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Lezione di Torà del giorno
Domenica, 20 Tammuz 5780 / 12 Luglio, 2020
Study about the Holy Temple
Citing the verse (Isaiah 1:27) "Zion shall be redeemed with mishpat [Torah] and its returnees with tzedakah [charity]," the Rebbe urged that we increase in Torah study – and particularly the study of the laws of the Holy Temple – and charity during this period.
Chumash with Rashi
Parshat Matot-Massei, 1st Portion (Numeri 30:2-31:12)
Rashi's commentary is an indispensable part of a person's daily studies. His explanation of Chumash, the first five books of the Torah, clarifies the "simple" meaning of the text so that a bright child of five could understand it. At the same time, it is the crucial foundation of some of the most profound legal analysis and mystical discourses that came after it.
Psalms / Tehillim
Chapters 97-103
Produced by King David, the book of Psalms has been a source of inspiration and a refuge from distress throughout the centuries for both Jews and non-Jews. To read from its pages is to enter into a conversation with G-d, whether to express our gratitude or plead for His compassion and confers upon the reader the ability to draw down a G-dly light which can light up the world. You can view Psalms in their original Hebrew or in a contemporary translation into English.
Igeret HaTeshuva, beginning of Chapter 7
Chabad Chassidus is an all-embracing world outlook and way of life which sees the Jew's central purpose as a unifying link between the Creator and His world. Written by the Alter Rebbe, the founder of Chabad, Tanya is the central text of Chabad Chassidus. It shows the reader a path to realizing their purpose and developing a deeper relationship with G-d. Choose from one of the two formats available: through Lessons in Tanya - a profound and clear explanation of the Alter Rebbe's writings, or through an audio class.
Hayom Yom
Hayom Yom significa "giorno per giorno" ed è una collezione di pensieri concisi, spesso rilevanti alla stagione festiva o allo studio del giorno. L'Hayom Yom è stato scritto nell'anno 1942-1943 (5703 nel calendario Ebraico) ed il formato delle date di quell'anno è stato conservato, pertanto le parashiòt, le lezioni del giorno ecc sono collegati a quell'anno.
3 Chapters:
חלק ראשון, חלק שני, חלק שלישי
1 Chapter:
חלק שלישי
The Mishneh Torah was the Rambam's (Rabbi Moses ben Maimon) magnum opus, a work spanning hundreds of chapters and describing all of the laws mentioned in the Torah. To this day it is the only work that details all of Jewish observance, including those laws which are only applicable when the Holy Temple is in place. Participating in the one of the annual study cycles of these laws (3 chapters/day, 1 chapter/day, or Sefer Hamitzvot) is a way we can play a small but essential part in rebuilding the final Temple.
Download Rambam Study Schedule: 3 Chapters
Lezione del giorno
The Parshah
Parshah Matòt-Massè
Text: Numeri 30:2-36:13
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Jody Lynn Perry
Jody’s Santa Barbara
Portal Journeys and Other Musings
The Reclining Adventurer
Scales and Arpeggios
John Niland Biography
Princess True
Jereena
Jody Lynn Perry has been writing since she was a young girl in New York City. Her mother kept her supplied with a wealth of books from which she read voraciously.
Her influences go from Frances Hodgson Burnett to O Henry and…her mother, whose letters over the years (later emails), were always articulate and entertaining, even when the two of them didn’t see eye-to-eye.
As a writer, words and their various origins and concepts are Jody’s stock in trade. Among her sources is a wonderful read called Origins of the Specious by Patricia T. O’Conner and Stewart Kellerman. This has given Jody, among other things, free license to end her sentences with a preposition--a penchant, rather than of which is particularly fond; she is particularly fond of.
During high school she penned a large of amount of playful, often thoughtful free verse poetry, which is still recalled by those who were in her creative classes. One of her major influences was a high school teacher, warmhearted and energetic, who encouraged all her writing and took obvious joy in her offbeat snippets–Jody was actually tweeting long before it became popular!
Jody Lynn Perry graduated from Santa Barbara High School and went on to seek her fortune. After various adventures and misadventures, she landed once again in Santa Barbara, determined to successfully pursue her passion for turning a phrase.
Her projects range from young adult fantasy and fiction, to blogging on her various interests, including her love of Santa Barbara. She is currently wrapping up a biography on John Niland, who played with the Dallas Cowboys. While her team was always the NY Giants (her father had season tickets to their games), her loyalties now also extend to Dallas, the home of ‘America’s Team,' and as well, the place she, too, currently calls home.
Stay Up To Date With All The Latest Updates from Jody’s Blog
Portals, An Introduction
My first portal-peek into the world of portals hails from the Star Trek episode The City On The Edge
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Read The Strips
B.C. Team
Wizard of Id Team
Remembering Brant
Remembering Johnny
Meet The Actors
Dogs of ‘C’ Kennel
Caveman Concentration
Medieval Match
Books From Amazon
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Animated Shorts: B.C. at the Binghamton LUMA Festival
We’ve just added a new page, Animated Shorts, to our site! We’re excited to showcase the first video, which was created for the first Binghamton LUMA Festival in 2015.
Here’s a screenshot from the video! Visit the Animated Shorts page to see the whole thing.
This entry was posted May 2, 2017 .
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07.11.2018 – Updated Queen’s Wharf Flythrough Released by Destination Brisbane
The contract to build Brisbane’s new inner-city Neville Bonner Bridge pedestrian bridge from Queen’s Wharf to South Brisbane will soon be released, Tourism Industry Development Minister Kate Jones has announced.
Ms Jones said around 100 labourers, engineers, designers and other workers will work on the bridge – named in honour of Australia’s first Indigenous parliamentarian.
The bridge itself will cost the consortia around $100 million and is part of the original scope of works of Queen’s Wharf.
“Once the tender is awarded, the contractor will recruit the next wave of labourers to work on this historic project.
“Queen’s Wharf will change the face of Brisbane – creating more than 8000 jobs in Brisbane’s CBD over the next 10 years.
“Today’s announcement is the next major milestone for this project and a great coup for Brisbane.”
The new bridge is part of the $3.6 billion Queen’s Wharf Brisbane development and will link both sides of the Brisbane River.
“The Neville Bonner Bridge will be the pivotal link between South Bank and Queen’s Wharf – with 50 new restaurants and bars and a world class-retail hub.”
Senator Bonner was the first Indigenous Australian to become a member of the Commonwealth Parliament. He was initially appointed to fill a casual Senate vacancy in 1971 and serviced until 1983. In 1979 he was named Australian of the Year.
Proposed schematic design phase 1
“We thank Destination Brisbane Consortium for its continued engagement with Traditional Owners and especially with the Bonner family to honour their late grandfather and granduncle,” Ms Jones said.
Construction Commences on Queen’s Wharf Foreshore
Next Phase of Queen’s Wharf Bridge Design Submitted
Article Links: https://brisbanedevelopment.com/next-phase-of-queens-wharf-bridge-design-submitted/
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More disappointment
Gross saturday
Friday, Mar 25, 2011 Comments are closed
Metapost: Crusty delicious comments of the week
Guys, do you remember earlier this month, when I made a joke about Wilbur’s sandwich photography Tumblr? Well, obviously — obviously — this is a thing that actually exists. Obviously!
Anyway, now it is time for your comment of the week:
“Is Iris the on-call person for the Fortune Cookie Hotline? Reminding people to add ‘in bed’ is just one of the many services the FCH provides.” –bartcow
And your runners up! Very funny!
“I have long suspected the Beetle Bailey tanks were inflatable.” –Rusty
“Wow … Iris is puttin’ the moves on the old hobo guy. See how she distinctly eyes him when she says ‘In bed’ and he’s all ‘That’s what I’m talkin’ about’. She might as well just straddle him right there. Then I’ll just kill myself.” –Andie
“Look, I know it’s dumb to complain about the artwork in Crock, and I wouldn’t say anything if it were just the people and animals and buildings that were painfully off-model. But seriously, how hard is it to draw the sun? It’s a fucking circle.” –Dr. Handsome
“Really Dan? Flying in from Colorado? I’m not going to judge you, we both know you’re here to sing your greatest hits at the Ramada Inn Lounge on 52nd St. Now let’s hear some ‘We’ve got tonight.'” –Maggie the Cat
“Clearly this man is a genie, as you can even see Lonnie rubbing the lamp in panel one.” –Poor Thompson
“9CL: Oh my God. I think I’ve finally found my breaking point, and it’s seeing two chicks in bathrobes hanging all over an alarmed Seth. It’s like a stupid, hurty version of Three’s Company.” –Shem
“I like the band-aid on Mark Trail’s head. It’s a helpful reminder that he was shot, presumably in the head.” –SideshowJon
“I, for one, am predicting that Beetle Bailey will go into a Funky Winkerbean-esque slide into depressing melodrama, starting with the revelation that Halftrack is now developing Alzheimer’s. Or schizophrenia. Which one makes old people dress up like Flintstones characters, again?” –Sillstaw
“Note that Miss Buxley doesn’t say ‘the Army’s budget reduction’; instead, she says ‘our budget reduction.’ What she means is that Walker-Browne industries are losing money, and they are in danger of being taken over by Parker-Hart. General Halftrack is therefore being proactive by trying to stake out a claim on a role in B.C., lest he join the rest of his troops in being re-assigned to Crock. Can you blame him?” –seismic-2
Judge Parker: “I think Sophie’s blooming into womanhood will consist of the sound effect ‘BO-YO-YO-YOING.'” –Chyron HR
“Elizabeth Taylor immortalized the role of Margo in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf; Richard Burton played Alan/Trey/Jack, and Sandy Dennis was Lu Ann. The role of Tommie was played by no one, who received that year’s Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.” –Uncle Lumpy
“Since Luann has the features and bone structure of a Jack o’ Lantern, she has good reason to be depressed about the aging process.” –Mustang
“Here’s a tip on making FW enjoyable. Virtually every Funky strip can be spiced up if you imagine one final panel where someone says, ‘Awwww, snap!'” –Captain Plaid Pants
“I’ve always held the belief that the best way to make a marginally witty joke sound funnier is to employ a funny voice at a key moment, but the Gasoline Alley suit guy seems to go for wild arm gestures and ta-daaa moves like he’s some sort of terrible pun magician.” –Drew Funk
Also there is this awesome thing from commodorejohn which was too long for consideration, but awesome nonetheless.
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Edwards expansion savings claim seems questionable
In the final analysis, policy-makers should take Gov. John Bel Edwards’ surprising announcement in his state of the state speech that Medicaid expansion would save the state $100 million in fiscal year 2017 with a grain of salt, as well as understand it would predict costs, not savings, in future years.
Only two authoritative, publicly-released studies have occurred on this policy, both by the Department of Health and Hospitals prior to Edwards’ inauguration, and only the first, released in 2013, went into a year-by-year, component-by-component study of the issue. It presented four scenarios that depended upon the rates of enrollment of the uninsured population specifically newly eligible because of expansion, of increased enrollment in other Medicaid programs because of the publicity surrounding expansion, and of enrollment of the insured population from the private sector switching now eligible to switch to Medicaid. A second report a year later confirmed, utilizing data gathered from other states’ experiences, that the most costly scenario most closely fit reality. The extremely detailed report predicted for the last half of 2016, when Edwards wants to start the increased coverage, this would cost the state $38 million; by 2023, the state would pay an additional $373 million that year.
The public could access both reports – until shortly after Edwards took office. Echoing the communist world when a new regime would wipe away evidence from the previous, the reports mysteriously disappeared from the DHH website, and now locatable online only through other unrelated archiving sites. Two months later came Edwards’ pronouncement that alleges a positive $142 million dollar swing in the forecast impact from the first for the last half of this year.
Abortion bills put Edwards in uncomfortable position
Even as Democrat Gov. John Bel Edwards suffered political defeat during the recently-concluded special session of the Louisiana Legislature, legislation filed during the regular session provides him an opportunity to score some political points – or maybe demonstrate fraudulence of his asserted social conservatism.
Edwards called the session ostensibly to pursue fiscal reform, but his call defined that as extremely heavy on tax hikes and very light on spending cuts, with little emphasis on altering the practices and processes of state government that a genuine effort would entail. It ended in almost balancing the current fiscal year budget but leaving a substantial gap for the next because he refused to investigate seriously spending reductions, kicking the can down the road to his discredit.
Should the Republican-controlled Legislature come up with legislation that facilitates trimming state government – the deficit amounts to about three percent of total spending – Edwards will suffer a complete rout in his first half-year in office. Supposing he gets his wish to keep inflated government by having tax increases enacted in another special session, still he takes a political hit for both instigating higher taxes and lacking the leadership to reduce the drama produced by the necessity of a last-minute reprieve when he could have gotten the job done the first time.
Despite tight budget, shore up indigent defense
While Louisiana’s legislators generally have turned their attention to balancing the budget in the just-commenced regular session, under the radar flies an area that deserves urgent attention and cannot afford any more reduction: that of paying for indigent defense, which if not soon resolved may prompt an influx of criminals roaming the streets.
Years ago the state supposedly solved for the chronic underfunding of indigent defense. Constitutionally, if the law defines a person as indigent, the state must provide legal representation to those accused of crimes. In the past, the system depended upon the wildly varying funding source of surcharges on convictions with a backstop of state funding doled out by need. The reform included increasing the latter component, recognizing that enforcement choices of law enforcement agencies that by definition operate independently of the system made for too much instability.
But with budgetary difficulties in the past couple of years that have reduced the state funding and with changes in enforcement patterns that have reduced the number of cases that could result in the fee payment, last year’s atmosphere that saw only a handful of the 42 (one for each judicial district) public defense agencies in difficulty and just a couple approaching a crisis point has deteriorated further. Now, before the end of the year a few agencies may have to stop taking new cases, even as currently they work with more of these per lawyer than national guidelines recommend, and many others threaten to join them in 2017.
Edwards' speech reaffirms that voters made mistake
Maybe he lives in a fantasy world. Maybe he’s just ticking off boxes. Maybe he’s a true believer pathologically unable to brook dissent from his prejudices. Regardless of potential explanations to understand Gov. John Bel Edwards’ State of the State speech (version 2.0, perhaps if counting his address to the Legislature prior to the just-finished special session), the clear message from it reminds Louisiana of the mistake made in his gaining the office.
In what has become nauseatingly familiar to observers, Edwards framed the presentation along the twin rhetorical principles emblazoned upon his administration to date: blaming his predecessor for every bad thing, real or imagined, under the sun; and pugnaciously defining cooperation as the endorsing of his policy preferences while conflict occurs only when others disagree with him. Expanding upon the latter, to which he also made allusions at the end, he alleged that a “Washington” politics of divisiveness interfered with getting things done (read: having his agenda enacted) and that a “Louisiana way” should prevail.
Of course, the “Louisiana way” has facilitated spending the state’s way into oblivion: in the next-to-last year data were available (2012), the state ranked 12th in spending as a proportion of state personal income. That’s high, but more remarkably growth in that measure over the previous two decades exceeded that of all states but Delaware. In Louisiana, consensus of Edwards’ type leads to overspending and a little more conflict seems in order to stop it.
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FLW – KBF Joining Forces
by Pro Angler Hub | Mar 20, 2019 | FLW, KBF, News
Propelling Professional Kayak Fishing into the National Spotlight
Press Release, March 11, 2019 – Fishing League Worldwide (FLW), the world’s largest tournament-fishing organization, announced today that it has partnered with Kayak Bass Fishing, LLC, (KBF) the nation’s foremost organization supporting kayak bass anglers, to hold two kayak bass fishing tournaments in 2019. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
The two events will be held in conjunction with FLW Tour events – the FLW Tour at Lake Chickamauga and the FLW Cup at Lake Hamilton – on nearby fisheries to offer kayak anglers and tour pros separate fisheries for competition. KBF will manage operation of the two events, and the winners will be recognized on the FLW Tour stage and featured in FLW’s media outlets.
“Kayak fishing has become incredibly popular in recent years and continues to grow,” said Dave Washburn, FLW Vice President of Operations. “We are excited to work with KBF as the kayak-fishing community leader to elevate the sport to new highs with tournaments offering over 100 percent payouts through the course of the season and the biggest media platform available to kayak anglers.”
The first event, the FLW/KBF Open, will be hosted by Fish Dayton and Fish Lake Chickamauga May 4-5, 2019, on Nickajack Lake. Entry fee for the event is $200 per kayak, and the top 100 anglers will qualify to compete in the second event, the FLW/KBF Cup in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Of these 100 qualifiers, the top 20 receive free entry. All other qualifiers pay a $500 entry fee. The FLW/KBF Cup will be held Aug. 8-10, 2019 (kayak competition August 8–9 only), on a lake to be announced in conjunction with the Aug 9-11 FLW Cup on Lake Hamilton.
“We are excited to partner with FLW to take competitive kayak fishing to the next level and offer better exposure to our top anglers and their accomplishments,” said Chad Hoover, KBF President.
Anglers can register for the FLW/KBF Open at KayakBassFishing.com/flw. Watch for additional details on both KayakBassFishing.com/flw and FLWFishing.com/kayak.
KBF was formed in 2009 to offer kayak anglers the opportunity to compete for hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and prizes at premier fisheries around the country. Currently in its seventh season for live events, KBF offers more than 25 professional-level bass-fishing tournaments to kayak anglers. For complete KBF details, schedules and updated information, visit KayakBassFishing.com.
For complete details and updated information about FLW, visit FLWFishing.com. For regular updates, photos, tournament news and more, follow FLW’s social media outlets at Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.
About FLW
FLW is the world’s largest tournament-fishing organization, providing anglers of all skill levels the opportunity to compete for millions in prize money in 2019 across five tournament circuits. Headquartered in Benton, Kentucky, with offices in Minneapolis, FLW and their partners conduct more than 290 bass-fishing tournaments annually around the world, including the United States, Canada, China, Italy, South Korea, Mexico, Portugal, South Africa and Spain. FLW tournament fishing can be seen on the Emmy-nominated “FLW” television show while FLW Bass Fishing magazine delivers cutting-edge tips from top pros. For more information visit FLWFishing.com and follow FLW at Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.
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Category: 025 – JFK, 1970-1981. Runway 13L – Part 2
025 – JFK, 1970-1981. Runway 13L – Part 2
On May 11, 2018 May 11, 2018 By jaybirdaviationphotos@gmail.comIn 025 – JFK, 1970-1981. Runway 13L – Part 22 Comments
As I discussed in Part 1, my favorite spot in the world for many years was the approach end of Runway 13L. By the mid 1970s, I was finally using color slide film, and a zoom lens. Both helped me to take better photos. It never really occurred to me that I was capturing history.
Scandinavian Airlines System was well-represented at JFK by both its DC-8-63 (OY-KT, DC‑8‑63, SAS), and 747 (OY-KHA, B.747‑283B)
Montana Austria was a frequent visitor to JFK using an ex-QANTAS Boeing 707
OE-INA, B.707‑138B,
KLM used its DC-8-63 into JFK well into the 1980s
PH-DEH, DC‑8‑63, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
LOT Polish Airlines flew IL-62Ms into JFK until 1980, when SP-LAA crashed near Warsaw in March 1980 after suffering an engine explosion.
SP-LAA, Il‑62M, taken just a few months before it crashed near Warsaw, forcing LOT to ground its remaining IL-62Ms
I still remember my surprise as I was sitting in my favorite spot by 13L, I looked out at the approach path and, wow, that looks like a TU-154. Who in the world was flying TU-154s into JFK??
YR-TPJ, Tu‑154B‑2, Guyana Airways
Trans International Airlines was a well-known supplemental carrier for both cargo and passenger service.
N4864T, DC‑8‑63CF
Trans International was renamed Transamerica Airlines, and the DC-8s were re-engined with CFM-56s. The airline’s missions remained the same.
It’s funny/sad to look back nearly 40 years ago and think that I regarded all those Boeing 707s as boring. I really had no concept of the history that my lens was capturing.
N8409, B.707‑323C, American Airlines
I was much more intrigued by the shiny new 747s, that boasted piano bars and lounges…for a short while, anyway. Before long, the bean-counters realized that those lounges could be replaced by 30-40 more seats worth of revenue. It is also interesting to consider the domestic routes on which 747s were used, routes that are now served by twice as many aircraft holding half as many seats.
N9669, B.747‑123, American Airlines
United Airlines had a large fleet of DC-8-61s, which were used on high-density routes, as well as the longer-range flights.
N8077U, DC‑8‑61, United Air Lines
Formerly Aeronaves de Mexico DC-8-50, Aeromexico kept its DC-8s in service into the 1980s
XA-DOD, DC‑8‑51, AeroMéxico
From the time that the Concorde was first designed, I would dream of the day that I would be able to snap a photo of one landing by “My Spot”. It was worth the wait!
G-BOAF, Concorde 102, British Airways
Seaboard World Airlines was one of the largest cargo carriers at Kennedy, and enjoyed a long and colorful history. The company’s 747s were among the more colorful 747s at JFK
N705SW, B.747‑245F(SCD) , Seaboard World
Evergreen International flew several DC-8s under the banner of Emery Air Force.
N8246U, DC‑8‑33(F)
After “my spot” at the end of 13L, my next favorite photo spot was the top of the old Pan Am terminal. This was back in the good old days, when you could spend all day up there and nobody would bother you at all. True, you were looking into the sun for most of the days, but you still had a commanding view of Runway 13R/31L, the international ramp, and the taxiways coming around the corner of the Eastern Air Lines terminal.
Here is an Air Jamaica DC-8-50 rotating off Runway 31L.
6Y-JGE, DC‑8‑51, Air Jamaica
BWIA eventually replaced its 707s to JFK with Tristar 500s
9Y-TGJ, L.1011‑500
Hybrid color schemes are always interesting. Here is a Convair 580 belonging to Great Lakes Airlines of Canada, on lease to Air New England.
C-GJRP, CV‑580
Iberia Airlines was one of the original operators of the Boeing 747. It was easily photographable as it approached the International Arrivals Building.
EC-BRP, B.747‑156, Iberia
Swissair was another early operator of the 747, and they stayed in the fleet long enough to wear a revised color scheme.
HB-IGB, B.747‑257B, Swissair
Global International Airlines was one of dozens of “Deregulation Airlines” that sprung up as the legacy airlines shed their older aircraft types. GIA, which was rumored to be tied to the Central Intelligence Agency
N15713, B.707‑331C, Global International Airways
There were no two ways about it. The 747SP was NOT an aesthetically pleasing airliner!
N540PA, B.747SP‑21, Pan Am
Flying Tigers DC-8-63 lifts off of Runway 31L
N795FT, DC‑8‑63CF, Flying Tigers
Air Atlanta began operations with a handful of ex-United 727-100s.
N7083U, B.727‑22, Air Atlanta
As late as the early 1980s, American Airlines was still operating their Boeing 707-100s.
N7554A, B.707‑123B, American Airlines
It’s nice to reminisce looking at a Delta DC-8-50, but this is not any ordinary Delta DC-8-50. N8008D is, in fact, the first production DC-8, which was originally delivered to Delta as a DC-8-11 and later converted to a -51
N8008D, DC‑8‑51, Delta Airlines
In the early jet airliner days, several major airlines, including United Air Lines, operated a fleet of pure-cargo DC-8F-54s
N8053U, DC‑8F‑54, United Air Lines
American Airlines was another US carrier to operate a fleet of all-cargo aircraft. In this case, they were 707 Freighters.
Montana Austria eventually added a small fleet of 707-300s to its -138Bs.
OE-IDA, B.707‑396C, Montana Austria
If you look very closely at XA-DOE, you will see that it is the former N8008D, the prototype DC-8. When Delta was ready to retire it, Aeromexico bought it and used it on North American routes for several years. It was finally retired to Marana, where it was eventually scrapped.
XA-DOE, DC‑8‑51, AeroMéxico
I still enjoy going to JFK, and there are still some good spots for photography. Unfortunately, New York tends to be a bit of a hostile environment toward airplane photographers, and most of the old spots are long gone. I’m glad I was able to experience and enjoy Kennedy Airport back in the good old days, before 9/11, before hijackings to Cuba, and before airplane photography was viewed as a dangerous hobby.
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Remember how, when Gore chose Liberman as his running mate, everyone spoke about what a “moral” man Liberman is?
Gore’s reason for choosing Lieberman was to acquire “honor by association” with a man known for his moral backbone. But Gore’s motives were a lot more profound than that. With Lieberman at his side, Gore will have the opportunity to elevate the level of discourse among Americans about ethics and morality.
Well, here is an example of just how moral Liberman is:
Sen. Lieberman, however, went above and beyond Gonzales to offer support for the U.S. policy of deny rights to Guantanamo Bay detainees. He called the decision “progressive” and “remarkably just,” …
Here is what the Red Cross had to say about Guantanamo:
Cross investigators had found a system devised to break the will of prisoners through “humiliating acts, solitary confinement, temperature extremes, use of forced positions.”
“The construction of such a system, whose stated purpose is the production of intelligence, cannot be considered other than an intentional system of cruel, unusual and degrading treatment and a form of torture,” the Times quoted the report as saying.
So, maybe you can see why Liberman deserves a kiss for his moral courage?
See also: Note to Bush
(Sources: Cursor.org, Irish Trojan, President Boxer, King of Zembla, Body and Soul)
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The work presented in this thesis investigated interactions of selected biophysical processes that affect zooplankton ecology at smaller scales. In this endeavour, the extent of changes in swimming behaviour and fluid disturbances produced by swimming Daphnia in response to changing physical environments were quantified. In the first research question addressed within this context, size and energetics of hydrodynamic trails produced by Daphnia swimming in non-stratified still waters were characterized and quantified as a function of organisms’ size and their swimming patterns. The results revealed that neither size nor the swimming pattern of Daphnia affects the width of induced trails or dissipation rates. Nevertheless, as the size and swimming velocity of the organisms increased, trail volume increased in proportional to the cubic power of Reynolds number, and the biggest trail volume was about 500 times the body volume of the largest daphnids. Larger spatial extent of fluid perturbation and prolonged period to decay caused by bigger trail volumes would play a significant role in zooplankton ecology, e.g. increasing the risk of predation. The study also found that increased trail volume brought about significantly enhanced total dissipated power at higher Reynolds number, and the magnitudes of total dissipated power observed varied in the range of (1.3-10)X10-9 W. Furthermore, this study provided strong evidence that swimming speed of Daphnia and total dissipated power in Daphnia trails exceeded those of some other selected zooplankton species. In recognizing turbulence as an intrinsic environmental perturbation in aquatic habitats, this thesis also examined the response of Daphnia to a range of turbulence flows, which correspond to turbu-lence levels that zooplankton generally encounter in their habitats. Results indicated that within the range of turbulent intensities to which the Daphnia are likely to be exposed in their natural habitats, increasing turbulence compelled the organisms to enhance their swimming activity and swim-ming speed. However, as the turbulence increased to extremely high values (10-4 m2s-3), Daphnia began to withdraw from their active swimming behaviour. Findings of this work also demonstrated that the threshold level of turbulence at which animals start to alleviate from largely active swimming is about 10-6 m2s-3. The study further illustrated that during the intermediate range of turbu-lence; 10-7 - 10-6 m2s-3, kinetic energy dissipation rates in the vicinity of the organisms is consistently one order of magnitude higher than that of the background turbulent flow. Swarming, a common conspicuous behavioural trait observed in many zooplankton species, is considered to play a significant role in defining freshwater ecology of their habitats from food exploitation, mate encountering to avoiding predators through hydrodynamic flow structures produced by them, therefore, this thesis also investigated implications of Daphnia swarms at varied abundance & swarm densities on their swimming kinematics and induced flow field. The results showed that Daphnia aggregated in swarms with swarm densities of (1.1-2.3)x103 L-1, which exceeded the abundance densities by two orders of magnitude (i.e. 1.7 - 6.7 L-1). The estimated swarm volume decreased from 52 cm3 to 6.5 cm3, and the mean neighbouring distance dropped from 9.9 to 6.4 body lengths. The findings of this work also showed that mean swimming trajectories were primarily horizontal concentric circles around the light source. Mean flow speeds found to be one order of magnitude lower than the corresponding swimming speeds of Daphnia. Furthermore, this study provided evidences that the flow fields produced by swarming Daphnia differed considerably between unidirectional vortex swarming and bidirectional swimming at low and high abundances respectively.
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Hippo Campus at Bonnaroo
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Jake Luppen visited our Plaza 7 studio to talk with Annie before he took the Bonnaroo stage with Hippo Campus last Saturday. Lightning 100 feels special that he rolled in straight from Amsterdam to talk with us about his big plans for the summer, his involvement with feminist organizations, and more.
Hippo Campus is no stranger to Bonnaroo, but this year is extra special because in the past 2 years they have had a few major upgrades. Not only do they have an additional album of great material to perform live, but they also got upgraded from a tent performance to the Which Stage. Jake admits to us, “this is the first time we’re at a festival with a bus, so we are very excited about that.” How luxurious.
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Aside from Bonnaroo, Hippo Campus is staying busy throughout this summer festival season. They just returned from Pink Pop festival in the Netherlands. Jake reminisces, “it’s like the best place in the world.” He then continues, “everyone is stoned, and you might get hit by a bike if you’re not careful.” He continue to describe their experiences in Amsterdam before returning to the topic of touring.
“We’re headed out on tour with the Head and the Heart here pretty soon, it should be awesome,” Jake is looking forward to playing shows at Red Rocks and other prominent venues across America this summer. They will also be playing festivals like Austin City Limits, Voodoo, and Hinterland.
Seeing this 5-piece perform is a unique experience with each show. As Jake explains, “we change the set a lot and just have it be a fresh thing. So that keeps us on our toes and makes it more exciting for us.”
Additionally, fans feel good about buying tickets to their shows, because they know they’re supporting a great group of people. This band is known to partner with key feminist organizations on tour to benefit Planned Parenthood and the #MeToo movement. Jake comments, “A lot of our fans are younger female fans, so we try and partner with organizations that can help them and we can be passionate about.” Lightning 100 loves to celebrate bands like this one to encourage a community of acceptance and inclusivity.
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To learn about tour their bus etiquette, Jake’s festival tips, and bougie life on-the-road, listen to the full interview below! You can also hear more Bonnaroo coverage on our website.
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Maurizio Sarri decided to call time on his spell with the Blues just after one season and this left the Blues without a manager for sometime.
Although several names had appeared as possible replacement for Sarri, Frank Lampard came out tops and signed a three year deal with us.
Given that the former Derby County manager did not have enough experience, his appointment as the boss of Chelsea divided the opinion of many fans.
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Chicago Blackhawks 2019 Summer Rebuild Timeline
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CHICAGO, IL - APRIL 05: Chicago Blackhawks right wing Patrick Kane (88) celebrates his goal during a game between the Dallas Stars and the Chicago Blackhawks on April 5, 2019, at the United Center in Chicago, IL. (Photo by Patrick Gorski/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
The Chicago Blackhawks 2019 summer rebuild process began immediately after the season ended. After two consecutive seasons without making the playoffs the pressure is really on the Blackhawks beleaguered general manager Stan Bowman. Despite many of the Blackhawks faithful calling for Bowman’s dismissal, owner Rocky Wirtz has yet to make a change in general manager. This gives the muddled Bowman a chance to redeem himself as the Blackhawks head into a crucially important off-season.
Bowman’s past three off-seasons have brought dismal results in improving the storied franchise and making them a contender again. For the general manager, this Blackhawks 2019 summer is going to make-or-break the Blackhawks future. We are going to cover the current outlook for the 2019-20 roster, the team’s restricted and unrestricted free agents, the unfamiliar high salary cap room, and various important dates upcoming this summer.
Blackhawks 2019 Summer Rebuild
The upcoming summer is bringing about another opportunity for Bowman to get his off-season moves right after blundering again last off-season. This time around, he only has a set roster of only nine forwards and five defencemen locked up for next season.
One good thing is that Bowman was able to sign Collin Delia to a bargain $1 million per season contract extension that carries him to the 2022 summer. This deal gives the Hawks a solid backup to Corey Crawford. However, Bowman will need to work hard to flush out the rest of the lineup.
Chicago Blackhawks Under Contract 2019-20
Here are the Blackhawks players currently under contract for next season. We’ll list their age, salary, and any non-movement clauses. This will be the roster the team must build on to be competitive next season.
Patrick Kane age 30 $10.5 Million (Non-Movement Clause)
Jonathan Toews age 30 $10.5 Million (Non-Movement Clause)
Brandon Saad age 26 $6 Million
Artem Anisimov age 30 $4.55 Million (Modified No-Trade Clause)
Drake Caggiula age 24 $1.5 Million
Dominik Kahun age 23 $925,000
Dylan Strome age 21 $863,333
Alex DeBrincat age 21 $778,333
John Hayden age 23 $750,000
Brent Seabrook age 33 $6.875 Million (Non-Movement Clause)
Duncan Keith age 35 $5,538,462 Million (Non-Movement Clause)
Connor Murphy age 25 $3.85 Million
Erik Gustafsson age 26 $1.2 Million
Carl Dahlstrom age 24 $850,000
Corey Crawford age 34 $6 Million (Modified No-Trade Clause)
Collin Delia age 24 $1 Million
Unrestricted and Restricted Free Agents
Here are the Blackhawk players that are currently either UFA’s or RFA’s and a breakdown of the likely moves this summer:
UFA’s
Marcus Kruger
Chris Kunitz
Cam Ward
It is likely that only Kruger gets an offer from the Blackhawks this off-season. The bigger question that arises is whether the team will offer him anything close to his 2018-19 salary of $2.775 million. Kruger is only 28 years old and scored 12 points in 74 games last season. He could be a hot commodity with teams looking for a solid third or fourth line center. His loyalty will be clearly tested when deciding where he wants to spend next season. Loyalty may not be enough, though, and the Hawks will need to bring a competitive offer to the table if they want to keep Kruger around.
RFA’s
David Kampf
Brendan Perlini
Slater Koekkoek
Gustav Forsling
It is likely all four RFA’s get a qualifying offer from the Blackhawks this off-season, with a good chance of rejoining the club in October. Luckily for Chicago, none of the four are likely to receive offer sheets this summer, so the team can breathe easy while working on new contracts.
The only player who may garner interest from around the league is the enigmatic Perlini. The former first-round pick struggled to try and find consistency in his limited time with the Blackhawks, scoring 15 points in 46 games. The 6’3″ 211 pounds Perlini often disappeared in games, leading to him getting benched several times last season. If he does get an offer sheet, the Blackhawks would best be served by simply cutting ties with the 22-year-old. Perlini is eerily reminiscent of Anthony Duclair in the 2017-18 season, who also struggled immensely. The Blackhawks let Duclair walk, which has proven to be a wise move.
Blackhawks 2019 Summer Unusual Salary Cap Room
The Blackhawks currently have the largest salary cap room they have seen in years. According to capfriedly.com, the team has $18,819,872 in salary cap available for the 2019-20 season. Bowman does have to deal with his unrestricted free agents and restricted free agents this off-season. Depending on how many of these players re-sign with the team, they should still have plenty of cap room available for free agent signing day. Re-signing Kruger, Perlini, and Kampf would get them to 12 forwards. Re-signing Koekkoek and Forsling would provide seven defencemen on the roster. That would leave room for one, or maybe two, impactful free agents; something the team desperately needs.
Looming 2020 RFA’s
Although, while everyone is gaping in awe at the Blackhawks excess in salary cap space, there is a dark cloud on the horizon. Two players who will be restricted free agents after the 2019-20 season should get immediate attention from Bowman. Alex DeBrincat and Dylan Strome both need to be signed to contract extensions before the end of the 2019-20 season and both will likely earn a modest amount.
To start, DeBrincat had an incredible sophomore campaign and deserves a large bump in salary. You can guarantee that “The Cat’s” agent certainly took notice of the recent contract extension given to Nick Schmaltz. With DeBrincat proving to be a much more valuable asset for the Hawks offense, he’s guaranteed a healthy raise with his next deal.
Strome also proved he could be a solid contributor last season and deserves a quick extension. He totaled an impressive 57 points in 78 games last season, 51 of those points coming in the 58 games he played with Chicago. This was a very big turnaround for the prospect that couldn’t get it going with the Arizona Coyotes. He’s become a top-player in Chicago, as long as he can prove to stay consistent.
These two contract extensions have to be taken into account as Bowman prepares for next season and the looming 2020 summer. Leaving them until next off-season would certainly open the door for offer sheets and put a lot of stress on Chicago’s shoulders.
Blackhawks 2019 Summer Dates To Watch
The NHL playoffs will draw the attention of many hockey fans over the next several weeks but in Chicago, the upcoming off-season is the focus. The Blackhawks 2019 summer timeline ahead holds many important dates for Stan Bowman and his roster. Listed below are several key dates:
NHL Scouting Combine May 27 through June 1
NHL deadline for signing unsigned draft picks June 1
2019 NHL Entry Draft June 21 and 22
Teams can meet with impending UFA’s June 24 through June 30
NHL deadline for qualifying offers to RFA’s June 25
NHL free agent signing day is July 1:
Luck was smiling on the Blackhawks as they garnered the 3rd overall pick in the 2019 NHL Draft. The scouting combine at the end of May will give the team a chance to check out the prospects they may land this upcoming draft. The Blackhawks have a first round, second round, two fourth round picks, and a pick in each of the fifth, sixth, and seventh rounds. The opportunity is there for Bowman to draft wisely and restock his prospect pool.
The next two key dates are June 25, when the RFA qualifying offers are due, and June 24 through 30, when teams can meet with soon-to-be free agents. We will see which RFA’s Bowman offers contracts to by the June 25 deadline. That will help to determine his available cap room as he meets with impending free agents.
July 1 is the key date to watch for the Blackhawks this summer. Will Bowman try and fill the need for a solid top-four defenceman free agent? Could all of the “Breadman Come Home” rumors surrounding Artemi Panarin come true? Will the Hawks take a run at one of the many hot-topic RFA’s? All of these questions only increase the anticipation surrounding what should be an exciting early-July.
Last Word On Blackhawks 2019 Summer Rebuild
The fall of the Chicago Blackhawks has devastated their once-rabid fan base over the last two seasons. Another season without a playoff appearance will be completely unacceptable for those longing for another Cup. The pressure is on Stan Bowman to have an incredible off-season that will return the Blackhawks to relevance in the NHL. Over the next several months we will provide multiple articles about the state of the Blackhawks, and also the draft prospects available based on the knowledge supplied by Last Word’s own draft guru Ben Kerr. We will also cover the available free agents that could be difference makers for the franchise. It will be an interesting off-season, to say the least, so stay tuned.
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Northern District of Georgia (Atlanta)
CIVIL DOCKET FOR CASE #: 1:15-cv-02594-MHC
Code Revision Commission et al v. Public.Resource.Org, Inc.
Assigned to: Judge Mark H. Cohen
Cause: 28:1338 Copyright Infringement
Jury Demand: Defendant
Nature of Suit: 820 Copyright
Jurisdiction: Federal Question
Code Revision Commission
for the Benefit of and
General Assembly of Georgia represented by Anthony B. Askew
Meunier Carlin & Curfman, LLC -Atl
Email: taskew@mcciplaw.com
ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
Lisa Pavento
Email: lpavento@mcciplaw.com
Warren James Thomas
Meunier Carlin & Curfman, LLC - ATL
Email: wthomas@mcciplaw.com
State of Georgia represented by Anthony B. Askew
(See above for address)
Public.Resource.Org, Inc. represented by Elizabeth Hannah Rader
Alston & Bird, LLP- DC
The Atlantic Building
950 F Street, NW
Email: elizabeth.rader@alston.com
LEAD ATTORNEY
Alston & Bird, LLP - Atl
1201 West Peachtree Street
Email: sarah.lafantano@alston.com
Jason D. Rosenberg
One Atlantic Center
Email: jason.rosenberg@alston.com
Counter Claimant
Counter Defendant
for the Benefit of and represented by Anthony B. Askew
Docket Text
07/21/2015 1 COMPLAINT filed by State of Georgia, Code Revision Commission. (Filing fee $ 400 receipt number 113E-5942262.) (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit 1, # 2 Exhibit 2, # 3 Exhibit 3, # 4 Exhibit 4, # 5 Exhibit 5, # 6 Exhibit 6, # 7 Civil Cover Sheet)(cem) Please visit our website at http://www.gand.uscourts.gov/forms to obtain Pretrial Instructions which includes the Consent To Proceed Before U.S. Magistrate form. (Entered: 07/22/2015)
07/21/2015 2 Electronic Summons Issued as to Public.Resource.Org, Inc. (cem) (Entered: 07/22/2015)
07/22/2015 3 AO 121 Form mailed to the Register of Copyrights Office. (cem) (Entered: 07/22/2015)
07/22/2015 4 STANDING ORDER REGARDING CIVIL LITIGATION, Signed by Judge Mark H. Cohen on 7/22/15. (jpa) (Entered: 07/22/2015)
07/24/2015 5 Return of Service Executed by State of Georgia, Code Revision Commission. Public.Resource.Org, Inc. served on 7/24/2015, answer due 8/14/2015. (Pavento, Lisa) (Entered: 07/24/2015)
09/14/2015 6 ANSWER to 1 COMPLAINT with Jury Demand ( Discovery ends on 2/11/2016.), COUNTERCLAIM against All Plaintiffs with Jury Demand by Public.Resource.Org, Inc.. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit A, # 2 Exhibit B, # 3 Exhibit C, # 4 Exhibit D, # 5 Exhibit E, # 6 Exhibit F, # 7 Exhibit G)(Rosenberg, Jason) Please visit our website at http://www.gand.uscourts.gov to obtain Pretrial Instructions. (Entered: 09/14/2015)
09/14/2015 7 Corporate Disclosure Statement by Public.Resource.Org, Inc. (Rosenberg, Jason) Modified on 9/15/2015 to edit text (jpa). (Entered: 09/14/2015)
09/16/2015 Clerks Notation re 7 Corporate Disclosure Statement reviewed by MHC. (jgs) (Entered: 09/16/2015)
09/16/2015 8 APPLICATION for Admission of Elizabeth Rader Pro Hac Vice (Application fee $ 150, receipt number 113E-6046489)by Public.Resource.Org, Inc., Public.Resource.Org, Inc.. (Rosenberg, Jason) (Entered: 09/16/2015)
09/25/2015 APPROVAL by Clerks Office re: 8 APPLICATION for Admission of Elizabeth Rader Pro Hac Vice (Application fee $ 150, receipt number 113E-6046489). Attorney Elizabeth Hannah Rader added appearing on behalf of Public.Resource.Org, Inc., Public.Resource.Org, Inc. (pb) (Entered: 09/25/2015)
09/28/2015 MINUTE ORDER granting 8 Application for Admission Pro Hac Vice of Elizabeth Rader by CRD by direction of the Court. Approved by Judge Mark H. Cohen on 9/28/15. (jgs) (Entered: 09/28/2015)
09/29/2015 9 NOTICE of Appearance by Sarah Parker on behalf of Public.Resource.Org, Inc. (Parker, Sarah) (Entered: 09/29/2015)
10/08/2015 10 ANSWER to 6 Counterclaim and Affirmative Defenses by Code Revision Commission, State of Georgia.(Askew, Anthony) Please visit our website at http://www.gand.uscourts.gov to obtain Pretrial Instructions. (Entered: 10/08/2015)
10/08/2015 11 AMENDED COMPLAINT FOR INJUNCTIVE RELIEF against Public.Resource.Org, Inc., filed by State of Georgia, Code Revision Commission. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit 1, # 2 Exhibit 2, # 3 Exhibit 3, # 4 Exhibit 4, # 5 Exhibit 5, # 6 Exhibit 6)(Askew, Anthony) Please visit our website at http://www.gand.uscourts.gov/commonly-used-forms to obtain Pretrial Instructions which includes the Consent To Proceed Before U.S. Magistrate form. (Entered: 10/08/2015)
10/14/2015 12 JOINT PRELIMINARY REPORT AND DISCOVERY PLAN filed by Code Revision Commission, State of Georgia. (Askew, Anthony) (Entered: 10/14/2015)
10/15/2015 13 SCHEDULING ORDER: re: 12 Joint Preliminary Report and Discovery Plan. Discovery ends on 3/18/2016. Signed by Judge Mark H. Cohen on 10/15/15. (jpa) (Entered: 10/15/2015)
10/19/2015 14 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE of Defendant's Initial Disclosures by Public.Resource.Org, Inc. (Rosenberg, Jason) Modified on 10/20/2015 to edit filing attorney (jpa). (Entered: 10/19/2015)
10/20/2015 15 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE for Plaintiffs' Initial Disclosures by Code Revision Commission, State of Georgia.(Thomas, Warren) (Entered: 10/20/2015)
10/22/2015 16 ANSWER to 11 Amended Complaint , COUNTERCLAIM against All Plaintiffs by Public.Resource.Org, Inc.. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit A, # 2 Exhibit B, # 3 Exhibit C, # 4 Exhibit D, # 5 Exhibit E, # 6 Exhibit F, # 7 Exhibit G)(Rosenberg, Jason) Please visit our website at http://www.gand.uscourts.gov to obtain Pretrial Instructions. (Entered: 10/22/2015)
01/15/2016 17 STIPULATION of Facts by Code Revision Commission, State of Georgia. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit A, # 2 Exhibit B, # 3 Exhibit C, # 4 Exhibit D, # 5 Exhibit E, # 6 Exhibit F, # 7 Exhibit G, # 8 Exhibit H, # 9 Exhibit I, # 10 Exhibit J, # 11 Exhibit K, # 12 Exhibit L, # 13 Exhibit M)(Askew, Anthony) (Entered: 01/15/2016)
02/10/2016 18 Joint MOTION for Protective Order by Code Revision Commission, State of Georgia. (Attachments: # 1 Proposed Protective Order)(Askew, Anthony) (Entered: 02/10/2016)
02/12/2016 19 PROTECTIVE ORDER. Signed by Judge Mark H. Cohen on 2/12/16. (jpa) (Entered: 02/12/2016)
02/16/2016 20 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE of Defendant's Responses and Objections to Plaintiff's First Set of Interrogatories by Public.Resource.Org, Inc..(Parker, Sarah) (Entered: 02/16/2016)
02/16/2016 21 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE of Defendant's Responses and Objections to Plaintiff's First Request for Production of Documents by Public.Resource.Org, Inc..(Parker, Sarah) (Entered: 02/16/2016)
02/17/2016 22 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE of Defendant's Responses to Plaintiff's Second Set of Interrogatories by Public.Resource.Org, Inc..(Parker, Sarah) (Entered: 02/17/2016)
02/17/2016 23 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE Defendant's Responses to Plaintiff's Second Request for Production of Documents by Public.Resource.Org, Inc..(Parker, Sarah) (Entered: 02/17/2016)
02/18/2016 24 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE of Plaintiff's Responses to Defendant's First Set of Interrogatories by Code Revision Commission, State of Georgia.(Askew, Anthony) (Entered: 02/18/2016)
02/18/2016 25 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE of Plaintiff's Responses to Defendant's First Set of Requests for Production by Code Revision Commission, State of Georgia.(Askew, Anthony) (Entered: 02/18/2016)
04/14/2016 26 Joint MOTION for Extension of Time to File Proposed Consolidated Pretrial Order by Code Revision Commission, State of Georgia. (Askew, Anthony) (Entered: 04/14/2016)
04/15/2016 27 ORDER granting 26 Joint Motion for Extension of Time to File Proposed Consolidated Pretrial Order and parties shall comply with the following schedule: Summary Judgment motions due 5/17/2016; Responses to Summary Judgment motions due 21 days after service of the motion; Replies to such responses due 14 days after service of the response and if necessary, the Consolidated Pretrial Order shall be filed no later than 30 days after the entry of the Court's ruling on the parties' motions for summary judgment. Signed by Judge Mark H. Cohen on 4/15/2016. (bdb) (Entered: 04/15/2016)
04/15/2016 Summary Judgment Motions due by 5/17/2016. (bdb) (Entered: 04/15/2016)
05/17/2016 28 First MOTION for Leave to File An Amicus Curiae Brief in Support of Plaintiff with Brief In Support by Matthew Bender & Company, Inc. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit 1, # 2 Exhibit 2)(Bowler, John) (Entered: 05/17/2016)
05/17/2016 29 MOTION for Summary Judgment with Brief In Support by Public.Resource.Org, Inc., Public.Resource.Org, Inc., Public.Resource.Org, Inc.. (Attachments: # 1 Statement of Material Facts, # 2 Brief Memorandum of Law In Support, # 3 Exhibit Ex. A, # 4 Exhibit Ex. B, # 5 Exhibit Ex. C, # 6 Exhibit Ex. D, # 7 Exhibit Ex. E, # 8 Exhibit Ex. F, # 9 Exhibit Ex. G, # 10 Exhibit Ex. H, # 11 Exhibit Ex. I, # 12 Exhibit Ex. J, # 13 Exhibit Ex. K, # 14 Exhibit Ex. L, # 15 Exhibit Ex. M, # 16 Exhibit Ex. N, # 17 Exhibit Ex. O)(Parker, Sarah) --Please refer to http://www.gand.uscourts.gov to obtain the Notice to Respond to Summary Judgment Motion form contained on the Court's website.-- (Entered: 05/17/2016)
05/17/2016 30 MOTION for Partial Summary Judgment with Brief In Support by Code Revision Commission, State of Georgia. (Attachments: # 1 Brief in support, # 2 Statement of Undisputed Material Facts, # 3 Exhibit 1, # 4 Exhibit 2, # 5 Exhibit 3, # 6 Exhibit 4)(Pavento, Lisa) --Please refer to http://www.gand.uscourts.gov to obtain the Notice to Respond to Summary Judgment Motion form contained on the Court's website.-- (Entered: 05/17/2016)
05/23/2016 31 ORDER OF RECUSAL. Judge Mark H. Cohen recused. Case reassigned to Judge Richard W. Story for all further proceedings NOTICE TO ALL COUNSEL OF RECORD: The Judge designation in the civil action number assigned to this case has been changed to 1:15-cv-2594-RWS. Please make note of this change in order to facilitate the docketing of pleadings in this case. Signed by Judge Mark H. Cohen on 5/23/16. (jpa) (Entered: 05/23/2016)
06/06/2016 32 APPLICATION for Admission of Lawrence Schemmel Pro Hac Vice (Application fee $ 150, receipt number 113E-6493289)by State of Mississippi Joint Legislative Committee,. (Hirsch, Michelle) (Entered: 06/06/2016)
06/07/2016 Submission of 28 First MOTION for Leave to File An Amicus Curiae Brief in Support of Plaintiff, submitted to District Judge Richard W. Story. (hfm) (Entered: 06/07/2016)
06/07/2016 33 RESPONSE in Opposition re 30 MOTION for Partial Summary Judgment filed by Public.Resource.Org, Inc., Public.Resource.Org, Inc., Public.Resource.Org, Inc.. (Attachments: # 1 Statement of Material Facts Defendant's Response to Plaintiff's Statement of Material Facts)(Parker, Sarah) (Entered: 06/07/2016)
06/10/2016 34 RESPONSE in Opposition re 29 MOTION for Summary Judgment filed by Code Revision Commission, State of Georgia. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit 1, # 2 Exhibit 2, # 3 Exhibit 3, # 4 Plaintiff's Responses to Defendant's Statement of Undisputed Material Facts, # 5 Plaintiff's Supplemental Statement of Additional Undisputed Material Facts in Support of Its Response to Defendant's Motion for Summary Judgment)(Pavento, Lisa) (Entered: 06/10/2016)
06/21/2016 35 APPLICATION for Admission of Lawrence Arthur Schemmel Pro Hac Vice by State of Mississippi Joint Legislative Committee,. (Hirsch, Michelle) (Entered: 06/21/2016)
06/24/2016 36 Consent MOTION for Extension of Time to File Replies by Public.Resource.Org, Inc., Public.Resource.Org, Inc., Public.Resource.Org, Inc.. (Parker, Sarah) (Entered: 06/24/2016)
06/27/2016 Submission of 36 Consent MOTION for Extension of Time to File Replies , submitted to District Judge Richard W. Story. (hfm) (Entered: 06/27/2016)
06/27/2016 37 ORDER granting 28 Motion for Leave to File Amicus Curiae Brief in Support of Plaintiff. Signed by Judge Richard W. Story on 6/27/16. (hfm) (Entered: 06/27/2016)
06/27/2016 38 Amicus Curiae Brief by Matthew Bender & Company, Inc. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit 1, # 2 Exhibit 2)(hfm) (Entered: 06/27/2016)
06/27/2016 39 ORDER granting 36 Motion for Extension of Time, through and including July 5, 2016, to file replies to the pending Motions for Summary Judgement. Signed by Judge Richard W. Story on 6/27/16. (hfm) (Entered: 06/27/2016)
07/05/2016 40 REPLY to Response to Motion re 30 MOTION for Partial Summary Judgment filed by Code Revision Commission, State of Georgia. (Pavento, Lisa) (Entered: 07/05/2016)
07/05/2016 41 REPLY to Response to Motion re 29 MOTION for Summary Judgment filed by Public.Resource.Org, Inc., Public.Resource.Org, Inc., Public.Resource.Org, Inc.. (Attachments: # 1 Statement of Material Facts Response to Plaintiff's Supplemental Statement of Undisputed Material Facts)(Parker, Sarah) (Entered: 07/05/2016)
07/06/2016 Submission of 29 MOTION for Summary Judgment and 30 MOTION for Partial Summary Judgment. Submitted to District Judge Richard W. Story. (bdb) (Entered: 07/06/2016)
03/10/2017 43 NOTICE Of Filing Supplemental Authority by Code Revision Commission, State of Georgia (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit A, # 2 Exhibit B)(Pavento, Lisa) (Entered: 03/10/2017)
03/23/2017 44 ORDER denying 29 Defendant's Motion for Summary Judgment and granting 30 Plaintiffs' Motion for Partial Summary Judgment. The parties are ORDERED to confer and to submit to the Court, within 14 days, a proposed briefing schedule to address the injunctive relief to which Plaintiffs are entitled as a result of the foregoing decision. Signed by Judge Richard W. Story on 3/23/2017. (bdb) (Entered: 03/23/2017)
04/06/2017 45 Joint MOTION for Order Entering Proposed Permanent Injunction by Code Revision Commission. (Attachments: # 1 Text of Proposed Order)(Askew, Anthony) (Entered: 04/06/2017)
04/07/2017 46 PERMANENT INJUNCTION ORDER granting 45 Joint Motion for Permanent Injunction Order. (See order for details) The Clerk shall close the case. Signed by Judge Richard W. Story on 4/7/2017. (bdb) Modified to add text on 4/7/2017 (bdb). (Entered: 04/07/2017)
04/07/2017 47 AO 121 re 46 Order and Register of Copyrights mailed to Register of Copyrights Office. (Attachments: # 1 Permanent Injunction Order) (bdb) (Entered: 04/07/2017)
04/07/2017 48 RESPONSE in Support re 45 Joint MOTION for Order Entering Proposed Permanent Injunction filed by Public.Resource.Org, Inc.. (Rader, Elizabeth) (Entered: 04/07/2017)
04/07/2017 49 NOTICE OF APPEAL as to 44 Order on Motion for Summary Judgment, Order on Motion for Partial Summary Judgment,, by Public.Resource.Org, Inc.. Filing fee $ 505, receipt number 113E-7076702. Transcript Order Form due on 4/21/2017 (Rader, Elizabeth) (Entered: 04/07/2017)
04/07/2017 50 NOTICE Of Filing Appeal Transmission Letter by Public.Resource.Org, Inc., re: 49 Notice of Appeal. (kac) (Entered: 04/07/2017)
04/07/2017 51 Transmission of Certified Copy of Notice of Appeal, Orders and Docket Sheet to US Court of Appeals re: 49 Notice of Appeal. (kac) (Entered: 04/07/2017)
04/07/2017 52 CLERK'S JUDGMENT ENTERED that this action be and the same hereby is dismissed. (bdb)--Please refer to http://www.ca11.uscourts.gov to obtain an appeals jurisdiction checklist-- (Entered: 04/07/2017)
04/14/2017 53 USCA Acknowledgment of 49 Notice of Appeal filed by Public.Resource.Org, Inc. Case Appealed to USCA - 11th Circuit. USCA Case Number 17-11589-HH. (kac) (Entered: 04/14/2017)
04/21/2017 54 TRANSCRIPT ORDER FORM re 49 Notice of Appeal,. (Rader, Elizabeth) (Entered: 04/21/2017)
04/21/2017 55 MOTION for Attorney Fees with Brief In Support by Code Revision Commission, State of Georgia. (Attachments: # 1 Memorandum In Support, # 2 Statement of Additional Undisputed Material Facts)(Askew, Anthony) (Entered: 04/21/2017)
05/05/2017 56 RESPONSE in Opposition re 55 MOTION for Attorney Fees and Other Costs filed by Public.Resource.Org, Inc.. (Rader, Elizabeth) (Entered: 05/05/2017)
05/19/2017 57 REPLY to Response to Motion re 55 MOTION for Attorney Fees filed by Code Revision Commission, State of Georgia. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit A, # 2 Exhibit B)(Askew, Anthony) (Entered: 05/19/2017)
05/22/2017 58 Detailed Specification and Itemization of Requested Attorney Fees. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit 1, # 2 Exhibit 2, # 3 Exhibit 3, # 4 Exhibit 4, # 5 Exhibit 5, # 6 Exhibit 6, # 7 Exhibit 7, # 8 Exhibit 8, # 9 Exhibit 9)(Askew, Anthony) (Entered: 05/22/2017)
09/06/2017 59 ORDER denying 55 Motion for Attorney Fees. Signed by Judge Richard W. Story on 09/06/2017. (dgr) (Entered: 09/06/2017)
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How does Judge Sabraw’s injunction on family separation impact the Flores consent decree?
US District Judge Dana Sabraw just issued a court order prohibiting family separation of people crossing the border illegally and requiring reunification of those families. Here is what it says in part:
(1) Defendants, and their officers, agents, servants, employees, attorneys, and all those who are in active concert or participation with them, are preliminarily enjoined from detaining Class Members in DHS custody without and apart from their minor children, absent a determination that the parent is unfit or presents a danger to the child, unless the parent affirmatively, knowingly, and voluntarily declines to be reunited with the child in DHS custody.
(2) If Defendants choose to release Class Members from DHS custody, Defendants, and their officers, agents, servants, employees and attorneys, and all those who are in active concert or participation with them, are preliminary enjoined from continuing to detain the minor children of the Class Members and must release the minor child to the custody of the Class Member, unless there is a determination that the parent is unfit or presents a danger to the child, or the parent affirmatively, knowingly, and voluntarily declines to be reunited with the child.
So if people are held in DHS custody, they have to be kept together with their kids, and if they’re released from DHS custody, they have to be released together with their kids.
But my question is, how does this impact the Flores settlement? For those who don’t know, in 1997 the U.S. Department of Justice agreed to a settlement in a case called Flores vs. Reno, which prohibits children who have crossed the border from being held in federal detention facilities for longer than 20 days.
So under this new court order, what happens after 20 days? Does DHS have to release both parent and child together after 20 days? Or does this court order allow DHS to detain both parent and child longer than 20 days, thereby overriding the Flores settlement?
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Shouldn't this be on Law.SE? – DVK Jun 27 '18 at 12:51
This question is timely and significant, please consider reposting on Law – BobE Jun 27 '18 at 15:33
The effect of the Ms. L injunction on the Flores Agreement is unclear and will likely result in the Central District weighing in on how the Agreement should be interpreted. Right now, it's a matter of active back-and-forth between the Government and the Central District of California.
On June 29, 2018 the Government submitted a filing with the Central District to (a) request an amendment to the Flores Agreement in light of the Ms. L injunction, and (b) to let the Central District know how it planned to interpret the Agreement in the absence of an amendment.
In particular, its interpretation of the Agreement is as follows:
To comply with the Ms. L injunction barring parents in DHS custody from being separated from their children, the Government will not separate families but detain families together during the pendency of immigration proceedings when they are apprehended at or between ports of entry.
