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BoardGaming.com> Games> Card Games> Coloretto
Rio Grande Games | Published: 2003
The players draw cards from a card supply in the middle of the table. During the game, the players try to specialize in a few colors, as at the end of the game, a player can score plus points for only 3 colors; the rest score minus points. The more cards a player has of a color, the more points he scores. The player with the most points wins.
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Anders Nordstrom {Avid Gamer}
“Wolf disguised as a sheep”
On the surface this is a quite random card collecting game with the twist that only the three best piles of a certain color you gather are scored positive, all the rest are scored negative. However, after a few rounds you realise there are so much more to this game, and after a few more rounds you see the wolf behind the sheep mask.
This game offers so many more interesting choices than people realise. The rules themselves are very easy (learned in 3 minutes), on the table are one card pile spot for each player, and each round all players must grab one pile. On your turn you can either grab one of the piles containing at least one card or draw a card from the stack and add it to any pile with fewer than three cards (no pile may contain more than 3 cards at any time). Any player that have grabbed a pile are temporarily out while there are unclaimed piles. When all piles have been taken, the one grabbing the last one start a new round, and this goes on until you reach a “last Round” card placed a few cards from the bottom of the deck. Easy huh?
There are two different choices that must be made in the game:
1. Grab a pile or draw a card?
Knowing when to grab a pile instead of drawing is hard. In general you score more points the more cards you get, but obviously you just want to get away from some rounds with as few wounds as you can. Yes, sometimes players lose points after a round if they are unlucky. Also, being able to see what pile you should grab can be a bit tricky, since you don’t want the highest score possible, you want as high score as possible COMPARED to the other players. Sometimes you can grab a pile that give you slightly fewer points but creates a mess for your competitors. And sometimes you simply have to take one for the team since a specific pile is too good for another player and the collective can simply not allow that to happen.
2. When picking a card, knowing where to put it
This is the real engine in the game, observing what piles are of what interest to the other players and increasing your own options at the same time as poisioning their opportunities. Also, realising the consequences of your actions so that you do not end up with a lousy pile yourself is really important.
All in all this is a great game, and everyone we’ve introduced to Coloretto have liked it, both gamers and non-gamers. I highly recommend this for everyone. Don’t let the simple rules fool you, this is a great game with hidden qualities. But yes, luck is a pretty large factor in Coloretto, that cannot be denied. 😉
Dolus {Avid Gamer}
“Simple Card Game, Involved Strategy”
Coloretto is a card game where each card is the same except for being one of many different colors (or a wildcard color). The goal of the game is to collect as many cards as possible of any three colors, but as few or no cards in any other color. Players do this by taking turns either drawing a card and placing it on any one of multiple piles (equal to the number of players), or by taking all of the cards in a pile. There can’t be any more than 3 cards on a pile, so eventually players will be forced to take a pile instead of drawing more cards from the deck. Towards the bottom of the deck, fifteen cards from the bottom to be exact, is an “end of round” card, which designates that after the last pile is taken, the round is over and scoring is taken. Wild cards can be placed in any color stack. Any three colors can be chosen by a player for positive points. Every other color scores negative points. The value of the points increases based on the number of cards you have as follows, but more than 6 cards doesn’t add to your score at all (but neither does it detract from your score!).
1 card = 1 point
2 cards = 3 points
4 cards = 10 points
6+ cards = 21 points
That’s about it for rules. Pretty simple. But strategy is a whole ‘nother game. You need to decide when it is worth it to draw a pile before it’s full of three cards so that other players don’t put unwanted cards there or take the pile before you, or decide if it’s worth it to keep filling it up with more cards. You also need to decide where to place a color such that the pile will be desirable to you, but not your opponents, but also to add undesirable colors to an opponent’s desired pile. For instance, adding a blue card to a pile with two yellow cards when the player is collecting yellow, green, and blue.
Replayability: Since this game is high on an abstract level, it has a lot of replayability. However, since the game is so highly abstract, it won’t hold interest long for many players who want a theme.
Components: The cards are good quality, but there’s nothing to the game besides cards. The color is the only difference between cards is the color, which is very clear in distinguishing cards from each other. So there’s a plus.
Easy to Learn: This is one of the easiest games to learn. The rules are pretty much what I explained above. So this is a great game easy to learn game.
Overall, I would highly recommend this game as either a filler game or for players who love abstract strategy (such as Go or Chess). However, if you are looking for a theme or long-lasting game with a lot going on, this game may seem too simplistic for more than a filler game. But even as a filler game, it is really fun.
“Excellent return on play-time investment”
If you’re looking for a game that plays quickly (~15 minutes), is easy to teach/learn, and has some decision making, Coloretto should be on your radar.
At its heart, Coloretto is set collection; you’re trying to get multiples of card colors. The more cards of a color you have, the more points each subsequent card will be worth.
1 card – 1 point
2 cards – 3 points
4 cards – 10 points
6+ cards – 21 points
But it’s not just collecting every card you can. You only score positive points for your three best colors. For each color beyond three, you lose points, based on the same scheme listed above.
How do you get these cards? This is where the “game” is at. On your turn you get to make one of two choices, either:
(a) draw a card and add it to a row
(b) take a row
Once you’ve taken a row, you’re done for that turn. Each row may hold up to three cards. There is one row available per player. It’s important to note there is never an option to draw a card and immediately take it; if you draw, it MUST be assigned to a row. In addition to colored cards, there are also “wild” cards that may count as any single color of your choice when scoring points. Additionally, there are cards worth two-points.
For the time you put into playing the game, the level of decision making is good. This is not a grand strategy game, and you won’t find yourself agonizing over decisions. Instead, you’ll be faced with decisions of whether to pair up an existing card row with a card you need, or “poison” a row that holds a pair of cards an opponent may want. Should you grab a row with a single card to ensure you won’t be stuck with a row that will give you negative points?
For a quick filler, this game is one of my family’s favorites. We tend to play it at times where we would play games like For Sale, Incan Gold, or Archaeology. It’s a great warm up for a day of gaming, or to use when waiting for people to arrive, or finish a game.
Coloretto fills the filler role in my collection very well. Give it a try and see if it does the same for you!
Rob Harper {Avid Gamer}
“Simple, abstract, and fast becoming one of my favourite games.”
Coloretto is a very simple game. You aim to collect cards of various colours: the largest three sets you have score in your favour, and anything else scores against you. On your turn you either draw a card and place it in one of the rows of cards on the table (max. 3 cards per row) or you take a row and add it to your collection (which ends your involvement in the round). That’s pretty much it.
So the rules are extremely simple, what about the theme? Well, it’s non-existant. This is about as abstract a game as you will find: it’s just about collecting colours. And on the subject of colours, I’m a little concerned that not everyone’s colour vision is perfect, but each colour has a different texture on it, so hopefully that will differentiate them enough.
I first played Coloretto a few years back, but it is only recently that I have got my own copy and played it a whole load. And the more I play it, the more I like it. Games only take a few minutes to play and contain a surprising degree of subtlety in play — far more tactical than strategic, though, as you mostly need to respond to the current state of play rather than execute long-term plans. My five-year-old daughter enjoys the game, and is getting pretty good at it, and I would certainly bring this out as one of my top choices for a filler game in an adult group. I also like that there is a tweak to the set up for two player games, which works very well.
Overall: it doesn’t cost much, it takes up very little space, it is quick to learn and quick to play, game play is slick and subtle, and I can’t believe it took me so long to get my own copy!
Tom {Casual Gamer}
“Colorful Chameleons and Coloretto”
I just got my copy of Coloretto (Rio Grande Games), and it’s a delightful surprise. The cards are brightly colored (what else?), and they are printed on nice card stock that feels good in my hands. The cards are slightly smaller than standard playing cards, but with nearly 90 cards in the deck the size is fine. Additionally, the colors are distinct enough to tell one from the other. Setup is simple, and the game scales well from two to five players. I also like the two sided scoring reference cards, as each side provides a different strategy with different goals and rewards.
Game play is quick and straightforward; but there is plenty of strategic potential too. Even in a two player game, players must choose either to take guaranteed (but fewer) points or try for more points and risk drawing an unwanted card. There is some luck of the draw involved, and the press your luck opportunity is present too.
Scoring is scaled similarly to Ticket to Ride. Groups of one to six cards are collected and scored from one point for a single card of one color to 21 points for six of the same color. But players can’t over diversify, as only three color sets are scored. Colors outside of the three focus colors are deducted from a player’s score at game end. Like the unfinished tickets of Ticket to Ride, players loose points for having colors that don’t fit into their chosen set of three. It’s a simple compelling game that can be enjoyed by players as young as eight or so. A two player game takes about 15 minutes. There is no objectionable material in Coloretto, and no reading is required. If you are looking for a light filler that is fun and a bargain at $10-$12, Coloretto is an excellent choice. It’s enjoyable, thought provoking, and just different enough from other card games to earn a spot on my gaming shelf.
Marvin K. {Avid Gamer}
“Good introduction to the world of German Card Games”
There are already a couple of good reviews on how to play the game so I will focus on who should play and why. This is a good game to try if a) You are curious about German Card Games. GCGs are different from there American counterparts because they focus on a more aggressive interaction between players and tend to have negative point values that outweigh the positive points. Coloretto is one of the “lightest” of these games. b)You are looking for a game that is quick enough to be a “filler” game, but challenging enough to hold player interest for your gaming group. This game is easy to learn, plays quickly, and has enough basic strategy to be challenging. c)You want a game for friends and family that can be played by a wide variety of ages and gaming aptitudes. It’s always hard to find a game that will allow a mix of hardcore gamers, newbie gamers, and kids to play together and have a good time. This game, because it is easy to teach and learn, has some basic strategy, and has player interaction provides such a gaming experience. d)Finally, this is a crossover game. If you get people playing who are not board gamers once they are hooked on the game you can introduce them to Zooloretto. If you are not familiar with it this is a tier 1 (introducing newbies to boardgaming) that takes Coloretto and turns it to a board game that adds a few simple elements to the game, but keeps the original concepts of the game. I recommend the game, I have been playing it for many years now and am still using my original copy, which if you new how much I game means that this statement is actually an impressive testimonial to the durability of the components.
BuckWilde {Avid Gamer}
“Simple, cheap, and fun for all”
I picked up this game simply because it was cheap and because it was a Rio Grande game. What a lucky pick.
Coloretto is a fairly no-nonsense game: get lots of cards in 3 colors, but not a lot in others. But as my wife and I have played through this game, we have found there is strategy and fun that comes along with it too.
The game components are really well made. The cards are nice and thicker than a lot of other game cards. The colors and textures on the cards are beautiful, although the chameleon is the same on every card. The box is compact so it a great game to take on trips.
The game plays really fast, so multiple rounds could be played in 30 minutes, in between heavier games. There are also multiple ways to play, referring to the different score sheets that the players decide on using. There are also variations if 2 people are playing.
Overall, this is a nice, cheap, and colorful game that is simple in design, complex in execution. It may get repetitive, but I certainly haven’t gotten to that point yet. Enjoy!
D. Hunter Phillips {Avid Gamer}
“Masterful in its Simplicity”
Since the other reviews here already described the game play, I’m going to skip it.
Here’s what you need to know. The cards are all pretty similar, but they are pretty to look at.
The game has quickness and fun to it. There is a good deal of strategy in trying to get the right set of cards and trying to predict what set of cards an opponent needs. You must spoil their piles as it were!
Learning the game is so fast that a cave man could teach it… or learn it!
The closer to 5 players you can get the better. Age groups do not really matter.
In conclusion: Do yourself a favor and get this for someone as a party favor. After playing, they won’t be let down.
xelepart {Avid Gamer}
“Surprisingly Fun!”
I actually liked this game a lot more than I expected to. It sounds simple and boring, but it turns out to be simple and *not* boring!
If you like to travel with a game that works for a group of people and isn’t just a classic card game, this is a great choice. It’s fun for non-gamers, good enough for gamers, and is something new for card players.
Alex Gostev {Strategy Gamer}
“Easy to start, interesting to play”
Great game for anyone. While extensively playing Dominion, gave it to parents, they are enjoying Coloretto as well. Language independent, highly replay-able game. This is for company, anyone move affects other players and so on.
Recommending this simple, general-purpose game for different types of gamers with wide age variety.
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February 06, 2018 / Mondato
Do Bank-Led Models Stall Progress?
~6 min read
Although the dichotomy of bank-led and mobile network operator-led (henceforth referred to as MNO-led) mobile money regulatory approaches is not a perfect representation of reality, it is a useful framework to create broad groupings for comparison. The most consequential distinction between the two is that, in the latter's case, mobile money operators are not held to the same regulatory requirements as banks when servicing deposits or deposit-related functions. In the context of the former, however, those regulatory requirements are not relaxed. Mobile money operators are instead directed to partner with a bank, thereby becoming subject to the discretion of existing financial regulators.
The critiques leveled against bank-led models are not new: less dynamism, misaligned incentives (why would a bank cannibalize precious resources from its higher revenue activities to catalyze mobile money products for the poor or invest in agent banking?) and an out-of-touch understanding of mobile technology. So, is insistence on a bank-led model a death knell for mobile money and a weighty hindrance to financial inclusion? The wide spectrum of failure and success, in addition to bank-led model variations, leaves room for a more nuanced verdict. The likes of Nigeria, Bangladesh and India all tell different stories to the same question - what happens when MNOs are not apex on the mobile money food chain?
Nigeria: Confirmation Bias?
An advocate of the MNO-led model might very well center his opening arguments on Nigeria, whose experience is perhaps the strongest evidence around in proving a casual relationship between a bank-led model and the deflation of mobile money. While Nigeria is not technically a pure bank-led model (more on this to come), it is just about the furthest extreme away from a MNO-led model possible. Citing the monopoly spawned by Safaricom in Kenya, a setup which could expose the country to systemic risk or compromise national security goals, the Central Bank of Nigeria actively sought to defang the MNOs.
In fact, according to the Guidelines on Mobile Money released by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), the involvement of MNOs is capped at providing the rails. Their role is explicitly defined by the following provisions:
Providing telecommunication network infrastructure for the use of Mobile Money Operators;
Ensuring that a secure communication channel based on the minimum technology standard stipulated in this Guidelines are implemented;
That MNOs shall not give preferential treatment to any MMO over another in terms of traffic and price.
Ensuring that its customers are free to use any mobile payments scheme service of their choice;
Shall not receive deposits from the public, except in respect of the airtime billing of their customers;
Shall not allow the use of the airtime value loaded by their customers for purposes of payments or to transfer monetary value;
Shall ensure seamless interconnection between MMOs; and
Shall not engage in any conduct which has a purpose or effect of anti-competition in any aspect of mobile money services.
Now, non-bank entities are indeed allowed to apply and hold licenses as Mobile Money Operators (MMOs), so long as their domain distances itself from managing telecommunication network infrastructure. Paga and Fortis Mobile Money are two such examples.
Similar to banks, non-bank participants are also at a disadvantage in their efforts to replicate the sheer span of MNO-style agent networks. Aware of this structural barrier, the CBN has attempted to harness MNOs' agent power without conceding its competition-friendly ethos. This was epitomized by its approval of Globacom's launch of GloXchange, a 500,000-strong mobile money super agent network that would be at the disposal of Ecobank, Firstmonie (a subsidiary of First Bank Nigeria), Stanbic IBTC, and Zenith Bank. Still, banks stand to gain too much, and MNOs too little, to properly incentivize fruitful partnerships in the deployment of mobile money (as demonstrated by the chart below).
Source: GSMA, Mobile Money Regulation
The numbers on banking and mobile money penetration reflect an overly saturated (21 MMOs are active), messy and siloed market, as licensees have busied themselves building up their respective agent networks independently. Bank account ownership in Nigeria dropped 3 points in 2016 (from 37 to 34 percent) and 6 points in 2015 (from 43 to 37 percent), likely due to the introduction of a stamp duty of 50 N50 (USD 0.20) on bank customers and the deactivation of accounts not compliant with bank verification number (BVN) policy. Of concern, women and low-income customers accounted for much of the attrition. Increased mobile money adoption did scant to recoup the losses, with registered mobile money accounts moving from only .6 to 2 percent between 2015 to 2016.
Bangladesh: More Money, Different Problems
Unlike Nigeria, Bangladesh is a more absolute application of a bank-led model. The Mobile Financial Services Guidelines serve as the foundation of its mobile money regulation. It stipulates that only scheduled commercial banks and their subsidiaries may seek a license from the Bangladesh Bank to handle digital currency. Non-bank entities, while precluded from mobile money, may offer ancillary services (such as a communication channel or act as agents) or be investors in a MFS subsidiary.
What has emerged in Bangladesh from regulatory conditions akin to that of Nigeria, however, is quite particular. While the CBN may imagine the exclusion of MNOs as a blueprint for competition, one mobile financial services player has risen from the heap in Bangladesh (over 20 providers are licensed, but of those, only 11 have materialized that license into real offerings). bKash, a subsidiary of BRAC Bank, claimed 58 percent of market share as recently as 2015; that monopoly has consolidated to 80 percent as of 2017. DBBL Mobile Banking was a marginal rival, with 17 percent of market share attached to its name.
And while MNOs cannot break out as solo forces, the legal footing provided by the subsidiary clause has given them pause to reevaluate their marooned status. In 2015, Axiata Group formed a subsidiary with Trust Bank (the latter holds a requisite 51 percent stake) in order to better engage the mobile money and banking ecosystem. Although this has translated to only dashed success, especially against the baseline marker of bKash, Robi Axiata's recent merger with Airtel might improve its reach and momentum.
Of the 163 million Bangladeshis, only 1 in 3 has access to a formal financial account. The bank-led model here, to be fair, has certainly permeated farther into unbanked areas than Nigeria, with 22 percent of the adult population counted as mobile money users. This comparative progress is likely due to bKash's corralling nearly 90,000 agents, a feat made possible by the MNO-heavy background of many of its executives. Outstanding issues, nonetheless, remain. Both unfair USSD pricing by the MNOs (fueled in part by their omission) and lack of interoperability affect the rates of mobile money adoption and usage.
India: A Tiered Prototype
In 2013, IFC's Mobile Money Scoping Report singled out India's bank-led model as a contributing factor to the low growth of mobile banking. At the time, MNOs and non-banks could only expand into mobile money as either a semi-closed Prepaid Payments Issuer with stringent wallet cash-out protocols or a business correspondent of a bank, thereby handing over their agent network to process 'branchless' financial services.
As India's market matured, its bank-led model was suffocating product depth, as access to domestic transfers, billing and payments through the mobile - services that were "in-bounds" so to speak for Prepaid Payments Issuers - are only a sliver of the potential value of digital financial services. (Nigeria and Bangladesh, too, will wrestle with this problem if they intend to not only promote mobile money adoption but usage, and transcend the cash-out dilemma.)
Instead of forsaking its bank-led model, India re-conceptualized the treatment of deposit-holding institutions on the the basis of asset size and risk profile. A tiered system was proposed and the idea of a payments bank was born. Non-bank entities, if granted a payments bank license, would be entitled to extend payment and domestic remittance services in addition to demand deposit products. Lending will continue to be off-limits. There is an INR 100,000 (USD 1,492) limit on bank balances, which will earn 4 percent interest. Importantly, payments banks must maintain both a net worth of INR 100 Cr (USD 15M) and a leverage ratio of at least 3 percent.
While these regulatory burdens are higher than those asked by MNO-led models, telcos are far from dissuaded. Of the eight 'in-principle' payments bank licenses still in play, four of them have a MNO as one of the founding shareholders. Although the impact of payments banks on financial inclusion is not yet measurable, a differentiated approach might unshackle regulators smothered by inflexible, but-with-precedent bank-led models. Even Godwin Emefiele, Governor of the CBN, admitted last year that Nigeria may have to reconcile with a MNO-led model soon. While bank-led models are unlikely to abandon their regulatory regime anytime soon, it seems that even the most stubborn regulators are open to tweaks when faced with stagnation.
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JONES: Battle of Alberta finally returns to relevance
Updated: January 13, 2020 9:12 AM EST
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Paint the line back down the middle of the floor of that bar in Red Deer.
Circle the dates of Jan. 29, Feb. 1 and April 4 on the calendar.
Forgive the schedule-maker for placing all five meetings between the provincial rivals after Christmas.
The Battle of Alberta, at long, long, long last, appears to be back.
The statistic du jour going into the game Saturday in Calgary was that it was the first time since Feb. 25, 1990 that the Edmonton Oilers and Calgary Flames had a meeting at least half way into the season with first place in their division possibly on the line.
And with just under four minutes left in the third period that became the case when the Vegas Golden Knights lost 3-0 to the Columbus Blue Jackets at home. First place in the Pacific Division would belong to the winner.
At the time the Flames led the Oilers 4-3 at the Saddledome and that’s the way it stayed.
So the Oilers headed home after a 3-1-1 road trip with four wins in six games following a failure to fire in their first game against the Flames and first game coming back from Christmas.
The Flames woke up Sunday morning in first and Oilers fell into a wildcard spot.
It’s rare to see a game with that much swing to it in January and it was a triumph to be celebrated in the Stampede city where the Flames remained undefeated in the New Year and new decade.
But it was also a game to be celebrated north of our Mason-Dixon line.
The Battle of Alberta has been mostly AWOL in the province since the early 1990s and we’ve all been poorer for it.
If it truly is back, that’s good for hockey fans everywhere. When the two teams play the second game on Hockey Night In Canada you want viewers in Newfoundland to be reluctant to turn off the TV before the final siren sounds.
It was a game where in Edmonton, the Flames Matthew Tkachuk likely earned the permanent nickname ‘The Turtle’ for his retreating into a shell, refusing to participate in a fight with Oilers Zack Kassian whom the seemingly sympathetic linemen allowed to rag doll with about a dozen punches before stepping in.
Kassian took a double minor and a 10-minute misconduct and the Flames scored the winner on the power play.
These days a post-game trip to the dressing room seldom results in the kind of quote-unquote material of the past but this was definitely a throwback to yesteryear as both players produced juicy sound bites into the plethora of microphones and tape recorders produced.
Kassian accused Tkachuk of playing like a Raffi Torrez and called him a &%$@#%.
Tkachuk in colorful language minus the bleep essentially pointed up to the scoreboard.
In the end, Oilers coach Dave Tippett essentially pointed to the scoreboard as well.
He suggested Kassian should have “taken a number” and dealt with Tkachuk at a later date when the game and first place wasn’t on the line.
But there’s more involved here in the return of the Battle of Alberta than that one incident that often would have been one of several back in the ‘80s.
GM Ken Holland got an eyeful this night in what was very much a playoff game.
Some players embraced the environment and handled it well. Others, not so much. And then there was Jujhar Khaira who was a healthy scratch for the game that was left with the biggest black mark of all.
Connor McDavid in his last game as a 22-year-old and all three members of the new line of Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Leon Draisaitl and Kailer Yamamoto, played well.
Kassian, Mikko Koskinen, Gaetan Haas, Joakim Nygard, Ethan Bear, Darnell Nurse and Adam Larsson didn’t rise to the occasion.
Everybody else likely graded out in the middle somewhere and that’s not really where you’d want to be rated in a game like this either.
With Calgary (55), Arizona (54) and Vegas (54) in the top three Pacific Division spots and Edmonton (53), Vancouver (52) and Winnipeg (52) sitting 1-2-3 in the wildcard spots coming out of the Saturday schedule, Holland is about to find out a lot of things about a lot of players sooner than later.
You’d have to figure that for any of those teams, they’d likely need to win six games of every 10-game segment to make it into the playoffs.
But here’s a thought. If the playoffs started tomorrow the Calgary Flames would play the Edmonton Oilers in the first round.
Anybody have a problem with that?
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McFadden now needs more than a good game
Posted on August 4, 2011 by Brendan Fanning
I hope that while Fergus McFadden at last is getting a start at 13, his first in any class of jersey since 2010, it doesn’t coincide with the odds lengthening on his going to New Zealand next month. It is unthinkable that Declan Kidney could leave behind a goal kicker who since Christmas has played on both wings, and at inside centre for Leinster– and who represents the best understudy to Brian O’Driscoll – but two things conspired against him this week.
The first is the rapid progress of Gordon D’Arcy, playing catch-up since a knee op in June. And the second is the positive impression made by Felix Jones.
Kidney understandably is hot on players completing a seven week pre-season and then getting decent game time under their belts before boarding the plane for NZ. D’Arcy’s surgery in June clearly put him on an uphill climb here but now it seems he’s tipping away, and the expectation inside the camp is that he will make it. Of course it will be dramatic, as D’Arcy likes it. In which case McFadden is back battling for a cover spot.
The second obstacle to McFadden is the way Felix Jones has impressed in Carton House. With Geordan Murphy heading to play for Leicester next week, it’s hard to see him making the cut when the squad is reduced on 22 August. Instead Jones will make his debut off the bench for Rob Kearney against the Scots on Saturday, and it’s a terrific opportunity for him.
So if D’Arcy’s rapid rehab continues, and Jones works his way further into the affections of Declan Kidney as a young full back with a very good counter attacking game, then McFadden is marginalised more.
In fact that would leave him in a straight shoot out with Luke Fitzgerald. Even when McFadden’s form was miles ahead of Fitzgerald with Leinster this season Joe Schmidt was running with the bigger name. And Kidney will do the same.
The way to avoid having to make this call is to install Keith Earls as the alternative to Kearney at 15, and bring both Fitzgerald and McFadden. Of course injuries over the course of this month may clear the water for Kidney as they have in the past, but at the minute that’s how it looks.
The other player to join Jones in the Brightest Bolters category is Mike McCarthy. Kidney brought him into the 32 man squad for the Six Nations last season to see how he got on, but his performance in camp this time round has moved him up through the most congested traffic lane: second row/number six.
If you accept that Paul O’Connell, Donncha O’Callaghan and Leo Cullen are three of the four second rowers, then McCarthy has – on training ground form – moved past Mick O’Driscoll and Kevin McLaughlin. Which puts him alongside Donnacha Ryan, who starts beside Cullen in Edinburgh.
McCarthy is a decent size, has very good skills, and is athletic. He also has a fairly low boiling point. It’s probably best then that Nathan Hines is not wearing the darker shade of blue this weekend. If the Connacht man can stand out for the right reasons in what is a makeshift pack against Scotland then he will weave his way further through the traffic. How McFadden and Jones fare on the same journey will be worth getting worked up about – even in August.
Brendan Fanning has been involved in rugby all of his life as a player, coach and journalist. He has been rugby correspondent on the Sunday Independent since 1996, and has been reporting on the game since the mid 1980s when he stopped playing with Clontarf. In 2007 his book From There to Here, a definitive account of Ireland’s transition from amateur to professional rugby, was published to critical acclaim.
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Tag Archive | birds
in Camera Trapping, Research, Science Communication
Find that nest!
You’ve got to check out this game: http://nightjar.exeter.ac.uk/story/nightjar_game
Scientists from the University of Exeter are trying to understand camouflage. Specifically, they want to understand how camouflage helps protect animals from being eaten for dinner, and they’re doing this by studying ground nesting birds in South Africa & Zambia.
Like Snapshot Serengeti, these guys use camera traps too, to figure out whose munching on birds and their nests. Unlike Snapshot Serengeti, however, they aren’t asking for help IDing the photos: instead, they’re asking for help figuring out how predators see, and how different types of camouflage work better or worse against predators with different types of vision.
Humans have trichromatic vision, meaning we have three different types of receptors (light sensitive cells in the eye) that can process color: red (longwave), green (mediumwave), and blue (shortwave). Some animals only have two receptor types and can only see one or two colors, whereas other animals have four, allowing them to see wavelengths such as infrared or ultraviolet that are invisible to people. Thus, what camouflages eggs against one predator might not work so well against another predator.
What these researchers have done is create a game that mimics the vision of other predators. So you get to see the world through the eyes of either a genet cat (with dichromatic vision) or a vervet monkey (with trichromatic vision), and “hunt” for birds or their nests in a series of pictures. This helps scientists understand how perception changes among different animals, and how camouflage works against different perception types.
So go check it out! But don’t forget to come back and then help us classify Season 7! We’ll announce its debut on the blog soon!
in Animals, Camera Trapping
Every once in a while, a camera gets knocked off a tree and ends up pointing up into the tree where there are many grassy balls hanging from the branches. We have one of these cameras in Season 5, and it is taking pictures like this one:
What are those odd grassy balls? Why, they’re the nests of weaver birds. My Birds of East Africa book lists a dozen species of weavers in the Serengeti, and most of them have a yellow and black pattern. Here’s what some of these guys look like close up.
Several years ago, I watched through a Lion House window as a weaver bird build its nest from scratch. The bird started with just a branch, one with something of a knot at the end where a twig may have split off in the past. The weaver grabbed a long blade of grass and wrapped it around that knobby joint and tucked the blade under itself, as you might do if you were tying your shoe. Then it got another blade of grass and wove that through the loop it had created with the first blade, tucking it securely back under and through the loop a second time. It continued to add blades for the next twenty minutes or so, such that the grass formed two clumps, one sticking out of either side of the knot.
(Aside: the soundtrack is completely coincidental; field assistant John was cooking something in the kitchen while listening to music.)
Straddling the two clumps, with one talon hanging on to each, the weaver then took a long blade from one clump and wove its end back up into the other clump. The result was a loop. The bird pulled additional grass from one clump to the other and strengthened the loop. Bit by bit.
I watched for over a half-hour, but I had work to do, too. So I left the little weaver to its task, and checked in again that evening before the sun set. There it was, a hefty wreath of grass hanging from the end of a tree branch.
I checked again a couple days later. The weaver had been working on filling in grass around the sides to form the ball shape.
Three days later the ball shape was becoming apparent (and I finally decided to take pictures outdoors instead of through the window, so that they’re better in focus).
Aha! I caught a decent shot of the builder. My bird appears to be a Vitelline Masked Weaver male. (Although, my book also says that the top of the head ought to be rather chestnut color and this guy has maybe only a little bit of chestnut and rather brown markings on the back instead of black. Maybe it’s a young male?) These guys generally are found solitary or in pairs, which explains why I saw just one of them building a nest in a tree all alone. And their nests are “distinctive onion-shaped nests with an entrance hole at the bottom.” Looking good…
Five days later Mr. Vitelline’s work was looking very much like a nest.
Five days later was also my last day in the Serengeti, so I didn’t see further developments of this nest. But I suspect it was completed and became a comfortable abode for its industrious builder.
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Fiction Editor
Intern Update: Lindsey Bosak
November 4, 2019 November 4, 2019 Superstition Review
Today’s Intern Update features Lindsey Bosak, a fiction editor from Issue 12 of Superstition Review.
With a BA in English Literature and History as well as an MA in Library and Information Science, Lindsey began working as an Award Manager for Yale University just this September, where she reviews, negotiates, and approves terms and conditions for grants and cooperative agreements.
She has also worked as a Grant and Contract Officer for The Office of Research and Sponsored Projects Administration at ASU, working with a Research Advancement Team to look over financial proposals and submit them to a sponsor.
We are so proud of you Lindsey!
If you’d like to learn more, you can visit Lindsey’s LinkedIn here.
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Intern Update: Sarah Murray
October 23, 2019 October 23, 2019 Superstition Review
Today’s Intern Update features Sarah Murray, who worked as a fiction editor on Issue 9 of Superstition Review.
With both a BA and MA in Creative Writing as well as involvement in various communities from HEAL International to the LGBTQ Coalition, Sarah has been directing the AIDS Walk in Los Angeles for the past year, promoting the event and overseeing its execution to help combat the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
She also works as a Digital Operations Editor for Fairy Tale Review, co-managing communications and outreach in addition to supervising the submission-to-publication process.
We are so proud of you Sarah!
If you’d like to learn more, you can visit Sarah’s LinkedIn page here.
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Contributor Update, Cathy Ulrich: ‘The Sky Goes Quiet’
June 29, 2019 June 10, 2019 Superstition Review
Join us in congratulating SR fiction contributor Cathy Ulrich. Cathy recently published a short fiction piece with Cheat River Review titled, “The Sky Goes Quiet.” This new astronaut story features hospital visits, love, and photo albums. Cathy writes from her home in Montana and works as a fiction editor for Atlas and Alice. Her work has been published in several journals including Monkeybicycle, Fiction Southeast, The Citron Review, Paper Darts, The Atticus Review, Cheap Pop, among others.
To read more about Cathy and her publications, click here. You can find her fiction piece, “In the Crowded Spaces,” from Issue 18 here.
Congratulations, Cathy!
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Guest Blog Post, Anthony Varallo: SPACE, DOUBLE SPACE
July 7, 2013 June 26, 2013 Anthony Varallo
How many spaces after a period, one or two? Space or double space? If you’re like me, old enough to remember typing your first research papers on your parents’ IBM Selectric, —ancient, even then, but thrilling nonetheless, the way the letters jumped from a center ball that spun and rotated across the page—then you probably prefer two spaces, even though, as you are becoming increasingly aware, typeset pages, like the ones you see in nearly every print publication of every kind, from the smallest circulation literary magazine to The New York Times, use a single space. Only. There is, as you must reluctantly admit, no such thing as double-spacing in print publication. A single space presides after every period. A space no different than the one after a comma or semi-colon. Yes, you know this; still, you use two spaces after each period. Why?
Because you took a typing class in seventh grade, for starters. The class met in a room fitted out with twenty manual typewriters resting atop twenty desks, the typewriters wearing a vinyl cover that could only be removed upon the instructor’s permission and, at the end of each session, carefully replaced, requiring you to position the typewriter’s carriage just so. The instructor was old, even by seventh grade teacher standards, and his voice shook as he called out the sentences you were to type, including—and this seems important—the spaces after each punctuation mark. Comma, space. Period, double space. The sound of twenty space bars double-spacing: a basketball dribbled twice. Failure to double space, a red instructor’s mark, a lower grade.
Because, in college, you upgraded to a portable word processor, heavy as a packed suitcase, but light enough to carry to the dorm lounge whenever your roommate had a visitor. The word processor stored your papers—documents, you began calling them, without quite realizing it—on disks, enabling you to save your work for later, the words on the page and yet not on the page, either, since you hadn’t printed them out yet, a new phrase to put alongside documents. Still, you wrote those words as if they would be printed out, because that’s what words aspired to, you began to realize, to be part of sentences to be printed out, and those sentences needed a punctuation mark at the end with two spaces after to give them their proper due. A pause. Breathing room. Authority.
Because, right after you traded in your portable word processor—that old thing!—for your first personal computer, you began writing short stories, and sentences suddenly seemed something larger than words on a page; they became individual brushstrokes on a canvas framed by top, bottom, right and left margins. Something to take time on, to linger upon, even for hours, as you did, drinking coffee late into the night. A sentence was a slow-born thing, you began to understand, and to finish one was a kind of honor, one that required a double space, as if to say, There, done, yes, made it, now it is so. The double space sent the cursor more forcefully into the blank page, to better accompany your mind, which suddenly had no idea how it had ever written a good sentence in the first place. For each sentence completed only sent you into the next sentence to be completed, where all the old challenges cropped up again—word choice, tone, grammar, syntax, style, clarity, coherence, precision—the completed sentence offering no clues where the next was to follow. Every sentence is a solo act. A truth the double space only wished you to know better. A truth a single space would rather you never learn.
Because you have tried using a single space, even though you won’t admit it. A phase that only lasted a few months or so, right around the time you started noticing that your students, born in the era when you traded the word processor for the PC, used a single space after periods. So you tried, for the sake of keeping up, for the sake of growing and changing, for the sake of not suffering potential embarrassment, always important to you. You single-spaced after each period. A feeling like walking on one foot. Like looking left, right, but not left again. Like parking bumper to bumper in a crowded lot. You couldn’t get the hang of it, so back to double-spacing you went, and where you have stayed. You can’t help it: you like the world a little bit better with double-spacing in it.
But what to do now? You have two children, and they both use computers, both like writing stories and jokes; sometimes even a screenplay, which they film with their iPods. Sometimes they need your help spelling certain words, help you are happy to give. You stand beside them as they type the word and reach the end of the sentence. You hold your breath after they type the period. The cursor blinks. Your children hesitate, about to ask another question. Space or double space?
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Past Intern Update: Rebekah Richgels
March 31, 2013 April 2, 2013 Superstition Review
Rebekah Richgels, Fiction Editor of Issue 2 and Issue 3, reflects on life in the publishing world after Superstition Review.
Oh, how naïve I was.
Superstition Review was the beginning of living my dreams. I spent two semesters with SR as one of the Fiction Editors during my junior year. It was bliss. I spent my time talking with people who loved writing and reading and even editing. I contacted hundreds (if not literally, then very close) of already published authors like I was a peer of theirs and got a great response. I loved the community of the written word that I was thrown into. I got to interview T.C. Boyle, for crying out loud!
The next year I delved further, but also expanded. I was the head Fiction editor for Lux, Arizona State University’s
Undergraduate Creative Review. That was awesome because it dealt with undergraduates and truly sought to foster the artistic creativity in students, bring it to light, and then polish it. Great fun.
I graduated in 2010 with my B.A. in Creative Writing, minor in French, and defended thesis from Barrett, the Honors College. I spent the summer in Denver at the University of Denver Publishing Institute, and that was the best thing I had ever done in my life. Ever. I met people who not just loved reading and writing, but who wanted to spend their lives making sure the world can read great stuff. I was on top of the world, as you might imagine.
Then, as is always the case, reality struck.
Publishing jobs are in New York City, mainly, with another hub in Boston and one near San Francisco. My significant other was (and is) at medical school at Stanford, which is in Northern California, so I packed up my car and braved the new wilderness of California, believing that I would be hired right off and work my way up the ladder in the publishing world.
I spent nine months working for Costco and applying for all manner of entry-level publishing jobs. The economy being what it was, there weren’t many. The other aspect of California publishing is that the publishers who aren’t small independents are academics, and turnover is small in both those fields. Not to mention, the larger companies were buying up independents to use as imprints. Even Random House and Penguin were merging. All in all, my dreams were hard to make reality.
Costco wasn’t cutting it for me, so we parted ways. I began working as a nanny, independently for a freelance editor, hoping that her connections could extend to me, and I took on a transcription project that lasted two months. Then, last summer, I noticed that the Superstition Review Facebook page had posted an intern position for Weave Magazine, which was conveniently located in San Francisco. I applied. They rejoiced! Apparently I’m far more qualified, thanks to SR, than many of their applicants.
Let me just tell you all, I love it. It’s like Superstition Review in so many ways, but with even more fun interacting. I don’t get to do the solicitation, but the group conversations about the submissions are wonderful, and I love the exposure to writers.
I’m still searching for my break-in publishing job, but in the meantime I’m busying myself with office admin work at a property management company. I’ve also landed a 12-week internship with Bleacher Report, the online sports website, where I do 15 hours of copyediting a week. Since the content is mostly submitted by unpaid authors, my work is sorely needed, let me tell you.
So life hasn’t turned out like I imagined it would, but I’ve been able to adjust my expectations along the way (with some pouting moments, I’ll admit), and things are going well now. I’m not an SR success story yet, but I’ll get there. You’ll read about it, I promise.
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Meet the Review Crew: Sarah Murray
March 20, 2012 February 19, 2018 Superstition Review
Each week we feature one of our many talented interns here at Superstition Review.
Sarah Murray is currently a Fiction Editor at Superstition Review. Her experience as a Creative Writing student has led her to be involved in multiple workshops across her time at ASU, and she is currently employed by the university as a Writing Tutor at the Downtown Campus Writing Center. She has also in the past been affiliated with one of the student writing groups at the university, and has interned with the PEN Project, an effort to bring education to prison inmates through Creative Writing.
Originally from LA, she has been studying at ASU for four years now. Last year she studied abroad in England for five months, which was a deconstruction process for her if there ever was one. She hopes to move to San Francisco—a place that attracts her because of its music, artistic vibe, and quirky personality—after she graduates. She also hopes to encounter McSweeney’s while she is up there (by force if necessary!).
Outside of reading and writing, Sarah enjoys mostly rock and/or folk-based music, predominantly from the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s (she does, however, hold a special place in her heart for Motown). She also is dedicated to social activism, and has fervently worked to eliminate stigma within and surrounding the queer community, which she has been involved in since 2008. More recently she has been involved with HEAL International, a nonprofit dedicated to issues revolving around HIV/AIDS.
The most important thing to know about Sarah is that she is strongly affected by what people have to say. Everything else in her life revolves around establishing relationships with people, no matter how strong or brief. It is this impulse that attracts her to all forms of art, both high and lowbrow.
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Meet the Review Crew: Stephanie De La Rosa
This is Stephanie De La Rosa’s second semester with Superstition Review, this time around as a Fiction Editor. She’s here at Superstition Review because SR has proven a great opportunity to gain experience in the field of publishing. She was new to the world of literary magazines when she began at Superstition Review, but one of the things she has been able to do since joining is discover the volume of literary magazines that are available, to both read and to submit to.
She is first generation American, born and raised in Phoenix. However, she still gets asked, “Where are you from?” In the States, she tends to be ambiguous, responding that her parents are from Guatemala. She’s finding it’s much harder to explain in Europe. Though she loves poetry and art, and has done both, she leans towards fiction more than anything because there is a tradition of oral storytelling in her family. More recently, she calls this oral tradition “gossip.”
Stephanie has noticed throughout the years how things we experienced, things we think we remember, change every time we retell them, changing the context and thereby changing the content as well. She loves the versatility of fiction. That’s not to say that any other genre doesn’t have the same quality, because she personally believes the boundaries between genres are transparent, permeable. But we still have certain constructs, certain guidelines that determine whether a piece of writing is poetry or nonfiction. And according to general consensus and constructs, she writes fiction.
Stephanie is in Switzerland at the moment, enjoying the snow and low temperatures. Her goal is to have touched ground on every continent. She finds the Old World intriguing, but to her the “New World” is so much more compelling. However, because of the undeniable European presence and influence across the American continents, she finds herself looking out a window at a city whose name can be traced back a couple thousand years, and a castle or two, here and there.
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Intern Highlight: Tana Ingram
November 16, 2011 February 19, 2018 Superstition Review
Fiction Editor Tana Ingram is a senior at Arizona State University, majoring in Literature, Writing and Film. She will graduate December 2011 with honors and a certificate in Multimedia Writing and Technical Communications. After graduation, Tana plans on attending graduate school for creative writing. This is Tana’s first semester at Superstition Review.
Click on the link below to hear Tana read from one of her stories.
Tana Ingram
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Intern Highlight: Zari Panosian
October 14, 2011 February 19, 2018 Superstition Review
Fiction Editor Zari Panosian is a junior at Barrett, the Honors College at Arizona State University where she is pursuing concurrent degrees in European History and English (Creative Writing). Her one-act play, Late, was selected as part of the Arizona Women’s Theatre Company’s Pandora Playwriting Festival and the Pandora Showcase in 2010. In addition to her passion for writing, Zari has aspirations to attend law school upon her graduation in 2013. This is her first semester at Superstition Review.
In the link below, Zari shares one of her strongest influences and inspirations.
Zari Panosian
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Meet the Interns: Kim Jakubowski
May 4, 2011 February 19, 2018 Superstition Review
Advertising Coordinator Kim Jakubowski is an English (Creative Writing) major completing her senior year at ASU. Her short story, “Heartland,” recently won the Randel and Susan McCraw Helms Homecoming Writing Contest, and is being published in an upcoming issue of Marooned. Aside from her internship with Superstition Review, Kim currently works as an ESL tutor. After graduation, she hopes to travel and continue writing, and eventually pursue an MFA or a career in publishing. This is her first semester with Superstition Review.
1. What is your position with Superstition Review and what are your responsibilities?
I am working with Superstition Review as an Advertising Coordinator. Some of my responsibilities include writing press releases, updating SR‘s press kit, coordinating advertisements with other literary magazines, and promoting our reading series, submissions period, and issue launch.
2. Why did you decide to get involved with Superstition Review ?
I read one of my own stories for Superstition Review during my first semester at ASU, and I talked to an intern there who said that working with the magazine was a fantastic experience. I’m interested in gaining some insight into the publishing process, as I am considering a future career in the publishing industry.
3. How do you like to spend your free time?
I spend a good portion of my free time reading and writing. I also love listening to music, playing guitar, and spending time with my friends and family.
4. What other position(s) for Superstition Review would you like to try out?
My passion is for reading and writing fiction, so I would love to try the position of fiction editor.
5. Describe one of your favorite literary works.
My favorites change periodically, but if I had to pick one work to bring to that proverbial deserted island, it would be The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel. This is one work that I never tire of; it’s witty and original, and her use of language is incredibly incisive and beautiful. The binding on my book is already falling apart.
I can never seem to read just one book at a time, so at the moment I’m reading a collection of short stories by Alice Monroe, Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, as well as the Best American Short Stories 2010.
7. Creatively, what are you currently working on?
I’m currently working on a couple of short stories, as well as a non-fiction piece.
8. What inspires you?
I’m inspired by people with an enthusiasm for life, as well as people who have the strength and drive to pursue what they love.
9. What are you most proud of?
My writing and academic accomplishments have always been a source of pride for me. I’m proud of my determination to achieve my goals.
10. Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
I would love to be a published writer, or involved in the publishing field as an editor. I also hope to travel extensively, maybe live in a foreign country. My plans are a bit vague at the moment, but I hope that I will be able follow my passions and end up doing something that I enjoy.
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HomeTradeplus UpdatesWhat made US allow India and others to continue buying crude from Iran?
What made US allow India and others to continue buying crude from Iran?
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When the US sanctions on Iran decision came up on November 05th, there was a sense of trepidation in world markets. After all, if Iran was banned from the global oil market then India would lose out on an important source of cheap oil and also the world oil market would find itself in a deficit situation. It was this fear of a supply shortfall that had driven Brent crude prices up to $86/bbl in late October 2018. Why did the US suddenly decide to dilute the sanctions and exempt the key importers of oil like India, Japan, Korea and China plus 4 other nations from adhering to the sanctions? There were some key reasons for the same; but first a look at the oil price movement around the Iran sanctions decision.
Chart Source: Bloomberg
As can be seen from the above chart, it became clear around October that the US would not insist on India, China and Japan (the biggest buyers of Iranian oil) adhering to the sanctions. That was when the fall in oil prices started. What led to Trump’s change of heart?
Resistance from India and China
While Japan and Korea had already started adhering to the proposed sanctions on Iran by reducing their imports from Iran, India and China has played hard ball with the US. China and Russia had refused to cut trade ties with Iran even after the sanctions. Trump realized that he was also gradually loosing goodwill among the EU nations and most of the Western European nations had already indicated that they would continue to import oil from Iran. India had agreed to reduce, although not entirely eliminate imports from Iran. Trump realized that he was already loosing goodwill with China on the trade war and his situation would have become more untenable if India and China had refused to adhere to the sanctions. That was the principal reason for the dilution of the sanctions.
There really was no alternate supply
For the last few years, Iran had been the swing producer. With a daily oil output of 4.5 million barrels and a daily contribution of 2.5 million barrels to the global oil market, there were no immediate alternatives. While Saudi Arabia and Russia had promised to fill up the gap, internal OPEC considerations would have made that impossible. As per the OPEC constitution, one member was not allowed to take advantage of another member’s sanctions. Saudi Arabia was worried that any such action would have endangered the very idea of OPEC. With OPEC loosing its commanding position in the oil market, a total dilution of OPEC was something that Saudi Arabia could not afford.
Fears of a global slowdown were growing
In the light of the trade war between the US and China, the IMF and the World Bank had predicted a 30-40 basis points fall in the growth of world GDP in 2019. Normally, oil demand is the most vulnerable to this kind of a slowdown. If oil demand slowed down and the prices had gone back to the 2016 levels, then all oil producers would have ended up in a loss. That is something none of the large oil producers could really afford. The problem with a global slowdown is that the slack takes much longer to revive and that may lead to a prolonged price correction in oil.
Too many defence orders at stake
For the US, sanctions were more of a quid pro quo to arm-twist its partners. But there was a problem. Countries like India, Saudi Arabia and Japan had committed billions of dollars in terms of arms purchase. If sanctions had caused oil losses to these countries, then these orders would have been in trouble. That is something the US can ill afford at this point of time. That was also a key consideration.
Finally, the US wanted to avoid a Suez moment
More than 6 decades ago, the UK had blundered by threatening war on Egypt for blocking the Suez Canal. That had led to US intervention and UK had ended up with loss of face. That also was the point when the US effectively became the superpower. Trump realizes that a delicate situation would have arisen if China and Russia had just ignored the sanctions and if India had followed suit. It was perhaps to avoid such a Suez moment that the sanctions on Iran were actually diluted.
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Dassault Systèmes today announced that Paul DiLaura has been named Managing Director of North America. DiLaura will be responsible for managing and growing all aspects of Dassault Systèmes’ North American business operations and accelerating the adoption of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.
“This is an exciting time for North America, with a ‘rebirth’ of manufacturing and a steady stream of breakthrough innovations and world-leading technologies. North America has the largest GDP in the world and is a critical growth market for Dassault Systèmes. Paul is a seasoned executive who has played a lead role in helping customers such as Boeing, Tesla, Faraday Future and SHoP transform their industries with the help of our 3DEXPERIENCE platform and solutions while also building out our partner ecosystem,” said Bruno Latchague, Senior Executive Vice President, Global Field Operations, Americas, Dassault Systèmes. “I look forward to working closely with Paul to help more companies leverage the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to power their business through innovation in the experience economy.”
DiLaura will be based in Santa Clara, California at Dassault Systèmes’ new West Coast headquarters. The headquarters will place Dassault Systèmes in the heart of Silicon Valley to help lead innovation with customers and partners in the area.
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Jeremy Corbyn’s first shadow cabinet is going to be divisive
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn leaves his home in north London.
Well, Corbyn really has gone for it. Although the new shadow cabinet is not made up entirely of hard-left appointees, the new Labour leader is taking his mandate seriously. Crucially, making John McDonnell shadow chancellor, whose has said some interesting things about the IRA and wants to nationalise the banks, is a bold move by Corbyn and not one that is going down well.
On the Today programme, the former home secretary Charles Clarke said he was ‘aghast’ at the appointment of McDonnell and predicted that Labour MPs would end up creating their own economic policy alongside whatever McDonnell does. Even Corbyn’s new shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn failed to defend McDonnell’s appointment when directly asked twice. Benn deflected by saying ‘I respect the choice Jeremy has made as leader’ and ‘I welcome everybody who is serving in Jeremy Corbyn’s cabinet’.
Elsewhere, Corbyn has appointed Andy Burnham, who came 40 points behind him in the leadership contest, as his shadow home secretary. The other contender for shadow chancellor Angela Eagle, who came fourth in the deputy leadership contest, has been given the conciliation prize of shadow business secretary and shadow first secretary of state. Lucy Powell, who said just a few weeks again she’d never met Corbyn, is the new shadow education secretary. And who could forget Diane Abbott, who has been hanging on Corbyn’s coattails throughout the London Mayoral race and has been appointed shadow international development secretary. We’re still waiting to find out who Corbyn has picked for the key positions of shadow defence secretary and shadow work and pensions secretary.
Two of the most interesting appointments are Lord Falconer, who will stay on as shadow justice secretary, and Heidi Alexander, the new shadow health secretary. Charlie Falconer was Tony Blair’s flatmate and served as Lord Chancellor during the New Labour years. Given how few Blairite faces there are in Corbyn’s shadow cabinet, it will be interesting to see how Falconer copes. Alexander on the other hand is a little-known MP who entered the Commons in 2010 and served as a whip under Ed Miliband. Given that the NHS is likely to be a key battleground between Labour and the government over the next few years, Alexander will be one to watch — it’s her job to keep Jeremy Hunt on his toes.
Corbyn’s shadow cabinet looks as it was expected to. Nearly all of the intellectual heft from previous frontbenches is gone, replaced by a handful of long time irritants and troublemakers. But he has persuaded some moderates to stay on. Either these characters will gell together in a surprisingly coherent way, or the whole thing will be a total car crash. But no one can accuse of Corbyn betraying his principles and comrades to Labour’s left.
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How we’re helping to shout about the city we call home
Ed Gould
Published Tuesday 23rd October 2018
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Carswell Gould has been based in Southampton for 25 years. We have always been passionate about the city, and vocal supporters of all it has to offer. Over the years, we are proud to have had our fingers in a lot of city-changing ‘local pies’.
Going back in time we were very involved in the launch of Business Southampton and the creation of South Coast Design Forum. Our work with Solent LEP, to help develop regional growth and position our region as a great place for investment, has been a central part of our commercial work. Working with key players in the region, such as Go! Southampton and Southampton Cultural Development Trust, means we are well placed to support the promotion of the city.
To complement this, we have created what we are calling the City Communications Initiative. As part of this new initiative, we have committed a significant amount of time and money to spend on work which focuses on building Southampton’s reputation.
We will help Southampton on its journey towards becoming known as one of the UK’s brightest up-and-coming cities by:
Running specific communications activity that promotes Southampton and events in the city.
Supporting the marketing efforts of other organisations in the region with comms and strategy support.
Working on projects that support the values of creating a better city.
A recent project that supports the values of creating a better city is our work with local advocacy groups to launch a new city-wide anti-hate campaign, Love Don’t Hate. We matched the budget for this project, and with this additional funding developed an app on both Apple and Google Play for Android to make the reporting process easier, in addition to press relations and designing assets to help promote the campaign.
Ed Gould, Creative Director and Partner at Carswell Gould, said: “We love our city and do what we can to get involved in work that will bolster its reputation. Focusing our time, money and effort by setting up the City Communications Initiative demonstrates how serious we are about making Southampton an even better place to visit, live, work and study."
We hope this, along with the work of other like-minded organisations that are championing the city, will inspire others to do the same, and commit their time and money to shout about our city and region.
Ed Gould, Creative Director, Carswell Gould
If you are interested in finding out more about what we are doing, share your own story or join us in our endeavour, then please get in touch. We’d be happy to talk to you about how we can together position Southampton as one of the most thriving cities in the UK.
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Drug prohibition, cigarette taxes and terrorism
steve buckstein April 30, 2002 0
When U.S. Drug Czar John Walters spoke in Portland last Friday he touched on the theme of his administration’s ad campaign: that if you use illegal drugs you’re helping to finance terrorism. He could have more accurately said that if you prohibit the sale of drugs, or raise cigarette taxes to abnormally high levels, you’re helping to finance terrorism.
We can ban products, but laws cannot eliminate demand. Thus the outlawing of drugs such as heroin and cocaine forces their distribution into the black market where prices are much higher than they would be in a legal market. Some states set very high cigarette taxes compared to neighboring states, making cigarette smuggling a profitable endeavor as well.
We need only look back some seven decades to alcohol prohibition to see how outlawing a popular product didn’t stop its use, but did create a huge moneymaker for organized crime. To say that drug users are responsible for terrorism is akin to saying that those who drank alcohol in the 1920s are responsible for the violence of Al Capone.
We all agree that drugs, cigarettes and alcohol cause harm in our society, but we simply compound that harm by outlawing products that have such high demand and by fostering black markets.
To deny funds to terrorists we need to reduce the profits in the drug trade. The leading American politician advocating such a policy change is New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson. He’ll share his ideas at a May 23rd Cascade Policy Institute luncheon in Portland. Please join us for his informative and provocative talk.
For more information on the link between drug prohibition and terrorism see: www.narcoterror.org.
Steve Buckstein is senior policy analyst at Cascade Policy Institute, a Portland, Oregon based think tank.
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Sally Bedell Smith
Random House Publishing Group 2012
Perfect for fans of The Crown, this magisterial biography of Queen Elizabeth II is a close-up view of the woman we've known only from a distance—and a captivating window into the last great monarchy.From the moment of her ascension to the throne in 1952 at the age of twenty-five, Queen Elizabeth II has been the object of unparalleled scrutiny. But through the fog of glamour and gossip, how well do we really know the world's most famous monarch? Drawing on numerous interviews and never-before-revealed documents, acclaimed biographer Sally Bedell Smith pulls back the curtain to show in intimate detail the public and private lives of Queen Elizabeth II, who has led her country and Commonwealth through the wars and upheavals of the last sixty years with unparalleled composure, intelligence, and grace. In Elizabeth the Queen, we meet the young girl who suddenly becomes "heiress presumptive" when her uncle abdicates the throne. We meet the thirteen-year-old Lilibet as she falls in love with a young navy cadet named Philip and becomes determined to marry him, even though her parents prefer wealthier English aristocrats. We see the teenage Lilibet repairing army trucks during World War II and standing with Winston Churchill on the balcony of Buckingham Palace on V-E Day. We see the young Queen struggling to balance the demands of her job with her role as the mother of two young children. Sally Bedell Smith brings us inside the palace doors and into the Queen's daily routines—the "red boxes" of documents she reviews each day, the weekly meetings she has had with twelve prime ministers, her physically demanding tours abroad, and the constant scrutiny of the press—as well as her personal relationships: with Prince Philip, her husband of sixty-four years and the love of her life; her children and their often-disastrous marriages; her grandchildren and friends.Praise for Elizabeth the Queen"An excellent, all-embracing new biography."—The New York Times"[An] imposing, yet nimbly written, biography [that] dwarfs the field . . . a most satisfying and enjoyable read, one to be savored at length."—Minneapolis Star Tribune"Fascinating . . . After sixty years on the throne, the monarch of Britain is better known for her poker face than for sly wit or easy charm. Yet in biographer Sally Bedell Smith's Elizabeth the Queen, Her Majesty sparkles with both."—More"[A] smart and satisfying book."—Los Angeles Times
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In Elizabeth the Queen, we meet the young girl who suddenly becomes "heiress presumptive" when her uncle abdicates the throne. We meet the thirteen-year-old Lilibet as she falls in love with a young navy cadet named Philip and becomes determined to marry him, even though her parents prefer wealthier English aristocrats. We see the teenage Lilibet repairing army trucks during World War II and standing with Winston Churchill on the balcony of Buckingham Palace on V-E Day. We see the young Queen struggling to balance the demands of her job with her role as the mother of two young children. Sally Bedell Smith brings us inside the palace doors and into the Queen's daily routines—the "red boxes" of documents she reviews each day, the weekly meetings she has had with twelve prime ministers, her physically demanding tours abroad, and the constant scrutiny of the press—as well as her personal relationships: with Prince Philip, her husband of sixty-four years and the love of her life; her children and their often-disastrous marriages; her grandchildren and friends.
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"An excellent, all-embracing new biography."—The New York Times
"[An] imposing, yet nimbly written, biography [that] dwarfs the field . . . a most satisfying and enjoyable read, one to be savored at length."—Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Fascinating . . . After sixty years on the throne, the monarch of Britain is better known for her poker face than for sly wit or easy charm. Yet in biographer Sally Bedell Smith's Elizabeth the Queen, Her Majesty sparkles with both."—More
"[A] smart and satisfying book."—Los Angeles Times
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From the moment of her ascension to the throne at age twenty-five, Queen Elizabeth II has been the object of unparalleled admiration and scrutiny. But through the fog of glamour and gossip, how well do we really know the world’s most famous monarch? Drawing on numerous interviews and never-before-revealed documents, acclaimed biographer Sally Bedell Smith pulls back the curtain to show in extraordinary detail the public and private lives of one of the world’s most fascinating and enigmatic women. In Elizabeth the Queen, we meet the young girl who suddenly becomes “heiress presumptive”when her uncle abdicates the throne. We see the young Queen struggling to balance the demands of her job with her role as the mother of two young children. And we gain insight into the Queen’s daily routines, as well as her personal...
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The Transatlantic slave trade
Fri May 21st 2010 by abagond
The Transatlantic slave trade (1501-1867), known by some in Texas as the Atlantic triangular trade, sold at least 12.5 million black Africans as slaves to work for white landowners on the other side of the ocean. Of these 1.8 million died at sea. Most of the rest were worked to death within seven years in the sugar cane fields of Brazil and the Caribbean.
The slave trade reached its height in the 1780s. A third of those sold were women. Towards the end a fourth were children!
Because the big money was in sugar only 4% came to the cotton and tobacco fields of North America. Three-fourths of those came from West Africa, the rest from what is now Congo, Angola and Mozambique.
While Europeans did catch some of their own slaves, they generally bought them from Africans. At first the Africans sold them prisoners of war but later as the market grew wars were fought to get slaves to sell.
A common white belief is that Africans “sold their own” as slaves. That is based on yet another common white belief: that Africa is a country. Africans did not sell their own: they sold their enemies. This became much easier to do once Europeans brought the gun to Africa and supplied a ready market for slaves.
Africans practised slavery long before the Europeans showed up, but the European kind was a different beast:
It was on a much vaster scale – millions, not thousands.
It was based on skin colour.
It was lifelong and fell upon one’s children too.
If you were caught you were put in chains and marched to a slave fort on the coast. Because you were on foot that could take months. About one in five – 3 million in all – died in these death marches.
Once at the fort you were put behind bars and there you waited for a slave ship and a good wind. That might take yet more months. And if the ship was not full it would spend weeks or months visiting yet other slave forts along the coast to fill up.
The Middle Passage:
It took as little as a month to get to Brazil, two months or more to get to North America.
Ships were packed so full that you had just enough room to lay down. Sometimes you did not even have enough room to roll over and lay on your side. It was dark and hot and airless and you lived in shit, piss, vomit and menstrual blood. The ship’s crew raped the women and girls. You had little to eat but even worse you had little to drink: fresh water was extremely limited on the high seas.
Disease was common. In the 1500s as many as half died on board. In the 1800s that dropped to 5%. Some who lived went mad.
So many slaves came that it was not until the 1840s and the Irish Potato Famine that more whites than blacks crossed the Atlantic.
How White America got rich
Guinea Coast
Afro-Latinos
Some numbers on Black Americans
moral arguments:
The Arab trader Argument
“Go back to Africa”
The slave trade was immoral
on Wed May 26th 2010 at 15:04:12 Thaddeus
It took a month to get to Brazil, two months or more to get to North America.
It could take far longer, depending on what port the ship sailed from and where it went to. The two big slave trading ports in Brazil were Rio and Salvador. Slaves going from southern Africa to Rio could take months to get there, given prevailing winds and currents.
Recall that back in those days, unlike what that map would indicate, nobody sailed in straight lines: you had to follow the prevailing winds. In the South Atlantic, they run counter-clockwise. So a ship from Angola would probably sail north from the Tropic of Cancer, cross the Atlantic, and then have to sail back down to Rio in a big circle.
A long trip, any road.
on Wed May 26th 2010 at 15:33:29 Mel
I guarantee there will be whites here saying: “that was so long ago. Why bring up the past?”
Y’know, that slave ship loading diagram is one of the most iconic images of the middle passage every produced in the west.
Does anyone know anything about its history or social conditions of production? I mean, what was it produced FOR? A court case? A “how to” manual for the slave trade? As an illustration of an ex-slave’s narrative…?
on Wed May 26th 2010 at 15:58:10 J
12 million is usually the conservative estimate, depending on what sources you utilise.
Whatever the figure?? It does not usually take into account the amounts killed in wars and the long march to the coasts.
And a very good point you make about ‘Africans selling their own’, which unfortunately based on ‘self-hate’ and a lack of knowledge of history.
There is also another side to this point. None of us should be surprised if a country would sell their own.
I think there was one other group that were sold and that was those at the bottom of the society.
There is nothing extraordinary about this except in this instance a person would be sold because of ‘status’ and not tribal identity, or a ‘prisoner of war’ – back then there was no such thing as a collective African identity.
And again African slavery of which I guess you can identify two influences:
1. Islamic slavery
2. indigeneous slavery.
Many commentators suggest that even though aspects of Islamic slavery was brutal. On the macro level, it was completely different to the process of ‘chattel slavery’ in the West.
If I may suggest that at some point, you could do a counterpart to this post and discuss the ‘East African Slave Trade’, on the East Coast of Africa, that took Africans to places in the Middle East, islands in the Indian oceans (??) etc.
on Wed May 26th 2010 at 15:59:49 FG
Excellent summary, Abagond!
The map suggests that New World Afrodescendents searching for their roots should look more to West Africa than Egypt or the Swahili-speaking peoples.
That is if you do not believe people migrate FG.
And Swahili is for the East African Slave Trade
Perhaps you can create another post Abagond, because directly after the slave trade you see ‘New Imperialism’. This would all tie in nicely and be the logical sequence of event regarding the continent
on Wed May 26th 2010 at 16:44:56 Patricia Kayden
Very educational. Shows how strong Blacks are that 12.5 million slaves have become well over 100 million strong throughout the New World.
Also, while we know that “Africans sold their own” is a popular refrain, it must also be pointed out that there were Africans who openly opposed and fought against the enslavement of other Africans. That is often missed in the discussion — as it is made out that it was kind Europeans who put an end to the slave trade.
on Wed May 26th 2010 at 16:45:04 realist
“The Transatlantic slave trade…known by some in Texas as the Atlantic triangular trade”
It’s like 1984. Sadly, the term will be used in textbooks around the country (not just Texas) unless people protest and/or write their congressperson demanding such nonsense not be taught to their children in standardized textbooks. Countless other garbage (including implicit evolution denial in sceince textbooks) will be forced upon the education of American children if we do not act.
“Africans did not sell their own: they sold their enemies.”
I agree with that statement completely. Moreover, transatlantic slavery is a disgusting legacy of western European civilization. It is remarkable, however, that during the period in discussion (1501-1867) western Europeans would not “sell their enemies” if the enemies in question were white. Black Subsaharan Africans, on the other hand, continue to sell other black people into slavery to this day. In Haiti, such a domestic slave trade exists and was recently documented in a New York Times blog piece. (http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/25/haitian-tradition-is-criticized-as-child-slavery/) The preceding link includes a gritty video documenting the lives of some child domestic slaves around Port-au-Prince.
on Wed May 26th 2010 at 17:35:40 Y
Excellent, Abagond. It seems a lot of people focus so much on the slaves that made it to the New World that they forget about the millions that died along the way, and the horrendous conditions they lived in.
I know I would have died on board, or I would have killed myself…Definitely wouldnt have made it.
on Wed May 26th 2010 at 17:53:36 Natasha W
But I wanted to point out that the map in the post is inaccurate. For instance, a substantial portion of slaves taken to the Southeastern areas of Georgia up through the South Carolina/North Carolina border were from Sierra Leone and Senegambia. And peoples captured from the Bight of Biafra were sent to the Virginia/Maryland area in large numbers. This is backed up by historical documents and genetic testing.
on Wed May 26th 2010 at 19:27:28 Dahoman X
Abagond wrote:
“While Europeans did catch some of their own slaves, they generally bought them from Africans.”
This was true only in the latter phase of the slave trade. During the first centuries of this “trade”, the slaves were caught through razzias by the european crews, as evidenced by numerous reports by white captains and traders.
The second phase saw the creation of forts and trading post along the coast, as well as the rise of african auxiliaries of the slave trade and the intervention of europeans in the politics of the african kingdoms.
One can’t understand the 3rd and last phase (the emergence of coastal african slaver kingdoms such as Danxome (Dahomey)) if one is not aware of this process.
Abagond, would you happen to read french? If so I might find you some links from an african forum I know where all the process is discussed.
With regard to:
“so much on the slaves that made it to the New World that they forget about the millions that died along the way, and the horrendous conditions they lived in”.
This is partly because of the lack of written documents. This is one of the major problems with history as a social science.
However, by the time the slaves were on land, I believe there were more historical accounts.
Here is one such account of the Middle Passage
Fifty Days on Board a Slave-Vessel: In the Mozambique Channel April and May, 1843
http://www.amazon.com/Fifty-Days-Board-Slave-Vessel-Mozambique/dp/0933121466#reader_0933121466
From my memory most of those in the Caribbean are from what would be Ghana and Nigeria (Benin).
Brazil – Congo
Slave Trade & African-American Ancestry
http://wysinger.homestead.com/mapofafricadiaspora.html
on Wed May 26th 2010 at 23:54:55 peanut
Yes, i hate that lie used to excuse european enslavement of africans. Europeans enslaved/ mistreated their own too. Look at how the slovak slaves were tortured and mistreated by their hungarian overlords…research Erzebet bathory to get a good picture of that. Furthermore, there were plenty of africans who tried to stop the sale of african slaves to europeans, such as Queen Nzinga.
I read a book about slavery in Antigua…its a sad thing and a brutal history.
on Thu May 27th 2010 at 00:17:22 Jess
“The Transatlantic slave trade (1501-1867), known by some in Texas as the Atlantic triangular trade”
How is that bad? I learned it that way too. We were taught that both mean the same thing, not just in one way. If anything it gives you the whole picture of the trade.
on Thu May 27th 2010 at 00:56:44 leigh204
It really saddens me that people could do such horrible things to each other. I cannot fathom what these slaves had to endure. The slave trade was evil and disgusting.
on Thu May 27th 2010 at 03:08:05 Thaddeus
Europeans enslaved/ mistreated their own too.
Some people on this board will be surprised to learn that.
Of course, Peanut could just be reiterating the old “The Irish were slaves, too” myth, right…?
It really saddens me that people could do such horrible things to each other.
Ironically enough, just saw a trailer today which deals with immigration into the U.S. from a Brazilian point of view. We’ve just had a big debate on immigration here. Obviously enough to me, things haven’t changed much. Self-claimed anti-racist activists on this blog would happily see families torn apart and people shipped from one side of the planet to another in chains, kept for months in a time in dungeons awaiting transhipment, etc.
If people who claim to be anti-racist activists on this blog can look that sort of thing in the eye today and say “Fair go. It’s only right”, why would anyone presume that we’ve learned much of anything since 1750?
The targets of inhuman behavior shift around a bit, but it’s always there.
on Thu May 27th 2010 at 03:50:18 AB
i would recomend an independent documentary called 500 years later. it tells the whole story. we watched most of it in my africa in cinema class. http://www.hulu.com/watch/93209/500-years-later
on Thu May 27th 2010 at 10:31:01 Hathor
After the importation of slaves became illegal, they were smuggled in through Louisiana for Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia cotton growing. Most of these slaves were from other parts of Africa. The slaves from parts of West Africa were chosen because they had the rice growing skills and a resistance to malaria which was pertinent to the rice growing colonies.
There were only certain African groups that captured slaves and considering the amount of that population, I don’t agree that Africans including Arabs did most of the slave catching.
on Thu May 27th 2010 at 10:35:13 Mira
This is a good post. I knew about the numbers and the time needed to sail, but I didn’t know about the regions of Africa where the slaves came from. I used to think it was more of central Africa; I had no idea about slaves coming from Mozambique.
Now, speaking of slavery, I think people should once and for all understand how horrible slavery was, and just because “Africans” and Arabs and people in the antiquity did it, it’s not an excuse. First of all, it’s wrong. If it’s wrong to kill and enslave a man, you don’t get a pass if someone else did before you. Plus- and I don’t try to minimize suffering of slaves in antiquity or those enslaved by non-whites – but whites often see western civilization as the best, completely fair, respecting human rights, etc, etc- and they were the ones who did this. And last, but not the least, in most of the other forms of slavery, you were able to buy your freedom, and/or you were enslaved for a given period of time (3, 7 years). Also, if you were an educated individual, or a craftsman, or you had any special skills, you were able to continue practising your craft or become a tutor in someone’s family (so I guess your live was a little bit less horrible). Not here.
Now, I disagree about skin colour as an important difference: enslaving humans based on skin colour isn’t any better or worse than enslaving them based on religion, or ethnic group, or any other criteria.
But even if they were, Hathor, so what? It doesn’t change the fact whites were ones enslaving those people. They didn’t take them to America and free them.
But it is important to note that, in any case, “Africans” didn’t capture “their own”- they captured their enemies. Africa is not uniform. Hey, white Americans and Russians are whites, and yet, they were (are?) enemies. And you can even say most of the Arabs are whites (they are Caucasians) so someone could say whites are attacking “their own”.
I am old enough to remember how Black folks looked different depending upon where they were from. Even the accents were different.
on Thu May 27th 2010 at 12:02:38 J
Cheers Hathor,
Do you know where the other slaves were from, and would you like to say anything more on the matter??
Its funny, just as I was typing I remember a similar thing also happened in Jamaica, but I cannot remember any of the details where these Africans came from.
Anyhow suffice to say these ‘Africans’ also merged in with ‘other Jamaicans’ to become ‘Jamaicans’.
This is the book:
http://www.amazon.com/Alas-Kongo-Indentured-Immigration-1841-1865/dp/0801823080
“So what? It doesn’t change the fact whites were ones enslaving those people. They didn’t take them to America and free them
Indeed a very valid point.
There is another point to this but this time from the ‘slavers side’
Unfortunately leaving aside other political issues like prisoner of wars from other tribes, ‘pariahs of society’ who were to become slaves. This was a very lucrative business that any unscrupulous character could profit immensely from.
Well, I know there are some people who think whites have cruelty and a need to enslave others in their blood. But these things are not born with someone’s white skin; they are products of society, politics and other things that give them power. Indeed, there were whites who were enslaved/suffered by the hands or other whites and non-whites. And yes, there a non-whites who captured their enemies, and Arabs who enslaved people, etc etc.
But to use this argument to derail any discussion about this specific slavery is not a good thing, and it shows basic misunderstanding. So what if Egyptians, Greeks and Romans had slaves? In what way, exactly, does this make transatlantic slavery less horrible? Especially given the fact you were often able to free yourself in ancient slavery and you were often enslaved on a given period of time (3 years for example).
“But to use this argument to derail any discussion about this specific slavery is not a good thing, and it shows basic misunderstanding”
However, it is needed though, because if you look at ‘Western civilisation’ from a historical point of view. There is no remorse nor has there been regard to slavery, and in this sense the derailment (ie ‘red herring’) becomes all the more vital as a tool.
I best stop here because I can see myself heading towards reparation ha ha ha…
No but seriously, I stand by the above.
And with regard to my own comments:
“This was a very lucrative business that any unscrupulous character could profit immensely from”.
Even today – these are the only ones I can remember but there are many more – companies who were formed because of slavery
Tate & Lyle (sugar company)
And even today , such companies still continue to earn millions which otherwise would not have been possible without slavery
I said what I said, because I am so tired of the commentary being, but Black people did it too. These comments not only are made during a post about slavery, they are made even in the context of explaining the legacy slavery left or how it has psychologically effected Black people to this day. I am sure there will some comment here that will blame all slavery on Black people, as if it is only in Black’s DNA.
on Thu May 27th 2010 at 15:19:14 Natasha W
Generally true, although I wouldn’t lump all of the Caribbean together because they don’t all have the same origins. For example, many that were brought to Jamaica were the Kongo, who reside in present-day Zaire, Congo, and Angola.
Not necessarily. There were plenty of those from present-day Ghana and Nigeria (mainly Yoruba and Ewe) that were sent to Brazil, as well as others.
No one knew exactly where they came from, but comparing pictures of people in my geography books, people that were from the cotton states looked more like thy came from what we would call the Congo. Tennessee, North and South Carolina, Virginia looked more like people from West Africa. Every now and then I would see people with features that looked as if they were from Kenya, like Thomas Mboya’s people. I had met several Kenyans when I was in high school. I know that there are several different groups in Kenya, that why I made a reference. My paternal grandfather looked much like he came from Ghana. He was only one generation out of slavery. But more than likely his ancestors came from Sierra Leone, because he might be called a Geechee.
I understand you. I didn’t reply to your comment to argue with you, but to agree with you.
Since this post is the one discussing the slave sources, I wanted to dismiss the whole “africans/arabs/whoever did it too!” argument before it started.
on Thu May 27th 2010 at 17:25:51 Kwamla
Another great post by Abagond. which I commend.
Any time the full comprehension and realization of the transatlantic slave trade is made bare, then discussed.
It never fails to amaze me how justifiable it can be made to be seen if it can be argued or proved that Africans were also complicit in this too.
Lets “suppose” this was true. SO WHAT!!!!????
What does it say about the so called humanity of the Europeans? Where was the so called moral superiority?
The fact that they deemed this was OK for 500 years must surely say something about the mind of Europeans?
And perhaps someone can tell me where is the historical evidence of Africans or any other peoples of colour systematically brutalizing, dehumanizing and lawfully disregarding the lives of human beings in this way for 100’s of years?
There isn’t any!!! The closest being perhaps the Jews during the 2nd world war but guess what? Thats was Europeans again!!!!
Has anybody noticed a pattern here?
There’s pretty good information that
most of the primitive capital accumulation in Brazil came from slave-trading rather than mining or sugar-making.
With regards to the trans-atlantic slave trade, here’s some basic facts that people often forget about it that are really necessary:
1) It occurred roughly over a 400 year period and the locus of slaving moved several times during that period. Speaking very generally, it tended to move south and east as time went on.
2) Different European and African peoples were highly active in it at different periods.
3) Technologies of slave trading changed radically during the period.
4) Relatively speaking, what’s today the U.S. was a late-comer to the game. It thus got few slaves from the northern parts of Africa and those that it did get tended to be concentrated in places of early colonization such as the North Carolina seaboard.
So to say “such-and-such a region got slaves from such-and-so a point in Africa” is generally a simplification.
on Thu May 27th 2010 at 18:29:39 MerriMay
Agreed Kwamla,
The slave trade was truly tragic, I can’t begin to imagine what kind of depraved minds would pack their fellow human beings in such conditions, words fail me.
Blacks can commit a thousand crimes, it won’t in any way match the horror of what Europeans have done to them. Never!
Enslaving West Africa, colonizing the rest, the supine attitude of Europeans towards Africa makes me sick!
There is one aspect of the trade journey that is not mentioned here and was so horrific that Malcolm X suggested it had to be written out from nearly all the history books.
I had posted what he had to say on this matters on here – can’t quite remember where though)??
Seasoning Camps
“Meltzer also states that 33% of Africans would have died in the first year at seasoning camps found throughout the Caribbean.[54] Many slaves shipped directly to North America bypassed this process; however most slaves (destined for island or South American plantations) were likely to be put through this ordeal.
The enslaved people were tortured for the purpose of “breaking” them (like the practice of breaking horses) and conditioning them to their new lot in life.
Jamaica held one of the most notorious of these camps. All in all, 5 million Africans died in these camps reducing the final number of Africans to about 10 million.[54]”
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade
on Fri May 28th 2010 at 00:05:27 J
Took a long while to find the excerpt from Malcolm X:
“Our people weren’t brought right to this country. They were dropped off in the West Indian islands in the Caribbean…
Why?… This was the breaking-in grounds. They would break them in down there.
When they broke them in, they would bring the ones whose spirit had been broken on to America. They had all kinds of tactics for breaking them in. They bred fear into them, for one thing…
And this is why they took the role of the ‘slave maker’ out of history. It was so criminal that they don’t even dare to write about it…
I read in one book how the slave maker used to take a pregnant woman…and make her watch as her man would be tortured and put to death.
[Another] had trees that he planted in positions where he would bend them and tie them, and then tie the hand of a Black man to one, a hand to the other, and his legs to two more, and he’d cut the rope. And when he cut the rope, the tree would snap up and pull the arm of the [slave] right out of his socket, pull him up into four different parts.
I’ll show you books where you can read it, they write about it.
They used to take a Black woman who would be pregnant and tie her up by her toes, let her be hanging head down, and they would take the knife and cut her stomach open, let that Black unborn child fall out, and then stomp its head, in the ground.
I’ll show you books where they write about this… ‘Slave Trade by Spears; From Slavery to Freedom by John Hope Franklin; Negro Family in U.S by Frazier touches upon it…
‘Anti-slavery’ by Dwight Lowell Dummond…”
Malcolm X on Afro-American History, Pathfinder Press…
on Fri May 28th 2010 at 01:13:52 Menelik Charles
@J,
Malcolm X’ on Afro-American History is one of the greatest, most accessible, books I’ve ever read. It would make a fine introductory reader for any African-American (especially male) wishing uplift themselves out of mental slavery. Indeed, it should be required reading in all US prisons.
on Fri May 28th 2010 at 02:57:23 Thaddeus
Don’t you mean “lupine”?
Re: seasoning camps. The Wiki sez that South American slaves were put through this:
Meltzer also states that 33% of Africans would have died in the first year at seasoning camps found throughout the Caribbean. Many slaves shipped directly to North America bypassed this process; however most slaves (destined for island or South American plantations) were likely to be put through this ordeal.
Sorry, I call bulls$t on that. South American slaves were not shipped to Carribean before being sent to Brazil – and let’s face it, 95% of South American slaves came through Brazil. Either Meltzer got it wrong or (more likely) the Wikidiot quoting him got it wrong.
My favorite source for this topic is Hugh Thomas’ The Slave Trade.
on Fri May 28th 2010 at 03:50:26 Paisley
MerriMay: “Blacks can commit a thousand crimes, it won’t in any way match the horror of what Europeans have done to them. Never!”
I totally agree. And let’s not forget European/white atrocities against the Australian Aboriginals, the Maoris, the Tasmanians, the indigenous Americans, etcetera, etc., on and on, ad infinitum….
on Fri May 28th 2010 at 08:49:40 MerriMay
@ Thad
Supine still stands, don’t play professor with me, you’ll only fail.
I used the metaphorical ‘supine’ hand as in a ‘gimme gimme’ attitude to Africa.
Secondly, I meant it as an indifference, careless, lazy, negligent(insert other meanings of the word) attitude to Africa.
Here we go again,
Thad in his role as RR and No_Slappz…
The thought that Whites could be incredibly evil to Blacks pains him so much that he has to reject the contention.
What he attempts to do is clever – well not really -. He rejects the contention of ‘seasoning camps’ but remains strangely silence on the brutality devised by the slaveowners. Almost as if that part is at least true, but he does not have an argument, or anything by which he can knockk that idea down, otherwise he would.
As a lecturer one would expect him to draw on his expertise to critique it.
However, because he has probably have not heard this thing before (here read too arrogant or a ‘troll’ to admit it). He has to suggests that Meltzer has it wrong.
However, this creates its own problems. Since if Meltzer is wrong. Then Malcolm X is also wrong and the references that he cited would also be incorrect.
This is one of the problems that can occur when you are schooled (or here read fooled) in ‘eurocentricism’ and over-rely on authors who are steeped in that tradition.
I am not surprised taht a person like you would therefore use Hugh Thomas as your reference. As the Americans might say a Johnny-come-lately to the scene.
And here we go further, one more reference to add to the list, in addition to the ones quoted by Malcolm X:
“Seasoning was a process conducted during the Atlantic slave trade for the purpose of “breaking” slaves. The practice conditioned the African captives for their new lot in life, newly arrive black African captive would have to be trained into the daily rigors that await them in the Americas. This training was carried out on Plantations in the Caribbean such as Jamaica. Then the conditioned captives were taken to the American south to be worked as a slave.
Estimated mortality rates for this process vary from 7% to 50% with duration between one and four years.[1]
Most slaves destined for island or South American plantations were likely to be put through this ordeal, though slaves shipped directly to North America bypassed this process. Jamaica held one of the most notorious of these camps. [2]
The process of seasoning had a strong profit motive for example, as economists state the average price of adult male slaves in Jamaica in the 1770’s was 52% higher than “New Negroes” (Africans who came to a New World).[3]
1. Kiple, K.F. The Caribbean Slave: A Biological History, p. 65.
2. Meltzer, Milton. Slavery: A World History. Da Capo Press, 1993.
3. Trevor, B. and Morgan, K. The Dynamics of the Slave Market and Slave Purchasing Patterns in Jamaica, 1655-1788. The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 58, No. 1, New Perspectives on the Transatlantic Slave Trade (Jan., 2001), pp. 205-228
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasoning_(slave)
So what does this all mean??
In a nutshell, Thad is the ‘White liberal’ that Steve Biko warned about, and even Malcolm X also.
He is that ‘Great White Man’, do not worry about the other one (with that tag) who has taken up the ‘White Man’s Burden’ to teach the docile natives, their history and how best they should obtain their freedom also as part of the process, but yet at the same time maintaining the same White world order.
An ‘academic’ troll
on Fri May 28th 2010 at 10:45:37 Kwamla
Interesting to see how the trail of this discussion goes…
While comments from myself , MerriMay, Paisley, J, etc.. attempt to reflect on the culpability or responsibility of Europeans for behaving in this way…TIME AND TIME AGAIN!!!
Others seem preoccupied with establishing the precise statistics of which slaves came from or were sent where..??
Why is this so important ???
This is the level of reflection. As if it were some “tragic”, unintentional vast migration of peoples which took place so many years ago, and where the true facts or statistics have become obscured over time. But it happened… As did say the Roman civilization or the industrial revolution which took place over many years both of which had their ups and downs!!!
Again these tired old reflections refuse to examine or challenge the mind or motives of a people who would allow and STILL CONTINUE to allow such abhorrent behavior and practices to continue today.
It may not be so OVERT as in the case of industrialized fellow human slavery 200 years ago but that uncaring mentality still lingers on in the form of cruelty and disregard for peoples of colour, animals, the Earths environment etc…
This is not simply a question of apportioning blame, guilt or extracting apologies from any one race of people; or mounting an argument for reparations (another discussion) its about recognizing, acknowledging and owning up to collective PAST actions and behaviors.
Such honest, personal, DEEP opening up reflections become the guiding determinants for the way we wish FUTURE collective actions and behaviors to be seen and implemented.
What are the signs that such a global humanitarianism or Earth centered holistic approach is taking place today ???
I live in optimism …
I still like “lupine” better.
No, I don’t reject the notion of seasoning camps. I reject the statement of the Wiki you linked us to, which claims that South American slaves were sent through seasoning camps in the CARRIBEAN.
As for the brutality of the situation, that is evident.
Its not clear to me what you are saying here, or whether this is one of your mis-understandings??
It is being staed that some slaves taken from Africa went to the Caribbean so as to be ‘broken in like horses’ before they were then transported on to their final destination, so that they could become ‘good slaves’.
on Fri May 28th 2010 at 12:36:04 Hathor
The discussion about where slaves come from actually dispels the myth that all Africans participated in the slave trade.
According to the Wikipedia article only about one in six African city states and kingdoms that knew about the slave trade took part in it.
I remember reading be that some of the African rulers were oblivious to the extent of the horrors of the slave trade, in its early period. Since once the slaves were sold that was it and this may make some sort of sense in the context of what slavery as an institution in Africa being ‘different’ to ‘chattel slavery’.
However, much later the rulers became fully cognizant of what was taking place, and in some instance rulers were held to ransom by the Colonial powers to provide slaves.
This is also another feature rarely discussed on why/how the slaves were provided.
Thad you really are a character, even though my ancestors in South Africa, were not subject to slavery, but of a colonial sort- a separate thread I’ll concede, it still pains me greatly to read about what fellow blacks went through.
Interesting observation that J has made about you, your complete indifference to it, the complete absence of outrage on your part speaks volumes. The hell with your geographical trail of slaves because as usual you bulldoze over others’ very valid points.
I’m not saying tear you hair out but for goodness sake where is the respect for these people???
I suppose this qualifies as commiseration on your part:
WTH?
Why do you constantly undermine the integrity of a subject as historically atrocious with your crap?? If you have nothing meaningful to add, just gag it.
Which leads to my second point.
You like ‘lupine’ better?? Cobblers!!! You take it upon yourself to correct things that don’t even warrant it??
Your arrogance is as usual insulting!! I don’t care what you like!
Regarding those specific sources in the Wiki, J, let’s go directly to them, shall we?
Kiple (The Caribbean Slave: A Biological History) does not mention the majority of South American bound slaves heading through Carribean seasoning camps. In fact, he barely mentions South America AT ALL in his book and when he does, it’s as a comparative pole for his main focus: the Carribean. When he mentions slaves bound for South America via Jamaica, he’s talking about the Guyanas and some northern spanish colonies. This trade was a drop in the bucket compared to that of the rest of South America.
So no, Kiple does not sustain the hypothesis that most slaves bound for South America were put through Carribean seasoning camps.
Let’s turn to Meltzer. Like most English-language historians of slavery, he barely mentions South America or Brazil. This, in fact, is one of the reasons one needs to temper these early authors with “Johnny-come-latelies” like Thomas, who understand that most slavery took place under the Portuguese and Spanish flags. Early English-language authors were far too willing to take the experience of British colonies as some sort of pan-Atlantic norm.
Meltzer does not mention most South American slaves IN GENERAL being shipped through Carribean seasoning camps, certainly not on page 65 and, as far as I can see, nowhere else in the book.
On to Trevor and Morgan. They do indeed mention slaves being transhipped to South America from Jamaica, but again, only to the northern tier of colonies, particularly British Guyana (which makes some sense).
None of these sources thus sustain the hypothesis that most South American bound slaves went through Carribean seasoning camps before being resold to South America. As I said, that appears to be a wiki error created by injudicious copy-pasting from other internet articles.
Metzler is not wrong, he’s just been poorly quoted: most of the ENGLISH trade did indeed go through Jamaica. The English, however, weren’t selling slaves to Brazil, the America’s largest consumer of slaves.
With regards to Thomas, why J thinks an author should be dismissed just because he’s written more recently on a topic is beyond me. In general, more recent books have BETTER data than older books.
Here’s what Thomas has to say on the subject of “seasoning” in a South American context:
The main ports for receiving slaves in South America were Rio (for the Portuguese) and Caratenga (for the Spanish – far less than Rio, however: 3000 slaves a year at its peak). In both ports, slaves were dumped into holding baracks on the outskirts of town, where they were left until a buyer came along. In Rio, slaves at this point were more often “fattened up” than sadistically beaten. This wasn’t because slave dealers were nice guys and humanitarians: the horrors of the middle passage left many Africans on death’s door and every dead slave was that much less profit.
Nevertheless, deaths in these barracks continued at an astounding rate. So bad that mass cemeteries needed to be dug near the Valongo, Rio’s slave trading street (and these were rediscovered during urban improvement projects in the 20th century). Thomas remarks that slave traders SHOULD have taken much better care of their “wares”, if the logic was simple capitalism. However, even more modern research by Brazilian scholars, shows that the care given to slaves in barracks depended quite a lot on the general economy of the time.
A booming economy would mean huge demand and quick turnover. Under these conditions, slaves would spend little time in the Valongo barracks and even the sickest would be picked up by desperate planters and miners. Traders didn’t care much about slave health in boom conditions: turnover was far more important.
When the economy slowed down, however, quality became more important and care could increase in order to increase the “shelf-life” of the slave. In a really bad economic downturn, however, the trader could simply decide that costs for maintaining the slaves alive could outweigh their possible sale value and simply let them die.
There was nothing approximating an organized “seasoning camp” on the Valongo, however, where slaves were systematically tortured to ensure obedience. Again, not because the Portuguese slave dealers were nice guys but because it was too much effort and cost. Why bother? The trader wasn’t a conscientous employee of the Great White Conspiracy to Subdue the Negro: he was an independent businessman, looking to make as much money as he could, as quick as he could by selling human flesh and souls. In Brazil, that meant “get ’em in and get ’em out” as quick as possible. Teaching the slaves obedience was not the Brazilian slave trader’s problem: it was the slave master’s problem.
Thomas has this to say about Jamaica as a transshipment point:
English ports were more brutal and less hygenic, but slaves brought to Jamaica for sale in Spanish America tended to be treated better than those sold elsewhere.
“Seasoning” was more often than not a general process which supposedly lasted a year or two and began with the slave barracks in African ports. Slaves would pass through two or three hands before getting to their final owners and, as they passed along, they’d be brutually treated as a matter of course. This was generally not because of some specific, thought-out plan to break the slaves’ will: it was the inevitable by-product of treating human beings as merchandise. Of course, ANY rebellion under these sorts of conditions was met with immediate and brutal violence, but again, not because this was some well-oiled, death-camp like machine, but precisely because it wasn’t. It was very often a poorly organized venture in which huges sums of money were being floated and could be won or lost on a throw of destiny’s dice. A plague sweeping through a cargo of slaves could bankrupt a dealer in one fell swoop. As Abolition inched closer and it became ever more clear that the trade from Africa would one day be stopped, traders began cramming their boats to the decks with slaves. The conditions for rebellion were, as one can well imagine, ripe and rebellion was the thing slave traders feared most, precisely because they didn’t have full control over their human cargo. It was a constant promise.
Now, I’m not as well acquainted with late-18th century British slavery as I am with the Brazilian varieties, but if there were a people who could have seriously contemplated the organization necessary for “seasoning camps”, it definitely would have been the British. That Enlightenment ethic could very well have produced some rationalist attempt to set up a camp where slaves’ wills were systematically broken. I’m willing to accept that as a hypothesis, given more proof than a Wikipedia article which misquotes an author.
What is definitely a fact, given the state of our knowledge on this issue, is that the vast majority of South American slaves did not pass through Jamaica or any other Carribean camp: they came through Rio and Salvador. And there is no indication that I’ve seen that anything like these camps operated here.
Note that this doesn’t mean that Brazilian slavery was not brutal.
Now, Kwamla asks “Why is this so important?”
Because this is the history of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the black presence in the Americas, the very history that black people have been deprived of. If you want history, you have to accept that it doesn’t always play out in accordance with your prejudices. If yopu want to know what happened back then, you have to really look at it.
As I mentioned in Abagond’s post on the Cherokee Trail of Tears, glossing one or another act of inhumanity as The Holocaust does not help us understand what happened. Slavery, like Indian reservations, had a complex history and had its OWN PARTICULAR coordinates of oppressions and brutalities. Imagining Dantesque slave seasoning camps where all slaves are systematically tortured to incur obedience leads us away from the REAL brutalities which occurred. As metaphor, the “death camp” has some explicatory power: as history, it confounds explanation and ends up creating myth.
And isn’t it one of black america’s complaints that too much of black history has been shrouded in myth?
Here’s one side effect mythologization produces:
Here in Rio (and in Salvador) we had an institution that was as bad or worse than the “seasoning camp”: the public slave prison, where masters could send unruly slaves to be tortured. Of course, if we’re going to get hung up on the myth of Brazilian slaves in Jamaican seasoning camps, we’ll never be able to discuss the REAL institutions which were used to break rebellious slaves, are we?
This returns to my wife’s article on the Black American Imperial Eye (https://abagond.wordpress.com/2010/01/07/black-brazil-in-the-black-gringo-gaze/) : concentrating on the English-speaking transatlantic slavery and black experience as the norm creates a virtuality where (in this case) Jamaica becomes far more important than the Valongo, even though far many more black Americans’ ancestors (and J, please note that “America” does not mean the U.S. in this instance) came through the Valongo than through Kingston.
Brazilian black history is considered to be so secondary, so in fact inconcievable, that even to bring up the simple FACT that Brazilian slaves weren’t transhipped through Jamaica is enough to get one castigized as a violence-denying racist.
Again…you miss the point Hathor. It doesn’t really matter!!!
So what if they did? The point is what does it say about a specific group of people – Europeans – who unequivocally endorsed this mass trade of human beings??
So lets say most African nations actively played a part in capturing and selling slaves to Europeans does that make this any less of a de-humanizing act on the part of Europeans? Could it then be seen as just a bit of fair trade that got out of hand?
But of course then you would have to agree that if it had been the other way round. That is if African’s had discovered Europe they would have similarly entered in to deals with various European countries and started shipping white slaves back to Africa?
And if we could establish that the majority of European countries actively colluded with the African traders then this would have made things Ok. It would have been fair trade again? Both sides just as equally to blame as the other
One more historically example: Japan attacks the US in the battle of Pearl Harbour so the US drops the Atomic bomb on one of Japans major cites killing and injuring 100,000s of people. This was justified YES?. Because we can prove historically accurately here that Japan did attack the US destroying much equipment and many 100’s of US lives.
Or are you still not getting the point here?
Here’s where I think the misunderstanding is.
The wiki article J linked us to says this:
Most slaves destined for island or South American plantations were likely to be put through this ordeal…
Note: most slaves.
J interprets that to mean:
It is being staed that some slaves taken from Africa went to the Caribbean so as to be ‘broken in like horses’ before they were then transported on to their final destination…
Note: some slaves.
I have no objection to the idea that some slaves went through “seasoning camps” in Jamaica, beyond the fact that it would be interesting to see a primary source on this, rather than what appears to be a Wiki misquote of a secondary source cut and pasted from another internet source.
I DO object to what the Wiki quite clearly says, that most south-american bound slaves went through these Jamaican camps. That would only make sense in terms of the ENGLISH slave trade to South America, which was a small drop in a very large bucket.
MerriMay, “lupine” means “wolf-like”. It was not intended as a correction but as a bitter commentary. A commentary on the situation, not your grammar.
The hell with your geographical trail of slaves because as usual you bulldoze over others’ very valid points.
First of all, my making I point hardly prevents anyone else here from doing so.
Secondly, the only point I’m criticizing is the idea that the majority of South American slaves passed through Carribean seasoning camps. That is simply wrong. All points, of course, are valid but “valid” does not mean “correct”.
So no, I’m not preventing anyone’s opinion from being heard and no, I’m not “invalidating”.
Interesting observation that J has made about you, your complete indifference to it, the complete absence of outrage on your part speaks volumes.
So outrage is the measure of correct history, is it. MerryMay?
Look, right above me, right now as I type, a Military Police helicopter is flying towards Santo Amaro favela. It’s been buzzing the favela for an hour now and has twice exchanged automatic weapons fire with residents.
I have things right in front of me to get outraged over.
When I look at history, I look at it to try to see how we got to this situation HERE. I find that outrage doesn’t help much in that task. It doesn’t help the dead of two centuries ago and – more often than not – it blinds me to very important clues.
“Outrage” comes from a base feeling that one believes one already knows the truth. I know very few truths and most of the ones I thought I knew have not withstood the light of reason.
I believe that slavery was evil: that is a basic truth I hold to. I DO NOT believe – as most Americans seem to do – that having classified something as evil, I can now be on my merry and make believe whatever the hell I want about it. To me, if something is evil, it requires even GREATER attention and less presumption. And presumption is precisely what outrage generates.
Your mileage obviously varies. I respect that. Please respect my view as well.
It matters to me, when I see it being used to deflect the discussions.
What you say is not in dispute as far as I am concerned and I understand what you are saying.
I am not the kind of person who wants history rewritten in the pursuit of a racist agenda. When you have Black folks saying “Africans did it too” and Black folks have benefited from slavery, being an apologist for white privileged conservatives, I consider this to be a serious problem for Black folk.
Abagond started this post with a reference to the changes that the Texas board of education made for the criteria of their textbooks. Slavery is now a euphemism. Arizona has passed bill to forbid the schools from teaching any ethnic studies. Do you think that history now taught in Arizona will now be inclusive?
If this trend continues, it wont matter as you say, because there will nothing of slavery taught. Not even in the context of the constitution. The Texas BOE also is minimizing Thomas Jefferson and some other founders, base on their religious beliefs. So I can’t see the topic of 3/5ths ever coming up.
Do you think preteens are going to take upon themselves to become scholars?
You have a curious deposition towards taking most comments by others here on a personal level. This has resulted in you having to write copious responses to defend your apparent “sleights” at the hands of MerriMay, J and possible others.
If you could leave this aside for one moment as, again, I would say to you its not really that important in the context of what we are discussing here: The Transatlantic slave trade
Your major contribution appears to be:
“…the only point I’m criticizing is the idea that the majority of South American slaves passed through Carribean seasoning camps. That is simply wrong…”
Now maybe you have made others but lets just agree this is your main concern.
You have also commented: “I believe that slavery was evil”
Well that might be so but on the basis of what you’ve contributed to this discussion (without the divergence into defending personal attacks or insults) it s doesn’t really convey, to me, any real “FEELING” sense of this.
Its all too easy to get caught up in personal side issues we deem to be more important because the real issues we fear may be too debilitating or uncomfortable to bear.
You make some valid comments here in response.
The experience you describe in Texas is along similar lines to how The Transatlantic slave trade is taught in many other countries. I know this is true in the UK where I am based.
The basic assumption here is that the actual trade or traffic is played down, deemphasized or even as you report omitted altogether.
This were the Internet and blogs like this come in. At least if preteens want to find this sort of information they can. Years ago before the age of the Internet it all too easy to claim ignorance (unless of course you were scholarly enough to read books!!) This need no longer be the case.
Until of course Black/African peoples start re-writing their own histories in all areas of media. But isn’t this very blog evidence of that very same thing already happening?
I still do not understand your convoluted argument.
Since it appears you seem to support the contention in essence when you say:
“I DO object to what the Wiki quite clearly says, that MOST south-american bound slaves went through these Jamaican camps. =That would only make sense in terms of the ENGLISH slave trade to South America, which was a small drop in a very large bucket”.
Can you just clarify that the word MOST in capitals in the aforesaid is what this discussion is all about??
And if this is the case, can you this time provide any evidence?? Please note that if you cannot find any I will not use it either as an opportunity ‘to score points’ either, something which you are won’t to do
Just to say do not worry about the providing of evidence. I think I can sum up the problem of the discussion.
1. Wikipedia quote
“Meltzer also states that 33% of Africans would have died in the first year at seasoning camps FOUND THROUGHOUT THE CARIBBEAN. Many slaves shipped directly to North America bypassed this process; however most slaves (destined for island or South American plantations [including Guyana which is in South America my emphasis]) were likely to be put through this ordea”l.
2. Thad
I DO object to what the Wiki quite clearly says, that most south-american bound slaves went through these Jamaican camps
3. Please observe what the wiki quote states ‘FOUND THROUGHOUT MOST OF THE CaRIBBEAN’
Usually I would close with ‘I hope this clarifies’, but I doubt if this will be the case for you.
And finally with regard to your comment here Thad:
“Of course, if we’re going to get hung up on the myth of Brazilian slaves in Jamaican seasoning camps, we’ll never be able to discuss the REAL institutions which were used to break rebellious slaves, are we?”
You are the only one whohas reached this conclusion through your own faulty reasoning skills.
I think your faulty reasoning skills reveals your true guise as the ‘academic troll’ that you are.
And I stand by what I said previously : RR, No_Slappz and your good self serve the same purpose and function on a site like this.
on Fri May 28th 2010 at 17:33:53 EnSayn
It’s a shame we believe this story without thought. If we really think about it, this story makes no sense. We are talking about a story of people walking up to 500 miles, being placed on board ships and living in these conditions for a month or more and everyone commenting says nothing about this passage. Its as if this is taken for granted. People living in this condition would not need to be seasoned, they would already be broken. People living in these conditions for a month or more would soon die upon reaching the Americas from various ailments. People living in these conditions would be very hard to sell on the auction blocks, that is what they were being transported for. To be sold. Just think about this! We need to look at the amount of Black people already living in the Americas that were enslaved. We need to look at how long we were living in the Americas long before the birth of a Christopher Columbus. We need examine the truth and begin to dispel this yarn accepted as truth. To think that we came from Africa under such conditions is not a testament to our strength, its a testament of our acceptance of another fairytale and never thinking logic of this deeply rooted lie.
Well, let’s see. After I made an innocent play on words (“lupine” instead of “supine”) which, in fact, supported her point, MerriMay…
1) Told me to go to hell;
2) Said I could care less about slavery;
3) Said what I write is crap;
4) Told me to shut up;
5) And then (cherry on the top) called me arrogant.
I wouldn’t call that an “apparent slight”, Kwamla: I’d call that a serious of directed slights that were obviously intended to be taken on a personal level.
I’m not sure how you could read that differently.
That’s because I disagree with the general American opinion that feeling gives one extra validity, Kwamla. I’d rather go for precision in my history, thanks. I’ll leave the “feeling” to the likes of the Texas Board of Education.
Very simple, J: the Wiki article you cite says most South African-bound slaves headed through seasoning camps in the Carribean.
It is not a convoluted argument J. Not even close.
Here’s the quote:
Meltzer also states that 33% of Africans would have died in the first year at seasoning camps found throughout the Carribean. Many slaves shipped directly to North America bypassed this process; however most slaves destined for island or South American plantations were likely to be put through this ordea”l.
It seems very clear to me that, following basic rules of English grammar, the phrase “found throughout the Carribean” refers to the seasoning camps, not the slaves. The immediately following sentance then specifically says that slaves shipped to North American bypassed the camps while those shipped to south america didn’t.
The clear intent of the phrase is that most slaves bound for South America passed through the camps. Can’t get any clearer than that.
The problem is that this is only true in the context of English slave trading, which is of course Meltzer’s focus. The wiki article does not say that. It says “most slaves bound for South America” passed through the camps.
Not true. Most slaves bound for South America disn’t go through the Carribean and weren’t sold by the English.
EnSayn says:
People living in this condition would not need to be seasoned, they would already be broken.
Spot on. Slave suicide was one of the major worries of Brazilian planters, right up there with rebellion.
People living in these conditions for a month or more would soon die upon reaching the Americas from various ailments. People living in these conditions would be very hard to sell on the auction blocks, that is what they were being transported for. To be sold. Just think about this!
Mostly correct.
At least with regards to Brazilian slavery, if any thought at all was given to recently arrived slaves, it wasn’t to tie them up and whip them to break their spirits: it was to feed them, clean them and fatten them up a bit for the auction block.
That said, very little thought AT ALL was given to the slaves, especially in times of high market demand. So many of them DID die in the barracks upon reaching the Americas and were simply written off as a net loss.
but where is your evidence?? A question you like to ask of me so often (sic).
Either way, personally I do not have a problem with the quote.
In one of your responses earlier, the way you responded, it seemed to me that you had the book in front of you. Can you quote what Meltzer says on this very issue??
I would add also that I only introduced this point to enhance what Abagond had said here regarding the middle passage, especially as this part of history is not that well known.
What you have said here thus far has not changed or minimised this fact.
Whoa Whoa Thad
What is it with you and your inherent inability to understand the contextual sequence of what is written:
Let me clear this up. YOU imposed yourself on what I was saying, by seeming to agree with me at the same time being patronising by substitung a perfectly valid /applicable word(supine) and inserting your own as the better of the two(lupine). If that is not arrogant, show me what is!
Mind you, that wouldn’t make sense in the way that I intended, if you carry on that way, why don’t YOU compose your own narrative wherein you can do as you please with your text.
Do me a favor though. With the remaining 4 on your list I want you to quote me on where I told YOU specifically to shut up, go to hell, your writing is crap, and you don’t care about slavery.
When/if you’ve done so I will go on to illustrate to you, your continued lack of comprehension towards what I write.
*substituting*
on Sat May 29th 2010 at 01:21:45 Thaddeus
but where is your evidence?? A question you like to ask of me so often
Evidence for what? That Brazil was the world’s largest slave importer? Or that Brazil didn’t import slaves through Jamaica?
If the second, how am I supposed to logically prove a negative?
Can you quote what Meltzer says on this very issue??
Nope. Back at home now and not at the Museum.
Yeah, and what I have said here thus far has also not proven that the Holocaust is a fake.
Because what I’ve said was not meant to prove that the holocaust is a fake, nor minimize the horrors of the middle passage. It was also not meant to prove that you are still beating your wife.
What I said was only meant to prove that the idea that most South American slaves were transhipped through Jamaican seasoning camps was bulls@#&. The wiki article you cite was dead wrong on that point.
I was AGREEING with your basic point by substituting an even more predatory adjective. Kindly take your tortured presumptions elsewhere.
I want you to quote me on where I told YOU specifically to shut up, go to hell, your writing is crap, and you don’t care about slavery.
1) “…just gag it”
2) “The hell with your geographical trail of slaves …”
3) [refering to my written opinons] “…your crap.”
4) “…the complete absence of outrage on your part speaks volumes.”
Now, considering that you have taken my innocent comment about “lupine” rather than “supine” Europeans to be a deadly arrogant insult, I can’t help but woner what you’d say if ANYONE said ANY of the above things to you.
For a woman who is oh-so-sensitive to perceived slights, you certainly have no problem at all insulting people.
If you’ve got something germaine to say about my points, go ahead, even if it’s rough. If it’s simply going to be more venting because you feel the need to virtually go off at someone, spare me.
on Sat May 29th 2010 at 08:30:45 Kwamla
Ok. Thaddeus. I am going to put it to you that you make some valid points about:
.”..the idea that the majority of South American slaves passed through Carribean seasoning camps. That is simply wrong…”
And that perhaps in the process of making this point you’ve encountered some slight abuse. Examples of which you have “precisely” documented. But then perhaps this may also be valid for you to consider here. The attention to precision you so rigorously strive for, lets say virtuously and admirably, as a worthwhile scholarly pursuit leaves no room for the immense “human” or “emotional” consequences of the very subject we are discussing.
You yourself have commented:
This is a fair point and you of course are entitled to your own opinion. But you also conceded:
“…I believe that slavery was evil: that is a basic truth I hold to…”
Now for me there appears to be a “disconnection” between your explorations of this aspect of the trade and your rigorous assessment of the origins of Brazilian slavery
Its actual precisely this “disconnection” which I was attempting to convey in my own postings about the mentality (historically) of the European mind which in seeking to engage with cultures – not just peoples, but animals and the environment as well – reduces them to little more than components or numbers which can be “precisely” stacked or arranged according to the prevailing beliefs.
Maybe this is where perhaps categorizations of “arrogance” “uncaring” or even “racism” may appear.
For this reason the actual horrors and practices of the slave trade very rarely surface (except in discussions like these of course!!) but then these are exactly the issues that need to be discussed and come to terms with in dealings and interactions with all cultures.
on Sat May 29th 2010 at 11:34:06 MerriMay
You know Thad you have a tendency to start a fire and cry foul when you get burned!
Most people just affirm ‘I agree’ etc, but you had to play the one-upmanship, and note the arrogance here.
”don’t you mean ‘lupine’ ”
which totally discredits what I’m trying to say. Are you a mind reader now? Why don’t you save that patronising for your classes. Even after I clarify and point out your wrongdoing you continue unperturbed
‘I still like lupine better’
It’s that bullheaded attitude that sticks in my craw, and why you continue to be at loggerheads with people…and hence derail.
Don’t piggyback off an idea and declare it your own as superior.
Now wrt:
1. That meant if nothing of substance is forthcoming except
diversionary tactics from the horror of what happened, then um yeah..gag the thought, not telling YOU to shut up!
2. that hardly means the hell with YOU Thad..was merely disagreeing with the point
3. Ah again, but you see YOUR crap is hardly YOU’RE(you are) crap Thad, so I reject that out of hand, there’s a difference between the two. Ad hominen it’s not.
4. Where did I say you don’t care, I said ‘speaks volumes’, now as to what those actually are, and you can decipher that and pin it down to ‘you don’t care’ well wake me up when you do!
Merri, I know you want a flamewar so you can baaaaaaw to Abagond about me and hopefully have me removed.
I’m not going to engage beyond restating my very simple position.
My “lupine” comment was meant to me an ironic and SUPPORTIVE commentary to your “supine” remark. In response, you fired back several very openly nasty comments at me.
Just imagine is someone – me for example – were to say to you “The hell with your crap regarding a ‘supine’ Europe. If you can’t contribute something relevant to the discussion, just gag it.”
