering team.
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‘Longmire’ season 3, episode 1 review: Still old-school, and still solid
Longmire, Longmire season 3 review June 2, 2014
“Longmire” is one of those shows that gets very little attention from the mainstream, and to a certain extent, we understand why. It is a crime show in a TV landscape surrounded by crime shows. It is not a particularly easy feat to stand out among them and have your voice be heard.
Also, “Longmire” is an ageless show. It doesn’t throw up hashtags, and it feels almost like it could have been on the air 30 years ago virtually unchanged. It’s old-school, cinematic in a way, and great because of that. There are few other shows out there that have this sort of tone and grit to them.
What we liked about tonight’s premiere was that it focused on a reservation, which hardly the environment that you’re accustomed to seeing on a crime show. Walt, desperate to find a killer, went up against the authorities of a place where he did not have full jurisdiction. Also interesting? That Longmire did not really accomplish too much over the course of the hour. Branch couldn’t pinpoint the man supposedly responsible for shooting him, which shouldn’t come as too great of a surprise given his current emotional state.
This episode existed more for the set-up, and provided us with a direction as to where “Longmire” will go the rest of the season. We’re find with the story taking its time so long as it continues to go to interesting places … especially when it comes to the case of Walt’s wife. The only thing we really hope for is that there is some resolution to everything before the end of this season. We had enough of a close call with a renewal for this season that we don’t want to stand thinking about loose ends following a finale.
Also, let’s say a quick thank-you to A&E for making their screen presentation much less distracting than it was during “Bates Motel.” Grade: B+.
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Get to Know Marcy Vaj
This season, we invited our credit readers to interview our storytellers. Today, you'll hear from Marcy Vaj who narrated the previous episode about Bebe Vio. If you haven't listened to last week's episode, now is a good time to go back and check it out!
Vaj reveals how her violin bow has become her personal weapon, how feminism has changed as she's grown older, and more!
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MARCY VAJ is a busy violinist/violist, composer, personnel manager/contractor, and teacher. She has co-produced and orchestrated several albums and written countless arrangements. She received orchestration credit on "Prince of Egypt" and "Antz." Her credits include scoring the documentary "California Women Get The Vote" (2011) and the award-winning short film "Click Three Times." Since 2000, she has been a member of Composers Ensemble LA (CELA), a 12-piece composer/player workshop that writes concert pieces for the group. Marcy is a founding and touring member of The Hollywood Bowl Orchestra.
She was Sir Paul McCartney’s concertmaster for the 2012 Grammys, has a solo on the last albums of Glenn Frey (of the Eagles) and Charlie Haden (of Quartet West), and one on, Turkish piano star Kerem Gorsev’s in 2015. She also soloed in 12 chamber concerts in La Sainte Chappelle, Paris, served as concertmaster for the San Diego Chamber Orchestra under the baton of Thomas Conlin and the Zachery Opera Awards under Frank Fetta. Her string quartet is featured on the Paul Williams DVD, "I’m Going Back There Someday." In 2011 and 2012, she soloed and played principal in a chamber orchestra in London's Royal College of Music for the week of the Royal Wedding and again for the week of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.
As a violinist/violist, she has accumulated hundreds of film credits including: TED, Ice Age, The Flintstones 1 & 2, Nutty Professor 1 & 2, Are We There Yet, Shrek, Armageddon, As Good As It Gets, and Matilda.
She is an adjunct professor of violin/viola at Santa Monica College and also teaches privately.
This episode of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls is produced by Elena Favilli, Joy Fowlkes, and Meg Murnane. Sound design and original theme music by Elettra Bargiacchi. Mattia Marcelli was the sound mixer. Special thanks to Clio McClure for coordinating our credit readers and interviewers.
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to June 1951. (See fig. 5.) Because of this requirement and the reluctance of the railroad to permit the continuance of the haul-road grade crossing on the existing railroad line, the contractor rerouted the existing highway immediately adjacent to the railroad and constructed a haul-road overpass structure to span them both. This structure was completed in February 1951 and was used until removal of the railroad in December 1952.
48. Earth Fill Placement. - In general, a standard pattern was followed for placing earth fill at Trenton Dam. A major quantity of impervious material was hauled in bottom-dump trucks and dumped in windrows which were spread to about 8 inches in thickness by bulldozers. Motor-driven scrapers were used for hauling material adjacent to spillway structures. Sprinkler trucks were used when it became necessary to increase the moisture content of the placed material. A heavy-duty disc was used to distribute the moisture in the sprinkled area. During warm and windy weather, it was necessary to sprinkle the previously compacted layers to offset moisture loss by evaporation. Embankment placing operations are shown in figure 29.
Compaction with tamping rollers was employed on the major portion of the embankment. Air-powered tampers and a hydraulic tamper mounted on a half-truck were used on areas inaccessible to tamping rollers.
During the placement of impervious materials, low densities were obtained from numerous tests even though moisture content, thickness of layers, and roller passes met all requirements. After some experimentation, satisfactory densities were obtained by decreasing the weight of the roller from 40,000 pounds to 34,000 pounds and without increasing the number of roller passes. Better compaction with the lighter roller was due to shear resistance of the compacted material being less than the unit weight of the heavy roller.
The gravel and sand pervious zone was placed with tractors and scrapers. A minor portion was placed with trucks. The material was placed in layers about 8 inches thick, watered heavily and compacted with four passes per layer with a crawler-type tractor. Satisfactory compaction resulted when the tractor rolling operation followed closely after watering.
The material in zone 3 was placed in approximate 1-foot layers and compacted with the placing equipment. Moisture was added to the material when necessary with sprinkler trucks. Because the moisture content was satisfactory for most of the material, only a small amount of water sprinkling was required.
Topsoil was placed on the downstream slope of the embankment with bottomdump trucks, motor-scrapers or bulldozers. On steep slopes the material was dumped along the crest or bottom berm and spread on the slope with bulldozers. The material was placed in two layers, each about 7 inches thick, and compacted with a 7-foot-diameter, 10-foot-long, water-ballasted, smooth-surfaced roller.
(a) Control.-- Needle-moisture tests, needle-density tests, and field-density tests were used for control during embankment placement. Because of unreliability of readings and for other reasons, the needle-density and the needle-moisture tests were discontinued early in the testing program and the field-density test was adopted as a reliable test for both moisture and compaction.
The field-density test was conducted in accordance with the Bureau's "Earth Manual", except the density holes were excavated only to a depth slightly in excess of 6 inches. By limiting the depth of holes, the test was confined to the most recently placed and compacted layer and resulted in positive control. By obtaining the minimum of compaction permitted within the required moisture range, it was reasoned that satisfactory density would result after placing and compacting successive layers. Also corrective measures could be applied, if necessary, to the easily accessible layer. This method of testing was readily adaptable to predominantly silt and homogeneous loess materials, which comprised the impervious zone of the embankment.
In the pervious zone, samples for density tests were obtained from depths ex
tending from 1 to 2 feet below the surface. At these depths, work in the saturated soil was avoided and more accurate samples were obtained.
Numerous tests and observations indicated that the density increase, because of consolidation, was greatest when embankment was placed from 1 to 2 percent dry of optimum. During 1950, several density tests were taken at various depths of the embankment to study the effect of compaction after successive layers were placed. The results of these tests, although not conclusive, indicated that if loess was placed between optimum and 3 percent dry of optimum, the tamping rollers were effective in compacting a depth of 3 feet or more of embankment. The number of density tests taken, together with the percent of acceptable tests, are indicated below for the entire construction period:
No. of Percent
Material tests unacceptable”
Impervious 5,400 17.4
Pervious 146 6.4
*Requiring additional compaction.
49. Crushed Rock and Riprap Placement. - Crushed rock was shipped in hopperbottom gondola cars from a quarry at Golden, Colo., to the contractor's railroad switchyard and hauled in trucks to the embankment. The trucks with rock were lowered down the slope with a winch tractor and their loads dumped on the embankment slope for placement (fig. 30). A bulldozer was used to spread the rock to required thickness. In general, the rock was placed after the embankment construction had progressed to a height of about 10 feet and the slope had been trimmed to grade. The riprap was hauled, dumped, and spread in a similar manner on the embankment except a dragline was used for spreading the riprap. The crushed rock blanket was placed 18 inches in thickness on the 3 to 1 slope, diminishing in thickness at the 2-1/2 to 1 slope to 12 inches at the crest. The riprap rock was placed 3 feet in thickness on the 3 to 1 slope, diminishing in thickness at the 2-1/2 to 1 slope to 2 feet at the crest.
A car tipper was used for unloading riprap from railroad cars at the switchyard into a pit, and a power shovel was used to load the material into trucks. Crushed rock was unloaded from the gondola cars into a hopper under the tracks and loaded on trucks by means of a rubber conveyor belt. The delivery schedule of the rock supplier and the construction schedule of the dam contractor were coordinated so that a minimum of rehandling and stockpiling of rock would be necessary. However, because of delays in construction of the embankment, the contractor was unable to place all the rock after delivery; it was necessary to stockpile and rehandle approximately 176,000 tons.
C. Concrete
50. Materials. - (a) Sand.--Sand for concrete construction was obtained from a deposit near the dam site and processed in a plant located on the north edge of the spillway outlet channel at station 62+00.
The plant was of a washing and screening type and was capable of producing about 35 tons of sand meeting specification requirements per hour. Sloping stationary screens with 1-inch square openings were used for removing large gravel, lumps and trash. The larger fractions of sand were controlled by altering the slope of a 1/4-inch screen or by substituting appropriate screen panels. Fine fractions were controlled by regulating the outflow of wash water from the collection hopper.
(b) Coarse Aééregate.--Three sizes of coarse aggregate used in the concrete were purchased by the contractor from Brannon Sand and Gravel Co., Denver, Colo., Cass Co., Golden, Colo., and Guernsey Rock Co., Guernsey, Wyo. These aggregates were obtained from Clear Creek deposit near Denver, and from quarries near Golden, Colo., and Guernsey, Wyo.
Aggregates obtained from the Clear Creek deposit consisted of material that
was rounded to regular in shape, being composed chiefly of granites and gneisses with smaller quantities of schists, basalts, andesite porphyries, cherts, quartz, quartizites,
and dolomitic limestone. About 0.5 percent of the aggregate consisted of chert which reacted deleteriously with high-alkali cement. The aggregate contained an excess of deeply weathered and otherwise unsound particles, but because of the good service of this aggregate in numerous types of concrete structures in the region, these deficiencies were discounted. About 86,088 tons of aggregate were obtained from this deposit. The aggregate was received in three sizes--3/16 to 3/4 inch, 3/4 to 1-1/2 inches, and 1-1/2 to 3 inches--and each size was stockpiled separately. When gravel was drawn from the stockpiles, all three sizes were intermingled to prevent them from rolling off the conveyor belt during transportation to the rescreening plant. Also, the rescreening plant could handle more tons of material per hour when supplied with several sizes of intermingled aggregate.
During the latter part of 1953, when the Brannon Sand and Gravel Co. was unablo to obtain sufficient railroad cars for aggregate shipments, the contractor purchased 1, 244 tons of crushed gravel from the Guernsey Rock Co. at Guernsey, Wyo. This gravel, composed of limestone, was intermingled with Clear Creek aggregate for use in concrete mixes. Batching weights were altered slightly to compensate for the variance in the specific gravities of the two materials.
About 3, 425 tons of aggregate crushed to 3-inch size were obtained from Table Mountain quarry at Golden, Colo. This material was composed mainly of granite gneisses. No physically unsound particles or deleteriously reactive materials were found in the samples tested.
(c) Cement. -- Because of the alkali-reactive material in the concrete sand and in the foundation materials, type II low-alkali cement was used for Trenton Dam. This cement, a mixture of pozzolan and portland cement, manufactured at the Louisville, Nebr., plant of the Ash Grove Lime and Portland Cement Co., was low-alkali type and conformed to Federal specifications No. SS-C-192.
As soon as the portland-pozzolan cement was available, the field laboratory conducted tests to determine the most economical mix consistent with workability, durability, and strength requirements. The maximum water-cement ratios indicated in specifications No. 3047 for parts of structures subjected to certain conditions are indicated below:
cennent
a. Parts of structure subjected to
alternate wetting, drying,
freezing and thawing 0.47
b. Parts of structure exposed to
weather 0. 53
c. Parts of structure covered with
backfill 0.60
However, in order to meet a minimum compressive strength requirement of 3,000 pounds per square inch at 28 days, the water-cement ratios for structures b and c, listed above, were reduced to 0.51 and 0.53, respectively. For concrete mixes using 3-inch maximum aggregate the cement content was increased for structures under conditions b and c from 1.00 to 1.23 barrels and 1.00 to 1.12 barrels, respectively. Concrete mixes using other sizes of aggregates were also altered.
51. Reinforcement Steel. - In accordance with specifications No. 3047, all reinforcement stees was to be furnished by the Government. Approximately 45 percent of the total amount required was obtained from a surplus supply at Enders Dam, Nebr. Attempts were made to purchase the remainder through competetive bids on the open market, but because of national defense priorities in effect at the time and the general steel shortage, no bids were received for a sufficient quantity to supply the job requirements. A large quantity was procured from a surplus supply at the Army Engineer's Office at Atlanta, Ga., and a surplus at Shasta Dam at Redding, Calif.; the remaining
Figure 31. --Panels for forming spillway wall sections. Form was held rigidly in position by five steamboat jacks bolted to the concrete footing. P328-701-3134, September 19, 1951.
Figure 32. --Form for the 5.5-foot circular conduit being assembled. P328-701-3137, September 24, 1951.
quantity was obtained from several sources. Because numerous sizes of steel were received which did not entirely conform to construction drawings, some substitution of steel sizes to provide equivalent areas was made in parts of the spillway.
Some of the steel was rusted, partly painted or bent. Paint was removed by an acetylene torch or by wire brushing. Cutting and bending or straightening of reinforcement bars was done at the steel storage yard located about one-half mile downstream from the spillway crest.
52. Forms. - Forms for concrete structures were constructed of a variety of materials. These materials included metal, plyboard of various thicknesses, tongueand-groove flooring material, masonite, and heavy timbers. Cables, bolts, and jacks were used for keeping the forms in position during concrete placement. Forms for walls and other exposed surfaces were generally faced with 1- by 4-inch flooring material or plyboard. For reasons of economy, some forms were designed for many reuses.
Spillway wall forms (fig. 31) consisted of panels 32 feet by 19 feet 4-1/2 inches, and were faced with flooring material. The flooring material was placed vertically and was backed by diagonally placed 2- by 6-inch tongue-and-groove material which was solidly attached to 4- by 6-inch timbers. The facing material was held in place by tapered bolts which extended through the forms. Jacks with their bases anchored to a concrete base were used to hold the back form rigidly in position. After these panels were used about 12 times, the floor facing began to curl and required smoothing with a sander. When the curling became excessive, the flooring material was replaced with new lumber. Two replacements were necessary on each form during the entire construction program.
Forms for the upstream end of the outside bridge piers of the spillway were faced with 1/4-inch plyboard and backed with two layers of 3/16-inch masonite and a layer of 1/4-inch plyboard. Frames for these forms consisted of a double layer of 2by 12-inch planks spaced at 15-inch intervals and cut to fit the pier curvature. Support for the forms was provided by a 12- by 12-inch strong back with a number of small studs placed at the leading edge of the pier.
Three 5-foot I-beams were placed in blockouts left in the piers and were used to support the forms and reinforcement steel for the center bridge spans over the spillway structure. Heavy timbers were placed across these beams at 5-foot centers for supporting the bridge forms. Correct elevation for the forms was obtained by wedging.
Forms for the 5.5-foot circular conduit were assembled in a jig to one side (fig. 32). After the inside and outside forms with reinforcement steel were assembled, the jig was placed in position with a dragline. The interior form was faced with masonite and arranged for easy removal. The outside form was constructed of shiplap. Metal forms were used for forming the 8-foot 2-inch diameter conduit.
53. Batching and Mixing. - Concrete for Trenton Dam structures was batched and mixed at a central plant located about 500 feet east of the spillway outlet channel at station 53+00. This plant consisted of a partitioned 225-ton gravel bin, a 100-barrel cement bin, a 90-cubic-foot batching hopper equipped with a full reading dial scale for cumulative weighing of aggregates, a separate automatic hopper for weighing cement, a semiautomatic water batcher, a 2-cubic-yard tilting mixer equipped with a timing and locking device, a 160-cubic-foot concrete collection hopper, and conveyor systems for the cement and aggregates. Cement was stored in a 1, 750-barrel storage silo located adjacent to the mixing plant. The aggregate bins were provided with vibrating screens. Air-entraining agent was added to the mix by means of a dispenser. Mixing water was obtained from a shallow well located under the plant. A view of the layout of the mixing plant is shown in figure 33.
Three sizes of aggregates were used in the concrete. The percentages of concrete placed with the maximum size of aggregate used are indicated below:
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Understanding Belichick (Or Not, Really)
So, at what point did you start believing this deflated football controversy? Were you home from an early Monday morning walk, expecting an easy MLK Day full of NFL highlights and entertaining Internet memes featuring various Patriots beating dead horses in Colts uniforms? Did you see the telltale question mark on the sports ticker, something like, “Pats Under Investigation?” when you first felt the elation of their AFC conquest sag a bit?
Did you not want to believe it? Do you yet?
Coach Bill Belichick’s subsequent meeting with the press offered no reassurance. He bookended answers with “We’ll do whatever the league asks us to do,” giving two separate “The first I heard of it was this morning,” responses. Nary a straightforward denial among them.
He did it. Of course he did. Because Bill Belichick – like most NFL coaches, to an extreme – is different from you and me.
Some with only a cursory understanding of these topics would say that Belichick ignores the rules. On the contrary, he obsesses over them. Think about his most consistent teacher over the years, his father. The man played professional football in 1941. Can you imagine the stories he could tell? Can you imagine what was thought of as “legal” for the 1940s Detroit Lions? Back then, considering the lack of protection, “helmet-to-helmet” resembled a head butt. Water breaks were for the weak. Just a completely different mindset of what was considered fair.
The younger Belichick knows the rules so well that he ensured quarterback/living B.C. statue Doug Flutie’s final play was a history-making drop kick for an extra point back in January 2006. At the time, very few knew whether a drop kick was still legal. Hell, not a lot of people knew what a drop kick was. Flutie became the first player to score a point by that method since Scooter McLean kicked for the Bears’ championship win in – surprise – 1941. (A fact Belichick knew, by the way: just read his post-game interview here.)
Imagine an SAT-type test involving NFL rules. Some multiple choice, some true/false, a couple of essays (haven’t taken the SAT in about 30 years, so apologies if it’s completely different now). He’d come out doing pretty well, right? Now imagine Roger Goodell taking the same test. Unless there’s a section on what cocktails to serve while sitting at the club waiting for the staff to service an owner’s yacht, hard to say ol’ Rog nails it.
That’s Belichick. He knows more than you. He knows he knows more than you. It seems he wants people to just leave him alone and let him do what he has been groomed to do since he watched game film with his dad as boy: to try to understand and prepare that much better than his opponent. And, in a sense, the rules makers and enforcers have become his opponents, too.
I mean, press conferences must feel like agony for this guy. The same questions, over and over, to people who don’t understand or have failed to put in the work to understand the game on the same level. At times, especially with the out-of-town media who show up week-to-week, it’s got to seem like he’s trying to explain Memento to someone who started watching near the end. It’s why, when he gets a question with specific historical context, he puts on his metaphorical suspenders and lectures about the history of the great game of football. It’s why, except at outdoor practices, he rarely sees sunlight during the season.
He wouldn’t have it any other way. His work is his fun. He’s not like you and me.
Make no mistake; these don’t qualify as excuses, just potential reasons. Belichick cheated. He knew the proper inflation for footballs, and – after watching his team put the ball on the ground three times the week before – he decided to soften the spheroids to make them easier to hold during a driving rainstorm.
“But you don’t know that,” you are saying. “You weren’t there. Maybe he knew nothing about it.” Do you actually believe Bill Belichick knew nothing about 11 footballs inflated two pounds less than required? Come on. You have to give him more credit than that.
So now fans must either turn a blind eye or, as WEEI.com’s Jerry Thornton does well in this piece regarding Eli Manning’s ball ritual (yup, sticking with that phrase), start playing the “everyone does it” card. It’s a strong card to play here: more and more examples have arisen of doctoring footballs, including a jocular on-air exchange between announcers Phil Simms and Jim Nantz regarding Aaron Rodgers’ preference for overinflated footballs and a piece on Super Bowl winner Brad Johnson having footballs doctored before the big game vs. Oakland.
(On that last one: Raiders fans get all up in arms over the Tuck Rule – an actual, albeit silly, rule – but they don’t go totally bat-guano over this? Pick your battles, Oakland fans!)
I can’t argue against the accusations of rampant hypocrisy in the NFL. Linebacker Ray Lewis used a banned substance to help him recover from a triceps injury during Baltimore’s championship run. The Seahawks had several players suspended due to PED use leading up to last year’s Super Bowl season. Were they cheating? Sure seems like it. Do we care? Not much, apparently.
Why should we? Goodell didn’t seem to care about taping defensive signals until he heard numerous complaints. He didn’t seem to care about brain injuries until it became a money issue via lawsuit. He didn’t seem to care about domestic abuse until video of a violent assault made its way onto the Internet for all to see. He made up punishments as he went along. Now he’ll have to do the same.
I’ll skip the joke about inflating the balls of NFL owners and head straight for the obvious: this was not an issue Goodell expected to deal with this week. That’s part of what gets Belichick into trouble: his understanding of the rules and his efforts at circumventing them make Goodell and the league higher-ups look bad. After all, what is the punishment? There’s mention of a minimum $25,000 fine. Goodell will increase that, because he’ll want to send a message. But by how much, and why? More work for him. More to hammer out and nail down before the Super holiday.
In any case, it doesn’t seem like Belichick will get the message Goodell wants to send. The coach will go back to the rule book, studying, deconstructing, looking for language that could potentially give him an advantage. The coach does this as well as anyone else in the league. It’s a fan’s choice whether to embrace this line of thinking or not. We know he didn’t need to tinker with air pressure to beat the Colts. We know he preps his players for on-field situations with awesome meticulousness. We can’t ignore his greatness. We can’t ignore his faults, either.
We know this about Bill Belichick: he has cheated; he will probably figure out a way to cheat again.
And, Heaven help me, I’ll be rooting for him.
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Mgar6577 says:
“He made up punishments as he went along. Now he’ll have to do the same.”
This is my issue. How do you trust the league to handle the investigation properly? There is absolutely no context for this situation. They have no stats or evidence of what the normal ball deflation is at halftime or at the end of the game. How often it happens? What happens in cold weather? in warm weather? The impact of using the balls in play? Now I am not saying they did not mess with the ball, but how do you expect the league to handle the investigation and rule a punishment with zero context? For example to they record the weight of each ball before they are stamped and accepted? Do they actually check the balls after every game to see normal deflation?
And that is because the NFL doesn’t know what they are doing! They don’t release information through proper channels and then only leak out things. Already some of their good old networks reporters have been contradicted. We Don’t ‘ know if the issue was brought up in November? Or if they were planning all along to check at the half or if it was the linebacker and trainer who brought it to the leagues attention.
These details matter!! And when the league so often just caves to media and public pressure, how do you expect them to actually run an investigation and rule? We used to think they knew everything but the reality is the NFL league office are not smart enough to handle the most simple of situations.
JFP says:
“They don’t release information through proper channels and only leak out information through their trusted journalists.”
If only the NFL had their own network where they could have a prime time special. Have the commissioner give an interview that reveals all his findings and answer any questions. Maybe even have fans submit questions. Could do that with any “gate” that comes up, but I’m asking too much.
bsmfan says:
own network where they could have a prime time special.
A ‘prime time special’ where a ‘decision’ is made… I can’t think of any four-letter networks that wouldn’t drool over that opportunity.
HighWireNickEsasky says:
Just watched the Belichick press conference. Based on what he didn’t say, it sounds like Brady is going to take the fall for this, which probably means less institutional punishment. So Brady gets fined and maybe suspended for a game or two next season. I can’t imagine he would be suspended for Super Bowl, but that would be an unbelievable story.
StoJa says:
If they punish Brady, they have to punish 31 other QB’s who have OPENLY ADMITTED they mess with footballs to their own specifications. Eli Manning, Aaron Rodgers, past Qbs like Matt Leinart and Jared Lorenzen. Brad Johnson. Rich Gannon. Check Twitter. Guys are showing no shame in saying they twist, shave, soak, rub, deflate, inflate footballs to their preference.
This is a brilliant, calculated move. How can you punish OUR QB when the others do the same? What will come of this is next year ALL footballs, not just the kicking balls, will be in the sole possession of refs up until kickoff.
There is only one team (or QB) under investigation, in which the footballs in question have been confiscated and examined. While it certainly is a league-wide practice to doctor the balls, they are not going to punish other players for comments to Phil Simms on how they like their footballs. Since this is common practice,that should minimize the penalty. But with Goodell, who knows?
Peter_Akuleyev says:
A 25K fine seems about right. There is cheating and there is “cheating”. Deflating balls seems on par with purposefully committing offensive holding, defensive pass interference, or taking PEDs. Definitely against the rules, and punishable but not a complete violation of the spirit and tradition of the game. So if the league can prove the Patriots did this, fine them and be done with it. If the league can’t prove anything they should drop this farce immediately.
smack_libs_around says:
It’s sad that…again…the Patriots seemingly have tarnished their own reputation just before a game that no one will cheer them for should they win it. To the idiot affirmative-action sports media hack who suggested that the Patriots should forfeit this game: Take a walk into any sports book in Las Vegas and see what kind of reaction that idea gets.
latetodinner says:
When discussing this PR mess with a friend of mine this morning two words kept coming up…proportionality and perspective. The fact that Bill Belichick had to go in front of a microphone this morning and pin something on his QB which flies in the face of everything he has ever done and said about “team” over the last 14 years all to avoid the perception that this is a team practice and therefore the possible taking of a draft pick really tells us how out of whack this whole situation has become.
Riddle me this Batman…what is more egregious cheating…playing with a football that is under inflated by (according to BB) .3 psi (12.2psi rather than 12.5 PSI) or deliberately lining up a foot into the neutral zone in an attempt to get the QB one step faster? What is more egregious paying players to hurt opposing players or playing with a football that professional referees when touching it did not notice was under inflated? What is more egregious, playing with an under inflated football or standing up at a press conference and announcing to the world that you would gladly pay player x anything that he wants were he willing to sign with your team even though he is under contract with someone else?
From the moment my kids could talk we taught them about proportionality…lies, white lies, fibs, stretching the truth, omitting facts etc. We have explained where things fall on that scale and what appropriate reaction from us as parents and what appropriate punishments they can expect for committing said acts. In this debate you have people (I refuse to call them adults) calling for draft picks to be taken away, for the Pats to be disqualified, for BB to be suspended for the year, and/or for Tom Brady to be suspended for 4 games (Ray Rice beat a woman and got two, T-Sizzle poured bleach on a woman and her child and got none). The media and football fans out side of NE have lost their collective minds over an attempt by a player (or an organization) to gain what amounts to a small almost imperceptible advantage.
I made a post yesterday saying Roger Goodell should be fired and I reiterate it. For allowing this circus to go on this week he is the guilty party. For allowing the Pats to have to face this distraction he should be fired. For making me now write two posts about this topic he should be drawn, quartered and then fired. He has lost all sense of perspective. The Superbowl being played by two great teams should be the story. Giving Richard Sherman a microphone and let him talk should be the emphasis of week 1. Talking about Bob Kraft’s relationship with BB and Pete Carroll should be the top story of this weekend. Then the game should be the whole hype of next week (well that and some gratuitous Katy Perry pictures/sightings/tweets). Instead Goodell has made a mockery of the NFL because he can’t quickly and swiftly pass judgement on a seemingly inconsequential violation of the rules.
What should have happened is this. The story breaks Sunday night in the Indy Star because Irsay leaks the story to Kravitz. By Monday Tom Brady should have given a press conference where he said “Prior to the game I was talking to the ball boy and I said I like the ball lighter…the ball boy took a little air out and then I said…perfect…we did not measure it with a gauge and for that I am sorry. I fully expect an envelop on Wednesday with a fine, per the rule. I am sorry this got out of hand and I can assure you we will take steps to make sure it never happens again”. Goodell then sends Brady a $50,000 fine and this is a non story…as it should be. In the mean time Goodell calls Irsay in and reads him the riot act for being a sore loser because the proper inflation of the balls did not make a 38 point difference in that game. he then tells him he is taking a 7th round pick from the colts for giving the league a black eye unnecessarily.
Bravo! I posted this under another article a couple of days ago, but it’s worth posting again with regard to the incompetent, egomaniacal imbecile who calls himself the NFL Commissioner. I quote Leo Amery, Member of Parliament, from his House of Commons speech on May 7, 1940, when members were debating the removal of Chamberlain as Prime Minister. He said, regarding Mr. Chamberlain: “You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go.”
If I were someone in the NFL owners’ club, after this latest public embarrassment, I’d stand up at the next league meeting and address the “Commish” with EXACTLY those words. (Should be Kraft for all of the grieft his buddy Roger has put him through, but that will never happen; they’re good friends afterall).
I thought Gresh and Zo did a great job not only breaking down the BB presser and saying what they thought was plausible and what they didn’t buy…but then they moved ONTO THE GAME! Novel concept. It’s really going to be a G-D shame if they break up the best football show in town. Because you KNOW Felger and Mazz will spend 4 hours on both press conferences and how if you believe a word of it you’re a footie pajama Patriots honk. I think D&H&JT will go 50/50 breaking down the pressers and the game. Which is a better alternative, I guess.
But it sure was nice to get in the car and hear Gresh talking about how Brady can exploit the Seahawks defense. Actual game talk. X’s and O’s. Beetle would go the Felger route and drag Zo into it, kicking and screaming, but drag him nontheless.
Pyper says:
Hate the article…Reeks of the same tired assumptions and speculation about the man from the very same media members who have clearly never understood him to begin with. The foundation of Belichick’s entire public identity has been painted by sports writers who know nothing about him. Then others add to it and so on and so on. They get away with it b/c he is so guarded and disinterested in all things media. Its been a fascinating thing to watch over the years. People have their opinions and despite how flawed those opinions may be, in time they evolved into unquestionable truth. The opinion here is that its not only plausible but entirely likely that Belichick knew nothing about this. People want to point to “spygate” as proof of Belichick’s character or lack thereof but the problem have such a limited understanding of what spygate was about and in the absence of clarity, they created their own storylines. Storylines designed to fit the false picture of Belichick that had already been in existence for some time.
This whole controversy isn’t about footballs. its about spygate. Adding further complexity to the situation is that Spygate wasn’t even about spygate. The beginning traces all the way to the media’s perceptions about a man they simply don’t understand and their ability…no, correction, their J.O.B. to frame the stories for the public.
The irony is everywhere. While Belichicks reputation has become someone who likes to push the envelope in manipulating the rules, that reputation was created by a sports media that likes to push the envelope in regards to ethics and honesty in manipulating public opinion towards whatever creative way they can frame their story to increase their readership or number of television appearances. The lies, half-truths, misunderstandings, and misperceptions have built a fortress of fallacies surround the public perception of Bill Belichick.
If Chris Warner is going to write for this website, a website designed to illuminate all the idiosyncrasies within the Boston sports media…I for one think he needs to start bringing his “A game”. This article is an epic fail.
Unless there’s a section on what cocktails to serve while sitting at the club waiting for the staff to service an owner’s yacht, hard to say ol’ Rog nails it.
Peter King would be write there to reiterate Goodell’s complaints on the service in the next week’s MMQB, though.
Someone mated up this whole incident to A Few Good Men. It’s funny:
When general “news media” cover sports, they do things like call Tim Benz as a “voice in Boston”:
I’m just spitballing here, but does anyone find it ironic that Ron Borges, confirmed plagiarist, is allowed to attend Brady’s press conference and ask him questions about ethical behavior (in his usual, douche-baggish way, I might add)? Just sayin’
Caffeine Powered says:
That’s…that’s brilliant. And deliciously ironic.
He’s dyeing his hair already?
Mike Burke says:
The “voice of reason” who wrote on facebook that a listener of his show in Pittsburgh deserved to be blown up by predator drones because he wasn’t against firearm ownership.
I’m not saying that people need assault rifles. But to suggest someone that advocates gun ownership should die? That’s over the line and flat out classless.
And Benz isn’t even from Boston! Yes he was born in CT but that doesn’t mean jack.
So, the NFL says its investigating yet has not spoken to Brady? Hah!
CSI: PSI (h/t Bob Ley)
Shocker here!
Breaking: three minutes after end of press conference, Tom Brady's nose has grown by three inches. Updates to come.
— Kevin Paul Dupont (@GlobeKPD) January 22, 2015
Andy W says:
If it is conclusive to somebody that the Patriots are cheaters, it is not much of jump that they are liars to boot.
If exonerated by the league, Brady should sue every media maggot that has accused him of lying, without any proof to back it up–that includes everyone down at the smear factory in Bristol.
Eff You!!
Bobby Knight was right: that profession is (maybe) one level above prostitution.
dewey4HOF says:
Better yet every Patriot should give the media the “thanks for axking” answer from now on.
JamesAllen says:
That guy still writes? Does anybody read him?
Oswee Larvey Hald says:
I love it. Belichick comes out in no uncertain terms and says he had nothing to do with the condition of the balls. The media says he is lying and/or throwing Brady under the bus. Belichick can’t win and the media can’t lose.
QuantumMechanic says:
Curran smokes one long and deep…
http://www.csnne.com/new-england-patriots/curran-time-nfl-stop-deflategate-madness
A very nice read from Curran. Thanks for the link.
So the nuts and bolts of the outrage is all based on Chris Mortensen reporting that an unnamed league source confirms that the footballs were below league standards and were off as much as 2 PSI and this is considered fact and the whole world goes nuts. For 48 hours every news report has led with this story. People are going as far as saying the Patriots should be banned from the SB. BB should be fired. TB should be suspended. Again all because of Mortensen’s story. Today BB says he learned that he needs to account for a drop in PSI due to the temperature outside. He learned that going from 12.5 PSI at game time to 12.2 PSI later in the game means the football is no longer acceptable and he as to account for that. I found it curious that he would say that. I am wondering is that what the under inflated means to the NFL and this is why the NFL is investigating? However, did anyone follow up on that (not that he would answer). All I heard was the media shouting over each other in the hopes of getting their question asking if he knew about the under inflated footballs during the game answered. The media doesn’t care what the right story is and the fans are left with Borges making an appearance down at Gillete (How long has it been Ron? 5 years? 10?) or stuck hearing about columns like Rosenberg’s @ SI or Glazer reporting this was an NFL sting designed to catch the Patriots and then seeing Schefter report today that the NFL has nothing that proves anything! We the fans have no one left to trust.
The pathetic footie-pajama-wearing Pats homer in me soooooo wants it to come out that Mortensen’s “2 psi” below regulations tweet was actually 0.2 psi below regulations, either because the league “source” lied to make the Pats look bad, Mortensen lied to make the Pats look bad and to whip up a further media frenzy, or Mortensen simply misunderstood what he was told. Wishful thinking, perhaps, but BB going out of his way to say “12.3 psi” today doesn’t seem like a random coincidence to me (this is Bill Belichick, after all). I hope it’s not.
I was leaning towards 11 of 12 balls were under inflated — by a cumulative amount of 2 psi. Which works out to an average of .18 psi. The source? A custodian at the NFL offices.
D’Qwell Jackson, allegedly the guy who put this thing in motion, according to the media jackels, says he didn’t know a thing about it. He kept the ball as a souvenir not as evidence.
Adam Schefter says the NFL basically has zero evidence that anybody on the Pats tampered with the balls at all. But the media doesn’t care. They want blood. Facts and EVIDENCE be damned.
Belichick is the Patriots franchise. Krafty Bob better stick by him. Let’s blame Jonathan Kraft for the PSI issue. Ban Jonathan for life! No more sitting next to Daddy!
Oh, dude, if BB is fired over this, I’m done with the Patriots.
If BB were to be a free agent, over/under on teams going after him? I’ll open around 27. You’d have teams terminating their recently hired HCs trying to go after him.
Tony time says:
Or Kraft trades Bill for draft choices. Starting bid 6 #1s and 3 #2s
the_other_side says:
ESPN has apparently removed all content by Chris Mortensen with “leaks” from “NFL Sources”. Backtracking now?
That, combined with Jackson, what other players are saying and have said, and what Brady and BB said yesterday has the media in a tailspin. Now it’s gone into “Brady vs Belichick” (at least on your local 6-10a) shows.
With no real direction, though, this story has spun out of control and, while the Patriots may end up being found guilty of nothing, the damage is done to the franchise, the reputation of the coach and player(s) involved, and in preparation for the Super Bowl.
Not sure what you are talking about. I can find this without issue on ESPN.
I vote myself down. I see what you are saying now. The mort report is no longer a link on the espn site. All shortcuts don’t work. The only remaining article is the one he originally posted and it is accessible by searching for ‘mortensen’ on the espn site.
Yes, I should have probably said “archived” instead of live.
I saw ESPN this morning and they were using the “11 or 12 balls” thing on the chryon. So even if proven totally false, it is now a permanent part of the discussion. Of course, there will be no retraction/correction (at least not a prominent one).
It still worries me that the NFL is clearly dragging its feet on ending this mess. They obviously believe that it will help drive hype and ratings (which are already astronomical) for the Super Bowl.
Phony gate has almost made me forget that I’ll be watching the last game of the season in 8 days. The AFC all star team versus the Seahawks. in the super bowl.
In all these years I have never felt such pre super bowl fatigue no matter what I turn on their talking about phony gate.
Yesterday I checked out the 2015 shed. Colts in Indy my score prediction for that game is 75 to 6.
GStill45 says:
For the love of God, I need the Sox to trade for Hamels or Strasburg. Or Danny Ainge needs to fire Brad Stevens. Or Zdeno Chara needs to get arrested. I wish somebody would have the courage to put this story on the back burner until there’s a ruling.
The current news cycle right now is pathetic.
Well, the Sox DO NEED AN ACE dammit! Where’s the outrage over the CHEAP SOX OWNERSHIP?
Peter King said it was tampered by a human. Well, a Few Good Men happened to be on last night, and to quote Tom Cruise, “And you have the proof of that right. Oh I’m sorry, you were absent the day they taught law in law school.” Unless the NFL has a direct link, a picture, something then the Patriots should accept nothing, not even a fine. Say the league tries to discipline the Pats anyway. If the Pats decided to pull an Al Davis and sue, they would win because in a real court the burden of proof is on the NFL.
I would love for the Patriots to sue the league. From now on I hope instead of kissing his bum every chance he gets Kraft makes Goodell’s life difficult on every level.
Look, I think this is all a bunch of nonsense and the media rush to judgment shows how unhinged these jerks are.
However, can we stop with the posts on Robert Kraft going Al Davis on Goodell or that Goodell should be fired. The first ain’t going to happen and the second will only happen if 1) Goodell starts to make nice with the players; and/or 2) he doesn’t make money for the owners (including Kraft).
I am not going to stop hoping. I am tired of our team letting people getting away with saying and doing whatever they want. For once I would like to see the Patriots defend themselves because I am tired of this non sense. Just agree to disagree ok.
No. Sue the media outlets who are smearing them. The burden of proof for the plaintiff is very high in such cases, but part of the the court ruling(s) on being able to get away with ridiculing public figures in the media states that “absence of malice” must exist among the person or persons making the claims. Can anyone truly suggest with a straight face that there is no malicious intent among the media members in this case, or any other involving the Pats? The malicious intent is everywhere, including calling everyone in Foxboro a bunch of liars. Demand public apologies and then at least THREATEN lawsuits if no such apologies are offered (assuming, of course, the NFL says they found nothing incriminating). Someone has got to start taking a stand against these smear merchants in the press.
You summarized where it sounds like things are. Plus, holes keep being pegged in the original story. Also, we’re going completely from a @MortReport story. While he’s been right more often than wrong, his “wrong” was a huge wrong (Ray Rice). Way too many inconsistencies now.
There is also a @SharksOfVegas report out there kinda confirming this (they look legit but I have no clue if they are).
How can you justify punishment if you can’t pin it on someone? Kinda matters if its a ball boy, Brady or BB. Goodell isn’t a court of law but would face legal backlash there.
King has absolutely no proof of this. He’s just had it in for BB since Spygate when BB refused to give him an “exclusive” about it (at least that’s how I recall it). And, this is ESPN, which has been in full hyperventilation/hysteria mode over this for days. Their on-air personalities embarrassed themselves yesterday, even moreso than Wingo, Schleretch, et al, embarrassed themselves the day the Matt Walsh tapes were revealed in 2008 (and that was pretty damn bad, especially considering Schlereth won two Super Bowls playing for a team that cheated on the salary cap—twice). That network, and it’s internet product, are pure trash at this point. I wish Reiss would get a job somewhere else so that I never have to click on ESPN.com again.
mediablowhards says:
I don’t care what contrarian so-called Pats fans or media vipers say or do.
I will enjoy the game no less than I would’ve without them trying to tear Belichick and Brady down, yet again.
So, this major league and grossly overblown s**t storm was all ignited due to a known pill-popping drunk owner calling a known booze-hound hack writer at midnight – and subsequently given more life by yet another known hack writer with a history of publishing seriously erroneous stories – yet the entire media ecosystem just simply accepts it as gospel and they all run wild with it? Is that it? Just checking.
I hope all of them contract disfiguring STDs and live the rest of their miserable, pathetic existences eating discarded chicken fingers found in dumpsters behind fourth-rate Asian cuisine restaurants.
Tunescribe says:
Good lord. I came here hoping for some clear-minded, unbiased reporting unavailable elsewhere and someone named Chris Warner craps the bed. “He did it. Belichick cheated.” Just another cynical wannabe pseudo-journalist claiming to know what he has no chance of knowing. I give up!
A big difference: he an offered opinion that BB did it, supported with a reasoned, factually correct, argument. I have zero problems with that type of column.
Nonsense! He offered an opinion based on pure conjecture, nothing factual at all. You need to understand THAT “big difference.” No facts have come out of this fiasco, just mediots pontificating and passing premature judgment. It’s sickening.
Ummm, no. It’s factual that Bill’s an obsessive football brat, that (likely) knows the rulebook better than any human alive, that BB had Flutie do the dropkick, that he knew the historical implications, etc. etc.,
His basic premise: Bill knows, and cares about, everything football related seems reasonable enough to this reader.
As to the cheating – fortunately, another explanation came along: http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/patriots/2015/01/23/deflategate-air-pressure-moist/22242609/
BB is “an obsessive football brat”? Brat? You’re a disrespectful goofball. Anyway, BB’s presser today pretty much renders li’l Chris Warner’s tripe null and void. Perhaps you can share a smoke with him and commiserate. Don’t bother responding to me further, I don’t respect your opinion.
You don’t get out much, huh? Ever heard of an “Army brat”? Any idea what it means? How about a “military brat”? Still need help connecting the dots?
NFL finally issues a statement:
http://nflcommunications.com/2015/01/23/nfl-statement-3/
Basically saying they “care” and are “taking their time”. AKA nothing.
The NFL statement, to me, basically says,
“Just relax, we are working hard at proving the Patriots are guilty and we will. Please give us time. Until then, please continue to whittle away at their reputation.”
Bob Kraft doesn’t seem NESN-like where he wants to dictate what’s said on the airwaves about his team, but just listening to the opening of F+M over the past few days, I wouldn’t be pleased.
It’s one thing to be some homer where a team can’t do no wrong.. but when half of the media in your town are looking to convict the team, that’s like a, “uhh what?”. I’d have to think that someone like Curran, while many might want to throw the homer label there, if there is convincing evidence, wouldn’t deny or make up excuses.
From the sublime to the absurd. That is the only way I can define the NFL’s statement. The Pats won the freaking game by 38 points. When it was discovered the balls were under deflated and correctly inflated balls were put into play the team scored 28 points, 11 more than they had scored with the “deflated” balls. Indy still managed just 7. Yet a couple of lbs of PSI warrants an investigation led by a league vice president AND an OUTSIDE LAW FIRM. The league did not put this many resources into the Ben Rothlisberger Rape allegations, the Rae Carruth Murder allegations or the the Denver Bronco’s Cap manipulation case. I doubt Eddie Debartolo and his financial shenanigans were investigated this seriously. What about Junior Seau’s suicide which appears to have resulted from CTE. Was an outside law firm brought in to investigate?
Can some adult stand up and put some perspective on this. CNN (I am sitting in public and do not have control of the TV) just broke in with a report that said the NFL confirms the footballs used by the pats in the first half of the AFC conference game were indeed under inflated.. Then they went back to discussing sanctions on Iran and inviting Bibi Netanyahu to speak to congress.
People have lost their mind. Ex-players like Marc Brunell want Brady’s entire career tarnished and tossed out because of at most a few PSI which had no effect on the game. All because they are assigning an intent that is not there. The unbelievable part to me is that the NFL is allowing this to continue. I wonder if they want all this negative attention because they know it is going to boast ratings. I am willing to bet right now that this game surpasses the final episode of MASH as highest rated (by share) program of all time because lay people will tune in to watch a ref put a gauge in a ball assuring the “integrity” of the game.
The NFL entrusted its brand to a lawyer. His whole training/education/work experience has been a lesson is protecting against liability and not doing the right thing. Well the chickens have come to roost. The NFL now has a controversy its can’t spin and in doing so is destroying the value of a franchise, the reputation of the greatest coach ever and the reputation of the greatest QB ever…all over something it can’t prove which was completely inconsequential. Goodall and company must be so proud.
Reminds me of what Mark Cuban said.. they’re getting too big..
Biggest thing for me right now is this:
The NFL has leaked that it ‘tested all balls’ to Mort and PK. Pretty safe to say they wanted this out there.
Did they? I have the feeling they didn’t but the NFL doesn’t want to admit incompetence here, even though this could also implicate the Patriots. They know that all teams/QBs “manipulate” balls to their own way, even if they’d fail the specs in the rulebook. NFL doesn’t want this because it shows their incompetent and could also affect QBs and offenses (their bellcows).
If they want to stand here, would it hold up under some type of challenge? I have to imagine Kraft’s legal team would feast on that one.
If they go there, it then means that there is someone on the sidelines that doctored the balls. Peter King alluded to this. First, with every fan having 1080p video capability, wouldn’t one be recording some kid on the sideline carefully going over each ball, sticking something into them? Video cameras also everywhere. Wouldn’t someone, who isn’t a Patriots employee, see this going on and inquire?
So, unless some ball boy is about to fess up, in which case they could hit the org with a fine, but it wouldn’t placate the pitchforked public. I have to wonder that if the NFL takes this seriously, they want to hit more than a “rogue $10/hr college kid”.
And, it’s been said about Brady not knowing: I’ll take him at his word. If it turns out there is evidence contradicting him, he just Palmeiro’d himself and ended all endorsements, all possibility to make millions more after football, etc. I don’t think Brady is this dumb at all.
Stolen from a comment on the NFL press release:
Assume that the game footballs were inflated in a 75 F degree locker room, then taken out to a playing field at a temperature of 50 degrees F. How much would the change in temperature decrease the pressure in the football?
High school physics tells us that the ideal gas law PV=nRT applies.
That is, pressure times volume is equal to the number of moles times the gas constant times the temperature of the gas (in degrees Kelvin). Thus, given a constant amount of air in the football and a negligible volume change, the pressure will obey P = nRT/V
The change in pressure is thus proportional to the change in temperature,
The 75 degree locker room has an absolute temperature of 297 K
The 40 degree playing field has an absolute temperature of 283 K
The change in temperature of 14 K will thus cause a drop in pressure of 14/297 = -4.7%.
To translate this into a pressure change we must recall that football pressure is measured in gauge pressure, relative to the atmospheric pressure of 15 psi. So the absolute pressure within a football pumped to 13 psi is 13 +15 = 28psi absolute. The 4.7% drop applied to the absolute pressure gives a drop of 1.32 psi.
Thus, the pressure within the football at game time will be only 13 -1.32 = 11.68 psi and thus well below regulation gauge pressure of 12.5-13.5psi.
If they were just at 12.5psi to start they would be down by 1.3psi to 11.2 psi by game time. And of course, a little pressure is lost every time you stick a needle in to check the pressure. Some guy on TV did this calculation but I think he forgot about absolute pressure vs gauge pressure and underestimated it.
It thus seems highly likely that the Patriots equipment manager checked all 12 balls in a warm locker room and they lost pressure merely by cooling off on the field.
In addition, the cold rain would have accelerated the heat transfer out of the balls. Finally, if the indoor inflation air was very humid, there would be an additional loss of pressure due to water vapor condensation on the inside of the bladder as the temperature of the football dropped.
What contradicts this is the leak (Mort and others) that they say only the Patriots balls were the leaky ones. 11 of 12, or all 12. Doesn’t matter. They’ve already made it known that it was only the Patriots balls that were under inflated.
Moreover, they claim they tested all 24 balls after the game, and only the Patriots ones were the faulty ones.
So, what you’re saying is valid but it would affect all.
If it didn’t, someone obviously doctored with the balls after they were “checked”.
Or, were they all checked properly before the game?
It goes back to what I said above: Either they were not checked properly or someone did doctor only the Patriots balls. If they cannot find or get someone to admit to this, could they hit the org? They’ve done all but do t hat right now and the public will buy that just fine, but wouldn’t that start legal action if they can’t pin it on someone, unless its an organization fine?
So the argument you are making is the one Felger makes. Well if it did not effect Indy’s balls then…
It assumes Indy’s balls were filled at the same time to the same pressure in the same climate controlled room. I am sure that did not happen. But all this is irrelevant. The reason I posted what I posted is to show there is a perfectly reasonable scientific explanation for what happened to the Pats balls.
The only fact not know is whether the NFL has actual evidence (video, photo, or maybe a text/email) of someone deliberately or institutionally doctoring the balls. Even then I think this is a non issue…punished by a fine only. To think it is worse shows zero sense of proportionality. Widespread prescription of narcotics to cover pain from serious injury is serious…something the NFL is accused of doing…yet… everyone admits the deflation did not effect the outcome of the game. Everyone admits at half time properly inflated balls were put back into circulation.
In the end I think what happened is this. The Pats submitted balls filled in an 80 degree room. The ref (Walt Anderson I think), did not test them with a gauge instead he just squeezed them and they felt fine. At half time the Colts questioned the balls. The refs actually tested them at half time and swapped out the under deflated ones with correct ones. Problem solved as the Pats go on to kill Indy. On Sunday night Irsay feeds Kravitz the deflation story probably as a throw away to deflect attention from his team pooping their pants yet again against NE. Somewhere in there was probably a call from Baltimore telling the Colts that the Pats were using low air balls (think about that irony for a second…the Ravens helping the Colts of all teams). Once the story got out it took on a life of its own when the jaded lovers on ESPN started calling for firing squads, Asterix’s and a pound of flesh. That brings us to two press conferences where I think the principles uncomfortably told the truth…they really do not know what happened because…they don’t know what happened…because there is no grand conspiracy to play with a ball that is imperceptibly different.
The NFL’s statement did nothing to help the situation. It just guaranteed it would continue on for the foreseeable future because again, the commish is a lawyer first and not a decision maker. It is a mess. For a while I thought it would effect my enjoyment of the game…but now I am pretty convinced that I will thoroughly enjoy watching the Pats trounce the Seahawks. The victory will be that much sweeter and the rest of the NFL can go to hell.
Lastly, if I was Bob Kraft and my fellow owners continue to allow this type of treatment of my billion dollar asset I might seriously reconsider all I do for the league. Life is short…he is a potential second (trophy) wife he might prefer to spend time with.
The Colts’ balls could have lost pressure too but stayed within range…just sayin’.
You are/were on the right track. You just started at the wrong starting point. I believe you’ll enjoy this explanation: http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/patriots/2015/01/23/deflategate-air-pressure-moist/22242609/
“… it then means that there is someone on the sidelines that doctored the balls …”
Or maybe there’s an entirely better, and legal, scientific explanation:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/patriots/2015/01/23/deflategate-air-pressure-moist/22242609/
Derek Gentile says:
D’Quell Jackson has admitted that not only did he not complain about the weight of the ball, he didn’t notice a difference. He wanted the ball as a souvenir, which is why he held onto it. “Now, somehow, I’m in the middle of this.” That’s a quote from him.
According to the Felgerites and so-called fans that mirror everything that he and his contrarian ilk have to say, if you’re a fan that just wants to, you know, ENJOY the damn games, than it’s the equivalent of allowing politicians, bankers and other corporate executives and big time mobsters to get away with high crimes and corruption.
And to the trolls, no, finding out that the Broncos cheated the salary cap rules and the 49ers before them, did not have an affect on my ability to enjoy the games…
As you say, I intend to enjoy the game and it is, after all, a game.
What Felger and his ilk do not understand is their false analogies only make them sound stupid. As an example, comparing political and financial corruption to “cheating” in football is nonsense.
The corruption on Wall Street caused the economy to crash in 2008 was catastrophic that adversely affected everyone. If someone in football “bends the rules” to win (and I don’t think that happened here) I would hardly call that catastrophic.
Can’t some scribe/media jughead get Felger/Mazz to just lay their cards on the table: tell us once and for all” what do you think happened, who is to blame, what is the punishmnent? Stop this pathetic running around trolling everyone Take a stand for once
NS Webster says:
It’s been said in other places, but I’m amazed how this entire situation has basically been the nuclear option from the media, NFL insiders, other teams, etc.
There’s no coming back from this – the Boston media, from almost top to bottom, has essentially cut ties with the Patriots. I can’t see them having a relationship of any sort – yeah, press conferences with muddled answers, but nothing else.
I wonder if Brady ends his WEEI deal? I’d be surprised if he didn’t – though I don’t know D+C’s take on all this.
The rush to judgment and the absolutely batshit insane overreaction is no different than politics – this is the exact same freakshow that meant we had three years of babbling nonsense that Obama was born in Indonesia. So instead of talking about anything that matters, it’s just so much time wasted on extreme nonsense.
My personal belief is that the Colts ratted out a fairly innocent equipment violation to get a day of laughs, and then some moron at the NFL said the league was “enraged,” and they basically created a firestorm that is now out of their control. Anything’s on the table because it’s impossible to predict what an absolutely incompetent cartel of Thanks Dad-Billionaires will think of to try to pull themselves out of this fiasco they created.
I’m all done with the NFL, though…I had already given up on them with the Ray Rice disaster and I am never, ever, ever coming back. Like the Skynrd song goes – “Watergate does not bother me, does your conscience bother you?” It’s a joke and we’re jokes if we think the NFL is something to take seriously anymore.
WEEI and the Patriots have a deal for Patriots’ Monday and Friday. Not sure how much it would cost to cut that contract short.