This seems to indicate that the Government's interpretation of the Agreement post–Ms. L is that it may detain families together during proceedings, even if the detention exceeds 20 days.
As to the way forward, if the Central District disagrees, the matter may go to the Ninth Circuit for resolution.
UPDATE: The Central District disagreed with the administration's interpretation of the Flores Agreement, upheld the 20-day limit on child detention, and recommended reinstating prosecutorial discretion. The administration now appears to be in the position of having to either separate or release families at the 20-day mark.
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Michele L. Babcock is the Managing Partner of the firm. Michele joined Jacobowitz and Gubits, LLP in 2003, and became a Partner in 2011. Michele has represented local governments, municipal officials and private applicants in zoning, land use and environmental permitting and in litigation.
Ms. Babcock was admitted to the New York State Bar in March 2004, and is a member of the New York State Bar Association and the Women’s Bar of Orange and Sullivan Counties. Ms. Babcock received a Bachelors of Arts in Political Science and a concentration in Law and Justice from the State University of New York...
John Christopher Cappello
Walden, NY Municipal Law Attorney with 33 years experience
Municipal and Environmental
Mr. Cappello is a partner with the firm and his primary areas of practice have been land use and municipal law since 1988. Mr. Cappello has represented private developers in multi-phase and large-scale commercial, residential, educational and mixed-use land use applications. He has also served as attorney for planning boards and zoning boards of appeals throughout Orange and Ulster counties. John is the lead partner in Jacobowitz and Gubits’ “Green Team,” which focuses on advising a wide array of clients (municipalities, developers, manufacturers and businesses both small and large) on the opportunities available in this emerging field of law. Mr....
Gerald Norman Jacobowitz
(914) 778-2121 Walden, NY 12586
Municipal, Business, Environmental and Real Estate
Mr. Jacobowitz is the founder and a senior partner of Jacobowitz and Gubits, LLP. He practices Environmental/Land Use, Real Estate, Municipal and Business Law. He has been village and town attorney for municipalities throughout the Hudson Valley. On behalf of private clients, he has helped bring to fruition numerous successful projects, including Rural Ridge subdivision, Harriman Business Park, Wind Ridge Village, Harriman Hills, Thruway Shopping Center, Walden View Apartments, and Millpond Condominium.
Mr. Jacobowitz has been a leader in the organized bar as a member of the New York State Bar Association, Municipal Law Section (member of the Executive Committee...
James Thompson Towne
Cobleskill, NY Municipal Law Attorney with 44 years experience
(518) 296-8866 2668 State Route 7
Municipal, Arbitration & Mediation, Business and Real Estate
James T. Towne, Jr. has been representing businesses, municipalities and related entities for many years, addressing and handling matters ranging from general litigation, harassment claims, employment issues, zoning, planning and tax certiorari matters. Moreover, with Mr. Towne’s highly developed understanding of ethics as it impacts business and government, his services to an organization is invaluable. Mr. Towne also provides assistance with ethics issues and technology issues as they relate to the law and other “hot button” topics which may arise.
William Preston Fletcher
Penn Yan, NY Municipal Law Attorney with 37 years experience
Municipal, Estate Planning, Probate and Real Estate
Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington
Bill has been in private practice for more than 30 years during which he has mastered numerous areas of practice, from pure real property, title, title insurance, real estate finance, associations, corporate, banking, estate planning and administration, landlord tenant, and more. Bill has served as Town Attorney, and since 1998 as Town Justice of his town of residence. He is a long time Rotarian and twice president of his Club. He is the proud father of three children, now all grown and productive members of society. Bill and his wife and best friend Mary of 38 years are both working...
Robert S. Temple
East Syracuse, NY Municipal Law Lawyer with 32 years experience
(315) 437-2684 211 N Center St
Municipal, Bankruptcy, Business and Real Estate
Douglas Hector Zamelis
Cooperstown, NY Municipal Law Attorney with 30 years experience
(315) 858-6002 7629A State Highway 80
The Law Office of Douglas H. Zamelis is dedicated to assisting clients achieve their objectives by providing accurate, responsive, thorough and sensitive legal services. Doug Zamelis has over 25 years of experience counseling and representing corporate, governmental, and individual clients in compliance and litigation matters involving open government and our shared environment. In addition to his Juris Doctor from the Syracuse University College of Law (1989), Doug holds a B.S from Cornell University (1986) and M.S. from the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (1989). Doug brings his extensive scientific knowledge and understanding...
Shawn Michael Corey
Bath, NY Municipal Law Lawyer with 17 years experience
(607) 664-2355 Steuben County Office Building
3 East Pulteney Square
Bath, NY 14810
Municipal and Administrative
Poughkeepsie, NY Municipal Law Lawyer with 25 years experience
Municipal, Education, Employment and Real Estate
Andrew B Howard
Hudson, NY Municipal Law Attorney with 25 years experience
(518) 828-2021 441 East Allen Street
Free ConsultationMunicipal, Business, Insurance Claims and Landlord Tenant
Joseph Michael Saffioti
Newburgh, NY Municipal Law Lawyer with 35 years experience
(845) 562-3500 5031 Rte 9W
Municipal, Business and Real Estate
Buffalo Law School
Syracuse, NY Municipal Law Lawyer
Municipal, Appeals, Business and Construction
Charles Thomas Bazydlo
THOMPSON RIDGE, NY Municipal Law Lawyer with 24 years experience
(845) 361-3668 5 Howard Seely Road
THOMPSON RIDGE, NY 10985
Charles T. Bazydlo has since 1995 concentrated his legal practice in the areas of environmental law, land use / land development and municipal law. His work has included the representation of both large and small industrial, commercial and residential clients in front of various local, State and Federal regulatory permitting agencies. Mr. Bazydlo has represented several municipal public agencies and school districts including serving as the Attorney to Town Boards and Attorney to the Zoning Board of Appeals for the communities in Orange County, New York. In addition he advised as Special Counsel for development...
Robert Baldwin
Syracuse, NY Municipal Law Attorney with 38 years experience
(315) 477-0100 126 North Salina Street, Suite 320
Municipal, Estate Planning, Probate and Tax
Melville, NY Municipal Law Attorney with 19 years experience
Free ConsultationMunicipal, Civil Rights, Employment and Real Estate
Jeffrey P Laner
New York, NY Municipal Law Attorney with 17 years experience
(646) 543-3518 30 Wall Street, 8th Floor
Municipal, Administrative, Business and Construction
I’m more than a lawyer. I’m a person.
Well, at least colleagues and clients always have told me I talk less like "other" attorneys and more like a "regular" person that they actually can understand. Although that could just be my native Queens accent showing through. But, don’t let that fool you. I have attended some of the best schools in the country and worked for a decade in sophisticated billion dollar public-private institutions.
After tiring of a life in bureaucracy, in 2015, I began my own firm to bring this high level knowledge to the small business and...
Dustin Bowman
New York, NY Municipal Law Lawyer with 22 years experience
(800) 696-9529 100 Park Ave
Free ConsultationMunicipal, Administrative, Landlord Tenant and Real Estate
With over 20 years of experience, Dustin Bowman is committed to providing skilled and knowledgeable legal representation. His practice areas include Landlord Tenant, Real Estate, Construction, Consumer, Municipal Law, Government & Administrative, Divorce, Family, and Personal Injury Law matters. Whether in or out of the courtroom, Mr. Bowman is dedicated to both outstanding service and zealous advocacy. He has built a strong reputation as an effective and efficient attorney for New Yorkers with legal needs.
Mr. Bowman received his B.A. from the University of New Hampshire in 1995. He earned his J.D. from the Hamline University School of Law in 1998....
Jennifer Lynne Alexander
Municipal, Estate Planning, Landlord Tenant and Real Estate
Jennifer L. Alexander is a Partner of the firm who concentrates a majority of her practice on matters involving New Jersey Landlord-Tenant Law, Community Association Law, and Collections Law. She also handles Real Estate Transactions, Mediation, Land Use, and Municipal Court matters. She begins most days appearing in Landlord-Tenant Court or appearing on behalf of community associations in litigation matters and ends most of her days representing communities in board meetings. Ms. Alexander oversees the firm’s Landlord-Tenant Department. Under Ms. Alexander’s leadership, the firm represents local and national corporate and individual landlords. Representation includes non-payment cases, "for-cause” cases, lease...
Steve V. Fils-Aime
New York, NY Municipal Law Lawyer with 7 years experience
Free ConsultationMunicipal and Personal Injury
Steve V. Fils-Aime is an associate at Sullivan Papain Block McGrath & Cannavo P.C. and specializes in cases involving motor vehicle accidents, premises liability, and municipal liability.
Christie Tomm Addona
Tarrytown, NY Municipal Law Attorney with 8 years experience
Free ConsultationMunicipal, Appeals, Environmental and Real Estate
Christie Tomm Addona is a Partner at Silverberg Zalantis LLC. She has extensive experience working on Litigation and Appeals, Land Use Applications, and Municipal matters. She represents clients on Article 78 Proceedings, defending and challenging administrative decisions. Additionally, Christie also counsels on Employment Law and Commercial Litigation issues.
Christie has prior experience in several Civil Litigation firms. She has worked from the beginning of lawsuits through trials and appeals for Insurance Defense, Tort, Maritime, Contract and Employment Law cases. Christie has represented a vast array of clients including individuals, large corporations, and non-profit corporations.
In 2005, Christie received...
Gonzalo G. Suarez
New York, NY Municipal Law Attorney with 8 years experience
Free ConsultationMunicipal, Medical Malpractice and Personal Injury
Gonzalo Suarez is an associate Sullivan Papain Block McGrath & Cannavo P.C. in Garden City. He specializes in personal injury matters relating to medical malpractice, car accidents, and general negligence. Contact his office today to set up a consultation.
Tarrytown, NY Municipal Law Lawyer with 24 years experience
Free ConsultationMunicipal, Appeals, Business and Real Estate
Jessica P. Denninger
Hofstra University School Of Law
Jessica P. Denninger is an associate lawyer at Sullivan Papain Block McGrath & Cannavo P.C. She handles claims for law enforcement members who sustained injuries and sickness after the 9/11 attacks. If you were harmed as a firefighter, police officer, or other medical personnel, please contact her office today.
Craig Rosenbaum
New Yrork, NY Municipal Law Lawyer with 23 years experience
(212) 514-5007 100 Wall Street
New Yrork, NY 10005
Free ConsultationMunicipal, Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury and Products Liability
Craig Rosenbaum of Rosenbaum & Rosenbaum, P.C., represents clients throughout the New York City (NYC) area, including Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island, as well as Westchester, Rockland, Orange, Nassau and Suffolk Counties, who have been injured in an accident or whose loved ones suffered an injury or death as a result of negligence or medical malpractice.
Carmen T. Rodriguez
Carmen T. Rodriguez is an associate at Sullivan Papain Block McGrath & Cannavo P.C. who specializes in complex litigation, mass torts, and 9/11 related injuries.
Wendell Yuki Tong
Wendell Y. Tong has been Counsel to Sullivan Papain Block McGrath & Cannavo P.C. since 2014. She specializes in mass tort litigation and 9/11 related injuries and sickness.
Brian Shoot
Free ConsultationMunicipal, Construction and Personal Injury
Brian Shoot is a member of Sullivan Papain Block McGrath & Cannavo P.C. and is an appellate specialist who has argued over 250 cases in appellate courts throughout New York. He was named Lawyer of the Year in 2014 by Best Lawyers in America for the New York City area. Contact him today for a consultation on appellate issues.
Jack Richard Lebowitz
Glens Falls, NY Municipal Law Lawyer with 43 years experience
(518) 282-4472 175 Broad St., Ste. 414
Glens Falls, NY 12804-0244
Free ConsultationMunicipal, Business, Criminal Defense and Family
I am a graduate of Wesleyan University and the Boston University School of Law. During my career as an attorney, prior to my current solo practive, I have worked as a government regulatory trial attorney for the State Public Service Commission, an in house counsel for a Fortune 100 corporation, and as a partner or counsel for a several Albany and Syracuse based medium sized law firms. I am committed to helping people and small businesses with their legal problems at a reasonable, fixed "no surprises" rate not based on the common "hourly billing" model. I am...
Ina Pecani
Ina Pecani is an associate attorney at Sullivan Papain Block McGrath & Cannavo P.C. Serving clients in New York City, she specializes in mass tort litigation and September 11th related injuries. Please contact her today and schedule a consultation to discuss your legal options.
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Free ConsultationMunicipal, Energy, Environmental and Real Estate
Vermont Law School and Vermont Law School
Ken concentrates his practice in the area of environmental, land use, energy and agricultural law. He represents clients in litigation involving regulatory violations, property damage, toxic torts and contaminated property. He also assists clients in navigating a number of federal, state and local environmental and land use regulations, including the CERCLA, RCRA, Clean Water Act (CWA), Clean Air Act (CAA), NEPA, SEQR programs as well as brownfield redevelopment, local zoning and agricultural issues involving the USDA's NRCS and FSA. Ken also represents municipal, private and public interest group clients in the administrative process for siting large power...
Thomas J. McManus
Free ConsultationMunicipal, Family and Personal Injury
Thomas J. McManus is as managing partner at Sullivan Papain Block McGrath & Cannavo P.C. He specializes in cases relating to municipal law, premises liability, and firefighting related injuries.
Steven M. Silverberg
Tarrytown, NY Municipal Law Attorney
Steven M. Silverberg is a founder of the firm and Of Counsel to Silverberg Zalantis LLC. He has extensive experience in representing developers and municipalities in land use, zoning and environmental law matters including litigation and appeals in the New York State and Federal Courts. Starting his career as an assistant district attorney and then working as a town attorney, providing counsel in such diverse areas as contracts, construction, telecommunications and employment law, prepared him for the services he has provided to businesses, municipalities and individuals. In addition to his experience with the approval process for residential and commercial developments...
Frederick Turner
White Plains, NY Municipal Law Attorney with 39 years experience
(914) 885-9300 305 Old Tarrytown Road
Municipal, Administrative, Appeals and Real Estate
Turner and Turner was established in 1996 and has provided high-quality legal representation to clients in the business, real estate, environmental and municipal community ever since. Turner & Turner is dedicated to staying at the leading edge of emerging issues and trends providing our clients unparalleled scholarship. Our record of achievement speaks for itself.
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(800) 734-5694 99 Court St
Free ConsultationMunicipal, Personal Injury and Products Liability
Pace Law School and University of Michigan Law School
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Why is Water Scarcity Such a Problem in El Salvador?
Written by Streisand Neto
In this day and age, we often assume that water should be globally accessible. Unfortunately, this is not always the case. I was concerned to learn that El Salvador is currently facing significant water scarcity, which is defined as a lack of sufficient water or difficulty in accessing it.
First of all, it is important to understand the events of summer 2018. Three countries – El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala – endured a dry summer with minimal rainfall. According to Global Information and Early Warning System (GIEWS), these areas were located within a “dry corridor”, where crops and maize were highly affected. Farmers, who were dependent on precipitation, endured a difficult spell. The report’s authors also noted that the prolonged effects of being in an area prone to drought would result in “tight supplies and worsening food security.”
However, it is not solely limited rainfall, which has triggered El Salvador’s water crisis. In addition, political instability and external groups have affected access to water in rural areas.
Privatisation of El Salvador’s water supply
The Guardian, ‘Campaigners fear creeping privatisation of El Salvador’s water’
The sign above reads: “Water is not a business”.
The conservative government, National Republican Alliance, is proposing to introduce a water law. This would create a governing body to regulate water, approve permits for water use and establish taxes and tariffs. It also allows private sector businesses to operate in different communities. For example, Coca-Cola and other similar companies conduct drilling in water-rich Nejapa, El Salvador.
In a video by AJ+ entitled ‘How is El Salvador creating Climate Refugees?’, the narrator highlights the government’s proposal to include “members of the business sector on the governing body.” If the proposal is implemented, there are concerns that it would legalise the exploitation and extraction of water resources. This could increase water contamination, which would affect local communities.
Anna-Catherine Brigida of The Guardian highlighted water activists’ opposition to further monopoly of water due to fears concerning of widespread water shortages and extortionate prices.
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Countries such as Madagascar have faced similar water shortages. WaterAid’s recent report, ‘Caught short‘, revealed cases of under-nutrition due to water contamination. In an Al Jazeera video entitled ‘What can be done to stop global water scarcity?’, Robert Rubinstein, chairman of TBLI Group, urged governments to take stronger action on this issue.
A new World Bank report found that climate change could aggravate water scarcity, which could cost some regions up to 6% of their GDP, spur migration, and spark conflict. However, its authors noted that most countries could neutralise the adverse impacts of water scarcity by taking action to allocate and use water resources more efficiently.
Potential solutions
Resolving water scarcity will be a long process in El Salvador. I believe that Cape Town could offer inspiration. The city tackled its own water scarcity issues by restricting water usage to 50 litres per person per day, limiting toilet flushing and nighttime irrigation. These measures helped reduce Cape Town’s water use dropped from 600m litres per day in mid 2017 to 507m litres per day at the end of April. What’s more, Laos and Cambodia successfully installed new infrastructure, which has increased rural communities’ access to water.
Streisand Neto is currently studying for an MSc in International Politics at LIDC core member institution, SOAS University of London.
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Published 9:05 am Tuesday, December 10, 2019
Students at University of the Cumberlands now have an early enrollment opportunity into law school through a partnership with Northern Kentucky University’s Salmon P. Chase College of Law.
The Chase 3+3 Accelerated Law Program combines a final year of undergraduate study with a first year of law school. Students in the program may complete an undergraduate degree and a law degree in six years – three years of undergraduate work plus three years of law school, hence the program’s name – instead of the traditional seven years. Besides enabling students to become lawyers one year sooner, the program also eliminates a whole year of tuition costs.
“Cumberlands allows us to reach highly motivated students in southern Kentucky who are considering becoming an attorney,” said Judith Daar, Dean of Chase College of Law. “Our program enables them to streamline the time of completing their undergraduate and law school programs. It also eases the financial challenge for top talent to enter the legal profession by saving a year of tuition.”
The number of positions available for lawyers is expected to increase by more than 50,000 between now and 2028, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Lawrence Rosenthal, Associate Dean of Academics at Chase Law, says this partnership with Cumberlands will allow students a “seamless transition” to graduate school which will “accelerate their career goals with the outstanding classroom instruction and exceptional experiential-learning programs” offered at Chase.
Dr. Christopher Leskiw, Vice President of Academic Affairs at Cumberlands, looks forward to the opportunities this accelerated program provides students.
“We are excited to see students expedite their learning and expand their career aspirations through this partnership with Chase Law,” said Leskiw. “It is imperative for institutions of higher education to provide top students opportunities to challenge themselves without the fear of financial pushback. Programs like the Chase 3+3 Accelerated Law Program are influential in preparing our students for lives of responsible service and leadership upon graduation.”
Cumberlands students who wish to apply to the Chase 3+3 Accelerated Law Program must be in good academic standing and have completed enough credit hours to meet senior status. Students who are accepted into the program will receive their bachelor’s degree from University of the Cumberlands after successfully completing their first year at Chase.
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doublegenealogytheadoptionwitness Before Memories, Disaster, genealogy, Historical, Uncategorized March 16, 2019 June 20, 2019 13 Minutes
One character often dominates a family history. To preserve the worthy tales of all, we stripped out the colorful aspects of such a member to present the family of Alette Hemmingson. That is, we give you what the standard documents tell, and withhold a broader narrative. A separate post will follow soon, to disclose the sibling, whose contribution will only be better understood, because of this greater context.
We have been acquainted with Ole Hemmingson and his family with Berith Hass Mathisdatter.1,2 One of their six children was a much loved subject in our “Memories” section. He was our grandfather, the Matt Hemmingsen (1876-1967) of the woods of British Columbia.
This is about Granddad’s half-siblings; Ole’s children with Alette Ingebrigt. She arrived from Norway, June of 1888.2 It is not known if she came expressly to housekeep for Ole, but keep his house, she did, bringing along her baby boy, Torger.
We will assume she was soon at Ole’s homestead in northern Wisconsin; Mason, Bayfield County, to be exact. She was probably delighted, if not a tad apprehensive, to find that one of her charges would be his infant, George, a “twin” for Torger, since both had been born in 1887. 2,3A
Alette would be hopeful of help from Henriette who, at thirteen, was keeping her bereaved family together. Perhaps there was more than a little adjusting to do, for Alette was not her mother. Nor was she mother to Matt, who was closing in on twelve. Now, had we read “Dear Granddad; If only November had been August” and its sequel, we would understand what else Alette had stepped into. Then, we would know that many “Maria” moments awaited her, as she approached her governess duties. Would her first ally be either of them, or would it be the younger Harry or Marie. Perhaps, six-year-old Ed?
The homestead! Now, Matt did not go to that one-room schoolhouse we saw last time. No. He was out on the farm doing his chores, which Matt’s son told us, included clearing the land, cleaning horse stables and cow barns, bringing in cows for milking, then churning and separating milk.1 Just as he saw his father do in Norway. He was itching to turn those chores over to the younger boys.
The next thing we know, is that Ole married Alette in April of 1892, just in time for Henry, who was expected in June. 3C,3E Those events probably went smoothly, after all, the “twins” were now around five.
So, Matt was out in their field determining that he did not have the heart of a farmer. Henriette did, but she was inside cajoling Harry, Marie and Ed to ready themselves for school. We know all this because Ole was off surveying and constructing roads for the County.1 Did the requisite big breakfast fall to Alette, who was struggling with baby Henry and the twin plotters? There is nothing like a lively homestead. We guess.
That tranquility was not for long because Alette would soon enjoy the harbingers of Arthur who came onto the scene in 1894.3D,3F We shall see that the dear child may have brought some special challenge.3D
Harry did not last long in that schoolroom, nor Matt in the field. Of that we are certain, because Matt had Harry out logging in this timeframe, whereby Harry was lost in a terrible accident.1 It would take until 1895 for relief to arrive in the form of a new blessing; Clarence.3D
To interject for just a moment, that one-room school we showed you was ten years too modern to fit our needs. Plus, situated a few miles away. This derelict from 1872, should its plaque be true, is right from Mason and a dozen years too old. The pictures are not tidy, because they come from this Ranch Park video, curtesy of Flashing Star Productions, who created its content. Careful, now, it is quite creepy. We wonder if Ole commissioned one of those statues.
The museum site is not monitored and some articles within the room seem out of period.
We do not know if any of ours sat upon those seats.
Henriette was an adult when Clarence was born, as was Matt, who was off working in the woods. So was Ed.3A She may otherwise, have been a wonderful help to Alette as Mildred’s birth approached, in 1897, except, she was more likely to have been absorbed in the care of Marie, who was in dreadful decline with tuberculosis.1 Plus, the farming duties.
Marie succumbed in the late 1890s, as Alette prepared for baby Ole.1 We know that Henriette soon married, and took George with her.3A Alette’s little Grace was born in 1901, coincidental to young George’s demise. Paul was 1903’s newborn.
With the advent of Paul, Ole Mathias Hemmingson (1851-1903) had offered the world fourteen children, including Torger. We have already presented Berith’s Henriette, Matt, Harry, Marie and Ed.
ALETTE AND HER ADULT CHILDREN
We begin their further chronicle by telling that Alette was most fondly spoken of, at Granddad’s table in British Columbia. She was an amazing step-mother, too.
Death is always at the end of a genealogical account. Its cause, even for ordinary persons, is detailed and those that are interesting get a good deal of ink. Too often, births and marriages are simple statements of fact, unembroidered of attendant festivity that had certainly happened. The result can be an unfairly glum story.
Can we not imagine their kitchen sawdust hopper and wonderful farm sink? Preserves? Cold winter drafts interrupted by crackling home-split log-fire heat? Do we not know the aroma of farm fruit and veggies and a long simmering stew? Baked pies cooling on ample window sills? Sleeping on linens unpegged from a line strung in rural air? OK, so the kids did the pegging. Chores done, dogs in untethered glory, wagging their happy tails while keeping a good sniffing distance from their romping charges? Ah, frolicking has all but been forgotten; we get high now, otherwise. More sophisticated, you know.
They had homestead and the childhood pleasures that go with it. Yes, the youngest were robbed of their own loft, except that it was still for the taking at uncles, aunts and cousins. Their backyard was the gorgeous and invigorating environment of Lake Superior.
We will not leave the impression that this family had but a sad hard life. Rather, they had the best lessons that come from a family pulling together, more so than from the school house. A fierce closeness tied both Ole’s families; a liberating one, that said family can be involved, with members independent at the same time. They learned the freedom of children growing up in a large family, the right to engage in hazard to learn, an autonomy that today’s sheltered ones and twosomes just cannot fathom.
Torger, Henry, Arthur, Mildred, Clarence, Ole, Grace and Paul was her children’s birth order. Except for Alette, their story will mostly be told in order of demise, for that is the arc of it all.
Ole acquired the farm in the early 1880s under the Homestead Act of 1862.1 It was mortgage free. Taken two years after his death, the Wisconsin State Census showed it under mortgage. Shades of hardship to come. Grace was captured in this, her only census.
Grace Hemmingson (1901-1905) We have not discovered what ailed little Grace. Alette had barely recovered from Ole’s passing, when Grace became the first of her children to go. She rests in Mason Cemetery with her mother and siblings: Torger, Earl (Ole), Arthur and Henry.3F
She speaks to us of the grace of her mother, for her father is not with her.
Berith left Ole first, followed by Harry, Marie and George. Then, Ole himself. We suspect that Alette’s kind heart allowed Ole to lay with them, for they are yet to be discovered.
By 1910, Alette and her seven surviving children were in a rented home in Mason.3A It was the last full family enumeration because the aging children were moving on.
Torger Ingvald Hemmingson (1887-1911) was born to Allette Emilie Bergith Ingebrigtdtr. and Arne Tollefson.2 They had left Hatfjelldal, Nordland, just like Ole and Berith. It is not known why his biological father was absent from their emigration.
Torger, particularly, must have been devastated at the loss of his “twin”, George, just as their teenage years were upon them.
Torger pulled his weight as a farm laborer in his newly fatherless home, so told by the State Census of 1905.3B Five years later, at 23, he was still at home and working, but now at odd jobs. Although employed, he had been out of work for 10 weeks during the prior year. We do not know what took him, but those knowns are consistent with slow decline.
Recall that Marie had passed of tuberculosis around 1898.1 High incidence of the disease in the tri-county area of Bayfield, Ashland and Iron had been under review since the 1890s. The Pureair Sanatorium was opened as a result, but not until 1920.4
We grappled with the seemingly odd order of immigration for half-siblings Henriette and Matt with regard to the demise of their mother. It is possible that she did not go at childbirth. Rather, she may have had TB, with it exacerbated by childbirth, for a more uncertain timeline of death. Experience has taught us that where one TB death occurs in a family there are likely others. It is quite possible that one, or more, of Berith, Grace and Torger died, consequent to the disease. It is just a hunch though.
CENSUS 1920 and LOCAL GEOGRAPHY
Alette remained in Bayfield County until at least 1920. Paul was approaching seventeen. She had raised them all in the Mason area.
That census lists her as married to Christ Iverson, with Ole and Paul, step-sons.3A Young Ole’s draft registration detailed his next of kin as Mrs. Alette Iverson.3D Otherwise, no document has been found to support an Iverson marriage. Alette Hemmingson was a widow in Elkhart IN at the 1930 take. Arthur was with her.
DRAFT CARDS AND LIMIT OF THIS REPORT
That “everything changed” was sorely amplified by World War I. On the puny genealogical front, we now had draft cards. They helped to know our people better for the period leading up to 1920, which were their years of deciding adult direction. WW II Draft gave us one more glimpse beyond the last publically available census of 1940. By then, Alette’s children were well into adulthood, and that is where this report, for the most part, will end.
Alette’s older boys had left Wisconsin; Ole and Paul would soon follow, but always in a stay-close mode. Their lives would play out in the Great Lakes areas of Bayfield WI, Duluth and Grand Marais MN, Chicago IL, Elkhart IN and Detroit MI. Oh, and on the lakes themselves.
Not everyone reading this is familiar with these areas of interest. Mason, Bayfield County, WI is about 70 miles southeast of Duluth MN, which is on Lake Superior. Chicago is about 500 miles south, on Lake Michigan. Elkhart IN is a little east of Chicago. Detroit is eastern yet, on the Detroit River, one of those that connects the Great Lakes. Grand Marais is north of Duluth; a straight line boat-ride into the Bayfield area. In other words, all were assessable, one to the other.
We said we would deal with Alette’s children in the order of demise. Mildred will be the outlier because she stayed put and, anyway, ladies first. Sisters were cherished in our Grandfather’s home; it was learned somewhere, dear Alette.
GENEALOGY TAPES
Mildred Dybedal (Hemmingson) (1897-1987) was the only child of Ole to remain right in the Bayfield area. She best preserved the lifestyle of their youth. Her homestead, likely of Dybedal origin, had to be the family go-to. That is inferred because the wanderers, Arthur, Earl, Henry with wife, Mary and Alette herself, came home to Mason Cemetery. Besides, Mildred had the only large brood of Alette’s grand wee ones.
Mildred married Edward Dybedal, a farmer, 3C Although they wed in Hennepin MN in 1916, they resided in Bayfield County by 1920, along with his mother, Karen. Edward was likely a close relative of Matt’s first wife, Caroline Dybedal. That marriage was discussed in our last post.
Mildred made it to 90. Our family contacted Alette’s descendants in the mid-1960s to gather their input on our shared Norwegian background. If memory serves right, the call went to Wisconsin and Mildred comes to mind. A tape was made. It was wonderfully interesting and delivered mostly in female voice. We must have thought it indestructible, so not put to paper. Decades passed. It rendered itself to dust. One great big genealogical drat!
SINKING OF THE SS HENRY STEINBRENNER
Ole Marion Hemmingson 1900-1953 incurred a name change to Earl Marion Hemmingson sometime after 1920. He lays in Mason Cemetery as Earl M Hemmingson. In the first strong clue to the fact, Earl was found in the 1930 Census as brother to Paul, who was resident of Chicago. He was a single 30-year-old mate on a Lake Steamer. The family was scribed as Hemingson for this take.
Marion: Ole and Clarence bear the middle name of Marion. Ole’s WW I Draft Registration showed his father as Ole Marion Hemmingson.3D His father was born in Norway as Ole Mathias Hemmingsen.2
That draft registration found him working in the Bayfield area for E I DuPont. Henry and Arthur were co-workers. It was 1917-1918; all lived in Washburn, a few miles from Mason, and soon would disperse.
Earl’s 1940 census listed him as married, but, as he was boarding with shipmates, there was no wife alongside to verify. On the contrary, he gave Henry Hemmingson as next of kin at his 1942 Draft call.3E Of course, there could have been a marriage in between, just, not found.
That card put him at 160 pounds and 5’7”. He was of light complexion with black hair and gray eyes. He can be imagined so, at the helm of a freighter used by the Cleveland Cliffs Iron Co. The SS Henry Steinbrenner sank on Lake Superior in 1953. Earl was a wheelsman and casualty of the event.
NO DISABILITY HERE
Arthur Oliver Hemmingson (1894-1962) sounds like one of the “I think I can” types. Between his two draft registrations we know that he was gray eyed with light brown hair, standing 5’2’ at 115 pounds.3D,3E Arthur had a spinal condition that resulted in hunchback. E I DuPont employed him as a clerk as WW I approached.3D
Arthur may have been the only sibling to receive a 12th Grade education. He was a glassblower, in Elkhart IN in 1930 and living with Alette. He kept that trade through the decade, when in 1940, living next to Henry, in Duluth, he was glassblowing for wholesale. Arthur remained single and was usually surrounded by a family member. Perhaps he needed assistance. He was last documented with Paul, in 1942.
Dad was John Oliver Hemmingsen. We would be pleased if Arthur had something to do with that.
Henry Imbert/Insbert Hemmingson (1892-1970) appears to have enjoyed the most stability of the siblings growing up. He had his father and mother for a full eleven years, then his mother, ongoing. He mastered the electric welder trade upon an 8th grade education and owned his shop.3A Family lore indicates that Hemmingson Inc. in Duluth MN, was very successful.
Henry, and wife Mary, put roots down in Duluth around 1920. There they stayed, and his brothers all lived in his surrounds at various times.
No document has been found to support the notion that his wife, Mary, was Mary Wood of Bayfield County. However, his WW I Registration showed that he resided in Washburn WI in 1917; Census 1930 indicated that Mary’s parents were born in Canada, and the 1905 Wisconsin Census of Washburn WI, enumerated a Mary Wood whose parents, August and Sarah Wood, were born in Canada.
This is brought forward, for two non-surviving children were born of Henry Hemmingson and Mary Wood in Duluth MN; a boy in March 1927 and a girl in March 1936. Otherwise, the couple appeared to be childless.
Clarence Marion Hemmingsen (1895-1987) appears to have struggled with employment. He was first a laborer in a Bayfield sawmill in 1910.3A He was already in Detroit MI in 1917 working as a Marine Steam Fitter.3D His first Draft call found him tall, with blue eyes and light brown hair. It said he suffered pulmonary trouble.
In September 1919, the Marine Steam Fitter married Nettie Jackson, born David, in Macomb Michigan.3G However, his 1920 Census, taken in Detroit, showed his wife as Helen, who graced him with a teenaged step-daughter. That child dropped off the radar screen. Clarence emerged in 1930, unemployed in Chicago. He was in his early thirties, with wife, Nettie, who largely matched Helen’s profile.3A
The census expressed unemployment as raw data, not disclosing the reason for it. We are reminded that his cohort of those born around 1895 opened their adult eyes to greet WW I. They suffered through the Great Depression, as well as smaller ones, and, just as they were dusting themselves off, were confronted with WW II.
The next time we see Clarence, he had repaired to rural life in Grand Marais, MN.3A He was now with wife, Edna, whose profile did not match Helen or Nettie. The 1940 Census looked back to 1935, so, we know that this couple were in Grand Marais by mid-decade. It disclosed 78 months of unemployment on a stated occupation of Contractor, Plumbing and Heating., Edna was pulling some income as a cook.
Clarence was eight when Ole passed and still on the homestead at ten. Recall, he had farming relatives and neighbors all about. He probably had farming arts to apply in that rural setting, to pull them through. There may have been a step-daughter, but it appears that Clarence had no biological children with either wife. It is not known if his first wife died, or if the union was dissolved.
THE FOURTEENTH CHILD
Ole created his legacy over 29 years from Henriette to Paul. For Paul, Ole could be but whisper.
Paul Hemmingson (1903-1995) must have had a sense of humor and expressed it as a genealogical curiosity. That is, he “voted twice” in 1920. He was Paul Hemmingson, a common laborer, on January 6th, step-son to Christ Iverson in Bayfield, WI, and on the 15th, an unemployed brother to Henry Hemingson, in Duluth MN. A head-scratcher early in discovery, the same-person fact soon became evident.
Paul was just a boy of seven in 1910, at the last full count of his family. The double find for 1920 was actually a welcome bonus. We literally witnessed the young man leave home to step forth onto the world stage. His first stop was to Henry. He had but two years of high school, but must have gotten himself re-employed in short order.3A
Paul married Lucille G Lamb around 1926 at 23. They had their only child, a son in 1927.3H Paul had become a streetcar conductor in Chicago. Lucille was “foreman for candy”, whether at a store setting or in manufacturing. This according to Census 1930 when they shared their home with Earl.
The 1940 Census revealed he had stayed in Chicago, on Chicago Surface Lines. He had locked himself into necessary city employment that saw him through the depression. His family was living with his father-in-law, Alfred Lamb.
Alette Hemmingson (1862-1947) died in Duluth MN, ever vigilant over her close knit children. Six were still living. She had seen them through the loss of her husband, their father. She saw them through WW I, the Great Depression and WW II. She guided her step-children to adulthood too. Although they then moved away, we remember and say, thank-you, Alette.
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agilchrest says:
The lesson of the tape. It is time to send off those snippets of reel to reel tapes to have them digitized. There may be a glimpse there may be nothing but is worth it to at least try.
Actually, it was not more than dust, and discarded. A reel (haha) shame. Still, finding it, which happened about a decade ago, brought the fun memories back of the 1960s episode. So all was not lost. Agree, we should act on old home movies, and poloroids – anything that can degrade.
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Fitch Rates HNB Finance’s Subordinated Debt Final ‘BBB+(lka)’
Fitch Ratings-Colombo-10 December 2019:
Fitch Ratings has assigned HNB Finance Limited’s (HFL, A(lka)/Stable) proposed Sri Lanka rupee-denominated subordinated unsecured debentures a final National Long-Term Rating of ‘BBB+(lka)’.
The final rating is the same as the revised expected rating assigned on 28 November 2019 and follows the receipt of documents conforming to information already received.
The proposed debentures total LKR2 billion and have a maturity of five years with fixed coupons, paid annually and semi-annually. The company plans to use the proceeds to strengthen its Tier II capital base and support loan-book expansion. The proposed debentures are to be listed on the Colombo Stock Exchange.
KEY RATING DRIVERS
The proposed subordinated debentures are rated two notches below HFL’s National Long-Term Rating in line with Fitch’s Exposure Draft: Non-Bank Financial Institutions Rating Criteria and Exposure Draft: Bank Rating Criteria. The rating on the proposed debentures reflects Fitch’s expectation of poor recoveries arising from their subordinated status. Furthermore, we do not expect any regulatory action that would reduce losses on subordinated instruments.
HFL’s National Long-Term Rating was affirmed on 22 February 2019. The rating reflects Fitch’s expectation that support would be forthcoming from Hatton National Bank PLC (HNB, AA-(lka)/Stable), which owns 51% of HFL and is involved in HFL’s strategic direction through board representation and the common HNB brand. The two-notch rating differential between the two entities reflects HFL’s limited role in the group. HFL is engaged mainly in microfinance, which is not a major product for HNB. Furthermore, there is limited operational integration between the entities.
RATING SENSITIVITIES
The rating of the proposed notes will move in tandem with HFL’s National Long-Term Rating. The rating is also sensitive to divergence between the final Non-Bank Financial Institutions Rating Criteria and Bank Rating Criteria, when published, and the current exposure drafts.
HFL’s ratings are sensitive to changes in Fitch’s assessment of HNB’s ability and propensity to provide support.
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JIPMER MBBS 2018 Topper Interview - Ankadala Anirudh Babu was busy basking in the success of emerging as a top-ten ranker in the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) 2018 when he found out that he had emerged as the All India topper in JIPMER MBBS 2018. The unexpected declaration of the JIPMER MBBS 2018 results on June 8 turned out to be a pleasant surprise for the Andhra boy, who had been looking forward to getting a good rank but not expecting the top one.
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Careers360: Congratulations on topping JIPMER MBBS and NEET! What was your initial reaction to the result?
Anirudh: Thank you so much! In NEET I was expecting a top 10, rank but the JIPMER result, in particular, has made me very excited! With NEET being an offline exam, it was possible to calculate the score with the help of my institute’s answer key and my friends so I was pretty confident I would score 675-680 marks (Anirudh scored 680). But with JIPMER being an online exam, I had no clue what to expect. I was just expecting a good rank, definitely did not think I could emerge as the topper.
Careers360: How did your family react? How did you celebrate such an incredible result in two of India’s toughest medical entrances?
Anirudh: I told my family before the results came out that I will definitely obtain a top 10 or 20 rank in NEET and JIPMER. While they were pleased, they said they would prefer to wait till the results come out. I am very happy that the results came as I had expected. We did not celebrate much. I was just happy sharing the results with my friends and talking to them. I do not go out to watch movies or to shopping malls so everything has been the same and quite normal only.
Careers360: Are you expecting a similar result in AIIMS MBBS as well?
Anirudh: As I mentioned before, it is very difficult to predict for online exams. Plus the AIIMS MBBS paper was relatively difficult compared to JIPMER MBBS 2018 and NEET 2018 so I am only hoping for a rank below 100 for now.
Careers360: Tell us something about yourself and your background.
Anirudh: My father is a Government school teacher and my mother is a housewife. I have an elder sister who is pursuing her MSc in Chemistry.
I studied till Class 8 in St Ann's Convent School, an ICSE school in my native town Pathapatnam, located in Srikakulam district near the Andhra-Odisha border. I had developed a strong foundation in science subjects in Class 8 itself. Seeing this, my father’s friend said it would be good if I joined Sri Chaitanya Classes in Vizag for Class 9 and 10 as it would prepare me for Class 11 and 12. His son had also studied there and eventually ended up joining AIIMS, Bhubaneswar. So thanks to the motivation given by him, I joined the classes. I performed quite well in both Class 9 and 10. In addition to that, Iwon prizes in various Olympiads. This helped me secure admissions to Sri Chaitanya Classes in Vijayawada where I completed Classes 11 and 12.
Careers360: How did you prepare for the exams? How did you balance your Boards with these? What were your Board results like?
Anirudh: I had to appear for my Boards through Sri Chaitanya itself and I had absolutely no problem with the preparations. In fact, I only started preparing for the Board subjects one month before the exams. In the case of Andhra, the final State Board performance is done over two sessions - one conducted in Class 11 and the other in Class 12. In the Class 11 session, I secured 433 marks out of 440. In Class 12, the score is given for the total of two sessions and I scored 983 out of 1000 overall.
My entire focus and preparation were centred on the medical entrances. I studied for 15-16 hours a day, from 6 AM to 10 PM with short breaks in the middle. I just believed in studying hard with full dedication.
Careers360: And what did you do to relax?
Anirudh: Being in a residential hostel, I did not have a mobile phone nor many avenues for playing games or sports. I also did not indulge in music or reading for leisure. But I never felt like I needed to do any of these activities either. I was quite content relaxing with my friends, chatting and cracking jokes. Whenever I used to get extra time, I made sure I caught up on my sleep.
Careers360: Which are your favourite and most difficult subjects? Which according to you was the toughest and easiest section in JIPMER? And for NEET?
Anirudh: My favourite subject has always been Physics. Biology is not tough but that is the subject that I needed the most time to prepare for.
In JIPMER, Physics and Chemistry were very easy while Biology was only slightly tougher.
In the case of NEET, I felt Chemistry was the easiest section for me. Physics consumed a lot of time since it was a lengthy paper while Biology was easy.
Careers360: What were your section-wise percentiles in JIPMER and scores in NEET? How were the papers on the whole?
Anirudh: In JIPMER my section-wise percentilesare 99.9780381 in Biology, 99.9719375 in Chemistry, 99.9987799 in Physics, 96.3152757 in English Language and Comprehension and 99.0251342 in Logical and Quantitative Reasoning.
What happened in the case of JIPMER was that for a few questions the data was incomplete. However I still attempted all 200 questions. My friends from the same shift later confirmed that they too found the data for those questions to be incomplete. On the whole though, the paper was very easy. While a lot of other students could not complete the paper, I still had atleast 10 minutes left after completing mine which was quite surprising. JIPMER only gives subject-wise percentiles unfortunately so I don’t have any marks to share.
In NEET, I scored 345/360 in Biology, 165/180 in Physics, and 170/180 in Chemistry.
With regard to NEET, I attempted all the 180 questions. I found myself lagging behind in Physics because of the time it was taking in solving questions. Therefore, I completed the Biology section as fast as I could so I could spend more time on Physics. On the whole, the paper was easy but I just regret the fact that I made three mistakes in Physics, two of them very silly ones which cost me important marks.Apart from this, there were some ambiguous questions in Chemistry around halogens and polymers for which we thought the CBSE would award bonus marks. However, that did not happen.
Careers360: Tell us about your friends. How did they help you?
Anirudh: So my closest friends are also two NEET and JIPMER toppers who studied with me in Sri Chaitanya. V Ravi Kiran, who has secured AIR 36 in NEET and Rank 64 in JIPMER MBBS has been my best friend right from Class 9. My other friend was Harsha Vardhan Reddy, who secured AIR 14 in NEET and Rank 37 in JIPMER. All three of us were very close and prepared together for the entrances. In fact, the staff in Sri Chaitanya allotted us a separate room so we could prepare better in each other’s company. We were always around to clear each other’s doubts and discuss the various questions. Whenever we felt stressed, we would just talk to each other and crack jokes. I believe my friends have played a very essential role in my journey because we exactly understood each other and everything became interesting for us.
Careers360: What made you choose medicine as the profession to target? Where do you see yourselves in ten years?
Anirudh: Frankly speaking, I have not had a very strong personal ambition or goal to be a doctor. What drove me was the fact that there have been no doctors in my family, nor did I know anyone in my native place who was a doctor. So I decided this would be a worthwhile course to pursue just to change that.
I have never been someone who has planned my future in detail so I don’t know what specialization I will pursue or where I will be ten years from now. My immediate goal was to crack the medical entrances successfully to be able to get a great college for MBBS and I am happy to have done that for now.
Careers360: Do you have any particular colleges in mind for admissions?
Anirudh: In order of preference, my top three colleges are AIIMS New Delhi, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi and finally JIPMER, Puducherry.
Careers360: Based on your experience, do you have any tips you would like to share with future medical aspirants?
Anirudh: The most important suggestion I can give is to make sure you revise your NCERT books as thoroughly and as frequently as possible, especially for Biology. The maximum questions asked in NEET will be from there. For Physics and Chemistry, apart from studying NCERT texts, solve as many model papers and sample papers to get familiar with the concepts. The main thing to know is about the type of questions that will be asked and prepare accordingly. It will be a huge loss if you do not know the pattern of questions hence I would say it is best to go through the question papers of the last 5-6 years at least.
For AIIMS MBBS, which is an online exam, note that most candidates find the Reason Assertion questions to be particularly difficult. There were some questions which are not part of the syllabus so are left unattended. Therefore, I would suggest to practice for Reason Assertion as much as you can. Many questions are calculation-intensive and require accurate answers so be sure to focus on accuracy rather than the approximation.
JIPMER is quite easy and your preparations for NEET and AIIMS should suffice in helping you clear the same.
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Walking in a Weevil Wonderland
I love my job. There's something incredibly satisfying about hunting down werecreatures and blasting them into oblivion. Of course, since I'm on call as soon as the moon rises, it plays havoc with my social life, and a lot of guys get turned off when you say that you're basically an exterminator. But that's the price you pay for keeping the world safe, or so I tell myself whenever I'm feeling lonely.
Like every December, we were battling wereweevils. True wereweevils take advantage of the full moon to open a transdimensional gate from the Wereworld and cross over to ours, to destroy Christmas and the entire Christmas spirit. They chew anything that looks or smells or sounds like Christmas, and bite anyone who tries to stop them. You can guess by the word "were-" what happens to those who are bitten. Within two heartbeats, humans turn into six-legged creatures with long snouts and teeth capable of biting through almost anything. And if they can't chew it – Christmas lights, for example – they drool on it, so that the acid in their saliva burns through and destroys it just the same.
Transformed wereweevils chew until the sun came up and they turn back into humans, at least until the next holiday season. True wereweevils, on the other hand, chew until they've absorbed enough Christmas spirit that they can sprout wings. Not only can they then fly to any other source of Christmas spirit that they fancy, they're also capable of breeding, they can move independently of the moon phases, and worst of all, they're almost impossible to catch. We make sure they don't get to that point.
To-night's wereweevil had been detected less than an hour ago, but Pest-Ex had worked fast. The barricades were already in place to keep the citizens of Thornton from leaving their village, and now the soldiers were rounding up everybody who'd been bitten and forcing them into decontamination. Human wereweevils are notoriously easy to catch. All you have to do is put a Christmas tree or a brightly lit Nativity set in a cage and they'll run straight into the trap, so intent on destroying everything Christmas that they never notice the door lock shut behind them. True wereweevils are a bit more difficult.
The Pest-Ex helicopter set me down outside the village, where I had a good view of the decontamination center, where the wereweevils are sprayed with GFaM. This mixture of gold, frankincense and myrrh kills true wereweevils and forces the others to return permanently to their human form. I carried a cannister of it in my pack.
"Merry Christmas, Haley," the ground commander boomed, opening the door of the helicopter for me. "Bruce isn't here yet."
"Merry Christmas," I replied, settling my helmet and pulling my pack on as we walked to the command post. "I'm getting a new partner to-day, from Armitage. Bruce retired and went to Australia."
"Australia?"
"Yeah, he said he wanted to get used to hot places because he didn't know how much time he had left on Earth."
The commander stared at me, obviously not amused, until the moment was interrupted by the sound of a second helicopter landing. A young man wearing the same issue of helmet got out, then heaved a familiar-looking pack onto his back and strolled towards us.
"Walker," he said. "Luke Walker. And no Star Wars jokes, I've heard them all."
"Moss," I said. "Haley Moss. And no hailing frequency or rolling stone jokes, I've heard them all, too."
Luke nodded. "Right. No rest for the weevil. Let's go!"
Once we were inside the barricades, I led Luke west, to Zeppelin Square. This was where the temple zeppelin docked every eight weeks on its eternal round through the different stakes in our district. In between the huge hangar and the smaller stake center, there was a miniature version of Temple Square, right down to the lights, chock full of Christmas spirit. Scanning the area with my binoculars, I marked the lines of dead lights and the pile of chewed rubble that had once been a full size Nativity set. Finally, however, I spotted the small, dark wereweevil working his way up one corner of the hangar.
"If that weevil gets to the temple inside, he'll have enough Christmas spirit to clone himself twice, wings and all," Luke breathed. We both dropped our binoculars simultaneously and sprinted towards the gate.
I wanted to explain that we wouldn't need to climb over the tall fence that separated the hangar from the gardens because I had a card that would let us in. Before I could, however, Luke pulled something from his own pocket and swiped it. The gate clicked open.
"You're a member!" I exclaimed.
Luke looked down at the identical card in my hand and laughed. Then he said, "Guess what? I'm single, too!"
"What a coincidence." I showed him my unadorned fingers.
Grinning, we shut the gate behind us and approached the hangar. The wereweevil had reached the roof now, which was used as a parking lot for temple patrons, and as I looked up, a section of the lights that ran around the top edge went dark.
"I'll take the outside stairs, you take the ramp, and we'll meet on top," Luke decided. "You distract, I'll attack."
He started up the stairs before I could protest that I wanted to do the attacking. Oh, well, I could straighten him out later. I jogged up the ramp, slowing down as I got closer to the top, and peered around the corner. The wereweevil was walking along the waist-high wall that ran around the roof of the hangar, drooling over the next string of lights. Luke was closer to him than I was, but he had hidden himself from the wereweevil's sight behind the little building that housed the inside stairs.
I reached behind me and fumbled for the smaller cannister in my pack, pulled it free, flipped the face-plate of my helmet down, and began to advance. When I was about halfway across the roof, I pointed the nozzle of the cannister at my own chest and sprayed, trying not to gag on the scent of wereweevil musk, then clicked it back into place. The wind wasn't blowing the right way, so I pulled a tiny fan from my belt and held it to my chest as well, pointing it towards the wereweevil and switching it on. It took ages for the scent to waft over and alert the wereweevil to a rival, but then he jumped, intent on eliminating any threat to his authority. When it comes to hunting grounds, there can be only one true wereweevil.
I dropped to my knee to brace for the attack and grabbed the hose of my GFaM tank. The wereweevil hit my shoulders with its front legs, its snout open to bite my head off, but finding only my titanium helmet instead. The force of its jump knocked me backwards, but my nozzle was already in place and I sprayed automatically as I fell. At the same time, Luke leaped out from behind the building, pointing his own nozzle with deadly aim. The wereweevil's jaws sagged and fell away from my helmet, and its body relaxed into dead weight on top of me.
Alive with adrenaline and satisfaction, I sat up, pushing the wereweevil to one side. Luke reached down, grabbed my arm and pulled me to my feet, then inhaled deeply. "I love the smell of dead weevil in the morning."
I stared proudly down at the dark body, now sporting golden streaks from the particles in the spray, and exhaled a heartfelt, "Yeah!"
Luke heaved the corpse over his shoulders and we walked back to the command post to hand it over before being flown to our next assignment. Halfway there, Luke asked, "So, what are you doing on Christmas Eve? It's new moon, and nothing will be stirring, not even a weremouse."
"Watching action films, or maybe science fiction," I replied. "Want to come?"
"Action and science fiction?" Luke asked. "I'll be there."
We walked in companionable silence for a moment, and then Luke said, "Tell me, Haley, when you see humans transforming into wereweevils, do you ever think of missionaries?"
"No," I said. "Why?"
"Because humans only have two legs, and wereweevils have six?" he prompted.
I waited patiently for the explanation, and Luke started to sing. "I hope they call me on a mission, when I have grown a foot or two ..."
Suddenly, I knew there was no point in making a list and checking it twice. Christmas had come early, and I'd gotten exactly what I'd wanted. He was a member, and single, he'd have no problems with my career or with the fact that I might come home reeking of wereweevil musk, and he had the same sense of humour that I did! I began to hum to myself. Walking in a weevil wonderland …
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Mobile Phones • 30 Aug 2019
Nokia crushes the Android updates game as others couldn’t care less
By Andy Walker
Read nextYou can control Nike’s Huarache self-lacing sneakers with the Apple Watch and Siri
An aspect of smartphones we don’t cover enough of is manufacturer software updates, but it seems that the likes of Nokia, Samsung, Xiaomi and Huawei actually care. Others, not so much.
It’s a true showing of a company’s aftermarket customer support, ensuring that when a new version of Android is released, it gets filtered down to consumers regardless of their device’s price.
Data released by research firm Counterpoint on Friday suggests just how large the gulf between some companies really are.
And for consumers, in which some markets are keeping their devices for more than 30 months, updates are extremely important for “good performance” and “security”, Counterpoint adds.
Nokia excels, Alcatel and Tecno lag behind
Unsurprisingly, Nokia leads the way with 96% of its devices sold since Q3 2018 running on Android 9, the current latest version of Android. The remainder’s running on Android 8.1.
The company also just announced its Android 10 release roadmap, with updates to some devices set to commence from Q2 2020.
Image: Counterpoint
Samsung comes in second place with 89% of its phones running on Android 9. And that’s commendable too, considering it’s the world’s biggest smartphone seller and has an extensive device pool at a number of price points. That said, even it has some phones running on Android 6.
Nokia, Samsung, Xiaomi and Huawei lead a slew of other Android smartphone manufacturers, with more than 80% of their devices running the latest version
Xiaomi (84% on Android 9) and Huawei (82%) follow suit. And then, things get really bad.
While a swathe of Oppo and Vivo phones run Android 8.1 with a smaller amount running Android 9, 45% of Lenovo’s device now run on Android 8. Just 46% run on Android 8.1 or newer.
Oh, but it gets worse.
LG has more than 30% if its smartphones running Android 7.1 and older. OLDER. This means some devices are still running Android 5.1 — a four-year old version of the OS.
Alcatel and Tecno follow not far behind, with the latter seeing just 5% of its devices running the latest version of Android. More than 50% of its phones run on Android 8 or older.
Status quo retained for cheap phones
But this data could be skewed by higher-end devices, the company notes, which often receive updates before lower-end phones.
When focussing on devices in the sub $200 range (around R3000), Counterpoint saw much of the same.
“By this analysis, Nokia stands out, again, as the brand most likely to update its full portfolio quickly. Xiaomi and Lenovo also rank high in this metric. Brands like Alcatel and Tecno are the laggards,” it wrote.
If you fancy some light reading this weekend, enjoy the report right here.
Feature image: The Nokia 7.1, by Andy Walker/Memeburn
Andy Walker
Andy has been writing for Memeburn since 2014, and is now part of the furniture. When not pretending to be a table or covering the latest memes and South African news on Memeburn, Andy can be seen covering smartphones, gaming and car news on Gearburn and Motorburn. He is currently the editor of Memeburn, Gearburn and Motorburn.
Posted in Mobile PhonesTagged Alcatel, Android, Huawei, Lenovo, LG, mobile phone, nokia, Oppo, Samsung, smartphone, Tecno, Vivo, Xiaomi
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White Isle retreat Remedy State will return next year ahead of IMS
Founded by IMS’ Ben Turner alongside Blaise James DeAngelo
Jasmine Kent-Smith
Ibiza wellness retreat Remedy State will return for another edition in 2019 ahead of the 12th annual IMS event.
Founded earlier this year by IMS co-founder Ben Turner and artist and former OWSLA co-owner Blaise James DeAngelo, the wellness and performance retreat focuses on mindfulness, exercise, physical therapy, nutrition and more.
The forthcoming edition is themed around the idea of Areté, a Greek concept meaning "excellence through self-actualisation", with an added focus on, “personal development, performance, creativity and self-actualisation to help attendees reach their personal potential.”
“The impact of our first event on the electronic music industry was profound and its influence on the subsequent IMS Summit was huge,” explained Turner via a press release. “We touched a nerve and we wish to continue sharing our insight with a fascinating group of individuals who can transform your health and mind and in turn your business.”
The Remedy State crew are also bringing a world-class speaker on peak performance and leadership to 2019’s edition, with a full list of speakers, practitioners and coaches expected to be announced in January.
Remedy State presents ARETÉ takes place May 20-22 at Sa Talaia Agroturismo. A limited number of badges and hotel accommodation packages are available to purchase now from the Remedy State website. Badges and hotel packages are available to buy for an introductory price of €350 and €1200 respectively.
Check out the 2018 film below and read our guide to staying sane in Ibiza here.
Jasmine Kent-Smith is Mixmag's Weekend Editor. Follow her on Twitter
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And That Happened: Sunday’s scores and highlights
By Craig CalcaterraAug 5, 2013, 5:00 AM EDT
I went to Detroit over the weekend where I took in Saturday and Sunday’s Tigers-White Sox games. Such a wonderful time. Cool temperatures, no humidity, good company, good pitching, good food, good beer. It’s really all you could want.
As I watched these games and hung around a city that, no matter what else you can say about it, is a lot of fun and loves baseball, I occasionally checked in on Twitter and baseball blogs to see what sort of news was happening. Observed: the closer you are to real baseball and the more fun you’re having while watching it, the less any of that Alex Rodriguez and Biogenesis stuff matters. Even in Detroit, fans were 100% able to (a) talk about that news as intelligent baseball fans might; while (b) cheering for Jhonny Peralta like mad. It’s not either/or. That stuff doesn’t cast a shadow on the team or the season or anything. It’s just something happening.
Baseball is also happening. And it totally trumps that noise. Don’t let anyone wringing their hands over the Biogenesis stuff today and on for the next few weeks tell you differently. Anyway: this happened too:
Tigers 3, White Sox 2: Jim Leyland had the junior varsity in the lineup to start things — Andy Dirks and Don Kelly batting two and three — but once it got to the 12th inning Leyland had Miguel Cabrera (pinch hit single) and Torii Hunter (pinch hit to enter the game in the tenth and a game-winning single in his second at bat) bail the kids out. The White Sox ended their road trip 0-7 and they’ve lost ten in a row overall. Which, eww.
Blue Jays 6, Angels 5: Two in the eighth and two in the ninth help Toronto come back and avoid a sweep. The AP game story lead off by saying “The Toronto Blue Jays avoided a four-game sweep the hard way.” I agree that coming back late is a hard way, but there are harder ways to do it. For example, winning by forfeit when your manager realizes that the other team’s starting pitcher is actually one kid riding on another kid’s shoulders wearing an overcoat, thereby revealing that the other team has violated roster rules is extraordinarily difficult to pull off. La Russa did that once. No one else.
Dodgers 1, Cubs 0: You on point Fife? All the time, Tip. You on point Fife? All the time, Tip. You on point Fife? All the time, Tip. Well then grab the horsehide and let your pitch rip (Stephen Fife: 5.1 IP, 0 ER, 7 H, 2 BB, 5K, weighs a buck 150, 36 waist). Also, WTF is up with the caption on this photo?
Cardinals 15, Reds 2: Well, the Cardinals offense seems to be doing better. They scored 13, 13 and 15 runs in three of their last four games, respectively. Now, after a tough road trip that took them through Atlanta, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati, they have one more tough assignment: the Dodgers at home.
Red Sox 4, Diamondbacks 0: Felix Doubront continues his remarkable consistency, shutting out the Dbacks for seven innings and making his 15th straight start in which he has given up three runs or fewer.