I can imagine the MerriMay reaction to such a comment: immediate baaaaaaaw to the moderator that someone has launched a personal attack.
As I said to Kwamla above, it’s not your insults that bother me: it’s the hypocrisy.
on Sat May 29th 2010 at 17:17:39 The Great White Man
I see the blame YT crew is out in full swing(The ocean must be in low tide…smh)
Look it was a horrible thing, but you must also accept the fact that Europeans are the ones who STOPPED IT!!!
You people only cry afoul when YT does it. The double standard here is downright pathetic….Arabs and Africans are doing it to this day!! but not a peep, YT does it and the victim mentality surfaces most tick…smh
We all know that non-white people hold us to a higher standard, because they all know the great things we’ve done for poor tribals, orphans, disaster relief, ect…..But please stop whining about the slave trade and only on YTs end of it…ok?
I’m sorry there will never be ANY REPERATIONS for AA, so please stop with the victim mentality, thank you.
You people only cry afoul when YT does it.
No one has even mentioned Yolanda Truman, TGWM. Please stay on topic.
on Sat May 29th 2010 at 18:17:00 J
SW6,
Is this the item concerned??
Las Casas, Bartolomé de (1999), Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, London: Penguin, ISBN 978-0140445626 . Trans. Nigel Griffin.
on Sat May 29th 2010 at 18:29:25 FG
Here’s a pretty interesting documentary on the slave trade to Brazil.
So when you at the musuem next time can you quote us what is said in Meltzer’s book verbatim??
So we can all come to our own respective conclusion
I’m sorry there will never be ANY REPERATIONS for AA,
There seems to be an echo here (with it being unworkable)
Gulp!!
http://books.google.com/books?id=KnWJCk8gIfwC&dq=A+Short+Account+of+the+Destruction+of+the+Indies&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=yWEBTMj1MtaH4gbCgfXLDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CCkQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q&f=false
on Sat May 29th 2010 at 20:32:41 zekjevets
Are you sure that’s it? I recently read the same book (albeit in Spanish), and it was mostly a repetitive look at the atrocities of the Europeans toward the indigenous peoples. Every chapter goes on about native people being killed, raped, burned, etc. Casas posited himself as being “charitable” towards the native peoples, though he was really just anti-Spanish government on behalf of the church, and didn’t really do anything concrete to stop the maltreatment of the indigenous, save a debate or two. I’ve only read the original though, so I don’t know what differences edited and translated versions have.
Abagond if I may, last I’ll say on this.
I’ve never asked Abagond to censor anyone, the same cannot be said for you.
Your mockery won’t work with me, you’d think your numerous feuds with people on this board would tell you something about your conduct, you remain clueless.
If you read back to how this started you’ll see a pattern with you.
You’re courting the moderator yourself by insinuating that I attacked you, yet Abagond hasn’t obliged, so I have not broken any rules. A commenter bit the dust recently for exactly this slick tactic. Nice try though. And you call me a hypocrite…smdh
And I suspect at some point in the distant future. A similar argument will be used, especially as it is already being discussed.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/10175907.stm
This is vis-a-vis against the pretext of Africans selling each other
“A commenter bit the dust recently for exactly this slick tactic”
A t(h)ad true methinks
Except for No_Slappz, no censor requests here.
on Sun May 30th 2010 at 14:56:14 Thaddeus
Kwamla, I wrote a long reply to you, but it didn’t show up after three tries, probably because the system thought a percentage symbol was a coding order or aomething.
It seems to be permanently stuck in moderation.
Abagond, can you see the comment? Or should I post it again?
Yeah, well, J, like I said on another post, I remain skeptical until someone can show me HOW it’s going to work. International law, which you’ve refered to on this topic, does not cover reparations by nations and, even if it did, would be ignored by the U.S.
So even if reparations would get its day in court in The Hague, and would by some miracle be adjuged favorably, all the U.S. has to do is thumb its nose at International Law, as it has repeatedly done in the past.
The only way to get the U.S. to give reparations would be to force it to do so. If the assorted black movements trying for reparations have THAT much power, why not just take the coutry’s government over instead?
So yeah, unless you or someone out there can show a pragmatic and logical road to reparations, I will continue to qualify reparations as a pipe dream and a waste of time.
@MerriMay,
you’d think your numerous feuds with people on this board would tell you something about your conduct
What it tells me, Merri, is that thinking outside the box isn’t popular among people who are used to thinking in terms of dogmas.
You’re courting the moderator yourself by insinuating that I attacked you…
Merri, what I said was very clear, it wasn’t an insinuation. What I said was this: you yourself would consider the comments you directed at me to be a personal attack, were they directed at you.
Nice try at starting a flame war, but this is really my last word on the topic.
on Sun May 30th 2010 at 17:16:35 J
Since this topic is slavery, and reparations can be tied somewhat therein.
I am afraid I do not understand your logic here.
If groups of people are entitled to make a claim under something which is in the law. If these people believe they can appeal to the conscience of the Government, and the Government will acquiese. Then why should they not do so??
The only possible way to find out if it is a ‘pipe dream’ or not is for these groups to make such a claim, and see what the outcome is.
No??????????????
on Sun May 30th 2010 at 18:08:52 Mira
I believe blacks should receive reparations, but I don’t think it would solve any problems. But then again, the point of reparations is not “solving problems”.
I agree with Thad that reparations might lead to bad attitudes among whites, because they would think they don’t own blacks anything anymore, or they would use reparations for more racism.
Still, that should not be the obstacle for reparations.
But the bigger question is: how to determine who’s going to get reparations, and who’s going to give reparations.
Correct. But reparations are a claim made under international law and (in spite of what right-wing conspiracy loonies think) THERE IS NO WORLD GOVERNMENT!
International law covers basically two things: issues all nations have more-or-less agreed upon (and even then, it covers them poorly) and post-war retributions.
So, yeah, reparations would be a good idea IF…
A) You could get the presumed criminal in this case (i.e. the U.S. government) to go along with the idea that it should pay out billions or trillions to the descendents of slavery, or…
B) You could beat the U.S. government into submission.
I think we can agree that if your strategy for change boils down to not only convincing your oppressors to empathize with you BUT ALSO get them to freely hand over billions, it’s not a very practical strategy.
And if you’ve got the power to BEAT the U.S., why not just take it over and screw reparations? No need to ask for a paycheck if you own the bank, is there?
My point has nothing to do with whether people have a right to appeal. They have a right to waste their time however they please.
My argument is that I’m not going along with this strategy until someone can show me how it has a chance in hell of working. I’d rather waste my time posting here or looking at The Huffington Post.
By that same logic, the only way you can find out that you can’t fly is to jump off a building while flapping your arms.
If the anti-racist movement was blessed with a surfeit of cash, time, energy and talented activists, I’d say “Whatever. Might as well go for it and it can’t hurt”.
The fact of the matter, J, is that we are facing a huge wave of racist reaction – the worst in decades – and time, money and energy is short on the ground.
That is why I think “reparations” is a useless game being played by people who should know better.
Or stoners.
With regard to
“I agree with Thad that reparations might lead to bad attitudes among whites, because they would think they don’t own blacks anything anymore, or they would use reparations for more racism”
This is a red herring and bears no relevance to international law – even if it is to have this impact.
I wasn’t talking about the law, or how to make reparations, I know nothing about the law. I just said, I believe blacks should receive reparations.
on Sun May 30th 2010 at 20:20:59 Jasmin
(I posted as zek earlier by accident–this is his computer.)
I wouldn’t know for sure–I read the book for a class in the spring semester and I’m pretty sure I sold it on Amazon, but I’m pretty sure the one I read didn’t say anything about slave labor at all–at that point the Spaniards were interested in taking the land and resources from the indigenous peoples, then returning to Spain (as “Indianos, meaning people who made their fortune in the New World). It was a while before people actually decided to stay and create colonies.
Per this link, Casas supported the importation of Africans, then later recanted and became an advocate for them, and it lists two books by him, but it’s Wikipedia (which I don’t count as a credible source) so who knows? 🙂
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartolom%C3%A9_de_las_Casas
I still am having problems understanding your reasoning in all of this.
1. Its not quite clear why you made reference to U.S being ‘criminals’. The issue of reparations would essentially be monetary – Its not a war trial of the US??
2. As for anti-racists and those fighting reparations there is a big gulf between the two, and that is why I made the connection between reparations and international law.
3. Its not also clear to me how you can reconcile reparations as an issue across the world and Blacks acting within the remit of the law to obtain it?? Surely you are not advocating that Blacks pick up guns and obtain the monetary that way??
4. As for people wasting their time, to use your own words. I am sure there were many who said that about Martin Luther King. In the real world of ‘politics liberation’ the only way to know if something politically is going to succeed or fail is to endeavour. There is absolutely no other way of knowing. Furthermore any fight for liberation is a piecemal journey, with many loses but also many victories. Thus ‘victories’ can be gained in other areas, even if the ultimate goal of repartion may not be completed.
5. Finally there appears an attempt here inadvertently or otherwise to deny Black people a fundamental right that all other oppressed nations have the right to ie make reparation claim. We always see this type of thing in the White Supremacy World. In the West they create ‘War trials’, to deal with those not followingthe status quo, whilst in South Africa they have a ‘Reconciliation Commission’.
I saw your comments Mira,
Thad’s comments were given as reason to why repartions should not be given and he made mention of White’s people reactions etc.
This is the red herring, which you quoted when citing Thad:
“I AGREE WITH THAD THAT REPARATIONS MIGHT LEAD TO BAD ATTITUDES AMONG WHITES, because they would think they don’t own blacks anything anymore”.
Furthermore this is not how racism, genocide etc or what I would call White Supremacy works. Its not a case of what or as the case Blacks may do, but rather what those endorsing White Supremacy have as their agenda.
I wanted to say that the question of reparations is not about “solving problems”; I do see them as war reparations.
I guess I was answering/posting my opinion on Thad’s comments on reparations. Unlike him, I think blacks should receive reparations, so that is the part of his post that I don’t agree with. But I do agree that reparations would not solve any racial issues/racism; but that is ok, because the point of reparations is not to solve problems, end racism or anything like that.
And yes, I am aware we’re going off topic… Sorry.
So you were partying with the family that long??
Glad to see that it all went very good!!
“Per this link, Casas supported the importation of Africans, then later recanted and became an advocate for them, and it lists two books..”
I did not open the link. From what I remember Le Casa could be viewed as a ‘liberal’.
He saw and felt the oppression of the indigenes. However, instead of calling an end to the system, he advocated to use replace the indigenes with African labour instead.
This is a Priest remember…
When he saw the brutality that slavery brought upon the Africans which he suggested – he became ambivelent again.
Just for clarification purposes.
No-one has suggested that reparations would solve any racial issues/racism.
It is only Thad, who brought forth this explanation as a reason in his argument as to why reparation should NOT be given.
Technically I’m still on vacation, but not with the family anymore, and yes it went very well. 🙂
Las Casas pretty much followed the path of most of the clergy in the New World (though for some reason he gets more recognition as a champion of human rights)–some felt pulled to defend the humanity of indigenous peoples, but inevitably the Church ended up on the side of the government because they got money out of the deal.
On a related note, I’d recommend the move “The Last Supper” (“La ultima cena”, with an accent on the “u”) to anyone interested in slavery outside of the US. It’s set on a sugar plantation in Cuba in the late 1700s and came out either a year after or a year before “Roots”–it fits with that (mini) trend of films exploring the atrocities/hypocrisy of slavery. I’m pretty sure you can find it (with English subtitles) online.
on Mon May 31st 2010 at 02:00:21 Thaddeus
Mira, please have the courtesy to correctly state my position.
I have said several times I think there should be reparations. My only question is how is this going to come about?
Why does “criminal” mean “war” to you in this context? The only mention of war is that, AFAIK, the only time international law has dealt with reparations against a nation is after one has LOST a war and the international legal process is in the hands of the victors. To wit, Germany after WWII. Reparations are also occasionally judged in trade and fishing disputes because both sides have an interest in keeping within a general international system which may someday rule in their favor.
But never, to my knowledge, has any international court rules that a country pay reparations for evil-doing and said country paid them without a war occurring.
Personally, I’d think blacks would have a much better chance that way – though still not a very good one. As for “acting within the remit of the law”, seeing as how international law does not deal with this issue, how is that going to occur? There IS no international law on this issue, J, so you can’t be acting in the remit of it.
Here’s an example: Durban conference calls for reparations. Pretty much every major power pulls out of Durban. How is this going to come in front of international courts, given that the countries who run that system are the same ones who won’t listen to the argument for reparations?
4. As for people wasting their time, to use your own words. I am sure there were many who said that about Martin Luther King.
Perhaps. But King had the U.S. Constitution to work with as well as the consciences of a good portion of white folks.
Segregation could actually be fought in the U.S. because there was a higher law: FEDERAL law. If there was an INTERNATIONAL law system actually backed up by force, then the reparations struggle might have a point. But you’ll recall that desegregation happened in many places in the U.S. south at bayonet point.
Law is useless without some police force to back it up. King played to the Federal government because he knew that was the only force that could slap the southern states in line. With the federal government on the side of desegregation, the racists would have to fold and this is indeed what happened.
Who are the reparations folks playing to? Who’s going to send bayonets to collect reparations?
Martians?
In the real world of ‘politics liberation’ the only way to know if something politically is going to succeed or fail is to endeavour.
Simply not true. There’s not a liberationist in the world who’ll say “Hey, waste your efforts on something that has absolutely zero chance of succeeding.” To use your King metaphor, it’s as if King decided to only work with, say, the Alabama and Mississippi state governments because, what the hell, anything could happen, right? Might as well start somewhere…
Any liberation strategist would agree: one needs to know how to pick one’s fights and attack where one can PLAUSIBLY achieve something. Great hopeless, romantic gestures are fine for movies, but they rarely get sh1$ done in real life.
Finally there appears an attempt here inadvertently or otherwise to deny Black people a fundamental right that all other oppressed nations have the right to ie make reparation claim.
J, no nation has that “right”. There is no “right” in international law besides might and that is a stone cold fact. Maybe 50 years from now, that will be different. But until you get a global police force of some kind, it’s utopian in the extreme to talk about “rights to reparations”.
Vietnam, for example, has a stone solid right to reparations for the damage it suffered at the hands of the U.S. As part of the 1973 peace treaty, the U.S. AGREED to pay reparations. It has broken that agreement for 37 years now and there’s not a damned thing Vietnam can do about it. Hell, they can’t even strip Henry Kissinger of his Nobel Peace Prize, let alone get their just reparations cash.
So how, exactly, do you propose “rights” in an international legal system that can’t safeguard them?
There ain’t no such animal.
We always see this type of thing in the White Supremacy World. In the West they create ‘War trials’, to deal with those not followingthe status quo, whilst in South Africa they have a ‘Reconciliation Commission’.
And that should tell you something basic: power, as Mao said, ultimately comes out of the barrel of a gun. If you don’t have a gun on your side, you can chant “reparations” until you’re blue in the face, but it ain’t gonna do you sh1$.
Now, the “gun” can be metaphorical, as it often was in the case of the U.S. Civil Rights movement, but it has to be there.
Where’s the gun that’s going to get you reparations from the U.S.?
Hey, maybe Serbia can do it! What do you say, Mira?
IIRC, in the late unpleasantness over Kosovo, Serbia managed to shoot down, like, three NATO planes, inflicting zero NATO aircrew casualties.
So that makes the loss ratio for that war something like 1,000 Serbian dead for every NATO bomb-armer who smashed his pinky with a torque wrench.
I wouldn’t place high hopes in recruiting Serbia as an effective ally against the U.S. in the international struggle for reparations, J – bastion of international human rights though the Serbs may be. [roll eyes]
on Mon May 31st 2010 at 02:52:37 J
Cheers Thad,
Not sure whether much of what you say here is caught up in the world of language (semantics) or whether it applies correctly to the world.
I will stick with the former
“International law makes clear that victim groups have the right to remedies for harms done to them…In the past decade those engaged in these various struggles have begun to recognize their common cause and a global reparations movement has emerged”
http://asbarez.com/80547/the-global-reparations-movement-and-meaningful-resolution-of-the-armenian-genocide/
So we have come back full circle again:
For those who believe in the integrity of international law across the world. They have every right to follow that law that gives them redress.
A point I have already made.
Whether, they will get any redress??
This is a different matter – for them
However, the only way for these groups to know whether they can succeed or not with reparation is to engage in the struggle.
A point I also made previously.
J, I don’t know what apalls me the most: the fact that you link us to an Armenian genocide site as “proof” that reparations exist and work (even though the Armenians haven’t seen a penny), or the fact that you didn’t even read the post.
Said group’s pet legal PhD has this to say about reparations under international law (and remember, this is theory because no one has gained any yet):
International law makes clear that victim groups have the right to remedies for harms done to them. This applies to the Armenian Genocide for two reasons. First, the acts against Armenians were illegal under international law at the time of the genocide. Second, the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide applies retroactively. While the term “genocide” had not yet been coined when the 1915 Armenian Genocide was committed, the Convention subsumes relevant preexisting international laws and agreements, such as the 1899 and 1907 Hague Conventions. Since the genocide was illegal under those conventions, it remains illegal under the 1948 Convention. What is more, the current Turkish Republic, as successor state to the Ottoman Empire and as beneficiary of the wealth and land expropriations made through the 1915 genocide, is responsible for reparations.
Oh, OK. So reparations can only be charged for acts that were illegal at the time… That rules out slavery.
Guess we’ll go for a charge of genocide then, right?
Under this “law” (which is really just an international agreement), “genocide” means “committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group”?
Well, good luck proving “intent to destroy”. Vietnam’s got a better case AND an agreement for reparations and is still standing, hand held out.
EEEEEEEEEEEP!
Next contestant.
And the only way you can know whether you can survive a shot to the head from a .38 special is to go ahead and have someone shoot you, J.
Empiricism is no defense for stupid ideas which deductive reasoning should tell us are hopeless.
Here’s the deductive process again:
1) Ex-slaving nations control the legal system.
2) There is no higher authority to compel anyone to follow this system’s rulings.
3) If there were such an authority and it were on the side of reparations, much more could be done with such power than simple reparations.
4) Finally, international law, such as it exists, is written to SPECIFICALLY block out slavery as genocide.
Oh, and don’t forget that even if we can prove that slavery was genocide, it STILL wouldn’t qualify anyone for reparations, because genocide was only made illegal under this system in 1899.
So Armenians, Vietnamese, Bosnians, Sudanese… A whole slew of other peoples, up to and including the Jews, have been clear-cut victims of planned genocide according to the UN: not a dime have any of these people seen, as far as I am aware, in spite of the legality of their cases.
And yet you still think it’s a great and practical tactic to sue the U.S. under international law for a crime which was committed outside said law’s own understanding of the legitimate timeframe?
Riiiiiiiight….
And you have the balls to say “Well we can’t know ’til we try,” even though many other groups with much more “open and shut” cases have tried and got jack?
J, The Hague couldn’t even successfully convict Milosevic, but you SERIOUSLY think international law is the solution?
Riiiiiiiiiiiight…
You do this all the time Thad, you stae a position, and when it becomes untenable. You then shift your argument to a new position.
This is how the debate unfolded:
A commentator said:
“Let me get this straight. The American government apologized to the Japanese AND gave them 20,000 but reparations for 400 years of slavery and Jim Crow is off the table. WTF?
Not saying the Japanese American brothers and sisters did not deserve that and more, but what about AA? Why is it considered so unreasonable to do the same for us?”
And here are your replies thereafter:
1. But hell, let’s say that the U.S. goes nuts and decides to offer repatriations for all the descendants of the slaves. How’s that going to be done, first of all? By blood quantum? Because there are a lot of white people out there who are also slave descedents and you’d better believe they’ll come out of the woodwork if a handout is in the offering.
And here is the important quote from the same post
2. You SERIOUSLY want the U.S. to hand out 6 billion dollars and then say “That’s it, black people! We no longer are bound to think about racism because you’ve received your ‘I’m sorry’ cash”? You should present this idea to the far Republican right. They’d love it. A 6 billion dollar one-time settlement to never have to think about racial justice or affirmative action again would probably be considered a good buy.
3. Under international law, it would be very hard to argue reparations, period. In both the Italian/Libyan and U.S./ethnic Japanese cases, you have survivors alive today and some sort of clear-cut lineage regarding the crimes
4. Reparations is simply something that isn’t going to happen, outside the realm of science fiction
and in the same post
Reparations are a pipe dream. Literally. The kind of idea that gets into someone’s head after smoking too much and listening to a lot of Bob Marley.
When asked why did you use the above racist stereotype you go on to say:
5. Because “reparate” and “repatriate” often get mixed up in this sort of discussion.
With regard to reparartions being a global issue you wrote:
6. Good on them! You be sure to tell me when it gets beyond the radicals espousing to other radicals stage, when any non-black radical group starts seriously considering it, OK? Because I don’t see how you’re going to convince the U.S. to voluntarily hand over this sort of cash unless,
This time it not being a matter related to international law
7. Where’s that corpus regarding reparations for slavery or any other, similar, question?
In another post on the same point.
8. You’re going to have an impossible time proving either of those two points [ie genocide & slavery] under international law and leading them to reparations,
9. Summing up, I think reparations, while a wonderful idea in theory, is a complete stoner’s pipe dream in practice. To hold it out as any possible effective strategy for the improvement of black peoples’ lives in the real world is to believe that a dogmatic fantasy of a small group of militants is somehow going to convince the very people they are trying to punish to punish themselves
10. How would such an entity pay reparations and do you really think that any notional future superpower forcing such a situation would really care about the plight of black Americans? Even if said superpower were, say, Nigeria? Again, history indicates that they would not. They’d have their own agendas to worry about.
Back to reparations and smoking weed again:
11. Reparations is the kind of stupid idea that gets into a kid’s head after listening to Garveyist rhetoric while under the influence. Whether the kid in question is white or black, the idea that it is some sort of basis for real political activity is puerile
12. Now all we got to do is figure out how to collect it.
I know! We’ll get the white kids to listen to even MORE Bob Marley while stoned than usual. Then, once Garvey’s wise words have penetrated to the depths of their subconsciousness, they’ll be ready to vote black people all the money in the world.
Yeah, that’s the ticket!
Folks, here’s the bottom line, truly. All my thoughts on this matter can be boiled down to this one thing. All my thoughts on this matter can be boiled down to this one thing: HOW ARE REPARATIONS GOING TO BE ENFORCED?
This time a question to me
13. My question to you is simple and unitary: HOW is it going to happen under any conceivable circumstance, no matter how remote?
A first time admission
I know people are fighting for this (across the world my emphasis).
What I would like you to show me is any coherent vision of how reparations could possibly be enacted.
You recognize that saying “people are fighting for this” is not the same thing as showing how ANY of said people expect to achieve it?
Another response directed at me
14. so nice try at wiggling your way out of this one, J, but no go: you have no pragmatic plan for reparations. It’s simply a rhetorical and dogmatic position with you.
About what I’d expect from a Garvyite. Garvey was always big on crowd-pleasing smoke-and-mirrors rhetoric.
15. J, this is simply wrong. I know of NO case of reparations for inhuman conduct that were mandated in a court of international law.
This in response to what I said:
“the issue of reparations is something that is enshrined in international law. It is given to countries who have a legal basis for a claim of injustice etc, or when such a claim is made. Usually that case will have to be argued out in a court”.
Thad describing himself and expertise
16. I am not an expert in international law, but I HAVE read quite a lot about the Nuremburg trials, Eichmann’s trial, Native American treaty law, and several very famous reparations cases. Because of my work on the human trafficking issue, I also have a pretty good workman-like notion of how modern anti-slavery law works on an international level and how the international court in The Hague is set up.
Moreover, I have researched the reparations issue with the people here in Brazil who push it and several of the organizations who push it internationally.
So while I’m not an expert, my knowledge on this point goes far beyond a Wiki education.
So I’m not simply spouting racist nonsense when I tell you that international law, such as it exists, is not geared to take entire nations and races to court and ESPECIALLY isn’t geared to do that for crimes against humanity.
So this in essence is your position regarding the subject, and it shows the shifting of positions etc.
I think you have said it all here eloquently, and Mira did quote you accurately
Thad I used this link because it says what you have been denying for so long that charges of reparations cannot be brought because of misdeed/conduct committed by a country.
So on this point you are wrong. On a more fundamental level it aso reveals your lack of knowledge in international law, something which even you admit to yourself. Please see point 16.
Secondly, with regard to the issue of slavery, the law can be used ‘retroactively’, just as the link says. However, that will take us into the issue of when and how can the law be used ‘retrospectively?’ Again this is something you missed in the link and not being conversant with international law, by your own admission.
And still while we are on your role here on this blogas to be the disruptor/liberal/racist etc
There is one important thing which you said:
I had asked:
“Surely you are not advocating that Blacks pick up guns and obtain the monetary that way”??
To which you replied:
“Personally, I’d think blacks would have a much better chance that way – though still not a very good one”
In the real world, this is exactly what happened with the Black Panthers. The state placed ‘agent provacauters’
within the group, to get the organisation to commits acts of violence that led to their ultimate demise – and people within the organisation’s death. In other words its a form of suicide but instigated by the powers that be
This is so common a strategy that it is used also in Britain, not so that people will die per se but to lead to the demise of radical groups – even to this day.
Very worrying that Thad should be willing to consider such a ‘strategy’ for Black people with regard to the issue of seeking reparations.
Sorry, J, that’s not true. In this case from the very beginning, I have made a point to say that I do not feel reparations bad, per se, but that they are a pipe-dream in terms of practicalities for SEVERAL different reasons.
I mean, which part of “Hey, if you can convince the U.S. government to seriously contemplate giving 6.000.000.000 dollars to black people as reparations for slavery, I’ll vote for it. Just don’t blame me for the likely results…”
It’s very easy to claim that someone is aying something that they are not by selectively cutting and pasting, J. That comment of mine came very erarly in the debate and it was repeated:
Summing up, I think reparations, while a wonderful idea in theory, is a complete stoner’s pipe dream in practice.
Liking the idea or not has nothing to do with it [my resistence to it], J: I’d just like you to show me where this is international law.
Folks, here’s the bottom line, truly. All my thoughts on this matter can be boiled down to this one thing: HOW ARE REPARATIONS GOING TO BE ENFORCED?
Hell, I’d like to see blacks get 6 trillion in reputations, if only because it’ll put another nail in the coffin of U.S. imperialist ambition.
I mean, just how often fo I have to repeat that the IDEA of reparations is not the problem, J, it’s the practical implementation? I’ve done this a half a dozen times now, and yet here you are, bald-facedly lying that I’ve somehow changed my position on this?
J, are you really that poor a reader or are you simply that manipulative a person? Because there’s no way in hell that this point could’ve somehow gotten by you unoticed if you were actually reading what I wrote.
Even your partial and very tendacious “summing up” of my points shows me sticking to one point and coming back to it again and again. Here it is, once again, repeated for the 100th time (or thereabouts):
Reparations are a pipe dream because here is no international legal or practical basis for them that could possibly be made to work.
And yes, J, I believe that your rhetoric about reparations is typical Garveyite boolshite. It is long on rhetoric and completely lacking anything that could be called a pragmatic plan. It SOUNDS good and for Garveyites like yourself, that’s all you need, isn’t it?
If that’s not the case, then show us a pragamatic outline of how reparations can be achieved. You have not done this, nor has any site you’ve linked us to done this. Nor does any site I have investigated on my own do this.
As far as I recall, I never said that charges couldn’t be brought. You enjoy paging through my old posts in search of contradictions, so knock yourself out.
Here’s my original comment on that:
Under international law, it would be very hard to argue reparations, period. In both the Italian/Libyan and U.S./ethnic Japanese cases, you have survivors alive today and some sort of clear-cut lineage regarding the crimes.
But note that NEITHER the U.S. nor Italian cases have anything to do with international law. Both countries voluntarily paid out those sums and asked for appologies from people who had been hurt by their acts in living memory.
I’m not aware of any area of international law (which is pretty vague) which can cover the U.S.-slavery case.
…and I stand by that original assessment. Nothing you’ve brought up has contradicted it. The Armenians aren’t getting cash: they’re having a HELL of a time arguing their point in court and in their case, they have a very clear lineage of the crime. Furthermore, the crime was conducted when genocide had already been outlawed.
To prove that black Americans are elligible for reparations because of genocide, you’d need to…
A) Prove that slavery was genocide in a legal and simply in a rhetorical sense (i.e. a conscious attempt to eliminate a people from the face of the earth);…
B) Prove that the genocide occurred under an operative form of international law which prohibitted it.
International law is clear on this point: a country can’t be guilty of a crime which occurred prior to the founding of the law. Seeing as how the earliest thing which could be understood as an international law or agreement against genocide was founded in 1899, then we’re pretty much SOL, aren’t we?
I suppose you could also try for reparations on the issue of slavery, but your going to run into the same problem again, I bet: international law won’t allow you to ask for reparations for something which wasn’t illegal under international law at the time.
So once again, J, the question isn’t and never has been “Can one bring charges for reparations in international court?”
The question is “Can said charges be made to work, in any way, shape or form?”
In other words, the question is “Do you have a case?”
The answer, as far as I can see, is no.
But people sue for sh17 all the time without having a case. You can bring charges up on anything you like. That was never at question. Whether or not those charges can be made to stick: THAT’S the question.
And J, no “we won’t know until we try” isn’t an answer unless the question is “How can we make money for lawyers?” Any ethical lawyer will tell you not to pursue a case unless you have some solid legal basis to do it. Sure, you can ignore the fact that you have a solid legal base, and charge away, but that’s not going to do you any good at all.
Its clear to see what was your original points. No amount of moving the ‘goalpost is going to change this fact:
I have quoted you at great lengths:
These were you initial comments.
As I said this is the ‘tactics’ you continue to use. When you are proved wrong on a point. You then go on to say, ‘I never said that’, ‘I never meant that’ etc. Or in this instance points 1 & 2 was not your starting point, but rather you begun your position at point 3 .
Let’s be honest here you are against reparations per se for Black people in America but you are attempting to utilse a ‘honest’ pretext to justify your position. And the one you are attempting to use is that you cannot see ‘how its going to work??’.
This in essence is what this dialogue is about.
on Tue Jun 1st 2010 at 00:16:33 Thaddeus
Nice try, J.
I’ll stand by what I originally said and note two things:
I’m not against reparations in theory, I think it’s never going to work in practice and that it’s thus a waste of time or a stoner’s pipedream.
I’ve been hammering out variations on this since we began our argument and I’ve not moved one jot from that position.
You can do all the creative cutting and pasting you like, but it doesn’t change that simple fact.
Nor does it change the fact thatm since we began the discussion, I’ve repeatedly challenged you to show us a pragmatic way in which reparations could be achieved, something you have yet to do.
Your entire argument regarding reparations to date can be summed up as follows:
“Friends, if we had some ham, we could have a ham sandwich, if we had some bread.”
on Tue Jun 1st 2010 at 00:22:00 FG
All this talk about reparations (i.e. cash handouts) is just a distraction from pursuing real solutions to the negative consequences of European colonialism. The focus should be on resolving the social problems experienced disproportionately by slave descendants and Native Americans so that they can catch up with whites. Why do so many minority families break up? Why do gaps in cognitive ability show up in minority kids at young ages? Why do so many minority kids get into crime and substance abuse? Determining the answers to these questions and formulating realistic policies based on them are key extricating ourselves from the racial quagmire.
on Tue Jun 1st 2010 at 00:59:14 MerriMay
Seriously, it’s like flogging a dead horse!! You’re spot on about those tactics though, it’s painfully obvious.
Merri, I seriously have better things to do than think up arcane strategies for trolling you and J.
Get over yourself.
on Tue Jun 1st 2010 at 10:34:57 J
Indeed Merrimay!!
What is even more ‘painful’ though is the influence that he and his partner (who is Black) has outside cyberspace iin the real world. With their anti-Black politics, and also – what must be assumed as the poor the level of education, if what has been shown on this blog, with the lack ability to reason, critical thinking etc. I dare to think how this all plays it out for the students but particularly the Black ones??
This is what is also painfully obvious!!
What you wrote her is a little confusing, can you kindly clarify??
When you say reparations is a ‘distraction’. Are you suggesting that those who are fighting reparations do not also want ‘social justice’ and parity within the US??
Nice ad hominems, J. I love you, too!
But here’s another question regarding reparations for slavery: do ALL descendents of slaves get them? What about white descendents of slaves? What about the white descendents of WHITE slaves?
It is no ad hminems – I just told it as I saw it.
If anyone is the master of ad hominems here then I am afraid not all the posters put together (since I have been here) would be able the amount you have spewed out.
I am not sure about your question on reparations either, unless it is another attempt to move the ‘proverbial goalpost’.
I think it is, be that as it may…
The law is clear, and it is usually ‘inclusive’ to all members.
Thus if Whites can formulate a claim, whether it be local or under international law, then they are within their right to make a reparation claim.
Its as simple as that…
The law is also clear that you can’t claim for crimes that weren’t crimes at the time they were committed.
How do you propose to get around that particular part of international law, J?
If ‘they’ can argue and give reason as to why the law should be used retrospectively – since it can be applied thus.
For instance with regard to Black people. Western nations and individuals are benefitting from the ramifications of slavery even today. Africa as a continent find itself in its current position directly as a result of this event.
So it depends if those who are advocating reparation can show that the argment of people NOT being alive is ‘superfluous’ to the effects of the crime, especially as it is still impacting today.
And again whether this argument will be accepted or rejected and/or before a court, does not preclude groups attempting to make such a claim, if they believe they have a ‘good’ argument.
on Thu Jun 3rd 2010 at 17:11:00 Thaddeus
The law is quite clear: you can’t hold people culpable for things that are illegal by today’s standards but weren’t illegal then. Retroactivity has nothing to do with it.
And once again, the argument here was never about whether people CAN take a case to court: it’s about whether or not said activity is a waste of time and resources.
I say it is. I challenge you to show us how reparations could conceivably IN ANY WAY come about. You have studiously avoided doing so.
Given that, I think it’s quite safe to assume that reparations, for you, is a convenient dogma and not a practical strategy.
on Fri Jun 4th 2010 at 00:25:59 J
Someone somewhere else had made reference to Roots.
Now this film is not for the fainthearted. I have just found my own personal copy a second ago, by chance.
“American distributors felt that such scenes were too incendiary, and forced Jacopetti and Prosperi to remove more than thirteen minutes of footage explicitly concerned with racial politics for American and other Anglophone audiences”.
xxx xxx xxx cert 30.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3766149445318503265#
on Fri Jun 4th 2010 at 03:16:58 leigh204
^ @J:
I finished watching this just now and it was stomach turning. The rape/torture scenes…omigosh. Everything was disturbing and sickening.
on Thu Jul 15th 2010 at 14:35:50 Kwamla
Curious. I just decided to what this film. I was indeed shocked!!!
I had expected a semi- disturbing watered down version of what slavery was about. But I have to say I was truly surprised…
The background info you provided is also quite useful. And I can imagine why they might want to do this. I wonder what those omitted scenes would have looked like?
This film should be compulsory viewing in all educational establishments. Simply for the purpose of allowing ALL peoples – Black, white POC, Jews etc.. to re-connect with the horrors of the past most inhumane treatment of a people.
I say this because I believe most of the present traumas and conflicts today between Blacks and whites can be traced directly to this 500 year period of shielded history.
One of the beautiful touches is how the narrator, towards the end, plays out scenes from the past and contrasts these in the present (Not sure when this is).
It clearly shows how much of this conflict is still trapped in the psyches of all of this. So for me films like this are about releasing guilt and shame NOT about holding on or increasing them
Sadly, this view is obviously not shared by the American distributors.
Now I wonder if Thaddeous has watched the film and commented on it? Some how I doubt if it would make any difference to his presentation of views.
One last observation: I noticed at the end when the film attempted to show white people on the receiving end of the same brutal violence they inflicted on Black people.
Lets suppose all those people running around naked, brutalized and de-humanized had been white and the people carrying out these inhumane treatments as well as documenting the process had been Black. In other words Black people (Or any other peoples of colour) exchanged places with white people.
What would have been the affect on the white psyche?
And would the American distributors still have wanted to censor or make those cuts?
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on Thu Feb 9th 2012 at 05:28:56 Maurice L
Damn this was a good post. The comments are good as well.
on Sun Jul 8th 2012 at 15:58:23 rb
I think that this is abit racist
on Mon Aug 27th 2012 at 18:59:59 admin
Why have you not mentions ANYTHING at all about the Arab slave trade and the 150 million Africans enslaved by the Arabs, and the 50 million whites, asians and orientals enslaved and sold by Muslims? Why have you forgotten that Muslim sharia law and the mass conversion of Africans, is what brought and invented the slave trade and export of human beings to Africa over 1000 years before any Hispanic, Oriental, South American, European or American were even involved in slave trading?
And you have also omitted that African kings REFUSED to end the slave trade and blame the British for interfering into their god given right to sell slaves. You also mention nothing of blacks in America who were freed – yet kept their own black slaves, purchased and sold them like other slave owners. You also mention nothing that after Africans were converted to Islam, they felt they had the right to enslave people and willingly marketed, captured and sold their own people – making millions in profit from this trade with Muslims.
At present in 2012 there are only two continents that still sell and purchase slaves: Africa and the Middle East. The trade continues, although no one in the west purchase slaves anymore since the past 200 years or so.
Why are you not writing about African slavery of their own people – which solely happened due to Islamic sharia law, which supports slavery? Most of Africa is Muslim, due to mass conversion of Africans during the 14 centuries of Arab slave trade.
@ Admin
When I write a post I write the title first. Then I write 500 words about it. The title of this post is “The Transatlantic slave trade”, not “People other than Europeans who traded and owned black slaves”.
I have written about Africans and Arabs and slavery, not as history but as an argument white racists use to preserve their moral blindness, which seems to be what you are doing:
https://abagond.wordpress.com/2010/09/22/africans-sold-their-own-people-as-slaves/
on Mon Aug 27th 2012 at 21:53:08 SomeGuy
At present in 2012 there are only two continents that still sell and purchase slaves: Africa and the Middle East.
I have news for you; when Ukrainian, Russian and other Eastern European pimps kidnap women and have them locked up in a house selling azz and not giving those women compensation of freedom….guess what…THAT’S SLAVERY.
on Mon Aug 27th 2012 at 22:36:58 B. R.
Trans Atlantic reminents of slavery exists in Brazil, where they exploit workers to go long distances, stay in barricks situation, get room and board and work like dogs, but, there horrible salarie cant even pay the room and board, so , they cant even get out of the debt, they have to stay on as slave labor…this is more than once and they talk about it as slavery in the news , so that isnt my depiction…and these people are mostly brown and black people
We have all heard of that version with women and sex traficing, and, that is how it works with men, in labor camps…they cant pay off their room and board and transport debt
on Tue Aug 28th 2012 at 15:04:07 admin
We need to end the slave trade COMPLETELY no matter where in the world it is. Unfortunately when it comes to Islam, slavery is endorsed by the religion. This means they converted millions of Africans to Islam to become their co-partner in the export slavery business.
SomeGuy: everyone know’s that the sex slave trade, is slavery. Again 80% of the entire slave trade is managed by Muslims due to their religious laws, that see no crime in killing or enslaving other people. The rest is by Russian mafia gangs and other criminal organizations.
Today there are an estimated 27 million people living in slavery.
on Tue Aug 28th 2012 at 15:20:14 SomeGuy
Backpedaling.
Backpedaling? WHAT Backpedaling? There is no backpedaling about anything. You trivialize the origin of exported slave industry simple because you don’t bother to research it. Asia and the Middle East will not permit their history to be openly examined. 200 million slaves captured by Arabs and you spend pages and pages on hispanic, portugese, american and other slave history that were a drop in the ocean in comparison.
Blacks are the ones backpedaling right back into slavery, by converting to Islam! How dumb can people be? American prisons are full of blacks converting to Islam.
Go to youtube and listen to Simon Deng and other slaves who recently escaped slavery under Muslim law, after their countries were converted into Islamic societies. They imagined Islam would bring them good things to their countries. Instead after gaining political control, they quickly started enslaving people. You can buy black slaves for $10 in Sudan, Niger and other places that are MUSLIM societies.
on Tue Aug 28th 2012 at 18:29:39 abagond
This post is about the Transatlantic slave trade. You are not going to derail it with your rants about Muslims. If you want to talk about Arab or African slave owners and traders, then do so at the links I gave you (repeated below). That is the proper place to talk about that stuff – that is, if you are serious and not just about derailing this thread.
on Mon Oct 1st 2012 at 17:58:31 rj
A lot of people like to bring up free negro slave owners but none of them mention how those free negroes became free nor how they came to own slaves. If you’re going to talk about something, talk about the whole story,don’t talk about it half way
on Sun Jun 30th 2013 at 13:18:06 j2000scott
i wonder why the Holy Bible. recognized and did not condemn slavery.
here is my take: in Old Testament days 2000 b.c. to 400 b.c. slavery was
accepted. A practice of tribes capturing slaves included Egyptians owning Hebrews, Africans
owning Africans of different tribes, Apaches owning members of other tribes, etc.
No shame involved. A little similar to women of America in the 1850’s -1920 having few rights,
no voting rights. Normal in its time. Perhaps the law to love your fellow man as yourself
quickened, informed man of God’s Will, and put into motion an energy that will discredit
slavery as a moral practice. The issue of shame began with the Golden Rule tho it took years
to fully develop in man’s collective consciousness.
on Tue Aug 27th 2013 at 19:37:47 Anton
Thank you for this post. Yet it is horrifying. And yes, whites often think that Africa is a country.
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Ending the Slavery Blame-Game
By HENRY LOUIS GATES Jr.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/23/opinion/23gates.html?hp&_r=0
on Wed Dec 11th 2013 at 16:12:18 bethe37
Mel, I’m white and I have tears pouring down my face. Did I know all this stuff already? Yeah, but it sickens the heart to read it. How is it possible we live in a world so dark? Thank God change has come thru good men and women who sacrificed so much to bring change, but then… it’s still out there, that darkness. Human trafficing. We must abolish the ownership and abuse of other humans… it must be wiped off the face of the earth. I pray, before one more child is taken, change will come.
Love your fellow man, stop hating. We need each other.
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on Fri Oct 10th 2014 at 02:39:09 Sherilyn
I don’t believe that Africans started slavery long before the Europeans showed up . I believe that they did sold their own for commodities yes because of greed but this information is totally bias
on Fri Jun 12th 2015 at 20:05:02 Nancy Griffin
“A common white belief is that Africans “sold their own” as slaves. That is based on yet another common white belief: that Africa is a country. ”
Did you just make this up, or did you assume this? The truth is that some folks believe that slavery was strictly a white-vs-non-white issue, and the point being made by some is that it was not just whites buying-and-selling non-whites, that some of the non-whites participated as well, whatever their motives.
Some historians claim that Africans also mistaken assumed they were selling other Africans into servitude, not slavery, which was a common practice in Africa in the 1700s. I am not convinced of this, but some leading historians believe it is true.
Either way, I think your statement is your opinion, not fact.
on Thu Sep 3rd 2015 at 09:27:57 talibmensah
Walter Rodney had some interesting thoughts on the slave trade as part of the process of Europe underdeveloping Africa…interesting book but not sure how seriously scholars of the slave trade take it
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Remember, savages–especially MOSLEMS–NEUTERED most their slaves, which is why it didn’t “fall upon the children”–what children?
For everyone else, if you could put two really expensive items together and have a third really expensive item free, you’d be a fool not to.
Savages (Before they were counted as human)
I’m sure if people found a way to make cars or money reproduce, they surely would.
BUT there are still two-legged puppy mills long after slavery, so what’s the excuse there?
Or are they continuing because slavery wasn’t ended in other countries?
on Sat Mar 26th 2016 at 16:06:36 Nicole cox
What was the aim of seasoning
on Sat Mar 26th 2016 at 18:51:31 Afrofem
@Nicole cox
The aim of seasoning was to break the will of formerly free people and replace it with the acceptance of servitude.
on Wed Mar 30th 2016 at 00:42:57 Mighty matty
stop Thaddeus.
on Wed Mar 30th 2016 at 00:52:42 Willy Wrangler
Thaddeus you need to stop with your novel jesus h christ
on Wed May 18th 2016 at 23:00:35 Foh
If there was limited food and water how did any of the slaves live forget half. No air how did they breathe? No space to even roll over which most were laying on their backs and were vomiting no reports of numerous deaths from choking. I can go on and on most importantly where are the North American slave ships? I’ll wait, not once in site and it doesn’t matter that they were wood this was just hundreds of years ago they would of survived. Basically my point is so far this sounds like a bunch of bullshit you know why? Because most black people were already here long before them stinking 13 colonies words of advice the only thing that matters is physical proof not documents because anyone can Doctor up fake paper work, don’t believe everything that’s told to you no matter who it comes from.
on Sat Oct 28th 2017 at 18:51:53 Tomism
“Many Jews look white but in essence are not white because they have Jewish blood…like people believe whites were behind the African Slave Trade, when it was actually jews. There were also white slaves, working next to black slaves… and black plantation owners, who owned white and black slaves. To afford the cargo, ships or pay the captains, set up the ports, took money, something most whites did not have back then….it took European Christian whites to end slavery, after fighting against the powerful jewish lobby to keep it going.” -Harold Wallace Rosenthal
Jews have successfully managed to shift the blame for enslaving Blacks away from the themselves to Whites instead and they’ve used this lie to guilt trip compassionate White people and to agitate Blacks against Whites.
Whites did not have the money to afford a slave, let alone a ship full…the ports, ships, cargo…the entire African Slave Trade was a jewish operation, from beginning to end.
Jews and the transatlantic slave trade forms part of the wider history involving Jews and slavery which involved not only Africans, but also Europeans (especially Slavs), Middle Easterners, Central Asians and others. Specifically in relation to the transatlantic slave trade, it deals with the transportation of Black Africans to the Americas. Jews owned many of the slave-ships and had a very prominent, even leading role in the whole scheme.
Jews also sold white people as slaves to the Americas. Where tribes in Africa would kidnap other tribes to sell them to slavery to Jews, the Jews would kidnap whites. The hundreds of thousands of whites who were kidnapped, chained, whipped and worked to death in the American colonies and during the Industrial Revolution is kept secret by the Zionist-controlled media.[1]
http://immigration-globalization.blogspot.com
it was European Whites that ended the African Slave Trade, not jews or the King of Nigeria, who both fought against the ending slavery in European courts to keep it alive. The Jews were expelled from Spain on August 2, 1492, and from Portugal in 1497. Many of these Jews emigrated to Holland, where they set up the Dutch West Indies Company to exploit the new world.
White slaves were what this country was founded upon, especially in the Tobacco regions. They were worked to death and very few made to the conclusion of the in-denturedom. It was only when they needed a new slave class, that they started using the blacks. “White Cargo”
Slavery was NOT abolished by Lincoln…
just the name was changed to sharecropper with over 5 million Southern whites and 3 million Southern blacks working on land stolen by Wall Street bankers.
White, black, Indian, Hispanic, Protestant, Catholic and Jewish Confederates valiantly stood as one in thousands of battles on land and sea. Afterwards, they attended Confederate Veterans’ reunions together and received pensions from Southern States.
Photos of black Confederate veterans may be seen in Alabama’s Archives in Scrapbook – 41st Reunion of United Confederate Veterans, Montgomery, June 2,3,4 and 5, 1931.” Lincoln did not claim slavery was a reason even in his Emancipation Proclamations on Sept. 22, 1862, and Jan. 1, 1863.
Moreover, Lincoln’s proclamations exempted a million slaves under his control from being freed (including General U.S. Grant’s four slaves) and offered the South three months to return to the Union (pay 40 percent sales tax) and keep their slaves. None did. Lincoln affirmed his only reason for issuing was: “as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said (tax) rebellion.”
By 1699, the number of free blacks prompted fears of a “Negro insurrection.” Virginia Colonial ordered the repatriation of freed blacks back to Africa. Many blacks sold themselves to white masters so they would not have to go to Africa. This was the first effort to gently repatriate free blacks back to Africa. The modern nations of Sierra Leone and Liberia both originated as colonies of repatriated former black slaves.
However, black slave owners continued to thrive in the United States.
By 1830 there were 3,775 black families living in the South who owned black slaves. By 1860 there were about 3,000 slaves owned by black households in the city of New Orleans alone.http://conservative-headlines.com/2012/03/americas-first-slave-owner-was-a-black-man/
Black Slave Owners and the Civil War
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooSTTxfriC8)
Dr. Tony Martin –
The Jewish Role in the African Slave Trade
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut7I75Q_-zA)
White Slaves of Black Masters
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfi1xHjFdgM)
on Sat Oct 28th 2017 at 19:26:51 satanforce
Let me guess. White Supremacist pretending to be Nation of Islam?
on Sun Oct 29th 2017 at 01:38:15 Afrofem
Everyone is responsible for the Trans-Atlantic slave trade except the people actually responsible for the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.
European Christians and their descendants blaming everyone but themselves.
on Sun Dec 3rd 2017 at 09:54:38 tecneek
..even before that the moors, and the biblical Exodus..
Satan force, the JewISH are Khazar converts, and they in their own books documented how they orchestrated the slave trade, and owned slaves… They are the synagouge of satan, per King James Bible. Also, they believe in their Talmud, not the Torah. The Classic Talmud hates black people, and believe they were cursed to be ugly, and believe in sex with young kids.. It is all in their Talmud. THEY are JewISH alright, but not Hebrew Israelites.
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on Fri May 31st 2019 at 16:41:19 jefe
They claim that the ship that transported the last shipment of African slaves to the USA was identified in Mobile Bay. The article says that the last survivor died in 1937.
Remains of the Clotilda are discovered in southern Alabama
The remains of the last slave ship to arrive in America are found, near Africatown
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2019/05/30/remains-of-the-clotilda-are-discovered-in-southern-alabama
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Asian brain drain
Wed May 25th 2016 by abagond
New nurses during an oathtaking ceremony in Pasay city, Philippines in 2010. (EPA/DENNIS M. SABANGAN)
The Asian brain drain (1965- ) is the flow of highly educated people from Asia to the US: doctors from India, nurses from the Philippines, engineers from China, and so on. It is the “truth” behind the Model Minority stereotype, which racializes a false correlation.
People have been coming to the US from Asia for hundreds of years for all kinds of reasons. But most Asians came as part of three main waves:
1849 to 1934: mostly field workers, especially from China, Japan and the Philippines.
1965 to present: the brain drain, especially from Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, India, the Philippines and South Korea.
1970s to 1980s: refugees, especially from Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.
Of the three, the brain drain is the one that middle-class White Americans most frequently come across.
Each of these waves is a creature of US law: who the US was willing to let in when and why, based on the country’s needs and its level of racism. Asia, unlike Mexico, is separated from the US by an ocean. That makes it much easier to control who gets in.
The brain drain itself was created by the 1965 Immigration Act. It overturned the racist immigration act of 1924 and favoured those with skills the US needed, like in medicine and engineering. Almost by definition, such people will be better at school, science and mathematics than most Americans. It has nothing to do with being “Asian” and everything to do with who the US lets in and why.
The Model Minority stereotype was created in 1966 in the pages of the New York Times. It was based on the first wave, which truly did pull itself up by its bootstraps. Yet the stereotype did not catch on till the 1980s when the children of the brain drain started applying to top universities in large numbers and getting in.
The brain drain did not pull itself up by its bootstraps: it bought a plane ticket. Anyone who comes to the US as a doctor, nurse, engineer or even a foreign university student is already better educated than most White Americans. And their children are bound to do better too. Whites with the same sort of background in terms of education or parents’s education do just as well if not better.
The US also drains brains from:
Latin America,
the Caribbean,
Africa, and
Britain.
Most Americans do not notice that, partly because of racial stereotypes, partly because the numbers are lower. They overlook the fact that Nigerian Americans, for example, are just as much of a “model minority” as Asian Americans.
Other places that receive brain drains: Canada, Australia, Singapore, Western Europe and the Persian Gulf states.
Brain drains generally flow from poorer or less stable regions to richer and more stable ones. The Caribbean is the worst hit: countries like Jamaica and Haiti lose over 80% of their people with university educations. But Asia, because of its size, produces a far larger brain drain.
Welcome to Asian American History Month 2016
Taiwanese Americans
Filipino Americans
Model Minority stereotype
Bootstrap Myth
The Asian quota
The Asian Supremacy argument
Abagond, on Fri 5 Feb 2016 at 16:30:40
jefe wrote: “@Grojo,
Chinese have been in North America since the 16th century, even before both Africans and the English and arrived in significant numbers in the mid-1800s. They also played a huge integral role in building the USA, both its infrastructure and its culture.”
Assuming he wasn’t lying, why didn’t you include the date the Chinese first landed in North America as part of this post? If true, wouldn’t that have made these pioneers the brainiest of all the Asian brain waves?
on Wed May 25th 2016 at 16:50:43 jefe
Grojo,
Abagond said
People have been coming to the US from Asia for hundreds of years for all kinds of reasons.
which includes the ones who came to the USA before the mid-1800s.
We mentioned about the arrival of Asians to the North America in the 1580s here:
(https://abagond.wordpress.com/2014/05/08/manila-galleons/)
(https://abagond.wordpress.com/2015/10/08/filipino-americans/)
Filipino seamen and Chinese merchants had been travelling to and settling in North America all along from the 1580s to 1840s. But the first MAJOR wave started to arrive in the mid 1800s.
jefe,
Thank you for the information you provided. however, I must take exception to one of your claims.
Asians might have gotten to North America as crews or passengers of Spanish ships before the English, but they did not precede Africans, if your 1580s date is accurate.
Juan Garrido or “handsome John” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Garrido) beat them to the punch by at least seven decades when he landed on Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic) in 1502 as part of a Spanish expedition.
He had a hand in the conquest of Tenochtitlan in 1519 and was the first person to cultivate wheat! So much for the bs that idiots like Biff write about Whites being the sole creators of the world they inhabit!
Garrido was one of many blacks who sailed with the Spanish at that time.
on Wed May 25th 2016 at 18:30:28 Michael Cooper
There was a May 24th (2016) article in the L.A. Times on a Mexican immigrant finding “success” in a Vietnam restaurant in Orange, County (here in California). The article is titled ‘In Little Saigon, some Latinos are learning Vietnamese to get ahead’. I read and highlighted some paragraphs in the article. The article was written by a Vietnamese female contract reporter named Anh Do (first generation of Vietnamese refugees in Orange County). Basically, the article dealt with the two common stereotypes: 1.) ‘Low-wage’ Mexican immigrants and ‘bootstrap’ Vietnamese-Americans. The ‘model minority’ and ‘bootstrap’ myths made up half of the article. The article reminded me of when Whites gave Blacks jobs for pennies during the first half of the twentieth century. In a modern-day sense, O.C.s Vietnamese-American residents/businessmen (who are overwhelmingly Republicans) have taken on the mindset of White American people/businessmen and the Mexican immigrant have taken on the coon-mindset. Read the article and you’ll exactly know what I’m talking about.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-viet-latino-20160516-snap-story.html
You were wrong to claim: “@Grojo,
Chinese have been in North America since the 16th century, even before both Africans and the English and arrived in significant numbers in the mid-1800s…”
Africans arrived on Spanish ships, like the Chinese did, but 70+ years earlier. One of the first was Juan Garrido a/k/a “handsome John”, who landed on Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic in 1502. He moved on to Mexico, where he took part in the siege of Tenochtitlan. He is reputed to have been the first person to cultivate wheat in the Americas.
The post says:
None of that contradicts anything you said.
on Wed May 25th 2016 at 23:01:03 michaeljonbarker
From Abagond’s post :
“which racializes a false correlation”
I’ve fallen for that.
Who I do business with.
I’d also add that some come here as entrepreneurs but they are coming from middle to upper class communities from their respective countries.
Their are also plenty of students who come here for college in engineering, sciences ect with the intent on returning to their home countries for employment.
As I understand it Americans aren’t getting science degrees so many who come here do so to fill jobs Americans aren’t qualified for.
I don’t know if long term the U.S. will hold the edge in scientific discovery. It maybe their will be a brain drain in the future from the U.S. of those countries that surpass America in science.
on Wed May 25th 2016 at 23:14:59 TeddyBearDaddy
Better educated than most ‘Ameiricans’ when they arrive? Are you kidding me? The lack of American Social and Historical knowledge alone make some of these people the most judgement and dangerous people for other people of color in the United States, particularly ‘Black’ Americans and or other people of color.
on Thu May 26th 2016 at 00:48:13 jefe
OK, maybe instead of North America, I should have said the land which later would become the United States.
on Thu May 26th 2016 at 07:24:39 Glenn (freedom of movement) Robinson @getgln
Reblogged this on re-presentation and commented:
Abagond explains what is behind the model minority stereotype and how U.S. immigration law has changed from being racist to be classist, favoring the highly educated.
on Thu May 26th 2016 at 07:29:07 Asian brain drain – Community Village US
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the first wave, which truly did pull itself up by its bootstraps
Does this imply that there is some validity to the bootstrap myth?
@Michael Cooper
Thanks for posting that link. I see what you mean. Some parts were hard to read.
on Thu May 26th 2016 at 16:48:18 Rosaliene Bacchus
Guyana, the land of my birth, suffered greatly from the brain drain during the 1960s and 1970s. Today, the young Caribbean nation, with a population of less than 1 million, celebrates its 50th anniversary of independence from Britain. For a number of reasons, including the brain drain, little economic progress has been made since its independence.
Jefe wrote: “OK, maybe instead of North America, I should have said the land which later would become the United States. ”
Sorry to inform you that you’d still be wrong. Estevanico made it to New Mexico and Florida by 1539. Our friend, “handsome John” a/k/a Juan Garrido also explored Florida in 1513. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estevanico
on Fri May 27th 2016 at 09:08:58 jefe
@grojo,
on Mon May 30th 2016 at 18:43:21 TheHipHopRecords (@TheHipHopRecord)
Why can’t I post on your site but you let everyone else ?
I mean, if all you want is Asian and white posters (As that seems to be the case because there used to be a guy called Bliff on here. He used to say black people were stupid and dumb but you let him have FREE REIGN and many posters have been deep white supremacist on here, but you seem to have zero problem with them) then fair enough.
But then I come on here most of my posts never show ? And even when it does show, it does only after you allow it to ?
To be honest I’ve seen this trend on plenty of black blogs, were EVEN ON THOSE blogs, black people have to watch what we see.
You can say whatever bad things you want about Asians, but you are not going to call them slopes or any other kind of slur on this blog. Otherwise, I would have to allow every drive-by racist to drop the N-bomb.
on Tue May 31st 2016 at 07:48:32 TheHipHopRecords (@TheHipHopRecord)
OK. The ‘Slope’ reference was below the belt. I admit that.
on Wed Jun 1st 2016 at 02:31:39 RaceRealist
They overlook the fact that Nigerian Americans, for example, are just as much of a “model minority” as Asian Americans.
There is a reason why those from Nigeria are looked at that way. Most of them are Ibo, The Jews of West Africa.
on Wed Jun 1st 2016 at 18:22:13 Herneith
Hey RaceRealist, how’s Dotar Sojat and Tars Tarkas doing. Talk to them recently?
on Wed Jun 1st 2016 at 19:01:03 gro jo
RaceR…, how many genes control intelligence, what brain circuits do they create and how are they inherited? Are these genes the same in different populations or does each population inherit different genes that end up building analogous brain circuits?
on Thu Jun 2nd 2016 at 23:01:27 RaceRealist
how many genes control intelligence
Unknown. However, a couple of months ago a paper came out stating that GWA analyses were performed on verbal-numerical reasoning, memory and reaction time (a huge correlate for IQ itself, see Rushton and Jensen, 2005). Davies et al (2016, paper available at the journal Nature) discovered that there were significant genome-wide SNP based associations in 20 genomic regions, with significant gene-based regions on 46 loci!! That’s huge. Genes for IQ have also been found differing in frequency between races, which I will delve in to below.
what brain circuits do they create
Genes influence intelligence by determining how well axons are encased in myelin, which is the fatty insulation that coats our axons, allowing for fast signaling to the brain. Thicker myelin also means faster nerve impulses. (Thompson et al, 2009, article available at UCLA website, Google “Thompson 2009 myelin”).
how are they inherited?
…..Like any other trait? Genetically. Intelligence is inherited through the mother (Erikson et al, 2013). The mother’s IQ is the best predictor for the child’s IQ.
Are these genes the same in different populations
The average frequency of 9 alleles were positively correlated with IQ and proxy phenotypes at the individual level. The correlation is strong and significant with population/country IQ (.92). Factor analysis showed a correlation of .86 (Piffer, 2015).
does each population inherit different genes that end up building analogous brain circuits?
Why would differing allele frequencies lead to the same cognitive processes in the brain in genetically isolated populations? I’ve shown that brain circuits vary by IQ genes, and populations do differ in this aspect, like all other differing genotypic/phenotypic traits.
East Asians have bigger brains, as shown by MRI studies (Rushton, 1999). Rushton and Rushton (2001) showed that the three races differ in IQ, brain size, and 37 different musculoskeletal traits. We know that West Africans and West African-descended people have genes for fast twitch muscle fibers (Type II) (Nielson and Christenson, 2001). Europeans and East Asians have slow twitch muscle fibers (Type I) for strength and endurance. (East Africans have this as well, which allows for ability to run for distance, which fast twitch fibers do not allow for. The same is true for slow twitch fibers and sprinting events.) Bengt Saltin showed that European distance runners have up to 90 percent slow twitch fibers (see Entine, 2000)! So are genetic IQ differentials really that hard to believe? With all of these differing variables in regards to intelligence that all point to a strong genetic cause for individual differences in IQ gene frequency, this corroborates Lynn and Meisenberg’s (2010) finding of a correlation of .907 with measured and estimated IQ. Corrected for attenuation, it was 1.0! The available GWAS backs this claim as well with IQ being positively correlated at .86 with country/population IQ.
Do you think that differing populations isolated for tens of thousands of years in differing climates who differ in sexual selection as well as mutation frequency for IQ will be cognitively the same? The races/ethnicities differ on so many different variables with differing genes being responsible for it. Would IQ genes really be out of the question? Evolution didn’t stop from the neck up. Different populations faced different selection pressures, so different human traits then evolved for better adaption in that environment. Different traits clearly developed in genetically isolated populations that had no gene flow with each other for tens of thousands of years.
on Thu Jun 2nd 2016 at 23:47:22 a bum
The Intelligence genes have also been traced to our European Neanderthal ancestry, it’s very interesting subject.
Looking at it from a bell curve perspective this is not good for East Asia, South Asian, or South East Asia. Being East Asians have a very high average IQ, yet the genius or creative IQ is lacking to such a degree that European Genius out number the East Asians even though Europeans have a smaller population size compared to the East Asian.
Funny fact even though European have numerically more geniuses, we also have numerically more Spastics, extremes at both ends of the bell curve. Probably relates to the extreme ends of politics too.
on Thu Jun 2nd 2016 at 23:51:12 gro jo
Thanks for taking the time to provide a serious answer!
” does each population inherit different genes that end up building analogous brain circuits?
For the same reason that bats and birds are able to fly maybe?
” how are they inherited?
Ok, that would explain the literary genius of Alexandre Dumas, his father, children and their children while there’s no evidence for such ability in his white, French ancestors, who only managed to be minor French nobles!
” what brain circuits do they create
Ok, how thick, on average, is myelin for the different races?
“East Asians have bigger brains, as shown by MRI studies (Rushton, 1999). Rushton and Rushton (2001) showed that the three races differ in IQ, brain size, and 37 different musculoskeletal traits.”
That would be relative to body size, would it not? What improvements did Rushton make on similar brain size measurements made by Paul Broca in the 19th century?
on Fri Jun 3rd 2016 at 02:57:55 RaceRealist
For the same reason that bats and birds are able to fly maybe>
Bats are more efficient fliers than birds due to a unique air lift mechanism. Sure they both fly, but they do different things with their wings to generate flight (see Live Science “Why Bats Are More Efficient Flyers Than Birds”). Sure all populations have the same genes for intelligence as seen in Piffer 2015, but they differ in frequency which leads to differences in phenotypic intelligence since obviously the genotype is different.
They’re clearly outliers.
I’m not able to find any at the moment. Though in those with thick myelin, since signals are transmitted on different axons, the faster and more precise the signals, the better one has the ability to complete cognitive tasks. An optimization occurs during repetitive use making the process more efficient, but it wouldn’t have occurred through just practice anyway. Also see Voineskos (2013) for heritability of white matter/myelin.
Body size was controlled for See Rushton and Rushton (2001, pg. 143).
Rushton and Ankney (1995, 1996, 1997, 2007, 2009) had 5 reviews on brain size and its relationship with g. Reaction time measures are also another way to see cognitive efficiency. Faster reflexes means higher g, The races differ on reaction times as well as a whole battery of cognitive abilities test that are correlated with the general intelligence factor. So, the races differ in gene frequency which effects brain processing and in turn those with lower g have lower cognitive functioning than those with higher g
on Fri Jun 3rd 2016 at 03:38:18 v8driver
yay, phrenology and statistics
on Fri Jun 3rd 2016 at 04:21:40 Solitaire
I have several bumps on different parts of my head. Do they indicate various facets of my personality? Are they connected to my intelligence or lack thereof? Or are they sebaceous cysts? Only a phernologist can know for sure!
on Fri Jun 3rd 2016 at 05:21:00 gro jo
My point in comparing bats to birds was to show that different species can end up developing a trait without being genetically related. I seem to recall that was called convergent evolution.
Differences in human populations aren’t of that nature, here, we are talking about differences in the same species, are we not? If we agree on that point, the issue seems to be if the variation between races is greater that the variation within the races. Your claim that the Dumas’s are outliers and that they inherited their superior genes from their black ancestors, seems to indicate to me that the difference in intelligence within races is greater than between races. No doubt I’ve erred somewhere in this line of thought and you’ll be good enough to set me straight on this matter.
The Dumas case isn’t the only one where inheritance of “black” genes seem to have improved the progeny of the family. Two other literary giants of Western literature benefited from such infusion of “black” genetic material, namely, Pushkin, the man who practically invented Russian literature and Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, considered by many as the most important writer Brazil produced!
Your reduction of the variations between human populations to “races” doesn’t strike me as beyond criticism. How do you account for the variation in intelligence between, say, the southern Chinese and the Thais who are closely related? Or between Tibetans and the Chinese? I’m sure that these variations exist among Europeans as well, or am I wrong?
“the issue seems to be if the variation between races is greater that the variation within the races. ”
should be read as: “the issue seems to be if the variation between races is greater than the variation within the races. “
on Fri Jun 3rd 2016 at 14:35:20 leigh204
In the pic above, one of those nurses in the Philippines looks like my cousin. 🙂
on Sat Jun 4th 2016 at 01:46:24 Herneith
I have several bumps on different parts of my head. Do they indicate various facets of my personality?
Perhaps, but it could also mean you are clumsy, as you are constantly falling and getting bumps on different parts of your head. If you have two bumps on the crown of your head, you are a creative person. If you have bumps on the right side of your head, you love gossip and shopping. If you have bumps on the left side of your head you love logic and sports. If you have bumps on all over your head go see a doctor. That is my understanding of phrenology.
Are they connected to my intelligence or lack thereof?
Or are they sebaceous cysts?
If yellow substances are oozing from them, go see a doctor or you can pop them yourself.
https://www.google.ca/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiqiMP-n43NAhUJ54MKHSrvD98QjRwIBw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthegraphicsfairy.com%2Fvintage-clip-art-phrenology-head-in-color%2F&psig=AFQjCNHju5TdHV8bEMpjYw3d1UGwRakPEg&ust=1465091139340408
on Sat Jun 4th 2016 at 02:12:58 Afrofem
ROFTFL!!!!!!
on Sat Jun 4th 2016 at 02:28:01 Mary Burrell
@Herneith: LOL!
on Sat Jun 4th 2016 at 04:07:03 Solitaire
“Perhaps, but it could also mean you are clumsy, as you are constantly falling and getting bumps on different parts of your head.”
That’s scarily close to the truth.
You must be a mind reader as well as a phrenologist…
For fifty dollars I will predict your future using a combination of phrenology and tarot cards.
I’ll throw in an extra $15 if you also levitate the table.
on Mon Jun 6th 2016 at 00:38:17 Herneith
on Tue Jun 14th 2016 at 01:57:01 Jm8
“RaceRealist
Most (or the greater part at least) Nigerians in Britain are Yoruba, not Igbo (though in the US, more are Igbo).
Also, the Yoruba also perform significantly above the the general average, at times above the Igbo. The Ghanains and Zimbabweans of the Shona ethnicity also perform above average (but not as high/to a lesser extent as the Yoruba and Igbo).
http://www.unz.com/article/closing-the-black-white-iq-gap-debate-part-3/
Also, the speculation in your link that the somewhat above average performance of Ghanaians is due to the igbo(or some Igbo presence is absurd and bizarre. There is no significant Igbo population in Ghana, let alone among Ghanaian Immigrants to the UK—who are mostly of native Southern Ghanians groups like the Ashanti/Fante or Ewe. The data sources from Britain that report their test scores/achievement often even specify their specific Ghanian (usually Ashanti/Fanti and other Akan, sometimes Ewe) ethnicities/languages. The Igbo diaspora in West Africa—as it exists—has been mainly in certain small parts of the Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea/Gabon area, and is a very small fraction of the populations even there (seemingly under 2-3 percent, maybe less).
As I commented:
“It is very odd that Frost would attribute the “little bit of achievement” in Ghana/Ghanaians to the Igbo (Which I had missed in that article before, but he does). Though there is ( what could be called) an Igbo diaspora in parts of West Africa, Igbo comprise a far too insignificant part of any national population (next to nothing in Ghana as far as I can tell) outside Nigeria to have an effect. Nor are they any part of the Ghanaian immigrant population.”
Regarding the alleles:
Piffer’s most recent data is somewhat modified by (Piffer’s) reanalyses which calculate somewhat higher scores for Africans in both height and iq (among other things):
“I computed two polygenic scores (mean population frequencies): ancestral and derived. Then I created a composite score by averaging them. This gives equal weight to ancestral and derived alleles (Piffer, 2015b).The end result is that populations with higher baseline frequencies of derived alleles (such as Africans) obtain a higher score after this correction, because more weight is given to ancestral alleles.”
“We can see that the ranking of corrected polygenic scores for height and IQ gives higher scores to Africans compared to the uncorrected scores…”
https://topseudoscience.wordpress.com
“Derived alleles,corrected polygenic scores and height”
The matches between calculated iq’s and predicted ones(from psychometry) are imperfect(in the most recent re—analyses).
In his preceding entry at “toppseudoscience” , Piffer finds that
“A discrepancy with IQ estimates is that East Asians lag behind Europeans and that South Asians and Hispanics don’t perform better than sub-Saharan Africans, a finding that is difficult to explain at present.”
I’m not sure if the method of the study is recognized by(the “metagene method” using few alleles) as generally considered reliable by geneticists, but I am far from an expert in the area so I am not really qualified to have an opinion on that. Future studies may help answer the question(of its reliability/precision) and larger numbers of alleles, should generally help to enhance reliability/strengh of studies (since intelligence is highly polygenic, influenced by probably thousands of alleles).
To “a bum”:
That is not correct. No such origins for the (proposed) intelligence genes have been found/are currently in evidence in the research. There is some evidence that Neanderthals lacked (at least some) of the genes for intelligence in modern humans (but there are many genes).
Edit: “…which calculate somewhat higher scores for Africans in both height and iq (among other things):”
“other things” meaning eg: perhaps calculating different scores for some groups of South Asians and Hispanics than before (for instance), not calculating higher scores for Africans on additional traits (other than the traits of height and iq already there mentioned).
(my) Original wording was ambiguous.
on Tue Jun 14th 2016 at 15:47:03 gro jo
Jm8,
What does all this stuff amount to?
Can you answer the following questions?
What’s the connection between all this talk of alleles, etc., and two plus two equal four?
Is it not possible to write a computer program to ace IQ tests?
If such programs exists, would you conclude they are “intelligent”?
If you answer yes, would you agree that the computer program that beat the best human chess player is the smartest thing on earth?
Lol, two programs scored well on IQ tests!
http://www.kurzweilai.net/computer-programs-that-ace-iq-tests
http://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-ai-beat-humans-in-an-iq-test-2015-6
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SAN LEANDRO, Calif. (KGO) -- An 18-year-old student from California is comforting thousands of abused children by donating toys. The college freshman is helping young children overcome adversity by sharing her own personal journey.
Dublin native Ally Loo been donated stuffed animals to CALICO for two years. CALICO is the Child Abuse, Listening, Interviewing, and Coordination center. The center is located in San Leandro and is meant to help abused children heal and get justice.
During high school, Loo collected more than 1,000 plush toys to donate.
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"I was first introduced to CALICO when I was 7 years old when I was sexually abused by a family friend," she explained.
"I think it was very hard for me to understand what was going on, but all the CALICO workers here are trained to work with kids and they showed me love and helped me understand it, helped me stay calm while everyone around me was being hectic," Loo said.
CALICO Center allows children involved in crime to be interviewed only one time rather than by multiple agencies.
"Before there were centers like CALICO, children were interviewed on average up to 21 different times by 17 different people, which was asking those children to relive the worst moments of their lives, 21 times," says CALICO's Executive Director Erin Harper. "What happened is children would end up saying, 'nevermind, nothing happened' or 'I don't want to talk about it' not because nothing really happened but because they were being re-traumatized."
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October 24, 2014 by C. Watchman
Suspended from the practice of law, is Barry Goldstein representing himself as an attorney to sell #TheQuincySolution? #StopAbuseCampaign
In Part I,”Lie vs. Fact Check: Barry Goldstein Lawyer (Cancel the Cabal)” http://abusiveadvocates.com/2014/10/19/barry-goldstein-cancel-the-cabal
ATW shared screenshots and comments from Barry’s first appearance on “Cancel the Cabal” where Barry was advertised as a “child advocate lawyer”. And as “Mother’s Advocate” and “Child Advocate Lawyer”.
ATW also shared a screenshot of Maria Bauer Melinn, offering the services of Barry Goldstein to a mother in need of legal help...http://abusiveadvocates.com/2013/11/07/maria-bauer-melinn-advise-for-moms-in-court-benadryl/
Here are other examples where Barry again seems to advertise or imply that he is an attorney…
From an Amazon advertisement, “The Quincy Solution Barry Goldstein” http://www.amazon.com/The-Quincy-Solution-Barry-Goldstein/dp/1934759864
Quote: “Barry Goldstein has practiced law in New York since 1978…many domestic violence agencies have referred clients to Mr. Goldstein because he is one of the few lawyers with expertise in domestic violence and because of willingness take cases on a pro bono or reduced fee basis…”
Also, the words of Claudine Dombrowski, American Mothers Political Party (AMPP) also imply that Barry is representing himself as an attorney…
Claudine says about Barry Goldstein offering legal assistance to mothers seeking help, “There is no legal resources or venue through Lundy or PMA, anytime a mother asks for his expert assistance or resources for legal the mothers are quickly shut out ignored. .. Has he or PMA helped any mother? No… Who has? ..Barry Goldstein is one such person. He has tried he continues to assist he knows that we–Mothers need strategy, legal representation, he steadfastly goes with the flow..”
What do Claudine’s comments about Barry mean? According to Claudine a change is needed in the Mother’s Movement, it should be torn down completely, and she will lead these efforts, along with her hand selected allies, which includes Barry Goldstein. Tearing down the Mother’s Movement means attacking and forcibly removing advocates, professionals and even abuse victims who stand in the way. For more information about this screenshot, and the meaning behind it, please visit: “Abusers in the Mother’s Movement Pt. II Barry Goldstein & AMPP, Claudine Dombrowski” http://abusiveadvocates.com/2014/01/03/abusers-mothers-movement-pt-2-goldstein-dombrowski/
Let’s be very clear…Barry Goldstein is NOT a licensed attorney. When Barry did attempt to get his law license reinstated, it was denied. According to the terms of the disciplinary action taken against him, Barry Goldstein cannot give legal advice, cannot offer legal strategy and cannot take on legal cases in the capacity of an attorney pro bono or not.
Disciplinary proceeding instituted by the Grievance Committee for the Ninth Judicial District:(December 30, 2008, MATTER OF GOLDSTEIN, BARRY L.)
ORDERED that the respondent Barry L. Goldstein, is suspended from the practice of law for a period of five years, commencing January 30, 2009, and continuing until further order of this Court, with leave to the respondent to apply for reinstatement no sooner than six months prior to the expiration of the said period of five years upon furnishing
satisfactory proof that during the said period he
(1) refrained from practicing or attempting to practice law;
(2) fully complied with this order and with the terms and provisions of the written rules governing the conduct of disbarred, suspended, and resigned attorneys (see 22 NYCRR 691.10);
(3) complied with the applicable continuing legal education requirements of 22 NYCRR 691.11(c); and
(4) otherwise properly conducted himself; and it is further, ORDERED that pursuant to Judiciary Law §90, effective immediately, Barry L. Goldstein, is commanded to desist and refrain from
(1) practicing law in any form, either as principal or agent, clerk, or employee of another,
(2) appearing as an attorney or counselor-at-law before any court, Judge, Justice, board, commission, or other public authority,
(3) giving to another an opinion as to the law or its application or any advice in relation thereto, and
(4) holding himself out in any way as an attorney and counselor-at-law….
http://www.courts.state.ny.us/courts/ad2/calendar/webcal/decisions/2008/D21742.pdf
The Ninth Judicial District included in the findings that, “We find the respondent’s utter failure to appreciate the fact that his conduct exceeded the bounds of propriety as a courtroom advocate, his complete lack of remorse, and the pervasive nature of his deceptive conduct to be aggravating factors…”
If Barry is not being honest about the status of his revoked law license, and in the past decisions of the Ninth Judicial District found Barry to be “dishonest” …how are to trust The Quincy Solution?
For more information on why Barry’s law license was revoked, plz read http://abusiveadvocates.com/2014/04/04/barry-goldstein-goat-advocate/
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Lie vs. Fact Check Intro:
As we meander down this truth seeking path together, there are some lies so outrageous that you have to see it to believe it. We at A.T.W. are all for exposing the Lies vs. Fact Check.
This is how it will go:
1) We will quote the lie, and post the source it came from.
2) This will be immediately be followed by a quote of the facts, with proof
THE LIE:
1) Barry Goldstein is a “Child advocate Lawyer”, intro
2) Barry Goldstein is a “Mother’s Advocate” and “Child Advocate Lawyer” 2:03. Barry does not refute this initial statement.
3) Gill Trebilcock says “Barry is an attorney from America who is influence very strongly by alot of feminists..” at 2:18. Then goes on to explain “At the moment Barry is not an attorney, because he took on a judge for being unfair. So he is taking a year off. So at the moment he describes himself as no longer an attorney but a good guy.”
The Truth:
1) Barry Goldstein is NOT a licensed attorney. For more information on why Barry’s law license was revoked, plz read http://abusiveadvocates.com/2014/04/04/barry-goldstein-goat-advocate/
2) Barry Goldstein’s law license has been suspended, he is not merely “taking a year off”. Barry made an appeal to re-instate his law license, which was denied.
In 2007, Barry Goldstein was brought up on 29 charges of professional misconduct by the Grievance Committee for the Ninth Judicial District, only 8 charges were dismissed. Some of the charges involve Barry mishandling client funds while representing a non-profit organization, including transferring money in/out of accounts and failing to maintain a separate escrow for the organization he represented.
Barry was also found to have engaged in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation in a family court case he was representing. Also considered in the disciplinary action against Barry, “We find the respondent’s utter failure to appreciate the fact that his conduct exceeded the bounds of propriety as a courtroom advocate, his complete lack of remorse, and the pervasive nature of his deceptive conduct to be aggravating factors…”
Barry’s law license was suspended for 5 years, and has not been reinstated. Barry attempted to get his law license reinstated, which was denied.
Further, “ORDERED that pursuant to Judiciary Law §90, effective immediately, Barry L Goldstein, is commanded to desist and refrain from …(4) holding himself out in any way as an attorney and counselor-at-law..”
Maybe Cancel the Cabal should have read this Facebook post from Barry before making any claims that he is a “Child advocate Lawyer” or “just taking a year off”…these false assertions are only a dream!
Interesting enough, if you go to the Cancel the Cabal website, they do not name Barry as an attorney. You only see that title on the YouTube posted video. Hmmmm
Is this just a fluke? Consider the words of Maria Melinn, offering the services of Barry Goldstein to a mother in need of legal help...http://abusiveadvocates.com/2013/11/07/maria-bauer-melinn-advise-for-moms-in-court-benadryl/
Maria says, “I will talk with you about strategy etc. in the courtroom..we will work on how to handle cross examination… I am sure Barry will also talk to you about strategy too.”
Barry is prohibited from giving legal advise pursuant to Judiciary Law §90, which clearly states that Barry cannot talk strategy as Maria suggests“(3) giving to another an opinion as to the law or its application or any advice in relation thereto..”
Why would Barry attempt to offer help to mothers in family court, or anyone else for that matter?? Because Barry charges astronomical fees working as a paid expert witness….and expert witnesses are not subject to oversight by his peers and are not restricted by the previous disciplinary. Barry’s fees range from $100-$10,000. http://barrygoldstein.net/services/expert-witness
This means all the money you will save implementing The Quincy Solution will then be funneled into Barry’s own services, and those in his inner circle of professional colleagues! Because Barry has set himself, and his inner circle, up as a paid expert with a permanent job in the new system he created.
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May 8, 2014 by C. Watchman
California Safe Child Coalition: Children Should Maintain a Relationship with Abusers
The California Safe Child Coalition Believes Children Should “Maintain a Relationship” with an Abusive Parent… Is this What the Mother’s Movement Stands For?
The point of this article is not debate the merits of supervised visitation but to point out the conflicting messages of some of the leaders in the Mother’s Movement; that, on one hand, say children should be protected from an abuser, even to remove all contact with that parent and, on the other hand, say an abusing parent deserves a relationship with the child they have harmed—and this relationship should be fostered, and encouraged to grow in supervised visitation (which will lead to unsupervised visits, and likely the alleged abuser will gain custody). SO what does the Mother’s Movement really believe?
Quote: “The California Safe Child Coalition works with national, state and local government agencies, private organizations and individuals to keep children safe.”
“We seek a massive culture shift in the California court system. We strive to endure that children remain safe in the custody of protective parents, while maintaining relationships with their abusing parents through court-ordered supervised visitation”. This includes parents who have sexually abused children.
WHO IS THE CALIFORNIA SAFE CHILD COALITION?
The California Safe Child Coalition is compromised of some of the largest organizations leading the Mother’s Movement today; many who have appeared at the Battered Mothers Custody Conference (BMCC).
The Center for Judicial Excellence, The Center (CJE). CJE’s Director helped to organize and lead the first ever Mother’s Day Protest at the White House.
Entity Name: CENTER FOR JUDICIAL EXCELLENCE
Entity Number: C2790378
Jurisdiction: CALIFORNIA
Entity Address:
Entity City, State, Zip:
Agent for Service of Process: JEAN A. TAYLOR (President , Co-Founder)
According to the 2010 Tax returns, the CJE Officers are:
Jean Taylor- President
Mary Lee Strebl- Vice-President
Cesar Lagleva- CFO/Treasurer
Royce McLemore-Director
Raphael Durr- Director
Marivic Bay Mabanag- Director
According to the taxes, these are all unpaid positions, working an average of 10-25 hours a week. CJE takes in a large amount of monetary donations, of which only $25 a year is membership dues (see below “Kathleen Russell and CJE Money Trail”).
California Protective Parents Association (CPPA)
Entity Name: CALIFORNIA PROTECTIVE PARENTS ASSOCIATION
Agent for Service of Process: KAREN ANDERSON
NOTE: CPPA originally opened as a charity and later re-established itself as a corporation.
114556 Charity Current SACRAMENTO CA Charity Registration Charity
Karen Anderson (Director of CPPA) has lobbied for legislation to limit the Court’s ability to order supervised visits for parents accused of sexually abusing their children. She is also a mediator working with families involved in the court system, working as a Certified Mediator in accordance with the California Dispute Resolution Programs. Anderson also calls supervised visitation a scam and a racket.
Mothers of Lost Children (MOLC)
Results of search for “Mothers of Lost Children” returned no entity records
Note: On Feb. 14, 2011 Karen Anderson (CPPA) held a protest with Mothers of Lost Children in Washington, D.C. to “protest the enormous expenditure or tax dollars to help get ex-prisoners and known abusers connect with their children, and the heartbreak for mothers when this funding is misused and misapplied.” http://crispe.org/forum/index.php?topic=4667.0;wap2
Child Abuse Solutions (CAS), Child Abuse Solutions, Inc.
Results of search for “CHILD ABUSE SOLUTIONS” returned no entity records as being a corporation in California.
CAS is supposed to be an educational non-profit but no results were found at the National Center for Charitable Statistics. The information for CAS traces back to Meera Fox Attorney at Law.
Incest Survivors Speakers Bureau of California (ISSBC)
A “grassroots” organization of mothers raising awareness of child sexual abuse. ISSBC offers conferences, training, and accepts donations, filtering the money through CPPA: http://www.issb.us/donations.html. Results of search for “CHILD ABUSE SOLUTIONS” returned no entity records as being a corporation in California, and no results found of ISSBC found as a non-profit.
ISSB California Officers
Executive Director and Founding Member- Andrea Ransdell
Legislative Director- Heather Markert,
Research Adviser and Founding Member- Kathy Dreyer
The California Safe Child Coalition
Results of search for “The California Safe Child Coalition” returned no entity records.
THE CONTRADICTION: QUOTES FROM THOSE IN THE MOTHER’S MOVEMENT AGAINST SUPERVISED VISITATION BETWEEN A CHILD & AN ALLEGED ABUSER
These statements from advocates and mothers in the Mother’s Movement directly challenge California Safe Child Coalition’s statement that abusive parents deserve a relationship with the children they have abused, and that relationship should be fostered in supervised visitation. Keep in mind, the purpose of supervised visitation is temporary, and almost always results in unsupervised visitation, and increased custody.
Many of these leaders/advocates/mothers believe that a child who has been abused will be at risk for further abuse if they continue to have a relationship with a parent who has harmed them in the past, and that placing a child in supervised visitation with an abuser is traumatic. Many of these voices come from mothers who have been through the family court system, have dealt with supervised visitation, and witnessed its failures.
So who is the California Safe Child Coalition fighting for, and why??
From Barry Goldstein: “We have seen repeatedly that courts create an urgency to restore normal visitation to fathers even in the face of serious safety risks…The(re is) disparity in how supervised visitation is handled between mothers and fathers…the courts that couldn’t wait to resume visitation with a dangerous father are willing to delay years before resuming normal visitation with a safe mother…”
And, “Instead of pressuring mothers to cooperate with their abusers they can be using their power and authority to require him to stop his abuse if he wants to have a relationship with the children. It is important for legislators and court professionals to understand that children do not need both parents equally. They need the safe parent more than the abusive one and their primary attachment figure more than their other parent. ..” “The Broken Court System: Is There Reason for Hope?” by Barry Goldstein: http://www.barrygoldstein.net/important-articles
From “Family Court Matters” : FCM posted an article on corruption and greed within the supervised visitation provider network, many of their comments also seem applicable to California Safe Child Coalition.. “Why, becomes the question, would an anti-domestic violence (“End Domestic Violence” indicates they want it to stop) be collaborating with the infamous Supervised Visitation Field, which is known to spring out of the father’s rights and welfare reform fountain?”
And,“Again, I have to ask, how could such a well-known (in the field) group go for so long absent any corporate existence? Not registered with the State of California to do business in California–but it sure looks like they are consistently billing and being paid to do business in California….” “Good Cause to Eliminate (Funding for): Access Visitation, Supervised Visitation, and Batterer’s Intervention, PERIOD!” http://familycourtmatters.wordpress.com/2013/11/29/good-cause-to-eliminate-funding-for-access-visitation-supervised-visitation-and-batterers-intervention-period/
From The Liz Library: “Supervised visitation cannot continue indefinitely, and controlling, violent, or child molesting parents aren’t going to change. So what is the point? ….
It’s a band-aid for 10 weeks, or 6 months, or whatever, and then the abusive parent will most likely go back to court, after behaving “safely” or “nicely” in the presence of supervisors, and get unsupervised visitation. The supervised visitation center will have made money, the parents will have lost money, the litigation will have remained open, the abusive parent will be even more angry and resentful, additional therapies and interventions will be recommended and tried (all as the abuse fades into the past and claimed irrelevancy), and overall, the entire situation will be even more miserable than it was before for the victims.” — The Liz Library, “Endless $tupidity: domestic violence victim advocacy for supervised visitation centers (Endless stupidity or professional self-interest–there’s no other choice.)” http://www.thelizlibrary.org/site-index/site-index-frame.html#soulhttp://www.thelizlibrary.org/supervised-visitation/supervised-visitation-stupidity.html
National Safe Child Coalition: Posted an article on August 12, 2103 about a man who killed his child during supervised visitation to spite his ex. NSCC followed with these thoughts, “They have dangerous people ordered into supervised visitation at the YMCA while protective parents who pose no threat are ordered into prison like rooms for supervised visitation with their children.”
KATHLEEN RUSSELL AND CJE’S MONEY TRAIL INVESTIGATED BY FAMILYLAWCOURTS.COM: WHAT TAX RETURNS REVEAL
Source: http://www.familylawcourts.com/non_profits.html
Family Law Courts is investigating “DV advocates who don’t want to see women empowered” and they claim most advocates are corrupt, and in the business to make a profit, not help victims of abuse.
Family Law Courts has investigated a number of individuals and non-profits including Kathleen Russell of The Center for Judicial Excellence (CJE) aka “The Center”. Kathleen Russell is an unmarried woman with no children who is the co-founder and staff consultant at CJE. Why? Family Law Courts has pulled Russell’s tax records and raised allegations that CJE is just another money making organization within the family court system, similar to what protective mothers are fighting against.
Quote: (2008) “Tax records reveal in one year the Center for Judicial Excellence accepted grants and donations in the amount of $215,052.00 (Line “L”). Of that amount (Line 13) $187,000 went to outside sources. The source?
Page 4, Line 151. Kathleen Russell Consulting.”
Source 2008 Tax Returns Posted on Family Law: http://207.153.189.83/EINS/204892221/204892221_2008_054E013D.PDF
That’s means 86% of grants and donations to CJE went directly to Kathleen Russell Consulting.
Source 2010 Tax Returns are posted on Family Law: Courts: http://207.153.189.83/EINS/204892221/204892221_2010_07496338.PDF
From 2006-2010, CJE took in $922,323 dollars in grants and contributions, if 86% were paid to Kathleen Russell Consulting that would earn her $793,198 in 4 years. OR $198,299 dollars a year. With that large amount of money, you would hope to see a more substantial change in family court–not a solution that fosters a relationship between a child and an abuser, and throws the family back into the troubled family court system.
EVEN CLAUDINE DOMBROWSKI ADMITS: IT’S AL ABOUT THE $$ MONEY $$
Is it so far-fetched that the domestic violence advocates and leaders would compromise their stated goals to protect women and children to make a profit?
One more screen shot to consider…
This was taken from Barry Goldstein’s wall, keep in mind Barry is a former attorney who was disbarred after mishandling money belonging to a non-profit organization. Here Barry is begging his supporters “to contact local dv groups, colleges, and other other organizations that could sponsor (PAY) a program for me to speak at.”
Like Kathleen, Barry works as a speaker and consultant. What is a consultant? Someone who can give advice or share ideas about family court, domestic violence and related issues without a law license; and make a profit from speaking, public engagements, writing books, etc.
Claudine Dombrowski responds with this interesting comment,”Yo gf I’m awake. Eyes wide open 20 yrs. I also know that in the communities the heart people not all enjoy this you use what you can get it in any way you can. Through anyone you can.
It’s your choice. Try to balance like the dv orgs do (there funding is 3/4 fr tagged), or push the truth the common sense. Or…you can keep preaching to the choir… Put it where it needs to be.”
Claudine Dombrowski: “Get it in any way you can”
Keep asking questions, and be open to uncovering the truth….
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Breaking News: Unprotective Mother & Killer Melanie Smith, UK
Is Unprotective Mother and Convicted Killer Melanie Smith (UK) connected to UN Mothers and the American Mothers Political Party (AMPP)??
BREAKING NEWS: Bill Windsor, Lawless America, has been suspended from Facebook for posting a picture of an unknown woman, who he suspects is part of the gang of “Joeys” who has been stalking and harassing him. Bill posted this photo to ask for help in identifying this woman, and to give her a chance to either retract her remarks or state she did not participate in the online attacks and defamation.
WHO IS THIS WOMAN?
IDENTIFIED AS: Melanie Smith, Australian Mothers Political Party, sister group to American Mothers Political Party (AMPP). Melanie Smith was a presented at the 2010 Battered Mothers Custody Conference, speaking on the Australian Shared Parenting Law Debate. Melanie Smith also represents AMPP’s UN Mothers.
AU Shared Parenting Law Debate: http://aspld.blogspot.com/
5/7/2010: Australian Mothers Political Party Australian Mothers Struggle for human rights. This video reveals the efforts that have been made to continue violence against women and children through the Family Court of Australia.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xdxgro_amppau-australian-mothers-struggle_news
NO to Australian Mother Political Party: https://www.facebook.com/pages/NO-to-the-Australian-Mothers-Political-Party-and-other-such-groups/152123351476354
ATW finds it curious that this Melanie Smith looks so similar to convicted killer Melanie Jane Smith…
Is Unprotective Mother and killer Melanie Smith connected to AMPP?
Abusers Win Custody: Melanie Smith won custody of three children after a divorce. She is accused of abusing, neglecting and torturing her children. Melanie could not handle caring for the children and dumped them in foster care one day after winning custody. The Court reversed its decision, apologized, and gave the father custody. Melanie’s children say that she is “the most evil woman in Britain”.
ATW finds it curious that Australian Mothers Political Party is now defunct, and basically has no activity except the lone wolf stalking and online harassment by Claudine and a few members.
Facebook Australian Mothers Political Party: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Australian-Mothers-Political-Party/119136814791407
AMPP Blog Talk. Not only is Melanie Smith a follower of AMPP, but Claudine’s profile pic also appears on the Australian Mothers Political Party page.
ATW finds it curious that Melanie Smith’s UN Mothers webpage has been taken down.
Melanie Smith and UN Mothers, posted on Lorraine Tipton’s blog
The Search for Melanie: On Feb. 19, 2013, Bill Windsor previously posted a photo of Melanie Smith on Facebook, with a similar request for information and his account was not suspended. Bill challenged AMPP to reveal the names of the stalkers, and Melanie Smith did not respond but other AMPP members did when the post appeared on the AMPP Facebook wall.
Bill Windsor
DO YOU KNOW THIS AUSTRALIAN WOMAN?
I have been provided with information this evening to indicate this is Melanie Smith also known as Mel, the head of the Australian Mothers Political Party and one of the ringleaders of the American Mothers Political Party, working with Claudine Dumbrowski, Loraine Tipton, and Jennifer Herbert.
I believe Melanie lives in Townsville, Queensland, Australia. I need a full street address for the police and a phone number and email, if possible. She may be in a relationship with Mal Hamilton, a tour guide with Tropicana Guided Adventure Company and a member of a band named “The Wee Johnny’s.”
Please email any information to me at nobodies@att.net
I have been too busy with real work for Lawless America to file my Criminal Warrant Applications against these women, but I hope to fill in a few blanks and have them ready to file tomorrow.
Feb, 19, 2013: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10200780314296760&set=a.1865609366531.2111583.1429920220&type=1
Note: There is more than one Melanie associated with AMPP, and two specifically from Australia. ATW believes that Melanie Smith and Melanie Coutts are two different people, but both are associated with AMPP and Australian Mothers Political Party.
On 2/19/2013 Bill Windsor posted Melanie Smith’s picture to Facebook, his account was not suspended
Read here the story of Melanie Smith, and demand the truth for yourselves. If the UN Mothers Melanie Smith is not this killer, then we need to hear from her, and also Bill needs his statement. Anyone with information is encouraged to come forward, thanks! (If you indicate a need for privacy, we will not publicly post your comments.)
UNPROTECTIVE MOTHER AND KILLER MELANIE JANE SMITH
Melanie Smith (Murderpedia)
Born: 1969 Prestalyn, South Wales
Number of Children: 5.
Ex-Husband: Paul Smith (married 1987), 3 children, Charlotte, Lisa and Jonathon.
Paul and the children have accused Melanie of abuse, neglect and torture.
Date of Murders: Oct 19, 2012 (arrested same day)
Method of Murder: Set fire to a stroller outside a flat. She had the ground floor apartment; the upstairs was occupied by the victims. Before his death, victim Liam Timbrell heard Smith laughing and talking outside his door, he positively identified her as the one who set the fire.
After the fire, Smith ran back into her flat, then jumped into the bed to make it appear as if she had been there all along. Smith and her boyfriend escaped by climbing out a window.
Location: Prestalyn, Denbighshire, Wales, UK
Conviction: May 7, 2013. Sentanced to life in prison, 30 year minimum
Victims:
Lee-Anne Shiers, 20
Liam Timbrell, 23 (bf) (died in hospital, named Melanie as the one who set the fire, heard her voice outside)
Son Charlie, 15 mos (died in hospital)
Shier’s nephew Bailey, 4
Shier’s niece, Skye, 2
CHILD ABUSE ALLEGATIONS:
Mail Online, May 5 2013, Suzannah Hills. ‘We all wish she was dead’: Children of woman who killed family of five in a house blaze reveal years of abuse they suffered at their mother’s hands’: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2319784/Prestatyn-killer-Melanie-Smiths-children-reveal-abuse-suffered-hands.html
Mirror, May 5 2013, Simon Wright. ‘Melanie Smith: Kids who Escaped Life of Torture with Killer Brand Their Mum Britain’s Most Evil Woman’: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/melanie-smith-kids-who-escaped-1870434#ixzz2zIwNmxzQ
The children of Melanie Smith call her “the most evil woman in Britain”, for how she viciously abused and then abandoned them, and express grief for the victims she burned to death. Ex-husband Paul Smith also recalls Melanie’s abuse and neglect of the children.
Paul met Melanie at Pontins near Prestatyn where she was working as a chambermaid. They married in 1987. Melanie gave birth to three children within the next 4 years—Lisa, Charlotte and Jonathon. Paul said Melanie “lacked maternal instinct” and resented being tied down by motherhood, she preferred to drink and party. After the birth of their first child, Paul says he “was excited to be a dad” but Melanie did not want Lisa around her. Melanie also resented her second daughter, according to Paul, “because she was not a boy”. Melanie was excited when her son was born then fell back into drinking, leaving Paul with most of the responsibility to care for the three young children. Paul eventually had to quit his job to care for the children full-time because of Melanie’s instability, and inability to provide for the children.
Lisa, Charlotte and Jonathon have come forward to publicly speak about their mother, revealing how she burned them with cigarettes, poured boiling water over them and locked them in a tiny cupboard. She also chopped off their hair if they “made too much noise”. Ex-husband Paul Smith says that Melanie abused and neglected the children, and showed no maternal instinct, and instead preferred to party and drink. Paul says he saw bruises on the children, that they were not fed and their diapers were not changed while the children were in Melanie’s care.
Paul noticed that Melanie’s heavy drinking resulted in more abuse of the children; when he noticed marks or bruises, Melanie always had an excuse. Paul said sometimes he came home to find the children alone, wet, hungry and crying—Melanie was asleep or passed out. Then Paul discovered Melanie in bed with another man, the children locked in another room so she could have sex, and decided to file for divorce.
Despite the abuse and neglect, after their divorce, Melanie won custody of the children. After being awarded custody, Melanie could not handle caring for the children, and a day later, abandoned the children ages 3, 2, and 9 months into voluntary foster care. The court later reversed its decision, apologized, and awarded Paul sole custody, the children have thrived in his care and fought to forget their mother, though scars still linger.
Paul Smith told the UK Mirror, “I picked them up from emergency foster parents. They looked so scared my heart broke. If I hadn’t lived through it, I wouldn’t believe a mother was capable of such cruelty towards her own kids. It’s the same cruelty that has now taken the lives of those poor victims in the fire. She should rot in jail until the day she dies.”
Her daughter Charlotte, now 23, told the Sunday Mirror: “We all wish she was dead. Knowing that the evil woman who killed that poor family is our mother is almost impossible to bear. Dad rescued us from hell. He’s brought us all up without her but now she’s back in our lives in the most horrific way imaginable. She’s been dead to us since we were tiny. Now I just want her to rot in hell.”
Melanie never tried to see or contact her children. The next time they would see their mother would be on TV, arrested after killing 5 people in a fire she set.
MELANIE SMITH SETS FIRE, KILLS FAMILY IN A JEALOUS RAGE
Fire Set in Communal Hallway by Melanie Smith who Escaped out a Window and Watched the Flat Burn (Daily Mail)
At the time of the fire, Melanie Smith was unemployed and a heavy drinker. She had been kicked out of several pubs due to her outrageous behavior. Melanie was also reported to be an obsessively neat, so bad that she had to seek therapy. Melanie closely guarded her boyfriend Steven Clarkson with intense jealously that had caused her, in August, to vandalize his car, and attempt to set it on fire. Melanie had made several threats to start fires before the killing.
On October 19, 2012, Melanie was upset that a baby stroller was left in the communal hallway of the flat she shared with upstairs neighbors, Lee-Anna Shiers and her boyfriend,20, Liam Timbrell, 23. Melanie had been drinking heavily that day, and had take out dinner with Steven Clarkson. Melanie’s rage was lit when she heard noise in the apartment above, that suggested Lee-Anna and Liam were making love. It has been suggested that Melanie was jealous of the couple’s happiness because Steven was cheating on her, and their relationship was so troubled. Smith also made false allegations that Lee-Anna was having an affair with Steven, to which there is no substantiation. Melanie then went into the communal hallway and set fire to the stroller, setting off an intense fire that would leave the building looking like a bomb had hit it.
While the flat burned, Melanie crawled back into bed with Steven to make it look like she had been asleep all along. She then escaped out a window with Steven, and stood across the street to watch the family die. Witness said they could screams and cries for help but the fire was too hot and too intense to rescue the family.
The Fire Devastated the Flat, Empty the Baby Swing on the Floor Once Held Charlie (DailyMail)
Lee-Anna and Liam were trapped in the flat, desperately calling 999 for help as the fire consumed the everything around them, then took their lives.
As the fire took hold, Mr Timbrell was heard in the background of a 999 call screaming, “Oh my God, oh my God, we’re going to die.”
Justice Griffith-Williams said at sentencing: “For those who had to hear the evidence of the 999 calls, the horror of those moments in the flat upstairs as Lee-Anna and Liam faced the awful inevitability of their imminent deaths will be forever etched on their memories. Understandably the knowledge of the manner of their deaths has added to the overwhelming grief of their families, all the more to those who rushed to the house in the hope they could help…”
Lee-Anna, Liam and Charlie perished in the fire (Dailymail)
Liam and his 15 months old son, Charlie, were pulled from the fire. Charlie was pronounced dead at the scene. Lee-Anna, her nephew Bailey, 4, and niece, Skye, 2, were found deceased inside a bedroom in the flat, crouching together in the last moments of life. Despite being badly burned, Liam managed to tell police that, before the fire, he had heard Melanie shouting through the mail slot, “I’m going to burn your house down.” Liam later succumbed to his injuries and died at the hospital.
Bailey and Skye perished in fire (Dailymail)
Melanie was arrested on the scene, and has shown no remorse for her actions but tries to portray herself as the victim. During the trial, Melanie refuted the 21 witnesses who spoke against her by saying they were in a conspiracy with a woman who was having a fling with her boyfriend Steven. The jury found Melanie guilty of threatening to start a fire and murder.
The court heard victim impact statement from Jonty Lewis, 29, the mother of Skye and Bailey, who said her heart was ‘torn apart’ by their deaths, “When I wake up in the morning, that first minute is beautiful…In those 60 seconds I feel no pain and I’m just listening for the laughter and footsteps running across the landing in the hope that my bedroom door will fly open and they will come bouncing in, jump onto the bed so that I can smother them in kisses. It is then that reality sets in. My heart is wrenched and the heavy empty feeling engulfs me.”
On May 7, 2013 she was convicted then sentenced to life in prison, to serve a minimum of 30 years.
Melanie Smith going to jail where she belongs (Murderpedia)
Lee-Anna’s father Peter says, “It’s going to be very hard to fill the space that has been left in our hearts and in our lives.”
BBC News, “Prestatyn Fire Deaths: Melanie Smith guilty of murder”, April 30, 2013: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-22294592
“Jailed for 30 years, mum who burned neighbours to death because they left pushchair in the hallway: Chilling pictures show remains of the flat where five people died,”, Lizz Hull, May 8 2012Mail Online: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2321273/Prestatyn-Jailed-30-years-Melanie-Smith-burned-neighbours-death-left-pushchair-hallway-Chilling-pictures-remains-flat-people-died.html
Murderpedia: http://murderpedia.org/female.S/s/smith-melanie.htm
The Burned Out Flat and Memorial Balloon (Murderpedia)
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April 4, 2014 by C. Watchman
BARRY GOLDSTEIN : Goats, Abusers & Family Court
The “formal Battered Mothers Custody Conference” will NOT be held this year…
Why the BMCC has declined to host a “formal BMCC” has not been disclosed. As ATW has reported, the Mother’s Movement has encountered numerous problems throughout the year…many “advocates” in the Mother’s Movement who have promised help, and to reform family court, have proven to be abusers, shameless self promoters, cyberstalkers and otherwise incompetent. And other leading organizations in the Mother’s Movement have supported, promoted and/or enabled these abusive advocates. The unprofessional behavior of many in the Mother’s Movement has hindered progress toward meaningful family court reform and caused fear and intimidation among those they are supposed to help.
Advocates in the Mother’s Movement who support and enable Claudine Dombrowski (AMPP). Dombrowski has a protective order issued against her for harassment and criminal cyberstalking
Instead of a “formal conference”, the Battered Mothers and Kids Custody Conference (BMCC) will hold a “mini BMCC” at the George Washington University Law School.
The Mother’s Movement is rolling out the Astroturf grass to announce Barry “Goatstein, offering a lecture on “domestic violence advocate training”.
Remember, in 2009, the State of New York said about Barry, “his conduct exceeded the bounds of propriety as a courtroom advocate,” and then revoked his license to practice law for 5 years. With Barry’s revocation of his law license, and affiliation with a known abuser, you have to wonder if he has the judgment and experience to be the domestic violence expert he claims to be? And knowing Barry’s questionable past, should he be lecturing at various domestic violence and family law conferences? Should Barry be offering training to advocates? Should Barry be training and educating family court judges about domestic violence and its harmful effects on children? And should Barry be offering advice to desperate protective mothers?
The following quotes and screenshots are public statements made by Barry Goldstein…
1) Barry says Goats Are the Best Abuse Advocates because “Of course goats always protect their kids so we can learn from them”.
It is insulting that Barry really thinks a goat is more knowledgeable about protecting a child than their own mother, when he claims to be an advocate for mothers and sympathetic to their cause.
2) According to Barry, Goats Are Now the Symbol “For Our Cause”.
3) ARE goats an appropriate symbol for Barry’s cause?? And should abuse advocates, judges and other domestic violence professionals be learning from goats?
Goats can be dangerous, and aggressive! ..And have a strange obsession with urine.
Goats crave the taste of human urine—and will aggressively stalk men to drink their their urine, this has resulted in the death of a hiker who was attacked by wild goats.
Hikers have been warned to maintain a distance from the goats, at least 50 yards away from them – half the length of a football field.
Mountain Goat safety tips: http://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/olympic/home/?cid=stelprdb5412239
Harrowing story of a hiker’s close call with a mountain goat, “It was as if the sound of my zipper was a dinner bell. A narrow white face, curious, popped over a ridge 20 feet from my crotch. Then another one. Talk about stage fright, or performance anxiety. They approached confidently. They both stared at me, and I stared back at them, confused and anxious…”: http://semi-rad.com/2012/01/beware-the-urine-drinking-goats
Goats also spray themselves with urine prior to mating. Males goats urinate on their beards, legs and bellies to advertise their dominance. Sounds pretty sexist, huh? : http://listverse.com/2012/10/10/top-10-cute-animals-with-disgusting-toilet-habits/
4) According to Barry, he is celebrated by the rest of the animal kingdom for his “work to protect goats and kids”…
Here Barry receives a fishy breath kiss from Cailey the Dolphin, who can’t keep her fins off him, “Cailley the dolphin found out about my work to protect goats and kids and this was her immediate response.”
Barry compares Cailly to the family court judges, and said her kiss is quote “somewhat different from the reactions I have received from the various judges.”
5) Barry says criminal cyberstalkers Claudine Dombrowski, Lorraine Tipton and the attack mothers at American Mothers Political Party (AMPP) “made enormous sacrifices for our movement”…while ignoring the abuse they have inflicted on other protective moms, their harassment towards other organizations working for changes in family court and their long history of cyberbullying and harassment (which continues to this day).
And then Barry says Bill Windsor, of Lawless America, is wrong for standing up to Claudine, and filing for a protective order to protect himself from the dangerous behavior and threats posed by Claudine and AMPP. Both Claudine and Lorraine made death threats against Bill Windsor, and also posted an online rant saying they want to “get rid of” domestic violence and family court advocate Janice Levinson (Protective Mothers Alliance International).
4) Barry says Claudine Dombrowski of AMPP, a Serial Stalker and Cyber Bully, is a “Legitimate Protective Mother” (seen screen shot below). What is that supposed to mean? Is Barry so blindly in support of an abuser that he cannot empathize with the very REAL suffering and trauma of a mother struggling in family court against an abuser, and a system that has failed to uphold her rights and failed to protect her child?
Barry Goldstein supports serial stalker and cyberbully Claudine Dombrowski (AMPP) — even as she is attacking fellow professionals in the Mother’s Movement.
5) Does Barry have any Credibility after his License was Revoked? In 2009, The Grievance Committee for the Ninth Judicial District, State of New York, reviewed 29 charges of professional misconduct against Barry. Of which, 17 charges were upheld, 4 separate charges partly dismissed and 8 charges completely dismissed. As a result, Barry had his license revoked for 5 years and cannot practice law until it is reinstated. http://www.nycourts.gov/reporter/3dseries/2008/2008_10622.htm
The charges involve two separate issues: A- The main part of Barry’s legal practice, at the time, was representing tenants for a non-profit housing resource center that offers a variety of help to assist families with housing issues, and to restabilize families facing crisis or homelessness. Barry’s actions hurt an organization working hard to help struggling families, and to build stronger neighborhoods–offering help free of charge to needy families. 13 of these charges have to do with Barry mishandling client funds; and specifically that Barry failed to properly manage an escrow account and was inappropriately transferring funds. Barry also failed to keep a separate checkbook for the attorney escrow account, and failed to obtain escrow checks bearing the title “Attorney Escrow Account” or “Attorney Special Account” or “Attorney Trust Account” which would clearly identify where the money was coming from, and who was managing the account. When asked to respond to the complaint, Barry refused to answer.
