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Central Europe: Zwikau/The End
On April 16, the Division was ordered to continue its advance and secure a bridgehead across the Zwick-Mulde River. Resistence stiffened on the right of the 353rd zone. but Greiz and Kuhdorf soon fell and after clearing three more towns, the 3rd Battalion crossed the Krebs River, and advanced through the Walhaus Forest against Gottesgrun. To the north, Werdau was captured.
The 2nd Battalion, 355th, crossed the river to capture Wilkau, then advanced along the autobahn. Outside of Ortmansdorf, Lt. William H Jones, the platoon leader of Company M, 354th, led a motorized patrol on reconnaissance of the town, which was displaying white flags. Advancing cautiously, he suddenly came under sniper fire. Although mortally wounded, he continued to direct his men in the attack. An enemy bullet killed Tec 4 Moroni Westbrook, a medic with the patrol, as he attempted to administer first aid.
The major action centered on Zwickau, the largest city taken by the 89th Doughboys in Germany. After surrender negotiations had failed on April 17, the 1st Battalion, 355th, advanced on the city. On the outskirts, the infantry met heavy small arms, automatic, Panzerfaust and bazooka fire, but pushed ahead towards the central district. A motorized element of three platoons was hastily formed. In a daring action, this unit guided by two British paratroopers who were among the prisoners liberated from a nearby PW camp, raced ahead of the infantry at fifty miles an hour and seized two bridges over the Zwick-Mulde River. Both had been wired for demolition, but this advanced force succeeded in cutting the wires and held off the Germans until the 1st Battalion fought through to the riverbank. The infantry then drove across the river, secured the crossings, and cleared the rest of the city shortly afterwards. During the artillery preparation, two hundred British PWs were freed.
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In stand-up comedy as opposed to traditional theater, differences occur not only in performance style and telling jokes, but in also what are different performance situations. Theater audiences in voyeur mode, sit in relative silence, while comedy club audiences can be a bit more engaging with the performers onstage. But a common notion that stand-up comics are spontaneous in their performances as opposed to actors who must closely follow a script might not quite be the case. Although many professional comics alter their acts on a regular basis, and often make jokes off the tops of their heads, a good portion of what makes up their show is tightly scripted.
The Catch-22 of getting paying comedy jobs is that in order to work you need to be good, but in order to be good you need to work. And since a club owner is always looking to fill seats every time the club opens its doors for a performance to justify the cost of an event, if not to make money overall, it certainly helps if the comic has a following which can be a matter of passing around a mailing list at club dates, using the media to generate press coverage, and/or networking and winning awards.
There are places you can perform in while you are developing your act, self-starting strategies to create work, and places to perform where you will get paid.
Places to Perform when Starting Out
When starting out, comics perform wherever they can. Places you can perform in while you are developing your act include amateur nights, where a great majority of stand-up comics begin their careers sometimes performing for weeks, months or even years.
In the beginning of your career you will most likely not be performing under conditions you have control over. In comedy clubs, the choice spots are usually reserved for the pros, and the up and coming are relegated to the graveyard shift. Often, you will be performing at 1:00 a.m. Under these circumstances, you have to make adjustments. Other performance venues can include:
Performing in parks and on sidewalks
fund raisers and benefit shows
comedy night at local hotel
creating your own events
Video as a Tool to Land Work
Get a video of yourself performing in front of an audience. The tape should be no longer than 20 minutes. Put your best jokes first , and stay away from filler, such as "Where are you from". Don’t edit the tape. The club owner wants to see exactly how you work with an audience without any special video effects.
The Right Pictures
You also need an 8 x 10 glossy black-and-white picture of yourself. A simple head shot on a white background will do. A club owner wants a face shot, because the newspapers are more likely to print that for publicity than an out-of-the-ordinary kind of picture.
Agents who Handle Comics
Admire Presentations, Inc.
170 West 76 Street, Suite 101
APA (Agency for the Performing Arts)
9000 Sunset Boulevard, 12 Fl.
Ambassador Artists
Arne Brav Associates
1143 Arno Road
Banner Artists International
Bernie Young Agency
6006 Greenbelt Road, Suite 285
Bill Feggan Attractions
Raton, NM 87740
The Blade Agency
Buddy Lee Attractions
38 Music Square East, Suite 300
Celebrity International
1020 16 Avenue South
Coconuts Comedy Productions
12016 Lagoon Lane
Comedy Connection
3004 Semmes Avenue
Comedy Line Productions
2378 Calvin Extension, #4
Comedy West
1206 Mill Creek Boulevard, C-201
CAA (Creative Artists Agency)
1888 Century Park East, Suite 1400
Creative Booking Service
5009 Monroe Road, Suite 103
Creative Talent Consultants
333 North Broadway, Suite 3011
Jericho, NY 11753
Lil Cumber Attractions
6515 Sunset Boulevard, Suite 300A
Dana Pennington Associates
DCA Productions
DMR Booking Agency
The Galleries of Syracuse, Suite 250
Eastcoast Entertainment (ATL)
1780 Century Circle
The Entertainment Connection
401 Pennsylvania Parkway, Suite 104
Entertainment United
64 Division Avenue
Fireball Entertainment
Fleming/Tamulevich and Associates
733-735 North Main Street
Funny Bone On Tour
734 Westport Plaza, Suite 275
Funny Business Agency (Canada)
Canada, M5R3LI
Funny Business Agency
G.G. Greg Agency
1288 East 168 Street
Gary Grant Talent Associates
Port Washington, NY 11050
Gersh Agency
The Gilchrist Agency
310 Madison Avenue, Suite 1003
Greater Talent Network
Hollander-Lustig Entertainment
321 North Lake Boulevard, Suite 103
ICM (International Creative Management)
40 West 57 Street
In-June Talent
1800 North Highland Avenue
Irvin Arthur Associates
Jackman & Taussig
1815 Butler Avenue, Suite 120
The Joey Edmonds Agency
2669 North Building
Just for Laughs Agency
22 Miller Avenue
Knapp Comedy Promotions
William Morris Agency
151 El Camino Drive
NY Entertainment
Omnipop
223 Jericho Turnpike, Suite 200
Mineola, NY 11501-1606
10700 Ventura Boulevard, Suite C
Prime Time Entertainment
2 Crow Canyon Court, Suite 210
Progressive Artists
Pyramid Entertainment Group
89 Fifth Avenue, 7 Fl.
QBO Entertainment
48 East 50 Street, 4 Fl.
Radioactive Talent
476 Elmont Road
Rick Morgan Entertainment
132 Norwalk Avenue
Roger Paul Agency
581 Ninth Avenue, Suite 3C
The Snikkers Agency
1905 Powers Ferry Road, Suite 240
Phone: 404-971-9292; 404-935-3633
Spencer-De Francis
Spotlite Enterprises, Ltd.
The Stephen Gingold Agency
Terry Lichtman Company
T.H.E. Agency
Tracy Hubley Entertainment
125 South Clark Drive, #3
Treehouse Comedy Productions
354 Connecticut Avenue
Triad Artists, Inc.
10100 Santa Monica Boulevard, 16 Fl.
TSM Artista Management
Turner Talent Network
8940 North Malibu Drive
Bayside, WI 53217
Yvette Bikoff Agency
9255 Sunset Boulevard, Suite 510
The Paying Gigs
Afterpiece. In eighteenth-century London theatres, a short comedy performed after a five-act tragedy, providing comic relief for the audience.
Billing. The size of an actor’s role such as starring or guest starring. Also, where the actor’s name will be placed in the credits and if the name will be shown on the screen alone or with others.
Booker. An agency employee who sets appointments for talent/models.
Double-take. An exaggerated facial response to another actor’s words or actions, usually used for comic effect.
Laugh Track. The laughter of a live audience of a situation comedy or other television show that actors are performing in front of, that is recorded to be played back when the show is aired..
Mimicry. An actor’s ability to sound and/or look like someone else, usually a famous person.
Self-Contained Artist. An artist who writes and performs his or her own material. Also refers to artists who require no production or personnel assistance from promoters.
For a full glossary listing click here
The best place to start a comedy career is at your local comedy club. In nearly every city there is a comedy club. Usually these clubs book three acts a week. In most clubs, the opener gets 10-20 minutes; the middle gets 20-30 minutes; and the closer gets 35-60 minutes. Most clubs have at least one night a week for newcomers, and very often the opening act is booked from these slots. After gathering at least 20 minutes of solid material on video, try to make a connection with the booker by phone or by letter before mailing your tape. It is not necessary to have been on television to get booked into a comedy club. But don’t expect a lot to happen, and tapes are not usually returned. Club owners on the average get a hundred calls a day and 60 tapes a week. Avoid performing at the top comedy clubs until you have really developed your act. Producers and directors are always in the audience in the major clubs in Los Angeles and/or New York, and first impressions are lasting. If you are from a small town, stay there until you are ready. Chicago, Denver, Dallas, Philadelphia are good comedy workshop towns where you hone your skills.
A comic who has 60 minutes of jokes that are clean material, and has an act that appeals to college students can earn decent dollars in the college market, even with no television exposure. College bookings are organized by the National Association for Campus Activities (NACA). Each year NACA sponsors 11 regional conventions and one national convention that is held in February. At these conventions, comics showcase 20 minutes of their act before a group of 400 to 2,000 students who are directly responsible for booking you. At the showcase, all performers’ prices are set and made available to the buyers before the convention. In the Exhibit Hall each agency maintains a booth with publicity, prices, and availability of the acts they represent.
The best way to participate in the college market is to submit a 20 minute video of your act to the NACA selection committee through a college agent. This videotape needs to show how good you are, what you can do, and how well you appeal to the college audience, and it needs to do all of this in three minutes, because that is they can be expected to view of each tape.
A comic can choose to be self-represented at a NACA conventions , but would have to contend with the expense involved in maintaining a presence there. Not only do you have the expense of airfare and hotel, but you have the added expense of developing quality promotional materials and maintaining a booth in the Exhibit Hall. According to NACA, acts that have representation have a much better success rate than that of self-represented acts. College agents usually charge 20 percent.
Most college agents will ask you to submit current press materials (8 x 10 glossies, resume, bio, clippings) and a video. The college market is good to approach when you have an hour of clean material that appeals to college students (material on cafeteria food, fraternities, teachers, dorms, etc.). If you do manage to get a gig before you are ready and you don’t deliver, it could mean a bad first impression. Also, know that there is a tremendous amount of travel involved.
Corporate enterprises will hire comics to entertain at their meetings or conventions, but they are known to be careful when making a selection. Most companies do not want to risk hiring anyone too controversial. A comic in this field needs to have 40-60 minutes of material that has good jokes with a broad appeal.
Certain agents book comics exclusively on cruise ships, although many ships prefer to book the comic directly. In order to be considered to work cruise ships, you need to have three different 20 minute sets of clean, non-controversial material. You need to have three different sets because on a ship the audience stays the same. Generally, a comic will only work a few nights a week on a ship. To apply, you send the cruise ship company a videotape with two totally different 25-minute sets.
Hotels, Casinos, Concerts
Most of the big rooms in hotels and casinos are reserved for comedy’s brighest stars. But it does happen that a newcomer opens for a headliner and ends up playing some of the bigger rooms.
At some point in their career, most comics will get at least one opportunity to be looked at by a TV show’s bookers. Naturally, to heighten your chances of landing the gig, you should have acquired a good amount of experience in the field before presenting your material at an audition. Doing your act on television can be a very different experience from the clubs. In most TV studios, the studio audience is far away from you, and sometimes there is no audience at all. In this case a comic needs to know how to relate to a TV camera - possibly leading to training for television acting.
TV’s Star Search is a talent showcase that will book a comic without an agent or union card. If you would like to be considered for Star Search, send in a tape that is over 5 minutes long, but less than 30. They will look at all tapes. Sometimes Star Search will book comics from audio tapes , sight unseen, as well as from auditions across the country, even in small town comedy clubs. They usually will take a club owner’s suggestions.
Getting Cast in TV and Film by Doing Stand-up
Casting directors and network casting executives all go to stand-up clubs to discover talent. But just because comics do well in stand-up doesn’t mean that they will know what to do when they walk into a casting director’s office and are handed a script to read. Rule of thumb guidelines that can aid a stand-up comic at a reading include the following:
Don’t do your act in an office, but invite the director to come down and see your show the next time you are performing. Stand-up belongs onstage, in front of an audience, not in front of a desk;
Take acting classes to enhance or amplify whatever it is about you that piques the interest of casting directors;
Send postcards/ecards to casting directors to notify them where and when you are playing. Casting directors want to find new talent. They always want to be the one who discovers a new talent and so they are very responsive. If the casting director cannot go, possibly someone from the office will be sent.
Relevant Associations & Organizations
Association for the Promotion of Campus Activities (APCA)
Sevierville TN 37862
The APCA is a national campus buyers organization that holds showcases and supplies entertainment information to campus talent buyers throughout the United States.
http://www.apca.com/
Association of Talent Agents (ATA)
9255 Sunset Blvd., Suite 930
Trade association composed of approximately 100 agency companies engaged in the talent agency business. The membership includes agencies of all sizes representing clients in the motion picture industry, stage, television, radio (including commercials) and literary work.
http://www.agentassociation.com/
The Bob Hope Hollywood USO at LAX
Los Angeles Inter. Airport Center
203 World Way West, Suite 200
Phone: 310-645-3716/202-610-5700
The USO (United Service Organizations) is chartered by the Congress as a non-profit charitable corporation, it is not a part of the United States Government. The USO mission is to provide morale, welfare and recreation-type services to uniformed military Personnel.
http://www.uso.org
National Association for Campus Activities (NACA)
13 Harbison Way
Columbia, South Carolina 29212
NACA has evolved into the nation’s largest collegiate organization for campus activities with nearly 1,200 member colleges and universities, and more than 600 associate member talent agencies, performers and product specialty firms working in the college market.
http://www.naca.org/
For a full listing of helpful associations and organizations click here
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The re treatment of metastatic bone disease
The re-treatment of metastatic bone disease causing recurrent pain after an initial course of EBRT was seen to be feasible with a reasonable rate of symptom relief [13–19]. In echoing the ACR findings, the task force noted that the available data was derived from studies where re-treatment was not the primary endpoint studied, and that many of the descriptions of re-treatment were based upon small numbers of patients. Additionally, the authors cautioned that re-treatment may only be considered when taking into account the normal tissue tolerance of structures included in the treated volumes. The spinal cord and cauda equina were specifically mentioned as structures whose tolerance to the combined dosing must be taken into account when delivering a second course of EBRT to the spine. Given significant interest in newer technologies amongst radiation oncologists and neurosurgeons, the ASTRO task force enthusiastically recognized the promise for improvements in care with highly conformal therapy which includes all technologies that can deliver higher doses to metastatic bone disease with a steep dose gradient to spare adjacent normal structures. The team focused their analysis on the potential benefits of stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) for metastases in spine bones, though they described that the available data for this intervention has to this point been accrued in single institutional studies with small numbers of patients whose responses have been measured with novel treatment outcomes. As such, the task force suggested that patients who receive SBRT should strongly be considered for the available treatment protocols to better accrue data about efficacy and toxicity measures. The theoretical advantage of SBRT for sparing spinal cord or cauda equina in the re-treatment of recurrent, painful spine lesions was documented in much greater detail than was true in the ACR Appropriateness Criteria [27–32]. In an attempt to clarify confusion regarding the use of radiotherapy with other available interventions for painful metastatic bone disease, the ASTRO task force clearly stated that EBRT is still necessary in situations where patients receive surgery for spinal cord pkc inhibitors or long bone stabilization, intravenous radiopharmaceuticals for widespread bone disease, osteoclast inhibitors, or kyphoplasty or vertebroplasty for lytic lesions causing spinal instability [33–36]. Surgery was only recommended for patients with spinal cord compression who have a favorable prognosis and sufficient performance status to warrant the surgical risks and post-operative rehabilitation required for that degree of intervention. Radiopharmaceuticals were deemed most appropriate in patients with widespread, painful osteoblastic metastases that are apparent on a technetium-99 bone scan. While the use of osteoclast inhibitors was seen as being a reasonable means by which to palliate bone pain and promote re-ossification, the task force pointed out that there are no data to suggest that the palliation of a single site of metastatic bone pain is superior with osteoclast inhibitors plus EBRT versus EBRT alone. Finally, the task force described the theoretical advantage of using kyphoplasty or vertebroplasty for spinal instability caused by lytic metastases, though they shared the belief that the data proving those assumptions was mostly derived from retrospective, single institutional studies. In its conclusions, the ASTRO group suggested that future bone metastases treatment trials should be made uniform by the measurement of consistent variables as defined by the International Consensus on Palliative Radiotherapy Endpoints while also assessing functional domains and quality of life with validated instruments such as the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer bone metastases quality-of-life questionnaire [24,37].
National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) and bone metastases treatment recommendations The National Comprehensive Cancer Network is made up of experts from cancer centers of excellence around the United States who designate representatives to committees that evaluate data and provide treatment options for most common cancers [38]. While there is no specific NCCN group designated to evaluate the use of radiotherapy for bone metastases, the topic is dealt with to varying degrees in the publications which deal with primary diagnoses that are most likely to metastasize to bone. The NCCN Guidelines also include a wider variety of author specialty types for each clinical site than do the ACR and ASTRO guidelines. Furthermore, while radiation oncologists make up the majority of pa nel members on the ACR and ASTRO committees, radiation oncologists generally make up a distinct minority, or are a singular member, of the NCCN committees. As such, the NCCN guideline recommendations regarding radiotherapy for bone metastases are likely to result from less vigorous conversations and voting criteria than might be true for those offered by the ACR and ASTRO groups.
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Unknown Matthew Chase Killer- California- 1988 (SOLVED)
Unknown Matthew Chase Killer- California- 1988 (SOLVED) Jan 22, 2017 1:50:51 GMT -5
Post by Scumhunter on Jan 22, 2017 1:50:51 GMT -5
(Above photos: Top Left: Matthew Chase (victim) Top Middle: 1st composite of a possible suspect Bottom Left: 2nd composite of a possible suspect Photo Credits: Unsolved Mysteries website)
From Unsolved Mysteries Wikia:
Real Name: Matthew Chase
Nicknames: Matt
Details: Twenty-two-year-old Matthew Chase vanished shortly after he used an ATM in Los Angeles, California. A close-up analysis of it showed a person next to him. Police believed that he may have been withdrawn a large amount of cash in an attempt to alert someone in the bank for help. His car was found three weeks later. Several people claimed they met him at local homeless shelters shortly after his disappearance; this instilled hope in the hearts of his family and friends.
Unfortunately, his body was found three months later in nearby Pasadena. His killer and the man next to him in the ATM surveillance footage remain unknown, but it is presumably the same person.
Suspects: No suspects have been named in this case. Although a bandana found in Matthew's car suggests he may have fallen victim to gang members. Two composites have been made of the abductor.
Extra Notes: This case first aired on the December 21, 1988 episode. According to TV Guide, it was originally scheduled to air on the November 23, 1988 episode, but it was postponed.
Results: Unresolved. Matthew's killer has not been caught and his case remains unsolved.
unsolvedmysteries.wikia.com/wiki/Matthew_Chase
Official Unsolved Mysteries website link: unsolved.com/archives/matthew-chase
Thoughts? Matthew's still unsolved murder has never been aired on America's Most Wanted to the best of my knowledge but I am placing his case in the Unsolved on tv section since, as noted above, it has been aired on Unsolved Mysteries.
Admin Note #1: Based on crime location, our advice for anyone with information on this case would be to call Los Angeles Regional Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS
Admin Note #2: If you have any news-related updates on this case, please contact us here: amwfans.com/thread/1662/website-contact-form
Last Edit: Oct 21, 2018 16:58:26 GMT -5 by Scumhunter
walshfan
Unknown Matthew Chase Killer- California- 1988 (SOLVED) May 12, 2017 16:38:51 GMT -5 Scumhunter and HeadMarshal like this
Post by walshfan on May 12, 2017 16:38:51 GMT -5
I'm doing lots of work on this case today. I have e-mailed the Pasadena police department and requested the bandana be sent in for DNA testing and the case re-opened. I have also messaged Ashleigh Banfield of HLN's PrimeTime Justice and requested she profile this case. Though I'm not sure if it's usually the kind of case her show covers, she might profile on the order that Matt was the best friend and roommate of a Teresa Dahl, who used to work for CNN. Ashleigh used to work for CNN, so the two may know each other.
The bandana is definitely the best clue in this case. The lettering on it was "ES PBS CLS", which would definitely seem to suggest it was the work of the Eastside Playboys, which seems to be a rather violent Mexican-American gang that operated in the area. With the surveillance camera footage of the perp and the bandana as clues, I feel this is a solvable case. Tough, but solvable.
Slight correction Scumhunter: Matthew did not own the car, it actually belonged to Teresa Dahl and he was borrowing it. The Unsolved Mysteries segment stated that Matt usually walked, so I'm not sure he possessed a car at the time.
This evil filth snuffed out a 22 year old life for a few hundred dollars. As John Walsh would say, we need to catch this guy now. RIGHT NOW.
Unknown Matthew Chase Killer- California- 1988 (SOLVED) May 12, 2017 23:29:47 GMT -5 via mobile
Post by Scumhunter on May 12, 2017 23:29:47 GMT -5
I copied and pasted the Unsolved Wiki summary but thank you for the correction nonetheless.
Even if Ashley Banfield didn't know her Theresa personally, perhaps the fact she was once a fellow CNN employee would inspire her to air Matthew's case.
Unknown Matthew Chase Killer- California- 1988 (SOLVED) May 16, 2017 7:16:23 GMT -5 Scumhunter and mschwartz like this
Post by walshfan on May 16, 2017 7:16:23 GMT -5
Everyone is invited to join my new facebook group for Matthew entitled "Justice for Matthew Marshall Chase". I opened the group this morning, added 10 of my friends as members, added a few photos and had some discussion. I hope the group greatly expands in terms of number of members, and there will be additional info presented and maybe even a new and rare pic. I also plan on having some pretty big revelations on this case soon. This case has been dormant for years, there's never been anything new on the internet about it in the decade I've been checking, and even Matt's friends and family seem to have forgotten him. But I'm about to shake things up.
Unknown Matthew Chase Killer- California- 1988 (SOLVED) May 16, 2017 12:18:33 GMT -5 HeadMarshal and mschwartz like this
I just got off the phone with Sgt. Gomez of the Pasadena Police Department. Per my request, they're taking another look at this case!
mschwartz
Unknown Matthew Chase Killer- California- 1988 (SOLVED) Dec 17, 2017 2:06:18 GMT -5 via mobile Scumhunter likes this
Post by mschwartz on Dec 17, 2017 2:06:18 GMT -5
PLEASE HELP US FIND MATTHEW'S KILLER(S)!!!!
www.facebook.com/groups/375856862809034/permalink/456425664752153/
Unknown Matthew Chase Killer- California- 1988 (SOLVED) Dec 17, 2017 2:11:40 GMT -5
Post by Scumhunter on Dec 17, 2017 2:11:40 GMT -5
Shared on the America's Most Wanted Fans and The Hunt with John Walsh Fans Facebook pages!
TheWebDetective
Unknown Matthew Chase Killer- California- 1988 (SOLVED) Oct 21, 2018 12:04:30 GMT -5 Scumhunter likes this
Post by TheWebDetective on Oct 21, 2018 12:04:30 GMT -5
It appears that the case has been updated according to my research, but take it for what it's worth if more needs to be known.
"In 2018, the LAPD cleared Matthew’s case. A member of Matthew’s family said that they feel confident that Matthew’s killer was David “Bear” Meza, who died the day after Matthew disappeared. Although there is still the possibility that Meza had accomplices, the family is grateful for some closure."
Unknown Matthew Chase Killer- California- 1988 (SOLVED) Oct 21, 2018 16:58:02 GMT -5 maddog34 likes this
Post by Scumhunter on Oct 21, 2018 16:58:02 GMT -5
Thank you, will move the case to the captures on tv since it is essentially solved as to main culprit. I never like using the word "closure"- since you never "close" getting over a loved one's murder- but I hope Matthew's family at least feels a sense of peace that they no longer have to suffer through the pain of not knowing- and a sense of justice that Matthew's believed killer (or main killer) no longer works the Earth.
maddog34
Unknown Matthew Chase Killer- California- 1988 (SOLVED) Oct 24, 2018 22:59:44 GMT -5 via mobile
Post by maddog34 on Oct 24, 2018 22:59:44 GMT -5
Good work by the LAPD. While Mesa cannot be brought to justice, it seems that his family takes comfort in knowing Mesa will never be able to harm another person again.
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A Petrified Fountain
Scott Jordan Harris’s entirely dispensable guide to the movies most worth watching
Detour (USA, 1945)
Some films seem able to embody an emotion or state of mind: with Singin’ In The Rain it’s joy, with The Shawshank Redemption it’s hope, and with Detour it’s fatalism. Time magazine, which included Detour on its (admittedly idiosyncratic) list of ‘The 100 Top Movies of All TIME’, said ‘no film is noirer’ – and certainly it’s impossible to think of one that is. An inescapable pessimism flows from the script and infects every aspect of a production that – shot in six days for a cost, depending on who you believe, of either five- or twenty-thousand dollars – is in budgetary terms a featherweight of film, but that punches like the heavyweight champion of the world.
Deadbeat piano player Al Roberts (Tom Neal) hopes to walk down the aisle – or rather ‘make with the ring and the licence’ – with his curvy, nightclub singer girlfriend, Sue Harvey (Claudia Drake). She isn’t so keen and, convinced she can make it in Hollywood, moves to California, leaving him to hitchhike after her. Eventually an amiable, if unlikely, character called Charles Haskell Jr. (Edmund MacDonald) gives Roberts a ride and, for a while, things are going well. Then, suddenly, Haskell dies and, in trying to revive him, Roberts accidentally lets Haskell’s head fall heavily against a rock. Sure that anyone to whom he tries to explain these events will think him a murderer, he swaps clothes with the corpse, and steals not only Haskell’s wallet and car, but also his identity. Once he gets far enough away, he reasons, he can dump the car and clothes and revert to being Al Roberts. And perhaps he could have, had he not picked up a shapely and sarcastic passenger named Vera (and played by Ann Savage). Unfortunately for Al, she had met the original Haskell and understandably smells a sewer rodent. Immediately, Roberts finds himself ‘tusslin’ with the most dangerous animal in the world – a woman’, and, naturally for a noir character caught in such a contest, plummeting into a personal Hell of blackmail, betrayal, crime and killing.
Although, as Roger Ebert wrote, Neal is ‘a man who can only pout’ and Savage ‘a woman who can only snarl’ their interaction is as riveting as that of any of the great onscreen couples. While many noirs allow their characters to face their fates with someone they love, or at least lust after, Detour’s spirit is far too malign for that: here the two main characters are locked together only by enmity. They scratch and stab at each other in a hate-fuelled perversion of the kind of words Bogart and Bacall characters use to flirt, and the scenes they share are as unforgettably electric as any between Lauren and Humphrey.
By including Detour in this selection of often faultless films, I don’t mean to imply that, as some low-budget classics do, it manages to be miraculously unlimited by its restrictive funding and shooting schedule, and emerges every bit as good as it would have been had it been given a blockbuster budget. A sub-student-film shonkiness is evident in every scene and there are a dozen jarring moments – my favourite of which comes when Roberts is shown ‘playing’ piano and the hands on the keys are so obviously not Neal’s they might as well be black and have an extra three fingers on each hand – that would have been lethally laughable in a lesser film. In Detour, though, the false-seeming sets and awkward acting enhance the eerie unreality of the story they showcase – and this is central to our understanding of the film.
The circumstances of the first death in which Al Roberts is involved – and from which he profits – are unlikely but believable; those of the second, however, are so improbable they are difficult to accept. Watching them we begin to wonder, if we have not already, if Al isn’t telling us porky pies. Crucially, because the film unfolds in flashbacks narrated by Roberts, we are not shown events as we are sure they occurred, but as he tells us they did – and, the more he talks, the more we wonder if Detour’s story isn’t so much a plot as an alibi. It is, more than any other aspect of the film, our doubts about the validity of what we have witnessed that explain why Detour survives in the memory much longer than many more famous and expensive efforts. Days after watching the film, you’ll likely catch yourself still puzzling over whether Al Roberts is a liar, or just the unluckiest lunk in hitchhiking history.
Even if you’re in search of a black and white classic, Detour is easy to overlook. Despite its cult status and critical acclaim, its name still has little of the cache of those of other standouts in its genre. But, runt of the film noir litter though it is, Edgar Ulmer’s brilliantly bleak 68-minute thriller deserves just as much attention as its more robust brothers like The Maltese Falcon or Double Indemnity. Crammed with the kind of cynical 1940s dialogue that must have tasted sour to say, Detour is a dark little gem and, as those idiosyncratic critics at Time pointed out, unquestionably the noirest of noirs.
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Fist of Fury (Hong Kong, 1972)
Bruce Lee is a legitimate legend, but the films he starred in – as distinct from his performances within them – are generally disappointing. Too often, the scripts are un-involving, the actors unconvincing and the direction uninspired. Fist of Fury is the exception – a high-impact martial arts masterpiece worthy of combat cinema’s greatest star, and of any audience’s attention.
Lee plays Chen Jeh, the standout student of Jing Mo, a patriotic but pacifistic Chinese martial arts academy in Japanese-controlled Shanghai. After Jing Mo’s master dies, representatives of a Japanese bushido school burst in and insult his memory. Although his superiors advocate non-violence, Chen soon retaliates, and his shin-smashing assault on the entire student body at the dojo downtown sparks a gang war that’s quickly intensified by his investigations into his beloved teacher’s mysterious demise. (And his habit of punching Japanese people until blood leaks out of their eyeballs.)
To enjoy the action in many martial arts movies, you’re required to forget all logic and suppress every twinge of disbelief. (Frankly, I question the effectiveness of the ninja death star when employed in the average pub brawl, and I’m not convinced that, faced with an army of exquisitely skilled sword-wielding assassins, even the most polished practitioner of Tiger Crane Kung Fu wouldn’t be better off just distracting them for a second and running away like a deadbeat babyfather.) The fights in Fist of Fury, however, require no such indulgence. Lee, and director Lo Wei, stage a succession of low-tech tear ups that are so spectacular, and so realistic, they make you duck and dodge in your seat – and, beyond that, Lee’s transcendent charisma and clearly genuine ability to beat up practically anyone in the world sweep away any lingering improbabilities.
Frequently, kung-fu films only come alive during the fight scenes – and, on top of that, many of those fights scenes often seem to have been included not to propel the story or illuminate the characters, but to satisfy some studio quota of punches per hour. Fury avoids both these drawbacks through the constantly increasingly tension created by the certainty that Chen’s revenge does not – as is almost always the case in action movies – somehow take place outside the law. Even as we are cheering him on, we’re aware that Chen’s actions are criminal; that, for however admirable a reason, he has made himself a murderer; and that he’ll be held accountable for it. Because of this, none of the fights he picks are unimportant – each is an encounter for which he, a young man of supreme potential, is prepared to sacrifice his freedom and future – and none of the quieter scenes are insignificant. There’s even a believable love interest, whose charming concern for Chen’s physical safety in the short-term, and for their shared aspirations in the long-, remind us that the events of this film aren’t being played out in one of those uncomplicated movieworlds where life-long happiness is the inevitable product of giving your enemies a righteous hiding in the final scene.
This certainly isn’t a perfect picture – the dialogue is often threadbare, the bad guys are all one-dimensional dastards, and, at one point, an iron bar-bending Russian mafia boss is flown in just to give Lee’s character an extra ass to kick – but its intelligence in maintaining a tight plot and its bravery in eschewing an all-is-well ending mark it out from the likes of Enter- and Way Of The Dragon. Of course, the whole production is just an excuse to display Lee at his lightning-limbed, bare-chested best, but it’s all executed with such panache and aplomb we don’t mind any more than we mind a Laurel and Hardy film being just an excuse for Stan and Ollie to lark about.
The mere presence of Lee makes Fist of Fury superior to virtually all other kung fu films; every moment he is onscreen provides an emphatic answer to the question – if you’ve ever felt the need to ask it – of why he is hero-worshipped with such unparalleled intensity even decades after his death. But that’s not enough to make this a great movie. What elevates Fury into a classic is that, for once, everyone else in a Bruce Lee film raises his or her efforts to something approaching his level. If you have even the weakest craving for a cinematic serving of sweaty machismo and undiluted adrenaline, Fist of Fury is the picture to see.
Labels: 1972, Bruce Lee, Fist of Fury, great films, great movies, greatest films, greatest movies, Kung fu film, martial arts
Wings of Desire (Germany, 1987)
The story is simple: angels are around us every day – listening to our thoughts, recording our actions, and puzzling over our idiosyncrasies – but we never know they are there. When one of them falls in love with an emotionally unfulfilled trapeze artist, he has to choose between his feelings for her and his life among the immortals. It seems like the sort of subject matter Hollywood would serve up as a confection – and it is. In 1998, Wings of Desire was not so much remade as diluted into City of Angels starring Nicholas Cage and Meg Ryan. Whether or not you’ve seen that film, and whatever you thought about it, I’m convinced you’ll enjoy the original – because it’s practically impossible to imagine that anyone wouldn’t.
This is one of the world’s most life-affirming films. It’s festival of a life, an ode to the tragedies and triumphs that occur in every moment and across every lifetime. Filled with obvious but unobtrusive symbolism – the Berlin wall suggesting the division between the physical and the divine, history and ambition, life and death; the trapeze artist dangling, literally and figuratively, between Heaven and Earth – it finds sensual answers to spiritual questions, and is about both our biggest ideas and smallest experiences.
It’s also about Berlin, its architecture and atmosphere, its past and its prospects, as they were understood in the last years of the East-West divide. The city, still withered from the Second World War but somehow defiantly beautiful, is as much the star of picture as Bruno Ganz – who plays Damiel, an angel who longs to be human. His partner – around Berlin and throughout eternity – is Cassiel, another celestial overseer but one more resigned to the limits of his angelic existence. Together and apart, they eavesdrop on the interior monologues of troubled Berliners – a woman about to give birth; an OAP frustrated by man’s inability to properly embrace peace; and, most movingly, a young man about to kill himself – and, where they can, they impart a sudden and inexplicable feeling of consolation.
In an initially absurd sub-plot – which threatens to unbalance the picture but is integrated so smoothly it actually enhances it – Peter ‘Lieutenant Columbo’ Falk appears as himself, and eventually reveals he used to be an angel, but gave it up for the chance to live and love and say, ‘Just one more thing…’ in three thousand and thirty-six different ways whilst wearing a grubby raincoat. Like everyone else, Falk can feel an angel’s presence but, unlike everyone else, he understands the sensation. Recognising that Damiel is near one night, he encourages him to become human by eulogising the joys of mortal existence, praising not the life-changing thrills of falling in love or fathering a child, but the gentle delight of warming your hands on a cold day or deciding to smoke a cigarette. It’s enough to seduce Damiel, and he is soon no longer an angel.
The moment when he becomes a man – the film flicking from monochrome to colour – is cinematic magic. Suddenly, Damiel is free to taste hot coffee, tie a child’s shoelace, and buy a silly hat. He once was blind, but now he sees. Stopping a man on the street, he asks him to identify the colours in the graffitied faces on the Berlin Wall. ‘What’s this?’ he says, pointing to one of them.
‘Blue,’ says the man.
‘Blue!’ exclaims Damiel, as if he’d just recognised a long-lost loved one. His pleasure is exquisite, and his gratitude for being alive inexpressible. It’s a scene that could have come from It’s A Wonderful Life (had Frank Capra shot that movie in colour).
There are several such moments the film, and it’s because of Ganz that they all work as well as this one. None of us – except perhaps Peter Falk – has any idea what it feels like to wait from the beginning of time until the end of the 1980s just to smile and have someone smile back, and yet, when Ganz shows us the experience onscreen, it instantly rings true.
It’s misleading, though, to discuss this film purely in terms of its plot or performances. This is, for much of its running time, a mood piece unconcerned with story. It likes its characters to indulge in sensory delights for their own sake whilst pondering the great questions, and it likes its audience to do the same. That we go along with this, and never once want it to hurry up and cut to the bit where the erstwhile angel gets the girl, is predominantly due to its astonishing visual beauty.
When Wim Wenders wrote the script for Wings of Desire with the acclaimed Austrian playwright Peter Handke, he pulled off something special. When he filmed it with the equally acclaimed French cinematographer Henry Aleken, he pulled off a miracle. The idea of shooting in black and white everything we see from an angel’s-eye view, and in colour everything we see from a human’s perspective, is borrowed from A Matter of Life Death – but employed with a skill and confidence that’s totally original. If you’ve ever literally liked the look of a film, this one will mesmerize you.
This isn’t an archetypal date movie; it’s certainly not a romantic comedy, and it never makes the potential transition from eccentric celebration of human beings, and being human, to soupy love story. Even so, if your partner ever turns to you and suggests you spend an intimate evening watching City of Angels, turn to him or her and suggest you watch Wings of Desire instead.
Labels: 1987, Berlin, Bruno Ganz, City of Angels, Germany, Wim Wenders, Wings of Desire
Scott Jordan Harris
Scott Jordan Harris is a film critic from Great Britain. Formerly editor of The Spectator's arts blog and The Big Picture magazine, he is now a culture blogger for The Daily Telegraph; a contributor to BBC Radio 4's The Film Programme and Front Row and Roger Ebert's UK correspondent. He is the author of the book Rosebud Sleds and Horses' Heads: 50 of Film's Most Evocative Objects and the editor of the New York, New Orleans, Chicago and San Francisco volumes of the World Film Locations books series. His writing has been published by, among others, Sight & Sound, The Spectator, BBC online, The Guardian, Fangoria, The Huffington Post, The Australian Film Institute, movieScope and RogerEbert.com. He first went to a cinema to see Disney’s Pinocchio and the loud music, combined with the scary whale, made him cry. He was 22.
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He survived beatings, imprisonment even shipwrecks – but nothing could stop St Paul becoming the 10th Bible hero to walk the plank.
The "least of the apostles" was played by Rev. Katherine Ann ("Kit") Carlson, Associate Rector of the Episcopal Church of the Ascension, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA.
"My New Testament professor wrote her dissertation and first book on Paul's letter to the Romans," she says. "When she hears about this, I am dead meat."
After spending her childhood in Michigan and her adolescence on the Gulf Coast of Florida, Kit studied for two years at Michigan State University before transferring to the University of Florida. She received a Bachelors of Science in Journalism from U of F in June 1980 – but she did not show up at graduation to collect her diploma, because she was getting married to Wendell Lynch.
Kit and Wendell make their home in Silver Spring, with children, Andrew and Katie Carlson-Lynch. Wendell is a software engineer and inventor for Arbitron, the radio ratings company. Mad Moxie, a rescued racing greyhound, completes the family. Katie gave her mother a little wooden Ark set to keep on her desk for the duration of the voyage - "I guess I'll be packing it up now."
"All the family think this is a lot of fun and have been very encouraging even when I was afraid of being planked," admits Kit. "This is big of them, as I am not a character in Unreal Tournament or Counterstrike – the only online games they think really count!"
In spite of her valiant efforts, Kit's children still hate Paul.
"It's the effect of too many youth group Bible studies that pull his verses out in dibs and dabs," she says. "I worked on changing their attitudes – by getting down with the apostle!"
Kit also set out to show how Paul was not the woman-hater everyone thought he was.
"He worked side-by-side in ministry with many women," she maintains, "that was why I never made a crude comment to Mary Magdalene, because I saw her as a partner in ministry. The business with Esther was all ³eros².
"Paul is quite smug in his letters about his celibacy and I wondered what he would be like if he was tested. The relationship with Jezebel was 'agape'. He really wanted to try to love her like Christ would. Boy, did she make that hard!"
In her professional life as a lay person, Kit was a freelance writer and editor, and is author of three books written for the Discovery Channel. The most recent is Working Dogs: Tales from the K9 to 5 World, which was published in April 2000. She also worked for Manor HealthCare Corp, as Director of Marketing Services, for Discovery Publishing as managing editor of its magazine, and for an au pair agency as a community co-ordinator.
"I have loved shipofoffols.com since it first launched," she says. "I would love to be a Mystery Worshiper, but I only worship at Ascension pretty much."
The most fun she had on The Ark was the day she and Simon Peter interrupted the romantic supper between Neb and Martha.
"I was really hoping John the Baptist would play along and we could have a good old-fashioned sit-in, but I had a blast with Simon," she recalls.
Will she able to use any of her experiences as sermon illustrations?
"If you can figure out how to get a sermon anecdote out of lusting after Esther in a wet pink dress, shooting tequila with Simon Peter, or cross-dressing as Juliet... let me know!"
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Tieleman hosts Nightline BC one more time for 2006 - from Legislature Raids to Coal Power tonight - December 28!
I am guest hosting Nightline BC on CKNW AM 980 and the Corus Radio Network again tonight - Thursday December 28 - from 7 to 9 p.m. for the vacationing Mike Smyth.
Tune in, call in, be heard.
Here's tonight's lineup:
7 p.m. DUFF CONACHER – COORDINATOR, DEMOCRACY WATCH
PRIME MINISTER STEPHEN HARPER AND THE ACCOUNTABILITY ACT – WHAT WAS PROMISED VS. WHAT WAS DELIVERED
7:30 p.m. GARY MASON – COLUMNIST, GLOBE AND MAIL
IT'S THE 3-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF BC LEGISLATURE RAIDS THAT LED TO CHARGES AGAINST DAVID BASI, BOB VIRK AND ANEAL BASI - GARY MASON RECENTLY INTERVIEWED DAVID BASI AND BOB VIRK
8 p.m. JOE FOY – CAMPAIGN DIRECTOR, WESTERN CANADA WILDLIFE COMMITTEE
COAL FIRED POWER PLANTS – DO WE NEED THEM IN BC? WHAT IMPACT WOULD THEY HAVE?
8:30 p.m. CLIVE ANSLEY – LEGAL COUNSEL REPRESENTING FALUN GONG PROTESTORS
FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AND PROTEST VS. ADHERENCE TO VANCOUVER CITY BY-LAWS
3 years ago today - December 28, 2003 - BC Legislature raided by police
Hard to believe it was December 28, 2003 when British Columbians learned their Legislature was being searched by police in a case alleged to involve organized crime at the highest levels, drugs and big money.
Three years later and we still await the beginning of the most important political scandal trial since 1958, when Robert Sommers - forests minister in the Social Credit provincial government of W.A.C. Bennett was found guilty of bribery for his dealings with big logging companies.
Jump forward to today - the long-awaited trial of former top BC Liberal government ministerial aides David Basi and Bob Virk for alleged breach of trust, and government communications officer Aneal Basi for alleged money laundering, will not likely start until March 2007.
They are charged in connection with the biggest privatization in BC history - the $1 billion sale of BC Rail by Premier Gordon Campbell - and the allegations include claims Basi and Virk provided confidential government information to OmniTRAX, one of the bidders.
Prominent lobbyists Erik Bornmann and Brian Kieran are slated to be key crown witnesses against Basi, Basi and Virk - and neither of them have been charged despite police allegations that they provided benefits and money to the accused.
And while we know more and more about this case - mostly from defence applications and statements - the public is still in the dark about what happened three years ago and why it has taken so long to come to court.
Basi and Virk have recently been interviewed in the Globe and Mail, where they proclaim their innocence. On a more human side, both men say their lives have been seriously damaged by the allegations that cannot be disproved until the trial concludes, leaving them jobless and dependent on family and friends to survive.
I have been following this case since the raids took place and had detailed Basi and Virk's strong connections to the federal Liberal Party and the Paul Martin leadership campaign in BC even before the search warrants were executed.
Here are some of the reports I have filed on this case since the raid. You can find many of these and more items on this blog as well.
On The Tyee website:
Martin’s B.C. soldiers back Dion November 30, 2006
Leg Raid Hearing Intrigue November 9, 2006
BC Leg Case Lurches to Life October 31, 2006
Leg Raid Case: New Charges, New Questions April 4, 2006
Spiderman in a Web of Intrigue May 10, 2005
24 hours newspaper columns and stories:
Erik Bornman drops bid to become lawyer - for now November 21, 2006
Erik Bornman's bid to become lawyer may not happen anytime soon November 17, 2006
More questions afoot on BC Legislature raid case October 17, 2006
There are still several columns online that I wrote for the Georgia Straight in past years on this case:
Basi Hirings, Firings Intrigue January 13, 2005
Warrants Raise Tough Questions for Libs September 16, 2004
Probe Throws Light on the Liberal Players March 17, 2004
Police Raids and BC Rail March 10, 2004
Raids Prompt Revelations of Martin-Campbell Connections January 7, 2004
And a blog website with various information on this case can be found at The Legislature Raids
Stay tuned in the new year for much, much more.
Year of Guccis and Guinness in B.C. - year end round up column in 24 hours newspaper
Year of Guccis and Guinness in B.C.
Last year we said, "Things can't go on like this," and they didn't; they got worse.
- Will Rogers
Here's what kind of a year in politics 2006 has been: No one wanted to be caught dead in federal Conservative International Trade Minister David Emerson's shoes - except maybe B.C. Liberal Finance Minister Carole Taylor.
That's because while Emerson entered the Guinness Book of World Records for the fastest political defection ever, Taylor caught heat for introducing the provincial budget in a $600 pair of Gucci pumps.
But one thing is clear - they both stepped in it!
After January's minority Conservative election victory, Liberal Vancouver-Kingsway Member of Parliament Emerson took all of 48 hours to become a card-carrying Tory.
And Emerson, who swore to voters he would be Stephen Harper's "worst nightmare," instead sucker punched his constituents and joined the Conservative cabinet. De-elect Emerson signs will last longer than Rona "Clean Air Act" Ambrose will as environment minister.
Meanwhile, in February Taylor took the tradition of finance ministers wearing a new pair of shoes on budget day to unheard-of extremes. The $600-Guccis, plus $84 in tax, cost far more than a month's worth of social assistance for the poor. Marie Antoinette, eat your heart out!
If such political cynicism makes you sick, go to a medical clinic - a private one. 2006 was year of the for-profit physician, with controversial private healthcare booster Dr. Brian Day becoming the president-elect of the Canadian Medical Association and B.C. doctors Mark Godley and Don Copeman opening new private facilities.
Day, who actually said before his election that Medicare was a "health monopoly that Bozo the Clown could run" and that a "Berlin Wall" stops patients from getting medical treatment, will become the voice of all Canadian doctors.
Now let's remove that lump from the area around your wallet!
Day has the ear of B.C. Liberal Premier Gordon Campbell, who made him the very first speaker at the government's "Conversation on Health" - an invitation-only consultation on Medicare.
From conversations to conversions on the road to Damascus - that's what happened to Campbell on First Nations. In opposition, Campbell actually tried to stop the Nisga'a Treaty with a lawsuit and then held a divisive and insulting referendum on native rights in 2002.
But now Campbell is aboriginal people's best friend, fighting Harper for money and signing treaties himself.
Lastly, Dec. 28 marks the third anniversary of the police raid on the B.C. Legislature.
While former B.C. Liberal ministerial aides David Basi and Bob Virk still await trial, Erik Bornman, who is alleged to have bribed them, is now trying to become a lawyer.
Whoever said the wheels of justice turn slowly must have come from B.C.
Tieleman back in the Nightline BC saddle tonight - Wednesday December 27 - on CKNW & Corus Radio Network
Hope everyone had a great and safe Christmas and Boxing Day!
I'm back filling in for Michael Smyth as guest host at Nightline BC tonight [and Thursday night too] from 7 to 9 p.m. on CKNW AM 980 in the Lower Mainland/Vancouver Island and on Corus Radio Network stations throughout BC, as well as online at www.cknw.com
Here's tonight's lineup of guests and issues:
7 p.m. - Crawford Kilian - noted writer and educator talks about the third edition of his book Writing For The Web, as well as recent developments in the Blogosphere.
7:30 p.m. - Joan Craven - author of What Can I Do Today on parenting strategies to keep kids busy and also - perfect for radio hosts - how to deal with difficult people!
8 p.m. - Murray Mollard - Executive Director of the BC Civil Liberties Association - on the good, bad and the ugly from 2006 in the field of civil liberties and human rights.
8:30 p.m. - Charles Burton - Professor of Political Science at Brock University and former Canadian diplomat in China on what dramatically increasing trade with China would really mean for BC and Canada in the wake of a provincial report suggesting 500,000 jobs could be created through Asia Pacific trade.
Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night - for a few days!
Merry Christmas to all - I will be enjoying Christmas and Boxing Day with my family and friends and wish you all the best for a safe and happy holiday.
I'm back guest hosting Nightline BC at CKNW AM 980 on Wednesday December 27 and Thursday December 28 from 7 to 9 p.m., filling in for Michael Smyth.
And I'll be guest commenting on The World Today with Philip Till at 7:10 a.m. on Wednesday December 27, Thursday December 28 and Friday December 29, filling in for Vaughn Palmer.
And to all a good night from Bill Tieleman and West Star Communications!
Tieleman hosting again tonight - Friday - on Nightline BC on CKNW AM 980 & Corus Radio Network
He's baaaaack!
I am once again filling in as guest host tonight - Friday - from 7 til 9 p.m. on AM 980 or http://www.cknw.com/ online and on the Corus Radio Network throughout BC.
7 p.m - Tis the season to stay sober - Linda Bell of Bellwood Health Services talks about how to deal with alcohol during the holidays, especially for those with addictions and their family and friends.
7:30 p.m. - Special needs assistants - Patti Bacchus of the Vancouver School Board's Special Education Advisory Committee and parent of a student with special needs talks about the recent decision not to cut 13 special needs assistants and related issues.
8 p.m. - Downtown Eastside Women's Shelter - Cynthia Low from the Shelter talks about additional funding of $80,000 it has received and what the needs are.
8:15 p.m. - Stanley Park Smackdown - Vancouver Park Commissioner Spencer Herbert on the aftermath of the disastrous storm and what areas of the park are now open to the public.
8:30 p.m. - Aboriginal hunting at night - Lawyer Ardith Walkem - legal counsel to Ivan Morris and Karl Olsen, two Tsartlip First Nations hunters who were acquitted in the Supreme Court of Canada of using lights to hunt deer at night, explains the case and their position.
Tune in - call in!
Tieleman guest hosts tonight - Thursday - on Nightline BC on CKNW AM 980 & Corus Radio Network
I'll be filling in for Michael Smyth tonight and Friday night from 7 til 9 p.m. on AM 980 or www.cknw.com online and on the Corus Radio Network throughout BC
Here's tonight's lineup - do tune in and call in!
7 p.m. Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan - talking about his support for the BC Federation of Labour's call for a $10 minimum wage. We'll also talk about the Gateway project.
7:30 p.m. Fiona Gow - the mother of Neil Fahlman, a developmentally challenged young man who was denied government support until the BC Court of Appeal ruled otherwise.
8 p.m. Endangered Reindeer in BC? We talk to environmentalists trying to save Santa's loyal helpers.
8:30 p.m. Wining for Christmas - What to drink this holiday season with your turkey or tofu but hopefully not reindeer! John Clerides, owner of Marquis Wines, joins us to give advice and answer your questions.
Vancouver School Board Trustee Sharon Gregson is one straight shooter I support - Solicitor General John Les and Mayor Sam Sullivan are not
The recent media and political furor over Vancouver School Board Trustee Sharon Gregson giving her views on handgun ownership and self-defence have brought out the worst in some politicians.
BC Liberal Solicitor-General John Les is appalled and says Gregson is "irresponsible."
NPA Mayor Sam Sullivan is shocked.
Don't either one of them have more important things to do? How about dealing with homelessness, property crime, drug dealing, or even criminals smuggling handguns across the Canadian border?
Instead they have nothing better to do than take political cheap shots - pardon the pun - against someone who has done nothing illegal for speaking her mind.
And because she is a Coalition of Progressive Electors trustee and an NDP supporter, Les and Sullivan are trying to tar and feather her.
I have used a .45 calibre pistol for target shooting myself - I enjoyed it immensely and it was both legal and safe. No, I don't own a gun, thanks for asking.
I worry about drug dealing scumbags who have illegal weapons - like the folks who have killed several young Vancouver people in the past few years.
But I don't stay up night worrying about legal gun owners who shoot competitively in very restrictive conditions with licensed weapons.
I do not agree with Sharon Gregson that Canadians should have the right to carry and conceal handguns for self-defence. All the evidence shows that our American neighbours have a far more dangerous and violent society despite letting citizens arm and defend themselves.
But Sharon Gregson has every right to argue her case in public without a witch hunt by political opportunists.
It's up to citizens to decide if changing our gun laws is a good idea.
Meanwhile, let's not attack one of the only politicians who speaks her mind freely and is willing to open a democratic debate.
We need more frankness and honesty in politics, not less.
Bruce Allen said it well on his CKNW Reality Check today:
"With Sharon Gregson, you know what you are getting and who can't deal with that?"
Who indeed.
Tieleman on real cause of homelessness and poverty in BC - unequal distribution of wealth
Bill Tieleman’s 24 Hours Column - News, Views & Attitude
Plenty of room for improvement
And homeless near a thousand homes I stood,
And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.
- William Wordsworth, Salisbury Plain, 1794
Outside my Kitsilano apartment, in the recycling area off the lane, a homeless man sleeps among the blue boxes of newspapers, bottles and cans.
Driving along West Broadway, I see more homeless begging on the streets.
Close to my office a bundled man sleeps under the 7th and Fir viaduct, possessions in a battered shopping cart. The temperature is freezing.
But along Burrard Street I see a gleaming row of 20 brand-new Lotus Elise sports cars, available in many colours for just $60,000 each. Nearby is MCL Motor Cars, where the thrifty can buy a used 2005 Bentley Continental for just $209,000.
Welcome to Vancouver, land of the homeless and hopelessly wealthy.
Recently much attention has been paid to the poverty problem, with some hoping to help people in need while others just want to make them go away.
Many causes are mentioned and solutions proposed and yet homelessness has gotten significantly worse year over year, despite a strong economy and low unemployment.
But the most important cause gets ignored - because it can't be fixed by charitable donations or personal efforts, as worthy and needed as those are.
It's the large and growing gap between rich and poor, here and around the world.
A study this month by the World Institute for Development Economics Research found that the richest one per cent of adults own 40 per cent of global assets, while the bottom 50 per cent own barely one per cent of the world's wealth.
A more equitable distribution of wealth from rich to poor depends on government action.
But when the B.C. Liberal government cuts social programs to pay for big tax cuts for corporations and the rich, drastically reduces eligibility for welfare, fails to provide enough drug treatment programs, doesn't create adequate low- income housing and increases costs for medical services, the results are crystal clear.
And those results sleep and beg on our streets and in our alleys today.
B.C. has Canada's worst child poverty rate according to Statistics Canada at 23.5 per cent - one in four kids. And in 2005 the Lookout Emergency Aid Society had to turn away people needing shelter a shocking 5,000 times because all beds were full.
One last personal story. As I came out of a store the same evening a ragged man was begging for change.
As I gave him some money he simply said: "I'm so hungry." And he was.
Best wishes for the year ahead to all readers but especially those without homes this Christmas. We can do so much better than this.
Bill Tieleman will be guest hosting Nightline BC on CKNW AM 980 from 7 to 9 p.m. on Dec. 18, 21, 22, 27 & 28.
Email: weststar@telus.net
FOI request reveals BC Hydro spent $2 million on self-promoting ad campaign
Big bucks for Hydro ad campaign
By BILL TIELEMAN, 24 HOURS
As BC Hydro struggles to restore electricity to thousands of customers without power for up to a week, 24 hours has learned the Crown corporation has spent almost $2 million on a self-promoting television, radio, print and Internet advertising campaign this year.
A Freedom Of Information request filed by 24 hours shows BC Hydro is spending $1,864,481 on a campaign titled "Planning For Generations."
That includes production costs alone of $199,800 for one 30-second TV ad in several languages, $81,500 for creation of one newspaper print ad and $30,570 to produce three radio ads.
The costly campaign tells customers what a great job is being done - not just by BC Hydro but by the provincial government.
"B.C.'s economy is growing. And so is our need for energy ... That's why the province is acting to make B.C. electricity self sufficient within the next decade," part of the 66-word ad reads. "By planning now we will have enough made-in-B.C. power to meet our needs today. And for generations to come."
In addition to production costs, BC Hydro spent $726,183 buying television time to run its ad, an additional $617,060 on print advertising space, another $133,210 for radio air time and $57,000 on Internet web ads.
BC Hydro's Scott Macdonald, in a response to the FOI request, wrote that the costs are "existing estimates" with final costs not yet available.
The ad says B.C. needs more energy but doesn't mention that provincial policy is to buy electricity only from private suppliers at costs significantly higher than from publicly-owned BC Hydro hydroelectric dams. Nor does it mention new contracts with two coal-fired generating plants.
Government advertising has always been controversial in B.C.
B.C. Liberal Premier Gordon Campbell strongly opposed government advertising when in opposition. In a November 2000 interview, he said: "I can tell you this, we are going to end government feel-good advertising."
But last year Finance Minister Carole Taylor revealed the government spent $13.9 million on its B.C.: The Best Place on Earth ad campaign.
Customers can see if the ad is worth it at: wwe5.bchydro.com
The Vancouver office of DDB Canada produced the campaign.
Total Campaign costs: $1,864,481.33
- TV ad production - $199,800 (30 second spot)
Media buy - $726,183
- Print ad production - $81,500.83
- Radio ad production - $30,570
- Web ad media buy - $57,000
Tieleman guest hosting on CKNW AM 980 - Nightline BC Monday December 18 and more
Hi all - I will be guest host on Nightline BC on CKNW AM 980 and the Corus Radio Network in BC tonight - Monday December 18 from 7 to 9 p.m. I'm filling in for the vacationing Mike Smyth.
You can tune in on the Lower Mainland at AM 980 or online at www.cknw.com
I will also be guest host on Thursday December 21, Friday December 22 and the following week on Wednesday December 27 and Thursday December 28.
Tune in, call in!
Alex Tsakumis on Mayor Sam Sullivan and the NPA criminalizing those who have nothing
In today's 24 hours newspaper Alex Tsakumis has written a powerful column on how Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan and the Non-Partisan Association majority on City Council have decided to criminalize those who have nothing rather than effectively deal with homelessness, poverty and drug addiction.
With Tsakumis' permission, I'm pleased to offer a copy of his column here.
Citizen Sam misses the point
By Alex Tsakumis
In Citizen Sam, the biopic about our beleaguered Mayor, the viewer is dealt a veritable cornucopia of snippets of Sam the man and his notable life.
It’s tough not to be moved by the story of an otherwise happy go lucky young man from a good family, who breaks his back skiing, dives into the depths of depression and suicide contemplation, only to remerge phoenix-like from the ashes of his then torn world, to lead Canada’s third largest city in charity, business and politics. His rise to the coveted throne of Vancouver’s political elite, then, is that much more remarkable.
And it’s for the potential lift of every one of those seemingly superhuman qualities, too, that Sam Sullivan, the Mayor, is such a surprising disappointment as being, at least, guardian of the shattered on the Downtown Eastside—the chief promise he’d made repeatedly during the civic campaign.
You’d expect someone who has stood at the precipice separating life and death to understand what it would be like for the downtrodden in this city, who we can all agree, peer longingly, even playfully, over life’s edge every day.
If the Mayor really wanted his “Civil City” plan to charge against ‘the problem’ and not ‘the symptoms’, rather than locking up garbage bins, and going quixotically hard against those with the absence of anything but a gently wafting pillow of crack smoke, he should have started with an innovative, truly compassionate approach that would have parked him and a multi-partisan lobby group at the doorsteps of the Legislature and Parliament—with a strategy.
Instead, the Mayor and his apparatchiks have decided to criminalize those who have nothing else in life but to miserably revel in the symptoms that are a blight on this City. Throwing up a weak, disjointed plan of competing philosophies that rings hollow in its prognosis, does absolutely nothing.
I worked on the DTES for many years. One of the businesses I was responsible for bordered what is known in the patois of that street as “Shooter’s Alley”. There, twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, are life’s wounded, filling their veins with the perpetually uneasy warmth of hell.
The first few times I watched someone shoot up, I wasn’t as much shocked as I was taken aback by their purposeful gait straight into the black of existence. There I was standing behind a barred, heavily fortified gate, briefcase at my feet and there they were, all of them, flailing about in their own cesspool, only to drown one day: used condoms, dirty needles, blood soaked foam and dead rats.
They were clearly medicating. “Who in their right mind would want to live like this”, I once muttered to myself.
And then it occurred to me: it wasn’t that they were merely homeless or drug-addicted. It was clear that they were mentally ill. The social workers I befriended and that have worked that beat since time immemorial confirm(ed) it: attack the mental health issue head-on.
And, that, is the real story of the DTES as is stands.
Yes Sam, garbage from homelessness and drug-addiction makes mental-illness issues worse. But so does ignorance from bad governments and ineffective leaders.
Did Sam Sullivan supporters commission mystery polling to prove Mayor still electable?
The mystery polling on Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan may not be a mystery anymore....
My colleague Sean Holman at 24 hours and proprietor of the must-read www.publiceyeonline.com has posted a report of a major meeting of Sam Sullivan's supporters.
The Mayor's men and women got together at the Opus Hotel Wednesday night before attending a special screening of the controversial documentary Citizen Sam - a blunt look at Sam Sullivan and his Non-Partisan Association 2005 election campaign.
Would those be some of the same people who commissioned a mystery poll by Justason Market Intelligence about Sam Sullivan, his potential opponents and his policies?
More than likely.
That secret polling - reported exclusively in 24 hours - sparked widespread rumours among city politics players and observers as to who was responsible.
But as of Wednesday you could scratch all of the following off the list of suspects, who have contacted me since the story broke:
Christy Clark - ex-Deputy Premier who challenged Sullivan for the NPA mayoralty nomination.
Marty Zlotnick - NPA Park Board commissioner and backroom guy who backed Clark
Tim Louis - ex-Coalition of Progressive Electors councilor
David Cadman - COPE councilor
Peter Ladner - NPA councilor
Suzanne Anton - NPA councilor
The NPA
Vision Vancouver
That tends to lead to one obvious conclusion - Sullivan's backers, feeling the heat over the Mayor's failing performance, commissioned a poll to show he is still viable and could win an election over either Vision Vancouver's Raymond Louie, COPE's Cadman or Louis or former opponent Jim Green of Vision.
The question now is whether the poll results were so good that they will soon appear in media outlets to back up Sullivan or whether they were so bad that we will never seen them.
Unless they get leaked!
To Stop Tories, Vote Grit or NDP? Once more with feeling: Glavin versus Tieleman.
To Stop Tories, Vote Grit or NDP?
Once more with feeling: Glavin versus Tieleman.
View full article and comments here http://thetyee.ca/Views/2006/12/13/Round2/
By Terry Glavin and Bill Tieleman
TheTyee.ca
[Editor's note: Last Tuesday, The Tyee published Terry Glavin's explanation of why, with Dion as Liberal leader, "Voting NDP Just Got Harder." Bill Tieleman responded with his "Ten Reasons to Vote NDP" in the next federal election. When the smoke had cleared, Glavin and Tieleman both wanted to add some more points, presented here.]
TERRY GLAVIN, ROUND 2:
In Monday's Tyee, Bill Tieleman was allowed an opinion essay to defend the New Democratic Party in response to the question I put in my Dissent column last week: "Why are we supposed to vote NDP again?"
After reading that I'd already offered my "strong endorsement" to both Liberal contenders Michael Ignatieff and Stephane Dion, it took me a while to stop laughing. Besides, what I wrote in my column was, "I'm not saying that progressives in Canada shouldn't vote NDP. I'm not saying I'm not going to vote NDP."
But then it occurred to me that if this is the best that a high-profile, full-time NDP pundit can offer by way of answering my question, then the NDP must be in worse shape than I'd thought.
Glossing over my question's context ("the implications of vote-splitting to the point that Stephen Harper could return at a troop strength sufficient to form a clear majority") Bill's essay offers what he calls 10 reasons to vote NDP. The problem is, Bill's ten "reasons" don't add up to a single really good one.
Guilt by association?
Bill begins with some grasping attempts to hang Stephane Dion by association (The Trilateral Commission! David Orchard! That guy who likes Dion who might be connected to David Basi and Bob Virk!) but it's a bit late for that.
This isn't about Dion. Dion was indeed elected Liberal leader, but even NDP leader Jack Layton called Dion "a man of principle and conviction...and therefore almost certain not to be elected leader of the Liberal party."
This doesn't deter our Bill, who makes a lame attempt to smear Dion with the Chrétien-era Adscam imbroglio, and then gets himself in a complete muddle about the Kyoto Accord. Canada signed it eight years ago, not 13 years ago, and Canada didn't ratify the deal until 2002. And Dion wasn't environment minister until 2004, anyway.
One of Bill's "reasons" to vote NDP could just as easily be offered as a reason to vote for the Conservatives, since they voted with the NDP for the "anti-scab" Bill 263. And as for the bit about former prime minister Paul Martin not doing anything progressive except when the NDP made him...that's over the top. Even if it were true, it would be equally useful as an argument in favour of the NDP backing another Liberal minority government.
Bill then trots out the old "Ignatieff-backs-torture" canard, then reminds us that Ontario's labour unions hated Bob Rae, and you know Bill's at the bottom of the barrel when we get this: election-finance reform means every NDP vote will earn the party $1.75! And a tautology: don't vote for the Liberals, because...they're Liberals.
Then we're treated to references to Pierre Trudeau's arrogance, NAFTA (the NDP wants out now?) APEC (?) and the most hilarious: "Canadian troops in Afghanistan." Which the NDP supported. Then opposed. Then supported, so long as our soldiers didn't do any fighting. Or something. All because of the ridiculous assumption that there is something "progressive" about thumbing our noses at the United Nations and surrendering our Afghan comrades to the savagery of the Taliban.
Best way to vote
But there is an observation that Tieleman makes, or at least it's a point he alludes to, that I am perhaps as guilty as Bill of not treating with sufficient seriousness. That's the question of "strategic" voting.
Bill raises the spectre of "stampeding nervous NDP voters into the Liberal camp," as though NDP voters were as dumb as cows. But when I raised it, it was mainly in the context of the NDP's brutish excommunication of Canadian Auto Workers president Buzz Hargrove for suggesting that maybe it wouldn't be so evil to vote Liberal in those ridings where a Liberal vote could keep a Conservative out of office.
Since neither Bill nor I addressed this matter adequately, here's my modest proposal, to meet Bill half way, in counsel to both Liberals and New Democrats: Don't get stampeded by anyone.
Vote with your heart and your head.
Just be sure to vote for whichever candidate is likely to keep the Conservative at bay.
BILL TIELEMAN, ROUND 2:
"A hit, a very palpable hit." - Hamlet, William Shakespeare
Judging from the wild roundhouse swings, it looks like I've landed a political blow to Terry Glavin.
Glavin's attempts to dismiss the arguments I raised are flimsy at best.
For example, Terry says I'm in a "complete muddle" over Kyoto and wrongly blamed Stephane Dion for the Liberal record of failure.
Read what I said again.
Fact: Canada during the Liberals' 13 years in power increased greenhouse gases by 30 per cent.
Fact: Under Kyoto, Canada promised to reduce them by 20 per cent.
Fact: Canada under the Liberals did a worse job than George W. Bush.
If Terry wants to give Dion a passing grade when he was a Liberal MP the whole time and a cabinet minister most of it just because he was only environment minister for a year, well think again.
Thumb twiddlers
Dion's party, with Dion an MP and cabinet minister, twiddled their collective thumbs while the Arctic melted.
Same thing with the anti-scab law. Only a handful of Conservative MPs voted in 2005 to ban replacement workers -- but Terry makes it seem the whole caucus voted with the NDP -- if they had, it would be law today! Dion joined the likes of Stockwell Day to shoot it down.
And Michael Ignatieff's documented statement on the use of torture is a "canard"? More like Glavin is ducking.
I share Terry's concern that the federal NDP needs to better communicate its ideas. But that's not my job -- I just gave my top of mind personal reasons.
And I agree people should vote with their hearts and heads -- but neither my heart nor head would ever let me vote for a Liberal like Hedy Fry or Joe Volpe.
Lastly, I am neither a "full time" nor an "NDP pundit." I have a day job, and while I generally but critically support the NDP, they don't financially support me, as that statement seems to imply.
Related Tyee stories:
Voting NDP Just Got Harder
Ten Reasons to Vote NDP
Has Harper Really 'Evolved'?
Tieleman guest hosts again tonight - Tuesday - on Nightline BC on CKNW AM 980
I am guest hosting again tonight - Tuesday - on Nightline BC on CKNW AM 980 and the Corus Radio Network in BC, filling in for host Mike Smyth.
7:00 – Guy Giorno on the Accountability Act. Formerly Chief of Staff and counsel to Ontario Conservative Premier Mike Harris , lawyer Giorno is among the country's few experts in Canadian lobbying legislation, and co-author of the book Lobbying in Canada.
7:30 – Phil Rankin, BC lawyer, on the 2nd part of the Maher Arar report. Justice Dennis O'Connor has called for a new watchdog to independently monitor and review all RCMP activities
8:00 – Adrian Dix, NDP MLA and health critic, on a proposed new private mental health facility and a Port Alberni hospice
8:30 – Shauna Paull, chairperson of Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women Canada, on trafficked women and how they are dealt with when arrested
Turn on, tune in, don't drop out - drop me a line or call!
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Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan in a jam with continuing mystery on polling
Sam in a jam
Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan is in serious trouble.
That's the only conclusion one can draw after 24 hours last week uncovered a mystery public opinion poll about the mayor, his policies and potential opponents in the 2008 election.
We still don't know who conducted the poll by Justason Market Intelligence in late November.
But we do know the questions are designed to find out what Vancouver voters think of the increasingly beleaguered mayor and if they would prefer to replace him in the next election.
We also know it wasn't conducted by Sullivan's ruling Non-Partisan Association or the two opposition parties Vision Vancouver and the Coalition of Progressive Electors. Nor is the mayor's office responsible.
Since 24 hours broke this story Friday the mystery has deepened. Did a Sullivan supporter poll to find out how unpopular the mayor is? Could it be an attempt to block any effort within the NPA to get rid of Sullivan by showing he can still beat the opposition?
NPA councillors Peter Ladner and Suzanne Anton both say they are not involved, as does Marty Zlotnick, the NPA backroom powerhouse and Park Board Commissioner who called Sullivan's $800,000 "eco-density" study a "waste of money".
"Not only is it not me but I haven't the faintest idea who did it," Anton said in an interview.
The polling questions, given to 24 hours by two readers who were phoned at home, include:
Describe Sullivan's first year as mayor in three words;
Would you vote for Sullivan or potential mayoralty contenders Vision Vancouver councilor Raymond Louie or former councillor Jim Green, who lost to Sullivan in 2005; David Cadman, lone councilor for COPE; or Tim Louis, a COPE councillor defeated last election;
Would you support prescribing drugs for addicts, presumably heroin, which Sullivan has already asked city staff to investigate;
What percentage of addicts do you believe stay off drugs after completing treatment programs;
Would you support Sullivan's "eco-density" proposal of smaller housing units and greater urban density in your neighbourhood?
What party do you prefer - NPA, Vision or COPE? Briefly describe that party.
Rumours abound in Vancouver political circles about who could have sponsored the poll, including independent Park Board commissioner Allan De Genova, who quit the NPA in November after a fight with Sullivan, and Christy Clark, the former B.C. Liberal deputy premier who lost the NPA mayoralty nomination to Sullivan in 2005.
Messages left for De Genova and Clark had not been returned at press time.
Or was the poll done by a supporter of a potential Sullivan opponent for Vision or COPE in 2008?
So the mystery continues - as do Sullivan's troubles.
Tieleman guest hosts on CKNW AM 980 Nightline BC tonight - Monday December 11
I will be guest hosting Nightline BC on CKNW AM 980 and the Corus Radio Network tonight from 7 to 9 p.m. filling in for host Michael Smyth.
On tonight's show:
7 p.m. Anne Guthrie Warman of the Vancouver Secondary Teachers Association comes on Nightline to talk about overcrowded secondary school classrooms
7:30 p.m. Shannon Rupp from www.thethetyee.ca online magazine tells us why: "Christianity Is So Gay" in her view - should be fascinating this time of year.
8 p.m. Should BC give the Tsawwassen First Nation viable agricultural farm land and allow it to pull that land out of the Agricultural Land Reserve as part of its recent treaty settlement with the province?
Joe Foy of the Western Canada Wilderness Committee has some deep concerns, as do I, and we talk about that and also about more troubles in Clayoquot Sound with logging.
8:30 p.m. The Better Business Bureau of the Lower Mainland will give you fair warning of the 10 Scams of Christmas, so you can avoid being ripped off. Sheila Charnerski joins us.
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Tieleman takes on Terry Glavin on voting NDP versus Liberal!
Why Dion is no reason for New Dems to switch sides.
View full article and comments here http://thetyee.ca/Views/2006/12/11/NDP/
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My good friend Terry Glavin has put forward the question: "Why are we supposed to vote NDP again?" in response to the new Liberal Party leadership of Stephane Dion.
It's a perfectly legitimate question, though given Glavin's previous strong endorsement of Michael Ignatieff and now Dion, I have to wonder if it's really "apostasy" for him, or ecstasy.
And I very much disagree with his contention that the NDP has to admit it "actually doesn't possess any greater claim to the mantle of progressive politics in Canada than the Liberal party does."
Wow -- what a revisionist history of our country that is!
Nevertheless, let's simplify things and give Terry 10 good reasons why voting NDP is still a lot easier than voting Liberal, particularly Stephane Dion Liberal.
1. Kyoto. Stephane Dion leads a party, and was a cabinet minister in a Liberal government for most of 13 years when Canada increased greenhouse gases by 30 per cent instead of keeping a Kyoto promise to cut them by 20 per cent, a worse record than even the U.S. under George W. Bush.
2. B.C. Backers. Dion's endorsers in British Columbia include key supporters and participants in the right-wing, not progressive, Gordon Campbell B.C. Liberal government, including ex-B.C. Liberal "environment" minister Joyce Murray; ex-B.C. Liberal MLAs Karn Manhas and Doug Symons; Dion's national campaign director, Mark Marissen; provincial lobbyist Jamie Elmhirst; and Bruce Clark, whose home was searched by police at the same time as the B.C. legislature raid that ended with breach of trust charges against ex-BC Liberal ministerial aides David Basi and Bob Virk.
3. National backers. Other national endorsers of Dion include Roy MacLaren, the pro-free trading former federal Liberal cabinet minister and now member of that progressive group called the Trilateral Commission; David Orchard, the controversial anti-free trading former Conservative leadership candidate; and former federal Liberal cabinet minister Doug Young, who was thrown out of the party for joining the Canadian Alliance to support the leadership campaign of Tom Long, a key staffer for the Mike Harris Ontario Conservative government.
4. Workers rights. Stephane Dion's vote helped defeat anti-scab legislation in 2005 as a Liberal cabinet minister, and he was not in Parliament when a second private members' bill vote in favour of banning replacement workers was passed.
5. Sponsorgate's shadow. Stephane Dion was intergovernmental affairs minister throughout much of the Sponsorgate or Adscam scandal under prime minister Jean Chrétien, and while his integrity has not been questioned, his party's certainly has.
6. Martin's lesson. The only reason former prime minister Paul Martin took any progressive measures during his minority term in office was to stay in office with NDP and Bloc Québécois support while trying to steal social democratic votes. This is the same Paul Martin who viciously cut social program transfers to the provinces as finance minister, among other regressive measures.
7. Bad "dream." Dion's "dream team" pals Michael Ignatieff and Bob Rae are in fact a pair of failed progressives. Ignatieff backed George W. Bush's disastrous invasion of Iraq and countenances torture in the defence of democracy. Rae's grim five-year tenure as Ontario NDP premier alienated both labour and business as he racked up massive deficits, then imposed unpaid "Rae Days" off on public sector workers.
8. Money. Canadians should feel free to vote for the party that most closely represents their values and ideals, regardless of the "strategic" value of their ballot. And with federal financing reforms now in place, each party gets annual funding of $1.75 per vote it gains in an election -- that means even the Green party, with no MPs elected, now has a $1 million budget.
9. Strategy. Stampeding nervous NDP voters into the Liberal camp in previous elections has actually resulted in Conservative victories in ridings where the NDP has had the best chance of winning.
10. He's a Liberal. It's still the Liberal Party of Canada for god's sake! The breathlessly arrogant party of Jean Chrétien and Pierre Trudeau, of the Gomery Inquiry, Shawinigate, APEC, wage and price controls, Canadian troops in Afghanistan, Maher Arar sent to Syrian torture, NAFTA implementation, the nearly lost 1995 Quebec separation referendum, the broken GST promise and so much more good stuff!
So, go ahead and consider voting for the newly "progressive" Liberal Party of Canada, but don't say you weren't warned!
Who is polling about Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan if it's not the NPA, Vision Vancouver or COPE?
Sullivan at centre of mystery poll
By BILL TIELEMAN , 24 HOURS
Who wants to know what you think of Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan? And why?
That's the question after a Vancouver polling firm declined to identify who its client is in a survey of city residents that asks their opinion of Sullivan's performance, who his best political opponent would be and what they think of his policies.
The ruling Non-Partisan Association flatly denies any involvement in the poll, as does Sullivan's office. And the NPA's competition, Vision Vancouver and the Coalition of Progress Electors, also say it's not their poll.
But the questions being asked about Sullivan's leadership, possible opponents in the 2008 municipal election and reaction to key Sullivan policy initiatives make it sound like the poll could be an effort to see if Sullivan should be replaced as the NPA's candidate before then.
Could it be the work of someone like independent park board commissioner Allan De Genova, who recently quit the NPA in a dispute with Sullivan?
NPA President Mathew Taylor says the party is not responsible.
"It's definitely not a party poll - I can tell you that," Taylor told 24 hours. "I know the NPA hasn't commissioned it."
The polling questions, provided by two 24 hours readers who were phoned at home in late November for the survey, include:
- Would respondents vote for Sullivan or potential mayoralty contenders Vision Vancouver councilor Raymond Louie or former councilor Jim Green, who lost to Sullivan in 2005; David Cadman, lone councillor for COPE; or Tim Louis, a COPE councillor defeated last election?
- What party do respondents prefer - NPA, Vision or COPE and how would they briefly describe that party?
- What are the biggest issues facing Vancouver?
Barb Justason of Justason Market Intelligence confirmed Wednesday her firm is currently conducting polling in Vancouver but refused to identify the client.
"It's really not something that's mine to discuss. We're not done yet," Justason told 24 hours.
Gordon Campbell and the BC Liberals - your union friendly, progressive political party?
The leopard can't change its spots but can the Gordon Campbell BC Liberal Party?
That's the obvious question if you are a BC Liberal member or supporter who got a fundraising email today.
No union bashing as in days of old - er - the first term. Forgot those imposed contracts! We're your friends now.
No teacher bashing as in days of old - er - the first term. Forget ripping up your contract! We're all on the same side.
Oh, and by the way, send money!
Here is the full text of the email:
Reaching Higher for BC, Support our Progress!
Dear Friend:
Thank you for all the support that you have shown the BC Liberal Party over this past year. This has truly been an exciting year for British Columbia as we've moved forward on a number of new initiatives to continue improving on B.C.'s reputation as the best
place on Earth.
We've seen our economy continue to grow with B.C. creating over 320,000 new jobs since December 2001, over 90% of which are full time - the strongest job creation rate in the country.
We're investing more in health care and education than ever before in the history of our province.We successfully negotiated fair and affordable agreements in 2006 covering more than 300,000 public sector employees, including a 5-year agreement with the BC Teachers' Federation.
We've launched the Conversation on Health, an unprecedented, province-wide consultation with British Columbians on their health care to lay the groundwork for improvements to the principles of the Canada Health Act that will be presented in Fall 2007.
As we go forward, we're looking at the new goals and challenges that lie ahead such as...
Providing greater tax relief for B.C. families within this mandate, to build on British Columbia's current competitive advantage as having the lowest average provincial personal income taxes in Canada on the first $80,000 of income earned.