Royals 6, Mets 2: The Royals had a three-run fifth inning in which Marlon Byrd misplayed not one but two balls due to the sun. After the game Byrd said “I need to get better with sun balls.” I wish the reporter he was talking to shot back with “A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell. — C. S. Lewis,” but I suppose that’s too much to ask of our decrepit educational system.
Mariners 3, Orioles 2: Henry Blanco hit a two-run homer in the seventh to help the M’s to a win. Also: Henry Blanco is still alive and is playing baseball and everything. Kids: forget trying to perfect a curve ball. Forget trying to be a shortstop. Learn how to be a backup catcher and you’ll never be unemployed in your life.
Indians 2, Marlins 0: Scott Kazmir and three relievers combine for a shutout. It was the Indians’ major league-best 15th shutout this season. It was Cleveland’s 10th win in 11 games. Now they have four big ones against Detroit, trailing them by three games.
Rays 4, Giants 3: Wil Myers homered and the Rays’ bullpen tossed four and a third scoreless innings after Fauxsto Carmona struggled.
Pirates 5, Rockies 1: A.J. Burnett went the distance and struck out nine. Russell Martin hit a three-run homer. Some Yankees fan somewhere is trying to craft some argument about how what they’re doing matters less because they’re on the Pirates.
Twins 3, Astros 2: Twins sweep the Astros. It was their first sweep and is their first three-game winning streak in over a month.
Brewers 8, Nationals 5: Down 4-1 in the sixth the Brewers put up a five-spot. Jeff Bianchi’s bloop single over a drawn-in infield put Milwaukee ahead. He also had a squeeze bunt in the game. It was definitely a nice day for backup catchers.
Rangers 4, Athletics 0: Derek Holland tossed eight shutout innings with ten strikeouts. Ron Washington became the Rangers’ winningest manager of all time with this win. Which, honestly, I figured had happened a year or two ago, but I guess Johnny Oates was there longer than I realized. UPDATE: Or make that Bobby Valentine. Whatever.
Padres 6, Yankees 3: Yankees third basemen went 1 for 5. The lede for all game stories tomorrow should be “Thank God A-Rod is back!” But I figure they won’t be.
Braves 4, Phillies 1: Ten straight for the Bravos. Chris Johnson with a couple of RBI. Dude is batting .346. Not bad for a throw-in in the Justin Upton deal.
Tags: A.J. Burnett, Alex Rodriguez, Andy Dirks, Atlanta Braves, Boston Red Sox, Chris Johnson, Cleveland Indians, Derek Holland, Detroit Tigers, Don Kelly, Felix Doubront, Henry Blanco, Jeff Bianchi, Jhonny Peralta, Justin Upton, Los Angeles Dodgers, Marlon Byrd, Miguel Cabrera, Milwaukee Brewers, New York Mets, New York Yankees, Pittsburgh Pirates, Russell Martin, Scott Kazmir, Seattle Mariners, Stephen Fife, Tampa Bay Rays, Texas Rangers, Torii Hunter, Wil Myers
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A Taste of Small Business Tech at CES 2015
Monday Jan 12th 2015 by Pedro Hernandez
Always stuffed with gear for the living room or gadget bag, this year's Consumer Electronics Show also offered devices for small businesses looking for a technological edge.
For gadget lovers, the holidays don't end until the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas closes its doors in early January. Each year, CES bestows upon them a bounty of next-generation TVs, PCs, mobile devices and all the modern home must-haves.
It takes some searching, but CES also offers great finds for small business technology buyers looking to explore new opportunities, to boost productivity or to simply upgrade their gear.
Here are some of the small business technology standouts at this year's CES.
Small Business 3D Printing Grows Up
Small product design firms love 3D printers for their ability to turn on-screen models into physical objects in a relatively short amount of time. The problem with most compact 3D printers is that rapid prototyping can hit a wall if a project calls for parts that are more than a couple of inches big.
The new Ultimaker 2 Extended desktop 3D printer is a step up from the crowd-favorite Ultimaker 2 with four additional inches of build volume. It's not cheap—more than three grand (USD)—but small businesses with big ideas will appreciate the added headroom.
Figure 1: The Ultimaker 2 Extended desktop 3D printer.
Meanwhile, MakerBot, the Brooklyn-based company that has become synonymous with 3D printing, continues to grow its ecosystem. At CES, the company unveiled a new line of filaments (the 3D printer version of ink or toner) made of composite materials that more closely mimic wood, metal and stone. The new filaments, available later this year, will give designers more options than plain old plastic.
Powerhouse Business Laptops
ThinkPad Lenovo's legendary line of business laptops has a new X1 Carbon model that stuffs all-day battery life and blazingly fast file storage in a slim and light package. At 4 pounds, the latest X1 Carbon ultrabook features a 14-inch screen, a 4G LTE connectivity option and a PCIe-based SSD that delivers 80 percent faster storage performance than traditional SATA solid-state drives (SSDs).
Figure 2: The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Ultrabook.
Crave more pixels? Dell flipped open the lid on the striking new XPS 13 with a 4K "borderless" (thin bezel) display. It packs Intel's fifth-generation Core processors (codenamed Broadwell) and SSD storage for brisk boot times and fast file operations.
Intel's Broadwell chips also power HP's new 14 and 15u ZBook portable workstations. Built for demanding applications like image- and video-editing and/or 3D-modeling, these Windows laptops can be outfitted with up to 16 GB of RAM and a whopping 1.25 TB of storage.
Figure 3: The HP ZBook Workstation Ultrabook.
Data Backup in Your Pocket
Cloud backup services have made data protection for small office/home office environments a breeze. If they're connected by a reliable broadband connection, that is.
Figure 4: Samsung's SSD T1 solid-state storage drive.
This year, Samsung is making the case for on-premises, or rather in-pocket, backups by unveiling the SD 1, an external flash storage device roughly the size of a business card that can store up to 1 terabyte (TB) of files and that weighs a mere ounce. It supports USB 3.0, providing brisk file transfer times (450 MB per second) while safeguarding data with AES-256 encryption. And it looks slick, to boot.
Now, there's no excuse not to backup that laptop or PC. It's admittedly pricey at $600, but Samsung is also shipping 250 GB and 500 GB editions, for $180 and $300 respectively, when it goes on sale later this month.
Figure 5: The Seagate Seven external drive.
If you prefer traditional hard disks over flash chips, Seagate unveiled an eye-catchingly slim 500 GB external drive that is just 9.6 millimeters thick. Claiming the mantle of the "world's thinnest 500 GB drive," the Seagate Seven supports USB 3.0 and will have a price tag of $99.99 when it ships in mid-to-late January.
Pedro Hernandez is a contributing editor at Small Business Computing. Follow him on Twitter @ecoINSITE.
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Stephen Harper's Plan to Brainwash Us Beyond Recognition
We knew the Cons are already spending $7.5 million dollars of OUR money to promote their smoke and mirrors budget.
To remind Canadians that many of them can expect a cheque in the mail if they vote for them.
And to try to brainwash Canadians into believing that Stephen Harper is a Great Economist Leader.
But it turns out, no doubt because of the way he has driven the economy into the ground, that won't be enough.
So the Cons are throwing in millions of their own dollars, to try to brainwash us, or blitz us, beyond recognition.
The Conservative government has booked $13.5 million for an all-out, co-ordinated blitz in April and May to advertise its 2015 pre-election budget.
The push, detailed in internal government documents obtained by The Canadian Press, builds on existing Finance Canada and Canada Revenue Agency campaigns to promote Conservative tax measures both past and proposed -- the backbone of the Harper government's re-election strategy.
Because let's face it, $21 million dollars worth of porky ads in just two months will make them almost impossible to avoid...
And should be enough to make us the most brainwashed people on earth, after the North Koreans.
Whose propaganda machine the Cons seem to be eerily imitating.
Especially when they conflate the economy and the military...
And the regime is also running this so-called recruiting ad over and over again...
Which echoes Harper's hollow slogans of "freedom" and "values" while spending MILLIONS to fill only 100 positions.
And what makes this totalitarian propaganda offensive even more disgusting, is that just like they are calling that Harper's Army propaganda a recruiting ad.
Cons like Pierre Poilievre are claiming that their brainwashing blitz is merely educational....
The government has a responsibility to tell Canadians about tax measures, countered Labour Minister Pierre Poilievre. Some 200,000 eligible families must sign up for enhanced benefits in order "to get that July lump-sum payment," he said.
And that it's their duty to protect that bribe money from the Liberals.
"The Liberals don't want those parents to get any of that money," said Poilievre. "In fact, the Liberals would take it all away and that's why they're against us informing families that those benefits exist."
As only a low Con could.
But of course the most disturbing thing is that while the Harperites are bombarding us with ads, progressives are doing little or nothing to return the fire.
For as I said the other day, this ad might be a start...
But it's not nearly good enough.
This ad scores a 2/5. The sound effects do a good job implying spending and financial transactions, but the message is convoluted. This is not an easy subject to explain in a 30-second spot. But there are more effective ways to try.
And that's a problem, because polls suggest that even though it annoys a lot of Canadians, all that porky propaganda is having an effect.
We shall see that the incumbent has hung on to a narrow lead by virtue of better communications of its core values and plans. This is now rooted in clear ownership of major communication tools and clearer and more consistent messaging buttressed by the power of advertisement and publicity available to a government who chooses to appropriate those channels.
Making it look like the Cons have the clearest plan for the economy...
When in fact they don't. They've been sandbagged by falling oil prices, they're making it up as they go along. It is all smoke and mirrors, and a crass attempt to buy an election.
Even if it mortgages the future and leaves us with no money to pay for anything...even medicare.
But unless the progressive parties point this out, with their own propaganda offensive, the Cons will have the field all to themselves. And $21-million dollars of porky ads could do a lot of damage.
I realize we don't have the money the Cons have, but even a good YouTube campaign would be better than nothing.
As long as the message is as simple, or as brutal as possible...
For now is not the time to hold back.
The next election will be the most fateful in Canadian history.
The monster must be defeated.
And failure is not an option...
Labels: Con clowns, Con Ministry of Propaganda and Disinformation, Porky Action Ads, Stephen Harper, The End of Con Canada
Trudeau says he won’t second-guess cops over conduct at G20 summit
hi anon...yes I saw that, and I really don't know what to make of it. Because although I was caught up in that nightmare since I lived in the so-called security zone, I have always believed that Blair was not the one giving the orders. They came from people like Julian Fantino, the RCMP and the military in their headquarters about 100 kilometres from Toronto, and directly from the PMO. So I can't get too excited about that one...
Hi Simon :)
That Military ad should say we are proud to go and invade other countries that did us no harm come home wounded and thrown in a dumpster by Harper and his pals.
I don't think vets will be voting con cops unfortunately will they have never been on a gravy train like this they can do what ever the fuck they want and get away with it.
This 'Harper-con clown gong show' has spent more on advertising than any in history. So its fuck you vets seniors and disenfranchised I need your money to make me look like a champ at reach for the top.
Harper is beyond a pathological liar stage he has gone into what's called pseudologia fantastica. A severe psychological condition, similar to pathological lying, but different in the sense that the person afflicted genuinely believes their own lies. A person suffering from PF will often respond with anger, confusion and even violence when confronted about the truth of their statements. Hence the throwing of chairs in cabinet meetings. Need I say more? Okay how about his tantrums in foreign meetings? How about that Laureen Harper wants to stay as far away from him as possible? How about Ben Harper refusing to go to the Winnipeg Jets home game with him?
Sadly the list is endless the old Duffster got thrown in the dumpster as well. And he was one of Harper's top fundraisers. Tom Flanagan that created him and his con reform alliance also was tossed. Harper sadly enough needs to go into an institution offering shelter and support to people who are mentally ill.
"he'd been committed to an asylum"
synonyms psychiatric hospital, mental hospital, mental institution, mental asylum swoosh. I cant stand that man/boy cause he never really grew up or he would not be screwing Canada while amassing a five million dollar fortune off of our backs.
Cheers Simon,
Mogs Moglio
It should be easy for the PMO to rework some North Korean slogans for Harper's TV and radio ads:
"Long live the great victory in the war against Japan!"
can become:
"Long live the great victory in the war against ISIS, Russia, and eco-terrorists!"
"Praise for Dear Leader's Balanced Budget and Economic Action Plan for his Favoured Families!"
North Korea publishes list of over 300 weird new patriotic slogans. What do they mean?
http://boingboing.net/2015/02/13/north-korea-just-published-thi.html
@ Anon 6:02 AM I figured out what they meant in a heartbeat. One nice word describes all 300 weird slogans are you ready? Here it is:
gobbledygook...;) Kim must be proud to be so smart his brain is ready to implode.
hi Mogs...pseudologia fantastica? What a great expression I love it. But as for the military, when their propaganda matches the government's messagee, we are living in the anteroom of a police state so it is very, very disturbing. And another very good reason we absolutely have to get rid of those Cons...
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A Step-by-Step Process for Discovering and Prioritizing the Best Keywords - Whiteboard Friday
Rand - for topic modeling and topical analysis, just use MarketMuse https://www.marketmuse.com ! No need to mess with AlchemyAPI or custom scrips.
<p>Rand - for topic modeling and topical analysis, just use MarketMuse https://www.marketmuse.com ! No need to mess with AlchemyAPI or custom scrips.</p> <p>Best,<br />Aki</p>
How to Improve Your Rankings with Semantic Keyword Research
Blog Post: April 16, 2012
3 years later - a few more tools that help with this:
SearchMetrics - In their 2014 ranking factors survey, they found that semantically-relevant terms are a top ranking factor on Google. (Get the report for more.)
BrightEdge - Has a lot of great features around content analytics and searcher intent. Their DataCube has what could be considered semantic keyword data.
Moz Content - Currently in Beta but looks to be a promising tool around semantic/thematic analysis for content.
MarketMuse (I co-founded this company) - Uses semantic analytics to help you identify low-quality content across your site. Works great for optimizing blog content and e-commerce (product description pages) as well.
The field of semantic analytics is broad. Looking forward to many more great tools in the future as well!
<p>3 years later - a few more tools that help with this:</p> <ul><li><a href="http://www.searchmetrics.com/" rel="nofollow">SearchMetrics</a> - In their 2014 ranking factors survey, they found that semantically-relevant terms are a top ranking factor on Google. (<a href="http://www.searchmetrics.com/knowledge-base/ranking-factors/" rel="nofollow">Get the report</a> for more.) </li><li><a href="http://www.brightedge.com/products/content-performance-marketing" rel="nofollow">BrightEdge</a> - Has a lot of great features around content analytics and searcher intent. Their DataCube has what could be considered semantic keyword data.</li><li><a href="https://beta.moz.com/content/" rel="nofollow">Moz Content</a> - Currently in Beta but looks to be a promising tool around semantic/thematic analysis for content.</li><li><a href="https://www.marketmuse.com" rel="nofollow">MarketMuse</a> (I co-founded this company) - Uses semantic analytics to help you identify low-quality content across your site. Works great for optimizing blog content and e-commerce (product description pages) as well.</li></ul> <p>The field of semantic analytics is broad. Looking forward to many more great tools in the future as well!</p>
UX, Content Quality, and SEO - Whiteboard Friday
Hi Brad,
To echo Eric's points, in general you don't need to worry about synonyms and keyword optimization. For example, blinds.com ranks #4 for venetian blinds even though they rarely mention that word in their content. (They mostly talk about wooden blinds, which is essentially a synonym.)
But the point I made was not about keywords, but about topics. Topics are the building block of content. You want to make sure that you talk about topics comprehensively. The actual keywords you use to do this -- not as important. (This is because Google is doing topic modeling behind-the-scenes to score your content quality.)
The distinction between topics and keywords is easily confused, but post-Hummingbird it became very important today. Check out a comprehensive post I wrote on this: http://blog.marketmuse.com/2015/02/26/topical-auth...
To add to your point: LSI and TF-IDF have existed, but with the addition of Knowledge Graph, it's become a lot more sophisticated. Our technology essentially replicates a Knowledge Graph for your query. I'd love to discuss with you (and since we're both in Boston, we could even meet in person). I'll follow-up via LinkedIn.
<p>Hi Brad,</p> <p>To echo Eric's points, in general you don't need to worry about synonyms and keyword optimization. For example, blinds.com ranks #4 for venetian blinds even though they rarely mention that word in their content. (They mostly talk about wooden blinds, which is essentially a synonym.)</p> <p>But the point I made was not about keywords, but about topics. Topics are the building block of content. You want to make sure that you talk about topics comprehensively. The actual keywords you use to do this -- not as important. (This is because Google is doing topic modeling behind-the-scenes to score your content quality.)</p> <p>The distinction between topics and keywords is easily confused, but post-Hummingbird it became very important today. Check out a comprehensive post I wrote on this: <a href="http://blog.marketmuse.com/2015/02/26/topical-authority-primer" rel="nofollow">http://blog.marketmuse.com/2015/02/26/topical-auth...</a></p> <p><br /></p> <p>Hi Eric,</p> <p>To add to your point: LSI and TF-IDF have existed, but with the addition of Knowledge Graph, it's become a lot more sophisticated. Our technology essentially replicates a Knowledge Graph for your query. I'd love to discuss with you (and since we're both in Boston, we could even meet in person). I'll follow-up via LinkedIn.</p> <p>Thanks,<br />Aki</p>
The connecting piece between SEO and content is relevance. For a given intent, what related information is relevant to that the intent of that question alone? What information should belong in another "answer" (i.e. content item, landing page)?
I've brought up topical relevance a few times on this blog recently -- pardon, I am not suggesting that relevance is an end-all-be-all -- but it certainly seems like a missing link here. The core of it goes back to semantic theory. Compare these three sentences:
The dog went to the park
The big dog went to the sunny park
The big dog went to the park with cats and other animals and there were trees there, too
Of these, #2 seems the best because it contains relevant information (i.e. has a higher information value) but doesn't stuff other, only moderately-related contexts in (as #3 does).
Hope to see great discussions on relevance and on topics vs. keywords elsewhere on this blog.
PS - Full Disclaimer: I co-founded a company that helps marketers measure relevance in content
<p>Hi Brad,</p> <p>The connecting piece between SEO and content is relevance. For a given intent, what related information is relevant to that the intent of that question alone? What information should belong in another "answer" (i.e. content item, landing page)?</p> <p>I've brought up topical relevance a few times on this blog recently -- pardon, I am not suggesting that relevance is an end-all-be-all -- but it certainly seems like a missing link here. The core of it goes back to semantic theory. Compare these three sentences:</p> <ol><li>The dog went to the park</li><li>The big dog went to the sunny park</li><li>The big dog went to the park with cats and other animals and there were trees there, too</li></ol> <p>Of these, #2 seems the best because it contains relevant information (i.e. has a higher information value) but doesn't stuff other, only moderately-related contexts in (as #3 does).<br /></p> <p>Hope to see great discussions on relevance and on topics vs. keywords elsewhere on this blog.</p> <p>Aki</p> <p>PS - Full Disclaimer: I co-founded a company that helps marketers measure relevance in content</p>
How to Estimate the Total Volume and Value of Keywords in a Given Market or Niche - Whiteboard Friday
Slavko, Rand,
When doing this research, you're looking for a measure of relevance -- i.e. how relevant are the topics pad thai, chow fun and rice noodles to what your target audience is looking for.
Right now, this research is basically done manually -- you can compare competitors or look at keyword volume and other metrics, but you're still making a determination around relevance in your head.
For more, check out a blog post I wrote about this last year: http://blog.marketmuse.com/2014/06/12/why-topical-...
Disclaimer: I co-founded a company that makes machine learning tools to help marketers measure relevance.
<p>Slavko, Rand,</p> <p>When doing this research, you're looking for a measure of <strong>relevance</strong> -- i.e. how relevant are the topics pad thai, chow fun and rice noodles to what your target audience is looking for.</p> <p>Right now, this research is basically done manually -- you can compare competitors or look at keyword volume and other metrics, but you're still making a determination around relevance in your head.</p> <p>For more, check out a blog post I wrote about this last year: <a href="http://blog.marketmuse.com/2014/06/12/why-topical-authority-is-the-new-seo-optimization-strategy" rel="nofollow">http://blog.marketmuse.com/2014/06/12/why-topical-...</a></p> <p>Disclaimer: I co-founded a company that makes machine learning tools to help marketers measure relevance.</p> <p>Best,<br />Aki</p>
More than Keywords: 7 Concepts of Advanced On-Page SEO
Blog Post: October 21, 2014
Hi Cyrus,
One more tool for your Topical Authority-themed arsenal: check out MarketMuse.
We've built a topic modeling/topic expansion technology that analyzes ranking content and generates related keywords.
It utilizes semantic analysis, graph analysis and natural language processing to return the most relevant bigrams and trigrams (two-word and three-word keywords).
In particular, check out our new Site Audit tool that we've just released. This identifies topical gaps across your content, telling you about content gaps that you didn't even know you had.
You can use this to build high-quality content on related topics. All that remains then is to do the link building to support it.
Co-Founder, MarketMuse
<p>Hi Cyrus,</p> <p>One more tool for your Topical Authority-themed arsenal: check out MarketMuse.</p> <p>We've built a topic modeling/topic expansion technology that analyzes ranking content and generates related keywords.</p> <p>It utilizes semantic analysis, graph analysis and natural language processing to return the most relevant bigrams and trigrams (two-word and three-word keywords).</p> <p>In particular, check out our new Site Audit tool that we've just released. This identifies topical gaps across your content, telling you about content gaps that you didn't even know you had.</p> <p>You can use this to build high-quality content on related topics. All that remains then is to do the link building to support it.</p> <p>Aki</p> <p>Co-Founder, MarketMuse</p>
What SEOs Need to Know About Topic Modeling & Semantic Connectivity - Whiteboard Friday
This is great -- I haven't heard of VolumeNine before, but I'm glad that you're working on this problem as well.
AlchemyAPI is a good general-purpose algorithm to start with. I imagine you're using the Keyword Extraction API?
At MarketMuse, we've built a topic modeling tool that analyzes a large volume of ranking content to identify the topics (typically bigrams and trigrams, i.e. 2-word keywords and 3-word keywords) that you're missing from your site. We utilize a combination of semantic analysis, graph analysis and natural language processing. Taking this approach gives you the gaps that you're missing that you didn't know about (i.e. relevant terms, proof terms, co-occurrence, etc.).
I think you'd find our API interesting as you build your dashboard. Let me ping you under separate cover.
Akos (Aki) Balogh
<p>Hi Chuck,</p> <p>This is great -- I haven't heard of VolumeNine before, but I'm glad that you're working on this problem as well.</p> <p>AlchemyAPI is a good general-purpose algorithm to start with. I imagine you're using the Keyword Extraction API?</p> <p>At <a href="http://marketmuse.com/" rel="nofollow">MarketMuse</a>, we've built a topic modeling tool that analyzes a large volume of ranking content to identify the topics (typically bigrams and trigrams, i.e. 2-word keywords and 3-word keywords) that you're missing from your site. We utilize a combination of semantic analysis, graph analysis and natural language processing. Taking this approach gives you the gaps that you're missing that you didn't know about (i.e. relevant terms, proof terms, co-occurrence, etc.).</p> <p>I think you'd find our API interesting as you build your dashboard. Let me ping you under separate cover.</p> <p>Aki</p> <p>Akos (Aki) Balogh<br />Co-Founder, MarketMuse</p>
Hi Gianluca,
If I may paraphrase, I think where the tools can help is giving you more suggestions, more accurate suggestions, and faster.
Russ Jones has indeed done a great job. We at MarketMuse have also built a semantic keyword research tool, at https://www.marketmuse.com
The keyword research tool itself is interesting data that could save you a few hours every month. What's more interesting are the content analysis and site analysis applications that can be built with this type of data.
Great post and discussion! Looking forward to seeing more about Semantic SEO in the years ahead.
<p>Hi Gianluca,</p> <p>If I may paraphrase, I think where the tools can help is giving you more suggestions, more accurate suggestions, and faster.</p> <p>Russ Jones has indeed done a great job. We at MarketMuse have also built a semantic keyword research tool, at <a href="https://www.marketmuse.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.marketmuse.com</a></p> <p>The keyword research tool itself is interesting data that could save you a few hours every month. What's more interesting are the content analysis and site analysis applications that can be built with this type of data.</p> <p>Great post and discussion! Looking forward to seeing more about Semantic SEO in the years ahead.</p> <p>Aki</p>
Feeding the Hummingbird: Structured Markup Isn't the Only Way to Talk to Google
Hi Cyrus -- great overview of Hummingbird. Indeed, the semantic web has not yet seen widespread adoption so Google focuses instead on keyword relevance and entity extraction.
I’d be curious to hear what you think of our tools. We at MarketMuse.co make tools to help marketers identify related keywords and content ideas, to help create content that's Hummingbird and Panda 4.0-compatible.
Thanks — I'd appreciate your perspective,
Co-Founder, MarketMuse.co
<p>Hi Cyrus -- great overview of Hummingbird. Indeed, the semantic web has not yet seen widespread adoption so Google focuses instead on keyword relevance and entity extraction.</p> <p>I’d be curious to hear what you think of our tools. We at MarketMuse.co make tools to help marketers identify related keywords and content ideas, to help create content that's Hummingbird and Panda 4.0-compatible.</p> <p>Thanks — I'd appreciate your perspective,<br />Aki<br />Co-Founder, MarketMuse.co</p>
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Actress with Anne Enright
7:00pm at Walcot House, 90B Walcot Street, Bath BA1 5BG
Tickets include author interview, signing and a 15% discount on books on the night
Anne Enright Ticket £7.00
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We are incredibly excited to welcome legendary Irish author Anne Enright to Mr B’s. Anne’s wonderful string of novels have explored the themes of love, family and religion in elegant, sparkling detail, from The Green Road to The Gathering. This February, Anne joins us to discuss her powerful and deeply moving new novel Actress.
Nora is the daughter of the fictional Irish theatre star Katherine O’Dell. Piecing together the fragments and memories of a chaotic, bohemian life on the road, ‘Actress’ is a collage of Katherine’s life created by her daughter, which takes the reader from humble Dublin beginnings to the glamour of Broadway and back again. It’s an intense, disturbing portrait of fame, celebrity and the relationships between mothers and daughters.
Join us for what promises to be a fascinating chat with an author whose work always oozes warmth, intelligence and insight.
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Everett to Become a “Green City” – Restore Forested Parklands
Get ready for "Green Everett"
The City of Everett announced a new partnership with Forterra to become their latest “Green City”. Here’s the press release direct from city hall…
EVERETT – The City is working with Forterra’s Green Cities Program on a new plan, The Green Everett Partnership, which will provide a blueprint on how to help restore Everett’s forested parklands. The partnership includes the City, Forterra and The Boeing Co.
To start, Forterra will work with the City of Everett to develop a 20-Year Strategic Plan to help restore and maintain Everett’s forested parklands with invasive plant species removal, native species plantings, mulching and more. More information on the Partnership will be presented to local groups and organizations in coming weeks. Eventually, the Partnership will work with community volunteers to launch restoration efforts at Howarth Park and Thornton Sullivan Park at Silver Lake, and four other Everett parks to be determined.
“This special partnership allows us to plan and begin the restoration in our forested parks that we have wanted to focus on for quite some time now,” Parks Director Paul Kaftanski said. “People love being outdoors and in natural areas, especially when they live in urban settings. Our parks often are a great destination for all kinds of recreation. We want to keep them as desirable destinations as possible.”
Forterra’s participation in the Green Everett Partnership was made possible by a generous grant from The Boeing Co. This grant enabled Forterra to contribute valuable staff time and expertise needed to launch the program.
“The City of Everett and Forterra Green City Partnership is an exciting project that will help to restore the City’s wonderful wooded parklands for its citizens and neighborhoods,” said Gene Duvernoy, Forterra president. “Boeing is an important partner to the Green Everett Partnership providing necessary grant support to help get the program off the ground.”
The Boeing Co. is an instrumental partner at the table to make this project work.
“Boeing recognizes the importance of protecting and preserving our local lands and the benefits to a healthy community. Through the Green Everett partnership, our investment engages thousands of volunteers each year to help make Snohomish County community parks safe and accessible,” said Liz Warman, director of Boeing Global Corporate Citizenship for the Northwest region.
The Green Cities Program was first launched in 2004 with the Green Seattle Partnership, a joint effort between Forterra and the City of Seattle to restore and maintain 2500 acres of Seattle’s natural spaces. Urban natural areas are public assets that beautify and strengthen neighborhoods. They provide clean air and water, stormwater retention and reduced flooding, habitat for wildlife, carbon sequestration, noise buffers, and natural spaces where urban residents can connect with nature. It is critical to act now to restore these spaces before they are lost to invasive plant species and erosion.
The Green City Partnerships are a critical component of The Cascade Agenda, Forterra’s long-range plan for the sustainability of the central-Cascade region’s environment, economies and communities. The Agenda hinges on the idea that when you have great cities and towns in which people choose to live, work and raise their families, working and wild landscapes are saved from development sprawl. The Green Cities restoration work helps make our communities great.
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One Response to “Everett to Become a “Green City” – Restore Forested Parklands”
Blanch Littlelake Says:
Recently a family that owned a forested amusement park in Everett was forced to log and sell their land do to the fact that the property tax evaluation was based on the high/best use , ie; apartments / strip malls .The tax bill was was tens of thousands of dollars . I believe the family offered to sell the property to Everett for greenspace/park, but the city wanted to develope it . Many area families mourned the loss of their happy childhood memories and looked forward to future visits with their children and grandchildren .
Two days ago we visited Ohme gardens in Wenatchee . The story is the same as the above but , fortunatly the state/county knew what a gem they were being offered .
What i’m trying to understand is why the city did not save/buy/or work with the owners but instead tax raped the above beautiful forested land into oblivian . It was an unreplaceable urban oasis .
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Board acts: County will require licenses to sell tobacco, vaping products
Assistant County Attorney Bernadette Nunley smiles after Board approves licensing tobacco retailers..
The Board of County Commissioners on Thursday approved licensing businesses that sell tobacco and vaping products.
The county plans to begin issuing the annual licenses on July 1, 2016 after a public education campaign. Enforcement is expected to begin in January 2017.
The board moved to license retailers after Multnomah County posted some of the highest rates of illegal sales to minors according to state and federal regulators. Studies have shown licensing sellers helps drive down the illegal sales.
"This is a big day,'' said Chair Deborah Kafoury. She and other commissioners said they hoped the Legislature would take up the matter for a statewide system. "We have set the stage,'' she said.
The board acted after holding six public meetings on the subject, including briefings, public hearings, town halls and visits to city councils in East County. Fifty-five people submitted comments online, 36 of which supported licensing and 17 of which opposed. Two people were neutral. Eleven of those commenting asked the board to raise the minimum sales age to 21.
In doing so, the board approved a rule-making committee which in early 2016, will work develop the annual fee, fines, penalty process and other rules. Committee members will include members of the public, business owners, community advocates and Health Department staff.
Multnomah County will be posting the nomination process to serve on the rule-making committee shortly. You can read the ordinance here Ordinance for Amending Chapter 21-Health_relating to licensing of Tobacco Retailers in Multnomah County (35.97 KB) and a FAQ here.
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Her wide-ranging work addresses psychological and spiritual issues of the nuclear age, the cultivation of ecological awareness, and the fruitful resonance between Buddhist thought and contemporary science. The many dimensions of this work are explored in her books Despair and Personal Power in the Nuclear Age, Dharma and Development, Thinking Like a Mountain, Mutual Causality in Buddhism and General Systems Theory, Rilke’s Book of Hours and In Praise of Mortality (with Anita Barrows), Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World (with Molly Young Brown), Joanna’s memoir entitled Widening Circles, World as Lover, World as Self, A Year With Rilke (with Anita Barrows), and Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're In Without Going Crazy (with Chris Johnstone).
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Treatment for dysuria depends on the cause of the pain. Determining whether painful urination is caused by infection, inflammation, dietary factors, or a problem with the bladder or prostate is the first step in your treatment. Urinary tract infections are most commonly treated with a course of antibiotics.
Inflammation caused by irritation to the skin is usually treated by avoiding the cause of the irritant, Dysuria caused by an underlying bladder or prostate condition is treated by addressing the underlying condition.
There are several steps you can take to reduce the discomfort of painful urination, including drinking more water or taking an over-the-counter aid (such as Uristat® or AZO®) to treat painful urination. Other treatments need prescription medications.
If you suffer from frequent urinary tract infections, your doctor can help look into the underlying cause of this condition.
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Australian frigate seizes 900 kilos of heroin in Middle East
HMAS Ballarat’s boarding party layout suspected narcotics found during a boarding on Dec 21-22, 18. Photo: Royal Australian Navy
Anzac-class frigate HMAS Ballarat seized over 900 kilos of heroin in two separate interceptions in the Middle East, the Royal Australian Navy has announced.
In two boarding operations on December 21 and 23, the frigate’s crew seized approximately AU$279 million worth of narcotics as part of the ship’s operation Manitou deployment.
Ballarat conducted flag verification checks by boarding vessels of interest, under the direction of the Combined Maritime Forces’ (CMF) Combined Task Force (CTF) 150 in international waters in the Arabian Sea. The fishing vessels, known as dhows, were believed to be engaging in illegal activity.
The boarding team discovered and seized illegal narcotics on both dhows. 165 kilos of heroin was found on the first dhow, and 766 kg on a second. The drugs were transferred to Ballarat for disposal.
HMAS Ballarat’s boarding party conducts a flag verification boarding on a suspicious dhow. Photo: Royal Australian Navy
Commanding officer of HMAS Ballarat, Commander Paul Johnson, said: “A thorough search by the boarding parties uncovered a large quantity of heroin intended for distribution around the world. By keeping these illegal narcotics out of the hands of those that exploit others, we improve the lives of those in the region.”
“The crew is well prepared for these activities and I am glad that they have been able to showcase their professionalism in supporting security in this complex maritime environment”.
These are the first seizures Ballarat has made since starting operations in the Middle East Region during November 2018 in support of operation Manitou.
Posted on December 28, 2018 with tags Counter-Narcotics, HMAS Ballarat, Op MANITOU, Royal Australian Navy.
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Silent Narration? Elements of Narrative in Ives's The Unanswered Question
Matthew McDonald
19th-Century Music, Vol. 27 No. 3, Spring 2004; (pp. 263-286) DOI: 10.1525/ncm.2004.27.3.263
In recent years, discussions of narrative in music seem to have fallen into decline. This circumstance might register the effects of the strong stances taken by a few influential writers in the early 1990s regarding the extent to which music can be understood as narrative. This article shifts focus to a different concern, the extent to which music can be related to narrative metaphorically. Using narrative as flexible conceptual framework, it considers Charles IvesÕs The Unanswered Question, a piece whose foundational narrative impulse few would dispute. The central narrative aspects include compositional techniques particular to the twentieth century, such as reordered chronologies and the layering of seemingly independent material. These features suggest comparison with various aspects of narrative structure and narration in literary and filmic narratives. The comparison suggests new ways of conceptualizing IvesÕs music, showing how new techniques intersected with narrative forms, and it suggests that a broader case could and should be made for the continued utility of narratological approaches to music of many different kinds. Particular attention is given to IvesÕs short programmatic note of the early 1930s. The existential program, as expressed through this text and amplified by the music, intersects with the language, imagery, structure, and worldview conveyed in Ralph Waldo EmersonÕs poem The Sphinx and IvesÕs "Emerson" essay from Essays before a Sonata. These connections strengthen the notion that both the program and the music were creative reactions to EmersonÕs writings and that some protoversion of the 1930s program existed in Ives mind on composing the 1908 version of the piece. Seeing the presence of Emerson behind IvesÕs original conception of The Unanswered Question helps us to understand the origins of the distinctly narrative aspects of the work and suggests other potential narratives besides the familiar one offered in IvesÕs note.
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Phase Characterization of Cucumber Growth: A Chemical Gel Model
Bo Li ,1,2 Xuejing Liu,1,2 and Junshi Zhang2,3
1School of Mechanical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, 28 Xianning West Road, Xi’an 710049, China
2State Key Laboratory for Strength and Vibration of Mechanical Structures, Xi’an Jiaotong University, 28 Xianning West Road, Xi’an 710049, China
3School of Aerospace, Xi’an Jiaotong University, 28 Xianning West Road, Xi’an 710049, China
Academic Editor: Kai Chen
Received15 Dec 2015
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Published05 Apr 2016
Cucumber grows with complex phenomena by changing its volume and shape, which is not fully investigated and challenges agriculture and food safety industry. In order to understand the mechanism and to characterize the growth process, the cucumber is modeled as a hydrogel in swelling and its development is studied in both preharvest and postharvest stages. Based on thermodynamics, constitutive equations, incorporating biological quantities, are established. The growth behavior of cucumber follows the classic theory of continuous or discontinuous phase transition. The mechanism of bulged tail in cucumber is interpreted by phase coexistence and characterized by critical conditions. Conclusions are given for advances in food engineering and novel fabrication techniques in mechanical biology.
Development of fruit growth can be identified as a series of successive stages. Before harvest, it develops nonlinearly, then enlarges slowly at initial period, and then grows rapidly as it approaches its maturation. At the moment of harvesting, the fruit is not fully ripened but leaves space for growth that may continue during agricultural storage and transportation for sale. This explains why bananas are almost green and stiff on the shelves of a supermarket and then turn yellow and soft gradually in your kitchen. The growth of fruit after harvest is denoted as postharvest behavior. Ethylene is frequently used to accelerate the process of ripening [1].
According to recent TV news, some cucumbers in the kitchen displayed inhomogeneous deformation in body and their tails bulged locally, as seen in Figure 1. Concerns for the food safety were raised about this unusual phenomenon, since the underlying mechanism, relating multifields knowledge in chemistry, biology, and mechanics, was elusive. In cross-disciplines of plant study, enormous efforts have been devoted to the research of plant growth, including experts from botany to mathematics [2, 3]. In solid mechanics, the establishment of the nonlinear gel theory offers a new insight to the study of biomechanics. Using the gel theory, the quantities in physics, chemistry, and biology are coupled [4]. Since both gel and biological tissues are soft, flexible, and stretchable, the expansion of biological organs under the regulation of hormones is analogous to the swelling of gel. Large deformation and mass transportation of gel are capable of characterizing the biological system, that is, the morphology of esophagi in growth [5], pattern formation of pumpkin shell [6], wrinkle profile of a finger immersed in water [7], dehydrated green pea in a dry environment [8], and so forth. Through these researches, the capability of gel theory has been reproduced and verified by modeling in biology. In the current presentation, we also adopt the gel theory to analyze the growth process in a specific fruit category: the cucumber. The phenomenon in growth resembles the phase transition in classic thermodynamic systems, while the biochemistry is involved.
Growth of cucumber is complex. After harvest, the cucumbers are immature and ripen gradually during storage. This phenomenon is defined as postharvest ripening. During postharvest, as a result of biological nature, some cucumber species select to ripen part of the whole body, with limited nutrition. Therefore, they show a local inhomogeneous growth at the tail of a cucumber body. Report by Phoenix TV: http://v.ifeng.com/news/society/201205/05a4eed1-dc0b-4936-b3be-fb70681691f9.shtml.
2. A Chemomechanical Model
Figure 2 sketches an illustration of a thermodynamic system for gel. We first model the growth of a cucumber before harvest as a process of swelling in a cylinder gel. The dry polymer network imbibes solvent molecules (individual volume of ) and enlarges itself from volume at initial state to volume at harvested state. In fruit development, the hormones stimulate the expansion of cells, tissues, and organs, which is similar to the swelling mechanism of gel under its chemical potential .
The growth of a cucumber is analogous to the process of swelling in a tubular gel. Subjected to the chemical potential, the dry polymer network imbibes solvent molecules, forming a swollen gel. The sketched model characterizes the shape change of cucumber during growth, with the dimension enlarging from (a) at the initial state to (b) at the harvested state.
, the free energy per unit initial volume of the gel, is the combination of , the strain energy in polymer network due to stretching, and , the chemical energy due to mixing network with solvent [4, 9]. ConsiderHere, are the principle stretches to be determined by coordinates. The free energy expression is then specified by Gent model [10] and Flory-Rehner function [11] aswhere is the number of crosslinks in unit initial volume, is the Boltzmann constant, is the temperature, is the maximum extension limit, is a dimensionless constant, is the concentration of solvent molecule in initial volume, and .
According to the thermodynamics, we define the nominal stresses as , , and . Then we haveConsider the shape of cucumber is cylindrical, so the stretches are represented by
Thus, the constitutive equations are expressed as
In cucumber growth, no external forces are applied to the biological entity, so that we model the growth of the cucumber as an isotropic free swelling process of the gel. Therefore, we have and . Equations (5a) and (5b) are reduced to
Figure 3 plots the swelling of four types of gel, differing in the material density of crosslink, , to characterize the growth of cucumbers. and as selected for representative values [6]. Gel, which is heavily cross-linked, is stiffer, behaved in mechanical strain responding. So characterizes the stiffness of material, which, in terms of biological interpretation, is the species of cucumber featuring in strength, elasticity, and firmness. The growth stretch shows a nonlinear trend which is in good coincidence of observation of real cucumber growth; during the early stage, the cucumber enlarges slowly, which corresponds to the small stretch. When the chemical potential reaches a critical value, cucumber expands abruptly and then reaches a plateau for harvest. Some fruit is able to increase its volume by 100 times which resembles the performance of hydrogel in solvents absorbent. Figure 3 shows a continuous phase transition in material volume which recalls classic phase transformation in physics. For example, PbZrO3 ceramic transits from antiferroelectric state to ferroelectric state when the electric field exceeds the critical magnitudes. In ferroelectric material, the transition is tunable by mechanical confinements such as stress or strain [12]. Here, we also investigate how the stiffness affects the cucumber growth. Figure 4 illustrates the swelling associated with crosslink density at selected chemical potentials. In Figures 4(c) and 4(d), the stretch curve is nonmonotonic that follows “Z” shape as crosslink density increases. At a specific condition, two stretches coexist, which means that a special type of cucumber might grow with two shapes in the same body, at a prescribed hormone degree. Within a whole cucumber body, one part enables a fast and accelerated growth while the other grows normally. Figure 4(d) explains the news report in Figure 1 when the cucumber bulged locally in the tail. This verifies the first-order phase transition in thermodynamics. For example, at 0 degrees of temperature, H2O can coexist in both solid ice phase and liquid water phase.
Stretch versus chemical potential during the gel swelling to model the growth of cucumber, showing an analogue to continuous phase transition.
The growth processes by the model of gel swelling are influenced by chemical potential and density of crosslink, which are analogous to the concentration of plant hormone and cucumber stiffness in species. (a)–(d) show the effect of crosslink density, which denotes the firmness of cucumber species.
We next investigate the phenomenon in Figure 1 in detail to extend the model to the study of postharvest process. After harvest, the cucumber is close to maturation but not fully ripened. To regulate the ripening speed, ethylene is spayed to form an artificial hormones environment. Denote the concentrate of ethylene as and reexpress the free energy asFigure 5 plots the free energy landscapes, normalized by . Three magnitudes of crosslink density are prescribed with variation less than 10%, but the associated energy curves distinguish greatly in landscape. At , the thermodynamics system stabilizes at a lower stretch phase, since the energy minimizes. The higher stretch phase, corresponding to the second-minimized energy, is the metastable state that the gel might stabilize here temporally; but under a small perturbation, it could transit to the lower stretch state for global stabilization. Similar case is also presented in since two minima are presented. The small stretch phase is metastable and large stretch phase is globally stable. Equation (7) offers to determine a level of density, , when the two stretches, and , share the same level of minimum free energy that both are globally stable. The two stretches in the growth of cucumber during postharvest process are possibly coexisting, only subject to a specific level of ethylene concentration.
Coexistence of two stretch phases of and subject to the conditions of and .
Not all the cucumbers ripen with coexistence. The phenomenon is determined by the critical conditions of both the density of crosslink and the chemical potential . Here, Figure 6(a) shows the mechanism. At the onset of phase coexistence of and , the critical density separates the curve, resulting in two grey regions which are the same in area. In thermodynamics, this line is defined as Maxwell line [13]. Following the classic theory in physics, we denote the critical value as Maxwell density to study the phase behavior in the current biochemical system.
(a) The Maxwell density determines the coexistence of stretch states where the two states have the equal grey area. (b) Above the critical value, the small growth stretch state is stable; below the value, the large stretch state is stable.
The critical Maxwell density is a function of chemical potential that determines the occurrence for transition. By solving equations in Appendix, we plot in Figure 6(b) the relations. Under a prescribed chemical ethylene concentrate, cucumbers with density above the critical line are stable in the rod phase (phase B) with a small growth stretch; for cucumbers with density below the critical line, they bulge (phase A) for stabilization. For cucumbers holding the density that exactly falls in the critical line, their tails bulge but bodies are left in rod state. The local bulging instability has been documented in the research of tissue engineering, that is, aneurysm angiogenesis [14–16], with extensive solution of the inhomogeneous deformation. Here, we explain the mechanism for the first time from the perspective of botany in biology and characterize it using chemical thermodynamics. Using this model, an engineer is able to regulate the growth of plant and to achieve a prescribed shape in fruits and vegetables [17]. This offers a new insight into on-demand manufacturing. The element in mechanical structure is fabricated in a biological way to form its profile naturally.
In summary, the growth of cucumber is analogous to the swelling of gel. We characterize the phenomena of cucumber growth, covering the processes of both preharvest and postharvest, by establishing a thermodynamic gel model. The phase behavior in plant growth resembles the transition in ferroelectric ceramic and other biological tissue growth. The model offers solutions to regulate fruit development and can be extended to other plant candidates for potential technique in biological and food engineering.
Assume the cucumber gel is composed of two parts with lengths and , with . At the phase coexistence, the bulge phase is of length and the rod phase is of length . The areas are and . Define and . The free energy is then expressed as . The variation of energy iswhich givesand rewritten asAccording to the second law of thermodynamics, the system is stable by minimizing the energy change for any arbitrary variation of quantities, so we haveSubstituting the specific Gent and Flory-Rehner energy functions in (A.4), we obtainSolving (A.5), we are able to determine the critical conditions for phase coexistence.
This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (no. 11402184), Shaanxi Province, and China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (no. 2014M560761). Bo Li acknowledges XJTU for startup fund and International Collaboration Project Fund.
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Why is farmers’ market bread so ridiculously expensive?
The day is cold and windy, a sunny but bracing 32 degrees in New York City. But at the Union Square Greenmarket, one of more than 50 farmers’ markets in the city, and a stalwart in operation since 1976, a brisk business is afoot at the Regional Grains Project stand. While the winter tends to be quiet for many regional farmers who sell their products at the market, it’s high season for the stand, a collaborative effort between the Greenmarket and a number of farmers, millers, and distributors in the Northeast.
Piled high with freshly milled flours, whole grains, beans, and cooking oils, all sourced from the northeastern United States, the stand sees a steady early morning stream of visitors. Home bakers, interested eaters, and regulars all pop by to pick up bulk bags of rolled oats for the hot breakfasts that sustain them through winter’s last gasp. A baker connected to Greenmarket favorite She Wolf Bakery, stops by to pick up several bulk bags of rye flour—a stopgap measure meant to last until the company can get a full pallet of flour from the same mill.
Cities large and small have seen a renaissance of whole-grain bakers using freshly milled flour.
Originally constructed as a promotional mechanism for local and regional grains, the Grainstand, as the stand is affectionately known, has since morphed into a mechanism for building local grains capacity in New York City. Officially called the Regional Grains Project, it directly connects chefs, brewers, distillers, and bakers who sell at the Greenmarket with the regional products, farmers, and producers they need to know.
While the initiative was built in part to serve bakeries operating in the Greenmarket—bakeries now required to use at least 15 percent local and regional grains in their products—it has grown to serve bakers and breadmakers who work outside the bounds of Union Square park, too.
What’s the saying—build it and they will come? When it comes to regional grain-sheds, maybe it’s more like build it and they will clone.
Related: How to build a regional grain economy from scratch.
That’s what’s happened with the Regional Grains Project, which has been replicated across the country from California’s CA Grain Campaign, Colorado’s Noble Grain Alliance, and the Maine Grain Alliance, to informal networks cropping up in places like Austin, Texas; Ann Arbor, Michigan; New Orleans, Louisiana, and even Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in Canada. These efforts, along with increasing popular interest in whole-grain baking, fresh milling, and the advantages of sourdough baking, showcase how the local grains movement has matured. These are places where demand for healthy, flavorful food is being matched with economic viability and soil health for farmers and rural communities.
One of the clearest indicators that regional grain-sheds are starting to thrive is the rise of local bakeries. From Skowhegan, Maine to Spokane, Washington, cities large and small have seen a renaissance of whole-grain bakers using freshly milled flour. And though local grains and can be more expensive than commodity counterparts—it’s not uncommon to find a loaf of bread priced at $10 or more—their customers are apparently willing to pay for it. At least some Americans seem to accept that bread that costs more to produce, and is baked by skilled bakers who make sustainable livings, will also cost more to buy.
But, wait. This escalated pricing raises an important question about who gets to access these products, and in turn, reveals a critical inflection point in the regional grains revival. While we wait for capacity to be built, which will eventually decrease costs and raise the efficiencies of distribution for regional grains, who is the customer for $10-a-loaf, whole-grain bread?
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Though local grains and can be more expensive than commodity counterparts—it’s not uncommon to find a loaf of bread priced at $10 or more—customers are apparently willing to pay for it
Washington Post columnist and oyster farmer Tamar Haspel has said the local foods movement is a niche for rich folks, and there are plenty of others who support that particular read. The issue of comparative cost has, for some time now, dogged the movement: Accusations of posh, arugula-eating liberalism are used to frame good-food advocates as feudalist-romanticists or worse, out-of-touch elitists. And while there are enough studies to show the relative cost-competitiveness of local foods in season, when it comes to value-added products like bread, the claim carries with it a little more weight. Last year, the New York Post reported on the pricey artisanal bakeries popping up throughout the Big Apple, and their generally well-heeled clientele—including a financial analyst who defended her $4 baguette, saying, “If it’s good, it doesn’t matter how much it costs.” One baker I spoke to indicated that, for now, finding customers willing to pay high prices is part of the job, necessary to support higher-than-average wages, employee benefits, and commitment to local sourcing.
Escalated pricing raises an important question: Who is the customer for $10-a-loaf, whole-grain bread?
The difficulty in reaching lower-income communities and communities of color is real, one that many in the local foods movement and the grain movement in general acknowledge, and are attempting to work on. But as tempting as it is to view this as a weakness of the movement, if there is one takeaway, it would be this: It may not necessarily be the domain of bakeries to resolve the issue of affordability and access to their products.
The fact is, there was a greater degree of economic equity at the time the farmers’ market movement took hold in the 1970s. American incomes have stagnated since then, with four decades of losses in real wages and two recessions in the past ten years—which may provide some clue as to why access to local food markets is, especially since 2012, much diminished. This reality coincides with research from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) affirming that, while there is still great demand for local food, much of the energy in farmers’ market and CSA growth, at least, has cooled off—even as institutional purchasing mores are shifting toward more local sourcing.
Related: The new food economy grows up. An illustrated timeline.
Specialty bakers and heirloom grains growers also face up against a specific economic issue: Government programs, including subsidies, skew the actual cost of goods. The average wholesale cost for commodity wheat flour in this country runs about 46 cents a pound; organic commodity wheat can be priced slightly higher, and regional and small grains production closer to $1 a pound, if not more for specialty cereals like spelt, einkorn, and emmer. Most of these growers also practice better-than-average soil care compared to commodity growers who, while coming around on the issue of soil health, have also relied on taxpayers to facilitate cleanup and pay for the environmental externalities of commodity grain production. While commodity flour at retail is cheaper than local or regional grain, its relative cheapness is misleading—the hidden costs of production can be found in our tax bills, if not always on the price tag in the store.
When it comes down to it, the issue of market expansion requires more than building capacity. Education and promotion will continue to be important, as will finding viable intersections between the grains movement and public health outreach groups, nutritionists, and food policy councils, who have all been helpful in gaining local foods leverage in school districts, prisons, and other public-sector agencies.
Related: Feds won’t make good food happen. So cities, armed with food policy councils, will do it themselves.
It will require the will of the whole community of growers, millers, bakers, and even eaters to generate and sustain good price points on foods made with local grains. Access is about many things beyond just putting more of a certain kind of food in front of people. Regional grain advocates could fold that reality into their existing efforts to build awareness around the regional grain-shed.
But before we lose ourselves entirely in building capacity for regional grains themselves, it is critical to take a step back and build capacity for small-scale entrepreneurs to access capital and eaters to purchase at the price points farmers, millers, and bakers require to survive.
It may not necessarily be the domain of bakeries to resolve the issue of affordability and access to their products.
In some places, that effort is already under way. New York City’s Hot Bread Kitchen, aside from abiding by the Greenmarket’s sourcing requirements, also runs job training and mentorship programs for its staff, primarily women bakers of immigrant status who want to develop their own enterprises. Maine Grains, the Skowhegan-based mill, has integrated vertically, creating opportunities for both farmers and bakers in economically depressed central Maine. It owns the mill, a bakery-cafe, and runs a seasonal farmers’ market to generate new opportunities for its community. And New York’s She Wolf Bakery, part of Andrew Tarlow’s restaurant group, is working to exceed the city’s soon-to-be $15 minimum, while also providing employee benefits ensure they have access to the quality of food they source and serve. Building social enterprises, ones that broaden the buy-in from a variety of different end-users—home and professional bakers, their families, and their communities—is the next logical step in bolstering advocates and users of regional grains.
Back at the Greenmarket, a group of school children comes to the stand, teacher in tow. “We’re buying rolled oats, to make oatmeal with apples and honey, all from the market—right everyone?” The students cry out enthusiastically. The connections they make with these foods today builds their connection with those foods later in life, nurturing eating habits, culinary skills, and an understanding of foodways in their orbit. It is part of the work of the regional grains movement, and local foods advocates in general, to make sure they will be able to afford it.
Disclosure: As a former market manager for GrowNYC’s Greenmarket Program, Stephen S. Wade helped manage the Regional Grains Project.
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Young black organizers in Chicago have made the Cook County State’s Attorney one of the most important races tonight.
It took State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez over a year to charge a Chicago cop with first degree murder for the October 2014 shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. Now, Alvarez is up for reelection in what is seen as the first referendum on the city’s handling of the entire case (Mayor Rahm Emanuel will be much harder to remove).
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Sailor provides emergency medical assistance at 37,000 feet
Published on 18 June 2014 CMDR Sean Noble (author)
Topic(s): HMAS Perth (F157)
Petty Officer Medic Tex Cowie checks a patient onboard HMAS Perth.
Petty Officer Medic Tex Cowie recently provided medical assistance to a distressed airline passenger while in the air, on the way from Perth to Darwin. Petty Officer Cowie, HMAS Perth’s Clinical Manager, was returning to the ship after a reunion trip home. Perth was alongside Darwin for a short port visit.
During the flight, the passenger became distressed and required immediate respiratory assistance. The flight stewards quickly realised that something was wrong and announced an emergency call for a medical doctor. In the absence of a doctor on board the aircraft, Petty Officer Cowie told the airline staff that he was able to provide assistance.
“I saw the flight stewards move the passenger into the front of the plane, where there was more room. The passenger was already receiving oxygen. It was obvious that there was not a doctor present, so I volunteered to help,” Petty Officer Cowie said.
“It was the right thing to do. I knew I could help them out.
“The passenger was upset and distressed; she had a lot of medical concerns with a history of medical ailments. I was able to calm the situation and control the scene. The flight had an emergency physician’s kit onboard that contained a lot of equipment that we could use to stabilise the patient.
“At 37,000 feet, the best thing to do was to settle the situation and ride the plane into Darwin where there would be tertiary medical support,” he said.
Throughout the situation, Petty Officer Cowie continued to relay vital medical information through to the aircrew so that they could alert the ambulance and medical team waiting in Darwin.
When it was all over, Petty Officer Cowie was asked why he stood up and helped. He replied quite humbly: “I am in the Navy, that’s what we do.”
Perth medical crew ‘ready for anything’
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Working together no trial
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Topic(s): MRH-90 Taipan, MH-60R Seahawk, HMAS Canberra (L02), Aircraft Maintenance and Flight Trials Unit
Leading Seaman Aviation Support Benjamin King directs an Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter, ARH Tiger, as it takes off from HMAS Canberra's flight deck.
First of class flight trials onboard HMAS Canberra have truly been a tri-service affair with Army test pilots, Navy flight test engineers and Air Force technicians all working on the task.
Canberra’s Commander Air, Commander Adrian Capner said that military aviation was increasingly becoming a whole-of-Defence endeavour.
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“It’s becoming more and more of a joint environment and it’s working very well.”
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“We also have a US Navy test pilot, Lieutenant Mike Lindsey, from Air Test and Evaluation Squadron – TWO ONE as part of the MH-60R test team,” Commander Hutchinson said.
The Flight Test Unit brings to the trial 50 years of first of class flight trials and ship interface testing experience.
“What we do not have is the deep level operational understanding regarding how the Army aircraft can be best employed from this class of ship. This is where the direct involvement and input from the 1st Aviation Regiment and Test and Evaluation Squadron is absolutely critical to a successful trial outcome.”
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CareTrust REIT Announces First Quarter 2019 Operating Results
Conference Call Scheduled for Wednesday, May 8, 2019 at 1:00 pm ET
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif., May 07, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CareTrust REIT, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTRE) today reported operating results for the quarter ended March 31, 2019, as well as other recent events.
For the quarter, CareTrust REIT reported:
Net income of $16.1 million, a quarter-over-quarter increase of 10%, and net income per diluted weighted-average common share of $0.18;
Normalized FFO of $27.9 million, a quarter-over-quarter increase of 16%, and normalized FFO per diluted weighted-average common share of $0.32;
Normalized FAD of $29.0 million, a quarter-over-quarter increase of 16%, and normalized FAD per diluted weighted-average common share of $0.33;
A net debt-to-normalized EBITDA ratio of 3.3x, and a net debt-to-enterprise value of 18%, each as of quarter-end.
Fast Start to 2019
CareTrust also reported approximately $290 million in new investments in the quarter and since. Greg Stapley, CareTrust's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, said, “We are pleased to be bringing some great new assets into the portfolio, but we are most excited about adding two outstanding healthcare providers to our growing list of top-flight tenants, and growing with three others.”
He also noted that, despite the significant growth in the company’s asset base, CareTrust has maintained a conservative 3.3x net debt-to-normalized EBITDA via $47.9 million in sales during the quarter from its at-the-market equity program and an overnight equity raise in early April that netted an additional $148.4 million. “Match-funding accretive acquisitions to optimize leverage is a high-priority element of our disciplined growth approach,” said Mr. Stapley. He added that the low leverage and early growth had positioned the Company well to execute on its opportunistic growth strategy through the rest of 2019. “With our quick start, we can afford to be especially selective as we sift through the opportunities to find good assets and great operators to run them, and we remain firmly committed to that discipline,” he concluded.
Financial Results for Quarter Ended March 31, 2019
Chief Financial Officer Bill Wagner reported that, for the first quarter, CareTrust generated net income of $16.1 million, or $0.18 per diluted weighted-average common share, normalized FFO of $27.9 million, or $0.32 per diluted weighted-average common share, and normalized FAD of $29.0 million, or $0.33 per diluted weighted-average common share. “We are pleased to be delivering a 16% quarter-over-quarter increase in both normalized FFO and normalized FAD while simultaneously issuing equity to significantly reduce our leverage and prepare for the future,” said Mr. Wagner.
Discussing the Company’s balance sheet, Mr. Wagner reported that, as of quarter end, CareTrust’s net debt-to-normalized EBITDA ratio was approximately 3.3x and its net debt-to-enterprise value ratio was approximately 18%. He also disclosed that, as of today, the Company’s net debt-to-normalized EBITDA ratio stands at approximately 3.3x. “Our current debt levels are well under management’s stated target leverage range of 4.0x to 5.0x net debt-to-normalized EBITDA, allowing us substantial optionality with respect to how we choose to fund significant growth going forward,” he said.