The last few days on WEEI were a classic case of cover your a$$. D&C sympathized with Brady and trashed BB. D&H were cool with BB and said Brady may have more answers to give. No real surprises.
Anybody see that stupid, arrogant SOB Borges on CSNNE? Scoffing at the idea that Brady couldn’t tell the difference between the ball inflation? ESPN Sports Science said the difference is literally the difference of a DOLLAR BILL. He makes it sound like the difference is between a medicine ball and a wad of cookie dough.
And he says “So D’Qwell Jackson could tell the moment he intercepted it, but Brady couldn’t?” No you j@ck@ss!! Jackson never said that. He said the opposite of that.
Borges, Felger, and Mazz make me want to puke. Those three make me want to just remove sports completely from my life.
Like I said: confirmed plagiarist questions Tom Brady’s ethics and, worse yet, has no remorse about it (then again, he’s never shown an ounce of remorse or expressed any contrition about plagiarizing either–he’s simply tried to play the victim card by saying he was “screwed over” by certain people). Unprofessional, dishonest, miserable, agenda-driven hack. End of story.
You forgot – he also starts fistfights with geezers in wheelchairs.
Yup, and then accuses said geezer of “milking that thing for years” (that is, his handicap, as if it was made up or something) after the guy called him out for attacking “a cripple.”
Stooge said, “… Borges, Felger, and Mazz make me want to … just remove sports completely from my life.”
Or, as an alternative, you could, you know, remove those three from your life? Cool, huh? Trust me – I’ve done it. It works (but it’s only a start – the list is long!)
Sorry, Stoja, the auto correct got me when I wasn’t looking.
How much of the over the top outrage is driven by the fact that the Patriots have made fools of so many of these journalists? Even before the Colts game a lot of media critics, including this site, were already dredging up the embarassing Week 4 era predictions about Brady’s demise, the “disastrous” Mankins trade, the unwillingness to spend to be competitive like the Broncos, etc. Once again Belichick and Brady have made all these pundits look like complete uninformed idiots, so I guess I can’t be surprised by the relish with which these “journalists” are trying to turn the tables.
How much? All of it.
Can someone explain why every story (Borges for example) comes at this whole issue from the thesis that Bob Kraft is the “NFL’s CLASSIEST OWNER!!!” as if that absolves him from everything.
Not questioning guilt or innocence or whatever, but IF this was a true incident, why wouldn’t Kraft be as much/more culpable than anybody else. I mean, the buck stops with the BUCK right? And Kraft is the one spending the bucks – is he some deluded old man who doesn’t know what he’s getting for his millions of dollars?
Only in the NFL’s ass-backwards world could billionaires be out-of-the-loop absentee bumpkins who write checks without any knowledge or awareness.
Not to go all political, but the whole Benghazi!!! nonsense was built on the idea that Obama was personally involved in decisionmaking…so I’m not sure why Kraft is being completely excused for everything that’s going on. He is the owner, right? He’s the chief moneymaker in this whole enterprise? So the one with the biggest motivation to make sure the team wins is him.
Again – not talking about guilt/innocence, but why the “buck” isn’t actually stopping with the real buck. The buck seems to be stopping at an employee – and that’s not how it’s supposed to work, is it?
Without getting all personal…this is just a moronic premise. The idea that the owner would be involved with the preparation of footballs is beyond dumb. The idea that this incident has become a referendum on good versus evil while dragging Kraft’s personal and professional reputations through the mud tells me that perspectives are so out of whack I seriously have to wonder the people opining on this topic look out the window and see a green sky because they are living in a different universe.
The buck does not stop with Bob Kraft because he is the victim here. He can’t micro manage everything. He is not supposed to. He trusts his people. At best his people let him down by committing a ridiculously minor infraction of an inconsequential rule that had zero effect on the game; at worst the gross incompetency of the referee in charge of checking and certifying the balls has brought untold angst and character assassinations so vicious you would think members of the Patriots organization had been running an organized crime syndicate specializing in Child Pornography.
I will ask the question again…what is worse…under inflating the balls by an imperceptible amount of air or deliberately lining up in the neutral zone in a attempt to get a jump on the play or deliberately interfering with a player down field because you would rather the penalty then giving up the points.
You have gotten sucked in by the sycophant media that somehow has convinced itself that an organization as successful as the Patriots must be doing something unethical, that Bill Belichick has no sense of honor, that Tom Brady is a fraud and that Bob Kraft is the mastermind of all this. Don’t believe any of it. Pettiness, thin skinned wannabes and outright jealousy are driving a narrative the commissioner of the NFL is too feeble to handle and too stupid to have foreseen.
This story is not about Bob Kraft. Dragging him into it only serves the agenda of those too who are so narrow-minded that they want to destroy someone whose biggest crime is success.
Haha – you implied I’m a moron in the first line, so it’s obviously personal. And apparently I’ve gotten “SUCKED IN BY THE SYCOPHANT MEDIA!!!!” when it’s the media I actually have a problem with. We agree – the NFL is incompetent, the commissioner is a moron, the media is horrible. I’m using their excuse-making for Kraft as my POINT, not my actual belief.
All kidding aside, the media wants to have it both ways – Belichick is an evil genuis, and Kraft is a deluded, honorable bumpkin.
If Kraft isn’t responsible – fine. But obviously Bill isn’t wandering around deflating balls. So he’s not responsible. Brady isn’t deflating balls, so he’s not responsible.
And a ballboy making $10 an hour doesn’t make decisions, so they’re not responsible.
So nobody’s responsible, fine. Move on.
Personally, I think the refs probably screwed it up at the start and the NFL is chasing their tale because they’re incompetent.
I’m not trying to drag Kraft in – but I am blaming the media for saying “the buck stops here!” No, the buck stops where the buck stops. At the guy who writes the check and has the biggest financial investment in the operation. They just don’t like Bill B. so that makes him their target. I think it’s despicable.
The story can be about whatever and whoever – if you think a comment on a website is an ‘agenda’ than you’re a little more conspiracy-minded than I guess I assumed you are? Nothing personal.
Ha – Bob Ryan finally hits it perfectly, including my point about Kraft.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2015/01/25/not-for-patriots-deflategate-would-non-story/DUdeCiJ6UOVbsaPp6PXA8N/story.html
But I’m sure this column will be ignored since it’s not extreme enough.
So I read Bob’s missive and and it was another is a long line of narratives that make the Patriots guilty of something nefarious in Spygate. If media members don’t understand and more importantly are still unable to communicate to the general public how what the Patriots were guilty of did not give them any advantage…rather they were punished not for the offense but because they disobeyed the league directive…that was what got them punished. Had the camera been placed 10 feet further back there was no offense.
The anger the rest of the NFL community has for the Pats over “spygate” and the lack of suitable outcome…Kraft not firing the media antagonist Bill Belichick…is as absurd as the whole deflategate tidal wave. Ryan who used to be quite good misses this simple point completely.
At this point the rest of the country has lost their collective minds. NE fans should just ignore any noise because there no longer is any rational talk when discussing this team. Their two huge crimes were taping opposing signals for future use (something most teams did) from the field level rather than than above the bench and under inflating a football by 2PSI which had no perceptible difference in a game the team won by 38 points. If these incidents are more troubling than Baltimore employing a murderer and 2 domestic violence practitioners or Seattle have 10 players who failed PED test on their way to the SB last year or the Jets who openly tampered with Darelle Revis then there is no rational thinking left in America.
Boy, you read it a lot differently than I did.
Look, obviously somebody deflated these stupid balls, maybe on purpose, maybe through blundering, maybe because the refs didn’t properly check them – but I think we agree when we say “so what?” It’s like a pitcher throwing a spitball – good for you, if you can get away with it. But it doesn’t actually MATTER. This should have been a day-long story of semi-serious “there they go again” stories about gamesmanship.
It doesn’t matter to compare to Baltimore’s players, or any other scandal – although it goes to the NFL’s inconsistency and general ineptitude. If you get into the “we’re not as bad as they are!” debate then you’ve lost the argument. As for “Spygate,” the NFL did punish them, so whatever. I guess there was a violation. We can’t wish there wasn’t. There was. Stupid? Sure, but it happened.
But Ryan’s main point – as least as I read it – is this “deflating” shouldn’t matter, and wouldn’t matter if the situation were reversed. If the Colts had cheated, nobody would have cared past five minutes.
I feel like everybody gets bogged down in irrelevant details – like bringing up Spygate. That argument happened already, and the Patriots lost. The #1 point to say is that the deflating is – at worst – a spitball, or a bent stick. Fine the organization $50K and move on. Who cares? THAT is how the media has lost their mind, in giving this meaningless act of gamesmanship a gravity it didn’t deserve, and the NFL can’t control their own message because they’re a joke. To me, that’s the problem.
Watching Bill’s press conference – he basically says “deflation” is a natural process – I buy it.
I feel like the Pats process affects the air pressure, and over the course of game play will slightly decrease the air pressure. I think that’s believable.
I can accept that normal game play will cause this – now that I’ve heard a cleater explanation of HOW that might occur and WHAT would cause it.
It reemphasized the “prove it, NFL” point.
Unfortunately, as Aaron Schatz said, 99% of the country made their minds up Monday.
No surprise that the biggest douche in the room at that presser was Little Berty Breer, who then Tweeted out that all BB did was “create plausible deniability”. No Breer, you agenda-driven little turd: He owned you media morons, he FINALLY spat in Goodell’s face over Spygate, and he, ever so slightly, hinted that the NFL should “look into other things” about the incident (wink, wink….like maybe the Ravens and Colts colluded on this just to create a huge distraction, out of spite, for one of the two Super Bowl participants?). It never ceases to amaze me that a smarmy little hack like Breer actually got a high-paying national media gig.
Doug Masters says:
Right on Tony! I’ll never forget Bert’s comment about “Brass Tax.” What an idiot, he is the next Peter King.
Actually, I think I was wrong about Breer being AT the press conference. I thought at first that he was the DB who brought up Spygate and kept pushing Belichick about it, but after re-watching the presser, it didn’t sound like Breer’s voice and the idiot who asked the Spygate questions hasn’t yet been ID’d. Still, that doesn’t change the fact the Florio, King and Breer—the Three Stooges of NFL-related media—are still trying, in ways both subtle and overt, to indict BB. Brady, or both over this non-issue. King was getting hammered by Pats fans on Twitter, so he made an obnoxious posted “to the 6 New England states” about how he’s just doing his job and “covering the ongoing investigation.” Right, I guess he was also doing his job when he took to Twitter almost immediately after the press conference and began questioning why, if BB was telling the truth, the Colts’ balls were still regulation after being tested. Um…maybe because Indy prepares their footballs differently? Maybe they rub them more? Maybe they inflate them in a different environment? Or maybe the Pats had the ball for MOST of the first half and, therefore, the Pats’ balls were subject to more wear and tear during the first half than Indy’s. A good reporter would look into this stuff. That Starbuck’s-swilling mouthpiece for the NFL higher-ups is too fat and lazy to do that, obviously.
Ha – exactly. Maybe the Colts lost 45-7 because they don’t have the same attention to detail with the footballs that the Patriots do.
Or maybe the balls weren’t tested pregame and Indys were over inflated to begin with. Or maybe the story that Indys balls didn’t flucuate was flat out false.
Exactly. Your last point, in particular, is quite valid, because I don’t believe (correct me if I’m wrong) the NFL’s statement on Friday indicated at all that Indy’s footballs had not lost at least some air by halftime–they could have lost some air and still been up to legal spec’s because of how they were prepared before the game. In fact, I’m not even sure if the NFL’s statement even mentioned Indy’s footballs, or if it just said that “some” of the balls were underinflated at halftime (the 11 of 12 thing Mortensen put out there still, as far as I know, has not been corroborated by the league). It’s funny to me that even Jay Bilas, the former Duke basketball player and now college basketball analyst, chimed in on Twitter yesterday and basically repeated the same accusation that King made: the Colts footballs were OK at halftime so why did their footballs “defy the law of physics”. Then he went on to dig at Belichick with a “were these magic footballs; did you get them from the same place where Jack got his beanstalk?” My Cousin Vinny reference. Of course, I believe Jay Bilas is also an ESPN employee, so I guess if you work in Bristol and even if you don’t cover football, the company line is the Patriots are guilty until proven innocent, and even then, we still don’t believe anything they say. Got it. If this things ends up turning out well for the Pats, they should inform the league that they are boycotting ESPN until the CEO of the company issues a very public apology for his employees’ reprehensible behavior this week—he should also apologize for 2007-2008, when their it-was-not-spying-gate coverage was also beyond ludicrous (but I won’t hold my breath on that one).
I am with you. No way espn changes their ways. They will always stick with what works until advertising dollars drop. I have mostly ignored the four letter network for most of the last seven years. I sometimes hit that channel to try to catch a highlight and have been mostly disappointed that I have to wait quite a while for the talking heads to reach their word quota. With that said I have hit the four letter network up this week but only because it has been such a train wreck. It is downright hilarious. For example, BB drops science on everyone and makes great points and challenges those to test for themself. Immediately after espn has someone from the university of Illinois on the phone who explains that BB is right. 15 hours later they bring on Bill Nye who says basically nothing except it doesn’t make sense and go Seahawks. Next I see espn headlines stating Bill Nye debunks BB. What isn’t funny is this could appear to those of average intelligence and higher as satire is taken as absolute fact by those who wait for others to tell them what to think which includes many members of the media that we complain about here.
I really did not mean to imply you were dumb. You are not the first person to make the argument you appeared to be making and I thought it was a moronic argument so I wrote. I promise I generally enjoy your posts and think highly of your opinion in most cases. It was that specific argument I had an issue with. The rest we agree it appears.
I agree that because I’m so strident it SEEMS like I’m blaming Kraft – I’m not.
I’m blaming the media for absolving Kraft (the boss) for the actions of an employee – of course I agree that Kraft isn’t personally responsible. But the media (like Borges) blames the guy he hates while acting like Kraft is totally blameless.
It just doesn’t work like that – and frankly, that IS evidence of an agenda by the media. Which I’m sure we agree on.
I think the problem with many comments (mine, yours, everyone’s) is we are SO invested that we’re not reading deep enough into the comments to see what’s being said…and of course we’re to blame for not being clear enough in our meaning, or overly strident, which is another reason this entire issue has spiraled so much out of control.
I blame the NFL – they are absolutely a rotten, incompetent cartel.
Why would anyone watch or read Borges? Or care a whit what he has to say or write?
I don’t know, but they do.
Kraft is guilty of being Goodell’s biggest champion, which has led to two botched “scandal” investigations that have sullied the Patriots’ reputation.
What is a Yarm?
You Are Right Mike.
Of course. Thank you.
It’s actually YAARM, but we keep forgetting the extra “A”.
‘You are ABSOLUTELY right, Mike.’
Well now, this makes sense. And exonerates the Patriots from breaking the rules (bending? Yes, big time!): http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/patriots/2015/01/23/deflategate-air-pressure-moist/22242609/
I know that Florio has it out for the Patriots, but a tweet by PFT seriously annoyed me today. It was some straight-up Orwellian nonsnse. Here’s the post:
@ProFootballTalk: Belichick will now use cheating accusations to “manipulate minds” of his players, source says wp.me/p14QSB-9H5u
Now — for any other coach this is what’s called “motivation.” But because Belichick is a nefarious, evil scientist – part Mr. Wizard, part Dr. Wily – he is MANIPULATING HIS PLAYERS. *Evil cackle*
I know I shouldn’t get so annoyed by this clickbait bullcrap, but it’s just lazy, exploitative wordplay.
Did Bill Belichick throw Tom Curran out of the club during the presser?
While the media plays hop scotch Bill plays three dimensional chess. Waited for most of the media to be off being piss ants to flight attendants. Just to annoy them some more and having the presser today when he knew on Tuesday that he would have it today.
The real middle finger would be if all the players gave lynch answers to questions. That’s great. Awesome… thank you… good game… etc etc etc
I enjoy Curran, as I think many do around here. He got a bit bonkers earlier in the week suggesting Belichick could be getting canned, and then was lit up by Billy during the presser this afternoon.
Even after taking that off the chin he wrote a pretty enjoyable article about Gangster Belichick giving no s**ts today.
He’s a nice panacea for all the VERY LOUD and SERIOUSLY INDIGNANT voices we are subjected to in the media.
curran did not suggest bb should be fired. All he said was heads should roll if someone on the patriots did intentionally deflate the footballs. He reiterated this on the dale and Holley show on Friday.
The Pats are going to f’n crush the Seahawks. The ultimate “revenge against every moron in the media and every moron fan” game that has ever been played.
markmass says:
And then my fantasy, after that happens, is for BB and TB to both retire without explanation, giving the ultimate finger to the all the morons in the media and fandom. Heads would explode.
Now that Bill Belichick has effectively ended deflategate (unless some smoking gun appears with a video of Tom Brady laughing menacingly, while he directs Snidely Whiplash and Snerdly to deflate the footballs) I think it is important to discuss how poorly both the local and national media handled this brouhaha. Mike Reiss who along with Tom Curran is the best beat writer covering the Patriots and might be the best covering any team posted this to his personal blog (not Reiss Pieces):
http://www.mikereiss.net/media-coverage-on-underinflated-footballs/
In it he criticizes himself for feeding the frenzy and then he takes responsibility for writing headlines that might not have been fair. I doubt we will see this type of introspection from any other media member.
Specific to deflategate I think the local media have completely let down the Patriots. It is going to be clear after the NFL investigation that the Patriots did nothing wrong. NOTHING. That leads to Mike Reiss Sunday notes column and note 4a:
4a. The media firestorm from the Patriots’ underinflated footballs, fueled by the NFL’s aggressive investigation, sparks many questions about the pregame process in which officials test footballs: Who is there? Is air pressure in each ball documented? How are they tested? I’d like to hear more from NFL referees on this part of the process.
I listened to Mike Felger say on the flagship station of the Patriots broadcast on Friday afternoon when asked directly by a caller that he “does not believe Tom Brady or Bill Belichick”. The logical conclusion of his position was the Patriots are guilty. He is not the only media member who has expressed that sentiment. They all were not willing (and this is important) to examine or consider that NFL officials blew this whole situation. The media let down the Patriots organization by running a 6 day witch hunt rather than sanely and rationally ending this by laughing with Tom Brady monday morning as this absolutely should never have become a story. Tony Mazzeroti’s position that the coach knows all and therefore he had to have had a hand in this (a position held by the vast majority of the national media) showed an unwillingness to properly vet this story.
If I am Bob Kraft this morning, I would seriously consider buying my own radio station this morning. Felger and his ilk can call Patriots Weekly sunshine.com and they can joke about media members wearing patriots footies but as far as I can tell it was only Mike Reiss and Tom Curran (after he stepped off the Bill Belichick could be fired precipice…that was not cool) who kept their heads in this whole mess while they focused on the real story…one that has not been told yet. What does the NFL think it knows? How under inflated was each football? How did Walt Anderson and his crew actual measure each ball before the game? Were the measurements recorded? Is their tape of the initial recordings? Was the measurements at half time taken using the exact same conditions? Were the Indy ball measurements recorded pre game and at half? Were those measurements taken under the same conditions? Did they show any drop (not necessarily the same at the Patriots drop but any at all? Does the NFL take into account time of possession when doing these calculations as the Patriots used their balls much more than the Colts did theirs in the first half? Lastly, and this is the biggest one that should have been answered first and used to put this whole nightmare to bed Did this contribute anything to the outcome of the game…if it did not then why has the NFL allowed this story to linger a week during the lead up to its showcase event? If you want to argue this is an integrity of the game issue…then the last question is what responsibility does the NFL have to maintaining the integrity of the game by making sure one of its franchises is not put in the position the Patriots find themselves?
The story is not the Patriots…it never was. It is how poorly the NFL has handled this situation. Bill Belichick in his impromptu news conference Saturday bluntly put the onus where it belongs. Privately we can only hope Bob Kraft has put the league on notice that if they access any penalty on the Pats he is suing them. This non story has cost the Patriots a fortune in reputation value. That translates into real dollars in lost merchandise or viewership dollars. Someone in the NFL front office should be fired for letting the Patriots twist in the wind. They should be fired for wasting money…hiring an outside law firm for god’s sake. They should be fired for deliberately allowing the value of a prized franchise be deflated all because of innuendo, rumor and a faulty system for handling the footballs. Maybe now the media, both local and national will focus on the real story.
They all were not willing (and this is important) to examine or consider that NFL officials blew this whole situation.
I love that Felger, and the rest of the media, who just a few months ago believed NOTHING the NFL says due to the Rice + Mueller sham investigation now all of a sudden believe the NFL.
That’s the biggest thing for me.
So, the NFL is credible when they got a point you believe in but not when it’s something you don’t want to believe in? Bias? Isn’t that called an agenda?
If we were to do a case study after this, I think it’d show that the media, all of them, are horrible at covering anything. Getting units of measurement wrong, wrong verbiage when reporting facts or assumption of them.
So, now we’re down to “Bill Nye” vs. “BB”
@AlbertBreet And we have seven days to go … RT @mikefreemanNFL Bill Nye just debunked Belichick…a sentence I’d thought I’d never write.
What didn’t make sense? If he didn’t make sense, post a rebuttal where he went wrong “Mr. Science Guy.” I’m willing to bet he has a 1080p setup on a tripod at home, and if he doesn’t could easily borrow one.
Bill Nye is a mechanical engineer, not a physicist. Does he have a working knowledge of physics? Probably. Does he have the level of knowledge of say, the Carnegie-Mellon prof. who has been backing the “weather conditions and other atmospheric factors” theory from just about Day 1? Very, very unlikely. And, let’s face it, Nye is more entertainer than scientist at this point in his life. But, of course, the haters will cling to anything they can until this thing is resolved, one way or the other. Unreal. And Breer needs to have his smarmy little mouth slapped one of these days, he really does. I truly loathe him.
I have to do a mea culpa here. It appears Nye’s “debunking” of BB may have been mostly schtick with some small amount of “scientific red meat” thrown out to the mediots. He apparently ended his TV segment by saying “Go Seahawks” (he lived in Seattle for a long time), and the most damning thing he may have said was “I don’t think you can take air out of a ball without using a needle.” Didn’t read or watch the stuff, because I’m fed up with this witch hunt, but for Freeman and other media morons to put a headline out saying Nye “debunked” BB is, once again, just misleading, dishonest b.s. I know he’s not a popular guy, but I have to give Bobby Knight a shout out for one thing he said during his controversial career: journalist is (maybe) one level above prostitute in the career-choice hierarchy (my apologies if I posted that quote somewhere else recently; I think I did).
Hey guys, did they play the Super Bowl yet? Anybody know who was or is even in the game? When it is? Where it is? I heard it was on Wednesday and it was between the Tiger Woods and San Antonio 49er-Bears. And that Sunday, February 1st, was really going to be 15 hours of Deflated Ball talk, live from Arizona.
Florio apparently already starting to backtrack:
The other 10 balls that reportedly were two pounds under may have been, as the source explained it, closer to one pound below 12.5 PSI.
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/01/25/nfl-bears-plenty-of-blame-for-deflategate/
Back track my ass. Once a DB always a DB . That web site has gone down hill the past two years I’m on it less and less. In my opinion they are slow at updating . Just saying
Curran is now reporting that some guy in the NFL office who worked for the Jets for something like 20 years may have been behind this. I guess he was with the Jets up until fairly recently and he “had suspicions” about the Patriots footballs as much as a year ago. Moreover, the Revis tampering charges may have aggravated him to the point of instigating this (along with Irsay). If this is true, then the owners have to clean house down on Park Avenue. Are you serious? Some guy with Jets ties and hatred for the Pats decides to try and cause this kind of distraction during the Super Bowl bye week? Unlike the media, I’ll wait for the final details about this mess, but if ANY of this is true, it’s time to clean house, starting with that incompetent jackass sitting in the commissioner’s chair. Oh, and the Pats should go crazy, pull a Sol Rosenberg, and “sue everybody for punitive damages.” Time to declare war on the league and the media: they’ve been at war with them for years and I think they’re just now starting to realize it.
I started to see a trend yesterday. All the participating ****media patriots haters who called for the patriots to dq’ed from SB or calling for TB’s suspension and BB’s firing started tweeting that they wanted to get to football or retweeting Don Banks article that called for people to calm down. I found it ironic considering all these people started this controversy. I got the feeling the backtrack was in the works because these weasels started seeing the writing on the wall that the Patriots did nothing wrong. This trend picked up post BB press conference. Next week is all about the media using Mark Mcguires defense, “I am not here to talk about the past”. I hope we the fans do not let them off the hook. ****i exclude the idiots at espn. They are still trying to push the agenda even now.
Will anyone be calling for Chris Mortensen to be fired now??
I will be making sure @mortreport and @SI_peterking never forget their foolishness. We have been abused by those who are supposed to report fairly and honestly.
Karma: Patriots win Sunday and the players carry Belichick off on their shoulders.
Completely agree!
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Why can't knights lose tempo?
From Wikipedia: Kings, queens, bishops, and rooks can lose a tempo; a knight cannot (Müller & Pajeken 2008:40,175,189).
Is there truth to this? Examples please. My context is towards developing an engine eval.
Looking at a fen alone? Can we derive any info about tempo?
Is it only about minimizing distances?
In an engine, should we penalize moves that return to old squares? For opening or middle game?
Is having initiative more important than tempo gains?
If a player sees a possible future where he will be in zug·zwang can the preempt with some tempo tricks like triangulation? Examples please?
I see tempo gains as more of a tool for teaching. Not really having much use in the game.
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Can you provide a link to that Wikipedia article? The statement that you quote seems somewhat pointless, but it's out of context. – Pete Becker Apr 19 '16 at 23:52
In context, that quote is about deliberately losing exactly one tempo and, indeed, a knight can't do that. It can lose two tempi, but that would seem to be rare in the context of endgame maneuvers, which is where this quote occurs. – Pete Becker Apr 20 '16 at 0:48
@PeteBecker Yes. And that Wikipedia article is pretty muddled/inaccurate to define tempo in terms of "single move" only. Because it is most definitely possible to "gain tempo" on a knight in the opening, e.g. 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 d6 4.d4 g5 5.h4 g4 6.Ng1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%27s_Gambit#Fischer_Defense:_3...d6 – Jeff Y Apr 20 '16 at 14:35
You seem to get the meaning/importance of tempo a bit wrong - it's not about getting back to the old square, it's about losing one move during the process, thus forcing the opponent to make his turn when it puts him in worse situation (this is called Zugzwang). This is especially important in endgames, and you can see some examples in the same wiki article you are referring to.
Also note that the final square doesn't have to be the same as the starting one (e.g. Re1-e2-e3 instead of Re1-e3), although it often is (mainly in Kings' triangulation). Knight cannot do any of that, as mentioned in answer by @magd. Knight can just jump from and back to the same square, but the opponent can e.g. also do some repetitive move and you end up right where you started. Knight just cannot take the route to its' destination which will lose exactly one tempo (or any other odd number).
But all other pieces (even pawns if they are at their starting square) can take an extra move while going to the destination, which in many situations enables you to force the opponent to make a move when it's a bad time for him. Triangulation is a classic example of this tactic.
Generally speaking, losing tempo or just getting back to the previous square is usually bad in openings or even middlegame, although that depends on the situation. But in the endgame, deliberate loss of tempo is often maneuver which wins you the game (of course, if situation requires so).
An example from wiki:
[fen "8/1p1k4/1P6/2PK4/8/8/8/8 w - - 0 1"]
If black would be on the move in this position, it would be clear victory for white, as after black King moves away, white can proceed either with his King or his Pawn (depending on the move). But white is on the move, so he must think of a way how to make it work. The answer is, lose a tempo with triangulation:
1. Ke5 Kc6 2. Kd4 Kd7 3. Kd5
And now black is on the move, which enables white to break through.
You are right in saying that loss of tempo is used "only" to put opponent in zugzwang, but the importance of this is greater than it might seem at first. For example, every classic mate endgame uses loss of tempo and zugzwang to get the opponent's King to the edge of the board and to mate him. You often use zugzwang without even realising that you used it. Look at the mate with Rook:
[fen "1k6/7R/2K5/8/8/8/8/8 w - - 0 1"]
1. Rg7 Ka8 2. Kb6 Kb8 3. Rg8#
You aim to get your King to b6 when black King is on b8, so you can mate with Rook on 8th row. But you can't do that right away, as after 1. Kb6, black would get away with Kc8, and 1. Rh8+ would enable black to get away with Ka7. So in the process of getting to 8th row with your Rook, you deliberately lose a tempo with 1. Rg7 in order to win the game.
In contrast, to address your original question, Knight is not able to do that:
[fen "8/8/8/8/8/7p/5K2/5N1k w - - 0 1"]
1. Ng3+ Kh2 2. Nf1+ Kh1
If white could just get to the starting position with black on the move, it would be a quick victory (1... h2 2. Ng3#), but Knight can't lose a tempo, so it's impossible, which is why this position with white to move is a draw.
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Yes -
A king can take two moves to go from e1 to d2 - Ke1-d1-d2 and also one move - Ke1-d2. Taking two moves is called triangulation or losing a tempo.
A rook can take two moves to go from e1 to e3 - Re1-e2-e3 or one move - Re1-e3. Taking two moves is called losing a tempo.
A knight cannot take one extra move to go to the same destination square.
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But a knight can take 2 extra moves. – Pete Becker Apr 19 '16 at 23:30
By that definition, if a piece returns to a square that it already visited, this would be at least a loss of tempo – Νικόλαος Μανωλακος Apr 19 '16 at 23:46
The point of losing a tempo is to get the same position with the other side to move. Losing two tempi defeats the purpose because the same side is still to move. – magd Apr 20 '16 at 9:46
Interesting. I imagine this is only to prevent zug·zwang or put your opponent in zug·zwang. Do you have examples? – Νικόλαος Μανωλακος Apr 20 '16 at 12:21
Here is a good example : youtube.com/watch?v=IMDmMfgb0To . – magd Apr 20 '16 at 12:35
Losing a tempo and zugzwang are normally endgame terms. All pieces, except the Knight, can maneuver to obtain the same position, ie lose a tempo(same as playing a NULL move.) In this position, Black would lose if it's his turn to move, so White loses a tempo with the Bishop.
[FEN "1n6/5p1p/p1p1pP1k/1pP1P1p1/1P1PB1K1/P7/8/8 w - - 0 0"]
1. Bc2 Nd7 2. Bd3 Nb8 3. Be4
There are exceptions to retreating being bad. In certain lines of the Ruy Lopez, the Queen's Knight retreats to allow the c pawn to advance. In many double King Pawn openings, the King's Bishop returns to f8 to allow the Rook to put pressure on the King's Pawn and maneuver the Bishop to g7.
This retreat is to avoid exchanges as Black is cramped and to maintain two Knights to exploit the e5 hole.
[FEN "r1bq1rk1/pp1nb1pp/2p1p3/3pNp2/2PPn3/1PN1P3/PB2BPPP/R2Q1RK1 w - - 0 0"]
1. Nb1!
The point of these retreats is to position the pieces on a better square. This is hard to translate into program code. Some retreating moves are for better attacking positions, Bc4-d3 to aid in the kingside attack, or for better protection of the piece, Bc4-b3 in most Sicilians.
The other answers have provided examples where the tempo loss is the only way to win the game, so this is really important in the game. Teaching chess is not like school, what you learn is applicable to the game.
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John idea of true religion. The works of
John Donne was an English poet, sermonist
and essayist born in 1572 in London into a Roman Catholic family, which was a
problem at a time in which England was divided by religion. He died in 1631
from a stomach cancer at the age of 58. His work has current themes such as
love – both physical
and spiritual – devotion, faith and
the idea of true religion. The works of John Donne are noted for their strong style
full of unusual
verse forms and complex figures of speech. It represented a shift from
classical forms to more personal poetry, a reaction to the conventions of the
Elizabethan poetry. His contradictory spirit met many criticisms. He is
considered to be one of the first metaphysical poet, this label was given to
him after his death. “The Apparition” is one of his poems from the book Songs and Sonnets of 1633. This is a 17
lines poem written in fluctuating meter with a surprising rhyme scheme (ABBA B
CDCDC EFFE GGG) in which John Donne delivers the story of a broken-hearted man
coming back from the dead to take revenge on his former love. To what extend is
this poem representative of Donne’s poetry? First and foremost, this is a poem
is representative of John Donne’s poetry since it is based on emotions, and more
importantly it is representative because this is a religious poem.
In the first place, the main
theme of the poem is pertaining to emotions. The narrator is seeking revenge for
his broken heart and his dishonour, this term implies feelings such as anger
and resentment. Moreover, the tittle itself implies emotions. More importantly,
“The Apparition” is a ghost, it is supposed to includes feelings such as
doubt and fear.
In this poem, the author thinks about
his own death, he speaks as if he were already
a ghost, he is a threat for his past love who betrayed him, on the first line
he says that “…by thy scorn, O murd’ress,
I am dead” it suggests that the rejection of the woman killed him, it is
like an accusation but calling her a murderess seems like an extrapolation, he
is not dead yet, although he is dying inside from the suffering, there is a lack
of subjectivity because of the anger and the bitterness. Considering it is a
poem based on emotions, those seem to dull the neutrals thoughts of the poet. He
is planning to haunt the woman in her own bed now she thinks she is “free, from all solicitation from him”
as said on line 3 and 4, to make her realize firstly that she is not done with
him but also that she made a mistake when she rejected him.
The author is describing his
plan, just like a fantasy, with a type of sado-masochistic pleasure, from line 5
to 10, she was cruel, and he wants to be crueller to her, he tells that he
wants to see the woman with another man, as proof that she is a liar and she
was just using the excuse of virginity to reject John Donne even if she is not
a virgin. He refers to her as a “feigned
vestal” on line 5 it means she is a false pretender of some devotion, this
detail also indicates that the “solicitation”
of the poet is not about him begging for her pure platonic love, it implies
that is about sex. She kills him by refusing sex with him.
In his plan, the writer says that
frightened by the apparition, she will wake up her new man, but exhausted by
the sex he would think she wanted more and would pretend to sleep, leaving her
alone, “neglected” (line 11) shaking
in the dark. To talk about the woman, he uses the expression “poor aspen wretch”, there is a
comparison with the aspen tree and her to describe her as thin and not
resistant. The leaves of the tree are so thin they are moving even when there
is no wind. It underlines the weak aspect of the woman. In addition, when John Donne
says on line 12 – 13 “Bathed in a cold
quicksilver sweat wilt lie A verier ghost than I” it means she will be
so frightened and so alone that she will look more like a ghost than the poet
himself. But he might also predict her death when he says she will become a
ghost. In addition to that, the “cold
quicksilver” refers to the cold and poisonous mercury, it was also used to
cure STD’s, in all cases he talks about her future death or her future illness.
Which is probably deserved, according to his bitterness.
On the last 4 lines, Donne is
mysterious about a secret he keeps from his lover, he keeps it to let her feel
fear and says he is no longer in love with her, the idea of his beloved painfully
repenting is more delightful than the idea of her being in love with him. This
bring us to another important emotion in the poem, the pleasure. The poem
suggests the writer is enjoying his revenge despite the scene he is watching – the woman he wanted, sleeping with another man – there are some mixed feelings.
Again, this underlines the idea
of sado-masochistic pleasure, also the irony resides in the fact he says he is
over his lover, but he does not act like it is true, he uses his time to make
her repent painfully.
The term “repent” can recall the religious
field. As we shall go on to examine, this text appears to be a religious poem.
Firstly, the lexical field of religion can be seen on line 4 with “ghost”, on line 5 with “feigned vestal” which refers to Vestal
Virgins, the priestesses of Vesta, the goddess of the heath in the ancient Rome,
also “taper” line 6, which is the type
of candle burned in the churches, the verb “repent”
on line 16 and the noun “innocent” on
line 17.
“The Apparition” can be interpreted as God warning mankind of his sins. The woman who dishonoured
and broke the hearth of the ghost might be Eve committing the original sin, turning
her back to religion and condemning the whole mankind to repent. It makes sense
since in the Bible all humans have to pay, suffer and repent for Eve’s sin. Many
details can be understood in a religious way. For instance, the expression “in worse arms” line 5 may refers the
devil’s arms. Becoming a “verier ghost”
than the narrator, may mean becoming a holy spirit once the sins have been
forgiven – after the pain and the fear. The apparition might be a judgement,
and the sentence might be repent for what has been done.
The Apparition is both a religious
poem and a poem full of complex emotions. The emotions described in the poem
might be real and not just invented or romanticized for the poem because John
Donne was known for his numerous love stories with women, some of them were
very shorts and some of them were very long, the frustration and the disappointment
towards his former love might be an expression of something that truly happened
to him. All these feelings are mixed and at the end the idea of his beloved painfully
repainting is more delightful than the idea of her being in love with him. On the symbolical level, God might be enjoying
suffering the mankind because it means humans are on their way to become free of
their sins. The theme of religion is also linked to the personal life of the
author, he was born in a Roman Catholics family, which had some repercussions
on his life and became Anglican in 1597. To conclude, since the themes of the
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Prosecutors: Alarms show Houston teen fatally shot parents
HOUSTON (AP) — Prosecutors say house alarms and motion detectors indicate a Houston teenager whose father was a standout linebacker for Texas A&M before a brief NFL career fatally shot his parents.
Jurors were told during opening statements Tuesday that no one forced their way into the home and that Antonio Armstrong Jr. was the only person detected inside just moments before the shooting in July 2016.
The 19-year-old is charged with capital murder.
Defense attorney Rick DeToto countered that investigators decided early on that the teen killed Antonio and Dawn Armstrong then contorted the case to fit their opinion.
The elder Armstrong was a first-team All-American who was taken in the sixth round of the 1995 NFL draft. He had brief stints with the San Francisco 49ers and Miami Dolphins.
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Buttigieg: ‘Nicely Discover Salvation in Scripture Itself’ | RELEVANT Journal
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Pete Buttigieg continues to search out himself a surprisingly essential participant within the upcoming Democratic primaries, with just a few polls displaying him taking a commanding lead within the all-important state of Iowa. That’s all of the extra attention-grabbing since Buttigieg has made his Christian religion an essential a part of his marketing campaign.
He opened as much as Rolling Stone about his religion in a prolonged, in-depth dialog with reporter Alex Morris, who can also be a Christian.
Listed here are just a few of the highlights:
On Rising Up in a Non-Non secular Family
Buttigieg says his father attended a Jesuit seminary however now not considers himself non secular, whereas his mom is non secular however “skeptical of organized religion” though she’s began attending church along with her son in recent times.
Buttigieg himself attended Catholic college when he was youthful, however ultimately discovered a house within the Episcopalian church, the place he nonetheless attends as we speak, saying the denomination is “liturgically conservative and theologically a little more open. And thats where I realized that I sit too.”
On the Position Religion Ought to Play in Politics
Buttigieg is skeptical of utilizing his faith to “bludgeon” different religions, saying that “a very important American principle is that when youre in the public role or making a policy, it has to be done in a way that serves people of any religion and people with no religion equally.”
“I think the most important thing is that we be transparent about our motivations,” Buttigieg stated. “And I also think its fair game to appeal to others according to their religious values, even if theyre different. You never want to trick somebody about where youre coming from, but I can say, ‘Heres my religious convictions. I know yours are different, but based on my reading of my own faith, heres why I think this is important.’”
On “Picking and Choosing” Which Components of the Bible to Observe
Buttigieg doesn’t seem to carry to a doctrine of inerrancy, saying that “theres so many things in Scripture that are inconsistent internally, and youve got to decide what sense to make of it.”
He particularly highlights the Levitical legislation commanding girls to be stoned to loss of life in the event that they had been caught in adultery. “I dont believe that that was right once upon a time, and then the New Testament came and it was gone,” Buttigieg says. “I believe it was always wrong, but it was considered right once, and that found its way into Scripture.”
On President Donald Trump Being a “Stumbling Block” to Future Generations of Christians
As regards to President Donald Trump, Buttigieg agrees that the President’s private ethical conduct “run[s] the risk of generationally harming the credibility of Christianity in our country.” However he dismissed Trump’s authenticity, saying he believes Trump is “always winking when he pretends to have any religious conviction whatsoever”.
As he has up to now, Buttigieg saved his stronger condemnations for “the Mike Pences and Falwells of the world”, who he appears to see as being extra explicitly hypocritical of their allegiances to Trump. “I think their legitimacy, such as it ever was, is going to collapse as a result of this alliance that theyve made,” Buttigieg says.
On the GOP Being Thought-about the De Facto Political Get together of American Christians
Buttigieg was requested concerning the “branding” of the Republican Get together, which many American Christians take into account to be the rightful place of Christians. He clearly took subject with that concept, saying that “theres a lot of conditioning weve got to overcome.”
“I think well find salvation in Scripture itself, and in the idea of human compassion too,” Buttigieg stated “Even if you have a different view of Scripture than I do, we have the same, I think, understanding of what compassion is.”
The entire dialog may be learn over at Rolling Stone.
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My work deals with themes of isolation, dislocation, ennui, uncertainty, wonder, the ephemeral nature of existence, and sorrow, but with an eye toward beauty, toward the lyrical. I play with color and texture, using the tools most readily available to all of us—a smart phone—to capture moments and then interpret them at will, “cross-processing” them on my device. The democratization of image making and distribution has contributed to an overall sameness in what we photograph and how we photorgaph it. I’d like to challenge those norms yet remain within the public sphere, inside the limits of the technology we all have at our disposal. —Chronic Chronicler, a.k.a. Los Angeles–based artist and writer Kristina Feliciano
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Rotary: People’s Voice
Murali R 04/12/2016
It is an organisation with many arms to serve, many shoulders to share, many heads to think but one voice to speak.
Yes, one voice that always speaks of serving the society. Rain or shine, all that the members of Rotary Mysore Midtown know is to contribute for a better tomorrow in whatever way they can. Established in 1981 with a selfless motive, Rotary has not looked back. When they began, Rotarians would take up small community service projects, an annual fund raiser and non-fellowship. Thanks to its never-say-no attitude, Rotary has grown leaps and bounds and that it has won the best club award thrice has come as no surprise. A most vibrant and innovative club, Rotary has its own flagship projects and events. They stress on friendship and fellowship which is their strength and the activities have a natural flow out of togetherness.
Leading a team of 73 enterprising members, Rotary president for the year 2016-17, Harish Bharath knows time is precious. He believes in making the best use of the time that is available to him. With so many projects and events lined up in the next couple of months, Harish and his team have their hands full. “We are generally taken as an example for our creative and out of the box ideas and are copied across the district, which itself is a pat on our back. We have the cream of the society as our members and “partners in service’ like our ladies wing, The Innerwheel Club, our sponsored organisations like the institute-based
Rotract at Mahajanas and De paul, Intract at Rotary Midtown Academy, our own school at Hootgally, RCC at Vinyas Technologies, first corporate sponsored club in the world. We touch mostly the neglected and the lesser known NGOs who are deserving. We have undertaken several matching projects with overseas clubs and served institutions to the tune of more than Rs 2 crore.”
Since the club came into existence, Rotarians goals have been clear: To foster fellowship and friendship. Rotary is responsible for the polio-free India and it aims to make world polio-free by 2017. It single-handedly financed this worldwide project and it is the world’s biggest healthcare exercise as recognised by the United Nations Organisations. Rotary’s next immediate goal is to make the world illiteracy-free.
“We are extremely happy as we serve the neglected and feared sectors of the society. We see happiness in the eyes of the special children of our aided school for special children, we find happiness in serving food to the orphanages, we are happy to aid People for Animals in a big way, we are happy to undertake wall painting on the walls of railway underpass near Mandovi Motors on KRS road, conveying message of cleanliness and health, which is a sight to see,” Harish says with a sense of satisfaction in his voice.
The club always has a set of programmes to be finished in a stipulated time. They have Diksoochi — career guidance orientation for class X students, Samartha — job mela for children with physical disabilities and mental disorders, Bhandavya — state level Olympics for mentally challenged children, Brahmanda — astronomy awareness programme. It is a long list… Rotarians provided assistance and drinking water to people at banks during the recent demonetisation crisis.
Rotary’s recent projects include drinking water project at Salhundi, mobile TB testing unit to Blochem Lab, neonatal unit to JSS, mobile dental check up unit to JSS, cardiac ICU on wheels to Chamundivanam Hospital, ventilator to Ashakirana, AIDS treatment ICU, five ambulances to hospitals across Mysuru.
Harish is happy that people’s response has been overwhelming and he says it’s a big motivating factor. “So far we have undertaken orientation and career guidance to two lakh students and the letters they have written in response is the testimony to our untiring efforts. Our bulletin About Us is appreciated even in clubs overseas. We have undertaken Mysuru’s first pacemaker implant and the patients’ happiness is ours.”
When you quiz Harish about how his club raises funds, his answer is forthright. “We have our fund- raising events sometimes, and our members have always risen to the occasion and funds have never been a constraint. Where there is an honest intent, money comes.”
Improvement is a continuous process and Rotary president strongly believes in this philosophy. “I am pretty much content and the improvement happens as we move along. It is a continuous learning process which keeps our spirits up.”
Harish is happy he got to meet of some of the greatest like the Secretary General of the UN, ambassadors of states, people of international fame at Rotary’s international conventions. “The binding with people that happens while serving is an out of the world experience. You have the window to the world. A common denominator called Rotary happens across the world,” he says rather nonchalantly.
When someone speaks highly of Rotary and its achievements over the years, it is not without a reason. It is a team of like-minded good souls whose selfless aim is to make this world a better place to live in.
Who is a Rotarian?
Is it the man administrating polio drops to a child?
Is it the man who rushes a critical patient to the hospital in an ambulance?
Is it the man responsible for providing shelter to homeless?
Is it the man who cares for the environment and helps plant more trees?
Is it the man who is the first to provide
succour to the calamity stricken?
Is it the man who helps in the provision of safe drinking water?
Is it the who is concerned at the plight of the physically challenged?
Is it the man who helps every man, woman and child become literate?
Is it the man who has compassion for the elderly?
Is it the man who seeks friendship and peace?
A Rotarian is all the this and much more
mysore Rotary Mysore
Murali R
A senior journalist in the business, R Murali started his career with The Times of India as a reporter in sports. He has covered a lot of local, national, international events in cricket, hockey, volley ball, motor sports and table tennis. Over the years he has done a lot of special stories including general stories. Before Joining City Today, he worked in Deccan Chronicle and DNA. At City Today, he is an integral part of the team handling national, sports edit and op-ed pages. He also actively contributes to City Sunday features.
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Book Reveiw: General A. P. Hill, The Story of a Confederate General
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General A. P. Hill, The Story of a Confederate Warrior
By James I. Robertson Jr.
Vintage Civil War Library
A Division of Random House, Inc.
IBSN 0-679-73888-6
Who was Ambrose Powell "Little Powell" Hill?
I remember watching the TNT movie Gettysburg, every General mentioned his name. Yet where was he? How is it he has been forgotten?
Just before her death, A.P. Hill's daughter, Lucy Hill McGill made an earnest plea: "I do so want to have justice done my father. It has never been"
Who was A.P. Hill?
Here is a man, who challenged Longstreet to a duel. He was under arrest by Jackson on the way to Antietam. He led his Light Division in the battles at Second Manassas, Antietum, Fredricksburg, Chancellorville, Gettysburg, Cold Harbor and more. He was A corps commander. Both Generals Lee and Jackson called to him on their death beds. It was said of him by Col. Charles Venable of Lee's staff "In him fell one of the knightliest Generals of that army of knightly soldiers. On the field he was the very soul of chivalrous gallantry. In moments of the greastest peril his bearing was superb and inspiring in the highest degree....The name of A.P. Hill stands recorded high on the list of those noble sons of VIrginia at whose roll-call grateful memory will ever answer: 'Dead on the field of honor for the people they loved so well'"
Well known historical author James I. Robertson Jr. does a excellent job of answering this question. He shows a very human picture of "Little Powell" as well as lots of little insights of the inside machinations of the Confederate high command. You get a chance to see a major player of the Confederacy, one who, to many, remains an obscure or forgotten figure...known only in reference to others. The only drawback I have with the book is it is the Footnotes are all in the back of the book. I prefer footnotes to be on the foot of the page.
He was first and foremost a soldier. a proud man who was a stickler for protocol yet loved and admired by his men. He died On April 2 1865 while trying to stop Grant's last attack on Petersburg. Only hours after he died, the Army of Virginia started it's death march to Appomattox.
Chaplain J. William Jones wrote of Hill shortly after the civil war: "And though he knew no tender care, as did Jackson, no weeping friends, as did Stuart, the swift-winged messenger of death left neither wanting. His death groan was lost in the roar of battle, his death couch moistened with the blood of his comrades, and for his requiem was heard a nation's wail."
Who was A. P. Hill?
Read this book and find out.
(Message edited by mental_nomad on July 14, 2002)
As you can see, I need a proofreader.
Good book, and well worth reading.
Robertson found some interesting stuff on A.P. Hill, that explained questions I'd always had about him. I don't want to give too much away- read the book.
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How to increase your Facebook likes using email newsletters
As a marketer, you probably already know that email marketing comes with a much higher ROI than that of social media advertising.
But that doesn’t mean you should ditch your social media efforts completely. In fact, using it to supplement your other existing strategies is one of the best ways to maximize social media. No one is saying you need to set aside a huge chunk of your marketing budget for targeted Facebook posts, but it’s still important for brands—especially local brands— to have some kind of valuable Facebook presence.
The key is to integrate your social media efforts with your email marketing strategy. This ensures that you cover all your bases without stretching yourself too thin.
This post will explain how to properly insert a Facebook like button in email campaigns, as well as other tips for encouraging Facebook likes by integrating your strategy. We’ll also provide some examples of campaigns that got it right to help you understand how to create a Facebook like button for email.
Why should you integrate social media with a Facebook like button in email campaigns?
It’s always a good idea to put your subscribers first, right? You want to deliver relevant and valuable content to them at all times. It’s good for them, for you, and for the brands you represent.
Google found that leading companies were 1.5 times more likely to employ an integrated marketing strategy.
Why? Well, it relies on data-driven solutions to provide your subscribers with personalized content. In fact, research from Google also found that 61% of consumers expect brands to provide them with personalized content based on their preferences.
Despite these facts, less than 40% of businesses are using data and research about their audiences to arrive at decisions.
This gives you an opportunity to stand out from competitors, simply by adding a Facebook like button in emails and capitalizing on other integration methods like merging data from your company app or hosting webinars.
As an email marketer, you don’t have to resort to bombarding your subscribers with the same email campaign over and over. In fact, you don’t even have to throw dozens of emails at them every week. You simply need to send emails with quality content as part of an integrated marketing strategy.
Adding a Facebook like button in your emails is the first step.
Think past the like button
Facebook is an excellent place to start because the platform provides marketers with so many additional tools for reaching their audience with relevant and valuable traffic.
Plus, it’s hard to ignore the hard fact that over one billion people actively use Facebook with the platform boasting 1.49 billion active users every day. To put that into perspective, Gmail has over one billion active users each month.
Create a Facebook like button for email
Most email service providers make it easy for you to insert a Facebook like button in email campaigns. For example, you can include social share links at the bottom of every email you send.
But that only goes so far. You don’t want readers to just know that your Facebook page exists, you want them to take real action.
A good way to accomplish this is to create a Facebook like button for email with easy-to-use graphic design tools like Canva. Then you can insert them with an attached hyperlink into your email campaign templates. Your email service provider might also offer templates for social media that make it easy to integrate your newsletter and social media marketing efforts.
Create unique images and use some of the tips below to encourage readers to actually click the button and visit your Facebook page. Just saying “Like our page” probably won’t inspire them to follow through with it, but offering valuable content will.
This email from Not on the High Street highlights their social share buttons at the bottom to encourage engagement.
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Add Facebook posts to your email newsletters
Templates from your email service provider should also make it easy for you to embed your best Facebook posts directly into your emails.
This is a great way to show subscribers what you’re up to on other channels. Grab some posts of your recent promotions and specials or a blog you’re really proud of.
By segmenting your audience, you can select Facebook posts that are the most relevant to different subscribers. It’s like using the Facebook audience insights tool, but more likely to deliver results because you’re targeting audience members through email where they’re in control.
This email from Broadsheet doesn’t embed a Facebook post into the email, but instead it includes a link to RSVP to the event directly on Facebook to encourage social engagement.
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Form a private Facebook group exclusively for email subscribers
Most marketers have noticed by now that the Facebook algorithm stopped working in favor of brands—specifically small businesses—a long time ago. Now, the omnipresent Facebook gods display more posts from paid advertising, family members, friends, and groups.
That last part is important for marketers because it provides a way for you to essentially beat the algorithm by engaging with your subscribers through groups.
Start by sending out a newsletter encouraging subscribers to join a private Facebook group. But don’t forget to provide some incentive: let them know you’ll offer special deals there and they’ll have the opportunity to provide feedback about your products or services.
This makes a great tactic for customer retention too. It’s hard to beat one-on-one interaction with real customers who can provide you with detailed feedback. Plus, inviting customers to something “exclusive” is always enticing and makes them feel truly valued.
Hold a contest for subscribers who follow your page
When done correctly, Facebook contests provide a stellar medium to engage your audience and develop brand awareness. The key is to know what type of contest will hit with your audience and which type will flop.
Photos: Ask subscribers to take a photo that relates to your branding and submit it on the Facebook page.
User-generated content: Ask for recipes, product suggestions, enhancements, or unique ways subscribers use your product.
Keep it simple: Ask subscribers to like your page and submit their email (so you can keep track of entries).
If possible, try to keep the prizes brand-related. Gift cards and free products always work well, or offering a unique VIP experience provided by your company could also be an option to consider. Sephora recently ran a contest for a trip to Paris. Not only are they offering a great prize, but it also encourages subscribers to interact with their social media platforms.
Encourage subscribers to rate your business on your Facebook page
Giving out any kind of incentive for Google or Facebook ratings is risky business, so it’s probably best to avoid discounts or free products entirely.
There’s no harm, however, in simply asking your subscribers to let the public know what they think about your brand with a rating. Send out an email campaign with a custom image that links to your Facebook review page.
And of course, don’t forget to include a Facebook like button in the email, too.
Test and repurpose content on each platform
Thanks to its versatile posting options, Facebook makes the perfect medium for testing or repurposing your email content.
Did an email campaign perform well? Maybe that content is also worth a sponsored Facebook post. Facebook makes it easy to transition emails into posts with different templates to highlight products, images, text, links, and plenty of other unique calls to action.
If you’re planning to insert a Facebook like button in email campaigns, that’s a great first step to boosting your Facebook likes and engagement. A strategy that integrates social media, email campaigns, and other methods is important because that’s how your audience wants to interact with brands.
With just over a third of consumers getting the integration they crave from brands, this gives you plenty of chances to stand out from competitors with your tactics. And, the more you give customers what they want, the more they will embrace your brand.
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For the titular character, see Cuphead (character).
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"Well, Cuphead and his pal Mugman
They like to roll the dice...