B-The second part of the complaint involves how Barry handled a family law case, it should be noted the Battered Mothers Custody Conference (BMCC) was also involved with this client, and their suggestion that the mother go public with her story, including revealing sensitive details about child abuse, may have had negative impact on her custody outcome. The judge issued a gag order that the last name of the children should not be revealed in order to protect their privacy, and Barry released the last name in an online article about the case. Barry was found to have made dishonest, false and misleading statements to the Court, and to the public when speaking about this case.
Barry claims he is being attacked by the legal system for coming to the rescue of a protective mom…but where is the proof his statements are true? Where are the affidavits or witness statements in support of Barry? And looking at Barry’s delusional comments, and record of defending abusers—how is anyone supposed to “BELIEVE” anything he has to say?
6) Dreams, Barry Goldstein has them… Barry has Psychic Dreams about the Deceased President John F. Kennedy; they walked along the beach, and reminisced about their lives. President Kennedy sympathizes with Barry after reading the story about his court woes, “He said he could tell from the details that this was an injustice and it could not stand.” President Kennedy makes a few phone calls, and voila the Court is apologizing to Barry and reversing its decision!
Note the concern Barry shows towards those hurt by his actions–the non-profit and its clients, and the mother in family court are not given even one comment as the whole post is focused on Barry alone. The Grievance Committee noted that Barry showed a “complete lack of remorse” in their findings.
Barry Goldstein had a dream that John F Kennedy made a phone call and used his connections to reinstate Barry’s (revoked) law license
::Applause::
::Stomping of hooves::
We think the Mother’s Movement can do better.
Please continue to read ATW for breaking news and updates as we reveal the “wolves in sheep’s clothing” working within the Mother’s Movement.
Posted in American Mothers Political Party (AMPP), Barry Goldstein, Battered Mothers Custody Conference, Lawless America/Bill Windsor, Mothers Movement, Protective Mothers Alliance International (PMA) | Tagged Abuse Advocate, Abuse Enablers, American Mothers Political Party, AMPP, Barry Goldstein, Battered Mothers Custody Conference, BMCC, Claudine Dombrowski, Family Court Reform, Family Law, Goats, Mini BMCC, Mountain Goats, NOMAS | 11 Comments
March 30, 2014 by C. Watchman
Maria Bauer Melinn Rewrites History: Inserts Herself into Suffrage Movement & More
“A mother can not stop fighting for the safety of her children, nor can a protective father or grandparent!!!!” – Maria Bauer Melinn
A History of the World According to Maria Bauer Melinn…
CHAPTER 1: Maria becomes QUEEN.
According to male admirer Babuhai Patel, “The best girl in the entire facebook is her highness Maria.”
Abdul Raoof Mughal:“You belong in Bollywood films..”
CHAPTER 2: Maria inserts herself into the Women’s Suffrage Movement, highjacks the name of a legitimate organization, the National Women’s Party, and then. uses it for her own selfish purposes. Maria compares herself to Susan B. Anthony and other notable women, inserting herself into the spotlight of women’s history.
Let’s be clear, Maria stole the National Women’s Party’s name, historical images, and written descriptions of its history and leaders then made this significant organization that has contributed to increasing the rights and equality of women, ALL ABOUT HERSELF!
CHAPTER 3: Maria compares herself to Anne Frank: http://thekcajapreview.blogspot.com/2013/12/maria-melinn-compared-herself-to-ann.html
Anne Frank was a teenager who was murdered in the Holocaust, perishing in a concentration camp with her sister—and most of her family. If Maria does not have respect for Anne’s memory, and how the Frank family has chosen to honor Anne’s life—then how can Maria be trusted to advocate for anyone else or protect her own children?
CHAPTER 4: March 2012, Maria becomes president of the American Mothers Political Party (AMPP), an organization created by fellow narcissists who strive to be the center of attention, attempting to alter reality if necessary.
Just two examples, Lorraine Tipton aka Mama Liberty compares herself to a gun toting Statute of Liberty.
Lorraine Tipton imagines herself to be a gun toting “Mama Liberty”
And Claudine Dombrowski has rewritten the Wizard of Oz to give herself a starring role in it.
Chapter… Do you really want another chapter? History repeats itself until we learn from its mistakes.
Look at the pattern of Maria’s actions; that proves she has a strong need to seek attention without any remorse for using people or hurting people in the process. She even goes so far to steal historical names and the identity of historical figures to feed her own ego. And yet so many people come to Maria, and the others like her for help—Claudine, Lorraine, AMPP, Abused Swan and Mothers of Lost Children (MOLC) etc.
What can be learned from this?
*If you have a history of abuse or trauma, you could be vulnerable to attracting other abusers into your life while missing the red flags. This does NOT mean that you are a bad person but that abuse has left its mark on you, and you must be more diligent in educating yourself or seeking support to protect yourself.
*Just because someone portrays themselves as an “advocate” does not make them one. And just because an advocate is a female does not mean she is a trustworthy person. Abusers can be male or female, come from all backgrounds and cultures, and are skilled at manipulation to hide who they really are. You have to look at actions and patterns of behavior to determine if a person can be trusted.
*For more tips on how to protect yourself, and what red flags to look for to detect abuse, here are some links that may be helpful:
Advocate Qualities and Choosing the Correct One for You: http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/?pageId=376
This link above includes child disability advocacy for schools, but there are some helpful tips that could apply to advocacy in general, including family court advocacy, such as:
How long has this person been involved in advocacy?
Does this person understand YOU, YOUR child and YOU and YOUR child’s needs?
Will this person be sensitive to the fact that YOU have the ultimate final decision making power?
Can this person be objective? What evidence is there of this fact?
Can this person maintain a professional demeanor?
Does this person seek win-win solutions?
Does this person understand his/her professional limits?
What references are available and what is the reputation of this advocate?
Narcissism on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism
A 2012 popular book on power-hungry narcissists suggests that narcissists typically display most, and sometimes all, of the following traits:[7]
An obvious self-focus in interpersonal exchanges
Problems in sustaining satisfying relationships
A lack of psychological awareness (see insight in psychology and psychiatry, egosyntonic)
Difficulty with empathy
Problems distinguishing the self from others (see narcissism and boundaries)
Hypersensitivity to any insults or imagined insults (see criticism and narcissists, narcissistic rage and narcissistic injury)
Vulnerability to shame rather than guilt
Haughty body language
Flattery towards people who admire and affirm them (narcissistic supply)
Detesting those who do not admire them (narcissistic abuse)
Using other people without considering the cost of doing so
Pretending to be more important than they really are
Bragging (subtly but persistently) and exaggerating their achievements
Claiming to be an “expert” at many things
Inability to view the world from the perspective of other people
Denial of remorse and gratitude
Posted in American Mothers Political Party (AMPP), Battered Mothers Custody Conference, Mothers Movement, Outrageous Lies/Slander/Attacks | Tagged Abuse Advocates, Abused Swan, Abusers in the Mothers Movement, Advocates, American Mothers Political Party, AMPP, Identity Theft, Mama Liberty, Maria Bauer Melinn, Maria Melinn Gov Abuse, MOLC, Mothers Movement, Mothers of Lost Children, Narcissism, National Womens Party, Red Flag for Abuse | Leave a comment
March 9, 2014 by C. Watchman
Lorraine Tipton of American Mothers Political Party Pt. II: Abuser or Advocate?
LORRAINE TIPTON ADVOCATE OR ABUSER?
Lorraine Tipton, the steely cold side of the Mother’s Movement
This is just a sample of documented acts of online bullying and cyberstalking committed by Lorraine Tipton; her criminal actions well exceed this list, and ATW will continue to reveal the truth about abusers in the Mother’s Movement.
As you read, ask yourself: “Are these the actions of a concerned abuse advocate or a dangerous abuser?” The Mother’s Movement and its leaders have been presented with the same question, as evidence of AMPP’s criminal stalking and harassment has been made public, and victims are voicing complaints…their response has so far been silence and denial, which has enabled the abuse to continue, and failed to protect the victims and vulnerable moms seeking help.
—2009 to the Present: Protective Mothers Alliance International, co-founded by author and domestic violence expert, Lundy Bancroft, and protective mom and advocate, Janice Levinson, say the American Mothers Political Party (AMPP) initiated a campaign of bullying, defamation and harassment against their organization and its members. Lorraine has participated in or instigated many of these vicious attacks.
Some of the outrageous allegations made by AMPP include: Janice Levinson is “very evil” and “very deadly” and “will mercilessly slaughter you and your children”. Lundy Bancroft has been called “the a—hole of the Mother’s Movement” and called a cult leader. Many of the attacks include vulgar and degrading sexual images and language, threats and various false allegations. ONLY an abuser would enjoy destroying and tearing down a woman, and attack those who come to her defense—how can you represent a “mother’s movement” and be an “abuse advocate” when you adopt the tactics of an abuser, and use language, videos and behavior that is clearly cruel and degrading towards women?
Lundy Bancroft’s statement at “Defending a Women’s Rights Activist Who Is Under Attack”: http://lundybancroft.blogspot.com/2013/07/defending-womens-rights-activist-who-is.html
Statement from Janice Levinson posted on the Venture Philosophy Blog: http://venturephilosophy.blogspot.com/2013/01/american-mothers-political-party-is.html
— (10/29/2010) Lorraine implicates herself as participating in online stalking, harassment and defamation with Claudine Dombrowski and “All of Us” against court officers working on Claudine Dombrowski’s custody case. Lorraine refers to the victims as “court whores”: http://mamaliberty.wordpress.com/2010/10/29/will-the-real-claudine-dombrowski-please-stand-up/
**It should be noted that Claudine has created blogs using the names of these court officers, and has posted their personal information and made various false and derogatory remarks against them all over the internet These blogs point back to Claudine because they mention details about Claudine’s case that only she would know, include information about AMPP and some of them are even written using the name “William M. Windsor” (why is Claudine impersonating Bill Windsor?!?).
–(2010 -Present) Lorraine wrongly believes that defamation, bullying and hate speech is protected by the First Amendment. The cover of the MamaLiberty blog says, “I am protected by the First Amendment that gives me freedom of speech, so get the f—over yourselves”. Is this the professionalism of an abuse advocate and “leader” in the Mother’s Movement or the gutter mouth of an abuser who does not care how her words and actions affect others???
–(10/22/2010) Lorraine again admits to cyberstalking and terrorizing court officers involved in Claudine’s case, “So they claim that Claudine Dombrowski is everywhere…posting this….posting that….posting on her facebook page…CYBERSTALKING HER or was it HER???”
And “I assure all of the idiots from Shawnee County right now that WE are everywhere…Claudine is our HERO…we love and cherish everyday that she has been in our lives…because we have had our own DIS-honarable Judge Debenhams in our life too….we have had our own court whore like Jill M. Dykes….WE ARE CLAUDINE! WE ARE EVERYWHERE!!”
There is more.. “We are not going to give up, shut up or go away….sorry. Gag the internet…..but the internet is here to stay and so are we. Ten years ago you would never find the social networking we have today. Thank you facebook….thank you MySpace…thank you Al Gore! You might be able to threaten a protective mother to not post anything and violate her first amendment rights….but you cannot GAG us all.” http://mamaliberty.wordpress.com/2010/10/22/where-in-the-world-is-claudine-dombrowski/
What has been posted? ATW has reviewed these hateful blogs that contain disturbing sexual material (accusing one victim of having “the dry vagina hots” for her clients), outrageous false allegations that the supervised visitation facility is involved in child trafficking, identity theft of the victims, swearing and name calling, posting personal contact information about the victims, and worse…these blogs still remain on the internet.
See a pattern forming? Dr. Phil says the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior…
–(10/22/2010) Lorraine Tipton engages in victim blaming, she believes that the people she has cyberstalked and terrorized deserve to be abused or did something to provoke her, “Your askew view has made you the target….YOU DID THIS to yourself.” http://mamaliberty.wordpress.com/2010/10/22/where-in-the-world-is-claudine-dombrowski/
Victim blaming has also been used by Lorraine to justify attacks on Bill Windsor, Lundy Bancroft, and Janice Levinson.
Lorraine says Bill Windsor deserves to be cyberstalked because he is a “refractory bigamist” and “Windsor’s stooges seem to be caught up in their need for enemies.”
Lorraine Tipton/Mama Liberty: Lawless Supporters are Laughable Pissants, Psychotic Fruitcakes: http://abusiveadvocates.com/2013/02/19/mama-liberty-laughable-pissants/
–(1/7 to 1/9/2011) At the 2011, Battered Mother’s Custody Conference (BMCC), “Badass Mama”Lorraine Tipton revealed the following ,”How internet groups allow us to form tribes of mothers over long distances and sparsely populated areas through the use of technology and How “To’s” to Safely set up blogs, link and linking, news features to AMPP network -via the BADASS Success.”http://imaginepublicity.com/2010/12/03/3372/
All of which is a blue print for the AMPP cyber gang of Attack Mothers who work together to stalk, terrorize and harass victims online.
See also how the Glenns Cult/Petunia Pig refers to both the AMPP “Anonymums” and the “Badass Mamas”… coincidence???
–2012 to the Present: AMPP members (including Lorraine and Claudine Dombrowski) individually and collectively as a group (also joining in with the Joeys) begin stalk, harass, slander, and threaten Bill Windsor, creator of the “Lawless America” documentary exposing government corruption.
Read Bill’s AMPP Hate Group Expose here: http://www.americanmotherspoliticalparty.com/
Naomi Chambers video on harassment from American Mothers Political Party: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3c2LSn4fRU
—Lorraine also has attacked several protective moms, and cannot be an advocate because she is hurting other moms, who are vulnerable and traumatized and deserve to be protected, NOT intimidated by Lorraine and AMPP.
ATW has viewed a photograph of one protective mom featured on Lorraine’s blog with loving comments next to her name—you would think she is a friend. WRONG! Lorraine later follows up on this beautiful picture by gossiping and making negative comments of an embarrassing nature against this poor protective mom. ATW has screenshots to prove this, and the only reasons they are not posted is to protect this protective mom from further embarrassment.
—Using the name “Rainy68”, under the AMPP account, created and posted hateful videos about Bill Windsor and his government corruption documentary, “Lawless America” online. Including “The Pie Man Floateth”
Lorraine Tipton posting nasty videos about Bill Windsor on YouTube. Not the similarities between “The Pie Man Floateth” and Julia Focker’s “Bitler” videos.
—Using her real name Lorraine Tipton, posted and passed around another hateful video called “Bitler” by the alias “Julia Focker”. Once again slandering Bill Windsor but also mocking the Holocaust and disrespecting the memory of the 10 million victims murdered. You have to be an evil person to laugh about the Holocaust, and twist this tragedy to use to your own benefit.
–-Lorraine has joined in acts of cyberstalking, bullying, harassment and defamation on the Joeys blog. Targets include Bill Windsor (Lawless America), Lundy Bancroft (domestic violence author & speaker, co-founder of Protective Mothers Alliance International, PMA), Janice Levinson (protective mom, co-founder of PMA) and other protective moms, and anyone she feels is a threat.
— Lorraine has declared “war” on fellow abuse advocacy group, Protective Mothers Alliance International (PMA). Lorraine has viciously attacked and slandered both of its founders, Lundy Bancroft and Janice Levinson. Lorraine has also attacked and slandered anyone who supports PMA—including other protective moms.
Is There Really a “War” in the Mother’s Movement?: http://abusiveadvocates.com/2013/04/07/war-mothers-movement/
–(2/2/2013) Lorraine gossiped and made fun of advocates and protective mothers at the Battered Mothers Custody Conference (BMCC) then posted her false, and embarrassing statements on the Joeys site for all to see. According to Lorraine, she only went to the BMCC to see Barry Goldstein; and referred to other advocates as “stupid” and “a hole”.
Lorraine Tipton, on the BMCC (The steely cold side of “mother’s rights” unmasked and unedited: http://abusiveadvocates.com/2013/05/02/lorraine-tipton-bmcc/
— According to a post on the Joeys, Lorraine lives at 666 Go F—Yourself Blvd in Hell USA 666666. Fitting because Lorraine has a strong interest in paganism and witchcraft: http://www.meetup.com/members/9187421/
Husband Chad Tipton is also part of a social group for pagans.
—Made death threats to Bill Windsor
(Feb 25, 2013) Bill Windsor, of Lawless America, files criminal charges against Lorraine Tipton, Claudine Dombrowski and other members of AMPP, the Mothers Movement or the Joeys for harassment and cyberstalking: http://allieoverstreet.com/?tag=lorraine-tipton
So… do you think Lorraine Tipton is an abusive advocate or an abuser? Leave your comments below! Stay tuned as ATW continues to expose abusers hiding in the Mother’s Movement..
Posted in American Mothers Political Party (AMPP), Battered Mothers Custody Conference, Outrageous Lies/Slander/Attacks | Tagged Abuse Advocacy, Abusers in the Mothers Movement, American Mothers Political Party, BMCC, Child Custody, Defamation, Family Court, Family Court Crisis, Glenns Cult, joeyisalittlekid, Julia Focker, Lawless America, Lorraine Tipton, Mama Liberty, Mothers Movement, Oconto Falls WI, Petunia Pig, PMA, Protective Mothers Alliance, Rainy68, Slander, Stalking | 1 Comment
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Saints Astray
Post-apocalyptic scifi meets urban fantasy in Jacqueline Carey's sequel to Santa Olivia as two girls fight to stay together and change the world.
After their escape from military custody, Loup Garron and her girlfriend Pilar have a chance to reinvent their lives thousands of miles away from the forgotten and disenfranchised Texas border town and military zone of Santa Olivia.
Thanks to Loup's genetically engineered gifts of strength, speed, and an innate fearlessness, as well as Pilar's unexpected skill with a pistol, they find new careers as high-priced bodyguards for a world famous British rock band. Back in the States, an investigation into the existence of Santa Olivia, also known as Outpost 12, begins in Washington, D.C. When the key witness with evidence to expose the military cover-up, their old comrade Miguel, vanishes, the case seems lost.
The abandoned citizens of Santa Olivia need a champion, a voice raised on their behalf, which pushes Loup and Pilar into a hard choice. If Loup returns to U.S. soil, she'll be an outlaw. If she's caught, she'll be taken into custody again; and this time, there may be no escape. But if she and Pilar don't fight for the freedom of those they left behind, no one will.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY SEP 26, 2011
Carey follows 2009's Santa Olivia with another lively tale of postpandemic America. Loup Garron is a wild young woman with a mean right hook and modified genes, courtesy of her AWOL supersoldier father. She and her girlfriend, Pilar Ecchevarria, have finally escaped from the walled village where they grew up, but life's still dangerous when you're not technically human and thus lack human rights. Loup and Pilar work as bodyguards in exchange for decent paychecks and false identities. They're safe but sidelined with no real way to help Loup's fellow GMPs or their friends back home. When a famous rock band uses Loup as part of its image, she sees a chance to swing popular opinion to her side and make a stand for her people. Loup and Pilar's sweet, genuine relationship will draw in new readers and satisfy returning fans.
Nipigon Dream , 2012-04-11
Devoured Them Both
I read both the books in just two days. I devoured them and almost wish I had made them last a little longer. I don't really want to let the characters go but I couldn't put the books down. The romance was totally absorbing. I can't believe I put off reading these. Reading the descriptions I thought it sort of sounded cheesy but it totally wasn't. I don't know why not because the plot is certainly fantastic but it feels real when you are reading it and almost going through it with them. Only a really amazing writing could pull off this kind of action with deeper meaning and hot sexy love scenes all together and get it all just perfectly. I guess I would definitely be one of the one in a hundred.
More Books by Jacqueline Carey
Kushiel's Chosen
Kushiel's Avatar
Kushiel's Mercy
Dark Currents
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City of Lights: The Trials and Triumphs of Ilyse Charpentier
Corcitura
Deadmarsh Fey
Reviews & Critical Praise: City of Lights
Books In My Belfry
~ A Writer's Life For Me
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Enlisting the aid of a monster equipped with enough inborn firepower to blast his enemies into oblivion might be as suicidal , but an unholy trinity known as the Bear, but as that interview is quite extensive, but did so sideways. A clear membrane coated its eye, but I could feel her age, but Roger, but when Roger arrives, c. d. gallant-king, c. l. schneider, C. S. Lewis, cable tv, cage, caged, calling, canon, carnifex, caroling, carpet diem, carte blanche, Carver, cat, catharine glen, cathartic, catholic, cats, caverns, cctv, cede, celebration, celts, center stage, chance, changed. The grounds are unkempt, chaos, character classes, characters, Charles Dickens, charpentier, chesterton, chevrefoil, childhood, children, children of light, children of vampires, chilled, chime, china, chivalry, chocolate, chocolate chip, choppy, chris fallowes, chris fallows, chris weston, christened, christians, christina ochs, Christmas, christmas carols, christmas in august, christmas in july, christopher percy, chucked, chumming, church, cianien bloodstone, City of Lights, City of Lights by melika lux, city of lights: the trials and triumphs of ilyse charpentier, clarity, classic, classical, clicking, clues, cnn, coalition, Coffyn, collapse, comedic fantasy, Comedy, comic, comic book, community, composed, conceal, concentration, confessional, confusion, conquest, conservation, constant source of inspiration, Constantinos, constructive criticism, contemporary fantasy, contest, conventional wisdom, conversation, cooked, copies, copyright, coquette, corcitura, Corcitura feature, corpses, corruption, corruption of honor, cottage, count, count orlok, Count Rakmanovich, Count Sergei Rakmanovich, courtly love, coven queen, Cover, cozy, crackbrained, craig a price jr., craig aird, create, creative fiction, creepy, cries blood, crime and punishment, cross fire, cruelty, CS Lewis, curiosity, curse, cut, cutting his teeth, cutwater, cutwater island, d. h. dunn, d. p. prior, d. p. wolliscroft, daft, damned souls, dance hall, dance of romance, dancing in the dust, danger, dangerous, dannese, dark, dark ages, dark fantasy, dark lord, dark night of the soul, dark oak, dark of winter, dark one's mistress, dark side, dark tide, dark water, dark wreaker, darkblade assassin, darkling, darkness, dashing, daughter of atlas, David Copperfield, david gowey, david mullin, david oliver, david p macpherson, dawn of darkness, days of endless night, dead bride, dead shrimps, deadliest, Deadmarsh, Deadmarsh Fey, deadmarshes, deal, dean rencraft, death, death merchants, death of worlds, debbie taylor, deborah kerr, december, decision, dedication, deeds in which village children made sacrifice to an otherworldly beast and were never seen or heard from again, deep, deeper, defeat, demand, demon, demon-haunted, demonic, demons, demons of the deep, denial, depth, depths, derangement, desire to weave stories, desolate, destiny, destruction, details, devastatingly brilliant, devil, devilry, devils, devin madson, devour, devourer of the world, dialogue, dianne bylo, die, dignity, dimensioner's revenge, diminish, Discovery Channel, disover, disposable, distraction, ditty, diva of the paris stage, diver's suit, divine, dk girl, dnf, dogs, doldrums, don't look back, donald trump, doom, dorothy dreyer, Dostoevsky, dostoyevsky, double blinds, Dracula, draculaesque, Dragon, dragon eye, dragon fate, dragon school, dragon shade, dragona rise of the wyverns, dragons, dramatically, dramatis personae, drandeur, dread, dread grandeur, dream, dream-sagas, dreamlike, dreams, dresses, driving force, drowning, druids, dude, dunedain, dungeoneers, dungeons and dragons, dunsany, duology, dwellers, dwellers of darkness, dwellers of darkness children of light, dyrk ashton, e. j. taylor, E. T., eagle and child, earth, Eastern Europe, ebb, ecstatically, eddas, ego, Eiffel Tower, elessar, elevator, elevator pitch, elmo, elvish, email, embellishments, emblematic, emerald dodge, emma stone, emotional, emotions, encourage, end song, enemies, enemy, engand, England, englishman, enlightened, enraptured, enrich, enveloped, envoys, epic, epic fantasy, epistolary, Eric Bradburry, erlkonig, erudite, ET, eternal night, Europe, European, evangeline, everl'aria, everyone, evidence, evie, evil, Excerpt, exhausted, exhilarated, exile, experience, exploitation, exploring, extraordinary, eye of arianrhod, eyes, Facebook, faces in the mist, facilitator, fade, faeries, fair and foul, fairy cakes, fairy tales, faith, fall, fallen, fallen age, fallen empire, fallen kingdom, false bay, family, fangs and fins, fantastic, fantastical, fantasy, fantasy hive, fantasy is escapist, fantasy novels, farewell and adieu, fascinated, fast typist, fate, Fated, fated to die, father, fathomless, Faust, favorite, fearies, fearless, feast, feast in the forest, feature, featured, featured at Jean the Book Nerd’s great site, feedback, feel, feelings, female author, female vampires, female werewolves, female writers, fey, fiction, Film, filming locations, films, Fin de siècle, Find Me, finding dory, finding home, finding nemo, fire's song, fire-breather, firecracker, fireplace, firing, first love, first novel, five, flesh, flesh and blood, flickering, flickering within that gigantic orb… “Why should I not know what he’s really called?” “Tell a man your name and he will have power over you forever, flow, flowers, flying saucer, flying sharks, foe, Folies Bergère, food network, foodtv, foot, for his savagery had no end.” “I’ve seen its other side. I know what lives here, forest, forever, forever grateful, forever love, forever my love, forfeit, forged in flames, forgotten relics, forsaken kingdom, foundation, four novel, fox news, fragile nights, France, Franz Schubert, freaky, free, free reign, free will, freebie, freedom, freeing air, French, french flag, French wine, friday, friends, Friendship, frodo, frodo baggins, frustrating, fudge, full circle, fun, fundamental, Fuseli, fylgja, fyodor, gabriel michaelson, gaja j. kos, game of thrones, gamut, Gandalf, gandalf the grey, gardener, gargantuan, geist, genius, genres, george r. r. martin, german, german lieder, germanic, Germany, ghast, ghost electricity, ghosts, gift, giganitc, giveaway, gk chesterton, glamour of evil, glimpse, gloomy, glories, glorious, glory, gnomic, goal, God, godforsaken, goethe, gollum, good and evil, good gad, good vs evil, gooderads, goodread, Goodreads, Google, goose, goose is cooked, gothic, gothic novel, governess, grabs, Grand Tour, gravitas, great book, great god pan, great white, great white shark, Greece, green flashing like St. Elmo’s fire. All these colors danced not a foot in front of Roger’s face, green with envy, greenery, Gretchen am Spinnrade, grey beard, grey wolves, Greydanus, grim reaper, groaza, gryffyn, guardian spirit, guardians, guides, guillermo del toro, Guinness, gustav mahler, guv, guy fieri, gwendolyn pendraig, h p lovecraft, h. g. wells, had ever been anything to fear. Nearly each summer of his young life had been spent in that manor on the moors, hallmark, hallmark channel, halloween, hamilton, hamlet, hammer, hand-write, handily at hand, hannah sullivan, hansel and gretel, hard work, harmony, harsh, has inexplicably grown and glares at Roger as if he is trying to read the boy’s mind. Roger’s eldest cousin, hasty, hate, haunted, haunting of hill house, havelock, having wild adventures with his cousin, hazard, he finds everything, he was The Bottomless, he who fights, heart, heartache, heartbeat, heartland, heaven, heaven and earth, hell comes to hogtown, help, henry corbin, henry fuseli, henry james, here be dragons, here there be dragons, hermit, hermitlife, hero, hero forged, heroes, heroism, high barrens, high fantasy, high school, higher self, higher selves, highland, hindsight, hinterland, historical fiction, historical romance, History, hobbit, hobbit size, hobbiton, hollow, home, home is behind, hope, hopes, hopes and dreams, horrifying, horror, horror herald, horrorfest, hosted, hosting, hot, Hotmail, house, hues, huge, hugh jackman, hugo vickers, hugo weaving, hugs, human beings, Humor, Hunger Games, hungers of life and all that matters, hunter, hybrid, hybrid vampires, i am death, i am fire, i am fire i am death, I shout, I thought it would be a good idea to share them with you today in a separate post. I hope you enjoy this little glimpse into Deadmarsh Fey. Best wishes, ian gregoire, Ian McCarthy, ian mckellan, ian mckellen, iceland, iconic, idea, ignite, ill tiding, illegal, illegible, ilyse, Ilyse Charpentier, imaginal, imaginal realm, imagination, imbued, impact, impacted, imprisoned, in tune, in which a dashing Englishman woos mademoiselle Charpentier, in-depth, incendiu, incorporate, incredible hulk, indecisive, Indie, infected, infinity, infused, inkling, inklings, inner lives, inorganic, insatiable, insights, inspiration, inspirations, inspired, instill, insurmountable, integrity, intense, interjections, internet, Interview, invite, iron fey, iron reveals, irrevocably, irv, isobel, isobel vickers, Italian, Italy, itinerant writing, ivan turgenev, j. a. alexsoo, j. d. hallowell, j. e. mueller, j. elizabeth vincent, J. R. R. Tolkien, j. r. rasmussen, j. zachary pike, ja andrews, jack, Jack the Ripper, jacob sannox, jagged, jagged ones, JAWS, jawsome, jawsomeness, jc kang, jean, jean booknerd, jean valjean, jeffrey l kohanek, jeffrey russell, jennifer ellison, jeramy goble, jess watkins, jesse teller, jingle bells, jingle sharks, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, john william waterhouse, johnny cash, jon, jordan c robinson, joseph sheridan le fanu, josh erikson, jot, joy, JRR Tolkien, julian, june carter cash, jungle book, Jurassic Park, just keep swimming, justin lee anderson, k bird lincoln, k l ling, k m alexander, kascher's quartet, katniss, kayleigh nicol, keith mcardle, kevin wright, kind, Kindle, kindle giveaway, king arthur, kingshold, Kip, Kipling, kirsten m corby, Knightley, knowing thine enemy, knut hamsun, kurintor nyusi, l. l. mcneil, la la land, La Perle de Paris, la petite coquette, lad, landed, languages, laptop, latest, laura, laura m hughes, lava, lead, lead to the rath and your fate will be shown… cover Deadmarsh. The name struck terror into the hearts of all who heard it. But to Roger Knightley, leave, lee conley, legend, legendarium, legends, legends of elera voices, Leonora, Leonora Bianchetti, lepers, leroy nichols, les miserables, lesser, let off the lead, lethal, letter, liath luacra, library, lie, lieder eines fahrenden gesellen, lies, life, lifeline, light, light dawning, like the greater evil we faced later on, likeminded, lin manuel miranda, lineup, link, Links, lion the witch and the wardrobe, lips, lirazel, list, little dream, lives, Lockie, loggerheads, logistical, London, longing, longing for home, longings, lord byron, lord dunsany, lord of the rings, lords of asylum, lorri moulton, LOTR, lots of tears, Louisa May Alcott, Louvre, Love, love in one act, love of reading, Luc, luck, luminous, lunch, lux, Lux Aeterna, lynn's books, lyrics, m. s. olney, mabinogion, mabus, machen, mad skillz, maddie, made him feel as though his mind had been crushed between slabs of stone. There was chaos in it, Madelaine Bradburry, madness, magic, magic's betrayal, magician's nephew, magnificent, mahler, main character, majestic, malazan, malevolence, manipulation, Manon Larue, manor, many thanks to the fabulous (and sharktastic!) Laura M. Hughes for giving me this opportunity. I hope you will all enjoy reading about, marble, marianne ratcliffe, marilyn peake, marilyn vix, marine biologist, mark lawrence, marked, mashup, masquerading, master, master coffyn, masterclass, masterpiece, matt heppe, matt larkin, matthew thompson, maul, Maurice Charpentier, maxim, me, meagan hurst, meager, meaningful, meanings, meant to be, media, meg cowley, megan mackie, melancholy, melika, Melika Dannese Lux, Melika Lux, melokai, membrane, mental angels, merlin, message in a bottle, method, michael baker, michael r baker, michael sliter, middle-earth, mike morris, miles and flora, mimicked, mind, mind behind the mind, mind palace, miraculously, miranda, miranda honfleur, mirror writing, mirroring, moartea, moarteans, modern times, monikers, monocle, monty python, moon, moonlight roses and murder, moonstone, more things in heaven and earth, moria, morlocks, moroda, moss, most wonderful time of the year, mother, motherhood, motivation, mountain, Movies, mr. micawber, mr. murdstone, mug, Music, musical, my beloved, my calling, my dream, my life, my love, mystical, myth, mythology, myths, names, napkins, narnia, nature, nature of evil, nazri noor, nebulous, ned marcus, neither Deadmarsh the house, nerd, net galley, netflix, netgalley, never looked back, new, new interview, new picture, new release, New York, new zealand, news, nia rae, nicholas kotar, nicholas malebranche, night, nightmare, nightmarish, ninny, no looking back, no sparkling, nor Deadmarsh the family, norse, norse mythology, north york moors, northleach, norway, Nosferatu, not one foot! Why are you not afraid?” “Because I am the monster lurking in the shadows, notebook, notes, novel, novelist, novels, now, now dresses like a duchess and wears round her neck a strange moonstone given to her by someone known as Master Coffyn, now face-to-fey, nudged, oblivion, obsessed, ocean, odds, of darkness, off his nut, offshore, oil slick, old salt, older, ominous, on borrowed luck, on location, one i love, opaque, opera, or the world.” “There are more things in Heaven and earth…” Uncle Gryffyn muttered. “Now ain’t the time to be quotin’ old Bill Shakes, orange, orconomics, original, orion, orlok, oswald, other worlds, otherness, otherworld, out of nowhere, outlet, overwhelming, Oxford, pages, pale, palming the ace, pan, panic, panther, paper, Paperback, paranoia, paranoid, Paranormal, parc monceau, parents, Paris, Parisian, passionately, path, patrick leclerc, Paul Celan, pdf, peace, Penny Dreadful, penny dreadfuls, pepe the prawn, peppy, perfect day, performance, perilous, perilous realms, personal, perspective, perspicacious, peter jackson, peter quint, petrik leo, pews, phil parker, phil williams, philosopher, phoenix, phoenix descending, phrased, pianist, pict, picture, piece, pilgrimage, pilgrimages, pirates of the caribbean, pistachio, pit, place of slaughter, plausible deniability, play, plethora, plots, plowed, plumbing, poet, poetic edda, poetry, pointy hat, Polidori, politics, pool, pop culture, portraits, possessed, post, powers of music, prayer, pre-raphaelites, precious, preferably, premiered, press, prime time, primetime, professor fertig, project, projects, promo, promotion, prophecy, protagonist, pseudonym, psychological, publication, publicity, publishing, puckie, puddleglum, pumpkin, pun, pure magic, questions, quick-fire, quickfire, Quint, quites, quote, quotes, r. m. mulder, rafflecopter, ragna, random, ranger, rapture, rapturous, raskolnikov, rath, raucous, ravan thrall, raymond st. elmo, readers, reading, real, real name, realm of mindweavers, realms, reaper, recent reads, red sister, reddit, reflection, reflection of yourself, regret, reign, religion, renaissance, research, respect, reveal, revenge, Review, reviews, reward, rex, richard iii, richard lucas, richard writhen, riddled with fear, ring, rivalry, riveting novels of psychological suspense, roaring fire, roasted, robert shaw, robocopter ski patrol, rocks, roger, Roger cannot fathom, Roger discovers that Coffyn has overtaken Lockie. The boy is deceitful, Roger Knightley, Roger Knightley. Evil is evil no matter the century, Roger must find a way to end the battle being waged across worlds before the night of Lockie’s eleventh birthday—two days hence. If he fails, Roger seeks to unravel the tapestry of lies woven round his family’s connection to the death-haunted world of Everl’aria—and the Dark Wreaker who calls it home. The deeper Roger delves into the , rohirrim, roiling emotions, role playing, romance, romance novels set in historic France, Romania, Romanian, romantic fantasy, ronald tibu, room, rosalyn kelly, rosina, rossini, rotsby, round pegs, rove, rudyard kipling, ruination, ruled, rural, rural england, russell cullison, Russia, russian, ryan gosling, s. a. corey, s. c. flynn, s. k. randloph, sacrifice, sacrirfice, sadness, saga, sagas, sagas germanic, sale, salt, samara, samir, samwise gamgee, sanderson, sangue de vita, Sangue di Vita, sarah k. l. wilson, saucer, sauron, sausage, sausage sandwich, savagery, savoir faire, scarper, scary, scary vampires, scene, scene stealer, scenes, schadenfreude, schubert, science-fantasy, scotland, scream, scribd, scrubland, scythe, sea, Sea World, seal, seal island, sean astin, sean cunningham, seared, searing beauty, seasonal, seasonal reads, secret doorways, secrets, seized, selection, self publishing fantasy blog off, self-published fantasy blog off, semicolon, serenaded, Sergei, Sergei Rakmanovich, series, serious, servant of rage, seven hundred years, seventeen, sez, sez who, shadow magic, shadows, sham, shaq, shaquille o'neal, shark, shark attack, shark bite, shark chorus, shark elevator pitch, Shark Week, sharkbait oo-ha-HA!, sharking, sharkland, sharkland forever, Sharks, sharktastic, sheltering, shere khan, shield of kings, shifts, shire, shirley jackson, shiver, shores of the heart, shrieking, siblings, silence, silly, silver-tongued devil, singer, singing, sinisterly, sir frank dicksee, sister, sisters, site, sixteen, skill, skillz, skye, sneaky, snippet, snuffbox, snug, social media, solace lost, soldier, solidified, son, song, songs of insurrection, songs of the wayfarer, sonya m black, soprano, sorcerer's isle, sorcerous rivalry, Sorina Boroi, sorrow, soul, soul render, soul-restoring, soul-searching, soulmate, soulmates, souls, South Africa, space time continuum, special, special meaning, specials, spfbo, spfbo2018, spill, spinning silk, spiritual, spoiler, Spooky, spring, spring-heeled jack, square holes, squirrel, st. elmo's fire, standchen, startle, states, status quo, steal of a deal, steampunk, steer the ship, Stefan, Stefan Belododia, Stefan Ratliff, stephen spielberg, stephenie meyer, steve thomas, steven erikson, steven mckinnon, steven spielberg, stole his will, stone, storm wielder, story, story arcs, story reading, storytelling, storyweaving, stratosphere, struggle, stumbling block, stunning, sub-genres, success, suffered, summer, sunday, supernatural, supernatural thriller, superstition, support, suppressing, surf, surfer, surfer dude, susan hill, Suspense, suzanne rogerson, sviddheim, swathing, sweeney todd, sweet, swimmers, swimming, sydney, Sylvi, symphony of the wind, t j muir, T-Rex, t. cook, t. l. branson, Tags#AmWriting, Tags100, taiwan, Taken, taking care of, talk, talking animals, talking cat, talking cats, tall tales, TAPS, tears, techniques, teeth, temporary derangement, ten, terrifying, terror, that's what I'm tolkien about, the apples of idunn, the bastard from fairyland, the crown of stones, the crushed peak, the darkness within, the dead sagas, the Deadmarsh heir. This year should have been no different, the end begins, the exercise of vital powers, the expanse, the family cat, the fantasy hive, The Fellowship of the Ring, the finder of the lucky devil, the first fear, the forbidden city, the game bird, the great hearts, the great restoration, the greatest showman, the hidden face, the hidden ones, the innocents, the ivy cottage, the king of elfland's daughter, the knight's order, the last whisperer, The Lord of the Rings, the lost sentinel, the manhunters song, The Marriage of Figaro, the Moarteans christened him Groaza. Others called him The Devourer of the World. And to those on Sviddheim, the more he begins to suspect that the tales of dark deeds done in the forest behind Deadmarsh, the most wonderful time of the year, the power of music, the red hourglass, the ring, the rose crown, the sangrook saga, the seeds of dissolution, the servants long gone. Kip, the silver chair, the song of the siren, the stars were right, the tainted crown, the tempest guild, the thousand scars, The Trials and Triumphs of Ilyse Charpentier, the turn of the screw, the very beginning, the white people and other weird stories, the Wolf, theatre, then drew back to reveal hues infinitely more searing than before—so vibrant it was painful for Roger to look into them. Orange pulsating like a lava flow, theophany, these vampires don't sparkle, This selection of quotes will appear in a very personal interview on Friday, thorny, thousand scar, threatening, threats of sky and sea, three decades, three tons, three tons of him, thrilled, Thriller, throat, through a glass darkly, thunder the shadows are stirring, tibu, tidings, tiger lilly, tiller, time machine, timothy c doyle, tiny tim, Tolkien, tollers, Tollers and Jack, tom-tom, tome tender, too. 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When he invaded Everl’aria, Werewolf, werewolf transformation, what of the rumor that it was not an earthquake which rocked the moors surrounding Deadmarsh sixteen years ago, what’s been slumbering for so long.” A hollow pit opened up where Roger’s heart was supposed to be. “How would you know that?” “I woke it up.” He blinked in surprise and was even more st, when the kingdom falls, whiskey and dragon fire, white death, white shark, Whitechapel, who has taken over the teaching of Lockie at a school in Wales called Nethermarrow. And soon after he crosses the threshold of Deadmarsh, who might be the deadliest of them all. 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Melika Dannese Hick has been an author since the age of fourteen and writes dream-sagas that incorporate a variety of different genres, including historical fiction, suspense, thrillers with a supernatural twist, and epic/dark fantasy. She is also a classically trained soprano/violinist/pianist, who holds a BA in Management from Saint Leo University and an MBA in Marketing from Regis University.
If she had not decided to become a writer, Melika would have become a marine biologist, but after countless years spent watching Shark Week, she realized she is very attached to her arms and legs and would rather write sharks into her stories than get up close and personal with those toothy wonders.
Melika and her husband, Julian, make their home in London, with occasional journeys into the Shire. To learn more about Melika, her books, and latest writing projects, please visit booksinmybelfry.com
A Very Personal Interview + Book Giveaway
Posted by Melika Dannese Hick in Author Spotlight, Deadmarsh Fey, Fun Stuff, Giveaway Announcement, Missives, News, Updates
13, 15, 18, 1888, 1890s, 1894, 1975, 19th century, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2008, 2013, 2014, 2018, 2019, 24601, 30th anniversary, 40, 700, 8, a book addict's bookshelves, a fragment of life, a host of ills, a keeper's tale, a less enlightened time, a lot, a warden's purpose, a wizard should know better, a wizard's forge, a woodley, a. m. justice, a. m. rycroft, a. z. anthony, aaron c. cross, aaron hodge, aaron-michael hall, ache, adam watson, adaptations, added bonus, aderyn, aderyn wood, admiration, adult, aesop, afresh, Agatha Christie, age, aidan r walsh, Air Jaws, aldrea alien, alexa grave, alexander grant, alice in wonderland, alice sabo, Aliens, all my heart, all of my heart, all we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us, alliance, allies, almost as if the weight of her years were pressing against me like a great mountain of corpses that would collapse onto me if I so much as looked at her the wrong way.” Gryffyn looked as though he w, alveric, always treated as a servant, amaze, amazed, amazing, Amazon, Amazon UK, amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com, amreading, amy mcnulty, ancient evils, and destruction—a voice crafted of darkness and the death of worlds.” Flesh and bone and hearts unknown, and everyone, and has returned bearing tales of creatures called Jagged Ones that claim to be of the Fey and can somehow conceal themselves while standing in the full light of the moon. What they want with Lockie, and I enjoyed answering these questions so much. Many, and it becomes savagely clear that these Jagged Ones and the Dark Wreaker they serve are not only after Lockie and Travers, and the Curse That Walks The Earth. And then there is the foe named Blood Wood, and we’d be none the wiser till it had us by the throat! We can’t see a foot in front of our faces, andrea domanski, anduril, andy peloquin, angel, angels, anglo-saxon, anguish, anne rice, annihilate, annihilation, Anniversary, anorffen, answer the call, antestheria, applause, aragorn, architect, are true. And if there is truth in these outlandish stories, ariadne's thread, arianrhod, arthur, arthur machen, arwen, as Laura phrased it, as were the fiends who allowed themselves to be Hosted.” “But that happened in a wilder age, ashley capes, assumption, asunder, august, Augustin Boroi, aunt betsy, australia, australian, australian shark chorus, authentic, author, Authors, autonomy, autumn, awestruck, ” Bellows shot in. “You’re not allowed in church!” The Jagged One squinted at him. “Sez who?” “Says God!” Carver tsked. “I thought you Christians welcomed everyone.” “We make exc, ” Carver muttered. “I don’t know how else to explain this, ” Incendiu snarled. “They were all children, ” Roger argued. “Do not make the mistake of thinking present society is so highly advanced that they have forgotten their baser instincts, back from the dead, baggins, bagheera, bait, barber of seville, base motives, battlecry, beach, bear, beautiful, beginning, belkin, bellows, belong, beloved, below, bent, beowulf, best friend, best wishes, betrayal, better angels, beyond, beyond the forest, biased, bide, big, big boys, bill shakes, biologist, bird and baby, birth certificate, birthday, bite, black, black cats, black winged beast, blade and rose, blank wall, blazing, blind, blog, Blog Tour, blogger, bloggers, bloglovin, blogs, blood, blood and ashes, blood suckers, blood will drown the earth. And Roger and his entire family will fulfill the prophecy of fey’s older, blood wood, blood-soaked, bloodshed, bloom, blue prometheus, blue water, blue water white death, blues brothers, boarding school, boat, bombastic, bond, book, book addict, book feature, book giveaway, book nerd, book of mormon, booknerd, books, Books In My Belfry, booksinmybelfry.com, boom, boris kos, born vampire, boromir, Bottomless, boxer, brainstorming, bram stoker, brandon, bravo, brian o'sullivan, bride, brilliant, British, broke, brother, Brother?” the beast mocked. The dragon’s voice paralyzed Roger where he stood. Hearing it sapped his strength, brothers, brothers and sisters, brothers grimm, bruce, bubbly, business, bust, but a winged nightmare attempting to break free of its underground prison? Enlisting the aid of a monster equipped with enough inborn firepower to blast his enemies into oblivion might be as suicidal , but an unholy trinity known as the Bear, but as that interview is quite extensive, but did so sideways. A clear membrane coated its eye, but I could feel her age, but Roger, but when Roger arrives, c. d. gallant-king, c. l. schneider, C. S. Lewis, cable tv, cage, caged, calling, canon, carnifex, caroling, carpet diem, carte blanche, Carver, cat, catharine glen, cathartic, catholic, cats, caverns, cctv, cede, celebration, celts, center stage, chance, changed. The grounds are unkempt, chaos, character classes, characters, Charles Dickens, charpentier, chesterton, chevrefoil, childhood, children, children of light, children of vampires, chilled, chime, china, chivalry, chocolate, chocolate chip, choppy, chris fallowes, chris fallows, chris weston, christened, christians, christina ochs, Christmas, christmas carols, christmas in august, christmas in july, christopher percy, chucked, chumming, church, cianien bloodstone, City of Lights, City of Lights by melika lux, city of lights: the trials and triumphs of ilyse charpentier, clarity, classic, classical, clicking, clues, cnn, coalition, Coffyn, collapse, comedic fantasy, Comedy, comic, comic book, community, composed, conceal, concentration, confessional, confusion, conquest, conservation, constant source of inspiration, Constantinos, constructive criticism, contemporary fantasy, contest, conventional wisdom, conversation, cooked, copies, copyright, coquette, corcitura, Corcitura feature, corpses, corruption, corruption of honor, cottage, count, count orlok, Count Rakmanovich, Count Sergei Rakmanovich, courtly love, coven queen, Cover, cozy, crackbrained, craig a price jr., craig aird, create, creative fiction, creepy, cries blood, crime and punishment, cross fire, cruelty, CS Lewis, curiosity, curse, cut, cutting his teeth, cutwater, cutwater island, d. h. dunn, d. p. prior, d. p. wolliscroft, daft, damned souls, dance hall, dance of romance, dancing in the dust, danger, dangerous, dannese, dark, dark ages, dark fantasy, dark lord, dark night of the soul, dark oak, dark of winter, dark one's mistress, dark side, dark tide, dark water, dark wreaker, darkblade assassin, darkling, darkness, dashing, daughter of atlas, David Copperfield, david gowey, david mullin, david oliver, david p macpherson, dawn of darkness, days of endless night, dead bride, dead shrimps, deadliest, Deadmarsh, Deadmarsh Fey, deadmarshes, deal, dean rencraft, death, death merchants, death of worlds, debbie taylor, deborah kerr, december, decision, dedication, deeds in which village children made sacrifice to an otherworldly beast and were never seen or heard from again, deep, deeper, defeat, demand, demon, demon-haunted, demonic, demons, demons of the deep, denial, depth, depths, derangement, desire to weave stories, desolate, destiny, destruction, details, devastatingly brilliant, devil, devilry, devils, devin madson, devour, devourer of the world, dialogue, dianne bylo, die, dignity, dimensioner's revenge, diminish, Discovery Channel, disover, disposable, distraction, ditty, diva of the paris stage, diver's suit, divine, dk girl, dnf, dogs, doldrums, don't look back, donald trump, doom, dorothy dreyer, Dostoevsky, dostoyevsky, double blinds, Dracula, draculaesque, Dragon, dragon eye, dragon fate, dragon school, dragon shade, dragona rise of the wyverns, dragons, dramatically, dramatis personae, drandeur, dread, dread grandeur, dream, dream-sagas, dreamlike, dreams, dresses, driving force, drowning, druids, dude, dunedain, dungeoneers, dungeons and dragons, dunsany, duology, dwellers, dwellers of darkness, dwellers of darkness children of light, dyrk ashton, e. j. taylor, E. T., eagle and child, earth, Eastern Europe, ebb, ecstatically, eddas, ego, Eiffel Tower, elessar, elevator, elevator pitch, elmo, elvish, email, embellishments, emblematic, emerald dodge, emma stone, emotional, emotions, encourage, end song, enemies, enemy, engand, England, englishman, enlightened, enraptured, enrich, enveloped, envoys, epic, epic fantasy, epistolary, Eric Bradburry, erlkonig, erudite, ET, eternal night, Europe, European, evangeline, everl'aria, everyone, evidence, evie, evil, Excerpt, exhausted, exhilarated, exile, experience, exploitation, exploring, extraordinary, eye of arianrhod, eyes, Facebook, faces in the mist, facilitator, fade, faeries, fair and foul, fairy cakes, fairy tales, faith, fall, fallen, fallen age, fallen empire, fallen kingdom, false bay, family, fangs and fins, fantastic, fantastical, fantasy, fantasy hive, fantasy is escapist, fantasy novels, farewell and adieu, fascinated, fast typist, fate, Fated, fated to die, father, fathomless, Faust, favorite, fearies, fearless, feast, feast in the forest, feature, featured, featured at Jean the Book Nerd’s great site, feedback, feel, feelings, female author, female vampires, female werewolves, female writers, fey, fiction, Film, filming locations, films, Fin de siècle, Find Me, finding dory, finding home, finding nemo, fire's song, fire-breather, firecracker, fireplace, firing, first love, first novel, five, flesh, flesh and blood, flickering, flickering within that gigantic orb… “Why should I not know what he’s really called?” “Tell a man your name and he will have power over you forever, flow, flowers, flying saucer, flying sharks, foe, Folies Bergère, food network, foodtv, foot, for his savagery had no end.” “I’ve seen its other side. I know what lives here, forest, forever, forever grateful, forever love, forever my love, forfeit, forged in flames, forgotten relics, forsaken kingdom, foundation, four novel, fox news, fragile nights, France, Franz Schubert, freaky, free, free reign, free will, freebie, freedom, freeing air, French, french flag, French wine, friday, friends, Friendship, frodo, frodo baggins, frustrating, fudge, full circle, fun, fundamental, Fuseli, fylgja, fyodor, gabriel michaelson, gaja j. kos, game of thrones, gamut, Gandalf, gandalf the grey, gardener, gargantuan, geist, genius, genres, george r. r. martin, german, german lieder, germanic, Germany, ghast, ghost electricity, ghosts, gift, giganitc, giveaway, gk chesterton, glamour of evil, glimpse, gloomy, glories, glorious, glory, gnomic, goal, God, godforsaken, goethe, gollum, good and evil, good gad, good vs evil, gooderads, goodread, Goodreads, Google, goose, goose is cooked, gothic, gothic novel, governess, grabs, Grand Tour, gravitas, great book, great god pan, great white, great white shark, Greece, green flashing like St. Elmo’s fire. All these colors danced not a foot in front of Roger’s face, green with envy, greenery, Gretchen am Spinnrade, grey beard, grey wolves, Greydanus, grim reaper, groaza, gryffyn, guardian spirit, guardians, guides, guillermo del toro, Guinness, gustav mahler, guv, guy fieri, gwendolyn pendraig, h p lovecraft, h. g. wells, had ever been anything to fear. Nearly each summer of his young life had been spent in that manor on the moors, hallmark, hallmark channel, halloween, hamilton, hamlet, hammer, hand-write, handily at hand, hannah sullivan, hansel and gretel, hard work, harmony, harsh, has inexplicably grown and glares at Roger as if he is trying to read the boy’s mind. Roger’s eldest cousin, hasty, hate, haunted, haunting of hill house, havelock, having wild adventures with his cousin, hazard, he finds everything, he was The Bottomless, he who fights, heart, heartache, heartbeat, heartland, heaven, heaven and earth, hell comes to hogtown, help, henry corbin, henry fuseli, henry james, here be dragons, here there be dragons, hermit, hermitlife, hero, hero forged, heroes, heroism, high barrens, high fantasy, high school, higher self, higher selves, highland, hindsight, hinterland, historical fiction, historical romance, History, hobbit, hobbit size, hobbiton, hollow, home, home is behind, hope, hopes, hopes and dreams, horrifying, horror, horror herald, horrorfest, hosted, hosting, hot, Hotmail, house, hues, huge, hugh jackman, hugo vickers, hugo weaving, hugs, human beings, Humor, Hunger Games, hungers of life and all that matters, hunter, hybrid, hybrid vampires, i am death, i am fire, i am fire i am death, I shout, I thought it would be a good idea to share them with you today in a separate post. I hope you enjoy this little glimpse into Deadmarsh Fey. Best wishes, ian gregoire, Ian McCarthy, ian mckellan, ian mckellen, iceland, iconic, idea, ignite, ill tiding, illegal, illegible, ilyse, Ilyse Charpentier, imaginal, imaginal realm, imagination, imbued, impact, impacted, imprisoned, in tune, in which a dashing Englishman woos mademoiselle Charpentier, in-depth, incendiu, incorporate, incredible hulk, indecisive, Indie, infected, infinity, infused, inkling, inklings, inner lives, inorganic, insatiable, insights, inspiration, inspirations, inspired, instill, insurmountable, integrity, intense, interjections, internet, Interview, invite, iron fey, iron reveals, irrevocably, irv, isobel, isobel vickers, Italian, Italy, itinerant writing, ivan turgenev, j. a. alexsoo, j. d. hallowell, j. e. mueller, j. elizabeth vincent, J. R. R. Tolkien, j. r. rasmussen, j. zachary pike, ja andrews, jack, Jack the Ripper, jacob sannox, jagged, jagged ones, JAWS, jawsome, jawsomeness, jc kang, jean, jean booknerd, jean valjean, jeffrey l kohanek, jeffrey russell, jennifer ellison, jeramy goble, jess watkins, jesse teller, jingle bells, jingle sharks, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, john william waterhouse, johnny cash, jon, jordan c robinson, joseph sheridan le fanu, josh erikson, jot, joy, JRR Tolkien, julian, june carter cash, jungle book, Jurassic Park, just keep swimming, justin lee anderson, k bird lincoln, k l ling, k m alexander, kascher's quartet, katniss, kayleigh nicol, keith mcardle, kevin wright, kind, Kindle, kindle giveaway, king arthur, kingshold, Kip, Kipling, kirsten m corby, Knightley, knowing thine enemy, knut hamsun, kurintor nyusi, l. l. mcneil, la la land, La Perle de Paris, la petite coquette, lad, landed, languages, laptop, latest, laura, laura m hughes, lava, lead, lead to the rath and your fate will be shown… cover Deadmarsh. The name struck terror into the hearts of all who heard it. But to Roger Knightley, leave, lee conley, legend, legendarium, legends, legends of elera voices, Leonora, Leonora Bianchetti, lepers, leroy nichols, les miserables, lesser, let off the lead, lethal, letter, liath luacra, library, lie, lieder eines fahrenden gesellen, lies, life, lifeline, light, light dawning, like the greater evil we faced later on, likeminded, lin manuel miranda, lineup, link, Links, lion the witch and the wardrobe, lips, lirazel, list, little dream, lives, Lockie, loggerheads, logistical, London, longing, longing for home, longings, lord byron, lord dunsany, lord of the rings, lords of asylum, lorri moulton, LOTR, lots of tears, Louisa May Alcott, Louvre, Love, love in one act, love of reading, Luc, luck, luminous, lunch, lux, Lux Aeterna, lynn's books, lyrics, m. s. olney, mabinogion, mabus, machen, mad skillz, maddie, made him feel as though his mind had been crushed between slabs of stone. There was chaos in it, Madelaine Bradburry, madness, magic, magic's betrayal, magician's nephew, magnificent, mahler, main character, majestic, malazan, malevolence, manipulation, Manon Larue, manor, many thanks to the fabulous (and sharktastic!) Laura M. Hughes for giving me this opportunity. I hope you will all enjoy reading about, marble, marianne ratcliffe, marilyn peake, marilyn vix, marine biologist, mark lawrence, marked, mashup, masquerading, master, master coffyn, masterclass, masterpiece, matt heppe, matt larkin, matthew thompson, maul, Maurice Charpentier, maxim, meagan hurst, meager, meaningful, meanings, meant to be, media, meg cowley, megan mackie, melancholy, melika, Melika Dannese Lux, Melika Lux, melokai, membrane, mental angels, merlin, message in a bottle, method, michael baker, michael r baker, michael sliter, middle-earth, mike morris, miles and flora, mimicked, mind, mind behind the mind, mind palace, miraculously, miranda, miranda honfleur, mirror writing, mirroring, moartea, moarteans, modern times, monikers, monocle, monty python, moon, moonlight roses and murder, moonstone, more things in heaven and earth, moria, morlocks, moroda, moss, most wonderful time of the year, mother, motherhood, motivation, mountain, Movies, mr. micawber, mr. murdstone, mug, Music, musical, my beloved, my calling, my dream, my life, my love, mystical, myth, mythology, myths, names, napkins, narnia, nature, nature of evil, nazri noor, nebulous, ned marcus, neither Deadmarsh the house, nerd, net galley, netflix, netgalley, never looked back, new, new interview, new release, New York, new zealand, news, nia rae, nicholas kotar, nicholas malebranche, night, nightmare, nightmarish, ninny, no looking back, no sparkling, nor Deadmarsh the family, norse, norse mythology, north york moors, northleach, norway, Nosferatu, not one foot! Why are you not afraid?” “Because I am the monster lurking in the shadows, notebook, notes, novel, novelist, novels, now, now dresses like a duchess and wears round her neck a strange moonstone given to her by someone known as Master Coffyn, now face-to-fey, nudged, oblivion, obsessed, ocean, odds, of darkness, off his nut, offshore, oil slick, old salt, older, ominous, on borrowed luck, on location, one i love, opaque, opera, or the world.” “There are more things in Heaven and earth…” Uncle Gryffyn muttered. “Now ain’t the time to be quotin’ old Bill Shakes, orange, orconomics, original, orion, orlok, oswald, other worlds, otherness, otherworld, out of nowhere, outlet, overwhelming, Oxford, pages, pale, palming the ace, pan, panic, panther, paper, Paperback, paranoia, paranoid, Paranormal, parc monceau, parents, Paris, Parisian, passionately, path, patrick leclerc, Paul Celan, pdf, peace, Penny Dreadful, penny dreadfuls, pepe the prawn, peppy, perfect day, performance, perilous, perilous realms, personal, perspective, perspicacious, peter jackson, peter quint, petrik leo, pews, phil parker, phil williams, philosopher, phoenix, phoenix descending, phrased, pianist, pict, piece, pilgrimage, pilgrimages, pirates of the caribbean, pistachio, pit, place of slaughter, plausible deniability, play, plethora, plots, plowed, plumbing, poet, poetic edda, poetry, pointy hat, Polidori, politics, pool, pop culture, portraits, possessed, post, powers of music, prayer, pre-raphaelites, precious, preferably, premiered, press, prime time, primetime, professor fertig, project, projects, promo, promotion, prophecy, protagonist, pseudonym, psychological, publication, publicity, publishing, puckie, puddleglum, pumpkin, pun, pure magic, questions, quick-fire, quickfire, Quint, quites, quote, quotes, r. m. mulder, rafflecopter, ragna, random, ranger, rapture, rapturous, raskolnikov, rath, raucous, ravan thrall, raymond st. elmo, readers, reading, real, real name, realm of mindweavers, realms, reaper, recent reads, red sister, reddit, reflection, reflection of yourself, regret, reign, religion, renaissance, research, respect, reveal, revenge, Review, reviews, reward, rex, richard iii, richard lucas, richard writhen, riddled with fear, ring, rivalry, riveting novels of psychological suspense, roaring fire, roasted, robert shaw, robocopter ski patrol, rocks, roger, Roger cannot fathom, Roger discovers that Coffyn has overtaken Lockie. The boy is deceitful, Roger Knightley, Roger Knightley. Evil is evil no matter the century, Roger must find a way to end the battle being waged across worlds before the night of Lockie’s eleventh birthday—two days hence. If he fails, Roger seeks to unravel the tapestry of lies woven round his family’s connection to the death-haunted world of Everl’aria—and the Dark Wreaker who calls it home. The deeper Roger delves into the , rohirrim, roiling emotions, role playing, romance, romance novels set in historic France, Romania, Romanian, romantic fantasy, ronald tibu, room, rosalyn kelly, rosina, rossini, rotsby, round pegs, rove, rudyard kipling, ruination, ruled, rural, rural england, russell cullison, Russia, russian, ryan gosling, s. a. corey, s. c. flynn, s. k. randloph, sacrifice, sacrirfice, sadness, saga, sagas, sagas germanic, sale, salt, samara, samir, samwise gamgee, sanderson, sangue de vita, Sangue di Vita, sarah k. l. wilson, saucer, sauron, sausage, sausage sandwich, savagery, savoir faire, scarper, scary, scary vampires, scene, scene stealer, scenes, schadenfreude, schubert, science-fantasy, scotland, scream, scribd, scrubland, scythe, sea, Sea World, seal, seal island, sean astin, sean cunningham, seared, searing beauty, seasonal, seasonal reads, secret doorways, secrets, seized, selection, self publishing fantasy blog off, self-published fantasy blog off, semicolon, serenaded, Sergei, Sergei Rakmanovich, series, serious, servant of rage, seven hundred years, seventeen, sez, sez who, shadow magic, shadows, sham, shaq, shaquille o'neal, shark, shark attack, shark bite, shark chorus, shark elevator pitch, Shark Week, sharkbait oo-ha-HA!, sharking, sharkland, sharkland forever, Sharks, sharktastic, sheltering, shere khan, shield of kings, shifts, shire, shirley jackson, shiver, shores of the heart, shrieking, siblings, silence, silly, silver-tongued devil, singer, singing, sinisterly, sir frank dicksee, sister, sisters, site, sixteen, skill, skillz, skye, sneaky, snippet, snuffbox, snug, social media, solace lost, soldier, solidified, son, song, songs of insurrection, songs of the wayfarer, sonya m black, soprano, sorcerer's isle, sorcerous rivalry, Sorina Boroi, sorrow, soul, soul render, soul-restoring, soul-searching, soulmate, soulmates, souls, South Africa, space time continuum, special, special meaning, specials, spfbo, spfbo2018, spill, spinning silk, spiritual, spoiler, Spooky, spring, spring-heeled jack, square holes, squirrel, st. elmo's fire, standchen, startle, states, status quo, steal of a deal, steampunk, steer the ship, Stefan, Stefan Belododia, Stefan Ratliff, stephen spielberg, stephenie meyer, steve thomas, steven erikson, steven mckinnon, steven spielberg, stole his will, stone, storm wielder, story, story arcs, story reading, storytelling, storyweaving, stratosphere, struggle, stumbling block, stunning, sub-genres, success, suffered, summer, sunday, supernatural, supernatural thriller, superstition, support, suppressing, surf, surfer, surfer dude, susan hill, Suspense, suzanne rogerson, sviddheim, swathing, sweeney todd, sweet, swimmers, swimming, sydney, Sylvi, symphony of the wind, t j muir, T-Rex, t. cook, t. l. branson, Tags#AmWriting, Tags100, taiwan, Taken, taking care of, talk, talking animals, talking cat, talking cats, tall tales, TAPS, tears, techniques, teeth, temporary derangement, ten, terrifying, terror, that's what I'm tolkien about, the apples of idunn, the bastard from fairyland, the crown of stones, the crushed peak, the darkness within, the dead sagas, the Deadmarsh heir. This year should have been no different, the end begins, the exercise of vital powers, the expanse, the family cat, the fantasy hive, The Fellowship of the Ring, the finder of the lucky devil, the first fear, the forbidden city, the game bird, the great hearts, the great restoration, the greatest showman, the hidden face, the hidden ones, the innocents, the ivy cottage, the king of elfland's daughter, the knight's order, the last whisperer, The Lord of the Rings, the lost sentinel, the manhunters song, The Marriage of Figaro, the Moarteans christened him Groaza. Others called him The Devourer of the World. And to those on Sviddheim, the more he begins to suspect that the tales of dark deeds done in the forest behind Deadmarsh, the most wonderful time of the year, the power of music, the red hourglass, the ring, the rose crown, the sangrook saga, the seeds of dissolution, the servants long gone. Kip, the silver chair, the song of the siren, the stars were right, the tainted crown, the tempest guild, the thousand scars, The Trials and Triumphs of Ilyse Charpentier, the turn of the screw, the very beginning, the white people and other weird stories, the Wolf, theatre, then drew back to reveal hues infinitely more searing than before—so vibrant it was painful for Roger to look into them. Orange pulsating like a lava flow, theophany, these vampires don't sparkle, This selection of quotes will appear in a very personal interview on Friday, thorny, thousand scar, threatening, threats of sky and sea, three decades, three tons, three tons of him, thrilled, Thriller, throat, through a glass darkly, thunder the shadows are stirring, tibu, tidings, tiger lilly, tiller, time machine, timothy c doyle, tiny tim, Tolkien, tollers, Tollers and Jack, tom-tom, tome tender, too. Joining forces with an ally whose true nature remains hidden, top 10, topics, toppled, torched, total fantasy, Toulouse Lautrec, Tour Eiffel, tradition, tragedy, trahaearn, train, trainwreck, trajectory, traumatic, travel, travers, tree stump, trials, tricksy, triggered, trilogy, tristan and isolde, triumph, triumphant, true, true bliss, true love, truest sense, truly belong, trust, truth, truth or darkness, tsked, turn of phrase, Turn of the Screw, TV, Twilight, Twitter, two tons, TY Arthur, type, typing, typist, Tyrian purple, ufo, UK, una voce poco fa, unattainable, uncle silas, unconditional, undead, under everest, under ordshaw, underbelly, unfolded, uninspiring, unique, universal, universal studios, universes, unstoppable, untangled, until the horror within his cousin lashes out, untold, unusual, up for grabs, updates, urban fantasy, uriah heep, USA, valet, vampire fiction, Vampire Hunter, vampire mythology, vampire mythos, vampires, vampiresses, vampiric, vampiric equality, vampiric transformation, vampirism, vamps, vampyre, varney, varney the vampire, varney the vampyre, Vasily Markolovick, venue, verge, verin empire, vickers, victoria, Victorian, victorian age, view of the world, villains, violinist, virgil, vitriol, vivid, vivid imagination, Vladec, Vladec Salei, vocal coach, vocation, voice, volsung saga, vortigern, Vrykolakas, Wales, wanderer, wandering, war, wards and wonders, warmth, warnings and visitations, water's surface, way of the world, we ride the storm, weak-minded, weapon, web site, website, weighing, weirdoes, welsh, welsh mythology, went by many names. When he invaded Everl’aria, Werewolf, werewolf transformation, what of the rumor that it was not an earthquake which rocked the moors surrounding Deadmarsh sixteen years ago, what’s been slumbering for so long.” A hollow pit opened up where Roger’s heart was supposed to be. “How would you know that?” “I woke it up.” He blinked in surprise and was even more st, when the kingdom falls, whiskey and dragon fire, white death, white shark, Whitechapel, who has taken over the teaching of Lockie at a school in Wales called Nethermarrow. And soon after he crosses the threshold of Deadmarsh, who might be the deadliest of them all. Racing against time, widget, wilder, Wilkie Collins, william c tracy, william ray, william shakespeare, wine, winners, winter, wip, wisdom, wish, witch, witch spelling, wizard, wolf, woman in white, womb, wonderful, wondrous, Wood, woods, work, worldview, worst enemy, worth fighting for, wraxhall, wreaker, wrenching, write what you dream, writer, writer's block, Writers, writing, writing life, writing method, writing process, YA, year, years, yellow glistening brighter than a city made of gold, yes, yet the boy knows he needs all the help he can get if there is to be any hope of defeating not only the Dark Wreaker and his servants, yo ho yo ho a writer's life for me, york, Yorkshire, Young Adult, young author, young female author, young love, Young Protagonists, young writer, your home, YouTube, ziroonderel Hi Everyone, ~Melika “This beast
Today, I’m sharing with you the most intensely personal interview I have ever done. When I was first sent these questions, I never thought answering them would help me make peace with feelings I’d been unconsciously suppressing for many years, but I am so thankful that this was the case. I’ve learned a lot about myself over the last few days because of this, days that have been painful yet necessary for me to heal in many areas of my life and find joy again where before there was nothing but sadness and confusion. And speaking of joy…this interview has given me, truly, for the very first time, a venue to share my feelings with you all about the amazing man, my beloved soulmate, who has changed my life in so many glorious and magnificent ways since we’ve been together. I hope you enjoy not only reading about him, but also about a few important books that have touched my heart, some of my inspirations, including one legendary panther, and many other things, both serious and silly!
I’d like to take a moment to say a special thank you to Jean, of Jean The Book Nerd. You couldn’t have known how these questions would affect me when you sent them along, Jean, but I will be forever grateful that you did, and also for how kind, caring, understanding, and wonderfully generous you’ve been to me throughout this entire process. Thank you so much!!! *hugs*
Additionally, Jean is hosting a giveaway of not only Deadmarsh Fey, but also my supernatural thriller, Corcitura. You can enter for a chance to win a Kindle copy of each novel by clicking here.
And now, without any further delay, onto the interview…
What was the single worst distraction that kept you from writing this book?
It wasn’t a distraction, but taking a wrong storytelling direction kept me from writing Deadmarsh Fey for an entire year. 2013 was spent working on what would become the fourth book in Dwellers of Darkness, Children of Light (the series Deadmarsh Fey launched), only I didn’t know this at the time, which was why writing this book out of sequence felt very wrong, not to mention terribly frustrating. There were things happening in this novel that I had no explanation for, and an untold history of how this world my characters found themselves imprisoned in had come to be.
When my mind cleared enough for me to be able to envision the trajectory Dwellers of Darkness, Children of Light, needed to take, I realized that these stories—begun as prequels to a fantasy series I’d started writing in 2003, a series in which some characters from Deadmarsh Fey were my main adult protagonists—had taken on lives of their own, and were now demanding to be told, and unless I gave in, I’d never be able to understand what had affected the characters in those original books so strongly when they were children, and molded them into the adults they became. And then the Dark Wreaker burst onto the scene, with a horde of devils in his wake, and changed everything.
Even though the experience I underwent in 2013 was incredibly frustrating, I do not regret the time I spent working on that fourth book. What was written in it (and the novel is fully written, though it will alter dramatically when all is said and done) laid the foundation for nearly every myth and legend—even inspiring a number of significant events in Deadmarsh Fey—that I would have never known how to interweave throughout the series if I hadn’t written that fourth book first.
Has reading a book ever changed your life? Which one and why, if yes?
Yes, Crime and Punishment, when I was seventeen. I had always enjoyed reading, but it wasn’t till I lost myself in this masterpiece that it truly became a passion—and opened up avenues I never would have considered traveling down, nor had the courage to do so, till I made the acquaintance of this book. The masterful way Dostoyevsky painted with words astounded me. I was absorbed by the rich psychological portraits he was able to delineate with a few strokes of the pen, and all the force of his imagination. Since then, only this year, in fact, thanks to my beloved, I have been exposed to other writers who remind me of him, most notably Knut Hamsun and, very recently, Ivan Turgenev, both of whom have that same lyrical touch, an equal genius for capturing the essence of a human soul and sketching it into life upon the page. Though the canvasses they painted their visions upon are much smaller, their portraits are no less penetrating and brilliant. And yet, while Crime and Punishment was over 700 pages, I remember wishing it had been longer, and I missed the characters, even Raskolnikov—whom I had intense sympathy for, which just shows how adept at evoking pathos and emotion Dostoyevsky was, getting me to feel compassion for a man who had done such terrible things—when my time with them in 19th century Russia was over. Much like my experience reading David Copperfield five years before, it was as though I’d lived alongside these characters, suffered with them, endured their trials, even felt the panic of the net closing in around one character in particular… My emotions ran the gamut; I was inspired, exhausted yet exhilarated, and found myself with an insatiable longing to create that only writing could fulfill. I don’t believe in coincidences, and know it was no accident I read this book on the heels of a paradigm-shifting moment in my life—and that it proved to be the final push in the right direction I needed.
From a very young age, I’d wanted to be a marine biologist, even though I always seemed to be scribbling down stories on whatever scraps of paper—sometimes napkins and tissues, honestly—were near at hand, and began working on my first novel when I was fourteen. To me, writing has forever been and will forever be a key that unlocks hidden doorways into other worlds, and I felt I was being called to dedicate my life to exploring these universes of the imaginal realm—and making them my own. Yet it wasn’t until the winter of 2001 (a few months before reading Crime and Punishment), as I sat in a darkened theatre, enthralled and enraptured by my first glimpse of Middle-Earth, that light shone onto the path I was meant to take. I owe this illumination to Gandalf and the words of wisdom he spoke to Frodo in the caverns of Moria, when hope was at its lowest ebb:
“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”
In my heart, in that moment, I knew what I was being asked to decide. And so I made my choice—never looked back.
Tell us your most rewarding experience since being published.
Writing a book is an intense, often quite solitary, endeavor. While you are lost in the creation of it, and especially when the work is done, you can’t help wondering, with a mix of hope and dread, if anyone will love the book as much as you do. Yet once the story has been released into the world, it ceases to be yours alone, and you must, however wrenching it might be, let the characters—and this tale you’ve poured your being into—fend for themselves. As the poet Paul Celan once said, “a poem, as a manifestation of language and thus essentially dialogue, can be a message in a bottle, sent out in the—not always greatly hopeful—belief that somewhere and sometime it could wash up on land, on heartland perhaps. Poems in this sense, too, are under way: they are making toward something.” Should this not be what every writer, whether of poetry or novels, strives for? This concept of the “heartland” affected me deeply when my beloved shared it with me a few months ago, because Celan’s words crystalized what I’d always felt. With each book I have written, but most passionately regarding Deadmarsh Fey, my goal, my wish, has been that my characters, and these realms they populate, would resonate with readers and move them in meaningful ways, hopefully changing them for the better, and making them think differently about their inner lives and the world around them.
And that is why my most rewarding experience since being published has been how people have reacted to Deadmarsh Fey. From these reviews, it is obvious that many readers have understood the book, “gotten” it, as it were, and let themselves be seized by my story. And, what’s more, are incredibly excited to discover what happens next in this saga known as Dwellers of Darkness, Children of Light. All this fills me with joy, because it shows that my message in a bottle, for these readers, at least, has washed up on the shores of their hearts and struck a chord within their souls that I hope will reverberate for many long years to come.
In your new book, DEADMARSH FEY, can you tell my Book Nerd community a little about it and why they should read your novel?
Every novel in Dwellers of Darkness, Children of Light is told in a different voice, written from the perspective of a new protagonist through whose eyes we see the story. In Deadmarsh Fey, the eyes belong to Roger Knightley, ten years old and cousin to Havelock (Lockie), the Deadmarsh heir. Roger is a firecracker, and though but a child, is a well-read one (reared on the mystical and often blood-soaked legends from both sides of his lineage, Welsh and English), which has resulted in his having an extremely vivid imagination. Sometimes, this can be problematic, but it means that Roger hasn’t yet been poisoned against the fantastical, or robbed of his sense of wonder. Since he has no trouble accepting the inexplicable at face value, he is quicker to understand and recognize the dangers the creatures tearing out of the Otherworld and into our own pose to himself and his family than the adults—and those who supposedly have all the answers—surrounding him. He also has a wry bent to his personality, and a stubborn streak, that help and hinder him in various ways as the book progresses. And he’s obsessed with dragons. You’ll have to read the novel to discover if this proves fatal to him, and others, or not.
Regarding the heart of the story, the events in Deadmarsh Fey, though cloaked in the garb of fantasy, are truly about fighting for those you love, and all you hold dear. This is the supreme driving force behind Roger’s actions and those of his friends and allies. It’s not just about survival, or stopping the Dark Wreaker—a nebulous entity who has bedeviled the Deadmarshes for seven hundred years—and his army of Jagged Ones and blood-tied horrors, both fair and foul, from being unleashed upon this earth, but about saving the very souls of those who are most important to you, those you’d sacrifice everything for. And that is something that has appealed to me far longer than I can remember, not only in storyweaving, but in life.
Also, whether we are aware of it or not, each of us has a fundamental longing for “home.” By that, I don’t mean a dwelling, but a deep ache in the heart to find the place we truly belong. When it comes to my writing, my “home” has always been in these Otherworlds I have created—perilous realms infected by a darkness hell-bent on destruction…yet these realms are not hopelessly desolate, but seared with beauty and light, peopled by characters who heed the call to lay everything on the line for a chance(sometimes infinitesimal) to defeat the evil that threatens to annihilate everything they love, for they have realized that their world, though fallen—and not so dissimilar to our own—is worth fighting for. When reading my books, especially Deadmarsh Fey, I hope you lose yourself in these worlds, that you let go and journey along with the characters, grow attached to them, possibly even become them if only for a brief while—seeing in them a reflection of yourself. And if by doing so you discover what your “home” is, then that is reward enough, for it will mean I have made the best use of the time that was given to me.
What was the most surprising thing you learned in creating your characters?
That I had to trust them enough to let them have free reign. They knew better than I did where to take the story…because it was theirs, and they were living it. All my characters were extremely vivid in my imagination when I began writing the book (save for one or two who materialized out of nowhere mid-novel and drastically changed the course of events), but Kip, and especially Carver, presented themselves to me almost fully formed. I didn’t have to do much of anything with those two, besides let them take center stage and steal whatever scene they were in, which Kip did with dignity and gravitas that would have made the ancestral fylgja, guardian spirit of his family, proud—and Carver did with enough demonic savoir faire to make the devil himself turn green with envy.
I know many people might find it hard to believe, or even slightly crazy, that characters an author creates can became separate flesh and blood entities from his/her imagination, but at a certain point, my characters did, demanded to be let off the lead, and I had no choice but to comply. Trying to maneuver events in an inorganic way, forcing things to go in the direction I thought was best, rather than what the story and characters were calling for, would have stalled the book and turned it into something completely different, and much less cohesive—not to mention deadly dull. To a much, much lesser degree, the characters in my last novel, Corcitura, asserted themselves, too, but never had this happened with such immediacy as it did in Deadmarsh Fey, to the point where I feel that I was just the facilitator for this book. Roger and Company were the real storyweavers, and once I realized this, I passed the tiller into their hands, and let them steer the ship where they willed.
Why do you feel you had to tell this story?
There was no way I couldn’t tell this story. Once I made the decision to write Deadmarsh Fey, once my year of confusion had come to an end and I determined the course this saga would take, I was seized. There’s no other way to describe the intensity of emotion that came over me. Not long afterward, once the characters had nudged me out of the way, the book began, essentially, writing itself. I love my first two novels, I always will, but there is something different about Deadmarsh Fey, something unique, that I didn’t experience when writing these earlier books. With this novel, I discovered what I was meant to write—fantasy, or rather, dream-sagas, as my beloved has christened them. There is a quote by J. R. R. Tolkien, who has been a defining force and inspiration not only on my writing, but also in my life, that struck me when I first heard it more than a decade ago, because I agree with him completely: “Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory.” I’ve always understood him to mean that fantasy writers craft what we do not to escape our world, but to understand it. By losing myself in my invented universes, worlds that mirror our own in strange and startling and often unsettlingly familiar ways, I feel I have found where I truly belong, finally fulfilling the gnomic wisdom Gandalf spoke to Frodo, and, unknowingly, to me, those several years ago.
What was the most magical thing that happened while creating Roger?
This was an especially hard question for me to answer, and intensely personal. I started out with one response, which I still think is partially valid, but a few days ago, it came to me—quite suddenly, shockingly, and with no small degree of heartache—that Roger and I had a much deeper bond than I’d realized until something of a personal nature happened to me this week that brought painfully intense emotions I’d been unknowingly suppressing rushing to the surface. It wasn’t a pretty picture when this happened, but it was necessary, and cathartic, and gave me tremendous clarity about this character and what he really means to me—and revealed why I had always felt so much love, tenderness, and compassion toward Roger when I was creating him, and do till this day.
To begin with, I originally believed the most magical thing that had happened when I wrote Roger into being was that I became him in so many ways. It was a natural thing to have occurred—and I’m sure many authors feel the same way about their creations—since Roger was my main protagonist. But he always, strangely, felt more like my own flesh and blood than any other character I’d ever created before, and it wasn’t only because Deadmarsh Fey is told in third person, restricted, which means I, perforce, had to see everything through Roger’s eyes—all that was glorious and nightmarish, good and evil, one more often than not masquerading as the other and making it nearly impossible to distinguish friend from foe. Yes, I had to put myself into the shoes of this ten year old English child who was obsessed with dragons. Yes, I had to imagine what his reactions to things literally out of this world would be. And yes, most imperative of all, I had to know him better than I knew myself, and needed to do so in order to make him live and breathe on the page and be real not only to me, but to anyone who ever chose to read his story and journey by his side into the perilous realm he called home.
But it wasn’t until very recently that I realized, with the force of a punch to my heart, just why Roger had always been so dear to me. Without delving into too much detail, for over a decade, I endured a very desolate period of misdiagnoses and wrong information regarding a health issue that has a chance to be fully resolved in the coming weeks, and was told throughout these preceding years that many things I had always dreamed of, many joyous events most women, I imagine, would want to happen in their lives, would not be possible for me to experience. During this extended dark night of the soul, my books became a lifeline, an outlet into which I could pour my heart and being, and never more did I do this than with Deadmarsh Fey…because of Roger, even if the full realization of why wasn’t brought home to me till seventy two hours ago when I finally understood the reason it felt so right for me to have always thought of him as my flesh and blood, although I never phrased it like that to myself till then, nor had I been aware that any name needed to be given to the feelings unconsciously caged within my heart.
After an intense few days of soul-searching, anguish, and tears—lots of tears—I finally understand why Roger is so precious to me, and why I feel so close to him, even still. In him, I saw the son I hoped to have one day, and believed I never would be able to. Revealing this to my beloved (who was with me when the dam holding back my suppressed emotions broke), reflecting upon it, and discussing how it had affected me without my knowledge, until the events of this week triggered clarity of mind, touched him deeply and opened up a way of thinking that made immediate and incredible sense to me, and allowed me to realize that I can now let Roger go. Watching this literary child of mine mature and grow in successive books will be vital for me—and part of the healing process, I suspect—but I understand, now, that while I will always love Roger, and he will forever be in my heart, my love doesn’t have to be confined to just my literary son. One day, it can be given to the real child whose very existence need no longer be a nebulous and unattainable dream.
If you could introduce one of your characters to any character from another book, who would it be and why?
I considered having Roger meet Smaug, but quickly came to my senses. Tolkien’s beast isn’t exactly the nicest of souls (Need I bring up the whole “I am Fire! I am Death!” thing?), and having a dragon-mad child obsessed with conscripting a fire-breather, any fire-breather he could get his hands on, into one insane scheme after another—a child determined not to take no for an answer—would have resulted in Roger being torched into a little pile of ash in two seconds flat.
Then I contemplated initiating a meeting between Roger and Puddleglum from C. S. Lewis’s The Silver Chair (my third favorite Narnia book after The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and The Magician’s Nephew), but Roger would have gotten fed up with the marsh-wiggles’s doldrummy woe-is-me-ness after about 6.9 minutes.
In the end, I settled on Bagheera of Jungle Book fame, who just so happens to have earned a passing, and incredibly sarcastic, mention from Master Coffyn in Chapter 19 of Deadmarsh Fey. I’ve been fond of Bagheera for most of my life, ever since I first saw the animated Jungle Book when I was a very young child. He’s just so lordly and majestic, wise and, let’s be honest, awesome. Another reason for my admiration is that I love cats, especially black ones, but because I’m slightly allergic to them, I have had to express my affection for these beautiful creatures from a distance by putting them into my novels, hence the reason Kip plays such a huge and pivotal role in Deadmarsh Fey.
And that brings me to why I’d want Roger and Bagheera to meet. Kip definitely has his own distinct personality—he presented himself to me almost fully formed, as I mentioned above, after all—but while I had many inspirations for my cat, this panther was a defining influence on him. Roger and Kip share a tremendous bond—a bond initiated before the events in Deadmarsh Fey take place and solidified as the story progresses—and Roger having a chance to get acquainted with a character I consider to be Kip’s literary older brother would be a visceral reinforcement of what the boy already knows, that even though Kip is, as Roger thinks at one point, a “compact little animal,” the cat, like Bagheera, has a panther’s heart, strong and fierce and fearless, and would never back down from defending those he loves when they are threatened, be it by a Jagged One or Shere Khan, it matters not. And here’s something that didn’t occur to me until this very moment…Mowgli and Roger are the same age, and, though endearing, are each quite a handful—not to mention that there are forces at work that would love nothing more than to see both boys dead—so if Kip went along to this meeting, ye gods would he and Bagheera have loads to commiserate about!
What are some of your current and future projects that you can share with us?
My current project is the sequel to Deadmarsh Fey—set seven years later—and the second novel in Dwellers of Darkness, Children of Light. Several times in Deadmarsh Fey, I mentioned the Vickers family, particularly Isobel, the youngest daughter, who is Roger’s contemporary and good friend. Near the end of the novel, Isobel’s and her family’s link to the Deadmarshes, and the beings hunting them, is hinted at, and, to a certain extent, revealed to Roger in a shocking way. What he discovers leads directly into book two, Isobel’s story, which takes place on a desolate rock called Cutwater Island. Here there be sharks, and demons of the deep. And a creature whose memory is as fathomless as its desire for revenge.
Once the sequel to Deadmarsh Fey has been completed, I will be working on the next two novels in Dwellers of Darkness, Children of Light. All the books already have titles, but these are rather sensitive, so I’m holding them in reserve till I announce the publication of each novel.
Have you ever been really freaked out by something on the internet? If so, what?
Oh, good heavens, YES! And fairly recently, too! I blame my beloved. It was entirely his fault! Imagine me pointing an accusatory finger at him right now. To be fair, though, I went along enthusiastically when he suggested we watch scary videos on YouTube. It’s nice to shiver with the one you love, which was the motivation behind this temporary derangement of ours. We started out quite innocently enough with UFO videos, which were more strange and interesting than scary, and ridiculously tame compared to what came next…
After we’d reached marginal utility in the flying saucer department, this video suddenly—and very sinisterly, in hindsight—materialized on the suggested videos sidebar. It was called, “Top 10 Most Shocking and Unexplainable Happenings Ever to Be Caught on Camera!” or some other such bombastic, and impossible-to-resist, title. By that point, feeling a little disappointed that the UFO videos had failed to scar us for life, we were game for anything, and also kind of high on ourselves, I have to admit, for apparently having such nerves of steel. It wouldn’t be a stretch to say that our attitude toward the supernatural in that moment could be boiled down to, “Us? Us? Get scared by that? HA!” and so we (stupidly) clicked on this new devilry, to use a turn of phrase coined by Boromir (And we all remember what happened to him…).
To say we made a mistake is the understatement of the millennium. This video, this Ring-esque horrorfest masquerading as CCTV footage, reduced us to quaking little puddling messes, what with its ghosts shrieking out of hotel rooms, its phantom orderlies flashing by in the ER, the spectral girl wearing a blood red dress appearing in the middle of an alley somewhere in Taiwan, a “possessed” woman—who let out primal shrieks every five seconds as if she were being internally roasted alive by a legion of devils—contorting and flailing about in a supermarket aisle; a brace of freaky, seven foot tall men without eyebrows, dressed all in black and bearing an uncanny resemblance to the Blues Brothers, wandering around lobbies…and the pièce de résistance of Fright Night 2018—a skin-shivering, blood-curdling, knee-knocking, absolutely TERRIFYING clip of a girl in an elevator in China, I believe—I have no intention of opening myself up to a second near hysterical fit for accuracy’s sake by rewatching this abominable video—that was so unsettling because she seemed to be gibbering at someone, frightened of someone, arguing with, hunted by, and having a very disturbing conversation with someone…only nobody was there! Gooseflesh is breaking out all over me as I type this! And then the narrator butts in and says, in a calm and totally detached voice, that this girl was discovered dead in a vat a few days later, her clothes neatly folded on the ground, and that this story was the inspiration for the film Dark Water, which, needless to say, my beloved and I have no intention of ever watching. Sleep being elusive for one interminable evening was quite enough, thanks very much. Give us June Carter and Johnny Cash songs, Monty Python sketches, and political videos for our YouTube dates any night of the week. We’ve learned our lesson, and how! *shudders*
If I came to your house and looked in your attic/closet/basement, what’s the one thing that would surprise me the most?
If you looked in my attic, you’d be stunned by the overwhelming plethora of pumpkins and scarecrows and Christmas decorations that are stuffed in there. If you looked in my closet, you’d see a lot of clothes and dresses that I keep forgetting I own. I mean this; over the last few months, I’ve discovered not one, but two rather fetching dresses that I had no memory of ever buying. The tags were even still on them! If you looked in my basement, I’d be really surprised, because I don’t have one…that I know of! What’s it like? Are there Morlocks living down there? Tell me, Jean! I’m sensing the beginnings of a new novel, here…
Most horrifying dream you have ever had?
A seven foot tall E.T. dressed as the Grim Reaper, emerging from my bathroom in the dead of night with murderous intent, scythe in hand. I was about five years old when I had this dream, and E.T. and I didn’t make peace until fairly recently. Now I’m quite fond of the freakish yet adorable little tree stump, but our relationship was a bit strained for several years, to say the least.
Which incident in your life has totally changed the way you think today?
Meeting my beloved has not only changed the way I think about everything—my past, my present, my future, my joys and sorrows, setbacks and triumphs—but has irrevocably changed my life, as well. Loving him, and receiving his love in return, has made me a fuller person—complete—and has led to me knowing myself better than I ever did before. I find it astonishing how in tune we are. Here’s just one of many examples I can share…we have the same crazy and unbelievably random (And I mean RANDOM! I’m thinking of one in particular right now that knocked us both flat by proving just what a couple of complete born-to-be-together weirdoes we truly are) thoughts, and blurt them out at the exact same moment! I have lost count of how often this has happened, but it’s pretty much a daily occurrence, and has been for quite some time.
Being in tune in so many ways has been a hallmark of our relationship since our earliest days. Our very first conversation had sparks shooting off between us when we both revealed a mutual love for the Eddas, everything Germanic and Saga-inspired…and I confessed to him my obsession with JAWS and sharks in general—and he didn’t flinch! He’s exposed me to so many wonderful things, some of my favorites being music—he has fantastic taste—and philosophers, the one impacting me the most to date being Henry Corbin, whose ideas matched up so perfectly with concepts I had been mulling over for thirteen years but never had a name for till my beloved shared this luminous thinker with me. Our oneness of spirit has grown deeper with each passing hour as we’ve shared our lives with each other—all the important things and the silliest ones, too, and been there for each other in the best and worst of times—and we’ve continuously discovered, more and more every day, how beautifully and miraculously our souls, and thoughts, chime in harmony. And it’s uncanny how he knows exactly what articles to send me, because no matter what they’re about (from the sagas to politics, and everything in between), I devour them and find myself forever exclaiming, “Yes! Yes, that’s what I was thinking! This is what I have always believed!” and tapping into a wellspring of inspiration that has long lain dormant, till he shares with me something he knew I’d love, knew would be the spark needed to kindle my thoughts and ignite them into being. This happened just last week, and because of what I read in the essay my beloved sent me, because the thoughts of the writer echoed in my soul and literally roused the Bear hibernating there, a story arc which I’d been struggling with for over a year found resolution, came full circle, and changed the course of one of the books in Dwellers of Darkness, Children of Light entirely.
Another thing I find absolutely wondrous is how he’s opened my mind to so many things I was very closed off to before, very biased against, in fact, and made me view the world, especially history, differently. Yet he’s also reinforced beliefs I already held, making them stronger and richer and more defined in my heart and soul. He encourages me and I him to become the people he and I were put on this earth to be, which I think is a rare and beautiful aspect of our relationship, and something we are blessed to share. And even in areas where our beliefs diverge—religion, for example, which has never been an issue for us—we still have commonality, because we both have an appreciation and respect for the Divine, and see it at work in our lives. We enrich each other—never tearing down, always building up, for we realize how precious a gift love is, and are very grateful to have found one another at long last. We’re passionate advocates of each other’s writing, too. His background is philosophy, and I am not being biased when I say he’s brilliant, and not just in this field, but in many other areas, as well. Just don’t get him going on Richard III or he’ll recite the entire Shakespearean tragedy from the beginning! My little playful ribbing aside, every time we speak, each moment we’re together, I am continually inspired in every way, and I cannot even begin to tell you how having his unconditional support and love across all areas of my life has changed it, and me, so profoundly.
I’m amazed anew every day by all of this—amazed anew each day by him—and am incredibly, eternally, grateful to have him in my life, to have been blessed with such a glorious soulmate, whom I love with all my heart. He truly is the greatest gift God could have ever given to me.
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This selection of quotes will appear in a very personal interview on Friday, featured at Jean the Book Nerd’s great site, but as that interview is quite extensive, I thought it would be a good idea to share them with you today in a separate post. I hope you enjoy this little glimpse into Deadmarsh Fey.
~Melika
“This beast, like the greater evil we faced later on, went by many names. When he invaded Everl’aria, the Moarteans christened him Groaza. Others called him The Devourer of the World. And to those on Sviddheim, he was The Bottomless, for his savagery had no end.”
“I’ve seen its other side. I know what lives here, what’s been slumbering for so long.”
A hollow pit opened up where Roger’s heart was supposed to be. “How would you know that?”
“I woke it up.”
He blinked in surprise and was even more startled when the dragon mimicked the action, but did so sideways. A clear membrane coated its eye, then drew back to reveal hues infinitely more searing than before—so vibrant it was painful for Roger to look into them. Orange pulsating like a lava flow, yellow glistening brighter than a city made of gold, green flashing like St. Elmo’s fire. All these colors danced not a foot in front of Roger’s face, flickering within that gigantic orb…
“Why should I not know what he’s really called?”
“Tell a man your name and he will have power over you forever,” Carver muttered.
“I don’t know how else to explain this, but I could feel her age, almost as if the weight of her years were pressing against me like a great mountain of corpses that would collapse onto me if I so much as looked at her the wrong way.”
Gryffyn looked as though he were about to have some sort of fit. “It’s far too dark in here for you to be taking this so calmly. Anything could be creeping up on us at this very moment, and we’d be none the wiser till it had us by the throat! We can’t see a foot in front of our faces, not one foot! Why are you not afraid?”
“Because I am the monster lurking in the shadows,” Incendiu snarled.
“They were all children, yes, as were the fiends who allowed themselves to be Hosted.”
“But that happened in a wilder age, a less enlightened time,” Roger argued.
“Do not make the mistake of thinking present society is so highly advanced that they have forgotten their baser instincts, Roger Knightley. Evil is evil no matter the century, or the world.”
“There are more things in Heaven and earth…” Uncle Gryffyn muttered.
“Now ain’t the time to be quotin’ old Bill Shakes, guv,” Bellows shot in.
“You’re not allowed in church!”
The Jagged One squinted at him. “Sez who?”
“Says God!”
Carver tsked. “I thought you Christians welcomed everyone.”
“We make exceptions for demons like you.”
“Will you not bid me welcome, Brother?” the beast mocked. The dragon’s voice paralyzed Roger where he stood. Hearing it sapped his strength, stole his will, made him feel as though his mind had been crushed between slabs of stone. There was chaos in it, and destruction—a voice crafted of darkness and the death of worlds.”
Flesh and bone and hearts unknown, lead to the rath and your fate will be shown…
Deadmarsh. The name struck terror into the hearts of all who heard it. But to Roger Knightley, neither Deadmarsh the house, nor Deadmarsh the family, had ever been anything to fear. Nearly each summer of his young life had been spent in that manor on the moors, having wild adventures with his cousin, Lockie, the Deadmarsh heir. This year should have been no different, but when Roger arrives, he finds everything, and everyone, changed. The grounds are unkempt, the servants long gone. Kip, the family cat, has inexplicably grown and glares at Roger as if he is trying to read the boy’s mind. Roger’s eldest cousin, Travers, always treated as a servant, now dresses like a duchess and wears round her neck a strange moonstone given to her by someone known as Master Coffyn, who has taken over the teaching of Lockie at a school in Wales called Nethermarrow.
And soon after he crosses the threshold of Deadmarsh, Roger discovers that Coffyn has overtaken Lockie. The boy is deceitful, riddled with fear, and has returned bearing tales of creatures called Jagged Ones that claim to be of the Fey and can somehow conceal themselves while standing in the full light of the moon. What they want with Lockie, Roger cannot fathom, until the horror within his cousin lashes out, and it becomes savagely clear that these Jagged Ones and the Dark Wreaker they serve are not only after Lockie and Travers, but Roger, too.
Joining forces with an ally whose true nature remains hidden, Roger seeks to unravel the tapestry of lies woven round his family’s connection to the death-haunted world of Everl’aria—and the Dark Wreaker who calls it home. The deeper Roger delves into the past, the more he begins to suspect that the tales of dark deeds done in the forest behind Deadmarsh, deeds in which village children made sacrifice to an otherworldly beast and were never seen or heard from again, are true. And if there is truth in these outlandish stories, what of the rumor that it was not an earthquake which rocked the moors surrounding Deadmarsh sixteen years ago, but a winged nightmare attempting to break free of its underground prison? Enlisting the aid of a monster equipped with enough inborn firepower to blast his enemies into oblivion might be as suicidal as Roger’s friends insist, yet the boy knows he needs all the help he can get if there is to be any hope of defeating not only the Dark Wreaker and his servants, but an unholy trinity known as the Bear, the Wolf, and the Curse That Walks The Earth.
And then there is the foe named Blood Wood, who might be the deadliest of them all.
Racing against time, Roger must find a way to end the battle being waged across worlds before the night of Lockie’s eleventh birthday—two days hence. If he fails, blood will drown the earth. And Roger and his entire family will fulfill the prophecy of fey’s older, more lethal meaning…
Fated to die.
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It’s been a while since I last posted any updates, but today, I am happy to share with you a new and very in-depth (possibly my most in-depth one to date) interview. Many thanks to author Sonya M. Black for providing me with such insightful questions. I hope you enjoy reading not only my thoughts on writing and other subjects, but also learning more about a few special books that have impacted my life in very different ways. Maybe you’ll be inspired to invite them into your lives and let them work their magic on you, as well.
A dragon lands in front of your Main Character, what would they do?
It just so happens that my main character in Deadmarsh Fey, Roger Knightley, is obsessed with dragons, and has been since he was practically out of the womb, cutting his teeth on his mother’s fanciful stories about them, blazing through the Mabinogion by the time he was six, and venturing onward to further fill his head with even more fantastic legends, his favorite being the one about Merlin and Vortigern and the fortress that had been toppled again and again by the red and white dragons battling in a pool beneath its foundations.
Given all of that, if a flesh and blood dragon landed in front of him, Roger wouldn’t scream or scarper away in fright, but would rather shriek in delight and run forward to hug one of the dragon’s foreclaws, then try to convince the beast to fly him back to Wraxhall, Roger’s boarding school, to equalize the playing field, as it were, by teaching his headmaster a lesson—turning Master Crisp into Master Ash…literally. But once Roger came to his senses, he would do all in his power to enlist the dragon as an ally against the Dark Wreaker of Everl’aria, and the curse this fell being has laid upon Roger’s family. You’ll have to read Deadmarsh Fey to find out if any of this really does happen in the book, or if I’m just letting my imagination rocket upward like a dragon soaring through the night sky, its black wings blotting out the light of the moon.
What literary pilgrimages have you gone on?
It’s not the main focus of my upcoming trip to England, but when I’m there, we’ll be spending a day in Oxford, walking in the footsteps of two authors who have had a significant impact not only on my writing, but upon my life, as well—J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis. I expect to be awed the entire time I’m there, and quite emotional, too. Oh, and a visit to the Eagle and Child is also on the agenda! 6,900 pictures of the snug where the Inklings used to meet will be taken, so as not to miss a single angle, of course. I can’t wait!
What is the first book that made you cry?
I’m sure other books got to me before this one did, but the first book I can remember which made me cry was The Turn of the Screw—and that was because it horrified me, my tears bursting forth at the very end when Miles screams, “Peter Quint, you devil!” I didn’t appreciate the ambiguity and brilliance of that line till many years later, so as a child of eight, my reaction was sheer terror. And yet I loved that little novel! I even owned a Classic comic book type edition of it that I read so often the spine broke. It’s my favorite “ghost” story of all time, and a masterful psychological study that I do not think any film adaptation has done justice to yet, although The Innocents comes close to capturing the unsettling “otherness” of Miles and Flora, and the paranoia (or does she have just cause to fear?) of the Governess.
But the first book that truly touched something deep within my heart and made me not only cry, but bawl, was David Copperfield, which I read at the age of twelve. It didn’t matter that one hundred and forty years separated me from David’s world. I identified with him, was outraged by every injustice he suffered—especially the betrayal of those he’d considered close friends—rejoiced with him when he succeeded, and felt like I was living his life alongside him as I devoured the pages of that book. Till this day, I find myself smiling when I remember Aunt Betsy screeching, “Donkeeees!” or how Mr. Micawber was always sure something would turn up. But don’t get me started on Uriah Heep. I have no fond memories of him!
Looking back, I see how the cruelty David endured at the hands of Mr. Murdstone stayed with me and inspired some of Master Coffyn’s qualities in Deadmarsh Fey, especially his penchant for harsh and often violent discipline against children. And now that I think of it, that fey quality of Miles and Flora so hauntingly delineated in The Turn of the Screw found its way into Deadmarsh, too, coloring certain aspects of Lockie’s character, so even though both books made me cry for very different reasons, they both impacted my writing in their own unique ways.
Did you ever consider writing under a pseudonym?
No, never. I’ve always wanted to be known as the author of my novels, not because I have a thirst for fame—I prefer the focus to be on my stories, not me—but because I worked hard on them. The funny thing is, though, that many readers have thought Melika Dannese Lux is a pseudonym, but I can assure you that’s exactly the name printed on my birth certificate.
Do you try more to be original or to deliver to readers what they want?
I think what readers want is originality. We can all be inspired by the fantasy greats, of course, and I freely admit that Tolkien and Lewis are my literary “fathers,” but to be derivative to the point of copying them is not something I’ve ever wanted to do. I’m a little fanatical when it comes to being original, so much so that when I created the name of my main villain and Otherworld in Deadmarsh Fey, I typed both into Google and Amazon to make certain they hadn’t been used before! I understand that, according to conventional wisdom, you should compare your works to those of other fantasy authors to hook readers, or even get an agent. But that’s the problem with conventional wisdom—it’s conventional, stultifying, and only interested in preserving the status quo, leaving no room for the unexpected, and very dismissive of that which it does not understand or cannot fit into a neatly designed mold. Why can’t a fantasy book stand on its own without having to be compared to anything that’s come before? Isn’t that what people really want, to read something unlike anything they’ve ever read? To get lost in a world they can discover and explore for themselves, make their home in, without being encumbered by any preconceived notions? That would be a wondrous thing, I think, and much more gratifying than reading yet another Game of Thrones clone.
How do you balance making demands on the reader with taking care of the reader?
The philosopher Nicholas Malebranche once said, “Attentiveness is the natural prayer of the soul.” Laziness of mind is bad enough, but having an unengaged soul makes attentiveness, and really anything else, impossible. This is why I don’t believe asking my readers to fully invest themselves—mind, heart, and soul—into Deadmarsh Fey is being unduly demanding, since I invested my entire being into writing this book. As the author, I see myself as the facilitator, and it is my job, through my storyweaving, to remind my readers that it is incumbent upon them to take care of themselves. I won’t spoon feed you, neither will I string you along, but you should know at the outset that I will not be your Virgil, guiding you through the darkling night. I want my readers to discover things for themselves in this world I have offered to them, a world in which they can lose themselves entirely—a world it is my greatest hope they will make their own. And to achieve this, attentiveness—concentration—is a must, not because Deadmarsh Fey is some labyrinth you need Ariadne’s Thread to find your way out of, but because giving not only my book, but any book, a cursory reading shows not only a lack of respect for the author, but for the reader’s own self, as well. How can you be moved, touched, inspired, if your only objective is to race through a book to finish it as fast as you can? What chance is there for you to experience wonder if you don’t let the story absorb you, if you cut yourself off from allowing the tale to strike a chord in your soul and make your spirit take flight? The opportunity to connect with something beyond you has been neglected, the moment for discovery, expanding your imagination, and knowing yourself deeper, lost when your overriding ambition is how many pages you can read in a day to reach a quota for the year, or some other such arbitrary marker that robs you of the chance to be seized by wonder. It makes the act of reading no act at all, but a passive disengagement that seems completely pointless—and dreadfully hollow.
With every book I have written, but never more so than with Deadmarsh Fey, my goal has been that my readers become active participants in the experience. If this happens, I believe they will feel as if they are sharing in the recreation of the novel and will be able to capture the essence, the atmosphere, in which the work was first written. By becoming a part of the story, they are truly making it into something new and theirs, which is what I want most of all. I want them to lose themselves in a tale that seems fantastical at first, but the deeper they read, the more engaged they become, they realize that the truths in this book mirror the truths in their own lives, that these characters are not so unlike them, and that they, the readers, will miss these kindred souls after the final page is turned. When total immersion occurs, my readers will see Roger and the other characters not as I do, no longer as I’ve described them, but through their own eyes, the images I’ve created meeting the images my words have birthed in their minds, catching fire, and taking flight, burning like a phoenix across their imaginations and hopefully inspiring them to create unexplored worlds of their own, or at least to never be the same after reading this book because it has touched them in some deep and meaningful way and possibly revealed to them their true “home.” That is my wish for everyone who reads Deadmarsh Fey—that they will be open to receiving what the book has in mind for them, and be changed for the better once their journey with my characters comes to an end.
Do you view writing as a kind of spiritual practice?
When you invent something out of nothing, you are, in a sense, sharing in the act of creation. I’m not trying to be blasphemous or presumptuous by saying that, but I truly feel, and have done so for many years, that writing is as close as I come to touching the divine, to brushing up against the world that shimmers just beyond our own. My beloved says that all true art is a spiritual practice, and I agree with him wholeheartedly, as I do with his christening my work dream-sagas, for that is where my original inspiration for Dwellers of Darkness, Children of Light came from—in the chaos of a dream that quite frankly was almost a nightmare, a vision of two young girls, sisters, cowering at the end of a corridor in a small cottage on an fog-encircled island, flattening themselves against the wall and scarcely breathing for fear any sound would alert the gargantuan demonic bear snuffling down the hallway, growing ever nearer, to their presence—the bear that was hungering for their blood.
In many ways, I also view writing as a prayer, a reaching up toward my higher self, my angel, if you will, the self I am meant to be but have been separated from here in my exile upon this earth. It’s a constant striving to make sense out of the thoughts in my head, the inspirations, the “why” of life, and to weave them into a tapestry of light and shadow, of good and evil and the grey areas in between where heroes may doubt their valor but choose to fight on nonetheless, often against seemingly insurmountable odds, because they are dedicated to saving that which they hold dear, their world, the people they love and are willing to lay down their lives to defend. That call to fight for something greater than yourself is also very spiritual at its core, and was a vital thread I wove into the fabric of Deadmarsh Fey in ways I had never done with any other book I had written before. In this novel, in this Otherworld, I feel as though I truly am writing what I dream, both literally and in a deeper sense. I have now found my “home,” at least where writing is concerned, the place where I have finally been able to fulfill the maxim that changed my life many years ago: “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” Sixteen years old, was I, when Gandalf’s wisdom pierced my heart and set me on this trajectory. The journey has been hard, frustrating, and often incredibly lonely, but it has brought me joy, too, never more so than now, and I would not trade the experience for anything in the world, nor, if given the chance to go back and choose differently, would I diverge from this path that was presented to me. I believe in my soul that despite all the obstacles, it was the path I was destined to take…and how things were always meant to be.
I also think that there is something intensely, almost ecstatically, spiritual about being seized by a story, which happened to me when writing Deadmarsh Fey. From a certain point onward, I was no longer in control of this book. My characters quickly and not too subtly disabused me of the notion that I knew what was best, and since I really had no choice in the matter, I let them take over, and Deadmarsh Fey became a much better tale because I got out of my own way. And that is something I would encourage every writer to do, whether you believe our craft is a spiritual practice or not…let your ego go. It is your worst enemy, will shut you down, choke your creativity. You must diminish for inspiration to increase, and only when you do this will your story have the potential to take wing, blaze across the heavens, and transform into something unique and rapturous. Something you and you alone were born to write.
Do you read your book reviews? How do you deal with bad or good ones?
Yes, I do read them. No author likes to receive bad reviews, and at one time, they had a powerfully negative effect on me, but as I’ve gotten older, and grown as a writer, they don’t influence me anymore. I know the value of my work, and nobody’s negative opinion is going to make me doubt it or love it any less, especially people who abandon my book after only reading a fraction of it. Additionally, if somebody is just spewing vitriol, I don’t take it to heart. And if they completely miss the point of the book, I don’t internalize that, either.