He also reported that on February 8, 2019, CareTrust expanded its borrowing capacity from $400.0 million to $600.0 million and extended the maturity date under its unsecured revolving credit facility, and simultaneously entered into a $200.0 million, seven-year, non-amortizing unsecured term loan. The term loan proceeds were used to pay off CareTrust's existing $100.0 million unsecured term loan and the then-outstanding $85.0 million balance on its unsecured revolving credit facility. The remaining term loan proceeds went to cash on hand, where it was used in large part to fund the February 11, 2019 Covenant Care transaction.
The amended unsecured revolver and unsecured term loan have grid-based pricing of LIBOR plus 110 bps - 155 bps and LIBOR plus 150 bps - 220 bps, respectively. Additionally, the unsecured revolver carries an accordion feature which allows for up to $500.0 million of additional borrowing capacity when exercised, subject to customary terms and conditions.
Mr. Wagner also reported that during the quarter CareTrust issued approximately 2.5 million shares of common stock through its at-the-market program at an average price of $19.48 per share, for $47.9 million in gross proceeds. “Our ATM program remains a significant asset in the Company’s toolbox, as it significantly enhances our ability to match-fund the smaller acquisitions that have been our bread and butter,” he said. He also noted that during the quarter CareTrust refreshed the program, which had essentially exhausted its original 2017 $300.0 million authorization, with a new $300.0 million program, and added that the new program has its full $300.0 million in authorization remaining at present.
Mr. Wagner also reported that after the quarter, CareTrust issued an additional 6.6 million shares of common stock for net proceeds of approximately $148.4 million in an overnight offering that was approximately four times oversubscribed. “We are gratified by the market’s robust response to our equity offering, and have put the funds right to work at a solid yield with our $215 million Louisiana and Texas acquisition completed April 1, 2019,” he said.
2019 Guidance
Mr. Wagner provided 2019 earnings guidance, projecting on a per-diluted weighted-average common share basis net income of approximately $0.84 to $0.86, normalized FFO of approximately $1.35 to $1.37, and normalized FAD of approximately $1.40 to $1.42. He noted that the 2019 guidance is based on a diluted weighted-average common share count of 93.5 million shares and assumes no new acquisitions or dispositions beyond those completed to date, no new debt incurrences or new equity issuances, and estimated 1.5% CPI-based rent escalators under CareTrust's long-term net leases.
Dividend Declared
During the quarter, CareTrust declared a quarterly dividend of $0.225 per common share. “On an annualized basis, our quarterly dividend represents a payout ratio of approximately 70% based on the first quarter 2019 normalized FFO, and 68% on normalized FAD,” said Mr. Wagner. “At this level, our dividend remains among the best-protected of all our industry peers, while simultaneously providing additional growth capital for reinvestment and a solid overall return to our shareholders,” he added.
Portfolio Growth in the Quarter and Since
During the first quarter, CareTrust acquired Oakview Healthcare, a 128-bed/unit skilled nursing and assisted living campus in Mt. Carmel, Illinois. The total investment was approximately $9.0 million, inclusive of transaction costs. At closing, CareTrust and existing tenant WLC Management Firm, LLC added the campus to WLC’s master lease by amending and restating their master lease as of February 1, 2019, with CPI-based annual rent escalators and a new 15-year term plus two five-year renewal options. The annual cash rent due under the WLC master lease increased by approximately $854,000. CareTrust funded the acquisition using cash on hand.
CareTrust also acquired a 492-bed, four-property skilled nursing portfolio in California in a sale-leaseback transaction with subsidiaries of existing tenant Covenant Care, Inc. Mark Lamb, CareTrust’s Chief Investment Officer, noted that the transaction allowed CareTrust to consolidate the four newly-acquired facilities and four other assets held under three existing leases with Covenant Care into a new long-term master lease for all of CareTrust’s Covenant Care-operated assets. The total investment for the sale-leaseback was approximately $43.9 million, inclusive of transaction costs, with approximately $4.0 million in initial annual cash rent. The new master lease carries an initial term of 15 years, with two five-year renewal options and CPI-based rent escalators, while the three standalone leases that were consolidated and eliminated had remaining lease terms of less than five years. In conjunction with the sale-leaseback, CareTrust also provided Covenant Care with a short-term $11.4 million secured term loan at an interest rate of 9.0%, secured by a first mortgage on a five-property, 440-bed skilled nursing portfolio owned and operated by Covenant Care subsidiaries in Illinois. The sale-leaseback and secured term loan were funded using cash on hand. In a subsequent pre-planned transfer of operations, Covenant Care transferred possession of one of the four operations acquired by CareTrust in the sale/leaseback to an operating subsidiary of existing CareTrust tenant The Ensign Group, and the facility was added to one of CareTrust’s master leases with Ensign.
Subsequent to quarter-end, CareTrust acquired seven skilled nursing facilities and one multi-service campus in Louisiana, which were re-tenanted at closing with CareTrust's existing tenant Priority Management Group, LLC. The transaction also included three skilled nursing facilities and one continuing care retirement community in Texas, which were re-tenanted with Texas-based Southwest LTC, Ltd. under a new master lease with CareTrust. The lease with Southwest LTC, Ltd. carries an initial term of 15 years, with two five-year renewal options and CPI-based rent escalators. The aggregate purchase price for the 12-property portfolio was approximately $215.0 million, inclusive of capital expenditure commitments and estimated transaction costs, and initial annual cash rents from the investment are approximately $19.0 million. The portfolio acquisition was initially funded using approximately $185.0 million in borrowings under CareTrust’s $600 million revolving credit facility, with the remainder funded with cash on hand, and the revolving borrowings largely paid down shortly thereafter with the net proceeds of CareTrust’s $148.4 million overnight equity offering completed in early April.
Also subsequent to quarter-end, CareTrust acquired a 118-operating bed skilled nursing facility in Dallas, Texas, and leased it to Next Gen P, LLC. The total investment was approximately $10.0 million, inclusive of estimated transaction costs, and the new master lease carries an annual cash rent of approximately $900,000. CareTrust funded the acquisition using cash on hand.
A conference call will be held on Wednesday, May 8, 2019, at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time (10:00 a.m. Pacific Time), during which CareTrust’s management will discuss first quarter 2019 results, recent developments and other matters. The dial-in number for this call is (844) 220-4972 (U.S.) or (317) 973-4053 (International). The conference ID number is 8252819. To listen to the call online, or to view any financial or other statistical information required by SEC Regulation G, please visit the Investors section of the CareTrust REIT website at http://investor.caretrustreit.com. The call will be recorded, and will be available for replay via the website for 30 days following the call.
About CareTrust™
CareTrust REIT, Inc. is a self-administered, publicly-traded real estate investment trust engaged in the ownership, acquisition and leasing of seniors housing and healthcare-related properties. With 212 net-leased healthcare properties and three operated seniors housing properties in 28 states, CareTrust is pursuing opportunities across the nation to acquire properties that will be leased to a diverse group of local, regional and national seniors housing operators, healthcare services providers, and other healthcare-related businesses. More information about CareTrust is available at www.caretrustreit.com.
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This press release contains, and the related conference call will include, forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include all statements that are not historical statements of fact and statements regarding the Company’s intent, belief or expectations, including, but not limited to, statements regarding future financial and financing positions, business and acquisition strategies, growth prospects, operating and financial performance, expectations regarding the making of distributions, payment of dividends, compliance with and changes in governmental regulations, and the performance of the Company’s tenants and operators and their respective facilities.
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CONSOLIDATED INCOME STATEMENTS
For the Three Months Ended March 31,
Revenues:
Rental income $ 38,347 $ 33,816
Tenant reimbursements — 2,968
Independent living facilities 860 799
Interest and other income 451 518
Total revenues 39,658 38,101
Depreciation and amortization 11,902 11,577
Interest expense 6,860 7,092
Property taxes 826 2,968
General and administrative 3,310 3,192
Total expenses 23,605 25,545
Other income:
Gain on sale of real estate — 2,051
Net income $ 16,053 $ 14,607
Basic $ 0.18 $ 0.19
Diluted $ 0.18 $ 0.19
Weighted average shares outstanding:
Dividends declared per common share $ 0.225 $ 0.205
RECONCILIATIONS OF NET INCOME TO NON-GAAP FINANCIAL MEASURES
Amortization of stock-based compensation 994 904
EBITDA 35,809 34,180
Gain on sale of real estate — (2,051 )
Normalized EBITDA $ 35,809 $ 32,129
Real estate related depreciation and amortization 11,884 11,549
Funds from Operations (FFO) 27,937 24,105
Normalized FFO $ 27,937 $ 24,105
RECONCILIATIONS OF NET INCOME TO NON-GAAP FINANCIAL MEASURES (continued)
Amortization of deferred financing fees 541 484
Straight-line rental income (463 ) (591 )
Funds Available for Distribution (FAD) 29,009 24,902
Normalized FAD $ 29,009 $ 24,902
FFO per share $ 0.32 $ 0.32
Normalized FFO per share $ 0.32 $ 0.32
FAD per share $ 0.33 $ 0.33
Normalized FAD per share $ 0.33 $ 0.33
Diluted weighted average shares outstanding [1] 88,266 75,657
[1] For the periods presented, the diluted weighted average shares have been calculated using the treasury stock method.
CONSOLIDATED INCOME STATEMENTS - 5 QUARTER TREND
Ended Quarter
March 31,
2018 June 30,
2018 September 30,
2018 March 31,
Rental income $ 33,816 $ 34,708 $ 35,332 $ 36,217 $ 38,347
Tenant reimbursements 2,968 3,016 2,990 2,950 —
Independent living facilities 799 845 871 864 860
Interest and other income 518 400 317 330 451
Total revenues 38,101 38,969 39,510 40,361 39,658
Depreciation and amortization 11,577 11,299 11,351 11,539 11,902
Interest expense 7,092 7,285 6,805 6,678 6,860
Property taxes 2,968 3,016 2,990 2,950 826
General and administrative 3,192 3,358 3,088 2,917 3,310
Total expenses 25,545 25,702 25,000 24,822 23,605
Gain on sale of real estate 2,051 — — — —
Net income $ 14,607 $ 13,267 $ 14,510 $ 15,539 $ 16,053
Diluted earnings per share $ 0.19 $ 0.17 $ 0.18 $ 0.18 $ 0.18
Diluted weighted average shares outstanding 75,504 76,374 81,490 84,084 88,010
RECONCILIATIONS OF NET INCOME TO NON-GAAP FINANCIAL MEASURES - 5 QUARTER TREND
2018 Quarter
Amortization of stock-based compensation 904 924 988 1,032 994
EBITDA 34,180 32,775 33,654 34,788 35,809
Gain on sale of real estate (2,051 ) — — — —
Normalized EBITDA $ 32,129 $ 32,775 $ 33,654 $ 34,788 $ 35,809
Real estate related depreciation and amortization 11,549 11,265 11,330 11,520 11,884
Funds from Operations (FFO) 24,105 24,532 25,840 27,059 27,937
Normalized FFO $ 24,105 $ 24,532 $ 25,840 $ 27,059 $ 27,937
RECONCILIATIONS OF NET INCOME TO NON-GAAP FINANCIAL MEASURES - 5 QUARTER TREND (continued)
Amortization of deferred financing fees 484 484 484 486 541
Straight-line rental income (591 ) (342 ) (698 ) (702 ) (463 )
Funds Available for Distribution (FAD) 24,902 25,598 26,614 27,875 29,009
Normalized FAD $ 24,902 $ 25,598 $ 26,614 $ 27,875 $ 29,009
FFO per share $ 0.32 $ 0.32 $ 0.32 $ 0.32 $ 0.32
Normalized FFO per share $ 0.32 $ 0.32 $ 0.32 $ 0.32 $ 0.32
FAD per share $ 0.33 $ 0.33 $ 0.33 $ 0.33 $ 0.33
Normalized FAD per share $ 0.33 $ 0.33 $ 0.33 $ 0.33 $ 0.33
Diluted weighted average shares outstanding [1] 75,657 76,545 81,687 84,324 88,266
Assets:
Real estate investments, net $ 1,259,336 $ 1,216,237
Other real estate investments, net 29,419 18,045
Cash and cash equivalents 214,354 36,792
Accounts and other receivables, net 8,360 11,387
Prepaid expenses and other assets 8,759 8,668
Deferred financing costs, net 3,758 633
Total assets $ 1,523,986 $ 1,291,762
Liabilities and Equity:
Senior unsecured notes payable, net $ 295,342 $ 295,153
Senior unsecured term loan, net 198,555 99,612
Unsecured revolving credit facility 185,000 95,000
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities 13,972 15,967
Dividends payable 20,086 17,783
Total liabilities 712,955 523,515
Additional paid-in capital 1,012,295 965,578
Cumulative distributions in excess of earnings (202,148 ) (198,190 )
Total equity 811,031 768,247
Total liabilities and equity $ 1,523,986 $ 1,291,762
Depreciation and amortization (including a below-market ground lease) 11,906 11,582
Amortization of deferred financing costs 541 484
Noncash interest income (10 ) (106 )
Change in operating assets and liabilities:
Accounts and other receivables, net (1,220 ) (155 )
Prepaid expenses and other assets (116 ) (36 )
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities 2,389 (2,579 )
Net cash provided by operating activities 30,074 22,059
Acquisitions of real estate (52,697 ) (47,103 )
Improvements to real estate (452 ) (11 )
Purchases of equipment, furniture and fixtures (1,806 ) (27 )
Investment in real estate mortgage and other loans receivable (11,389 ) —
Principal payments received on real estate mortgage and other loans receivable 411 23
Escrow deposits for acquisitions of real estate (375 ) (1,000 )
Net proceeds from the sale of real estate 131 13,004
Net cash used in investing activities (66,177 ) (35,114 )
Proceeds from the issuance of common stock, net 47,260 (10 )
Proceeds from the issuance of senior unsecured term loan 200,000 —
Borrowings under unsecured revolving credit facility 185,000 60,000
Payments on unsecured revolving credit facility (95,000 ) (25,000 )
Payments on senior unsecured term loan (100,000 ) —
Payments of deferred financing costs (4,390 ) —
Net-settle adjustment on restricted stock (1,495 ) (605 )
Dividends paid on common stock (17,710 ) (14,044 )
Net cash provided by financing activities 213,665 20,341
Net increase in cash and cash equivalents 177,562 7,286
Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of period 36,792 6,909
Cash and cash equivalents, end of period $ 214,354 $ 14,195
DEBT SUMMARY
Debt Interest
Rate Maturity
Date Principal % of
Principal Deferred
Loan Costs Net Carrying
Fixed Rate Debt
Senior unsecured notes payable 5.250 % 2025 $ 300,000 43.8 % $ (4,658 ) $ 295,342
Floating Rate Debt
Senior unsecured term loan 3.989 % [1] 2026 200,000 29.2 % (1,445 ) 198,555
Unsecured revolving credit facility 3.599 % [2] 2024 [3] 185,000 27.0 % — [4] 185,000
3.802 % 385,000 56.2 % (1,445 ) 383,555
Total Debt 4.436 % $ 685,000 100.0 % $ (6,103 ) $ 678,897
[1] Funds can be borrowed at applicable LIBOR plus 1.50% to 2.20% or at the Base Rate (as defined) plus 0.50% to 1.20%.
[2] Funds can be borrowed at applicable LIBOR plus 1.10% to 1.55% or the Base Rate (as defined) plus 0.10% to 0.55%.
[3] Maturity date assumes exercise of two 6-month extension options.
[4] Deferred financing fees are not shown net for the unsecured revolving credit facility and are included in assets on the balance sheet.
(shares in thousands)
Net income $ 0.84 $ 0.86
Real estate related depreciation and amortization 0.51 0.51
Funds from Operations (FFO) 1.35 1.37
Normalized FFO $ 1.35 $ 1.37
Amortization of deferred financing fees 0.02 0.02
Amortization of stock-based compensation 0.04 0.04
Straight-line rental income (0.01 ) (0.01 )
Funds Available for Distribution (FAD) 1.40 1.42
Normalized FAD $ 1.40 $ 1.42
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
EBITDA represents net income before interest expense (including amortization of deferred financing costs), amortization of stock-based compensation, and depreciation and amortization. Normalized EBITDA represents EBITDA as further adjusted to eliminate the impact of certain items that the Company does not consider indicative of core operating performance, such as real estate impairment charges, certain deferred preferred return, losses on the extinguishment of debt, reserve for advances and deferred rent and gains or losses from dispositions of real estate or other real estate investments. EBITDA and Normalized EBITDA do not represent cash flows from operations or net income as defined by GAAP and should not be considered an alternative to those measures in evaluating the Company’s liquidity or operating performance. EBITDA and Normalized EBITDA do not purport to be indicative of cash available to fund future cash requirements, including the Company’s ability to fund capital expenditures or make payments on its indebtedness. Further, the Company’s computation of EBITDA and Normalized EBITDA may not be comparable to EBITDA and Normalized EBITDA reported by other REITs.
Funds from Operations (“FFO”), as defined by the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (“NAREIT”), and Funds Available for Distribution (“FAD”) are important non-GAAP supplemental measures of operating performance for a REIT. Because the historical cost accounting convention used for real estate assets requires straight-line depreciation except on land, such accounting presentation implies that the value of real estate assets diminishes predictably over time. However, since real estate values have historically risen or fallen with market and other conditions, presentations of operating results for a REIT that uses historical cost accounting for depreciation could be less informative. Thus, NAREIT created FFO as a supplemental measure of operating performance for REITs that excludes historical cost depreciation and amortization, among other items, from net income, as defined by GAAP.
FFO is defined by NAREIT as net income computed in accordance with GAAP, excluding gains or losses from dispositions of real estate or other real estate investments, real estate depreciation and amortization and real estate impairment charges, and adjustments for unconsolidated partnerships and joint ventures. The Company computes FFO in accordance with NAREIT’s definition.
FAD is defined as FFO excluding noncash income and expenses, such as amortization of stock-based compensation, amortization of deferred financing fees and the effects of straight-line rent. The Company considers FAD to be a useful supplemental measure to evaluate the Company’s operating results excluding these income and expense items to help investors, analysts and other interested parties compare the operating performance of the Company between periods or as compared to other companies on a more consistent basis.
In addition, the Company reports Normalized FFO and Normalized FAD, which adjust FFO and FAD for certain revenue and expense items that the Company does not believe are indicative of its ongoing operating results, such as losses on the extinguishment of debt, certain deferred preferred returns, the effect of the senior unsecured notes payable redemption and other unanticipated charges. By excluding these items, investors, analysts and our management can compare Normalized FFO and Normalized FAD between periods more consistently.
While FFO, Normalized FFO, FAD and Normalized FAD are relevant and widely-used measures of operating performance among REITs, they do not represent cash flows from operations or net income as defined by GAAP and should not be considered an alternative to those measures in evaluating the Company’s liquidity or operating performance. FFO, Normalized FFO, FAD and Normalized FAD do not purport to be indicative of cash available to fund future cash requirements.
Further, the Company’s computation of FFO, Normalized FFO, FAD and Normalized FAD may not be comparable to FFO, Normalized FFO, FAD and Normalized FAD reported by other REITs that do not define FFO in accordance with the current NAREIT definition or that interpret the current NAREIT definition or define FAD differently than the Company does.
The Company believes that net income, as defined by GAAP, is the most appropriate earnings measure. The Company also believes that the use of EBITDA, Normalized EBITDA, FFO, Normalized FFO, FAD and Normalized FAD, combined with the required GAAP presentations, improves the understanding of operating results of REITs among investors and makes comparisons of operating results among such companies more meaningful. The Company considers EBITDA and Normalized EBITDA useful in understanding the Company’s operating results independent of its capital structure, indebtedness and other charges that are not indicative of its ongoing results, thereby allowing for a more meaningful comparison of operating performance between periods and against other REITs. The Company considers FFO, Normalized FFO, FAD and Normalized FAD to be useful measures for reviewing comparative operating and financial performance because, by excluding gains or losses from real estate dispositions, impairment charges and real estate depreciation and amortization, and, for FAD and Normalized FAD, by excluding noncash income and expenses such as amortization of stock-based compensation, amortization of deferred financing fees, and the effects of straight-line rent, FFO, Normalized FFO, FAD and Normalized FAD can help investors compare the Company’s operating performance between periods and to other REITs.
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Fast Facts: Estrada Impeachment Trial
Philippine Daily Inquirer / 02:36 AM January 16, 2012
23 Length in days of then President Joseph Estrada’s impeachment trial. The trial started on Dec. 7, 2000, and ended on Jan. 16, 2001.
11 Number of prosecutors led by then House Minority Leader Feliciano Belmonte Jr.
6 Members of the defense team headed by former Chief Justice Andres Narvasa.
22 Number of senator-judges.
30+ Number of witnesses presented during the impeachment trial.
4 Number of grounds for impeachment against Estrada. They were bribery, graft and corruption, betrayal of public trust and culpable violation of the Constitution.
P10 M Amount allegedly received monthly by Estrada from November 1998 to August 2000 from “jueteng” lords as protection money, according to the impeachment complaint.
P130 M Amount of kickbacks allegedly given to Estrada from the P200 million released by then Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno for tobacco farmers.
P100 M Amount of donation from government funds allegedly received by a private organization organized by Estrada’s wife.
52 Number of impounded luxury vehicles that Estrada allegedly ordered the customs commissioner to turn over to Malacañang for distribution to Cabinet secretaries and other senior officials. Inquirer Research
Sources: PDI Archives, impeachment complaint, senate.gov.ph, bulatlat.com, lawphil.net
‘It’s all about moral fitness’
TAGS: Corona Impeachment, Estrada Impeachment Trial, Joseph Estrada, Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona
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My aim is to provide the best service possible for the hardworking people of the 36th District. My staff and I are excited about continuing a regular series of office hours throughout the district and hearing directly from constituents about state and pocketbook issues. Our next set of office hours will be on Monday.
10 to 11 a.m.
Hillman-Wright Public Library
610 Caring St., Hillman
12 to 1 p.m.
Alpena Co. George N. Fletcher Public Library
211 North 1st Ave., Alpena
Residents unable to attend the office hours may contact my office toll-free at 1-855-347-8036 or via email at SenJStamas@senate.michigan.gov.
Rep. Joel Johnson and I had the opportunity to speak with Gladwin County Register of Deeds Ann Manning and Gladwin County Clerk Laura Brandon-Maveal at the Michigan United County Officers Association meeting in Lansing.
I had a great time welcoming a 4th grade class from St. Brigid Catholic School in Midland to the Michigan Capitol.
Congratulations to the Otsego County Sportsplex on 20 successful years of serving the greater Gaylord community! Best wishes for 20 more!
Photo: Bill Michaels and Senator Stamas
I had the opportunity to ride on the Lake State Railway and tour the facility with Sen. Ken Horn, Sen. Mike Green and the Michigan Railroads Association last week. Railroads are an important part of keeping our economy moving forward, specifically for Michigan’s agriculture and manufacturing sectors!
#NationalDayofPrayer was a few weeks back, and I had the privilege of being visited by pastors Dr. Dan Dickerson and Dr. Mike Reece from Calvary Baptist Church in Midland and pastors Mike Reece Jr, Gene Haymaker and Jim Bartos. The chosen Scripture for this year was Isaiah 58:1a: “Shout it aloud, do not hold back. Raise your voice like a trumpet.”
I had the pleasure of welcoming the owners of two great Michigan establishments to my office. They were here as part of the Michigan Licensed Beverage Association’s Day at the Capital.
Photo: Moe and Bird Smith from Talley’s Log Cabin Bar in Lewiston and Sharlyn and Dick Corbat from Sanford Lake Bar & Grill.
It was a great morning to be in Gaylord supporting the VFW Post 1518 as Mike Reiling and Eagle 101.5 help raise funds for a new pavilion. Thank YOU Mike and everyone for all that you do.
The Michigan 4-H Youth Conservation Council gave a very informative presentation on net-pen aquaculture in the Great Lakes to the Senate Natural Resource Committee. Rachel LeFever from Arenac County did an excellent job presenting legislation pending in the Michigan House and Senate. Thank you for coming to Lansing and sharing your research!
At the benefit spaghetti dinner for the signs marking the Corpsman Aaron D. Ullom Memorial Bridge on U.S. 10 in Midland with Debi and Kevin Ullom.
Incoming MLTA President and CEO Diana Richeson, Sen. Jim Stamas and retiring MLTA President and CEO Steve Yencich.
It was an honor to be recognized for supporting Michigan tourism, which supports thousands of small businesses and generates billions of dollars in revenues for local communities, schools and the entire state. The Pure Michigan program provides a great return on investment and a direct, measurable effect on boosting tourism in Michigan. For every dollar we invested in Pure Michigan, the state got back more than seven dollars in revenue last year. That’s good for both Michigan tourism and Michigan taxpayers.
Incoming MLTA President and CEO Diana Richeson and retiring MLTA President and CEO Steve Yencich presented the award to Stamas during the 2016 Pure Michigan Governor’s Conference on Tourism on April 18.
The lodging and tourism industries have long been critical drivers of Michigan’s economy, and tourist spending directly supports more than 214,000 Michigan jobs. I want to thank the Michigan Lodging and Tourism Association and its members for their dedication to our state, and I look forward to working with them to continue the growth in Michigan tourism.
Long-term solution to contaminated Oscoda well water
I recently sent a letter to Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) Director Keith Creagh requesting a meeting with the DEQ, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development Office, and U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee to discuss possible state and federal funding to address contaminated well water near the former Wurtsmith Air Force Base.
I am working on both short- and long-term solutions for affected residents. The federal government caused this problem and they need to be held accountable, and I have already introduced legislation to require the U.S. Air Force to fix the water safety problem that they caused.
The next step is to meet with state and federal officials to talk about funding options that may lead to a long-term solution.
Earlier this year, the U.S. Air Force and the DEQ sent some homeowners near the former Wurtsmith Air Force Base letters concerning tests of their well water. The tests indicated that perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) were present in the water.
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) followed up with a letter recommending impacted residents avoid drinking their well water or using it for cooking. The DHHS held a public open house and meeting in Oscoda on March 23 to discuss the situation.
The PFCs in the well water were caused by firefighting foams used at the Air Force base when it was in operation. While my legislation would help residents by forcing the Air Force to supply an access to safe water, I must also continue to look for a long-term solution for the Wurtsmith site and its impacted neighbors.
Senate Bill 950 would require the U.S. Armed Forces responsible for an active or inactive military base to connect homeowners near a base to a safe, community water system if the DHHS has issued a drinking water advisory for the area and the U.S. Armed Forces acknowledges that the subject of the advisory migrated from a military base and is present in the groundwater.
License plate helps Michigan veterans
May is Military Appreciation Month and a good time to remind motorists about the new Support Michigan Veterans specialty fundraising license plate.
Revenue from sales of the license plate will be distributed by the Michigan Veterans Affairs Agency to support efforts that benefit Michigan veterans and their families, including funding for county and local veterans’ organizations and tuition support for Michigan National Guard members. Find more information at www.michigan.gov/sos.
Memorial Day: A time to honor our fallen
Memorial Day is a time for us to stand together and remember those who have given their lives in service to our country. Please take the time to honor our fallen heroes so their sacrifice is never taken for granted. We must never forget to preserve the “memorial” in Memorial Day.
New bait rules
The Michigan Natural Resources Commission recently approved new regulations on the collection and use of bait in an effort to protect against the spread of fish diseases, such as viral hemorrhagic septicemia (VHS) and aquatic invasive species. The new rules require bait to be used on the same water in which it was collected and include new testing requirements for commercially harvested bait. In addition, the list of susceptible fish species has been expanded. Find more information on the regulation changes in the online version of the 2016-2017 Michigan Fishing Guide at www.michigan.gov/fishingguide.
New guidebook for touring Pure Michigan byways
Nothing says summer quite like a road trip! The Michigan Department of Transportation offers a driving guide for download that covers 20 special byways and tour routes across Michigan. Each byway description highlights scenic, natural, historical, cultural and archaeological attractions along the route. The electronic booklet provides pictures, videos, maps, planning tips and other tourist information. Access the guidebook at www.michigan.gov/byways and enjoy Michigan by taking the road less traveled.
Senate bill set to improve state’s recycling programs
Michigan consumers return more than 90 percent of their bottles and cans. Yet, the state residential recycling rate of other products such as glass, paper, plastics and metals lags behind most other states.
I supported Senate legislation — recently signed into law — that strengthens Michigan's guidelines for recycling reporting. Public Act 55 of 2016 creates a data reporting system to help calculate the recycling rate. This will make it easier to measure progress and put Michigan in a position to increase participation in programs that keep recyclable waste out of our landfills.
Reduce red tape for schools
Less is more when it comes to cutting red tape and focusing school resources directly on the classroom and helping our children learn!
I supported Senate legislation to end unnecessary and redundant reports that schools must provide to state and federal agencies. The plan eliminates time-consuming, repetitive paperwork while making sure important information and data is still reported. By streamlining requirements, more time can be spent educating our kids and focusing on student achievement. The reform has received the support of education leaders across the state.
Senate Bills 754-767 have been sent to the House for consideration.
Michigan recognized for spending transparency
Taxpayers deserve to know how their tax dollars are spent.
Michigan's efforts to make its spending more transparent to taxpayers earned the state a top grade in the U.S. Public Interest Research Group’s annual Following the Money 2016 report. In fact, Michigan was cited as the most improved state this year with a score of 100, up from a score of 87 in 2015. The state was one of only five states in the nation to receive a grade of A+.
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Petition website crashes after more than 600,000 demand Article 50 be revoked
A petition to cancel Brexit and for the UK to remain in the EU and revoke Article 50 has been signed by more than half a million people.
The number of people signing the online petition suddenly rose overnight following Theresa Mays speech at Downing Street.
Another 200,000 signatures were added in the eight hours after midnight. This morning the petition website went down briefly because of the amount of people signing on.
The number of signatures passed half a million this morning.
A House of Commons spokesman said: The petitions site is experiencing technical difficulties and we are working to get it running again urgently. It has been caused by a large and sustained load on the system.
Margaret Anne Newsome Georgiadou who started the petition said: The government repeatedly claims exiting the EU is “the will of the people”.
We need to put a stop to this claim by proving the strength of public support now, for remaining in the EU. A Peoples Vote may not happen – so vote now.
The target for petitions to be considered for debate is 100,000 signatures.
Theresa May is facing a backlash from MPs as she heads to Brussels to appeal to EU leaders to grant her a delay to Brexit.
The Prime Ministers Downing Street statement, in which she blamed MPs for failing to implement the result of the 2016 EU referendum and told frustrated voters I am on your side, was described as a low blow by one former Tory minister.
At one point this morning the website crashed – it is not known if it was because there were too many people on the site
But Jeremy Corbyn was also under fire after pulling out of a meeting between Mrs May and opposition party leaders because party defectors who are now members of the Independent Group turned up.
The behaviour of the Labour leader, who was also heading to Brussels on Thursday to hold talks with EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier, was described by one of their number – Chuka Umunna – as juvenile at a time of national crisis.
With just eight days before the UK is due to leave the EU, the Prime Minister will make the case for extending the Article 50 withdrawal process to June 30 at a Brussels summit on Thursday.
There was a large surge in signatures after Theresa Mays speech last night
Ahead of the meeting, European Council president Donald Tusk said a short delay should be possible – but only if MPs finally back her deal before the deadline day on March 29.
With fears in Brussels growing that the UK is heading for a no-deal break, he said he would not hesitate to call an emergency summit next week if that proved necessary.
Mrs May formally made the request for an extension to the end of June in a letter to Mr Tusk on Wednesday.
The Prime Minister had previously indicated she would seek a longer delay after her deal went down to a 149-vote defeat in last weeks second meaningful vote.
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Alaina Love
Among America's leading human-resource and leadership authorities, Alaina Love is a co-founder of Purpose Linked Consulting, an worldwide leadership and organizational development consulting firm which forges connections between individual goal, passion, and company objectives. Love has almost thirty years of experience as an executive in a variety of industries.
After reaching a stage in her company career in which her work was no more tasked with her goal, she boldly resigned from a leading position to pursue her own route. It was that experience that functioned as the birthing ground for her research into the expression of passion and purpose at work.
In a recent interview, Love captured the basis of her brand new book with co-author, Marc Cugnon, "THE PURPOSE LINKED ORGANIZATION":
"Our company has ever done through our research will be provide a frame for considering employee function and enthusiasm, and it's a frame that's actionable.
We view function as deep internal driver which propels us throughout life and gives meaning to our job. Passion, on the other hand, is the counterpart. Passion is the outward manifestation of function, that makes it easier to comprehend and recognize, as it can be observed. We love to think about passion and purpose as the twin strands of the DNA of someone's character. With the resources we describe in THE PURPOSE LINKED ORGANIZATION, such as The Fire Profiler (tm), leaders can now identify and quantify employee passion."
Person job seekers will find the book helpful as well. Learning about the passions and how to apply them at work, gives an invaluable career roadmap for today's challenging market, permitting you to "do who you're" rather than trying to "be everything you do."
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Video: McDavid sets up Yakupov to open scoring against Canucks
By Joey AlfieriOct 18, 2015, 9:49 PM EDT
Consistently finishing near the bottom of the standings appears to have its benefits.
Those perks were on full-display in the first period of Edmonton’s game against Vancouver, as a pair of former first overall picks connected on a beautiful goal.
As you can tell from the above video, McDavid takes control of the puck in the neutral zone and makes a nice move to split a pair of Canucks before dishing a perfect pass to Nail Yakupov, who promptly beats Ryan Miller with a one-timer.
It looks like McDavid’s adaptation to the NHL is going pretty well. The 18-year-old also had a three-point effort in Saturday’s win against Calgary.
After a few difficult seasons, the Oilers are hoping that their young stars can take them back to the postseason for the first time since 2006.
Canucks defenseman Matt Bartkowski tied the game just over 15 minutes later.
Tags: Connor McDavid, Matt Bartkowski, Nail Yakupov, Ryan Miller
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Flyers deny reports that Ilya Bryzgalov has a hip injury
By James O'BrienApr 19, 2012, 7:24 PM EDT
Here’s what we know for sure: Ilya Bryzgalov left Philadelphia Flyers practice early today. The confusion begins when you ask “Why?” Howard Eskin recently reported that Bryzgalov is dealing with a hip injury, but Frank Seravalli passes along word from Flyers’ GM Paul Holmgren that there’s “no truth” to those rumors.
If you’ve followed Flyers injury reports in general and during this season in particular, it’s tough to believe anything you read. Holmgren was initially optimistic about Chris Pronger’s injury situation – which is amusing in hindsight since Pronger might not play another shift of NHL hockey. Then again, Holmgren was also positive about Bryzgalov returning from an injury late in the regular season … and he actually did.
Another thing that compounds the confusion is that for all of Peter Laviolette’s positivity, he might go with Sergei Bobrovsky even if injuries aren’t the main determining factor.
It’s all a bit bewildering, but for now we’ll take the Flyers word for it. Bryzgalov might not have a hip issue, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t injured. Some Philly fans would say he’s playing like an injured netminder, anyway.
In other news from Eskin, James van Riemsdyk has been cleared to play while Nicklas Grossmann isn’t likely to be available for Game 4. Just like with Breezy, it sounds like we’ll just need to wait and see what happens on Friday.
Tags: Chris Pronger, Ilya Bryzgalov, injury reports, James van Riemsdyk, Nicklas Grossmann, Paul Holmgren, Philadelphia Flyers, Sergei Bobrovsky
Series at a glance: Florida-New Jersey playoff preview
By James O'BrienApr 8, 2012, 8:34 PM EDT
All times are Eastern.
* – if necessary
Friday April 13 in Florida @ 7 p.m. (NHL Network, TSN)
Sunday April 15 in Florida @ 7:30 p.m. (NBC Sports Network, TSN)
Tuesday April 17 in New Jersey @ 7 p.m. (NHL Network, TSN)
Thursday April 19 in New Jersey @ 7 p.m. (NHL Network, TSN)
*Saturday April 21 in Florida @ 6:30 p.m. (NHL Network, TSN)
*Tuesday April 24 in New Jersey @ TBD (TBD)
*Thursday April 26 in Florida @ TBD (TBD)
Three storylines to follow
1. Goalie questions. Neither team can feel 100 percent comfortable in net. For better or worse, Martin Brodeur is essentially grandfathered into the New Jersey goal while the Panthers might be better off going with Brodeur’s former backup in Scott Clemmensen rather than Jose Theodore. Either way, the goaltending doesn’t look to be a beauty contest.
2. Jersey’s stars. The Devils have the star power category locked up but, aside from Patrik Elias, haven’t thrived in the big time. Ilya Kovalchuk’s single career playoff win — game, not series — is pretty well-publicized and Zach Parise’s future remains in question, so there are a lot of moving parts for a team that admittedly looks much better on paper.
3. House money? The Panthers head into the playoffs in a rare spot. They’re the third seed, yet almost certainly the underdogs. They’ve already done more than people expected by a) making the playoffs and b) winning the Southeast. Playing with house money and home ice advantage? Not too shabby.
Florida: 38-26-18, 94 points (1st in Southeast; 3rd in Eastern Confrence) | New Jersey: 48-28-6, 102 points (4th in Atlantic; 6th in Eastern Conference)
Florida: Tomas Fleischmann (27G-31A-61PTS) | New Jersey: Ilya Kovalchuk (37G-46A-83PTS)
Florida: Jose Theodore (22-16-11, 2.46 GAA) or Scott Clemmensen (14-6-6, 2.57 GAA) | New Jersey: Martin Brodeur (31-21-4, 2.41 GAA)
Season series tied at 2-2
Nov. 21: At Florida 4, New Jersey 3
Dec. 13: New Jersey 3, at Florida 2, SO
Jan. 6: At New Jersey 5, Florida 2
Feb. 11: Florida 3, at New Jersey 1
Last 10 games
Florida: 2-3-5 | New Jersey: 7-2-1
New Jersey leads 1-0 (4-0 in 2000 Eastern Conference quarterfinals)
Florida: Did not qualify | New Jersey: Did not qualify
Stanley Cups
Florida: None | New Jersey: 3 (1995, 2000, 2003)
Florida: Jack Skille (shoulder) and Matt Bradley (concussion).
New Jersey: David Clarkson (lower-body), Jacob Josefson (wrist) and Henrik Tallinder (leg).
Tags: David Clarkson, Devils-Panthers 2012, Florida Panthers, Henrik Tallinder, Ilya Kovalchuk, injury reports, Jack Skille, Jacob Josefson, Jose Theodore, Martin Brodeur, Matt Bradley, New Jersey Devils, Patrik Elias, playoff preview, Scott Clemmensen, Tomas Fleischmann, Zach Parise
Flyers deny reports that Ilya Bryzgalov has a hip injury April 19, 2012 7:24 pm EDT Series at a glance: Florida-New Jersey playoff preview April 8, 2012 8:34 pm EDT
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Mattrus Foamus / Hippocampus
By Daniel Roy Connelly
He said he’d had his problems, I replied I’d had mine too.
Yours aren’t like mine, he said. For example last week I went to buy a much-needed new mattress. The salesperson gave me permission to bounce modestly and stretch out at leisure before listing the what-he-admitted-were-steep prices. My knees ache in bed, I said (but he broke off eye contact) and to this day mattresses aren’t made with knees in mind; heads, yes, necks, yes, backs, for sure, knees, not a bit of them. It is almost a scandal. The contemporary mattress which shapes up to one-third of our lives is yet to respond to the particular contours of the underside of the knee. To the best of my knowledge, he went on, the cream of mattress designers is yet to convene in an upscale city-centre hotel to address this hardy and deficient perennial of the Mattrus Foamus. He said the salesperson regained eye contact but stared at him blankly nonetheless. To overcome this, he concluded, I sleep with a pillow under my knees or between them as I turn restlessly from one side to the other. And are you, he said, as the salesperson for your company, carrying out your duties in full representational mode, telling me your top-of-the-range showroom selection of branded single mattresses will finally meet all my knees’ needs, or am I going to buy a pair of your cheapest pillows instead?
I held up my hand to interrupt him. He stalled and I took my chance, leant in, and said that yesterday a colony of giant seahorses, genus Hippocampus, each the length of an average index finger, washed up on the beach at Scarborough. Landing after landing of hook-shaped neon bulbs effervesced under the late-night sky until the locals got word and out of bed and down to the scene with coats over their pyjamas they came. After an emergency meeting of the local council, it was decided that each family could take one flashing curio away with them – a limit strictly enforced by men in fluorescent jackets – to use as an eye-catching trinket or to make a shimmering addition to a sideboard or a mantelpiece, or to put straight on eBay, having washed the salt off first. But here’s the thing, when you wash the salt off, that’s when they all die, I told him, that’s when the seahorse lights go out. And so they did, I said, nodding dourly at his amazed face. There were no inquiries, a few column inches in the local newspapers, a couple of photographs on a Facebook page created on the beach in the moment that got 10,000 likes in 24 hours and never posted another thing.
It is safe to assume the seahorses did not wash ashore to die. But they do seem to have been mistaken for Chinese import fairy lights that had beached fully functional on Scarborough’s North Bay and which were irresistible to the human eye, so were taken home and stared at until fresh water was applied. By now, his mouth was open as if it got stuck that way in the wind. Thereafter, I continued, thousands of tiny Hippocampi were slung into wheelie bins all over town, left to rot with other biodegradables; what was then is not now. Do you not see, I said, my hands clasped together right beneath his chin, how a moment of spontaneous illumination on the North Yorkshire coast, a commune with rare creatures from the deep, a beach landing of querulous alien forms, has concluded with our desire to impress the neighbours and/or to make a fast buck, or pound, or euro? And you think you have problems, I told him, but he’d recovered by now and grimaced and reached for his knees.
– Daniel Roy Connelly was the winner of the 2014 Fermoy International Poetry Festival Prize, a finalist in the 2015 Aesthetica Magazine Creative Writing Prize and winner of the 2015 Cuirt New Writing Prize for Poetry. Published widely online and in print, he is forthcoming in The Moth, Acumen 88 and on ‘Uncle Vanya’ in Critical Survey 28.1. He is a professor of creative writing, Shakespeare, and modern theatre at John Cabot University and The American University of Rome. www.danielroyconnelly.com
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Job Job 15
Job 14:1. Man that is born of a woman — A weak creature; and, withal, corrupt and sinful, and of that sex by which sin and all other calamities were brought into the world. Is of few days — Few at the most, in comparison with the days of the first patriarchs, much more in comparison with the days of eternity. Man is now a short-lived creature in himself, and withers so soon of his own accord, that he needs no violent hand to cut him off. And full of trouble — Liable to a variety of miseries. He is not only troubled, but full of trouble, Hebrew, שׂבע רגז, sebang rogez, satur trepidæ corporis et animi commotionis, full of disquietude and commotion in mind and body; exposed to labour and toil, affliction and pain, grief and fear: a day seldom passing without some cause of vexation and distress, some disorder, some calamity or other. And, therefore, Job intimates, man is a fitter object for God’s compassion than for his anger or severity.
Job 14:2. He cometh forth like a flower — Tender and delicate, fair and beautiful, his faculties and members opening and expanding themselves by degrees; and is cut down — By the scythe of some spreading malady; or cropped by the rude hand of some ruthless distemper; or nipped and withered by the frost of some wasting weakness and decay. He fleeth also as a shadow — Which, being caused by the sun, follows its motions, and is in perpetual variation, until, at last, it quite vanishes and disappears. “The flower,” says Henry, “is fading, and all its beauty soon withers and is gone. The shadow is fleeting, and its very being will soon be lost in the shadows of night. Of neither do we make any account, in neither do we put any confidence.”
Job 14:3. And dost thou open thine eyes on such a one? — Dost thou, the infinite Jehovah, the self-existent, independent, and supreme Lord of all, the Almighty, open thine eyes on such an insignificant and helpless creature? Dost thou, the immutable, the eternal God, behold and take account of such a frail, changeable, and short-lived being? Dost thou, ever- blessed and most holy, regard such an infirm, polluted, and miserable object? Dost thou take any thought or care about him? Is he not infinitely beneath thy notice? And dost thou stoop so low as even to observe his ways, yea, all his ways? And bringest me into judgment with thee — Pleadest with me by thy judgments, and thereby, in a manner, forcest me to plead with thee. Dost thou bring me, such a worthless worm as I am, into judgment with thee, who art so quick-sighted to discover the least failing, so holy to hate it, so just to condemn it, so mighty to punish it? The consideration of our inability to contend with God, of our own sinfulness and weakness, should engage us to pray, Lord, enter not into judgment with thy servant.
Job 14:4. Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? — I confess I am an unclean creature, and therefore liable to be abhorred by thy holiness, and condemned by thy justice, if thou wilt deal rigorously with me. But, remember, this is not my peculiar case, but the common lot of every man, who descended from sinful parents, and, being infected with original corruption, must unavoidably be unclean. Why, then, dost thou inflict such peculiar and extraordinary judgments upon me for that which is common to all men? And although my natural corruption do not excuse my actual sins, yet I hope it may procure some mitigation of my punishment, and move thy divine pity to deal less severely with me. Observe, reader, clean children can no more come from unclean parents, nor clean performances from an unclean principle, than pure streams can proceed from an impure spring, or grapes from thorns. Our habitual corruption is derived, with our nature, from our progenitors, and is therefore bred in the bone: and our blood is not only attainted by a legal conviction, but tainted with an hereditary disease. And hence flow all actual transgressions, which are the natural product of habitual corruption. This holy Job here laments, as all that are sanctified do, tracing the streams up to the fountain. The Chaldee paraphrase reads this verse, Who can make a man clean that is polluted with sin? Cannot one? that is, God: or, who but God, who is one, and will spare him? God can change the skin of the Ethiopian, and to him we ought to direct our prayer, saying, It is the prerogative of thy grace to bring a clean thing out of an unclean, and that grace I humbly implore.
Verse 5-6
Job 14:5-6. Seeing his days are determined — Limited to a certain period. The number of his months is with thee — Exactly known to thee, and in thy power and disposal. Thou hast appointed his bounds, &c. — Thou hast appointed a certain end of his days, beyond which he cannot prolong his life. Turn from him, that he may rest — Withdraw thine afflicting hand from him, that he may have some present ease and comfort. Till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day — Give him some respite till he finish his course, and come to the period of his life, which thou hast allotted him, as a man appoints a set time to a hired servant; which period will be as welcome to him as the end of his day of labour and toil is to the hireling. This idea is implied in the word ירצה, jertzeh, here rendered, he shall accomplish. Which properly means, he shall be pleased, or delighted. And the sense seems to be, As the poor mercenary rests and rejoices when he has finished the work of the day, and received his wages; so must that be an acceptable and joyful time, which puts a period to the life and sufferings of a man sinking under the burden of numerous and heavy troubles, and which introduces him into a state of perfect rest and endless felicity.
Job 14:7-10. For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down — If the body of a tree be cut down, and only the stem or stump be left in the ground, yet there is hope; that it will sprout again — Hebrew, יחלי Š, jachalip, will yet renew itself, will revive and flourish as the spring comes on. Though the root wax old — Begin to wither and decay; and the stock thereof die — Namely, in outward appearance; yet, through the scent of water — By means of water; scent or smell being here figuratively ascribed to a tree. The moisture of the earth, and the rain of heaven, have sufficient influence upon it to revive it, and cause it to bud; and bring forth boughs like a plant — As if it were a tree newly planted. But man dieth and wasteth away — Man, though a far nobler creature, is in a much worse condition, as to this world, for when once he loseth his present life he never recovers it. Two words are here used for man, גבר, geber, a mighty man: though mighty, he dies: אדם, adam, a man of earth: being made of earth, he returns to it. He dieth and wasteth away: before death he is dying daily, continually wasting away; in death he gives up the ghost: the spirit leaves the body and returns to God, the Father of spirits, who gave it. After death, where is he? — Not where he was; his place knows him no more: his body, all that is visible of him, is rotting away in the grave. But where is the thinking, intelligent principle, the self-conscious being, the proper man? Is this nowhere? Yes, it is somewhere; and it is a very awful consideration to think where they are that have given up the ghost, and where we shall be when we give it up. It is gone into the world of spirits; gone into eternity, gone to return no more to this world.
Job 14:11. As the waters fail from the sea — This may mean, either, 1st, As the waters go, or flow out from the sea, and return not thither again, Ecclesiastes 1:7 : or, 2d, As waters, that is, some portion of the waters, are exhaled from the sea by the sun, or are received and sunk into the dry and thirsty earth: or, 3d, As the waters of the sea fail, when the sea forsakes the place into which it used to flow; and the flood decayeth and drieth up — As a flood, or a river, or a pond (for the word signifies any considerable confluence of waters) in a great drought decayeth, and is dried up, in which cases the same waters never return to their former places, so it is with man; when once the fountain of his life is dried up he dies, and never revives again as to the present life.
Job 14:12. So man lieth down — In his bed the grave, sleeping the sleep of death. And riseth not till the heavens be no more — That is, until the time of the general resurrection and restitution of all things, when these visible heavens shall pass away, and be no more, at least in the same form in which they are now. This whole paragraph is interpreted in a somewhat different way by a late writer. “After a tree is cut down, we see, nevertheless, the old stock flourish again, and send forth new branches; and shall man then, when he once expires, he extinct for ever? Is there no hope that he shall revive, and be raised again hereafter? Yes, there is, according to the doctrine delivered to us by our ancestors: but then they inform us, at the same time, that this resurrection shall not be but with the dissolution and renovation of the world, Job 14:11-12. The waters go off from the sea, and the flood (the river) will decay and dry up. And man lieth down and riseth not till the heavens be no more; (till then) they shall not awake nor be raised out of their sleep.” The meaning seems to be, that as we see every thing in flux, and subject to change, so the whole shall one day be changed. The sea itself will at length be quite absorbed; and the running rivers, which now flow perpetually, as if supplied by everlasting springs, will nevertheless, in time, quite cease and disappear. This visible frame of things shall be dissolved, and the present heavens themselves shall be no more: and then, and not before, comes the resurrection and general judgment.
Job 14:13. O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave — The grave is not only a resting-place, but a hiding-place to the children of God: Christ has the key of the grave to open and let in now, and to let out at the resurrection. God hides his people in the grave as we hide our treasure in a place of secrecy and safety; and he that hides will find what he has hid, and nothing shall be lost. O that thou wouldst hide me, not only from the storms and troubles of this life, but for the bliss and glory of a better life; let me lie in the grave reserved for immortality, in secret from all the world, but not from thee, not from those eyes which saw my substance when first curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth, Psalms 139:15-16. Thus, it was not only in a passionate weariness of this life that he wished to die, but in a pious assurance of a better life, to which at length he should arise. Until thy wrath be past — As long as our bodies lie in the grave there are some effects of God’s wrath against sin, but when the body is raised, that wrath is wholly past, and death, the last enemy, is totally destroyed. That thou wouldest appoint me a set time — Not only fix a time when thou wilt end my sufferings and my life, but when thou wilt remember my flesh lodged in the grave, as thou didst remember Noah and every living thing in the ark, Genesis 8:1. The bodies of the saints shall not be forgotten in the dust; there is a time appointed, a set time, for their being inquired after.
Job 14:14. If a man die, shall he live again? — He shall not in this world, but he shall in another and better; and, therefore, all the days of my appointed time will I wait — Hebrew, צבאי, tsebai, of my warfare, namely, with my spiritual enemies, or of my service and suffering, or of the station and place God has assigned me. The idea which the word conveys is partly, at least, that of a post or station given a man by God to maintain, till he be released from it, and called to a better state; as if Job had said, Whatever station or condition God shall please to appoint me, either here or in the intermediate state, I shall still wait in earnest expectation for the future renovation and resurrection; here evidently intended by the change which he expected to come. “I must insist upon it,” says Mr. Peters. “that Job, in this verse, declares very clearly his hope of a future resurrection. I know it is a common opinion, that by the change here mentioned, is meant the change of death; but the sense above given suits best with the context, as also with the Hebrew word חליפה, chalipah, which properly signifies a change for the better, a renewal.” Houbigant renders the beginning of this verse, For though a man die, yet he shall revive again; and, therefore, I will wait, &c, observing, in agreement with Mr. Peters, that nothing can be so absurd as to suppose the words contain any doubt of a future life.
Job 14:15. Thou shalt call and I will answer thee — 1st, At death, thou shalt call my body to the grave and my soul to thyself, and I will cheerfully answer, Here I am. Gracious souls readily answer death’s summons, and appear to his writ. Their spirits are not forcibly required of them, as was that of the rich man, Luke 12:20, but willingly resigned by them, and the earthly tabernacle not violently pulled down, but voluntarily laid down. 2d, At the resurrection thou shalt call me out of the grave by the voice of the archangel, and I will answer and come at thy call. For thou wilt have a desire to the work of thy hands — A love for the soul, which thou hast made, and new-made by thy grace; and for the body, which is also the work of thy hands, and to which thou wilt have a desire, having prepared glory for it in a world of glory.
Job 14:16-17. For now — Or rather, But now, for this seems to be added by way of opposition, as if he had said, I believe thou wilt pity, help, and deliver me, and even wonderfully change my person, state, and place; but, for the present, it is far otherwise with me. Thus Job returns to his complaints; and, though he is not without hope of future felicity, he finds it hard to get over his present grievances. Thou numberest my steps — Thou makest a strict inquiry into all my actions, that thou mayest find out all my errors. Dost thou not watch over my sin? — The Hebrew should rather be rendered, Do not watch over, or take notice of, my sin, as the Chaldee paraphrast writes. Thus the vulgar Latin, Parce peccatis meis, Spare my sins; that is, forbear to punish me for them. He longed to go hence, to that world where God’s wrath would be past, because now he was under the continual tokens of it; as a child, under the severe discipline of the rod, longs to be of age! As if he had said, O that my change were come! for now thou seemest to number my steps, and watch over my sin, and seal it up in a bag, Job 14:17, as writings, or other choice things are preserved, that they may be all brought forth upon occasion, and not one of them forgotten; or, as bills of endictment are kept safe to be produced against the prisoner. Thou keepest all my sins in thy memory. But herein Job speaks rashly; or, rather, this verse ought to be rendered, in conformity with what was observed concerning a clause of the last, Do not seal up my transgressions in a bag, nor note my iniquities in thy register.
Job 14:18-19. As the mountain falling cometh to naught, &c. — As when a great mountain falls, by an earthquake or inundation, it moulders away like a fading leaf, (as the Hebrew ward signifies,) and as the rock, when, by the violence of winds or earthquakes, it is removed out of its place, and thrown down, is never re-advanced; and as the waters, by continual droppings, wear away the stones, so that they can never be made whole again; and as thou wastest away, by a great and violent inundation, the things which grow out of the dust of the earth, herbs, and fruits, and plants, which once washed away are irrecoverably lost; in like manner thou destroyest the hope of man: when man dies, all hope of his living again in this world is lost. Thus, as before he declared the hopelessness of man’s restoration from death to this animal life, by way of opposition to such things as did, in a manner, rise from death to life, Job 14:7-10; so now he declares the same thing, by way of similitude to such things as, being once lost and gone, are past all hopes of recovery.
Job 14:20. Thou prevailest for ever against him — When once thou takest away this life, it is gone for ever; for he speaks not here of man’s future and eternal life in another world. And he passeth — That is, he dieth: man’s death is often called a passage or a going, to intimate that it is not an annihilation, but only a translation of him into another place and state. Thou changest his countenance — That is, his visage, which, by death and its harbingers, is quite altered, both in colour and shape. When a man has been a few days sick, how apparent is the change in his countenance! and much more when he has been a few minutes dead! The countenance that was majestic and awful, becomes mean and despicable; that which was lovely and amiable, becomes ghastly and frightful! Where then is the admired beauty? Nay, the approach of death will frequently, through discomposing the mind, make the strongest and stoutest to change countenance: it will make the most cheerful and smiling countenance to look grave and serious, and the most bold and daring to look pale and timorous. By changing his countenance, may also be meant changing the face and state of his affairs, as to worldly riches, pleasures, and honours; all which he leaves behind him. Thou sendest him away — To his long home, by death.
Job 14:21. His sons come to honour — Hebrews יכבדו, jicbedu: increase either in number or in greatness. The LXX. render it, πολλων δε γενομενων, become many; and the word ויצערו, vejitzgnaru, and they are brought low, they interpret in the opposite sense, εαν δε ολιγοι γενωνται, if they be diminished, or become few. He knoweth it not, &c. — Either, 1st, He is ignorant of all such events; or, 2d, Is not concerned nor affected with them. A dead or dying man minds not these things. The consideration of this should moderate our cares concerning our children and families. God will know what becomes of them or happens to them, when we are gone. To him, therefore, let us commit them: with him let us leave them; and not burden ourselves with needless, fruitless cares concerning them.
Job 14:22. But his flesh upon him shall have pain — Or, while his flesh is upon him; and his soul within him — While the soul is clothed with, or united to, the body, he feels sharp pains in his body, and bitter grief in his soul. Dying work is generally hard work; dying pangs sore pangs. It is folly, therefore, for men to defer their repentance to a deathbed, and to have that to do, which is the one thing needful, when they are really unfit to do any thing. But it is true wisdom, by making our peace with God in Christ, and keeping a good conscience, to treasure up comforts, which will support and relieve us against the pains and sorrows of a dying hour.
Benson, Joseph. "Commentary on Job 14:4". Joseph Benson's Commentary. http://odl.studylight.org/commentaries/rbc/job-14.html. 1857.
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Late evidence in the ATMO
The Intellectual Property Legislation Amendment (Raising the Bar) Regulation 2013 introduced new tougher rules for the filing of late evidence in trade marks oppositions. The relevant provision is Regulation 5.15 which provides that an extension of time for filing may only be granted if the Registrar is satisfied that:
(a) the party despite making all reasonable efforts and acting promptly and diligently at all times, was unable to file the evidence by the deadline; or
(b) there are exceptional circumstances.
The regulation explains that “exceptional circumstances” includes:
(a) a circumstance beyond the control of a party that prevents the party from complying with a filing requirement under this Part;
(b) an error or omission by the Registrar or an employee that prevents a party from complying with a filing requirement under this Part;
(c) an order of a court or a direction by the Registrar that the opposition be stayed.
The Explanatory Statement to the Amending Regulations explains:
New regulation 5.15 narrows the circumstances in which the Registrar will grant an extension of time to provide evidence.
The policy and intended operation of this regulation 5.15 is the same as for the corresponding regulation 5.9 at item 2 for the Patent Regulations above…
In the section of the Explanatory Statement relating to Regulation 5.9 of the Patent Regulations, it is stated:
Where a party cannot satisfy the Commissioner that an extension is justified under the test [provided by Regulation 5.9], the Commissioner will not have the power to give a short extension to allow the filing of evidence immediately available or to validate evidence filed out of time. (Emphasis added)
This presents a major obstacle to the introduction of late evidence but there is another door that has been left slightly ajar which will be available in some circumstances.
Regulation 21.19 (which was unchanged by the RTB amendments) provides a general discretionary power to the Registrar to inform herself by reference to any information available in the Trade Marks Office. The Explanatory Statement to the amending regulations said that Reg 21.19 was “not intended to be used as a substitute for the repealed further evidence provisions.”
In the recent case of Fed Square Pty Ltd v Federation IP Pty Ltd [2015] ATMO 42, however, the opponent successfully relied on Reg 21.19 for the admission of late evidence having failed to meet the requirements of Reg 5.15.
The hearing officer noted that the “clear intention is that Regulation 21.19 should not been interpreted as a substitute for the repealed further evidence provisions” and that “I am being asked to exercise the discretion and allow precisely the same evidence under reg 21.19 that has failed the requirements under the extension of time provisions for evidence in support“.