By chance they came 'pon Devil's game
And gosh, they paid the price!
Paid the price...
And now they're fighting for their lives
On a mission fraught with dread...
And if they proceed but don't succeed...
The Devil will take their heads!"
—Introduction song
Cuphead (full title: Cuphead: Don't Deal with the Devil) is a run and gun indie video game developed and published by StudioMDHR. First announced in 2013, the game was released for Microsoft Windows and Xbox One in September 29, 2017, for macOS in October 19, 2018, and for Nintendo Switch in April 18, 2019. The game was inspired by the rubber hose style of animation used in cartoons of the 1930s, such as the work of studios Fleischer and Walt Disney Animation, and seeks to emulate their subversive and surrealist qualities.
Cuphead features one or two players taking control of animated characters Cuphead and his brother Mugman to fight through several levels that culminate in boss fights as to repay their debt to The Devil. The game was praised for its art style and noted for its challenging difficulty. It was both a critical and commercial success, winning several awards and selling over four million copies by July 2019. An animated series based on the game, entitled The Cuphead Show!, is in production for Netflix.
On the fictional Inkwell Isles, Cuphead and his brother Mugman are two fun-loving kids who live under the watchful eye of Elder Kettle. Against the elder's warnings, the brothers enter the Devil's Casino and begin playing craps. When they go on a winning streak, the Devil himself offers to raise the stakes. If Cuphead and Mugman can win one more roll, they will receive all the money in the casino; if not, the Devil will take their souls. Cuphead loses by rolling snake eyes, and he and Mugman beg for mercy. The Devil makes a deal with them: collect the "soul contracts" that signify his ownership of the souls of his runaway debtors by midnight the next day, and he might let them keep theirs. They visit Elder Kettle, who gives them a potion that allows them to fire blasts from their fingers to aid in their quest, but also warns them the debtors may change themselves to different things in attempt to stop them.
The brothers travel around the Inkwell Isles, fighting the residents who have lost their souls to the Devil in order to obtain their contracts. On entering the second island, the Elder Kettle informs them about "doing the right thing" when they come up against the Devil again. Once they have the contracts, they return to the Devil's Casino, but its manager King Dice blocks their way. He has lost a bet with the Devil, presumably over whether Cuphead and Mugman would be able to complete their task, and forces them to fight his own henchmen before confronting them directly. After the brothers defeat King Dice, the Devil demands that they hand over the contracts in exchange for "joining his team". What happens next depends on the choice of the player. If the player decides to do so, the Devil turns Cuphead and Mugman into his demonic lackeys and the game ends. If the player declines, the Devil becomes furious at the brothers' refusal to honor their deal and fights them himself. Cuphead and Mugman triumph over him, burn the contracts, and race home. Learning that they no longer have anything to fear from the Devil, the former debtors honor the brothers for their heroic actions.
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Cuphead is a classic run and gun action game heavily focused on boss battles. Inspired by cartoons of the 1930s, the visuals and audio are painstakingly created with the same techniques of the era, i.e. traditional hand drawn cel animation, watercolor backgrounds, and original jazz recordings.
Play as Cuphead or Mugman (in single player or local co-op) as you traverse strange worlds, acquire new weapons, learn powerful super moves, and discover hidden secrets while you try to pay your debt back to the devil!
Cuphead's gameplay is based around continual boss fights, with interspersed run and gun levels. The game also includes role-playing elements, and a branching level sequence. Cuphead has infinite lives, maintaining all equipment between deaths. The player can purchase weapons and "Charms" (special abilities) from the shop using coins collected from the run-and-gun levels. Player characters feature a parry attack that can be used on certain objects marked in pink, to various effects; the most important of them being increasing a "super meter" that enables more powerful attacks.
After completing a level, the player will be ranked with a grade based on their performance, through factors such as the time taken to defeat a boss, damage taken/avoided, and number of parried attacks. The levels are accessible through a top-down perspective overworld with its own secret areas. The game also has a two-player local cooperative mode that allows another player to play as Mugman.
Cuphead was the first game by StudioMDHR, a Canadian indie game development studio consisting of brothers Chad and Jared Moldenhauer. Additional animation work was contributed by Jake Clark, with programming lead by Eric Billingsley. Its development began in 2010 using the Unity game engine, and it was developed from the brother's homes in Oakville, Ontario and Regina, Saskatchewan, respectively. The game was inspired by cartoons produced by the Fleischer and Walt Disney animation studios, along with cartoonists Ub Iwerks, Grim Natwick, and Willard Bowsky. Chad Moldenhauer called Fleischer Studios "the magnetic north of his art style", who particularly sought to mimic their "subversive and surrealist" elements.
The Moldenhauers watched 1930s-era cartoons in their youth, which Chad Moldenhauer describes as happenstance, based on gifts and VHS compilations. Among other siblings in their Regina, Saskatchewan childhood home, the two shared aesthetic taste and interest in gameplay. They attempted a game in the style of Cuphead in 2000, but lacked the tools to continue. The brothers decided to try again following the success of the indie game Super Meat Boy, which released in 2010. The character that became Cuphead descended from a 1936 Japanese propaganda animated film where a man with a teacup for a head morphs into a tank. The Moldenhauers emulated the animation because they found it strange, and "right away it stuck". Before settling on him as the main character, the brothers had created around 150 different character designs, including a kappa in a tophat and characters with a plate or fork for a head.
The animation techniques behind Cuphead are similar to that of the 1930s cartoons. Chad Moldenhauer, who had previously worked in graphic design, would hand-draw the animations and paint the backgrounds using watercolors, colorizing them in Photoshop. The gameplay runs at a framerate of 60, while the animation runs at 24, which is a film standard. Chad Moldenhauer also saw his process with its human imperfections as a reaction to the perfectionism of pixel art. Jared Moldenhauer worked on other aspects of the game, though they would discuss gameplay design together. Their studio hired a Romanian developer, a Brooklyn animator, and an Ontario jazz musician for the project. They sought to keep the recording processes of the time period as if the team were developing in that era.
The Moldenhauers described Cuphead as having a difficult, "retro game" core for its emphasis on gameplay over plot. Kill Screen described the developers as "obsessed" with run and gun fundamentals of "animations and exploits and hitboxes". Over the development process, they have made multiple revisions to many gameplay elements, including how gameplay actions feel at the edges of platforms and how long players are disabled after receiving damage. They planned multiple difficulty levels, and chose to abandon a typical damsel in distress plot for one where Cuphead perpetually creates trouble for himself. The developers planned to surpass the Guinness World Record for number of boss battles in a run and gun game by having over 30 to the record's 25. The game's implementation and visual design, combined with the limited number of people available to work on the game, proved to be StudioMDHR's biggest challenge, so the Moldenhauers had to go the extra mile to bring the game to life, even remortgaging their house in order to finance the project.
Promotion and release
Though the game was shown during the Xbox press event of Electronic Entertainment Expo 2014 to audience approval, Cuphead was not available to play and was estimated to be 40 percent complete. Cuphead was expected to be extended via expansion packs with 10 to 15 bosses each, similar to how Sonic & Knuckles added atop the Sonic series formula. Cuphead was released on September 29, 2017 for Microsoft Windows and Xbox One, with potential later releases for macOS and Linux. Cuphead is an Xbox console exclusive, and supports Xbox Play Anywhere. King Features Syndicate has the licensing rights to Cuphead merchandise and assorted paraphernalia. Downloadable content for the game, titled The Delicious Last Course and featuring a new playable character, levels, and bosses, was revealed at E3 2018 for release in 2019. However, the new content was pushed back into 2020 as to avoid putting too much pressure and crunch time on their development team. A port of Cuphead for macOS was released on October 19, 2018, and advertised with an animated short titled "Crisp Apples". A port to Nintendo Switch was released on April 18, 2019.
In June 2019, an adapted port for some cars manufactured by Tesla, Inc. was announced by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who expressed his appreciation of the game. Due to the cars' limitations, only the game's first section will be playable.
Downloadable content for the game is planned to be released.
Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course: The Delicious Last Course features the introduction of two new characters, Ms. Chalice and Chef Saltbaker, new levels, and bosses. It is planned for release on 2020.
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Metacritic (PC) 89/100[13]
(XONE) 87/100[14]
Destructoid 9.5/10[15]
EGM 9.5/10[16]
GameSpot 8/10[17]
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Giant Bomb [19]
IGN 8.8/10[20]
PC Gamer (US) 86/100[21]
Polygon 8.5/10[22]
VideoGamer.com 8/10[23]
Steam 96/100 [24]
Ben Kuchera of Polygon wrote that Cuphead was one of the five most interesting reveals at Microsoft's E3 2014 press conference, even though he knew little about the game apart from its aesthetic. He said it "stood out immediately" and that everyone in the website's press room viscerally reacted to the trailer. Cuphead won the IGN Best Xbox One game at E3 award in 2015, and also won the award for "Best Indie Game" at the Gamescom 2015 Awards. It was also nominated as "Best Independent Game" at the E3 2016 Game Critics Awards.
Cuphead received "generally favorable" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic. The game has also been noted for its difficulty by several media outlets. Destructoid's Brett Makedonski welcomed the high difficulty, which he noted as "tough but fair". Based on "exhaustive" pattern recognition, he said it ultimately relied on muscle memory, rather than reaction. He thought structuring the game around boss battles was well executed, and that each boss encounter held "different and special and memorable" traits. Praising the 1930s aesthetics as cohesive, Makedonski found the jazz-based soundtrack to be "similarly fabulous". Despite dying 188 times in his playthrough, Ray Carsillo at EGMNow felt no frustration from the difficulty, but rather motivation to "dig my heels in deeper". Carsillo lauded the "gorgeous" hand-drawn visuals, asserting that the only thing surpassing the artwork was the gameplay, which he said went "beyond pattern recognition". Peter Brown of GameSpot opined that combatting enemies provided a considerably rewarding experience. He described the cartoon aesthetic as charming, adding that it infused "color and expression" to the game. Further, he saw Cuphead as a "true recreation" of hand-drawn cel animation. Brown also relished how quick loading times proved beneficial to trial and error tactics.
Lucas Sullivan at GamesRadar+ wrote that Cuphead "stands tall among the best 2D shooters of all time", and agreed the gameplay challenges demanded patient pattern recognition to be accomplished, from which he said players would be rewarded "tenfold". Sullivan called the animation adorable, noting the wealth of detail present in the watercolor backdrops, and said it worked well with the gameplay. Like Carsillo, Sullivan claimed never to be frustrated with the difficulty. Giant Bomb's Ben Pack remarked that playing the game yielded one of his most enjoyable experiences with video games, citing the combination of "brutal" platforming and an "exceptionally well realized" art style. Writing for IGN, Joe Skrebels declared every scene a "masterwork" and commended the sound work, calling it an "ideal match" to the aesthetics. Platforming battles were seen as the most imaginative part of the game, and having no health bars for enemies its "smartest" and "most devilish" addition. Like Brown and Sullivan, Skrebels found the battles to be rewarding as well as "one of Cuphead's greatest strengths". Chris Schilling of PC Gamer expressed approval of the controls, saying that their "reliable jump and dash" led to more "nimble and responsive" handling. Disagreeing with Makedonski, Schilling explained that certain random elements meant "you can't simply learn patterns by rote and rely entirely on muscle memory". Chris Plante at Polygon commented that, at its best, the game serves to educate the player in strategy through trial and error. He enjoyed the parrying system more so than the various attacks, as it proved to be a "crucial" and "relatively forgiving" mechanic. Colm Ahern of VideoGamer.com wrote in his verdict, "Cuphead will best most games in how it looks and sounds, and defeating that boss that you once deemed unbeatable is glorious".
Conversely, Makedonski said the "eight-direction firing radius" was his least favorite system in the game, calling it "clunky and awkward". Even though Brown saw "the fear of the unexpected" as part of what made Cuphead thrilling, he disparaged the game's failure to identify progress and capability. Skrebels thought that the "run 'n' gun, left-to-right platforming" lacked inventiveness, while also subjecting the "parry system" and control scheme to criticism. Plante complained that the final bosses made Cuphead's greatest features less effective, and mentioned that the difficulty "eventually goes too far". Ahern agreed with Plante in his reproval of the final bosses, also saying that the challenge was "a step too far".
Unwinnable writer Yussef Cole wrote an essay titled "Cuphead and the Racist Spectre of Fleischer Animation", in which he thought that by using the rubber hose animation style, Studio MDHR also brought up the "bigotry and prejudice" which had a strong influence on early animation, thinking that Studio MDHR ignored the context and history of the aesthetic it "so faithfully" replicated. Cole identifies that much of the imagery that Studio MDHR took from the Fleischer style effectively carried the racial stereotypes of the 1930s Harlem and minstrel shows that the animation style was built on. Chad and Jared Moldenhauer had stated prior to release that they wanted to make an animation style that harkened back to 1930s cartoons without getting ties to racism or minstrel shows in them. Maja Moldenhauer further stated that all they wanted from the Fleischers was the animation style and visuals, and that anything else happening "in that era we're not versed in it". In response to Cole's essay, Brandon Orselli of Niche Gamer defended the game as a tribute to that art style, writing that it was not meant to deliver narratives, or "go anywhere beyond where it needs to go in terms of its basic and child-like storytelling". Mike Mood, the creator of the horror game media franchise Bendy, which also uses rubber hose animation, has discussed wanting to make a cross over with Cuphead.
In the two first weeks of release, Cuphead sold over one million copies worldwide, which had risen to three million by August 2018.
Entertainment Weekly placed Cuphead fifth on the list of its "Best Games of 2017", while GamesRadar ranked it ninth on their list of the 25 Best Games of 2017", and Polygon ranked it 14th on their list of the "50 best games of 2017". In Game Informer's Reader's Choice Best of 2017 Awards, the game won the "Best Microsoft Game" and "Best Co-op Multiplayer" categories, while it came in third place for "Best Action Game". The website also gave it the awards for "Best Microsoft Exclusive" in their "Best of 2017 Awards", and for "Best Bosses" in their 2017 Action Game of the Year Awards. EGMNow ranked the game at #2 on their list of the 25 best games of 2017, while Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw of Zero Punctuation ranked it third on his list of the Best Games of 2017. The Verge named it one of their 15 best video games of 2017.
Cuphead was nominated for "Breakout Game of the Year" in PC Gamer's 2017 Game of the Year Awards, and won the award for "Best Xbox One Game" in Destructoid's Game of the Year Awards 2017. It also won the award for "Best Xbox One Game" and "Best Art Direction" in IGN's Best of 2017 Awards, whereas its other nominations were for "Game of the Year", "Best PC Game", "Best Platformer", "Best Original Music", and "Best Multiplayer". The game also won the award for "Best Looking Game" and "Best Style", in addition to being runner-up for "Best Shopkeeper" for the character Porkrind, "Best Music", "Best Debut", and "Game of the Year" at Giant Bomb's Game of the Year 2017 Awards.
In the week of September 14, 2019, the album Selected Tunes from Cuphead topped the Jazz Albums Billboard charts.
Cuphead was an influence on the in-development video game Enchanted Portals by Xixo Games Studio. When Enchanted Portals was announced, it was heavily criticized from fans of Cuphead for sharing gameplay and art style with Cuphead. In response, the developers of Enchanted Portals stated that they had wished to make a game similar to Cuphead, while retaining respect for the original.
A Cuphead Mii Fighter costume was added to the 2018 crossover fighting game Super Smash Bros. Ultimate via DLC in January 2020. It comes bundled with a new music track, being the boss theme for Cagney Carnation.
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In July 2019, Netflix announced The Cuphead Show!, an animated series based on the game. It will feature adventures of Cuphead and Mugman across Inkwell Isle, exploring areas and characters beyond those in the video game. While the series will be targeted for children, StudioMDHR also antipicated that they will include humor and gags for adult audience appreciation. The series will be animated, but will not be as meticulously done as the video game using traditional pen-and-paper methods, as it would take far too long to complete, but will still feature hand-drawn characters and movement but with aid of a digital medium. Chad and Jared Moldenhauer from StudioMDHR will be executive producers along with CJ Kettler from King Features Syndicate. Dave Wasson and Cosmo Segurson will co-executive produce, while Clay Morrow and Adam Paloian will be supervising directors.
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The original intro music accompanied by lyrics.
The instrumental played on a piano.
A reversed version of the intro that plays after the bad ending.
An alternate reversed variation of the intro accompanied by King Dice's laughs, played in the pirated copy.
The introduction used for the E3 2015 demo and E3 2016 demo of the game, but unused in the final version of the game.
The plot and gameplay of Cuphead was originally far different than the final release. The cut concept involved Cuphead using his last dime to enter a tournament, in which he had to defeat 8 bosses in order to succeed with only a few weapons to choose from.
While not much is known about this build, some information can be gathered from the game files, interviews, and trailers.
In an early teaser image, Cagney Carnation was intended to be placed on the left side, with his idle animation being a "bring it on" position, as opposed to his final one.
Goopy Le Grande was intended to be fought as soon as the tutorial was complete.
There where multiple unused weapons found in the game files, and early trailers.
In early demos, enemies flashed red when attacked.
This was most likely changed due to epileptic players possibly experiencing a seizure.
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TRNC News Today 9th November 2015
Akıncı: “One of the basic principles of a settlement will be multiculturalism”
Speaking at an event yesterday President Mustafa Akıncı said that they are trying to leave a peaceful future to the next generation during the ongoing negotiations in order to find a settlement to the Cyprus problem. Akıncı also said that the basic principles of a settlement in Cyprus will be based on multiculturalism.
Akıncı, “There is a basic principle that the content of the settlement is based on. This principle is the multiculturalism. We will build a democratic and modern country on this island. One of the basic principles of this country will be multiculturalism.”
Stating that in the case of a settlement, constituent states will be based on political equality and pluralism, Akıncı said, “The state will not have a religion itself. This state will be a secular state. States do not have a religion.”
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The 5th International Republic Classic Car Rally was held
The 5th International Republic Classic Car Rally was held within the framework of the anniversary of the establishment of the TRNC.
The rally started in front of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building and the start was given by President Mustafa Akıncı and Foreign Minister Emine Çolak. Minister Çolak also joined the race with her car with number “41”.
Besides the TRNC, there were also participants from Turkey, Russia, Slovenia, Scotland, United Kingdom and Germany in the rally.
Özgürgün won the victory at the National Unity Party (UBP)
Hüseyin Özgürgün who took 3,540 votes in the second round at the National Unity Party (UBP) 20. Ordinary Congress, was elected as the new president.
Ersin Tatar who competed with Ozgürgün in the second round took 2,716 votes.
In his speech after the election Özgürgün said that UBP held its elections with a new system and a new constitution and signed a victory in democracy.
Stating that the success belongs to the members of UBP, Özgürgün wished them continued success and he also said that UBP was the winner in the result of the congress and the aim will be to serve the country.
World Bank Eastern Europe President: “We are ready to help if it is demanded”
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Bank is ready to help in order to support the Cyprus problem if it is demanded.
In a special statement to the Greek weekly newspaper Kathimerini, pointing out the experience in other countries, Reinermann stated that the economic advantages of a possible solution in Cyprus would be more than the disadvantages, but a solution should be found to the very high public debt in both communities.
Mentioning the advantages, Reinermann said “The accessibility of the Greek Cypriots to the Turkish market and the Turkish Cypriots to the EU market are especially important factors.”
European Council condemns South Cyprus for racism
The Greek Cypriot side was condemned in the report of the European Council National Minorities Committee for their racist actions towards the Turkish Cypriots, Romany, immigrants and refugees. In the report, it was stated that there is an increase in the racist actions of the Greek Cypriot side, and Greek Cypriot authorities were called to take immediate precautions for the issue.
Furthermore, it was underlined in the report that those who are victims of racist actions are not willing to apply to the police and it is considered that they are afraid of the police or they consider that their complaints will not be investigated in a fair way by the police authorities.
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The president of the European Central Bank (ECB), Christine Lagarde, said that the financial institution should be ahead of the curve in regards to the demand of stablecoins.
Christine Lagarde says financial institutions should foresee the demand for stablecoins
The president of the European Central Bank (ECB), Christine Lagarde, said that the financial institution should be ahead of the curve regarding the demand for stablecoins.
According to a tweet by the ECB on Dec. 12, Lagarde said: “My personal conviction on the issue of stable coins is that we better be ahead of the curve. There is clearly demand out there that we have to respond to.”
Stablecoins are digital currencies pegged to a physical asset or fiat currency and designed to minimize price volatility.
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In early September, when Lagarde was still the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and nominee to be the next president of the ECB, she claimed that she would focus on making sure that institutions promptly adapt to the rapidly changing financial environment. Lagarde said then:
”In the case of new technologies – including digital currencies – that means being alert to risks in terms of financial stability, privacy or criminal activities, and ensuring appropriate regulation is in place to steer technology towards the public good. But it also means recognising the wider social benefits from innovation and allowing them space to develop.”
Later in September, the IMF said that stablecoins could bring significant benefits to customers and society but are not without risks.
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Mario Draghi, who served as the president of the ECB prior to Lagarde’s appointment, said that the European System of Central Banks (ESCB) is closely monitoring developments in the cryptocurrency industry. Despite displaying a positive approach towards new technologies, Draghi apparently thought that stablecoins and cryptocurrency in general are of little value.
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ROB/2/3 Engines delivered
ROB/2/3/1 No 1 delivery table of locomotive engines
ROB/2/3/2 List of engines delivered
ROB/2/4 Description books
ROB/2/4/1 Description book 1831 (IS)
ROB/2/4/10 Description Book 9
ROB/2/4/11 Description Book 10
ROB/2/4/2 No 1 Description Book
ROB/2/4/3 Description of Locomotives Book
ROB/2/4/4 Description Book 3
ROB/2/4/5 Description of engines finished book 4
ROB/2/4/6 Description Book 5 (engines manufactured in East factory)
ROB/2/5 Particulars of engines
ROB/2/5/1 Particulars of locomotive engines
ROB/2/6 Engine record book
ROB/2/6/1 Engine record book
ROB/2/7 Weights and dimensions
ROB/2/7/1 Weight and Dimensions Book
ROB/2/7/2 Weight book no1
ROB/3 Drawing records
ROB/3/1 Drawing Registers
ROB/3/1/1 Drawing record
ROB/3/1/2 Drawing register No 1
ROB/3/2 Drawings
ROB/3/2/1 Locomotive Engine Darlington drawing
ROB/3/2/10 Forman's Engine alternative boiler drawing
ROB/3/2/100 Working Drawing for Nos 232, 233
ROB/3/2/101 Drawing of Combined View of a Locomotive Engine with 14 inch cylinders and 5 feet Wheels coupled, for North Midland Railway
ROB/3/2/102 Drawing of Boiler for Engines with 14 ins Cylinders for North Midland Railway 5 ft Wheels coupled
ROB/3/2/103 Drawing of Boiler for Engines with 14 ins Cylinders and 6 ft Driving Wheels for North Midland Railway
ROB/3/2/104 Drawing of North Midland Railway Combined View of Boiler for Locomotive Engine with 14 inch Cylinders and 6 ft Driving Wheels
ROB/3/2/105 Working Drawing of Locomotive Engine with 14 inch cylinders and 6 feet wheels
ROB/3/2/107 Working Drawing for Nos 260, 261, 262, 309, 310, 311
ROB/3/2/11 Curve Ended Boiler drawing
ROB/3/2/110 Working Drawing for Nos 318, 319, 320, 363
ROB/3/2/111 Working Drawing Nos 321, 322
ROB/3/2/112 Boilers for Nos 321, 322
ROB/3/2/115 Drawing of Bury's valve gear
ROB/3/2/116 Stephenson's Patent Locomotive Engine 1841
ROB/3/2/117 Working Drawing for Nos 370, 371 (both deleted), 388
ROB/3/2/118 Drawing of early engine of the long-boiler type
ROB/3/2/119 Working Drawing No 323
ROB/3/2/12 Canterbury Locomotive drawing
ROB/3/2/121 Working Drawing for Nos 358
ROB/3/2/123 Working Gear for No 359, 341, 344, 345, 346, 347, 348, 376, 377, 380, 381
ROB/3/2/124 Working Drawing for 390
ROB/3/2/125 Drawing of Stephenson's Patent Locomotive
ROB/3/2/126 Plan and Elevations of Stephenson's Patent Locomotive Engine
ROB/3/2/127 Drawing of Locomotive Coaching Engine on the York and North Midland
ROB/3/2/128 Drawing of The Gauge Trials of 1846
ROB/3/2/129 Drawing of Marseilles & Avignon
ROB/3/2/13 Canterbury Locomotive Side Elevation drawing
ROB/3/2/130 Drawing of rear-driver long-boiler express engine
ROB/3/2/131 Drawing of rear-driver, long-boiler engine with 3 cylinders
ROB/3/2/132 Drawing of rear-driver, long-boiler engine with 4 wheels coupled
ROB/3/2/133 Drawing of rear-drive, long-boiler, 4 coupled engine
ROB/3/2/134 Drawing of "Proposed new locomotive for high speeds"
ROB/3/2/135 Drawing of London & North Western locomotive
ROB/3/2/136 Drawing of Elevations of a Locomotive Engine constructed for the Midland Railway
ROB/3/2/137 Drawing of the use of outside frames with inside frames
ROB/3/2/138 Drawing of a locomotive with 4 wheels coupled
ROB/3/2/139 Drawing of Express Engine manufactured by Messrs Robert Stephenson & Co for the York, Newcastle & Berwick Railway
ROB/3/2/14 Plan of Rockett (sic) Engine drawing
ROB/3/2/140 Drawing of Express engine for York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway
ROB/3/2/141 Drawing of Express engine for York, Newcaslte and Berwick Railway
ROB/3/2/142 Arrangement of Working Gear of Express Engine manufactured by Messrs Robert Stephenson & Coy for the York, Newcastle & Berwick Railway
ROB/3/2/143 Drawing of Three Cylinder Express Engine for the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway No 737
ROB/3/2/144 Drawing of Canadian Grand Trunk Railway Nos 989, 990, 991
ROB/3/2/145 Drawing of Egyptian Railway Nos 995, 996, 1021, 1022
ROB/3/2/146 Drawing of Amsterdam and Rotterdam Railway No 1023
ROB/3/2/147 Drawing of Smyrna and Aidin Railway Nos 1201 – 1210
ROB/3/2/148 Metropolitan Railway drawing of Engine No. 1314
ROB/3/2/149 Drawing of North Eastern Railway Nos 1411, 1412, 1413
ROB/3/2/15 First after "Rockett" (sic) drawing
ROB/3/2/150 Drawing of Elevations of Locomotive Engine and Tender Employed on the Grand Junction Railway and Manufactured by R. Stephenson & Comp'y
ROB/3/2/151 Drawing of Cross Section - Design of Engine with an Eight Feet Wheel
ROB/3/2/152 Great Western Railway – Drawing No 2 Side elevation and Cross Section
ROB/3/2/153 Great Western Railway - Drawing No 1
ROB/3/2/154 Drawing of Passenger Engine
ROB/3/2/155 Working drawing of Thompson's engine
ROB/3/2/156 Working Drawing of 800 Gallon Tender
ROB/3/2/157 Drawing of "French Tender"
ROB/3/2/158 Drawing of four-wheeled tender
ROB/3/2/159 Tender Frames
ROB/3/2/16 Nos 7 & 8 Liverpool Locomotive Engines drawing
ROB/3/2/161 Drawing of a tender
ROB/3/2/162 Drawing of Tender Horn and Spring Half Size Nos 130, 131, 132 etc.
ROB/3/2/163 Drawing of a Tender Axle
ROB/3/2/164 Drawing of Wheel and Axle
ROB/3/2/165 Drawing of Valve gear
ROB/3/2/166 Drawing of Working Gear for Nos 764, 765
ROB/3/2/167 Drawing of Working Gear for Nos 803, 804, 805, 806, 807, 808, 809, 810, 811, 812
ROB/3/2/168 Plan of Working Gear for Luggage Engines for the London & North Western Railway
ROB/3/2/169 Drawing of Reversing Gear for Locomotives 1947 – 54, 1869
ROB/3/2/170 Drawing of Boiler for Passenger Engine "Abbas Pasha" for Egyptian Railway Sections
ROB/3/2/171 Drawing of Cylinder for Nos 995, 996, 1021, 1022, diameter 14" stroke 22"
ROB/3/2/172 Drawing of Frame for Nos 995, 996, 1021, 1022
ROB/3/2/173 Drawing of Large Axle Box for Nos 995, 996, 1021, 1022
ROB/3/2/174 Drawing of Small Axle Box for Nos 995, 996, 1021, 1022
ROB/3/2/175 Drawing of Axle Box Guides for Nos 995, 996, 1021, 1022
ROB/3/2/176 Drawing of Iron Work for Nos 995, 996, 1021, 1022, pump stay and frame stay
ROB/3/2/177 Drawing of Dome Cover for Nos 995, 996, 1021, 1022, and 1001-1005
ROB/3/2/178 Drawing of Chimney with spark arrester for Nos 995, 996, 1021, 1022
ROB/3/2/179 Drawing of an elevation of a 2-2-2 Broad Gauge locomotive
ROB/3/2/18 Liverpool Locomotive Engine No 9 Side Elevation drawing
ROB/3/2/180 Drawing of a plan view of a 2-2-2 Broad Gauge locomotive
ROB/3/2/19 Liverpool Locomotive Engine No 2 End View drawing
ROB/3/2/2 Rough sketch of Liverpool Travelling Engine drawing
ROB/3/2/20 Outside elevation & end view "Northumbrian" type drawing
ROB/3/2/21 No 12 Liverpool Locomotive Side and End Elevation drawing
ROB/3/2/22 Drawing of "2 Boilers to be made thus, and 2 others similar to the Northumbrian . . . these two engines Nos 10 & 11"
ROB/3/2/23 No 10 Liverpool Locomotive drawing
ROB/3/2/24 No 10 Liverpool Locomotive, side and end elevations drawing
ROB/3/2/25 No 10 Liverpool Locomotive "Planet" drawing
ROB/3/2/26 "Planet" type frame drawing
ROB/3/2/27 Small Garnskirk (sic) locomotive drawing
ROB/3/2/28 End View of Small Garnskirk (sic) Locomotive drawing
ROB/3/2/29 Small Garnskirk (sic) Engine drawing
ROB/3/2/3 The Lancashire Witch No 11 drawing
ROB/3/2/30 Small Garnskirk (sic) locomotive or type drawing
ROB/3/2/31 Liverpool "Goliath" locomotive drawing
ROB/3/2/32 Design for an engine to be called "Goliath" for Liverpool drawing
ROB/3/2/33 Sections of the Goliath Locomotive Engine drawing
ROB/3/2/34 Plan of Large Garnkirk Locomotive
ROB/3/2/35 Plan, Side Elevation & End Views of Large Garnskirk (sic) Locomotive
ROB/3/2/36 Mohawk and Hudson Locomotive drawing
ROB/3/2/37 Mohawk and Hudson locomotive, plan of frame
ROB/3/2/38 Plan of Boiler for Mr Steven's Locomotive Engine
ROB/3/2/39 Plan of Steam Boiler for Susquehana Locomotive
ROB/3/2/4 Darlington Engine A drawing
ROB/3/2/40 No 22 locomotive engine drawing
ROB/3/2/41 Plan of engine as made for the Bolton Railway Co
ROB/3/2/42 Rough plan of engine drawn at Shildon
ROB/3/2/43 Drawing of Locomotive Engine for the Stockton and Darlington Railway
ROB/3/2/44 Darlington Locomotive Engines drawing
ROB/3/2/45 Sketch of Forman's Locomotive Engine
ROB/3/2/46 Alterations to Forman's Locomotive Engine drawing
ROB/3/2/47 Drawing of a Locomotive Engine to elucidate a proposed method of construction for preventing accidents, in case of a crank axle breaking
ROB/3/2/48 No 27. 1 Locomotive for America ordered by Mr Smith drawing
ROB/3/2/49 Drawing of "Planet" type with grasshopper springs on inside bearings
ROB/3/2/5 End view of the Darlington Locomotive Steam Engine A drawing
ROB/3/2/50 Drawing of four coupled "Planet" type with dome behind chimney and grasshopper springs on inside bearings
ROB/3/2/51 Drawing of four-coupled "Planet" type
ROB/3/2/53 Plan of a proposed alteration to locomotive engines
ROB/3/2/54 Drawing of No 5 Locomotive for Liverpool ordered by Mr Smith
ROB/3/2/55 Drawing of No 5 Locomotive for America ordered by Mr Smith
ROB/3/2/56 Drawing of No 6 Leicester Locomotive
ROB/3/2/57 Drawing of "Planet" type
ROB/3/2/58 Drawing of No 7 Locomotive Engine for Liverpool
ROB/3/2/59 Drawing of 2 Locomotives for Boston, America
ROB/3/2/6 Humfray's (sic) Engine B Wales drawing
ROB/3/2/60 Drawing of 1 Locomotive for the Newcastle and Frenchtown Railway No 28
ROB/3/2/61 Drawing of No 28 Locomotive
ROB/3/2/63 Drawing of No 25 Susquehanna Locomotive and No 26 French Locomotive
ROB/3/2/64 Drawing of No 31 Locomotive for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway
ROB/3/2/65 Drawing of 2 locomotives for the Leicester Nos 34) Railway (& 35 (sic)
ROB/3/2/66 Drawing of outside elevation of "Planet" type locomotive
ROB/3/2/67 Working Drawing of a Locomotive Engine for the Stanhope Railway, No 37
ROB/3/2/68 Drawing of a Locomotive with six wheels No 37
ROB/3/2/69 Drawing of "Patentee" Liverpool and Manchester Rwy
ROB/3/2/7 Liverpool Engine C drawing
ROB/3/2/70 Drawing of No 58 (or the 4th Patent) locomotive, for the Leicester and Swannington Railway
ROB/3/2/71 Drawing of First Design of a Locomotive for the Saratoga and Schenectady Railroad
ROB/3/2/73 Drawing of Nos 60 & 61 Locomotives
ROB/3/2/74 Working drawing of (No 75) Locomotive Engine
ROB/3/2/75 Working drawing for Nos 103
ROB/3/2/76 Working drawing for Nos 114, 115, 116
ROB/3/2/77 Working drawing for No 118 (148) Der Adler Locomotive
ROB/3/2/78 Working drawing for No 120 & 121
ROB/3/2/79 Working Drawing for No 124 Locomotive
ROB/3/2/8 Forman's Engine D drawing
ROB/3/2/83 Working Drawing for Nos 149, 1st time, Locomotives
ROB/3/2/84 Working Drawing for No 149 (150 deleted)
ROB/3/2/85 Drawing of 150. End View
ROB/3/2/86 Working Drawing No 155
ROB/3/2/87 Working Drawing for Nos 153, 154, 155, 156
ROB/3/2/89 Coloured drawing of Elevations of the (Locomotive) Rocket
ROB/3/2/9 Forman's Engine cylinder & valve arrangement drawing
ROB/3/2/91 Working Drawing for Nos 163 Locomotive("s" deleted)
ROB/3/2/92 Working Drawing for No 164
ROB/3/2/93 Working Drawing for Nos 205, 206, 263, 264, 252, 240, 250, 255, 257, 258, 259, 223, 225, 225, 226 (some numbers missing or obscure)
ROB/3/2/94 Working Drawing No 211, 212
ROB/3/2/95 Drawing of general arrangement of engine details
ROB/3/2/96 Working Drawing for Nos 238, 239, 240, 241, 242, 243, 244, 245, 296, 300
ROB/3/2/98 Working Drawing of Nos 267, 268, 269 (all deleted) 270, 271, 272, 273, 274, 307
ROB/3/2/99 Working Drawing for Nos 273, 274
ROB/4 Finance
ROB/4/1 Works Ledger
ROB/4/2 Sales Account Ledger
ROB/5 Papers
ROB/5/1 File of letters
ROB/5/10 File of original letters
ROB/5/11 File of letters & photographs
ROB/5/2 File of typed copy extracts
ROB/5/4 File of copy documents
ROB/5/5 File of letters, articles & photographs
ROB/5/6 File of papers
ROB/5/7 File of papers & photographic prints
ROB/5/8 File of articles, photographic prints, letters & cuttings
ROB/5/9 File of photographic prints
ROB/6 Photographic prints
ROB/6/1 American locomotives
ROB/6/10 Planet
ROB/6/11 Portraits of prominent railway personalities & needlework samplers produced by the Stephenson family
ROB/6/12 'Rocket', 'The Northumbrian'
ROB/6/2 Early Robert Stephenson & Company locomotives (Star class)
ROB/6/3 Locomotive photographs mainly Timothy Hackworth and Stockton & Darlington Railway.
ROB/6/4 Locomotives before 1826
ROB/6/5 Locomotives for both domestic and export orders.
ROB/6/6 Long boiler type locomotives
ROB/6/7 Medals referring to railways
ROB/6/8 Miscellaneous
ROB/6/9 Old locomotives
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RPOF Leaders Galvanize for 2020 at Quarterly Meeting in Sarasota
May 21, 2019 /0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Russell Tuff
Left to Right; Nanette Rivera, Terry Capsay, Mary Waller, Russell Tuff
Collier Republicans joined Republicans activists from across the state at the Republican Party of Florida Spring Quarterly Meeting this weekend excited for 2020.
“We were just talking about how to continue to win here in Florida,” said RPOF state chair Joe Gruters. “We had a lot of wins this legislative cycle.”
Heading into this presidential election, state party leaders feel good about the state of the party.
When asked what Collier representatives had to say, Collier County Campaign 2020 Co-Chair Nanette Rivera said, “The sessions were open, transparent and many discussions were helpful and informative, and Chairman Gruters is trying to make the RPOF staff responsive to County needs and partners for Counties to leverage tools, databases, and experts. I was delighted that chairman Gruters highlighted that Collier is working on learning Best Practices across 5 counties and offered our help to Panama City committeeman. The whole event was collegiate and helpful for networking.”
Fellow campaign committee member Terry Capsay said, “The RPOF Quarterly Meeting provided a very productive and inspiring forum for conservative leaders to exchange their ideas, practices and tools to keep Florida “red” and to re-elect President Trump. It was quite encouraging to see that the GOP team at county state and national levels are truly in sync about the 2020 mission.”
State Committeewoman Jan Face-Glassman and State Attorney Ashley Moody
Collier Chairman Russell Tuff said, “I was proud to see so many Collier Republicans with passion to win, showing up to learn more on how to bring Collier voters to new heights in voter turnout and voting Republican. It is critical for us to raise the bar to ensure a Florida win because without the margin Collier provided, neither Senator Rick Scott or Governor Ron DeSantis would have won in 2018.
State Committee Woman Jan Face-Glassman said, “RPOF quarterly meetings always provide an excellent opportunity to meet other State Committeewoman along with County Chairs and State Committeemen and to share experiences. We all can learn from new ideas no matter how long we have been involved politically. Florida Counties are all very different; learning the demographics of each, listening to their issues and solutions, and talking through problems always helps us improve. My goal at each RPOF meeting is to develop strong relationships with other counties, especially with the women in those counties, and to maintain contact with them between meetings. While I am a member of several Federated Women’s Clubs, i recognize that these clubs represent a very small percentage of Republican women. As State Committeewomen, we must also reach beyond those clubs to engage the other women while at the same time working with the clubs to help them recruit greater membership. The meeting in Sarasota was a new experience in a location other than Orlando. It was well-executed and focused on engaging families in the process, which is critical for County Leaders who dedicate so much time to the party. ”
“The Party and Presidential Campaign are completely and seamlessly integrated this cycle,”said Christian Ziegler, RPOF vice chair.
The party also enjoyed success in statewide races despite a national Democratic wave, with Republicans holding the Governor’s mansion and flipping a Senate seat red.
“I have never seen the grassroots activists of the Republican Party as unified as they are right now, in 2019,” Ziegler said.
The party through this election cycle plans to hold meetings throughout the state, and not just in population centers like Orlando and Tampa.
“I decided to bring our meeting on the road to allow more people to highlight their areas,” Gruters said.
Ziegler said it’s a good move to take the quarterly meetings into various corners of Florida.
Party members proposed venues for coming meetings, and Gruters selected from that list. Meetings won’t always be in mid-sized markets, but there’s more variety in cities than in past years.
On August 16 and 17, the party will hold its Summer Quarterly at Sandestin Beach & Resort in Miramar Beach.
The Fall Quarterly and Statesman’s Dinner takes place Nov. 7 through 9 at Coronado Springs at Walt Disney World.
Then next January, RPOF leaders convene at the Wyndham Grand Jupiter.
The Spring Quarterly in May next year takes place at the Mission Inn Resort & Club in Howey-in-the-Hills.
The Summer Quarterly in 2020 will happen at the Republican National Convention in North Carolina.
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Matthew Chapter 4:1-11
I could not find a logical place to break in Chapter 3 that didn’t leave one very short post and one much longer post. It appears Chapter 4 will be more amenable. Chapter 5 will take us to the Sermon on the Mount, and that will afford more convenient break points.
1 Τότε ὁ Ἰησοῦς ἀνήχθη εἰς τὴν ἔρημον ὑπὸ τοῦ πνεύματος, πειρασθῆναι ὑπὸ τοῦ διαβόλου.
Then Jesus was led to the desert by the spirit; he was tempted by the enemy.
The Greek term is << diabolos >>, which gets transliterated directly into Latin without any intervening change of form, means something like “slanderer”. And since those who slander us are our enemies, the term has that more general meaning as well. “Enemy” translates into Hebrew as << satan >> (in some form). Our word ‘devil’ derives from the Latin <<diabolos>>, by way of the German <<Teufel>>. Naturally, our word “devil” carries enormous implications, most of which are completely absent from the Greek word Matthew uses. Mark, meanwhile, prefers “satan”, which raises questions about who his audience was, as opposed to Matthew. Given that Matthew read the Hebrew scriptures in the Greek LXX translation, it’s not unreasonable to suppose that Matthew was a Greek-speaker who was likely writing for other Greek speakers. Mark, OTOH, was possibly writing for people who had some knowledge of Hebrew, however minimal that might have been. So which of these had both–or either–the more Jewish background and/or audience?
Tradition had Mark writing in Rome, but Bart Ehrman says that no one takes this seriously any longer. Matthew, from what I recall, was supposedly writing in Antioch, which was a Greek city, named after Antiochos, one of the successors of Alexander. This could explain Matthew’s linguistic heritage without necessarily impugning his Jewish heritage. But–make that BUT–this all assumes that the text we have resembles in any significant way the text as it was originally written. No doubt some of the quirky idiosyncracies of the originals remain, but we don’t know that. In reading Mack and some of the other authors, I am amazed at the level of positivism, the certainty, that I find expressed about the level of knowledge that we have, or that we can infer. These were not the texts of Classical authors; they were the creation and possession of an underground press that passed them on without the usual quality review program that truly scholarly authors had.
Really, all we can say is that the Satan–or probably satan–of the Hebrew scriptures probably bore little, if any, resemblance to the Devil. Once again, I refer to JB Russell’s magnificent series on the development of the concept of The Devil. These are not simple words that have anything close to a one-to-one correlation to each other. So to see this translated as “the devil” is very misleading, even when put in lower case.
There is one interesting difference between Matthew and Mark. In the latter, the spirit drove Jesus; here, Jesus ws led. The verb is passive, so the sense is much less insistent than it was for Mark. And as before, we have to ask what was meant by the spirit? The spirit that conceived Jesus was holy; the spirit that descended when Jesus was baptized was the spirit of God. This is just the spirit, with no qualification. Are we to assume that all three of these spirits refer to the same thing? That the spirit of God is meant, which automatically means that the spirit doing this is holy? The NASB, ESV, and NIV all capitalize “spirit”; the KJV does not. They pretty much take this as the Third Person of the Trinity; to do so is wildly anachronistic.
1 Tunc Iesus ductus est in de sertum a Spiritu, ut tentaretur a Diabolo.
2 καὶ νηστεύσας ἡμέρας τεσσεράκοντα καὶ νύκτας τεσσεράκοντα ὕστερον ἐπείνασεν.
And having fasted for forty days and forty nights, at the end he was hungry.
No doubt. Given this, how much of what follows was a hallucination? Of course, that’s a ridiculous question given that the story is fictitious. But how would this have been imagined by the audience? They would understand the physical implications of such a rigourous fast; heck, that was the point. One endured such depravations precisely to hallucinate. In cultures the world over, shamans put themselves through things like this to attain exactly this result. Of course, the would not refer to to it as “hallucinating”; in their terms, this would have been described as “coming into contact with the spirit world, or the divine realm, or some such similar term. The idea was to push the body past its limits so that it didn’t get in the way of such contact with the other side of the physical world, whatever that was termed in a given culture.
The forty days and nights probably doesn’t require comment. Think of the forty days and nights of rain, the forty years in the desert…Forty was a significant number. The ancient Hebrews were believers in what we would call numerology, just as most of the cultures of the ancient Near East were. We commented on this for Mark, too: the forty days in the wilderness is a direct reference to the forty years post the exodus.
2 Et cum ieiunasset quadraginta diebus et quadraginta noctibus, postea esuriit.
3 Καὶ προσελθὼν ὁ πειράζων εἶπεν αὐτῷ, Εἰ υἱὸς εἶ τοῦ θεοῦ, εἰπὲ ἵνα οἱ λίθοι οὗτοι ἄρτοι γένωνται.
4 ὁ δὲ ἀποκριθεὶς εἶπεν, Γέγραπται, Οὐκ ἐπ’ἄρτῳ μόνῳ ζήσεται ὁ ἄνθρωπος, ἀλλ’ ἐπὶ παντὶ ῥήματι ἐκπορευομένῳ διὰστόματος θεοῦ.
And the tempter having come, he spoke to him (Jesus), “If you are the son of God, speak so these stones become bread.
(4) Answering, he said “It is written, ‘not by bread along lives man, but by the words having come from the speech of God’.”
First and foremost, the descriptions of the three temptations that follows was not in Mark. It is found here and in Luke. So the standard inference would be that this was in Q, since it’s common to Matthew and Luke and not in Mark. However, I see huge problems with this.
To begin, this “was written” in Deuteronomy 8:3. Now, here I think is a great example of how Mack goes off the tracks. In his book The Lost Gospel (Q), he includes this in the complete version of Q. And yet, this is a direct reference to the Torah. It’s been a while since I read The Lost Gospel, but in Who Wrote The New Testament he is pretty clear that the Q People (his term, honest!) did not really see themselves as Jews. And yet we’re referring to Deuteronomy. Now I could easily just be taking all of this way too literally, trying to force a degree of consistency that is unrealistic on Mack, but it truly does seem to be a problem to me. Given his level of certainty about Q, I don’t believe that I’m being unreasonable.
And the bread referred to is the manna in the wilderness. So this is sort of doubly referential to Hebrew history; or perhaps I should say the epic of Israel. The question becomes, would the audience be familiar with the reference? Or maybe the question would be, does it matter? I’ve been hearing this story since elementary school (which was at least a few years ago…), and I was completely unaware that this was a reference to the Pentateuch. Did I lose something by not knowing? Of course. Was the point completely lost because of this? Absolutely not, When Jesus said “it is written” I pretty well knew it meant the Hebrew scripture someplace. The exact place didn’t matter all that much. So why wouldn’t this be true of Matthew’s audience as well?
This is where it comes back to Q. Coming up with this quote took some doing. It required doing some homework, and then having the literary chops to put the two aspects together. Now Mack does say that the Q People continued to add new sayings that the attributed to Jesus in the best Hellenistic fashion, so the fact that this came later than the original stratum of Q is not a problem per se. The problem comes from how likely it is that the Q People, as he outlines them, would have had such a depth of knowledge about Hebrew scripture. No, it’s not impossible. It fits with Matthew being a “rabbi”, or even a God-fearer, but maybe not so much with a Q Person.
3 Et accedens tentator dixit ei: “ Si Filius Dei es, dic, ut lapides isti panes fiant ”.
4 Qui respondens dixit: “Scriptum est: ‘”Non in pane solo vivet homo, / sed in omni verbo, quod procedit de ore Dei’”.
5 Τότε παραλαμβάνει αὐτὸν ὁ διάβολος εἰς τὴν ἁγίαν πόλιν, καὶ ἔστησεν αὐτὸν ἐπὶ τὸ πτερύγιον τοῦ ἱεροῦ,
6 καὶ λέγει αὐτῷ, Εἰ υἱὸς εἶ τοῦ θεοῦ, βάλε σεαυτὸν κάτω: γέγραπται γὰρ ὅτι Τοῖς ἀγγέλοις αὐτοῦ ἐντελεῖται περὶ σοῦ καὶ ἐπὶ χειρῶν ἀροῦσίν σε, μήποτε προσκόψῃς πρὸς λίθον τὸν πόδα σου.
7 ἔφη αὐτῷὁ Ἰησοῦς, Πάλιν γέγραπται, Οὐκ ἐκπειράσεις κύριον τὸν θεόν σου.
Then the enemy took him him (Jesus) to the holy city, and stood him on the pinnacle of the temple. (6) And he said to him, “If you are the son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written that ‘He commands the angels on your behalf, and they will lift you by their hands so that never you will strike your foot against a stone’.”
This time the quote is from Psalms. Now, I would have to imagine that while Deuteronomy wasn’t exactly well-known outside the Jewish culture, Psalms would be even less so. As such, I believe the likelihood that this was written by Matthew, rather than the Q People, goes up significantly. Really, bear in mind that in Mack’s view, Jesus was a Cynic sage interested in living a counter-cultural lifestyle. Matthew and his community were Jewish. Which of the two groups would be more likely to be familiar with Torah and the Psalms?
Now, even if I could prove that this came from Matthew and not Q–and I cannot come close to doing this–even so, that would not prove that Q did not exist in any form. It would exclude this particular bit, but that would not affect the rest of the Q material.
BTW: “he stood Jesus on…” Think of standing up a chess piece. That’s pretty much the implication.
5 Tunc assumit eum Diabolus in sanctam civitatem et statuit eum supra pinnaculum templi
6 et dicit ei: “ Si Filius Dei es, mitte te deorsum. Scriptum est enim: “Angelis suis mandabit de te, / et in manibus tollent te, / ne forte offendas ad lapidem pedem tuum” ”.
7 Ait illi Iesus: “ Rursum scriptum est: “Non tentabis Dominum Deum tuum” ”.
8 Πάλιν παραλαμβάνει αὐτὸν ὁ διάβολος εἰς ὄρος ὑψηλὸν λίαν, καὶ δείκνυσιν αὐτῷ πάσας τὰς βασιλείας τοῦ κόσμου καὶ τὴν δόξαν αὐτῶν,
9 καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ, Ταῦτά σοι πάντα δώσω ἐὰν πεσὼν προσκυνήσῃς μοι.
10 τότε λέγει αὐτῷ ὁ Ἰησοῦς, Υπαγε, Σατανᾶ: γέγραπται γάρ, Κύριον τὸν θεόν σου προσκυνήσεις καὶ αὐτῷ μόνῳ λατρεύσεις.
Again, the enemy stood him (Jesus) on a mountain exceeding high, and showed to him all the kingdoms of the earth and their glory. (9) And he said to him (Jesus), “All this I will give to you if falling (on your face) you worship me”. (10) Then Jesus said to him, “Away, Satan! For it is written, ‘The lord your God you shall worship. and to him alone you shall serve’.”
The bit about “falling on your face” is brought out by the combination of the verb, <<to fall>> in conjunction with the idea of “proskynesis”. The latter means, “to worship” or perhaps “to grovel on your belly with your face in the dirt”. As such, it’s a strong word, with all sots of implications of abasement. This was the standard practice for Asia kings up to and including the Persians. The idea was that “the king was so high and mighty, and you were nought but a dog, fit only to lie on your belly and grovel at the king’s feet, the way a dog would”. Because the term “proskynesis” contains the word for “dog” (“kyne”, which is also the root of “cynic”).
When Alexander had conquered Persia and become the monarch of Assyria and Babylon and all the storied places of Near Eastern history, becoming the successor of all those Asian monarchs who had demanded proskynesis of their subjects, he began to demand that even his generals should perform this act of homage. The free-born Greeks in the army, and especially the generals who had been companions of Alexander’s father, found this incredibly offensive. This opened a major rift in the high command, and has led to speculation that these generals poisoned Alexander because he had become too arrogant to be tolerated. Of course, when these generals became the Pharaohs of Egypt, and the kings of the Near East, their descendants required their subjects to perform this ritual to them. Ah, historical irony.
Here in the closing of this story we see that Matthew switches to “Satan”. Perhaps this was more in line with addressing him, as opposed to speaking about him?
8 Iterum assumit eum Diabolus in montem excelsum valde et ostendit ei omnia regna mundi et gloriam eorum
9 et dicit illi: “ Haec tibi omnia dabo, si cadens adoraveris me”. 10 Tunc dicit ei Iesus: “Vade, Satanas! Scriptum est enim: ‘Dominum Deum tuum adorabis et illi soli servies’”.
11 Τότε ἀφίησιν αὐτὸν ὁ διάβολος, καὶ ἰδοὺ ἄγγελοι προσῆλθον καi διηκόνουν αὐτῷ.
11 Tunc reliquit eum Diabolus, et ecce angeli accesserunt et ministrabant ei.
Then the devil left him, and, lo! angels came and ministered to him.
The word I rendered as “ministered to” is “diakonos”, which is the root of “deacon”. We’ve run across this before in Mark. In fact, Mark uses the same word in this same place in the story. OTOH, the word is only used a couple of time in the authentic letters of Paul. Luke doesn’t use it here, and I’m sure this is considered evidence that Luke used Q and not Matthew. Perhaps. Or perhaps it indicates that, as an author, Luke decided not to follow his two predecessors, using different words instead.
What to make of this story? In Mark, I think the whole wilderness theme comes across more directly, unclouded by all the additional rhetoric between Jesus and Satan. But really the addition of the dialogue between Jesus and Satan completely changes the entire sense of the story. In Mark, the tale is simple and direct; here, there are several layers of complexity added. due to the specific and graphic nature of the temptations. Essentially, Satan offers power in various forms: over nature, by turning stones to bread; dominion over nature in a larger sense, over gravity–and death–by throwing himself from the pinnacle of the Temple; finally. political dominion over the kingdoms of the earth. The first speaks to the immediately physical realm: Jesus was hungry after 40 days of fasting. But one gets the feeling that Satan didn’t expect Jesus to fall for such a grossly physical ploy, so it’s perhaps sort of a warm-up for the others.
In a way, however, the third temptation is, in a way, just as grossly physical. As the third, we expect that Matthew intended this as the most alluring, and the allure is obvious to most anyone, but especially to anyone who seeks power. And here we have a bit of a play on the idea of Jesus as a king; Satan is offering kingdoms, but once again in the physical realm. This is a foreshadow of what is to come: that Jesus’ kingdom is not one of this earth, and so is unlike what Satan is offering.