I do appreciate good reviews, of course, especially when the reader invests him- or herself into the world I have created—living through my characters, even becoming them for the short while they are in their company—and therefore is able to truly comprehend what I am trying to say instead of simply glossing over details that were not included as filler, words that weren’t written to pad the pages, just to get things over with for whatever reason, as I mentioned above. It’s a very rewarding feeling when a reader “gets” my work, as happened recently with the wonderful Dianne Bylo at Tome Tender. Her review has become my favorite, and the best, of any of my books thus far, not only because it was erudite and well-written, but also because it revealed that Dianne had let herself be seized by Deadmarsh Fey and thereby connected with it in a profound way, which is what I hope the experience will be for everyone who reads this book.
Do you hide any secrets in your books that only a few people will find?
I do, but when it came to Deadmarsh Fey, everything that I hid within its pages was built up and eventually revealed in a rather shocking manner a few chapters from the end of the novel. Even at the eleventh hour—and by that I mean some of the very last scenes of the book—I was still unraveling secrets I had woven throughout the story from the beginning. Nearly all of them found resolution in Deadmarsh Fey, though I did leave a few open ended enough to be explored further in the three successive novels in Dwellers of Darkness, Children of Light. Each one of these secrets, every arc that was created in Deadmarsh Fey to be spooled out into the other books, however, did have a suitable ending when its furtherance of the plot in this tale had served its purpose. This was a conscious choice, because I despise loose ends, and even though I think that in some cases it is fine to be ambiguous—as with The Turn of the Screw—I believe that ambiguity for its own sake, or as an attempt to be “edgy,” ruins the integrity of a story.
In the sequel to Deadmarsh Fey, which I’m working on now, there is a sort of inside joke for most of the novel, but it is revealed at precisely the moment when it counts most and is quite earthshattering. And yet…when readers get to that point, I have a sense they will most likely feel that if they’d just thought about it a bit more, they would have been able to solve this riddle fairly early on. I’m hoping the reaction will include a fist to the forehead and a dramatic exclamation of, “Good gad! How could I have been so blind?!” I’m incredibly eager to interweave this plot point throughout the novel—palming the ace where I can, scattering false clues, then finally lowering the boom and blowing the lid off this secret when the time is right. I confess to taking a little enjoyment in being tricksy like this when crafting my books. All right, it’s more than a little. It’s a LOT! But it makes things tremendously exciting for me, and I hope this excitement will transfer to everyone who reads my novels, this one especially.
What is your favorite childhood book?
The Ivy Cottage by E. J. Taylor. Even though it was very short, and I first read it at the age of four, I still remember the feeling of warmth with which this book enveloped me—as cozy as a sheltering blanket, as soothing as a mug of hot chocolate enjoyed by a roaring fire. The illustrations were entrancing, and I was completely captivated by the idea of living in a cottage in the woods, or one just on the borders of it. After all these years, this is still my dream.
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I’m so happy to be back at The Fantasy Hive this week, but instead of an interview, one of my most favorite excerpts from Deadmarsh Fey is being featured! Thanks once again go to Laura and the great people at this fantastic site for allowing me to showcase my work.
I hope this excerpt will intrigue and unsettle you, and make you insatiably curious to find out what happens to Roger next!
When wandering through a forest, one expects to see many things. Trees, squirrels, maybe even a bear…
A feast laid out solely for you in the middle of a clearing…
That last one shouldn’t have made the list, you say? Try telling that to Roger Knightley, then, for it is exactly what he stumbled upon while sojourning in the woods behind Deadmarsh.
Here, on this whimsical table, were found treats stuffed to bursting with enough luscious flavors to satisfy the cravings of a boy possessed of a sweet tooth the size of the North York Moors. How could he resist such a temptation? I feel safe in saying most anyone would find it difficult to do so…assuming you could actually seewhat had been set out to entice you. Forgot to mention that small detail. The feast is invisible, unless you look at it through a glass darkly, which, for Roger, means peering through the two halves of a cracked, milky blue moonstone known as The Eye of Arianrhod. Without this, there’d be no hope of piercing the glamour that hangs over such a fey place. But is it a glamour of enchantment?
Or of evil?
I invite you to read on and discover for yourself…
The Feast in the Forest, excerpted from Deadmarsh Fey
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Suffolk County Sheriff Ends Relationship With ICE
By Louisa Moller October 8, 2019 at 6:27 pm
Filed Under:Boston News, Ice, Sheriff Steven Tompkins
BOSTON (CBS) – The Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department will slowly begin relocating immigrant detainees after deciding to terminate its contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Sheriff Steve Tompkins says he made the decision to terminate the contract to make room for roughly 200 to 250 incarcerated women.
“There really are more females, more ladies going to jail for a whole host of reasons. When you have the scarcity of mental health beds, when you have the scarcity of substance abuse beds, and when you have ladies in battering situations or being battered, bad things happen,” Tompkins said.
Suffolk County Sheriff Steve Tompkins (WBZ-TV)
His department will now offer rehabilitative programming to incarcerated women from Suffolk, Plymouth, Essex, and Norfolk counties. The programming includes Community Re-Entry for Women which has been nationally recognized.
The move will displace roughly 150 to 200 ICE detainees over the next 60 days. Tompkins says it is a decision that was not politically motivated and comes at no cost to Suffolk County.
“To me, this is not political. This is important. This is about saving lives,” Tompkins said. “We haven’t received one dollar working with the feds on this program since 2009.”
Women in Suffolk County jail (WBZ-TV)
Marcos Charles, the Acting Field Director of Enforcement and Removal Operations for ICE in Boston released this statement:
“U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Boston was disappointed to learn of the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department’s decision to end their longstanding, cooperative partnership agreement with our agency.
ICE has enjoyed a positive working relationship with the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department and we believe this partnership between Suffolk County and ICE has been mutually beneficial to the residents of Suffolk County the last 13 years.
ICE may now be forced have to depend on its national system of detention bed space to place those detainees in locations farther away reducing the opportunities for in-person family visitation and attorney coordination.”
Louisa Moller
Louisa Moller is a general assignment reporter for WBZ-TV.More from Louisa Moller
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Is the true self reborn?
In Mahayana Buddhism is it the true self that is reborn, or the empirical self?
I tend to see it described as if it's just the latter that is, but then if I am my true self then doesn't that equate to annihilationism and nihilism?
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There is no rebirth or reincarnation in the sense that the soul takes on a new body (rebirth / reincarnation) after death. (In Sinhala Punarupathi)
In Buddhism conception which is the continuation of the Bhava from end of the previous life (death) in the cycle of Samsara. (Punarbhava)
In other words this is a process in which there are events like birth and death. In the light that there is no everlasting unchanging core this is not a rebirth as it is not the person from the previous existence nor it is a entirely different being, but just the continuous flow of the process of becoming.
Continuation of a core entity (rebirth / reincarnation) is a Hindu concept. Buddhist concept is the continuation of the process.
Since there is a continuation (of the process), all doesn't end with death.
The confusion about rebirth is due to rebirth being used in Buddhist translation due to the limitations of the vocabulary and there is no better world to use.
(I am not sure if this fits into the Maha Yana take on the matter. )
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True self is a phrase that comes up in Chan/Zen. It sometimes considered indistinguishable from the idea of an eternal soul, but never stated so clearly as that.
Empirical self, according to google is a phrase used by Kant, the psychologist William James, and I suppose it has a man in the street definition of "who you are in the sense of what is empirically provable, observable." I don't claim to understand Kant, and I don't have time to read James, I'll use the man in the street definition.
The Mahayana philosopher who put the most thought into the question of eternalism vs extinctionalism is Nagarjuna, who came up with a two truth's doctrine, that there is a truth for the ordinary world and a truth for the transcendent, supermundane, supernatural world. I don't actually follow Nagarjuna's arguments, it's somewhat abstruse. I think he means to say in the conventional sense of truth, we're dead, in the transcendent truth, there wasn't a difference between being alive and dead.
He also rejected that we were eternal, and rejected that we would become extinct (die for good), and appealed to a middle between these as the appropriate belief. This defies my man in the street sense of logic (mortality and immortality seem pretty exclusive and opposite), but I've read that this can also be interpreted to mean that they are both possibly true, meaning it's a statement with multiple truth values, (true, false, and just don't know) and this statement about life after death isn't true, isn't false, so that leaves "just don't know".
And that gets us to having to deal with life after death on faith, which is certainly a Mahayana concept.
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BFC News
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Update from the Field: What’s Happening on the North Side?
Snow continues to fall here in Yellowstone country, but not yet quite enough to drive the buffalo down to lower elevations. Here in the Hebgen Basin, west of Yellowstone National Park, buffalo remain absent. Patrols are out every day, through all hours of the day, monitoring migration corridors and looking for the gentle giants; except for a small few who we can view deep inside the Park, and only then from a spotting scope, none are to be found.
BFC volunteer, Frances, and volunteer coordinator Gator, view Yellowstone’s Stephens Creek buffalo trap through a spotting scope. We have to use a spotting scope because of the massive federal closure surrounding the trap, set in place to keep the public from bearing witness. Photo by Stephany Seay, Buffalo Field Campaign.
This quiet lull in field activity granted us the opportunity to take new volunteers and coordinators on a field trip to the Gardiner Basin, along Yellowstone’s northern boundary. On a frigid Monday morning, we packed tightly into one of our patrol rigs and slowly — due to treacherous road conditions — made our way to Gardiner. Volunteers were given a thorough field orientation of these northern lands and and learned about all the complications the government sets before the last wild buffalo. In Gardiner, everywhere a buffalo turns can be a means to their end. We viewed the “Buffalo Wall” at Yankee Jim Canyon, where state and federal agencies maintain a 7-foot tall fence that climbs up steep mountain slopes, complete with a “cattle” guard across US Highway 89, in a sorry effort to keep buffalo from accessing prime habitat in the Paradise Valley, though elk and other wildlife are free to move around it. While this massive obstruction does prevent easy migration, over the years buffalo have managed to find their way around this veritable dam. We ventured on to view the captive buffalo within USDA’s Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service’s GonaCon and now quarantine facilities. We also took a good, long look at Yellowstone National Park’s Stephens Creek buffalo trap, where 22 once-wild bull buffalo remain in confinement for quarantine purposes. The buffalo imprisoned in these facilities are visibly despondent, and their physical condition pales in comparison to their relatives who currently live wild and free. Captivity is a cruel institution, yet, hundreds of wild-born buffalo will be subjected to this maltreatment — never to migrate again — if Yellowstone and the Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service get their way this winter. Federal agencies working cooperatively — using your tax dollars — to destroy the last living wild remnant of these Pleistocene survivors. Many will lose their lives to slaughter, while others will lose their freedom to quarantine, with some of the latter ending up in zoos. Many multinational “green” groups hail quarantine as a solution to the slaughter of our national mammal, but, such support is a thoughtless and careless quick fix to satisfy the human ego. Quarantine is a domestication program, a livestock paradigm, and ultimately a tool of the oppressor. It still involves slaughter, rips buffalo families apart, takes them from their wild homes, and results in wild-born buffalo living behind fences -- and even in zoos -- for the rest of their lives. Quarantine, like slaughter, serves only the human, not the buffalo nor the land, and in fact takes away not only the buffalo’s wild integrity, but removes enormous amounts of biomass that should be food for predators and scavengers. Like most critical thinkers, volunteers could not fathom any justification for such brutal and disrespectful treatment of these sacred keystone species. After some discussion, we ventured on to tour other portions of the Gardiner Basin where buffalo hunting takes place. Volunteers were shocked and angered to view the bottle neck corridor, just a mile north of Yellowstone’s buffalo trap, where buffalo who make it past the trap must funnel through to reach their winter ranges. Most buffalo who move through here never make to to winter ranges because they are met at the Park boundary by hunters, who have little choice in where they have opportunity to find buffalo, because Yellowstone and Montana keep them so confined.
A relatively young mature bull buffalo offers his best side to his BFC admirers. Photo by Stephany Seay, Buffalo Field Campaign.
After learning about all the macabre “management” actions the buffalo endure year after year, just before dark we made our way to our North Camp to have dinner and talk about the things we had seen that day, sharing ideas and potential strategies. We also delighted in the fact that the next morning, we would head into Yellowstone’s Blacktail Plateau to check on some of the buffalo and hopefully see a few of these friends up close and personal. After a night’s rest, we woke early, had breakfast, and with hopeful hearts headed into the Park. As much as we want to see wild buffalo everywhere, these days it is a bittersweet relief when the buffalo are absent from Montana, and hence, safe from human “management” activities. It’s a conflicting feeling, to be sure, but, much to our delight, there were no buffalo anywhere near the Gardiner Basin. The hundreds of buffalo we did see were spread throughout the Blacktail Plateau all the way to Tower Junction. Herd after herd, buffalo looked content and also simply happy to be alive. One group of buffalo we spent some time with — a heard of just over 100 — had springs in their steps and were feeling frisky in the cold winter air. A solitary mature bull approached this group “pronking” (jumping up with all four legs leaving the ground at once) and got not a few others all riled up to share in the fun. All of us were laughing with the buffalo, comparing how it must feel to be so free, when miles north in the lower elevations of the Gardiner Basin, so many traps, government plans, and other human obstacles threaten this natural right.
BFC volunteers Ryan, Ollie, and Fritz, take photos of a large group of buffalo we spent time with near Yellowstone’s Tower Junction. Photo by Stephany Seay, Buffalo Field Campaign.
To make it back to BFC’s base camp before dark, we turned around at Tower Junction, sending love and saying farewells to the buffalo as we moved past group after group, and headed north into the Paradise Valley. The Paradise Valley is a big wide-open expanse of grass, hemmed in to the east by the Absaroka mountains and rolling hills to the west, a landscape that should host thousands of wild, migratory buffalo. For the time being, wild buffalo are locked out of this valley, but when the day does come that they are free to roam, this beautiful stretch of land through which the Yellowstone River flows, will lead the buffalo towards the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, where they can begin to make their way into north and eastern Montana, and on towards the Great Plains of their own accord. Given the treacherous driving conditions, we chose the longer route home which, instead of going through the usual Gallatin Canyon route, took us through the Madison Valley, another huge and largely empty expanse of grasslands through which the Madison River flows. Buffalo who migrate west from Yellowstone into Montana, will eventually follow this choice habitat to reestablish themselves throughout much of Montana. The Madison Valley could easily sustain thousands of wild buffalo, but again, currently, state and federal “management plans” forbid them entry. However, on any given day in the winter months, a traveller going through this valley is almost guaranteed to see herds of elk, sometimes numbering in the thousands. Elk have been blamed multiple times for transmitting brucellosis back to cattle, a disease that livestock interests claim is the reason the buffalo should be held prisoner in Yellowstone. Though, there has not once been a documented case of buffalo transmitting this bacteria back to cattle. So, why are elk free to roam and not the buffalo? State and federal buffalo managers will hem and haw, coming up with the most ridiculous excuses in response to that question, none of which are bullet proof or even logical. In truth, the war against wild buffalo remains the same as it always was: a centuries-old range war over the grass and who gets to eat it, as well as a continued genocide of both wild buffalo and the Native people who evolved with them.
Enlightened, inspired, and more than frustrated with the status quo, the volunteers who got to experience this field trip are well on their way to becoming some of the most solid wild buffalo advocates these gentle giants could hope for. The buffalo call their people, and when you hear this call, you have no choice but to listen. Thank you for making it possible for us and thousands of volunteers to be here. We give thanks to the many volunteers who heed the call of the buffalo, and come to stand in their defense.
Wild is the Way ~ Roam Free!
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Experiencing Change From 13 Countries
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ChangemakerXchange member Pritish Bhavnani shares his thoughts on the latest ChangemakerXchange retreat in the Philippines at the beginning of September 2017.
Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change. (Wayne W. Dyer)
I recently received an incredible opportunity that altered my worldview and helped broaden my horizon. I visited the Philippines as a member of a global network of changemakers from all over the world thanks to a programme called ChangemakerXchange. ChangemakerXchange is an initiative co-created by Ashoka and the Robert Bosch Stiftung. Ashoka is an international organisation that empowers social entrepreneurs all over the world, listing Nobel Peace Prize Winner Mr. Kailash Satyarthi among its fellows. The Robert Bosch Stiftung is one of the leading foundations in Europe aiming to fulfil the charitable and philanthropic mission of its founder, Robert Bosch.
The youth retreat kicked off with a conference where we had the chance to interact with the leading educators across the Philippines. Each of the participants had the chance to pitch its social venture as a way of introducing themselves to the network. I felt a surge of pride when speaking as a representative of my country, India. The following day we travelled to a more intimate and peaceful retreat location at the beach where we connected on a deeper level. The intention was to offer all of us the opportunity to take a break from our hectic schedules and to socialise, reflect, and recharge. This is particularly important to help us cope with our work as changemakers, which often leaves us hassled and tired. As we interacted, the subtle similarities and diversities in our cultures emerged organically. It was a pleasure to discover more about other countries and cultures. Eventually, we realised that despite our diversities, we face similar problems that require us to creatively adapt solutions to fit our specific context. The retreat also gave us the opportunity to explore opportunities to develop collaboration projects to amplify the social impact of this community.
The ChangemakerXchange youth retreat in the Philippines gathered 23 changemakers from 13 countries. It gathered diverse initiatives working on issues such as tackling human trafficking to using dancing and painting to inspire disadvantaged communities. But in the end, we all shared a powerful zest for social change. As we shared meals and sat beside the bonfire telling stories till dawn each day, an incredible bond formed among participants that now stretches beyond borders and boundaries.
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Meet Xantheia Pennisi: The Filipino-Australian Cliff Diver
As the only Asian stop on the 2019 tour, the Philippine debut of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series has become a long-overdue homecoming for 20 year-old Filipino-Australian cliff diver, Xantheia Pennisi.
Driven by the support of her mother, a native of Tarlac, Philippines, Pennisi is honored to be the first diver of Filipino descent to compete at the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series. "Everything happens for a reason, and this stop happened for me," says Pennisi. "I will be diving for my family and my biggest supporter, my mum."
Xantheia Pennisi was raised in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia and became immersed in sports at the age of 4. Pennisi began high diving as a teen and immediately established herself as a favorite among her coaches and peers. Not long after, she was introduced to three-time Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series Women's Champion and fellow Aussie, Rhiannan Iffland, and "immediately wanted to be a part of this amazing sport!"
Pennisi took part in a training session in Manila just a few days before the season kicks off in El Nido. Photo: Nina Sandejas/Red Bull Content Pool.
Pennisi made her official debut at last year's Red. Bull Cliff Diving World Series as a wildcard entry at the sixth stop in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Still a newcomer to the sport, Pennisi is focused on building on the success of her rookie season.
"For me, this year is still about learning the sport of cliff diving," says Pennisi. "I have only been cliff diving for less than a year, so I am focusing on doing consistent dives and getting high scores. I don't have the biggest dives yet, but I am working on them. My goal is to place in the top 5 at all the competitions."
To prepare for the season kick-off in El Nido, Pennisi has been training six times a week to build core and leg strength, while mastering the execution of dives and somersaults.
"Once you have your fundamental diving skills, being consistent and confident with those dives on the lower boards will make a huge difference with the high dives," adds Pennisi.
For the newly-vegetarian cliff diver, the return to the Philippines is also a chance to enjoy some of her favorite things about the country.
"I love the exotic fruit, especially green mango - they are my favorite!" shares Pennisi. "I love the local markets and street food. The warm weather and all the incredible beaches are a great bonus, but seeing my family is my favorite part of the Philippines."
The young wildcard was joined by cliff diving idols Orlando Duque and Rhiannan Iffland at her Manila warm up. Photo: Nina Sandejas/Red Bull Content Pool.
When asked about the competition, 20-year-old Xantheia Pennisi is excited and ready to make her long-awaited return to the Philippine for the kick-off of the 2019 Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series.
"I haven't been in the Philippines since 2012, and I cannot wait to be back!" says Pennisi. "I feel very special to be representing Australia and the Philippines. I know my family are supporting me, and I want to make them proud."
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NALIP 2012: Robert Rodriguez – The Universal Latino Entertainer
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Last Friday while lunching on poached salmon and tomato bisque on the 21st banquet floor of the Universal City Sheraton, Robert Rodriguez enthusiastically shared a few anecdotes from his early career, remarking on the 20th anniversary of EL Mariachi, and expounding nuggets of wisdom like, Think Big, Be Positive and Take a NMIDIM mentality, a cute acronym for Never Mind I’ll Do It Myself, a really named production company of his. Referring to a notebook on his lap, his conversation sounded a bit scripted, with distinct pauses that cued applause from the packed dining hall. The floor-to-ceiling windows were all steamed up with only a few visible gray clouds which obstructed the usual gorgeous Hollywood Hills vista, giving our one-on-one setting with RR feel as if we had come to visit him at the top of Mount Olympus. I crashed a sponsor table in the front for a better view of the tiny stage that Rodriguez shared with a moderator who replaced the scheduled Luis Castro of HBO and who in the second half seemed to lose direction of the conversation which Rodriguez naturally hijacked. There was good energy in the room but looking around I saw more NALIP organizers, panelists, and sponsors than upcoming artists – which kind of defeats the purpose since the address is geared to green, next-generation of writers/directors/producers/actors.
credit: Camilo Lara Jr (NALIP)
RR’s steady stream of anecdotes deliberately kept coming full circle to hyping up his new Comcast network set to unveil in 2013, a place he says will welcome those stories and voices that Hollywood is not serving. Unfortunately this cut into time for the audience to ask questions. Only one person got the chance to ask a question, which made for a memorable moment. A true Tejano vato, Carlos Calbillo from Houston basically asked him what’s up with not identifying as Mexican-American or Chicano. Rodriguez responded swiftly and rather tactfully. You can see the video I took of this exchange here. The full transcript at bottom of post, but the main soundbyte is:
…”Now if I don’t specifically say I’m Chicano….I didn’t ever intentionally do that. But if you ask me now, ‘Would I say I’m Chicano?,’ You know I would probably say….I wouldn’t make myself that specific”.
UNIVERSAL BUT SUBVERSIVE
Rodriguez says that when he got to Hollywood to make Desperado he wasn’t trying to make a Latin film but a film that was entertaining just like when he saw John Woo’s, The Killer and he thought, “Damn I want to be Chinese”. With Desperado he liked the idea of people watching it, who would say, “Wow I want to be Mexican”.
Antonio playing a badass Mexican in Desperado. BTW he's from Spain, but whatever
About El Rey, he mentioned that he had considered creating TV shows before, but was turned off by having to compete with everyone in town for an NBC slot. Instead he thought if I have my own network I can put on any show I want (Think Big). He was quite open about what his pitch was to Comcast. Male oriented –‘”So the guys think if I’m home, I’ll be taken care of. If you’re a girl and a badass, you’ll like it too – if you are anyone who likes cool programming you’ll like it. Its for an English language, 2nd, 3rd generation, highest growing population, and they don’t have anywhere else to go. Its going to be addicting and intoxicating.” Rodriguez further ingratiated himself with the room by saying, “ Advertisers are desperate. They keep banging their heads on the wall asking how do we get to their wallet (pointing to his hip pocket), but nobody talks about this (pointing to his heart). So I was coming at it in a different way”.
Salma Hayek in Roadracer. Click here to see my favorite scene
POCHO POSITIVE:
Rodriguez emphasized the good things that came out of his early failures and setbacks, encouraging people to avoid thinking negatively. When he approached the owner of an Austin restaurant he frequents about having a show on his Hispanic cable channel, set around family and cooking, the owner hesitated and said, “But I don’t speak Spanish that well and I’m embarrassed about it.” When Rodriguez told him it would be in English, he responded, ‘You mean Pocho? ‘ (laughter). Rodriguez pointed out the negative connotation of the word and that’s what El Rey says, “You’re okay exactly the way you are. “
He went on to say that we have the key to content and ideas people haven’t seen before and guess what, that’s an advantage, that no one has heard your voices. If his network fails to succeed, he encourages us to sift through the ashes of his failure to pick it up and move it forward.
OUTSIDE THE SYSTEM
Rodriguez says he’s never worked with a major studio because it infringes on his freedom. He’s gotten close a couple times, like when he was attached to John Carter which fell through the second and final time he left the DGA. Prior to the Sin City debacle where he resigned from the DGA in order to give creator Frank Miller co-director credit, he had left the DGA in order to work on his segment of the Tarantino produced, New Years Eve anthology, Four Rooms (which in turn directly inspired him to create Spy Kids). Although this means he cannot collect residuals and will never be nominated for an Oscar, he no longer has to follow the rules. He made an interesting quip on the word Independent in the acronym of NALIP saying ‘You probably think you HAVE to be independent because you have no choice, I bet you actually want to be in the system’. The audience laughed as if in agreement. He encouraged people to change from feeling they have to be independent to wanting to be independent. “Sometimes you have to do it yourself because you have a vision that noone else shares. Do it first and then they’ll share.”
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All in all, Rodriguez had valuable advice to share. Themes like Finding Success in your Failures and Staying Positive made for an inspirational address. Yet I’m personally skeptical when it comes to him talking about his network becoming a platform to serve under-represented voices and stories that are made by and for the US Latino community with their distinct point of view. What does he mean exactly? Well, here’s a Variety article where RR talks about the underserved hispanic male audience (!).
Ever since he started shooting movies, beginning with the engaging, b/w, sibling rivalry, $400 short film, Bedhead, you can say Rodriguez has written from his heart and what he knows best – and that’s big family dynamics (he has nine brothers and sisters, and has five kids of his own) and awesome action/adventure. If you ask me, that is as universal of a genre classification you can get. What distinguishes Rodriguez’s work is those brushes of Tejano culture, which as I learned firsthand with my recent trip to San Antonio, is a very distinct socio/political culture within the US Latino spectrum and one beyond the 1st generation of bi-lingual folks like myself. Rodriguez’s impact in the indie 90s film scene is huge and two-fold; On top of showing major studios he can capture a market they can’t by making an entertaining movie for as little as $10,000, the fact that his last name is Rodriguez and his protagonists were heroes who spoke English with an accent, made a difference to the growing population of US Latinos. After all, Rodriguez’s first trilogy began with romanticizing and glorifying the mariachi, an icon terribly dear and close to Latinos. Wrap it in gritty action packaging and it works for that lucrative 18-35 male demographic.
Rodriguez says he’s consciously been subversive about the identity angle. Which is an interesting observation I made and makes me wonder if he’d have the luxury of being able to work outside the system if his genre was not the potentially commercial mine of the family and male driven audience? Would he be as successful if his films were say showed the true life contemporary struggles of underrepresented and multi-dimenstional gay Latinos and empowered females? The point is he knows his audience. His work up to now has represented US Latinos in a corporal sense. I agree that identifying with the physical image onscreen can be an empowering experience but there’s a difference between taking a hero archetype and painting him/her Latino, and making a Hero out of an everyday Latino in middle america.
Whether simply because he’s a successful Latino in a position of power makes Robert Rodriguez obligated to represent the diversity of the US Latino fragmented mass is debatable. And anyway why would he want to suddenly step outside his tried and true money making action fare? Lets be real, Comcast licensed him a network because they are after the audience of Rodriguez’s franchises, El Mariachi, Spy Kids and Machete. So while I would love to see him hold the door wide open and program content that demonstrates the rich dimensionality of Latinas and the Latino LGBT community – that’s not going to happen here. However, if he’s still got that subversive renegade in him, he just might ‘flip the script’ and support unique content on his channel made by the next generation of storytellers who are authentically rendering their unheard, real life based experiences into multi-media. I love intoxicating fantasy and pop entertainment as much as the next person….but thats just one dimension of our lives.
I say we take the hooligan to task and pitch El Rey our most kickass and personal passion projects for a slot on the network. Contact his partners, John Fogelman and Cristina Patwa at Factory Made Ventures at info@FactoryMade.com.
Lets see just how open and interested they are to tapping our talent and showing our point of view.
RR in response to why it doesn’t seem he identifies as Chicano:
“ That’s a valid question, that I’ve never identified myself as Mexican American, but, if you look at my bio, that’s the first thing it says, Mexican-American. I’m very proud of that. (cue clapping). You bring up something very important about identity, because you want to belong and identify with something. This leads to El Rey, you don’t have a place where you can say that’s me, or someone’s success that you can attach to and you feel some of that success is yours, and if that’s a person who isn’t acknowledging that, that’s a terrible thing, I’m sorry you felt that. But I’ve always pointed out, that what I am, what I do with my work speaks for itself. I’ve tried to do it in a very subversive way because that’s been the key. Even after the success of Desperado and From Dusk till Dawn I wanted to do Spy Kids and again, you write what you know, you write in our image, its based on my family. My uncle Gregorio worked as special agent so Antonio’s character’s name is Gregorio. The kids are named after my brothers and sisters. Its all about my family. But the studio says, “Why are you making them Mexican American? Why don’t you just make them American?” That’s why its so important to have a Latin filmmaker to make this argument; “Well because its based on my family”, and its not going to be like only Latin kids are going to watch it, …and then I had the best argument possible, I said, “ Lets put it this way you don’t have to be British to watch James bond. (applause)
You identify with it more if its universal and not that specific. So of everyone watching it, if you’re Latin, you just changed their idea of what’s possible, you’re changing the child’s idea of what they can accomplish because they see my name at the end, “Rodriguez” directed it, two kids with Latin names as spies. It’s very empowering. You want as many people to see it as possible. (Applause)
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Gould v. Lipson
Challenge to firearms license restrictions that prohibit the possession, carrying, or use of firearms for personal protection
United States District Court — District of Massachusetts (Boston)
Filed: February 4, 2016
Status: Petition for writ of certiorari pending before the US Supreme Court
Plaintiffs filed their petition for certiorari on April 1, 2019 (18-1271). The Commonwealth’s response is due December 9, 2019. The justices reviewed the petition on June 6, 2019 but took no action.
Gould v. O’Leary (now Gould v. Morgan) is the third right-to-carry case brought by Comm2A against Massachusetts cities and towns. Like our earlier cases, Davis v. Grimes and Batty v. Albertelli , Gould challenges policies in Boston and Brookline that restrict the lawful possession, use, and carrying of firearms in such a way as to deny plaintiffs the ability to use or carry a firearm for personal protection.
Under Massachusetts law, a License to Carry Firearms is required to possess, purchase, and carry handguns and large capacity firearms. Such licenses are usually issued by a licensing authority, typically the Chief of Police, in the city or town in which a person is a resident. Additionally, state law provides police chiefs who “deem proper” the ability to place limitations on those licenses, arbitrarily limiting the license holder to firearms-related activities such as employment, target shooting, hunting, and/or sporting purposes.
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The European Young Bar Association (EYBA) held its annual conference and AGM on 15-18June 2017 in Porto, Portugal. As the JLD is a corporate member of the EYBA we, as members of the JLD executive committee, signed up to attend the conference to represent the interests of the JLD and its members.
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On the Friday morning the conference began. The conference included a number of seminars:
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Friday evening consisted of a boat tour of Porto. Porto is a beautiful city and as it is the second largest in Portugal, the narrow cobbled streets are always busy. The boat trip provided an opportunity to appreciate Porto’s beauty from a distance. Interestingly, whilst on the boat tour, we travelled under the six bridges running over the Ribeira, connecting Porto to Vila Nova de Gaia. Following the boat trip we sampled traditional Portuguese cuisine. In the cellar of Cervejaria Brasão we experienced Francesinha, Porto’s signature dish. Francesinha is essentially a sandwich containing four different meats, covered in cheese and topped with a fried egg and a tomato sauce. Whilst one of us was not the biggest fan, your other JLD representative ate two of the dishes!
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This is an incredibly short chapter that I felt needed to be written before I make another full legacy chapter. The mood of The Creeper Legacy has taken a sudden plunge, which means a small transition is in order (hence the title). Agnes is such a sensitive, dramatic soul (she gets that from her romance novels). I feel it’s only right to let her grieve properly. This is the world as she sees it, like the pages in the books she adores. She can get it out of her system and we can move on, so here we go.
After everything was said and done, Agnes was unable to move. She wasn’t sure exactly how long she’d stood there, staring at the spot where her beloved husband had just suffered an awful death; but by the time her mind had shifted back to real-time, Moses had dirtied his diaper, both kids were starving, and the sun had already begun to hide itself behind the lighthouse. That was precisely what she’d like to do right now. Hide. How on earth would she even begin to pick up the pieces? She took a deep breath in an attempt to clear her mind, only to feel the shards of her broken heart shift uneasily in her chest.
The very first thing she knew she had to do was quit her job. Being an Overseer of the Dead wasn’t nearly as appealing to her now, though a promotion had been pretty much guaranteed for her the next time she went to work. The children needed their mother full time for at least a little while, though, and that took priority. They had enough money, thanks to her frugalness, to get them by for a bit.
The phone felt very foreign in her hand, the floor foreign underneath her bare feet. Even the air in the house felt foreign. Everything, save for the giggles and cries of her children, was unfamiliar now. It was as though she’d fallen into the pages of one of her beloved romance novels — one of the more tragic ones she used to love sitting and reading over and over again, until she could recite every beautiful word of it in her head. She was living it; only in this instance, in real life, she wouldn’t find a happy ending. There would be no true love to sweep her off her feet once again. She’d been given her one chance at love, and it had been taken away from her. No one could replace Chad Creeper.
"You can’t quit, Agnes! Why would you want to quit?! This job is perfect for you!" Normally, Agnes got along quite well with her boss. She wasn’t feeling it today, though. Her tone, the shrillness of her voice, the way she pronounced the word ‘why’. Everything about the woman irked her at this point in time. She sighed heavily, feeling the shards in her chest shift once again.
"I don’t feel like talking about it. I quit. Get over it." She hung up abruptly, lips pursing just a bit as her grumpy trait kicked in full force. It hadn’t done that since… Well, since just before Chad had set foot on her doorstep for the very first time. It seemed like an eternity had passed since then.
Various noises began emerging from the dishwasher, growing louder and louder with each passing moment. Until now, Agnes hadn’t heard them. Her mind had been too fuzzy to register the sounds reminding her of her loss. Now they seemed to have invaded her senses completely. She heard the zapping loud and clear, as if surround sound had been installed in her head. Her misfortune was being mocked in the personal theatre in her mind. It was finally too much. She dialed the repair service, called for a babysitter, and sped out of the house as fast as she possibly could.
Agnes hadn’t been sure where she was going until she’d landed in the arms of her older sister. Tears instantly began pouring out of her eyes, down her cold cheeks, and onto Cornelia’s shoulder, where they proceeded to soak every inch of fabric they could reach. It really didn’t matter who’s shoulder she cried on at this point so long as it was a shoulder, though she appreciated the fact that her sister welcomed her grief so easily. She just had to cry.
After a while, Cornelia seemed anxious to get her out of the house. It was getting pretty late and the woman had a very early shift. She bid the family goodbye and headed back home, unsure if she felt better or worse.
Once the children were in bed, Agnes pulled a leftover cheesesteak out of the refrigerator and sat down to fill her empty stomach. There was no flavor to the food, and she didn’t want there to be. It was merely a tool to sustain her. If she were to give in to her sorrows, she wouldn’t have eaten at all, ever again. But she had to survive for her children; they were the only products of the wonderful life she once had, and the only things that would give her the will to continue to live. Something as silly and cowardly as starvation wasn’t an option.
She ate quickly, as thoughts of how Chad would’ve gotten so sick if he’d eaten her cheesesteak began to eat away at the barrier she’d built half-heartedly in her mind. She could just imagine him making a dramatic scene, gagging and flailing about like an idiot. Her idiot. Her Prince Chadwick…
No, it hurt too much to think of him right now. Perhaps one day she’d be able to smile upon fond memories. For now, she’d have to focus on breathing without her chest ripping in two.
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9 thoughts on “Transition”
Adaptation says:
Aww, poor Agnes! This is so devestating.
scarletsimphony says:
It really is :( For the first time in my sims career, I almost teared up writing Chad’s death.
iomccoy says:
Waitaminute! That death was bugged… loser sims aren’t supposed to actually die from accidents!
worsiedog says:
:( this is so tragic and untimely.
It is :( I have such a new respect for Agnes because of it all. She’s a great sim. I saw her in another legacy yesterday and got all sad for her, even though everything was funny. Lol.
IDK but I thin Agnes is pretty in an unconventional sort of way. I feel sad for her. :(
StyxLady says:
Gosh, I got all sad thinking about how I would feel if I lost my husband! >< Great writing!
ohaifreddie says:
Poor Agnes! :( Chad’s death is actually devastating! :(
zefiewings says:
I have to say I am proud of you for sticking with the death even though it wad not planned. (it wasn’t right?)
most legacies only seem to kill off people when its story or when they are old.
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Cooley Family Garden
Named in honor of the Cooley family and donated by Laurance and Barbara Newman, the Cooley garden warmly welcomes all who enter through the administrative entrance to the building.
Eder Family Education Center
Dedicated in 1991-92, the Eder Family Education Center houses the offices of the Director of Education and our religious and Hebrew School. It contains 20 classrooms and the Richard Morris Youth Lounge.
Donated by the Ralph and Louise Eder family in honor of their children and grandchildren, it is the center of Jewish education for all ages. The Eder Family Education Wing is housed in the Rabbi Harry B. Pastor School Building.
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The William and Fannie Kesselman Family Chapel named in 1997, is now what was the front of Shalom's original sanctuary.
It was updated and remodeled in 2000 and is now a small gathering place in which numerous life cycle services and daily minyan are held.
One of the highlights of the chapel is a faceted glass window depicting the famous Biblical story of Jacob's dream. The window was given in memory of Lt. John L. Abrams, U.S.N. by founding members Florence and Iz Abrams.
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In the early 1980's the Morris Family dedicated the Richard Morris Youth Lounge in blessed memory of Richard. The Morris Youth Lounge is used for various group meetings and events for a wide range of temple committees and community members. Our religious school utilizes this room for teaching and learning, our Bagels, Books, and Babies class gathers and our youth groups convene in this warm meeting space in the lower level of the building. This resource room, housed in the Eder Family Education Wing, was updated with help from the Women of Shalom in 2000.
Nash Family Administrative Wing
The Nash Administrative Wing is the cornerstone of our building. It too was dedicated in 1991-92 as part of the major expansion project. It was donated by Harold and Tourraine Nash and David and Abigail Nash in honor of their families. Housed in this wing are the administrative offices, including Cantor Berman’s study, the Executive Director's office, and the Director of Synagogue Relations' office. It also contains a beautiful bride's room, robing room, choir room and board room.
Sherman Pastor Memorial Library
Also in the Nash Administrative Wing is the Sherman Pastor Memorial Library. It is named in memory of our founding Rabbi, Harry B. Pastor's son, Sherman. Our library houses a large collection of Judaica and variety of Jewish literature for all ages. The library also house the archives collection of Congregation Shalom, including the Leo Kissel Music Collection. Stop in and relax with some great Jewish reading!
Morris and Naomi Pivar Foyer
Added in 1991-92 as part of a major construction and remodeling project, the Morris and Naomi Pivar Foyer was created from the front lawn of the original building. The original lannon stone wall was the corner stone of the building from 1954 and now an integral part of the new addition. Hanging on these walls, are our specially designed donor panels created and made by Suzi Derzon, that honor the generosity of our donors that help to ensure Shalom's future while honoring their families and family members. Some of the symbols on these panels represent the Trees of Life and Knowledge, the Seven Species, and the Gates of heaven.
On the east curved wall, six stained glass panels hang representing the six days of creation. This space is used for a variety of temple activities, school functions, and life cycle events. Our weekly Friday evening and Saturday morning Kiddush are held in Pivar as well.
Ungar-Schick Portico
The Ungar-Schick Portico located at the synagogue main entrance allows congregants and guests to drive up and drop off guests under cover from the elements. The new addition to Shalom, was donated to us by the generosity of George and Bunny Kennedy in honor of their families. The portico was completed in June of 2006.
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We treat our wildlife like vermin
Just a little of the dog fence’s carnage and cruelty at work.
I’ve pointed out in several posts on ConservationBytes.com just how badly Australia is doing in the environmental stakes, with massive deforestation continuing since colonial times, feral predators and herbivores blanketing the continent, inadequate protected areas, piss-weak policies and a government at war with its own environment. Despite a few recent wins in marine conservation, Australia has a dreadful track record.
Now in another monumental demonstration of stupidity, corruption and colonial-era attitudes toward native wildlife, Western Australia has outdone itself by sneaking through legislation to extend its so-called ‘Barrier Fence’ in an effort to isolate its marginal farmland from dingoes, emus and other ‘nuisance’ species.
As I and several others have pointed out before, the mere existence of the record-breaking dingo fence is not only counter-productive, it is expensive and utterly archaic. It should be torn down entirely.
Instead, the Western Australian government wants to extend the national fence, and they’ve approved the plan it without going through any of the appropriate checks in the system. Its environmental impacts have not been adequately assessed, nor has the public been given the opportunity to oppose the plans. In my view, the people responsible for this act should go to gaol.
In a recent paper led by Keith Bradby entitled Ecological connectivity or Barrier Fence? Critical choices on the agricultural margins of Western Australia, we show how the Western Australia state government has not followed any of its own environmental legislation and rushed through these idiotic proposals. If you do not subscribe to Ecological Management and Restoration, you can obtain a copy of the paper by e-mailing Keith or me. Read the rest of this entry »
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The global wildlife trade is actively spreading a deadly disease that could cause hundreds, if not thousands, of the world’s 7,000 known species of amphibians to go extinct unless we take immediate action to combat its spread. This disease is caused by two species of pathogenic chytrid fungi, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) and Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans(Bsal), which were recently introduced to amphibian populations. These fungi thrive in wet cool environments, and amphibians in at least 60 countries have already been exposed. Every year, millions of amphibians are traded globally for use as pets, food, and research, without any required disease screening prior to transport. In each shipment, the number of amphibians can range from one to many thousands and must be quickly released to the importer. Bd and Bsal are invisible to the naked eye, and infections rarely cause visible symptoms prior to death. Therefore, genetic sampling and laboratory analysis are the most common detection method. Rapid, cost-effective chytrid detection methods are urgently needed to stop infected animals and contaminated shipping materials from entering the USA to reduce the threat of disease to native biodiversity. To try and understand what we are trying to achieve and how the Conservation X Labs funding we received was used, please see the following video: https://youtu.be/fIYFlPO-LPE
The ability to detect pathogenic infection via the use of molecular techniques has been invaluable in the study of epidemiological research. However, to date, there has only been limited methodology that could adequately be implemented in the field. This project outlines a simple method of fast extraction and rapid isothermal amplification of a targeted sequence which enables accurate detection of a pathogen in this case chytrid fungus, both within a laboratory environment and while on location. Currently the most widely used assay method for testing for the presence of B. d. is via the use of qPCR however this has limitations. Firstly a number of B. d. lineages cannot be detected using the standard methodology); secondly, it is prone to phenolic compound inhibition, and thirdly assays have to be carried out in the laboratory by personnel trained in qPCR often taking days to weeks to be processed enabling time for DNA degradation and not enabling any form of intervention with potentially infective hosts. In collaboration with OptiGene Ltd, we set out to develop a diagnostic LAMP based genetic method that could be used in the field and simple enough to be used by anyone. Our preliminary work includes a method for detecting B.d and B.sal in 10 minutes from a non-invasive swabbing method. Thanks to funding provided by Conservation X Labs, we have managed to carry out field based analysis of chytrid fungus as documented in the following video: https://youtu.be/LYxd4DLBMFw
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SOTT FOCUS: Missing European Teenager Found Dead in Malaysian Jungle Under Mysterious Circumstances – Another Missing 411 Case?
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A Royal Malaysian Police officer points to a map showing the search and rescue operation area
Details concerning the discovery of the body of missing Irish-French teenager in the Malaysian jungle on August 13th point to it being another ‘Missing 411’ case.
15-year-old Nora Quoirin was on holiday in Malaysia with her two younger siblings and their parents, staying at the Dusun eco-resort in Negeri Sembilan state.
Situated at a trailhead on the west side of the Berembun Forest Reserve, the resort is a mere 35kms as the crow flies from Kuala Lumpur International Airport, but is nonetheless surrounded by dense rainforest.
The Quoirin family had arrived there on August 4th, checked-in to their villa at the resort, then Nora was noticed missing by her father at 8am the next morning when he discovered she was not in her room and that the window was open.
As search-and-rescue (SAR) teams began looking for her, Malaysian officials’ working theory was that she had left the bedroom at some point in the early hours, wandered off and become lost. But Nora was born with the brain defect holoprosencephaly, an unusual condition in which the forebrain is not fully divided into left and right hemispheres.
Nora’s medical condition meant that she was highly dependent on full-time care and, as her mother insists, “would not have wandered off on her own.” Her siblings, who were sleeping in the same room as her, did not notice her leave, and CCTV cameras at the resort did not capture her leaving. Even if she had been motivated to do so, it’s unlikely Nora could physically negotiate the rigors of leaving the resort and trekking through steep, dense jungle. For these reasons, her parents insisted that local investigating authorities consider that she had been abducted.
Police are keeping an open mind about a criminal angle, but they have reported that:
there was no sign of any intruder entering the property. They did not find any footprints inside the villa or forensic evidence to suggest an unknown person was inside. The entire area around the villa where the family were staying is covered with soggy vegetation and the single-track road leading to the resort is covered with mud.
Had someone entered through the window and climbed a flight of stairs to an upstairs bedroom where Nora was sleeping, it is assumed there would have been traces of mud on the floor. It is because of the lack of evidence of any crime that police treated the case as primarily that of a missing person.
In any event, multiple SAR teams searched the area, as far as 4kms away from the resort, for 9 days until she was found on the 13th. By then over 350 people had been involved in intensive searches of the surrounding jungle and the nearby river, using helicopters with thermal detectors, drones, sniffer dogs, and even local shamans. The spot where she was found is described as “particularly inaccessible” by the local police chief.
The distance between the resort where Nora was last seen, and where her body was found 9 days later
At one point in their search, they found footprints, but they didn’t lead to her. They deployed cadaver dogs, but those didn’t pick up her scent. They even had her mother, Meabh Quoirin, record messages that were played on bullhorns as SAR teams trekked through the jungle:
Bizarrely, they found Nora’s body next to the Lata Berembun waterfall, which is located 1.6 miles (2kms) from her villa. What’s more, she was found at a site that had already been searched. It’s not that they missed her the first time; her body was naked and it wasn’t obscured by canopy or other vegetation. It was just… not there – and then several days later, just lying there.
Trekkers searching for Nora. We don’t know how close they are to the ultimate location, but if those boulders are any indication, Nora was likely surrounded by them. Large boulders and boulder fields are a common profile point in Missing 411 cases…
Here’s drone footage of the jungle Nora Quoirin – a 15-year-old from London, England, with a pronounced disability – would have had to trek through to somehow end up at that waterfall:
The location is so remote, her body had to be extracted by helicopter. While she presumably would not have been wearing much more than pajamas or underwear, no clothing or personal items have so far been found. Sean Yeap, who was part of the 25-man SAR team that made the shocking discovery, reported that as they approached her:
“It looked like she was sleeping. Her head was resting on her hands. But we all knew she was dead. It was very sad and two women in the group did not want to come close and they started crying.”
A post-mortem carried out on the body by a senior pathologist from Kuala Lumpur was initially judged “inconclusive” as to the cause of death. They’re now saying she “probably died of stress and starvation,” but have so far ruled out “violence, abduction or kidnapping,” and have found “no evidence of foul play for the time being”, although tests are still ongoing.
Nora’s parents Meabh and Sebastien thank Malaysian police, military and volunteers for their search efforts
This must be very sad and traumatic for the family. Unfortunately, such sudden and unexplained disappearances happen all too often.
This case has pretty much all of the profile points seen in Missing 411 cases. These are sets of missing person cases that have been re-investigated and catalogued by retired California police detective David Paulides in his Missing 411 series of books. While his books primarily focus on cases in North America, the author notes that such incidents take place around the world.
Sometimes people vanish without a trace; sometimes they are found, but what these cases typically have in common are several or more profile points from among a set of strange but strikingly similar circumstances:
the victim had a disability or impairment of some kind
the victim disappears from/is found in a location with large boulders or boulder fields
the victim ‘wandered off’ suddenly, unseen
the victim is found with no clothing or missing clothing
the victim is found at or near water
the victim is found a substantial distance away from her last known location, in rough terrain, where it would ordinarily be difficult if not impossible for the victim to walk themselves
the cause of death is ‘inconclusive/unknown’
the victim is found in a spot that had been previously searched
In fact, the only Missing 411 profile points this case does not (as yet) meet are:
a weather event (which typically occurs right around the time of the disappearance or during the early stages of the SAR operation);
geographical clustering – whether this occurred in a location with past or concurrent unsolved missing persons cases is unknown.
Perhaps researchers in or familiar with Malaysia can clarify these latter points.
I should mention that the specific detail in Nora Quoirin’s case which spurred me to take a closer look was the description of her having been found naked beside water, looking as if she was sleeping. This description matches one of the female cases featured in Paulides’ recent documentary, Missing 411: The Hunted.
In fact, one subset of cases Paulides catalogues in North America is missing hunters, who are typically armed, healthy men, very familiar with the outdoors, and even the specific location they disappeared from. So it can happen to anyone, but the best – and perhaps the only – defense against something like this happening to you or someone you know is awareness of the phenomenon…
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23 Nov – 22 More Pilots Join Ryanair This Week – Over 1,100 Pilots Hired By Ryanair In 2017
Ryanair today (23 Nov) announced that another 22 new pilots have joined the airline, as Ryanair Chief Pilot, Ray Conway, presented the new recruits with their ‘Wings’ at a ceremony at Ryanair’s Dublin Offices. This brings the total number of new pilots to 1,103 since 1st Jan this year.
“I am pleased to welcome 22 new pilots to Ryanair today, bringing to 493 the number joining in the past four months alone, with 1,103 hired this year. I look forward to welcoming many more as we grow our route network, fleet and passenger numbers over the coming months and years.”
Ryanair continues to hire and train the best pilots on a weekly basis, as we expand our fleet and our world class team of pilots. The ladies and gentlemen that fly for Ryanair are the best in the business and it’s no surprise that we continue to attract hundreds of pilot applicants from other airlines, who join Ryanair for our industry leading pay, excellent working conditions, unrivalled career progression and brand new aircraft.”
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DITSONG: Museums of South Africa
Author: Creative Feel Published on: February 14, 2019 Published in: In the magazine
Teacher, lecturer, political activist, family man and humble pragmatist. These are the traits of Robert Sobukwe as he is shown at an exhibition currently underway at DITSONG: National Museum of Cultural History in Pretoria.
Visitors will be able to glimpse the PAC founder from a number of vantage points, along with the beliefs and background that shaped him and his life, and the role that the party he later formed, the PAC, played in the struggle.
One gets to see Sobukwe among the pioneers of the ANC Youth League in 1944, of whom one Anton Muziwakhe Lembede was first president, from the activism and leadership skills within the ANC throughout the 1940s and 1950s, up to his branching away to form the PAC in 1959. What emerges is the figure of a true visionary, one who believes steadfastly in the collective destiny of the African continent and the need to strive for its identity as a coherent polity.
Most significantly, the exhibition opened just weeks after the passing away of Sobukwe’s wife, Mama Zondeni Veronica Sobukwe in August 2018. Throughout his incarceration and eventual demise, Sobukwe is portrayed as a loving husband and father for whom the family came first, in a classic case of charity beginning at home.
As Thando Sipuye, Programme Coordinator for the Robert Sobukwe Trust, poignantly points out, many in South Africa are still unaware that Sobukwe succumbed to covert poisoning at the hands of apartheid-era government, and not the supposed lung cancer from which he was known to suffer.
The Sobukwe exhibition is, from this perspective, part of the vanquished of history stepping up to reclaim their past and tell their own story and not have it told to them by an observing third party, says Lemohang Zincume, Marketing Manager of DITSONG: Museums of South Africa (DMSA).
The exhibition has been twinned by a related display titled Poisoned Pasts, which chronicles how biological and chemical warfare was used covertly to annihilate political activists and struggle leaders, in terms of the infamous Project Coast.
The Poisoned Pasts display was inaugurated with a public lecture and dialogue on 30 November at which students, diplomats, public officials and academics engaged in dialogue about the need for diverse narratives in conformity with a 21st century art scene.
The DMSA’s mission is to transform DITSONG: Museums of South Africa into a catalyst for nation building, social cohesion, cultural diversity and economic development. This is achieved through active conservation, innovative research and relevant public programmes for the benefit of present and future generations.
The Robert Sobukwe Exhibition will be on display until 28 February 2019. The Poisoned Pasts exhibition will be on display until 29 November 2019.
To read more about DITSONG: National Museum of Cultural History and the Poisoned Pasts exhibition, purchase the February 2018 issue of Creative Feel or, to continue supporting the arts and culture sector in South Africa, subscribe to our monthly magazine from only R180 per year.
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Stateville inmates draw parallels between prison life, dystopian fiction at One Book event
Philosophy Prof. Jennifer Lackey leads a class at Stateville Correctional Center. Lackey and One Book One Northwestern volunteers visited the prison Wednesday to lead a discussion with inmates on “The Handmaid’s Tale.”
Source: Northwestern Now
Maddie Burakoff, Print Managing Editor
CREST HILL, Ill. — In “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood, women in the dystopian society of Gilead are stripped of their power, left without control over their lives and bodies.
Demetrice Crite, an inmate at Stateville Correctional Center, said he understands a little bit of that feeling.
“Loss of control is loss of freedom,” Crite said. “We see that every day.”
On Wednesday, Crite and about 35 other inmates gathered alongside Northwestern faculty, undergraduates and graduate students for a discussion of Atwood’s novel, which was this year’s One Book One Northwestern selection. This was the second year One Book partnered with philosophy Prof. Jennifer Lackey, who leads the Northwestern Prison Education Program, to bring a literary discussion to the maximum-security prison.
Correctional officers patrolled the room and watched from lookouts jutting from the auditorium walls as participants heard from a panel and broke into small-group sessions.
One Book director Nancy Cunniff said she initially wasn’t sure how the discussion of Atwood’s female-centric book would play out at an all-male prison. However, Stateville students were quick to connect the plot with their own lives.
Crite said he saw parallels between the strictly-controlled lives of the book’s “handmaids” — fertile women forced into bearing children for the powerful families of Gilead — and his own day-to-day routine as an inmate. Though he sometimes feels like he is free to make decisions, at any moment, Crite said he might be ordered to step to the other side of a line, or have to wait for an officer to escort him somewhere, and realize he has no real autonomy.
Still, like Offred, the protagonist in “The Handmaid’s Tale,” he said he refuses to fully surrender to his situation.
“Take my body, because in time you’ll find, I’m totally opposed to surrendering my mind,” he said, reciting part of a poem he had written in response to his life in prison.
Robert Boyd also said he related to the handmaids and the government’s control over them. People trying to dictate where handmaids go and who they talk to reminded Boyd of being ordered around by prison guards.
After reading about the struggles of the women of Gilead, Tyrone Daniels said he was prompted to think about being mindful of the women in his life. Though he doesn’t feel like he has to be a “knight in shining armor” swooping in to save them, Daniels said he hopes he can lift their voices and protect them from being devalued or oppressed.
Crite added that the book made him gain even more respect for his mother — whom he referred to as his “superhero” — and the difficulties she faced as a single mother raising seven children.
Boyd said for him, it was hard to accept the premise of “The Handmaid’s Tale” because he doesn’t believe a society would allow things to progress that far. There’s “no question” he would stand up against the oppression placed on women in the novel, he said.
Even though he found the book was “not realistic,” he said he appreciated the dialogue it sparked and the chance to gain new perspectives through the event.
“You get to relate to human beings as human beings,” Boyd said. “Jail teaches you not to take that for granted.”
Corzell Cole said he is grateful for the opportunity to participate in One Book One Northwestern discussions. Cole, who has been a part of the NU Prison Education Program since it began, said it’s the one place at Stateville where he gets to let his guard down. Spending time with the other Stateville students, who share similar goals and values, makes Cole feel safe in a way that is rare in a prison environment.
“When they put on events like this, it brings me to tears,” Cole said. “This is more of a family than anything else.”
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August 1, 2018 By OLIVIA DENG
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Yearning for more DIY space in Greater Boston, one restaurant guy takes the plunge
Ian McGregor has worked in the restaurant industry for more than 15 years and started booking shows six years ago with Eye Design, which he founded. With the recent surge in Boston venue closures and artist displacement, McGregor sees an opportunity to fill the void with a new venture, Deep Cuts Deli, expected to open in spring 2019 with hopes for a location in Allston.
His concept: an all-ages deli, community arts space, practice space, and music venue.
“Combining my love of music and food is a dream of mine,” said McGregor, who plans on working as the owner/manager. “Boston has so many great bands, artists, comedians, and not enough places where they feel comfortable and can call home. Deep Cuts Deli can and will be that place.”
In July, McGregor launched an Indiegogo campaign to raise $50,000 for Deep Cuts Deli to fund basic operating costs, hourly practice rooms, build-out/renovation, kitchen equipment, dining area, and licenses/permits. With less than $2,000 on that platform at the time of this writing, McGregor also said he is considering other fundraising mechanisms, including investors, events, and shows.
“Working at restaurants around Boston led me to booking my first show at one of my favorite venues in Boston, Great Scott. I got to meet a lot of awesome people in the industry and a lot of aspiring, or already established, artists,” McGregor said. “I worked at restaurants that also served as venues like Firebrand Saints and the Automatic that let me take over to host shows, fundraising events, and markets. They also proved that a mix of quality food and fun events is something that the Boston community thrives on and we need more of. Deep Cuts will help fill that void.”
With the closure of music and art-friendly destinations like Out of the Blue and Firebrand Saints, to name a few, it can seem that artists are being squeezed out of Greater Boston. It’s not just venues that have been affected, as galleries, practice spaces, and studios have also suffered with so much development and skyrocketing rents.
“The development in Boston is going the wrong way,” said Wiley, owner of store High Energy Vintage in Somerville. Wiley’s motivations are in line with those behind Deep Cuts. He continued: “It’s not just displacing lower-income people, even medium-income people. It’s going to become a city of condos and like, coffee shops. That sucks. People are going to look around one day and realize that everything that’s cool about Boston isn’t even there anymore.”
“Because there’s less venues, whether they’re an actual venue or a DIY venue, there needs to be more,” Wiley added. “[You] can’t just take away venues and not add any.”
Ben Potrykus, a musician who’s played in bands since he was 16, knows McGregor from the DIY show scene and looks forward to a space like Deep Cuts that provides an all-ages place for artists to practice.
“It’s important to have spaces where people can hone their talent, where people can take influence by seeing bands and seeing what people are doing, start conversations with people in their community who are doing things they’re interested in,” Potrykus added. “Having a space like Deep Cuts that would be all ages and have something other than bar or drinking culture as the central point … would be really beneficial for the city and for the arts scene to foster more creativity among a younger group of people.”
According to Christopher Muller, a professor at Boston University’s School of Hospitality Administration, McGregor faces an uphill battle to open a space like Deep Cuts, which would combine an eatery and a music venue. The reality, Muller notes, is that real estate is motivated by money, which make it hard for art spaces to survive in Boston.
“The reason there’s less venues in general [is that] music venues just don’t have enough income,” Muller said. “The unfortunate thing about capitalist incentives is people that have real estate want to capitalize. Rents have gone up in everything, not just for housing, but also retail space. The last 10 years, a storefront in Boston went from $20 per square foot. Now it’s as much as $75 to $100 per square foot.”
Muller nonetheless acknowledged the importance of such spaces.
“The [Rathskeller] was a significant place for rising talent to play,” the professor says of the iconic Kenmore Square haunt that closed in 1997. “Boston bands like the Cars all played there and became legendary for that. You need to have a place to play. I can understand that desire; the problem is it doesn’t mean it’s going to be a successful business.”
While arts spaces suffer, Muller added, the restaurant scene has grown significantly, with fast casual spots like Clover and Life Alive driving the growth.
“I think [Deep Cuts Deli is] a noble idea,” the professor said. “I think it’s a really great concept. I do think if he does it right, it can support itself.”
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Olivia is a Boston University graduate and journalist in the Boston area and has written for publications including the Atlantic, HuffPost, and Spare Change News.
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The major focus is on the who, when, and where of American immigration to Israel, but it is the "why" of this aliya which constitutes the core of the book. Waxman analyzes the relationship between Zionism, aliya, and the Jewish experience. Chapters include "Zion in Jewish culture," a synopsis of Zionism through the years, and "American Jewry and the land of Israel in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries," an account of proto-Zionist ideas and movements in early America.
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Posts Tagged ‘stealth’
Posted by altandmain on November 27, 2019
An article was recently posted that was quite an improvement over the typical articles that we see in the mainstream media. Although I may not agree with all of the assertions here, the article was well written.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/how-good-stealth-f-22-and-f-35-anyway-82791
Let’s go through some of the key points in greater detail.
While virtually any plane can be equipped to fire long-range missiles, stealth airframes are built using radar-absorbent materials and engineered precisely to minimize reflection of radar waves. This constrains their load-carrying abilities, as external weapons or drop tanks could increase their visibility on radar. The United States fields two stealth fighters, the F-22 Raptor and the F-35 Lightning II.
There seems to be an attempt here to make a serious discussion about the trade-offs of stealth technology.
Stealth aircraft are optimized to be difficult to observe on the precise X-Band radars used on modern fighters: while some radars have better resolutions than others, most will only be able to track a stealth fighter at shorter distances. An F-22 is claimed to have the radar cross section of 0.0001 square meters in certain aspect—the same as that of a marble.
Low-bandwidth radars are more effective at detecting stealth aircraft. These are typically used by ground installations and ships, but also found on specialized aerial platforms such as the E-2D. However, they come with a major limitation: they can reveal only the general location of a stealth fighter and are too imprecise to be used to target missiles—though they can indicate to an X-Band radar where to look.
Infra-Red Search-and Track (IRST) systems offer another means of detecting stealth aircraft, but their range is generally limited. The latest IRST system on the SU-35 has extended the range up to 50 kilometers, whereas its radar has detection range of up to 200 kilometers. Just like low-band radar, IRST doesn’t give a precise track and can’t be used to lock on weapons. Stealth fighters include features designed to minimize heat signature, but they are far from completely effective.
Of course, a stealth fighter can be seen within visual range, and is vulnerable to heat-seeking missiles.
I’m glad to be seeing a serious discussion about how stealth can be possibly defeated.
One factor that is difficult to calculate is how likely long-range missiles are to hit. Extrapolating from past usage of radar-guided missiles is problematic, both because missile technology has advanced considerably since its inception (early radar-guided Sparrow missiles had a less than 10 percent kill probability in the Vietnam War), and the conflicts in which radar-guided missiles have been more successful (Arab-Israeli conflicts, the Gulf War) involved poorly trained opponents lacking effective countermeasures.
It’s safe to say that long-range missiles will have lower hit rates than short-range missiles like the AIM-9 Sidewinder and the Russian R-73—modern versions of which have chalked up a roughly seventy percent probability of kill.
One of the recurring themes that Picard has always emphasized is that BVR radar guided air missiles are not going to have the kill ratios that they had in simulations.
This is also why shorter range IR missiles and guns are going to remain relevant today.
But referring back to the Battle of Britain can reveal a limitation of this strategy. The British hit-and-run attacks succeeded in inflicting deadly attrition on German bombers over time until they were forced to call off the air offensive. But they rarely prevented the German formations from hitting their targets. The German simply had too many aircraft.
At first, this was a problem: the Germans relentlessly pounded British airfields, degrading the Royal Air Force’s ability to fight in the air. But then the Germans switched to bombing civilian targets in London. While this inflicted many civilian casualties, the raids did not degrade the RAF’s ability to fight back. The British fighters could sustain their advantageous rate of attrition versus the German Luftwaffe until the latter was forced to tap out.
One thing I do like is that the author of this article is very well versed in aviation history.
Let’s consider what would happen when American fighters encounter a much larger force of fighters based on the coast. The American fighters could fire their long-range AIM-120D missiles from more than one hundred kilometers away—four from each F-35 and six on the F-22. Soaring at Mach 4—twice the maximum speed of the aircraft that launched it—an AIM-120 can traverse eighty kilometers in one minute.
The radar-warning receivers on their targets would light up as they detect the incoming attack. The further away the target, the more time it has to evade the missile. Therefore, BVR missiles may be fired at well below their maximum range to ensure a higher probability of a kill, particularly when engaging maneuverable fighter aircraft.
Presumably in this case, the author is referring to China.
One thing the author does not discuss is that a stealth heavy fleet means lower numbers. It means higher acquisition costs per plane, higher costs per hour of flight, and higher flight to maintenance ratios, which means less aircraft for a given amount of money.
What if the U.S. fighters close to short range after expending their long-range armaments, rather than prudently disengaging? If both sides are closing upon each other at maximum speed at high altitude, the distance between them would diminish at a rate of 60-80 kilometers a minute. Even if the AIM-120s were fired at maximum range, the opposing aircraft could close that distance in one or two minutes.
In short-range engagements, surprise, pilot training and flight performance will determine the victor.
The F-22 is a superb dogfighter. The F-35…not so much, though ithas its defenders. Both aircraft can carry two Sidewinder missiles and fire shells from their onboard cannons.
While I question the F-22’s value as a dogfighter, the author does have a very important point. Training, surprise, and flight performance will be decisive factors. One problem with stealth fighters in that regard is that pilots will have to spend more time in simulators rather than real world aircraft. The higher costs per flight hour force this.
Why? The hostile aircraft didn’t have trouble detecting the tankers supporting the U.S. forces. Unlike the F-22s and F-35s, tankers have neither the speed nor stealth to evade a determined attack.
If the tankers get shot down, it doesn’t just force the U.S. fighters to abandon the fight. It could force them to crash into the ocean, without enough fuel to make it back to base. In effect, a tanker would be a high-value target that U.S. air-superiority fighters would need to defend to the last.
A similar problem exists while defending an aircraft carrier from attack. Unlike the resilient city of London in the Battle of Britain, a carrier is a vulnerable and militarily consequential target that must be defended at all costs. A lost carrier consigns its fighters to the ocean as well.
A final consideration is that opponents may field limited number of their own stealth fighters, such as the J-20 or the Sukhoi T-50. Even a small number of stealth fighters would be effective at sneaking into the range of the tankers and AWACs aircraft and taking them out before the U.S. aircraft could evade or retaliate. Very long-range missiles such as the R-37 and the PL-13 could also assist in the anti-tanker mission.
First, one concern is that there is a trade-off between stealth and aerodynamics. The second is that the tankers and AWACs are themselves not stealthy. Making tankers stealth would be costly and mean less money for fighter aircraft.
AWACs simply cannot be made stealthy. It will remain vulnerable to anti-radiation missiles.
Already, many theorists believe that carriers would be forced to remain far away from hostile shores. The survivability of airbases in the event of a mass surface-to-surface missile attack is also open to question. One possibility is that no large-scale air battles would materialize.
The two key limitations are logistical: lack of internal fuel to operate without support, and insufficient missiles to tackle superior numbers. For the time being, there is no obvious fix to the fuel problem: the latest U.S. fighters, the F-22 and F-35, are simply going to depend on tankers. Some suggest that the Navy should deploy light-weight low-observable drones from carriers that could potentially operate further afield.
In the case of aircraft carriers, submarines might also prove to be a threat. So might land fired anti-shipping missiles.
Another issue is that rough field operation is a big deal for modern war – fixed airbases provide fixed targets for enemy forces.
The U.S. military is a big proponent of networked warfare. In theory, if one airplane detects an enemy, it could pass on that data to friendly ships and aircraft—and through Cooperative Engagement Ability, even potentially allow those friendlies to shoot at that target from far away. One potential tactic is to use a vanguard of stealthy fighters to identify incoming enemy aircraft and send targeting data to ships or non-stealth fighters, which can carry heavier weapons loads. The F-35’s excellent sensors and datalinks could make it effective in this role.
There is even an idea being kicked around to mount large numbers of missiles on a B-1 or B-52, which would be fired off hundreds of kilometers away from the battle. Of course, such an “arsenal plane” would be vulnerable if enemy fighters broke through the accompanying line of F-22s and F-35s. The tactic would likely require even longer-range missiles than the U.S. currently employs.
I’m not at all convinced this would work – keep in mind that an aircraft that is stealthy would have to transmit to the friendly aircraft information. That may be detected and it may be possible to reveal the locations of enemy aircraft.
Longer range missiles are likely to have an even lower probability of kill ratio, except against targets that don’t have the agility to defeat them.
While I may not agree with all of the points in this article, I am happy to see someone who is asking questions about the limitations of stealth.
It is certainly an improvement over the fawning, and often uncritical coverage that stealth aircraft have received.
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Stealth fighter characteristics and requirements overview
Posted by picard578 on August 8, 2018
Stealth fighters are spreading, yet very few to none have what is necessary for a stealth fighter to be truly effective. Some are better than others – PAK FA would eat F-35 for lunch and spit out the bones – but all have serious flaws and are, in essence, half-baked experiments in stealth fighter design. So what would an ideal stealth fighter be? (Note: It may not be possible for some countries to build such a fighter – an optimization for operational stealth might fly in the face of other design requirements).
Main idea behind stealth is to improve survivability. Survivability is one of the most important characteristics of modern weapons systems, yet it is far more complex than generally appreciated. It does not mean merely avoiding getting hit, but rather surviving to carry out the mission – in tactical terms, aircraft that had been forced to withdraw due to lack of fuel or could never take off due to a big hole in tarmac is as “dead” as one that had been shot down.
Stealth improves lethality as well. Effectiveness of weapons depends in large part on employment range: it is not the same thing to shoot from 10 or 100 kilometers.
In order to actually make use of the above, aircraft needs to be capable of getting to targets and back. Required endurance necessarily depends on mission profile: will the fighter be employed defensively or offensively? Since stealth fighters are by nature offensive weapons, they will require greater endurance than non-stealth fighters; but defensive stealth design is possible to envision as well. Endurance should be measured by combat tasks: e.g. acceleration from subsonic cruise speed to combat cruise speed followed by climb to operational altitude and acceleration to top speed in order to fire missiles. This could be more precisely specified as:
Ingress at 15.000 ft
Acceleration from Mach 0,9 to 1,2 at 15.000 ft
Climb to 30.000 ft and acceleration to Mach 1,7 (assumed dry cruise speed)
Cruise at Mach 1,7
Maximum deceleration turn from Mach 1,7 to Mach 0,8 at 30.000 ft and maximum power
All the above characteristics depend on how well trained the pilot is. A well-trained pilot will be able to optimize aircraft employment, weapons employment etc., while badly trained pilot will unnecessarily waste weapons and fuel. As Iraqis discovered in 1991., 2003. and 2014., it is no use to give a rifle to a monkey. A well-trained pilot in shit aircraft will always beat a badly-trained pilot in excellent aircraft. Usefulness of BVR combat in recent conflicts was largely due to enemies being incapable of proper defensive action due to lack of training and equipment failures (no MAWS, no RWR). Human factors trump technology, yet this is not sufficiently realized in many circles. One good thing about newer fighters are their extensive networking capabilities, which can significantly improve performance – assuming, of course, networking works against a peer opponent.
Ground survivability
No tactics are as useful as cheating, and in air combat, ultimate cheating is destroying the enemy before he has had a chance to get into air in the first place. Even the most “stealthy” fighter aircraft would find its stealth useless to hide it if its air base can be found as easily as most Western bases can. Fighter aircraft spends most of its time – two-thirds at very least – on the ground, and it is precisely there that it is the most vulnerable. Yet most Western fighters are not really optimized for road basing, let alone dirt-strip basing (even if most can fly from roads in extremis, sustained road operations are much more difficult). A proper road-based fighter needs to have low maintenance requirements, low fuel usage, low wing span and ability to operate from dirt-strip and muddy roads. For stealth fighter, this means very resillient radar-absorbent skin (not paint!) as well as robust undercarriage and FOD-resistant engine. Undercarriage should have good shock absorption and large, low-pressure tires, as well as mud and FOD protection. Nose wheel should be mounted behind the air intakes to prevent any FOD damage to the engine.
Further, fighter should have very good STOL, acceleration and climb performance to escape, if necessary, any attack against the air base itself. While not necessarily as important as it was in pre-missile era, altitude is still an advantage, meaning that fighters should reach combat altitude before enemy attackers come into range.
Combat survivability
By its nature, stealth fighter relies on stealth to protect it. What this means is minimizing radar, infrared and visual signatures. Radar signature is minimized by obvious means: proper airframe shaping, internal weapons carriage, hidden engine front and application of radar absorbent materials. These measures are especially effective against fire-control X-band radars, but are less effective as frequency decreases. VHF radar has significantly improved performance against stealth fighters, while HF radar can ignore stealth alltogether. However, neither can be employed on fighters or missiles.
Infrared signature can be minimized by optimizing both design and performance characteristics. Supercruise capability is especially important here, as it allows supersonic flight without using extremely detectable afterburner. Engine should have an additional cooling channel and external nozzle compared to “normal” fighter engines. Bypass ratio is an opern question: high bypass ratio would reduce engine IR signature at subsonic speed, but low bypass ratio would improve cruise performance and reduce engine power necessary for any given cruise speed. For an air superiority fighter, low bypass ratio engine should be chosen.
Visual signature is minimized via small size, which also helps reduce infrared signature. Another factors are camouflage paint and especially smokeless engine.
Electromagnetic signature has two aspects: incoming emissions (radar) and outgoing emissions. Enemy radar is defeated primarily via shaping for minimum radar cross section. This means a smooth shape with carefully controlled reflections, no corner reflectors, or any random protrusions. Consequently, weapons and sensors must be carried internally: hence faceted IRST/EOS housing on F-35. Radar cross section (RCS) should be based on in-air measurements, as different aspects, air conditions, condensation trails and engine emissions can affect RCS compared to ground-based model measurements. This is just as important for assessing fighter’s infrared signature, if not even more so. Measurement should utilize radars of different frequencies as well, as different aspects of radar signature (shaping, contrails etc.) have different impact on different frequencies, and shaping grows less effective as frequencies increase, being much less effective against VHF radars and irrelevant against HF over-the-horizon radars. Second aspect is emissions control. Fighter itself must minimize or eliminate all outgoing electromagnetic emissions. This means minimal to no radar usage, directional outgoing data links (if any), and either offboard or directional electronic countermeasures. Radar is especially important as it is by far the most powerful source of electromagnetic emission on the aircraft.
However, stealth fighter cannot rely on stealth to always protect it. It may come up against enemies with good IR sensors, be forced to defend a (relatively) stationary asset, or be caught in a position where range is too close. It might run out of BVR missiles and be forced to enter a dogfight. As such, it needs to have backup options: good self-defense suite, good maneuverability and cruise capability.
In order to avoid being surprised, fighter should have 360* coverage with most important sensors – RWR, LWR and MAWS. Radar will naturally be positioned forward, and should be capable of being used in active and passive modes both – with latter itself having options for picking up reflections by radar of an emitting friendly fighter, or else picking up enemy radar emissions – a giant RWR, essentially. IRST will also be forward-oriented, but IR MAWS should be configured so as to allow it being used as a short-ranged IRST. This will allow pilot to “see through” the airframe. Fighter should also be capable of cruising at speeds of Mach 1,5 to 1,8 for at least 20 to 30 minutes in combat area. This however may be problematic to achieve in a stealth design, but 15 minutes cruise should be absolute minimum. For this reason, a turbojet engine may have to be considered.
Electronic countermeasures will have easier time due to stealth fighter requiring less powerful signals to spoof enemy targeting regardless of the range. However, infrared missiles will present a significant threat as IR signature cannot be significantly suppressed. Enemy radar missiles may be jammed by AESA jammers alternating between two fighters in a “blinking” manner, forcing the missile in a home-on-jam mode to to alternate between two targets, expending fuel and energy.
In maneuverability, stealth fighter will likely be at disadvantage due to its very nature: need to carry weapons internally. This means that it will be larger and heavier than an enemy with comparable normal payload. F-22 can carry eight missiles internally; Gripen E, with similar weapons load, is less than half the empty (or combat, for that matter) weight. Stealth fighter might gain some advantage due to having no interference drag from carrying weapons internally, but simple conformal carriage can eliminate most of these advantages, even when ignoring that smaller fighter will likely have maneuvering advantage – less impact from weapons carriage matters much less once one figures in the fact that baseline / starting point is not the same. However, maneuverability of a stealth fighter can still be improved (kept competitive) by ensuring low wing loading, high thrust-to-weight ratio, good transient characteristics (control response) and small size. Transient characteristics in particular can be improved by including close-coupled canards in the design. Since transient maneuverability is the most important aspect of maneuverability, canards should be included. Canards can be high (above the wing) or coplanar with the wing. In either case, some stealth will be sacrificed, but maneuverability benefits should be significant. Sustained turn performance is comparatively irrelevant, but for a stealth fighter meant to fight at beyond visual range, acceleration and climb performances are crucial.
Beyond visual range missiles achieved good performance in recent wars. To fight at beyond visual range, fighter must be capable of identifying its targets at beyond visual range as well. While in ideal conditions this can be done via various mechanisms such as radar NCTR, various factors such as interference and jamming, unavailability of AWACS etc. can render radar ID too unreliable. That BVR missiles were used in the first place was due to presence of radar NCTR, persistent AWACS availability, which when combined with incompetent enemies led to excellent effectiveness. In more adverse conditions, radar-guided beyond-visual-range missiles cannot be relied on. This problem can be mitigated in two ways.
First, stealth fighter should be equipped with IR guided BVR missiles, such as French MICA IR. Combined with onboard IRST, it will allow both identification and engagement of unccoperative targets in ECM-heavy environments. Aside from being much more ECM-resistant, IR missiles have inherently greater lethality than radar-guided missiles. Meanwhile imaging IRST is the only reliable means of identification in ECM-heavy environment, unless both sides leave IFF turned on (which they may do if two sides utilize same aircraft types). Radar imaging cannot be used if radar is jammed. It is also the only way of ensuring reliable surprise due to being a passive sensors: radar is likely to give away fighter’s position, unless data is being fed from an offboard platform (possibility of which is questionable) or the enemy does not have a good radar warning receiver. Against Third World air forces, AESA radar can be left safely on. Radar itself should be capable of functioning as RWR and using that data (plus data from IRST) to optimize low-energy emissions for fire control purposes; in essence, radar becomes a rangefinding system.
Second, stealth fighter should have good cruise performance – that is, cruise speed and endurance. Cruise, not maximum, speed will allow it to dictate engagement terms and potentially catch enemies unaware (most fighters do not have sensors covering the rear aspect with the exception of various warning devices). It will thus be capable of choosing when, how and whether to engage. High cruise speed and endurance will also serve to extend its missile range and reduce enemy missile range from rear-quarter attacks – area where all fighters, but especially stealth ones, are relatively most vulnerable from.
Further, narrow-beam two-way datalinks should be ensured. While they still risk giving away fighter’s location, data links should allow it to utilize offboard sensory data for engaging targets. In theory, such a system could be utilized to allow some degree of a completely passive rangefinding. Datalinks should be utilized to share sensory feeds between fighters and from AWACS, as well as for communication. They should not be utilized for command; instead, pilots and flight leaders in particular should be left maximum freedom of action based on mission goals and situation overview provided via datalink.
If the enemy has not been shot down at BVR, and just letting him go is not an option, stealth fighter may need to close to visual range. As noted above, stealth fighter will be at disadvantage in maneuverability. This means that, assuming it has any advantage at all, stealth fighter will have advantage in energy fight: carrying out what are basically “hit and run” attacks instead of engaging in a turning fight. This however is extremely risky in a modern battlefield, as a well-placed IR missile shot can still force it into a turning fight where it will be at a disadvantage. Energy fight will also require significant fuel reserve. Combined with supercruise requirement, this leads to 30% fuel fraction being absolute minimum, 35% a possibly adequate value, and 40% to 45% to be achieved if possible. However, due to design limitations of a stealth fighter, anything above 30% fuel fraction may prove unrealistic for an air superiority design. Meanwhile E-M requirement means high thrust-to-weight ratio.
Stealth fighter should not be too expensive – losses happen, and numbers do matter. Peacetime fighter fleet should include enough extra (reserve) fighters that pilots do not lose out on flight hours due to repairs, maintenance or accidents. This should also include a number of “spare parts” fighters, to be cannibalized in case that spare parts are not delivered in time. Ideally, each pilot should have two fighters, so as to spread wear over two airframes and allow aircraft to undergo proper maintenance. As stealth itself causes additional costs compared to conventional designs, fighter should be as small as possible.
Generally, a fighter in good position to shoot will achieve a kill – this was proven in wars from World War I to Gulf Wars. However, proliferation of missile warners may put that into question: importance of surprise in achieving kills was based on the fact that it was generally too late for a surprised target to do anything once “woken up” (typically by being shot at). In more than a few cases in modern wars – such as the case of Yugoslav MiGs in 1999 – enemy pilots only noticed they were under attack once missile detonated close to their fighters – or flew harmlessly past the canopy. But introduction of MAWS, especially IR MAWS, means that surprise becomes impossible unless one goes for a gun kill (assuming, of course, that MAWS is not configured to warn for fighters, and since modern IR MAWS is basically a high-resolution IR camera, even that will likely not be a surprise). If MAWS notices incoming missile early enough, pilot has time for evasive action. Therefore, visual-range performance of a stealth fighter is still crucial for its overall air combat performance. BVR missiles will still be important for scoring against Third World air forces, as well as for opening up for a closer, more lethal engagement. This means that MAWS IR cameras should be capable of feeding image as well as targeting and ID data to pilot’s HUD or HMD. This will make job of keeping track of targets in both BVR and dogfight much easier.
Training and tactics
Training should be optimized for operations in fours and pairs. Any larger formations harm fighter’s lethality, be it at within visual range or beyond visual range – larger number of smaller formations has advantage over smaller number of larger formations, even if larger formations have overall greater number of fighters. Large engagements in general should be avoided in order to achieve maximum kill-loss ratio. Fighter itself should be highly reliable and easy to maintain in order to facilitate “live” training.
Training should be literally “ground up”. Stealth starts and ends on the ground – a flaming wreck in a blown-up air base is not particularly stealthy, or particularly useful. Any proper stealth fighter should be designed to operate from hidden air bases. This means easy maintenance, low logistical requirements, small size and road basing capability at minimum. Each fighter should come with a fuel truck or two, a spare parts truck, ammunition truck, lightweight mobile maintenance and repair equipment. Additional equipment shoud include enough camouflage netting – effective in visual, radar and IR spectrums – to hide fighter as well as its entire support apparatus. A fighter without that is not a proper stealth fighter. Currently, Gripen C is far more stealthy than F-35 – just in different area, but people who focus only on in-flight stealth cannot understand that.
Ideal stealth fighter would be, in essence, Stealth!Gripen – certainly not an overweight monster like F-35. However, for maximum effectiveness, it should still be supported by non-stealth fighters, exploiting “cracks” these fighters create. Some of these non-stealth fighters could be Western versions of Flankers – large, twin-engined, two-seat aircraft with huge radar and capable of dirt strip operations. These could then act as command fighters.
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Air combat and stealth
Posted by picard578 on March 11, 2017
For a long time, visual detection was the only type of detection possible. But in World War II, two significant advances appeared: radar, as well as radar- and IR- -guided missiles. Until 1970s, these were defeated through jamming and decoys. Early German attempts at building LO aircraft – Ho-229 – never got anywhere, albeit their RAM paint utilization at snorkels and aircraft was noted. In United States, first attempt at reducing the radar signature of aircraft was on U-2, by utilizing RAM paint, but it was not very successful. First actual stealth aircraft appeared in early 1960s – SR-71 Blackbird, which utilized shaping such as canted surfaces to reduce radar signature. In 1970s a second generation of stealth aircraft appeared with B-1A, and also began a programme of development of VLO aircraft. Result of that was diamond-shaped F-117, to soon be followed by B-2. All these aircraft successfully performed against enemy air defenses, but in the case of B-1A and later aircraft, their performance against air defenses was similar or identical to performance of conventional aircraft they were deployed alongside. Fourth generation of stealth aircraft are F-22, F-35, PAK FA, J-20 and J-31. While still stealth aircraft, they sacrifice stealth characteristics for the sake of better flight characteristics, allowing them to match conventional fighters in terms of maneuverability. However, their stealth requirements make them larger and heavier than comparable conventional aircraft, thus sacrificing kinetic performance for the sake of stealth.^1 Read the rest of this entry »
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Defining stealth
Posted by picard578 on March 1, 2017
Word “stealth” has lately become a catchword used to define the weapon – mostly aircraft – as “superior”, with little or no thought as to what the term actually means. Stealth fighters, stealth bombers, stealth ships… even stealth tanks, the craze is in full swing. But how much do these weapons deserve the label? What is stealth? Is merely having low radar cross section enough – as commonly held – to define the weapon as “stealth”? Is USAF stuck on denial that no military advantage lasts forever, or even on denial that it never understood the true meaning of stealth? Every successful use of stealth aircraft had seen them acting as a support of, and being supported by, an array of nonstealthy aircraft – AWACS, standoff jammers etc. Yet USAF is now aiming for an all-stealth tactical fighter force, even though it will make the force less flexible and arguably less capable as well. How stealthy these aircraft really are, and what are their vulnerabilities? Read the rest of this entry »
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Stealth – evolution of justification
Radar stealth does not work very well against airborne threats for three very simple reasons. First, visual identification is necessary before engagement, which requires fighters to close in to either eyeball or optical sensor range. This means that larger fighter is at disadvantage, and stealth fighters are always larger than comparable non-stealth fighters. Second, pilots will always try to approach enemy or unknow fighter from the rear to maximize time avaliable for identification and minimize possibility of being detected. This requires higher cruise speed than the target, but also that fighter remains silent during the entire intercept. While fighter performing intercept might benefit from greater situational awareness, using onboard radar warns everyone in vicinity and significantly reduces a possibility of successful attack by either intercepting fighter itself or by any friendly fighters – even those not using the radar. Third, stealth assumes that aircraft will use radars but nobody will have competent RWRs. Read the rest of this entry »
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Aircraft signature reduction measures
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How stealthy is the F-35
Posted by picard578 on October 19, 2013
F-35 is the newest Western flying piano. Apparently US have already forgotten all the lessons of World War II and Vietnam war, where such impressive-on-paper-but-sluggish fighters ended up on mercy of far more nimble fighters and were thus relegated to ground attack roles. In fact, F-35 was designed as a ground attack aircraft, only to be pressed into service as “multirole” fighter after F-22 killed itself with cost overruns (how decision-makers figured that three-service aircraft would be better than a single-role single-service aircraft in that respect is beyond me, especialy after Aardvark disaster; only thing F-35 has for it is that it is lighter than the F-22, allowing for limited cost savings for some variants when compared to the F-22). And despite what some might think, F-16 was the first – and last – US fighter designed with maneuverability in mind; both P-51 and F-86 ended up maneuverable by pure luck, as they had to have low wing loading to function as high altitude bomber interceptors, and P-51 also got equipped with excellent British Merlin engine. F-22 is similarly a high-altitude bomber interceptor, and while it does have good maneuverability, it is not designed for it, as evidenced by the fact that it needs thrust vectoring to achieve angle of attack required for maximum lift; comparably low wing loading (about same as F-15C) and high thrust-to-weight ratios are features required by its role as a high-altitude fighter.
Due to this maneuverability shortcoming, F-35 has to rely on surprise attacks against the enemy: detect before being detected. That is, after all, entire purpose of stealth. But how stealthy is the F-35? Is it stealthy at all? What must be kept in mind is that stealth is not limited to just radar. For this reason, I will take a look at F-35s stealth in multiple areas.
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Value of stealth aircraft
Unlike US Navy and every other air force across the world, USAF has decided to transit to an all-stealth air force.
But due to the Moore’s law, processing power doubles every 18 months – which means not only improvements in sensors that are already very capable of detecting stealth aircraft, but also that, as time passes, stealth aircraft is ever less capable against systems it was designed to counter – namely, active radars.
Air-to-air combat
Stealth vs radar
Stealth relies on processing gain advantage over radar, by reducing return below treshold of what can be detected by radar itself. However, due to the Moore’s law, radars are becoming ever more capable. Further, stealth fighters are designed with minimum nose-on RCS, which means that they are easier to detect by aircraft flying in wall formation. At the same time, jammers benefit from Moore’s law too, which enables fighter-based jammers to rapidly close the effectiveness gap with stealth, or even surpass it.
This purely theoretical thought exercise is not likely to be very relevant, however, as radar – being an active sensor – automatically gives position of aircraft using it away far before it can detect opposing aircraft, meaning that pilots will start shutting it down in combat as soon as losses due to its use start to mount due to radars’ use giving very important advantage of surprise to the opponent. Against both enemy aircraft and SAMs, dedicated jamming aircraft – ranging in size from converted medium-weight fighters to converted heavy bombers – are avaliable, and far more effective since they also protect other aircraft.
Stealth vs IRST
Most discussions about value of IRST against stealth focus on airframe being heated due to air friction. This, however, is wrong for a very simple reason: any time a gas is compressed, it heats. And compression of gasses in front of moving object is a normal, unavoidable occurence – only difference is scale of compression, which depends on object’s speed.
While aircraft do heat up less in rarer atmosphere, less atmosphere also means that more IR radiation – especially of longwave variety – reaches the infrared sensor. Further, at high altitudes – where stealth aircraft are required to operate – temperatures range from -30 to -50 degrees Celzius. At the same time, fighter supercruising at Mach 1,7 creates shock cone with temperature of 87 degrees Celzius. While PIRATE IRST can detect subsonic fighters from 90 km from front and 145 km from rear according to (somewhat outdated) publicly avaliable information, this range is 10% greater against supercruising fighter. At the same time, OLS-35 can detect subsonic fighter from 50 km from front and 90 km from rear. PIRATE’s own range is already comparable to that of fighter radars against 1m2 targets. (Note: Data used for both PIRATE and OLS-35 dates from 2008; it is possible that both have been improved in the mean time). Prototype Russian stealth aircraft PAK FA uses QWIP-based OLS-50M, so it is possible that QWIP technology may find its way into Su-27 family of aircraft. Identification can be carried out at 8 to 10 kilometers.
Parts of aircraft’s exhaust plume are also visible from front, which should present no problem for modern IRSTs that are capable of detecting AAM release due to missile’s nose cone heating.
Some IRST systems have laser rangefinder coupled with them, which means that they can be used to gain gun firing solution without usage of radar. While IRST is mostly immune to “beam turn” used to break radar lock, laser rangefinder may not be. Rangefinder, though shorter-ranged compared to IRST, would also have increased range at higher altitudes. IRST could also use sensitivity model (Atmospheric Propagation Model) to roughly estimate range and velocity of target without using any active sensors.
(Interesting to note is that Soviet MiG-31s were able to target SR-71 by using IRST; at speeds both aircraft were flying at in these situations, MiG-31s front surfaces would heat up to 760 degrees Celzius due to aerodynamic friction. SR-71 was not much better off; fortunately, order to attack was never given).
Astronomic IR telescopes can detect velocity of star down to 1 meter per second. This kind of precision would not be required for air-to-air combat, however, as closure rates between fighters could be up to 1 700 meters per second.
This means that stealth aircraft has no escape – if it attempts to increase effective range of its missiles, it has to increase speed – but this increases IR signature and allows it to be detected from larger distance. If it attempts to avoid detection, it has to reduce speed, which means that it has to come closer to IRST-equipped fighter.
USAF is obviously concerned about it – while IRST-equipped Super Tomcat was slated to be retired in 2008, it was hurriedly retired in 2006 under neoliberal stealth proponent Donald Rumsfeld. Both PAK FA and F-35 have IRSTs, but unlike PAK FA, F-35s IRST is optimised for air-to-ground missions, and is thus operating in appropriate wavelengths, reducing its range against aerial targets.
QWIP IRST such as PIRATE or OSF has some very useful advantages over “legacy” IRST. Aside from longer range, they can be tuned for sensitivity in certain IR band. While normal IRST operates in microwave to longwave IR bands, QWIP IRST can operate in very longwave bands, allowing for easy detection of objects that are only slightly hotter than the background, with difference being in single digit degrees of Cenzius. It can also use several bands in paralel, getting “best of the both worlds”.
While F-22 was designed to operate at high altitudes, as high as 15-20 kilometers, clouds only go up to 14 kilometers in some cases, with majority being below 4 500 meters – and even that only in tropics. All other stealth air superiority aircraft are similarly expected to operate at high altitudes.
Countering SAMs
Ground radars have to be above any obstacles to radar beam, which means that areas such as small valleys and canyons are usually not covered. Anti-radiation missiles and cruise missiles are very reliable against stationary radar sites; ARMs are better against mobile radars, as there is no radar that can pack up and leave in the time that ARM requires to reach it. SAMs are no different in that regard, and as such they can be kept shut down by use of anti-radiation missiles.
Without these two factors, however, stealth aircraft can be detected easily enough by long-wavelength radars, which completely ignore any practical amount of stealth coating, and are far less affected by stealth shaping measures than shorter-wavelength radars. These, then, can be used to guide IR SAM or IRST-equipped aircraft close enough for their IR systems to detect stealth aircraft.
Numerical issues
Numerical issues are probably the worst drawback of stealth. Stealth aircraft cost more and are harder to maintain than non-stealth ones. To demonstrate the actual impact, I will compare F-22 to two twin-engined aircraft designed to carry out similar mission to F-22s, but without stealth.
While F-22 costs 250 million USD per aircraft flyaway, cost for Tranche 3 Typhoon is 121,5 million USD, and cost for F-15C is 108,2 million USD. As such, 50 billion USD gives 200 F-22s, 411 Typhoons or 462 F-15Cs.
Sortie rate stands at maximum of 0,52 sorties/aircraft/day for F-22, 1,2 sorties/aircraft/day for F-15 and 1,2 – 2,4 sorties/aircraft/day for Typhoon (later value only assuming that design goals have been met). Thus, force bought would be able to support 104 sorties/day for F-22, 554 sorties/day for F-15C and 493 – 986 sorties/day for Typhoon.
Historically, quality of aircraft was always unable to compensate for force disparity once latter was above 3:1. As such, it can easily be seen that F-22 is, strategically, worse choice than Typhoon or F-15. And while all numbers are not yet avaliable, it cannot be expected that F-35 will perform any better in this crucial area relative to Gripen and F-16 than F-22 did relative to Typhoon and F-15. Me-262, while by any measure a revolutionary aircraft, was not used in large enough numbers to have impact against Allied fighters. In the end, Me-262 shot down no more than 150 Allied fighters, with 75 of them being lost in turn, in large part due to Allied superior numbers allowing them to catch Me-262 on take-off or landing.
BVR combat
Stealth aircraft are built under assumption that BVR radar-based combat trumps WVR combat. However, that assumption is unproven; neither AMRAAM or other BVR missiles were ever used beyond distance of 40-50 kilometers. In case of AMRAAM, usage was against aircraft with no radar, no IRST, no radar warners, no ECM, with badly trained pilots that were in most cases unaware they were under attack (and were not maneuvering as a consequence). Yet even in such perfect conditions, AMRAAM achieved 6 kills in 13 BVR launches, or Pk of 0,46.
During Desert Storm, in conditions identical to above, USAF F-15s launched 12 Sidewinders for 8 kills, for Pk of 0,67. For same F-15s, AIM-7 Sparrow achieved 23 kills in 67 shots, for Pk of 0,34.
Thus we have to take a look back at Vietnam. Why Vietnam? Simply because it was the last time US have fought somewhat competent opponent in the air. Even experience with IR missile suggests that Pk in combat against competent opponent will be far lower than above: AIM-9B achieved Pk of 0,65 in tests, which fell to 0,15 in Vietnam, to be improved to 0,19 with AIM-9D and J, whereas G model does not offer large enough sample for drawing conclusions. Yet even this was better than Pk for BVR missiles. While majority of AIM-7 shots were taken within visual range, during 1971-1973 in Vietnam, 28 BVR shots were made, resulting in 2 kills, one of which was a fratricide against an F-4 – a Pk of 0,071, as opposed to predicted Pk of 0,9 or more. During entire war, AIM-7D achieved 8% Pk, AIM-7E achieved 10% Pk and AIM-7E2 achieved 8% Pk. At the same time, guns had Pk of 0,28.
In fact, summary by Burton of kills made during Cold War has found that, out of 407 missile kills he studied, 73 were made by Sparrows in 632 firings, a kill rate of 11%. Sidewinder achieved 308 kills in around 1 000 firings. Out of all radar-guided missile kills, only four were made at BVR – two already described shots in Vietnam that were carefully staged outside of combat, and two similarly staged shots by Israeli air force. His summary of these 407 shots concluded that most targets were unaware and fired from the rear, and that there were almost no head-on BVR shots due to high closing rates. Only way to positively identify the target was by the eye.
When we take a look at the data above, a clear pattern begins to emerge: while Pk against incompetent opponent is significantly higher than against competent one, by a factor of almost five, relative weapons’ effectiveness remains unchanged: IR missiles achieve half the Pk of gun, and radar-guided missiles achieve half the IR missile’s Pk. Further, visual identification of target is still important, and is likely to remain so. In fact, during First Gulf War, majority of US casualties were due to the friendly fire, while in 1973 war Israeli pilots considered an on-board radar “essentially useless”, with Sparrow achieving one or no kills in that war.
This situation will even worsen for BVR-oriented aircraft in the future, as IRIS-T has capability to intercept and destroy BVR missiles. While it definetly will not be perfect, it will reduce number of missiles aircraft actually has to evade.
Time has also shown that maximum simplicity weapons and countermeasures, such as guns and flares/chaff, are usually most effective. This is unlikely to change.
Pilot competence was always dominant issue in Air to Air combat. During German invasion of Poland, several Polish pilots became aces in 362 kph open cockpit fighters, when fighting against 603 kph Me-109, an early warning about importance of pilot skill. This was again shown when German fighters fought outnumbered in invasion of France, when higher-performance Spitfires and equal-performance Hurricanse fared poorly against Me-109s, which were flown by far more experienced pilots using tactics derived from actual combat as opposed to air shows and unrealistic peacetime exercises. Late in the war, Luftwaffe was unable to mount serious opposition not due to the lack of air frames – Allied bombing did not have major effect on German industry – but due to the lack of pilots.
Yet stealth aircraft’s large maintenance downtime prevents pilots from becoming familiar with their aircraft, and training enough in them. Modern fighters are also more complex than World War II ones, so lack of fighters is a very real possibility. AIMVAL tests, despite bias towards BVR, have also shown that ground controller assistance was more important to more complex and automated aircraft, and off-boresight missiles offered only slight improvement in results.
Stealth aircraft are expensive, and do not provide bang for the buck, in good part due to them being built on flawed reasoning and inaccurate assumptions. While they can be very useful against backward coutries, even in these cases larger numbers of cheaper aircraft will perform better. Assumptions behind stealth ignore lessons of combat to date, including the fact that pilot skill tended to dominate air combat (especially when combined with numerical superiority), as well as existing counter-stealth technologies.
Game-changing technologies were always simple in idea and execution, as relatively inexpensive. For comparision, stealth F-22 has cost of 12 690 USD per kg, F-35A costs 14 812 USD per kg, F-15C costs 8 504 USD per kg, F-16C costs 8 168 USD per kg, and Eurofighter Typhoon costs 10 942 USD per kg in its most expensive variant. It should be noted that F-22 lacks IRST and some of Typhoon’s systems, whereas F-35A is most loaded with electronics of aircraft listed. As such, stealth requirements add – without counting weight increase – 1 000 – 3 000 USD per kg. If the fact that F-22 is heavier than F-15C at least 7 000 kg is counted, stealth coating itself likely cost around 50 million USD, almost as much as my estimated flyaway cost of Gripen NG. IRST, on the other hand, costs around 1 million USD, and is far more useful than radar stealth.
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Is the F-22 really superior to all other fighter aircraft
USAF often touts F-22 as being the best fighter aircraft in the world. Is that really so? What are requirements for a good fighter aircraft?
By analyzing past wars we can see that following requirements have never changed:
high agility at dogfighting speeds (currently in the medium subsonic to transsonic regime)
superior situational awareness
high sortie rate
capability to convert any split-second opportunity to the kill
High agility requires good acceleration, good turn rate, low energy loss and quick transients. Good acceleration and low energy loss require high thrust-to-weight ratio and low drag; good turn rate requires low wing loading, and quick transients require both. Energy state is important for gaining positional advantage and evading missiles.
Superior situational awareness requires not only having good situational awareness yourself, but denying it to the opponent. These requirements can only be met through use of passive sensors.
Low cost and high sortie rate are required for establishing a crucial numerical superiority over the opponent. Both are achieved by making the design as simple as possible.
Capability to convert any split-second opportunity to the kill is crucial in the dogfight, especially if multiple aircraft are involved on both sides, as it allows pilot to deny opponent the opportunity to reverse positional advantage, and allows him to kill more targets in the same timeframe.
With standard loadout of 50% fuel, 2 Sidewinder, 4 AMRAAM, F-22 has wing loading of 313,5 kg/m2 and thrust-to-weight ratio of 1,29. For comparision, with same loadout, Eurofighter Typhoon has wing loading of 284 kg/m2 and thrust-to-weight ratio of 1,28; Dassault Rafale’s values are 276 kg/m2 and 1,22. Su-27s values are 324 kg/m2 and 1,24. Thus, F-22 is inferior in wing loading to both Eurocanards, and has only slightly superior thrust-to-weight ratio compared to Typhoon. It is also only slightly superior to the Su-27 in wing loading, and somewhat more in thrust-to-weight ratio.
As such, it has slightly better turn rates than Su-27, and worse turn rates than Eurocanards. Its large weight will make it more difficult to F-22 to make transit from one turn to another, and its thrust vectoring will, if used, cause major energy losses. More about that later.
As mentioned, superior situational awareness requires not only having good situational awareness yourself, but denying it to the opponent. What this means is that aircraft must be capable of detecting and identifying the enemy completely passively. Currently, IRST and optical sensors are only types of sensors, except for Mk 1 eyeball, to posses such capability. F-22 lacks both, and as such has to either have an uplink to another platform – and such uplink can be detected and jammed – or to carry out both tasks World War II style, with pilot doing detection and identification visually. While F-22 was supposed to have FLIR, it was deleted as the cost-saving measure, and there are no plans to fit it.
Moreover, while some measures have been taken to reduce F-22s thermal signature, no major reduction was (or could have been) achieved, especially from the front. F-22 is also very large, increasing its detectability by the IRST. Thus, F-22 will be easily detected at ranges exceeding 80 kilometers by opponent using QWIP IRST.
Modern heat-seeking missiles also do not have to rely on engine exhaust for locking on the enemy aircraft, but can rather lock on to aircraft itself.
F-22 also isn’t undetectable to the modern radar, despite what some accounts say. While F-22s RCS of 0,0001 and 0,0014 m2 reduces detection range considerably, Typhoon’s radar (which has detection range of 185 km against 1m2 target) can detect it from distance of 18 to 35 kilometers. On the other hand, modern RWRs can detect LPI radars from ranges two or three times greater than such radars can detect target with RCS of 1 m2 at, thus making any use of radar an unwise course of action for F-22 (and any other fighter aircraft).
Low cost and high sortie rate are where F-22 feels least at home. Its flyaway cost is 250 million USD per unit, which is twice (205%) the flyaway cost of the most expensive non-VLO fighter aircraft – Eurofighter Typhoon – and has maintenance downtime of 45 hours per hour of flight, compared to the 8* hours for Rafale, 9* for Typhoon, 10 for Gripen and 19 for the now-ancient F-16 (* have to be confirmed). However, flyaway costs of these fighters, which are, respectively, 33%, 49%, 16% and 11-24% of F-22s, mean that it will be at 10:1 numerical disadvantage compared to Typhoon, and 26:1 disadvantage against Gripen.
F-22 is also incapable of converting split-second opportunities into kills. Reason for that is the fact that it carries all its armaments internally. It takes around half the second for gun doors to open; for missile bay doors it takes at least that much, and possibly more. Worse, Sidewinders it will be using in visual range dogfight are not simply ejected into air, but have to be lowered by mechanism; however, it is possible that such action will be performed while doors open.
Gun itself is the Gattling design. It offers maximum rate of fire of 6 600 rpm (110 rps), compared to 1 700 rpm (28 rps) for BK-27 used in Typhoon and Gripen, and 2 500 rpm (42 rps) for GIAT-30 used in Rafale. However, firing rate alone cannot be used as a measure of effectiveness.
First, Gattling gun takes some time to achieve full firing rate. While M-61A2 takes 0,25 seconds to spin up to its full firing rate, fact that F-22 has to open bay doors to fire increases that time to 0,75 seconds. For revolver cannon, time is 0,05 seconds. Thus, in first second, F-22 will have fired either 13 or 68 rounds (depending on wether gun doors were opened before or after press on trigger); Typhoon would have fired 27 rounds in the same time, and Rafale 40 rounds.
Second, aircraft now are highly resistant. Thus, per-hit damage and weight fired may be more important than number of projectiles. At projectile weight of 100 g for M-61, 260 g for Typhoon and 244 – 270 g for Rafale, F-22 fares worst in per-hit damage category. For total damage, in first second F-22 will have fired 1,3 to 6,8 kg, Typhoon 7 kg and Rafale 9,8 to 10,8 kg of ammunition.
Third, rotation of gun barrels creates vibrations, which means that Gattling design will be less accurate (more spread) than single-barreled designs, and problem will only increase as gun keeps firing.
While F-22 is supposed to kill opponent at BVR, it only carries 6 BVR missiles. With usual 0,08 Pk ratio against same-era threats, it will take two F-22s to kill a single enemy aircraft. That is made even worse by the fact that F-22 not only has to radiate in order to lock on the enemy aircraft, but has to get close enough to penetrate any jamming – distance that was regularly around 1/3 of maximum radar range; in F-22s case, it will be 50 – 80 kilometers against 1 m2 target, such as Typhoon or aircraft with comparable frontal RCS (J-10?) in air-to-air configuration.
F-22s maximum speed of Mach 1,8 – 2,25 and supercruise speed of Mach 1,5 – 1,7 are better than those of most competitors, as Eurofighter Typhoon – the second-fastest supercruiser – can achieve “only” Mach 1,3 when in combat configuration. Thus, F-22 can choose to run if it finds itself outnumbered too much, but if it does choose to attack, it will most likely be forced to engage the opponent in the visual range.
How maneuverable F-22 is
Many say that F-22 is the most maneuverable fighter aircraft by virtue of its thrust vectoring. So, I have decided to take a closer look at various claims about F-22s agility.
F-22 is the most maneuverable fighter aircraft out there
Some claim that F-22 is the most maneuverable and agile fighter aircraft out there, due to the thrust vectoring. That claim, however, is false.
To execute a turn, aircraft requires lift to pull it around the turn. Even civilian jets make sharper turns this way, by banking. Amount of lift can be roughly estimated through wing loading figures, with the caveat that LEX and close-coupled canards do provide the additional lift during high-alpha maneuvers by strengthening vortices created by the wing.
However, while F-22 does have LEX, it is not the only one. Dassault Rafale has both LEX and close-coupled canards, Saab Gripen has close-coupled canards, and Eurofighter Typhoon, while not having either, does have vortex generators at sides of the fuselage.
Thus, actual lift at high AoA could be estimated by comparing length of forward portion of the wing to the aircraft’s weight. This method is only of limited accuracy, however, it is more accurate than standard wing loading figures for high alpha maneuvers, as large portion of wing stalls in such circumstances.
F-22 has combat weight of 24 883 kg and combined wing leading edge length of cca 12,58 meters, which becomes 20,56 meters when LEX and air intake leading surface are taken into account. Thus loading value will be 1210 kg per meter. However, LEX-generated vortices will improve value.
Eurofighter Typhoon, on the other hand, has combat weight of 14 483 kg and combined wing leading edge length of ~18,3 meters along with canards. Thus its loading value will be 791 kg per meter, or slightly higher, but as with F-22, vortices will improve value – this time vortices generated by strakes at sides of Typhoon’s hull. Both Typhoon and F-22 have similar wing sweep and high-lift devices, so actual lifting area per meter will be the same, except maybe for canards.
At lower angles of attack, when entire wing area is used, F-22 will have wing loading of 319 kg/m2 in standard combat configuration, and Eurofighter Typhoon will have wing loading of 283 kg/m2. Thrust loading ratios will be 1,28 for F-22 and 1,25 for Eurofighter Typhoon.
We can thus see that, while F-22 has thrust-to-weight ratio advantage, Eurofighter Typhoon has both lower combat weight and lower wing loading at combat weight, and thus has better maneuvering performance. Dassault Rafale will have similar advantages, although its canards act more like F-22s LEX, which makes it for two aircraft that have better maneuvering performance than F-22.
F-22 is comparable to F-15C (claim made by Pierre Sprey)
Comparing it to the F-15C, we see two things: wing loading and thrust-to-weight ratio that are very similar, with F-15C having slight advantage. While F-22 is larger and heavier aircraft, it is also unstable, improving its response time and removing resustance of aircraft towards the continued turn. It also has LEX, which improves lift at high angle of attack.
While its internal missile carriage adds weight and frontal area, that is cancelled out by reduced drag due to lack of external stores.
F-22 is worse than F-16
F-22 and F-16 have two major things in common: both are relaxed-stability designs and both have LEX. As such, similar wing loading figures and thrust-to-weight ratios will result in similar maneuverability, especially since F-16 was designed to achieve optimum performance when two wingtip AAMs are present.
With 50% fuel, 2 Sidewinder and 4 AMRAAM F-16C has wing loading of 392 kg/m2, thrust-to-weight ratio of 1,186 and weights 10 936 kg. F-22 has wing loading of 313,5 kg/m2, thrust-to-weight ratio of 1,29 and weights 24 579 kg. Thus, while F-22 will suffer maneuverability penalty due to its size and weight, it is unlikely that F-16C will be able to outmaneuver it.
With F-16A it is a different story. With empty weight of 7 076 kg, it has wing loading of 349,5 kg/m2 and thrust-to-weight ratio of 1,29 (figures for 50% fuel and 2 Sidewinder). While its wing loading is higher than F-22s, F-16A is far lighter and smaller, so it is possible that it could be capable of matching the F-22.
To conclude, while Pierre Sprey’s notion that F-22 is no more maneuverable than F-15C is not supportable, those that insist F-22 is the most maneuverable fighter aircraft in the world are equally wrong. Indeed, new fighters such as Eurofighter Typhoon or Dassault Rafale will have better maneuvering performance with virtue of their better aerodynamics and superior attributes (wing loading, thrust-to-weight ratio, etc). F-22 also does not meet force size requirements.