The Opponent contended, however, that the effect of not permitting the additional evidence would be that it could not support several of its grounds of opposition at the substantive hearing and, unless it succeeded on s 44, would be left with no choice but to appeal to the Federal Court (which would be a de novo hearing) where it could rely on whatever grounds and evidence it then chooses. The hearing officer appeared to accept that such an outcome would be “at odds with the broader purpose of the relevant ‘Raising the Bar’ amendments, which were to “reduce delays in the resolution of patent and trade marks applications” and to “streamline the opposition process”“.
The hearing officer referred earlier TMO authority (here and here) in relation to the previous extension of time provisions to the effect that it is preferable for oppositions to be decided by the delegate on their merits (on all of the relevant evidence) rather than to have a party whose evidence has been excluded for lateness being left with no alternative but to appeal.
He said that the “nature and significance” of the evidence must be considered and that if the material is of high probative value, that will be “a crucial factor in the determination of whether it should be admitted“. In circumstances where:
(a) the evidence was immediately available (and in fact had been filed 7 days after the due date); and
(b) constitutes the primary basis for the oppositions including details of the Opponent’s use of, and reputation of, its marks in Australia;
the hearing officer considered that the evidence was “of high probative value and is likely to significantly affect the outcome of the substantive opposition.” He considered that it was not the intention of the RTB amendments to entirely shut out oppositions where there is serious issue to be heard, the evidence is of high probative value and was submitted shortly after the due date. Accordingly, the late evidence was accepted.
A final “cautionary note” was added to the decision. The hearing officer pointed out that parties “should not attempt to circumvent the extension of time provisions under the misguided assumption that Regulation 21.19 will apply in every case.” He noted that “it is not sufficient to simply show that such evidence is relevant and there is a possibility that the opposition may fail without it. To allow regulation 21.19 to be utilized in that way may render the requirements for the current extension of time provisions otiose.”
Nevertheless, the hardline that the RTB amendments appeared to have introduced seems to have been slightly softened.
Despite its success, costs were awarded against the Opponent.
← Wild Goose chase might go all the way: Skyy Spirits LLC v Lodestar Anstalt [2015] FCA 509.
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024: The Early History of Norwood
The Early History of Norwood
Norwood was originally groups of scattered houses and is described by Manning & Bray, History of Surrey, as ‘a village scattered round a large wild common and a principal haunt of gipsies’. Aubrey, Perambulation of Surrey, 1661, writes ‘In the parish of Croydon lies the great wood called Norwood belonging to the see of Canterbury, wherein was an ancient tree where the churchwardens of the several parishes used to dine at their boundary perambulation.’ The parishes were Croydon, Lambeth, Camberwell, Lewisham and Battersea of which Penge was then a detached portion. A map in the Surrey volume of Lyson’s Survey of London, 1792, shows the wood rather broken up by then, as stretching along the Kent/Surrey border northwards from Woodside wood almost to Goose Green, Dulwich. The only road was the old Roman Road through Brixton and Streatham to Croydon which would link the two Archbishop’s Palaces of Croydon and Lambeth. There were also a number of cross tracks which were probably mere bridle paths, used by the colliers who frequented the wood for the purpose of making charcoal which, until Tudor times, was the principal fuel of London.
The woods extended westwards as far as the old Roman Road and, in earlier times, must have connected with Wimbledon to the Thames at Kingston. Indeed, the upper end of Streatham Common with its trees and footpaths will give an excellent picture of the area as it was in 1792, as also will the wooded areas of Wimbledon Common. The district did not begin to develop until the Croydon Enclosure Acts of 1797-1802. This Act enclosed the former common lands of Croydon, dividing them amongst a number of people who formerly held grazing, lopping and other rights in the woods, and the whole area became privately owned being incorporated into Bensham, Whitehorse and other manorial properties, whose owners sold parcels of land for private building and a number of large houses were erected. Most of them have now been demolished, the last to go being Portobello House, formerly the home of Admiral Vernon who seized Porto Bello in Panama during the war against Spain in 1739. Other large houses of later dates that still remain are Norwood Grange and the centre part of St. Joseph’s College.
In spite of the developments of the last 150 years which have converted Norwood’s oakclad hill into an extensive region of suburban houses, there are still many patches of woodland remaining in our district which are marked and named in Lyson’s map. Amongst these may be mentioned Whitehorse, now Grange Wood. Along a track leading south towards Croydon, we have a number of small woods as Convent Wood, Biggin Wood and Farm; the woods at the bottom of the area were occupied by Beulah Spa, Bewleys Farm and Norbury Farm, whilst to the east are still Peckerman’s Wood and Dulwich Woods in Dulwich. Bewleys Farm and Norbury Farm have disappeared only since the last war - indeed, until a few years ago when the farm was cleared for the new school in Spurgeon’s Road, the piggery could be smelled whenever the wind blew from that direction. The main cross track in 1792 was that which is now Streatham Common North Side, Central Hill and Westow Hill, leading by way of Anerley Road to South Norwood and Elmers End. In earlier days the district was a haunt of gipsies, some of whom lived in caves dug into the hillsides. Samuel Pepys tells in his Diary of a visit to these Gipsies in 1688: ‘Aug.11, 1688. This afternoon my wife and Mercer and Deb went with Pelling to see the Gipsies of Lambeth and have their fortunes told but what they did I did not enquire.’
The neighbourhood was, and still is, remarkably healthy and in the mid-nineteenth century, even after the closing of the Spa, London physicians used to send their patients here as to a health resort, and James Thorne writing his Environs of London in 1876, tells that there were then hydropathic and homeopathic establishments, capacious and comfortable hotels (one of which, the Queen’s in Church Road, still does business), endless lodging houses and the Crystal Palace for a summer and winter garden. 1876 brings us to almost living memory for people who are long-lived in Norwood. We conclude this section by quoting Aubrey’s Perambulation of Surrey of 1678: ‘The wood wholly consists of oaks. There was one oak which had mistletoe, a timber tree, which was felled about 1678. Some person cut this mistletoe for some apothecaries of London and sold them a quantity at 10/- a time, leaving only one branch to sprout out. One woodman fell lame shortly after, each of the others lost an eye and the last that felled the tree broke his leg, as if the Hamadryade had resolved to take an ample revenge for the injury done to this venerable oak.’ So the fairies of the Norwood woods were a vindictive lot!
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Which Side Are You on, Boys?: The Women of the Copper Country
1913, Annie Klobuchar Clements, authorial intrusion, book review, Calumet, characters without flaws, copper mines, historical fiction, lockouts, Mary Doria Russell, Mother Jones, strikes, twentieth century, unions, United States
Review: The Women of the Copper Country, by Mary Doria Russell
Atria, 2019. 339 pp. $27
In June 1913, a man dies inside the Calumet and Hecla copper mine in Calumet, Michigan, the world’s largest. The fatality is neither remarkable nor surprising, for everyone in Calumet knows and dreads the sight of the dark-suited underling sent to inform the bereaved family — and, perhaps, repossess the house they rent from the company. Further, few people liked the dead man, stern and ill-tempered, even for a copper miner hardened by years of back-breaking, life-threatening toil for little more than pennies a day.
Nevertheless, this particular death fans the flame that has been smoldering within Annie Clements for years. What follows earns her the nickname “America’s Joan of Arc.” At first, the tale carries a whiff of Hollywood feel-good, because Annie’s efforts to unionize Calumet copper miners begin with great success and fanfare, even gain national attention. Meanwhile, James MacNaughton, the mine’s general manager, is so thoroughly despicable that even an opera librettist would hesitate to put a character like him on stage.
Anna Klobuchar Clemenc (pronounced “Clements”), as Jane Whitaker saw her in February 1914 (courtesy The Day Book, Chicago, via Wikimedia Commons)
But consider the source. Russell hews closely to biographical facts in her historical fiction, as she did with Doc, for instance; here, her afterword argues that the historical record justifies MacNaughton’s portrayal. As for Annie Clements, her miracle working meets immovable obstacles soon enough. Despite sympathy from a progressive governor, a National Guard commander who mistrusts hired strikebreakers, and even the White House–an alignment of constellations perhaps unique in the American labor firmament–MacNaughton will not be moved. He’s the definition of brutality and ruthlessness, and the company owns the town.
Russell begins every chapter with a brief quotation from Romeo and Juliet, which compares this struggle to that of Montague versus Capulet. But since nobody’s reading much Shakespeare in copper country, the device feels authorial and intrusive; and the quotations announce the mood and substance of what you’re about to read, which steals a march on the storytelling.
It also contributes to the sense of earnestness that mars the novel on occasion, visible partly in the exclamation points that pepper the pages. I agree wholeheartedly with Russell’s message, especially its resonance with today’s politics. Yet, for example, an early interior narrative from MacNaughton’s point of view feels cloying, historically accurate or not; let the man’s actions speak rather than his thoughts.
Still, there’s a lot to like about The Women of the Copper Country. Russell’s fans, of whom I’m one, shouldn’t expect the lyrical prose that drove Doc, and I’m glad she didn’t employ that style here. Annie’s trials are too hard-edged for that, and Calumet’s no place to indulge fancy. What you do get, though, is Russell’s trademark description, which can only come from a writer who knows a place or person from the inside:
You clock in and climb down flight after flight of slippery cut-stone stairs before a hike through miles of tunnels — just to start the day’s work. It’s cold underground. It’s wet. It smells of rock. Beyond that dim little funnel of light from your headlamp, there’s a hellish nothing, and Christ, the noise! After a few weeks, you’re half-deaf from the pounding of the drills. So you listen hard all the time to the crunch and scrape of shoveling, the squeal of train wheels grating on rusty rails, because a few seconds can make all the difference when a wall starts to come down.
This comes from Joe Clements, Annie’s rough, hard-drinking husband, one of the minor characters who help drive the novel. Annie’s a strong person, a gifted organizer, good soul, utterly courageous and self-sacrificing, feminist without knowing the word. But she’s also a little too good to be true, I think. You can see this especially when Mother Jones, the famously profane, tireless labor advocate, makes an appearance and steals the scene; her edges contrast with Annie’s smoothness. I also like Eva Savicki, a teenager who begins the novel besotted with a boy intent on ignoring her, only to come under Annie’s spell and grow into a committed, capable activist. That transition, one of Annie’s great accomplishments, echoes another theme, the belief that by helping one person, you help the whole world.
But what stays with me most from The Women of the Copper Country is the story. It may not seem memorable right way, because, unlike just about any novel you’ll ever read, in this one, things go well for our heroes at the start. But stay with it, for it’s hard to anticipate the manner in which so many setbacks take place, and how the characters struggle to overcome them or point out the injustice they suffer. Flawed though it is, The Women of the Copper Country makes a riveting tale that forces you to think about your own life.
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NRF Joins Truck Driver Regulations Fight
J. Craig Shearman
VP, Government Affairs Public Relations
NRF has gone to court to block new federal regulations for truck drivers, arguing that the rules would drive up costs for retailers and consumers while making the nation’s highways less safe.
“The Administration failed to take into account the serious economic ramifications faced by the broader supply chain community when drafting these rules,” says NRF president and CEO Matthew Shay. “The new requirements will only drive up costs, make trucking less safe, increase congestion and ultimately hurt job growth and the economy. Any change in supply chain policy should be based solely on science and fact.”
NRF and its National Council of Chain Restaurants division were among 15 associations that filed a joint friend of the court brief in a lawsuit brought by the American Trucking Associations against new “hours of service” regulations approved by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
Under the regulations, the existing 34-hour break mandated for truckers between each week of work would be expanded to include two overnight rest periods. The coalition’s brief, filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, argues that it would interrupt sleep patterns for overnight drivers and put more big-rig trucks on the road alongside passenger cars during congested daylight hours. In addition, it could stretch the 34-hour break to 60 hours or more in some cases, requiring more trucks and drivers in order to maintain current delivery schedules.
The brief argues that the change would interfere with retailers’ ability to have merchandise delivered overnight when stores are closed, and would force retailers to keep more merchandise in stock rather than relying on the efficiencies of just-in-time delivery. The change “increases our transportation costs, increases consumer prices and jeopardizes the fragile economic recovery,” Shay says.
Oral arguments in the case are expected to begin early next year, with the regulations currently set to go into effect in July.
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Matrix-assisted ionization-ion mobility spectrometry-mass spectrometry: Selective analysis of a europium-PEG complex in a crude mixture
J.L. Fischer, C.A. Lutomski, T.J. El-Baba, B.N. Siriwardena-Mahanama, Steffen Weidner, Jana Falkenhagen, M. J. Allen, S. Trimpin
The analytical utility of a new and simple to use ionization method, matrix-assisted ionization (MAI), coupled with ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) and mass spectrometry (MS) is used to characterize a 2-armed europium(III)-containing poly(ethylene glycol) (Eu-PEG) complex directly from a crude sample. MAI was used with the matrix 1,2-dicyanobenzene, which affords low chemical background relative to matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) and electrospray ionization (ESI). MAI provides high ion abundance of desired products in comparison to ESI and MALDI. Inductively coupled plasma-MS measurements were used to estimate a maximum of 10% of the crude sample by mass was the 2-arm Eu-PEG complex, supporting evidence of selective ionization of Eu-PEG complexes using the new MAI matrix, 1,2-dicyanobenzene. Multiply charged ions formed in MAI enhance the IMS gas-phase separation, especially relative to the singly charged ions observed with MALDI. Individual components are cleanlyThe analytical utility of a new and simple to use ionization method, matrix-assisted ionization (MAI), coupled with ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) and mass spectrometry (MS) is used to characterize a 2-armed europium(III)-containing poly(ethylene glycol) (Eu-PEG) complex directly from a crude sample. MAI was used with the matrix 1,2-dicyanobenzene, which affords low chemical background relative to matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) and electrospray ionization (ESI). MAI provides high ion abundance of desired products in comparison to ESI and MALDI. Inductively coupled plasma-MS measurements were used to estimate a maximum of 10% of the crude sample by mass was the 2-arm Eu-PEG complex, supporting evidence of selective ionization of Eu-PEG complexes using the new MAI matrix, 1,2-dicyanobenzene. Multiply charged ions formed in MAI enhance the IMS gas-phase separation, especially relative to the singly charged ions observed with MALDI. Individual components are cleanly separated and readily identified, allowing characterization of the 2-arm Eu-PEG conjugate from a mixture of the 1-arm Eu-PEG complex and unreacted starting materials. Size-exclusion chromatography, liquid chromatography at critical conditions, MALDI-MS, ESI-MS, and ESI-IMS-MS had difficulties with this analysis, or failed.…
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Despite only a 50% HPV vaccination rate in adolescents, cervical precancer incidence rates drop
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Author: Tony Berberabe, MPH
Although a vaccine for the human papillomavirus (HPV) is widely available, an average of 34,800 HPV-associated cancers attributable to the virus, including cervical, vaginal, vulva, penile, anal, and oropharynx were reported in the United States from 2012 through 2016, according to data published in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.1 The estimated number of cancers attributable to HPV types targeted by the 9-valent HPV vaccine (9vHPV) is also rising. These recent increases are due in part to an aging and growing population and increases in oropharyngeal, anal, and vulvar cancers, lead author Virginia Senkomago, PhD, MPH, an epidemiologist and senior service fellow at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, said in an email.
Although HPV vaccination is an important component of cancer prevention, only about 50% of adolescents have received the vaccine. Of cancer cases attributable to the HPV types targeted by the vaccine, 19,000 (59%) occurred in female patients and 13,100 (41%) occurred in male patients.
But there is some good news.
Senkomago said HPV infections and cervical precancers have dropped significantly since the vaccine was introduced. Infections with HPV types have dropped 86% among teenage girls. Among vaccinated women aged 20 to 24 years, the percentage of cervical precancers caused by the HPV types most often linked to cervical cancer dropped by 40%. The vaccination is recommended through age 26 for all individuals, especially for those who were not vaccinated when they were younger. The vaccine is not recommended for individuals older than 26 years, but some adults between 27 and 45 years may decide to get the HPV vaccine based on a discussion with their clinician. HPV vaccination provides less benefit to adults in this age range, as more have already been exposed to HPV, said Senkomago.
Further, it is anticipated that compliance should increase because the original 3 doses every 2 months now seems to be getting replaced by 2 doses with similar efficacy rates.
Previous annual estimates of cancers attributable to the types targeted by 9vHPV were 28,500 (2008-2012),2 30,000 (2010-2014),3 and 31,200 (2011-2015).4
“HPV is a distinct subset of head and neck cancers. It now exceeds cervical cancer as a major health burden in the [United States] because, in part, there’s no effective screening strategy,” said Robert L. Ferris, MD, PhD, director of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s Hillman Cancer Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and co–physician editor in chief of Targeted Therapies in Oncology. A number of challenges exist in the treatment of patients with HPV-positive head and neck cancer, Ferris said. These include lack of a screening tool and relatively low adherence to vaccination. The disease also has a long latency period,5 adding to the difficulty in treatment.
“These patients don’t have traditional risk factors,” Ferris continued. “They may just present to their doctor with a lump in the neck area with very few symptoms. They usually have no history of tobacco use or exposure history, so they can be overlooked for weeks and months before a needle biopsy is ordered. Needle biopsy can be diagnostic.”
Of the 32,100 HPV cancer types, those with the highest incidence were oropharyngeal and the lowest was vaginal (FIGURE 1), the report said.1
“We are striving to vaccinate as many people as possible. Right now our goals are identifying groups with the lower rates, such as people who live in rural areas, and working to remove unique barriers to vaccination they may face,” Senkomago said.
Senkomago added that the most surprising finding was that oropharyngeal cancer was the most common cancer attributable to HPV types targeted by 9vHPV in most states, except in Texas, where cervical cancer was most common, and in Alaska, New Mexico, New York, and Washington DC, where estimates of oropharyngeal and cervical cancers attributable to the 9vHPV-targeted types were the same (FIGURE 2).1
In particular, Senkomago said, these findings can inform community oncologists of the burden of HPV-associated cancers, especially in light of the increase of cases of oropharyngeal, anal, and vulvar cancers. Increasing awareness of the burden of the 7 HPV-associated cancers, individually and as a group, is a powerful prevention tool. Oncologists can advocate for strategies such as screening and HPV vaccination. In addition, community oncologists can work together with cancer survivors to engage communities to vaccinate and get screened as appropriate, she said.
Ferris cautioned against changing treatment algorithms too soon, especially before prospective clinical trials result are fully analyzed. “We need specific clinical trials before we can reduce the intensity of therapy because we don’t want to impair the very good survival, which can be 80% to 90%, in these patients and put that at risk,” he said. “We don’t want to jeopardize that strong survival rate. Those prospective clinical trials are ongoing, and those results should be reported out intensively in 2020, 2021, and beyond.”
Although the report focused on only the 9vHPV vaccine, a quadrivalent vaccine is also available. Investigators are evaluating whether any shift in the subtypes of HPV that cause cervical or head and neck cancer has been detected with the implementation of the quadrivalent vaccine. Senkomago said scientists continue to evaluate HPV types before and after vaccine introduction in population-based studies. To date, they have not found any evidence that type replacement is occurring.6
1. Senkomago V, Henley J, Thomas CC, Mix JM, Markowitz LE, Saraiya M. Human papillomavirus—attributable cancers—United States, 2012-2016. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2019;68(33):724-728. doi: 10.15585/mmwr.mm6833a3.
2. Viens LJ, Henley SJ, Watson M, et al. Human papillomavirus–associated cancers — United States, 2008–2012. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2016;65(26):661-666. doi: 10.15585/mmwr.mm6526a1
3. Cancers associated with human papillomavirus, United States—2010–2014. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website. cdc.gov/cancer/uscs/about/data-briefs/no1-hpv-assoc-cancers-UnitedStates-2010-2014.htm. Accessed September 12, 2019.
5. Human papillomavirus (HPV). Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website. cdc.gov/hpv/parents/cancer.html. Accessed September 10, 2019.
6. Mesher D, Soldan K, Lehtinen M, et al. Population-level effects of human papillomavirus vaccination programs on infections with nonvaccine genotypes. Emerg Infect Dis. 2016;22(10):1732-1740. doi: 10.3201/eid2210.160675.
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Top Trump Advisors Are Now Felons
The worst hour of Donald Trump’s presidency just happened. CNN: “Two massive clouds that have been hanging over Donald Trump’s presidency for months broke open almost simultaneously on Tuesday afternoon — and poured rain all over the President. Between 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. Eastern time, two narratives — both disastrously bad for Trump — emerged: Paul Manafort, the man who spent five critical months leading Trump’s campaign in 2016, was found guilty of eight financial crimes. On the 10 other charges brought against Manafort, the jury couldn’t reach a unanimous conclusion and the presiding judge declared a mistrial on those counts. Longtime Trump personal attorney and fixer Michael Cohen agreed to a plea deal with the Southern District of New York in which he admitted guilt on eight charges and acknowledged that he had discussed or made hush payments to two women alleging affairs with Trump in order to keep damaging information from becoming public, at the direction of and in coordination with a candidate for federal office. That candidate, although Cohen didn’t name him, is obviously Donald Trump.”
EPA Admits Easing Coal Restrictions Kills People
Trump’s EPA says more Americans will die under its power-plant rollback. Bloomberg: “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says its proposal to relax greenhouse gas limits on power plants will cause as many as 1,630 additional premature deaths annually by 2030 from heart and lung disease — an estimate independent experts say may be low. The projection is contained in a 289-page technical document accompanying the agency’s proposal to replace the Obama-era Clean Power Plan that was released Tuesday. The new rule would give states more leeway to set limits on greenhouse gas emissions from their power sectors — even though, by the agency’s own admission, that will result in higher levels of particulate matter and ozone being emitted by coal plants than would have occurred under President Barack Obama’s plan. That pollution is linked with respiratory infections, asthma and impaired lung function. ‘The Trump EPA once again proves that it cares more about extending the lives of old coal plants rather than saving the lives of the American people,’ Conrad Schneider, advocacy director of the Clean Air Task Force, said by email. ‘The result will actually be more pollution and unnecessary loss of life.'”
Trump’s Billionaire Candidate Loses In Wyoming
Trump-backed billionaire loses in WY’s GOP governor race. Politico: Wyoming state Treasurer Mark Gordon won the state’s Republican gubernatorial primary Tuesday, defeating Trump-backed businessman and political donor Foster Friess. President Donald Trump waded into the race late, tweeting in support of Friess early on Election Day. Friess’ defeat capped a day of political misfortune for Trump, who was implicated in a conspiracy to violate campaign finance laws by former attorney Michael Cohen and saw former campaign chairman Paul Manafort convicted of fraud before Gordon snapped the president’s recent streak of picking winners in Republican governor’s primaries around the country. Gordon had 32 percent of the Republican primary vote to Friess’ 26 percent when the Associated Press called the primary with 91 percent of precincts reporting. Current Republican Gov. Matt Mead is term-limited. Gordon will face Democratic state Rep. Mary Throne in the general election. Gordon was the early frontrunner in the race to succeed Mead, but Friess’ personal wealth and national political connections made him a contender in the crowded primary. Former Sen. Rick Santorum — who benefitted from a Friess-funded super PAC in the 2012 presidential race — backed the megadonor, as did Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and several prominent national conservative groups.”
Tariffs Kill Jobs In Trump Country
‘We’re the ones it’s going to hurt’: Trump tariffs fuel angst in Trump country. Politico: “Corey Southard steers red-hot molten steel slabs all day. And he’s worried about his job. The 48-year-old assistant roller at NLMK Pennsylvania says President Donald Trump’s steel tariffs have driven up costs for his company and left everyone at his western Pennsylvania plant — deep in the heart of Trump country — on edge. ‘Trump’s supposed to be making America great again, right? Why isn’t he creating more jobs here instead of taking jobs away?’ Southward said. Southward spoke from his spot in the ‘pulpit,’ a control room high above a conveyor belt that presses 10-inch-thick steel slabs into thin, rolled coils for resale. ‘We just want it to go away, man, so we can continue with our jobs. That’s all that’s talked about around here anymore.'” Stories like that of NLMK are playing out across the country from Iowa soybean farmers slammed by retaliatory Chinese tariffs to Michigan auto industry workers worried about the metal tariffs and the impact of proposed levies on imported cars and parts.”
U.S. Wants To Tax Half Of China’s Exports
U.S. moves toward new tariffs despite fresh trade talks. WSJ: ““The Trump administration is moving closer this week to levying tariffs on nearly half of Chinese imports despite broad opposition from U.S. business and the start of a fresh round of talks between the U.S. and China to settle the trade dispute,” the Wall Street Journal reports. ‘The twin administration initiatives—pursuing tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods while relaunching talks to scrap tariffs—underscore a split within the U.S. administration, with negotiators in the U.S. Treasury Department offering a carrot, while the office of the U.S. trade representative threatens with a stick, both with the approval of President Trump.'”
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After Fatwa, Pastor in Pakistan Beaten with Bricks
Posted on November 6, 2010 by particularkev
Convert, a former fighter in Afghanistan, had protested Islamic attack.
SARGODHA, Pakistan, November 5 (CDN) — Muslim extremists in Islamabad on Monday (Nov. 1) beat with bricks and hockey sticks a Christian clergyman who is the subject of a fatwa demanding his death.
The Rev. Dr. Suleman Nasri Khan, a former fighter in Afghanistan before his conversion to Christianity in 2000, suffered a serious head injury, a hairline fracture in his arm and a broken bone in his left ankle in the assault by 10 Muslim extremists; he was able to identify two of them as Allama Atta-Ullah Attari and Allama Masaud Hussain.
The attack in Chashma, near Iqbal Town in Islamabad, followed Islamic scholar Allama Nawazish Ali’s Oct. 25th fatwa (religious ruling) to kill Khan, pastor of Power of the Healing God’s Church in the Kalupura area of Gujrat city. A mufti (Islamic scholar) and member of Dawat-e-Islami, which organizes studies of the Quran and Sunnah (sayings and deeds of Muhammad), Ali is authorized to issue fatwas.
Khan, 34, had relocated to a rented apartment in Islamabad after fleeing his home in Gujrat because of death threats against him and his family, he said. The fatwa, a religious order to be obeyed by all Muslims, was issued after Khan protested anti-Christian violence in Kalupura last month.
Muslim extremists who learned of his conversion had first attacked Khan in 2008 – killing his first child, 3-month old Sana Nasri Khan. He and wife Aster Nasri Khan escaped.
“During the Kalupura Christian colony attacks, once again it came into the attention of Muslim men that I was a converted Christian who had recanted Islam, deemed as humiliation of Islam by them,” Khan said.
In this week’s attack, Khan also sustained minor rib injuries and several minor cuts and bruises. He said the Muslim radicals pelted him with stones and bricks while others kicked him in the chest and stomach. They also tried to force him to recite Islam’s creed for conversion; he refused.
On Monday night (Nov. 1) Khan had gone out to buy milk for a daughter born on July 19 – named after the daughter who was killed in 2008, Sana Nasri Khan – when during the wee hours of the night five unidentified Muslim extremists began kicking and pounding on the door.
“When my wife asked who they were, they replied, ‘We have learned that you have disgraced Islam by recanting, therefore we will set your house on fire,” Khan told Compass. “When my wife told them that I was not at home, they left a letter threatening to torch the house and kill my whole family and ordered me to recant Christianity and embrace Islam.”
Khan had sold some of his clothes at a pawnshop in order to buy milk for the baby, as he has been financially supporting six Christian families from his congregation who are on a Muslim extremist hit list. Islamic militants have cordoned off parts of Kalupura, patrolling the area to find and kill the families of Allah Rakha Masih, Boota Masih, Khalid Rehmat, Murad Masih Gill, Tariq Murad Gill and Rashid Masih.
Often feeding her 5-month-old daughter water mixed with salt and sugar instead of milk or other supplements, Aster Nasri Khan said she was ready to die of starvation for the sake of Jesus and His church. Before her beaten husband was found, she said she had heard from neighbors that some Muslim men had left him unconscious on a roadside, thinking he was dead.
The Rev. Arif Masih of Power of the Healing God’s Church in Islamabad told Compass that he was stunned to find Khan unconscious in a pool of blood on the roadside. Saying he couldn’t go to police or a hospital out of fear that Muslims would level apostasy charges against Khan, Masih said he took him to the nearby private clinic of Dr. Naeem Iqbal Masih. Khan received medical treatment there while remaining unconscious for almost four hours, Masih said.
Born into a Muslim family, Khan had joined the now-defunct Islamic militant group Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, which later emerged as Jaish-e-Muhammad, fighting with them for eight and half years in Kashmir and Afghanistan.
While fighting in Afghanistan’s civil war in 2000, he said, he found a New Testament lying on the battlefield. He immediately threw it away, but a divine voice seemed to be extending an invitation to him, he said. When he later embraced Christ, he began preaching and studying – ending up with a doctorate in biblical theology from Punjab Theological Seminary in Kasur in 2005.
Upon learning of the Oct. 25 fatwa against him, Khan immediately left Gujrat for Islamabad, he said. He was living in hiding in Chashma near Iqbal Town when Muslims paid his landlord, Munir Masih, to reveal to them that Khan was living at his house as a tenant, he said. A young Christian whose name is withheld for security reasons informed Khan of the danger on Oct. 29, he said.
The young Christian told him that Munir Masih revealed his whereabouts to Allama Atta-Ullah Attari, a member of Dawat-e-Islami.
Khan said he confided to Christian friends about the dangers before him, and they devised a plan to hide his family in Bara Koh, a small town near Islamabad.
“But as I had sold and spent everything to help out Kalupura Christians,” he said, “I was penniless and therefore failed to move on and rent a house there.”
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Christian Woman in Pakistan Abused, Forced to Resign
Posted on June 13, 2010 by particularkev
Sanitation worker on verge of receiving benefits; in another village, church builders attacked.
SARGODHA, Pakistan, June 10 (CDN) — A Christian woman here said she has been falsely accused of theft, beaten, threatened with rape and forced to resign her job in a bid to keep her from obtaining full benefits as a regular government employee.
Razia Bibi, a 38-year-old sanitation worker known as Rajji of village No. 47-NB (Northern Branch), Sargodha, was due to obtain regular status as a government employee at Aysha Girls’ Hostel at the University of Sargodha at the end of May. On May 7, however, Muslim office worker Safia Bibi accused her of stealing 10,000 rupees (US$120) from her cubicle – and when Muslim hostel warden Noshaba Bibi learned of it, she called female police officers and ordered them to beat her until
she confessed, Rajji said.
“Lady police constables subjected me to inhumane thrashing with bamboo sticks and kept saying that I must confess or they would not spare me,” she said, adding that she was beaten for four hours in one of the hostel rooms. “I said that, being a Christian from childhood, I had learned not to steal, therefore I told them the truth, but it seemed they were bent on making me confess a crime I had not committed.”
Her comment about being a Christian and therefore not having stolen anything seemed to especially enrage Safia Bibi and Noshaba Bibi, she said.
“Hostel officials turned violent, and they called Haaser Khan, the chief security officer of the university, accompanied by two junior security guards, and ordered them to take me into a cubicle and take off my clothes and rape me,” she said. “I raised a cry for help, but there was no one to help me.”
Her husband, Nayyer Aftab, told Compass that someone informed him that his wife was in serious trouble at her workplace. Rushing to the girls’ hostel, he said, he found the security guards dragging his wife on the ground as she screamed for help. When Aftab asked why they were treating her this way, Khan charged him with his baton and left him injured on the ground, Aftab said. The chief security officer took Rajji inside.
“Both hostel officers, Noshaba and Safia, told me that Rajji had stolen 10,000 rupees, and that because she didn’t confess her crime the security guards were going to teach her a lesson,” Aftab said.
Aftab said he knew that his wife would not confess to theft even to spare herself from rape, and he pleaded with the two accusers to stop the security guards, promising that he would pay them the amount of the allegedly stolen money.
“At this both Safia and Noshaba ordered to bring Rajji out and not rape her,” Aftab told Compass. “They gave me an hour to make payment of the allegedly stolen amount.”
He said he went to friends and relatives to gather up the 10,000 rupees and gave it to Safia Bibi and Noshaba Bibi, but Aftab said they still compelled his wife to resign by forcibly obtaining a thumb print from the illiterate woman on a resignation statement.
Rajji said she had been happily looking forward to obtaining regular employee status.
“In three weeks I was going to become a regular employee as a sanitation worker at the university, but as I am a Christian, the Muslim hostel officers Safia and Noshaba wanted a Muslim regular employee after their hearts instead of me,” she told Compass.
Noshaba Bibi initially refused to comment on the allegation that she falsely accused the Christian woman of theft in order to provide a job to someone of her choice. After repeated questioning by Compass, however, she became exasperated and used coarse language, yelling, “Yes, I have done it, do whatever you want!”
The Christian couple in the village in Punjab Province has an 8-year-old daughter and two sons, ages 9 and 5.
Christians Beaten, Jailed
In a village in southern Punjab Province, Muslim extremists on Saturday (June 5) attacked Christians trying to construct a church building, and then got police to file charges against them for defending themselves, according to the All Pakistan Minorities Alliance (APMA).
A club-wielding Muslim mob led by Muhammad Nazir Ahmed beat Christians who were laying the foundation for the church building in village No. 184/9-L, in Cheechawatni of Sahiwal district, seriously injuring several of them, said Javed Akber Gill, APMA district coordinator in Sahiwal.
Ahmed later enlisted Inspector Allah Ditta, station house officer at the Dera Rahim police station, to file charges against four Christians – Noreen Mumtaz, who is pregnant, and her husband Mumtaz Inayat, Aftab Inayat and Kashif Masih, Christian sources said. All four were charged with critically injuring others and attempting to kill or threaten to kill, they said.
Inspector Ditta refused to respond to repeated requests by Compass for comment on allegations that he colluded with the Muslim extremists to falsely accuse the Christian victims of the attack.
The accused Christians pleaded with police that they were innocent, to no avail. Gill said that he was doing his best to resolve the issue peacefully in an attempt to avert the kind of violence that hit the Christian communities of Gojra and Korian in July and August of 2009 and Shanti Nagar in 1997.
The Rev. John Rizwani of Cheechawatni city said the government had allotted a small piece of land to the Christians for the building and that they had permission to build. There are only 25 Christians’ homes amid the approximately 500 Muslim homes in the village.
Ferhan Mazher, chairman of Rays of Development Organization, Azher Kalim, general secretary the Christians Lawyers Foundation and Khalid Gill, head of APMA in Punjab, condemned the attack.
“Attacks on worship places usurp basic human rights and constitute a conspiracy to belittle the name of Pakistan worldwide,” Mazher said.
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Pakistani Christians’ Employer Has Them Illegally Arrested
Posted on May 15, 2010 by particularkev
Upset with their objections to discrimination, factory owner uses police to beat them.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 12 (CDN) — Police illegally detained three Christians on false charges of alcohol possession in Sialkot last week at the request of their Muslim employer.
The men – garment factory workers Atif Masih, Kamran Masih and Naveed Gill – said they had objected to their boss demanding they work on Sundays. Factory owner Rana Ejaz promptly accused them of selling alcohol, which is forbidden to Muslims in Pakistan and illegal to sell without a permit.
On May 4 the station house officer of Paka Garah, Sialkot, arrested the three Christians even though Ejaz had filed neither a First Information Report nor registered a written complaint, the Christians said.
“We went to the factory for work at 9 a.m. on May 4, and at around 11 a.m. we were arrested by the SHO [station house officer],” Atif Masih said. “We were severely beaten and asked to give a false statement that we sold alcohol.”
Authorities released them after three days when local human rights groups charged that they had been illegally detained.
Paka Garah police SHO Zulfiqar Ali refused to comment after their release. Previously he had said, “We arrested the three from the factory, and they confessed that they sell alcohol.” Parents of the three Christians denied the charge, asserting that their sons had been falsely accused.
Factory owner Rana Ejaz reportedly said, “I did all this on the advice of the SHO, Zulfiqar, so that I could terminate the Christian workers.”
Kamran Masih said Ejaz seemed to object to the crosses the Christians wore since they began work at the factory last year.
“He didn’t say it, but he used to look at the cross with strange looks,” Kamran Masih said. “Then since February, he said that no one will be allowed to wear a cross at work.”
In March Ejaz began demanding that only the Christian employees come to work on Sundays, Kamran Masih said.
“No other Christians raised any voice,” he said. “We were the only ones to stand up and ask for permission to go to church on Sundays, but he threatened us with dire consequences.”
Their local priest, the Rev. Illyas Mall, said he had known the three families for more than 40 years.
“None of their family members have ever been involved in anything illegal,” he said.
Likewise a friend of the three Christians who spoke on condition of anonymity said they had never touched alcohol and were detained only because Ejaz is a good friend of the SHO, “so he got them illegally detained and tortured.”
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Pakistani Muslims Abduct Young Christian Woman, Family Says
Mother beaten on two occasions for trying to recover her; police refuse to prosecute.
LAHORE, Pakistan, May 6 (CDN) — Muslims who kidnapped and forcibly converted an 18-year-old Christian woman to Islam severely beat her mother on two occasions to discourage her from trying to recover her daughter, lawyers said.
Muhammad Akhter and Muhammad Munir on April 25 broke into the home of 50-year-old widow Fazeelat Bibi while her sons were at work and beat her because they were upset at her continuous demands that they return her daughter Saira, Christian Lawyers Foundation (CLF) leaders told Compass.
CLF President Khalid Gill said that neighbors’ calls to the police emergency number went unheeded as the men beat her in Lahore’s predominantly Muslim Bostaan Colony.
On April 18 Muhammad Akhter and members of his family had beaten her with clubs and ripped her clothes when the widow, having received a tearful phone call from her kidnapped daughter that day, went to their house to argue for her release.
In Saira’s telephone call to her mother, received at the house of Muslim neighbor Musarat Bibi, who is a constable, the young woman was crying as she said that Munir and Akhter were spreading false rumors that she had eloped with Munir, Fazeelat said. She said her daughter told her how Munir, Akhter and Munir’s sister Billo Bibi had kidnapped her, stolen the jewelry of her dowry, forced her to convert to Islam and were pressuring her to marry Munir.
At the time she was kidnapped on March 10, Saira was engaged to a young Christian man of Youhanabad, a large Christian slum on the outskirts of Lahore, Fazeelat Bibi said.
“Saira’s brothers and I were very joyful because we were about to fix her wedding date,” she said.
Previously the radical Muslim family lived next door to the Christian family. On March 10 Munir, who is Akhter’s uncle, came to the Christian family’s home and told Saira that her mother was ill at her hospital workplace and wanted to see her immediately, Fazeelat Bibi said.
“Then Muhammad Munir deceitfully abducted Saira,” she said. “It seemed as if Saira had vanished into thin air. At first my three sons and I sons searched for Saira, but our efforts were futile.”
She accused Munir, Akhter and Munir’s sister Billo Bibi of kidnapping her daughter. They have continued to threaten to kill her if she persists in trying to recover her daughter, she said. Her daughter, she added, has called her “persistently” from Charrar village saying that she has been kidnapped, forced to convert to Islam and is being pressured to marry Munir against her will.
“This also reveals that Saira has not tied the knot with Munir yet,” Gill told Compass.
The distraught mother said she approached Kotlakhpat Police Station Inspector Rana Shafiq seeking help to recover her daughter, but that he flatly refused. The inspector told her the issue could be resolved at the local Bostaan Colony meeting, she said; the rulings of such a meeting of local elders, known as a Punchayat, have the equivalent of court authority in Pakistan.
Fazeelat Bibi said that several such meetings produced no resolution to her daughter’s kidnapping, but that while present she heard the false rumor that her daughter had wed Munir. At the meetings she also learned that the Muslim men were keeping Saira at Charrar village outside Lahore.
Fazeelat Bibi told Gill and CLF Secretary Azhar Kaleem said that she was somewhat satisfied to learn at the meetings that her daughter was at least safe, but her relief vanished after the April 18 call from Saira. Her daughter told her that she had tried to escape three times, she said.
Once again the frail, 50-year-old woman sought the help of Inspector Shafiq, and again he refused to help, the CLF leaders said. Gill and Kaleem said that Shafiq was explicitly inclined to favor his fellow Muslims in the case, and that he told her to move to a Christian slum as no one would help her in Bostaan Colony.
Gill, who is also head of the All Pakistan Minorities Alliance in Punjab Province, and CLF Secretary Kaleem said they believe that Akhter, Munir and Billo Bibi had heavily bribed the inspector to keep him from prosecuting the Muslims.
Shafiq declined to respond to Compass calls, and the registrar of the Kotlakhpat police station, Abdul Qayyum, said Shafiq was not available for comment.
Saira was just 2 months old when her father, Pervaiz Masih, died and her mother and three brothers moved from their native Yansonabad village to Lahore in search of a better life, Fazeelat Bibi said. She said that she began working as a sanitary worker at a hospital in order to support them, while her sons began working as day-laborers when they reached their teenage years.
Saira is her only daughter, Fazeelat Bibi said.
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Christians Face 1,000 Attacks in 500 Days in Karnataka, India
Posted on March 23, 2010 by particularkev
Investigation concludes Hindu nationalist state government is responsible.
NEW DELHI, March 22 (CDN) — Christians in Karnataka state are under an unprecedented wave of Christian persecution, having faced more than 1,000 attacks in 500 days, according to an independent investigation by a former judge of the Karnataka High Court.
The spate began on Sept. 14, 2008, when at least 12 churches were attacked in one day in Karnataka’s Mangalore city, in Dakshina Kannada district, said Justice Michael Saldanha, former judge of the Karnataka High Court.
“On Jan. 26 – the day we celebrated India’s Republic Day – Karnataka’s 1,000th attack took place in Mysore city,” Saldanha told Compass, saying the figure was based on reports from faith-based organizations.
Saldanha conducted the People’s Tribunal Enquiry into the attacks on Christians in Karnataka on behalf of the People’s Union for Civil Liberties’ Dakshina Kannada district chapter, the Catholic Association of South Kanara (another name for Dakshina Kannada) and the Karnataka Chapter of Transparency International.
“Attacks are taking place every day,” said Saldanha, chairperson of the Karnataka Chapter of Transparency International.
The latest attack took place on Wednesday (March 17), when a mob of around 150 people led by the Hindu extremist Vishwa Hindu Parishad (World Hindu Council or VHP) and its youth wing, Bajrang Dal, stormed the funeral of a 50-year-old Christian identified only as Isaac, reported the Karnataka-based Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC).
As Pastor Sunder Raj of St. Thomas Church in Gijahalli, near Arsikere in Hassan district, was about to begin the funeral service, the mob pulled the coffin apart and desecrated the cross the relatives of the deceased were carrying. They threw the body into a tractor and dumped it outside, saying his burial would have contaminated Indian soil and his body should be buried in Rome or the United States, added the GCIC.
With police intervention, the funeral took place later the same day.
Blaming the state government for the attacks, Saldanha said the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had “outdone Orissa.”
Karnataka Home Minister V.S. Acharya denied the results of the inquiry.
“The allegation of Karnataka having faced 1,000 attacks is absolutely false,” Acharya told Compass. “There is liberty in the state. Sections of the media are trying to hype it, and such claims are politically motivated. Karnataka is the most peaceful state in India, and the people are law-abiding.”
The wave of persecution in Karnataka began as fallout of the anti-Christian mayhem in eastern Orissa state, where Maoists killed a VHP leader on Aug. 23, 2008, with Hindu extremists wrongly accusing Christians. The attacks in Orissa’s Kandhamal district, the epicenter of the bloodbath, killed more than 100 people and burned 4,640 houses, 252 churches and 13 educational institutions.
Violent attacks have stopped in Orissa, but Karnataka continues to burn.
In addition to the attacks, numerous Christians also have faced false charges of fraudulent or forced conversions throughout Karnataka.
“I have been to many police stations where complaints of [forced] conversions have been lodged against Christians, and when I asked the police why they were acting on frivolous complaints, most of them told me that they had orders from above,” he said.
In his report, he notes that Christians “are dragged to the police station under false allegations, immediately locked up, beaten up and denied bail by the lower judiciary, which functions as the loyal partner of the police department and refuses bail on the grounds that ‘the police have objected.’”
The report says 468 Christian workers in rural areas had been targeted with such actions since September 2008.
“Numerous others have been threatened and beaten up,” the report states. “The police are totally out of control, with the lower judiciary having abdicated its constitutional obligation of safeguarding the citizens’ rights particularly from a tyrannical state machinery, while the state government proclaims that everything is peaceful.”
Chief Minister Bookanakere Siddalingappa Yeddyurappa and Home Minister Acharya are from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (Hindu nationalist conglomerate or the RSS), believed to be the parent organization of the BJP, Saldanha pointed out.
He also said that although the attacks on Christians had turned public sentiment against the BJP in Karnataka, the party seemed to care little as both opposition parties, the Congress Party and the regional Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) party, were “in shambles” in the state.
In May 2009 the BJP lost general (national) elections, and since then sections of the party are in desperation, he said, adding, “Perhaps this is one of the reasons why attacks continue to happen in Karnataka.”
Saldanha said the state government was controlling media coverage of the attacks by “monetary appeasement.”
“The citizens are told that the situation is happy and under control, principally because the greater part of the media is being fed or appeased with massive publicity advertisements which have cost the state exchequer over 400 million rupees [US$8.8 million], most of the money clandestinely billed to the various Government Corporations and Public bodies,” Saldanha states in the introduction to his yet unpublished report.
The BJP came to sole power in Karnataka in May 2008. Prior to that, it ruled in alliance with the JD-S party for 20 months.
There are a little more than 1 million Christians in Karnataka, where the total population is over 52 million.
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Muslims arrested on Christmas while trying to enter church
Posted on December 29, 2009 by particularkev
Two Muslim men were arrested on Christmas Day outside of St. Dominic’s Church, Bahawalpur, Pakistan, where on October 29, 2001 four gunmen entered the Church and opened fire and mercilessly killed 17 worshippers and a police guard, reports Anjum Paul and Dan Wooding, special to ASSIST News Service.
The two suspects were taken into custody by church security personnel as they tried to enter the church after the security men said they were “unknown” and “never been seen before in the church.”
A source told ANS that the men “failed to satisfy with their answers” when they were asked where they came from.
“First they said that came from Green Town Bahawalpur, but a Christian from that area said that they were not from there, and then they said that they came from Hasilpur,” said the source. “One of the suspects was holding a mobile phone and the security personnel were quite sure that the mobile phone could be used as a mean of communication with the other extremists to harm Christians being busy in their service.”
A Catechist, Sohial Nathaniel, said, “I stopped both of the Muslim suspects. I asked them to make a ‘Sign of the Cross’ and they failed to do so. They also failed to prove their residence in Bahawalpur where Christians reside. We then asked the police then to arrest them.”
Father Nadeem Joseph of St. Dominic’s Church told ANS, “The government should take strict action in this incident. This seemed to be a deliberate conspiracy. This brought to mind of when 17 Christians [and a police guard] were martyred in the same church by Muslim extremists in 2001.”
He went on to say that he was shocked when he visited the local police station on Christmas Day evening with a colleague from the church, Father Simon.
“I was astonished to hear from the Station House Officer, that both of the suspects had been released by him,” said Father Joseph.
“Due to terror by extremists, we had made all possible arrangements for the safety of the Christians. I appreciate the Christian security at the church that has really been a blessing for all of us, otherwise an incident like that that took place 2001, could have happen place.
“We are so sorry that they were released without us being told. The law and order situation here is bad and there is no improvement.
“The Christian clergy and community had already been threatened through mobile text messages when they were told that they would be targeted during Christmas. But, thanks to God, the church security and government agencies remained on high alert and no damage was caused anywhere by the extremists and terrorists at this Christmastime.”
Report from the Christian Telegraph
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EGYPT: VIOLENCE AGAIN ERUPTS OVER QUEST FOR WORSHIP SITE
Two Copts wounded in Minya province over plan to use building as church venue.
ISTANBUL July 31 (Compass Direct News) – The recent eruption of sectarian violence in Egypt’s Minya province continued last week as local Christians again faced harsh reprisals from Muslims for trying to convert a building into a worship facility.
On July 24 security forces in the village of Hawasliya were able to prevent a crowd of Muslims, which numbered in the hundreds according to some reports, from torching the building. But the mob succeeded in setting fire to four neighboring stables, killing sheep and cows belonging to Copts.
During the melee two Copts, including an elderly woman, were wounded. Both received hospital treatment.
“When Muslims see that Christians are making a church, they get upset about it,” said Teresa Kamal, a local journalist. “Why are people full of hate like this? Something has happened to radicalize the people.”
Pastor Milad Shehata, 39, heads up the project to convert the four-story property into a church building. He told Compass that the village’s Protestant Christians had no other place to worship.
“I have no intention of leaving this place at any price,” said Shehata. “This place has been built from the sweat and hard-earned money of very poor people. Even if I or my family is killed, it doesn’t matter. I will not leave this place.”
Shehata had begun to refurbish the building to accommodate church meetings and was planning to apply for permission to use it as a place of worship before holding services on the premises.
On July 23, officers investigating complaints from Muslim villagers about two crosses Shehata had installed on the outside of the building took him to the local police station. After questioning, they released him with orders to return the next morning. At that time two policemen escorted him to the main prison in Minya, where he was held without charge until Saturday afternoon (July 25).
“I don’t know why I was arrested,” said Shehata. “I was there for 37 hours, but no one even gave me even a cup of water.”
Since the attack on July 24, elders from the Muslim community have extended the offer of a reconciliation meeting on condition the church is never opened.
“There is no point in holding a reconciliation meeting if we have to close the church,” said Shehata. “The church is the whole point.”
Recent Troubles
There have long been drafts of a unified law for the building of places of worship in Egypt aimed at resolving recurrent conflicts faced by new churches. Such legislation, however, has been consistently passed over in parliamentary sessions.
Human rights lawyer Naguib Gobraiel said there was a stark contrast between the freedom to practice religion given to Muslims and that afforded to Christians.
“Muslims can put a mat down anywhere and pray and no one objects,” he said, pointing out the contrast with Christians’ inability to secure worship sites. “Why do they differentiate? It implies that we can’t have private prayers.”
The July 24 incident marks the fourth time in as many weeks that planned new church buildings have sparked violent responses from inhabitants of villages surrounding the city of Minya.
Despite the recent high incidents of sectarian strife, Minya Gov. Ahmad Dia’a El-Din told Compass that inter-faith relations are not as strained as they may seem.
“These kinds of attacks are not as frequent as some people imagine,” he said. “They are not happening night and day. The proof is the businesses – you find many shops owned by Copts. People live together and Copts are wealthy, they are doing fine business.”
El-Din seemed eager to demonstrate that he led by example.
“I personally work closely with Christian people and have good relationships with them,” he said. “I harbor no personal animosity.”
Gobraiel, however, was not impressed.
“The governorate of Minya has the highest level of radicalization and intolerance,” he said. “The governor has totally failed in tackling this issue from all different aspects – education, media, culture and security.”
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Sodom found? The quest for the lost city of destruction – Part 2
By Brian Nixon, special to ASSIST News Service
Dr. Steven Collins, the unassuming archeologist from New Mexico, was at a crossroad. The site he was helping to excavate in the West Bank (Ai) from 1995-2000 closed down due to warfare and political maneuvering in the region. Steve, and project director Bryant Wood, had to close up shop.
“I didn’t know what to do,” he told me in a recent interview. “For the past five years, my life had been consumed by this dig. Then it was gone. I was dumbfounded.”
But this closed door proved to be an opening for something more amazing.
“It was then that I decided to conduct some research on a thought I had in 1996. During an archeology tour, I found that the traditional site for Sodom (known as the “Southern Theory”) didn’t match the geographical profile as described in Genesis 13-19.”
“As I began to research it more, and read through Genesis 13-19 several times, I had a thought that I had to pursue: they have the wrong location.”
“Many think Sodom is in the South (modeled after the famous archeologist, William F. Albright’s views), but the text seems to indicate that the site is in the Northeast,” he continued.
As “Indiana Jones” as Steve’s thoughts were, the conclusions and findings could be even more monumental than any blockbuster movie.
Essentially, Steve took the literal text of Genesis 13-19 and created a theoretical map, using the research methodology of Dr. Peter Briggs. This “map” utilizes a scientific approach to determine the validity of ancient texts. The conclusion? The texts in Genesis are reliable geographical indicators.
Working with Briggs, Collins developed a theory that the location was not in the Southern region, but in the Northeast.
From there, Dr. Collins began to flesh out his thoughts in a formal paper. This 250-page research paper was highlighted at the Near-Eastern Society Conference.
In his research, Collins focused in on five key areas: the geographical indicators, the chronological indicators, the terms of the destruction, the architecture and pottery, and the facts themselves.
“What I didn’t want to do,” he said, “was trample down the well-worn theories of past commentators and scholars. Basically, I wanted the text to speak for itself.”
“At the NES meeting, I received favorable comments from men of whom I have the utmost respect. I knew we were on to something quite thrilling.”
The one thing left to do was further research and the beginning of a dig.
“So my wife, a couple of students from Trinity Southwest University, and I headed off to Jordan to do research. We were in Jordan by 2002.”
“When I was doing research in the U.S., many of the maps and books were conspicuously absent of any detailed information regarding the north eastern region of the Dead Sea. Sadly, many of the scholars had ignored the text in Genesis.”
In Jordan, Collins found a host of helpful material.
“While in Jordan I found many maps, books, and archeological information at the American Center for Oriental Research library. In particular, a book by the journalist Rami Khouri, gave me the foundation I needed to get started.”
“Though this book was a popular work, it quoted from—and made reference to—many scholarly works. From that point on, we used Khouri’s book as a guide to the Jordanian literature on the sites north of the Dead Sea . We spent hours copying as much material as we could.”
“What we discovered seemed to coincide with our findings: Sodom was not in the south, it was northeast of the Dead Sea.”
“We were able to locate some information from one of the last major digs that occurred in the area. We also paid close attention to a 1975/1976 survey of the Jordan Valley. This survey stated that the area of our interest had many ancient sites.”
“So we headed off to the area northeast of the Dead Sea and began to look around. What we found amazed us. There were at least ten sites that could possibly be ancient Sodom.”
“Sodom is mentioned first in the Bible—consistently—thereby giving it prominence as the largest city in that area. So based upon the text and our previous research we chose the largest site. And let me tell you, this find at Tel-al-Hammam turned out to be much greater than we ever hoped for.”
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CHINA: DETAINED UYGHUR CHRISTIAN TAKEN TO HOSPITAL
Posted on April 18, 2009 by particularkev
Family fears for his safety; planned Easter celebration near earthquake area quashed.
DUBLIN, April 17 (Compass Direct News) – Family members of detained Uyghur Christian Alimjan Yimit are increasingly concerned for his safety following reports that police and a prison doctor escorted him in handcuffs to a hospital in Kashgar two weeks ago.
Alimjan (Alimujiang Yimiti in Chinese) called out to onlookers, “I’m sick. Tell my lawyer to come quickly to see me,” according to a China Aid Association (CAA) report.
Sources told Compass that Alimjan had been beaten in prison, although it was not clear who beat him or why.
The transfer from the Kashi Municipal Detention Center in Kashgar, Xinjiang province, came just one week after Alimjan’s lawyer met with him to discuss a court trial anticipated in May. According to CAA, this was only the second time authorities have allowed anyone to visit Alimjan since his arrest in January 2008.
Court authorities last May returned Alimjan’s case to state prosecutors, citing lack of evidence for charges of “leaking state secrets” and “inciting secession.” Family, friends and work colleagues have insisted that Alimjan is a loyal citizen with no access to state secrets, and that his arrest was due largely to his Christian faith and association with foreign Christians.
Compass sources confirmed this week that Alimjan’s family members are emotionally distraught over his continued detention and over lack of communication from prison authorities.
If convicted, Alimjan could face execution; Chinese authorities executed two alleged Uyghur separatists as recently as last Thursday (April 9).
Authorities first detained Alimjan on Jan. 12, 2008 on charges of endangering state security before formally re-arresting him on Feb. 20, 2008 for allegedly “inciting secession” and leaking state secrets to foreign organizations.
After court authorities returned Alimjan’s case to state prosecutors and after their further investigation, his case was returned to court officials for consideration in mid-October.
Compass sources claim Kashgar authorities are wary of the case due to its sensitivity. Officials initially interrogated Alimjan during his employment for two foreign-owned companies and forbade him to discuss the questioning with anyone. In September 2007 they closed the business he then worked for and accused him of using it as a cover for “preaching Christianity” among the Uyghurs. Alimjan was arrested several months later on political charges.
A second Uyghur Christian, Osman Imin (Wusiman Yaming in Chinese), sentenced to two years in labor camp for “leaking state secrets” and “illegal proselytizing,” is due for release this October. Authorities had originally called for a 10-15 year prison sentence for Osman but significantly reduced the term following international media attention.
Authorities permit Osman’s wife and children to visit him once a month.
Human Rights Proposal
On Monday (April 13), as family members waited to hear news of Alimjan’s condition, China’s State Council released a new document outlining proposed human rights improvements. The document focused heavily on protecting the rights of prisoners and included a pledge to abolish torture and other forms of abuse within two years.
The “National Human Rights Action Plan” was one of several measures proposed by a Chinese government delegation at a United Nations review of China’s human rights record held on Feb. 9.
The plan includes a ban on confessions extracted through torture and a new requirement for physical examinations before and after interrogations. It also affirms the right of prisoners to hire and meet with lawyers and to report abuses in writing to the appropriate authorities.
China’s state-run English newspaper, the China Daily, reported on March 24 that bullying and torture were a significant problem in the nation’s detention centers, and that at least five inmates had died under suspicious circumstances since Feb. 8, according to CAA.
‘Break-through’ for Christianity in China a Mirage
By Xu Mei
BEIJING, April 17 (Compass Direct News) – Prior to the event it was publicized abroad as the next great break-through for house church Christianity in China.
A giant, open celebration was to be held on Easter Sunday (April 12) in the western city of Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province. Finally, it seemed, the government would acknowledge the sacrificial work of house church Christians who came to Sichuan from throughout the country to help with rescue and reconstruction for those suffering from last May’s earthquake. It would be an open admission that Christianity – even of the house church variety – was a positive element in Chinese society.
Verbal permission had been obtained for 2,500 house church Christians throughout China to meet for the special celebration entitled, “Build Up the Church and Bless Society.” Some 50 government officials had been invited to the event, to be held at Chengdu’s new exhibition center. Christians from Singapore and the United States flew in for it.
But the day before Easter, police abruptly informed the center that the event was cancelled. Organizers hastily changed the venue to a smaller, old exhibition center where only about 1,000 people could be accommodated. Plans for a more low-key event were stitched together, to start at 5 p.m. on Easter Sunday.
But even this was too much. An hour before the event, police barred the door. The foreigners left. None of the promised government officials turned up. A few hundred bemused Chinese house church Christians seized the opportunity to hold an impromptu worship service in a nearby parking lot.
Police intervened there, too, and arrested some local house church leaders. They were released later that evening.
The debacle comes after another much-publicized “break-through,” a supposedly government-sponsored seminar in Beijing last Nov. 21-22 in which officials were said to have met with house church leaders (see http://www.compassdirect.org, “Officials Reach Out to House Churches; Raids, Arrests Continue,” Dec. 9, 2008). The chief organizer later denied there was any government involvement, much less a break-through.
Rather, a minor Non-Governmental Organization had assembled academics, including some Christians, to meet with house church leaders to discuss church-state relations and make proposals they hoped might be passed on to the government at some future stage.
Observers speculate that in both the symposium and the Easter celebration, Christians overseas and perhaps some younger Chinese Christians – who have less experience than their elders with the machinations of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) – had overestimated the benevolence of government authorities. Faced with the enormity of an economic crisis, sources said, the government seems to be in no mood to take major steps to liberalize oppressive religious policies, let alone legalize house churches.
That the Beijing seminar was actually held, and that the Chengdu celebration could be organized only to be stopped at the last minute, could be viewed as hopeful signs of how the Chinese government has lumbered forward, at glacial pace, towards a more open policy towards Christians over the last decade or so. But powerful reactionary forces within the CCP view with dismay the extraordinary growth of the church, sources say.
Many officials still view Christianity – and especially house churches – as an ideological and political threat. Limits on the public expression of Christian worship and evangelism are clearly laid down in a welter of national, provincial and local documents issued by CCP and government over the past 25 years. Sources say minor infractions may be winked at, but major changes in a more liberal direction are not to be expected.