IMO, however, the second temptation is the most subtle, and so perhaps the most appealing. The others are blatant and physical; in the second, Jesus is offered dominion over nature itself. He will fall, but not die, for the angels will come to rescue him. IOW, Satan is tempting Jesus to tip his hand and show us who he is. Satan knows, and Jesus knows, and the reader knows, so it’s pretty much an open secret, but Jesus will not succumb to such a vulgar display of power. And I believe Luke recognized this subtlety as well, because he put it third, as the culmination.
Mack attributes the dialogue to Q, but there is no way in…well, there is no way that this was not composed by Matthew. Mark knew the story in its outline, but we’re expected to believe that there was an alternative story floating around that had all this dialogue of which Mark was not aware? It just seems very unlikely. Mack gets sucked into the internal logic of Q, and fails to ask if this logic is consistent with the workings of the outside world. IMO, the answer is “no”. The story does not require the dialogue, but the dialogue requires the story. So this implies that the story of Jesus’ temptation was older, that it came first and the dialogue was added afterward. Mack more or less acknowledges this, but attributes the dialogue to Q, when the much–very much–simpler explanation is that Matthew wrote it to give the story a level of completeness, and complexity, that the bare-bones narrative in Mark lacks. This is exactly the sort of elaboration that we expect as legends grow. I guess my beef is, why attribute this to some nameless, unidentified, completely unproven source, some Quelle, when we have a perfectly competent author to whom we can ascribe it? Just to be clear: there is no reason why this couldn’t have come from Q. It is perfectly possible that the Q people heard the story of the temptation and then added the dialogue to their manuscripts (none of which have ever been found), and Matthew got hold of one of these mss and incorporated the material. This is eminently possible. But it adds a layer of complexity. And we have to keep in mind that there is no direct evidence indicating that anything like Q ever existed as a document. As such, the less complex, and so more plausible explanation is that Matthew wrote the dialogue.
We will get to Matthew and Luke and Q–two sources or three? Or one?–at some point when we’re not in the middle of textual comment.
The next question is what does it say about the status of belief about Satan? This is, I believe, the only time in the gospels when Satan appears as a character. He is referred to by Mark, we are told that Jesus called Peter “Satan”, but nowhere else does he himself appear to the point where he engages in dialogue. My first sense is that this bit was composed more or less to mimic the opening of Job, where God and Satan have a conversation. As such, I would say that Matthew is a good candidate for having composed the dialogue, steeped in the Hebrew Bible (HB) as he was. Given this, I’m not sure how much this adds to the development of the concept of Satan, as JB Russell calls it. Still, it does contribute to the sense of Satan as an entity, as a power, as something that intervened in the world. More, he was a cosmic power; he could converse with the son of God as an equal. One does wonder if Satan expected that Jesus could be induced to take the bait.
And then there’s the son of God. What does that mean in this context? I’ve started reading Bart Ehrman’s How Jesus Became God. The opening chapter sets the tone by surveying previous Jewish belief about the divide/distinction between human and divine. It’s great, and I highly recommend it. But I need to absorb a little more, so I will probably have more to say about this in the chapter summary.
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Summary Matthew Chapter 3
The whole chapter reads like a single piece which is why I couldn’t find a reasonable place to break.
This could be called the “Chapter of John the Dunker”. This chapter contains his story, and he is the main character in the piece, despite Jesus’ eventual appearance. In many ways, the story is very similar to that told by Mark, including the quote from Isaiah, the call to repent, and the the camel-skin clothes; I just realized the diet of locusts and wild honey was omitted. Why? And the call to repent was significant because of the way it was mistranslated by St Jerome, with enormous consequences for the development of the western church.
But the big thing I noticed was that the story was considerably longer than in Mark. The reason for the added length is John’s railing at the Pharisees and the new villain, the Sadducees. Where did this come from? Burton Mack says it came from Q. Never mind that Q was supposedly the sayings of Jesus. This is part of Q. And, even more, Mack can detect that this is from a later stratum of Q; it’s not part of the original material. He probably explained all of this in The Lost Gospel of Q, but I read that a number of years ago, long before I had enough background for it to make sense. Or to be able to explain why it did not make sense. As for why this is part of Q, well, the main reason is that it wasn’t in Mark. So it had to be Q.
There is an enormous circularity about the Q argument. How do we know it’s Q? Because it wasn’t in Mark. Why wasn’t it in Mark? Because it was part of Q. I can think of almost no reason to suppose that the Q people (as he calls them) added a saying of John the Baptist. That does not make sense from an historical point of view. Per Mack, the Q people are the true heirs of the historical Jesus, who was a sort of counter-cultural sage, on the model of Diogenes the Cynic (the guy with the lantern and staff looking for an honest man on the inside of the Led Zeppelin IV album cover, among other places). This being the case, why would they be interested in the doings of the Baptist, who was firmly in the Jewish tradition, which the Q people rejected. Rather, this is a great example of how Matthew expanded the role of John; he flat-out makes John the herald of the mightier one. Mark implied this, but Matthew makes it explicit. If I were to do Mark again, knowing what I know now, I would have spent a lot more time on this.
But the story was in Mark; that Matthew found it there and took it from Mark is made very clear by the camel-skin clothes and leather belt and the quote from Isaiah. The details are too exact to be the result of tapping into the same oral tradition. Matthew then puts words into John’s mouth to make sure that we are well aware that John was Jesus’ herald, and that John was well aware of his role, that he accepted it, and that he was pleased to fill that role. That is a clear example of Matthew tying Jesus into the ancient Jewish tradition. Now, Matthew may have done this because he was a Jew himself, and he wanted to feel that he was fulfilling his ancestral destiny, and not abrogating it. I have often thought of Mark as a journalist, Luke as a novelist, John as a theologian, and Matthew as a rabbi (an anachronism for the first century, but you get the idea). As such, I believe it would have been important for Matthew to make the connection more explicit, and he does exactly that.
And let’s face it: “Brood of vipers” is a great line. It’s high drama, pungent, and nasty in a good way. And here we have a bit of a contradiction: if Matthew wants to affirm his Jewish roots, why condemn these exemplars of that tradition? This leads us through a very sticky wicket. Since I’ve been reading Mack’s book, I’ve been thinking about this whole thing a lot. Part of it, I believe, has a lot to do with the timing. Both Mark and, to a lesser extent, Matthew portray an idea that had areas of contention with the established Judaism of the day. However, both of these men wrote after the fall of Jerusalem, when the world of Jesus no longer existed. I think, to no small extent, the “anti-establishment” aspects of Jesus, or here John, are a function of the fact that the tipping point had been reached and more new converts were pagans, so there was a conscious distancing of the Jesus movement from at least the Jewish establishment that had gone into open revolt from Rome. We talked about this in Mark: he did everything he could to cover up the fact that Jesus was executed by the Romans. And so here John, as a proxy for Jesus, has to have his shot at the establishment figures.
I’m going to toss something out here. I said I’ve often thought of Matthew as a rabbi; Mack, and others, also stress Matthew’s Jewish roots, his care to insist that not one iota (jot) of the Law had been abrogated. What if Matthew wasn’t a Jew by birth, but one of the God-fearers, the pagans who congregated in synagogues to learn about Judaism. What we could be seeing is the enthusiasm of a convert as Matthew became fascinated with the Jewish tradition as encapsulated in the Torah and the Prophets. We need to keep in mind that there is what Mack calls the Christ cult, of which Paul is the best example. As a pagan, Matthew would have been comfortable with a lot of the pagan ideas we discussed while reading 1 Corinthians; as a God-fearer, the joining of the two traditions could easily have been exciting for him. Recall my suggestion that it was the idea that the Law had been superseded by faith that may have been Paul’s “road to Damascus” moment. Perhaps something similar was true for Matthew.
Because let’s be absolutely clear about this: by the time we get to Matthew’s gospel, the Christ myth, the Christ cult–as opposed to Jesus followers–has won out. The joining of the two was Mark’s goal; he was, perhaps, only partly successful in his day. For Matthew, OTOH, the question has been answered: Jesus was the Christ, from the moment–or even before the moment–of his birth. Think about Paul claiming that God had chosen him from the time he was in his mother’s womb (Gal 1:15). So, too, was Jesus, having been conceived by the sacred breath entering into Mary. So the divine is at work, as we noted in Chapters 1 & 2. I suppose the similarity between Paul and Jesus in this case is most likely coincidental; however, we will be wise to keep it in mind as we go forward.
Have we gone far enough? One theme that needs to be mentioned is the idea of the “destined wrath”. The interesting thing is that this was not mentioned in Mark, with all his apocalyptic premonitions. He did not talk about a day of wrath, or a coming wrath. But Paul did. He brought it up in Thessalonians 2:16, and the word appears frequently in Romans, which we have not read. So, we get two semi-Pauline references in the first three chapters. The one about the mother’s womb is admittedly tenuous; the idea of coming wrath is pretty clear. Now, this shows up in Luke, and so Mack includes it in “The Complete Book of Q”. My apologies, but I find it very hard to accept that this was in Q. The theme is simply used too frequently in Paul; as such, the likelihood is much greater that Matthew would have encountered it via the Christ cult than from the Q people. And this latter assumes that both Q and Q people–as Mack calls them–existed, neither of which are in any sense proven. Mack seems prone to these sorts of conjectures-taken-as-fact.
IMO, the existence of Q is highly suspect, which means that there were no Q people, either. At some point in the fairly near future, I am going to have to stop and assess possible progression sequences that will take us from Jesus to Matthew. A big part of this will be related to Q. For now, let’s register my skepticism that the idea of a coming wrath came from Q and leave it at that. And let’s move on to Chapter 4.
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Matthew Chapter 3 in toto
We start Chapter 3. This offers the choice of one post that’s too long, or two that are too short. I’m also going to try doing two verses together when they’re very short and/or have an awkward break in the middle of the sentence.
1 Ἐν δὲ ταῖς ἡμέραις ἐκείναις παραγίνεται Ἰωάννης ὁ βαπτιστὴς κηρύσσων ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ τῆς Ἰουδαίας
2 [καὶ] λέγων, Μετανοεῖτε, ἤγγικεν γὰρ ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν.
In those days, there appeared John the Baptist preaching in the wilderness of Judea, [and] saying, “Repent, the kingdom of heaven approaches”.
Right off the bat there’s a lot to get us started. Working in reverse order, we have “Repent…” In Greek, this is an intransitive verb, used as it is here. However, the Vulgate below us renders this as “Do penance”. The verb is transitive; so John is actually telling us to change our outlook and be pentitent; however, the western church, working from the Latin version, invented the sacrament of Reconciliation, better known as Confession. The rediscovery of the original Greek meaning of this sentence in the 15th Century sent a shock wave through the western church. Had it been misinterpreting the NT for 1,500 years? Seems like it. What else, people began to wonder, had it gotten wrong? [Note: papal infallibility did not become official doctrine until the 19th Century. But still…] I won’t say this re-translation caused the Reformation, but it was an important part of the process that did lead to the Reformation.
In all of the QHJ material, and the discussions of Q, and all the other scholarship, a great deal is made of the order in which things are placed. The sequence of the events described is a great clue to deciphering the mysteries of the text, that then help us determine the more primitive readings, and a host of other arcane topics. Sorry, don’t buy it. Take a look back at how Mark arranged this, vs how Matthew does here. Mark starts with the quote from Isaiah; Matthew gets right to the Baptist. Is this significant? No. Matthew was re-writing Mark; he wasn’t copying Mark. Matthew made different editorial choices. He moved things around. There is no deep significance. Now, I realize that the different order in these first few verses is different from a change in the sequence in which episodes are placed. Like, whether Jesus healed the leper before or after he told the parable of the mustard seed [I made that up]. We have to stop thinking about the traditions coming down to the evangelists as if the evangelists were given stone tablets that came down from Mt Sinai. The stories were told in chunks. One at a time. In no particular order, but according to the need of the moment. Then, as time went on, when the story became more fully fleshed out, then perhaps a certain sequence appeared, or was settled upon.
It is important–crucial–to understand that another order would have been possible (to an extent, of course), and this different order would not have mattered. These stories evolved. They changed. Words were substituted for other words. Sentences changed structure. Some stories were dropped completely. Others were added, made up at later dates. It was only after Mark wrote that a certain sequence was settled, but this sequence was, to some degree, arbitrary. It has been noted that Mark is written in discreet chunks, bridged, barely, by sequence words like “and then”. Or even just “and”. I noted that at some point. What this (over)use of “and” as a bridge between stories indicates is that many–most?–of these stories existed as quasi-independent blocks that could be told in any order whatever, because they were just stories, not a continuous narrative that was intended to follow a particular order.
I am currently reading Who Wrote The New Testament? by Burton Mack. He is so certain that Q existed, and as a document, and as a document that was written very early that his whole understanding of the situation is warped. I’ll talk about the book more as I read more (about 100 pages in at the moment), but he takes the Q document as an absolute given. This means that the stories of Jesus have a fixed and specific and meaningful order for him. He is so set on seeing Q as a document–of the sort he is accustomed to reading–that he doesn’t understand the nature of Q as a collection of stories. And that many–most?–of these stories had existed semi-independently of each other for decades.
So no, there is no significance to the fact that Matthew changes the order here. Perhaps he felt that leading with the Baptist instead of Isaiah had more of the feel of ‘in medias res’, in the middle of things, which is how a good novel is supposed to start because that makes it more interesting and lively.
Now, what does matter is that here, John says “the kingdom of heaven is nigh”. In Mark, it is Jesus who says, “The kingdom of God is nigh”. It does not matter that this pronouncement is made before Jesus is baptised here, and after Jesus is baptised in Mark. First why the change from “God” to “heaven”? Does it matter? I don’t think so. Rather, I suspect the choice of words was artistic, and not theological. But why did Matthew put the words into John’s mouth? Would there not have been more dramatic impact to leave them for Jesus?
While the answer to that last question is probably affirmative, I think the reason for the change has to do with the expanding role of John. I have suggested, many times, that the later followers of Jesus were eager to strengthen the ties of Jesus to the Baptist, and were not at all interested in playing this connection down. Here is a great example. By having John announce the coming kingdom, the recognition of this cosmic event is pushed back more firmly into the Jewish tradition, thereby lengthening the pedigree of the Jesus movement by several hundred years. As I have argued, John stayed within the boundaries of traditional Judaism, thereby diminishing his potential as an emissary to non-Jews. But his deep roots still mattered. By having John say this, Jesus was no longer an innovator, but the fulfillment of something that even John had recognized and understood. Jesus, thus, became the completion of the story of Israel, and not someone knocking over the house of Judah. Thus the cosmic scale is shifted, the rift between Jesus and the Jews becomes less abrupt, is more a continuation rather than a disruption. And remember: if the intended audience for this is pagans, rather than Jews, there would be less chance that the degree of disruption would be noticed; a Jew who was versed in his or her tradition would have felt the change; a pagan, perhaps not so much. And if that pagan were told that John saw the kingdom coming, he or she would have been more easily convinced of the continuity.
1 In diebus autem illis venit Ioannes Baptista praedicans in deserto Iudaeae
2 et dicens: “ Paenitentiam agite; appropinquavit enim regnum caelorum ”.
3 οὗτος γάρ ἐστιν ὁ ῥηθεὶς διὰ Ἠσαΐου τοῦ προφήτου λέγοντος, Φωνὴ βοῶντος ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ, Ἑτοιμάσατε τὴν ὁδὸν κυρίου, εὐθείας ποιεῖτε τὰς τρίβους αὐτοῦ.
For this was what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah, saying, “A voice (is) crying in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight his paths’.”
The quote from Isaiah is verbatim. Now, if you want proof that Matthew was copying from Mark, and not directly from the LXX, this seems pretty conclusive. Instead of just “make straight his paths”, the LXX adds “of our God”. It’s kind of an odd thing; why did both Mark and Matthew leave it off? Matthew, presumably, because Mark did, but why didn’t Mark add the three extra words << του θεου ημων >>? I’m not sure there is a real, or a good answer to that. As for why Matthew did, it’s likely because he’s taking it from Mark. The question in this case is, “why”? Again, the answer is mostly likely stylistic, so we could argue our way around the cobbler’s bench and never catch the weasel.
3 Hic est enim, qui dictus est per Isaiam prophetam dicentem:
“ Vox clamantis in deserto: / “Parate viam Domini, / rectas facite semitas eius!” ”.
4 Αὐτὸς δὲ ὁ Ἰωάννης εἶχεν τὸ ἔνδυμα αὐτοῦ ἀπὸ τριχῶν καμήλου καὶ ζώνην δερματίνην περὶ τὴν ὀσφὺν αὐτοῦ, ἡ δὲ τροφὴ ἦν αὐτοῦ ἀκρίδες καὶ μέλι ἄγριον.
For John had (as) his clothing the skin of a camel and a leather belt around his waist, his food was locusts and wild honey.
Again, the part about the camel-skin clothes, leather belt, and John’s diet is pretty much verbatim from Mark.
4 Ipse autem Ioannes habebat vestimentum de pilis cameli et zonam pelliceam circa lumbos suos; esca autem eius erat locustae et mel silvestre.
5 τότε ἐξεπορεύετο πρὸς αὐτὸν Ἱεροσόλυμα καὶ πᾶσα ἡ Ἰουδαία καὶ πᾶσα ἡπερίχωρος τοῦ Ἰορδάνου,
6 καὶ ἐβαπτίζοντο ἐν τῷ Ἰορδάνῃ ποταμῷ ὑπ’ αὐτοῦ ἐξομολογούμενοι τὰς ἁμαρτίας αὐτῶν.
And Jerusalem came out to him, and all Judea, and all the land surrounding the Jordan, and they were dunked in the River Jordan by him for the forgiveness of their sins.
Once again, still following Mark basically word-for-word. But what about the implications. Recall, Josephus tells us that John did the submersion for the cleansing of the actual physical body, and specifically says that the immersion was not for the removal of sins. The repentance had occurred before the submersion. This means that the baptism was pretty much what gets called a ritual lustration. Pilate washing his hands, literally, was meant to symbolise something very similar. And given First Century religious practice, both Jewish, pagan, and other, such washing of the exterior was a pretty standard feature of religious practice. Some of this was practical. Remember, washing one’s hands before eating was not necessarily common practice in a world without running water. As such, washing one’s outer body before participating in a religious ritual meant that one was going off the normal path to mark the occasion. But both Mark and Matthew (the latter in the words of the former) specify that this immersion was done for the forgiveness of sins.
Now, what did they mean by “sins”? The Greek word, at root, means “fault”, or failing, which is more or less the meaning of the term used in Latin, “peccatus“. Interestingly, the Latin root for our word “sin” means “guilt”, in the sense of “criminal”. OK, that’s all great, but what did this mean to the people who wrote it? In Jewish terms, Mack says that a sinner was one who did not live according to Torah. And that will actually do, for the Greek and Latin have a similar implication, that of “failure to meet a standard”. Having been raised in a Christian culture, the idea of everyone being a sinner is pretty much part of the wallpaper. I don’t get the impression that this was a deeply-held attitude before the advent of Christiandom as a geo-political/religious concept. But still, it was there. People fell short, expiation was needed, the wrong had to be set right. But what we need to do is get a better handle on what the authors of the works that became the Christian NT. After three of Paul’s letters and a previous gospel, I still don’t feel like this has been set out all that clearly. What that means, of course, is that the Christianity I was taught by the Dominican sisters may not have exactly been what was in the NT. No wonder the Roman tradition doesn’t place a lot of emphasis on laypersons actually reading the Bible.
5 Tunc exibat ad eum Hierosolyma et omnis Iudaea et omnis regio circa Iordanem,
6 et baptizabantur in Iordane flumine ab eo, confitentes peccata sua.
7 Ἰδὼν δὲ πολλοὺς τῶν Φαρισαίων καὶ Σαδδουκαίων ἐρχομένους ἐπὶ τὸ βάπτισμα αὐτοῦ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς, Γεννήματα ἐχιδνῶν, τίς ὑπέδειξεν ὑμῖν φυγεῖν ἀπὸ τῆς μελλούσης ὀργῆς;
8 ποιήσατε οὖν καρπὸν ἄξιον τῆς μετανοίας:
Seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for the baptism by him, (John) said to them “Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the intended wrath? Therefore make fruit worthy of repentance.
Generally, it’s rendered as the “coming wrath”, and that is a perfectly suitable translation. However, it misses the implication of being willed, or of intention. Even more, the base meaning of the word in Greek has the sense of “being destined”, per Liddell & Scott. Now, I don’t know about you, but I think that sort of changes things a bit. “Destined” is a word with lots of conflicting implications. One one hand, it suggests pagan ideas of fixed outcomes that can be predicted by astrology. OTOH, it can refer to divine intention. Jews, and especially later Christians had a real problem with the idea of astrology, especially with the idea that the future was knowable. But then, what is a prophet? Someone who can foretell events to come. Here, I suspect, it refers to divine intention. As such, this should be related to the idea of the coming kingdom, no? If it’s approaching (as per above in 3:2), then wouldn’t we expect the destined wrath to be part of the deal? This is, of course, related to whether Jesus had a message about End Times, whether he was a preacher of apocalypse, as JD Crossan believes. And this is the problem. There are a number of little clues like this that seem to indicate one thing or another, but they don’t seem to be consistent throughout the gospel, so that we can still be arguing about this fifty or a hundred or five hundred years later.
Now, this is not in Mark. This is one of the “sayings” that was supposed to be in Q. Frankly, I find that hard to swallow. First, it’s not something Jesus said. Second, it’s something the Baptist said, and I do not believe that the earlier traditions were all that keen on the Baptist. For notice how John’s role has been expanded here. Yes, it could be due to Mark’s ignorance of Q, but that’s one thing that has never been explained. It is just assumed that Mark was ignorant of Q. How do we know this? Because the “Q material” (which we know for a fact was in the document that we know existed that we have chosen to call Q) is not in Mark. Why wasn’t it in Mark? Because Mark didn’t know about it. Personally, I’m beginning to suspect that some of these bits and pieces, these scattered clues got inserted after the fact, that they don’t date back to Jesus at all. As such, they couldn’t have been part of Q, even if such a document ever existed. So tracing something like this to Q because it’s in Matthew and Luke, but not Mark is a bit…how to put this? Well, wrong.
You see, if you google the term “begging the question” (petitio principii), you will find an example like that which I just presented. This book is popular because it’s good. How do we know it’s good? Because it’s popular. This is also called a circular argument, and it’s the proper use of the term “begging the question”. Because the Q proponents–like Mack–find the argument and/or evidence for Q to be entirely self-evident, I have never really seen a good case presented for why Mark was unaware of Q. On one hand, it was, according to Mack, an incredibly early document, probably composed by about 40 CE, and it was so widespread that both Matthew and Luke used it, but Mark somehow missed it. Because he lived in Rome. (I guess). And Paul makes not even the vaguest allusion to anything that could possibly have begun to be taken as a document like Q. This is why the issues of Markan priority is usually bound up with the case for/against Q. If Mark is held to be a later summary of Matthew, the problem of Mark’s ignorance of Q simply goes away: he didn’t include the Q material because he chose not to. Because he wanted to tell the story of Jesus, but didn’t want to include much that Jesus actually said. And he was less convincing, and less convinced that Jesus was divine and was the Christ than previous gospels because…well, just because.
No. This wording about the brood of vipers was the invention of Matthew. Why? Because Matthew shows himself capable of introducing other issues as well. Like what? Like the Sadducees. Mark makes reference to this group exactly once, in Chapter 12, to tell us that they did not believe in the resurrection of the body. Matthew introduces them here (and forgets about them until Chapter 16). Why did Mark ignore them, but Matthew didn’t? Is it because this group became more prominent in the minds of the Jesus communities between the time Mark wrote and the time Matthew wrote? Unlike the Pharisees, the Sadducees did not believe in the resurrection of the body. As the story of Jesus’ being raised from the dead took hold among more of the Jesus communities, did they increasingly invoke the scorn of the Sadducees? That is an interesting thought. Can’t be proven, but interesting. But then, it’s as likely as a lot of other things suggested.
7 Videns autem multos pharisaeorum et sadducaeorum venientes ad baptismum suum, dixit eis: “ Progenies viperarum, quis demonstravit vobis fugere a futura ira?
8 Facite ergo fructum dignum paenitentiae.
9 καὶ μὴ δόξητε λέγειν ἐν ἑαυτοῖς, Πατέρα ἔχομεν τὸνἈβραάμ, λέγω γὰρ ὑμῖν ὅτι δύναται ὁ θεὸς ἐκ τῶν λίθων τούτων ἐγεῖραι τέκνα τῷ Ἀβραάμ.
“And do not say amongst yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as a father’. For I tell you that God is able from these stones to raise up children of Abraham.
Let’s see: this bit about children of Abraham is in Matthew, it is in Luke, it is not in Mark. Are we to take it that it’s part of Q? As it turns out, Mack, in his The Lost Gospel of Q does not put this in the lowest, earliest stratum of the Q document. He does, however, put it in the second layer, which means that it existed before Matthew. However, based on content, I feel pretty confident to say that this is a later addition to the corpus. The point here is that Jews have lost their position of preference amongst God’s creation. They are no longer the Chosen People. Now, children of Abraham could just as easily be rocks that get turned into people. From what I have read so far in Who Wrote The New Testament. I believe he would suggest that this sentiment developed early; indeed, it was part of Jesus’ message of the kingdom. In contrast, it seems much more likely to me that this was added at that point when most new followers of Jesus, and probably most followers of Jesus were of pagan, rather than Jewish heritage. This sentence, and this sentiment were meant to express that the Jews had been superseded by pagans, by Gentiles who had thereby become the “True Israel”. A lot of this is tied in with his interpretation of the Jerusalem Community. I will probably have more to say on this as we go along, but, for now, let me leave it at that. I believe that the sentiment expressed here was a new one, and that Matthew was the first to put it so definitively in writing.
9 et ne velitis dicere intra vos: “Patrem habemus Abraham”; dico enim vobis quoniam potest Deus de lapidibus istis suscitare Abrahae filios.
10 ἤδη δὲ ἡ ἀξίνη πρὸς τὴν ῥίζαν τῶν δένδρων κεῖται: πᾶν οὖν δένδρον μὴ ποιοῦν καρπὸν καλὸν ἐκκόπτεται καὶ εἰς πῦρ βάλλεται.
Already the axe lies at the root of the tree. So all trees not producing good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.
Is this a reference to the “coming” destruction of Jerusalem? Seems like it, especially when coupled with the idea from the last verse about rocks becoming the children of Abraham. In these two verses Matthew is telling us that the Jews have been supplanted and their claim to primacy is about to be destroyed. The Jews rejected Jesus, so they did not bear good fruit, so they were cut down and thrown into the fiery destruction of the Roman crucible. Now Matthew was most likely a Jew by heritage, but I don’t think this exempted him from feeling a certain…self-righteousness given what had happened to the city and its Temple. As such, he could say that the axe was already at the root. And note, this was image was also missing from Mark. I believe that the ideas expressed in this verse and the previous reflect developments that occurred long after Q, with all its strata, had been “written”.
10 Iam enim securis ad radicem arborum posita est; omnis ergo arbor, quae non facit fructum bonum, exciditur et in ignem mittitur.
11 ἐγὼ μὲν ὑμᾶς βαπτίζωἐν ὕδατι εἰς μετάνοιαν: ὁ δὲ ὀπίσω μου ἐρχόμενος ἰσχυρότερός μού ἐστιν, οὗ οὐκ εἰμὶ ἱκανὸς τὰ ὑποδήματα βαστάσαι: αὐτὸς ὑμᾶς βαπτίσει ἐν πνεύματι ἁγίῳ καὶ πυρί:
I immerse you with water towards repentance. The one coming after me is mightier than I am; I am not worthy to carry his sandal. He will immerse you in the sacred breath and fire.
Here’s a thought: the reference to fire, I think, may be the source of Luke’s tongues of fire that appeared on Pentecost. Think about it: the combination of the sacred breath and fire…I think that Luke took some of the images and suggestions of Matthew and re-interpreted them in a more poetic fashion.
But, for Matthew, I suspect that the fire is another reference to the “coming” destruction of Jerusalem. Mark also referred to the mightier one; but note how Matthew has changed the description of John’s unworthiness. In Mark, John was not worthy to loosen the strap of Jesus’ sandal; here, John is not worthy to carry Jesus’ sandal. Why the change? Because Matthew is re-working Mark, not making a new copy. Because Mark says that the mightier one will baptise with the sacred breath; Matthew adds the “and with fire”. Luke follows Matthew and adds the fire. So was this in Q? Which? The holy spirit, or the holy spirit and fire? If the first, why is it in Mark? If the second, why is the part about the holy spirit in Mark? Does it not make more sense that Matthew added the part about the fire, and then Luke copied Matthew, because Luke used Matthew as well as Mark? This completely eliminates the need for Q altogether. Matthew and Luke agree on stuff that’s not in Mark because Luke used Matthew, rather than using Mark and some hypothetical Q.
This is the crux of the debate: were there three sources, or only two? I’ve been doing some research on this, but I’m still not entirely sure why Q is necessary. Now, it may be that I’m obtuse (highly possible), or it may be that the “argument” for Q simply doesn’t carry much water. I can’t figure it out because there’s really nothing there to grasp. It’s a tough call. Either scenario (obtuse or obscure?) is very possible.
11 Ego quidem vos baptizo in aqua in paenitentiam; qui autem post me venturus est, fortior me est, cuius non sum dignus calceamenta portare; ipse vos baptizabit in Spiritu Sancto et igni,
12 οὗ τὸ πτύον ἐν τῇ χειρὶ αὐτοῦ, καὶ διακαθαριεῖ τὴν ἅλωνα αὐτοῦ, καὶ συνάξει τὸν σῖτον αὐτοῦ εἰς τὴν ἀποθήκην, τὸ δὲ ἄχυρον κατακαύσει πυρὶ ἀσβέστῳ.
“Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and he will gather together his grain in his barn, but the chaff will be tossed in the unquenchable fire.”
The fact that Matthew and Luke don’t always follow the order of Mark, IIRC, is supposed to be proof for the existence of Q. The thinking goes something like this: if Matthew or Luke doesn’t follow the order of Mark, then the one deviating from Mark’s order is following Q. Mark, of course, can’t follow Q because he’s not aware of it. So the fact that he, apparently, does follow the order of Q most of the time is just one of those things. It’s never really discussed. I bring this up at this point because of the term “unquenchable fire”. Matthew and Luke both use the term once, and in the context of reporting the speech of the Baptist to the Pharisees and/or Sadducees. Mark uses the term twice, both of them in Chapter 9, in conjunction with the lesson on cutting off your hand if it causes you to sin. So, the question is, if changing the order of events is significant, what about taking a very specific phrase like “unquenchable fire”, one that is used exactly four times in the NT, out of the context in which Mark used it? What, if anything, does this signify? Or did Mark deviate from the usage in Q because he wasn’t aware of it, while Matthew and Luke were faithful to Q? Or did Matthew move the usage to the speech of the Baptist because he thought it had more impact here, and Luke followed suit because Luke follows Matthew pretty faithfully for the most part?
This is. I suppose, a bit of a reductio ad absurdem. I am not a textual scholar; I do not come from a background of analysing and comparing Scripture. I am not a theologian. Exactly because I’m not, I believe that I look at the problem very differently than Burton Mack, or JD Crossan, or Bart Ehrman. I find a lot of their textual analysis to be a bit thin on the convincing scale. Yes, there are differences. But are all the differences significant? If not, what is the criterion, or what are the criteria that make a difference significant? Too often it seems to be when the scholar has a very firm conviction about what the Evangelist would have done given a particular set of circumstances. “Why of course Luke wouldn’t have ignored that, given his interest in…” I would bet that Matthew took the phrase “unquenchable fire” from Mark, even though he changed the context. Why isn’t that significant? What am I missing here?
But enough of this. Let’s talk about the meaning of the phrase. To us, after 2,000 years of discussion, we immediately assume that the term refers to the fires of Hell. And they may very well do so. But, at this stage of the game, we don’t know that. Remember that Mark’s allusions to damnation were incredibly vague, and maybe only made sense because we could fill in the blanks with our developed Christian knowledge. The fact is, if we were to read (or hear) this passage in isolation, without a lot of background. chances are we would not quite know what to do with this expression. What unquenchable fire? Perhaps new initiates to the faith were given background on this, just as any Christian received in Sunday school or religion class. This is yet another of those threads that need to be watched as we proceed.
My point hereis simple: A lot of the stuff that we know about the NT, about Christianity owes a lot–an awful lot–to several hundred years of inference and inductive reasoning. The leaders of the Reformation understood that, and tried to strip away a lot of the extra-scriptural doctrines that had accumulated, Purgatory being the classic example. The thing is, they still did not question a large body of buried assumptions. Purgatory was nulll and void, but Hell was accepted without question.
12 cuius ventilabrum in manu sua, et permundabit aream suam et congregabit triticum suum in horreum, paleas autem comburet igni inexstinguibili ”.
13 Τότε παραγίνεται ὁ Ἰησοῦς ἀπὸ τῆς Γαλιλαίας ἐπὶ τὸν Ἰορδάνην πρὸς τὸν Ἰωάννην τοῦ βαπτισθῆναι ὑπ’ αὐτοῦ.
14 ὁ δὲ Ἰωάννης διεκώλυεν αὐτὸν λέγων,Ἐγὼ χρείαν ἔχω ὑπὸ σοῦ βαπτισθῆναι, καὶ σὺ ἔρχῃ πρός με;
Then Jesus came out of Galilee to the Jordan, towards John the Baptist to be baptized by him. But John refused, saying “I have need to be baptized by you, and you have come to me”.
Why did Jesus get baptized? Why did he seek out John to have this ritual performed? Presumably, this implies that Jesus was, in some way, disciple of John’s. However, saying that assumes that John had disciples. Yes, there was a scene in Mark, or will be a scene in Matthew or Luke where John’s disciples come to Jesus, but there is about a zero probability that this story has any historical value. Really, based on this tale, it doesn’t sound like John had disciples; he was more the hermit-type, and people came out to him. But, in the least, that Jesus sought out this ritual implies that he was on board with John’s message.
Of course this assumes Jesus actually did get baptized by John. Now, Josephus tells us about John, so there is good reason to believe John was historical, and he did baptize people. The question becomes, did Jesus undergo the ritual. Now, there are those who say that having Jesus start out as a disciple of John is embarrassing to the later church, so it seems more likely to be true. However, I disagree with this assessment that it was embarrassing. The story here is longer than the story in Mark. That is not what would happen if the later followers of Jesus–like Matthew, were embarrassed to admit Jesus’ relationship to John. That Matthew expands the story tells me that Matthew wanted to increase the connection to John. This actually mitigates against–albeit in a minor, or marginal way, Jesus being baptized.
However, the decisive point in favor of the baptism is that this is where Mark’s story starts. Yes, Mark had reason to tie Jesus to John, just as Matthew did, in order to put Jesus firmly in the Jewish tradition. The very old, very respected Jewish tradition. But then Mark also has the point about Jesus beginning his ministry when John was arrested, as if there is a causal connection there. As such, I think there was a relationship, with John in the role of the mentor. (And, incidentally, this relationship puts a hole in Mack’s argument that Jesus was a cynic-like sage, more Greek than Hebrew; how big that hole is, however, is a matter worthy of some discussion).
Finally, of course there is John’s demurral. Now, I see absolutely no reason to take this as anything other than later propaganda foisted upon us by Matthew. Yes, Matthew wanted to stress the connection; no, Matthew did not want to leave it that John was the superior, the mentor. Rather, John is only the herald, a relationship that is underscored by this demurral on the part of John. That Jesus insisted that the ritual occur probably indicates that the tradition of Jesus’ baptism was too strong to be ignored–although John the Evangelist does exactly that.
13 Tunc venit Iesus a Galilaea in Iordanem ad Ioannem, ut baptizaretur ab eo.
14 Ioannes autem prohibebat eum dicens: “ Ego a te debeo baptizari, et tu venis ad me? ”.
15 ἀποκριθεὶς δὲ ὁ Ἰησοῦς εἶπεν πρὸς αὐτόν, Ἄφες ἄρτι, οὕτως γὰρ πρέπον ἐστὶν ἡμῖν πληρῶσαι πᾶσαν δικαιοσύνην. τότε ἀφίησιν αὐτόν.
But Jesus responding, said to him “Let it happen now, for in this way by us it is seemly to fulfill all righteousness.” The he allowed him.
That translation is a bit awkward, but the sentence is a bit awkward. It gets the point across well enough. Of course it opens (but does not beg) the question of why this is seemly and righteous. This is an innovation of John, so what is being fulfilled. Really, it’s just another little flourish for Matthew to have Jesus put his stamp of approval on the act. On second thought, it’s a bit more that. Perhaps quite a bit. The point here is to let us know that there is some divine purpose being acted upon here, that this has to be done because it’s God’s will, and that this act is about cosmic balance. In this way, we are to realize that Jesus does what he does because it’s God’s purpose that he do it.
15 Respondens autem Iesus dixit ei: “ Sine modo, sic enim decet nos implere omnem iustitiam ”. Tunc dimittit eum.
16 βαπτισθεὶς δὲ ὁ Ἰησοῦς εὐθὺς ἀνέβηἀπὸ τοῦ ὕδατος: καὶ ἰδοὺ ἠνεῴχθησαν [αὐτῷ] οἱ οὐρανοί, καὶ εἶδεν [τὸ] πνεῦμα[τοῦ] θεοῦ καταβαῖνον ὡσεὶ περιστερὰν [καὶ] ἐρχόμενον ἐπ’ αὐτόν:
17 καὶ ἰδοὺ φωνὴ ἐκ τῶν οὐρανῶν λέγουσα, Οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ υἱός μου ὁ ἀγαπητός, ἐν ᾧ εὐδόκησα.
Jesus having been submerged (dunked), immediately he came up out of the water, and lo! the heavens opened and he saw the spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming upon him. And lo! a voice from the heavens said, “This is my son, the beloved, in whom I delight”.
16 Baptizatus autem Iesus, confestim ascendit de aqua; et ecce aperti sunt ei caeli, et vidit Spiritum Dei descendentem sicut columbam et venientem super se.
17 Et ecce vox de caelis dicens: “Hic est Filius meus dilectus, in quo mihi complacui ”.
It’s important to understand that John did not baptize Jesus; rather, he submerged Jesus completely in the water. Thus our Baptist brethren (and sisteren) practice full-immersion baptism, rather than the symbolic dripping of water as practiced by the Roman Rite, and the Episcopalians (and probably others).
Second, I still haven’t figured out what to do with << ἰδοὺ >>. There just really is not English equivalent.
Finally, we have the heavens opening and the voice. One interesting change in detail is that Matthew calls this the spirit of God, rather than just the spirit, or the sacred breath. The form of the dove again brings to mind Zeus taking the form of a bull or a swan. Granted, when Zeus did this, he had an actual physical body, rather than what is probably meant to be taken as just a general form without physical substance because it’s “as a dove”. That at least leaves it ambiguous. Mark’s language is virtually identical; Luke will be a bit more clear that it’s just a shape.
Now, unlike in Mark, there is no surprise that Jesus is the son. In Mark, that was the first time we were told this; hence, the Adoptionist heresy. Here, we have already been told that Jesus was conceived by the sacred breath of God, so no surprises here.
Summary Matthew Chapters 1 & 2
Something more than half of Chapter 1 was the genealogy of Jesus. Since this is basically a work of creative writing, I didn’t see much point in going through it. I am not even remotely qualified to comment, or to compare this genealogy with that of Luke. There is one very interesting aspect to the begats, but I’ll get to that in a moment.
I am combining the summary of the two chapters because the major theme of both is the birth narrative. It starts in one and takes up most of Chapter 2 as well. There are a number of interesting aspects. First, if I had to guess, or were forced to chose, I would say that the basic narrative pre-dated Matthew. There are too many clumsy moments, places where what Matthew says and what the narrative say don’t exactly line up. They are small things individually, but as a composite, they carry weight. The most significant one, I think, deals with Joseph and the working of the spirit to impregnate Mary. It’s done rather awkwardly, as if Matthew wanted to add things to the narrative, but didn’t feel he could make wholesale changes, perhaps because the community for whom he was writing was too familiar with the pre-existing birth story. Another is the repetition of “the child and his mother”. This almost has the feel of an epithet from epic poetry. Like I said, small things, easy to explain individually, but with a cumulative weight. This is a sense I get, rather than something I firmly believe. It’s hard to pin down. But, if forced, I would say it did pre-date Matthew.
Then there are the parts in which it almost seems the narrative is built around Mary rather than Joseph. The purpose of the birth narrative is to give Jesus both a father and a lineage. The latter effort is wildly successful, putting Jesus into the royal house of Judah, and associating him with Israel, the more renowned of the two kingdoms (that were not unified under David). Jesus was the “son of Mary” in Mark; that was, or could be taken as, an admission that he was a bastard. That simply would not do. But the cover-up was not complete; Mary is the only woman mentioned in the patrilineal list; her prominence cannot be swept completely under the rug. It would be very interesting to know if Matthew was the father of Joseph, if the latter were the creation of the former. I suspect not, given the large role of dreams in the birth story, and the subsequent dearth of dreams in the rest of the gospel. To me this says that Matthew was working with pre-existing material.
And the odd thing is that, in the final analysis, Joseph was not actually Jesus’ father anyway. As H. D. Kitto said in The Greeks. having a god as a forebear was sometimes the equivalent of saying, “And who his father was, god only knows…” And here is where I wonder if we’re not dealing with two separate themes that Matthew tried to weld together. The first version said that Jesus’ father was Joseph; the other said that Jesus was the son of God via God’s sacred breath. In short, Jesus was a demigod, pretty much like Herakles: a divine father and a human mother. And honestly it’s this this second version that truly matters. For here Jesus is, from the outset, from birth and before, divine. Matthew wants to leave no doubt.
And just to make sure we get this, there is added the whole story of the star and the Magoi. And it’s not just any star, but his star. Anyone who has a star pretty much has to be divine, right? He was foretold and ordained from on high, to the point that the Magoi had understood that the universe had arranged not only Jesus’ birth, but the appearance of a star to announce it to those who knew how to read it. IOW, God sent a sign. And as if being divine isn’t enough, Jesus is also of royal birth, of the House of David. The Magoi thus do double-duty; they underscore and affirm both Jesus’ divinity and his royal title by calling him the King of the Jews. And they use this title to describe Jesus to the real King of the Jews, Herod the Great. That’s about as in-your-face as one can get to a sitting king. Finally, just to cover all the bases, we are told that this king is also called the Anointed. However, while it didn’t occur to me at the time, the way this is written, it could easily have been a later insertion.
Then there are the prophecies. One from Hosea, one from Jeremiah, and one from…no one is exactly sure. It seems to echo some of the sentiments found in Isaiah. It’s not a direct quote, but we’re meant to take it as foretold. And there is the whole moving about, from Bethlehem to Egypt to Nazareth in Galilee, all of which seems rather contrived. And recall that Mark said nothing about Bethlehem; this was obviously introduced for the connection to David. Nor is it a very clear narrative. But the truly contrived aspect of this is the creation of an atrocity by Herod, the sole purpose of which seems to be to allow Matthew to insert two of these prophecies. This should provide fairly conclusive proof that we are not reading an author who is writing history.
All in all, on the surface there really nothing very tentative about all of this. Matthew wants us to know from the opening bell that something very special has happened here, that Jesus was someone very special, even from before his birth, conceived as he was by way of the sacred breath of God. And yet, and yet…there are all these little cracks in the edifice, minor things that seem odd, peculiar, and just a bit out of joint. What this points to, I believe, is that we are dealing with another work of assimilation, in which the (nominal) author is actually piecing together a number of different stories. I suppose we should be used to that by now.
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We are in the final part of the birth narrative.
13 Ἀναχωρησάντων δὲ αὐτῶν ἰδοὺ ἄγγελος κυρίου φαίνεται κατ’ ὄναρ τῷἸωσὴφ λέγων, Ἐγερθεὶς παράλαβε τὸ παιδίον καὶ τὴν μητέρα αὐτοῦ καὶ φεῦγε εἰς Αἴγυπτον, καὶ ἴσθι ἐκεῖ ἕως ἂν εἴπω σοι: μέλλει γὰρ Ἡρῴδης ζητεῖν τὸ παιδίον τοῦ ἀπολέσαι αὐτό.
They (the magoi) having left, behold, an angel of the lord appearned in a dream to Joseph, saying, “Get up, take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt. And there remain until which (time) I telll you. For Herod to seek the child for his (the child’s) destruction.”
OK, another dream, the third so far. God, the Lord, is heavily involved in all of this. We’ll save the rest for later.
I really do have to figure out what to do with << ἰδοὺ >>. “Behold” is really out of place in English, but it’s there. If this is going to be useful as a crib, I can’t just ignore it.
13 Qui cum recessissent, ecce angelus Domini apparet in somnis Ioseph dicens: “ Surge et accipe puerum et matrem eius et fuge in Aegyptum et esto ibi, usque dum dicam tibi; futurum est enim ut Herodes quaerat puerum ad perdendum eum ”.
14 ὁ δὲ ἐγερθεὶς παρέλαβεν τὸ παιδίον καὶ τὴν μητέρα αὐτοῦ νυκτὸς καὶ ἀνεχώρησεν εἰς Αἴγυπτον,
He having gotten up, took the child and his mother by night and departed the coutry to Egypt.
Does anyone else have the sense, or get the impression that the wording here is more about Mary than it is about Joseph? The formula “take the child and his mother” is repeated twice. Such formulae are part of a poetic tradition, which starts to take us out of a truly historical narrative. But what it does is make the two of them a unit; it sort of leaves Joseph on the outside looking in. It’s like, ‘take care of them, because they’re the important part here’. To some degree, I believe this reinforces the message we got at the end of the genealogy, when we are told that the mother of Jesus was Mary, when we have gotten no other female ancestors in the whole lineage. And this is consistent with Joseph’s name not being mentioned by Mark. In the earliest tradition(s), Jesus was the son of Mary; no father was named. This was unseemly; the patronymic was a hugely important part of one’s identity in the Hebrew, Greek, and Roman worlds. Not having a recognized father was pretty much an open statement of bastardy. No doubt the followers of Jesus felt this lack, and so came up with Joseph. And not only that, they came up with a lineage tracing back to the most famous family and forebear in the Hebrew tradition: David.
The question we (or at least I, anyway) would like to answer is who created Joseph and the lineage? Now, there is no reason that these two pieces were created by the same person(s), at the same time, or in the same place. I have said, and I want to continue to stress that there were many traditions about Jesus, not all of them consistent. Remember, Paul has stated in two separate letters that there were different gospels. I hate to keep harping on this, but it’s a staggeringly important fact to remember at all times. Jesus’ identity differed in different traditions, so there is no reason why the name of Jesus’ father, and his royal ancestry had to come from the same group or the same place.
I referred to “the child and his mother” as a formula. The choice of that term is deliberate, because it’s what you get from oral poetic traditions: “The child of Morning, rosy-fingered Dawn”, or “Achilles, fleet of foot”. I seriously doubt that an epic poem was constructed about Jesus; rather, I’m wondering if the same sort of conditions, or impulses, that eventually created The Iliad weren’t at work in the period between Jesus’ death and the time that Matthew wrote. I suggested that the reason Mark wrote his gospel was to weld some of these disparate traditions into a single narrative. My tentative hypothesis is that Matthew wrote to fill in the holes left by Mark. This would explain the addition of a birth narrative, a father, and a grand lineage.
The point is, assuming that Matthew knew Mark’s gospel, Matthew must have felt that important pieces were missing, that Mark was somehow incomplete. Why else do you sit down to write a different version of essentially the same story?
14 Qui consurgens accepit puerum et matrem eius nocte et recessit in Aegyptum
15 καὶ ἦν ἐκεῖ ἕως τῆς τελευτῆς Ἡρῴδου: ἵνα πληρωθῇ τὸ ῥηθὲν ὑπὸ κυρίου διὰ τοῦ προφήτου λέγοντος, Ἐξ Αἰγύπτου ἐκάλεσατὸν υἱόν μου.
And he was there until the death of Herod. This was so the the writing might be fulfilled, according to the prophet of the lord, saying, “From Egypt I have called my Son.”
The prophecy is from Hosea. The “son” in the quote is the nation of Israel, and the entire quote is a reference to the Exodus. So…Given the original context of the quote, it really makes the insertion of this whole part of the story so that a non-existent prophecy could be “fulfilled” seem like it’s taking the long way around to get to the point it wants to make. I say “non-existent” because , in Hosea, it’s a reference to a event that had occurred long, long ago, not to something that will happen which is pretty much the definition of a ‘prophecy’. That Matthew went so far out of his way to work this in provides, I think, some really keen insight into the purpose, the reason why Matthew wrote. So far, we’ve had an event of such cosmic experience that it required the introduction of a new star. Now, we have the Lord stating flatly that Jesus was the son of the Lord: he is the “my son” of the prophecy. Recall how tentative Mark was about this throughout most of his gospel. I suspect this has a lot to do with why Matthew felt a new telling was necessary. We’ll come back to this in a moment.
15 et erat ibi usque ad obitum Herodis, ut adimpleretur, quod dictum est a Domino per prophetam dicentem: “Ex Aegypto vocavi filium meum”.
16 Τότε Ἡρῴδης ἰδὼν ὅτι ἐνεπαίχθη ὑπὸ τῶν μάγων ἐθυμώθη λίαν,καὶ ἀποστείλας ἀνεῖλεν πάντας τοὺς παῖδας τοὺς ἐν Βηθλέεμ καὶ ἐν πᾶσι τοῖς ὁρίοις αὐτῆς ἀπὸ διετοῦς καὶ κατωτέρω, κατὰ τὸν χρόνον ὃν ἠκρίβωσεν παρὰ τῶν μάγων.
Then Herod, seeing that he had been deceived by the magoi, became enraged, and he sent out to kill all the children of Bethlehem and its surroundings from two years and down, according to the time which he had enquired about diligently from the magoi.
Here is where we really see just how far Matthew has gone to work in the cite from Hosea about calling “my son” out of Egypt. We are told that Herod killed all the (male) children two years and younger in Bethlehem and its environs. There is absolutely no evidence from anywhere that such an atrocity ever occurred. And an event of this magnitude could be expected to have been mentioned somewhere; even the other evangelists ignore it. Josephus was not exactly well-disposed to the memory of Herod; he tells us in prurient detail how Herod murdered many, many members of his family. A crime like this would have been an awfully juicy tidbit to corroborate this reputation, so that Josephus is silent on it must carry weight. There is another reason to doubt this: we do not know that Jesus was born while Herod was alive. Luke places it in the governorship of the Roman Quirinius; the two periods did not overlap. Herod was dead before Quirinius became governor. Now, there are reasons to prefer Matthew over Luke, but the point remains that this was not a settled matter. Otherwise, Luke would not have felt free to change the date of Jesus’ birth the way he did.
As as result, the implication seems to be that Matthew so badly wanted to work in that line from Hosea, that he had to come up with a very compelling reason for Jesus to be in Egypt; he succeeded in coming up with that reason, but only by coming up with a pretty monstrous lie. Or the creation of a monstrous act.
One final point. We are not told how much time passed between the departure from Jerusalem of the magoi and the Slaughter of the Innocents–as it became known in the Roman tradition. But the fact that Herod killed all the boys under two gives us a pretty good indication that the journey of the magoi had taken some time. Granted, no doubt Herod would have erred on the side of caution and raised the age just to make sure, but there is a recognition that some time had passed. I mention this because I find it fascinating that Matthew took this into consideration when making up the story. On the one hand, he has no qualms about telling a whopper, but OTOH, he calculates in that a certain amount of time had elapsed between the birth and the arrival of the magoi. Now, someone might want to point out that this actually provides some support for the whole story, and I would have to agree that it does. However, this slender reed of an argument is far outweighed by the mighty tree of the story of the Slaughter of the Innocents.
16 Tunc Herodes videns quoniam illusus esset a Magis, iratus est valde et mittens occidit omnes pueros, qui erant in Bethlehem et in omnibus finibus eius, a bimatu et infra, secundum tempus, quod exquisierat a Magis.
17 τότε ἐπληρώθη τὸ ῥηθὲν διὰ Ἰερεμίουτοῦ προφήτου λέγοντος,
Then the pronouncement of the Prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled, which said (lit = saying),
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17 Tunc adimpletum est, quod dictum est per Ieremiam prophetam dicentem:
18 Φωνὴ ἐν Ῥαμὰ ἠκούσθη, κλαυθμὸς καὶ ὀδυρμὸς πολύς: Ῥαχὴλ κλαίουσα τὰ τέκνα αὐτῆς, καὶ οὐκ ἤθελεν παρακληθῆναι, ὅτι οὐκ εἰσίν.
“A great voice in Ramah was heard, with great crying and wailing, ‘Rachel weeps for her children, and she did not wish to be consoled, because they were no more’.”
Overall, this is pretty much the same idea as the quote from Hosea: a reference that to an event that happened centuries before, and one that was backward-looking even when it was written. The only difference is that it’s from a much more prominent prophet, this time Jeremiah. Again, I have to wonder who the intended audience was here; was it fellow Jews who might crinkle their brow at this odd use of an old prophet? Or was the intended listener a pagan, who might be impressed that the destruction of the children Matthew describes had been “predicted” several centuries prior? Remember, Paul sometimes played a little fast and loose with his OT references, perhaps knowing that the audience may not be keenly aware of Hebrew Scripture. And so, in a slightly different way, perhaps Matthew sought OT references that sounded good–if they weren’t scrutinized too closely.
The thing is, I believe that the reason Matthew has Herod kiiling the children od neighboring towns was to allow him to use this verse, thereby including Ramah as one of those nearby towns. Now, I checked a map; there are actually at least two (possibly three) places called Ramah, but none of them are particularly near Bethlehem. Bethlehem of Judea is south of Jerusalem; Ramah is north of Jerusalem, which makes it even more odd. All in all, Matthew certainly went out of his way to work this in.
18 Vox in Rama audita est, ploratus et ululatus multus: Rachel plorans filios suos, et noluit consolari, quia non sunt ”.
19 Τελευτήσαντος δὲ τοῦ Ἡρῴδου ἰδοὺ ἄγγελος κυρίου φαίνεται κατ’ ὄναρ τῷ Ἰωσὴφ ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ
Then, Herod having died, behold, an angel of the lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, (saying)
19 Defuncto autem Herode, ecce apparet angelus Domini in somnis Ioseph in Aegypto
20 λέγων, Ἐγερθεὶς παράλαβε τὸ παιδίον καὶ τὴν μητέρα αὐτοῦ καὶ πορεύου εἰς γῆν Ἰσραήλ, τεθνήκασιν γὰρ οἱ ζητοῦντες τὴν ψυχὴν τοῦ παιδίου.
“Get up (and) take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those seeking the life of the child have died”.