Providing additional rental assistance to 15,000 lower-income families in British Columbia and building nearly 11,000 new units of affordable housing.
Creating 2,500 new graduate spaces for master's and doctorate degrees, creating 7,000 more apprenticeship spaces by 2010, and spearheading an aggressive marketing initiative across Canada and the United States - all to help address the skilled worker shortage created by our strong economy.
But to make it happen, we need your support. As this year draws to a close,
please consider making a tax-deductible donation to the BC Liberal Party to ensure the progress of Premier Gordon Campbell and our entire team can continue.
You can show your support for the BC Liberal Party through a one-time donation through our online web site, or by becoming a valued member of our Club 300 program with a
year-round contribution.
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To qualify for a 2006 tax receipt, online donations must be received by midnight on December 31, 2006 and mailed or faxed donations must be received by noon on December 29, 2006.
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Thank you again for your continued support.
Together, we will continue reaching higher for British Columbia in 2007 and beyond!
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Mark Marissen denies Justin Trudeau in Vancouver-Kingsway rumour
Mark Marissen, Stephane Dion's leadership campaign manager, has just contacted me to deny rumours posted here this morning that Justin Trudeau, eldest son of the late Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, was being recruited to run for the Liberals in Vancouver-Kingsway.
In an email sent from his Blackberry, Marissen says in response to my question whether there is any truth to the rumours he is trying to recruit Trudeau:
"No truth. We have a candidate in Vancouver Kingsway," Marissen wrote.
That candidate, of course, is Stephane Dion supporter Wendy Yuan, who was nominated in July amid some controversy. Bob Rae supporter Mason Loh lost that nomination and also an appeal to Liberal Party HQ based on the meeting being held on short notice. Yuan will face turncoat Liberal, now Conservative cabinet minister, David Emerson.
Dion said in August when Yuan endorsed his leadership that: “Wendy is an outstanding leader in the community, a successful entrepreneur, and a tireless worker for the party. I am glad she joins my campaign for a more prosperous, more just and greener Canada.”
Fair enough. But imagine what he'd say about Justin Trudeau.
Justin Trudeau shocker - will Pierre Trudeau's son run for federal Liberals against David Emerson in Vancouver-Kingsway?
Could federal Liberal heart-throb Justin Trudeau run in Vancouver-Kingsway in next election?
That's the delicious rumour just making the rounds today with some Liberal sources, who say Stephane Dion's Vancouver-based leadership campaign manager Mark Marissen is working overtime to convince the eldest son of Pierre Trudeau to take the plunge into politics in the next election.
If it comes to pass Justin Trudeau could be facing off against former Liberal David Emerson, who jumped to the Stephen Harper Conservatives and a cabinet job just hours after the Paul Martin Liberals lost the election in January 2006.
It's hard to believe either Emerson or the New Democratic Party, which once held the riding, could beat the star-power and media frenzy that a Trudeau candidacy would bring.
While the idea of Justin Trudeau running in Vancouver-Kingsway may seem far-fetched on first blush, it shouldn't be dismissed.
Justin Trudeau has lots of BC and Vancouver connections. His mother Margaret Trudeau grew up in Vancouver, the daughter of legendary Liberal cabinet minister Jimmy Sinclair.
Justin obtained his B.Ed. at the University of BC and taught at Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School in Vancouver.
Justin jumped to public prominence with his eulogy for father Pierre at his October 3, 2000 funeral. Since then he has toyed with Liberals about running and in the federal leadership contest was a strong and prominent supporter of Gerard Kennedy, moving with Kennedy to back Dion when Kennedy dropped out.
Trudeau currently lives in Montreal with his wife, TV personality Sophie Gregoire. He is chair of Katimavik, the national youth service program, and is involved with environmental groups such as the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society and the Nature Conservancy of Canada, as well as Harvest Montreal, the largest food bank in the region.
Justin will be 35 on Christmas day - and what a present his candidacy would be for the Liberals!
I have sent an email to Marissen asking for comment. More if he replies.
Can Stephane Dion pull second rabbit from hat against Stephen Harper?
Tuesday December 5, 2006
Dion's uphill climb
The Liberals are the party of government; the Conservatives are like the mumps, you get them once in your life.
- Jack Pickersgill, former Liberal cabinet minister, 1961
The Liberal Party of Canada rolled the dice on Saturday, giving its leadership to Stephane Dion, the fourth choice of Liberal members in an initial nation-wide vote and a candidate who failed to gain the endorsement of a single former cabinet colleague currently in Parliament.
For a party that has been rarely out of government, a party where practically every leader has become prime minister, it was a risky roll for the chance at a bigger prize.
But the true winner of that dice roll may turn out to be not Dion but Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who can be expected to force an early election, or Bloc Quebecois leader Giles Duceppe, who may also want a quick vote to maximize his Quebec seats.
Dion should not be underestimated, having just pulled off a surprising upset over three men who finished ahead of him in pre-convention membership voting - Michael Ignatieff, Bob Rae and Gerard Kennedy.
But Dion's weaknesses - his English is as fractured as his reputation in Quebec and he seriously lacks charisma - will encourage Harper and Duceppe to exploit the situation.
Watch also for New Democratic Party leader Jack Layton and new Green Party leader Elizabeth May to roast Dion on environmental issues.
Dion may have named his family dog "Kyoto" but he was also a cabinet minister in the Liberal government that increased greenhouse gases by 30 per cent over 13 years in power instead of keeping a Kyoto promise to cut them by 20 per cent. Talk about hot air.
The new leader didn't pick up the backing of any of his former cabinet colleagues until the fourth and final ballot. Not a convincing show of confidence by those who have seen Dion at work in government.
But with strong help from the former British Columbia Paul Martin campaign team that helped push Jean Chretien out as Prime Minister, Dion became everyone's least objectionable choice.
Mark Marissen, Dion's National Campaign Director and Martin's former top B.C. lieutenant, deserves much credit for running a tough up-the-middle campaign much like that of two other compromise leadership candidates: former federal Conservative leader Joe Clark and former B.C. NDP leader Bob Skelly, who both came from far behind to win.
The analogy, unfortunately for Dion, is one primarily of failure in the larger electoral battle, not success. Clark was prime minister for nine brief months before being defeated and subsequently deposed, while Skelly lost the election that followed and resigned soon afterwards.
Dion has won the Liberal leadership against considerable odds. Beating Harper is an even longer shot.
Tieleman and Spector dissect Stephane Dion Liberal leadership win Monday at 10 a.m. on CKNW's Bill Good Show
Norman Spector and I will join Bill Good on CKNW AM 980 from 10 to 11 a.m. to discuss and dissect the Liberal leadership vote, as well as the also surprising Alberta leadership tally and the controversial private clinic emergency room situation.
Join us, call us, also on the Corus Radio Network throughout BC.
Stephane Dion wins Liberal leadership with prominent BC backing
Former environment minister Stephane Dion has triumphed in the fourth and final ballot of the Liberal leadership contest over MP Michael Ignatieff with 54.7% of the votes.
And Dion's win was dependent on support from some key BC Liberals formerly associated with the Paul Martin team that pushed Jean Chretien out of the Prime Minister's office in 2003.
Most prominent among them is Mark Marissen, who was Dion's National Campaign Director and an early backer of the candidate who was discounted by many and came in fourth place in the initial vote of Liberal members, behind Ignatieff, Rae and Gerard Kennedy.
Marissen deserves part of the credit for a winning strategy that included convincing Kennedy to do a deal with Dion where whoever fell behind would support the other candidate. Dion edged ahead of Kennedy on the first ballot and Kennedy dropped out in favour of Dion after the second vote.
Dion's win with 2,521 votes over Ignatieff's 2,084 was a convincing one that showed Liberals were ultimately unwilling to go to an outsider to leader their party, first dispatching former Ontario NDP premier Bob Rae, then saying no thanks to Ignatieff, the academic who had spent 30 years teaching in the U.S. and Britain.
Now Dion's challenge is to improve his fractured English and work quickly to unite the party in preparation for a possible spring election against the Stephen Harper Conservatives, who have dropped in popular support due to issues like Afghanistan, same-sex marriage, the Israeli invasion of Lebanon and rejection of the Kyoto climate change agreement.
Stephane Dion poised to beat Michael Ignatieff in close race on 4th ballot
It looks like front-runner Michael Ignatieff has run out of gas going into the fourth and final vote of the federal Liberal leadership contest.
Stephane Dion only has a 2.5% advantage over Ignatieff, so anything could still happen, but Dion's momentum and what appears to be more endorsements coming from the defeated Bob Rae camp should give him enough to win.
Ignatieff needed a Rae endorsement, even if only a personal one, to have a decent chance but Rae has studiously rejected supporting either of the remaining two candidates.
More after the final ballot......
Liberals and Labour - Which Leadership Candidate is the Most Pro-Labour? The Vote On Anti-Scab Tells A Tale
Who will help the working man?
The Tyee Election Central Desk
While much attention has been spent on which federal Liberal leadership candidate is most attractive to party delegates or to Canadian voters, what about workers?
Which of the eight Liberals who aspire to become prime minister would also be a leader for the labour movement. Who is the most likely to introduce progressive legislation to meet the needs of working people?
Tough question.
None of the candidates has been outspoken on labour issues or attracted significant union movement support.
And while the NDP is the traditional and often organizational choice of organized labour in Canada, the Liberals have moved to the left since being turfed from power.
As one labour insider told The Tyee: “In opposition, the Liberals are trying to out-NDP the NDP!”
Some observers might automatically assume Brother Bob Rae, the former New Democratic Party premier of Ontario, is the obvious pro-labour choice.
But they would be wrong.
Bob Rae is still widely despised in the Ontario labour movement, particularly but not exclusively, among public sector unionists who have never forgiven him for imposing umpaid days off in an attempt to reduce burgeoning deficits.
Rae was widely condemned by the Ontario labour movement at the time and those hard feelings persist.
The former NDP premier was also faulted by others in labour for reneging on his party’s promise to introduce public auto insurance, a feature of other social democratic provinces like B.C., Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
The Buzz on Bob
But, Rae does know the labour movement and none other than Buzz Hargrove, president of the Canadian Auto Workers, has reportedly picked him as the best choice for the Liberals.
But given that even Hargrove’s public embrace of Paul Martin in a CAW bomber jacket didn’t save the political hide of the former Liberal prime minister, don’t count on Rae enjoying overwhelming labour support.
Anti-Scab Counts
Talk is cheap. When the chips are down, what matters is who voted in favour of a labour priority – anti-scab legislation.
The answer is simple – and then not so simple.
An October 25, 2006 second reading vote on a private members bill – Bill C 257 – to introduce anti-scab or anti-replacement worker legislation was passed in the minority Parliament.
Among those members of all parties who voted in favour: Liberal leadership candidates Michael Ignatieff and Joe Volpe.
But fellow MPs and contenders Stephane Dion, Ken Dryden and Scott Brison did not vote on the motion.
[Gerard Kennedy, Bob Rae and Martha Hall Findlay don’t hold seats.]
And in an earlier vote on anti-scab legislation in April 2005, when the Paul Martin Liberals were in power, the entire cabinet voted against Bill 263, which was narrowly defeated by a count of 143 against versus 131 in favour.
Martin himself was absent for the vote but Dion, Dryden, Brison and Volpe all helped defeat anti-scab.
As the old saying about the Liberals goes, they govern from the right and run from the left.
Labour Supporters?
There is a shortage of prominent labour leaders or former leaders supporting any of the Liberal contenders.
Unsurprisingly, given that he has twice run unsuccessfully as a federal Liberal candidate, former IWA-Canada president Dave Haggard isn’t shy about boosting Bob Rae.
Other supporters with union ties include labour consultant and former Hospital Employees Union leader Jack Gerow, who has hosted an event for Rae, and Rob Mingay, a former press secretary to then-NDP leader Ed Broadbent.
But a quick glance through the endorsement pages of other Liberal leadership candidates doesn’t readily turn up any prominent labour officials throwing their support behind a potential PM.
So all in all, labour will likely wait and see who wins the convention vote on Saturday and then attempt to make inroads on policy issues it deems important.
Because unlike an NDP convention, most of the labour support you will find at this weekend’s Liberal gathering will come from the workers employed by the convention centre.
Battling Pundits - Tieleman versus Tsakumis On Who Will Win Liberal Leadership!
In today's 24 hours newspaper I take on right-wing political commentator and former Non-Partisan Association backroomer Alex Tsakumis over who will win the federal Liberal leadership contest this Saturday.
My column is followed by Alex's piece - you be the judge - and you can throw in your fearless predictions!
Bettin' man puts dough on Iggy
The odds always favour the frontrunner in any leadership campaign no matter how much my friend on the right side of the political fence may disagree.
And that means if you foolishly insist on betting who will be the next Liberal leader - a risky proposition - put your money on MP Michael Ignatieff. But realize that Iggy is far from a sure thing.
Ignatieff has run a poor campaign since finishing first in the initial vote of Liberal members - making a series of rookie mistakes.
But he still has to be considered the favourite despite a pack of pundits claiming either former NDP Ontario Premier Bob Rae is the sure thing or that Stephane Dion can't lose.
Political observer Will McMartin analyzed 27 recent federal and B.C. contested leadership battles and found that in 22 of them the front runner on the first ballot won - that's an impressive 81 per cent success rate.
At this convention Ignatieff has 29 per cent of the first ballot support locked up, plus more than anyone else of about 870 "ex-officio" votes - MPs, Senators and party officials who make up another 15 per cent of delegates - which should put him in the mid 30 per cent range. His closest rival, Rae, has 20 per cent, while Gerard Kennedy at 17.5 per cent and Dion at 16 per cent trail.
So Ignatieff has the easiest route to win, while Kennedy Dion and Rae all need to put together complicated combinations of second, third and fourth choice votes.
Remember too that Iggy has more Liberal MPs and senators behind him - and that influences delegates. If Kennedy is smart - and he is - and ambitiously ruthless - which I'm not sure about - he could go to Ignatieff after the first ballot, along with Brison, and make Ignatieff the leader.
That would give Kennedy kingmaker and second-in-command status. But only the reckless are making big bets on this fascinating competition.
Crap shoot for Liberal top dog
On the left side of this page, my friend Comrade Tieleman will attempt to regale you with his knowledge of a Michael Ignatieff win come this weekend's Liberal leadership convention.
But Emperor Iggy ain't happening.
Here's why. By Sunday morning Kennedy, Dion, Rae or Ignatieff will be leader of the hapless Libranos.
Iggy has the least capacity for last ballot growth, and the largest number of delegates who will never vote for him, besting by the slimmest of margins the justifiably dreaded Bob Rae.
It was easy for Iggy to garner the first 30%, but it will be almost impossible for him, the way the delegate landscape sits, to lift the last 20%.
Most glaringly, Iggy single-handedly raised the constitutional idiocy that has gripped us, with his 'Quebec as a nation' comment and now he's going to pay for it - big time.
Look for the gap between Kennedy and Dion powerhouses after the first ballot. If Kennedy is too far ahead, Dion will move all his delegates to him, except for his Quebec delegation, which may scatter.
And the reverse will hold true if Dion is too far ahead, although Kennedy's principled stance this week against the sophomoric 'Nation of Quebec' motion, will surely provide him with a bump in support.
Rae, ultimately feared by the common-sense Liberals as leader and by Canadians as Prime Minister, presents a different scenario altogether, and a much more likely chance of winning for only one reason: the ideologues in the Sliperal left wing, having downed multiple tubs of their own bathwater, think that as part of providing a grand mea culpa during a general election, Rae's unmatched ability to shovel the fertilizer will lull hinterland and young urban Ontarian dimwits back to sleep.
Unfortunately, they're right. If Rae is on the last ballot though, it will be his opponent who will win, because even the Liberals can't be that nuts.
Or can they?
Gary Collins shocker - Ex-BC Finance Minister quits as CEO of Harmony Airways!
Former BC Liberal finance minister Gary Collins has dropped a bombshell this afternoon by quitting as President and CEO of Harmony Airways!
Harmony owner and major BC Liberal donor David Ho must be in shock, since Collins has been there for less than two years. Collins quit his job as Premier Gordon Campbell's finance minister on December 14, 2004 to move to Harmony and a reputed $300,000 annual salary running an airline that currently has just four aircraft.
Collins has told media that he will be pursuing one of several employment opportunities but has not given any details.
Collins' former ministerial assistant, David Basi, faces trial on breach of trust charges that will be heard in the new year. In a defence application for disclosure of evidence in November it was disclosed that police had put Collins under surveillance when he met with an executive from OmniTRAX, one of the companies bidding in the $1 billion BC Rail privatization.
The defence application also disclosed that a conversation between Premier Gordon Campbell and Collins was captured on a police wiretap on Basi's cell phone.
You can see an interview by Public Eye Online's Sean Holman with Collins this afternoon and Sean also reprinted Collins resignation news release.
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Dana White Exploring Potential Crossover Fight Involving Floyd Mayweather in 2020
By Tristen Critchfield Dec 31, 2019
The brief partnership between the UFC and Floyd Mayweather proved to quite lucrative for both sides, which is why Dana White is exploring the possibility of another crossover fight with the undefeated boxer.
During a recent interview with ESPN, the UFC president elaborated on his recent talks with Mayweather. White was clear that the intention is for “Money” to fight, not a business relationship. Whether that’s in the UFC or in boxing is currently unknown.
“The money is in Floyd competing,” White said.
White and Mayweather crossed paths at a Los Angeles Clippers basketball game in November, and the two men seemed quite cordial.
“We both started talking. The easiest way to explain it to you is Floyd and I both feel that we add value to each other, and we're going to figure something out,” White said. “Some things have to play out, and then I'm going to start talking to [Mayweather's promoter Al] Haymon maybe this summer and then I'll have something for Floyd in the fall.”
The UFC notably helped co-promote the boxing match between Mayweather and former two-division champion Conor McGregor in August 2017. Mayweather won the contest via technical knockout in the 10th round, but the fight itself reportedly did 4.3 million pay-per-view buys, making it the second-largest grossing pay-per-view event ever behind Mayweather’s showdown with Manny Pacquiao.
White said that working with Mayweather and his team was a positive experience overall, even if he admittedly is not a big fan of crossover fights.
“We can do some crossover stuff here or we can do something in boxing,” White said. “Our last experience, Floyd was actually pretty easy to deal with. Haymon is incredible to deal with. Floyd and I got a handshake deal at the basketball game, and we'll get the rest figured out.”
According to White, the UFC will delve into the crossover realm again if the demand is comparable to what it was for the Mayweather-McGregor bout.
“The biggest pay-per-view ever, in pay-per-view history,” White said. “It will be interesting to see if we start to see that kind of demand again with any kind of crossover fight.”
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Walk #651: Malvern to Ledbury
P20052264408 The view from from the summit of North Hill. P20052264421 Looking back to North Hill and Table Hill from Sugar Loaf Hill.
Date Walked 26/02/2005
County Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire
Start Location Malvern Link station
End Location Ledbury station
Start time 09.14
End time 15.47
Description This was a hard but exhilarating walk, taking in the full length of the Malvern Hills before a low-level stroll into Ledbury.
Pack Today I carried my 30-litre Karrimor rucksack, filled with my usual set of detritus and kit.
Condition I am fairly tired after this walk, but I suffered no significant problems and after a little rest I could easily have walked further.
Weather Today's weather was quite mixed; it started off with a mixture of sunshine and cloud, and as the day went on the cloud became thicker. Early on there was a short snow flurry, although this did not last long and was not repeated. It was a reasonably warm day, although when I was at a high level and exposed to the wind it was relatively chilly.
OS map Landranger number 150 (Worcester & The Malverns, Evesham & Tewkesbury) and Landranger number 149 (Hereford & Leominster, Bromyard & Ledbury)
P20052264441 Looking towards Summer Hill. P20052264451 The view from Jubilee Hill.
P20052264453 Heading south towards Black Hill. P20052264466 British Camp Hill.
Map of the walk
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Maps courtesy of Google Maps. Route for indicative purposes only, and may have been plotted after the walk. Please let me have comments on what you think of this new format. For a detailed table of timings for this walk, please see the table file.
P20052264480 Gullet Quarry. P20052264501 Heading south from Chase End Hill.
It had been my intention to do a three-day walk along the North Down's Way over an extended weekend, but as this week went on it became clear that I would have to cancel my holiday on Monday. This left me with a decision about what to do, and I soon settled on doing this walk over the Malvern Hills, which I have wanted to do for years. I therefore set off at a little past six thirty this morning for the long drive to Malvern. The journey was very good on clear roads, and just before nine I pulled up in the car park at Malvern Link railway station. As I had been sitting in the car for so long I walked around a little and stretched my leg muscles, before putting my rucksack on and heading off down the road.
It was a joy to see that the very top of the hills were covered in snow, and I was in a good mood as I headed down the A449 road towards the centre of Malvern. There were a couple of interesting features that I saw as I walked; an unusually shaped post box and a water fountain standing alone on the other side of the road. I soon found myself leaving the A449 and heading uphill along the B4232 until I reached a car park on the left beside a lovely brick tower. From here a steep ascent followed to the north along a muddy path that soon had me panting for breath. Some steps took me higher before the path headed up a deep gully; as soon as I could I left this, and climbed up to join a path that headed into a little saddle between North Hill and Table Hill. In the process I entered the snowline, and I left the track to head up through some fairly virgin snow to the top of North Hill. The views from here were superb, with the Cotswold Hills clearly visible through the haze to the southeast.
The wind was making the summit quite a chilly spot, so I carefully started making my way back down the path towards the col. I loved listening to my boots crunching through the snow, and I soon found myself at the summit of Sugar Loaf Hill, from where the next summit of Worcestershire Beacon was clearly visible. There were many paths that I could take to get there, and I tried to stick as much as possible to the ridgeline. The rocks around the summit viewpoint were covered with icicles and hoar frost, and was also surrounded by many people so that I was dissuaded from looking at it. Instead I settled on heading to the adjacent trig pillar, which was also covered in icicles. There were too many people around for me to want to spend too long there, so I followed a broad track that headed southwards. The going was exceptionally easy and I soon found myself climbing up to the little summit of Summer Hill before passing a car park and reaching the main road at the Wyche Cutting.
An easy walk took me up to the summit of Perseverance Hill and back into patches of snow, and then onto the higher Jubilee Hill and finally Pinnacle Hill. The views were superb, and I was very aware of how prominent the Malvern Hill range is amongst the surrounding low-lying land. By this stage I was really enjoying the walk, and the paths underfoot meant that my legs were not complaining too much about the continual climbing and falling. Black Hill led down to a long descent to the main road at British Camp Pass, and I was pleasantly surprised to find a refreshment stall near to the hotel. I studied the various wares on display and eventually settled on a bacon bap, and when it was ready I scoffed it as I walked uphill towards the summit of British Camp Hill, which is also known as Herefordshire Beacon. This hillside is ringed by a series of earthworks that were quite fascinating to study as I walked past, and they left me wondering if they had defended a settlement or whether this windy, exposed location was only used in times of crisis; I could easily imagine that the plains below were a much easier place to live and farm.
The path continued on and was easy to follow as it headed south over Millennium Hill and Hangman's Hill before reaching Silurian Pass. A last climb up Swinyard Hill followed, before the descent down to the pass at The Gullet. Here I took an incorrect route; when the well-worn path jinked to the right I took a path that continued straight on. This path met the fence guarding the very top of The Gullet Quarry, before descending down on an easterly course to meet a track that led me to a car park. This meant that I was slightly east of where I had wanted to be, so I followed a track that headed past the quarry, the bottom of which was filled with water that almost shone with a glorious green tint. This belied the great depth of the water, and it left me wondering exactly when the quarry had closed.
My next target was to climb up towards the summit of Midsummer Hill. Unlike the hills further north the paths over these southern Malvern Hill are less clear, and at the western end of the lake I turn left to climb up a rough path, churned up by horses, that led up the hill. This was a steep climb and I consequently took it slowly, and I was relieved when I reached a track that ran along the top of the hill. I was disappointed, however, to find that this path soon curved round to head northeastwards downhill back towards The Gullet; I wanted to continue straight on southwards, and as an obvious path headed in this direction I decided to follow this. This turned out to be a mistake, as the path soon ended and I was left descending an extremely steep slope through an area populated with small trees. To my right was a fence guarding the quarry face, and I moved a little way away from this for safety. Underfoot the ground was a mixture of loose branches and scree, and on the slope this made the going very difficult. I took my time and used my poles and eventually I could see the tops of cars travelling along the A438 below me. I soon reached the road, and was annoyed to see that there was a four-foot high wall that I had to jump down to get onto the road. This was difficult as there was no verge on the road and if I slipped I would fall straight onto the carriageway, so I sat down on the top of the wall, checked both ways, jumped down and ran across the road to the pavement on the other side.
Here I met a gentleman who was doing some gardening, and as we chatted he said that many people made the same mistake when coming off the hill. It turned out that for the last part of the descent I had headed through his orchard, and I apologised for this and he gave me an alternative route to get to Ledbury. After thanking him I headed off along the road, and I soon headed off along another rough path that headed around the western side of Raggedstone Hill. I did not get to see the summit of this hill, and the path was quite muddy in places, and for this reason I was quite relieved when I reached the road at White Leaved Oak Pass. My next target was the summit of the southern hill of the Malvern range, Chase End Hill, on which there is a trig pillar. An obvious path headed through some woodland, and on the map it skirted the summit. I cold see the trig pllar standing on the hill above, and I was just wondering how I could get up to it when the path diverted to the left and headed steeply uphill to the pillar.
The views from the pillar were lovely, and although not as superb as the views from the higher northern hills they are still quite expansive. I stood by the pillar for a few minutes studying the views before the wind chill started to get to me and I jogged down the hill until I reached a road. This I followed for a while until it reached the hamlet of Bromesberrow, which is only a short distance away from the M50 motorway. Another road then led me onwards to Clencher's Mill, from where I took a path that headed through some woodland. This path followed a track that was exceptionally muddy underfoot, and I soon realised that it was curving north too early. Instead of heading back to see where the proper path had gone I decided to avoid he mud and follow the side of a fenced area to reach the path. This led me across a field towards a farm, and I then joined a road that led me out to the A417 road at Parkway. There was a pavement beside the A417, and this allowed me to stride northwards along the road and make good time.
I soon found myself entering Ledbury, and although the initial scenes of industrial buildings were not salubrious as I entered the town centre the quality of the buildings became much better. There were many fantastic timbered buildings about, including a couple of hotels, and there was a small market below the superbly preserved raised market hall. The whole area was bustling on this Sunday morning, and this added to the atmosphere of the town centre. I was really enchanted and I would have stayed around for longer to explore except for the fact that I knew that the next train to Malvern was expected shortly. I strode down to the railway station, and as I had a little over a quarter of an hour to spare I went into a shelter to book some accommodation in Ledbury for the night. This proved no problem, and I soon found myself boarding the train for the journey back to Malvern Link. This proved to be very cheap as no ticket collector came down the train, the first time this had happened to me for some time. It had been a highly enjoyable day's walk, and one that I can definitely see myself repeating in some form at another time.
Considering that today's walk involved 4,400 feet of climbing (essentially the same height as Ben Nevis) I feel remarkably good after this walk, which is a very good sign for the TGO Challenge walk that I am doing in a couple of months. I have come away from today's walk with no blisters and no other significant problems, and although I did not carry as much weight as I will be doing on the Challenge I am feeling much more positive than I was before today's walk.
This walk starts off at the car park of Malvern Link railway station. Leave the station by the small gap that leads onto the A449 road and start following this as it heads southwestwards. When the road curves to the left turn right to start heading uphill along the B4219 road, passing a church on the left. This road meets the B4232 road; continue straight on along the latter until a car park and a brick tower is reached on the left. Walk a few yards past the entrance road to the car park before turning left up a footpath. This soon climbs a series of steps to ascend the hillside between two quarries before entering a little gully. Continue along the footpath up this gully as it heads between North Hill and Table Hill; when a track is met continue on up to the col between the two hills. At the col you can turn left to climb up to the top of North Hill, from where there are some substantial views. Head back down to the col, from where a network of paths fan out towards Worcestershire Beacon.
I chose to take an obvious but less well-walked path that took me south to the summit of Sugar Loaf Hill before descending and then climbing up to a viewpoint and trig pillar. A clear path leads south from here, and this soon becomes a surfaced track as it heads down past Summer Hill and a car park before reaching a road and some public toilets at The Wyche. Cross the road and take a footpath that heads uphill to the left of the public toilets. The path is obvious as it reaches the summits of Perseverance Hill, Jubilee Hill and Pinnacle Hill, before descending down to Black Hill. The path eventually diverts to the right to reach the B4232 road; turn left along this for a hundred yards until it reaches the A449 road beside a hotel at British Camp Pass.
Cross the A449 road and take a footpath that heads uphill to the right of the car park. As soon as possible leave the obvious surfaced path and turn right to climb up some steps that lead to the top of British Camp Hill, otherwise known as Herefordshire Beacon. A clear path then leads down across the hill, leading to Millenium Hill and Hangman's Hill. The path descends down to Silurian Pass before climbing up towards the top of Swinyard Hill. At the top of the hill the path forks; the main path to the right heads down to the west of The Gullet quarry, whilst the one I took headed along the summit for another hundred yards before following the fence guarding the quarry westwards, descending downhill before joining a track that ends at a road beside a car park.
Once on the A438 road turn right and walk westwards along the road through Hollybush. Pass a car park on the right and then turn left down a path that skirts the western side of Raggedstone Hill. The path does not climb up to the summit, but instead keeps relatively low on the hillside, heading through a wooded area before suddenly emerging onto a road at White Leaved Oak. Head down the short road until it ends after a few yards at a road junction, and then turn right and almost immediately to the left to start following a narrow path southwards over Chase End Hill. The path climbs uphill through woodland until a clearing is reached by the trig pillar at the top of the hill. Leave the pillar and head south along an obvious path; this descends downhill before reaching a road.
Turn to the left and follow this road as it heads in a rough westerly direction for a kilometre before curving to the left to head southwards to end at a road junction near the village cross in Bromesberrow. Turn right to start heading slightly north of westwards along a road that leads for a little over a mile to Clencher's Mill. The road crosses a ford over a stream and then turns sharply to the right to head uphill. After a few yards turn left along a muddy track that enters some woodland, following a broad track through the tress that slowly curves to the right to head northwards before ending at a road beside a farm. Join this road and follow it as it heads westwards for about half a mile until it ends at the A417 road at Parkway.
Turn right and start following the A417 northwards; when a roundabout is reached after a kilometre continue straight on as the road enters Ledbury and heads northwards through the centre of the town. As the road approaches the northern outskirts of the town it curves sharply to the left; immediately before the bend turn right up the station approach road that ends at Ledbury railway station, where this walk ends.
Distance (m)
Ascent (ft)
Descent (ft)
Malvern Link station British Camp Hill 6.0 2215 1473
British Camp Hill Bromesberrow 5.9 1220 2041
Bromesberrow Ledbury station 4.5 410 351
This makes a total distance of 16.4 miles, with 3845 feet of ascent and 3865 feet of descent.
For more information on profiles, ascents and descents, see this page
There are regular train services between Ledbury and Malvern Link, calling at Colwall Stone and Malvern on the way. I do not know how much the train costs as the ticket office at Ledbury was closed and no ticket collector came down the train. Please see the National Rail Enquiries website for more details.
I spent the night at The Elms B&B, 52 Guarlford Road, Malvern, Worcestershire WR14 3QP, telephone 01684 573466. This was a nice B&B where I was made to feel very welcome; the Bluebell Inn is a short stagger down the road. AS twin room cost me thirty pounds for night as a single occupant.
Please note that I take no responsibility for anything that may happen when following these directions. If you intend to follow this route, then please use the relevant maps and check the route out before you go out. As always when walking, use common sense and you should be fine.
If you find any information on any of these routes that is inaccurate, or you wish to add anything, then please email me.
All images on this site are © of the author. Any reproduction, retransmissions, or republication of all or part of any document found on this site is expressly prohibited, unless the author has explicitly granted its prior written consent to so reproduce, retransmit, or republish the material. All other rights reserved.
Although this site includes links providing convenient direct access to other Internet sites, I do not endorse, approve, certify or make warranties or representations as to the accuracy of the information on these sites.
And finally, enjoy your walking!
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Nokia and Windows Phone: What Could Still Go Wrong
The much ballyhooed release of Nokia’s first Windows Phone handsets finally took place Wednesday at the Nokia World event in London. There had been a lot of anticipation building up to this “reveal,” and it is genuinely a watershed moment for the Windows Phone platform. That’s because Nokia’s adoption of Windows Phone brings several firsts:
For the first time, a major mobile phone player has standardized on Windows Phone as its exclusive smartphone platform.
For the first time (apparently) an OEM will be working actively with carriers to see to it that Windows Phone will be well-promoted and featured prominently at retail points of sale
For the first time, a Windows Phone OEM has within its comfort zone the ability to push products out to numerous global markets (not just North America, Asia and Western Europe) and to manufacture handsets at price points that can work in those markets
For the first time, a major mobile hardware company has a self-interest, if not its self-preservation, at stake in the success of Windows Phone.
Now that the first two Nokia Windows Phone handsets, the Lumia 800 and 710, have come out, Windows Phone can stop waiting. But it also has to stop merely hoping, and start actually achieving. This is a big deal, but this is not finish line. And make no mistake, the odds are still stacked in against Windows Phone. The challenges are not insurmountable, but they are numerous and they are formidable. Among them:
Windows Phone needs to be an express stop for apps developers; right now it’s local station open during limited hours. Although there are now over 35,000 apps for Windows Phone – a very impressive number for a phone that’s a bit less than 1 year old – there are numerous major or important apps that aren’t on the platform. Even apps that are on Windows Phone have more token representation than on iOS or Android. Compare the lone ESPN Score Center on Windows Phone to ESPN’s app presence on the iTunes App Store, or try searching for “ESPN” on the Android Market and see what comes up. Likewise, Windows Phone has Angry Birds, but only one version of it, as opposed to the three versions on the other two major smartphone platforms. Will this situation improve? Will Windows Phone become a mandatory chennel for apps developers? Or will we keep looking forward better app availability tomorrow?
Windows Phone doesn’t have a carrier champion. Apple may not have needed one, given its own retail network, but it had one nonetheless in AT&T. (An)droid had a champion in Verizon. An OEM champion is good, but carriers may be even more important worldwide, and they definitely are in the United States. Will Nokia make this better, especially in the US, where it has so little influence?
The Smartphone landscape is no longer a green field, and even in “the Enterprise,” preferences and prejudices are in evidence. IT may have a disincentive in deploying Windows Phone handsets to employees, because those employees may have a strong preference for something else. That was not true for Blackberry/RIM in the last decade, and it’s not true for iOS in this one. It may or may not be true for Android. Microsoft has an uphill battle even in allegedly friendly territory. It has no home field advantage. Anywhere.
Windows Phone hardware has been lackluster. What we’ve seen so far is mostly repurposed Android chasses with three haptic buttons on the bottom instead of four. What Nokia showed today is better, at least stylistically in the case of the Lumia 800 (pun intended), but features are still inferior with no front-facing camera and limited on-board memory. Today was a good start. Will the next phones be even better, or will the momentum slow?
Marketing of Windows Phone by Microsoft has been weak, and inconsistent. There was a media blast last year, when the phones were launched, and then things petered out. AT&T stores had a Windows Phone section early on, but that seems to have been withdrawn too. Without strong, sustained marketing, Windows Phone needs to rely on grass roots popularity and word of mouth for growth. I’m skeptical that such viral popularity will spontaneously appear and build. Will Nokia fill the void? I think so, at least in Europe, but will that build momentum for the Windows Phone platform overall?
Windows Phone has many hurdles ahead. It would be easy for any one of them to foil Microsoft (and Nokia) in the smartphone market. But I (a Windows Phone user) am not sure that it would be so hard climb these hurdles and even transcend them, either. Microsoft and Nokia can seed the Marketplace with more major, high-quality apps. Nokia can come out with a second wave of handsets that could kick some butt, in looks and in technology. Microsoft can now (finally) integrate Skype into the Windows Phone OS to create consumer appeal and help “bring your own device” Enterprise employees save on their calling plan minutes. Microsoft could decide tomorrow to market and advertise Windows Phone aggressively, and hire the right agency to do this in a hip way, and hopefully in coordination with Nokia. And with that combination of positive changes, a carrier could finally become interested. For example, Verizon (rumored to have had employees on site in London today), and its 45% London-based owner, Vodafone.
Would such a turnaround take perfect alignment of the stars to pull off? Maybe. But determination to win would make this outcome most likely
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Way too many cliches in that piece of writing. B for contents, F for style.
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This reality was the same for last week when the Bengals played the Seahawks. Some of the standout performers from that game made our list of five players to watch for against the 49ers.
Fun fact: the 49ers are the only team in the NFL that have never given up an Andy Dalton touchdown. The last time Dalton played the 49ers was in 2011; his third career game and also the team’s home opener for that season, which sparked the renaissance of the Marvin Lewis era.
He threw for 157 yards and two interceptions on 17-32 passing in what ended up being a 13-8 loss. Nearly eight calendar years later and Dalton has thrown a touchdown in 98 of his next 119 regular season games, 67 of them being wins.
The Bengals’ veteran quarterback is a topic of discussion this week because he broke the 400 passing yardage mark for the first time in his career last Sunday in a one-point loss. Despite the box score numbers, Dalton had a fairly average performance when looking at Expected Points and Expected Completion %, so there’s even more room for improvement for No. 14.
--> X-axis: how many passes they completed relative to expected given target depth (similar to Next Gen Stats completion +/-)
--> Y-axis: EPA per play pic.twitter.com/LPkVy1Ed6x
— new-age analytical (@benbbaldwin) September 10, 2019
Against the 49ers, who pose an offensive threat with more potential than the Seahawks, Dalton’s consistency for all four quarters will be crucial. His poise against pressure will also be counted on against a front-four that’s as dangerous as any he’ll see all year.
Giovani Bernard
The good news is that Joe Mixon was participating in the Bengals’ walkthrough on Friday, which indicates that he’ll be active for Sunday’s game. But how much will he actually play?
Bernard is one of the two current offensive starters (the other being Andre Smith) that started against the 49ers when they last played each other in 2015. When Mixon has missed time or has been limited over the last two seasons, Bernard has seen an obvious increase in workload. If Mixon is 100% ready to go, then don’t expect very many touches for Bernard. But, against a potent pass-rushing unit, Bernard should get more reps as a pass protector on third down.
There are storylines all over this Bengals’ offensive line: Andre Smith playing for Cordy Glenn, rookie Michael Jordan starting at left guard, Trey Hopkins earning the job at center, and Bobby Hart still somehow starting at right tackle.
Miller has almost been the forgotten man in this unit.
Against the Seahawks, Miller was Pro Football Focus’ lowest-graded player along Cincinnati’s offensive line, primarily because of his lackluster run blocking. Despite Hopkins’ best efforts, second-level blocking was lacking, mostly due to Miller. This is the area the offense needs to improve upon the most this week, and it starts with improvement from Miller.
Sam Hubbard
A player who needs to show no improvement from last week is Hubbard, for obvious reasons. The question is: can he dominate in back-to-back weeks?
It’s tough to create pressure against the 49ers’ offensive line. At left tackle, you have an elite veteran in Joe Staley who, quite simply, has never had a bad season in his now 13-year career. He’s a borderline Hall of Famer if he played for a predominantly winning team. On the opposite side of the line is the much younger and more spry Mike McGlinchey, who is pretty damn polished for being a second-year player.
This game will be a great barometer for where Hubbard is. Not only will his competition be much better than last week, the quarterback he’s trying to sack will get the ball out quicker as well.
While Hubbard and the the defensive line headlined the defensive effort last week, Brown quietly had a solid first game of 2019. Brown and Nick Vigil were essentially the only two linebackers to play in the game, and both played fairly well in the new scheme. For Brown, who acts as the MIKE linebacker, his role for this week will be crucial.
49ers head coach and play caller Kyle Shanahan loves using running backs in the passing game, but he doesn’t force it if the matchup favors another angle. His offense primarily runs through their stud tight end George Kittle, and the Bengals can either *try to* stop him, or limit running backs eating up yards after the catch. They probably won’t be able to do both.
It will fall on Brown to matchup with running back Matt Breida in the passing game when he releases to the flat off of play action. Those kinds of plays will work whether or not the running game has been “established”, so Brown has to be light on his feet for this one.
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==Bandits==
The party is in the Tea Tent in the Tanzhe Plain HQ, when Lijuan draws some art
The party is in the Tea Tent in the Tanzhe Plain HQ, when Lijuan draws some art.
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A soldier in uniform runs up, asking if anyone has seen Governor Xiao Fa? As no one has, he starts to run off again, but Cai Wen wants to know who he is and what he needs. He says he is Lieutenant Ming of the Dragon's Fang, and there is a report of banditry in Sector 3. Cai Wen starts gathering people up to investigate, and Lieutenant Ming says that the Governor wanted to have peaceful suppression of banditry. Cai Wen finds that a little odd, and asks around - are there orders from Xiao Fa saying this? Multiple people in the "Dragon's Fang" seem to claim this, but nobody else has heard it.
"By viewing the old, we learn the new" The run begins on the Day of the Late Tortoise in the Month of the Fox in the tenth Year of the Bear since the Third Treaty of Houses.
The run takes place in the Tanzhe Plain
Previous Run
1 Bandits
2 The What of What?
4 Clue-Wandering
5 Bandit Meeting
The group heads up to the bandit site, where they meet Sergeant Fushen of the Tanzhe Irregulars.
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"Oh, is that what we're going with? I thought it was the Tanzhe Irregulars." -Fu Shen
There is an unconscious merchant, and an empty cart. The sergeant has thus far concluded that bandits have attacked the merchant and taken his stuff.
Cai Wen is very suspicious - Lijuan's art has some loot on the ground, and a bone. Where is the bone? Lijuan ignores the artistic quibbling, and casts about for tracks. It appears that the cart was coming from the main part of the Arcade in the northeast, when bandits came out of the tall grass and battle ensued. The bandits were masters, so the merchants were soon overcome, and then the bandits ran off to the northwest.
Those with first aid wake up the unconscious merchant - he says that he was traveling with two companions, and they were carrying food and other supplies to Leaves in Spring, to aid in the rebuilding. Cai Wen wants to know a detailed inventory of the supplies - several casks of nails, for example. This all seems suspicious - Lijuan is not sure why bandits would steal nails instead of buying them. Others think that stealing nails is hardly worthwhile, though the merchant certainly disagrees. Lijuan also notes that the other two companions are not here - they seem to have gone with the bandits, either willingly or not. The tracks themselves are silent as to whether the companions were in on it or captured. The caravan master says he will go complain to the Governor about Lord Zhen's banditry, and the party sends him off to go do that.
Takanata arrives, having finished his own painting, and shows it to the group.
The picture on the left is Lijuan's art, but while the picture on the right is very similar, it has the party from Caravans instead, as well as seeming to be a reflection. So maybe mirrors or mirror demons are involved? People quickly skim the Caravans log, and vow to not repeat the mistakes of the past, whatever they were.
The bandit tracks go off to the northwest; there are two columns of smoke rising in the air, one in the same northwest direction and one off to the northeast. The group heads to the northwest smoke, and finds a small hovel made of sticks, that appears to have been burnt. A woman inside shouts to stay away - she has a sword! The party persuades her that they aren't the bad guys, though she is still cautious about saying anything - she was a witness, and they said if she told anyone, they'd come back and kill her.
Kuan-Xi says that the Governor sent them to help - here's 5 li to help her rebuild her house - and asks if she can tell them any more. The money reassures her, and she says that a party of armed men rode by, and one shouted to another that she would warn people that they had escaped back to Lord Zhen, and to burn her house. And, if she told anyone, they would come back and burn her.
Cai Wen assures her that justice will be done, in the name of the Governor.
The What of What?
Rather than follow the bandits further, the group heads to the other pillar of smoke, where there is a man carefully throwing straw on a fire to make it smoke. He is dressed in a hooded cloak and carries a heavy staff, and Cai Wen thinks there is something of the Arbiter about him. He introduces himself:
"I am the Advocate. I wish to be escorted to the Conference. I did not wish to cross your lands unannounced."
In particular, there is a meeting of the... alternative commerce interests... in the area, which will be taking place in the Tanzhe tomorrow. Happily, the Master of the White Pagoda has guaranteed the security of the proceedings. The Advocate himself is here on behalf of the Circle of Spite and the League of the Hidden Hand. Interesting - does he represent all of their interests in all things? How does that work, since they are generally competitors? He clarifies that he represents their joint interests in this venture.
The party agrees to escort him to the center of the Tanzhe (where the meeting is to be), but Cai Wen notes that there is likely to be exuberant interference in the meeting, unless there is some discussion of the matters in question first.
"Nice little conference you have here. A shame if anything were to happen to it." -Everyone
Those that the Advocate speaks for, wish to secure control of the Tanzhe's criminal commercial endeavors on behalf of the eastern powers. People are still confused about why he is using the Shadow-type shticks - is he working with the Shadow? He explains that the Arbiter worked for the Shadow, but since the fall of the Shadow Castle, the new masters of that place have not seen fit to replace him. But where there is a void, it is filled regardless, so the Advocate has arisen to fill that space. (Cai Wen notes that he pulls off the Shadowy Figure shtick pretty well, though he is possibly not at the level of the late Arbiter).
Master Zhou finally wakes up, and gets up to speed on the bandit meeting that he has volunteered to provide security for. Of course, he has done no such thing, and is rather put out that anyone would believe he had.
"Why does anyone believe that I do anything?" -Master Zhou
He introduces himself to the Advocate, and points out that he has made no guarantee of safety. Where did the Advocate hear this? Both the Circle of Spite and the League of the Hidden Hand understood this to be true, but he does not know who told them.
He believes that Bao, Queen of Bandits, and the masters of the Shadow Castle are also attending the meeting. Perhaps others as well.
Master Zhou looks at Lijuan's art - those armies up on the mountains might be country-level armies, or they might be bandit armies. Bandit armies aren't usually in direct open warfare with each other in the same way that country armies are, but in either case it would be bad to be the battleground.
Just in case, Takanata checks if Lord Du is around. He is not.
The group heads back in the direction that the bandit trail went - the tracks peter out in Zhen lands, so the party goes to talk to House Zhen. Cai Wen explains that they are on the trail of bandits who passed through this area, and they wish to ask some questions about whether House Zhen knows anything about this.
The House Zhen guards are offended, and insist that if Cai Wen has any evidence of his accusations, he should take them to the Warlord. In either case,, begone! Cai Wen tries to clarify - he thinks House Zhen is being framed for banditry, but the best way to be sure is to speak to the higher-up lords of the house.
A Zhen noblewoman (not the head of house, but a cousin) comes to speak to Cai Wen, but she is also not particularly helpful. She denies any involvement in banditry. Cai Wen agrees that House Zhen wasn't involved in the banditry. Well, then, why is Cai Wen here? So that he can discuss the banditry that House Zhen of course has nothing to do with. She is not persuaded of the usefulness of the conversation, and party members start muttering darkly to each other about how this particular House Zhen person is clearly an idiot.
Cai Wen attempts to steer the conversation in more helpful directions - are there any enemies she can think of who might have wanted to frame House Zhen for banditry? She sneers - obviously House Sung and House Foon are both plausible contenders as House Zhen's enemies. Well, how about if the bandits came through Zhen lands and kept going - where would they end up? That would be Siew Keep. Well, her suggestions are of no use at all in the investigation, and the lady herself does not seem to be interested in actually contributing helpful clues, so the group takes their leave again, complaining about how House Zhen totally deserves to be framed for banditry.
Still, they should go talk to Lord Siew to see if he noticed anything.
"Can we bring Zhuai?" -Lijuan
On reaching Siew Keep (or Foon Keep, depending), Yanyu heads off for the stable to find Fin, the orphan who Xiao Fa told her to go investigate.
Everyone else talks to Zhuai, who has several thoughts.
The prophetic art says there's parallels or mirrors or inversions or something, with the Caravans run. But what happened then? For example, how many caravans were attacked? No one really remembers, but Zhuai has read the logs, so he answers his own question: three. Maybe there were three attacks this time as well. Perhaps there are more clues at the other attack sites.
To put it politely, it is common knowledge in the near countries that any time the House of Exuberant Interference talks about bandits, they're about to do something crazy. So House Zhen is probably bracing for an invasion, and their rudeness is perhaps to be interpreted in this light.
Perhaps whoever put the party on this path is counting on the historical precedents.
"So the question you have to ask is: do you believe House Zhen is involved, and do you believe that the clues were clumsily dropped, or that someone pretended to drop clues clumsily in order that they be disregarded? Because if the perpetrators are that clumsy, we have one suspect pool. If they were pretending to be that clumsy, we have a different suspect pool." -Zhuai
(This leads to some confusion, as "the perpetrators weren't trying to drop clues at all, they just thought 'we are going to burn your house down so that you don't tell anyone that we are going to House Zhen' was a normal thing to say" isn't actually one of the options, it's one level below clumsy. But Zhuai obviously doesn't think this is the case, and neither does anyone else.)
Anyhow, Takanata thinks that this points to Tai Lung, who is both a master and clumsy.
Cai Wen asks the Advocate (who has been wandering along with the party, as they said they would escort him to the middle of the Tanzhe where the meeting is, and they still haven't gone there) if Tai Lung is coming. The Advocate is offended at the mere suggestion! Cai Wen dares speak that name before the Advocate of the Hidden Hand? Tai Lung would not dare attend! People suggest that Tai Lung doesn't seem to have issues with daring per se.
Lijuan goes off to nap, to see if Kibo can ask the Spirit of the Forest where the bandits are. He is clearly alarmed at the idea of bothering the Forest, but she talks him into it. Then, she is woken up before he can return, by Yanyu and the young orphan Fin. Fin really doesn't want to go home, but Yanyu has told him that he has to go back to visit. He wants to know if Lijuan says he has to. She says he does.
Clue-Wandering
Takanata leads the group back to the Tanzhe to wander about randomly (but auspiciously) to see if any other bandits are encountered. Sure enough, the party is surrounded by bandits, who demand that their leader be sent forth to surrender. Cai Wen gives a quick brush to his hair and heads out to be captured, trying out Lucky Chang's "hands of peace" to see if they work for him. They do, and Bao, the bandit queen, takes Cai Wen off for more capturing.
Everyone else wanders around further, until a House of Exuberant Interference messenger finds them - Corporal Rider, from the Glorious Brigade. Bandits took a caravan just outside of Buzhen Port. The party heads there, where they learn that the banditing is being investigated by the "Special Anti-Bandit Patrol", led by Johnny Tong.
Well, that's very confusing. Johnny says he's representing the Shadow Castle at the Bandit Conference. The Shadow Castle turns out to have a lot of Bandit Reputation, but they're the anti-bandit bandits. Johnny plans to make some bargains with Bao - though he is cagy about what - and when they arrived they heard about the bandits and kind of leapt in on general principles.
The evidence indicates that a small force of bandits sacked a caravan, and then hopped on a boat and sailed downriver. The boat was the River Gold, a trading barge owned by Clan Sonwu.
Takanata asks the Jasmine if the River Gold is still afloat, and she takes him to the bank where it has gone to shore - it's empty with no bandits in it. Takanata builds a fire and throws straw in it, to summon everyone else. Kuan-Xi hops over first, and everyone else has to take a boat of their own. The tracks from the boat head inland, towards Sonwu lands, and then peter out.
Kuan-Xi and Shen-Ji think that there was some sort of weirdness going on where the tracks end - whatever it is is fading now, and it definitely wasn't sorcerous. It's... sort of like worldwalking without leaving the world? Xiao Fa adds his expertise with chi to the analysis, and thinks that it sounds like a chi nexus sort of thing - like Master Changling's healing nexus, or the thing that the Obsidian Warlord did when he was waiting to show up where he was needed.
Meanwhile, Bao "questions" Cai Wen, and they chat. Cai Wen was surprised to hear that the Tanzhe was holding a "bandit conference", and Bao says she was surprised too - she didn't think they had it in them. No, Cai Wen explains - he actually was surprised. They didn't know about it. So... Master Zhou just sprang it on them? No, Master Zhou was just as surprised. Someone seems to have set this up rather mysteriously. Bao is disappointed to hear that Master Zhou is reneging on his promises of safety - that is not going to be good for his reputation.
Cai Wen expects that everything is going to turn into a big mess. Bao suspects that means Yoshi is behind it - he tends to like messes for bandits. Cai Wen is less sure - he meant the "massacre" sort of mess, and Yoshi doesn't like those so well. Oh, well, if he means massacres, that's probably the Circle of Spite. Cai Wen mentions the Advocate (or would-be Advocate) - Bao is not sure that's the sort of position you can just step into. Normally it involves dark powers.
Anyhow, if Master Zhou isn't going to be guaranteeing her safety, then she's going to bring her guys to the meeting too, armed for bear. She agrees to not start trouble, but she doesn't want to finish last if trouble starts. She also thinks that nobody else is likely to show up unarmed once word gets out that Master Zhou has stopped guaranteeing anyone's safety.
Cai Wen notes that this seems to be leading to a lose-lose situation, where Master Zhou gets all the blame for any massacres that happen, or gets all the blame for backing out of a deal. This seems a little subtle for Tai Lung, but maybe someone helped him.
Over in he Sonwu lands, Takanata looks through Echoes of the Past where the trail fades out - and sees the Dark Pagoda - the bandits run into it, and then it vanishes back into the chi.
Lijuan notes that Tai Lung's pagoda is cooler than Master Zhou's, and Master Zhou glares at her.
The party heads back to Buzhen Port, and briefs Johnny Tong. He whistles - Tai Lung is going to be in trouble with Master Zhou. Or is freelance banditry is okay?
"Yoshi wouldn't approve." -Lijuan
"Well, not us." -Johnny Tong
Yoshi has been spreading the word that Tai Lung is not a legitimate bandit - maybe he's going to show up just to cause trouble.
"Who called this meeting?" -Master Zhou
"You did...?" -Johnny Tong
"I need to change all the security protocols..." -Master Zhou
Johnny heard from Reiko, so like the Advocate, he doesn't know where the rumor started. Anyway, the thing that he wants to do here is talk to Bao about putting a moratorium on banditing refugees leaving war zones, and in exchange there might be a little less anti-bandit pressure from the Secret Swords.
"Let it be known throughout the land that any time the White Pagoda says it's doing something, it is lying!" -Master Zhou
Takanata summons a vision of Johnny's future but declines to discuss the specifics with anyone. He says it is interesting, but far enough in the future that Johnny is not obviously destined to be massacred immediately following.
Yanyu offers to bring her husband in order to help kill Tai Lung if he shows up. The prevalence of other bandits who shouldn't be killed might be an issue, but if Lijuan can keep Kawaii under control, Yanyu can probably keep the Son of the Moon on target.
Then, a dramatic shadow falls across the dock, from a guy standing on top of a nearby hill, in front of the setting sun. It is, of course, Po. He leaps down to bow in front of Master Zhou, panting and out of breath.
"Master Zhou! Bandits! Attacking! A whole battalion of the house of the stabby guys!" -Po
When Po can catch his breath, he notes that he was surprised that Master Zhou didn't invite him earlier, but he only just heard, so he came as quickly as he could.
"Nobody ever thinks Quan Lo would set up bandit conferences..." -Master Zhou
Po leads the group back up to the no-longer-existing border with the Arcade, where there is a camp of the House of Gainful Protection. See - it's the bandits! But there were too many of them for Po to beat all by himself, so he went to find Master Zhou to get help.
So... how did Po find these "bandits"? He says that he chased them from the caravan they attacked, and they led him here. When pressed, he admits that they ran faster than he did, and they had just gotten out of sight before the Gainful Protection camp.
The bandits he was chasing definitely had kung fu, though. Fung doesn’t have that much kung fu. Wait, who is Fung? Fung is a bandit and enemy of travelers and merchants throughout Bear Mountain, and Po's arch nemesis.
"When did you get an arch nemesis?" -Master Zhou
"...Recently." -Po
"I have not authorized this arch-nemesis. Where is he now?"
"He's in jail! He was sulking that he wasn't invited to the bandit meeting you called."
"By "jail" do you mean the basement of the White Pagoda?"
"No! I mean actual jail! Where he was actually banditing!"
Master Zhou is baffled by this idea that Po has been having plots, especially successful ones.
Everyone else leaves Master Zhou to interrogate Po about whether Fung is a worthy arch-nemesis, and investigates the bandit tracks, which in fact trail off at a similar fading echo of a chi nexus.
"So... sending bandits towards people that we would normally blame for banditry is way subtler than Tai Lung usually is." -Takanata
Takanata briefs Johnny Tong, Cai Wen briefs Bao, and Master Zhou talks to the Advocate. The whole briefing seems to be: "Tai Lung is up to something nefarious and is trying to get people to fight and is probably going to attack but you shouldn't bring bodyguards because then fighting is more likely to start". Everyone is pretty certain that if Tai Lung is going to attack them, they want bodyguards. Unless Master Zhou is guaranteeing their safety. Grudgingly, he admits that he is. So they agree to have their bodyguards on ambush-summonable hair triggers, but not actually at the meeting.
Bandit Meeting
Yin-Xiang arrives to help - he says he'll fight Tai Lung or Tai Lung's guys or anyone who threatens Yanyu or her child or her friends. That has a bit of mission creep, but it's probably okay.
The three "bandit representatives" show up, and ask the party to vacate their meeting tent. Most of them do. Takanata wanders around with a bouquet of flowers, preventing any combat from breaking out, including when the Black Pagoda shows up and the black monks pile out.
"Tai Lung's gentlemen are here. Please do not panic." -Takanata, heading into the bandit tent
Yanyu puts the blessing of the Phoenix on the combat, but it doesn't appear like anyone is really able to initiate combat. Master Zhou, thwarted, goes around to the back of the pagoda to punch it, debuting his Strike of the Bear to do significant structural damage and put a hole in the wall.
"Tai Lung, this abomination will not stand!"
Since they can't start combat either, but causing trouble for buildings is okay, the black monks start pouring suspicious liquid on the outside of the meeting tent. Master Zhou shouts at Lijuan to go outside of Takanata's range to shoot them all, but she doesn't think starting the massacre herself is something Yoshi would approve of.
"Followers of Tai Lung, you can feel the peace that Master Zhou has brought to this place. Go back into your pagoda and begone!" -Takanata
Kuan-Xi purifies water on the liquid on the tent, and manages to nullify some of it, but much of the rest of the tent starts to catch fire. Bao starts to talk about summoning her guys, but Cai Wen gets her to calm down again.
The monks start fleeting back into the Dark Pagoda as Master Zhou keeps punching holes in its structural integrity. Kuan-Xi puts the rest of the fire on the tent out, and Yanyu calls down Wrath of the Phoenix on the pagoda, which starts to burn merrily. The doors to the pagoda slam shut, but Shen-Ji destroys them with his Disintegrate Wood spell. Tai Lung, inside the pagoda, glares through the doorway at Shen-Ji, but does not have the spare action to slay him, and instead holds up a black stone key to get the pagoda to start vanishing while it still can.
Takanata throws the meeting tent flap open to point out Tai Lung, in case any of the bandits at the meeting were unclear on who was behind things at this point. The Black Pagoda finishes vanishing, and the bandits discuss the idea that Tai Lung be censured.
As a favor for having done all this saving, the bandits are willing to leave the Tanzhe bandit-free (or, at least free from the banditry of the Circle of Spite, the Hidden Hand, the Bandit Queen, and the Secret Swords (who are not actually bandits)) for the next while.
Master Zhou thinks about the effect he was encountering where the pagoda was resisting his strikes - he thinks the chi effect of the Dark Pagoda's senchi chamber is anti-Master-Zhou. So the damage he was causing was being backfilled by the senchi chamber's chi, Doors are repairable and fire can be put out, but the damage Master Zhou was doing was more serious; so the senchi chamber ameliorated it to keep the pagoda from collapsing, but the senchi chamber is probably underpowered now, and will be for a while.
The key that let Tai Lung "steer" the pagoda seems likely to have been the work of the Alchemist - it doesn't power the chi nexus itself, but it does direct it.
The bandits leave, bowing to Master Zhou and noting that they will recommend him to their friends for any future bandit conference needs.
Takanata writes a bardic satire about Tai Lung trying to make an attack but being driven off by a bunch of flowers and people punching his building.
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Posy Roberts Delves Beneath the Surface in Flare
So, how do you fit the real world into romance? Or why would you even want to? In Flare, I wanted to.
I started reading romance novels written for teens in the 1980s. I think they went under the monicker Wildfire Romances. OMG, I found a link to the spines of some. LOL! They were set in modern times, and the story almost always ended after boy and girl got together. And then I quit reading romance altogether for years. When I started again, my tastes quickly morphed.
I’ve obviously moved past boy and girl meeting and falling in love, and shifted to men going crazy for each other. But I also love a romance to go beyond the “Yes, I want to be with you” and the “I love you” moments.
I like to go deeper.
I like to see how those couples will survive outside the bubble of initial romance and lust, because that is the true test! Getting past “I love you” is hard, but it is nothing compared to dealing with real life or a chronic illness or a secret you’re positive will change everything.
Some of this comes from my personal experiences. I deal with chronic illness that has transformed me from the very energetic 18 year-old my husband met in college into someone who needed to temper herself and slow way down or I’d be bed bound for days. And then our baby was born. She was beautiful and sweet, but the poor child couldn’t swallow her own saliva without choking/aspirating, and she needed multiple operations to resolve all of her birth defects, not to mention the years of using a feeding tube before she could eat like the rest of us.
So how does a couple survive difficulties like these? Hugo and Kevin lived through the challenges they faced in Fusion. When I named book 2, I was thinking of cold fusion, even if it is still a hypothetical. But how do you survive beyond a bonding crisis like they experienced? How do you still live and love each other without the intensity of emotions you felt during the crisis? Sometimes you can cope better than you can in everyday life. When things become mundane, how do keep interested? And what do you do to keep life from getting stale?
This is what Flare is about and why the cover is green! Haha. It’s about finding life after death. Of course, Hugo and Kevin’s lives are much more interesting than my own ever could be.
That is reality for most of us at one point in our lives or another. Is it grief from the loss of a parent or partner? Is it being laid off or fired from a job? Or substance abuse to cope with? Or is it a medical crisis?
I think this is truly where the meat, the heart is in relationships. This is where it is enriching to watch and read about people growing and becoming more than they were at the beginning, especially when life is crisis free. “I love you” is easy now, but “I like you” or “I’m disappointed in you” might be harder. And how do you move past that so you can continue to grow, not just individually but as a couple?
That is what I really want to explore when I write romance. I want to explore the iceberg underneath.
What sort of depth do you enjoy in romance stories? When is too much, too much?
Have you ever related so much to a character that it’s scary?
6 Responses to “Posy Roberts Delves Beneath the Surface in Flare”
I love very in-depth stories. I have a hard time with novellas for that reason; there’s never quite enough. I don’t think I’ve ever related to a character. When I’m reading and it’s a really great story, I’m so immersed that I’m in the characters or they’re in me. That’s not relating to the character but it is relating to the author’s talent and ability to develop those characters.
Posy Roberts says:
Andrea~ Do you know how much wordy authors like me love to hear this sort of thing? Haha. Granted, I enjoy novellas too, but novels are my fave!
Have you read Junk by Jo Myles? The MC in that book is a book hoarder and is unable to change because he is so overwhelmed. I’m not a hoarder, pretty far from it. But there were so many days where the thought of making headway was just panic inducing. I connected so much more to the character than I expected…
Juliana~ I loved that book. It reminded me a lot of my daughter who is a diagnosed hoarder. Beyond that, it was genius story telling. She was kind and gentle with the hoarding diagnosis, which I am obviously more sensitive than the average bear. I think part of that is because her characters were business people, not mental health professionals, even if trains as such. It was a wonderful book!!!
Jbst says:
I really like stories to have substance and a plot, which I appreciated in Spark. Thanks for telling us the meanings behind the titles for Fusion and Flare, plus the colors. The covers for the trilogy are truly lovely.
Jbst ~ Thanks. My daughter actually picked the TARDIS blue. I felt Spark had to be red/orange. And Flare… yep… GREEN! I can’t wait to have them all in paperback in person. It’s going to be exciting!!!
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Play work underway
Repairs are underway on the children's adventure playground at Happy House.
The playground, which was funded by Limavady Rotary Club in Northern Ireland and volunteer Francis Asher, is popular and in constant use so repairs are always needed.
This time, there is some fairly extensive work needed as Uncle Charo, our joiner explains.
Apologies for the interference with sound at the start of the video.
Happy birthday, Mwende.
Happy birthday Mwende!
Mwende has just turned 12 and at Happy House Kidz Club her birthday was celebrated with gifts and greetings from all the family.
Mwende was the very first children to join our family and while her two brothers, Musyoka and Francis, have been able to settle back and be supported by their family, Mwende has remained in our care.
She is happy, confident and doing well in school and it's been a pleasure to watch her grow up.
Class 8 Primary,, who are about to sit their KCPE exams, were invited to Kidz Club where Mama gave them encouragement and wished them well.
Meeting baby Diana
Our new mum, Auntie Velma, brought her baby daughter Diana to meet Mama, Papa and the Happy House family.
Diana was born on October 8 and is little sister to Daisy, three.
Needless to say, everyone was thrilled to meet baby Diana to see Auntie Velma looking so well and so happy.
Many congratulations, Auntie Velma.
Walking wonder!
Victor is walking!
But would he walk when we wanted to make a video to show you, no he wouldn't!
So Mama enlisted the help of some of his Happy House big sisters, who also take happily take on the role of being his "Little Mummies".
They love to play with him and with their helping hands he was up and walking!
Victor, who was one on October 20, was abandoned in Malindi when he was just a few months old and because we do not know his actual date of birth it was estimated to be around the third week of October so the 20th was chosen as it is also Heroes Day in Kenya.
New friends for our family
It's always lovely to meet new people and make new friends.
This week Mama and the family welcomed Gail Smith, Debbie and Dave Allsobrook and their friend Maxine Huass who has a home in Watamu.
When they knew they were coming out to visit they wanted to meet our Happy House family and as Gail is a dentist she brought with her gifts of toothbrushes, toothpaste and dental care information for our children donated by a dental care company.
She and her friends also brought art equipment for our new art room.
We were really delighted to meet them and to see how thrilled they were to see our Happy House home and school and look forward to welcoming them into our sponsor family.
Heroes Day celebration
Heroes Day in Kenya honours all those who took part in the struggle to gain independence for their nation and those who have positively contributed to the country since.
It is also a public holiday and a day off from school for our Happy House children.
And we were delighted to welcome visitors who travelled all the way from Mombasa especially to meet our Happy house family.
They were members of the New Birth Church in Bombolulu.
Led by their Pastor, Leah Gi Karia, they brought with them food for our children and we enjoyed a day of friendship with singing, dancing and fun.
We are grateful to them for making the long trip to see us.
Happy House songbirds
As always there was lots of laughter ad music at the weekly Kidz Club at Happy House.
And today we entertain you with a lovely song from our girls, lead by Rukia.
Well dong songbirds!
Victor is one!
Happy birthday Victor!
Victor was several months old when he was found abandoned in Malindi and brought into the care of our loving family at the Happy House.
As his actual date of birth was unknown, he has been given October 20 as his birthday - and his first birthday was celebrated at Kidz Club when he received gifts and greetings.
Victor, who is just walking, is the seventh foundling to take Mama Sue and Papa Dave's surname, Hayward,
His forenames were chosen by Mark and Amanda Barron, who chose to call him Victor Barron.
This video opens with a snatch of entertainment from our friends, Dawn Heather White and Linda Newman, who are always very good sports.
Welcome back Tundra
Mama Sue and Papa Dave had the great pleasure of welcoming our long-time friend Tundra Tononi from Italy back to Happy House.
On this visit Tundra came with her mum, dad and sister.
Tundra was delighted to catch up with her sponsor child. Husna, and with Khalid and Esther who are sponsored by her friends in Italy.
Tundra brought with her many gifts of groceries, clothes and other much needed supplies for our family generously donated by her own friends and family.
We are grateful to each one of them for their kindness. it means so very much to us.
Birthday dance
Mama's birthday is so special we have made it last a whole week on the blog.
Our Happy House celebration, organised by the children themselves ended with everyone dancing.
And it was a time when Mama and Papa, so devoted to each other, led the way on the dance floor.
Mama's birthday thank you
Our beloved Mama Sue,was very touched when the kids decided to spring a birthday surprise in her honour.
They organised a party with a whole programme of imaginative activities especially in her honour.
Mama was thrilled and delighted and here she says thank you to them.
There were also more tributes to Mama from Mwende and Florence.
Mama shared her special day with Stevie so there were happy birthday gifts and greetings for him too,
Mama's friends, DawnHeather and Linda were also delighted to be guests at her special day.
We are happy and we know it!
If you are happy...
What song could be more be more apt, our Happy House children are happy, and they know it!
They know that their happiness is all down to the care, love and family that their Mama Sue has given them.
Here Evans leads the singing and we have tributes from both him and his sister, Janet (left), to Mama at her birthday celebrations.
This is Radio Watamu - by the kids,
Anyone who follows out Happy House blog will know that at Monday school assembly, Mama Sue always has a few words to say before handing over to Papa Dave with his football update.
Papa is an avid soccer fan, as are all our kids, and they look forward to what has become known as his "Radio Watamu" broadcast.
At Mama's birthday party, secretly organised and rehearsed by the children. Priscilla took the role of Mama. John was Papa "Radio Watamu", Brian was Mr. Khamisi and Diana,Md. Spriana.
In our two videos here we have the children's sketch and Papa's speech.
We love you Mama
Happy House social worker, Uncle Ronald, joined the family to gain work experience when he was a student.
He is now a qualified social worker doing great work alongside his mentor, Mama Sue.
At her birthday party, a surprise organised by the children, Uncle Ronald wished her happy birthday but also told of how he felt he has grown up, like her children are, under her watchful eye.
Mama, you have taught us well
When the Happy House children decided to surprise their Mama Sue with a party for her birthday, they also wanted to tell her how much she means to them.
They really do understand and appreciate how much her efforts have done to change their lives, to lift them out of poverty into a life of family, love and opportunity.
Here John, one of the oldest boys in the family, thanks Mama Sue for putting them on the right direction, teaching them right from wrong, and for all the support she gives them both at home at Happy House and in our school.
We are bringing you video highlights of Mama's party over the next few days.
Today we have songs John's moving speech and songs from the girls' choir.
Happy birthday dear Mama Sue
Today is a very special day - it's Mama Sue's birthday.
And on Saturday, the children decided to surprise her with a party as they will all be at school today.
They wanted to show her just how much they love her and to give her a really happy day.
So they got together, in secret, to plan and rehearse a programme of items which would make her smile.
Since the Happy House opened nine years ago, Mama Sue has devoted her entire life to changing the lives of children.
With Papa Dave by her side, every step of the way, she has taken children from backgrounds destitution and despair, trauma or tragedy, abandonment or abuse and given them happiness, love, hope and opportunity.
Every child in her care now, or who has been in her care, loves and respects her.
As they go on through life they will hold her, forever, in their hearts.
Her birthday is a chance for the children to say thank you, to make her laugh and to see her having fun.
If anyone deserves to have a special day, it's our Mama Sue.
Happy birthday, Mama.
We will bring you video highlights of Mama's party over the next few days.
Today we have Mama's arrival, Evans introduction and songs from the boys choir.
A new coat of paint
The girls bedrooms and bathrooms at Happy House have been getting a new coat of paint.
They soon get to look a little the worse for wear and keeping on top of maintenance is as important for us as it is for anyone who has a home and family of their own.
Uncle Ibrahim tells shows is his handiwork.
If you can help towards the cost of maintenance
you can make a donation through through our bank account or via JustGiving : https://www.justgiving.com/childrenofwatamu/Donate
Planting maize
A public holiday in Kenya meant a day off from school for our Happy House kids.
To use the time well they went out into the gardens to plant a new crop of maize.
Maize is the staple crop of Kenya and is used to make flour which is he basis of ugali, a traditional food eaten daily by many, many, people.
Here Evans explains what the boys are doing.
Fired up for testing time
Our Class Eight at Happy House Primary School are about to sit their Kenya Certificate of Primary Education Examinations.
This is a key exam for these students as it opens the door on to the next stage of their education- secondary school.
Mama Sue and head teacher, Mr Hamisi, had a session with the the young people to talk through their mock-exam results and to give them encouragement for the main event.
Without our help and support, and that of all those who support the work of our charity many of these kids would not be in education at all.
You have helped us to put them into education and on the road out of poverty. Thank you.
Primary exams
Primary students at Happy House School are in the midst of their end of year exams.
They've worked hard all year and the results of these exams will, we hope, reflect their efforts.
They breakup on October 25 for the longest holiday of the academic year and will, if they get good results, go up to the next class when school resumes in January.
News of Velma's new arrival
Our Happy House Auntie Velma, one of Mama Sue's righthand women, has given birth to her second baby.
Her baby girl was delivered safely by cesarean section on Tuesday, October 8.
And she's a sister for her elder daughter, Daisy, who was three last week.
In this video we join Mama Sue as she announces news of the much-awaited arrival to our children at Happy House where Velma is very much a part of our family.
She also reveals the name Velma and her husband Cleophas have chosen for their baby girl.
Many congratulations and lots of love to Velma, Cleophas and and Daisy.
Stars ascending!
Each one of our Happy House kids is a star!
And in our safe care they learn to shine brightly, with confidence and love.
So for our next series of videos we are going to invite them to sing you a song so that we can show you just how talented they are!
And you are being asked to let us know what songs you'd like them to sing and we'll do our best to make it happen.
The series will starting a few weeks time, after the school term ends, and is sure to bring you as much pleasure as it will bring our children.
So if you have a song you would like to hear your sponsor child sing please let Mama Sue know. You can email her at: sue@childrenofwatamu.net
Big brother Evans
Evans who was one of the first children to join our Happy House family way back when we opened in 2010, is looked upon as a big brother by all the younger kids.
He's a kind, caring and gentle young man with his sights set on becoming a social worker.
He's also very good fun as we see in this video filmed at Kidz Club.
Boys in voice
Today, it's the turn of the boys to bring you a song.
The older boys from our Happy House family joined together to sing "Love is like a Mango" at Kidz Club on Saturday.
The family found it very entertaining, joining in to give them a boost.
Well done lads.
Girls chorus
Everyone enjoys a singalong and the children living at Happy House are no different.
They were in fine voice on Saturday for the weekly Kidz Club family gathering.
The girls got together to entertain, followed by the boys.
Today we bring you the girls rendition - we'll have the boys song for you tomorrow.
A student board is proving a great asset to Happy House Primary School .
The team is being led by Sanita Ann, the school captain.
Every class is represented by one class prefect whose duties and responsibilities are well explained to them by their teachers. we also have another representative who is in charge of welfare, sanitation, computer/smart TVs and library.
The team is really working hard with the help of the teachers and everything is running in a well and organised manner.
Much thanks to Mr. Khamisi, the school head teacher, and Mr. Duncan his deputy.
Secondary exams
With the end of term- and the end of the 2019 academic year - just three weeks away, students at Happy House School are very busy indeed,
And in secondary school they are currently sitting exams in all their subjects.
Our secondary school principal, Mr Paul, introduces this video in which students are sitting a business studies exam.
When it rains ...
Gardening duties have come to a halt at Happy House with the onset of some rain.
Our gardener, Uncle Alex, has been unable to work on our vegetable plots because of torrential downpours.
When the rain comes this time of year it is usually short lived, but it certainly has been enough to quench the ground and water our crops.
It should give them a a growth spurt once the rain stops and the sun comes out again.
Form Four students from Happy House Secondary School have been talking books with students from a neighbouring school.
They travelled to St John’s High School to have an English literature session with the St John’s students who will also be taking their Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education exams this term.
The two school years will be sitting their exams together and same school they will be sitting for their final exams and it was also an opportunity for them to interact with their friends and to get to know the surroundings which will be their exam centre.
They were accompanied by their English teacher, Mr Emmanuel and Md. Sara.
An English exam in Kenya s comprised of three papers - grammar, literature and composition.
The students are required to read and analyse three set books which will be tested in the English Literature paper and on this visit they were discussing one of the books.
Girls entertain
Some of our girls formed a choir to entertain the family when they gathered for the weekly Kidz Club meeting at Happy House.
It was a happy time spent with Mama Sue and Papa Dave sharing family news and events.
There was just one birthday to celebrate this week. Saumu has turned 12 and she received birthday gifts and greetings.
Volleyball prize
Youngsters from Happy House School came away with a trophy for gaining third place in an inter-school volleyball tournament.
Schools taking part were Happy House, Sawasawa, Timboni junior, Precious Memory, St. Johns and St 3P.
The tournament was organised by Watamu Marine Association as part of their work in raising awareness of environmental conservation issues.
In this video you can hear more about the competition and meet our team: John, Katana, Brain, Benedict and Peter.
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Indian Intelligence
Thread: Indian Intelligence
omarali50
Meanwhile, in India...
A flavor of India that, one way or the other, is likely to pass into history:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/c...ow/5414682.cms
btw, as and when India is forced to shape up and join the more organized world, I personally will regret the passing of this level of laissez-faire. With all its poverty and problems, it was/is an endearingly soft and mushy world. Hopefully, we will be able to preserve some of India's more pleasant aspects even as we try to bring the police up to modern standards...
There is a thread on Pakistan's ISI elsewhere, missing is a thread on the main regional power, India. The ISI thread:http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...ad.php?t=14914
This week the Lowy Institute, an Australian think tank's had a short review article on its blogsite, by the RUSI (UK) based analyst Shashank Joshi; I thought it was interesting:http://www.lowyinterpreter.org/post/...-scrutiny.aspx
An Indian "lurker" responded that the article was:
..a very amateurish attempt...(partly as he relied on)..Srinath Raghavan who knew only in 2013 that Indian intelligence have no legal backing . Raghavan is not a historian but only a young journalist...
They located an Indian article that described the wide context first and then several pages (pgs. 6-9) on the current picture; see attachment.
On two recent threads we have touched upon the apparent byzantine bureaucracy that India has today, sometimes blamed on the British - even if independence was in 1947 and India has had plenty of time to change.
Bala2012Intell.pdf (95.9 KB, 248 views)
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Tangential thought: the Byzantine bureaucracy that is blamed on the British was not as bad in British times as it is today because the British rulers could (not always for the better..but then again, what is?) draw upon unwritten rules of aristocratic, racist and nationalist solidarity to bypass a lot of BS when it suited them. India, lacking that coherence (again, not completely lacking; there IS an Indian patriotic feeling to draw upon and perhaps also a sense of Brahmin solidarity and mission in some cases) is more a prisoner of that Byzantine bureaucracy than British India ever was....
jmm99
The RAW: ...
"Understanding India's External Intelligence Agency" (DFI thread) in two posts, #1 and #2.
The Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) is India's primary external intelligence agency. It was formed in September 1968, after it became apparent that the newly independent Republic of India lacked a credible external intelligence gathering agency after the Indo-China War of 1962 and the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. Its primary function is the collection of external intelligence, counter-terrorism, sabotage, counter-sabotage and covert external operations; in addition, it is responsible for obtaining and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations and individuals, in order to assess and advise Indian foreign policymakers. Until the creation of RAW, the Intelligence Bureau [IB] handled both internal and external intelligence.
It would be well if an Indian expert on Indian external intelligence came out of the woodwork to keep this thread on track.
And, yup, it seems I've taken on a foreign assignment (virtual kind).
Q&A on Indian intelligence
JMM99 (Mike) asked in January 2014:
Here is an Indian expert on intelligence, snag the focus is on internal security in an interview prompted by him writing a book:
National Security and Intelligence Management, A new paradigm is a book by V Balachandran, former special secretary, cabinet secretariat, government of India. The book is a compilation of Balachandran’s published works and lectures over the past 15 years on various facets of our national security.