Officials are struggling to control a country that threatens to become increasingly uncontrollable. Depending on how long the economic recession grips China, sources say, it seems likely that for the next two years at least, the government will err on the side of caution.
Report from Compass News Direct
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Perri’s Coverage of SXSW 2014
Check out all of my reviews, interviews and event coverage from SXSW 2014 by clicking on the links below …
Ping Pong Summer
The Wilderness of James
Kelly & Cal
Horror Round-Up with 13 Sins, The Guest, Honeymoon, Oculus, Stage Fright, Starry Eyes, Creep and Open Windows
Leigh Whannell & Angus Sampson on The Mule
Patrick Brice & Mark Duplass on Creep
Robert Rodriguez on From Dusk Till Dawn
Eiza Gonzalez, Wilmer Valderrama, D.J. Cotrona & Zane Holtz on From Dusk Till Dawn
Patrick Wilson, Matt Bomer & Jack Plotnick on Space Station 76
Jason Blum on Oculus
Karen Gillan on Oculus
Mike Flanagan on Oculus
Sophia Takal & Alia Shawkat on Wild Canaries
Nacho Vigalondo & Elijah Wood on Open Windows
Lenny Abrahamson on Frank
Kat Candler on Hellion
Jerome Sable & Eli Batalion on Stage Fright
Stephen Plunkett, John Magary & Josh Lucas on The Mend
Michael Johnson, Isabelle Fuhrman & Glenn Howerton on The Wilderness of James
Evan Goldberg on Neighbors
Riley Stearns, Leland Orser & Mary Elizabeth Winstead on Faults
Pat Healy, Travis Stevens, Alex Essoe, Dennis Widmyer & Kevin Kolsch on Starry Eyes
Jeremy Sisto on Break Point
Leigh Janiak on Honeymoon
Harry Lloyd & Bryan Reisberg on Big Significant Things
Jon Favreau on Chef
Gareth Edwards on Godzilla
Godzilla Footage
Filed under Features, Interviews, Reviews
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Interview: The Perfect Game’s Jake T. Austin And Cheech Marin
William Dear’s The Perfect Gamesmay be based on the perfect true story, but the production itself was far from flawless. There were a number of snags in the road to the little league World Series for the Monterrey Industrials back in 1957 and Cheech Marin and Jake T. Austin experienced a similar ride packed with troubles in attempt to complete this film.
Austin stars as Angel Macias, the Industrials’ golden boy and the player who pitches the perfect game transforming the mostly unlikely contenders into the first non-American team to win the little league World Series. The Industrials’ firepower may have come from Angel’s arm, but it’s Padre Estaban’s (Marin) spiritual guidance that encouraged them to be respectful, hard workers and gracious winners. Between their talent and genuine appreciation for the opportunity to just play some baseball, the Monterrey Industrials became a little league legend.
Marin and Austin were both on hand to talk anything and everything baseball. The duo revels in the fact that the cast and crew of The Perfect Game achieved the impossible and have finally arrived at opening weekend. They also recollect their fondest baseball moments and offer a look into the future to discuss their upcoming projects.
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Analysis / Union
Union salary breakdown: Steals, deals & … trades?
Posted by Dan Walsh on May 8, 2013 at 12:30 pm
Photo: Mike Long
Salary figures tell you a lot in Major League Soccer. MLS rules cap how much teams can spend on players, but there are numerous ways around that, such as signing designated players and using allocation money.
Still, the MLS Players Union’s annual salary figures release is one of the year’s biggest revelations, and the data became available this week.
Here are the biggest takeaways for Philadelphia Union.
Many thought Kleberson would join the Union at a higher salary than his listed $495,000, based on Brazilian press reports indicating he was making over $1 million a year. So it’s a surprise to see him at that level, effectively a lower echelon designated player.
At $495,000, Kleberson may be a good acquisition even if he never plays regularly for the Union. Why?
He makes less than Freddy Adu’s $650,000 salary for 2013, although it’s probably a wash (at best) when Adu’s buyout costs are considered.
Kleberson’s loan expires at season’s end if not renewed. That means the Union could clear his salary from the books in 2014 and gain spending flexibility.
On the down side, we may have to start referring to him as “the expiring contract of Kleberson,” because it increasingly appears that the Union acquired him almost solely to clear Adu from the books in a trade with Bahia in Brazil.
The steals
Ray Gaddis – $46,500
Gaddis makes the league minimum. He’s a regular starter. Regardless of what you think of his left foot, that makes him a steal. Thanks to his performance Saturday deputizing at right back, everyone just got a reminder of how good he is when deployed on his natural right side.
Antoine Hoppenot – $48,400
The Union supersub is an impact attacker earning just above the league minimum. Enough said.
Gabriel Farfan – $50,820
Farfan joined the Union on a cut-rate deal after spending time in Mexico, and he has outplayed that initial contract. He is one of the Union’s most talented, dynamic, and fearless players and may fight his way back into the regular starting lineup for the third straight season.
The surprisingly reasonable veteran deals
Sebastien Le Toux
Yes, it’s becoming fashionable for some to criticize the Le Toux signing, but considering his past production, a $200,000 base salary is a good rate for the proven striker. Should Jack McInerney earn a Gold Cup call-up, Le Toux will get the chance to remind people of his quality once he too gets the chance to partner with a legitimate target forward for the first time since 2010.
Conor Casey
At $175,000, Casey took a big pay cut from the $400,000 he made in Colorado. So far, he looks like a great signing. The Union took a gamble Casey could return to form, and, considering he has, his salary makes him an absolute bargain. Should Casey regain 90-minute fitness, he could prove one of the league’s best off-season acquisitions. Don’t underestimate how much McInerney has benefited from Casey’s presence.
The Juan Diego Gonzalez Award
Ever since Juan Diego Gonzalez sat the bench the entire 2011 season while collecting one of the Union’s highest salaries, the Union have seemingly made it a tradition to staple at least one high-paid player to the bench.
Now it’s center back Bakary Soumare, who missed most of last season due to injury and requested a trade after Union manager John Hackworth chose Amobi Okugo and Jeff Parke as his starting center backs. At $350,000, Soumare is the league’s fourth highest paid defender, behind Toronto’s Darren O’Dea, Vancouver’s Jay DeMerit, and Chicago’s Arne Friedrich.
Soumare could get a chance to spend this weekend in the shop window against Chicago, with defenders Parke and Sheanon Williams likely out due to injury and suspension, respectively. If Soumare plays well, he could help seal a trade to the Fire, his former team, who reportedly have been in talks with the Union about Soumare.
But that’s not the only possible landing place. Here are a few others.
Possible Soumare trade scenarios:
Soumare to Chicago for allocation money and/or draft picks
This is the most likely deal. Former Hackworth youth player Brendan King could be a possible throw-in.
Soumare to New York for left back Heath Pearce
One high-priced, benched defender for another. The salaries would be a wash, as Pearce makes about $340,000. Each team would improve a spot on its back line. But would the Union want to pay that much for a left back benched in favor of Roy Miller?
A three-way deal sending Soumare to Chicago, Robbie Rogers to Los Angeles, and allocation money and/or draft picks to Philadelphia
Los Angeles is unlikely to part with its young homegrown starlets, notably Jose Villareal. Galaxy rookie left back Greg Cochrane would be an inexplicable inclusion after Hackworth passed on the Bucks County native in the draft. The question is how much allocation money Los Angeles has.
A four-way deal sending Soumare to Chicago, Rogers to Los Angeles, Stefan Frei and/or Danny Califf to Philadelphia, and a mix of Los Angeles draft picks, allocation money and/or players (Michael Stephens, etc.) to Toronto
Frei is a proven veteran shot-stopper who has lost his job to Joe Bendik. Califf looks increasingly marginalized in Toronto with Birmingham defender Steven Caldwell joining the Reds on loan. Hackworth is on record saying he wished Califf never left Philadelphia, and Califf has made clear he feels the same.
Soumare to Colorado for allocation money, draft picks and/or former Hackworth players Anthony Wallace or Nathan Sturgis
Wallace and Sturgis played for Hackworth as youth players, as did Chris Klute, who is on loan from Atlanta in the NASL. (Wallace also played at South Florida, where Hackworth had previously coached.) None is a regular starter, so allocation money and/or draft picks would likely be the biggest part of a potential deal. Danny Mwanga doesn’t make sense considering the Union’s depth at forward.
The notable raises
Keon Daniel
Daniel earned a raise of over $20,000 to a salary of $80,004. While Daniel hasn’t been consistently effective as a central attacking midfielder, he remains a stabilizing presence who deserves a role for the Union whether he’s starting or not.
Michael Farfan
Farfan got a raise of more than $40,000 after making the 2012 All-Star team, and performances like Saturday’s against Seattle offer a reminder why. He hasn’t looked as effective since Hackworth moved him to the left side to make room for Danny Cruz, but if you watch the sequence late in the Seattle game where Farfan drifted to the right side and absolutely destroyed a defender off the dribble, you’ll see how good he still is when deployed in his most comfortable spot.
Zac MacMath has not graduated Generation adidas, according to a Union official. That means his salary doesn’t count against the team’s salary budget. This is surprising, considering he was a regular starter for more than a season entering 2013.
Jimmy McLaughlin and Cristhian Hernandez don’t count toward the salary budget due to their homegrown player status.
Roger Torres has the highest salary of any non-regular. With Aaron Wheeler replacing him on the substitutes bench Saturday, there are no signs Torres will see the field anytime soon. Unless a rash of injuries hits the Union midfield to give him a chance, he’s probably gone at season’s end.
No guesswork here on exactly how much room the Union actually have in their $2.95 million salary budget. Allocation buydowns, USL loans and various other factors can affect that.
Philadelphia’s salary budget is managed as a collaborative effort between the team’s technical staff and CEO Nick Sakiewicz, according to a Union official.
The Union are effectively a small market team. Accept it. Their total team salary once again ranks well below the league’s top tier, and there’s no sign of that changing.
The full list of Union player salaries is below. The players on loan at Harrisburg are included in the list, as they can move between the teams. (Example: Don Anding’s recent return to the Union.)
Philadelphia Union player salaries
Guaranteed Compensation*
$3,113,262 ***
Jose Kleberson $495,000** $495,000
Bakary Soumare $310,000 $350,000
Jeff Parke $205,000 $216,500
Sebastien Le Toux $200,000 $212.850.50
Jack McInerney $125,500 $189,666.67
Amobi Okugo $101,250 $184,250
Brian Carroll $176,400 $176,400
Conor Casey $175,000 $175,000
Zac MacMath $110,000 $155,000
Michael Farfan $98,670 $136,170
Danny Cruz $120,000 $126,500
Roger Torres $121,968 $125,093
Sheanon Williams $105,000 $110,500
Michael Lahoud $90,000 $93,333
Keon Daniel $80,004 $80,004
Chris Albright $75,000 $75,000
Jimmy McLaughlin $60,000 $69,000
Cristhian Hernandez $62,500 $64,375
Antoine Hoppenot $48,400 $48,400
Gabriel Farfan $50,820 $50,820
Matt Kassel $46,500 $46,500
Raymon Gaddis $46,500 $46,500
Brian Jordan $46,500 $46,500
Aaron Wheeler $46,500 $46,500
Chris Konopka $46,500 $46,500
Don Anding $35,125 $35,125
Leo Fernandes $35,125 $35,125
Carlos Valdes -- on loan $321,000 $321,000
Zach Pfeffer -- on loan $65,000 $75,000
* The guaranteed compensation figure includes the annual average bonus payout in addition to the base salary.
** Designated players count $368,750 against the salary budget.
*** Total figures do not include salaries for players on loan.
Author: Dan Walsh Dan Walsh started the Philly Soccer Page in 2009. He spent over a decade as an award-winning newspaper and magazine reporter and continues freelance writing on the side. He moved to Italy in 2014. See more at http://www.danielwalsh.net. Email him at dwalsh@phillysoccerpage.com.
Honestly, I am STILL in MAJOR denial that we are trading Soumare. It’s inexplicable to me. We give up a 1st rounder for a former All Star, someone who really has given us no reason to believe he has fallen off in a major way, and we DON’T even give him a CHANCE to earn a spot?
We don’t even TRY him a CB, and Okugo at DMid? It’s insulting.
Hell – we have someone with no pedigree like Gaddis shoved to LB; we had a former midfielder there for most of last year. We are watching Daniel flounder at CAM and Williams suffer because Cruz is in front of him.
And we CAN’T even give Soumare a chance!?!?
It’s just maddening. There is no reason for it to end like this. This is a situation that should have been harnessed to make us a better team.
Great One says:
I’ve got news for you, I think it’s almost 100% certainty that Albright plays Saturday and not Soumare. It’s a joke. Hackworth has no reason for the decisions he makes.
JediLos117 says:
I agree with you, I dont think Soumare will play.
I dont understand why any fan would want a player who openly requests a trade away from your team to play.
Thats why I dont want him to play, he dont want to play here.
The Black Hand says:
Team needs to see what he’s got, before making the call on him. He might be able to help. Big guy. Not too far removed from being very good.
I think that he just wants to play…ANYWHERE. I can respect that.
He wants to play, period. he did initially want to play for us, before he was banished.
I want him to play because he offers the best option for our team. Even if you argued that before, you cannot possibly say that Chris Albright, or some other mashup, will offer a better option for these games.
I honestly don’t understand your disdain for Soumare (Torres?). Is it because you believe the team is functioning so well right now? Is it because you believe the coaching staff no matter what? Is it because you like Carroll so much, and Soumare playing (normally) would essentially remove Carroll? I’m not being a smart ass, I really would like to know.
All that being said, Soumare is far and away the best choice for Saturday.
I’ll already answered my thoughts on Soumare.
Everybody including myself had assumed he was our CB in the preseason, Okugo claimed the spot in preseason.
Since then, he requested a trade. I aint got no respect for that. I respect Torres, he aint playing and doesnt request a trade. Torres seems to be willing to fight for a spot.
I’m not as convinced as you are that Okugo would automatically bench Carroll…
I remember watching Soumare play against Chicago last year when he was fully fit. Dude looked slow and rather poor overall…I have not seen anything other than a brief preseason appearance to conclude he is any better than that same Soumare.
Fair point, but how would you suggest seeing anything more of him if he doesn’t play? Also I think most people are choosing to look at the hundreds of games? he played before as opposed to the one game he played last year.
Soumare’s knee was nowhere near fully fit. Anyone who has had the dreaded ligament damage knows that even the slightest gimpiness can throw off your game. He came back too soon, hence the quick re-injury.
Can’t hate on a player for wanting to play. To the outsider, Hackworth seemed to have no intention of Soumare playing, no matter his form.
Okugo is not a CB. He will make the move eventually. Why prolong the inevitable adjustment process? Is Carroll THAT much of a positive factor defensively? He is non-existent offensively.
It was duly noted in Hack’s press conference that Albright just so happened to have a great week of practice. LOL
Great piece. Trade scenarios are obviously speculative but with Chicago a fulcrum (to unload Rogers and get Soumare), the ones you suggest make sense. But what evidence do we have that Chicago wants Soumare?
He played there before leaving MLS and they need a CB
Steve l. says:
He still has a home in Chicago and they have expressed interest.
Dan Walsh says:
Yeah, as Steve said, there was at least one report of trade talks. Here’s one I can find easily: http://www.chicagonow.com/fire-confidential/2013/04/midweek-notes-mila-friedrich-more/. I think there was another report too.
As for whether Chicago wants him now? Maybe they don’t. Everything depends on Arne Friedrich’s health. If he comes back, Soumare is excess.
Union Rumors says:
I don’t see Colorado being in the mix for Soumare, especially after acquiring German Mera on loan from Deportivo Cali.
I don’t think so either if he proves to be a regular starter. So let’s see if he does.
neck label says:
why is philly a small market team?
According to this we are 10/19.
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/thegoalkeeper/Philadelphia-Unions-first-2013-salary-figures-published.html
Not great … but not exactly insult inducing either.
I read something (honestly can’t remember where) when the team first started back in 2010 that CEO Nick Sakiewicz was in it to make money and that we should be skeptical while he is in charge. I never forgot it, and it could all be BS but it certainly helps things add up as to why we are a small market team in a big market city
BThomas says:
Excellent post. We would all do well to remain skeptical of Sakiewicz’s dealings…he and the rest of his toadies in the front office are not to be trusted. Again, the team would do well to have a proper talent evaluator running the show above Hack, not a glorified suit whose primary motivation is personal and financial gain.
philsoc8 says:
The Union aren’t a small-market team, we are a small-owner team.
Well, I guess I was (very) concisely making the statement that the Union behave as small market teams behave. It’s not an insult. Really, there is very little difference between teams 7-18. (Chivas USA is in its own class at the bottom.)
The league’s first tier consists of New York and Los Angeles. Toronto would be right with them if not for their losing ways. So put them in the next tier with Montreal, Vancouver, and particularly Seattle.
And then it’s everyone else. Everyone else behaves as small market teams. Of them, Portland, Kansas City and Real Salt Lake are the models.
That was the line that most stood out to me in the post too, reminding me of the Phillies ownership characterization before the ’07-’11 run. It’s an interesting topic and one as critical to being a fan of the team as any other. Possible to get a full post on it? You guys taking requests? ::slides you a five-spot::
Sure! Admittedly, I threw the line in as an afterthought, but you’re probably right about it being worth a full post. I’ll keep it in mind, and when it seems timely, I can go to it.
John O'Donnell Jr. says:
I find it more troubling that we keep having are highest paid players ride the bench, year after year. Roger Torres I just don’t get, he was praised in the pre-season for being in shape and now what? I can’t wait to see the team in the US Cup and how they play. Good forbid these players stand out, Hackworth will have to do his best Andy Reid.
AD22 says:
Now Hack says that Roger Torres “is a young guy that he has a lot of faith in but he needs to play his way back up the depth chart.”
Is that so?
I think it’s a case of him either being a “Nowak guy”, or Hack moving the goalposts yet again.
spugger says:
I’ll make some guesswork on the salary cap room question with the following assumptions:
1. For argument’s sake, assume no allocation money available for buydowns (which we know is not true- didn’t make playoffs, etc).
2. Kleberson is a DP and only counts for $368,750 against cap.
3. MacMath is still GA
4. Jimmy McLaughlin and Christian Hernandez are HG
5. Only players 1-20 count (subtract MacMath, McLaughlin and Hernandez, and that includes everyone down to Chris Konopka)
If I add all that, I interestingly get $2,951,437.17 – suspiciously close to the $2.95M cap. Who knows how much allocation money we have, but my guess is that it doesn’t add up to much, unless there has been a big trade for “allocation money” in which we could assume a near similar value for that player.
Bottom line, my guess is that we are probably close to maxing out our budget, which means the only way we are going to add any serious quality is if Jay Sugarman and Nick decide that they want to spend money (either from revenue or their own pockets).
That is where the question of “what kind of a market is Philly?” becomes really important. In general, Philadelphia is a top-ten sports market, so we should expect our owners to spend about the same as other similarly sized markets. Now, being a young club, there is probably some trepidation in spending too much too soon (a smart decision considering the scary-looking attendance this year).
It starts to make a lot of business sense that the Union are focusing on developing young talent rather than buying expensive proven talent. If we get lucky and groom just one superstar that goes to the BPL for 5 million, that would make a bigger impact on the club’s bank account that increasing ticket sales by 1%. It’s a good strategy if your ignoring the fans need for an MLS Cup today and looking instead for a playoff team for the next decade.
The real unknown, and most important questions, is how our owners decide to spend the money.
bdane says:
union do not have any GA players left on roster..
“Zac MacMath has not graduated Generation adidas, according to a Union official. That means his salary doesn’t count against the team’s salary budget.” – that’s a surprise to me too
Matt Kirk says:
I totally agree with James, John and AD22.
To start if we trade Soumare away, I want Hackworth out faster than I wanted Nowak out. Just think about it…former all star, overseas experience, plenty of time to mesh with the team with all the training sessions he has had, it just makes logical sense. Even to someone who does not remotely like sports would come to the conclusion that trading Soumare would be a loss.
I am absolutely sick of Hackworth’s love affair with BC. Is BC a good player, yes, am I glad he is on our team, yes but if you are trying to build this team from youth which we are why not put Okugo in his natural Center defensive mid position? he has the technical ability to dictate the distribution of the ball out of the back and can defend just as well. I also think his size is slightly lacking for a center back, but that could just be me.
Also if Hackworth is willing to play Gaddis, why not play Torres? What’s the point of the youth on our team if you are just going to have them rot on the bench, loan him out or give him minutes in the first team, it is very simple.
I am also starting to feel that Hackworth and the FO are just trying to undo the moves done by Nowak, which is good and bad. Getting rid of Lopez and a few other players brought in by him make sense but bringing back Le Toux maybe was not the best decision, performance wise, for ticket sales, yeah sure but lets be honest, unless Le Toux returns to his 2010-2011 form he just was not worth bring back. As I said before, getting rid of a former all star with overseas experience just because he was brought in under the Nowak regime just does not make sense.
I agree completely. Even in this article it talks about Daniel lacking in the OCM. Why not play Torres after such a good preseason? There certainly seems to be the Hackworth favorites for certain positions regardless of whether those are the usual positions of the players or if we have plenty of people who naturally play there.
What pisses me off is that after that great preseason, Torres never even got a shot to see if it could carry over. I could see sitting him after he didn’t play well, but to not give him a shot is just dumb
Adu’s salary was not 650,000, that was his guaranteed compensation.
According to who?
Not that the distinction matters in Adu’s case, to be honest. It’s semantics. I’m the guy who first reported the $650,000 figure, and the distinction between the two in his case (since he was a designated player) was so insignificant that I didn’t ask Adu’s agent to clarify which it was.
My dad continues to say that Hack only plays Americans. That’s why certain people can’t get off the bench or have gotten loaned out, etc. I don’t think that’s the real reason but it could be a part of it. Thoughts anyone? And feel free to call me crazy… it won’t bother me!! HA!
Daniel. LeToux. Valdes. – all Hack favorites.
cszack4 says:
LeToux is on the bench. Valdes is gone. Daniel … well, he’s a native English speaker. Maybe it’s more an issue with ESL players.
Henry O'Hara says:
I am very upset that LeToux is not starting. My wife said she did not want to renew our season tickets unless LeToux was brought back. I can understand him not playing the full 90 minutes but I think he deserves more than 3 minutes at the end of the game.
The Duke says:
So the question becomes “What stops the cycle of poor play makes the fans leave which decreases market money which leads to no big signings which leads to poor play which leads to…”
I’ll tell you what doesn’t break the cycle: Sitting the players the fans want on the field. I honestly think our attendance would be up if we played Soumare and Torres but had a worse record.
I for one am less inclined to go to games because of Hack’s player selection. That said, if the team is winning games, I would be more inclined to go regardless of who is on the field. Putting the players I want to see on the pitch amplify that inclination even more. To summarize, poor performances coupled with starting non fan favs could account for the decrease in attendance at games.
I hate to say it, but there seems to be one big, obvious reason these players are not getting any time. MONEY.
Carroll vs Soumare (saves $174k)
Carroll vs Kleberson (saves $319k)
Daniel vs Kleberson (saves $415k)
Daniel vs Torres (saves $45k)
Cruz vs Kleberson (saves $369k)
So these guys are not Hackworth guys, and when we can get rid of them they will save us a ton of money. So why trade them? At the end of the year Soumare, Kleberson and Torres will be gone, effectively getting rid of $970,000 of salary. Does anyone on earth believe we’ll use that space to sign a couple big players?
“Kleberson’s loan expires at season’s end if not renewed. That means the Union could clear his salary from the books in 2014 and gain spending flexibility in 2014.”
Our “small market” fan base really wants a BIG name to come to our team. Why seduce the fans into thinking we have a game changer coming to town if it was just a way to get Adu of the books.
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I would definetly like getting Pearce, but I doubt that will happen. Also, frei would be an instant upgrade over macmath in goal.
Didn’t we drop 6 on Frei a little while back?
Gzolo says:
Boy Garfan is getting shafted. No good deed (playing out of pos for 2yrs) goes unpunished.
You think he should get paid more?
-nickt.- says:
i think he should get played more
Absolutely. 50k, after being thrust into a position he doesnt play and on the left? Compared to what we throw out there now at LB, definitely more money and playing time.
I agree, he should see the pitch more but I would wait on the raise.
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Teleology Rises from the Grave
Stephen Asma says biology needs to understand the purpose – the ‘telos’ – of organisms and systems.
In 1790, in his Critique of Judgment, Immanuel Kant famously predicted that there would never be a “Newton for a blade of grass.” Biology, he thought, would never be unified and reduced down to a handful of mechanical laws, as in the case of physics. This, he argued, is because we cannot expunge teleology (goal-directedness), that is, the idea of purpose, from living systems. The question ‘What is it for?’ applies to living structures in a way that has no counterpart in physics.
Most Anglo-American philosophers, historians of science, and theologians have completely misunderstood his argument. Their usual narrative goes like this: Kant said there would be no Newton of biology; along comes Charles Darwin (1809-1882), the Newton of biology, who shows that natural selection explains adaptation without appeal to purpose; fast-forward to the present, and we are now the inheritors of a mechanical biology, and only religious cranks still bleat on about teleology. There it is, clear and simple. And wrong.
There are a few different teleology traditions, but the Anglo-American conversation has been blithely unaware of all but the dumbest and loudest version. This is the one which claims that adaptation in nature must be the result of a supreme Designer because chance alone cannot account for gills in water, lungs on land, complex eyes, cell flagella, etc, and that’s why a mechanical science will be incomplete. This, in a nutshell, is the natural theology [arguing for God from nature, Ed] tradition of teleology. It goes back to Plato’s Timaeus, but its heyday was in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Even Darwin, before he went on his famous voyage on the HMS Beagle, read and admired the natural theology of William Paley, who likened nature to an elegant watch. A system of parts that fit other parts precisely and has a function of telling time – a watch – presupposes a designing intelligence – a watchmaker.
Darwin killed the design argument. His theory of chance variation and natural selection drove a stake though its heart. Rather, the accumulation and spread of heritable traits by the mechanical operations of genes, proteins, geology, climate, and so on, slowly shape organisms to fit their environments, making them appear designed. In philosophical jargon, Darwin changed a priori design – God’s plan – into a posteriori adaptation. Excellent popular-science postmortems of natural theology include Richard Dawkins’ Blind Watchmaker, Daniel Dennett’s Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, and Jerry Coyne’s Why Evolution is True.
A very small but vocal minority never got the obituary notice. They never accepted that Darwin staked the heart of natural theology, and they carry on that tradition, calling it Intelligent Design (ID). Like Doctor Frankenstein, ID folks keep trying to stitch together a body out of the corpse of natural theology and revitalize it. Here’s the problem. Whenever anyone mentions the word ‘teleology’ or ‘purpose’ in biology, the Darwinian orthodoxy get out the pitchforks and chase the fiend down. Some concepts of teleology have nothing to do with religion; yet they get caught up and exterminated anyway in the confusion.
Other teleology traditions include (i) Aristotelian teleology, (ii) holism, (iii) unity of nature, (iv) conatus/vitalism, (v) autopoiesis, and various nuances within each category. The popular anthropomorphic tradition of natural theology gets mixed together with these other traditions. So, let’s sift them, and see if there’s anything there compatible with Darwinian naturalism.
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Aristotelian Teleology
Aristotle saw goal-directedness in nature because natural processes always unfold toward some goal; acorns develop into oak trees. Also, parts of organisms are simultaneously for the sake of their wholes: bone tissue is for the sake of bone, blood is for the sake of circulation, and teeth are for the sake of chewing. Aristotle refers to these ends/goals as final causes, defining a final cause broadly as ‘the end, for the sake of which a thing is done.’
Aristotle’s teleology is difficult for us to appreciate because hundreds of years of Medieval theology misinterpreted it as saying God’s mind put the goals into nature. That was not Aristotle’s view, despite generations of Schoolmen who tried to ‘baptize’ him. Then after the scientific revolution, people came to think of nature as a giant machine, and like all machines the goals would need to be installed by some kind of designing mind. Again, this was not Aristotle’s view. Instead, he thought of teleology as a feature of nature in the same sort of way that we think of gravity: as an impersonal, undesigned, aspect of matter.
Aristotle was pretty critical of the simple versions of evolution that he saw in Empedocles and Democritus, because he thought that material bits could not clump together into sustainable organisms unless matter had the organism’s recipes built into nature, in terms of his final and formal causes. So Aristotle saw teleology as a way of describing the regularity of biological procreation, behavior and anatomy. If he had known about DNA, he probably would have slapped his forehead and said, “So, that’s how the information shapes matter!” But notice, we still have Aristotle’s final cause question: How does a common stuff (his was matter; ours is DNA, or stem cells) get differentiated into diverse organs and organisms? The DNA alone is not enough to explain this, and after we cracked the genome we realized that we needed to study development more carefully, so we’re finally discovering hox genes and epigenetic processes that regulate all that DNA potential into actual organs, structures and behaviors. Those regulatory causes only recently targeted by biologists were the aspects of life that Aristotle called ‘teleological’.
Unlike natural theology, Aristotle’s ‘methodological’ teleology is not incompatible with Darwinism. Aristotle just thought that you can’t do biology by talking only about whirling atoms; you also need to discover why this organ or behavior fits with the animal’s structure/function and environment. That question only reverts to divine psychology if you’re a natural theologian; but for both Aristotle and Darwin it reverted to the unique natural living conditions of the organism.
Setting aside his temporal teleology (acorns becoming oak trees), let’s concentrate on the holism tradition that Aristotle created. The holism tradition of teleology claims that biology cannot be reductionist but must instead recognize the causal relationships of cells inside tissues, inside organs, inside physio-systems, inside organisms, inside environments. The Medieval metaphysicians pursued this avenue, calling it mereology, the study of the relationships between parts and wholes, but they derailed the inquiry by trying to determine which of these nested levels was the true ‘essence’ of the thing. Eventually Anglo-American analytical philosophy became reinterested in holism in the twentieth century, but only as a logic problem. Continental philosophy, on the other hand, has had a longstanding obsession with biological holism. Goethe, Kant and Hegel were deeply interested in the way that biological form seemed to govern simpler physio-chemical processes, and they tried various ways of understanding the organization of nature without appeal to natural theology.
Why can’t biology succeed by dissecting everything down to chemistry? Because we often can’t understand a biochemical process without understanding what it’s for. We need to know what beneficial effects it has for the organism. No one in chemistry would claim that the carbon loses electrons ‘for the sake of’ becoming carbon dioxide; but in biology we have to acknowledge how (unless it’s a vestigial trait or a spandrel) a specific trait or behavior is for the survival of the organism or its population. So all the biochemical processes that result from breathing oxygen are a way of running an organism for fast chemical reactions in its cells. Sexual reproduction, for another example, also has advantageous selection effects, increasing offspring fitness through variation and hybrid vigor. This adaptive effect explains why the mutation of sexual reproduction was selected for and why it persists. It is a methodologically teleological explanation.
For holists, this attempt to find ‘the end, for the sake of which a thing is done’ applies to the structures as well as to the processes of biology. So a leaf is unintelligible without understanding something about trees, and hence the purpose of the leaf; a heart is incomprehensible without the circulation system; a brain makes little sense except in the body of a creature that can move, and on and on. Eventually these teleological wholes are referred to the ultimate purpose or goal, which Aristotle, sounding very Darwinian, describes as “the most natural of all the functions of living creatures, namely to make another thing like themselves.”
The holism school wants us to remember, amidst all the real successes of reductionistic science, the validity of higher levels of causation and explanation. Holism is a kind of causal pluralism, gently reminding the atomic and genetic determinists that organisms and ecologies are not just epiphenomena of these phenomena.
Real or Sham?
Teleological statements are explanatorily robust in biology, but are they real or sham explanations? Kant argued that reason cannot help but project purpose into biology, and we should accept modest teleological claims as ‘regulative principles’ of thought. By this logic, it’s scientifically respectable to claim that hollow bird bones are for the sake of flight. The mind can’t stop there, according to Kant, and naturally goes on to project a whole system of purposes into the biosphere. But it can quickly get silly: grass is for the sake of cows, cows are for the sake of human food, and so on… Like Voltaire in Candide lampooning the idea that “all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds,” Kant lampoons the hyperbolic teleologists who claim that mosquitos help humans wake up and stay active, and tapeworms must aid digestion for their victims. The trick in biology is to keep the local teleology, but throw out the global or cosmic stuff.
When we’re doing biology, Kant argued, we need to subordinate simple physics/chemistry explanations to functional teleological explanations. We need both levels of causation and explanation, and one level does not reduce to the other. Many biologists and philosophers, following Kant, have argued that we can pretend that things are for the sake of goals, but that this pretence is just methodologically helpful (‘instrumental’), and not referring to anything real. Can we, however, go beyond the purely instrumental justification to the kind of teleology that is an explanation of how things really are? Yes and no.
If a neuroscientist were to ask me why I do philosophy, I might say something like, “Certain neural pathways were sculpted in my developing brain, such that cingulate, prefrontal and parietal area activity easily trigger my hedonic dopamine system, causing me to like doing philosophy.” When my friend asks me why I do philosophy, I’m likely to say something like, “Solving conceptual puzzles and reflecting on profound stuff is deeply satisfying for me.” When the Dean of my college asks me the same question, I’m likely to trot out something like, “Philosophy improves critical thinking and shapes students into better citizens of our democracy.”
These explanations are not in competition with each other. One of these accounts is not the correct one, usurping the others, or reducing them to mere figments. They are all compatible, and they are all true. Likewise, if geneticists give a molecular account of human skin color differences, and evolutionary biologists give an adaptive account of skin color, they are not competing to be the correct explanation. Here are three different but compatible correct accounts of skin color:
(a) A purely mechanical account of small changes in the melanocortin 1 receptor gene (MC1R) tells us how melanin concentrations can produce darker or lighter skin.
(b) A person living in an intensely sun-soaked region will survive better if their skin is darker because carcinogenic UV-B radiation is blocked by increased melanin pigmentation.
(c) Around 1.2 million years ago, which is about 300,000 years after our ancestors lost their body hair, group migrations started new environmental selective pressures. Lighter skin evolved in less sunny regions, allowing necessary vitamin D production, and darker skin evolved in the populations of very sunny regions.
Notice that the first, biochemistry explanation, may work fine without teleology, but the other two, adaptive explanations, are strongly teleological – not in the sense that skin cells foresaw the goals eventually arrived at, but in the sense that the distribution and persistence of these phenotypes and their genes only make sense if they are ‘for the sake of’ survival (excepting the usual caveats about spandrels or founder effects).
The Unity of Nature
Kant recognized that the human mind can’t help projecting purpose into nature. But, contrary to many interpreters, this is not a free pass for Intelligent Design. Close study of his position reveals a nuanced alternative teleology. In addition to the instrumental teleology that seeks to link specific structures to functions (sharp teeth to carnivore diet, skin color to solar environment, sweat glands for thermoregulation, etc.), we must assume, he argues, a more universal teleology in all of nature in order to do science in the first place.
We need to tread carefully here because this issue is frequently misunderstood by both the foes and friends of teleology. The argument is: how could we expect nature to give us answers to our questions unless there was some rational or logical aspect in nature that could be interpreted by our rational minds? That is to say, science assumes some fit between our rational minds and nature’s structure, otherwise the former could not comprehend the latter. This ‘expectation of fit’ unifies all nature into a single domain of possible exploration. Kant further suggests that an encompassing ‘principle of purposiveness’ – an expectation that we’ll get answers to ‘what for?’ questions about the natural world – constitutes this unity of nature, and says “we must necessarily assume that there is such a unity without our comprehending it or being able to prove it.” (Critique of Judgment, Dover Publications translation, p.15).
This is a fascinating thesis, but almost everyone has made too much of it. This unity-of-nature assumption is necessary for us to continue doing science. But the theorem will always be vague, lacking in predictive power, incapable of proof, perhaps even incapable of true comprehension. In fact the most that Kant can say about the content of this assumption is, “There is in nature a subordination of genera and species comprehensible by us”, adding that there is “a harmony of nature with our cognitive faculty” (ibid, p.16). That’s it.
The important take-away from this unity-of-nature tradition is that it’s not really about nature. That’s its frustrating genius. For Kant, nature’s comprehendible structure is instead a function of our hardwired minds. If Kant’s right, then seeing nature as purposeful, at least to this extent, is built into our cognitive faculties.
Conatus & Vitalism
Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) saw nature in fairly mechanical terms, but he recognized that living things do share a simple goal-oriented tendency; they strive to survive. He called this animating principle of living systems their conatus (‘striving’), and considered it the very essence of all creatures. It’s nothing like the teleology of the natural theologians, but it is a recognition that organic nature has an essential goal-directed imperative within it that cannot be captured by purely billiard-ball causality.
In the hands of some later theorists, the conatus became an occult metaphysical force. Following Blumenbach, Kant seemed to think that a ‘formative force’ (bildungstrieb) worked inside matter to cause the seeming miracles of animal reproduction. Many embryologists of the nineteenth century also assumed a vital (‘life’) force because they couldn’t imagine how an undifferentiated organic blob could slowly become an articulated fetus. Push-and-pull physics didn’t turn unstructured mush into highly structured working parts and integrated wholes, so the fetus was either fully articulated inside the mother and just grew larger with nutrition (preformationism), or it was an amorphous blob that sequentially took on form via a vital force (epigenesis).
The vitalist tradition was very popular, even after Darwin’s revolution. The idea of an occult invisible force that guides animal embryogenesis was congenial to solving the origin-of-life mystery too, and many used this deus ex machina to kill those two birds of the birth of life. Darwin tried a mechanical replacement for the vital force, but it couldn’t be corroborated. Famous embryologist Hans Driesch (1867-1941) even proffered an empirical vitalism, using the evidence that no matter how much he mutilated a developing vertebrate zygote, it still stayed on course, as if an invisible outside force guided the process.
Modern genetics and the science of stem cells have clarified the mystery of embryonic development for us, and occult embryology has rightly gone the way of phlogiston. However, the intuitive questions of the conatus/vitalism tradition are yet unanswered in modern biology, although some legitimate empirical work has emerged to better isolate the means of biological striving. For example, instead of thinking about conatus as a property of all living systems, neuroscientists today (like Jaak Panksepp) have discovered something like a brain-based ‘ conatus’ system in mammals: in the same way that all vertebrates possess a fear system, they also engage in seeking behavior – and recently neuroscience has isolated a foundational motivational drive that underlies diverse searching behaviors (hunting, foraging, procreation). In plain English, we call it desire. It is often classed with the emotions, but it is really a master emotion, a motivational system that organisms enlist in order to find and exploit resources in their environment. It energizes mammals to pursue pleasures or satisfactions, but it is not the same as pleasure. It is that growing, intense sensation of heightened attention and the increasing feeling of anticipation, as if you are just about to scratch a powerful itch.
Autopoiesis
Well before the Darwinian revolution people noticed the inexplicable weirdness of matter’s self-organization (autopoiesis). Yes, environmental conditions dispose of, or edit out, organisms and populations with deleterious traits, but do we need a better science of the step whereby these organisms come into being in the first place? From body plans to brains, matter crystalizes and canalizes into repeatable structures. Do we need a better science of form or self-organization itself to understand how this happens?
Many thinkers, like Darwin’s friend Richard Owen or the American naturalist Louis Agassiz, thought that the development and anatomy of animal form represented the incarnation of divine ideas in physical matter. The common vertebrate structure that we share with dogs and fish reveals, according to these thinkers, an archetype or leitmotif that God installs in nature. Then mutation and natural selection go to work to spin out biological variations on the theme. This unverifiable speculation is no longer a scientifically respectable position, but it remains a popular assumption for theistic evolutionists. Still, the question of organization has not fitted neatly into neo-Darwinism. Some smart twentieth century thinkers, such as Darcy Thompson, Stephen Jay Gould, Stuart Kauffman, and William Wimsatt, have suggested (and modeled) ways that material systems tend toward specific workable structures. There’s nothing occult about this. Instead it’s an attempt to articulate the logic or the mechanics of a middle level between genetics and organism selection. Kauffman, for example, has shown that systems of dynamic materials will coalesce around predictable states according to logical rules. He and others have suggested that some ‘self-organization science’ will need to join natural selection in giving us a more accurate understanding of the development of biological form. Like vitalism before it, some of this research seeks to address the development of complexity in animal embryology or in the origin of life. This ‘self-organization science’ tries to understand the way that micro processes are regulated by relative macro states over time, so it treads in means/end territory. It has become scientifically respectable by assuming a materialistic naturalism – everything occurs through physical processes – but it is nevertheless a recent descendent of an older teleological tradition.
My short history of alternative teleology traditions should help us recognize that biological goal-directedness is not dependent on mind, that is, on divine design or occult prescient forces. Following Kant’s ‘instrumental’ teleology, I have shown that one can be anti-reductionist about biology without nesting holism in mind. The order of both knowledge and the process is incorrectly reversed in such mind-dependent philosophy. So against the philosophers who think mind precedes biology, I submit that biological teleology actually precedes the sophisticated purposiveness of human consciousness. That is to say, the conscious mind emerges out of more primitive forms of biological conatus or seeking, not the other way around. And the biological goal-driven aspect of life is not a form of vitalism, but an accidental marriage of rudimentary nervous system, sensory-motor system, homeostasic systems in the organism, and ecologies of limited resource. Nor are these factors working to render the universe susceptible to the birth of consciousness, whatever that means.
Therefore there are perfectly legitimate forms of biological teleology that do not have conscious mind lurking behind them.
© Prof. Stephen T. Asma 2018
Stephen Asma is Professor of Philosophy and Distinguished Scholar at Columbia College Chicago. He works on the philosophy of the life sciences. His new book is Why We Need Religion (Oxford, 2018).
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Science and Non-Science
Steve Delmonte’s Cartoon
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence by David Lamb
Help Wanted: Philosopher required to sort out Reality
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Adult Swim Aired An Amazing, Terrifying Descent Into 80’s Sitcom Madness
November 7, 2014 November 11, 2014 Leave a comment
I present the magnum opus: “Too Many Cooks”.
BRAVO ADULT SWIM!!!
WATCH: Ozzy Osbourne and Randy Rhoads in Rare Video Shot in 1981
November 6, 2014 November 5, 2014 1 Comment
On a promotion tour for Diary of a Madmen. Shot at the Palladium which are now NYU dorms (BLASPHEMY). Ozzy was so coherent then. Still immobile on stage, but who cares. It’s Randy F’ing Rhoads with him. The concert goes to about the 12:12 mark whereas then some more weird Ozzy and Randy clips play. Not unwelcome, just wish I saw more of the concert. Guess someone taped over their live performacne by accident. (This is why you always keep spare VHS’!!!)
WATCH: Gia Giudice’s Pedobear Approved Music Video
What in the name of toddlers and tiaras did I just watch.
RHONJ convict Teresa Giudice reportedly laid out 10k despite bankruptcy issues and a looming jail sentence for this piece of shit. Obviously Teresa understands that the world needs to sexualize more children.
Teresa, look at Mama June because that is your future. Make sure you have the brain bleach and hankies ready. You will need the latter for when you crawl into a fetal position and weep for humanity.
Special surprise cameo at the end by the greatest star to come out of the Real Housewives franchise to date.
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Mötley Crüe Farewell Tour at Jones Beach – REVIEW
One of my favorite bands from yesteryear, Mötley Crüe, stopped by Jones Beach on a stop on their Farewell Tour promising a setlist filled with fan favorites for a spectacular goodbye.
I miss THESE guys.
It should have been a great, fun show.
It wasn’t.
Let’s start with the band itself. We all know that the Crüe has had problems amongst themselves over the years, and their lack of stage chemistry made that pretty evident. At no point did they interact or even acknowledge each other.
It seemed to this longtime fan that Vince, Mick, Tommy and Nikki are doing this strictly for the cash. I’ve seen more people drag their sorry asses into their 9-5’s with more gusto and enthusiasm than these guys.
Tommy’s “drum solo” consisted of constantly calling the audience “motherfuckers”, playing to pre-recorded music while his drum kit traveled slowly up and down a rollercoaster track. If his goal was to confuse me and create a bathroom break – mission accomplished! The rollercoaster theatrics are just as tired as I was.
Nikki’s greatest accomplishments during the evening was shooting fire from his bass and telling a story of how they all got together. Poor Mick was the only one that seemed to be taking this seriously. Unfortunately, he has the mobility of a rock. Still – he tried.
And Vince. Oh Vince. You disappoint me so.
Singing seems to be extremely laborious for the aging former reality star. I only include “aging” because it seemed like a fun adjective to use. There are plenty of other middle-aged vocalists whose age doesn’t factor into their entertaining, energy or voice.
Sure, Stephen Tyler or Jon Bon Jovi do not have the same vocal range they did at 20, but they still know the lyrics to their own music and genuinely enjoy themselves onstage which is far more I can say about Vince.
He reminded me of DeNiro at the end of Raging Bull. A fat, washed-up, breathless jerk desperately trying to appear relevant. It’s the Farewell tour and this guy couldn’t bother to rehearse? This was the first concert that had me aching for lip-synching.
Vince, show us with your arms a measure of how much you suck.
He seems to only want to sing the nouns in lyrics. It’s ok that he can’t hit the same notes he did – I don’t expect him to. But I do expect him to remember and sing every lyric to the best of his ability.
During “Shout at the Devil”, which they should have opened with but instead, inexplicably opted with the crap Saints of Los Angeles, I was so distracted and annoyed but his lack of singing and enthusiasm that I almost wish Nikki aimed some of his fire launching at Vince. We all know he wanted to.
Too bad, Nikki. You missed your shot.
Happy Birthday James Hetfield!
The guy is so cool, even Dave Mustaine wishes him a happy birthday.
Happy birthday to my first real guitar partner. We changed the world brother! #JamesHetfield pic.twitter.com/yliVtFh08o
— Dave Mustaine (@DaveMustaine) August 3, 2014
They definitely changed mine.
Weird Al’s Spoof of “Blurred Lines” is Brilliant [VIDEO]
Only Weird Al can turn a creepy date rape song into the Grammar Nazi anthem we all desperately needed!!!
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Image: Rosetta spies comet surface variations
by NASA
Image of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko shows the diversity of surface structures on the comet's nucleus. Credit: ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM
A new image of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko shows the diversity of surface structures on the comet's nucleus. It was taken by the Rosetta spacecraft's OSIRIS narrow-angle camera on August 7, 2014. At the time, the spacecraft was 65 miles (104 kilometers) away from the 2.5-mile-wide (4-kilometer) nucleus.
In the image, the comet's head (in the top half of the image) exhibits parallel linear features that resemble cliffs, and its neck displays scattered boulders on a relatively smooth, slumping surface. In comparison, the comet's body (lower half of the image) seems to exhibit a multi-variable terrain with peaks and valleys, and both smooth and rough topographic features.
A 3-D version of the image depicting the comet is available at: www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Imag … osetta_s_comet_in_3D
Launched in March 2004, Rosetta was reactivated in January 2014 after a record 957 days in hibernation. Composed of an orbiter and lander, Rosetta's objectives are to study comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko up close in unprecedented detail, prepare for landing a probe on the comet's nucleus in November, and track its changes as it sweeps past the sun.
Image: Rosetta's target up close
Provided by NASA
Citation: Image: Rosetta spies comet surface variations (2014, August 18) retrieved 20 January 2020 from https://phys.org/news/2014-08-image-rosetta-spies-comet-surface.html
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News tagged with solar nebula
Image: Foreground asteroid passing the Crab Nebula
When astronomers use the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to study the deep sky, asteroids from our solar system can leave their marks on the captured pictures of far-away galaxies or nebulae. But rather than be annoyed at ...
Mantle neon illuminates Earth's formation
The Earth formed relatively quickly from the cloud of dust and gas around the Sun, trapping water and gases in the planet's mantle, according to research published Dec. 5 in the journal Nature. Apart from settling Earth's ...
Geoscientists discover an overlooked source for Earth's water
Where did Earth's global ocean come from? A team of Arizona State University geoscientists led by Peter Buseck, Regents' Professor in ASU's School of Earth and Space Exploration (SESE) and School of Molecular Sciences, has ...
Short orbital-period binary star detected at the heart of the planetary nebula M 3-1
European astronomers have discovered a new binary star at the center of the planetary nebula M 3-1. The newly found binary has an extraordinary short orbital period of slightly more than three hours, which makes it one of ...
Extra-terrestrial Hypatia stone rattles solar system status quo
In 2013, researchers announced that a pebble found in south-west Egypt, was definitely not from Earth. By 2015, other research teams had announced that the 'Hypatia' stone was not part of any known types of meteorite or comet, ...
Comet mission reveals 'missing link' in our understanding of planet formation
The missing link in our understanding of planet formation has been revealed by the first ever spacecraft to orbit and land on a comet, say German scientists. The study is published in a recent edition of the journal Monthly ...
Model sheds new light on the formation of terrestrial planets and Earth
The element carbon and its compounds form the basics for life on Earth. Short-duration flash-heating events in the solar nebula prior to the formation of planets in our solar system were responsible for supplying the Earth ...
Scientists estimate solar nebula's lifetime
About 4.6 billion years ago, an enormous cloud of hydrogen gas and dust collapsed under its own weight, eventually flattening into a disk called the solar nebula. Most of this interstellar material contracted at the disk's ...
How comets are born
Detailed analysis of data collected by Rosetta show that comets are the ancient leftovers of early Solar System formation, and not younger fragments resulting from subsequent collisions between other, larger bodies.
The minimum mass of a proto-solar system disk
Astronomers estimate that at the time the Solar system formed, its proto-planetary disk contained the equivalent of about twenty Jupiter-masses of gas and dust. This so-called "minimum mass solar nebula (MMSN)" is derived ...
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Universal Windows Platform : Dead?
by Rajan Bhave · June 1, 2019
Image: Digital Trends
Recently, you might have read articles like “Microsoft’s Universal Windows Platform dead!” or “Microsoft wants to close the UWP“. For years Microsoft fans, developers & community were wondering whether Universal Windows Platform (UWP) has a future. But, now they might be upset. Today we’ll analyze Windows Developer Platform Strategies & predict its future outcomes. Classic Win32/.Net is back (spoiler).
Win32 Background
For understanding the Developer market situation we need to go to 2001. Windows XP was widely adopted by customers & cooperations worldwide. This was the time when the Windows ecosystem surge started. Win32 was a major opportunity for developers. It was like a goldmine.
Win32 is a Windows Application Program Interface (API) for developing 32-bit applications. Win32 has been used since Windows 95 Era. Which means if you have Windows 95 or later, you can run Win32 applications. Windows API (WinAPI) are APIs designed for Windows OS. Win32 focused mainly on C & C++ Programming Language. Ex, for writing a win32 program should include windows.h as a source file in the header. Which actually contains a prototype of useful APIs for developers.
Lets fast forward a bit. Windows 7 released on October 2009, was one of the biggest hits of Windows OS variants. Also was the “fastest selling operating system Microsoft has ever offered“. It had proper Management techniques. IT administrators can easily create powerful scripts with PowerShell 2.0. Moreover, Windows 7 provided a superior infrastructure.
In-build Troubleshooting which enables a user to conduct their own tests. And, better security than Windows XP. This paved the way for Windows 7 success. And, it was not Vista! Well, that’s not our topic today. But, here’s an interesting video on “Was Windows Vista THAT bad?” by Linus Sebastian (LinusTechTips).
Windows 8 Entry
“SO, Windows 7 was a Big HIT! But, Windows 8 that much big LOSS!”.
Windows 8 failure reasons by many critics:
The Start button goes on vacation (Neowin)
Metro, AKA Modern: An Ugly, Useless interface (ZDNet)
Windows 8 is a ‘catastrophe’ for PCs (Gabe Newell)
Legacy Windows 7 users aren’t moving. (Neowin)
If you are going to buy a new computing device in 2013, chances are it’s going to be an Apple iPad, an inexpensive Android tablet, or a Chromebook. The PC desktop isn’t dead, but it’s not very profitable either — and Windows 8 isn’t helping PC sales. (ZDNet)
Read More: Five Reasons why Windows 8 has failed.
UWP Flashback
Microsoft launched UWP with Windows 8 & promised to provide apps with better performance and security. Moreover, these apps would be easy to distribute & update via Windows Store.
This strategic move was a paradigm shift from Software to Applications (Cloud). This enabled devs to use common APIs across the Windows ecosystem from Desktop OS, Windows Phone to Hololens (2016). Now developers were required to work on their previous projects to get their apps UWP/Windows Store friendly.
At that point, Win32 didn’t have features like Touch & ink which UWP apps had. This forced the devs to upgrade their apps to a newer platform. But, there was a big glitch. Windows Phone was 3rd most preferred platform much behind Android and iOS. Moreover, people didn’t like the New Windows 8 UI (No Start Menu). So many preferred not to upgrade.
So the situation crumpled, even more, when Windows Store had many poor third-party apps. Take the example, of Snapchat case. No consumers means no money. And, no money means no one interested to invest in it. This led to the downfall of UWP & Windows 8. But, times improved over a period of time.
Windows 10 (2016) was widely appreciated throughout the world as “The Best Windows Yet!“. With improved features, better UI & nostalgic look it became a hit instantly. Microsoft focused on UWP for Native Windows Application Development. But, this time Windows Phones were gone. And, Microsoft Store (Renamed, AKA Windows Store) was still incompetent when compared to the Android Play Store or App Store.
Windows Apps (Win32 + UWP)
Many critics (Paul Thurrott) were predicting that Microsft is effectively killing UWP by ensuring all its capabilities are available to other major app development platforms like Win32/.NET.
On 8 May 2019, Microsoft made this change. UWP was the only way to build native modern Windows applications. But, now after extending its capabilities to non-UWP platforms would allow developers to update their apps without the need to use another platform. And, this is a positive change.
But, this doesn’t declare Universal Windows Platform dead. Mr. Kevin Gallo (Microsoft VP) called this condition a “massive divide” between Win32 and UWP developers by adding “modern desktop” elements to Win32 apps. Moreover also stated, “By the time we are done, everything will just be called ‘Windows apps. We’re not quite there yet.” But the ultimate idea is to make “every platform feature available to every developer.”
“You’ve told us that you would like us to continue to decouple many parts of the Universal Windows Platform so that you can adopt them incrementally,” Kevin Gallo (Microsoft Corporate Vice President) writes in a blog post aimed at developers. “Allowing you to use our platform and tools to meet you where your customers are going – empowering you to deliver rich, intelligent experiences that put people at the center.”
Universal Windows Platform (UWP) is not dead! — R Bhave
Microsoft Store & UWP still can make it. Microsoft is doing every effort to provide what developers want. On the app store issue, Mr. Gallo said, “You can trust apps differently. They don’t need to be in the Store. People really just want to know if Microsoft considers an app good.“. If you want to read the whole interview, I have provided its link below. That’s it from The Insider Story S02E01.
Future of Windows 2019-2020 (PinProgram)
Mr. Kevin Gallo interview by Mary Jo Foley (ZDNet)
Microsoft’s Universal Windows Platform app dream is dead and buried (TheVerge)
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Rajan Bhave
A skilled and knowledgeable computer science student with extensive knowledge of programming and computer applications. Loves to create new things like websites, software and apps.
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A Gentle Reminder…
World Class Branding
It’s not hard, doesn’t have to cost an arm and a leg, and SHOULD be left to the professionals….like me. Give me a shout if you know someone who could use a little polish. That’s what I do best…make other people look good. If you haven’t checked out my work…here’s where you can find out more: Portfolio
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annmziegler
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Yikes….!!! I got caught without an elevator pitch.
Me….the maven of all things marcom. Yes, it’s true. I didn’t have an elevator pitch prepared. (Notice the past tense here.) Imagine my shame when, of all things, an old family friend asked me what I did for a living. I mumbled something about working for myself and doing advertising and public relations, those kinds of things…..
LAME-O!!!
So. Today. I set about crafting my elevator speech. I’m currently practicing and editing it. I think it’s pretty good. But, suggestions are always welcome:
I’m a marketing communications professional with more than 20 years experience discovering key market advantages and translating those into successful marketing communications campaigns – including advertising, public relations, lead generation, trade show and digital media. Additionally, I have a penchant for automation, which allows me to keenly understand and deploy messaging for electronic (or digital) media — including social media.
Leveraging from a master.
I used DaVinci’s “Creation” as the inspiration for this campaign image. The Johnson Controls System 350 modular HVAC control system was a new concept for the North American market. Initially introduced in Europe as the System 27 (in a a slightly different configuration), the System 350 was the first HVAC control system that allowed users to add functionality as needed. Building owners and managers finally had a flexible, easy-to-use electronic HVAC control solution.
To illustrate how simple System 350 was to install and use , a clear, concise photograph of the “hand of God” adding a module to an already functioning system was employed.
Note the DIN rail. This was one of the first uses of the construction staple in the United States and, therefore, we needed to introduce the concept of using a DIN rail to organize and mount System 350.
The campaign and subsequent product launch were wildly successful. Additional functionality was engineered and introduced, each using the same concept to alert target audiences to the product’s availability.
I think Leonardo would approve.
Envelope Stuffer
Trade Show Direct Mail
Print Ad II
Print Ad III
With just a little effort, great things can happen.
When Badger Press, a small regional printer, asked GS Design to redesign their brand, I went one step further and developed a marketing plan around introducing the new look and feel as well as promote the printer’s offerings to a wider target audience. What followed was a teaser direct mail campaign with the pay-off delivered via visit from a Badger Press sales representative and an open house touting the company’s sizable storage and distribution capabilities and its new Müller Martini 1/2 web press.
The traditional sheet fed printer went from one shift five days per week to running three shifts 24/7 and keeping that Müller Martini 1/2 web up and running.
With a sleek new image, the company was re-invigorated from the top down. The printer and its customers no longer viewed Badger Press as just a small, local printer. They were now a top-notch printer with state-of-the art equipment sophisticated enough to handle almost any print job.
Corporate Stationary
Event – Invitation Cover & Poster Graphic
The ad that brought in a $10 million service contract.
Placement: The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fortune, and BusinessWeek
The year: 1989. The WSJ was still only running black and white content and online content was at least 10 years in the future.
The story: Introduce a new Johnson Controls service business on a limited budget. World Services was a recent acquisition formerly known as Pan Am World Services. They managed facilities like Cape Canaveral Air Force/Naval Base, Kennedy Space Center, Stennis Space Center, Johnson Space Center, Los Alamos Laboratories…you get the picture. I was able to wrangle a one-time media placement as part of the overall Johnson Controls C-Suite media buy.
The WJS ad hit. Several days later, I received a call from the national sales manager. They were bidding on an IBM total facilities management package. Apparently the CEO of IBM was catching up on the day’s reading, including “The Wall Street Journal,” during his train commute. He happened upon our ad…and the rest was history. The service contract set the tone for all future business. While a $10 million service contract seemed like a dream come true at the time, within two years, the business unit set a minimum of $10 million for all incoming bids.
My take: This was certainly not my most visually appealing ad, but the message, the visual and, most importantly, the placement all worked together to deliver results.
Marketing Commandment One: Know thy target market.
Badger Meter | Gas Utility Sales Support Suite
Information is Power.
The Badger Meter Utility sales force needed materials to adequately sell meter reading equipment and software to North American natural gas utilities. Utilizing a simple headline to convey the Badger Meter key selling benefit – easy collection and use of meter data – an entire suite of sales tools were developed.
Multi-Media Presentation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69F-oPspKg4
Marnell Corrao Website
http://www.marnellcorrao.com (archived: note many of the graphics were not captured however, navigation and content are correct.)
Marnell Corrao, a global architectural firm, specializing in entertainment properties, required a sophisticated look and feel to reflect their position in the industry. Utilizing Flash (a relatively new technology in 2000), GS Design captured the firm’s unique and highly successful approach to construction. Leveraging my commercial building expertise gained while with Johnson Controls, I proposed adding a Portfolio section giving users Marnell Corrao project snapshots. Additionally, GS Design developed a CMS for News, Career and Portfolio sections.