First, we’re now up to our fourth dream. The thing is, I just realized how special the whole dream thing is. Matthew will use it again in V-22 below, and once more when Pilate’s wife has her dream. And that’s it. For the entire NT. Five times in Matthew Chapter 2, once in Matthew Chapter 22. And nowhere else. Admittedly, I don’t know exactly what the significance of this is, but I have no doubt that it is significant. Does this represent an older block of a story that Matthew incorporated more or less whole? Perhaps like the story of the Gerasene demonaic that we found in Mark? The (over)use of the dream motif indicates a certain world-view, an attitude towards the interaction between the divine and the human. But the attitude disappears, or goes dormant, for twenty chapters. Why? I wish I knew.
And again, we have the “the child and his mother” formula. This, in conjunction with the repeated dream motif, may indeed indicate that this had become something like a folk-legend, perhaps in verse? An oral poem? The story of Jesus and Herod and the magoi from the east?
Here’s a question. Why do we call it Israel? This was Judah, or Judea, as the Romans called it. Note that Israel had not existed for half a millennium or longer at this point. But is that the point? Again, I keep coming back to the need for a pedigree, the longer the better, to impress the pagans. As such, “Israel” is perhaps a deliberate archaism. Because how would a Jew react to this? Would there be a sense of wistful nostalgia? Again, hard to say. Regardless of the audience, or the reaction, it’s an anachronism here.
Internal update: I wrote the bit above about Israel a day or two ago. In the meantime, something has occurred to me. Of the two kingdoms, Israel and Judah, Israel had much the more storied past. As such, I believe Matthew is trying to connect Jesus to that more storied past. Here’st the thing: I seriously doubt that there was ever a united monarchy; or, if there was, Judah was under the rule of Israel, and Israel was more pagan than not. But it was more powerful. Much more powerful. So after the destruction of Israel by the Assyrians, the now independent (mostly so, but recognizing Assyrian suzerainty) aspired to place itself as not only an integral part of Israel, but somehow dominant, by placing David at the apex of both kingdoms. But Israel had the name recognition, so Matthew wants Jesus associated with the royal splendor of the unified kingdom.
One last thing: “those who sought the life of the child”. Two things. Again we get “psyche”, in the sense of “physical life” rather than anything non-material. Second, why “those”? It was Herod who wanted the life of the child. I suppose this could include the court and the sycophants and the hangers-on who surrounded the king, but it seems a bit of an odd formulation. Here’s a thought: is it an indication that this story was in verse? In epic poetry, the formulations would change with the case of the noun. So, in some cases, Achilles was the “son of Peleus”, while in others he was “fleet of foot”. The choice would depend on the requirements of the metre. So, here, did “those who sought” fit the metre, where simply “Herod”, or “the king”, or something else didn’t work?
20 dicens: “ Surge et accipe puerum et matrem eius et vade in terram Israel; defuncti sunt enim, qui quaerebant animam pueri ”.
21 ὁ δὲ ἐγερθεὶς παρέλαβεν τὸ παιδίον καὶ τὴν μητέρα αὐτοῦ καὶ εἰσῆλθεν εἰς γῆν Ἰσραήλ.
Having risen, he took the child and his mother and went to the land of Israel.
21 Qui surgens accepit puerum et matrem eius et venit in terram Israel.
22 ἀκούσας δὲ ὅτι Ἀρχέλαος βασιλεύει τῆς Ἰουδαίας ἀντὶ τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ Ἡρῴδου ἐφοβήθη ἐκεῖ ἀπελθεῖν: χρηματισθεὶς δὲ κατ’ ὄναρ ἀνεχώρησεν εἰς τὰ μέρη τῆς Γαλιλαίας,
Hearing then that Archelaos was the King of the Jews, against his (Archela0s) father Herod, he (Joseph) feared to enter (Judea). He was warned in a dream to depart for the land of Galilee.
That’s the last dream until Chapter 22. And, strictly speaking, Archelaos was not the King of Judea. He was a tetrarch, because the territory of Herod the Great was divided into four (tetra) parts as a result of civil unrest bordering on civil war among the would-be successors. The outcome was that four of Herod’s relatives were given nominal privileges of rule, but all were under the auspices of the new Roman governor; Quirinius, of Luke, was the first of these. Pilate would come later.
22 Audiens autem quia Archelaus regnaret in Iudaea pro Herode patre suo, timuit illuc ire; et admonitus in somnis, secessit in partes Galilaeae
23 καὶ ἐλθὼν κατῴκησεν εἰς πόλιν λεγομένην Ναζαρέτ, ὅπως πληρωθῇ τὸ ῥηθὲν διὰ τῶν προφητῶν ὅτι Ναζωραῖος κληθήσεται.
And coming they dwell in the city called Nazareth, so that fulfilled was the dictum from the prophet that, “He will be called a Nazarene”.
23 et veniens habitavit in civitate, quae vocatur Nazareth, ut adimpleretur, quod dictum est per Prophetas: “ Nazaraeus vocabitur ”.
This is interesting. My hard copy Greek NT (English Bible Society; I bought it at the University of Toronto Bookroom a decade or two or three ago) cites this bit about the Nazarene to Isaiah, 11:1 & 53:2.. However, upon looking, I find no mention of Nazareth. So I googled it. As it turns out, there is no direct quote of this in the OT. Rather, it’s an allegorical interpretation, such as was, apparently, fairly common in First Century Jewish interpretation; Philo of Alexandria, of course, was the most famous of these. So what does it mean? Well, that turns out to be an excellent question. One school of thought believes that this should be read as “He shall be called a Nazirite”, this being a term for one consecrated to God. It seems that Biblical scholars have sought the cite, in vain, for about 2,000 years. Calvin says that St John Chrysostom was baffled by the reference.
One possibility is that Matthew misunderstood what he heard. “Nazirite” is a Hebrew term, and we have already seen that Matthew read his Scripture in Greek. So maybe this came from an oral source, and Matthew garbled it, so that the word morphed into “Nazarene”, as something that he recognised. There is a term in Linguistics for this: where someone hearing a word, especially in a foreign language, and interprets it in terms that the hearer can understand. The example my prof always used was an Anglophone hearing the term “contre danse“, and repeating it as “country dance”. Now, if this is true, it sure shoots holes in the “Jesus of Nazareth” theme. If you’ll recall, based on the internal evidence in Mark, my inference was that Jesus actually lived in Caphernaum. Based on what we’ve read here, I’m not convinced he was from Nazareth.
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Arch-Enemies That No Longer Fit the Role
Thread: Arch-Enemies That No Longer Fit the Role
tbaron
Venom is by far not Spiderman's Arch enemy any more. I mean the two have worked together several times. With the whole Superior Spiderman thing I wouldnt put Doc Ock as a Spiderman Arch enemy but that will most likely change now that old Doc Ock is back.
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Originally Posted by Snoop Dogg
Ross was always Bruce and the Hulks' archenemy. Leader or Abomination or whatnot aren't personal enough. Not like it matters, since modern Hulk writers are generally not interested in firing those guns anyway.
Ross lost that status when he became anti-hero though
I don't think being an anti-hero necessarily disqualifies him, because he could still be an antagonist to Bruce specifically, because he has always genuinely believed the was doing the right thing when he was going after Hulk. Nemesis does not necessarily have to equal a villain, as long as they are in opposition to each other.
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Originally Posted by tbaron
The first "villain" that came to mind. Yes, he started out as Spider-Man's evil mirror image, but over the decades that has certainly changed into something different. After all of the team-up's and fighting against symbiotes, these two have changed a lot. Rereading Absolute Carnage, I feel that Spider-Man and Venom can no longer be called bitter enemies, but rather unlikely allies. Hell, they're approaching a brotherly type of relationship.
"I am a man of peace."
"A man of peace...who fights like ten tigers."
The Cool Thatguy
Iron Man and Mandarin.
Now that we've left Red Scare villains behind, their relationship never recovered and the ony way I can think to make Mandarin relevant again (corrupt Chinese official), Disney would never allow
Doombot
Originally Posted by The Cool Thatguy
You could just have the Mandarin be what he's been in many comics, a Chinese megalomaniac who despises the Communist government and wants a return of imperial Dynasties.
Originally Posted by Raye
As mentioned above, I think Malekith and to an extent Gorr (he can't really be used recurringly tho) were set up as his replacements, I know Malekith got killed, but like Loki hasn't been killed and/or imprisoned tons of times, he'll escape, that's part of the deal. And if not, there is still time to address who takes his spot, with the whole roles deal that was set up, it seems like something that will have to be sort of officially filled at some point, even it hasn't been revealed yet
Malekith feels like a character Aaron was more personally invested in, so I don't see him coming back anytime soon (even if Cates is a big fan of the run). He pretty much peaked with War of the Realms.
Short of bringing in future evil!Loki I'm not sure if anyone could properly take over the spot.
Cates did set up Sif as Heimdall's replacement in terms of role, so he seems to be continuing that aspect. (tho yeah, that's one that kinda needed to be filled for like, practical reasons)
Sif deserves better, but hopefully Cates will treat her better in the role then I would've expected from the previous era.
but i mean it's been 10 years, and it's worked out alright without him as the big bad. I'm not sure it's something that really NEEDS to be filled, in terms of just comics recently. I think the idea of a personal recurring nemesis that they fight more often than not has just kind of fallen out of fashion somewhat. There are some recurring villains still, sure, but it's somethig you see less of, and with Thor, he corner of the universe he occupies has the potential to be so large, because of all the relams, and he can go cosmic or whatever, that he's very easy to come up with new baddies for.
I don't know if you really see less of it when, Thor aside, they generally dedicate major storylines to the bigger villains or Archenemies. Joker, Luthor, Osborn, Cheetah, Red Skull (who I think Coates recently brough back in some form), etc.
Maybe we just see less of it because there are so many characters with ongoings these days that they don't have established nemesis' because they are so new or underdeveloped.
Thor will probably still have major enemies in the future but not necessarily ones who can believably be as much of a nemesis as Loki was.
I think everyone i could think of has been covered pretty much, there are some that haven't really changed in such a way that they can't be a bad guy for a hero, but they just aren't used a lot, like Mordo for Strange just isn't used a lot these days, but he does still come up on occasion.
Strange also has Dormammu, who's more frequently used.
I feel like Sterns and Blonsky are pretty personal, if not to the extent of Ross.
Originally Posted by Tien Long
At least comics-wise.
Outside the solo movie most people probably still think of Venom as purely a Spider-Man villain thanks to other media.
MichaelC
Originally Posted by Doombot
Yeah, Mandarin's not a red scare villain. He's more of a James Bond villain amped up to Iron Man levels.
Revolutionary_Jack
The problem is that the Communist government these days have tapped into Dynasty nostalgia for tourism and cultural propagandistic reasons, see the movie HERO by Zhang Yimou and read up on issues with that to see where things are at. The Chinese basically see the "Middle Kingdom" as the status-quo and they are selling it to people that they are Middle Kingdom 2.0 and of course they want the people to accept that their past is a centralized bureaucracy run by a single guy who was beloved by the people. That way all those people calling for Democracy are wrong and so on.
If the idea of Communists appealing to monarchical culture seems odd to you, well that's not without precedent. Stalin was an fanboy of Ivan the Terrible, the Romanian dictator Ceausescu spread the whole Dracula is a Rebel against Turks nonsense that people take seriously in some corners.
The way to go is to make the Mandarin tied to the KMT or Shanghai gangsters or the Triad and Taiwan, that would be acceptable to the Mainland, but he can't be tied to mainstream Sinophone culture and history. In fact that's probably why the MCU have given him to Shang Chi since that's set in the Chinese diaspora and features Tony Leung, an actor who cut his teeth on Hong Kong and Taiwanese cinema.
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Well I am surprised no one made a dc version of this thread.
Originally Posted by Toxin45
It's less of an issue there I think.
Joker is still Batman's Arch-Foe.
Luthor is still Superman's.
Sinestro is still Lantern's.
In the case of Flash, I guess it's that Professor Zoom guy or Captain Cold.
Ares is still Wonder Woman's arch-enemy.
Originally Posted by Revolutionary_Jack
Reverse-Flash/Eobard Thawne is the definitive Flash nemesis.
Cheetah is Wonder Woman’s Archenemy.
I'm gonna say Jobbertooth as well. Because Wolverine does not see him as an "arch foe", some much as a repeated annoyance. And that's exactly how he's written. Logan doesn't fear or worry about him. Any so-called "rivalry" they have is just one-sided hating on on Jobber's part. And one-sided beat downs on Logan's part.
Hell, i'll go so far as to say Jobbertooth doesn't even deserve his alias anymore. Give the name "Sabretooth" to someone who's actually strong.
When it's so one-sided, arch nemesis doesn't seem to fit, so much as "pest."
Originally Posted by Silver Fang
Hell, i'll go so far as to say Jobbertooth doesn't even deserve his alias anymore. Give the name "Sabretooth" to someone who actually is fierce & dangerous.
It's too bad, as Sabretooth was cool cool back in the day. He should be a terrifying person to encounter. But to be honest, I don't know why Wolverine would ever worry about anything as he's virtually invincible these days.
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Sochi Olympics Discussion Thread
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OLYMPICSSSsssssssssssssssss!!!
Please refrain from political issues, hilarious photos of toilets that may or may not be legit are acceptable.
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Aww-- thought tonight would be the opening ceremonies. Just some pre pre game show. I'd rather watch Community and Parks and Rec on right now.
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Shouldn't this be in the general sports rather than lounge?
Also, wasn't the snow boarder cross or whatever its called today as a prelude to the opening ceremonies? I know Shaun White pulled out and one of the top snowboarders was injured on the course which was supposed to be awesome/insane depending on whether or not you got hurt riding on it.
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Tonight was/is basically a couple of qualifying rounds for snowboarding and figure skating competitions....nothing too crazy....for what it's worth, i enjoyed the coverage.....
NOTE: I am currently visiting family in Texas, so night 1 coverage out here has ended...
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Advance warning: We no longer have the "spoiler" tag ability, so if you're not watching the events live you might want to avoid this thread until the next day. In the past, we've had some people comment on events as they're happening live, which spoils it for anyone not in a position to do so.
VF21 said:
I will not post any spoilers. I must ask, however, if it would be OK to post a "Must Watch Moment" or "Must Watch Event" without giving away the results? (for example, something like "I think you should watch the Speed Skating coverage because it was interesting"), or something along those lines?????
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I will not post any spoilers. I must ask, however, if it would be OK to post a "Must Watch Moment" or "Must Watch Event" without giving away the results? (for example, something like "I think y
ou should watch the Speed Skating coverage because it was interesting"), or something along those lines?????
My warning was more to the people who might be disappointed by seeing something they didn't want to see. There's no real way to know what different people will consider spoilers. I personally hate the freaking news because they delight in giving the medal results on their early news when the coverage is on a different network (like CBS news at 6 p.m. spoiling the entire event programming yet to be shown on NBC). I'm sure if someone has an objection to something that's been posted, they'll have no problem in saying so.
The Olympic Games are very tough in that, unless they are played here in the USA, or up in Canada, or down in Mexico, there is really no way around being exposed to potential spoilers throughout the day. I remember when Michael Phelps was going for his record run, I almost killed myself (not literally, but figuratively) over not checking the web because I knew I would come across a "Michael Phelps Spoiler Alert"....
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I think this extra day of Olympics is some kind of conspiracy to give Leno an audience for his going away party.
Am watching DVR'd snowboarding. Am in heaven.
On a TV show. one Russian official responded to claims of shoddy construction by saying they have a video of someone in a shower pointing the shower head to point at the wall in order to destroy the wall by having the stream pound hour after hour. They had a video cam where? Is it streaming on the internet (pun very much intended).
Anyway and hoping this is not political, there is lots of talk about cell phones and computers being hacked. In Russia's modern era of being under threat from multiple terrorists groups, I actually think that's OK and hope it's the security forces doing the hacking. Hack away and let everybody come back home alive.
Bye, bye Jay. He quoted Johnny Carson's last show line and it was more emotional than I thought. The show is in younger hands and in great hands in a tradition of having the best. Go get 'em, Jimmy!
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Welp, everything that could go wrong in Sochi is probably going to go wrong.
This stray dog issue is really bothering me and how Russia has gone about handling it. Hits close to home as I've witnessed the issue a number of times on my own travels to that part of the world and there's no easy fix. Many of the stray dogs were originally house pets who've been abandoned. Sweeping them off the streets and putting them in shelters has been tried before but they end up getting put to sleep as those running the shelters look for profit instead. And there's so damn many of them. When I was in that part of the world last winter it wasn't uncommon to go into a supermarket and see 3-4 strays laying in the walkway into the supermarket in an attempt to keep warm(I always offered them food on my way out). They're everywhere, all over the streets, parks, subways, etc., and the money needed to fix the issue generally isn't available.
What pisses me off is the 51B Russia had available and a little could have been spent on this problem yet they decided to handle the issue in a far less humane fashion than building shelters, which I won't go into but an easy google search will fill you in if you're interested.
Well, Russia isn't the only country which enjoys hacking. I'll say no more as politics aren't supposed to be part of this thread.
Top this Sochi!!
Gorgeous Kim Yu-Na (The Queen / 007 Girl) blows 'em away Vancouver 2010 at age 19 winning Gold Metal in women's figure skate.
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rainmaker said:
I was taking all the unmentionable into account.
Aww too bad one of those snow flakes didn't open up to make the Olympic Rings:
The Russian national anthem reminds me of Rocky IV every time. My first time being culturally exposed to it after all.
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England had trouble with their opening ceremony also.
I hope everyone will post some favorite moments from Sochi over next two weeks. I thought opening ceremony was outstanding except for very minor Olympic rings glitch. Here was probably my favorite during the spectacular. Can these guys sing or what?!
http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/ru...ms-get-lucky-opening-ceremony?ctx=top-moments
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Mad D said:
The Russian national anthem reminds me of Rocky IV every time...
Makes me think of Nikolai Volkoff.
Besides that glitch I enjoyed it more than London's pop star fest at least from a visual perspective. I remember the winter games in Canada they had a glitch during the torch lighting.
Watching women's figure skating waiting for Yuna (maybe I missed her I just turned to the program). That young Russian girl who just went was a machine.
Yu-Na is not in this completion which is for teams, as ROK did not qualify as a team. Thus, she'll only be competing in the individual figure skating competition at Sochi.
Surprisingly entertaining game between Sweden and Japan. Disappointed that Japan couldn't close the deal in the power play.
Mr. S£im Citrus said:
It's Japan. We freak out when a foot of snow falls in Tokyo. How could anyone expect us to win a hockey game?
All things being equal, a 1-0 loss to Sweden was fairly impressive, especially in light of Japan's last showing in Olympic Women's Hockey.
I'm not buying Kubo as "The Wayne Gretzky of Japan," though. That sort of lunacy is right up there with when they were calling Turkoglu "The Michael Jordan of Turkey."
Please don't give results for those of us who DVR.
Capt. Factorial
Wait, how is anybody supposed to know when you're going to watch it if you DVR it?
Likes: Tetsujin
Capt. Factorial said:
It would be easy enough to say that the Sweden/Japan game was great and discuss the "Wayne Gretzky of Japan." I have no answer for you but maybe we can come up with some common sense guidelines. It was on in the middle of the night. I woke up at 10 AM. The notes by the dastardly Slim and Tetsujin were probably written in real time because real time for Tetsujin is out of whack with the rest of us and Slim can't sleep.
OK, I will avoid the thread. My problem is that I look at posts by when they were posted and not by thread so I actually will have to think and not blame the rest of the world for my problem.
BTW, if the U of Minnesota was allowed to compete in the Olympics and keep all their players thus depriving, for example, Finland of the best goalie in the world, they would certainly get at least a bronze and have a chance at winning a gold. They of course would lack experience.
The Japanese women are amazing this year just as the Japanese men amaze me in rugby.
The difference between boarding between the men and the women is predictably immense. Bye bye Bode.
Are you talking about snowboarding or skiing and what do you mean anyway? Bye bye Bode? What exactly does that mean? Obviously Bode Miller now 36 is in last go round but still has two more alpine events at Sochi if he wants to compete - Super G and Men's combined. Maybe not favorable for him since no over 34 has ever won metal in an alpine race at any winter Olympics.
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Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Greenwich and Woolwich Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Guildford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hackney North and Stoke Newington Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hackney South and Shoreditch Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Halesowen and Rowley Regis Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Halifax Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Haltemprice and Howden Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Halton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hammersmith Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hampstead and Kilburn Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Harborough Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Harlow Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Harrogate and Knaresborough Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Harrow East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Harrow West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hartlepool Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Harwich and North Essex Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hastings and Rye Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Havant Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hayes and Harlington Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hazel Grove Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hemel Hempstead Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hemsworth Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hendon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Henley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hereford and South Herefordshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hertford and Stortford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hertsmere Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hexham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Heywood and Middleton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the High Peak Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hitchin and Harpenden Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Holborn and St Pancras Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hornchurch and Upminster Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hornsey and Wood Green Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Horsham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Houghton and Sunderland South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hove Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Huddersfield Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Huntingdon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hyndburn Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ilford North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ilford South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ipswich Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Isle of Wight Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Islington North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Islington South and Finsbury Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Islwyn Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Jarrow Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Keighley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Kenilworth and Southam Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Kensington Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Kettering Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Kingston and Surbiton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Kingston upon Hull East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Kingston upon Hull North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Kingswood Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Knowsley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Lancaster and Fleetwood Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Leeds Central Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Leeds East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Leeds North East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Leeds North West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Leeds West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Leicester East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Leicester South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Leicester West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Leigh Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Lewes Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Lewisham - Deptford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Lewisham East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Lewisham West and Penge Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Leyton and Wanstead Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Lichfield Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Lincoln Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Liverpool - Riverside Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Liverpool - Walton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Liverpool - Wavertree Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Liverpool - West Derby Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Llanelli Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Loughborough Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Louth and Horncastle Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ludlow Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Luton North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Luton South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Macclesfield Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Maidenhead Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Maidstone and The Weald Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Makerfield Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Maldon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Manchester - Gorton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Manchester - Withington Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Manchester Central Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Mansfield Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Meon Valley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Meriden Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Mid Bedfordshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Mid Derbyshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Mid Dorset and North Poole Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Mid Norfolk Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Mid Sussex Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Mid Worcestershire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Middlesbrough Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Milton Keynes North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Milton Keynes South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Mitcham and Morden Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Mole Valley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Monmouth Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Montgomeryshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Morecambe and Lunesdale Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Morley and Outwood Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Na h-Eileanan an Iar Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Neath Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the New Forest East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the New Forest West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Newark Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Newbury Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Newcastle upon Tyne Central Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Newcastle upon Tyne East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Newcastle upon Tyne North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Newcastle-under-Lyme Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Newport East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Newport West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Newton Abbot Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Normanton - Pontefract and Castleford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Cornwall Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Devon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Dorset Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Durham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North East Bedfordshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North East Cambridgeshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North East Derbyshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North East Hampshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North East Hertfordshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North East Somerset Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Herefordshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Norfolk Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Shropshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Somerset Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Swindon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Thanet Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Tyneside Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Warwickshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North West Cambridgeshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North West Durham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North West Hampshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North West Leicestershire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North West Norfolk Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Wiltshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Northampton North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Northampton South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Norwich North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Norwich South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Nottingham East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Nottingham North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Nottingham South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Nuneaton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ogmore Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Old Bexley and Sidcup Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Oldham East and Saddleworth Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Oldham West and Royton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Orpington Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Oxford East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Oxford West and Abingdon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Pendle Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Penistone and Stocksbridge Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Penrith and The Border Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Peterborough Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Plymouth - Moor View Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Plymouth - Sutton and Devonport Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Pontypridd Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Poole Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Poplar and Limehouse Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Portsmouth North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Portsmouth South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Preseli Pembrokeshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Preston Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Pudsey Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Putney Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rayleigh and Wickford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Reading East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Reading West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Redcar Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Redditch Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Reigate Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rhondda Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ribble Valley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Richmond (Yorks) Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Richmond Park Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rochdale Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rochester and Strood Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rochford and Southend East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Romford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Romsey and Southampton North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rossendale and Darwen Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rother Valley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rotherham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rugby Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ruislip Northwood and Pinner Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Runnymede and Weybridge Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rushcliffe Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rutland and Melton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Saffron Walden Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Salford and Eccles Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Salisbury Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Scarborough and Whitby Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Scunthorpe Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sedgefield Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sefton Central Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Selby and Ainsty Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sevenoaks Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sheffield - Brightside and Hillsborough Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sheffield - Hallam Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sheffield - Heeley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sheffield Central Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sheffield South East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sherwood Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Shipley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Shrewsbury and Atcham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sittingbourne and Sheppey Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Skipton and Ripon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sleaford and North Hykeham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Slough Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Solihull Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Somerton and Frome Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Basildon and East Thurrock Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Cambridgeshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Derbyshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Dorset Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South East Cambridgeshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South East Cornwall Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Holland and The Deepings Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Leicestershire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Norfolk Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Northamptonshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Ribble Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Shields Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Staffordshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Suffolk Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Swindon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Thanet Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South West Bedfordshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South West Devon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South West Hertfordshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South West Norfolk Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South West Surrey Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South West Wiltshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Southampton - Itchen Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Southampton - Test Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Southend West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Southport Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Spelthorne Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the St Albans Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the St Austell and Newquay Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the St Helens North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the St Helens South and Whiston Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the St Ives Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stafford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Staffordshire Moorlands Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stalybridge and Hyde Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stevenage Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stockport Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stockton North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stockton South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stoke-on-Trent Central Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stoke-on-Trent North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stoke-on-Trent South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stone Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stourbridge Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stratford-on-Avon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Streatham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stretford and Urmston Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stroud Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Suffolk Coastal Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sunderland Central Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Surrey Heath Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sutton and Cheam Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sutton Coldfield Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Swansea East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Swansea West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Tamworth Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Tatton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Taunton Deane Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Telford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Tewkesbury Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the The Cotswolds Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the The Wrekin Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Thirsk and Malton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Thornbury and Yate Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Thurrock Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Tiverton and Honiton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Tonbridge and Malling Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Tooting Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Torbay Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Torfaen Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Torridge and West Devon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Totnes Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Tottenham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Truro and Falmouth Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Tunbridge Wells Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Twickenham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Tynemouth Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Uxbridge and South Ruislip Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Vale of Clwyd Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Vale of Glamorgan Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Vauxhall Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wakefield Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wallasey Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Walsall North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Walsall South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Walthamstow Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wansbeck Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wantage Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Warley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Warrington North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Warrington South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Warwick and Leamington Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Washington and Sunderland West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Watford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Waveney Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wealden Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Weaver Vale Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wellingborough Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wells Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Welwyn Hatfield Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wentworth and Dearne Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the West Bromwich East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the West Bromwich West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the West Dorset Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the West Ham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the West Lancashire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the West Suffolk Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the West Worcestershire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Westminster North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Westmorland and Lonsdale Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Weston-Super-Mare 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Outline of Government’s Work to Improve Dementia Diagnosis, Care and Research 2015 (House of Commons Library)
Summary Coinciding with publication of the Prime Minister’s Challenge on Dementia 2020, this House of Commons Library Standard Note discusses the Government’s objectives for the next five years, in relation to Government’s, NHS’s and other statutory bodies’ efforts to improve … Continue reading →
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Age) in the Brigg and Goole Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Brighton - Kemptown Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Brighton - Pavilion Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Bristol East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Bristol North West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Bristol South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Bristol West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Broadland Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Bromley and Chislehurst Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Bromsgrove Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Broxbourne Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Broxtowe Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Buckingham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Burnley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Burton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Bury North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Bury South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Bury St Edmunds Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Caerphilly Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Caithness Sutherland and Ross Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Calder Valley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Camberwell and Peckham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Camborne and Redruth Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Cambridge Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Cannock Chase Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Canterbury Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Cardiff Central Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Cardiff North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Cardiff South and Penarth Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Cardiff West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Carlisle Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Carmarthen East and Dinefwr Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Carrick Cumnock and Doon Valley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Carshalton and Wallington Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Castle Point Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Central Devon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Central Suffolk and North Ipswich Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ceredigion Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Charnwood Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Chatham and Aylesford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Cheadle Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Chelmsford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Chelsea and Fulham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Cheltenham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Chesham and Amersham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Chesterfield Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Chichester Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Chingford and Woodford Green Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Chippenham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Chipping Barnet Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Chorley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Christchurch Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Cities of London and Westminster Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the City of Chester Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the City of Durham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Clackmannanshire and Dunblane Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Clacton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Cleethorpes Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Clwyd South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Clwyd West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Clydebank and Milngavie Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Clydesdale Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Coatbridge and Chryston Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Colchester Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Colne Valley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Congleton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Copeland Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Corby Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Coventry North East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Coventry North West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Coventry South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Cowdenbeath Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Crawley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Crewe and Nantwich Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Croydon Central Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Croydon North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Croydon South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Cumbernauld and Kilsyth Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Cunninghame North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Cunninghame South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Cynon Valley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Dagenham and Rainham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Darlington Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Dartford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Daventry Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Delyn Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Denton and Reddish Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Derby North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Derby South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Derbyshire Dales Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Devizes Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Dewsbury Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Don Valley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Doncaster Central Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Doncaster North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Dover Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Dudley North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Dudley South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Dulwich and West Norwood Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Dumbarton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Dumfriesshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Dundee City East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Dundee City West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Dunfermline Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Dwyfor Meirionnydd Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ealing - Southall Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ealing Central and Acton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ealing North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Easington Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the East Devon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the East Ham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the East Hampshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the East Kilbride Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the East Lothian Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the East Surrey Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the East Worthing and Shoreham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the East Yorkshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Eastbourne Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Eastleigh Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Eastwood Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Eddisbury Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Edinburgh Central Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Edinburgh Eastern Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Edinburgh Northern and Leith Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Edinburgh Pentlands Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Edinburgh Southern Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Edinburgh Western Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Edmonton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ellesmere Port and Neston Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Elmet and Rothwell Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Eltham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Enfield - Southgate Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Enfield North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Epping Forest Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Epsom and Ewell Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Erewash Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Erith and Thamesmead Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Esher and Walton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ettrick Roxburgh and Berwickshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Exeter Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Falkirk East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Falkirk West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Fareham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Faversham and Mid Kent Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Feltham and Heston Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Filton and Bradley Stoke Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Finchley and Golders Green Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Folkestone and Hythe Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Forest of Dean Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Fylde Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Gainsborough Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Galloway and West Dumfries Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Garston and Halewood Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Gateshead Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Gedling Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Gillingham and Rainham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Gloucester Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Gosport Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Gower Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Grantham and Stamford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Gravesham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Great Grimsby Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Great Yarmouth Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Greenwich and Woolwich Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Guildford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hackney North and Stoke Newington Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hackney South and Shoreditch Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Halesowen and Rowley Regis Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Halifax Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Haltemprice and Howden Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Halton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hammersmith Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hampstead and Kilburn Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Harborough Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Harlow Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Harrogate and Knaresborough Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Harrow East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Harrow West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hartlepool Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Harwich and North Essex Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hastings and Rye Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Havant Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hayes and Harlington Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hazel Grove Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hemel Hempstead Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hemsworth Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hendon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Henley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hereford and South Herefordshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hertford and Stortford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hertsmere Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hexham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Heywood and Middleton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the High Peak Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hitchin and Harpenden Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Holborn and St Pancras Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hornchurch and Upminster Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hornsey and Wood Green Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Horsham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Houghton and Sunderland South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hove Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Huddersfield Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Huntingdon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hyndburn Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ilford North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ilford South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ipswich Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Isle of Wight Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Islington North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Islington South and Finsbury Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Islwyn Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Jarrow Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Keighley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Kenilworth and Southam Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Kensington Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Kettering Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Kingston and Surbiton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Kingston upon Hull East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Kingston upon Hull North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Kingswood Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Knowsley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Lancaster and Fleetwood Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Leeds Central Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Leeds East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Leeds North East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Leeds North West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Leeds West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Leicester East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Leicester South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Leicester West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Leigh Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Lewes Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Lewisham - Deptford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Lewisham East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Lewisham West and Penge Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Leyton and Wanstead Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Lichfield Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Lincoln Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Liverpool - Riverside Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Liverpool - Walton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Liverpool - Wavertree Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Liverpool - West Derby Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Llanelli Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Loughborough Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Louth and Horncastle Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ludlow Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Luton North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Luton South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Macclesfield Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Maidenhead Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Maidstone and The Weald Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Makerfield Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Maldon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Manchester - Gorton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Manchester - Withington Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Manchester Central Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Mansfield Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Meon Valley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Meriden Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Mid Bedfordshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Mid Derbyshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Mid Dorset and North Poole Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Mid Norfolk Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Mid Sussex Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Mid Worcestershire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Middlesbrough Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Milton Keynes North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Milton Keynes South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Mitcham and Morden Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Mole Valley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Monmouth Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Montgomeryshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Morecambe and Lunesdale Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Morley and Outwood Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Na h-Eileanan an Iar Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Neath Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the New Forest East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the New Forest West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Newark Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Newbury Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Newcastle upon Tyne Central Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Newcastle upon Tyne East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Newcastle upon Tyne North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Newcastle-under-Lyme Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Newport East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Newport West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Newton Abbot Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Normanton - Pontefract and Castleford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Cornwall Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Devon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Dorset Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Durham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North East Bedfordshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North East Cambridgeshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North East Derbyshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North East Hampshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North East Hertfordshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North East Somerset Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Herefordshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Norfolk Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Shropshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Somerset Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Swindon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Thanet Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Tyneside Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Warwickshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North West Cambridgeshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North West Durham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North West Hampshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North West Leicestershire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North West Norfolk Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Wiltshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Northampton North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Northampton South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Norwich North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Norwich South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Nottingham East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Nottingham North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Nottingham South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Nuneaton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ogmore Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Old Bexley and Sidcup Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Oldham East and Saddleworth Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Oldham West and Royton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Orpington Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Oxford East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Oxford West and Abingdon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Pendle Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Penistone and Stocksbridge Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Penrith and The Border Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Peterborough Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Plymouth - Moor View Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Plymouth - Sutton and Devonport Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Pontypridd Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Poole Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Poplar and Limehouse Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Portsmouth North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Portsmouth South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Preseli Pembrokeshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Preston Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Pudsey Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Putney Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rayleigh and Wickford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Reading East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Reading West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Redcar Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Redditch Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Reigate Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rhondda Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ribble Valley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Richmond (Yorks) Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Richmond Park Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rochdale Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rochester and Strood Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rochford and Southend East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Romford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Romsey and Southampton North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rossendale and Darwen Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rother Valley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rotherham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rugby Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ruislip Northwood and Pinner Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Runnymede and Weybridge Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rushcliffe Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rutland and Melton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Saffron Walden Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Salford and Eccles Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Salisbury Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Scarborough and Whitby Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Scunthorpe Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sedgefield Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sefton Central Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Selby and Ainsty Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sevenoaks Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sheffield - Brightside and Hillsborough Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sheffield - Hallam Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sheffield - Heeley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sheffield Central Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sheffield South East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sherwood Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Shipley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Shrewsbury and Atcham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sittingbourne and Sheppey Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Skipton and Ripon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sleaford and North Hykeham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Slough Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Solihull Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Somerton and Frome Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Basildon and East Thurrock Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Cambridgeshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Derbyshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Dorset Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South East Cambridgeshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South East Cornwall Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Holland and The Deepings Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Leicestershire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Norfolk Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Northamptonshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Ribble Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Shields Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Staffordshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Suffolk Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Swindon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Thanet Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South West Bedfordshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South West Devon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South West Hertfordshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South West Norfolk Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South West Surrey Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South West Wiltshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Southampton - Itchen Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Southampton - Test Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Southend West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Southport Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Spelthorne Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the St Albans Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the St Austell and Newquay Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the St Helens North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the St Helens South and Whiston Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the St Ives Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stafford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Staffordshire Moorlands Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stalybridge and Hyde Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stevenage Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stockport Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stockton North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stockton South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stoke-on-Trent Central Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stoke-on-Trent North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stoke-on-Trent South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stone Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stourbridge Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stratford-on-Avon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Streatham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stretford and Urmston Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stroud Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Suffolk Coastal Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sunderland Central Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Surrey Heath Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sutton and Cheam Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sutton Coldfield Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Swansea East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Swansea West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Tamworth Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Tatton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Taunton Deane Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Telford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Tewkesbury Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the The Cotswolds Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the The Wrekin Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Thirsk and Malton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Thornbury and Yate Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Thurrock Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Tiverton and Honiton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Tonbridge and Malling Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Tooting Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Torbay Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Torfaen Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Torridge and West Devon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Totnes Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Tottenham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Truro and Falmouth Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Tunbridge Wells Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Twickenham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Tynemouth Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Uxbridge and South Ruislip Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Vale of Clwyd Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Vale of Glamorgan Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Vauxhall Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wakefield Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wallasey Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Walsall North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Walsall South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Walthamstow Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wansbeck Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wantage Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Warley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Warrington North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Warrington South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Warwick and Leamington Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Washington and Sunderland West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Watford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Waveney Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wealden Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Weaver Vale Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wellingborough Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wells Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Welwyn Hatfield Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wentworth and Dearne Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the West Bromwich East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the West Bromwich West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the West Dorset Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the West Ham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the West Lancashire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the West Suffolk Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the West Worcestershire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Westminster North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Westmorland and Lonsdale Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Weston-Super-Mare Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wigan Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wimbledon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Winchester Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Windsor Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wirral South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wirral West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Witham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Witney Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Woking Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wokingham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wolverhampton North East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wolverhampton South East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wolverhampton South West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Worcester Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Workington Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Worsley and Eccles South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Worthing West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wrexham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wycombe Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wyre and Preston North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wyre Forest Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wythenshawe and Sale East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Yeovil Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ynys Môn Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the York Central Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the York Outer Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Airedale Wharfedale and Craven CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Ashford CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Aylesbury Vale CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Barking & Dagenham CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Barnet CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Barnsley CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Basildon and Brentwood CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Bassetlaw CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Bath and North East Somerset CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Bedfordshire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Bexley CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Birmingham CrossCity CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Birmingham South and Central CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Blackburn with Darwen CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Blackpool CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Bolton CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Bracknell and Ascot CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Bradford City CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Bradford Districts CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Brent CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Brighton & Hove CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Bristol CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Bromley CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Bury CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Calderdale CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Camden CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Cannock Chase CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Canterbury and Coastal CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Castle Point and Rochford CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Central London (Westminster) CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Central Manchester CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Chiltern CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Chorley and South Ribble CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS City and Hackney CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Coastal West Sussex CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Commissioning Board, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Commissioning Board Authority, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Commissioning Board Authority (NHSCBA), Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Corby CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Coventry and Rugby CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Crawley CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Croydon CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Cumbria CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Darlington CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Dartford Gravesham and Swanley CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Doncaster CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Dorset CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Dudley CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Durham Dales Easington and Sedgefield CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Ealing CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS East and North Hertfordshire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS East Lancashire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS East Leicestershire and Rutland CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS East Riding of Yorkshire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS East Staffordshire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS East Surrey CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Eastbourne Hailsham and Seaford CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Eastern Cheshire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Enfield CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS England (Formerly the NHS Commissioning Board), Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Erewash CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Fareham and Gosport CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Fylde & Wyre CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Gateshead CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Gloucestershire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Great Yarmouth & Waveney CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Greater Huddersfield CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Greater Preston CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Greenwich CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Guildford and Waverley CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Halton CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Hambleton Richmondshire and Whitby CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Hammersmith and Fulham CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Hardwick CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Haringey CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Harrogate and Rural District CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Harrow CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Hartlepool and Stockton-on-Tees CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Hastings & Rother CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Havering CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Herefordshire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Herts Valleys CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Heywood Middleton & Rochdale CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS High Weald Lewes Havens CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Hillingdon CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Horsham and Mid Sussex CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Hounslow CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Hull CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Ipswich and East Suffolk CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Isle of Wight CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Islington CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Kernow CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Kingston CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Knowsley CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Lambeth CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Lancashire North CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Leeds North CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Leeds South and East CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Leeds West CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Leicester City CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Lewisham CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Lincolnshire East CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Lincolnshire West CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Liverpool CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Luton CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Mansfield & Ashfield CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Medway CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Merton CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Mid Essex CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Milton Keynes CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Nene CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Newark & Sherwood CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Newbury and District CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Newcastle North and East CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Newcastle West CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Newham CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS North & West Reading CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS North Derbyshire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS North Durham CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS North East Essex CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS North East Hampshire and Farnham CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS North East Lincolnshire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS North East West Devon CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS North Hampshire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS North Kirklees CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS North Lincolnshire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS North Manchester CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS North Norfolk CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS North Somerset CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS North Staffordshire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS North Tyneside CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS North West Surrey CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Northumberland CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Norwich CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Nottingham City CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Nottingham North & East CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Nottingham West CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Oldham CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Oxfordshire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Portsmouth CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Redbridge CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Redditch and Bromsgrove CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Richmond CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Rotherham CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Rushcliffe CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Salford CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Sandwell and West Birmingham CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Scarborough and Ryedale CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Sheffield CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Shropshire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Slough CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Solihull CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Somerset CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS South Cheshire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS South Devon and Torbay CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS South East Staffs and Seisdon and Peninsular CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS South Eastern Hampshire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS South Gloucestershire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS South Kent Coast CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS South Lincolnshire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS South Manchester CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS South Norfolk CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS South Reading CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS South Sefton CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS South Tees CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS South Tyneside CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS South Warwickshire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS South West Lincolnshire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS South Worcestershire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Southampton CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Southend CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Southern Derbyshire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Southport and Formby CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Southwark CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS St Helens CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Stafford and Surrounds CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Stockport CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Stoke on Trent CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Sunderland CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Surrey Downs CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Surrey Heath CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Sutton CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Swale CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Swindon CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Tameside and Glossop CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Telford & Wrekin CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Thanet CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Thurrock CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Tower Hamlets CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Trafford CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Vale of York CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Vale Royal CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Wakefield CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Walsall CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Waltham Forest CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Wandsworth CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Warrington CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Warwickshire North CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS West Cheshire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS West Essex CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS West Hampshire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS West Kent CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS West Lancashire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS West Leicestershire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS West London (K&C & QPP) CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS West Norfolk CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS West Suffolk CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Wigan Borough CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Wiltshire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Windsor Ascot and Maidenhead CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Wirral CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Wokingham CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Wolverhampton CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Wyre Forest CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age-Group) in Health Areas Across the UK (2013), Number of People With Dementia (By Age-Group) in Parliamentary Constituencies Across the UK (2013), Number of People With Dementia (By Age-Group) in UK CCGs (2013), Outline of Government’s Efforts to Improve Dementia Diagnosis Care and Research 2015, Parliament, Parliamentarians, Parliamentary Constituencies, Prevalence of Dementia, Prime Minister’s Challenge on Dementia: Progress in Year Three, Recorded Dementia Prevalence, Regional Dementia Prevalence, Scotland’s National Dementia Strategy, Scotland’s National Dementia Strategy: 2013-16, South Yorkshire, Statistics on 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UK Regional Dementia Prevalence: Local Age Breakdowns (Alzheimer’s Society)
Summary Statistics on local dementia prevalence by local authority, clinical commissioning group and parliamentary constituency (based on 2013 data) are available, courtesy of the Alzheimer’s Society and researchers at the London School of Economics and Kings College London. The purpose … Continue reading →
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of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Beverley and Holderness Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Bexhill and Battle Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Bexleyheath and Crayford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Birkenhead Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Birmingham - Edgbaston Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Birmingham - Erdington Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Birmingham - Hall Green Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Birmingham - Hodge Hill Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Birmingham - Ladywood Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Birmingham - Northfield Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By 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With Dementia (By Age) in the Bradford East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Bradford South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Bradford West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Braintree Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Brecon and Radnorshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Brent Central Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Brent North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Brentford and Isleworth Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Brentwood and Ongar Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Bridgend Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Bridgwater and West Somerset Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Brigg and Goole Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Brighton - Kemptown Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Brighton - Pavilion Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Bristol East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Bristol North West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Bristol South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Bristol West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Broadland Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Bromley and Chislehurst Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Bromsgrove Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Broxbourne Parliamentary Constituency, Number of 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Age) in the Camborne and Redruth Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Cambridge Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Cannock Chase Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Canterbury Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Cardiff Central Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Cardiff North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Cardiff South and Penarth Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Cardiff West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Carlisle Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Carmarthen East and Dinefwr Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Carrick Cumnock and Doon Valley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Carshalton and Wallington Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Castle Point Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Central Devon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Central Suffolk and North Ipswich Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ceredigion Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Charnwood Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Chatham and Aylesford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Cheadle Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Chelmsford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Chelsea and Fulham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Cheltenham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Chesham and Amersham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Chesterfield Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Chichester Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Chingford and Woodford Green Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Chippenham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Chipping Barnet Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Chorley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Christchurch Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Cities of London and Westminster Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the City of Chester Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the City of Durham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Clackmannanshire and Dunblane Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Clacton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Cleethorpes Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Clwyd South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Clwyd West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Clydebank and Milngavie Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Clydesdale Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Coatbridge and Chryston Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Colchester Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Colne Valley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Congleton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Copeland Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Corby Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Coventry North East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Coventry North West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Coventry South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Cowdenbeath Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Crawley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Crewe and Nantwich Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Croydon Central Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Croydon North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Croydon South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Cumbernauld and Kilsyth Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Cunninghame North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Cunninghame South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Cynon Valley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Dagenham and Rainham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Darlington Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Dartford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Daventry Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Delyn Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Denton and Reddish Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Derby North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Derby South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Derbyshire Dales Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Devizes Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Dewsbury Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Don Valley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Doncaster Central Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Doncaster North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Dover Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Dudley North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Dudley South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Dulwich and West Norwood Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Dumbarton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Dumfriesshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Dundee City East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Dundee City West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Dunfermline Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Dwyfor Meirionnydd Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ealing - Southall Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ealing Central and Acton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ealing North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Easington Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the East Devon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the East Ham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the East Hampshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the East Kilbride Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the East Lothian Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the East Surrey Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the East Worthing and Shoreham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the East Yorkshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Eastbourne Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Eastleigh Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Eastwood Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Eddisbury Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Edinburgh Central Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Edinburgh Eastern Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Edinburgh Northern and Leith Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Edinburgh Pentlands Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Edinburgh Southern Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Edinburgh Western Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Edmonton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ellesmere Port and Neston Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Elmet and Rothwell Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Eltham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Enfield - Southgate Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Enfield North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Epping Forest Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Epsom and Ewell Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Erewash Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Erith and Thamesmead Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Esher and Walton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ettrick Roxburgh and Berwickshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Exeter Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Falkirk East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Falkirk West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Fareham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Faversham and Mid Kent Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Feltham and Heston Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Filton and Bradley Stoke Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Finchley and Golders Green Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Folkestone and Hythe Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Forest of Dean Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Fylde Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Gainsborough Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Galloway and West Dumfries Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Garston and Halewood Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Gateshead Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Gedling Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Gillingham and Rainham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Gloucester Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Gosport Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Gower Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Grantham and Stamford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Gravesham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Great Grimsby Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Great Yarmouth Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Greenwich and Woolwich Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Guildford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hackney North and Stoke Newington Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hackney South and Shoreditch Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Halesowen and Rowley Regis Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Halifax Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Haltemprice and Howden Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Halton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hammersmith Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hampstead and Kilburn Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Harborough Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Harlow Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Harrogate and Knaresborough Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Harrow East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Harrow West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hartlepool Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Harwich and North Essex Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hastings and Rye Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Havant Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hayes and Harlington Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hazel Grove Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hemel Hempstead Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hemsworth Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hendon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Henley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hereford and South Herefordshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hertford and Stortford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hertsmere Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hexham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Heywood and Middleton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the High Peak Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hitchin and Harpenden Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Holborn and St Pancras Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hornchurch and Upminster Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hornsey and Wood Green Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Horsham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Houghton and Sunderland South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hove Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Huddersfield Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Huntingdon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hyndburn Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ilford North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ilford South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ipswich Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Isle of Wight Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Islington North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Islington South and Finsbury Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Islwyn Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Jarrow Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Keighley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Kenilworth and Southam Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Kensington Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Kettering Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Kingston and Surbiton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Kingston upon Hull East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Kingston upon Hull North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Kingswood Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Knowsley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Lancaster and Fleetwood Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Leeds Central Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Leeds East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Leeds North East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Leeds North West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Leeds West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Leicester East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Leicester South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Leicester West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Leigh Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Lewes Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Lewisham - Deptford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Lewisham East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Lewisham West and Penge Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Leyton and Wanstead Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Lichfield Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Lincoln Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Liverpool - Riverside Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Liverpool - Walton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Liverpool - Wavertree Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Liverpool - West Derby Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Llanelli Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Loughborough Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Louth and Horncastle Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ludlow Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Luton North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Luton South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Macclesfield Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Maidenhead Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Maidstone and The Weald Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Makerfield Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Maldon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Manchester - Gorton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Manchester - Withington Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Manchester Central Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Mansfield Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Meon Valley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Meriden Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Mid Bedfordshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Mid Derbyshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Mid Dorset and North Poole Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Mid Norfolk Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Mid Sussex Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Mid Worcestershire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Middlesbrough Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Milton Keynes North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Milton Keynes South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Mitcham and Morden Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Mole Valley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Monmouth Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Montgomeryshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Morecambe and Lunesdale Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Morley and Outwood Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Na h-Eileanan an Iar Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Neath Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the New Forest East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the New Forest West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Newark Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Newbury Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Newcastle upon Tyne Central Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Newcastle upon Tyne East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Newcastle upon Tyne North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Newcastle-under-Lyme Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Newport East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Newport West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Newton Abbot Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Normanton - Pontefract and Castleford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Cornwall Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Devon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Dorset Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Durham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North East Bedfordshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North East Cambridgeshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North East Derbyshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North East Hampshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North East Hertfordshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North East Somerset Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Herefordshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Norfolk Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Shropshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Somerset Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Swindon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Thanet Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Tyneside Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Warwickshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North West Cambridgeshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North West Durham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North West Hampshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North West Leicestershire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North West Norfolk Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Wiltshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Northampton North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Northampton South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Norwich North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Norwich South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Nottingham East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Nottingham North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Nottingham South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Nuneaton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ogmore Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Old Bexley and Sidcup Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Oldham East and Saddleworth Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Oldham West and Royton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Orpington Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Oxford East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Oxford West and Abingdon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Pendle Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Penistone and Stocksbridge Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Penrith and The Border Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Peterborough Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Plymouth - Moor View Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Plymouth - Sutton and Devonport Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Pontypridd Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Poole Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Poplar and Limehouse Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Portsmouth North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Portsmouth South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Preseli Pembrokeshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Preston Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Pudsey Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Putney Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rayleigh and Wickford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Reading East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Reading West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Redcar Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Redditch Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Reigate Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rhondda Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ribble Valley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Richmond (Yorks) Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Richmond Park Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rochdale Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rochester and Strood Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rochford and Southend East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Romford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Romsey and Southampton North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rossendale and Darwen Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rother Valley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rotherham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rugby Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ruislip Northwood and Pinner Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Runnymede and Weybridge Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rushcliffe Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rutland and Melton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Saffron Walden Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Salford and Eccles Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Salisbury Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Scarborough and Whitby Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Scunthorpe Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sedgefield Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sefton Central Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Selby and Ainsty Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sevenoaks Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sheffield - Brightside and Hillsborough Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sheffield - Hallam Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sheffield - Heeley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sheffield Central Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sheffield South East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sherwood Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Shipley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Shrewsbury and Atcham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sittingbourne and Sheppey Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Skipton and Ripon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sleaford and North Hykeham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Slough Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Solihull Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Somerton and Frome Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Basildon and East Thurrock Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Cambridgeshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Derbyshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Dorset Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South East Cambridgeshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South East Cornwall Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Holland and The Deepings Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Leicestershire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Norfolk Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Northamptonshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Ribble Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Shields Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Staffordshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Suffolk Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Swindon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Thanet Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South West Bedfordshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South West Devon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South West Hertfordshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South West Norfolk Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South West Surrey Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South West Wiltshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Southampton - Itchen Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Southampton - Test Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Southend West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Southport Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Spelthorne Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the St Albans Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the St Austell and Newquay Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the St Helens North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the St Helens South and Whiston Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the St Ives Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stafford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Staffordshire Moorlands Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stalybridge and Hyde Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stevenage Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stockport Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stockton North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stockton South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stoke-on-Trent Central Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stoke-on-Trent North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stoke-on-Trent South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stone Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stourbridge Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stratford-on-Avon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Streatham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stretford and Urmston Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stroud Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Suffolk Coastal Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sunderland Central Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Surrey Heath Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sutton and Cheam Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sutton Coldfield Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Swansea East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Swansea West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Tamworth Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Tatton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Taunton Deane Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Telford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Tewkesbury Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the The Cotswolds Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the The Wrekin Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Thirsk and Malton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Thornbury and Yate Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Thurrock Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Tiverton and Honiton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Tonbridge and Malling Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Tooting Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Torbay Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Torfaen Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Torridge and West Devon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Totnes Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Tottenham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Truro and Falmouth Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Tunbridge Wells Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Twickenham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Tynemouth Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Uxbridge and South Ruislip Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Vale of Clwyd Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Vale of Glamorgan Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Vauxhall Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wakefield Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wallasey Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Walsall North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Walsall South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Walthamstow Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wansbeck Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wantage Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Warley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Warrington North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Warrington South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Warwick and Leamington Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Washington and Sunderland West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Watford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Waveney Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wealden Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Weaver Vale Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wellingborough Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wells Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Welwyn Hatfield Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wentworth and Dearne Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the West Bromwich East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the West Bromwich West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the West Dorset Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the West Ham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the West Lancashire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the West Suffolk Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the West Worcestershire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Westminster North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Westmorland and Lonsdale Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Weston-Super-Mare Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wigan Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wimbledon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Winchester Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Windsor Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wirral South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wirral West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Witham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Witney Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Woking Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wokingham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wolverhampton North East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wolverhampton South East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wolverhampton South West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Worcester Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Workington Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Worsley and Eccles South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Worthing West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wrexham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wycombe Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wyre and Preston North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wyre Forest Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wythenshawe and Sale East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Yeovil Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ynys Môn Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the York Central Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the York Outer Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Airedale Wharfedale and Craven CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Ashford CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Aylesbury Vale CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Barking & Dagenham CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Barnet CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Barnsley CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Basildon and Brentwood CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Bassetlaw CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Bath and North East Somerset CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Bedfordshire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Bexley CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Birmingham CrossCity CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Birmingham South and Central CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Blackburn with Darwen CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Blackpool CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Bolton CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Bracknell and Ascot CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Bradford City CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Bradford Districts CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Brent CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Brighton & Hove CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Bristol CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Bromley CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Bury CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Calderdale CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Camden CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Cannock Chase CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Canterbury and Coastal CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Castle Point and Rochford CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Central London (Westminster) CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Central Manchester CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Chiltern CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Chorley and South Ribble CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS City and Hackney CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Coastal West Sussex CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Commissioning Board, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Commissioning Board Authority, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Commissioning Board Authority (NHSCBA), Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Corby CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Coventry and Rugby CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Crawley CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Croydon CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Cumbria CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Darlington CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Dartford Gravesham and Swanley CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Doncaster CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Dorset CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Dudley CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Durham Dales Easington and Sedgefield CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Ealing CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS East and North Hertfordshire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS East Lancashire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS East Leicestershire and Rutland CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS East Riding of Yorkshire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS East Staffordshire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS East Surrey CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Eastbourne Hailsham and Seaford CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Eastern Cheshire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Enfield CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS England (Formerly the NHS Commissioning Board), Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Erewash CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Fareham and Gosport CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Fylde & Wyre CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Gateshead CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Gloucestershire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Great Yarmouth & Waveney CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Greater Huddersfield CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Greater Preston CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Greenwich CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Guildford and Waverley CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Halton CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Hambleton Richmondshire and Whitby CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Hammersmith and Fulham CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Hardwick CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Haringey CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Harrogate and Rural District CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Harrow CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Hartlepool and Stockton-on-Tees CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Hastings & Rother CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Havering CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Herefordshire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Herts Valleys CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Heywood Middleton & Rochdale CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS High Weald Lewes Havens CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Hillingdon CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Horsham and Mid Sussex CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Hounslow CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Hull CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Ipswich and East Suffolk CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Isle of Wight CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Islington CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Kernow CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Kingston CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Knowsley CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Lambeth CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Lancashire North CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Leeds North CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Leeds South and East CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Leeds West CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Leicester City CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Lewisham 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My Human Experience
The Little Light
Astrology, Free Will and Hard Work
by Dipa
“In the universe every crossroads is predetermined. The choice is not.” –The Little Light by Dipa Sanatani
Astrology had been a part of our life since time immemorial. While some tend to put their entire faith upon it, leaving everything to their fate and hoping destiny to drive their chariot of life; some deny it completely and set upon building their own path through determination, hard work and perseverance. But there are very few rare souls like author Dipa Sanatani who can combine the two paths into a single entity: Astrology with Allegory, Fate with Freewill, Destiny with Hard Work. She is among the ones who believe that astrology can only determine one’s character but it cannot actually solve one’s problem or predict their future; it is the choices one makes based on their character as well as the hard work they put in to achieve their goal which determine their future.