Link:http://vickynanjappa.com/2014/03/24/...-late-on-2611/
The author of 'National Security and Intelligence Management, A new paradigm' V. Balachandran, has seen this thread and points out that the Introduction, Contents and more can be viewed on:http://www.amazon.in/National-Securi...der_818856950X
Only ten items are on police(Internal security) while thirty-three are on intelligence and foreign security problems. Sixteen are on terrorism.
In July 2013 Ajit Doval was an Indian think tank director, now he is the new Indian government's national security advisor and so his speech on the prospects for Afghanistan become useful:http://www.vifindia.org/article/2013...ional-security
Ajit Doval is a former Intelligence Bureau (IB) chief, till 2005. IB is the internal security agency, with a strong police emphasis, whereas external intelligence is the domain of RAW.
Until early 2014 he blogged on his own website too:http://ajitdoval.blogspot.co.uk/ One expects watchers are re-reading his writings now.
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Thanks to a "lurker" for signposting this odd report on US-Indian cooperation to stop fighters from The Maldives, including a FAA-certified pilot, transiting India en route to ISIS:http://www.mumbaimirror.com/mumbai/c...w/51933993.cms
Inda's not-so secret intelligence "war"
A long article by Praveen Swami, on a serious mishap over an Indian agent based in Iran being abducted to Pakistan and now faces execution. He starts with:
The implications of the questions raised by the Kulbhushan Jadhav case go far beyond Jadhav’s fate. It is time India reflects seriously on its expanding programme of covert action and its long-term consequences.
Lots of snippets, especially on the absence of trade craft; I only quote one:
Thirteen Indians are being held in Pakistan on espionage charges, and 30 Pakistanis are in Indian jails, but in not a single case has either country officially concerned itself with its agent’s fate.
Link:http://www.frontline.in/the-nation/i...55129.ece#test
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Moderator's pointer
There are two reviews of a new book on the Indian-Pakistani intelligence relationship and wider issues on the Pakistani Military thread. See:http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...777#post211777
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RAW to CIA: an Indian defector
A puzzling article from an Indian newspaper: Rabinder Singh, spy who defected to US, is no more: Double agent lived his last years as a remorseful recluse. Just whether officialdom has encouraged this is a moot point. It certainly would discourage anyone else choosing that option. CIA "tradecraft" failures appear too (as they do in another post today).
Link:https://www.firstpost.com/india/rabi...e-4688341.html
R&AW completed 50 years of its existence on September 21, 2018
A commentary on RAW by a former, senior member and "lurker" here.
Link:https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/co...cy/658199.html
This national investigative body is a mainly manned by the police and is one of the Indian intelligence agencies IIRC, handling CT investigations. This report sadly is an illustration how complex and mind-boggling India can be.
Link:https://www.ozy.com/provocateurs/the...es-rogue/90330
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Human Rights Watch denounces U.S. sex-offender policy
In a 146-page report on sex-offender policy in the United States, Human Rights Watch concludes that the nation’s sex-offender laws don’t protect children from sex crimes very well, but they do lead to harassment, ostracism, and even violence against former offenders. Read the report…
The New Hampshire Citizens Union to Reform Sex Offender Registration (NH-CURSOR) is an organization that seeks to educate and inform New Hampshire citizens about our state’s sex-offender registry laws, how they both overreach and fall short of their goals, and what we can do about it. We recognize that not everyone registered as a sex offender is an actual ongoing public safety threat, and instead of perpetuating “feel-good” solutions that simply don’t work, we seek to bring real, evidence-based solutions to the table in order to deal with sex-offender issues. Our focus is the ineffective restrictions and regulations that waste taxpayer dollars and actually serve to undermine communities’ abilities to effectively protect themselves. This is not to say that we are completely against sex-offender registries as a whole—but what we are against is the broad brush approach that sweeps all offenders into the same basket. We do not sympathize with violent child molesters or predatory rapists. But we do understand that not every registered sex offender is indeed a violent molester or rapist, and we hope to educate and inform other New Hampshire residents as to this important fact about sex offenders and sex-offender registries.
Wed, 2012-02-22 06:40 +0000 — jeremy
In 2011, Jeremy and Chris went on to found a new 501(c)(3) organization working on the much broader topic of criminal justice reform, called Citizens for Criminal Justice Reform – New Hampshire (CCJR-NH).
The N.H. Citizens Union to Reform Sex Offender Registration is dormant as of 2012. We keep this website online as an archive of what we did, and what we accomplished.
Exeunt.
Three dangerous bills go down. But our prime bill almost made it.
Sat, 2010-05-29 23:42 +0000 — chris
By Chris Dornin
We had a strong presence at the Statehouse this term, building on the good work of Laurie Peterson, who founded CURSOR and served as the first New Hampshire coordinator for the national organization, Reforming Sex Offender Laws. Laurie stepped down because her job hours and responsibility increased, she has to travel a lot now, she has a family, and she’s going to law school. Our cause needs future attorneys like her who understand the witch hunt against sex offenders.
A dozen of our advocates persuaded the House to kill two residency restriction bills against people listed on the state sex offender website. One would have banned this group from living within 25 miles from their victim or from any relative of the victim. That‘s a good example of the mindless vindictiveness behind every sex offender bill in about the last two decades. The bill had no grandfathering clause for folks with established homesteads to hang onto. It would have driven most of New Hampshire’s ex-offenders to Maine or Vermont. Nor could a sex offender near parole have gotten the parole board to release them. How could somebody behind bars ever locate the victim, not to mention their grandparents, nieces, kids and brothers? An inmate is prohibited from contacting his victim.
The other extremely hostile bill would have excluded the same electronic scarlet letter wearers from living in most towns. They could not have resided within 2,000 feet of a school or daycare program. Lawmakers were aware a lower court last year struck down the Dover sex offender ordinance with a 2,000-foot perimeter from such places. It violated the plaintiff’s basic property rights.
A bill to encourage active notice when a sex offender moves into a neighborhood died on the Senate floor after sailing through the House. Two of the Senate co-sponsors turned against their own piece of legislation after hearing our side of the issue. They understood the bill would have fomented vigilantism by spurring towns to compete with each to give the harshest welcome to an unwanted new family.
The bill’s prime sponsor, Sen. David Boutin (R-Hooksett), filed the bill last fall right after a Hooksett man on the registry was charged with molesting his niece. Police later dropped the case, but a local vigilante website against the accused man, Joel Dutton, and his family still carries death threats. The bill sponsor testified about the heinous crime that prompted his legislation as if it actually happened. That blunder cost him his bill.
Unfortunately, our legislation to ban residency restrictions altogether died in the Senate. It won a huge majority in the House and left its senate committee with 5-0 support. Democratic leaders made the decision behind closed doors to table it as being too controversial in an election year. We hope this year’s improvised coalition against residency restrictions will give the same bill strong legs next time. Opponents of such restrictions included the Coalition against Domestic and Sexual Violence, Child and Family Services, the Manchester Police and the Department of Safety.
The governor has signed a bill we worked hard for, the justice reinvestment act. It allows nonviolent inmates to parole sooner than now and lets everyone leave prison at least nine months before their maximum term expires. The bill vastly improves parole supervision too. The savings on prison costs will divert to community programs to prevent recidivism and crime by rehabilitating parolees. For now all sex offenders are still arbitrarily defined as violent offenders. We’ll be working to change that definition.
The governor has signed a bill to bar registered sex offenders from ever contacting their victims. Our side won an amendment to let the offender approach a victim within the family to discuss inheritance or custody matters.
We supported a new law to study the parole board. Many lawmakers accurately suspect this benighted and powerful agency is out of step with reducing prison costs. Our side needs to testify at the upcoming hearings and workshops on an issue vital to an intelligent criminal justice system.
Lawmakers killed a bill to evaluate the public danger posed by everyone on the public registry. There was strong bipartisan support for the concept, but nobody knew where to find $4 million or so to assess the 2,700 people already on the burgeoning roster.
A House bill to let folks on the registry file petitions to get off died early in the legislative session. The idea was too radical.
The governor has signed a feel-good bill to make folks on the registry report to the police their cars, boats, snowmobiles and planes, say where they are kept and divulge the license numbers. The offenders don’t have to display neon pink plates yet.
This summer the House will study the public sex offender registry in depth and the cost of complying with the federal Adam Walsh Act, a deeply flawed law mandating these registries in every state. Many of the reps have reservations about what is devolved into a highly punitive shaming roster. According to a solid body of research, the list does nothing to protect children and may paradoxically endanger them the same way residency restrictions do- by making a lot of them jobless, divorced and homeless. Our people will need to speak up at the meetings of the study commission this summer and fall. Stay tuned for the schedule.
Two sex offender bills die, one good, one bad
Tue, 2010-05-25 16:58 +0000 — chris
CONCORD - The State Senate this month tabled and killed HB 1628, a bill to encourage police to actively notify the neighbors whenever a sex offender is released into their midst. A dozen opponents, including several sex offenders, had packed the senate public hearing on the legislation.
In response, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 3-1 to kill the bill politely by sending it to interim study in an election year. Senate interim study committees never meet in election years. A co-sponsor of the bill, Sen. Sheila Roberge (R-Bedford), sits on the Judiciary Committee and voted to effectively defeat her own legislation after hearing the evidence against it.
There was no debate on the later Senate floor motion to table. Whatever infighting led to that surprise outcome happened behind closed doors. After the vote, one senator said people were worried about the consequences to the families of sex offenders if neighbors got into the habit of welcoming every sex offender harshly.
The stakeholders were expecting an emotional floor fight in the full Senate. Sen. Robert Letourneau (R-Derry) missed the committee vote, but he co-sponsored the bill and would have voted for it. Close split decisions are rare in senate committees and often lead to donnybrooks when all 24 senators meet. Each of them received an email from me the night before the final vote with a copy of an op ed I had just published in the daily Laconia Citizen. The full text appears at the bottom of this update.
I’m sorry to say the Senate killed HB 1484 the same way, a bill that would have barred towns from imposing residency restrictions against sex offenders. I heard conflicting reasons from senators and sources close to the governor for the surprising vote to table this fine legislation. It had sailed through the House and left Senate Judiciary Committee with a 5-0 ought-to-pass endorsement. We’ll be asking the sponsors to resubmit the same bill for next year, if they get re-elected.
Losing this favorable legislation was palatable in an election year. Only five towns have adopted these residency restrictions, and several have chosen not to enforce them in light of a district court decision last August. It shot down the Dover residency restriction against sex offenders as a violation of fundamental property rights. No town with an ethical legal counsel will be foolish enough to pass a new residency restriction with the Dover decision on the books. It’s not a binding precedent, but it might as well be.
But never say never in politics. If some town considers passing an ordinance like that, you will hear about it on CURSOR in time to oppose it.
An Op Ed in the Laconia Citizen May 12, 2010
We are losing the war on sex offenders
Community Commentary
But not the way you think. The stereotype of the mean stranger watching the schoolyard underlies the last two decades of sex offender laws. Ironically, these feel-good, knee-jerk statutes endanger the very kids they aim to protect.
State Sen. David Boutin (R-Hooksett) is sponsoring House Bill 1628 this spring to encourage police departments to use active public notice when sex offenders are released into a neighborhood. He filed the bill to please constituents hoping to drive all the sex offenders from Hooksett. Joel Dutton, a man on the sex offender registry, had been charged with a new sex crime. When Dutton made bail, his neighbors started a website against him with these and similar comments:
"You show true restraint by not beating the tar out of this lowlife." Chris Johnson
"I hope you guys get rid of the bastard. What a piece of crap." MTgirl
"This is an incestuous family of whack-jobs and psychopaths, and it makes me feel good to know they are going down." Steve
"Hang'em high and let the sun set on em. Only in a perfect world right? Haha" Josh T
Boutin echoed those feelings in his Senate testimony. "Late September of 2009 a convicted child sex offender heinously struck again and was charged with felonious sexual assault against a 7 year old Hooksett girl," Boutin told lawmakers. "Quick adoption of this bill and dissemination of notification guidelines to local law enforcement will go a long way towards preventing another sexual assault, with regrettable consequences for the victim, family and community, who all share in the burden of the pain."
There was much more to the story. The prosecutor has dropped the case against Dutton for lack of evidence. A neighbor had accused Dutton of molesting his own niece, who still lives with Dutton, his wife, and his brother in law.
States like Pennsylvania and New Jersey evaluate all their sex offenders for threats to the public and save active notice for the worst of the very worst. That lifelong punishment after incarceration can include mass emails, newspaper ads, wanted-style posters, and hostile PTA meetings. Those states also have strong safeguards against vigilantism. In the last decade dozens of registered sex offenders have been murdered.
These laws shame the very group of ex-cons least prone to do another crime. The recidivism rate for new sex charges against registered sex offenders is averaging about 1 percent per year in state after state. Likewise, the research says more than 95 percent of sex crimes are committed by people who have never been convicted before, usually the loved ones of the victim. Between a third and half of the offenders against kids are teenagers or younger themselves.
The middle school in Hooksett had a bizarre episode of active notice this winter. Jennifer Frank, a visiting detective from Plymouth State University, displayed student Facebook pages in front of the whole school. Some belonged to the children of local sex offenders. Then she posted their fathers' Internet mug pages from the state registry. Charles Littlefield, the Hooksett superintendent, confirms that these children were "traumatized." Steve Harrises, the principal, says he was "blindsided" by the assembly.
Something worse happened when Frank went to Fall Mountain High School. Steve Fortier, a school parent, gave this testimony at the Senate hearing on HB 1628. Fortier is not a sex offender, by the way.
"Many of the sex offenders whose information was shown (in front of the school) are family members of teens who were sitting in the audience," Fortier said in written testimony. "Because most youth sexual abuse is committed by a family member or someone else known by the victim, there was an even more troubling consequence. Many of the victims of the sex offenders were watching the assembly. This retraumatization, including the stigma associated with being a teen sexual abuse victim, was, in my opinion, not worth whatever gains were made through the assembly."
Other Fall Mountain parents have said kids ran out crying and stayed away from school for days. One couple has asked the Civil Liberties Union to represent them in litigation.
The hysteria sweeping New Hampshire against sex offenders has already reached a critical stage. Hostile neighbors drove convicted child murderer Raymond Guay from Manchester to Chichester to New Hampton last year. Along the way he stayed with the family of Pastor David Pinckney, whose parishioners gave the ex-offender meaningful handyman jobs to do. Pinckney told senators that men like Guay can assimilate safely back into society.
"I would welcome him back in my home," Pinckney testified.
Mobs gathered outside the apartment of registered sex offender Gloria Huot in Manchester a couple of years ago. People burned dolls on her wooden porch, according to news reports. Huot shared the apartment with another woman and her kids.
John Crawford, a former Laconia State School resident on community placement, was bludgeoned to death in 1981. Three former State School residents were awaiting trial on molestation charges. Rumors that Crawford was a sex offender had spread through his neighborhood before his murder.
A man at NH Prison stabbed two sex offenders in Concord and tried to burn an apartment building with seven sex offenders. The Maine vigilante who killed two sex offenders in 2007 was coming here next. After his suicide, police found a New Hampshire hit list on his computer.
Nobody can identify the very few predatory child rapists among the 2,700 mug shots on the New Hampshire registry. Judging by registry data from other states, most are incest offenders at low risk to commit a new crime. Some are husbands stung on the Internet without an actual victim. Some are drunken college guys who misunderstood a no for a yes. Some are former Romeos with 15-year-old girlfriends. Those are all criminals, I'm not minimizing their crimes, but they were well punished in prison. Few will recidivate. No one can tell if the folks branded by the registry have families to share the horrors of active notice.
None of the names comes with a clinical risk score. On line they all look bad. If HB 1628 becomes law, bullies will follow the children of sex offenders. Some will lose their jobs. Landlords will evict some of them. Some could become those mythical strangers watching the sandbox from the shadows.
Chris Dornin is a retired Statehouse reporter and religious volunteer into N.H. Prison working for criminal justice reform.
Bill to kill sex offender residency restrictions hits a sand bar
Thu, 2010-04-29 14:53 +0000 — chris
Legislative update April 29, 2010
By Chris Dornin, 228-9610
Sex offender residency restrictions look not so dead
Never say never at the New Hampshire Statehouse
The Senate voted April 29 to table HB 1484 banning towns from using residency restrictions against sex offenders. The legislation sailed through the House and seemed like a slam dunk after the Senate Judiciary Committee backed it 5-0 last week. That was a ringing non-partisan vote. But not so fast.
Sen. Lou D’Allesandro, D-Manchester, made the tabling motion, which passed without debate in a unanimous voice vote. Whatever caused that crash of a superb piece of legislation took place outside the Senate chambers away from public scrutiny in a place founded on the principle of open government.
D’Allesandro said afterward some senators had expressed concerns about a related court case. He would have meant the Dover District Court decision last summer striking down the city’s 2,000 foot buffer zone around schools and daycare centers. The city was trying to evict the plaintiff, Richard Jennings, a registered sex offender. The court found the ordinance violated his fundamental property rights even though he was a renter.
Sen. Sheila Roberge, R-Bedford, said the tabling motion came from the Senate Democrats. The Republicans were surprised by it. Sen. Deborah Reynolds, D-Plymouth, chairs the Judiciary Committee and echoed D’Allesandro. Some unnamed people were worried about the bill.
That’s where things stand for now. We don’t know who those people are. I won’t be able to get over to the Statehouse in person again until next week to learn more. Two Democratic sponsors of the bill, Reps. Beth Rodd and Mary Stuart Gile, are trying to find out what happened and let us know what we can do to save the bill. They’ll be talking to Senate Democrats. It’s too soon to speculate further.
What you can do about HB 1484
A simple majority vote of the Senate can still remove a bill from the table. That rescue gets harder near the end of the lawmaking term. The time is now to call, write, email and meet with your senators to urge them to revive and pass this important bill. Just tell them how the bill would affect you. Be sure and let all five-members of the Judiciary Committee hear from you as well. You can find out how to reach your local senator at http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/senate/senatemembers.asp.
Senate Judiciary Committee members
Deborah Reynolds 536-1552 536-8980 ext 10
deb.reynolds@leg.state.nh.us
Sheila Roberge r (H) 472-8391
sheila.roberge@leg.state.nh.us
Robert Letourneau (O) 271-2118
robert.letourneau@leg.state.nh.us
Matthew Houde 271-2104 (H) 504-2744
Matthew.Houde@leg.state.nh.us
Bette Lasky d 888-5557 (603)271-2735
Bette.Lasky@leg.state.nh.us
Legislature approves landmark criminal justice reform
Sun, 2010-04-25 12:46 +0000 — chris
Work for smarter criminal laws, humane is cheaper.
The New Hampshire House last week passed the finest piece of criminal law in decades by a lopsided 256-57 vote, ignoring the benighted advice in a recent editorial by the publisher of the Union Leader. SB 500 would let nonviolent inmates leave prison at or near their minimum sentences and start parole with a decent chance to stay clean, sober and crime free. Today large numbers of prisoners fail parole at their first and even second and third chances. Many max out and hit the streets homeless and broke. They soon return to prison, some having harmed new victims.
We as a penny-pinching, humane society can stop that revolving door by using half a dozen simple, research-based policies contained in SB 500. These best practices have lowered crime rates, prison costs, parole costs and recidivism rates in states like Texas and Kansas long known for being harsh on criminals. SB 500 gives parole and probation officers the power to bust a consenting person back into a halfway house for up to five days without a court or parole hearing.
That mild, but immediate, sanction should steer most ex-cons back to compliance without losing their hard-won jobs, apartments and new stake in a law-abiding society. If that intervention fails, the person would go into a halfway house for 90 days of intensive rehab. Today, about the only tool in the parole officer’s kit is a court petition to send someone back to prison or jail for the rest of their maximum sentence.
Under SB 500 almost all inmates would hit the street at least nine months before the end of their maximum sentences. That’s to assure the high-risk parolee the greatest possible support when leaving the safety of the cellblock for the perils of freedom.
A 180 degree change in vision like this was unthinkable even a year ago. But the prison population has grown 31 percent in the last decade, while yearly correctional costs have spiked from $52 million to $104 million. If future legislatures agree to it, most of the projected savings from closing selected prison units starting as soon as 2013 would go into community treatment programs and better supervision.
The Center for Public Policy Studies has forecast a prison population of 3,029 by 2015 under the current growth trend. If SB 500 succeeds as hoped, that census would drop from 2,878 now to 2,422 five years out. The Strafford County contract to house female state prisoners would end in 2013, saving $750,000 per year and $2.3 million by the end of 2015. Closing one pod at the Concord prison and the unconscionable, makeshift dormitory with 100 cots in a gymnasium at the Berlin prison would save $3.2 million in salaries by 2015.
The state would save another $5.3 million in cumulative marginal costs for food, clothing, medical care and inmate payroll from jobs in prison industries. Throw in the avoided $37 million construction cost of another wing at the Berlin prison if the state ever needs to build it, plus those future operating expenses. Some years from now the state might need a whole new prison, without SB 500.
Few pieces of legislation have emerged from such good planning. A team of consultants from the National Association of State Governments gave lawmakers an in-depth analysis of data culled from our prisons, jails, courts, probation departments and parole offices. These experts were assisted by NH Charitable Foundation and funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts and the US Justice Department. Focus groups took input from victims’ advocates, the judiciary, defense lawyers, parole officers, the executive director of the parole board, prison planners, police chiefs, the association of counties, prosecutors, jail superintendents and other stakeholders.
The sponsors of SB 500 include Senate President Sylvia Larsen, House speaker Terie Norelli and key leaders in both parties who sit on the committees that handle crime legislation and pay for it. They’ve all shown tremendous vision and some political courage. The Justice Reinvestment Commission behind the bill met for eight months. More than a score of key policymakers vetted the advice of the consultants, including the three court chief justices, legislative leadership, several state department heads, the governor’s office, top managers from the Department of Corrections, and the attorney general as chairman.
The state has won $1 million in federal seed grants to fund the first phase of the Justice Reinvestment project before the savings kick in to sustain it. Lawmakers did well to seize the resulting once-a-generation, fleeting chance to save some money, rebuild the lives of offenders, ease some dangerous prison crowding, keep parolees safely out of prison and reduce the crime rate. That sounds almost too good, but it’s actually happening elsewhere. Do the math. It costs more than $30,000 a year to incarcerate someone. Community supervision costs pennies on the dollars we’re spending now.
The alternatives were ugly. California tried to jail its way out of a crime problem and built so many prisons it can’t pay for them now. Thousands of inmates are going free without any premeditated plans to manage them in the community. It’s a desperate experiment in wholesale dumping.
Chris Dornin is a retired Statehouse reporter working for smarter criminal laws.
Committee nixes residency restrictions. Something worse could replace them
WORK FOR SMARTER CRIMINAL LAWS
Here’s the good news. The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 5-0 on April 20 in favor of HB 1484 to keep towns from using residency restrictions to banish sex offenders. A dozen policymakers, people on the sex offender registry and other folks working for smarter criminal laws warned that these ordinances are unconstitutional. Worse, they make sex offenders homeless, drive them underground, destabilize them, and, paradoxically, endanger kids. The full Senate may vote on the bill next week. If it passes and the governor signs it, it would repeal the existing housing codes against sex offenders in five Lakes Region communities. Those are modeled on the Dover sex offender ordinance a lower court struck down last August.
The bad news? The same Senate committee may support a dangerous piece of legislation, HB 1628, to actively publicize the arrival of a sex offender in a neighborhood. The unintended, or perhaps intended, result of HB 1628 would be the same as for residency restrictions.
A group of plaintiffs is even now organizing a class action lawsuit against portions of the public sex offender registry. HB 1628 might help to assure it wins. More on the impending lawsuit another time.
Back to HB 1628. The prime mover behind the bill is Sen. David Boutin of Hooksett, who has been stirring up his voters for months against a local registered sex offender, Joel Dutton. Boutin, also a selectman, told the Senate committee his bill emerged from a Hooksett Selectmen’s meeting last fall. Angry citizens were demanding residency restrictions to drive away people like Dutton, who had allegedly committed a new sex crime that month. In response, Boutin filed HB 1628 authorizing the Department of Safety to give local police voluntary guidelines to use in notifying the new neighbors when a sex offender is released from prison. The Hooksett police are already telling the neighbors when any sex offender arrives, whether from prison or Manchester or Pembroke.
“Thousands of kids each year are attacked by sexual predators,” Boutin testified on his bill. “On Sept. 9 a seven-year-old girl was assaulted by a sex offender. The neighborhood was enraged and asked for our help. The key is to notify the neighbors. The bill is not intended to incite people to do illegal things. It’s a measured response to a heinous crime.”
Boutin neglected to mention one thing. The prosecutor has dropped the case against Dutton, removing the immediate excuse for Boutin’s legislation. But the neighbors still run a vigilante website with death threats like the following rants against Dutton and his family:
“Hang’em high and let the sun set on em. Only in a perfect world right? Haha” Josh T
“I hope you guys get rid of the bastard. What a piece of crap.” MTgirl
“This is an incestuous family of whack-jobs and psychopaths, and it makes me feel good to know they are going down.” Steve
“You show true restraint by not beating the tar out of this lowlife.” Chris Johnson
A Hooksett public school was the scene of a similar incident with active community notice. Jennifer Frank, a visiting police detective from Plymouth State University, ran a recent assembly on Internet safety at the Cawley Middle School. She displayed some embarrassing student Facebook pages, including ones belonging to the children of local sex offenders. Then she posted their fathers’ Internet mug shot pages from the State Police registry. The whole school instantly understood what had just happened. Kids are computer savvy.
Two of the parents involved in the outing have told this writer they are considering a lawsuit. The Cawley principal, Steve Harrises, and his superintendent, Charles Littlefield, have both confirmed that youngsters were publically exposed as the children of sex offenders by an officer of the law representing a tax-funded teacher training institution. “They were traumatized,” Littlefield said. Harrises said he was “blindsided” by the assembly.
Active notice can get meaner than that
Something worse happened when Det. Frank gave much the same presentation at Fall Mountain High School. Steve Fortier, a concerned Fall Mountain parent, submitted this written testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee on HB 1628. Fortier is not a sex offender, by the way. Here is what he told lawmakers.
As with all laws passed by our elected officials at both the state and local levels, sometimes there are unintended negative consequences that are a by-product of good intentions. As it relates to your consideration of HB1628, I have recently experienced a traumatic and troubling by-product of active notification of sex offenders. Officer Jennifer Frank of Plymouth State University recently presented her "Many Faces of Facebook" assembly at my daughter's school, Fall Mountain Regional High School.
During the presentation, Officer Frank showed pictures and biographical information (address, etc.) of all convicted sex offenders in our region. On the surface, this might seem like a reasonable step aimed at keeping kids safe. However, there were a lot of negative by-products below the surface.
First, many of the sex offenders whose information was shown are family members of teens who were sitting in the audience. Second, because most youth sexual abuse is committed by a family member or someone else known by the victim, there was an even more troubling consequence. Many of the victims of the sex offenders were watching the assembly. This retraumatization, including the stigma associated with being a teen sexual abuse victim, was, in my opinion, not worth whatever gains were made through the assembly.
Given my experience with this assembly, I urge you to consider other ways a community member can learn of valid safety risks posed by sexual offenders. Given the wide-range of crimes that fall under the banner of sexual abuse, the research that suggests that most sex abuse is committed not by a stranger but by a family member or someone else known by the victim, and what I understand to be ever-increasing success rates in the treatment of sex offenders, I am concerned that active notification will produce more negative consequences for all involved while doing little to improve public safety.
Thanks for your thoughtful consideration,
Steven J Fortier
Alstead, NH 03602
Some Fall Mountain parents are considering a class action lawsuit unrelated to the two mentioned above. People have also complained to the president of Plymouth State and to an investigator at the attorney general’s office. Both state officials have acknowledged receiving that information.
The incurable flaw in HB 1628
Philip Horner, a former New Hampshire paroled to Vermont, submitted written testimony urging senators to base public notification on a rigorous risk assessment of each sex offender. Only the most dangerous people should undergo the extreme measure of active publicity, he suggested. Here is an excerpt from his testimony.
In its current form, the registry makes no attempt to evaluate risk of recidivism. The registry's three "tier" system (required for compliance with the federal Adam Walsh Act) is unhelpful, being based solely upon the RSA under which an offender is convicted.
Plea bargains often reduce, and overzealous prosecutors frequently inflate any correspondence between the actual criminal act and the RSA under which an offender is ultimately convicted. The RSA's do not correlate with risk of re-offense or recognize any rehabilitative efforts made by the offender since his/her conviction. Any true evaluation of individual risk would involve establishing a means to evaluate offenders on a case-by-case basis, as other States have done.
HB 1628's reliance on the Department of Safety is misguided. The Department of Safety is ill-equipped to evaluate offender risk, having no expertise in this area. The Department will undoubtedly feel obligated to treat all registrants equally (or to rely on the registry's flawed three tier system) and, I fear, recommend community notification for all. This will unnecessarily raise public fears for those registrants unlikely to re-offend and bring public humiliation down on their families. New Hampshire should have as a goal the successful reintegration of ex-offenders as law-abiding citizens. Across the board public notification will make that nearly impossible.
What HB 1628 will do is encourage vigilantism. Former sex offenders will be pressured to move out of their homes, and their supportive families will be vilified along with them. The recent hoopla in Hooksett will be repeated over and over again across the state. I do not think that the State of New Hampshire wants to be characterized by such behavior. Please do not recommend HB 1628 for passage.
Horner addressed the core issue with HB 1628.It has the wrong state agency deciding who deserves a highly punitive welcome to a community. Since all the faces on the registry look the same, all will get equal harsh treatment. That’s human nature. Voluntary guidelines will do nothing to restrain it.
A proposed amendment below calls for an assessment of each sex offender by the department of corrections. But Jeff Lyons, a spokesman for the agency, said it lacks the resources to do proper evaluations with so much at stake.
Senate Judiciary Committee chairperson Deb Reynolds cut all the testimony short on HB 1628. She also prevented half a dozen opponents from speaking, including several sex offenders who had summoned the courage to take a high profile. She ended this writer’s statement before he could submit the amendment. Here it is in full.
Dornin Amendment to HB 1628
To Be Presented April 20 to the Senate Judiciary Committee
Please replace House Bill 1628 in its entirety with the following amendment:
Chris Dornin 228-9610, cldornin@aol.com
HOUSE BILL1628
AN ACT establishing procedures for neighborhood notification upon release of a sexual offender.
This bill requires the commissioner of the department of corrections to develop rules governing the decision to use active notification of the immediate neighbors when an unusually dangerous sex offender is to be released into a community. The bill also requires the commissioner of the department of safety to develop rules to govern the implementation of that active notice process. Finally, the bill creates the new felony crime category of vigilantism against a sex offender or his or her immediate family members.
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Ten
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Paragraph; Neighborhood Notification of sex offenders released from incarceration. Amend RSA 651-B:7 by inserting after paragraph VI the following new sections:
VII. The commissioner of the department of corrections, no later than 6 months after the effective date of this paragraph, shall develop rules for deciding which sex offenders in prison are so highly dangerous that their future neighborhoods might need special notification that those inmates will be released.
Communities shall use the extreme measure of active community notice only on sex offenders found to be highly dangerous by the department of corrections, using clinical criteria. These shall include consideration of the inmate’s criminal record, treatment record, assessments, evaluations, educational and vocational record, disciplinary reports and rehabilitation progress.
The department of corrections shall inform the offender at least one year prior to his or her expected release date of the intention to recommend active community notice of the offender’s release into a neighborhood. The department of corrections shall give the offender a statement of the reasons for using active notice, including all risk factors that make it necessary. The offender may appeal that decision within prison channels. If dissatisfied with the result, the offender may appeal to a Superior Court.
The department of corrections must show by clear and convincing evidence that the sex offender is highly prone to commit a new sex offense in the community. As a group, sex offenders have extremely low recidivism rates, and the strong presumption is that active notice will be rare because it has such adverse consequences to the offender and his or her family.
VIII. The commissioner of the department of safety, no later than 6 months after the effective date of this paragraph, shall develop rules to govern the active neighborhood notification of the impending release from prison of a highly dangerous sex offender. Local police and officials shall not use active notification on any sex offender unless the department of corrections has determined that person is highly dangerous. Otherwise, the passive internet public registry shall be the only notification to citizens. Local police may never use active notification on a sex offender being released from a sentence that did not require incarceration in the prison system.
If local police choose to use active notification of neighbors, the method they employ shall be the most humane, least intrusive and least injurious possible. Active notification shall never include the following and similar cruel and unusual means of alerting the public:
Meetings of groups of public or private school students or their parents to discuss specific highly dangerous sex offenders.
Wanted-style posters on telephone poles.
Community access television shows about an individual sex offender.
IX. To protect against citizen abuses of privilege of active notice, it shall be a Class B felony for any citizen to engage in vigilante activities against sex offenders, including harassment, stalking, threatening or bullying the sex offender or his or her family members because of the sex offense.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
A competing and maybe better amendment
Attorney Mike Iacopino, a lobbyist for the Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, submitted a similar, but more rigorous, amendment.
Iacopino Amendment to HB 1628:
AN ACT establishing regulations for neighborhood notification upon release of a sexual offender or offender against children.
This bill requires the commissioner of the department of corrections to develop rules pursuant to RSA 541-A, governing notification of the public pursuant to RSA 651-B:7, IV (c) sex offender or offender against children is released into a community. The bill creates an extended term of imprisonment for offenses against sexual offenders or offenders against children where the offense was committed because of hostility towards a sexual offender or offender against children because of that status.
1 New Paragraph: Neighborhood Notification of sex offenders released from incarceration. Amend RSA 651-B: 7 by inserting, after paragraph VI, the following new sections:
VII. The commissioner of the department of corrections, no later than 6 months after the effective date of this paragraph shall, pursuant to RSA 541-A, develop rules for determining when and under what circumstances public notification pursuant to RSA 651-B:7, IV (c) shall occur.
(a) The rules shall include consideration of the inmate’s crime of conviction, criminal record, treatment record, assessments, evaluations, educational and vocational record, disciplinary reports and rehabilitation progress.
(b) The rules shall require that the department of corrections shall inform the offender at least three months prior to his or her expected release date of the intention to recommend public notification of the offender’s release. The rules shall require that the department of corrections give the offender a statement of the reasons for recommending public notification, including all risk factors relied upon. The rules shall allow the offender to appeal the decision to the commissioner. If dissatisfied with the result, the offender may appeal to the Supreme Court pursuant to RSA 541.
(c) In order to allow public notification the rules shall require clear and convincing evidence that the sex offender is at high risk to re-offend in the community.
(d) The rules shall also include provisions to provide for the safety of a sexual offender or offender against children who is released subject to public notification. The rules shall include, at a minimum:
(1) A prohibition on the use of leaflets and posters;
(2) A prohibition on community meetings called for the purpose of identifying an individual sex offender or offender against children subject to public notification
VIII. Law enforcement officials and all public officials may employ public notification pursuant to RSA 651-B:7, IV, (c) only with respect to sex offenders or offenders against children that the department has found, consistent with its rules, to be at high risk to re-offend.
2. Amend RSA 651:6, I (f) to read as follows (added language in italics):
f) Was substantially motivated to commit the crime because of hostility towards the victim's religion, race, creed, sexual orientation as defined in RSA 21:49, national origin or sex, or because the victim was a registered sex offender or offender against children.
3. Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
Absent an amendment, lawmakers are asked to approve a still-secret plan to notify neighborhoods when a sex offender arrives. The bill does not even call for review of those undisclosed guidelines by the Joint Legislative Rules Committee. Lawmakers would enact policy in private, but they would deny basic privacy to the traumatized children of people who wear scarlet letters. At least those letters are not yellow yet and stitched to sleeves.
The Senate Judiciary Committee will vote soon on HB 1628. You should immediately let its five members know how you feel. Then contact your local senator at http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/senate/senatemembers.asp.
The case against sex offender residency laws
State House Alert Number Nine • April 12, 2010
Residency restrictions on sex offenders harm kids
Please testify at a Senate hearing April 20 at 2:30 PM in room 103 of the State House for a bill that bars towns from imposing residency restrictions against sex offenders. The legislation, HB1484, runs counter to a 20-year American tradition of rushing sex offender laws to signature while the community still grieves a major crime against a child. The act of legislation becomes almost a memorial rite while the rage is fresh and the voters remember.
That’s where statutes named for Adam Walsh, Megan Kanka, and Jacob Wetterling came from. Florida’s draconian sex offender law passed without serious opposition in June of 2005, three months after the back-to-back lurid murders of Sarah Lunde and Jessica Lunsford. A dozen states soon copied the Florida lead, including New Hampshire.
Powerful Florida lobbyist Ron Book pushed a related residency restriction through his state legislature with little opposition after he learned his grade-school daughter had been raped repeatedly, threatened, and physically abused by her live-in nanny for several years. The resulting statute, based on one horrific case, had nothing to do with the law it triggered. Several New Hampshire towns have copied that residency law.
Here’s an unwritten and dubious rule of State Houses. Reps and senators show weakness, even disrespect for victims, when they ponder too long the possible costs and bad results of a sex offender bill. But the research is abundantly clear. One of the worst practices is a residency restriction against New Hampshire sex offenders like the Dover ordinance found unconstitutional last August. In the first year it drove most of the registered sex offenders elsewhere.
New Hampshire events
HB1484 (2010)
Kill HB1628 before it gets someone killed
Mon, 2010-04-12 03:37 +0000 — chris
State House Alert Number Eight • April 11, 2010
Mark April 20 on your calendar, the showdown on sex offender bills. All of our freedoms are at risk.
The Senate Judiciary Committee hears citizen testimony the afternoon of April 20 on two House bills that would have huge impact on all registered sex offenders and their families. You who are reading this need to be there to stand up for their rights and your own.
The public hearing starts at 2:30 PM in room 103 of the State House for the best sex offender legislation in years, HB1484. You should plan to arrive half an hour early to make sure you have a seat. Hearings on other less crucial crime bills will begin at 2:00 PM.
Why is HB1484 so important? It would stop towns from passing residency restrictions against people on the Internet public registry run by the State Police. The Dover District Court decided last August that a similar city ordinance against sex offenders violated basic property rights. The bill easily passed in the House with support from the Manchester Police, the Department of Safety, Child and Family Services, and the Coalition against Domestic and Sexual Violence.
The very next hearing in room 103 is for HB1628, meant to give neighborhoods the green light to drive sex offenders and their loved ones out of town by shunning, stalking, and shaming them. Two police chiefs have told me privately they fear HB1628 could get sex offenders killed amid the widespread hysteria against them. It will ramp up the pressure on an unpopular minority already tyrannized by the majority.
2010 relaunch
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Why do we need a body dedicated to investigating road collisions?
The police and others investigate road crashes, but we need a new 'no-blame' body to look into collisions too, and recommend ways to prevent them.
By Cherry Allan
This article explains why Cycling UK believes the Government should set up a road collision investigations body with a remit purely to recommend measures for preventing future collisions.
The remit of existing rail, air and shipping investigation branches
The Parliamentary Advisory Council on Transport Safety (PACTS) and others have called for a road collision investigatory body with a similar remit to the accident investigation branches’ for rail (RAIB), air (AAIB) and shipping (MAIB).
Like them, its role would emphatically not be to seek to apportion blame or legal liability. Rather, it would simply identify the causes of collisions (both of individual collisions, and looking for common causes of multiple collisions), and to make recommendations on how these might be avoided or lessened in severity in future.
These bodies all have the following key characteristics:
They are independent of any organisation responsible either for delivering services or for regulation or enforcement of safety rules;
They are staffed by experts;
They have statutory powers setting out what types of incidents must be notified to them, and enabling them to require the provision or seizure of evidence;
Their investigations are carried out on a ‘no blame’ basis;
Their investigation findings are made public.
How are road collisions currently investigated?
In contrast, road collisions are currently investigated by:
The police, whose investigations are primarily to determine whether anyone should be prosecuted, rather than to help learn lessons and avoid collisions in future;
Local authorities, who have a duty (under section 39 of the Road Traffic Act 1988) to “carry out studies into accidents arising out of the use of vehicles” on roads for which it is responsible. Also, in the light of those studies, they must “… take such measures as appear to the authority to be appropriate to prevent such accidents.”
Such investigations, however, are not ‘independent’, hence it is possible that officials may be blind to their own organisations’ failings, thereby missing the chance for others to learn lessons. What’s more, there is no systemic process for sharing their learning with other local authorities;
Coroners’ courts, whose investigations are independent and conducted on a no-blame basis (i.e. they are not there to find fault). Coroners, though, are not themselves road collision experts, and in any case their investigations only cover fatal collisions.
The Department for Transport’s own RAIDS (Road Accident In Depth Studies) process. This consists of ‘no-blame’ investigations carried out by independent experts, but it only covers a few areas of the country.
Also, its findings are not generally made public (albeit for understandable reasons relating to confidentiality: the participants in road collisions are much more likely to be members of the public rather than professionals, and there is a much greater chance that a criminal investigation will in ensue. (The RAIDS programme is led by TRL).
Hence road collisions - particularly non-fatal collisions - are not investigated as thoroughly, independently or transparently as those involving rail, aviation or shipping.
The difference RAIB has made for rail safety
The set-up of a RAIB was recommended by the Cullen Review, following a spate of rail fatalities in the 1980s and 1990s culminating in the Ladbroke Grove crash in 1999. The necessary legislation was passed in 2003; a European Directive gave it further impetus in 2004; and it began work in 2005. [1]
In the four years before RAIB (2001/2 to 2004/5), there were 18 rail movement fatalities, with another two in 2006/7.
Since then, there has only been one rail movement fatality; and, since the Cullen Review’s recommendations were made, a dramatic and steady fall in the annual number of ‘potentially high-risk train accidents’ (PHRTAs) - from 69 in 2001/2 to 22 in 2016/17.
How do trends in road safety compare to rail?
By contrast, the long-term downward trend in road casualty numbers has plateaued, and even seems to have started rising for serious injuries, particularly for cyclists and motorcyclists.
It is no surprise, then, that the road safety profession is calling for renewed impetus to reduce road collisions, with an independent investigatory body charged with ensuring systematic learning, and driving continuous improvement in safety.
After all, this approach has been demonstrably effective for reducing serious incidents and fatalities on the rail network.
Cycling UK’s recommendation
We therefore propose expanding RAIDS into a fully-fledged road collision investigation body.
We acknowledge that such a body would be a good deal more costly than its rail, aviation and maritime equivalents given the far greater number of casualties that might merit investigation.
But it would build on resource commitments already being made to the RAIDS process, and the additional cost should be weighed up against the human and societal costs of the injuries that could be prevented and lives that could be saved - not to mention the disruption averted due to serious incidents on our roads.
We accept that it will often not be possible to publish road collision investigations in the same way as with rail, aviation and maritime investigations, at least not until any criminal proceedings have run their course.
Yet the learning process would doubtless still prove valuable to inform the practices and priorities of the road safety profession.
[1] See also RAIB slide show.
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Ciències Clíniques
Articles publicats en revistes (Ciències Clíniques)
Title: Opposite trends in the consumption of manufactured and roll-your-own cigarettes in Spain (1991-2020)
Author: Fu Balboa, Marcela
Martínez Sánchez, Jose M.
Clèries Soler, Ramon
Villalbí, Joan R.
Daynard, Richard
Connolly, Anne M.
Fernández Muñoz, Esteve
Keywords: Comerç
Tractament del tabaquisme
Hàbit de fumar
Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group
Abstract: Objective: the aim of this study is to describe trends in the consumption of manufactured and roll-your-own cigarettes between 1991 and 2012 in Spain, and to project these trends up to 2020. Methods: we estimated daily consumption per capita during 1991-2012 using data on sales of manufactured cigarettes (20-packs) and rolling tobacco (kg) from the Tobacco Market Commission, and using data of the Spanish adult population from the National Statistics Institute. We considered different weights (0.5, 0.8 and 1 g) to compute the number of rolled cigarettes per capita. We computed the annual per cent of change and assessed possible changes in trends using joinpoint regression, and projected the consumption up to 2020 using Bayesian methods. Results: daily consumption per capita of manufactured cigarettes decreased on average by 3.0% per year in 1991-2012, from 7.6 to 3.8 units, with three trend changes. However, daily consumption per capita of roll-your-own cigarettes increased on average by 14.1% per year, from 0.07 to 0.92 units of 0.5 g, with unchanged trends. Together, daily consumption per capita decreased between 2.9% and 2.5%, depending on the weight of the roll-your-own cigarettes. Projections up to 2020 indicate a decrease of manufactured cigarettes (1.75 units per capita) but an increase of roll-your-own cigarettes (1.25 units per capita). Conclusions: while the consumption per capita of manufactured cigarettes has decreased in the past years in Spain, the consumption of roll-your-own cigarettes has increased at an annual rate around 14% over the past years. Whereas a net decrease in cigarette consumption is expected in the future, use of roll-your-own cigarettes will continue to increase.
Note: Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2014-006552
It is part of: BMJ Open, 2014, vol. 4, num. 12, p. e006552
Related resource: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2014-006552
Appears in Collections: Articles publicats en revistes (Institut d'lnvestigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL))
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Comic 478 - Brought to you by #Geico! 9/15/15
Posted on Tue, September 15th, 2015
*I'm out of here! 7/20/15 A Black conversation. 7/21/15 Brought to you by #TMobile! 7/22/15 It's #DumbJokeThursday 7/23/15 This rocked the workplace yesterday, for reals! 7/24/15 At the office pool party. 7/27/15 A classic from 2013. 7/28/15 #Beyonce is a national treasure! 7/29/15 Skirted up #Wheaties box. 7/30/15 A classic that all women wish for! 7/31/15 The art of the cutaway. 8/3/15 Can a person be #Graycist? 8/4/15 Like a sexual #MuhammadAli? 8/5/15 It's #DumbJokeThursday 8/6/15 C'mon, catch up! 8/7/15 Connor is not a fan. 8/10/15 #DonaldTrump doesn't want to run. Comic# 454 It says #TrumpHole 8/12/15 @Keeping__Real's the butt of #DumbJokeThursday! 8/13/15 #DonaldTrump is no #Mario! 8/14/15 Hey, it's Eldin! 8/17/15 Manly stuff! 8/18/15 Tyga Vs. Tiger, YOU make the call! 8/19/15 This is a rough one! 8/20/15 Whose nuts? #DeezNuts! 8/21/15 He just can't. 8/24/15 #DeezNuts is at it again! 8/25/15 More topical than a steroid! 8/26/15 It's #DumbJokeThursday 8/27/15 Eddie can't take this seriously. 8/28/15 #YeezyIn2020!? 8/31/15 It's officially over! 9/1/15 #TylerPerry never says NO! 9/2/15 It's #DumbJokeThursday! 9/3/15 #KimDavis is no #Martyr, or #MartinLutherKingJr! 9/4/15 Brought to you by #SilkAlmondMilk! 9/8/15 Seems legit. 9/9/15 It's #DumbJokeThursday! 9/10/15 #kimdavis won't do ANY job! 9/11/15 That's a lot of stuff to do! 9/14/15 Brought to you by #Geico! 9/15/15 Roger is a little thick! 9/16/15 It's #DumbJokeThursday! 9/17/15 This one's for me! 9/18/15 Poor #SadSuperman. 9/21/15 Nailed it! 9/22/15 It's about her Grandmother. 9/23/15 It's #DumbJokeThursday! 9/24/15 #kimdavis STILL won't do ANY job! 9/25/15 #NoPumpkinSpice! 9/28/15 #BenCarson: Brain-Damaged Surgeon! 9/29/15 #SteppaYoGameUpSon, Imma Da #Pope! 9/30/15 It's a classic #DumbJokeThursday, the very first one! 10/1/15 He's a major award! 10/2/15 White people do love it! 10/5/15 Sh*t your Mom SHOULDN'T say! 10/6/15 Brought to you by #BurgerKing! 10/7/15 It's #DumbJokeThursday! 10/8/15 Poor, crazy, chill #BenCarson, ZZZZZZ... 10/9/15 He is soooo #racist! 10/12/15 What WAS he up to? A simple misunderstanding. 10/14/15 It's #DumbJokeThursday! 10/15/15 Canadians don't count! 10/16/15 It's not a typo! 10/19/15 Unemployment, it can't fix that! 10/20/15 I went back in time to grab this classic strip! 10/21/15 It's #DumbJokeThursday! 10/22/15 Um, that's NOT a #Haiku. 10/23/15 Buffering... 10/26/15 Reading is FUNdamental! 10/27/15 That was quick! 10/28/15 It's #DumbJokeThursday! 10/29/15 Your move, #Starbucks! 10/30/15 No possible way! 11/9/15 War is heck! 11/10/15 For all who serve or served! 11/11/15 It's #DumbJokeThursday! 11/12/15 A #FishTaco & a #CruiseMissile. 11/13/15 It's a C-O-N-SPIRACY! 11/16/15 Seriously, we can't. 11/17/15 #Woodworking & #Aviation jokes aplenty! 11/18/15 It's #DumbJokeThursday! 11/19/15 He kinda did! 11/20/15 For the love of Krypto. 11/24/15 Hopefully they'll both drop out! 11/25/15 A Turkey Day Classic! 11/26/15 Absolutely zero! 11/27/15 Brought to you by #ExtraGum! 12/7/15 Brought to you by #StateFarm! 12/8/15 #DonaldTrump = #Hitler 12/9/15 It's #DumbJokeThursday! 12/10/15 The break-up. 12/11/15 He IS one of the greatest MC's though! 12/14/15 No spoilers! 12/15/15 Don't mess with #Jeb! 12/16/15 It's #DumbJokeThursday! 12/17/15 Force-play! 12/18/15 They've gone too far! 12/21/15 Brought to you by: #GE! 12/23/15 It's #DumbJokeThursday! 12/24/15 Murray Christmas everyone! 12/25/15 Best of 2015 Jan.-Apr. Best of 2015 May-Aug. Best of 2015 Sept.-Dec. Sung to #AuldLangSyne 1/1/16 Resolutions. 1/4/16 Screw you #MichaelBay! 1/5/16 It truly does. 1/6/16 It's #DumbJokeThursday! 1/7/16 Brought to you by #Buick 1/8/16 Always be #Batman! 1/11/16 F*ck off #NFL! -#StLouis 1/13/16 It's #DumbJokeThursday! 1/14/16 When #CougarLife won't do! 1/15/16 He finds EVERYTHING! 1/19/16 Brought to you by #WGU 1/20/16 Brought to you by @Americas_Best 1/22/16 He. Always. Does. 1/25/16 #StaceyDash IS #Clueless! 1/26/16 He scurred! 1/27/16
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Now I'm going to have that stuck in my head all day.
Better than "Too Many Cooks!"
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The ConnectedCOPS awards were created by LAwS Communications with the intent of recognizing the fantastic work being done by individual officers and law enforcement agencies with social media. The global law enforcement community will be considered for these awards. Any police officer or agency anywhere in the world is eligible. There is one civilian category. Nominations can be made by anyone. Full contact information must be supplied or the nomination will be voided. All nominations will be verified.
Nominations for the 2017 ConnectedCOPS Awards are open!
Nominations for the sixth annual ConnectedCOPS Awards will open May 1st and will be accepted through October 31st.
NOMINATIONS ACCEPTANCE HAS BEEN EXTENDED THROUGH DECEMBER 31ST!!!!!
Evaluation and determination will be made by an international panel of judges between Jan 1st and February 15th.
Winners will receive:
Recognition of their achievement at the Spring 2018 SMILE Conference;
A custom crystal trophy;
Financial assistance for one to travel to SMILE #15 in location TBD, in March or April of 2018;
Free admittance to The SMILE Conference in location TBD;
International acknowledgement of their achievement in partnering media publications.
The Award Categories
Please read the criteria carefully
ConnectedCOPS Social Media Investigator
This award is given to the law enforcement investigator at any worldwide law enforcement agency who, as a practitioner, has used social media successfully to solve crime. The Social Media Investigator practices appropriate security measures and supervision in his/her investigations.
The nominee for this award must be an individual sworn law enforcement officer. Consideration given to work performed between Nov 1st, 2016 through Oct 31st, 2017.
Submit Nomination
ConnectedCOPS Civilian Award of Excellence
This award is given to the individual civilian member or employee of a law enforcement agency who has singularly demonstrated overall excellence in the use of social media to improve public safety and/or enhance his or her agency’s community engagement and reputation. This individual is creative and innovative and shares what s/he knows by mentoring others, participating in public speaking opportunities and leading by example.
The nominee for this award must be a civilian member or employee of a law enforcement agency. Consideration given to work performed between Nov 1st, 2016 through Oct 31st, 2017.
Social Media Campaign Management
The nominee for this award must be a law enforcement AGENCY. Consideration given to work performed between Nov 1st, 2016 through Oct 31st, 2017.
ConnectedCOPS Award of Excellence at a Large Agency
This award is given to a law enforcement agency, anywhere in the world, of 151 sworn officers or more that has demonstrated overall excellence in the use of social media to enhance its services to the public. The agency exhibits leadership, creativity, strategic planning and innovation in its use of social media to engage, educate, recruit, and etc. The agency has a broad and deep understanding of social media use and applies sound governance and strategy in its social media operations. The agency also promotes the use of social networking in law enforcement through its outreach to colleagues and by mentoring others.
ConnectedCOPS Award of Excellence at a Small Agency
This award is given to a law enforcement agency of 150 sworn officers or fewer that has demonstrated overall excellence in the use of social media to enhance its services to the public. The agency exhibits leadership, creativity and innovation in its use of social media to engage, educate, recruit, and etc. The agency has a broad and deep understanding of social media use and applies sound governance and proactive strategy in its social media operations. The agency also promotes the use of social networking in law enforcement through its outreach to colleagues and by mentoring others.
ConnectedCOPS Leadership Award
This award is given to the individual officer up to and including the rank of Sergeant (or its international equivalent) at any worldwide law enforcement agency who has singularly demonstrated exemplary and selfless leadership in the use of social media to improve public safety and/or enhance his or her agency’s community engagement and reputation. This individual is creative, innovative and fearless and shares what s/he knows by mentoring others, participating in public speaking opportunities and leading by example.
ConnectedCOPS Top Cop Award
This award is given to the law enforcement executive of the rank of LT (or its international equivalent) and up, at any worldwide law enforcement agency who has demonstrated significant and sustained executive leadership to further the use of social media (open source) in law enforcement. This individual is a risk-taker and a pioneer in his or her promotion and use of social media in policing. The recipient of the Top Cop Award also gives his or her thought leadership and expertise freely to others.
ConnectedCOPS Social Media Event Management
This award is given to the law enforcement officer or agency anywhere in the world who has used social media to manage and/or influence a public safety/emergency event, whether unforeseen or known. This officer/agency has demonstrated pre-planning and has operated strategically and has successfully implemented social media engagement techniques to positively and effectively communicate public safety information in an urgent or emergency situation.
The nominee for this award can be a law enforcement agency OR individual law enforcement professional to include civilians. Consideration given to work performed between Nov 1st, 2016 through Oct 31st, 2017.
For more information about the ConnectedCOPS of 2013 see ConnectedCOPS Awards Winners Announced.
For more information about the ConnectedCOPS of 2012 see ConnectedCOPS win big with social media.
ConnectedCOPS Awards Partners
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International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies (1)
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MBA Online Only Members (1)
Food literacy predictors and associations with physical and emergent literacy in pre-schoolers: results from the Training-to-Health Project
Garden Tabacchi, Giuseppe Battaglia, Marianna Alesi, Antonio Paoli, Antonio Palma, Marianna Bellafiore
Journal: Public Health Nutrition , First View
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 September 2019, pp. 1-10
Food literacy (FL) is a crucial need encompassing basic literacy and fundamental movement skills. The present study aimed to investigate the FL level in pre-schoolers and to evaluate the effect of potential predictors and the associations with gross motor and emergent literacy skills.
Cross-sectional study conducted within the Training-to-Health Project.
Kindergartens (n 21) in the Palermo City Council, Italy.
Pre-school children aged 3–6 years (n 921) followed education sessions on nutritional topics, practical activities and compiled prearranged sheets. FL was assessed by the five-domain toolkit ‘preschool-FLAT’; gross motor and emergent literacy skills were assessed by the Italian version of the gross motor development test and the PRCR-2/2009, respectively. Correlation and regression analyses were performed to assess relationships between FL scores and gender, age, weight, height, BMI, gross motor and emergent literacy skills.
Independent predictors (β, se) of higher FL were female gender (1·06, 0·315, P < 0·01), older age (0·08, 0·019, P < 0·001) and greater height (0·13, 0·03, P < 0·001). The adjusted coefficients were significant for quotient of gross motor development and in particular for the locomotor component (0·03, 0·01, P < 0·01 and 0·16, 0·046, P < 0·001, respectively). Almost all associations with the emergent literacy skills were significant (β = −0·02 to 0·47).
The study suggests that children raised in an environment where both cognitive and motor skills are enhanced can have better chances of increasing FL and success at school. Thus, the need for monitoring FL and its predictors since early age is highlighted.
Siphonophores in fjords and channels in southern Patagonia: biodiversity, spatial distribution and environmental association
Sergio Palma, María Cristina Retamal, Nelson Silva, Antonio Canepa
Journal: Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom / Volume 98 / Issue 2 / March 2018
This study characterizes the abundance and spatial distribution of siphonophores between the Trinidad Channel (50°06′S) and the Strait of Magellan (52°45′S) in southern Chile, during October–November 2009. Ten species were identified, of which Agalma elegans, Rosacea plicata and Sphaeronectes fragilis are new records for this region. Dominant species showed similar dominance values e.g. Lensia conoidea (26.3%), Dimophyes arctica (24.6%), Lensia meteori (22.2%) and Muggiaea atlantica (20.7%). Eudoxids of L. conoidea and D. arctica represented 97.3% of all eudoxids collected and they were mainly collected in estuarine waters. The highest densities were found in estuarine waters (high vertical stratification and low temperature, salinity and dissolved oxygen values). On the other hand, the lowest densities were found in coastal areas influenced by permanent influx of Sub-Antarctic waters from the Pacific (greater instability and vertical mixing, higher temperatures, salinity and dissolved oxygen values). Temperature and dissolved oxygen were the most important environmental variables. In general, all the dominant species showed a positive association with temperature and a negative association with dissolved oxygen (with the exception of L. meteori). The vertical distribution showed that M. atlantica was mainly distributed in the first 50 m, in association with estuarine waters, while L. conoidea, L. meteori and D. arctica were mainly found in the deeper layer (50–200 m) and in association with modified Sub-Antarctic waters. The comparison of the results obtained in the springs of 1996 and 2009 showed a significant increase in abundance.
Design and experimental characterization of a reconfigurable transmitarray with reduced focal distance
Luca Di Palma, Antonio Clemente, Laurent Dussopt, Ronan Sauleau, Patrick Potier, Philippe Pouliguen
Journal: International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies / Volume 8 / Issue 3 / May 2016
In this contribution, we study the design and experimental characterization of a reconfigurable transmitarray in X-band with reduced focal distance. To this end, we consider an illumination with four feed horn antennas in two different configurations. The focal distance and the horn configuration in the focal plane have been optimized with an in-house simulation tool. The effects of source placement errors and excitation unbalances are also studied. The numerical results show a reduction of the focal distance by a factor 1.8 if compared with the single-source case, for a reconfigurable 400-element transmitarray designed in X-band. Moreover, generation of multiple beams is considered and demonstrated numerically for spatial power combining applications. The experimental results obtained in radiation are in good agreement with the numerical predictions. This multiple-source transmitarray exhibits similar radiation performances as the single-source one in terms of gain, bandwidth and beam tilting capabilities, but with about half its volume. This technique seems very attractive for a better integration on various platforms such as vehicles, drones, aircrafts, buildings, etc.
Use of the National Noscomial Infection Surveillance System Risk Index for Prediction of Mortality: Results of a 6-Year Postdischarge Follow-Up Study
Silvia Palma, Antonio Cosano, Antonio Gómez-Ortega, Marcial Mariscal, Jose Martin Moreno-Montesinos, Gabriel Martínez-Gallego, Marcelino Medina-Cuadros, Miguel Delgado-Rodriguez
A positive linear trend (P<.001) between the National Noscomial Infection Surveillance system (NNIS) risk index and mortality was observed in 2,848 general surgery patients followed up 6 years after discharge. In stratified analyses, the NNIS risk index predicted mortality in patients with chronic disease (P = .007, by test for trend) but not in the remaining patients.
Indices of Surgical Site Infection Risk and Prediction of Other Adverse Outcomes During Hospitalization
Miguel Delgado-Rodríguez, Silvia Palma, Antonio Gómez-Ortega, Gabriel Martínez-Gallego, Marcelino Medina-Cuadros
To assess which adverse postsurgical outcomes are best predicted by the Study on the Efficacy of Nosocomial Infection Control (SENIC) index and the National Nosocomial Infection Surveillance system (NNIS) index.
The service of general surgery at a tertiary care hospital.
A consecutive series of patients hospitalized for more than 1 day (n = 2,989).
The outcome best predicted by the SENIC and NNIS indices was assessed by estimating the area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve. The areas under the ROC curves for nosocomial infection and in-hospital death were higher for the NNIS index than they were for the SENIC index (P<.05). The NNIS index predicted in-hospital death better than it predicted surgical site infection (area under the ROC curve ± SE, 0.836 ± 0.022 vs 0.689 ± 0.017; P = .001).
The NNIS index is superior to the SENIC index for all adverse postsurgical outcomes. Its ability to predict in-hospital mortality is clearly better than its ability to predict surgical site infection.
A Prospective Study of Tobacco Smoking as a Predictor of Complications in General Surgery
Miguel Delgado-Rodríguez, Marcelino Medina-Cuadros, Gabriel Martínez-Gallego, Antonio Gómez-Ortega, Marcial Mariscal-Ortiz, Silvia Palma-Pérez, María Sillero-Arenas
To analyze whether tobacco smoking is related to nosocomial infection, admission to the intensive care unit, in-hospital death, and length of stay.
A prospective cohort study.
The Service of General Surgery of a tertiary-care hospital.
Patients:
A consecutive series of patients admitted for more than 1 day (N = 2,989).
Sixty-two (2.1%) patients died and 503 (16.8%) acquired a nosocomial infection, of which 378 (12.6%) were surgical site and 44 (1.5%) were lower respiratory tract. Smoking (mainly past smoking) was associated with a worse health status (eg, longer preoperative stay and higher American Society of Anesthesiologists score). A long history of smoking (≥ 51 pack-years) increased post-operative admission to the intensive care unit (adjusted odds ratio [OR] = 2.86; 95% confidence interval [CI95], 1.21 to 6.77) and in-hospital mortality (adjusted OR = 2.56; CI95, 1.10 to 5.97). There was no relationship between current smoking and surgical-site infection (adjusted OR = 0.99; CI95, 0.72 to 1.35), whereas a relationship was observed between past smoking and surgical-site infection (adjusted OR = 1.46; CI95, 1.02 to 2.09). Current smoking and, to a lesser degree, past smoking augmented the risk of lower respiratory tract infection (adjusted OR = 3.21; CI95, 1.21 to 8.51). Smokers did not undergo additional surgical procedures more frequently during hospitalization. In the multivariate analysis, length of stay was similar for smokers and nonsmokers.
Smoking increases in-hospital mortality, admission to the intensive care unit, and lower respiratory tract infection, but not surgical-site infection. Deleterious effects of smoking are also observed in past smokers and they cannot be counteracted by hospital cessation programs.
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EP0061: Supergirl, Volume 3: The Girl of No Tomorrow
Supergirl battles a bunch of villains we don’t care about, gets a new status quo, and then goes to Mongolia to have a trilingual adventure.
Graham: Supergirl’s powers surge out of control as she faces the Fatal Five as we look at Supergirl: The Girl of No Tomorrow, straight ahead.
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EP0060: The Torch
The Torch is dead, but he’s an android so how does that work? It’s the best Mad Thinker story ever as Toro and the Torch return.
Graham: How can an android be dead? Get ready to flame on as we take a look at The Torch by Mike Carey, straight ahead.
Announcer: Welcome to the Classy Comics podcast where we search for the best comics in the universe. From Boise Idaho, here is your host Adam Graham.
Host: Most people know Johnny Storm of the Fantastic Four as the Human Torch. However, he was not the first character in Marvel Comics to bear that name. Actually, the original Human Torch, presented first on the front cover of Marvel Mystery Comics number 1, was an android. An android named Jim Hammond. During the Golden Age of comics, he fought crime in a wide variety of different Marvel magazines and he also made a brief comeback along with Namor and Captain America in the mid-1950s. The 1970 series, the invaders told of how Namor, Captain America, and the human torch along with other heroes, such as the Union Jack Nazis during World War Two. The torch came out of the Avengers Invaders mini-series which featured the death of the Human Torch. However, as the villain of this story, the Mad Thinker, points out how does an android die?
During the Golden Age, the Human Torch had a sidekick known as Toro and this is been fleshed out so his full name is Tom Raymond who also had flame powers and he joined forces with the Torch in his fight against evil. Tom Raymond died but when Bucky Barnes got control of the Cosmic Cube for a while, he undid that. Unfortunately for Toro, his wife had moved on and he has no place in the world as the story opens. Both Toro and the body of the Human Torch are set to be examined by the Mad Thinker who has been hired by Advanced Idea Mechanics (AIM) in order to build a weapon and his idea involves building a weapon involving flame and so he has the Torch’s body stolen and kidnaps Toro but he’s got his own planes and mind.
I’ll go ahead and discuss this kind of in segments. The main characters of this, Toro is an old character. He’s got a lot of reason to be sympathetic. He’s kind of lost in this new world and doesn’t really know his place in it with nowhere to go and just nothing to do. You do feel for the guy. At the same time, while his present is very uncertain, what he thought he knew about his past is challenged. He definitely goes on a journey and I think at the start of the story I didn’t much like him but as the story goes on, we really get to know him better and also see the type of the impact he makes on the Torch. The Torch, is part of the experimentation by the Mad Thinker, has many of the emotions and values, sort of, thought centres in his programming neutralized and so he actually starts out when he awakens, being just really a machine and he has to really rediscover what it was that made him seem so human-like as the Human Torch. And as the book goes on, really the relationship between Toro and the Torch becomes a lot more interesting.
I also have to say I love the Mad Thinker in this. He is just a superb villain. I don’t think I’ve ever seen him this well written. He’s devious, he’s got plans within plans and he even though he’s at first in the early part of the book, he’s hired by Advanced Ideas Mechanics and later on he is hired by a group of Nazis, who are running an underground city where the third rock continues to thrive, dominated by android citizens in New Berlin but the Mad Thinker really has his own agenda and there’s an intelligence, a cunning and a ruthlessness about him that makes him formidable as a villain. I think he’s almost written as practically Dr Octopus standards though not quite that over the top in the ego department but really he is just incredibly well written. In addition to that, you get some guest stars, Fantastic Four appear with Reed Richards in particular landing a role. Namor shows up and he’s under some mind control so he ends up fighting the Torch, which was a really big thing during the Golden Age.
The art in this, I think, is really good. The book has Alex Ross’s name on it but he just co-plotting this and he did the covers. He did not do the interiors. The interiors were done by Patrick Berkenkotter and I think he does a good job. They don’t have a full-on painted feel to them but the characters have a lot of life to them, some really nice details, everything is done pretty well. If I had one complaint, it would be that he drew Reed Richards, in some cases, with these really thick muscular arms, which is not part of Reed Richards design at all. And I think the story is really good. It provides some entertaining moment. The villains are always double-crossing each other so you never quite know what’s going to come next. You have some really good setups as well as some good turns with probably a couple sections in this eight issue story. If there was any concern, it’s mainly just the obscurity of the Torch. I think you can read this book with very limited knowledge of the Torch just from say what we’re describing in this podcast episode and you’ll be fine but you’ll get more out of the story, the more that you like the Torch and the more that you’re aware of the character.
Overall I think this is a nice book. It really shows what can be done when a comic book company looks to some of its less well-known characters and really gives them a story that showcases their potential and that’s what The Torch does so I will give The Torch a rating of classy. It’s got really good art, some good riding and some pretty interesting character moments.
Alright, that’s all for now. If you do have a comment email to me classic classycomicsguy@gmail.com. Be sure and follow me on Twitter at classycomicsguy and be sure and rate the show on iTunes. From Boise Idaho, this is your host Adam Graham signing off.
Author classycomicsPosted on July 25, 2018 July 23, 2018 Categories Marvel, PodcastTags Mad Thinker, The Human TorchLeave a comment on EP0060: The Torch
Barry Allen and Wally West continue their groundbreaking adventures as they travel through time and battle epic villains like Captain Boomerang for the first time and a team up with the Green Lantern.
Graham: The Flash is tied to a giant boomerang, twice and Kid Flash travels back to pre-historic times, twice. We’ll talk about it, straight ahead in The Flash: The Silver Age Volume 2.
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EP0058: Crisis on Multiple Earths, Volume 2
Come back to the late 1960s as the JLA/JSA battle strange black spheres and the sinister Dr. T.O. Morrow.
Host: Get ready for universe spanning crisis as we take a look at Crisis on Multiple Earths Volume Two, straight ahead.
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EP0057: Batgirl, Volume 3: Summer of Lies
Batgirl solves a mystery at the local swimming pool and then reveals a dark secret.
Graham: Barbara Gordon investigates ghost in a local swimming pool and then has to face some ghosts from her past. Join us as we take a look Batgirl Volume 3: Summer of Lies, straight ahead.
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Author classycomicsPosted on July 15, 2018 July 17, 2018 Categories DC, PodcastTags Barbara Gordon, Batgirl, DC ComicsLeave a comment on EP0057: Batgirl, Volume 3: Summer of Lies
EP0056: Captain Marvel: The Rise of Alpha Flight (Review)
Captain Marvel gets a new haircut and takes command of a team of Candian Superheroes…IN SPACE!
Graham: Captain Marvel gets a haircut and a new look and also takes command of a space station. We’ll talk about it ahead as we take a look at Captain Marvel: The Rise of Alpha Flight.
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EP0055: DC Meets Looney Tunes (Review)
DC Superheroes crossover with Looney Tunes so get ready for Bugs Bunny meets the Legion of Superheroes, Lobo takes on the Road Runner, and get ready for the newest noir classic, Batman v. Elmer Fudd.
Graham: Be very, very quiet. We’re reviewing comic crossovers. Join us as we take a look at D.C. meets Looney Tunes straight ahead.
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EP0054: Tales of the Batman Len Wein (Part Two) (Review)
I revisit the first graphic novel I read, “The Untold Legend of the Batman” as well as Len Wein’s other later Batman work including Batman meets Grizzly Adams (sort of).
Graham: We take a look at the first graphic novel I ever read and a few more of Len Wein’s Batman tales as we conclude our look at Tales of the Batman: Len Wein. Straight ahead.
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EP0053: Tales of the Batman: Len Wein, Part One (Review)
A look at Len Wein’s Bat-murderer saga in the early 1970s. Then in the later 1970s, Wein became the writer of Batman and introduced a love interest in the form of Selina Kyle.
Graham: Can Batman survive the danger posed by such foes as Ra’s al Ghul and Signalman? We’ll tell you all about it next as we take a look at Tales of the Batman: Len Wein straight ahead.
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Category Archives: Memoir Monday
Memoir Mondays: The SI Experience
This is part of a project at Two Writing Teachers
I am so jealous.
I wander into the computer lab at UMass and see all of these teachers connecting and chatting and laughing at inside jokes and it brings me back to my Invitational Summer Institute with the Western Massachusetts Writing Project. My role now is technology support, but I remember that summer as clearly as if it were, well, this summer.
I was incredibly nervous about the four week program, even though I had an inkling of sorts of what to expect, given that my wife had already done the Summer Institute a few years before me. But I was a brand new teacher and these would be veterans. My biggest hope is that I could pilfer some ideas from them and maybe offer a thought or two.
The writing time was wonderful, and I used every minute. I wrote a collection of poems. I wrote an essay. I wrote a short novella that I turned into a musical play (that was later put on stage when it won a contest) about a little musical note that gets lost in a masterpiece.
And I learned for the first time what a blog was, and used it every single day. We all shared writing, made comments on workshop presentations, shared our research and found ways to use the technology to connect with each other. It was an eye-opening experience that moves me into technology in ways that I did not think possible at the time.
But I saw “a moment” and I pushed into it.
This summer, I am helping the Summer Institute folks learn about social networking (using a Ning site), Google Docs, and other technology that I hope will give them a glimpse into the moment right now and think about the potential for their classrooms.
But I am jealous because although I am part of the experience, I am an outsider to the strong connections being built among them through their long days of writing, sharing, and talking. I know what that feels like and I am grateful that I still have five or six people from my Summer Institute still as part of my personal network.
I am jealous, but I am grateful, too.
Peace (in networks),
Memoir Mondays: Rain, Rain, Go Away
I used to be afraid of the rain. Terrified, really. I barely remember it, but I know it to be true. The fear is no longer there. I love the rain, although I get sick of too many days of it, just like anyone else. But I now know the rain cannot harm me or my things. I didn’t know that as during this phase of childhood.
I don’t remember what began this short-lived childhood paranoia of rain. Perhaps it was simply the strange and unexplained phenomenon of things falling from the sky. And then, these things falling from the sky are hitting my head (hmmm, see earlier Hammer and Tree Fort memory for more falling objects on my head). Or maybe it was the connection of rain to the thunder, which always seemed unsettling to my childhood ears.
Yesterday, I was watching a neighbor build a little plastic tricycle for his son and it somehow brought back memories of this childhood anxiety. The connection is the vehicle. I used to have a little metal push-pedal go-cart that I adored and loved. I remember one day, as I was cruising around the parking lot of our apartment building, it started to rain and I just completely lost it. Freaking out is a better way of saying it. I screamed. I yelled. I couldn’t move. And what kept me in this state of panic was both a desire to get out of the way of these falling watery objects and to protect my go-cart. I could not do both at the same time and as a result, I didn’t do either. Thus, the vocal chords were in full bloom.
I finally made it home but I left my go-cart outside in my desire to get the heck out of the rain. This abandonment had me screaming even louder. I was sure my go-cart was doomed. My mom finally had enough (my voice was ringing through every corner of our apartment complex) and after unsuccessfully telling me that if I wanted my go-cart, then I should get it (no way), she sent my brother out to get it. He did so reluctantly, shaking his head at the folly of his foolish younger brother. But he did it.
Somehow, I eventually got over this fear. I even remember running barefoot in thunderstorms with a neighbor of ours and how joyful it felt and how free it felt, even as our moms were shouting to us to get our butts back inside before the lightning started in and we’d get ourselves zapped. There is some real irony here as to who was now doing the shouting at whom. Suffice it to say that my friend and I took our sweet time, mouths open, filling up with water from the heavens before shuffling back.
And my go cart, you’ll be happy to know, was tucked safely at home.
Peace (in rainy days),
Memoir Mondays: Remembering Tom
Remembering Tom
It was in the first week of school last year, and I was right in the middle of a lesson, when (out of the blue) one my students yells out: “Hey, Mr. H. Your friend, Tom (last name), says to say hello.”
It was one of those jolting moments that comes right out of the blue. All I could say was, “Oh. Tell him I said hello, too” and then I moved on with the lesson while a picture of Tom floated in my head. Later, I pulled my student aside and she said Tom was her counselor and he had told her that we had both been in a rock and roll band together.
We sure had.
In our band, Big Daddy Kiljoy, Tom was one of the lead singers, a fanatic bass player and my fellow songwriter, and when the band broke up, Tom and I spent many hours together, writing songs and thinking about this world of music and what it means. It’s not quite right to say that Tom and I were kindred spirits — we were pretty different people — but I found his inquisitiveness about the world and his love for writing and playing songs such a wonderful thing.
When it come to listening to songs, Tom didn’t pull too many punches. If he liked it, he told you. If he didn’t, he’d let you know, but then he would encourage you to consider this chord change, or this instrument, or maybe even revamp the entire thing into something completely new. You could see the wheels spinning as he talked.
He played bass like he thought: full speed ahead, thumping like a madman and drawing up energy from that fretboard. His bass lines were like a railroad car, just on the verge of crashing and yet always right on track. I loved that sense of abandon in his playing.
Later, Tom built a recording studio in hopes of creating some sort of collective of musicians that could come in, record songs and demos and even commercials, and that would be his gateway into the music industry. I worked for a while with him on that project, but it never really went anywhere. He also had plenty of tales to tell of his younger days in rock bands and some brushes with fame that never quite went anywhere but still infused him with a love of the scene.
Then, as things in life do, Tom and I moved in some different directions and I only saw him now and then. I’d see his daughters around town every now and then, and I run into his ex-wife periodically, too.
This weekend, after a long illness, Tom passed away and I feel a bit as if some music died, too.
I’ll have to pull out the Big Daddy Kiljoy CD that we made as band in the days before everything imploded and fell apart on us, and maybe I can find a few of the other demo tapes, too, and give it a listen and remember Tom in all of his glory.
Somewhere, Tom has an electric guitar plugged into an amp and he is writing himself one doozy of a song. I just know it.
Peace (in bass riffs and rock and roll),
Memoir Mondays: Fairtale(s) of New York
Date July 7, 2008
When I was a kid, I would spend a week or two most summers with my grandmother who lived in New York City, just near the Hudson River. She was a little eccentric, as most kids think their grandparents are (right?), but I loved the sense of adventure that I would have with her in the Big City during my visits.
New York was so completely different from my little suburban town in Connecticut and I used to be thrilled to stand out on the balcony of her 17th floor apartment and feel as if I were standing on a cloud, just floating across the skyline. The highest I could get in my neighborhood was a big tree in the woods and the view was nothing like my grandmother’s balcony.
In 1976, during the huge Independence Day celebrations, her hi-rise apartment complex had some great events down at the in-ground community pool, where we would go just about every day during my stay. I can still smell that chlorine of the water and the wonderful freedom that I had there as my grandmother would gossip and doze on the lounge chairs while I swam, played video games and wandered around.
On that July 4, we watched from her balcony as fireworks for the Bicentennial Celebration lit up the skyline with an incredible array of lights and dazzling displays of pyrotechnics that rattled my bones and shook my teeth. It was a wonderful night.
During the days, we would wander around the city, sometimes going in cabs but more often, traveling around by bus. Sometimes, she and I would go to the Radio City Music Hall to catch a movie (I saw Pete’s Dragon there and a movie called Bite the Bullet, I remember) and we would often be late, coming in halfway through a movie and then sitting through the second showing to catch the beginning of the movie. It was stran I triedge and disorientating asarrative to piece together the n. (I am still not sure what Bite the Bullet was all about except that someone in pain had to chomp down on a bullet as they performed some kind of surgery).
I was in awe of the skyscrapers above me and wary of the dog poop that seemed to be everywhere on the sidewalks in her neighborhood (or at least, that was my perception and her constant warning: Look out for the pile). I was fearful of the grated subway vents that shook if you walked over them and in tune to the sounds of the city — the blasts of car horns and street musicians.
I had never seen so many people, of such different colors and languages, in my life.
I like to think I am a better person because of those visits to my yes weregrandmother — that my e opened to possibilities that my little town would never have presented to me. I was thinking of this the other day as the local newspaper had a series of articles about some high school students who come to my neck of the woods from New York City to get away from their troubled neighborhoods for an education that is, we are told, out of their reach where they live.
I wonder if there are reverse programs — sending rural kids into the city for a school year program — or if that just goes against the stereotypes of inner city kids lacking for something that a suburban town can provide.
Peace (in changes of scenery),
(PS — Anyone get the reference to The Pogues in the title of my post?)
Memoir Mondays: Down at the Bog
We used to have epic sports games in my neighborhood. We were lucky, I suppose, in that we had a critical mass of kids. It was not difficult at all to gather up a good eight to ten kids ready to hit the baseball, or grab a football, or toss a Frisbee at a moment’s notice, and the day would then be consumed with activity. A good game of Kick the Can could last two hours on a given evening after dinner.