Today, the Marnell Corrao site is still visually stunning and easily navigable. And, the Portfolio section….still there. Sometimes, good content never goes out of style.
August 23, 2000 Macromedia Site of the Day
An Answering “Lead” Shot…
All is fair in love and war.
Lead in drinking water. It’s a big deal; rather reducing and eliminating lead content in potable (drinking) water plumbing products is now a federally mandated big deal here in the United States.
A Badger Meter competitor had launched a full-out media campaign proclaiming that said competitor had the only lead-free water meter on the market. This is simply NOT true. Badger Meter has, in fact, several low-lead and lead-free products on the market.
The Answering Volley
Position Badger Meter as THE thought leader in lead-free initiatives.
Lead-Free White paper – Outlines current and pending lead-free legislation
Engineered Polymer Meter White paper – Examines superior design and durability aspects of the Badger Meter engineered polymer (plastic) meter
Utility quick reference guide – Highlights legislation, effective dates, and states effected
Press release – Announcing availability of white paper, quick reference guide and website
Trade advertising – Full page print ads and online display ads
Website section
Major industry conference technical session presentation – Conducted by the marketing manager/subject matter expert. Content was manufacturer agnostic. All session feedback praised the marketing manager for her objectivity and factual presentation.
Trade show branding – Major translights carried the campaign graphic/branding
Sales channel education and sales tools – Included white papers, quick reference guide, FAQ and a modified copy of the technical session PowerPoint
Except for a section on the competitor’s website, their guns went silent within three months of launching the Badger Meter campaign.
Decided to put my money where my mouth is…and what an epiphany….
What are my fellow marketing communications and information architect freelancers NOT doing.
They have virtually no SOCIAL or ONLINE presence.
I needed a website, Twitter feed, LinkedIn profile and sigh…Facebook page…PRONTO.
But where to start? Where to start?
Website. I needed to build one and build one fast. And it needed to be cheap.
WordPress! I had a blog and WordPress is listed as one of the easiest open-source CMS programs around. Surely I would find something there.
I went to my blog, backed out and perused their themes. Hmmmmm…I should be able to find something suitable here. Then on to pricing. After thoroughly reviewing functionality vs. pricing, I decided on a Premium upgrade for 1 year. It would allow me to point my existing (and now dormant) URL to my WordPress site, there would be no advertising and I could upload videos.
What I didn’t realize was that my URL registration was somewhat outdated and that I couldn’t immediately point my URL at the WordPress servers. Sigh.
Well, there was nothing stopping me from getting my webstie started.
WordPress.com offers over 200 themes to choose from. There was bound to be something that would fit the bill, right? Reviewing proved to be quite the chore in itself. The thumbnails are set up way more complicated than they need. Without looking under the skirts, it appears someone didn’t do their visual optimization either. Without applying a filter, the themes were excessively slow to load. Only once I actually clicked on a theme, did I experience some normal browsing times.
Interesting to note, there are both free themes and premium themes ranging in price from $58 – $150. However, it appeared that only several free themes were built in responsive design. If I was going to tout myself as a digital guru I figured I’d better be using a responsive design. However, there was no filter for responsive design. In fact, the filters seemed to be rather un-intelligently designated for my tastes. for a company wanting to tout it’s CMS capabilities, there were no descriptions of each genre of filter and then odd sub-filters.
Responsive Design (from Wikipedia):
Responsive web design (RWD) is a web design approach aimed at crafting sites to provide an optimal viewing experience—easy reading and navigation with a minimum of resizing, panning, and scrolling—across a wide range of devices (from desktop computer monitors to mobile phones).[1][2][3]
A site designed with RWD[1][4] adapts the layout to the viewing environment by using fluid, proportion-based grids,[5] flexible images,[6][7][8][9] and CSS3 media queries,[3][10][11] an extension of the @media rule.[12]
After doing some side research into white versus black pages or backgrounds, I decided on white. Interestingly there is no conclusive research on which is more readable. For all the other bells and whistles Information Architectects and Web Designers have developed to ply their wares, it’s interesting they still haven’t done the most basic of HMI tasks. But I digress.
Responsive design. Check. White background. Check. Serif or Sans serif typeface? Again, some vague references and mumbo jumbo on size, type color vs. type background…but no concrete and hard and fast rules of thumb. Hmmmmmm.
So I visited both Razorfish.com and Organic.com to see what those two giants of web design were using. Razorfish was using a black background with serif type. Organic also uses a black background but with mixed serif and san serif type. I wanted to not here that the sites I use the most are all san serif type with white backgrounds…
Because I want to showcase my overall capabilities and not just design, I opted for a white background. However, to give it some punch, I also opted for a theme that featured by san serif and serif typeface. WordPress does allow you to go in an modify CSS at will. However, because I want to get this site up fast, and I’m no coder, I opted for something I wouldn’t have to change at the onset.
And the winner is: Origin
That was enough stress and decision making for one day.
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Buffalo Bills at Houston Texans 1/4/2020
Buffalo Bills QB Josh Allen cleared to play vs Titans
Oct. 05, 2019 10:00 AM EDT
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“Search is no longer poaching a second-in-command from a company and making him CEO.” —Brian Sullivan
Brian Sullivan noticed something almost 30 years ago. Executive search firms that seemed cloaked in secrecy billed themselves as omnipotent gods. He knew their clients would eventually tire of the charade and set out to provide an alternative. He started Sullivan & Company and developed and perfected the unique approach now offered through his public company CTPartners. Unlike its predecessors and competitors, Sullivan’s modern firm works transparently with clients, harnessing emerging technologies to identify, attract, and land a new breed of modern executive.
You basically set out to change the industry from day one. Why?
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You’re setting the tone for a $130 million revenue company that’s basically turning the whole industry upside down. What’s behind it all?
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How have you been able to do that?
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We’ve also driven the adaptation of technology in the industry. We’re basically paperless. We have a proprietary product called ClientNet that provides 24-7 access to the search status. Our clients can access our whole dossier of their search to view comments from their associates on each candidate, analytics scoring on their five key attributes as defined for the job, and other info. Executive search is becoming more than saying, “I like this guy because we shared a bottle of Bordeaux and talked about baseball.”
What other information do you share?
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And what about the people you place. Is the modern executive the same as 15 years ago?
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Remembering a hero, 30 years after his death
Posted by Mike Florio on June 29, 2013, 8:36 AM EDT
It’s been a bad week for the NFL, which possibly is experiencing its first serial killer. But as we continue to process the notion that Aaron Hernandez may have ended three lives, let’s remember a man who gave his, in an effort to save three lives.
Thirty years ago today, Chiefs running back Joe Delaney noticed that a trio of young boys had waded into a man-made water hole. It contained an unknown deep end, and they quickly were in trouble.
As Frank Deford, then of Sports Illustrated, later explained it, “There were all sorts of people around, but only Joe dashed to the pond. There was a little boy there. ‘Can you swim?’ he asked Joe.
“‘I can’t swim good,’ Joe said, ‘but I’ve got to save those kids. If I don’t come up, get somebody.’ And he rushed into the water.”
Delaney saved one of the boys. Two drowned. So did Delaney.
Joe Delaney, who had played only two NFL seasons, was 24. He left behind a wife and three young girls.
As a rookie in 1981, Delaney rushed for 1,121 yards. But he willingly sacrificed a bright future to help save three young strangers.
Today, Delaney’s tragic yet inspiring story deserves to be remembered. Tomorrow and beyond, it should never be forgotten.
109 responses to “Remembering a hero, 30 years after his death”
sjoyner59 says:
a true hero !
7insidethelines2 says:
Wow. A true hero. Full of love. ROP.
goraidersgospurs says:
Florio nice move, I think you had this story on last year to real classy PFT!!!
mugsymagpie says:
He made the ultimate sacrifice. He should be recognized by the NFL not just PFT.
jpmelon says:
Sad to hear but a great story.
irishking says:
That is so sad about Joe Delaney that it breaks my heart. He was a true American hero.
bmoreravens1012013 says:
Talk about a stark contrast from this week of tragic news. What a hero….This should not be my first time hearing about this , which means the NFL needs to do a better job promoting this epic , and heroic story. Once again ,great job Florio.
berniesmullet says:
A true man. Hero forever. RIP. May you never be forgotten.
cjspiller12 says:
Wow, it’s been that long!!? I actually remember when this happened. This guy had star potential written all over him. If I remember correctly he really didn’t know how to swim……but he went anyways to try and save those boys. Very unselfish act of love and courage. Guy was a class act, true hero!!!
daringanttsux says:
The extra depressing part is that the kid he saved has been in and out of jails his whole life. Currently in Jail.
relggigeht says:
I remember this story when it happened. Joe Delaney risked and ultimately sacrificed his own life for someone else. Nice tribute.
jeremy7182012 says:
What a breath of fresh air. Thanks for a change PFT.
apage53915 says:
What man is a man who does not make the world better? From a die hard Raiders fan, you were areal man Mr Delaney. RIP
truehoosier62 says:
I clearly remember the day that story came across the news wire; one of the sadder, yet prouder days for the NFL. Joe Delaney was a true hero, in every sense of the word.
Now we have Hernandez, a man who appears to have committed an execution style murder recently, and who may have been complicit in two other murders from last year. If convicted, he should pay with his life. His name should be stricken from every pillar and post of the NFL. All records, all mention of his name, stricken from the league’s annals.
mrcogburn says:
God bless Joe and his family. And may this generation of self-absorbed players pause over this sacrifice and begin to put others ahead of themselves as Joe Delaney so willingly did.
Patriot42 says:
Now is the time for the NFL to recognize those men who are true heroes in the league and show those that gave their lives to save others should be given the lime light. Joe Delaney is one of those.
fc187 says:
Why is it the good gets so over showed by the bad?
I remember watching Delaney play. Had a really bright future.
aoc57 says:
Kudos Florio.
zappaisgod says:
The full tragedy of this story was realized shortly after the bodies were recovered. Delaney was 5’10” the area he drowned in was only 6 feet deep.
Delaney actually couldn’t swim at all and was well known to have a fear of water.
logast says:
I remember as a young NFL fan when this happened. I am as touched now, as I was then by this incredibly selfless act.
If the KC Chiefs don’t have a special honor, or some other recognition named after Delaney, then shame on them. It doesn’t have to be a team member. Make it an award that is based in the greater KC area to recognize acts of kindness.
bobo74 says:
He is, a true hero, I actually have his authentic jersey. I saw where the Patriots were exchanging Hernandez jersey’s, they should exchange them for a Delaney one, true professional, and a true hero. Go Chiefs!!!
fissels says:
Thank you foe sharing that Mike. I had forgotten about Delaney. He and his selfless act should not be forgotten, especially by the current and future players.
moosev says:
Please ESPN do an hour special on this man. What a great story! A true hero!
brasho says:
I remember this from when I was very young. I never forgot his sacrifice. My 10 year old daughter’s first name is “Delaney” in remembrance of Joe Delaney and the ultimate sacrifice he made.
boltfaninfalconcountry says:
It was a sad story. I remember it well. He was on his way to a very good career.
penguins49ers says:
Read up on the definition of serial killer!
cheffyglenn says:
To often we hear the bad news which is more sensational, and sells better than the true hero stories. I’m guilty myself for following the tragic story of A.H. But its been one of the Sports headlines for a few days now. The Joe Delaney story should be the Headliner today. The NFL should have done a front page story on Joe Delaney’s life. Our Heroes need to be the top stories. Not the Ray Lewis’s, Aaron Hernandez’s, OJ Simpsons of our era. Joe Delaney and Pat Tillman need to be recognized more than they are. Maybe more NFL players would follow in their lead instead of these immoral money hungry players today.
jojopuppyfish says:
I still have his rookie card.
I remember his rookie season he played the bears and we shut him down. The next year was a strike season and he died in the off season.
The one kid he saved was in jail for awhile. Tremendous amount of guilt that he lived (he’s said in interviews”
jhkayejr says:
When I saw this headline, I thought to myself, “It’s gotta be Joe Delaney.” I remember reading this story in Sports Illustrated as a little kid. I’m not sure why, but It’s always stuck with me. He was a good one, for sure.
gpete1962 says:
A hero indeed! We need more stories like this.
deadeye says:
I knew it was Joe just from the title of the article. That man was a true hero.
bigwaveseeker says:
Rest in eternal peace Mr. Delaney.
dirtydrynn27 says:
I forgot all about this story,I was in 11th grade when this happend.Joe Delaney was a true hero!!!!!
lostsok says:
This is what Geraldo and others should be reminding people of:
Dan Marino building a hospital wing to battle autism.
Nnamdi Asomugha providing food, shelter, medicine, vocational training, literacy efforts, and scholarships to widows and orphans victimized by poverty or abuse in Nigeria.
Walter Payton, Kurt Warner, Mike Singletary, and dozens of others who have give time, money, and honest love of our society…to make people’s lives’ better.
Aaron Hernandez is garbage. But we should never let a loser like him reflect on the NFL as a whole, let alone our country and communities.
youknowngata says:
I can’t believe that there are turds out there giving thumbs down on the praise for this man who sacrificed everything to save those children.
This is a touching story and Joe Delaney is a hero. God bless him, his wife, and children who were left behind.
fdugrad says:
I remember this incident very clearly. It is hard to believe it has been thirty years. He had an entire career and life ahead of him. The fact I always marvel about is that he KNEW he could not swim, however, he went after those boys anyway. In a week where all the attention has been shined on a miscreant within the league, it is, indeed, a stark reminder that this kind of man strode the gridiron as well. RIP Joe, YOU were a hero.
jredshoes says:
Joe Delaney’s name is on the Chiefs Ring of Honor at Arrowhead. He should also have recognition in Canton. He grew up poor in Louisiana and could have turned out differently but unlike so many people today he was taught to do the right thing. This story of an NFL career cut short is tragic. The current headlines and the media talking about the NE player who’s career is now over are just disgusting.
talkingproud says:
I too remember this story. Joe Delaney showed a tremendous amount of courage and bravery going into that water.
I clicked on this article because I needed to read something positive on this site after the past couple of weeks. Thanks for sharing this, Mike.
sonnyandsam says:
Wow. What a tragic story of bravery and heroism. Brought tears to my eyes. RIP Joe Delaney
blackngold4life says:
Remember this like it was yesterday..DONT SEE HOW THIS GOT ANY THUMB’S DOWN..weirdos
A true hero!
I heard about this first at PFT, and THANK YOU FLORIO for reminding us of this amazing story every now & then.
The SI article linked to is worth your time reading.
gpaz338752 says:
Its hard to believe that a good man like Joe Delaney and a P.O.S. like Hernandez are even the same species.
rhodesclosed29 says:
This is such a touching story. HERO by every standard. Angels come in many shapes and forms. Thank you JOE, god doesn’t make too many people like you, and sadly not too many people who are of the same mold as joe, never get any real recognition until it’s to late. RIP brother.
On a side note: how can a group of people not step up and try helping these kids? I understand the danger in it. but in all honesty if I ever came across a situation where life and death is hanging in the balance. i’d do whatever it took to make sure that HE/SHE would be okay or out of danger atleast. I mean how can people just stand there and watch 3 kids drowning and not try to run and get help, I know cell phones prob weren’t around 30years ago, but god damn standing around with your hands in your pockets aint contributing a damn thing.
*And that’s what GRINDS my GEARS* (yup had to throw in a family guy reference =) )
yetanotherfan says:
The tragedy of Joe Delaney had even more awful elements than most people remember. Retired and well-respected football star Buddy Young was killed in a car accident after a memorial event to honor Joe Delaney.
Men like Delaney and Young are inspirations to remember and emulate, especially at a time when the despicable example of Aaron Hernandez is all over the news.
siggtacular says:
RIP Joe, a true hero
truthfactory says:
Amazing that he acknowledged the real possibility of him drowning himself, and still went in anyways. Great story. RIP
finspensfan says:
A true hero who deserves to be remembered.
thesteelers says:
A legend.
pisano says:
I remember it well, God bless Joe Delaney, he was/is a true hero, and a person we all should look to be like. RIP Joe.
Gary Marcella says:
Thanks for sharing – its great to break up the bad with an inspiring story! Excellent choice!
DonRSD says:
That is one of the most courageous articles I’ve ever read.
To give up everything to save someone else is heroic to say the least.
RIP Mr Delaney.
commonsensedude says:
Best PFT article I have read in a long time. Nice job, Florio! We need to hear and be reminded about the many good guys and heroes whose stories get overshadowed by a relatively small number of clowns. I had never heard about this guy before and I feel better just knowing about him.
mcwest1 says:
Can we see more articles of this nature? Especially now. Why is it that a few bad apples dictate the daily headlines while all the good ones are seldom mentioned? It’s like waiting until somebody dies to honor them. Let’s display their numbers, name awards after them while they’re still living so they can appreciate the fact that they’re well thought of.
A couple of articles a day dedicated to charitable foundations and events hosted by players and teams would be nice to combat the handful of bad players used by likes Geraldo and Limbaugh to prop up their own agendas. Include their email addresses in the article so we can all email the article to these buffoons.
Maybe they’ll pass along the good performed by players and teams as anxiously as they are willing to point out the bad ones? HAHA
darksidecowboy says:
Thanks Florio, the NFL needs more of these heroes, or at least acknowledgement as much as possible. “But I’ve got to save those kids” damn man Mr. Delany you’ve earned VIP treatment in heaven my friend.
11thstreetmafia says:
I consider myself a football junkie and I feel guilty because I have never heard of this guy. Shame on writers and other NFL people for letting this true hero’s memory be lost. Could you imagine being there during this situation? How guilty do the other people that were around that did nothing feel?
torturedraiderfan says:
Wow. Athletes have come a long way over the last 30 years and most of it has been in the wrong direction. From a true hero that tried to save several lives, to a worthless P.O.S that possibly took several lives. Time for the Commission worry less about the size of the next TV contract and worry more about the personalities of the players entering the league.
I hope the league does more to honor the memory of guys like Joe Delany. R.I.P.
FinFan68 says:
“There were all sorts of people around, but only Joe dashed to the pond.”
That is disgraceful. They should be ashamed of themselves. I had to do that as well as a 14 year old in Jacksonville in 1983. 2 kids (4ish and 6) fell off the edge of a boat ramp and neither could swim. There were 3 adults (not related) around 50 yards away in a boat but they just continued on their way. I had to run about 100-150 yards around to get to the ramp. The oldest was struggling near the dropoff so I basically tossed him up to sure footing. The other was under and I couldn’t see him until I knocked him with my leg and dragged him up. He was unconscious and I hung him upside down as water/foam drained from his mouth. He started coughing shortly after. I carried this kid home with his brother and older sister and told his mom what happened and she promptly closed the door in my face without a word.
Every time I’ve read or heard about this story, it never gets old. True hero.
kb2408 says:
Wow, I had never heard this story before. Great story and perfect timing, with everything that’s going on with that idiot in New England.
Thanks for bringing this story back to life. Joe Delaney is a true hero. RIP
sdiegosteel says:
As soon as I saw this post’s title, I guessed that it was Joe Delaney. I was 12 years old when this happened and it made a big impression on me. I treated his football card like it was one for a Hall of Famer.
The former original ESPN anchor Tom Mees died in a similar circumstance, trying to save his own child. I’m always amazed as to how many adults don’t know how to swim. It’s a skill that desperately needs to be learned and, unfortunately, as we get here closer to the 4th, there’ll be more stories like this about people who didn’t have the fame of Delaney and Mees.
kingcrusher says:
I love stories of people who put the lives of others above their own. Whether it be a parent who selflessly does everything in their power (while living) to make their child’s life great, clear down to people sacrificing their lives to save another, it makes me realize there’s still good in people.
I wish everyone would live their lives as such, and sacrifice while living to make the world better for those they can reach out and help, and also be willing to do whatever it takes to save those around them.
Sad, but inspiring story.
peytonwantsaflag says:
I had forgot about that- Thanks for reminding me Mike. I get so cynical any more, it’s so nice to be reminded there is still goodness out there.
harrisonhits2 says:
I remember when this happened though I hadn’t thought of it for a long time. Its a damn shame Delaney didn’t survive and get to continue the life he had before him.
raiderssf says:
Thanks for sharing this story. God bless Joe Delaney and family.
ericn42000 says:
What a great man!!! A true hero!!!
delshofner says:
The term “hero” gets over-used all the time. Not here.
A “true” hero decides to put themselves at great personal risk to help others. Caught the winning TD? Nope – That’s your job. Dealing with cancer? Nope – I’ve had it, and believe me I didn’t ‘volunteer’.
When I read the headline, instantly my first thought was “Joe Delaney”, and that’s 30 years later. That’s because there are so few in that category to really pick from.
I want this article to get more comments so I’ll add mine.
I remember Delaney and this story. I believe there are more good than bad guys in the NFL, but I’m not sure how many are Joe Delaney level good. RIP, sir.
And brasho, nice tribute. 🙂
Flapjack Morty says:
I had a picture of him in my locker and wore #37 because of him. Great man on and off the field. My hero. Miss ya Joe D.
Also Deford is a marvelous writer. Don’t see many if any like him today. His book “Everybody’s All-American” is still one of my favorite books ever and I’ve read a lot of books.
canetic says:
I remember when this happened I was about 10-11 years old. It was the first time that I realized that those football players I watched on TV were real people. Shortly after this Larry Gordon and David Overstreet died (Dolphins).
jjbadd385 says:
What a touching story…I only hope I would have the courage to do the same if ever in that situation. It truly saddens me to see thumbs down on these comments..
teambringitstrong says:
I remember this and Carl Otis Trimble in similar events. Both gone too soon.
sullijo1 says:
I reference “Joe Delaney” to many of my friends that are Chiefs fans and they sadly have no idea who he is…..the Chiefs need to put a bronze statue outside of Arrowhead and educate their fans on what happened that day. Chiefs fans will wear a 58 jersey, but while D. Thomas was a better football player, J. Delaney was a much better man.
texansdude says:
That is a touching story about Joe Delaney. I have to say that it isn’t necessarily the NFL’s failure to promote the good character individuals as part of their image: the league is full of them, by far, compared to the dark, dark nature of Aaron Hernandez. Instead, it is the media’s need and hunger to promote the bad in our society that is the problem.
doubleogator says:
I remember Joe Delaney, he lived and attended college in Louisiana. Had he had the chance to continue his pro football career he could have been one of the all time great running backs…RIP Mr Delaney. You did what many men wouldn’t do, you sacrificed your life and bright future to save a child. WOW!
ajpnsf says:
I hope that kid made something of his life.
God bless Joe Delaney and his family.
warhammer420 says:
The media tend to focus on the negative. So it’s nice that you would bring forth this as a reminder that heroes do exist. Joe Delaney was one of them.
quizguy66 says:
Thank you for remembering and reminding us of Joe Delaney’s heroism on that tragic day. Amazing to think that so much time had gone by already! A stirring contrast to so much of the bad NFL nees of late. I wonder what became of the child that he saved. Hopefully that child had lived up to Joe’s legacy.
-QG
b3nz0z says:
I’m too young to remember that happening, but it’s an amazing story. Why do we spend so much time talking about the greats, but a guy like this only gets mentioned rarely?
The Chiefs do have a commemoration on the front page of their website as well as a photo gallery of Joe Delaney today. It would be a wonderful gesture if they marked the 30th anniversary sometine during the season.
pdidit09 says:
aldog83 says:
This should inspire us to do the same.
Not suggesting we all give our lives.
Just to help others when we can.
However possible. Next time you see someone need
Help. Do what you can!
One day you will be the one who needs help….
We should take care of each other, not ridicule or ignore
When you can do something. Even if its a small gesture.
God bless this man and others who take the time to help others.
It makes me cry to think that there are still good people today.
It gives me hope.
hedleykow says:
Geraldo & Limbaugh would never “think” to serve up a tribute like this one … that’s why I spend my time at PFT instead.
mswravens says:
Did not know this story…WOW! Now THAT is a hero!!! I hope his family found strength in his selfless heroic sacrifice & somehow managed to soldier on to a healthy & happy life… Much respect!
banger69 says:
Why do people give the thumbs down to a story like this?
jdvalk says:
Remember it like was yesterday, our admiration for what you did remains.
jiggy3198 says:
I remember this well. Just a young teenager but the nfl was my life. A true hero. Without all the news outlets and such like today never got all the publicity like today. Great story and one that didn’t involve murder or corruption.
mudhead123 says:
Talk about a fearless, unselfish, wonderful person. Wish this story was pushed a little more.
steelbreeze676 says:
I’m 37 and I’ve never heard this story… Thanks for posting it!
ialwayswantedtobeabanker says:
Here we go again — cue in the 2 or 3 idiots that delude themselves into thinking that their anonymous thumbs down vote is an epic power play.
germanstingray says:
Thanks for remembering Joe.
This was before my time, great story in remembrance of this amazing person.
godofwine330 says:
One of the toughest things to do in life is to attempt to save someone from drowning in any body of water. Your risk dying yourself is high no matter how well you swim. I saved a little girl when I was 16, and that was no problem – she was around 7 and very light and it was in a pool where the depth was 5″.
When I attempted to save a 6’3″ 260 pound man when stationed overseas in 2006 in Kuwait he nearly drowned me twice, while trying to save his life he tried to climb up my body, pushing my head underwater. Twice I had to push him off of me in order to save our lives. After the second time, another person jumped in and instead of trying to grab him and drag him to the edge of the deep, we alternated in pushing him to the shallows where we saved him. Him climbing up my body pushing my head underwater was beyond frightening, not to mention he outweighed me by 30+ pounds. I can swim, but without the other person’s help and idea to push Miller to the shallows we likely could have both died.
1standinches says:
A Hero that will never be forgotten
cometkazie says:
I don’t think there are many football fans in Louisiana that don’t know Delaney’s story.
He attended Northwestern State in Natchitoches.
According to Wiki, he was posthumously awarded the Presidential Citizen’s Award by Reagan. The Chiefs haven’t retired his number, but no one has worn it since.
mhs8031 says:
I could not help but notice a few people gave thumbs down to some of the tributes here. Punks.
coachstram says:
I remember…really stunned me, that was the first player I lost as a “fan ( hope that makes sense).
He was destined for greatness, a hell of a runner, but there were greater plans. Then years later KC loses Derrick Thomas suddenly.
Im proud of the way the Chiefs honor both of them.
dbfan4ever says:
The infuriating thing is how many of those people just standing around knew how to swim and they did absolutely nothing to help!!!!
catfish252 says:
How about Delaney – Arrowhead Stadium of Joe Delaney Field at Arrowhead Stadium with a statue of Joe Delaney out front.
jonestocarr says:
NFL Films did a great piece on Joe D….wouldn’t be surprised if they re-run it next week.
lnfinite says:
Joe is an inspiration for everybody. One does not have to be famous to be a hero. Being famous and selfless is class without boundaries.
liquidgrammar says:
I remember this story from my childhood. I wad a Joe Delaney fan, as he played for one of my favorite childhood teams! A tragic, yet inspiring story of a time when people did the right thing despite the risk. I love this story, and the man who gave his life for a stranger. I often wonder whether or not I would have the balls to do sonething like that, even 30 years later. God Bless you and your family, Joe!! You are truly an American treasure!!
andymc58 says:
I’d love to meet the class acts that gave those first comments thumbs down.
pizzon says:
I was a teenager when this happened and can remember thinking it takes a special kind of person to do something like this knowing the risks involved. with all the BS going on today with these athletes its nice to be reminded of the good in some people. RIP Joe!
ravensterpsarmystrong says:
Wow! This should have been a front page story!! Unfortunately, negativity sells!
cospgsmadman says:
R.I.P. Joe.
He had a promising career in the NFL. However that P.O.S. should not be mentioned in an article featuring Mr. Delaney.
Robert Chandler says:
Joe Delaney was a good man who did what I would hope ANYONE nearby would have done. Whatever it takes is what one must do, if someone is in jeopardy like that. Sad that too many actually seem capable of standing idle while someone dies.
I certainly am no hero but this reminded me of an incident many years ago. I was sitting next to a pond at a local park, while my date had walked away to look at some nearby flowers. A little boy (about 5 years of age) had wandered too close to the edge and he slipped and fell upside down into the water. While the water at the edge was probably only a few feet deep, he was lashing about and struggling. I reacted instinctively and ran over and yanked him out and patted his back to get him to expel the water he had breathed in. Once sure he was breathing fine, I looked for his guardian(s) and finally saw who I assumed to be his mother jogging over from the opposite side of the pond. She had not been paying attention to the boy, but rather making out with her apparent boyfriend. I still had my arm around the boy when she arrived. I told her what had happened and tried to reassure her that her son was alright. She scowled, said nothing and just took him by the arm and dragged him off.
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Clause 99, Catch 22 and Penning is telling lies.
The Government are claiming victory because of a fall in the number of benefit tribunal hearings. Today, the Express boasts:
“A HUGE drop in the number of people appealing against benefit decisions at tribunal hearings was yesterday hailed as a victory for the Government’s reforms.”
Actually, it’s a victory for the Government’s authoritarian information micro-management.
There were 32,546 tribunal cases between January and March this year, compared to 155,000 in the same period of 2013.
“Official figures” reveal an 89 per cent fall in people contesting the decisions to cut, deny or restrict Employment Support Allowance (ESA), long-term sickness and disability benefits.
Tribunals contesting Jobseeker’s Allowance decisions also fell 70 per cent this year.
Disability minister Mike Penning said: “Fewer appeals going to tribunal is welcome. Getting more decisions right first time avoids the need for protracted tribunal appeals.”
Under the Department for Work and Pensions reforms, officials look again at decisions and extra evidence in all disputed cases before they go to appeal.
However, the effectiveness of the mandatory review – the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) second “look” at their decisions to end benefit claims – isn’t the reason behind the fall in appeals, as Penning claims.
Firstly, people can no longer appeal benefit decisions immediately after their assessment, the mandatory review process will inevitably slow appeal applications down considerably.
Secondly, another major reason for fewer appeals is not that the DWP suddenly got better at decision-making, but rather, it’s because of a cruel and despicable move by the government to remove basic rate ESA payments from claimants awaiting the outcome of the mandatory review.
Previously, claimants who were found fit for work could continue to receive ESA at the basic rate by immediately lodging an appeal if they thought their work capability assessment decision was wrong. ESA would then remain payable until the appeal was decided.
Under the new rules, people who wish to challenge a benefit decision are no longer allowed to lodge an appeal immediately. Instead, we have to go through a mandatory revision or review stage, during which a different DWP decision maker will reconsider the evidence and, if necessary, send for more information, before deciding whether to change the original decision.
There is no time limit on how long this process may take. The requirement for a mandatory review/revision before proceeding with appeal applies to all DWP linked benefits. During the review, no ESA is payable, not even the basic rate. However, once the review is completed, those wishing to appeal may claim basic rate ESA again, up until the tribunal. (It’s important that people request this continued payment from the DWP, once they have lodged their appeal.)
The ludicrous claim from Government to justify this move – clause 99 – was that this “simplifies” the appeal process, and “the changes will improve customer service by encouraging people to submit additional evidence earlier in the process to help improve decision making. Resolving any disputes without the need for an appeal will also help ensure that people receive the right decision earlier in the process.”
Call me a sceptic, but I don’t believe this was the genuine reasoning behind clause 99 at all.
We now have to appeal directly to HM Courts and Tribunal Services, this is known as “direct lodgement,” as DWP no longer lodge the appeal on our behalf. That is assuming, of course, that people manage to circumnavigate the other consequences of this legislation. Having no money to meet your basic living requirements is something of an obstacle, it has to be said.
From 1 April 2013 we are no longer able to get Legal Aid for First-tier Tribunal hearings. Legal Aid is still available for appeals to the Upper Tribunal and Higher Courts, provided the case is about a point of law. (Legal aid act 2012 ).
There are some serious implications and concerns about these changes. Firstly, there is no set time limit for DWP to undertake and complete the second revision. Secondly, claimants are left with no income at all whilst they await the review, and until appeal is lodged.
The DWP stated that there is “no legal reason” to pay a benefit that has been disallowed during the review period. The only choice available to sick and disabled people is an application for Job Seekers Allowance. (JSA). However, we know that people in situations where they have been refused ESA have also been refused JSA, incredibly, on the grounds that they are unavailable for work, (and so do not meet the conditions that signing on entails) or they are unfit for work, because they are simply too ill to meet the conditions. We know of people who have had their application for JSA refused because they attend hospital for treatment once a week and so they are “not available for work” at this time, for example.
Furthermore, there is growing evidence that people are being told by DWP that in order to claim JSA, they must first close their original claim for ESA, since it isn’t possible to have two claims for two different benefits open at the same time. DWP are also telling people that this means withdrawing their ESA appeal.
Another grave concern is that although most people on income related ESA are automatically passported to maximum Housing and Council Tax Benefit, from the time that the claim ends, (and for whatever reason), eligibility to housing benefit and council tax also ends. (However, I would urge people in this situation to contact the Housing Benefit office promptly to explain the situation – the DWP automatically contact the Council to tell them when someone’s eligibility for ESA has ended. It is always assumed that the person claiming has found work when their DWP related benefit eligibility ends.)
It’s horribly true that Clause 99 has been introduced to make appealing wrongful decisions that we are fit for work almost impossible. Sick and disabled people are effectively being silenced by this Government, and the evidence of a brutal, de-humanising, undignified and grossly unfair system of “assessment” is being hidden. More than 10,600 people have died because of the current system, and it is absolutely terrifying that our Government have failed to address this.
Instead, they have made the system even more brutal, de-humanising and unfair. What kind of Government leaves sick and disabled people without the means to feed themselves and keep warm? Clause 99 is simply an introduction of obstructive and Kafkaesque bureaucracy to obscure the evidence of an extremely unfair and brutal system. By creating another layer of brutality, the Government is coercing people into silence. Successful appeals were evidence of an unjust system, and now, having made the process almost impossible, we have ministers trying to claim that suddenly the system is fine. It’s FAR from fine.
This Government is oppressive, tyrannical and certainly bears all of the hallmark characteristics of authoritarianism. And they are blatant, unremorseful liars.
Please note that the DWP said “robust” data is not yet available to assess the impact of the legislative changes on tribunal receipts.
The DWP inform me that they are “looking to publish Mandatory Reconsiderations data when they judge it is of suitable quality to be published as Official Statistics.”
For further information, please see Appeals Reform
(That hasn’t restrained Mr Penning’s inferential leaps, though.)
Tribunals Statistics Quarterly:
April – June: 111,795
July – September: 76,430
October – December: 32,959 <– Here is when the controversial DWP review procedure was introduced in October 013, though we have evidence that some people claiming ESA were made to go through mandatory review from APRIL, which was only legally introduced to apply to PIP and Universal Credit at that time.
January – March: 11,455
ilegal have data to compare from previous years:
HMCTS ESA appeal yearly receipts Appeals received
2013/2014 232,639
As we’ve pointed out, until people have gone through the mandatory review, they can’t appeal because no decision has been made against which they can appeal. 2013/2014 was still the second highest set of annual figures for ESA appeal receipts, and that indicates that the reality is much more likely that “wrong” assessment related decisions have actually soared, but the DWP have so far failed to provide statistics of those trapped in the added Kafkaesque bureaucracy of the mandatory review. We have no idea, yet, of the timescales this involves, but we do know that it will serve to filter appeal applications significantly.
Nick also provides us with another significant figure: over 700,000 people are in a massive queue awaiting assessments for ESA allowance.
The mandatory revision process applies to:
1. UC, PIP, JSA and ESA
2. decisions on credits
Government advice for decision making: staff guide
From the guidance document: Decision Makers should note that mandatory reconsideration is being introduced from:
8.4.13 for PIP
29.4.13 for Universal Credit
28.10.13 for JSA and ESA.
The mandatory review – clause 99 – was introduced solely to place barriers before those who need to appeal unfair decisions. It also, therefore, serves to hide the evidence of a system that is founded on unfairness, since the high number of successful appeal outcomes previously has indicated clearly that the assessment process is deeply flawed and has been used to remove lifeline benefits to people who need support the most.
BEGG, Anne (anne.begg.mp@parliament.uk)
To: Susan Jones
anne.begg.mp@parliament.uk
Thank you very much for this. I have passed a copy to my committee clerks so it can be considered as part of our inquiry into ESA/WCA.
Dame Anne Begg MP
On 13 Jun 2014, at 21:32
June 13, 2014 March 26, 2016 · Posted in Uncategorized ·
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Quinonostante says:
Reblogged this on Mentally Wealthy.
Mike Sivier says:
Reblogged this on Vox Political and commented:
The government is claiming that a massive drop in benefit tribunals is down to its so-called reforms, which appears to be true – the operative ‘reform’ being the one in which benefit claimants are DEPRIVED of ALL THE MONEY DUE TO THEM if they appeal against a decision.
Is this the action of an open, transparent and progressive, democratic government or the repression of an autocratic dictatorship?
Decide.
grammatteus says:
I worked as a tribunal rep for the CAB. I left that job 12 years ago. Things were getting worse then, but this government is claiming they are now getting better!? I returned to our local CAB for advice for my daughter this week and was told I had to fill in a means form and return home, then ring them the following day. The drop-in advice HAD to be stopped since they said there was a queue right out the door and across the car park!
Had I been able to vote ‘properly’ in the last general election (in Northern Ireland we only have our pathetic wee local parties and it’s a one-issue election: the union. No, sorry, that’s not true, there are flags and parades too!), I would have voted LibDem. NOW if I lived in Great Britain (the mainland as it’s known by half the community here) any LibDem pollster visiting my door would be getting an earful and a slammed door. I fully understand Tories enacting these policies; they’re TORIES, and too many of the working class (and middle class) majority forget that, but WHY are the LibDems allowing this? They are in coalition, they now have power, they can use it. They do? My ARSE!
Sorry to say that even I was unaware of these changes, and I count myself well-informed. They don’t report THIS in our papers (or maybe some do, but from the side of the government ‘cracking down on benefit cheats and cutting the exorbitant spending’ or ‘our great government are making it harder for benefit tourists’!)
Re-blogging this!
Reblogged this on The Alternative Ulsterman and commented:
Sorry to say that even I was unaware of these changes, and I count myself well-informed.
ireallymeanthis says:
That enormous reduction in appeals shows how effective the reforms are at taking away the right to enough provision to live off.
What do you do if you decide not to appeal against the decision to find you fit for work?
I know that 6 months need to go by after the decision until you can start a new ESA claim.
So you may as well appeal anyway and hope the reconsideration doesn’t take too long. Under the prev. rules, it took 50 days for my reconsideration.
Any stats about the time these mandatory reconsiderations are taking in general?
Sasson Hann says:
In the document ’21st Century Welfare’ and it’s counterparts – which I read thoroughly and that were released in the early phase of the coalition – it specifically stated that people who didn’t qualify for ESA, or JSA (because they’re too sick obviously) will have to find their own means of support!!!
At the time, it felt that the government thought everyone had their ‘own means of support’! What? Trust Funds? Rich families? Savings?
That one sentence summed it all up for me. All the many thousands of people that were going to fall between the cracks, denied even the most basic form of living from people who do have the trust funds, rich families, and plenty of savings.
I read recently that there is now a time limit for the mandatory reconsideration. Unfortunately I can’t remember where I read it but I believe it was legit.
MentalHealthProfessional_CombatingFibromyalgia says:
Reblogged this on Mental Health Professional Combating Fibromyalgia and commented:
People are too sick, unwell, bullied and treated like shit to even fight to the tribunal stage. Do they have any idea how hard it is to even get to that stage and how much of a battle it takes. Disgusting.
A6er says:
Reblogged this on Britain Isn't Eating.
That’s very nteresting Jack,shall have to keep an eye open
Nick (@Mylegalforum) says:
I’m all for sharing articles like this but get a bit miffed when the author doesn’t credit the source of some of the data used. I’ve been working on the ESA figures for a long time now and have put endless hours of painstaking research in to them.
It’s very clear from the article that the appeals data to which you refer was sourced from here > http://ilegal.org.uk/post/21737/thread
It’s a very good article which you have written; but please let’s be fair and give equal credit.
Not only that but there’s a lot more to this which has yet to emerge over an interesting FOI reply which we have had from the DWP. The danger in not working in unison is that articles get an airing which don’t expose the full story.
Nick @mylegalforum
ilegal.org.uk
I did NOT get the stats from that site actually, otherwise I WOULD have cited that source. I have also put endless hours of research into my work, though not all of it is stat analysis. And I always credit sources, if you care to look through my work, you will see that this is true.
The stats are actually up on the Government site. That’s where I looked.
I have been working on this issue since the consultation back in 2012.
I think you are out of order for accusing me of using ‘your’ data, some of which is actually available on the newspaper article, I hyperlinked on my article, amongst other places. I haven’t been on your site
And the rest of the info came from DWP – some from the press office, some verified via MPs I communicate with and some came from my OWN work from last year, dated January 30, 2013. Here – https://kittysjones.wordpress.com/2013/01/30/735/
I would hope that we remain mutually respectful, and open for collaboration if the need or opportunity arises. I do understand where you are coming from about feeling miffed: people lift my stuff all the time, without credit. But I write to get the info out as far and wide as possible, and try and keep that in mind…but it is a little annoying, yes.
Best wishes to you Nick
Actually I have just looked on your link, Nick, and you have more extensive data than I have – the previous years comparison from 2009 onwards,for example. I wonder if I may add that – with full credit of course, because that comparison is very useful to have, as it shows clearly the rise,of appeals from 2009 – significantly peaking, as well as the recent dip through the mandatory review being introduced in October. I never thought to do the comparison prior to the coalition taking office 🙂
Hi Kitty, just a bit tetchy over this as it did appear very similar. The important thing though is we are fighting the same enemy which puts us on the same side 🙂
Anyone is free to use anything from the site unless we say to the contrary, all we ask (as I’m sure you’ll appreciate) is credit and a mention. So by all means please post anything which helps Kitty.
Trust me the reason for my safeguarding this is there is much bigger news to come. What we should then do is collaboratively shout this from the roof tops 🙂
Agreed we have the same aims and the same common enemy, and I prefer working cooperatively and collaboratively where I can.
Thanks, Nick, will add the earlier comparative stats later, when I can. I know there’s the online quarterlies, but I have problematic eyesight, and it takes me ages to wade through and faff with numbers. Thank you
Let me know if there’s anything I can do to support any work.
It’s good to ‘meet’ you Nick, now at least I know where you are, too 🙂
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Jamie Clubbs Podcasts
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Best Jamie Clubbs podcasts we could find (updated January 2020)
Best Jamie Clubbs podcasts we could find
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Jamie Clubb's Podcast
This is the official podcast of Clubb Chimera Martial Arts. Episodes provide insight and reflections on training methodology and the subculture of martial arts. Jamie Clubb, the podcast presenter, is a writer and martial arts/self-protection teacher. He promotes critical thinking and progressive training methods.
The Way of the Elephant (New Year Edition)39:40
This New Year's episode: listener questions answered. The CCMA podcast has listeners who are keen to put forward the big questions. In this show Jamie tackles the awkward problem of reconciling the clear dangers and limitations of realistically training children against the clear dangers they need realistic training to survive. Then he dives into t…
The Way of the Bear (Christmas Episode)29:13
Taking control is at the heart of self-protection attitude. This festive episode explores the concept of "taking away mummy" and developing the various attributes needed to have a realistic chance in a self-defence situation. Topics include children's self-protection training, stoicism, the value of losing and protecting others. Useful links for th…
The Way of the Shark Part II1:15:16
This episode concludes the CCMA overview of the controversy surrounding ground-fighting. We take a careful look at the criticism directed at Brazilian Jiu Jitsu during the early years of the Ultimate Fighting Championship and its standing today. The episode then discusses the validity of ground-fighting in self-defence training. Useful links for th…
Trick or Toolbox - Halloween Special30:18
This year's Halloween Special delves into the disturbing case of the Toolbox Killers. What lessons can we take from their terrible crimes? At first glance this seemed like a simple case of be wary of approaching drivers when walking alone and the dangers of hitchhiking. However, a closer examination reveals that all of the victims had some good sur…
The Way of the Shark Part I23:27
The great grappling art moved strategically through Brazil towards North America, propelled by ambition and a drive to be successful. The schools were just accessible enough to permit a rush of middleclass students in South America and a select few Hollywood celebrities in California. There was little other motion other than raise attention through…
Martial Movie Massacre Part II: Magic, Woo & Mary Sue-Jutsu44:56
The second part of these special extra podcasts features Ron Goin with two guest commentaries on tropes/cliches that affect both martial arts subculture and martial arts movies. Ron provides insight into the corrosive effect of belief in mysticism had undermined martial arts. He then focuses on the hackneyed device of the lone man martial art bar b…
Martial Movie Massacre Part I59:44
From special movies to ridiculous wardrobe choices to pulling foreign objects out of wounds, dusty fighters and beckoning fingers, the martial arts movie genre is dogged by some awful cliches. In this special extra episode Jamie Clubb invites five special martial art teacher guests onto his show to share their feelings on tropes that are not doing …
The Way of the Rabbit Part II17:58
We delve deeper into historic military justification for evading physical conflict backed up by one of the most famous and revered war manuals in history. Furthermore, we look at tactics to prevent a person from engaging in a fight, including prompting the aggressor's own flight response and practical systems of tactical escape. Show Notes: Clubb C…
The Way of the Rabbit Part I16:19
This episode examines the rabbit icon and how it champions using guile and cunning over direct fighting. A scene from "Enter the Dragon" references a medieval tale about one of Japan's deadliest duellists who propagated defeating enemies without fighting. Show Notes: Clubb Chimera Website Clubb Chimera Facebook Page Clubb Chimera Twitter Clubb Chim…
Vagabond Warriors Workshops July/August1:48
8M ago 1:48
Finally the Vagabond Warriors Workshops are here! I am on here to quickly talk about my upcoming Vagabond Warriors martial arts cross-training workshops this summer. These three hour intensive training sessions will cover Clubb Chimera’s approach to cross training. Each workshop will focus on a certain martial art discipline or concept and then we …
The Way of the Ape Part II16:15
The second and concluding part of "The Way of the Ape" further explores the reality of martial arts evolution. We discuss the inevitability and unstoppable nature of change that underlies everything despite the desperation of some martial artists to cling to the past or attempts to replicate the past. We also look at how natural selection might not…
The Way of the Ape Part I17:17
There are two erroneous arguments made about martial arts evolution. The first one is made by those who believe that the art they train is a perfect preservation of an historic or traditional fighting system. The second one is made by those who believe that newer martial arts will always be a positive progress on what has gone before. This episode …
The Way of the Tyger: Fearful Symmetry23:15
This episode takes a look at fight dynamics and how they change when objectives change. We begin with a look at how striking and grappling dynamics change, then how dynamics between different combat sports before we delve into specific training and the difference between symmetrical and asymmetrical fighting. What makes a duel, a street fight or a …
The Way of the Wolf Part III34:48
The concluding part of Jamie Clubb's trilogy on the complex relationship between predatory behaviour and the martial arts subculture. This episode looks at the truth behind the machismo mythology embraced by some martial artists and the way different types of schools prey on their students and instructors... Clubb Chimera Website Clubb Chimera Face…
The Way of the Wolf Part II25:47
Martial arts marketing meets the ways of the contrapreneur and the psychopathic predator. Should we be wary of the soft skills we teach in self-protection? Can a McDojo ever be honest? This episode picks up with the magical realism of Angela Carter and her understanding of the both predatory danger presented in the wolf allegory and its allure. The…
"Old School Karate? Cobra Kai’s Fangs Examined" in Association with Bullshido (Extra)25:01
In association with Bullshido.Net Jamie Clubb presents the audio version of his review of the first season of Cobra Kai. Show Notes for this Episode Clubb Chimera Website Bullshido Website Link to the original article "Old School Karate? Cobra Kai's Fangs Examined" Clubb Chimera Facebook Page Clubb Chimera Twitter Clubb Chimera YouTube…
The Way of the Wolf Part I21:08
The wolf is a powerful icon and metaphor, used to exemplify a particular type of predator. . Wolves and humans have long shared hunting grounds, resulting in the extinction of wolves in some regions of the world and the earliest domesticaion of a species of wolf in the form of the dog. Human society has cast "The Big Bad Wolf" as the leading symbol…
Playing the Combat Game (Extra)24:37
In this special extra episode, Jamie Clubb discusses how fighters adapt to fight within their combat sport, how fights are manipulated within the rules of competition and how all this contrasts with the expectations of those who watch. Links for this episode Clubb Chimera Website Clubb Chimera Facebook Page Clubb Chimera Twitter Clubb Chimera YouTu…
The Way of the White Moth25:43
Attitude is arguably the most important component of self-protection. Without attitude, awareness is worth nothing and neither is anything else. In the first episode of the second season of the Clubb Chimera Martial Arts podcast Jamie Clubb looks at one of the most contentious aspects behind a survival attitude. By starting with an ancient poem as …
Resolution Revolution27:16
In this special end of year episode Jamie Clubb concludes the questions he began answering in the previous episode. Topics covered include the relevance of self-defence in peaceful times, teaching non-physical skills in a physical way, obscene signs and the fence, and inspiration. Links for this episode Jamie Clubb Seminar in Essex (Facebook Page) …
Festive Fight27:35
The Christmas edition of the Clubb Chimera Martial Arts Podcast is the first part of a two-part episode (the second being the special end of year show). In this episode Jamie Clubb answers listener questions regarding online training, fighting taller enemies or opponents, time management, writing a book, introducing self-protection to a combat spor…
The Yoga Myth Part II23:52
The story continues with an early debunking of the Shaolin Temple/Yoga connection. This show then continues with an examination of the development of Yoga as a form of physical exercise. The popular image of Yoga is dismantled. Then Jamie takes a look at the genuine links and parallels between martial arts Indian Yoga. Sources for this Show The Yog…
The Yoga Myth - Part I21:23
This first episode of a two-part show looks at the relationship between Yoga and martial arts via a popularly accepted mythology. Jamie Clubb discusses how fighting systems from Shaolin Kung Fu to Brazilian Jiu Jitsu have embraced the modern image of Yoga to compliment their physical training. Useful Resources Clubb Chimera Martial Arts Website Whe…
The Last Night of the Ghouls36:33
In this special edition of the Clubb Chimera Martial Arts podcast, we re-visit Halloween 1828 and the climax of a series of cold-blooded murders. Taking a self-protection eye, we look at how raw opportunity and circumstance tempted two infamous criminals to sell the lives of their own for profit. The podcast raises questions regarding victim select…
The Heel Fighter: Promotion & its Consequences35:03
1+ y ago 35:03
In this special unscheduled episode Jamie Clubb looks at the fallout of UFC 229: Khabib vs McGregor and takes a look at the relationship between promotion and professional combat sports. Hatred, charisma, wit, irresponsibility, theatre and hype are all ingredients that have helped create some of combat sport's most colourful characters and ensure t…
The Order of St Guinefort35:15
In this episode Jamie Clubb handles the controversial subject of martial arts elitism. Inspired by his own experiences of witnessing martial arts bullying and inspired by ex-soldier friends, Jamie looks at the cult and mythology that has grown up around the cult of protection. Is humanity really divided up into prey, predators and protectors? Links…
Aftermath Part II: Curse of the Black Dog19:06
In the second part of The Aftermath Jamie Clubb looks at the psychological impact on individuals following a conflict situation. From the extreme cases of the atrocities of World War I to dealing with self-recrimination over not acting in a certain way against an intimidating antagonist the black dog haunts many of us. This episode touches on the r…
Wrong Fu (Extra)5:15
1+ y ago 5:15
Wrong Fu by Jamie ClubbBy Jamie Clubb
Aftermath Part I24:13
The first of a two-part episode. Jamie Clubb describes a dark episode in criminal history that exemplifies the infamous "Double-Tap" and examines it through the lens of popular awareness theories. This episode should prompt thoughts on a much neglected area of combative training. This episode's references: Jamie Clubb's Clubb Chimera Website Clubb …
Galahad's Goals Part II25:01
The second of a two-part episode. Jamie Clubb offers his thoughts and reflections on martial arts quests. He describes the third of his three-part criteria for selecting a good self-defence class. He also discusses the vagaries of other abstract martial arts quests, arguing the case for being objective-drive about choosing martial arts in the first…
Galahad's Goals Part I26:04
The first of a two-part episode. Jamie Clubb offers his thoughts and reflections on martial arts quests. He comments on the difference between dojo hoppers and martial arts cross trainers, and why he believes there is often a lot of incongruity in martial arts teaching. He provides insight into two of his three-point criteria for selecting classes …
Protecting the Frontline26:48
In his debut episode, Jamie Clubb reflects on confusion in self-protection training. He questions common perceptions surrounding self-protection and its relationship with martial arts subculture. Referencing some of his greatest influences, this show looks at the definition of self-protection and explores how and why its objectives become distorted…
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Plumstead Property
The heart of Cape Town's Southern Suburbs
About Plumstead
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Constantiaberg Property of the Month
Two new offices as Chas Everitt invests in the future of Cape Town
Editor Uncategorized September 11, 2019 September 11, 2019
Despite the recent slowdown in home sales in Cape Town which has seen many real estate companies scale down their operations, Chas Everitt International franchisees are investing in new offices in the metro in anticipation of a substantial turnaround in the not-too-distant future.
One of these is the new high-visibility operation in Constantia Village, at the heart of a plush heritage area that has been particularly hard-hit over the past 18 months by emigration, the stagnant economy and a decline in the number of upcountry and foreign purchasers.
“This will further strengthen our strong position and interest in Constantiaberg area where we already have offices in Tokai and Bergvliet,” says Chas Everitt Constantia principal Sally Gracie, “and will be used to expand our penetration of the upmarket belt along the mountain slopes from Constantia and Bishopscourt to Newlands.
Home prices here, as in many other areas known for their high-end real estate, have tumbled by as much as 30% as demand dried up, but well-heeled buyers are now beginning to see the opportunities inherent in this situation, she says, and sales are set to improve significantly in the coming summer “season”
“It also doesn’t hurt that we’ve had very good rains this winter which have filled up our dams and put an end to the drought and the threat of Day Zero which hung over Cape town for so long.”
Gracie says there has been a very positive response to the new office, with lots of walk-in custom from both local sellers and buyers interested in listings in this area. It has also prompted enquiries from several top local estate agents keen to join the group.
“We have exclusive mandates to sell some exceptional properties in Constantia (see photos) and Newlands and in the few weeks that we’ve been open have already made our first sales. We will shortly also have a team operating in Claremont.”
Meanwhile, the Ballan Group, which owns the Chas Everitt International franchises in George, Knysna and Sedgefield, has just opened a trendy new office in Bloubergrand on Cape Town’s west coast, under the leadership of sales manager Leonard Coetzee.
Named Chas Everitt Blouberg Metro, it covers a huge area – including Melkbosstrand, Table View, Parkland, Parklands North and Blouberg – that is generating well over 2000 home sales a year worth a total of at least R4,3bn, despite the current oversupply of new developments that is keeping a lid on prices.
“This part of Cape Town has become increasingly popular with local buyers over the past few years because it offers lower prices, a great beach lifestyle, excellent private schools and easy access to the city via public transport. Many people relocating to Cape Town from Gauteng and other inland provinces have also chosen to live here because of its relative affordability compared to the rest of the metro,” he says.
“It also appeals to a very broad spectrum of buyers, with apartment prices starting from around R750 000, home prices generally ranging from around R1,6m up to about R7,5m and exceptional beachfront properties going for as much as R25m. And we believe it is set for a significant revival within the next few months.”
As it is, he notes, the office has also notched up several sales in the few weeks it has been open and plans to have a total of at least 15 sales agents in the field by the end of the year.
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Leonard Coetzee on 021 204 9914
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Sarah's cracking algorithm
K.E.M.
Submitted by plusadmin on January 1, 1999
Sarah Flannery, a student at Scoil Mhuire Gan Smal in Blarney, Co. Cork, was awarded an Intel Fellows Achievement Award for her project in the Chemical, Physical and Mathematical Category at the 1998 Esat Telecom Young Scientist and Technology awards.
Sarah's project for the exhibition was entitled "Cryptography - The Science of Secrecy". Working with matrices and using her PC at home for experiments, Sarah developed and tested a new cryptography algorithm for encrypting data. While the work has been around for a little while, media attention has recently skyrocketed!
The initial idea for the algorithm was developed while Sarah was on a placement at Baltimore-Zergo in Dublin, and she has called it the Cayley-Purser algorithm, named after Arthur Cayley, an 19th-century Cambridge mathematician, and Michael Purser, a cryptographer who inspired her.
Sarah's new algorithm is a competitor to the popular RSA algorithm. Where RSA uses exponentiation to encode and decode a message, Cayley-Purser uses matrix multiplication. This means that while RSA grows as a cubic with the length of the encryption "key", Cayley-Purser grows quadratically. For a typical key length of 1024 bits, this makes Cayley-Purser around 75 times faster.
One downside of Sarah's algorithm is that the encrypted messages it produces are much longer than those produced by RSA. More significantly, however, there is still some possibility that Cayley-Purser might have some "security holes", making it too easy to "crack the code". Now that Sarah and her algorithm are receiving so much attention, other researchers will begin to explore the security properties of Cayley-Purser, and see how it stacks up against the dominant RSA.
Some Internet discussion of Sarah's work.
The homepage of RSA.
Cayley-Purser algorithm
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House Republicans schedule Thursday vote to bar federal money for NPR
CNN Congressional Producer Deirdre Walsh
(CNN) The House of Representatives is planning to vote this Thursday on a bill barring federal funding for National Public Radio.
The new push in the House to defund the public broadcasting outlet comes after a conservative activist secretly taped an NPR fundraising executive, Ron Schiller, criticizing Tea Party supporters and saying NPR would be better off without federal money.
Filed under: House of Representatives • James O'Keefe • NPR
National Public Radio CEO resigns
CNN Wire Staff
Washington (CNN) - National Public Radio CEO Vivian Schiller resigned Wednesday, according to NPR.
Schiller's resignation comes a day after Ron Schiller, NPR's former senior vice president for fundraising, was shown in an undercover video calling the Tea Party "racist" and "scary" and questioning whether NPR needs federal funding. Ron Schiller, no relation to Vivian Schiller, issued an apology Tuesday night and said his already-announced resignation would be effective immediately.
Filed under: James O'Keefe
Conservative activist and filmmaker James O'Keefe
Activist says he targeted NPR because of Juan Williams firing
(CNN) – UPDATE: National Public Radio CEO Vivian Schiller resigned Wednesday, according to the organization's website. This comes the day after tape was released of an NPR senior executive slamming the tea party and saying NPR would be better off without federal funding.
The conservative activist responsible for producing an undercover video showing a National Public Radio senior executive slamming the Tea Party as "racist" and "scary" is speaking out about why he went after the organization.
Late Tuesday evening, the executive in question, Senior Vice President for Fundraising Ron Schiller, issued an apology and said that his already-announced resignation would be effective immediately, instead of in May as planned. Schiller had announced last week that he was leaving NPR for a job with the Aspen Institute.
Filed under: James O'Keefe • Juan Williams • Tea Party movement
NPR exec shown slamming the Tea Party
(CNN) - National Public Radio says it is "appalled" with a senior executive at the organization after he was caught on undercover video slamming the Tea Party movement as "racist" and "scary," and saying that NPR would be better off without federal funding.
NPR spokeswoman Dana Davis Rehm singles out Senior Vice President for Fundraising Ron Schiller in a statement: "The fraudulent organization represented in this video repeatedly pressed us to accept a $5 million check, with no strings attached, which we repeatedly refused to accept. We are appalled by the comments made by Ron Schiller in the video, which are contrary to what NPR stands for."
Filed under: James O'Keefe • Tea Party movement
Conservative media watchdog condemns latest attempt by ACORN 'pimp'
Washington (CNN) - The president of the conservative watchdog group Media Research Center has responded to conservative activist James O'Keefe's attempt to embarrass CNN by misrepresenting himself and plotting to film a meeting with CNN investigative reporter Abbie Boudreau.