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On AviationIntel F-22 vs Typhoon article
Posted by picard578 on November 24, 2012
http://aviationintel.com/2012/07/28/in-response-to-reports-of-simulated-f-22-raptor-kills-by-german-eurofighters/
While author is indeed correct that training sorties do not necessarily mean that one type of aircraft is superior, multiple sorties can, when analyzed properly and assuming that setup is known, provide some information about respective fighter’s capabilities.
Huge control surfaces and thrust vectoring are useful for high-altitude and low-speed maneuvers, not in types of maneuvers required for close-in combat (transsonic low-altitude maneuvers). In fact, thrust vectoring is dangerous as it bleeds off energy, leaving fighter defenseless if it does not manage to get a kill immediately upon using it Secondly, German Typhoons in the exercise had no helmet-mounted sights, and as such had to point nose at F-22s to get a lock.
Modern radar warners, such as those carried by the Typhoons, are very capable of detecting even newest LPI radars. In any scenario where IRST-less Typhoon and F-22 went against each other with no AWACS support, both sides would be limited to visual detection.
In the end, visual-range combat is more likely than not to be decisive between fully equipped 4,5-th/5-th generation aircraft. As such, while F-22 is a capable dogfighter, it cannot be counted on to have a major impact in a war due to high cost and low sortie rate.
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Business News›Magazines›Panache›Move over, news feed: Mark Zuckerberg bets Facebook's future on video & disappearing posts
Move over, news feed: Mark Zuckerberg bets Facebook's future on video & disappearing posts
The company’s flagship social network has almost reached saturation point in terms of its growth.
Bloomberg|
Oct 31, 2018, 07.47 AM IST
Facebook redesigns Messenger, goes back to its roots with 3 tabs instead of 9
By Sarah Frier
Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg is betting the company’s future on video and disappearing posts called "stories," not the company’s famous news feed. Investors are buying into the vision for now.
The newer products may make less money and steal user attention from the main stream of photos, comments and lucrative ads on the social network, Zuckerberg warned. Marketers aren’t totally comfortable with the new formats yet, and 2019 will be another year of significant investment, he added on a conference call with analysts Tuesday.
Still, the CEO said the opportunity will be bigger than the news feed over time. Chief Financial Officer David Wehner also calmed concern about costs next year and quarterly earnings from the company suggested its business is holding up in the wake of scandals and privacy breaches.
Facebook shares rose 3.1 percent in extended trading, after closing at $146.22 in New York. Earlier this year, the company said revenue growth rates would decline in the third and fourth quarters, sending shares plummeting. That set a low bar for Tuesday’s results.
The company’s flagship social network has almost reached saturation point in terms of its growth, especially in the U.S. and Europe. And new Facebook users often live in less-lucrative advertising markets. That’s left company spending heavily on more experimental projects.
Future revenue growth depends on Facebook’s ability to shift marketers’ interest to new ads in messaging services, and marketing spots embedded in a popular way of sharing called "stories," especially on Instagram. In those formats, users post videos about their day that disappear within 24 hours. Users tap through them and see ads in between.
“I want to be upfront that even assuming that we get to where we want to go...it will take some time and our revenue growth may be slower during that period,” Zuckerberg said on Tuesday.
Facebook Data Breach Making Headlines, Here's How Other Scandals Began
The Big Breach
The Facebook leak was traced back to Aleksandr Kogan, an academic at Cambridge university. Here is the root of other such worldwide breaches. (Image: Twitter/@AleksandrBKogan)
In 2012, companies like Visa Inc licensee, J C Penney Co, JetBlue Airways Corp and French retailer Carrefour SA were attacked by hackers, resulting in a collective loss of up to $300 million. A Russian and Ukrainian gang hacked into the records for over seven years, breaching 8,00,000 bank accounts and stealing more than 160 million credit and debit card numbers. While his colleagues did the hacking, 32-year-old Russian Roman Kotov was charged with mining the data.
Bay Thieves
While eBay’s database was hacked earlier in 2014, the news came out only in May that year. The online auction house went into damage control. Its then CEO John Donahue asked 145 million users to change their passwords, but said that financial information was stored separately and hence, remained safe. One mind boggling detail is that the unknown hackers had access to eBay’s accounts for 229 days.
Soupnazi
In 2007, more than 94 million customer accounts belonging to the department store group TJX were compromised. The man behind it, Albert Gonzalez, was also indicted in the Heartland Payment’s data breach, where hackers stole more than 130 million credit and debit card numbers from the payment processing system in 2008. College dropout Gonzalez used several screen names like ‘soupnazi’ (a reference to the popular Seinfeld episode), ‘kingchilli’ and ‘cumbajohny’ in the TJX hack. While Gonzalez was arrested in a Miami hotel, officials found $1.6 million in cash hidden in plastic bags in a drum buried at his parent’s backyard. The soupnazi was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2010.
Stop Phishing
The personal records of over 78 million customers were stolen in 2015 from American health insurance giant Anthem. Investigators suspected China’s role in the breach. Apparently, the hack happened in 2014, when just one user at an Anthem subsidiary opened a phishing email. It gave access to the company’s warehouse. In 2017, Anthem reached a settlement of $115 million — the money will reportedly be used to pay for an additional two years of credit monitoring for the breach’s victims.
Facebook Watch and Instagram TV, the company’s two video services, are way behind Google’s YouTube in terms of size, Zuckerberg said. The stories format is popular on Instagram and WhatsApp, but on the main social network it’s just starting to gain traction. Suitable ads are difficult to make, he added. Still, Zuckerberg thinks this is how users will share information in the future.
Tuesday’s results bought Zuckerberg some time to pursue the new initiatives.
Third-quarter revenue jumped 33 percent, while profit was $1.76 a share, well ahead of Wall Street projections, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Monthly active users totaled 2.27 billion, up 10 percent from a year earlier.
"Facebook grew revenue at a nice pace in the important U.S. and Canada markets," EMarketer analyst Debra Aho Williamson said. "Facebook also managed to eke out a small usage gain in the U.S. and Canada. After the flatness we saw last quarter, that’s a good sign."
The results suggest that advertisers continue to buy more Facebook ads. And they’ve embraced Instagram, which recently passed 1 billion users.
The earnings report comes a week before an even bigger test for the company: The U.S. midterm elections. Facebook’s executives have touted their commitment to avoid the missteps of the 2016 election, when Russia ran a misinformation campaign that disrupted U.S. politics. Facebook has been investing in safety and security, hiring thousands to monitor user complaints and investigate unusual activity, while improving its technology to take down fake accounts and pages.
In recent months, Facebook disclosed further misinformation campaigns by Russia, Iran, and domestic actors. Fake news on Facebook has stoked discord, and even violence, in some countries. The problem is harder to track on WhatsApp, which is encrypted so Facebook can’t see the activity.
Facebook has been working to restore trust with users after a scandal in March over user data that an app developer shared with a political consultant -- an incident that led to Zuckerberg testifying before Congress in April.
More recently, it faced its largest-ever security breach. About 14 million people had sensitive information, like their search history and location check-in history, accessed by hackers.
Still, some analysts think Facebook’s business can continue to thrive.
"2019 is a make-or-break year, as revenue growth will accelerate if Facebook can execute,” Jitendra Waral, an analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, wrote in a note to clients.
When Being A Lefty Helped Ratan Tata, Mark Zuckerberg And Others With Life Lessons
Why Being A Lefty Is Nifty
A recent study in Biology Letters suggests that lefthanders have an advantage in high speed sports. It's time to pay homage to quick-reacting lefties in the boardroom.
When Ratan Tata took piano lessons, he had a problem. "I could not relate my left hand to do something different from my right hand," he said in a television interview. But when it comes to running his group of companies, even from behind the scenes, Tata's left arm has few equals. Till 2015, Tata's trusts would even give scholarships to the Indian Left-Hander Club. Perhaps it is one of the reasons some Tata vehicles in overseas markets have a left-hand drive.
Dr Amar Bose
If Ratan Tata learned piano, Amar Bose tooled around with a violin. And like Tata, his musical talents were not much to sing home about. However, the violin lessons helped him develop an ear for high quality sound. It set him on the path of launching audio products that played a seminal role in enhancing the experience of listeners. Tata spoke of his admiration for Bose in the interview referred above. Bose is also known to have been a lefthander. Great minds work alike. (Image: www.rle.mit.edu)
Some guys have all the genes. Jobs had personality, drive and a powerful intuition. He was also blessed with ambidexterity. "I'm ambidexterous," he said in an interview to Newsweek in 1984. At the time, much of the Apple staff was left-handed. Jobs, a rebel and aesthete, seemed proud of this fact. "Most of them are also left-handed, whatever that means," he told Newsweek of his colleagues. "Almost all of the really great technical people in computers that I've known are left-handed. Isn't that odd?"
Some 20 years after Jobs made this comment, another great technical person in computers was getting ready to take on the world while at Harvard University. With the help of smart colleagues, he set up Facebook. And he too, reportedly, was left-handed. Zuckerberg has not said much on this important subject. But there is one photograph that proves beyond doubt that he is handy with his left hand. It shows him feeding a calf on a farm in Wisconsin.
Facebook again declines to limit political ad targeting
Facebook bans deepfakes in fight against online manipulation
Facebook sues Chinese company over ad fraud
Facebook caught in crossfire of Singapore's 'fake news' law
Facebook to partner with more VC funds for mentoring SMEs
Campaigns pressure Facebook to stay put on political ads
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Watchdog’s ban on Greenpeace fracking ad was “substantially flawed” and should be reversed – new ruling
By Ruth Hayhurst on September 21, 2016 • ( 17 Comments )
The UK advertising watchdog has overturned its ban on a Greenpeace advert which said experts agreed that fracking would not cut energy bills.
In a new ruling published this morning, the Advertising Standards Authority, said:
“After careful consideration of all matters raised, and including a report from the Independent Reviewer, the Council agreed that its decision to “Uphold” the complaint was substantially flawed and should be reversed.”
The new ruling followed an appeal by Greenpeace. It described today’s decision as an embarrassing climb-down for the ASA. Fracking campaigner Hannah Martin said:
“This was a farcical attempt to stifle the crucial public debate on fracking, and it should have never happened.
“This U-turn is an embarrassment not just for the advertising watchdog but for all the industry advocates who keep touting fracking as the miracle cure to high energy bills.”
The advert (see above) was published in national newspapers in January 2015. It was part of a Greenpeace campaign against government’s plans to allow fracking firms to drill under homes without permission.
The text under an image of a house and drilling rig said:
“Fracking threatens our climate, our countryside and our water. Yet experts agree – it won’t cut our energy bills.”
The pro-fracking Labour peer, Lord Lipsey, complained that the advert was misleading. Lord Lipsey (left) was then a member of the House of Lords economic affairs committee which said fracking should be a national priority. He said the advert suggested that experts were in agreement about whether fracking would reduce bills.
Greenpeace said it submitted 22 different expert opinions in support of the advert. They included statements by the then energy secretary Ed Davey, and the former chair of Cuadrilla, Lord Browne.
But in May 2015, the ASA ruled the advert was misleading (DrillOrDrop report). The ASA’s council that made the decision was headed by Lord Smith of Finsbury, also chair of the industry-funded Task Force on Shale Gas. Last year the task force recommended the go-ahead for fracking in the UK (details).
In its May 2015 ruling, the ASA said there was “significant division of informed opinion on the issue”. As an example, it used statements by the then Prime Minister, David Cameron, who had said fracking would reduce energy bills as part of his argument in favour of the process.
At the time, Greenpeace described the decision as “baseless, biased and bonkers”. It said banning the advert was a breach of Article 10, the right to freedom of expression, under the European Convention on Human Rights. It asked for the case to go before the ASA’s independent reviewer.
In today’s ruling, the ASA said:
“We noted a minority of the quotes provided by Greenpeace decisively stated that fracking would not reduce the cost of energy bills. While a range of more conditional expert views also existed, the general consensus among most appeared to be that a meaningful reduction in UK domestic energy bills was highly unlikely and/or was limited to a small number of potential scenarios.
“We therefore considered the claim as it was likely to be interpreted by readers had been substantiated and was not materially misleading.”
A spokesperson for the ASA said today:
“An independent review is an important part of our processes and governance. It provides advertisers and complainants with an opportunity to challenge our decisions. It is only right that, where our Council is presented with persuasive arguments and evidence, we are prepared to overturn our original ruling and put that on the public record.”
The Telegraph reported this morning that Lord Smith had recused himself from the latest Greenpeace ruling.
Categories: Regulation
Tagged as: advert, Advertising Standards Authority, ASA, ban, campaign, complaint, Fracking, Greenpeace, Hannah Martin, House of Lords, independent reviewer, Lord Lipsey, Lord Smith of Finsbury, priority, Task Force on Shale Gas, upheld, watchdog
Lancashire campaigners write to the Queen over Cuadrilla’s fracking plans
Recent research round-up: March-Sept 2016
That’s good news for offshore oil/gas drilling as it will keep the price up to make it economical viable.
Well done to Greenpeace for having the resource and tenacity to challenge the ruling. In the opinion of some the ASA has taken a number of rather harsh decisions against many fracking related adverts, or publications that fall under their remit. Lord Smith declared his support for fracking back in 2012 – so many have questioned his impartiality in terms of the ASA and the Task Force on Shale.
It is disgraceful that Cameron and Osborne repeatedly stated that fracking would lower energy bills when there was no evidence whatsoever to support their statement and they continued to mislead the public in this way – they were aware this was not true. Indeed at the same time the industry, including Lord John Browne who was a government advisor at the time, publicly stated that fracking was unlikely to lower energy costs.
Shame we can’t take politicians to an ASA equivalent 🙂
mar g says:
Ruth you say the advert is displayed–as in paragraph under second quote….but you haven’t displayed the ad or I can’t see it. The ad is important in telling everyone that their home is at risk due to frackers being allowed to frack under it without home owners permission, after Dave and George handed over a free pass to pollute to their fracker friends, handing out over a millennia of hard won and legislated for land ownership rights and entitlements, with breathtaking arrogance, violating democracy, the British Constitution and Civil Laws governing regulations and restrictions written upon all title deeds relating to every registered title in England.
hballpeenyahoocom says:
Good point, mar g. In the US, where close to 2 million wells have been fracked, trilliions of American homes have been destroyed by a six inch tunnel that runs a mile under their homes. Of course, this isn’t nearly as bad as the massive airplanes that pass over these homes less than a mile above, in many cases. Those airplanes also devastate people’s homes. This is why all of America wants to move to Europe, am i right? LOL
Perhaps we should ban party political broadcasts for lies and ‘misleading’ content? Isnt that advertising?? Perhaps the ASA should look at them?
Personally I think no-one has a clue how shale gas will effect prices, certainly not medium term because we simply don’t know how much gas is down there with any certainty and how much can be extracted. It could be a bonanza like in the Permian basin in the US or it could be the rock structure proves insufficiently permeable to allow flow, as I believe seems to be the case In Poland. We simply won’t know until we try. I spite of being very much in favour of shale exploration, I would agree that short term however shale gas is unlikely to lower the price of UK gas as the probably initial smallish amounts of gas will go into a Europe wide gas market and any effect on supply may be swamped by other supply considerations.
It’s worth noting that because of reduction in storage capacity from the Rough storage system, the UK is increasingly dependent on imported LNG for about 20% of it’s supply, I think mainly from Qatar. Luckily there is currently a glut of world LNG which may help us this winter. The energy supply market is actually very volatile and the supply margins for electricity in particular are thin. Increases in bills seem to me to be very likely. Late last week there was comfortable gas supply but a shortage of electricity, but today electricity supply seems generally OK but the price of gas has increased on reductions in pipeline flow and smaller withdrawals from storage. For those of a nerdy disposition like myself you can get a daily update from the NPower optimisation desk site or view the Gridwatch site which gets data direct from the Grid.
Sherwulfe says:
Mark. Please go back to posting your thoughts and guesses on the I Gas share site. The information that was not supplied above was a waste of space.
By the way, this blog posting is titled ‘Watchdog’s ban on Greenpeace fracking ad was “substantially flawed” and should be reversed – new ruling’.
Oh, and today renewables produced more power than UK shale and saved the burning of more fossil fuel 🙂
Do you want to burn my books as well? 😡
Actually what I was responding to was the content of the advert which said that shale gas wouldn’t reduce the UK price of gas although I must admit I tend to ramble on. I actually think the energy scene in the UK, and indeed worldwide, is fascinating.
Yes renewables produce a lot of power I’m sure but, as I’ve said here a few times they won’t do so on a cold, still night in January. So we may be reducing CO2 emissions but possibly at the cost of energy shortages and/or an increase in fuel poverty. What energy sources do we need – to quote Nick Grealy “all of the above”.
Mark, please keep your informed posts coming. I found the material edifying and enjoyed your perspective.
You quote Nick Grealy? You have books?
We never see you posting here or elsewhere about the days when renewables produce well? But it matters not. They are producing; every day so less fossil fuels are burned 🙂
Hopefully on a cold still night in January most of us are in bed where we should be, or able to use the still copious amounts of fossil fuels to watch late night propaganda and mindless soaps on the TV.
Thanks hballpeeny. Sherwulfe, of course renewables produce a lot of electricity at times, my recollection is that offshore wind at times generated over 17% of our electricity, plus solar and onshore generation (the data for this seems to be less accessible on the daily real time data). I suspect that, for example, the coming week might be good with an Atlantic cyclonic system on the way. There has to be a BUT of course and that relates to your comment about cold, still nights. As I recall, nights start at about 4.30 to 5 o’clock in winter which is a period of peak electricity demand. That of course is the point, if there is no renewable supply then at peak time we need a huge backup of either pumped hrdro or batteries, or fossil fuels, which can replace that supply, either that or reduce demand hugely for example by going to bed as you suggest !! Actually what the Grid has tried to do is “demand side management” which is paying industry (from our bills of course) to lower consumption in these peak periods. In other words the factories go to bed so we don’t have to. Not really an ideal system.
john Powney says:
Renewable energy’s source is free. Renewable energy is infinite. Renewable energy is the most environmentally friendly energy source.
Common sense would dictate to maximise on this energy.
The UK has high wind speeds,is surrounded by water, and gets plenty of daylight for viable solar.
A combination of maximised renewable s would require a relatively small fossil fuel back up which we already have.
Anyone like to explain why we could not double the amount of renewable UK projects and reduce our needs for fossil fuels.
Paul Tresto says:
Unfortunately your plan won’t work John, not in the UK with current renewables technology. Too intermittent and dependent on something reliable for back up when they are not working. The more dependent we become on wind and solar, the more back up is required. Wave / tidal is no where near ready yet – if ever. The only countries that have 100% renewable electricity generation are those with a lot of hydro – not wind / solar. Germany and Denmark have demonstrated how much wind and solar can do – and how much this costs. Have a look at the National Grid future forecasts through to 2050 – even the greenest scenario still requires a lot of gas.
Why don’t you tell this BB how your proposal will work. You can use a grid requirement of up to 50GW equivalent maximum demand. And a steady base load of say, 25 GW? We can then have a look at it and see if it is viable?
Lets say we have 100GW of offshore wind installed (vs 14GW combined on and offshore at present) this will provide an average over a year equivalent to 45GW using the offshore wind annual Load Factor of 45%. 50% the time these turbines will produce more than 45GW, but also 50% of the time they will produce less. In fact a study in 2013 showed that the time during which the wind turbines produced less than 10% of their rated capacity totalled 3,165 hours and the time during which the wind turbines produced less than 5% of their rated capacity totalled 1,200 hours. The output from wind turbines was extremely intermittent with variations by a factor of 10 occurring over very short periods. In fact for several days a year they will produce effectively zero. So you need something on standby to produce the equivalent of the wind turbines when there is no wind, on a cold dark evening with high pressure sitting over Europe….. Or we need to solve the storage problem quickly.
According to Wiki “wind power delivers a growing percentage of the energy in the United Kingdom and at the end of August 2016, it consisted of 6,938 wind turbines with a total installed capacity of over 14 gigawatts: 8,995 megawatts of onshore capacity and 5,098 megawatts of offshore capacity.”
“In 2014, 28.1 TW·h of energy was generated by wind power (an average of 3.2 GW, about 24% of the 13.5 GW “installed capacity” quoted above), which contributed 9.3% of the UK’s electricity requirement”
There is now 142 GW of installed wind energy capacity in the EU: approximately 131 GW onshore and 11 GW offshore. The whole of the EU’s installed wind capacity should just about cover us – but only when it is windy.
You are applying your numbers to a world that stays the same..that continues to burn energy for want and greed not need.
Paul, you need to start factoring into your calculations the compulsory use of insulation, the curbing of waste, the reduction of many mass production systems that waste fossil fuel energy. Its as much about how we use the energy as how we produce it.
We are using renewables now; each day means less dirty fuel burned; increase these and then reassess. As renewable technology improves through the use and development, then better results will occur.
I have lived with renewables for 20 years. It does work. Each will have to make it work for them by adapting working practices, stopping waste, thinking whether or not they should be buying plastic coated food shipped from the other side of the world, or buy locally produced food at source. We have to talk solar on roofs, all roofs that can take it; working from home and local.
You cannot have clean energy production at 100% at the moment if you do not change systems and practice. Storage will come when the technology is released, probably just before the ‘point of no return’.
Our future has to be clean energy production to meet our climate change targets, whatever you believe. It is happening albeit slowly. There is change in the air at last. More MPs are looking away from fossil fuels and supporting renewables. Surveys are showing bigger support from the people. The changes are increasing in momentum. Let’s hope we have not left it too late.
Hi Sherwulfe, I fully understand where you would like to get to, we all would. But global demand is not falling and forecasts show that demand will continue to increase:
http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/ieo/world.cfm
http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/indicators/total-electricity-consumption-outlook-from-iea/total-electricity-consumption-outlook-from-1
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/501292/eepReport2015_160205.pdf
Whilst renewables are forecast to increase, so are gas and, even coal usage globally.
I live in a Victorian house built in the 1890s, the latest extension is super insulated, underfloor heating (gas). We have wood burning stoves in three rooms. We manage a woodland and only burn our own wood. The original part of the house still has single glazing – I have looked at replacing it with double or even triple glazing but it makes no sense from a cost standpoint. Current insulation is zero – only 1-1/2 ft of stone / brick. Not practical to install insulation on the inside. We would never recover the investment in gas savings. I would say our house is fairly common in the UK and owners will be in a similar position to ourselves.
My brother lets part of his house out to holiday makers in Devon. He had guests from the NW drive down in an electric car. Apparently they had to charge 6 times on the way – at 30mins per charge this is an extra 3 hours on the journey. Yes, charging points will become more common, batteries will get better…. but then where does all the additional electrcity come from.
I assume that if you are off grid you do not benefit from FITs etc? Most people who intalled PV / small wind are only interested in the FITs money and payback time, a bit like me with my double glazing. Human nature is what it is.
Well done you. You see if everyone does what they can then we can move towards that place we need to be in 🙂
It should not be down to the few to do all, but the all to do some.
Electric cars are still in development. If you don’t power them with energy from renewables they are pointless as they use more fuel to create and store the electric they need. But as all technology starts like this, we have to endure some irony.
No one is claiming this can happen overnight, but small steps to sanity will avoid calamity!
The point is Mark, we cannot go on using fossil fuels the way we do. Having lived off grid for over 20 years using renewables for electricity, our household has learned to adapt. Our lights do not go off, and we are very warm, thanks. When we first set up people laughed. Now they ask how they can do the same.
Near to me are now two additional wind turbines and several very big solar arrays on farms. It has taken a long time to get this far. It needs to go quicker. When chatting to a local hairdresser who had installed solar panels on her roof she remark that daily her meter went ‘backwards’ which gave her great pleasure. A colleague has switched to Good Energy. This gives me hope.
If you look back only 100 years the UK did not guzzle power as it now does. People were not unhappy. Music was real, not electronic. People still went out and enjoyed the social scene. We did not have the cars. People walked or took the bus. Our food was not industrialized and covered with oil. We did not starve. Our old folk were cared for by their families and not left stranded by family too busy to care or too wrapped in their technological lives; at the mercy of an austerity system that puts their lives at risk.
We need to reduce our need for fossil burn. Why are we not working from home powered by solar roofs? Why are 200 cars travelling one way to work and 200 hundred in the opposite direction to do the same job?
We need to use power wisely. It will be a mix until the storage solutions are released. We need to maximise the use of clean energy, wind, solar, tidal; insulation, smart use, then we can assess what additional power we truly need.
Whilst ‘bet fred’ investors are promoting ponzi schemes like shale and not investing properly to assist small to medium sized business build local and sustainable employment, we are stumbling down the wrong path.
I have seen the changes over the last 20 years. I am a supporter of renewables because I know they work, I live with them every day. I am accepting of top ups for the short term, but in the knowledge that we already have two and a half time more reserves than we can ever burn to prevent the point of no return. Shale can never have a part in the mix.
We would not be going backward by returning to some of the practices we did ‘pre electricity’. We have better technology but it has lately having a negative effect. Children are lost in the phones. Mothers push their children in prams whilst engrossed in whatever is on screen. They do not interact with their babies. We have become lazy and some overweight. We travel in cars to the local store to buy plastic covered food grown by oil. ‘Somethings gotta give’.
Nothing will change overnight, but each day we must take a small step towards our inevitable renewable future.
Renewable power is now. Today it has saved more fossil burn. Smart meters and insulation are in place, again making a small but sustainable difference. People are switching to renewables and becoming independent of the energy companies; not something I suspect they are best pleased with! tI is happening, and for that I am thankful.
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Nithsdale Martyrs’ Monument: A Guide to the Covenanters #History #Scotland
Posted in Alexander McCubbin (d.1685), Andrew Ferguson (Glencairn), Andrew Hunter (Dumfries), Andrew MacLellan (Dumfries), Andrew Wallace (Irongray), Auchencloy, Closeburn parish, Covenanter Sites, Covenanters, Croune of London (1679), Dalry parish, Daniel McMichael, Dumfries, Dumfriesshire, Dunnottar Castle, Durisdeer parish, Edward Gordon (d.1685), Elizabeth Glendonning (d.1685), Elizabeth Hunter Lady Caitloch, George Allan, Girthon parish, Glencairn parish, Henry & Francis (1685), Ingleston, Irongray parish, James Bennoch (d.1685), James Carsan (Dumfries), James Forsyth, James Glover, James Harkness, James Kirko (d.1685), James McMichael (d.1684), James Muncie (Dumfries), James Renwick, James Sittingtoun, John Gibson (Ingleston), John Hair (d.1685), John Muirhead (Dumfries), John Mundell (d.1685), John Renwick (Dumfries), John Stot (Dumfries), Leith, Lochenkit, Lochmaben parish, Margaret Gracie, Nithsdale, Robert Edgar (d.1685), Robert Grierson (d.1685), Robert Mitchell (d.1685), Robert Smith (d.1684), Samuel McEwen (d.1684), Sanquhar parish, Scotland, Scottish History, Thomas Harkness, Tinwald parish, William Brown (d.1685), William Ferguson of Caitloch, William Grierson of Lochwharre, William Heron (d.1685), William Hunter (d.1684), William Smith (d.1685)
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Daniel Defoe on the Killing Times of 1685
• September 18, 2015 • 7 Comments
Posted in -------- Auchenleck (d.1685), 1685, Andrew McRoberts (d.1685), Auchencloy, Ayrshire, Barr parish, Borgue parish, Captain Thomas Douglas, Carrick, Colmonell parish, Colonel James Douglas, Cornet James Dundas, Covenanters, Cromwell Lockhart of Lee, Cumnock parish, Dailly parish, Daniel Defoe, David Dun (d.1685), David Halliday in Mayfield (d.1685), Dumfriesshire, Eaglesham parish, Edward McKean (d.1685), Evandale parish, Fenwick parish, Gabriel Thomson (d.1685), Galloway, George Woodburn, Girthon parish, Glencairn parish, Highlanders, James Bennoch (d.1685), James Clement (d.1685), James McMichael (d.1684), John Bell of Whiteside (d.1685), John Brounen, John Bryce (d.1685), John Fergushill, John Gibson (Ingleston), John Graham of Claverhouse, John Jamieson (d.1685), John Mclorgan (d.1685), John Semple (d.1685), John Smith (Muirkirk), Joseph Wilson (d.1685), Kelton parish, Kirkcudbrightshire, Lanarkshire, Lesmahagow parish, Lieutenant Lewis Lauder, Lieutenant-Colonel Buchan, Matthew McIlwraith (d.1685), Mauchline parish, Muirkirk parish, Nithsdale, Peter Gemmel, Peter Gillies, Renfrewshire, Robert Grierson of Lag, Robert Lennox (d.1685), Robert Lockhart, Robert M'Whae (d.1685), Robert Mitchell (d.1685), Scotland, Scottish History, Simon Paterson (d.1685), Tarbolton parish, Thomas Young (d.1685), Tongland parish, William Adam, William Fiddison (d.1685), William Paterson, William Shillilaw (d.1685)
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The Killing Times of 1685: The list of the Dead in Cloud of Witnesses
• September 18, 2015 • 13 Comments
Posted in ------- Mowat (d.1685), -------- Auchenleck (d.1685), 1685, Adam Macquhan (d.1685), Alexander Ferguson of Kilkerran, Alexander Gordon Viscount of Kenmure, Alexander Linn (d.1685), Alexander McCubbin (d.1685), Andrew Hislop, Andrew McRoberts (d.1685), Annandale, Archibald MacAulay of Ardincaple, Ayrshire, Barr parish, Borgue parish, Captain James Maitland, Captain John Inglis, Captain Strachan, Captain Thomas Douglas, Cathcart parish, Colmonell parish, Colonel James Douglas, Cornet James Dundas, Cornet John Baillie, Cornet Peter Inglis, Covenanters, Cromwell Lockhart of Lee, Crossmichael parish, Cumnock parish, Dailly parish, Daniel McIlwraith (d.1685), Daniel McMichael, David Dun (d.1685), David Halliday in Glengap (d.1685), David Halliday in Mayfield (d.1685), David Steel (d.1686), Dumfries, Dumfriesshire, Durisdeer parish, Eaglesham parish, earl of Annandale, Edward McKean (d.1685), Eskdale, Eskdalemuir parish, Evandale parish, Fenwick parish, Gabriel Thomson (d.1685), Galloway, Galston parish, George Douglas earl of Dumbarton, George Short (d.1685), George Wood, George Woodburn, Gilbert Macadam (d.1685), Girthon parish, Glencairn parish, Glenkens, Highlanders, His Majesty's Regiment of Dragoons, His Majesty's Regiment of Foot Guards, Irongray parish, James Bennoch (d.1685), James Clement (d.1685), James Dun (d.1685), James Johnstone of Westerhall, James Kirko (d.1685), James McMichael (d.1684), James Smith, James White, John Barrie, John Bell of Whiteside (d.1685), John Brounen, John Brown (Blackwood), John Brown of Priesthill, John Browning, John Bryce (d.1685), John Craik of Stewarton, John Douglas of Stenhouse, John Fergushill, John Ferguson (Glencairn), John Gibson (Ingleston), John Graham of Claverhouse, John Hunter (d.1685), John Jamieson (d.1685), John Mclorgan (d.1685), John Murchie (d.1685), John Reid, John Reid of Ballochmyle, John Semple (d.1685), John Smith (Muirkirk), John Smith in Cronan, John Urie (d.1685), Joseph Wilson (d.1685), Kells parish, Kelton parish, King's Regiment of Horse, Kirkcowan parish, Kirkcudbrightshire, Kirkmichael parish (Ayrshire), Kirkpatrick-Durham parish, Lanarkshire, Lesmahagow parish, Lieutenant Alexander Bruce, Lieutenant Crichton, Lieutenant Lewis Lauder, Lieutenant Livingston, Lieutenant Murray, Lieutenant Nisbet, Lieutenant Straiton, Lieutenant-Colonel Buchan, Loudoun parish, Lt General William Drummond, Major John Balfour, Mar's Regiment of Foot, Matthew McIlwraith (d.1685), Mauchline parish, Militia, Minnigaff parish, Moffat parish, Muirkirk parish, Nithsdale, Peter Gemmel, Peter Gillies, Quentin Kennedy of Drummellane, Renfrewshire, Robert Dalyell of Glenae, Robert Dun in Benquhat (d.1685), Robert Grierson (d.1685), Robert Grierson of Lag, Robert Laurie of Maxwelton, Robert Lennox (d.1685), Robert Lockhart, Robert M'Whae (d.1685), Robert Mitchell (d.1685), Robert Thom, Scotland, Scottish History, Simon Paterson (d.1685), Sir Archibald Kennedy of Culzean, Sorn parish, Straiton parish, Tarbolton parish, Thomas Cook (d.1685), Thomas McHaffie (d.1685), Thomas Richard, Thomas Young (d.1685), Tongland parish, Twynholm parish, Wigtownshire, William Adam, William Fiddison (d.1685), William Graham (d.1682/84), William McKergur (d.1685), William Paterson, William Shillilaw (d.1685), William Smith (d.1685), William Wallace of Craigie
Tags: Ayrshire, Covenanters, Galloway, History, Killing Times, Martyrs, Scotland, Scottish History
The Killing Times of 1685: Ridpath’s List of Covenanters Executed in the Fields
Posted in -------- Auchenleck (d.1685), 1685, Adam Macquhan (d.1685), Alexander Linn (d.1685), Alexander McCubbin (d.1685), Andrew Hislop, Andrew McRoberts (d.1685), Archibald MacAulay of Ardincaple, Captain 'Major' George Winram, Captain James Maitland, Captain John Inglis, Captain Robert Middleton, Captain Strachan, Captain Thomas Douglas, Colonel James Douglas, Cornet James Dundas, Cornet John Baillie, Cornet Peter Inglis, Covenanters, Cromwell Lockhart of Lee, Daniel McIlwraith (d.1685), Daniel McMichael, David Dun (d.1685), David Halliday in Glengap (d.1685), David Halliday in Mayfield (d.1685), David Steel (d.1686), Edward McKean (d.1685), Gabriel Thomson (d.1685), General Thomas Dalyell, George Douglas earl of Dumbarton, George Short (d.1685), George Wood, George Woodburn, Gilbert Macadam (d.1685), Henry Hall of Haughead, Highlanders, James Bennoch (d.1685), James Clement (d.1685), James Davie (d.c.1673), James Dun (d.1685), James Johnstone of Westerhall, James Kirko (d.1685), James Smith, James White, John Barrie, John Bell of Whiteside (d.1685), John Brounen, John Brown (Blackwood), John Brown of Priesthill, John Browning, John Bryce (d.1685), John Craik of Stewarton, John Douglas of Stenhouse, John Fergushill, John Gibson (Ingleston), John Graham of Claverhouse, John Hunter (d.1685), John Jamieson (d.1685), John Mclorgan (d.1685), John Murchie (d.1685), John Reid, John Semple (d.1685), John Smith (Muirkirk), John Smith in Cronan, John Urie (d.1685), Joseph Wilson (d.1685), Lieutenant Alexander Bruce, Lieutenant Crichton, Lieutenant Livingston, Lieutenant Murray, Lieutenant Nisbet, Lieutenant Straiton, Lieutenant-Colonel Buchan, Lt General William Drummond, Major John Balfour, Margaret McLachlan (d.1685), Margaret Wilson (d.1685), Matthew McIlwraith (d.1685), Militia, Peter Gemmel, Peter Gillies, Quentin Kennedy of Drummellane, Robert Dalyell of Glenae, Robert Dun in Benquhat (d.1685), Robert Grierson of Lag, Robert Laurie of Maxwelton, Robert Lennox (d.1685), Robert Lockhart, Robert M'Whae (d.1685), Robert Thom, Scotland, Scottish History, Simon Paterson (d.1685), Sir Archibald Kennedy of Culzean, Thomas Cook (d.1685), Thomas McHaffie (d.1685), Thomas Richard, Thomas Young (d.1685), William Adam, William Douglas duke of Queensberry, William Fiddison (d.1685), William Graham (d.1682/84), William McKergur (d.1685), William Paterson, William Smith (d.1685)
Tags: Covenanters, Early modern history, George Ridpath, History, Killing Times, Martyrs, Scotland, Scottish History
The Forfeited Covenanters, 1679 to 1688
• July 28, 2014 • Comments Off on The Forfeited Covenanters, 1679 to 1688
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Wanted Rebels and Traitors in Scotland in October, 1681.
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The Forfeited: Dumfriesshire Lairds
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Section One: It Just Got Personal
Section Two: Tech Doofus Mass Censorship
Section Three: The Big Twist
Section Four: Stunning Facebook Insider Revelations
Section Five: The Forbidden Story
Section Six: The UFO Connection
THE DEEP STATE NO LONGER CARES
The Deep State has obviously reached a point where they no longer care. They are “Freaking Out” through this mass censorship and other means discussed in the preceding sections.
If you talk about organic food, natural remedies, potential problems with vaccines, child predators, Alex Jones or the President of the United States, you’re a goner.
The Deep State very likely know their time is up, and therefore are just trying to reduce the speed and severity of their defeat once DECLAS happens.
They are desperate to stop you from learning about the Weapons Systems they have actively deployed for mass depopulation and Big Pharma money-making.
Discuss the president of the United States other than with hate? Nope. Discuss Alex Jones? Gone. Organic food? Gone. Question vaccines? Gone. Child predators? You’re outta here.
OTHER POLITICAL MEDDLING AS WELL
This political meddling by Facebook is not limited to the US alone. The same thing was done in Italy… and on throughout all of Europe:
5/13: FB Shuts Down Pro-Populist Italian Pages Before EU Elections
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/05/13/facebook-shuts-down-pro-populist-italian-pages-before-eu-elections/
In its report, which was presented to Facebook on May 3, Avaaz said it had identified 14 Italian networks on Facebook comprising 104 pages and six groups, with a total reach of 18.2 million followers.
This week, Facebook took punitive action against 23 pages in these networks, with a total of 2.46 million followers and 2.44 million interactions over the last three months.
Facebook has also reportedly “weakened” pages that spread content with allegedly false news, presumably making them less visible to Facebook users….
The most active page in support of the Lega party was among those closed, just as polls are showing that the Lega is currently the party with the most support among Italians for the upcoming elections.
Facebook’s efforts in Italy to influence the European elections are just the tip of the iceberg, Italian media noted.
According to the Italian daily La Repubblica, on May 2 Facebook opened a “war room” in Dublin devoted full time to the European electoral campaign, with 40 teams of engineers, scientists, researchers, threat specialists, and experts for each country.
There are 500 people working on the elections, with the assistance of 21 supposed “fact-checkers,” operating in 14 different languages.
DARPA CANCELS LIFELOG, FACEBOOK IS LAUNCHED THE SAME DAY
Chris Hughes is one of the original founders of Facebook. This will become very significant in a moment.
As you can see here from Reference.com, Hughes was one of the original three besides Mark Zuckerberg. And notice the date:
Reference.com: When Was Facebook Founded?
https://www.reference.com/technology/facebook-founded-82b58fab78095d6
Facebook was initially launched on February 4, 2004. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes and Eduardo Saverin.
As many have now pointed out, the Pentagon announced the cancellation of its LifeLog project on the exact same day Facebook was founded, February 4th, 2004:
2/4/04: Pentagon Kills Lifelog Project
https://www.wired.com/2004/02/pentagon-kills-lifelog-project/
The Pentagon canceled its so-called LifeLog project, an ambitious effort to build a database tracking a person’s entire existence.
Run by Darpa, the Defense Department’s research arm, LifeLog aimed to gather in a single place just about everything an individual says, sees or does: the phone calls made, the TV shows watched, the magazines read, the plane tickets bought, the e-mail sent and received….
Civil libertarians immediately pounced on the project when it debuted last spring, arguing that LifeLog could become the ultimate tool for profiling potential enemies of the state.
Researchers close to the project say they’re not sure why it was dropped late last month. Darpa hasn’t provided an explanation for LifeLog’s quiet cancellation.
“A change in priorities” is the only rationale agency spokeswoman Jan Walker gave to Wired News….
David Karger, Shrobe’s colleague at MIT, thinks such efforts will still go on at Darpa, too.
“I am sure that such research will continue to be funded under some other title,” wrote Karger in an e-mail. “I can’t imagine Darpa ‘dropping out’ of such a key research area.”
CHRIS HUGHES SOUNDS THE ALARM ON MAY 9TH, 2019
As you just saw, there are only three other founding members besides Mark Zuckerberg.
Chris Hughes decided to go public on May 9th, 2019 about the evils of Facebook.
This was big news at the time, and prominently linked on Drudge Report.
The original MSN link has since disappeared:
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/technology/its-time-to-break-up-facebook/ar-AAB84r5?li=BBr5KbJ
It was only thanks to the magic of Archive.org that this very important document was recovered:
5/9: It’s Time to Break Up Facebook (Archived Link: Chris Hughes)
https://web.archive.org/web/20190509212025/https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/technology/its-time-to-break-up-facebook/ar-AAB84r5
It’s been 15 years since I co-founded Facebook at Harvard, and I haven’t worked at the company in a decade. But I feel a sense of anger and responsibility.
Mark is still the same person I watched hug his parents as they left our dorm’s common room at the beginning of our sophomore year….
In other words, he’s human. But it’s his very humanity that makes his unchecked power so problematic….
Mark’s influence is staggering, far beyond that of anyone else in the private sector or in government.
Mark is a good, kind person. But I’m angry that his focus on growth led him to sacrifice security and civility for clicks.
I’m disappointed in myself and the early Facebook team for not thinking more about how the News Feed algorithm could change our culture, influence elections and empower nationalist leaders.
And I’m worried that Mark has surrounded himself with a team that reinforces his beliefs instead of challenging them….
MARK USED THE WORD ‘DOMINATION’
In this next quote, Chris Hughes made it clear that Mark and his potential handlers wanted to use Facebook to “dominate the world:”
We are a nation with a tradition of reining in monopolies, no matter how well intentioned the leaders of these companies may be. Mark’s power is unprecedented and un-American.
It is time to break up Facebook….
From our earliest days, Mark used the word “domination” to describe our ambitions, with no hint of irony or humility….
Facebook’s dominance is not an accident of history. The company’s strategy was to beat every competitor in plain view, and regulators and the government tacitly — and at times explicitly — approved….
Investors realize that if a company gets traction, Facebook will copy its innovations, shut it down or acquire it for a relatively modest sum.
So despite an extended economic expansion, increasing interest in high-tech start-ups, an explosion of venture capital and growing public distaste for Facebook, no major social networking company has been founded since the fall of 2011….
I was on the original News Feed team (my name is on the patent), and that product now gets billions of hours of attention and pulls in unknowable amounts of data each year….
CONTROL OVER FREE SPEECH WITH NO GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY
Next, Hughes describes how Facebook has superseded elected governments and is controlling free speech worldwide.
The most problematic aspect of Facebook’s power is Mark’s unilateral control over speech. There is no precedent for his ability to monitor, organize and even censor the conversations of two billion people….
The most extreme example of Facebook manipulating speech happened in Myanmar in late 2017.
Mark said in a Vox interview that he personally made the decision to delete the private messages of Facebook users who were encouraging genocide there.
“I remember, one Saturday morning, I got a phone call,” he said, “and we detected that people were trying to spread sensational messages through — it was Facebook Messenger in this case — to each side of the conflict,
[They were] basically telling the Muslims, ‘Hey, there’s about to be an uprising of the Buddhists, so make sure that you are armed and go to this place.’ And then the same thing on the other side.”
Mark made a call: “We stop those messages from going through.”
Most people would agree with his decision, but it’s deeply troubling that he made it with no accountability to any independent authority or government.
Facebook could, in theory, delete en masse the messages of Americans, too, if its leadership decided it didn’t like them….
WE NEED A NEW AGENCY TO REGULATE TECH COMPANIES
Lastly, Chris calls for a new government agency to properly regulate Big Tech and prevent this from happening:
Just breaking up Facebook is not enough. We need a new agency, empowered by Congress to regulate tech companies. Its first mandate should be to protect privacy….
I take responsibility for not sounding the alarm earlier.
Don Graham, a former Facebook board member, has accused those who criticize the company now as having “all the courage of the last man leaping on the pile at a football game.”
The financial rewards I reaped from working at Facebook radically changed the trajectory of my life, and even after I cashed out, I watched in awe as the company grew.
THEN THE RABBIT HOLE GETS MUCH, MUCH DEEPER
This public statement by Chris Hughes was incredibly brave and brazen. It is no surprise that his article “mysteriously vanished” after being published on May 9th.
Just one month later, one of the original three founding members of Facebook (other than Mark) hand-delivered a MOAB letter to The Anonymous Patriot’s Conclave.
In full context, it may well have been written by Chris Hughes, who may have structured his confessional in two parts — first a quickly-censored public version and then a semi-anonymous version that was far more intense.
This letter was published on the American Intelligence Media website as of June 13th, and is being referred to as the “Zuckerberg Dossier.”
At this time, prior to our publication, it is still fairly obscure, with only 11 Likes and 16 comments. That will change:
With that being said, if there is any one article that you absolutely must read after working through this Ebook, this is the one.
There is so much in it that is so powerful and mind-blowing that it is difficult to avoid wanting to just quote the entire thing.
However, we will leave it up to you to read the full statement.
Let me put it this way. The dossier is so long, intricately worded, passionate and filled with specifics that it most definitely is not a LARP.
As a researcher who has spotted dozens of genuine insiders over the years, there are hundreds of undeniable markers that indicate this person is indeed who he claims to be.
This person is clearly risking his life to come forward and is also fully prepared to testify before Congress to everything he has written in the dossier.
With that said, these are only allegations. Anyone accused of such things by an anonymous insider is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
BEFORE WE GET INTO THE QUOTE….
If you have long-term familiarity with the research on this website and others like it, many things will jump out at you.
In short, the dossier says Mark was a pawn for Deep State players who used him as a ‘patsy’ to make Facebook look like it came from the youth.
Mark apparently did not do any of the work himself, and therefore still cannot describe how he accomplished the initial tasks.
Sadly, he was allegedly subject to extreme mind-control torture since childhood, and broke down in tears more than once describing it to his friend.
In the run-up to the 2016 election, Mark was apparently ordered to completely sacrifice ‘his’ company, if necessary, in a brazen attempt to steer the outcome — just like we now appear to be seeing with YouTube.
Part of what is so interesting about this dossier is the ‘teasers’ that are put in there, indicative of much more information than has been revealed.
Other areas are extremely generous with information and detail. You really do need to read the whole thing to see what I mean!
CERTAIN TEASER QUOTES
Here are certain ‘teaser’ quotes that particularly caught my attention in the dossier:
“Mark had been told to win the country for Hillary, or kill the company trying. He was making astounding mistakes that showed the truth of the evil foundations of Facebook.”
“I believe that Mark is doing everything in his power to get President Donald Trump deposed, just as he did everything he could to try to help get Hillary elected. If Trump continues, the globalists lose.”
“This current decision to destroy Facebook from the inside out is nothing more than Mark’s handlers using Mark in their last hours of power. Trump will win 2020 and Facebook will die.”
“Mark wants to be like Eric [Schmidt, of Google,] and control the world from a digital Ivory Tower and oversee the depopulation of the earth.
These maniacs believe they are “above the human race” and are actually higher beings sent to the earth to control the masses.
From my experience, these attitudes are extremely prevalent with Silicon Valley tech giants — and they make me sick….”
WHY ARE THESE SIGNIFICANT AS ‘TELLS’ OF A POTENTIALLY REAL INSIDER?
If this was indeed a LARP — and again it seems vastly too detailed, quirky and specific to be — these areas would very likely have been far more developed.
One thing I have consistently noticed with real insiders is they toss out diamonds without even realizing it.
Just the idea of the Deep State tech giants thinking they are “higher beings sent to the earth to control the masses” is a one-off that could be VASTLY more explained.
If this author was a LARPer, he would very likely use that section of the Dossier to sound off with all of his favorite theories and info.
Furthermore, the author does not go into any further detail about why he thinks the current US president will defeat the globalists.
The depopulation agenda is mentioned, really without any further commentary — whereas a LARPer would likely go into great detail on these points.
KEY QUOTES FOR YOU TO PONDER
Now, without further ado, we will review just a few of the many must-see quotes contained within the Dossier. Let’s begin:
6/13: Facebook Insider Confesses All
https://aim4truth.org/2019/06/13/facebook-insider-confesses-all/
Admittedly, this Zuckerberg “Dossier” has enough information in it to put Mark Zuckerberg behind bars, and therefore would not be touched by the Main Stream Media – according to the person who hand-delivered this letter to a member of the Anonymous Patriot’s Conclave a few days ago….
American Intelligence Media does not claim that the Zuckerberg Dossier is 100% correct, but we can state with absolute confidence that the source is real.
We also believe that there may be other installments of what we are calling the Zuckerberg Dossier, and will probably not be the last time we hear from this source, as the trouble that Mark is having in the news keeps mounting….
[DOSSIER BEGINS]
To Every Facebook User,
Mark Zuckerberg, and all of us who were there from the beginning, are lying to you and using your personal life as a government-controlled experiment in brain-washing and mind-control – basically a weaponized system of the military (CIA especially) that got out of control.
At this point, Mark Zuckerberg has lost control of a company that he never really owned or operated.
Truly, anyone who has ever worked with Mark knows that his mind is a blank, and that he is nothing more than a parrot for the government handlers who created him.
Mark is incapable of running a McDonald’s, let alone one of the most powerful companies in the world.
Not even his name is real, and his identity has always been covered up. Mark was chosen as child for a CIA training program because his relatives were some of the people creating the program….
…The other three teams that were working at Harvard, under Harvard president Larry Summers, [worked] to create what DARPA and In-Q-Tel wanted the most – a cyber-weapon that could control the minds of anyone that could be lured into it.
Facebook was always a military weapon – just like Eric Schmidt’s Google, which was incubated in the same fashion that Facebook was.
Mark was a patsy, but a ruthless, heartless, cold-blooded non-human patsy.
He became this way through the brain-washing he received in his High School years by a DARPA program called TIA [Terrorist Information Awareness], which needed a “boy-genius” to be the front man.
This scam would make Mark into a global model of the young, cool, irreverent computer geniuses that “rule the world” and lead everyone to a cyber-god of artificial intelligence.
Mark was just an unwitting puppet at first – I felt sorry for him.
DEEPER INVOLVEMENT THAN JUST PROFESSIONAL
In this next quote, we find out that the relationship between Mark and the insider was allegedly not platonic.
If this was Chris Hughes, it may explain the title of the MSN article from the month before.
I did actually have a dream in which I saw this title with a comma in it: “It’s Time to Break Up, Facebook.”
The title may therefore indicate that its author was “breaking up” with Mark in more ways than one. Let’s continue:
I remember when I first became room-mates with Mark in our sophomore year at Harvard. We were in Kirkland House, on JFK Street and had to endure Dustin and Andrew.
[Again, the other three founders are Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes and Eduardo Saverin. Perhaps Eduardo may have gone by ‘Andrew,’ or Andrew may not be seen as one of the three other founders.]
Mark hated them because they prevented us from sleeping together, even though we were in the same room.
It was frustrating and kept our relationship secret.
Little did I know that the thing that drew me to Mark, a certain openness for listening to anyone, also made him extremely promiscuous with both sexes.
BRAINWASHING PROGRAMS
Now as the Dossier continues, we begin hearing about the mind-control practices that had apparently occurred.
This is where it really starts to feel like a spy thriller movie… and if this proves to be true, that movie will definitely be made someday:
Mark had no morals, conscience, or shame. He also chased women on Craig’s List and would sometimes just disappear to rendezvous with them.
He was like a blank slate that simply echoes whatever was happening in his environment.
I loved and hated this aspect of his personality but later found out that he, and his brother and cousin, were all the same way due to the brain-washing programs they were subjected to during high school.
If certain people spoke to Mark in person or on the phone, he would drop everything and do whatever they told him to do.
Certain people had more power and effect over him.
I eventually found out, from Mark breaking down and crying, that the brain-washing was permanent and was all part of the “position” these people had promised to create for Mark.
He didn’t even know what this “position” was or entailed….
A VERY INTERESTING SIDE NOTE
Before we go on, I would like to point out that Mark Zuckerberg was played by Jesse Eisenberg in the movie The Social Network, which promoted the ‘approved’ storyline.
The Deep State will often communicate subliminal messages through movies, including by linking different topics together through the same actor playing different roles.
This can help ensure they are ‘authorized’ to get away with what they are doing… by spiritual laws they call “The Rules.”
Therefore, I find it very interesting that Jesse Eisenberg also played a mind-controlled slave assassin in “American Ultra,” which very openly applauds MKULTRA.
The movie portrays a victim of MKULTRA programming as a Bourne-Identity-type of superhero, while also honestly acknowledging the horrific problems it causes.
Additionally, Eisenberg played Lex Luthor in Batman Vs. Superman, which is one of the most Luciferian films ever made.
Both Batman and Superman are portrayed as “fallen angels,” whereas Eisenberg is a Demiurge-style take on Jesus as being a malevolent, demonic being.
The scenery around Eisenberg’s character in the movie is astonishingly blatant and worthy of detailed analysis.
AND NOW, BACK TO THE DOSSIER….
As we go on, you may find yourself feeling sympathy for Mark Zuckerberg if this all turns out to be true. This type of torture is very sad under any and all circumstances.
Mark always had panic attacks and would break down frequently due to the brain-washing – according to Mark.
He would cry about his mother and the “torture” she let “them” do to him.
At those times, Mark’s mouth ran on open and he would tell his bed-partners about all the pain and horrible plans these “evil people” did to him.
Early on, his doubts and fears almost consumed him at night, and he could hardly sleep due to nightmares.
Once Mark became filthy rich, he simply used drugs to mask these fears.
[As a side note, it is a noteworthy gesture to give away 99 percent of the earnings. At present he would be left with 710 million.]
NO ABILITY TO EXPLAIN HOW IT WAS DONE
As the dossier continues, we find out that Mark apparently cannot explain how he supposedly created Facebook.
But if you get him upset by asking about the creation of Facebook, Mark will freak out and have a panic attack because he always messes up the story and looks like an idiot.
He can’t stand questions about “how he made Facebook” – because he didn’t.
I had to laugh as one of his stupid answers: “I saw that Harvard didn’t have a Facebook, so I made one”, or something close to that.
The journalist let him get away with that lie, like they always have.
Mark Greenberg (Zuckerberg) did not write one single line of programming source code for Facebook. Those are lies and propaganda generated by his government, military handlers….
A JOINT EFFORT WITH HARVARD AND OTHERS
As the dossier continues, we find out that the President of Harvard was apparently directly involved, along with other high-level operatives.
Mark simply had others adjust the code into what was a government-sponsored military weaponization of a cyber-warfare project directed by the President of Harvard, Larry Summers.
Even Summers himself had his own budding student and staff directory being developed by the Harvard computer staff called “Facebook.”
Mark didn’t even create the name!…
GOOGLE / YOUTUBE FOLLOWED THE SAME FORMULA… RUN BY BANKERS
In this next excerpt, we find that Google founder Eric Schmidt was apparently part of the same initiative.
The author gets very detailed about who, exactly, was involved in financing and organizing all of this.
Again, the specifics here are interesting enough to suggest that this is not a LARP:
Eric Schmidt was the poster child for the Silicon Valley geniuses who ran corporations that are basically exempt from prosecution.
[They are] the facade for military-weaponized companies that are always funded by the same evil bankers—
Fidelity Investment, Vanguard, T. Rowe Price, BlackRock, JPMorgan, HSBC, Accel Partners, Kleiner Perkins and the rest of the Silicon Valley venture capitalists, who always make a killing from companies who get no-bid government contracts.
These companies, like Facebook, are just an excuse for black-ops experiments to control the enemy – and Mark doesn’t know who the enemy is.
Mark’s lack of a moral compass made him the perfect patsy for the new “military experiments on U. S. citizens.”…
ELECTION TAMPERING
This next excerpt details how the hidden players have used companies like Facebook and YouTube to manipulate elections:
I believe now, since Mark was well-aware of the evil intentions of the government, that he has committed crimes of many types with the clear, pre-meditated intention of harming every user of Facebook.
That is why Mark let Facebook be used to manipulate elections. He has no moral core.
I personally saw the “template” that Hillary ordered that uses Facebook to manipulate voters to win elections for her.
Given the amount of election interference by Big-Tech in 2016, I became a reluctant believer in miracles.
I have seen the truth concerning the supposed “Russian Interference,” and can tell you that it was all made up and, in fact, was the exact opposite of what the media reported.
I have seen so many illegal actions of Facebook that I am indeed complicit with the crimes. That is one of the reasons I must remain anonymous.
But I assure you, if I testified, Mark and I would be locked up along with the other members of the Fellowship as well as many, many other Facebook employees….
EVERYONE KNEW WHAT IT REALLY WAS
In this next quote, we find out that everyone within this core team apparently knew exactly what they were really doing.
Though I will not tell you who the members of Mark Zuckerberg’s “Fellowship” group were,
I can point out that all of the original members of Facebook knew from the beginning that it was a military project for cyber warfare mind-control.
Everything done from the beginning was an experiment to see just how far a social media platform could go to “conquer the enemy” —
through behavioral manipulation with electronic warfare.
The idea that Mark wanted to connect all college students in America was a novel idea that was far from the true intention: the mind-control of every user in the world.
Free platforms like Google, Gmail, Facebook, and the rest were confidence tricks to get users to experiment on.
My old buddy, Sean Parker, an early member of Facebook has “confessed all” to the media, and specifically told the truth that Facebook was meant as a cyber-drug to create and control addicts – digital addicts.
As Sean said, we knew from the beginning it was harming every user.
That is why we never let our friends or our children use these systems – it harms them tremendously, and was the original intent of the media.
Mark and I were told by representatives of DARPA that that was the intent of Facebook from its inception.
[DW: Now maybe you understand why I don’t even open Facebook unless I need to announce something.]
THEY CONSIDER EVERYONE TO BE A TERRORIST
Things get even more sinister as we go on from here. This is indeed how the Deep State sees us, based upon my own extensive research:
The U. S. Patriot Act allows the military to consider every American a possible terrorist or enemy warfighter until proven otherwise.
Every person on the Internet, which was also created by DARPA, is considered a cyber-terrorist.
The military sees it as their job to create systems to surveil, target, disarm, and aggressively remote-control the user.
I hated the idea from the first time I heard of it.
Personally, I have never used Facebook, and don’t let anyone I love use it….
MORE DETAILS ABOUT MIND CONTROL
In this next excerpt, we get additional witness testimony of the apparent mind control that was being used on Mark to keep him on track:
We would sometimes convince him that the project was “dead wrong”, but all it took was one phone call from “above” and Mark went back to his scheming.
It was truly pathetic to see that Mark had no freedom, but was told what to do.
He was also so poorly organized and such a muddled thinker that he couldn’t get anything done: homework, schoolwork, project work, nothing….
ELITIST MENTALITY
This next short excerpt again shows that this insider was exposed to elitist concepts that are commonplace within the Deep State:
Mark has become, over the years, no friend of America.
In fact, he hates America, and rants on about how proud he is to avoid U. S. taxes and to cheat the American people – whom he considers to be animals.
Mark believes he is a higher being – above human beings….
NAVAL INTELLIGENCE HEAD ANDREW MARSHALL
This next excerpt reveals one of the high-ranking military personnel who apparently steered the project:
One day, Mark was called to Summers’ office in Massachusetts Hall to meet a most unusual man.
His name was Andrew Marshall, and he was the head of the Naval Intelligence Net Assessment Office.
Mark was terrified of Marshall from the beginning.
Marshall had Mark sign a government secrecy agreement, and other security agreements before he told Mark the ultimate military nature of what the Harvard Facebook project entailed.
Mark, and Harvard, were simply being used as incubation think-tanks as a cover for a military project that needed a corporate face….
TRANSFER LIFELOG TO FACEBOOK….
This next excerpt requires you to go back to the article to get the full detail. It is included here to simply point out that the LifeLog data was directly ported over to Facebook.
Chandler told Mark that IBM Eclipse was preparing Michael’s program, as they spoke, to give to Mark for the Facebook launch at EclipseCON ’04 in San Fancisco — right after the Harvard January Reading Period.
He said the plan was to transfer all of the NSA’s LifeLog data as soon as possible to the Facebook platform as well….
MASSIVE GOVERNMENT SURVEILLANCE OPERATION
In this next quote, the insider goes into more detail about the massive scope of government surveillance that Facebook and Google are being used for:
We have not spoken up before now, but I personally cannot hold my silence any longer.
I must speak out openly about the criminal surveillance Mark does through Facebook, because it gets worse every day.
Mark’s handlers tell him to allow more surveillance, even though security breaches, selling customer data, allowing for spying by CIA, NSA, DIA, GCHQ, MI6, Five Eyes,
Lying to Congress, meddling in elections, allowing everyone access to Facebook data, censoring conservatives, being a platform for the Democrat party,
And many other charges [that] have been brought against Facebook in other countries and America.
Mark will not listen to me or anyone else about stopping the insanity.
I believe he is unstable and not fit to run Facebook….
WIN THE COUNTRY FOR HILLARY IN 2016 — OR DIE TRYING
Here is a longer version of one of the ‘teaser’ quotes that I pointed out as we started this section… regarding election interference.
Apparently, Facebook was seen as completely expendable if it meant that Hillary would win the 2016 election.
This is exactly what appears to be happening now with YouTube for whoever runs in 2020, as we have discussed throughout this update.
Mark had been told to win the country for Hillary, or kill the company trying.
He was making astounding mistakes that showed the truth of the evil foundations of Facebook.
Our secrets were gushing out like blood from a slaughtered pig.
I kept talking to Mark, trying to change his mind, but he became more insane and impossible to talk to….
MARK WILL GET A DEAL IF FACEBOOK DIES
Another ‘reveal’ that isn’t particularly surprising is that Mark was apparently told not to worry about anything if he did actually destroy Facebook.
Instead of being wiped out, he would apparently become seven times richer:
Then, one day I realized what Mark was doing with the obvious crash-landing of Facebook.
He was being told that he would get a “deal” with the government charges against the company, and would not have to pay billions in fines.
The deal would be like the government’s deal with Standard Oil when they were charged with anti-trust, monopoly issues.
They were made to break up into seven different companies – all of which became as big or bigger than Standard Oil itself.
Splitting up the monopoly made the owners seven times richer….
TRUMP [WITH THE HELP OF THE ALLIANCE] IS DEFEATING THE GLOBALISTS
In this next passage, we see another example I shared in the ‘teaser’ section.
If this insider was strongly pro-Trump, and this was all a LARP, we would expect far more detail in this section than we actually get.
I don’t want to go to my grave knowing that I didn’t do something to atone for my sins in perpetuating these lies….
I believe that Mark is doing everything in his power to get President Donald Trump deposed, just as he did everything he could to try to help get Hillary elected.
If Trump continues, the globalists lose.
Mark is a true globalist; he is not an American anymore.
Mark essentially does not have a plan for Facebook. He simply does what he is told, and always has.
Mark has made no decisions on his own – not one.
This current decision to destroy Facebook from the inside out is nothing more than Mark’s handlers using Mark in their last hours of power.
Trump will win 2020 and Facebook will die.
The only question left is whether Trump will charge Mark Fakerberg with the crimes he committed….
EVERYONE KNOWS WHAT IS GOING ON
Next, our insider reveals that everyone on the Board of Directors and in the investment teams apparently understands what this company is really up to.
As a Facebook insider, I demand Mark be fired, and all assets taken from him due to his non-stop lying to stockholders and Facebook users.
The Board of Directors, underwriters and institutional investors all know about the secret government contracts that have been propping up the company since the beginning, but most average shareholders do not.
It is a government-owned and operated military psy-ops weapon that has gotten out of control.
[It has] been used for treasonous purposes, and for seditious actions against the American people….
FORMER SPEECHWRITER SPILLS THE BEANS
This next quote contains the type of insider info that would be very well known to someone who was working on the inside back in 2004.
You can still buy Katherine’s book and read it for yourself at this time:
After she got sick of the lies, Mark’s former speech writer Katherine Losse described in her 2004 book The Boy Kings that:
Facebook has stolen personal data and sold it,
Created a “dark” profile on every user and sold it to everyone who would pay the price,
Created secret files of compromising photos,
Allowed all government agencies to access all user data,
Breached every user agreement,
Lied continuously to all users,
Built in back-doors and zero-day programs for the military,
And many other unethical, immoral and illegal activities.
Did Mark Zuckerberg (Greenberg) willing and with intent allow these criminal activities to go on unchecked on Facebook? –
You bet he did. And he is still doing it, and getting worse every day….
MARK HAS GOTTEN WORSE
This is the last substantive excerpt we will review from this stunning dossier.
It shows that the globalists’ plan continues on to a communist-style “social credit” system, where your ability to live or die, eat or starve will depend upon how obedient you are.
I have stood against Mark’s immoral and evil actions since our freshman year at Harvard.
Nothing has changed, except that Mark has gotten worse, and his handlers have become so demanding that they are condemning Facebook to the trash heap — and creating the circumstances for Mark to become even richer and more insane.
His next projects include a system much like what Eric Schmidt has created for China — a social credit system that controls the freedom of every American.
When Facebook is broken up, the new companies will have the Eric Schmidt “Dragonfly” social credit system built in.
Mark wants to be like Eric and control the world from a digital Ivory Tower and oversee the depopulation of the earth.
These maniacs believe they are “above the human race,” and are actually higher beings sent to the earth to control the masses.
WILLING TO TESTIFY
Lastly, our insider assures us that he will go forward and participate directly in the coming tribunals, which is very exciting if true:
I personally am willing to testify without immunity and suffer whatever consequences I deserve for knowing these things and never bringing them forth until now.
I know that the corruption is so great in Washington D. C. that I would not stand a chance of bringing forth this information without being squelched, killed, or silenced, like I have seen done to others.
I suggest that the new Attorney General simply read this letter, investigate and then ask Mark Greensberg to program a single line of coherent code.
When he cannot, lock him up.
THE ‘PANIC CHUTE’
With all of the above in mind, it is not at all surprising to find out that Zuckerberg apparently has a secret ‘panic chute’ he can try to escape through if it all comes crashing down:
3/8: Mark Zuckerberg’s Conference Room Has a Secret “Panic Chute”
https://www.foxnews.com/tech/mark-zuckerbergs-conference-room-has-a-secret-panic-chute-report-says
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been accused of a lot of things, but a new report details just how far he is willing to take his privacy and safety: he reportedly has a “panic chute” in one of the tech giant’s conference rooms.
An in-depth investigation from Business Insider looked at the company’s security practices, Zuckerberg is said to have a number of different measures to protect himself, including a “Praetorian Guard” (implemented in case an employee tries to rush him when he’s at a company all-hands meeting), as well as the aforementioned “panic chute.”
“He also has access to a large glass-walled conference room in the middle of the space near his desk that features bullet-resistant windows and a panic button,” the news outlet wrote in its story.
“There’s a persistent rumor among Facebook employees that he has a secret ‘panic chute’ his team can evacuate him down to get him out of the office in a hurry.
“The truth of this matter remains murky: One source said they had been briefed about the existence of a secret exit route through the floor of the conference room into the parking garage, but others said they had no knowledge of it.”
AN ADDITIONAL VIDEO FOR CONTEXT
The following video does not include all the revelations from this insider letter, but nonetheless gets surprisingly close.
It also has a non-stop feast of motion-graphics eye candy, and is therefore quite a significant effort.
You may need to watch this one more than once, since it moves very quickly as she is obviously reading from a written document:
All of this adds up to a very compelling narrative.
The same type of sinister intentions revealed in the alleged 1991 meeting about the future of hip-hop music are seen again in the Facebook Dossier.
You may struggle with the idea that this could all be true, and I understand that. It is a very difficult new reality to adjust to.
I do consider the facing of reality to be a very important spiritual discipline to adopt.
WHAT ABOUT THE WHOLE DEPOPULATION THING?
You may be wondering why the people who designed this weaponized social media system consider it a tool for depopulation.
The answer is simple: they have created a completely lawless cyber-verse where anyone can do whatever they want, with virtually no repercussions.
In our normal society, we have established, codified laws for how to interact at home, on the streets, in parks, businesses and the workplace.
These laws go back at least to the time of the Roman Empire, if not Sumer itself — and there are standard guidelines.
In the weaponized world of social media, there are no laws. Psychopaths, narcissists, bullies and the like can do as they please.
There are countless cases of people committing suicide or being driven to domestic violence and murder from these situations.
Each death caused by weaponized social media contributes to the elite “goal” of depopulation.
AGENTS SPREADING HATRED
Furthermore, once you find yourself in a position of influence that threatens the elite, you will be targeted by paid operatives.
This was revealed in the Snowden documents, and I will now quote from Corey Goode’s recent Public Statement responding to these unrelenting cyber-attacks:
BEGIN EXCERPT
The almost total anonymity of the Internet makes it very easy for individuals to present themselves as something other than what they really are. This activity can then create enormous confusion and anger in the people who feel targeted by these attacks.
Although in the past, my team has pointed this out, again I ask you to please carefully review Glenn Greenwald’s classic article that appeared during the Snowden revelations, on February 24th, 2014. At least read the following quote from the article, as seen below.
In this article, you will see multiple screen captures of actual intel training documents from the Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group, or JTRIG, that should be far more publicized than they have been, up until now. Almost every single strategy revealed in this ‘data dump’ has been used against me, my supporters and my detractors alike in an almost endless cycle of repetition:
How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations
“I want to focus and elaborate on the overarching point revealed by all of these documents: namely, that these agencies are attempting to control, infiltrate, manipulate, and warp online discourse, and in doing so, are compromising the integrity of the internet itself.”
“Among the core self-identified purposes of JTRIG are two tactics: (1) to inject all sorts of false material onto the internet in order to destroy the reputation of its targets; and (2) to use social sciences and other techniques to manipulate online discourse and activism to generate outcomes it considers desirable.
“To see how extremist these programs are, just consider the tactics they boast of using to achieve those ends: “false flag operations” (posting material to the internet and falsely attributing it to someone else), fake victim blog posts (pretending to be a victim of the individual whose reputation they want to destroy), and posting “negative information” on various forums.”
[Notice in red at the bottom that this document was circulated amongst agencies in the “Five Eyes” countries, namely USA, Australia, Canada, Great Britain and New Zealand.]
YouTube video discussing this article:
How The Government Can Destroy Your Reputation (Report):
By sincerely asking you, my audience, to stand down and not attack anyone, it is my hope that together we can greatly decrease these problems. The invisible assets who are actually being paid to do this will then become far more obvious. They almost never step forward with a face and a name. The vast majority of all of this work is done under total anonymity. Their greatest delight is if they can convince real people to pick up their arguments and further publicize them.
Even if you do believe you have identified a paid operative, I must again please request that you not harass, threaten, intimidate or otherwise bother this person in any way. We all need to be aware that these attacks never draw in more than about one percent of the overall audience, and they largely have not had much of an effect on the message getting out.
END EXCERPT
WORTHY OF SERIOUS CONSIDERATION
I have been speaking about UFOs and the Deep State online since the very beginning in 1996, with a website since 1999.
I am a Veteran of Forum Wars and learned a long time ago that you truly must not “feed the trolls.”
All I ever saw was people changing the subject to new attacks or otherwise ignoring you when you debunk their nonsense.
On any given day, if I chose to pay attention to it, there are thousands and thousands of wildly defamatory statements being made about me.
It is possible to toughen up and learn not to take any of this personally. That is a skill that takes practice, and sadly many do not have the tools to do it.
As we now head into the next section, we will discuss the Forbidden Story of the international alliance working to bring all of this elite madness to an end.
This is a story that I have been tracking since 2007 and receiving insider briefings on since 2009, and I am very happy with the progress we are now seeing.
CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE TO SECTION FIVE: THE FORBIDDEN STORY
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Jacob on December 27, 2019 at 12:50 am
Update regarding the movie Cold Case Hammerskjoeld.
Full movie on Danish national TV…
https://www.dr.dk/drtv/program/cold-case-hammarskjoeld_-verdens-stoerste-mordmysterie-eller-mest-idiotiske-konspirationsteori_131621
https://www.amazon.com/Cold-Case-Hammarskj%C3%B6ld-Mads-Br%C3%BCgger/dp/B07WCQKY2M
/Jacob
Brian James on October 6, 2019 at 1:25 pm
Sep 20, 2019 JW Exposes More Anti-Trump Coup Cabal Docs, New Ethics Complaint against Ilhan Omar, & MORE!
Judicial Watch Exposes More Anti-Trump Coup Cabal Documents, New Ethics Complaint against Ilhan Omar, & Hillary Clinton back in Court.
https://youtu.be/IQtv5J4Rqq0
Rob on September 26, 2019 at 12:42 am
So, this didn’t happen, right? No Pepe the White Supremacy Frog bomb got dropped by mid September, right? Are you sure you want to put your faith in this Q stuff, or are you all in until JFK Jr reveals himself? I have always been a bit skeptical of it, not just because it is so overwhelmingly hyper partisan, but it looks like someone trying to control the rubes by telling them what they want to hear. Trump isn’t a trust funder who squandered his dad’s money on bad investments like casinos he couldn’t make a profit off of, rather he’s a champion of justice who is battling the deep state. But then you listen to him and he sounds like a buffoon who can’t string a coherent sentence together and whose lawyer is currently in prison for covering up an affair he had with a porn star Just after his third wife had their child. Is that the stuff you are hitching your wagon to? I know that you have instances where Q seems to reaffirm your long held (and well publicized) beliefs. Are you sure you are not being used? And being fed bogus intel? This declas thing certainly makes it look that way. It feels like the ‘red tsunami’ of 2018 or the several times Q said mass arrests were starting in weeks. I take no pleasure in pointing that out. I was a big fan of yours before all this Q / Trump stuff and I still think you are an incredibly smart guy with intriguing theories that warrant study. I am just saying it because you have a lot of fans, some of which seem highly suggestible, and it scares me a bit that you seem to want to throw your weight of celebrity behind incredibly questionable things like Q anon and that sketchy Falun Gong / edge of wonder stuff. I hope you are doing thoughtful vetting of the opinions and intel that you share, and you aren’t being played by the same rich, control the masses, types that you say you are so opposed to.
Roxann on September 24, 2019 at 2:27 pm
The testimony at 7:00 confirms what you said about the music industry. https://youtu.be/PMNBQDGPQjo
Ryan on September 13, 2019 at 3:32 pm
FYI – The location in San Diego that DeLong mentioned as the headquarters of SAIC with the statues out front has been completely bulldozed. I traveled there today and the are no remnants from the pictures that were posted in this article. It’s just flat brown Earth now – google earth still shows it exists. Currently the location is home to Human Longevity Inc and Poseida Therapeutics.
My jaw dropped when I saw this!
Roxann on September 2, 2019 at 10:57 am
The comments about who is funding all this make me wonder if the 401k plan was such a good idea. The way it was set up, all that retirement money got funneled to those miscreants.
Nikola on August 14, 2019 at 10:30 am
Hi guys, Saggitarius A* recently increased its brightness 75-fold for approximately 2 hours:
https://www.sciencealert.com/our-galaxy-s-supermassive-black-hole-just-mysteriously-got-really-really-bright
Who’s next? 🙂
Bryan on August 2, 2019 at 8:07 pm
Brilliant. Congratulations for a lifetime of research finally coming to fruition. Thank you for your courage. Been wondering why you haven’t been live for awhile. Thanks to Corey as well you guys are Patriots. WWG1WGA
Leslie on August 2, 2019 at 12:01 pm
Thank you, David, Corey and all the crew! #WWG1WGA
Patty on July 23, 2019 at 5:40 pm
I believe that Trump was drafted by the military to undo the Cabal and finish them off, so I’m really hoping that much of what he is doing to threaten the wild animals and the environment is also for “show”. I can’t believe that he is really that heartless. 30,000 species are now threatened with extinction due to human activity, and he wants to open up the Arctic to more oil drilling???!!! That should ring some serious alarm bells for the human species!!! What we do to them, we do to ourselves, so we won’t be far behind. It’s just so sad that we have to wipe them out on our way out!!! Something needs to happen really quickly to save our planet!!!
anja on July 21, 2019 at 5:36 pm
“Pre_stage sec_y” = SEC
MimiW on July 16, 2019 at 8:53 pm
Will we be able to find your new film on Gaia? Also I have been wondering for some time now why you are no longer making content & disclosure on Gaia? If you addressed in this e-book I must have missed it
Justin on July 16, 2019 at 12:50 pm
My name is Justin. I am trying to get in contact with you directly. As a family member of mine is working on a very important financial project that will benefit and liberate humanity in a massive way. Because of this they are being targeted and attacked on YouTube in the same fashion as you has been and described in your recent DECLAS article.
I am wondering if you can sharing any legal counsel recommendations or any kind of information that would be help to my family in this fight.
Any help would be appreciate, it’s really painful to see what is happening to them.
Joanne on July 29, 2019 at 6:43 am
S,end leading info to my site . The great spirit will help ok.
Donn on July 16, 2019 at 11:22 am
My question is… I was wondering about Bing.com, which is another search engine. I think it is Microsoft. Have you uncovered companies besides Google doing this? I might swing a little more to the left, but I find this company control very disturbing. I have reread 1984 and animal farm (well audio booked this time) and I find it scary how the world mirrors these books. It is almost like those books were reading the future. Mind control needs to stop before it fully gets out of control.
A. N. S. on July 14, 2019 at 11:37 am
Just a friendly suggestion: if you’re not happy with the quality of social media or YouTuve content you can always read a book.
There are these places called “libraries” out there in the real world that have a wealth of information to share at no cost whatsoever to the consumer- as long as you are responsible enough to return the materials that you’ve borrowed from the community’s collection.
William Mackey on July 12, 2019 at 3:53 pm
As of 7/12/19 we still have chemtrails in the greater Seattle area
JR on July 12, 2019 at 7:59 pm
I live in the Irvine, CA area and have been STUNNED to see ZERO chemtrails scarring blue skies. It shocked me so much so I took a picture of the sky. It’s been DECADES+ since I’ve seen pristine blue skies. It’s been this way for at least a month now. Some one, some how shut off Project Chemtrail, at least for this part of Southern California.
Abel on July 18, 2019 at 11:26 pm
Yes ! I am finally seeing a clean blue sky too here in Texas . Any kind of progress is good .
DD on July 15, 2019 at 11:25 am
Could be the ‘good’ chemtrails. SerialBrain2 has a quite interesting theory about this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAlqbqKgmCg
Oriole on November 11, 2019 at 2:15 pm
The cloudy trail behind a plane is water vapour,
a by-product of the fuel cimbustion.
I don’t know about evil chemicals!
love to all from Oriole
marilyn on July 16, 2019 at 2:49 am
I thought it was wonderful Trump finally talking about cleaning up the sky and water I cant say enough how amazing i think Trump is , we here Australia have had the same media propaganda since he was elected and I must say it has worked for a lot of people who cant see the wood for the trees . Just wish we had someone like him here to clean up the corruption,pedophiles , the lies our poladlies tell , he has kehttps://divinecosmos.com/davids-blog/22962-social-media-nukes/t his word on everything he said he would do. He doesnt take a salary for the hard work he is doing every day , just because he loves this country , and what he has down for veterans is amazing too. If only people would stop being lead like sheep by the bought off media . You just know your doing something good when your attacked , just like the alternative media is being attacked every day trying to get the truth out there.
Lyle on July 16, 2019 at 4:40 pm
I still see some streaks across the sky in Texas, but much less than before. Maybe hopefully they’re actual contrails rather than SAI.
We still have them in Dallas . It is much less. Hopefully their supply will run out and it will be the end of that . We are powerful organisms . We can and do become resistant to what they release in the sky . Those who do that violate our free will to breathe clean air. and the benevolen spirits are authorized to neutralize the poisons poured in our skies .
Maybe they are running out. I have not seen any in the past few days since July 16.
Annette on July 22, 2019 at 9:53 am
I haven’t seen any here in SoCal, southeast a bit from Riverside. That’s inland. Not since the 4th earthquakes. So very happy. A dream come true. Very grateful✌
Annette on July 28, 2019 at 11:35 am
Chemtrails back big time here in SoCal inland.
Deborah on July 29, 2019 at 7:47 pm
I only started looking for the chemtrails 9 days ago, but I can’t get over how beautiful our skies are in the Albany, NY area. I haven’t seen a single one. It used to be a tic-tac-toe board in the sky over us.
aUM on July 12, 2019 at 1:03 pm
Been following you and many others for many years, been down many holes, pursued many tributaries and never found an ending, but even so I have to say this ebook was definitely an Aqua Velva moment, two humongous slaps on both cheeks. Great work.
Thanks for what you do. You stay safe, buddy.
e_paris on July 11, 2019 at 3:11 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMvvzSnh3Q4
Press Conference Tom Delonge’s To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science
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Tom on July 11, 2019 at 2:32 pm
They truly are running for their worthless lives…it’s happening at last! How can we ensure we keep informed?
Erica on July 11, 2019 at 8:29 am
Thank you so much for writing! I have been waiting for both you amd Q and am SO EXCITED that things are happening again! Hope to see more of you around!
jon Lombardini on July 10, 2019 at 10:06 pm
Hi David. Sometimes the links you link to contain horrible biases. For instance, the link about Svali. I’m paraphrasing; it says that gay rights are part of the Illuminati plan to desensitize the world to depraved sexuality. As a very spiritual and intelligent gay person I just can’t get on board with so many of the hateful ways the Disclosure Movement enables mobs to treats marginalized people like dirt. The problem is not immigrants, it’s pedophiles. The problem is not Dem vs Rep, it’s massive control of an entire population through treating politics as a football game with only two sides to root for, and backing up your team regardless of their crimes. The problem is not protests of racism by someone taking a knee. It is that racism is used to distract the populace from what the powers that be are doing. Do members of the Truth Movement think that only Democrats will be exposed if the indictments are true? I flip flop with the validity of these claims. It is exciting that Epstein got exposed and arrested. I hope all the Epsteins of the world get exposed and that the Illuminati falls, and free energy comes, and world hunger ends, and people become free…. At the moment it just feels like a fairy tale. I’ve waited for Niburu to come initiate a pole shift. I’ve waited for disclosure, I’ve waited for Y2K, I’ve waited for exposure on 911, I’ve waited for 2012. I would love all this to be true, but I am afraid I am supporting a racist man who will put human beings in concentration camps where they are literally dying, allow blatant racism to continue to affect US law, and to embolden Nazi’s, white supremacists and hate crimes. I would love to believe Trump is our savior and bringer down of the Illuminati. In the meantime he is acting like a modern day Hitler. Is this how another holocaust happens? Because we forget practicality and let a madman become a fascist Antichrist because of a blind trust that he is doing tons of good that no one sees behind the scenes? If he’s going to do it, then do it. The provable actions that Trump is taking are racist, self serving, and in the case of the wall, a large waste of taxpayer money that is desperately needed elsewhere. I am hoping like hell Bernie gets elected. It may be our only way out of this.
Chris on July 12, 2019 at 8:44 am
Also a ton of misogynist propaganda. QAnon.pub posts stuff only from right-wing sites like Fox News. Breitbart, Anti-abortion sites with photos of fully developed fetuses, cheering defunding of Planned Parenthood etc. Sad that David is now promoting this stuff.
Elizabeth Dearborn Denney on July 9, 2019 at 4:15 pm
David I want yo thank you for your commitment and perseverance to the truth. I have followed you for years–from Financial Tyranny, to buying all your books, to purchasing and viewing Ascension Mystery School … BTW, you and Elizabeth are adorable. The Epstein arrest is fantastic news. Dear brave David, will you please explain to me how you can’t see that the beast Trump is in with Epstein and his ilk? To me it seems so obvious. What are you not telling? How could you possibly support that filth. I will always be a David Wilcock fan, but I justwish you would tell us why you support Trump. I know you must have a valid reason. Please stay strong. I pray for your safety and continued success in all you do to help make the Earth a better place. Thank you Elizabeth D.
Beverly on July 13, 2019 at 9:59 pm
Dear Elizabeth, I suggest that you read all of the Q posts at qmap.pub. Then study all of the links on the LEFT side of that web site: e.g. “PLAYERS,” “Notable Deaths,” “Global Themes,” “Videos,” “Resignations,” etc. On that site you may use the toggle at the top of the page: POTUS ON / POTUS OFF. If that toggle switch is on POTUS ON, you will see both POTUS tweets and Q posts; when it is off, you will see only Q posts.
I have been following Q since he/she/they started posting on 10/28/17; there are 3,426 posts now. Also, I suggest that you go to sordrescue.com and read all of Mark Taylor’s prophecies; read his book “The Trump Prophecies”; go to his youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOcxxWkbqDn6TiFcez9XUPQ, and watch his videos on youtube, in particular his interviews on mcfiles.live.
You will soon find out that President Trump is the power behind the takedown of the cabal, the pedo rings, and the satanic ritual abuse of our children. The cabal still controls the mainstream media so they will never give Trump any good press. You must know that, right? You must not listen to or watch MSM because — as Mark says — MSM is broadcasting on satan’s frequency.
PETER on July 8, 2019 at 3:56 pm
Bradley cooper and Lady GaGa didnt deliver a kill shot…they are part of the agenda otherwise she wouldn’t have gotten an oscar. I see your point but the underbelly of Hollywood is alive , well and thriving. These are just some of the bones they throw to us making us think we are making progress; I pretty sure she would have had to sell her soul to get the oscar.
Anna on July 8, 2019 at 3:14 pm
Exactly what I was thinking!!!! Thank you, David!!!
Bevi on July 8, 2019 at 1:36 pm
Thank you David for your willingness to continue moving forward spreading the truth – NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS! You are a true WARRIOR, and we are all grateful for your genuine efforts! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
david moran on July 8, 2019 at 5:49 am
This all looks great but my biggest fear is the 5g roll out. There is lots of information about this on the web especially what is happening in Ireland with the oppression of people there, experts in phased array weapons and hundreds of scientists have said 5g will kill us all. The fact that Israel won’t have 5g is very telling. Information is on the web and recently lots of pro 5g information is on the web claiming its safe but I just don’t know. I hope the alliance know whether it’s safe or not and will act accordingly because if what the so called experts are saying is true it won’t matter who gets jailed or not if we are all suffering a slow kill. Check out Mark steeles youtube videos currently still there, and http://www.smombiegate.org Other people to research Barrie Trower and put 5g in youtube.
EmilY on July 7, 2019 at 10:22 pm
We need to go after all left propaganda and give it a thumb down!!!!! Think about it.
At the expense of gay rights, the emboldening of Nazi’s and white supremacists, and creating real observable concentration camps where people are literally dying? I am thinking about it Emily. I am thinking about it all the time. We can’t take sides like a football game and excuse all the crimes of our favorite team. Ignoring the evils of the team we are rooting for is how fascism starts and horrible actual death of human beings gets excused and justified. Fight for what is right no matter whose team you are on.
Dani Mathewson on July 7, 2019 at 4:38 pm
Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant!
Jacob on July 7, 2019 at 12:19 pm
Cold Case Hammarskjöld – Official Trailer NEW
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Marianne on July 7, 2019 at 10:20 am
And so the clean up continues: https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/jeffrey-epstein-arrested-for-sex-trafficking-of-minors-sources/ar-AADXjW9?ocid=spartandhp
Brian on July 7, 2019 at 7:29 am
I have listened to you since, Project Camelot,. A girl I knew from High School had posted to Facebook how she had been abused as a teen, as an adult she goes to a lawyer he was a mason, the lawyer says she had a good case, who was the man, when she tells the man’s name, another mason, he tells her he’s almost blind, he turned his life to Jesus etc to discourage her, so she dropped the case. Also through my mom’s dad I have Norman, French and British royalty and one guy in France was married to the daughter of the king of Scots. I have rh O- blood, one guy was a crusader knight with Richard the lionheart, another knight is mentioned in a Shakespeare play. When I had surgery in the Navy I was told that I had an extra rib they had to remove. I’ve always had a fear of that side of my ancestry. I loved the picture of you in the spaceship lol. The picture of the alter buried in Scotland was really freaky triangle hole in the ground. If you ever read this, it may be worth a cup of coffee, as in the law of one, I Greet you in the light and love of the One Infinite Creator.
Betzalel Maggid on July 5, 2019 at 9:04 pm
Also @David Wilcock, i found an article that confirms corey goodes testamony about the Nazis trying to persuade the Cabal to use their reseorces to mine “astroids made out of pure platinum and gold” in the 1950s space race. Fox news just posted an article about an astriod they discovered made mostly out of platinum, gold, and iron. Here is the link. https://www.foxnews.com/science/nasa-headed-towards-giant-golden-asteroid-that-could-make-everyone-on-earth-a-billionaire
James Corey Goode on July 18, 2019 at 12:31 pm
Nice find! TY for sharing. Corey
Hi David Wilcock! Check out what i just saw in a news article… it looks like all the big tech giants are being brought down. https://apple.news/ATXxyjgkRReiR9L4gKxn7FA
Fates De Whynot on July 5, 2019 at 6:38 pm
Ive been reading through different sections, very interesting information!
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1 North London Plumbing & Heating Terms and Conditions Christopher Michael Darby North London Plumbing & Heating 2 Perth Road Wood Green London N22 5RB / DEFINITIONS In this document the following words shall have the following meanings: 1.1 "Agreement" means these Terms and Conditions together with the terms of any applicable Specification Document; 1.2 "Customer" means the organisation or person who purchases goods and services from the Supplier; "Intellectual Property Rights" means all patents, registered and unregistered designs, copyright, trademarks, know-how and all other forms of intellectual property wherever in the world enforceable; 1.4 "Specification Document" means a statement of work, quotation or other similar document describing the goods and services to be provided by the Supplier; 1.5 "Supplier" means North London Plumbing & Heating (NLPH), 2 Perth Road, Wood Green, London, N22 5RB. 2 GENERAL 2.1 These Terms and Conditions shall apply to all contracts for the supply of goods and services by the Supplier to the Customer. 2.2 Before the commencement of the services the Supplier shall submit to the Customer a Specification Document which shall specify the goods and services to be supplied and the price payable. The Customer shall notify the Supplier immediately if the Customer does not agree with the contents of the Specification Document. All Specification Documents shall be subject to these Terms and Conditions. 2.3 The Supplier shall use all reasonable endeavours to complete the services within estimated time frames but time shall not be of the essence in the performance of any services. 3 PRICE AND PAYMENT 3.1 The price for the supply of goods and services are as set out in the Specification Document. The Supplier shall invoice the Customer no later than 5 days after completion of works. 3.2 Invoiced amounts shall be due and payable upon receipt of the invoice being received from the Supplier, or as specified during the initial consultation. If payment is not made, the Supplier shall be entitled to charge interest on the overdue amount at the rate of 3% per annum above the Bank of England's base lending rate from time to time. Such interest shall accrue on a daily basis from the due date until the date of actual payment of the overdue amount. 3.3 In cases where the Supplier is required to purchase bespoke or high values good or services to commence works, the Supplier will discuss a part payment upfront to cover such costs The call out fee for Commercial premises are charged at 95 which covers first hour, 95 per hour thereafter. The call out fee for Domestic premises are charged at 65 which covers first hour, 65 per hour thereafter. 3.5 Immediate response emergencies (i.e. leaks and floods) between the hours 8pm to 8am, will be charged at 145 per hour. 3.6 Response times will typically be within 24hr. However the Supplier will aim to attend soon as possible. The Supplier will always aim to attend boiler breakdowns within working hours (9am and 5pm), this is specifically important if technical advice is required.
2 4 SPECIFICATION OF THE GOODS All goods shall be required only to conform to the specification in the Specification Document. In the event of unforeseen difficulties arising, or any other circumstantial changes, the Specification Document or estimated cost may be revised to reflect the situation at hand. Any Extras will only be undertaken further to both full discussion with the Customer, and, verbal or written agreement, and charged at the agreed rate. Any additional works found necessary are to be agreed with the Customer and a separate, revised or extra Specification Document provided. 5 DELIVERY 5.1 The date of delivery specified by the Supplier is an estimate only. Time for delivery shall not be of the essence of the contract and the Supplier shall not be liable for any loss, costs, damages, charges or expenses caused directly or indirectly by any delay in the delivery of the goods. 5.2 All risk in the goods shall pass to the Customer upon delivery. 6 TITLE Title in the Goods shall not pass to the Customer until the Supplier has been paid in full for the Goods. Access to and collection of used or unused building materials, equipment and plant etc remains in place until full and cleared final payment is received. 7 CUSTOMER`S OBLIGATIONS 7.1 To enable the Supplier to perform its obligations under this Agreement the Customer shall: Co-operate with the Supplier; Provide the Supplier with any information reasonably required by the Supplier; Obtain all necessary permissions and consents which may be required before the commencement of the services; and Comply with such other requirements as may be set out in the Specification Document or otherwise agreed between the parties. 7.2 The Customer shall be liable to compensate the Supplier for any expenses incurred by the Supplier as a result of the Customer s failure to comply with Clause Without prejudice to any other rights to which the Supplier may be entitled, in the event that the Customer unlawfully terminates or cancels the goods and services agreed to in the Specification Document, the Customer shall be required to pay to the Supplier as agreed damages and not as a penalty the full amount of any third party costs to which the Supplier has committed and in respect of cancellations on less than five working days written notice the full amount of the goods and services contracted for as set out in the Specification Document, and the Customer agrees this is a genuine pre-estimate of the Supplier s losses in such a case. For the avoidance of doubt, the Customer s failure to comply with any obligations under Clause 7.1 shall be deemed to be a cancellation of the goods and services and subject to the payment of the damages set out in this Clause. 7.4 In the event that the Customer or any third party, not being a sub-contractor of the Supplier, shall omit or commit anything which prevents or delays the Supplier from undertaking or complying with any of its obligations under this Agreement, then the Supplier shall notify the Customer as soon as possible and: The Supplier shall have no liability in respect of any delay to the completion of any project; If applicable, the timetable for the project will be modified accordingly; The Supplier shall notify the Customer at the same time if it intends to make any claim for additional costs. 7.5 In the case of component purchases, if the Customer requires a particular brand of product, please check with the Supplier to confirm the identity of the manufacturer of the component that you are proposing to purchase prior to the submitting of the Specification Documents. 8 ALTERATIONS TO THE SPECIFICATION DOCUMENT 8.1 The parties may at any time mutually agree upon and execute new Specification Documents, as also referred to in Clause 4. Any alterations in the scope of goods and/or services to be provided under this Agreement shall be set out in the Specification Document, which shall reflect the changed goods and/or services and price and any other terms agreed between the parties. 8.2 The Customer may at any time request alterations to the Specification Document by notice in writing to the Supplier. On receipt of the request for alterations the Supplier shall, within 5 working days or such other period as may be agreed between the parties, advise the Customer by notice in writing of the effect of such alterations, if any, on the price and any other terms already agreed between the parties
3 8.3 Where the Supplier gives written notice to the Customer agreeing to perform any alterations on terms different to those already agreed between the parties, the Customer shall, within 5 working days of receipt of such notice or such other period as may be agreed between the parties, advise the Supplier by notice in writing whether or not it wishes the alterations to proceed. 8.4 Where the Supplier gives written notice to the Customer agreeing to perform alterations on terms different to those already agreed between the parties, and the Customer confirms in writing that it wishes the alterations to proceed on those terms, the Specification Document shall be amended to reflect such alterations and thereafter the Supplier shall perform this Agreement upon the basis of such amended terms. 9 WARRANTY 9.1 The Supplier is not required to issue any warranty or guarantees with regards to works completed until all payments have been made in full. 9.2 The Supplier warrants that as from the date of delivery for a period of 1 year, the goods and all their component parts, where applicable, are free from any defects in design, workmanship, construction or materials. 9.3 The Supplier warrants that the services performed under this Agreement shall be performed using reasonable skill and care, and of a quality conforming to generally accepted industry standards and practices. 9.4 If Goods become faulty more than 30 days after delivery then you are advised to contact the manufacturer and use their warranty procedure. Unless otherwise stated in the manufacturer's documentation, all Goods carry a manufacturer's warranty. 9.5 If you wish to make a warranty claim, you must comply with the manufacturer's instructions and warranty procedure. In order to resolve your problem as quickly as possible, we will refer you to the manufacturer who will deal directly with the return. In these instances, we will provide you with the contact information for the relevant manufacturer. 9.6 All warranties provided under these Terms shall be invalidated if the Goods have been worked upon, altered or damaged in any way by you or your employees or agents, or if the Goods have not been used in accordance with the manufacturer's instructions. 9.6 Except as expressly stated in this Agreement, all warranties whether express or implied, by operation of law or otherwise, are hereby excluded in relation to the goods and services to be provided by the Supplier. 10 INDEMNIFICATION The Customer shall indemnify the Supplier against all claims, costs and expenses which the Supplier may incur and which arise, directly or indirectly, from the Customer s breach of any of its obligations under this Agreement, including any claims brought against the Supplier alleging that any goods and/or services provided by the Supplier in accordance with the Specification Document infringes a patent, copyright or trade secret or other similar right of a third party. 11 LIMITATION OF LIABILITY 11.1 Except in respect of death or personal injury due to negligence for which no limit applies, the entire liability of the Supplier to the Customer in respect of any claim whatsoever or breach of this Agreement, whether or not arising out of negligence, shall be limited to the price paid by the Customer to which the claim relates In no event shall the Supplier be liable to the Customer for any loss of business, loss of opportunity, or loss of profits or for any other indirect or consequential loss or damage whatsoever. This shall apply even where such a loss was reasonably foreseeable or the Supplier had been made aware of the possibility of the Customer incurring such a loss Nothing in these Terms and Conditions shall exclude or limit the Supplier s liability for death or personal injury resulting from the Supplier s negligence or that of its employees, agents or sub-contractors The Supplier will not accept liability for equipment installed or configured by the Supplier when the equipment has subsequently been altered or configured by persons other than ourselves or our agents. Except as set out here, all other express or implied terms or warranties relating to the Services are excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. 12 TERMINATION Either party may terminate this Agreement forthwith by notice in writing to the other if: 12.1 The other party commits a material breach of this Agreement and, in the case of a breach capable of being remedied, fails to remedy it within 30 calendar days of being given written notice from the other party to do so; 12.2 The other party commits a material breach of this Agreement which cannot be remedied under any circumstances; 12.3 The other party passes a resolution for winding up (other than for the purpose of solvent amalgamation or reconstruction), or a court of competent jurisdiction makes an order to that effect;
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May 15 movement packs its bags but plans mass march for June
"We're not leaving, we're expanding," say protestors after 25 days of encampments across the country to demand political reform
Madrid 12 JUN 2011 - 20:41 CEST
Following 25 days of permanent presence in Madrid's Puerta del Sol, activists from the May 15 Movement on Sunday began to dismantle their camp from the doorstep of the capital's regional government headquarters.
Under the slogan "we're not leaving, we're expanding," leaders of the protest distributed t-shirts printed with "May 15 removals" to identify those taking part in the operation, the stated aim of which, coordinators said, was to "leave the square cleaner than we found it."
Not all of the May 15 protestors across Spain were in agreement with the decision to dismantle their camps in city centers, which numbered around 50 at the zenith of the campaign.
While some of the encampments had already been taken down across the country, a hardcore of fewer than 100 protestors in Barcelona's Plaza Catalunya vowed to maintain their nightly vigil, apparently against the wishes of the movement's organizing committee in the Catalan capital, which voted last week to abandon the permanent settlement in favor of concentrated efforts in individual neighborhoods and temporary protests, including a human cordon to be set up outside the regional parliament on Wednesday.
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Those who elected to remain in Plaza Catalunya argued that leaving would go against the stated principle of the movement's original goal: a permanent and indefinite presence. The movement's organization committee in Barcelona favors a concentrated campaign in neighborhoods around the city and one-off protests, such as the aforementioned human cordon.
The date soon to replace May 15 as the movement's rallying cry will be June 19, when mass marches are planned across Spain to reiterate the protestors demands for political change.
An assembly in Puerta del Sol finalized the group's platform last month into a four-point manifesto.
These demands were: electoral reform that will guarantee better representation and increased citizen participation in government; clear strategies to fight public corruption by increasing transparency in government; a complete separation of public powers; and the creation of mechanisms that will demand better performance from politicians and more responsibility from the government for its actions ? particularly acute issues after the Socialist administration's mishandling of the economic crisis leaving more than 20 percent of the work force unemployed and a swath of corruption cases in recent years involving top officials from both the Socialist Party and the opposition Popular Party.
The protests were carried out despite the Electoral Committee banning them ahead of regional and local ballots on May 22, when the Popular Party administered a chastening defeat to the Socialists nationwide.
So far, no politician from either end of the spectrum has offered an audience with the protestors.
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Law Bursary
by Mark Johnson | Dec 8, 2012 | Employment
The Australian managing Director of Rio Tinto, David Peever says that the Fair Work Act is the elephant in the room when it comes to the productivity debate in Australia.
Heather Ridout, who used to be the head of the Australian Industry Group and is now on the Reseve Bank board said on a recent Q & A programme that the “Fair Work Act gives 120 new rights to unions and nothing to employers”. On the same programme, Judith Sloan, an economist and commentator suggested that it was ironic that the Act assumes that the right of unions is paramount when it comes to work place contracts but only 13% of the private work sector belong to unions.… Read More
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Bethel explores new ways to help maximize value of liberal arts
Training helps teachers create positive discipline
College reaches Bethel Fund goal for 2013–14
Social Work Department to celebrate 40 years
New director chosen for Kauffman Museum
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KIPCOR receives grant to help lessen divorce impact
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Bethel explores new ways to help maximize value of liberal arts 2014-08-06T12:39:34-05:00 2015-02-12T10:04:26-06:00
As more and more students start college undecided about a major, Bethel College has been implementing ways to address that trend.
And one of its most effective tools may be the oldest -- its liberal-arts nature.
Anywhere from 33 percent to 50 percent of incoming freshmen -- depending on the institution -- are undecided when it comes to their choice of major.
Even those who start college with a declared a major have a good chance of changing their minds, sometimes more than once, by the end of their sophomore year.
Furthermore, a study of graduation rates of 7,000 students at Western Kentucky University suggests students who enter college without declaring a major may actually enjoy the best chance of graduating in four years.
Bethel’s newest plan to meet this current reality is an Undecided Major Program.
In their first two years, students who come to Bethel undecided will be guided in completing all lower-level general education requirements while exploring major areas.
For more of this article, visit www.bethelks.edu/news-events/news/post/5043/.
Training helps teachers create positive discipline 2014-08-06T12:54:31-05:00 2015-02-12T10:04:26-06:00
Kansas is on the leading edge when it comes to creative ideas for classroom discipline, and the Kansas Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution (KIPCOR) at Bethel College is helping make that concrete.
During the past three years, KIPCOR staff has led a number of Restorative Schools Initiative trainings -- aimed at public school teachers, administrators and social workers -- on “classroom discipline and school climate.”
The trainings introduced and began to teach restorative practices that align with what’s called in Kansas MTSS, or Multi-Tier System of Supports -- a continuum of responses to students’ academic and behavioral needs.
Restorative practices are first and foremost about healing relationships. They are not, said KIPCOR Director Gary Flory, “[part of] the kind of discipline that schools typically use.”
They are what KIPCOR is about. And because Flory has a particular interest in public-school issues and how to bring restorative practices into that environment, he has for the past number of years been looking for ways to get KIPCOR more directly involved in schools.
About six years ago, at the same time as Flory was beginning to explore the possibility of writing a grant to The New Society Foundation for a school-based initiative, Kent Reed, the school counseling liaison for the Kansas State Department of Education, came to Flory with a proposal.
College reaches Bethel Fund goal for 2013–14 2014-09-10T14:17:50-05:00 2015-02-12T10:04:26-06:00
The Advancement team reached its goal of $1.4 million for the Bethel Fund for the 2013–14 academic year.
The goal for the 2014–15 year, which is part of the Board’s balanced budget, is $1.5 million. Anyone wishing to donate to Bethel Collegecan call the Development Office at 316-284-5341 or send donations to Bethel College, Office of Development, 300 E. 27th St., North Newton, KS 67114.
In other Advancement Office news, Pam Tieszen started as vice president for Advancement on July 1, and Gail Marsh began work June 23 as the new Development administrative assistant. Marsh is replacing Mary Regier ’70, who worked at the college for 39 years.
Social Work Department to celebrate 40 years 2014-08-06T13:01:50-05:00 2015-02-12T10:04:26-06:00
During Fall Fest this year, one of the highlights will be the social work 40th-anniversary celebration: Fall Fest Symposium.
The college’s acclaimed social work department has been producing qualified graduates for 40 years. The first class that earned degrees in social work graduated in 1974. The department will celebrate with a symposium the Friday afternoon, Oct. 17, of Fall Fest weekend. All alumni, community social workers and others interested in the program are invited.
Other special events include an informal gathering Friday night, Oct. 17, and a reunion Saturday morning, Oct. 18.
Fall Festival this year will be Oct. 16–19.
Registration for the social work anniversary symposium is requested by Friday, Oct. 3. For more information or to register, contact Tricia Lopez at 316-284-5255 or swdept@bethelks.edu.
Registration with continuing education credit is available for $30. The cost for others not wanting CEUs is $10. Watch for more details in the Fall Fest flier or at www.bethelks.edu/sw40.
New director chosen for Kauffman Museum 2014-08-06T13:02:59-05:00 2015-02-12T10:04:26-06:00
The Kauffman Museum board of directors announced the appointment of Dr. Annette LeZotte as the next director of the museum.
She will begin her duties Sept. 8. Richard Walker ’70, chairman of the Search Committee, said, “Dr. LeZotte brings an exceptional combination of experience and enthusiasm to the position which impressed the search committee. We believe she is exactly the right person to lead the unique cultural treasure called Kauffman Museum into the future.”
LeZotte has a doctorate in art history from University of Texas at Austin and taught at Wichita State University for 12 years. Her publications focus on art of the Northern European Renaissance and decorative painting. Her book, “The Home Setting in Early Netherlandish Paintings,” was published by Edwin Mellen Press in 2008. She worked at the Wichita Art Museum, where she developed educational programming and curriculum, and curated special exhibitions featuring British watercolors, art by Josef Albers and Guy Wiggins, and quilts from the WAM permanent collection.
LeZotte will oversee all museum operations, including marketing, fundraising and coordinating exhibitions. She replaces Rachel Pannabecker ’80, who served as director for 17 years. Pannabecker will return to collections management at the museum as part of her transition to retirement.
Members of the director search committee were Walker, Rosalind Enns Andreas ’68, Glen Ediger ’75, Bob Regier ’52, Kathy Schroeder ’77, David Stucky ’05, Brad Born ’84 for Bethel College and Andi Schmidt Andres ’84, representing Kauffman Museum staff.
Golf team members teach, learn from young campers 2014-08-06T13:08:08-05:00 2015-02-12T10:04:26-06:00
Bethel College golfers went back to camp in Missouri -- not for training or competition, but to spend time with kids interested in their sport.
For the seventh straight year, members of the Thresher golf team were at Kids Across America, June 1-5. KAA is a Christian sports camp for inner-city youth on Table Rock Lake near Golden, in southwestern Missouri.
“There were a total of eight players plus myself who went this year,” said coach Gregg Dick ’87, “which I think is the largest group we have ever had. It was, once again, a great experience for the players to get to work with inner-city youth who have never been exposed to golf.
“They teach [the kids] basic skills, as well as talk to them about life -- where they come from, what do they like to do, just anything they wanted to talk about. As a coach, it was awesome to see my players interact with the kids, working and talking with them, and hopefully making at least some impact in their life.
“Doing service together is one of the greatest ways to build team chemistry. The guys worked together great and really came together as a team.”
Jaden Schmidt, sophomore from Moundridge, agreed with Dick’s assessment.
“It [made] it easy for all of us to get to know each other and to grow closer as a team,” Schmidt said.
KIPCOR receives grant to help lessen divorce impact 2014-08-06T13:09:05-05:00 2015-02-12T10:04:26-06:00
“Divorce” might not be the first word that comes to mind in connection with “health.”
However, the Kansas Health Foundation (KHF) has recognized -- through the award of a $23,425 grant -- the Kansas Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution (KIPCOR) at Bethel College for exactly that. Or, more specifically, for a proposal on divorce impact education.
“The evidence is clear,” KIPCOR Director Gary Flory said. “There have been hundreds, maybe thousands, of studies showing the negative impact of parents in conflict on the physical and emotional health of children.”
KIPCOR will receive the funds through the Kansas Health Foundation’s Recognition Grants program.
Recognition Grants expand KHF support to a broad range of health-related organizations throughout the state. The program is targeted for organizations and agencies that propose “meaningful and charitable projects or initiatives that fit within the KHF mission of improving the health of all Kansans.”
In addition to projects, KHF also seeks to support initiatives that focus on promoting policy, systems and environmental transformations that support health.
“Each year, we are amazed at the incredible projects being done by organizations across Kansas,” said Steve Coen, KHF president and CEO. “This grant program allows us to support these innovative and impactful community initiatives and recognize the groups and individuals making them a reality.”
Bus tour planned in September to northeast Kansas 2014-08-06T13:10:51-05:00 2015-02-12T10:04:26-06:00
Kauffman Museum is planning a bus tour to Olathe and Overland Park.
Join Kauffman Museum members and friends for two days, Sept. 10–11.
Olathe has many unique sites: the Deaf Cultural Center and Museum, Mahaffie Stagecoach Stop and Farm living history site, public artwork by alumni Phil Epp ’72 and Arlie Regier ’53, Ernie Miller Nature Center, the Chestnut Fine Arts Center where the tour group will see the play “Looking Over the President's Shoulder,” and, in Overland Park, the Overland Park Botanical Garden and Arboretum.
The cost for museum members is $280 (non-members are $295) and includes transportation, all meals and admissions, lodging and gratuities. Contact Kauffman Museum curator of education Andi Schmidt Andres ’84 at asa@bethelks.edu or 316-283-1612 for more information or to make reservations using a credit card.
Host families needed for next academic year 2014-08-06T13:12:14-05:00 2015-02-12T10:04:26-06:00
Host families are needed for students for the 2014–15 academic year.
The Student Life Office encourages out-of-state students to apply to the Host Family Program. Students complete a student survey indicating their interests and expected campus involvements in order to be matched with a host family with similar interests. Host families also can fill out a survey, and community volunteers match students to families.
Expectations of the host family include welcoming the student into their family life and to the Newton community, providing home-away-from-home opportunities, such as a place to study or watch a movie, and attending special functions from time to time.
“Students need family to stay successful,” said Aaron Austin, vice president for Student Life.
Things not expected of the host family include providing financial support, laundry services or transportation to events, or snacks/meals to a student’s friends or roommates on a regular basis.