The apartment complex was somewhat hidden off the main road and for a few years when I was little, we even had an in-ground swimming pool. I suppose the upkeep and maintenance was too much for the owners and the pool went to seed quickly, over a short period of time. Then it became just an odd place for us to hang out as a teenagers. We’d crouch down beneath the cracked walls just a few feet from the odd-smelling green slime of the water that collected at the bottom of the pool. I think we were all surprised that no one ever drowned in there or got some exotic disease from the murky liquid that would require us to go into medical quarantine.
When the weather turned cold, we would often head out to the bog, which was a swampy area a short hike away from our apartments, through some fallow farm fields and into a wooded area. Much of it was a true bog — with thick, rich black peat moss soil that would steal a sneaker or your entire foot, if you weren’t quick or smart enough when stepping through it. The mosquitoes were vicious in the summer, as it was always wet, and the bog was full of hollowed out tree stumps that were home to a wide variety of owls. Sometimes, we would see the owls sitting in the holes, looking out at us with bewildered eyes.
In the winter, the bog was particularly beautiful. The ice and snow would create little paths through the black-soiled area, and we would jump from vegetation clump to vegetation clump in a wild game of tag. If you fell, you were in trouble from the sticky organic muck.
When it got cold enough, the water would freeze solid and there was one spot that formed a little pond, surrounded by circle of little stumps of grass. This place would become our ice hockey rink for the season. The games were played with full of abandon designed with one thing in mind: score a goal. Checking was allowed, and fights often broke out, although never anything too serious, and everything was later resolved and friendships restored as we built huge bonfires on a little island just beyond the rink from the deadwood that lay all around the bog. (As an aside: this was a neighborhood of mostly boys but some girls did stray into the games)
It sounds worse than it was.
This is the time and place where I learned how to get along with others, whether I liked them or not. It was also a time when I realized that adults don’t necessarily make the rules of the world. There is a pecking order that develops when you gather a group of kids together with no adults around and it doesn’t always come out fair or end nicely, but there are still lessons to be learned: You need to be crafty. You need to be caring. You need to be resilient. You need to find yourself.
Years later, I learned that bulldozers came into the bogs and cleaned them out to make way for some new houses. I could not believe it and drove by there once on a visit back, just to see it for myself. Sure enough, there were houses right there where our hockey rink had once been. I learned from a friend that the homes that had been built in our old bog were full of problems, including sinking foundations and flooded basements.
Hmmmm. I wonder why?
And I wonder, too, what became of those owls.
Peace (in childhood memories),
Memoir Mondays: Golden Notes
Golden Notes
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In fourth grade, when she entered our classroom to tell us about the music program at the elementary school, the music teacher, Mrs. P, picked me out special. She knew me anyway. Her husband was my brother’s private trumpet teacher.
“I have a saxophone for you,” she told me that day.
She had remembered our conversation so many years ago when I had been sitting in their living room, listening to my brother’s lesson. She had asked me then what instrument I wanted to play (she never had a doubt that I would not play something) and I had told her the saxophone.
She brought me down to the music room that day. She took me behind the stage, where cases of instruments were stacked precariously, as if one blow from a tuba would send everything flying. I watched breathlessly as she opened up the hard case.
Inside, gleaming in the overhead lights from the stage, was an alto saxophone, a golden Bundy saxophone. It was the most beautiful sight I had ever witnessed. It was golden, with white ivory keys, resting in its black padded case. I touched a key and it clicked. It felt as if Christmas had come early and I had been the best boy in the world for the past year.
My smile went from ear to ear.
“This is yours to use,” Mrs. P said.
I didn’t want to even touch it, as if I might tarnish it or ruin it forever with my clumsy, dirty fingers. It was too perfect. Mrs. P showed me how to put the pieces together: how to use the neck strap so that the saxophone dangled out in front of you, perfectly weighted; where to put your fingers; how to wet the wooden reed and attach it to the mouthpiece.
“Try it,” she said, after putting the sax together for me, so I did.
It was an awful first sound, and I opened my eyes wide in surprise. If I wasn’t so excited, I might have given up right there on that first goose honk.
“The saxophone is challenging,” she assured me. “You’ll have to practice. It’s a lot of work. Don’t give up. Go on, try it again.”
Those were the first steps I took to learning something that was so completely and utterly new to me. Yet, as the saxophone was cradled in my hands, I knew I had found something that belonged to me, and only me. It felt completely natural, even as I screeched out another squeak from the golden bell.
I wanted to shout it out through the hallways of my school that day: I am a saxophone player and I wouldn’t give up.
Peace (in music),
Memoir Mondays: Songs as Political Protest
We used to take the stage late at night, armed with a few guitars — an acoustic (me), an electric (JD) and a bass (Bert). A drummer would come in the future. Hooligans, a hangout for two different universities, was one of those dark-lit establishments that has the rank smell of beer all over. Tables were shoved so close to each other that patrons were just as likely to be engaged in a conversation at their own table as the ones next to them.
One night a week, the place opened up the stage for Open Mic Night and our ragtag trio (we named ourselves Behind Bars first and then later, Rough Draft) would join the assortment of other pseudo-musicians in playing to an audience that would waver between interested and disinterested, and you had to really engage them or you’d lose them. We hardly knew what we were doing, except we knew we had original songs that we wanted to play. If there was an open stage, we wanted to use it. We were as rough as our name suggested, but confident that music was important to us.
This was during the heart of the Reagan years and all of us were feeling very disenfranchised by the political scene and the willingness of our administration to support covert wars in order to advance its aim of ending Communism once and for all. Central America was often a battleground for these proxy wars between the US and Russia, but there were many other hot spots around the world and Iran-Contra wasn’t far off. We spent one of our summer fixed to the TV screen, watching Oliver North testify about the inner workings of Casey’s CIA operations that pushed legalities aside in order to further political aims. Things were happening in the world that made us angry, yet we had no way to express that anger or vent our frustration.
As a result, I was writing very political songs at the time for the band, trying to reach some heart of understanding of this world we were soon set to move into. I alternated between disguising the venom of my thoughts with rhythm and melody and being forthright with my aims. Music, I was sure, could change people’s hearts and if not, then at least it was a legitimate way for me to protest the unfolding world in a language that I could understand: music. My bandmates were right with me on this.
On this particular night, we launched into a song called “It’s Another War,” which is about sending kids off to fight a war while the leaders stay home behind desks. I was writing from the perspective of the lessons of Vietnam being ignored while covert operations were taking place in Central and South America.
The song begins: “So we’re off in another, though we didn’t start it, we’ve seen it before,” and builds into a condemnation of Reagan and his staff, although never named. (Later, Bert made a video of the song that I have on VHS somewhere — need to dig it up).
Midway through, at the chorus, suddenly I hear a voice that is swearing at me to get off the stage and leave America if I don’t like it so much. I kept playing and singing, eyeing this person and wondering what might happen in this bar tonight. That’s when I noticed one of my roommates — the one with completely different political views than me, the conservative man all the way through — jump to his feet, and move towards the table where the heckler is sitting. Even as we play, I can hear my roommate shout: “Keep quiet. They have a right to their song,” with slightly more profanity than that. The heckler glared back and then backed down. I was saved by the token Conservative in our Liberal midst, as about ironic as you can get, I suppose, and a reminder not to judge someone by their political leaning.
This all came back this week as I pulled out my acoustic guitar (the same one I used to play at Hooligans, it turns out, although now it has about 25 years of travel on it) and I wrote a new song about Bush and his presidency. I realized how strangely similar things had become and how I was still trying to sort out my political feelings through music.
So, here is the (ahem) rough draft of the new song.
Farewell to King George
We’ve been held up forever
as you take what you want
Not knowing what we need
We might be in this together
But only if the world
is crumbling at its knees
You look so tired
And we’ve been brought down low
Your time’s expired
With the clock ticking slow
And when the history books
Give you a second look
I know you’re gone
You find forgiveness for your sins
When death is but a battle cry
waiting in the wings
This world may never be the same
You threw the match that drew the spark
and stoked it into flames
Now that the day has come and gone
I’ll meet you out on the roof
to celebrate the dawn
We’re held captive to our fears
But this chance to end the bitterness
may wash away the tears
Chorusx2
The song’s title will have to go — it’s too overt and makes me a bit uncomfortable. And the song may never move to another stage. Many don’t. But for now, it works for me as I await a change in our leadership that may make a positive difference in the world, although how to reverse the damage done by this administration is beyond me.
Peace (in all respects),
Memoir Mondays: The Iceberg
My brother saved my life.
This remembrance bubbled up to the surface the other day as I dipped my toes into a neighborhood pool and experienced the incredible cold chill of the water. That tactile experience really brought me back to the neighborhood where I grew up and the river, if you can call it that, which formed the center of so many of our activities.
The stream crept along through the woods not far from the apartments where my family lived and although most of us knew enough not to swim in there (and if you did, not to drink any of it) after my mother did some science experiments on the water and found it filled with bacteria, it still was an irresistible part of our childhood. We found giant turtles in there. We watched the tiny fish darting about in the pools. We dug dams and appreciated the power of the water overcome our efforts.
One section of the stream ran under a bridge near a factory and this area was close to a shaded area where us kids would hang out after getting snacks from the convenience store. In summer, we would sit beneath the pine trees and find reprieve from the hot sun.
But winter — deep in winter — is the setting for this particular story.
It was a frigid day and the river was mostly a sheet of ice. Beneath the ice flow, you could just make out the water still moving to make its way through the piped tunnels that channeled under the roadway bridge. It was at this spot that a group of us stood, breaking up the ice with rocks and sticks and our heavily-booted feet. All of us were wrapped up in layers to keep the cold at bay. The ice came apart in huge sections and it occurred to us that we had inadvertently created “icebergs” on the river.
And didn’t those icebergs look just like rafts?
My older brother and his friends jumped from the edge of the bank and took off on icebergs just like Huck Finn. A few of them even had sticks in hands to guide them. They pretended to do battles against each other. The icebergs were remarkably thick and held the weight of bodies nicely. My brother nimbly danced from iceberg to bank, back and forth with grace.
Three years younger than him but determined to join in, I moved closer to the edge of the bank, trying to pick out the best iceberg for me.
One floated nearby and I moved closer to get on board. Somehow, though, I lost my footing and slipped. Panic set in. One of my feet hit an icy patch and it was taking me down into the water, down below the iceberg. This was one of those moments of slow-motion that people talk about. There was nothing I could do. I truly felt as if a monster’s hand was reaching up from the bottom of the river and was taking hold of first one foot, and then the other. Water rushed into my boots. The stinging cold crept up my leg. My gloved fingers tried to grip the land but failed. The monster’s icy grip slowly, slowly, slowly began yanking me down to the bottom of the icy river where death surely awaits.
(Aside: Years later, as a reporter, I was sent to the scene of a disappearance of a man who had been ice fishing at night. Out on the middle of the lake, there was an eerie scene of a chair, a thermos, some fishing gear, and the iced-over outline of a crack in the surface. I was forced to wait until the body had been pulled out of the ice by police divers. I was saddened and terrified for this person, and reminded of the event I write about here.)
Meanwhile, the iceberg — as if an instrument of destruction of this river monster — was moving in some strange trajectory, methodically coming towards me instead of away from me. My body was now being pulled under the thick ice sheet. My hands tried to grip the edge of the ice but nothing would hold. The cold stung my body. My grip was weak. It was so cold, so very cold. I remember both the ferocious beating of my heart in panic and the numb acceptance that this might be the end of the world. What was happening to me felt inevitable.
It was at that moment of letting go and accepting fate that I felt a hand grab the collar of my jacket.
I was being yanked up right out of the water by something more powerful than me and I was thrown to the ground. I looked up and saw my brother standing there, over me, with a look of concern and anger on his face. He swore at me for being an idiot. I could not even respond because the shivering started in immediately. My lips chattered a million miles a minute. My eyes started to close. He reached down and pulled me up, took off his jacket and put it on me. He put his arm around me to keep me warm. I moved into his embrace with appreciation.
And then, with only a few words between us about what had happened back there on the river, my brother walked me back home.
Peace (in defying the odds),
Memoir Mondays: Looking Down from Above
(note from Kevin: I am not sure what had me thinking back to this experience. I was just a kid but the memory pops back up from time to time)
Once I got to the top, I could not drop, and instead, I froze.
I remember the rocky ledge steps and how they curved around and then up, straight up, and I stood at the bottom, thinking: here goes. I made my way carefully, slipping a bit here and there, but mostly remaining steady on my toes. I didn’t look down. That’s what they tell you: don’t look down and so I didn’t.
So it was quite a shock when I finally got the top and did look down.
The waterfall was gushing past me with such a roar that I could barely hear my breath. Somehow, though, the thumping of my heart was pounding with a steady, yet frantic, beat, like the rhythm of some tribal drums before a human sacrifice.
Water moved above me, to the side of me and down past me. We were deep in the woods of Maine and nature was everywhere and everything. There are those moments when you realize just how small we are in comparison to the world around you. For me, this was one of those moments.
I felt my breath go in as my friend waved goodbye to me in a offhand way and jumped. Vertigo hit me as I tried to follow his leap down, down, down into the cold water pool below. The drop seemed endless. Then I heard his “whoop.” Another friend went off, too, and then it was just me.
And I could not move.
There I stood, for the longest time, as my friends first encouraged, and then tried to shame me, and then felt pity on me as I stood like a statue at the top of the waterfall. My mind went blank. Despite the suggestions that I come back down the rocky stairs if I was too scared to jump, I could not even do that. I was caught in some internal force that would not allow me to move forward or backwards. I was static.
Friends came up, talked to me, put a hand on my shoulder, joked that they might push me, and then they jumped again and again. I remained still and scared.
I am not sure if I was afraid of the fall, of possible death, or the fact that the water was frigid cold. Something about this place unnerved me to no end.
Finally, after what seemed a lifetime, I willed my young body to the edge, placed my toes over the abyss, and launched myself into a free fall off the waterfall cliff that was about 60 feet above the pool below.
It was an endless drop. I was both in the moment and outside of the experience.
My feet hit first with a crash that was followed fast by such a blast of bone-chilling cold that it took whatever breath I had left away from me and then I was scrambling to come up for air. I willed myself to keep my mouth shut — to survive — and to look up for the sky as my guidepost to life. My head burst up through the surface and I gasped with everything I had.
There was a rousing cheer from my friends but I could barely hear it. My ears were ringing with the experience and I declined the invitations to try it again. Once was enough.
Peace (in safe havens),
PS — Not long after this event, the writer of the comic strip, Funky Winkerbean, did a stretch of days in which the main character climbs to the top of a high diving board and freezes. I could laugh then, and live vicariously through the comic, and even laugh at both him and me.
Memoir Mondays: KISS it goodbye
(this is part of Memoir Mondays over at Two Writing Teachers)
I grew up on KISS.
Not just the ones from Mom and Dad but the over-the-top rock and roll band, KISS.
For a long stretch of my adolescent childhood, my entire neighborhood was enamored with this glam band as it hit the world stage with their dramatics (fire-breathing bass players, unnaturally-extended tongues, animal-inspired painted faces, the whole shebang). I even collected KISS comic books. Remember them? Rock and rollers transformed as superheroes.
At our bus stop before school in the mornings, we all used to take on characters of the band, and pretend that a fallen tree stump was the stage. We’d use the light from the rising sun on our hiking boots to create over-sized shadow images on the pavement as a way to replicate the patented KISS boots (a sort of stiletto heel, but huge, almost like teeth coming out of the foot). We’d listen to the songs on the albums (oh god) for hours at a time, singing out loud to the chorus: I Wanna Rock and Roll All Night and Party Every DAY!!! (emphasis on Day, since we were kids and nighttime partying was a great unknown …. for now)
We followed the drama of KISS as the band considered removing their make-up and what it might mean to the band. We also were curious what they really looked like underneath the layers of disguise. (It later turned out they looked pretty ugly and should have kept the paint on)
So, imagine the looks I got one day when I went and traded my sacred KISS Alive II double vinyl album for an older Earth, Wind and Fire disc. I still don’t know why I did it. Perhaps I was having KISS fatigue. Perhaps, as a saxophone player, I was searching for something with horns. Maybe I needed some groove. I could have been muscled into it by my older brother’s friend (I was very susceptible to peer pressure by the older kids in the neighborhood), but I don’t think so.
Earth, Wind and Fire were not unknown to me. My dad has a pretty eclectic taste and I heard all sorts of music as I was growing up, including Maurice White and company. I thought it was lame, until I started to actually listen.
The first time I put that Earth, Wind and Fire album on, though, my needle exploded with the sound of “Shining Star” and I was never quite the same. With the chorus of “Shining star for you to see, what your life can truly be,” I was hooked. “September” still has me dancing, even though the sound is, well, so 70’s.
Oh, sure, I had still had my Foghat albums. And Led Zep still has a certain place in my heart. Aerosmith, Deep Purple, Pink Floyd and others never left my collection until I grew up and weeded out the vinyl memories of my youth (I still have a Zep CD, though).
But with that Earth, Wind and Fire album, I realized that there was a whole other world of music out there to explore and I couldn’t spend all of my time listening to KISS. Plus, the ballad “Beth” was getting sappy to my ears.
Earth, Wind and Fire kick-started my heart and I never turned back.
What music informed your childhood?
Peace (in notes between the ages),
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Tennessee Valley Authority. Ogle, Charles; Tourist Cabins, 1938. National Archives and Records Administration, Atlanta: Kodak Negative File, 1938.
Tennessee Valley Authority. Another view of Aunt Lizzie Reagan weaving old-fashioned jean at the Pi Beta Phi school, Gatlinburg, Tennessee. This aged mountain woman lives near the school and earns her living weaving, 11/14/1933. National Archives at College Park: Lewis Hine Photographs for the Tennessee Valley Authority, 1933.
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Tennessee Valley Authority. Marie Clabo, a mountain girl, making cotton bags at the Pi Beta Phi School, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, 11/14/1933. National Archives at College Park: Lewis Hine Photographs for the Tennessee Valley Authority, 1933.
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Tennessee Valley Authority. A close-up of one of the men in the shop of the Woodcrafters and Carvers, Gatlinburg, Tennessee. National Archives at College Park: Lewis Hine Photographs for the Tennessee Valley Authority, 1933.
Tennessee Valley Authority. Post Office on Tennessee Highway 71, 1938. National Archives and Records Administration, Atlanta: Kodak Negative File, 1938.
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I’m excited to share that my title, Laced By Love, part of Debra Holland’s Montana Sky Kindle World series is on sale for a limited time for 99 cents. This is your chance to discover stories with new characters and watch them struggle to find their happy ending while revisiting some of Debra’s beloved characters.
Set in October 1886, a vaudeville troupe arrives in Morgan’s Crossing, Montana Territory late in the traveling season. When an event threatens the continuation of the troupe, seamstress Cinnia decides to say no to older sister Nola who has made the sisters’ decisions since they were orphaned a decade earlier. Leather worker Nicolai Andrusha is lying low and using an alias until he receives word the patent is approved on his family’s leather tanning formula. But he finds the auburn-haired poetess irresistible. Will Nicolai oppose his family obligation to help the stranded beauty who has caught his eye?
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Loretta Drennan learns about her stepfather’s plot to sicken her mother and take over the family business in Chicago. Letty flees to Montana in search of her brother, Johnny, to seek his help. Traveling alone, she meets Paul Slater who claims to own a ranch with Johnny as his partner. He offers to escort her on the two-day journey to their ranch in Morgan’s Crossing.
Reunited with her brother she pleads her case for him to return home. Johnny’s share of stocks aren’t the needed votes to gain control of the family company. Letty can only get her shares when she turns twenty-five or by marrying. Paul offers to wed his friend’s sister.
They plan a wedding, in name-only, but when left alone at the ranch house, they can’t deny their real underlying feelings. The honeymoon is interrupted when a stranger shows up and kidnaps the bride. Can Paul save the woman he’s fallen in love with before it’s too late?
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Lena DuBois never knew her father until he suddenly reappeared in her life to tell her he’s arranged for her to marry one of his business partners. Lena flees, deciding to become a mail-order bride, where at least she’s the one doing the choosing.
Her future husband, John Thorpe, has requested a woman of good moral character which Lena considers herself to be. The problem is her mother is the most celebrated madam in all New Orleans. What will happen if he discovers her secret?
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Guest release–Thorpe’s Mail-Order Bride by Cynthia Woolf
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Lena DuBois never knew her father until he suddenly reappeared in her life to tell her he’s arranged for her to marry one of his business partners. Lena flees, deciding to become a mail-order bride, where at least she’s the one doing the choosing. Her future husband, John Thorpe, has requested a woman of good moral character which Lena considers herself to be. The problem is her mother is the most celebrated madam in all New Orleans. What will happen if he discovers her secret?
“Helena, as I said my name is Robert Drummond and what I’m about to tell you will come as a shock. But your mother and I have talked and decided that it’s time that you know.”
He paused and took a deep breath.
“I’m your father.”
Father. All this time she’d longed for a father. Had missed out on things like the father-daughter dances that the other girls at her school had attended. If she’d been standing, Lena might have collapsed. As it was she simply tightened her hand on the padded chair arm and hoped the man couldn’t see her shake within the chair. “That can’t be. My mother would have told me if my father was alive.”
“I can understand your reluctance to believe me, but it is the truth. I should have let Mellisande accompany me. She wanted to, you know, but I wanted to tell you myself, vain person that I am.”
He turned his hat over and over on his lap.
“I thought sure you’d be happy about the news. Look, I’m a well-known business-man and couldn’t have my relationship with your mother known within certain circles. When you were two, we decided I should remarry and when you were six we sent you away to school to shield you from your mother’s business. One of your classmates, Eric Rappaport, is my stepson. Do you remember him?”
Lena’s breath caught in her throat at that news. She sat straighter, glad she was sitting on the chair. “That’s true,” she nodded. “I do remember Eric. He was totally obnoxious and mean to me the whole time we were at school together. Does he know about this, too? That you’re supposed to be my father.”
Robert sat forward on his chair. “I’m afraid he does. He overheard me telling my wife, his mother, of your existence. I wanted to take care of you and did the best I could. Now, though, you’re of an age that you must marry and have children of your own. I’ve found a suitable man back in New York. One of my business partners actually. Your mother’s association to you will never be known.”
Anger gave Lena strength and she stood, back straight. She would not show any softness toward him, no matter how much she wanted to have a father. He could be a complete liar. But he wouldn’t have known those things about me if he wasn’t who he said he is. “You propose to tell me that you’re my father and I must marry someone you have chosen for me, all in few minutes. Are you out of your mind?”
“No. You are an adult now and need to take on adult responsibilities.”
She couldn’t believe his arrogance and she didn’t need a stranger’s help in securing a husband. She would remain calm, just like she did when the children she taught were getting rambunctious.
“I’ll pick my own husband.”
“Listen to me Helena—”
“My name is Lena and I refuse to be dictated to by a stranger. Please leave.” She pulled the cord for Thaddeus.
The library door opened and Thaddeus entered. He was not just a butler, but also her mother’s bodyguard. Lena had no fear when he was near. “You rang, Miss Lena?”
“Yes, Thaddeus. Please show out this gentleman.”
“I’ll leave now, Helena,” Robert donned his hat. “But I’ll be back in two weeks and I expect you to be ready to come with me to New York.
“Please leave, Mr. Drummond, before I have Thaddeus hail a police officer.”
“As you wish.” Drummond was not a happy man, but he stood and left through the door that Thaddeus held open. “I can find my own way out.”
Lena shook all over. Never would she marry some man her mother, or her newly discovered father, had chosen for her. Her mother had tried before to get her to marry. Lena was shamed by Mellisande’s business and might hate herself sometimes because of that shame, but she hadn’t fallen so far that she would allow her mother to choose a husband for her. She hadn’t before when Mellisande wanted her to why would her mother think that she would now? How could they tell her all of this at once and expect her to acquiesce to their demand? First she had a father, and second, she was supposed to marry some strange man, not of her choosing. That had been the problem last time. She hadn’t chosen the man. Her mother had. This was no different and she would not stand for it.
She dropped into one of the large overstuffed chairs in front of the empty fireplace, making sure it was not the one her father had sat in. Grabbing the paper from the coffee table she flipped through the pages looking for a special advertisement. One she’d heard whispered about by her teacher friends at school when they wanted to marry.
Finally she found it and read to remind herself of the details.
Women wanted. Matchmaker & Co in Golden, Colorado is recruiting women with the object of marriage to one of their thoroughly screened bachelors. These men are farmers, ranchers, miners and of other occupations, that are desirous of marriage and family. Contact Mrs. Maggie Black, with your photograph and the type of man you are looking for.
This was perfect. She could choose a husband far away from both New York and New Orleans. Her parents would never find her and she’d finally lead her own life as she saw fit.
Cynthia Woolf is the author of twenty historical western romance books with more books on the way–as Cynthia loves writing and reading romance. Her first book, Tame A Wild Heart, was inspired by the story her mother told her of meeting Cynthia’s father on a ranch in Creede, Colorado. More information is at her website.
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Top Stories Former Cardinals kicker Phil Dawson retires Derrick Hall satisfied with D-backs’ buying and selling Grace expects Greinke trade to have emotional impact Count Fitzgerald as a Rosen defender, too. The 5: Takeaways from the Coyotes’ introduction of Alex Meruelo 5 Comments Share ICYMI: @LarryFitzgerald told @mroctober from what he’s seen, Kyler Murray is a special talent & why he has so much respect for Josh Rosen pic.twitter.com/r8j3EFIr39— Mad Dog Sports Radio (@MadDogRadio) April 27, 2019Related LinksJosh Rosen wins MVP at Larry Fitzgerald’s softball classicCrazy NFL Draft weekend ends with Cardinals looking coherentJosh Rosen offers Kyler Murray his Old Town apartment, thanks CardinalsSteve Smith bashes Cardinals QB Josh Rosen over social media scrubAt Rosen’s introductory press conference in Miami, he called Fitzgerald a mentor. Larry Fitzgerald #11 and Josh Rosen #3 of the Arizona Cardinals share a laugh prior to the NFL game against the Detroit Lions at State Farm Stadium on December 09, 2018 in Glendale, Arizona. (Photo by Jennifer Stewart/Getty Images) “He’s a lot of things,” Rosen said. “He’s a really good mentor, big brother, uncle. We all call him Uncle Larry. I’ve got a soft spot in my heart for him. He’s been great.”Rosen has fought negative perceptions ever since his college days at UCLA. Before Arizona drafted him, anonymous scouts, through reporters, red-flagged his outspokenness and penchant for questioning his coaches.“Coaches unsolicited have called us that know him, that have worked with him, and say a lot of the stuff is B.S.,” said Miami GM Chris Grier over the weekend, according to ESPN.By most accounts, that was the case in Arizona. Current and former teammates like Justin Pugh and Deone Bucannon tweeted defenses of Rosen’s character when, before he was traded, the quarterback was the target of NFL Network analyst Steve Smith, whose on-air tirade included assumptions about Rosen’s handling of the Murray pick.While with the Cardinals, Rosen was hailed as an instant leader, regardless of his play on the field. And even as Arizona appeared ready to move on from him, head coach Kliff Kingsbury said he was the first player to show up to offseason workouts and voluntary mini-camp. Larry Fitzgerald has been around the block and stared NFL locker room unhappiness in the face.So from his point of view, how second-year quarterback Josh Rosen handled the last few months was impressive.From the moment Oklahoma quarterback Kyler Murray put his foot in the door to enter the NFL Draft, expectation that the Arizona Cardinals would select the Heisman winner and move on from Rosen grew. When it became reality on Thursday as Murray went first overall to Arizona, it became clear that suspicion was well-founded. Unsurprisingly, the months of rumors got to Rosen to some degree. After the Cardinals traded him to the Miami Dolphins Friday for two draft picks, the 10th overall pick from the 2018 took the high road. Rosen thanked Cardinals fans in a video, welcomed Murray to his old role as franchise quarterback and then fulfilled a promise to participate in Fitzgerald’s softball event for charity before leaving town.“I got a chance to talk with Josh every day and I know it’s been a tumultuous few months since all of these rumors have been swirling about the number one pick,” Fitzgerald told Reggie Jackson on Sirius XM Radio’s Mad Dog Sports Radio show. “I don’t know if I’ve seen a young man, 22 years old, be able to handle himself in a situation more effectively.“I just have a lot of respect for him as a young man, how he’s conducted himself, the way he prepares, his mental approach to football and life in general. I really enjoyed my time around him and I wish him the very best.” While Fitzgerald wasn’t asked about Smith’s opinion by Jackson directly, he did remind listeners about his educated perspective on the matter.“When you’re with someone every single day, you’re around them during the good, you’re around them during the bad, you see their triumphs, you see their failures, you see them when they’re hurt, you see how they interact with your teammates,” Fitzgerald said. read more
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What’s it take to build a drone based business in 2018?
If you asked today’s guest, he would say “Persistence, Flexibility and a lot of thinking outside the box”. Matthew Johnson is President of M3 Aerial Productions and an Instructor at Brandon University UAV Ground School in Manatoba, Canada. In 2015, Matthew launched his drone services company, and like a lot of new small drone based businesses, he struggled to establish his operation. But by continually to refine his business plan and menu of services, Matthew was able to transition the once part-time operation into a full-time, profitable business. In this episode of the Drone Radio Show, Matthew talks about the challenges of creating a drone based business in today’s climate and how operators can achieve a positive cash flow by seeking multiple income streams.
Introduction. Matthew Johnson is President and CEO of M3Aerial Productions, a drone services company based in Winnipeg, Canada since 2015. Matthew originally intended to run a videography business, but eventually transitioned into serving the agriculture industry.
Services. Matthew talks about the services delivered by M3 Aerial Productions. The company specializes in agricultural NDVI and Digital Elevation Mapping and drone crop scouting services. In late 2016, M3 Aerial Productions added a training program to its offering of services.
Early Challenges. Matthew started the business on a part-time basis. He was a school teacher and military reservists. The biggest challenge was trying to balance his existing work and family commitments while building a business. He had a well thought out business plan, but much of it changed in response to competition and as his knowledge of the industry increased. He always maintained a positive outlook and felt that his business would be successful. By the end of 2016, M3 Aerial Productions had flown 40,000 acres of agricultural missions. As an early adopter of the technology, M3 Aerial was featured in several local news articles, which helped advance the company’s momentum.
Training Program. At the end of 2016, M3 Aerial Productions launched a training program. Matthew saw an opportunity to create a more value-added training program after taking his initial 4-hour session. The first course was attended by 22 people, and since then, scheduled courses have included 8 or more people. From February 2017 to December 2017, 148 people were trained. Matthew has a goal of training 1,000 people worldwide in 2018. The company got a bit boost when Brandon University, located in Winnipeg adopted the training program into its geography program. Thirty-six students came through the first program. M3 Aerial Productions is in discussions with five other universities and colleges across Canada to offer the same curriculum.
Other Services. Part of M3 Aerial’s strategy is to continue to seek out new partnerships and services to augment their income streams and adapt to evolving industry trends. These include:
Aerial Spraying – M3 Aerial Productions recently partnered with RogaDrone to deliver targeted aerial crop spraying. RogaDrone has a drone that can deliver a 15 kilogram payload that can spot treat crops.
Virtual Reality Systems – M3 Aerial Productions is applying virtual reality to support crop analysis. The groundbreaking application merges aerial imagery, NDVI sensor data and below the crop canopy imagery to create a virtual reality video that allows users to “step-into” specific areas of the field and see what is actually happening inside the crop.
Snail-Mail – In many rural areas of Canada, internet service is weak or non-existent. In these areas, drone operators will be challenged to manage the large amounts of data obtained via drones. The company plans to offer a service whereby, drone operators can mail their data to M3 Aerial Productions for processing.
Drones4Crohns – Together, working with Crohn’s and Colitis Canada, Matthew along with Jon Kovacs, a commercial airplane and UAV pilot from Winnipeg have created a campaign to raise awareness about these awful, debilitating diseases. Both families have been affected by these diseases, and as such, they have made it their mission to use drones to bring this campaign to the center stage. Matthew talks about the first Drones4Crohns photography fundraising expo, showcasing drone photographers, and scenic landscapes from across Canada.
Lessons Learned. To make a dent as a small commercial business, Matthew feels one should be totally and utterly committed to their business. Operators need to continually be involved in the industry, learn from it and be willing to adapt to changing opportunities. The first step one should take is making up their mind that it’s worth doing, as if you don’t believe it when you’re starting out, you’re predestined for failure. Additionally, Matthew strongly recommends networking to get your services out into the marketplace and tapping into the expertise of others as much as possible.
Closing. Matthew sees a rapidly changing industry ahead and is excited to see where these opportunities will lead his company in the future.
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Vietnam seeks to boost relations with Kalmykia
Vietnamese Ambassador to Russia Ngo Duc Manh paid a working visit to the Republic of Kalmykia from October 7th-9th at the invitation of Kalmyk President Batu Khasikov.
The visit aimed to explore Kalmykia’s potential and strengths, as well as similarities and reciprocity between Vietnam and Kalmykia, in a bid to set up bilateral cooperation in areas of shared concern, the ambassador told President Khasikov during their meeting on October 7th.
Host and guest focused on collaboration in trade, economy and investment between Vietnamese regions and Russian ones, including Kalmykia.
Vietnamese Ambassador to Russia Ngo Duc Manh (Photo: VNA)
Manh pledged to make all-out efforts to promote relations between Vietnamese and Russian localities, thus bringing practical benefits to both sides.
The ambassador briefed his host on bilateral economic and trade links over the past years, especially after the Vietnam-EAEU Free Trade Agreement was signed in October 2016.
They shared the view that economic and trade ties are yet to match the expectations and potential of both sides as many products of strength have not yet been introduced in their respective markets.
The Vietnamese Embassy in Russia is doing its best to help localities of the two countries establish relations, Manh said, citing the formation of twinning relations between many Vietnamese and Russian cities.
Vietnam and Russia hold great potential for cooperation in agriculture, especially agricultural products, seafood, garments-textiles, footwear and tourism services, the ambassador said.
For his part, President Khasikov suggested Vietnam and Kalmykia optimize each other’s favourable geographical locations to boost economic and trade links.
He expressed his hope to visit Vietnam as soon as possible in order to learn about the country’s potential as well as opportunities for further collaboration with the Southeast Asian nation.
While in Kalmykia, Manh and his entourage visited the National Museum and the Kalmyk State University./.
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Surrey and Sussex Probation Trust social media project
Twitter and Facebook play vital roles in enabling governmental organisations to communicate with stakeholders, professionals, the public at large, and in the case of probation trusts, the offenders who are placed in their care.
Surrey and Sussex Probation Trust engaged Ecru to build their website in 2010. We have subsequently worked with them on several projects that take the website on major leaps forward, to keep them at the cutting edge of communications within probation in the UK.
The question for Surrey and Sussex was how to mitigate the risks that come with open communications platforms like Twitter, while gaining the benefits of better, more timely communication with a wider audience.
On the Surrey and Sussex Probation Trust website every page incorporates social media bookmarking links for Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. Visitors can also share pages with friends and colleagues by email. On the front page, and on internal pages within the website Twitter comments made by the Trust can be seen alongside the information published on the website that is delivered through the Ecru content management system.
This increased integration means that the probation trust is more communicative and engages the audience where they are, using the communication platform that they prefer.
Thanks for all the assistance with the SSPT website recently and it looks great so well done!
Finance Director, Surrey and Sussex Probation Trust
Integration of Twitter content
The Surrey and Sussex Probation Trust homepage had been redesigned to accomodate their Twitter feed in an elegant way. The information is also fed into selected internal pages.
Visitors to the Surrey and Sussex Probation Trust website are able to bookmark pages via social media, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.
Visitors to the Surrey and Sussex Website can share information with thier friends and colleagues by email.
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A bohemian temple
A musical expedition
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Tony Moore
Historian, academic & author
Dr Tony Moore is a writer, historian and academic and the author of Dancing with empty pockets: Australia's bohemians. He was an honorary Creative Fellow at the Library in 2011.
I see the State Library of Victoria as a temple for knowledge and learning. Not just earnest learning as all the prickly subversive works are here too: the counterculture works, the comics – there’s a range of human creativity housed here. There is nothing to compare with the awe of walking in and seeing the dome. When I saw the dome I knew that Melbourne took all of this seriously. It takes ideas seriously and has given them a fine home;
a temple to learning, intellectual stimulation and creativity.
I was given an honorary Creative Fellowship during which time I wrote a documentary script about the life of Marcus Clarke called An unnatural life. Simultaneously I was also researching and writing my book Dancing with empty pockets, which is a history of Australian bohemia from the 1860s to the present day.
The book opens with Marcus Clarke, Australia’s first significant bohemian. He brought the identity to Australia from London as a 16-year-old immigrant; his father had gone mad and left young Marcus with no money, but incredibly cultured and over-educated. At 16 Clarke was banished to the colonies. He worked in a bank and as a jackaroo and failed dismally, then found his vocation as a journalist and writer. In the 1870s he worked as librarian here at the State Library of Victoria, then known as the Public Library.
Even as a librarian he didn’t give up his eccentric bohemian life around Melbourne. He used the Library as a base for all his many publishing and theatrical projects, and it was said that when Clarke was in he would leave a cigar in the mouth of one of the stone lions that was out the front of the Library to signal to his friends he was available. I’ve seen little notes he’s written where he says, ‘I’m in the Library, I’m dying for a drink, come and rescue me.’ He was probably not the best librarian in that sense, but being very educated he helped put the Library on the map. It’s a very great credit to Redmond Barry that he encouraged someone like that.
I like to think that the Creative Fellowships bring in people who are slightly subversive and a bit critical and creative as well. That is the measure of a good democracy and a good city – a good cultural life.
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Election Result Predictions?
Thread: Election Result Predictions?
Northumbrialand
Anyone care to take a punt?
Long way to go.....always a chance one of Boris’s peccadillos will raise her head at the wrong time...(for Boris).
To get things going...
Tories......probably largest party, but not with an overall majority.
Lib Dems ....probably not larger numbers than Labour (bit of a revolution if they were to) but large enough to present Brexiteer Tories with a clear majority problem.
Labour.....reduced number of seats? But probably larger number than the Liberals.
SNP......probable walkover in Scotland? Without Ruth Davidson the Tories are in for a caning...
Plaid Cymru??....Much the same as before?
Farage and the rest?......who knows....now that a main stream party has parked their tanks on his lawn...Life is a little more difficult for Nigel.
Jack_Caley
Re: Election Result Predictions?
Originally Posted by Gee
It is in the lap of the gods!
Corbyn is a very clever politician, I would not write him off too much.
For me though it is a most unsatisfactory way forward, as a GE is too broad a spectrum and does not solve issues.
Boris is of course trying to avoid the May mistake, in that he started electioneering weeks ago. He has more political nouse than he is given credit for, underneath all that humour. It is difficult to hit a man who makes you laugh, and his faint praise of Bercow proved.
jack caley
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wrsni
'Boris the buffoon' is a ready made insult which is all the more easily employed as it rolls off the tongue so delightfully.
But the bold Mr Johnson is certainly no fool and the more shit that's thrown his way, the more he impresses with his ability to not only deal with it, but to continue to move things forward.
I'm afraid the only buffoons are those who continue to be blind to the excellent job he's done so far for the UK and all it's citizens, by trying to negotiate a path out of the wreckage built up under the stewardship of his predecessor.
I hope he comes out of the election with enough power to both get his deal through, but also to remain as PM as I think he will put the country back on it's feet.
Exfarmer
Originally Posted by wrsni
I aim yet to see what his deal gives that May's deal did not except a border in the Irish Sea. This as we all know is never going to be accepted by the DUP, even though many in Northern Ireland will welcome it as step in the direction of re unification with Eire
Does it do anything for the fishing?
Do we still keep paying the £39,000,000,000?
But one thing we do know, is that they are happy that in future, we should import food produced to any standard or indeed no standards , while they are going to impose far greater rules and regs on us.
However I will agree that Jonson is no fool, he has only ever had his eye on one thing and he has got that, but has he done anything for the British public, of course not, for a start he has not had five minutes to make any changes to anything.
Ixworth Solar Farming Ltd.
Firstly, I speak as someone who doesn't as much want the UK out of the EU as I do not want there to be an EU. It is toxic for the UK, the continent of Europe, and if they had sufficient power and influence (which will hopefully NOT now happen), the entire globe.
Secondly, I speak as a citizen of the UK in Northern Ireland, quite happy to be so, and fully intended to remain so. Boris' deal was the only way to deal with the situation which had been allowed to develop around the border. And given things as they were, I had no desire for my own little part of the UK to be used as a tool to block the rest of the UK from leaving, which is exactly what had been happening all along. Northern Ireland will still get to avail of any terms negotiated with other countries outside of the EU, and the long term relationship with the EU has been ultimately handed over to our own politicians. The DUP huffed because they wanted the vote in 4 yrs time (if necessary) to fall under the cross-community support arrangements, other than that they'd have supported it from the outset, which they should have done irrespective of the nature of the vote. There are plenty who think NI needs to grow up and accept proper democratic governance anyway, so to potentially tie something so important to a system looking increasingly outdated was pretty ridiculous on the DUP's part.
Thirdly, the issue of NI's constitutional status is taken care of by the Good Friday Agreement and subsequent St Andrews agreement and what the last few years of turmoil have proved is that this is pretty much considered sacrosanct by everyone. So what Boris has done is actually strengthen the union by separating the the two issues and allowing us to remain part of the UK while having control of our relationship with the EU ourselves. It's actually pretty clever as there's no doubt that removing the relationship with the EU as a factor means that there will be nowhere near a majority in favour of leaving the UK for the foreseeable future, not that it was anywhere near as close as some were claiming anyway.
In short, he played a blinder!
With regard to a border between N Ireland and U.K., and also customs clearance at Dover Felixstowe, Hull and Purfleet, never mind worrying about delays, would it not be an idea, in view of those poor 39 dead Vietnam Namese to check every single lorry? Nearly all lorries are checked in Hull, ours included! Apparently it was a recognised occurrence in Purfleet, there have been immigrants picked up from the fields near Hull docks.
Originally Posted by Jack_Caley
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...y-Belgium.html
Twelve migrants have been found alive inside a refrigerated truck at a motorway parking area in Belgium - one week after 39 were found dead in London.
The driver, who was transporting fruit and vegetables, called police after suspecting people were hiding in the back.
He was told to pull over into a parking area when 11 Syrian men and one Sudanese man were found inside his lorry.
With reference to all those 39 poor souls who perished at the hands of murdererous scum I've had an idea.
All containers, vehicles with enclosed bodies, refrigerated lorries, etc. should have to be fitted with a camera that runs on a powered internal track in the roof, the length of the vehicle. The camera is to be U.K. Customs approved and be able to be controlled by anyone who has the controlling mechanism to hand. There are plenty of this type of camera available. Camera specifications should be the remit of Customs and amongst other things they should be able to zoom, rotate, and pan vertically and horizontally. All it needs is a track in each vehicle because the cameras should be capable of being deployed in any vehicle. When the vehicle reaches a Customs Post the driver hands the camera controller over to the Border Guard who deploys it to invetsigate the inside of the vehicle. No camera controller - no admittance. Non-working system - rip the vehicle apart at a time to suit H.M. Customs or turn it round and send it back to where it came from.
Could such a system be made to work ?
OK fine......but how do you see the election working out?
What’s your prediction for the result?
First, Second, Third and who will have the power.
Oh go on then, ...........................Tories with a majority.
Simply because all the rest are so crap!
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Events of the last day or two....shows the utter contempt that today’s politicians hold the voters of this country.
Heading for one of the few times that the population can supposedly have their say as to a future government, Pompous Farage proclaims that he will withdraw 317 candidates...(that he probably didn’t have anyway) and thus affect the outcome of the election....
Interesting how Farage apparently runs his party as a Dictatorship.....in his so called pursuit of Democracy for the ordinary voter.
Classic “ Wag the Dog”
You could say he was displaying leadership, a thing sadly lacking in other party's!
He did display about 600 candidates, did he not.
Whatever you might think of him, he has been the most influential politician of the last 20 years.
He was the one that recognised the monster of Europe first, and recognised the damage it has done to this country. Yet another example this week at Scunthorpe.
Sorry Jack but I don't agree with your comment "he has been the most influential politician of the last 20 years." Farage is Brexit and nothing else. But he's got a handle on the whole EU nonsense, and he speaks his mind (which is unusual within his contemporaries) But he has, in my opinion, blotted his copybook within the last 7 days. Why on Earth didn't he and Boris sit down and talk this thing through instead of him barging in with "a Brexit candidate in every constituency" ? He has redeemed himself to a degree by saying that his party won't contest seats where there is a current Tory M.P. He should go further. He should say that Brexit will only contest seats where the Torys haven't a hope in Hell of winning.
But what I don't understand is why he has so much sway over a party that he doesn't (and isn't going to) represent in the Commons. I know he's stood and failed 8 times and he is also an M.E.P. but he should be in the Commons if he is leader of the Brexit party.
Originally Posted by zaza
I also am disappointed that he has not stood for election as an MP, he cannot have a proper voice without. I do not know why he has not.
I think maybe both he and Boris have too much vanity to cooperate. After all every politician has to be an egotist to qualify, especially someone who would be silly enough to want to be prime minister.
BigAndy
I predict unfortunately that the tories will get a majority and then they will proceed to throw the deal negotiated with Europe out of the window and go for a no deal Brexit again. He has got rid of most of the tory rebels from the party and the rest arnt strong enough to stand up to him or more to the point his advisor!
The election is being fought on Brexit which is fundamentally wrong but the Uk people are that sick of it they want a resolution and unfortunately I think they will go for the easy option of Boris. We will then be left up the creek no paddle with a deteriorating economy, cheap food imports and a decimated farming industry.
But hey Boris will have got what he has been plotting for all along.
Where does this idea that Boris wants 'no deals' come from.
Of course agreements will be made but hopefully much better than the so-called deal almost passed earlier.
At the moment both sides seem to be heading for la-la land trying to outdo eah other by throwing other people's money about.
Today Labour are promising free fast fibre broadband for everyone and who's paying for it, a special tax on companies they don't like like Amazon and Google.
That just won't work they'd remove themselves from the UK before being given a bill for £billions for a project that would take decades to deliver.
They do have a point about private companies acting like a shower of sh1t though, they refuse point blank to extend mobile cover let alone 3G or better to areas they think uneconomic (like here), meanwhile BT have been at planning stage for about three years to install a cabinet a mile away which may or may not work here.
At that rate fibre to each house is will take until about 2090.
A rational approach would be practically enforce near total coverage with 3G/4G/5G - then they could forget about eleventy million miles of new cable.
Originally Posted by 4wd
Has anyone got any experience with EE dongles?
we have an EE mast notfar away.
Ihave tried microwave, but it is very variable and appears about the same price as EE.
60 million trees today!
we had a farmer from near Helmsley talking to our local discussion group the other day. He said they they had planted trees on all the best land near him. They are going to flood some Sunk Island land near here, some of the best land in Europe. Apparently we do not need food any more.
"The Brexit Party" has never been a party, it is a limited company owned by Farage and one other ( Aroon Banks I believe but may be mistaken)
This means he does not have to make any account about funding expenses etc.
60, million's trees a year, that is 60,000 acres lost to agriculture a year won't be any left soon.
Interesting to see YFC are jumping on the let’s look good bandwagon....
According to press reports YFC are to embark on a nation wide tree planting scheme...
Funny how if you wait long enough the same old bus comes around...
I can remember YFC County executive meeting in 1973 ....NYFC had hatched a scheme called “Plant a tree in 73”....
Much the same ambition, I expect as the current scheme........
After a bit of discussion a voice from the back of the room pronounced...in broad Geordie....”I’ve planted 73,000 trees this year will that count?”
Shelter belts on reclaimed hill land.....
No, was the answer....not really what NYFC are looking for...
Taken 46 odd years for the bus to come around but it’s here!
Shrops/Staffs/Cheshire borders
“Plant a tree in 73”....
Plant some more in 74!!!
http://www.jamesbourne.co.uk
Plant plenty in 2020 !!!
Originally Posted by J B
Then there was "keep them alive in 75".
Round here there's plenty of recent largely failed planting schemes which are now a ragwort, thistle and bramble bush wasteland littered with plastic tubes.
Worse, they are often projects done 'to make up areas' for grant and little if any thought has been given to aesthetics let alone future management including land alongside the scrubby wilderness.
Some of what is now in this derelict state was previously species-rich hay meadow.
Much more of this on the cards.
I expect it was " dry little sticks in 76"
The trouble with so many of these schemes today is the huge number of deer across the country who just love to coppice them no matter how tall the tubes
john maddock
Oh, you gentlemen are such a hoot, with your witty phrases
You UK sceptics do not have a patent. Tree growing scams are universal; Tasmanian blue gums in California in the late 19C. Victorian E. nitens in Tasmania in the early 21C. Who knows where else!
The present (and growing) fad of cross laminated timber (CLT) structures (how good will the glue be in 100 year's time?) will more than likely gain the attention of the scammers - and Gee's bus will most certainly be back on the road again!
(Apologies for diverting the thread. Lost control of my fingers for a while )
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wr.
Lib Dem got in here a few months ago at the Brecon & Radnorshire by election after our tory blotted his copy book by committing fraud. Pretty sure our new tory candidate will get in this time.
Don't itch for something if you're not prepared to scratch for it.
rangerover
You talk about contempt! It would be difficult to be more contemptuous than one of the candidates running in Belfast, he was caught urinating in one of the streets of central Belfast! His party leader said he apologised, so it's OK then!!
Ironhead
NB Canada
Originally Posted by rangerover
Which party was / is he running for? Perhaps voters would like to know what the party stands for?
<and no, I am not eligible to vote in this upcoming election>
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Lawmakers launch bill to end military gay ban
Pushing back against Pentagon opposition, lawmakers said on Wednesday they would forge ahead with legislation to lift restrictions on homosexuals in the armed forces before a year-long military review is completed.
Following President Barack Obama's call for ending the "don't ask don't tell" policy, the lawmakers said they would seek to repeal the law in coming months, or at least place a moratorium on discharges under the ban as an interim step.
"We're going for full repeal because that really is the solution we need to this problem. We're going to fight for as much support as we can get," said Senator Joe Lieberman as he and others introduced legislation to repeal the ban on gays serving openly in the U.S. military.
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has said he supports Obama's decision. But he and military leaders want Congress to hold off on lifting restrictions until the Pentagon completes a study to assess the impact of a repeal and the best way to implement the changes.
That review must be completed by December 1 under guidelines by Gates announced this week.
"Right now, we're not in a position to offer any advice to Congress on a legislative remedy to 'don't ask, don't tell' if they wanted to pursue one. We just don't know enough about the impact," said Geoff Morrell, Pentagon press secretary.
"So the secretary wants to take the next nine, 10 months and focus on figuring out the implications of a change in the law for our forces, for their families, for readiness, for recruiting, for retention, for all of the potential consequences of the change in the law."
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, speaking at the news conference with Lieberman, said his committee could act as soon as May on Lieberman's legislation.
Senators could try to add the repeal, or a moratorium on discharges, to the annual bill that authorizes U.S. defense programs, said Levin, who is a Democrat.
But Pentagon officials leading the policy review wondered why lawmakers didn't wait for the results. "I would think Congress would like to hear from us first before undertaking to consider to repeal (the law)," Jeh Johnson, Pentagon general counsel, told a House Armed Services subcommittee.
Johnson and General Carter Ham, the commanding general of the U.S. Army in Europe, are co-chairing the Pentagon study.
Admiral Mike Mullen, the top U.S. military officer, whose support for the repeal has set him at odds with some senior members of the U.S. military, said the study was crucial to properly lead a significant policy change.
Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said it was crucial the politically charged question not add further stress to a force already stretched thin by the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
"One of my biggest concerns is that this review and this issue not put a heavily strained military in the middle of this debate in a way that burdens them when they are pressed as hard as they've ever been pressed," Mullen told students in Kansas.
The repeal is a crucial test for Obama, who is struggling to fulfill promises like enacting healthcare reform despite having a Democratic majority in both houses of Congress.
Lieberman said he believes a majority favors the legislation in the Senate, but that currently there are not 60 votes for the repeal -- a crucial threshold for being able to overcome procedural hurdles in the chamber. "That's our battle, but we've come a hell of a long way," he said.
Americans favor allowing gays to serve openly in the military by 57 percent to 36 percent, a recent poll by Quinnipiac University showed.
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Hu watches play honoring military archivist
Lawmakers gather in Beijing for China's annual parliament session
China's military no threat to other countries: advisory body spokesman
Senior Colonel: China should displace U.S. to be strongest country militarily
Medvedev says NATO not main military threat to Russia
DPRK threatens military attack over U.S.-South Korea drills
China asks U.S. to avoid further damaging bilateral ties, refutes military link with hacking
China urges Japan-U.S. military co-op not to target third party
Eight more Turkish military officers arrested in coup plot probe
Responding to Pentagon report, China stresses cross-Strait peaceful development
China denies violating UN sanction on DPRK
China urges U.S. to respect its core interests
Vancouver Winter Games brings in glad tidings for "Year of Tiger"
Initial Highlights: 1st Press Conference for 3rd session of 11th CPPCC
Is Google 'a smart horse' ?
What's their visit for?
Love it, hate it ?
Do-as-you-please, not real freedom
Can you put up with Japanese English?
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Funny 2016 Election stuff or not so funny
End Times and Current Events > Forum > General Category > Fellowship > Off Topic Stuff (Moderator: Christian40) > Funny 2016 Election stuff or not so funny
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Re: Funny 2016 Election stuff or not so funny
FervorForFaith
Quote from: Proverbs 19:8 on November 09, 2016, 01:48:43 am
OK, Trump was going to win anyways, but odd that Hillary "conceded" BEFORE Trump hit 270.
Now wait a minute, brother. Just yesterday everyone was saying we had all of this proof that it was being rigged for Hillary. Now all of a sudden it was rigged for Trump?
God gave us minds, let's use them.
Quote from: FervorForFaith on November 09, 2016, 08:27:32 pm
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The Leftwing Media Is Having a Meltdown Over Trump's Victory--Here Are Their Headlines to Prove It
Nearly all the pundits and pollsters got this election wrong. A Donald Trump victory was seen as a long shot even reportedly to the Trump campaign itself. But now that President Trump has become a reality, the leftwing media is in full panic mode.
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2016/11/09/leftwing-media-panicshere-are-their-headlines-to-prove-it-n2243483
christistruth
Not that I agree with Trump on anything, but not everything is a conspiracy, half the country did not vote so Trump won.
I am more of the Scott Johnson, Greg Miller viewpoint, not everything is a conspiracy. Hillary did not put much effort in campaigning and it cost her the presidency.
Jesus is the answer for our moral ills. Conservative principals are the answer to our government corruption.
Quote from: christistruth on November 09, 2016, 10:58:47 pm
I remember in August of last year (2015), my mom had CNN on one Friday night, and they spent almost the entire evening of coverage of Trump making a speech in Alabama. I was wondering, "The primary race hasn't even started much, and they're giving him THIS much coverage from a small state?".
I had a feeling they had big plans for him.
Quote from: Mark on November 09, 2016, 10:32:17 pm
No not really - I saw CNN's coverage of the election, and you could tell they were reading from a script.
Trump wants to build a "wall" in front of Mexico, but somehow performs BETTER with Latinos?
Trump is an "anti-establishment outsider"? But never mind the fact he wants Rudy Guilliani as Homeland Security chief, and Newt Gingrich in his cabinet too.
And again, they have electronic voting machines, but it takes them HOURS to get even some of the results in?
Quote from: Isaiah 41:28 on November 10, 2016, 08:37:51 am
Controversy creates cash. These news stations made a lot of money by talking about Trump, which is why they are glad that he was elected; the love of money is the root of all evil. Trump has wanted to run for President since the 80s, he finally put serious effort in and he won. Not that I agree with him on much, but the fact is that he's won and everybody of importance in this country admitted it. You should be glad that he's won since it appears war with Russia is off, for at least a few years, more time to evangelize.
At the Rally I went to, they had two Prayers occur, neither were inter-faith as both acknowledged the deity and Lordship of Jesus Christ, and one of the speakers referenced the KJV, Trump might not be Christian but some of his advisers are.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/preliminary-list-shows-potential-trump-cabinet-picks/ar-AAk6VI3?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp
Preliminary list shows potential Trump Cabinet picks
Donald Trump's transition team has prepared a preliminary list of potential Cabinet members for his upcoming administration.
The list obtained by BuzzFeed News reveals a number of familiar faces including Ben Carson, Chris Christie, Mike Huckabee, Newt Gingrich and others being weighed for multiple positions.
In total, the list includes 41 names and covers 14 different departments. A source told BuzzFeed that the list is not final, and will likely be changed in the future.
Attorney general picks include Chris Christie, Jeff Sessions and Rudy Giuliani.
Newt Gingrich, John Bolton and Bob Corker are listed as potential picks for the secretary of State.
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus is the only name listed under chief of staff, while Sessions is also the only one being considered for director of Office of Management and Budget.
Potential secretary of Commerce picks include Christie and Huckabee, while Carson is under consideration to be secretary of Education.
Christie is also being weighed for secretary of Homeland Security, and Carson, Gingrich and Florida Gov. Rick Scott are potential picks for secretary of Health and Human Services.
**Gingrich supports the Obamacare mandate, FYI.
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin also makes a surprise appearance on the shortlist, mentioned as one of seven potential candidates to become the Secretary of the Interior.
Warning: Some foul language in this clip.
Predictive programming at its finest...it all but played out word for word!
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-makes-first-white-house-visit-as-president-elect-180707756.html
Trump makes first White House visit as president-elect
President-elect Donald Trump swooped into Washington, D.C., on Thursday for his first-ever visit to the White House since his historic election, huddling with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office for more than an hour and a half. The brash entrepreneur then headed off for meetings with leaders of the Republican majorities in Congress.
Obama and Trump struck a conciliatory pose in brief remarks after the meeting, their first face-to-face conversation after years of doing long-distance political battle. They presented a united, bipartisan front by refusing to answer questions from reporters.
Obama said he and Trump had an “excellent” and “wide-ranging” conversation about domestic policy and world affairs, and he urged Americans to rally behind their soon-to-be leader at a time when angry protesters have taken to the streets in several cities to reject Trump’s election.
“I believe that it is important for all of us — regardless of party, and regardless of political preferences — to now come together, work together and deal with the many challenges that we face,” Obama said. “I want to emphasize to you, Mr. President-elect, that we now are going to want to do everything we can to help you succeed. Because if you succeed, then the country succeeds.”
Trump, sitting in the office he will soon redecorate, described the discussion as an opportunity for the two men to get to know each other and professed to have “great respect” for the sitting president. For years, Trump had spearheaded the “birther” movement seeking to discredit Obama’s legitimacy as president.
“We discussed a lot of different situations, some wonderful and some difficulties. I very much look forward to dealing with the president in the future, including counsel,” Trump said. “Mr. President, it was a great honor meeting with you. And I look forward to meeting with you many, many more times in the future.”
Meanwhile, first lady Michelle Obama met in private with Melania Trump, who inherits the East Room come Jan. 20th. And White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough led senior Trump advisers, including son-in-law Jared Kushner, around the grounds of the presidential mansion, and other top Obama aides met with their counterparts or potential successors. In front of the White House’s north fence, workers kept up the hammering and nailing required to build the presidential reviewing stand for the inauguration in barely two months.
After the meeting, Trump headed off to meet with Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan and Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Breaking with longstanding protocol, reporters were not permitted to view Trumps arrival at the White House. And the president-elect also traveled without a protective pool of reporters, who would typically follow his movements and keep Americans informed of his whereabouts and well-being in the event of a crisis.
http://www.startribune.com/donald-trump-could-actually-take-steps-to-try-to-jail-hillary-clinton/400580871/
Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway later said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that Trump’s remark about jailing Clinton was a “quip.” She added, “As for the special prosecutor, I think that’s Donald Trump channeling the frustration he hears from thousands of voters out on the stump every day.”
During his victory speech, Trump said, “It is time for us to come together as one united people” and said that Clinton had “worked very long and very hard over a long period of time, and we owe her a major debt of gratitude for her service to our country.” He made no mention of Clinton’s e-mails.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-team-discussing-ayotte-for-defense-secretary/ar-AAkc3Jy?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp
Trump team discussing Ayotte for defense secretary
The Trump team has added a name to its list of potential candidates for secretary of defense — outgoing Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.), according to two sources familiar with the ongoing discussions. If chosen, Ayotte would stand out in a Trump administration as a neoconservative defense hawk and one of the few women in the incoming Trump Cabinet.
No decisions have been made and the current list for possible defense secretary picks still centers around retired Army Lt. Gen. Joseph “Keith” Kellogg, former Defense Intelligence Agency director Gen. Mike Flynn and Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.). Flynn would need a congressional waiver to bypass a law that requires any defense secretary to be seven years out of active duty service before taking command of the Pentagon.
But Ayotte’s name has surfaced in internal discussions as a potential olive branch to the GOP foreign policy establishment that the Trump campaign was often at odds with over the past year. Ayotte is regarded as knowledgeable and competent, sources familiar with the discussions said, and would surely get swift Senate confirmation.
The Trump-Ayotte relationship has been a roller coaster over the past several months, as Ayotte tried to balance between supporting her party’s nominee and placing distance between her campaign and Trump’s more controversial comments, especially regarding women.
Ayotte did not attend the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in July. During one of her debates, she said Trump was “absolutely” a role model for children and later said she “misspoke.” After Trump’s lewd comments about women were exposed on the Access Hollywood tape, Ayotte announced she would cast a write-in vote for Mike Pence, saying “I cannot and will not support a candidate for president who brags about degrading and assaulting women.”
On Thursday, my colleague Jennifer Rubin explained the upside for Trump in adding Ayotte to his team:
Her elevation would signal that Trump campaign cronies won’t be moving into the West Wing — or the Pentagon; Trump would get credit for selecting a mainstream, serious person. In one stroke, Trump could dispel the notion that he is a lackey for Russian President Vladimir Putin or an isolationist. Ayotte would be an ideal personality to smooth out the relationship between Trump and the generals whom he routinely insulted.
Trump has often criticized the neoconservative wing of the Republican party as too quick to intervene abroad and responsible for costly U.S. interventions such as the Iraq War. But going forward, Trump has promised to ramp up the war against the Islamic State and other terrorist groups in the Middle East and hawks such as Ayotte support such a policy.
There are also several other areas of national security where Trump and conservative hawks in Congress plan to work together, including stepping up pressure on Iran, getting rid of the sequester on defense funding to increase military spending and increasing aid to Israel.
The question is whether Trump’s desire to build a big tent for national security conservatives will outweigh his disdain for the neocons in the Senate that Ayotte is associated with.
“She’s viewed as being in the mainstream of conservative Republican foreign policy,” one GOP foreign policy official told me. “She would be a defense secretary in the mold of John McCain or Lindsey Graham, and if that’s what Donald Trump is looking for, that’s what he’s going to get.”
Report: Hillary 'physically violent' after losing
Hillary Clinton lost her composure entirely when her loss to Donald Trump became evident, “crying” so much that it was “hard to understand what she was saying.” Klein said she even turned combative against her staff. “Is it any wonder that so many of her followers are emulating Clinton’s behavior, going on full-fledged temper tantrums and riots, shedding massive amounts of tears because the election didn’t go the way they wanted it to?”
http://www.wnd.com/2016/11/report-hillary-physically-violent-after-losing/
Proverbs 24:17 Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth:
Pro 24:18 Lest the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.
Pro 11:10 When it goeth well with the righteous, the city rejoiceth: and when the wicked perish, there is shouting.
Pro 29:2 When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
People that are around me are in opposite extremes, "spiritual highs" and "downright depression" - yes, it's continued to this present day. And it's just very vexing, to be honest. Life just hasn't been the same (at least in my neck of the woods) since the election.
Thank you for the verses, it is coming to light now.
This little black magic show continues...
http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/28/politics/pushback-trump-vote-fraud-allegations/index.html
Officials blast Trump vote fraud claims, GOP wants to 'move on'
Washington (CNN)Election officials, leading Democrats -- and even a prominent Republican -- blasted President-elect Donald Trump after he spread allegations of voter fraud and targeted a trio of states with his false claim.
Trump first alleged Sunday that "millions" of undocumented immigrants voted against him and later directed the inaccurate charges at California, Virginia and New Hampshire. Neither Trump nor his transition team have responded to requests to explain what he meant or provide any evidence.
**Didn't Trump give up on Virginia weeks before the election?
"Serious voter fraud in Virginia, New Hampshire and California - so why isn't the media reporting on this? Serious bias - big problem!" Trump tweeted.
Serious voter fraud in Virginia, New Hampshire and California - so why isn't the media reporting on this? Serious bias - big problem!
Tom Rath, the former attorney general of New Hampshire and a longtime kingmaker in the state's Republican politics, knocked Trump Sunday evening.
"This will probably cost me my spot in the Cabinet but there was no fraud, serious or other, in this election in NH. There just wasn't," Rath tweeted.
This will probably cost me my spot in the Cabinet but there was no fraud, serious or other, in this election in NH. There just wasn't.
— Tom Rath (@polguru) November 28, 2016
And California Secretary of State Alex Padilla hit back at Trump, tweeting that his "unsubstantiated allegations of voter fraud in California and elsewhere are absurd."
pic.twitter.com/WfXISEBwzN
— Alex Padilla (@AlexPadilla4CA) November 28, 2016
California Rep. Adam Schiff, a Democrat, tweeted: "President-elect Trump's claim that he would have won popular vote but for fraud is as baseless as it is demeaning. #ActLikeAPresident"
President-elect Trump's claim that he would have won popular vote but for fraud is as baseless as it is demeaning. #ActLikeAPresident https://t.co/ooESDd4Sfh
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) November 27, 2016
And former Maryland governor and Democratic presidential candidate Martin O'Malley said Trump should focus instead on restoring the Voting Rights Act and ending voter suppression.
"Hey @realDonaldTrump - The real issues with voter fraud are discriminatory Voter ID laws and illegal vote suppression tactics #RestoreTheVRA," O'Malley wrote.
Hey @realDonaldTrump - The real issues with voter fraud are discriminatory Voter ID laws and illegal vote suppression tactics #RestoreTheVRA
— Martin O'Malley (@MartinOMalley) November 28, 2016
It was still unclear Monday why Trump was alleging voter fraud in the election he won, while Green Party officials were seeking a recount based on questions of whether voter fraud helped him win.
Marc Elias, the Clinton campaign's former counsel, pointed out the irony of Trump blasting alleged voter fraud but opposing any investigation of the election results.
"We are getting attacked for participating in a recount that we didn't ask for by the man who won election but thinks there was massive fraud," Elias tweeted Sunday night.
We are getting attacked for participating in a recount that we didn't ask for by the man who won election but thinks there was massive fraud
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) November 28, 2016
Rep. Chris Collins, a New York Republican who will be one of Trump's key point men in Congress, said he did not know if there were "millions" of people who voted illegally, but said he would rather Trump and the Green Party both "move on" from the recount.
"He is the president-elect and it is time to move forward," Collins said on CNN's "New Day." "It's time to move on. And it's time to end the discussion of recounts and, again, hopefully we can strengthen voter ID laws."
Sen. James Lankford, an Oklahoma Republican, also said there may be evidence of some voter fraud, but nothing close to the "millions" of voters Trump is claiming.
"I have not seen anything in the millions, I don't know what he was talking about," Lankford told CNN's Alisyn Camerota.
So Trump wins the election = voting machines not rigged.
But the election was rigged anyways?
In today's society, there's just no more common sense of reasoning anymore.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/texas-elector-art-sisneros-to-resign-instead-of-voting-for-donald-trump/ar-AAkRIX1?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp
Texas Elector Art Sisneros to Resign Instead of Voting for Donald Trump
A Republican elector from Texas says he is resigning his position instead of casting his vote for Donald Trump, calling the Electoral College "corrupted from its original intent" and saying voting for the president-elect would "bring dishonor to God."
Art Sisneros was considering in August the possibility of becoming a so-called faithless elector, meaning he would refuse to vote for Trump if the GOP candidate won the Lone Star State and its 38 electoral votes in November.
In a Saturday blog post on his website, Sisneros said he had decided he was not comfortable defying his pledge to vote for his party's nominee, but neither could he cast his vote for Trump.
"Since I can't in good conscience vote for Donald Trump, and yet have sinfully made a pledge that I would, the best option I see at this time is to resign my position as an elector," Sisneros wrote. "This will allow the remaining body of electors to fill my vacancy when they convene on Dec. 19 with someone that can vote for Trump."
His decision followed a previous post in which he posed the question of whether it was "acceptable for a Christian to vote for a man like Trump for president," and concluded that he could not "in good conscience" do so.
"I do not see how Donald Trump is biblically qualified to serve in the office of the presidency," he said in his Saturday post. "Of the hundreds of angry messages that I have received, not one has made a convincing case from Scripture otherwise. If Trump is not qualified and my role, both morally and historically, as an elected official is to vote my conscience, then I cannot and will not vote for Donald Trump for president."
In the lengthy post, Sisneros explained his frustration with both progressives' and conservatives' approaches to the Electoral College and the failure to use the body in the way the founders intended, which Sisneros likened to parents acting "in the best interest of their children" even if in some cases their children desire otherwise.
"In most homes, kids do not have the right to eat Skittles for dinner. It is not in their best interest," he wrote.
"The people will get their vote. They will get their Skittles for dinner," he said. "I will sleep well at night knowing I neither gave in to their demands nor caved to my convictions. I will also mourn the loss of our republic."
Meanwhile, a separate movement is openly lobbying for enough electors to refuse to vote for Trump.
Calling themselves the Hamilton Electors – a nod to Alexander Hamilton’s explanation of the Electoral College’s job as to ensure “the office of the President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications” – the group spurred by Democratic electors hopes to trigger the selection of another candidate through electors either changing their votes or abstaining from voting for Trump.
Electors are set to meet in their respective states across the country on Dec. 19 to formally cast their votes for president.
Copyright 2016 U.S. News & World Report
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory concedes race
Updated 12:26 PM ET, Mon December 5, 2016
(CNN)North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory, a Republican, has conceded the state's governor's race to Roy Cooper, a Democrat.
Developing story - more to come
http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/05/politics/north-carolina-governor-concedes-race/index.html?adkey=bn
Georgia’s secretary of state: DHS tried to breach our firewall
Georgia’s secretary of state has claimed the Department of Homeland Security tried to breach his office’s firewall and has issued a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson asking for an explanation.
Brian Kemp issued a letter to Johnson on Thursday after the state’s third-party cybersecurity provider detected an IP address from the agency’s Southwest D.C. office trying to penetrate the state’s firewall. According to the letter, the attempt was unsuccessful.
The attempt took place on Nov. 15, a few days after the presidential election. The office of the Georgia Secretary of State is responsible for overseeing the state’s elections.
“At no time has my office agreed to or permitted DHS to conduct penetration testing or security scans of our network,” Kemp wrote in the letter, which was also sent to the state’s federal representatives and senators. “Moreover, your department has not contacted my office since this unsuccessful incident to alert us of any security event that would require testing or scanning of our network. This is especially odd and concerning since I serve on the Election Cyber Security Working Group that your office created.”
“The Department of Homeland Security has received Secretary Kemp’s letter,” a DHS spokesperson told CyberScoop. “We are looking into the matter. DHS takes the trust of our public and private sector partners seriously, and we will respond to Secretary Kemp directly.”
Georgia was one of two states that refused cyber-hygiene support and penetration testing from DHS in the leadup to the presidential election. The department had made a significant push for it after hackers spent months exposing the Democratic National Committee’s internal communications and data.
In an interview with Politico, Kemp intimated that the federal government’s hacking fears were overblown, saying “they now think our whole system is on the verge of disaster because some Russian’s going to tap into the voting system.”
David Dove, Kemp’s chief of staff, told CyberScoop the Georgia secretary of state’s office “got a lot of grief” for refusing help from DHS.
“We basically said we don’t need DHS’s help,” because of the contract with the third-party provider, Dove said.
The office of the Georgia Secretary of State would not reveal who the provider is, only saying the company “analyzes more than 180 billion events a day globally across a 5,000+ customer base which includes many Fortune 500 companies.”
While the majority of states worked with DHS for help in protecting their election systems from hacks, cybersecurity experts were at odds as to what portions of the country would be targeted for Election Day attacks.
Johnson announced shortly after the election that DHS found no evidence of an attack on Election Day.
You can read Kemp’s letter here.
https://www.cyberscoop.com/georgia-hack-dhs-brian-kemp-jeh-johnson/
HuffPo Wildly Asserts Federal Courts Could ‘Install’ Clinton As President Because Russia Via @dailycaller
The courts could legally “install” Hillary Clinton as president instead of Donald Trump, because of Russia’s alleged interference in the election, The Huffington Post asserted in a story Friday.
Seizing on a breaking report that the CIA has concluded Russia worked covertly to help Trump win the election, Alex Mojaher writes in HuffPo the findings could be enough for a federal court to “invalidate” Trump’s win. “Russian Interference Could Give Courts Legal Authority To Install Clinton,” the headline reads.
“The development has Clinton supporters and other concerned Americans confused and hot in pursuit of potential remedies,” Mojaher writes. “No clear constitutional remedy exists to halt the certification of the outcome.”
But he then goes on to assert that a 1993 state senate election result reversed by the courts due to voter fraud provides precedent for turning the White House over to Clinton. The court invalidated the Pennsylvania result after two elected officials testified under oath they knew voter fraud was happening and intentionally did nothing and even tried to bury the story. That, according to Mojaher, “recalls” the report that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell knew Russia was interfering with the election and did nothing to stop the interference.
Reports from The Washington Post and New York Times on the CIA’s conclusion Friday are conflicting regarding the extent to which Russia did interfere, and whether the country was in fact trying to help Trump. Citing senior Obama administration officials, TheNYT reports the CIA concluded with “high confidence” that Russia was intentionally working to elect Trump and harm Clinton’s chances. That lines up with WaPo’s report.
But later in the same story, TheNYT reports it is “far from clear” Russia originally intended to help Trump, and says many intelligence officials and even Clinton campaign officials think Russia was trying to undermine the integrity of the election, not help Trump directly.
Of course, even if Russia was trying to help Trump win, turning over hacked emails to the American press does not constitute voter fraud. But Mojaher seems determined to stoke the irrational hopes of Clinton supporters who still have not accepted the result of the election, even as he undermines his own assertion over and over in the story.
“Obviously both the stakes and the office in question are much higher than in the 1994 case,” he writes, adding: “There is also, of course, no constitutional Electoral College process or system in Pennsylvania, so the situations are not exactly analagous. But the reasoning behind the federal court’s decision may hold muster.”
“It is not clear how the 1994 federal case would impact a presidential election,” he goes on. “Furthermore, that case involved the judge throwing out all absentee ballots and requiring the vote be decided only by those ballots cast at the machine, which would be problematic in the case at present.”
http://dailycaller.com/2016/12/10/peak-huffpo-courts-could-legally-install-clinton-as-president-because-of-russian-interference/
Report: Ukraine 'Interfered' In US Election... to Help Hillary
But Trump, Russia ...
The Left is preoccupied, at present, with instigating a Cold War 2.0. We're thrilled to see them care about our nation's security being potentially breached. If only they had seemed to care while former Sec. of State Hillary Clinton compromised our national security by using an unsecured, home-brew server -- wide open to hacking from any bad actor -- to transmit and receive our classified information.
If only they cared about reports that indicate Ukraine did try to interfere in our recent presidential election... in order to help elect Hillary Clinton.
Politico just published the findings of an extensive investigation into Ukrainian interference in the U.S. presidential election, reporting that the former Soviet Bloc member tried doggedly to sabotage President-elect Donald Trump and usher Clinton into the White House.
The report indicates that Ukrainian government officials "disseminated documents implicating a top Trump aide in corruption and suggested they were investigating the matter" and "helped Clinton’s allies research damaging information on Trump and his advisers."
While Politico reports that there is "little evidence" of a top-down effort -- meaning it is difficult to prove that the official order to interfere was handed down directly from Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, it is highly unlikely that he was not aware, and did not give the effort his blessing. Politico provides additional details:
Longtime observers suggest that the rampant corruption, factionalism and economic struggles plaguing the country — not to mention its ongoing strife with Russia — would render it unable to pull off an ambitious covert interference campaign in another country’s election. And President Petro Poroshenko’s administration, along with the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington, insists that Ukraine stayed neutral in the race.
[...] A Ukrainian-American operative who was consulting for the Democratic National Committee met with top officials in the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington in an effort to expose ties between Trump, top campaign aide Paul Manafort and Russia, according to people with direct knowledge of the situation.
The Ukrainian efforts had an impact in the race, helping to force Manafort’s resignation and advancing the narrative that Trump’s campaign was deeply connected to Ukraine’s foe to the east, Russia. But they were far less concerted or centrally directed than Russia’s alleged hacking and dissemination of Democratic emails.
Of course now government officials in Kiev "are scrambling to make amends" with the incoming Trump administration, even hiring a costly D.C. lobbying firm to help repair the relationship, according to the report.
The Politico investigation, which is quite lengthy, reveals that Poroshenko regime's "standing with Trump is considered so dire that the president’s allies after the election actually reached out to make amends with — and even seek assistance from — Manafort."
Meanwhile, Poroshenko's rivals see an opportunity to pounce, visiting Washington since the election to make inroads with the President-elect.
Poroshenko is scrambling to alter that dynamic, recently signing a $50,000-a-month contract with a well-connected GOP-linked Washington lobbying firm to set up meetings with U.S. government officials “to strengthen U.S.-Ukrainian relations.”
Revelations about Ukraine’s anti-Trump efforts could further set back those efforts.
“Things seem to be going from bad to worse for Ukraine,” said David A. Merkel, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council who helped oversee U.S. relations with Russia and Ukraine while working in George W. Bush’s State Department and National Security Council.
"None of the Ukrainians have any access to Trump — they are all desperate to get it, and are willing to pay big for it," an American consultant familiar with the debacle told Politico.
Radio silence from the Left ensues.
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/report-ukraine-interfered-us-election-help-hillary
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/06/politics/super-bowl-election-2016-clinton-trump-brady/index.html
Patriots Super Bowl comeback echoes 2016 race: 'Hillary lost all over again'
Washington (CNN)Football fans compared the New England Patriots' historic comeback against the Atlanta Falcons to President Donald Trump's unexpected win against Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in the 2016 general election.
What an amazing comeback and win by the Patriots. Tom Brady, Bob Kraft and Coach B are total winners. Wow!
Noting the late comeback, the President congratulated the Patriots and his "friend" quarterback Tom Brady, tweeting, "What an amazing comeback and win by the Patriots. Tom Brady, Bob Kraft and coach B are total winners. Wow! #SuperBowl."
Lady Gaga brings message of inclusion to Super Bowl halftime -- oh, and drones
As the Falcons led the Patriots by a wide margin the end of the first half, one Twitter user predicted a Patriots comeback that could come after FBI Director James Comey announces he's investigating the Falcons, leading to an incredible loss of momentum.
Sure, Atlanta's up big now, but wait until the Comey letter drops in the 4th quarter. #SuperBowl
— Hans Noel (@ProfHansNoel) February 6, 2017
"Sure, Atlanta's up big now, but wait until the Comey letter drops in the 4th quarter," Georgetown associate professor Hans Noel tweeted, as the Falcons led the Patriots 21-3 by the end of the first half.
The Comey comparison is a reference to the FBI director's October 2016 announcement that the FBI was investigating new emails related to the Clinton use of a private email server, which came at a critical and late stage of the election. No charges were ever filed against Clinton in the investigation.
Some time in the 3rd Quarter, Comey sent out a letter saying he was investigating the Falcons.
— Ana Navarro (@ananavarro) February 6, 2017
"Some time in the 3rd Quarter, Comey sent out a letter saying he was investigating the Falcons," CNN political commentator Ana Navarro tweeted as fans of both teams sat on the edge of their seats.
Here are other instances in which fans compared the Patriots' unexpected, late breaking comeback to Trump's 2016 win:
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Aug 12 2016 : The Times of India (Delhi)
Antrix deal was cancelled in 2011
The CBI filed a chargesheet on Thursday against Isro's former chairman G Madhavan Nair, former executive director of Antrix Corporation R Sridhara Murthi and a US firm in the controversial Antrix-Devas deal.