"The MRC unequivocally denounces James O'Keefe for his attempted assault on CNN. It isn't just childish and immature; it's ugly, dishonest and filthy," Brent Bozell said in a statement.
Filed under: James O'Keefe • Media Research Center
Fake pimp from ACORN videos tries to 'punk' CNN correspondent
CNN Senior Investigative Producer Scott Zamost
Editor's note: CNN takes an unprecedented look inside the young conservative activist movement in the documentary "Right On The Edge," which airs Oct. 2 and 3 at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. EST.
Lusby, Maryland (CNN) - A conservative activist known for making undercover videos plotted to embarrass a CNN correspondent by recording a meeting on hidden cameras aboard a floating "palace of pleasure" and making sexually suggestive comments, e-mails and a planning document show.
James O'Keefe, best known for hitting the community organizing group ACORN with an undercover video sting, hoped to get CNN Investigative Correspondent Abbie Boudreau onto a boat filled with sexually explicit props and then record the session, those documents show.
The plan apparently was thwarted after Boudreau was warned minutes before it was supposed to happen.
"I never intended to become part of the story," Boudreau said. "But things suddenly took a very strange turn."
O'Keefe: 'I'd do it again'
James O'Keefe said Tuesday that he doesn't regret his attempt to tamper with Sen. Mary Landrieu's phone system.
(CNN) – The conservative videographer who plead guilty to entering federal property under false pretenses following an attempt to access Sen. Mary Landrieu's office phone system says that if given the chance, he'd do it again.
"I'd do it again, I might do it differently," James O'Keefe told ABC's George Stephanopoulos on Tuesday.
"I don't regret what I did," O'Keefe said before adding, "Senators are corrupt, politicians are corrupt. These people have to be investigated."
When asked by Stephanopoulos if he would intentionally break the law again, O'Keefe indicated he would alter his methods.
"I might do it a little differently," O'Keefe said.
O'Keefe is one of four men arrested in January. Two of the group posed as telephone repair workers to get into Landrieu's office while O'Keefe secretly videotaped the incident.
Throughout the interview, O'Keefe defends his methods, saying, "This is not a left or right thing. This is about exposing corruption."
Filed under: James O'Keefe • Popular Posts
Four get probation, fines for falsely entering senator's office
(CNN) - Conservative videographer James O'Keefe and three co-defendants pleaded guilty Wednesday for entering federal property under false pretenses for a January incident in which they tried to access the phone system in the New Orleans office of Sen. Mary Landrieu.
O'Keefe, 25, and co-defendants Joseph Basel, 24, Robert Flanagan, 24, and Stan Dai, 25, were each fined $1,500, placed on probation and ordered to do community service, according to a Department of Justice statement.
The four were arrested in January after Basel and Flanagan posed as telephone repair workers to get into Landrieu's office.
Filed under: ACORN • James O'Keefe
Charges reduced in Landrieu phone incident
CNN Political Producer Shannon Travis
Conservative activist James O'Keefe is one of four men now charged with a misdemeanor for entering Sen. Mary Landrieu's office in Louisiana.
Washington (CNN) - Prosecutors have reduced the charges against four men accused of trying to access the phone system in the New Orleans office of Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-Louisiana.
The case involves James O'Keefe, the conservative activist who played a pimp in videos that later embarassed ACORN, the community organizing group now in the process of shuttering its operations. The case also involves Robert Flanagan, the son of an acting U.S. attorney from Louisiana's Western District.
The U.S. Attorney's office for the Eastern District of Louisiana said Friday that O'Keefe, Flanagan and the two other associates are now charged with entering federal property under false pretenses, a misdemeanor.
The men were originally arrested on felony charges after they entered Landrieu's office, located inside a federal building, on Jan. 25.
Filed under: James O'Keefe • Louisiana • Mary Landrieu
Filed under: Extra • James O'Keefe • Louisiana • Mary Landrieu • Popular Posts
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GP2 and GP3 tyres prove crucial as Series draw to a close
The Italian Grand Prix was the venue for the final round of the GP3 Series and the penultimate round of the GP2 Series, with New Zealander Mitch Evans claiming the GP3 title after a dramatic weekend in both championships. For the fastest race of the year, the GP2 drivers had the P Zero Silver hard and P Zero Yellow soft tyres at their disposal, whereas the GP3 drivers had the P Zero Silver hard tyres available to them. There is generally low tyre degradation at Monza, but certain places such as the famous Parabolica put plenty of energy through the front tyres in particular, and high temperatures throughout the weekend also placed additional stress on the P Zero rubber. Saturday’s 30-lap GP2 feature race was sensationally won by Italian driver Luca Filippi, returning to competition with Coloni after a 12-month absence. Filippi – who tested Pirelli’s next-generation GP2 tyres at Barcelona before travelling to Monza – qualified second on the grid behind Carlin’s Max Chilton. Chilton started on used soft tyres, whereas Filippi opted for new hards. Filippi stopped on lap eight to change to used hards on the rear only, with Chilton stopping five laps later for a set of new hards. He came out just ahead of Filippi, but the Italian overtook him into the Ascari chicane. Addax driver Johnny Cecotto tried a different strategy, changing from new softs to new hards on lap 13 after saving his tyres in qualifying. He eventually finished in second, having started from eighth on the grid following a penalty. The GP3 title could have been won on Saturday, but in a dramatic twist of events polesitter Evans was forced to retire early in the race – and then championship challengers Antonio Felix da Costa and Aaro Vainio were also unable to capitalise on the opportunity. This left Evans – who retained the championship lead despite his retirement in the feature race – and Lotus driver Daniel Abt as the only contenders, separated by 14 points. Abt started the GP3 sprint race on Sunday in eighth while Evans started last, but the German driver had to win in order to have any chance of taking the title. Incredibly, Abt was on course to do this, until he was passed by Manor driver Tio Ellinas. There were no pit stops during the second GP2 race on Sunday, which was won by Caterham’s Davide Valsecchi, who extended his championship lead heading into the final round. With just one set of P Zero hard tyres for the 21-lap race, drivers had to look after their tyres to avoid them going off, which led to plenty of overtaking in the closing stages. Pirelli’s racing manager Mario Isola commented: “We enjoyed an action-packed weekend in Italy, but first of all I’d like to congratulate Mitch Evans and MW Arden on a well-deserved title win that was taken under almost unbelievable circumstances, ending what was probably the most spectacular and competitive season we have seen in our three years of supplying GP3. Next year there will be a new GP3 car and some new tyres for it, so this is a fantastic way to say goodbye to the current GP3 formula. I’d also like to congratulate Luca Filippi on a fantastic GP2 win on Saturday, which was made all the more special as he has been out of a car for so long. We saw some good tactics from Johnny Cecotto as well, who saved tyres in qualifying in order to have new sets for the race and made up six places. On Sunday, Davide Valsecchi typically looked after his tyres perfectly to win from third on the grid. This important skill is one of the reasons why he now has a good lead of the championship going into the final round.” With the GP3 Series now over, there is just one deciding round left to go in GP2 at the Singapore Grand Prix from September 21-23.
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Platonic Noise
J. Peter Euben
6 x 9.25 in.
Platonic Noise brings classical and contemporary writings into conversation to enrich our experience of modern life and politics. Drawing on writers as diverse as Plato, Homer, Nietzsche, Borges, Don DeLillo, and Philip Roth, Peter Euben shows us the relevance of both popular literature and ancient Greek thought to current questions of loss, mourning, and democracy — all while arguing for the redeeming qualities of political and intellectual work and making an original case against presentism.
Juxtaposing ancient and contemporary texts, politics, and culture, Euben reflects on a remarkable range of recent issues and controversies. He discusses Stoic cosmopolitanism and globalization, takes a critical look at Nietzsche’s own efforts to make the Greeks speak to the issues of his day, examines a Greek tragedy through Hannah Arendt’s eyes, compares the role of comedy in ancient Athens and contemporary America, analyzes political theory as a reaction to an acute sense of loss, and considers questions of agency and morality.
Platonic Noise makes a case for reading political theory and politics through literature. Working as much through example as through explicit argument, Euben casts the literary memory of Athenian democracy as a crucial cultural resource and a presence in contemporary political and theoretical debates. In so doing, he reasserts the moral value of what we used to call participatory democracy and the practical value of seeing ourselves with the help of insights from long-gone Greeks.
J. Peter Euben is Research Professor of Political Science and Kenan Distinguished Faculty Fellow in Ethics at Duke University. His books include Corrupting Youth and The Tragedy of Political Theory (both Princeton).
"This book contains a deeply felt, often moving meditation on the relationship between the human experience of loss, the redemptive power of politics, and the demands of intellectual life."—Sara Monoson, Northwestern University
"Always interesting and provocative, Euben continues and elaborates his project to read classical texts in relation to contemporary political concerns. This book contains innovative and enlightening readings of several thinkers of wide interest as well as of several topics that are central to political theory. His arguments are clear and striking."—Tracy B. Strong, University of California, San Diego
Spinoza's Ethics
Benedictus de Spinoza
Against Political Equality
Tongdong Bai
David Estlund
The Expanding Blaze
Jonathan Israel
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Founding Choices
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The Response to Industrialism, 1885-1914
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Government and the American Economy
A New History
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Robert Higgs, Gary D. Libecap, John Joseph Wallis, Stanley L. Engerman, Jeffrey Rogers Hummel, Sumner J. La Croix, Robert A. Margo, Robert A. McGuire, Richard Sylla, Lee J. Alston, Joseph P. Ferrie, Mark Guglielmo, E. C. Pasour, Jr., Randal R. Rucker, and Werner Troesken
With a Preface by Douglass C. North
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The American economy has provided a level of well-being that has consistently ranked at or near the top of the international ladder. A key source of this success has been widespread participation in political and economic processes. In The Government and the American Economy, leading economic historians chronicle the significance of America’s open-access society and the roles played by government in its unrivaled success story.
America’s democratic experiment, the authors show, allowed individuals and interest groups to shape the structure and policies of government, which, in turn, have fostered economic success and innovation by emphasizing private property rights, the rule of law, and protections of individual freedom. In response to new demands for infrastructure, America’s federal structure hastened development by promoting the primacy of states, cities, and national governments. More recently, the economic reach of American government expanded dramatically as the populace accepted stronger limits on its economic freedoms in exchange for the increased security provided by regulation, an expanded welfare state, and a stronger national defense.
Dedication v
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About the Authors xv
Foreword xvii
Douglass C. North
1. Government and the Economy
2. Goverment in Colonial America
Stanley L. Engerman
3. The Founding Era, 1774-1791
Robert A. McGuire
4. Property Rights and Federal Land Policy
Gary D. Libecap
5. Reversing Financial Reversals: Government and the Financial System since 1789
Richard Sylla
6. The National Era
John Joseph Wallis
7. The Civil War and Reconstruction
Jeffrey Rogers Hummel
8. Government and the American Dilemma
Robert A. Margo
9. The Gilded Age
Mark Guglielmo and Werner Troesken
11. Government and the People: Labor, Education, and Health
Sumner J. La Croix
12. The Federal Bureaucracy: From Patronage to Civil Service
13. The New Deal
14. The World Wars
15. The Growth of U.S. Farm Programs
Randal R. Rucker and E. C. Pasour Jr.
16. Shaping Welfare Policy: The Role of the South
Lee J. Alston and Joseph P. Ferrie
17. Seeking Security in the Postwar Era
Appendix A. Key Indicators of Economic and Government Activity
John Joseph Wallis and Price Fishback
Appendix B. The Articles of the Confederation
Appendix C. The Constitution of the United States
Appendix D. The Bill of Rights
Robert W. Fogel
“This book is a penetrating analysis of the changing role of the government in the U.S. economy from colonial time to the present. Each chapter is a cameo presentation of its topic or period.”--Robert W. Fogel, Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of American Institutions, University of Chicago, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
Barry R. Weingast
“This engaging and unique book tells the story of the evolution of the American economy from colonial times to the present – the journey of the United States from a peripheral state in the Atlantic economy to world leader. Along the way, it not only tells the economic story, but a political one, emphasizing the role of the government and interest groups in American economic development. The contributors represent a major portion of who’s who in economic history.”--Barry R. Weingast, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Ward C. Krebs Family Professor in the Department of Political Science, Stanford University
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“Ever since Adam Smith, our intuition has led us to believe that good government and good institutions are absolutely central to economic development. Modern economic theory and empirical analysis have now converted that intuition into concrete fact. Government and the American Economy is a superb example of this conversion. It is a must read for anyone interested in what makes for long run economic success.”--Jeffrey G. Williamson, Laird Bell Professor of Economics, Harvard University
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Defending Modular Buildings
On August, 29, 2011 The Gazette published a response article in defense of modular buildings.
In Defence of Modular Buildings
” Re: “Failing grade for trailers” (Gazette, Aug. 6).
The Gazette’s story on emergency classrooms in Haiti called into question the quality and durability of those modular classrooms.
The reporters cited issues such as “incredible heat, unsatisfactory sanitation facilities, lack of ventilation, leaks, mould and, in one case, high levels of formaldehyde,” as well as questioning whether they are, as billed, hurricane-proof.
In 2004, four hurricanes hit Florida, causing over $50 billion in property damage. What went underreported was the fact that 1,600 manufactured homes built to the 1994 wind standards of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development were hit by those hurricanes.
How many were blown off their foundations? None.
How many were destroyed? Zero. Based on reading The Gazette’s story, would readers know that those classrooms, if properly installed, could withstand 140-mile-per-hour hurricane winds?
The story also said that the modular classrooms did not have running water and latrines. Imagine Haiti’s devastation. There are problems with infrastructure, transportation, shortages of materials and a host of other things.
Bathrooms in classrooms require hookups to sewer lines. There is no failure in design or construction if proper utility hookups were not done.
On the reported issues with air quality and mould: no air conditioning was evident in the photos, and it was not mentioned in the story. These modular units were probably designed to have air conditioning installed on site. Without air conditioning in a highly humid climate, mould could form. Blame nature, but not the builder or those who provided humanitarian relief.
Formaldehyde exists in most construction. It is found in building materials, resins and fabrics. It is also part of your body chemistry. Energy-efficient construction is “tighter,” so formaldehyde’s effects on the eyes in hot conditions are more acute. Air conditioning is a solution.
Can we believe that those involved wanted to do a bad job for Haitians? We do not know enough to cast blame on anyone or anything, other than the difficult conditions in Haiti.
Modular and pre-fab construction is used worldwide in commercial, office and residential housing. More than 20 million people in the U.S. and Canada live in factory-built homes.
Hundreds of thousands are employed by the industry and its suppliers. The article does an injustice to builders of manufactured and modular homes and those who dwell in them by using derogatory terms like “trailer.” The media should use proper terminology and avoid outdated stereotypes.
L.A. (Tony) Kovach Publisher, Manufactured Home Marketing Sales Management (MHMSM.com) Chicago
© Copyright (c) The Montreal Gazette
Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/defence+modular+buildings/5320959/story.html#ixzz1XH4gnNfd
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QR: Frame A Room
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Frame a Room with Little Effort
Superior Polymer Offers a Plastic Furring System that Locks into Place
The EcoStud Track and Stud System from Calumet, Mich.-based Superior Polymer offers a framing solution for interior, non-load-bearing walls or partitions that support gypsum wallboard construction. Because it is made from 100 percent recycled resins that contain postindustrial and post-consumer content, the system is ideal for moisture-prone environments, such as basements and buildings in wet coastal areas. It can be used in light-commercial and residential renovation projects. EcoStud, which was received the most reader inquiries from the April issue, page 76, also can earn credits in several green-building programs.
The system, which is lightweight and does not have sharp edges, is designed for fast installation using common tools. Pre-punched screw holes in the track provide attachment to overhead joists and foundation flooring while the track’s positioning slots lock each stud at the top and bottom. This provides placement of studs in 8-inch increments along the track without measurement. Each stud can be positioned at 16- or 24-inch on-center intervals without using fastening clips or screws.
EcoStud extruded studs are available in 8- or 10-foot lengths and can be cut and trimmed for framing around windows, ductwork, and stairway tread and risers. The C-channel design can be cut with a chop saw and fastens to other studs using common 1/2-inch needle-point screws.
Because the system is wood-free, it is impervious to water and related issues, such as rot and mold. It also eliminates damage caused by termites, carpenter ants, powderpost beetles and other wood-destroying insects.
The recycled resin studs provide R-values and help prevent rapid heat loss. Resin studs will not promote extreme thermal bridging and will eliminate condensation stripes from forming in cold environments.
The track and studs accept most insulation products, including spray foam, fiberglass batts, blown-in cellulose and rigid foam board.
All EcoStud resin studs include 2-inch-diameter top and bottom conduit holes for routing electrical wires and plumbing. Outlet and switch boxes also can be attached.
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Modular Construction News released a great article on how modular units are now being used in the Department of Corrections using steel units for cells. You can find a full version of the article here: www.modularconstructionnews.com
Modular Units: Construction Method Offers Quick, Inexpensive Solution
By Peter Krasnow, FAIA
Modular construction is an option that can accommodate program and building needs within a short time frame at a cost that is usually significantly less than conventional construction.
For correctional industry application the construction method has generally been narrowly focused on housing low-security populations in modular buildings, or higher security populations in precast concrete or steel-cell modular units. It is a method that has helped numerous jurisdictions get out of a bind, and decision makers at federal, state and local levels responsible for funding criminal justice building programs regularly consider it. However, modular construction is not always a catchall solution and some key factors must be considered before it is used at a new or existing facility.
Available Units and Systems
Early modular buildings used in the correctional setting were often created by combining12-foot-by-60-foot pre-manufactured units. Several companies manufactured the units — including SpaceMaster, Arthur Industries and Gelco — but the buildings sometimes had trouble enduring the wear-and-tear atmosphere at correctional facilities.
A modular housing unit was built for inmates at the Canyon County Jail in Idaho.
“New Jersey’s Department of Corrections built an entire minimum-security prison with Arthur system in the early 1980s in southern New Jersey,” says Robert T. Goble, AICP, principal at Carter Goble Companies. “I did an assessment of it for NIC after about five years of operation and found it to be deteriorating (as you would expect with wooden member structures in a correctional environment) and questioned whether it would last the entire 15 years the state had expected.”
Another early entry into modular building construction was built in New Jersey in the early 1990s.
“We successfully completed a 42,000 square-foot multi-story, medium-security correctional facility and administrative/visitor center for Hudson County, N.J., using modular unit construction,” syas Mickey Rosenberg, director of Mark Correctional Systems at Kullman Industries.
There are several modular building designs available that address the low-security needs of facility administrators. General Marine Leasing, Sprung Instant Structures, Miller Modular Construction and American Modular Technologies are some of the companies that specialize in modular buildings. They essentially provide large rectangular enclosures with open floor plan configurations that include bunk beds, and in some units, a separate toilet/lavatory/shower area. A few manufacturers have had success providing their products to correctional facilities for temporary use that occasionally result in permanent housing environments.
Modular concrete cell units can be lifted into place to reduce construction cost and save time.
Manufacturers such as Rotondo/Weirich and Old Castle Precast Modular Group supply concrete modular cells. Kullman Industries specializes in steel-cell modular units.
Modular building and modular cell construction both provide viable solutions. The option that is best for an individual facility is determined by security needs.
Security will always be an important, if not critical requirement for facilities that house prisoners.
When planning modular buildings, clear lines of sight must be included in the architectural design to enhance an officer’s responsibilities for good management. Although officers are encouraged to walk about the space in a direct supervision environment, it is important that they also have clear observation from a desk position. During planning, it’s a necessity that communication between the manufacturer, facility operator and professional advisor be open and unimpeded.
Modular concrete cells provide a uniform secure holding area for high-security inmates and they also can provide significant savings if the cells are poured and manufactured on-site.
“Precast modular cells provide the security benefit of uniformity in quality, tolerances and finishes for joints, cast-in doors and frames, and fixtures and furnishings,” says Steve Weirich, owner of Rotondo/Weirich Enterprises. “Eliminating possible hiding places for contraband is inherent to their concrete construction. With on-site precast modular construction, modular contractors are pouring quad cell modules with monolithic mezzanine balconies, further reducing joints and adding to the long-term integrity of new facilities.
“When cell modules are cast on prison job sites at dimensions larger than the allowance for road travel, the number of building components decreases, thereby providing a more seamless, secure structure.”
Relative Costs of Modular Units
Prefabricated unit costs vary significantly. Units can be purchased on a square-foot basis or, more typically, on total building size based on typical housing units of 50 to 100 prisoners.
Amenities such as day rooms and officer stations can be created with modular construction.
Estimating the cost of a modular unit system against conventional building must consider the amount of time saved with modular construction to obtain the true value for cost comparisons.
Speed of delivery to respond to immediate housing needs may be the primary reason for choosing a modular unit rather than pursuing conventional construction. In some instances, although these temporary structures outlast their life expectancy, they remain in place in lieu of building permanent units requiring a commitment of funds. In other cases, once they have served their purpose on a short-term basis and funding becomes available they can be removed and a permanent facility constructed.
“I have found that although the cost for modular units can parallel conventional construction, depending upon the region of the country, the speed clearly makes the difference,” says Roger Lichtman, AIA, of The Lichtman Associates (see Page 16 for more on Lichtman). “More often than not, time translates directly to money. In one previous experience, utilizing modular technology we were able to design and build, through the toughest weather of the year, a 192-bed permanent facility. These units are not the wood frame trailers of the past. They are built of the same materials used in conventional construction.
“From the time our contract was signed for architectural services until the time that inmates were moved in was a period of less than six months. Conventional design and construction would have taken three times as long. Twelve years later, the facility still houses 192 inmates in the best of conditions with minimal facility maintenance. To this day, the client remains an excellent reference for us.”
Your Project Needs
With budgets running out of control at all levels of government, it may be prudent to consider modular construction for upcoming projects since the method can be more affordable, faster to deliver and the potential procurement pitfalls of conventional contracting processes could be avoided.
In certain jurisdictions, these units can be purchased directly from a manufacturer without the requirement of procurement regulations associated with retaining services through a conventional request-for-proposals solicitation process. The RFP and interview process can often become very time consuming. If overcrowding or another crises at the facility is particularly bad, emergency measures can sometimes be declared to secure funding.
In many jurisdictions throughout the country, there are methods to purchase modular buildings directly from the product provider. Prefabricated units can often be modified to suit a specific program by adjusting the design elements of a unit without time penalties. In fact, the development of “new models” for modular construction seems most appropriate during these stressed economic times.
A modified modular model could be used during an expansion project at the county jail in Johnson County, Kansas.
“We are currently evaluating and conducting research on the various construction approaches and structural systems applicable for our 416-bed jail addition,” says Neal J. Americano, AIA, Johnson County deputy director of facilities. “A modular system is being considered mainly as a means to speed design and construction. Such a system must allow appropriate functionality of the facility while also providing the aesthetic continuity with the AIA award winning original building.”
Modular Development
Although modular units are still being utilized at correctional facilities, manufacturers have remained tied to early concepts and no significantly different new concepts have been released. And new modular systems do not appear to be in development in today’s marketplace.
One wonders why no one has taken up the challenge of new designs suitable for correctional settings, considering that most jurisdictions have an immediate need for additional bed space with limited funding streams available to them. Units that are secure and rapidly deployable and site-specific could fill the gap between need and cost.
Gregory Offner, principal at Jacobs Facilities Inc. outlined a modular unit he would like to see: “Refine the development, manufacturing, shipping and installation so a complete 200-bed housing building in modular, stackable design … fully outfitted, could be readily available to my clients.”
A key issue regarding modular units is their life expectancy. Most modular buildings on the market have a defined length of use based on the type of inmate population housed at the facility and the nature of the materials and structures employed. A product should be secure, easily maintained while simultaneously providing an environment that is suitable for prisoner containment and rehabilitation.
If the corrections community is committed to the rehabilitation of inmates, then environment plays a key element in behavioral change of those incarcerated. Modular units could also include educational, recreational, and socially relevant programs important for reorienting prisoners to return to a normal and productive life in society. n
Peter Krasnow, FAIA, is an Advisory Board Member of Correctional News and the author of “Correctional Facility Design And Detailing” (McGraw-Hill) a 1998 publication. He is a member of the AIA Justice Committee.
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UCLA Researches Modulars
Below is an article by Nicole Hemsoth from HPCwire. A full version of this article can be found here
Purdue University made waves last year with its selection of HP’s POD containerized datacenter, which was hauled in to help them cope with a power inefficiencies stemming from an existing brick and mortar datacenter on campus.
The university set the proof point for cost and efficiency of modular datacenters, with their associate VP of Academic Technologies, John Campbell claiming that for 60% of the cost of a collocation facility the university could install a POD.
The selling point for containerized datacenters in general is that they come fully configured (although customizations can be made) with all the cables, power, cooling and racks in place and ready to roll. For Purdue, the savings mounted in the arenas of colo leasing, cutting back on staff to man datacenters, extension of on-campus networks, reduced power costs—which came, in part, because of the university’s own power plant.
UCLA announced this week that it has climbed aboard the containerized datacenter bandwagon with its head of academic technology services and managing director for the Institute of Digital Research and Education, Bill Labate, extolling the benefits of containerized HPC.
Labate’s group is responsible for providing university research cyberinfrastructure via its shared cluster system, which allows researchers who want to build their own clusters to instead buy compute nodes that Labate’s team integrates into the shared cluster. This allows the team to make the cycles available for over 170 research projects, from particle physics to genomcis and beyond.
As the need for cycles grew steadily, Labate saw a need for new equipment. He said that they had an existing datacenter that was a target for retrofitting, but when the team examined the possibility, it was clear there would be power and cooling limitations even though the space itself would have allowed room for growth. Labate’s team was able to secure $4.4 million to retrofit the existing data center, but when they received their final estimate for $7.2 million for the project, the shortfall led Labate down a different path.
Since it was not possible to scale down the potential retrofitted datacenter to remain within budget constraints, the possibilities of modular datacenters entered the picture. Labate said that to scale down to the level needed to suit the allotted funding would not have served even intermediate needs. Furthermore, since the goal of this undertaking was to enhance growth potential for the shared cluster resources, the retrofit would have been a waste of effort and money.
Labate approached UC San Diego for opinions about their experiences with a Sun-Oracle Black Box containerized solution, but found that they faced challenges with the U-shaped layout. UCSD told him that one thing they did not like was that the Black Box required specialized equipment and brought logistical challenges when it came to replacing and maintaining hardware since entire sections needed to be pulled out for fixes. This would not suit UCLA’s needs since, again, their system of buying new hardware was based on price-performance options among vendors, thus requiring flexibility to swap components based on what individual vendors offered. Besides, the Black Box solution was only a 20-foot container, and Labate knew that he needed to be able to power more cycles than the smaller Sun-Oracle solution could provide.
Labate’s team eventually settled on HP due to its high density, which was a good fit for what they were trying to accomplish in terms of providing as many cycles as possible. Other vendors they evaluated offered attractive density but Labate said there was not enough flexibility–that they needed to be able to grow with solutions that weren’t specialized for a particular container environment.
Before choosing the high-density, 40×8 feet POD container from HP, the team also looked at options from Dell, Rackable and as noted previously, the Sun-Oracle Black Box, which Labate says was the first to be struck from the list due to the size and shape limitations. He did not go into detail about the reasons behind abandoning the Dell and Rackable solutions, other than to say that for their specific needs, density was the deciding factor. Still, he noted that there were many similarities between the HP, Dell, IBM, and Rackable solutions—the choice simply came down to price, performance, flexibility of equipment solutions, and density.
The site preparations for the container began in October 2010 and moved swiftly until ending in mid-April of 2011. This entailed extending the university’s existing chilled water, power systems and pumps, fiber networks and laying the solid foundation required to support 110,00 pounds of steel and equipment.
Many modular datacenter makers emphasize the quick installation and set-up of their containers, claiming that it can be humming away in a few short weeks. As Labate says, however, anyone who knows anything about datacenters knows that you “can’t just plunk down a datacenter in your backyard and hook into your garden hose.” All told, from site prep to shared cluster bootup the team was looking at several months.
The shared cluster is distributed across campus with one building housing around 300 nodes, another with roughly 500 and now the POD, which packs in over 1500 nodes. His team ran a wide area InfiniBand network throughout, pulling all the nodes onto the same fabric for efficient management. They connected the Ethernet network for storage traffic, creating what he describes as a “geographic spread out single cluster.”
The team chose to keep the storage resources outside of the POD, in part to protect the valuable applications and results of long runs, but also because the POD has been optimized for compute nodes according to his team’s purpose to deliver shared cluster resources as if it was a single system. He emphasized repeatedly that their needs are specific—they wanted to be able to maximize the number of cycles available for university research.
When asked about usability or performance tradeoffs, Labate was adamant that containers are more efficient and perform for their needs, which again, are focused on providing more compute for the shared HPC cluster. He said that in many ways, the container streamlines their HPC operations by shedding the maintenance and efficiency hassles of brick and mortar. As he noted, “there are no other people in the POD, in fact, we limit our time in there since we want to keep it buttoned up as tight as possible. It’s been freeing, no operators in the pod, no need for anyone to sit in there and monitor—it’s all automated with all the tools we need for monitoring, powering on and off and so forth.”
According to Labate, there were no power and energy consumption problems with their use of POD. He said that compared to one of their brick and mortar datacenters which was operating at 1.5 PUE, the POD was running a steady 1.17 PUE. He claims that this translates into roughly a $200,000 difference in power costs, which represented a secondary but very important consideration as they looked at the POD capabilities.
Despite the lack of wide user adoption of modular datacenters, it was nearly impossible to get Labate to remark on any drawbacks to such solutions. He said that outside of the obvious negative factors, which include working inside small boxes with 36 raging blowers and tight quarters (which his team overcomes by saving fixes inside for once-weekly missions) and the aesthetic problem of having an giant, ugly shipping container fitting in with an artful sense of campus uniformity (an issue he said gave the campus aesthetics folk a few gripes) he can’t imagine traditional datacenters to address growth ever again.
When pressed about what he might warn others about when considering such solutions, Labate said environmental conditions were critical. First, in terms of making sure it is possible to locate the container close to needed power and cooling resources. Also, in terms of actually environment—he said that during a recent conversation with someone in an snow-bound region, he suggested that to avoid preventing access to the container they might need to consider building enclosures or renting indoor space.
Snow might not be a problem for UCLA, but earthquakes certainly are. Labate said this is another important distinction between brick and mortar and containers—while he notes he hasn’t researched his hunch, these massive, solid steel, windowless shipping containers were far likely more structurally sound than any existing traditional datacenter on his campus. Let’s hope he never gets a chance to prove that theory.
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MBI: Modular Building Institute
Prevost Construction is proud to participate with Modular Building Institute. A brief history can be found on their website: www.modular.org. Founded in 1983, the Modular Building Institute (MBI) is the international non-profit trade association serving non-residential modular construction. Members are manufacturers, contractors, and dealers in two distinct segments of the industry – permanent modular construction (PMC) and relocatable buildings (RB). Associate members are companies supplying building components, services, and financing.
This is a great association to be a part of to get the latest information on modular buildings as well as discuss information with other contractors, manufacturers or dealers. Being that Prevost is a big part of school and modular buildings, education is a big part of this association. Below find an article that can be found here, to learn more about the school system’s involvement with modular buildings.
Cutting-Edge, GREEN Modular Classrooms
Permanent Construction
From single classrooms to complete campuses, permanent modular construction offers public, private, and charter schools what other construction methods cannot: accelerated project timelines, more economical pricing, and less disruption. Permanent modular schools are indistinguishable from other schools and can be constructed to any architectural and customer specifications. MBI members design and build schools of all types and sizes using traditional building materials like wood, steel, and concrete. Virtually any size permanent school can be built, installed, and ready for occupancy, some in as little as 90 days. Perhaps most importantly, by using off-site technology, open construction sites are eliminated while school is in session. Students are safer and teachers compete with less disruption.
High Tech High in Chula Vista, CA by Williams Scotsman. Find case study here.
Millmont School, Reding, PA by Triumph Modular & NRB Inc. Find case study here.
Relocatable Buildings
Relocatable buildings have become a critical factor in managing student demographics and increasing enrollments. Relocatable classrooms are also ideal for use during new construction or renovation. Convenient, flexible, cost-effective buildings can be delivered and operational in as little as 24 hours. Relocatable classrooms are measured for quality and code-compliance by state or third-pary agencies through routine and random inspections, testing, and certification services. Single classrooms or multiple buildings can be arranged in clusters to create a campus feel. MBI members supply steps, decks, ramps, and even furniture. Members also offer lease, purchase, and lease-to-purchase financing for a variety of public and private school needs.
Harvard University, Child Care Center by Triumph Modular.
Performance IQ, High Performance Green Modular Classroom design by M Space Holdings LLC.
Dearcroft Montessori School, Oakville, ON by Provincial Partitions Ltd.
Modular classroom design by Perkins+Will.
Case Study-North Andover Early Childhood Center:
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Australian Prime Ministers
National Museum of Australia Collection
The National Museum of Australia holds some surprising and unusual objects related to Australia's prime ministers. Ranging from the official to the personal, they provide an insight into the people who have led our country.
A terracotta bust of Australia's first prime minister, Edmund Barton, acknowledges Barton's role in creating the nation. Ben Chifley's hat (pictured) and pipe, which he was rarely without, conjure up the man who was prime minister from 1945 to 1949. The barrister's wig belonging to George Reid represents his career before and after his prime ministership. Billy Hughes' walking stick speaks of his ongoing health issues. Robert Menzies was an enthusiastic filmmaker outside of parliament and recorded family events and political meetings on his cinecamera. The Museum's cartoon collections remember prime ministers as much for their quirks of personality and their relationship with the Australian public, as for their impact on Australian life.
Discover more about Australia's prime ministers through the National Museum's Collection Explorer.
Photo: Katie Shanahan, NMA
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14 July 1998 · National Museum of Australia Collection, National Museum of Australia
http://collectionsearch.nma.gov.au/object/73101
1927 · National Museum of Australia Collection, National Museum of Australia
Group of 12 furniture components found within the drawer of the roll top desk
http://collectionsearch.nma.gov.au/object/130364
National Museum of Australia Collection, National Museum of Australia
Star Woes
11 November 1975 · National Museum of Australia Collection, National Museum of Australia
Teleprinter printout related to the dismissal of the Whitlam government 'Mr Whitlam was asked what the constitutional significance of Sir John's non-acceptance of the no confidence motion...'
2 June 2001 · National Museum of Australia Collection, National Museum of Australia
Cartoon titled 'Yeah, But You Should See the Poker Machine'.
Yours is not to reason why
Cartoon of Treasurer Paul Keating
Wedge of silky oak wood found within the wardrobe
Cartoon depicting John Howard and George W Bush in a armoured tank
Felt Akubra hat worn by Ben Chifley
Cartoon titled 'City Centric'
Photographs of the Space Shuttle 'Challenger' and astronauts, a flag, and a cloth badge, mounted on card
17 October 1997 · National Museum of Australia Collection, National Museum of Australia
Oops - Code of conduct
Invitation to the opening of Murray 1 Power Station on 22 July 1967 including envelope and leaflet
Network of Prime Ministerial Research and Collecting Agencies
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Bar Mitzvah Reflections for Drake on SNL
Yesterday morning in synagogues throughout the world the Jewish people read the portion of the Torah called Yitro. Named for the Medianite priest who became father-in-law to Moses, Yitro (or Jethro) was also a trusted adviser to the Israelite leader. While it doesn’t mention this in the Torah, it is possible that Yitro had black skin which likely meant that Moses was married to a Black woman thereby making them the first bi-racial marriage in the Torah. Today, the most famous rapper with bi-racial Jewish-Black heritage is Drake, who has a White Jewish mother and a Black father.
Last night Drake hosted the year’s first Saturday Night Live show and Jewish and Black stereotypes were getting tossed a mile a minute during his opening monologue. The famous rapper opened the show by explaining that he’s from Canada, was in the TV show Degrassi Junior High, and that his mother is Jewish and his father is Black.
What Are the Best Hanukkah Videos of 2013?
Well it’s time for Hanukkah 2013 and we still haven’t come up with a consensus opinion on how to spell Hanukkah — is it Hanukkah, Chanukah, Hanukah, Chanukkah or Janukah? This year we’ve seem to have discovered an even bigger spelling problem as we’ve added Thanksgivukkah into the mix. Some are into this mash up of Thanksgiving and Hanukkah while others are ready to be done with all the buzz. Comedian Judy Gold, with whom I appeared on the Thanksgivukkah episode of HuffPost Live yesterday, tweeted her feelings on Thanksgivukkah: “@JewdyGold – The term ‘Thanksgivukkah’ is getting on my nervukkahs. #annoying.” Well, I guess you can’t please everyone!Here is this year’s installment of the best Hanukkah videos. Enjoy!
Benji Lovitt’s “Thanksgivukkah Pie”
Oil – Main Line Reform Temple
Maoz Tzur by Science Students at Technion University in Israel
One Direction Parody: Jew Direction’s “Chanukkah Makes You Jewtiful”
The 1st Hanukkah Thanksgiving by the Shepard Hill Elementary Players on Jimmy Kimmel Live
The Thanksgivukkah Song
Thanksgivukkah: The Movie (Trailer) by Yisrael Campbell
Julie Geller’s “I Believe in Miracles” Song
Maccabeats – “Burn”
Hanukkah Song – Adele Parody by Ash Soular
Technically, this is from Hanukkah 2012 but I missed it in last year’s list
Matthew Rissien’s “The Dreidel Song: Hanukkah Rap”
Duck Dynasty’s Hanukkah Album” on Jimmy Kimmel Live
Best Hanukkah Videos of 2012 – http://blog.rabbijason.com/2012/12/best-hanukkah-videos-of-2012.html
Best Hanukkah Videos of 2011 – http://blog.rabbijason.com/2011/12/best-hanukkah-videos-for-2011.html
Thanksgivukkah Prayer 2013 for Thanksgiving and Hanukkah
The buzz surrounding the anomaly on the Jewish calendar this year when the first day of Hanukkah coincides with Thanksgiving is an oddity. As I told Sue Selasky of the Detroit Free Press when she interviewed me about Thanksgivukkah, I explained that the hype surrounding this day is palpable. It is truly a statistical oddity as it won’t coincide again until 75,000 years from now, according to Santa Fe, New Mexico physicist Jonathan Mizrahi’s calculations.
The last time the first full day of Hanukkah fell on Thanksgiving was in 1888, just weeks after the presidential election that pitted Grover Cleveland of New York, the incumbent president and a Democrat, against the Republican nominee Benjamin Harrison. As I explained to Sue during her research for the article in the Free Press, since Hanukkah is an eight day celebration, there have been years since when some nights have overlapped with Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving and Hanukkah won’t coincide again until 2070 and then again in 2165 when the first night of Hanukkah will fall on Thanksgiving.
Thanksgivukkah Sweet Potato Latke at Southern Nosh Vegetarian Soul (gluten free), which is a restaurant in Metro Detroit that is certified kosher by Kosher Michigan. More information and the recipe is on the Kosher Michigan website
Paul Raushenbush, the editor of Huffington Post Religion and an ordained American Baptist minister who happens to be the great-grandson of Louis Brandeis, asked me to write a prayer for Thanksgivukkah. The following is what I wrote for Huffington Post Religion:
Pew Study and JDate’s Effect on Intermarriage
While many Jewish leaders have been bemoaning the results of the 200-plus page report from the Pew Research Center about the current state of Jewish Americans, I have been trying to extract some positive from the numbers. Of course, like any study, the numbers don’t tell the whole story. Anecdotal information is a much better guide to measure the health of the Jewish community.Just looking at the numbers and the graphs of the recently released Pew Research study as it relates to intermarriage is alarming. However, the statistics really aren’t too surprising when put in the context of the ever-changing community in which we live. What is noteworthy, however, is that on the intermarriage grid within the study from 1999 going forward, the intermarriage rate actually tapered off. Iit’s interesting how that’s right around the time when JDate.com really caught on among Jewish singles.
Detroit Tigers Hire Brad Ausmus, a Jewish Manager
I’m a big Detroit Tigers fan and have always been interested in Jewish baseball players in the Major Leagues. Therefore, the soon-to-be made announcement that the Detroit Tigers will hire Brad Ausmus to be their next manager is exciting news. Ausmus, who is Jewish and once played for the Detroit Tigers, is currently the manager for Israel’s World Baseball Classic team.
Brad Ausmus played for the Detroit Tigers in 1996 and 1999-2000.
The hiring of Brad Ausmus marks the first time the Detroit Tigers will have a Jewish manager*. As soon as Jim Leyland made his resignation public last month, Brad Ausmus’ name immediately was mentioned on the short list of potential replacements for Leyland, who took the Tigers to the World Series twice during his eight years with the team. Last year, Ausmus interviewed with the Red Sox for their manager position and turned down an opportunity to interview with the Astros for their manager position.
Brad Ausmus wearing a yarmulke and tefillin at the Kotel in Jerusalem while manager of Israel’s World Baseball Classic team.
Ausmus spent 18 seasons in Major League Baseball as a catcher for the Padres, Tigers, Astros and Dodgers. He won the Gold Glove Award three times and made the All Star team in 1999. In 2007 Ausmus won the Darryl Kile Award “for integrity and courage.” Ausmus was inducted into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 2004. Now that he’ll be back in Detroit, I will be certain to bring up his name as a candidate for the Michigan Jewish Sports Foundation’s Hall of Fame, of which I’m a voting member.
Case of Mistaken Identity for Good
In the past decade Google’s email application Gmail has grown in popularity. With around half a billion active Gmail email accounts, it has become the free email provider of choice for most people. However, with such a popular email application like Gmail, one of the inherent problems is that of mistaken identity. That is, it is very easy to send an email to the wrong person and that can often have interesting results.
Such was the case recently with an invitation for a retreat for Jewish leaders. In 2005 Gary Rosenblatt, the editor and publisher of The Jewish Week, created an annual conference called The Conversation. Each year Gary invites some 50 participants (a cross-section of artists, rabbis, entrepreneurs, educators, philanthropists, activists and communal leaders) who converge on the Pearlstone Conference and Retreat Center outside of Baltimore, to discuss the issues of day in an Open Space forum.
Rabbi David Ingber of Romemu
Detroit Philanthropist Joel Tauber Inspired At Techonomy Detroit
I attended Techonomy Detroit again this year and my interview with Joel Tauber, one of the speakers at the conference, was published in this week’s Detroit Jewish News:‘TECHONOMY’ CONFAB INSPIRES JOEL TAUBER
The recent Techonomy conference on the campus of Wayne State University was not much different than last year’s event, the first of its kind here in the Motor City. Tech leaders and business icons from around the country converged on Detroit for a series of conversations and workshops discussing how technology and innovation can boost American economic growth, job creation and urban revival.
This year’s conference emphasized the national challenge of inadequate and inequitable education. Speakers discussed the role of entrepreneurs and industry, as well as how technology can be creatively applied to help revive America’s physical and social urban infrastructure, to reignite competitiveness and economic growth.
The majority of the speakers were under age 45 and so it is noteworthy that one of the Detroit Jewish community’s major philanthropists and a world-renowned business leader was one of the panelists. Among the prominent speakers at Techonomy, such as Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, Etsy CEO Chad Dickerson, Quicken CEO Dan Gilbert and Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (@onetoughnerd), was Joel Tauber.
Courtesy of Techonomy – (photo by Asa Mathat)
Jewtopia the Movie: My Kvetch
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Right off the bat I feel the need for a disclosure: I’m not a movie reviewer. I took a film class in college, but that doesn’t count. I also love watching movies, but that doesn’t make me a credible reviewer.
I do have a lot of respect for professional film critics because it’s not an easy job. I recall being on jury duty in NYC about a dozen years ago and the film critic Jeffrey Lyons was in my group of potential jurors. It was right before the Oscars and we had a few hours to kill while we waited (before eventually being dismissed from a trial), so I had the opportunity to ask his opinion about some of the films up for Best Picture of the Year. I was amazed at how knowledgeable he was about each movie. Personally, I have a hard time remembering anything about a movie after I see it, let alone the names of the actors in the movie.
Now that I got that disclosure out of the way I feel much better. You see, after publishing <a href=”http://www.popjewish.com/2013/09/jewtopia-movie-seriously.html” target=”_blank”>a little blurb on my PopJewish.com blog about the Jewtopia movie</a> that opened this past weekend I was asked by the film’s public relations guy if I’d be interested in screening the movie and reviewing it. So I said sure. Which was a mistake. Because it was right before Yom Kippur and I was busy with a million things including writing sermons for said holiday and really didn’t have time to watch an hour-and-a-half movie. So after Yom Kippur was already a memory and the first couple days of Sukkot had passed I finally got around to screening it.
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<!–more–>I can probably sum up this movie in one Yiddish word: OY! It was horrible. I sort of feel bad saying that because I don’t think this movie will get a single positive review. It was that awful. While I enjoyed seeing Jewtopia off Broadway in NYC several years ago and found the non-stop Jewish satire to be pretty funny, the movie version was just… well… different. Despite a cast of well-known actors like Jamie Lynn Sigler, Jon Lovitz, Rita Wilson and Jennifer Love Hewitt, the movie is a broken record of Jewish stereotypes. It was insufferable.
A cross between the Naked Gun movies and the <a href=”http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317640/” target=”_blank”>Hebrew Hammer</a>, this is a raunchy (unnecessarily so) story about a <i>nebbish </i>Jewish guy (Joel David Moore) who doesn’t want to marry his Jewish fiance (Jamie Lynn Sigler) and a very non-Jewish guy (Ivan Sergei) who only wants to get married to a Jewish girl even if that means undergoing a circumcision surgery (it’s only a procedure when its done on a baby!). The two childhood friends have to help each other in their pursuits of “the Other”.
Somehow on a stage Bryan Fogel and Sam Wolfson managed to deliver this pseudo-offensive stereotype laden humor in a fun, feel-good sort of way. The movie version fails. And fails badly. The caricature of the rabbi would be funny enough without resorting to toilet humor. Jews are picky when it comes to ordering in restaurants — okay, we chuckled at that joke the first time around but by the dozenth it was more than enough. The bridge tournament, vaginal rejuvenation surgery and multiple hunting trips with the gentiles was just filler in a movie that had me looking at my watch more than once to see when the painful experience would end.
The bottom line is that Fogel and Wolfson should have counted their lucky stars that their Jewtopia stage version and book by the same name were so successful. And then they should have stopped right there. This was just a mess. Oy!</div>
When Old Technology is What We Need
It’s unusual for me to write about old technology. In the tech field what’s new is what’s interesting and newsworthy. Yesterday’s technology quickly becomes obsolete.
Yet sometimes, old technology can be more interesting than the latest gadget or about-to-be-released mobile app. As is the case with Judaism, we can embrace change and still revere the Tradition. Perhaps as a way to pay homage to the technology innovations of yesteryear and to feel nostalgic I keep a collection of old tech gadgets on display in my office. Hanging on the wall in glass cases are a panoply of laptop computers, personal digital assistants and mobile phones from a much slower and much bulkier time. On the wall in the conference room hang several enlarged framed magazine advertisements for computers from the 1970s and early 1980s.
My grandmother, Adele Gudes, shows the old record album with birthday greetings from her childhood
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Mixed Feelings For Rossiter
Sunday, 13 May 2018, 17:28
by Alice Hedworth
JORDAN Rossiter said he is glad to have his injury nightmare over after a first league start this season and maiden goal for Rangers in a crazy final day game.
The Gers came from 3-0 down to lead Hibernian 5-4 before the Edinburgh side scored late on to seal a draw. Rossiter’s strike pulled the game back to 3-2 in the opening period.
With Aberdeen winning at Parkhead it meant the Gers finished third in the table and the midfielder was not unhappy with not achieving second place.
The 21-year-old told RangersTV: “It was definitely one of the craziest games I’ve ever played in.
“We said at the start of the game that we had to weather the storm because we knew they would come out the traps and that certainly didn’t happen from us.
“I thought the boys showed great character to get back into the game but it is just disappointing overall.
“Our hopes were to finish second, that is the best we could have done and we haven’t achieved it which is a little disappointing.
“The lads left it all on the pitch today. The fans turned out in their numbers again today and were fantastic.
“We didn’t know what was happening with Aberdeen, we just knew we had a job to do and I thoight we did that for most of the game. The goal at the end was disappointing.
“Unfortunately Aberdeen won anyway which meant this result in the end didn’t matter. The lads gave their all and that is sometimes all you can ask for.”
Rossiter has only played for the Light Blues four times this season and his last appearance came back in August away to Ross County.
He has been plagued by injuries since his arrival from Liverpool two years ago on this day. He managed to only play in August during his first campaign.
“It has been a long and frustrating season for me, my injury history speaks for itself but hopefully it is all behind me. I felt good on the pitch today and hopefully I will go into pre-season flying.
“I wouldn’t say I go into the summer happy because we drew today which isn’t good enough and didn’t finish second.
“I have been fit since the middle of February and I have been itching at the chance to get back into the team. I was delighted to get my first start today and I loved having the shirt on again.”
Rossiter is one Gers player who has direct experience of new manager Steven Gerrard, the scouser has played under the former Reds captain while at his former club.
He thinks if Gerrard leads the team as coach as he did as skipper at Anfield then Rangers should succeed.
He smiled:
“I am looking forward to having Steven Gerrard in charge, I played under him as a player and I am sure I am going to learn just as much under him as a coach.
“No matter what manager is coming in I am going to be ready for pre-season and hopefully stay fit and clear of injuries. This is where I want to be.”
Article Copyright © 2019. Permission to use quotations from this article online is only granted subject to appropriate source credit and hyperlink to www.rangers.co.uk
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Juelz Santana – Magnolia (Freestyle)
by PhillyCustoms June 23, 2017 12:00 am
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Latest Wikileaks Revelation: American Diplomats Years Behind Reason Magazine
Michael Moynihan | 12.9.2010 3:12 PM
Back in 2002 and 2003, former Reason editor Charles Paul Freund was arguing that it was pop culture, not heavy-handed propaganda, that would ultimately promote liberalization in the Arab world. If you haven't read Freund's brilliant essay "In Praise of Vulgarity," do so right now (and his equally fantastic essay on the liberating power of Arab pop videos). And now we discover, according to cables revealed by Wikileaks, that it took American diplomats in the Middle East years to figure out what Reason readers long knew. From The Guardian:
Satellite broadcasts of the US TV shows Desperate Housewives and Late Show With David Letterman are doing more to persuade Saudi youth to reject violent jihad than hundreds of millions of dollars of US government propaganda, informants have told the American embassy in Jeddah.
Broadcast uncensored and with Arabic subtitles alongside sitcoms such as Friends on Saudi Arabia's MBC 4 channel, the shows are being allowed as part of the kingdom's "war of ideas" against extremist elements. According to a secret cable titled "David Letterman: Agent of Influence", they have been proving more effective than Washington's main propaganda tool, the US-funded al-Hurra TV news channel….
"It's still all about the war of ideas here, and the American programming on MBC and Rotana [a channel part-owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation] is winning over ordinary Saudis in a way that al-Hurra and other US propaganda never could," two Saudi media executives told a US official in a meeting at a Jeddah branch of Starbucks. "Saudis are now very interested in the outside world and everybody wants to study in the US if they can. They are fascinated by US culture in a way they never were before," the May 2009 cable says.
The popularity of the channels is particularly surprising given Rotana broadcasts Fox News, the rightwing News Corp channel that takes a hard line against Islamic radicalism and has strongly supported US military intervention in the Middle East.
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HS2: Not the best way to spend £32 billion
Posted on January 28, 2013 by rogeroffice
Early this morning I Tweeted, in an off-hand and tangential sort of way, “I wonder how much good hunting country will be bisected by HS2?”. So inevitably, when I went on BBC Five Live an hour or so later, to talk about HS2, the interviewer wanted to couch the discussion in terms of the Tweet, and I had to struggle to get back to the heart of the issue.
Recently I was in an ultra-smart new office block near Birmingham, and was stunned to hear that the whole building was on the HS2 route, and would have to be demolished.
I don’t think we’ve thought carefully enough about this project. For a start, we must remember that Britain is a small, densely-populated country. Compared to France or Germany, we have much less space, and shorter distances between cities — and even more so compared to the USA or China. So with shorter distances and more frequent stops, the time savings on high speed trains are rather minimal in the UK compared to those other countries. And if, as seems to be the case, we have to have out-of town stations, then the taxi-ride into town will take more time than HS2 saves.
Railways are ideal for carrying coal across the USA, or China. They are much less useful for re-stocking a supermarket in Leicester. They are simply much less relevant in a geographically small country. And since 90%+ of our freight goes by road, while less than 10% goes by rail, maybe we should be spending more on our roads.
There are issues with rail capacity, but they could be addressed more cheaply, and with much less disruption, with longer platforms and more rolling stock on existing lines. And the main bottleneck on the rail system is on commuter traffic, which HS2 will do little to address.
I think the government is asking itself the wrong question. It’s asking “Would it be nice to have new High Speed Rail links in the UK?”, and the answer is naturally Yes — provided it doesn’t go through your backyard. It’s all about boys’ toys. Would your ten-year-old son like a Hornby Train Set costing a few hundred pounds? You bet he would! Would you like a sports car costing a few tens of thousands? Probably. The trouble is that politicians’ new toys come in at a few tens of billions, and at the tax-payers’ expense.
The question that the government should be asking is “If we have £32 billion to spend on infrastructure to boost the economy, is HS2 the best way to spend it?”. I think not.
16 Responses to HS2: Not the best way to spend £32 billion
And I think not.
Empty bedroom tax while we send money to the millioaaires in India they want to complete TEN-T while destroying our country, and change it so that our identity is lost while duping the populace with an in or out , did I tell you Roger I have a flock of pigs fly past my window daily,
We are trapped have you ever thought if they ran a thread through their flag [it will never be mine] it would look like barbed wire,,
Gary Rickard says:
While our armed forces are being closed down, we blow £32 billion (that we have to borrow) shaving half an hour off the commute from east Europe to a Manchester benefits office.
Meanwhile, Heathrow is fit to burst. Could it be another bit of appeasement for the train loving/airline hating LibDems?
As judgements go, I think it’s a bad one. At least it’s not windmills!
Rich Tee says:
Some people say it is intended to be part of a European high speed network. That is to say, it is a project driven by the European Union. Sounds plausible to me.
mikestallard says:
Well here’s the evidence – although our host can probably do better than me. European Railway AGency promotes safe and compatible rail systems (ERA), based in Valenciennes, Fr. Its aims are to integrate national rail networks. It has a 26 million euro budget and 165 posts. 23% of the staff are Belgian. This quango comes directly under the Directorate MOVE which, among other things is tasked with building the EUs core trans European infrastructure networks, including rail. (Source EU in a nutshell by Lee Rotherham.)
Chris. says:
I support UKIP and I agree with Roger on most things must HS2 is a good idea. The West Coast Main Line will be full in 10 years. A lot of freight still goes by rail. This line will be connected to HS1 and Heathrow and should go to Scotland.
http://www.networkrail.co.uk/highspeedrail/
Mike Spilligan says:
It’s already been said that we haven’t got £32 bilions to spend on this white elephant – it’s another addition to our debts – and as you point out there are other matters which should take a higher priority. What disturbs me more is that the MSM have portrayed the opposition as “nimbyism” (at Government request?) when the main factor is economics; and I haven’t seen or heard (though it could have happened) anyone question the absurd figure of “100,000 new jobs”.
rfhmep says:
Even if it were 100,000 new (temporary) jobs, that would be £320,000 per job. There are cheaper approaches to job creation.
I like trains, and I was initially in favour of this project, but once I considered the details I turned against it. The reasons against it are as stated by Roger:
– Britain is too small for it to be viable. The argument that we have to have one because France and China have one is fallacious for this reason, they are larger countries. Japan has one but this is because they became a technologically advanced country after WWII because they didn’t have to spend any money on defence. Note also that the Japanese economy has been languishing since 1990 as well.
– the stations will have to be outside of town, which means somebody like me will have to get a bus out to it which will cancel out any time benefit, which isn’t worth paying for anyway, all things considered. They said on BBC Breakfast yesterday that they plan to build an extra line into Leeds City Station. Well, anybody who knows Leeds will know that the station is elevated on a Victorian viaduct in a built up area and god only knows how they will build an extra line on to that!
Remember Japan is more or less linear, especially as the mountainous hinterland is not ideal for railways. I’m told Japan (main island) is around 1250 miles long, which might make sense for high speed rail.
Now look, I spent two whole years (I am retired) playing Railroad Tycoon so I know how to run a railway! I have built railways all over the world (the African one is the hardest).
What you need is a regular stream of people or goods and you need to keep updating regularly to make a profit. You are in it for one thing – money. But if you are mean, then you fail. The best way to make money is to make sure of a really efficient and reliable track with new vehicles.
Do you know what? I do not think any of these provisos work for the HS2.
Not one. I forecast BANKRUPTCY. And the Director ends up with a little note: YOU ARE NO LONGER IN CHARGE OF A COMPANY.
As for making new jobs – how about striding into the 21st century by refurbishing our canal system? We could easily pass a few laws to make people travel, very slowly, by canal.
harrybeckhough says:
This is a major Con by EU (under instruction) to cause more wasteful expenditure making our present bankrupt state even worse by forcing such major, senseless despoiling of our countryside, even worse than the Wind scam; it must be thrown out using every possible means and persuasion, rousing not only MPs but especially our people in areas concerned
j.catling says:
I spend a lot of time driving through Spain and France, their toll roads are great,there are places to stop over night, in secure areas, places to stop and have a picnic, with toilet facilities. Now if the government were to adopt the idea of toll roads with these things in mind I believe high speed trains wouldn’t be a requirement. People could enjoy driving to their destination, knowing that on route there would be the facilities they need. I mean, look how small our lay bys are! One juganought and it’s full, no toilets, nowhere to picnic. Look at the road network first before changing the railways.
Peter Roberts says:
Why would you want toll roads?
We as drivers pay many times over for our roads already and it’s a disgrace that such a tiny amount of our taxes are spent on roads provision. The money being spent on HS2 would provide all the road infrastructure we could possibly need for decades to come and the difference between motoring related taxation and spending on roads would pay for HS2 in less than 1 year.
Toll roads are not an option unless an amount equivalent to the fuel tax and VED spent driving along the tolled road is reimbursed to the road user.
neilfutureboy says:
If this is a sensible investment it will repay at least 10% a year – £3.3 billion. Call it £10 million a day abive and beyond the running costs. I would guess that is somewhjere between £100 and £1000 added to every fair 🙂
One alternative would be fully automated rail with single carraige units every couple of minutes, thereby cutting waiting times. That might save about 15 minutes per passenger.
Another would be to end the scandal of British public projects costing at least 8 times what they do elsewhere in the world. For example the Norwegians have been cutting tunnels at £4 million per km. that would mean a dualled tunnel from London to Sotland (saving the office block & the countryside) for £5 billion.
DougS says:
RH:
“….politicians’ new toys come in at a few tens of billions, and at the tax-payers’ expense…..”
I wish TV interviewers would keep asking them where the money comes from. Better still, if ministers were obliged to preamble all big spending announcements by stating:
‘We’ll be taking this money from private sector taxpayers – under threat of imprisonment.
We might borrow some but that’ll have to be paid back, with interest, by the the same people.
We might print some – good at inflating away government debt but bad for everyone else’
They’re not going to volunteer this sort of thing, so it’s up to interviewers to force the issue!
Malcolm Edward says:
HS2 seems vastly too expensive to me, and means too much capital concentrated on one route rather than shared on track improvements around the country.
If additional track capacity is needed, then surely they need to look at ways of providing it more cheaply. The running and maintenance costs of train and track increase very rapidly with speed. Why not limit the top speed to 140 mph say – it might then be possible to find a cheaper path, perhaps following existing routes, and the line could curve to avoid obstacles.
In general terms, the expense incurred on a project is an indication of the resources consumed, and hence arguably the impact on the environment. On the current basis, flying will be cheaper than HS2, and so I conclude flying will be more environmentally friendly than HS2.
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