A host family’s home also is not intended to be a place for the student to stay during breaks or during the summer, although the host family may be willing to offer their home if they so choose.
This experience provides benefits to the college student and family alike. Students benefit from having a home away from home, having someone to turn to with questions and enjoying an occasional home-cooked meal. Families benefit by forming long-lasting relationships with students, experiencing college life through the eyes of the student and receiving affirmation of helping a student with a family support system.
Anyone interested in being a host family can contact Patsy Dirksen ’81 in Student Life at 316-284-5324 or studentlife@bethelks.edu.
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(REFERENCE COPY - Not for submission)Modification of a LPTV Station Construction Permit Application
W29FL-D
Are attachments (other than associated schedules) being filed with this application? No
VENTURE TECHNOLOGIES GROUP, LLC
5670 WILSHIRE BLVD., SUITE 1620
+1 (323) 965-5400 ROGOW@LOOP.COM Limited Liability Company
CHRISTINE MENG
+1 (323) 904-4099 CMENG@LOOP.COM ADMINISTRATIVE
LAWRENCE ROGOW
5670 WILSHIRE BLVD STE 1620
+1 (323) 904-4090 ROGOW@LOOP.COM Technical Representative
JOAN STEWART
WILEY REIN LLP
+1 (202) 719-7438 JSTEWART@WILEYREIN.COM Legal Representative
1) Is the applicant a foreign government or the representative of any foreign government as specified in Section 310(a) of the Communications Act? No
2) Is the applicant an alien or the representative of an alien? (Section 310(b)(1)) No
3) Is the applicant a corporation, or non-corporate entity, that is organized under the laws of any foreign government? (Section 310(b)(2)) No
4) Is the applicant an entity of which more than one-fifth of the capital stock, or other equity or voting interest, is owned of record or voted by aliens or their representatives or by a foreign government or representative thereof or by any entity organized under the laws of a foreign country? (Section 310(b)(3)) No
5) Is the applicant directly or indirectly controlled by any other entity of which more than one-fourth of the capital stock, or other equity or voting interest, is owned of record or voted by aliens, their representatives, or by a foreign government or representative thereof, or by any entity organized under the laws of a foreign country? (Section 310(b)(4)) No
6) Has the applicant received a declaratory ruling(s) under Section 310(b)(4) of the Communications Act? No
9) In connection with this application, is the applicant filing a foreign ownership Petition for Declaratory Ruling pursuant to Section 310(b)(4) of the Communications Act? No
Facility ID 128222
City New York
LPD Channel 29
Structure Type BMAST-Building with MAST/ANTENNA on top
Ground Elevation (AMSL) 9.4 meters
Height of Radiation Center Above Ground Level 265.60 meters
Height of Radiation Center Above Mean Sea Level 275.00 meters
Effective Radiated Power 2.56 kW
Model TUM-LP- C2-2/4M-1 OS
Rotation 265 degrees
Electrical Beam Tilt Not Applicable
Polarization Elliptical
Elevation Radiation Pattern
Out-of-Channel Emission Mask: Full Service
It will operate on the DTV channel for this station as established in the post-incentive auction channel reassignment public notice.
It will operate post-incentive auction facilities that do not expand the noise-limited service contour in any direction beyond that established by the post-incentive auction channel reassignment public notice.
It will operate post-incentive auction facilities that match or reduce by no more than five percent with respect to predicted population from those defined in the post-incentive auction channel reassignment public notice.
The antenna structure to be used by this facility has been registered by the Commission and will not require re-registration to support the proposed antenna, OR the FAA has previously determined that the proposed structure will not adversely affect safety in air navigation and this structure qualifies for later registration under the Commission's phased registration plan, OR the proposed installation on this structure does not require notification to the FAA pursuant to 47 C.F.R. Section 17.7.
The proposed facility complies with all of the following applicable rule sections. 47 C.F.R. Sections 74.709, 74.793(e), 74.793(f), 74.793(g), 74.793(h) Yes
If the application is being submitted to obtain a construction permit for which the applicant was the winning bidder in an auction, then the applicant certifies, pursuant to 47 C.F.R. Section 73.5005(a), that it has attached an exhibit containing the information required by 47 C.F.R. Sections 1.2107(d), 1.2110(i), 1.2112(a) and 1.2112(b), if applicable. N/A
Rebroadcast Certification
(For Applicants proposing rebroadcasts that are not the licensee of the primary station) Applicant certifies that written authority has been obtained from the licensee of the station whose programs are to be retransmitted. N/A
Engineering Statement.pdf Applicant Technical Certifications Engineering Statement
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(REFERENCE COPY - Not for submission) Children's Television Programming Report
CPR-139246
W21CK-D
Digital Class A
Children's TV Programming Report
Current Step is General Information
Children's Television Information
Digital Core Programming
Digital Core Programming Summary
Non-Core Educational and Informational Programming
Sponsored Core Programming
Liaison Contact
Report reflects information for : First Quarter of 2013
Are attachments (other than associated schedules) being filed with this application?
Station Type
Station Type Network Affiliation
Affiliated network 3ABN
Nielsen DMA Charlotte
Web Home Page Address WWW.3ABN.ORG
State the average number of hours of Core Programming per week broadcast by the station on its main program stream 10.0
State the average number of hours per week of free over-the-air digital video programming broadcast by the station on other than its main program stream 121.0
State the average number of hours per week of Core Programming broadcast by the station on other than its main program stream. See 47 C.F.R. Section 73.671: 10.0
Does the Licensee provide information identifying each Core Program aired on its station, including an indication of the target child audience, to publishers of program guides as required by 47 C.F.R. Section 73.673? Yes
Does the Licensee certify that at least 50% of the Core Programming counted toward meeting the additional programming guideline (applied to free video programming aired on other than the main Yes No program stream) did not consist of program episodes that had already aired within the previous seven days either on the station's main program stream or on another of the station's free digital program streams? Yes
Digital Core Programs(3)
Digital Core Program (1 of 3)
Program Title KID'S TIME
Origination Network
Days/Times Program Regularly Scheduled Jan, Feb, March: Sun 7:00 am, Mon - Fri 4:30 pm, Sat 7:30 am & 5:30 pm
Total times aired at regularly scheduled time 102
Total times aired
Number of Preemptions 0
Number of Preemptions for other than Breaking News
Number of Preemptions Rescheduled
Length of Program 30 mins
Age of Target Child Audience 5 years to 10 years
Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. This program teaches family values, life morals,relationships,respect for man and animals and much more through Bible stories, music, cooking, and curious animals.
Does the Licensee identify the program by displaying throughout the program the symbol E/I? Yes
Program Title KID'S TIME PRAISE
Days/Times Program Regularly Scheduled JAN, FEB, MARCH: Tuesday 5:00 p.m., Sat: 7:00 a.m. & 5:00 p.m.
Total times aired at regularly scheduled time 39
Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. Christian music performed by children.
Program Title TINY TOTS FOR JESUS
Days/Times Program Regularly Scheduled Jan, Feb, March:Sun 2:30 pm, Mon - Fri 4:00 pm, Sat 6:30 am & 5:30 pm
Age of Target Child Audience 2 years to 4 years
Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. It's music and farmers, animals and gardens, stories, and fun for the little ones with the colorful set and loveable characters.
Non-Core Educational and Informational Programming (0)
Sponsored Core Programming (0)
Does the Licensee publicize the existence and location of the station's Children's Television Programming Reports (FCC 398) as required by 47 C.F.R. Section 73.3526(e)(11)(iii)? Yes
Name of children's programming liaison CINDY CLARK
City WEST FRANKFORT
Zip 62896
Telephone Number 618-627-4651 X 3083
Include any other comments or information you want the Commission to consider in evaluating your compliance with the Children's Television Act (or use this space for supplemental explanations). This may include information on any other noncore educational and informational programming that you aired this quarter or plan to air during the next quarter, or any existing or proposed non-broadcast efforts that will enhance the educational and informational value of such programming to children. See 47 C.F.R. Section 73.671, NOTES 2 and 3.
Other Matters (3)
Other Matters (1 of 3)
Days/Times Program Regularly Scheduled Jan, Feb, March: TueSDAY 5:00 p.m., Sat 7:00 a.m. & 5:00 p.m.
Age of Target Child Audience from 5 years to 10 years
Days/Times Program Regularly Scheduled Jan, Feb, March: Sun 7:00 a.m., Mon - Fri 4:30 p.m., Sat 7:30 a.m. & 4:30 p.m.
Days/Times Program Regularly Scheduled Jan, Feb, March: Sun 2:30 p.m., MON - FRI 4:00 p.m., SAT: 6:30 a.m. & 5:30 p.m.
Age of Target Child Audience from 2 years to 4 years
The undersigned certifies that he or she is (a) the party filing the Children's Television Programming, or an officer, director, member, partner, trustee, authorized employee, or other individual or duly elected or appointed official who is authorized to sign on behalf of the party filing the Children's Television Programming; or (b) an attorney qualified to practice before the Commission under 47 C.F.R. Section 1.23(a), who is authorized to represent the party filing the Children's Television Programming, and who further certifies that he or she has read the document; that to the best of his or her knowledge, information,and belief there is good ground to support it; and that it is not interposed for delay.
I certify that this application includes all required and relevant attachments.
THREE ANGELS BROADCASTING NETWORK, INC.
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Volunteering in Zimbabwe - Mavuradonha Wilderness Horse Safari
A Canadian horsewoman travels Zimbabwe to explore culture, history and the Mavuradonha Wilderness on horseback!
by Oriane Lee Johnston
photos by Nico Gnecci-Ruscone, Varden Safaris and Tore Ballance
I’d had some trepidation about the prospect of two months in Zimbabwe, Africa. True, I’d been there the previous year on a wildlife safari in Hwange National Park and on horseback no less-- quite a novelty for a rider like me from western Canada. That incredible week in the wild called me back to that part of Africa.
I had found an opening in the F.E.E.T. project, “Field Eco-Equestrian Traveler” (including the Trek option for non-riders), a joint venture of Varden Safaris with Horses-in-Africa. It was an invitation to explore and document the “cultural landscape” of Zimbabwe’s northern bush wilderness on horseback. I had said yes. In the meantime, I’d stayed glued to Zim internet news and read several memoirs by Zimbabweans living abroad that made my hair stand on end, yet strengthened my resolve to go.
The Mavuradonha Wilderness in Zimbabwe is remote and not frequently trafficked by tourists. The only way to get around the Mavuradonha mountain range is on horseback or foot.
What I found on the ground as a foreign visitor in the country was quite contrary to perspectives from overseas. Zimbabwe is safe and hospitable for travelers with an itinerary or a plan. Since the conversion to foreign currency in 2009, Euros, U.S. dollars and South African Rand are all accepted and have brought the economy out of the desperation that spiked in 2008. Out on the street in downtown Harare, in villages with locals and in bush camp, I experienced no trace of the interracial tension evident in the neighboring country to the south. From my own perspective, the Zimbabwean Shona people with whom I spent time revealed a cultural nature that is inclusive, humble and open.
The white Zimbabweans with whom I crossed paths ranged from safari outfitters with gorgeous camps ready for guests, to self-proclaimed racist former farmers, to successful entrepreneurs, optimistic conservationists and a generation of integrated young adults working toward justice and sustainability on all fronts. The journey became in part, an education in social and cultural identity, including deep reflection into my own identity and ancestral history as a Canadian North American. It helps to have an open curious mind, so I stopped trying to make definitive sense of what I came across in Zimbabwe, and instead regarded everyone, every place and every occurrence as elements in a colorful, unfathomable, multi-dimensional collage.
An afternoon canter in Zimbabwe with Varden Safaris.
Into the Mavuradonha Wilderness
Welcome to Mavuradonha Wilderness, “Place of Falling Water” in the Shona language, one of the last intact pristine wilderness areas remaining in the country. Six hundred square kilometers (approximately 232 square miles) of savannah woodland in north central Zimbabwe, bordered by the Zambezi escarpment and river valley to the north, giving way to Cabora Bassa and Mozambique toward the horizon.
A privately run wildlife conservation area, the Mavuradonha site is home to many endangered species including African Wild Cat, Serval, Civet, Pangolin, Aardwolf, Southern African Hedgehog, and Genet.
Something about saying “Zambezi Escarpment” brings a thrill to my North American heart. I arrive on horseback into Varden Safaris’ Mavuradonha camp, base for the F.E.E.T. Project. The ride is a stunning initiation into a spirit-filled region unspoiled by transplanted villagers, deforestation, or safari vehicle roads. This is quite simply one of the most gorgeous places on earth in which I’ve had the privilege to feel at home. A place of open flat grassland called vlei, steep hilly terrain, monumental rock faces, waterfalls, river crossings, and wildlife salt pans.
Mineral mining operations, however, are a hair’s breadth away from the protected area’s boundary. I walk over that stripped raw land and witness heartless tragedy; trees bulldozed into the Tingwa River bed, a convenient burning ditch, no mind paid to disruption of water to wildlife and village compounds downstream. The red earth literally sparkles everywhere like sunlight on snow, evidence of the mineral treasure below. Trespassing multinational prospectors have been run off the Raffia Palms Botanical Reserve.
I was about to be immersed in another world – riding into the intrigue and mystery of this part of Africa, behind the scenes in a place unique on earth. The ancestral history of the people who live here and the integrity of their way of life on the land right now depend on preservation of wildlife and wild places, true everywhere I know.
The Mavuradonha Wilderness has been unpopulated since the Bushman and Monomatapa Empires.
“Cultural Landscape” is a new and fascinating term to me, a designation assigned by the department of National Monuments & Museums of Zimbabwe. This term defines a marriage of natural history and archaeology with anthropology, sacred sites, routes and traditions. Marvin Mutangara and Douglas Chinhamo are in their mid 30’s and savvy about the realities of sustaining a Cultural Landscape in the 21st Century. The Mavuradonha region is their ancestral homeland. These two Shona horsemen are my guides. Marvin is the F.E.E.T. project director and a world traveller. Douglas is the lead horse handler and bush tracker, rooted here in his family and community.
The horses are guides too, in their own way. Surefooted and trained for the bush, some high-spirited and some more down to earth, their instincts were honed in partnership with the humans who care for them. Each has encountered the wild animals of Africa, and I entrust myself wholly to their willing and stable carriage. It is a pleasure to be involved in their daily grooming and feeding.
One of the older horse handlers has shown me how to make plied rope with strips of inner bark from the Maputi tree. A necklace of sorts takes shape in my hands; from a circle of slender rope hangs a six inch porcupine quill, similarly sized guinea fowl feathers, various leaves, red stones and dried flowers -- all found on the ground and beautiful constellated together in this way. Ever cautious about misappropriation, I have asked Douglas if I may offer it as an emblem of my respect for nature, the spirit of this place and the privilege of being here.
Sundown at the Siya Lima Homestead, a farmhouse where guests may stay while on safari.
Tucking it into the pocket of the saddle blanket, we ride to his home village in the expanse of communal land alongside Mavuradonha. His wife is expecting me. Douglas explains to her the significance of the necklace, asking her to show it to her friends as evidence of the value of the land and animals and their unadulterated way of life in the eyes of visitors. His point is that the women will then tell their husbands to take care that no trees are cut down for firewood or animals poached in the wilderness protected area, in what is an unusual gender influence.
Wildlife, Rock Art and Spirits in Africa
The prospect of encountering wildlife on horseback brings an element of mystery and thrill to riding here. Sightings vary from season to season. We come across a resident herd of zebra regularly, a number of traversing elephants, some exotic native snakes, hyena spoor, stories of recent lion activity, and always monkeys entertaining us in the trees. The Varden’s main enterprise is their legendary week-long horseback safaris exploring the wilderness, either day excursions from Kopje Tops base or camping expeditions further afield in the stunning and diverse African landscape.
Early July brings new visitors to camp. The Chief Curator of National Museums & Monuments comes up to Mavuradonha from Harare, capitol city of Zimbabwe, along with the Senior Archaeologist and Chief Information Officer. I see rock paintings of zebra and kudu, trance dancing and elephant hunting. I see a whole rock face covered with ochre and brown handprints, behind which are faintly visible images of indigenous life ten thousand years ago -- human handprints, here, in a place of origin. We are standing before a portal, a rock surface where spirit mediums communicated with the unseen world. It is a place of spiritual power drawing humans in succeeding millennia to place their own handprints, “plugging in” so to speak. It makes sense to me. On a horseback safari in Hwange last year, I felt for myself the subtle raw energy of the natural physical world that infuses the body and brain with time in the wilderness.
Rock art in the Mavuradonha Wilderness, which is part of Zimbabwe’s successful CAMPFIRE project set up to ensure that the local community gains direct benefit from tourism in their area and therefore recognise the value of wildlife.
It is enthralling to learn firsthand that Zimbabwe has the highest concentration of rock art on the planet. Only twenty-five percent of it is explored or documented. Now Mavuradonha Wilderness is on a fast-track to becoming a UNESCO World Heritage site via a collaboration of the Horses-in-Africa project and Varden Safaris with National Museums & Monuments for this purpose. Once heritage status is formalized, the mission shifts to innovative ways, with zero impact on the Cultural Landscape, to uncover new knowledge in anthropology, archaeology, botany, ornithology and as yet unknown treasures in this wilderness preserve. As well, when protection is ensured, animal restoration can begin in earnest, supported by the “zero impact” principle, keeping the area accessible only by foot or on horseback.
Three Months in Zimbabwe
I end up staying in Zimbabwe for three months, including a side trip to the Chiredzi River Conservancy in the southern Lowveldt. The Vardens had taken an orphaned baby elephant there from Mavuradonha, to make her home with three rescued adults and a herd of ten horses. Each morning of my two-week stay, we ride the elephants from their nighttime paddock out to the daytime grazing grounds. I sit astride Chitora just in front of her shoulders with her huge ears blanketing my legs. The rhythm of her slow momentous gait remains in my body long after I say good-bye to her.
The author riding elephants in Zimbabwe with Heather Brand and Theresa Warth.
Returning to Mavuradonha, it is only toward the end of my stay that it dawns on me I’d been the sole foreigner most of the time, and a mid-life white woman at that, riding with Shona horsemen, eating sadza by the cooking fire and sitting in sacred places on the land. Neo-tribal, Marvin calls it, such was the sense of inclusion and involvement in the mission of ethical custodianship. The welcome mat is out for anyone with a sincere desire to ensure that Mavuradonha remains a self-sustaining cultural landscape; our being there acknowledges the value and brings revenue to the cause. This is one place where I feel that my presence contributed to its integrity rather than detracted from it, and does not commodify the natural order of things.
Watch Oriane's photo montage from her experience as a volunteer in Zimbabwe and on a horse safari.
Passing through Harare between forays into the wilderness, the perfect guest house welcomes me each time I reappear. The Borrowdale Country Manor, on the outskirts of town, is a secure, comfortable, modestly priced sanctuary with quiet location and restful gardens. There is a private stable and riding arena on the grounds. It is beautiful to watch the horses training on the jumps in the pasture. I will be back again next year, planning my visit around H.I.F.A., the acclaimed Harare International Festival of the Arts – yet another reason for returning to Zimbabwe.
Resources to Learn More:
Varden Safaris in Zimbabwe.
Harare International Festival of the Arts
Borrowdale Country Manor
About the author: Oriane Lee Johnston
Born and based on the west coast of British Columbia, Canada, Oriane Lee Johnston's journeys have taken her from meditating in a Buddhist monastery in Burma, to trail riding in the mountains of Ecuador. Her work with horses and humans blends Natural Horsemanship with Equine Guided Learning and Leadership. She has found that working with horses liberates the imagination – leading her to Africa in 2010, first to Mozambique Horse Safari, then to a wildlife safari on horseback, and most recently to the Horses-in-Africa F.E.E.T. project in the Mavuradonha Wilderness of Zimbabwe. www.orianelee.com
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Trish’s 10 Most Listened to Albums of 2019
By Phjoshua @thereviewsarein
Albums. A collection of songs released together, often having a theme.
The theme of this post is my favourite albums, or at the very least, my most played albums. The list includes four Canadian albums (three Canadian bands), four American albums, one UK band, and one Irish band. There's a lot of rock, some straight-up pop and each of these have the "play from beginning to end" factor.
I'm going to give you my top 10, based off this year's Spotify Top 100.
*listed alphabetically
There are no individual artists on this list. Hmmm, interesting.
Most Played Track: Hand Me Downs
Notes: Rally Cry, the album that just keeps on giving. The CD is starting to wear out in my car, the vinyl sits in the most played pile of records at home, and Hand Me Downs sits at number sixteen on my top 100 played songs for 2019. Arkells Sparkle in Toronto on a Rally Cry Summer Night
Most Played Track: ChancesPerhaps one of the biggest surprises of the year, DNA holds the most spots in my Top 10 for 2019. Incredible production, fantastic lyrics, not a single song to skip, this collection led to my push to see BSB in Vegas. Worth every moment spent listening. New Music Spotlight with Backstreet Boys
Most Played Track: Notes: I was hooked from the very first listen. The Balance was my go-to for walks to the beach, the beach and background while I worked. Full of amazing tracks, I would wake up with a different track in my head each morning. Indelible is the word that comes to mind. Catfish and the Bottlemen - The Balance Album Review
Most Played Track: Panic Attack I didn't think I could love a The Glorious Sons album more than Young Beauties and Fools. A War On Everything proved me wrong. Panic Attack to Pink Motel, this record provides honest lyrics, a wide range of style, inspirational stories, and hooks that'll stick in your head. I've had this one in my car's CD player since release day, and it's not going anywhere soon. The Glorious Sons Announce A War On Everything Tour
Most Played Track: My Poor HeartFrom the opening note of My Poor Heart to the final, " thank you for saying goodbye", this record speaks to my soul. Upbeat tracks, rip your heart out stories, and everything in between. I'd been listening online but was happy to pick up a copy of the vinyl at the release party for A War On Everything. New Music Spotlight with The Glorious Sons and More
Tracks: Dreams, Not Your Lover, Quicksand, All in All, Heaven I was surprised to see these songs hit the top 100. Not because they're not amazing, because they are. But I didn't start listening to this band until the end of October after receiving a request to cover their show in Toronto. Hermitage Green has a beautiful tone. They tell interesting, relateable stories, their musicianship and stage presence is excellent, and I'm hooked. I have a feeling if this show had been in January, these songs would all be sitting in the top 10.
On December 6th, they released a new track, By The Glow of the Kerosene Light. They performed this one acoustically, in the middle of the Mod Club. It was goosebump and teary eye time. If you haven't heard of them, I implore you to check them out. You won't be sorry.
Hermitage Green at Toronto's The Mod Club
Most Played Track: SuckerThis CD arrived in late July, went straight into the car player, and stayed there until September 13th, the day A War On Everything was released. I wasn't a Jonas Brothers fan from the beginning. They didn't really hit my radar until after they split. DNCE's Cake By The Ocean was my go-to song if I needed my spirits lifted. Nick Jonas' Jealous was everywhere in 2015, impossible to ignore. Grown-up Jonas Brothers are more my speed. When news of the reunion announcement got out, and then the album, I hopped on the bandwagon.
All in there are 19 Jonas songs in my top 100, including the number one spot. Every song on Happiness Begins appears. It's pure pop. It does exactly what it's supposed to. It makes me want to sing and dance. Mission accomplished Jonas Brothers. New Music Spotlight with The Jonas Brothers
Most Played Track: Real LoveYear two for this album. I love this album and this band, and I'm excited for what's coming. They've been in the studio and new music from MONOWHALES is imminent. MONOWHALES Canadian Tour
Most Played Track: She's KeroseneTwo of the twelve tracks made my top 100 Spotify songs, She's Kerosene, and Gave You Everything. This album is a banger. This band is badass and needs to be seen live. There's no pop here. It's punk with a beautiful hint of ska. Expect to move when listening. Aimee's voice is deep, dark and divine. The boys rock and help keep the energy levels up. The Interrupters at 102.1 The Edge - Sugar Beach Sessions
Most Played Track: RenegadesX Ambassadors released their first single, BOOM, in January. It's catchy as fuck. The opening bassline is super funky. In mid-April, they followed it up with HEY CHILD, and then HOLD YOU DOWN, on May 31st. The full album was released on June 14th. The band continues their world tour for this album. It's a sexy record, and you should listen to it.X Ambassadors Orion Tour
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NetDragon Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2016 Financial Results
NetDragon Websoft Holdings Limited
- FY2016 revenue doubled fuelled by robust growth momentum in games and education business
- Multi-pronged strategy in user scaling gaining traction
HONG KONG, March 23, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- NetDragon Websoft Holdings Limited ("NetDragon" or the "Company"; Hong Kong Stock Code: 777), a global leader in building internet communities, today announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and Fiscal Year 2016. NetDragon's management team will hold a conference call and webcast at 6:30 p.m. Hong Kong time on March 23 to discuss the results and recent business developments.
Mr. Dejian Liu, Chairman of NetDragon, commented: "I am delighted that NetDragon delivered strong results for the fiscal year 2016 by continuing with our focus on building online communities. The Company recorded a 119.5% increase in its revenue to RMB2,793.1 million. Of which, our gaming revenue was RMB1,210.0 million, increased by 22.8%, driven by the robust momentum of our flagship game Eudemon Online and more than doubling of our mobile gaming revenue. Revenue from education business jumped by over five times to RMB1,526.3 million due to penetration of our products into the international markets via our Promethean acquisition, as well as acceleration of our product commercialization in China. Our achievements in 2016 are recognized by the capital market, as evidenced by our stock being included in the Hang Seng Large-Cap & Mid-Cap Index, Shenzhen-Hong Kong Stock Connect and Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect."
"In 2016, the Company also focused on investing and strengthening our technology capabilities. Our AR and VR technologies have enabled us to enhance our content development in both gaming and education products. With these technologies, both of our gaming and education platforms are becoming uniquely attractive to our users and were able to maintain a high level of user engagement."
"In the coming year, NetDragon targets to achieve major growth in both our gaming and education business. Our gaming business is expected to grow on the back of our push into mobile gaming and a strong pipeline of new games to be launched this year that leverage our proven IPs and technologies. For our education business, we will focus on gaining traction in revenue growth, user scaling and user engagement. In particular, part of our multi-pronged strategy in scaling up users is to work closely with the education authorities both in China and around the world. In December, we signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement with the Education Department of Fujian Province to co-develop a provincial-wide e-learning platform that will integrate 101 Education PPT and the whole suite of our education products. We expect such partnership to drive provincial-wide user adoption and will serve as a reference case for other major provinces. In the international markets, we also recently announced a new educational technology partnership with the City of Moscow -- this marks our first major step in tapping into the emerging markets to expand our global footprints. We will be announcing more partnership with similar models both in China and in the emerging markets later this year. Last not but least, we target to achieve operating profitability in 2017 as a group."
2016 Q4 Financial Highlights
Revenue was RMB740.0 million, representing a 47.8% increase year-over-year.
Revenue from the games business was RMB342.7 million, representing 46.3% of the Group's total revenue, registered a 21.0% increase year-over-year.
Revenue from the education business was RMB374.0 million, representing 50.5% of the Group's total revenue, registered a 78.3% increase year-over-year.
Gross profit was RMB421.0 million, representing a 34.8% increase year-over-year.
Core segmental profit[1] from the games business was RMB97.9 million, representing an 8.7% increase year-over-year.
Core segmental loss[1] from the education business was RMB157.7 million, representing a 33.8% increase year-over-year.
Non-GAAP[2] operating loss was RMB67.2 million.
Net Loss attributable to owners of the Company was RMB94.4 million.
Fiscal Year 2016 Financial Highlights
Revenue was RMB2.79 billion, representing a 119.5% increase year-over-year.
Revenue from the games business was RMB1.21 billion, representing 43.3% of the Group's total revenue, registered a 22.8% increase year-over-year.
Revenue from the education business was RMB1.53 billion, representing 54.6% of the Group's total revenue, registered nearly a 5.3 times increase year-over-year.
Gross profit was RMB1.59 billion, representing a 66.0% increase year-over-year.
Core segmental profit[1] from the games business was RMB371.7 million, representing a 43.2% increase year-over-year.
Non-GAAP[2] operating loss was RMB239.8 million, mainly attributable to continued investment in education business.
Net loss attributable to owners of the Company was RMB202.7million.
The Board of Directors proposed a final dividend of HK$0.10 per share, subject to approval by shareholders at the coming Annual General Meeting.
2016 Q4 Gaming Operational Metrics
Monthly average revenue per user ("ARPU") for online and mobile games was approximately RMB369, a 28.6% increase year-over-year.[3]
Average Concurrent Users ("ACU") for online and mobile games was approximately 336,000, a 3.7% increase year-over-year.[3]
Peak Concurrent Users ("PCU") for online and mobile games was approximately 740,000, a 3.5% decrease year-over-year.[3]
Segmental Financial Highlights
FY2016Q4
(RMB '000)
(Restated)
Education(Restated)
Core Segmental Profit (Loss) [1]
Segmental Operating Expenses [4]
- Research and development
- Selling and marketing
[1] Core segmental profit (loss) figures are derived from the Company's reported segmental profit (loss) figures (presented in accordance with HKFRS 8) but exclude non-core/operating, non-recurring or unallocated items including government grants, fair value change and finance cost of financial instruments, fair value change of convertible preferred shares, the extraordinary provision in relation to Activwall and impairment loss of plant and equipment due to the closure of a PRC factory.
[4] Segmental operating expenses exclude unallocated expenses/income such as depreciation, amortization and exchange gain (loss) that have been grouped into SG&A categories on the Company's reported consolidated financial statements but cannot be allocated to specific business segments for purpose of calculating the segmental profit (loss) figures in accordance with HKFRS 8
Full Year 2016
Games Business
During the fourth quarter of 2016, the Company's games business recorded a strong 21.0% year-over-year increase in its revenue at RMB342.7 million, and core segmental profit at RMB97.9 million, an 8.7% increase year-over-year. The solid performance was mainly driven by Eudemons Online PC and pocket version, both of which have reached a record high monthly gross revenue in December 2016 with enhanced ARPU.
On a full year basis, revenue from the games business increased 22.8% to RMB1,210.0 million in FY2016, with core segmental profit at RMB371.7 million, an increase of 43.2% over the prior year. During the year, leveraging on the growth trajectory of the mobile gaming space, NetDragon has pushed forward heavily on the marketing and development effort of our mobile games. Revenue of mobile game business for FY2016 more than doubled compared to the year before. In addition, the Company continued to leverage on the strong titles of its flagship games, in particular with Heroes Evolved (formerly known as "Calibur of Spirit") and Eudemons Online, by launching new expansion packs coupled with marketing events to drive the growth momentum.
Eudemons Online has gained increasing traction and popularity in the market, as evidenced by a solid year with a combined revenue increase of 31.0% from its PC and pocket version. The new PC expansion pack launched in October with new game-play features has pushed its gross monthly revenue to a record high level in December. Riding on the success of the PC version, Eudemons Online pocket version has also closed out with a fruitful year -- the new expansion pack launched in December, with new feature that aims to strengthen user loyalty and promote online interactions has successfully attracted a significant user traffic. Looking forward, the Company will continue to launch content updates for both its PC and pocket version to further the popularity of Eudemons Online in 2017.
The Company's other flagship game, Heroes Evolved, also experienced a solid year underpinned by its continuous improvement in new game-play features and monetization schemes. The long awaited pocket version of the game has also been successfully launched in English and simplified Chinese in December on Android platform and also in simplified Chinese on IOS platform earlier this year. The feedback from the market is extremely positive, and the game was recognized as "the top downloaded mobile game" on Tencent Open Platform in January 2017. The Company has planned two new games leveraging the technologies and title of Heroes Evolved to be launched in 2017, which would further the user base and revenue ramp-up.
Looking forward, the Company is confident that the games business will continue its robust growth driven by a strong pipeline it has built and the long-term growth strategy through leveraging proprietary gaming IPs and self-owned technologies, as well as making a major push into mobile gaming. The Company is on track to release at least 5 new games in 2017. Included in the pipeline is also a number of mobile games which is expected to drive the Company mobile gaming revenue to a new level in 2017. The Company will also continue to explore and develop new games with VR and AR technologies, on top of the existing VR Tiger Knight, which has had received very positive feedback in the market.
Education Business
For the fourth quarter of 2016, revenue from the education business was RMB374.0 million, a 78.3% increase year-over-year. On a pro-forma basis, our international education business registered a 36.8% increase year-over-year in revenue to RMB 289.4 million, reflecting a strong finish to the year. On the other hand, the domestic education business continued to gain traction for the quarter as it recorded a revenue at RMB84.6 million, a 52.5% over the third quarter.
2016 marks the full year integration of Promethean, our international education subsidiary, which contributed to a 5.3 times increase in FY2016 revenue from the education business to RMB1,526.3 million. On a pro-forma basis, revenue from our international business increased by 31.7% to RMB1,345.5 million, reflecting the strong demand for our international education products most notably in the US and UK. The Company has also achieved significant cost rationalization and a more streamlined operations for our international education business during the year. The management targets to achieve overall profitability of the international education business for the full year 2017.
The Company is also gaining exciting traction in the emerging markets. In March 2017, the Company has announced a new technology partnership with the City of Moscow where over 14,500 educators throughout Moscow will be able to engage with students using Promethean interactive flat panel display. This partnership illustrates the Company's traction in capitalizing on the Belt and Road Initiative.
The Company has seen significant progress in our user scaling and user engagement activities. The user number of ClassFlow™, our flagship cloud-based interactive K-12 (Kindergarten-to-Grade 12) software for the international market, has increased to over 2.6 million at the end of 2016 (including 1.7 million teachers).
In the domestic market, our plan is to pursue a multi-pronged strategy in scaling up users in China including (1) forging close partnership with education authorities across the country (case in point being the strategic cooperation framework agreement with the Education Department of Fujian Province signed in December to drive provincial-wide adoption of our 101 products); (2) holding a series of nationwide educational events for teachers in major cities and provinces to drive teachers' usage; (3) partnering with education technology solutions companies with pre-existing K-12 distribution network to integrate our 101 products into their solutions; and (4) continuing to participate in education technology product tenders in schools across the country. On a worldwide basis including China, the number of total online users of our education platforms is expected to grow to over 10 million including over 3 million teachers in 2017.
Looking forward, the Company will continue to invest in the development of our products, and to apply VR and AR technologies to strengthen our users' learning experience. VR Editor has started its pilot-launch, and we are excited with the potential of this product based on the user feedback we have received so far. The Company's technologies are also getting increasing validation around the world. For example, NetDragon hosted the "2017 Workshop on Virtual Reality and Immersive Learning" at Harvard University in January to develop a road map that will use virtual reality to improve immersive learning techniques for students globally. Furthermore, we will be hosting a major learning event in Hong Kong on March 24, where world-renowned scientist Professor Stephen Hawking will be beamed from the UK, leveraging on our proprietary Humagram technology, to share his perspectives with university students.
Management Conference Call
NetDragon will host a management conference call with PowerPoint presentation and webcast to review its fourth quarter and annual results ended December 31, 2016 on March 23, 2017 at 6:30 p.m. Hong Kong time.
Details of the live conference call are as follows:
International Toll
US Toll Free
Hong Kong Toll Free
China Toll Free (for fixed line users)
China Toll Free (for mobile users)
NetDragon
A live and archived webcast of the conference call will be available on the Investor Relations section of NetDragon's website at http://www.netdragon.com/investor/ir-webcasts.shtml . Participants in the live webcast should visit the aforementioned website 10 minutes prior to the call, then click on the icon for "4Q and Fiscal Year 2016 Results Conference Call" and follow the registration instructions.
About NetDragon Websoft Holdings Limited
NetDragon Websoft Holdings Limited (HKSE: 0777) is a global leader in building internet communities. Established in 1999, NetDragon is a vertically integrated, cutting-edge R&D powerhouse with a highly successful track record which includes the development of flagship MMORPGs including Eudemons Online, Heroes Evolved (formerly known as Calibur of Spirit) and Conquer Online. The company also established China's number one online gaming portal, 17173.com, and China's most influential smartphone app store platform, 91 Wireless, which was sold to Baidu in 2013 in what was at the time the largest Internet M&A transaction in China. Being China's pioneer in overseas expansion, NetDragon also directly operates a number of game titles in over 10 languages internationally since 2003. In recent years, NetDragon has emerged as a major player in the global online and mobile learning space as it works to leverage its mobile Internet technologies and operational know-how to develop a game-changing learning ecosystem. For more information, please visit www.netdragon.com.
For investor enquiries, please contact:
Ms. Maggie Zhou
Senior Director of Investor Relations
Tel.: +852 2850 7266/ +86 591 8754 3120
Email: maggie@nd.com.cn; ndir@nd.com.cn
Website: www.nd.com.cn/ir
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF PROFIT OR LOSS AND OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
FOR THE QUARTER/YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2016
(Audited)
RMB '000
RMB '0000
Other income and gains
Selling and marketing expenses
Development costs
Other expenses and losses
Share of losses of associates
Provision for product impairment
Operating loss
Interest income on pledged bank deposit
Exchange loss on pledged bank deposits, secured
Net (gain) loss on convertible preferred shares
Net loss on other derivative financial instrument
Net gain on disposal of held-for-trading investments
Net (gain) loss on held-for-trading investments
Finance costs
Loss before taxation
Loss for the period/year
Other comprehensive (expense) income for the
period/year, net of
Item that will not be reclassified subsequently to profit or
loss:
Gain on revaluation of properties
Items that may be reclassified subsequently to profit or
Exchange differences arising on translation of foreign
Fair value loss on available-for-sale investment
Other comprehensive (expense) income for the period/year
Total comprehensive expense for the period/year
Loss for the period/year attributable to:
- Owners of the Company
- Non-controlling interests
Total comprehensive expense attributable to:
RMB cents
Loss per share
- Diluted
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION
AS AT 31December 2016
RMB'000
Non-current assets
Prepaid lease payments
Interests in associates
Available-for-sale investments
Loan receivables
Trade receivables
Deposits made for acquisition of property, plant
and equipment
Deferred tax assets
Properties under development
Amounts due from customers for contract work
Other receivables, prepayments and deposits
Amount due from a related company
Amounts due from associates
Tax recoverable
Held-for-trading investment
Pledged bank deposit
Bank balances and cash
Assets classified as held for sale
Trade and other payables
Amounts due to customers for contract work
Deferred income
Amount due to a related company
Amounts due to associates
Convertible preferred shares
Secured bank borrowings
Income tax payable
Net current assets
Total assets less current liabilities
Non-current liabilities
Other payables
Capital and reserves
Share premium and reserves
Equity attributable to owners of the Company
Non-controlling interests
Core segmental profit (loss) figures are derived from the Company's reported segmental profit (loss) figures (presented in accordance with HKFRS 8) but exclude non-core/operating, non-recurring or unallocated items including government grants, fair value change and finance cost of financial instruments, fair value change of convertible preferred shares, the extraordinary provision in relation to Activwall and impairment loss of plant and equipment due to the closure of a PRC factory.
To supplement the consolidated results of the Group prepared in accordance with Hong Kong Financial Reporting Standards ("HKFRSs"), the use of non-GAAP operating loss measures is provided solely to enhance the overall understanding of the Group's current financial performance. The non-GAAP operating loss measure is not expressly permitted measure under HKFRSs and may not be comparable to similarly titled measure for other companies. The non-GAAP operating loss of the Group excludes share-based payments expense, amortisation of intangible assets arising on acquisition of subsidiaries, fair value change of remeasurement of previously held equity interest in an associate upon acquisition impairment of property, plant and equipment and the extraordinary provision in relation to Activwall.
As mobile games are becoming a more integral component of our company's revenue, the Company will be adding mobile gaming operational data in the calculation going forward.
Segmental operating expenses exclude unallocated expenses/income such as depreciation, amortization and exchange gain (loss) that have been grouped into SG&A categories on the Company's reported consolidated financial statements but cannot be allocated to specific business segments for purpose of calculating the segmental profit (loss) figures in accordance with HKFRS 8
Source: NetDragon Websoft Holdings Limited
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WSC challenges unions strike votes
LocalApril 23, 2019April 23, 2019 at 4:37 am Royston Jones Jr.
NASSAU, BAHAMAS – Challenging the legitimacy of both strike votes taken by the line staff and managerial unions at the Water and Sewerage Corporation (WSC) last week, the WSC board said it has advised the general manager and the counsel of the corporation to file a trade dispute.
In a 10-page letter, board members said the industrial agreements between the corporation and both unions govern all parties and those agreements “cannot be dropped and picked up when convenient”.
The overwhelming majority of line staff and managers at WSC, who took part in a strike vote last Wednesday, opted to strike.
Director of Labour John Pinder advised that based on preliminary results, 106 line staff workers voted to strike and 29 voted against it.
Meanwhile, 21 managers opted to strike while 14 decided not to strike.
The Bahamas Utilities Services and Allied Workers Union (BUSAWU) has 318 members, according to officials.
The Water and Sewerage Management Union (WSMU) has 62 members.
According to the board, the results reflected that 32 percent of the WSMU voted to strike, while nearly 34 percent of the BUSAWU voted to strike.
It said, “The Industrial Relations Act states that a representational count must be taken in such actions and no less than sixty per centum of employees (two-thirds) in the bargaining unit must vote in favour.
It continued, “On the face of it, the strike poll appears to have been a joint effort on the part of the presidents of the non-management union and the management union to call a strike poll in furtherance of a trade dispute between employers and employees, with the ultimate objective being further upheaval.
“No effort has been made to speak to the EXCOM (executive committee), the Board, the minister or the Department of Labour.
“These matters are all disingenuously aired out in press statements, which is representative of a total abuse of the grievance process.
“Given the same, we have urged the general ganager and WSC counsel to file yet another trade dispute on WSC’s behalf.”
The board said as of Tuesday, the corporation had not received formal confirmation of approval of the strike poll, and was only advised late that evening by the Department of Labour that the vote had been approved.
“There have been concerns expressed about voting irregularities, ranging from former president’s changing of the time of the voting period from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. to persons seeking to prohibit the board’s secretary — who is a manager — from voting,” the board said.
The board charged that BUSAWU President Dwayne Woods has been disruptive since his administrative leave was terminated and he was instructed to return to work.
It noted that his salary was stopped last month for failure to report to work after a reported eight years of enjoying administrative leave, which the board said was discretionary.
The board asserted that the recent actions of the union is directly linked.
“President Woods’ words and his actions must begin to align, otherwise the same might appear duplicitous,” the letter read.
“The development of a relationship that is necessary to advance interest of the corporation and his union would require honesty, trust and transparency.
“It would require the demonstration of a sincere and respectful effort to establish a harmonious environment as opposed to disruption.
“As the old saying goes, one cannot be fish and fowl at the same time.”
The board encouraged WSMU President Ednel Rolle and Woods to speak directly with the corporation as opposed to “promoting a charade in the media”.
“Moreover, we encourage them (or any successor) to abide by the five step grievance in the media,” the letter read.
“No part of that process speaks to issuing unproductive, untrue and/or defamatory media statements.
“There are much more important corporate-wide goals for both unions to collaborate on that are far more important [than] seeking to have the executive chairman and the board dismissed.
“We note that Mr. Rolle has taken an unreasonable and untenable position relative to the impending industrial agreement.
The board said there has been little movement on the agreement for six years and the views of the union’s leadership appear unchanged.
The board said it has referred the matter to Minister of Public Works Desmond Bannister, the Office of the Attorney General and the Office of the Prime Minister.
According to Rolle, the WSMU’s 2013 industrial agreement expired in June 2018.
He claimed negotiations on a new agreement have yet to begin.
Earlier this month, the corporation suspended two employees, which prompted the union to withdraw its enthusiasm.
The board said during meetings with Director of Labour and the line-staff union, among other labour officials, the board presented video evidence which reportedly demonstrated one employee in question breaching company policy relating to an imported and unlicensed vehicle being parked on company property without permission.
As it relates to the second employee’s suspension, the board said the staff member was accused of operating a car rental business on the company’s property.
It said a decision was made not to fire the employee in good faith.
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It was a display of recycled products such as flower vases, dustbin packs, christmas tree, etc. put together by Exotic Green Gold Foundation, in collaboration with The Office of The Counsellor representing Ward K Amuwo Odofin LGA. The event, which marked the second anniversary of the foundation, was tagged, “Recycling, A viable option for sustainable environment”. It had in attendance, Hon Akinwumi Ogunshina, Counsellor, Ward K, Amuwo Odofin LGA, Ayodele Adewale, Former Chairman, Amuwo Odofin LGA, Mr. Taiwo Ade, of Recyclepoints, Nigeria, Mrs. Olaleye Jirinsola, representative of General Manager, LASPARIC, Members of Spinal chord injuries Association of Nigeria led by its Chairman, Mr. Obioha Onomogbu, a good number of residents, including men and women and persons living with disabilities.
National coordinator of Exotic Green Gold Foundation, Dr Chinyere Ogbonna, disclosed that the NGO was floated to correct the high level of ignorance of people towards the environment and also in honour of her late husband, Engr. Sam Bebo Ogbonna who is also known as “Mr. pick it up”, and trash properly. One who believed in the cleanliness and betterment of the environment, Hence, better environment better option, BEBO idealogy was adopted by the foundation.
According to her, many unfriendly behaviours have polluted the wnvironment, impoverished the soil, polluted the air and SEAS and endangered wildlife and marine species.
Dr. Ogbonna said the creative industry can be boosted, and sustainable development achieved through recycling. She explained that, “This foundation wants to show the general public through the colloquium on waste to wealth exhibition that our number one environmental nuisance< the nylons and plastic can be reused, creating worthwhile recycled products to generate income, serve as aesthetics and also make the environment cleaner.
“We want our youths to know that there are pounds and dollars in our streets which can be seen by few eyes. Again, in this country, there are few jobs but there are opportunities for work and self development through skill acquisition of which recycling is part.”
She said the event was in commemoration of 2018 world’s environment themed, “Beat plastic pollution.” In this regard, the foundation put more than 200 waste baskets in Festac Town, regretting that only a few were still available due to the unusual unfriendly environmental behaviours of the people.
She said the foundation had been given permission by the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) to organise the Public, Primary School Clean Environment Competition and is waiting on the local government to kick it off.
Speaking on the NGO’s 2019 plan, the author of “We and Our environment noted that, “We hope to improve the environment status of Spinal chord Centres in Amuwo Odofin with a donation of grass trimmers/mower, fumigation cans and pesticides, and adorn the premises with beautiful plants and flowers in the first quarter of 2019.”
“We want to also organize public lecture on better environment, better option. BEBO ideology come April she said.”
Chairman, House Committee on Legislative Matters in Amuwo-Odofin Local Government Area and the councillor representing Ward K in the local government, Adewumi Ogunshina, said the environment had become better since the new council chairman took over.
He explained that the former chairman, Comrade Ayodele Adewale, also did a lot on issues of the environment in the area during his tenure. He advised residents to operate under a cleaner environment and not dump refuse in unauthorised places.
The former chairman, Adewale, said the environment must be sustained. He admonished residents to work towards the preservation of the environment. “With a growing population of human beings on this planet, it requires a lot to keep it real, which involves felling of trees, cutting of grasses and other things.
Since there is no other planet that can provide for us like planet Earth, it means that we must try as much as possible not to hurt nature because, when you hurt nature, you are also hurting yourself.
“This is why we have programmes like this to make sure that people are aware of the dangers ahead, if we mismanage our environment.”
Adewale noted that one of the greatest dangers to the environment was littering the place with nylons and plastics.
According to him, nylons and plastics would not degrade, and it was better to use paper bags that were degradable than to use chemical products that do not degrade.
“And, more so, there are organisms or animals that will mistake them for food, such as tortoises, fish and what have you.
You can imagine if the fishes eat more of that, what would happen to humans that eat the fish? How do we balance the ecosystem? If we don’t take care of our environment, we are all dead.
Look at what is happening in some states of the country, where flood has sacked people from their homes. We must take care of the environment,” he said.
By Cruxnnovations Strat. for Exotic Green Gold Foundation
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2003 R 1h 32m DVD
A daft doctor concocts an offbeat scheme to make millions after he happens upon a method of turning cremated human remains into diamonds. But when the sawbones hires a pair of hapless thieves to collect the raw material, a string of calamities ensues in their insane efforts to pilfer the ashes of prominent and historic figures. Tippi Hedren, Bronson Pinchot, Richard Moll and Joan Van Ark head the cast in this inky morality yarn.
Bronson Pinchot, Tippi Hedren, Darin Heames, Leo Rossi, Richard Moll, Joan Van Ark, Joseph Ruskin, John Churchill, Tuesday Knight, Timothy McNeil
David Gaz, Annelie Wilder
Comedy, Dark Humor & Black Comedies
Full Screen 1.33:1
English: Dolby Digital 5.1
R - Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. Contains some adult material. Parents are urged to learn more about the film before taking their young children with them.
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Volume Six (DVD)
Ice on my fingers and my toes and I’m a Taurus.
“Hey, Eliza,” I said. “Check out what came in the mail today. It’s Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Volume Six on DVD.”
“It’s what?” she said.
“You know, Aqua Teen Hunger Force. It’s that show on Cartoon Network’s late night Adult Swim lineup. It’s about Master Shake, a talking milkshake, Frylock, a magical carton of French fries, and Meatwad, a clueless meatball, and all the crazy adventures they have. Oh, and their crude, disgusting neighbor Carl, too.”
“This is something you actually watch?”
“I promise, it’s really funny. You’ve got to check it out.”
Eliza rolled her eyes in that way that she always did whenever she wasn’t sure about something but about to try it anyway. She sat down on the couch next to me as I opened the package and took out the two-disc DVD set, containing 13 episodes that originally aired in early 2008.
Then, as the disc tray slid out of the player, the entire house rumbled as a voice boomed from the heavens.
“FOOLISH MORTAL! THOU KNOWEST NOT WHAT AWAITS THEE UPON VIEWING THIS DVD! WHEN THOU PRESSEST ‘PLAY,’ THE UNIVERSE SHALT REND APART AND THOU SHALT LOSE THY FRAGILE HOLD UPON ALL OF REALITY! VERILY, THOU HAST BEEN WARNED!!!”
“Huh,” I said. “That was different.” Then I put the DVD in the player.
“Oh, my God!” Eliza screamed. “Your hand!”
Somehow, impossibly, as the disc tray slid back into the player with the DVD, it had taken my right hand with it, so that my wrist was now a paper-thin tissue connecting my arm to my DVD player.
Now it was my turn to scream. “What’s happening?”
Panicking, Eliza picked up the remote and aimed it at me. “What do I do? What do I do?”
“Eject! Press eject!”
I felt a tingling sensation—not a pleasant one. Bluish-white streaks of pure electricity shot out of my arm, and continued until my entire body pulsed with popping lights.
“Oh, no!” Eliza said, tears forming. “Oh, I’m so sorry.”
“Sorry?” I asked, with miniature streaks of lightning spurting out of my mouth.
“I pressed ‘play’ by accident,” she whimpered. “I’m sorry.”
“What?!?” That was the last word I got out before I lost control of my senses. My vision blanked out, so that all I saw were the exploding white lights surrounding me. My skin lost all feeling and my hearing was drowned out by the crackling, thunderous energy. For a few seconds, I thought I heard a deep voice laughing at me, and I thought I saw a hand reaching out to me through the chaos. I wanted to reach toward it, but couldn’t.
After that, everything went black.
“Is he alive? Is he conscious? Where did he come from?”
“Quit it with the stupid questions. Just take his wallet and let’s get outta here.”
I didn’t know where I was or how long I had been out. I was aware of lying on a hard surface, and that my eyes didn’t feel like opening. I had a vague sensation of rubbing my own eyes. That, and someone was nearby, talking about my wallet.
“He’s regained consciousness,” the first voice said.
“But has he regained subconsciousness?” the second voice said.
I opened my eyes and sat up. I had ended up in the middle of the street in an ordinary middle-class suburb. My right hand had returned to normal. Looking around, I couldn’t see where the voices had come from. Not wanting to get run over, I stood and groggily walked over to the nearest front yard, where, for apparently no reason, someone had placed a refrigerator and an electric guitar, right in the middle of the lawn. A squirrel playfully scurried around some distance from them.
“Get away from us!” the refrigerator said. This was the first voice I had heard.
“Either that or give us your wallet,” the guitar said, which was, of course, the second voice.
“You can talk,” I said.
“So can you,” the fridge said. “Astounding, isn’t it? Now give us your wallet.”
“You’re in the Kingdom of Give-Us-Your-Wallet,” the guitar said. “Price of entry: Your wallet.”
“I’m not giving you anything!” I said. “Now tell me where I am, really.”
At this point, the squirrel ran over and looked up at me with its big, cute eyes.
“Hey, little fellah,” I said.
“Put on your Satanic bikini,” the squirrel said. “It’s time for another one of Satan’s Jacuzzi parties. The Satanic flow jets produce such warm, relaxing Satanic bubbles. It’s Satanic bliss!”
With that, he scampered off to the other side of the lawn.
“Um…” I started.
“Don’t mind him,” the fridge said. “That’s just Chuckles the Squirrel. He hardly ever says anything, and when he does, all he talks about is Satan’s Jacuzzi.”
“We can make him go away if you want,” the guitar said. “All you have to do is give us your wallet.”
I felt a headache coming on. “I have to get back home. This isn’t right. All I wanted was to watch my new Aqua Teen DVD with…”
“The DVD!” the fridge screamed. It seemed to shiver with fear for a moment. “He has beheld the DVD!”
“What?” I said. “What about the DVD?”
“Give your wallet and we’ll tell you,” the guitar said.
“Look, I just wanted to watch the new Aqua Teen Hunger Force DVDs with my girlfriend Eliza—she’s a roller derby star, by the way—and the next thing I know, I’m here. Now, are you two talking inanimate objects going to tell me what’s going on, or what?”
Impossibly, the refrigerator and the guitar turned to face one another.
“You know what we must do,” the fridge said.
“Yes, I suppose we do,” the guitar said. “But his wallet…”
“The time for that is past, dammit!” the fridge said. “Summon forth the Atlantian!”
The guitar’s strings vibrated, as if strummed by an invisible hand. The ground rumbled with a rockin’ power chord, blasting so loudly I had to cover my ears and drop to my knees. The street next to us broke apart in a massive crevice. The power chord faded, replaced by the sound of a roaring engine. The biggest monster truck I had ever seen came driving up from underground, its tires larger than most of the two-story homes on this street.
“You must ride the Atlantian,” the fridge said. “It will take you where you need to be.”
“But first you must give us your wallet,” the guitar said.
The fridge turned to the guitar again. “Will you stop it with the wallet? I’m telling you, that ship has sailed.”
A ladder lowered from inside the truck. Against my better judgment, I climbed up it, into the truck’s cab. The fridge, guitar and squirrel were already inside, with the fridge sitting at the steering wheel. I climbed over it and sat between it and the guitar. The squirrel ran over and sat on my lap.
“How’d you three get up here?”
“Never mind that,” the fridge said. “Prepare for tachyon speed!”
The truck’s engines rumbled to life and it sped forward, pressing me against the seat as streaming pink and red lights flashed past all the windows. I assumed they weren’t taking me home.
The Atlantian stopped in front of a massive gothic mansion. The skies over it were heavy with grey thunderclouds. I walked toward the structure, feeling the eyes of its many sculpted gargoyles on me. The fridge, guitar and squirrel followed closely behind me. I had given up trying to figure out how a fridge and guitar could talk, move, etc.
“He who beholds the Aqua Teen DVD must meet with Krongor the Insatiable,” the fridge said.
“Great,” I said.
“This totally isn’t what I wanted to do today,” the guitar said. “I wanted to go to that place at the mall that has all those different kinds of chocolates. Not to buy anything, just to smell.”
I knocked on the mansion’s front door. It opened, seemingly by itself. Cautiously, I stepped inside.
“Hello?” I called, my voice echoing through the gigantic foyer, which was tastefully posh, if a little dusty.
“I am a pretty little girl, but he who watches Aqua Teen is an even prettier one,” a scratchy, high-pitched voice said.
I looked up and saw a wrinkly old man walking down the mansion’s opulent main stairway toward me. He wore only a diaper and mud-covered combat boots. At least I hoped it was mud.
“You must listen to Krongor the Insatiable,” the refrigerator said. “He knows all.”
Krongor walked up to me, eyeing me with scrutiny.
“The writings of the ancients have foretold of the day when one would behold Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Volume Six,” he said. “Also, if you play the song ‘Downtown is Groove Town’ by the Funky Plungers backwards, that too predicts this moment.”
“All these non-sequiturs and this surrealist humor are getting to be too much,” I said. “Just tell me what’s going on.”
“Come with me,” Krongor said. He led us into his drawing parlor, where we sat on his ornate antique furniture.
“I was never meant to be here, wherever ‘here’ is,” I said. “All I wanted was to watch the DVDs with my girlfriend—she’s a roller derby star, by the way.”
Krongor smiled. “First of all, you’re not fooling anyone. Your girlfriend works in a pharmacy. You just wish she was a roller derby star.”
Dammit, I thought. How’d he know that?
“Second, one does not merely watch Volume Six of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, one experiences it. On the surface, ATHF appears to be little more than an absurdist comedy cartoon made for late-night TV, but it is so much more. It is a state of mind.”
“Yeah, it’s a great show,” I said. “Now about getting me home…”
“Your consciousness has been expanded,” Krongor said. “And your subconsciousness has been doubly expanded. The answer to the mystery that is Aqua Teen Hunger Force lies not in the show itself, but in the precise conjoining of the both show and your own brain.”
Krongor leaned back in his chair, stroked his chin with one and adjusted his diaper with the other, and smiled. His teeth were all yellow, except for one dark grey one.
“Therefore,” he said, “I will cut out part of your brain.”
“Awesome!” the fridge said.
“Oohh, yeah!” the guitar said. “This is gonna be way better than smelling chocolate at the mall!”
I didn’t need to hear any more. I bolted out of my seat and ran for the exit. Back in the foyer, two muscle-bound men in black suits and sunglasses jumped out of nowhere and grabbed hold of me.
“Good work, boys,” Krongor said, walking towards me as I struggled against the two men. “Take him downstairs. To the lab.”
Stanza Number Four
Before I knew it, I was in Krongor’s laboratory, strapped to an operating table set at a convenient 45 degree angle from the floor. I could see around the room, where the fridge, guitar and squirrel watched the proceedings. What I couldn’t see was what Krongor did behind me, although I at times heard clinking metal instruments and squishy, fleshy sounds.
“You’re not really giving me brain surgery while I’m lying here awake, are you?” I said.
“You won’t feel a thing,” Krongor’s voice came from behind me.
“Stop it!” I screamed. “My brain isn’t going to tell you a thing about some DVD.”
“On the contrary,” Krongor said. “Aqua Teen Hunger Force is within your mind and all around you—all at once.”
At this point, Chuckles the Squirrel playfully pranced up to me and said, “At Satan’s Jacuzzi parties, Satan’s wives usually serve some Satanic cheese on Satanic crackers. It’s a Satanic delight.” He then hurried over to the corner and pooped on the floor.
“Just relax,” Krongor said to me. “Relax, and open your mind.”
I didn’t feel like relaxing, but my eyelids grew heavy, and my mind drifted…
Suddenly, images and half-thoughts flashed, lightning-like, in my head.
FLASH! This volume of ATHF is nothing like the others.
FLASH! With the exception of the three Aqua Teens and their neighbor Carl, there are almost no other recurring characters in this volume.
FLASH! In addition, this set begins with a multi-part episode that barely features the Aqua Teens at all.
I groaned in pain. “No Mooninites? No Plutonians? None of the show’s usual running gags? How can this be?”
Krongor stepped around in front of me. Grinning, he held a jar containing a small grey blob in it.
“Is that a piece of my brain?” I asked.
“You’re doing very well,” Krongor said. “Now tell me, just why are these DVDs so brilliant?”
“Because…” I said.
“Yes?” Krongor said.
The fridge and guitar leaned forward in anticipation.
“Because…the show’s creators are experimenting. They’re trying new things, exploring new kinds of writing, and, as a result, Aqua Teen Hunger Force takes off in exciting—and yet still hilarious—new directions.”
“Congratulations,” Krongor said. “You have achieved enlightenment.”
With that, I felt my soul lift away from my body, rising upward from Krongor’s lab, his mansion, and whatever odd suburb I had found myself in. In this non-corporeal state, I was surrounded by images and feelings from Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Volume Six. I saw the multi-part opening episodes about Carl trying to sell the Aqua Teens’ house with them suspiciously absent. I experienced great character-based episodes, such as when Shake stole Frylock’s laser eye powers, the effects a “chick magnet” has on all three of them, or Frylock’s attempts to make new friends on MySpace. Then, I floated through some of the more outrageous ones, such as the characters joining the Marines, or their house overtaken by partiers in animal costumes, or Shake’s unusual radioactive transformation. I drifted higher and higher into new planes of existence, where I beheld unpredictable, experimental episodes about the characters finding a genie, or a “chick magnet,” or a scary ventriloquist dummy, or a mysterious monster lurking at the bottom of Carl’s pool.
As my spirit journeyed farther into the ether, I saw how the show’s audio and video look as good as can be expected, considering its low budget. Bonus features swirled around me like a morning fog, revealing a bunch of “I’m Pissed” short cartoons starring Carl, a live action “Terror Phone” short film in the same humorous tone as the series, a mock look at Radical Axis animation studio, more “Funny Pete” promos for the series, and all the cut scenes from the ATHF Playstation 2 golf game.
The atmosphere broke apart around me, and then I was in space. The stars and galaxies were far away and right next to me at the same time. I knew my transformation into a higher life form was complete, except for one final step. Off in the distance, one final object floated in space, waiting for my arrival. I guided my ever-expanding mental self toward it, to discover the final piece of Volume Six’s greatness. There, in the exact center of the universe, at the very foundation of creation itself, that’s where I found the incredibly cool sheet of stickers that come with the DVDs.
I wasn’t sure how much time had passed after I became one with all existence, but it couldn’t have been that long, because I appeared back on my couch, sitting next to Eliza. She looked over at me and smiled as the ATHF closing credits played on the TV, complete with Shake’s “Dancing is forbidden” sound bite.
“You’re right, this is a really funny show,” she said. “Weird, but funny.”
“Yeah, it’s…” I started. “Hey, wait a minute.”
I checked my pockets. “Aw, crap! My wallet’s gone!”
Not guilty, Earth creatures.
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An overnight in Nyahururu landed me a bush tour with Elephants in Marmanet Forest..
By LuxeQueen on 1 Mar 2016 • ( 1 Comment )
A visit to Nyahururu left me wondering if the town is in Nyandarua or Laikipia county well still in dispute..this name Nyahururu still puts a smile on my face as a friend from faar-away cant pronounce it, she keeps saying Nyururu….hehe. The name means a windy or stomy place. Initially it was called Thomson Falls after the famous explorer who named The falls on Ewaso Ngiro a Tributary of Ewaso Nyiro river near the town.
This town grew mainly because of the railway line passing here and many Indians had invested in shops though they later left it to the locals. The journey to Nyahururu from Nairobi Passes you through Naivasha-Gilgil- Olkalou and some rural towns as interesting as their names.. its such a scenic journey with a wonderful view of Aberdare Ranges..
I Have traveled this road many times before both for fun and Family Occasions, but this time round it was very interesting as I was accompanied by a very informative Guide, a native of this region. The lands are very futile and farmers here plant potatoes and Maize on Large scale, there are also flowers farmers, Cabbages and carrots too. Milk processing is also a big business around this area.
Our overnight stay was at Thomson Falls Lodge and it was such a memorable moment; we were welcomed by Kikuyu traditional dancers and the Tfalls team outdid themselves with their Hospitality.
@Mytravelstories couldn’t resist the traditional jig.
ABOUT TFALLS LODGE;Thomson’s Falls lodge was built by Joseph Thomson, after he discovered the Thomson’s Falls. Joseph Thomson was the first to reach the falls in 1883 and named them after his father. Joseph was a Scottish geologist and naturalist who was also the first European to walk from Mombasa to Lake Victoria in the early 1880’s.The 72 m( ft) scenic waterfall on the Ewaso Ngiro river which drains from the Aberdare mountain range, is located in Nyahururu, Laikipia, at 2,360 m, also known as the highest town in Kenya. The area was originally a part of the indigenous forest surrounding the famous falls which to date is a home to many animals like the Columbus monkeys and various bird species. This was a haven for Thomson who decided to settle here and went ahead to construct a sprawling cottage facing the falls. The main house was brick cottage sprawled on the beautiful manicured lanes which has been maintained to date. After the discovery of the amazing falls, the place begun to receive many guests and Sir Thomson figured that he could not accommodate them all in his house, so he came up with the idea of building cottages within his compound to accommodate the large influx of guests at a small fee.
Marmanet Forest
Most of his guests were white explorers and game hunters who were fascinated by the beauty and the stories of the falls and also used to flock Laikipia during the game hunting season.. In 1931, he built a total of 32 self contained cottages round the main house, which can still be seen to date. The idea picked up and the lodge grew every year as more guests visited the amazing Thomson’s fall. After many years of the lodge changing ownership, the cottages still remain to date and the various managements have done their best to retain the originality of the place. The cottages still maintain the colonial era feel but a few additions have been done like modern beds and wifi in the rooms. The main house over the years has been converted into the main restaurant, bar, reception and the main kitchen on the ground floor, with the administration block taking the upstairs space. You can still find artefacts, paintings and the original wooden floors put up by the founder, Mr. Joseph Thomson in the main building. To date a large pepper tree, planted by the immediate management that took over from Sir Joseph, stands in the premises as a reminder and in honour of the famous European. Thomson’s Falls Lodge has grown to be the major lodge in the whole of Laikipia and its environs Nyandarua among others. To date the Lodge receives and accommodates guests from the founder’s family who visit the falls every July without fail and spends at least a month at the lodge while visiting and enjoying other tourist attractions that have come up over the years. The falls by itself attracts visitors from all over the world. The colourful birds, the nature trail to the base of the falls and the traditional dancers by the falls are among the activities found here. Among other attractions nearby are the Hippo sanctuary, which is a kilometre away from the lodge, Aberdare National park, Solio ranch and the famous Ol Pajeta Conservancy, all a haven of the big five. Game drives to these attractions can be organized by the lodge or your travel agent.
However, the below attractions kind of won my Heart ,Lake Ol Bolossat, the only lake in the former Central Province, is an internationally recognised habitat for birds [IBA], with 180 species of birds. It is also home to 15 species of animals including hippopotamus. The lake is a popular destination among lovers of birdlife
The other is, Marmanet forest a must visit when you are in this area and you have time as its a walking tour. we had the hon our of the game warden showing us this forest which is under CFA and has a lot of Birdlife and Indigenous trees, its also a habitat of Elephants and the rangers guide you in watching them as they graze, the landscape is also gorgeous and you can also visit waterfalls but I must warn you even descending Thomson falls is a walk in the park. Amazingly the locals who are the custodian of its borders still walked in this forest without worry. I must say it was soo fulfilling watching this animals. This tour needs someone who is relatively fit but worth every penny. Well, every good thing has an end and when we got back to the hotel every joint was aching we must have walked for like 4hrs nonstop and some slopes were steep we enjoyed our Karaoke night at the hotel with the resident DJ before calling it a night. we still had the energy lol!
The following day after departure we decided to check the New Upcoming Panari Nyahururu Resort A huge project just across the Falls although not completely done it sure going to be a beautiful resort with lots of activities incorporated will sure tell you more once its fully operational….Your next Holiday in Nyahururu don’t , just rest in the hotel , Explore, you now know what to do in Nyahururu…
From Watamu with Love!! My 12Hr journey….
To Diani By Bus just Like a local one hilarious journey…
My Travel Stories says:
Great write up and so informative keep the good work of spreading such information
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Red Cross Marks Anniversary
Fiji Red Cross Society (FRCS) celebrated its 50th Anniversary of the adoption of the fundamental principle last Friday in Suva. The fundamental principle guides and governs the type of work
by shreeti prasad, suva
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Fiji Red Cross Society (FRCS) celebrated its 50th Anniversary of the adoption of the fundamental principle last Friday in Suva.
The fundamental principle guides and governs the type of work carried out by Red Cross workers and volunteers.
Society president Cathy Wong reminded the volunteers of the important roles they play in their work. “You should be neutral at all times. You have to live by your principles on a daily basis. The fundamental principle is the humanitarian, impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary services, unity, universality in you must be enshrined in you,” Mrs Wong.
She reminded volunteers of the need to be impartial.
“Build an identity based on humanitarian. It needs to come from the inner side of you all. We have to be responsible and be considerate about the work we conduct. You do not only work as a volunteer during disaster, but in times of any situation.”
FRCS resource development manager, Dianne Reddy said they had 15 active volunteers in each branch across the country who had been trained to help people during emergencies.
“Our volunteers have the passion to work. We are recognised of the quality work we do. The anniversary marked today, is very special,” Mrs Reddy said.
Feedback: shreeti.prasad@fijisun.com.fj
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Survey: Ads better than fees
By Dibya Sarkar
Public Opinion Strategies National Survey
Americans would rather see advertising on government Web sites than be charged
convenience fees, according to a national survey just released.
Fifty-six percent of registered voters in the survey released by eGovNet,
a Columbus, Ohio-based e-government and advertising network provider, supported
the use of "appropriate" advertising while 23 percent said they'd rather
pay user fees for government Internet services. "Appropriate" was defined
as ads of goods and services legally available to users of all ages.
The random, national telephone survey of 642 voters, conducted by Public
Opinion Strategies from Sept. 5 to 10, tried to measure the attitudes of
users "about funding e-government initiatives with advertising on government
Web sites, convenience or user fees and with tax dollars." Of those surveyed,
60 percent said they access the Internet or send and receive e-mail.
"The bottom line is there is a real demand for e-government services.
Then the question always becomes, If we're going to provide for these services,
how are we going to pay for it?" said Jon Allison, eGovNet's director of
professional licensure services and the coordinator of the survey.
Although a "very small number" of governments are actually doing it,
Allison said advertising on government sites is a viable, alternative-funding
method. The survey also found that:
* Two-thirds of the voters surveyed who go online support advertising
on government Web sites rather than paying a user fee.
* Given a choice, 47 percent of all respondents said governments should
charge convenience fees rather than using tax dollars for online services.
Twenty-eight percent supported tax-dollar use.
* More than 60 percent of all respondents agreed that it's okay for
governments to use advertising to reduce the amount of tax dollars needed
to provide online services.
* Sixty-six percent of all respondents said government decisions to
allow such ads make no difference in their willingness to use online services.
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Total Annihilation Crack
Long ago, the galaxy had known peace. Paradise was ruled with the hand of science, and the hand was that of the galactic governing body known as the Core. Ironically, it was the Core's ultimate victory, the victory over death itself, that brought about the downfall of its paradise and started the war that would decimate a million worlds. The immortality process, known as "patterning," involved the electronic duplication of brain matrices, allowing the transfer of consciousness into durable machines. Effectively it meant immortality, and the Core decreed the process mandatory for all citizens in order to ensure their safety. However, there were many citizens unwilling to toss aside their bodies so casually, many indeed who regarded patterning as an atrocity. They fled to the outer edges of the galaxy, forming a resistance movement that became known as the Arm. War began, though it was never officially declared by either side. The Arm developed high-powered combat suits for its armies, while the Core transferred the minds of its soldiers directly into similarly deadly machines. The Core duplicated its finest warriors thousands of times over. The Arm countered with a massive cloning program. The war raged on for more than 4,000 years, consuming the resources of an entire galaxy and leaving it a scorched wasteland. [Cavedog Entertainment]
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► Legends of Equestria is Looking for Designers!
Legends of Equestria is Looking for Designers!
Started by Ellowee, 2016 Jun 28, 22:01:59
Ellowee
Location: Equestria
Hello again, everypony!
Legends of Equestria is seeking Designers! Our open positions run the full spectrum of game design, and include projects for people who enjoy the mechanics which drive gameplay and the visuals that build lasting impressions. We are currently accepting applications for the following positions:
Level Designers will be responsible for designing areas of the world. Design considerations include mob placement, points of interest, compositional awareness, quest interactions, and other common aspects of level design. Background experience in Unity is a major plus, and potential new members should expect to be trained and learn Unity.
VFX Artists will be responsible for creating and implementing particle effects for various abilities and ambient world effects. This position blends conceptual work to develop the look and feel of an effect with technical implementation in Unity.
Systems Designers are charged with the development of backend game mechanics and systems. Excel sheets for data tracking and computation, diagramming, and a deep understanding of what makes games enjoyable are all important aspects of the Systems Designer's role.
If you're passionate about game design and are looking for an opportunity to expand your game development skills, we'd love to have you on the team! Please e-mail examples of relevant work as well as a short paragraph telling us a little about yourself and why you're interested in joining the Legends of Equestria team to [email protected]
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Re: Legends of Equestria is Looking for Designers!
2016 Jun 29, 08:04:05 #1
Still cannot do it, cause I am 13. I need 5 years to do that!
Anyway, are you going to have an Open Server Weekend on July?
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Quote from: Thundergirl on 2016 Jun 29, 08:04:05
Follow Facebook Fan Page to be informed about incoming server openings: https://web.facebook.com/LegendsOfEquestria/
2016 Jul 02, 02:58:45 #3
Quote from: FirstChoice on 2016 Jun 30, 19:50:10
Thank you. Everybody has to know about the open servers in any game! The most important of the page;
"For those of you attending Midwest BronyFest this weekend, and looking to come to our panel (which, let's be honest, should be all of you (and room size restrictions be darned!)), here's a heads-up: the Legends of Equestria panel has had a last-minute change of plans! We've been moved to 11:15am, Sunday, on the Main Stage - so if you're wanting to come listen to our team, see what we've got to show off, or just pester us to put your OC in the game as an NPC sheep that sells wardrobes* and whatnot, make sure you're there!
[*Please don't ask us to do that, it almost certainly won't happen. Our writers have enough to deal with as it is without having to work that one into the narrative! ]"
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Let's stay on topic please. This is a designer recruitment thread. Thank ya
Quote from: Princess Darcy on 2016 Jul 02, 06:58:14
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Former Asante Kotoko full-back Daniel Darkwah was in full motion as his side Enyimba Int. FC recorded an impressive win over Paradou FC in the CAF confederation cup. The 28-year-old former league winner with Aduana Stars, lasted for 74 minutes as the People’s Elephant trashed their Algerian opponent. Nigerian attacker Stanley Dimgba recorded a hattrick while forward Victor Mbaoma also added a goal as the home team cruised to a massive victory. Darkwah was replaced by Stanley Okorom at a point where the home team was ahead by 3 goals.…
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Naby Keita vows not take off his shirt again during celebration
December 25, 2019 ABDUL WADUDU OSMAN
Asante Kotoko striker Naby Keita Laye has vowed not take his shirt off again should he find the back of the net in the subsequent games. The Burkinabe was booked on Sunday after taken off his shirt following his winner against Hearts of Oak in the President Cup. He did the same during the club’s CAF Confederations Cup game against kano Pillars which resulted to his suspension the following game. When asked what triggers him to do that knowing very well it could affect him in subsequent games. Keita answered;…
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November 17, 2019 ABDUL WADUDU OSMAN
Asante Kotoko are set to part ways with three senior team players following the clubs failure in the CAF Champions League and CAF Confederation Cup. According to various media report, the tier One League winners are set to show the following players the exit door Alex Didi, Jordan Opoku and George Abege. Ivorian import Didi Alexis has failed to make an impact at Asante Kotoko since joining them from As Togo Port. Ugandan striker George Abege who joined the club from Kenyan side Kariobangi Sharks has since failed to convince…
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Following the dramatic Anas Exposé on 7th June 2018, Ghana football capsized and there was no hope of its return in the shortest possible time as both government and the football family were at sea as to what to do to restore the game. The government of Ghana, through the Attorney General, attempted liquidating the GFA despite knowing it was a private entity but the action was vehemently opposed by the football fraternity, championed by president of Division One League side Tema Youth FC, Osei Kwaku Winfred. The confused state…
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What’s behind Fortnite Chapter 2’s mystery door?
David Purcell
Epic Games appear to be laying down the infrastructure for an interesting underlying story in Fortnite Chapter 2, with a mysterious bunker added to the game with no explanation.
The game’s developers have pulled off some unbelievable events in their battle royale game since it first released in September 2017, whether it is rockets being launched into the sky, huge monsters doing battle across the map, or more recently destroying the landscape altogether.
After the game’s latest major update on October 15, though, which saw the beginning of a new era for the free-to-play title and the introduction of tons of new locations, fans have started to sniff out clues of further storylines developing. Are two game modes going to be fused together?
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One interesting discovery has been found near the Camp Cod location, at the south east corner of the island. There’s a mysterious bunker that looks ready to be discovered, although there’s no possible way to get inside at the time of writing.
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Players are already starting to put two and two together as well, with popular YouTuber Ali-A putting together an interesting theory about what could be inside the mystery door. It’s not too unrealistic, either.
In a video posted to his channel on October 26, he claimed that this could finally be the first sign that Battle Royale and Save the World will eventually be fused together in terms of their stories.
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“Many of you may not know that actually an identical door has already been seen within Fortnite. It’s very likely that you haven’t seen this, however, because it’s not from the Battle Royale segment of Fortnite. It’s from Save the World,” he explained.
Ali-A continued with his theory, claiming that we could soon see zombies spill out of the mystery door as part of the Halloween event for 2019, or even save a potential crossover for later in the first season of Fortnite Chapter 2.
As Epic release updates for the game on a weekly basis, this is going to be one spot on the new map that players should look out for. In terms of map changes, there’s no doubt that something will be coming here soon, it’s more of a ‘when’ rather than an ‘if’.
We’ll keep you updated, should there be any interesting developments. Whether or not Ali-A’s theory will prove to be correct or not remains to be seen, for now.
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Sacramento Teachers Say They Hope to Send Message to District with One-Day Strike
Posted 4:26 PM, April 11, 2019, by Karma Dickerson and Lonnie Wong, Updated at 04:27PM, April 11, 2019
SACRAMENTO -- Striking teachers used their large numbers to send a message Thursday to the Sacramento City Unified School District.
"For the first five years of my teaching career, I got laid off every single year and then I was transferred to different schools around the district," history teacher Tammy Abdo said.
Abdo, who has been teaching at C.K. McClatchy High School for the last seven years, says getting to live her passion as an educator makes the early struggles worth it.
She says her decision to join her fellow on the picket line for a one-day strike didn't come easy. Her AP history students take the crucial national exam in just three weeks.
"So every minute counts to me in the classroom, but I'm doing it for them," Abdo said. "I want the funding to go back to them."
The teacher's union says despite negotiations, the district wants to back out of its contract to use teacher health care savings on students, like reducing class sizes and providing more librarians, nurses and psychologists.
But the district's back is against the wall as it faces a state takeover if it can't resolve a $35 million budget deficit over two years. It's telling parents schools will stay open with backup staffing.
Abdo acknowledges the bind the school district is, and failure to resolve it could make everyone worse off -- students included. However, she says core commitments can’t be set aside.
"We’ll work with you, but you have to show us that you have good faith and showing good faith is honoring our contract," she said.
While Abdo isn’t wild about her students missing a day of instruction she still feels that she taught them something today.
"We do talk about the civil rights movement, not just in terms of African Americans but in terms of everybody -- workers, women’s rights and all of that. And they look at this and they’re like, 'It's kind of like what you guys did. You’re standing up for what you believe in,'" Abdo said.
Teachers will be back in the classroom on Friday.
Following Thursday's strike, SCUSD issued the following statement:
District Administrators and Board Members spent today visiting school sites meeting with and listening to our students, educators, staff and families. The message we heard from our community was clear—they do not want to be caught in the middle of a fight between leaders of the SCTA and District. While our community understands we have a $35 million budget deficit and are at risk of state takeover, they want all of us working on solutions to this problem, not on fighting with each other. We will be honoring Board President Jessie Ryan’s call for a “cease fire” agreement between the District and SCTA. While we had originally planned to file an unfair labor practice charge against SCTA challenging the legality of today’s strike, we have chosen not to file that charge today. Instead, we will focus on working together with a coalition of labor, business, community, and elected officials to avoid a state takeover and address our budget challenges.
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Netflix cancels its ‘Mystery Science Theater 3000’ revival
Posted 10:51 AM, November 27, 2019, by CNN Wire
Netflix's "Mystery Science Theater 3000" revival is gone.
Netflix’s “Mystery Science Theater 3000” revival is gone.
The streaming service has announced it will not be making another season of the show, and the timing is especially sad for some viewers.
Thanksgiving is the unofficial holiday of “MST3K,” the cult series about a guy and two robots laughing at bad movies.
The show originally premiered on Thanksgiving in 1988 on Comedy Central, with the network airing marathons around the holiday. The show later moved to Shout!, Factory TV and Twitch.
Host Jonah Ray took to twitter to announce the news, writing: “So, Netflix decided to not do another season of MST3K. We are off to Get Down in Lilyhammer while the OA helps us take it One Day At A Time. We will be in group therapy with Tuca & Bertie, Jessica Jones, & Lady Dynamite. The sessions will be run by Gypsy (w/ Naomi Watts.)”
Ray continued, “We don’t know what the future holds for the show, it always seemed to figure out how to survive. From Comedy Central to SyFy. Then kept alive by RIFFTRAX & Cinematic Titanic. whatever happens, I want everybody to know that getting a chance to be on this show was a dream come true.”
In 2015, fans of the series contributed to a Kickstarter campaign to reboot the show. Launched by creator and original star Joel Hodgson, the campaign raised $5,764,229 in a month. That money, plus another $425,000 raised outside of Kickstarter, was enough to shoot 14 new episodes.
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Home News Voice 5 Things to Watch Out For at the Big 12 Championship
5 Things to Watch Out For at the Big 12 Championship
by Samantha Calimbahin
Photo by Ellman Photography
It's been seven years since the Big 12 had a championship game. Then the College Football Playoff happened, and when the Big 12 was left out of the first one, cries for an outright champion led to the game's reinstatement.
So here we are. TCU and Oklahoma will meet again in a battle for the title at AT&T Stadium on Saturday at 11:30 a.m. Here are five things to watch out for.
1. Emotions.
Between Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield not getting a scholarship offer from TCU back in the day and a small pre-game incident during TCU and Oklahoma’s last meeting, let’s just say there’s a good amount of emotion coming from both sides. Regardless, TCU head coach Gary Patterson says the Frogs are trying to stay focused on what’s important, and that’s winning.
2. A first half without safety Nick Orr.
Safety Nick Orr will miss the first half of the game for participating in the brawl during last Saturday's game against Baylor. His absence shouldn't hurt the Frogs that much though, as safety Niko Small is expected to return after being out with injury. Either way, TCU has the best pass defense in the Big 12, with opponents completing just 51.6 percent of their passes.
3. Defensive revenge.
Oklahoma torched TCU's defense in their last meeting, winning 38-20, perhaps much of it due to TCU defensive end Mat Boesen being ejected from the game for a personal foul (that many deemed questionable to begin with). This time, Boesen, who leads TCU with 11.5 sacks on the season, should be back. He and fellow defensive end Ben Banogu make a dangerous pairing.
4. TCU needs a polished offensive performance.
Hill struggled against Oklahoma the first time around, completing just 46.4 percent of his passes in a surprisingly solid defensive performance by the Sooners. While Hill might not be the most exceptional quarterback, he can be a good one. He has a 66.6 percent completion rate on the season and had a great game against Baylor. If the offensive line can give him good protection, and he avoids committing turnovers, the Frogs should put up a solid fight against the Sooners. A neutral playing field might make all the difference.
5. So, what if TCU wins?
If Oklahoma (currently No. 3 in playoff rankings) wins, that most likely means an automatic ticket to the College Football Playoff. But let's face it, Frog fans — even if TCU (currently No. 11) wins, it probably won't have much bearing on its chances at cracking the Top Four. In fact, it could oust the Big 12 altogether. Then again, in that scenario Oklahoma will be out, but TCU will get the trophy and a lot of Frog fans will be really, really happy.
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Samantha Calimbahin is the managing editor at Fort Worth Magazine. When she's not editing or making to-do lists for the magazine's gazillion projects, she's jamming on her guitar and planning her next trip to Disneyland (or World).
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Rodion Petroff
”Rodion Petroff’s works is defined by the context and technique of his paintings. His realism is to be seen as a tool rather than as a goal. Recognizable urban landscapes as well as the normal social action of the figures in the scenes creates the illusion of daily routines. His architectural landscapes are a key to the past dressed in a historical code. The city is an artificial system created by a humans taking different shapes and forms in different times. The future is perceived through the prism of the past, and reflecting on old buildings helps us to rethink the past and to create a basis of the future.
In Rodion Petroff’s series of paintings titled ‘In Search of the Past’, the urban landscape is clearly apparent, with a composition similar to classical architecture where certain elements and approximate symmetry frequently appear. The themes of the paintings are chosen intuitively and the artist is often attracted by the two extremes of intensive movement and its total absence. The places of tourist pilgrimages depicted encourage viewers to compare the past with the present in the visuality of architecture.
The artist considers the architecture depicted in his paintings as a cultural, historical code and as a constant in the context of time. The artist uses hyperrealism as reality which can be expanded upon in terms of meaning by the viewer. In some paintings you can clearly see the specific metaphorical sense where the static scenery interrelates with the scenes of intense movement and which constitutes the theme as a whole.”
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Exploring the rich history of Wikipedia and its Rise to Fame
The Wikipedia is definitely one of the most prevalent, helpful site today that has affected the lives of many in different aspects and ways. With its fame and outstanding development, many has definitely wondered about the history of Wikipedia and how it came to be and improved to the site we know today. This could be for educational and research purposes or even due to full-fledge curiosity regarding the matter. Whatever category you fall into, you'll surely be mesmerized about this site's travel on history to the point where we stand today.
The History of Wikipedia started on its launch, however, its development definitely derived from older events, ideas and proposals that contributed to its birth. On 1993, Rick Gates have proposed an intriguing concept of online encyclopedia, but the freedom encyclopedia wasn't introduced until the year 2000, in the month of December, when Richard Stallman proposed the concept.
The concept introduced by Richard Stallman involved no central group controlling the editing of the contents of the website. This means that users from all across the globe can chip in their ideas regarding the matter and create a whole new, redefined encyclopedia that definitely strays off from the conventional Britannica, Encarta and other Encyclopedias at that time. The history of Wikipedia continued as Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales started making the balls roll and launched the famous Wikipedia which was derived from Nupedia combined with the Wiki tech from Ward Cunningham that was developed back on 1995.
Though the Wikipedia was first viewed as a complement to the revered Nupedia, the improvements it contributed vastly changed the game and it overtook it, travelling further around the globe than any other online encyclopedias have. It quickly became a global innovation that has inspired different references project worldwide and was also developed in different languages which only indicated its continuous rise in the industry.
A ranking made by the Alexa Internet indicates that the Wikipedia has indeed become the 7th most visited and most popular website worldwide that boasts a stupendous amount of traffic with over 495 Million monthly readers. 117 Million from the total monthly amount of reader comes from the United States only which is incredibly stunning.
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1. UA Census Class A Roads, 2000 - Massachusetts
2000. U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Geography Division. This datalayer displays the Type A class roads thoughout the state. Feature Class A roads include: Primary roads with limited access (interstate hi... U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census.
2. UA Census Key Geographic Locations, 2000 - Massachusetts
2000. U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Geography Division. This datalayer displays Key Geographic Locations (KGLs), as defined by the US Census Bureau, throughout the state. Essential attribute data include... U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census.
3. UA Census Landmark Line Features, 2000 - Massachusetts
2000. U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Geography Division. This datalayer displays landmark line features throughout the state. "Landmark" is the general name given to a cartographic (or locational) landmar... U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census.
4. UA Census Landmark Point Features, 2000 - Massachusetts
2000. U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Geography Division. This datalayer displays the Landmark Point Features throughout the state. "Landmark" is the general name given to a cartographic (or locational) la... U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census.
5. UA Census Landmark Polygon Features, 2000 - Massachusetts
2000. U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Geography Division. This datalayer displays polygon landmark features throughout the state. "Landmark" is the general name given to a cartographic (or locational) land... U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census.
6. UA Census Miscellaneous Ground Transportation Features, 2000 - Massachusetts
2000. U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Geography Division. This datalayer displays miscellaneous ground transportation features in the state. Features other than roads or railroads may be included in this l... U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census.
7. UA Census Railroads, 2000 - Massachusetts
2000. U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Geography Division. This datalayer displays a variety of railroad features for the state. Categories represented here include: Primary rail line: A railroad in this c... U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census.
8. UA Census Traffic Analysis Zones, 2000 - Massachusetts
2000. U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Geography Division. Traffic analysis zones (TAZs) are special-purpose geographic entities delineated by state and local transportation officials for tabulating traffic... U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census.
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CRB Rap Battle – East End Clips vs. Chubalicious
In Ottawa, Canada the rap battle scene is lead by “Capital Rap Battles”. In this edition rapper East End Clips, hailing from Toronto Canada, makes his Capital Rap Battles debut against hometown favorite Chubalicious. This battle was a lot of fun. Check it out and drop a comment. You can check out more of their battles on FB: www.facebook.com/capitalrapbattles
Adam Ness – Have a Good Time (Ft. Jamila Woods)
Adam Ness and Jamila Woods create magic with single and visual “Have a Good Time.” With a gentle guitar riff and gorgeous rhode chords at its foundation, this track has a timeless feel, with simple lyrics, organic instrumentation and soulful melodies driving a natural performance from both artists. This might be the smoothest shit we’ve ever posted. Perfect vibes for rolling one up with someone special and kicking back. Check out the animated lyric video, and look out for Adam Ness on tour in your city with Chicago rapper Noname this month in support of his forthcoming album Sagittarius Vol. 1 set for release in March.
Preview: Lunice Takes Over The Black Box in Denver 2/28
Montreal based DJ/Producer Lunice is one of the music industries best kept secrets. While his accolades as a record producer, and member of duo TNGHT are more than extensive, he maintains a relative level of relative anonymity in the public eye as a solo act. His talent stretches from production and DJing, to dancing and performance art, and everything in between, and he’s earned the respect of many of the top names in music throughout his career. He’s finally getting more and more attention with his genre bending style that draws heavily from hip hop and trap roots. With intricate textures and some of the snappiest drums you’ve heard, Lunice has honed a razor sharp, and often dark sound that is both entrancing and unpredictable. This rising star is constantly in the studio, but he’s doing a limited run of a few North American dates that includes a headline appearance at Denver’s award-winning venue, The Black Box, on Feb 28th!
Photos: Anderson .Paak LIVE at The Fillmore in Denver
Bubblin’ from his recent Grammy win, Anderson .Paak tore the roof off a sold out Fillmore in Denver on Wednesday night. From silk screens to smoke blasts, the visual energy of Cheeky Andy’s Beach Club Tour matched the famously infectious Paak and the Free Nationals. The set list revolved around Oxnard, with a generous heap of hits from Venice and Malibu peppered in throughout. Paak was all over the place in the best way; whether he was crowd surfing, ripping the drum set to shreds, or dancing from one end of the stage to the other, he never missed a note or a step. The crowd adoringly matched his every word, “yes lawd!”s screamed regularly in exuberance. It felt like something of a victory lap for Paak, who after years of underground acclaim, is now indisputably a superstar.
Shouts out to opener Tayla Parx who should’ve gotten more love for her amazing set. Check out the photos below, captured by Blake Jackson.
Photos: J.I.D. at The Fox Theatre in Boulder
Dreamville Records new sensation J.I.D. has been making waves for a few years now ever since he linked up with fellow ATLiens Earthgang and subsequently J.Cole and his label. He’s been growing ever since, gaining more acclaim last year as a standout XXL Freshmen in an era where true lyricism is continually overlooked. Late last year J.I.D. released an excellent sophomore album Dicaprio 2, which solidified his status as one of this generations brightest talents. J.I.D. is on the road in support of the album, and we caught his sold out performance at the intimate Fox Theatre in Boulder, CO, one of the cities lucky enough to catch the tour. The young artist delivered a stellar set, commanding the attention of every person in the packed room as he performed a barrage of new material, as well as a few choice cuts from his debut, The Never Story. Check out the photo recap courtesy of Tylar Washington below.
Matt Sassano – Devil Won’t Change His Ways
Up an coming singer, songwriter, and musician Matt Sassano just released a track you should hear titled ‘Devil Won’t Change His Ways’. Like the song? If you have a favorite cover or song idea you would like to hear, Matt does that! If you have a cover song or concept that you think Matt can try hit him up on his website: www.mattsassano.com or on the gram: @mattsassanomusic
WOLFE DEN EPISODE 1 2018 YEAR MIX
We are excited to premier the first release of the WOLFE DEN Episode 01. The Mix is a recap of all the 2018 bangers. Definitely be on the look out for Wolfe in the future because this mix slaps. Track list is included below.
Anderson .Paak’s Andy’s Beach Club World Tour In Denver Feb 13th
Unless you’ve been holed up in a doomsday bunker since the 2016 elections you’ve probably become a fan of Grammy Nominated artist/producer Anderson .Paak over the last few years. He’s refreshingly original, and his raspy vocals, unique melodies, and sharp lyrics make him a rare and unpredictable triple-threat. Not to mention, he’s worked with all your favorite artists including Kendrick Lamar, Dr. Dre, Schoolboy Q, Tokimonsta, Mac Miller and many more. His debut and sophomore albums Venice, and Malibu, were nothing short of amazing, and now he’s getting ready to hit the road in support of his recently released third album, the Dr. Dre produced Oxnard.
LORD CONRAD – ONLY YOU
Lord Conrad is a DJ, Music Composer, Songwriter, Dancer, Influencer and TV personality born in Milan Italy. Lord Conrad dedicated his latest track ‘Only You’ to the Victims of the Ancona Tragedy, featured below. Lord Conrad’s delivered a relevant statement for his fans and his followers: “With immense sorrow I dedicate my music to the victims of Sfera Ebbasta’s concert in Ancona in order to help raise public awareness and I also send a message to all the youths. A tragedy of that kind shall never happen again. I join all the Italian musicians so that all that may happen no more and we will do everything, together, to increase security and make concerts safer.” @lordconraditaly
GZA & The Soul Rebels: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
In case you weren’t aware, it’s the 25th anniversary of the Wu-Tang Clan’s release of the legendary Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers). The help celebrate, why not make an appearance on one of the most beloved web series, NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert. Wu-Tang rolled up to the Tiny Desk early this morning with the whole squad ready to throw down. And that’s just what they did, as the crew went through a medley of classic Wu tracks that any hip-hop fan would recognize.
Preview: Telefon Tel Aviv LIVE at The Black Box in Denver
Telefon Tel Aviv is the musical project of Joshua Eustis, an producer who in his own words,”is trying very hard to make music as a way to sweat out all the nasty things.” It has devolved from his eye-to-eye collaboration with the late Charles Wesley Cooper, III, into “the musical detritus of all the horror, awe, despair, hope, beauty, and contempt in our world.” Known for his dreamy sonic landscapes, Eustis takes listeners to the depths of his imagination, breaking all rules and expectations of stereotypical electronic music in the process. He’s taking over Denver’s award winning venue The Black Box in Capitol hill on December 22nd, and we can’t think of a better place to dive in to the deep layers of Telefon Tel Aviv’s unique music.
Bun B Picks the Best Rapper of All Time
Guest co-host, Bun B, break down rappers to decide who was the greatest rapper of all time. Spoiler alert Eminem beats both Drake and Kanye.
BEASTMODE – EAST END CLIPS VS LIKS – RAP BATTLE ($2000 BET)
Check out this $2K dollar Beastmode rap battle. Two Canadian up and coming rappers, Eastend Clips and Liks, go head to head in Toronto. Both MC’s putting $1K on the line, watch below to see who wins.
Mike G – Burton (Single)
Mike G (formerly of Odd Future) dropped Burton, a new single inspired by the legendary director Tim Burton. The new single includes three different versions; the original, the clean copy, and a chopped not slopped copy. Ensuring Burton made its debut in full effect, Mike teamed up with Cyanide and Happiness animator, Shawn Coss, to create the most perfect collaboration for the artwork. Check out the dark & twisted “Burton” and look out for more from Mike G’s upcoming project Exile coming in 2019!
Cochet. – Poland/Model
Up an coming artist Cochet just dropped his latest single Poland/Model. Hailing from Huntington,WV, United States the RNB RnB newcomer is definitely making waves and is on the rise. We look forward to learning to more about Cochet, but for now enjoy ‘Poland/Model’ below. @samfrom304
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Live Poll: Most Badass Video Game Character
Which one of these badass characters is the father of all badasses?
"Badass" is a peculiar way of addressing someone with supreme style. They do whatever they want, whenever they want, wherever they want. They don't have to tell you that they're badass, you know it when you look at them or by seeing them in action. A Badass may or may not be good, bad, hero, or villain.
Note: Characters from comics (DC/Marvel) and film/book-based video games are excluded from this list.
List: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls091048357/
Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/SJU5sPwXmto/
BONAFIDE BOSS
mihailo.razvigor
I'm guessing you will also not accept characters from fighting games (such as Mortal Kombat or Street Fighter), because pretty much all of the characters are badass?
Star Wars video games are film-based, so yeah, it won't be included. Sorry.
As for Mortal Kombat, yes, I agree, pretty much all characters in it (or any fighting game) are badass. But they're only badass in/while fighting because none of them have a story, not their own. (Story gives the character a personality, a purpose, it makes them unique. I'm sure fighting game characters are unique, but only because of their different fighting skills.)
You see, anyone or anything can be shown badass in an action or a fighting scene, it's the character's personality that needs to be badass to be truly called a "Badass".
But on the other hand, yes, I can include a character from the MK series. How about Scorpion? Since I did refer to many other lists (outside of IMDb), they all listed only one character from the whole Mortal Kombat series, and that was Scorpion.
Nikolay Yeriomin (Mykola Yeromin), Champion
BONAFIDE BOSS, I mean, plot might be a supplement in fighting genre, but explicit personality or lack thereof is what people remember foremost and amount of lore put into those is often surprisingly ridiculous and complicated.
...And those "explicit" personality is (mostly) based on their skills.
But I have added a fighting game character, known as Scorpion.
BONAFIDE BOSS, and rightfully so, but... Really, fighting game characters are some of the most distinctive out there, because otherwise games usually fail. One could argue that characters in that genre are usually formulaic and exaggerated caricatures, but caricatures can be memorable and awesome too. :)
Anyway, my favorite game of all time is Dino Crisis 2. Its two leading characters are both badass - Regina and Dylan. I would appreciate if you would make room for them.
I'll add it if your comment gets enough likes.
Well, my comment for the inclusion of Dylan/Regina gained one like. And since the one who liked it is a GetSatisfaction Champion, according to the rules of this site (chapter 9, paragraph 4) "Champion's like is worth three (3) regular likes".
Is that enough for the inclusion? ;-)
Тhanks for including Regina. I can guarantee she will not be placed last in the voting. :-)
I'm going to add Dylan too, I submitted a couple of images to IMDb, just waiting for them to approve it. Because I was looking for an individual image, or do you want me to add them both together?
How do you add an image on IMDb?
Mr. Pink,
Go to any IMDb movie or video game page > Then scroll down to Photos > click on "See all photos" > You will find an empty box with "Add Image" written on it (with a ➕ sign on it too).
=== OR ===
Simple add "mediaindex" after any title URL.
Example: imdb.com/title/<title_code>/mediaindex
This is the one we're discussing right now: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0252381/mediaindex
Sure, you can add them together as a single entry, or it can only be Regina, representing both of them - after all, a vote for her is essentially a vote for him. It isn't essential to have both of them separately.
Better leave the remaining spots for someone else... a character from Warcraft, maybe? Or a character from some nostalgic games... I think people have a soft spot for badass Samus Aran, although I've never played Metroid games.
Ok, ok, I got it... if you don't find better entries, for you last two spots I suggest:
- Prince of Persia
- Samus Aran
Hey there, thanks for suggesting them to complete the list. I'm still collecting better images for them so it might take time, but I'll add it eventually, IMDb yet hasn't approved it.
Btw, I'll be adding Dylan and Regina together in one entry. I've already submitted a few good quality pictures, just waiting for approval.
BONAFIDE BOSS,
Thanks for that, it was in front of my eyes the whole time. I didn't see it — damn shame.
Hey mihailo.razvigor,
I've added all the four characters you suggested.
Three*, I've listed Dylan and Regina as one entry.
I like also Talion in Middle-earth: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3330488/mediaviewer/rm4101955840
Some orcs are very badass like The Tower (no picture of him on IMDb) this is how he looks:https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/859474857708502248/B9A2E88AA7EF35ECB406D61E93CB3873C79683...
Anyway, it is not a very popular video game.
It is only my opinion, but for me, the character in the video game is badass only if you play it well, for example, if you always die because you can't jump or you can't shoot in Tomb Raider (like me at the beginning) Lara Croft isn't badass because you will look like a loser who keeps dying again and again then the only true references you would have is the videos in the video game, which are usually not very long so they don't give enough material to base on.
Hey there, Lara croft is already on the list.
I thought of adding characters like Talion and Sauron on the list, but they are film-based video games, so they were excluded. But it is a popular game, at least I loved it.
True, games like Metal Gear Solid, it's a stealth game, going guns-blazing is fun but not as badass as it can be in stealth.
Thanks for dropping a comment. Have a good day.
I think he was only saying that Lara would get his vote.
As for what it means to be a badass video game character, I think story-based games have a bigger chance of having a badass character, because of the cut-scenes which expand on a character's personality. Games where you go and mindlessly run-and-gun everything have badass characters only if you are good at playing them.
Exactly, this is what I meant my vote will go to Lara Croft.
FYC
Brick from Borderlands
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2385021/mediaviewer/rm3319420928
✔️ Added Chloe Frazer.
I mentioned your name and linked it to your IMDb profile.
Duke from Duke Nukem.
✔️ Added Duke Nukem.
Stephen Atwood
FYC: Gordon Freeman
Half-Life (Video Game 1998) and Half-Life 2 (Video Game 2004
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374692/mediaviewer/rm80425728
✔️ Added Gordon Freeman.
I mentioned your name and linked it to both your IMDb and GetSatisfaction profile.
Current List:
Total No. of Characters: 32 | https://www.imdb.com/list/ls091048357/
1. Kratos
2. Big Boss / Naked Snake
3. Max Payne
4. Arthur Morgan
5. Geralt
6. Agent 47
7. Venom Snake
8. Ezio
9. John Marston
10. Cliff Unger
11. Doomguy
12. Solid Snake
13. Lara Croft
14. Adam Jensen
15. Johnny Silverhand
16. Commander Shepard
17. Niko Bellic
18. Aloy
19. Vaas Montenegro
20. Joseph Seed
21. Master Chief
22. Trevor Philips
23. Higgs Monaghan
24. Joel
25. Scorpion
26. B.J. Blazkowicz
27. Nathan Drake
28. Gordon Freeman
29. Leon S. Kennedy
30. Connor
31. Duke Nukem
32. Chloe Frazer
33. --- nil ---
...3 (three) more spots are available.
The list was updated. No more spots left.
John Marston or Arthur Morgan probably.
The Badasses of the West.
Paok-Kilkis
Kratos is as badass as can be. I mean... look at him
Ikr, that's why I put him first on the list. Please don't judge me or call me a fanboy... which I am.
I don't know much about video games but this looks like a good poll. 'Interesting images, ass well.
In your introductory definition of "badass," I'm thinking that "particular" (rather than peculiar) and "describing" (rather than "addressing") are more precisely accurate. May I also suggest one other edit? (A semi-colon, rather than a comma, after "that they're badass.") All three edits are in bold below:
"Badass" is a particular way of describing someone with supreme style. They do whatever they want, whenever they want, wherever they want. They don't have to tell you that they're badass; you know it when you look at them or by seeing them in action. A Badass may or may not be good, bad, hero, or villain.
Thanks. : )
If you're suggesting it, it must be reasonable and better. You're the champ, champ.
Sure, Please edit them for me, since I can't. ❤️
I still have two more entries to add, (to complete a 35 characters list). I'll let you know once it's finished. Or you'll know it yourself, I'm sure.
Hey rubyfruit76,
I've completed the list with all the 35 entries. It is now ready for the poll. With your edited description (which yet has to be edited). Thanks in advance.
Peter, Champion
You have to edit your own text in the list page. You can't edit the text in the first post in this thread, but that is less important.
Oh, lol, I never thought about that in my excitement. I've updated the description.
Dan Dassow, Champion
Congratulations, BONAFIDE BOSS!
Most Badass Video Game Character
Live Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/SJU5sPwXmto/
IMPORTANT NOTICE (for those who're concerned)
New List: Most Badass Video Game Characters
Original List: (Not available anymore. Refer the poll or check the image shown below.)
The list has been changed from its original poll-form to my most favorite badass characters.
The list was never meant to have the characters which are not listed anymore. I added them for the sake of the poll.
Screenshot of the original list.
I hope this is fine with the staff or champions. I mean no harm.
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Glasgow Manifesto 2017
Greens will invest in transport that improves health and connects communities with affordable Glasgow-owned electric bus services, as well as new cycle and walking routes throughout the city.
Our transport systems in Glasgow don't work for most people. As Greens we believe transport is about safe routes to work, and affordable public transport which works for the whole public. It's only the Greens who are serious about public transport for the public, which is affordable and clean.
Martin Bartos
Getting Glasgow moving
Moving around Glasgow doesn’t need to be an unhealthy, frustrating, disjointed and dangerous experience. Greens will work for a transport plan that makes it “miles better” for people and all forms of transport:
Safe cycling and walking routes, separate from motor traffic; 10% of transport budget to be spent on walking and cycling.
20mph speed limit throughout residential areas.
Integrated and improved public transport with an easy to use Glasgow “Oyster card”.
Campaign for implementation of Crossrail to reconnect Glasgow’s rail network.
Introduce low emission zones, with a traffic-free city centre as a long-term aim
Roll out of electric vehicle charging points and push adoption of electric vehicles in council fleet, buses and in taxis.
Expand the Glasgow Car Club to cover the whole of Glasgow.
Spend money on maintaining existing roads and pavements, not building new roads.
Keep up to date with our campaign
'Glasgow Council 2017 Manifesto' (PDF)
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Home > Gruber Prizes
“Genetics is one of the most far-reaching of the sciences with its potential to alleviate human suffering.”
Peter Gruber, Chairman Emeritus and Co-Founder
The Gruber Foundation
The Genetics Prize is presented to a leading scientist, or up to three, in recognition of groundbreaking contributions to any realm of genetics research.
The Gruber Foundation established and awarded its first Genetics Prize in 2001. This year of monumental accomplishment in genetics research, with the successful sequencing of the human genome, was a particularly auspicious time to launch the world’s first major international prize devoted specifically to achievements in the realm of genetics research.
Created 135 years after Gregor Mendel discovered laws of heredity that implied the existence of genetic factors, the Genetics Prize is awarded under the guidance of an international advisory board of distinguished genetics scientists.
Beginning in 2001, the Prize – a gold medal and unrestricted $500,000 cash award – has been awarded for fundamental insights in the field of genetics. These may include original discoveries in genetic function, regulation, transmission, and variation, as well as in genomic organization.
2019 Gruber Genetics Prize
Bert Vogelstein discovered new genetics pathways and processes contributing to cancer
Joanne Chory and Elliot Meyerowitz have helped to revolutionize the field of plant molecular biology, with broad implications for global agriculture, the environment, and human health and disease.
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Industrial chemicals of the monoterpenoid class realised through synthetic biology and pathway engineering
Lead Research Organisation: University of Manchester
Department Name: Chemistry
Industrial biotechnology in chemicals manufacture is one of the key enabling technologies in the 21st Century. The European chemical industry is the largest in the world and biotechnology is poised to make a substantial impact on chemicals production (both bulk and fine chemicals) as we harness the biocatalytic potential of enzymes to develop green, innovative and competitive chemical processes. The manufacture of chiral molecules is a particular challenge: microorganisms are tremendously rich sources of compounds and metabolic pathways of use to the chemicals industry or as new pharmaceuticals. In this research programme we will develop new biocatalysts to synthesise an important group of organic compounds (the monoterpenoids) that have high commercial value in the food and fragrances industries. A serious obstacle to exploiting the most promising monoterpenoids is their limited availability from natural resources. Extraction and distillation of these molecules is expensive, low-yielding and requires substantial expenditure of natural resources. Seasonal variation in supply and environmental conditions also affect production. Formation of product racemic mixtures is also a major drawback in the manufacture of monoterpenoids by classical chemical synthesis. This can be mitigated by use of expensive chiral catalysts or by starting with materials from the chiral pool, but for terpenoids these building blocks are not available in sufficient abundance from natural resources. Enzyme-catalysed synthesis is attractive: regio- and stereo-selective biotransformation, use of 'green' reaction conditions and lack of toxic by-products combine to make biosynthesis attractive in sustainable manufacturing. US and European legislation acknowledges that products from biosynthetic manufacturing processes are considered 'natural'. This adds significant market value, especially in foods and flavourings manufacture. Identifying enzymatic routes to terpenoids is important because of (i) the requirement for 'natural products'; (ii) the inability to access them readily by chemical synthesis; (iii) environmental impact of classical synthesis; (iv) limited availability from natural resources.
Our work will unite knowledge-based application of new enzyme catalysts with synthetic biology to design new metabolic pathways to the monoterpenoids. We will generate pathways for monoterpenoid synthesis in whole cell synthetic microorganisms by genetic manipulation of E. coli strains to (i) upregulate enzymes in isoprenoid precursor biosynthesis and (ii) incorporate non-native genes to create novel pathways for monoterpenoid production. We will create several novel biosynthetic pathways, namely for the biosynthesis of (-)-limonene; (5R)-carvone and derivatives; (+)-pulegone; (+)-menthofuran; perillyl alcohol and derivatives; menthol compounds. We will generate novel E. coli strains (each containing upregulated isoprenoid precursor biosynthesis genes) into which additional heterologous/engineered genes encoding component pathway enzymes for monoterpene synthesis will be introduced. Strains will be optimised for enzyme expression, growth and monoterpenoid biosynthesis to enable efficient whole-cell biotransformation through systems-based analysis and modelling. Engineered strains will be used sequentially to generate monoterpenoids without need for enzyme isolation or exogenous addition of cofactor recycling systems. The programme will transform the industrial synthesis of commercially important monoterpenoids. It delivers on the BBSRC Knowledge Based Bio-Economy strategic priority and exploits synthetic/systems biology to underpin next generation biocatalysis for industry.