After her thoughts on Astrology as revealed through the human experience, Dipa Sanatani is back with another exclusive interview where she reveals a brand new view of Astrology that combines freewill and hardwork into it. With her signature style of anecdotal narration, Dipa Sanatani recounts how she discovered her interest in astrology and how she comprehended the subject with greater understanding, knowledge and practice. She talks about her book “The Little Light” where she had reiterated the notion of freewill and explored the importance of hard work through the astrological characters of Saturn, Rahu and Ketu who are depicted in a different light of being great teachers to mankind.
Read on to know what author Dipa Sanatani reveals on the topic of “Astrology, Free Will and Hard Work” and gain a new perspective on the subject of Astrology and a new taste of enlightenment.
“I don’t believe that death is the end. I also don’t believe that life is the beginning. There’s a whole world out there beyond what we can see and understand.”
Q:. Were you always interested in astrology or is it a recent discovery?
A: As a kid, I was curious about astrology. But my visits to the astrologer didn’t inspire my confidence. So I would sit there, roll my eyes and ignore everything that had been said to me. The predictions the astrologers made never came true. Their ‘remedies’ seemed utterly ridiculous to a born-and-bred city girl like me. And don’t even get me started on the exorbitant prices that are charged for the privilege of an all round awful experience. Unpleasant experiences have a way of leaving a bad taste in your mouth.
In 2009, someone did a reading for me that blew my mind. I saw myself revealed in a new light.
The rest, as they say, is history.
Q. Your book has quite a considerable part based on astrology. What was your research methodology?
A: My understanding of astrology is a result of curiosity, having a few good teachers and reading lots of books on the subject. But theory isn’t enough. It was when I started doing astrology readings for people that I developed my own interpretations based on experience.
If I had to describe it, it’s kind of like taking a course and then finding yourself having to apply it. You can read all the theories to understand the framework of how things work, but until you’re out there in the real world testing the hypothesis for yourself, you don’t know if what you’ve learnt is actually applicable.
Q. Sometimes astrology is mistakably intertwined with superstitions. What’s your take on that?
A: Don’t believe anything anyone tells you till it makes sense to you.
You can apply this guideline to newspapers, politicians, sales people and so on and so forth. You can even apply this guideline to your teachers and parents.
Q. According to you, what role does astrology play in our life?
A: Currently, my knowledge of astrology is limited to natal chart readings. A natal chart can show the energy patterns that a soul has brought with them from previous lives into this life.
I’m especially interested in Rahu, Ketu and Saturn. They are the strongest indicators of past life karma that needs to be worked out in this life. They show where the soul has been and where it needs to go in this life. I don’t believe that death is the end. I also don’t believe that life is the beginning. There’s a whole world out there beyond what we can see and understand.
For instance, we know that Wifi exists. We can’t see it or even understand how it works, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.
A lot of people have told me that astrology is BS and then gone on to request a reading. Some of these people even go on to discredit my knowledge as I’m doing the reading. These people are a real waste of time. Why would you trouble someone with something you don’t believe exists or has value?
Human behaviour never fails to baffle me.
“Beautiful gems can emerge from dirt. Struggle can teach you self-discipline and resilience.”
Q. If everything is pre-decided for a person by the planets of the universe, then what’s the significance of hard work?
A: I don’t believe that everything is pre-decided for a person by the planets of the universe. One of the concepts that I reiterated over and over again in my book is the notion of free will. That life gives us choices and we must choose for ourselves and take responsibility for our decisions and the resulting consequences.
I explored the importance of hard work with the character of Saturn in The Little Light. Saturn’s the school principal of the cosmos. If you’re not doing your homework and putting in the effort to succeed, he WILL throw you out of school with a loud thud on your behind that you’ll never forget.
“What Rahu, Ketu and Saturn are trying to teach you is: If you want something – earn it.”
Q. People are generally very afraid of Rahu, Ketu and Saturn. But in your book, you depicted them in a different light. Why so?
A: It is human nature to resist difficulties and bitter truths. If you study astrology long enough, you’ll understand that Rahu, Ketu and Saturn are making us face up to our ‘soul task’. I’ve always seen life as a kind of school where souls are born to learn and graduate from one level of consciousness to another.
And Rahu, Ketu and Saturn are the best teachers that you’ll ever get. As a former teacher myself, I know that it isn’t always easy to get students to face up to their responsibilities and do their best. Sometimes all they need is a little encouragement. And sometimes they need a strong dose of tough love to wake up and smell the roses.
If it was up to me, I’d sit at home everyday, eat chocolate at every meal and enjoy my life. But what would that achieve? Absolutely nothing.
We humans want quick results but to truly learn life’s lessons takes time and effort. When people build something for themselves brick by brick, it will have more value. They will cherish it because it didn’t fall into their lap.
That’s what Rahu, Ketu and Saturn are trying to teach you. If you want something – earn it.
Q. What is that one thing you think readers generally don’t know about this specific theme?
A: If you treat astrology as allegory, you will learn a lot about yourself from a good astrologer. If you’re expecting astrology to solve your problems and make predictions… it’s going to be a long life of going round in circles.
Take a long hard good look in the mirror. It’s your life. Own it.
“Life gives us choices and we must choose for ourselves and take responsibility for our decisions and the resulting consequences.”
“When people build something for themselves brick by brick, it will have more value. They will cherish it because it didn’t fall into their lap.”
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Hailing from the city of joy, Kolkata, Sanchari Das is currently pursuing her masters in English just for the love of the subject after successfully completing her creative writing course and also doing a job as a part-time content writer. She has contributed to multiple anthologies besides publishing her book of poetry, “Leisure“, along with her debut novel, “Not Just a Love Story“. She aspires to become a great author someday and inspire millions of readers through her writing. Presently, she is a part of a writing community named “Scribbled Feels”. She loves writing articles, book reviews, travelogues and interviews on her blog. Apart from reading and writing, she also loves to paint, dance and travel, and feels an intimate connection with music.
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Dipa Sanatani | Author of THE LITTLE LIGHT | Founder of Mith Books | Writer of spiritual and metaphysical stories inspired by world mythology
✒Author Interview🖋 with Sanchari Das @sweet_sanchari_ Building her universe around world of books ever since her childhood, Dipa Sanatani likes to call herself Merchant of Stories. Spinning tales of love and life while exploring mystery of human existence in the vast universe, Dipa can't remember a time when she didn't harness the desire to be a writer. She comes from a family of merchants and educators with roots in Singapore and the UK. In 2007, she left behind her roots to discover her wings. With a background in both business and education, Dipa Sanatani established her own publishing house and made her debut as an author by self-publishing her book "The Little Light". Currently she is in Singapore, busy working on "Mith Books", her first business venture. I recently had the pleasure of conversing with the author and got the wonderful opportunity of conducting an exclusive interview. Here's a peek into Dipa Sanatani's self-publication journey. Q. Can you tell us a little bit about your background of becoming an author with "The Little Light" as well as an entrepreneur with the launch of Mith Books? A: I've always believed that our real opportunities in life don't show up as a present neatly wrapped up in a bow. It takes a real crisis to force us to change direction and walk down a path we wouldn't have taken otherwise. I've wanted to be a writer for as long as I can remember. As a kid, books fired my imagination and transported me to a world far far away without leaving my bedroom. I completed a screenplay and two-full length novels before I finally published The Little Light. In 2013, I tried getting published the traditional way and failed miserably. I collected over 200 rejection letters that I imprinted into my broken heart. In 2019, I decided to try again. I couldn't be bothered with the unnecessary hassle of going down the traditional publishing so I started my own business Mith Books. The rest, as they say, is history. . To read the full interview visit: https://www.mithbooks.com . ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ #love #likeforlike #like #recentforrecent #book #author #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #interview #publishing #journey #ble
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“May no night be too long. May no day be too bright. Shine on my life warmly and gently.” ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ -The Little Light by Dipa Sanatani ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #thelittlelight #dipasanatani #mithbooks #diwali #deepavali #festivaloflights #hinduism #indianculture
THE LITTLE LIGHT by Dipa Sanatani 🔥 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ On the eve of its birth, The Little Light finds itself in the topsy-turvy world of the Planet Party. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The Sun, the Moon, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, Rahu, and Ketu - Celestial Beings from world mythology - bicker and squabble, just like any family. But they’re going to have to put their differences aside to help the Little Light - a wise soul, imbued with insight and curiosity - prepare for its birth on Planet Earth, where it has a great and far-reaching destiny... ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ In her debut novel The Little Light, Dipa Sanatani takes the reader on a voyage of awakening and discovery, ideal for lovers of mythology, spirituality, folklore and fairy tales. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Join The Little Light’s personal planet party in the Cosmic Womb! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ READ NOW on Amazon, Flipkart & Kobo ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #thelittlelight #mithbooks #dipasanatani #astrology #books #bookstagram #bookish #bookworm #planets #author #planetparty #bookaholic #fantasybooks #yabooks
Planet Mercury ♊️ from THE LITTLE LIGHT by Dipa Sanatani ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🔥Enter the topsy-turvy world of the Planet Party, hosted in the Cosmic Womb. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🔥Mercury - Messenger of the Gods - is a young business person. Impeccably dressed in a spotless white shirt and perfectly tailored black pants, Mercury governs the mind, the intellect and worldly intelligence. Witty, charming, and a bit of a trickster, he has a way with words and a young and youthful energy. He doesn’t like dealing with emotions and enjoys irritating his father, The Sun. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🔥”Are you listening to me?” the Sun asks. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🔥“No,” Mercury replies with a secret smile. “But that never stops you from lecturing me anyway.” ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🔥READ NOW on Amazon and Kobo! https://amzn.to/2WonFvq ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🔥Illustration by @sikha_prasad_90s ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #thelittlelight #mercury #dipasanatani #mercuryretrograde #planets #astrology #mythology #books #charactersketch #fantasybooks #bookstagram
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Discworld Monthly - Issue 21: January 1999
3. Terry Pratchett writes about book signing queues.
4. Readers' Letters
5. David Hodges: The Real Hodgesarrgh!
6. Results of Discworld Cross-Stitch Competition
7. DiscTrivia
8. Feature: Interview with Perfect Entertainment - Part 2
9. The End
Welcome to issue 21. Things have changed for me since last month. On Sunday 27th December 1998 at 8:38GMT I became a dad. My daughter Emily Mary weighed in at 7lbs 8ozs. Mother and daughter are doing well and Father is walking round like a zombie.
Last month I stated that the Third Clarecraft event would run from July 1998 to August 1999. What I actually meant was Friday 30th July 1999 to Sunday, 1st August 1999. I would like to thank everyone who pointed out my mistake (but I won't). More information about the event can be found on Clarecraft's (almost) NEW website www.clarecraft.co.uk/
Whilst I'm in humble apology mode. I should also apologise for our mid-month bulletin in which I stated that Wyrd Music would be shown on Channel 4, instead of Wyrd Sisters. One kind person (who pointed out my mistake) asked if C4 would also be showing Soul Sisters?
Mike Richardson converts each issue of Discworld Monthly into DOC format for easy reading on the Palm Pilot. If you have a palm pilot visit www.grim-reaper.freeserve.co.uk
Jason Anthony (Editor)
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Richard Massey (New Age Traveller)
Canandian television channel TVO will rebroadcast Discworld: Soul Music on Wednesdays at 12 midnight (or later), starting December 30, 1998.
Neil Gaiman, co-author of Good Omens, will be chatting live on the web to Barnes and Noble on January 5th 1999. Visit www.barnesandnoble.com for more information.
A transcript of PTerry's live chat for Barnes and Noble on 18th December 1998 can be found at www.barnesandnoble.com/community/archive/authors/pratchett_1.asp
Wyrd Sisters will be played at Chelsfield Village Hall (Near Orpington, Kent) on 18th, 19th and 20th February 1999 at about 19:30 (time to be confirmed). For more information email:
You can obtain a limited edition First Day Cover featuring the Royal Mails Magical Worlds stamp issue, signed by Terry Pratchett from Westminster Stamps. They cost 9.99GBP and are available on 01923-475575.
Australian fans can order most PTerry books via the Dymocks Bookstore online at www.dymocks.com.au/
Apparently this site has a collectors version of Carpe Jugulum worth about $688.
There is an Australian Terry Pratchett fan club that can be contacted via email on
Sylvain Chambon ( ) is considering creating a French PTerry fan-club if there is enough demand.
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"Simon Kincaid" ( ) is looking for Discworld Fans in East Anglia and is also about to set up a new website and would like advice etc.
"Bernie" ( ) is looking for good Discworld-type screen savers. The few already found were apparently pretty lame.
"Jonathan Cooksley" ( ) writes: My wife and I are intending to visit Borneo next year and plan to see the Orang-utans. We would like to work for free on a sanctuary if that is at all possible. If not we would like to do a tour of Tanjung Putting or any similar Parks. The most important thing is that we want the money we spend to go to help the Orang-utan Charities. Can you give us any pointers on who to contact
Dave & Kirsty ( ) would be grateful if anyone could furnish them with copies of Wyrd Sisters & Mort from the television VHS (pal or ntsc) and in fact any other Discworld features that have been on the "box". They would be willing to pay for tapes and postage........... thanking you in advance....
( ) writes: Where can a friendly American bloke get some of the Discworld cartoons for a reasonable price? Web pages, addresses, any secure way of getting them that I wouldn't need to leave the country for?
"A. J. Kerr." ( ) writes: During the summer of 1999 we (Sterts Moorland Amphitheatre in Cornwall) will be "doing" Lords & Ladies. One of our talented members has obtained permission from PTerry to adapt the book into play format and we have just begun readings and casting.
Can anyone out there help us with a costume for the Librarian? Despite a rigourous search of our costume department we have found ourselves curiously devoid of a lifelike full size orangutan outfit! Please give generously!!
In recent issues there have been many letters about how many books you can have signed at a signing and what rights you have about getting your complete back catalogue signed. Terry Pratchett sent us the following, to deal with the subject of signing queues and the amount of books an author 'should' sign.
Most authors will sign at least one copy of the book advertised -- what is the point otherwise? -- and there are those, even within the SF/fantasy field, who'll leave it at that and also stop signing precisely when the signing is supposed to end. Some authors won't sign backlist. Other are a little more relaxed. That's their choice.
But in my queues, the rules are mine. No one is going to tell me that any particular number of books is 'right', or that someone's 'entitled' to have 25 books signed because they haven't been able to get to one of my queues before. Common sense -- my common sense -- suggests that books bought that day get signed, even if the person had bought a handful, and that people with 30 battered copies get hung up by their thumbs...oops, sorry, I meant are forced to settle for just having a few signed. And sometimes I make exceptions, for various reasons. It's my choice. But I'm not there as a machine for getting books signed.
The point I'm making is that it's *always* down to the author -- there is no British Standard, no 'rule' to be imposed, no number of books that an author must sign. Sad but true. The man in the hat has the final say.
Right now, for future tours, we'll be trying to cut down on the amount I sign and the 'big bags' will be first to go -- sheesh, I've been signing for more than five weeks a year for the last ten years! I've not giving up on tours, but 'big' tours (three weeks eating bookshop sandwiches and hotel room service, and signing books for seven hours a day) are going to be trimmed, if I'm going to survive them.
The signing at Forbidden Planet this year was timed at five hours and thirty-eight minutes -- and not many people had backlist. It was fun, in a way... but I'm pretty sure I don't want to do it again!
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On book signing, I "paid" for Neil Gaiman to sign several of my books (comic and otherwise) when I met him, and I would do it again. Why you ask? Well, all of the proceeds went to the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund here in the US. This sort of arrangement works well for two reasons. 1) Funds are raised for a good cause. 2) It keeps the author from being harassed by inconsiderate fans who want a dozen books signed when there are dozens of folks behind them waiting for the same privilege.
* From: "Kerryann Pankhurst" ( )
At Terry's Oz signing tour a few years back (Canberra), I travelled fourteen hours by train to get there, bought thirty two books (complete collection and Christmas presents), plus a Clarecraft Death, and was first in line at each of the three signings of that day. On the strength of that, Terry was so amazed at the amount of money I spent (the trip cost about a thousand dollars all up - and worth it, too - I saved for two and a half years for it) that he signed (over all three signings, and afterwards) everything, signed two posters from two different bookshops (who'd given them to me, impressed at the eagerness with which I flashed the visa), signed the Death AND sent (or had someone send) me a signed poster from England. At the second signing, he looked at me and said "Weren't you at the first signing?".......At the third signing, he said "Hi, Kerryann!"
Amazing man - if you're going to get him to sign that many books, spread some joy around - buy more copies of the books. Besides, the reading copies wear out so fast - in the bed, in the bath, in the garden, at work, in the traffic.......
Memories are made of this..... every penny spent was worth it, and I'll do it again. When the bank account can stand it.
* From: "Toby Meek" ( )
I just thought I'd write in and tell you how much of a stupid twit I felt at the book signing in Nottingham a little while ago. I'm only twelve and I'd gone to the book signing with three of my mates all of us devoted Pratchett fans. I stood waiting in the cold for an hour before the doors even opened and an hour and a half after that when we did get near Terry one of my mates (who's a bit of a freak) started going hysterical so there I was with loads of people watching & Terry himself and me trying to calm my mate down (in the end I had to hit him till he settled down) then when I got to Terry I just stood there for a couple of seconds and then said in a small voice (which I don't know how he heard it) "Err will you please sign my book" so as you can probably see I made a right twit of myself.
* From: "Nicholas Spooner" ( )
In the disctrivia section (issue 20) the word wymberg is mispelt, just to be a prat about it.
WB replies: I don't want to be a prat about this either, but you've misspelt misspelt.
* From: "Ben" ( )
One week ago I was asked by a guy at work if I would like to go to the Terry Pratchett book signing with him at Cambridge. I like reading the Discworld books. They're very good, but I haven't read that many compared to most fans, seven maybe. We got there before the doors to the shop actually opened. Once they did we were inside purchasing our copies then waiting by his desk. We waited for two and a half hours as we watched a queue of three get longer and longer. Whilst waiting I thought what do I say? I thought about letter's that other people wrote about what they said and how he was such a nice man. I started to get a little nervous. I looked at the long queue of people. Every male in the queue is someone that could be considered as a sad stereotyped person. I don't want to be rude, but that's how I saw them.
When Terry finally appeared he got his stuff out and prepared himself on the table. He started immediately.
Ben "Alright, how are you?" (friendly).
Terry "Who's it to?"
Ben "Ben please".
He signed and that was it. No smile no nothing. I felt a bit upset that my favourite author just rushed me by like that. The guy who I was with though said he thought he was very nice. Is it me? I tried to be smiley and friendly. I work in a shop, I do it every week. Is it just me that he gave this impression to? I mean I may have offended some people in this letter saying that everyone else seemed to be of a stereotypical nature, but every one has the right to be how they want to be. I just feel he should be a bit more friendly, after all we are keeping him going.
* From: "davlig" ( )
I've got an experience which goes back to May 16 In Newcastle. I went to Dillons for a book signing (you should have seen the queue!) bought my book and headed out at the back of the queue, I'll tell you how long it was, the bloke in front of me started reading TLC and was nearly finished by the time we got in the door of the shop!!! Anyway I waited two hours, my feet aching like buggery. When I got into the shop. There he was, PTerry signing books with black hat and bag of sweeties resting on the table. Half an hour later, and I was there... A young woman asked me to mark a spot in my book and I strode off towards the master. I placed the book in front of him and grinned pathetically. There was an embarrassing pause. He looked at me and said in that lispy calm voice of his 'Well, what's yor name?' 'Er....Duh-David, David Light!' I squeaked. 'Calm down, I've only know you five seconds!' he replied 'I'll put David in, okay?' I brayed nervously, my face red. 'Thank you Mr Pratchett' I mumbled. 'Call me Terry' he said off-handedly, I was halfway out the bookstore at the time, completely glowing beetroot. There you are. My afternoon with PTerry. 15 seconds long, and deadly embarrassing. It's long I know. Yes I doesn't have a point. But he did sign it: NO WORRIES MATE! and put in that scythy thingy.
JA replies: Davlig gets this month's Letter Of The Month.
* From: "Mehrangez Musa Rahman" ( )
I think I am owed some thanks. It is due to me (i.e. my constant nagging) that Terry Pratchett has a small but (very) devoted following here in Dhaka, Bangladesh. I can identify with the Ramptons' complaint about the situation in Hong Kong, it's pretty much the same here. The only Pratchett books you can find here are in the British Council Library, where smart alecs explain the jokes in the margin, and other not-so-smart ones underline words that they don't understand! I hate seeing books defiled in any case, so just imagine how I feel when I see it done to Terry Pratchett!
I'm sorry that this must sound a bit stupid, but after having read JINGO (my absolute favourite) about 4 times, I still don't get one thing: what is the significance of the Klatchian wolfhound that Vimes notices at the beginning, when he's running ahead of the procession? That's the only thing I don't fully grasp in that book. Don't you think that Vlad and Igor from CARPE JUGULUM ought to be recurring characters? And the Nac mac Feegle! One thing about that book though - though excellent in all other respects, I was taken aback by Magrat's ceasing to be as lovably wet as before.
WB replies: Well, it's Angua, but I guess you'd already gathered that.
* From: "Mark Silvan" ( )
I'm replying to Arnold Warhonowicz's mail, telling us that it's difficult to get english TP books in German stores. Apart from going to www.buecher.de, you could also try to go to the "Thalia-Buchhandel" if you're in a hurry (I usually am :)). They usually have a big collection of english books, including TP books.
* From: "Ziv Wities" ( )
We've been seeing a lot of Discworld spin-offs lately - the Discworld companion, graphic novels, screenplays, maps (Including the Tourist's Guide to Lancre. How can anyone get lost in Lancre? I thought that it was so small that "wars would start just because someone wanted somewhere to put the coal."), and so forth. And here there is an idea, so simple, and yet so much better and more fulfilling then any of the other merchandise that fans are expected to buy just because it has "Terry Pratchett" written on the cover.
I quote from The Streets of Ankh-Morpork: "[Stephen Briggs said] It would be the work of a moment to lay out the Map."
My idea is this: a simple collection of PTerry's short stories. After all, he seems to have over a dozen, right? More then enough to fill up a book. Wouldn't it be great if instead of scouring the bookstore for each and every collection (don't you love it when in the Short Story article it goes "this book is extremely rare and in fact the only existing copy lies guarded by the undead in the Temple of Doom, neener neener neener"?!), and with each one found, only getting one short story? Wouldn't it be great to just have one nice big collection of all of them?
This is, of course, only my opinion, but I think it's a good idea. How about you?
* From: "Elizabeth" ( )
Floris, you are not alone - my Mapp was signed exactly similar.
* From: "Rachel Turner-Peard" ( )
PTerry did a book signing in Plymouth, just before Christmas in 1996, as I was on holiday with my family down there at the time, and had to return to work before the event I approached the bookshop, and they were as usual putting requested (and bought & paid for) books 'out the back' for PTerry to sign.
I left a letter along with my choice of books, explaining why I was unable to attend in person etc, and some time later I GOT A REPLY!
the main point of my writing this is that in his letter PTerry states
"...........But the way things are going, unsigned copies will soon be worth more than the signed ones!"
I hope this resolves some issues for some readers. I have a few signed copies in my collection. I also understand the need to get everything signed though.
* From: "Ben The_Foot" ( )
I would just like to retort to the crack smoking "smurf" who believed that it is our "right" as book purchasers to have our books signed by Terry Pratchett.
What a load of (bleep). I am grateful to Pratchett for writing his novels, and will demand no more of him. Why should he be obliged to sign our books, when he's doing us a service just by writing them? I discovered the Discworld novels while living in New Zealand (what a marvelous country) but have since moved back to Vancouver, where Pratchett isn't quite as popular. I am not the least bit bitter that Pratchett never tours Canada though, as I rather he spent that time writing new books. Admittedly I would like to see one of his talks, but with any luck he'll tour New Zealand this summer, and I'll have an excuse to reunite my self with that wonderful country.
* From: "Viv & Stu Davidson" ( )
Re: signing books, I was fortunate to get a book signed by Terry in Auckland, NZ, and it did take a long time because he doesn't just put a signature and phrase inside - he draws a picture as well. He's been here twice now and I noticed that the queues were made up of all ages - except the elderly.
Now I'm fast approaching the big FIFTY and I'm worried that the humour is going to fade away like everything else. Do tell me this isn't so! Are there lots of over 50 TP fans out there?
* From: "sarah elizabeth reed" ( )
Good Lord! Does the Clarecraft event really last from July 1998 to August 1999? I'd better bring a packed lunch!
* From: "Sam Lister" ( )
I have an idea that I want to put out: Rincewind should settle down to be Library Assistant for ever, and only be seen briefly in Ankh-Morpork and UU from then on. The way I see it, there's only so many stories you can write about a guy who's always getting into trouble and running away from it. I've got nothing against the Rincewind novels (I'll be polite, seeing The Colour of Magic is a Pratchett book and Pratchett is my idle), but I think it's time he settled down for good. He may love boredom, but I don't think we need it in the Discworld series.
* From: "THE JONES FAMILY" ( )
Am I the only person who has noticed what could be called a little clue to Great A'Tuin's Sex at least in my copy of colour of Magic on the first page of the story A'Tuin is referred to as "HE" so unless the great PTerry made a mistake (God forbid me suggesting that possibility) then he has given us a really big clue - unless it's like Dwarfs and he uses male as a technical convenience.
* From: "Mindy and David Johnson" ( )
Bloody kids, think no one has done it before, can't understand that adults enjoy PTerry as well, and we get the jokes. I too am a history teacher, I really enjoy Discworld novels (and I'm an Aussie). Discworld books appeal to all ages. The question you should be asking is why don't more of your teachers read Discworld. Are history teachers the only smart ones in this world?
David Hodges writes about his new book: The Arts of Falconrie and Hawking a Beginners Guide by HODGESAARGH (David Hodges) and Terry Pratchett.
I am well known at conventions as I am the one who often dresses up in silly costumes and gets very drunk. I also run a humourous database known as the "REAL HITCH-HIKERS GUIDE TO THE GALAXY" (details can be found on my homepage at visitweb.com/realhhg) for which I am always trying to bully people into writing things.
I had seen Terry Pratchett at quite a few cons. He had noticed that most people who know me, upon seeing me arrive would say something like "Oh no its Hodges aargh!!!!" and run away to hide. This is how the name started.
I do also own a bird of prey called Lady Jane who is extremely old and can be a bit temperamental (the operative part of the word here is MENTAL) at times and as Terry wanted a falconer for Lancre castle Lords and Ladies he asked me if I would mind if he used me, my reply was of course "Great, yes please, go ahead" and so I sent him some details of birds of prey, the rest is of course history and now I am back in Carpe Jugulum.
As I work with birds of prey (and cannot write) I thought I would write a falconry book as Hodgesaargh. As he would be a semi literate peasant I could get away with quite a lot of deliberate mistakes and no one would know.
You can order the book direct from: Dave Hodges, 68 Gotch Road, Barton Seagrave, Kettering NN15 6UQ, United Kingdom
In the UNITED KINGDOM you can buy this, the first Discworld book ever written by a Discworld character for only 3 GBP plus 20 pence postage or overseas for 5.60 US$ (surface mail).
It may work out cheaper if a group of people got together an order for several books. Don't forget that for each copy sold 1GBP goes to the orang-utan foundation of which Terry Pratchett is the patron.
I will be presenting a cheque to Terry at Stephen Briggs production of Carpe Jugulum on 23/1/1999 for the Orang-utan Foundation for the proceeds from my book to date, and another one when a suitable amount has built up again. You can meet me and Lady Jane at the Clarecraft event in July where I will be doing a falconry display.
Last month we offered the chance to win a Librarian Cross-Stitch by answering the following questions.
In ounces, how much does the Librarian weigh?
Answer: 4800 ounces
The Librarian likes to drink in the drum/broken drum/mended drum, but can you name three more inns in Ankh Morpork?
Possible Answers: Biers, Bucket, Bunch of Grapes, Crimson Leech, King's head, The stab in the back & Troll's head
What's the Librarian's pet name? (Clue:LAL)
Answer: Pongo
The winner was randomly selected and is Angharad Ramshaw of Wellington, New Zealand
Lyndisfarne who make the cross-stitch kits can be contacted at:
Lyndisfarne, Quarry lane, Kelsall, Tarporley, CW6 0NJ, ENGLAND or visit www.lyndisfarne.demon.co.uk
Hi. As you have probably guessed, this month we have some Hogswatch trivia for you. And if you like the sound of a Discworld trivia game, go to www.listbot.com/subscribe/disctrivia and join the discussion group.
We're now submitting questions to be used, so pitch in and help. Also, the Discworld Ring now has 21 high-quality sites - including DWM! Go to www.users.bigpond.com/Hormel for the homepage.
- What sort of tree is used for Hogswatch?
- What are bad children given by the Hogfather?
- What are the four pigs' names?
- What season does Hogswatchnight see the beginning of?
- What is another festival exactly the same as Hogswatch but held
alternately through the Spin-year?
See you next month, Danu Poyner Brisbane, Australia
This month's answers can be found in section 9.
In issue 20 we started an interview with Chris Bateman from Perfect-Entertainment. This month we complete the interview.
Perfect Entertainment are working on their third Discworld game called Discworld Noir. The new game is due for release in late March 1999 for the PC and Playstation. They may also produce a version for the new 128Bit SEGA monster Dreamcast.
[DWM] What will people get out of playing a Discworld game that they wouldn't get out of reading the books?
[Chris Bateman] Interaction! Visuals! Sound! Music! Need I go on? 8-) Playing 'Discworld Noir' will be very much like being put in control of an entirely new Discworld character in an entirely new Discworld book. (Or perhaps, a Discworld film...) Because the character is new, you have the freedom to shape their story according to how you wish. The speed at which they solve the problems and unweave the web of treachery and deceit in the city of Ankh-Morpork is entirely dependent on you. It's a more participatory experience than just reading.
[DWM] Will the game appeal to non-Discworld readers? If so, maybe there should be something on the packaging that says who Terry Pratchett is and how to get his books.
[Chris Bateman] I would be very surprised if this game doesn't have a wider appeal than just the Discworld fans. This is the first time traditional fantasy and Film Noir have been combined in this way and its appeal will hopefully attract a lot of people who might not have been interested in the first two Discworld games.
As for notes in the packaging to tell people who Terry is and how to get his books: well in the UK I think that's somewhat like telling people who the Queen is. You'd have to be living under a rock not to have heard of him by now. In the US, though, it's probably not a bad idea. I'm sure the marketing people will get in sync on this one - they usually do.
[DWM] How did you get the contract to create the Discworld games in the first place? Did Terry approach you or was it the other way round?
[Gregg Barnett - Discworld Noir director and designer] Discworld is a wonderful license for a game in Europe, plus it was something we really liked. I must also emphasize that it is the type of license that helps a developer produce a good game; it's not just a name to be slapped on a box. I guess that was a fair part of our success; we wanted something that would contribute to a good game and Terry wanted somebody who would use the Discworld to contribute to a good game, rather than just slap his name on a box and hand him a cheque. Anyway we approached Terry and he basically said 'show me'. So we went away for a couple of months and wrote a story and game design. We showed him, he liked it and the rest is history as they say. At the time we knew that Discworld was a hot license, but we were not aware that publishers were waving money at Terry. They just didn't get it I suppose, you have to show Terry you can do something worthy of the Discworld first, then he'll happily haggle business issues! This seems to be indicative of all Discworld merchandising and licensing actually. The deals tend to go to the people who can actually create something worthwhile, not to anonymous money men.
[DWM] How can you ensure that the histories involved in the game won't impact the histories of the books? Will Terry have to make allowances for things that have happened in the game as well as in the novels?
[Chris Bateman] Terry views the games as taking place in an alternative universe - a 'parallel Discworld' (like the one into which Vimes' organiser disappeared in 'Jingo'). However, I have tried to write the game in such a way that it will fit into the chronology of the books.
Roughly speaking, I believe 'Discworld Noir' takes place a short time after 'Feet of Clay' and before 'Jingo' - certainly well after 'Men at Arms'. Fans are welcome to draw their own conclusions after they've played the game, however - there's certainly room for interpretation.
[DWM] Are you a fan of Terry?
[Chris Bateman] I often get asked this, and I usually ask: what does it take to be a fan? I have read about half of Terry's books, and enjoyed them, but I wouldn't consider myself a fan in the sense that most people use the term. That said, I know what it's like to be a fan of something and it was important to me when working on the project that we should be as true to the Discworld canon and mythos as much as was humanly possible.
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What sort of tree is used for Hogswatch?
What are bad children given by the Hogfather?
Sack of bones
What are the four pigs' names?
Gouger, Snouter, Rooter, Tusker.
What season does Hogswatchnight see the beginning of?
What is another festival exactly the same as Hogswatch but held alternately through the Spin-year?
Crueltide
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Advanced Angular Component Patterns
Override Component UI with an Angular TemplateRef
Isaac Mann
What if we want to use some of the state in the toggle component inside of the customized view we’re providing. Content components don’t have an easy way of accomplishing that. However, TemplateRefs were specifically designed for this purpose. TemplateRefs serve the same function as React’s Render Prop pattern.
Instructor: This compound toggle component gives you three child components that let you interact with the state of the toggle. This toggle button lets you toggle the value on or off.
The toggle-on component displays something when the toggle is on. The toggle-off component displays something when the toggle is off. These three child components fully cover all the possible values of the toggle.
Say we had a component with state that was a bit more complicated. What we'd really want is for a toggle component to just give us the state that's inside of it and let us fill in the details of how to display that.
The way we'll do that is using the ng-template tag. You can explicitly specify which part of the state you're interested in and then use that state inside of your template.
This template isn't wired up at all. Let's go do that. First off, we can get rid of these child components. You see our toggle module gets a lot simpler. We'll need to change this toggle directive back into a component.
Let's set up the TemplateRef. We'll get a reference to the TemplateRef using ContentChild. We'll call it layout template.
Let's define the template for this component. In order to use the TemplateRef, we need an element to drop it on, but we don't need a real HTML element. We'll use the ng-container placeholder.
To instantiate the TemplateRef, we'll use the ngTemplateOutlet structural directive. We'll tell it to use the layout template. We also want to specify a context, which is how we can pass in the state of this toggle component.
If we go back to the app component, you see we're passing in the on state. The value is false. We're displaying off here. We'd also like to be able to update the state.
We'll add in a switch component and then use the click event to trigger some function that will update the toggle state for us. We need the TemplateRef to provide us with that toggle function that will update the state when we call it.
We need to hook that up in the toggle component. All we need to do is add to the context object a toggle property that references a toggle function. We'll define that toggle function in the component.
We'll define the toggle function using an arrow function to automatically bind the this context to the toggle component. We can do this.setOnState with not this.on.
We need to update this output event to be toggled so the name doesn't conflict with this function here. When we click the switch, it changes the state.
Let's compare the before and after here. There's just one toggle component. We've gotten rid of the child components. The app component simply uses the state that's passed in and uses a function that's provided here to change that state.
The parent component is both more flexible, because we're dealing with the raw state, and simpler, because we don't need to learn a new set of child components for each new compound component that we use.
There are a few items to tidy up with this implementation. We should change this div tag to a toggle tag, so that people don't expect it to behave like a directive, since it's really a component.
This red squiggle here is actually a false negative. It doesn't really hurt anything, but if you really want to get rid of it, you can work around doing something like this.
Pass in a functions object that has functions.toggle defined on it and then hook it up in your toggle component. Instead of putting toggle here, you rename it to functions.
Make it an object that has toggle defined on it. If you go back to the TemplateRef, it no longer has a validation error. The component works just as it did before.
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Province of Alberta : forest classification
This map shows forest disposition in Alberta in 1957.
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1877 map of Pickering Township
This is a cadastral map of Pickering Township from 1877, showing lot owners and major buildings.
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Map of the Town of Galt, County of Waterloo
This is a cadastral map of the town of Galt in the County of Waterloo, from 1867. It includes lot numbers, owners' names, and ward boundaries, as well as major street and buildings.
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Plan of the village of Tweed
A cadastral map of the village of Tweed in 1891 that shows numbered lots and lot dimensions.
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New map of the county of Huron, Canada West [NE]
A cadastral map of the County of Huron from 1862, showing major streets, main buildings, roads, railways, townships, boundaries, numbered lots, and lot owners. Includes views of buildings.
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New map of the county of Huron, Canada West [SE]
A cadastral map of the County of Huron from 1862, showing major streets, main buildings, roads, railways, townships, boundaries, numbered lots, and lot owners. Includes insets of Wroxeter, Exeter, Harpurhey, Egmondville, Wingham, Lucknow, Lucan, Bluevale and Albert.
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Central part of the province of Québec [NE]
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Carte de la province de Québec, Canada
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Map of the City of Ottawa [Southeast]
A cadastral map of the City of Ottawa from 1885, with numbered lots and major streets and buildings named.
[1 January 1885]
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Map of the City of Ottawa [Northwest]
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A cadastral map of the village of Oil Springs in 1868. It shows numbered lots and major streets.
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Bird's eye view of Napanee Ontario, Canada
A bird's eye view map of Napanee, Ontario, from 1874. It shows buildings and streets, and includes a list of main buildings, churches, and manufactories.
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Map of a portion of the Yukon District, North-West Territory with the adjacent Northern part of British Columbia : sheet 1
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Map of part of Manitoba and North West Territory showing subdivided into townships that portion in which the Hudson's Bay Co ...
This is a map of land distribution in Manitoba and the Northwest Territories at the end of 19th century. It consists of two parts: part 1 - general map of the region showing inspected lands and Hudson's Bay Company's and Indian reserves; and part 2 - Hudson's Bay Company's information on cities, farming, lands, climate, municipal organization, schools, timber and fuel industries, transportation and communication in Manitoba and the Northwest Territories [see also record for part 1].
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Whitby, circa 1867, East Whitby
This is a cadastral map of Whtiby from 1867, showing lot owners and major buildings.
Plan of Cache Bay : being part of lots 9 & 10 concession 1, Township of Springer, District of Nipissing
This is a cadastral plan of Cache Bay, in the Township of Springer (District of Nipissing) in 1890. It shows lot boundaries and street names.
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General plan of the District of Luneburg
This is a cadastral map of the District of Luneburg (present day United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry) in 1792. It shows numbered lots and lot owners.
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This is a cadastral plan of Brampton, Ontario from 1848. It shows numbered lots and major streets.
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[German company lands : Markham township, Ontario]
This is a cadastral map of German company lands in Markham Township, Ontario, from approximately 1796.
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Map of the Ottawa and Huron territory
This is a map of the Ottawa and Huron territory in Ontario in 1857. It shows township boundaries.
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Plan of the town of Kingston shewing its environs three miles on the east and west sides thereof, and six miles to the northward
This is a cadastral plan of the town of Kingston from 1815. It shows lots and land owners' names.
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Map of the city of Hamilton in the county of Wentworth, Canada West [West]
This is a cadastral map of the city of Hamilton in the county of Wentworth from 1850-1851. It shows lot numbers, view of buildings, major streets and buildings, and lot owners.
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Town plot of Haliburton, in the township of Dysart, Canada West
This is a cadastral plan of the town of Haliburton in the township of Dysart in 1860. It shows numbered lots and major streets.
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Map of Normanby Township
This is a cadastral map of Normanby Township in Grey County, from 1880. It shows lot boundaries, some lot owners, and important buildings.
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Town plot Gore Bay, Manitoulin Island
This is a cadastral map of the town of Gore Bay, on Manitoulin Island in 1875. It shows lot boundaries and street names.
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Map of Upper Canada shewing the proposed land agency divisions
This is a map of Upper Canada (part of the present-day Province of Ontario) in 1857 showing the proposed land agency divisions, and county and township outlines.
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Topographical Plan of the City of Toronto, in the Province of Canada
This is a topographical plan of the City of Toronto, showing streets, buildings, and natural features, in 1851. There are also drawings of major buildings around the border, as well as an inset of the Harbour of Toronto.
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Map shewing the route of the Montreal, Ottawa and Georgian Bay Canal, also some of the subsidiary routes branching from it
This is a map of the route of the Montreal, Ottawa, and Georgian Bay Canal in 1898. It also shows rail routes, and distance between major cities.
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Map of part of the province of Ontario
This is a map of part of the Province of Ontario in 1880, showing county boundaries, as well as both constructed and projected railways. There is an inset of the Province of Ontario.
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DobberProspects Fantasy Mailbag: June Edition
by Cam Robinson on June 28, 2017
We’re back again for another rousing edition of the DobberProspects’ Mailbag! The Entry Draft has just concluded, and now you need to know who’s worthy of being selected for this coming year and long term as well. Many of these questions were posed and answered pre-draft but we’ve always got next month to hone in on some specifics of players who went to potentially promising destinations – yes, I’m talking to you, Kailer Yamamoto.
So, without further ado, let’s go!
Question: “How does the Drouin for Sergachev trade impact Sergachev's value both short and long term?”
Answer: I don’t see this trade really hurting Sergachev’s value too much in the short term. He was unlikely to carve out much of an offensive role in Montreal and will be equally unlikely to carve one out in Tampa Bay. However, Tampa has far more offensive firepower to spread around so it’s possible he sees a smidge more even-strength production now that’s he’s moved.
Long term, I believe this is a benefit for him. He’ll be stuck behind Anton Stralman and Victor Hedman for the immediate future, but once Stralman’s contract runs out in two seasons, it’s plausible to expect him to take over the second power play unit by then – one that is usually a split squad PP unit that will be home to one of Stamkos or Kucherov. Not a bad place to be.
Sergachev remains a high-flying prospect with a full arsenal of offensive weapons. He needs to be reined in a bit, but that’s not a bad thing. He owns very nice fantasy upside.
Question: “Who appears to be the biggest offensive sleepers in this upcoming draft? i.e.: Gaudette, Fox, Kaprizov?”
Answer: This is year is unique because there is a great deal of players who don’t necessarily fit the proto-typical ‘hockey player’ mould. This means we’re looking at a bunch of players who are described as ‘slippery’, ‘slight’, ‘crafty’…and they’ll likely go earlier than in previous drafts because there isn’t a ton of ‘traditional hockey players’ at the front of the line.
That said, here are some highly skilled guys that are going somewhat under the radar:
Aleksi Heponiemi
Jesper Boqvist
Alexei Lipanov
Joni Ikonen
Antoine Morand
Kole Lind
Question: “Who is Anders Bjork and how did he end up on my farm team?”
Answer: Bjork! Bjork! Bjork! Can’t you just hear Bruins fans churning that out with regularity soon?
Bjork was drafted as a bit of project. He wasn’t the biggest player, and could be called out for being a passenger on a deadly 2014 USNTDP squad that featured a 16-year-old Jack Eichel, Sonny Milano, Dylan Larkin and Alex Tuch. All drafted miles ahead of Bjork who went in the fifth round.
All he’s done since is make teams regret passing on him. 109 points in 115 NCAA contests, a trip to the U20s and World Championships and now a legit shot at cracking the Bruins’ roster as a fresh pro.
He’s an intriguing fantasy option as his pedigree keeps him off the radar for many, but he could very well turn into a quality top six option in the not-so-distant future.
I’d keep the Swedish Chef around for a while and see how it shakes out.
Question: “Who is your top three favorite prospects next season, who didn't play in the NHL this past season, and why?”
Answer: If we’re talking about players who spent most of their years outside the NHL, then my favourite players are:
Clayton Keller – Dynamic puck skills, blazing speed, anticipation and vision skills that even some of the top players will envy.
Brock Boeser – A pure goal scorer who loves to cut into high danger areas, adds some feistiness and will be given loads of prime ice on a weak Vancouver squad.
Jesse Puljujarvi – Big, fast and ultra-talented. His back half in the AHL was very promising, and now it’s time to rejoin the bigs and not look back. Let the good times roll with McDavid.
If we’re being real sticklers, and it’s a zero games played benchmark, I like
Nico Hischier – Speed and skill that gets you out of your seat. Outside of a poor showing at camp, he should break in the NHL next fall and likely in a positive offensive situation.
Alex DeBrincat – Imagine him in the Blackhawks top six? He has his warts, but points come at a premium and he knows how to rack them up.
Nolan Patrick – Not really my favourite prospect, but I’m very curious to see how he transitions out of the gate. Great compete and hockey sense, but I wonder about the top end offensive ceiling.
Question: “Kaprizov/Shipachyov/Gusev vs. The 2017 Draftees.”
Answer: Depends on how patient you are, but I’d have Kaprizov right near the top of my draft board with Hischier. In fact, for the Fantasy Prospect Report, a handful of us were tasked with outlining the top 50 fantasy prospects with zero games of NHL experience.
I had Hischier at the top, followed closely by Kaprizov and Shipachyov in fifth. Gusev is a bit of a wildcard as he might be two years away from coming over and at that point he’ll be a UFA and could sign anywhere. I really like his skillset, but I’d prefer a good deal of 2017 draftees ahead of him at this point.
Currently, my Top 10 2017 draft eligible fantasy assets are:
Hischier
Mittelstadt
Vilardi
Question: “Christian Fischer ARI – What established NHL player would you compare him to in terms of production and style of play?”
Answer: Fischer is a very capable, all-around offensive player. He uses his size very well to protect the puck and is often found engaging in the more physical side of the game. Drafted as a likely middle six forward who had question marks about how much of his production would translate to the NHL, he’s certainly put some of those concerns to rest.
I see I little Wayne Simmonds in him. Both are complimentary scorers who bring a lot to the table, both at even-strength and on special teams.
Whether he can be counted on for multiple 30/30 seasons is another thing altogether, but he has that type of ceiling.
Question: “Who are your Calder Trophy favourites?”
Answer: Clayton Keller, Jesse Puljujarvi, and Charlie McAvoy.
HM: Thomas Chabot and Brock Boeser.
Question: “What young goaltenders do you see having a fantasy impact in the near future?”
Answer: There are a handful of goalies who are considered some of the best outside of the NHL, and those are the guys you should target.
Thatcher Demko will be the man in Vancouver’s crease before long.
Jon Gillies will battle with Tyler Parsons long term in Calgary but is years ahead in development and is the likely heir apparent to newly-acquired, Mike Smith.
Keep an eye out for what happens in Philly… they protected Anthony Stolarz in the expansion process and may bring back one of Neuvirth or Mason or sign an outside UFA goaltender, but Stolarz isn’t too far off from legitimately pushing for a job. Carter Hart and Felix Sandstrom are also in the pipeline and likely have the higher ceiling – especially Hart.
Ilya Sorokin and Linus Soderstrom will duke it out for the right to be the man for the Islanders over the course of the next two-three years.
Igor Shestyorkin appears destined to take the torch from King Henrik on Broadway…
As for next season, the clear ones to watch are Antti Raanta in Arizona, Scott Darling in Carolina, and even Calvin Pickard could push for starts with Vegas (although I doubt it, as Fleury is the new face of the franchise so they’ll give him all the chances to keep the crease.
Question: “How real is Cale Makar’s fantasy potential?”
Answer: Oh, it’s real alright. For my money, Makar has some of the best offensive skills of ANY player in this crop. He has absolute game-breaking ability from the back-end. Dynamic edgework, top acceleration and speed, a booming slap shot and the vision and processing skills to make the right plays. Those are transferable skills regardless of the quality of competition that he faced in the AJHL.
Heading to Colorado isn’t necessarily a bad thing for Makar. He’ll take a year or two to marinate at UMass (Amherst) before blazing his trail to the NHL ranks. At which point you’d hope the Avs would have begun to dig themselves out of the cellar.
Working at even-strength and on the man-advantage with the likes of Nathan MacKinnon, Tyson Jost and Mikko Rantanen will be a pretty deadly situation for the young defender and with his skill set, many points will follow.
He could become the best player from this draft class.
Question: “How's the goalie crop looking in this year's draft (knowing full well that goalies are hard to evaluate…)?”
Answer: Goaltenders are certainly more prone to random variance then skaters. It’s a volatile position to select, but every year there’s a handful of a gems taken throughout the draft.
This year, I’m like most who see Jake Oettinger as the top goaltender available. He’s a first-round and was rightly selected as such. His path in Dallas looks pretty clear long term.
There are a solid bunch that follow him: Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen, Michael DiPietro, Keith Petruzzelli, Maksim Zhukov, Stuart Skinner, Olle Eriksson-Ek.
Each has areas of weakness but they also own some very nice skill sets and/or great size and athleticism. I think this draft is one of the stronger ones for goaltenders.
That’s all for this month! Hopefully your questions were answered and some light was shed on these promising young players as we head into the long summer months. We’ll be back next month to do it all over again.
As always, thanks for reading and feel free to follow me on Twitter @CrazyJoeDavola3 where I’m usually focused purely on prospects this time of year.
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CFP: Before/After Constantinus Africanus – Medicine in the Beneventan Zone and Beyond
31 août 2015 Ouidad Hamitri
The 51st International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 12-15, 2016.
A coalescence of several factors –increased access to manuscripts because of digitization projects, new interest in the history of medicine and health, and a widened perspective on western Europe’s ties to the Mediterranean and beyond– have brought new attention to the work and activities of Constantinus Africanus (d. ante 1098/99), the first known translator to render Arabic medical literature into Latin. Coming from North Africa, he eventually settled at the monastery of Monte Cassino under the famed abbot Desiderius (d. 1087). Despite the unquestionable impact of his work, much remains to be investigated about the texts he produced and the larger revolution in western medicine he facilitated. Thinking about Constantine in terms of the “Beneventan zone” focuses our attention on three key issues.
1) What was happening in medicine in southern Italy even before Constantine arrived? Increasing evidence suggests that Monte Cassino was already a buzzing center of medical activity: older medical texts were being dusted off, edited, and newly copied. Compendia of pharmaceutical recipes were being compiled. In some cases, they were being crafted into new works that employed alphabetical or head-to-toe schemas to create new order. Several texts were being translated from Greek into Latin. What prompted all this activity? Why this new attention to older manuscripts and texts?
2) What did Constantine bring with him from North Africa, not only in terms of his books or his learning, but also of the culture of the Islamicate world? Constantine’s arrival in Salerno ca. 1077 coincided with the Normans’ continuing campaign to retake Muslim Sicily. Incursions into North Africa itself would follow later. One of the striking ways in which Constantine transformed western medicine was in bringing into the pharmacopeia a much larger array of items of *materia medica* widely used in the Islamicate world but which were still unknown in the Latin world. Indeed, for his medicine to function, there had to have been a considerable transformation of the medicinal products sold in local shops. In other words, Constantine did not simply translate Arabic medicine into Latin. He contributed to an already expanding Latin medical corpus, vocabulary, and pharmacopeia by making essential participation in new international markets of drugs.
3) Intriguingly, the script being used for these medical books also shows a point of inflection. There was a mini-explosion of new copying of medical texts in the middle decades of the 11th century, mostly in Beneventan, and mostly using local Beneventan exemplars as sources. But already during Constantine’s lifetime (and even Desiderius’s lifetime), we see increasing use of Caroline. In fact, only a handful of the nearly 30 texts associated with Constantinus have survived in Beneventan copies. Why? Certainly, the past several decades of Beneventan studies have shown that that script was more often used for certain kinds of texts and registers of writing, particularly liturgy. But medicine had not been excluded before, and we see under Desiderius’ reign the production of some of the largest medical compendia in Beneventan that we know of. Did Beneventan’s status change? Or was there a perception of a new, larger “market” for medical texts, one where the local script of the old Lombard duchy would no longer do?
These two sessions will thus focus on medicine as a mode of communication and activity that connected the Beneventan zone both with its neighboring Muslim and Greek regions, but also with the rest of Latin Europe north of Rome. Papers will be welcome that connect any of these themes, but particularly those that focus on how script and book production help us pinpoint the particular, radical transformations in medicine in this period.
If interested, please submit an abstract of roughly 250-300 words along with a Participant Information Form (PIF), which can be found at http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF
All proposal materials are due by September 15, 2015.
Send proposals or inquiries to:
Richard Gyug
Fordham Univ.
441 E. Fordham Rd.
gyug@fordham.edu
Ouidad Hamitri
Doctorante en Histoire Médiévale à l'Université Lyon 2 et membre du CIHAM, elle travaille sur la chirurgie en Al-Andalus (Xe-XVe s.)
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‘All Lives Matter’ Gets Texas Student Suspended, Sent To Diversity Workshop
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Blake Neff Reporter
July 31, 2016 9:26 AM ET
A student government leader at the University of Houston was suspended for 50 days and ordered to attend a diversity seminar after she criticized the Black Lives Matter movement online.
Shortly after the July 7 shooting in Dallas that killed five officers, Rohini Sethi went on Facebook and opined “Forget #BlackLivesMatter; more like AllLivesMatter.” The statement was later deleted, but only after numerous UH students denounced it as incredibly offensive or even hateful.
“Just for her to say, ‘forget Black Lives Matter,’ is a punch in the stomach,” student Nala Hughes told a local press outlet at the time.
Sethi serves as the vice president of UH’s student government association (SGA), and several UH students demanded her immediate removal.
A full removal of Sethi has significant hurdles, though. The student government constitution requires the student body president, president of the student senate and three-fourths of present student senators to approve impeachment proceedings. Sethi would then be tried by the student supreme court. (RELATED: U-Houston Faculty Told To Avoid Sensitive Topics To Keep Students From Shooting Them)
Instead of going through that arduous process, the student senate approved a measure giving SGA president Shane Smith exceptional one-time powers to punish Sethi as he saw fit. In response, Smith released a letter Friday outlining a set of five punishments for Sethi. The punishments include:
A 50-day suspension from SGA starting August 1. This suspension will be unpaid (she currently receives a stipend of about $700 a month).
A requirement to attend a three-day diversity workshop in mid-August.
A requirement to attend three “UH cultural events” each month from September through March, excluding December.
An order to write a “letter of reflection” about how her harmful actions have impacted SGA and the UH student body
An order to put on a public presentation Sept. 28 detailing “the knowledge she has gained about cultural issues facing our society.”
If Sethi refuses or fails any of the requirements, she will be kicked out of SGA entirely.
Smith notes in his letter that the punishment was particularly harsh because, in his view, Sethi hadn’t recognized the severity of her offense in declaring that all people’s lives matter.
“Since her original post, I have not felt that she has understood or respected how her actions have affected the people around her, as well as the reputation of SGA and the university,” Smith says.
He also said that despite UH being a public university, free speech considerations did not factor into the punishment.