The contract for leasing S-band spectrum was given to an “ineligible company“ without informing the government, which led to a loss of Rs 578 crore, CBI said. The development comes days after the Permanent Court of Arbitration tribunal at The Hague ruled against India and said it was liable to pay compensation to foreign investors in De vas Multimedia.
The CBI said Nair kept the then Manmo han Singh Cabinet in the dark and gave wrong information about the deal. Nair rubbished the charge and said scientists were made “scapegoats“ in the case. The agency had questioned him earlier this year over his “conflict of interest“ in the deal. Nair was chairman of Antrix's governing council and secretary , department of space, when the deal was finalised.He was barred from holding any government post for his alleged role in the deal.
Devas had entered into an agreement with Antrix Corporation, the commercial arm of Isro, in 2005 to lease almost the entire transponder space on two of its satellites, and nearly half of the S-band spectrum under its control.The government had cancelled the deal in 2011 after a CAG report questioned it.
In an exclusive interview to TOI in March 2015, Nair had said the Antrix-Devas deal came under the scanner because “there was a panicky reaction from the PMO (then headed by Manmohan Singh) since 2G scam dented the government's image“.
In its chargesheet, the CBI named Nair, Murthi, Ramachandra Vishwanathan (former MD of Forge Advisors LLC USA & CEO of Devas Multimedia), M G Chandrasekhar (then director of Devas), Veena S Rao (then additional secretary in department of space), A Bhaskar Narayana Rao (then director in Isro) and D Venugopal and M Umesh (directors in Devas) for criminal conspiracy and cheating.
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Govt plans to bring Sharda water to Delhi
Vishwa Mohan
River On Nepal Border To Be Linked With Yamuna Via Uttarakhand, UP
Looking to meet Mumbai's drinking water demand till 2060, the Centre and the Maharashtra and Gujarat governments have formally agreed to link Damanganga and Pinjal rivers through multi-purpose dams and tunnels.
Besides, the Centre has conceived a project to meet Delhi's needs by linking Sharda river on the India-Nepal border with the parched Yamuna near the Capital via Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh.
Besides augmenting water supply to meet the requirement of Mumbai, the Damanganga-Pinjal project will also benefit Gujarat as the state would be free to utilize spillover water from Bhugad and Khargihill dams.
The project, having three dams and two tunnels, is expected to be completed in seven years. It will divert surplus water of Damanganga river at Bhugad and Khargi hill reservoirs to Pinjal reservoir in Vaitarna basin from where the combined water of Damanganga and Pinjal rivers will be further taken to Mumbai.
Announcing the decision on the eve of India Water Week (January 13-17), water resources and river development minister Uma Bharati said, “Damanganga-Pinjal river link project will take care of Mumbai's water need till 2060. Both Gujarat and Maharashtra readily agreed for this link. Work on this ambitious project will begin soon.“
It will be the third project to be taken up for implementation by the government.The Centre, in coordination with states concerned, has already taken up the Ken-Betwa river link project in Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh and the Par-TapiNarmada link in Gujarat.These three are part of the total 30 ILR projects which were planned by the then NDA government during Atal Bihari Vajpayee's term.
Minutes before announcement of assembly polls in Delhi, Bharati on Monday also made public the Centre's plan to initiate a new link to bring surplus water from Sharda river on the India-Nepal border to the Yamuna.This will be the country's 31st ILR project.
The project, once implemented, will provide drinking water to the Capital and will also help Yamuna have `uninterrupted' flow of water between Delhi and Agra and even beyond till the point the Chambal river joins it and gives it normal and uninterrupted flow.
“We are proposing three new dams including one in Renuka in Uttarakhand for this new link. We have started discussions with the state.
These three dams will also supply water for the farming requirements of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh,” Bharati said.
The minister recalled that an agreement was signed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to Nepal last year on Pancheshwar, which has an element for preparing the new link.
As far as actual implementation is concerned, only three ILR projects have so far crossed hurdles as many proposals faced resistance from environmentalists and state governments. States opposed to ILRs are Odisha, Kerala, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and couple of those in the northeast. Except Punjab, states opposed to ILRs are ruled by non-NDA parties.
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Jun 15 2015 : The Times of India (Delhi)
Surat, the heart of India's stent market
Melvyn ReggieThomas
Surat:
Diamond hub Surat is now a major player in the cardiac stent market. The city , famed for its Rs 90,000crore diamond industry , has emerged as the biggest manufacturer of cardiac stents in India.
Nine of the 11 Indian companies manufacturing stents -tiny tubes that make blood flow through choked arteries -are based in Surat and neighbouring Vapi. There is a reason for it: the laser technology that revolutionized diamond cutting has been the lifeblood of the stent industry .
South Gujarat's companies have captured 30% market share in the Indian coronary stent mar ket, valued at over $400 million, roughly Rs 2,500 crore. Overall, Indian compa nies enjoy 40% share as foreign players are fast ceding ground due to pricing -domestic stents cost just half.
“We pioneered the use of laser in diamond cutting in 1992,“ said Ganesh Sabat, the chief executive officer of Sa hajanand Medical Technologies (SMT). The parent company , which still makes diamond cutting equipment, set up the arm for making stents in the year 2000. Its success, in a market which was entirely dependent on imports, brought in other players like Meril Life Sciences and Heart Beat Interventions who have made it big.
Cardiac stents are made of stainless steel or an alloy with co steel or an alloy with co balt and chromium. The process requires the sa me equipment and skill sets as diamonds. In fact, stent making requires mu-ch lesser intensity of laser fire than diamonds.
It requires a laser to drill a hole with a diameter of 2.25 to 4.5 mm and length of 8 to 48 mm. of 8 to 48 mm.
Ahmedabad-based cardiologist, Dr Sameer Dani, who has been using Surat-made stents for a decade, said: “Over the years, the quality of local stents has improved vastly .“
Dr Tejas Patel, a Padmashri awardee, said he only uses stents that are approved for use in the US and Europe.“But if low-cost stents made locally can assure long-term efficacy and quality , there is a huge market here,“ he said.
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The voice in our head that spurs us on. The ambition to give our all. The insatiable hunger for more...
The voice in our head that spurs us on. The ambition to give our all. The insatiable hunger for more. It is precisely this inner drive that dwells within the new 911 GTS models.
GTS. Three letters that first sparked waves of excitement back in 1963 with the 904 GTS. Three letters that have since been uniting racetrack performance with incredible sportiness in everyday driving on the road. Three letters that, with the new 911 GTS models, represent an athletic boost of 22 kW (30 hp) and 50 Nm by comparison with the 911 Carrera S models.
And a great deal more in terms of sharpness of design, equipment specification and driving dynamics.
GTS. A sports car concept for all those who regard superlative standards as a reason for being – because, quite simply, nothing less would do.
The front end is imposing. That’s down to the clear and, above all, functional use of form. Large ai...
The front end is imposing. That’s down to the clear and, above all, functional use of form. Large air intakes increase the supply of air and underline the sportiness of each GTS model.
The lighting concept sets standards. Bi-Xenon main headlights including Porsche Dynamic Light System (PDLS) impress with characterful four-point LED daytime running lights.
The centre-lock wheels are the essence of pure motorsport. Painted in satin black, the 20-inch 911 Turbo S wheels boast outstanding roadholding and track performance thanks to their remarkable width. 20-inch Carrera S wheels with a 10-spoke design are available on request.
The rear end is even more muscular. It is 44 mm wider than on the 911 Carrera S – a tangible plus for dynamic performance through every corner.
An eye-catching feature of the rearwheel-drive 911 Carrera GTS models: the accent trim between the tinted taillights. It’s finished in black, just like the centrally positioned twin tailpipes of the sports exhaust system – fitted as standard.
Exclusive to the all-wheel-drive models: the seamless LED light strip, characterised by powerful illumination, and an unmistakable design.
In short, every last detail has been harmoniously coordinated. For impressive performance. For an expressive appearance. For a sports car worthy of the GTS name.
What’s the use of inner drive without a clear objective? It’s all the more important to have an inte...
What’s the use of inner drive without a clear objective? It’s all the more important to have an interior that lets you concentrate on the essentials. By giving you quick access to all the information you need while you’re driving.
A particularly sporty interpretation of this idea is the mode switch on the GT sports steering wheel, which enables you to choose from four driving modes. Then there’s the clear arrangement of the five round instruments, and the intuitive way of operating Porsche Communication Management (PCM) including online navigation by multi-touch gestures or voice control.
The materials are exquisite and sporty in equal measure. The first indicator is the model logo in black on the door sill guard. Another is the use of racetrackproven Alcantara®. Particularly easy to grip, it lines the steering wheel rim and the gear lever/selector. And it is also found on the door pulls, the armrest on the door panels, the lid of the centre console storage compartment and – in the Coupé models – on the roof lining.
The seat centres are also upholstered in Alcantara®. The headrests are additionally embroidered with the ‘GTS’ logo. The rear seats? Coupé owners decide whether they stay or go.
GTS interior package
Anything can be enhanced. Even things that are already top class. Proof: the optional GTS interior package, designed to add sporty contrasts.
The optional leather interior package with extensive items in Alcantara® includes accents in the contrasting colour of Carmine Red or Rhodium Silver. The ‘GTS’ logos on the headrests are embroidered in the chosen contrasting colour. As are various decorative seams and the ‘PORSCHE’ logo on the floor mats. The seat belts and the dial face of the rev counter are also finished in the contrasting colour.
And it gets sportier still: with carbon. This particularly lightweight material is used on the dashboard trim strips and doors, as well as on the centre console. A touch of motorsport authenticity.
The GTS interior package lends the new 911 GTS models even greater functional and visual individuality. For your very own interpretation of sport. And your very own GTS.
Twin-turbo. That’s how we answer your demand for performance. With maximum torque – even at low engi...
Twin-turbo. That’s how we answer your demand for performance. With maximum torque – even at low engine speeds. Supplemented by the characteristically high rev limit of a 911. And, in the case of the new GTS models, an extra 22 kW (30 hp) over the 911 S models.
This increase in power was possible thanks to the twin-turbo six-cylinder horizontally opposed engines with direct fuel injection (DFI) and VarioCam Plus. They develop an impressive 331 kW (450 hp) at 6,500 rpm. The maximum torque of 550 Nm is available across an astonishingly wide torque plateau from 2,150 to 5,000 rpm.
With optional Porsche Doppelkupplung (PDK) and Launch Control activated, the 911 Carrera GTS sprints from 0 to 100 km/h in only 3.7 seconds. Top speed is 310 km/h.
Another burst of adrenaline is triggered by the legendary sound of the boxer engine. With the SPORT or SPORT PLUS button selected, it’s enough to raise goose bumps even when the engine’s idling.
The drive system of the new 911 GTS models is a twin-turbo configuration. It has two turbochargers with charge-air cooling, one for each cylinder bank. Both turbos have been optimally adapted to the displacement and power output of the engine. This construction minimises the inertia of the drivetrain and, in conjunction with rapid regulation of boost pressure, it helps to provide spontaneous responsiveness. The new turbochargers leave the sceptics in their wake and find a new destination: unexplored levels of torque and a performance that hits the driver in an instant. In the form of direct acceleration, visceral forward thrust, and another extra boost – to your adrenal system.
Sport exhaust system
With the sport exhaust system, the new 911 GTS models also set new standards for sound. Two catalyti...
With the sport exhaust system, the new 911 GTS models also set new standards for sound. Two catalytic converters and a rear silencer lead into two centrally positioned tailpipes with a black (highgloss) finish. For a look otherwise more likely to be seen on the racetrack. For impressive resonance and an intense sports car sound – typical of the 911. For 100 % Porsche. And for goose bumps at the push of a button.
Pure, direct, precise. The 7-speed manual transmission combines a high level of sporty performance w...
Pure, direct, precise. The 7-speed manual transmission combines a high level of sporty performance with fast gear changes. In SPORT or SPORT PLUS mode, the dynamic throttle-blip function ensures the optimum engine speed for every downshift – and an impressive sound.
A piece of Le Mans, and part of Porsche motorsport history: the optimised 7-speed Porsche Doppelkupplung (PDK) features both a manual and an automatic mode and is available as an option for the 911 GTS models.
Pure motorsport feel: in manual mode, the shift direction simulates that of race cars – to the rear to shift up, forwards to shift down.
The incredibly sporty action is further intensified by extremely fast gear changes. In milliseconds and with no interruption in the flow of power. With the added bonus of even faster acceleration performance and a further reduction in fuel consumption.
The all-wheel drive 911 GTS models combine high power output with optimum transmission of torque. Po...
The all-wheel drive 911 GTS models combine high power output with optimum transmission of torque. Porsche Traction Management (PTM), the active all-wheel drive system, helps to ensure that the distribution of drive force is purposefully adapted to all kinds of road and weather conditions. The electronically controlled and fully variable multi-plate clutch distributes drive force between the permanently driven rear axle and the front axle even faster and more precisely than ever before. Sensors are used to collect a range of data, including the rotational speed of all four wheels, the lateral and longitudinal acceleration of the car and the current steering angle. In this way, PTM, working in conjunction with Porsche Stability Management (PSM), reliably provides better-than average traction and therefore excellent pulling power – particularly at the limits of sporty performance.
Porsche Active Suspension Management (PASM) and PASM sports suspension
PASM, the electronic damping control system, continuously adjusts the damping force on each wheel, b...
PASM, the electronic damping control system, continuously adjusts the damping force on each wheel, based on current road conditions and driving style. In addition, the body sits 10 mm lower.
The 911 GTS Coupé models are equipped with the PASM sports suspension. The body sits 10 mm even lower. The springs are harder and shorter, and the anti-roll bars on the front and rear axles are stiffer. The front spoiler lip is larger, and the rear spoiler extends even further.
Not only does this help to reduce lift at the front axle, it also acts to increase downforce at the rear axle. Improved aerodynamics represent another boost for performance – combined with a high level of comfort.
Rear-axle steering is available for the new 911 GTS models on request to provide even greater perfor...
Rear-axle steering is available for the new 911 GTS models on request to provide even greater performance and everyday practicality.
The advantage for day-to-day driving: during low-speed manoeuvres, the system steers the rear wheels in the opposite direction to that of the front wheels. This reduces the turning circle and makes parking noticeably easier to manage.
The advantage for sporty driving: during high-speed manoeuvres, the system steers the rear wheels in the same direction as that of the front wheels. This increases driving stability and agility – for maximum driving performance.
PDCC – optional for the new 911 GTS models in conjunction with rear-axle steering – is an active rol...
PDCC – optional for the new 911 GTS models in conjunction with rear-axle steering – is an active roll stabilisation that suppresses lateral body movement during cornering manoeuvres. In addition, it minimises the lateral instability of the vehicle on uneven ground.
The results are improved dynamic performance, even more neutral handling and increased ride comfort – whatever the speed.
In simple terms, the tyres and vehicle hold the road better and you can steer through corners faster and in a more relaxed manner. Which is why PDCC sets standards for driving performance, ride comfort – and driving pleasure.
The Sport Chrono Package enables an even sportier tuning of the chassis, engine and transmission – a...
The Sport Chrono Package enables an even sportier tuning of the chassis, engine and transmission – and launches you to unprecedented sporty heights.
The key component is the mode switch on the steering wheel, derived from the 918 Spyder. Without your hand having to leave the steering wheel, you can choose any of four settings: Normal, SPORT, SPORT PLUS and Individual. In this way, you can adapt the vehicle even more to the way you want to drive.
The third function is SPORT Response. Pressing the button in the centre of the mode switch primes the engine and transmission for the fastest possible unleashing of power. In other words, maximum responsiveness – for a period of 20 seconds. A timer graphic in the instrument cluster tells you how long is left.
Dynamic engine mounts are also part of the Sport Chrono Package. The electronically controlled system minimises the perceptible oscillations and vibrations of the entire drivetrain, particularly the engine, and combines the benefits of a hard or soft engine mounting arrangement. In short, it enhances both driving stability and driving comfort.
The Sport Chrono Package now also includes the Porsche Track Precision App. This enables you to clock lap times and collate driving stats, record and manage the results on your smartphone and share them with other drivers for comparison. The app makes use of GPS and high-precision data from the on-board computer and helps you to better your driving performance. Graphical and video analyses display every millisecond of your potential for improvement. Lap after lap.
Porsche Stability Management (PSM) automatically maintains stability even at the limits of dynamic d...
Porsche Stability Management Sport (PSM Sport)
Porsche Stability Management (PSM) automatically maintains stability even at the limits of dynamic driving performance. In the new 911 GTS models, the upgraded version of PSM is supplemented by a ‘Sport’ mode. It allows a significantly more sporty driving style, with PSM remaining active in the background. To further enhance your driving experience.
Porsche Torque Vectoring (PTV) und Porsche Torque Vectoring Plus (PTV Plus)
PTV (with manual transmission) or PTV Plus (with Porsche Doppelkupplung, PDK) is available as standard. Operating in conjunction with a rear differential lock, they work by intelligently braking the rear wheels as the situation demands.
When the car is driven assertively into a corner, moderate brake pressure is applied to the inside rear wheel. This induces an additional rotational pulse (yaw movement) around the vehicle’s vertical axis, which results in a direct and sporty steering action from the turn-in point.
With PTV, the rear differential lock is regulated mechanically, while PTV Plus is equipped with electronic control offering fully variable torque distribution. In interaction with Porsche Stability Management (PSM), the system provides better traction and greater driving stability not least on road surfaces with varying grip as well as in the wet and snow.
Particularly practical: the lift system, available as an option for your 911 GTS, raises the front end by approximately 40 mm – and keeps it there up to a speed of approximately 35 km/h. With this new system, kerbs, ramps and car park entrances are a sporting challenge of the past.
The front axle is equipped with red six-piston monobloc aluminium fixed brake calipers, and four-pis...
The front axle is equipped with red six-piston monobloc aluminium fixed brake calipers, and four-piston equivalents are fitted at the rear. The brake disc diameters have been sized to match the increased power output of the engine: 350 mm at the front, 330 mm at the rear. For excellent stability and outstanding braking performance.
Proven in motorsport, Porsche Ceramic Composite Brake (PCCB) is available as an option. On the new 911 GTS models, the cross-drilled ceramic brake discs of PCCB have a diameter of 410 mm at the front and 390 mm at the rear – for even more formidable braking performance.
Originating from the 911 Turbo S, PCCB features six-piston monobloc aluminium fixed brake calipers on the front axle and four-piston units at the rear – all painted in yellow – to provide braking forces that are considerably more powerful and, crucially, are exceptionally consistent.
PCCB enables shorter braking distances in even the toughest road and race conditions. Safety under high-speed braking is also improved thanks to its excellent fade resistance. Another advantage of PCCB is the extremely low weight of the ceramic brake discs, which are approximately 50 % lighter than standard discs of a similar design and size. This results in better roadholding and increased comfort, particularly on uneven roads, as well as greater agility and a further improvement in handling.
Fitted as standard, Bi-Xenon main headlights feature dynamic range control, a headlight cleaning sys...
Fitted as standard, Bi-Xenon main headlights feature dynamic range control, a headlight cleaning system and dynamic cornering lights. The main headlights are swivelled towards the inside of a bend, based on steering angle and road speed.
Not only do they offer excellent visibility, they also optimise appearance. Fourpoint LED daytime running lights are integrated into each headlight. The LED brake lights also have a four-spot design. Together with the tinted three dimensional taillights, they’re set to be one of the distinctive hallmarks of the new 911 GTS model range.
LED main headlights in black including Porsche Dynamic Light System Plus (PDLS Plus)
Superior safety meets sporty design in the form of optional LED main headlights in black including PDLS Plus. In addition to being efficient and long-lasting, LED technology also creates a light very similar to daylight and thus helps to reduce driver fatigue.
Sporty not kitschy, practical not fanciful. The five round instruments have one purpose above all: t...
Sporty not kitschy, practical not fanciful. The five round instruments have one purpose above all: to provide information. They do so efficiently and accurately with a styling that you would expect from Porsche, and a rev counter that’s right in the middle. With the ‘GTS’ logo on the dial. The instrument cluster with high-resolution 4.6-inch colour screen delivers a continuous stream of data from the on-board computer.
In the new 911 GTS models, the GT sports steering wheel is lined with nonslip Alcantara® for ultra sporty handling. The spokes are finished in black and the silver-coloured inlays have been screwfastened. Always ready to hand: the mode switch, which enables you to choose from four driving modes – directly from the steering wheel.
The sporty action intensifies with optional Porsche Doppelkupplung (PDK). The GT sports steering wheel will come additionally equipped not only with two solid-alloy gearshift paddles, but also with the SPORT Response button on the mode switch, which primes the engine and transmission for maximum responsiveness for a full 20 seconds.
Fitted as standard: Sports seats Plus, in leather with seat centres in Alcantara®. They offer electr...
Fitted as standard: Sports seats Plus, in leather with seat centres in Alcantara®. They offer electric seat height and backrest adjustment, as well as manual fore/aft adjustment. The side bolsters on the seat squab and backrest have a firm, sporty padding and provide outstanding lateral support. The new seam pattern and the ‘GTS’ logo embroidered on the headrests are distinctive details.
A racing-style option: Sports bucket seats featuring a folding backrest, integral thorax airbag and manual fore/ aft adjustment. The seat shells are made from glass- and carbon-fibre reinforced plastic with a carbon surface finish.
* Child seats are not compatible with Sports bucket seats.
Sound Package Plus, with eight loudspeakers and a total output of 150 watts, delivers excellent sound. The amplifier integrated into Porsche Communication Management (PCM) optimally adapts the acoustic pattern in the vehicle interior to the driver and front passenger.
The optional BOSE® Surround Sound system has been specially developed for the 911 models and is optimally tuned to the specific interior acoustics of these particular vehicles.
The audio system features 12 fully active loudspeakers and amplifier channels including a patented 100-watt active subwoofer integral to the vehicle bodyshell. This fully active system setup enables each individual loudspeaker to be optimally adapted to the vehicle interior and transforms your 911 GTS into a fast-moving concert hall. Total output 555 watts.
The road is perhaps the last place in the world in which you can still listen to music without disturbance. Reason enough, then, to upgrade your enjoyment the Porsche way – together with the most important handcrafter of premium quality sound systems.
The result is a sound performance of the highest level, specially matched to your 911 GTS. The system has 12 amplifier channels with a total output of 821 watts, 12 loudspeakers including an active subwoofer with 300-watt class D amplifier, a total diaphragm surface area of more than 1,340 cm², and a frequency response of 35 Hz to 20 kHz.
The Burmester® system uses the patented integral subwoofer, which replaces the familiar separate subwoofer and loudspeaker arrangement of other systems. All loudspeaker housings are perfectly matched and deliver a natural and richly textured spatial sound, even at top volume.
Our wealth of experience goes back a long way. Since the very beginning, we at Porsche have been dedicated to realising customer wishes as part of our special request service. Known until 1986 as the Porsche ‘Sonderwunschprogramm’, today we call it ‘Porsche Exclusive Manufaktur’. The philosophy has remained the same. Hand on heart.
None of this would be possible without originality, inspiration and enthusiasm, beginning as early as the consultation stage. That’s because we keep in mind one thing above all else: your particular wishes and requirements. We fulfil them with composure and meticulous care, by means of precision handcrafting and the use of exquisite materials such as leather, Alcantara®, carbon or aluminium.
We offer a wide range of personalisation options, with visual and technical enhancements for the interior and exterior, from a single alteration to extensive modifications. Visit www.porsche.com/exclusive to find everything you need to know about how to configure one of your very own.
With the Porsche Tequipment range of accessories developed specifically for your 911, you can style ...
With the Porsche Tequipment range of accessories developed specifically for your 911, you can style it entirely to your own preference. From the start, the same rules that apply to our vehicles also apply to the products of Porsche Tequipment: developed, tested and proven at the Development Centre in Weissach. By the same Porsche engineers and designers who made your car. Designed with the complete vehicle in mind and precisely tailored to your Porsche.
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A veteran journalist tackles his hardest assignment yet: parenthood. A long-time fatherhood fence sitter, he takes his inspiration from a family of storytellers – not to mention the adventures of a boy and his dragon.
By Chris Lackner
“Having a luck dragon with you is the only way to go on a quest.”
That quote from The NeverEnding Story has always stayed with me. It resonates as my wife and I begin preparing for our own big quest: parenthood. In fact, I realize there’s a lot we can learn from the adventures of Atreyu and his dragon Falkor.
Until recently, we were members of the 50/50 club – never quite sure we wanted a child, and never quite sure we wouldn’t regret not having one.
The case against featured the usual suspects: Selfishness (goodbye freedom!), ethics (hello overpopulation!) and cynicism (hello Trumpocalypse!).
The case for a child is harder to explain, but it reminds me of Atreyu’s fight against “The Nothing” – an invisible malaise that was consuming the land of Fantasia. “Is it very painful?” Atreyu asks a troll. The creature explains, “No, you don’t feel a thing. There’s just something missing. And once it gets hold of you, something more is missing every day. Soon there won’t be anything left of us.”
Something was missing in our lives, sure – though that’s almost a cliché. But I realize the monster’s last line speaks more to the power of parenting, and why I want to become a father – just not in the selfish “I want to be remembered when I’m gone” way you might think.
As the movie tells us, “Every real story is a never ending story.” For me, fatherhood is about ensuring that my family’s passion for storytelling, creativity and knowledge live on – even as the memory of my own short time on the planet is taken by The Nothing.
I remember watching The NeverEnding Story in a theatre with my dad. It was one of the many stories we shared together. Some of my favourite childhood memories involve being read to – from my stepdad and mom bringing to life the Chronicles of Narnia, to my dad reading me comics. To me, he’s still the real Wolverine (sorry Hugh Jackman.)
I was lucky enough to have three parents – not to mention many grandparents – that fuelled my imagination. They were all readers or storytellers. Therefore, books became my favourite toys, and conversation one of my favourite pastimes. Stories weren’t a private thing; they were meant to be shared – via games of make-believe, the recounting of dreams, or a family discussion. Stories were intrinsic bonding rituals of bedtime, and every other kind of time – whether gathered around a campfire, a car trip, or lying on a sunny dock. Stories – whether spoken, printed or on a screen – were something to be sought out, shared, and debated.
A fertile imagination never withers. I still have an irrational fear of monsters under my bed after the light goes out. Thankfully, my wife is a scientist; her eye rolls keep me in check.
But stories guided my childhood footsteps; they taught me to see magic in the world around me, and believe in the possibility of more wonders than meets the eye. A rustle of leaves on a forest path wasn’t the wind; it was always a gnome or fairy. My grandmother’s antique wardrobe didn’t store clothes; it was surely a magical portal. As an adult, that lifelong enchantment made me believe that true love might be dancing across from me in a pub. (And that fairy tale actually came true.)
History, community and politics are also held together by stories; I was taught a healthy appreciation for all three, which likely laid the foundation for my journalism career.
Author Patti Davis gets to the heart of the matter: “Stories live in your blood and bones, follow the seasons and light candles on the darkest night. Every storyteller knows she or he is also a teacher.”
That’s why I’m looking forward to our new quest. My wife and I are gathering supplies and preparing for the journey, but the real adventure starts in six months. Parenting, for me, is the chance to play storyteller, to shape a worldview, to teach – to pass on the many gifts I received from my own family.
Eventually, we all become a faded name on a family tree, but the seeds we plant can carry on well past living memory of our time on Earth. My passion for storytelling molded me. Maybe I can ensure that stories will shape the life of the small person we’re about to bring into this crazy world. Maybe someday those stories will shape the lives of people born long after I’m gone.
Never discount the power of stories. As academic Harold Goddard puts it, “The destiny of the world is determined less by the battles that are lost and won than by the stories it loves and believes in.”
As parents, we can do a small part to determine that destiny. If not, there won’t be anything left of us.
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Veteran lyricist Gulzar is mentoring Bhindi Bazaar producer Karan Arora for his new film Kya Dilli Kya Lahore, which talks about a unique bond between an Indian and a Pakistani soldier stationed at the Indo-Pakistani border.
“I heard the narration before the film went on floors. What I loved about it is the fact that it is an anti-war film and talks about peace but in a very light-hearted manner. It doesn’t have bloodshed and is not political in nature at all, yet makes such a beautiful point of peace between two neighbouring countries,” Gulzar said in a statement.
“Finally, after the film was shot, producer Karan Arora came to me and showed it to me. The way it has turned out is commendable. I would do everything in my capacity to help it. I am, in fact, going to talk to people associated with Aman Ki Asha (campaign) since this is a film that has to be shown in both countries,” he added.
The film features Vijay Raaz, Raj Zutshi and Manu Rishi.
“Since the film’s inception, Gulzar saab has been very kind to us. He had really liked the story, saying people have forgotten how to make such films. He suggested that we meet him once the film is shot,” Arora said.
“We showed him the rough cut as it is still in post production. He was very happy with the way we have treated it, and ever since, he has been our patron. Be it the background, recording or post-production of the film, we are taking an approval from Gulzar saab on everything. He is our guiding force,” he added.
The veteran lyricist also helped the producer finalise the title of film. The working title of the film was Padosi, then it was changed to Do Bhootni Ke, but finally they zeroed in on Kya Dilli Kya Lahore.
“In my opinion, a film’s title should be able to tell you all about it. You can’t separate the title from the subject of the film, which is why I told them to make sure that the title they decide upon should convey the essence of the film,” said Gulzar.
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On the WSWS's "curious fumble" on Iraq and other matters
I’m posting here some comments by a reader, mdv, and my response. Judging from mdv’s remarks, it is fair to characterize him as an apologist for the SEP leadership. But what is interesting is that unlike David North (or the Talbots), mdv tries to address some of the substantive criticisms we made of the SEP’s political line and practice. His efforts to defend the SEP leadership on these issues lead him to make, albeit inadvertently, some revealing statements which deserve to be brought to the attention of our readers. Another reason for responding to mdv is that the views he expresses are probably shared by others in and around the SEP.
These comments by mdv are the latest installment of an exchange he was having with Andrew River over a blog River wrote for permanent-revolution.org concerning a speech by North to a Slavic studies conference. As far as this exchange goes, I have nothing to add to what River has said, and mdv’s latest remarks raise nothing new on this score. From the second paragraph on, however, mdv moves to a more broad-based defense of the SEP leadership, and it is these remarks that concern me here.
Frank Brenner
Click here for the exchange with an apologist for the SEP leadership
Posted by Alex Steiner at 1:00 AM
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The transitional demand puts forth a reform proposal in line with the current state of the proletariat that can not be met without exposing the contradiction between the interests of the bourgeois and the proletarian classes and not without intensifying class conflict.
Does suggesting the demands of a union strike impact the entire proletariat -or any beyond local areas? Would these demands, accepted by the workers and their union, and thereby acceptable to them, be impossible for the bourgeoisie to meet without exposing before the whole proletariat the contradiction between all bourgeoisie and all proletariat? Would the resolution of the strike intensify class conflict nation-wide, world-wide?
Speaking of the "few" working class people attending college, what about the few in unions? The few in unions that do anything more than take money out of your paycheck? The few capable of organizing in unions, the few working in industry? Most Americans work in service - the demands of strikers do not impact them. Most Americans are not teachers.
The ICFI analyzes each struggle in terms of its global impact and global significance. There are few global transitional demands. The ICFI emphasizes the final demand: revolution. Intervention into national and regional struggles is a question of whether they are revolutionary. The introduction of transitional demands relies on support and possibilities within a revolutionary movement based on the independent action of the mass proletariat - or decisive development in that direction - not subordination to and negotiation with the bourgeoisie.
It seems apparent that Steiner and Brenner do not agree with the ICFI's repudiation of the unions, the union as a working class institution, and union struggles as a venue for class struggle. That is why it offers coverage of the global issues which concern workers in a union dispute and their significance and origin. The strike and union struggle is a manifestation of the class conflict, not the class conflict itself, by any means. The union dispute is a two-sided manifestation of the class conflict at that.
-- HL
Alex Steiner said...
HL's comment is barely coherent and therefore it is not easy to know how to reply as it is not clear what he or she is commenting on. My best guess is that HL is replying to the following comment in Frank Brenner's essay, "On the WSWS's 'curious fumble' on Iraq and other matters":
"Among the clearest and most telling manifestations of that evisceration of Marxism is the SEP’s abandonment of yet another part of the heritage of Trotskyism – intervention in the everyday struggles of the working class and the fight for transitional demands as bridges to socialist consciousness. We devoted a chapter to this in MWHH, where we demonstrated that never in its history has the International Committee become so estranged from the working class as it is today. It conducts no sustained activity in the working class, no work in the unions, no attempts to rally or lead workers in struggles over important social or economic issues, no campaigns even to raise money among workers. On the rare occasions when workers write in to the WSWS seeking advice about the struggles inside their factories, they are given lectures on the history of the labor bureaucracy but not a word of guidance about how to conduct a fight in defence of their rights. This is an utterly sterile propagandism that achieves nothing except to repel workers. Thus in all but name the party has abandoned an essential aspect of Marxist practice – the effort to win over and train a section of militant workers as revolutionary socialists." (See http://www.permanent-revolution.org/polemics/curious_fumble.pdf )
The first thing to be said here is that HL has no grasp of what transitional demands are. He seems to think it is some kind of a trick whereby Marxists put forward a proposal for a reform which cannot be met and when that happens this will "expose the contradiction between the interests of the bourgeois and the proletarian classes". If however this demand for reforms can be met, and this does not lead to an intensification of the "class conflict nation-wide, world-wide", then such demands should be avoided.
Therefore, according to the odd reasoning of HL, as all demands that originate from the current state of the working class would not lead to an intensification of the class struggle world-wide, the only demand that is left is the demand for revolution itself.
HL thus rationalizes the absentionism of the ICFI by concluding that,
"The ICFI analyzes each struggle in terms of its global impact and global significance. There are few global transitional demands. The ICFI emphasizes the final demand: revolution. Intervention into national and regional struggles is a question of whether they are revolutionary."
What is missing in this statement is any conception of building a bridge to socialist consciousness. It is a perfect example of the kind of formalistic thinking that was attacked by Lenin in his pamphlet, Left-Wing Communism, An Infantile Disorder. (See http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/lwc/ )
There is however an important difference between the ultra-left abstentionism that Lenin was criticizing and the abstentionism of the SEP. In the former case we were dealing with an immature revolutionary movement whose enthusiasm for socialism and revolution was not mediated by any conception of strategy and tactics aimed at "building a bridge to socialist consciousness." The abstentionism of the SEP on the other hand is a result not of over-enthusiasm and immaturity, but precisely the opposite, of a fatigue about the responsbilities of the class struggle that has crystallized after decades of neglect of theoretical issues and isolation from the working class.
The fact of the matter is that workers will struggle over a wide range of issues, many of them what HL would consider merely "reformist". What characterizes transitional demands however is that they are neither reformist not what used to be called "maximalist", ie the demand for revolution. The very dichotomy between "reformist" demands and "revolutionary" ones are superceded in the Transitional Program. Here is how Trotsky put it:
"Classical Social Democracy, functioning in an epoch of progressive capitalism, divided its program into two parts independent of each other: the minimum program which limited itself to reforms within the framework of bourgeois society, and the maximum program which promised substitution of socialism for capitalism in the indefinite future. Between the minimum and the maximum program no bridge existed. And indeed Social Democracy has no need of such a bridge, since the word socialism is used only for holiday speechifying."
"The Fourth International does not discard the program of the old “minimal” demands to the degree to which these have preserved at least part of their vital forcefulness. Indefatigably, it defends the democratic rights and social conquests of the workers. But it carries on this day-to-day work within the framework of the correct actual, that is, revolutionary perspective. Insofar as the old, partial, “minimal” demands of the masses clash with the destructive and degrading tendencies of decadent capitalism – and this occurs at each step – the Fourth International advances a system of transitional demands, the essence of which is contained in the fact that ever more openly and decisively they will be directed against the very bases of the bourgeois regime. The old “minimal program” is superseded by the transitional program, the task of which lies in systematic mobilization of the masses for the proletarian revolution."
(See The Transitional Program http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1938/tp/tp-text.htm#mt )
They are demands that meet the objective needs of workers regardless of whether the bourgeoisie can or cannot afford to meet them. And they are adapted pedagogically (but not in terms of their content)to the present level of consciousness of the working class. The whole point of raising such demands as say "30 hours work for 40 hours pay" is to engage in a struggle with sections of the most militant workers, to bring them along so that in the course of that struggle their consciousness is raised and they begin to see their struggle in more general terms, ie. begin to connect their struggle to the struggle of the working class internationally. That is impossible if the party that claims to represent the interests of the working class abstains from those struggles until such time as the working class shows itself ready for them and raises demands that are revolutionary. HL may raise this in a cruder fashion than the SEP does, but he has captured the essential abstentionism of the SEP's theory and practice.
One further point. It is also nonsense to say that the ICFI will intervene in the class struggle when it "is a question of whether they [the struggles] are revolutionary." We have documented that in the case of the revolutionary events in Mexico in 2006, the SEP failed to make any sort of meaningful intervention.
(See chapter 1 of Marxism Without its Head of its Heart, Rationalizing Objectivism and Abandoning Marxism, p 19-25 http://permanent-revolution.org/polemics/mwhh_ch01.pdf )
We have also chronicled that in the case of the 2005 New York Transit Strike, which the WSWS itself characterized as a turning point in the class struggle, the intervention of the SEP, such as it was, was entirely unserious. (See chapter 5 of Marxism Without its Head of its Heart, Abandoning the Struggle for Socialist Consciousness in the Working Class http://permanent-revolution.org/polemics/mwhh_ch05.pdf )
Finally, I must take note of the dismissive and hostile attitude towards workers evinced by HL in his statement that "The few in unions that do anything more than take money out of your paycheck?"
Such a crass remark resembles nothing so much as the kind of attitude about "lazy union workers" that characterize the prose of the Chamber of Commerce and right wing talk show hosts. Members and supporters of the SEP should seriously ask themselves how it is possible that they can attract a supporter who is, to put it most charitably, extremely confused as to his or her class loyalties. Perhaps it would be worth examining how an abstentionist practice toward the working class (and this is not just confined to workers in unions) combined with an almost exclusive journalistic activity that neglects theory is now attracting layers from the middle class who are so at odds with the history and traditions of the Trotskyist movement?
Alex Steiner
The incoherency of HL's remarks, in its own way, speaks for itself. But your final point is worth repeating. Certainly, the Socialist Equality Party will attract a variety of people who are coming from various political perspectives prior to gravitating to Marxism. That is to be expected. But given the brazen hostility HL exhibits toward the working class, one has to ask: What is it about the outlook of the SEP that this particular individual feels comfortable in their orbit?
perhaps I should have written
"the few in unions that do nothing but take money from their paychecks"
my union takes 10% of my paycheck, hence "your." I did not consider the implications of using your, which makes it sound as if I'm outside the process.
You failed to address the vitality of the union setup, which is the question. Revolutionary doesn't have to mean the Paris Commune either, it can mean many struggles including non-economic ones. But most union struggles are not revolutionary, do not challenge the bourgeoisie as such, in form or content.
Do you deny that? If so, why?
I appreciate your reflections on the transitional program, I am willing to reform my views.
I am not fully aligned with the SEP and when I read Left-Wing Communism I was honestly somewhat stung. Lenin's arguments about reactionary parliaments and unions I cannot support, and I doubt he would today, seeing what Social Democracy and the unions have become.
Your educational and some of your democratic suggestions are commendable, but not on such a antagonistic basis.
As for your demands on activity I hope you recognize it is not a problem that can be broken down completely into willpower.
Sorry for the long note and thank you for taking time to answer all your reader comments.
--HL
Interesting questions that HL raises. In my view the question of the unions is subordinate to the question of mobilizing workers in defense of their rights. Is this an essential part of revolutionary practice, and if so, how can it be carried out? It is true that most strike are not revolutionary challenges to capitalism, but it is also true that such everyday struggle implicitly contain a challenge to the power of capital. The task of Marxists is to do what they can to make what is implicit explicit.
I think anyone who knows the history of the class struggle knows that workers learn best through struggle, and that is why abstentionism on the part of Marxists is so wrongheaded. Chapt. 5 of Marxism Without its Head or its Heart gives a brief account of the American Trotskyists' intervention in the Minneapolis Teamsters strikes of 1934. Obviously it isn't always possible to achieve that kind of intervention, but it is clearly a model of what Marxist practice should aspire to be.
As for the unions, they have indeed undergone a qualitative degeneration, but the working class is still engaged in struggles to defend its rights. Sometimes workers do that through unions, sometimes through spontaneous formations and actions. It is essential for Marxists to work with the most militant workers, wherever they are found, and show them concretely how the fight for workers' rights can be conducted, which means a simultaneous fight against the union bureaucracy. Our objective is to establish that no right is ever safe so long we leave capitalist property and state power unchallenged, but this can only have credibility if Marxists are participants in these struggles rather than just journalistic commentators.
As for Lenin's book Left-Wing Communism, I think your rejection of it is too sweeping. To be sure, it doesn't now make a lot of sense any more to put demands on Social Democratic parties like the British Labourites, or on the union bureaucrats. But there is a larger lesson Lenin was getting at: you can't just proclaim the need for revolution, you have to find a road to the masses. That retains its force as much today as in 1920. Also the political landscape is changing rapidly and all kinds of new political formations are arising. We need to examine these formations concretely, not so as to adapt to their confusion or opportunism, but rather to always be on the lookout for an opportunity to reach new layers of the working class entereing into struggle for the first time in their lives. Lenin's pamphlet remains a valuable guide in this respect.
I just wanted to say that I am glad I was mistaken in this case and I am sorry I characterized you as being anti-working class. I misread your words and did not realize that you were talking about union bureaucrats who do nothing for the workers but take a cut of their paycheck. Of course those kind of unions are reactionary. But as Lenin's pamphlet emphasizes, there is work to be done even in reactionary unions. ( Note also that Lenin devotes a chapter as well to work in bourgeois parliaments. )
As Frank points out in his statement, the unions have undergone a qualitative degeneration and on this point we are in agreement with the SEP. Where we disagree is with the conclusion the SEP draws from that fact. They see the degeneration of the unions as an excuse to abandon all work in unions and even beyond. We see it as an even more powerful reason to intervene in working class struggles, both those in unions and outside of them. It is only when Marxists participate and try to lead such struggles, thereby forging a bond with the most militant sections of the working class, that the Transitional Program comes alive.
The abandonment of any meaningful campaign to fight for transitional demands in the working class and the repudiation of the lessons of Lenins's "Left-Wing Communism" is but another indication that the SEP's "orthodoxy" has become very selective.
We will be glad to discuss these issues with you further if you write to us directly at
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The SEP is a middle class tendency with no serious intentions to carry forward the struggle for socialism. The WSWS has made political exposures the focus of its work, to document the worsening conditions of the working class. However, the only people that could feel outraged reading those articles are middle class people isolated from those conditions. The working class already knows that outrage because they are living through those conditions. Workers do not need to be further outraged, nor do they need to be told what they already know in more sophisticated language, they need to be given political direction and they will flock to the party that can show the way forward.
The SEP conducts exactly that work which commits them to no real political struggle. They consider themselves the analysts for the working class, but for the most part their analysis is telling the workers what they already know. What about the alternative? The SEP lacks what is basic to every political party, revolutionary or not, a political program. How can a worker take the demand of the SEP to reject this or that union contract seriously when that demand is separated from the struggle for socialism? It is not enough to expose the corruption of the unions, workers must see their struggle against the unions and capital in terms of a broader framework. Here a political program must be advanced, a set of transitional demands to address the objective needs of the working class and to unify the struggles of the working class.
While I agree with some of your points, I think to label the SEP as a "middle class tendency" is entirely too simplistic. The SEP is in a crisis because the current theory and practice of its leadership is in contradiction to the history and traditions of the International Committee. Large portions of that heritage are being abandoned, but one should not underestimate the pull of the heritage of Trotskyism and the IC, at least for some members. Were that not the case, if the SEP were just another "middle class tendency" like many others, neither Frank Brenner nor myself would have been spending the last dozen years trying to reorient that organization, at first through patient discussions with comrades and after the leadership showed itself to be intransigent and unwilling to discuss, by writing polemics.
Note: In my last reply to HL I posted the link to our email address incorrectly. If you want to communicate with us directly send an email to:
I don't think either of your were wrong to try to engage the party leadership, but I do think there has a qualitative development in the last few years within the SEP. The fact is, that the SEP has reacted in a negative way to your polemics, and by this I mean the objectivist tendencies of the party are no longer tendencies, objectivist theory now forms the basis of that party's work. This approach is summed up by the party's lack of a political program, and its almost exclusive focus on economic analysis at internal and public meetings. The whole SEP election campaign in 2008 was a series of lectures about the economic crisis. At least in past the membership was mobilized and speaking with working class people, and there was a semblance of a political program, even if was only every two years that the program was presented to the working class.
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Rosa, the extremely narrow focus of your comment suggests that your "misunderstanding" stems from the fact that you have not read the polemics between David North and Steiner/Brenner going back several years now, particularly "Marxism Without Its Head Or Its Heart." Have you?
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The World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) edition of May 17 featured a hysterical diatribe against me by the leader of that organization, David North.
Here we are today, 33 years after the split with Healy. Does the fact that North was on the right side of that split confer upon him the legitimacy of a hereditary monarch? Reading North’s comments, one would think that for him the Fourth International is some kind of franchise that he alone can operate. If the continuity of the Fourth International is to have any meaning, other than a ritualistic invocation meant to shore up the flagging morale of one’s followers, it can only be in one’s adherence to the program and theoretical conceptions of the Fourth International. If we examine the political conceptions and organizational practices of the group North has led for all these years it is clear that in all respects it bears little resemblance to the organization Trotsky founded in 1938. It is in fact our exposure of the hollowness of North’s claims to be the inheritor of the mantle of Trotsky that has so infuriated him. Why else would he be spending more time writing about me and Frank Brenner, two individuals, than about the Stalinists, Pabloites and state capitalists?
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Trump and the crisis of liberalism
by Frank Brenner
It is tempting to say that 2016 marks the death of liberalism, but that's probably wishful thinking. What is dead, though, is the old 'centrist' political consensus, i.e. the pendulum swings from centre-left to centre-right that made mainstream politics in the West about as predictable (and stable) as an old grandfather clock. Now the swings are much more extreme - or rather the swings to the right are. (One might add that what led up to this was a major shift rightward of the 'center' itself from Reagan/Thatcher on – what Tariq Ali rightly dubbed the “extreme center”.
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Η Διαλεκτική της Επαναστατικής Στρατηγικής και Τακτικής
Sectarianism and the Greek working class
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Alex Steiner gave a talk at the Locomotiva Cooperative Cafe in Athens, Greece on July 9, 2015, shortly after the historic vote for NO - OXI -in the Referendum of July 5. The event was a huge success attracting a packed audience of about 50 people. The talk was sponsored by the Workers Revolutionary Party of Greece (EEK) and was chaired by Savas Michael-Matsas. A Greek translation of this talk is now available. The translation was first published in the theoretical journal of the EEK, Revolutionary Marxist Review, in the issue of November 2015-February 2016. The translation was the work of Eve Manopoulou.
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Film Review: The Mule – Film Journal (19nov14)
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John DeFore
Less jokey than viewers might expect.
Somewhat more eventful than a film about self-inflicted constipation promises to be, Tony Mahony and Angus Sampson’s The Mule tells the true story of an Australian who, suspected of smuggling drugs back from Thailand, is locked up in a hotel room by cops expecting him to deliver the evidence within a day or so. The wait is considerably longer, and while the film suffers from its own occasional sluggishness, it picks up as the lawmen watching our hero grow as strained as he is. An enjoyably nasty turn by Hugo Weaving, as the lead detective, both keeps the action alive and raises the film’s commercial prospects with American art-house audiences.
Angus Sampson plays Ray Jenkins, a dimwitted footballer whose team is taking a vacation to Thailand despite having no record worth celebrating. The trip is underwritten by local nightclub owner Pat Shepherd (a reptilian John Noble), who has an ulterior motive: One of Ray’s teammates, Gavin (played by Saw scribe Leigh Whannell), has been smuggling heroin for him, and for this trip they convince a reluctant Ray to help.
After swallowing 20 condoms full of the stuff and taking some constipation-inducing pills, Ray survives the plane trip home but arouses suspicion at customs. When he refuses to cooperate with an X-ray or something more invasive than a regular strip-search, the law allows detectives Croft and Paris (Weaving and Ewen Leslie) to put him under 24-hour watch in a nearby hotel. While they wait for their stubborn captive to relieve himself, Gavin and Ray’s dad get into their own trouble with Shepherd, whom they’ve attempted to double-cross.
Playing Ray is a thankless task: For most of the film, Sampson has little to do beyond sweating, writhing on his bed miserably, and saying “no” to increasingly forceful demands that he cooperate. A couple of effects shots take a quick look at the stew inside Ray’s bowels, helping us to share his discomfort, but mostly the part comes down to Sampson turning the character’s continued refusals into something active and pathetically defiant. There’s a flicker of intelligence, or at least aspiration, in the dull man’s eyes from the start, but it’s only near the end that he becomes a person we can identify with.
The third act benefits from legal wrangling—with a public defender (Georgina Haig) fighting the cops’ requests for extensions to the period in which they can legally hold Ray. The detectives’ own tempers and misbehavior drive the film more than the gangster subplots going on outside the hotel, adding a twist or two that change the nature of Ray’s ordeal. The conclusion, which finally makes use of the America’s Cup yacht race we’ve been seeing in the background throughout the film, is so clever one hopes it’s true.
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On October 20, 2010, European Deputy Licia Ronzulli voted in favor of increasing maternity leave in Europe from 14 to 20 weeks. The U.S. is the only industrialized country not to mandate paid maternity leave (Frederick Florin/AFP/Getty).
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Why Paid Sick Leave Is Good For Business
Time off isn’t just a moral necessity; it’s also a smart economic policy.
BY David Sirota
Various studies have shown that requiring companies to provide paid sick days, vacation time and maternity leave would likely provide a macroeconomic benefit by limiting workforce turnover, lowering overall health care costs and boosting productivity.
For all the pro-family rhetoric that dominates America's political discourse, U.S. law remains decidedly anti-family—at least in comparison to peer countries. This is the world's only industrialized nation that does not require employers to provide any paid vacation days. It is the only industrialized nation that does not require employers to provide paid maternity leave. And it is the only industrialized nation that does not mandate paid sick days. That’s American exceptionalism at its worst.
The standard public defense of this sad reality is a domino-theory argument. Corporate leaders and the conservative politicians they own typically argue that paid leave mandates will automatically raise costs and that those costs will consequently prompt job and wage cuts that hurt the very workers the mandates aim to help. This shrewd bit of spin reimagines the corporate class's desire to exploit workers as fight-for-the-little guy altruism.
As political demagoguery, the line has been wildly successful in not only helping defeat paid leave proposals but also in justifying laws in 10 states that preemptively prohibit local communities from enacting such mandates. The trouble, though, is that mandate opponents’ underlying economic argument is not substantiated by the data.
In recent years various studies have shown that requiring companies to provide paid sick days, vacation time and maternity leave would likely provide a macroeconomic benefit by limiting workforce turnover, lowering overall health care costs and boosting productivity. In the case of sick leave in particular, mandates could reduce the output losses associated with what economists call “presenteeism”—aka employees coming to work ill and subsequently making customers and fellow employees sick.
In the past, it may have been easy to write these findings off by saying they were just speculative or by claiming that other countries' success with employer mandates is irrelevant to America. But as of this month, even those facile misdirects have been debunked, as powerful new data emerges from Connecticut, a state that mandated paid sick days back in 2011.
In a new study surveying 251 Connecticut firms, researchers from the Center for Economic and Policy Research and the City University of New York showed that “a large majority of employers reported that the law did not affect business operations and that they had no or only small increases in costs … employers saw decreases in the spread of illnesses and increases in morale.” In all, the study found that today “over three-fourths of (Connecticut) employers reported that they were very supportive or somewhat supportive of the paid sick days law.”
It should go without saying that denying workers any guaranteed leave is inhumane and the opposite of “pro-family.” With roughly 40 million American workers having no paid sick leave, with only 11 percent of private-sector workers having access to paid family leave, and with millions getting no paid vacation, there is a strong moral argument for lawmakers to enact guarantees for sick, maternity and vacation leave. Indeed, just like a basic sense of human decency was the impetus for labor, wage and workplace safety laws, so, too, should human rights be the basis for paid leave mandates.
But even if you are a cold-hearted misanthrope, a greed-driven executive or a corrupt politician ignoring the moral case for reform, the concrete numbers from Connecticut prove that paid leave mandates make macroeconomic sense.
In practice, that means such mandates do not conflict with capitalist objectives or American culture’s worship of the almighty dollar. It means that paid-leave mandates are both moral necessities and smart economic policies. It also means they are long overdue.
David Sirota, an In These Times senior editor and syndicated columnist, is a staff writer at PandoDaily and a bestselling author whose book Back to Our Future: How the 1980s Explain the World We Live In Now—Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Everything was released in 2011. Sirota, whose previous books include The Uprising and Hostile Takeover, co-hosts "The Rundown" on AM630 KHOW in Colorado. E-mail him at ds@davidsirota.com, follow him on Twitter @davidsirota or visit his website at www.davidsirota.com.
If the benefits you discuss really are beneficial to a company's bottom line, we don't need Big Brother Government mandating them. To my view, we already have the government sticking its big fat nose into way too many aspects of life already.
Posted by JdL on 2014-01-27 05:00:07
so what's next? http://paidholidays.org Who organizes a permanent campaign?
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GLASGOW, SCOTLAND 1938
British Empire Exhibition
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Dates Open - May 3 to October 29, 1938. Not open Sundays. Open 155 days.
Attendance - 13,482,548 Gross attendance including 60% of attendance at stadium outside the exposition. 12,882,548 Total attendance including Staff/employees. 11,380,324 Total Visitors.
International Participants - 6 nations and 34 colonies. Some sources state between 40-50 colonies.
Total Cost - L11,500,000. Scottish Development Council planned the fair and got L750,000 worth of guarantees.
Site Acreage - 175 acres in Bellahouston Park.
Sanction and Type - Unsanctioned by the Bureau of International Expositions. Would be considered a Registered Expo with Special qualities like on the 5 year of each decade today.
Ticket Cost - Admission for adult 1 shilling (1/20 pound), $0.247). Children 6d; Season ticket cost L1 5s 0d.
Photo top center: British Empire Exhibition at Glasgow 1938, 1938, Original Source Unknown. Courtesy Pinterest. Column Top: Official poster of the Glasgow British Empire Exhibition, 1938, Unknown original source, possibly the Fair Authority. Courtesy Pinterest.
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It was the fourth Glasgow international fair and first within the era of the Bureau of International Expositions. The fair was unsanctioned, but got around the convention by calling itself an Empire Exhibition. The public was ready for the fair after years of depression and the tackling of such a large enterprise, which took only two years to build, was seen as a vote of confidence despite the spector of Hitler and war ahead. Glasgow had lagged behind other cities after the height of the depression due to its reliance on heavy industry, ship building, and foreign markets. Showing of its Empire, even though it was disintegrating, caused a sense of strength in Scotland and Britain. Whether that was accurate was another question.
The site was new, no longer at Kelvingrove where the first three Glasgow exhibitions had been held. Bellahouston Park was chosen. The buildings were Art-Deco, harkening back to Chicago 1933 and other recent fairs. Colonial buildings bounded a main boulevard with the Palace of Engineering and Palace of Industry. Canada had the largest colonial pavilion.
Above photo. Postcard from the British Empire Exhibition of the South Cascade and Tower, Glasgow 1938, 1938. Courtesy Pinterest. Below: Official Season Ticket, 1938, Glasgow Exhibition Authority, 2007 photo. Courtesy Wikipedia Commons.
But there was a whole lot more besides the national and colonial pavilions. There was a Concert Hall, Pavilion of Art, and Tower of Empire plus pavilions for Women, Wool, Gas, Coal, Rubber, Forestry, Shipping, and Travel. There were religious pavilions for the Roman Catholic Church, Christian Science, and Episcopal Church. Corporate pavilions included the Times, Glasgow Herald, Daily Mail, BBC, British Postal System, British Railway, Templeton, Chivers, and Sterne & Co.
Unlike other years, the times leading to war led to a deficit, L128,000, which the guarantors funded. But that had nothing to do with the pleasure of the public at the fair. The exhibition was done on time and praised by the press. Other factors abounded. On the opening day of the fair, Hitler met Mussolini in Rome. The Munich Crises occurred. World War II began one year later with the park requisitioned by the government for military purposes. Yes, attendance was lower than predicted, twenty million, or needed to break even, fifteen million, but both those were too optimistic, even unrealistic for an Empire Exhibition. Weather was wet, cold, and windy. That didn't help either.
Historian's Perspective
Stanley Hunter - "Well promoted, before and during the event. Many newspapers, including London Times & Glasgow Herald, had own pavilion at exhibition. There was a press pavilion for newspaper writers, and press office collected over 50,000 cuttings in 1937. UK radio service, the BBC broadcast daily from their pavilion. For first 3 weeks, these were broadcast on the Empire as well as the Scottish service, including the opening ceremony (1 hour broadcast). There were series of 4-15 minute radio talks on Scottish service during 1937, as well as 8-20 minute talks "Backstage at Bellahouston" on both Scottish and Empire services. There were also special series for schools and Children's hour. Were over 240 broadcasts on BBC with wireless also an important component. Power of BBC (radio) in 1938 was immeasurable in publicity terms. Advertising and press was all over, including 4.2 million railway handbills, 260,000 factsheets, etc. and free poster dispalays by rail companies, as well as 4 month campaign on 200 London buses. General press advertising overseas was selective, mainly confined to UK."
"Exhibition was funded, like other Glasgow exhibitions, by guarantors, including local government authorities, local firms and public-spirited individuals. Unlike past, where there had been no call on guarantors, in 1938, there was such call, but it got little criticism, due to problems of World War. Government was not expected to help due to that. Call was 17% of amount to guarantors, representing loss of L118,691 8/8d. There was trouble in trying to handle event that attempted to promote local and national government on world stage with local rating authorities trying to tax the exhibition buildings as a permanent site, not ephemeral one."
John MacKenzie - "You can imagine that the whole question of sub-identities within the UK has become very important with devolution. Scotland and Wales now have their own parliaments, but in the Scottish case the debate about a parliament has been going on since the late 19th C. The Scottish Parliament merely 'adjourned' in 1707! Civic pride was very powerful in Victorian times and was certainly expressed in competitive architecture. So I think that pride in Glasgow was very much present at the succession of exhibitions in 1888, 1901, 1911 and 1938. But I think it very unlikely indeed that such a sense of competition would lead to non-attendance. The barriers to attendance were money and the distance that had to be travelled. Hence, I should think that few working-class Scots would have been at Wembley 1924-5, but many would have afforded to take in 1938. The main competition in Scotland is between Glasgow and Edinburgh (a powerful source of many jokes), but I should think that the 1938 show was sufficiently powerful a draw that folk from Edinburgh would have headed west to see it! Historians have seen fascination with Empire declining from the Boer War or from the First World War, but in my book Propaganda and Empire I argued that this is not correct. The media, press and children's literature etc. seemed to be just as full of Empire after the First World War as before. I am convinced that fascination with Empire continued until the 1950s. My father was a Highlander who had originally been trained as a stone mason. He was therefore involved in the building of the Highland Clachan in 1938, a 'native village' which really was native in the sense that it was Scottish. It was one of the biggest successes of the exhibition. My father was there throughout the six months as a maintenance man and he always told me it was the most pleasant and easy six months of work he had experienced in his life!"
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Nations and Colonies
NATIONS - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
DOMINIONS - Australia (N), Burma (C), Canada (N), Ireland (N), New Zealand (N), South Africa (N), Southern Rhodesia (C).
CROWN COLONIES, PROTECTORATES & DEPENDENCIES - British North Borneo, Ceylon, Hong-Kong, Malaya, Sarawak, Gibraltar, Gambia, Gold Coast, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika, Somaliland, Bechuanaland, Basutoland, Swaziland, Antigua, Bahamas, Jamaica, St. Vincent, Trinidad & Tobago, British Guiana, Fiji, Gilbert & Ellice Islands, Soloman Islands, Cyprus, Falkland Islands, Malta, Mauritius, St. Helena, Seychelles.
Others that may have been included in travel or other pavilions (officially or not) - India, Newfoundland, Isle of Man, St. Lucia, Grenada, Channel Islands (territories).
Note: It is sometimes difficult to tell whether certain nations or colonies actually participated in a significant way, either officially or unofficially. Newspaper reports as well as official publications may indicate participation when actual participation did not occur, occurred minimally, or can miss unofficial participation at all. Take the above as a guide, not gospel.
Buildigns
Gross Area of United Kingdom, Dominions and Colonial Pavilions 120,041 sq. Ft.
Palace of Engineering 149,260, Palace of Industry West 98,730, Palace of Industry North 61,575, Agriculture, Forestry & Fisheries 17,520, Industries, Shipping & Travel (Northern Ireland) 19,300, Coal Pavilion 27,376, Women's Pavilion 16,568, Scottish Pavilion - South 15,552, Scottish Pavilion - North 17,568, Ground Sites-Private Pavs 194,501.
Other Buildings: Concert Hall & Restaurant 21,162, Dance Hall 11,000, Amusement Park Restaurant 22,900, Press Club & Publicity Offices 8,784, Arts Tea Room & Royal Suite 8,640, Georgic Restaurant 6,991, Open Air Tea Room-N Bandstand 4,858, Tower-Floor Area 4,860, Atlantic Restaurant 10,090, SCWS Restaurant 9,600, Garden Club 16,929, Cinema 9,402, Technical Offices 6,500, Police Station 3,300, Fire Station, 1,500, Ambulance Station 1,500, 2 First Aid Posts 500, Telephone Exchange 2,700, Administration Office 7,600, Customs Office 200, Stores (Riding School), Existing building 6,000, Additional lavatories 12,600, Office accomodation/cloak rooms 10,230, Two workers canteens 6,000, Main electric substation 2,500 sq. ft. Total Square Footage 1,010,951 sq. Ft.
Expo Tidbits
Closing day had 364,092 visitors, the highest daily attendance ever in Britain for an exhibition.
Performers at Glasgow 1938 were Paul Robeson, Tom Mix, Eddie Cantor, Charles Laughton, and Elsa Lanchester.
The most popular exhibits wer the Clachan, EmpireTower, and the Southern Rhodesia and East Africa pavilions.
The amusement section, twelve acres, was separated with its own entrance, and very popular. It included the Indian Theatre, mountain switchback, Savage West Africa, a large restaurant, and Dance Hall.
The Tower of Empire had a paid attendance of 1,312,392 for a daily average of 8,467.
Peace Cairn and Palace of Art remained after the fair, plus the Palace of Engineering was re-erected at Prestwick Airport, now used by Scottish Aviation. The South African pavilion was rebuilt at ICI's Nobel plant and used as a dining room. The fountain statue, "Foam" was acquired by the National Trust of Scotland, and was exhibited at the Glasgow 1988 Garden Festival. It is now back at Greenbank Garden. Cineman Building was moved to Lochgilphead and now is a guest house. The Exhibition Memorial, unveiled in 1937, a granite block in Bellahouston Hill commemorates the building of the exhibition. The Empire Cinema was moved to Lochfyneside and became the Empire Travel Lodge.
Those in Charge
Sir James Lithgow of Scottish National Development Council headed committee. Architect of site was Thomas Smith Tait.
Sources: London Times; New York Times; Fair News; World's Fair Magazine; Historical Dictionary of World's Fairs by Alfred Heller; Glasgow's Great Exhibitions; Exhibition Study Group; Ephemeral Vistas; Empire Exhibition, Scotland 1938, Bellahouston Park, Glasgow, 3rd May to 29th October, 1938, Final Report to the Administrative Committee by the General Manager.
Photo column top: Glasgow British Empire Exhibition from the air, 1938. Courtesy Wikipedia Commons. Middle: Photo of Scottish Airways, Spirit Air building in the former Palace of Engineering from the 1938 fair, 2010, Thomas Nugent. Courtesy Wikipedia Commons.
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America's Sweet Tooth Starts From Infancy
FRIDAY, Nov. 15, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Bad eating habits begin at a young age in American children, a new study finds.
Researchers analyzed data from more than 1,200 babies (aged 6 to 11 months) and toddlers (12 to 23 months) between 2011 and 2016.
They found that 61% of babies and 98% of toddlers consumed added sugars in their typical daily diet, mainly in flavored yogurt and fruit drinks.
Infants consumed about 1 teaspoon of added sugars daily (about 2% of their daily calorie intake); toddlers consumed about 6 teaspoons (about 8% of their daily calories).
The main sources of added sugar for infants were yogurt, snacks and sweet bakery products. For toddlers, the top sources were fruit drinks, sweet baked products and candy.
Asian toddlers consumed the fewest added sugars (3.7 teaspoons); blacks, the most (8.2 teaspoons).
The study was published online Nov. 14 in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
"This has important public health implications since previous research has shown that eating patterns established early in life shape later eating patterns," lead investigator Kirsten Herrick said in a journal news release. She's a researcher with the Division of Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The findings did bring some good news: The percentage of babies and toddlers whose daily diets include added sugars declined, as did the amounts they consumed.
But consumption of added sugars remains high among young children.
Herrick noted that a previous study found that 6-year-olds who had consumed any sugar-sweetened drink before their first birthday were more than twice as likely to drink such beverages every day than those who had not.
"Previous research into the diets of children over 2 years old associated sugar consumption with the development of cavities, asthma, obesity, elevated blood pressure and altered lipid profiles," Herrick said.
Only one U.S. health organization -- the American Heart Association -- offers guidelines on sugar consumption for children under age 2, researchers noted.
"Our study's findings about infant and toddler diets should raise awareness among health organizations and practitioners and inform future guidelines and recommendations," Herrick said.
She advised parents to be cautious about added sugars in the foods they give babies when weaning them. Parents should talk to a health care provider about which solid foods to introduce, and check the nutrition information on food labels.
The American Academy of Pediatrics has more on toddler nutrition.
SOURCE: Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, news release, Nov. 14, 2019
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Do-it-yourself retirement v the plan that guarantees your income for years
August 15th, 2013 | via The Guardian
A new idea in California could wrest retirement away from the financial industry and guarantee income for generations at risk
There is a long-running idea in American life that all trends start on the west coast and move east. When it comes to the subject of retirement planning, let's hope that's true.
The do-it-yourself revolution in retirement savings has left the United States on the verge of a crisis; 30 years of...Read more.
Giving up coffee to balance the books: how many lattes to financial freedom?
Cutting back on minor expenses won't save you much in a country where luxuries are cheap and necessities expensive
It's not our daily latte that is driving us to the poorhouse. It's our Lipitor … and our houses, our families and other necessities of life.
Yet we still don't want to believe it. A decade after Elizabeth Warren first revealed that the leading cause of bankruptcies was medical spending, Americans continue...Read more.
The curse of student loan debt: owe while you’re young, live when you’re old
August 8th, 2013 | via The Guardian
Student debt and dead-end jobs have put many young Americans in dire circumstances outside their own control
Once upon a time, we invested in our young people so that they could enter the world without debt. Now, we turn them into deadbeat debtors before they're old enough to legally buy a drink, left far behind their financial betters.
The truth this week came courtesy of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and...Read more.
President Obama’s Amazon jobs pitch is hard to buy with one click
Weak job growth, low pay and Amazon's hypocrisy undermine the administration's story about new opportunities
President Barack Obama inadvertently foreshadowed July's mediocre employment numbers when he picked a new Amazon warehouse in Chattanooga, Tennessee, for a speech last week about the need to improve the quality of American jobs.
Calling for stable middle class jobs from an Amazon warehouse is like announcing a fitness initiative in a grocery store's snack aisle,...Read more.
Making capitalism out of lemons
August 1st, 2013 | via The Guardian
Today's discerning parents insist lemonade stands teach children lessons about capitalism – can't we all just have fun?
Let's take a moment to praise the humble lemonade stand.
Defending the nation's young merchants of lemonade is something of an annual tradition for me. Last year, I did a spoken commentary for American Public Media's Marketplace Money, protesting the number of lemonade consumers who were less than happy that my 12-year-old son...Read more.
Toils and troubles of a new housing bubble
July 30th, 2013 | via The Guardian
The real estate market in southern California, like in many parts of the US, is hot again – but we should know better this time
It was while I was standing in the living room of a beach bungalow located about a mile from the Pacific Ocean in Los Angeles' Venice Beach neighborhood, that I heard the phrase "It's just like 2006" uttered twice in a 10-minute span of time by...Read more.
All the president’s deja-vus
Thursday's speech on the economy was just like all the others – it sounded great, we got excited, then poof! We moved on
This week Barack Obama remembered the middle class.
You know them. The people who will suffer in retirement if our Social Security retirement benefits are given a "tweak" as he phrased his own effort at entitlement reform last year. They are the people whose incomes have continued to fall...Read more.
Pensions? Always someone else’s problem
July 23rd, 2013 | via The Guardian
Detroit's workers are not the first to see their retirement finances suddenly reduced – they are only the most recent
If a city declares bankruptcy and its current and retired workforce ranging from librarians and sanitation men to police officer and fire fighters are forced to take permanent reductions to their promised monthly pension benefits, will anyone care besides the impacted employees and the unlucky retired workers dependent on that income?
Thanks...Read more.
About Helaine Olen
I am the voice of The Bills, a column about the intersection of money and life, at Slate. At Inc., I contribute to the Spread the Wealth personal finance column. My work on politics, economics, workplace culture and women’s issues has been published in numerous other print and on-line publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Salon, Pacific Standard, and The Los Angeles Times, where I wrote and edited the popular “Money Makeover” feature.
I'm the author of the critically acclaimed book Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry, and The Index Card: Why Personal Finance Doesn’t Have to be so Complicated, which I co-wrote with Harold Pollack.
What else? I’m a passionate bibliophile, a fan of 1970s pop music and a lover of rummage sales. I live in New York City.
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Everyone has the right to be treated with respect and dignity and no one should have to suffer abuse. The earlier you report abuse, the less harm someone will suffer.
Together with our partners, the police work to make sure priority support to given to any vulnerable person at risk.
A person can be considered vulnerable if they:
need care and support
are experiencing, or at risk of, abuse or neglect
are unable to protect themselves
People are often more at risk of abuse if they’re isolated, dependent on someone (such as a carer), have memory problems or difficulty communicating.
Most vulnerable people will never come into contact with the police but for those that do, we've developed the ‘At Risk of Going Missing’ Form with Kent Search and Rescue and Kent Fire and Rescue Service. Download a copy, fill in and keep in a safe place.
Abuse can take many forms eg physical, psychological, financial or sexual and can happen anywhere - at home, in a nursing home, at hospital, or in public. Although it can be carried out by strangers, it is usually someone known to the victim.
What to look out for:
Injuries, such as bruises
Unkempt or malnourished appearance
Becoming isolated or withdrawn
New people regularly visiting or living at the address
House appearing in need of repair.
Adults with Alzheimer's/dementia
With an increasing population living for longer, the instances of dementia are also increasing. Dementia sufferers are at an increased risk of becoming confused and as a consequence a rise in dementia sufferers being reported missing is expected.
Most of the dementia sufferers in Kent (estimated to be over 21,000 people) will never come into contact with the police but for those that do, we've developed the ‘At Risk of Going Missing’ Form with Kent Search and Rescue and Kent Fire and Rescue Service.
This form is completed by next of kin/carers and should be available to give to emergency responders if necessary. It's an invaluable tool to search teams offering vital information at an early stage of the investigation.
What help is available
If you’re at risk or concerned about someone you know, contact Kent County Council (KCC) Adult Services orMedway Council’s Adult Services.
KCC - 03000 41 61 61 or email social.services@kent.gov.uk
KCC – out of hours: if you need to contact someone outside of normal office hours, for example during the night, call 03000 41 91 91.
Medway – 01634 334466 (9am to 5pm, Mon to Fri) or email ss.accessandinfo@medway.gov.uk
Medway – out of hours: 03000 41 91 91
If you think a crime is in progress or someone is in immediate danger, call police on 999.
If a crime is reported to us, we’ll work with our partner agencies to protect, safeguard and support vulnerable victims.
For support and advice for people living with mental health problems or age-related illnesses visit:
Live It Well – promoting better wellbeing and mental health for Kent residents.
Mind – supporting people with mental health issues in Kent.
Mid Kent – the ‘Hope Cafe’
West Kent - the ‘Solace Café’
Heads Together – vital help for people with mental health challenges.
Release the Pressure - Kent County Council initiative to end the stigma of mental health in Kent.
Kent and Medway NHS Trust - provide mental health, learning disability and substance misuse services as well as other specialist services to Kent residents.
MCCH – supporting people with learning disabilities, autism and mental health needs.
Mental Health Matters Helpline - a confidential service staffed by highly trained and experienced Telephone Helpline Workers, offering emotional support to anyone calling - 0800 107 0160 (24/7). Email: info@mentalhealthmatters.co.uk
The Samaritans - provide confidential, non-judgemental emotional support - 08457 90 90 90.
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Realpolitiks, a modern-day streamlined real-time grand strategy will be released in February 2017.
(KATOWICE, Poland | December 6, 2016) Press release : Jujubee is happy to announce that Realpolitiks, a modern-day streamlined real-time grand strategy, will be released in February 2017 for Windows, Linux and Mac OS. Additionally the studio reveals its plans to release a mobile version of the game (iOS, Android) in the first half of 2017.
Realpolitiks will allow players to become rulers of any contemporary country and lead it through the present-day national and global issues in the current geographical and political world structure. Or even be challenged by possible crises of the future. Offering a mix of national “macromanagement” and international affairs, Realpolitiks will bring the interconnected relations and delicate balances of world politics through a sleek interface and intuitive game mechanics, while fulfilling the expectations of the grand strategy genre fans. The players can now have the decisive voice in dealing with financial crises, terrorism, migration, epidemics or military conflicts, and ultimately lead their country towards global domination!
Game information:
Platform: PC Windows, Linux, Mac OS
Developer: Jujubee S.A
Assets: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/frg9eux3tgxqtvb/AAD-iyBqtjj_HdnIV5Nl0r2na?dl=0
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HENUo-FPYuQ
Steam Store Page: http://store.steampowered.com/app/553260
Realpolitiks is a streamlined real-time grand strategy game that allows you to become the ruler of any contemporary country. Dive deep into the issues of the modern world with its current territorial distribution, gaps in power and economic strength, military conflicts and international affairs. Choose your own way of coping with other nations' interests, unexpected events, global threats and crises. Deal with the disintegration of the European Union, the expanding Islamic State, events following World War III and other actual or fictional scenarios.
Based on three main political systems (democracy, authoritarianism, totalitarianism), Realpolitiks allows you to extend the influence of your country through various tactics in order to win the geopolitical race for global domination. Use your diplomatic skills, economic advantage, military power and full freedom of moral and ethical decision-making to become a world superpower and to ensure the well-being of your citizens.
Grow and develop your country to reach the highest possible states of economic power, technological competitiveness and military supremacy on global charts. Then the choice is yours to become a valued member of the United Nations or manufacture a nuclear weapon and vaporize your opponents. Expand your territory any way you like, as the sandbox gameplay of Realpolitiks covers the whole world, even allowing you to create colonies out on the sea. And if that's not enough, try spreading the seed of our civilization to extraterrestrial bodies.
Lead any country in the world to global domination in various game scenarios.
Shape your country's political system and course of relations with other nations.
Deal with internal and external affairs or face threats such as natural disasters, terrorism, financial crises and more.
Use all the general instruments common in international relations and even directly interfere with other nations' internal affairs.
Make decisions based on morals and ethics. Or disregard them completely.
Enjoy the high replay value ensured by a broad tree of choices in all aspects, diverse mini-scenarios and random events.
About Jujubee:
Jujubee is the game development studio behind such titles as FLASHOUT 3D, Suspect in Sight and the upcoming documentary game “KURSK” and the grand strategy game “Realpolitiks”. It was founded by former members of CD Projekt RED, Traveller’s Tales and Infinite Dreams and its goal is to create great looking and addictively fun games for various platforms – especially iOS, Android, Mac, and PC. The company is publicly listed on New Connect (market organised and operated by the Warsaw Stock Exchange).
For more information on Jujubee and its products please visit the studio’s official website: jujubee.pl. Also make sure to follow the company’s page:http://jujubee.pl/ on Facebook, Google+ or Twitter.
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reviews&opinions
"This gem had me captivated. If you’ve got any interest in racing games at all, pick FLASHOUT 3D up!" Arcade Sushi
"Graphically the game is stunning. (...) FLASHOUT 2 is a solid sequel and the creators introduced a whole bunch of new features that further improve the experience. (...) Beautiful graphics and great music are icing on the cake!" AntyApps
"Take to the skies in this aggressive, bad-guy demolition derby. The graphics in Suspect in Sight are outstanding, with fun flying controls!" Slide To Play
“Suspect In Sight” for iPhone and iPad is unlike any other game I have ever played, it’s also fun – addictive and very, very good. (...) I have had a few games handed to me recently but this has got to be one of those that when you get it you will never feel like you...
"There's a lot to like about this game. (...) There was definitely a lot of thought and work put into what you see on the screen. (...) I was delighted to notice some of the visual subtleties like glare from the sun, or skyscrapers in a perpendicular position to indicate that I was no...
"FLASHOUT 3D goes a long way towards bridging the gap between big name franchises on the consoles and mobile offerings!" 148 Apps
"In Flashout 2 (App Store/Google Play), we’re not exactly talking intricate, Game of Thrones-style plotlines. What we have instead is balls-out Wipeout-style racing (...), and a game that ultimately exceeded my expectations." Mobot
"Cops and robbers will never be the same, a totally new twist on the high speed chase and I for one love it! (...) I'm loving the different controls accelerometer or stick your choice, great achievements, goals and unlockables are here for you to get!" App Store
"FLASHOUT 3D is a gorgeous, anti-gravity racer featuring stunning tracks, deadly weapons, and upgradable ships!" Apps Looking
“What makes Flashout 2 stand out is its execution. It is a damn fine game that wears a coat of polish that you just don’t see on mobile games. Flashout 2 looks great and plays great, you can tell that Jujubee put a great deal of effort into fine tuning the space racer experience and...
"Jujubee set out to create a game with the feeling of a 1970's police drama, and they nailed it completely. (...) The graphics are stupendous, if not bit reminiscent of the Grand Theft Auto series, and the sounds are authentic and interesting!" Gamezebo
"Featuring a handful of stylish environments, responsive tilt controls, and exciting gameplay, Suspect In Sight is an arresting challenge! (...) Replay value is very good, as the new maps, better helicopters, and additional unlockables (new game modes, etc.) offer a good amount of content...
"FLASHOUT 2 has it all: simple controls, addictiveness, long hours of gameplay, a feeling of speed, a strong setting... and a multiplayer mode! Jujubee has once again done a great job to make us all happy!" Kick My Geek
"FLASHOUT 3D by Jujubee is the closest thing the App Store has to Sony’s popular racing series Wipeout!" AppTudes
"With FLASHOUT 3D, you'll ultimately be rewarded with some of the most thrilling racing gameplay that mobiles have to offer!" Modojo
“This game was a ton of fun. The controls are perfectly calibrated and nicely responsive on our test device of choice, an iPhone 5s. The frame rate was more than acceptable, and I liked the “cracked windscreen” effect that occurred when my ride got beat up. Whether you’re...
"FLASHOUT 3D deserves a spot on any racing gamer's device for fun, accessible gameplay, jaw-dropping graphics and stunning visuals. I believe you will fall in love with it in the first glance!" Best10Apps
"If you’ve got quick reflexes and are addicted to speed, FLASHOUT 3D is the game you’ve been waiting for!" App Advice
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Faith and Science
Black Mass, Liberalism, and the Orthodox Paradox
by Daniel Haqiqatjou / Thursday, 15 May 2014 / Published in Articles, Philosophy
To the outrage and dismay of Catholics across the US, atheists and Satanists at Harvard University planned to perform a “Black Mass” on campus. In an official statement, Harvard president Drew Faust remarked that, while the Black Mass is deeply offensive and “abhorrent,” the University’s commitment to free speech prevents it from intervening. For more info on the controversy, read here.