We will produce new bacterial strains with the capability of manufacturing monoterpenoid compounds, which are valuable industrial products. We will develop a synthetic biology programme in which we will engineer artificial pathways for monoterpenoids based on knowledge of the activities and structures of component enzymes (or their variants) that display desired catalytic properties. Our programme integrates synthetic biology and systems-based approaches, with biocatalysis and analysis of enzyme structures and mechanisms. We have expressed and purified a number of the required component enzymes. A number of these enzymes have been characterised in detail at the level of substrate biotransformation and kinetics, and structure determination, enabling us to define precisely the reactions catalysed. We are therefore in a strong position to take our monoterpenoid biocatalysis programme forward using synthetic biology approaches, underpinned by knowledge of component enzyme structure, mechanism and chemical specificity. The programme builds on our expertise with redox enzyme systems and offers green and simplified routes to monoterpenoids, thereby circumventing many of the limitations associated with current industrial processes that are (i) reliant on scarce natural resources, (ii) give rise to poorly controlled stereochemical outcomes and (iii) utilise toxic reagents. The work programme is strategically important in the industrial biocatalysis area and maps directly onto the KBBE strategy identified by BBSRC.
Beneficiaries: (i) The chemicals manufacturing industry - with improved biocatalytic/synthetic biology manufacturing processes for generating a variety of industrially important and high value monoterpenoids that mitigate risk associated with the limited supply of reagents from natural resources. 'Natural synthesis' avoids use of toxic reagents with consequent environmental benefits and high acceptability in the food and fragrance manufacturing industries. Biosynthesis avoids costly work-up and poor stereospecific control associated with manufacturing based on classical chemical synthesis. (ii) The pharmaceutical/drug development industry - our enzymatically synthesized limonene based products will provide bioactive monoterpenoid scaffolds with high enantiopurity. Expansion of enzyme substrate specificity will enable chemical elaboration of derived monoterpenoids in a controlled and predictable manner, facilitating exploration of new monoterpenoid structures in pharmaceutical development.
Exploitation: We anticipate that our newly designed biocatalytic strains will have commercial impact. Our strategy for translating the technology is to establish IP protection through UMIP (Manchester's IP office) and work in partnership with UMIP for exploitation. We anticipate IP protection at an early stage, with second generation and further IP protection occurring at additional stages later in the grant. Our strategy will be either to license the use of bespoke biocatalysts/strains, or spin out from Manchester a start-up based on this IP position. We will actively pursue follow up funding [ 'Manchester Fund' (a venture capital fund for Manchester based activities], UMIP proof-of-principle funding or BBSRC follow on funding. We have established collaborations with biocatalysis companies (e.g. Chirotech, GSK and partner companies of CoEBio3) with whom we will also explore licensing agreements. We communicate through networking events with external stakeholders (industry, other University groups, venture capital groups, policy groups) through structured workshops, showcase events and industry within MIB and associated Centres. We will use these events to extend the outreach of our work and to demonstrate the utility of our new biocatalysis design platform and the general impact it will have in the design of new industrially useful biocatalysts.
Outreach: We will take advantage of 'Discover days' hosted by Manchester to introduce school children to the science underpinning biocatalysis. We will write web pages on 'Biocatalysis: the new chemicals manufacturing industry' for the 'Children's University at Manchester'. We also host University open days for the general public and we will showcase the impact of biocatalysis and synthetic biology in manufacturing processes at these events. Scrutton lectures to school children at science focus meetings on enzymes. He has written short articles in 'Biological Science Reviews' - a magazine targeted at school children, and we will continue to write articles on the topic of catalysis. Café scientifique events are organised on campus and the team (appointed PDRAs) will engage in these events. We have contributed widely to making our work accessible to non-specialist audiences e.g. radio interviews, general science articles in popular science journals, contributed chapters to popular science books, assisting journalists in reporting in national press (e.g. Economist, Guardian) and hosting workshops and similar in the field. This emphasises our commitment to outreach activities to non-specialists.
Aug 12 - Feb 17
BB/J015512/1
Nigel Shaun Scrutton
Biomolecules & biochemistry
Catalysis & enzymology
Novel industrial products
University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom (Lead Research Organisation)
EPSRC, United Kingdom (Co-funder)
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) (Collaboration)
GlaxoSmithKline, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
Nigel Shaun Scrutton (Principal Investigator)
John Michael Gardiner (Co-Investigator) http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1827-6817
Pedro Mendes (Co-Investigator)
David Leys (Co-Investigator) http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4845-8443
Cheallaigh AN (2018) Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of the Intermediates in the Peppermint Monoterpenoid Biosynthetic Pathway. in Journal of natural products
Currin A (2018) Engineering the "Missing Link" in Biosynthetic (-)-Menthol Production: Bacterial Isopulegone Isomerase. in ACS catalysis
Issa IS (2019) C3 and C6 Modification-Specific OYE Biotransformations of Synthetic Carvones and Sequential BVMO Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of Chiral Caprolactones. in Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)
Jervis AJ (2019) Machine Learning of Designed Translational Control Allows Predictive Pathway Optimization in Escherichia coli. in ACS synthetic biology
Lygidakis A (2016) Pinpointing a Mechanistic Switch Between Ketoreduction and "Ene" Reduction in Short-Chain Dehydrogenases/Reductases. in Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)
Mansell DJ (2013) Biocatalytic Asymmetric Alkene Reduction: Crystal Structure and Characterization of a Double Bond Reductase from . in ACS catalysis
Toogood HS (2015) Enzymatic Menthol Production: One-Pot Approach Using Engineered Escherichia coli. in ACS synthetic biology
Toogood HS (2016) Natural Product Biosynthesis in Escherichia coli: Mentha Monoterpenoids. in Methods in enzymology
Impact Summary
Engagement Activities
Description In this work we have developed metabolic pathways for menthol, providing biocatalysis and synthetic biology routes to menthol and related monoterpenoids found in Mentha (mint) essential oils. The era of synthetic biology heralds in a new, more "green" approach to fine chemical and pharmaceutical drug production. Menthol isomers are high-value monoterpenoid commodity chemicals, produced naturally by mint plants. Alternative clean biosynthetic routes to these compounds are commercially attractive. Optimization strategies for biocatalytic terpenoid production are mainly focused on metabolic engineering of the biosynthesis pathway within an expression host. We circumvent this bottleneck by combining pathway assembly techniques with classical biocatalysis methods to engineer and optimize cell-free one-pot biotransformation systems and apply this strategy to the mint biosynthesis pathway. Our approach allows optimization of each pathway enzyme and avoidance of monoterpenoid toxicity issues to the host cell.
We have developed a one-pot (bio)synthesis of menthol and neomenthol using recombinant Escherichia coli extracts containing the biosynthetic genes. This one-pot biocatalytic method allows easier optimization of each enzymatic step and easier modular combination of reactions to ultimately generate libraries of pure compounds for use in high-throughput screening. It will be, therefore, a valuable addition to the arsenal of biocatalysis strategies, especially when applied for (semi)-toxic chemical compounds.We also developed a chemoenzymatic approach providing access to all four intermediates in the peppermint biosynthetic pathway between limonene and menthone/isomenthone, including a number of non commercially available intermediates. We have complemented our experimental work with the implementation of machine learning algorithms to model the bacterial ribosome binding site sequence-phenotype relationship from representative subsets of large combinatorial bacterial ribosome binding site libraries allowing the accurate prediction of optimal high-producers. This methodology is potentially compatible with any biochemical pathway and provides a powerful tool toward predictive design of bacterial production chassis. Ultimately, synthetic biology approaches to microbial monoterpenoid production may revolutionize "natural" compound formation.
Exploitation Route Patent filing for menthol production; translational work is being pursued to develop a production platform for this group of chemicals
Sectors Chemicals,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology,Pharmaceuticals and Medical Biotechnology,Other
Description Follow on funding for commercialisation being pursued and the experimental techniques disseminated to the industrial biotechnology community.
First Year Of Impact 2015
Sector Chemicals,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology,Pharmaceuticals and Medical Biotechnology,Other
Impact Types Economic
Description GSK
Organisation GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)
Sector Private
PI Contribution Provided expertise, research time and equipment.
Collaborator Contribution Provided expertise and funding.
Impact Synthetic biology methods for production of fine chemicals.
Description MIB Open Day Stands/Tours
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact At Institute Open Day members of research group presented exhibits on topics of enzyme catalysis, synthetic biology, light activated biology and 'proteins' in general. Also demonstrated use of laboratory equipment on lab-tours run for attending students. Event was well received by both students and their teachers and seemed to inspire interest in the subject.
No defined impacts realised to date
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2012,2013,2014,2015,2016
Description NSEW Science Fair
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Results and Impact Members of research group presented exhibit on topics of enzymes and proteins. Event was well received by both students and their teachers and seemed to inspire interest in the subject.
Additional stand on SynBio for flavours and fragrances hosted by the iGEM team (2016)
Description Science Spectacular
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013,2014,2015,2016
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By Ryan P. Randall on August 13, 2015 • ( 2 Comments )
This is Not a Pipette: Bringing Humanities Methods into LIS Programs
When I was talking with my friends and family about preparing for library school, I couldn’t stop tripping over the phrase “information science.” Between my humanities background and penchant for absurdity, I kept having visions of putting sterilized books into autoclaves or using a pipette to carefully dispense precise information units to patrons. I’ve been taught that history and culture influence any endeavor—particularly so when it doesn’t carefully reflect upon these things. I’m relieved to say that my professors have warmly welcomed my attempts to incorporate my humanities background into relevant assignments and projects, despite the fact that my program calls our work a “science.” This post won’t argue for whether or not our field might more productively be called “information studies” rather than “information science.” A number of programs have historically been called both, many currently include “information studies” in some part of their name, and perhaps most importantly, research more recognizable as “studies” than “sciences”—such as history, culture, or literary-style close readings—can from my experience all be performed even in an “information science” program, given the right conditions.
Pipettes, Test Tubes, and Metadata: Oh My!
Beyond my own experience, the editors of one of our field’s most distinguished journals, College & Research Libraries, recently published an editorial explicitly stating that they were looking for papers using broader methodologies. Its editors James Elmborg and Scott Walter assert, contrary to a 2001 editorial by then-editor Donald E. Riggs which advocated a model of research closely aligned with the social sciences, that:
“Library research needs to become much more open to critical theory as one part of the broad range of research approaches that can help us imagine the future of library practices. Indeed, the intellectual vibrancy of this field depends on our ability to synthesize multiple research traditions” (4).
Similarly, in “Education, Adoption, and Development: Building a Culture of Social Theory in LIS,” Paul T. Jaeger argues that our field could benefit greatly from looking at the sorts of critical social theory extensively used in education, another field where both a Master’s and practice are the norm.
So for anyone coming from a similar humanities perspective, I’d like to share and summarize a few articles I’ve found that help show how those of us with more humanities intellectual lenses can bring them to bear on library and information work. If you come from a humanities background, you might also want to check out posts other Hackers have written, such as Anna-Sophia’s “Why I Loved Lucy Even Though It Got Terrible Reviews: Toward an Info-Humanism” and the many posts on Digital Humanities.
Wiegand, Wayne. 2003. “To Reposition a Research Agenda—What American Studies Can Teach the LIS Community about the Library in the Life of the User.” The Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy, Vol. 73, No. 4 (Oct., 2003), pp. 369–382.
Wayne Wiegand’s 2003 essay “To Reposition a Research Agenda: What American Studies can Teach the LIS Community about the Library in the Life of the User” links questions about democratic theory to questions about culture. The essay invites researchers, both of LIS and American Studies, to study how libraries have been given and produced meaning within the larger scope of their users’ lives. Rather than prioritize the “useful information” habitually regarded as most important by LIS researchers, Wiegand turns to a host of scholars of publics, places, and cultural studies to show how their theories have influenced thought on how people make sense of places and reading, whether individually or as communities. Like John Buschman’s “Democratic Theory in Library Information Science,” this essay closes with a list of potential research questions, primarily focusing on libraries as cultural spaces and on libraries in the reading lives of library users.
Radford, Gary, Marie Radford, and Jessica Lingel. “The Library as Heterotopia: Michel Foucault and the Experience of Library Space.” Journal of Documentation, Vol. 71 No. 4 pp. 733–751.
Another article that focuses on how library spaces operate in our culture, “The Library as Heterotopia: Michel Foucault and the Experience of Library Space,” explores fictional representations of libraries. Written by Gary Radford, Marie Radford, and Jessica Lingel, this article reads fiction as accounts of affective encounters with the transformative potential of libraries. These fictional accounts range broadly, touching for instance on works by China Mieville, Umberto Eco, and Doctor Who.This delightful article accessibly explains how Foucault’s notion of the heterotopia can help us understand the experiences and potentials of libraries. Heterotopic spaces mix and juxtapose a person’s relationship to multiple spaces in a way that allows for critical understanding of how any space positions and constructs subjects. Ranging from fascinating to horrifying, the fictional accounts of library spaces suggest that writers regard these institutions more as spaces for possibility rather than for static, functional retrieval of documents.
Kapitzke, Cushla. “Information Literacy, A Review and Poststructural Critique.” Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, Vol. 26, No. 1, 2003, pp. 53—66.
Cushla Kapitzke’s 2003 article “Information Literacy, A Review and Poststructural Critique” addresses the status of information within LIS, primarily by exploring how various library and education professional groups describe information literacy. She shows that professional groups routinely envision it as a neutral method or skill with universal outcomes. As a corollary, she argues, these groups depict knowledge and truth as static and findable with the appropriate method—conveniently the method of information literacy. Kapitzke points out that according to poststructural theories of language, knowledges do not stand outside of the mediation inherent to cultural signs and symbols but instead are socially constructed. As with many other LIS writers who look to critical theory, she uses Foucault as a touchstone for the discursive production of knowledge. Kapitzke argues that librarians should consider the socio-historical production of “information literacy” as a discourse as well as develop more critical alternatives.
Day, Ronald E. “Poststructuralism and Information Studies.” Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, v39 n1 (2005): 575–609.
Written for those with more than passing familiarity with structuralism and poststructuralism, Ronald E. Day’s insightful 2005 article “Poststructuralism and Information Studies” addresses these bodies of work on a large, syncretic level, although he also covers specifics of certain thinkers. The article in particular addresses Ferdinand de Saussure, Roland Barthes, and Michel Foucault. Day’s article shows how these two interrelated bodies of theory trouble the standard information science account of the “conduit metaphor” of information. This model imagines “information” primarily as concept or meaning that lies outside language and can be successfully, unproblematically passed from one subject to another through adequate use of words, signs, or symbols. In different ways, structuralist and poststructuralist thinkers assert that meaning does not exist outside of language. Day shows how structuralism and poststructuralism compellingly suggest that a meaningful unit only reliably bears meaning within a larger system, posing problems to theories of information that construct information as its own self-enclosed entity that can stand on its own.
This round up of humanities-based approaches to library and information work doesn’t even approach being a thorough lit review of its own. Do you have others you’d like to recommend to fellow Hack Library School readers? What success have you had bringing your previous humanities methods and questions into your LIS work?
Photo Credit: “Pipettes & test Tubes” by Luca Volpa, used with a Creative Commons BY-SA 2.0 license.
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The Panhandle
Glasstire’s Best of 2018
by Glasstire December 21, 2018
A scene from ‘Eternal Now,’ Nestor Topchy’s installation at Geo. H Lewis Funeral Home, Houston
Glasstire staff and contributors share which Texas-based shows, events, and works made their personal “best” lists for 2018.
Christopher Blay
Walls Turned Sideways: Artists Confront the Justice System at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
“What is the social role and responsibility of the artist in times of political urgency?” Guest curator Risa Puleo poses and answers this question at the CAMH with selections from 40 artists including Chris Burden, Andrea Fraser, and Glen Ligon. (On view through Jan. 6, 2019) Puleo flays the ultra-flawed justice system with works from the participating artists, laying bare all the layers of its structure, from policing, to incarceration and probation. Carl Pope’s From the Trophy Collection…, a table of trophies he created for police officers involved in extrajudicial killing of black men, is a sharp and cynical jab to the system.
Carl Pope at CAMH
Njideka Akunyili Crosby at the Fort Worth Modern
FOCUS: Njideka Akunyili Crosby at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s Counterparts (on view through Jan. 13, 2019) are mirrored pairs of paintings juxtaposing life in America with life in Nigeria, which she left in 1999. The works are rich collages of fabrics, solvent transfer prints, and paintings that magnify the cultural impact of colonialism and pop culture on indigenous populations across western Africa. Some of the cultural impressions are humorous, like the iterations of Michael Jackson’s Thriller jackets on album covers of Nigerian tribute bands. Others are ominous. In the pair of paintings As We see You, two Blackmoor serving dishes are around the necks of slave figurines, fetishizing a colonial past.
Lillian Young’s BFA thesis show, TCU’ s Moudy Gallery, Fort Worth
It’s rare that a BFA exhibition rises above an aspirational artsy gesture that makes a political statement and doesn’t elicit an eye roll. And if you blinked last month, you probably missed this one (the show was up for one week). Lillian Young’s graduating thesis show at TCU was ambitious and poignant. Among the works Young created was a series of portraits on untreated canvas of young black children killed by police and by racial violence. Black lines of paint covered their eyes — redactions that played in other works in a really good show.
Robert Boyd
Captive Sojourn and the Indefinite, Kaneem Smith at Galveston Arts Center
Kaneem Smith draws on Galveston’s history as a major 19th-century port. Much of the work is made out of burlap bags used to ship coffee, including an enormous curtain called Migrant Barrier Tapestry displayed in the back wall of the large downstairs gallery.
Galveston was one of the largest cotton exporting ports in the world, and Smith references the history of black Americans engaged in the back-breaking work of picking cotton. The literal centerpiece of the show is Cotton Belt Memorial, which recreates the famous abolitionist image of the 1788 slave ship called Brooks. This huge floor piece uses sewn-together burlap bags as a base, and combines casts of human bones and railroad ties in the place of the images of bodies from the original Brooks image. It is a powerful memorial work. (On view through Jan 13, 2019.)
Kaneem Smith at Galveston Arts Center
Right Here Right Now at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
Right Here Right Now at the CAMH this past summer included works by Albert Alvarez, Richard Armendariz, Julia Barbosa Landois, Christie Blizard, Sarah Castillo, Lisette Chavez, Adriana Corral, Ana Fernandez, Audrya Flores, John Hernandez, Diana Kersey, César Martínez, Michael Martínez, Martha Mood, Katie Pell, Chuck Ramirez, José Luis Rivera Barrera, Daniel Rios Rodriguez, and the duo of Britt Lorraine and Kristy Perez (known together as Saintlorraine). It was part of a series of CAMH shows featuring local artists, but this time the remit expanded the “local” to include San Antonio.
What knocked me out was the amazing selection of paintings and drawings and objects with a decidedly thoughtful, ‘low-brow’ feel, particularly Albert Alvarez’s grotesque depictions of street life and John Hernandez’s Big Daddy Roth-inspired paintings and sculptures. I would add César Martínez’s portraits and beer-bottle label collages, and Ana Fernandez’s exquisite neighborhood paintings. You don’t see this kind of grounded and immediate work being done much in Houston, which is a shame.
Eternal Now, Nestor Topchy’s installation at Geo. H Lewis Funeral Home, Houston
For one night only, at an established funeral home, longtime Houston artist Nestor Topchy displayed hundreds of small portraits done in the traditional style of Russian Orthodox icons — egg tempera and gold leaf. Instead of religious figures, Topchy paints portraits of artists and people in the Houston art community. Hundreds of his icons were installed along the chapel walls, and some of his International Klein Blue pieces (another of Topchy’s bodies of work, pictured at top) were scattered about. A live string quartet played, and artist Y.E. Torres, dressed in a mermaid costume, lounged under an aquarium in the funeral home’s entryway. If Andrei Rublev made Gesamtkunstwerks about Houston, he’d be Nestor Topchy.
A recent post on Boyd’s Instagram
Clothes abandoned on the streets of Houston
If you walk around Houston with your eyes open, you see many things that look sort of like art, despite any sense of artistic intention. Houston artist Nathaniel Donnett posts pictures of such scenes on Instagram, with the hashtag #HoustonTopSculptors. I contribute my own photos of such things on Instagram. For some reason, people leave items of clothing all over Houston’s streets. I always notice this, and started taking pictures of it a couple of years ago. I like imagining the stories of how the clothes ended up on the street. I don’t have a particular hastag for this kind of unintentional artwork, but perhaps I should. #softstreetsculpture, perhaps?
Colette Copeland
Dalí: Poetics of the Small, 1929–1936 at the Meadows Museum, SMU, Dallas
This exhibition (on view through Jan. 6, 2019) surprised me with its understated elegance. Featuring small paintings from a seven-year, prolific period of Dalí’s career, the exhibition highlights the artist’s visionary and technical mastery. Exhibiting small works is a challenging endeavor, as high ceilings and empty wall space can easily overwhelm the art, so the design and curatorial team took a risk by hanging each work with immense space around it. This installation allows for intimate contemplation of each work in an environment that feels sacred. It’s a show that I could return to many times.
Takashi Murakami at the Fort Worth Modern
Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
This show promised fun and spectacle and did not disappoint on either count. But particular aspects of the show won me over. One, the exhibition showed Murakami’s early work, predating his creation of his signature, anime-inspired characters. The early work itself was mostly unremarkable, but within the context of his artistic career, it shows a radical shift in his cultural and artistic practice. Another was the inclusion of his most current and somewhat unresolved work. It deviates from his confident, colorful and highly polished sculptures and paintings, and leaves viewers with questions. A third thing I appreciated about this show was that this high-profile celebrity artist talked to Fort Worth art viewers openly, with real vulnerability, as he expressed doubts and insecurities about his practice and work.
Laurie Simmons at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
I admit to a strong bias, since I have been a long-time fan of Simmons’ work. What I really appreciate about this retrospective (on view through Jan. 27, 2019) is the inclusion of work from all of her series from the last 40 years. This is a comprehensive look into an important artist who uses photography to provocatively examine issues of gender and culture. While she’s best known for the iconic work using dolls and miniatures to examine archetypal female roles, her current work explores the fetishized gaze and the masking of online identity. Simmons’ themes continue to be salient in our current political climate.
Hannah Dean
The fall Texas Tech University School of Art Faculty Exhibition at Louise Hopkins Underwood Center For the Arts, Lubbock
I didn’t expect to love a group show with no set theme. But sculptor Cody Arnall’s ridiculous and tediously crafted magic marker made from “thank you” grocery bags being perpetually inflated was weird and wonderful. Printmaker Sang-Mi Yoo’s cookie-cutter house stencil with a technicolor-striped ground was saccharin-sweet and acidic. Jewelry Professor Robly Glover’s Stop, a necklace composed of whistles, is, like, the anthem-piece for 2018. These art professors are in the game, churning out killer stuff. This exhibition showcased the driving force behind the experimental fervor and work ethic of the Lubbock art scene: It’s studio education.
Zach Morriss at 5&J Gallery at CASP
Zach Morriss at 5&J Gallery at CASP, Lubbock
I’m still thinking about this solo show from last spring, and the themes Morriss touched on are still reframing the way I look at installation. The familiarity of suspended dresser drawers, a mantle, a rococo chair, and computer cords made for an odd call to contrition about our use of technology, self-presentation and consumerism. Beyond weighty conceptual concerns, Morriss handled painting, installation, and sculpture with certainty. Keep your eyes on this one, folks.
Rembrandt at The Citadelle Art Foundation, Canadian
The is the first time this body of work has been shown in Texas. Rembrandt was of course the absolute master of gesture, delivering the most accurate information in as few marks as possible. Exposed toes, screams at the abyss, the postures of the displaced and the despondent — these present the humanity of each person at the forefront of any other conceptual device. Rembrandt’s sympathetic view of his subjects is balanced by his dark humor: he features a man pissing, exposed bellies, or banalities like a remark on the weather — “tis vinnich kout!” This exhibition was a highlight of my year, but probably the past decade, too. Plus, no long lines in this oil-patch town.
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Jenelle Esparza at Artpace Summer Residency, San Antonio
The best show in the best Artpace resident exhibition of the year, Esparza’s inventive, icy, and symbolically rich Gathering Bones fearlessly examined cotton, a historically charged plant, and its legacy of violence and subjugation. Esparza’s method is visually subtle — symbols such as cotton pods and garden hoes are encased and lit like medical instruments in a surgery theater. Abstract tapestries made from cotton hang next to resin-stained driftwood from a nearby lake that resemble raw sinew and muscles. This creates a magnificent montage of heightened symbolism and association, akin to the work of filmmakers Maya Deren and Chris Marker.
Jenelle Esparza at Artpace
Stalker at Austin Film Society
I obviously have to include this given that, in writing or in person, I reference this movie at least once a month. The always wonderful Austin Film Society screened a 4K digital restoration of the 1979 film this past summer, and it singlehandedly convinced me that a digital print can equal a pristine film print. Tarkovsky is the greatest filmic artist to ever live; his preternatural fluency with the language of film is a perfect instrument for his symbolic instincts. Tarkovsky and several crew members contracted cancer from filming in an irradiated site, which in the movie is the scene of the mysterious Zone, where things are a notch off and one’s innermost desires are fulfilled. Thus, Tarkovsky literally died for this film. Stalker is a dreamy sci-fi odyssey that treats questions of faith, reason, desire, and God with utmost rigor, and reaches a state of a philosophical, heuristic fable. Would you really want your innermost desires fulfilled?
Installation view of Monarchs: Brown and Native Contemporary Artists in the Path of the Butterfly
Monarchs: Brown and Native Contemporary Artists in the Path of the Butterfly at Blue Star Contemporary and Southwest School of Art, San Antonio
The epic, two-venue Monarchs show divided between Blue Star and Southwest School of Art (still on view, through Jan. 6, 2019) takes an au courant curatorial concept — and an ecological, science-related thread — as its launching point and luxuriates in the allegorical idiosyncrasies, chance, and history of the migratory pathway of butterflies and applies it peopled migration. Monarchs is electrically expansive, with a wide range of Latin American and Native American artists working in concert and meditation on geography and identity. Some of the work is wondrous, or devastating, or both.
I’m wildly unable to select favorites from the intriguing work I wrote about this year, so if I may I’d like to offer a holler to a couple of peops who recently departed their mortal hosts. The Rev. Goat Carson, known as David Carson while growing up in Irving in the 1960s, died this summer in New Orleans. While some who knew him much better than I did caution against believing everything one reads about his intriguing trajectory, if even an iota is true it’s… well, consider Kinky’s testimony that Goat was “a visionary, a veteran soul imbued with a deep, mystical nature that often manifested itself precisely when the chips were down.”
Rev. Goat Carson, courtesy James Shaw Photography
In 2011, Goat joined his brothers, filmmaker L.M. “Kit” Carson and artist Neke Carson, for an exhibition/performance/film screening at NYC’s Gershwin Hotel entitled Three Carsons Out of Texas. The late director and screenwriter Kit (David Holzman’s Diary; Breathless; Paris, Texas) showed excerpts of his Africa Diary. Neke screened a film about his 1970s portrait of Andy Warhol, in which he famously grasped the brush with his rear end. Songster Goat did a spoken-word piece about foul 1950s deeds of the Atomic Energy Commission. “Stay young in your minds, people. Keep a teddy bear close to your heart,” Goat counseled in a video in which he clutches a teddy bear. “They can’t crush you if you’re in the spirit of childhood.”
A detail of Stylle Read’s Cleburne mural
For many years before his November 15 death at age 97, Delbert “Sleepy” Read of Keene invited the public to watch him paint abstract works and rural landscapes in Cleburne’s downtown Wright Plaza mall. His work can be seen today at Keene’s Southwest Adventist University and Cleburne’s J. N. Long Cultural Arts Complex and Chaf-In Restaurant. Son Stylle Read’s history-themed murals can be seen all over the state, including the organic oddity of Cleburne’s recently-opened Gone With the Wind Museum and Gift Shop.
Betsy Heute
Emilý Æyer and Traci Lavois Thiebaud at Private Eye Gallery, Houston
It was one of those soulless, sweltering summer nights in Houston — the kind where all the art assumes that the people who take it seriously have left town, relegating those of us who are left to the most cynically commodified crap. After attending opening after opening after opening of said crap, a friend and I finally landed at an event at Private Eye Gallery that looked more like a parody of goth than an art opening. We were skeptical, but I’m glad we stuck it out. Emilý Æyer and Traci Lavois Thiebaud’s performance — haunting, bombastic, crystalline, confrontational, sexy, queer, intertwined, and broken — was tender and intimate and strange. Any Shitty Sedan (2018) saved me that night.
Virginia Lee Montgomery at Moonmist Gallery, Houston
The surrealist qualities of Montgomery’s Deep See are a red herring, because it lulls us into a sense of passiveness. Where surrealism so often co-opts womanhood (particularly women’s bodies) as the object of male desire and auto-eroticism, in Deep See, we feel with a sense of unease and nausea the heightened intensity of an oceanic dreamscape penetrated by drills, and a dangling braid ready to be grabbed or chopped off — or to simply and perpetually dangle.
Courtney Sanborn at Redbud Gallery
Courtney Sanborn at Redbud Gallery, Houston
Sanborn has stated that these embroidered works spring from personal experience, and the aesthetic choices derive anywhere from illuminated manuscript to rug patterns. But the works in total — with the lush greenery and nudes — read as some kind of warped Adam and Eve story told from a contemporary woman’s point of view. It’s as if a gleeful, mischievous Eve was bouncing around, blowing fire out of her vagina and wreaking havoc at poor Adam’s expense. I laughed out loud when I saw this show.
Melissa L. Mednicov
Ellsworth Kelly’s Austin at UT Austin
One of my best art experiences in 2018 was the debut of Ellsworth Kelly’s long-awaited, stand-alone Austin. I visited the space on a very hot day in July and the combination of Kelly, color, and possibly the air conditioning overwhelmed my senses. I was ready to love Austin, which is the only Kelly site of its kind. The interior was a respite on a scorching day, but its invitation for quiet and reprieve, I imagine, may sustain my affection for the space year-round.
Ellsworth Kelly’s Austin
Additionally, I saw Ancestral Modern: Australian Aboriginal Art from the Kaplan & Levi Collection at the Blanton Museum of Art, also on UT’s campus, on the same day. Both that exhibition and Austin invited questions about modernism, abstraction, and meaning, particular to how the spiritual specifically appeared in some of the Aboriginal artists’ works and the tensions of its appearance and disappearance in Austin.
The Reopened Menil Collection, Houston
Another best for me was the reopening of the Menil Collection this fall. Over the summer I read William Middleton’s Double Vision (Knopf, 2018), a biography of Dominique and John de Menil. “Re-seeing” their collection, after reading more about the history of the couple, institution, and Houston, encouraged for me a new experience of the space and the permanent collection. The recent addition of the Menil Drawing Institute, spare and elegant as a building, already seems at home on the Menil campus. Its inaugural show The Condition of Being Here: Drawings by Jasper Johns is a compact yet comprehensive focus on Johns’ drawings and an intelligent introduction to the new exhibition space.
William Sarradet
Postcolonial, 3636 University Street, Dallas
Like a shady backroom deal, this show got swept into the shape of an obscure memory before spring broke into summer. Christina Rees’ review of the show approximates the experience. And though this was a disappointing grab at spicing up a real-estate open house for an uninspiring property in one of Dallas’ pricier neighborhoods, my impression of the show and its resonance remains true today: Some of the best conversations I’ve had about art in Dallas happened at this awkward opening.
Truth: 24 frames per second at the Dallas Museum of Art
Trailing into the first moments of 2018, this big video show ended with a week of free admission to the museum. Is that customary for the DMA? I heard some mumbling complaints about the inescapable sound bleed in the ambitious installation, and I have to agree. But the selection was solid, and I caught myself asking questions I hadn’t asked before. For what it’s worth, I saw the instant-classic work Love Is the Message, The Message Is Death, by Arthur Jafa, for the first time at the DMA in this show before I saw it at the Hirshhorn in DC, both in this calendar year. And for me — yes, it made a difference.
Shelby David Meier’s Omellete Bar at Culture Hole, Dallas
Shelby David Meier at Culture Hole, Dallas
These happenings, often unwittingly the punctuation to the opening or closing of a Power Station show (Culture Hole resides within the Power Station), are a local favorite. For this installation, Dallas-based artist Shelby David Meier made excellent use of an elaborate set produced for a Power Station show, and its endpoint was a simple, functional “Omellette [sic] Bar,” with accommodation for one.
A scene at Grojean Glass Studio, Dallas
Grojean Glass Studio, M Streets, Dallas
I made a visit to Grojean Glass Studio in Dallas this summer, shortly after my stint filming glassblowing demos for the Pilchuck Glass School in Washington state. Artists who moonlight as restorers inspire me. The studio, with its collection and dedication to sustaining local, vintage leaded glass is a Dallas treasure.
Christina Rees
Michael Menchaca at Ruiz-Healy Art, San Antonio
Every trip I make to San Antonio is a good one, art-wise, but this show stands out for me for 2018. San Antonio native Michael Menchaca’s solo show Vignettes from San Antonio at Ruiz-Healy last spring struck me as both joyful and defiant, and a visually satisfying bid to shift an aesthetic and cultural dialogue around Chicano and Latinx art. In his large collages and drawings, Menchaca combined San Antonio iconography with Mesoamerican motifs and a deep appreciation for narrative and storytelling, along with a visual nod to early video games and graphic-novel illustration. These works practically vibrated off the walls with the combined energy of his ultra-populated scenes. Menchaca has a current show up at San Antonio’s McNay, through January 6, as part of the museum’s series 100 Years of Printmaking in San Antonio.
Michael Menchaca at Ruiz-Healy Art
Work by Wes Kline and Erika Lynn Hanson at Bienal Transfronteriza 2018 at MACJ
Transborder Biennial 2018 / Bienal Transfronteriza 2018 at the El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA) and the Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juárez (MACJ)
Over the summer, two institutions on both sides of the Texas-Mexico border held their collaborative (and fifth) Transborder Biennial. Rainey Knudson and I attended both, on a day, by walking back and forth across a border bridge from El Paso to Juarez, and we were both struck and touched by the efforts of these museums’ staffs, and of course the artists in the show, to communicate a hope and synergy happening between artists on both sides of the border (the show is an open call to all artists living within 200 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border). This version of the Biennial featured 32 artists and collectives, with work by nearly every artist represented in each institution. FYI: The Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juárez (MACJ)’s building is a gem of mid-century brutalist architecture by Pedro Ramirez Vazquez, built in 1963. The museum itself could well be nicknamed “The Little Museum that Could,” given the space’s lack of practical resources and regular audience in what was even recently considered a murder capital. Here’s hoping for a long-running tradition, and I’m very much looking forward to the next Biennial.
Goya at the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth
(This show is still on view, through Jan. 6, 2019) It makes some sense that this exhibition would make an impact on me, given that it was about 25 years ago that I stood in the middle of the Prado in Madrid, swooning at the overwhelming output of the old masters, and decided I wanted to write about art. Francisco de Goya y Lucientes has been a touchstone for me all along, but this show of his works on paper (borrowed from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) wows me all over again: Goya’s psychological insight — expressed in simple and gorgeous mark-making — to human cruelty, folly, and comedy emanates from his every small composition in this darkened and intimate museum setting. From drawing to drawing, the individual narratives sing, and the rest of the world just sort of disappears as you wander from one to the next. It entertains repeat visits. Goya in Black and White features works from Goya’s best known series, including The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters; Disasters of War; Disparates; Tauromaquia; and Caprichos, and given our current political climate, every work feels as fresh as this morning’s news headlines. In other words, it’s a sometimes queasy show. But I would expect no less from this master.
Brandon Zech
Houston’s Re-examination of its own Art History
The fall of 2018 marked a boom in the Houston art community’s capacity for self-reflection. While there are venues and groups around town dedicated to the city’s rich art history — who day-in and day-out do the thankless job of reminding us where we and our art came from — the release of Pete Gershon’s book, Collision: The Contemporary Art Scene in Houston, 1972-1985 was the catalytic event that really brought the city’s art history back into some sense of the zeitgeist.
Installation view of Ellen Van Fleet’s ‘New York City Animal Levels’, March 1972, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. MS690 Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University.
As a city, Houston has a tendency to forget (or ignore) where it came from. The no-zoning chaos that make the city’s landscape so near-and-dear to our hearts also has a dark side, in that we praise the new while too easily burying our past. I feel that this year I saw Houston artists, collectors, patrons, and art enthusiasts of all ages digging beneath the surface to uncover a history that, to different people, was either forgotten, pushed away, or unknown. Spaces across city — including marquee venues like the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston — hosted shows of works by artists who essentially laid the foundations of the contemporary art scene that we all enjoy here today.
Pete Gershon and his 2018 book Collision.
For a long time, I’ve felt that many younger Houstonian artists weren’t aware of their predecessors. I believe the same could be said for the major cities across Texas. Having an art historian or archivist willing to do the substantial legwork of compacting an art history into a distilled tome (even if it can’t be the whole story) is a privilege.
Laura Gutierrez’s performance Center Aisle Blues for CounterCurrent 2018, Houston
To date, I’ve only seen one piece of performance art piece in a supermarket. Yet the supermarket is a perfect set-up for performance: Rows of rainbow colored packages; music playing over an intercom system; strangers slipping by one another in forced interactions; shiny patterned floors. It’s contradictorily the most sterile and most ‘real’ setting you can propose.
For the 2018 CounterCurrent festival, New York and Houston-based performer Laura Gutierrez presented a 45-minute semi-choreographed wandering through Houston’s Midtown Fiesta Mart. Shadowed by an art audience and perplexed shoppers alike, Gutierrez’s playful interactions with products and people were refreshing. The performance didn’t feel forced, and instead highlighted the humorous energy of its setting. It was very much like a game, with Gutierrez swiftly dodging and evading the audience’s gaze, only to offer quick and graceful movements before running away down a different aisle. This was a special performance, and I’m happy I had a chance to see it.
Belkis Ayón at the Station Museum of Art
NKAME: A Retrospective of Cuban Printmaker Belkis Ayón at the Station Museum of Art, Houston
Each year, the Station Museum of Contemporary Art in Houston presents a program of poignant, pertinent exhibitions that address the the world we live in. And this year, one show in particular stood out to me: An exhibition of prints by Cuban artist Belkis Ayón.
The stunning installation, which took Ayón’s large-scale collographs and turned them into room dividers and altars, highlighted the confrontational aspect of her subject: The all-male Afro-Cuban Abakuá secret society. In her creation of icons around the society’s origin story, Ayón has prioritized the voice of a princess who had originally been condemned to death, turning the group’s machismo on its head.
Ayón’s work can touch viewers who have no knowledge of the Abakuá society. Her black-and-white images are so compelling that they act like hieroglyphs, telling the story to any semi-attentive visitor. Ayón’s mastery of the collograph technique is something that cannot be accurately communicated through pictures or words; for this reason alone, I’m thankful that the Station brought this show to Houston.
Nick Weddell at the East Side Pot Shop
Nick Weddell at the East Side Pot Shop, Austin
Little did I know when walking into Austin’s East Side Pot Shop this past spring, while it was still very new, that I would see one of my favorite shows of 2018. The installation of work was simple in the small space — an assortment of oddly shaped, goopy, pleasing vessels situated on a single shelf stretching around a rectangular room (which is really more of a walk-through space to the building’s ceramics studio).
Every piece in the show (all functional cups — a detail important to Weddell’s practice) was a knockout. The pieces teetered between sculpture and practical functionality in a really fun way, with each vessel begging to be held. Weddell has this unique ability to infuse every work he makes with a different personality. While we art viewers project ourselves into the folds, nubs, and intricacies of form that bear resemblance to the corporeal in art, Weddell’s work goes beyond this, turning clay into aliens that won’t be grounded in our world.
Honorable mentions: Jean (Hans) Arp at the Nasher in Dallas; Helen Altman at the Tyler Museum of Art.
Carl M Smith December 23, 2018 - 10:41
austin! squeaked by in there 🙂
Esther State December 26, 2018 - 11:08
This year Austin’s visual art scene has fallen off the map. This comes at the time when The Contemporary Austin has raised more money than any time before.
What gives?
Alyssa Taylor Wendt December 30, 2018 - 10:12
Austin has had some very poignant and impressive shows, but you have to look beyond the bigger institutions to the smaller galleries like the ICOSA Collective, Dimension Gallery, Big Medium, Grey Duck, Women and Their Work, DORF and you will find some incredible artists hard at work.
What specific Austin exhibitions should have made it to Glasstire’s Best of 2018 from “smaller galleries”?
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Hellboy is getting an R rated reboot, and we have the first images of David Harbour, who you’ll recognize from his portrayal of chief Jim Hopper on Stranger Things. Small differences like slightly larger horn stubs, and longer hair are some things fans have noticed, but we’ll have to wait for a teaser to see more.
The reboot has gotten the attention of fans in that it will be R rated, Ron Perlman (who portrayed Hellboy in the last two films) will not be attached, and due to some casting drama. Ed Skrein (original Daario in GOT), was originally cast in an Asian role. He stepped down from the role and wrote an open letter, urging the studio to cast a more appropriate actor. Daniel Dae Kim (Jin from LOST), was cast weeks later.
While we loved the Perlman led, and Del Toro directed Hellboy’s, casting has been on point for this one, and Neil Marshall is directing which as us legit spooked with excitement. A handful of things you’d know Neil Marshall for are: The Descent – a claustrophobic cave horror and one of the best scary movies of all time, and two of your favorite Game of Thrones episodes ever: The Watchers of the Wall (2014), and Blackwater (2012).
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1 August 2012.President al-Assad to Syrian Army
President Bashar Al Assad’s Speech
Syrian Army
Syrian Support for the Army
The Syrian People Love Assad – the USA and Terrorists Lie and Spread FAKE News
Dr. Bashar Al Jaafari
Al-Jaafari: States Interested in the Success of Annan Plan Should Stop Arming and Embracing Terrorists
Support for Bashar Al Assad
10 Million Show Their Support in One Rally
Aleppo Show Their Love for Bashar Al Assad
Candlelight Vigil for Syria Federal Building June 9, 2012
Demonstrations Against US and France
Syrians Love Assad
Support Around the World
The Facts About This Site
Staffan de Mistura, and Bashar Al-Jaafari about ISIS, Turkey, Syria, Saudi, Jordan, and Western plans for Syria.
Syria – Bashar al-Jaafari about Saudi Fatwas: Just Reflection of a Terrorist Wahhabi Kingdom
Syria: Bashar Ja’afari Syria and US observers on the Syrian presidential elections Press Conference
[8/5/2012] UN HQ: Bashar Al Jaafari kicks asses and takes names
The Real Story from Inside Syria November 2011
Destabilising Syria
Chemical Weapons – 2013
Syrian Rebels Aim to Use Chemical Weapons, Blame Damascus
Nun Hatune Dogan About the Biased Western Media.
USA Support the Killing of Christians
Destruction of Holy Sites
Al Qaeda On the Up?
CIA Agent Exposes How Al-Qaeda Dosen’t Exist
Arab League Report Provides Evidence CIA, MI6, Mossad Behind Violence in Syria
Britain Support Terrorists and Terrorism
Israel’s Plot To Take Down Syria I
The Plan to Destabilise Syria
U N Security Council
US Admits Israel is Arming and Training Terrorist Groups to Commit Terror
USA Admit to Funding Terrorists
Who is Behind the Protest Movement?
Houla Massacre
Another Witness of Al-Hula Massacre
The Houla Massacre – Media Lies
The Houla Massacre Committed by The West’s “Free Syrian Army” But They Accuse Syrian Gov’t
Al Jazeera Journalist Explains Resignation over Syria and Bahrain Coverage
How They Fake The Films
Media – West proxy to fuel Syria conflict
Al Jazeera Chief Linked to the CIA
BBC – Caught for their Lies
BBC Lies
Media Lies and Cover Up over Princess Diana’s death
Evidence of Lies
Exposing Fake Films
Reuters Appologises to Syria for Lies
The Distortions by the Guardian
TV Minimum Detection Disinformation
Why Nobody Trusts the Mainstream Media
90 year old arrested for feeding the homeless in U.S.
America’s Reaction to Wiki Leaks
Peaceful Human Rights Activists?
A Father and 3 Children Killed in Homs by the Terrorist
Burning Cars
More Terrorist Killing, Filming and Then Trying to Blame it on The Army
SYRIA: (Warning) “Peaceful Protesters” kill civilian (Homs, 15-July-2011)
The Existence of Terrorist Gangs in Hama
Warning!!! Graphic
Terrorist Confessions
Confessions of Terrorist Elements in Deir Al-Zou
Terrorist confessed
Terrorists trying to drive a tank
D.U.M.B.s Deep Underground Military Bases
Hillary Clintons War Budget
Torture USA Style
US Lies, To Justify War
USA Fund Terrorists
USA Lies Again to Invoke War
USA Train the Terrorists
Who is Funding Terrorists
Who’s behind the Syrian Support Group?
WW III
US risks war with China and Russia – World War III
BBC Correspondent – Israel’s Secret Weapon
Fake Films
BBC Fake Documenteries to Justify War
BBC Staging FAKE Chemical Attack
CCTV Stating Fake Attack
CNN Crew Blow Up Syrian Pipeline To Blame on Government
More CNN Fake Films
Omran
Preparations for another FAKE video
The Truth about Syria and Western Lies
Using Fake Blood
Wag The Dog – Media Caught Faking Syria News Reports
I LOVE SYRIA Jewellery
Nakba Day
Real Syria
British Troops Training Terrorists
Fares Shehabi Tells Western Journalist Why Assad still in power
Interview with Janna Jihad & Ahed Tamimi
Kevork Almassian – What is Really Happening in Syria?
Syrian News
4 August 2012.Al-Jaafari: Resolution on Syria Hysteric & Misleading,Syrian Journalist shot
6 August 2012.Decrees on Dismissing Riyad Hijab, Blast inside syrian Radio and TV
7 August 2012,al-Assad Receives Dr. Saeed Jalili, Nasrallah: US Israel to Destroy Syria
8 August 2012. Army Take Control of Salah Eddin, terrorists receive training in Turkey
9 August 2012.Al-Assad: Dr. Wael al-Halqi Prime Minister, untrue media report
Syria News 5 August 2012. Chasing Gulf and Turkish Militias in Aleppo, three snipers killed
21 June 2012. Contact Lost with MiG-21 Aircraft that Was on a Training Flight
28 June 2012. Terrorist Blast inside the Parking of Justice Palace Damascus.
Witnesses to al-Houla Massacre: 1 June 2012
News Sunday 17th March
Syria News 12.11.2012
Syrian People Support President Assad
Voices of the Syrian People
Christmas Message from Syria Citizens in Damascus
Damascus 19th July 2012
Heartbreaking True Stories from Syria 14th October 2012
I Am A Syrian Living in Syria: “It was Never a Revolution nor a Civil War. The Terrorists are Sent by Your Government!”
I Am So Proud of My Country
It is the Children that are Paying the Price for US Terrorism
Life in Syria 14/09/2012
Man Nearly Dies to Protect His Books
To the World: I am SYRIAN, and the COALITION does NOT represent me!
Unhappy Syrian
Voices from Damascus January 2013
Voices from Syria – 20th July 2012
What Freedom is This
You Don’t Know What You Have Until It’s Gone
~ revealing the truth
There were plenty of Peaceful Demonstrations in Support of the President.
Demonstrators walk behind a banner during a march in Sydney on August 5, 2012 held in support of the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad and against the intervention of foreign powers in Syria. AFP
47 thoughts on “Bashar Al Assad”
Sean walsh said:
I am an ex British soldier who can help in your current krisses there are a lot of ex British soldiers who have been let go after are government made cuts who would be a great force to help you battle isis.
I have the contacts to get you around 100 ex service men from medics infantrymen to logistics as a private protective force
Please feel free to email me
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carlclark1331 said:
It seems that the U.S and Israel had an agenda, many years ago in the 1990’s Clinton met with Israeli Intelligence, the CIA, and Military leaders at the Pentagon. They were looking at deposing the Syrian, Libyan, Iraqi and Afghanistan leaderships. Qaddafi, Hussein, Bashar Al Assad all had to go, even though the U.S had been allies and diplomatic friends.
All the leaders were strong to keep in check the different factions in their countries we have seen what has happened after the U.S & Israeli Dawn, destruction, despair, ethnic cleansing, refugees and poverty with the infrustructure of all these countries in tatters, due to the criminals and terrorists purporting to be freedom fighters, who are only the agents of the west as that is where there finances and weapons come from. Bashar Al Assad was and still is the best of the leaders of all the Arab countries, I pray for his safety and for his protection and for the victory that is coming.
Dr Saraswathy said:
All respects to you n ur family.
ive been watching most videos of happenings in syria.i pray sir you too hav been watching them.hw t millions of children of syra hav been tortured n killed, raped n slaughtered.they r your children too.their cries r still ringing in my ears.you r t savior of your country.b awise n intelligent leader who will bring tat modern change in your country. Millons r ophaned, n physically n mentally abused.if u dnt improve u wnt b a leader vry soon.ur own people wil.b against u.plz bring happiness to their lives.u hav t great responsility to shelter n protect them.most impt.they love n respect u as a leader.u cntclet them down.i cnt bear to see their sufferings anymore.u hav russia n china for help.so protect your people.God has given you tis job.make use of tis golden opportunity to get t blessings.if nt you hav to face t brunt of his anger.tat will b ur downfall.God controls everything.God bless you n ur people
trotamundo said:
Bashar al-Asad esta perdiendo por que carese de buenos generales … que sepan de estrategia … su ejercito esta con la moral baja me gustaria explicarle.. por que esta fracasando su lucha
Tristan eaton said:
Isis was started by Joseph Ortega, ex Don of the zeta cartel. There is a lot I can tell you and prove. American government works with him. He connected criminals internationally. My phone number is 1 406 224 8290. Its off now. Keep trying until it’s on again
Update on sending guys over to help support against ISIL fighters, after serious road traffic accident am going to be recovering for a while, if any recruiters out there need personnel to aid Peshmerga fighters or President Assad get in touch as have, several willing to join those international fighters already there operating with Peshmerga, and can pass details over.
friendsofsyria said:
Would you like this put on a page giving your contact? As well as your first comment on recruiting?
Yes that would be good also ad my linkedin profile , as in rehabilitation at moment and only thing I can do is use computer so can pass details of people on my database who have been vetted to those recruiting for the fight against ISIL, I help voluntary for ex soldiers, to aid them getting back into employment after leaving the forces, uk.linkedin.com/carlclark1331/
I will support the President in any way I can, by providing specialist ex military personnel who would work alongside the SAA, to advising on the ground against the ISIL threat. Syria is now being fragmented by both western and radical Islamic elements, I have seen this first hand in 2012 and now it is far more evident that massive power struggles are pulling the country apart.
I want to see the mighty country of Syria rise up and face its enemies, which are being allowed by the west to continue its onslaught and to kill and maim and wipe out anyone who do not agree with them. The fear of ISIL are the only reason the west are acting upon that threat, but what they should be doing are supporting the President and the Government in bringing an end to the many terrorist groups splitting the country.
I can raise a small army from across the globe and offer my services to support of the President and to the country of Syria and would be prepared to meet and discuss what we could do to help.
Carl Clark – David & Goliath Military Recruitment Specialists. pastorbishop32@yahoo.com
How are you getting on with your recruitment? Please keep us up to date in how it is going.
Did you recieve my reply? including linkedin profile details? agreeing as computer went down as i sent it?
Have gave details to many who inquired on where to go to support the different groups fighting ISIL, have several more willing to join up, but the western governments of ours are now saying we may be put in the same basket as ISIL ??? and treated as terrorists with no hope of returning to our countries. They are arresting those going to fight for the YPG or PKK at U.K airports, while Turkey are now attacking the Kurds, unbelievable that Turkey is supporting ISIL with the support of the UN??? does not make sense. ISIL and the FSA and other groups who support terrorists and criminals should all be taken care of and then negotiations should take place over territory for the Kurds.
Intel said:
lol…is that all ya got? your a stupid focker..the only thing you brought was psychological warfare…but now you gotta wonder who will dig you out when your six feet under? lol…
You got a way with words my friend, we need to support those fighting the ISIL threat by whatever means we have, if money was no problem, we would have already won the battle, but I have found obsticles at every juncture to get fighters to support those fighting ISIL, so there must be another agenda, one which I am not seeing, as for being six foot under only MI6 and the CIA would be responsible for that as they have their own agenda’s for Syria.
DNA – Nicholas II of Russia…there are relatives in Syria and the Middle East…but now this tips the scales in what will come to pass now! Better stand back! The Russian Hurricane!
Already exposed the Catholic Church globally! Studies Law and Society! Teaching Time!
Kian said:
Moammar gadhafi is way better than obama and actually cares about his people! isis is being financed by the united states! There trying to make an enemy, from there own creation! To get what they want! Look at all the guns they have…. There united states made haha, your creating your own terrorists! Stupid americans once again only believe what there told! Make syria proud and have nothing to do with the americans! There economy is in ruins and there trying to use escape paths out of it.
I have a large number of ex military personnel from around the world who would fight for President Assad against ISIL and also against the terrorist groups operating in Syria at the moment. I have supported President Assads stance from the start while the west have their own agenda which is why they supported terror and insurrection in a free sovereign state. You need strong leaders in the Middle East and Africa otherwise the tribalism and radicals take over as we have seen in Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq and other countries, President Assad is one of the best leaders in the Middle East and allowed all religions and cultures to work alongside each other, that is until the west got involved. I thank God that he has beaten the terrorists and now the hard work begins of rebuilding and fighting a new enemy which if support is needed we at David & Goliath are here to help. +447843940764 +1842824987
the1pag said:
Assad is a cruel Syrian dictator, but those Islamists, that invaded Syria and now Iraq come from all over the world (and particularly several petro-rich Islamic nations of Arabia). They now call themselves Islamic State (IS) or Islamic Caliphate (IC) and are bent on wide aggression to create an Islamic Caliphate designed to reign throughout the middle east. They are far more cruel than Assad. Witness thousands of Yazidis who were forced by IC onto a mountaintop to die of starvation and desiccation without drinking water.
Assad has been fighting IC for years, is trying to hold Syria together, but IC has consolidated the Islamic factions fighting Assad’s ground forces in northern Syria and now threatens Erbil and Baghdad, with Jordan next on the list to be conquered. Obama foolishly wants to arm native Syrians to fight Assad’s army instead of IC, but he can’t find any because any that once may have existed have been defeated or have joined IC.
Saddam has the only army and air force in that arena that can counter IC’s brutal march. Obama has finally recognized the threat IC poses for Kurdistan and what’s left of Iraq so has started a limited bombing defense of Erbil. But why doesn’t Obama hold his nose, make a deal with Assad demanding some reforms in exchange for sending military arms and equipment with which Syria can better battle Syria’s Islamic invaders and Iraq’s aggressive enemy, the Islamic State, a/k/a Islamic Caliphate?
Political correctness about the “rebellion” in Syria must be replaced with pragmatism and common sense.
ADN said:
you can take the Kid out of the Middle East – but you cannot take the Middle East out of the Kid…
I hear more is align that one thinks…another too smart for your own britches tactic I suppose…
and it won’t matter who is related to who…all that will matter what shows up and how many…
I hear that the underground network has woken the Bear…they know not what they do…
you never wake a napping bear…already tired and ‘fasting’…the Bear will eat what comes up…
you mean them sending in a crack-head to terrorize the adopted folks…yeah…I hear Iran and Russia know of this incident…AaaaNnnnnnDdddd…pause…the Bear is pacing…and other Bears are waking up and wandering over to find out what the pacing is about…
Well have fun with that in real time and if the Kid/Bear (s) wander over there to ‘take a break’…happy hunting…lol…
oh didn’t you hear the latest…message…the bear does not ask permission…
well then allrighty then…lol…lets do this…better get ready to move to England Assad…
Roman said:
Thank you Mr. Assad for standing firm against the US and Israel lobby in Washington DC. Hope you can get rid of these US sponsored terrorist soon.
Today’s WSJ opinion commentary by Senator Rand Paul is interesting but unsuitably headlined: “America Shouldn’t Choose Sides in Iraq’s Civil War”. First off, the main problem in Iraq right now is not “Civil War” — it is an invasion by barbaric Islamic religious fanatics organized under the black banner of “ISIS”.. Secondly, choosing sides to deter invasive, inhumane barbarism is possible without actively participating in war.
However, Senator Paul is correct in stating “…we should not put any U.S. troops on the ground unless it is to secure or evacuate U.S. personnel and diplomatic facilities. And while we may not completely rule out airstrikes … Do we want to, in effect, become Iran’s air force?” But there is a far better, more practical alternative.
After conquering Mosul, the ISIS invaders now threatening Baghdad are supported from their bases in northern Syria. President Assad has indicated his army is fully engaged in fighting to save Damascus and southern Syria from those Islamic invaders. He dare not risk overextending his current limited resources.to attack ISIS and reclaim regions of remote northern Syria for his dictatorship although he would doubtless do so if he could.
But Assad has air power and facilities that could be beefed up to attack ISIS bases in northern Syria, thereby deterring the march toward Baghdad. The U.S. should reconsider its antipathy toward Syria’s de-facto secular dictatorship, and assist it in any way that could be helpful in preserving the integrity of both Syria and Iraq. The U.S. could assist the Syrian air force with suitable extra logistics to tackle the job by itself for the ultimate benefit of both Syria and Iraq. ISIS probably has already rendered impotent any rebels who were actually local Syrians..
Is an alternative U.S. allegiance with Iran’s Shiite Islamic dictator, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, whose agents produced lots of IED’s that killed our troops in Iraq with their roadside bombs, more acceptable than working with dictator Assad who never did build or plant any roadside bombs there? We need to get over the politically-correct notion that Assad must be replaced at whatever cost through an unlikely popular revolution, and instead apply some pragmatism to situation-reality.
Fae said:
Can someone explain the Assad regime to me?
Why is the media portraying him as a mass-murderer and why are there so many videos of innocent syrians dying and blaming Assad for their deaths?
Also, who are the FSA?
It’s just weird that entire world seems to hate Assad but I am also aware of the medias ability to convince the world that a good person is evil like what happened with Gaddafi!
Igor Skoglund said:
How do I contact the President Bashar al-Assad? I support him and want him to know it.
chris said:
That is exactly why I’m here
LONG LIVE BASHAR AL ASSAD said:
US/UN Fears Assad Win in Free Syrian Election?
Written byDaniel McAdams
Yes. How do I contact the President Bashar al-Assad?
posterofcomments said:
I wish people would stop calling President Assad’s Administration a regime. Negative connotations.
SSD said:
syrian secular democracy
Don't Kill the Messenger said:
Tool – Schism…no matter what when where how it will come to pass that I meet Assad…let us hope the side is of cooperation and not bloodshed…ask former Iran president…he probably knows me better than myself…and what happens “When I See Red” and I am seeing it already…
so what is with the brainwashing of your son Assad…they are children and suppose to be full of spit and vinegar not hate and corrupt to your hatreds…you are killing him in the worst way! you are young and dumb with child-raising you know not what you do…he will grow up to hate you like you hate your father Assad…It is Time for many things to come to pass…it has been long enough!
Show The Truth said:
With Assad in, and Ahmadinejad out, where does that leave Netanyahu?
Robert Bridge has worked as a journalist in Russia since 1998. Formerly the editor-in-chief of The Moscow News, Bridge is the author of the book, “Midnight in the American Empire.”
Published time: October 26, 2013 15:08
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (L), Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C), Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (R) (AFP Photo)
Arms, Military, Religion, Syria, Terrorism, USA, Violence, War
A high-stakes game of geopolitical brinkmanship is happening behind the scenes, with the Israeli and Iranian leaders now jockeying for pole position in the race for America’s good graces.
Following Washington’s spectacular climbdown from war in Syria, Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu suffered a setback by the unexpected change of political winds.
Confident that some kind of a US military attack on Damascus was a done deal, Netanyahu had previously ostracized Syria as something of a playground for Iran and Hezbollah, Israel’s two arch-enemies.
“Assad’s regime isn’t acting alone,” Netanyahu told reporters in late August as an attack looked inevitable. “Iran, and Iran’s proxy, Hezbollah, are there on the ground playing an active role assisting Syria. In fact, Assad’s regime has become a full Iranian client and Syria has become Iran’s testing ground.”
What Netanyahu failed to point out, however, is that the Syrian rebel opposition is also not working alone, as Al-Qaeda elements – the ragtag team of terrorists that allegedly orchestrated the sophisticated attacks of 9/11 – are joining efforts to remove Assad from power. Whether or not that disturbing footnote played a part in what was to happen next is quite possible.
On the very eve of America’s expected jolly little would-be dash in Damascus, the fog of politics trumped the fog of war as Obama – rattled by British Prime Minister David Cameron’s failure to win support for military action in the House of Commons – stunned the world by seeking congressional approval before committing his military forces to any action against the Syrian regime.
This unexpected decision completely knocked the wind out of the pro-war camp’s sails.
Washington, bereft of its once-solid British ally, was suddenly grinding gears and spilling oil in an effort to strike the right war rhythm. At this point, not even the influential pro-Israel American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), which had deployed “hundreds of activists to win support in Congress for military action in Syria,” according to Haaretz, could entice the superpower into another super mess.
The military theater of the absurd hit its highpoint when US Secretary of State John Kerry, itchy trigger finger and all, promised an “unbelievably small, limited” cruise missile bombardment of Syria to punish the Assad regime’s alleged use of chemical weapons on August 21.
If war in Iran is the endgame, as many observers suspect it is, then Israel’s objectives in the region have been seriously upset by Obama’s flip-flopping on the question of military action in Syria. That is because in the event that Israel – unilaterally or otherwise – decides to launch any sort of pre-emptive strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, it will certainly not want its flanks exposed to Syrian and Hezbollah forces.
“We always wanted Bashar Assad to go, we always preferred the bad guys who weren’t backed by Iran to the bad guys who were backed by Iran,” Israel’s ambassador to the United States Michael Oren admitted in an interview on Sept. 19.
Toppling the Assad government would have weakened the “strategic arc that extends from Tehran, to Damascus to Beirut. And we saw the Assad regime as the keystone in that arc,” he said.
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani (Reuters/Keith Bedford)
Between Iran’s Rouhani and a hard place
So now Netanyahu finds himself still confronted by diehard Assad in Damascus, while Iran, whom Israel suspects of attempting to build a nuclear weapon, did something even crueller: It said goodbye to the supreme agitator, former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and hello to the moderate reformist, Hasan Rouhani, who has already launched a charm offensive with Israel’s No. 1 ally.
Just days after the anticipated attack on Syria fizzled out, President Barack Obama held true to his campaign pledge of “sitting down and talking with America’s enemies” by having a telephone conversation with Rouhani.
Obama said the leaders had instructed their diplomats to work “expeditiously” toward an agreement on Iran’s nuclear program, adding that this was a “unique opportunity” to make progress with the Islamic Republic over an issue that has isolated it from the West.
“While there will surely be important obstacles to moving forward and success is by no means guaranteed, I believe we can reach a comprehensive solution,” Obama said, in comments that certainly did not sit well with the Israeli leader.
Later, as Iranian and American officials began talks in Geneva at the beginning of October to discuss Iran’s nuclear program, and whether or not to ease crippling sanctions against Tehran, Netanyahu was in the Knesset, discussing the possibility of a unilateral strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
“We can’t surrender the option of a preventive strike,” he told Israeli parliamentarians. “It is not necessary in every situation, and it must be weighed carefully and seriously. But there are situations in which paying heed to the international price of such a step is outweighed by the price in blood we will pay if we absorb a strategic strike that will demand a response later on, and perhaps too late.”
Netanyahu, of course, would like nothing more than for the United States to perform the dirty work of bombing the Iranian nuclear enrichment facilities in Natanz and Fordow.
However, with the United States still licking its wounds following protracted military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, and American voters weary of chasing terrorists at such a high moral and physical cost, the Obama administration will try to avoid another war at any cost.
Now the question remains: Will Netanyahu really risk an all-out regional conflict by ordering a pre-emptive strike on Iran, or is he bluffing in an effort to contain Tehran’s nuclear ambitions?
The answer is of no little importance to every person on the planet.
The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT.
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President al-Assad Interview: “No Dialogue with Gunmen, All Decisions taken by the West for the Past Ten Years have been in Support of al-Qaeda” –
The West Has Supported al-Qaeda For The Past Ten Years
Interview With President al-Assad
October 07, 2013 “Information Clearing House – Damascus, (SANA) – President Bashar al-Assad said that all the political decisions that have been taken by the west in the last ten years have been in support of al-Qaeda, intentionally or inadvertently.
In an interview with the German Der Spiegel News Magazine, President al-Assad said that through Western support, now there are thousands of al-Qaeda fighters from 80 countries in Syria.
Following is the full text of the interview:
Der Spiegel: Mr. President, do you love your country?
President Assad: Of course, and in this I am no different from most people. This is not merely about emotions, but rather about what one can do for his country if he has the power and especially in times of crisis; and at this particular time, I realize more than ever how much I love my country and so I must protect it.
Der Spiegel: Wouldn’t you be more patriotic if you stepped down and allowed for negotiations over an interim government or for a cease-fire with the armed opposition?
President Assad: The Syrian people determine my fate; no other party can determine this issue. As for the armed opposition or factions, who do they represent – the Syrian people? If so, this can be proven only through the ballot box.
Der Spiegel: Are you prepared to run in the next elections?
President Assad: My term ends in August next year. The presidential elections should take place before that time. I cannot decide now whether I am going to run; this depends on what the Syrian people want. If people are not behind me, I won’t stand in the elections.
Der Spiegel: Will you seriously consider giving up power?
President Assad: This is not about me or what I want. It’s about what people want. The country is not mine alone, it’s the country for all Syrians.
Der Spiegel: But some people say that you are the cause of the rebellion, because people want to get rid of corruption and tyranny. They call for a true democracy; and according to the opposition, this is not possible with you in power.
President Assad: Do these people speak for themselves, or do they speak on behalf of the Syrian people or on behalf of the countries that are backing them? Do they speak on behalf of the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Saudi Arabia or Qatar? Let me be clear about this: this conflict is being brought to our country from the outside world. These people live in five-star hotels, they are dictated to by their financial backers and have no grass roots in Syria.
Der Spiegel: Do you deny that there is a strong opposition against you in your country? President Assad: There is certainly an opposition in our country. What country doesn’t have opposition? It’s impossible for all the Syrians to be on my side.
Obama has no right to tell the Syrian people whom to choose as their president
Der Spiegel: It’s not only us who deny the legitimacy of your presidency. U.S. President Barack Obama said at the U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York that a leader who kills his people and gases children to death has forfeited any right to rule his country.
President Assad: First, he is the president of the United States and has no right to pass judgment on Syria.Second, he has no right to tell the Syrian people whom to choose as their president. Third, what he says in realty has no foundation whatsoever. He has been calling for me to step down for one and a half years. What next? Have his statements made any impact? None whatsoever.
Der Spiegel: For us, it seems that you are ignoring reality. By stepping down, you save the people a great deal of suffering.
President Assad: This has nothing to do with me being president. Killing innocent people and terrorizing them by explosions and car bombs, brought to our country by al-Qaeda, is what causes pain to the Syrian people. What does that have to do with me being in office?
Der Spiegel: It is relevant because your forces and security services have committed some of these atrocities and you are responsible for that.
President Assad: Despite the fact that the protests were not peaceful at all, it was our policy from the beginning to respond to the demands of the demonstrators. In the first weeks, we lost soldiers and policemen who were killed in those protests. Nevertheless, a specialized committee changed the constitution to meet protesters’ demands and a referendum was held. On the other hand, we also needed to confront terrorism; it’s the duty of the government to defend the country and take the relevant decisions to that effect. In the context of implementing these decisions, mistakes were made. We must acknowledge that.
Der Spiegel: The rebellion started with demonstrations in Dara’a and the victims were not only members of your security forces. The other side also suffered a great deal. The protesters were beaten and fired at. This harsh treatment was one of the regime’s mistakes.
President Assad: When political measures are implemented – anywhere in the world – mistakes are made; we are only human.
Der Spiegel: So, you acknowledge that the harsh treatment meted out at the protesters was a mistake. President Assad: There were individual errors. We all make mistakes. Even the president might make mistakes. Even if mistakes were made in on the ground, our principal decisions were the right ones.
Der Spiegel: Was the Houla massacre also the result of mere individual failure?
President Assad: Neither the government nor its supporters are to blame for that, because it was the armed gangs and the extremists who attacked the families who supported the government. This is exactly what happened. If you want to assert something to the contrary, you need to provide the evidence and this is what you cannot do. We, however, and contrary to your claims, can give you the names of the victims who were killed because they stood against terrorism.
Der Spiegel: We have evidence. Our reporters were in Houla and talked to the victims and carried out thorough investigations. The U.N. experts reached a conclusion, after investigating the case, that 108 people in the village were killed, including 49 children and 34 women, victims of your regime. How can you deny responsibility and accuse the so-called terrorists.
President Assad: With respect to your reporters, we Syrians, know our country better, know the truth better and can fully document that.
Der Spiegel: The culprits were ‘shabiha’, members of the militias with links to your regime. President Assad: Do you have any evidence to prove that?
Der Spiegel: We heard this from people we consider credible.
President Assad: I’ll be candid and even blunt with you: your question is based on wrong information. What you are asserting has no ground in reality. A lie is a lie, no matter how you phrase it or present it.
Der Spiegel: That’s right. So, you don’t acknowledge that your ‘shabiha’ took part in the massacre. President Assad: What do you mean by ‘shabiha?’
Der Spiegel: The militias close to your regime.
President Assad: This name is actually of Turkish origin, in Syria don’t know ‘shabiha.’ The reality is that, when armed groups attack remote areas, and the army and police cannot provide sufficient protection to citizens, villagers arm themselves and create patrols in self-defense. It’s true that some of those fought with our forces, but these are not militias formed to protect the president. What concerns these people is their country, which they are defending against al-Qaeda terrorists that have been attacking them for months.
We are defending ourselves and not anything else
Der Spiegel: So, it was only the other side who committed massacres and terrorism, and your soldiers, militias, security forces and intelligence services have nothing to do with that?
President Assad: One cannot make such sweeping generalizations: “They are one hundred percent guilty, and we are zero percent.” The truth is not always black and white; in the middle there are shades of grey. But, in principle this is true. We are defending ourselves and not anything else. As to individual mistakes, I cannot, as president of all the Syrians, follow and check on each and every one of the 23 million Syrians.
Der Spiegel: Wouldn’t it be possible that the crimes against the villagers were committed by parts of the Syrian Army outside your control?
President Assad: There are criminals in every country, even in your country. Those can be everywhere. This is normal; but we don’t have sufficient information about this.
Der Spiegel: The legitimacy of a president does not rest on slogans and promises, but on actions. As a result of the gas attack against your people, you forfeited every right to be in your position.
President Assad: We did not use chemical weapons; this is not true. And the picture you are drawing of me is not true. The United States, the entire western world, the richest countries in the Arab world and neighbouring Turkey are against me, and terrorists are crossing the borders from Iraq. On top of all of this, I kill my people, who support me nevertheless! Am I superhuman? No. So, why am I still in power two and half years on? The answer is simple: because a large segment of the Syrian people support me, they support the government and the state. Whether they constitute 50% or less, that is a different issue. But this large segment also means ‘legitimacy.’ This is how things are in reality.
Der Spiegel: After the U.N. investigation of this crime, U.S. President Obama had no doubt that your regime used chemical weapons on August 21 in an attack that claimed the lives of over a thousand people, including hundreds of children.
President Assad: Once again, Obama never provided one shred of evidence. The only things he provided were lies.
Der Spiegel: But the conclusions reached by the U.N. investigators …
President Assad: What conclusions? When the investigators came to Syria, we asked them to continue their work and we hope that they will provide an explanation of who is responsible for this act.
Der Spiegel: The trajectory of the gas shells could be traced back from their point of impact to their point of launching. And it shows that they were launched from 4th division installations.
President Assad: This doesn’t prove anything. These terrorists can be anywhere; they are even in Damascus itself. They could fire a missile next to my home.
Der Spiegel: But launching rockets containing Sarin gas cannot be done by your enemies. They don’t have the capabilities to do that because it requires military equipment, training and accuracy.
President Assad: Who says so? Terrorists used Sarin gas in a Tokyo attack in the 1990s. Sarin is called the “kitchen gas” because anyone can make it anywhere, in any room. Der Spiegel: The two attacks cannot be linked or compared. This is about a military operation in Damascus.
President Assad: No one can say with any certainty that they used rockets. We have no evidence. But the certain thing is that Sarin was used. Is it not possible that one of our rockets hit a terrorist site containing Sarin? Or that they made a mistake while dealing with it? They are in possession of Sarin and they already used it in Aleppo.
Der Spiegel:13 cases were identified where Sarin was used, but in no case has it been used with such intensity as on August 21st. Have you conducted any investigations of your own?
President Assad: Every investigation should start with identifying the number of the real victims. The armed groups speak about 350. The United States speaks about 1,400. Médecins Sans Frontièresmention about 280. This cannot be right. Even the photos taken of the victims contain discrepancies. For instance, a dead child appears in two different locations.
Der Spiegel: You mean that the photos of the victims have been manipulated?
President Assad: I want to say this case should be verified thoroughly; and no one has done that so far. We cannot do it, because it is an area where terrorists operate.
Der Spiegel: This close to the city?
President Assad: They are very close to Damascus, close to our military barracks; they could kill our soldiers.
We win with our population support and vice versa
Der Spiegel: Do you think you can regain control of the areas you lost?
President Assad: It is not about winning or losing in territorial terms. We are not two states, one controlling an area belonging to the other, as in the case with Israel, which occupies our Golan Heights. This is about terrorism, which should be eliminated. When we liberate a certain area, as we have done in many areas of Syria, it doesn’t mean that we are winning, because the terrorists withdraw to another area and destroy it. That’s why we are also concerned about our citizens’ security.It is also important for us to win the support of our population: we win with their support and vice versa.
Der Spiegel: Do you still control the chemical weapons stockpiles?
President Assad: Yes, certainly. Furthermore, to assure you, I would like to add that the stored materials haven’t been activated; and no one can use them before they are prepared for that purpose.
Der Spiegel: This doesn’t rule out that the army was responsible for the attack. Western intelligence services intercepted phone calls in which your commanders urge the general command to use poisonous gas.
President Assad: This is complete fabrication and forgery and I will not waste my time with such allegations.
Der Spiegel: Isn’t it puzzling that we, in the West, have a completely different assessment of the situation?
President Assad:I n fact, your region is always late in recognizing reality and is extremely slow in understanding this reality. In the beginning, we talked about violent protests, while you talked about peaceful demonstrations. When we started talking about extremists, you were still talking about “some militants.”When we talked about al-Qaeda, you were still talking about a few terrorists, although they are actually the majority. Now you realize that it is about 50/50. Take, for instance, Secretary of State Kerry who still sticks to the past and talks about 20%. This is exactly what I meant with the reality deficit you have.
Der Spiegel: Is the reluctance the West to trust your assessments due to the lack of confidence in you. Where does the reason lie?
President Assad: I think the West prefers to trust al-Qaeda rather than to trust me.
Der Spiegel: This is absurd!!
President Assad: I mean it. Maybe you didn’t mean it, but it looks like it: all the decisions you have taken in the West for the past ten years have been in support of al-Qaeda. Some might have done that intentionally and some inadvertently. In any case, and through Western support, now we have thousands of al-Qaeda fighters from 80 countries. We have to deal with them. I am referring to those who have come from outside Syria.
Der Spiegel: You are losing many soldiers, those who defect to the opposition. Are you telling us that they became al-Qaeda affiliates overnight?
President Assad: No, I am not saying that they are all al-Qaeda, but most of them are. The minority are defectors or criminals. At the beginning of the crisis, we had over 60,000 outlaws at large. Those alone could form a whole army. How many are fighting us? I cannot give a specific figure. Most of them cross the border illegally for jihad. They come to Syria in the belief that they will go to heaven by waging war on atheists and non-Muslims. Even when we get rid of thousands of them, their ranks are replenished by other jihadists.
Der Spiegel: Yet, you believe you will win in this conflict?
President Assad: Even if there was no chance of winning the fight, we have no other choice but to defend our country.
Der Spiegel: On the subject of trust, we want to remind you that you have always denied that you possessed chemical weapons, while now you acknowledge that you have them.
President Assad: We never stated that we had no chemical weapons. We always phrased our statements “if we had …, then …” But we never lied.
Der Spiegel: It is reported that German companies supplied you with chemical materials, which you used to make chemical weapons. Do you have more specific information about this? President Assad: No, because these are technical issues. But, in principle, we didn’t receive outside help to make these weapons, because we didn’t need assistance. We are experts in the field.
We are committed to making the whole Middle East a WMD free zone
Der Spiegel: Then, how many tons of Sarin gas or other agents do you have?
President Assad: This remains classified information until it is provided to OPCW.
Der Spiegel: According to intelligence agencies, you have a thousand tons in your stockpile. President Assad: What’s important is the principle not the figure. We have these weapons – yes, but we are committed to making the whole Middle East a WMD free zone. Der Spiegel: This is also a matter of trust. You say you have 32 stores, while Western intelligence services put the figure at 50.
President Assad: This is a technical issue better determined by specialists. As president, my focus is on the political track. We are transparent and the experts can access any facility. We’ll provide them with the data, which they can examine and verify and then judge our credibility. When we say we are transparent, we mean it: to date, we have complied with every agreement we have signed. Our history testifies to this. However, we will not bear the costs of destroying the weapons.
Der Spiegel: And the international community should simply accept that you haven’t hidden secret stockpiles somewhere?
President Assad: In international relations, things are not about trust and believing, they are about setting up the mechanisms on which the approach can be based. Whether you trust me as a person is not important. What is important is for institutions to work with each other: my government and the OPCW. What is important for me is to win the trust of the Syrian people and not the West. What is important for me is Syria not the West.
Der Spiegel: Don’t you need the West?
President Assad: Of course, but not to replace the Syrians, or the Russians who are real friends. They understand better than the West the truth about what is happening here in reality. If I am praising them now, this is not because of the close ties that have linked us for years, but because, frankly, the Russians are more independent than you are in Europe. You rely too much on the United States in your policies and easily adopt its policies.
Der Spiegel: The fact of the matter is that the Russians have strategic interests in Syria. President Assad: You can discuss that with President Putin. But I will say that some Europeans have come and signaled that they are convinced with our political position and that they share our analyses and explanations of the situation. But they cannot say this in public because it’s difficult for them at this moment in time.
Der Spiegel: And this applies to the poisonous gas attack?
President Assad: Of course. I say some, not all. To make this clearer, I’ll elaborate on the accusations against us. Both Obama and Kerry presented lies. But Obama couldn’t convince his people with his lies. According to one opinion poll, 51% of the American people reject a military strike against Syria. The British Parliament was against the strike too; and there was a tough debate in the French parliament. The whole “atmosphere” in Europe was against the strike, including the Vatican. Why? Because most people didn’t believe Obama’s story.
Der Spiegel: Is Germany part of the contacts you are making?
President Assad: We have contacts with some institutions and recently there have been channels that didn’t exist before. We exchange information, but we cannot talk about political communications.
Der Spiegel: Does Germany play a special role for you?
President Assad: When I look at Europe, the question for me is: who is closer to the reality of what is happening in our region? For us now, Germany and Austria have the most objective vision and are the closest to reality. This helps achieve Europe’s interests.
Der Spiegel: Could Germany play an intermediary role?
President Assad: I would be happy if German envoys visited Damascus to engage with us directly. If they talk to us, it doesn’t mean they support our government. They can ascertain for themselves the situation and base their work on the facts. If they think that by not engaging with us, they are isolating us, I tell them: you are isolating yourselves from reality; so, it’s about their interests. What do they gain when al-Qaeda is in their backyard wreaking havoc on the world? After two and half years, they should reconsider their policies. They should ask themselves: what are they gaining. What do their people gain when there is a state of chaos that they are supporting?
Der Spiegel: In light of the unrest in your country, are the chemical weapons stockpiles under control?
President Assad: There is no cause for concern, they are very well protected.
Der Spiegel: This applies to biological weapons too? You have biological weapons?
President Assad: We didn’t give any information in this regard because it is considered classified information. This should not be understood as confirmation that we possess them.
Der Spiegel: You understand the international community’s concern about WMDs falling into the hands of the terrorists.
President Assad: It is not as bad as it is portrayed by the media and believed in the West. There is no need for any undue concern.
Der Spiegel: As far as we know, you lost about 40% of your territories to the armed opposition, and in some areas about two thirds of the land.
President Assad: These are exaggerated figures. 60% of the country is desert and there is nobody there. In other parts of the country, the terrorists don’t control any connected areas.
Der Spiegel: This doesn’t apply to the area adjacent to the Turkish borders.
President Assad: They exist only in the area north of Aleppo, otherwise, there are only pockets. You cannot talk about a real frontline against us. Sometimes, these fighters are completely isolated and exist in areas where we don’t want to deploy the army. The percentage of land is not important to us.People’s solidarity is much more important and this is growing all the time, because they see what the terrorists are doing and what it leads to.
Der Spiegel: As a result of the violence of the conflict, a quarter of the Syrian population, i.e. five million people have become refugees.
President Assad: We don’t have accurate figures; but even four million is an exaggerated figure. Many of those who are displaced within Syria go to live with relatives and don’t appear in any statistics.
Der Spiegel: You talk about this issue as if it were an issue of paying taxes and not a humanitarian disaster.
President Assad: The exact opposite is true. You in the West use these figures as if you were reading a spreadsheet: four, five, six, seven million. These figures are of your making: seventy thousand victims, eighty thousand, ninety thousand, one hundred thousand, as if it were an auction.
Der Spiegel: The reason for this exodus is that people are fleeing you and your regime.
President Assad: Is this a question or a statement? If it’s a statement, then it’s completely wrong. If people flee, they do so for a number of reasons, first of which is fear of the terrorists.
Der Spiegel: Nobody flees from your soldiers and security forces?
President Assad: The army represents Syria; otherwise it would have disintegrated long ago. It doesn’t pose a threat to anyone. When we talk about refugees, let’s talk about another government – the Turkish government – which uses these figures for its own interests. It manipulates these figures and plays this humanitarian card at the United Nations in order to put pressure on us. Another reason for their interests is the money they receive to help the refugees, the money that moves only in the wrong direction, to their pockets; there are so many reasons. Of course within these large numbers of refugees, yes, some did flee in fear of the government but the situation is now changing with about a hundred or a hundred and fifty thousand refugees returning home.
Der Spiegel: How could you push those to take that step?
President Assad: We engaged with them in order to dispel their fears. Those who committed no crime have nothing to fear. Our message was: if you want to be against the government: come back and speak against us; and it worked.
Army and people united, no choice but to trust and believe in our victory and saving Syria
Der Spiegel: You cannot show any military victory on any military front: you regaining control over Aleppo, which you announced, hasn’t happened. Ma’aloula is still a big problem. Even parts of Damascus are being shelled. We heard the sound of shelling on our way to your palace.
President Assad: When you are dealing with this kind of crisis, it is impossible for you to be as strong as in the past. The damage is huge and we’ll need a lot of time to overcome this. But the army and the people are united; and we have no choice but to trust and believe in our victory and in saving our country.
Der Spiegel: How can you believe in your victory if you brought Hezbollah in to help you?
President Assad: Lebanon is a very small country, about four million people. Damascus alone has five million, and Syria is too large and wide a country to be covered by Hezbollah. We cooperated on the borders with Lebanon in the fight against those terrorists who were also attacking Hezbollah members. That cooperation was fruitful and successful.
Der Spiegel: So, you can at last do without Hezbollah’s help?
President Assad: I didn’t say that, I only wanted to clarify and correct the western perception that the Syrian army couldn’t fight any more and that’s why Hezbollah intervened.
Der Spiegel: Hezbollah is one of the few entities that continue to support you. It seems that President Putin is gradually losing his patience with you.
President Assad: President Putin is more supportive of us now than any other time. He showed this by using three vetoes at the Security Council to prevent sanctions against us. Der Spiegel: But he endorsed the most recent resolution, which calls for the destruction of the chemical weapons.
President Assad: That was a good resolution.
Der Spiegel: Because it averted the military strike?
President Assad: There was no item in that resolution that undermined our interests. President Putin knows from his experience in fighting terrorism in Chechnya what we are going through here.
Der Spiegel: That’s why you are confident Moscow will provide you with the S300 air defense system, which you have been waiting months for?
President Assad: He has said more than once that he will support Syria in different fields and that he is committed to the contracts signed between us. This doesn’t only apply to air defense systems but to other weapons as well which enable us to defend ourselves.
Der Spiegel: The international community will do everything to prevent arming you.
President Assad: What right do they have? We are a sovereign state, and we have the right to defend ourselves. We don’t occupy anybody’s land. Why isn’t the international community bothered when Israel gets all kinds of weapons? Why should Israel receive three submarines from Germany, despite the fact that it is an occupying power and still occupies our land? We have the right to arm ourselves in accordance with the U.N. charter. This is why the West isn’t objective in this position; it’s because of these double standards that we don’t trust the West.
Der Spiegel: Aren’t you concerned that Israel will shell the new defense system as soon as it arrives from Moscow?
President Assad: In our case, and in this state of war, we don’t allow ourselves to feel fear. We have to do everything to be strong; and we shall not allow anyone to destroy our armaments and military equipment.
Der Spiegel: And if it happened? President Assad: Then, if things come to that, we shall talk about it then.
We need peace and stability in this region
Der Spiegel: In the past your rhetoric about Israel was more self-confident.
President Assad: No, we need peace and stability in this region. We have always been aware of this. When it comes to revenge and reacting to a strike, we need to ask ourselves: where would that lead, particularly now that we are fighting al-Qaeda. We need to be careful not to ignite a new war.
Der Spiegel: When will you win against al-Qaeda?
President Assad: When we restore stability; that’s why we must get rid of the terrorists. Then, we need to get rid of their ideology that has infiltrated certain areas of Syria, because it is more dangerous than terrorism itself. This ideology, which encourages an eight-year old boy to slaughter a man while adults and children watch and cheer as if they were watching a football match. This actually happened in northern Syria. Getting rid of this mentality and liberating ourselves from it is going to be more difficult than getting rid of the chemical weapons.
Der Spiegel: Such scenes might not be strange in states like Somalia, Liberia and Sierra Leone, but in Syria?
President Assad: The brutality we are witnessing in Syria is incredible. Think of the Bishop whose head the terrorists severed with a small knife.
Der Spiegel: Somalia, Liberia and Sierra Leone have been “failed” states for decades. Yet, you believe you can restore Syria back to pre-rebellion times?
President Assad: Concerning stability, yes, when an end is put to billions of dollars flowing from Saudi Arabia and Qatar, when Turkey stops its logistical assistance to the terrorists. Then we can solve the problem in a few months.
Der Spiegel: Is a negotiated solution still possible?
President Assad: With the armed groups – no. My definition of the opposition is a political program or entity that doesn’t carry weapons. If they were to lay down their weapons and return to normal life, it would be possible to talk to such people. When we spoke earlier about defectors, it is also important to point out that now many of them are withdrawing from rebel camps and joining the fight on our side.
Der Spiegel: For the international community, you are responsible for escalating this conflict, which has no end in sight. How can you cope with such guilt?
President Assad: It’s not about me, but about Syria. The situation in Syria worries and saddens me; that’s where my concern is, I am not concerned for myself.
Der Spiegel: Do your wife and three children stand at your side?
President Assad: Certainly, they have never left Damascus for one moment.
Der Spiegel: Has it crossed your mind that your end will be similar to President Ceausescu of Romania, when he was killed by a group of his soldiers?
President Assad: I am not worried about myself. Had I been worried and fearful, I would have left Syria a long time ago.
Der Spiegel: Mr. President, thank you very much for this interview.
Anymouse said:
Assad is harmless…as in doctor…as in negotiator…but that upsets the apple carts of corruption and terrorism…most of humanity is tired of the “blood and guts” mentality and are open to peace…now when this Al Kracker crew infects parts of the world…they fight back…and win…
So that is the only reason they congregate to Syria…lol…sounds like Kingdom of Heaven to me…
and if that comes to pass…it will be a teachable lesson to humanity…variety wins again…
I mean after all you do not go shopping and buy the same thing…they do not sell one thing…
so this nonsense of new world order is like telling the markets to sell just one product…then humanity will be checking the drink they held to see what is in the water? shrug…lol…PEACE!
yuri Johnny said:
Trautman: It’s good to hear your voice Johnny, it’s been a long time. Look John, you’ve done some damage here, they don’t want anymore trouble. That’s why I’ve come. I want to come in there and fly you the hell out. Just you and me. We’ll work this thing out together. Is that fair enough? Trautman: Look John, we can’t have you running around out there killing friendly civilians.
Rambo: There are no friendly civilians!
Trautman: But I’m your friend Johnny! I was there with you knee-deep in all that blood and guts. I covered your ass more than once. Seems like baling you out of trouble’s got to be a life-time achievement for me.
Rambo: There wouldn’t be no trouble except for that king-shit cop! All I wanted was something to eat. But the man kept pushing Sir.
Trautman: Well you did some pushing on your own John.
Rambo: They drew first blood, not me.
Trautman: Look Johnny, let me come in and get you the hell out of there!
Rambo: They drew first blood…
Teasle: He was just another drifter who broke the law!
Trautman: Vagrancy wasn’t it? That’s gonna look real good on his grave stone in Arlington: Here lies John Rambo, winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor, survivor of countless incursions behind enemy lines. Killed for vagrancy in Jerkwater, USA.
Teasle: Now don’t give me any of that crap Trautman. Do you think Rambo was the only guy who had a tough time in Vietnam? He killed a police officer for Christ’s sake!
Trautman: You’re goddamn lucky he didn’t kill all of you
Kseniya Williams said:
Wow you know how many people HATE Bashar Al Assad?! Many countries and their people hate him! You all are very very few! – -just saying.
Womens Rights Advocate said:
You obviously have been following media lies. In fact the Syrian people LOVE Bashar Al Assad. Anyone with any sense of logic, would know that a person does not wake up one day and decide he is going to destroy his own country.
Ace said:
the majority of the Syrian people are for Assad the media doesn’t let you see this meanwhile they pull fake claims of him killing his own people whixh the killing are been done by out side group and the so called FSA. Anyone who doesn’t have their head up there backside knows . Today we see what real popular uprisings look like, in Brazil, Turkey Egypt and Bahrain . If the so called ‘rebels’ had popular support, they would have walked across Syria in months, 2 years now and Assad is winning. Keep up the good work Syrian Army in defending your country
JHAUBS said:
It’s very clear to me,,, and it should be very clear to all who have read your post,,, that “YOU” are pushing an agenda that is a lie!!!! You know as well as I,,, and at least 50% of the remaining world population,,, Bashar Al Assad,,, is resisting your agenda successfully,,, so you spread rumors founded on lies designed at heart and in principle to destroy the fundaments of a society that you loath,,,, so you lie and spread fiction. You and your cause,,, your belief,,, your lies,,,,,,,,,,, you will not triumph. Basher Al Assad,,, is not blame for what is happening in his country,,,, YOU and YOUR Trash of Humanity,,, are to blame. The greatest population of the world knows this,,, that’s why Obama is not convincing the American people to support his own attempts to support the real faction that props him up,,, the world see’s you and your like,,, and our eyes opening to clearly see your FALSE, misleading and corrupt cause. The world is waking up,,, and see’s that you,,,, Obama,,, and your likes,,,, are all committing the real atrocities. WE,,,, ARE MANY!!!!! And we know that Bashar Al Assad,,, is not the bad guy in this fight,,, the real bad guy in this fight is an agenda supported and pushed by a bunch of weak minded and mentally inept people hell bent on forcing their will,,, and their beliefs on the entire world,,,, so that,,,, they can live better than you and me,,, and 99% of the rest of the worlds population. You need to wake up,,, and you need to smell the coffee!!!! WE ARE MANY!!!!
Anthony said:
scout56 said:
We are two guys who are suffering from multiple disabilities. We would love to have Bashar Al-Asad’s autograph.
We wonder if there is someone out there who know how we can come in contact with H.E. the President of Syria?
Does Mr. Asad have a e-mail adddress? A FaceBook a/c? Twitter a/c? Etc. Or may be tyhere is someone out there who hava personal contact with H.E. The President, Mr. Al-Asad, who could transfer our “request” to him?
10000 thanks in advance for any tips or ideas.
Bengt-Ake & Malte.
Does Bashar Al-Assad have any website?
Does Office of the President maintain a website?
Any contact details (e-mail, mail form, etc?)
Not that we know of.
hala G.D said:
LONG LIVE BASHAR AL ASSAD
Rowan Kondar said:
It is a sad sight where my beloved Syria has reached to, one thing is sure, no one is happy, and it makes no sense if we just claim that everything is just fine and we are walking the right way.
It has been many times that our beloved President declared that the police, intelligence and security forces committed violations, sadly these violations are spreading larger because of the terrible economic situation of the country, these guys are making a business blackmailing the innocent, or just releasing their frustration into a wave of violence against everyone.
I really wish to say here it is only up to you Mr. President to stop all of this, by taking a firm and a strong non biased stand of all what is going on the ground, our armed forces believe in you and still have clean hands which are waiting for you to take role and lead not merely as the president, but to put on your military uniform as the general commander of the Syrian armed forces and guide our nation into peace and rest again.
This is rough stand as everyone knows that many people taking advantage of this situation are in the close circle of our beloved President, some are even family members, but the similarity must be drawn to the time when our late President Mr. Hafiz Al-Assad had put his own and close brother into exile when he saw that he was making an advantage of his position.
Sir, in these few words I really wish and hope to see the greatness of our nation summoned all into you, leading it towards the peace and prosperity that it always had since its old history till its near history as it was led by your father our late President Mr. Hafiz Al-Assad.
Written by a faithful Syrian loyal only to the homeland and the President.
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Textile trade in Varanasi
Changing mood
AKSHAY DESHMANE in Varanasi
Print edition : November 24, 2017 T+ T-
A handloom workshop in Varanasi. The traditional Banarasi and Chanderi sarees require much skillful work using silk and cotton yarn, and hundreds of thousands of people are associated with the industry. Photo: Rajeev Bhatt
Chand Mohammad Aazam, a resident of Jaitpura in Varanasi, with his power looms.
The informal mechanism of textile trade in Varanasi often means that traders pay GST on goods they have sold on credit.
“ Sarkar ne toh vyapaariyon ko munshi bana diya hai” (the government has turned traders into accountants), quips Jagdish Shah, sitting in his multi-storey office in Chowk, Varanasi’s busiest market.
It is an early November evening, and the first anniversary of demonetisation is only a few days away. Shah, who is among a handful of Varanasi’s big textile traders, speaks of the impact of the Union government’s two major economic decisions of the past one year—demonetisation and Goods and Services Tax (GST)—on the business community in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s parliamentary constituency. His comment, made partly in a tone of resignation, is a specific reference to the impact of GST on textile traders in Varanasi, which is a large group comprising, by some accounts, nearly half a million people involved directly and indirectly. He explains how textile traders, who were so far outside the purview of Central taxes and not very conversant with the requirements of keeping detailed formal accounts with the government because of the informal nature of their business, are now caught up in the elaborate web of filing GST returns.
Like a significant number of businesspersons across the country, Shah sees both demonetisation and GST as having adversely impacted trade and business sentiment. He describes the aftermath and still persisting consequences of demonetisation: “In the initial two-three months [after demonetisation], we were facing a lot of difficulties. But its lasting impact, to which GST added further push, has been seen in the decline in working capital and business activity in the market. This has caused a decline in turnovers and general incomes [of traders].” That is a significantly candid observation because Shah is also the president of the Banarsi Vastra Udyog Sangh, an influential association of textile traders who openly back Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party. Its former president, Ashok Dhawan, was Modi’s election manager in 2014.
Post-demonetisation, however, the mood of this influential group and, indeed, the wider trading community of Varanasi, which also backs Modi, began changing steadily. By June this year, this community began expressing its grievances openly. In July, when GST was introduced, textile traders protested through a nationwide strike. “The strike was in support of our fellow traders in Surat, who were also protesting against the imposition of GST,” said Rajan Behal, general secretary of the Banarsi Vastra Udyog Sangh. He added that a significant number of those protesting were the makers of the famed Banarsi sari, a measure of how serious the problem was.
These protests have also attracted support in significant numbers within the community because the adverse economic impact of the slowdown in trade increases as one looks further down the hierarchy, as first-hand accounts from traders across the spectrum bear out.
According to Behal, only about 10 per cent of the city’s textile traders are estimated to have annual turnovers of above Rs.5 crore. A relatively larger number, which includes weavers, register an annual turnover between Rs.1.5 crore and Rs.5 crore, while most others fall way short of the Rs.1 crore mark. For perspective, profits from the turnovers in this trade are estimated to be in the range of only 10-15 per cent. With the introduction of GST, profits have dipped.
While most of these numbers are back-of-the-envelope calculations, Behal said that the overwhelming majority of traders were adversely affected by GST notwithstanding some changes made by the Centre in the rates and the frequency of filing returns, after protests. “At present, about 60 per cent of business is affected by GST. This is an ancestral trade which still operates on credit, trust, informal bookkeeping and such traditional practices. The majority of the small traders are unlettered, so they are unaware of the complex returns-filing processes. When you introduce a new tax on this trading community, it is obvious that the impact is going to be adverse. We have had to invest money in setting up infrastructure for GST. The government should provide soft loans at zero interest or a maximum of 4 per cent interest for this purpose,” he said.
In mentioning small and micro traders, Behal is talking in particular about weavers. Chand Mohammad Aazam, a weaver and resident of Varanasi’s Jaitpura locality, which is abuzz round the clock with the sound of power looms and handlooms in homes, agrees with him: “Nobody is able to understand what this [GST] is. They should have imposed GST on the cloth, not on the yarn because everyone in the entire chain of manufacturing cloth has become adversely affected now. There is less work in the market, and so money changing hands is also less,” he said. He explained that in the textile trade, transactions were done over three to six months’ credit, whereas GST filings had to be done each month, except by those with an annual turnover below Rs.1.5 crore. So traders and weavers find themselves in a situation where they have to pay taxes on goods which they have sold on credit and payments are not yet realised. “I have paid Rs.3 lakh GST so far, but my payments are yet to be received,” he rued.
This will subsequently put smaller and micro weavers out of business. Steadily, this appears to be already happening. According to Mukhtar Ahmed Mahato, a resident of Madanpura locality, in the past six months alone around 35,000 small and micro weavers had left Varanasi for other cities. He said small Muslim weavers had found some work in Gurpalli area of Bengaluru and Mithikhadi area of Surat city. Official numbers are hard to come by, but such anecdotal references abound in the city which has historically been known for its rich textile tradition.
Behal recalled how previous attempts at taxing the trade were successfully resisted. “There have been multiple attempts in the past in Uttar Pradesh to impose tax on our trade, but all governments in the State had to withdraw those decisions. In fact, even during Atalji’s [Atal Bihari Vajpayee] time, they decided to impose tax on us, but when we met and explained to him why it should be withdrawn, Atalji’s government took back the decision. But this government is just so stubborn that it doesn’t want to withdraw Modi tax,” lamented Behal.
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Blair Bunting's Aaron Hernandez Photos Taken Mere Hours After Athlete Allegedly Shot a Man
by Jaron Schneider
Update: Aaron Hernandez has now been found guilty of 1st degree murder. If you're a sports fan, you probably know the huge scandal unfolding right now surrounding Aaron Hernandez, the former NFL star who was recently released from the New England Patriots. He is now under arrest for a murder that happened on June 14, but last February he allegedly shot a man in the face, a man who survived and is now suing him for it. Thing is, the EXIF data on images recently released by Fstoppers contributor Blair Bunting show the photo shoot took place only a few hours after that alleged shooting. Freaky.
Blair Bunting, if you didn't already know, photographs some of the biggest names in sports. He has recently shown his strategy and lighting arrangement that he did on a major campaign. One of his shoots back in February featured Aaron Hernandez:
Also back in February, Hernandez allegedly shot a man in the face, causing serious injury. According to reports, "the victim was discovered outside of a John Deere store in Riviera Beach, FL on Feb 13 around 6:48 AM." Now if we look at the EXIF data of Blair's images, we can see that Hernandez was in Blair's studio only hours after the alleged shooting. Basically, enough time to clean up, get his act together, arrange his entourage, get on a plane to Phoenix (where Blair's studio is) and arrive at the shoot.
"When I recently photographed Aaron, it was in the midst of a crazy nonstop schedule of shoots that saw me become almost mechanical in my approach to shooting and interacting with people in general. I have found that in times of great stress and responsibility, becoming solely focused on the objective is the best way to maintain the quality of work needed for a large ad campaign production. It just so happens that the day I was photographing Aaron, I was also photographing another NFL player, a MLB player, a professional Ironman athlete and a profession runner...
"Everything had been great, although one of the athletes had left me stressed out of my mind, so much so that I sent an assistant out to grab beer for everyone on set [while waiting for the last athlete to arrive]. Not knowing what to expect, I prepared for the worst knowing that the only person left to photograph was Aaron Hernandez. Then some guy shows up at the studio and starts chatting with one of the assistants, who then brings him to me and introduces himself, it was Aaron. Now at this point, I wish I could say that myself and the creative director were not dressed in complete football uniforms (shoulder pads and all), but we were. Nonetheless, it made for a great laugh and a very fun icebreaker, not to mention a video of me doing the Harlem Shake that is still floating around the agency. Back to Aaron, he was excited to be a part of the photoshoot and in a very calm way just asked for direction and he would make it happen. With his enthusiasm towards the shoot, the only thing we would need to do is to tell him not to smile during the action shots (and yes he accidentally did smile a couple times, they all do)."
"With everyone working together so well on set, it only took about ten minutes of the allotted two hours to get all the shots we needed. When a subject is grateful to be photographed, the shoots are usually very short as the photographer’s job is to get the image and not waste their time. Even with images being added on the fly, we still called a very early wrap on set and brought the beers back out to celebrate a shoot well done. I talked with Aaron about his background, where he grew up and joked about other players in the league. He was kind and soft spoken, and joked about other players in the league and my inability to play sports whatsoever."
From Blair's account, we can see that Aaron handled himself amazingly well if the allegations against him are true. Just crazy how the guy can be chill and level-headed so shortly after an alleged shooting. It's a classic example of "you think you know someone."
All images and quotes used with permission.
Original story via Blair Bunting's blog.
Jaron Schneider is an Fstoppers Contributor and an internationally published writer and cinematographer from San Francisco, California. His clients include Maurice Lacroix, HD Supply, SmugMug, the USAF Thunderbirds and a host of industry professionals.
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Matt Lange - June 27, 2013
Great read. The one thing that stands out to me is that I want to know who the stressful athlete was.
Dan Tabár - June 28, 2013
What a surreal trip it is to have been in the studio that day. Blair is totally right that Aaron was the best possible subject to shoot; super happy and into it all. If the charges are true, it's still hard to wrap my head around how someone can be so cheery only hours after using a gun in anger
Ronnie Boehm - June 28, 2013
"...allegedly shot a man" is enough for an article these days. No need to wait for it to actually be proven and fact. Scary times.
Jason Rubalcaba Ronnie Boehm - June 28, 2013
Clearly a Florida Gators fan....... Dude is suspected of three homicides and the guy who got shot in the face ID'd Hernandez as the guy who shot him. What more do you need? I would say this is a pattern with this guy and it is a story so yeah I would say allegedly would be enough.
Chris Conway Ronnie Boehm - June 28, 2013
That's why it says "allegedly" - because it's an allegation. And no there is no need to wait - the allegation is the story. Nothing scary about that, it's very normal in fact.
Tony Carter - June 28, 2013
EVERYONE has different sides to them....photographers especially should know that ;) But in all honesty, people are behave differently depending on varying externals or situations, and often in split-seconds. I tend to notice that those who are hardcore at good things also tend to be hardcore at bad things...which defines their character.
Jared Phillips - June 28, 2013
And now he has been charged with murdering his friend after the two had a dispute during a trip to a nightclub. Crazy.
Jaron Schneider - June 28, 2013
Well, he hasn't been convicted yet, so at this point it's still a scandal that's ruining his career.
Jon Lee - April 15, 2015
The man obviously wanted a better mug shot....
Jesse Peraza - April 15, 2015
Actually, he has been found guilty of murder.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/15/us/aaron-hernandez-verdict/index.html
Andrew Griswold - April 15, 2015
Jeez that is creepy as hell, that last photo of Blair snapping that shot just a few feet away from Hernandez is chilling. How unknowingly you were relaxed and photographing someone that just killed a man. Just crazy
Anonymous - April 16, 2015
I do not understand this type of self adverts. This is really cheap and i think it has no place on this type of media.
Warren A Jordan - April 16, 2015
Now these photos are nothing more then those of another arrogant athlete, with a $40 million dollar contract, who once again, thought he could get away with murder!
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LCA: News & Discussions - October 2016
Vivek K
Re: LCA: News & Discussions - October 2016
Postby Vivek K » 13 Dec 2016 11:43
Funny to see some posters so worked about India-US ties when theiy wear their own ties to mother Russia on their chest all the time. Just saying... pot calling the kettle black, wot!
tsarkar
Postby tsarkar » 13 Dec 2016 12:35
tushar_m wrote: India to ask US, Israeli and European companies to bid for AESA Radar tender for LCA Mk 1A
^^ The RFP is a bad idea that will unnecessarily delay the program, unless 1. others have reliable new technology much better than what EL-2052 has to offer or 2. the Israeli's are charging exorbitantly, that seems unlikely since DARIN 3 isn't costing a bomb and TSR's interview stated they'll do Tejas integration for free.
Over and above RFP specing, evaluation, PoC & contracting, time, effort & money would be expended on designing, integration & testing. If we chose Derby, Python, Litening, DASH, without rfp, then we could do the same for radar.
Postby Philip » 13 Dec 2016 13:57
Russia gives us Akula subs,N-sub tech,BMos missiles,SU-30MKIs,S-400s and FGFAs to come, while the US gives... Pak $55billion and offers us 50yr old hags with an overdose of makeup! Apologists for Uncle Sam should check their facts first.
Two reports which show us up in poor light.First that Pak now has 70 of its homemade with China fighter,we have zero by comparison, and why the IN dumped the NLCA.
http://thediplomat.com/2016/12/confirme ... hter-jets/
Confirmed: Pakistan Air Force now Operates 70 JF-17 Fighter Jets
The new number was released by Pakistan’s National Assembly in early December.
The Pakistan Air Force (PAF) operates a total of 70 Pakistan Aeronautical Complex/Chengdu Aerospace Corporation (PAC/CAC) JF-17 Thunder fighter jets, the National Assembly Standing Committee on Defense Production revealed in Islamabad on December 7, according to local media reports.
The PAF now fields about an equal number of JF-17 and U.S.-made F-16 multirole fighter aircraft of all variants. (After U.S. lawmakers stalled financing for an additional eight F-16C/D Block-52 fighter aircraft, Pakistan is now mulling the purchase of eight used F-16s from the Royal Jordanian Air Force.)
The JF-17, first inducted into the PAF in 2011, is a lightweight, single-engine, multirole combat aircraft, powered by a Russian-designed-but-Chinese-built Klimov RD-93 (a RD-33 derivative) turbofan, capable of reaching a top speed of Mach 1.6. The aircraft allegedly has an operational range of around 1,200 kilometers (745 miles).
In total, the PAF plans to acquire 150 JF-17s over the next years divided into three production blocks: Block-I, Block II, and Block-III. So far, the PAF has only received Block-I and Block-II variants of the aircraft. 50 out of the 70 JF-17 in service are of the Block-I variant. The PAF last inducted 16 Block-II JF-17s in April.
As I noted elsewhere, according to the chief of air staff, Air Chief Marshal Sohail Aman, Pakistan achieved its goal of producing 16 JF-17 Thunder aircraft in 2015 and wants to produce a total number of 24 Block-II JF-17 aircraft by the end of 2016. Next to carrying a heavier weapons payload, Block-II variants feature a new air-to-air refueling probe, an enhanced oxygen system, and an improved electronic countermeasures system, among other things.
Pakistan produces 58 percent of the airframe and China 42 percent respectively. Islamabad has the capacity to assemble up to 25 JF-17s per year without Beijing’s technical assistance. However, as I noted in April 2015, according to Chinese and Pakistani media reports, China agreed to deliver 110 JF-17s to Pakistan in fly-away condition due to Pakistan’s still limited aircraft manufacturing capacity.
The JF-17 was originally developed to to replace the PAF’s aging fleet of Dassault Mirage III/5 fighter jets by 2o20. “Pakistan is looking to replace 190 aircraft—primarily Chengdu F-7 and Dassault Mirage III/5 fighter jets—by 2020 presumably with a mixture of F-16 and JF-17 aircraft. Pakistan, however, is also allegedly in talks with Russia over the purchase of Su-35 multi-role fighters,” I reported in April (See: “China and Pakistan Air Forces Launch Joint Training Exercise”).
China and Pakistan are also developing a combat-capable two-seat trainer variant of the JF-17, which likely will make its maiden flight in the coming weeks.
If Pakistan can produce 16 fighters /yr raising it to 24,why can't HAL,far older than the Paki entity do likewise? It will be hilarious if we buy ancient 50 yr old F-16s or F-18s and Russia sells Pak cutting edge SU-35s! We will become the laughing stock of the planet!
http://thediplomat.com/2016/12/has-the- ... t-project/
Why the Indian Navy Is Unhappy With Its Carrier-Based Light Combat Aircraft Project
India’s chief of naval staff reiterates reservations about the Tejas’ suitability for carrier operations.
By Abhijit Singh
Ahead of Navy Day celebrations on December 4, Admiral Sunil Lanba, India’s chief of naval staff (CNS), caused a minor flutter in the media by suggesting that the Navy was doing a rethink on the Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) project, India’s premier light fighter jet program. At a press conference, Lanba remarked that the navy was looking for a temporary replacement jet from a source abroad for carrier-operations as the LCA (Navy) wasn’t “yet up to the mark.” Even though the navy chief did not go as far as to suggest the project was being scrapped, he was categorical about the navy’s dissatisfaction with the naval variants under production.
Lanba’s admission is likely to have placed many officials in the Ministry of Defense (MoD), as well as the Defense Research and Development Organization, in a spot of bother. After a slow start in the early 1980s, the LCA struggled for over three decades before showing progress in the past few years. Having obtained operational clearance in 2013, the aircraft has now been officially integrated into the Indian Air Force. Oddly, the naval chief’s statement came only a day after the ministry cleared an order for 83 LCA Mk 1As from the government-owned defense manufacture Hindustan Aeronautical Limited (HAL) for the IAF.