“The first amendment [sic] prevents a person from being jailed by the governmetn for what they say. But [it] does not prevent people from receiving other consequences for what they say.”
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Raheem Sterling Repaying Pep Guardiola and Manchester City’s Faith
Raheem Sterling has restarted life in Manchester with some stunning performances this season. Can he make his way into your fantasy line-up.
Fantasy Price: £10.7m (PlayON), £8.2m (FPL)
Following England’s shambolic Euro 2016 exit at the hands of the tournament underdogs, Iceland, public opinion shifted into overdrive. Fans and media combined in their quest to single out some sacrificial lambs. Perhaps more than any other, Raheem Sterling was held up as a shining beacon of all that was wrong with the England national team and the modern game in general.
Overpaid, overhyped and unworthy.
Like a Ferrari without wheels, flash, but ultimately useless.
It’s remarkable now to see what a turnaround the player has experienced just three Premier League games later. Given up on just a couple of weeks ago, Sterling is now delivering his finest performances in some two years and with every passing game you see the influence and structure imposed by Pep Guardiola.
Much like the early days under Brendan Rodgers, Sterling is again playing under the guidance of a man who is equal parts coach and man-manager. A manager with a track record of improving his players both tactically and in terms of mentality.
Raz now feels the love – and believe me, that is the difference. I mean, do you think that I can improve his skill in just one-and-a-half months? – Pep Guardiola (Goal.com)
The 21 year old – yes he’s still just 21 – has begun the season in superlative form across City’s first three games with two goals and assist. In terms of goal contribution, Sterling rivals the likes of Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Sergio Aguero as the early season’s outstanding performers. His popularity among fantasy managers is steadily increasing as he casts more heralded teammates David Silva and Kevin De Bruyne into his shadow.
Only eight players have had more successful dribbles (3.3 per game) then Sterling this season and you feel that his pace and his predilection to take on his man could spell havoc for someone like Daley Blind in Gameweek 4 – a player not known to be the quickest of the mark.
With Aguero suspended for the Manchester derby , Guardiola is presented with the conundrum of filling a void at the tip of the Manchester City attack. The former Barca manager may choose to deploy Sterling in place of the Argentinian, putting him in position to score even more goals.
Sterling could have the perfect opportunity to deliver on his long held potential this season and under the measured guidance of Pep Guardiola, he’s already making headway on that promise.
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US: Warning message to Turkey over Greek continental shelf
Panos Nov 08, 2019 8 November 2019
Washington expressed concern at the possibility of Turkey expanding its drilling activities in the Greek continental shelf and in the Aegean Sea, as Matt Palmer, the assistant secretary of state for Eurasian affairs and US special envoy for the western Balkans, said. Mr. Palmer is in Athens for a series of meetings.
In particular, Mr Palmer pointed out that Washington expressed its views to Ankara that such a move, namely the extension of drilling on a Greek continental shelf, would be “extremely provocative”. He repeated that the US publicly condemned the Turkish drillings as provocative and undermining the confidence it should have in the Cyprus negotiations.
In fact, he added, especially drilling within 12 nautical miles of Famagusta is clearly illegal. He noted that the US-Turkey relationship is “difficult but important”, while stressing that the difficulties lie in a number of issues, such as the supply of Russian equipment, the Cypriot EEZ, Syria, Venezuela and Iran.
Mr Palmer described the Eastern Mediterranean in the current period as “a strategic space for competition between major powers”, while referring in particular to Greece’s leadership in the Balkans. He described the Prespa Agreement as the most important decision taken in the Balkans since the Dayton Agreement (1995), while expressing his disappointment at the failure of the EU to give a European perspective to Tirana and Skopje.
Mr Palmer stressed that the ideal occasion for reconsidering the dual candidacy of Tirana and Skopje would be the March 2020 Session. Coming from Skopje, Pristina and Belgrade, where he was earlier, Mr Palmer spoke of the “strategic cost” the EU will have if it does not start the accession negotiations for the Western Balkans.
Regarding the possibility of a change of government in Skopje after the April elections, Mr. Palmer said that in any event, Washington would point out that it expects the Prespa Agreement to be fully implemented.
Mr Palmer also referred to Athens’ relations with Moscow and Beijing, noting that China and Russia “are not allies and partners like the US”. He emphasized that Greece should not grant these countries opportunities to exert pressure through agreements such as those for 5G networks.
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Home NEWS Arrangements for PSL matches reviewed
Arrangements for PSL matches reviewed
LAHORE: Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar presided over a meeting on Saturday in which arrangements for Pakistan Super League Four (PSL Four), traffic plan and security were discussed.
Mr Buzdar said fool-proof security arrangements would be made for the matches of the super league to be held in Lahore and best arrangements would be made for crowd as well as for the players. The arrangements would be as per the level of the mega event. Cricket fans will be provided best facilities inside and outside of the stadium.
He said we would ensure the holding of the matches in a peaceful and secure environment. He said cultural shows would be arranged along the area from the parking lot to the stadium.
“This is the matter of the respect of Pakistan, we will ensure that matches are held in peaceful environment,” he said, adding that the traffic plan would be strictly implemented so that the people did not face commuting problems during matches. He said the citizens should be informed about the alternative traffic plan in an effective manner. The meeting also decided to run the shuttle service from the parking area to the stadium for cricket fans. He said food arrangements would be made for the staff which would perform duties during the matches.
He said best arrangements should be made for the matches and there would be no compromise on the standard and quality. He said the people would enjoy international standard cricket during the PSL Four matches to be held in Lahore. He said events like PSL would promote the soft image of Pakistan and restore activity at stadiums. He said lively people of Lahore wanted to see their favourite players in the ground.
The additional chief secretary briefed the meeting about security plan made for the matches. The Lahore chief traffic officer briefed the meeting about traffic plan.
Punjab Sports Minister Taimour Khan, the chief secretary, General Officer Commanding 10 Division Major General Muhammad Aamer, provincial police chief, spokesman for the chief minister Dr Shahbaz Gill, additional chief secretary home, the Lahore police chief, the Lahore commissioner, the secretary of information, the secretary of sports and senior officers of military and civilian institutes were present in the meeting.
Also, Mr Buzdar said Prime Minister Imran Khan has given the peace another change in the region and this gesture of peace of Mr Khan would be written in golden words in the history.
In a statement, he said the prime minister had given the message of peace to people and government of India, and now it was India’s turn to respond. He said Pakistan had always made solid measures for peace despite war hysteria of India and the release of the Indian pilot had been admired by the international community.
He said PM Imran Khan had proved himself to be a real leader by taking step forward toward peace. He said India should respond sensibly now so that fears of war are dispersed.
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Electric Vehicles (EVs)have an overall powertrain efficiency of 80%, compared to 17% for a gasoline-powered internal combustion engine. By far, the largest amount of energy in EVs is consumed by the powertrain (77%-82%), followed by the Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) system, followed by other car accessories such as mirrors, infotainment, and lights.[1],[2] The challenge today is in getting the most out of the limited power offered by on-board batteries. For EVs, around 16% inefficiency alone stems from charging and discharging the batteries (see Figure 1).
Figure 1: Energy for EVs is lost through braking, charging the batteries, and powering auxiliary accessories. (Image: U.S. Department of Energy)
Charging and discharging the batteries becomes a thermal management problem. Efficiency is lost through resistance and friction, both of which produce heat. Components can create significant heat, affecting system performance if it’s not managed.
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Equivalent Series Resistance (ESR), which is the resistance of the capacitor’s terminals and electrodes. ESR contributes to heat rising from the component when ripple current is applied. ESR depends on the construction materials of the component. ESR is not a pure resistance, and it decreases with increasing frequency. A low ESR contributes less to component self-heating. ESR produces a non-ideal parasitic loss to heat from current flow.
An inductor’s DC Resistance (DCR) should be as low as possible to reduce self-heating of the inductor. Where possible, choose the inductor with the lowest DCR value to minimize power loss.
Inductors can generate heat and lose efficiency through core losses. Core loss occurs in a magnetic core due to alternating magnetization, which is the sum of the hysteresis loss and the eddy current loss. The core loss can be used to calculate the total power dissipation and subsequent temperature rise. Kemet’s Engineering Center has an Inductor Core Loss Calculator that can help you determine trade-offs.
Figure 2: Inductor core losses occur in a magnetic core due to alternating magnetization, which is the sum of the hysteresis loss and the eddy current loss. (Source: KEMET Capacitor and Inductor Fundamentals, PDF )
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[1] Hayes, J. and Goodarzi, G. (2018). Electric Powertrain, pp. 34. 1st ed. Wiley.
[2] Mebarki, B., Draoui, B., Allaou, B., Rahmani, L., & Benachour, E. (2013). Impact of the Air-Conditioning System on the Power Consumption of an Electric Vehicle Powered by Lithium-Ion Battery. Modelling and Simulation in Engineering, 2013, 1-6. doi:10.1155/2013/935784
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Project acronym 3DMOSHBOND
Project Three-Dimensional Mapping Of a Single Hydrogen Bond
Researcher (PI) Adam Marc SWEETMAN
Summary All properties of matter are ultimately governed by the forces between single atoms, but our knowledge of interatomic, and intermolecular, potentials is often derived indirectly. In 3DMOSHBOND, I outline a program of work designed to create a paradigm shift in the direct measurement of complex interatomic potentials via a fundamental reimagining of how atomic resolution imaging, and force measurement, techniques are applied. To provide a clear proof of principle demonstration of the power of this concept, I propose to map the strength, shape and extent of single hydrogen bonding (H-bonding) interactions in 3D with sub-Angstrom precision. H-bonding is a key component governing intermolecular interactions, particularly for biologically important molecules. Despite its critical importance, H-bonding is relatively poorly understood, and the IUPAC definition of the H-bond was changed as recently as 2011- highlighting the relevance of a new means to engage with these fundamental interactions. Hitherto unprecedented resolution and accuracy will be achieved via a creation of a novel layer of vertically oriented H-bonding molecules, functionalisation of the tip of a scanning probe microscope with a single complementary H-bonding molecule, and by complete characterisation of the position of all atoms in the junction. This will place two H-bonding groups “end on” and map the extent, and magnitude, of the H-bond with sub-Angstrom precision for a variety of systems. This investigation of the H-bond will present us with an unparalleled level of information regarding its properties. Experimental results will be compared with ab initio density functional theory (DFT) simulations, to investigate the extent to which state-of-the-art simulations are able to reproduce the behaviour of the H-bonding interaction. The project will create a new generalised probe for the study of single atomic and molecular interactions.
All properties of matter are ultimately governed by the forces between single atoms, but our knowledge of interatomic, and intermolecular, potentials is often derived indirectly. In 3DMOSHBOND, I outline a program of work designed to create a paradigm shift in the direct measurement of complex interatomic potentials via a fundamental reimagining of how atomic resolution imaging, and force measurement, techniques are applied. To provide a clear proof of principle demonstration of the power of this concept, I propose to map the strength, shape and extent of single hydrogen bonding (H-bonding) interactions in 3D with sub-Angstrom precision. H-bonding is a key component governing intermolecular interactions, particularly for biologically important molecules. Despite its critical importance, H-bonding is relatively poorly understood, and the IUPAC definition of the H-bond was changed as recently as 2011- highlighting the relevance of a new means to engage with these fundamental interactions. Hitherto unprecedented resolution and accuracy will be achieved via a creation of a novel layer of vertically oriented H-bonding molecules, functionalisation of the tip of a scanning probe microscope with a single complementary H-bonding molecule, and by complete characterisation of the position of all atoms in the junction. This will place two H-bonding groups “end on” and map the extent, and magnitude, of the H-bond with sub-Angstrom precision for a variety of systems. This investigation of the H-bond will present us with an unparalleled level of information regarding its properties. Experimental results will be compared with ab initio density functional theory (DFT) simulations, to investigate the extent to which state-of-the-art simulations are able to reproduce the behaviour of the H-bonding interaction. The project will create a new generalised probe for the study of single atomic and molecular interactions.
Project acronym AAMDDR
Project DNA damage response and genome stability: The role of ATM, ATR and the Mre11 complex
Researcher (PI) Vincenzo Costanzo
Host Institution (HI) CANCER RESEARCH UK LBG
Summary Chromosomal DNA is continuously subjected to exogenous and endogenous damaging insults. In the presence of DNA damage cells activate a multi-faceted checkpoint response that delays cell cycle progression and promotes DNA repair. Failures in this response lead to genomic instability, the main feature of cancer cells. Several cancer-prone human syndromes including the Ataxia teleangiectasia (A-T), the A-T Like Disorder (ATLD) and the Seckel Syndrome reflect defects in the specific genes of the DNA damage response such as ATM, MRE11 and ATR. DNA damage response pathways are poorly understood at biochemical level in vertebrate organisms. We have established a cell-free system based on Xenopus laevis egg extract to study molecular events underlying DNA damage response. This is the first in vitro system that recapitulates different aspects of the DNA damage response in vertebrates. Using this system we propose to study the biochemistry of the ATM, ATR and the Mre11 complex dependent DNA damage response. In particular we will: 1) Dissect the signal transduction pathway that senses DNA damage and promotes cell cycle arrest and DNA damage repair; 2) Analyze at molecular level the role of ATM, ATR, Mre11 in chromosomal DNA replication and mitosis during normal and stressful conditions; 3) Identify substrates of the ATM and ATR dependent DNA damage response using an innovative screening procedure.
Chromosomal DNA is continuously subjected to exogenous and endogenous damaging insults. In the presence of DNA damage cells activate a multi-faceted checkpoint response that delays cell cycle progression and promotes DNA repair. Failures in this response lead to genomic instability, the main feature of cancer cells. Several cancer-prone human syndromes including the Ataxia teleangiectasia (A-T), the A-T Like Disorder (ATLD) and the Seckel Syndrome reflect defects in the specific genes of the DNA damage response such as ATM, MRE11 and ATR. DNA damage response pathways are poorly understood at biochemical level in vertebrate organisms. We have established a cell-free system based on Xenopus laevis egg extract to study molecular events underlying DNA damage response. This is the first in vitro system that recapitulates different aspects of the DNA damage response in vertebrates. Using this system we propose to study the biochemistry of the ATM, ATR and the Mre11 complex dependent DNA damage response. In particular we will: 1) Dissect the signal transduction pathway that senses DNA damage and promotes cell cycle arrest and DNA damage repair; 2) Analyze at molecular level the role of ATM, ATR, Mre11 in chromosomal DNA replication and mitosis during normal and stressful conditions; 3) Identify substrates of the ATM and ATR dependent DNA damage response using an innovative screening procedure.
Project acronym AAS
Project Approximate algebraic structure and applications
Researcher (PI) Ben Green
Host Institution (HI) THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
Summary This project studies several mathematical topics with a related theme, all of them part of the relatively new discipline known as additive combinatorics. We look at approximate, or rough, variants of familiar mathematical notions such as group, polynomial or homomorphism. In each case we seek to describe the structure of these approximate objects, and then to give applications of the resulting theorems. This endeavour has already lead to groundbreaking results in the theory of prime numbers, group theory and combinatorial number theory.
This project studies several mathematical topics with a related theme, all of them part of the relatively new discipline known as additive combinatorics. We look at approximate, or rough, variants of familiar mathematical notions such as group, polynomial or homomorphism. In each case we seek to describe the structure of these approximate objects, and then to give applications of the resulting theorems. This endeavour has already lead to groundbreaking results in the theory of prime numbers, group theory and combinatorial number theory.
Project acronym ABLASE
Project Advanced Bioderived and Biocompatible Lasers
Researcher (PI) Malte Christian Gather
Host Institution (HI) THE UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS
Summary Naturally occurring optical phenomena attract great attention and transform our ability to study biological processes, with “the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein (GFP)” (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008) being a particularly successful example. Although found only in very few species in nature, most organisms can be genetically programmed to produce the brightly fluorescent GFP molecules. Combined with modern fluorescence detection schemes, this has led to entirely new ways of monitoring biological processes. The applicant now demonstrated a biological laser – a completely novel, living source of coherent light based on a single biological cell bioengineered to produce GFP. Such a laser is intrinsically biocompatible, thus offering unique properties not shared by any existing laser. However, the physical processes involved in lasing from GFP remain poorly understood and so far biological lasers rely on bulky, impractical external resonators for optical feedback. Within this project, the applicant and his team will develop for the first time an understanding of stimulated emission in GFP and related proteins and create an unprecedented stand-alone single-cell biolaser based on intracellular optical feedback. These lasers will be deployed as microscopic and biocompatible imaging probes, thus opening in vivo microscopy to dense wavelength-multiplexing and enabling unmatched sensing of biomolecules and mechanical pressure. The evolutionarily evolved nano-structure of GFP will also enable novel ways of studying strong light-matter coupling and will bio-inspire advances of synthetic emitters. The proposed project is inter-disciplinary by its very nature, bridging photonics, genetic engineering and material science. The applicant’s previous pioneering work and synergies with work on other lasers developed at the applicant’s host institution provide an exclusive competitive edge. ERC support would transform this into a truly novel field of research.
Naturally occurring optical phenomena attract great attention and transform our ability to study biological processes, with “the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein (GFP)” (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008) being a particularly successful example. Although found only in very few species in nature, most organisms can be genetically programmed to produce the brightly fluorescent GFP molecules. Combined with modern fluorescence detection schemes, this has led to entirely new ways of monitoring biological processes. The applicant now demonstrated a biological laser – a completely novel, living source of coherent light based on a single biological cell bioengineered to produce GFP. Such a laser is intrinsically biocompatible, thus offering unique properties not shared by any existing laser. However, the physical processes involved in lasing from GFP remain poorly understood and so far biological lasers rely on bulky, impractical external resonators for optical feedback. Within this project, the applicant and his team will develop for the first time an understanding of stimulated emission in GFP and related proteins and create an unprecedented stand-alone single-cell biolaser based on intracellular optical feedback. These lasers will be deployed as microscopic and biocompatible imaging probes, thus opening in vivo microscopy to dense wavelength-multiplexing and enabling unmatched sensing of biomolecules and mechanical pressure. The evolutionarily evolved nano-structure of GFP will also enable novel ways of studying strong light-matter coupling and will bio-inspire advances of synthetic emitters. The proposed project is inter-disciplinary by its very nature, bridging photonics, genetic engineering and material science. The applicant’s previous pioneering work and synergies with work on other lasers developed at the applicant’s host institution provide an exclusive competitive edge. ERC support would transform this into a truly novel field of research.
Project acronym ACCLAIM
Project Aerosols effects on convective clouds and climate
Researcher (PI) Philip Stier
Summary Clouds play a key role in the climate system. Small anthropogenic perturbations of the cloud system potentially have large radiative effects. Aerosols perturb the global radiation budget directly, by scattering and absorption, as well as indirectly, by the modification of cloud properties and occurrence. The applicability of traditional conceptual models of indirect aerosol effects to convective clouds is disputed as cloud dynamics complicates the picture. Strong evidence for numerous aerosol effects on convection has been established in individual disciplines: through remote sensing and in-situ observations as well as by cloud resolving and global modelling. However, a coherent scientific view of the effects of aerosols on convection has yet to be established. The primary objective of ACCLAIM is to recast the effects of aerosols on convective clouds as basis for improved global estimates of anthropogenic climate effects. Specific objectives include: i) to unravel the governing principles of aerosol effects on convective clouds; ii) provide quantitative constraints on satellite-retrieved relationships between convective clouds and aerosols; and ultimately iii) to enable global climate models to represent the full range of anthropogenic climate perturbations and quantify the climate response to aerosol effects on convective clouds. I have developed the research strategy of ACCLAIM to overcome disciplinary barriers in this frontier research area and seek five years of funding to establish an interdisciplinary, physics focused, research group consisting of two PostDocs, two PhD students and myself. ACCLAIM will be centred around global aerosol-convection climate modelling studies, complemented by research constraining aerosol-convection interactions through remote sensing and a process focused research strand, advancing fundamental understanding and global model parameterisations through high resolution aerosol-cloud modelling in synergy with in-situ observations.
Clouds play a key role in the climate system. Small anthropogenic perturbations of the cloud system potentially have large radiative effects. Aerosols perturb the global radiation budget directly, by scattering and absorption, as well as indirectly, by the modification of cloud properties and occurrence. The applicability of traditional conceptual models of indirect aerosol effects to convective clouds is disputed as cloud dynamics complicates the picture. Strong evidence for numerous aerosol effects on convection has been established in individual disciplines: through remote sensing and in-situ observations as well as by cloud resolving and global modelling. However, a coherent scientific view of the effects of aerosols on convection has yet to be established. The primary objective of ACCLAIM is to recast the effects of aerosols on convective clouds as basis for improved global estimates of anthropogenic climate effects. Specific objectives include: i) to unravel the governing principles of aerosol effects on convective clouds; ii) provide quantitative constraints on satellite-retrieved relationships between convective clouds and aerosols; and ultimately iii) to enable global climate models to represent the full range of anthropogenic climate perturbations and quantify the climate response to aerosol effects on convective clouds. I have developed the research strategy of ACCLAIM to overcome disciplinary barriers in this frontier research area and seek five years of funding to establish an interdisciplinary, physics focused, research group consisting of two PostDocs, two PhD students and myself. ACCLAIM will be centred around global aerosol-convection climate modelling studies, complemented by research constraining aerosol-convection interactions through remote sensing and a process focused research strand, advancing fundamental understanding and global model parameterisations through high resolution aerosol-cloud modelling in synergy with in-situ observations.
Project acronym ACCORD
Project Algorithms for Complex Collective Decisions on Structured Domains
Researcher (PI) Edith Elkind
Summary Algorithms for Complex Collective Decisions on Structured Domains. The aim of this proposal is to substantially advance the field of Computational Social Choice, by developing new tools and methodologies that can be used for making complex group decisions in rich and structured environments. We consider settings where each member of a decision-making body has preferences over a finite set of alternatives, and the goal is to synthesise a collective preference over these alternatives, which may take the form of a partial order over the set of alternatives with a predefined structure: examples include selecting a fixed-size set of alternatives, a ranking of the alternatives, a winner and up to two runner-ups, etc. We will formulate desiderata that apply to such preference aggregation procedures, design specific procedures that satisfy as many of these desiderata as possible, and develop efficient algorithms for computing them. As the latter step may be infeasible on general preference domains, we will focus on identifying the least restrictive domains that enable efficient computation, and use real-life preference data to verify whether the associated restrictions are likely to be satisfied in realistic preference aggregation scenarios. Also, we will determine whether our preference aggregation procedures are computationally resistant to malicious behavior. To lower the cognitive burden on the decision-makers, we will extend our procedures to accept partial rankings as inputs. Finally, to further contribute towards bridging the gap between theory and practice of collective decision making, we will provide open-source software implementations of our procedures, and reach out to the potential users to obtain feedback on their practical applicability.
Algorithms for Complex Collective Decisions on Structured Domains. The aim of this proposal is to substantially advance the field of Computational Social Choice, by developing new tools and methodologies that can be used for making complex group decisions in rich and structured environments. We consider settings where each member of a decision-making body has preferences over a finite set of alternatives, and the goal is to synthesise a collective preference over these alternatives, which may take the form of a partial order over the set of alternatives with a predefined structure: examples include selecting a fixed-size set of alternatives, a ranking of the alternatives, a winner and up to two runner-ups, etc. We will formulate desiderata that apply to such preference aggregation procedures, design specific procedures that satisfy as many of these desiderata as possible, and develop efficient algorithms for computing them. As the latter step may be infeasible on general preference domains, we will focus on identifying the least restrictive domains that enable efficient computation, and use real-life preference data to verify whether the associated restrictions are likely to be satisfied in realistic preference aggregation scenarios. Also, we will determine whether our preference aggregation procedures are computationally resistant to malicious behavior. To lower the cognitive burden on the decision-makers, we will extend our procedures to accept partial rankings as inputs. Finally, to further contribute towards bridging the gap between theory and practice of collective decision making, we will provide open-source software implementations of our procedures, and reach out to the potential users to obtain feedback on their practical applicability.
Project acronym ACHILLES-HEEL
Project Crop resistance improvement by mining natural and induced variation in host accessibility factors
Researcher (PI) Sebastian Schornack
Summary Increasing crop yield to feed the world is a grand challenge of the 21st century but it is hampered by diseases caused by filamentous plant pathogens. The arms race between pathogen and plant demands constant adjustment of crop germplasm to tackle emerging pathogen races with new virulence features. To date, most crop disease resistance has relied on specific resistance genes that are effective only against a subset of races. We cannot solely rely on classical resistance genes to keep ahead of the pathogens. There is an urgent need to develop approaches based on knowledge of the pathogen’s Achilles heel: core plant processes that are required for pathogen colonization. Our hypothesis is that disease resistance based on manipulation of host accessibility processes has a higher probability for durability, and is best identified using a broad host-range pathogen. I will employ the filamentous pathogen Phytophthora palmivora to mine plant alleles and unravel host processes providing microbial access in roots and leaves of monocot and dicot plants. In Aim 1 I will utilize plant symbiosis mutants and allelic variation to elucidate general mechanisms of colonization by filamentous microbes. Importantly, allelic variation will be studied in economically relevant barley and wheat to allow immediate translation into breeding programs. In Aim 2 I will perform a comparative study of microbial colonization in monocot and dicot roots and leaves. Transcriptional profiling of pathogen and plant will highlight common and contrasting principles and illustrate the impact of differential plant anatomies. We will challenge our findings by testing beneficial fungi to assess commonalities and differences between mutualist and pathogen colonization. We will use genetics, cell biology and genomics to find suitable resistance alleles highly relevant to crop production and global food security. At the completion of the project, I expect to have a set of genes for resistance breeding.
Increasing crop yield to feed the world is a grand challenge of the 21st century but it is hampered by diseases caused by filamentous plant pathogens. The arms race between pathogen and plant demands constant adjustment of crop germplasm to tackle emerging pathogen races with new virulence features. To date, most crop disease resistance has relied on specific resistance genes that are effective only against a subset of races. We cannot solely rely on classical resistance genes to keep ahead of the pathogens. There is an urgent need to develop approaches based on knowledge of the pathogen’s Achilles heel: core plant processes that are required for pathogen colonization. Our hypothesis is that disease resistance based on manipulation of host accessibility processes has a higher probability for durability, and is best identified using a broad host-range pathogen. I will employ the filamentous pathogen Phytophthora palmivora to mine plant alleles and unravel host processes providing microbial access in roots and leaves of monocot and dicot plants. In Aim 1 I will utilize plant symbiosis mutants and allelic variation to elucidate general mechanisms of colonization by filamentous microbes. Importantly, allelic variation will be studied in economically relevant barley and wheat to allow immediate translation into breeding programs. In Aim 2 I will perform a comparative study of microbial colonization in monocot and dicot roots and leaves. Transcriptional profiling of pathogen and plant will highlight common and contrasting principles and illustrate the impact of differential plant anatomies. We will challenge our findings by testing beneficial fungi to assess commonalities and differences between mutualist and pathogen colonization. We will use genetics, cell biology and genomics to find suitable resistance alleles highly relevant to crop production and global food security. At the completion of the project, I expect to have a set of genes for resistance breeding.
Project acronym ACOULOMODE
Project Advanced coupling of low order combustor simulations with thermoacoustic modelling and controller design
Researcher (PI) Aimee Morgans
Host Institution (HI) IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE
Summary "Combustion is essential to the world’s energy generation and transport needs, and will remain so for the foreseeable future. Mitigating its impact on the climate and human health, by reducing its associated emissions, is thus a priority. One significant challenge for gas-turbine combustion is combustion instability, which is currently inhibiting reductions in NOx emissions (these damage human health via a deterioration in air quality). Combustion instability is caused by a two-way coupling between unsteady combustion and acoustic waves - the large pressure oscillations that result can cause substantial mechanical damage. Currently, the lack of fast, accurate modelling tools for combustion instability, and the lack of reliable ways of suppressing it are severely hindering reductions in NOx emissions. This proposal aims to make step improvements in both fast, accurate modelling of combustion instability, and in developing reliable active control strategies for its suppression. It will achieve this by coupling low order combustor models (these are fast, simplified models for simulating combustion instability) with advances in analytical modelling, CFD simulation, reduced order modelling and control theory tools. In particular: * important advances in accurately incorporating the effect of entropy waves (temperature variations resulting from unsteady combustion) and non-linear flame models will be made; * new active control strategies for achieving reliable suppression of combustion instability, including from within limit cycle oscillations, will be developed; * an open-source low order combustor modelling tool will be developed and widely disseminated, opening access to researchers worldwide and improving communications between the fields of thermoacoustics and control theory. Thus the proposal aims to use analytical and computational methods to contribute to achieving low NOx gas-turbine combustion, without the penalty of damaging combustion instability."
"Combustion is essential to the world’s energy generation and transport needs, and will remain so for the foreseeable future. Mitigating its impact on the climate and human health, by reducing its associated emissions, is thus a priority. One significant challenge for gas-turbine combustion is combustion instability, which is currently inhibiting reductions in NOx emissions (these damage human health via a deterioration in air quality). Combustion instability is caused by a two-way coupling between unsteady combustion and acoustic waves - the large pressure oscillations that result can cause substantial mechanical damage. Currently, the lack of fast, accurate modelling tools for combustion instability, and the lack of reliable ways of suppressing it are severely hindering reductions in NOx emissions. This proposal aims to make step improvements in both fast, accurate modelling of combustion instability, and in developing reliable active control strategies for its suppression. It will achieve this by coupling low order combustor models (these are fast, simplified models for simulating combustion instability) with advances in analytical modelling, CFD simulation, reduced order modelling and control theory tools. In particular: * important advances in accurately incorporating the effect of entropy waves (temperature variations resulting from unsteady combustion) and non-linear flame models will be made; * new active control strategies for achieving reliable suppression of combustion instability, including from within limit cycle oscillations, will be developed; * an open-source low order combustor modelling tool will be developed and widely disseminated, opening access to researchers worldwide and improving communications between the fields of thermoacoustics and control theory. Thus the proposal aims to use analytical and computational methods to contribute to achieving low NOx gas-turbine combustion, without the penalty of damaging combustion instability."
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14 inspiring graphic design portfolios from famous designers
by Rebecca Creger
Graphic designer portfolios are an essential tool for anyone needing to showcase their work, list their qualifications and convince clients to hire their services. The portfolio websites of famous graphic designers are a great source of inspiration for web design.
In this article we’ll take you through some inspiring examples. The designs themselves are often as innovative and inspiring as the designers’ most famous work, and serve to remind visitors of their legendary careers.
1. Milton Glaser
Milton Glaser’s portfolio website beautifully showcases this living legend’s vast body of work with a clean, airy interface and features some of his widely-referenced quotes.
Glaser and his multi-disciplinary design studio continue to produce outstanding work to this day, and this beautiful web design alone is a compelling case to click that contact button.
2. Bob Gill
Only a founding partner of Pentagram, international lecturer, N.Y. Art Directors Hall of Famer, Lifetime Achievement Award-winner, co- designer of Beatlemania and author of twenty books on design could get away with such a simple, humorous portfolio website.
The same sense of humor is present in all the design work featured on the site, and the site itself is fun to explore.
3. David Carson
Carson’s famous “grunge” aesthetic is immediately recognizable in his portfolio website, which unlike most websites, uses horizontal scrolling. Visitors have to click on the bracket symbols or use the arrow keys to explore the website, which is has an infinite supply of striking design work for famous and no so famous clients alike.
4. Joshua Brewer
Formerly the head designer at Twitter, Joshua Brewer’s responsive portfolio website is an impressive example of the wonders he can do for businesses’ online presences without needing to showcase any other work.
5. Alan Fletcher
It doesn’t get any more clean and simple than design legend Alan Fletcher’s portfolio website. Also a co-founder of Pentagram, Fletcher has been named “the most highly regarded graphic designer of his generation” by the Daily Telegraph in his obituary in 2006.
6. Chip Kidd
One of the most famous book cover designers today, Chip Kidd’s portfolio website surprises and delights any visitors with a non-formulaic web design, loads of inspiring interviews and insights from the man himself in weekly blog posts.
7. Marian Bantjes
Marian Bantjes’ portfolio website uses her famous hand-lettering, pattern design and illustrations to showcase her most high profile projects and clients, as well as persuade visitors to buy her book and her art prints.
8. Susan Kare
She’s famous for designing the original Macintosh icons, and hundreds of user interface graphics since then. Her work speaks for itself, and they make a fitting background for this famous icon designer’s portfolio website.
9. Ed Fella
Ed Fella’s portfolio website appears to be made of paper instead of digital pixels, which results in a refreshing and tactile website that showcases his famous hand-drawn typography and designs.
10. Herbert Matter
While it’s a bit unusual to use a splash/intro page on a portfolio website, it’s appropriate for celebrating the life and work of the late designer Herbert Matter, whose name is known to anyone who has ever taken a design history class. This photographer and designer is known for pioneering the use of the photomontage and his iconic modernist posters for the Swiss tourist office in the 1930’s.
11. George Lois
Designer and adman George Lois’s website makes good use of the praise and accolades he’s received over the years, reminding us of his legendary status in the design and advertising world.
The web design itself speaks to his advertising background with a bold design, a tag line of sorts and a prominent Don Draper-esque picture of the man himself.
12. Kate Moross
A rising star in the design world, Kate Moross is a much sought-after illustrator and designer who has done high profile work for big brands like American Express, Topshop and Nike and bands like Disclosure and Simian Mobile Disco.
She’s known for her colorful illustrations, the spirit of which is reflected in her portfolio website.
13. Kelli Anderson
Artist, designer and TED speaker, Kelli Andersen’s portfolio website uses graphics to create a sense of texture and depth.
14. Jessica Hische
This illustrator, letterer and typeface designer’s name has been in the news a lot lately with her widely circulated “Should I work for free?” infographic and gorgeous typeface design for the film Moonrise Kingdom. Her portfolio website showcases her enviable client work and provides lots of amazing resources for new graphic designers.
The “Thoughts” section contains a lot of helpful tips for designers and the “Resources” section contains a lot of great resources for budding letterers plus a link to her well-reviewed online skillshare class.
A lot of these portfolio websites assume that visitors already know who this famous designer is, and as a result use more innovative designs that you wouldn’t see on a lot of other portfolio websites. They’re probably not using Wix or WordPress to create these, and seek to create custom websites that are as distinctive as their most famous work.
Want to kick start your graphic design career?
Learn how freelancing on 99designs can help you find more work.
Rebecca Creger
Rebecca was born and raised in the Bay Area, where she currently lives. She has a BFA in Design with a Visual Communications emphasis from UC Davis. Her passions include travel, design, and all forms of noodles.
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Didn’t know that top Graphic Designers have that simple websites. It tells different story.
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Imagine you want to watch your favourite clan fight it out against one of the top clans in the English community. Chances are you're not actually able to join the battle yourself, and almost certainly you don’t possess spectator mode to view the action from your own perspective. Well then, how are such important battle such as clan wars broadcast so that thousands of viewers can watch them, right at the moment the action happens? The Tanki Online Cybersport Channel, of course.
To fully understand the meaning of the Cybersport Channel, we must first look at the word cybersport. What’s that? What does it mean? Cybersport is definitely not just a term related to Tanki. Cybersport is a general term to encompass the play of online games or video games, such as Tanki, competitively (and more often than not, prizes are involved!). Such “E-Sports” or electronic sports are watched by millions upon millions of viewers across the world covering thousands of different games. How is this done? Through something similar to what we use to broadcast Tanki - a Cybersport Channel. In fact, you can find a link to the Tanki Online Cybersport Channel on the Tanki homepage, or you can follow this [http://www.twitch.tv/tankionlineen/b/519252006 link].
To fully understand the meaning of the Cybersport Channel, we must first look at the word cybersport. What’s that? What does it mean? Cybersport is definitely not just a term related to Tanki. Cybersport is a general term to encompass the play of online games or video games, such as Tanki, competitively (and more often than not, prizes are involved!). Such “E-Sports” or electronic sports are watched by millions upon millions of viewers across the world covering thousands of different games. How is this done? Through something similar to what we use to broadcast Tanki - a Cybersport Channel. In fact, you can find a link to the Tanki Online Cybersport Channel on the Tanki homepage, or you can follow this [http://www.twitch.tv/tankistarladder_en link].
For you computer buffs out there, to stream live events, or livestream something, Tanki commentators use a neat piece of software called Livestream for Producers that enables us to broadcast anything we want to the world at its viewing pleasure. The program captures the screen of the computer, or can even be set up to a camera if you’re into that style of communication. Then it connects with the cybersport channel the administration has set up, and with a minimal delay you can soon watch whatever you want.
The Tanki Online Cybersport Channel - What is it?
To fully understand the meaning of the Cybersport Channel, we must first look at the word cybersport. What’s that? What does it mean? Cybersport is definitely not just a term related to Tanki. Cybersport is a general term to encompass the play of online games or video games, such as Tanki, competitively (and more often than not, prizes are involved!). Such “E-Sports” or electronic sports are watched by millions upon millions of viewers across the world covering thousands of different games. How is this done? Through something similar to what we use to broadcast Tanki - a Cybersport Channel. In fact, you can find a link to the Tanki Online Cybersport Channel on the Tanki homepage, or you can follow this link.
On the channel, there’s also this nifty feature that lets you follow all the action you missed while you were away, and conveniently sends it to your email. Also if you register an account, you are enabled to comment on the stream live. The cybersport DJs can see these comments as they are sent and can then answer questions, fix problems, or even take suggestions and requests based on what you as a viewer want to see. As the customer’s always right, so is the viewer.
On the main channel, there are multiple “sub-channels” that categorize each kind of stream, show or broadcast the Tanki DJs create. Note that not all of these channels have to do with cybersport - some have almost nothing to do with Tanki! However, that factor makes the quality of these shows no less, as the content put on these channels are just as entertaining, fun and appealing to watch. Channels such as Wolf battles, Clan Championships, and tournament related things like the current Plasma Fights tourney, all include battles streamed and within the minute of the action are brought live to your monitors. Then there are channels like contests, radio and music shows that are more casually geared, and often times include crystal prizes that the viewers can win. So don’t miss out!
You might be thinking to yourself, All these channels and this streaming must be a lot of work. Who has the time to do all of this? I’m glad you asked. The channel is run and monitored almost all the time by a specialized group of Tanki staff called Tanki DJ’s. DJ technically stands for disk jockey, someone who plays music, although that does not fully match up with the description of what we do. A more appropriate term that would fit is Tanki cybersport commentator, but you can just call us DJs - we prefer it!
The DJs operate under a code and set of regulations. There is a chain of command and work gets done efficiently and properly, but not to say we don’t have a bit of fun here and there! Also, cybersport has a set of agents that help the DJs with their overall duties, which may include advertising streams, collecting data and various winners of contests, results and statistics, and even researching information to provide content during streams. The agent team works hard and really helps keep cybersport going.
To recap, the Tanki Online Cybersport Channel is not only a place to watch streams - it’s a place to gather news, share information, make new friends and above all, have fun. It is run and kept for the good of Tanki and its loyal fans! I hope from this you learned some new information on the channel, and I can’t wait to see you at our next show!
Article courtesy of ShadowVisions
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1987 Portuguese Grand Prix
Race 12 of 16 in the 1987 Formula One World Championship
5o Grande Prémio de Portugal
Autódromo do Estoril, Estoril, Portugal
Permanent Racing Facility
4.35 km (2.702 mi)
70 laps, 304.5 km (189.14 mi)
Gerhard Berger
Gerhard Berger Ferrari
1:19.282 on lap 66
Alain Prost
McLaren-TAG
Nelson Piquet
Williams-Honda
The 1987 Portuguese Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Estoril on 20 September 1987. It was the twelfth round of the 1987 Formula One season. It was the 16th Portuguese Grand Prix and the fourth to be held at Estoril. The race was held over 70 laps of the 4.35-kilometre (2.7 mi) circuit for a race distance of 304.5 kilometres (189.2 mi).
The race was won by the reigning world champion, Frenchman Alain Prost driving a McLaren MP4/3. Prost finished 20 seconds ahead of Austrian driver Gerhard Berger driving a Ferrari F1/87. Nelson Piquet finished third driving a Williams FW11B. The win was Prost's 28th Grand Prix victory, eclipsing Jackie Stewart's all-time record. He also tied former McLaren teammate Niki Lauda's record with his 54th podium finish.
The race was marred by a multi-car collision on the opening lap. Piquet and Michele Alboreto (Ferrari F1/87) collided at the start with Derek Warwick (Arrows A10), Satoru Nakajima (Lotus 99T), Martin Brundle (Zakspeed 871), Christian Danner (Zakspeed 871), Philippe Alliot (Lola LC87), René Arnoux (Ligier JS29C) and Adrián Campos (Minardi M186) were all involved in the ensuing accident. Only Danner was unable to restart as the Zakspeed team had only one usable car which went to Brundle.
With Piquet finishing third ahead of both Mansell and Senna, Piquet expanded his championship points lead to 18 points over Senna and 24 over Mansell.
1.1 Qualifying
1.2 Race
2 Championship standings after the race
Classification[edit]
Qualifying[edit]
28 Gerhard Berger Ferrari 1:18.448 1:17.620 —
5 Nigel Mansell Williams-Honda 1:17.951 1:18.235 +0.331
1 Alain Prost McLaren-TAG 1:18.404 1:17.994 +0.374
6 Nelson Piquet Williams-Honda 1:18.164 no time +0.544
12 Ayrton Senna Lotus-Honda 1:18.382 1:18.354 +0.734
27 Michele Alboreto Ferrari 1:20.069 1:18.540 +0.920
7 Riccardo Patrese Brabham-BMW 1:21.506 1:19.965 +2.345
2 Stefan Johansson McLaren-TAG 1:20.134 1:20.227 +2.514
20 Thierry Boutsen Benetton-Ford 1:20.305 1:20.558 +2.685
19 Teo Fabi Benetton-Ford 1:20.483 1:20.548 +2.863
18 Eddie Cheever Arrows-Megatron 1:21.324 1:21.207 +3.587
17 Derek Warwick Arrows-Megatron 1:21.397 1:21.587 +3.777
8 Andrea de Cesaris Brabham-BMW 1:22.060 1:21.725 +4.105
24 Alessandro Nannini Minardi-Motori Moderni 1:21.784 1:22.128 +4.164
11 Satoru Nakajima Lotus-Honda 1:22.222 no time +4.602
10 Christian Danner Zakspeed 1:22.424 1:22.358 +4.738
9 Martin Brundle Zakspeed 1:22.400 1:22.794 +4.780
25 René Arnoux Ligier-Megatron 1:23.637 1:23.237 +5.617
30 Philippe Alliot Lola-Ford 1:24.181 1:23.580 +5.960
23 Adrián Campos Minardi-Motori Moderni 1:24.822 1:23.591 +5.971
4 Philippe Streiff Tyrrell-Ford 1:23.810 1:24.436 +6.190
16 Ivan Capelli March-Ford 1:24.533 1:23.905 +6.285
26 Piercarlo Ghinzani Ligier-Megatron 1:24.105 1:24.979 +6.485
3 Jonathan Palmer Tyrrell-Ford 1:24.392 1:24.217 +6.597
21 Alex Caffi Osella-Alfa Romeo 1:24.792 1:25.232 +7.172
22 Franco Forini Osella-Alfa Romeo 1:27.219 1:26.635 +9.015
14 Pascal Fabre AGS-Ford 1:28.756 1:26.946 +9.326
Race[edit]
Numbers in brackets refer to positions of normally aspirated entrants competing for the Jim Clark Trophy.
1 Alain Prost McLaren-TAG 70 1:37:03.906 3 9
28 Gerhard Berger Ferrari 70 + 20.493 1 6
6 Nelson Piquet Williams-Honda 70 + 1:03.295 4 4
19 Teo Fabi Benetton-Ford 69 Out of Fuel 10 3
2 Stefan Johansson McLaren-TAG 69 + 1 Lap 8 2
18 Eddie Cheever Arrows-Megatron 68 + 2 Laps 11 1
12 Ayrton Senna Lotus-Honda 68 + 2 Laps 5
11 Satoru Nakajima Lotus-Honda 68 + 2 Laps 15
16 Ivan Capelli March-Ford 67 + 3 Laps 22
3 Jonathan Palmer Tyrrell-Ford 67 + 3 Laps 24
24 Alessandro Nannini Minardi-Motori Moderni 66 Out of Fuel 14
4 Philippe Streiff Tyrrell-Ford 66 + 4 Laps 21
17 Derek Warwick Arrows-Megatron 66 + 4 Laps 12
20 Thierry Boutsen Benetton-Ford 64 + 6 Laps 9
8 Andrea de Cesaris Brabham-BMW 54 Injection 13
27 Michele Alboreto Ferrari 38 Gearbox 6
9 Martin Brundle Zakspeed 35 Gearbox 17
22 Franco Forini Osella-Alfa Romeo 32 Suspension 26
30 Philippe Alliot Lola-Ford 31 Engine 19
25 René Arnoux Ligier-Megatron 29 Radiator 18
21 Alex Caffi Osella-Alfa Romeo 27 Turbo 25
26 Piercarlo Ghinzani Ligier-Megatron 24 Ignition 23
23 Adrián Campos Minardi-Motori Moderni 24 Accident 20
5 Nigel Mansell Williams-Honda 13 Electrical 2
7 Riccardo Patrese Brabham-BMW 13 Engine 7
10 Christian Danner Zakspeed 0 Accident 16
14 Pascal Fabre AGS-Ford
Championship standings after the race[edit]
Drivers' Championship standings
1 Nelson Piquet 67
2 Ayrton Senna 49
3 Nigel Mansell 43
4 Alain Prost 40
5 Stefan Johansson 22
Constructors' Championship standings
1 Williams-Honda 110
2 McLaren-TAG 62
3 Lotus-Honda 55
4 Ferrari 26
5 Benetton-Ford 20
Jim Clark Trophy standings
1 Jonathan Palmer 71
2 Philippe Streiff 58
3 Pascal Fabre 35
4 Ivan Capelli 34
5 Philippe Alliot 25
Colin Chapman Trophy standings
1 Tyrrell-Ford 129
2 AGS-Ford 35
3 March-Ford 34
4 Lola-Ford 25
Note: Only the top five positions are included for all four sets of standings.
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Tag: hacking healthcare
Guest post by Divan Dave, CEO, OmniMD.
Here’s what we know. In the Anthem hack, it is estimated that approximately 80 million records were stolen. The Anthem hackers stole information of both employees and customers, which included names, address, emails, birth dates, medication history, employment details, family relatives and more. But while most hackers steal financial data for spending sprees – these hackers had next-step intentions with the stolen data serving as the basis for phishing emails with attachments for the purposes of installing malware using their official email accounts, gathering even more personal information, and then it was propagated across entire networks. So now what?
Know the facts. According to Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, up until Anthem, since 2006, about 6.6 million records have been exposed from 79 medical-related breaches of hacking or malware type. Last year, Community Health Systems Inc. announced a large data breach of its health system compromising data for 4.5 million patients and now Anthem at the 80 million mark. Attackers like targeting EHRs because the records are highly profitable compared to other forms of information. For example, each credit card data is valued about $1 in the black market. However, according to various sources, a partial or complete EHR can generate $50 to $100 on the black market. The high price is because of the healthcare data includes personal identity information and sometimes carries credit card information along with insurance and personal health information. So, while financial information can be tracked and secured following a breach — the healthcare information cannot be as easily tracked and resolved.
Current mandates. Every EHR provider should safeguard data and information with HIPAA-complaint communication protocols, 128-bit encryption and public key authentication. As per the HIPAA norms of strong grade encryption and authentication, providers should meet all the regulatory requirements enabling security and confidentiality. Scheduled backups of the data are essential to keeping records and information from being lost or destroyed.
Mobile Security in its Infancy, Connectivity and Device Evolution Trends Means Organizations Must Plan their Mobile Security Strategy
Hacking Healthcare Reminds Us of Our Need to Assess Vulnerabilities
Data Breaches Are Now a Cottage Industry In Healthcare
Tags: Anthem breach, Anthem hack, Community Health Systems, Divan Dave, hacking healthcare, HIPAA breaches, OmniMD, price of black market health record
Bill Balderaz, president, Fathom Healthcare.
Bill Balderaz
In light of the recent hacking healthcare news in which of health insurer Anthem, hospitals and health systems should be reminded of the need to assess their own vulnerabilities. Historically, healthcare organizations have lagged behind other regulated industries in keeping pace with information security despite compiling patient data at expanding rates. Unfortunately, the Anthem attack is unlikely to be an isolated incident: Industry executives have already predicted phishing and malware will be on the rise in 2015.
With an ever-increasing number of Internet-connected devices accessing hospital networks, hackers have an increasing number of ways to exploit vulnerable systems and steal information.
Understanding hacker motivation is important. Some want to sell private information, such as Social Security or credit card numbers. Patient and consumer data have a lucrative black market. Other hackers commit corporate, industrial or political espionage by compromising systems and stealing sensitive information, trademarked designs or strategic plans.
To combat these growing threats, hospitals and health system have prioritized measures such as two-factor authentication; encryption and mobile device security; security risk analysis; advanced email gateway software; and expansion of IT security staff.
What other actions should prudent institutions take?
First, hospitals should develop comprehensive risk assessment plans. These plans can identify potential weak points, determine best practices and provide a roadmap for increased security. They should be reviewed and updated continually. Hospitals also need regular security assessments and training sessions for anyone who uses a computer.
The biggest oversight most organizations make is neglecting the training of end users. Basic training of users upon hire and at least annually will help protect an organization. Users need to make sure they’re not making common mistakes, such as clicking links in phishing emails. Following bogus links can easily allow hackers to steal information or infect computers. Users need to be educated about how to identify and avoid these types of risks. Continue Reading
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New Report Identifies Impact of Successful Cyber Attacks Against Healthcare Organizations
IDC Health Insights announces a new report, “Business Strategy: Thwarting Cyber Threats and Attacks against Healthcare Organizations.” that features findings from the 2014 IDC Insights Cross Industry Cyber Threat Survey. The report is designed to gauge how financial services, healthcare provider organizations and retailers are responding to increasing cyber threats and the impact of successful attacks on business operations. The study also highlights how healthcare organizations are investing in their cyber strategy to protect their most valuable electronic assets.
Today’s healthcare organizations are at greater risk of a cyber attack than ever before in part because electronic health information is more widely available today than in the nearly 20 years since the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act was passed in 1996. Cyber criminals view healthcare organizations as a soft target compared to financial services and retailers because historically healthcare organizations have invested less in IT, including security technologies and services, than other industries, thus making them more vulnerable to successful cyber attacks.
The value of health information, which can be used to commit medical fraud, is surpassing the value of social security and credit card numbers on the black market, thus increasing the attractiveness of stealing health information.
After physical loss or theft of a laptop, mobile or portable device, malicious hacking or IT incident was the most common breach reported on the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) website. In 2013, 20 (out of 175) breaches related to hacking or an IT incident represented 9 percent of the individuals affected and 11.4 percent of the attacks.
All respondents of the 2014 IDC Insights Cross Industry Cyber Threat Survey reported that they had experienced a cyber attack in the past 12 months; 39.4 percent reported that they were attacked more than 10 times and 27.1 percent of the attacks were described as “successful attacks.”
Security is a top IT initiative for health care providers. In 2014, according to the 2014 IDC Global Technology and Industry Research Organization IT Survey, security and risk management technologies was the number 1 initiative (29.0 percent). In 2013, it was also the top ranked initiative (20.1 percent).
Approximately one out of four cyber attacks had an impact on normal business operations. The majority of respondents (52.2 percent) indicated that the shortest impact lasted less than an hour and 43.3 percent reported that the longest duration was between eight and 24 hours.
The overwhelming majority of healthcare executives reported that their spending on cyber threats increased (59.6 percent) or stayed the same (38.3 percent) over the last three years. On average, the increase for those respondents that reported an increase was 14.8 percent.
Consumers highly value their privacy according to a recent 2014 IDC Insights Cross-Industry Consumer Experience Survey, but are not as confident that healthcare organizations were adequately protecting their data. Concerned consumers are willing to end a healthcare relationship after a breach, including changing their care providers (21.6 percent) and changing health plans (5 percent).
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Five Tips to Prevent PHI Breaches From Becoming Your Business’ Achilles Heel
Guest post by Jay Atkinson, CEO, AIS Network.
The recent theft of 4.5 million medical records by Chinese hackers coupled with the news that as-yet unidentified hackers were able to penetrate the U.S. government’s health care portal have ignited consumer concerns about the safety of health care records – and rightly so. No patient should have to worry that his or her protected health information (PHI) may fall into the hands of thieves.
The medical industry experiences more security breaches than any other U.S. industry today, serving to undermine public confidence in electronic health records and the industry at large. Last year alone, more than 7 million patient health records were breached, up 138 percent over the previous year, according to a February report by IT security consultant Redspin. Theft or loss of unencrypted portable computing devices (i.e., laptops) or digital media containing PHI was the leading cause of PHI data breach, impacting 83 percent of records breached. Unauthorized access and hacking incidents impacted less than 7 percent of records breached.
It’s reassuring to see the industry break new ground in studying security flaws and addressing vulnerabilities. For example, the Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) teamed with the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) last spring to lead CyberRX, a series of no cost, industry-wide exercises designed to simulate cyber attacks on participating health care organizations and help them identify weaknesses in preparedness. Two important findings emerged:
Organizations that participate in cyber exercises are better prepared for a cyber attack, regardless of the maturity and comprehensiveness of their information security program.
More preparation exercises like CyberRX would benefit health organizations by helping them to evaluate their programs, refine policies and procedures, and develop and implement effective communications among internal departments, the industry at-large, and government.
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Tags: AIS Network, CyberRX, hacking healthcare, health IT security breaches, HIPAA, Jay Atkinson, PHI Breaches
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by Lydia O'Neal | Jun 11, 2015 | Featured, News, Wheel
KA Suspended for Three Years
After the Office of Student Conduct determined that Kappa Alpha (KA) had violated the University’s Anti-Hazing Policy in late April, the fraternity was removed from campus and will not be permitted to reestablish its chapter for another three years, according to Office of Sorority and Fraternity Life spokesperson David Furhman. The fraternity may apply during the 2017-2018 academic year for colonization the following year.
Both Furhman and a spokesperson for the Office of Student Conduct declined to describe the details of the hazing allegations.
KA President and rising Business School junior Jacob Durst said the brothers “failed” the fraternity’s pledge class by “making them do things that they didn’t want to, but we hope they can forgive us.”
The fraternity will not be guaranteed a return to its house at 14 Eagle Row — now a themed house home to a group dedicated to media, arts and literature — and must apply for housing upon their return, according to Furhman.
While returning to their former house remains one of the goals for the KA members, the primary objective is for the fraternity to return to campus, Durst said. He added that while the fraternity’s time at Emory has ended, the sense of camaraderie among members will continue.
“KA was a big part of how we came together,” Durst said. “The brotherhood goes beyond the suspension.”