Interestingly, an analogous controversy took place at Harvard in 2006, when a campus student magazine published the infamous Danish cartoons. As an undergraduate there, actively involved with the campus Islamic Society, I remember vividly the impact the controversy had on the local Muslim community. In that case, the University administration took a similar stance to the one above, though, unlike in the case of the Black Mass, there was not an official statement from the University president nor did the then-president, Larry Summers, attend our campus Friday prayers in solidarity.
In any case, how should we, as Muslims, feel about this recent situation and the response to it? On the one hand, it is Satanism. Anything done in the name of Satan or black magic, whether genuinely or for mere spectacle, is condemned according to the sharia, i.e., Islamic Law. On the other hand, the language and reasoning used by some commentators to condemn the event is quite similar to arguments used to curtail American Muslim rights, e.g., the right to build mosques, wear the hijab, etc. As Michael Muhammad Knight argues in his provocatively titled essay “Muslims for Satan”:
As a Muslim, I have to support the Satanists. Public revulsion of Muslims in this country is so popular that I have no choice but to stand with religions that are marked as ugly, offensive, and intolerant. Rather than join the anti-Satanist outrage and try to convince Christians that Muslims deserve to be included as “children of Abraham” or whatever, I would suggest that Muslims take a radical stand on behalf of the religious freedoms that we claim for ourselves.
Framed thusly, the tension is palpable. Should American Muslims (and Western Muslims at large) side with Satanism in the name of religious freedom or should they abide by established tenets of Islamic Law, in effect supporting Christian groups who, in other contexts, oppose Muslim rights and rail against the mere presence of Islam in the West ?
Rocks and Hard Places
This is the same tension Western Muslims feel on the question of gay rights. Many Western Muslims remain religiously opposed to homosexuality, let alone “gay marriage.” At the same time, Muslims are a beleaguered minority, struggling for a place at the societal table. Ostensibly, gays are also a rising minority, striving for public acceptance. So, in this sense, opposition to gay rights is, at least in some sense, also opposition to Muslim rights.
Of course, the analogy may not be perfect. Is discrimination on the basis of religious affiliation really the same as that for sexual orientation? One could argue that religious affiliation is fundamentally dissimilar to sexual orientation in just such a way that Muslims can remain opposed to gay rights and not undercut their own interests, all the while maintaining a commitment to liberal norms of freedom of conscience and so on. (And, of course, the converse argument can be made too: committed liberals calling for curtailment of Muslim rights while simultaneously championing gay rights.)
This is why the Black Mass event is such an interesting test case for Muslims. Unlike with sexual orientation, it is difficult to argue that Satanism does not fall in the same category as Islam. In other words, from the lens of secular liberalism, there is no functional difference between Islam and Satanism and Catholicism, or any other religion for that matter.
Orthodox Paradox
And so, here is yet another example of traditional norms butting heads with liberal values. What is the way out of this “Orthodox Paradox,” as Noah Feldman puts it? Feldman himself provided no decisive answer and seemed to have resigned himself to a “life of contradiction.” Other believers, like Michael Muhammad Knight, fall strongly on the side of liberalism. Prior to the Black Mass kerfuffle, it may have been hard to imagine a scenario where, implicitly, Muslims would be pressured to support Satanic ritual. Then again, liberalism does have this tendency to push the boundaries of traditional propriety to blasphemous proportions. Which raises the question, what is the line? For those simultaneously committed to liberalism and religious faith, how far is too far? Is there anything left that is sacred, in the truest sense of that word?
Liberally Confused
In the US, we have already seen federal courts rule that businesses do not have the right to refuse service to gay patrons. And religious colleges are being pressured to accommodate LGBT employees, even if their official religious doctrine opposes homosexuality. It is not difficult to imagine the same kinds of arguments — perhaps in a different context but still under the umbrella of religious tolerance/freedom — being used to argue that denominational institutions must facilitate Satanist religious needs and preferences. Not to be outdone, Europe over the past decade has unleashed all manner of liberal secular argumentation to justify everything from the banning of mosque minarets, the banning of hijab in public, the banning of religious symbols generally, the banning of halal meat, the curtailing of religious assembly, and on and on. In the Muslim world, too, it is no secret, as the aftermath of the Arab Spring amply demonstrated, that liberal secular regimes can be more than a little harsh in disenfranchising Muslims in the political and legal domain, even when the latter profess their commitment to secular norms.
Predictably, most liberal-leaning Muslims (with some exceptions) will protest that what is happening in Europe or the Arab world is not consistent with liberalism. After all, liberalism stands for freedom of religion, freedom of expression, freedom of conscience, a vibrant and open public domain dictated by democratic pluralism and mutual reasonableness. As it turns out, all these liberal concepts are radically subjective — as subjective, ironically, as secularists believe religion to be. So, maybe European hardline legislators banning the hijab, minarets, halal meat, facial hair, etc., are acting perfectly in accordance with liberalism, and it is just that liberalism is so indeterminate and content-less that literally any kind of legislation can be argued to conform to it. Even many hardcore Islamists actively claim that the principles of Islamic Law are inherently compatible with liberal values like freedom and democracy. For example, the Muslim Brotherhood officially calls its political wing “The Freedom and Justice Party.” Even Ayatollah Khomeini after the Iranian revolution used the language of liberalism to describe the revolution and his government as fundamentally pro-freedom (i.e., “azadi” in Farsi) and pro-democracy.
So, perhaps, that is the answer to the Orthodox Paradox. Perhaps the true paradox lies at the heart of liberalism. The claim that liberal secularism is inherently problematic and even self-contradictory is not new. Numerous prominent philosophers, intellectual historians, anthropologists, political scientists, and legal theorists have remarked at length on the essential emptiness of liberalism. Reviewing all these works in detail is not the goal of this post, but, to whet the appetite, we can broadly introduce a few of the main ideas from the literature.
The Fickle Nature of Liberal Tolerance
Ought a democratic government ban political parties not committed to democracy? Ought a liberal legal system, otherwise committed to freedom of belief, proscribe illiberal beliefs? In a phrase, is a “discriminatory tolerance” truly tolerance?
Many of the religious bans against Muslims in Europe are done using this type of rationale. The historical banning of Islamist political parties in countries like Egypt and Turkey are also done on this basis. The argument is often made that Islamic practices and beliefs are uniquely antithetical to a free, democratic society, and, therefore, for the sake of the public good, must be prohibited. Yet, by secularism’s own lights, what is inherently good, evil, beneficial, or harmful is not definitively knowable and certainly is not for the state to set in stone. The implication is that liberalism and secularism’s appeals to the public good are fundamentally unprincipled and often serve to manipulate the populace so as to serve the interests of power.
As a straightforward example, consider the US security state and its virtually endless surveillance power. State officials justify their highly invasive surveillance methods by claiming they are necessary for maintaining public safety. This means that the “right to safety” requires citizens to simultaneously forego their “right to privacy.” This kind of impasse between mutually contradictory rights is ubiquitous in secular society, and the Orthodox Paradox is but one subclass of many such conflicts. We have already discussed the “right to religion” vs. the “right to sexual autonomy” or the “right to free expression.” How about the topic of wealth redistribution, i.e., increasing the taxes on the wealthy to support welfare programs? The Right argues that all citizens, including the wealthy, have a “right to property” in that the government cannot arbitrarily impose taxation to usurp people’s property/wealth, while the Left argues that all citizens have, say, a “right to healthcare.” Obviously, free healthcare for all is impossible without significant taxation, so there is a contentious conflict here. (The underlying issue is that all rights have concomitant duties and costs. Universal security costs everyone universal privacy. Universal healthcare requires universal taxation. Universal freedom of speech attenuates universal freedom of religion, and so on.)
The obvious question, then, is: Who is the state to decide which of those rights — and the underlying human interests entailed by those rights — ought to be protected at the expense of other competing rights? And on what principled basis could such decisions be made in the first place? Would not such a basis — call it a “theory of the public good” — have to make many assumptions about good, evil, benefit, harm, and human nature itself? And here is the kicker: At what point would this theory of the public good just be, essentially, another religion or, at least, share many of the normative features of religion? After all, if nothing else, religions theorize about what is ultimately good, bad, beneficial, or harmful for individuals and society and establish normative directives on, among other things, that basis. If establishing the public good is ineluctably normative in the same way religion is normative, is separation of church and state, as liberal secularism professedly requires, even possible?
Liberalism or Theocracy: A False Dilemma
No doubt, the preceding was a fast and furious introduction to a complicated and contentious topic. The takeaway is that liberal secularism as a philosophy about the regulation of a pluralistic society and the place of man within that collective has at least several important questions to contend with, questions increasingly many academics and laymen are beginning to ask, alhamdulillah.
But, for the sake of argument, if it is determined, either practically or theoretically, that liberal secularism is not a viable system, what is the alternative? Authoritarian theocracy?
The above comments were meant to show that the distinctions between theocracy and liberal secularism are not as stark and definitive as have been conventionally understood. In any case, the decision between liberal secular democracy and authoritarian theocracy is a false dilemma. There are numerous alternative ways to organize society other than what is currently on offer in the modern world. The nation-state, after all, in its current form is a product of hegemonic modernity — going back as little as 100 years, one finds a diversity of systems. The modern nation-state, of course, is nothing more than a geopolitical meta-institution that seeks to regulate and organize a large population by way of widely applied legal and executive power. In the modern nation-state, everything from the economy, education, healthcare, food production, housing, child care, religious practice, etc., are overtly controlled by or ultimately fall under the jurisdiction of state institutions and, hence, state power. If the recent financial disasters rocking the world have taught us anything it is that the interconnectedness and broad reach of state power is dangerously fragile and inevitably corruptible. Under what other system could the misdeeds of a handful of banking institutions cause a domino effect resulting in wide scale “austerity measures” and the plunging of millions into poverty all the way across the globe?
So what are the alternatives?
More on the state and its discontents can be read in “anarchist” literature. Wael Hallaq’s recent The Impossible State is a quick read that also provides valuable insights. As for specific alternatives, commentators have pondered historical precedents as well as imagined future models. The “Millet system” is a particularly noteworthy historical example. It is a vision of a pluralistic society, inclusive of people of multiple ethnic and religious backgrounds, that consists of large communities, i.e., millets, that self-regulate and are otherwise loosely tied together through the shared use of limited “public” services as well as commitment to a very thin set of meta-regulations that apply to the millets. The self-regulation is what sets the Millet system apart from the modern nation-state. Each millet is defined by its commitment to a normative vision and a philosophy of life, in so many words, a religion, and its legislation, adjudication, and local governance is based on that religion. Obviously, individuals are able to be a part of the millet of their choice.
In contrast, nation-states are typically organized on the basis of incredibly broad ethnic and cultural lines and regulate the population using a unitary system of “universally”-applied laws (“universally” is in scare-quotes because, of course, some segments of the population are wealthy and powerful enough to entirely circumvent laws that are, nonetheless, brutally applied to lower socioeconomic classes). As we have seen, conflicts of conscience abound in this system, and, besides, normative theories of the good are smuggled into supposedly secular political institutions and secular law despite the outward commitment to separation of church and state. The burning question that the nation-state system and liberal secularism cannot answer or even address is, why should a diverse population committed to multifarious theories of the good be coerced into subscribing to one set of laws? When Western political philosophers like John Rawls ponder how a pluralistic society can negotiate their differences using a robust discourse of public reason to determine fair laws of governance, they are attempting to solve a contrived problem. If one throws out the requirement for a unitary, universally-applied legal and political system exercising power over hundreds of millions and, even, billions of people, the question of secularism, public reason, and separation of church and state unceremoniously dissolves.
But, of course, no state would ever relinquish its exercise of power and control over hundreds of millions and billions of people. In reality, that is true “freedom” — in the universal, not liberal sense — i.e., not being under the thumb of a muscular state that dictates one’s entire life through an expansive legal code and a strong police and military presence ensuring compliance with brutal force. In this way, liberalism serves state power against the interests of individuals and communities by taking attention away from the inherent authoritarianism of the nation-state and redirecting it to superficial non-issues like, is a government a “democracy” or not, is there adequate “free speech,” etc., issues that would not exist in the first place were the underlying nation-state paradigm eclipsed or fundamentally revised.
Orthodox Paradox Revisited
If nothing else, Islam’s apparent conflict with Western liberalism has caused no shortage of undue psychological stress to well-meaning Muslims. Beyond curtailing of Muslim rights, liberal secularism has caused a crisis of faith for many Muslims around the world who are surprised to discover that a 1400 year old religion does not perfectly mirror the idiosyncrasies of a particular modernist political and moral philosophy. The crisis becomes especially acute when this political philosophy is embedded into the modern ethos so deeply that it is taken by the masses as universally and exclusively good, leaving no room to imagine, let alone pursue, alternatives. In sum, this is the Orthodox Paradox, and it can be resolved by problematizing the liberal secular paradigm and the nation-state upon which it is premised.
To bring it full circle, Muslims and people of other faiths should not have to choose between staying committed to their deepest moral convictions, on the one hand, and the ability to live lives free of disenfranchisement, harassment, and the curtailing of rights, on the other. If the game requires us to choose between Satan and state oppression, there is something deeply wrong with the game.
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27 Responses to “Black Mass, Liberalism, and the Orthodox Paradox”
AJ Khan says : Reply
Wow, fantastically insightful post Daniel! You masterfully parsed so many considerations into a few paragraphs. W Hallaq’s book is a must read. Congrats on your work and may Allah preserve and bless you..
Isra says : Reply
Makes a lot of sense and is very well said.Thank you Daniel!
Nati Man says : Reply
Aren’t most universalist religions (especially the salvationist kind) simply a nascent type of nationalism, minus the modern technologies of surveillance and discipline? If you want to collapse the false distinctions of the “orthodox paradox”, you have to go much further than deconstructing the modern nation state. Great as Hallaq’s book was, this is its central shortcoming. This is a remarkable effort to summarize a complex problem. Still, MMK’s answer remains a much more coherent alternative. After all, it seems a bit absurd to respond to an immediate plea for religious tolerance by saying we must deconstruct the nation state so this problem/paradox won’t exist.
AXBar says : Reply
What a fantastically simplistic post. The bowdlerized version of the millet system reeks of either historical illiteracy or an unironic romanticism. More problematically, this romanticization of the millet system (which, by the way, continues in countries such as Israel in a most problematic manner) assumes as the author does throughout a collective homogeneity of groups that is utterly at odds the complexities and multiplicities of identity formation.
Daniel Haqiqatjou says : Reply
@Nati Man: This “plea for religious tolerance” is symptomatic of deeper problems in need of unpacking. I disagree that it is a more “coherent alternative” for religious minorities to continuously have to compromise their deepest moral commitments due to the demands of an inconsistent, incoherent secularism.
@AXBar: What a fantastically simplistic reading of a blog post. I find your overblown reaction to the one whole paragraph I dedicated to the mere describing, nay, mentioning of an alternative political-legal system indicative of your knee jerk close-mindedness.
Mike says : Reply
“Identity formation” presumes a very modern, western notion of individuality that is not universally true across time and space.
It may or may not need some more academics to unpack it, but if a religious community comes to someone who is governing for a ruling on whether they should be allowed to perform a religious ceremony, the appropriate response should be “yes, because we permit freedom of religious expressione” or “no, this cannot be permitted because x and y moral reasons.” Saying we need to unpack the notion of religious tolerance is about the most unhelpful academic answer you can give, unless it is accompanied by a direct answer to the problem at hand. The problem is: you have to choose between Satanism and restricting religious freedom and you essentially concluded by saying, “I don’t have to choose between satanism and restricting religious freedom.” But of course, someone DOES. Your article is very excellent, and I commend you, but you eschew the hard choice (and the clarity it would bring to your argument). It sounds like you really are siding with those who favor preventing this ceremony, in which case you would need to respond to MMK’s arguments on what makes your revulsion different from a right wing bigot’s revulsion.
Oh and AXBar’s critique, while it was caustic, should be taken seriously. It is not as if there isn’t a strain within modern liberalism that isn’t advocating for some kind of “milletism” (Will Kymlicka is the most famous person who comes to mind). And all the things AXBar mentioned are potential pitfalls for the idea to be taken seriously. Once the genie of religious authority is out of the bottle, it is hard to put back in again! Keep writing! Bests,
Curious as to what scope ancestor veneration, atheism, polytheism (and other ideas clearly prohibited in the Quran) would have in your emerging idea of what it means to “unpack” religious tolerance. What about religious intermarriage? Religious propagation of ideas clearly prohibited in the Quran? If you are truly going to unpack liberalism, I am all for it, but don’t repack the suitcase with Abrahamic presumptions smuggled in as a “better universalism.”
Reza Jou says : Reply
An exemplary article Daniel!
More need to be done concerning this universal topic “religious tolerance” which is one of the essential requirements for a civilized nation.
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Re: Social Libertarianism
by Silhouette » Mon Sep 02, 2019 7:43 pm
obsrvr524 wrote: Capitalism can easily function under limits that prevent monopolies and thus is very compatible with (almost requiring) the distribution of authority.
This seems curious as I would gather that all Social Democrats would entirely agree with you. Read up on "Social Democracy" if you haven't already.
obsrvr524 wrote: Socialism IS a monopoly, forbidding distribution of authority.
Since you mention Marxist theory you will probably be aware that Socialism is indeed a monopoly, but of the working class over the state military. It is then theorised that in the absense of capitalist practices, that the majority of the populace who are working class would use their seized military force against (the opposite of seeking pure Capitalism as it seems you were saying), the need to use such force would dissolve and (famously) "the state would wither away" because we'd all realise we're better off without capitalist practices. As such, Socialism is theorised to give way to Communism, which according to Marxist theory is stateless and authority is distributed equally amongst everyone in a classless society (classless because there is now "only one class" by everyone's choice), who function in cooperative, self-governing communes.
Now, whether you agree or not with such projections, you will note that the intention is to distribute authority - which is something of which I believe you were in favour, yes? The intention of Social Democrats who are colloquially mis-identified as Socialists is to limit Capitalism, just the same as you.
I see time and again common ground in the goals of people interested in socio-economic reform, or even revolution - the only real differences lie in how to get there.
As such, I would say it's fruitless to call Socialists and/or Communists categorically against the distribution of authority. Sure, there are probably plenty who want State control of authority - perhaps aware or unaware that this means their own authority, but this is why blanket statements about Socialism are vulgar.
obsrvr524 wrote:
Silhouette wrote: you would hope that anti-trust laws would prevent huge corporations from attaining the monopolies and oligopolies that reign supreme today.
If you can't regulate even that, you certainly cannot prevent a socialist regime from becoming corrupt.
No doubt true.
Silhouette wrote: The greater mystery is how it's possible to make things better or worse at all.
That is not as hard as you might think. The first step is easy. You start small and stop trying to tell the whole world what to do.
Hmm. Considering my point that not telling the whole world what to do lets those with capital gain more capital more easily, gaining power geometrically, landing us in this centralised mess in the first place, I'm not sure the solutions to these complex economic problems are as easy as you're making out. The way some people talk about economic solutions makes it a wonder how nobody accidentally achieved utopia already.
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by obsrvr524 » Tue Sep 03, 2019 12:28 am
Silhouette wrote:
Who decides what is socially just in the supreme SJW State?
You have been observed.
obsrvr524
by Silhouette » Tue Sep 03, 2019 12:49 am
obsrvr524 wrote: Who decides what is socially just in the supreme SJW State?
It's plain to see that any supreme SJW State would legally consist, at best, of kangaroo courts.
I'm guessing your point is to equate all Social Democrats with SJW Progressivism.
Having already seen this error a few days ago, I responded with this post at the top of the second page.
Silhouette wrote: your point is to equate all Social Democrats with SJW Progressivism.
Since you think there is a distinction, apply the same question.
In your Social Democratic State, who decides what is just?
by Silhouette » Tue Sep 03, 2019 1:47 am
obsrvr524 wrote: In your Social Democratic State, who decides what is just?
Um... my Social Democratic State?
By definition it wouldn't belong to anyone in particular...
To answer your question: the courts, lawyers, same as what we have now... which is Social Democracy. Don't act like it's some new-fangled, way-out-there idea. It's what The West has.
by obsrvr524 » Tue Sep 03, 2019 1:51 pm
If it is the same as now, what are you quibbling about?
Silhouette wrote: By definition it wouldn't belong to anyone in particular...
And that is what i meant by liking and looking for something to create argument rather than looking and liking things to create agreement. -- "Let's all find some flimsy excuse to hate each other."
by Ecmandu » Tue Sep 03, 2019 3:43 pm
I have to tell you folks, I am a direct democracy person. I believe in 'mob rule'. A term coined by elites to scare us
Ecmandu
by Silhouette » Tue Sep 03, 2019 4:45 pm
This is kinda ironic.
Here you are supporting what we already have, but still hating on parties and their doctrines that support it.
I'm the one pointing out that everyone fighting has far more in common than they seem to realise and not taking sides.
It's common for people to accuse others of their own faults...
Ecmandu wrote: I have to tell you folks, I am a direct democracy person. I believe in 'mob rule'. A term coined by elites to scare us
I bet you don't class yourself as a communist, but this is perfectly compatible with it according to the theory.
There's probably tons of people who agree with you who got scared off by the term because authoritarian dictators have called their autocratic totalitarian disasters "Communism" to get political support for their regime while it was still a popular term, even though what they were doing was the literal opposite of what Communism is. The US jumped at the chance to call it Communism too, to put everyone off even looking into its actual ideas and finding they were actually appealing and nothing like what they were being associated with.
Everywhere people are accusing Capitalism of turning Communist, when it's just Capitalism being Capitalism, and actual Communism is what everyone's unknowingly supporting to solve it.
It's not accepted that Capitalism can be Capitalism when it grows out of the scope of Classical Liberalism, but simply because aquiring capital makes it easier to acquire more capital, it runs away with itself and tends towards inequality such that power is centralised in the hands of very few, and spreading it around the globe as much as possible only speeds this up. This is the root of what people are calling Globalist and attributing to conspiracy, but it's just Capitalism - the only political component is to narrate it all as Communist, and count on the reliable ignorance of the electorate to not look up the fact that actual Communism is the solution - not the enemy.
It's sad that numerous indinigous tribes, that actually are communist, are disparaged by the counter intelligence that you describe silhouette... talk about fake news!!
by Silhouette » Tue Sep 03, 2019 10:32 pm
Ecmandu wrote: It's sad that numerous indinigous tribes, that actually are communist, are disparaged by the counter intelligence that you describe silhouette... talk about fake news!!
See, nobody knows what the communist literature actually says...
And yet everyone feels so comfortable throwing around the terminology...
Communism is post-Capitalist. Tribes are pre-Feudalist - basically at the opposite end of the Historical Materialism timeline.
by Ecmandu » Tue Sep 03, 2019 10:41 pm
I think you're taking those demarcations too far.
Communism is literally "communal decision making", which perfectly describes many (not all) indigenous tribes.
by Urwrongx1000 » Tue Sep 03, 2019 10:43 pm
Gloominary wrote: Socialism is about economics,
Here is my first point-of-contention.
To me, Socialism is about Society, and how people interact and relate with each-other. Socialists, idealistically, want Society to form better and stronger bonds with one-another. So, to me, this means that Socialism is about Morality, not Economics. Economics is anti-Social. Usually, one person or group, is making money and profit, and the detriment, or to the detriment, of others. When one group profits off-of others; this is Anti-social behavior.
This is also a big reason why World War II happened. German Nationalists were sick and tired of 'Others' profiting from the German country's hard-work.
Gloominary wrote: about narrowing but not necessarily eliminating the gap between rich and poor, which can be accomplished with (state socialism) or without government intervention (market socialism), whereas progressivism is about identity politics, about racism, religionism, sexism and so on against whites, Christians, men and so forth, as well as globalism, open borders, gun control, compulsory education, healthcare and vaccinations.
I wouldn't say you're a Socialist then...you're just Anti-Capitalist or Egalitarian. A Socialist society could have disparities between rich and poor, if that disparity were wrought through merit and accumulation of resources (Inheritance).
Gloominary wrote: While I'm in favor of free (if it's not free or at least cheap, it's not socialism, it's corporatism) public education and healthcare, I think it should be a state/provincial matter, not a federal one, and it should be voluntary, not obligatory.
While free public education, healthcare and vaccines should be available, you shouldn't have to publicly educate or vaccinate your kids or yourself, you should be able to homeschool them, and private education and healthcare should also be available.
I would also like to see a shift towards more holistic public healthcare and education.
Yes, very Libertarian....
Gloominary wrote: Socialism and corporatism aren't the same thing either.
Corporatism is about widening the gap between rich and poor.
For me, all taxes on the working and middle classes is corporatism.
All taxes on and unnecessary regulations of small businesses is corporatism.
All megacorporate welfare, bailouts, tax breaks and loopholes is corporatism.
Taxation is needed (on the middle-class) to fund the Military. Other than that, I might agree with you.
Gloominary wrote: I describe myself as a social libertarian, I'm a socialist on economic issues but a libertarian on social issues not a progressive.
While there should be more socialism, we need to balance it with capitalism, not micromanage the economy.
All megacorps need to be nationalized and unionized or heavily taxed and regulated to ensure employees are paid fairly and the health and safety of employees and consumers.
However, small businesses should be tax exempt and minimally regulated.
There should only be welfare for small businesses, not big.
In the western world, the system we have today could best be characterized as progressive fascism, because like fascists the deep state are corporatists, imperialists, plutocrats and against privacy, due process and so called recreational drugs.
Again, it looks to me like you are simply Anti-Capitalist and Anti-Corporatist, not necessarily "Socialist".
I think you might have the wrong idea bout Socialism, for better or worse.
Urwrongx1000
Socialism and "Progressivism" are slightly different ideals.
Progressivism is Socialism "of the 21st Century". Progressivists believe in Egalitarian moral-values, that, homosexuals should be "married" and races should mix, for a variety of reasons. Progressivism is a huge slice and component of 'Modernism', if not the main core of it. Progressivists believe that "evil-whitey" is to blame for everything, and the world can only "move forward" with non-white, non-male leadership. However, Progressivists never explain the disparity of "Leadership". When challenged, it's always a backpedal into a bad argument, that "we've always been oppressed", as a means to explain the lack of Leadership from women and minorities. So, this begs-the-question, why are white-males still the De Facto 'leaders' of, arguably, all important matters in life???
Socialism is Morality. How should people interact and relate with each-other? Should a Society be Homogeneous (genetically close) or Heterogeneous (genetically distant)? Many "Socialists" are Liberal-hypocrites. They say one thing, but do another. Or they do one thing, but think another. This fallacious thinking appears as, "Do as I say, not as I do". So Progressivists and Socialists are generally untrustworthy. To proclaim Social-values, and actually follow them, is usually the realm of Religion. Religion preaches that your actions and words must coincide. So Socialists are similar to Judæo-Christians, except, Socialists don't necessarily follow the 'Rules' they wish they could impose onto anybody-else.
Ecmandu wrote: I think you're taking those demarcations too far.
Sure you can ignore the context entirely and focus only on the derivation of the name to sum up an entire economic model with extensive literature about it.
I mean Communism has plenty in common with Capitalism too, so should we just say that they're the same thing too?
This way you can reduce all Communists to desiring a single small subsistence commune and suggest they go join a small-holding and leave everyone else to it - like so many people do.
Capitalism works best post-Feudalism, and is great for getting the poor out of poverty and kick-starting a technological age, but it becomes toxic after this is achieved - the aim isn't then to regress all the way back to the start, it's to devolve power yet one more step: having been passed all the way down from the autocracy of tribalism, through feudal lords, through capitalists, to the working class so everyone can actually enjoy the fruits of previous steps in the Historical Materialism chain.
Direct Democracy finally becomes possible... but u wouldn't call urself a communist even though that's what you're after, yes? The same as countless others who simply don't know...
Every thread on this subject is the same, nobody's read up on the subject, but they're all so eager to tie in Communism either with its opposite: State Totalitarianism, Social Democracy (which is what we already have), Progressivism (individual communes could stoop to that if they wanted, but couldn't force it on others because there's no centralised power, or prevent anyone from moving to another commune if they didn't like it), or Socialism (which is simply a transition from Capitalism to Communism according to Lenin).
The insistence to misunderstand and spread misunderstanding of the solution, which pretty much everyone is after anyway, is the definition of stupidity.
by Gloominary » Wed Sep 04, 2019 12:39 am
Ecmandu wrote: We all know this, but it's worth mentioning...
The rich steal from the poor through governmental corporate welfare.
Yeah, that just needs to stop. Like, right now.
Right, increasingly we live in an oligopoly, not a free and/or social market.
In the last several decades the rich have gotten richer and poor poorer, despite largely uninterrupted economic growth and technological advancement.
Sure, we all have flashy phones and tablets now, but in terms of necessities like food and housing, the standard of living has declined for working/middle class people.
Price inflation has outpaced wage inflation.
It's not enough to merely prevent future theft.
We need to take our wealth and power back from these megacorps.
It's ludicrous to permit one or a handful of men to fully own and wield a megacorp with a revenue bigger than the revenues of some countries, with millions of people dependent on it for goods, services and a livelihood.
It stifles and undermines democracy and competition.
It's ludicrous that it takes working/middle class couples both working full time to support a small household.
If corporate and technological sophistication just means less money for necessities but more consumerism and flashy tech, at least for the rich, then what's the point?
Might as well turn the clock back a century or two.
At least then we won't need to consume all this crap, much of it bad for the environment as well as our health.
by Gloominary » Wed Sep 04, 2019 1:31 am
I am too.
That being said, we still need to elect admins to administer it.
While I think in time we'll be able to supplant the legislative branch with direct democracy, we may still need an executive branch to make quick decisions and give executive orders, and a judicial branch to determine what's constitutional.
Not sure, haven't looked into it enough yet.
But if so, of course the people should be able to directly challenge executive orders after the executive branch has made them, and make direct amendments to the constitution.
Anyway it's an interesting topic, direct democracy would probably lead to a freer and fairer market and society.
A couple other things I disagree with many other social democrats and democratic socialists about besides globalism, progressivism and what I see as the overregulation of small businesses, is I believe in arming citizens and militias.
I want to reduce the wealth gap between the people, small businesses and big business, but also the power gap between the people, local governments and big government.
I'm for giving provinces/states more rights.
In my view, you can't really have a functional democracy when (nearly) most of the wealth and power are in the hands of big business and government.
I'm skeptical of big business and government, but in favor of using either big or local governments to go after big business.
The people should hold the overwhelming majority of both the wealth, and power.
Lastly, I'm in favor of a more stable technological economy.
If we're to have any growth at all, it should be slow and sustainable.
I'm against the transnaturalists who want to overturn nature overnight, which could result in a mass extinction event.
I'm against the transhumanists who want to commit self-extinction by transforming ourselves beyond recognition.
To me if anything technology should aid us in preserving what we are, and we can't do that by doing away with nature altogether.
Really many or most scientists aren't naturalists, they're transnaturalists, they have no respect for nature.
Nationalism to me means just putting citizens first ahead of foreigners, it doesn't mean discriminating against minorities.
It's not our job to fix the world's problems, we got enough of our own.
I believe in protecting ourselves and closest allies from an overt attack, but that's it, no pre-emptive strikes, no war on or for drugs and terror.
if some states are really, truly sponsoring terror out there, and it's not just false intelligence, we'll deal with it just by sanctioning and isolating them.
A lot of foreign aid is just used to manipulate the 3rd world and unnecessarily expand the size of government.
Much of our foreign aid goes to Israel, and I don't consider it a (close) ally.
Geographically it's far away.
Ask not what we can do for Israel, but what Israel can do for us.
Israel, and its expansionist, racist government, does nothing but encourage our countries to commit suicide and stoke tensions between us and Muslims.
I'm anti-immigration, but if people come here, they should speak our language, know and respect our customs and have something to contribute.
They should be capable of creating jobs, not just competing for them.
I'm not a vegan or vegetarian, but I'm against animal cruelty and hunting endangered species.
I'm in favor of doing more to protect oceans and national parks, but skeptical of manmade climate change or it being a problem and against austerity measures.
Ecmandu wrote: Communism is literally "communal decision making", which perfectly describes many (not all) indigenous tribes.
Communism has been defined somewhat differently by different schools of thought, which's not to say the word is meaningless, because all these definitions have something in common, like shared ownership, but which's is to say no single school has a monopoly on it.
We needn't be bound by Marxist definitions.
For me, communism, like socialism and corporatism is strictly about ownership or distribution of property, not life and liberty.
Communism is about the people (they could be any people, a small tribe of dozens of animists, a large tribe of millions of atheists) sharing ownership of (virtually) all property, by contrast socialism is shared ownership of (virtually) all commerce and corporatism is say a small % of people owning (virtually) all property or commerce.
Capitalism is private property, then there's state property.
Some anarchoindividualists promote private possession (not to be conflated with private property) and Stirnerite egoists no property (might makes right).
Theoretically you can have private or state communism, socialism and corporatism.
There are all kinds of ways of trying to achieve these economic forms, and ideas about what kind of societies they could or should accompany.
There are also gradations between them.
Communism can work well for families and small tribes, altho small tribes tend to be polygamous, infight and outfight over women rather than stuff.
Can democratic or anarcho-communism work for a big tribe like ours?
I wouldn't bet on it.
by promethean75 » Wed Sep 04, 2019 4:15 pm
Yup and stirner's egoism - which was a direct response to the dominant hegelian thought at the time - was viewed as a dangerous prototype philosophy that would usher in capitalism. Marx recognized that hegel's idealism could not contend with stirner's scathing criticism, and it's said somewhere (can't remember where), that this contributed to marx's drive to split from hegel and develop a purely materialistic philosophy. You might say that stirner got the ball rolling back then. The young hegelians came to see him as the great dragon that had to he slayed...
After reading The Ego, Engels wrote to Marx explicitly stating his opinion, one which would powerfully colour Stirner’s legacy: We must not simply cast it [The Ego] aside, but rather use it as the perfect expression of the present-day folly, and, while inverting it, continue to build on it. Marx responded by burying himself in The Ego, and constructing his reply in The German Ideology. For Marx and Engels, coming to terms with The Ego was a deeply fundamental moment in the development of Communist theory.
by barbarianhorde » Wed Sep 04, 2019 5:54 pm
Gloominary wrote: I'm not a vegan or vegetarian, but I'm against animal cruelty and hunting endangered species.
Austerity measures will only enhance animal cruelty in big crowded meat factories.
Supremely interesting in fact.
Where can this be read?
Thats then basically the unresolved tension in our world, the West. The invisible yet explicit Ego of the Left.
So then the Ego became the Lacanian Real vis a vis the leftist economy of pleasure.
quote was taken from here: https://www.unionofegoists.com/authors/ ... -and-marx/
essentially marx was so moved by stirner's devastating attack on 'philosophy' that he was simultaneously intrigued and terrified. so he did what any innovative thinker would do; dismantle it before it turned the whole world into a shit-storm, and then put it back together for use against the bourgeois concepts of history that rested so firmly on the philosophical nonsense that supplanted it. so stirner was good and bad; good in demolishing the philosophical idealism/rationalism that elevated the ruling classes over the productive classes, bad in doing such a fantastic job at it, that the almost impossible task of re-centering egoism in favor of history and the proletariat - rather than descending into nihilism - would require a sustained attack on philosophy through the marxist materialists. a culmination of this movement arrives in positivism, wittgenstein, and the 'ordinary language' philosophers.
regarding the lacan question, yeah, sorta. what we have today are not spontaneous philosophical questions that arise from nowhere in the heads of philosophers. language is literally like a logocentric superstructure that designs and contains the anatomy of all possible questions... so that today, when doing philosophy, one is absentmindedly participating in an ideology that involves all kinds of presuppositions that are taken for granted. a great example would be nationalistic philosophies that are grounded in social darwinism. this is neither a science or a philosophy, but rather a series of hackneyed attitudes held by conservatives. i think it was lacan who said 'ideology; they don't know it, but they are doing it.' what this might mean here is that such pseudo-philosophy has become so entrenched in modern thinking that in order to dispel its mythology, you'd have to demolish centuries of thought.
all this only has currency in marxist terms; that the ideas of each epoche are established by the ruling classes. ergo, capitalism mobilizes a vast series of pseudo-philosophical truisms in its attempt to rationalize and defend itself. the presuppositions of philosophies upholding this ideology were both destroyed and preserved by stirner. by reducing all institutions down to 'spooks', he set the ego free... but in doing so he opened the door for radical, amoral individualism... precisely the kind we see at the foundation of western capitalist theory.
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Sunday the 18th August 37 cars with the presence of 45 members and approximately 120 family and friends, participated in the 2013 Shannons Eastern Creek Classic at the Sydney Motorsport Park. The day was perfect. An abundance of sunshine and an atmosphere long to be remembered! 2 of our members, Emmanual Ziino and Giovanni Ciampa, entered their cars in the Presidents concourse and we are happy to announce that they both picked up awards for the 1951-1960 & 1961-1970 respective classes! Congratulations guys! Our club was the 2nd group to parade around the international raceway. We were commended in the manner in which we moved off from our display area, then onto the marshalling pitt and moved onto the track in an orderly manner (without any assistance from the marshalls) - worthy of an award! The parade was the most colourful and diverse of the entire day...everything from Abarths to Zagatos, sedans, wagons, coupes, spiders, 2 doors & 4 door classics! At the conclusion of our parade, each car was moved back to the display area in a very efficient manner, again worthy of an award! Before too long, boots began to pop and eskies began to appear, producing a morning tea fit for royalty! It was certainly a day where our cars, with our members and friends, attracted the attention of like minded people. Many visitors exclaiming how wonderful our display looked. Many took notice of the sweet sound of the high revving Italian stallions, creating a special interest in our fine tuned Italian specialties! We proudly acknowledge the commaraderie of our club and the special effort of each member to have created an impact on the day, reflecting the contribution that the ITALIAN MADE SOCIAL MOTORING CLUB makes for the "historic car movement" in every public appearance. Well done ladies and gentlemen of IMSMC. An award winning performance!
What a day! Sunday 11th August 2013, a perfect spring day in the middle of winter! Sydney put on a day that will be long remembered! 35 IMSMC vehicles lined the streets of Five Dock, along with many Italian stalls containing food, wine and other items from all over Italy, celebrating FERRAGOSTO 2013! The celebrations were attended by at least 75000 people. Our cars arrived at 8.30AM and were in position by 9AM. The cars were presented by the owners in spectacular form - colours from a bygone era! Our display attracted many people and the questions followed. The IMSMC bancarella (stall) was looked after by the women/staff and our "club juniors", doing a fantastic job of selling our merchandise and promoting our club! Short black coffee along with brioche and other pastries were enjoyed by many. Lunch was a difficult choice as the food was in abundance. The home-made gnocchi were great..a number of members were seen eating the traditional porchetta roll (some twice in the day!!) while others had pizza and a variety of pasta, and other dishes (too many to list here). A few members were seen having light refreshments at the corner pub - of course the location of our display was strategically placed! As the day rolled on, many members were involved in discussion, laughter and smiles, as the interest in our club and cars continued throughout the remainder of the afternoon. Great to see the great number of members that could not attend all day, come to see us throughout the day! A very successful event. We would like to thank all of our members and friends that attended, and congratulate everyone, including the staff at Canada Bay Council on a tremendous effort and result! On a sad note - Ricky Daniele died on stage doing what he loved best. You will remember that Ricky provided our floor show at our 2012 Ball....On behalf of IMSMC, we offer Ricky's family our condolences. He was a true ICON for Italo Australians and he will be sadly missed.
AGM 2012/2013
On Friday 2nd August our Annual General Meeting for 2012/2013 was held at Club Marconi. 70 members and family participated in the meeting, which was also an "official" 5th birthday celebration for IMSMC! President of Club Marconi, Mr Vince Foti, formally opened the meeting and congratulated our efforts and results. We have a wonderful association with Club Marconi - their support is greatly appreciated and reciprocated. Once the formalities were presented, the new committee was announced. We would like to thank Mr Joe Lecce, a foundation member of IMSMC, who stepped down from his committee position, welcoming Rose Cara into the position. Welcome Rose, we look forward to working with you and implementing your ideas! The traditional pasta meal was supplied to everyone, courtesy of IMSMC, including a 5th birthday cake (another one)! Our club raffle was held...we would like to thank our sponsors of the night - Prodata Pty Limited,Gerardo & Frances Mediati, Giovanna & Tony Romeo, Lino & Oriana De Iulio and IMSMC for the prizes. Members were invited to express their ideas which are always welcome. Accolades were many! Member Charlie Losinno was presented with the President's award for 2012/2013, as Charlie has attended 100% of club events, including 100% of committee meetings and club surveys. A true reflection of an IMSMC passionista! thanks Charlie A number of club AV presentations were viewed by all. These were prepared by Daniel, Christian & Gabriella Cipri (Losinno grandchildren) - thank you to them! A 5 year summary DVD was viewed, summarising 2008-2012 inclusive, organised by yours truly! certainly great memories! The opportunity to purchase this DVD is open to all members. It has been a pleasure being associated with a wonderful group of passionate members of which, i believe, to be the most active motoring club of Sydney..possibly the state (maybe even the country)! THANK YOU EVERYONE!
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Maryland criminal law prohibits surreptitious one-party recordings and using such recordings for tortuous or criminal purposes. In the summer of 2009, James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles illegally recorded the conversations of two employees of the Baltimore ACORN office based on a ruse, and then edited those recordings for publication on Breitbart's website with misleading and simply false commentary accusing ACORN and its employees of engaging in illegal activity.
The uproar caused by the edited recordings harmed ACORN, resulted in loss of funding, investigations and eventual bankruptcy. Those investigations by two attorney generals, the GAO and the House Judiciary Committee all determined that ACORN did not act in the manner portrayed in the edited recordings. The Attorney General of California, in order to get to the truth, granted O'Keefe and Giles immunity from criminal prosecution in exchange for the full unedited recordings of their recordings in California. Attorney General Jerry Brown said, in finding that the tapes presented a false portrayal of ACORN: "The evidence illustrates that things are not always as partisan zealots portray them through highly selective editing of reality, Sometimes a fuller truth is found on the cutting room floor."
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When in InterCon, You Are in Beltoise Territory
InterContinental General Manager
Didier Beltoise
By Oh Young-jin
InterContinental Hotels around the world provide the comfort sought by travel-weary executives. Their foyers are bright, the rooms clean, and food and service good.
The chain, however, is not a Waldorf Astoria when it comes to reputation or on par with ryokan (traditional Japanese inns) for up-close-and-personal service ― or say they say.
For travelers and diners who hold on to this typecast image about the hotel chain, try the InterContinental hotels in Seoul.
Chances are such patrons will encounter a meticulously-attired Frenchman during their stay. If they happen to spend a minute or so with him, it would be made plain that the InterContinentals are aiming to reach those lofty standards.
That Frenchman is Didier Beltoise, general manager of the Grand InterContinental and COEX InterContinental Seoul.
For patrons interested in spotting Beltoise from among the usual hotel crowd, the first thing they have to do is find somebody made conspicuous by an inconspicuous palette of colorful attire.
For instance, Beltoise would prefer to wear a color like ``brick red'' rather than fire engine red.
It goes without saying that, by opting for pastel-colored looks, he wants to blend in with the background and look less assertive all for the purpose of making his hotels look better.
That kind of thoughtfulness is made even more obvious when he talks.
He would be reluctant to talk about local politics at first or any other issues of potential controversy in a country that he happens to have a tour of duty in.
But that does not mean that he is trying to be on the safe side or is ignorant of goings-on. It is apparent that the last thing he wants to do is act or sound like an arrogant foreigner.
"I am a Frenchman with a global mind," he would say.
Beltoise has been on overseas assignments for 30 years.
He would say that he would be willing to support not just his national team but also a team of the nation he is assigned to, if the two match up in the World Cup football final.
That is something that one would not expect to hear from a Frenchman. That kind of dedication is a reason why InterContinentals in Seoul can strive to be among the world's best hotels.
Regarding Korean politics, he can be as passionate as anybody. The beauty is that he knows how to restrain himself. Maybe one or two of his patrons would wonder if Beltoise can maintain his cool after a few drinks.
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Local and provincial governments “will have to play a leading role in setting the development agenda for their regions, which requires a number of things, including greater autonomy for them to make relevant decisions in certain areas, such as setting local policies that do not interfere with the national strategies,” he said.
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Louisiana’s Changing Political Climate (1985)
Genre: Newsmagazine
Place Covered: Washington, D.C.
Subjects: Politics | Government | United States. Congress | Long, Russell B. | Moore, W. Henson, 1939- | Roemer, Buddy | Breaux, John B. | Elections, 1986 | Livingston, Robert L., 1943- | Johnston, J. Bennett (John Bennett), 1932- | Tauzin, Billy, 1943- | Boggs, Lindy, 1916-2013 | Huckaby, Jerry | Gray, William H., III
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Long, Russell Interviewee
Moore, Henson Interviewee
Roemer, Buddy Interviewee
Breaux, John Interviewee
Livingston, Bob Interviewee
Johnston, J. Bennett Interviewee
Tauzin, Billy Interviewee
Boggs, Lindy Interviewee
Huckaby, Jerry Interviewee
Gray, William Interviewee
This episode of the series “Louisiana: The State We’re In” from March 29, 1985, features a special report by Robyn Ekings and Ken Johnson from Washington, D.C., on the Louisiana Congressional Delegation’s thoughts on Louisiana’s changing political climate following the death of Congressman Gillis Long, the pending retirement of United States Senator Russell Long, and the indictment of Governor Edwin Edwards. Ekings first reports on Senator Russell Long’s decision to retire at the end of his term and the upcoming 1986 election to fill his seat. She interviews: Senator Long; Congressman Henson Moore, a candidate in the 1986 Senate election; Congressman Buddy Roemer, a possible candidate; and Congressman John Breaux, a possible candidate. Next, Johnson reports on the efforts of the Louisiana Congressional Delegation to combat the state’s negative national image following the indictment of Governor Edwards, the state’s history of political corruption, the financial failure of the 1984 World’s Fair in New Orleans, and the possible relocation of the New Orleans Saints. His report includes highlights of a speech given by Congressman Roemer on the House floor highlighting the positive aspects of Louisiana. Johnson also interviews: Congressman Bob Livingston; United States Senator J. Bennett Johnston; Congressman Billy Tauzin; Congresswoman Lindy Boggs; and Congressman Jerry Huckaby. Lastly, Ekings profiles Congressman William Gray of Pennsylvania, the new chairman of the House Budget Committee. Gray, a native of Baton Rouge, discusses his childhood memories of growing up in Louisiana.
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Louisiana at a Crossroads (1985)
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The Cluster Dragon Project is located 66 km northeast of the cities of La Serena and Coquimbo, in the precordillerano sector of the Province of Elqui, La Higuera district, Chile, around important mining projects in the districts of Cupriferous and Auriferous.
The Project is close to important road infrastructure and to Puerto Cruz Grande (CAP), as well as concentrating and leaching metallurgical treatment plants.
The first exploration works that occurred in the area are those of Tapia (1992) and Valdebenito (1998), whose reports deal mainly with the Cecilia, Cármen, La Carlita and Colorado Mines, which correspond to Au veins located in the area. North of Aquarius.
Orion Ltda. (2001) analyzes samples for geochemistry and compares the mineralized system to Cármen de Andacollo and Dayton.
As of 2003, geological mapping, geochemical sampling and magnetometric measurements were carried out, which increased the prospective interest of the Dragon Cluster.
In the year 2010 Sumitomo Metal Mining Chile Ltda. (SMMC) obtained an option for the property, carrying out studies of geophysics, geochemical sampling, geological mapping and diamond drilling, which detected hipogenous mineralization of copper porphyry type with 0.2% – 0.3% Cu and intercepts isolated up to 0.89% Cu.
Currently, the company is exploring the less explored targets of the Project and is also performing a reinterpretation of historical information for better understanding and reduction of risks in exploration.
The Dragon Cluster Project is located in the Eocene-Oligocene Metallogenic Strip, with a Cu-Au (Mo) porphyry mineralization, with an associated epithermal system
The project is composed of 5 zones of hydrothermal alteration of prospective interest corresponding to Taurus, Aries, Aquarius, Central Alpha and Scorpion.
To date, the project has significant progress in exploration, with the completion of geophysical studies of Magnetometry and IP; a multi-element ICP geochemical sampling on the surface of the rock and the drilling of more than 24,000 m of diamond drilling.
STUDIES (Click to enlarge the photo)
Interpretation of Probes
Target “Tauro”, present intersectos of 0.89%Cu and 0.92g/t Au.
“Aries” present intersectos of 0,69%Cu and 0,27g/t Au.
They have been identified in the Dragon Cluster Inferred resources of the order of 80Mt @ 0.38% Cu Equiv (Cu + Au), and according to the intersects identified and the geological model defined for the project, a Potential of 350- 400 Mt @ 0.80% Cu Equiv (Cu + Au).
Mineral bodies identified “open” in depth and with lateral continuity.
Initiating exploration in targets not explored (Central Alpha).
Re-studying and re-interpreting historical information to better understand and reduce risks in exploration.
Las Ñipas Mineral Company is in the search to initiate strategic alliances that allow to continue and deepen the exploration of its Dragon Cluster Project.
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Research Article | January 2005
Suppression of monocular visual direction under fused binocular stimulation: Evoked potential measurements
Anthony M. Norcia; Suzanne P. McKee; Yoram Bonneh; Mark W. Pettet
Anthony M. Norcia
Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco, CA, USAhttp://www.ski.org/AMNorcia_labamn@ski.org
Suzanne P. McKee
Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco, CA, USAhttp://www.ski.org/SPMcKee_lab/suzanne@ski.org
Yoram Bonneh
Department of Neurobiology, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israelhttp://www.weizmann.ac.il/home/masagi/yoram.htmlYoram.Bonneh@weizmann.ac.il
Mark W. Pettet
Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco, CA, USAhttp://www.ski.org/pettet@ski.org
Journal of Vision January 2005, Vol.5, 4. doi:https://doi.org/10.1167/5.1.4
Anthony M. Norcia, Suzanne P. McKee, Yoram Bonneh, Mark W. Pettet; Suppression of monocular visual direction under fused binocular stimulation: Evoked potential measurements. Journal of Vision 2005;5(1):4. doi: https://doi.org/10.1167/5.1.4.
Visual evoked potentials (VEPs) were recorded in response to a vernier onset/offset target presented to one eye that was combined with matching static targets in the other eye. The monocular response was dominated by a negative peak at 160 ms that occurred after a set of offsets was introduced into a one-dimensional random bar pattern. The static targets produced no discernible VEP response by themselves, but when fused binocularly with the oscillating vernier target, they produced shifts in perceived visual direction that influenced the VEP response. A vernier target fused with static vertical bars was perceived to alternate in depth between a flat surface and one broken into two interleaved surfaces. The response to this “surface-breaking” was as large or larger than the response to the monocular vernier offset. This response was much reduced when the oscillating vernier was fused with a static offset vernier (5′ offset) that produced a percept of segregated regions moving in depth. Apparently, the VEP is strongly driven by shifts in visual direction that alter surface, texture, or contour contiguity.
The lateral placement of the eyes in humans and other species presents each eye with a slightly different view of the world. This disparity between the two images provides the brain with information that can be used to compute depth via stereopsis. The slightly different views also present something of a problem-the brain must assign a unique visual direction to objects to guide action in the environment. The assignment of a single visual direction (allelotropia; von Tschermak-Seysenegg, 1952) involves recoding into a nonretinotopic representation. This recoding is associated with the suppression of sensitivity to monocular displacements. For example, oscillatory motion thresholds are lower when the half-images oscillate in-phase (translation) compared to when they are in anti-phase (i.e., motion in depth) (Sumnall & Harris, 2002; Tyler, 1971; Tyler & Cavanagh, 1991; Westheimer, 1990). Similarly, the half-images of a motion-in-depth stimulus (equal and opposite lateral motions) are much more easily detected amidst noise than their fused combination (Harris, McKee, & Watamaniuk, 1998; Harris & Sumnall, 2000).
McKee and Harrad (1993) found that monocular vernier acuity was much higher than when the same vernier target was interocularly paired with an offset vernier target that produced a standing disparity of 4 arcmin between the upper and lower lines of the target. The precise information about visual location provided by one half-image was lost in the fused binocular combination. McKee and Harrad referred to this phenomenon as “fusional suppression” to distinguish it from other forms of interocular suppression, such as rivalry and the constant suppression found in strabismus.
Taken together, all these results indicate that the visual system has little access to the monocular components of binocularly fused targets, even if the monocular signals provide better information about motion or position. The visual system thus appears to sacrifice some sensitivity to monocular information in favor of single binocular vision.
In the present study, we recorded visual evoked potentials in a variant of the McKee and Harrad task. The goal of the study was to determine if there is an analogous reduction in the evoked response under conditions that support fusion with an accompanying shift in visual direction, and if so, whether all or only part of the response is suppressed. We find that the monocular response to vernier offset is strongly reduced by the introduction of a standing disparity between the target components, especially at later time points. This suppression is not due simply to the presence of a high-contrast image in the other eye (dichoptic contrast masking) because suppression is not observed when there is no standing disparity offset.
Eleven visually normal adult observers participated, one of whom was excluded due to poor signal-to-noise ratio. Each observer had a visual acuity in each eye of 6/6 or higher and demonstrated normal stereopsis on the Frisby free-space stereo-test and on a random-dot stereoacuity test. Informed consent was obtained from each observer, and the research reported here complied with the principles set forth in the Helsinki Declaration.
Dichoptic viewing was obtained using anaglyphs projected onto a high-gain screen via an Infocus Lite Pro 720 (Experiment 1) or a Sanyo PLC-XU30 LCD projector. Each half-image (red and blue) was generated on alternate video lines of an 800 X 600 pixel raster. Interlacing allowed for 8 bits of brightness resolution for each color. The video frame rate was 72 Hz. Red and blue dichroic, additive color-separation filters (OCLI, Inc., Santa Rosa, CA) were used. Each filter transmitted more than 85% of the light in its pass-band. Transmission dropped to 50% at 592 and 493 nanometers for the red and blue filters, respectively. Cross-talk was not visible psychophysically. It should be noted that these levels of cross-talk were not obtainable with LCD flat panel displays or CRTs. A −0.5-diopter lens was placed in front of the eye with the blue-pass filter to compensate for the difference in focus between red and blue channels caused by chromatic aberration. Luminances through the filters were measured photometrically for each color, and separate gamma correction curves were calculated to both linearize the contrast response of each color channel and to balance the luminances across eyes.
Rise- and fall-times of the Infocus 720 display.
LCD displays differ from conventional CRTs because digital reprocessing of the synch and video signals inside the projector causes a delay between the update of the video memory and the opening of the LCD shutter in front of the lamp. Moreover, the LCD takes different amounts of time to go from opaque to clear and vice versa.
We measured the processor and shutter delays for the Infocus 720 with a PIN diode (Figure 1). The processor delays are between 5 and 10 ms with the projectors we have used, based on the time it takes for the light output to change after an update. Secondly, the shutter opening is not instantaneous, but has a rise-time of 40–60 ms on opening and a fall-time of 30–40 ms. Light output was equal on rise and fall phases of the shutter at 20 ms after the video D/A is updated.
Temporal characteristics of the InFocus LCD projector. Rise-time (filled symbols) and fall-time (open symbols) were measured by digitizing the output of a linear photo-diode. Opening and closing of the shutter are delayed relative to the updating of video memory by digital processing delays within the projector and by the characteristics of the liquid crystal shutter.
Temporal modulation transfer function
We also measured temporal modulation transfer functions (gain and phase curves) for the Infocus 720 projector. The gain (contrast vs. temporal frequency) characteristic of the display is shown in Figure 2A. Contrast was maintained to within 20% of nominal up to approximately 10 Hz. The phase versus frequency plot shown in Figure 2B is linear and is consistent with a delay of 17-ms delay for a 72-Hz raster. This value was computed by dividing the slope of the phase plot by 360 deg. This value is similar to the 20-ms time of equal light output on rise and fall phases, and for convenience we have used a 20-ms correction for all wave-form data.
Frequency-domain characteristics of the Infocus LCD projector. The contrast of a very low spatial-frequency grating was modulated in a square-wave fashion over a range of temporal frequencies. Light output was measured using synchronous detection. Gain is normalized to 1-Hz output. A. Gain decreases with increasing temporal frequency. B. Phase shows a progressive shift consistent with a 17-ms constant delay at each frequency.
VEP stimulation protocol
The experiments made use of a reference response technique, in which the same temporally modulated pattern was presented to one eye in all stimulus conditions. The reference or “test” pattern consisted of a high-contrast (70–80% contrast) broadband random bar pattern into which a set of 5 vernier offsets was periodically introduced and withdrawn every 500 ms (stimulus frequency of 1 Hz). In the monocular condition, this image was presented alone and the other eye viewed a blank field, as illustrated schematically in Figure 3 (left). In the remaining conditions, static, fusable patterns were presented to the other eye. These patterns did not generate an evoked response, but their effects were observed as modifications of the response to the constant reference stimulus in the other eye.
Schematic illustration of stimuli. The top panels show schematic stereo half-images for each of the three main stimulus conditions. T1 and T2 indicate the two states of the display, which alternate at 1 Hz. All stimuli were composed of random-bar patterns. In the monocular and zero disparity conditions, segmented bands appear and disappear from a uniform patterned background. In the 5-arcmin pedestal condition, the bands are always segregated from the static background panels. The bottom panels show a top-down view of the motion of a single bar (indicated by the lines between T1 and T2) in the modulated part of the stimulus for monocular (left),binocular zero disparity pedestal (center), and binocular 5-arcmin pedestal (right) conditions.
In one condition, the static target was a full-field version of the test pattern presented without any vernier off-sets (Panum’s limiting case; Figure 3, center). When viewed binocularly, the observer saw a pattern consisting of bands of static, zero disparity bars that alternated with bands that moved in depth from a collinear background (zero disparity) to a small disparate offset in front of the static bands (crossed 5-min disparity). This offset size is at least 10 times threshold for the VEP (Norcia et al., 1999). In a second type of condition, standing disparities were created by introducing vernier offsets in the static image in the other eye (Figure 3, right). This pedestal created images that matched the dynamic stimulus in all respects, except that a static vernier offset was introduced in correspondence with the moving portions of the pattern in the other eye. In these conditions, the disparate bands appeared to float in front of the static band and move in depth from 5 to 10 arcmin of crossed disparity. Field size was 20-deg wide by 15-deg high at a viewing distance of 190 cm. The vernier offset sections were 2.5-deg high, alternated with static sections of the same height.
VEP Recording
The EEG was recorded at 432 Hz over an amplifier bandwidth of 0.3 to 100 Hz (−6 dB) using Grass Instruments model P-511 amplifiers. Recordings were made from O1, Oz, and O2, each referenced to Cz of the International 10–20 system. Electrode impedances were maintained below 5–10 kOhms.
Stimuli were presented in trials that lasted 11 s. The first second of the data record was discarded to avoid start-up transients. Trials were run in blocks of five over each stimulus condition, with two repetitions for a total of 10 trials (100 s) per condition. The order of presentation of the five trial blocks was randomized across conditions. A new random pattern was created at the beginning of each block.
Conventional time-locked averages were computed over 1000-ms time epochs. In the records presented below, the first transition was from the misaligned state to vernier alignment, the second transition at 500 ms was from the aligned state to the offset state (considered in terms of the dynamic half-image). Difference potentials were calculated and the statistical significance of the difference at each time point was tested using permutation methods described in the 1. The permutation testing procedure accounts for the correlation between time-samples and points of significant difference are indicated by black dots on the time-averages in Figures 4–6.
Group average (n = 7) data for the monocular and binocular 5-arcmin pedestal conditions. The left-hand panels plot amplitude spectra, with the data from the monocular condition plotted above the x-axis (black lines) and the binocular 5-arcmin pedestal condition plotted below the x-axis (gray lines). The response is composed of a series of spikes at exact integer multiples of the 1-Hz stimulus frequency. The addition of the disparate pedestal reduces the amplitude of the evoked response, particularly at low-response frequencies. The middle panels plot the waveforms for the two stimulus conditions using the same color coding. During the first half of the records, the stimulus was in the collinear state and in the second half, the test stimulus contained an offset (noncollinear). The addition of the disparate pedestal reduces the amplitude of the evoked response. Significant differences are indicated by solid circles on the wave-forms. Right panel. Difference potential for waveforms in the middle panel. The difference potential is maximal at about 170 ms after the introduction of the offset in the test pattern. Electrode locations were O1, Oz, and O2. Time zero is with respect to actual display update.
Group average (n = 7) data for the monocular and binocular 0-arcmin pedestal conditions. The left-hand panels plot amplitude spectra, with the data from the monocular condition plotted above the x-axis (black lines) and the binocular 0-arcmin pedestal condition plotted below the x-axis (gray lines). The addition of the 0-disparity pedestal does not produce the general amplitude reduction seen with the 5-arcmin pedestal. The middle panels plot the waveforms for the two stimulus conditions using the same color coding. The addition of the 0-disparity pedestal produces a small reduction of the amplitude of the major negative peak, along with a latency shift. Significant differences are indicated by solid circles on the waveforms. Right. Difference potential for waveforms in the middle panel. The difference potential is maximal at about 150 ms after the introduction of the offset in the test pattern. Time zero is with respect to actual display update.
Group average (n = 7) data for the binocular 0-arcmin and binocular 5-arcmin pedestal conditions. The left-hand panels plot amplitude spectra, with the data from the monocular condition plotted above the x-axis (black lines), and the binocular 0-arcmin pedestal condition plotted below the x-axis (gray lines). The comparison of 0- and 5-arcmin conditions (middle panels) shows relatively larger late positive activity after the noncollinear to collinear transition (first half), as well as greater relative negativity after the collinear to noncollinear transition (second half). Significant differences are indicated by solid circles on the waveforms. Right. Difference potential for waveforms in the middle panel show the sustained relative positivity and the broad transient relative negativity. Time zero is with respect to actual display update.
Spectral analysis was performed with an adaptive filter technique (Tang & Norcia, 1995). Error statistics for these coherent or vector averages from individual observer data (Figure 9) were calculated using the methods described by Victor and Mast (1991). Grand averages were computed for both time averages and spectrum averages. For the adaptively filtered data, the spectrum averages were incoherent, that is an individual observer’s data was averaged as a scalar value number, independent of their response phase, and the error bars in Figures 7 and 8 are conventional SEMs. We also calculated discrete Fourier transforms of the time-averaged data at a spectrum resolution of 0.5 Hz (Figures 4–6, left panels).
Group average (n = 7) spectral data for the monocular, binocular 0, and binocular 5-arcmin pedestal conditions. A shows the pooled odd-harmonic responses, and B shows the pooled even-harmonic responses. The addition of a disparate 5-min pedestal (black bars) has the effect of lowering both odd and even harmonic components of the response relative to what is measured in either the monocular (white bars) or zero disparity (gray bars) pedestal conditions.
A. Effect of monocular viewing conditions (n = 5). Response amplitudes were larger with occlusion of the eye that did not receive the test (black) compared to that eye viewing a mean luminance field (mean). Responses from the binocular zero disparity condition (0 disp) are also shown for comparison. B. Disparity tuning of suppression. Disparate pedestals reduced the amplitude of both odd and even harmonic components. Suppression was constant over the range of 5 to 120 arcmin and was larger for odd (filled bars) versus even harmonics (open bars).
Effect of pedestal contrast on suppression magnitude. The contrast of a 5-arcmin disparate pedestal was varied over a 4:1 range (20 to 80%). The point at 0 contrast was monocular. Masking was constant for two observers when the first harmonic (1F) was measured (A), but increased with increasing pedestal contrast when the second harmonic (2F) was measured (B).
Time domain analyses
Grand average waveforms for seven observers are shown in Figure 4, contrasting the monocular (dark lines) and binocular 5-arcmin disparity conditions (gray lines). The difference potential is shown in the right panels, and the discrete Fourier transform of the waveform data is shown in the left panel. Time zero in Figures 4–6 is the display update, and the data have been shifted to account for the update latency of approximately 20 ms. The waveforms from O1, O2, and Oz are similar in each condition, with the monocular response consisting of a smaller multi-phasic response at the transition to the “make” state (alignment) and a larger multi-phasic response at the transition to the “break” state (misalignment). This asymmetry of the vernier onset/offset response was first reported by Levi, Manny, Klein, and Steinman (1983). This asymmetry of the response waveform leads to odd harmonics in the response spectrum.
When the image containing 5-arcmin offsets is added to the other eye, there is a small but nonsignificant suppression of the response at the make transition, and a larger, statistically significant suppression peaking 170 ms after the break transition (Figure 4). Suppression occurs without changing peak latencies.
Figure 5 compares grand average waveforms for the same seven observers in the monocular and zero disparity pedestal conditions. The results with the zero disparity pedestal differ from those in the 5-arcmin condition in that the amplitude of the peak at 670–170 ms is only mildly suppressed but it is shifted in latency by about 20 ms. Note that this display (second in Figure 3) appears to be shifting from a flat surface to a broken plane at the break transition. Generally, the response to the broken plane was similar in magnitude to the response to the broken contour (i.e., the vernier offset).
Photometric tests indicated that the image updating was not affected by the addition of the pedestals-the pedestal effects thus have a neural origin. The difference potential reflects the latency shift as a negative going potential peaking at ca 150 ms . In contrast to the 5-min offset condition, the difference potential is positive rather than negative after 180 ms. This was due to the activity centered around 280 ms being larger than the monocular control in the zero disparity condition, rather than being smaller as in the 5-arcmin condition.
Finally, Figure 6 compares the waveforms from the two binocular conditions that differ only in the standing disparity created by the pedestal. The pattern of results is very similar to that seen in Figure 4 where the monocular response was compared to that from the disparate pedestal condition. The standing disparity caused an overall suppression of response amplitudes without changing the peak latencies. In this comparison, significant differences are also seen about 300 ms after the make transition. There was a nonsignificant trend in this direction in Figure 4.
Analysis in the frequency domain
In the time domain, the monocular response to the on-set of vernier misalignment was substantially larger than the response at the return to alignment. The response itself is a complex waveform with peaks of different polarity and latency that are not directly interpretable in functional terms. Response peaks are a concatenation of responses to motion, vernier onset, and disparity, when present. However, by considering symmetry relationships, one can decompose the different response components in the frequency domain. The basic response asymmetry yields a response spectrum that contains both odd and even harmonics when temporally periodic stimuli are used (Norcia, Wesemann, & Manny, 1999). The odd-harmonic components are associated with a nonlinear response to the change in spatial configuration of the stimulus (the alignment-to-misalignment transition yields a different response than the reverse). Motion cues, local contrast changes, and any other processing that is common to the two states contribute to the even harmonics in the spectrum. Spectral analysis thus provides an alternative method of defining components based on their symmetry relationships, which in this context are related to figural (asymmetric component/odd-harmonics) and nonfigural (symmetric components/even harmonics) processing.
The addition of a disparate 5-min pedestal has the effect of lowering both odd and even harmonic components of the response relative to what is measured in either the monocular or zero disparity pedestal conditions (Figures 4 and 6). As aggregate measures of figural and nonfigural response components, we pooled the first 4 odd harmonics by taking the square root of the sum of their powers (quad-rature summation) and did the same for the first 4 even harmonics (Figure 7). A repeated measures multivariate ANOVA was used to test for differences between means. There was a significant effect of viewing condition (monocular, binocular 0 disparity, and binocular 5-min disparity; Wilk’s Lambda = 0.04, F(2,5) = 60.56, p < .001), and a significant interaction between viewing condition and the odd versus even harmonic measures (Wilk’s Lambda = 0.18, F(2,5) = 11.04, p = .015).
The interaction effect shown in Figure 7 is driven primarily by the fact that the addition of a nondisparate pedestal causes the odd-harmonics to increase relative to the monocular condition, while the opposite is true for the even harmonics. If one compares the amount of suppression across harmonics, one would conclude that odd-harmonics are relatively more suppressed by the disparate pedestal if the comparison was made to the zero disparity pedestal condition, but not if the comparison was made to the monocular condition.
What is the proper control condition for measuring suppression?
The original psychophysical studies of fusional suppression (McKee & Harrad, 1993) used a monocular condition for comparison. However, a number of our observers reported transient suppression of the test image when mean luminance fields were used in the monocular control condition, perhaps indicating transient rivalry suppression. In the next experiment, we compared mean luminance monocular controls with monocular controls in which the nonviewing eye was physically occluded. The data from this experiment are plotted in Figure 8A. Response amplitudes were larger with occlusion of the eye that did not receive the test, that is, there was a main effect of occlusion type (F(1,4) = 10.578, p = .031). Even harmonics were larger than odd harmonics (F(1,4) = 47.279, p = .002), but occlusion type did not interact with the harmonic being measured (F(1,4) = 0.117, p = .75). The binocular zero disparity pedestal may thus be a more stable control condition for comparison with disparate pedestals, because it does not induce rivalry.
Disparity tuning
McKee and Harrad (1993) found that the amount of suppression was maximal for disparities in the range of 4 to 20 arcmin. In a second experiment, we varied the pedestal disparity between 0 and 120 arcmin. One of the original seven observers participated, along with four new observers.
The disparity tuning function is shown in Figure 8B. Disparate pedestals reduced the amplitude of both odd and even harmonic components. We did not observe tuning over the range of 5 to 120 arcmin. Because of this, we collapsed the data from the 5 to 120 arcmin conditions and tested whether the odd and even harmonics were equally suppressed. As is evident from the figure, the odd harmonics were more suppressed than the even ones by the disparate pedestals; there was a significant disparity by harmonic interaction: F(1,4) = 9.876, p = .035). In McKee and Harrad (1993), single lines rather than extended targets were used. With line stimuli, once the disparity was so large as to be diplopic, the observer simply examined the vernier offset in one half-image and ignored the other. This diplopic percept of the isolated half-image may not be possible with our extended stimuli.
The role of dichoptic contrast masking
The fact that the pattern of interaction differs between the zero disparity and 5–120 arcmin disparity pedestals indicates that the suppression is not simply due to the presence of a high-contrast image in the other eye. One could still argue that the disparate pedestal images contain spectral components that are in the same spatial frequency and orientation bands as those that generate the test response and that dichoptic pattern masking occurs at these spatial frequencies and orientations.
To differentiate fusional suppression from dichoptic pattern masking, we varied the contrast of the static offset target, while keeping the contrast of the modulating pattern the same as in the previous experiments. Dichoptic contrast masking shows Weber law behavior (Legge, 1984), and if this is the mechanism underlying the suppression we observe, one would expect a proportionate reduction in masking as the static pattern contrast was lowered. As can be seen in Figure 9, there is no significant change in the odd harmonics with contrast reductions of up to a factor of almost 4. The masking of the even harmonics does show an effect of contrast: amplitudes increased in both observers as the contrast of the static pedestal decreased to zero (monocular case). Dichoptic contrast masking, thus, does not explain the suppression of the odd-harmonics, but may well account for the amplitude reduction of the even harmonics.
There have been numerous demonstrations of suppressive binocular interactions in the human VEP. In some of these cases, the two-half-images were not fusable and lead to rivalry (Apkarian, Levi, & Tyler, 1981; Brown, Candy, & Norcia, 1999; Brown & Norcia, 1997; Cobb, Morton, & Ettlinger, 1967; Lansing, 1964; Lennerstrand, 1978b; Norcia, Harrad, & Brown, 2000; Srinivasan, Russell, Edelman, & Tononi, 1999; Tononi, Srinivasan, Russell, & Edelman, 1998; Tyler & Apkarian, 1985; Valle-Inclan, Hackley, de Labra, & Alvarez, 1999). In others, the targets have been different in the two eyes, but presented too briefly to result in rivalry (Lehmann & Fender, 1967; Lehmann & Fender, 1968; Odom & Harter, 1983; Spekreijse, van der Tweel, & Regan, 1972; Towle, Harter, & Previc, 1980). Potentially fusable but nondisparate (flat binocular percept) targets have also been used (Brown et al., 1999; Harter, Seiple, & Musso, 1974; Harter, Towle, & Musso, 1976; Harter, Towle, Zakrzewski, & Moyer, 1977; Lennerstrand, 1978a; Norcia et al., 2000). The suppression observed for the even harmonics (Figure 9B) could be due to contrast masking, similar to that observed in these previous studies. We found that the magnitude of even harmonic suppression was dependent on contrast and the older literature has linked the strength of masking to various measures of stimulus salience. Contrast masking does not underlie the reduction of the odd-harmonics that is the strongest effect in our data (cf. Figure 9).
In our experiments with disparate pedestals, suppression is not observed until well after the evoked response has begun. The magnitude of suppression is maximal at about 200 ms and continues for another 200 ms. It is interesting that this time period is also when the zero disparity condition shows its greatest amplitude increase relative to the monocular condition (positive vs. negative difference potential, Figures 4 and 5. The time-course of suppression by a disparate pedestal appears to be later than previously reported in dichoptic masking studies. For example, Lehmann and Fender (1968) found masking of flash responses by static pattern at 120 ms and Harter et al. (1976) reported effects at 110 ms under similar conditions. de Labra and Valle-Inclan (2001) found rivalry suppression to take effect starting at 100 ms and Valle-Inclan et al. (1999) found effects as early as 70 ms in rivalry.
Surface-based interpretation of the suppression of the odd-harmonics
In the monocular vernier VEP response, it has been shown that the first harmonic component is likely to be a nonlinear term related to lateral interaction. That is, it is the difference frequency between the moving elements at F1 = 1 Hz and the static element at F2 = 0 Hz (cf. Zemon & Ratliff, 1984). This term is very sensitive to the relative position of static and moving elements. It goes away when the motion is symmetric (symmetric misalignment/misalignment) around the reference (Norcia et al., 1999), and it diminishes considerably when the moving elements are shifted laterally away from collinearity (asymmetric misalignment/misalignment; Zemon & Ratliff, 1982). This term also drops off rapidly when a gap is introduced between the static and moving elements (Norcia et al., 1999; Zemon & Ratliff, 1982). These results suggest that there is a position-selective form of lateral interaction that is specialized for continuous collinear stimuli. In our zero disparity condition, collinearity is broken in the monocular half-image, but with fusion, coplanarity is also broken. We would argue that coplanarity is the more general case. In the monocular case, asymmetric misalignment/misalignment does not evoke the lateral interaction term, notionally because the elements are out of range of the “collinear integration” system. In the disparate pedestal case, one could make an analogous argument that the modulation is between two non-coplanar states, neither of which activates the interaction that is centered on coplanarity.
Coplanarity is not available monocularly and perhaps the sensitivity of the “lateral interaction” to collinearity is a degenerate case of a more general sensitivity to 3D coplanarity. In the real world, vernier breaks are frequently, if not always, associated with depth discontinuities. Faults in real surfaces will typically have a range of depth offsets on either side of them. This may be the “generic view” of discontinuity, with pure vernier offset (no depth discontinuity) being a special case.
The form of the VEP to vernier onset also resembles that recorded in studies of texture segmentation (Bach & Meigen, 1992; Bach & Meigen, 1997; Lamme, Van Dijk, & Spekreijse, 1992), comprising a prominent negative peak around 160–180 ms. Texture segmentation stimuli all have position discontinuities at the texture boundaries, and these may be processed by a mechanism similar to the one that detects offsets in both 2D and 3D. Similar segmentation-related VEPs have been reported for boundaries defined by luminance, orientation motion, and disparity cues (Bach & Meigen, 1997), which also suggests a general purpose mechanism operating on either 2D or 3D inputs.
Coplanarity involves smoothly changing (slants or tilts) or nonchanging disparity (frontoparallel) gradients. Disparity information appears to be strongly pooled along smooth disparity gradients-Vreven, McKee, and Verghese (2002) have found that disparity increment threshold is poor when the increment is placed on a continuous surface, rather than being presented in isolation at the same standing disparity. This reduction of stereo increment thresholds on smooth surfaces may be a result of the nonlinear interaction observed in the present experiments.
Unlike collinearity, coplanarity cannot be defined in terms of two dimensions on the retina, and, therefore, is not definable on the 2D-cortical representation. The effect of gaps on vernier acuity and the vernier VEP and the windmill dartboard stimulus of Zemon and Ratliff have been interpreted as indicating the spatial scale of 2D-lateral connections. The gap effects on vernier acuity and the VEP are biggest over 3–10 arcmin, which maps onto a cortical distance about the size of a V1 hypercolumn, and previous studies have suggested that this is the fundamental limiting factor (Ratliff & Zemon, 1982). However, in our disparate case, the difference between the zero disparity case and the 5-min case is in the disparity domain, not in the 2D-retinal/cortical representation. Therefore, it is likely that this interaction is a disparity domain rather than a space domain interaction, where the coordinates of the stimuli are computed in three dimensions after the assignment of binocular visual direction (allelotropia). It is thus possible that this computation is done outside of first-tier visual areas where the representation is strongly retinotopic. This interpretation is consistent with the long latency of suppression we have observed.
This work was supported by National Institute of Health Grant EY12348, National Eye Institute Grant EY14138, and the Pacific Vision Foundation.
Corresponding author: Anthony M. Norcia. Email: amn@ski.org.
Address: Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Permutation testing of difference potentials
The significance of time-domain difference potentials was performed using a permutation test based on the work of Blair and Karniski (1993). Given a null hypothesis of no effect due to stimulus condition, the waveform responses for any two conditions from a given subject are exchangeable. Response waveforms were randomly exchanged for each individual in the pool of subjects from a given group. For this permutation sample, we calculated the mean difference potential and the T-value of this difference for each time point in the response waveform. Repeatedly re-randomizing the permutation of condition exchanges for each subject allowed us to accumulate a reference distribution of T-values. From each permutation sample, we noted the maximum T-value over all time points in the response waveforms, and accumulated these maximum T-values into a second reference distribution. The difference potential at a given time point in the original, unexchanged response data was deemed significant if its T-value exceeded 95% of those in the maximum T-value reference distribution.