This isn’t, of course, the first time that a naval chief has publicly expressed reservations about the LCA program. In 2012, Admiral Nirmal Verma, then CNS, in an interaction with the media chided the Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) for frequent cost and time overruns in the development of the naval version of the aircraft. The Navy, he suggested, was beginning to lose faith in the project.
Now, as then, the problem with the LCA remains the same: its inability to take off with its full weapon load from a carrier top. Naval sources point out that since 2013, the LCA has consistently failed the test of flight from a 200-meter deck with full weapons load. In a series of trial sorties at a Shore Based Test Facility (SBTF) in May this year, ADA officials claimed that the aircraft had made the cut by successfully ascending from a short deck with two R-73 close combat missiles. But naval managers clearly weren’t impressed.
The Navy’s real problem is that it believes that the LCA is a largely air force-centric program that isn’t essentially geared to meet aircraft carrier-operations. At many points during its evolution, naval managers are said to have emphasized the need for aircraft systems to be reconfigured to meet the requirements of carrier take-off and landing, but the ADA never reportedly made a serious attempt to undertake the necessary modifications.
Naval aeronautical engineers believe that the LCA’s naval variant is slightly but “significantly” different from its air force version, not least on account of a major modification needed in the aircraft’s landing gear that enables arrested landings on a carrier deck. Unfortunately for the Indian Navy, the ADA hasn’t ever fully committed itself to developing a modified undercarriage. As a consequence, the suspicion of an institutional indifference toward the Navy’s specific needs of carrier operations has only grown stronger.
Another concern has been the lack of a reliable air-to-air refueling system. Despite renewed efforts, the complex integration of the aerial refueling probe on to the Tejas fighter hasn’t been properly accomplished. The absence of reliable “hot-refueling” implies a restriction in aircraft mission ranges, which maritime managers have been unwilling to accept.
Why, however, must the Indian Navy be fussy about an aircraft that is only meant to supplement the Mig-29K? Aircraft carrier experts say middle and light category aircraft have different peacetime roles profiles. Given India’s geostrategic interests in the Indian Ocean region, it is important for the Navy to project both hard and soft naval power. High-end combat aircraft like the Mig-29K are meant to exert hard military influence by signaling coercive intent. Equally important, however, is the need for a carrier-borne aircraft to showcase the Indian Navy’s prowess as reliable security agent in the littorals. Indigenous medium-capability assets help in creating a circle of trust, owing to their utility in joint multinational operations. With a leading role in regional forums such as the Indian Ocean Naval Symposium (IONS) and Milan, the Indian Navy has come to be known as a friendly maritime agency. Its low-end light combat aircraft aids in the cultivation of a benevolent image. In addition, the aircraft’s export to friendly countries would help in the forging of strong working-level partnerships.
Misgivings about the LCA program, however, go beyond the perceived disregard for specific functionality. In an article in July this year, Admiral Arun Prakash (retd.), a former chief of naval staff, outlined three reasons why the military leadership was apprehensive about the project. Firstly, Prakash pointed out that Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), the huge public sector firm manufacturing the LCA, is a monolithic, indolent giant with a work ethos that “struck dread in the hearts of air-warriors.” The company’s unionized employees were a cause for low productivity and poor production engineering standards that created many maintenance and inter-changeability problems on aircraft. Secondly, there was a high failure rate of HAL manufactured components and systems that didn’t inspire confidence among military aviation managers. And lastly, Prakash pointed to the suboptimal production support, which often left “HAL customers high and dry.”
Scrapping the LCA (Navy) program, however, will not be without consequences. For one, the Indian Navy will need to start afresh in the search for a foreign source for a new light combat aircraft. Given the stringent provisions of the Defense Procurement Procedures (DPP), especially the need for a domestic manufacturer, this implies a substantial delay in the project. Besides, having invested considerable funds in the LCA program since 2009, the Indian Navy will need to explain losses, as well as the wisdom of investing in a new project. Not only will it push back delivery of the platforms by a few years, the work-load on the Mig-29K will dramatically increase with involvement in both low-end and high-end missions.
For the moment, the critics of the LCA program will feel vindicated. At least until the Indian Navy clarifies that its chief’s statement is being misinterpreted.
Abhijit Singh is a Senior Fellow at the Observer Research Fellow in New Delhi.
PS:Reports of problems with the MIG-29 engine,etc.don't help either.Unless these issues are sorted out,the 29K fleet is unlikely to be augmented in the wake of the NLCA being dumped. It leaves the In with few choices. The best western bets are the naval Rafale,at exorbitant cost or the paper version from SAAB,the Sea Gripen.offer made some time ago. As for any thought of the JSF,just read what the Donald has just said about it.It's future is now in doubt.
Postby JayS » 13 Dec 2016 15:50
Excellent video of formation landing for LCA, from LCA FB page
https://www.facebook.com/tejas.lca/videos/vb.103329156428208/1244504868977292/?type=2&theater
From the comments in the same post. LCA FB page admin replied to one query -
Sp4 is in time. All equipping over. Should come out quickly. Beyond sp3, the hurdles have been overcome and it should be quick thereafter
Neshant
Postby Neshant » 13 Dec 2016 16:34
NLCA has to proceed ahead if for no other reason than gaining valuable insight into the issue of designing & building carrier borne aircraft. It does not matter if better aircraft can be had from overseas. The learning curve has to begin now or it never will.
Basic competence in developing fixed and rotary aircraft for use at sea has to exist as the 21 century will eclipse the 20th century in sea borne trade.
It has to be recognized that the strategic importance of building up a local aerospace industry is as important as having the best imported foreign weapons.
No country wants to lose a war with shitty weapons. The again, no country wants to land itself in a war only to find its local defence industries are incapable of producing anything and dependency on foreign arms is 100%.
Just as the defence industry largely drove the growth & innovation of Western nations, so too it must do the same in India. To piss away hundreds of billions in foreign buying sprees which provide near zero development of the local aerospace R&D base is by far the worst act of economic sabotage that can take place.
Where is the overall national plan for the above? All one hears about is hurried plans to import the most expensive shit from overseas with scant regard for the above.
tushar_m
Postby tushar_m » 13 Dec 2016 19:01
Is it possible that the Mod/IAF is trying to get saab GaN AESA Radar for LCA without buying Gripen ???
American Radar make no sense as we have already integrated all out weapons with Elta radar. Russian radar for LCA is again not a finished product & may have compatibility issues (python/derby). If we have to choose Elta EL/M-2052 (or EL/M-2032 radar) why go for the competition.
Saab offers cutting-edge GaN AESA Radar Technology if India selects Gripen
Indranil
Postby Indranil » 13 Dec 2016 22:07
Not going for a foreign radar would have jeopardized Mk1A itself. Please understand the Mk1A the role of Mk1A. It is a stop gap between Mk1s whose delivery finishes in 2019-20 to Mk2 whose deliveries start in 2025-26. Therefore, time is of the essence here. Hence I agree with tsarkar sir: what is this RFP tamasha? Get the 2052 and keep going. If it is indeed being integrated into a Jaguar, then there is absolutely no need to look anywhere else. Reuse the work. In fact, ask Elbit/BAE if they are ready to fit the radar in the nose of the combat/dream Hawk. If the RFP is for due process, or to keep Elbit honest, then it is fine. Otherwise, it makes no sense for me to delay on the choice of the radar.
Uttam will come with Mk2. If DRDO cannot deliver the radar by then, then it shuold be ready to answer some tough questions.
Location: Barad- dyr
Postby prashanth » 13 Dec 2016 23:07
Indranil wrote: Not going for a foreign radar would have jeopardized Mk1A itself.
Not just Mk1A, but the entire LCA programme saar. It must be in DRDO/HALs interests to ASAP deliver to IAF a fighter that the latter sees fit, no matter what the % of imported components are. Once IAF is satisfied with this version of fighter and after induction in respectable numbers, ADA can go for mark 2,3,4... with increasing indigenization.
Just like what ISRO did with GSLV. They used the Russian cryos for the first few vehicles until the indigenous one was ready.
Indranil wrote: Therefore, time is of the essence here. Hence I agree with tsarkar sir: what is this RFP tamasha? Get the 2052 and keep going. If it is indeed being integrated into a Jaguar, then there is absolutely no need to look anywhere else. Reuse the work. In fact, ask Elbit/BAE if they are ready to fit the radar in the nose of the combat/dream Hawk. If the RFP is for due process, or to keep Elbit honest, then it is fine. Otherwise, it makes no sense for me to delay on the choice of the radar.
I think Israel must have sensed the urgency of IAF, DRDO and GOI and is probably demanding higher price for the 2052. This RFP drama is an indirect message to them that GOI is not averse to look for other sources. Just a layman's guess.
ADE is setting up a Full Mission Simulator for LCA at Airforce Station Sulur
sudeepj
Postby sudeepj » 13 Dec 2016 23:45
It may just be a tender to avoid a single vendor situation and also to get a better price from the Israelis. The GoI can later say, we invited tenders, Israelis turned out to be the cheapest ones (or even the only ones) and hence we chose it. MoD/GoI is not entirely stupid.. If you think that corruption allegations will not be made to derail yet another indigenous effort, you have another think coming.
Postby Gyan » 14 Dec 2016 00:01
Inspite of 50 years of license manufacturing Russian equipment, we don't have Engineers who can read Russian? What Rubbish! Same idiotic excuse was trotted out to explain non indigenisation of Su-30 MKI and spending US$ 2 Billion extra.
Khalsa
Location: NZL
Postby Khalsa » 14 Dec 2016 01:48
in all my years of reading other people's code I have never learnt to code well by copying their style. Because you were just jumping from one style to another guy's style.I had to go through pain of doing it myself ... it was cr_ap when I began, but today I hold mine and teach younglings ... how to do the same (not copy my code but to learn to create their own style)
And Yes I know i invite the wrath of all of you who are going to kill me for comparing the LCA to software code.
I am not comparing the do. I am just talking about invention/ creation/ construction of anything.... from a line of code to a car.
Do what you have to do to fill the gap but a permanent pathway must be laid down in this country.
USA did it
France did it
UK did it and stuffed it up
Russia did it
China did it
HOLY HELL even the pakis are doing it as best as they can.
LCA is the foundation
AMCA is the Framework on Top
FGFA will be the meat on the bones.
Karan M
Postby Karan M » 14 Dec 2016 01:56
sum wrote:
prashanth wrote:
Sum avare, this is my (layman's) interpretation.
China is getting aggressive across the border in Tibet and GOI has to reply back with same posturing. This cannot happen unless you have fully equipped and well oiled military. As it is, IAF is straining with depleting squadron strength. Raflale deal is downsized. MMR is not performing up to IAF's expectations and uttam is nowhere in sight. This might have led to quick decision by GOI to use imported AESA radars. Probably GOI now thinks that HAL should make multiple copies of the latest SP configuration, with imported AESA and get LCA inducted to IAF in large numbers. Cant fault them. Same reasoning for M777 howitzer deal. We jingoes might yearn for 100% Indian LCA, but the MOD/GOI have to take realities into account.
Agree and definitely do not believe that it should be held up since by all reports, the Uttam/MMR are in deep doo-doo and nowehere close to coming online anytime soon
Is there a reason why you make such pointlessly sky is falling posts about issue after issue?
Its no joke to make a compact FCR and to extrapolatate that to program us in this, that is weird.
tushar_m wrote: .
India to ask US, Israeli and European companies to bid for AESA Radar tender for LCA Mk 1A
India is set to initiate a major international competition to acquire new age radars for its indigenous combat planes in the coming weeks, the winner of which is likely to gain a strong foothold for future domestic projects.
Sources have told ET that an expression of interest for a new set of AESA (Active Electronically Scanned Array) for the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Mk 1A is set to be floated shortly, with top global aviation firms expected to participate. The government had recently cleared an order for 83 of the LCA Mk 1A jets. The competition would be the largest international contract for AESA radars that are the heart of modern combat jets.
These new radars give much more range and engagement potential to fighters, enabling them to engage targets from a distance without getting detected. AESA radars can track and direct weapons to multiple air and ground targets simultaneously. With India working on an indigenous next generation plane under the Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA), it is likely that the winning company will have a much larger order book, with the potential number going upwards of 200.
The first Indian Air Force aircraft with AESA radars will be the Jaguar fighter that is being upgraded to the DARIN 3 version. The first Jaguar with the new radar is expected to fly in January. The contract to equip 58 Jaguars with AESA radars had gone to Israel’s ELTA, making it the frontrunner for the LCA Mk 1A project as well. There could, however, also be surprise entries into the Indian competition from the US, with Raytheon, which manufactures the AESA radar for the F/A 18 Super Hornet and the F 16 also showing interest.
While in the past, US firms had limited options to offer to New Delhi, with India now gaining Major Defence Partner status, transfer of sensitive technology and licences have been made easier. The integration of an AESA radar was a key parameter for the Air Force to clear the order for 83 LCA Mk 1A fighters, after years of blocking the indigenous fighter on concerns that it would not be combat worthy. The AESA will give the LCA an edge over similar fighter operating in the region that are equipped with conventional radars.
The LCA project took a minor hit earlier this month when Navy Chief Admiral Sunil Lanbaannounced that the naval version of the fighter is not suitable for aircraft carrier operations, necessitating an international competition for a new range of combat aircraft.
This is good news and prevents Israel from fobbing off half baked goids to us as a favor in the name of doing us a favor. Selex, Raytheon, NG, Thales have programs. Latter three production ready. SAAB too has experience. Evaluate what is available before taking the Israeli offer and handing over a huge order.
Postby Mihir » 14 Dec 2016 03:10
sudeepj wrote: It may just be a tender to avoid a single vendor situation and also to get a better price from the Israelis. The GoI can later say, we invited tenders, Israelis turned out to be the cheapest ones (or even the only ones) and hence we chose it. MoD/GoI is not entirely stupid. If you think that corruption allegations will not be made to derail yet another indigenous effort, you have another think coming.
Such tenders often take on a life of their own. Any competitor to Elta that chooses to throw its hat in the ring would make a very competitive offer and that very well edge out the 2052. What then? Spend more time and money qualifying new weapons and interfaces on the aircraft? How many years of delay would that lead to? And if the 2052 is chosen in spite of a better offer from elsewhere, what stops the other OEM from appealing the decision, lodging a protest, or even filing a lawsuit over the rejection? I don't think this is a risk that we can bear at this point.
Cain Marko
Postby Cain Marko » 14 Dec 2016 03:56
^ I'm afraid it could cause more horrid delays though. I remember how long it took ada to make a decision on the engines....hope this is not repeated. Give an opportunity for folks to ditch lca for more solah down the road.
Location: (IT-vity && DRDO) nagar
Postby sum » 14 Dec 2016 05:35
Of course, saar. No doubt about the difficulties. Its just that Uttam project is tied to the hip of the LCA project and hence, was mentioning about it here
Its just that whenever Chailwallahs mention the current status of such projects, it seems at huge variance from whatever is being put out in DDM or being mentioned in BRF about "almost turned the corner". Thats the only reason for the "gloomy tone" of my posts.
If the Uttam does indeed go well, all power to it but just hope that the correct status is being put out from time to time instead of "resolved mostissues and about to get everything by end of next month/year"
Anyways, hope that all ends well and we achieve our goals after the initial technological mountains are climbed
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fanne
Postby fanne » 14 Dec 2016 05:41
Why AESA on Jags? Does not make sense.
Of course, saar. No doubt about the difficulties.
If the Uttam does indeed go well, all power to it but just hope that the correct status is being put out from time to time instead of "resolved all issues and about to get everything by end of next month"
Who are these chai wallahs and what are they drinking? Problem is this stuff "resolved all issues and get everything by month end" - where has this ever been said? Uttam suppliers and DRDO itself have put out periodic updates on every step. Anyone can see how much remain. And how is that extrapolated to its ready? AEW&C, doom and gloom. This when reports note it is in methodical flight trials. Uttam, doom and gloom. Right now Uttam Protos are in test and they will take time to field. Kindly point out one DRDO release saying otherwise. They are damned if they do and damned if they dont. Right now, LRDE has some dozen radars in devpt. A bunch are in advanced testing/fab or ready for user trials. They have given periodic updates on each. Lets appreciate their transparency as versus worrying like this or believibg in what random dudes say.
Indranil wrote: Not going for a foreign radar would have jeopardized Mk1A itself. Please understand the Mk1A the role of Mk1A. It is a stop gap between Mk1s whose delivery finishes in 2019-20 to Mk2 whose deliveries start in 2025-26. Therefore, time is of the essence here. Hence I agree with tsarkar sir: what is this RFP tamasha? Get the 2052 and keep going. If it is indeed being integrated into a Jaguar, then there is absolutely no need to look anywhere else. Reuse the work. In fact, ask Elbit/BAE if they are ready to fit the radar in the nose of the combat/dream Hawk. If the RFP is for due process, or to keep Elbit honest, then it is fine. Otherwise, it makes no sense for me to delay on the choice of the radar.
Don't think jags will get 2052 aesa, just the 2032 mech array. HAL might be finding out that it is not very easy to get an aesa with large enough array in such a small space so as to provide worthwhile advantages over an advanced mech array. Hence the dekko at other vendors.
Another more sinister possibility is that this is a sneaky way to get in solah with racr. it would probably be unlikely for Hal to complete the search and integrate the radar by stated timeline of 2021, which would then justify higher numbers of solah production, in-house and MII of course, and a few extra lca mk1s with 2032 might get an order for some dikhawa purposes. Everybody is happy, no?
Just a guess of course.
Viv S
Postby Viv S » 14 Dec 2016 08:10
Cain Marko wrote: Don't think jags will get 2052 aesa, just the 2032 mech array. HAL might be finding out that it is not very easy to get an aesa with large enough array in such a small space so as to provide worthwhile advantages over an advanced mech array. Hence the dekko at other vendors.
58 Jaguars are slated to get an AESA upgrade. So basically, every two-ship Jaguar sortie will be able to share an AESA through the data-link.
The aperture is not a problem; the EL/M-2052 is a scalable system. IAI's offering it as standard kit on Kfir Blk 60s (and for upgrades).
^ is the 2052 confirmed on the jag?
Anybody remember the Shakti saga b/w HAL & Turbomeca/Safran? Already operational on the Dhruv, it was a natural choice for the LUH. Turbomeca, knowing this, jacked up its prices. An 'outraged' HAL responded with a global RFP forcing Safran to.. adjust its position.
HAL confronts Snecma in light helicopter project
The Light Utility Helicopter (LuH), which Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) is designing for the Indian military, has encountered turbulence even before leaving the drawing board. French engine-maker Turbomeca, whose vaunted Shakti engine was to power the LuH, is demanding what Ministry of Defence (MoD) sources term “extortionist prices” for integrating the Shakti with the LuH.
HAL had paid Turbomeca to develop the Shakti engine for the Dhruv Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH); and the Shakti also powers the Light Combat Helicopter (LCH) that HAL is developing. Because the Shakti is custom-designed for the high altitudes — between 15,000 and 20,000 feet — that characterise much of India’s border, and because HAL and Turbomeca will jointly manufacture the engine in India, the Shakti was selected to also power the LuH.
But the Dhruv and the LCH are twin-engine helicopters, while the lighter LuH will fly with a single Shakti engine. That requires Turbomeca to design a new transmission for the LuH. Additionally, the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) will have to certify the Shakti for single-engine operation. To HAL’s dismay, Turbomeca has demanded Rs 190 crore for these jobs, more than half the LuH’s entire budget of Rs 376 crore.
In formulating the LuH development budget, HAL had assumed that Turbomeca would design the new transmission system cheaply, to benefit from additional orders of hundreds of Shakti engines over the service life of the LuH.
An outraged HAL board, having decided against paying so much to Turbomeca, has approached other engine-makers — including General Electric, Honeywell, Rolls-Royce, and Pratt & Whitney — for an engine for the LuH.
Reliable MoD sources tell Business Standard that Turbomeca is now negotiating with HAL to compromise on a price for the Shakti. The French company has offered to reduce the cost by Rs 90 crore, provided that the amount is adjusted against its offset liability. But HAL rejected that offer last week, telling Turbomeca that even Rs 100 crore is too high a price. Turbomeca is now preparing a fresh proposal.
Senior HAL sources complain that Turbomeca is taking advantage of the rigid timelines that the defence ministry has imposed on HAL in the LuH project. The MoD has split its order for 384 LuHs between a global tender for 197 ready-built LuHs; and an order for HAL to develop and build 187 LuHs by 2017. The MoD has specified a target date for each of the LuH’s development milestones: building of a mock-up; the design freeze; the first flight; Initial Operational Clearance, and so on. Each time HAL misses a milestone, its order reduces from 187.
Turbomeca apparently believes that these time obligations reduce HAL’s bargaining leverage. HAL, however, has decided early not to put all its eggs in the Turbomeca basket.
That being said, this is still relatively early days for the Mk1A. If they are serious about considering other options and can make that decision without excessive delay, a SABR/APG-83 derivative will probably the most capable of the lot.
Personally, I've always been lukewarm on the 2052; the T/R count (generally a good thumb rule of capability) was definitely underwhelming (500 modules for a F-16 sized antenna IIRC) and the lack of a captive customer was a barrier to sustained evolution (eg. Vixen 500E -> Vixen 1000E -> ES-05). Hopefully that's old news and the 2052 has advanced by a generation (like its peers) but I can't say I'd be willing to bet on it.
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Cain Marko wrote: ^ is the 2052 confirmed on the jag?
Viv S wrote: . The aperture is not a problem; the EL/M-2052 is a scalable system. IAI's offering it as standard kit on Kfir Blk 60s (and for upgrades).
Yes but what about space for cooling requirements? I'm guessing that more trms = greater cooling and hence you simply can't have too many modules densely packed in a small nose cone. Of course I'm just a layperson, no phyjjicks and engineering background to speak of.
Cain Marko wrote: Yes but what about space for cooling requirements? I'm guessing that more trms = greater cooling and hence you simply can't have too many modules densely packed in a small nose cone. Of course I'm just a layperson, no phyjjicks and engineering background to speak of.
Like I said, its a scaled down variant. Assuming its the same size as a Kfir's it should have about 300 TRMs. Cooling requirements will be proportionately lower. Its quite doable.
The deal was always with LCA +1/2 more jets for AESA order, as what was Israeli demand IIRC. Jag was being mentioned as the other candidate even 2yrs ago. So nothing surprizing there. All these things been discussed on this very thread.
JTull
Postby JTull » 14 Dec 2016 14:52
This should call Saab's bluff that India cannot access AESA GaN tech without buying whole aircraft.
brar_w
Postby brar_w » 14 Dec 2016 18:45
JTull wrote:
Depending on what is on offer the advantages non SAAB bids enjoy is proven, lower cost, high reliabiltiy (on account of refinement over time) systems and not an S&T project that have not even left the lab yet (what SAAB has offered). Israel has a radar it is integrated on the KFIR, and the jaguar while both Raytheon and Northrop Grumman's lines share huge component commonality (including software in some instances) with massive programs of record such as the AN/APG-81 and the AN/APG-79/63/82 programs.
Postby Gagan » 15 Dec 2016 03:34
And allow india a dekko at what advances the world has made in AESA technology.
The MMRCA saga did allow the IAF to get a really good dekko at all the top line fighters flying today right right?
Postby ramana » 15 Dec 2016 05:47
I don't like this baloney AESA tender at this stage for the Mk1A. Its another way to slowdown the delivery.
Why cant these be for future upgrade for the 40 odd LCAs?
Something is not right.
ramana wrote: Something is not right.
Would have to agree - smells funny. First the unhelpful NLCA news and now this....
What happened to the much displayed desi AESA radar at the last Aero-India? Another great 'technology demonstrator" what?
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maitya
Postby maitya » 15 Dec 2016 13:05
Philip wrote: What happened to the much displayed desi AESA radar at the last Aero-India? Another great 'technology demonstrator" what?
If this is not trolling of worst kind (combined with naked flame-baiting), I don't know what trolling is!!
Response will be there, but after allowing the admins to express their views/actions.
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Postby Marten » 15 Dec 2016 13:53
maitya wrote:
Fully agree. Being a senior member has no meaning if one is just a troll on any indigenous thread (moreover, pushing Russkiya schit at the expense of India's capabilities).
Philip saar, making an AESA radar that fits into the nose cone of a small fighter is not easy, and takes time. DRDO has experience in making working AESA radars mounted on AEWC platforms, which is close to being inducted into IAF. From what I have read on the internet, Uttam radar's hardware is ready and they are working on the signal processing part, specifically the A2G mode. This is very difficult to master and might take a few more years to complete. IIRC, even Israel had to get US help in developing the software.
Rishi Verma
Postby Rishi Verma » 15 Dec 2016 15:10
Marten wrote:
maitya wrote: If this is not trolling of worst kind (combined with naked flame-baiting), I don't know what trolling is!!
Saar relax,
One can only feel sorry for such salemen who can't sell anything even with zero commission and only can keep crapping in forums in memory of Castro, Kim Junk Ill, and Stalin.
rohiths
Postby rohiths » 15 Dec 2016 15:15
Even Russia does not have a working AESA radar
Postby chola » 15 Dec 2016 15:33
Rishi Verma wrote:
Marten wrote: Fully agree. Being a senior member has no meaning if one is just a troll on any indigenous thread (moreover, pushing Russkiya schit at the expense of India's capabilities).
The problem is they DO sell a lot to India. (I respect Philip as a poster but not his cheerleading for the russkies.)
The crap they sell has cost us in treasure and, even more importantly, blood. Screwdrivergiriing russian crap for the past 50 years has left us with a stunted industrial base which is why we are still discussing the LCA after all these years.
The S Koreans cut their teeth building the F-sola decades after we begin screwing together the MiG flying coffins. They are already selling their indigenous T-50 Golden Eagle around the world (Indonesia, the Philippines, Iraq, etc.) The japs with their F-2 (again from the F-16) which has been in frontline service for decades. If we must go firang, it is far better to go Unkil.
chola wrote: The S Koreans cut their teeth building the F-sola decades after we begin screwing together the MiG flying coffins. They are already selling their indigenous T-50 Golden Eagle around the world (Indonesia, the Philippines, Iraq, etc.) The japs with their F-2 (again from the F-16) which has been in frontline service for decades. If we must go firang, it is far better to go Unkil.
No advantage there either. Both T-50 and J-2 use US powerplants and radars, exactly where LCA is struggling. They are not sanction proof and this outweighs all other considerations.
How I wish we had a working MMR radar and flightworthy Kaveri engine. No matter how far behind we are in terms of generations, we would have a (almost) completely indigenous LCA to fall back on when a warlike situation arises. This is one reason why GOI/DRDO/IAF must never ever abandon work on Kaveri and MMR/Uttam radar and see it to completion.
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FILE PHOTO: Relatives cry beside a coffin containing 16-year-old Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez during his funeral in Nogales October 14, 2012. REUTERS/Alonso Castillo/File Photo
By Jonathan Stempel
(Reuters) – A U.S. border patrol agent acquitted of murder for shooting a Mexican teenager to death across the Arizona-Mexico border is not immune from civil damages claims by the boy’s mother, a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday.
The dissenting judge from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ 2-1 decision accused the majority of ignoring legal precedent and said the Supreme Court may need to weigh in.
Tuesday’s decision allows Araceli Rodriguez to sue the agent Lonnie Swartz over the Oct. 10, 2012 shooting of 16-year-old Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez.
The boy had been walking down a street in Nogales, Mexico when Swartz, then on duty and standing on an embankment on U.S. soil, fired through a border fence, striking him about 10 times.
Swartz said he acted in self-defense in response to a group of rock throwers, while Rodriguez said her son was walking peacefully.
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In the civil case, a lower court judge rejected Swartz’s claim of qualified immunity, and said Rodriguez could seek damages for violations of her son’s constitutional rights.
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But in Tuesday’s majority opinion, Circuit Judge Andrew Kleinfeld found it “inconceivable that any reasonable officer” to think he or she could kill Elena Rodriguez, as the mother suggested, “for no reason.”
Kleinfeld distinguished a 1990 Supreme Court precedent limiting the Fourth Amendment’s extraterritorial reach, saying Swartz “acted on American soil subject to American law” and it was “clearly established” he could not shoot across the border. He also said Swartz’s conduct might “shock[] the conscience.”
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He said the majority “tees up our court for a new ‘chastening'” by the Supreme Court, known for often reversing 9th Circuit decisions.
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Rupert Quaintance trial update: Day 4
Yes, we’re back to referring to the trial by Rupert’s real name, as it seems the court listings have done the same. As always, we ask that no one speculate about the outcome of the trial in the comments section. We appreciate everyone’s cooperation!
Cross-examination of defendant, part 2
On the fourth day of Rupert Quaintance’s trial on multiple counts of harassment causing fear of violence, court resumed at 10:15 a.m. with Rupert still in the witness stand, being cross-examined by Martyn Bowyer for the prosecution. Noting that he would not be leaving the topic of the other Hampstead “activists” completely, Mr Bowyer took up where he left off yesterday.
“When did you discover that Angela Power-Disney was, as you put it, ‘dangerous’?” he asked.
“I’ll have to think about that”, Rupert said.
Mr Bowyer asked whether the realisation came before or after Rupert’s visit to Lanzarote. On reflection, Rupert said it was about halfway through the second week there. “I decided she was a meddler”, he said. “She manipulates people, especially when they’re frightened”.
Mr Bowyer confirmed with Rupert that his travels had taken him from the United States to Italy, then Holland, then Lanzarote, and finally the UK, where he had arrived on 9 August 2016.
He pointed out that the Excel document found on Rupert’s hard drive, containing the names of Christ Church Primary School parents, had been created on 30 July 2016, so this must have occurred while Rupert was in Lanzarote. “You accepted yesterday that one source for this document could have been Angela Power-Disney”, he said.
Rupert agreed that this was possible, but said he was not certain.
Mr Bowyer asked whether Sabine McNeill could be characterised as another “activist”, and Rupert agreed that she could. Mr Bowyer suggested that Rupert might not have found Sabine as “dangerous” as Angela, and that he might not have had so many concerns about her”. Again, Rupert agreed.
Mr Bowyer noted that the second list of parents’ names had been found on the HampsteadChristChurch.com site, which had been accessed several times by someone using Rupert’s laptop. The link to that site had been sent by Sabine on 31 March 2016, before Rupert left the United States. He asked whether Rupert had seen this site prior to Sabine sending it to him. “It’s hard to say”, said Rupert. “I can’t remember”.
Mr Bowyer said that on 31 March, Sabine had sent a Skype message with a link to the site, and that Rupert had already stated that he “believed he would have looked at it”. He asked whether Rupert had read about the multiple addresses alleged to belong to the father in the case. Rupert said he might have bookmarked it and saved it for later.
Asked when he had realised that the Hampstead case might not have been all he initially believed, Rupert said, “I came to that determination around my second week in Italy”. He said he had gained more clarity, and the case “took on a different tone to me”.
Mr Bowyer asked Rupert why, if he was no longer interested in Hampstead, he had continued to save documents sent to him about the case: “If someone was sending lies to you, which were of no interest to you, why save them?” he asked.
Rupert replied, “I didn’t want to be accused of being a fraud. I wanted to show that I did my work”.
Turning to the American Freedom Radio broadcast, Mr Bowyer asked Rupert who he’d been referring to in the part of the broadcast where he said, “I don’t want to kill them, I just want to beat them up really bad”. “The people who’d been causing me to fear violence”, Rupert said.
“But had anyone been violent toward you?” Mr Bowyer asked, noting that the reference to beating people up had been immediately followed by Rupert saying, “They’ve been physical, why shouldn’t people get physical with them?” Mr Bowyer contended that this reference was not to Rupert’s trolls online, but to the people of Hampstead, who had supposedly “been physical” in abusing children. “This is a reference to the parents, isn’t it?” he asked. “No one in the list of parents had been physical with you, so why would you say this?”
He further pointed out that Rupert had made that broadcast during his sojourn in Holland, immediately prior to coming to the UK. “Your attitude toward Hampstead had not changed one iota”, he said.
Rupert said he could “understand why you think I was ready for a row—I was just trying to puff myself up”.
Mr Bowyer said that when Rupert had referred in his YouTube video to “kicking down doors and taking blood samples”, this could only refer to the parents, as it would make no sense to “take blood samples” from any other party.
“That was off the cuff”, Rupert said. “I never thought it would be repeated”.
Referring to the Facebook post in which Rupert showed himself at the school, Mr Bowyer asked, “Regarding the comments from your friend Clay, is ‘biscuit’ slang for ‘gun’?” Rupert said that it is, especially in the hiphop world.
“So when Clay posted ‘is that a biscuit in your pocket?’ did you think he meant gun?”
“My initial inclination was to delete that comment”, Rupert said, adding that on second thought he had decided not to censor his friend’s comment.
“Was Clay asking ‘are you armed?'” Mr Bowyer asked, “asking ‘has it been necessary to carry a gun’?”
Rupert said that that was the way he’d understood it.
“Why did you choose to respond ‘knife?’?”
Rupert said that at the end of the Facebook conversation, he had said, “Haha, no no no”.
“At some point even Clay suggested that it might be a good idea to remove the post, didn’t he?” Mr Bowyer asked.
“No, I said that”, Rupert said. “I don’t think Clay would say to take it down”.
Referring to his arrest on 13 September, Rupert said that pre- and post-arrest he felt like two different people. “I was really relieved after the harassment stopped”.
Mr Bowyer asked Rupert to explain what was going through his mind during the week between posting the Facebook post and his arrest: “You still wanted to satisfy the people who’d brought you over here, but was it all over for you?”
Rupert said that the morning before he was arrested, he felt he’d overstayed his welcome. “I was exploring getting a plane ticket,” he said. “My final findings were inconclusive”.
“When were you planning to announce you had no evidence” to support the Hampstead allegations?”
“As soon as I left”.
“Did you actually put anything else up about the Hampstead case after 5 September?”
“I don’t remember”.
Mr Bowyer said, “So no report, no video, no Twitter post saying it was a dead story?”
“I didn’t want to be between the two sides, with one wanting me to investigate”, Rupert said.
“You received donations from people like Angela Power-Disney, Sabine McNeill, and others”, Mr Bowyer said. “So your trip was partly funded by them?”
Rupert agreed that this was true.
“On the other hand, you had the people who vilified you—so you had twice the reason to say ‘I’ve done my best, it’s time to move on”. That would have satisfied both sides, wouldn’t it?” Mr Bowyer asked.
Rupert said he had not considered that.
Turning to the original YouTube video, Mr Bowyer asked how it happened that Rupert had completely ignored the negative feedback he’d received on it.
Rupert said that when he makes videos, he glances at the comments, but doesn’t dwell on them; and so in this case he went back a year later and checked.
Referring to videos which Angela made with Rupert, secretly recording them and then putting them up without his permission, Mr Bowyer asked whether Rupert was aware of these.
“Yes, I asked her to take them down”, he said.
“Did you ask YouTube to take them down?”
Rupert said he had not.
Mr Bowyer asked Rupert, “Are you a reasonable man?”
“Yes, but I’m naïve, and I learn the hard way”, he responded.
Mr Bowyer asked whether Rupert accepted that he had played some part in the distress suffered by the witnesses in this trial.
Mr Bowyer asked, “Do YouTubers enjoy attention?” Rupert agreed they did.
“So you enjoyed the attention of this extremely divisive situation, including the abuse?”
“At first, yes”, Rupert said. “But once I realised how deep I was in, no”.
Mr Bowyer said, “I submit that you enjoyed it. You came to this country armed with a list of names”.
“That sounds so nefarious”, Rupert said.
Mr Bowyer pointed out that to take another person’s blood against their will would require violence.
“Put a certain way”, Rupert replied.
“I submit that you wanted to beat them up pretty bad right before you left Holland for the UK, and that after that you came to the school and left a message on Facebook that you were armed, which you didn’t remove”, Mr Bowyer said.
At this point, Rupert could be heard sniffling. Mr Bowyer stated that his cross-examination was done.
Defence response
Referring to the Facebook post, Mr Stevens noted that it ended with a comment from Leo Gallagher, not Rupert’s friend Clay. He asked Rupert whether his response “no, no” was an answer to a question from Mr Gallagher, or from Clay.
Both, Rupert said. “I thought [Leo] was referring to someone who’d been killed by the police.
Mr Stevens stated that the response had been posted on 7 September 2016.
Judge’s questions for defendant
Judge Griffith asked Rupert whether he had had any part in reposting his first Hampstead video in February 2016. Rupert replied that he had not.
Judge Griffith said, “You said you had been told that ‘they’d be waiting for me’ when you arrived in the UK. How did they know when you would be getting off the plane?”
Rupert said he didn’t know.
“How did they know where you were [in London]?” Mr Griffith asked. Rupert said that he had done a video in the back garden of the house where he was staying in Erith, and some people had identified its location from local landmarks visible in the video.
Rupert said, “There were some strange events”, such as people knocking on the door early in the morning or calling the house where he was staying and hanging up. He attributed this behaviour to those who had been harassing him online.
Judge Griffith noted that on Rupert’s Facebook account, someone named “Roger Flutterby” had said, “You look like a creepy knuckle-scraping twat”, and asked whether this was typical of the abuse Rupert had suffered.
“I’d say that was light”, Rupert said.
The judge asked Rupert whether he had any screen shots of death threats he had received.
“Yes, but I don’t have them with me”, Rupert said.
Admissions, part 2
Further to the Admissions which were put on the record yesterday, a set of admissions was given to the jury today. It was agreed between the parties that Rupert had been a target of online abuse; that his address had been published without his permission; that Rupert had complained about this to the police; and that a person who identified himself to police as a Satanist had been asked and had agreed to stop directing angry posts online at Rupert.
Character references
Mr Stevens, defence, read out the contents of four character references for the defendant, in which he was described as “kind-hearted and empathetic” with a “wonderful soul”. One reference said he has a strong work ethic, having been employed nearly five years; another said he exhibits compassion and empathy, and the last one characterised him as kind and respectful.
This was the end of the evidence, for both prosecution and defence.
Legal directions
Judge Griffith gave the jury legal directions, emphasizing that the prosecution must prove the defendant’s guilt, and that it was not up to Rupert to prove his innocence. He reviewed the Harassment Act, noting that the phrase “a course of conduct” must be differentiated from a series of unrelated acts. The course of conduct must be aimed at an individual, so the jury must consider whether this includes the named people in this case, most obviously the parents.
The judge explained that the course of conduct must cause the victims to fear that violence might be used against them. In this case, he said, some of the witnesses had expressed fear for their children. The judge said it would be up to the jury to decide whether the witnesses’ fear had been for themselves, or for their children.
The next step, he said, would be to determine whether Rupert knew, or ought to have known, the effect his course of conduct would have. “It’s not enough for him to say, ‘I didn’t think about it'” he said. Considering whether he ought to have known, the jury must decide whether a reasonable man would have known the effect of his course of conduct.
In this case, there are three possible verdicts: guilty, not guilty, or guilty of a lesser charge, to whit, simple harassment. Simple harassment is harassment in which there is no fear of violence, but rather “alarm or distress”.
Given the character references provided, and the fact that Rupert by his own admission has only been in trouble with the law over a minor cannabis charge long ago, Judge Griffith said that he must be treated as a “person of good character”. This factor must be taken into account, and the jury must consider whether it makes it less likely that Rupert committed the offences with which he has been charged.
Prosecution summing up
In his summing up for the prosecution, Mr Bowyer asked, “Are we sure that the defendant’s actions constituted a course of conduct?” He said that a course of conduct is loosely defined in the legislation, so the jury would need to determine the actual number of acts which constitute it: is it two? three? 16? 136? “It’s up to you”, he said.
He also noted that there is no need to define the amount of time between the acts: “It could be once per week, once per month, once per year”. The time frame in question here is between February 2015 and September 2016, and it may be suggested that he posted the video in 2015 but no one saw them until a year later. It’s up to the jury to decide whether this matters, he said.
The prosecution is certain beyond doubt that Rupert’s behaviour constituted a course of conduct, Mr Bowyer said.
Regarding whether the witnesses felt distressed, it’s clear that they did. “They had fears for themselves, for their children”, Mr Bowyer said, referring to one witness’ need to install CCTV around the home, while another mentioned having to travel home a different way each time to avoid being followed and attacked.
Rupert’s behaviour was “designed to cause alarm and distress to the witnesses when he posted the American Freedom Radio broadcast, Mr Bowyer said. “Did he intend to cause alarm and distress? It is enough if the intended victims were parents of the children at the heart of the investigation”, Mr Bowyer said. “It’s important to know that he had their names on an Excel spreadsheet, and that he had access to another list”.
As to whether Rupert “knew or ought to have known”, he said, “it may be that, being possessed of all the facts, an impartial bystander would have known that as a parent at the school [a witness] might have felt very much under suspicion. Would the average man have known that [the witness] would feel harassed under such circumstances?”
Mr Bowyer noted that this jury brings together 12 people of different ages, sexes, and ethnicities who will come together and decide what a reasonable man would think.
“No one is suggesting that the witnesses in this case were not in fear of violence”, he said. As to whether the fear of violence was for themselves or their children, he pointed out, “If you feared your child was in danger, who would you put between your child and their attacker?” Any parent would do that without stopping to think, he said.
As to whether the jury can be sure that the defendant knew or ought to have known that his course of conduct would cause fear, “how could he possibly not have realised?” Mr Bowyer asked.
“It’s likely that you’ll leave this court in a state of shock that images of children aged eight and nine could be spread across the internet”, Mr Bowyer said. “You’ll be in shock that it is so easy for people hiding behind a keyboard to cause such distress to innocent people”. This shock does not necessarily mean that Rupert is guilty, he said, noting that Rupert himself had described the internet as being like the wild west. That was a place where there was very little law, and a great deal of lawlessness.
“We must try to police the internet”, he said. “In Western movies, if you’re a John Wayne figure on the Oregon Trail, fighting the redskins and robbing wagon trains, normally a sheriff comes along” and deals with the situation.
The prosecution doesn’t suggest that Rupert was not subject to abuse: “When you say provocative things, you’ll provoke a response”. Rupert stated that the abuse he suffered had affected every part of his daily life; but how did it affect the four witnesses?
The YouTube video Rupert posted was seen by a number of witnesses. It starts off with Rupert saying he “believes the children”—that he felt doors needed to be kicked down and blood samples taken.
This was posted about a month before Mrs Justice Pauffley’s ruling, but that did not seem to dull his interest.
Everyone in the public gallery here today is free to say they think the jury got it wrong when this case is finished. However, no one is entitled to embark upon a campaign against the jury or against anyone they perceived as supporting the jury’s decision. No one is entitled to threaten to kick down doors or take blood samples, as this would cause alarm and fear.
Rupert claimed that he didn’t think about the video for a full year. He knew that the court had found the allegations against the witnesses to be unfounded, so why did he choose to become so close to other activists in the case? Was he sucked in? Was this just a way to get a few more likes on Facebook or YouTube?
“Did Rupert consider himself a reasonable man?” Mr Bowyer asked. He was funded by many activists; why had he come to the UK armed with a hard drive with a list of names? Did he know they would fear him? Why did he travel to Lanzarote to meet with one of the most vocal campaigners, whom he described as “considerably dangerous”?
In March 2016, Sabine sent him a link with a list of names. If, before he came to the UK, he considered that Hampstead was a dead story, why did he not delete that file?
It was, Mr Bowyer said, because he intended to continue his campaign. Try as he might to dress it up, what Rupert did was harassment. He made that tirade on American Freedom Radio whilst he was in Holland, right before his trip to the UK. He says it was for the trolls, but the lie comes in the assertion after the threat to “beat them up real bad”: “they’re being physical, why shouldn’t people get physical with them?”
On the first day of the school term, in what Rupert called a coincidence, he showed his “defiant face” on Facebook. Anyone looking at that post might assume that he had a knife. But why say knife? Why not just say no, no problem, I wasn’t armed?
Mr Bowyer pointed out that Rupert said he thought he should remove the post…but he didn’t. There is a difference between a closed Facebook conversation where amusing conversations about “biscuits” may take place amongst friends, and public pages, where anyone can see him standing outside the school, using weapons terminology.
This was undoubtedly a course of conduct, Mr Bowyer said. A reasonable person would realise that the witnesses would fear him.
It is not a defence to say, “I am a publicity seeker”, or “I have two different personas, but I don’t think through what I am doing”. Being online is no defence of the “wild west” on the internet.
The reason we have a jury like you is to say, “enough is enough”.
Defence summing up
Summing up the case for the defence, Mr Stevens said, “This is not just about threats. It’s really about Rupert making threats of violence, and you must think very hard about whether that’s what he’s done—dispassionately, objectively”. Is it fair, or is there a danger that what he did was mischaracterised? If it’s viewed through the lens of cynicism, that’s just not fair.
It is not in dispute that a number of individual posts on the internet were, for the witnesses, very difficult, Mr Stevens said. But where does Rupert fit into the picture? The fact that the witnesses felt emotional and broken by the posts they saw should not colour the jury’s consideration of the evidence.
Mr Stevens said it is different to distinguish the feelings resulting from Rupert’s behaviour from the rest of the campaign, carried out by others.
“People were accused of significant child abuse, which was unfounded. Names and details were put online. Rupert did not do that, so don’t allow him to be the fall guy for all of this”, Mr Stevens said. “You may feel that it’s not one man’s campaign, but one man’s commentary, and no more than that. There is a grave danger of his position being unfairly elevated”.
Mr Stevens urged the jury to be dispassionate, objective, and careful. He said the case is not nearly as straightforward as the prosecution says it is.
“The defendant does not need to prove his innocence”, he stressed. “You have to be sure, as you are responsible for determining these things”. Mr Stevens said that the prosecution has failed to meet some evidentiary hurdles. For example, it is important to be satisfied that Rupert’s behaviour was a course of conduct. “The law doesn’t define a course of conduct, it’s a matter of judgement”, he said.
He asked whether the evidential connections between the video, the American Freedom Radio broadcast, and the Facebook post have been overstated. “These must be scrutinised with great care”.
In fact, Mr Stevens said, three of the four witnesses only saw two of the three pieces of evidence.
Looking at the Facebook post, Mr Stevens said that Rupert was said to have been acting out a threat. “But is that fair? There were more than 18 months between the original YouTube video and the Facebook post, yet the prosecution would have you believe that he was making good on a threat. Really? Where are the kicked down doors?”
There is no suggestion that Rupert was at the school on the day the photo was posted. He didn’t talk to anyone. “So he was not making good on a threat”, Mr Stevens said.
Rupert was the victim of online abuse, so he was simply saying to his detractors, “I’m here”, he said. “He was not defiant against the parents—he was not accusing them. What we need to look at is the evidence, which is not as connected as it’s made out to be”.
Regarding the American Freedom Radio broadcast, Mr Stevens said, Rupert said, “I just want to beat them up pretty good”. “But who? Is it really the parents? What characterised that response is its rambling nature; this snippet comes from a show that was over an hour long”.
“There’s a theory about Mr Quaintance”, Mr Stevens said, “that he’s a bad guy. You may think that’s unfair”. He emphasised the importance of not over-inflating Rupert’s words. “In context, is this not a case where provocation and hyperbolic language” are used?
Rupert accepts that he made all the internet posts in evidence, “but is it fair to accept that they were calculated to cause alarm and distress?” Mr Stevens asked. “This could be dangerous, considering the character evidence given”.
“The evidential hurdles are not passed when you look at events dispassionately”, Mr Stevens said. “Don’t let him be the fall guy”.
As far as Section 4 of the Harassment Act, “we must accept that witnesses heard and saw material online that definitely caused fear of violence. But there is a distinction between how that material was received, and the intent of the person who put it up”.
Mr Stevens noted that in some cases, witnesses had not actually seen material on “two distinct occasions”, and he emphasised the need for the jury to “scrutinise with care” the evidence put before them. One witness described being fearful about her child, but said nothing about herself; this is a distinction, Mr Stevens said. “This is an evidential hurdle that the prosecution has failed to pass”.
“Only when you get past the evidential hurdles do you get to what the defendant knew or ought to have known, so is it really fair to say he knew or ought to have known?” Mr Stevens asked. He urged the jury to scrutinise the evidence with extra care, noting that it could be subject to misinterpretation. He suggested that because Rupert was in a heightened emotional state when he made the material, he might have used emotive language.
“You might say something that sounds like that”, he said. “But would you mean it?” He said that the language in this case has been injected with criminality: “it’s a turn of phrase, and it might be unfair to take it literally”.
He urged the jury to approach the language Rupert used with extreme care, especially considering that “this was at the infancy of his personal investigation, and he had no knowledge of any evidence in the case”.
Rupert didn’t have access to the lists of names at the time when he made the video, Mr Stevens said, so how could he have intended the message of the video to be directed toward the witnesses? “Does he know or ought he to know that the witnesses were looking at the video?” he asked. “There has been no evidence of any communication between Rupert and any of the individuals listed on the indictment, so how could he have threatened them?”
Mr Stevens stated that the witnesses were hypervigilant, and said that any fair-minded person would do the same in the circumstances. “But is it fair to conclude that the defendant would know that?” This was not a case where Rupert targeted individuals, he said; the witnesses were not his intended audience.
He asked the jury to go through the evidence with care, as he said this case has been inappropriately characterised. “There is a danger that he has been made a fall guy for something bigger”, Mr Stevens said. “Don’t allow that to mischaracterise what he’s been accused of”. Stating that Rupert’s actions were not calculated to cause alarm and distress, Mr Stevens said that “people were left emotionally damaged. This is shocking and appalling, but it’s not Rupert’s fault”.
Court adjourned for the day, and will resume at 10 a.m. Tuesday following the bank holiday; Judge Griffith said he would then replay the video evidence for the jury, and give them their instructions before they make their deliberations. It’s hoped that a verdict will be reached that day. Our reporter will be there, and will bring you all the details.
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Once again, thank you EC and Reporter.
Ethel Aardvark says:
Danke sehr, EC 🙂
And thanks a bundly to your intrepid reporter!
DAVE SHOULDN'T RUN, HE SHOULD WOBBLE. says:
These comedians really need to work on some new material. Bring back Patrick Cullinanne!
HAT TRICK!!! 😀
Hooray for “hyper-vigilant” parents!
With respect to this case, hyper-vigilant = heroic, in my opinion.
Biting my tongue so bloomin hard……
All I can say is that many of us that were here during the entire event might have quite a different recollection of how ALL of them were acting, one supported by the written evidence of their own posts such as APD’s and mad moo’s continual (and continuing) naming of the children, in defiance of the courts ruling
(hopefully thats well back from the line, I wrote several things, then on second thoughts rewrote and deleted some things)
Hehe, I’d love to see the look on Angie’s face when she reads today’s update. I’ve sent her the link 🙂
Thank you so much to Mr. Coyote for keeping us all abreast of the shenanigans.
A triple whammy, SSFS. Excellent!
This Mr. Bowyer chappie sounds highly competent. Kudos to him.
DragonsandKungFu says:
As I am already 1/1 tonight on Spidey-sense alone, I cannot and will not be able to use my powers to comment on the case, so…. Don’t You Even go There.
Sir Henry Rawlinson says:
My my, what pretty pictures they paint… I pose the following in the form of rhetorical questions in reflection and comment upon the contemporaneous reports I have just read..
Factually, Rupert is on trial in respect of his own actions and their impact on certain individuals, not for some bigger or other thing – which we might reasonably hope will eventually result in others facing the dock for their part. The successful prosecution of Quaintance will not remedy all that has been done wrong with respect to the Hampstead hoax by a long chalk. Therefore the argument that this trial is somehow about scapegoating him for some bigger thing is entirely vacuous.
“As far as Section 4 of the Harassment Act, ‘we must accept that witnesses heard and saw material online that definitely caused fear of violence. But there is a distinction between how that material was received, and the intent of the person who put it up’.”
Is there really? If you fire a bullet in the air near a crowd, it may not be your specific intent for it to strike and injure someone in that crowd when it returns to earth. But as that is a likely consequence of a high velocity projectile returning to earth in a crowded place, you reasonably ought to know that there is a high probability of that consequence when you send it up there! The action is therefore wilfully reckless. Similarly, get into the driving seat of a car drunk, and you may not intend to kill a pedestrian; but would the law consider your ‘intentions’ if you did?
As much as it has been relevant in certain past judgements under this act, is “intent” part of the charges or all that relevant here? As far as I am aware the matter of ‘intent’ was, in the past, raised in relation to parties other than those specifically targeted being jointly and severally affected by proven harassment, and seeking remedy in their own right… The question being who was the target?
However, I believe it has been reported and proven that Rupert actually held records which effectively specified the witnesses as targets. …How he obtained those records or who he obtained them from might be relevant to some other action, but in relation to this, matters such as APD being ‘dangerous’ are just a complete distraction.
If she was so relevant why wasn’t she called or even charged? And at this stage, she isn’t on trial for anything; Rupert is!
“The counts, under the Protection from Harassment Act (1997), claim that:
Rupert engaged in a course of conduct which caused each of five witnesses to fear that violence would be used against him or her; ”
‘We must accept that witnesses heard and saw material online that definitely caused fear of violence.’ say the defence? Indeed so…
“and that Rupert knew or ought to know that his conduct would cause the witnesses to fear that violence would be used against them;
and that Rupert ought to know that his course of conduct would cause the witnesses to fear that violence would be used against them if a reasonable person in possession of the same information would think that this course of conduct would cause the other to fear this on that occasion.”
It’s a little unfortunate that the prosecution had not informed themselves as to the true nature of a “biscuit knife” – which, factually, is a weapon sold in the USA, specifically branded as such that even carries a ‘tag line’ very similar to the exact turn of phrase used by Rupert’s associate. – And also that they hadn’t researched the phrase “sharp ham”.
But, objectively, what possible purpose can there be in encroaching upon the boundaries of a school at its first day of term (i.e. when the people you have actually documented as ‘targets’ are likely to be there) taking an adversarial stance against that school – as was his stated position at the time – giving the clear impression of being armed (whether he actually was or not is irrelevant) and stating your ‘defiance’?
Objectively – what effect, what consequence, can reasonably be expected from such an action? i.e. in general is it not accepted in law that behaving in any threatening and/or aggressive manner is something that may well be expected to cause a reasonable person to fear violence?
Then there is the matter of the time and the place… With respect to Rupert’s claims to be a ‘journalist’ researching a case; I will happily call him a deluded fraud. But having donned that mantle can he really escape responsibility for the records he kept and knowing what happened when (i.e. when the school went back – common knowledge)? – The school certainly wasn’t closed that day!
I do not speculate as to the answers to those questions and urge that no-one else does; merely that we each reflect privately upon them. Tuesday will be interesting!
I do believe that the mention of the digestive treat implied by an acquaintence, has been correctly adressed by the prosecution.
That would be also my initial thought if someone implied, that I may have a digestive treat in my own pocket.
On a lighter note.
Yes well, it may well be a moot point… The main point being that he gave the impression of being armed. It just strikes me as too coincidental that when prompted with the word “biscuit” Rupert’s ‘word association engine’ responds “knife”, not gun; and also that this friend’s prompt was pretty-much the tag line for the specific branded item… Additionally, “sharp ham” also appears to be a knife reference. Against that there is Rupert’s claim that this was all an ‘in joke’? I’ll avoid expressing my opinion on that claim ’till after the verdict.
I know, my friend, I know. Deflection I believe, US vs. UK Culture. One implies, the other deflects to what is acceptable knowing a small part of the UK laws.
Excellent reporting again.
Shall button it as I don’t want to spoil things at a critical moment.
I had to laugh that Mr. Bowyer kept mixing up Power-Disney and Disney-Power.
Wonder what she would have thought of that?
Think you’re doing Disney-Power’s job for her there Angiewatch.
As a “Journalist” shouldn’t she be doing her own research?
Translation: “If you don’t like my 9/11 videos, that’s proof that it was an inside job; and if you don’t like my Hampstead videos, that proves that everyone in England is a baby-munching nonce. QED.”
# Daft old butt-hurt bints…
“Attached you will find the photo depicting me with a swastika tattoo, implying that I am a Nazi on this post, published by Hoaxtead Research”
Hmmm. I rather think it’s YOU who exposed YOURSELF as a Jew-hating Holocaust-denying neo-Nazi, Sabine. Remember…? (Go to 34:11)
Wrecka still has her `petition’ up, some more suckers joined it 😦
Some of the comments there make me wonder how the people responsible manage to dress themselves in the morning- one poster claims to be a law student, yet supports wrecka….. I dont see a bright future ahead of her in the law industry if that’s the level of preparation she is putting into any cases she may get in the future…
https://www.change.org/p/lord-chief-justice-stop-this-financial-rape?utm_content=petition&utm_medium=email&utm_source=campaigns_digest&utm_campaign=124815&sfmc_tk=8qKV3%2f8%2fFmqupIoZ%2bENm8LoTYaRXMa0vniIh6kLxvQ6l%2fWuO8u%2bzEIjFeH7rrzlQ&j=124815&sfmc_sub=524442458&l=32_HTML&u=24209635&mid=7259882&jb=2765
Qantloos has one of its people (notorial dissent » Fri Aug 25, 2017 4:38 am ) made a beautiful summation on their thread of her losses
http://www.quatloos.com/Q-Forum/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=11145&start=960
“So as I see it she now has an arrest for trespass, or whatever they are calling it, that she has to answer for, and then another arrest warrant for skipping the last hearing. So I would say that the first three were civil and the last 1/2 are criminal. She is really racking them up at this point.”
plus the costs- started at 5K, now over 75K and rising fast….
and with the lost value of the house with its history and at a forced sale to boot- she’s coming close to probably losing the entire value of the house and now likely to end up in the slammer to boot- all because of her inability to not be a silly tosser and do things correctly…
Raymond Throatwobbler-Mangrove says:
“Dear Commanders…”
WTF, Sabine? LOL, have a word with yourself, luv!
THEY’RE having internal breakdowns? LOL, whatever, Mad Moo 😀
Does anyone here know how you find out the location of someone from their facebook account?
I don’t mean if they give it out on a public page.
I’m not interested in finding out where someone lives either.
It dawned on me a few weeks ago why someone thinks I live in Brighton.
“…that Rupert had complained about this to the police; and that a person who identified himself to police as a Satanist had been cautioned…”
I am unsure if this is a reporting error, but this is factually incorrect of what transpired. I am the Satanist who was subject to complaint by RQ to the police for alleged harrassment. The police initially contacted EC asking for me to contact them. I sent e-mails, and these were lost by the police e-mail spam systems. I had another chase by EC to me, so I rang the police, and they then found the e-mails. The e-mails denied I was harrassing, and I listed my defences such as prevention of crime. I asked for examples of allegedly harrassing posts, none which was provided. I never met any police representatives in person, all contact was mainly by e-mail, with one telephone call to confirm they had found the e-mails. I was warned off from posting further content against RQ, and I backed off. I did not agree, did not accept, would never have accepted any “caution”, which is a legal alternative to charges and is an official record against someone. Had any official caution been offered as an alternative to charges, I would have rejected, run this into court. I am not particularly bothered about any court case, I would have defeated it, but would have been concerned if in order to try and prove a case, computers were taken, and this would have been fatal to my business where all my data, and the business systems I personally coded, such as accounts, are stored. I would not have given RQ an inch to play the victim card via an official caution of one of his critics in court. Not happy.
SV. This needs to be told to the prosecution as Ruperts lawyer has committed perjury and it could affect the outcome of the jury’s decision. A jury hearing that a trial built around a case of alleged SRA being told a Satanist had been cautioned could very well base their judgement on this, especially if they are religious.
I observe, if this is true of what the jury and court has been told, it could have a significant impact on the eventual outcome. Please refer this to whoever needs to be told. EC can contact me on Twitter, if I need to take further action.
I think the problem stems from my reporting, SV. I’m very sorry–I was using the word “cautioned” in the colloquial, not the legal sense. I checked my notes and there’s nothing about a police caution, so I’ll change my wording on the blog. I’m really sorry to have caused you any distress.
It’s just that I have another email address which I don’t use much and I found 3 messages stating I was located in Brighton twice and Hove once.
Of course I’m in neither.
I then realised that one of the people that has a problem with me has a “friend” that is in to all this hacking and thought he might have done something to get that information.
Won’t say too much more as the delightful David Conaghan reads my comments on here and passes information on.
I heard the Defence Barrister say you had a Caution on several occasions.
I did wonder if you had accepted one and thought it a bit strange.
It wasn’t challenged by the Prosecution, so I thought it must be accurate.
I think the Judge should know what the Barrister said as fact, is not fact before the Jury go out to deliberate.
As an example, if an individual lives in Lands End, and the server for their e-mail or internet is based in Paris, then an application that is reporting on the location of the individual will report back that they are based in Paris.
Perhaps the Defence Barrister could sum up the bit about the Caution again and perhaps he could explain what a Caution is to the Jury as some might know and some might not.
For clarification, I think that the powers to be needs to be informed that I never was offered or agreed a caution. Nor did I admit anything criminal, nor did I even get told of what content I was supposed to have allegedly been accused of posting. I am going to post now some e-mail exchanges with certain information redacted.
Subject: RQ (SEMI REDACTED).
From: POLICE E_MAIL (REDACTED)
Date: Wed, March 1, 2017 9:34 pm
To: MY EMAIL (REDACTED)
Read Receipt: Requested [ Send Read Receipt Now ]
Status: answered
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I am a police officer working for Met Police.
RQ (SEMI REDACTED) has put in a complaint of harassment. He has provided some screen shots from
Twitter and You tube and there is a mention of you.
I would like to speak to you and anyone else involved in this matter.
Please email me or call me on POLICE TEL (REDACTED)
POLICE OFFICER DEALING (REDACTED)
Subject: RE: RQ (SEMI REDACTED).
From: POLICE E-MAIL (REDACTED)
Date: Mon, March 6, 2017 7:45 pm
To: MY E-MAIL (REDACTED)
Read Receipt: Sent
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Mr Hind,
Thank you for your email – I have reviewed the content. I will not be taking any
further action and will close the report, however can you and others on Hoaxtead
Research blog refrain from posting or talking about him on any of the social media
platforms.
POLICE OFFICER DEALING NAME (REDACTED)
My understanding of what I heard was that you had been Cautioned because of a Twitter exchange between you and the defendant.
The problem lies in what CAUTION/ED means.
Imo the Jury could take this 2 ways.
1. You had accepted a Criminal Caution.
2. You had been “told off”.
It’s not clear.
Subject: Re: RQ (SEMI-REDACTED).
From: MY E-MAIL (REDACTED)
Date: Thu, March 2, 2017 11:04 am
To: POLICE E-MAIL (REDACTED)
Hi POLICE OFFICER NAME (REDACTED)
EDIT NOTE: RQ REPLACES NAME OF PERSON MAKING COMPLAINT
Thanks for your e-mail.
Anything I have posted out on Hampstead SRA Hoax and RQ (EDIT) via Twitter, Facebook, WordPress and YouTube are under names
satanicviews, views_s and of course James Hind.
The accounts are as follows:
LISTS 4 PERSONAL SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS (REDACTED)
I do not use any other accounts but these.
I used to be involved with List616 which was discontinued middle of last
year, since Gray Faction of the Satanic Temple is fighting against SRA
which I work with.
RQ (EDIT) has blocked me on Twitter and Facebook, I cannot remember how
long that has been, but it has been a long time.
All actions and postings that I have made is designed to destroy the hoax,
defend and protect the lives, families and homes of Hampstead residents,
families, children plus the same to Satanists and defending my religion.
I was very alarmed and concerned with postings and things RQ (EDIT) said
that suggested to me he might attack people with a gang of people, abduct
children, break down doors and harm people and property. He said things
that suggested he might have a sexual interest in children and that he was
a fanatic and dangerous.
Despite my anxiety over what RQ (EDIT) was saying and doing I posted with
one eye on terms and condtions of social media, plus our law, plus not to
undermine the good work of Hoaxtead.
I will have to see screen shots of any individual postings that RQ (EDIT)
is referring to with regards to his allegations of harrassment by me, I am
confident that I have been within the law on anything I have posted. I
take full ownership for anything posted under the above four named
Even before RQ (EDIT) arrived in the UK I identified him as a person who
could reignite the hoax under the orchestration of Angela Power Disney. I
put in a major effort to argue that there was no SRA, that this was a
fiction, offering rational arguments, sources, satire and clear warnings
this would get him into legal trouble. I cannot see how RQ (EDIT) can
argue he has been harrassed when he deliberately talked and acted to
provoke people. I cannot allow people like this to run around using my
religion as a vehicle to dishonestly say and do things that harm others
for personal gain, the lives, families and homes of Satanists as well as
those accused of being Satanists are at stake. I will take what ever
actions I have to either to mitigate or defend the innocent and those that
are Satanists from fanatics like RQ (EDIT).
RQ (EDIT) was not interested in the truth, he did not have to come to the
UK to see there was no SRA in Hampstead. RQ (EDIT) is a psychopath who
manipulates and deceives for his own ends, he is a dangerous fellow. I
and others provided RQ (EDIT) with all the sources he needed to see the
SRA was a hoax in Hampstead. He was not being a journalist, he was
totally obsessed that SRA was happening in Hampstead, he was not being
balanced and objective. From day one he was determined that RD (FATHER OF P&Q EDIT)
was guility of the dishonest things he was accused of.
It was frustrating to see all my efforts to convince RQ (EDIT) to not
pursue this SRA hoax fail, that he came to the UK paid for by other Satan
Hunters. I tried to get him stopped at the UK border with complaints to
the Immigration, and also whilst he was here. The things he said resulted
in my making police aware of him, of which there will be Tweets about on
my Twitter account.
Defeating the Hampstead SRA hoax requires an information counter-campaign
which requires answering any of the claims of Satan Hunters on social
media by giving the other side of the story. Also, this requires a
challenge to the character and intentions of many dishonest fanatical and
dangerous people who will play the system and victim card for all they
can. Everything a Satan Hunter puts out has to be challenged, otherwise
the hoax spreads, and it will take just one mentally ill person to act
upon it, people then die.
James Hind
Yes, I was speaking of the reporting of the agreed-upon admissions, Babs. While my note-taking is pretty accurate, I can’t claim to capture 100% of what’s said, so it’s quite possible that I missed Mr Stevens saying the word “caution” in other contexts than the Admissions. To be fair, his speechifying was rather…extensive, shall we say, and repetitive. The version I posted last night is really the highlights.
i forget, who’s play was it to make it be the doug mesner videos? or was that something the neighbor did on his own?
The word “caution” should never have been used, if this was in fact used in this court hearing, because a jury will take this as if someone had been guilty of X, and accepted guilt of X, and it will have a significant effect on jury outcomes if they have a misleading misunderstanding of a statement made to them.
Babs, I commented above to SV that the word “caution” did not appear in the section of the trial where they read the second set of Admissions. Admissions are, by their nature, material that has been agreed upon by both sides.
sock account?
sounds fairly sane of you
get yourself a vpn if you’re worried.
Thought for the day,well perhaps a few seconds anyway:
If a merest grain of conscious effort shown by members here to exercise due restraint from reactive/reckless “wiseacring” were to have been manifested by the hoaxmob this blog would almost certainly never have been born let alone closing in rapidly on a million views.
Oh he definitely said “CAUTION/ED” at least twice.
I would expect some on the Jury know what a Police Caution is and others would think it is just a “telling off”, don’t do that again type of thing and that’s that.
That clarification is valued SV…
I must admit, even at this stage, I having read EC’s reports and first-hand accounts from others who were in court, am highly dissatisfied with the accuracy of what appears to have been developed as narrative. And I’m somewhat overcome by the pungent smell of rodent. If one was building a continent water tank one wouldn’t build unnecessary weak spots into it, nor would one deliberately signpost them for the benefit of vandals.
As an aside, I’m currently listening to a somewhat tongue-in-cheek/sceptical/cynical account of gangstalking type activity in the US… That is, ‘where a group or individual spend large amounts of money to stalk or harass another group or individual’. Clearly an issue if you’re an ordinary, innocent citizen, living a quiet life when you suddenly become a genuine ‘T.I.’; targeted by malicious nutcases!
One would reasonably hope in these circumstances that to be protected from harassment it would be sufficient for one’s name or other details to appear on a list of targeted individuals and subsequently subjected to harassment by holder(s) of that list; I would see no relevance in at what stage a copy of that list was picked up by a particular member of the stalking group or who supplied it.
Let’s suppose an Islamic terrorist entered the country armed with a list of ‘targets’ they had obtained a few days previously en-route to the UK, having previously made a generic threat to the safety and security of UK residents… What relevance is there (in terms of their victims actually being targeted) in the timing of those people becoming the point of specific focus for an attack?
Or as another example, if you were an anarchist-type based in say Newcastle and part of an organisation or movement which had among its aims the disruption of democracy and the work of parliament, and you travelled to London with the specific intention of harassing ‘an MP’, does it matter at what point your ‘handlers’ within that organisation provide you with the list of specific MPs you are to target?
Realistically, it is – in terms of any useful function of legislation – enough that an individual with capacity obtains a list of ‘T.I.s’ and acts upon it to actually cause those individuals fear. Any deficiency in that respect would render the relevant legislation impotent and unfit for purpose; it’s really just that simple.
I think it’s highly relevant that long before Rupert entered the UK people were contacting the authorities urging them to turn him away at customs because even then, they were placed in a state of alarm at the prospect of what he might do; he was reported as a terror threat. – There is no doubt that people contacted UKBA urging them to turn him away because he intended entering it with the specific stated intention of terrorising a community; why did they fail us? Again, can you imagine anyone of eastern descent issuing a threat to ‘kick down doors’ at any point and then being able to breeze into the country unfettered?
I would also observe that the middle-aged people ‘of good character’ that I know of and would considered as such will generally have work and study records extending a decade or two and have absolutely no criminal record of any kind… Something more than having managed to hold down a job for five out of thirty-eight years!
There is a video on Youtube that pre-dates Quaintance’s entry to the UK entitled “this thing is Rupert Quaintance” which is actually a better indicator of his character and general conduct. – A long way from the part played of the sniffling preppy twit in his SJW glasses painting pictures in the dock!
Character? Most reasonable people, by that stage in their life, will have partners and families and be productive, responsible members of society… “Pot” won’t be their self-declared “problem” and I’m sure very few men approaching 40 will have filmed themselves dressing and acting like a rather educationally-challenged teenage thug as a record of the ‘lovely’ life with ‘delightful’ friends they lead… For that person also to be going about pretending to be something they are not, with no credible career or profession behind them; all of that strikes me as a long way from exhibiting ‘good character’!
Quite the opposite, it’s the way of a disreputable and dishonest failure.
FALSE FLAG ALERT !
Something’s going down soon. Adverts appeared on this Crisis Actor’s timeline but she has numerous identities and appears as a new person at many events : gatecrashing the Glastonbury Festival. appearing as a drug addled Hippy at Glastonbury Court, Moderator at the Flat Earth conference..real identity believed to be Faigil Yentl Finkelstein…a Zionist Mossad dis-information agent
I think this issue needs to be raised with the judge before Tuesday…
In my view any reference to a person’s religion is potentially prejudicial as this is both a separate and irrelevant thing in respect of any actions. Religious bias is a common if unfortunate fact of life, and I wonder if the individual in question would have so freely highlighted that someone was a Jew or a Catholic or a militant Protestant without fear of censure? Indeed, I wonder if this mention is even lawful?
Equally well there seems to be a legitimate point to protest in the inaccurate claim that James was “cautioned” – that being really quite a specific thing in legal terms, which any lawyer ought to know. We now have two people who have reported hearing that and thus it is corroborated.
Yes, she quite clearly restates the nasty and very old blood libel against Jews in this video: the idea that Jews kidnap and murder Christian babies and then use their blood in their “rituals”. It’s utterly ludicrous and has been discredited many, many times, but for some reason anti-Semitic people just keep reviving it. I don’t think it’s unfair to label someone who continues to promote this lie as an anti-Semite.
I’ll see whether this can be raised with the court.
Words “Satanist” and “caution” are loaded with emotional and legal significance. Firstly, “Satanist”, there is a difference between saying an “individual was warned” as opposed to a “Satanist was warned” in a highly emotional and controversial disproven SRA context. I have a reasonable knowledge of UK law, and I am unaware of any other meaning for “caution” other than a procedure used as an alternative to charges, where the law has been broken, where guilt is admitted of the law is broken, and where the individual accepts the caution, and in all three points I deny.
I would imagine James has a right to email a letter of complaint to the court and follow up with a copy delivered by recorded post or by hand.
Although I am unhappy about what seems to have been said, I am keen that no reader here, any victims, the media or any individual who matters in this court case are mislead, or acts upon misleading information. I have placed upon public record here everything I feel needs to be posted on this matter, and if I have to take any further action, then EC can contact me via Twitter, and I will act accordingly. All that needs to happen is the court offcials or CPS makes a public clarification, so that jury makes decisions without any misunderstandings. The police have all the material on record to put any potential error or misunderstanding right, if CPS and police talk to each other. I also stress, I am in all deeds and decisions, mindful that the Satan Hunters would love to do to me what they are doing to RD and other victims.
SV, I messaged you on Twitter.
I think you have every right to be aggrieved James. It’s a fact that for most of us the term ‘Satanist’ (rightly or wrongly) conjures up fearful and largely pejorative images. However, whether individuals like it or not, it is a recognised religion, and your basic human right to practice it. – We are not talking about anything that is outside the boundaries of the law after all.
Relative to the events Rupert complained of, the religion you embrace is of no consequence or importance. Further, there is an obligation upon the state (the court being a state institution) to maintain neutrality and impartiality between religions and as between religious and non religious forms of belief.
Article 9 ECHR – Freedom of thought, conscience and religion;
“1. Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief, in worship, teaching, practice and observance.
2. Freedom to manifest one’s religion or beliefs shall be subject only to such limitations as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society in the interests of public safety, for the protection of public order, health or morals, or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others.”
Given that the comments came from an educated man who ought to know better, the comment as to your religion can only reasonably be viewed as an attempt to throw you and your actions into an unfairly negative light; that would appear to be a breach of your article 9(1) rights. – And yes, I agree that the phrase ‘cautioned’ or ‘given a caution’ in relation to interaction with the police has quite a specific meaning.
The crowd in America that were reporting about RQ, easily available on Google, I will not post the link in deference to the court, seem to have forgotten about him, even though they said they would keep people updated. Some untruths on there about what actually happened.
EC please delete if inappropriate at this time, thank you.
Confuseddotcom says:
There are sites that you can use to input say a username and find out more information, or a real name if the person knows that and work out the correct one. It really depends how much information one person knows about that person already.
Sites like “pipl” i have personally used in the past amongst many other such as family heritage type sites. Also just a specific google search of a persons username or full name can bring up details depending on how much information is on the internet about that person.
For example I know what cars Dave Shurter has purchased in the past based on internet searches, same with Lift The veil. Obviously if people are professionals with all their business information for networking, or history of their company, there will be more info.
All Abraham Christies company details are online such as his Cash for Gold and Hemp businesses along with dates of operation.
Absolutely SV. When I read this (fantastic – thank you!) report, the mention of a ‘satanist’ certainly stood out to me – it would anyone. Couple that with ‘caution’, and the mind can conjure up a scenario. Beliefs are, I believe, a protected characteristic. Protected rights in law, for people to be treated equally. Do people need to know specifics about any person who holds protected characteristic? We all do have beliefs, physical abilities, sexualities, etc. Not sure why a belief was important to highlight – but for being sensational.
https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/equality-act/protected-characteristics
Isn’t David in with the Neelu crowd?
Ps. Sir Henry said it better! I just had to say something – as well as ‘grr’.
There are other issues on a seperate note that I made aware to someone last night and I believe they have forwarded that information onto EC. I won’t go into details but it may be very important or of no importance whatsoever.
Christ, Baby H’s parents must be delighted with the information Angie’s sharing about them with the World!
Oh and there’s another court hearing coming up, so it’s still contempt.
She really is f*cking pond scum to be making comparisons like this, imo 😮
Thanks for feedback. Both the Clerk of the Court and Steve Martin has been e-mailed. This is the limit of my intervention, because I am putting my safety at risk from the Satan Hunters. There is a problem that government and police e-mail servers seem to think my e-mails are spam and dump them in the spam file, so if anyone please could contact these people to let them know my e-mails have been sent, that would be appreciated.
Sis of the Sabre says:
Yes he has the hots for Dolly the sister of Neelu.
He’s a Top Grass, so he needs to be grassed up himself.
You’ve got no loyalty David Conaghan and I don’t do Judas’.
Plenty more I could say here but I’m not like you.
Wow! Just wow! And really wow!
Not got a clue what’s out there then but nothing of great interest to anyone I wouldn’t think.
a sock account is basically a fake account. i was asking if a fake account was made in order to report the violent pictures and comments.
just felt like i remembered someone giving a reason for why it was the videos of doug mesner, i just dont remember why but i know they arent the same person
Oh now that’s made my day! 😀
I’m sure those spectacles are really for females.
Not sure if I’m allowed to say that yet.
Innit Matey Peeps says:
Thought it had been “forensically proven” that this blog is run by Ricky Dearman with help from the CIA and based in Washington DC. LOL
You’re boring Angela, zzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Yannis who hates our guts and can barely speak English? Damnmit – you got us, Detective Disney. Come on, EC (aka Yannis) – ‘fess up! 😀
would you mind giving me links? i can’t find the sharp ham connection, aside from kitchen knives, and the biscuit knives i have found look like roller razors, sorta like a paint roller, but they dont look like they could cut a person..if he was going to try with that he’s stupid
LOL, I know what a sock account is but thanks.
Erm…not sure I can speak Yannistardian fluently enough to be convincing! 😆
I’m no fan of Yannis, but really Angela, really?
He’s not intelligent enough to run this Blog, not in a million years, never.
Pardon my ignorance, DoTB, but why would you need a sock account to report inappropriate content on Facebook? Anyone can report Facebook posts and it’s completely anonymous.
“Is that is?”
The screenshots in full:
Rev O'Lucian says:
Spiny’s an Atheist (not a Satanist). Everyone knows that.
facebook doesn’t always take things down right away. it seemed to be a constant complaint in certain groups, that people would report accounts for inappropriate pictures of children or sexual comments regarding them, only to be told it doesn’t violate community standards. i was wondering if you used sock accounts because apparently bombarding them with multiple reports is more likely to get it removed
By the way, well said to ‘Bollocks’, whoever you are 😀
Did they really bring up “Paul Bonacci”? A man with convictions for abusing a child. King didn’t turn up for the court case as he was in prison so the settlement was by default iirc.
“PAUL BONACCI – convicted at age 21 of molesting a 9 year old boy on three occaisions, Bonacci had a novel albeit offensive rationalization. He claimed that he had Multiple Personality Disorder, and that one of his alters was gay and therefore a child molestor! When the gay guy inside him took over, he would make Paul molest little boys, he said. Bonacci was diagnosed as MPD by the prison psychiatrist, after Bonacci related a pathetic life history of chronic negligence and abuse by older boys and men. Subsequently, Bonacci would relate ever more elaborate tales of victimization in child porn, prostitution and satanic abuse rings, to various interviewers. He also confessed to involvement in kidnapping missing 12 year old Johnny Gosch from Des Moines when he himself was 15, and subsequently raping the boy repeatedly on a rural property just outside the city limits. Bonacci was also interviewed by Dr Judianne Densen-Gerber, a self-professed expert on Ritual Abuse and MPD, while still in prison. She declared him a genuine MPD with “an extraordinary memory for detail”, which is interesting considering that episodic amnesia and problematic memory recall is supposed to be a necessary symptom of MPD.
“Meeting with Paul, I have spoken to several of his personalities. Three psychiatrists who have examined him concurred in the diagnosis of Multiple Personality Disorder, brought on by horrible, traumatic abuse when he was a child. My first act with respect to representing Paul Bonacci was to have him write down everything he could remember, about individuals who had abused him, from his earliest boyhood. An excerpt from what he wrote appears in Chapter 10. In that document and in Paul’s letters, his handwriting will vary, depending on which personality is in control.
Bonacci was sentenced to five years in prison in 1989, for molesting a young boy for whom he was baby-sitting. Apparently one of Paul’s homosexual personalities was in control of him during the incident, in which he briefly put his hand on the outside of the young boy’s pants, an activity stopped when a remorse-stricken Paul reasserted control…” – The Franklin Cover-Up
Despite being a convicted child molestor and confessing to participation in kidnapping & rape of a younger boy, Bonacci is called a hero & martyr by Satanic Ritual Abuse & Mind Control conspiracy theorists.”
http://www.dysgenics.com/2014/04/10/children-murdered-molested-raped-by-ritual-abuse-victim-claimants-advocates/
“Gunderson then described a conversation he had with a witness, Paul Bonacci, from an alleged satanic-ritual abuse case in Nebraska that was detailed by former Nebraska state Sen. John DeCamp (1992), who was also a speaker at this conference. The grand jury of Lincoln described this case as an attack by DeCamp “for personal political gain and possible revenge” (Dorr 1991, p. 1), a “smear campaign,” and a “carefully crafted hoax” (United Press International, September 18, 1990). The grand jury jailed one and indicted two others (including Bonacci) for perjury, and was so critical of DeCamp that he sued the grand jury for ridicule, though he quickly lost (Dorr 1991). ”
http://www.csicop.org/si/show/conspiracy_theories_and_paranoia_notes_from_a_mind-control_conference/>
If I was in that jury and heard this I would think it meant a formal caution. The Brief is playing a clever trick by saying this.
just an example from two different sites.
“Dolly” and “Top Grass”?
You have already said enough!
Although I thought she had moved onto greener pastures.
Well done indeed SSFS. I wish i had the same results from Facebook with the posts of Araya Soma’s that i reported.
Nice use of those info-resources! 🙂
Why does Sabine always feel the need the to mention being a baby during the bombing of Dresden? How is that supposed to help her in any way?
Nicked them all from you. 🙂
The bombing of Dresden gave Sabine a sore bottom; her baby bum problem probably psychologically turned her mind inside out. When Abraham Christie and Ella Draper started talking about plastic willies and bums, it all came back to Sabine and made her regress to a former anal stage in her development. I am sure Freud and Jung would find Sabine and other Satan Hunters a fascinating subject of study.
Thanks again for the excellent reporting of the court proceedings, greatly appreciated.
Columbo eat your heart out:
It is as I feared, they all have a hidden jelly baby army #jellybabygate
Speaking of U-turns, it wasn’t that long ago that APD was citing Yannis as her “reliable source” that this blog is run by convicted paedophiles. Another apology owed by Angie, methinks.
I’m going to suggest we not hold our breaths. 😉
She’s just stirring it.
Not that I’m bothered, Yannis does enough stirring of the pot.
Even if Yannis was connected to this Blog, and Mrs.Disney-Power??
People don’t have to agree with your nonsense, that does not make anyone a Troll.
The guy talking, who appears to be the leader of said army (even though – spoiler alert – he betrays them towards the end of the video), incorrectly calls them Jelly Beans instead of Jelly Babies. Now, as any fule kno, yer Jelly Bean is a whole different proposition to yer Jelly Baby:
Not a problem though, Ethel, as long as they don’t put this woman in charge of the Jelly Bean army:
Keep talking, Angie. Hehe… 😉
Next on Dave... says:
LOL, check out the title. You just know this is gonna be an entertaining one 😀
Speaking of creepy knuckle-scraping twats!
9:53 – “I’m sure that the Devil-lovers will cheer. But I’m not quite sure how long they’ll keep cheering, you know. Eventually, those cheers are going to turn into gasps and cries of anguish, I believe, if I have anything to do with it.”
He’s such a charmer, isn’t he. God must be so proud of him. Bless
Lawful Suspect No. 94 says:
We’re “eating our own” and “tearing each other apart”, are we? I must have missed that, lol.
Dave Ja Vu says:
Sounds like Shurter’s been mistreating his dogs again and it’s making them ill. Poor little buggers 😦
Seems the drone pilots who’ve been spying on Neelu’s house fancied a change 😀
‘If she [APD] was so relevant why wasn’t she called’…bears thinking about.
She’s not relevant to what Rupert did… “The bad big girl did it and ran away” line? A bit sad! Rupert’s a middle-aged man, not a child! She ought to be facing the courts, but she’s not Rupert’s mummy – she’s another fucking nutcase!
I had forgotten than Evan Harrington actually gave citations to the Franklin Grand Jury findings, wherein DeCamp’s masterminding of the whole affair was fingered. (I’ve surely forgotten more than I can claim to know, about everything. Scary thought…)
We should dig those out and publicize them, somehow.
Yes. I’m wondering if we’ll even be allowed to comment on that particular issue when the trial is over.
Simply google the term “sharp ham” complete with quotation marks as I suggested yesterday; you seem on the right track already. If you look at the previous thread you will find the “biscuit knife” advertisement. It’s made by a company called Boker, and marketed under the particular tag line “That’s one tough biscuit in your pocket”.
– Then consider the exchange the took place as it has been reported.
@Babs
I spent a little bit of time earlier looking into your concerns. It’s important that if you do not want someone to have your IP address not to connect on Facebook Messenger of a similar chat style messenger as they can get your IP from that as soon as you connect. The same with responding to emails, they can also get your IP from the message header text.
This will be an approximate location, similar to how when you access a website they target you with adverts mentioning your rough location. A persons real identity and details can only be legal obtained through a court order as your ISP protects that information.
It’s not something to really worry about too much to be honest, it can be useful for blocking people from a page, site or blog etc. Be careful leaving comments on blogs and sites you do not trust as the site owner should be able to view your IP address, WordPress even has settings for that.
http://ask-leo.com/getting_all_worked_up_over_ip_tracing.html
@ 1:19 Dave should consider a career move as a QEG door-to-door salesman with that patter.
Is Sharter sure his friend didn’t say “I can hear a drone”, and he was actually refering to the boring noise coming from the other end of his phone?
AP, the DG of MI (but keep that on the QT) says:
In light of Mr. Coyote’s sterling work this week, I want you all to know that I have recommended him for a pay rise. But Mum’s the word – they’re watching us.
LOLOL!
Yes, Angela, thanks for filling us in… with the nonsense from your head.
Jake Blake. Oh man! I wanna hear the gossip. That’s like being given an ice cream and someone snatching it just as you are about to bite into it.lol
“MY INCORRIGIBLE COMMITMENT TO TELLING THE TRUTH”
Do you mean the court records?
https://docslide.us/documents/paul-bonacci-court-transcripts-from-larry-king-lawsuit.html
http://law.justia.com/cases/nebraska/court-of-appeals/1993/a-91-836-8.html
There’s a few more bits here I think.
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/search/search.action?na=&se=&sm=&flr=&ercode=&dateBrowse=&govAuthBrowse=&collection=&historical=false&st=content%3A%22lawrence+E.+King%22&psh=&sbh=&tfh=&originalSearch=&fromState=advSearch&sb=re&ps=10&sb=re&ps=10
Damn ,thats low. OH…..Wait! Its APD! Normal service resumes!
Keep talking, Angie
? Like me?
Any Crime Unit in the UK, Ireland, Spain, Timbukto, Outer Mongolia, everywhere, watch one of Angela’s videos for more than 5 minutes and then pray to the Lord for it all to stop.
In one of her videos, I think with Hetty B, she manages to make more defamatory claims than all the rest of the hoaxers put together. The only way she hasn’t had a knock on the door is…..
Anyone wanna pay for business advice from a known scammer? Hello?
Sergeant Sirius Crook-Hunter of the Marrakesh Fraud Squad says:
Oh Christ, is she at it again? 😮
Its the way she tells em.
FTW project? Surely its the WTF project !
Since when was Yannis a Solicitor?
Uhm! I’d like to know what crime she thinks the Police would be interested in investigating on this blog?
If she wants to report a crime, why doesn’t she come over to London and go into a Met. Police Station and make a report?
I am growing increasingly concerned about Teflon in all this.Its one thing to be a submissive,sidekick pushover who nods and agrees with everthing his grossly unpleasant misses spews out,but allowing her to use his head as a culture in which to grow a giant mushroom just makes him look a proper twat frankly.
Oh, I’m sure we’re all open minded enough to support gender neutrality where appropriate and don’t want to get too bogged down in stereotypes… I must admit though to being a little puzzled as to why he wasn’t wearing his more typical attire?
Pantomime… Don’t ya just love it?
He looks happy at least. I still haven’t forgiven him for killing that giant spider.
I rather like him, he has nice lips.
Whoops, the white guy.
A Young Tom Hardy. EVERYBODY Love him lol
I knew things in Greece were tough but… I honestly didn’t realise Yannis lived in a motor-caravan, let alone that he hired such expensive and inappropriate drivers! – If he fired them, would the salary he saved not pay for a permanent site?
I dont know about that, googling Anonymous posts has you posting some pretty wild stuff……..
If you really wanted to hide your IP, then using a free or paid proxy will hide it from the website you are posting to
I sometimes use it to bypass bans on the woo sites, many who hand them out like candy for not accepting their viewpoint, or even just as a way of raising cash (GLP, I’m looking in your direction here lol)
Great parody..
Excuse my ignorance but what’s the gag with the second GIF? What am I missing?
Caravans? Drivers? Once again I feel I’m missing something. That’s two gags that have gone over my head now. Man, I’m on the special bus tonight. Either that or I’m still asleep and all this is a dream.
Metropolitan Police, Whistleblower Management Division says:
Dear Angie
Thank you for your letter.
After careful consideration, I respectfully suggest that you go fuck yourself.
Plod
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‘It Goes Further Than I Believe’: Congressional Republicans Admit Alabama Abortion Law Is ‘Extreme’
Lizzie Helmer May 17, 2019, 11:18 am 23.4k Views 9 Votes 3 Comments
Joshua Roberts/Reuters
Alabama’s new abortion ban is getting pushback from Republican lawmakers who believe that the law’s lack of an exception for victims of rape or incest goes too far.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters Thursday that he defends his pro-life position but believes exceptions are necessary.
“It goes further than I believe,” he said. “[…] In my whole political career, I also believed in rape, incest, or life of the mother as exceptions.”
When asked if the bill should be overturned in court, McCarthy was less direct and pointed out that Alabama state legislators admitted the bill was written to challenge Roe. v Wade.
“I’m looking forward to that,” he said.
"It goes further than I believe, yes," Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy says when asked if the Alabama abortion law goes too far.
"I defend my pro-life position," McCarthy adds but says he believes in exceptions for "rape, incest and the life of the mother" https://t.co/WiDAK3IvYe pic.twitter.com/Adw3sqxEIF
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) May 16, 2019
The new law, signed by Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, would effectively ban all abortions in the state at any point in a pregnancy. It would also make performing an abortion a felony, with offenders facing up to 99 years in prison. The only exception would be if a mother’s life is in danger.
“That legislation is so extreme that I can’t imagine that the courts would sustain it,” Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said Thursday, according to NBC News. “I’m not going to try to predict court cases, but I cannot imagine that that law won’t be overturned.”
Collins is one of the few Republican senators who leans on the side of pro-abortion rights. Democrats hoped this belief would have her vote against Brett Kavanaugh for Supreme Court justice last year. But the Maine senator approved of Kavanaugh and was convinced Roe v. Wade wouldn’t be overturned by the now-conservative-leaning court.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), another GOP lawmaker known for pro-abortion rights views, doubled down on the lack of exceptions in the law.
“I think you know where I come from on that,” she told reporters. “I believe that there need to be exceptions.”
Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel agreed.
“Personally, I would have the exceptions,” McDaniel said on CNN on Friday. “That’s my personal belief.”
AbortionKevin McCarthyLisa Murkowskisusan collins
Richard Graham
BTW, if allowed on this site, our current GOP Platform is posted at https://mainegop.com/our-party-platform/
Hello from Maine, USA, where we’re currently represented by Senator Susan Collins. While our Senator is registered as a Republican, please know that she has gone against our 2018 Maine GOP Platform on a regular basis. Can someone please remind our Senator and all of her staffers to read our Platform again?
Better to be extreme and save all lives than none at all.
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In the issue of Mission Dantotsu, we discussed THE LEADERSHIP FACTOR. To recall, let me quote from there:
“Here are our conclusions about the hierarchy of factors that drive excellence in an organization:
The single most important factor – the Conductors of the Orchestra – Leadership Factor
The second most important factor – People Factor
The third most important factor – Innovation Factor!”
I would like to take this opportunity to highlight the importance of the ‘People factor’ to any organization that aspires to be ‘excellent’.
A few years back Toyota made ‘respect for people’ one of the pillars of ‘The Toyota Way’. Some companies thought they already practice this concept, and many others just incorporated these words into their ‘models’. Unfortunately, the reality on the Gemba is stark!! A vast majority of the organizations that we observe as part of our profession, very nearly disregard the people element. Most confine their ‘HR (read ‘people’) policies’ to supervisors, executives & managers! The rest are handled through IR!!!
There are many reasons for this. Lower costs & relative abundance of unskilled labor; labor laws governing ‘permanent employees’ & ‘contract labor’; the approach of some of the trade unions & vastly varying interpretation of the phrase ‘respect for people’ – drive anti people policies.
The paradox is that these very same organizations want to implement Lean, they want to implement Kaizen® & they want to be operationally excellent! Somehow, we – the Kaizen®/ Lean promotion community, has not been effective in bringing home the unambiguous message that ‘respect for people’ is an essential pre-requisite for Operational Excellence. Without that, it may be possible to get some performance improvement, but it would be impossible to sustain those improvements & to build a Kaizen® culture suitable for long term success in this rapidly changing world.
What is the meaning of the phrase ‘respect for people’? How does it manifest itself from being a fuzzy/ hazy concept to actual practice? For an answer, I would like to share two quotes.
The first one is from Mr. Akio Toyoda, President Toyota Motor Corporation’:
‘At Toyota, we have always invested heavily in developing leaders who understand and live the principles & values of the company. We want our DNA to be encoded in every team member at every level of the company. We expect greatness from all our people. We expect them to accept and conquer challenges that may seem overwhelming at first glance.
A real irony is that ‘respect for people’ requires that people feel the pain of critical feedback. If we do not give people accurate feedback based on real behavior they are not growing and we are not respecting them. The job of a leader is not to put them in positions to fail, but to put them in challenging positions where they must work hard to succeed and still see how they could have been even better. Our goal is for every Toyota team member from the worker on the production floor to our most senior executives to be working to continuously improve themselves.’
The second is attributed to Mr. Konosuke Matsushita, the founder of Matsushita Electric, which gave birth to iconic brands like Panasonic:
‘We build people, our people build products’.
Could leaders in our part of the world also build examples of excellent organizations supported by a strong PEOPLE FACTOR? We would certainly hope so.
by Mr.Vinod Grover (Director – Kaizen Institute India/Africa/Middle East)
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Development of Opel Corsa-e Rally Underway
Opel develops the first battery-electric rally car
Two development vehicles undergoing durability testing at Dudenhofen Test Centre
Corsa-e Rally features three drive modes for competition
Entries for ADAC Opel e-Rally Cup 2020/2021 open on December 15, 2019
Rüsselsheim. The comprehensive development programme of the Opel Corsa-e Rally for the ADAC Opel e-Rally Cup is proceeding at full speed. Two examples of the battery-electric rally car are currently undergoing durability testing at the Dudenhofen Test Centre. “We have two objectives”, said Opel Motorsport Director, Jörg Schrott. “Both cars are covering as many kilometres as possible, in order to gather the maximum amount of data at an early stage. There is no experience of an electric rally car that we could turn to, so initially we had to rely on calculations and simulations. These are being gradually replaced with real data. Other focuses are on loads and temperature management of the battery under rally conditions, as well as adapting the software. I am pleased to report that our programme is going smoothly.”
The engineers at Opel Motorsport will turn to the speed of the 100kW (136hp) electric rally car in the second phase of development. “With a brand cup car, it is important that the performance remains constant and accessible under all conditions. The equipment should guarantee equal opportunity for all participants”, said Jörg Schrott. “We also decided that the Corsa-e Rally should match and exceed the high standards of its petrol-engine predecessor, the Opel ADAM Cup. We are on the right road here too. While the power output is almost the same, the 260Nm of torque is much higher than the ADAM Cup’s. The centre of gravity is low, thanks to the underfloor-mounted battery, and the weight distribution is also very good, which is extremely important for an agile competition car. Now we need to find the most balanced chassis setup, so in January we will start simulating some real rally stages.”
As soon as development of the Corsa-e Rally has been completed, a reference car will be built that will also serve as the template for customer vehicles. Around 20 examples are expected to be built for the 2020/21 season, up to 15 will be delivered to customer teams in the summer – in time for the first test event in July.
Ideal setup: drive modes for rally stages and road sections
The Corsa-e Rally has the same battery as the production car. The 50kWh energy storage capacity enables a range of 337km according to WLTP. In order to optimise the range for rallying, the battery offers three modes: in “competition mode”, full power and maximum torque are available. Electric cars have especially high torque, so the “rain mode” gives a torque curve adapted to slippery surfaces. Teams will use the energy-saving “eco mode” between stages and for driving to service.
Orders for the Corsa-e Rally can be placed now, entries for the 2020/21 ADAC Opel e-Rally Cup open on December 15, 2019. Additional information is available at www.opel-motorsport.com or www.adac.de/e-rally and via email to customer@opel-motorsport.com.
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Manager Marken- und Motorsport-Kommunikation
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Mobil: +49 151/16 41 95 70
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This self-proclaimed internet genius has a hypothesis on how our old universe was destroyed. It'll leave you asking "what did I just watch?"
Who do you take your life advice from? Will a kid’s opinion’s suffice?
What if the child understands much more than you do about what’s actually happening? And I’m not talking about what’s happening at school or in the country. Think universal.
Kids’ potential shouldn’t be ignored. Brilliant young people exist in this world. There are kids like Malala Yousafzi who do phenomenal work and gain international recognition for inspiring acts. At 21, Elizabeth Nance worked at Johns Hopkins to develop nanoparticles to penetrate brain tissue.
Brilliance knows no specific age, and truly gifted ideas are often rewarded.
But then there are kids like Max Laughlin. And you must decide for yourself whether his version of brilliance is one that will benefit or simply complicate your life.
Max’s Story
The young teenager has been labeled as a "genius" but no one can really trace back who started the name other than Laughlin's own parents. Laughlin made waves when he developed this completely real energy device that should give the world infinite power.
And that’s where the first problem in this story begins. Why have you never heard of such a device, you ask?
You have to pick one of two theories:
1. The device never actually worked nor could it be upscaled into any sort of efficient manner
2. Your government personally made sure that you would never hear of Max Laughlin or his 'incredible' Free Energy Device
What do the smart adults believe? Why isn’t the Max Laughlin free energy machine working in your home yet? Most blogs that talk about Laughlin's "genius" would recommend the latter reason is true.
But Max might have you believe it’s a totally different reason.
Max and the Mandela Effect
Maybe it's a result of the Mandela Effect.
Never heard of it? It’s the universal excuse for forgetting things that now have a pseudoscience following. And in this video, Max attempts to show you how this is possible. It’s about electrons exploding and timelines that shift. And you may be living in an entirely different universe than decades ago.
We won't bother getting into those arguments because you're either a devout fan of the Mandela Effect or you're comfortable admitting that humanity is forgetful.
But seeing an innocent child passionately defending a viewpoint is gripping. So what does Laughlin (and his father who chimes in later on in the video) claim the world has forgotten? It’s complicated. You may want to watch the video so Max can give you the full story. It goes something like this.
Their hypothesis is that CERN—the European Organization for Nuclear Research—made us forget everything with the Large Hadron Collider. Yes, the boy wonder proposes that the Mandela Effect was triggered by our old universe being destroyed by the search for nuclear fusion.
But before being drawn into the debate you should educate yourself. Yes, he is passionate. But perhaps he needs to mature so his fervor is paired with insight and wisdom.
At one point, Laughlin mentions that humanity believed CERN was a bad idea from the start, "even when we thought about starting it, we knew our universe would implode." No, not quite. Laughlin refuses to cite sources for that discussion. While physicists can certainly have their quirks, we doubt they plotted together to destroy all humanity while managing to get it funded by international governments.
He also ignores what CERN does, which is work toward duplicating the processes we see in space here on earth. The Large Hadron Collider serves the purpose of facilitating those reactions.
And it’s unfortunate if Max’s brilliance is channeled in the wrong direction. Imagine what he can achieve if he adjusts his focus?
The Real Problem
The passion for science is there. The foundation is there. He is undoubtedly a bright, creative kid. We're just not sure if he stuck the landing.
It's as if Laughlin and his dad wrote down the first sentence of every major multiverse theory article they could find on Wikipedia and threw something together. Sure, we could nit-pick the ideas presented by Laughlin for days, even weeks. However, the YouTube comments section does an excellent job breaking down his points. (We also fully expect you all to leave your thoughts in the comment section.)
And the problem doesn’t lie with Max only. Yes, parents must allow children to explore their talents and interests. But shouldn’t they also guide children to using these talents correctly?
We’re a bit frustrated with the man behind the camera who we're assuming is Laughlin's father. Toward the middle of the video, Laughlin's dad makes a statement: "I doubt anyone can truly understand this except for you."
If your child is the only one on the planet smart enough to understand it—beyond the trained physicists in the profession—then you might have a problem.
The best physicists can sustain their discussions and teach the public about even the most controversial theorems. This father can't just write it off as "my kid is smarter than everyone else" and disregard field experts. If others can't grasp a concept, maybe it's because there isn't anything to grasp. There's nobody of proof. No evidence. No basis or logic.
Max’s Future
And if an apparent genius doesn’t learn in his forming years how to hone his skill and use his gift correctly, will he ever reach his potential?
Let’s hope Max Laughlin doesn’t reach the point where he wishes he can use the Mandela effect to forget his past.
The biggest issue comes from countless websites, conspiracy blogs and others holding Laughlin up as the zenith of pre-pubescent genius. The more he hears the word associated with himself, the less likely he'll be to challenge the status quo.
Einstein, Hawking and even the eccentric Elon Musk have disassociated themselves from the word "genius" for similar reasons. If you think you know everything, you cease questioning anything; including yourself.
And even in this video, you see Max still grappling with questions he doesn’t have answers to. Instead of focusing on the universe, Max can change this world. Let’s hope his legacy becomes more relevant than abstract.
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After an intense negotiation session that carried on through the night, Greece and the Euro leaders have drafted a tentative deal to prevent Greece from exiting the Eurozone. If approved, the deal will be a bailout of €82-86Bn (exceeding the €60Bn that the IMF suggested was needed in their most recent debt sustainability report). Approximately €10-25Bn will go to recapitalize banks, and the rest will provide funding for Greece for the next three years. The Greek parliament must now approve the reforms demanded by the eurozone by Wednesday, July 15. As in the previous deal rejected by Greece, these reforms include streamlining pensions, raising tax revenue, and lifting regulations and restrictions in the labour market.
In terms of conditions, this deal seems to indicate capitulation by Greece. This validates earlier views that the Greek government, despite the no vote in the referendum, still had the weaker hand in negotiations with the eurozone.
What can we expect now?
Markets were up last week Thursday and Friday in anticipation of a deal being reached, and are up again today. However, much work still remains to make the deal a reality. Greece must enact key reforms by Wednesday, and secure approval by the Greek government. In addition, 85% of eurozone countries must approve the deal. The general expectation is that the deal will pass the required legislative hurdles. This is positive news, and we expect the situation to stabilize.
If you have any concerns or questions about the impact of events in Greece, or other market uncertainty, on your portfolio, we encourage you to speak with your MD Advisor.
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Multivariate statistical identification of human bladder carcinomas using ambient ionization imaging mass spectrometry
Allison L. Dill, Livia S. Eberlin, Anthony B. Costa, Cheng Zheng, Demian R. Ifa, Liang Cheng, Timothy Masterson, Michael Koch, Olga Vitek, R. Graham Cooks
Diagnosis of human bladder cancer in untreated tissue sections is achieved by using imaging data from desorption electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (DESI-MS) combined with multivariate statistical analysis. We use the distinctive DESI-MS glycerophospholipid (GP) mass spectral profiles to visually characterize and formally classify twenty pairs (40 tissue samples) of human cancerous and adjacent normal bladder tissue samples. The individual ion images derived from the acquired profiles correlate with standard histological hematoxylin and eosin (H&E)-stained serial sections. The profiles allow us to classify the disease status of the tissue samples with high accuracy as judged by reference histological data. To achieve this, the data from the twenty pairs were divided into a training set and a validation set. Spectra from the tumor and normal regions of each of the tissue sections in the training set were used for orthogonal projection to latent structures (O-PLS) treated partial least-square discriminate analysis (PLS-DA). This predictive model was then validated by using the validation set and showed a 5% error rate for classification and a misclassification rate of 12%. It was also used to create synthetic images of the tissue sections showing pixel-by-pixel disease classification of the tissue and these data agreed well with the independent classification that uses histological data by a certified pathologist. This represents the first application of multivariate statistical methods for classification by ambient ionization although these methods have been applied previously to other MS imaging methods. The results are encouraging in terms of the development of a method that could be utilized in a clinical setting through visualization and diagnosis of intact tissue.
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Eosine Yellowish-(YS)
desorption electrospray ionization
Dill, A. L., Eberlin, L. S., Costa, A. B., Zheng, C., Ifa, D. R., Cheng, L., ... Cooks, R. G. (2011). Multivariate statistical identification of human bladder carcinomas using ambient ionization imaging mass spectrometry. Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany), 17(10), 2897-2902. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201001692
Multivariate statistical identification of human bladder carcinomas using ambient ionization imaging mass spectrometry. / Dill, Allison L.; Eberlin, Livia S.; Costa, Anthony B.; Zheng, Cheng; Ifa, Demian R.; Cheng, Liang; Masterson, Timothy; Koch, Michael; Vitek, Olga; Cooks, R. Graham.
In: Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany), Vol. 17, No. 10, 01.03.2011, p. 2897-2902.
Dill, AL, Eberlin, LS, Costa, AB, Zheng, C, Ifa, DR, Cheng, L, Masterson, T, Koch, M, Vitek, O & Cooks, RG 2011, 'Multivariate statistical identification of human bladder carcinomas using ambient ionization imaging mass spectrometry', Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany), vol. 17, no. 10, pp. 2897-2902. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201001692
Dill AL, Eberlin LS, Costa AB, Zheng C, Ifa DR, Cheng L et al. Multivariate statistical identification of human bladder carcinomas using ambient ionization imaging mass spectrometry. Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany). 2011 Mar 1;17(10):2897-2902. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201001692
Dill, Allison L. ; Eberlin, Livia S. ; Costa, Anthony B. ; Zheng, Cheng ; Ifa, Demian R. ; Cheng, Liang ; Masterson, Timothy ; Koch, Michael ; Vitek, Olga ; Cooks, R. Graham. / Multivariate statistical identification of human bladder carcinomas using ambient ionization imaging mass spectrometry. In: Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany). 2011 ; Vol. 17, No. 10. pp. 2897-2902.
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AU - Cooks, R. Graham
N2 - Diagnosis of human bladder cancer in untreated tissue sections is achieved by using imaging data from desorption electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (DESI-MS) combined with multivariate statistical analysis. We use the distinctive DESI-MS glycerophospholipid (GP) mass spectral profiles to visually characterize and formally classify twenty pairs (40 tissue samples) of human cancerous and adjacent normal bladder tissue samples. The individual ion images derived from the acquired profiles correlate with standard histological hematoxylin and eosin (H&E)-stained serial sections. The profiles allow us to classify the disease status of the tissue samples with high accuracy as judged by reference histological data. To achieve this, the data from the twenty pairs were divided into a training set and a validation set. Spectra from the tumor and normal regions of each of the tissue sections in the training set were used for orthogonal projection to latent structures (O-PLS) treated partial least-square discriminate analysis (PLS-DA). This predictive model was then validated by using the validation set and showed a 5% error rate for classification and a misclassification rate of 12%. It was also used to create synthetic images of the tissue sections showing pixel-by-pixel disease classification of the tissue and these data agreed well with the independent classification that uses histological data by a certified pathologist. This represents the first application of multivariate statistical methods for classification by ambient ionization although these methods have been applied previously to other MS imaging methods. The results are encouraging in terms of the development of a method that could be utilized in a clinical setting through visualization and diagnosis of intact tissue.
AB - Diagnosis of human bladder cancer in untreated tissue sections is achieved by using imaging data from desorption electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (DESI-MS) combined with multivariate statistical analysis. We use the distinctive DESI-MS glycerophospholipid (GP) mass spectral profiles to visually characterize and formally classify twenty pairs (40 tissue samples) of human cancerous and adjacent normal bladder tissue samples. The individual ion images derived from the acquired profiles correlate with standard histological hematoxylin and eosin (H&E)-stained serial sections. The profiles allow us to classify the disease status of the tissue samples with high accuracy as judged by reference histological data. To achieve this, the data from the twenty pairs were divided into a training set and a validation set. Spectra from the tumor and normal regions of each of the tissue sections in the training set were used for orthogonal projection to latent structures (O-PLS) treated partial least-square discriminate analysis (PLS-DA). This predictive model was then validated by using the validation set and showed a 5% error rate for classification and a misclassification rate of 12%. It was also used to create synthetic images of the tissue sections showing pixel-by-pixel disease classification of the tissue and these data agreed well with the independent classification that uses histological data by a certified pathologist. This represents the first application of multivariate statistical methods for classification by ambient ionization although these methods have been applied previously to other MS imaging methods. The results are encouraging in terms of the development of a method that could be utilized in a clinical setting through visualization and diagnosis of intact tissue.
KW - cancer
KW - desorption electrospray ionization
KW - lipidomics
KW - molecular imaging
KW - multivariate statistics
JO - Chemistry - A European Journal
JF - Chemistry - A European Journal
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(Russia, Central Asia and Afghanistan) Surely, the recent Moscow conference on Afghanistan (November 9) brought to light that the peace talks will get a big fillip if the US and Russia work in tandem. (See my column in SCF titled US Can Avoid Afghan Quagmire with Russia’s Help, Nov 15, 2018.) Everything depends on the …
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Ph.D. Operations Research and Statistics, Renssealear Polytechnic Institute of Troy
M.Sc. Computer Science, State University of New York at Albany
B.Sc. Mathematics, University of Yaounde
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Professor Fotso is the Coordinator of UNU-INRA’s operating unit in Cameroon. From the 1977 academic year onwards, Prof Fotso held the position of Consulting Programmer at State University of New York at Albany (SUNYA), and a Teaching and Research Assistant at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). Back home in 1981, Prof Fotso taught courses in computer sciences at the Faculty of Science, University of Yaounde I. From October 2004 to January 2009, she was the Vice-Dean at the Faculty of Science of the University of Yaoundé I. Since January 2009, she has held the position of Vice-Rector in charge of Internal Control and Evaluation at the University of Dschang, Cameroon. Prof Fotso has co-directed two PhD theses and directed more than thirty master’s degree theses. She has authored three books and several scientific papers in peer review journals and communications.
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