Ink & Elm Leaves the Village
Restaurant and tavern Ink & Elm shuttered last week, leaving a vacant property just right of Slice and Pint, after 21 months in the Emory Village.
The restaurant, known for its oysters and bourbon, according to Atlanta Eats, announced via its Facebook page on May 26 that it would be closing down on May 30.
The Emory Village Alliance is considering several potential restaurants to take its place, according to Emory Village Alliance property owner Stuart Meddin. He declined to name the restaurant candidates.
Rising College senior Jonathan Weiss, who headed to Ink & Elm for coffee on a daily basis, said he was deeply surprised when he found via Snapchat that the restaurant was closing its doors for good, as the place was generally packed during lunch.
“I would say they definitely need something similar there, a place where students can get a coffee, where faculty and students can have a professional conversation,” he said, adding that he hopes whatever replaces Ink & Elm will have the same “multifaceted” element.
Adam Goldstein, a rising Business School senior, lamented the loss of a coffee shop near campus where he could escape the constant crowds of the Oxford Road Building’s Starbucks.
What he’ll miss most, Goldstein said, is the people who worked there.
After I stopped by and wasn’t feeling well, “they’d get me some water, a coffee,” he said. “It was a place you could go into and just feel at home. It made you forget that you were even at Emory.”
The restaurant and its owner did not respond to calls, emails and Facebook messages from the Wheel.
Bon Appetit Changes Set in Motion
Students can expect to see new several new restaurants and improved food quality when they arrive back on campus this fall as a result of the University’s switch from its former dining contractor, Sodexo, to Bon Appetit in May.
Free trade brand Kaldi’s Coffee, for example, will stand where Dunkin’ Donuts once stood in the Dobbs University Center, and a new Highland Bakery will have opened in the Chemistry Building. Maru, a mix of South Korean, Japanese and Chinese entrees, will have replaced Sodexo-owned and operated Star Ginger, while the Dobbs Market and Eagle Convenience will feature more healthful and vegetarian options, according to Furhman, who also serves as director of Emory Dining.
Kaldi’s, according to Furhman, will continue Dunkin’s early-morning to late-night opening hours, while the Cox Hall Food Court and Dobbs Market will each maintain their regular semester hours and current interior design.
Kaldi’s, however, will provide a variety of lunch and dinner options — and freshly-baked cookies — to satisfy students’ needs after Cox and the Dobbs Market close for the night at 7 and 8 p.m., respectively.
“What we’ve heard from a lot of students is they wanted ‘real food,’” Furhman said, adding that Kaldi’s will offer sandwiches, soups and salads “made to order.”
While Eagle Subs on the floor below may face new competition, Eagle Convenience will offer “more variety,” including gluten free options, Furhman said.
Not only will the Dobbs Market offer more vegetarian options, but it will also include “more farm to table” foods and an Indian food station, Furhman said. The Cox Hall Food Court, he added, will also bump up its quality: Top Hat Pizza will bake its doughs and mix its sauces from scratch each day.
“The same thing goes for the sauces at Pasta John’s,” Furhman said, adding that the pasta joint will also include pre-prepared baked pastas for students on the go. “We have unilaterally improved the quality at every [Cox] station.”
Rising College senior Aileen Rivell said she looks forward to Cox and the Dobbs Market’s higher quality — the only downside, she said, is that she’ll be less motivated to cook dinner in her apartment.
“Emory has always prided itself in being an environmentally friendly and sustainable school, so this just makes me more proud of my school,” Rivell said.
While the Business School’s own Highland Bakery and the remainder of the Cox Hall Food Court will remain the same, Zaya Mediterranean Grill in Dooley’s Den will continue operations until Thanksgiving break, when it will be closed for renovations, according to Furhman. The building will reopen the following January.
Centro Latino To Open on Second Floor of the DUC
After more than a month of construction, a glass-walled space for the discussion and celebration of Hispanic culture will open on the second floor of the Dobbs University Center during orientation this fall, according to Michael Shutt, the interim director of the Center for Diversity and Inclusion (CDI).
The Centro Latino, which will serve not only undergraduate students, but also graduate students, faculty, staff and alumni, “will be a source of support and connection” for Emory’s Hispanic community.
Along with Emory’s Black Student Union, the Division of Campus Life has also included the Centro Latino in discussions regarding the new Campus Life Center, according to Shutt.
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Tampere is easily accessible. Tampere-Pirkkala International Airport is located only 20 minutes from the centre of Tampere. Since the airport is small and efficient, travellers can be at their hotel 30 minutes after landing. Accordingly, check-in times are short and travellers need to be there only 45-60 minutes prior to the flight.
You can reach Tampere by flying via Helsinki with Finnair (One World), via Stockholm with SAS, the Scandinavian Airlines System (Star Alliance) or via Riga with airBaltic.
Taking a local bus from Tampere-Pirkkala airport to the city centre costs 5 €. Tickets can be bought from the driver. You can also take a taxi from outside the terminal. A taxi fare is likely to be upwards from 30 €.
Flights via Helsinki
There are over 150 direct flights daily from all over the world to Helsinki, the capital of Finland. Helsinki Airport is served especially well from Asian and European destinations. Finnair (One World Alliance) has direct flights to Helsinki from all major cities in Europe, as well as from a number of cities in Asia and the United States.
From Helsinki, there are a number of daily connecting flights to Tampere. Flight time is only 25 minutes. Fast pendolino trains offer a very convenient means of transportation, taking passengers from Tikkurila station to Tampere in just over 1 hour. There is a direct train from Helsinki Airport to Tikkurila train station. Full priced tickets from Helsinki Airport to Tampere cost approximately 20 – 25 €. You can check available train connections here. Besides the train connections, there are very good long-distance bus connections from Helsinki Airport to Tampere.
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Please have a look at Visit Tampere website to find out about attractions, tours, shopping, design, museums and events in Tampere during your stay.
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10 More Games You Won’t Hate Playing with Your Kids
A few years ago, I wrote a post about ten games I actually enjoyed playing with my children (aka not Chutes and Ladders).
After reading aloud to my kids, playing board games and card games is probably one of my favorite ways to spend time with my children. Ella, especially, LOVES playing games, and we play probably 3-5 games a day at our house.
If your kids are also game lovers and you’re looking for ones that won’t make you want to fake a violent stomach bug, here are ten more board games for kids we really love playing with our girls:
10 Best Board Games for Kids
Loot. We bought this one for Ella for her 7th birthday and it’s been a big hit. This pirate-themed game is quick to learn and fun for the grown-ups and simple enough for the kids.
Guess Who? I played this game approximately ten million times as a child (we had a travel version, and my sisters and I played it CONSTANTLY one summer) and it’s been really fun to play it with my girls now.
9 Innings. There are a bunch of versions of this game, some of which are called Golf, and there’s an official version of this you can buy here, but we just play with two decks of regular cards. Both of my girls (7 and almost 5) really enjoy this one, and it’s fast enough for a quick game in 10 minutes or so.
Dominion. I taught this game to Ella a year ago and we played it nearly daily last summer. She LOVES this one, and it’s one of my faves too. I love that it has endless variations, but isn’t hard to learn.
Sequence for Kids. Bart’s sister gave us this board game for kids for Christmas and it’s a fun one to play as a family because it’s fast and easy enough for the three older girls. And even as an adult, it’s enjoyable.
Monopoly Deal. Ella is obsessed with Monopoly right now, but I don’t enjoy Monopoly because it makes me feel like a bad person when I win, plus it takes forever. Monopoly Deal is a much faster version that’s cards only and it’s a very fun family game.
Ticket to Ride. This is one of my all-time favorite board games. Bart and I have played HUNDREDS of games of it over the years, and a year or two ago, we taught it to Ella and now the three of us play almost every Sunday afternoon. It’s a longer game (about 45 minutes or so, if everyone knows how to play) and I love it every single time. We own the European edition and I think it’s better than the US edition.
Speed. This has become our go-to card game after months of Yahtzee playing. I like that this one takes only about 3 minutes to play and that Ani can play too (we just deal her less cards and take more ourselves).
Wackee Six. I played ten thousand games of Nerts in college with my roommates, and then we played this commercialized version a bunch with Bart’s family during a reunion. It took Ella a couple of rounds to pick it up, but then she got super good and was beating us plenty of time.
Connect 4. This is a classic and I love that even Tally (at 2.5) can play it, although not particularly well. Plus, it’ll keep kids occupied for ages just playing around with it.
What board games for kids do you like to play at your house? I’m always in the market for more!
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Kaytie Yost says
I love these ideas! Any recommendations for how to play with your game loving 4 year old and your rambunctious totally uninterested 2 year old? ? We like sequence for kids and were recently introduced to a game designed by a dad called Robot Turtle that teaches programming skills.
I bought Monopoly Deal and CAN”T UNDERSTAND IT. I don’t know why I have this block in my brain.
I taught my kids how to play Poker, and we love Apples to Apples.
Dawn Mottlow says
Can you share how to play 9 innings with just the 2 deck of cards?
We love to play Yahtzee, Farkle, Mancala, and Shut the Box!!
Have you heard of Too Many Monkeys? My kids love it. We also like UNO and Disney Headbands.
Paige Flamm says
We got connect four for Jay for his birthday, and him and Em play it for literally hours on end together! It’s awesome! Jay was also recently introduced to Guess Who and Sequence Jr when we were with my in-laws during our move, and I’m sure those are going to be topping the Christmas list this year!
Kate @ Mom's Radius says
I posted today about board games too! I am sharing some coopertative games that I love playing with my 7 year-old son. I am planning on writing 2 other posts – competitive games and card games in the future. I’ll have to check out some of your suggestions. We’ve played Ticket to Ride with Christopher, and we have Dominion, so we may have to try that one. So fun!
http://www.momsradius.com/2017/10/family-game-night-cooperative-board.html
Jileen says
We have a lot of these games or plan to get them for Christmas. Good to know you like the European Ticket to Ride….I was wondering which one to get. I will say Exploding kittens is a lot of fun…but there is a bit of potty humor in it. My 10 and 13 year old boys think it’s hilarious…but it’s not something i would let him play around my mother-in-law. Just thought you might be forewarned :). And Labyrinth is absolutely my favorite game of all time. I will play it anytime anywhere!
Bridget says
We love games so posts like this are great! My kids are ages five and seven and current favorites at our house are Sushi Go! and Enchanted Forest.
My girls love Exploding Kittens. We have found however, that it is much more fun to play in a bigger group. I have my eye on Qwirkle for Christmas this year.
Jenae Jeppesen says
We are also huge fans of Ticket to Ride and Sequence for kids. And we love love LOVE Zingo, and it is a regular gift we buy those we love most. For Quinn’s age we like Cranium’s Cariboo (but it is really spendy- found one at a thrift store for the win!). We also play scrabble’s Alphabet Scoop- which Quinn (2.5) can play along, Surprise Slides (Frozen version), Word Pirates (spelling game), and Diggity Dogs- which is this totally random game where you adopt dogs and my kids think it’s hilarious. Apparently we love games too.
I highly recommend Mixamatou! It’s a matching card game by Djeco. Our 4 year old has no problem playing and winning. I knew it was a winner when my husband said that he would play just the two of us without our daughter!
Ryan from Dad Suggests says
Games you won’t hate playing with your kids. Ha! I love lists like this! You have a great mix of classics and new stuff here. Ticket to Ride is probably my favorite on your list. Let me suggest one for you to try next. King of Tokyo. We actually played it without the kids recently so it must be a winner. You can read about it on our website if you want. Thanks for your list!
Cover your assets is another great card game that even my 5 year old can play!
Corinne Bos says
My whole family loves qwirkle. My 5 year old can play it and my husband and I will play just the two of us. Even my 3 year old can help as she learns colors and shapes.
Christine Smith says
My daughter 4.5 and I enjoy playing Spot It!
She also loves Slapjack.
Jennifer H says
Love all of these. Quixx is one that we take everywhere—everyone can play, the game is quick, and you don’t need a big surface to place.
I have a six-year-old who loves games. The two games I will happily play without wanting to tear out my hair are Tenzi (super fast – I love it because I can say I’ll play five rounds before bed and we get all five games in in less than 10 minutes) and Skipbo (we deal fewer cards out to make it a quicker game with her, but my husband and I also love to play full games of this after she goes to bed). I played a lot of Speed growing up so I think that may be next on the list to teach her.
We love games too! Some of our favorite games are
King of Tokyo (roll the dice, gain superpowers, storm Tokyo as a robot-kitty or penguin in a ice suit or other of the fun monsters.)
Coloretto (Color-based card game that is really easy to learn and quick to play, yet still fun for adults only.)
Azul (Beautiful game modeled after Portuguese tiles, easy to play but tricky to score. My 11 yr old can play solo, but I have to help the younger kids with scoring.)
Splendor (collect different combinations of jewels to score points, my 7yr old loves this one, though she has yet to win.)
We also play a lot of Farkle, Monopoly Deal and Monopoly Empire, Aggravation, Quiddler, Rummikub, Machi Koro, The Wizard Always Wins, Castles of Mad King Ludwig, Letter Tycoon, and Carcassonne.
I guess it’s pretty obvious that we love games 😂
Traverse is a fun game that is a mix of chess and checkers. It uses logic, is faster than chess, has pieces that move across the board but are not captured, and four people can play it. It is no longer made, but can be found on eBay and other sellers.
Kaja says
We bought Chicken Cha Cha Cha a few years ago and love it. It can be challenging for adults, too, even though it’s a pretty simple memory game.
My neighbor’s kids brought over Dragonwood before Christmas and my son and I loved it. We had to get a copy of it and play it all the time now. The boys are 5th grade, 3rd grade and 1st grade. We played the game over Christmas with my family and it was a hit. My son (1st grade) also loves to play a our version of Farkle (we call it 5000).
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Pratio never recovered from the assault of the Regent of The Wretched. On the coast near the windy mountains sat this old town of a peculiar history of daemons, cults and lone dark figures known only as The Wretched. Though this old town was now a quiet sleepy town on the coast, it received its popularity through vengeance and passion. Becoming a popular sight amoung tourists of what was, the town became a hotspot for miscellaneous happenings both good and evil. The Wretched remained no longer in the city as their names were claimed and cast out from the cult, now being the only remaining link to what Pratio was. The Wretched has not shown their faces to the public for centuries though cult members still continue their work.
Now being persecuted, imprisoned and hunted down like animals, Pratio’s cult following--The Coram Morte--is now whittled down to a few sects. Though the remaining many will be the most difficult. The Pratio police predict that the cult following will end in just a few if not one more night. One of the police most vigilant officers, Edgar Halstein, leads the effort though takes the time to visit his father.
I am the watchman over the First City Lighthouse. Being at an old age I have looked after this lighthouse since I was a teenager. It has been my duty and will remain that way till the day I die and my duty has torn apart my family, I have since lived here, as it is now my home. Living in a life of isolation, I have made friends with myself and the local animals that roam the coast of Pratio. Up until recently I have lived in silence warning fishermen and captains of other vessels of the sharp rocks amoung them. I have received a letter no longer than a fortnight ago from my son stating that he will visit me tonight for he does not know how much longer he will live after he takes down the local cult following. Tonight I will break that silence and see my son as he really is with no thought of what he once was.
Sitting on top of the winding staircase within the lighthouse I look around the horizon as the sun passes beneath the waves hoping it will come back tomorrow. As I turn around now facing the city I see a lantern and a man walking up the steep slopes of which head to my home.
"It must be my son!" I said to myself in excitement. "Oh have I longed for this day to see the family I once abandoned." But then I thought of the cult who is said to linger in the darkness waiting to sweep people off their feet and turn them into something wrong and misunderstood. I silently thought to myself and put myself in a position on my knees with my arms folded as I have seen the cults do to their god hoping that there was something else out there other than The Wretched.
I heard a reply but it was far more foreboding than I hoped. It said its name was The Outsider; it talked like a woman but a man as well and it began to tell me that the cults days were numbered and that my son, as successful as he is, will successfully end the sects here in Pratio just by his presence but there are far more sects that worshipped other creatures across the continent still in secret. I thought of using this information to help out my son but how could he believe the likes of a man like me. The voice then spoke again that my son may not live the night unless if I meddle in his affairs. I pleaded to the voice so save him but it was not in its power though it will give me the strength and willpower to do what was right.
"This will be the first time I will see my son in years, I hope it would not be the last." The voice closed stating the evil will be the strongest tonight and days that will follow and I should tread lightly.
There was a knock on the door. The knocks echoed through the lighthouse as my son’s knuckles rapped on the door firmly. I quickly descended the spiral staircase passing my room and then the kitchen till I reached the next floor on the very bottom. I then proceeded down a small and long passageway to open a door to see a man of age. Cleanly shaven and in uniform my son was waiting, posture high and professional. We lived in two different worlds but we were alike in every way as I motioned for him to come in and let him pass me as I followed him into the main room. His uniform was clean and straight as mine was old, torn, and wrinkly. I looked down to his shoes and they were polished and shined in the torchlight and then I looked at my boots that had wear. I did not have the luxury of having clean clothes but my son did and I respected that. Arriving in the main room my son turned around and looked at me.
"Hello father." His voice was young as mine was raspy for all the years I smoked and lived by the water. I reached in my pocket to take out a piece of straight menthol and placed it in my mouth. Stroking my long gray beard I responded.
"It's been a long time Edgar, how are you?"
"Please father, I am your son, you have my respect although you may not have the rest of the families." My knees ached as I motioned for him to sit down and so did I. He spoke again. "I am a man who is married to his job much like yourself but I do not wish to live a life in solitude. My fiancé wishes to see more of me but I do not know what to do."
"A man's work is never done son and if you continue to face this cult it will be the end of you." I said. My son repositioned himself across the table and leaned into the table.
"I am so close father. Soon I will rid all evil of this city and for once I can sleep safely in my own home. I then can have children who will live in a safer world.
"The world will never be safe son. One evil dismissed will only sprout another." He wanted advice from a wise man that he called his father. Was he willing to hear anything I would say?
"So I should quit while I'm ahead? How can a man like me do that?"
"I spoke to some higher power, something bad will happen to you."
"You spoke to a higher power? Only cult members claim to do that. Who were you talking to?"
"I...I don't know. It called itself The Outsider but it told me you were going to die tonight if I didn't do anything to stop it from happening!" Edgar laughed to himself now thinking his wise father was actually a kook.
"After I leave, I am going to take the cult down no matter what you say but maybe I should believe you." He sat on thought for a while. "Maybe you should join me. To prevent this bad that is going with me. Stop it before it starts"
"I would rather you not to do anything."
"I'm already in danger. I have been since I began this task force. Who says fate won't follow me home?" He was much wiser than I previously thought.
"Then I will follow. The Outsider said it will give me the strength to help you, so I know I am capable" I got up from my chair and walked to a closet where my coat was and looked at my cane that helps me to walk but I felt somehow better already so I left it in its box. The coat was dark and had musk and symbols about it that confirmed to anyone that it was the lighthouse watchman’s coat. My cane was old as well but sturdier than the day I found it washed up on the shore, it had a strange language carved in it and it was made of a near black wood of an origin I have never seen or heard of.
"It has only been a few minutes father don't you want me to stay longer?" I waved him off and continued to get ready.
"We have the whole night ahead of us son! Let's get started."
As we descended the First City Lighthouse the wind blew heavily pushing the waves further onto the rock land bridge around us. The wind howled and it sounded like a roar of a ferocious animal. The sound sent chills down my spine, as I feared the hours to follow.
"When are you getting married son?" I yelled as I tried to take a cigarette out of my pocket.
"We have already been married in secret but for the public we will soon because we wanted to quell this cult before we went public. Its like posting a target on the back of my wives back." He yelled back. "I hope soon because we already have a child on the way."
"You already live together?" I asked.
"Yes. She doesn't really have a family either."
"What happened to your mother?" I asked.
"She...she moved away. Someplace far away from this city."
"Somewhere with more sun?" I asked again.
"I guess. In reality I think she just couldn't stand my work like she couldn't stand yours but this was a long time ago, maybe months after you left." I left it as is as we started to enter city limits and I saw a contraption I haven't seen before.
"What's that?" I asked. Pointing at the contraption. With one hand and fumbling to take out a match with the other.
"It's an automobile" he said with a laugh. "Imagine a metal horse. It operates off the same machinery as trains and some boats." I haven't been on a train for a long time and even longer if the boat was moving but I understood completely. "Just open the door on the other side and sit, it's that simple." I opened the door and stepped up to the seat where I situated myself. He got on the drivers side, pushed a couple of buttons and then we were off. "No cigarettes in the car." He added as I began to light my match. I threw it out of the window and put my cigarette back in its pack. I took out some menthol and started sucking on that.
We traveled at one steady speed but I noticed there were some foot pedals where my son put his feet and some kind of stick between us that he didn't take his hand off of. All was steady throughout town as we were in the only automobile on the road.
Soon we heard gunshots in the distance and my son sped up the automobile to get to the location of the shooting faster. As our speed increased so did the sound of the automobile. The engine roared as we passed a neighborhood and people began to look out of there windows but they were already awake by hearing the gunshots. For a moments time I could not hear the gunshots and neither did my son but he knew where the gunshots were coming from. We started to go out of a residential area to the town square. This was where the town hall and other assorted government housing was located along with little housing, stores and an old building that barely held onto its foundation that the cult called a church.
Unlike most buildings this old building had no electricity like the rest of the city–my son explained to me–it sat in darkness as the surrounding buildings and park were lit up. Police and other automobiles were stationed outside of this building as other officers hid behind their automobiles surrounding the building in its entirety. The cults church was an old apartment building several years ago but had some serious fire damage. Doomed to be condemned several of the old occupants stayed and started to rebuild with resources they had on them. The rest of the cult has been said to reside here preventing the building to be taken down. Up on a fourth story window a police automobile had its search light positioned showing a rifle pointing out of the window. It shot down towards the direction of the lights source but it didn't hit anything. Police searchlights were lighting up several other parts of the creaking building, blinding the shooters. My son pulled up a ways from the building and the rest of the cars and turned off the automobile.
"Let's go." He got out and so did I following his every move up to a tent in the park where was the police operations center.
"Edgar! Good to see you." Said an officer.
"Wishing for better circumstances I hope." My son said.
"Is this your father?" Asked the officer. My son nodded. "I heard you were going to visit him, not take him along. I'm not sure that this is the place or time to be doing such a thing."
"As inappropriate as it may be my father has claimed to talk to another being that is unlike The Wretched and only he can save my life." Other officers in the command center had started to pay attention to the conversation and scratched their heads.
"I don't believe in any form of gods and nor does any sane person in this city but your father wishes to fight for the cause and that's very noble of him." The officer said suspiciously. Now addressing me, "Do you know how to shoot?" I said yes. "Good. Get this man a rifle and a uniform! We don't want him to get mixed up with these cultists." The main officer that was now to be addressed as Captain Faulks gathered the commanding officers around a large table with a map on it.
"We have got them at their last stretch." My son said. "Now we must deliver the final blow. Commanding officers will take what's remaining of their squads and attack here, here, and here." Pointing at the map respectively, I lit a match to get my well-deserved cigarette. "We have the remainder of the troops at the back. Once we start shooting they will storm the back end and capture the first floor and watch the entrances, windows and stairs. At the same moment you two," pointing at different officers, "will hold your ground and distract the cultists on the remaining floors though we suspect they will be aware we are already in the building. I will take my squad and storm the front once the first floor is taken. We will then take men from the back end and my men to storm the remaining floors. Once you have taken a out a floor, take a match and light a lantern and hang it out the window. You men will not shoot on any floor that is being stormed to prevent friendly fire." Pointing at officers in red uniforms verses the standard tan. "Got it?" The men grunted. "May Calpernicus hold your fortunes."
Everyone spread out and moved to their areas while my son reached for a small gun under the table with the map on it and loaded the gun. Another officer handed me a rifle and a overcoat that had official logos all over it. The officer then handed me a small satchel that was heavy I looked in it and it was full of bullets for my gun. Loading my gun I looked up to my son as he gazed hardly towards his gun. He stopped for a moment then looked up to me and smiled and I smiled back too and nearly lost my cigarette in the change of expression then continued with my rifle as well. Soon shooting acted up again and I knew it was time to take my position by my son. We walked out to the house and positioned ourselves behind a vehicle.
A few minutes passed as we had our heads down and several shots occurred between police and cultists I lit another match to light another cigarette and then a big bang sounded in the distance–an explosive near the building. I wasn't expecting them to use explosives but maybe it was the cultists. I looked up from behind the vehicle and saw that smoke rose from the first floor nearly setting the house on fire.
"Was that us?" I asked my son.
"No. No it wasn't." He responded. He looked up to and nobody shot back at us. He thought for a quick moment and started to yell. "Change of plan boys! Head to the building now!" Captain Faulks agreed and a few soldiers began to yell and others yelled back preparing themselves for a possible death I threw my cigarette to the ground and stomped on it then everyone charged to the house scanning windows looking for movement and a few saw some cultists peeking out of their perspective windows and the soldiers began to shoot at those in the building but the cultists didn't return fire. In the distance I could hear sirens of the fire division coming near thinking there was a fire due to all the smoke. As we approached the building Captain Faulks squad began to kick down the door. I watched the door standing ready to fight while my son was still making his way to the building then everything happened too fast.
Before everyone knew it, another explosion went off behind the front door and wood fragments, shrapnel and fire went flying in the opposite direction we were heading and pushed everyone onto their backs. People were covered with blood and bare bone came flying off of some of the men's limbs. My vision came and faded of me struggling to get up. I lay on the street and some people left the building speaking in foreign tongue in which I could not understand. Few of the men who exited the building poked their rifles at my body and I could only assume wonder why an old man fell into the comfort and fought with the police. I reached for a cigarette shakily and one of the cultists helped me light it. They then spoke several words together. One word sounded like "souls". As if they needed souls for whatever vile plans they have. Cultists left us to die but soon the fire division entered the scene trying to extinguish the now starting fire and dragged our bodies from the streets and back to the command center.
Visions of blood and darkness came unto me in my slumber but I felt somewhat at peace. The trauma of my wounds began to take over my thoughts but all at once everything disappeared. I heard a voice in the distance. It was The Outsider.
"Poor Watchman. It looks like you have come to your end but have no fear for we have made a mutual agreement. I help you, you help me. Consider all your faults healed. You are no longer a worldly man but a man of worship. Praise my name and you will continue to be blessed as long with your sons family but your son I cannot guarantee as there is something I did not expect." I lay motionless visioning that The Outsider stood before me.
The Outsider told me that inside the attic was a beast made by The Cultists from unholy blood sacrifice. The creature was once a woman but is now lost to find its child. I was to let it loose into the city as I would follow natural selection of the beasts killings of the remaining cultists. It would not pick a side, which is why it was locked up, and he began to tell a tale of the woman who was captured and how they killed her unborn child to turn her into a monster.
"They will never be kind to women of purpose until the flock is returned to its fold." I thought of what that meant and it could mean many things but he said I was never to find out until I searched for council once I turned into a Wretched.
"Until?" I asked. A pit in my stomach opened up.
"I have already chosen you to be the dawn of a new beginning. You will prepare the world for the second coming of The Wretched."
The betrayal was real. I could feel it under my skin as it began to crawl and take shape something under my skin rushed to every corner of my body like a blood rush to the head. I could feel something take control over my body but it let me be. Waiting for my next move to turn against me. The Outsider began to talk again speaking of an infection.
"You will no longer bleed blood once the blood leaves your body. You are now an immortal though not a Wretched as Wretched cannot inhabit the world at this moment. You are a Wretched and human. You are a Cremata. Kill that creature my followers claimed to be a worthy upbringing and then kill the remaining members. Take all their hearts and their metal idols and their bones and put them in a great fire. Fuel the fire with the creature’s blood and its head to summon the Cremiticus Imperium, a device to help you and your followers live forever. A new generation of followers is coming and you will create them yourself." I first felt sick about what he was telling me but I soon became resistant to the sickness and began to agree with him. I thought it would be a struggle but I was obedient in an instant. What have I become? "The Cremiticus Imperium is pertinent for a Cremata's survival. You must do everything I said."
The dream ended and I woke up in a gurney at the checkpoint in front of the cultists building. I examined myself to notice there wasn't a scratch on me "Thank you Outsider" I whispered to myself. A man sitting on a makeshift bed beside me was shocked that I woke up.
"How did you survive that? Everyone by the door got too injured and are now in a hospital or dead!" I shrugged. "You are one lucky old man!" I stood up and a few medical officers tried to make me to stay laying down stating there may be internal injuries or shrapnel still in my body. I knew I was unaffected by the blast so I ignored everything they said and looked for my son. He was nowhere around so I ran to Captain Faulks to get an idea on the situation
"Where's my son?" I asked. Captain Faulks was getting many cuts and scrapes tended to as he sat on the side of another bed.
"He's gone." He said. Taken by those damned cultists. He shouldn't of been in the attacking force but that man was too stubborn." A panic attack grew through me and I started to search my body for a cigarette by reflex but I thought longer after I couldn't find them on my person and realized I didn't need it.
"I need to investigate that building!" I said trying to struggle away. "There can be evidence in where they went. Some medical officers gathered around me forcing me to sit down beside the Captain.
"You can't go to the cults building, it's not safe anymore. We need to know where the cult went and everything in the building blew up in the explosion. Search the alley, do not go further." I thought to myself about the cultists and I figured they would be somewhere in the Windy Mountains but they could have been anywhere in the mountains like Wreched's Cavern to the west or the Stripped Mine in the north. There were also several abandoned buildings at its base on its southeastern side and ruined villages too on and around the mountains. I was offered new clothes and I put them on and began to approach the building, this time at a slower pace from before, cautious I would get shot at or worse but there was no one looking out the windows. Some parts of the building were fallen off but others were just charred black but the further you look up more together it held on its ruined foundation. Some officers of the fire division were still in the building making sure it was all cooled off and that the fire wouldn't start up again while others sat by the front entrance playing cards on a small charred table.
"You want to go inside?" Said a man with a cigarette in his mouth. Just before he threw down a high-ranking card in front of his coworkers.
"Yes I do. Has anyone found anything?" I asked.
"You can't come in, Faulks orders."
"I am here to check the alley can I enter?"
"Just the first floor, nothing else." As he pointed behind him. I walked past the ruined doorframe and into what looked like a lobby. Stairs up were to my right, a charred desk to my far left, burned down chairs and tables which were now just firewood to my direct left and in front of me a few fire division officers were poking through piles of burnt objects and then a doorway to the back behind them. I walked up to the officers and asked them if they found anything. One led me to a pile through the back door and to the left.
The ground of where I stood was part charred black from the explosion and the rest was red with blood much like the front of the building I sifted through the pile and discovered guns, papers, dishes and books presumed to be cult texts. I looked through one and it talked of the first Wretched known as Bale but he was referred to as Wretched not a Wretched. At one point he was the one and only and now the cult worships many. It talked about his original resting place in the actual Mountain itself in which people called Mount Solus and that it crawled out of its heart. Able to change his image at a whim he manipulated the people of Pratio and took over the original empire that once controlled over this land. I soon began to realize that this was not just some story but an autobiographical account. I became interested in the story and fell more in between the pages believing every slight word that was written by some thing this cult claimed to be a god, whatever that meant. I dropped the book as I heard a piece of the building crash down to the floor.
"There are chains and a lock on the top floor door to the attic. It's locked from the outside, they were trying to keep something in there." I heard from inside as a officer said while walking down the steps to the first floor.
"I wonder what it could be." Said one of the officers already on the first floor. I wandered back into the building and waited for the officer to finish descending the stairs.
"What do you think is in there?" I asked.
"I'm not sure. I couldn't see any lights under the door jam."
"I guess we should look into it." Said another officer.
"We need some equipment first, lets go get it." Most of the officers left the room almost making it a easy job to go upstairs. I searched around the floor and grabbed a lantern. I ascended the stairs onto the second floor when one of the officers left to another room and it looked much like the first. Heavy burning all over the walls, floor and ceiling. You could see where the cult tore down the walls to the apartments to make one big centralized room. In the middle was a large table where I guessed was where they did their meetings. There were also several empty bookshelves in which I assumed were previously filled with the pile of books that were now outside. I ascended another staircase to put me on the third floor. Fire damage was now not as apparent. Most of the floor was untouched though it being a rundown building was still visible. I could see down the hallway where there were several rooms on either side of the hall. There were no doors as I felt they would share everything there were several miniature sculptures of obelisks and triangular towers. There were also several bedrolls in all the rooms and desks. There were no windows except on the corner rooms to let light in but everything seemed to be in a visible shade. Knowing it would be a fire hazard I lit some candles so I could see more of the rooms--I knew they were coming up here soon but I needed to find out where and fast. Several of the books were personal accounts of cult members. I began to read them hoping to find their whereabouts. Some talked about a settlement for cult members just outside a spiral path up the mountains called Regents Fire and others mentioned there was a palace up inside mountain Solus where I assumed Bale lived but there was no exact point on where it was. I figured if I was to find them I was to do it by trial and error.
I walked up to the fourth floor, which was the last floor before the attic. This floor looked similar to the third except there were several decorations all over the walls that were the colour of blood and white. Towards the end of the hall were robe closets of white fabrics, which I assumed to be their ceremonial clothing that a member mentioned in his accounts. There could have been at least a hundred robes within all the closets. I wondered if they were for potential members or already existent members who just didn't take them. I heard something move in the attic, as its chains rattled against each other I then began to fear what was next. I began to search in the cultist’s rooms for a weapon the floor was very cramped. It was a short hallway with curtains section off all the rooms. Around a corner was another skinny hallway and another. I was confused where I was but I continued to look for a weapon. I soon found a small stiletto knife that already had dried blood on it and wiped it off. I could see blood drip from the floorboards above me that was within the attic and new I was close. I looked around another hall and saw the staircase to the attic. I heard some footsteps under the floor so I knew the other officers were close.
I began an assent to the attic and every board creaked as I touched the steps up to the attic. There was no light up here so I turned up the lantern hoping to see where I was going. By the time I reached the top of the steps the lantern dimmed to a small light as if the darkness around me began to consume the light. The door at the top of the stairs was metal with a little rectangular hole with bars on it. Looking through the hole I saw complete and utter darkness. My lantern wouldn't even penetrate the room as I used it to see what was inside. I could hear growling that was similar to a big animal and occasional speech that sounded like a lion’s roar but a woman at the same time. Looking at the handle it was chained and screwed into the doorframe, which was metal as well. I used the bolt cutters to cut the chains that was sitting by the door–must have been left from the previous officer who just went downstairs looking for backup. I guided the bolt cutters through the door handle and placed the chains on the floor. I pushed the door open to see nothing but the blackness that filled the room. I swept the light back and forth in the black but the light would only go so far. It seemed the blackness consumed the light as if it was a nutritional treat. I heard a growling further back in the attic and I feared for my life knowing that this thing was willing to kill anything around it. I took out the knife from out of my pocket and pointed it at the dark knowing that it had to end here. I took a couple of steps inside pointing the knife at every creak I heard but I dared not to go in any further and that's when I saw it.
I saw a mouth full of teeth growling at me just enough to show the stains that covered the pearly whites but soon thereafter the teeth vanished in the darkness. I soon realized that there was something like a dark aura around the beast that prevented the light penetrating the darkness around the creature. Its eyes opened and within the darkness its eyes seemed darker like two black holes sucking in all the light of the world. I thought of what I got myself into but it was something The Outsider will see me do whether I liked it or not. I adjusted the grip on the knife in front of me preparing for the kill but before I knew it, the creature jumped over me and the darkness followed. Before I could turn around I heard screaming downstairs and outside of the police force that was sent to finish the cultists. This was supposed to be the final blow but this was only the beginning I looked out the window in the attic to see a dark cloud moving swiftly on the ground.
I left and ran down the stairs quickly and while I looked around to see the damage I noticed dead bodies lied in the monsters path. I worried of my son as he was in the middle of the fight but the bed he was in was now flipped over and he was nowhere to be seen. The Outsider spoke; “Your son has been held at ransom by the cultists, but you have something new to fear. That beast. It will destroy anything and everything in its path but your son. It knows what the goal of your son is and would like to see the end of the cult on its own. When your son returns he will be of good health as long as you do what I have asked of you.” Somehow I knew that my son was to be held hostage by the beast but maybe it was just the darkness in me that knew this.
I ran down the steps frantically seeing blood cover every surface as if it imploded all the officers heading up the stairs. I got outside to see most people scattered on the ground. Dead or alive I ran down the street to follow the beast. I heard a scream of horror in the distance not more than a few blocks down so I ran towards the cries to help to see that more people fell in its wake. I checked the bodies to see if they were still alive but they were cold, nearly frozen. Just then I saw a movement in black in the house in front of me, I looked toward the doorway and it was ripped off from its hinges. I ran inside and heard a scream of a child. Quickly I ran up the stairs to see the creature cornering a child in her playroom.
As I entered the room I saw the cherub face of a young daughter. I didn't know her name but I remembered her face from the many children who visit me when the schools hold trips to The First City's Lighthouse. Her face shinned through the darkness of the monster sitting in front of her. I could see she was carrying some doll that a family could have made for her. She gripped onto it with all her might hoping that everything was going to go away. I wanted the best for her but the monster left no room.
“Stop!” I yelled. “Leave that child alone!” It turned around and smirked in its darkness. Turned back to the child and flew through her as if it were a ghost then pushed through the wall pushing it outside. The wall flew outside leaving boards to fall from the sky as the child fell on the ground besides me. I felt for her pulse but her skin was too cold to the touch that I couldn’t look for any signs of life. I ran towards the wall and looked down. We were three stories up and the creature ran to the north further through the city. I looked back down to the pedestrians and all the boards and I could see a man and a woman holding hands looking up to what could have been their daughters room. I felt remorse and wanted to speak with them but the body count will only rise if I didn't continue to chase the monster.
I looked around the corner and onto the roof to see how sturdy it was and it looked good. I threw myself over and onto the mansard roof and tried to climb to the top while breaking ground to the next roof, which was flat. I could hear those below me gasp and yell hoping I would be careful but there's nothing they could have done to make me do better or worse. Jumping over to the next roof, I gained a good footing and began to run to one to another. Examining the horizon I could see the monster gallop a several yards ahead of me at the end of the street then to take a left. Chasing it past the turn I saw it cross the street and run through a building to the other end and down an alleyway. I couldn't make the jump across the way looking behind me I saw a brick and metal chimney moving up and over the house. I jumped to the other side of it and tried to push it over. It felt hot to the touch because there was most likely a fire at the bottom of it. The chimney collapsed with my given might and it created a limp bridge across the way.
I continued to chase further down the alley trying to keep an eye on the monster until I heard a boom behind me. The boom came from the house previously with the knocked over chimney and it set a house on fire which set others on fire but the biggest boom came from underneath me and I noticed the room the monster ran through was a movie theater. The heat was touching the movie reels, which inevitably started a mass fire. I turned around and began to run faster hoping I would not blow up with the theater. The roof underneath me began to crumble so I ran faster across the roofs but I could only cheat death for so long. I tripped and fell over the edge.
I woke up attached to a iv drip behind several bars laying on my back on a concrete bench. Opening my eyes I noticed I was underground, sirens sounded in the air and guards stood around my prison.
"How long have you been talking to this Outsider?" A man asked in the dark.
"How do you know his name? I asked
"I heard you thanking him while you were at the checkpoint hospital. How long?"
"My son is your commanding officer. Let me go!" I yelled.
"He's gone missing and you released the monster the cultists created. Captain Solus isn't happy. You're worshipping what everything he is against. That's not okay."
"The Outsider is not good! I've been crossed! I am supposed to kill it!"
"Really? Getting a taste of your own medicine I see." Just then the lights in the cell dimmed and I remembered the monster.
"The monster out there, it's coming!" I yelled while shaking the chains that tied me down.
"Let it come." An officer said. "Maybe it will get its revenge."
"I have to stop it. I'm the only one who can!"
"Were well trained in the manner of cultists and monsters. We can handle it." A sound of a explosion and a yell happened and a voice came.
"Nonbelievers. You are doomed to repeat your own mistakes." The guards stood up and tried to figure out where the voice came from.
"What was that?" One asked
"It sounded as if he was standing behind me!" Said another. The leader took the pistol from off his hip and pointed it at me.
"You want him alive right? Well show your face or I will kill him!" Just then a figure began to appear in front of them outside of my cell. He was less of a monster and more like a man. Wearing fancy clothing of that of a noble, The Outsider looked fairly normal. His hair was as black of the creatures aura and his skin was abnormally pale but seemed rather fitting. I could not see his face but he was inches in front of the leader of the soldiers.
"If you call, I will always answer." I heard something of a whirlwind of sound coming from The Outsider and before I knew it the bodies of the soldiers became wilted and old as if The Outsider was sucking out their souls then disappeared. The lock to my cell opened and the door swung open I thought to myself that I was still locked to the bench and as I looked down there were no chains to be seen. I got up and walked to the lifeless men and took the leaders pistol. It's time to finish this.
I ran upstairs unknowing where I was locked up to see I was in an abandoned building that could have been used by the police department. The cities logo scattered around the walls along with graffiti and human fluids. Walking outside I realized where I was. I was in an unused part of town that was previously used when I was a child. Buildings crumbled in the distance falling under their own weight if steel and bricks and I noticed the night sky was more lit up than normal. I walked into one of the neighboring towers that littered the city and went to the top floor to see what was going on. The city was on fire and the beast was just in the neighborhood. Looking in the distance the fire consumed everything that was within it, which was well more than half of the city. I began to listen and I could hear sirens in the distance but the smoke had not reached this part of the city yet. Looking at the landscape around the city, I could see that the Windy Mountains and ultimately Mountain Solus was nearly behind me away from the city. I was lucky that I didn't have to go through the city though I wanted to check and help everyone that was still within the city.
Following the destruction from the beast and having left the city nearly an hour ago I looked back to see that the fire was somewhat quelled. The fires had died down but Pratio was still clearly on fire. Preventing any new buildings from lighting on fire was most likely the tactic then stopping the fire, no man could stop a fire like that. Taking my attention back to the Windy Mountains I was approaching an abandoned city named Regents Fire that was the home of many cultists on the mountain from before the war. As I was ascending the mountains earlier I saw a dim light coming from the large estate that was within the city. There must have been people here but they also could be dead by now knowing that the beast was on a warpath.
I approached the gates of this great walled city to see the gate was opened and nearly destroyed. Blood sat on the solid metal gate and some interdemential black goo like the darkness of the monster was shedding off of it. I followed the trail a few blocks through the city till I entered the town center. A black obelisk surrounded in a blood stained pool sat in the center. A strange language was encrypted on the obelisk but I could not make it out but it was very similar to the inscription I had on my cane. Some bodies that have been long dead littered the square as if they were slaughtered unknowingly and I thought of the atrocities that Pratio could have commuted to the cultists and I began to feel sorry for them but I had a mission and I couldn't get feelings now.
Just a few more blocks from the center was the large estate that was rumored to have been inhabited by The Wretched as the cultists settled in Regents Fire. Being carved out of the mountain the estate stood nearly underneath the mountain leading to the center of the mountain. Did all The Wretched appear like The Outsider or do they look different from each other like people in the city. My brain started to hurt from the questions I had and I intended to ask The Outsider but he responded before I could ask.
"Here lies the beast, your last trial. I watched them be slaughtered mere minutes ago by the beast they made. Some grateful creature they made. The creature made its home here and used their corpses to decorate. Tred lightly as this is its home. Do not descend into madness." All grew quiet and then the doors to the estate I saw within and darkness covered the walls and most of the furnishings. I walked in and the doors closed revealing that there was no turning back as I tried to open them back up.
The floor plan looked simple. In front of me down a wide hallway was a large room that had a staircase winding to the left and right in the room to make a new floor. Balconies covered all the walls two floors up. To my immediate left and right were a library to my left and a dining hall to my right. I did not know what was further than those two rooms. I went into the library to my left and looked over the bookshelves that encompassed every wall. Most books were not titled but when I opened them the title was on the first page. The first one read Beneath The Metal Sky, I was curious what it entailed but as I flipped to the next page it read "Yet to be written". I was disappointed. Opening other books they had titles like "–Somnia", "May Be Sharper Than The Sound", "Burn The Forest", and even "Sanguine". All of which were not written yet. I opened another to see it titled "The Wretched" I was surprised to see it was written, at least some of it was. It talked of a child named René Delacroix who looked up to a uncle named Ferdinand. His uncle was a maritime explorer and then it just stopped. I was unsure where the rest was but I could no longer read it. I was confused but when I put the book back on the bookshelf a click sounded behind the bookshelf and the bookshelf pushed out and let out a dusty air.
I opened the bookcase more to see something of a stone prison. I walked in cautiously and I felt cold air pushing through me and I could start to see my breath. I walked up to one of the cells I saw a pile of old bones laying on the floor with a knife beside them. I walked in and examined the knife on the floor.
"The blade that created the beast. Take it and finish the job." Said The Outsider. I picked up the blade and it was warm to the touch. I examined the writing on it and like the obelisk outside I did not understand the language. It looked as if the blade was made of bone and old metal almost sacrificial in nature. I looked down to the bones and noticed there was enough for an entire body. Blood stained the stone underneath the bones and it occurred to me that this was where the transformation happened from that woman to that monster. I heard the scream of the monster further in the house but this was not the place to continue forward. I walked out of the cell and back into the library closing the path to the bones and I felt lightheaded. Looking around everything looked different as all the books were now ruined and papers scattered on the floor. There was now a piano in the center of the room that took up most of the space in the library. I touched it and it made a loud thump as the lid to the piano came slamming down.
"What was that?" I heard in the distance. His footsteps grew louder as he got closer and it sounded like he used some cane or walker to help him move. He turned around the corner and I saw an old man. "How did you?" He asked but everything changed within him before he spoke as it sounded like some demon. His eyes were pitch black and his mouth was filled with pearly white sharp teeth. "Why did you come here, we have nothing of yours?" I was confused in what was happening but there was one thing I knew, he was a cultist. I took out the pistol that was on my hip and shot him square on his forehead. He fell to the floor limping over himself like a rag doll and I continued forward stepping over his body.
Looking into the dining room I saw that the table in there was full of foods liquids and a naked human body as if was made for consumption. I could not make out if it was make or female because it was mutated in every aspect like the cultists were experimenting on themselves as well. I heard a noise in the room connected to it and I rushed in with my pistol ready. It was the kitchen. Food was cooking on several pots and pans and there was a woman hiding underneath a table in the center. She looked evil too so I shot her in the chest and she fell out from under the table. I walked out of the kitchen and back into the hall and ascended the stairs and went into the respective rooms on both sides. They were bedrooms, bathrooms, and other assortments of accommodations to complete the compound of the estate but there was no one there. Having checked all the rooms I walked back downstairs and was curious where the path into the mountain was. I head another scream from the monster. Curious I walked around the staircase and looked behind it and examined the space between the wall and the staircase and there was a doorway out of sight that I couldn't see until I got closer to it.
Walking down the new hall the hall soon turned from finished walls to stone walls into something like a cave system it soon became very dark within the cave but I could see candlelight in the distance or what I assumed to be candlelight. I crept around the corner and looked towards the light; I could hear a few people talk
"There's no getting inside, the place is locked up."
"I need to see Edgar, the monster is coming."
"Look!" Another man yelled while pointing at me.
"How did they see me?" I said to myself but there was nothing I could do. I rushed from the corner of the darkness and shot everyone one by one to soon face the door. It was a large stone door with golden inscriptions and illustrations of a big battle with a creature that tried to kill everyone. I could not make out what ended but it was a tale of despair rather than victory. I put my hand on it, hearing a hum coming from the door itself and it imploded like I now had powers at my fingertips. Passed the doorway was of a nature I didn't understand. It was a large cave with no end but it seemed like a entire ecosystem lived here rather than darkness. Everything flashed peaceful to post apocalyptic within seconds and back as if time was confused here. I saw visions of war of dark beings, beings that were mechanical in nature and some indescribable third party who looked like shapeless blobs of white and gold. Darkness grew with every step and war continued around me. Halls and lands were covered with blood as technicolor objects fell from the sky. I saw a creature in the distance fall from the sky that was complete blackness onto a civilization that was highly advanced as the sky turned from blood to black. Figures whizzed past me and I turned around to see a ruined city and a tower that seemed to go on forever in the distance. Smells of fire but old meat stung my nostrils as a large squeal echoed across the sky. I covered my ears to realize that I was no longer a being but an object sitting in a field. A river of blood came rushing in the distance but it was stopped by a figure of light.
"She has come!" I heard in the distance. "Seven. Sixteen. Six. Twenty-one. Fourteen. She will be proud!" An explosion happened in the distance from what I assumed to be the end of everything living. Everything turned black and I could see some mutated creature crawl out from a crevice of what I assumed to be two large rocks.
"So be it." It said struggling to get out. "Idemity will kill us all." I came back to holding out my hand to my son. My hand was not my own. It was blackness incarnate. My son sat in a dark corner of a cave that we were both within
"Mother? Is that you?"
I came to knowing that the beast I hunted was my very own wife from years previously and she was looking for Edgar. I didn't expect anything like this to happen but soon I had to strike my wife down. I was still in the cell looking at the bones and I instantly knew that they were her bones. I walked out of the cell and into the building to see several bodies of cultists. One by one I gathered the men, women, and children and put them in a pile to create that box The Outsider wanted. Soon I had a pile of every cultist consuming most of the space in the room. I had thoughts of the children who didn't get to live their lives and woman that had to watch their children die in front of them. I thought of all the arguments I've had with my wife and if I did anything different this would have not ended in death. I thought of the Halstein name and how it would end if I didn't save my only son but I felt nothing about his presence and sensed that he was already dead.
I grieved for the ones who lost their lives and not just the cultists but also the people in the city. I began to feel again and thought that there was a way I could prevent myself from turning into a monster. I took out the knife that was supposed to be used on my wife and I pointed it at my gut. I shed another tear knowing that this was going to be the end and I thrust it into my stomach. I felt nothing and I feared this wasn't the end so I thrusted the knife across my stomach making me lose all my entrails. I felt lighter but I soon realized that I was still alive. I looked down to see that there was no blood but black ooze. It bubbled on the ground and smelt like sulfur until it disintegrated entirely. I looked down at my wound and it was healed already as the knife lay on the ground beside me.
"I see you have completed the process." The Outsider said. "Trying to kill yourself just sealed in the curse. You are now truly a Cremora. Remember to do this frequently as it will keep you young and you will live forever. If you don't you will be consumed by darkness and will be a prisoner of The Wretched." I began to cry again but I only felt darkness and no tears left my eyes. "The beast can smell your darkness now. It is coming." I heard a scream in the distance and wished not to fight but my will was no longer my own. I craved to kill something. "You now have bloodlust, there is only one cure." The Outsider said. The beast came tearing through the wall and through the staircase to the upstairs. I picked up the knife and got defensive.
"Honey, can you hear me?" I asked. The beast did not reply and swung at me with its big arms. It's darkness faded and it was straight black and shimmered. The candles flickered and blew as a breeze arose and darkness began to suck up into the beast again leaving a black aura around it. It faced me again and screamed at me while lunging on all fours. I rolled out of the way dodging its sharp teeth and claws as the beast landed the darkness faded again and I knew it was time to strike. I slashed at one of its arms and it screamed in pain and I slashed again before the darkness gathered around it again. As it jumped at me again I ran at it and slid under it and trusted at its belly as it passed me. It fell down and screamed and I jumped on its back to stab it again but instead of an ungodly scream I heard a yell of a man. Looking at its back it looked as if someone was tethered to his back. I looked closer and it was my son. He was alive and I killed him. Some sort of trick by the monster. I began to greave again but just then the beast tried to get back on its feet. I walked up to it and said I was sorry as I slashed at its throat.
It was over. Everything had ended. I pulled my son of the beast’s corpse to see if there was anything I could do but he was lost. I noticed there was a ring on his finger and I took it off to get a better look at it. It was a wedding ring as if my son had the chance to marry his fiancé. I sat there in disbelief and remembered my son said there was a child on its way. I grew exited but I knew I couldn't show my face because I killed my own son. Putting my son on top of the pile of bodies I lit a match and placed it on the pile. Everything caught fire fast and I left leaving everything behind. As the building burned down I began to walk out of town leaving the building and the Cremiticus Imperium that it would create and ventured to the lighthouse.
It took about the rest of the night for me to reach home going around the city because I knew I was now a wanted man. Approaching the lighthouse I could see the large waves crashing against the rocks it stood on as the lighthouse beam penetrated the dwindling darkness, as it was becoming morning. As I wandered to the doorstep I could see a package wrapped in burlap and bloody piece of string. Opening it up I could hear whispering and loud drums coming from inside of the box. As I opened it I realized it was supposedly the Cremiticus Imperium The Outsider was telling me to obtain. All grew quiet as I examined the box.
It was heavy and big enough I had to hold it with two hands. It was in the shape of a octagon and the base was made out of a wood that was stained with blood. Golden swirls were imprinted into the wood making it seem precious. The top of it looking into it I could see gears and gizmos twisting around each other that were solid white. Feeling the gears they seemed organic like bone. A slither sound came from the box and I could see it fill with blood. I was surprised to see this but as it filled the octagon began to close as flaps closed off the top in eight sections. I walked inside with the. On in hand and walked upstairs to the top of the lighthouse. I opened up a window to breathe in the salty air and threw the Cremiticus Imperium out of the lighthouse to the waves below. Felt with relief I went downstairs to my bedroom to see the box on my table. It came back. I picked it back up and watched it close with blood filling it up again and I headed back upstairs to throw it out the window. Heading back down it seemed as if it never moved from the spot but this time I saw a letter by it.
Opening up the letter it read;
“To Mr. Halstein. It has been weeks since I have heard from you or my husband; he told me that he was going to visit you more than a fortnight ago and after witnessing the great fire within the city I could only fear the worst. There have been multiple sightings of you and there is talk that you have become a monster and began to worship the cult that my husband desired to destroy. I can see the lights in your tower, I know you are there and I care not what they say. All I want it to hear from my husband again. The last request I have heard was to name the child after you, Ville. If you killed my husband I’m afraid I cant honor that request. Naming your child after your husbands killer, it will be a cold day at the Dawn if that will ever happen, Sincerely Helen Holstein.”
I knew what I needed to do. I took out a quill and prepared a paper and wrote about our tale leaving one vital detail out, her husband’s death. I soon wrote that he has simply left town to defeat the rest of the cults and he could not say goodbye for fear of what they would do to her but he has found true magic that the cult was using. The Crematus Imperium would bless her with long life and maybe one day, he will see her again if only she used it and that I would help her. I wasn’t sure how I was going to live with myself but I longed to see my son’s child. I placed the Crematus Imperium in some paper and prepared for the next visit, whoever it may be. It may be a long time but for the survival of my family it will be well worth the wait.
Posted by Corey_Rhodes at 7:55 PM
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