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07/06/2011 | Filed under: general, personal and tagged with: Bus, express, rights
UPDATED 10/6: my letter as appears in freemalaysia today (didn’t see it appears in other media yet)
UPDATED 13/6: i had complained to the public complaints bureau, and the directed my complaints to the public land transport commission, and this commission had replied to me for further details, then said they will take appropriate action. they are quite efficient!
i was in pelntong, johor during the weekend for the society of st vincent de paul national youth convention. no of course i was not there as a participant as i’m no longer a youth. i was there as reporter, to write about the event to the herald and to our SSVP website. there were 9 of us from penang, who took the express bus to and fro.
from penang to JB, i bought the konsortium bus at RM55 per pax. super vip bus (24… or was it 28 seaters). leaving in the morning and was suppose to take 9 hours but it took 10 1/2 hours instead because it stop at puduraya to drop passengers, then it went round and round KLIA to pick passengers. i was told that the bus that goes direct, with no stop, is at RM70 or RM80.
ok no problem with the penang to JB bus journey (except the long hours journey) but oh boy, we experienced lots of problem with the return journey. actually we planned to return on sunday afternoon, so we did thought of buying the return tickets when we reached the larkin bus station on friday evening. however, since the journey was long, we reached late, and someone was already waiting to pick us up, we did not buy the ticket. i did contact a member from johor who said, i can still buy it on sunday! anyway, it was on saturday that i asked for help if someone can dropped in the bus station to buy the tickets for us. well, he went, and we were shocked to learn that he couldn’t get tickets for the afternoon trip. all sold out. so we have no choice but to get the night bus – 10pm, super vip at RM70 per pax.
the tickets (10 – 9 to penang and 1 to butterworth at RM65) were from MAHARANI EXPRESS at counter 14B of the larkin bus terminal well, on sunday, we reached the bus terminal at about 9.30pm, so we went up to the maharani express counter with our tickets to get the bus registration plate number and the platform where we were suppose to wait at. when i handed the tickets to the staff at the counter, he asked a young chap to bring us to another counter, which was about 10 counters away from them. pity i did not look at that counter name but it was manned by an elderly indian lady. this young chap passed the ticket to her and she searched here and there, wrote something, then gave the tickets back to the young chap, who asked us to wait again, while he ran back to the maharani express counter. after 5 mins or so, he returned and handed over the tickets to us. i notice that the seat numbers were a bit different from the original seat numbers when the tickets were from maharani express. this time, the tickets had the name FIRST LINER on it.
ok so we went to the platform and waited… and waited… and waited. 10.30pm bus not yet arrived. 11.00pm no sign of it. 11.30pm… nothing! then near 12 midnight, a man came and shouted “7776! 7776!” (that’s our bus no.). he said those taking 7776 (BKR) to follow him to go across the road to wait for the bus. hmm… first sign of something suspicious… er… second sign actually as first sign was the lateness! 2 hours late! why cant’ the bus come in to the platform area? why must it stop at the road-side?
ok when we were there… we still have to wait… for about 10 mins. when the bus came, to our horror, it was a bas pesiaran (sight-seeing bus) and a 44 seaters bus!! what? we thought we bought the ticket for super vip bus with 28 seats? and an express bus, not a bas pesiaran? what to do, we can’t do anything but to board the bus. a few meters away, the bus stop to pick up some passengers and i notice that one lady who board the bus was grumbling that she thought the bus was a super vip bus but why get this 44 seaters bus. then this elderly indian lady, the same lady we saw at the counter who gave the tickets to the maharani express bus staff, said to the passenger lady “i told you vip, not super vip. got difference there.”. huh! indeed! she had cheated us and just want to justify herself for giving us a 44 seater bus instead. if it is really vip or whatever that is 44 seaters then the fare shouldn’t be RM70, as RM70 is for super vip.
wait a minute… after the 2 hours delay and wrong bus, trust murphy’s law to come in – another shocker awaited us. the bus drivers said they will not stop at penang island, they will stop at butterworth only. this is because they had passengers going further north to sg. petani and alor setar, so from butterworth, they will go straight to sg petani/alor setar. i was shocked and said, this wasn’t right at all. we already paid RM70 for the stop at penang. if they were to drop us at butterworth, it was only RM65, meaning they have to refund us RM5. but of course we prefered not to go down at butterworth, so i told the others (all 8 of them are youth) that we should insist on our rights, we should speak to the drivers and tell them that we paid for stop at penang, so they should drop us at penang.
i told those youth with me that we should speak up and insist on the bus taking us to penang and one of them asked me to take a photo of the bus when it stop. well when the bus stop at… er… think somewhere before ipoh… for passengers to ease themselves, i took a few photos of the bus – the side and the front. the front zooming in on the tel. nos. and the side zooming on the bus company name and address, which is SRI THEVAN TRAVEL & TOURS at jalan gemilang, selangor.
i told the youth that i’m going to speak to the drivers, and they had to stand beside me to support me. unfortunately only 3 of them were with me. one was with me all the time. two were with me now and then. i first approached the older driver and told him i heard you are not going to stop at penang, how can that be when we were told it will stop at penang and we paid for penang fare. he said that the bus counter staff told them to go to butterworth only, and not penang island. he said he didn’t know anything about having penang passengers. i said how can you not know, i think you already ‘pakat’ with them. he went up the bus and then he came down… with the other driver, a younger one. i then said to both of them, in that case, can you give me your names as i want to complain and oh boy!… the younger driver exploded and shouted at me.
(our conversation were in bahasa but i’m writing here in english).
driver: why you want to know our names? if you want to complain, you complain to the bus company which you bought the ticket from.
me: yes but the company sent your bus and sent you, so i need your details too.
driver (angry): you don’t know how to listen ah! where did you buy the ticket from? from that company so it has nothing to do with us. why need our names.
me: for complaints i need full details lah. if no full details, they won’t act.
driver (raising voice): we have nothing to do with the bus company. their bus broke down, our bus is the replacement bus and they never said to go to penang.
me: ok. let’s say i believe you. you have nothing to do with the bus company but to complain against the bus company, the bus company sent you, so i need details on your side too. look, i’m a reporter, i can report you, write to the media (taking out my malaysiakini CJ name card).
driver: who cares if you are a reporter or police or JPJ! you have no right to complain against us. do you know i can sue you?
wahh… he’s frightening me eh. all the while, while he was arguing, the older driver just kept quiet.
me: you don’t understand. i’m not complaining against you but the bus company but to do that, i need the bus details.
and i forgot what else he shouted here and there, and me too raising my voice here and there… to one extend that R, one of the youth who was with me all the time (but never spoke a word) try to restrain me. haha. did i sound fierce i wonder. well after a while this young driver walked away. R was talking to the older driver in tamil. then i said to the older driver “at least, you let us change bus somewhere near butterworth, the bus take us to penang, while this bus we are on straight to alor setar.” but he pretend the didn’t hear me. then when the younger driver came back, both of them were standing in front of the bus, with their back facing me. i quickly take the opportunity to snap a photo of them. R then told me to snap a photo of the bus name and details found on the side. actually i had already snapped that but never mind, since the drivers are around, i said maybe good to snap it again. well i did… then suddenly the younger driver came up to me and shouted:
shouting driver: hey! what are you doing eh? why are you taking photo ah?
me: why shouldn’t i take photo. this is a bus. i’m a passenger ‘makan angin’. a lot of time passengers take photo of the bus they traveled in.
i didn’t know what else he mumbled and mumbled. this time as he talk, R said to me “ok already lah. since you got the info already, enough” meaning asking me to shut up, not to argue with the driver anymore. well, yes, i let him speak this time, without interrupting him or argue back. i heard him mumbling something “if you tell nicely, maybe we can arrange transfer of bus.” and i think he was also huffing “get down at butterworth!” before he boarded the bus.
ok lah, so end of drama… starring yours truly here. lol. i was surprised myself that i can argue with the driver. well for one thing, i know i have back up (the 7 young boys and 1 young girl, though only 3 boys were with me) and since there were 10 of us going to penang, they should stop at penang for us.
well the reason i dare to argue with him was also i was told that i have to stand up for my rights. after getting to know many activists and participating in many forums, rally, etc by NGO, i learned that i must stand up for my rights. then the part about me telling him i’m a reporter – i learned that from my fellow CJ (citizen journalist lah, not chief justice), vijay. i remember once when i was in KL for the malaysiakini’s 10th anniversary dinner, it was him who gave me a lift. while inside the car, i grumbled to him that a taxi driver at corus hotel, wanted to charge me RM20 from corus hotel to tune hotel, while when i hailed a taxi, it was only RM6 or son. so i told him luckily i did not take the RM20 taxi but vjiay said “tell you what. next time, you take it. then you tell him to issue a receipt for the RM20 fare, then you tell him you are a reporter and you want to take photo of the receipt and his taxi. i bet you, he will ask you to get lost.”
ha. see? it’s good in a way to inform “i’m a reporter’ to sort of scare the cheater a little. and you know what? i think when the younger driver saw me taking photo of his bus details, that was the breaking straw for him. maybe he was suddenly afraid that yes i will really complained/report him… that’s why in the end, i get my way – the bus did stop at penang! earlier he was saying something about the originals bus was ‘rosak’ so the counter bus company sent their bus instead and their bus was a replacement – i’m sure that was a big bluff. you see, we got the bus regn. no. 7776 at 9.30 and the bus arrived at midnight… how can it be that 2 hours before they know the bus was going to ‘rosak’. all alone, they already planned to use this 44 seaters bas pesiaran.
another thing… after we boarded the bus, a staff came to collect the tickets from me. i then asked him what about giving me back the ‘keratan’ (counterfoil ticket) so that we have the tickets with us, to show we are going to penang. he said “no need. never mind, we know.” i replied “you know yes lah but then without the tickets, we and others won’t know.” ahhh… now after the bad experience, i realise that he purposely want to take back the tickets so that we don’t have proof that we are going to penang. i notice one passenger who was going down at butterworth, the staff did not take his ticket. (that’s why you see, from the photo album, i have the ticket and can take a shot of it).
ok so although the bus did finally stop at penang but i can still make a complain since it came late and not the super vip bus we were promised. (and the decision to stop at penang, only came about after i argue with the driver!). maybe i will write a letter to the media.
(more photos of the bus will be up later… either here or at facebook) UPDATED – photos up!
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5 Responses to "standing up for my rights"
simon, i notice from googling EBAA is singapore based only.
Martin Jalleh says:
Congrats Lucia! Am very proud of a great and brave consumer like you! Keep on being a good role model to the young! 🙂 If you did not complain they will keep on doing ridiculous things like what u ve written! Take care and looking fwd to yr article! 🙂
Simon Chin says:
You should complaint to the EBAA – Express Bus Agencies Association , its much more effective.
you are right, thaksin…. but not few thousand baht lah…. just few hundred baht since i’m an old lady. “)
Thaksin says:
Luckily there were 10 of you going to Penang. If you were on your own, those Sri Theven guys might drive you further up north to the Thai border and sell you for a few thousand baht there.
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A Rohingya man carries a child in a sack through rice fields after crossing the border from Myanmar into Bangladesh near Cox's Bazar in the Teknaf area, Sept. 1, 2017.
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A Rohingya boy, an ethnic minority from Myanmar, carries a sack of belongings on his head as he walks through rice fields after crossing the border into Bangladesh near Cox's Bazar in the Teknaf area, Sept. 1, 2017.
Smoke and flames in Myanmar are seen from the Bangladeshi side of the border near Cox's Bazar in the Teknaf area, Sept. 3, 2017. Hundreds of thouusands of ethnic Rohingya fled into Bangladesh as homes and villages were burned in mass violence after a clash between insurgents and police.
Rohingya Muslims, newly arrived from Myanmar, scuffle for puffed rice food rations donated by local volunteers in Kutupalong, Bangladesh, Sept. 9, 2017. With Rohingya refugees still flooding across the border from Myanmar, those packed into camps and makeshift settlements in Bangladesh were becoming desperate for scant basic resources and dwindling supplies. Fights erupted over food and water.
An exhausted Rohingya woman arrives with her children at Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukihia, Bangladesh, after crossing the border from Myanmar, Sept. 5, 2017. The family said they had lost several family members in mass violence against the Muslim minority in Myanmar.
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Bangladeshi villagers cover the bodies of Rohingya women and children at Shah Porir Deep in Teknak, Bangladesh, Aug. 31, 2017. Three boats carrying ethnic Rohingya fleeing violence in Myanmar capsized in Bangladesh and more than two dozen bodies of women and children were recovered, officials said.
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Top Ten Reasons to be Excited About General Conference
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Blixa
Post subject: Re: Top Ten Reasons to be Excited About General Conference
Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2011 2:04 pm
consiglieri wrote:
Jason Bourne wrote:
That seem pretty hard and harsh. Would you treat your wife this way?
Thanks for saying that so well, Jason.
I don't know why Will hates Emma so much.
I think she is the unsung hero of Mormonism.
--Consiglieri
It's because he's never read a book or done any archival reading or research on her. He's only spewing bile here because he delights in trolling. His beloved Joseph Smith would slap him in the face for such discourtesy. I admit it's difficult to get one's mind around their relationship, but it is pretty clear that Emma and Joseph loved each other deeply and were inextricably bonded to each other. It's possible to put several kinds of psychological interpretation on that, and probably called for as well. But one indication of how far Emma differs from the she-cat of Will's pathetic imagination is how much Joseph trusted Emma with his money: she carried on a great deal of the business end of both family and church. I imagine, in fact, that it was her expertise at such "unwomanly" work that got up the nose of Elders Young and Co.
From the Ernest L. Wilkinson Diaries: "ELW dreams he's spattered w/ grease. Hundreds steal his greasy pants."
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Location: Northern Utah
Blixa wrote:
I think there's a tendency among some to think you need to "choose sides," like we're picking kickball teams in elementary school. And some people believe that, once you've picked your team, you go all the way in or not at all. Thus, the other team (in this case apostates and unbelievers) is pure evil and as dedicated as you are to promoting their team. They can't understand that most people just don't care that much and don't have such passion about their team.
Thus, Emma quit the team and must be vilified. Trouble is, life is never that simple. Emma went through a lot and stuck with Joseph through things most women would not have. Her big sin isn't being a ____ or opposing polygamy; it's not sticking with the church.
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If you just talk, I find that your mouth comes out with stuff. -- Karl Pilkington
sock puppet
Top Ten Reasons--
Tomorrow at 10:14 AM MDT, Thomas S. Monson will take the podium unexpectedly, a new countenance will overcome him, he will look like he is only 45 years old, halos of light will emanate from his personage and he will tell all those gathered to exit the building, look at Mt Olympus and behold the Apocalrock and all that god truly has to tell them.
The Nehor
sock puppet wrote:
And then busts out laughing apologizing for his March the 32nd joke being late.
"Surely he knows that DCP, The Nehor, Lamanite, and other key apologists..." -Scratch clarifying my status in apologetics
"I admit it; I'm a petty, petty man." -Some Schmo
The Nehor wrote:
That's what makes you excited about General Conference? Seeing a 90+ year old man blowing chunks of cookies while laughing uncontrollably? I think it's time Dr Scratch added an appendix to your entry in the Encyclopedia of Mopologetics.
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That's what makes you exited about General Conference? Seeing a 90+ year old man blowing chunks of cookies while laughing uncontrollably? I think it's time Dr Scratch added an appendix to your entry in the Encyclopedia of Mopologetics.
I think you should. From what my informants tell me his mom wants him to get off WoW and that seems a good method of diverting him.
You think I should--do what? I did not suggest my contemplating any action in the post to which you responded.
Runtu wrote:
That BS was started by Brigham Young. Even Joseph's former polygamous wives who had run-ins with Emma in Nauvoo always spoke of her highly. And no "high-maintenance" woman would have been able to handle the number of sick people and children Emma nursed at home, especially at Nauvoo (nor run an establishment the size of the Mansion House which usually sheltered numbers of newly arrived or destitute members, well before its incarnation as a semi-hotel). After suffering the assassination of her beloved husband, having many of her assets stolen out from under her by BY (including some of Joseph Smith's personal papers), to finally have to endure the heartbreak of David's mental illness---anyone with a shred of human decency would have empathy for her trials.
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...anyone with a shred of human decency would have empathy for her trials.
Well, it's Will we're talking about.
If the shoe fits... although in this case, maybe it doesn't?
(Nevo, Jan 23) And the Melchizedek Priesthood may not have been restored until the summer of 1830, several months after the organization of the Church.
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Blixa,
Your posts have induced reflection on my part, and I have concluded that you make some very valid points, and that I need to seriously back off from my harsh criticism of Emma Smith.
In fact, I am going to prepare a formal apology for my unwarranted invective directed towards her. But first I am going to re-read Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith, a book which I have already read three times, and have thoroughly enjoyed (despite some criticisms I could level against it). After I have immersed myself again in her story, I will speak to this topic again, here, on this message board.
-WS
I thought myself the wiser to have viewed the evidence left of such a great demise. I followed every step. But the only thing I ever learned before the journey's end was there was nothing there to learn, only something to forget.
Will Schryver wrote:
I’m impressed by your willingness to acknowledge having gone too far with your criticisms of Emma Smith. I grant that she did some things that don’t reflect very well on her, but I think one has to keep in mind that we weren’t there and we don’t know all the details or the context of her challenges in life. Best for us to refrain from judging from our cloudy perspectives almost 200 years down the road.
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Actually, if one takes the position that Joseph Smith was a fraud and that Emma would have to be in on it, then I can honestly say that emma was a shameful and terrible human being. If she knew that her hubby was a fraudster and yet, kept her mouth shut, thereby allowing her children undo suffering, well...she was also a child abuser.
Now of course, if Joseph Smith was a fraudster and he duped his wife, I can honestly say that she was a little stupid. Her reputation only survives if her husband is what he claimed to be: a prophet.
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We are “to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to provide for the widow, to dry up the tear of the orphan, to comfort the afflicted, whether in this church, or in any other, or in no church at all…”
but I think one has to keep in mind that we weren’t there and we don’t know all the details or the context of her challenges in life. Best for us to refrain from judging from our cloudy perspectives almost 200 years down the road.
This also goes for BYs not liking her very much. We have no idea just what happened between them and what was said before and after Joseph was murdered. I would probably guess that BY was not too impressed with her opposition to polygamy by her husband. And that he thought that she caused trouble for Joseph. But most of what was said between them has been lost to the wind.
why me wrote:
Not entirely. I suspect the succession crisis had a great deal to do with the enmity between the western Saints and virtually all of the Smith family. I'm not sure how much of Emma's opposition to polygamy was reason for BY and others' initial enmity. It is instructive to trace how late the demonization of Emma story begin. But thanks for the tip. I'm curious to try to trace this out myself, now.
One thing I am pretty certain of is that despite the terrible problems between them, Emma and Joseph seemed to have sincerely loved each other and been bonded in a way that nearly beggars belief. Of course, I am making this conclusion based on what relatively little sources I have currently read, not having embarked on anything like the archival research necessary for sustained and publishable opinion. Much more work needs to be done on Emma Smith, and I'm not even sure who the scholars are currently working on this. But the Joseph Smith Papers project may turn up some information I've been guessing at, and someone needs to hit the RLDS/CoC archives again.
'Til then I would not easily buy into Brigham's Urban Legends...
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One thing I am pretty certain of is that despite the terrible problems between them, Emma and Joseph seemed to have sincerely loved each other and been bonded in a way that nearly beggars belief.
I like how Joseph Speaks endearingly of home in his journal writings. That, to me, is clear evidence that Emma was a powerful and supportive force in the home. I believe there is much more left unsaid about Emma that we could all benefit from.
This is how I see it: Joseph Smith was a prophet and powerful man on one side of the spectrum and on the other, he was the recipient of a marriage to a woman who was the greatest thing that ever happened to him. I think he knew just how great she was even though he didn't live in a way that was respectful to her hard work and devotion to him and his cause.
Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given... Zeus (1178 BC)
The Holy Sacrament.
I suspect the succession crisis had a great deal to do with the enmity between the western Saints and virtually all of the Smith family.
If someone is putting up an idea that is going to deprive you and yours of money, power, and community position, you bet there's going to be enmity... on both sides.
Follow the money. And the money went to Utah.
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Spurven Ten Sing wrote:
Now, is it Nomad's hand up Will's ass, or vice versa?
Parley P. Pratt wrote:
We must lie to support brother Joseph, it is our duty to do so.
B.R. McConkie, © Intellectual Reserve wrote:
There are those who say that revealed religion and organic evolution can be harmonized. This is both false and devilish.
Buffalo wrote:
Would it make any difference?
Either way, it's time for a talk with the bishop.
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 12:11 pm
CTR A
If Joseph Smith was a fraud and Emma knew of it, and if as you say this makes Emma a shameful and terrible human being, then if Joseph Smith was a fraudster do you also say that he was a shameful, terrible human being too?
I've met a few women in psychologically sick relationships who defend their partner through anything. I've heard of Mormons (some on this very site) who defend Smith through anything, so it's not unreasonable to suspect that she did the same. Although it's strange that she had trouble accepting polygamy when he was alive, but after he died she suddenly had amnesia and denounced that he was engaged in polygamy at all.
She was in tremendous psychological turmoil, that is clear, but it doesn't mean she's stupid. It means that she joins the ranks of people in sick relationships who develop sick minds and as a result their choices and actions reflect that sickness.
If Joseph Smith was a fraudster, what kind of mind did he have?
If he was, did he know he was a fraudster? If so, is he guilty of allowing their children undo suffering, and by using the standards you level toward Emma would that also make Joseph Smith a child abuser?
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Saturday, April 16. 2011
Sarah, on fire in Wisconsin
Here, with her strong message and her darn screechy voice.
Posted by The Barrister at 20:07 | Comments (42) | Trackbacks (0)
Yeah, the screechy voice thing has to go. I only noticed it previously with Hillary and it drove me crazy, but Sarah also has it, and Bachmann too. Am I a sexist for thinking this?
Totally, Big Al. You need to be sent to a re-education camp.
#1.1 Bird Dog on 2011-04-16 20:58 (Reply)
Slow is acceptable Big___AL long as yall get it.
Rino Sarah is shrill and ignorant and may continue feedin' from the compost pile back of the backyard.
#1.2 Leag on 2011-04-18 11:48 (Reply)
Sorry it had to be woman's voice making this speech, I guess, but it was fantastic. Are any of the men up to such a speech? If so I haven't seen it. Maybe if Sarah had Cate Blanchette's voice people would take her seriously.
#2 Jane on 2011-04-16 21:20 (Reply)
The men are voiceless. Better seen than heard, I suppose.
#2.1 chuck on 2011-04-16 21:35 (Reply)
Yannow
I wanted to listen to the speech cause I love what she says, but I too cannot listen to that voice for any period. At least I'm not alone.
I say Sarah should get Sigourney as coach and learn to sound like Ripley!
Whose voice would you give Sarah?
#3 Saltine Warrior on 2011-04-16 21:54 (Reply)
I want her to sound like the voice in my 1980s car saying, "Your door is ajar."
#3.1 Big___Al on 2011-04-16 22:01 (Reply)
I don't mind her voice at all. Must I remind you all that she's a woman with female vocal chords, and women using flawed sound equipment at a political meeting are not going to sound like baritones -- Ernie Ford, for instance. So stop carping, folks, and listen to what she says. Anyone, man or woman, who can hit the bullseye on the target as she did when she described Obamacare with the phrase 'death panels' is someone to respect, and fear, if you're on the wrong side.
P.S. Big Al ... content is ever so much more important than mellifluousness.
#4 Marianne Matthews on 2011-04-16 23:22 (Reply)
Well Said, Marianne! BRAVO ZULU!
#4.1 SCOTTtheBADGER on 2011-04-17 07:33 (Reply)
I totally agree, Marianne, and I'd vote for her in a heartbeat.
Could not agree more Marianne.
Wish she could make it to the Oval Office. She is a Lady of Substance and Character who believes in the greatness of America and her people, unlike BHO.
I am afraid that the R's (the Democrat Lite Party) will nominate someone like McCain again, if left to their own devices.
#4.3 Ron Snyder on 2011-04-17 10:12 (Reply)
Yall women may take women's opinions for conservativism but still be wrong.
But yall have that luxury because yall are only girls.
I resemble that remark.
I challenge y'all to a duel. Choose your weapon.
#4.4.1 Big___Al on 2011-04-18 13:45 (Reply)
Well Like Sarah demands, yall Maybe, need to learn how to fight like a girl!
Yall may have not heard't for all her caterwauling but she screeched, "Maybe I should ask some of the Badger women’s hockey team—those champions—maybe I should ask them if we should be suggesting to GOP leaders they need to learn how to fight like a girl!"
Use ta have a woman who wanted to fight like a man but she couldn't.
#4.4.1.1 Leag on 2011-04-18 14:19 (Reply)
You're always good for a laugh, Leag, so I appreciate your commments.
And if we did have a duel, I'd scratch your eyes out!
#4.4.1.1.1 Big___Al on 2011-04-18 18:06 (Reply)
I'll take Sarah's screechy voice presenting the truth and offering solutions over Obama's duplicitous dulcet tones any day. Palin has has successfully led the fight with an 800+ seat win against the Left. Obama has taken our economy, three wars, and our foreign policy straight into the toilet.
#5 Ozzy on 2011-04-16 23:22 (Reply)
Sarah has a sceechy voice that grates on my ears. I love her though. I hope the socialists hate her voice more. If we can elect her to VP, I think a lot of the left will just commit suicide. So she has my vote. (Ret) Lt. Col. Allen West for president and Sarah for VP, to make sure nobody messes with the Col.
#6 owleyes on 2011-04-17 04:59 (Reply)
I hate to be the odd man out again, but...Sarah has some major perception problems. 1 - She's got one of those voices that just grate on the nerves when she's on a microphone that has not been tuned to her voice - its called a mixer board and she could really use a sound man (or woman). 2 - its not the screeching - its the uneven tenor of her voice that drives most people nuts. Strangely, its a very mid-Western type of voice - you hear it a lot in the western part of Wisconsin and Minnesota, Iowa, the Dakotas and parts of Illinois. 3 - She does screech even when she's sitting in a one-on-one - she could really use some voice lessons on how to control her tone, pitch and volume. Its fixable and that kind of voice, with some training can become very attractive and pleasing to hear. Why she doesn't do any of this, I have no idea, but it would help with the perception of her being a bimbo.
I am not a Sarah Palin follower/fan/whatever. Its not a "hate women politicians" thing - I just don't see her in the same light as others who seem to like her. I appreciate her "down home girl-next-door" appeal.
I think, and I've said this before, she'd make a great organizer, out-front-promoter, fund raiser for the Tea Party/Conservative cause - pretty much like she's doing now. I honestly don't see her in office, but as a Chairperson of the RNC - that I could see - in particular if she took some voice lessons. She can deliver a stem winder speech and that is always good to have to rally the party, but that doesn't mean she's a good politician which is not how I view her. I might have changed my mind if she had finished her term as Alaska's Governor, but apparently the bigger national stage attracted her. That, by the way, is one of the things I like about Christie of New Jersey.
Among the many other things I don't like about Christie. :>)
Tom, perhaps if you'd spend a little time to educate yourself about why she resigned you'd feel a little differently.
#7.1 Jay Maness on 2011-04-17 21:02 (Reply)
Cliches and platitudes, playing the hot woman as good as a man card.
Rush's point in forwarding Trump is to point out that whoever takes it in your face to Obama wins.
He's commented on Palin the same way, that she'd be better than Obama.
So I guess you don't need perfection. That doesn't make Palin listenable. The hype is incomprehensible.
You don't need the right people to do the right things; you need the wrong people to do the right things.
Palin rides to the sound of the guns everywhere there is a battle, and in this case stood in front of ranting mobs of thug union creeps who surrounded that rally. WTF? And you're giving her stinkeye on account of her vocal range and texture? Where are the rest of the pansy-ass top shelf Republicans? I could give a sh*t what her tonal quality is. She's courageous and tough and would eat our Metro-sexual faux president for lunch.
And by the way, who are you kidding, Christie could be talked out of his no-president stance in ten minutes by the right leadership in the GOP.
#9 Mike Scully (Link) on 2011-04-17 09:25 (Reply)
Her courage is part of her act.
I look for some understanding of why things work and why things don't work; which understanding should be where the the platitudes are.
Christie for example does that. He's able to take the debate to the unions, as a result.
In fact I don't remember any Christie cliches.
Palin is better than Obama, no argument. But why not somebody who knows enough to popularize the actual reasons for things rather than the platitudes from the right.
#9.1 rhhardin (Link) on 2011-04-17 09:50 (Reply)
"Her courage is part of her act"?
#10 Mike Scully on 2011-04-17 10:08 (Reply)
What an appalling thread. Lead, follow or get out of the way.
#11 D on 2011-04-17 10:23 (Reply)
All this commentary vindicates my opinion in a way - she can't be all things to all conservatives. If she is, then she is the conservative Obama.
#12 Tom Francis on 2011-04-17 11:18 (Reply)
If anybody's screeching here, honey, it's you. Criticize Sarah Palin on her substance or shut up.
#12.1 D on 2011-04-17 11:21 (Reply)
@D: It's The Barrister, the OP, who made the claim about Palin having a screechy voice. TF agrees. So do others. So do I. I admire Palin's enthusiasm, but there is no getting around it: she has the voice of a squawking parrot. And although I love the way she lights into the Dems and the Libs, I prefer to read what she writes rather than listen to what she says. I confess I seldom liked to listen to a speech given by George Bush, but instead preferred to read a transcript. The writing was often uplifting and sometimes eloquent, rarely a disappointment. Now The One/Won is a different matter: he can barely deliver a decent speech, extemporaneous or prepared. Plus, the most cursory text analysis will always uncover a wealth of contradictions and deceptions in an Obama speech, which are obscured by the great theater production that the White House puts on whenever The One enters the spot light on the stage. I can't stand to listen to him either. That's why the mute button and channel changing button on remote controls were invented.
#12.1.1 Agent Cooper on 2011-04-17 23:13 (Reply)
Astute analysis, Agent Cooper, and spot-on.
#12.1.1.1 Big___Al on 2011-04-18 13:24 (Reply)
Maybe the perception of her voice is dependent on what each of us heard where we grew up, or have lived long enough after that to become familiar (if not necessarily comfortable) with the local speech patterns.
I grew up in the midwest and have lived in the southwest, north central, and northwest--I have no problem with her voice. I hear high pitch, but not screeching. Voice training would likely do her good for the ears that don't like her.
As Lincoln said about Grant--She fights. She continues to fight.
Remember Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke? George Kennedy kept knocking him down, and he kept getting up until George decided enough was enough. The Dems will never be like George, but Sarah will be Cool Hand Sarah.
#13 Sam L. on 2011-04-17 13:03 (Reply)
I think more Sheridan than Grant. Lincoln didn't think much of Sheridan at first:
Sheridan's first meeting with the President left Mr. Lincoln unimpressed. He thought the short cavalry commander to be a "brown, chunky little chap, with a long body, short legs, not enough neck to hang him, and such long arms that if his ankles itch he can scratch them without stooping."
Of course, Sarah is better looking than Sheridan was. Lincoln eventually came to appreciate Sheridan's virtues.
"General Sheridan, when this particular war began, I thought a cavalryman should be at least six feet four inches high, but I have changed my mind. Five feet four will do in a pinch."
#13.1 chuck on 2011-04-17 13:35 (Reply)
Voice training?
Where will the rest of the Republican field go to train how to grow a pair before it's too late?
So far Donald Trump, of all possible people in America, is holding classes in New York City.
Mitty? Timmy? Mikey? Time to get your applications in.
#14.1 Bird Dog on 2011-04-17 15:04 (Reply)
Sarah is one I would happily vote for.
I don't want to unhappily vote for a Newt, Huck, Mitt or Jeb.
#15 TomR on 2011-04-17 14:43 (Reply)
I really feel sorry for all those people who object to her voice. They're going to have to listen to it delivering speeches from the WH for 8 years.
Game On!!
#16 JimK on 2011-04-17 16:22 (Reply)
Some here have taken this thread way too seriously. I took it as a laugh, commenting on her irritating voice. I don't disdain her message at all, and neither do most conservatives. We'd surely prefer her to what we've got now, even though she is not "ideal." But who is?
#17 Big___Al on 2011-04-17 21:32 (Reply)
She was shouting because all those nitwits who were screeching like banshees on amphetamines from the unions and commie parties. They tried to drown her out, failed. So yeah, she screeched a little bit.
Big deal.
Her message is what counts.
I remember when people told me what a great speaker Obama was, in 2008, I said so what, Hitler had the people mesmerized too (though even from the beginning, Obama turned me off with his mellifluous way of saying NOTHING or lying). Give us substance, not a beautiful speaking voice.
Reagan, who a lot of people like to try to compare Palin with, had both. But in Palin's case, I don't care if she has a screechy voice, or one that sounds like an opera singer...her substance is fantastic.
Here's the thing. She was NOT a perfect conservative, from what I understand, in Alaska, but she fought corruption and fought FOR the people of Alaska. She fought for their money, gave up perks, fought against the entrenched interests. THAT"S WHAT WE NEED, and that's why the pols in both parties and the pundits on the Left and Right are trying to take her down. She is the real maverick and they are thus terrified of her.
So, I don't give a crap about her screeching, listen to the SUBSTANCE, look at what's she has done. Read what she's written. SHE HAS BEEN RIGHT in substance. She did right by the people in Alaska (and her popularity only waned after she was besmirched, falsely, over and over).
I don't care about her accent. She is not a perfect speaker. She is not a perfect person. But she'd make a DAMN good President on her own merit, and not even in comparison to the Worst President in Modern Times (yes, stealing that "title" from Jimmy Carter, or at least right up there, tied with him).
I do think she would be attacked, mercilessly, as POTUS, but if by some miracle, we could get enough real Republicans in...not the Beltway and RINO men and women....the Allen Wests and Rubios and DeMints.....we could turn this country around.
#18 Mo on 2011-04-17 23:24 (Reply)
Thatcher sounded like a cat sliding down a blackboard, too. Didn't hurt her.
#19 Thon Brocket on 2011-04-18 04:17 (Reply)
Thatcher took voice lessons.
She still got the name Attila the Hen.
But Thatcher substituted explanation for cliches.
Palin, as far as I've seen from her, knows only the cliches.
#20 rhhardin (Link) on 2011-04-18 06:50 (Reply)
Unfunded pensions must be put in the back yard with this, pup.
She doesn't get it because she is a socialist.
#21 Leag on 2011-04-18 11:55 (Reply)
Cliches work in political speeches (see BHO). Does Sarah have more depth? I don't have a clue.
#22 Bird Dog on 2011-04-18 13:04 (Reply)
Since this girl is to difficult to listen too reading the text of her speech may get some of yall centrists some balance.
This girl is full supportive of teachers unions and pensions.
She needs to go home and have a passle more kids to pay for her favorite charity.
Don't really know how much depth Sarah has (like Obama's some deep sage?) but the way she's been trashed by the news media in this country since day one, compared to him, is a crime, and would be a source of deep shame for anyone in the Fourth Estate if they had any shame left. Those days are long gone.
Eric Sevareid, Lowell Thomas, Winston Burdett, Robert Trout, Howard K.Smith: Call your office.
The Journalist/Dumpster divers in Wasilla during campaign '08 were way to busy that summer to check on our boy Barry. I'll give you the Birth Certificate thing. I'm not ready to do battle about whether or not he's a "Natural Born U.S. Citizen". However, it doesn't matter if he was born to his mother on the U.S. Capital steps on July 4th. The standard for the Presidency is higher than "U.S. Citizen". "Natural Born" is the requirement. Look it up.
If, at the time of your birth, both your parents were U.S. citizens and at least one had a prior residence in the United States, you automatically acquired U.S. citizenship with no conditions for retaining it. If only one parent was a U.S. citizen at the time of your birth, that parent must have resided in the United States for at least ten years, at least five of which had to be after the age of 16.
Obama's mother was only 18 years old at his birth, not the 16 + 5 = 21 required because his Kenyan father was not a U.S. citizen.
You want to fight that in the courts? Good luck. But that's the statute for Natural Born Citizen.
I wouldn't mind a gander at the "most brilliant man to ever swear the oath"s other documents though.
We know Kerry's and W's GPA from Yale.
Columbia transcript anyone?
Accepted to Harvard Law without any honors? Really?
Can you spell, LSAT's?
Never. Going. To. Happen.
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jtorosian on May 15, 2017 — 3 Comments
Joe T. in the face of recent struggles…still is a Mets fan!
By Joe Torosian
“Jerry, just remember, it’s not a lie if you believe it.”—George Costanza
Right off the Top: I was this close to taking the El Monte job…and then Jesse Ceniceros swooped in to steal it from me.
I had a column set and ready to go after the NFL Draft…But I hated the Los Angeles Rams picks so much that I had to decompress for three weeks…But…While I might not have liked the draft if they help get the Rams to the playoffs—or at least beyond 7-9 bolshoi—then Jimmy Crack Corn And I Don’t Care!
Last Add El Monte Gig: I’ve won several “Talking Football” & “Folded-Paper/Table Top League” championships…
What schools would you like to see in a CIF final? Regardless of divisions, what schools would you like to see? Back in the day I always wanted to see San Dimas play West Covina…
I can say this—barring a clerical error or administrative interferences—when South El Monte goes to B.L. Bergstrom on October 6 to play Arroyo it will feel and appear like a CIF final…kinda-sorta, like a “Fate of The World” game…
Really Last Add El Monte: Some school in need of a varsity baseball coach next year ought to give Steve Urena a call…Of course, he’s kind of a one-trick pony…All he does is win…But winning doesn’t seem to be a priority in most places these days.
Lessoned learned the last two weeks—in my on-going war against the Dodgers while supporting the Mets—is that it’s a lot easier to talk trash when your team is winning.
Midbits (same as ‘Tidbits’)
Midbits: Did you know that former San Marino HC, D.R. Moreland is now on John Tuttle’s staff at Mark Keppel…Keppel has two coaches on staff with head coaching experience…San Gabriel still needs one…just one…I’m thinking about submitting my resume to Keith Jones…
Midbits: Do you know who the Los Angeles Angels best hitter was this spring? It was Jefry Marte. Do you know who the Angels optioned to Salt Lake City on Sunday? Jefry Marte.
Midbits: As a Rams fan or as Jared Goff, do you/would you feel comfortable with Greg Robinson starting at right tackle?
Midbits: Have not seen an NBA game this season…No wonder I’ve been in such a good mood.
Midbits: Will Brandon Nguyen be San Gabriel’s quarterback this season?
The Dude abides…
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3 Comments to "Fanview: May 15, 2017"
AllthingsMVL
May 16, 2017 - 10:05 am | Permalink
Mooney isn’t the Offensive Coordinator? Shocked! Who does call plays for the Eagles?
H3avyH1tter
May 16, 2017 - 8:30 am | Permalink
The key to SEM improving from last year and having a shot a beating Arroyo is ……..IF Mooney takes over as the Offensive Coordinator!!!
FridayKnights
May 15, 2017 - 3:20 pm | Permalink
Do you think SEM has enough coming back to challenge the Knights? They lost a ton of kids to graduation. Last years game was awesome. I think both programs were elevated after that game. But this year kinda feels like SEM has to take a step backwards, an I wrong? #defendtheberg
From Joe T.: Anybody going against Arroyo is going to have their hands full…But what I like about the Southmen is that there has been no shake-up…no drama…The second year with the same staff is going forward…That creates energy…By mid-season there will be palpable energy at El Monte…but it will be really tough to unseat the Knights…All I know is when there is energy, Mission Valley League games are through the roof.
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Sydney police won’t reveal how siege victims — a mother and the cafe manager — were killed
SYDNEY, Australia — The deadly siege began in the most incongruous of ways, on a sunny Monday morning inside a cheerful cafe in the heart of Australia’s largest city. An Iranian-born gunman burst in, took 17 people hostage, and forced some to hold a flag with an Islamic declaration of faith above the shop window’s festive inscription of “Merry Christmas.”
It ended after midnight with a barrage of gunfire that left two hostages and the gunman dead, four others wounded, and a nation that has long prided itself on its peace rocked to its core.
After waiting 16 hours, police stormed the Lindt Chocolat Cafe early Tuesday when they heard gunfire inside, said New South Wales state police Commissioner Andrew Scipione.
A loud bang rang out, several hostages ran from the building and police swooped in amid heavy gunfire, shouts and flashes. A police bomb disposal robot also was sent into the building, but no explosives were found.
“They made the call because they believed that at that time, if they didn’t enter, there would have been many more lives lost,” Scipione said.
The gunman was identified as 50-year-old Man Haron Monis, who once was prosecuted for sending offensive letters to families of Australian troops killed in Afghanistan.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Monis had “a long history of violent crime, infatuation with extremism and mental instability.”
Scipione wouldn’t say whether the two hostages who were killed — a 34-year-old man and a 38-year-old woman — were caught in crossfire, or shot by their captor.
One of the victims was Sydney lawyer and mother-of-three Katrina Dawson.
“Katrina was one of our best and brightest barristers who will be greatly missed by her colleagues and friends” Jane Needham, president of the New South Wales Bar Association, said in a statement.
The other victim was identified in Australian media as the manager of the cafe, Tori Johnson.
Deputy Police Commissioner Catherine Burn said three women were treated in hospital for gunshot wounds and were in stable condition. A police officer was treated for shotgun pellet wounds and discharged, she said.
Burn said another two women were treated for “health and welfare purposes.” Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported that those women were pregnant.
Burn said police do not know what had motivated Monis. She declined to detail his demands.
“This is a man who had serious history of criminal offences and a history of violence. This was a man that we do believe had some extremist views and we also believe that he was unstable,” Burn told reporters.
She confirmed that Monis was free on bail when he died. Police were investigating whether he was the registered owner of the shotgun that he used.
Monis was convicted and sentenced last year to 300 hours of community service for sending what a judge called “grossly offensive” letters to families of soldiers killed in Afghanistan between 2007 and 2009.
At the time, Monis said his letters were “flowers of advice,” adding: “Always, I stand behind my beliefs.”
Monis later was charged with being an accessory to the murder of his ex-wife. Earlier this year, he was charged with the sexual assault of a woman in 2002. He has been out on bail on the charges.
“He had a long history of violent crime, infatuation with extremism and mental instability,” Abbott said. “As the siege unfolded yesterday, he sought to cloak his actions with the symbolism of the ISIL death cult. Tragically, there are people in our community ready to engage in politically motivated violence.”
“This is a one-off random individual. It’s not a concerted terrorism event or act. It’s a damaged-goods individual who’s done something outrageous,” his former lawyer, Manny Conditsis, told Australian Broadcasting Corp.
“His ideology is just so strong and so powerful that it clouds his vision for common sense and objectiveness,” Conditsis said.
Flags were lowered to half-staff on the landmark Harbour Bridge as Australians awakened to the surreal conclusion of the crisis. The state’s premier expressed disbelief that the attack could happen in Australia — a place he dubbed “a peaceful, harmonious society which is the envy of the world.”
AP Photo/Nick PerryA woman cries after laying a flower at a makeshift memorial in Sydney, Australia Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014 near where three people died in a siege.
The siege began about 9:45 a.m. in Martin Place, a plaza in Sydney’s financial and shopping district that was packed with holiday shoppers. Many of those inside the cafe would have been taken captive as they stopped in for their morning coffees.
Hundreds of police flooded the city. Streets were closed and offices evacuated. The public was told to stay away from Martin Place, site of the state premier’s office, the Reserve Bank of Australia, and the headquarters of two of the nation’s largest banks. The state parliament house is a few blocks away, and the famous Sydney Opera House also is nearby.
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Throughout the day, several hostages were seen with their arms in the air and hands pressed against the window of the cafe, with two people holding up a black flag with the Shahada, or Islamic declaration of faith, written on it.
The Shahada, which translates as, “There is no god but God and Muhammad is his messenger,” is considered the first of Islam’s five pillars of faith. It is pervasive throughout Islamic culture, including the green flag of Saudi Arabia. Jihadis have used the Shahada in their own black flag.
Channel 10 news said it received a video in which a hostage in the cafe had relayed the gunman’s demands. The station said police requested they not broadcast it, and Scipione separately asked media that might be contacted by the gunman to urge him instead to talk to police.
Australian Muslim groups condemned the hostage-taking in a joint statement and said the flag’s inscription was a “testimony of faith that has been misappropriated by misguided individuals.”
In a show of solidarity, many Australians offered on Twitter to accompany people dressed in Muslim clothes who were afraid of a backlash against the country’s tiny Muslim minority of some 500,000 people in a nation of 24 million. The hashtag #IllRideWithYou was used more than 90,000 times by late Monday evening.
Seven Network television news staff watched the gunman and hostages for hours from a fourth floor window of their Sydney offices, opposite the cafe.
AP Photo/Rob GriffithHostages run to safety during a cafe siege in the central business district of Sydney , Australia, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014.
The gunman could be seen pacing back and forth past the cafe’s windows. Reporter Chris Reason said the man carried what appeared to be a pump-action shotgun, was unshaven and wore a white shirt and a black cap.
Some of the hostages were forced up against the windows.
“The gunman seems to be sort of rotating these people through these positions on the windows with their hands and faces up against the glass,” Reason said in a report. “One woman we’ve counted was there for at least two hours — an extraordinary, agonizing time for her, surely, having to stand on her feet for that long.”
“When we saw that rush of escapees, we could see from up here in this vantage point the gunman got extremely agitated as he realized those five had got out. He started screaming orders at the people, the hostages who remain behind,” he added.
As night set in, the lights inside the cafe were switched off. Armed police guarding the area outside fitted their helmets with green-glowing night goggles.
Lindt issued a statement saying it was “profoundly saddened and deeply affected about the death of innocent people.”
“Our thoughts and feelings are with the victims and their families who have been through an incredible ordeal, and we want to pay tribute to their courage and bravery,” said the statement from the Swiss company Lindt & Sprugli.
Australia’s government raised the country’s terror warning level in September in response to the domestic threat posed by supporters of the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham, also known as ISIS. Counterterror law enforcement teams later conducted dozens of raids and made several arrests in Australia’s three largest cities — Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. One man arrested during a series of raids in Sydney was charged with conspiring with an Islamic State leader in Syria to behead a random person in Sydney.
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ISIS, which holds a third of Syria and Iraq, has threatened Australia in the past. In September, its spokesman Abu Mohammed al-Adnani issued a message urging attacks abroad, specifically mentioning Australia.
One terrorism expert said the situation appeared to be that of a “lone wolf” making his own demands, rather than an attack orchestrated by a foreign jihadist group.
“There haven’t been statements from overseas linking this to extremist groups outside the country — that is quite positive,” said Charles Knight, lecturer in the Department of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism at Australia’s Macquarie University.
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Posted on July 11, 2015 by The Independent News
BY JOHN-HENRY DOUCETTE
BLACKWATER — Turnout this past month in the small precinct in the rural southwestern area of the Beach was slight — just 24 votes cast, according to unofficial returns.
That’s not a huge shock for a primary, but it made for slow stretches for the people performing a civic duty at the new fire station.
Those who helped voters navigate the new paper ballot system were there for a variety of reasons, but, at heart, election workers support the process of choosing leaders and, in this case, a candidate who will represent a party on the fall ballot.
They work for a bit of pay, but mostly it’s for their city, the candidates and, of course, their own neighbors.
Some even do it for Mom.
“This is my second time,” said Ashley Boyett, 35, who grew up in Blackwater.
“My mom wanted me to,” she added, smiling while awaiting voters with other election officials on Tuesday, June 9.
“They want to do their civic duty for their community,” said Susie Kovacs, the chief election officer at the precinct and Boyett’s mother.
“We wanted to be out here and be with our mom,” Boyett said.
“And spend time with our neighbors,” said Megan Jakimjuk, 29, the assistant chief election official. She, too, is one of Kovacs’ daughters.
Few neighbors showed up.
“That’s not unusual for a primary,” Kovacs said. “We’re the smallest precinct in the city. For a general election, we have a better turnout.”
“We’ll be busier in November,” election official Danielle Ward, 32, said.
Kovacs said she has supported the election process for years. “I think I started doing it when my son was born, and he just had a birthday. He’s 38. … I enjoy coming out and seeing my neighbors and being with other people.”
There are opportunities for others to do this. With the fall election approaching, the registrar seeks citizens to join the ranks of election officials who staff 98 precincts and the city’s general absentee precinct.
“We need election officials,” Registrar Donna Patterson said in an interview before the primary vote. “We’re trying to do a major recruitment effort after the primary.”
There are 1,100 election workers now, and another 300 are sought for the November leading into the presidential election year, Assistant Registrar Tracy Gibson wrote in an email.
Workers are paid for their day – it’s a long one, officials pointed out – and for training prior to the election. There are also a number of responsibilities, including the ability to turn off any political preferences and help all voters.
“You need to be detail oriented and able to take the whole day,” Patterson said. “We are here to help anyone who is on the ballot and all voters.”
Patterson herself got her start working at the polls in Northern Virginia in 2002. She said she enjoyed being able to exercise her passion for encouraging participation in the process.
Gibson wrote that turnout for the precincts involved in the primary was 2.2 percent. Past primaries have brought 5 or 6 percent. Despite the slow primary day, there can be some hectic moments in supporting elections, workers said.
On the primary day, there had been only 11 voters in the early afternoon at the precinct in Blackwater.
“It will be 12,” Jakimjuk said.
“I will be voting shortly,” Ward said.
Al Ablowich, chairperson of the electoral board, visited the precinct – and got a quick look at the new station, too.
“We would like to have had a larger turnout because we’d like to get feedback,” he said, speaking of the new paper-ballot system that came on line for the primary.
Beach residents voting in the primary used new machines that digitally scan paper ballots.
Patterson, the general registrar for the city, said the city spent $1.4 million on the new machines.
These replaced electronic machines that brought some unwanted attention to the voting process in the fall, when issues were reported with 31 touch screen machines in 25 polling locations.
U.S. Rep. Scott Rigell, R-2nd, raised concerns about the issues on election day after voters complained that their votes for him were being recorded for challenger Suzanne Patrick, a Democrat.
The replacements were in the works then, according to the registrar’s office, and the fall 2014 election was already planned to be the last with that system. State law since 2007 has required replacement voting machines to be paper based.
Benefits of the new system include a record of votes should the need for a recount arise, Patterson said. It might also help if power went out because voting could continue on paper, according to a city statement released earlier this year.
“There’s a paper trail,” Patterson said.
On primary day – and days after the vote – election officials said the system worked well.
“It was just so simple,” Kovacs said this past week. “We didn’t have any complaints.”
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Doury, Marianne
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The place of counter discourse in two methods of public deliberation: The conférence de citoyens and the débat public on nanotechnologies in France2013In: Journal of Argumentation in Context, ISSN 2211-4742, E-ISSN 2211-4750, Vol. 2, no 1, p. 75-100Article in journal (Refereed)
In this paper, we examine two methods of public participation, namely consensus conference (conférence de citoyens) and public hearing (débat public). While both methods are used in order to involve the public in decision making about science and technology policy, they differ in a number of aspects. Consensus conference seeks the active participation of a selected group of citizens who are expected to elaborate cooperatively a text of recommendations. Public hearing seeks to inform the public and to collect as many reactions by it as possible. In our analysis, we consider the characteristics of these two methods described in the social and political sciences literature as institutional constraints that can play a role in the production of argumentative discourse. We focus our study on the discourse produced in two concrete instances of the application of these participatory methods on the deliberation over the development of nanotechnology in France. More specifically, we study the expression of counter discourse and seek to describe how the participants in the two deliberation processes end up managing the institutional constraints in order to have their criticisms expressed. In this way, we propose a bottom-up approach to the theorization of the role that institutional context plays in the practice of argumentation, and discuss the descriptive adequacy of existing definitions of the deliberative genre within argumentation studies.
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Joe Kraemer scores Jack Reacher
Posted on January 16, 2013 by Dan Goldwasser
Last year, composer Joe Kraemer reunited with director/writer Christopher McQuarrie to score Jack Reacher, based on the hit series of novels by author Lee Child. The film, which stars Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike and Werner Herzog, opened on December 18, 2012 and has grossed over $150 million worldwide.
Recorded at the Sony Scoring Stage, Kraemer conducted his own score, which featured a large ensemble of the Hollywood Studio Symphony recorded by veteran scoring mixer Bruce Botnick.
Joe Kraemer conducts Jack Reacher
The strings
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In the booth, Kraemer was assisted by orchestrators Tim Davies, Zack Ryan and Jeremy Levy, as well as music editor John Finklea and digital recordist Adam Olmstead.
Orchestrator Zack Ryan, director Christopher McQuarrie and composer Joe Kraemer
Music editor John Finklea and digtal recordist Adam Olmstead
Orchestrators Zack Ryan and Tim Davies and scoring mixer Bruce Botnick
Joe Kraemer conducts the Hollywood Studio Symphony
The soundtrack album for Jack Reacher is available from Paramount Music on iTunes, and on CD from La-La Land Records.
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"To achieve these awards has been an honour, we are so proud and excited to share with you our news. The team (our family) at Sheila Sissons Photography would like to take time to thank you personally for your huge support, friendships and nominations. We have been overwhelmed by the amount of congratulations and good wishes we have already received. We look forward to each day with passion and renewed enthusiasm and would love to catch up again real soon.
Regards Sheila and the team"
These awards are from the local community firstly nominating Sheila Sissons Photography for the awards followed an evaluation of her business and also mystery shoppers rating their customer service. This is a highly sought after and recognized award as it is based purely on customer service.
Reader’s choice category is an honour for Sheila Sissons Photography to win as there is no specific category for photographers. Sheila has achieved this award against different types of businesses not just in the wedding industry.
* BUSINESS ACHIEVER WINNER 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007
* Bronze Hall of fame 2006
AUSTRALIAN BRIDAL INDUSTRY AWARDS
Sheila Sissons first won this outstanding award in 2001, within her first 12 months of opening her new studio at Everton Hills. Sheila Sissons was again a finalist in the Wedding Photography category at the Queensland Annual Bridal Industry Awards for Excellence (ABIA) in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 , 2008 and Winner for 2007 & 2009 Sheila Sissons Photography is regarded as the “best of the best” for professionalism, enthusiasm, dedication and expertise.
Mr. O’Meara said that an average of 18 businesses supplied services to any single wedding and the ABIA awards recognized the “quiet achievers like Sheila Sissons Photography, who had performed with excellence” as rated by their customers.
* ABIA WINNER 2001
* Finalists ABIA AWARDS 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008
©Sheila Sissons Photography 2009
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Rochdale Literature & Ideas Festival » 2019-announcements » The right idea – festival is story of success
The right idea – festival is story of success
The 2019 festival proved another big hit with audiences, with 12 sold out performances and over 1,300 tickets sold. Hundreds more attended un-ticketed events throughout the festival and warm up shows earlier in October.
Over our 8-day festival hundreds of people watched top names including the Reverend Kate Bottley, John Craven OBE, Konnie Huq, Sophie Hannah, Milly Johnson, Olivia Lomenech Gill, Jules Evans, Fiona Shaw and Hanna Jameson.
Councillor Janet Emsley, cabinet member for neighbourhoods, community and culture at Rochdale Borough Council, who introduced some events, said the 7th festival was a success:
“We’ve had an eclectic mix of well-known names, prolific writers, local talent and also some less celebrated acts and big audiences all week. It was another really broad programme, covering such a mix of subjects that have stimulated so many interesting conversations. So many people have told me how lucky we are to have this festival in Rochdale and feedback from our visitors and guests so far has been superb. I would like to thank the team responsible for delivering the festival, all the volunteers, our sponsors JGM Agency, The Royal Toby Hotel and Rochdale Sixth Form College.”
The festival began with a special launch event at Touchstones, featuring award-wining author and renowned philosopher Will Hussey and the Natural History Museum’s Senior Curator, Dr Erica McAlister. The evening also saw the debut of a specially-commissioned graphic novel by Helen Bate telling the story of Rochdale couple Annie and Frank Maskew whose generosity has made the festival possible, followed by a blue plaque to celebrate the pair being unveiled by Mrs Val Perkin, a lifelong friend of Annie Maskew, and the Mayor of Rochdale.
During the 8 day festival, autistic blogger and activist Erin Ekins spoke about autism, disability and LGBTQIA+ issues at Rochdale Sixth Form College Theatre.
Best-selling author Milly Johnson hosted afternoon tea at Rochdale Town Hall, talking about her latest novel ‘The Magnificent Mrs Mayhew.’
Hanna Jameson, author of number one bestseller ‘The Last’ was joined by acclaimed author Fiona Shaw to talk about the rise of women-driven dystopian fiction.
The art deco setting of The Royal Toby Hotel was a perfect location for 3 sold out sessions, including ‘Agatha Christie, Poirot and Me’ with Sophie Hannah talking about her life and work, as well as what it’s like to be Agatha Christie’s continuation novel writer.
Friday evening saw the eagerly awaited visit of legendary broadcaster John Craven, in conversation with journalist Helen Nugent, at a packed Rochdale Sixth Form College Theatre. He chatted candidly for an hour about Newsround, Countryfile and his fascinating memoir, ‘Headlines and Hedgerows’, before signing books and meeting guests.
This festival always promises lots of laughter and Reverend Kate Bottley certainly didn’t disappoint. The popular star of Gogglebox and numerous other radio and television programmes spoke for nearly 2 hours at Rochdale Parish Church about her career, faith and hilarious journey, from her time as a teacher to reality television, her memorable stint on Celebrity Masterchef and her life away from the spotlight.
There were lots of fun activities for families, the former Children’s Laureate Anne Fine, author of the classic ‘Madame Doubtfire’, talked about her work and career, before a special showing of the blockbuster film starring Robin Williams.
Renowned illustrator and artist Olivia Lomenech Gill, famous for bringing JK Rowling’s ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’ to life, spoke about how her amazing creatures are created and where she gets her inspiration from.
Hannah Lee hosted a very lively session at Rochdale Library, with drawing, games, story-telling and a lot of fun, based around her heart-warming book ‘My Hair’.
Former Blue Peter star Konnie Huq delivered a sparking science show introducing her new character Cookie Haque, followed by the chance to take part in real experiments with a team of fantastic volunteers from the Rochdale Science Initiative.
On Monday evening the festival was brought to a close with the world premiere of ‘A Different Story of Rochdale’ a play by Rochdale’s Riz Ali, performed by The M6 Theatre Company. Riz won the Different Story of Rochdale playwriting competition held earlier in 2019 to find a promising young talent to be mentored by TV and stage scriptwriter Nicola Schofield.
The festival was organised by Rochdale Borough Council, supported by the Maskew Bequest and sponsored by creative digital media company – JGM Agency, The Royal Toby, and Rochdale Sixth Form College.
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Fitbit Beats Google Glass in User Experience...
Comparing fitbit with Google Glass...
Comparing Apples with Oranges
I am a "Google Glass Explorer" (translation: I coughed up $1,500 to get Glass early, in beta). I understand that it's not really fair to compare a simple activity tracker, fitbit, with a "ask-it-to-do-anything" wearable device like Google Glass, but, here it is.
I have been wearing Google Glass for about a year now. I only recently got a fitbit (and a Pepple smartwatch). I have waxed poetic in the past about my problems with Glass, but, also, just found improved connectivity with my Glass which, I hope, means a whole new, possibly positive experience with Glass.
But, back to my assertion that fitbit beats Google Glass in user experience. It's the simple things that count. Glass has created an online "Explorer" community where we Explorers can share our experiences, network, and the like. That's a part of the Glass user experience and it's a positive one. Yet, what I am talking about, is something more proactive, small, but, big.
Like I said, I am new to fitbit. So, I was delighted to receive the following email from fitbit:
The "Little Things" Are Generally "the Big Things" in User Experience
So, yes, I'm excited about a stupid, little reminder I got telling me that the battery level on my fitbit is low. "Big deal!"
To me, it is a big deal, because as a new user the email just helped me continue my daily tracking that would have been interrupted if I hadn't gotten the friendly reminder. I also like how the email walks me through the process of recharging my fitbit. And, there is an unsubscribe link for when I become more fluent in my fitbit use.
A while ago, my experience with Glass improved when Google Glass finally created an iPhone app that comes with some very friendly walk-through videos. Still, I don't recall every having received a very simple email like this from Glass on anything.
For example, since it seems that I was alone in complaining about Google Glass connectivity, it would have been really nice to have gotten an email from Glass saying, "Hey, we've heard that more than a few of you have been having problems with Glass connectivity. Here's what we're doing to try and address this.... And, here are some suggestions on what you might do in the meantime to improve your Glass connectivity: outline the steps like fitbit outlined the recharging instructions.
The More Complicated Your Wearable Device Is, the More You'll Need to Pay Attention to "the Little Things"
If you are putting together a really ambitious, do-everything wearable device, please don't forget "the little things" in helping your would-be loyalists through the baby steps.
UPDATE: Nice Social Response from @GoogleGlass
So, I tweeted this post and got a really nice response from Google Glass via Twitter:
Kudos to Glass for being social, gracious, and responsive.
Here's to "the Crazy Ones" - and to the MVP
Despite my very public venting when it comes to Glass, I do maintain an abiding faith that Glass WILL only get better with time and, eventually, be the sort of wearable tech that most will want.
Why do I say this? Simply, because the people at Google are really smart and passionate about innovation and product improvement.
It is crazy for Google to come out so early, even in beta, with a heads-up wearable tech device when that device so obviously needs numerous improvements...Or, is it.
It's finally dawning on this Glass Explorer that Google is merely heeding Eric Ries', Lean Startup model that counsels innovators to launch their MVP (minimum viable product) and start collecting "the maximum amount of validated learning" from customers to quicken improved iterations of the product. It's certainly not the neatest way to launch a product, but, it is a way to quicken the learning curve for developers by providing them with a bounty of feedback from users -- users who clearly understood when they signed up for the program that they were signing up for a beta product, an MVP....
So, as a tweet from Glass has made me ponder a little bit more about my relationship with Glass, I think I've had an epiphany that makes me feel a bit better about the whole process. Who says a tech giant can't also be a lean startup?!
If you'd like, please join me on Twitter! @GlenGilmore
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Category: Issue 7
Two Dead, One Buried
by Preston Taylor Stone
The thunder had rolled the evening into night: syncopations the dog growled at, but the rain never came. So it wasn’t without reason that I paused, wondering whether the bangs on the door were real.
“Open the goddamn door.”
I unlatched and opened the door and my sister shoved her way into my studio apartment, tracking mud on the white tiles and the gray patterned rug beyond it. She did lose herself on occasion, her panics frequent after the local court dropped the charges on the man who hit her in the parking lot of the Publix with his car. She was, as the prosecutor argued, “an overly hysterical woman with a history of drug abuse and paranoia. Who could believe she would tell the truth now if she hadn’t told the truth enough to keep her children?”
The old dog met her with sniffs and a waggy tail. She ruffled his fur as she sat down on the couch, her muddy shoes still on.
“He’s over there,” she said. “Watching me like a fuckin’ sniper.”
“Who’s over where?” I said.
“I swear to god, do you read your email?”
“Yes,” I said, a lie.
“The man from the church, the one who gave out the candies—prolly fuckin’ laced. He’s moved into the trailer across the way from me and his blinds never close. He don’t even make a show of being a stalker.”
“Don’t you think you’re being a little—”
“Fuck you. I’m not paranoid and I took a picture to prove it.”
She took out her phone, different from the one I had seen her with just a week before; though, I should say: she hadn’t keep phones for very long, not because she was paranoid about the number getting taken, but because she dropped them. Out windows, in toilets, on sidewalks, in the garbage disposal, in food or beers. She dropped them a lot.
The photo she brought up is of an older man walking into the trailer across the way from her own and what appeared to be a small bedroom window without blinds.
“I don’t see how—” I started, but she shushed me and flipped to the next photo.
The second and third photos she flipped to were more concerning: one of the man with a rifle while he sat in an older lawn chair the likes of which had probably not been sold since the late 90s, and one of what appeared to be the man watching the camera from the window. I didn’t think it was cause for as much alarm as she did at the time.
“Maybe,” I said, “he’s watching you because he can see you’re watching him. The gun’s a gun. People have guns, especially down here. They show ’em off.”
“But showing it off after you know I’m watching?”
“Why don’t you speak with him about it if you’re worried for the kids’ safety?”
“I just got them back from the state,” she said. I could tell she had thought through the scenario. “You think I wanna go argue with some armed fucker from the church who all but kicked me out so he can go on and tell everybody I’m what they always thought I was?”
Then, dog sat at her feet and licked some of the mud from the tip of her socks closest her knee. Another percussive episode of thunder made him growl so she shewed him from her feet. She had always been afraid of big dogs, even as when she was her daughter’s age. I thought more about the man, remembering as my sister had pointed out that he’d given out candy when we were small kids, stopping only because he had contracted diabetes and gave up sweets altogether, according to Nana. The pockets of his pleated khakis seemed so deep when we were that age. In the photos, though, the man seemed unbecomingly small. His petiteness was swallowed by the khakis, yes, but their length was too short for his leg and his tall white tube socks more than peaked out from the bottom of both shins. He was frail looking, too, like he’d had to take pains in order to lift the rifle.
“I don’t think you ought to worry,” I said. “That will just trigger some of your worse behaviors. And besides, he’s got a limp now, doesn’t he? Lost his leg from the knee down to diabetes, Nana said.”
My sister wasn’t satisfied by this answer. Almost offended, it seemed, at me dismissing her fears. She was paranoid, at times, the only remaining effect of her addiction. But she had come to my apartment for support and she trusted my loyalty to her wouldn’t be in question as it had been by almost everyone else in our family after she lost custody of the kids.
“Let’s go,” I said.
When we drove up to the trailer of the old man, I could feel her tense up. The man wasn’t in the yard, but the old chair was. It must have rained on that part of town because the sand and the little grass that the man had in his yard was wet. The sand snared when we stepped out of the truck and the tall weeds made a slap against my boots, leaving wettened imprints along the sides.
“I ought to go check on the kids across the way,” my sister said. “You know E. can’t be alone with her brother for more than a hour without wanting to strangle him.”
She’d already started walking to her place.
“No,” I said, and waved her over to where I was standing in front of the truck, which pointed at the man’s front door. “We’ll settle this together. You’re the one who’s scared, anyway, so you can confront him.”
She waited, thinking about it, probably offended I used scared, but I’d chosen the word specially. She was paranoid, and she knew it, but the one way I knew I’d get her was if I called her scared. She’d have jump off an ATV if someone told her she was too scared to do it. She turned around and walked to where I was. I tapped my knuckles on the vinyl door of the man’s trailer. No answer.
“Hello?” I said. “Sir? Excuse me.”
Still no answer. I looked around to see if his car was anywhere. I hadn’t noticed it driving up.
“Maybe he isn’t here,” I said to my sister. “Where’s his car anyway?”
“Don’t got a car,” she said. “Nana said he ain’t been able to drive for last couple years and ain’t got no family left to take him anywhere. And besides that, he’s always here. Never goddamn leaves.”
We hadn’t noticed the kids come from my sister’s place until they’d gotten to my truck.
“Uncle!” E. said. The little one tried but he could only muster out “Untull.”
“Get the hell back in the house,” my sister said to them both. She was scared. “I told you don’t come ‘round this man’s property. He’s got a gun, dammit.”
E. hugged me tight, ignoring her mother. Weird how they grow. She was almost taller than I was even though she was just ten years old. She screamed when she let go of me.
“He does got a gun, don’t he?” the old man said. He’d walked from around the side, and his arms held the shotgun, pointed at us. He cocked it.
“Woah,” I said, stepping in front of my sister while the kids hid behind her. “C’mon now, why you got that pointed at us for?” I said, making my accent thicker to appeal to him.
“You know it’s illegal for somebody walk on a man’s property without permission in the state of Florida?” he said. “And if I feel threatened I could damn well shoot somebody who’s on my land.”
“Sir,” I said, begging. “Please, you don’t wanna do this.”
I walked slowly toward him, something I knew of either intuitively or because of the films I’d seen. I had no plan of how I’d get him to put the gun down. With it cocked, I couldn’t very well grab it, since a slight nod of his finger on the trigger would see my hand or worse blown off. Shotguns are the flamethrowers of guns, the unskilled shooter’s choice: they dole out imprecise and unforgiving destruction. That close to us, he could have shot an arm off or blown my head to kingdom come.
“I think, actually, I do wanna do this,” he said. “Bitch’s been watchin’ me for all hours of the day and night. Wouldn’t take the warning when I got my gun out. Now strangers’ on my land asking for clemency.”
“You don’t remember us?” I said. “St. Peter’s UMC. Mary Louise Helms is our grandmother.”
For the first time, he let the gun down a bit, opening the eye he’d closed to make as good a shot as he could.
“You Patrick’s kids,” he said. “Or the other one’s?”
Uncle Pat had been a reputable member of the church for going on thirty years. He led bible studies, communions, youth camping trips, missionaries, and Sunday school classes. My mother, though, had always worked full time at the hospital. The last thing she wanted was an endless sermon at the quietest church in town on her one day off. No one in the family blamed her; she got us there every Sunday and Wednesday as kids. But the church members made side comments to all of us about her. “She can bring them but not stay,” they’d said. Or “We sure do miss her. Hope she can make it,” with just the right amount of judgement in the tone of voice that you knew that it was a commendation, not an invitation. In the split moment he’d asked which of Nana’s children we belonged to, I figured he’d surely wanted me to say Uncle Pat.
“You hear me, boy?” he said.
He put his face back against the shotgun, closed the one eye, and aimed again for me. My sister hit me on the shoulder and whispered something I couldn’t make out. She was telling me to lie, I was sure.
“Patrick,” I said. “It’s Patrick.”
E. stepped from behind her mother. “Great Uncle Patrick?” she said.
“Liars!” the old man said and he took the shot at E.
My sister screamed and covered her body with hers. I lunged at the old man and he cocked the gun again, but I pushed the barrel up before he could fire. The bullet broke through the makeshift patio cover that jutted from the camper’s side, protecting the chair from rain. The force of my pushing, with the firing of the gun, pushed the man down. I took the shotgun from his hands and knocked him out with the stock.
“Call 9-1-1,” I said to my sister. She was screaming, still on of E.’s body. The little one was crying now, too, but likely because he saw his mother doing it. He was too young to know death. I said it again: “Call 9-1-1!” She took out her phone and dialed. When they answered, she struggled to tell them what had happened. I could tell the operator was unable to understand her because she had to repeat herself several times.
“Give me the phone,” I said and took it. “Hello, yes. There’s been a child shot at Maury’s Mobile Manor, Jacksonville, FL. Yes. Thank you.”
I took off my button-down shirt and pushed my way to E.’s body. She was bleeding from where her chest met her neck. “Move,” I said and shoved my sister. “We gotta control the bleeding. That’s what they said.” My sister grabbed the little one and held him close while they both cried. Their screams were stomach-turning, and I don’t know to this day how no one heard enough to come see what had happened. Not a soul living in the mobile park made their way over to where we were.
The old man groaned and when my sister noticed, she grabbed my shoulder and screamed louder.
“Hold this,” I said to her, putting her hand on top of my bloodied shirt. “Press down!”
I grabbed the shotgun from the ground and beat the man where his hand was rubbing his head. I cursed him to hell and beat the shit out of him. His old body cracked like hot oil under my boots and his skull popped and flattened as I beat his face with the butt of the gun. When I was tired and the anger expensed, I realized what I’d done. My sister had stopped crying and started comforting E. with words like “Come on, baby, stay with me. Stay with momma.”
“C.” I said, calling her. She ignored me, stroking her daughter’s face and continuing the mantras of comfort. “C.!”
She turned to me finally. “Tell them the man ran off with the gun.”
“What?” she said through tears. “Why?”
“Just do it!” I said.
She looked frightened by my yelling at her but she nodded.
I took the old man’s body and chucked it into the bed of the truck. When I went back for the gun, I realized the man’s blood had painted the grass under it. I panicked. Looked around. I threw the gun into the bed of the truck and ran over to E. and my sister.
“C. we gotta move her over there,” I said. “They need to think that’s her blood.”
E.’s body had fallen on wet sand and barely stained it despite all the blood she’d lost. We picked up my niece carefully, C. keeping the pressure on the wound. The flash of the police and ambulance lights was in view now. We were roughly midway into the mobile park but I hoped there’d be an exit at the back. We sat E. down where I had bashed the man’s skull in. I ran to where she had fallen and kicked around the wet dirt so it was of no focus for the police. I hopped into the truck, cranked it, and rolled down the window.
“Don’t forget,” I said. “He ran away with the gun.”
C. nodded. I backed the truck quickly—I could hear the body and the gun toss around the bed of the truck when I changed gears and sped off toward the back of the mobile park. By this point, I could see people coming out their homes. They had begun walking toward the sirens alongside the dirt road. I slowed to appear unsuspicious, but they still watched me closely as I passed them.
At the back of the mobile park, there was no exit. The dirt road ended at a final mobile home that was grown over with vines. The vinyl was so colored by a rusty orange mold that it had to have been years since it was abandoned. The trailer had become a part of the forest around it, the yard busheled by tall weeds and dense, wet grass. When I got out the truck, I looked around to confirm the property’s abandonment, peered around the truck and up the road to see if any of the neighbors wandered their way behind me. No one.
I opened the truck bed and pulled the body from the back. It fell to the ground like several cinder blocks, making a thumping sound. I dragged the body to the front door of the abandoned trailer. I said a silent prayer and tried the door. It was unlocked. I pushed the door in, moved the vines from out the doorway, and yanked the body into the living room of the home. The automatic headlights of my truck flipped off and the whole place was swallowed by darkness. I shut the door and got my phone out for the flashlight. I used it to look around the house, which while it was dirty did not smell of anything but dust and still air.
I checked the closets for shovels since I hadn’t seen a shed in the yard. Nothing. The closest I found was a large ladle in the kitchen drawer. I saw a long bread knife with serrations in the drawer and abandoned the burial idea. I looked in the living room for a fireplace and found one below a dusty wooden mantle. I opened the smoke shaft, and used my cigarette lighter to start a fire with my undershirt and what remaining wood there was alongside the fireplace.
When I took the knife toward the old man’s body, the barbarism I had committed and would continue finally occurred to me. It began to rain outside, hard. Thunder shook the trailer and I winced when the man’s skin and muscle squeeched from the knife. As the rain got stronger, though, crackling on the top of the trailer, I wasn’t able to hear any more sounds from the body under the knife. However, I quickly realized that the knife wasn’t nearly sharp enough for the man’s bones, even with their frailty. Besides that, it would have taken too long to chop the man’s body up and burn each piece in the small fireplace.
So, I decided after a moment that I would fold the man’s body into a ball. I tucked his body into a pillowcase from the bedroom and waited for the fire to get hot enough to burn a full body. My sister’s paranoia was not unfounded. The man was crazy, I told myself. Reiterating this phrase stopped my own paranoia. I’d killed someone. I wasn’t trained to kill a man. I’d never joined the military like my father or uncle Pat. I wasn’t a surgeon or a nurse. I had never seen the amount of blood that had collected under the man’s head when I had squashed it with the gun. I had never gone to the dressing place with my father after we’d hunted and killed a deer because I didn’t want to see them slice into the animal’s flesh and rip the muscles away from the bones the way my friends had told me they did. Yes, he’d shot my niece and self-defense is an argument that can hold up for some things, but not when you beat a man so much you collapse his skull. The man was crazy. My sister’s paranoia was not unfounded. The man was crazy. He shot my niece.
I went searching for lighter fluid or something flammable to help the body burn. The fireplace would never get hot enough to burn the body. I found something better: lye. I wasn’t a soldier, a doctor, a nurse, or an undertaker, but I had paid attention in high school chemistry. Lye and water can melt flesh, disintegrate it into a bubbly body stew, and empty every nutrient from every bone so they are brittle enough to powderize under small amounts of pressure. Heat expedites the process.
I got the largest pot I could find in the kitchen of the abandoned trailer and filled it with water from the case of water bottles I kept in the backseat of my truck. When I got back inside the trailer, I put the pot on the fire, and dragged the pillowcase with the man’s folded-up body inside it to the bathroom. I emptied out his body into the tub and wrapped the bloodied pillowcase around my head to cover my nose and mouth, so I didn’t inhale the fumes. I scattered the entire bin of powder lye over the body. When the water was warm enough, I poured it over the body. It wasn’t enough water so I did this several times: filled up the pot with water, warmed the pot, and poured it over the lyed body in the tub. Eventually, the fumes and smell of the bubbling flesh were so much I had to close my eyes and avoid breathing when I entered the bathroom.
When the water from my case ran out, I put out the fire and got in my truck to call my sister and meet her at the hospital. I didn’t have service, so I drove up the road until I could find a place where I had bars. I finally got to my sister’s place and my phone connected to the WiFi. My phone dinged with two voicemails and ten missed calls from my sister and my mother. I parked the car at my sister’s trailer and called her. No answer. I called my mom.
“Hey, baby,” she said. Her voice was calmer than I expected it to be, given the circumstances. Hearing her made my voice crack, my emotions finally hitting me.
“Which hospital y’all at?” I said, sniffling through tears.
“Memorial.” She spoke to someone else, thanking them. “Baby, you should get here soon.”
I put the truck in gear and drove toward the entrance of the mobile park.
“How is she? Is she okay?”
“E. didn’t make it, honey.”
The lump in my throat grew as hard as rock, my mouth dried, and my vision blurred, submerging in tears.
“I gotta go, baby,” my mom said. “They’re calling us in. Come quick.”
She hung up.
The next day, I bought the abandoned trailer and moved into it. I cleaned up the yard and cleared off the vines and painted the vinyl bright white. The old man’s liquid remains filled up the tub, too thick to go down the drain. So, I bought five-gallon gasoline jugs, filled them with water, and diluted the liquid remains of the tub every few hours until only the bones were left. When the electricity was reconnected to the trailer, I boiled the bones in lye and water until they were brittle enough to be crushed. I flushed the crushings down the toilet.
The funeral was at the church and they buried E. next to my grandfather. It was sunny and so humid that everyone sweat through their clothes and the women fanned their faces with the programs. My sister cried, of course, sitting in a chair facing the preacher and the casket. My mother held my nephew in her lap and rubbed my sister’s back while they both cried, as well. My father sat next to my mother listening to the preacher, a stoic and hardened look I couldn’t tell from one of boredom behind his dark sunglasses. His face didn’t appear to bear any tears.
While the preacher gave a final prayer and everyone bowed their heads, I stared at the casket. I thought about how I didn’t regret killing the old man. I would never speak of it with my sister and to this day she has never mentioned it to me. My nephew, God willing, won’t remember. I thought about E. and my nephew going to church with my mother and father while they had custody of the children, when my sister was in rehab last time. E. loved to sing hymns and was fascinated by the sound of the organ. When she’d asked me once if I believed in God, I lied and told her no. I wished I hadn’t lied.
Preston Taylor Stone is an English PhD student at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, FL, where his research centers on diaspora studies, contemporary literature, and formalism. He is the Chief Editor of KAIROS Literary Magazine.
Notes from the Latigo Pasture: a Summer on the Colorado Steppe
by Bruce Hoppe
If the Latigo could speak it would say: “Don’t call me by that name. A tawdry developer’s hawking. West Coast investor speak. A peddler’s cinematic hustle to conjure up images to families of the chance to have their very own cul-de-sac piece of the Wild West out there on the Colorado plain. You will get me soon enough this I know. My great grassy expanse will bear the scrape and scour of hulking yellow diesel motors until I am carved into a modest domestic grid—a mélange of civilized defeat. But I am not done yet so don’t call me by that name.”
If the Latigo could speak it would say: “Call me by any of the names that I am. Call me by the name that tells of the crackling ricochet of static electricity as foxfire streaks along the top strand of barbed wire in the luminescent green shadow light prelude to the monsoon wizard’s tempest. Or call me by the name of the evening song of the male lark bunting as the summer solstice nears, the musical score of his refrain perfectly synchronized to a precise patterned arc of his flight. I am these things and more so call me by the names that I am.”
This is how it was back then. The prairie primordial. You could stand at its epicenter surrounded by an ocean of grass and lift your gaze to the far horizon there the gray-purple colossus called Pike’s Peak kept its fourteen thousand foot above sea-level sentinel watch over the plain. You could ride a horse past a badger boldly sunning himself on the dirt mound earthworks at the portal of his den. You could pause within a few feet of a nesting infant antelope blended into the tawny tufts of dried prairie plants and she would not run. Too weak yet for flight and in the absence of her mother’s defense her only chance instinct and hope.
The Ute and Arapaho knew these things even as they preoccupied themselves with their running territorial conflicts. The gold rushers hurried past these things in pursuit of the material, precursors to modern times. The famous rodeo cowboy Hugh Bennett ranched this country and the older locals still called it by his name. But before it was done, before it passed into memory there was one more traveler who came to know this land the way it was, its dreams, lies and whispers—its story. Only there for a very short time. He made do. In the native beauty of his surroundings his life and his notion of place became inseparable. When he left he took nothing with him but the thought of how near he had been to the impossible. For in truth there was nothing to take, save the memory as if a forge in which he would be relentlessly tempered for the road and the things to come.
Bruce Hoppe has received multiple New Mexico Press Association awards for journalism. His feature and investigative journalism articles have appeared in publications including the Union County Leader and the Boulder Weekly. He is the author of two novels: Don’t Let All the Pretty Days Get by and The Thomas Ladies Club. He has taught writing classes at Colorado State University, New Mexico Highlands University, and Luna Community College. When not at his writing desk, he can usually be found horseback prowling Colorado pastures.
Welcome to Issue 7 of Sinking City—today, in the first days of December, the humidity has finally lifted its stronghold from the air in Miami. As cool rain breaks from the bleak sky in sideways sheets & floods the potholes on my street, I am reminded of our hurricane season past & all of those living real-time in sinking cities across the globe.
This year, Miami was lucky to escape the hurricane roulette unscathed, but has continued to hold space for climate refugees from the Bahamas, the Windward Islands, and more. For those of us in South Florida and other regions impacted by Rising Waters, these experiences serve as a bleak reminder of the real-time gamble of our environment: of how climate change has, and will continue, to put our lives and homes at risk indiscriminately.
But, even as water swarms in the sky above me, I know that, as Antiquity suggests, the slow burn of our collective existence is what tethers us to one another. Sometimes, we may forget that the concept of the communal is our best tool in combating what seems inevitable.
As Soleil Davíd writes, it’s “an astronomical thing, our yard of silence.” Together, we strive against the deadened, apathetic spirit which seeps into the ground like Formaldehyde. Together, we live dangerously, create dangerously, and can exist purposefully—we are The Invasives who are undoubtedly Faced With Extinction. We are the imaginary lakes and the houses near them, throbbing toward stillness.
In Sinking City’s seventh issue, 17 writers, poets, and artists tackle what it means to be a part of this race. They question the notion that We’re Fine—that there’s nothing left worth questioning. As I write this letter, the clouds above me are fracturing to make the sun’s light vulnerable to all of us flitting below, and I am grateful to all of our contributors for being a force in that fracture.
On behalf of the MFA program at the University of Miami, I write to welcome you into this space: the one between endlessness and ourselves. I hope that the pieces included in this issue can guide you—to splinter, to rupture, to shatter—something in the landscape of us.
Maeve Holler
Sabrina & Corina: A Review of Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s Fiction Debut
by Soek Fambul
Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s debut short story collection Sabrina & Corina will haunt you. Firmly rooted in memories of home, Sabrina & Corina centers the lives of indigenous Latina women and girls residing in the ever-changing city of Denver. The soul of Denver, in all its gentrifying permutations, is personified throughout the collection, thematically linking the majority of the eleven stories. In Sabrina & Corina, readers feel a resistance against the erasure of the Denver many of Fajardo-Anstine’s characters call home—a city deeply tied to the collection’s momentum.
Sabrina & Corina by Kali Fajardo-Anstine. Random House, 2019. 219 pp. $26.00
In the story “Galapago,” the narrator reminds us that the neighborhood character Pearla has resided in for over sixty years has been renamed the Northside by “newcomers…[as] they’d changed the neighborhood names to fit their needs, to sound less dangerous, maybe less territorial” (109). Here is the ghosting presence that unifies Sabrina & Corina, a collection that refuses to forfeit its rightful claim to home and protecting one’s own story.
Can home be an unwelcoming place? No easy answers can be found in Fajardo-Anstine’s work, yet as each short story progresses, these delicate and complicated truths appear in unstable relationships, lost loved ones, and self-denial. Narrowing in on discomfort, the characters of Sabrina & Corrina must reflect deeply on their behaviors and the lives of those nearest to them. In a few short pages, we come away with understanding for Fajardo-Anstine’s characters and their actions, though we may not always agree with them. And, it is through this complicated feeling that we recognize the narrative power of their agency. This power suggests itself in the collection’s title: Sabrina & Corina.
Fajardo-Anstine’s world primarily concerns itself with the nuances of female relationships and seeks not to appease the reader with comfortable fictions. Fajardo-Anstine leans into life’s contradictions, heartbreaks, and the hard realities in her character’s lives. Though at times, her stories’ naturalistic tendencies give way to fatalism.
After surviving a violent attack, one character plainly asserts, “I’m not ashamed…No one sees me anyway…People pretend they don’t see a girl with a bruised face” (125). In Sabrina & Corina, we become the people forced to see. Sabrina & Corina strips away the delicate barrier between public and private, placing you into the lives of characters that will unsettle you. And, perhaps, that is the truth in Fajardo-Anstine’s short fiction: that what is most necessary is often what is most difficult. And that these truths, these stories, will follow you long after you finish reading them. Is that not the goal of fiction? Sabrina & Corina gives language to love’s absences—those who have left and will return to you—those who will never come back. These eleven stories flourish in those vulnerable spaces between loss and return. Fajardo-Anstine’s stories keep those haunting memories alive.
But What if the River is Made of Glass? A Review of Jia Tolentino’s Trick Mirror
by Zach Nickels
The landscape of contemporary serialized nonfiction collections is, to put it mildly, in a strange state of affairs. On the one hand, the proliferation of nonfiction—especially online, where digital media companies have exploded in influence—has turned the consumption of the essay into a fairly mundane experience. On the other hand, this expansion has not come without cost: serious, considerate writing has come under the thumb of capitalistic interests (as it so often does), with staff writers facing internal pressure for immediate gratification via click-throughs and mass feedback, with the process repeating itself ad infinitum.
This is the reality facing the modern essayist. And this is the environment that Jia Tolentino dives into, headfirst, with her discerning debut collection, Trick Mirror.
Averaging roughly 30 pages per piece, the essays contained in Trick Mirror each follow a familiar, successive structure: Tolentino begins by excavating a point of entry for the reader (e.g., the origins surrounding her own reality TV experience or a detailed exposition of female literary archetypes) and deepens her inquiry through an interweaving of facts, statistics and related personal experiences. This approach has the effect of fleshing out the initial inspection, broadening it to allow for a multitude of perspectives. Like an author of a fiction collection, Tolentino does her own world-making.
At their best—as in, the aforementioned “Reality TV Me”—Tolentino’s essays are precisely crafted; they give the reader the simplest, albeit most vital version of what an essay has to offer: the time to sit with an argument and just think. At their least realized—such as “Ecstasy” wherein Tolentino discusses Houston megachurches, hip hop and recreational drug use—the sections don’t quite stitch together properly. That piece, in particular, is the first time in Trick Mirror where woven threads begin to show.
Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino. Random House, 2019. 303 pp. $27.00
Those threads are worth examining more closely, starting with the title: the O.E.D. does not contain an entry for the term ‘trick mirror’; nor does Merriam-Webster or Cambridge, or even an index as lexically-hip as the Urban Dictionary (a search of which provides only a shrugging emoticon—a result, no doubt, which brings Tolentino endless joy). If the reader is not careful, s/he may assume the title refers to a physically distortive mirror, like in a carnival funhouse. But this associative term is different than what Tolentino is aiming for. “Trick Mirror is an enlightening, unforgettable trip through the river of self-delusion that surges just beneath the surface of our lives,” [inside jacket]. Rivers are a sort of mirror. So, too, is self-delusion a trick. And look: the collection’s subtitle is ‘reflections on self-delusion’. But the careful reader might still suspect a linguistic sleight of hand.
Much of Tolentino’s professional life has been crafted around essays; her debut demonstrates a deep care for them—what they are and what they can be. Etymologically, the ‘essay’ is rooted in the Baconian conception of an attempt or an experiment. Original usage posited it as an unfinished attempt, something to be inevitably fixed. Modern usage embraces the idea of a reflection, the writer is assaying (note the turn of phrase) some portion of the world via subject and providing commentary. It is not unfair to say that this accurately describes the ‘mirror’ portion of Trick Mirror: the river running through this collection carries all of us with it.
Whether it be the social evolution of the internet; cultures of sexual assault on college campuses; societal conceptions of the ‘ideal woman,’ societal conceptions of the ‘difficult woman,’ the decision to marry, et cetera, Tolentino exhibits a sharp understanding of our current cultural era and the events that led us here. The collection itself is rarely prescriptive—mirrors do not provide suggestions, nor do they hint—and, in fact, Tolentino occasionally appears unsure of whether she has gone too far in her analysis: “I benefit from it… I am complicit no matter what I do,” “maybe I’m extending sexism’s half-life now, too” and so on. The resulting image is that of an author who is not wholly convinced of where she—the essayist—starts and where the product eventually ends.
And so, the real question here involves the trick: what exactly is it, and what does the answer say about us? At first, it seems as though the subtitle’s invocation to self-delusion is aimed at Tolentino’s subjects: idealistic internet users, barre aficionados, corporate grifters, her sixteen-year-old self and more. But this verdict fails to account for the full breadth of the tricks being played. When you look closer at Tolentino’s work, you discover that she is simultaneously asserting the reader’s self-delusions while extending the space to reflect upon them. It seems evident that she is asking us to accept these delusions as our own; after all, she is, admittedly, as complicit as any one of us. Thus, we find the phrase ‘trick mirror’ to be linguistically reversed. The trick is not altering our reflection in the mirror: it is the mirror that is clearly reflecting the tricks we play on ourselves.
Delusions are not always a terrible thing, however. Sometimes they are necessary. Sometimes they lead us to greater achievements and realizations—our misplaced beliefs pulling us through otherwise uncharted waters. One might say the same about Trick Mirror. Not every essay in this collection is a beautiful experience. But the reader may find that Tolentino’s work can help them get to the other side.
Four pieces by Terry Wright
“Robot Drone Crashes” by Terry Wright, 2019.
“Robot Drone Reboots” by Terry Wright, 2019.
“Emboldened Horsefly” by Terry Wright, 2019.
“Joan of Arc in the Night King’s Army” by Terry Wright, 2019.
Terry Wright is an artist and writer whose art has been featured widely in print and digital venues, including Angry Old Man, Chaleur, Full Bleed, Glassworks, Queen Mob’s Teahouse, Third Wednesday, and USA Today. Terry’s work was also exhibited at the 57th Annual Delta Exhibition.
The Lines and Their Consequences
by Annie Vitalsey
It was Yves who threw the party when we learned the earth was blue. When Gagarin came down from his orbit and swore it was so, we took him at his word. It was Paris, it was 1961, and before this most of us had thought our planet to be green.
Not Yves.
When he was a boy, he would lie on the sand and divide the earth amongst his friends. Claude would have the land, Armand the animals, but Yves only ever wanted sky. A blue so perfect, he had to possess it. Blue, pure energy. Blue, absolute serenity. Blue, the only color that could hold emptiness. He railed at the birds for pocking his view.
When I knocked on the door of Yves’ blue apartment, it was Rotraut who answered in blue pants and a blue blouse, brown pigtails hanging heavy on her shoulders.
“You thought it was green too?” she asked me.
“Everyone did,” I said. “Don’t tell Yves.”
Inside the walls and carpets were blue, the couches and chairs. Yves had blued the spines of all their books, and painted over plates and glasses, knives and forks all the same shade, dark like evening—over-saturated—like if squeezed, the hue would flood out smelling salty and fresh and almost frightening. In the corner, he had painted a heavy globe this same blue, seas and continents merged together in one shade. He had thrown Rotraut’s bluest scarves over every light and lamp so they cast the color over the faces of the partygoers. They would have looked dead, had they not been smiling so.
“Drink?” asked Rotraut, and she offered me a cocktail in the familiar shade, and I took it. She smiled at me then, and too her teeth were the same blue, too dark for just a trick of the light. “Family recipe,” she said.
I had known Rotraut first, before she met Yves and moved in with him. Before, when we shared a tiny apartment in Montmartre and modeled for art classes. I liked the work. I liked sitting still. I liked watching the groups survey me, seeing how they fixed my lines by eye. But all this bored Rotraut. Her back grew stiff and her eyes wandered and more than once her head rocked back from dozing. She would go home and sketch angry shapes across paper—fast colors at bold angles.
“This is misery,” she said. She wanted to paint in her own right. But like me, she was only twenty-two, and apart from her tits and the slope of her spine, no one was paying attention.
Then, of course, she met Yves and he let her mix the blue.
It was a new kind of blue, she told me, formulated with the help of chemists, with the help of the same man who did Picasso’s blues. The trick was in the binder—it dried perfectly clear and would not taint the luster. She swore me to secrecy. A blue, like the heart of a flame, she described it. A blue that looked like love felt.
Rotraut slathered herself in the blue and slid over canvases for Yves. She pressed her blue body to walls and floors of white. A new, dynamic model of painting, she explained. The body, liberated from the paintbrush. A satisfying collaboration, she called it.
“Sure, sure,” I said. Her own paintings were being shown for the first time in London. I had to take on extra work to pay for groceries.
Yves spent the whole party at his writing desk, composing another letter to Eisenhower. Yves wanted to use his blue to color the atom bombs. He said it would bring true peace, a blue revolution. Rotraut stood at his elbow, offering now and then a word. Yves wanted to marry her, she had told me. She also told me Eisenhower had yet to answer his letters, and he was still waiting on replies from Castro, too.
Yves wanted to turn the whole world blue. He wanted to pave the roads with it. He wanted to color houses and churches, tint bread and salad, he had plans for the animals, for the rain. He wanted to feed it to sea plankton. He had just done his Blue Venus, and L’Esclave de Michel-Ange in blue.
“Did you know,” a young man sitting next to me at the party said, “that Michelangelo couldn’t afford the color blue?”
“Oh?” I said.
The young man had a mustache bleached out and colored blue with what looked like chalk dust. It was making him sneeze.
“Oh yes!” he said, scooting in.
I took a sip of the drink Rotraut had poured me. It tasted briny. It stung my molars going down.
“Did you know there’s no blue in cave paintings?” he went on. “Did you know the ancient westerns had no word for blue?”
“Did you know the Egyptian god Amun could make his skin turn blue and fly invisibly across the sky?”
I sat and listened to him, thinking of my mother back in Nice, and how she liked to let good looking men explain things to her. She told me it was good for their hearts.
“Did you know,” he went on, “that blue eyes aren’t really blue? It’s a trick of the light. Same thing that makes the sky blue.”
I drank more, feeling the liquid pull and burn in my chest.
“My name is Shrike,” he said.
“Caro,” I said.
When he tried to kiss me, I did not pull away. I tasted the blue chalk in his mustache—milky and hygienic.
Yves wanted to turn the whole world blue. But according to Gagarin, according to the news and the experts, it already was.
Rotraut had been working with Yves for months before she invited me to his studio—a white room a short walk from the Panthéon, with a brass chandelier hanging low on one side. She wanted me to try the new modeling, too. She wanted me to see how fun it was.
Yves was in the studio when I arrived, but he did not look up from his work until Rotraut asked him to.
“This is Caro,” she said.
Yves nodded.
He worked while Rotraut painted me up with a sponge, pressing the blue over me, tenderly, neck to knees, as if she was giving me a bath. The paint was oily and cold, and clung like needles.
“Now move,” she said, and gestured to the canvas, held taut to the wall with nails, ready.
First, I pressed my whole front to the white, then my back, then my front. Rotraut added more paint and I went again, slapping my fingers to the wall, sloping my knees. The whole thing took ten minutes.
“Good,” said Yves, but he still did not look at me.
Rotraut sat on his lap when I went to wash, down in the little bathroom in the hall. The whole thing reeked of Yves. Vanilla and beeswax, turpentine and unwashed hair. His beard shavings clung to the sink. The husks of his fingernails and loose, knotty pubic hairs peppered the floor. In the mirror, I saw the blue had crept up my neck and gotten into the ends of my hair.
I stood in the ancient bathtub and opened the window to temper the air. The cold from outside prickled my skin. I found an old, dry sponge to work into a lather, and the soap suds blued as I scrubbed, running down my hands and my legs, dyeing the rest of me blue, but lighter. I washed and rinsed and lathered again, and the soles of my feet went blue in the cool standing water.
Blue is a color that swallows, I thought. A consuming color. It runs and it devours everything else. It is everywhere. It is inescapable.
I lathered and I rinsed, lathered and rinsed, again and again and again.
Afterwards, Rotraut bought me a glass of wine. We sat at a table on the street, and she told me she was in love with him.
“It’s a spiritual love,” she told me. “It’s immaterial.”
“It’s all there, in the blue. Didn’t you love it too?”
My skin still tingled from the paint, it burned. I thought it was cold and uncomfortable, artless and cheap. The pigment still rimmed my fingernails and clung behind my ears. It was going to give me a rash.
“I don’t get it,” I told her. “I don’t like it.”
Rotraut took a sip of her wine. She twirled a pigtail.
“He says he thinks he’s going to die soon,” she said. “He feels the void. He feels it everywhere. In the blue, too. But he isn’t afraid.”
“He’s going to ruin your life,” I said.
Rotraut looked hurt, surprised at this. “I don’t believe in death,” she said.
“He doesn’t really love you,” I said.
“Before modern science,” Rotraut said, “they made blue by soaking plant leaves in human urine. Usually urine from men who had been drinking a great deal of alcohol. Look how far we’ve come!”
She had stopped listening to me. Within the next week, she moved out of our apartment and into the blue with Yves.
At the party, Yves had my blue portrait propped against a wall, the imprints of my thighs, my breasts, my belly and hands ready to be shown off. I thought of how much of myself was left behind on that canvas—how many germs and skin cells, how much of my DNA would go on to be displayed in galleries, museums, gazed upon by thousands, auctioned at great price.
“That’s me,” I gestured to Shrike.
“Oh?” he said.
“I did that one.”
“Oh?”
I wanted him to revere me.
“I like it,” he said. “That one and that one.” He pointed to the one next to it—one of Rotraut’s first. Yves had painted her up and dragged her across the canvas, leaving two long, arced smears with breasts.
“Another drink,” I said.
At his writing desk, Yves balled up the letter he was writing. Rotraut rubbed him on the back.
Within a year, Rotraut would go on to marry Yves. She would wear a white dress and a blue tiara, and Yves would wear the insignia of the Knights of the Order of Saint Sebastian. By then, Yves would be jumping off buildings and onto trampolines for the photographs, to look as if he were flying, defying gravity just the slightest bit.
Eisenhower still had not written him back.
Yves would be painting in fire by then too, sneaking into the Centre d’Essai de Gaz de France, dousing models in water and rolling them over canvases, then torching their outlines with a heavy flare. Men at the center lost their jobs for those paintings.
Within six more months, Yves, 34, would die of a heart attack, leaving Rotraut six months pregnant. Even at the end, he told her he wasn’t scared. Neither was she.
That night of the party, I took Shrike home with me. We left early, because the blue was strangling, suffocating and I was drunk. In the lantern light on the sidewalks, the chalk on Shrike’s mustache looked lighter, more pastel.
We sat at my table and dipped our fingers in sugar while he told me more about the color blue—reflex blue, Prussian blue, ultramarine, azure, cornflower, steel. The sugar helped get the taste of those drinks out of our mouths. We ate it by the spoonful.
“What was it like?” he asked. “What was is like for him to paint you?”
“Boring,” I said.
In my bed, he found the spot between my legs and dallied there until the blue had long rubbed off his mustache. With every loll of his tongue I pictured tangerine and safflower, fuchsia and merlot.
But later, when I got up for the toilet, I filled the bowl with that familiar color, and in the mirror I saw the whites of my eyes had also gone blue.
I phoned Rotraut. “What the hell?” I said.
She laughed. “Methylene,” she said. “A great joke! The revolution is starting.”
Annie Vitalsey has an MFA from Arizona State University and her stories have appeared in Reed Magazine, Juked, Bennington Review, Pacifica Literary Review, and elsewhere. She currently teaches fiction writing at Colgate University, where she received the 2019-20 Olive B. O’Connor Fellowship.
We’re Fine
by Elizabeth Vignali
The house was only one story, so it was easy to see where it began, in the top corner of the living room above the potted schefflera. The little triangular patch right where two walls met the ceiling—not much bigger than both my hands splayed out—faded till it was as thin as parchment paper and we could see the yellow leaves of the neighbor’s birch tree through our own wall. You noticed it first. You saw the yellow shapes moving like coins on the ceiling and thought it was reflected light, that the baby was playing with some shining toy on the floor.
But the baby was on my lap. I was still trying to bond with him, get him to smile
at me the way he smiled at you.
“Ba-ba-ba-ba,” I said in that nonsense way people do when they’re talking to babies. He clung to my finger but he was still looking at you, your face turned away, toward the ceiling. We both watched you. He and I thinking the same thing. Look at me. Look at me.
“I think something’s wrong with the house,” you said.
I followed your gaze but I couldn’t see it then, couldn’t see anything but your
turned-away face.
The next morning, even I had to notice. On my way to the kitchen for coffee, sunlight striking my forehead, my right ear. A small corner of the house was gone. I walked over and looked up. It was a perfect circle. No saw could make edges so clean. You’d come up behind me, so quiet I didn’t know you were there until I felt your arms slip around my sides. Pressed your cheek to my back.
“It must be a prank,” I said. “Your brother.”
“What, then?”
After breakfast, I pulled the ladder around the side of the house and climbed up to take a look. “Be careful,” you said from below. Your boots on the fallen yellow leaves, the baby in your arms. I hadn’t been up here yet. There was moss on the roof, a few shingles missing. The gutters were choked with leaves.
“I should clean out your gutters for you,” I said.
“Our gutters,” you said.
Through the hole, I could see my plant in its mustard-colored pot. The coffee table. Your paperback spread-eagle facedown on the glass. The couch. Cushions indented from the previous weight of our bodies. The baby’s plastic giraffe tangled in your crocheted afghan.
The hole itself was just a hole.
“I don’t understand,” I said, too quiet for you to hear. But you did see me reach
for the edge, wanting to feel the cleanness of the cut, wanting to figure it out.
“Don’t touch it!” you said.
I pulled my hand back. Grooves from the ladder stretched from where I’d dragged it to root against the house, black dirt tracks like a railroad curving around the corner, beyond where I could see. From here, I could see the roof of the coffee shop I used to go to every morning. The red-edged tower of the old theater. The spires of the church-turned-bar where I’d seen my favorite band last year. Had I been to the bar since then?
When was the last time I went to the coffee shop? I grasped the ladder, fingers aching on the cold aluminum, and tried to remember.
“What’s happening over here?” Your neighbor propped his mug on the fence
separating the yards. “Do you guys need help with something?”
“No,” I said. Too quickly. Your reproachful look. “I’m just looking at the gutters.
Our gutters. I need to clean them out.” I don’t know why I lied; there was a hole in the
house, and small as it was it was plain to see. I watched his eyes travel from the hole to
your face.
“You sure?” he asked you.
“Yes,” you said. Shifted the baby from one hip to the other. “We’re fine.”
We couldn’t see it happening, but by late afternoon we were sure the hole was a little bigger than it had been that morning. The edges weren’t as clean, either. They were blurred, almost. The walls and ceiling around the hole were thin and faded, as if the house was a pencil drawing slowly being erased. By evening, the translucence had crept down the wall. The top of the schefflera was vanishing. The leaves nearest the empty spot were curled up.
We kept an eye on the baby, but he wasn’t interested in the corner anyway. He grasped the edge of the coffee table and pulled himself up on chubby legs, wobbly but determined. He lost his grip and sat down hard. Pulled up again. His open smile, only for you.
“He’ll be walking soon,” you said.
The plant bothered me. I stood and walked closer to the corner, studying it.
“Do you think it’s too late to move it?” I asked.
You weren’t listening.
“Want a beer?” you asked. “I’m getting one.”
While you were in the kitchen, I got down on the floor and army-crawled toward the plant. It felt ridiculous, ducking to avoid a hole, but the thought of getting to my feet beneath it made the hair on my neck stand up. I grasped the heavy ceramic pot and tugged it toward me, grunting and awkward with the lack of leverage. Still, managed to move it a couple feet, enough that it was out of the way of danger. I stood again and looked at the plant, half expecting the disappeared section to be back, but it was still gone. I passed my hand through the air where the top of the plant used to be.
You returned from the kitchen, a beer in each hand. You gave me one bottle and drank from the other, your lips wrapped around the neck in a way that took my attention from the hole in the house.
“It’s actually kind of nice in a weird way, isn’t it?” you said, looking at the stars
through the wall.
We retreated to the bedroom sooner than we had to, in retrospect. The rest of the house sort of seemed superfluous, anyway. We’d always preferred the bedroom. For a
while, we could still get to the kitchen when we needed to, laughing at each other as we absurdly hugged the wall in order to avoid nothing.
You had the foresight to bring food to the bedroom, paper bags stuffed with crackers and carrots and cheese, grocery shopping in our own house. You even remembered to grab the remote before it was too late, to turn the television so it was facing the hallway to the bedrooms, so we could sit in the doorway to what used to be your living room and watch baseball until the television vanished too. Then the baby used the remote as a teether, pressed the hard plastic against his sore gums, drool all over the power button.
The plates began to pile up in the bathroom, crusted with food, but neither of us felt like doing the dishes with hand soap and washcloths in the bathroom sink. “Watch,” I said. Balled up my paper towel and threw it toward the emptiness. It disappeared. We got a little carried away then, fetched the dirty dishes from the bathroom and flung them like frisbees and watched them vanish into thin air. It was fun at the time, but we didn’t have any plates to eat on after that.
No one came by, except once, when your neighbor’s teenage son knocked on our
bedroom window. I slid it open.
“You want your lawn mowed?” he asked.
I turned to you.
“Sure,” you said. “Hang on.” You had on underwear and a threadbare tank top,
and I watched his eyes track your progress across the room until I moved to stand in the way. His eyes slid the other direction. You found your purse under a pile of dirty
laundry. Pulled a twenty from your wallet. You handed it to me. I handed it to him.
“Thanks,” I said, and shut the window.
Every day—sometimes twice a day—I pulled the schefflera a little further away from the growing erased area. I waited for you to tell me to just go ahead and move the plant all the way into the bedroom, where it would be safe, but you never did.
Then one day, the schefflera vanished. I’d moved it bit by bit into the hallway, where it blocked our view of the disappearing house. But the erasing was happening faster than I realized, and one morning when I filled an empty yogurt container from the bathroom faucet and went to water the plant, it was gone. I stood in the remaining half of the hallway and looked out. It was raining out there in the rest of the world, a rain so cold it was nearly snow. There were no leaves left on the neighbor’s birch. The naked branches black against the clouds.
I heard your bare feet come up behind me.
“It’s gone,” I said.
“I know, honey,” you said.
I put my arm around you and pulled you close. We watched the freezing rain till
you started to shiver. I rubbed your arms, pulled you close.
“Come on,” I said and slid my hands to your hips. “May as well go back to bed.”
You were sleeping when the bedroom wall began to fade. I woke you up.
“The baby,” I said.
You got up and walked naked to the doorway, peeked across what remained of
the hall toward where the baby’s room was. You came back, your skin prickled with cold. Lifted the covers and burrowed against me.
“It’s too late,” you said.
I sat up, wanting to see for myself. If there was anything to be done. You pulled
me back down, your skin warm again already.
“It’s okay. I’m sure my mother got him.”
I didn’t ask how your mother would have known, how she would have reached him. Easier to run my hands down your back, pull you on top of me, push your head gently into my neck so you wouldn’t see the encroaching eraser, the slow disappearance of the door to the bathroom, your grandmother’s old oak bureau, our pile of crumpled laundry.
Elizabeth Vignali is the author of three poetry chapbooks, the latest of which is Endangered [Animal] (Floating Bridge Press 2019), and the full-length collection House of the Silverfish (forthcoming from Unsolicited Press). Her work has received special notice from the Pushcart Prize anthology and appeared in Willow Springs, Cincinnati Review, Mid-American Review, Tinderbox, The Literary Review, and others. She lives in the Pacific Northwest, where she works as an optician, coproduces the Bellingham Kitchen Session reading series, and serves as poetry editor of Sweet Tree Review.
by Charles Haddox
With the vicious determination of a mother bird hunting insects for its young, two strong men cast out a weighted nylon net and pulled it in one direction and then the other, trying to catch as many fish as possible before the start of the afternoon rains. They were using the net in the clear waters of a creek coursing through the dense forest of sheltering river palms, beetle-covered strangler figs, and towering ceibas that continually dropped yellow flowers into the water below like a slow rain. The creek flowed just north of Greyhill, along the base of an ancient talus slope, which was topped by the road that ran to the island’s capital. Standing in waist-high waters, the two young men called to each other. They were mainlanders who had come to the village to idle away a few days fishing in the unspoiled rivers of San Carlos. And they were using the net to catch small fish which would later be used as bait to take bigger ones in the broad green river that surged through Greyhill on its way to the coast.
Two boys, about ten years old, were wading in the creek. They played with a turtle that swam in the warm, sparkling water. The turtle was almost a meter long from head to tail. It moved gracefully, gliding through the water like a thread of light. Its short, leathery legs were yellow and viridian, and its shell was the color of chocolate. It paddled against the gentle current of the shallow creek; unhurriedly, indolently, as though lacking any purpose or desire.
Birds of all colors chattered in the tall trees, and a sea mouse moved cautiously through the reeds that bordered the creek. The sky was clear, and the day was hot.
The boys lost interest in the turtle and set about building a dam across the creek with fallen tree branches. The water sparkled as it flowed over the branches and eventually carried the smaller ones away.
One of the men saw the turtle and pointed it out to the other man. They dragged it to a rocky spot on the shore and dropped large stones on it until it lay crushed and lifeless. It was half-buried by the rocks; a pile of red flesh, broken shell, and purple entrails.
The boys noticed what was going on. They stood in the water, watching.
“Why did you kill it?” one of the boys asked.
The men looked at each other.
“The turtle eats fish,” one of them answered.
Charles Haddox lives in El Paso, Texas, on the U.S.-Mexico border, and has family roots in both countries. His work has appeared in a number of journals including Chicago Quarterly Review, The Sierra Nevada Review, Folio, and Stonecoast Review.
by Jonchy
The Indonesian word for flood is banjir.
In Jakarta, my hometown and the nation’s capital, the banjir comes so regularly that it is simply seen as a part of life. The rainy season begins in November and with it comes inevitable floodwaters. During this time, everyone places their valuables on high shelves and move vulnerable furniture on top of spare beds.
I loved the banjir as a child. When it was low, it turned our street into a large puddle in which I could slosh around—provided I had my blue rubber boots on and didn’t stay out too long. Some days, as my mother watched dutifully through the window, I would go out in search for stray branches floating in the street-turned-river. I’d pick an acceptable one to be my sword. I’d imagine myself as a pirate in shallow waters, defeating an improbable number of invisible enemies on my way to shore.
On car rides to the center of the city, I’d imagine that we were in a tightly packed convoy of ships, sailing through a brown ocean in search of new land.
I appreciated the banjir too, for its habit of arriving sneakily in the night to fill up my primary school. I went to an English-speaking school in East Jakarta, some forty minutes away. This is a short distance in the context of notorious Jakarta traffic—which, at its height, can stall a city-center trip by two hours.
Communication between the school and students’ parents could be lacking at times. Some days, my parents had the foresight to call ahead after a particularly stormy night to check if classes were canceled. More often than not, though, I’d be driven to school in the rainy months only for us to discover that rainwater had risen to shin-height on campus. This happened because the school was in a sort of valley and—like most of the Greater Jakarta area—was terribly irrigated.
On those days, a security guard would wade to us in his boots and tell us that class was cancelled for the day. I’d be happy, of course. I liked school, but not as much as reading chapter books or playing my daily allotment of computer games—this was 15 minutes, strictly policed by my mother.
My Korean mother pronounces it “Ban-jil,” having been born into a language whose “l” and “r” sounds are barely and blurrily distinct. In the cruelness of childhood, I made fun of her for it, though I would give anything now for her multilingualism. My Umma speaks three languages fluently, while I can only offer stunted approximations of her native tongue, or of my father’s.
As an adult and an immigrant I’m embarrassed that I am conversational but not fluent in the languages my parents passed down to me, even though they were spoken in the household. Though it was true that we spoke English the most—partly because it was my parents’ first shared language and partly because it was key to a successful future in the Western world—both hangeukmal and Bahasa Indonesia certainly had a place in our home.
When more than one language bounces around a household, it is inevitable that crosslinguistic jokes enter everyday speech. A favorite growing up was the conflation of Appa, the Korean word for father, and apa, the Indonesian word for “what.” Apa, Appa? was my stock response if my dad ever asked me a question, even if I’d clearly heard what he’d said. He humored me even after the sorry pun had worn itself out, always cracking a small smile in acknowledgment.
I’m not sure if we ever joked about the banjir, but I can imagine how it would’ve gone down. The word ban in Korean means “half,” and so the quip might have gone something like this: the ban-jir is up to my knees! I hope we don’t get a full-jir, that’d be up to my waist! My mother would have laughed gleefully, instead of giving me the groan I would have rightly deserved.
Recently, I’ve learned that everything I was taught about the banjir is only half-true.
I remember wondering aloud about why it flooded so much where we were. My parents would tell me it was because of what’s going on uphill. By this, they meant the deforestation in Western Java. I learned vaguely as a child that they were cutting down too many trees in Bogor, and that for some reason it made the banjir come upon us more heavily.
I know a little more now. I know that the logging industry uphill caters cheaply to the interests of Chinese companies, and that trees are often toppled to clear space for new apartments and factories. Apparently, dead roots don’t suck up water very well, so when the rains come down in the West the banjir surges down on Jakarta unopposed.
Deforestation is one part of the reason the waters rise and fall in Jakarta. But there are other things that summon the banjir to my city as well. Larger, darker forces are at play. I’ve grown to see that the banijr I so loved in my childhood is more sinister than I’d first realized.
I know now that the floods are getting higher because Jakarta is sinking. In the past ten years, the land in the coastal north of the city has dipped 2.5 meters—a full foot greater than the height of one Shaquille O’Neil. Jakarta is sinking because that is what happens when rampant urbanization sprawls outward and upward without a steady infrastructure to hold its weight.
While I have fond memories of my childhood, there are many things about Jakarta I am glad to have left behind. I am still traumatized by my hometown’s standstill traffic, where spending an hour to move your car forward by a mile is not unheard of. I remember getting lost in the gaudy multi-story shopping malls which populate the city, crying and headachy in the neon lights of retail stores.
People from all over Indonesia come to the big city to make something of themselves, or at least to make the sort of money that will go exponentially farther when they send it back to their families at home. There are too many people, and too many buildings built to house and entertain them. Jakarta is a city of gridlock and excess, and it is caving in on itself.
The literal weight of urban development is sinking my city, but there is more to it than that. Of coastal metropolises, Jakarta has one of the worst infrastructures for water distribution. Piped water comes at ridiculous cost, and only serves half of the city. This leaves the poor and the corner-cutting rich to drill illegal wells that tap into natural aquifers. Stifled by concrete, the aquifers have trouble filling up again. The weight of too-many buildings press down on the empty space left behind, leaving parts of my city as valley-like as my primary school, as pits for the floodwaters to fill in.
I worry that the sinister banjir might drown my city. But these are not the only rising waters that threaten Jakarta. Somewhere I have never been, far from my equatorial context and even from where I live now in New England, something called the Greenland Ice Sheet is melting very quickly. It is filling up the ocean and causing it to rise, even as far away as Indonesia. When you draw a bath, doesn’t the bathwater rise up evenly, and not just on the faucet-side? This is why the rising waters are creeping up the coast of North Jakarta.
The Greenland Ice Sheet is melting because of the sum total of all the coughing cars and spewy smokestacks and burning forests in the world, and because of the masses of cows that leak methane from their asses. The gaseous outputs clog the atmosphere and, increasingly, cause more heat from the sun linger by earth than we’d like. Jakarta’s gridlock plays a part. The neon malls play a part. So too, does oil drilling in Dubai and factory farms in Northeast China.
The government of my city isn’t as concerned with climate impacts of far-flung cities as it is with the reality that the floodwaters are threatening to invade us from the outside. They are building a wall to try and keep the waters out. They call it the Coastal Wall, and they’re building it extra-high because they know that it’s going to sink like the rest of the city. And as they build this wall they are preoccupied with dreams of an even more ambitious solution: the Great Garuda, a seawall of reclaimed land in the shape of its mythic-bird namesake, the national symbol of Indonesia.
There is something romantic about invoking a mythic power in tackling a great elemental threat. But, behind this grand vision of a guardian bird protecting its city from the onrushing ocean, is the same human hubris that got us here in the first place. The Great Garuda is a 40 billion dollar project which invites developers to build more malls and sleek condominiums upon the new land they will summon up from the ocean. Corner-cutting and corruption may leave the newly risen land carelessly formed, unstable and unsafe. Perhaps the deepest problem is that the venture does nothing to address the lack of piped water systems which cause my countrymen to drill wells that sink the city. The wall, meant to keep the water out, may only serve to keep the banjir in, leaving my city to someday filled to the brim—a post-climate Atlantis.
As a member of the diaspora, I love and I hate my city. I cherish my childhood sloshing in the streets, but cannot shake the panic of being trapped in a crowded mall. I feel an affinity to my birthplace and my people, and yet speak my mother tongue inexpertly. I think and worry about Jakarta, and write it out in English. I remember the banjir fondly, but hate it because it is a harbinger of destruction.
Like the sinking city of Jakarta, I am threatened from without and within. I’ve internalized a hybrid culture, through which I crack cross-linguistic jokes that make my mother laugh and my father smile. The longer I live on my own, though, the more language I lose and the more I find myself assimilating. I appreciate the values of freedom and the ethnic and cultural diversity I find in America, my adopted country. And yet, I understand that I am a resident alien, suspect to changes in immigration policy from an immigrant-suspicious administration.
Jakarta remains in me. But it is also a mirror to the world. The waters are rising everywhere because of Jakarta traffic and Korean barbeque and the same fuel-heavy flights that first brought me to America. Miami Beach is sinking, as is Shanghai, as is New Orleans, as is Manila and Rio de Janeiro. Just as in Jakarta, no one is really equipped to deal with it. I preoccupy myself by worrying about identity and parsing through my childhood, while corporations keep building heavy buildings and all people continue on with their lives.
No one wants to think about the waters creeping up our coasts, or to admit that we are sinking, or to consider that we may soon be submerged.
We will blink, and the water will be up to our waists.
Jonchy is an immigrant most worried about anthropogenic climate change—that deeply entangled reality which threatens to decimate our planet. He is particularly interested in the meaningful interplay between text and image, and often pairs his prose with scratchy sketches or family photographs. He lives on the North Shore of Boston, where he works with his hands.
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‘The Colour Khaki’ by Tariq Ali for New Left Review, Jan-Feb 2003
Now each day is fair and balmy,
Everywhere you look, the army.
Ustad Daman (1959)
On 19 September 2001, General Pervaiz Musharraf went on TV to inform the people of Pakistan that their country would be standing shoulder to shoulder with the United States in its bombardment of Afghanistan. Visibly pale, blinking and sweating, he looked like a man who had just signed his own death warrant. The installation of the Taliban regime in Kabul had been the Pakistan Army’s only foreign-policy success. In 1978, the US had famously turned to the country’s military dictator General Zia-ul-Haq when it needed a proxy to manage its jihad against the radical pro-Soviet regime in Afghanistan. In what followed, the Pakistan Inter-Services Intelligence became an army within an army, with much of its budget supplied directly from Washington. It was the ISI that supervised the Taliban’s sweep to power during Benazir Bhutto’s premiership of the mid-nineties; that controlled the infiltration of skilled saboteurs and assassins into Indian-held Kashmir; and that maintained a direct connexion with Osama bin Laden. Zia’s successors could congratulate themselves that their new province in the north-west almost made up for the defection of Bangladesh in 1971. read more
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About Convotherm
About Welbilt
Our hyper-competitive industry demands nothing short of your absolute best. At Convotherm, we believe there’s only one way to keep improving upon that ideal for both your team and your guests – by working together to develop innovative and effective solutions, right at the very heart of your business: the kitchen itself.
That’s why we’re dedicated to collaborating with restaurateurs and operators like you to discover new ways to enhance your team’s experience and workspace. We design each and every one of our products to not only meet the real challenges of your modern establishment, but to give your team even more freedom to explore and keep building out their culinary creations. With you as our partner, we’re not afraid to go beyond convention, and we won’t rest until we’ve crafted the perfect solution.
Creating more room for innovation in the kitchen is just the beginning of our ambition. After all, once you delight your guests the first time, you want to make sure to continue delivering on that high standard. So despite their underlying sophistication, every one of our products also boasts an intuitive, easy-to-use design, infusing both efficiency and dependability into your team’s workflow. With that consistency, you can ensure your patrons arrive excited and leave happy, time and time again.
At Convotherm, we work hard to make sure your opportunities to delight go far beyond an expanding menu. As we continue our ambitious collaborations, we’re excited to keep raising the bar in quality, efficiency, and experience – for you and everyone who walks through your door.
World-first innovations and patents in the service of our customers.
Highlights from nearly 40 years of tradition
Frank Dittmann and Werner Schwarzbäcker set up Convotherm in Wolfratshausen. From the very outset, true passion and a genuine zest for innovation have shaped the company’s history.
1976 - The first appliance already bears the distinctive red C on the door.
1977 - The first large-scale customer, apetito – they have remained Convotherm customers to this day.
1982 - The first combi steamer in the world with the energy-saving Closed System (patented).
1987 - The first combi steamer in the world with a hand shower on the appliance (patented).
1990 - Delivery of the 20,000th appliance
1994 - The first combi steamer in the world with a disappearing door (patented).
1995 - The first combi steamer manufacturer in the world with DIN ISO 9001 certification (quality).
1998 - Subsidiary of Enodis plc., London, the world’s largest manufacturer and supplier of foodservice equipment and systems.
2000 - The first combi steamer manufacturer in the world with DIN ISO 14001 certification (environment).
2002 - Fully automatic cleaning, the CONVOClean system (patented).
2004 - The +3 appliance series with groundbreaking technology: Advanced Closed System (ACS) with Crisp&Tasty cooking chamber dehumidification (patented).
2006 - mini appliance series: the world’s smallest combi steamer with a footprint of only 0.31 m²
2007 - The first touchscreen panel in the world for programming a combi steamer without additional controls easySystem (patented).
2008 - Subsidiary of Manitowoc Foodservice, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of professional kitchen equipment with over 25 brands.
2009 - Expansion of the “mini world” appliance series
Hygienic door handle (patented).
2010 - ecoCooking energy-saving program.
2011 - Annual sales of 10,000 combi steamers
2012 - CONVOBake
Total supply of the Eglfing site with 100 % green energy
2014 - Convotherm 4
2016 - 10 years mini series
2017 - Subsidiary of Welbilt, a business with operations all around the globe
2018 - New Convotherm mini series
Convotherm 4 recognized with ICONIC Award 2018: Innovative Interior
Eglfing, Germany- Welbilt Inc. (NYSE: WBT), a leading global supplier of commercial foodservice equipment, is proud to announce that its brand, Convotherm Elektrogeräte GmbH and the Convotherm 4 combi steamer is the receipient of the “ICONIC Award 2018: Innovative Interior” by ICONIC World, in recognition of the clear, intuitive design of the Convotherm 4 product range. The range of units boasts a flexible, fully automatic cleaning system that is perfectly tailored to the needs of users as well as a unique Advanced Closed System+ (ACS+) that ensures the best in cooking results.
“We are honored to be the receipient of the ‘ICONIC Award: Innovative Interior,’” says Ralf Klein, Convotherm managing director. “Until recently , planning and organizing a commercial kitchen and its overall concept has always focused on strict rules for production and logistics, leaving aesthitics for last. The Convotherm 4 family of products is a reflection of our motto - ‘form follows function,’ enabling professional commercial kitchens to be funtion seamlessly as well as designed aesthetically.
ICONIC WORLD is the international platform for networking architects and property developers with the furniture industry. The prestigious “ICONIC Award: Innovative Interior” is conferred by the German Design Council, the body dealing with design and brand matters in Germany. The focus of the evaluation is on innovative top performance achieved in all product areas of the industry sector. The nominated objects are considered and assessed in terms of their interaction within their overall context. This method reflects the holistic design approach of the German Design Council, which was established in 1953 as a foundation at the initiative of the German parliament and ever since has supported the economy in achieving brand value through design. It is one of the world’s leading competence centres for communication and brand management in the area of design and directs its efforts towards businesses in the furniture and furnishings industry as well as their partners in design and interior architecture.
Convotherm wins Lean & Green Management Award
Eglfing, Germany . - Convotherm Elektrogeräte, a Welbilt brand is proud to announce it took first place in the “General Production Industry: SMEs” category at the Lean & Green Management Awards. This adds yet another award to Convotherm’s long list of achievements. The award recognizes Convotherm’s unparalleled results in the area of resource-efficient production.
The Lean & Green Management Award recognizes the most successful approaches to improving resource efficiency by continueing to reduce waste of all resources within the organization. One of the principal aims of the competition is to generate benefits through the sharing of best practices and networking between different industries, practical operating recommendations and innovative solutions and applications for resource efficiency consistent with Industry 4.0.
“We are honored to have won the Lean & Green Management Award 2017,” says Stefan Dorsch, Head of Production & Operations at Convotherm. “It reflects not only the enormous importance that we attach to sustainability and ‘green production’, but also serves as confirmation of our commitment to efficienty with resources -- not only in our production, but throughout our entire operation. We consider both to be key elements of our corporate social responsibility. Winning the Lean & Green Management Award is a confirmation of our commitment to efficiency with resources not only in our production operations, but throughout our entire location as well. Among other things, this is a testament to how we analyze all our administrative processes in terms of lean management and resource efficiency as well. It supports our efforts to define, track, and achieve new environmental goals every year, with examples including our efforts to avoid on-peak times and lowering compressed air losses by thirty percent.”
Convotherm receives ENERGY STAR® Certification on 18 models
Eglfing, Germany . - The efficiency and sustainability of the Convotherm 4 combi oven has once again been affirmed through ENERGY STAR®. Convotherm offers a total of 18 combi oven models with the ENERGY STAR® certification, making it the manufacturer with the most certifications in the product category. The Convotherm models include 6.20, 10.10, 10.20 and 20.20 models both in Gas and Electric models featuring easyDial™ or easyTouch® control panels. ENERGY STAR® is an international labelling programme for energy-saving appliances which was started in 1992 by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
“StandortProfi” awarded to Convotherm Elektrogeräte GmbH
Eglfing, Germany . - Convotherm’s passion for success has earned another award – the “StandortProfi” (SitePro). Starting in 2011, the “StandortProfi” has become a well-established distinction which honours the special efforts of businesses in the social and economic region of Weilheim-Schongau. The “StandortProfi” is an integral part of the economic life in the administrative district and, especially because of its unique profile, it is esteemed as the “somewhat unconventional business award” by representatives from both business and politics.
Footprint Award 2016
Guildford, UK. Leading combi steamer manufacturer, Convotherm, is delighted to have won the ‘Sustainable Catering Equipment Manufacturer Award’ at last night’s prestigious Footprint Awards with its latest Convotherm 4 model.
As one of the most renowned events within the hospitality and foodservice sector in UK, key figures within the industry gathered at the Footprint Awards to applaud the very best in sustainability across the sector. Already recognised as a manufacturer who puts sustainability at the heart of their design, Convotherm further demonstrated to the judges how through extensive innovation, the latest Convotherm 4 combi steamers, are at the pinnacle of efficient, sustainable catering equipment.
The judges commented that the Convotherm 4 was “an amazing combi steamer range which has achieved some excellent energy efficiencies in water and electric consumption compared to the previous model. More important is the excellent cooking results which obviously contribute to less food waste.”
The Convotherm 4 range of combi steamers feature a highly automated cooking process including the patented ACS+ technology which delivers even cooking results due to perfect steam saturation and control of air input and output directly to the cooking chamber. This results in a constant environment within the combi steamer for all products, ensuring that vegetables remain fresh and baked goods have a longer shelf life, thus allowing less chance for extensive food wastage. What’s more, the easyTouch model includes ‘ecoCooking’ which can save up to 25% energy over other models, and can improve product quality significantly.
Steve Hemsil, National Sales Manager Distribution at Manitowoc Foodservice UK was thrilled: “We are absolutely delighted to have won the Footprint ‘Sustainable Catering Equipment Manufacturer Award’. Not only is it an excellent achievement for the team, but it further proves that Convotherm is leading the way within the combi steamer market in terms of sustainability. It highlights that by using the latest advancements in technology, and having a fantastic team of designers and engineers, catering equipment can be extremely energy efficient – this can only be good for the end user with reduced operating costs and food waste. Convotherm 4 combi steamers also boast a 100% green manufacturing process.”
After the German Design Award for Convotherm 4, now also the Brand Convotherm got recognized with the German Brand Award 2016.
Green Good Design Award 2016 for Convotherm® 4
Eglfing, Germany – The Convotherm 4 of combi steamers has scooped a prestigious award from the Chicago Athenaeum, otherwise known as the International Museum of Architecture and Design. Dedicated to all areas of design from architecture, industrial and product design, the museum’s mission is to advance the public’s education about the value of good design and how it can positively impact the human environment.
GOOD DESIGN™ was founded in Chicago in 1950 to promote and foster a greater public understanding and acceptance for Modern Design.
Now in turn and in 2016, GREEN GOOD DESIGN's goal is to bestow international recognition to those outstanding individuals, companies, organizations, governments, and institutions - together with their products, services, programs, ideas, and concepts-that have forwarded exceptional thinking and inspired greater progress toward a more healthier and more sustainable universe. Convotherm is delighted that the combi steamer range Convotherm 4 was one of those to hit the high standards required.
The Convotherm 4 boasts perfect cooking results, low energy consumption and an award winning functional design which was based on detailed research and intensive discussions with chefs worldwide.
“Every watt and litre count. The Convotherm 4 represents a new class of energy efficiency and water consumption compared with the previous P3 model. Not only are our appliances certified with the Energy Star but our environmental and energy management systems comply with ISO standards 14001 and 50001. Because we believe that sustainability starts back at the factory”, Ralf Klein, General Manager.
This latest award follows hotly on the heels of the coveted iF Design Award, red dot Award and the Good Design Award, which was bestowed on the Convotherm 4 range in 2014 for outstanding international design achievement.
Convotherm won the 2nd place in the category water for the sustainability award "Grünes Band"
The concept of sustainability has become one of the most important words that accompany, drive and move people.
Sustainable development takes environment considerations into account on equal footing with economic and social criteria.
This is a target that is particularly dear for HUSS-MEDIEN GmbH with the trade magazines "gastronomie & hotellerie" and "GV-kompakt".
Recognized with the German Design Award 2016
By winning the "German Design Award - Special Mention" Convotherm 4 continues its series of successes.
The German Design Award, which is awarded by the German Design Council, is one of the most respected design competitions in the world and is held in high esteem even outside of circles of experts.
With it, top-class products and projects from the field of product and communication design will be honored. The declared objective is to discover unique design trends, to showcase and to celebrate them.
Recognized with the Gulfood AWARD 2015
The success of the new Convotherm 4 combi steamer continues, having won the highly sought after ‘Best New Food Service Innovation Award’ at the Gulfood Awards 2015. The win secures further recognition for Manitowoc Foodservice and its Convotherm® brand within the industry, and is a particular highlight of their time exhibiting in Dubai.
Recognized with the EuroGastro AWARD 2015
During the EuroGastro 2015, Poland’s leading HoReCa exhibition, the Convotherm 4 series has won the ‘Best Product‘ award.
The Convotherm 4 models boast perfect cooking results, low energy consumption and an award winning functional design which has been based on detailed research and intensive discussions with professional chefs worldwide.
Awarded with the GOOD DESIGN AWARD 2014
“The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design” and “Metropolitan Arts Press Ltd.” present the Museum’s annual GOOD DESIGN ® Awards Program. The emphasis of the GOOD DESIGN program is on quality design of the highest form, function, and aesthetics a standard beyond ordinary consumer products and graphics:
Convotherm 4 Range
IMAGO DESIGN GmbH
PORSCHE DESIGN GmbH
Awarded with the INDUSTRIEPREIS – BEST OF 2014
The Huber Verlag für Neue Medien GmbH awards the INDUSTRIEPREIS to companies that demonstrate high economic, social, technological and ecological values. The jury of experts is awarding the distinction of BEST OF 2014 to:
Company: Convotherm Elektrogeräte GmbH
Product: Convotherm 4
The company receiving the award has convinced the jury of its qualities and thus belongs to the exclusive top group from among the entries received. A distinguished jury of experts consisting of 30 professors and specialised journalists forms the elite circle of judges – the size and the constellation of the group ensure an objective evaluation and make the prize truly unique in the industrial sector.
Recognized with the INNOVATIONSPREIS – IT by the Mittelstand 2014 initiative
Convotherm easyTouch
easyTouch uses robust, resistive touch technology suitable for even the most demanding kitchen environments. With colour and icons for easy comprehension. Manual or automatic cooking. easySystem with Manager and Crew modes. Unique, flexible control of cleaning with eco, regular and express modes. 36 language versions and on-screen help with a video function.
Recognized with the McDonald’s Best of Sustainable Supply Award
More than 600 entries were submitted, with Manitowoc Foodservice earning a prestigious place alongside 50 other leading projects. McDonald’s leadership and external subject matter experts recognized Manitowoc Foodservice and its Convotherm facility for sustainability leadership in the Community Impact category.
“The submissions in the Best of Sustainable Supply report demonstrate that our suppliers go above and beyond to provide sustainable leadership, and that they take their commitment to preserving resources as seriously as we do,” said Jose Armario, executive vice president, McDonald’s Global Supply Chain, Development & Franchising. “We are fortunate to work with such a diverse and dedicated group of suppliers to service our 35,000 global restaurants each day.”
Click here for the complete list of “Best of Sustainable Supply” winners.
Recognized with the Red Dot Award: Product Design 2014
The new Convotherm 4 series is introducing a never before seen design quality to the professional kitchen. State-of-the-art technology, simple usage and hygiene can be felt at the mere sight, due to the clarity of the design. This experience is being continued at the first contact: The door handle may appear rigorous and puristic, but at the same time it offers perfect ergonomics. A consistent, intuitive usability concept extends to all product classes – this is a substantial plus in an often hectic daily routine in gastronomy. Last but not least, the scalability of the design concept allows for the realization of a whole product family with 7 different sizes and 6 basic configurations each. The result is a symbiosis of functional flexibility and formal conclusiveness which is completely new in this product segment.
Recognized with the iF product design award 2014
The goal of the new Convotherm 4 series has been to have the design aspect as a basis for the functionality of a key product within the professional kitchen operation. Strictly following the principle “form follows function”, we were able to proof that functionality, intuitive handling, serviceability and a hygienic approach combined with a, for this industry-segment, new focus on esthetic design results in a symbiotic approach. Due to the adaptability of the design concept we were able to develop a product family of seven unit sizes with six different basic models, offering a flexibility unparalleled in the market.
Kitchen Innovation Award 2011
Award for 6.10 mini 2in1
Ever since the market launch in April 2009 the OES 6.10 mini 2in1 convinces with its unique concept of operation and concept of space. It is the only combi steamer using one controller for two separate cooking chambers. When needed you can use two different cooking modes simultaneously (e. g. for the steaming of vegetables and roasting of meat). For this world debut CONVOTHERM was rewarded with the “Kitchen Innovation Award 2011″ by the “National Restaurant Association” in the USA.
Next to the brilliant concept of operation the concept of space was also rated positively. With its width of only 51.5 cm it belongs to the smallest combi steamers worldwide and a capacity of up to 12 x 1/1 GN containers (each 6 per cooking chamber) there is always enough space despite of its little dimension. In order to keep things simple for the user the “mini” is equipped with the in-house easyToUCH operation panel. The transparent touch screen leads you self-explanatorily through all necessary functions and applications.
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Welbilt, Inc. develops, produces and sells world-leading solutions in the foodservice equipment sector.
Offering you an unrivalled understanding of the customer and industry combined with comprehensive kitchen systems, culinary expertise and first-class customer service. Globally and locally. With business operations in America, Europe and Asia, Welbilt supplies leading brands such as Cleveland™, Convotherm®, Crem™, Delfield®, Fitkitchen®, Frymaster®, Garland®, Kolpak®, Lincoln®, Manitowoc® Ice, Merco®, Merrychef® and Multiplex®.
You can find out more about Welbilt, and how our leading brands could help you from our website: www.welbilt.com. You can also find details here of our regional and local offices.
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* Blog Tour / Review * THE SICILIAN’S BOUGHT CINDERELLA by Michelle Smart
The Sicilian's Bought Cinderella by Michelle Smart
Series: Conveniently Wed!
Published by Harlequin Presents on February 1, 2019
Bought for his convenience…
But their chemistry is impossible to resist!
Posing as commanding billionaire Dante Moncada’s fiancée at a glamorous society wedding is a far cry from Aislin O’Reilly’s modest life, but she’ll do anything to secure money for her sick nephew. The deal with Dante is strictly business—the gorgeous Sicilian playboy is danger personified. Yet soon their mutual explosive passion rips through the terms of their arrangement, leaving them both hungry for more…
Fast paced and delightful! I was quickly drawn into the story and didn’t want to put it down. The characterization was pleasant and easy to connect with and the general telling of the story was believable and left us with a satisfying outcome. Enjoyed it!
Billionaire Dante Moncada is less than thrilled when he hears he has an intruder on his property, but when he finds a beautiful woman who sends tingles throughout his body with just a look, he’s intrigued!
Aislin O’Reilly will do just about anything in order to take care of her sister and sick nephew. She has approached Dante regarding a family connection and gotten blown off time and time again, so she decides to take matters into her own hands. He can’t very well ignore her if she’s taking up residence in one of his houses! She finally gets to tell her story, and in return for his eventual fairness, she agrees to help him out with a business deal and pretends to be his fiancee at a weekend wedding. All would be fine if they weren’t entirely too tempted by each other and suddenly getting up close and personal!
Title: A Soldier’s Return
Author: RaeAnne Thayne
Harlequin Imprint: Special Edition
Hosted by: Lady Amber’s Reviews & PR
The Women of Brambleberry House are back!
Returning home to Cannon Beach and living in Brambleberry House, a place where good things seemed destined to happen, had brought Melissa Fielding and her young daughter such joy. Perhaps it was no accident when the single mom “bumped” into Eli Sanderson, and discovered the handsome doctor was also back in town. The ex-soldier was still so captivating, but also more guarded. Was now the time to put old ghosts to rest?
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#1 Publishers Weekly, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author RaeAnne Thayne finds inspiration in the beautiful northern Utah mountains where she lives with her family. Her books have won numerous honors, including seven RITA Award nominations from Romance Writers of America and a Career Achievement Award from RT Book Reviews magazine. RaeAnne loves to hear from readers and can be reached through her website at www.raeannethayne.com.
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Title: The Sicilian’s Bought Cinderella
Author: Michelle Smart
Harlequin Imprint: Presents
Bought for his convenience… But their chemistry is impossible to resist! Posing as commanding billionaire Dante Moncada’s fiancée at a glamorous society wedding is a far cry from Aislin O’Reilly’s modest life, but she’ll do anything to secure money for her sick nephew. The deal with Dante is strictly business—the gorgeous Sicilian playboy is danger personified. Yet soon their mutual explosive passion rips through the terms of their arrangement, leaving them both hungry for more… Get swept away by the glamour of this convenient engagement!
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Michelle Smart is a Publishers Weekly bestselling author with a slight-to-severe coffee addiction. A book worm since birth, Michelle can usually be found hiding behind a paperback, or if it’s an author she really loves, a hardback.
Michelle lives in rural Northamptonshire in England with her husband and two young Smarties. When not reading or pretending to do the housework she loves nothing more than creating worlds of her own. Preferably with lots of coffee on tap.
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Title: Navy Seal to the Rescue
Author: Tawny Weber
Harlequin Imprint: Romantic Suspense
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Injured in the line of duty, navy SEAL Travis “Hawk” Hawkins retreats to paradise. But R & R takes a turn when he runs smack into a beautiful blonde who just witnessed a murder. Travis offers to help, only to find himself equally taunted and titillated by irresistible Lila Adrian. Can the wounded warrior protect Lila and take down a deadly crime ring?
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Shabaka & The Ancestors
Horseshoe Tavern
Thu Jun 25 9:30pm
$25 + service charge
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Tradition shapes your work. For saxophonist and bandleader Shabaka Hutchings, that’s something he’s long understood. After years spent in the orbit of London’s jazz circuit, he examines and reimagines his influences with a dexterity that’s unique.
"When we study the music, the lives, the words of our master musicians we obtain a glimpse of that artist's essential energy source. This is the core vitality of the individual which leads them to utilise the musical specifics of their chosen genre in a way that mirrors their inner source of power. This is an intuited wisdom that's handed to us from the legacies of our elders.
Going beyond the jazz greats Hutchings cites, influences are drawn from plenty of other sources: Caribbean calypso, central African song structures and Southern African Nguni music all play a part. Bringing together those ideas with the contributions of his bandmates is, he explains, crucial to what he sees in the role of an artist.
A regular sight on stages around London and beyond, playing – and often leading – groups like The Comet Is Coming, Sons of Kemet and Melt Yourself Down, he’s part of a generation whose idea of jazz is pointedly unrefined. That’s to say, Wisdom of the Elders comes from an artist interested in the indefinable gaps more than fitting into boxes.
Video of Shabaka and the Ancestors - Mzwandile (live at The Orbit, Johannesburg)
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Vivienne Westwood Ad Campaign By Juergen Teller
July 15th, 2008 by kpriss
It was about time I stumble upon some Juergen Teller… About now I think it’s clear enough I don’t really appreciate his vision but sometimes, oddly enough, they work just wonderfully with the subject.
Such is the case for these Vivienne Westwood ads. Relaxed, laid back pictures trying to get everything in a playful manner. Or so it seems to me. I like it when things are not taken too seriously and this time I have to give into Juergen’s ways for he really did a good job. (there’s more after the jump)
Besides these two pirates-like pictures of Vivienne, all the others look like pulled out of a fashion random bowl for a fresh breakfast. It’s far from being dull, far from being stupid. Vivienne, the pirates, the ads and Teller definitely made a strong good impression on me. What do you say? (click the thumbnails to enlarge)
(photos via ontdff)
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#1 Ellington on 07.15.08 at 5:51 pm
Vivienne Westwood always has a sense of fun and style with her clothes and her presentation of them. I like this!
#2 Adriana on 07.15.08 at 9:01 pm
I love Vivienne Westwood because she has never lost her sense for fun in her style (I just agree with Ellingtone) but also never lost her concious and commitment to what’s going around in this world.
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The issue with Russian promises
A 2005 critically acclaimed film “Joyeux Noel” tells a story of an unofficial truce during WWI between French, Scottish and German soldiers, who have negotiated a ceasefire around Christmas time and even enjoyed moderate comradery despite representing warring countries. This story, mostly a myth with separate elements of true historical events, serves as a reminder of the humanity that is defines people, even in the most extreme situations. It also illustrates just how much stronger the trust should be on the battlefield, since the stakes are so much higher. A faith of each side in the trustworthiness of the other lies in the crux of this story and many other stories about instances of peace at war.
Yet on 29thof August millions of Ukrainians do not share this faith, since this is an anniversary of the Ilovaisk massacre – a tragic culmination of a particularly gruelling month of battles in Ilovaisk region. On this day 4 years ago, Ukrainian armed forces were retreating through a “humanitarian corridor”, negotiated by Ukrainian and Russian commanders to evacuate Ukrainian troops that were trapped in Ilovaisk and nearby territories they have previously taken back as a result of a counterattack by the forces of so called “Donetsk People Republic” and Russian military. Almost immediately after the procession started moving, Russian troops opened fire on the Ukrainian side, instantly killing many people and creating a split in the column, which resulted in general chaos, dead bodies, missing persons and prisoners. Even more chilling is the fact that due to the attack of the evacuating column wounded Russian soldiers, who were transported as part of the column as per general agreement lost their lives as well.
Such a rapid shift in events affected not only the troops, but also the Ukrainian society in general. Ilovaisk became synonymous with a breach of trust, a scorn upon the most basic implications behind the white flag – an international symbol of surrender and appeasement. The war is never pretty or especially noble outside of the realm of fictional stories, however the human race has evolved beyond Hobbesian war of all against all. Thus a choice, made by Russian command, seems especially jarring, because it violates international norms, wartime ethics and puts even their own people in harm’s way. These events serve as a reminder of true nature of Russian regime and rhetoric of “brotherly love” among the two nations.
Ilovaisk, its symbol a torn and half burned Ukrainian flag retrieved from the scene, will be remembered with a bitter taste of bile in the mouth.
Ukrainian crisis media center
SCHEDULE OF PRESS-BRIEFINGS IN UKRAINE CRISIS MEDIA CENTER FOR JANUARY 21, 2020
Topic: "101st Anniversary of the Day of Unity of Ukraine: what unites and divides Ukrainians the most"
Iryna Bekeshkina, Director of the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation, Senior Researcher at the Institute of Sociology of NAS of Ukraine
Olexiy Haran, Scientific Director of the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation, Professor of Political Science of NaUKMA
Anton Drobovych, Head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory
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Volodymyr Kulik, Chief Research Fellow of the Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of NAS of Ukraine
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(Don’t) Ask a Scientist!: The Good, the Bad, and the Accuracy on Sam’s Science Fiction Suggestions (Cold War SF with an Aquatic Theme)
December 14, 2017 Mat Paskins No comments exist
This is the second in a short series of posts about making scholarly practices more visible and material, and the useful outcomes which might result from that. The previous one was about flying—you can read it here. This one describes my work over the past couple of years in assembling “The Past Futures Database”, a collection of…
This post is about flying. More specifically, it’s about the connections between being a scholar and pressures to travel by aeroplane, what might be involved in resisting those pressures. I believe this would be a kind of anticipatory action which would allow us to think more clearly about our identities . A lot of…
March 14, 2017 Amy C. Chambers No comments exist
Author: Amy C. Chambers This article accompanies episode 10 of The Anthill podcast on the future. From Humans to Westworld, from Her to Ex Machina, and from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D to Black Mirror – near future science fiction in recent years has given audiences some seriously unsettling and prophetic visions of the future. According to…
Science & Future World Building in Westworld’s Credit Sequence
October 5, 2016 Amy C. Chambers No comments exist
Author: Amy C. Chambers Westworld finally got its UK premier last night. It seemed like an eternity between the US release and our chance to explore, and I successfully navigated the minefield of avoiding spoilers and opinions on the first episode that might interfere with my own initial response (and enjoyment). The first episode wasn’t perfect –…
A Boy’s Own Radium
September 21, 2016 Iwan Morus No comments exist
Author: Iwan Rhys Morus A few years ago, during one of our occasional forays to Hay on Wye and its second hand bookshops, I came across a boys’ adventure novel called The Radium Casket, published in 1926 (by Oxford University Press – I had no idea they published such things, though a few seconds research showed…
OSIRIS 2019 | Presenting Past Futures: SF and the History of Science
July 12, 2016 Amy C. Chambers No comments exist
We’re very pleased and proud to announce that volume 34 of Osiris will be edited by Amanda Rees (University of York) and Iwan Morus (Aberystwyth University).
Species, Race, Slavery: SF Literature and Defining Humanity
June 13, 2016 Amanda Rees No comments exist
Author: Amanda Rees By their works, you shall know them…according to Vercors (the war-time pen name of French writer, Jean Bruller). His 1952 novel, Les Animaux dénaturés, opens with the death of a baby in Guildford. The father, who has arranged for the infant’s birth to be registered and for him to be baptised – thus…
Science Fictions: Mat’s List
June 7, 2016 Mat Paskins No comments exist
Author: Mat Paskins Michel Faber, The Book of Strange New Things
One of my favourite words is ‘sfnal’
June 2, 2016 Lisa Garforth 2 comments
Author: Lisa Garforth Sfnal: it’s a term that says a lot about contemporary sf, its journeys, its uses, the cleverness of its readers and writers. I like the idea that something can be ‘science fictional’, that sf is not necessarily an object or a genre in the sense of a container, but rather that it is…
(Don’t) Ask a Scientist!: The Good, the Bad, and the Accuracy
May 27, 2016 Amy C. Chambers No comments exist
Author: Amy C. Chambers At the end of March I went to my first science fiction convention: EasterCon. Also known as the British National Science Fiction Convention, now in its 67th year, the convention is given a name that reflects its location or theme each year and for the Manchester EasterCon we had Mancunicon (for the…
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On the eighth day he left at each house a note, written in their peculiar cipher, to explain to his friend what death hung over him, and to tell him of Lydie's abduction and the horrible end to which his enemies had devoted them. Peyrade, bereft of Corentin, but seconded by Contenson, still kept up his disguise as a nabob.
Honoré de Balzac - Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
From her he heard of Lydie's disappearance, and remained astounded at Peyrade's and his own want of foresight. "But they do not know me yet," said he to himself. "This crew is capable of anything; I must find out if they are killing Peyrade; for if so, I must not be seen any more " The viler a man's life is, the more he clings to it; it becomes at every moment a protest and a revenge.
And, I tell you, only your bad sort know how to do such things but often has he given me ten francs to go and gamble with..." After this funeral oration, Peyrade's two avengers went back to Lydie's room, hearing Katt and the medical officer from the Mairie on the stairs. "Go and fetch the Chief of Police," said Corentin.
At this moment, up the stairs came some one to whom they were familiar, and the door was opened. Peyrade, in a violent sweat, his face purple, his eyes almost blood-stained, and gasping like a dolphin, rushed from the outer door to Lydie's room, exclaiming: "Where is my child?" He saw a melancholy sign from Corentin, and his eyes followed his friend's hand.
Now, I will take you to Lydie's presence; remember to play the part of doctor; for the only thing that makes her lose her customary serenity is not to enter into her notion of medical consultation."
Honoré de Balzac - The Lesser Bourgeoisie
The Police Commissioner presently arrived; Corentin told him his suspicions, and begged him to draw up a report, telling him where and with whom Peyrade had supped, and the causes of the state in which he found Lydie. Corentin then went to Lydie's rooms; Desplein and Bianchon had been examining the poor child. He met them at the door. "Well, gentlemen?" asked Corentin.
Lydie's condition can only be compared to that of a flower tenderly cherished by a gardener, now fallen from its stem, and crushed by the iron-clamped shoes of some peasant. Ascribe this simile to a father's heart, and you will understand the blow that fell on Peyrade; the tears started to his eyes. "You are crying! It is my father!" said the girl.
There were garret rooms above the fourth floor, one of them a kitchen, and the other a bedroom for Pere Canquoelle's only servant, a Fleming named Katt, formerly Lydie's wet-nurse. Old Canquoelle had taken one of the outside rooms for his bedroom, and the other for his study. The study ended at the party-wall, a very thick one.
"But it was Lydie's marriage-portion I looked for there!" said Peyrade, in a whisper to Corentin. "Now, come along, Contenson, let us be off, and leave our daddy to by-bye, by-bye!" "Monsieur," said Contenson to Corentin on the doorstep, "what a queer piece of brokerage our good friend was planning! Heh! What, marry a daughter with the price of Ah, ha!
Peyrade's door was graced with a slate, on which very strange marks might sometimes be seen, figures scrawled in chalk. This sort of devil's algebra bore the clearest meaning to the initiated. Lydie's rooms, opposite to Peyrade's shabby lodging, consisted of an ante-room, a little drawing-room, a bedroom, and a small dressing-room.
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A project to break down language barriers and connect registrars worldwide
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New Digital Publication Now Available!
Rights & Reproductions: The Handbook for Cultural Institutions
September 11, 2015 Angela Articles 3 comments
by Anne M. Young
Manager of Rights and Reproductions
Last week Rights & Reproductions: The Handbook for Cultural Institutions was published by the Indianapolis Museum of Art and American Alliance of Museums. Read the official press release here: http://www.imamuseum.org/sites/default/files/attachments/RR%20Handbook%20PR%20FINAL.pdf. After two years of in-depth work on the Handbook, it is my great pleasure to see the efforts of so many people come to fruition and be released to the public. As I have taken to calling the Handbook, my third “child” has now been born—a bouncing baby ePub.
Cover design for the publication. Artwork depicted: Edward Hopper (American, 1882–1967), Hotel Lobby (detail), 1943, oil on canvas, 32-1/4 x 40-3/4 in. Indianapolis Museum of Art, William Ray Adams Memorial Collection, 47.4 © Edward Hopper.
The Handbook is the first publication available to rights and reproductions specialists that focuses solely on the guidelines, established standards and emerging best practices in this field. As defined in the Handbook, a rights and reproductions specialist refers to anyone working at a cultural institution who handles this type of work, including but not limited to registrars, rights and reproductions managers, archivists, librarians and lawyers.
Writing, editing and designing Rights & Reproductions: The Handbook for Cultural Institutions has been, relatively speaking, the easy part. The true “work” has been the coordination of all the moving parts associated with its production. Getting the IMA and AAM in line as the publishers, bringing together over 20 contributing authors and legal review panelists, the IMA’s receipt of the National Leadership Grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), and the Getty Foundation’s support of its production as a digital publication utilizing the Online Scholarly Catalogue Initiative (OSCI) Toolkit are the only reasons it is now available for purchase. As one of the contributing authors recently quipped, “Anne, you are now awarded the title ‘Champion Cat Herder,’” which I humbly accept.
Highlights or stats, if you will, of the Handbook include, but are not limited to, the following:
Over 400 “pages” of text and almost 800 footnotes (just four shy, which is simply annoying).
An overview of Intellectual Property (IP) law, ethics and risk (in the United States) and other personal, moral, and third party rights compared with the broad differences found in international IP rights.
Discussion of the importance of maintaining an IP policy, considering open access policies and conducting regular IP audits.
50 references each to Creative Commons and open access and over 170 references to fair use and/or fair dealing.
Rights issues in permanent collections: determining the rights status of collection objects, identifying rights holders and preparing non-exclusive licenses.
Use of materials with IP considerations, including, but not limited to, publications and exhibitions, educational materials, websites and social media, marketing and promotion, and retail and commercial products.
Varying processes employed for clearing permissions and sourcing materials, as well as when a utilization of fair use is appropriate and the types of attribution required.
Over 20 case studies that outline real-world examples from the contributing authors’ experiences and practices at their respective institutions.
The process of expanding audiences and potential revenue generation by leveraging collection content with external distribution partners.
Analysis of communicating IP to the public, including licensing materials to external users and the evolution of photography policies.
Direct hyperlinks to external sources and related articles within the footnotes, appendices and bibliography as well as embedded video files.
Four appendices: international treaties, federal legal materials and court decisions; document and contract templates (over 100 pages!); terms and definitions; and references and resources.
If you haven’t already, I encourage you to skip the morning stop at the coffee shop and purchase your copy of Rights & Reproductions: The Handbook for Cultural Institutions. Available now for purchase through AAM’s website at https://aam-us.org/ProductCatalog/Product?ID=5186 for $4.99 USD (non-members and Tier 1 members) and $1.99 USD (Tier 2 and 3 members).
Rights & Reproductions: The Handbook for Cultural Institutions is made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services. The project utilizes the OSCI Toolkit, which is supported by the Getty Foundation as a part of its Online Scholarly Catalogue Initiative.
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Isabelle Poulin says:
I would like to know if I can purchase a copy of the pdf and make a copy for our Library collection?
Isabelle Poulin
Luis G Vasquez says:
Great lead. Thanks!
Noel Tomas, Pres. says:
This will help settle the shyness of various sister institutions in sharing their historical documents for reference only and not for re-publication (or single publication rights) while they retain all their property rights to the original material.
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Beaver County Airport
ICAO: KBVI – FAA LID: BVI
Airport type
County of Beaver
Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania
Elevation AMSL
1,253 ft / 382 m
10/28 4,501 1,372 Asphalt
Aircraft operations
Beaver County Airport (ICAO: KBVI, FAA LID: BVI) is a county-owned public airport three miles northwest of Beaver Falls, in Beaver County, Pennsylvania[1]
Most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, but Beaver County Airport is BVI to the FAA and BFP to the IATA (which assigned BVI to Birdsville Airport in Birdsville, Queensland, Australia.
B-17 Nine-O-Nine 2
Beaver Valley Flying Club, Inc 3
Flight Schools 4
Air Heritage Museum 5
The airport covers 228 acres (92 ha) and has one asphalt runway, 10/28, 4,501 x 100 ft (1,372 x 30 m). In the year ending December 30, 2006 the airport had 68,940 aircraft operations, average 188 per day: 99.9% general aviation and 0.1% military. 137 aircraft are based at this airport: 78% single-engine, 15% multi-engine, 4% jet and 2% helicopter.[1]
B-17 Nine-O-Nine
On August 23, 1987,[2] the B-17 Flying Fortress Nine-O-Nine crashed during an airshow at the airport. The plane was attempting to land but ran off the end of the runway and was badly damaged. It has been repaired and continues to fly at airshows across the United States.
Beaver Valley Flying Club, Inc
The Beaver Valley Flying Club, Inc is a not-for-profit organization which has been in operation since 1967 on the Airport. The Club operates a G500 Cessna 172 and a 2002 Archer III.
Aces Aviation offers flight training in both single and twin engine Diamond Aircraft.
Moore Aviation Inc offers flight training in single and multi engine aircraft from the Cessna and Piper aircraft families.
Both flight schools can take a student from zero time to Recreational or Private Pilot, Instrument Rating, Commercial, Multi-Engine and Certified Flight Instructor Ratings. They are also listed as providers for the Community College of Beaver County's Aviation Sciences programs.[3]
Air Heritage Museum
Air Heritage Museum is located by the airport, and has several vintage aircraft, including an F-15 Eagle and a C-123K Provider.[4]
^ a b c FAA Airport Master Record for BVI (Form 5010 PDF), effective 2007-10-25
^ https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:RZiRxq7IjF4J:www.91stbombgroup.com/Ragged_Irregular/RI_1995_Oct_V28_N4.pdf+august+1987+nine-o-nine+beaver&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESi8F4ecKSny32SRlkEIk4AnL5cxv15fVQBDdNT7D708TIO6KUBXHsTPjrQynPmqzrdeSoTX6eXmYb9S1F5d7dFkjFg4u0tjheLU4s5TgQ55PFta-pCug6HnNc3tDn22jAukBK4w&sig=AHIEtbThkl10IbrGAfd0McOR0sQqpXYzlQ
^ http://www.ccbc.edu/aviationsciences
^ "Our Aircraft - Air Heritage Inc.".
Beaver County Airport at Pennsylvania DOT Bureau of Aviation
Airport information at Beaver County website
Resources for this airport:
FAA airport information for BVI
AirNav airport information for KBVI
ASN accident history for BFP
FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
SkyVector aeronautical chart, Terminal Procedures
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Map of the Pittsburgh Tri-State with green counties in the metropolitan area and yellow counties in the combined area.
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Nine-O-Nine
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Beaver County Transit Authority
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Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University, Port Authority of Allegheny County, Pittsburgh metropolitan area, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
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Dynamics of pneumococcal transmission in vaccine-naive children and their HIV-infected or HIV-uninfected mothers during the first 2 years of life
Shiri, Tinevimbo, Auranen, Kari, Nunes, Marta C., Adrian, Peter V., van Niekerk, Nadia, de Gouveia, Linda, von Gottberg, Anne, Klugman, Keith P. and Madhi, Shabir A. (2013) Dynamics of pneumococcal transmission in vaccine-naive children and their HIV-infected or HIV-uninfected mothers during the first 2 years of life. American Journal of Epidemiology, 178 (11). pp. 1629-1637. doi:10.1093/aje/kwt200
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwt200
Pneumococcal vaccine-naïve mother-child dyads in South Africa had nasopharyngeal swabs taken 9 times within the first 2 years of the children's lives between January 2007 and May 2009. To quantify the strength of the association of serotype-specific carriage in mother-child dyads, a stochastic transmission model was fitted to the data. Children were more susceptible to individual serotypes included in the 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) transmitted by their mothers than vice versa; however, children infected their mothers with these serotypes more frequently than mothers infected children. The child-to-mother steady-state forces of pneumococcal acquisition were between 0.36 and 3.29 (per 1,000 days) compared with 0.06-0.51 for mother-to-child transmission. Although children of mothers infected with human immunodeficiency virus were more often exposed to PCV7 serotypes by their mothers, their risk of acquisition remained low compared with the risk of child-to-mother transmission. Mothers acquired pneumococci at lower rates (per 1,000 days) from unmeasured exposure within families and in the wider community (range, 0.12-1.69 per 1,000 days) than did children (range, 1.10-5.21 per 1,000 days). Pneumococcal immunization of young children is expected to have an indirect effect of reducing PCV7 serotype maternal colonization and possibly disease even in settings such as ours, in which there is a high prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus-infected mothers.
Faculty of Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences > Clinical Trials Unit
Faculty of Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences
Faculty of Medicine > Warwick Medical School
American Journal of Epidemiology
3 October 2013 Published
23 July 2013 Accepted
18 March 2013 Submitted
10.1093/aje/kwt200
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